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The audience of this blog is quite important, so I thought I’d give it its own page.
I’d like to think that the readers are people generally interested in the mobile sector – so that covers the man (or woman) on the street looking for interesting, new stuff, but also the ‘industry’.
However, what is important is not who will read, but who are we are writing on behalf of. Who are the people that will use the applications and services that we write about? Well, to help out I’ve outlined who I think they might be. What is key about this is that are not part of the industry, they are not technology minded, but they are the people who will, if treated right, spend a lot of money on mobile stuff and drive the industry forward.
Likes his ‘toys’ and gadgets and likes to look cool with his latest handset. He probably reads Stuff and/or T3 to check up on the latest stuff. However, he probably talks the talk more than he walks the walk, that is he’s not quite as cutting edge as he thinks he is. He’s above average in his knowledge, but talk of APIs or SDKs would leave him cold. He also doesn’t quite have the disposable income to be able to buy all the stuff he’d like.
When it comes to mobile, he has a BlackBerry – which he loves because it keeps him connected, but it’s a slightly older Curve. He’d love an iPhone, but can’t justify the cost. Voice, text and email are the things he uses the most on his phone. Very occasionally he’ll open up his browser, but he’s a bit afraid of the cost of it.
For this person the phone is a convenience and nothing more. Her handset is years old and she doesn’t know what it’s called. She’s thought about upgrading, but why bother … ? She only uses voice and text to communicate, but the handset is absolutely vital to her as an alarm clock, occasional torch and an address book.
She would consider new apps, but they’d have to make her life easier. If they helped in any way with looking after a toddler then she’d be very keen.
This guy considers himself to be relatively wealthy and part of the new emerging market in India. But at the moment he doesn’t have a mobile. He’s going to get one soon and it will be at the hub of how he runs his business. He wants to use it to help him with his accounting, to keep in touch with friends and business colleagues, to book restaurants, to place orders to his suppliers and many more things.
He expects his new phone to be like an all-in-one PA to assist with life.
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Even Now – Page 2 – Funz and failz in DDO… and beyond!
No, there’s not really crafting in Tower of Frost! But I did run Tower of Frost on Sunday’s livestream, and since it was the last night of the 50% bonus Cannith crafting XP weekend, I did some crafting afterwards.
ToF is always a good time. I hadn’t run it in ages, though, and it showed. It’s ALMOST impossible to get lost in there, but hey, challenge accepted! I managed to not get SUPER lost, but there were definitely moments when I wished I had a few Bigby’s Hands in my inventory instead of keeping them all in my shared bank.
Now THERE’S something I’d do if I were ever in charge of DDO for a day – make your bank space, shared bank, and TR cache available from wherever you happened to be. And then I would max out my shared bank space to store my Bigby’s, XP/mana/renown/slayer pots, extra Cannith boots – all the stuff that’s useful to multiple toons, so whoever needed it could access it, when they needed it.
I decided to do epic hard because my weekends have been busy of late and I’m tired by the time Sunday night rolls around. It was mostly laughably easy for Even, though, so I think if I run it again for the stream, I’ll definitely go for EE. She’s done it solo before, but it got a bit tedious, especially the hedge maze and the optional summoned demon, who on EE is basically just a massive bag of HPs.
Sadly, no named loot was to be had. But at least Even got lots of stuff to decon, and she can always run it again – despite his assurances otherwise, she doubts Theobald will keep his promise to pay his rent on a timely basis, so she’s pretty sure she’ll have to go back in there and straighten him out from time to time.
Even’s crafting level was sonething like 204 when she started her crafting binge. She chugged a 75% XP pot and deconned all the lootgen she pulled from ToF, then set to work making ML shards – easiest way I’ve found to get crafting XP quickly. By the time I logged off Sunday, my crafting level had increased to 291… and I’d gone through around 23,000 essences.
My approach: Wait for crafting bonus weekends, use 35% crafting success boosters, and then just keep crafting the highest ML shard that you have at least a 25-30% chance to make. That means upping the ML you’re attempting every few tries as you level up, but the XPs really start piling on even though you’ll fail on more shards than you make.
And make sure you stock up on success boosters – guess who ran out and ended up buying some from the store ’cause she was too lazy to run to House C for more?
When I’m binge crafting, I like to move my essences and success boosters to my inventory so I can keep tabs on them. I also just discovered that you should also move your dissolvers out of your bank into inventory as well – if you do, you’ll get a small amount of plat for some of the items you decon. But if your dissolvers are in the bank, you get squat.
After a bit of experimenting, I think I figured out how to calculate the amount of plat you’ll get for an item, or if you’ll get any at all. Many items have a plus sign followed by a number in the upper right corner of the examination window. Pretty much all of the armor and weapons I’ve checked has this number; most clothing items don’t, and jewelry seems to be hit or miss, haven’t noticed a pattern there so far.
If your item has such a number, you’ll get plat for deconning it (provided your dissolvers are in your inventory and not in your bank). Otherwise, no plat.
The formula* for the amount of plat you get is 60 multiplied by the listed value – the number after the plus sign. This is NOT the same as the item’s enhancement bonus. So if an item’s listed value is +6, you’ll get 360 plat from deconning it; +10, you’ll get 600; etc.
* – Tonight I found ONE case that didn’t follow the formula. Didn’t take notice what the item was, or its listed value, but I got 760 plat for deconning it. Since 760 is not evenly divisible by 60, not sure what was going on there.
If an item has no listed value, such as most clothing and various jewelry items, you get no plat for deconning it, regardless of where your dissolvers are stashed.
This got a lot longer than I intended. Maybe I should work up a separate post on just crafting!
Do I really know my way around? In general, OH HELLZ NAW. But I’ve run the Lords of Dust chain enough that I mostly don’t get lost there. Well, there is that ONE part in Servants of the Overlord where you’re running around looking for crests and there are a lot of passageways branching off here and there – I do tend to forget which ones I’ve already done. But that’s just extra backtracking rather than actual lost-ness.
Besides, Sunday it didn’t matter what I ran – I could be confident I’d gnome my way around because I was on Trici, my totally adorable though undergeared and kinda gimped gnome artificer… or “gnomificer,” as she prefers to be called.
I was figuring on a solo night – Slvr was out of town, Seki was being a dad on Father’s Day, Citi should have been doing his grocery shopping (but was probably working on his Haunted Mansion campaign), Keava was at work, Shin was probably resting up to go to one of his jobs the next morning, and it was a work night for Comic as well.
But YAY Twitch chat! About halfway through Lords of Dust, a viewer mentioned that he had a level 16 toon on Thelanis.
Combined, we were a couple of lean, mean, spider-killin’ machines. Trici did die once – that first big fight with the Drow priestesses and casters and warriors in Servants – but IIRC that was surprisingly the only death (well, Minni her arti dog died once too).
The end fight in Servants was actually kind of ridiculously easy. Spinner of Shadows went really well too. If Seki and Slvr are off again next week, I may trot Trici out again for Beyond the Rift (Seki has no toons in level range; Slvr does, but none that he wants to play).
Another Twitch viewer joined us just to voice chat (he wasn’t flagged) as we were wrapping up Spinner. If Trici indeed runs Beyond the Rift next week, she’s likely to have company even if there are no other Flower Sniffers around!
I hadn’t played Trici in a while and was a little surprised to find that she was already banking 18 when I logged her in. The XP from doing the LoD chain got her just over a rank from level capping, so I went ahead and leveled her up. Definitely a productive night!
My current PC will celebrate its 10th birthday in November. In all that time, the only stuff I’ve done to it is to replace the video card and the power supply.
Luckily it’s held up well, since it was pretty darn state-of-the-art when I bought it – quad core, 2.66 mHz speed. But as computers go, it’s getting pretty old, and it likes to get cantankerous.
One of the things it enjoys doing lately is to just reboot itself with no warning and for no apparent reason. Sunday night, I was getting ready to stream and was talking with Shin in guild chat, and the computer decided to reboot itself three times in half an hour.
So I scrapped my plans to run something interesting and meaningful, because if the PC decided to act up during the stream, I wanted to be doing something relatively unimportant. It’d been a while since I’d run Tower of Despair, so I figured a good old-fashioned classic raid night was just the ticket.
Naturally once I’d changed up my agenda, the computer decided to be on its best behavior. But no worries. I love ToD; I’m up for running it any time on any toon. Slvr was on as well and feels the same way about ToD as I do.
We had plenty of time left when ToD was done, so on to Shroud (heroic – I didn’t think we could duo legendary, especially if the computer crapped out again). And then we decided to kill the last 20-ish minutes with ADQ 1 (EN) and 2 (EE), which took us to almost precisely 1 am.
Of course, we both pulled Shards of Supreme Power out of the Shroud end chests – where the heck are those things when I’m on a toon who actually NEEDS them? And I was surprised to pull unbound – well, BtC on equip – Gloves of the Falcon from the epic chest in ADQ 2. Think that’s the first time I’ve ever pulled an explorer item from that raid. They’ll be a nice upgrade for my F2P rogue Genn’s feather falling gloves.
A ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW PARTY!!!
Keava was able to join us despite the 11-hour time difference, but we were short one Seki, who was feeling considerably under the weather. So we decided we’d go clean out the Eveningstar War Hospital for him, and as long as we were there, we might as well run the whole Druid’s Deep chain – you never know, Wood Woad bark might have medicinal uses. Plus, it fulfilled all three goals.
I was thinking EH, because Laegonn is the toon who proves that not all warlocks are overpowered… or even powered at all. But Keava and Slvr were confident we could handle EE.
Which I did – and that’s probably why HOLY CRAP LAEGONN DID NOT DIE AT ALL! Somebody get me a calendar and a red pen!
We breezed through the chain pretty easily, actually, and then ran Lines of Supply on EH because we all needed it for sagas. That was a cakewalk as well, right up until we were running back to the start to loot after getting the completion – my nearly-10-year-old computer decided to reboot itself. So I missed out on a couple of chests, but at least I got the completion and XP.
I also got a pretty nice sack of XP, but not QUITE enough to epic cap Laegonn – think he was a bit over 6k short. But that’s what VoN 3 is for. All it took was one optional, and Laegonn was ready to level.
He’ll probably spend the next few weeks doing saga quests and fleshing out the other ED spheres, and then he’s going to TR into a Drow pale master and leave warlocking to Zak.
Even has all her sagas done on true elite, so I’ll probably get her a sovereign renown elixir next time there’s a renown weekend. I have eight medium elixirs in the shared bank, which should come in handy.
Laegonn made some more saga progress tonight, polishing off the High Road chain on EH with a lot of help from Keava. Also thanks to Keava, both Reera and Sere have gotten in some good saga runs. I’m hoping we hit 150 next time there’s a renown weekend!
Meren must be feeling pretty special – she’s been on the stream for the past three or four weeks straight!
She got herself leveled up to 9 this past week, racking up some very nice XP in Stormcleave Outpost, Stromvauld’s Mine, and Caged Trolls, plus getting the Phiarlan Carnival chain started.
Thank heaven for guildies leading the way in Stormcleave, because on my own, I always seem to get turned around and lose my way at least once, so it takes me a long time. Despite Meren getting burdened from overestimating her ability to carry supply crates, we made it through rather quickly, at least by my standards.
And since we were already in the Anvilfire Inn to turn in Stormcleave, it seemed only right to do Stromvauld’s after that.
As Gom pointed out, the quest name “Stromvauld’s Mine” may not denote that the mine is Stromvauld’s. It could be possessive in a different sense, as in “Stromvauld is mine.” But then to whom does Stromvauld belong? Is this Xandria Lok-kalerin’s way of telling him, “Hey, I OWN you now?” Or maybe Alciana d’Deneith makes this possessive a little *too* possessive to warn off attractive female customers in the Anvilfire Inn?
I’m an inveterate collector – not to be confused with an invertebrate collector, as I neither lack a backbone nor hoard creatures who do (unless they’re cosmetic pets).
So although the quest went well, I was a little disappointed at the end of A Small Problem, because I missed at least two collectibles, thereby frustrating my compulsive urge to collect them.
Sere’s been getting some playing time lately. She’s done most of the epic Gianthold quests with Keava, and then picked up a fairly humongous amount of XP in a wild, crazy, mixed-up, fun-filled guild/PuG romp through EE VoN 5 and 6.
She also got flagged for the Thunderholme raids this past week. I have no doubt she’ll die frequently and horribly if I ever take her into either one.
Reera’s also been doing some VoN quests (and Sere rhymes with Reera, in case you were wondering – and I’m not saying you were). At 26, she’ll probably be the next toon I take into Thunderholme.
Even, of course, is never idle for long. She needs heroic Rest Stop, A Stay at the Inn, and End of the Road (dammit, now I have Boyz II Men stuck in my head) to finish the last two sagas, all on true elite.
Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! Mine was interesting – had a Stouffer’s lasagna for Easter dinner, then went to a friend’s party where we made Ukrainian Easter eggs. They’re decorated just like regular Easter eggs, except that instead of hard-boiling them, you poke a hole in each end and then blow out the insides.
It takes more than a few deaths to rattle me. So even though Meren, my somewhat-to-totally gimped level 8 Favored Soul, had struggled a bit last week in the first part of the Sorrowdusk Isle arc, I was ready to take her right back there this week.
Logically things would’ve gotten real ugly real fast for Meren, as the quests were now several levels higher than she and guildie Gom are. And to be fair, we did run the last few on hard – but c’mon, that STILL made them level 11 quests, and we’re 7 and 8.
Most illogically, the whole thing went really well, with only one or two deaths apiece… including the part where Gom and I were both soulstones and had to rely on our hirelings getting us back to the shrine.
But hey, Meren proved last week in Tear of Dhakaan that she’s dumber than a hireling, so it was all good, LOL. Plus we got a ton of XP! Maybe I should run that chain more often!
We managed to exceed Gom’s bedtime by a good half hour, but I still had plenty of stream time left. And I was actually feeling kinda confident in Meren since she’d performed far better than I’d expected in quests she was way under level for.
The Pit is always a good time as far as I’m concerned, no matter how badly you do. And we could’ve done a lot worse. Meren died twice, once by failing a save against Slay Living shortly after blithely assuring Slvr that we wouldn’t need Death Ward (oops!). And the second time was from a massive spike of electrical damage during the end fight, courtesy of a trog caster with a big ol’ crown on his head.
Slvr and I had both run Pit on these toons already, so no first-time bonus, and the couple of deaths meant no flawless victory bonus either. Still, Meren collected more than 30K XP for the run… that’ll come in handy, as she’s on her third life!
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2019-04-21T06:37:50Z
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I don’t know if anyone in the world really cares to see my process as an artist. Well to bad world I’m posting it anyway. 1. in case someone out there finds my various sketches and doodles inspiring or helpful and 2. because I would like to have my skethbooks preserved for posterity in case something terrible happens to them. Some have already fallen prey to spilled cups of tea, water, and sun damage so I’m getting things together quick.
One of my favorite ways to improve my drawing skills that I haven’t practiced in a long time is to take images from magazines and try to draw them. Doesn’t always turn out great, but it is a quick and easy to take what you see and recreate it. As far as I know still lifes are still the number one way to improve art skills and gain a deeper understanding of how scale and size and shadow work. However we can’t always have a convenient pile of random things to draw in front of us, so hence I turn to magazines. Plus its already 2D, which I realize is cheating but it makes me feel better.
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The Composition Program invites faculty and graduate students to our Meta Monday colloquia this semester. We’ll meet in Eddy 2 from 4:00pm-5:00pm and snacks will be provided.
On March 4, Mark Bresnan will focus on reading, writing, dialogue, and transfer in “Beyond Freewriting: Using Structured In-Class Writing to Strengthen Reading, Inform Dialogue, and Promote Transfer.” In this facilitated conversation, Mark will lead us through several activities and discussions to help us reflect upon, brainstorm, discuss, analyze, and evaluate how to use structured in-class writing in a variety of classroom situations. Whether you teach CO130, CO300, or another class entirely, we’d love to have you join us.
April and May topics TBD.
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2019-04-24T14:03:20Z
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https://english.colostate.edu/events/meta-monday-beyond-freewriting-using-structured-in-class-writing-to-strengthen-reading-inform-dialogue-and-promote-transfer/
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Can POV Race Footage Bring More Viewers to Pro Cycling?
Pro cycling is in a state of flux right now, but one area that’s remained comfortably traditional is TV broadcasting. Until now, that is.
The 2014 season saw several successful experiments with action cameras during selected races. With those positive experiences fresh in the minds of viewers and broadcasters alike, the coming season should see broader use of the technology that produced footage like Giant-Shimano’s John Degenkolb sprinting at the Tour of California, which has been viewed more than 460,000 times on YouTube alone.
In the video, front- and rear-facing cameras on Degenkolb's bike captured his view in the final frenetic kilometers of the sprint as he battled for position, got bumped out, and then recovered to finish second to Omega Pharma-Quick-Step's Mark Cavendish. It was intimate, exciting stuff, from a never-before-seen viewpoint that took fans right into the heart of the action.
That event essentially proved the concept for POV footage, which was also tried at the Tour de France with similar success. It was technically possible, didn’t pose a safety threat to the riders, and was enthusiastically embraced by fans.
For 2015, Shimano again plans to partner with its sponsored teams, and Bloomberg News reported earlier this month that action-cam giant GoPro is in talks with unnamed teams to do the same. The question is how, and in what form, it might actually change race coverage.
While bike racing has changed dramatically since the introduction of live broadcasting, the broadcasts themselves remain more or less unchanged; stuck, even. Aside from minimal on-screen graphics and a few more camera angles, live broadcasts of races today still rely almost exclusively on long overhead shots from a helicopter and the efforts of a commenting team to break up what can be long stretches of monotony on 100-mile stages.
In contrast, racing sports like NASCAR have made broad use of in-car cameras and on-screen dashboards that show, via telemetry, metrics like speed that bring viewers closer to the action. Pro cycling coverage has almost none of that right now, but it may not be far off. “Everyone sees the commercial opportunities,” UCI President Brian Cookson told Bloomberg.
That’s not to say it’s full speed ahead; there are a number of stumbling blocks.
GoPro has a commanding market share of the action-cam market but could find itself in the unusual position of being the underdog in pro cycling, thanks to tight relationships between established, core brands like Shimano and Garmin, who make their own action cameras.
What's more problematic is that in past attempts to use action cameras, race organizers objected over both safety and rights issues. Organizers contended that any video footage in their races fell under the umbrella of television rights. In 2011, the UCI cited safety concerns in banning all live telemetry, including video and data from power-meter head units.
Lastly, even in 2014 the footage wasn’t used in live broadcasts, only shown afterward once the cameras had been collected and the footage edited. Adding live streaming will be a technological hurdle, but not an insurmountable one.
A new organization called Velon, formed earlier this year with 11 of the 17 teams on the 2015 WorldTour, has a central project to expand the use of POV video as a revenue stream for teams. That's an issue they’ll have to work out with race organizers like the powerful Amaury Sports Organization, which runs the Tour de France.
But with Velon, team sponsors like Shimano and Garmin, and even the UCI, now on board with expanding the use of POV video, it seems like it’s only a matter of time before it happens.
Is This the Race That Will Save American Pro Cycling?
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2019-04-20T16:39:53Z
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https://www.bicycling.com/bikes-gear/a20005405/action-cams-in-the-peloton/
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A security mystery -- at least, new to me. Deplane in Iceland (Icelandair, JFK-KEF), and you are immediately put through a clone of the security line you went through just before boarding: shoes off, laptops out, metal detector, x-ray conveyer belt. The woman in front of me had her little Icelandair bottle of water confiscated and said, baffled as the rest of us, "But we're getting OFF the plane!?"
That was the last security I saw anywhere in Iceland. Passport control and customs were separate (and minimal). No metal detectors anywhere else. You can walk right up to the Prime Minister's door (I saw it). For that matter, much of the police force has been laid off because of the fiscal crisis.
One Icelander said he thought it had to do with the U.S. not being a Schengen country and KEF being a gateway airport. But I don't get it. I've landed in lots of European airports and never gone through post-flight security before.... In my imagination, it's the result of the relevant Icelandic official being mistreated at JFK, but [the correspondent's wife] points out that half our fellow passengers were Icelandic.
I live in the Republic of Palau, in the western Pacific. All of the American-affiliated islands out here in Micronesia are served by Continental Airlines. One of their requirements is that, at intermediate stops between islands, half of the coach-class passengers have to get off the plane so a "cabin security check" can be conducted. (This doesn't apply to BusinessFirst passengers, though.) Even families with infants have to get off the plane, sometimes at 3AM, and wait for the "security check" to be completed.
From a long series of e-mails with Continental and TSA I found out the reason for this requirement.
There are several island groups in Micronesia which Continental serves, including the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. All are "independent" countries politically but fully dependent on America's taxpayers for their economic sustainability. Continental's hub for the Micronesia route is Guam, a US territory. The TSA handles airport security on Guam but has no jurisdiction over airports in the other island nations. Since the TSA believes security in those islands doesn't comply with their standards (more on that below) they require Continental to do a "cabin security search" at each intermediate stop on their multi-island flights.
For example, if a flight originates here in Palau, where I live, and stops on Yap before landing on Guam, half of the coach class passengers are required to get off the plane with their hand carried baggage (and infant children) so the plane can be searched for contraband or whatever. Maybe that can be justified, but the security theater begins with flights originating on Guam. There the TSA (presumably) assures the airlines, flight crews and passengers of the security of departing flights, but then they require half of the passengers to get off the plane at the first outbound on Yap for a cabin search.
I wrote a message to TSA pointing that out and asking whether they were in effect indicting their own personnel and procedures on Guam by requiring searches of presumably secure aircraft they just finished checking. They declined to respond to that message, and (out of fear of the "no-fly list") I decided not to pursue the issue.
One reason I declined to pursue it is that, a few years ago, a friend of mine ran seriously afoul of the TSA. I was on a Guam flight that landed on Yap, and when the Yap passengers boarded the plane my friend came on board and sat across the aisle from me. He told me a story of having landed on Yap four days previously and having been thrown off the plane by two people dressed in civilian clothing, because he vocally criticized the procedure I outlined above. He had to sit in a hotel room on Yap for four days waiting for the next semi-weekly flight to come through. He couldn't identify the people who tossed him off, but he believed they were air marshals, FBI people or some such. Being totally dependent on Continental Airlines to get anywhere between the islands in this region, nobody wants to challenge TSA and perhaps get on the dreaded no-fly list.
We're still being told to get off the planes out here, though.
Next in the queue: Similar reports from Hawaii, Philadelphia, and Finland.
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2019-04-22T18:10:25Z
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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/07/security-theater-goes-world-wide-iceland-palau-dept/59558/
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Robert Harper is a Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
Standard ML is a general-purpose programming language designed for large projects. This book provides a formal definition of Standard ML for the benefit of all concerned with the language, including users and implementers. Because computer programs are increasingly required to withstand rigorous analysis, it is all the more important that the language in which they are written be defined with full rigor. One purpose of a language definition is to establish a theory of meanings upon which the understanding of particular programs may rest. To properly define a programming language, it is necessary to use some form of notation other than a programming language. Given a concern for rigor, mathematical notation is an obvious choice. The authors have defined their semantic objects in mathematical notation that is completely independent of Standard ML. In defining a language one must also define the rules of evaluation precisely—that is, define what meaning results from evaluating any phrase of the language. The definition thus constitutes a formal specification for an implementation. The authors have developed enough of their theory to give sense to their rules of evaluation. The Definition of Standard ML is the essential point of reference for Standard ML. Since its publication in 1990, the implementation technology of the language has advanced enormously and the number of users has grown. The revised edition includes a number of new features, omits little-used features, and corrects mistakes of definition.
This book presents the official, formal definition of the programming language ML including the rules for grammar and static and dynamic semantics. ML is the most well-developed and prominent of a new group of functional programming languages. On the cutting edge of theoretical computer science, ML embodies the ideas of static typing and polymorphism and has also contributed a number of novel ideas to the design of programming languages.
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2019-04-20T04:59:07Z
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It’s a countdown to the start of our Spring Season that kicks off on Sunday, May 15 in Baltimore at Germano’s Traittoria.
Special thanks to all of you who attended our night out this week at JoJo’s Restaurant on U Street in Washington, DC. Thanks to cast member Colie Williams for bringing the cast in to perform some cover songs and original music in this fun, social promotion of the play. Colie performs each Wednesday at JoJo’s with the band Ol Soul for a New Day. Click on the photo below to view more photos from our Wednesday at JoJo’s on our Facebook page.
We hope that you purchased your tickets to the show. Click here to get your tickets online for our Baltimore or Washington DC shows.
Click here to purchase tickets to our Silver Spring, MD show at the Bonifant Theatre.
Check us out behind-the-scenes as we get our show just right for you!
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Welcome to the School of Music at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. We hope that your studies here will be positive, challenging, and enjoyable. This handbook is not meant to replace the University Catalog. However, it may provide you with a quick and concise answer to some of our most frequently asked questions you. If need additional information, seek answers from your applied teacher, the coordinator of your degree program, the academic advisor, and/or the music staff in the main office of the School of Music.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools and the School of Music is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music. This relationship assures constant evaluation of our quality by an external, objective organization, and continuous self-evaluation aimed at maintaining the rigorous standards required for accreditation.
The School of Music is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence through the development of an art, which enables the individual to find meaning and fulfillment as an educated member of society, as an expressive human being, and as an artist. This mission is primarily fulfilled by providing educational opportunities that prepare students for graduation with Bachelor’s or Master’s degrees and careers in music or music-related fields. The School of Music strives to advance the art of music by promoting the research/creative activities of its students and faculty. It also seeks to enrich the lives of all members of the University and the region by means of a continuing program of concerts, educational offerings, scholarly/artistic exchanges, and outreach programs.
To provide educational opportunities which prepare students for graduation with baccalaureate and graduate degrees and for careers in music and music-related fields.
To provide a variety of musical experiences and opportunities for the study of music for the general university student.
To stimulate the creative participation of the music faculty in musical performance and composition, in scholarly research and in the personal quest for more effective methods of teaching.
To enhance the musical growth in the region through public concerts on campus and in area communities and schools.
To provide educational resources in support of professional performers and teachers and others concerned with the art and practice of music.
To work cooperatively with other programs of the University in a supportive and mutually advantageous way.
To develop a continuing exchange of ideas with arts and scholars.
Initial registration at SIUC is dependent upon acceptance by the University and receipt of all necessary transcripts. Students must also apply, audition and be accepted to the School of Music for full admittance as a Music Major. After initial acceptance to the University and the School of Music , students meet with the School of Music Academic Advisor to plan coursework for the initial semester. The School of Music Academic Advisor office is in the College of Liberal Arts Advisement Office (Faner Hall, room 1229 / 618.453.3388). Continuing registration requires both the student’s academic record and bursar’s account must be in good standing.
There are important dates each semester which determine when you can add and drop classes. Registration calendars can be found here.
IMPORTANT: Students planning to graduate must fill out the required application form before the second Friday of the semester in which you plan to complete degree requirements. Ultimately, it is the student’s personal responsibility to ensure that all requirements for graduation have been fulfilled and that all important deadlines have been met. You can find graduation information from College of Liberal Arts here and University wide information here.
Financial Assistance in the form of music scholarships is available to new and continuing students. Deadline for all scholarship applications for the 2018-2019 year: February 19, 2018.
New students must complete a School of Music scholarship audition application form and audition either in person or by recording. Continuing students may apply each Spring semester for awards made the following Fall semester. These awards, funded through university tuition waivers, endowments, concert revenue and Friends of the School of Music, are available to any music major, minor, or non-major participating in ensembles in good standing. Preference is given to majors. Students must complete the online application for SIU Scholarships (http://siu.academicworks.com).
Seniors interested in pursuing a Masters degree at SIU should see the Graduate Coordinator, Dr. Christopher Morehouse (cmoreh@siu.edu) in Altgeld Hall 104, regarding programs of study, graduate assistantships, and fellowships. Undergraduate students within 12 semester hours of completing requirements for the bachelor's degree may apply to register women for graduate courses for graduate credit. Check the graduate catalog for additional information. All graduate assistants asking to be renewed for a second year are required to apply for Work/Study Program eligibility.
All music degree programs require concentrated study in one instrumental or vocal performance area. These individual classes, called “applied music,” consist of a half hour or full hour lesson (depending upon credit hour enrollment) once each week and participation in studio classes and convocations as described below. Lessons for each semester are generally scheduled with instructors during the first week of classes.
studio class on Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m.
convocations in Shryock or the OBF Recital Hall during the first studio class of each month (or as scheduled). Convocation performances should be a regular part of every applied student's work. These are scheduled through your teacher.
at least seven approved recitals or concerts in which you are not a participant. Recital attendance is registered on a blue card available from your applied teacher.
Most ensemble concerts require a scholarship donation of $12 for general public and $6 for students and Sr. Citizens. School of Music students will be admitted to these concerts free by obtaining a "Music Major Card" from the Main Office at the beginning of the year.
All music majors are required to be enrolled in a major ensemble every term of residence. Major ensembles include Marching Band, Symphonic Band, Concert Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Choral Union, Concert Choir, Guitar Ensemble (guitar majors only), and for upper level piano majors, Accompanying Lab. Auditions are held the first days of the Fall semester only. No audition is required for Marching Band, but students must attend marching Band Camp.
Probation is a written warning to a student that he or she is not fulfilling that person's responsibilities including, but not limited to, ensemble participation non-compliance or failure to perform duties associated with a scholarship. In such cases, a letter will be electronically mailed to the student and a copy kept in the student’s permanent SOM file. The student has until the following semester to remedy the infraction. Once the student is found to be in compliance, probation is lifted, but remains on the student's record. If by the beginning of the semester following the infraction the student remains out of compliance with the probationary policy, the Undergraduate Committee will review the student’s music major and scholarship standing. Students wishing to appeal their probation may submit a written petition to the Undergraduate Committee.
School of Music students may petition the Undergraduate Committee when there is a conflict regarding the completion of degree requirements. The student should, in writing, explain the nature of the conflict, details of the course(s) in question, all persons involved, and any remedies that have been attempted. Potential issues that may require petition include course conflicts when a student is a double major, or when two required music courses occur at the same or overlapping times. All petitions must be related to a professional matter that affects the completion of degree requirements.
School instruments are available for supplementary instrument classes and in special cases for students who do not have their own instruments. The loan of instruments is subject to rules and fees of the school. Students must contact Dr. George Brozak (gbrozak@siu.edu) for rental forms.
Each semester all music majors who are registered in applied music will have a $30 "Instrument Rental Fee" applied to their bursar's bill. This is a maintenance fee for practice room pianos and other classroom instruments. This fee will also be charged to non-music majors who wish to use School of Music instruments each semester. Some music courses incur additional fees that show on student bursar bills.
Lockers are available in Altgeld for use by music students. Choice of lockers must be approved by and registered with the Main Office. Use of a locker requires a $10 fee and use of a School of Music lock. Lockers must be emptied and locks returned at the end of Spring Semester. Personal locks may not be used. Unauthorized locks will be cut from lockers.
Use or practice rooms on the 2nd floor of Altgeld is limited to those assigned an access key. Keys are loaned to the music students with proof of applied registration and the signing of a loan contract. Lost keys or keys turned in after the deadline on the contract will result in a $50 per key charge to that student’s bursar bill.
All practice rooms are to remain locked. Students who have finished practicing should shut and lock the door behind them as they leave. Students may not loan their keys to other students or open practice rooms for a person who does not have official permission and key to use them.
No food or drink is allowed in practice rooms at any time. No objects of any kind may be placed on pianos, except for pencils, music and metronomes which should be placed only on the music rack of the piano. Those who violate these rules may be required to forfeit their practice room key for the semester.
Piano Performance, Piano Pedagogy, and Piano Music Ed majors may reserve a maximum of 3 hours total per day in practice rooms 203, 238, and 240. All other music majors may reserve a maximum of 2 hours total per day in a practice room of their choosing. While students are encouraged to practice more than this, only the number of hours stated above may be reserved by signing on any posted practice room schedule. Students may use any open hours or unclaimed rooms for additional practice. Any person who does not abide by this policy will have all of their reserved times removed from the posted schedules.
No student is allowed to ‘save’ a room by leaving belongings in it for an extended period of time. If a student has vacated a practice room for more than 10 minutes, he/she will automatically forfeit the room to any other student waiting to use a practice room. Please be considerate of others’ belongings if you must move them in order to practice. Out of courtesy to others, please limit your practice sessions to 2 hours at a time in one practice room, or to 3 hours for the specific piano majors listed in the above paragraph.
All concerns regarding the maintenance and repair of pianos should be reported to the School of Music Piano Technician. Use the posted Repair/Maintenance form posted on the Piano Board, Altgeld second floor, to report any problems encountered with pianos. Priority must be given to the piano technician to service the pianos. If a particular piano must be serviced, students practicing in that room are expected to promptly and politely vacate the room at the technician’s request for the duration of the service.
Altgeld 107 houses audio playback equipment and computer work stations for ear training practice. (You must provide your own headphones.) This facility is open from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. The lab may also be open some evening and weekend hours, depending upon the scheduling of student help. Check the door to the room for additional hours.
The Center for Experimental Music (CEM) is a fully equipped multi-station computer music studio for composition, interactive performance and music publishing. Students work on projects with faculty and learn synthetic hardware technology, such as sound editing, processing, sampling and recording, and integrated software programs. Access to CEM requires a small per semester fee and is restricted to Composition students and other approved Music Majors. For more information, contact Dr. Christopher Walczak (walczak@siu.edu).
Monday – Friday: 7:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Classrooms can be scheduled by music students on a limited basis through the main office. Rehearsal areas (Altgeld 110, 112, 116, 117 and OBF 104) require a faculty sponsor and can only be reserved for times during regular buildling hours. The sponsoring faculty member must reserve the rehearsal space via email or in person. Faculty room requests take precedence over student requests.
With approval of your applied teacher, recital dates can be reserved through the main office by completing the Scheduling Request form. The procedure to schedule is located in the SIUC Accompanying Policy Handbook.
All students wishing to begin applied study at the 340 level must first pass the Upper Divisional Examination. This performance, agreed upon by the applied teacher, takes place before the entire faculty. The Upper Divisional Examination is offered each fall and spring semester on the Friday afternoon of the last day of classes. Undergraduate transfer students are required to spend at least one semester at the 240 level before taking the Upper Divisional Examination. Students must fill out an Upper Divisional Examination form and submit to the Assistant Director of the School of Music by the posted deadline.
All students in the Liberal Arts or Music Business specializations are required to take a 240 level Exit Examination prior to graduation. The content of this examination is established by the individual areas and is administered during the student’s final jury. Failure to pass the 240 exit examination will require a minimum of one additional semester of private study. Completion of the Exit Jury must be documented in the student file.
The School of Music offers auditions for student soloists who wish to perform with the SIUC Symphony Orchestra. The location and time of these auditions will be posted and application forms are then available through the main office. Students must have their applied teacher's permission to apply and must also obtain the Orchestra conductor's approval of the score to be performed. Competition judges may select zero to four winners who then have the opportunity to perform with the orchestra on a concert.
In addition to core curriculum courses, music and music education courses, students pursuing the Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education will take several courses in the College of Education and Human Services and student teach for a full semester. As part of the music education degree, and to enroll in most education courses, students must apply to the College of Education and Human Services for entry into the Teacher Education Program (TEP). Students may apply for admission to the TEP upon completion of 30 semester hours of coursework. Along with the completed application, verification of a passing score on either the TAP (Test of Academic Proficiency) or the ACT Plus Writing must be submitted as required by the Illinois State Board of Education for admission into the TEP.
The TEP Application along with detailed instructions can be found at http://ehs.siu.edu/tep/_common/documents/pdfs/applications/tep-application.pdf.
Further information on the Teacher Education Program and the TAP can be found online at http://ehs.siu.edu/tep/. Application deadlines are January 10 for Spring admission, and August 15 for Fall admission. For successful completion of the Music Education degree, students should adhere to the prescribed curricular plan. Students must establish contact with the Coordinator of Music Education, Dr. James Reifinger reifinger@siu.edu.
Many opportunities exist in the School of Music to help prepare for the challenging profession of music teaching. Opportunities exist for paid assistants for various summer music camps held at SIUC (gbrozak@siu.edu) and for teaching in the SIU Community Arts Outreach - College of Liberal Arts (melton@siu.edu). Other on-campus activities such as the Heartland Honor Band and Choir, District VI Choral Workshop and Music in Motion Marching Band competition provide many opportunities for volunteer leadership opportunities.
The National Association for Music Educators is the student professional organization in music education. The local chapter elects officers, plans monthly programs on topics from jazz education to teachers' unions, and attends MENC conventions where they hear outstanding ensembles, share experiences with students from other colleges, meet experienced teachers and view the displays of instruments and music. Members receive the Music Educators Journal and the state journal. Membership information and forms can be obtained from the CMENC advisor.
The Music Business Association is a student professional organization whose purpose is to provide an opportunity for networking and camaraderie among both students majoring in music business at SIUC and also other students interested in the Music Business Association music industry; furnish a forum for topical programs, speakers and demonstrations that give focus to areas of interest to its members and/or otherwise enhance the present music business curriculum at SIUC; build a library of resources and a network of SIUC music business alumni for use by MBA members, particularly graduating seniors, to facilitate placement in an ever competitive job market; develop and maintain organization projects (e.g. promotional services to the SIUC School of Music, SIUC music ensembles or local bands) that allow MBA members hands-on experience in a variety of facets of the music industry; nurture a sense of community within the SIUC School of Music and participate in impacting the future of the music business curriculum at SIUC.
The student chapter of the American Choral Directors Association is the professional organization for students interested in choral music, either as conductors or participants. The local chapter elects officers, plans programs and attends concerts of interest. Additionally, students attend both divisional and national conventions when the trips are feasible. Members receive the Choral Journal, the professional magazine published monthly by the American Choral Directors Association.
The Mu Phi Epsilon, a professional music fraternity open to both men and women, offers scholarships to various annual music festivals and grants-in-aid. The Foundation also sponsors an International Competition that is open to outstanding artist members of Mu Phi Epsilon and awards a two-year concert tour. Epsilon Kappa, SIUC's chapter was chartered on May 14, 1950.
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the oldest and largest national professional music fraternity for men, is represented on the SIUC by the Epsilon Kappa Chapter. The fraternity was founded in 1898 and its purposes are: to encourage and actively support the highest standards of creativity, performance, education and research in America; to develop and encourage loyalty to the Alma Mater; to foster the mutual welfare and brotherhood of students of music; to develop the truest fraternal spirit among its members; and to instill in all people an awareness of music's important role in the enrichment of the human spirit.
Sigma Alpha Iota, the newest organization in the School of Music, is open to any woman who participates in a School of Music ensemble. This is an independent organization formed by a group of women in the School of Music at SIUC in March of 1994 and received their charter in May of 1998. Their objectives are to serve SIU, the community, and the School of Music; to promote the growth of composition, scholarship and music education; and to unite women in the bonds of sisterhood through music.
The School of Music sometimes hires students to help in the main office, the band office, the orchestra office, at concerts and recitals, and in recording services. Student counselors/workers are also hired for Summer Music Camps and the Summer Music Festival. Check with supervisors in those areas for availability of positions.
Undergraduate recitals are not recorded automatically. If you wish to contract with Recording Services the fee must be paid at the time your scheduling request is received. All fees go towards maintaining and purchasing equipment.
Scheduling requests made less than two weeks before recital date may not be recorded due to conflicts. Fees are reimbursed if recording or recital does not take place.
Graduate recitals are recorded automatically if part of the degree requirement.
University Ensembles and faculty recitals are recorded automatically.
Visiting artist recitals are recorded only with the permission of the performer.
Masters of all recordings are kept on file by the Recording Service.
Each performer will receive one copy of the recording free of charge. Larger ensemble performers need to pay for copies.
Copies of recordings are available by request to the School of Music Main Office. Some recordings of faculty and guest artists may not be available if the performers do not give permission to copy. All copies must adhere to Copyright Law.
Master recordings are made using a selection of high-quality microphones and recording equipment. It is up to the discretion of the Recording Engineer as to the setup of the recording.
Recording sessions for the making of contest and audition recordings are possible. Please contact the Recording Service as soon as possible to make arrangements, as the facilities are often difficult to schedule. A deposit may be required.
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What makes America great is closely tied to our freedom of speech. Without that one simple right and dignity, terrible things happen in terrible places. That is why we have frequently supported freedom of speech in places like China and Vietnam.
But American freedom of speech is under assault.
Two seperate disruptions of speeches at UNC-Chapel Hill as just the tip of the iceburg.
Many Democrats, and Democrats control both houses of congress, support imposing “Fairness Doctrine” restrictions on free speech — which would effectively shut down talk radio as we know it today.
NBC and its children in the “news media” (CNBC, MSBC) are almost completely compromised and have lost their objectivity and fairness completely.
There is talk among lawmakers about “taking control” of the Internet — something that has already happened in China and Vietnam.
At CNN the people who participated in the tea bag events were referred to using a vulgar, sexual term: during newscasts.
Our newspapers are failing nation wide which leaves fewer and fewer free speech opportunityes but some have suggested a federal nationalization” which smacks of Russia’s Pravda and the state media of China.
So we at Peace and Freedom join with others in fighting to retain this key right of free speech and fear many in our government and media are working hard to destroy American free speech for their own purposes.
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Born on Chicago's South-Side in 1902, Vaughn Richard Shoemaker was educated at Bowen High School and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In 1922 he began an apprenticeship in the art department of the Chicago Daily News where he became Chief cartoonist in 1925, a position he held until 1952. It was in this position that he invented the beleaguered taxpayer character, John Q. Public, said to been more recognizable by Chicagoans than their own mayor. Shoemaker began to receive honors and awards for his editorial work. In 1938 Shoemaker was awarded his first Pulitzer Prize for his Armistice Day drawing "The Road Back." His second Pulitzer Prize came in 1947 for "Still Racing His Shadow." 1945 brought an honorary doctor of letters (LittD) from Wheaton College, a National Headlines Award and the Christopher Medal. Further displaying his popularity, from 1938 to 1946 Shoemaker's cartoons were compiled into six different volumes. Another compilation appeared in 1966. Herman Goering criticized his cartoons as "horrible examples of anti-Nazi propaganda." Shoemaker, nicknamed "Shoe," was an influence upon other cartoonists. He taught at the Academy of Fine Art in Chicago, where one of his students was Bill Maudlin, himself, later, a two-time Pulitzer winner. Shoemaker did not shrink from inserting moralistic or Christian messages into his editorial cartoons. For six months in 1940 Shoemaker drew the cartoon ideas of well-known The Sunday School Times cartoonist E. J. Pace when Pace suffered a stroke. He also founded two Christian fellowship groups for businessmen and artists: the Gospel Fellowship Club (becoming the nucleus of the Christian Businessmen's Committee International) and Christian Artists Fellowship Club. He served as Chairman for both. Converted at age 25 and a member of an Assemblies of God church, it was widely noted that Shoemaker claimed to have started each cartooning task on his knees in prayer. After thirty years at the Chicago Daily News Shoemaker moved the Chicago Tribune and syndication with the New York News. In 1961 he moved to The American, which later became Chicago Today. By 1963 Shoemaker's cartoons were syndicated to more than 75 newspapers. In 1972, fifty years after his entry into his apprenticeship and having drawn over 14,000 cartoons during his career, Shoemaker retired from pen and ink and began dabbling in oils as an avocation in Carmel by the Sea, California. Shoemaker died August 18, 1991 in Carol Stream, Illinois and was survived by his wife, Evelyn and son, Vaughn R. Jr.
Framed 14x17" Shoemaker cartoon of a boy diving into a lake.
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Well, this semester has finally come to a close! My last class of the year is tonight and I couldn’t be more excited. I’m really looking forward to a month of recuperation – I definitely need it. Grad school is even more mentally taxing than my undergraduate was, and there was a time when I never thought I’d say those words!
I learned how tough I was this semester. There was a lot of frustration, a lot of sleepless nights, and a lot of anxiety. But guess what – we all made it! I can guarantee you only learn to be stronger as college – and life – goes on.
Thanksgiving is just one week away! It’s probably my second- or third-favorite holiday; I can’t decide between it and Easter. Anyway, now is a great time of the year to count your blessings, so to speak. I know it’s nearly the end of the semester, you’re probably exhausted, and you’re looking forward to some time with family…but in these busy moments, I think it’s especially important to look at yourself with a positive outlook. In a world of negativity and brokenness, we, Fontbonne as a community, can spread some counter-feelings of optimism, respect, and encouragement. And what’s a great way to start on that track? Look inward, outward, and all around you, and see what’s good in your life. I’d like to encourage you to make a list of your own in the next few weeks; maybe it would be appropriate for in between studying for finals…a nice way to take a breath, relax, and appreciate everything a little more fully. It can be as short and simple as you like!
So here’s my “top 10” list of things I’m thankful for, in no particular order, by the way!
Fontbonne: I love the faculty, staff, my fellow students, the opportunities to pursue one’s passion and “serve the dear neighbor”, and the entire atmosphere in general. Even on days when I’m really tired and just not feeling too upbeat, my mood ends up brightening by being on campus, going to class, and knowing I’m surrounded by wonderful, supportive people.
My family & friends: My parents, brother, godparents, and other friends (young and old) bring me so much joy. They’re patient, kind, loving, encouraging, funny, and genuinely interested in hearing about the latest topic or subject I’ve covered in class. I may not have a huge social web, but the relationships I have with my relatives and companions are deep and permanent.
My horses: Dear, sweet little Pearl-baby and Blondie-girl, who have been so cooperative and easygoing about my lack of time for them since school started. They’re happy to just be groomed, petted, hugged, loved on, and told how much they mean to me. Owning a horse is so much more than riding; in fact, it’s really quite irrelevant to me. I think it’s way more important to have a strong relationship, built on trust and respect, than a surface level “hop on and ride off into the sunset” sort of thing.
Good health: I’m grateful for the ability to exercise every day and not be compromised in any way by injuries or illnesses. My first semester at Fontbonne is nearly over, and I have not gotten so much as a sneeze, which I’m pretty proud of…especially considering how little sleep I’ve recently been getting!
Freedom: I’m thankful for all of the men and women who have served or are currently serving in our military, protecting and preserving my rights. I’m really glad for my, your, and everyone else’s ability to voice their opinions and beliefs. Now more than ever, we need to ensure this right does not get lost or suppressed for anyone; but even more importantly, we need to be civil and respectful when speaking with someone who may hold a different set of beliefs.
Faith: This ties into #5 above (freedom). Every Sunday morning, I can go to church with my family to experience communion and fellowship with other believers. I can be refreshed for the coming week, forgiven of my sins, receive the Lord’s Supper, and encouraged to live a life of grace and love. My right to worship is not infringed upon, and for that I am appreciative.
Sunrises & sunsets: For all the darkness and gloom surrounding winter, you have to admit we have some of the most spectacular sunrises and sunsets. Colors of red, orange, golden, blue, pink, purple, and more set the sky on fire and always make me hopeful for the day ahead. In that quiet stillness, there is peace to be found.
Home sweet home: I have a roof over my head, heat and air-conditioning for all seasons, abundant clothing, running water, electricity, Internet service, and so many other creature comforts. We take these for granted far too much. Remember that there are millions of people all around the world who do not and may never experience these everyday conveniences.
Food: Once again, just how many people do you think do not have access to quality food and water like we do? I’m not trying to shame you for enjoying the bountiful feast your mom or grandma prepares for Thanksgiving…I think it’s one of the best times to come together as a family for fellowship and yummy goodness. But maybe after that final piece of pumpkin pie, consider volunteering for a food pantry or donating to a charity that seeks to improve the lives of people who aren’t in the same fortunate position we are.
The Future: I’m thankful to be able to pursue my studies in dietetics and history, two passions of mine, and eventually help people live their lives to the fullest. I’m thankful for classes that challenge, push, and mold me into a version of myself I never dreamed I would be. I’m also thankful for the opportunity to share my musings about the future with all who read this blog…you.
I remember the first time I visited Fontbonne, right around the time I had just started my associate’s degree. I drove up to the visitors parking in the front of Ryan Hall and right away I had a sense of being completely at home. I’m pretty sure I knew right then and there that I’d be attending Fontbonne. My passion is fine art so I was looking for a school that was both reasonably priced and had a strong art program. When I went on the campus tour with a student ambassador I made sure to ask to see the art building. As soon as we walked into the art building any doubt I might’ve had about where to get my undergrad just vanished. I felt like I could spend most of my days in that building and be happy as a clam. Fast forward almost three years and here I am, in my second semester here at Fontbonne, and I still get that same feeling every time I walk into the art building; for a little while this is home.
Ok, so, this is a shortened school week for Easter, or as I like to call it Spring Break Part 2. Our first spring break earlier in March was pretty decent, the weather was ok, and it was mostly filled with work for a lot of us. But this weekend will be different! I’m not overly religious, but Easter has always been a holiday that I have cherished for the family time. I come from a decent sized family (20-30 people when we’re all together), we’ve always been very close knit and spending time together is important and cherished. This Easter, much like this past Thanksgiving and Christmas, is even more important. Back in August my grandpa (now 88 years old) was diagnosed with stage four cancer. This rattled the foundation of our family pretty hard, especially for those of us that live out of state (most of my family resides outside of Chicago and just over the border in Wisconsin). Since the diagnosis my grandpa has been doing really well, keeping up with his exercises and keeping a healthy appetite. Everyone else in the family visits home as often as possible, helping my grandma out when she needs it, and enjoying every second we get to spend with everyone. We don’t think of my grandpas’ diagnosis as a tragedy, he’s lived a long life, full of love and memories; rather, this is an opportunity to be even more grateful for the time we do have with him. So this weekend I will happily make the five hour drive north, help cook an awesome Easter brunch, and laugh, a lot, and love very single moment of it. Enjoy this second spring break, go visit with your family and friends, or call them, tell them how much you love them, laugh with them over good jokes and memories. Cherish the moments, that’s what’s truly important in life.
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Students with families can apply to live in one or two bedroom apartments located about a mile from the campus center. Non-traditional and extended families are also welcome to apply.
For more information, visit the UCSB Housing and Residential Services Family Student webpage.
Students who are UC SHIP members may purchase benefits for their dependents as well.
If you are not a UC SHIP member and do not have coverage for your dependents through private insurance, please contact the UCSB Social Workers Services to schedule an appointment by calling (805) 893-3087.
Undergraduate students with young dependents (at least 50% of the time) are eligible to receive priority registration for classes. Applications are completed once for your entire term at UCSB.
Paper applications are available at both the Non-traditional Student Resource Center and the front desk of the Women’s Center. Forms can also be downloaded from the “Forms” tab.
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All communities create historical records, and recent decades have brought a growing critical awareness of how existing social hierarchies influence the creation and maintenance of historical archives. Community archive projects locate the power to preserve and shape history, heritage, and memory in communities themselves. Through readings, discussion, and analysis, this course will introduce students to a range of issues relating to grassroots community archives, archives of community organizations, and what happens when larger institutions partner with communities and community organizations to create and maintain archives. Students will also work with a local non-profit organization to undertake an archivally-based public project.
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Our world today becomes more and more penetrated by screens. Wherever we go, information is made available through dynamic surfaces, which can adapt to whichever piece of information that is relevant at that specific time and place. More than static objects like posters, these interactive screens can deliver information in real time and allow their users to be fully up to date at all times. Think of railway stations or airports and one can understand the value of a constant stream of data available to the traveller; when for instant a platform of departure changes, the traveller can be made aware of this fact faster and less time is lost which aids both the traveller as well as the railway service.
These screens then become an important part of our everyday reality. Researchers have already been looking into this phenomenon for a while, since the introduction of these new dynamics make for a faster and more informed citizen. Lev Manovich for instance has written important work on augmented reality, and defines the term ‘augmented reality’ as “the physical space overlaid with dynamically changing information. This information is likely to be in multimedia form and it is often localized for each user”. (Manovich, 2005) This then is exactly the changed reality as I described above; our world becomes undeniably connected and augmented.
Video surveillance: everywhere we see the rise of CCTV applications, which can be employed by every individual.
These three applications then are the three categories in which one can now place current augmented objects. Manovich himself puts an emphasis of the augmentation of architecture, and sees lots of opportunities for architects to make their buildings interactive. Such buildings with this extra layer of information can be even more worth for their users and visitors. Manovich names the Prada Store by Rem Koolhaas, which was realized in 2002 as the perfect example of an augmented building not only by the strategic use of screens, but by having the use of the building (selling Prada clothes) constantly at the first place. The screens contain information such as images from fashion shows or origins from the garments on display. This kind of use of screens in buildings can also be valuable applied to for instance museums or art galleries, something Manovich also calls for as it adds value to the art that is exhibited. These screens then are an example of the third category of augmented spaces.
The second category, that of cell space technologies, does not need an elaborate example to clarify what these technologies exactly are. Presumably the most widely accepted example of augmented space, cell space technologies entail for instance mobile phones and PDA’s. These technologies enable their users to be up to date at all times.
This application can in fact be seen as an example of the first category of augmented space as well as the third category, and as such crosses the boundaries of Manovich’ definition of augmented space. Physical space overlaid with dynamical data is an up and coming phenomenon that has the potential to be applied to many more fields. It is only a matter of time before more initiatives like the augmented reality system that enables drivers to look through walls to take useful form.
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https://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/blog/2009/10/31/augmenting-your-way-through-walls-and-other-applications/
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Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing And Other Charlatans!
Well another day on the planet, and words swimming around the court case involving people who died in a sweat lodge. A friend of mine called me earlier today, to mention the court case on True TV about the manslaughter case against a self help guru in Arizona. First and foremost, my heart goes out to all the families that were affected by this senseless tragedy, I am truly sorry for the pain and loss this has caused you. One thing that struck me as I watched this programming was, asking the experts, how to tell when some one is basically full of bull. This brings to mind so many religious leaders in our history, many dictators and so many other people we give our power away to even in family or work relationships.
I just want to say, that it saddens me to think, that so many people willingly give away their power, their belief in themselves and their own gut instincts, and some how believe some one elses point of view is better or more accurate than their own. Personally, we all give away power at some point in our lives, so in this case it becomes a matter of duration and degree. For most of us, we relinquish it on occasion and soon realize that this person is trying to take over our free will to think rationally or to function in a way that pleases us. For the record, it is never okay for you to feel like who you are is not good enough to judge for yourself. Everyone goes through periods in life where they are seeking knowledge, growth, love and a sense of belonging, this is a normal part of being human. What is not okay, is for some one else in helping you and guiding you to tell you that when something feels wrong to you, that you are wrong or some kind of a failure. What is good for you, may not be good for them and visa-verse. It breaks my heart that anyone person can feel so lost in themselves to basically be pulled on a leash by some one else, who really has no concept of who that person is. No one can know you better than yourself, growing and healing is personal only to you, and only you can know what kinds of things are good for you and work for you. There is no one size fits all spiritual experience, and even with so many religious and spiritual options available, you have to decide if any of them fit, or none of them fit, or if pieces and parts of many different things fits you. Honestly, spiritual growth does not require a check book, credit card or a purchase. If any one really wants to know what to look out for, leave your check book at home. Going to a retreat is fine and dandy, but even if you are in the middle of no where, you have the power to say, I am done! I paid for the privilege to see what you are about and what this is about and I am not buying it. I am not okay with it, you can walk out of the sweat lodge, encampment or the state for that matter, that is what free will is about!
This entry was posted on March 8, 2011 at 10:28 AM and is filed under Uncategorized with tags Arizona, Health, Mental health, Online Communities, Shopping, Social Networking, Spiritual formation, Television. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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Dennis Baron’s “From Pencils to Pixels” was a fascinating read detailing how different literacy technologies like the act of writing itself, the simple number two pencil and today’s modern day computer were all initially met with mixed feelings and trepidation by the general public. In the essay, he goes on to explain how these new technologies first needed to replicate the more familiar and natural writing tools that were widely used at that particular moment. With the pencil and computer, this meant an update to their user interfaces; the graphite mixture in the pencil was perfected and implanted in a wooden casing while computer word processing started to take off once developers created user-friendly “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) applications (and computers became more economically friendly).
This article was published in 2000, at a time when personal computers were becoming staples of the common American household and the World Wide Web was in the midst of the Dot-Com Bubble. Since that time, there have been huge advances and innovation in literacy technologies that make communication easier than ever. What immediately comes to mind is text messaging (first T9, now QWERTY keyboards), smartphones (which started with the Sidekick and Blackberries, and eventually led to iOS and Android devices) and new applications that facilitate communicating like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Technology makes everything faster and more uncertain; like the pencil, telegraph and now the household telephone – what is here today may be old news tomorrow, quickly fading into obscurity. Some tech critics are even saying that our coveted iPhone could be next to go.
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http://digitalrhetoricandnetworkedcomposition.web.unc.edu/2016/01/27/consistent-innovation-in-literacy-tech/
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Making plans - Taking requests! - Are you satisfied with an average life?
Making plans - Taking requests!
Prompts I'm organizing for myself center on the following fandoms: The Dead Zone, Eureka, Harper's Island, National Treasure, NCIS, Star Trek XI, and Warehouse 13. Oh, and I'm probably up to Final Fantasy VII (orig, AC, and CC) fic.
Notes on WiPs: Unfortunately not getting very far with the genderbend epic for Eureka. *pout* I haven't started my Jack/Nathan exchange fic yet.
How challenged do you want to be w/Eureka prompts?
I haven't forgotten about you- I just spent all day out in the field and will be doing the same for the next 2 days, then I get to be a chauffeur to take my friend 175 miles one way so I'll be gone all weekend. Wash, rinse, repeat. Story of my life the last few weeks, and at least for another.
I already did a read through once, and can do another soon, hopefully.
And "challenged"...? Um, well, toss something out! lol The fic you're previewing came from a random throwaway comment from Classics. *g* Never know what might turn up.
So, I totally live, despite the fact that school starting has done it's best to kill me. Um, um, I really want to request something, but I don't really know what subject...anything Spock/Kirk and Jack/Nathan(it's your fault I got into it anyway) is very welcome. I might have ideas later and post them.
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Mike Leach, who took over when Dykes retired at the end of the 1999 season, broke Dykes’ mark with 84 wins in 10 seasons.
The Red Raiders hadn’t had a head coach stay more than five years since JT King in the 1960s before Dykes and Leach, whose combined tenures covered 23 seasons. Dykes was a three-time SWC coach of the year.
William Taylor Dykes, the son of a cotton ginner, was born across the street from the Texas Tech campus and grew up in tiny Oasis, near the New Mexico state line. He was a high school standout in Ballinger, another small West Texas town.
Dykes spent 40 years in coaching, starting in high schools mostly in West Texas before a few college assistant stops that included Texas and Mississippi State. He returned to the high school ranks at West Texas power Midland Lee in the early 1980s before joining Jerry Moore’s staff at Tech.
The Red Raiders finished in a five-way tie for second in the SWC in 1994, when Texas A&M went 10-0-1 but was ineligible for postseason play because of NCAA sanctions.
Texas Tech got the Cotton Bowl bid in the second-to-last season of the SWC because it had the longest Cotton Bowl drought. The Red Raiders lost to Keyshawn Johnson and Southern California 55-14.
“Words cannot describe what Coach Dykes meant to West Texas, Texas Tech University, this program and me, personally,” said current coach Kliff Kingsbury, whose first start as a Tech quarterback was Dykes’ final game in 1999 — a 38-28 win over Oklahoma.
Dykes had a pair of nine-win seasons in the SWC and winning records the first four years in the Big 12 before Leach took over. Texas Tech had seven losing seasons in eight years before Dykes arrived.
Sonny Dykes, one of Dykes’ two sons, was the head coach at Cal from the past four seasons before getting fired. He is now an offensive analyst to Gary Patterson at TCU.
Dykes’ wife, Sharon, died in 2010. His survivors include sons Rick and Sonny and a daughter, Bebe Petree.
Services for Dykes are planned for 2 p.m. Thursday at First United Methodist Church in Lubbock and at 2 p.m. Friday in Horseshoe Bay.
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This week, the fourth Streetscape Territories Notebook was published!
This publication covers the EU Intensive Program workshop “Streetscape Territories, Spaces of Inclusion”, that was held in Barcelona in January-February 2014 in collaboration with KU Leuven, TU Delft, Chalmers UT, PU Catalunya, TU Bratislava and ENSA Montpellier (see previous posts).
Cities have become unhealthy places for human beings — not only because of toxic emissions, but also because of poor transportation, visual pollution, congestion, social exclusion, violence, noise and even “the loss of identity.” And inequality looms over it all.
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DaTA will be playing tomorrow at the Scopitone festival.
That’s a good opportunity to post a picture of the rehearsals, to tease you a bit.
Vitalic is playing this week at the Scopitone festival, in Nantes (FR).
This is a good opportunity to post some photos of the setup.
It is actually composed of LED Ghost panel (assembled in France, not in China !), covered by a sun-screen architectural material. This gives the ability to the setup to be either reflective or lit, depending on the graphics projected.
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The airline Industry has been recognised as a high value industry. The market carrying over 2 billion passengers each year and occupied over 35% of global merchandise in trade by value.Studies have been conducted globally to investigate the feasibility and return on investment for local or international airlines, with several analytical methodologies in use. The focus of this dissertation is to analyse the impact of financial risk factors, including interest rate exposures, currency fluctuations, and fuel price changes on the airline industry. This study investigates risk exposures in the South African airline industry and uses data on South African Airways (SAA) and Comair to calculate the impact of risk factors on exposure significance. The key results show that, on average, the exposures are more significant over the short-term horizons which becomes fundamental as the horizon length increases. In cases where the non-linear coefficient is slightly strengthened as the return horizon is lengthened, the sign of the exposure point coefficient does not necessarily point in the favourable direction of returns. Thus, a positive coefficient indicates a tendency of the risk factor and returns to move in the same direction, while a negative sign means that the impact on returns decreases as the exposure increases. Based on the financial ratio analysis of the airline characteristics, the results indicate that SAA shows a better return on investment better than Comair. Particularly SAA (SAA Annual Report: 2005) shows an improvement in performance with an increase in revenues and stable cost bases, despites the unexpected increase in oil dollar prices by 42%, which contrib tes to a large increase in returns. Lastly, structural changes in exposures are investigated, focusing on an extraordinary event of the global aviation industry the terrorist attack in New York on September 11 , 2001. No impact on SAA or Comair was found during the study period, which indicates that our study subjects may be less risk impacted by U.S. influences in comparison to other international airlines. The common financial speculation of higher risks are accompanied by higher returns may not be feasible to the airline industry, but strategic planning changes and future financial management adaptations to fit the global economy may bring a positive impact on the industry. This brings opportunities for further research.
Tsai, B. 2008. Financial risk exposures in the airline industry : case of South African Airlines. University of Cape Town.
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Ron Read is a former long-time USGA staffer, who is predicting success for the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay, notwithstanding early criticism. "This opinion is offered as one who stood with John Ladenburg, course visionary, [and] Robert Trent Jones, Jr, its designer, on the rim overlooking the raw, undeveloped, 940 acre county property," he writes at Golf Traditions. "Together, that day in '05, we shared a dream — that of hosting the US Open on this site, one that had yet to even be touched by a bulldozer…I am on record. This will be the most stunning sports venue ever televised."
For the first time ever, the U.S. will be played on fescue grass. "This isn't your father's golf grass at Chambers Bay," Craig Smith of the Seattle Times writes in this look at another interesting feature of this Open. "This grass is fescue, and it is one of many reasons this U.S. Open is special. Fescue fairways, fescue greens, fescue rough. A regular fescue festival involving four strains of the grass, with two strains on fairways and greens and two for the rough."
The Irish Open at Royal County Down this week is a step out for Rory McIlroy, who is serving as a host of sorts for the event. The Rory McIlroy Foundation is the charitable beneficiary. "When I was younger my parents sacrificed everything to allow me to play the game I loved," he says in this story by Peter Hutcheon of the Belfast Telegraph. "But I know that not every child is so fortunate. My aim is that the Rory Foundation will support children's charities big and small around the world that try to give kids a helping hand."
"Colonial Country Club only got a combined 1.6 inches of rain overnight Saturday and Sunday," Brad Townsend of the Dallas Morning News writes, noting potential problems at the next PGA Tour stop, the AT&T Byron Nelson. "Just 31 miles to the Northeast at the Four Seasons Las Colinas, site of this week's AT&T Byron Nelson, the TPC course was drenched by 3.75 inches of overnight rain and a storage tent left of the 18th fairway was obliterated by an apparent EF-1 tornado."
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Kenya is known for its wildlife parks, and one of them, Nairobi National Park, sits right next to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. Nairobi NP is sometimes said to be the only national park within boundaries of a major city. While that claim is not true, Nairobi NP is still very unique, being a large wildlife habitat attached to a metropolis. One may ask how it has been preserved despite the rapidly growing urban region. The answer is that it won’t be there much longer. The decision to build a railway line through it marks the beginning of the end of Nairobi National Park.
While Nairobi National park is good for wildlife viewing, most tourists prefer visiting famous parks further away, like Masai Mara and Amboseli. However, these cannot be visited on a day trip unless using air charter. Therefore those short on time, like conference guests, may find visiting Nairobi National Park being an ideal option.
Nairobi residents might also like making quick visits to the park, but this is often impractical due to traffic, as getting there may take more time than what’s spent at the park. Then expensive entry fees (especially for foreigners) and other costs (eg. vehicle) may deter people from visiting there. Despite much lower park fees, most locals cannot afford visiting the park as they represent lower social classes.
Nairobi National Park remains somewhat underrated, and some politicians and businessmen see the park as a prime land awaiting to be built. There has been lots of pressure to give up at least parts of the park for to the sake of “development”.
The Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) is currently being built from Mombasa to Nairobi, from where it is eventually set to reach Kampala in Uganda. The replacing of old railway network is long overdue. Few would argue about the need of the new railway line. But how and where the track is built, is a different matter.
Instead of following the old railway, the Standard Gauge Railway will bypass Central Nairobi. That won’t be vital since transporting cargo will be the main (and only?) purpose of the new railway line. However this route means the new railway will be of little use in terms of passenger traffic, neither would it be useful as a part of much need commuter rail network.
Earlier this year a small chunk at the edge of the park was degazetted to pave way for railway line. This was mainly due to controversial decision to save Alan Donovan’s African Heritage House from being demolished. But the latest development is still way worse. The next phase of the railway from Nairobi to Naivasha, will cut large chunk of western portion of the park.
There has been a wide railway reserve along the track to accommodate its expansion. But previous regimes saw no interest in developing railway (hence the derelict state of the exiting track), letting politically well connected land grabbers to take over railway reserves. Elsewhere the railway reserve has been filled by informal settlements. Thus a route following the existing railway would lead to significant demolition of existing infrastructure. Moreover, SGR cannot follow as tight curvature as the the existing line, thus using the old route would lead to even more infrastructure destruction. Another reason for the alternative route may be to avoid going through Kibera slums, where the existing railway has been subject to frequent vandalism.
Removing the old track would provide more space to lay the new track, but rather oddly, the existing narrow gauge railway will continue to be operated concurrently with SGR, despite little chance of being competitive.
While it looks inevitable that these plans go ahead, it not yet too late to prevent them. There must be better alternatives available. What Nairobi residents should do now is to show their opposition against these plans to save the park. Otherwise new infrastructure will continue encroaching the park, and soon Nairobi National Park will be no more.
This entry was posted in Conservation, Economy, Kenya, Transport and tagged Kenya, Nairobi, Nairobi National Park, Railways.
Where is the center of Africa? Before the question can be answered, a method how to define the center has to be selected, and secondly, define what actually are the borders of the continent. Both issues may be widely debatable. This blog post provides examples of possible center points of Africa, using few simple methods. In this case only continental Africa has been selected as the borders of the continent, so islands are not counted in.
This entry was posted in Africa, Nature and tagged Africa, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Geography, Nigeria, Republic of Congo.
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We’ve really enjoyed another action packed week in the wide world of photography, with writers and artists from all genres publishing photos and blog posts from all corners of the world. In this week’s list we find that Toad Hollow Photography has been searching in all corners of the internet for links to tutorials, special features and great photography to share here with everyone, featuring some of the best work in the field of photography. We really hope you enjoy checking out these links as much as the Toad did in bringing this week’s list to you.
An Incredibly Useful Beginner’s Photoshop Tutorial for those looking to get started in using Photoshop as a post-production tool for photography, all the options and methods can be quite daunting. A bit of the mystery is always in the notion of where to start with it all, and this terrific tutorial takes you through the rudimentary tools built-into Photoshop with bite sized video segments that give you visual feedback as each one is used.
Complete Lightroom and Photoshop Portrait Retouching Tutorial for those who enjoy or need to do extensive retouching, particularly with portraits, this is a 20 minute video tutorial that takes you through many steps that create amazing results. Being able to watch in real-time as the various steps are used is a very helpful and quick way to learn how to bring these techniques to your own workflow.
Hard light vs soft light. What’s the difference and how do you do it? this is a great video tutorial, one that takes you through the differences between hard and soft lighting, a phrase that describes the quality not the luminescence of light. Each of these types of light has great application potential in imagery, and being able to see the differences between the two in the video format really helps bring the concepts to life.
How to Crop, Rotate, and Enhance Your Images in Apple Photos this brief video tutorial takes you through some of the basics that are found in Apple Photos, an app that I believe comes with most Apple computers. This easy-to-follow guide takes you through cropping, straightening and using a set of built-in filters to quickly and easily enhance your photographs.
Food for Digital Thought: Dealing with Distortion Part I | Food for Digital Thought: Dealing with Distortion Part II commercial photographer Joe Baraban shares some great insight into the concept of distortion in photography, specifically the distortion found in pictures that have a building as the prime subject. In some cases distortion is not necessarily a bad thing, as shown in the two photos Joe submits along with these articles.
Automotive photography: Learn the secrets from professionals photographing cars can be a challenging and rewarding type of photography for professionals and newcomers alike. This primer article discusses three different aspects of shooting vehicles and is a great starting point to capturing that incredible auto image you have in your mind’s eye.
4 Easy Tips for Working with Surfers capturing surfers can be an exciting adventure for both the athlete and the photographer working the session. This is a brief but great list of tips and tricks to help you get started in this particular genre of imagery.
Creating the Photograph: Jason Lanier’s Snow Queen check out this great behind-the-scenes look at what went into the creation of a concept photo shoot. The pictures created are amazing, and when you learn about the environment and equipment used to create them, it becomes a learning experience for those of us interested in this type of photography.
The Northern Lights look even more magical from the air the aurora borealis is an amazing natural phenomenon, creating a magical and ethereal setting for photographers to capture images that at times appear to come from another world entirely. This time-lapse video presentation was captured in a plane as the northern lights danced about wildly for quite some time.
Black and White Bangkok: The Street Photography of Jordan Stead candid black-and-white street photography can be a very powerful medium, sharing perspectives of a busy city as people go about their lives completely unawares of the images being captured around them. The transformative nature of black-and-white accents this aspect of the work, and in this special feature we get to enjoy the streets of Bangkok with the myriad of people rushing about.
ELEGANCE Dany Eid brings his photographic mastery to bear in making this amazing picture of the city of Dubai during the blue hour, just before sunset. Dany fuses five images into the panorama, creating a highly detailed study of this amazing and beautiful city under perfect lighting conditions.
Palouse Glow Palouse, Washington the often photographed Palouse region of the northwest area of the United States offers unparalleled views and vistas, often times showcasing breathtaking beauty as the natural light plays and dances off the rolling hills. This shot from Len Saltiel features the epic vista found here, with light from the golden hour creating a strong sense of depth and detail in a shot that takes on a highly abstract feel.
Highland what an amazing shot, one that includes a pair of wooden buildings sitting under the watchful gaze of a very dramatic and rugged mountain range in the backdrop. A snow fall eddies around the buildings and the mountains, with a beautiful sliver of light crossing the mountains to juxtapose against the raging storm.
Reach for the Sky infrared photography can reveal an otherworldly view of a particular spot as the spectrum explored in this technique utterly changes everything that is visible. Here we see a pair of terrific shots taken by Michael Criswell in infrared, and then processed as black-and-whites to really accent the inherent beauty and drama of the landscape.
No Mercy monochromatic tones explore the rich textures and natural depth found in this remote landscape shot captured by Daniel Herr. Snow is everyone is this shot, with a group of brooding and dramatic clouds lingering overhead for the perfect finishing element to this picture.
Haboob over Organ Pipe once you work past the odd name for this post and photograph by famed storm-chaser Mike Olbinski, you will find an amazing natural phenomenon captured in a still panoramic frame. This massive storm system created a stacked layer of storm clouds, resulting in a huge and fast moving dust storm working its way across the landscape, and here we find that Mike is ready to capture this incredible event.
Final Destination it’s very hard to beat the visual romance buried in a great shot that focuses on a classic steam train making it’s way down the track, as evidenced in this stunning shot by Alexander Riek. The framing of vibrantly colored leaves from the autumn foliage adds a perfect splash of color to accent the joyous feel of this incredible photograph.
Grizzly Bear Nursing this is something that is likely not often seen by people, a Grizzly Bear mom nursing her two cubs in a meadow in the heart of Alaska. These incredible creatures are as beautiful as they are baneful, and this epic photograph by Ron Niebrugge is a great way to bridge the gap between man and animal.
Rule the sand a fast moving racecar makes its way across a barren sand-filled landscape in this amazing photograph from Red Bull Photography. The post-production technique used takes on a highly cinematic feel to it, accenting the raw artistic tension found in the car that exhibits a strong sense of speed in a still frame.
The Creator urbex photography gives us all a chance to look through the folds of time and see a scene that visually describes the effects and ravages of years gone by. This shot comes to us from Urban Vagabond and features a long forgotten room with machinery full of rich textures and patina.
Large spiral staircase at Leica Herbert A. Franke creates a striking abstract shot with this composition that features a white spiral staircase at the Leica headquarters building. Gentle flowing lines lead the viewer through the frame where lines and geometry are the true stars of the show.
along the Canola road endless yellow fields of Canola plants cover this frame which also features a winding path through the field and a single person, the photographer Frank King, standing with a cell phone camera in-hand. In the far distance in the corner of the frame, the majestic Canadian Rockies stand sentry over this fabulous landscape.
Downtown Dubai this is the second Dubai cityscape featured in this week’s list, and is no less remarkable for it. Daniel Cheong shares one of his unique elevated vertorama perspectives of the city during the blue hour, showcasing the incredibly dramatic and contemporary architecture that seems to rise out of the sand.
The Surfer terrific artistic tension comes to our screens in this shot from Edith Levy that finds a shoreline by the ocean that creates a great leading line and a lone surfer making his way across the frame. The thick fog in the backdrop acts as a perfect scenic diffuser, helping to really bring the surfer out of the frame.
Across the River old, classic architectural features of the buildings that line the river in the city of Dordrecht come to life on our screens in this wonderful photograph by Herman van den Berge. A muted reflection in the river’s waters add a perfect silky mirror for an added touch of interest to this picture.
Canoeing at Emerald Lake rugged mountains cover the backdrop as an amazingly colored lake fills the foreground in this delightful landscape shot from Jim Nix. A family in a red canoe paddles their way across the scene, finishing the picture off just perfectly by creating an anchor in the picture.
blade runner in Moscow underground those who love strong leading lines and dramatic vanishing points in images will love this photograph taken below ground in a subterranean facility by Roman Alyabev // . The repeating lines and colors draw the viewer straight into the frame in this shot, making for a memorable viewing experience for everyone.
Imperial Palace Gardens Kyoto, Japan the lush gardens in Japan are world-reknown for their natural and breathtaking beauty, painting the scene in a beautiful green palette with dashes of color everywhere from the flowers on display. Barbara Youngleson captures a wonderful shot of this setting that also features a small pond with still waters that cast a muted reflection.
Venice Efemir Art captures a memorable image in the world-famous city of Venice in Italy, with a canal that creates a strong leading line into the frame where the old buildings create a strong sense of character. This is definitely one of those shots that reveals more as you spend time taking in the finer details, culminating in the realization that many of these buildings are hundreds and hundreds of years old.
Red Panda Wayne Beauregard captures a wonderful, tight portrait of a Red Panda, revealing details in this gentle animals face and giving us all a glimpse into its spirit and personality. THe shallow depth-of-focus the Wayne used to create this piece does a perfect job of isolating the subject from its backdrop, helping make it stand out in the picture.
The post 30 Cool Photography Links to Enjoy With Your Morning Coffee appeared first on Light Stalking.
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Looking at the bottom row of the table below, we can see that the Tigers had 180 opportunities to go from 1st to 2nd on an infield grounder and made the advancement 37% of the time. They had 86 opportunuties to go from 2nd to 3rd and were successful 65% of the time. In 21 chances to score from 3rd, they made it 43% of the time. Overall, they had 285 opportunities to advance on infield grounders and they made the advancement 46% of the time. This success rate was slightly higher than the league average of 43%.
Individually, the most successful Tigers in advancing on infield grounders were some of the same ones who were good at taking extra bases on hits: Omar Infante 75%, Brandon Inge (64%) and Carlos Guillen (53%). The trailers were Marcus Thames (again) at 24% and Craig Monroe at 31%.
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http://www.detroittigertales.com/2007/02/base-running-ground-game.html
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Prosecutors want a Dayton woman who admitted guilt in a deadly police chase through Moraine and Miami Twp. to serve more than 15 years in prison.
Alyssa Irwin-Debraux, who is set to be sentenced Thursday, should serve 11 years for the involuntary manslaughter to which she admitted in the Sept. 11 high-speed chase on Ohio 741 that claimed the life of uninvolved motorist Mary Taulbee, court documents filed by the prosecution state.
Calling the fatal wreck “an easily preventable tragedy,” prosecutors also said Debraux, 19, should serve 4.5 more years combined for failure to comply and grand theft, charges she admitted to Dec. 20, records show.
Defense attorney Keith Fricker in court filings last month asked Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Michael Krumholtz for leniency – including community control - in sentencing his client, who has no criminal record.
Moraine officer Matt Barrie reached speeds of more than 80 miles per hour in pursuing a stolen Jeep authorities said the defendant was driving on Ohio 741. Barrie’s cruiser collided with a car driven by Taulbee at Carnation Drive.
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2019-04-24T04:53:55Z
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https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/deadly-police-chase-prosecutors-seek-prison-for-easily-preventable-tragedy/HkCuigchZPqF0d1xCNvkGN/
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Last night, John Hirschbeck ejected Troy Tulowitzki from game three of the ALCS after Tulowitzki complained about Hirschbeck’s called strikes against him in his previous at-bat as he took the field for the top of the eighth inning.
“I think it was obvious I didn’t agree with the called third strike,” Tulowitzki said. “And there were other pitches that were questionable. I’m walking out to the field, and he’s looking at me. And I told him that wasn’t a strike. And it was a quick trigger. Obviously he was either holding on to something or something was going on. But I didn’t think what I did was going to eject me from the game.
Clearly, the bar for what constitutes an ejection should be higher in the postseason; the stakes are so high, the last thing the league should want is a game being decided by backups forced into the game because an umpire had a short fuse. So it would be interesting to hear Hirschbeck’s side, and his rationale for why he had to eject Toronto’s shortstop from the game. Unless he provides a compelling alternate version of events, this event won’t help his reputation as an umpire with too quick of a hook.
But, without defending the ejection, it should be noted that Tulowitzki was wrong about the pitch that ultimately got him ejected. In fact, the Blue Jays complaints about the strike zone seem pretty weak when you actually look at the balls and strikes Hirschbeck called last night.
Here’s our strikezone plot from the game last night, with the called strike three to Tulowitzki circled.
And here is the strike zone map from Brooks Baseball.
According to the PITCHF/x data, the pitch was on the outside corner, and should have been called a strike, even before accounting for the fact that the called strike zone against right-handed batters often stretches a little bit off the plate. This pitch wasn’t even in that borderline area, so Tulo doesn’t seem to have much of a case here. That pitch was part of a cluster of outside corner calls down in the zone, and every pitch in that cluster was called a strike by Hirschbeck last night.
If anyone should have been complaining about Hirschbeck’s zone last night, it should have been the pitchers, because his zone was actually pretty tight for most of the evening. The first pitch Johnny Cueto threw last night was a changeup on the inside corner to Ben Revere, but Hirschbeck called it a ball. Marcus Stroman later threw Mike Moustakas a curveball in a very similar spot that also was called a ball, despite the fact that it was pretty clearly in the strike zone, and then Hirschbeck also missed a first-pitch two seamer from Stroman to Lorenzo Cain that should have been strike one.
But the most notable part of Hirschbeck’s zone last night was that he was not giving pitches off the plate against right-handed batters, no matter how often each team tried to get strikes there. You can see all those black dots right on the line and just off the edge map; these pitches are called strikes with a decent amount of regularity during the season, but last night, Hirschbeck was not giving those just-off-the-edge pitches.
In fact, Tulowitzki had already benefited from one of those close calls. In his first at-bat, Cueto threw him an 0-1 fastball right off the outer edge, and almost perfectly centered vertically, but Tulo took it for ball one, then singled on the next pitch of the at-bat. Despite his protestations, Tulo didn’t really have any calls go against him last night, and perhaps Hirschbeck was more defensive than usual because of the fact that he knew Tulo was simply wrong in his criticism.
That alone doesn’t excuse an ejection, of course, and players should be allowed leeway even if they perceive the call incorrectly. But given that Hirschbeck’s zone was pretty hitter-friendly last night, I can somewhat sympathize with not taking too much grief from a hitter about an accurate strike call. Depending on what Tulo said between innings, Hirschbeck perhaps should have just ignored the comment, let the situation die out, and finish out the rest of the game, enjoying the justification the evidence would bring postgame. Instead, he’ll now have to explain (to his bosses, at least, if not the public) why he ejected a player who was so far away from him and didn’t seem to be escalating the situation at that point.
But when it comes to the call that Tulowitzki was complaining about, it seems like Hirschbeck has some ground to stand on. It was a good pitch, and Hirschbeck got the call right.
We hoped you liked reading Defending John Hirschbeck, Somewhat by Dave Cameron!
Any time an umpire comes out like that to challenge a player, they are in the wrong. Doesn’t matter if he made the correct call on the pitch. It’s the friggin ALCS and he tosses a guy for responding to his own goading, after the inning had turned over and the players had gone to their positions. Unacceptable.
Agreed. The ejection is the issue, not the strike call. The question of whether the player’s gripe with the strike call was ‘legitimate’ or not is completely separate. You get ejected for arguing balls and strikes regardless of the merits of the those calls.
So the merits of the *ejection* are the issue. And from where I sit, there’s nothing to talk about. I can’t think of a single excuse for it, let alone a good argument.
Oh please. The challenge was at the plate, Tulo knows Hirschbeck. Knowing the rules, written and un-, Tulo screwed the pooch. Now STFU and play baseball.
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2019-04-23T02:47:23Z
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https://blogs.fangraphs.com/on-john-hirschbecks-game-three-strike-zone/
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GBC Mayhem roared back into action in round three of the All About Mixed Netball League at Cams Hill School in Fareham last month.
Having received a bye in the previous round, they were keen to rack some points up and climb the table.
And they did just that, with a 34-9 triumph over Southampton-based ABPMer, who had earlier beaten Babcock Ballers.
Mayhem hit the ground running and took a 8-2 lead in the first quarter.
ABP came back strong in the second quarter, scoring more goals but Mayhem responded and pulled away again. At half-time the score was 16-8.
Mayhem continued to increase their advantage before the final whistle blew with the score 34-9 in their favour.
The umpire’s choices of the best player on each team went to men – George Swanwick, for Mayhem, and Dan Williams, of ABPMer.
Organiser Helen Keet said: ‘The lads in both teams were all noticeably more netball proficient.
‘The umpires have been asked to keep control of the game but allow a little leniency towards the lads until they find their netball legs and understand the rules.
‘Safety for all players comes first and enjoyment a close second, so it is important the lads are learning correctly about the sport.
On court two, Estee Elites took on the Walton’s and their 23-2 victory did not really reflect the game.
The fun-loving Walton’s just enjoy playing and had a great match.
John McPheat was named umpire’s player for Elite for the third game in a row.
Travelopia Thunder played St Johns, who have recruited some tall male players.
And the latter made a slow start as the new recruits settled in.
There was a lot of fun on court, with both teams exchanging some netball banter before Thunder claimed a 21-6 win.
Also this month there is a mixed tournament being held by the Gosport & Fareham Netball Association at Brune Park School on July 16.
Contact Kelly at kellyhayward@outlook.com for more details.
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2019-04-26T11:37:45Z
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https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/sport/netball/mayhem-reign-in-mixed-battle-1-8041547
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With our hands-on workshops and training, your employees gain relevant skills and tools that can be immediately applied in the workforce for a moderate investment of your time and money. Continuing education units (CEUs) are awarded.
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80%49°43°Rain with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C) and a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 11 to 19 mph (17.7 to 30.6 kph).Night - Showers with a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds SSW at 18 to 21 mph (29.0 to 33.8 kph). The overnight low will be 44 °F (6.7 °C).
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Today - Rain with a high of 47 °F (8.3 °C) and a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 11 to 19 mph (17.7 to 30.6 kph).
Tonight - Showers with a 80% chance of precipitation. Winds SSW at 18 to 21 mph (29.0 to 33.8 kph). The overnight low will be 44 °F (6.7 °C).
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2019-04-22T07:13:24Z
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If you are new to the world of felt crafting you may have noticed that cross stitching or thread embroidery seems to be the go to choice for most felt crafters. And it’s no wonder – Skeins of cross stitching thread are readily available in a million color choices are inexpensive and are easy to store and transport. How easy is it to store? How about over 100 colors in the space of 3″ easy? More on that below.
One of the best things about working with felt is its wide range of colors and ease of use in smaller projects and detail work. But all those small scraps of color can add up to a lot of thread. The cost of embroidery or cross stitching thread can be as much as 80% cheaper than traditional thread spools. (Translated: 16 skeins of cross stitching thread vs. 2 spools of standard thread.) You may also find yourself working with shades of felt you don’t use often or sewing very small details and don’t see a need to invest in a larger spool to sew.
Traditional spools of thread are round and have a tendency to roll around which, while helpful on a sewing machine is quite annoying when hand crafting. Bobbins lie flat and just beg to be thrown into a project baggie for crafting on the go. Cross stitching thread is has very little sheen or shine to it making it blend easily into dense felt. The cotton in embroidery thread isn’t as strong as the typical spool threads but this generally doesn’t present a problem.
Cross Stitching or embroidery thread is easy to find. Many big box stores now only carry a few shades of thread but will still carry dozens of shades of embroidery thread. Since most felt work is hand sewn the aggravation of separating the threads in exchange for a wide selection of easy to locate, portable, space-saving, inexpensive colors seems a small price to pay.
Different thicknesses of embroidery or cross stitch thread used in running stitches and french knots on felt.
#25 cotton embroidery floss is the most commonly sold type, it comes in six strands of thread twisted into one thick strand. Most sewing projects are done with just 1 or 2 threads separated from the bunch after cutting it to the desired length. Occasionally you will want a thicker thread for a tighter hold, visible stitching or filling in details.
Click HERE for more on stitches and their uses.
For larger products or often used colors standard spool threads are still a better bet because all that untangling of thread can be really time-consuming.
Play around with the thicknesses and stitch styles for added detail on any project.
Embroidery floss is also available in silk, linen, glittered, metallic and even glow in the dark!
How to store embroidery thread.
Now that I’ve helped you justify your purchase of 85 skeins of embroidery thread let me give you a word of warning, this whole project can go south if you don’t move that thread to bobbins ASAP. Your 8th grade jewelry box has nothing on the tangled rainbow hell that awaits those who don’t heed my warning.
Slip one cuff off at a time taking care not to distort or twist the thread too much.
Keep the thread in its circle and look for the shortest thread along the top. It should come apart smoothly.
Rein in your threads Bo Peep style with these free printable felt sheep bobbins.
That’s all well and good but how do you store sheep shaped bobbins you ask.
How to store Thread Bobbins.
I store my sheep in a 3″ binder inside deep pocketed pocket pages and I always know where to find them.
One of my favorite things about storing the thread bobbins this way is that they are easy to flip through and hold samples against for the best color matches possible.
When buying pocket pages look for deep pockets to help keep your sheep in line, since they will start to slip put if your binder is held upside down. While winding your bobbins try to make your sheep bellies even and flat so they don’t slip out of the pages as easily.
Tags: bobbin, craft storage, cross stitching thread, embroidery thread, felt, Felt craft thread, sewing felt, sewing felt tips, storage, store, thread for felt, tutorial, what kind of thread to use for felt, what kind of thread.
Felt food 101- How to make Felt Food lesson 5 Stuff it!
3 years ago I was put on bed rest during a pregnancy it was also around this time that I spent my daughters college fund on a beautiful pink retro kitchen set, I think you know which one I am talking about, you know the one everyone passes and says, “who would pay that!?” well I did, anyway for Christmas that year along with her lovely kitchen she received some wooden play foods, which being very little she promptly used to scratch and dent her wonderful kitchen…needless to say those little suckers were gracing the shelves of goodwill by weeks end!
But what can you do in a play kitchen without play food, and I wasn’t about to bring a bunch of plastic junk into my home, then the solution presented itself in the form of felt food. I have now made everything from soup to nuts, literally. After crafting felt food for sometime I began to get frustrated trying to find the bits and pieces of everything I needed to do what I wanted to, so together I decided to create the store I was looking for, American Felt and Craft. Please stop in sometime and take a look around. And as always if you have any questions I am just an email away and I’m happy to share my knowledge and a few of my favorite patterns with you!
In this the last installment of Felt Food 101 I’ll be convering the subject of stuffing your creations.
If you just doing some bare bones construction all you will need is stuffing any kind from any place, I have even been known to head to tag sales for stuffed animals to butcher for this exact purpose, the bonus to this is that your saving a huge, and generally ugly stuffed animal from rotting in a landfill, this is especially important because fiberfill is a plastic. While it does eventually break down it’s chemical components soak into the ground and can get into the ground water so any you can salvage for a higher purpose is great. I usually buy my giant stuffies for about 2 bucks sometimes less. I send them through the wash with bleach two times and then they are ready to go. However with the advent of bed bug outbreaks all over the country I’d hold off on this technique unless you know the stuffie.
If your stuffie is too big for your machine unstuff it and place stuffing into pillow cases knot at the top and run through the washer. Please be forewarned if you’re not careful one of your children will inevitably fall in love with said animal it will grace your living room for the next few years! SO HIDE YOUR STOCK IN THE GARAGE!!!
Of course you can always buy your stuffing. If your buying fiberfill I would recommend going with a mid-range to high priced bag the cheapest stuff has very short fibers which fly everywhere and are really irritating to your nose, eyes and lungs, and I hate the thought of that stuff creeping out into little lungs. You may also want to beware buying the super cheap stuff often marketed as premium quality fiberfill, it’s grayish in color, I have heard of peoples’ projects becoming permanently stained by this stuff, since the blueish strands are apparently not color fast.
Your other last stuffing option is wool. I have begun stuffing with wool and it is so much nicer and really not much more expensive than the plastic fiberfill stuff. And because wool has antibacterial and antimicrobial properties I feel better about giving it to my kids. You can buy wool stuffing at our store. Or through various local and online vendors. Another thing I have noticed about wool is that is seems to have a much larger loft than plastic stuffing so you get more puff for your buck.
When using stuffing to make felt food there is one golden rule it is always better to under stuff than to over stuff. over stuffing results in bulges and puts alot of stress on your seams. Over stuffing also results in hard felt food which isn’t nearly as love able.
If you’re getting really into the whole felt food thing you’ll soon learn that there are many applications where plain old stuffing just won’t do, and you may want to invest into different stuffing methods like foam and batting.
Batting stuffs just like stuffing only it lays flat and stays that way so it’s perfect for making flat low items like pizzas, cookies, and slices of bread. You use it just like stuffing only you cut out the size and shape piece you need and slip it into your piece before closing it up. Batting is also available in wool and polyester. Wool is preferable for appearance , loft and ecological reasons. I find with synthetic batting I usually have to cut to or three of my filling shape versus 1 in the wool. You won’t need much batting since a little goes a really long way. Batting is usually sold in lengths and widths matching standard mattress sizes since it is used to make quilts. If you plan on only making felt food a crib size batting will be more than enough.
Foam fits in where batting leaves off it’s great for flat high things which are sometimes hard to get to hold a shape like cakes, tarts, pies, sticks of butter etc etc… The taller the item the more likely it is to be distorted when stuffed with regular stuffing. By foam I mean foam rubber the kind used to make chair pads and dog beds not Styrofoam which is entirely different and should never be used to make felt foods.
When using foam you can either buy pre-cut shapes or buy foam by the yard and cut it to shape. The thicker the foam the more expensive it is.
I find that you want no more than 3 inches tall for cakes, 2 inches or less for pies and ½ inch or less for bread slices, although when you are working with something thin batting should work as well or better than foam. If you can’t find the size you want you can attempt to glue to foam rounds together to achieve more height this is much harder to do than you would think, in order to accomplish you will need to acquire foam and fabric adhesive, this is a spray glue sold at upholstery shops and at some hardware stores. If you attempt to glue the foam any other way it will melt, shift or break apart under stress. I would recommend using stuffing before I would recommend gluing foam. We sell pre-cut foam rounds in many sizes and shapes for your felt food projects, all of our foam is pre-cut as well as being fire retardant.
Selection of foam rounds from American Felt and Craft.
Should you decide to cut your own you may be asking yourself how the heck you’re going to cut the foam. If your foam is very thin you may be able to use scissors otherwise you will need an electrical carving knife so it’s worth it to buy a good one. PLEASE PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE A HOT FOAM CUTTING WIRE, these are used to cut Styrofoam which heats and cools quickly if you attempt to cut a foam pad with this it will create a black smoke which is dangerous to breathe in and may cause the foam to melt and adhere to your skin causing terrible burns!! Please note your cuts do not have to be completely even or perfect when covered with felt lumps, bumps and unevenness tend to completely disappear.
You might also want to add a bit of rice, un-popped popcorn kernels, doll beads, or beans to the bottom of some of your felt food it will help it to stand nicely. The food items can get a little questionable over time so if your in this for posterity I would use doll beads.
Depending on the age of the kids your making the felt food for you may want to consider placing a rattle or squeaker inside your felt food. American Felt and Craft sells rattle inserts in 2 sizes, jingle ball inserts and squeaker inserts in 3 sizes. When making felt food for a family with children in multiple age ranges this is especially nice since the smaller ones will get just as much enjoyment from them as older more culinary minded siblings.
How to wash felt, wool felt foods, soft sculpture & toys.
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2019-04-20T04:11:41Z
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https://americanfeltandcraft.wordpress.com/category/felt-food/felt-food-101/
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Promoting the rights of Roma and broadcasting the community’s issues wide and far since 1992.
The weblog will give you the freshest possible information on Romedia. However, you can also find out more at our Romedia website and specific projects such as Mundi Romani and our I’m a Roma Woman campaign.
You can also find us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/romediafoundation and also on twitter @romedia1992.
Hello! / Te avén Baxtale!
My name is Hans Caldaras, and I’am swedish rom / kalderash. I’am artist, composer,author and roma activist.
Katarina was as sister to me, she was my mothers cousin and we worked togheter from the middle of 1960- until she got sick 1982.
I wrote the music to the TV-serie “Katitzi! 1978, and translated her first book “Katitzi” from swedish to Romanés 2008. With the translation i recorded 5 cd with my my speech in Romanés.
You can get more INFO at my website: http://www.caldaras.com.
Very nice you honored Katarina “Kati” today.
Thank you very much for your reply. Your name came up a lot during our research into Katitzi so we are just thrilled that you enjoyed us honouring Kati. I had already been looking at your website when I discovered the Romani Elders website – http://www.theromanielders.org/ You speak/write very powerfully and your message is so strong. We may be in touch for a future article so i hope you would be happy to cooperate if that did arise.
Good luck with everything and thanks again for your kind response.
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2019-04-22T04:08:20Z
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QUESTION 20 – Why Are We Here?
For the finale, Oprah has us ponder and ask yourself why you are here. What is your purpose on this earth?
What is the purpose of life? It is that we should revere the all-powerful God. To revere God means to respect and stand in awe of him because of who he is. Purpose in life starts with whom we know, not what we know or how good we are. It is impossible to fulfill your God-given purpose unless you revere God and give him first place in your life.
Many years ago I read The Purpose-Driven Life and it’s an excellent book to help Christians begin to understand their purpose, why God created us and the reason we exist.
I know why I’m here. Do you? If not, how will you find out?
So many people have died in recent months in the news and, I’m sure, in your own lives. Death reminds us of how short life is. How do you want to be remembered? What do you want your obituary to say? What will your legacy be?
You are going to die someday, and it may not be when you are old and gray and at peace. That’s not morbid– it’s just the truth. Your life may end suddenly or unexpectedly. You may not see it coming. Our days are numbered, and only God knows when He is ready to take us home. What will we leave behind when we go?
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2019-04-22T10:41:56Z
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https://dareesinsights.wordpress.com/tag/purpose/
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I continue to use my homework system. I really love it & I think my students benefit from it. This year it feels like MORE of my students are doing MORE meaningful things with the vocabulary assignments. I had a student who follows politics do a political spoof on Goanimate using vocabulary from our lesson. I had another student write a short story about the Mario video game, using the vocabulary in a very imaginative way. I have two (good) rappers that amaze me with their songs, usually performed live in the classroom (I'll try & tape one soon). Today I want to feature one special student (Matt R) who is taking photos of the vocabulary and creating a story with them. Here is the link to the photos he took, using vocabulary from 4A of Realidades 2 text. I hope to use this photo-story to explain and practice imperfect & then compare preterit vs imperfect.
How is your year going? I would love to hear from you if you have tried this vocabulary homework in class.
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2019-04-19T14:39:26Z
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https://ochoamores.typepad.com/morespanish/2011/10/index.html
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SALT LAKE CITY — Division of Wildlife Resources biologists are asking Utahns to not feed deer they see struggling in the wild.
Often, deer can be seen struggling through deep snow trying to find something to eat. But feeding the deer may do more harm than good, DWR officials said.
Deer have complex and delicate digestive systems, biologists said. The deer can actually die, even though its stomach is full of food.
Deer congregate in places where they are fed, according to the DWR. This could lead to deer passing diseases to each other, undernourished fawns, increased chance of being hit by cars, and damaging plants by eating vegetation in the same area.
Also, after winter is over, deer often will stay close to the area where they are fed instead of moving to their normal summer ranges.
Biologists are monitoring deer closely during winter, looking at indicators including their condition, amount of food available to them, how deep the snow is, how cold it is in their habitat, and the amount of body fat found on deer that have been killed along roads, according tot he DWR.
If three or more of the five factors reach a critical point, biologists will consider feeding deer specially designed pellets. The pellets are formulated to fit the complex digestive system mule deer have and to give them extra energy.
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2019-04-20T13:16:30Z
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https://www.ksl.com/article/23376459/dont-feed-the-deer-dwr-says
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The Hating Game by Sally Thorne was one of my favorite reads last year. So, I was over the moon when I was approved to read 99 Percent Mine. This book is nothing like The Hating Game. I went in thinking that 99 Percent Mine would be one of my favorite romances of the year, but I was disappointed.
The story follows Darcy, she is a wedding photographer, working at a shady bar. Her life is a mess. She’s got a lot of insecurities with a sort fuse for a temper, which gets her into trouble.
Upon leaving the bar one night after a nasty incident with a co worker, she finds her childhood friend Tom waiting for her. Darcy and her brother Jamie have recently lost there grandmother, Tom has started his own construction business and will be renovating on the house getting it ready to sell.
>>Darcy– She is sarcastic to the point of being slightly annoying. She is very irresponsible, having a heart condition and ignoring your health doesn’t make you cool. She hasn’t refilled her medication in months and she drinks often. She really rubbed me the wrong way. Her edgy fashion was also mentioned way to often.
>> Tom- Is a hardworking sweetheart, who puts way to much pressure on himself to be perfect. He is torn between the twins, his loyalty to Jamie as his best friend and his long time feelings for Darcy. He has always acted as a buffer between them and his own feelings seem to get pushed aside.
I really love the friends to lovers/ brothers best friend trope, and there was a few really heartwarming moments but in the end the romance kinda fell flat for me.
I felt like the relationship between Darcy and her twin brother Jamie, could have been so cute. But I felt like they did everything wrong, always competing with each other for Tom’s attention and bickering like children.
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1 3 RAINBOW SIX, by Tom Clancy. (Berkley, $7.99.) John Clark, heading an international task force, investigates terrorist incidents in Switzerland, Germany and Spain.
2 3 UNSPEAKABLE, by Sandra Brown. (Warner, $7.99.) A psychotic killer, returning to his Texas hometown to wreak vengeance, uses a troubled widow as his pawn.
3 3 STILL WATERS, by Tami Hoag. (Bantam, $7.50.) A woman new to a small Minnesota town must face suspicion of having committed murder.
4 4 THE KLONE AND I, by Danielle Steel. (Dell, $6.99.) A woman believes she has found Mr. Right, then is amazed to meet his clone.
5 8 THE WILDFLOWERS: Misty and Star, by V. C. Andrews. (Pocket, $3.99 each.) The first two novels in a series about troubled teen-age girls.
6 8 POINT OF ORIGIN, by Patricia Cornwell. (Berkley, $7.99.) Dr. Kay Scarpetta battles an old enemy, a serial killer who is resuming her crimes.
7 16 SUMMER SISTERS, by Judy Blume. (Dell, $7.50.) Two young women from very different backgrounds come of age on Martha's Vineyard.
8 7 TELL ME YOUR DREAMS, by Sidney Sheldon. (Warner Vision, $7.99.) Three women suspected of murder undergo a bizarre trial.
9 21 THE PILOT'S WIFE, by Anita Shreve. (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $13.95.) A woman tries to unravel the secret life her husband led.
10 31 MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, by Arthur Golden. (Vintage, $14.) A young woman in Kyoto has to reinvent herself after World War II begins.
11 2 FINDERS KEEPERS, by Fern Michaels. (Zebra, $6.99.) To escape her family's possessiveness, a Charleston belle flees to Washington.
12 1 THE MERCY RULE, by John Lescroart. (Island/Dell, $7.99.) An ''assisted suicide'' causes battles in and out of San Francisco's courts.
13 1 BLOODSTREAM, by Tess Gerritsen. (Pocket, $6.99.) After she moves to Maine, a physician is harassed by cases of teen-age violence.
14 13 BAG OF BONES, by Stephen King. (Pocket, $7.99.) A series of terrifying events besets a best-selling novelist four years after his wife's death.
15 8 NIGHT WHISPERS, by Judith McNaught. (Pocket, $7.99.) A family crisis takes a policewoman from a small town in Florida to Palm Beach.
1 13 ANGELA'S ASHES, by Frank McCourt. (Touchstone/S&S, $14.) An Irish-American writer recalls his childhood amid the miseries of Limerick.
2 3 A RAGE TO KILL, by Ann Rule. (Pocket Star, $7.99.) Ten cases in which men and women felt impelled by rage to murder innocent people.
3 7 MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, by John Berendt. (Vintage, $12.) The mysterious death of a young man in Savannah, Ga.
5 16 A WALK IN THE WOODS, by Bill Bryson. (Broadway, $13.) A journalist finds beauty and humor while hiking the Appalachian Trail.
6 64 *THE PERFECT STORM, by Sebastian Junger. (Harper Paperbacks, $6.99.) The story of the nor'easter of 1991, focusing on a single crew.
7 100 UNDER THE TUSCAN SUN, by Frances Mayes. (Broadway, $13.) Life in the Italian countryside.
9 3 PRINCE CHARMING, by Wendy Leigh. (Signet, $6.99.) A biography of John F. Kennedy Jr.
10 72 *INTO THIN AIR, by Jon Krakauer. (Anchor/ Doubleday, $7.99.) Ascending Mount Everest in 1996, the deadliest season in history.
12 1 J.F.K. JR., by Stephen Spignesi. (Citadel/Carol, $15.95.) The life of John F. Kennedy Jr., recalled in photographs and text.
13 7 OPHELIA SPEAKS, by Sara Shandler. (Harper Perennial, $12.95.) Dozens of girls, ranging in age from 12 to 18, discuss their feelings.
14 20 OUR DUMB CENTURY, edited by Scott Dikkers. (Three Rivers, $15.) Newspaper headlines making fun of the great events of the past century.
15 1 *LINDBERGH, by A. Scott Berg. (Berkley, $16.) The checkered public and private life of Charles A. Lindbergh.
16 20 *REAL BOYS, by William Pollack. (Owl/Holt, $13.95.) A clinical psychologist discusses the emotional development of boys.
Rankings reflect sales, for the week ending Aug. 21, at almost 4,000 bookstores plus wholesalers serving 60,000 other retailers, statistically weighted to represent all such outlets. An asterisk (*) indicates that a book's sales are barely distinguishable from those of the book above. A dagger (+)indicates that some stores received bulk orders. Expanded rankings are available from The New York Times on the Web: www.nytimes.com/books.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/05/books/paperback-best-sellers-september-5-1999.html?sq=bloodstream+gerritsen&scp=2&st=cse
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UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY! I wonder what might have transpired between John & Natalie if Jessica had not walked in! 😉 Thanks for posting!
This is why I love JOLIE so much. Such great chemistry between them. Where did this John and Natalie go? I miss them!!
THIS is the scene that got me hooked HOTT!
WOW they have been together a long time.
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2019-04-21T10:42:26Z
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http://www.insidepoolmag.com/201012/billiard-podcasts-pool-podcasts-and-videos/oltl-john-mcbain-gives-natalie-buchanan-a-sexy-pool-lesson.html
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Loft-like top-floor unit with high ceilings and large separate sleeping area, this sophisticated Navy Yard home feels much larger than its well-laid out 500 square feet in The Starboard! A concierge, bicycle room and gracious lobby with a welcoming gas fireplace are just a few of the features of this boutique residential building. This professionally-managed property is beautifully appointed throughout with high end fixtures and appliances and in-unit laundry. Conveniently located amidst the buoyant energy of Charlestown's gorgeous waterfront with access to the MGH shuttle and other public transportation, this unit is value-priced for the investor, owner occupant or a pied a terre!
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http://homefind.bostonherald.com/boston/real-estate-for-sale/loft-like-top-floor-unit-with/AC1E048B030e70761Ab6i505B4EE
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Why did we name our blog “The Snap”?
The long metaphorical answer is that a snap is the moment the ball is handed off to from the center to the quarterback and starts a play. It’s an exciting moment that could trigger numerous exciting possibilities. The Snap is meant to trigger football-loving possibilities for all you people who don’t realize you love football yet. Basically this blog is a gateway drug, but one that hopefully doesn’t result in you ending up in prison.
If a hybrid of Jeopardy and Who Wants to be a Millionaire was created and you got to phone a friend for the daily double, Val would be the woman to call if you wanted to bet all your money and the topic was current NFL news. She is an NFL news machine and is ruthless when it comes to recalling facts. It’s scary and impressive all at the same time.
She’s a Pats fan, but has probably seen more games featuring other teams, as she’s convinced she jinxes the Pats when she watches them. Sometimes this is a non-issue, as she doesn’t get all the Pats games in Delaware. She’s come to enjoy watching highlight videos afterwards for the good of the cause. As we’ve learned from clever Bud Light commercials, it’s only weird if it doesn’t work, so we don’t question her methods.
Val is a two-time NFL.com Playoff Challenge winner of her family league and has had her ups and downs in regular season fantasy football. She is responsible for giving Momma O fantasy rundowns each week, even though Momma O just ends up picking players based on who has the best smile (and find tremendous success with this method). The whole process is really quite entertaining.
Once, while sitting the stands of a Patriots training camp practice, Val spotted Peter King (sports columnist extraordinaire of Monday Morning Quarterback fame) and yelled that she liked his new website. Giddiness ensued when he acknowledged her.
Michelle tells everyone she moved to Boston for her job, but in reality, she was just sick of not being able to see all the Pats games on TV. It was also really annoying to drive 6 hours to training camp each summer.
Michelle reads a lot of NFL news, but doesn’t retain a portion of what Val retains. She attempts to make up for this with her enthusiasm for the sport, something on full display, along with an interesting TD dance, in a video that won the Val and Michelle a trip to Super Bowl XLVI at Cowboy Stadium in 2011.
Michelle always says she’s going to limit the number of fantasy leagues she’s in, but consistently ends up in at least three. She looks back on her first few years of fantasy as her glory days, as her success has recently declined, most likely due to her penchant for picking running backs that end up on IR.
Michelle once told Josh Freeman that he had fantastic hair. She felt like an idiot afterwards, but Val assured her that this reaction was understandable, as he really did have a great head of hair.
Michelle is a proud member of WISE Boston.
The pictures posted and opinions expressed on this site are ours, unless otherwise noted. Please don’t use our pictures or our content without our permission, as that would make you a butthead. You are more than welcome to link to anything on The Snap, as we love making new friends.
The football image in our logo is designed by Ema Dimitrova from the Noun Project. It was designed on Squarespace Logos.
We don’t work for the NFL and have no intentions of violating any of any of their copyrights, as we are just two enthusiastic fans who are essentially providing free marketing to the league by talking about it on this site. NFL team names, logos and uniforms are registered trademarks of the team indicated. This site is for informational and entertainment purposes and is not affiliated with the NFL or any of its teams.
We would hate to piss off Roger, so we feel the need to put this legalese out there.
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2019-04-25T06:06:40Z
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A hiatus hernia is when the top part of your stomach slides upwards into your chest. It’s a very common condition, affecting nearly a third of people over 50. You don’t necessarily need any treatment for a hiatus hernia if it isn’t causing you any problems.
If you do have symptoms, the main one is heartburn. Most people can ease the symptoms of a hiatus hernia by making lifestyle changes and, if this isn’t enough, by taking medicines. Some people need surgery to repair a hiatus hernia.
A sliding hiatus hernia is when the junction between the oesophagus and the stomach, as well as a portion of the stomach itself, slides up above the diaphragm.
To understand how a hiatus hernia happens, it helps to know more about the structures inside your body. And you may find it helpful to watch the video above.
You have a sheet of muscle, called your diaphragm, which separates your chest from your abdomen (tummy). Usually, your stomach sits completely below your diaphragm.
When you swallow your food, it passes down a tube called your oesophagus to your stomach. Your oesophagus passes through an opening (hiatus) in your diaphragm. A hiatus hernia usually develops when part of your stomach slides back up through this opening and into your chest.
This doesn’t necessarily cause you any problems. But having a hernia may allow fluids from your stomach to travel the wrong way, back up your oesophagus. This is what causes any symptoms you have (for more information, see our section: Symptoms of hiatus hernia below).
Hiatus hernias are very common. You can have the condition without knowing because it often doesn’t cause any problems. Making changes to your lifestyle and taking medicines can’t cure a hiatus hernia, but can help to ease or prevent any symptoms you may have.
There are two main types of hiatus hernia, which we describe here.
Sliding hiatus hernia (by far the most common type). This is when the join between your oesophagus and your stomach (the gastro-oesophageal junction) slides up into your chest, followed by the top part of your stomach. Eight out of 10 people with a hiatus hernia have a sliding hiatus hernia.
Rolling hiatus hernia (also called a para-oesophageal hiatus hernia). In this type, a part of your stomach passes up into your chest to lie alongside your oesophagus. Your gastro-oesophageal junction stays where it should be, below your diaphragm.
You can also have a mixed hiatus hernia, which is a combination of these types.
Many people have a hiatus hernia without having any symptoms.
However, a sliding hiatus hernia can cause a problem called gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). This is when acid in your stomach rises back up into your oesophagus. Sometimes it’s called by a shorter name – acid reflux. You can have GORD without having a hiatus hernia, and you can have a hiatus hernia without having GORD.
If you have symptoms like this, you may find it helpful to read our information on indigestion.
Your GP may be able to recommend treatments to help your symptoms of heartburn without the need for tests.
If these treatments don’t work or your GP has concerns about your symptoms, they may refer you to a gastroenterologist for tests. A gastroenterologist is a doctor who specialises in conditions of the digestive system.
Your gastroenterologist may suggest you have an endoscopy (also called a gastroscopy). This is done using a tube with a camera on the end, called an endoscope. The endoscope is passed through your mouth and down into your stomach. Your doctor can see images of the inside of your oesophagus and stomach on a screen. They can also take a biopsy (a tissue sample) at the same time. You can find out more from our information on gastroscopy.
Another test your specialist may advise you to have is a barium meal test. In this test, you swallow a substance that helps to show up your digestive system on an X-ray. To find out more about this test see our information on barium swallow and meal.
A hiatus hernia is sometimes discovered by chance when you have a test for something else. This is because a hiatus hernia doesn't always cause symptoms.
There’s a lot you can do yourself to ease the symptoms of a hiatus hernia, and to help stop them from happening again.
Try to lose any excess weight you have.
Avoid large meals. Instead of eating three big meals, aim for several smaller ones throughout the day.
Don’t eat anything for several hours before bedtime.
Raise the head of your bed if heartburn bothers you at night.
Try to avoid things that raise the pressure inside your abdomen. This might include wearing tight clothing around your middle, such as tight belts, and weight training.
If you notice that some foods and drinks make your heartburn worse, try cutting them out. Some of these might include coffee, alcohol, chocolate and fatty foods. For more information on this, see our FAQ: Which foods should I avoid with a hiatus hernia’ below.
Treatment for hiatus hernia depends on how severe your symptoms are and how much they’re bothering you. You don’t usually need treatment for a hiatus hernia if it’s not causing you any problems.
There are lots of indigestion medicines that can ease the symptoms of heartburn when they happen. You can buy many of these without a prescription – ask your pharmacist for advice.
Your doctor may also advise which treatment is likely to be best for you, depending on your symptoms. They’ll explain whether the treatment they recommend should only be taken when you have symptoms or all the time.
Medicines which may be used to treat the symptoms of a hiatus hernia include the following.
Antacids – these work by neutralising the acid produced in your stomach.
Alginates – these form a raft that floats on top of your food and stomach acid, making a barrier.
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) – these work by reducing the amount of acid your stomach produces.
H2 receptor antagonists – these also reduce the amount of acid produced by your stomach.
You can find out more about these treatments from our information on indigestion medicines.
If other treatments haven’t worked and your symptoms are severe, your doctor may suggest an operation.
The most common surgical treatment for a hiatus hernia is an operation called a fundoplication. This is often done as a keyhole (laparoscopic) procedure. You can find out about this operation, and what it involves from our information on fundoplication.
A rolling hiatus hernia can sometimes get trapped or pinched by the diaphragm, cutting off the blood supply. This is called a strangulated hernia and causes severe pain. If this happens, you’ll need an operation immediately.
Doctors aren’t sure why some people get a hiatus hernia. However, people who are obese (very overweight) are more likely to develop one. And you’re more likely to develop a hiatus hernia as you get older. This might be because some of the tissues in your diaphragm get weaker. Hiatus hernia can also happen during pregnancy.
Most people with a hiatus hernia have no problems at all. Some have symptoms which are kept under control by lifestyle changes and medicines. Occasionally, a hiatus hernia can lead to more serious problems.
If your hiatus hernia keeps letting stomach acid come up into your oesophagus, you may get one of the following complications.
Inflammation of your oesophagus (oesophagitis). Your oesophagus can become damaged by the acid from your stomach, and this can lead to ulcers which may bleed.
Anaemia caused by bleeding from an ulcer.
Narrowed oesophagus (a stricture) – this is caused by scarring from repeated inflammation. This can cause food to get stuck or to come back up.
Barrett’s oesophagus. This is where the cells that line your oesophagus change and become abnormal. Eventually, these cells may become cancerous. If you have Barrett’s oesophagus, your doctor will monitor cells in your oesophagus to spot and then treat any changes quickly. You can find out more from our information on Barrett’s oesophagus.
If you have a rolling hernia, the part of your stomach which has gone up into your chest can become trapped there. You would then need surgery immediately. For more information, see our section: Surgery above (in Treatment of hiatus hernia).
Are obesity and heartburn related to hiatus hernia? Are obesity and heartburn related to hiatus hernia?
People who are overweight are more likely to get heartburn and indigestion. They’re also more likely to develop a hiatus hernia. Doctors don’t know for sure why this link exists, but being overweight can increase the pressure inside your abdomen (tummy). This forces acid from your stomach up into your oesophagus, causing heartburn.
If you can lose some weight, this may help to stop your heartburn symptoms as well as improving your health generally. There are lots of other things you can do to ease symptoms from a hiatus hernia – see our section: Self-help for hiatus hernia symptoms above. You can also ask your pharmacist about over-the-counter treatments for heartburn.
If you still have symptoms or they are severe, contact your GP.
Which foods should I avoid with a hiatus hernia? Which foods should I avoid with a hiatus hernia?
Many people who have a hiatus hernia have no symptoms. However, if you have symptoms such as heartburn, you may find that avoiding certain foods helps prevent these.
You may already be aware that some of these or other foods trigger your symptoms. If you’re not sure, try printing and filling out the food and symptoms diary below (PDF 1MB). This may help you to identify foods that cause you problems.
Try eating small meals only and avoid eating for a few hours before sleeping. And remember that even if you cut out some foods, it’s important to keep eating a healthy balanced diet.
Barrett's oesophagus is when the cells that line the lower part of your oesophagus get damaged by acid and bile travelling upwards from your stomach.
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2019-04-25T00:06:58Z
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https://www.bupa.co.uk/health-information/digestive-gut-health/hiatus-hernia
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This is a collection of links to help you with the system and with background creation.
http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon This one is great if you'd like to see a range of moon phases.
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/RS_OneDay.php This one is great if you need percentages or other stats.
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2019-04-25T17:48:19Z
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http://wolfshaderp.wikidot.com/interestinglinks
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So the ugly ducking turned into beautiful swan and everyone, lived happily ever after.
Incredibly, this beautiful shawlette is the fugly ancient bra handspun. Now a gorgeous shawlette made from the hitchhiker pattern. Rav link.
Needless to say. I’m very happy with it as a beautiful garment, a reminder of fun, crafty times with friends and a measure of how much my spinning has progressed.
Talking of transformation and progression, the end of 2012 was very trying with a major life change, brought on by me but 2013 is emerging as a year of positivity, possibility and progression. Sadly, my Etsy store has closed for the forseeable future but my fibre will be popping up for sale elsewhere so stay tuned!
Yay! My Etsy shop is finally open. Click on Shop in the menu to see all my yummy hand blends for sale.
Thanks to Bee for the tweaking of my blog and to all my wonderful fibre friends for their support and encouragement.
It gets a lot of pics because it’s so flipping pretty!
I have 170g available for $47.60 plus postage. As always it comes packaged in a box to prevent the squishing and ruffling of these hand blended fibres. Postage is by Australia post and will be calculated once I know where to send the pretty fluff.
More colour ways are on their way so visit me again soon.
Mmmmm, I love caramel and one of my favourite desserts is creme caramel though to be totally fair I love everything toffeeish and caramelly.
So, I’ve blended up some delicious caramel coloured Fluff on my hackles in celebration of all that is lovely and caramelly.
It’s fat free with no artificial sugars and light as a feather made from deliciously soft Merino weighing 110g and I’m selling it for $30 plus postage. It’s packaged in a box to prevent the squishing and tangling of the fibres that I’ve hand blended.
I’ve had a busy weekend with the hackles making lots of pretty clouds of wool.
It’s not a particularly great photograph but I just wanted to show what it is about blending on the hackles that makes me giddy with excitement. If you couldn’t guess its the play with colour, there are 3 shades of blue and 2 shades of purple in this blend. I like to blend like this because I’m trying to create yarn that isn’t flat in colour or tone, that has depth and interest. For me it’s a more natural and aesthetically pleasing.
This colour way is called blueberry because well, erm… it’s kinda like blueberries.
It’s 368g but I could split it in half or thirds. $28 per 100g because it’s hand blended it is very light and airy so it drafts beautifully. In order to preserve it’s light fluffiness I package it in boxes.
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2019-04-25T04:16:09Z
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I started my journey in Mozilla as a contributor to Mozilla Community Rajasthan and met many enthusiasts who inspired me to do every possible contributions i could do to Mozilla and Open source in general. I am from Jharkhand , after returning from Rajasthan, I met a mozillian from Jharkhand community, Amit Singh , he is very passionate about learning new things and very much like the idea of working in open.
I got to know many problems of the people wanted to contribute. Major problem is the availability of support from Mozilla and Mozilla Reps in general. There are many Reps from this region , but unfortunatly they are working outside this state. They are very helpful in arranging things, but… But they want their presence, they want to hear them in person and want to know their success story, how they came to mozilla and why….. There are many more questions asked by few contributors who wanted to continue the same. I listed their questions and figured out many possible things we could do together to improve the contributions from this region.
I moved to Ranchi officially , it was the time when i was very busy with my work. A phone call rang, it was Amit , wanted to know if i can organize an event in Jharkhand Rai University. I said yes, definitely . He introduced me to Prof. Shudhanshu, after meeting him we fixed the date, 6th Oct. 2017. Made a poster , promoted in Jharkahnd Rai University.
Event day, we reached the venue on time, we received a warm welcome. Prof. Shudhanshu introduced us infornt of students. I see a hall, full pacekd with students almost 200+ . I introduced myself and why I choose to contribute to Mozilla and Open source. Students were listening this as if they were sitting in a lecture room. It was the tme to bring out few swags , in a minute everyone was answering questions, asking interesting questions. Swag has some power!!!!!
I started with introduction of Mozilla, Firefox and Open Source. To my surprise everyone knows about these things. Then I got to know that they had one introduction event of mozilla but after that never heard back from that mozillian. Then I introduced them about the mozilla’s products and projects, what actually matters. People were very excited to know about WebVR, Rust and WebCompat .
I forgot to introduce the speakers, I had Amit and Mahtab with me who was sharing the stage. Amit gave session on WebCompat and even showed a demo on how to file a report. Mahtab gave session on L10n and how a non-coder students still contribute to open source.
Event concluded with a group picture. A mozilla style of conclusion!!
Actual thing happend after the event , there were 80 students who wanted to know the possibilities and ways to involve with Mozilla and it’s projects. We get back to the hall ,selected few students who have shown their interest in making a club. I introduced Mozilla Campus Club to them. We formed a team and created Telegram groups so that we stay in loop.
Mozilla Jharkhand has a facebook group and after the event people joined this group in hige number, from 170 we reached to 246 in a single day. Not only they joined in this group, they have introduced themself to this group, which i never seen in other community as this scale. This shows they are very active and only need a correct Mentor to guide them.
I will love to do the role of Mentor to them. And next day we were rocking on local newspaper. Planning a series of events in this college to educate them and make a good contributor.
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2019-04-22T08:54:31Z
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https://alamshahbaz.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/mozaarambh-jharkhand-rai-university/
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Sports
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Computers
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wikidot
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You have a military rank from your career as a soldier. Soldiers loyal to your former military organization still recognize your authority and influence, and they defer to you if they are o f a lower rank. You can invoke your rank to exert influence over other soldiers and requisition simple equipment or horses for temporary use. You can also usually gain access to friendly military encampments and fortresses where your rank is recognised.
action to attempt to grapple the target.
When you use your action to Dash, you can use a bonus action to make one melee w eapon attack or to shove a creature. If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line immediately before taking this bonus action, you either gain a +5 bonus to the attack’s damage roll (if you chose to make a melee attack and hit) or push the target up to 10 feet away from you (if you chose to shove and you succeed).
Manoeuvres: You learn three maneuver of your choice, which are detailed under “Manoeuvers” below. Many manoeuvers enhance an attack in some way. You can use only one maneuvers per attack. You learn two additional maneuvers o f your choice at 7th, 10th, and 15th level. Each time you learn new maneuver, you can also replace one maneuver you know with a different one.
Superiority Dice: You have four superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all o f your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.
Disarming strike: When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it’s holding. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the object you choose. The object lands at its feet.
Pushing Attack: When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to drive the target back. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you push the target up to 15 feet away from you.
Trip Attack: When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to knock the target down. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you knock the target prone.
Commander’s Strike: When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one o f your attacks and use a bonus action to direct one o f your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you and expend one superiority die. That creature can immediately use its reaction to make one w eapon attack, adding the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.
I’m full of inspiring and cautionary tales from my military experience relevant to almost every combat situation.
Bond: Someone saved my life on the battlefield. To this day, I will never leave a friend behind.
Flaw: I'd rather eat my armour than admit I'm wrong.
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2019-04-18T23:02:38Z
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http://varg.wikidot.com/5e-mont
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nsno
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I never heard the £5m figure befoer this thread.
Blargs, I got the impression it was more he didn't want to go with moyes. Although he is inclined to stay he is also happy enough if the club take the money for him. This was second hand info so I can't be saying I understood it 100% as it was meant.
That false information though - they also cant include future revenue based on appearances for example in a years accounts. Because its not guaranteed.
They can only register monies received.
lol oui. I checked the os and it said undisclosed fee, so no one in the press really knows.
Not doubting you mate. Just surprised is all. I thought Moyes was a big reason he stayed for so long.
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2019-04-25T04:17:05Z
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http://www.nsno.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=41506.msg608421
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The U.S. city of Mobile, Alabama is the site of 15 high-rises, all of which stand taller than 100 feet (30 m). The tallest building in the city is the 35-story RSA Battle House Tower, completed in 2007, which is 745 feet (227 m) tall. The tower is also the tallest building in the U.S. state of Alabama and the 62nd tallest in the United States. Mobile's second-tallest skyscraper, the RSA Trustmark Building, rises 424 feet (129 m) and stood as the tallest structure in the city for over forty years. Overall, four of the ten tallest buildings in Alabama are located in Mobile. The city has more skyscrapers than any other city in Alabama besides Birmingham.
The history of high-rises in Mobile began with the completion of the 11-story Van Antwerp Building in 1907. The structure, often regarded as the first skyscraper in the city and the state, stood as the tallest building in the city until 1929, when the 236 feet (72 m) Regions Bank Building took its place. Upon its completion in 1965, the RSA Trustmark Building surpassed the height of the Regions Bank Building and became the tallest building in Alabama. It held this title until 1986, when the 454-foot (138 m) SouthTrust Tower was completed in Birmingham, but remained the tallest building in Mobile until the 2006 topping out of the RSA Battle House Tower.
As of August 2009, there are no high-rises under construction or proposed for construction in Mobile. A residential condominium project, Water Street Landing, was originally proposed in 2007 as a three-tower complex to be constructed on the Mobile River; the $45 million (USD) development was later canceled due to lack of funding. While the city of Mobile itself is not the location of any new high-rise developments, Orange Beach, a satellite city in the Mobile–Daphne–Fairhope combined statistical area, is the site of several construction proposals. One such proposal is the Mandalay Beach development, which includes two-twin residential towers that are planned to rise 374 feet (114 m) and 36 stories each.
This lists ranks Mobile high-rises that stand at least 100 feet (30 m) tall, based on standard height measurement. This includes spires and architectural details but does not include antenna masts. An equal sign (=) following a rank indicates the same height between two or more buildings. The "Year" column indicates the year in which a building was completed.
Tallest building in Alabama from 1965 to 1986.
The building previously had a structural height of 277 feet (84 m); a 2007 renovation increased the building's architectural height to 374 feet (114 m) with the addition of a spire.
This table lists buildings that once held the title of tallest building in Mobile as well as the current titleholder, the RSA Battle House Tower.
A. ^ a b This height is an estimate based on a diagram of the Regions Bank Building; official height figures have not been released by this building's developer.
"High-rise Buildings of Mobile". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
^ a b "Tall Buildings of Mobile". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-17. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b c d "RSA Battle House Tower". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b c d "AmSouth Bank Building". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b "Alabama Skyscraper Diagram". SkyscraperPage.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Tall Buildings of Birmingham". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-20. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Van Antwerp Building, Mobile, Alabama". Alabama Mosaic: University of South Alabama Archives. University of South Alabama. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
^ "Wachovia Tower". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
^ "Water Street Landing". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Mandalay Beach I". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Mandalay Beach II". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b "RSA Battle House Tower". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b "AmSouth Bank Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Adam's Mark Hotel". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-22. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "City-County Administration Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2011-09-22. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Mobile Marriott". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Mobile Marriott". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Regions Bank Building". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b "Regions Bank". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
^ "Wachovia Building". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Southtrust Bank Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b c "Mobile". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ "The Lafayette Plaza Hotel". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ "The Lafayette Plaza Hotel". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
^ "Providence Hospital". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
^ "Commerce Building". Emporis.com. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
^ "Commerce Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
^ "Parcel R022906400002084.01". Mobile County Revenue Commissioner. Archived from the original on 2009-08-10. Retrieved 2009-07-31.
^ "Radisson Admiral Semmes Hotel". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-08-12.
^ "Van Antwerp Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Battle House Hotel". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Battle House Hotel". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2012-10-11. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Royal St. Francis Building". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ "Royal St. Francis Building". SkyscraperPage.com. Archived from the original on 2010-02-05. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
^ a b "Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
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Most of 2016 offered the same monthly housing market highlights. The number One-Year Change in of homes for sale was drastically down in year-over-year comparisons, along with days on market and months of supply. Meanwhile, sales and prices were up in most markets. Unemployment rates were low, wages improved and, as the year waned, we completed a contentious presidential election and saw mortgage rates increase, neither of which are expected to have a negative impact on real estate in 2017.
New Listings were down 26.9 percent for single family homes and 40.5 percent for Condo/TIC/Coop properties. Pending Sales decreased 11.5 percent for single family homes and 2.9 percent for Condo/TIC/Coop properties.
The Median Sales Price was up 8.9 percent to $1,309,011 for single family homes but decreased 8.3 percent to $1,007,000 for Condo/TIC/Coop properties. Months Supply of Inventory decreased 16.7 percent for single family units and 20.0 percent for Condo/TIC/Coop units.
The overwhelming feeling about prospects in residential real estate for the immediate future is optimism. Real estate professionals across the nation are expressing that they are as busy as ever. There are certainly challenges in this market, like continued low inventory and higher competition for those fewer properties, but opportunities abound for hardworking agents and diligent consumers.
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The City of Cape Town – and southwest Africa more generally – experienced its worst drought on record between 2015 and 2018. With fresh rains as well as careful water management, the city has now emerged from this environmental and economic emergency.
The final consequences of the drought might never be known for certain. This is because the effects on groundwater depletion or biodiversity loss may not appear until years after the event. But the economic impact of the drought is more easily identified. Over 30 000 jobs have been lost in the agricultural sector in the Western Cape region, caused by a 20% decrease in agricultural production.
There are other consequences too, such as the impact on the city’s international reputation, as well as residents’ and policymakers’ experiences of water restrictions and the threat of “Day Zero”.
So what are the lessons learnt?
The City of Cape Town has recently released a draft strategy for water supply and management which aims to ensure safe access to water and sanitation for all the city’s residents, efficient water use, diversified water sources and shared costs and benefits by 2040. This strategy has been strongly informed by events of the past three years and is a bold statement of intent. As such, it sets a benchmark for sustainable development in the city and the wider region. The strategy is aimed at increasing usable water availability and managing that water better. But some elements are missing.
Missing parts of the strategy include the uncertainty of future trends in climate, economic activities, population growth, water demand and infrastructure investment needs. Increasing water availability is easy in theory because it is based on balancing supply to need. But this water needs to come from somewhere.
Rainfall is becoming ever more precarious, groundwater aquifers are depleted, and river and dam water is already allocated. Desalinisation is an option. But this is expensive and has unknown environmental impacts.
Another option is water redistribution. In the recent drought, water was diverted from the agriculture sector to supply the city. But this had ripple effects on farming communities and economies. This approach is probably no longer sustainable.
There is also the option of reducing water demand. The new draft strategy doesn’t specifically mention managing demand – it makes vague reference to the need to use water wisely. It may be that the memory of water restrictions is too recent to discuss in this document. But water management is not just about supplying water, it’s about changing hearts and minds. These take much longer to change. For some Capetonians, the drought is over and normal business is resumed. For others, the spectre of Day Zero still remains.
And the plan doesn’t indicate that lessons have been learnt. For example, an innovative Water Map used by the City of Cape Town was able to “name and shame” excessive water users, but some township users were exempt from restrictions while other wealthy users largely ignored the water restrictions because they could afford to pay the resulting fines.
This kind of behavioural analysis is important when it comes to equitable planning and water management, and provides a rich source of data for drought epidemiology – Cape Town knows more about how its residents use water than most cities.
Over the next decades, it’s anticipated that southern Africa will experience both higher average annual temperatures, in particular in summer. It’s also expected to have more variable and somewhat lower rainfall. Collectively, these climatic changes will result in greater water insecurity, irrespective of any changes in population, water demand or capacity of water infrastructure.
A recent study shows that climate change has trebled drought risk in Cape Town. Future-proofing cities such as Cape Town to withstand water insecurity and drought conditions cannot be done without managing water infrastructure better. In South Africa, 56% of waste water treatment plants are not fully operational. This limits its ability to deliver on the future promises outlined in the City of Cape Town strategy document.
Water restrictions in Cape Town have eased over recent months. But persistent drought still exists elsewhere in the region, in small town rural communities where there’s a lack of water infrastructure, lack of access to dam water supplies and depleting aquifers. Addressing the future water problem for Cape Town should not be done at the expense of the wider region, and must be formulated as a national-scale strategy. This should be a government priority.
* Jasper Knight is Professor of Physical Geography at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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The following suspects were charged with felonies and DUIs on Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 24 and 25, in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties.
The following suspects were charged with felonies Monday and Tuesday at Escambia County Jail. Names, ages and addresses were provided by the individuals.
Tristan Robert Thomas Angel, 22, 2300 block of Windstone Drive, larceny, drug possession.
Victoria Le'shay Bell, 26, 2900 block of Rhythm Street, public order crimes, smuggling contraband.
Denise Marie Blackmon, 39, address unavailable, pass forged, forgery.
Tyler Sean Brown, 25, address unavailable, burglary, larceny, drug possession.
Nicholas Allen Burke, 30, 9700 block of Cove Avenue, robbery, disorderly intoxication.
Roy Lawrence Cannon, 37, 900 block of Artiz Drive, moving traffic violation.
Erica Nicole Charley, 37, 1200 block of East Fisher Street, aggravated battery.
Brian Matthew Clements, 35, first block of Begonia Place, larceny, resisting an officer.
Aaron Lee Dale, 31, 3800 block of Ward Boulevard, resisting an officer, cocaine possession, marijuana possession.
Myron Donnell Davis, 31, 100 block of Altamont Road, moving traffic violation, resisting an officer, marijuana possession, drug equipment possession, failure to appear.
Herman Jermaine Dillard, 43, 3300 block of Roosevelt Street, moving traffic violation.
Reginald Tyrell Freeman, 39, 6900 block of Pensacola Boulevard, aggravated assault.
Sidney Jeffrey Gordon, 44, address unavailable, loitering, drug possession.
Maria Ann Gregorio-Estrada, 39, 7100 block of Lillian Highway, trespassing, larceny.
De-Laun Miles Jordan, 33, 400 block of North Old Corry Field Road, simple assault, battery.
Kevin Allen Kennedy, 54, address unavailable, battery.
Laron Demontae McNeal, 27, 3100 block of West Mallory Street, battery, burglary, aggravated battery.
Richard Allen Newcomer, 36, 2900 block of Molino Road, Molino, two counts of larceny, trespassing.
Tabitha Ann Ola, 27, address unavailable, drug possession.
Melvin Herston Scott, 35, address unavailable, battery, hallucinogen possession, marijuana possession.
Austin David Sculley, 36, 6600 block of Dallas Avenue, traffic violation, methamphetamine possession, marijuana possession, drug equipment possession, destroying evidence.
Christopher Bernard Showers, 44, 7700 block of North Palafox Street, larceny.
Quanshawnia K. Stromas, 27, 700 block of Tumbleweed Trail, cocaine possession, marijuana possession.
Fred Dennis Taylor, 35, address unavailable, aggravated assault, battery, weapon possession.
Amanda Ellen Elizabeth, 41, address unavailable, forgery.
Ryan Peter Young, 36, address unavailable, vehicular theft, drug possession, marijuana possession.
The following suspects were charged with felonies Monday and Tuesday at Santa Rosa County Jail. Names, ages and addresses were provided by the individuals.
Rachel Marie Duffy, 32, 3900 block of Griffith Road, Pace, violation of probation/community control.
Richard Jason McArthur, 40, 5700 block of North W Street, Pensacola, moving traffic violation.
Jeremy Arnold Miracle, 31, Crestview, property damage-criminal mischief, two counts of burglary.
Joe Lee Myers, 54, 5600 block of Woodland Lane, Milton, aggravated battery.
Anthony James Stacey, 47, 8100 block of Hickory Hammock Road, Milton, conditional release violation, failure to appear, larceny.
The following suspects were charged with driving under the influence Monday and Tuesday at Escambia County Jail. The names, ages and addresses were provided by the individuals.
Martel Nicholas Baten, 35, 1200 block of North E Street.
Brent Parker Collins, 23, 5300 block of State Road 4, Jay.
Faith Frances Wylie, 65, address unavailable.
The following suspects were charged with driving under the influence Monday and Tuesday at Santa Rosa County Jail. The names, ages and addresses were provided by the individuals.
Justin Wayne McGaughy, 28, 3100 block of Rosebush Lane, Navarre.
Richard Aron Nance, 39, 6800 block of Sagebrush Lane, Milton.
Blaise Andrue Roberts, 27, Jacksonville Beach.
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How confirming Michael Mukasey will further cripple Congress.
The Senate should not confirm Michael Mukasey as the next attorney general. I am surprised to find myself writing this. I was initially pleased by his nomination. By all accounts, Judge Mukasey is honest, thoughtful, tough-minded, and independent—qualities his disgraceful predecessor notoriously lacked. If confirmed, Mukasey would probably reinvigorate the Justice Department’s depleted and demoralized upper management and make a start on the long job of restoring the department’s reputation for integrity and professionalism.
Sadly, that’s not enough. The problem is not Mukasey’s intellect, competence, or personal probity. It’s that—as became clear on the second day of his Senate testimony—he is wrong about the fundamental moral question of whether reasons of state can justify or excuse the official embrace of torture. And he is even more wrong—dangerously, subversively wrong—about the place of the president in American constitutional government. If the senators on the judiciary committee really listened to what Mukasey said, and listened as senators and citizens rather than as nervous party politicians, they would reject his nomination on constitutional principle and as a matter of institutional self-defense.
First, Mukasey’s weaseling on water-boarding was unworthy of him. Perhaps feeling pressure from his White House sponsors, he cast himself last week as little more than Torture Boy in long pants. His refusal to call water-boarding torture delighted the White House. His suggestion that he really wasn’t familiar with the particulars of the technique was laughable. By now, no literate American adult is unfamiliar with this charming form of interrogation by near-drowning, which makes the claim even more absurd coming from a retired New York federal judge whose main claim to fame is presiding over difficult terrorism trials. Mukasey’s response that “if water-boarding is torture, torture is not constitutional” was a transparent evasion. And the entire exchange throws a more sinister light on his borrowed quip that the infamous Gonzales-sponsored torture memo “was worse than a sin, it was a mistake. It was unnecessary.” One now fears that Mukasey doesn’t so much disagree with the substance of that memo, as he thinks that writing it down was a political error.
All other considerations aside, any person who cannot say, plainly and unambiguously, that water-boarding is torture and is both immoral and illegal should not be the attorney general of the United States. Period.
The only way for me to respond to that in the abstract is to say that if by illegal you mean contrary to a statute, but within the authority of the president to defend the country, the president is not putting somebody above the law; the president is putting somebody within the law. Can the president put somebody above the law? No. The president doesn’t stand above the law. But the law emphatically includes the Constitution. It starts with the Constitution.
In enacting FISA, Congress passed and the president signed a statute striking a considered balance between national security and personal liberty. There is no plausible reading of the Constitution that allows a later president to authorize a secret, ongoing, systematic violation of that statute merely because he disagrees with the balance it struck or believes circumstances have changed.
Mukasey’s views are particularly remarkable coming from a retired federal judge. If, as he asserts, the president’s broad lawbreaking power derives from the Constitution itself, Congress is sidelined and the only institution with the authority to say the president has overreached is the judiciary. Mukasey’s defenders might argue that this is hardly news, nothing more than a restatement of the rule of Marbury v. Madison that it is the province of the courts “to say what the law is.” But if judges themselves begin from the premise that the Constitution permits the president to ignore a direct statutory command, even when there is no emergency preventing timely congressional action, the country will inch ever closer to autocracy so long as a willful president is paired with a complaisant judiciary.
To its credit, the federal bench has handed the Bush administration some stinging rebukes. But given the Supreme Court’s traditional unwillingness to intervene in “political questions” relating to national security and the natural reluctance of judges to stand in the way of measures justified as necessary to prevent another 9/11, judicial complaisance in the face of an aggressively expansionist executive is a real danger.
To be fair, an Attorney General Mukasey would surely promote a less confrontational approach to relations between the administration and Congress. But his recent testimony also suggests that, when push comes to shove, he not only believes in presidential supremacy in matters of national security but in broad executive-branch immunity from ordinary congressional oversight.
In ordinary times, Congress might welcome a man of Judge Mukasey’s undoubted gifts as attorney general and swallow these differences of constitutional opinion on the theory that a president is entitled to appointees whose views are consistent with his own. But these are not ordinary times. And these are not ordinary differences of opinion.
For seven long years, a misguided and incompetent chief executive has led the country grievously astray. But much of the havoc wrought by his errors of judgment might have been prevented or at least contained had not the Congress feebly acquiesced, year after year, to vaulting claims of presidential supremacy and the steady erosion of its own power.
The Constitution conferred on the Senate the power to reject presidential nominees not merely, or even primarily, to keep rank incompetents from federal office. The appointment power is one of the weapons granted Congress in order to protect the political structure and human values enshrined in the Constitution itself from presidential encroachment. If a nominee for attorney general, however smart, sincere, and capable, refuses to disavow torture and espouses an anti-democratic, anti-constitutional doctrine of presidential hegemony and congressional subservience, he should be rejected. If the Senate is foolish enough to ratify the replacement of a bumbling toady with an accomplished apostle of the gospel of executive supremacy, it will deserve every snub this and future presidents inflict. But the rest of us deserve better.
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The electronic processing of health information provides considerable benefits to patients and health care providers while at the same time creating serious risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data. The Internet provides a conduit for rapid and uncontrolled dispersion and trafficking of illicitly obtained private health information, with far-reaching consequences to unsuspecting victims. To address such threats to electronic private health information, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services enacted the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Security Rule, which thus far has received little attention in legal literature. This Article presents a critique of the Security Rule. It argues that the Rule suffers from several defects relating to its narrow definition of "covered entities," the limited scope of information it allows data subjects to obtain about their health information, the vagueness and incompleteness of the Rule's standards and implementation specifications, and the lack of a private cause of action. This Article explores the difficult problem of crafting static regulations to adequately address rapidly changing computer and communications technologies and associated security threats to private health information. In addition, it develops detailed recommendations for improving safeguards for electronically processed health records.
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Would you remember exactly what was in this salad more than a week after eating it?
October 28, 2011 The E. coli outbreak that sickened more than 4,300 people in May and June had epidemiologists scrambling to find the contaminated vegetables that caused it. What made it difficult, they say in a new paper, is that people had trouble remembering what exactly was in the salads they ate. In this case, the culprit turned out to be fenugreek seeds, but it was a long road to get there.
September 30, 2011 The president of the University of New Hampshire put the kibosh on a planned ban of energy drinks on campus after concluding those offered contained about the same amount of caffeine as other beverages, including coffee.
September 13, 2011 Meat processors warn the move will cause consumers to pay more for meat, but some large companies like Costco already require suppliers to prove their products are free from several strains of E. coli banned by the new rule.
September 12, 2011 A food safety expert says there are a few possible explanations for a new recall of ground turkey involving the same plant and the same strain of drug resistant bacteria that led to a massive recall in August.
August 13, 2011 The first annual Can-It-Forward Day takes place in Seattle on Saturday. The recent surge in interest in home food preservation inspired us to chat with an expert on how to do it safely.
August 4, 2011 Food giant Cargill is shutting down a plant in Springdale, Ark., and recalling turkey processed there because the meat may be contaminated with a strain of salmonella resistant to multiple antibiotics.
July 26, 2011 There's a recall of papayas from Mexico after testing by the Food and Drug Administration found samples from Agromod Produce had the same strain of bacteria seen in outbreaks of salmonella affecting 97 people in 23 states.
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3.5 acre property with 1940's home on site. CARPORT has storage room and extra bathroom. This could be a terrific property for a loving home owner to shower with tlc and make their own. Majority of the value is in the land. Currently zoned residential in Polk County. Surrounding properties zoned for multi-family, light manufacturing, light commercial. Property could be annexed into City of Auburndale and applied for rezoning to fit future owners needs. NO HOA, BUYER TO VERIFY ALL INFORMATION.
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A small fish, generally about six to ten inches in length, found along the coast of North America from the Chesapeake Bay north to the Labrador coast, whose color varies with that of its environment.
The second Bergall (SSN-667) was launched on 17 February 1968 and commissioned on 13 June 1969. She was decommissioned on 6 June 1996 and struck from the Navy list on 6 June 1997. Bergall was disposed of submarine recycling on 29 September 1997.
Updates pending for 1969 to 1996.
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Looks like Mr Kennedy is reporting despite showing little awareness of his surroundings: between 1947 and 2008, there have been more than 35 political/mafia massacres in Italy. And many more individual assassinations. A “contact sport” indeed.
If that’s the new standard of BBC journalism, expect Richard Black to dive ever lower.
Media And Democracy In Italy – What Freedom? And Whose Freedom?
It is with deeply-held feeling of sorry for its author that I am going to comment on Douglas Bailey’s “Do not comment on this article” (IHT, 25 July 2009; as one should expect, still not available on the NYT website…).
How thin can the skin of journalists be, and how soft-bodied their stories if all it takes to “tear down” one of their articles is for “some agenda-driven bonehead” to publish a comment? And what should worry us most…allowing people to freely express and exchange their ideas, or the unremitting deluge of scaried-up, sexed-up, hyped-up invariably “breaking” news pieces that has been befalling upon us since the invention of news business and especially after the advent of 24/7 news?
All in all, what I am really, really sorry about is to see a person like Mr Bailey approach the internet by renouncing critical thinking, and believing instead that writing a note in a web site grants “an aura of legitimacy from the association with the host’s brand“. Yeah, right…with such an attitude, I wish good luck to Mr Bailey’s business.
The story (“The heartbreaking picture of the polar bears with 400 miles to swim to the nearest ice “) originated in the pages of the Daily Mail, likely on Saturday Aug 30, and was immediately distributed in Italy by daily La Repubblica.
Trouble is, that story is, shall I dare say this, “not true”. And tonight, it looks like it has been pulled off the Daily Mail website altogether.
Actually, the story is based on something that has actually happened, and was reported by the WWF on Aug 22: nine polar bears have been spotted (by chance) swimming near Alaska. One of them was at least 60 miles from land.
Will Putin’s CNN Interview Herald a New Era of Media-Savvy International Leaders?
Putin […] was constantly watching CNN to see how the conflict was being reported. And he didn’t like it. He hated it […] there was no one on TV putting across the Russian version of events.
Why was there no one? Because there is no access in Russia, we were not allowed to go to the Russian side of the conflict zone. No Russian officials were available to talk to us, as usual. Georgia played the media game, Russia did not.
A decision was taken then to change tack, to engage with the Western media, to aggressively argue Russia’s side. The Kremlin, which constantly complains of a bad press, could have learned this lesson years ago. But hopefully they see the value of us now. Doesn’t mean we agree with them, or that appearing on CNN will convert the West to Russia’s line.
Putin has made a few allegations, some of them ringing more true than others. But their truthness is not as important as the fact that they have been heard by many people that until yesterday could only get their own Government’s propaganda. Now they can see an actual “foreign” and “enemy” leader speak his mind in front of the cameras, a person and not just a communique’.
Anyway, the simple fact that the American and Russian versions of events cannot be both right at the same time, could and should encourage a little more critical thinkings…and that cannot be bad.
Interestingly, the lesson of how to avoid a bad press has been recently learned by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China too.
Next in line should be Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, and Mohammed Ahmadinejad of Iran. For some reason neither of them has realized his potential in terms of worldwide media coverage. Perhaps Putin’s experience will change that: they do look like great TV material and if only they’d abandon the more hard-to-digest bits of their ideologies, many more people would watch (and listen) to them.
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2019-04-21T14:24:24Z
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> > > programming languages etc, but also all natlangs are "artificial"!
> people during long periods of time, is "artificial" in this sense.
So for you, "artificial" means "pertaining to some aspect of human behaviour".
definitely implies conscious effort, the purposeful exercise of ingenuity.
result of taking in nourishment.
"artificial" (or "invented") seems at best misleading.
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2019-04-19T04:54:12Z
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https://listserv.brown.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0108b&L=CONLANG&P=32293
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Sports
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Hi, everyone. :) I feel bad about not being a good mod and updating this community as regularly as I should, so I've decided to put this community on hiatus for awhile.
Some things I still need to do, such as putting up the results for challenge #44 and putting up the new header. I'll do these things as soon as I can get to them, but I can't promise when.
Results for the header challenge are below!
We had 16 BEAUTIFUL entries!!! While that's good news, it's bad news for the dial-up users, so beware. I am also amused by the fact that everyone seemed to use the same types of pictures.
:: This challenge will be a Specific Screencap challenge - you are only allowed to make icons of this picture.
:: When submitting an icon(s), please do so in response to this post, no other.
:: Include the icon AND the icon's url. If you do not include the url in your comment, your icon will not be accepted.
:: You are allowed to submit 3 icons. Remember, these icons cannot be previously made or submitted other icon challenges.
:: In order to submit icons, you must be a member of this community first.
:: Submission deadline is Friday, June 30 @ Midnight EST.
Sorry for the delay everyone. It's just that at first we didn't have a whole lot of submitted icons, then I had some RL issues, etc. etc. etc.
:: Hey, guys. It's that time again! We've had this wonderful layout for just about six months (can you believe it's been that long??) and it's time for a new one!
:: Please submit your header and icon as a reply to this post.
:: When submitting, include the URLs of both the header and icon.
:: You are allowed to submit 2 headers.
:: All submissions need to be in by Friday, June 30 @ Midnight EST. This means you have two weeks to submit your headers. This way we can have a new layout on July 1!
:: Have fun & be creative!
I'm going to have to extend this challenge, unfortunately, because only 7 icons were submitted.
And happy (belated) 25th, Natalie!
:: This challenge will be of Natalie's appearance on SNL. I thought she was awesome on it (tho it was a bit unsettling to see her cursing :o) and everyone fell in love with her again. So this week, you have to make icons of that appearance and only that appearance. You can find some pics HERE and HERE.
:: Submission deadline is Friday, June 9 @ Midnight EST.
Sorry they're late. I tried something new again.
I only received 9 icons for this and I know we can do better! I'm giving you guys until this Friday (which is in two days) to submit more icons. You can submit them here!
:: Submission deadline is Friday, May 27 @ Midnight EST.
Do you think this community needs a new layout?
On a scale of 1-5 how do you think I'm doing with running this community? 1 is the highest.
How long do you think the challenges should run for?
What do you think of the challenges here?
Is there anything about this community that you think could be improved? If so, what?
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2019-04-23T10:45:49Z
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https://natalieicontest.livejournal.com/
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Cancellations received 14 days before the event will receive a full refund. After that, a $30 fee will be assessed, but no refunds will be made for cancellations within 48 hours of the training. Substitutions are also an option when scheduling or illness presents a conflict.
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2019-04-24T14:24:39Z
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https://iowaltap.iastate.edu/2019-excavation-safety-workshop/
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The “Complete Correspondence of Benjamin and Adorno” (Polity 1999 or Surkamp 199 4) is always a good read on a cold rainy [even snowing] day.
‘The impression which your entire study conveys – and not only to me with my Arcades orthodoxy – is that you have here done violence upon yourself. Your solidarity with the Institute, which pleases no-one more than myself, has led you to pay the kind of tributes to Marxism which are appropriate neither to Marxism nor to yourself. Not appropriate to Marxism because the mediation through the entire social process is missing and because of a superstitious tendency to attribute to mere material enumeration a power of illumination which really belongs to theoretical construction … you have denied yourself your boldest and most fruitful ideas through a kind of pre-censorship in accordance with materialist categories (which by no means correspond to Marxist ones)’ (Adorno to Benjamin 10 November 1938, p 284).
‘ a close connection between those places where your essay falls behind its own a priori and its relationship to dialectical materialism … Let me express myself in as simple an Hegelian manner as possible. Unless I am very much mistaken, your dialectic is lacking in one thing: mediation’ (Adorno to Benjamin 10 November 1938, p 282).
Your ‘anthropological’ materialism ‘harbours a profoundly romantic element … The “mediation” which I miss and find obscured by materialistic-historiographical evocation, is simply the theory which your study has omitted. But the omission of theory affects the empirical material itself’ (Adorno to Benjamin 10 November 1938, Benjamin/Adorno p 283).
‘To express this another way: the theological motif of calling things by their names tends to switch into the wide-eyed presentation of mere facts. If one wanted to put it rather drastically, one could say your study is located at the crossroads of magic and positivism. This spot is bewitched. Only theory could break this spell – your own resolute and salutarily speculative theory. It is simply the claim of this theory that I bring against you here’ (Adorno to Benjamin 10 November 1938, Benjamin/Adorno 283).
Adorno goes on to write The Dialectic of Enlightenment with Horkheimer, Benjamin ends up sitting bleary-eyed far too long in the cafés of Marseilles, and finally does not make it over the mountain. The suitcase is lost, we do not know if these prods in the direction of theory had recast the manuscript.
I’m waiting for the movie version.
Can’t remember if you said that you’d already read it, but Susan Buck-Morss’s book is great: The Origin of Negative Dialectics – Theodore Adorno, Walter Benjamin and the Frankfurt Institute. As the name would suggest there’s loads on Benjamin’s influence on Adorno, and she does a wonderful job of making Adorno’s stuff comprehensible.
Are you able to reveal to me how don’t you create this kind of remark technique like on this internet site?
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2019-04-21T08:52:14Z
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https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/2008/03/23/adorno-to-benjamin/
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Morris, William, and A. J. Wyatt, trans. The tale of Beowulf. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1895.
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2019-04-24T00:04:20Z
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https://williammorrislibrary.wordpress.com/2016/06/08/%C2%B6-morris-tale-of-beowulf-1895-2/
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Stanford University has implemented a clear bag policy for Commencement to provide a safer environment for the public and expedite entry into Stanford Stadium. This policy limits the size and types of bags permitted. Items must be carried or fit into a permissible bag. All persons, approved bags and permitted items are subject to search upon entry and may be subject to additional search within the stadium. Anyone possessing prohibited items will be asked to return them to their vehicle, take them to the complimentary bag check station or dispose of them at the gate.
Please note: These policies may also apply to other Commencement related events throughout the weekend. Stanford has the authority to prohibit these and any other items deemed to be a security or safety risk. These policies are subject to change without notice.
Guests with bags or items that do not satisfy the Public Safety Clear Bag Policy are welcome to bring them to the complimentary bag check station, located at Cobb Track/Angell Field. The bag check station opens two hours before the ceremony begins and closes one hour after the conclusion of the event.
No larger than 4.5" x 6.5"
Please note: Approved items may include, but are not limited to, those listed above. All permitted bags and items are subject to inspection.
Please note: Anyone with prohibited items will be asked to return them to their cars, take them to the bag check station or dispose of them in the garbage cans at the gate.
Why is this policy being adopted?
In an effort to improve safety, Stanford is implementing a clear bag policy for the Commencement Ceremony at Stanford Stadium beginning in 2018. This policy limits the size and types of bags that are permitted inside the venue. This policy will enhance safety at the event as a clear bag is easily and quickly searched.
Will clear bags be available through Stanford before or on the day of Commencement?
There are a variety of options. Clear bags will be distributed at the parking lot and outside of the gates at the Stadium. The Stanford Bookstore and Athletics Shop will also sell clear bags before and during Commencement Weekend. Alternatively, we suggest that you use a one-gallon clear Ziploc (or similar) bag.
Guests with a prohibited bag will not be permitted inside the venue. Guests with prohibited bags will need to return their bags to their vehicle, and/or transfer their belongings to an approved clear plastic bag before entering the venue.
What types of bags are allowed into Stanford Stadium?
Approved bags include clear plastic, vinyl, or PVC bags that do not exceed 12" x 6" x 12"; one-gallon clear, re-sealable plastic storage bags; small clutch bags no larger than 4.5" x 6.5" (approximately the size of a hand) with or without a handle or strap.
What types of bags are NOT allowed into Stanford Stadium?
Prohibited bags include but are not limited to purses, backpacks, binocular cases, camera cases, fanny packs, diaper bags, cases, reusable grocery bags, luggage, duffel bags, seat cushions with a zipper, any bag larger than the permissible size, and any bag that is not clear.
Each person is allowed one (1) clear plastic bag and one (1) small clutch. The clear bag must be no larger than 12" x 6" x 12", made of clear plastic, PVC or vinyl, or a one-gallon Ziploc bag. The small clutch allows privacy for small personal items and will also be searched.
Have the Permitted and Prohibited Items changed as well with this new bag policy?
No. Guests are encouraged to bring only necessary items into each venue. All guests and items are subject to search. Any item not on the Permitted Items list will not be allowed into Stanford Stadium unless otherwise approved and properly inspected. Special considerations will be made for guests with special medical needs.
Yes. Guests may carry permitted items in their pockets or hands such as keys, phones, wallets, tablets, etc., if you choose not to put them in a clear bag or clutch. In addition, you may carry binoculars and a camera around your neck or in your hands without the case. You can use the clear bag and clutch to carry other items.
Are seat cushions allowed to be carried into Stanford Stadium?
Yes, only approved seat cushions that do not have pockets, zippers, bags or covers may be carried into the facility.
No. Small clutch purses (no larger than 4.5" x 6.5"), with or without a handle or strap, are permitted along with a clear tote bag or one-gallon plastic bag.
Guests with medically necessary items may enter at any gate/entrance but will be subject to additional screening. Supervisors at each entrance will assist.
Diaper bags are permitted, but will be subject to screening. You must have the infant(s) present for which the diaper bag is being carried when the diaper bag is screened.
Please note: The above policies may also apply to other Commencement related events throughout the weekend. Stanford has the authority to prohibit these and any other items deemed to be a security or safety risk. These policies are subject to change without notice.
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2019-04-25T09:44:54Z
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https://commencement.stanford.edu/announcements/public-safety-clear-bag-policy
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sun-sentinel
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Oxbridge Academy junior outside hitter Libby Nieporte was happy with the extra step the ThunderWolves took this season as they reached the regional finals.
"I think we had a really good year," said Nieporte, who finished the season with 466 kills, 316 digs, 36 aces, and 19 blocks. She is also a member of the American Volleyball Coaches Association Phenom program.
"We got to the regional finals and it was a tough game, we ended up losing in five," said Nieporte, whose team fell to Cardinal Mooney 17-25, 25-18, 23-25, 25-15 and 15-9. "I am proud of how we played this season. We had a lot of the same players this year and I think we had more experience and our communication down more."
It was one game further than last year’s regional semifinal and Nieporte is hoping next season will be even better. Nieporte is already looking ahead to next season when younger sister Ellie joins the fold to give the ThunderWolves — along with Abby — three siblings on the team.
Additionally, Libby’s older sister, Riley, was named the Sun Sentinel's 5A-1A Volleyball Player of the Year for 2016, the last time the ThunderWolves advanced to the regional finals. She is a sophomore at Stetson University.
"I believe we will go even further next year," said Nieporte, who also reached 1,000 career kills this season during the district final championship match against King’s Academy. "We have a good path ahead of us because we have other good players."
Oxbridge coach Katie George said Nieporte has "has elevated the level of volleyball" at the school.
"Libby has served as team captain the last two seasons," George said. "Libby is committed to continuing to grow her game and compete at the next level. She leads with her determination, hard work, and winning mentality and she makes the players around her stronger with her intensity and understanding of the game."
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2019-04-26T00:54:52Z
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https://www.sun-sentinel.com/sports/highschool/all-county/fl-sp-pb-gvol-small-poy-story.html
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Sports
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wordpress
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This entry was posted on November 6, 2018 at 2:13 pm and is filed under Thoughts Profound and Otherwise. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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2019-04-25T00:45:53Z
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https://robertalan.wordpress.com/2018/11/06/because-to-me-they-are-clearly-less-invisible-than-they-were-a-moment-before-now-arent-they/
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Brad Perron, owner of the Heilbroner Building at Third and Cascade in Hood River, at long last has a chance to complete the facelift on Hood River’s first steel-frame structure.
After Footwise pulled out for an Oak Avenue presence, Perron could pursue plans to strip the brick skin and reveal the cast iron girders underneath. He plans to replace the brick with fine wood casings for the windows, and split that space east-west into two units. Director’s Mortgage will move into the unit facing exclusively onto Third. Current Commercial will move into the current Director’s Mortgage space.
And someone — hint, hint … this could be you — will find huge appeal to the wall of windows facing Cascade and wrapping the corner. Perron thinks it would make a perfect gallery space, complementing the Columbia Center for the Arts just to the east. At nearly 700 square feet, it will rent for around $1,000 a month.
Look for loads of activity there in the next month. Director’s hopes to be in its new space by July 1. Perron is hoping to have the corner space finished by July 15. Call him at 541-541-993-9939 if you want to talk.
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2019-04-18T15:08:54Z
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https://hoodriverbizbuzz.wordpress.com/tag/footwise/
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Sports
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wordpress
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This entry was posted on decembrie 23, 2016 at 7:59 PM and is filed under Personal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.
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2019-04-20T18:19:37Z
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https://sandamariaardeleanu.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/sarbatori-fericite-4/
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Sports
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wordpress
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I’m participating in the Book Asylum’s Music Monday Blog Hop for the first time today. What fun. I’m always thinking about what song would go with a scene in a book or the entire book, so this blog hop is right up my alley.
I can’t hear the song Ho Hey by the Lumineers without thinking about the Thoughtless series. When Kellen starts staying at home and hanging out with Kiara – this is what I picture him saying to her.
This one is dedicated to a few of my favorite overprotective book boyfriends.
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2019-04-21T10:14:27Z
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https://willreadforbooks.wordpress.com/category/blog-hop/
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Sports
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typepad
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Ted's Butcherblock Announces 3rd Annual Big Green Egg Giveaway Fundraiser for "Feed the Need"
Once again, Ted's Butcherblock is teaming up with Mt Pleasant's Firehouse Casual Living to raffle off a Big Green Egg to benefit local non-profit organization "Feed the Need". Charleston Grill has generously offered up a second prize, Dinner for Four at the Charleston Grill, to help raise more money for this great cause. Tickets will be available for purchase at Ted's Butcherblock for $5 each (or 5 for $20) through June 22, when a winner will be drawn at Ted's annual Backyard BBQ Bash.
The Big Egg is used exclusively for the popular ribs, barbecue pork and smoked salmon on the menu at Ted's Butcherblock, as well as for weekly events such as the shop's Friday Night Cookouts and Ultimate Burger & Beer Saturdays. A top-selling smoker and grill, "The Egg" is exceptionally durable and provides precise temperature control due to its patented design.
During the early morning hours of Tuesday, April 2nd, a devastating fire struck the building and businesses of 213 East Bay Street. The fire destroyed Charleston favorites The Brick, Squeeze, Speakeasy, & Club Light. As a result, the employees of these establishments now find themselves out of work. So, like any good Charlestonian would do, we're going to raise some money for them to help them get through these difficult time.
On Wednesday, April 17th from 5pm to midnight, The Alley is opening up its doors for the 213 East Bay Fire Fundraiser and a night of live music fun.
3 Bands playing live tunes: Caxton Beaty, Return of the Mac & The Louie D Project.
Guest bartenders from The Brick, Squeeze, Speakeasy, and Light will bartend the party, working hard for your tips (100% donated to East Bay Fire Fund).
A portion of all food and beverage sales will be donated to the Fire Fund.
4 free lanes of free bowling for employees/owners/close friends of the 213 businesses.
4 regular lanes open, with half of proceeds being donated to the fund (please e-mail Boomer@thebecketagency.com if your company would like to sponsor a lane with a cash donation).
If you cannot make the event but would like to support the effort with a monetary donation, please visit: https://www.youcaring.com/other/helping-employees-out-of-work/51143.
Lowcountry Bistro (LB's) is located at 49 South Market Street in downtown Charleston. For reservations, call 843.302.0290.
10 Lords-a-leaping, 9 Ladies Dancing, 8 Palmetto Trees-a-lighting. That's the Market Street Hospitality Association's (MSHA) Lowcountry twist on a a holiday tree lighting ceremony. As traditional pine trees are being decorated throughout the country, the members of the recently founded MSHA decided that the group of eight Palmetto Trees already gracing the French Quarter Plaza would serve as the perfect Charleston version of the holiday standard.
John Keener, Owner of Charleston Crab House and member of the MSHA says, "We're the Palmetto State so why not decorate our beautiful state tree for the holidays. It's a Lowcountry spin on the tradition." On Saturday, December 8 at 5:45pm, members of the association will gather in the French Quarter Plaza on South Market Street to light the eight trees adorned with thousands of Christmas lights. Also on hand will be carolers and snacks provided by members of the association.
The Market Street Hospitality Association is a newly formed business association comprised of restaurants and hotels in the Market Street area. The goal of the group is to promote business on and around Historic Market Street. The association will be releasing more details about the formation of the group and its goals during the tree lighting ceremony.
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2019-04-25T08:35:43Z
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https://susanlucas.typepad.com/citymarketdistrict/current-affairs/
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After almost six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Maryland local Reid Wiseman landed safely in Kazakhstan last night. Wiseman built quite a social media following for his pictures from space.
“It’s been an honor and a privilege to spend 165 days up here. With that said, I’m looking forward to heading home,” Wiseman said on Saturday. Wiseman grew up in Cockeysville, Md., near Baltimore.
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2019-04-24T10:38:55Z
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https://valentin10.wordpress.com/tag/nature/
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seatemplegolf
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There is a golf swing secret that can change everything for any golfer. There is no doubt that executing the perfect golf swing is a difficult feat and doing it consistently is even harder to accomplish. This golf swing secret is so powerful that those who practice it start seeing massive improvements in their game almost immediately. This golf swing secret is based on the fact that the golf swing is an awkward movement. Awkward to the human body. So what any golfer has to do is to train their muscles to feel natural when performing this unnatural and awkward motion of a golf swing.
That is the golf swing secret that will make all the difference. The first and most common excuse you will hear from the vast majority of golfers is that they do not have the time to get in any exercise. Many struggle just to get the time to play their golf in the first place. Part of this golf swing secret is that you do not need to create any time to get away from the office or your work station. You can condition your muscles right in the office.
You cannot truthfully say that you can’t find 15 seconds at your computer, while still seated on your chair. That is enough time to get something done. There are actually many different stretch exercises you can get done in your office, but I will give you just one here. I call it the seated twist. Sit upright in your chair with chest high and your back straight. Reach behind you with one arm, which will rotate your upper body. While staying erect, twist as far as you can go and hold. You can then twist the other way and repeat. Go both sides 2 to 3 times, holding for 10 seconds. This is a very effective golf swing secret for eliminating or even reducing back pain and at the same time tremendously improving your backswing and follow through range of motions.
The result will be a much better swing, higher club head speed and much more distance. Try this approach and you will soon agree with me that this is truly an amazing golf swing secret.
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2019-04-23T09:53:51Z
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http://seatemplegolf.com.au/read-article/53207
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cnn
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Microsoft plans to file a formal complaint with the European Commission Thursday, accusing Google of abusing its position as the region's dominant search engine.
The software giant -- once subject to its own landmark antitrust investigation in the United States and Europe -- claimed in a blog post that Google is preventing rivals from creating a competitive alternative to its search technology. Microsoft operates the two-year-old Bing search engine, which, though a partnership with Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500), is the second-largest search website in the United States and Europe.
Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) cited several examples of what it said was Google's abuse of its dominant position.
For instance, the company claims that Google is impeding fair competition by restricting rival search engines from "properly accessing" the Google-owned YouTube for their search results. Google supposedly won't release YouTube's so-called "metadata," which includes video categories, favorites and ratings.
The company also said that Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) released superior YouTube applications for its own Android platform and Apple's iPhone, but designed a limited YouTube app for Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. Microsoft said it wants to release its own high-quality YouTube app, but it requires access to YouTube's metadata to do that.
"[Google] understands as well as anyone that search engines depend upon the openness of the Web in order to function properly, and it's quick to complain when others undermine this," the company said in its blog. "Unfortunately, Google has engaged in a broadening pattern of walling off access to content and data that competitors need to provide search results to consumers and to attract advertisers."
Microsoft's claims extend beyond search. Both companies compete in the online advertising market, and Microsoft said that Google prevents advertisers from easily porting their ad campaign data to competing platforms, including Microsoft's adCenter.
Many companies buy search ads from Google first, since it has the largest share. But if that data isn't interoperable with competitors' platforms, Microsoft claims many advertisers simply won't bother advertising with anyone other than Google.
Microsoft also cited Google's dominant position in websites' search boxes. It complained that Google enters into exclusivity agreements with Web properties that prevent Microsoft from distributing its online products like Hotmail, cloud storage and Windows Live to those sites.
Google's attempt to gain access to a large volume of "orphaned" books, which a U.S. federal judge smacked down last week, also came up in the complaint. And Microsoft joined in a chorus of companies that want more transparency in how Google ranks its advertisements.
The complaint will be added to an ongoing investigation into Google's business practices by the European Commission. Microsoft's voice is by far the largest among those opposed to Google's position -- though a Google spokesman noted that Microsoft's complaint comes as no surprise, since Ciao, a Bing subsidiary, was one of the original complainants.
"For our part, we continue to discuss the case with the European Commission and we're happy to explain to anyone how our business works," a Google spokesman said.
Google controls 65% of the search market in the United States but 90% of the market in Europe, which is why Microsoft said it filed the complaint there.
Of course, there's a "man bites dog" aspect to Thursday's filing, which Microsoft acknowledged.
"There of course will be some who will point out the irony in today's filing," the company said. "Having spent more than a decade wearing the shoe on the other foot with the European Commission, the filing of a formal antitrust complaint is not something we take lightly. More so than most, we recognize the importance of ensuring that competition laws remain balanced and that technology innovation moves forward."
The shoe, as the say, is now officially on the other foot.
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2019-04-25T08:46:56Z
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https://money.cnn.com/2011/03/31/technology/microsoft_google_antitrust/index.htm
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wordpress
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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court on Wednesday scheduled a hearing over whether to stop the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to wait in Mexico for their immigration court hearings.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals set a hearing for April 24 in San Francisco over whether a lower court ruling to block the policy should go into effect while the case proceeds.
U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg ruled April 8 that the unprecedented policy violated U.S. law and should be halted because it failed to evaluate dangers migrants face in Mexico.
He issued an order to stop the policy, but gave the government time to appeal, which it did claiming the ruling was erroneous and would endanger the public.
A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit issued a temporary stay last week — leaving the policy in place — and requested written arguments from the government and immigrant advocates before setting the hearing date, now set for next week.
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2019-04-25T00:54:35Z
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https://mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com/category/migration/
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25%85°75°Night - Partly cloudy. Winds from SE to SSE at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 75 °F (23.9 °C).Mostly cloudy with a high of 82 °F (27.8 °C) and a 25% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph).
20%83°75°Scattered thunderstorms today with a high of 83 °F (28.3 °C) and a low of 75 °F (23.9 °C).
Tonight - Partly cloudy. Winds from SE to SSE at 6 to 9 mph (9.7 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 75 °F (23.9 °C).
Today - Mostly cloudy with a high of 82 °F (27.8 °C) and a 25% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 6 to 8 mph (9.7 to 12.9 kph).
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2019-04-24T23:15:58Z
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/brazil/alagoas/atalaia-456055
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Sports
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Science
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weebly
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Washington – The visit of General Funston to the war department created a profound flutter of excitement among the "lady clerks." General Funston had not been at the department since he became a hero, and a brigadier general, and so he was quite a curiosity to the hundreds of clerks who have had so much to do with his military records since he made himself famous in the Philippines. Naturally many of those who have made up his record on the department books, and who have followed his course through promotion wanted to see the "little fellow from Kansas."
General Funston, accompanied by his aide, arrived at about 10:30. Clerks, knowing that he would call at the department to pay his respects were on the lookout for him. He had hardly entered the building before his presence was known, and as he walked up, the news seemed to spread, for by the time he reached the second floor and made his way along the corridor to Secretary Root’s office the hallway suddenly became crowded with female clerks. There was quite an ovation as he came out of the elevator, the young ladies, while not cheering him, gave utterance to those little murmurs of salutation which women are so want to make when they see anything that pleases them.
"There he is," they cried, "Isn’t he cute? I thought he was a larger man, but he is just a darling, if he is little." "He reminds me of a plump little partridge," were some of the comments uttered as the general passed on to the secretary’s office. As secretary Root was not in the department, being down the river on a little vacation, General Funston went in to see Adjutant General Corbin. Before he got in the door, however, he was stopped by "Charley," one of General Corbin’s messengers, who during the Spanish was had been nicknamed "Aguinaldo" by the general because he was so active in skipping about from place to place. Charley held Funston up while he wrote his name on a card, and then, after Funston had gone in to see General Corbin, Charley became the center of attraction, and was surrounded by the female clerks, who wanted to see the autograph. Having seen it, they possessed of a desire to secure it, and began to offer bids to Charley for the precious autograph. The bids once started, ran up rapidly, but Charley refused to auction off the card, and after the bidding had gone up to $10, quietly put the card in his pocket. This so disgusted the ladies that they called him "real mean," and slowly but sorrowfully went back to their desks. General Funston did not remain longer at the department. He registered in the visitor’s book. Several attempts were made to cut the name out of the volume, but Charley was on the watch and frustrated all attempts to do so, and on thus remained the sole possessor of General Funston’s autograph of all the officials in the department.
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2019-04-21T22:53:02Z
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https://allencountyhistory.weebly.com/funston-is-lion.html
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Help please. friend suffers deep depression...?
Help, suffering from severe anxiety. HELP please please.?
Please help i suffer from depression!?!?!?!?!?
PLEASE HELP! Suffering from Bipolar disorder?
Do computer programmers pay a syntax when they buy a new computer?
Examples of algorithms inside algorithms in Java? Help is appreciated?
Auto error##TypeError: allPropsObject has no properties in Dreamweaver?
Is it possible to store codes in an arduino from MATLAB?
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2019-04-20T01:22:52Z
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https://ph.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20171222164455AAfhxOU
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A man was killed and four people were wounded when a man and a woman armed with handguns took an attorney hostage and shot it out with San Luis Obispo County sheriff's deputies in the parking lot of a courthouse in Paso Robles. Authorities said the unidentified man and woman were seen arguing with attorney Fred Metzger of Atascadero before they drew pistols and tried to force him into a motor home parked at the edge of the lot. The witnesses said Metzger tried to reason with the pair, broke free for a moment, and a shot was fired. Deputies who were in the area opened fire, and in the exchange that followed, the gunman was slain, his woman companion and a sheriff's sergeant, Gary Gray, were wounded and Metzger was shot in the stomach. All the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital, but their conditions were not known.
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2019-04-19T20:49:53Z
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About | Happiness... Let's find it.
I’m just a scared, lonely, passionate young lady trying to work her way through life. I’m at the very beginning and sometimes I couldn’t be more excited for all that life has to offer me. Other times? Well that’s where all my problems come into play and it becomes too much for me to bare. This is me, trying to work these things out and opening my deepest thoughts up to the world for anyone to see. Come along for the ride.
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2019-04-22T00:34:21Z
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April’s cold weather taught many Georgia gardeners the wisdom of waiting. It’s seldom safe to plant annuals and vegetables in Georgia before mid-April. On "Gardening In Georgia" episodes airing the week of May 5, University of Georgia Extension horticulturist Bob Westerfield will show host Walter Reeves how to determine the right time to plant.
Georgia gardening guru and retired UGA Extension agent Walter Reeves hosts the show. Each episode features valuable gardening information specific to Georgia soils, climate and growing conditions.
Also on this episode, viewers will learn about ferns. When trees gradually shade your landscape, ferns become an indispensable ally. Dozens of ferns grow well in Georgia. Reeves will highlight some of his favorites, including autumn fern, Japanese painted fern, log fern and lady fern.
Nothing says summer like fresh sweet corn. David Chambers of Callaway Gardens will give tips on the best corn varieties and planting techniques. And if you like fresh peaches with your sweet corn, it’s time to tend the trees.
The secret to growing good peaches is the right balance of tree leaves to fruit. Peach trees should be thinned in May. Knowing how to space the fruit is also essential. Reeves will tell why tightening your belt is equally important.
"Gardening in Georgia" is a coproduction of GPB and the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The 2007 season is made possible through an underwriting gift from McCorkle Nurseries and support from the Metro Atlanta Landscape and Turf Association. More on "Gardening in Georgia" can be found at www.gardeningingeorgia.com.
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2019-04-21T00:09:07Z
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Household Finances Canada has a strong foundation for financial happiness. So why is the mood so dark?
Canada has a strong foundation for financial happiness. So why is the mood so dark?
Large numbers of Canadians are unhappy with their financial position.
There's lots to celebrate in Canada from a financial point of view as we head into the final weeks of 2017.
Unemployment is down, wages are up, stocks are chugging along and houses have held the value they've built up in the past decade. We have a strong foundation for financial happiness, but people aren't responding. It's not just Canada – people in several other well-off countries don't feel satisfied with where they are financially, either.
This discontent may simply be part of a long readjustment following the global financial crisis that began a decade ago. Or, it could be an early warning that the traditional measures of prosperity in the industrialized world don't work as they used to. Regardless, it's a problem when large numbers of people are unhappy with their financial position.
Financial discontent is hard to detect and easy to ignore because no one talks much about it. Only when people are asked about their finances in polls and surveys do they unload. A CIBC poll released on Thursday found that nearly two-thirds of people say their holiday spending is out of control and that 41 per cent feel as if they can't really afford this spending.
As noted in this column a few weeks ago, a recent survey of 5,200 people by Seymour Management Consulting found that 47 per cent of people agreed that money worries cause them extreme emotional stress and 40 per cent said money worries cause them to lose sleep.
Some additional evidence of financial stress has emerged. In an annual global prosperity ranking by the Legatum Institute, Canada just slipped to eighth from the fifth spot for reasons that included a belief that hard work doesn't necessarily make you more prosperous.
The global consulting firm Willis Towers Watson recently issued a global workplace benefits survey in which people were asked to consider all aspects of their financial situation and report whether they were satisfied. Just 44 per cent of Canadians said yes, compared with 55 per cent in 2013. Similar declines were noted for Australia and Britain. The biggest drop was in the United States, where roughly one-third of people were satisfied.
In the Willis Towers Watson results, 30 per cent of people surveyed said their financial problems are negatively affecting their life, up from 18 per cent in 2015. This is a problem for their employers. While workers who are struggling financially are keen to retire, half of them don't expect to be able to do so until their 70s.
The Willis Towers Watson study asks: "Will this translate into a group of discouraged older workers sticking at their jobs out of necessity – acting as a drag on productivity?"
The election of Donald Trump little more than a year ago was influenced by a number of factors, including financial discontent. As documented in the Willis Towers Watson study, Americans have become more financially unhappy than Canadians in recent years. Still, politicians here can't be complacent. An improving economy is something they like to brag about, yet it hasn't done much for the country's financial morale.
We may just need time for the mood to improve. The November unemployment rate was the lowest in nearly a decade and average hourly wages were up 2.8 per cent on a year-over-year basis. That's double the inflation rate, which means people are getting ahead. Continued momentum for the economy would presumably help lighten the mood for Canadians when they consider their finances a year from now. But there are nagging issues that contribute to financial unhappiness today, and will continue to do so.
High levels of household debt are part of this, but there's more to the picture. People seem to feel vulnerable and powerless. In the Willis Towers Watson study, four in 10 agreed with the statement that they live paycheque to paycheque, and therefore have no significant savings.
Sure, house prices have risen a lot in some parts of the country and global stock markets are strong. But it's becoming increasingly obvious that rising asset prices benefit only part of the population. You only have to think of the gap that exists between people who have owned homes in Toronto and Vancouver for many years and those who can't afford to buy in.
Financial conditions in this country are as promising as they've been in a while, and yet the mood is dark. What's eating you, Canada? Finding out is one of my top priorities for 2018.
Should well-off people shop at thrift stores?
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2019-04-20T03:10:46Z
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/household-finances/when-it-comes-to-money-canada-is-discontent/article37255531/
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Despite an ambitious number of signs, I felt my local home depot wasn't addressing some of the strongest benefits of owning a garden/storage/privacy shed/mini-garage/closet. I decided to make some new signs and try them out!
The signs were no-frills, 8 1/2 x 11 and laminated.
A few days later I posted some in a few of their nicer sheds.
Oh yeah! They looked great! I can't believe they had forgotten to include these top shed-selling benefits in their current signs.
These were totally going to sell some sheds!
I carefully selected a cross-section of sample stores and reached out for help in this market-research project.
Sean, Ben, James, Ed, Mike, Justin, Alpha, Michelle and Tom each had slightly different experiences posting the signs.
please continue reading Sean's story of the shed prank , or skip ahead to Ben James Ed Mike Justin Alpha Michelle or Tom.
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2019-04-25T18:09:24Z
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http://cockeyed.com/pranks/shed/shed01.shtml
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said early Saturday it had "requested cessation of inflight refueling" by the U.S. for its fighter jets after American officials said they would stop the operations amid growing anger over civilian casualties from the kingdom's airstrikes.
"We support the decision by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after consultations with the U.S. government, to use the coalition's own military capabilities to conduct inflight refueling in support of its operations in Yemen," U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in a statement. "The U.S. will also continue working with the coalition and Yemen to minimize civilian casualties and expand urgent humanitarian efforts throughout the country."
It wasn't immediately clear what impact the U.S. withdrawal from air refueling operations would have. American officials earlier said Saudi forces now handled some 80 percent of their refueling operations, which crucially allow aircraft to fly longer sorties over possible targets and can ease the pressure for quick strikes.
"Recently the kingdom and the coalition has increased its capability to independently conduct inflight refueling in Yemen," the statement read. "As a result, in consultation with the United States, the coalition has requested cessation of inflight refueling support for its operations in Yemen."
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2019-04-23T12:40:15Z
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http://www.startribune.com/saudi-led-coalition-in-yemen-requests-end-to-us-refueling/500184741/
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Census survey figures show significant improvement for Indiana in terms of high school graduation rates and Hoosier adults with college degrees. Between 2001 and 2002, Indiana's high school graduation rate moved up from 84.4 percent to 85.3 percent. More significantly—both statistically and as a sign of educational progress—was the 2.5 point increase in the percentage of the population with a bachelor's degree or higher. In 2001, 21.2 percent of adults had achieved at minimum a B.A. and by 2002 that percentage increased to 23.7 percent.
Indiana's rankings relative to other states and the District of Columbia have also improved (see Table 1). Click to view spreadsheet with the rankings for all 50 states and D.C.
A 13-year national deadlock between men's and women's high school graduation rates has finally been broken, based on results of the newly released report Educational Attainment in the United States: March 2001 and March 2002. U.S. women 25 and older now have a high school graduation rate of 84.4 percent, compared to the men's rate of 83.8.
Indiana continues to experience a relatively small gender gap in high school graduation rates, with 86.1 percent of men graduating high school compared to 84.7 percent of women. A larger gap persists between men and women with bachelor's degrees, with 26.8 percent of men 25 and older with a B.A. or higher compared to only 21.1 percent of Hoosier women.
According to the Census Bureau, the Northeast had the highest proportion of college graduates at 29 percent. The West followed closely behind with 28 percent, the Midwest at 26 percent, while the South had 25 percent.
Each year, the U.S. Census Bureau conducts what is called the annual demographic supplement to the March Current Population Survey. This supplement for 2002 is notable for a significant increase in the number of households surveyed. While the Census Bureau reports no significant statistical differences because of the sample, there were some effects on the 2001 and 2002 survey data by using the Census 2000 population controls. For those readers needing detail on the sample size increase and the confidence intervals of the data shown in this article, please go to the web: www.census.gov/did/www/saipe/data/model/info/cpsasec.html.
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2019-04-22T12:46:09Z
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Bold your Keywords – this not only helps with the SEO value of your blog but also may keep those impatient readers from leaving your blog within the first minute of opening your site. Recently I read an article that stated, “Online readers will spend around 96 second reading online content before moving on”. By using bolded keywords you can grab the attention of your readers before they decide to move along.
Tagging – by tagging other websites or articles that are applicable to the content of your blog, you not only help with the SEO value of your blog but also offer your readers more resources than just the content of your post. If you are writing about a community you have listing in why not link that community’s recreation and town sports page. Become a reliable source of information for your readers with compressive content and additional “extras” that will keep your readers coming back for more!
*Read more about tagging and SEO on a previous article from Re/Advantage.
Don’t be Afraid to Use Images or Videos – you can easily increase your sphere or influence by simply adding images or videos to your blog posts. As a Real Estate professional you can use YouTube.com to embed a video into your blog or find cheap/free images that can be cut and paste right next to your content. For example if you write a quick post on an open house you have listed – why not create a virtual tour on YouTube.com? You can use a video camera or make a slideshow of pictures you’ve taken from that home and make a video that would be PERFECT for your blog post. That why you will entice your readers to stay at your blog, spark their interest with a video or presentation of pictures for that open house and boost the SEO of your blog site – three birds with one stone!
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2019-04-18T10:44:11Z
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https://readvantage.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/taking-your-blog-from-boring-to-irresistible-is-a-few-easy-steps/
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The the Mizuno MP-18 irons look the business. But there are three different models – muscleback (MP-18), split cavity (MP-18 SC) and multi-material (MP-18 MMC).
There are also the MP-18 Fli Hi long irons. So make that four models in fact. You can read our initial review of them here.
But where does the JPX900 Tour iron fit in? Should you be looking to blend these irons together? Which model is going to work best for your ability level?
What technology has gone into each MP-18 model and what will players notice as a result?
We actually took a couple of years off from launching a new MP model and there are a couple of reasons why.
We were working on enhancements to our grain flow forging process and also we are working towards a JPX-focussed cycle and an MP-focusses cycle.
We’re almost re-setting the MP. We’re bringing it back to a very sophisticated, clean, timeless classic design.
The new high density grain flow forging is basically the same process but we’ve made a tweak to the construction of the moulds. It allows us to concentrate a higher density of metallic grains – that really amplifies that feel across all three models.
It really gives that feeling that the ball is compressing on the face which comes from that sound at impact. The grains structure helps accentuate that.
Technology tweaks to forged irons are quite subtle. How much will players notice from irons that have used the HD forging process and those which haven’t?
It’s all about feel and there are three things to consider.
Firstly, how the head vibrates – with MP-18 this will be similar to previous models.
Secondly, there’s the use of materials and we’ve used 1025 pure E carbon steel which is the same as we use set-to-set. It’s very elite material, that’s what the ‘E’ stands for.
But the main difference is in that high density grain structure. It actually allows the head to vibrate for a little bit longer and there’s more amplified sound.
So that feedback you love – you’re going to get a bit more of that. It’s subtle but it’s tangible.
I guess the players these clubs are aimed at are going to notice that a bit more?
Definitely. The MP player is usually a keen ball-striker who can appreciate that feel.
So is the MP-18 range just aimed at the low single-figure handicapper?
The way we have configured the MP-18 family, we have tried to expand to – I wouldn’t say the high handicapper – but more a medium to low handicapper in terms of all the different options you have for mixing and matching.
That includes the new MP-18 Fli Hi which allows players to replace those long irons for something more playable.
Are we seeing a crossover here between the MP line and the JPX900 line?
There is overlap. There has been overlap in the past. And one thing we try and do is minimise that overlap.
If there is going to be an overlap we have to do that in an intelligent way.
The JPX900 Tour is actually a larger head than all of the MP-18 models – even the MMC head.
But it’s more about the look of the club. The JPX900 design philosophy owes more to speed, aggression, futurity.
The MP is more a nod to the past as a timeless classic with those clean and sophisticated looks.
Even though there may be a little bit of a playability overlap, we still feel like we are talking to a different player. And that is to do with how the club looks.
Interesting. I look at the JPX900 Tour and think, not for me. I look at the MP-18 MMC and think, yeah why not? Do you think you may get newcomers to the MP line this time around?
We’ve learned and I feel the rest of the industry is learning as well that there are 15 and 20 handicapper who are really serious about the game.
They are passionate, they want to improve and aspire to play better. They want help from their golf clubs but they also want their golf clubs to look serious.
They want it to look like a proper golf club, they don’t want it to be overly bulky or have loud colours or look odd.
That’s kind of where we are going with this MP line. You can build a set for a 15 handicapper.
Going through the line we have the muscleback which is pretty playable but not a lot of people can handle that.
The split cavity has a little bit more forgiveness but it’s very much a pure players, shallow cavity design. It’s for the guy who wants a little bit more forgiveness.
The MMC, even though it’s in an MP package, the way we have positioned the Tungsten in the toe and the Titanuim behind the face – which is forged into the head – we can make this play surprisingly forgiving for its size.
If a 12-15 handicapper loves the way MP looks but is a little bit intimidated in terms of playablity. Why not have MMC 7-PW and then move into the MMC Fli Hi? These are very easy to launch with their hollow body construction.
How much of a consideration was it that players might like to blend these models together?
It was an extremely thoughtful process. The muscleback and the split cavity are a natural combo – same lofts, headsizes and offsets very similar.
The MMC and the MMC Fli Hi are actually two degrees stronger it’s a 28˚ 6-iron compared to a 30˚ 6-iron in the other two. There’s a bit more launch from the multi-material design.
So the MMC and the MMC Fli Hi naturally blend together. But the clever bit we did was tuned the offset of the MMC so that if you tweak the lofts to match the muscleback and the SC, the offsets will flow perfectly.
Our custom-fitting team know how to pull these combinations together.
If you want the split cavity 5-PW and then a 3 and 4 in the MMC we can make everything blend together. It should be a really smooth transition.
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2019-04-23T23:59:15Z
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https://www.nationalclubgolfer.com/news/mizuno-mp-18-tech/
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HealthTO is excited to learn more about your organization. We look forward to working together with you. Please fill out the below and provide as much information as possible, and the team will get back to you shortly.
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2019-04-19T05:41:16Z
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a-league
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The World Cup final might not involve Australia, but one man on its shores is sure to be watching to see if his native Netherlands can do what no other Dutch side has done and win it.
The World Cup final might not involve Australia, one man on its shores is sure to be watching to see if his native Netherlands can do what no other Dutch side has done and win it.
Gold Coast United's Dutch defender Bas van den Brink is hoping his World Cup tipping proves to be misguided after naming Spain as his favourites to take out the title prior to the tournament-s kick-off in June.
Spain are of course Holland-s opponents in the final with many pundits and fans believing their talented squad has what it takes to claim their first ever World Cup final victory - except van den Brink.
"When we did our tips at the start of the tournament I said Spain would be world champions and now I really hope I-m wrong about that," the defender joked.
"It-s the first time Holland have been in the World Cup Final since 1978 so for us Dutch it-s a great moment and we-re all very excited to have something to celebrate."
"The feeling of watching Holland in the World Cup Final from Australia is a little strange to be honest. I-ll be watching the game at home with my wife and my in-laws who are here at the moment, but we-ll be getting lots of text and picture messages from friends and family back home."
"I-m sure they will all be going completely bananas and enjoying what is going to be a great game. No matter what happens or what the result is we will all be proud of what they have achieved."
Although he may be watching the match from distant shores, van den Brink is one Dutchman who will feel a little closer to the action having played with or against a number of the current national team during his football career.
"I-ve played against Robin van Persie and with Rafael van der Vaart and I know a few more of the guys in the team as well as some of the support staff," he said.
"I-ve had a few text messages go back and forth with them during the tournament just to keep in touch with how things have been going."
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2019-04-23T20:02:01Z
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https://www.a-league.com.au/news/uniteds-dutch-cup-link
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equiport
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The Kentucky Wellington Leather Fly Veil has a stylish, professional, American-style look with a squared-off front, trimmed with artificial leather for an elegant finish.
The stretch, slim fit ear fabric offers a close and comfortable fit to protect your horse's ears from distracting flies.
The fly veil is handknitted for durability, and can be machine washed at 30 degrees (do not tumble dry).
The extended section at the poll area prevents slipping, so the fly veil sits comfortably underneath your horse's bridle.
The Kentucky Wellington Leather Fly Veil is available in Navy, Black or Brown, in Full size only.
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2019-04-25T15:50:38Z
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https://www.equiport.co.uk/products/leisure-wear/valentines-gifts--view-all/wellington-leather-fly-veil-k82/
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fai
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Ipswich Town striker Aaron Drinan, Sligo Rovers midfielder Jack Keaney and Finn Harps defender Sam Todd have reported for the Republic of Ireland U21 training camp.
Striker Ronan Hale is set to play for Northern Irish side Crusaders in the County Antrim Cup on Tuesday which means he is unavailable for the three-day training camp.
Former Cork City and Waterford striker Aaron Drinan has been given permission to link up with the squad by Championship club Ipswich Town.
Sligo Rovers' Jack Keaney has also linked up with the squad replacing Waterford midfielder JJ Lunney in the squad who picked up an injury in the pre-season match against Bray Wanderers, whilst Mahon has been replaced by Harps defender Todd.
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2019-04-20T14:59:42Z
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https://www.fai.ie/ireland/news/ireland-u21-trio-drafted-into-three-day-training-camp
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carleton
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Awarded annually upon the recommendation of the Director of the Carleton University Art Gallery with the advice of the Practicum Co-ordinator, Art History, School for Studies in Art and Culture to a graduate or undergraduate student registered for the practicum credit and undertaking a curatorial project. Recipients will demonstrate financial need, must be Canadian Citizens or permanent residents of Canada (landed immigrant or a protected person), and must meet OSAP’s Ontario Residency requirements. Donor: Kenneth and Margaret Torrance and other friends of the Carleton University Art Gallery. Endowed 1999.
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2019-04-21T03:09:35Z
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https://futurefunder.carleton.ca/giving-fund/carleton-university-fine-arts-award-giving/
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Arts
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gswcanes
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0:00 Ryan Hanson at goalie for UNC Pembroke.
05:43 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen [05:43].
07:27 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Jeff MacDonald [07:27].
08:04 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen [08:04].
12:22 Shot by UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen, Save (by goalie) Joe Cullip.
13:03 Offside against Georgia Southwestern.
16:23 Shot by UNC Pembroke Kevin Vigebo, Wide Left.
16:54 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen [16:54].
17:46 Offside against Georgia Southwestern.
19:12 Shot by UNC Pembroke Sam Miles, Hit Crossbar.
19:55 Shot by UNC Pembroke Adam Smith, Wide Left.
23:07 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Isaac Avila for Zack Pirtle.
23:59 Shot by UNC Pembroke Adam Smith, Wide Left.
27:11 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Matt MacDougall for Reece Rooney.
30:39 Yellow card on Georgia Southwestern Marcus Diaz.
30:39 Goal!UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen PENALTY KICK GOAL, goal number 2 for season.
33:21 Shot by Georgia Southwestern Chad Hoffman, Wide Right.
33:30 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Brennan Bauschka for Chad Hoffman.
34:46 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Hayden Little for Sam Miles.
38:05 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Ricardo Chavez for Kevin Vigebo.
38:05 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Faustin Pierre for Payne Clark.
42:41 Shot by UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen, Team Save.
45:00 For UNC Pembroke: #2 Payne Clark, #3 James Casserly, #6 Rico Laitinen, #8 Reece Rooney, #9 Adam Smith, #14 Sam Miles, #18 Daniel Bougt, #20 Kevin Vigebo, #21 Jeff MacDonald, #25 Sid Peterson, #35 Ryan Hanson.
45:00 For Georgia Southwestern: #1 Joe Cullip, #6 Brennan Bauschka, #7 Charlie Curran, #8 Isaac Avila, #9 Ron Calle, #10 Cesar Espinosa, #11 Marcus Diaz, #14 Avery Alderman, #20 Caleb Graves, #22 Jon McVaney, #28 Pablo Lajeunesse.
49:35 Shot by UNC Pembroke Kevin Vigebo, Wide Left.
51:50 Shot by UNC Pembroke Adam Smith, Save (by goalie) Joe Cullip.
54:08 Shot by UNC Pembroke Kevin Vigebo, Wide Left.
55:45 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Jeff MacDonald [55:45].
57:01 Shot by UNC Pembroke Sam Miles, High.
57:48 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen [57:48].
58:19 Offside against Georgia Southwestern.
58:33 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Faustin Pierre for Payne Clark.
60:06 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Jeff MacDonald [60:06].
60:10 Shot by UNC Pembroke Adam Smith, Save (by goalie) Joe Cullip.
61:29 Shot by UNC Pembroke Sam Miles, Blocked.
62:48 Shot by UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen, Save (by goalie) Joe Cullip.
64:03 Yellow card on UNC Pembroke Rico Laitinen.
64:48 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Jose Samayoa for Pablo Lajeunesse.
64:48 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Jon-Luke Cannada for Caleb Graves.
66:07 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Ricardo Chavez for Rico Laitinen.
66:07 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Chad Hoffman for Cesar Espinosa.
69:19 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Ryan Tucker for Joe Cullip.
69:19 Ryan Tucker at goalie for Georgia Southwestern.
74:16 Shot by UNC Pembroke Kevin Vigebo, Save (by goalie) Ryan Tucker.
76:14 Shot by Georgia Southwestern Chad Hoffman, Save (by goalie) Ryan Hanson.
78:22 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Clayton Gannaway for Jeff MacDonald.
78:22 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Ryan Nadeau for Adam Smith.
78:22 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Nico Posada for Kevin Vigebo.
78:22 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Caleb Graves for Charlie Curran.
79:25 Shot by Georgia Southwestern Ron Calle, High.
80:27 Shot by UNC Pembroke Sam Miles, Blocked.
80:59 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Reece Rooney [80:59].
81:22 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Matt MacDougall for Daniel Bougt.
82:34 Offside against Georgia Southwestern.
83:04 Shot by Georgia Southwestern Isaac Avila, Blocked.
83:23 Offside against Georgia Southwestern.
84:31 Substitution!UNC Pembroke substitution: Hayden Little for Reece Rooney.
86:52 Shot by UNC Pembroke Matt MacDougall, High.
86:58 Substitution!Georgia Southwestern substitution: Lucas Knecht for Avery Alderman.
88:52 Shot by UNC Pembroke Nico Posada, Save (by goalie) Ryan Tucker.
89:20 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke Adam Smith [89:20].
89:41 Corner kick by UNC Pembroke James Casserly [89:41].
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A wonderful seafood restaurant in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district. Service is warm & knowledgeable without being pretentious. Food is well-balanced, clean & engaging. And please, please have the sea-buckthorn dessert if it’s on the menu. Not the cheapest place for sure, but worth the price based on my single visit.
Where do you eat the night before you’re having lunch at the best restaurant in the world? That was the question.
After asking some trusted sources, the answer (or answers) seemed to be pretty straightforward. I should either go to Ralæ, a recently-opened venture by an ex-noma chef quite definitely trying not to copy noma’s formula; Geranium, although some felt it didn’t yet live up to the hype surrounding it (and this was even before their chef won this year’s Bocuse d’Or); The Paul, which was meant to be fun; or Søllerød Kro, a classic restaurant that was a little bit out of town and a lot expensive. Unfortunately, the first and third were shut, and the second and fourth were a bit too formal and expensive, plus one was out of town.
Instead, I was directed to a rather new restaurant in Copenhagen’s ‘meatpacking’ (‘kødbyens’) neighborhood, which has also received its fair share of positive press since opening in June 2009. Enter Kødbyens Fiskebar, the casual yet stylized seafood-centric restaurant whose kitchen is also – lo and behold – run by (yet) an(other) ex-noma chef.
Does this look like the façade of one of Copenhagen’s best restaurants?
It was within a 15-minute walk of my hotel, though it seemed a bit longer than this due to the well below-freezing mid-January temperature. If you don’t look closely, you might miss the restaurant completely, as the façade looks like some low-rise concrete monstrosity with a large blue sign that says something other than the restaurant’s name. Thank goodness for Google streetview and the free WiFi offered at my hotel.
When I walked in, the bar stood immediately before me, and there were a number of staff members ready and waiting to greet me. Unfortunately, I had a slightly embarrassing thing to say. I told them that I had a reservation…for one. They asked me for my name, which I gave, and they all suddenly proclaimed in unison, “Oh, you’re [INSERT REAL NAME HERE]!!!” I almost burst out laughing as they were all smiling and it was a possibly a bit ridiculous to have booked…but hey, you never know with popular restaurants, right? The guy who appeared to be the main waiter asked if I had heard about them in Canada (where they apparently thought I was from for some unknown reason) and I explained to him that a friend from the US had been recently and really enjoyed it, etc.
As the name indicates, the order of the day is mostly piscatorial, and one if the main design features of the place is a ginormous fish tank around which you can sit on stools if you so wish.
I had a great view of the fish tank and the main bar, and proceeded to plunge myself into studying the menu. The same waiter noticed my studious concentration and came by to explain each dish to me in full (in English), which was much appreciated.
I had a look through the wine list and immediately noticed that there was a Danish white wine on the list. Yes, a Danish wine. I asked if it was any good, and the waiter rambled off some long story (okay, it wasn’t that long), which I now cannot recall, and won me over to trying it.
Good thing too. The wine was wonderfully refreshing, and was composed of Sauvignon Blanc as well as another (I want to say local) grape. Perhaps wishfully thinking, my tasting notes reveal that it had “a slight saline taste, perhaps from the sea” – though I doubt some people would agree with that rationale for the slightly salty taste. Anyway, I really enjoyed it.
Soon thereafter a pretty large loaf of sourdough bread was lopped down before me, along with an upside down cone of organic Danish butter with buttermilk. As with most of the bread I sampled in Copenhagen on this trip, it was excellent…as was the butter, once it had a chance to get warm and soften up a little bit. 8/10.
On my friend’s recommendation, I decided to stick mostly with the small plates, which turned out to be a good plan, especially as I was now definitely dining solo given Mathilde and David’s flight was delayed.
First to arrive was a plate of three Danish oysters. Readers of the blog will know that I am not the world’s greatest expert on bivalve molluscs, but expert or not, these were friggin’ huge. To my untrained tongue, they were truly excellent: meaty and only slightly tasting of the sea, served with a great punchy vinaigrette. I would have had three more if my next plates didn’t arrive just as I was finishing, to use the parlance of our times. The aforementioned Danish wine was excellent with the oysters too, by the way. 9/10.
The next two plates arrived simultaneously, and I opted to tackle the razor clams first. Although a simple and visually appealing dish, I wasn’t quite certain of the best way to go about eating it. I managed, though, and thought the clams themselves were very good. The herb cream – which seemed to contain tarragon and garlic – was an interesting flavour to pair with these slivery discs, but I felt that it dominated the clams and wasn’t wholly balanced, even though there were only small dabs of the cream. The standout component of this plate for me was the salad, which had the most amazing dressing that was sweet but acidic and spicy too. Overall this dish was good but not my favourite of the evening. 6/10.
Last of my small plates was a beautifully presented little bowl of bleak row that was matched with fairly traditional Scandinavian accompaniments of onions and sour cream – with a few pea shoots and chives thrown in for good measure. I decided to taste these together on their own before spreading it on the crisp breads, which had been provided in a cute little metal bucket on the side. The roe itself was excellent, and the other ingredients worked harmoniously with its saltiness, providing sharpness, herbaceousness and creaminess.
I enjoyed the three thin ‘breads’ both on their own and with a bit of the roe. There was a razor-thin slice of fried ciabatta, as well as a delightfully light potato crisp which was well salted (this was my favourite – basically a posh potato chip) and a normal Danish flatbread with tons of different seeds stuck to the top. 7/10 for the dish as a whole.
As a side-note, I had ordered a second glass of wine (2009 Picpoul de Pinet, Croix Gratiot, Coteaux de Languedoc), which I really didn’t like very much and didn’t seem to go too well with the clams despite the suggestion from one of the waitresses.
For my one medium-sized plate, I went for the cod roe. And I was glad I did, because it was a total triumph. The roe itself had been smoked and seared perfectly. Served alongside the golden phallice were pickled vegetables of all sorts – carrots, celery, kohlrabi, plus many others that didn’t start with ‘c’ or ‘k’ – and all tied together with a rich but deftly portioned brown butter sauce. There were also a few dabs of buttery mashed potatoes and some fresh cress to finish it off. The dish as a whole had a great variety of textures and was an amazing combination of sweet, salty and smoky. It was one of the best things I ate in Copenhagen during my short stay. 9/10.
I was head-over-heels in love with my orange and yellow dessert too. It consisted of frozen and shaved sea-buckthorn (or ‘havtorn’ in Danish), lemon cream, tonka bean and white chocolate, as well as little gel capsules of sea-buckthorn and a few green leaves placed delicately beside each disc of jelly. The icy texture of the grainté melted into the truly luscious cream and the chewy gel reiterated the somewhat bracing acidity that accompanies the bittersweet berry. The heat, which I believe emanated from the tonka, was also a nice surprise. This was one of my favorite desserts in a long time and, even though it was a very generous portion, I really could have had another bowl. 10/10.
The sweet Riesling I ordered went very well with the desert, and actually mirrored it perfectly – luscious sweetness kept in check by a steely acidity.
The thing I liked overall about this restaurant was that the formula seemed to have been thoughtfully calibrated to make the diner’s experience just right. It has an unassuming façade; a rustic yet stylish interior design; a menu that is simple, focused and straightforward; helpful and friendly service; and well executed, clean, exciting food.
I immediately felt at home, and was welcomed warmly. While there was one brief lapse in service – when I sat with an empty wine glass for more than a little while – it was soon rectified by another waitress who spotted the situation. Everyone I interacted with was knowledgeable and eager (but not too eager) to explain something as and when I showed interest. While they do take their enterprise seriously, they do not take themselves too seriously. They know what they’re doing and they’re good at it – nothing more, nothing less.
I wish more restaurants could be like this. Too often, very good food is accompanied by an annoyingly cutesy, smug and/or a condescending attitude (did you read my review of ko?). And all too often, so is not very good food. I think the Danes have a good model going: they know what they do well, are proud to offer it to you and let you enjoy it…and they know how to do this without showing off. That’s what I experienced on my trip at least.
Suffice to say, if you are in Copenhagen, whether you have the good fortune of going to noma or not, please try out Fiskebar – it was a gem of a find for me, and I hope it will stay that way for you.
Wine: I only looked at the by-the-glass list, which had a red and white house wine at 50 kroner per glass, plus 4 whites, 3 reds, and 2 sweet wines priced between 70 – 120 kroner per glass. The producers were well-chosen but the prices did seem expensive…maybe this is just the Copenhagen factor, though.
Le Bernardin is all about refined elegance. The service is discreet and professional; the food is original, inventive and lifts some of the seafood on offer to its highest state; and the dining room is an oasis of calm. It does not scream loudly, but is quietly confident. Highly worth a visit.
When I knew I would be heading to New York for nearly a week, and that I would only have one or two nights to spend in Manhattan itself, my mind began to race: where could we have one really nice dinner in the Big Apple? I don’t get there nearly as often as I used to, so it had to be a well considered choice, with no margin for error. My thoughts drifted from obvious choices like Thomas Keller’s Per Se, to which I still have not yet been, to other places I hadn’t been to for a little while, such as Aquavit (a perennial favorite), Mario Batali’s Del Posto (where we had an excellent family event last year), Jean Georges (which we went to last time we were in the city and loved) and Daniel (always great). Then, there were so many new openings which sounded interesting, that I was getting a bit lost…until I remembered the remarkable serenity of Le Bernardin, the seemingly forever 3 Michelin-starred restaurant where I had partaken in an excellent lunch in my younger years (the memory is hazy but I remember I loved it), and to which I had always wanted to return for dinner.
Eric Ripert, the head chef at Le Bernardin, is a renowned culinary artist with seafood, and is a familiar face to food television viewers in the US after having been a feature on programs such as Top Chef, where an episode recently featured him and Le Bernardin. He is also a good friend of Anthony Bourdain, another Food TV personality and proprietor of a good restaurant in his own right (the steak frites at his Les Halles in NYC are still ‘bloody’ great).
The food blogosphere is chock full of extremely positive reviews of this NYC culinary landmark, and I was certainly getting excited to go back. However, I did take note that Chef Ripert says that the fish is the main ‘star’ of his menu, and the accompanying flavors are simply meant to complement and to highlight the fish. Thus, my expectations were not that I was going to experience something that would take the various tastes of fish to ‘another dimension’, but that each piece of fish would be given the best chance it had to dazzle…but more on that later.
Le Bernardin is thoroughly French, with Maguy Le Coze (the owner) opening the restaurant in New York in 1982 to critical acclaim. Before the American iteration of Le Bernardin, she and her brother Gilbert had opened a restaurant of the same name in Paris in 1972. They originally hail from a small fishing village in Brittany, and are from a thoroughly ‘fishy’ family, with her grandfather being a fisherman and her parents owning a small restaurant-come-hotel in the village. As my marriage is also a French affair of sorts, I figured the whole thing fit and would be a good idea. So I made the reservation for deux. Done.
I should have known better. Dinners in my family are rarely straight-forward. I learned a few days later that my father would now be in New York during the weekend of the booking. And this meant a rapid change of plans as my Aunt would now surely come into the city that weekend (which was great) plus, since we would all be together, my brother and his girlfriend should definitely come too. I thought we might encounter a problem changing things around with such short notice on a Saturday night, but luckily it was fine, and they upgraded our table from two to six. Phew.
We all arrived at the restaurant slightly early, except for my brother, who made a late appearance and rushed straight for the men’s room to dry himself off – no, it wasn’t raining, but it was one of those unbearably hot and muggy days in NYC, and he was sweating like crazy after running around all day on the streets and in the subway. We waited for him in the pleasant air conditioned bar area (hehe), where we had been given some great homemade parmesan breadsticks to munch on, and eventually we made our way to the table.
It was a good sized circular table near the window (a bit too close to the entry way for my liking, but I was very glad just to have it). We settled ourselves into the comfortable chairs and soaked up the calmness inspired by mellow colors and the attractive teak wood panelling that abounds throughout the interior. But we weren’t there to sit, we were there to eat.
I must admit I had a bit of trepidation about the food – not because I thought it would be bad, but because Le Bernardin is renowned for its seafood, and that’s not always to everyone’s taste. Plus we were a table of six very finicky eaters. For instance, my Aunt has been known to send back many a piece of fish in her day for not having it cooked the specific way she asked for it…but that is another story.
Once we were given what has to be one of the most extraordinary menus I’ve seen before, I knew we had nothing to worry about, even if the dishes only tasted half as good as they sounded. The menu is a barrage to your senses and imagination. It is arranged in a rectangular, landscape-layout fashion and is broken up into four sections, which you read horizontally across the long part of the page. There is ‘Almost Raw’, ‘Barely Touched’, ‘Lightly Cooked’ and ‘Upon Request’. As far as I can remember, all of the dishes from the first three categories have fish as their main, or one of the main, components. The latter is mostly non-fish main course options, such as kobe beef, duck and squab. The flavor combinations, the variety of fish available, and the diversity of preparations (and of the ingredients themselves) was really staggering, and there wasn’t one thing on the menu that any of us did not like the sound of.
This, of course, can lead to a bit of a quandary, because there are also two tasting menus available, which capture some of the chef’s signature dishes. After literally a half an hour or more of reading through the menu, we finally decided that we would go for the ‘normal’ four course menu (two starters, one main, one dessert). My brother and I used sign language across the table to let each other know that we would be ordering a supplementary course, because there were a few too many dishes which looked like ‘must-haves’. Once everyone had chosen, my father chose a beautiful bottle of white wine (see below), and we were off and running.
The food began arriving, and it looked amazing. Each dish was very individually and beautifully presented. As there were six of us, it would be too difficult to review more than one or two of the individual meals in detail, so I have put a photo for each dish that we remembered to capture with the camera, along with a brief description and rating (where either I or Mrs. LF tasted the dish). You can click on any of the photos to see more detail.
We were all brought a little cup of what looked like a broth of some kind. The waiter explained that it was a lobster and avocado ‘soup’, and we were eager to try it. It turned out to be much thicker than we had expected – amuse bouches are often lighter broths that you can sip in one go – but the flavors were fresh, distinct and went well together. The top half was warm and contained the lobster, while the bottom half was cool and had little chunks of avocado. It was an interesting and good start to the meal.
As I put the first bite into my mouth, I think I paused and audibly oohed & awed about the wonderful flavors. The fluke was really my kind of food. It was some of the freshest tasting fish I’ve ever had, and the citrus and soy nage sauce was the perfect compliment. I loved this dish – it was so fresh and light and had a great little chili kick from the red jalapeños. I think I could have drunk a glass of that sauce. A full 10/10 from me; I would definitely have it if and when I go back.
My brother had ordered another ‘almost raw’ dish which was also excellent. I only had a bite of it, but the hamachi was probably the best example of this fish I’ve had (competing for this prize would be a special starter I had at Max London’s a few years ago, where the hamachi had been overnighted from Hawaii and served with citrus flavors over some flatbread). The Vietnamese flavoring was fragrant, gentle and had a good sharpness as well. It was a very accomplished dish. 8/10.
My second starter was this amazing-sounding scallop dish. Well, it didn’t disappoint either. The scallops were ‘scorched’ perfectly and they were bursting with that sweet scallop flavor. This was in turn balanced by the rich butter sauce (as it was derived from goat’s milk, it wasn’t too heavy), which had a good kick of garlic and fresh chive flavor. Everyone that got a taste loved it. 9/10.
A few people around the table had ordered the sea urchin dish. I have only recently begun to try urchin, and it is not yet a flavor I particularly like. I do understand the attraction, but my palate just isn’t there yet. My brother, however, loves the stuff, and was excited about this dish. He commented that the risotto was cooked perfectly al dente and, as you can see, it was really creamy. He said that the urchin flavor didn’t come through enough for him though, and he would have liked to taste it more. I did taste the dish and thought it was very good, but not outstanding, and agreed with his assessment. 7/10.
My Aunt had the calamari and I only got a tiny bite of the big fleshy part, so will refrain from giving it a score. I did think that the squid itself was rather too chewy, which I was really surprised to find in this restaurant, where everything else had been cooked so perfectly thus far.
This was the dish a lot of us had been most excited by – I mean, just read the description. It was a bit disappointing, though, if I’m honest. While the langoustine was perfectly fresh and sweet, the other ingredients sort of faded into the background and didn’t add too much. The little mushrooms were excellent in their own right, but they were tiny and didn’t really come through if you took a bite with everything together. Same with the few little flakes of foie gras. I personally think it needed a little more of a sauce with it to lift it beyond a fresh piece of langoustine. 6.5/10.
My main course of black cod was an accomplished dish. The skin was just the right crispness and the flesh was moist yet firm. The sauce lent a bit of saltiness and spiciness through the ham and peppercorns respectively, and celery was a good accompaniment. I think I had misread the menu, because I was expecting to see the Iberico ham, but it was only infused in the sauce. This dish didn’t completely bowl me over, but it was very enjoyable. 8/10.
The other hotly anticipated dish was the ‘surf and turf’. If you are familiar with American menus, you will know that this usually means a huge hunk of beef served with a lobster or a bunch of shrimp. So this was a clever and refined take on the concept. And boy did it work. This was, in my mind, hands-down the best main course. Each of the three parts was perfect. The kobe beef was as tender and flavorful as you’d expect and had a very nice little jus with a few strands of what I believe were samphire. The escolar was by far the best example of this fish I’ve ever tasted. And the little deep fried eggplants (that’s aubergines for British readers) were truly delectable – I could have eaten about two dozen easily. Back on track then: 10/10.
Mrs. LF had this as her main course, and said it was superb – I did get a little taste, and wholeheartedly agreed. She said that “the tabbouleh had a hint of fleur d’oranger and that the dish had a very Middle Eastern and subtle edge to it. The king of this dish was the fish, and it was cooked amazingly well. It had a texture that was unbelievable – very meaty yet soft and delicate, like a springy sponge, almost fluffy. The black garlic and lemon sauce was just as good and simple as it sounded, and was the perfect dressing for the monkfish; it woke up the fish and gave it that kick that it needed. The little bits of black garlic were delicious in the sauce, too. It was a very simple dish that provided an explosion of flavor, and it was also a generous portion. No nonsense, superb.” 10/10.
Mrs. LF said of her sweet course: “This was a very light and well executed dessert. The apricot cream was surrounded by white chocolate and those are two flavors that go well together. The little poached apricot had a jammy texture, and was placed on top of a biscuit which added some weight to the dish. The ice cream tasted of yogurt, apricot and almonds, and was also delicate and delicious. It had the advantage of being light and refreshing, yet you didn’t feel that you had been depraved of a ‘real’ dessert, as it was substantial enough.” 8/10.
I wish it would have been twice as big. Chocolate and peanuts – where can you go wrong? It did everything I had hoped for, the perfect trifecta of deep, rich dark chocolate, peanuts and caramel. The sorbet was a nice pairing as it provided a little bit of sharpness, and I even liked the pralines (believe it or not, I have not historically been a fan of chocolate/hazelnut combos, although my palate seems to be evolving as of late and I am slowly joining the rest of the civilized world). 9/10.
Another excellent chocolate dessert, and pretty original too. I loved the combination of the delicate orange meringue and the smooth chocolate cream. The chicory ice cream really stood out as the star in this dessert, with its slight coffee bitterness perfectly melding with the chocolate cream. 9/10.
Lastly, we were brought some petit fours to have with our coffees and teas. They were also very good, and beautifully presented as with everything else during the meal.
The wine list was extensive and exquisite. We had three wines over the course of the evening, the first of which was a lovely Grüner Veltliner, and the second and third of which were high quality Bordeauxs. The second one (St. Julien) was a bit too powerful for the seafood dishes in front of us if you ask me, but I wasn’t paying on this occasion – my ‘poor’ father was – and I wasn’t going to turn down the chance to taste some of these wines, which I would normally not be able to choose if I were on my own budget!
This Grüner went down a treat with the first courses – it was one of the best I’ve had, extremely complex and continually revealing more. It was very lively on the nose, with lots of citrus (grapefruit) which balanced the wine’s honey and peach flavors. It was also quite spicy and had a really zingy mineral streak. It was a little warm on the finish, and left me wanting more.
This Bordeaux was still quite closed to me. It had a beautiful dense purple color to it and smelled of blackcurrants and a medley of herbs. It was powerful yet with some finesse, and it did become more and more drinkable as it oxygenated. Still, I felt it overpowered the fish dishes.
This superb Bordeaux had a very discreet nose, and didn’t reveal a lot of itself until it had sat in the glass for a while either. It was definitely an elegant and smooth wine. It had slightly smoky or roasted taste to it, with a good dose of ripe fruit and good grippy tannins. Again, maybe not the best choice for the food, but I actually thought this worked rather well with a few of the dishes.
All in all, Le Bernardin met my expectations. It wasn’t a perfect meal, as some of the dishes didn’t live up to their descriptions for me (i.e. rather plain langoustine and tough calamari). But then again we did order a lot of dishes, and for the most part they were excellent, with a few standing out as the best examples of the fish I’d ever had. And that is saying something. The desserts were all fantastic, something I hadn’t been expecting after reading numerous accounts of people being underwhelmed by them.
The menu by itself is unbelievable and really makes you salivate, but is it too much to take in if you’re not having the tasting menu? With so many amazing things on offer, you feel as if you might be ‘cheated’ if you can’t order the 5-7 that you really like the sound of. I guess this is a good problem to have, though.
The service throughout was discreet, professional and attentive, exactly what you’d expect from the atmosphere the dining room exudes. They weren’t overly interactive, but were knowledgeable and friendly when you needed them. The sommelier was Austrian and offered a good deal of insight from what I could gather across the table (he was shocked and delighted when we choose the Grüner as he said most customers from the States don’t even know about it), while letting the customer (my father) arrive at his own decisions. Our main waiter was very classy and the whole thing seemed rather effortless for them, which is not easy with a fairly large table.
Le Bernardin is highly worth a visit if you are in New York and want an intimate dinner for two or are celebrating an occasion of some kind. I doubt you’ll be disappointed, and you just may have a dish or two that you won’t be able to forget.
A final note: as we were getting ready to depart, they handed us each a special blue and gold edition of the Zagat New York guide, which has Le Bernardin’s rating and review on the cover. I thought this was a nice little touch.
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Are you who you say you are? : The EU and biometric borders / Lodge, Juliet (ed.), viii, 151 p.. - Nijmegen : Wolf Legal Publishers, 2007.
ABSTRACT: 1. CHALLENGING LIBERTY, by Angela Liberatore. 2. MOBILITY CONTROLS AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES, by Didier Bigo. 3. ARE YOU WHO YOU SAY YOU ARE?, by Juliet Lodge. 4. UNREADABLE PAPERS?, by Elspeth Guild. 5. THE USE OF BIOMETRICS IN EU DATABASES AND IDENTITY DOCUMENTS, by Evelien Brouwer. 6. FRONTEX AND THE EU’S INTEGRATED BORDER MANAGEMENT STRATEGY, by Sergio Carrera. 7. PNR AND COMPENSATION, by Gloria González Fuster and Paul De Hert. 8. THE CHALLENGES OF SECURE BORDERS AND E-SECURITY, by Juliet Lodge. 9. PROVING WHO YOU ARE: A CHALLENGE FOR PUBLIC POLICY, by Juliet Lodge.
ABSTRACT: PART I: OVERVIEW:. 1. Extraterritorial Immigration Control: What role for legal guarantees?, by Bernard Ryan. 2. Extraterritorial Immigration Control in the 21st Century: The individual and the state transformed, by Valsamis Mitsilegas. Part II: INTERNATIONAL LAW ASPECTS:. 3. The Concept of State Jurisdiction and the Applicability of the Non-refoulement Principle to Extraterritorial Interception Measures, by Anja Klug and Tim Howe. 4. The International Law of the Sea and Migration Control, by Richard Barnes. 5. The Legal Framework Concerning the Smuggling of Migrants at Sea under the UN Protocol on the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, by Tom Obokata. Part III: EUROPEAN UNION ASPECTS:. 6. Europe Beyond its Borders: Refugee and human rights protection in extraterritorial immigration control, by Maarten den Heijer. 7. Extraterritorial Migration Control and Human Rights: Preserving the responsibility of the EU and its Member States, by Evelien Brouwer. 8. Extraterritorial Border Controls in the EU: the role of Frontex in operations at sea, by Anneliese Baldaccini. 9. The Transformation of European Border Controls, by Elspeth Guild and Didier Bigo. Part IV: STATE PRACTICE:. 10. Migration Control at Sea: The Italian case, by Alessia di Pascale. 11. Extraterritorial strategies to tackle irregular immigration by sea: A Spanish perspective, by Paula García Andrade. 12. Controlling Migration by Sea: The Australian case, by Susan Kneebone. 13. US Migrant Interdiction Practices in International and Territorial Waters, by Niels Frenzen. 14. The UK and Extra-territorial Immigration Control: Entry clearance and juxtaposed control, by Gina Clayton. Selected bibliography.
The consequences of counterterrorism / Crenshaw, Martha (ed.), viii, 421 p.. - New York : Russel Sage Found., 2010.
ABSTRACT: Chapter 1: Introduction, by Martha Crenshaw. PART I: Governance, Civil Liberties, and Securitization:. Chapter 2. Counterterrorism Regimes and the Rule of Law: The Effects of Emergency Legislation on Separation of Powers, Civil Liberties, and Other Fundamental Constitutional Norms, by John E. Finn. Chapter 3: The Uses and Abuses of Terrorist Designation Lists, by Chantal de Jonge Oudraat and Jean-Luc Marret. Chapter 4: Immigration Policy as Counterterrorism: The Effects of Security on Migration and Border Control in the European Union, by Gallya Lahav. PART II: National Counterterrorism Responses:. Chapter 5: The Social Contract and the Three Types of Terrorism: Democratic Society in the United Kingdom After 9/11 and 7/7, by Dirk Haubrich. Chapter 6 : Confronting Terrorism in Northern Ireland and the Basque Country: Challenges for Democracy and Legitimacy, by Rogelio Alonso. Chapter 7: French Responses to Terrorism from the Algerian War to the Present, by Jeremy Shapiro. Chapter 8: Germany’s Response to 9/11: The Importance of Checks and Balances, by Giovanni Capoccia. Chapter 9: The Consequences of Counterterrorist Policies in Israel, by Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger. Chapter 10: Terrorism as Conventional Security for Democracies: America, Japan, and Military Action in the Asia-Pacific, by David Leheny.
A right to inclusion and exclusion? : normative fault lines of the EU's area of freedom, security and justice / Lindahl, Hans (ed.) - (Essays in European law), xi, 285 p.. - Oxford : Hart publ., 2009.
ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. Introduction: A Circularity and its Ramifications. I. Institutional Context:. 1. Political Discourses about Borders: On the Emergence of a European Political Community, by RICARD ZAPATA-BARRERO. 2. The Borders Paradox: The Surveillance of Movement in a Union without Internal Frontiers, by VALSAMIS MITSILEGAS. 3. Effective Rights for Third-Country Nationals?, by HELEN OOSTEROM-STAPLES. II. Theoretical Issues:. 4. Phenomenology of Space: Being Here and Elsewhere, by BERNHARD WALDENFELS. 5. Finding Normativity: Immigration Policy and Normative Formation, by PETER FITZPATRICK. 6. Breaking Promises to Keep Them: Immigration and the Boundaries of Distributive Justice, by HANS LINDAHL. 7. Migrants, Humans and Human Rights: The Right to Move as the Right to Stay, by BERT VAN ROERMUND. III. Politico-Legal Alternatives:. 8. The Area of Freedom, Security and Justice and the Political Morality of Migration and Integration, by DORA KOSTAKOPOULOU. 9. Proximity and Paradox: Law and Politics in the New Europe, by BONNIE HONIG. 10. Citizenship and Electoral Rights in the Multi-Level ‘Euro-Polity’: The Case of The United Kingdom, by JO SHAW. 11. Denizenship and Deterritorialisation in the European Union, by NEIL WALKER. Index.
Global surveillance and policing : borders, security, identity / Zureik, Elia (ed.) ; Salter, Mark B., xii, 259 p.. - New York : Routledge, 2011.
ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. 1. Global surveillance and policing: borders, security, identity - Introduction by Elia Zureik and Mark B. Salter. 2. Some conceptual issues in the study of borders and surveillance by Gary T. Marx. 3. At the threshold of security: a theory of international borders by Mark B. Salter. 4. Borders, migration and economic integration: towards a new political economy of borders by Hélène Pellerin. 5. The border is everywhere: ID cards, surveillance and the other by David Lyon. 6. Borders, bodies and biometrics: towards identity management by Benjamin J. Muller. 7. Expanding surveillance: connecting biometric information systems to international police cooperation, by Nancy Lewis. 8. What happens when you book an airline ticket? The collection and processing of passenger data post-9/11, by Colin J. Bennett. 9. Potential threats and potential criminals: data collection in the national security entry-exit registration system, by Jonathan Finn. 10. Imperial embrace? Identification and constraints on mobility in a hegemonic empire, by John Torpey. 11. Fencing the line: analysis of the recent rise in security measures along disputed and undisputed boundaries, by John W. Donaldson. 12. 'Getting ahead of the game': border technologies and the changing space of governance, by Katja Franko Aas. 13. Immigration controls and citizenship in the political rhetoric of New Labour, by Don Glynn. 14. Freedom of movement inside 'fortress Europe', by Willem Maas.
The machine - readable body : essays on biometrics and the informatization of the body / Ploeg, Irma van den, 145 p.. - Maastricht : shaker publ., 2005.
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The 12th Emmy Awards, later referred to as the 12th Primetime Emmy Awards, were held on June 20, 1960, to honor the best in television of the year. The ceremony was held at the NBC Studios, in Burbank, California. It was hosted by Fred Astaire. All nominations are listed, with winners in bold and series' networks are in parentheses.
The ceremony's format was a sharp contrast to the previous year's. Several Acting categories were either combined or simply removed, and nearly every category had only three nominees, as opposed to the traditional five or six. Due to the relatively small crop of categories, no show received more than two major awards. The NBC anthology Startime received the most major nominations with five.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Primetime_Emmy_Awards
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On Nov. 16, 1873, W. C. Handy, the American composer known as the "father of the blues", was born. Following his death on March 28, 1958, his obituary appeared in The Times.
On Nov. 16, 1864, Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to the Sea" during the Civil War.
The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.
House Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Texas, died at age 79.
Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his second trial on charges of murdering his pregnant wife, Marilyn, in 1954.
Skylab 4, with three astronauts on board, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on an 84-day mission.
President Richard M. Nixon signed the Alaska Pipeline measure into law.
Estonia's parliament declared the Baltic republic sovereign.
Attorney General Janet Reno disclosed that she had Parkinson's disease.
Congress passed a law mandating that airport screeners be federal employees.
President George W. Bush picked National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to be secretary of state, succeeding Colin Powell.
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel was convicted on 11 of 13 charges related to financial misconduct, prompting fellow lawmakers to censure the 80-year-old New York Democrat.
The engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton was announced in London.
President Barack Obama presented the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta, the first living service member from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to receive the nation's top military award.
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https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/on-this-day/november-16/
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1990 - Mary received Blackhawk College Quad-cities Higher Education Award. 1991- Member Latinos in Achieving Higher Education. 1992- Interpreter/Translater for Department of Transportation. 1993-1995 Served on Iowa Latino Education Advisory Committee, forum of Universities and community colleges in Iowa. 1995- Board of Directors, Visiting Nurse Association/Homemaker Association since 1980. 1995- Presently employed as Special Education Aide, Jefferson School, since 1988. Started to work for Davenport School District since 1986. Worked as Bilingual Educational Aide, 1980 to 1985, for Rock Island Milan School District,. Widow of Felipe ( Bravo) Terronez since 1975. Grandmother of 10 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. 1995- Serve on American Institute of Commerce (AIC), two-year accredited institution, Scholarship Selection Committee, since 1992.
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http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/transcribe/4135/117997
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Easter Lily (Lilium longiflorum), in an cultural opposition of expressions, symbolizes both purity & sexuality. Native to the Ryukyu Islands of southern Japan, the ancient lore of this striking floral beauty has many roots... it is said that the first lily sprang from the milk of the breast of the goddess Juno.. it is said that lily was buried and found with Mother Mary... it is said that the white bulb represents Christ’s tomb and the flower emerging represents the resurrection of Christ Jesus. In the Christian tradition, it’s also believed that the lilies grew where Jesus' sweat and tears fell to the ground during his crucifixion. This flower holds the spiritual essence of this time today known as Easter, with church altars around the world adorned in her symbolic virtuous glory. In pagan roots, she represents the coming of spring. The fertile nature of her being is expressed through the brilliant prominence of her sexual organs, and suggested through the fact that one root alone can put forth fifty bulbs. Traditionally, Easter lily can also be cooked with, applied to deep tissue burns and used for skin as cooling, moistening, nourishing and anti-aging. When worked with as a flower Essence, she “cleans” the reproductive channel and works in all realms of the cycle and fertility, regulating hormones, dissolving hard lumps and cysts and breaking up stagnant blood. The Easter Lily Flower essence will be available soon with our upcoming spring collection though #livinghearthfarm.
Spent the day wandering and giving ourselves permission to play & explore with a fresh set of eyes. Honored to be invited to guide this journey with @field_experience where we marveled at plant magic, tree canopies, fungal frequencies, pineapple pine cones, cattails, winter minimalism, deep listening, breaking from dormancy to awakening, nature as “sensory restoration,” and how we can try to see trash as beautiful too. Thank you to all who attended and participated!
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https://livinghearth.wordpress.com/about/schedule/screen-shot-2018-10-18-at-9-36-15-am/
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