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Does the legal system care about truth?
and winning becomes the goal at any cost or means?
Can professional ambition skew the legal process?
their critical role in the lives of litigants?
of divorce often cause irreperable harm to family members.
increase damage to family members?
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2019-04-21T23:16:00Z
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http://rfg3travel.tripod.com/whathousesinmississippi/index.html
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bothsidesoftheveil – Just a Glimpse into My Dark Mind.
I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything on this blog. I got in a reading and writing slump while I was planning my wedding and getting married. Took me awhile to get out of it. Now I am back with a new book blog and moving on with my love for books. So if you want to follow me over there. The new blog is called: From the Book Reviewer’s Desk.
I have been having a little bit of a rough time. I am trying to focus and what to do with my life. I should be working and being happier. I am a newlywed after all. But finding work is turning out to be harder than I thought. I had a drawback late last night and early this morning. I fell back into thinking the darkest of the dark thoughts. That maybe the world does not need me anymore. That is would be better off without me here anymore. I was sitting on the loveseat at 3am and stayed there until almost 6am with my dagger in my hand. I had gone for a walk first that is why it was with me. It is a small double-edged blade. I know that suicide is not the answer and I have been there before. But the darkness of my soul has come back to the surface. I worked my way through it and found the pain I was feeling to put the blade back into the sheath and go to bed and get ready to sleep. The pain and frustration had me in tears most the time. The chills running up my spine like I was not alone. Even if in that moment I felt nothing but alone. I am not sure what pulled me back this morning but something did. I am not sure if I have purpose in this world but something wanted me to stay here more than the force that wanted me to leave. I am doing my best to get back on track and not force myself to the afterlife just yet. I hope this helps someone else who has been there. Know that you are not alone. Talk to someone. Express yourself in a more positive way. I am going to go work on my writing. That is what keeps me ground. I know this will not be the last time this happens to me. but I am fighting to keep my control.
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2019-04-25T23:48:27Z
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https://bothsidesoftheveil.wordpress.com/
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Arts
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Arts
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wordpress
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A debt-free life is about so much more than money.
Dave Ramsey’s financial philosophy goes way beyond that green piece of paper.
When my husband I became debt free in 2014 (with the exception of our home), we felt such pressure taken off of us. I began to envision a future. In all honesty, it was one where we would be able to purchase a modest home we really wanted and a life of experiences for our son. Yes, that included vacations, providing him with outlets to experience his passions, and a daily life where we could not worry about spending money here and there.
It started about nine months later. Because we made an unwise decision in purchasing a townhome, we had to pay $13,00o to sell it.
We took the hit, because we could. Since we had followed Dave Ramsey’s financial philosophy, we had 6 months (plus) expenses in the bank.
We opted to rent until we could save up money for a down payment, something that wouldn’t take us too long since we were debt free. I still envisioned the future the same.
It was about that time, I was faced with the yearning for a job change, a place where my passions would better match the needs of an organization. I found it, but it would be a pay cut. The freedom that being debt-free allows is to be able to make that decision not solely based on money. It allowed us to make that decision based on happiness and how I could best add value to the world. That felt good.
And, then, things changed again. About a year after becoming debt-free, I was hit with a health crisis that I still battle today. The unsolved health issues has cost us…a lot. So, far, it’s been at minimum $8,000.
My thoughts of envisioning the future changed to just making it through the day, worried about the future of my life and the future of my family.
But, one thing I didn’t have to worry about, was finances. Despite the $21,000 we lost with unexpected financial setbacks, we still have over six months expenses in the bank.
I always knew that Dave Ramsey’s financial peace university was about way more than money. It was about peace of mind. It was about being able to make decisions without the stress of money hanging over your head.
But now, I am living it. I do not like the amount of money our family has lost over the last few years. But, I have peace with it because we are still debt-free with six months expenses in the bank. And, as I continue my unexplained daily health issues, I don’t have to worry about money. I don’t have to be guilty that we have spent the money we have to make me better.
You can. It is a choice.
It’s a choice that can make an impact way beyond money.
It allows you to focus on passions.
It allows you to focus on family.
It allows you to focus on health.
I hold Dave Ramsey and his organization in such high regard. They have impacted my life beyond measure. And, they can for you, too.
Posted on October 14, 2016, in family, Uncategorized and tagged daveramsey, debtfree, financialpeace. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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2019-04-24T09:50:48Z
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https://lifeplanreflections.wordpress.com/2016/10/14/our-story-what-a-debt-free-life-allows/
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Arts
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Health
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upenn
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This thesis presents contributions to the state-of-the-art in quadrotor control, payload transportation with single and multiple quadrotors, and trajectory generation for single and multiple quadrotors. In Ch. 2 we describe a controller capable of handling large roll and pitch angles that enables a quadrotor to follow trajectories requiring large accelerations and also recover from extreme initial conditions. In Ch. 3 we describe a method that allows teams of quadrotors to work together to carry payloads that they could not carry individually. In Ch. 4 we discuss an online parameter estimation method for quadrotors transporting payloads which enables a quadrotor to use its dynamics in order to learn about the payload it is carrying and also adapt its control law in order to improve tracking performance. In Ch. 5 we present a trajectory generation method that enables quadrotors to fly through narrow gaps at various orientations and perch on inclined surfaces. Chapter 6 discusses a method for generating dynamically optimal trajectories through a series of predefined waypoints and safe corridors and Ch. 7 extends that method to enable heterogeneous quadrotor teams to quickly rearrange formations and avoid a small number of obstacles.
Mellinger, Daniel Warren, "Trajectory Generation and Control for Quadrotors" (2012). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 547.
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2019-04-20T00:34:01Z
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https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/547/
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Science
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wordpress
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Hans P.M. Adriaansens (1946) is professor (em) of social sciences at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and Dean Emeritus at Roosevelt Academy in Middelburg, an international honors college of Utrecht University, which he both founded In 1997 he founded University College Utrecht (UCU), which he led as dean until 2003. In 2003 he founded Roosevelt Academy Middelburg, a second honors college of Utrecht University, officially opened by Queen Beatrix in 2004. He is co-founder of Ecolas (European Colleges of Liberal Arts and Sciences). Besides his academic activities he has filled numerous administrative and supervisory positions. He served as member of the Board of Trustees of the Hogeschool Utrecht, the Hogeschool Zeeland and was member of various ministerial committees on the organization of higher education. He currently serves as President of the Sirius Organization for Excellence in Dutch Higher Education and is chairman and/or member of various audit- and review committees of the Dutch/Flemish Accreditation Organization (NVAO). He is in the Board of Advisors of two new university colleges in China (Chongqing and Taigu); he is chairman of the Board of Advisors of University College Tilburg and member of the Panopticon Board that oversees the founding of University College Haarlem.
Megha Harish is a final year student on the BA Liberal Arts program at King’s College London. She is majoring in politics, with a dissertation on Civic Education in India, and minoring in history, with a focus on colonial history, diasporic movement and identity. In October 2014, she helped organise the Future of Liberal Arts Conference at King’s and put together the student panel discussion that opened the session. In November 2015, along with Ian Tidbury, she co-convened the Winchester-King’s Student Liberal Arts Conference, the first of its kind in the UK. She has been Student Representative for her Liberal Arts cohort from 2013-16 and President of the King’s Liberal Arts Society 2015-16. She intends to pursue a masters degree in Modern South Asian Studies, with research on the history of education and interdisciplinarity in the subcontinent. Megha is also a member of the Barbican Young Poets and Burn After Reading poetry and spoken word collectives in London.
Markus Kressler, born on the 2nd of February, 1990, is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Kiron Open Higher Education, an e-learning educational platform for refugees. He is responsible for the departments of Internationalisation, Student Services, Technology and Marketing. Prior to his work at Kiron, Markus built up the first digital German volunteer-platform called Alltagshelden.org. This project has served as an example for many established digital platforms in the social area. Markus Kressler’s studies of psychology were shaped by his passion for societal and economic challenges. Additionally, he worked as a strategic consultant for the Business Management Consultancy Prof. Homburg & Partner GmbH. As part of his studies, he spent some time at the University of California where he focused on the topic of Social Entrepreneurship. During his time there, he began a project for young homeless people in San Diego. Afterwards, Markus Kressler completed a Master of Social and Business Communications at the Universität der Künste, and Organizational and Business Psychology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Apart from studying and working, Markus Kressler is constantly engaged as a youth trainer for competitive sports as well as in civil society institutions like the „Unternehmeriniative“ or the working group for migration of the Friedrich-Naumann- Foundation for Freedom. Through his work in the psychiatric research, and on the Nature article „Stress and the City“ he first came in contact with psychosocial counselling for refugees. This inspired and led him to the idea of Kiron.
Jürgen Kaube is one of the four publishers of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, the most influential newspaper in the German speaking world, as well as of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. He is accountable for the editorial cultural department of both newspapers. Having studied philosophy, German philology, history of arts and economics Kaube started his career in journalism in 1992. In 2012 he was awarded “Scientific Journalist of the Year” by the Medium Magazin for his superior discussions of social political subjects. He has published several books on sociology, educational policies, scholarly debates and about Max Weber. In 2014 his book “Max Weber – Ein Leben zwischen den Epochen” was nominated for the Prize of the Leipziger Buchmesse. In 2015 he received the “Ludwig-Börne-Preis”.
Volker Balli (PhD) is Academic Director of the “Studium Individuale” Leuphana University Lueneburg, an innovative undergraduate programme that aims to offer a contemporary liberal education. His work focuses on enabling and supporting responsible curricular choice, designing and implementing academically challenging curriculum that centres around contemporary question and problems, and fostering a culture of intensive and engage learning. He is also in charge of connecting the program to the emerging transnational landscape of initiatives in the tradition of a liberal education. The academic parcours of Volker Balli has been distinctly European and interdisciplinary: he took his first degree in European Studies (1st class honours) at the LSE, Kings College London and Science Po Paris, followed by an M.A. in European Political Studies at the College of Europe in Brugge. His PhD in Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute (EUI) was followed by post-doctoral research positions at the University of Trento and Bremen. In 2012, he took on a position at University College Freiburg as its founding lecturer and coordinator for the track “governance”. To relate educational innovation to wider social change, practically and conceptually, is his central concern since then.
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2019-04-26T05:42:07Z
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https://1stlesc.wordpress.com/panel-discussion-guests/
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Arts
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Arts
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interweave
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Enjoy the stylish and functional apron and quilted pot holder.
Add a fresh look to your kitchen attire with a nod to vintage style. Use fabric with a flirty floral boarder and metallic dots to brighten up these stylish and functional kitchen accessories.
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2019-04-19T16:56:00Z
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https://www.interweave.com/store/apron-plue-pot-holder-set
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Arts
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Recreation
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pcworld
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QR codes are being used for more than just advertisements in Marin County, California. There, paramedics hope the stickers could help save lives in emergency situations.
Lifesquare, a Silicon Valley start-up, has partnered with two emergency response agencies in Marin County to run a year-long pilot program. Lifesquare wants residents to input personal information about their medications into its website, then place corresponding QR code stickers where emergency responders can scan them with an iPhone. The secure link from the sticker will then provide paramedics and firefighters with information they need during a medical response call.
Lifesquare said its first task will be to get people to sign up on the site because of privacy concerns.
"The way that we look at is that people already put their information into their driver's license, that's owned by the government, people put their information into credit card company's and that's owned by private corporations," said Ryan Chamberlain, director of public outreach at Lifesquare. "Here you own it, you put it into your own profile and nobody else touches it."
Residents can sign themselves up by picking up Lifesquare stickers at a CVS pharmacy. Ideally, Marin County emergency medical responders could then respond to a call about someone feeling sick, scan a QR code on the patient's bike helmet, for example, and learn whether or not the patient has a drug allergy or what medications they are taking.
"It could benefit so many folks," said Mike Giannini, Marin County Fire Department EMS Battalion Chief. "The consumer for the piece of mind, us for information at the scene, it's just a time-saving piece and beyond that it could do so much for health care at a much larger, grander scale if physicians embrace it."
Giannini said Lifesquare would improve on the idea he helped champion in Marin County about seven years ago, when the department started promoting "Vials of L.I.F.E," which were tubes people could place in their refrigerator with a list of medications they take inside. Paramedics in the county already know to check refrigerators for this information, but still must enter it by hand, then later enter the same information into a computer.
He believes Lifesquare will take the Vial of L.I.F.E. concept into the digital age. And besides, he said, people are not always home when they need an ambulance.
Emergency medical workers in Marin County will access the information with the roughly 50 iPhones Lifesquare bought for the county.
Lifesquare said other counties in the Bay area are interested in the concept, as well as a few others, but it is focusing on promoting the Marin County pilot right now.
To augment the digital information Lifesquare can capture, Giannini said the county plans to purchase a new electronic patient care record that is being designed to work with Lifesquare's software. That way, information gathered from stickers at patient's homes would not need to be re-entered.
"It will improve our operations from a time standpoint, making us that much more available for the next call," Giannini said.
The electronic system should be in place by the end of 2012.
Kerry Davis is a multimedia journalist for IDG News Service. Email her at kerry_davis@idg.com or find her on Twitter at mskerryd.
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2019-04-26T16:31:39Z
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/256550/emergency_workers_scan_qr_codes_to_quickly_access_health_information.html
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Business
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nzherald
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St Joseph’s Cathedral in Dunedin is to host French organist Johann Vexo for a concert on Thursday 21st February 2019 at 7.00pm.
Performing with Mr Vexo will be tenor Damien Rivière, a cantor of Notre-Dame Cathedral. The concert will feature music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Marcel Dupré, Maurice Duruflé, Jean Langlais, and Louis Vierne.
Johann Vexo was born in 1978 in the northeastern French city of Nancy. At the age of 25, he was appointed Choir Organist of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Soon thereafter he was also appointed Organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Cathedral in Nancy. After teaching at the Angers Conservatory for 10 years, he is now Professor of Organ at the Conservatory and at the Superior Music Academy in Strasbourg.
Damien Rivière began studying music at the Maîtrise Sainte-Marie in Antony, with whom he sang numerous concerts in France and elsewhere in Europe. He entered the singing class of Catherine Cardin, followed by the Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris, where he went through comprehensive musical training and performed a diverse repertoire, ranging from medieval to contemporary music.
St Joseph’s Cathedral on the corner of Rattray and Smith Streets, Dunedin, is built in French gothic style. Its richly carved and ornamented Oamaru stone interior provides the perfect setting for this concert of sacred music.
The Cathedral pipe organ was built in 1866 by George Fincham of Melbourne for St Joseph’s Church, Dunedin, and was moved into the newly built Cathedral in 1886. In 1976 the organ was rebuilt and enlarged by the South Island Organ Company, making use of the original Fincham pipework, with new layout and Positive division.
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2019-04-24T18:43:57Z
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http://events.nzherald.co.nz/2019/musicians-of-notre-dame-cathedral-paris/dunedin
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Arts
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iupui
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN (November 2012) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) will host the 17th annual National Learning Communities Conference on November 8-10, 2012 at the University Place Conference Center and Hotel, located on IUPUI’s campus. Learning communities are generally defined as two or more linked courses which incorporate integrative learning and are offered in partnership with academic and student affairs.
Attendees from across the United States who are interested in learning communities will gather to share and learn about new ideas and innovations in learning communities, as well as best practices for established programs.
Representatives from institutions across the country will be presenting on learning communities topics at over seventy sessions during the course of the conference. Conference tracks include presentations on themed learning communities, learning communities administration, at-risk students, research, professional development, first-year students, innovation and creativity, integrative assignments, and technology.
The keynote speakers for the three-day conference are Joye Hardiman, Emily Lardner, and Gillies Malnarich. Hardiman has served as a core facilitator for the Ford Foundation Cultural Pluralism Summer Institutes and the FIPSE National Learning Community Dissemination Institutes and is currently a founding faculty member of the Institute for Cultural Reconnection, an international site-based learning academy dedicated to capacity building and technical assistance for people of African descent. Lardner and Malnarich are co-directors of the National Summer Institute on Learning Communities and the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education. They have co-authored three articles that have appeared in Change and Forbes magazines which have highlighted a shift in learning community practice that has occurred under their stewardship.
Conference co-chairs Heather Bowman, Director of First-Year Programs at IUPUI, and Lauren Chism, Director of Themed Learning Communities at IUPUI, agree that the conference will be an excellent opportunity for practitioners who work in learning communities to gain ideas for their own institution’s learning community programs.
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2019-04-24T00:15:38Z
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https://due.iupui.edu/news/2012-10-31-national-learning-communities-conference.html
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wordpress
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The Atlantic boldly declares, “prices are people”.
Quoting data on our food spending, they say increasing share of our spending goes to services (wages to people that is) while less and less goes to commodity producers. Hence their case, baked into price is people cost. They explain to us that is why hand-made handbags are more expensive than the mass-made.
Just think about the $629 you just paid for the new iPad 4G, 32 GB. Was it priced high because it is made one at a time using US labor, costs Apple a lot to pay those high-wage geniuses who work at Apple stores or because of their rising cost of advertising?
You can see how naïve Atlantic’s argument is and that how it completely misses the mark on economics and marketing front.
First the economic point – customers are not going to keep buying products when the manufacturers keeps adding their rising cost to the price. Demand is a function of price. Not only demand moves with price, the entire demand curve may shift (as they do in case of economic shocks). On the flip side, look at the farmer’s share as the price they charge for the products they delivered. Their pricing power keeps going down because of excess supply and practically no product differentiation.
Next the marketing point – customers are not paying to offset your costs. They are paying to fulfill their needs –utilitarian or hedonistic. It does not matter to them what your costs are or how you are allocating them. When was the last time you were at a coffee store and paid separately for employee salary or the decorative lighting?
It is not the cost that comes first, it is the price that comes first. Apple and Starbucks don’t bake their cost into pricing. They find the price customers are willing to pay for the value they get and deliver the product at cost that is profitable to them. In case of Apple, insanely profitable prices and costs. There are many customers who are not willing to pay Apple prices, Apple simply chose not to target them.
It is not the salaries of Apple Store Geniuses that is baked into each iPad. To target those customers who are willing to stand in line and hand over $499 to $799, Apple has to hire the Geniuses. The experience is part of the product. Apple is willing to pay higher wages the Geniuses demand because, one they cannot deliver the same customer experience with someone willing to take lower wages and two it can still make profit at these wages.
Prices are not people. People costs do not determine prices.
Hope you are not taking economic insights or worse pricing advice from such articles.
← Surely you are not surprised by Groupon woes?
The retailer first starts by deciding the price they are going to charge (i should they first choose the customer segment) and then work on the cost they can deliver the products and still make profit.
Suppose we introduced externalities like mandatory employee costs then they will realize the lower price point is not profitable and will either change their customer mix or the product mix.
It is the pricing that comes first. Not the other way.
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2019-04-21T22:05:34Z
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https://iterativepath.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/you-better-not-bake-your-costs-into-pricing/
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Computers
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The Crenshaw House should be used to tell the story of slavery in Illinois, said Mark Wagner, director of the Center for Archaeological Investigations at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and an associate professor in anthropology.
Maestro Ed Benyas of the Southern Illinois Symphony discusses the upcoming performance of Verdi's "Requiem."
… has deep roots in both religious and political history in France and according to Southern Illinois art history professor Mont Allen, it's the most visited site in all of Paris.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is beefing up its student outreach in two cities that have long been key sources of new Salukis: St. Louis and Chicago.
Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale are working to find a cure for cancer thanks to a $158,000 grant from a private foundation.
… Ameren is giving some math students at SIU Carbondale the job of crunching numbers and studying data, all to help the major energy supplier be better prepared for problems.
Students at Southern Illinois University Carbondale along with SIT Service Dogs have been working together to train service dogs for almost six years.
Chancellor John Dunn discusses program changes as a part of a proposed reorganization plan and enrollment projections for the 2019-2020 academic year.
Over the past two semesters, members of Gamma Phi Omega at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have been raising funds for a special scholarship to help undocumented students pay for pricey college tuition.
Part of a lecture series on "Big Data" took place at Morris Library on the SIU campus Thursday.
The Southern Illinois University Carbondale Geology Department along with the STEM Education Center are asking for help in naming three new baby dinosaurs.
The Paul Simon Public Policy Institute hosted a summit to revitalize the state of Illinois between March 28 and 29.
National Weather Service recognizes SIUC as "Storm Ready"
The National Weather Service is recognizing SIU as a "Storm Ready" campus.
… spring of 2017, the SIU Carbondale Department of Geology asked SIU students to help name the university’s first dinosaur.
Sigma Alpha Iota fraternity at SIU Carbondale is organizing an instrument drive to collect, not only instruments, but music supplies.
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2019-04-20T21:04:27Z
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https://news.siu.edu/in-the-news/index.php
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square-enix
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I'm not saying Absolution was a bad but rather a disapointment to what I was expecting. I would like to hear what other players have to say on the matter of what they would like in the next Hitman game and if they agree or disagree with what this post says.
Overall a great game though. I'm still playing it religiously.
You will still play hitman and replay it, finding new ways. But But you will also find out things you miss in the game and you complain about them. This game is never complete and never will be. Because there is simply to much to add. All the stuff we fans want.
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2019-04-19T05:11:43Z
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https://forums.eu.square-enix.com/showthread.php?t=141438&s=d2a00897f8cd46accb88573b4ef85aa3
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reuters
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LONDON, May 25 (Reuters) - The number of mortgages approved for house purchase by major British banks rose to a three-month high in April but was still nearly 10 percent lower than a year earlier, industry figures showed on Friday.
Trade body UK Finance said 38,049 mortgages were approved for house purchase on a seasonally adjusted basis in April, recovering from March’s three-month low of 37,606 but 9.4 percent lower than in April 2017.
Refinancing of existing mortgages was up 13.7 percent on the year at 28,212.
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2019-04-25T03:14:31Z
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https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-economy-lending/rpt-uk-new-mortgage-lending-picks-up-to-three-month-high-in-april-uk-finance-idUSL9N1QV021
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Immigrant visa (IV) applicants currently working with the National Visa Center (NVC) to complete their IV applications should make sure NVC has a working e-mail address for at least one party on their case. (A case party is the petitioner, beneficiary, or agent/attorney.) If you have not previously given NVC an e-mail address where you can be contacted, please call 1-603-334-0700 to provide your e-mail information. When you call, have your case number, petitioner’s full name, and the beneficiary’s full name and date of birth available. NVC will then be able to e-mail you information and instructions rather than send them via traditional mail, which means you will receive items like NVC’s responses to submitted documents and notice of your visa interview appointment more quickly.
Please be advised that the NVC has temporarily changed the hours of operation for our call center. Customer Service Representatives are available from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. Due to high call volumes, wait times can be in excess of 30 minutes. Many of your questions can be answered in the FAQS section of this web site, and updates to your case can be found by logging into the Consular Electronic Application Center (CEAC).
(603) 334-0700. Please be advised that the NVC has temporarily changed the hours of operation for our call center. Customer Service Representatives are available from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. Due to high call volumes, wait times can be in excess of 30 minutes. Many of your questions can be answered in the FAQS section of this web site, and updates to your case can be found by logging into the Consular Electronic Application Center (CEAC).
(603) 334-0888. Please be advised that the NVC has temporarily changed the hours of operation for our call center. Customer Service Representatives are available from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM Monday through Friday, excluding federal holidays. Due to high call volumes, wait times can be in excess of 30 minutes.
Submitting Forms or Documents to the NVC: If you need to submit a form or document to us, please visit our Submit Documents to the NVC page.
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2019-04-23T18:39:17Z
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https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrate/national-visa-center/nvc-contact-information.html
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forbes
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Fred Goodwin, the young CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland, so far has made all the right calls in a tough era for lenders.
"I always work on the five-second rule," says F.A. (Fred) Goodwin , the CEO of the Royal Bank of Scotland . "How a job offer makes you feel in the first five seconds when you hear the idea, before you spend ages agonizing, is what you should do."
This fast-forward frame of mind may explain why a banker who is only 44 has built the kind of record that wins recognition as Forbes Global Businessman of the Year. Three years ago Goodwin--known in the cobbled streets of Edinburgh's old financial district as Fred the Shred for his cost cuts--nabbed England's troubled NatWest bank in a brilliantly strategized $34 billion hostile takeover. At the time, the NatWest was three times the size of RBS, the deal was seven times the size of the previous biggest hostile takeover in the U.K. No hostile takeover of a major European bank had ever been successful.
As his archrival at the Bank of Scotland (since merged with the Halifax to become HBOS) rushed at NatWest and won early headlines, Goodwin held back and carefully constructed an integration plan. It was this detailed business plan that carried the day with institutional investors. Goodwin is our Businessman of the Year because he implemented this plan impeccably, according to leading figures in the City of London, and in doing so produced great results.
According to The Banker's 1000 Top World Banks, RBS is globally ranked 13th and 16th by so-called Tier 1 capital and assets, respectively; its pretax profit of $6.2 billion in 2001 was beaten only by Citigroup ($21.9 billion), Bank of America ($10.1 billion) and HSBC ($8.1 billion). Put another way: Its 27% rise in profits was herculean when the industry's global profits fell 30% in one of the bleakest periods in memory. Nor is there any sign that RBS is cooling off. In the first half of 2002, it reported another 20% rise in revenue and a 12% increase ($1.08) in earnings per London-traded share.
The Royal Bank of Scotland now has a market cap of $70 billion, making it the world's fifth-biggest bank. Few realize that this 275-year-old Scottish bank, a nonentity on the world stage just a few years ago, is now bigger by this measure than such household names as J. P. Morgan Chase, UBS and Deutsche Bank.
"Whether it was squeezing the fat out of NatWest or not overpaying for silly deals in America, which every Brit bank seems to do, Goodwin has always managed to deliver," says Michael Denny, the chairman of Northern Ventures Managers, a venture-capital firm.
The Scot gets our nod not merely because he quickly turned around the underperforming NatWest. He is an original thinker. "Fred never just accepts advice," says John Connolly, the ceo of Deloitte & Touche U.K. and his former boss. "When we've all got a lot to do, it's very easy to say, 'I've had the advice. That's the thing to do.' He always makes time to satisfy himself that he has the right answer."
Such analytic rigor has resulted in unusual decisions at RBS. When overlapping banks are merged, bankers normally shutter branches in a cost-cutting frenzy. Goodwin, in contrast, deliberately belied his Shredder nickname, earning customer loyalty at NatWest by keeping almost all of its 1,500 branches open and eliminating charges for ATM use and overdrafts. He followed up with hilarious ads depicting a little old lady going to her bank branch (a rival) and discovering that it's been turned into a wine bar.
Such contrarian moves are at the heart of what Goodwin calls banking "another way." As Citigroup and HSBC spearheaded the now ubiquitous forwarding of customers to low-cost phone centers, Goodwin lets his customers make costly (to the bank) calls to their own branch. "If you're at war with your customers," Goodwin says, "you're living on borrowed time. Customers hate call centers with a passion because it verges on the miraculous if they are ever able to get back to the same operator."
Typically, there's more to Goodwin's comment than meets the eye. In the first half of 2002, RBS' gross revenue excluding acquisitions rose a by a gravity-defying 15% almost across the board, to $12 billion. According to Goodwin, a customer's checking his bank balance is a great cross-selling lead (awaiting a year-end bonus, perhaps?), and cost-conscious banks that forward callers to outsourced operators may be missing the plot.
A similar dumb-like-a-fox strategy is behind the Royal Bank's branding. As Citigroup and HSBC create instantly recognizable global brands, Goodwin's outfit--a corporate and retail bank exclusively focused on the "emerged markets" of the U.K., Europe, and U.S.--takes a Procter & Gamble approach.
RBS' bank brands frequently overlap geographically, but they don't cannibalize each other, since they offer different products and service levels to different customers. In Britain, for example, Goodwin's niche brands besides NatWest and RBS range from Coutts (bankers to the Queen of England) to Tesco Personal Finance (a bank that's a joint venture with the supermarket chain) to DirectLine (insurance sales over the telephone).
"Brands are what stand between you and your customer," says Goodwin, on a wintery evening in Edinburgh. "If we had only one brand we wouldn't have the same flexibility." HSBC and Citibank, both universal banks, have operations evenly spread across the globe, not heavily overlapping in a single market; for them, a global brand is both logical and valuable for their business model.
When Goodwin's attention is turned from the customer front-end to the "manufacturing" back-end, however, the hard-driving Scot lives up to his renown for the knife. Three cash-and-check processing facilities and 18,000 employees got the chop, cumulatively saving $3 billion in the three years since the merger.
When you meet Goodwin, he comes across as cool and witty. But there's acid just below the surface. He talks, for example, about "mercy-killing" lagging competitors, but, he says, should he ever consider a run on Germany's troubled Commerzbank, we should "send for the men with the white coats."
Such tartness is a reason the deceptively boyish-looking Goodwin is not universally liked. He has achieved extraordinary results at RBS by making almost inhuman demands on his executives; one memorably likened Goodwin to a prowling fox. "You sense," the terrified banker told a Scottish paper, "that he could tear you limb from limb, and you are ever so grateful when he doesn't."
That hardness came across in the tense months when RBS was the underdog in the hostile battle for NatWest. In RBS' 1920s palace on St. Andrews Square, senior managers sweated the details in marathon sessions, telling Goodwin that he had no choice but to drop RBS' smaller, simpler IT system into the Nat West's giant network--that was the way big IT mergers were done.
Not good enough, Goodwin snapped. As the clock on the mantle in his office chimed the quarter hours, he hammered away at their assumptions. Why, he demanded, should RBS cede its superb cost/income ratio to take on NatWest's inefficiencies?
"Sometimes," says a longtime friend, "you've got to be prepared to go along with something just because it's no big deal. You don't have to kill someone over something that is not important. Well, I'm sure you've picked up that Fred's a bit caustic."
But Goodwin's caustic challenges are frequently on the money, and they spur his team on to great achievements. In October, $800 million later, the bank moved 18 million of NatWest's customer accounts--$245 billion in daily volume, 22 billion bits of customer data--to RBS' IT platform. The merged banks' 45.7% cost/income ratio is now, Goodwin claims, the lowest in Europe.
"It's not just the delivery of improved revenue and profits in a market as difficult as this one," says Matthew Greenburgh, the co-head of Merrill Lynch's Global Financial Institutions Group and RBS' investment banker. "It's that all this was done in a year when they turned off one entire bank system and moved it to another. I don't think that has ever happened before in Europe."
Goodwin was born and raised in Paisley, a middle-class town bordering Glasgow; his father rose from apprentice to head a midsize engineering company. The son got his law degree at the local university, added accountancy and went to work for what was then Touche Ross. Goodwin was made a partner at 29 after successfully getting the troubled Rosythe Royal Dockyards ready for privatization during the Thatcher era, no small achievement for a young man. Militant dockers handed out fliers urging resistance to his proposals, and a union leader told him that "the [river] Forth will run red" if he pushed ahead.
Goodwin's first banking assignment was no easier: the liquidation of the corrupt, bankrupt BCCI. Connolly, his boss at the time, says, "Fred is a very clever guy. You see it in the way he isn't fazed by the scale and the complexity of something. BCCI was an enormous assignment for the firm, and at one stage we had 500 people working on it. Creditors were owed huge amounts of money. But Fred always relished that kind of challenge."
Prices are as of Dec. 16 closing. Source: Multex via FactSet Research Systems.
Investors accord RBS a multiple nearly as healthy as mighty HSBC.
In this case the challenge included personally manning BCCI phones at a stage when he could offer only sympathy to customers and staff who'd lost everything. Goodwin eventually left Touche to run the regional Clydesdale & Yorkshire Bank, before RBS' chairman, Sir George Mathewson, lured him there in 1998.
What will he do for an encore? More of the same, says Goodwin. Unusually for a major bank, RBS has virtually zero exposure to Latin America and Asia, and Goodwin says that he's still not attracted to those volatile markets. He wants RBS to be utterly stable. Even developed Asian economies, such as Japan, have the power to derail such plans. (Some suggest that his experience at BCCI has made him doubly wary of emerging markets.) Small acquisitions in Europe and the U.K. are likely, Goodwin allows.
Yet there's a question how much longer he can play that winning hand. RBS is No. 1 in Europe in leveraged finance, asset finance and private placements. An analyst at Lehman Brothers tells Forbes Global that RBS has the largest exposure to corporate risk in the U.K. and that everyone is carefully watching for signs of deterioration in the bank's credit quality, now that the previously strong U.K. economy worsens under the weight of rising taxes and a manufacturing meltdown. So far the rising revenue and profits have more than offset the $1 billion in bad-loan provisions for the first half of 2002, a 67% increase over the same period last year.
The deal was classic RBS: Citizens' U.S. boss, Lawrence Fish, was approached by Mellon at the end of a holiday weekend in May of 2001. Goodwin immediately gave Fish the green light over the phone and pitched to RBS' board.The deal was completed by July. Greenburgh says that RBS' $3 billion share offer to pay for the Mellon acquisition was the second-largest to be completed in a single day, a testimonial to Goodwin's stature in the City.
The integration of Mellon is, like that of NatWest, producing results ahead of schedule: U.S. revenue is up 69%, to $1.4 billion, and pretax profits are up 65%, to $600 million, for the first six months of 2002. After acquisitions are stripped out, the underlying profit growth is still a remarkable 16%. Fish, a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, says that Citizens' success is built on basic banking: taking in deposits and lending out money locally, with nothing fancy. "If we can't drive to it," he says, "we don't lend to it."
Goodwin says that he has his eye on a dozen Mellon-size targets in the U.S. and three or four "bigger ones," but he has "no desire to buy Household," a dig at the well-run HSBC, still bigger than RBS, which is spending $14 billion on Household International, a U.S. specialist in risky consumer credit. It is an area Goodwin has resolutely abjured.
"I'm sure," he says dryly, "that they know what they are doing."
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Some species of palm trees can be dangerous if you touch them in the wrong spot. Sharp thorns on various parts of the trees can puncture the skin and cause bacterial or fungal infections. Puncture injuries may look harmless, but bits of thorny debris carrying potentially harmful fungi or soil bacteria may lodge inside the wound and cause infection. Administer basic first aid in the event you sustain a palm-thorn puncture injury and keep an eye on the wound as inflammation requires medical treatment.
pygmy date palm (Phoenix roebellenii, USDA zones 10 through 11) has leaflets near the base that form piercing 2- to 3-inch thorns; * the Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis, USDA zones 9 through 11) has extremely sharp 2- to 3-inch spines on the lower half of its leaf petioles, the thin stems that support the leaves.
The British Medical Journal noted in a November 2002 issue that the fronds of date palms are "particularly dangerous," because the sharp, narrow tips of their spines dry quickly and break off easily when they puncture skin.
The 2002 article in the British Medical Journal also documented the case of an otherwise healthy 14-year-old boy who developed an arthritis-like injury of the knee from a date palm-thorn puncture. Shortly after the injury, the boy received antibiotics that temporarily relieved his pain and swelling. Arthrocentesis, which involves using a needle to withdraw fluid from a swollen joint, eventually led to the identification of Pantoea agglomerans, a common soil bacterium, as the cause of the boy's septic arthritis. It took two ultrasound exams to locate the tiny bits of thorn debris that initiated the infection and limited the range of motion in the boy's knee. Although he recovered fully, he was hospitalized for more than a week and underwent surgery to remove the thorn fragments and wash out the infection.
Patients with palm-thorn problems may be unaware of the origin of their discomfort. That's because joint problems near a wound may not develop immediately. If you remove the thorn yourself, fragments may remain under your skin. Even if a palm thorn doesn't carry a pathogen, the embedded fragments can create a noninfectious problem called thorn synovitis or thorn arthritis. Stiffness, swelling and pain near the point of entry are symptoms. According to MedicineNet.com, thorn fragments often affect the synovium or tissue lining a joint and may require surgical removal or synovectomy.
To help prevent infection, perform immediate basic first aid on any puncture wound – especially those caused by palm tree thorns. This requires cleaning the wound area thoroughly with soap and water and applying antibiotic ointment and a bandage. MedicineNet.com notes that although puncture wounds usually bleed little, if at all, they become infected easily. When swelling of a palm-thorn puncture wound occurs, arthrocentesis may be necessary to rule out bacterial or fungal infection. Treatment with antibiotics is critical if such an infection is present. Eliminating infection also requires surgical removal of any thorn fragments. Although thorn fragments may remain embedded if there's no infection, they're likely to cause recurring discomfort, which means that surgical removal may be a good idea in any case. Talk with your health care provider to find out which treatment options are best for you.
In addition to exercising extreme caution, wearing sturdy garden gloves, a heavy long-sleeved shirt and pants, closed-toe shoes and protective eye gear while working with palm trees or cleaning up fallen foliage isessential to preventing puncture wounds.
Keep children and pets away from spiny palm trees or, while the plants are small, carefully prune off spines that may be within their reach. Before and after using pruning tools, disinfect the blades by wiping them with a clean cloth soaked with rubbing alcohol to help prevent the spread of diseases between plants.
Plant palms with dangerous thorns away from areas where they're more likely to cause trouble, such as near walkways, patios, decks and driveways.
Consider replacing thorny palms with spineless varieties, such as Texas palm (Sabal mexicana, USDA zones 8 through 11), a regal, single-trunk tree with a mature height and spread of up to 50 and 25 feet, respectively.
Rudnicki, Alicia. "Palm Tree Puncture Wound Treatment." Home Guides | SF Gate, http://homeguides.sfgate.com/palm-tree-puncture-wound-treatment-32058.html. 28 November 2018.
Can You Cut the Top Off of a Madagascar Palm to Propagate Multiple Growth?
Can You Trim the Trunk of a Palm Tree With a Chainsaw?
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The account IDs that have permission to use this document.
The account IDs that have permission to use this document. The ID can be either an AWS account or All.
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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-ruby/v3/api/Aws/SSM/Types/DescribeDocumentPermissionResponse.html
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College Recruiter believes that every student and recent grad deserves a great career. It is the leading job search site used by students and recent graduates of all 7,400+ one-, two-, and four-year colleges and universities who are searching for part-time, seasonal, internship, and entry-level jobs. College Recruiter's customers are primarily Fortune 1,000 companies, federal government agencies, and other employers who want to hire dozens, hundreds, or thousands of students and recent graduates per year.
College Recruiter leverages Google Cloud Talent Solution to enhance job search results on the site so students and recent graduates can more effectively find great careers.
College Recruiter believes that every student and recent graduate deserves a great career. Fortune 1,000 companies, federal government agencies, and many other organizations depend on College Recruiter to hire dozens, or even hundreds, of students and recent graduates for part-time, seasonal, internship, and entry-level jobs. At any given time, tens of thousands of employers advertise well over a million jobs on College Recruiter, so it is critical for them to have a fast, intuitive, scalable, and quality job search that can quickly provide candidates with the most relevant results.
"We immediately understood that replacing our existing, proprietary search with Google Cloud would both reduce our costs and deliver a far better experience."
"Candidates should not need to be experts in boolean to find the jobs of interest to them. It is our job to deliver the results that are relevant to them if we want them to be interested in and apply to the jobs advertised on our site," says Steven Rothberg, Founder and President of College Recruiter.
College Recruiter's previous job search solution was managed in-house by a team of engineers. This became increasingly time and resource intensive, as the time these engineers spent adjusting algorithms and fixing bugs took away from their ability to work on other projects. In Cloud Talent Solution, College Recruiter saw an opportunity to easily scale its search and AI capabilities without having to invest more of its own engineering resources. College Recruiter connected with Google and became an alpha partner of Cloud Talent Solution in mid-2017.
"We immediately understood that replacing our existing, proprietary search with Google Cloud would both reduce our costs and deliver a far better experience to our candidate customer group. The result is higher quality and quantity of applications to our employer customer group," explains Steven.
"The time savings on the development side has been huge. We're saving at least 10 developer hours a month."
After migrating from an in-house job search to Cloud Talent Solution, College Recruiter has seen deeper engagement on its site and significant increases in many of its key performance indicators.
The biggest improvement for College Recruiter has been a dramatic increase in apply clicks, which occur when a candidate clicks the apply button to go from the job description page to the application page. "Since moving to Cloud Talent Solution, we've seen a 242 percent increase in apply clicks," notes Steven.
Activity on the site has also increased. With Cloud Talent Solution, candidates now spend over 5 percent more time on the website, which has led to a 25 percent increase in the number of searches they conduct per month. As candidates find more relevant results from those searches, they have been 20 percent more likely to click through from the search results to the job details page.
"Quite frankly, we couldn't be happier with the personal level of support that we've received"
With Cloud Talent Solution, College Recruiter no longer needs to devote significant engineering time or other resources to manage the site's job search functionality. "The time savings on the development side has been huge. We're saving at least 10 developer hours a month," says Vice President of Product Development, Mike Willbanks. "That's allowed my team to move a number of other projects to completion a lot faster, including how many jobs we can import from our largest customers and how often we can import those jobs, both of which have led to far better search results for the job seekers because they're searching from more jobs, which are refreshed more often."
"Quite frankly, we couldn't be happier with the personal level of support that we've received," notes Steven. "When we have questions, we reach out and get specific answers, not copy-and-paste templates. We aren't stuck filling in support forms that may or may not get answered promptly or even at all. The level of support has encouraged and enabled us to continue to look for ways that we can broaden our usage."
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https://cloud.google.com/customers/college-recruiter/
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The admission process is the first step toward earning the degree or graduate certificate you've been dreaming of. We've streamlined the admissions process to make it easier and less time-consuming.
What are the minimum requirements for the online degree or graduate certificate program to which you would like to apply? What materials should you send and where should you send them?
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2019-04-24T08:03:10Z
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https://frostonline.miami.edu/admissions.aspx
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Dude, you don’t like Provo? Some of my best girlfriends were from Provo.
And you’d better be careful with all these desert posts, they catch up with you.
I don’t feel my beard has any reflection on the quality of my character. And “catch up”? Try “caught up.” The damage is done.
A fitting commentary on a place that i hope to visit on our next trip to Utah. Hopefully, we will be putting a kid in the Provo school up there. I am not a chocolate fan. But the wife is one. I want to check it out just to get her reaction. I am sure I can fine something here in good old Peoria, AZ. I love Utah in the spring, though.
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2019-04-19T03:27:41Z
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https://brohammas.wordpress.com/2017/08/23/taste-in-provo-a-compliment-despite-my-best-efforts/
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When I was in high school, we used to race to Buffalo on double lunches. It had everything: great art deco buildings, great shopping and terrific wings. It also has a great location on the biggest source of fresh water in the world, Niagara Falls for cheap green power, and a canal straight to New York City. It has the infrastructure we need to support the people who will no longer live in Phoenix because of the heat and the cost of fuel. As John asks, How Long Until The Rust Belt Becomes The Life Belt?
Yet so much has changed. The New York Times says that "today, in this city beaten down by decades of factory closings and residential exodus, the razing of thousands of vacant houses is being touted as a sign of progress.
"We have a real sense of urgency," said the mayor, who was elected in November 2005 but has grappled with vacant houses as a city councilman and a state senator. "If we do not address the decline in these neighborhoods, we will see more people losing hope and faith in the city's ability to fix the problem, and more people leaving."
Two hours north in Toronto, a house like that in the picture would fetch half a million bucks, the lot alone half that. Construction cranes are everywhere as condos get built on every corner. What makes two cities, blessed with the same enviromental conditions, both having lost much of their industry and manufacturing, so different? Why isn't anyone looking at these houses as an asset instead of tearing them down?
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2019-04-21T14:17:36Z
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https://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/razing-buffalo-why-is-this-happening.html
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It's the why that's important.
that MSIE set is as the default?
> Peter, all of DNT requires resources.
> practices then you're not breaking any promises.
>> resources – not something that everyone can afford to do.
>> Secondly, lets flog the dead horse one more time on "who set the DNT flag".
>> wrong (i.e. fines or pissed off customers) then I'm not going to do it.
>>> neither complex nor hard.
>>>> There's a lot of questions around a non-compliant UA sending a DNT header.
>>>> be sent back to the consumer indicating that he's using a non-compliant UA.
>>>> that do the detection. So it will all have to be done via a script.
>>>> hit is going to be HUGE.
>>>> request and send a 400 invalid request response back to the user.
>>>> So what the heck does the user do now?
Previous message: イアンフェッティ: "Re: Today's call: summary on user agent compliance"
Maybe in reply to: Peter Cranstone: "The Rubber meets the Road - DNT compliance code"
Next in thread: Kevin Smith: "RE: The Rubber meets the Road - DNT compliance code"
Reply: Kevin Smith: "RE: The Rubber meets the Road - DNT compliance code"
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2019-04-24T08:19:58Z
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tracking/2012Jun/0311.html
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tripod
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These pound animals are kept for only 4 days before possibly being destroyed. This is a matter of life or death. Don't put off calling or going to look! Please call 805-781-4400 (main office) for more information or 805-781-4413 (volunteer hotline).
For daily updates on animals brought into Animal Services, call 781-4407 after 6:00 PM.
Be sure to check out the separate Lost and Stray cat room if you are looking for your cat. You may also put one on hold to adopt. Also, a new room has been added for nursing mothers and kittens.
If you put your address in below it will give you driving directions to the shelter.
San Luis Obispo County has Spay/Neuter funds for county residents. To receive vouchers, you must appear in person at SLO County Animal Services, located off Highway 1 at the Sheriff's exit. Call Animal Services at 781-4400 for more information.
In south San Luis Obispo county, spay/neuter funds are available through Central Coast Animal Protection Society (CCAPS) by calling their Spay Day hotline: 546-3700.
Atascadero residents only may pick up spay/neuter vouchers from North County Humane Society. Call 462-AFAR.
If you are looking for a particular type of dog or cat, we can add your name to our "Wish List", and you will be notified of any possible match.
This is separate from the Boston Terrier Shelter List. I am posting this to try to give it more exposure. I thank the volunteers of Homeless Animal Rescue Team (HART) for posting the list. Please visit the HART homepage below. Also the SLO County pound site with pictures. Thank you!
We need a knowledgeable person to visit the county pound twice a week, to determine which impounded animals have been spayed or neutered. Animals that have already been spayed/neutered may have a better chance of being adopted.
We need dependable volunteers to help us keep this Pound List going.
click here to view the HART T-Shirts For Adoption!
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http://sparkyaustinbt.tripod.com/BTshelterlists/id11.html
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Posted at 21:54. Tags: CSS. Categories: Internet Explorer, web design. Both comments and trackbacks are closed.
This fixed my problem…just wanted to say thanks!
Thanks for this post, sorry but not much english, Gracias por el post saludos desde mexico.
you rock. Fixed it for me too!
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http://davidnaylor.org/blog/2009/05/ie8-sorted/
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Concordia Chancellor David P. O’Brien has been appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada for his contributions as a respected corporate leader and for his generous support of post-secondary education across Canada. Governor General Michaëlle Jean announced O’Brien’s appointment among 89 new recipients who will be invited to accept their insignia at a ceremony to be held at a later date.
Jillian Kestler-D’Amours was one of two Canadian journalism students to win the Hong Kong Student Fellowship. The honour was conferred by a panel of three judges, named by the Canadian Association of Journalists’ (CAJ) national board of directors. Kestler-D’Amours will have expenses paid for a week-long trip to Hong Kong over the next year.
The Mirror just published their annual list of noisemakers and Concordians feature prominently in this crop of up-and-comers. Activist duo/couple Nora Rohman and Kate Lamothe are galvanizing the queer community by organizing cultural and political events of all types. Promoters of The Pirates of the Lachine Canal also have Concordia connections.
Tao-Nhan Nguyen has turned his engineering degree into half of musical duo FM Radio Gods. Über-geeks Howie Pun and Jonathan Starr met at Concordia, as did Pistol Press Publishers Jp King, Gil Filar and Hillary Rexe. J.R. Carpenter also got her literary start here. Meanwhile, filmmakers Ray Klonsky and Marc Lamy made the list. Concordia must have noticed the sculpting skills of grad Maskull Lasserre, because he's now teaching here. Dancer Andrew Turner was featured in last November's faculty showcase. Dancer/promoter/musician Lunice Fermin Pierre II is currently studying here will pursuing a range of activities.
Yung Chang (BFA 99 Film Production) has been enjoying great success this past year. His documentary, Up The Yangtze, was recognized as one of the year’s best reviewed films in the U.S. on the metacritic web site, www.metacritic.com/film/awards/ Meanwhile Chang is one of four filmmakers chosen to participate in the inaugural CFC/NFB Feature Documentary Program. Created by the Canadian Film Centre (CFC) and the National Film Board (NFB), the program launches this month with the goal of developing successful original feature length documentaries for international cinema audiences.
George Vatistas (Mechanical Engineering) has been honoured for one of the top ten discoveries of 2008 by Québec Science magazine. Vatistas found himself working in the realm of physics and was able to physically prove an existing theory on vortex rings. (See Journal, April 17, 2008.) His discovery has multiple applications from forecasting tornado development to improving the design of turbine machinery.
The John Molson School of Business delegation won an award for International Management in the Academic Component at the 2009 Jeux du Commerce TD Insurance Meloche Monnex, held from January 2 to 4. Over 1 000 students from 13 universities in eastern Canada participated under the theme, ‘Challenges for the Future.’ The bilingual games have been held for the past two decades.
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http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20090115/accolades.php
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This handpainted abstract butterflies on blue/grey needlepoint is by The Red Thread.
The design area measures 6" x 7".
This elegant abstract needlepoint comes with or without fibers. If you select cotton we will send DMC cotton floss. For wool we will send Bella Lusso, and silk we use Planet Earth Pepperpot boutique fibers which are single-ply for 18 mesh. All thread choices include Kreinik metallics for the metallic colors that run through this design.
For stretcher bars we recommend a pair of 10" and a pair of 11".
This easy to stitch handpainted needlepoint canvas usually ships within 1 week.
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https://www.needlepoint-for-fun.com/shop/Handpainted-Needlepoint-Designs/Bees-and-Bugs/p/Butterfly-on-Blue-Grey-x22055579.htm
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The structural relaxation caused by the plastic deformation of polymer glasses is not yet fully understood. In particular, the size scale of the localized plastic relaxation events is currently unknown. In this work, the effect of molecular entanglement density on the shear activation volume of glassy polymers has been studied. The shear activation volumes of miscible polystyrene?poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide) (PS?PPO) blends at different PS/PPO ratios have been determined experimentally by both plane-strain and uniaxial compression at constant strain rates. We find that the same correlation between the shear activation volume and the entanglement density ?e holds for the blend as well as for various pure glassy polymers:? = C(?e/nm-3)? + V0, with C = 8.2 ± 0.4 nm3, ? = 0.6 ± 0.03, and V0 < 0.1 nm3. The shear activation volume is closely related to the size of the plastic shear zones; therefore, this correlation suggests that the cooperativity of the elementary processes of plastic deformation in glassy polymers scales with ?e.
Ho, Janet, Govaert, Leon and Utz, Marcel (2003) Plastic deformation of glassy polymers: correlation between shear activation volume and entanglement density. Macromolecules, 36 (19), 7398-7404. (doi:10.1021/ma025733d).
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2019-04-25T04:30:34Z
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https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/355573/
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There will be a reunion of the Cloutier family on July 4, 2007 in Natchitoches, La.
There will be a Dominique Metoyer reunion organized by the LaCour-Rachal-Balthazar Metoyer branch on July 6-7, 2007 in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Contact brooke.alexis@comcast.net for further details.
The Fontenot-Victorian and their Allied Families Reunion will be held on Saturday, June 30, 2007. The time is between 11:00 a.m and 5:00 p.m. The location is the Foreman-Reynaud Community Center at 205 Albert Street, Lake Charles, LA 70601.
The next Guillory Family Reunion will be held in Lake Charles on July 13-14, 2007. See http://groups.msn.com/LCH-REUNION-2006/familyreunions.msnw for more information.
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2019-04-24T11:28:44Z
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https://caneriver.wordpress.com/category/reunions/
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Conjunctive Adverbs: Words in Endless Grammatical Angst!
Words in Endless Grammatical Angst!
Also called adverbial conjunctions, conjunctive adverbs are pathetic, confused little creatures. They can't decide if they are adverbs or conjunctions in traditional grammar! Accordingly, they try to be both. This leads to all sorts of punctuation problems.
She was accordingly quite interested in grammar.
However ugly the gargoyle may be, I will go on a blind date with him.
Here, accordingly and however are simple adverbs. All accordingly does is modify the verb interested. All however does is modify the adjective ugly.
On the other hand, as Kolln and Funk note, conjunctive adverbs can also appear at the start of a sentence or clause to indicate result, concession, apposition, addition, time, contrast, summary, or reinforcement (295).
When conjunctive adverbs function this way, they are separated from the rest of the sentence with a comma. In such cases, the conjunctive adverb needs a comma after it because it is a phrase appearing before an independent clause. Note the commas in the following sentences.
Therefore, I will eat eggs!
Still, it sounds like a good idea.
In other words, grammar is a useful skill.
Likewise, all students should embrace the sad little conjunctive adverbs.
Meanwhile, the conjunctive adverbs sat pouting in the corner.
However, we should not mock conjunctive adverbs.
Thus, the conjunctive adverbs will bow before their masters, the cruel semicolons.
Above all, we must realize conjunctive adverbs are an important part of the grammatical ecosystem.
Finally, sometimes conjunctive adverbs try to pretend they are full conjunctions and hook two independent clauses together. This pretension is indeed a sad travesty! They are not really full conjunctions, and they can't do that job by themselves. Typically, they lurk just behind a semicolon in this situation, and it is the semicolon that does the real job of joining the two independent clauses. A comma should always follow the conjunctive adverb in such instances.
The gods thundered in the heavens; furthermore, the mortals below cowered in fear.
The bank robber dodged the bullet; however, Joey was shot seventeen times in the tibia.
Susan appreciated the flowers; nevertheless, a Corvette would be a finer gift.
Dr. Wheeler is a grammar tyrant; thus, he requires correct punctuation.
She will go on a blind date with George; however, he is a really ugly fellow.
The tyranosaurs were migrating south; meanwhile, the apatosaurs breathed a sigh of relief.
The conjunctive adverbs pretend they are conjunctions; however, the semicolon is what really connects the two clauses together.
Note that if students use a comma instead of a semicolon in the examples above, they have created a comma splice. Such formations absolutely require the semicolon in front of the conjunctive adverb and a comma after the conjunctive adverb.
Click here to go back to the grammar page. Click here to download a PDF handout covering the material on this page.
Kolln, Martha and Robert Funk. Understanding English Grammar. New York: Pearson Publishing, 2006.
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https://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/gram_conj_adv.html
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Hat is a programmer’s tool for generating a trace of a computation of a Haskell 98 program and viewing such a trace in various different ways. Applications include program comprehension and debugging. A new version of Hat uses a stand-alone program transformation to produce self-tracing Haskell programs. The transformation is small and works with any Haskell 98 compiler that implements the standard foreign function interface. We present general techniques for building compiler independent tools similar to Hat based on program transformation. We also point out which features of Haskell 98 caused us particular grief.
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2019-04-25T12:51:52Z
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https://kar.kent.ac.uk/58270/
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We have a horse. She's a big horse. My 9 year old daughter whom we affectionately call Bishkybobs loves horses. And I love my 9 year old daughter.
I once found a stool from the house out in the pasture. She had taken it there to climb up on Bonnie, our horse. On another day, I happened to look up and saw her with her 4 year old sister hoisted onto Bonnie and her leading. She has attempted to saddle Bonnie without my help, though the saddle is too heavy, the horse too tall, and she too weak to put it on, or to cinch it up. She goes out in the pasture to visit Bonnie often. She feeds her apples and carrots. We have had to make a rule that she can only use blemished apples in order to keep some apples for the family.
Bonnie is tame, and well trained, but was once a trail riding horse, and knows that there are humans that she does not have to obey. My daughter is one of those humans. When my daughter rides her, there comes a point where Bonnie has had enough and she just quits, or worse.
The ache of my daughter's heart is to have a horse that she can ride.
My heart is inclined towards her.
One day, a few weeks ago, a neighbor was over, telling us about a man who had died, leaving 17 horses, trained for saddle and harness. His children had no interest and the horses were going to be sold at auction, at prices much below their value.
At first, many times a day, “Daddy, can we get one of those horses?” Then once a day, and now probably once a week.
My heart is inclined towards her. I find myself looking for ways to buy her one of those horses.
It doesn't make any sense. We already have a horse that is only good for looking at and being petted. With a firm hand, it could be good for much more, but my daughter is too young to be firm enough. I have experience with horses. I know that another horse would likely end up just like the first one. And it costs money to feed a horse.
Yet, I look forward to her getting old enough, so that I can get her a horse that she can ride.
Bishkybobs brother Bones is only mildly interested in horses. Sometimes -- rarely, he goes along with Bishykbobs to visit Bonnie, but it's just a way to pass the time. If he asks me for a horse, I will just grunt some reason that he can't have one, and know that by tomorrow it will be forgotten.
But if he asks me for a rope, or a hammer, or an electric train set, my heart will tilt towards him, same as it does for Bishkybobs. Because I know his heart too!
I have been reading the book, “Fasting,” by Scot Mcknight. In it he makes the point that fasting moves the heart of God, not because it's fasting, but because the fasting expresses the wholeheartedness of the seeker. In much the same way, persistence, or sacrifice also shows the heart of the seeker. In other words, there is no formula – “Do this and then that, and God will answer.”-- but rather God's heart is inclined towards His children, when He sees that their heart is in their request. (Cf Jeremiah 29:13) From what I know of my heavenly Father, and from what I see in the mirror of my Father's heart – my own heart – this makes sense to me.
A few weeks ago, I preached a sermon on this, entitled, “Does God believe you?” We tend to think that if we are to pray in faith as the Bible instructs, the point of the “in faith” is whether or not we have confidence in God. Perhaps of equal importance is whether He believes us. Halfhearted prayers are not likely to tilt his heart towards us.
Sometimes people come and tell me of some need or another. As they leave, I say, “I will pray for you.” Then I have a crisis of integrity. Knowing myself to be scatter brained and forgetful, I pray, right then and there, on the spot, to make sure that I fulfill my word. And then I forget about it. I am not wholeheartedly beseeching my Father on behalf of my friend. I am avoiding feeling guilty.
The point of that prayer is to absolve myself of the responsibility to pray. And guess what! My heavenly Father knows it! If I look in the mirror, I am guessing He will answer with a grunt, at best.
The beauty of all of this is the realization that my heart impacts my Father's heart, and because His heart is inclined towards me, He grants me the longings of my heart.
The challenge is the realization that He can't be manipulated. Mouthed words are meaningless to Him when they come from a cold, lukewarm or disinterested heart. What I ask for may even be a good thing, but He knows when my heart is not in it.
The comfort in this is that this does not put me in the drivers seat. Though my heart is inclined towards her, Bishykybobs still does not have a horse that she can ride. She waits on my tenderhearted wisdom. And I wait on His.
This view allows prayer to have all the simplicity and complexity of a parent child relationship. If, with all my heart, I ask for poison, He will, with all His heart, deny my request. If I am not ready for it, He will wait. If I am ready but people around me aren't, He will hold off till they are, or just say, “no,” because they won't be, or work in their hearts so that they will be.
If you have been reading these blogs, you have read my “Personal Lament,” and my “Communal Lament.” You know that I have been praying for an Acts-like personal and church experience for a quarter of a century. Not praying as a religious duty, but praying out of an aching heart. My prayers have had an ebb and flow to them, but they have never ebbed away, and often the flow is intense. My heavenly Father has never seen me lose interest.
But after my sermon, “Does God believe you?” I had been asking that question of my own prayers, and getting frustrated. What could I do to show Him I meant it? I have been learning to fast, but so far a fast is not a natural expression of an intensely heartfelt need, for me. It was, in the culture of the Bible, but it isn't, yet, for me.
I went to a “Desiring God” conference last week. During worship, I was processing that question, and God met me.
Content in the knowledge that He has heard me and that His heart is tilted towards me, I wait.
But I am still pestering Him.
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2019-04-22T12:33:38Z
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https://lifeseeker.blogs.com/life/2012/02/a-horse-my-daughter-and-a-mirror.html
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A prospective study of weight gain after premenopausal hysterectomy.
Many women who have had hysterectomies have the perception that they gained weight after surgery that cannot be attributed to changes in diet or physical activity. The purpose of this analysis was to assess weight gain in premenopausal women in the first year after hysterectomy compared with a control group of women with intact uteri and ovaries.As part of a prospective cohort study designed to assess the risk for ovarian failure after premenopausal hysterectomy, weight was measured at baseline and 1-year follow-up in 236 women undergoing hysterectomy and 392 control women. Changes in measured weight and reported weight were assessed. Unconditional logistic regression analyses were used to calculate odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for weight gains of >10 pounds.Women with hysterectomies weighed more and had a higher mean body mass index (BMI) than control women at baseline. Mean weight gain was 1.36 kg ( approximately 3 pounds) for women with hysterectomies vs. 0.61 kg ( approximately 1.3 pounds) for control women (p = 0.07). Weight gain of >10 pounds occurred in 23% of women with hysterectomies compared with 15% of control women (multivariable OR = 1.61, 95% CI 1.04 = 2.48).Women undergoing hysterectomies appear to be at higher risk for weight gain in the first year after surgery. Heavier women and women who have had weight fluctuations throughout adulthood may be at greater risk for postsurgical weight gain, suggesting that lifestyle interventions to maintain or lose weight may be particularly helpful for these women in the months following hysterectomy.
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2019-04-25T00:18:45Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub720677
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Courses: Experience learning something fun, challenging or amazing —200 choices this year.
Field Trips: Visit special places throughout southern Louisiana.
Coffees: Hear outstanding speakers on topics of current interest.
Nature Walks: Enjoy naturalist-accompanied walks on the third Friday of the month in some of the most beautiful places in southern Louisiana.
OLLI NEWS: A weekly e-mail newsletter listing upcoming OLLI activities and local interests.
OLLI Membership Directory: An annual list of OLLI members.
Locations: Programs offered at 15 locations throughout southern Louisiana.
LSU College of Music and Dramatic Arts: Discounted tickets to events.
LSU University Recreation Center (UREC): Memberships available for OLLI members.
Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center: Discounted tickets to films and live concerts.
Campus Federal Credit Union: Full membership privileges to OLLI members. Stop by one of their three branches.
Best of all Benefits: Friendships and learning with more than 1100 other OLLI at LSU lifelong learning members!
Go to the Cajun Prairie page under Chapters to see additional member benefits for Cajun Prairie members.
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2019-04-19T10:58:55Z
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http://www.outreach.lsu.edu/Community/OLLI-at-LSU/-Benefits
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MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (11/26/2018)— Join the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering (CSE) for two weekends starting Friday, Nov. 30 for a dazzling light show designed by science and engineering students. The high-tech light show features more than 250,000 LED lights set to music written and recorded by University of Minnesota students. This year's show features new light installations, including lighted snowflakes, cascading rings and several lighted trees, and new music.
The CSE Winter Light Show Premiere event is Friday, Nov. 30, with shows at 5:30, 6 and 6:30 p.m. on the Civil Engineering Building Courtyard, 500 Pillsbury Dr. S.E., Minneapolis. Each show will last about 15 minutes. A Premiere Party begins at 5 p.m. and will include student project displays in the nearby Rapson Hall, HGA Goldstein Gallery, 89 Church St. SE, Minneapolis. Free hot chocolate and cookies will be provided while supplies last.
In addition, a special Winter Light Show Open House for CSE alumni and friends is planned from 5-6:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 7 in the Civil Engineering Building. For more information and to register, visit the CSE Alumni Winter Light Show Open House registration form.
Now in its eighth year, the show has become a campus winter tradition. Lights will surround the semi-circular Civil Engineering Courtyard and will be synchronized to music for a 360-degree sensory outdoor experience. Features include a giant 22-foot lighted tree, two 8-foot 3D snowman signs, 8-foot lighted arches, a 5-foot-by-12-foot lighted pixelated changeable sign, and a 6-foot circular light structure. The students estimate that the show includes more than five miles of lights and extension cords.
The light show is presented by the University of Minnesota Tesla Works student group. The show features the technical and creative skills of University of Minnesota science and engineering students and their ability to have fun on campus—even in the winter.
The show is sponsored by the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering Student Services. Additional support for the Premiere Party provided by the University of Minnesota Parent and Family Program.
This year's show features new light installations and new music.
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2019-04-19T21:03:16Z
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https://cse.umn.edu/college/news/student-designed-winter-light-shows-begin-nov-30-university-minnesota
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My FREE Report is ready!
Just a quick post to let you know that my FREE report detailing the 10 most common problems experienced when baking bread, and ways to avoid them is now available to my email subscribers.
If you want to pick up a copy, click here and I will send you the link.
As always, I value your thoughts and comments so after you have read the report any feedback would be appreciated.
Last weekend we had a lazy weekend at home and the kids wanted to make something in the kitchen. Cue recipe books flying around the room. There was eventually a toss-up between home-made fudge and peppermint creams.
After much debate arguing the pros and cons of both they decided on the peppermint creams (obviously covered in chocolate).
It was a simple recipe – the hardest thing is waiting for them to dry before dipping in chocolate and then waiting AGAIN for the chocolate to set.
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2019-04-25T12:25:24Z
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https://dalysbreadhomebaking.wordpress.com/
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The worldwide server market saw a year-on-year revenue slump of 3.6 percent in the first quarter to US$12.4 billion, after a winning streak of seven quarters of growth, IDC said Wednesday.
The slowdown in the market, which also witnessed shipments of servers drop by 3 percent year-on-year to 2.2 million units, is largely put down to an end in the enterprise refresh cycle and what is described as a “pause” in investments in hyperscale server deployments.
Those investments are expected to be back in the second half of this year with a pick up in expenditure on servers for existing data centers and the roll out of new ones.
The slowdown in the server market in the first quarter has not affected key players uniformly. Hewlett Packard Enterprise retained its top position, with revenue of $3.3 billion and a 26.7 percent share of market revenue, after a year on-year growth of 3.5 percent. Dell and IBM retained their number two and three spots respectively, but with year-on-year decline in revenue.
While Dell’s revenue dropped 1.8 percent to nearly $2.3 billion for a 18.3 percent market share, IBM saw its revenue drop by a whopping 33 percent year-on-year to $1.1 billion as it had a triple-digit growth for its z Systems mainframes in the year-ago quarter, after a spike from a system upgrade. Lenovo and Cisco tied for the fourth and fifth position.
Volume system revenue increased 1.8 percent in the quarter to $9.8 billion while revenue from midrange systems increased 8.3 percent in the quarter to $1.1 billion. Demand for high-end systems had a year-over-year revenue decline of 33.4 percent to $1.4 billion, mainly on account of the surge in demand for IBM mainframes last year, IDC said.
The Asia-Pacific region, excluding Japan, had the highest year-on-year revenue growth of 10.2 percent in the quarter. China was a strong contributor to that performance with 14.9 percent year-on-year revenue growth to $1.9 billion. The only other region that saw positive server revenue growth in the quarter was Western Europe at 1.7 percent, IDC said.
Intel dominates the server processor market with a 99.2 percent share of server chips in 2015. But ARM server chips will starting gaining traction next year, according to a research note from IDC this week.
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2019-04-23T15:02:53Z
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https://www.pcworld.com/article/3078062/server-market-slumps-after-seven-quarters-of-growth.html
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A few days after Jill Garrison learned that her niece had disappeared, her boyfriend, Nathaniel White, went with her to her family's July 4 picnic and tried to console relatives by saying the girl would turn up and be fine.
When Laurette Huggins Reviere, a close friend of Ms. Garrison, was found stabbed in her home a week later, Ms. Garrison said today, she and her boyfriend talked about what would happen to the woman's two children, who had slept over at their house a few weeks earlier.
This morning, Ms. Garrison sat stone-faced and shocked in her kitchen in the village of Wallkill, as she tried to digest the news that Mr. White had been arrested on Tuesday and charged with murdering Christine M. Klebbe, Ms. Garrison's 14-year-old niece; Ms. Reviere, and four other women. The police say Mr. White has confessed to all six killings and led them to several of the bodies.
"I've been trying to look back and I just can't see it," Ms. Garrison said softly. "I wish I would have had a clue."
It was voices in his head that told him to kill, according to Mr. White, who gave an unusual interview today from the Orange County jail. He met with reporters from WNBC-TV in New York City and The Times Herald Record of Middletown after they asked to talk to him.
After the voices told him that he should "take a drive," Mr. White said, he would go out and befriend a woman at a bar.
Later, he said, the voices would tell him: "She deserves to die, you should get her, beat her up."
"So I would just do it," he said.
"I couldn't help myself," he said. "That's why I decided to tell everything. I don't want to do it anymore."
Mr. White said he killed for the first time after seeing the movie "Robocop," a violent, futuristic thriller about a police officer who was half man and half machine. "I did exactly what I saw in the movie," he said.
The interview was halted after county officials learned that a judge had appointed a lawyer for Mr. White.
Capt. Michael Cahill of the New York State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations said today that the victims had only two things in common: "All are female and all were killed by Nathaniel White."
Captain Cahill said that Mr. White had "met some in bars, some walking along the road and found one in her home." Some already knew Mr. White, he said, while others were meeting him for the first time. Several were sexually abused, Captain Cahill said, though he declined to comment on how many or which ones.
At the funeral today for Ms. Hunter in Middletown, where more than 100 people gathered, friends and relatives talked of a home-care attendant who dreamed of being a model, who always had a "hello" for neighbors and a smile, friends said.
"She was a victim like all the victims," said her mother, Janice Hunter. "She was too outgoing and friendly."
A relative of two of the other victims also suggested that their friendliness may have been their downfall.
Rene Hopkins, whose sister Angelina and cousin Ms. Whiteside were killed, said that that the families were originally from Savannah, Ga., and that people were "more trusting and friendly" in Georgia. That could be why her sister and cousin were open, trusting, friendly people, she said.
The victims came from a variety of backgrounds. Ms. Reviere, an employee at Blue Cross-Blue Shield in Middletown, was about to move her family back to her native St. Vincent; another victim, Ms. Frank, was described by Chief Thomas J. Lopez of the Middletown Police as "more of a street, night-life person" about whom little was known.
Relatives described Ms. Klebbe, who had just finished eighth grade, as a "typical teen-ager" who liked to go to the mall, see movies with her friends and play bingo. "She had to go to summer school this year," said Catherine Garrison, her grandmother, "and she wasn't crazy about it."
Ms. Klebbe had got along well with Mr. White, family members said, and at the end of June, around the time she disappeared, the two of them had helped Mrs. Garrison, the grandmother, organize a garage sale. "They were marking things and chatting just fine," Mrs. Garrison said. A few days later, it appears, Mr. White offered her a ride somewhere and she did not return.
Police said that Ms. Whiteside and Ms. Hopkins met Mr. White for the first time at a club called the Blue Note Tavern in Poughkeepsie on July 19. Witnesses told the police that they all left together.
"It was a standard pickup," said Capt. Donald Briggs of the Poughkeepsie Police. "They were just two young girls. They never had been in any trouble. They just did the wrong thing at the wrong time."
The police and residents said that Mr. White had a reputation of being a charmer.
Ms. Garrison, 30, who had been dating Mr. White since 1986, said that the two of them had lived together on several occasions, most recently earlier this year.
In recent months, Mr. White had been going out more at night and drinking more, she said.
"He knew I didn't like the drinking so much, so he didn't do it when I was around," Ms. Garrison said.
On the few occasions when he became drunk around her, he became violent, she said.
"He hit me, but not to the extent that you would see it," she said.
Ms. Garrison's parents said today that they did not like Mr. White, though they called him a smart man who always seemed to get his way.
"My husband and I were not that fond of the man," Mrs. Garrison said.
George Garrison, Ms. Garrison's father, added: "He was a strange duck. He always wanted things done his own way."
State Police, who made the arrest, said today that they first became aware of Mr. White on Monday morning after a mother of one of the victims, Angelina Hopkins, learned his name.
Captain Briggs of the Poughkeepsie Police said that the mother had returned to the place where her daughter and niece had disappeared, the Blue Note Tavern, and "did quite a bit of questioning." She found witnesses who saw the three of them together and people gave her Mr. White's name, Captain Briggs said.
"That mother did a good job," he said. "She did some good police work."
A map on Thursday with articles about six slayings in the Hudson Valley misidentified the suspect's hometown. The accused killer, Nathaniel White, is from the town of Wallkill in Orange County; the hamlet of Wallkill in Ulster County was not related to the case.
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https://www.nytimes.com/1992/08/06/nyregion/6-victims-and-a-suspect-the-mysteries-endure.html?amp%3Bpagewanted=all
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Paul Jacobs talks about how his company's chip got into the T-Mobile G1, the first phone to run Google's Android operating system.
Qualcomm supplies the main processor for the T-Mobile G1, the first phone to run Google's Android OS. In an interview Tuesday, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs talked about the genesis of the Google phone and how his company became one of the principal players in the development of the handset.
Jacobs said he goes way back with Andy Rubin, Google's senior director of mobile platforms. "I've known Andy Rubin for a long time--from the Danger days," Jacobs said. (Rubin is co-founder and former CEO of both Danger Inc. and Android, a start-up Google acquired in 2005.) "When they started to get the idea to do an open-source operating system, they came and talked to us because we had the 3G chipsets and they knew us," Jacobs said.
On what Google brings to the mobile handset market that the Apple iPhone doesn't, Jacobs said, "They're trying to build an open developer's community and have the software be open source, and that means people will be able to modify it however they want."
What else makes Google's phone different? "The industry is also interested in seeing what new (business) models can accelerate time-to-market," Jacobs said. "Give people the opportunity to differentiate."
And Jacobs says Google's back-end services are crucial. "Everyone talks about cloud computing. This is cloud computing. It's got all those services on the back-end. It uses all that storage and compute power on the Net."
As for how HTC came into the mix, Jacobs said he has worked with HTC since its beginnings about 10 years ago. "We had an investment in HTC very early on. And I knew Peter Chao (HTC's chief executive)."
Jacobs said the relationship with HTC was forged when the Compaq iPaq, one of the most popular of the early handheld devices, first came out. HTC made the original Compaq iPaq handheld. "Microsoft got Compaq to sell it...the very first one that came out." The Compaq iPaq, which has been rebranded the HP iPaq, used Microsoft's PocketPC software.
So, looking back on all of this history, the principals from Android, Qualcomm, and HTC were really just leveraging longstanding relationships. "It was kind of like a bunch of people who had known each other for a long time in the wireless industries coming together," Jacobs said.
Jacobs also talked about the Qualcomm MSM7201A applications processor that powers the T-Mobile G1. "It's a system on a chip. We ported the Android operating systems onto it," he said.
Qualcomm optimized the Android software by integrating it with the MSM7201A--a dual-core chip that combines hardware-accelerated multimedia capabilities, 3D graphics and built-in, multi-mode 3G mobile broadband connectivity.
The MSM7201A is a 32-bit ARM9 processor that supports GPS functions, EDGE, and HSDPA (High-Speed Downlink Packet Access).
Qualcomm is also one of the founding members of the Open Handset Alliance.
Qualcomm said today in a statement that it is also working with other manufacturers to develop handsets that operate on the Android platform.
Click here for full coverage of Google Android.
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2019-04-26T10:35:16Z
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https://www.cnet.com/news/qualcomm-ceo-dials-up-google-phone-history/
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The Vision for our planning programs is: Our graduates are leaders of the planning profession and guides to sustainable futures.
1. We take pride in over 50 years (since 1968) of community-based research and community-service learning.
2. We focus on problem solving at the local scale.
3. We value and promote diversity.
4. We seek to address global understanding recognizing the need for local actions.
5. We take pride in our alumni who shape and influence the future of our region as professional planners and community builders.
Mission: The mission of the Urban and Regional Planning Programs at EWU is to provide quality professional planning education, research, and community service with an emphasis on problem solving at the local level.
1. Provide a quality applied professional planning education for both graduate and undergraduate students.
2. Actively recruit excellent, diverse students.
3. Disseminate high-quality, meaningful, and timely research to the academic professional, and governmental communities.
4. Maintain the department's long tradition of providing community service to local communities.
5. Develop and maintain a qualified and diverse faculty and staff.
6. Work closely with professional planning organizations to support and develop ongoing educational opportunities, services, and programs.
7. Maintain sound administrative procedures and practices.
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2019-04-19T05:31:23Z
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https://www2.ewu.edu/cbpa/programs/urban-regional-planning/urp-strategic-plan
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Earlier this year Logan Zayac, on behalf of PD3D, participated on GrabCAD’s Make It Real challenge. Logan had been working on a patient-specific reconstruction featuring a mass near the kidneys. After the geometric reconstruction was completed, Logan used images of kidneys, renal arteries, vertebrae, and surrounding tissues to recreate an accurate texture map. The finished textured model was then printed on a Stratasys’ PolyJet J750. The model has now been hosted on our team’s SketchFab account.
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2019-04-22T20:30:09Z
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https://pd3d.eecs.ucf.edu/2019/03/07/make-it-real-2019/
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Although new to many members of the psychological community, the notion of a “combined” model of training has been in existence for nearly 30 years (Beutler & Fisher, 1994). The present article is intended to outline the benefits and advantages of the Combined-Integrated (C-I) model. Following a brief discussion of the terms “combined” and “integrated,” the advantages of C-I training are discussed across five key themes: (a) the high overlap across traditional practice area training, (b) the advantages of the breadth of training offered, (c) the advantages of C-I training for the professional of psychology, (d) the pragmatic advantages of C-I training to faculty and students, and (e) the benefits of C-I training for salient constituency groups.
Crowley, S. L., & Peterson, G. (2004). From the horse’s mouth: The case for combined-integrated doctoral training in professional psychology. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 60, 929-938.
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2019-04-24T04:39:13Z
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2000: Clinton Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Arthur Levitt proposes regulations to prohibit accounting firms from simultaneously serving as consultants and auditors. Anderson and other accounting firms marshall a massive lobbying campaign against the Clinton-Levitt regs, killing them. The lead lobbyist for the accounting firms is Harvey Pitt. After being sworn in as President, Bush makes Pitt chair of the SEC.
· Cracking Down on Tax Havens 2000: Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers proposes a crackdown on tax havens such as those used by Enron. With the US co-chairing the OECD's Forum on Harmful Tax Practices, Summers crusades for a crackdown on money-laundering and tax havens. His proposal is opposed by the GOP Congress. When the Bush Administration takes office, Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill abandons Summers' crusade, telling the Wall Street Journal, "The government has not been respectful of the cost it imposes on society." The New York Times reports that Bush's top economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey (a former economic adviser to Enron) also opposed efforts to crack down on tax havens.
· Protecting Investors and Shareholders On December 20, 1995, President Clinton vetoed the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act, which would have restricted lawsuits against corporation accused of securities fraud. In his veto message, Clinton presciently noted that while he supported the notion of reducing frivolous lawsuits: "I am not, however, willing to sign legislation that will have the effect of closing the courthouse door on investors who have legitimate claims. Those who are the victims of fraud should have recourse in our courts.…our markets are as strong and effective as they are because they operate -- and are seen to operate -- with integrity. I believe that this bill, as modified in conference, could erode this crucial basis of our markets' strength." The GOP Congress overrode Clinton's veto.
Cherri, Mon Dieu! Clinton was the most wonderful president ever! I see it now. He did nothing wrong and everything right. How could I be so blind not to see it sooner. Thank you ever so much for your persistence in trying to teach me the error of my ways. I'm a born again Democrap, er... oops I mean Democrat.
-- Maria (anon@ymous.com), April 02, 2002.
This article is fairly accurate. Of course Begala being Begala, he leaves out the fact that some contributed-to Congressional Democrats joined a larger number of Republicans in fighting desirable reforms. On the whole, though, not bad as an overview IMHO.
-- Peter Errington (petere7@starpower.net), April 02, 2002.
Maybe we can use our crystal balls and make it all go away.
-- (LOL@LOL.LOL), April 02, 2002.
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2019-04-18T22:26:00Z
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http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=008bEQ
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Download the band biography in PDF format.
Down To The Bone is Stuart Wade as producer, writer and mastermind behind the whole groove project, working with other talented musicians and co-writers to bring together a project of good grooves.
Set up at the tail end of 1995 when Wade decided to take a track from the soul band he was in at the time, Think Twice, and remix it to give it a rawer and stripped down feel. The result was the Down To The Bone remix of the track ‘Joy Is Free’ which had great success.
Following on from the success of his remix he teamed up with Think Twice keyboard player, Simon Greenaway, to put together a string of songs. This resulted in the first release on a 12” single of “Staten Island Groove”. Released on Internal Bass Records, a label Wade set up with another member of Think Twice. This resulted in rave reviews for the single and club and radio play in the U.K.
It was at this time that Stuart decided to try to complete an album. Wade had to look for future musicians to work with, whilst still working with Internal Bass Records. This resulted in the introduction of musicians like Richard Sadler, Richard Wargent, Neil Cowley, Tim Best in order to complete the first album.
After the completion of “From Manhattan To Staten”, a title Wade came up with to show his influences from across the pond, it was decided to try to take the whole sound over to America to see what would happen .Not expecting anything, Wade was astounded by the huge response after two important guys at U.S. Jazz radio, Blake Lawrence and Steve Williamson decided to take it upon themselves to play DTTB on their stations. With support from people like DJ Chillfreeze, Marc E Copeland, Rick Laboy, Cozmic Cat and Andrea DJ Sun and some Urban radio interest, DTTB was introduced to a US audience.
It was clear DTTB happened to be in the right place at the right time. The momentum grew and “From Manhattan To Staten” reached No.2 in the National US Billboard Jazz Chart, No.3 in the Gavin Jazz chart and No 4 in the Radio and Records Jazz Chart. DTTB was also the No.1 top selling independent Jazz artist of 1999, No 5 top selling Jazz artist and album of 1998 and No 5 top selling Jazz artist and album in 1999 and with a string of radio hits in the U.S it shows how DTTB have been able to accumulate well over half a million sales worldwide.
Wade later signed to Verve Records to enable him to record his fourth album “Crazy Vibes and Things” in 2002 after releasing three on Internal Bass Records after splitting from the label he co-ran. With more and more demands for live appearances DTTB was becoming a well established act, especially in the U.S. So much so that Wade had to concentrate on the U.S for the live side of things, much to his frustration at not being able to gig so much in his home country of the U.K .Something he hopes to change with his new signing to Dome Records in the UK.
After a short spell on Verve Wade decided to move on and sign with Narada/Blue Note where he recorded three albums “Cellar Funk”, “Spread Love Like Wildfire” and “Supercharged” and then “Future Boogie” on Shanachie in the US, Freestyle Records in the UK and Swanky in Japan.
It has always been Wade’s aim to pay respect to his mentors and he is thrilled to actually be working with some of them as guests on his albums. Such greats as, Rueben Wilson, Brian Auger, Jeremy Steig, and Roy Ayers and multi talented vocalists like N’Dambi, Flora Purim, Corrina Greyson, Hil St Soul and Guida De Palma, Imaani and most recently Katie Leone.
This all leads up to Down To The Bone’s new album “Dig It”, which gets released on Dome Records for the UK/EU/R.O.W on 28th April 2014. Trippin ‘n’ Rhythm Records for the US/Canada on 29th April 2014 and P-Vine Records in Japan on 2nd May 2014.
“Dig It” is somewhat of a landmark release for DTTB as it’s the 10th album and has taken just over two years to produce. It consists of 10 original tracks of DTTB’s trademark style of mixing up Soul, Funk and Jazz to produce the distinctive grooves that make up the act’s sound and is so popular with fans and groove lovers alike.
“Dig It” features the talents of Katie Leone on the two main vocal tracks “Happiness Is A Healer” and “Put A Different Spin On It”. Katie is also a main vocalist for the band Incognito.
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2019-04-26T12:35:20Z
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Description - From the creators of the hit Story Pirates Podcast comes an album full of songs for kids that parents will love, too! Nothing Is Impossible features twelve infectious songs, written and performed by the Story Pirates, based entirely on stories written by KIDS! To learn more about the us, visit storypirates.com!
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - The Story Pirates have created a lovely 12 song album based on original stories written by children ages 4 to 11. The imagination is brilliant throughout this project and the performances are impeccable. Each song is based on a different child's original story so each structure is unique to that particular content. You know you're in for a ride when the opening song is "Fart Out Loud Day," written by two sisters from Colorado. I'm sorry, but "Pass Gas Out Loud Day" just doesn't have the same je ne sais quoi - excuse my French. "All Eight Unicorns" are pretentious valley girls and reminded me of the Kardashians - silly unicorns! These are well produced arrangements and performances that are absolutely creatively stimulating for young minds. They are smart songs with a child's sensibility where imagination rules the day and written stories can blossom into something very special. The performances and production are first-rate across the board! Sharing observations and fun, silly ideas with peers can build positive social interaction. I would hope this concept would encourage a child to write down their own stories and observations. This would be a fun activity for the classroom. The hits keep coming and the smiles are plenty, so find your way to this gleaming pot of gold because Nothing Is Impossible! I give this 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it to ages 5 to 12. It is well produced, entertaining and fun.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Nothing is Impossible is a collection of songs that are impossible to get out of your head (in the best way possible)! These tunes are funny, addicting and creative. Kids and parents alike will love this music. Even as a teenager, I found this album really funny and musically impressive. I really enjoyed listening to each song and felt that I was listening to music that I could show my kids in years to come.
Nothing is Impossible features songs written and sung by the creators of the hit Story Pirates Podcast. It's based entirely on stories written by young children. The influences for these stories include six-year-old Leah from Maryland's story about being in the car (hence the title "In the Car"), a comic made by eleven-year-old Peer from California ("The Guy") and ten-year-old Alex from New York's story about a talking carrot ("Fred the Carrot"). One story that really caught my eye was four-year-old Ethan's from New Jersey. Ethan has heterotaxy, so he has a special heart and battery. He said the reason behind writing his story was that he would "love to run and catch a seagull, but I can't even jump that high so I wrote a story about it." I really want to commend Story Pirates for choosing Ethan's story and allowing him to express himself. It is really heartwarming to listen to that song and read Ethan's artist statement.
Nothing is Impossible is really an awesome album. Kids will laugh hysterically at songs such as "Fart Out Loud Day" and "Fred the Carrot." Even I had to stop myself from chuckling. Some of these song lyrics are really creative, as are the concepts. It's hard to believe that young kids came up with these ideas. The songs promote self-love and positive messages for young kids, such as believing in yourself and being confident and proud. The concept of this collection is an original one. I've never heard of anyone basing songs off of kids' ideas. Kids can be smarter than grown-ups sometimes, so it is really interesting to see all of these cool concepts played out in song form.
I recommend Nothing is Impossible for kids ages 2 to 10 and give it 5 out of 5 stars, because of its creativity and humor. This CD is a fun and entertaining way for young children to enjoy music and life. Thanks to its positivity, it may also boost their spirits and confidence. I really enjoyed this CD and I think younger kids will enjoy it even more.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Hey kids! Are you ready to learn STEM in a fun and educational way? This CD will have you grooving to the beat, making your head bop and your fingers snap away to higher learning. This collection includes two CDs and one DVD for your enjoyment. It also includes five karaoke tracks to encourage kids to sing along!
I like everything about this collection, because every song has a lesson. Some children learn best through music. They stick in your head and get you singing along. It makes it easier to remember how science, technology, engineering and math works and how they affect our daily lives. I think that using songs that kids will listen to makes learning more lively for children. I felt as if I was a part of creating this CD. It is definitely is my kind of feel good music.
Children's music artist Dan Crow and his partners at KidzMusic Records have collaborated with various children's performing artists to make learning about the STEM subjects more fun, through the art of music. This collection of CDs will draw a large audience of children. Dan Crow captures your attention as well as your parent's attention. On this CD you get music and learning, all to a fun beat.
My favorite song has to be "Technology," on the Dan Crow concoctions CD. Technology goes as far back as the 1860s. Everyday technology is improving and innovating all the time and we try to keep up with it. Children today use technology a lot more in schools than they use textbooks. We use technology on a daily basis - our phones, TVs, cars, laptops and iPads, just to name a few. Technology never goes out of style. It changes constantly and only gets better and easier to use.
I am pretty sure that you and your child will enjoy listening to this collection. Not only are the tunes catchy, but the lyrics are educational. This is a very fun way to further your knowledge on STEM subjects. I give this collection 5 out of 5 five stars and highly recommend it for ages 5 to 8. These two CDs and one DVD are affordable and available in stores and online now. Buy it for a friend who can use a good hip lesson. Reviewed by Sev'n F.
Description - Josh Lovelace, Knoxville, Tennessee native and member of the Grammy Nominated rock band NEEDTOBREATHE, has been making music his entire life. As a young kid, he would sing songs and put on shows for his family and friends, pretending to be the world's next big superstar. Now, 33 with two kids of his own, he is reliving the spirit of those early years with a collection of children's music the whole family can enjoy. This CD features 15 original songs, written from Josh's experiences as a father. Produced and recorded in his East Tennessee home, the record includes guest appearances by Ben Rector, Ellie Holcomb, Spirit Family Reunion and legendary children's recording artists Sharon & Bram. There is something for every member of the family to enjoy!
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - Josh Lovelace's Young Folk album is sweet candy for the ears and soul. It's like being wrapped in a warm blanket, staring with wonder at the night skies with someone you love. Love is the overriding theme in this wholesome family collection that talks directly to and not down to inquisitive little ones, with just the right touch of zany added to the mix. Lovelace and Friends' vocals are smooth and inviting as a summer day. Fine production and songwriting round out a lovely, gentle listening experience. It is very accessible for children and adults alike - striking just the right balance. The flow of the album is perfect with each song a nice surprise. Lovelace draws from his family observations as he treasures every moment through his art. Love of family and each other permeate the collection along with caring and sharing life experiences. The songs are perfectly constructed with the intended audience in mind and include a few gems for adults. I can't say enough good things about it. I love the vocals and instrument choices. I would hope that the listener would model awareness of the moments and observations of the world around us. I definitely give this 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it to ages 3 to 8. Reviewed by John Wood, KIDS FIRST! Music Specialist.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Josh Lovelace and Friends Present: Young Folk is an album for the whole family with a nice, mellow atmosphere throughout including a few silly, fun songs. The collection is geared towards children by Josh Lovelace of the band NEEDTOBREATHE, who has been nominated for a Grammy. My favorite song on this album is You're My Very Best Friend because it is very sweet with good usage of backup vocals and it describes friendship quite well. It also tells me this is going to be different from other kids' albums with a much more sophisticated feeling to it.
Where this album really succeeds is in its broad appeal. There are one or two louder, repetitive tracks on the album you might find on your typical children's CD, but there are also more quiet, reflective pieces that parents will also enjoy. This is why I give this CD and age recommendation 4 to 15 and rate it 4 out of 5 stars. I think I might go back and listen to this one again. I recommend you listen to this album for its fun, yet sophisticated atmosphere.
Description - Strikingly crafted pop songs for kids, with stick-in-your-head lyrics and catchy melodies - plus a memorable cast of characters that bring kids into Andy's world, taking them on a musical adventure. The camp every kid will want to go to.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - Lets go to Camp Andyland or camp in general or stay at home and listen to the CD! This CD is well produced and entertaining. If your busy schedule does not allow you to take your valuable time and refresh and renew at a Camp near you, then sit back, relax and listen to the infectiously fun Camp Andyland - a world inhabited by zany dinosaurs, not-so-scary pirates and a host of other silly sausages! The songs are engaging, delightful adventures that will tickle your ear lobes - and we all need that - so make a date to have some fun and sing-a-long with your new found friends at Camp Andyland! The character voices are quite engaging as are the different musical styles and fun kid-friendly topics. I predict lots of fun and participation from young audiences as they experience the quirky adventures and music. This exemplifies good songwriting skills, terrific use of tempo and instrumentation and very experienced kid-friendly content. Explore and learn about the many wondrous things in this big wide world! Andy respectfully connects to the kids, because he still retains the joys of the child within. He has a handle on what kids like and respond to and doesn't talk down them, but leans in to their level. This is a professional recording all around. Andy does most of the heavy lifting on vocals, instruments and character voices and the recording quality is well done. I give this 4 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 5 to 8. Reviewed by John W., KIDS FIRST! Adult Music Juror.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Are you ready for camp? Sit back, relax and listen to the upbeat, feel-good music to cheer you up! Let's take a trip with Camp Andy, the camp every kid will want to go, with true joy from beginning to end. I perfectly love tuning in, singing and grooving to the songs. This collection of appealing, remarkable fun, lovely adventures is produced, arranged and engineered by Andy Z.
This CD is filled with strikingly crafted pop songs for kids, stick-in-your-head lyrics and catchy melodies - plus, a memorable cast of characters that bring kids into Andy Z's world. This infectious collection of songs contains many from the popular AndyLand series such as "Welcome to AndyLand," "Return to AndyLand" and "Summer in AndyLand."
This collection includes 16 songs, each with a catchy melody and memorable lyrics. I must say, it's an astonishing set of songs. Each song puts you into the camp vibe. Plus, the memorable cast of characters brings kids into Andy Z's world. You can see Andy's creativity and imagination in each song. This whole CD definitely kept me engaged from the beginning to the end.
My favorite song is definitely "I Went to a Party with Dinosaurs," because the lyric are outstandingly funny. This song certainly gave me a laugh-out-loud moment. The rhymes have a way of making you giggle. For example, here's one of my favorites lyrics: "I went on over to say 'hello' and he almost bit off my nose." That rhyme shows why it made me laugh like crazy. The song brings has a professional vibe with its high pitch instruments and great vocals.
Who is Andy Z? Andy is the creator of Camp AndyLand and all its humorous songs. He is an multiple award-winning children's performer, singer, songwriter and educator who combines music, movement, storytelling and character puppets to create a experience that capture children's attention.
I believe the whole family will enjoy this musical collection and kids will enjoy the funny, kid-friendly, exciting, intriguing set of songs. I give this 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 5 to 8. This CD is now available online and at discriminating music stores.
Description - Parlez-vous cha, cha, cha? From samba and merengue to rumba and reggae, this wildly fun collection of songs with Latin and Caribbean rhythms adds an exciting twist to learning French that makes learning French as easy as un, deux, trois.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Whistlefritz: Cha Cha Cha is an upbeat album for the whole family that helps kids learn French in a new and fun way.
Each song on Whistlefritz: Cha Cha Cha teaches a different aspect of speaking the French language. Songs range from being about the seasons to the days of the week and even certain jobs.
This CD is great at teaching vocabulary. The songs are sufficiently repetitive in a way that will educate those new to French, but won't annoy those already familiar with the vocabulary being taught. Even if you don't wish to learn French, the songs are peppy and catchy. A lot of different instruments are used and every song has a different feel and vibe.
I recommend it for ages 3 to 18. As long as your child or you are ready to learn some French, you should enjoy this CD. I would recommend this as a segue even into beginning level adults learning French. I give it 4.5 out of 5 stars. It is a nice review of some things in French for me, as someone who already knows some, and both beginners and experienced speakers are certain to get something out of this CD.
Cha, Cha, Cha: French Learning Songs is a helpful, educational, kid-friendly collection of songs that encourage learning the language of French through the art of song. French is a beautiful language that is great to know. The fun songs on this track really add something special to the experience of learning.
I had an awesome time listening to these songs and following along with the booklet provided. The woman who sings has a lovely voice, which is complemented by the upbeat rhythms of the music. This CD is full of catchy tunes that are easy to learn and fun for kids to sing along to. The music is energetic, fun and an absolute blast. It is child friendly and, at the same time very educational. I have no doubt that kids who genuinely want to learn French will enjoy this immensely.
I give this CD 5 out of 5 and commend it for ages 2 to 8. I loved this CD and think that it is a unique and helpful way to assist young learners who want to broaden their horizons and learn a new language. It's available now wherever CDs are sold and online at Whistlefritz so, look for it.
I really enjoyed listening to this CD. It is entertaining music that uses catchy and recognizable songs to teach French! It makes fun background music for little kids and they can do anything they want while listening to the music. By hearing the music at young age, they will learn French by immersion. It's like singing to kids and learning English without thinking about, just the way we learn English. It comes with the English words to the songs as well, so you can read those while listening if you like. I have to admit that it was a bit difficult for me to understand everything, because I don't know French. But kids under the age of five will probably get the hang of it quicker and will be singing the tunes without knowing they are singing in French. If you're older, you may like it the CD because the tunes are catchy and fun to listen to. I recommend this for ages 2 to 5 and give it 5 out of 5 stars. It is available now wherever CDs are sold and online at Whistlefritz.
Everyone get ready to move and grove to this terrific new CD! I adore the catchy beat of the music and how I found myself singing in French right away. Cha, Cha, Cha: French Learning Songs is musically creative and makes you want to dance and sing. Even if you don't know the French words, you soon will.
One thing that I really love about this is that it teaches you French in a wondrous way that kids, young and old will enjoy. Everyone likes music, so what better way to learn French than through song.
The songs are about the mouths of the year, different types of fruits, numbers and BINGO - the song that everyone loves. Since the songs are in French, the CD comes with a booklet that translates the lyrics into English, so you will understand every word. I enjoyed this factor because I now know how to say things like kiwi and October in French as well as English.
I recommend this for ages 4 to 13 and give it 5 out of 5 stars.
Description - When a shiny spaceship lands in Emilia's backyard, she meets URR from planet Goopda who has traveled to Earth to promote universal peace. The two learn about working together and making the world a better place as they sing their way through the day's adventures. Produced by Enrico Lopez-Ya�ez, Asst. Director, Nashville Symphony; Jeff Silverman producer of Mattel's Barbie "The Look." Composer: Ruth Weber.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - The Spaceship That Fell In My Backyard is the newest release from mother-daughter team, Ruth and Emilia. Featuring strong engaging vocals and terrific production values this fun-filled musical odyssey will have everyone dancing in the streets... as long as there is no traffic and you've looked both ways four times! URR from the planet Goopda is here on a mission of universal peace (like we need it!) and our heroes share positive adventures of love, acceptance and care for planet Earth. A splendid time is guaranteed for all! This energized pop-rock music has some very fun arrangements and instrumentation. It is well produced. The vocals are well-performed and the musicianship is terrific. There are lots of positive messages about love, acceptance, friendship and caring - all very relate-able child oriented issues. The structure follows a theme about our heroes befriending an alien traveler and they share positive goals for the planet. On the plus side, the alien doesn't eat them! This CD is perfect for its intended audience and is created in a gentle loving way. There are safety tips, caring for the planet advice and words of wisdom about befriending people from foreign lands. It all proves that learning and fun can be one. The artists know their audience and intended age group well. I love the way it celebrates our individuality as people and cultures, our deep love and caring for the Earth and the joy and appreciation of our friends near and galactically far away. This CD, in association with their stage show presents a nice package that will get kids get excited about outer space, Earth stewardship and respect for other cultures. I highly recommend it and give it 4 out of 5 stars. My audience recommendation is ages 5 to 10, as well as parents. Reviewed by John Wood, KIDS FIRST! Adult juror.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - This CD has lots of wonderful, catchy songs - all upbeat and inspirational. They tell the story of an alien crashing down in a little girl's backyard. They sing about friendship and having fun in life, brushing your teeth at night, saying no to drugs and not talking to strangers. I love how they make catchy songs about these good habits. The song helps you remember these habits.
The only concern I have about this CD is that some of the songs contain words in them that young listeners might not understand. Even though younger children might sing the words, it is always good to include words that young kids understand. Another issue I have is that some of the songs are sun really fast, making it hard to hear the words they are singing.
The CD is definitely informational and catchy and something that kids will definitely learn something from. I recommend it for ages 3 to 7 and give it 4 out of 5 stars. This CD comes out on March 23, 2018 so be sure to check it out!
This CD tells a story through song and a blend of a variety of music types. Although it teaches positive lessons, this CD is a promising concept met by a somewhat disappointing result.
The storyline is about a young girl named Emilia whose backyard is the landing site for an alien ship from the planet Goopda. The spaceship is carrying an alien named URR. Emilia and URR learn about each others' lives and find they have more in common than they thought.
The CD struggles at keeping an overarching idea to justify an entire CD. It starts off with the thread about Emilia and her otherworldly visitors and then descends into a group of songs about world peace and bubble baths. It doesn't reclaim its original thread until much later and abruptly ends just when it starts to get interesting.
I recommend it for ages 3 to 7 and give it 2 out of 5 stars. Younger kids will enjoy the happy vibe and simple rhymes.
Description - This is a musical treasure trove that joyfully celebrates the common chord of the human family. From Celtic to Cajun, African to Mexican, Caribbean to American blues as well as jazz and that Bo Diddly beat, "Life Circles" takes the listener on a spirited musical journey!
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - Like her song Sweet Potato Pie, Carrie Higgins' 'Life Circles' album is chock full of terrific musical ingredients that will bring a satisfied smile to your face and will keep you coming back for more. Her vocals and songwriting skills are terrific and her choice of subject matter skews well for her target audience. With the extra added baked-in pinch of love throughout, this CD is quite perfect for home, school and travel time! There are a lot of positive values, catchy tunes and variety in subject matter. The songs are well-produced and performed including stimulating musical styles and effects. It is very supportive with clear participatory call and response and overall gentleness and love. There are positive behaviors modeled: connection with the Earth, love for all people, appreciation of our differences and love of family. She never talks down to the children and keeps concepts understandable to her target audience. It is very well recorded. Carrie Higgins' voice is terrific! Well-played all around. It offers a plethora of pro social benefits from the importance of love and family, the boomerang effects from lying, the importance of healthy food and the idea that dreams and aspirations can be attained. I would hope that this album would be subject to repeated listening and instill a stronger sense of belonging and self-esteem in the children. I give this 5 out of 5 stars and recommend it for ages 3 to 8. Reviewed by John Wood, KIDS FIRST! Juror.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Life Circles is a positive album with good background instruments and a unique set of songs. Singer / songwriter Carrie Higgins's album is geared towards families and features songs about everything from blood sugar, to an interesting connection with a robe, to a folk tale in song form. My favorite song is Rock-A-Bye. It's got a good rhythm and I appreciate that the repetition goes on just long enough to make it catchy without being annoying. I also like that the songs draw from a range of influences and styles from around the world, including Latin and African beats. My one criticism of this album is that there is no major shift in tone in the selection of songs. While these upbeat high-tempo tunes have a nice assortment of instruments, few songs stand out from the others.
Life Circles is a perfect CD for a road trip. It has 14 songs that will have you and your kids singing along. I also like that they use children's voices for some songs. Kids are more likely to enjoy it when they know that their peers contributed to the album. Overall, the songs are cheerful and easy to listen to. Younger kids and their families are sure to enjoy this fun CD. I recommend it for ages 3 to 9.
HOLIDAY AND EVERYDAY SONGS - HAP-PAL MUSIC, INC.
Description - This is a collection of songs about holidays throughout the year combined with songs about special things that happen every day. Included songs for Martin Luther King Day, Valentines Day, Chinese New Year, Halloween, Fourth of July, Cinco de Mayo, Christmas and more.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - At last count Hap Palmer has written over a million songs - most people will be too lazy to fact check that fact. It's an election year. I elect Mr. Palmer to the Kids Music Hall of Fame alongside Mister Rogers another bastion of children's rights even when they're wrong sometime and need a hug and a cup of musical cocoa. 'Holiday and Everyday Songs' is a 19-song extravaganza of musical styles and feel good candy kisses that will have mom and dad dancing in Neolithic ways and kids downright digging the tunes and sharing and learning different cultural celebrations and appreciations. This album is memorable! Reviewed by John Wood, KIDS FIRST! Music Judge.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Hap Palmer Holiday and Everyday Songs is fun to listen to. We like the music and the singing. The singing is not like other songs. The songs have expression and feelings. We especially like the song Witches' Brew. The words are so fun and it's catchy. That song gets stuck in your head all day. We love it! It's our favorite. We also like the song Scamper a lot. We think other kids would like this CD because it's really fun!
Description - This new album, exclusive to Amazon, presents 35 familiar nursery rhymes and songs, collected from hundreds of possibilities in the children's canon. These fresh and sparely produced tracks provide the perfect opportunity for parents to remember their own childhoods, and to connect with their kids through melody, rhythm and rhyme. Acclaimed children's book and magazine illustrator Ekaterina Truhan created the sprightly animal parade art for the album, which also features a "selfie" image of Lisa Loeb on the front cover, and noted singer Renee Stahl guests.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - Nursery rhymes have been around for hundreds of years and many of the characters are based on real historical figures. Babies don't really care about that but they love the repetitive lyrics and easy to sing melodies especially when loved ones are bonding with them. Lisa Loeb has assembled the definitive collection of 36 familiar nursery rhymes with simple yet sturdy production that accents her lovely distinctive voice, delivers a compelling album that will favor many repeated listenings and join the lexicon of evergreen children's music.
These songs will stick and be passed on to future generations just as we learned them. The performances are first rate across the board. Some language is antiquated but it doesn't matter. The fun is the repetition. i.e.. Row, Row Row Your Boat. The songs are intended for the target age group and their parents who share them. The quality is consistently good. There is a simple structure of voices, percussion and guitar. Reviewed by John Wood, KIDS FIRST! Music Juror.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - We liked this CD. It was fun. We liked the music. Our favorite songs were Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall, Farmer in the Dell, and Hush Little Baby. We acted out the songs while we listened. We played with each other while we were acting out the songs. We knew some of the songs already. We have a giant book of all the rhymes that Mother Goose made. It was fun acting out the rhymes. We liked the singing. We want to listen to it again another time. Reviewed by KIDS FIRST! preschool jurors.
Description - These full-production songs are both highly entertaining and age appropriate--adult quality music with words and themes that tap into the most common issues confronting 4- to 8-year-olds. These songs were written and produced by award-winning child psychologist, Dr. Mac, who has also been the music director and songwriter for the PBS hit, Jay Jay the Jet Plane. The songs come with a workbook with 125 pages of reproducible lyrics, coloring pages and activities for each of the songs. Collections reviewed include: Friends & Sharing; Social Skills & Bullying; Manners & Character; Happiness & Attitude.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - To date Happy Kids has released 8, five song, theme-based CDs that are highly produced and performed and share an abundance of sweet, life-affirming lessons wrapped in audio candy for the ears. 'Social Skills & Bullying', for instance, features songs that present tools to deal with bullies and messages on sharing and celebrating differences. The producers and writers know their young audience well and are fully aware of the pressures and concerns that confront them from within and without. Terrific tools for the classroom and anywhere kids are present!
Across the board, the performances - both child and adult - are first rate. The arrangements are terrific and the recording quality is highly professional.
LET'S BOOGIE - RAINBOW SONGS INC.
Description - The debut album from Toronto children's' rock band, Rock'n'Rainbow, this CD is a family dance party of high energy tunes with catchy hooks & funk-rock rhythms, exploring favorite forms of exercise: biking, heading out on scooters & boogying-on-down.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - 'Let's Boogie' lives up to its name and gets you up moving from the first downbeat. I recognize the musical influences and hip performances but the album never talks down to its intended young audience and in places lifts them up to higher ground. Sharp clean production value and solid vocal and songwriting skills will most certainly lead to repeated listening. A nice mixture of participation and a nod to classic children's songs make this album a certain choice for a road trip..
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Rock 'n' Rainbow is a super fun band to listen to. Their CD Let's Boogie is full of fun songs. This is definitely not music that is played on the radio. I believe this is so much better. Their is no foul language on any of the songs. The songs on here are very catchy. My favorite song is "The Freeze". Some of the songs are learning songs like "Hands Together, Hands Apart" and the rest are cool songs to get you moving. This is a CD that can be played at birthday parties or possibly while kids are cleaning up their rooms (I have and it makes cleaning faster). Inside the CD cover, there is a booklet with all the songs and their lyrics. If you get a chance, check out the videos, they are just as fun as the CD. I recommend Rock 'n' Rainbow's Let's Boogie CD for ages 3 to 9.
Reviewed by Kamren W., age 9, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic.
Description - Original fantasy musical/rock opera for tweens, teens, combining colorful characters, compelling story, infectious songs, danceable duets, narration, full musical score. Percy Jackson meets Into The Woods. Enchanted books, witches break into song!.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - 'Aoede - Do you Believe in Magic?' is a fanciful adventure - down the rabbit hole - of magical musical riveting storytelling and exciting labyrinths of trust and misdeed. The nicely constructed songs propel the story with solid performances and strong arrangements. Do you believe in magic is a rhetorical question but you just might believe after listening.
The music is true to its story and well produced. The story moves along fluidly and the structure and continuity are true to its genre (fantasy). The content is stimulating and attractive. It is in touch with its audience (tweens) and leads and guides them along the way. The performances and production values are terrific.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - Do you like stories about magical creatures? Spells? Well, this musical is for you. Lisa Sniderman's Aoede Do You Believe in Magic? CD is a kids musical full of goblins, witches, spells, and the most important, singing. Aoede and her friends are trying to save Wonderhaven from witches. This CD does a good job of mixing a narrator telling the story and many other actors to act it out. While listening to Do You Believe in Magic, you will feel like you are right there watching the musical live. There are three acts for this play. Each act is easy to follow. I do recommend listening to Act 2 carefully. There is a lot of action in this act and it will help bring the story together for Act 3. I do wish it came with some sort of booklet or picture book to look at. This CD gets 4 out of 5 stars. I recommend this magical musical CD for ages 7-12. It may be a little creepy for younger kids to listen to. Go pick a copy of this magical journey up today. Reviewed by Kamren W. KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, age 9.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - 'Hot Air' rises to the occasion and delivers a potent punch of fun, danceable and delightfully listenable tunes that will lift your spirits and take you on flights of fancy that are frown resistant. Recess Monkey is a tried and true band of experienced and educated musicians who have inhaled the wonderful songwriting and production values of top groups from the late 60's and 70's and have exhaled a new, original and pleasing paradigm of songs that are kid-friendly but more importantly, kid-conscious. Up up and away, the sky is the limit, or is it?
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - My kids, ages 4 and 6, had a lot of fun listening to this CD. The songs were very upbeat, and they were dancing around to the music. They said there were a lot of words that they didn't understand, but they really liked the songs. Then they heard "Oh Lando." They are Star Wars nuts, and this song was so exciting to them. Even though they couldn't understand everything, they definitely got that it was about Star Wars, and that was, by far, their favorite song. Other favorites were "Lighter Than Air" and "Penguinese." I even heard one of my boys singing the songs later on in the day. The songs are catchy and fun, and my kids loved listening to them. They said, "We loved that there was a song about Star Wars," and "We liked dancing around to the music."
Description - Fifteen beloved folk and classic children's tunes capture the heart of the songs. Authentic instrumentation, thoughtful arrangements, restored lyrics, and Andy Z's friendly vocals complete this rousing CD that will entertain and engage for years.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - From 'This Land is Your Land' to 'Happy Trails,' Andy Z brings a freshness and excitement to familiar songs that we think we may know but after a few extra verses that were part of the original songs and some well-played musical surprises our ears are buzzing with a renewed acquaintance with old friends. The vocals are engaging and the toe-tapping arrangements will have you dancing with a 'Turkey in the Straw' or breaking out a 'Hokey Pokey' or singing along with 'You Are My Sunshine'. 'Oh Susanna' you've got to listen to this CD and don't you cry for me now, girl!
The songs are performed as close to their original intent with all of the original lyrics and instrumentation approximated. This absolutely keeps the tradition of American folk songs alive and well. It is positive and uplifting and the interpretation of songs that a lot of us have heard for years is fresh and engaging.
The quality is excellent. The music mirror the birth of our nation which was an exciting time for America in terms of exploration and strong families along with adventurous and brave people immigrating from all over the world. These songs offer insight into American history from a musical point of view. The artist starts with the premise "maybe you're familiar with this song, but did you know there are other verses?" Particularly enlightening is "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" with the wraparound lyrics.
The musicianship, choice of traditional instruments and vocal performances are well-done and engaging. The production value (recording) is very professional.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - The kids enjoyed listening to this CD. They clapped and moved along. Overall, they seemed to have fun. All around the Kitchen and You are My Sunshine were two of their favorites. The songs are upbeat and energetic and it was nice to see the kids enjoying some of the old classics, some of which they apparently had never heard before. The performance is entertaining and the songs are fun.
One little boy said his favorite was the first one. Another child was excited about the kitchen song. An older boy said he liked the middle songs best. One girl liked the sunshine song best.
"It is good music." "We like all the music." "It is singing."
Description - Twelve cheeky, laugh-out-loud funny songs. Combining country and children's pop music with a wacky, seesaw feel, moving from a country stroll where the wit sneaks up on you to a rock 'n' roll sprint where an outrageous lyric slams into you.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - Put on the headsets and buckle up because 'Calling All the Elephants' is one of the best albums in a long while to make you laugh out loud and snort milk out of your nose! The word-play, songwriting and musicianship are exemplary. Randy Sharp and Dave Kinnoin, two-seasoned performers, flex their musical chops and in the process push the creative boundaries of children's music in a profoundly wondrous way.
These crafty clutch of tunes hatch from basic concepts and happenings into mini-operas of mirth and merriment. Be yourself. Be resourceful. Be different. Be inventive. Be creative. Have FUN! Who could ask for anything more. Love this album!
Lyrics are stellar, brilliant and quite appealing. The music and production are terrific. Plus, there are many wonderful surprises. Very clever!
Everything clicks like an expensive watch. It's rare to discover an album that appeals to older children, doesn't talk down and takes conceptional chances. This is a breath of musical fresh air.
In ways, it is purposely disrespectful of what is considered appropriate in children's music. Therefore, kids will love it!
I love an album that invites frequent listening because you flat-out love it and / or continue to discover new elements and surprises that you missed before. This is one of those albums. Never gets old. Solid vocals and character voices, musicianship rocks and the recording quality is state-of-the-art.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - This is fun and original and many of the songs have a really good beat and rhythm to them. I like that this CD has songs with funny lyrics. My favorite songs are Last Word and Puzzle. I like how the lyrics in Last Word throw in words such as "foot" and then there is a pause and "ball" is added or "cow" and then "boy." Puzzle is just catchy and is fun to dance to it. Most of the songs are pretty cool and make you want to dance. Some of the lyrics are repetitive but I still think they are pretty good. There is only one song I really didn't like as much and that is Acting Like A Baby. I think it is just the topic that I don't really enjoy. The song is still catchy. But, how often do you really like every song on a CD? Over all, this is a CD with fun songs, catchy lyrics and I give it a thumbs up. Best for kids ages 5 to 10. Some older children may not like it as much. I would give this one 4 out of 5 stars.
DANCIN' IN THE KITCHEN - COMMUNITY MUSIC, INC.
Description - Grammy Award-winning musical duo Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer celebrate 21st century families with this new album of songs and stories. The 15 tracks reflect the diversity of families in the US today, and highlight the idea that families are bound by love. Guest stars include Riders in the Sky, the Savoy Family Cajun Band, The Canote Twins and Kim & Reggie Harris. At the request of Nora Guthrie, Cathy Fink set Woody Guthrie's poem "Howdy Little Newlycome" to music, enlisting Irish super group Cherish the Ladies to perform. The title song reflects the fact that the kitchen is the center of many homes.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - Dancin' in the Kitchen by Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer knocked my socks off so I immediately decided to dance barefoot in the kitchen - great decision. This album is a breath of fresh air that climbs the mountain of rarefied musical integrity and promotes acceptance and tolerance on so many levels. First and foremost, I doff my symbolic cap to a duo that I have admired for so many years for their ultimate musicianship and steadfastness to true North. When you wrangle high-class talent, incorporate brilliant songs and deliver unswerving production values the gestation of your endeavor has value for the ages. Could I break down every song for you? Yes. Could you listen to samples somewhere? Yes. Is my review a teaser? Yes. Are samples a teaser? Yes. Get on up, people! You will not be disappointed or dismayed, this album is special and grabs you from the first downbeat to the last fade-away. XOXO.
This is an exciting and vibrant CD from the first downbeat to the final fade. There is a lot of wonderful music and supporting messages regarding the diversity of families and their makeup.
Cathy and Marcy know how to producer, perform, pace and structure an album. This CD has many guest groups and a wide range of songs that flow seamlessly.
Though topics of divorce, adoption and same gender parents are presented through song, it is never heavy-handed but presented with love and joy. Better learn how to get your dance on! Sit back and enjoy funny word play and stories and a wonderful array of musical sounds. These 15 performances are absolutely top rate. Vocals are spot on and engaging and the musicianship is stellar. The production value is impeccable. Review by John Wood.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - This CD by Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer is sweet and loving. The title song Dancin' in the Kitchen is very upbeat in a zydeco style. My two birds loved this song. They moved their heads to the beat. It was so funny! My favorite song is Everything Possible. It's very calming and has a sweet message that you can be anything. The two songs Dinnertime Orchestra and Who's in Charge of Naming the Colors are both stories. In I'm my own Grampa, I enjoyed the tune but found the words very strange. Also From Scratch is a sweet lullaby. Most of the songs have amazing lessons to learn about accepting our differences, such as if your family is different or your skin color is different than your friends. I belong to a Family is also very sweet. I recommend this for kids age 2 to 8. I can see a lot younger kids dancing to it. I give this CD four out of five stars because it is fun and a good CD for little kids.
This CD is a good form of entertainment to bring children of this age together. The kids in our group had a good time listening and dancing to the music. Though they are young and distracted, the music brought them right back to dance together. The stories told in the music are simple and their responses to all ones of enjoyment, smiles abound. The children loved the music and had a good time. The music is about families and togetherness and they could relate to that.
The dinnertime orchestra was particularly fun and kids responded to it enthusiastically. They listened intently and danced along. They were too young to sit and listen to the entire thing all at once but wandered off and returned frequently. The pace of the music is perfect, fast enough to be engaging but not frenetic.
Description - From Disney to the Beatles, Standards to Billy Joel, this album of cool, acoustic arrangements will successfully soothe little ones to sleep while adult listeners relax to the satisfying, fresh take on 'kids' music.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - "Shine" is well-produced, well-performed and is well aware of its intended audience of sleepy little ones. Thirteen songs are represented from some of the world's beloved songwriters and one lovely original soon to be a classic. Suzanne Jamieson Selmo's vocals are clear and soothing and are supported by terrific arrangements. There is a consistent flow to the album despite divergent songs from a myriad of sources and intent- kudos to the production team! The subtitle to the album is 'Lullabies for Everyone' and that is true because I fell asleep three times while listening... and that's a good thing!
The album flows well helped by good arrangement and smooth and soothing vocals. It is perfect for sleepy time and parents will enjoy it as well. Should stand up to many repeats.
The album was obviously designed for young audiences; the content follows suit even though it comes from 14 different writers. The behaviors of love and caring shine through the songs and the presentation. Some of the language may be beyond little ones but that allows adults to appreciate the songs as well.
The vocals are consistently solid as well as the arrangements and players. The recording quality is top-notch. I think this is a favorite album that a child can grow with and learn to appreciate all the fine songwriters represented herein. They may want to know about other songs by them. Reviewed by KIDS FIRST! Music Juror John Wood.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - The music is very soothing and can be used for bedtime. It worked well as background music for them, not demanding their full attention.
Description - The first interactive lighted cover art. Two CD set of 30 tunes for anyone who wants beautiful music to drift to sleep and optimistic music to awaken. A calming yet intellectually stimulating experience for children, with world class musicians and Nashville Symphony's live string orchestra.
KIDS FIRST!® Adult Jurors say - Nightlight Daylight is an exceptional package from first look and apparently you can tell a book, uh, CD by its cover. Its lovely, interactive fiber optic cover is off the charts - push the moon and the stars and fireflies light up. Impressive! It just gets better. After I finished pushing the moon for about half an hour I delved into the treasures within: an ambitious 30-song two-CD set. Hence the title. The artist, Muriel Anderson, is a force of nature and a brilliant guitarist. The first CD, Nightlight, is perfect for winding down and drifting into dreamland with soft and soothing guitars and vocals with support from some major talent. The Daylight CD, although equally talented, is more suited for an adult audience. The music is absolutely stunning and so well played. Primarily acoustic guitar supported occasionally with other unobtrusive instruments. Half the album (lullaby) is directed to children while the second disc is more suitable for adults which is not necessarily a bad thing. I recommend this to anyone - there is so much to like - great for lullabies and meditation. Very soothing. This double album flows along seamlessly from night to day. The classical-based guitar work is exemplary. However this is not totally a children's album. The quality is amazing across the board. It will retain a youth audience on the first CD but not on the second. I cannot express how much the performances and production quality resonates. I look forward to Muriel Anderson's next release! Reviewed by John Wood.
KIDS FIRST!® Kid Jurors say - I liked this CD set because it has both day and night songs. It has really cool bonus features too like light up stars on the cover and removable guitar pics. The Nightlight CD is my favorite because it would be good to listen to at night if you can't fall asleep. I liked the Daylight CD too but would have liked faster melodies and more lyrics. I would recommend this for ages 2 to 7 because older kids may get bored. There are few lyrics. It is mostly instrumental. The packaging is really cool. When you push down on the cover, the stars light up.
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I have an 11 week old Female Great Pyrenees anjing, anak anjing I named Lilly.
I Cinta LILLY!!! She's sooo beautiful and pretty!!!
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http://ms.fanpop.com/clubs/lilly-from-alpha-and-omega/wall
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When Peyton Manning was at Newman High School in New Orleans, he didn’t care about statistics.
When Peyton Manning was at Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, he didn't care about statistics.
He cared about his jersey number.
He would wear No. 14, the same number his father, Archie, wore in high school.
But when Peyton was a junior in 1992, that changed. It was then that older brother Cooper, who had signed to play at Ole Miss, was diagnosed with spinal stenosis and told he'd never play football again.
So out of respect for his older brother, Peyton changed from No. 14 to No. 18, Cooper's high school number.
Peyton Manning went on to put up eye-popping numbers. In his three-year high school career, he passed for 7,207 yards and 92 touchdowns. He ran for 13 more. He led Newman to a 34-5 record and into the playoffs all three years.
Manning once said the most enjoyable year of his career was his sophomore season at Newman, when his top receiver was Cooper, a senior. Manning completed 140 passes that season, 75 to Cooper.
But that didn't stop Peyton from chewing out Cooper if his brother dropped a pass.
It was a message delivered more than once to the young quarterback.
There was a time when Archie Manning stepped in.
Manning mellowed, but his work ethic didn't. One night after he'd played a baseball game, Gendusa heard Manning was running at night on a dark football field at Newman to increase his speed. After a Friday night game, he'd knocked on coaches' doors early Saturday morning, seeking the next game plan. He'd even start practices 15 minutes early, before the coaches arrived.
Manning was so driven, he made sure his senior year at Newman that his classes ended at 2:30 p.m. so he could throw 7-on-7 drills with Tulane University's receivers or the New Orleans Saints' receivers.
'He can play with anybody right now,'' said then-Saints quarterback Jim Everett.
Manning showed signs of brilliance early. He began playing football in the seventh grade and by the end of the season, was calling his own plays. He was looking off receivers in junior varsity games. He was running two-minute drills flawlessly as a freshman.
Manning was a three-sport athlete. He hit .440 as a shortstop his junior season. He played basketball until his senior year. But football was his forte.
'You don't see a player like Peyton Manning come through but once in a lifetime,'' Reginelli said.
And when Archie Manning's two oldest sons were at Newman, games were a spectacle.
Manning wasn't just praised by his coaches. His teachers also had glowing things to say about his study habits and positive influence on the entire student body.
In 1998, an area in the archives' section at Newman was called 'Peyton's Alley.'' It had a life-size Manning poster and memorabilia about his career at Tennessee.
At a fundraiser that year, there was an autographed jacket from actor Bruce Willis and a Manning autographed jersey from the Citrus Bowl.
The Willis jacket went for $700.
The Manning jersey went for $2,100.
That illustrated his popularity at Newman.
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https://www.knoxnews.com/story/sports/college/university-of-tennessee/football/2016/03/12/newman-high-school-where-the-legend-of-peyton-manning-started/90883264/
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Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1986.
Handbook of experimental pharmacology, 80.
1 online resource (xiv, 400 pages).
edited by Ernest C. Foulkes.
Add tags for "Cadmium". Be the first.
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Women who deliver a stillborn infant — but who have no history of depression — may be at a higher risk for long-lasting depression, conclude researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The depression may last beyond the six months most people require to recover from a major loss and persist for as long as 36 months.
The findings were published online in Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology by researchers in the NIH's Stillbirth Collaborative Research Network (SCRN), which seeks to understand the causes of stillbirth, improve reporting of stillbirths that have occurred, and develop ways to prevent stillbirth. According to SCRN, stillbirth is the death of a baby at or after the 20th week of pregnancy. It occurs in 1 out of 160 pregnancies in the United States. Since 2003, the stillbirth rate has remained at about 26,000 each year.
"This study is the first to show definitively that women who have no history of depression may face a risk for depression many months after a stillbirth," says study author Marian Willinger, PhD, of the NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, which supports the SCRN and participates in its research. "The findings suggest that women who have had a stillbirth may require longer term monitoring for depressive illness and referral for treatment when they need it."
Additional funding was provided by NIH's Office of Research in Women's Health.
"Earlier studies have found that women with a history of depression are especially vulnerable to persistent depression after a stillbirth, even after the subsequent birth of a healthy child," says the study's first author, Carol Hogue, PhD, director of the Women's and Children's Center at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta. "Symptoms of depression are a normal part of grieving after a stillbirth," Dr. Hogue says. "But depressive symptoms that don't gradually resolve within six months of the loss can persist and become debilitating."
"Our findings indicate that it would be a good idea to screen women who have had a stillbirth for depression for at least three years after the stillbirth," Dr. Hogue says.
Information on diagnosing and treating depression is available from NIH's National Institute of Mental Health.
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Both times my husband and I traveled to Italy we were fortunate to stumble upon concerts given in churches. One time we found a universal orchestra practicing during the day in Rome and another time we paid to attend an evening concert in Venice. If you've ever been you know how wonderful the acoustics can be hearing an orchestra in a church.
I am taking my mother to Paris this Fall and was hoping to find a church concert to take her to. I have found some web sites regarding this but nothing very concrete. I was hoping my fellow Fodorites might have some handy information they could share with me.
As always, thank you in advance for your suggestions and advice.
Once you're in Paris you will find a number of church concerts; some of the best take place in the Ste-Chapelle, a beautiful venue for music.
Are you interested in buying tickets in advance, and when are you going to Paris?
Buy Pariscope or L'Officiel des Spectacles (about 35 cents) from any newsstand. If it's not in there, it pretty much isn't taking place.
We found a Vivaldi Concert at Madeleine Church on ampconcerts.com. This was October 2005 and there wasn't a concert at St Chappelle on the date we could attend. Bought tickets at the door for $20 each and it was very enjoyable.
Thank you for that link..I just added it to my favorites list as I,too, will be looking for concerts in the fall..
altho I did not use the last minute ticket option (b/c I wasn't sure of plans and didn't have a printer in Paris), I used this site for info to figure out who was where and when.
One cool thing: I love Canon by Pachelbel and they were playing it at Ste. Chappelle our first evening there. Well, we were committed to a dinner with colleagues and couldn't see it. When we went the next evening and the line-up had changed, they played that as their encore. I was thrilled!
There are some who have used this site to purchase tickets -- you MUST have a printer to print them out and it is all in French, so if you aren't comfortable with those things, then don't risk the $$$ ... just accept the more expensive price as a cost of convenience.
They are very often held at St Chapelle.
I have seen listings for them to be held at St Eustache, St Julien-le-Pauvre and I know others but can't remember.
You can go into the basement at the Champs Virgin Megastore and see the little brochures on the wall (at least, they did this a few years ago).
Once again you have all come through with great answers. One question, the newspapers you suggested to purchase once in Paris....are they all in French? This was a problem with some of the web sites I found. I could not make out some of the info as my French is limited.
Thanks again for the info everyone.
Pariscope, which comes out every Wednesday and is available at most news kiosks, has an English section.
But, you will see posters (some of them small) all over for concerts in churches, and it's not necessary to purchase tickets in advance.
Thanks for the quick response djkbooks. I actually have the link to ampconcerts but they do not have anything listed for September as yet. I guess I will have to check back as the trip gets closer.
Mardi 30 Mai: Eglise St. Roch - 12h30: Maria Ciszewska (violon), Saori Kikuchi (harpe). Oeuvres de Biber, Reine, Penderecki, St. Saens... Ent. libre.
Eglise means church, Entree libre means free entrance.
Addresses are given in a list "Addresses des Salles" at the beginning of the "Concerts" section, before the first entry for that week (Wed.).
Morceau de gateau (piece of cake).
Wally..Excellent. Thanks for the tips.
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https://www.fodors.com/community/europe/info-finding-church-concerts-in-paris-621379/
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“Drastic” means “severe” and generally has negative or frightening associations. Drastic measures are not just extreme, they are likely to have harmful side-effects. Don’t use this word or “drastically” in a positive or neutral sense. A drastic rise in temperature should be seen as downright dangerous, not just surprisingly large. Often when people use phrases like “drastic improvement,” they mean “dramatic” instead.
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What affordable Internet of Things (IoT) technology can you find in my house?
The Internet of Things (IoT), which encompasses networked, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled devices ranging from smartphones to smart fridges and security systems, is expanding with new, shiny products being paraded in front of consumers every day.
Google's Nest range, Amazon's Echo and Samsung's SmartThings products, to name but a few, are some of the most widely-known entries into the connected home space.
The concept behind the "connected home" is the ability to rig up a system of networked devices to talk to each other and accept remote commands which make your life easier -- whether you wish coffee to be automatically brewing when you wake up, you want to be warned when a burglar has broken into your property, or you want your children to be able to text you when they return from school with the press of a button.
There are countless uses for IoT and many of which remain to be explored. The price range for such devices can go up to the thousands, but you don't need to spend a fortune on improving your home.
Instead, in this feature, we are going to take a look at some of the IoT and smart devices in my house, what their functions are -- and what I tend to use them for.
Starting from the outside, what options are available to the average homeowner?
Before we cross the threshold, let's take a look at how IoT can be implemented from the outside. The first device you come across at my place is the Maximus smart security light (SSL), in the Coach style, which is a security system that also acts as an outdoor porch light.
When I first came across Ring, I considered the whole idea a bit of a joke and nothing more than a gimmicky product that is capitalizing on the emerging IoT market. I mean, who needs a video-equipped doorbell? What is the point of replacing a fully functional, traditional, ring system?
However, I have surprised myself at how much I rely upon it. While you don't need the video function while you're at home (unless you wish to avoid certain people or see who is at the door before opening the gate to the threshold), while you are out, the product comes into its own.
There have been many times over the past year I've used it to assure delivery guys I will only be a few minutes and can-they-please put the parcel in the shed. It's been handy when ignoring one or two dodgy-looking characters at the door and also acts as a de-facto, small security system which can be used to see who is in your driveway.
Ring has a lot more applications than I thought originally, and with the introduction of the Chime accessory which brings back the traditional ring rather than forcing you to check your phone at all if you do not wish to, Ring is well worth the investment and does provide additional peace of mind.
Using IoT devices in the home does not have to be a fashion statement or status symbol; instead, the smallest devices can make the biggest differences. The TrackR bravo, a small, incredibly lightweight Bluetooth/GPS tracking system, for example, can be attached to everything from your set of keys to your wallet, and then you use your smartphone and the TrackR app to locate them quickly should you use them.
Alternatively, if your phone is always the item that goes walkabout, you press the button on your TrackR to make the smartphone ring (even on silent mode) if they are paired.
For myself, I use it to keep track of my once-housebound rehome cat. She's not necessarily impressed by the accessory, but it is small and light enough for her to wear without discomfort -- and lets me keep an eye on her travels while she is exploring the outside world.
In my hallway, a small, aqua button is stuck to the side, which more often than not earns a questioning glance from visitors. The button is flic, a wireless device which can be programmed to perform a variety of tasks. Each button costs $34 and, in my opinion, can be a good entry-level product to begin experimenting with IoT device controls in your home.
Flic works on the "if this, then that" programming protocol, allowing you to use "recipes" to control your devices. This can range from playing a Spotify playlist with one click to sending out automatic tweets or controlling Philips Hue lighting with two presses of the button. While I'm yet to fully explore the ITTT protocol, I currently use it to automatically set my Nest thermostat to certain settings.
I've tried out various options through the years, some complicated, some easier but with poor recording quality. My favorite so far, which is currently used at home, is the Canary security system.
It is small, can blend into your environment, and I am impressed with the depth-of-field and quality of footage the device produces. You can choose from three options; "armed," which activates recording and alerts you through your mobile device, "disarmed," which records if anything is detected, and finally "privacy," which turns the camera and recording off so you don't have to concern yourself about being recorded in your own home.
If you are alerted remotely to a break-in, then my favorite feature comes into its own: the ability to press a button on your smartphone and set off a very -- very -- loud siren. That should be enough to scare them off, but in the meantime, you can also directly call the police or fire department from the Canary app. Thankfully, I haven't needed to test this setting yet.
Another option which I used before Canary, if you have any old phones lying around, is to recycle them to create your own indoor security system (albeit with less clear footage) through the Manything app.
I manage to keep cats and fish alive, but when it comes to anything leafy or green, I tend to fall into trouble after only a few days (I still remember my bonsai, no matter how tragic its death by watery grave, fondly). However, it is handy if you can grow your own herbs if you enjoy cooking, and so even people like me can use them if the process is idiot-proof.
The Click & Grow smart garden aims to do this by automating light and watering cycles for you, so you do not end up over-watering or losing your plants due to poor sun exposure. All you need to do is stick the herb pots in, put water in the side tank, and leave it alone. Once your plants begin to push on the transparent plastic orbs (which create a "greenhouse effect," the makers say), you take them off.
Mine is on my kitchen table, close enough to the kitchen but also providing an additional source of light during the right cycles -- which I find an improvement due to a few naturally dark areas in my home.
While I did find a few of the pots failed over time and you can no doubt just fill your own with seeds once you've acquired the main tank, you can also purchase refill pots if you wish that have plants including different herb types, tomato, strawberry, chilli and moss roses.
There is a deluge of portable chargers and battery packs on the market, and with the inclusion of wireless charging in many of today's modern smartphones, vendors have followed suit. One that I am fond of is the Fone QiStone+, a 4000mAh capacity charger which aesthetically will fit in any modern decor, due to the gray, stone-textured casing. You simply put your device on top and let it do its work.
A word of warning, however -- this is not a product you should use if you need a rapid, emergency charge. This is something which fits in with modern decor, looks more ornamental than functional, and is good for use when your smartphone is on your coffee table, for example, and you're happy to have an incremental charge while you get on with other tasks.
The QuickLock is a Bluetooth and RFID-compatible door lock which will fit in modern homes. The lock, which I currently use to keep my office secure, takes no more than 10 minutes to install on a standard, internal door, and can be opened with your mobile device, fobs, cards and wristbands, depending on your preferences.
If you close the door it will lock automatically, but you have to manually turn the lock to set up a deadbolt.
The lock is compatible with Android or iOS devices -- I use my Samsung Galaxy 7 Edge without any issues -- but Windows Phone users are out of luck, at least for now. A few additional, handy features are the ability to temporarily grant access to someone to a room through your smartphone and also check a log to see when the room was entered -- and by who.
IoT and connected lighting systems, such as the Philips Hue, can be expensive investments for your home. However, as the market increases in size, so do the products on offer -- and price points.
Playbulb, for example, is a product range from Mipow which are an affordable alternative. The Playbulb Comet is a simple strip of LED lights which, once connected to your smartphone or tablet through the Playbulb app, can be placed in your home wherever you want an additional light source. The strip is stuck on using a sticky adhesive layer on the back, and once plugged in, you can use the app to control color settings, effects, and brightness.
Personally, I use it as a replacement for an office desk lamp, which reduces the clutter on the desk but also allows me to work with the level of lighting I prefer. Turned up to full, the LED strip produces a surprising amount of light.
My bedside table lamp using a Playbulb Rainbow.
Another affordable option from Mipow is the Playbulb ceiling lighting ranges, the Color and Rainbow. I use these lights throughout my house, which can be controlled through the Playbulb mobile application.
The difference between these two ranges is thus: the Color includes an inbuilt speaker, while the Rainbow is simply for color control.
I have two Rainbows for my bedside lamps, while I use the Color in my lounge for quiet background music (and when I cannot be bothered to set up my standard speakers).
You can use any Bluetooth-enabled player to hook up to the light to change both color and music settings -- but while the music quality isn't bad for such a small speaker, don't expect exceptional quality.
However, as an alternative to more expensive IoT lighting products, they do the job.
The Nixplay Seed is a digital photo frame which can replace traditional, physical frames with a screen which can display however many photos you wish. You sign up for a Nixplay account, upload your images into the cloud to compile different playlists, select transition effects if you wish and the product is ready to go.
You control the Seed with a small, square remote. While I would love to see a premium version with frame sizes bigger than 10 inches, as a gift or way to display family photos in your home, it is rather an adorable IoT device. I've had two in my time, the first of which became a gift for Father's Day, set up with family playlists.
You can currently pick up 7 - 10-inch versions.
While not 'smart' in an IoT manner, the MantelMount TV bracket, as the engineering itself is rather interesting and smartly designed, was worth inclusion. Suitable for flat screen televisions from 48 inches up to roughly 80 inches, you can pull the mount down up to two feet and move it up to 40 degrees horizontally.
In the picture I've shown how it looks without the television and handle in place, and even on old, victorian walls it is sturdy and while I would recommend two people to drill it in, the mount is a good option for those looking to create a central viewing point in a lounge -- movie nights, perhaps? -- as well as being able to view a show at a more comfortable height when there are other pieces of furniture to consider, such as fireplaces.
Playbulb is not the only smart lighting system I use at home. Due to the position of my house, my lounge tends to get dim very quickly in the evenings, and I don't always like to simply rely on ceiling lights.
The Elgato Avea dynamic mood light, an elongated sphere, is charged on a small dock and then can be moved with you around the home (should the mood take you). If you hook up to the light through either your Android or Apple device, you can either select your own colors or choose from a number of rather pretty presents -- such as "magic hour," "northern glow" and "cherry blossom" which change colors gradually over time.
More for ambiance and surroundings than bright, light function, this product is a surefire bet for entry IoT homes.
In the last few years, Google-owned Nest has joined the connected home fray with a range of IoT products. One of which, the Nest Learning Thermostat -- currently third generation -- is a stylish device which fits any modern home.
The thermostat has a very quick and easy install through the device's circular touchscreen and once connected to Wi-Fi will update automatically. You can use the Nest to determine the range of heating or cooling you want in your home -- which is handy if you are away, for example -- and this can also be changed via the Nest app. In terms of the display, you have a lot of options -- such as a digital clock, display of target temperatures or an analog clock which is my personal preference.
To round up with the latest device I have managed to get my hands on, the Nest Protect (second generation) is a smoke and carbon monoxide alarm. Available in both wired and battery versions, the alarm connects to your smartphone or tablet and once a safety check is complete, you're good to go.
The physical installation is very easy -- just requiring the included bracket to be screwed onto a surface -- and there is a faint glow at the front which lets you know it is operating normally. If the alarm detects anything, you will be alerted through your phone and the Nest Protect has a clear, loud sound so you are made aware of potential problems while you are inside.
Personally, I like one particular feature -- the option to turn the Nest Protect off through your phone should it go off. Considering how many times I would have to wave a tea towel over my old alarm outside the kitchen, it's enjoyable not to have so many false alarms.
As one disadvantage, however, the path light feature -- which senses you walking around at night and creates light so you can do so safely -- is too sensitive to my pets. This is worth keeping in mind if you plan to install it anywhere near a bedroom.
Do you have any favorite IoT devices? Let us know in the comments below.
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This small collection of Robert Mills family letters date from 1813 to 1847 and measures 0.2 linear feet. Found here are 38 letters between architect Robert Mills and his wife Eliza, the majority of which were written between 1813 and 1819, and generally discuss family news and health, his travels, finances, and their affection for each other. Also found are a fragment of a letter to Mills from his sister, Sarah, a letter to Mills from his mother-in-law, Ann Smith, and nine letters to Mills from business acquaintances, including architect John Skirving and engineer Louis Wernwag, regarding building projects. The collection also includes six letters to Mills' daughter Anna from her mother, Eliza, and cousins.
Robert Mills family letters, 1813-1847. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Additional Robert Mills papers are available at the South Carolina Historical Society and the Library of Congress. Also available are the Records of the Robert Mills Paper Project at the Archives Center, National Museum of American History.
Robert Mills (1781-1855) was born in 1781 in Charleston, S.C. and studied architecture. Mills studied at Charleston College and under James Hoban and Benjamin Henry Latrobe. He was a friend of President Thomas Jefferson. Mills was known for design of the Washington Monument, the U.S. Patent Office, and U.S. Treasury, as well as the Washington Monument in Baltimore, Maryland, and hospitals and jails in South Carolina using fireproofing and heating systems he developed.
The Mills Family papers were purchased in 1985 from Robert S. Gamble of the Alabama Historical Society.
The letters of the Robert Mills Family in the Archives of American Art were digitized in 2009. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 187 images.
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The Department of Campus Safety is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all Sweet Briar students, faculty, staff and visitors.
Sweet Briar has a well-developed Emergency Management Program. All threats to our community can be divided into two categories, those that require immediate evacuation of buildings and those that require seeking shelter within the buildings.
Evacuation of buildings will be signaled by activation of fire alarms or mass notifications. The assembly locations have been predetermined and are practiced during evacuation exercises each year.
In the event an emergency occurs that dictates safety be sought within College buildings, appropriate information will be announced over Department of Campus Safety patrol vehicle public address systems and portable public address systems throughout the community. The announcement will be preceded by a siren alert tone. All students, faculty and staff will be instructed to remain within their classrooms, office areas, residences or other indoor locations. Additional updated instructions will be made available to all community members via mass email, voice mail and the Sweet Briar website.
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Los Angeles duo Girlpool recently stopped by the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis (October 23) to celebrate their sophomore album Powerplant (Anti- Records).
Chicago’s Lala Lala (Lillie West, Karla Bernasconi, Abby Black) opened up the show. The band had a DIY girl rock sound to them and their music seemed to fit in really well with the Girlpool audience. They ended their brief 30-minute set featured many songs from their debut record Sleepyhead, ending with ‘Future Flower’, a song that they’ve confessed had never been attempted to play live before.
Next up was Philadelphia, by the way of New York, Palm (not to be confused with Palms), a band that suffers from that common-band-name, making searching for them difficult.
After hearing the sad news that the Triple Rock Social Club would be closing its door come November 22nd, the four-piece (guitarist/singer Eve Alpert, guitarist/singer Kasra Kurt, drummer Hugo Stanley, bassist Gerasimos “Gerry” Livitsanos) band was pleased to have the opportunity to play the much beloved punk club.
The band, at least Eve, also announced that they have fallen in love with the city and decided to move here after this year. This isn’t the first time a Philadelphia band moved here, I know at least one other band, Strange Names, relocated here as well.
Their 45-min set included ‘Ankles’, ‘Child Actor’ and their set closer ‘Two Toes’.
Girlpool closed out the night. Although they are normally a duo of Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker, they’re joined on stage by a live touring band, synth Joshua Sushman, guitarist Lauren Early, and drummer Ross Chait.
The band mentioned that they thought about cancelling the gig because they had to pull out Tividad’s wisdom tooth recently. She was still in pain, but soldiered.
The group was last seen in the area in May 2017, when they released Powerplant, but decided to come back around since they were already scheduled to play a couple of Fall festivals, including Sound on Sound Festival in Austin, Texas.
Unlike Palm, we know that Girlpool will not be moving here, as Tucker gave out a loud, “It’s cold here, holy sh***!” (it was only sweater weather in Minneapolis for the natives on this night).
Like their previous 2017 tour, Girlpool played mostly Powerplant songs, but throwing in some Before the World Was Big (Wichita Recordings) to fill out the time.
"Karaoke" is the latest single from Smallpools. The band recently wrapped up their headlining tour (appearing in Minneapolis in October 2014).
The band kept a tour diary and they recently made it public by publishing it on Bandsintown.com.
Our band formed in LA, therefore, headlining the Fonda was a pretty big deal for us. It was exciting to share that experience with everyone in attendance and with all of our friends. It was also super special to have our No. 1 homies, Captain Cuts, in the building to help us surprise Sean onstage with an impromptu Katy Perry inspired “Birthday” celebration. Chipotle was also there to sponsor the night and made sure that no concert-goer went home hungry, thanks Chipotle!
Los Angeles duo Girlpool (Cleo Tucker on guitars and Harmony Tividad on bass) have recently shared their song "Alone At The Show", taken from the The Le Sigh Vol. II, a compilation tape of unreleased songs from female fronted bands as well as original work from 10 artists surrounding the theme of "The Occult". The compilation, which comes with Le Sigh's fanzine, will have a special launch party on December 21st at the Silent Barn Doors in New York. Additional details over at thelesigh.com.
Look for Girlpool's self-titled EP, out now on Wichita Recordings.
Girlpool are also currently playing a free residency at LA's The Echo. All tour dates below.
British blues rock guitarist and singer-songwriter, Ben Poole, has been added as special guest on Kenny Wayne Shepherd's upcoming UK tour for the month of April.
Poole is one of the youngest (at the age of 25) and greatest blues-rock guitar players that has come out of the UK for a long time, as described by various UK roots magazine. It's easy to see why his album Live at the Albert Hall went to number 4 in the official Amazon UK blues chart.
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Dubai airport has a drone problem and it's deploying a 'hunter' to fix it.
Dubai's Civil Aviation Authority has responded by testing a 'drone hunter' -- a remote-controlled aircraft that uses thermal and infrared imaging to detect drones that are in danger of straying into the airport's space.
"It's a few people that engage in this kind of activity. People want to explore how far their drone can go without realizing they are violating the airspace," said Salim Al Mansouri, senior aerodrome inspector at the civil aviation authority.
"It's a safety issue and people are losing money because of one person's irresponsible behavior," he said.
Here's how the 'drone hunter' works: Once it has locked onto a rogue drone, the aircraft follows it back to its owner and sends the coordinates to Dubai police, who then take over.
In April, a suspected drone slammed into a plane as it approached London's Heathrow airport.
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6/13/2001 PRODUCTION MASTER - 4:00 P.M.
Chicago: “World, The,” 06/13/2001, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed April 22, 2019, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_9D8AC2CE29F14BA797ED92D0BDCE88DE.
MLA: “World, The.” 06/13/2001. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. April 22, 2019. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/A_9D8AC2CE29F14BA797ED92D0BDCE88DE>.
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INCOME inequality in the United States has been growing for decades, but the trend appears to have accelerated during the Obama administration. One measure of this is the relationship between median and average wages.
The median wage is straightforward: it’s the midpoint of everyone’s wages. Interpreting the average, though, can be tricky. If the income of a handful of people soars while everyone else’s remains the same, the entire group’s average may still rise substantially. So when average wages grow faster than the median, as happened from 2009 through 2011, it means that lower earners are falling further behind those at the top.
One way to see the acceleration in inequality is to look at the ratio of average to median annual wages. From 2001 through 2008, during the George W. Bush administration, that ratio grew at 0.28 percentage point per year. From 2009 through 2011, the latest year for which the data is available, the ratio increased 1.14 percentage points annually, or roughly four times faster.
The reasons for the widening income gap aren’t entirely clear. Yes, the nation has had a big recession, but recessions typically tend to lessen inequality rather than increase it.
It’s always possible that the data for 2012 will show a narrowing of the gap, but Professor Katz says he wouldn’t count on it.
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We join ♪ Gift ♥ from Sweden Deco butterfly.
Since the paint is also using the thing of non-toxic, over that it can be used with confidence.
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Because the magnet and accessories of the band, is attached easily to the tin pot.
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The curve boxplot is an exploratory data analysis tool that has been proposed to analyze and visualize an ensemble of pathlines. Analogous to the conventional boxplot, the curve boxplot provides the statistical summarization of an ensemble in terms of its main features: the most representative member (i.e., median), quantile information, and potential outliers.
The curve boxplot is constructed based on the concept of ordering or sorting. While the concept of ordering is trivial for an ensemble of univariate values (i.e., sorting the values from the smallest to the largest), the concept of ordering is not trivial for multidimensional data (e.g., curves or pathlines). Therefore, an ensemble of pathlines is ordered using a generalization of the concept of data depth. Data depth is a statistical concept that provides a center-outward ordering of an ensemble. Data depth provides sensitivity to subtle features such as shape and speed, and hence, can be a powerful tool for robust summarization of an ensemble of pathlines.
You can learn more about different generalizations of boxplot for multidimensional data by consulting the original paper that proposed the idea of curve boxplot ( http://www.cs.miami.edu/home/mirzargar/papers/curve_boxplot.pdf) and the Wikipedia page that goes into details of its precedent: contour boxplots ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour_boxplot).
The color coding of the curve boxplot visualization based on the conventional boxplot is demonstrated below.
An example boxplot visualization, showing the median track (yellow), the central envelope (dark purple shading), the outer envelope (light purple shading), and the outlier tracks (blue).
The curve boxplot visualization is currently only generated for the GFS EPS (GEFS; to learn more about the GFS EPS, please click here). We plan to apply the technique to other EPSs in the near future, including the Canadian GEMS EPS and the U.S. Navy's NAVGEM EPS.
To apply the technique to EPS data, only the perturbed ensemble members of a given EPS are included in the analysis (for the GEFS, these include TECH IDs of APnn). No other control or ensemble mean tracks are included. Any ensemble members with tracks of less than five points are excluded from the analysis. Finally, the analysis only includes forecast lead-times through 168 hours (7 days).
The curve boxplot visualization technique was developed by Mahsa Mirzargar during her postdoctoral appointment at the University of Utah. The groundwork on curve boxplots was laid through support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) grant IIS-1212806.
The curve boxplot was implemented in the Tropical Cyclone Guidance Project on 23 August 2017 by Jonathan Vigh and Mahsa Mirzargar. The integration of the curve boxplot code into the the real-time system was partially funded by the University of Miami Provost Research Award and through support from the Research Applications Laboratory Opportunity Fund (RALOF) for the proposal entitled "Development Toward a Real-time Tropical Cyclone Risk Calculator", $29,241, 01 July 2017 - 30 June 2018.
This section attempts to answer questions that users may have. If you have a question about this product, please feel free to e-mail it to jvigh@ucar.edu.
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so it’s been some time since i last posted … i appreciate the pokes and prods for an update.
since my last post i have relocated myself to austin, tx. this is a change i’ve been wanting to make for about, oh, five years now. sometimes you just have to be patient when making big transitions. so here i am … in the texas oasis … willing and ready.
several of my wonderful arkansas clients, such as candy bouquet international, arkansas press association and office of health information technology, are keeping me on and having me work remotely. so excited about that. makes the financial transition a bit easier! plus, i’ll be working out of two “offices,” little rock & austin. lucky girl.
since my move a few weeks ago, i’ve joined the austin museum of art (the receptionist was from little rock!), attended a smart and unique wedding at the longhorn caverns, was barked at by a woman in a restroom and have attended two “terror tuesdays” (as well as sunday morning beetlejuice) at the alamo draft house theater. doing alright, i’d say.
this post is an announcement not only to proclaim the sowing of oats in a new city … but to say I NEED HELP SPREADING THE GALUSHA-NESS. i mean, seriously. how am i going to buy a little ranch and two horses?! you have connections in austin? send ’em my way. you know someone who needs art to decorate their office in downtown austin? send ’em my way. you know someone who needs design collateral for their new business in austin? send ’em my way. you know someone who needs large phallic shapes painted on the side of their drag racer? eh, i’ll pass. (gotta love craigslist).
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Ready for what? preparing for disaster in the 21st Century DVD-R. Also available via World Wide Web; DivX viewer required. "Island topics #64"--Micronesian Seminar WWW site.
Benton Flippen and the Smokey Valley Boys videorecording | 1 videorecording: 59 min | Homegrown Concert Series. (Source). August 17, 2005. (Date). Videorecording (Form).
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Hiding certain photos in iPhoto.
iPhoto help: A friend is coming to use my computer when I'm not here. I have photos on the computer which another friend of ours does not want anyone to see. Is there a way to password protect existing photos or albums or easily hide them so I can get them back easily? I searched and it seems no is the answer but I'm hoping MeFites know a workaround. I'm on iPhoto 5.
I don't know what to use on a Mac, but for Windows users who might have a similar question, I'll throw this in: you can use free TrueCrypt software to hide all the files in a certain directory. Once encrypted, they are invisible until you run TrueCrypt again and enter a password. Then that directory will appear as, say, your "E" drive.
There must be a Mac alternative somewhere.
Create a new user account for your friend to use.
You can remove the images from iPhoto and create a secure disk image to store them in instead. In the /applications/utilities folder on your system disk you'll find an application called disk utility. Create new disk image, choose a size larger than you think you need, choose encryption and under format create a 'sparse disk image'. This step is key because it ensures that the disk image only takes up as much space as the contents.
After you create and mount that image, you can drag the images directly from iPhoto into the image and then close the image. When you re-open you'll need to put in the password you setup when you created the image. Now you can delete the pictures from iPhoto.
There's, if anything, too many options on how to do this.
1) You could set up a separate account for your (computer-borrowing) friend and not give them the password to your main account. However, there are lots of ways that, if said friend really wanted to snoop, they still could.
2) There's a feature of OSX called FileVault that will encrypt your entire home folder. You turn it on in the Security preference pane. This is a little extreme, but, if your friend doesn't know your account password, they won't be able to see anything in your home directory. You'll need to do this in tandem with creating a new account for it to work.
4) Get a small external drive, maybe even a thumb drive if you don't need too much space, and copy them to that. Then take it with you when you go.
Thirding the separate user account. By far the easiest way to everyone out of each-other's business.
If there are items of yours that the new user will need, just temporarily move them in to the Users>Shared folder.
How about making a second iPhoto set that resides in a password protected Disk image? Holding down the option key while starting iPhoto will let you make a new library.
Er. Password protected zip file? You probably don't need massive security options, if you trust your friend enough to use your computer anyway, just something to keep the pictures out of the way, right?
You could use iPhoto Library Manager or iPhoto Buddy to keep a separate iPhoto library with your private photos. iPhoto Buddy has password protection.
Nthing the extra account. All of my machines have a guest account for, well, guests to use.
Guest account or just export the photos in question to a folder somewhere deep in your hard drive, then delete from iPhoto.
2. New account for friend, do not make them an administrator.
3. Open the security control panel and turn off auto log in.
If you have any information that needs extra protection, I recommend creating a user account to store it. Turn on FileVault encryption and fast user switching. Then, you can keep your normal account devoid of any potentially embarrassing stuff.
Can you go the other way? Instead of setting up an account for your friend to use I would set up another account for you to keep your sensitive photos in that area of iPhoto. I do have to admit that iPhotoBuddy sounds pretty nifty too but I have never used it.
For what it's worth, the newest version of iPhoto has a feature that lets your selectively hide certain photos in your collection.
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NEW YORK (CNN) -- Sir George Martin's 50-year career in the music industry included working as the Beatles' producer -- from "Love Me Do" through "The Beatles Anthology." But now Martin is retiring as a producer and he's celebrating by helming a new album, "George Martin, In My Life."
"I wasn't setting out to break any barriers here, or break any records," Martin says. "I was just going to do an album which I thought would be enormous fun to make and would give pleasure to lots of people. I set out to do an album with some of my friends, and then widen it a bit and did it with my heroes as well."
The album includes Robin Williams singing "Come Together."
"I think he's such a terrific guy," says Martin.
Comic actor Jim Carrey belts out a rendition of "I Am the Walrus."
"I needed someone to do a zany version," says Martin. "I couldn't think of anybody better, and he did a wonderful performance. He sings so good, so well."
Martin convinced Celine Dion to perform Paul McCartney's ballad "Here, There and Everywhere," and Phil Collins was tagged to do the "Golden Slumbers" medley from the Beatles album "Abbey Road."
Some might think it's sacrilege to put new voices on some of the most revered music of the 20th century. But Martin says that's nonsense.
"A lot of people regard Beatles music as the holy grail that should never be touched except with incense and whatever," Martin says. "I don't hold with that. Having been part of it, I feel that it's my music, too.
At a recent Hollywood party celebrating "In My Life," Quincy Jones called Martin "the fifth Beatle," a common accolade directed at Martin. But did he really have that much to do with the Beatles' success?
"There were five voices on the studio floor," Martin recalls. "And every one of them was respected and listened to. Whoever wrote the original song we were working on, obviously their voice would be heard above everyone else. But it worked very well. It was a very collaborative effort. And of course, we were great friends."
Martin will continue to do concert tours and run his studio complex and radio station.
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http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Music/9811/10/george.martin/index.html
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Nobody has covered a song of Uptown Drive yet. Have you seen someone covering Uptown Drive? Add or edit the setlist and help improving our statistics!
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One person has seen Uptown Drive live.
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2019-04-26T06:04:43Z
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You've rooted your phone, congratulations. Now comes the hard part, installing a customized version of Android. Hi, I'm Seth Rosenblatt for CNET, and today I'll show you how to install a custom Android ROM. There's a lot of reasons you might want to run a custom ROM, Android features that the phone company or hardware manufacturer has decided won't get pushed to your device, or just to get a more robust set of features. You can also run customized themes on a ROM. You're likely to see significantly better performance, basically you get more control over your phone. It's all about you, baby. Oh, and I hope you know this by now, but rooting your phone voids your warranty. Installing a custom ROM pretty much obliterates it. There are a few methods for downgrading your phone back to stock and though they're not simple, CNET TV has a how to do that, too. The mod we're going to be working with today is CyanogenMod which is in use on more than 100,000 Android devices, and is one of the most popular ROMs. I'm going to install it on CNET editor Antuan Goodwin's old Droid 1, mostly because that's the first spare phone that showed up. ROMs can be tricky things, so be careful that you use what I tell you here as more of an introduction or loose guideline for how to install a custom ROM. Definitely go look up how to install the ROM of your choosing on your specific device. So here is how it's done. First, we're going to create a backup of your system. Download and run a backup app like Titanium Backup, then download the ROM manager app from the Market, either free or paid will do. Tap the app, and then choose "Flash ClockworkMod Recovery." Tap "Motorola Droid" and then give the app root permission if prompted. If the app crashes, just allow it to force close and run it again. If the flash was successful, you'll see a box that reads "Successfully flashed ClockworkMod Recovery." ClockworkMod Recovery is a customized version of the Android default recovery screen and it allows for more choices such as Nandroid backups. All right, let's get to the ROM next. If you've bought the premium version of ROM Manager, there's a slightly automated way to do this. Jump into the app and select "Download ROM." Tap CyanogenMod after you install, you can back up existing ROM and wipe data and cache. When the install finishes, it will reboot directly into the CyanogenMod. If you didn't buy the ROM Manager Premium, you can still install a ROM relatively easily. Relatively. Go to CyanogenMod.com and download the latest version. If you use Google Apps like GMail, also download the Google Apps Package. Cyanogen decided to spin off the Google-sourced apps to avoid potential conflicts with Google. Connect your phone to your computer, enable USB mode, and place both the Cyanogen and Google Apps zips in the root directory of your SD card. Next, boot into ClockworkMod Recovery by turning off the phone and restarting it holding down the X key along with the power button. Use the D-pad to navigate. Choose "wipe data, factory reset," then "wipe cache partition," then "Install zip from SD card." Select "Choose zip from the SD card," then go for the Cyanogenmodupdate.zip. Then, install the Googleappsupdate.zip. Once the installation is finished, go back to return to the main menu and choose "Reboot now." Your phone ought to boot into CyanogenMod. If it fails the first time, but you can still navigate, give it another shot. Of course, if it doesn't do anything at all, you've got yourself a pretty little brick and that's how you install a custom ROM on an Android. For CNET, I'm Seth Rosenblatt.
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Welcome to part one of the Archer Farms Taste Explosion review! As I mentioned in my last post, I was blinded by packaging at Target and bought a bucketload of Archer Farms foods and mixes. Archer Farms is apparently the store brand of Target, and I’ve never had anything by that brand before. But the packaging is so appealing! So, I’ve decided to take everyone on a taste journey with me as I see whether or not these were actually worth buying.
I’m not a big shortbread person. Travis likes it more than I do, but I was drawn to this mix not only by the packaging, but by the tantalizing beckoning of the Vanilla Bean. Love vanilla bean. It makes me happy. So I chucked it into the cart.
The mix cost $2.49, and the only ingredients needed were 2 1/2 sticks of butter. Ingredients contain actual food – seriously, here’s the entire ingredient list: Enriched flour, sugar, salt, natural and artificial flavor, and vanilla bean. Nothing weird or scary, except for possibly the artificial flavor. Yay! Instructions were a piece of cake – cream softened butter, slowly add mix, continue beating until dough forms, press into pan, pierce with fork, and bake. Piece o’ cake. Except I screwed up and just dumped the butter and mix in together without creaming the butter first. Oh well. It all worked out in the end.
Like I said, I’ve never been crazy about the shortbread. But oh my god, this was the best shortbread I have ever tasted. It’s moist (one of my issues with shortbread is how dry it normally is), the texture is crumbly and elegant, but the flavor is the star – the vanilla is definitely present. It doesn’t overwhelm the cookie, but adds to it, both in taste and aroma. It is a cookie that you take a bite of, and just close your eyes and sigh blissfully.
Travis agreed that this was a damn fine cookie. I don’t think he had the same out of body experience that I had, but he was definitely munching on them throughout the day and took some to work with him.
I would definitely buy this mix again and recommend it to everyone I know (seriously – next time you’re at Target, buy this mix). My only concern is that now the bar has been raised so high that none of the other Archer Farms products can compare. We’ll see – I’ll let you know next time I make one.
Summary – Archer Farms Vanilla Bean Shortbread Mix – 10 out of 10 points. This is the single best cookie mix I have ever made.
So I made those last night, and today Travis and I busted out a double batch of Hershey Kiss cookies, made from scratch. Nothing fancy, I just used the recipe on the back of the Hershey Kiss bag. First off, I unwrapped the Kisses, and discovered a disturbing trend – the Kisses now talk to you! At first, they’re friendly and benign.
Then they kind of start getting weird and nostalgic.
They then morphed into scary stalker Kisses.
“You love me”? Really? Because that’s always a winning line.
Finally, I discovered the Hershey Kisses of angst.
Who wants to eat a chocolate that’s in pain? I don’t understand this at all. Travis thinks it’s a secret message from someone trapped in the Hershey Kiss factory.
Anyway, the cookies came out awesome. For some reason, the past few times I’ve made these, the cookies have seemed to be too dry and crumbly – I really enjoy a smooshy Hershey Kiss cookie, so I get disappointed when I bake dry and crumbly ones. I’m pretty sure I used the same recipe. Maybe the difference has to do with the humidity today, where it’s not as dry as it normally is in winter. Who knows. They came out perfectly this time, and we have a big cookie jar full of them, so I’m happy.
I’ve got some yarn and fiber fun stuff going on, but I’ll post about that stuff tomorrow. For a sneak peak, check out my Flickr photos. Got some awesome roving from Yarn Love Katie, shipped off the Hanukkah Joy yarn to Sarah Lou, and got started on a new weaving project. Not to mention potential Christmas crafting still on my list of things to do. Fun times ahead!
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I was thinking about trying that short bread, but TWO sticks of butter? seriously? that is a lot!
my favorite archer farms product is the monster trail mix, but all the trail mixes are good!
Can I come live at your house???? You love me, remember (at least that’s what the Hershey’s kiss is telling me).
Those are creepy little notes. I don’t know if I like the idea of the candies talking to me. Those are picture perfect cookies!
Man, you made me hungry for cookies! I love shortbread, I may have to pick some of that up next time I am at Target.
Jacki remember when you were little and we made the Hershey Kiss cookies at home in my pre-diabetic days. You’ll have to bring me a couple for Christmas.
I just wanted to say that this post inspired me to go out into the Noreaster to buy a box of Archer Farms shortbread mix. I made the guy I’m seeing do all the mixing work, cause honestly, whats hotter then a man making you cookies, but all that aside these are great. So worth the amount of butter they require. I got two 9″ circular pans out of one box so all my co-workers will benefit from my (or his) baking foray.
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https://yarnzombie.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/the-post-about-food/
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The story of a Manchester girl as she moves from the rain-soaked, concrete-and-tarmac city to the sunlight and fresh air of rural France. LJ, as she is affectionately known by some people, is a former secondary school teacher. She currently writes and marks exam papers. She has a loud mouth which works several seconds in advance of her brain, and quick fingers which work at a speed between ‘mouth speed’ and ‘brain speed’.
I’d already returned the compliment! Love your blog!
Enjoying my visit to your blog…any friend of Izzie’s is a friend of mine…may I add you to my Blogroll as well? Thanks!
I’d be honoured if you did!!
Hey, I am considering a move to France, I look forward to reading more.
PS may I blogroll you too?
You really should move if you can and it’s sensible – it’s a great experience!!
And I’d be delighted if you blogrolled me!
Just wondering how much traffic comes to this blog as a result of what you put on Anglo Info.
The reason I ask is because I have a blog and in order to promote it I am starting another one for Anglo Info, but cant put any reference or links to my blog on to what I put on Anglo info which is a shame.
So you see where I am coming from.
Hi Alan, I guess I get a couple of links a day from AI – maybe! I don’t know how many people decide to stay with me though and then come direct. I try to keep the two very separate – it wasn’t my intention to use the AI blog to promote this one, or vice versa – I have a lot of regular followers who have come here via a variety of sources. This is the ‘me’ blog and AI is the ‘France’ blog and perhaps peculiarly both are just ways of enjoying myself rather than promoting anything if that makes sense. This one was a way to let friends and family know what was happening here rather than have twenty phonecalls with the same content and missing some stuff. The AI one is just my thoughts about living in the P-C!
Can I ask you: do you teach English over the internet for a company? Would you be willing to tell me who they are, & if they need teachers? I ask because I’ve been made redundant from my teaching job and I am trying to find other work. Thanks!
I teach mostly my own contacts but some for italki, some for verbal planet and some for livemocha. It’s not lucrative, but it keeps the wolves from the door.
Hey Emma, after 48 yr s of the granite rain i have decided to buy a little house in the Dordogne. I can not stand the thought of never ending 12 month blocks of Manchester rain. It is the 21 June today, my Daughters birthday, Fathers Day, and the longest day. I am sat indoors the heating is on and im wearing a jumper.
Any advice for good first impression with the new neighbours?
Say hi, don’t be bothered if it takes ten years to get to know them, get involved in as much community life as you can and enjoy! We’ve got 30°C and sunshine all week. I’m not missing Manchester too much, though it must be said, those wet weeks get to us here as well. It’s been a long time starting, this summer! Where are you planning on going?
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Any estimation on the release of the DeLand book yet? Thanks.
I spent a week (that was 8 hours a day of solid scanning for 7 days) and am still not done. But then got sidetracked with FISM, the SAM convention, and now other things are taking my time. Still hoping for this year. Looks like it will be 600 to 800 pages, two volumes, full color.
Richard Kaufman wrote: I spent a week (that was 8 hours a day of solid scanning for 7 days) and am still not done.
I am scanning fragile 100 year old pieces of paper of various sizes and shapes that I would not let anyone else handle. And there's so much, that the cost would be too high to use any of the companies noted in that article. I am doing thousands of scans.
I guess it's about how much value you put on your own time. I started outsourcing menial tasks a couple of years ago, and although it is tough at first to pay for something you could do, when you do something instead that generates more money it makes sense.
"I started outsourcing menial tasks a couple of years ago"
Ian Kendall wrote: "I started outsourcing menial tasks a couple of years ago"
Stop whinging and go and do your show.
Damian, there's no way I would mail or courier the DeLand material anywhere--it's irreplaceable. So, just sending it to the company who would do the scanning is out of the question.
That's before we even get to the part about people handling hundred-year-old pieces of acid-ridden paper that are chipping and falling apart.
To some extent, but not all.
Sorry, when I said that my point doesn't cover the fragility of the content I meant that the point doesn't cover the fragility of the content. Sorry that wasn't clear.
You need to realize that the whole purpose in having a kid was to have someone to do your chores.
So put off the book for another 10-12 years until your daughter can do the menial tasks.
Its what I've done with cleaning the garage and cutting the lawn.
I'm afraid my daughter is too busy excelling at math and science, two subjects in which I was an absolute dunce, to help her old man with any menial tasks.
I am doing another sweep through the text for final edits. Didn't plan to do it, but thought it necessary. And it turns out it was a good idea. Am over halfway through.
Then I have to scan about another 500 items.
Then I begin layout (during which I have to learn how to use Photoshop and InDesign!).
But should be done in the next six months. My goal is to have it out by sometime in 2013. After over a decade of on and off work, it will be a relief.
The book (two 400-page volumes) will be all color, and the only way to do that is print-on-demand. But the company does beautiful work, and the books should look great.
Any plans to include a commercially made deck/packet of the gaffs (ala "Gaffed"/England)?
Yes, I've planned to include a 56 card deck that will allow you to do 19 of the routines in the book. There will also be pre-printed sheets that will allow you to do some cut and paste to perform others that require handwork to complete.
I am patiently waiting for this one want to see more of what he did since the couple of effects in the Convention Bag got my attention from a historic stand point.
Finished the scanning just a few minutes ago.
There's a hell of a lot of work to do on the images: all have to be color corrected and knocked out of the background.
But, as Mr. Racherbaumer would say, onward! Progress is being made.
I've been fortunate to help a little with research on this book, and to see drafts of the text.
Trust me, it will be great. I had no idea of the extent of DeLand's creations. He single-handedly changed the face of card magic for amateurs. And the story of his personal life is (tragically) fascinating.
DeLand is waiting until Tenyo is out the door.
Coincidentally, a couple of weeks ago I ran across "The Phantom Cards" set that I made as a ten year old in 1960.
The directions were/are in Joseph Leeming's CARD TRICKS ANYONE CAN DO, page 184. Mr. Deland is uncredited. And it only took fifty-three years to get the facts!
Great line: "Put on your own magic show... Charge admission!"
Anyone have the 15 trick set from the cereal boxes? Anyone still have the boxes of cereal?
I have the cardboard standee.
kevinm wrote: Anyone have the 15 trick set from the cereal boxes?
Got a few of them. Since they were released individually, a whole set is hard to come by.
I'd love to get the others.
The video was made by Magic Makers, the company owned by Rob Stiff. He purchased certain items from the S.S. Adams company when they went out of business. One of those was DeLand's "Dollar Deck" (as it should rightly be called, but Adams mistakenly renamed it "The Automatic Deck" around 1919 or 1920).
I have to give credit where it's due: the version currently put on the market under the absurd title "The Million Dollar Deck" by Magic Makers is by far the best version of this deck ever printed. I think it's manufactured by USPC. The back and tricks are no different than before, but the quality of the cards is great.
It's hard to understand, 102 years after this deck was placed on the market, what an entirely new and ingenious idea it is. Imagine if you could look at the back of the top card of the deck and know the location of every card in the deck, and at what number it resides.
It will all be in my book.
You got me hella' curious about Deland!
I never paid much attention to his work until you talked about your upcoming book about him. I imagine the same is true for most other magicians as well.
Do you think it will be out in 2015?
It's hard to sell a $250 book followed by a book (DeLand) that will cost over $100.
This is because DeLand must also be printed in color and I have absolutely no idea how many it will sell. Publishing books is an expensive proposition!
Richard Kaufman wrote: ... I have absolutely no idea how many it will sell. Publishing books is an expensive proposition!
Will the book alone will bring all those wonders into performable condition? Of course history has its value in the long term.
DeLand's genius was in eliminating sleight of hand from card tricks through the use of often original printed gimmicked cards. Virtually none of his tricks require any sleight of hand. And I mean "ZERO"--not even a Double Lift.
With the book and a deck of gimmicked cards (that I hope to provide) you'll be able to do the tricks almost immediately.
Richard Kaufman wrote: DeLand's genius was in eliminating sleight of hand from card tricks through the use of often original printed gimmicked cards. Virtually none of his tricks require any sleight of hand. And I mean "ZERO"--not even a Double Lift.
In the 80s I worked at a magic shop that sold the DeLand Automatic Deck. The other demonstrator told me it was a marked deck and that's how we sold them, primarily to non-magicians who thought they wanted to cheat someone. One day during a lull I read the sheet and was blown away. I still have the deck that I sold myself at the end of my shift. Looking forward to this book for certain.
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^ Kozlowski, Lukasz P. (2017-01-04). “Proteome-pI: proteome isoelectric point database”. Nucleic Acids Research 45 (D1): D1112–D1116. doi:10.1093/nar/gkw978. ISSN 1362-4962. PMC: PMC5210655. PMID 27789699. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27789699.
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Those born in Derbyshire are as usual indicated by the letter ‘Y’, and those outside the county with the letter ‘N’.
Marital Status and Relationship to Head have been guessed where obvious. These are not included on the original returns, nor is YofB (Year of Birth), which has been calculated using a spreadsheet function.
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— Exploring the Underground Asset of Singapore.
In many places in Singapore it is already hard to say whether you are below, on, or above the ground. The orthodox idea that buildings are put on the ground and built above this ground plane seems to be regularly thwarted not only by Singapore’s shopping malls but also by its infrastructures and the continuous sculpting of the city’s landscape.
The whole city has an ambiguous relationship towards this sectional line, which traditionally divides what is under ground from what is above ground. Such a pure sectional line does not exist here. It is blurred and thickened to such an extent that what we originally knew as a continuous ground surface now has become a three-dimensional space in itself. In this regard it is constantly re-negotiated between different aggregated parts of the city.
To conceptualize such a reading of the city’s ground plane allows us to, on the one hand, change the notion that public space occurs only at ground level by extending it into a third dimension. On the other hand, it allows us to consider the (immediate) underground as a city-wide strategic planning issue. This would add a sectional perspective to the way that Singapore is currently perceived and planned.
However, looking at the city as a sectional planning issue does not mean focusing on singular design interventions. Instead it highlights the necessity for a holistic design approach, one that looks at the bigger scale of the city. This will be achieved by (1) a typological study of the different ways to blur the ground, which also includes an inventory of structures and places in the city that already do so, and (2) then bringing these sectional typologies and strategies together and testing the relationships they have with one another as part of the city’s infrastructure and its overall plan. Besides some obvious advantages, such as the increase of usable space and density, can these sectional strategies help to create a better sense of place and space in the city? Can they potentially form another layer of network in the city? How can they work in plan — not only as singular and self-referential points, but as lines of horizontal differentiation, and potentially as larger figures networked into the existing urban fabric? In other words, is there a way to think about the outcome of going underground as an inverted skyline — a deliberate and articulated ground-line that ultimately produces more than the sum of its parts?
Furthermore, not all of the potentially buildable (or subtractable) ground will be constructed at the same time and most likely not always by the same parties. So all of urban design’s contemporary issues of stakeholder management and development over time need to be considered when looking at the underground as a viable urban space.
The idea that the underground represents the inversion of the aboveground is, of course, first of all a purely metaphorical concept and has to be treated with some care. What we can learn right away from aboveground strategies is that one single tall (here: deep) structure does not make a good city. Urban design deals with a multitude of issues and always takes into account an aggregation of multiple elements. We also need to acknowledge that as well for the underground. The only difference is that the underground is not about the clustering of different elements and objects, but is about aggregation and networking of various voids and spaces. The aboveground usually grows in an additive way, whereas the underground also works with the notion of subtraction. This fundamental difference between the additive and subtractive act of building produces varying qualities for the use of these two sectional aspects of the city.
Sectional diagram of different sets of rights that might influence private property rights at grade.
Increasing the city's inhabitable surface.
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Why is copper used for belt loops, pin backs and more in Native American jewelry?
Copper was the first metal discovered by man and has been used for thousands of years by craftsmen around the world for tools, artifacts and jewelry.
Copper was considered sacred by some Native American cultures and it continued to be used extensively even after the introduction of silver, steel, and metal alloys.
Copper was abundant in the Southwest, with Arizona having one of the largest copper deposits in the world. In some areas native copper could be found just laying on the ground without the need to smelt it from ore.
Copper’s was and is much less expensive than silver. Unlike steel and most other metals, copper can be easily shaped without heating.
Soldering or “sweating” is joining two pieces of metal together, using a medium called solder (pronounced “sodder”). The metals that are being joined might be the same such as copper to copper or sterling silver to sterling silver. That type of soldering is relatively simple for an experienced metal smith.
It is when soldering two different metals together that things can get tricky in terms of the amount of heat necessary and the type of solder required.
Examples of dissimilar metal-to-metal soldering common in Native American jewelry is copper to sterling silver and steel to sterling silver.
Copper requires much less heat to solder to sterling silver than it would take to solder steel to sterling silver. Also with copper, there isn’t a specialized solder needed.
That’s why copper is the metal of choice for belt loops on concho belts and is also seen as pin backs, for example, on vintage Native American pins and pin pendants.
Sterling silver concho belt with copper belt loops.
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https://nativeamericanjewelrytips.wordpress.com/tag/native-american-pawn/
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Floor time and water babies - Laughs! Thrills! Pathos!
A few days ago Z clutched his hand to his forehead in a dramatic fashion, and I said Oh Rose Thou Art Sick and he said Karma's gonna get you and lo and behold yesterday I found myself sapped of vitality and verticality as sure as a puppet with its strings cut. So I resorted to lying down on the floor being amiably chewed and prodded by the felines and the under 3s while the walls breathed and the floorboards tilted gently one way and then the other.
As an illness it wasn't really unpleasant so much as incompatible with with all the feeding, taming and pressganging of children into toothbrushing that was required, so reinforcements were called in and this months daily blogging ended with a literal whimper.
Matei at bedtime to Z: "Don't worry Daddy, one day I'm going to eat a lot and grwo really big and strong and then you won't need to keep me company until I fall asleep because I won't be scared anymore."
The baby is perfectly able to roll from her stomach onto her back, but chooses not to most of the time and seems to prefer stationary entertainment like warbling and chirping and studying her hands like a stoner.
She also has the uncanny ability to sleep through the sounds of partying and hoovering and her brother's motorbike imitations, but startles from an apparently sound sleep the moment warm water hits the bathtub three rooms away. Good girl that she is though, it turns out to be less a case of "Mother, remain UNCLEAN" as of "A bath you say? How lovely. I think I will join you."
And it turns out that the only thing more fun than a prolonged solitary soak is turning your body into a hammock for a three month old, while she kicks and coos in delight and then falls asleep on your belly all pink and warm and blissed out.
It is so delightful that you've cloned yourself! I can't get over it!
And so responsible too! If the world only had people like Z and Matei in it they would just break it from jumping up and down on it too hard, or dissecting it to see how it was made together, or what happens when you crash it into a tree.
Thank God there's you and me and her to restore the balance and keep the place in order.
I'm expecting some teenage Leonine DRAMAHS as she gets older, but for now she is the most delightful child imaginable.
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2019-04-24T22:11:23Z
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https://rainsinger.livejournal.com/303435.html
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Public health has a long established tradition at The University of Hong Kong. It was first introduced into the medical curriculum at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (the forerunner of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong), which was established by Sir Patrick Manson1, Sir James Cantlie and Sir Ho Kai in 1887. In 1891, Sun Yat-sen, one of the first students of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, sat the professional examination on public health. In 1950, the Department of Social Medicine was established. In 1970, the name was changed to the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, and to the Department of Community Medicine in 1974.
In 2004, The University of Hong Kong approved the proposal to establish a School of Public Health2, the Public Health Research Centre was established as one of the five research centres in the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, and Master of Medical Science (Public Health) was transformed into our own postgraduate degree programme - the Master of Public Health. In 2005, the University Research Committee recognized public health as one of nineteen Strategic Research Themes for the University. In 2009, the inauguration of the School of Public Health was officiated by Professor Chen Zhu, Minister of Health for China.
In 2013, the School of Public Health formally incorporated the Department of Community Medicine and the Behavioural Sciences Unit.
In July 2016, the academic and research arms of the Institute of Human Performance were incorporated into the School of Public Health of Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine.
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https://sph.hku.hk/tc/about-us/history
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10-year old white ash, in background, on graded No. 8 spoil.
Title: 10-year old white ash, in background, on graded No. 8 spoil.
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http://liaisons.drc.ohiolink.edu/handle/2374.OX/27217?value=Ohio%20State%20University&zrpp=20&zetal=-1&zorder=ASC&type=author&ztype=author&zsort_by=-1&zstarts_with=N&focusscope=2374.OX/19802&zrestrict=false&mode=browse
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I've addressed Rinke's comments in the XML Syntax. The order of all elements is now *exactly* the same as in the Syntax document.
I've fixed the comments and the document seems to validate properly now (perhaps this is a new Wiki version?).
I haven't addressed the clarity issues in the introduction, though.
Thanks again for these comments!
> Ok, thanks! I've entered my review comments.
> > why this is necessary.
> >> source), which do not show up in HTML on the Wiki.
> >> which makes them show up in the HTML rendering.
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http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2008Aug/0269.html
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I write books for young readers. My intention is always to serve them a heap of learning and joy.
Alice Faye Duncan serves as a librarian. She also writes books for young readers and adults.
Tell us how much you like Alice Faye Duncan.
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2019-04-25T07:59:30Z
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https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Alice+Faye+Duncan
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In France the National Front is reported as leading all other parties in current opinion polls, having won barely 10 percent of the vote in the 2007 presidential election.
In January's general election, nearly 40 percent of Greek voters supported Syriza, compared wtih fewer than 5 percent as recently as 2009.
Since narrowly rejecting indendence in last year's referendum, Scotland's voters have rallied to the Scottish National Party, support for which is now reported at over than 40 percent compared with less than 20 percent at the last general election.
Most spectacularly, more than 80 per cent of Russians are regularly reported as thinking Vladimir Putin is doing a great job as their president, compared with around 60 percent two years ago.
I am hardly the first to ask this question. There is plenty of research (e.g. de Bromhead et al. 2013) on the economic conditions that foster political extremism, for example. But how do we get from economic conditions to wrong persuasion, exactly? There is the famous Goebbels quote about the "big lie," which is fine as far as it goes but always makes me think: surely there's more to it than this?
But it can't be true of all lies. Don't some lies work better than others? What is it that defines the ones that work? My best answer so far to this question is an analogy, which I know is less than proof. But it's a thought-provoking analogy; see what you think.
Last year some behavioural scientists (Strõmbom et al. 2014) finally explained how to herd sheep. There is a sheepdog, instructed by a shepherd, that does the running around. It turns out that there are just two stages. First, the dog must gather the sheep in a single compact group. Once that is done, the second step is to threaten the group from one side; as a group, the sheep will move away from the threat in the opposite direction. That's all there is to it.
The reason why the first step must come first is also of interest: If the dog threatens the sheep without first gathering them in a group, they will scatter in all directions, and that's not what the shepherd wants.
Anyway, there's the answer: Group, then threaten.
People are not sheep, and this is only an analogy. Nonetheless you probably already worked out how I would read this. The shepherds are the political leaders. The dogs that run around for them are the campaign managers and activists. The human equivalent of gathering sheep in a group is to polarize people around an identity that defines an in-group and an out-group. So Scots (as opposed to the English), Greeks (as opposed to the Germans), Russian speakers (as opposed to the rest). Group them, then threaten them, and they will move.
To see how the threat sets the group in motion we need one more thing, an insight from Ed Glaeser. Glaeser (2005) wanted to explain the conditions under which politicians become merchants of hate. He began with a community that has suffered some kind of collective setback. When that happens, people demand an explanation: Who has done this to us? "Us" means the in-group. Political entrepreneurs, he argued, will compete to supply satisfying stories. Often the most satisfying account is one that blames the in-group's misfortune on the alleged past crimes of some out-group: the English, the bankers, the Muslims, the Jews, or the West.
Not only past crimes, however; Glaeser uses the phrase "past and future crimes." In other words, he maintains, politicians often transform these stories into powerful threats by giving them a predictive slant: This is what they, the enemy, have done to us in the past and this is what they will do again if we don't mobilize to stop them first.
Remember: Group, then threaten. The result is mobilization.
de Bromhead, Alan, Barry Eichengreen, and Kevin H. O'Rourke. 2013. Political Extremism in the 1920s and 1930s: Do German Lessons Generalize? Journal of Economic History 73/2, pp. 371-406. URL https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/jechis/v73y2013i02p371-406_00.html.
Strömbom, Daniel. Richard P. Mann, Alan M. Wilson, Stephen Hailes, A. Jennifer Morton, David J. T. Sumpter, and Andrew J. King. 2014. Solving the shepherding problem: heuristics for herding autonomous, interacting agents. J. R. Soc. Interface 11: 20140719. URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2014.0719.
I am a professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. I am also a research associate of Warwick’s Centre on Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, and of the Centre for Russian, European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Birmingham. My research is on Russian and international economic history; I am interested in economic aspects of bureaucracy, dictatorship, defence, and warfare. My most recent book is One Day We Will Live Without Fear: Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State (Hoover Institution Press, 2016).
Mark talks about why and how he blogs on Warwick’s Knowledge Centre.
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2019-04-23T22:03:22Z
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https://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/markharrison/daily/230315/
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On Saturday Sept. 29, The Harbert Center was transformed into a 1920s nightclub as the UAB Minority Health & Health Disparities Research Center (MHRC) Young Professionals Board presented Harlem in the ‘Ham. "We were excited to bring a fun, casino night event an awesome purpose to Birmingham in order to help children be heathier and prevent childhood obesity,” said the board president, Prince Cleveland, MPA.
Proceeds from Harlem in the ‘Ham benefit Healthy Happy Kids, the MHRC’s childhood obesity intervention. Since the first Casino Royale in 2009, more than 3,000 young professionals, business and community leaders have raised more than $350,00 to help children learn healthy living skills.
"In the United States, obesity occurs at higher rates in racial and ethnic minority populations. Also, cultural factors influence dietary and exercise behaviors, and research has shown these play a major role in the development of excess weight in minority groups," said Mona Fouad, M.D., MPH, director of the UAB Division of Preventive Medicine and director of the MHRC. "We focus on these groups of children for this program to help them learn how to lead a healthy lifestyle."
Over 1,400 students from 21 Birmingham afterschool programs and summer camps have learned healthy living lessons and taking them home. “Each year we are moved by how much these children learn and are able to teach their families and community members,” said Fouad.
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2019-04-25T08:56:29Z
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https://www.uab.edu/medicine/news/latest/item/1937-mhrc-s-harlem-in-the-ham-benefits-healthy-happy-kids?tmpl=component&print=1
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We greatly appreciate your support! If you would like to support the general work of NHSH, you may do so using the here, by sending us a check, or via securities donation. You can also choose a monthly giving option which allows you to give a little bit each month on your credit card to support our efforts!
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2019-04-26T06:11:27Z
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https://north-haven-qph9.squarespace.com/support
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Paris- and Los Angeles-based Federation Entertainment has struck an co-financing deal with Anton that will see the London-based investment company taking equity positions on Federation’s burgeoning portfolio of foreign and English-language drama series.
The multi-year slate investment deal is in the spirit of the $190 million partnership from the Drama Investment Partnership announced last year by BBC Worldwide and Anton, or indeed of Anton’s former slate-financing deals on Studiocanal movies.
Paris- and Los Angeles-based Federation Entertainment has struck an exclusive multi-year co-financing deal with Anton that will see the London-based investment company taking equity positions on Federation’s burgeoning portfolio of foreign and English-language drama series.
The production value for the Federation-Anton co-financed slate is expected to be well in excess of $100m.
On the distribution side, Anton will co-fund Federation’s acquisitions, in live-action fiction and in animation, for international or French series, shot in English, French or in other languages. Regarding production, Anton will strengthen Federation’s production capacity, by having the option to co-finance its productions.
The deal kicks in with “Don’t Leave Me,” an Italian thriller co-created by the writers of “Gomorra.” Anton’s investment comes, however, as Federation, having backed notable foreign-language series such as Israel’s “Hostages” and Canal Plus’ “The Bureau,” is driving ever-more into English-language drama series production.
At Lille’s Series Mania festival earlier this month, Federation unveiled it is teaming with U.K. TV executives Donna Wiffen and Paul Marquess to create Long Story TV, a European drama series production entity.
Giving Federation the ability to tap investment automatically up to a certain Anton commitment, the deal will also allow Federation to move quicker on IP ownership or talent relationships than many competitors, Breton added.
“Federation Entertainment is continental Europe-based, very strong in local language, and in the business of attracting independent talent to secure big projects, in competition with big platforms and studios. It is also expanding into English-language. It has huge growth potential, ” said Anton CEO Sébastien Raybaud, adding that the deal was “complementary” to Anton’s BBC Worldwide arrangement.
In another sign of expansion at Anton, it was announced on Sunday that Anton, along with Riverstone Pictures, is also co-financing Neill Blomkamp’s disaster thriller “Greenland,” produced by Thunder Road Pictures’ Basil Iwanyk. STXinternational is handling international distribution and CAA Media Finance, along with Endeavor Content, representing U.S. domestic rights.
Federation Ent. currently produces about 15 series a year, which will very soon shoot up to 20 annually.
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2019-04-20T08:48:37Z
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https://variety.com/2018/film/festivals/cannes-film-festival-2018-federation-entertainment-anton-1202808859/
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A namespace is a scoping container for all messaging components. Multiple queues and topics can reside within a single namespace, and namespaces often serve as application containers. This article provides instructions for creating a namespace in the Azure portal.
To begin using Service Bus messaging entities in Azure, you must first create a namespace with a name that is unique across Azure. A namespace provides a scoping container for addressing Service Bus resources within your application.
In the left navigation pane of the portal, select + Create a resource, select Integration, and then select Service Bus.
Enter a name for the namespace. The system immediately checks to see if the name is available. For a list of rules for naming namespaces, see Create Namespace REST API.
Select the pricing tier (Basic, Standard, or Premium) for the namespace. If you want to use topics and subscriptions, choose either Standard or Premium. Topics/subscriptions are not supported in the Basic pricing tier.
Specify the number of messaging units. The premium tier provides resource isolation at the CPU and memory level so that each workload runs in isolation. This resource container is called a messaging unit. A premium namespace has least one messaging unit. You can select 1, 2, or 4 messaging units for each Service Bus Premium namespace. For more information, see Service Bus Premium Messaging.
Specify whether you want to make the namespace zone redundant. The zone redundancy provides enhanced availability by spreading replicas across availability zones within one region at no additional cost. For more information, see Availability zones in Azure.
For Subscription, choose an Azure subscription in which to create the namespace.
For Resource group, choose an existing resource group in which the namespace will live, or create a new one.
For Location, choose the region in which your namespace should be hosted.
Select Create. The system now creates your namespace and enables it. You might have to wait several minutes as the system provisions resources for your account.
Confirm that the service bus namespace is deployed successfully. To see the notifications, select the bell icon (Alerts) on the toolbar. Select the name of the resource group in the notification as shown in the image. You see the resource group that contains the service bus namespace.
On the Resource group page for your resource group, select your service bus namespace.
You see the home page for your service bus namespace.
Click All resources, then click the newly created namespace name.
In the namespace window, click Shared access policies.
In the Shared access policies screen, click RootManageSharedAccessKey.
In the Policy: RootManageSharedAccessKey window, click the copy button next to Primary Connection String, to copy the connection string to your clipboard for later use. Paste this value into Notepad or some other temporary location.
Repeat the previous step, copying and pasting the value of Primary key to a temporary location for later use.
Congratulations! You have now created a Service Bus Messaging namespace.
Check out the Service Bus GitHub samples, which show some of the more advanced features of Service Bus messaging.
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/service-bus-messaging/service-bus-create-namespace-portal
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There are hundreds of different diets available to us. However, you should know that no single diet has been successfully proven to control Crohn’s disease. Despite the hype, it’s important to know that the different diets frequently featured in the media may or may not help you feel your best. Read on to learn more about some of the more popular diets and how they may impact your Crohn’s and overall health.
The ketogenic (keto) diet is not new — in fact, it’s been used for a century to treat epilepsy in kids. The goal of the diet is to focus on cutting carbohydrates and increasing fats to get the body to use fat as a form of energy. The diet usually includes eating meats, cheeses, fish, nuts, butter, oils, seeds and fibrous vegetables. For Crohn’s, though, it’s recommended that dairy and high-fiber foods be limited, especially during a flare, according to the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation (CCF).
The term “plant-based diet” came into vogue when researchers at Yale University were asked what diet was best for health. They reported that a diet of minimally processed foods, predominately made of plants, was associated with decreased risk of disease. A plant-based diet includes not just fruits and vegetables but also whole grains, nuts, seeds, beans, legumes, and oils. A plant-based diet is high in nutrients, which could be beneficial if you have Crohn’s.
The Paleolithic diet, or Paleo diet, consists of foods that are assumed to have eaten by humans around over 10,000 years ago, according to the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology. The diet includes wild and uncultivated plant and animal sources such as lean meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, roots, eggs, and nuts. It excludes foods such as grains, legumes, dairy, salt, refined sugar, and processed oils. Eliminating as many processed foods as possible is always wise, with or without Crohn’s.
The Mediterranean diet is based on a substantial intake of fruits, vegetables, and fish and a lower consumption of dairy, red meat, and sugars, according to Frontiers in Nutrition. The diet is based on traditional foods people used to eat in countries like Italy and Greece at a time when people in that region were extremely healthy. Reducing red meat intake could be helpful if you are living with Crohn’s, especially if it helps you reduce the amount of greasy or fried foods in your diet.
According to the American Heart Association, there is no single vegetarian eating pattern. But most who consider themselves vegetarians exclude meat and focus on eating plants for food such as fruits, vegetables, dried beans, grains, and nuts. Some people who eat a vegetarian diet also consume fish and animal byproducts such as milk. Eating a plant-based diet is good for your health. However, vegetables can be very fibrous and should be reduced if you’re having a Crohn’s flare.
A vegan diet excludes all meat and animal products. Therefore, vegans don’t eat any meat, poultry, fish, eggs, dairy products, or any foods that contain these products. Fruits, vegetables, leafy greens, whole grains, nuts, seeds, and legumes are the staples of the vegan diet. Bear in mind that successfully maintaining nutrition with this diet may be time consuming.
DASH stands for “Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension.” According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, the DASH diet is a flexible eating plan that helps create a heart-healthy eating style. It’s rich in fruits, veggies, whole grains, low-fat dairy foods, fish, lean meat, and poultry. It limits foods high in saturated fat, sugary beverages, and sweets. This diet is well-rounded and leaves room for you to eat what makes you feel the best.
Gluten is a name for the proteins found in wheat, rye, barley, and triticale, according to the Celiac Disease Foundation. Gluten acts as a glue that holds food together and is found in many foods. Those who live with celiac disease must avoid all gluten in their diet. Avoiding gluten has also gained popularity in some people without celiac. However, cutting all gluten can be difficult and eliminates some of the more easily digestible and highly nutritious foods such as whole grain breads.
According to the CCF, FODMAPs are sugars that are found in certain carbohydrates that can be poorly absorbed by some people. Examples of foods that are high in FODMAPs include wheat, garlic, dairy products, and certain fruits and vegetables. A low-FODMAP diet is considered an intricate eating plan and usually works best with guidance from a dietitian. The low-FODMAP diet has been recommended for some with Crohn’s disease.
The Atkins diet is a low-carb diet started by cardiologist Robert Atkins, M.D. The Atkins plan is focused on restricting net carbs and eating more protein and healthy fats. Unlike the low-carb keto diet, the Atkins diet allows you to eat more carbs once the initial phase of the diet is over. Eating a diet that consists of mainly protein could increase your intake of greasy or fried foods and milk products. It may also reduce some easily digestible complex carbohydrates that are good for energy.
The best diet is the one that meets your needs when living with Crohn’s disease. While some diets may prove popular in the media, that doesn’t mean they are healthy choices for everyone, especially those with complex digestive conditions like inflammatory bowel disease. Always work with your health care team to create an individualized diet that is right for you.
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2019-04-25T04:04:03Z
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https://www.healthcentral.com/slideshow/crohns-disease-popular-diets-to-know
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valdemarlethin
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This entry was posted in Painting and tagged answer, dog, meme, portrait, telephone. Bookmark the permalink.
Sorry, it’s already been sold.
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2019-04-22T08:40:22Z
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http://www.valdemarlethin.com/2015/04/hello-yes-this-is-dog-portrait/
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I was born and raised on the south coast of Devon, its here were I found a passion for theatre and acting.
I take pride in my comedic chops and my work ethic, both of which I believe set me apart from other actors on the market.
I hope to branch out into many areas of performance and I look forward to the challenge that lies ahead.
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2019-04-18T17:10:39Z
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https://www.mandy.com/actor/profile/callum-stewart
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Style 61-0114541 is a man's vest constructed from 100 percent cotton knit fabric. The front panels are of doubleknit construction containing 15 stitches per 2 centimeters and the back panel is of rib knit construction containing 17 stitches per 2 centimeters counted in the horizontal direction. The garment has a V-shaped neckline; a full front opening with five button closures; oversized armholes; two inset pockets at the waist; and a rib knit waistband. Rib knit edging finishes the neckline, the placket, the armholes, and the pocket openings.
Style 61-0114542 is a man's cardigan constructed from 100 percent cotton knit fabric. The front panels are of doubleknit construction containing 13 stitches per 2 centimeters counted in the horizontal direction. The back panel and the sleeves are of rib knit construction containing 17 stitches per 2 centimeters counted in the horizontal direction. The garment has a V-shaped neckline; a full front opening with five button closures; long sleeves with rib knit cuffs; two inset pockets at the waist; and a hemmed bottom. Rib knit edging finishes the neckline, the placket, and the pocket openings.
Style 61-0114543 is a man's vest constructed from 60 percent linen, 40 percent cotton knit fabric. The front panels are of jacquard construction containing 10 stitches per 2 centimeters and the back panel is of rib knit construction containing 18 stitches per 2 centimeters counted in the horizontal direction. The garment has a V-shaped neckline; a full front opening with five button closures; oversized armholes; pointed front panels; and two inset pockets at the waist. Rib knit edging finishes the neckline, the placket, the armholes, the pocket openings, and the bottom of the front panels.
The applicable subheading for Style 61-0114541 will be 6110.20.2030, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for: sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, waistcoats (vests) and similar articles, knitted or crocheted: of cotton: other: other: vests, other than sweater vests: men's or boys'. The duty rate will be 20.3 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for Style 61-0114542 will be 6110.20.2065, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for: sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, waistcoats (vests) and similar articles, knitted or crocheted: of cotton: other: other: other: men's or boys'. The duty rate will be 20.3 percent ad valorem.
The applicable subheading for Style 61-0114543 will be 6110.90.9064, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for: sweaters, pullovers, sweatshirts, waistcoats (vests) and similar articles, knitted or crocheted: of other textile materials: other: vests, other than sweater vests: other: men's or boys'. The duty rate will be 6 percent ad valorem.
Style 61-0114541 falls within textile category designation 359, Style 61-0114542 falls within textile category designation 338, and Style 61-0114543 falls within textile category designation 859. Based upon international textile trade agreements, products of Hong Kong are subject to visa requirements.
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2019-04-24T23:55:43Z
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http://www.faqs.org/rulings/rulings1997NY812900.html
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bellaonline
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It's a good idea to upgrade your betta fish's bowl to something bigger so that they have more swimming space. Also, your fish will not only appreciate more space to swim, but also to hide in the additional decorations you can then put into his or her new home. With more water, there is less cleaning for you to do, too. Clean water is one of the best things we can give to our little fishes for whom we are guardians.
If you have a one-gallon container that your fishy lives in, for example, then you might want to consider upgrading to a two-gallon container first. It's a good idea to not overwhelm your fish with a much, much larger area to live in immediately. This is too much of a sudden change in dynamics in the water in which your fish must maneuver.
Imagine yourself being a tiny little fish and you are accustomed to swimming up and down and around your little plant and shell and pebbles. You know every inch of your own area and have established that as your territory. Sure, you look outside and wonder if you could jump over to that lovely jug of water on the table or the big glass flower vase full of water and flowers or your neighbor fishes' large aquarium, but of course that's not safe. So, your little fish takes comfort in the familiarity of his first home.
A bigger place has its healthy benefits for your little fish, so it's best to let him or her just get used to a new space that isn't too different from his original place. A gradual change and keeping the same decorations in the new container will help your fish adjust to the change and love the new digs you provide him with.
You will want to take into consideration the need for a larger water pump and heater if necessary and any other equipment installed in your fish's larger home. You could add a couple new decorations one at a time for your fish to get accustomed to and begin to love. Soon he will be loving his new home and happily going to the top for air and eating his food enthusiastically and surveying your world with satisfaction again as he realizes that he is still at home and being cared for lovingly by his family. Happy Fishes.
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2019-04-20T04:51:08Z
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https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art180615.asp
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wordpress
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The Dutch grammar explained by a non-native. With tips and tricks to memorize.
[Available also in Dutch/Italian] Due to a renewal of the Dutch language started in the 19th century, knowing the gender (masculine/feminine) is no longer necessary . However, it remains the distinction between the neuters (het words) and other words (de words), and its knowledge is not just a matter of fashionable use of the language: the … Continue reading De or het?
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2019-04-24T08:59:00Z
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https://dutchingeng.wordpress.com/category/learning-dutch/grammatica/
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newsmax
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Photo believed to be of the new Chinese road-mobile DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile.
China’s recent test launches of its first intercontinental ballistic missile and a submarine-launched ballistic missile are significant leaps forward that seem to indicate a major shift in its defense posture. Specifically, the tests appear designed to give China a first-strike nuclear capability against the United States, raising the question of what, exactly, China is planning.
To read the full analysis from top intelligence experts at LIGNET.com, click here.
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2019-04-19T10:27:25Z
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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/china-strike-us-missile/2012/09/11/id/451422/
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heyjules
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18 January 1996 - Julian attends the LA premier of Mr. Holland's Opus at the Cinema Dome followed by a late supper party in the parking lot.
31 May 1996 - Julian is reported to have attended the 1996 Music Awards in Monte Carlo.
19 September 1996 - Julian anonymously purchased over £55,000 in "family heirlooms" at a London auction. The items bought included a piece of paper containing information and a few drawings by Paul McCartney on the song structure of Hey Jude, 3 postcards sent to Julian by his Dad in 1970 and one from 1979, and the half-eaten brass apple from John's Austin Maxi which was crashed in Scotland.
5 December 1996 - Julian, Sinead O' Conner, and Algeria's Cheb Marri perform at an UNESCO sponsored concert entitled "Together in the World Accomplices Against Intolerance" marking UNESCO's 50th anniversary.
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2019-04-22T22:01:36Z
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http://www.heyjules.com/bio/1996.html
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Whether you’re just starting out, or you’re stuck, or you want to have fun with words, join me on Mondays. We have a small core group of regulars, some folks who come on occasion, and new folks are always welcome.
Depending on how many people show up we write to 3 or 4 writing prompts. Writing prompts are supposed to be fun. Prompts are designed to get your pen moving, and sometimes to get your brain out of your way. A timer puts an added element to the exercise, a part of tricking your brain, letting the critic in you worry about the clock, so you can WRITE!
I set the timer for approximately 7 minutes. There is something poetic about the number 7, the way it tilts, points up to the right….
The point is to get the pen moving, get the mind working, and get the creative juices flowing!!
We meet EVERY Monday, unless I run off on vacation somewhere, at my home near the University of New Mexico.
Also you and Susan and Andy and I must make plans to go to lunch!
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2019-04-26T06:37:42Z
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https://everydaywriters.wordpress.com/2016/10/11/fall-into-writing-again/comment-page-1/
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Arts
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Arts
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purseblog
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Do any of you LV lovers own the Belem PM or Belem MM in the damier canvas? The PM seems to be a satchel and the MM seems to be a shoulder bag. I'm wondering if the shoulder bag would be more practical. If any of you guys own these bags please let me know what you think. Thanks!
I don't own one, BUT wanted to own one until I tried it on at the boutique. The pm is small and cute. I wanted the mm, but it felt like a big bulge under my arm and looked awkward. I saw a girl using the mm and one side was smashed in (due to her arm) and it didn't look very pretty anymore.
I do like how the zippers some down the sides on the bag. It opens up like a clam shell.
Thanks for the input, Sunshinesmilee. I thought it might be awkard under the arm because of its shape.
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2019-04-18T19:23:49Z
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https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/need-advice-from-lv-experts.2047/
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Arts
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Shopping
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wordpress
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I’m Jenna Wright, a Functional Coach to both physicians and their patients. My purpose is to help people live a better quality of life, reaching their optimal state of health by supporting healing of the body, mind and spirit and to do this in the most simplistic and successful manner. Because, becoming healthy should not be an all consuming task of great difficulty. It should be, instead, basic in a approach, making your daily state of being, basically well.
My holistic approach is individualistic, encompassing a Mind, Body and Spirit journey that includes using food, nutraceuticals, self discovery and basic energy medicine principles and some supplementation to help restore balance, synergistically optimizing personal wellness. I educate physicians and practioners on Integrative testing and treatments as well as the nuances of working with chronically ill patients.
The first part of my professional life within the medical arena was on the administrative side of mental health and Alzheimer’s care. I have been health coaching for the past 14 years both privately and in doctor’s offices. I’ve helped physicians integrate natural medicine and testing into their conventional practices. I have been blessed to have worked for and been treated by some very talented Naturopathic MD’s. I also have over 33 years of personal experience with Lyme Disease. As I began to heal, I expanded my coaching services into the Chronic Illness community. While I coach individuals, families, groups and physicians, I am especially passionate about helping to reduce suffering among some of our sickest population.
You can find me on Facebook: Basically Well-Lyme and Chronic Illness Support.
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2019-04-18T21:17:53Z
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https://jennawrightbasicallywell.wordpress.com/
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Health
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wordpress
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I up Mindful Thoughts expecting it to be a bit of twaddle but found that I identified with virtually every part of it. It has instantly become a cherished possession and I am minded to buy copies as gifts for cyclist friends.
Absolutely a powerful poem, Nick. It sends us back in time when a man could stand guardian over his loved ones to ensure their safety. I loved this.
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2019-04-20T10:57:40Z
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https://gonecyclingagain.wordpress.com/2017/09/26/night-watch-0300/
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Arts
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baltimoresun
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If you’re confused about an ongoing avalanche of incidents concerning race and identity, you’re far from alone. So I’ll try my best to sort out some of this. Too often people leading the conversations don’t have their facts right.
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2019-04-22T02:57:42Z
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https://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/entertainment/music/jennifer-lopez-PECLB003044-topic.html
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Arts
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Reference
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wordpress
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One of the applications of the new proposal is to place the individual exhibits in context, in a way which shows the correlation with each other and with the missing frame. At the New Acropolis Museum, the pediment of the Ecatompedon (not from the Parthenon) is placed against an artificial frame. The new proposal aims at setting the marbles in a frame and filling up the composition through software technology. Two replicate statuettes were used, of Aphrodite and of Hercules. A scanned version of the statue of Aphrodite is projected around the two statues in order to fill up the composition.
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2019-04-24T18:22:02Z
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https://exhibitingcontext.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/experiment-7/
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Arts
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Science
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wordpress
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Well Hello To A Bunch Of Awesome People.
I’m Home Relaxing Today. Watching Cowboy Movies And Karate Movies. My Paw Paw And Grannie Loved Cowboy Movies. They Started Me Watching Them Many Years Ago. And The Karate Movies Are My Daddy’s Fault. He Started Me Watching Those When I Was About 13 Years Old.
And I Can Truly Say. I Enjoy Them Both. Lol.
But I Hope Everyone Is Having A Pleasant Day. Just Wanted To Say Hello And Check On Everyone. See You Later.
I love old westerns, especially John Wayne movies! Love old Kung Fu movies too! Bruce Lee is still awesome to watch. God bless!
Yes!! I Know Right. My Friends Tells Me I Have An Old Soul. Lol. Because I Watch Old Movies. I Love Good Movies. No Matter How Old They Are.
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2019-04-22T07:00:38Z
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https://justnitablog.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/good-afternoon-everyone/
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Arts
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Arts
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auburn
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Financial Management Association students continue to soar.
Auburn’s FMA chapter recently celebrated its second student acceptance, finance sophomore Emily Mills, into the prestigious Girls Who Invest (GWI) Summer Intensive Program – a competitive, national program that places females into elite finance positions and prepares women for a future in asset management.
Mills, left, follows Jenny Herrell, right, a junior in finance, current teaching assistant at the Harbert College of Business and future summer analyst at Point72, a leading hedge fund in New York City. In 2018, Herrell became the first student from an SEC institution accepted into the program, where she completed a course of study at the University of Pennsylvania, and an internship with PGIM (the investment management arm of Prudential Financial, Inc.
GWI seeks to address the gender imbalance in the male-dominated asset management sector by equipping women with the necessary technical and behavioral skills to succeed in a career in investing. This 10-week program entails four weeks of classroom experience at elite financial research institutions Wharton and Notre Dame followed by a six-week internship with a leading asset manager. The training portion of the program culminates into a capstone project, where women have the opportunity to consult with a Fortune 500 company’s investor relations team and formulate a pitch to a committee of investors.
GWI’s goal is simple: Build a pipeline of female asset managers so that 30 percent of global investable capital is managed by women by 2030. FMA shares in this vision.
“We believe financial literacy offers women and minorities the opportunity to hold power over their future, pursue a career with influence, and ultimately better their communities and bring about change in both political and social spheres,” Herrell adds. “Financial literacy provides the opportunity to control your own wealth, and wealth implies power, which ultimately garners influence.
Auburn FMA will host Janet Cowell, Girls Who Invest CEO and former North Carolina state treasurer, to speak at the second annual FMA Inclusion and Diversity Forum on March 28. There, she will openly engage with students about the need for diversity within the financial services industry. This forum is open to all students and faculty. The event will be followed by a closed-door women’s power hour, allowing FMA women to openly engage with Cowell and attending FMA alumni.
FMA is an 85-member honor society that develops students’ business skills, finance savvy, and job-readiness. The organization is now in its fifth year on campus and has boasted 100 percent full-time placement rates for seniors every year.
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2019-04-19T05:03:12Z
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http://harbert.auburn.edu/news/Girls%20Who%20Invest.php
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Arts
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Business
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uiowa
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LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS LULAC GLANCES June 2, 1969 CONVENTION ISSUE P. O. Box 242, Davenport, Iowa LULAC NATIONAL PRESIDENT, ROBERTO ORNELAS, TO ATTEND IOWA STATE CONVENTION! Ornelas is to be the main speaker at the Twelfth Annual State Convention which will take place at the Savery Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa on June 14 1969. Convention Chairman Jesse Mosqueda also announced that there is a possibility that President Rudy Avila and other hard working LULAC members of Council #306 have planned to make this a most productive and enjoyable State Convention. State Representative, John Tapscott, will be honored for his hard work in implementing legislative action on behalf of the Mexican American Migrant Farm Worker in the State of Iowa. Highlight of the State Convention will be the awarding of the $600.00 LULAC State Scholarship to a deserving graduating high school senior of Latin American descent. Other LULAC State Awards will be Man and Woman of the Year and Council of Year. John Terronez, Iowa LULAC State Director, has assigned the following personnel to the following Committee Assignments: RULES: Efrian Gomez, Chairman, Davenport, Lupe Pabon, Des Moines, Manny Rivas, Fort Madison CREDENTIALS: Jesse Mosqueda, Chairman, Des Moines, Victor Vasquez, Fort Madison , Ray Rangel, Davenport Man and Woman of Year: Chuck Bernal, Chairman, Des Moines, Humberto Jiminez, Davenport, Mrs. Lupe Mendez, Ft. M. SCHOLARSHIP: Henry Vargas, Chairman, Davenport, Bill Rocha, Des Moines, Lupe Mendez, Fort Madison. RESOULTIONS: Felix Sanchez, Chairman, Fort Madison, Jesse Ramirez, Davenport, Vince Bejarno, Des Moines. Other assignments are as follows: LULAC prayer by Carmen Cepeda; Pledge of Allegiance by Anita (Vigie) Rocha, and Parliamentarian will be Alex Pabon also of Des Moines John Vasques of Davenport will be Sgt. at Arms. FORT MADISON ADDS TWENTY-FIVE NEW LULAC MEMBERS!!! LULAC COUNCIL #304 President Lupe Mendez, reports a highly successful Membership Drive with the addition of twenty-five new members and more to come. Congratulations to Fort Madison on an outstanding Membership Drive. A war welcome to all you new LULAC'ERS in Fort Madison. Brother Mendez also reports that the remodelling of the Clubroom is almost complete. The Women of LULAC #304 continue to do their good work of selling delicious Mexican Food on Saturdays at the Club to raise funds for the remodeling and their Scholarship Program. At the State Convention, Council #304 will aware their $250.00 Scholarship. Council elections were held and the following were elected to : President--Lupe Mendez, Vice President--Manny Rivas, Secretary--John Mendez, Treasurer--Vic Vasquez, Sgt. at Arms--Luis Salazaar. LULAC COUNCIL #306, Des Moines, is hard at work making final preparations for the up-coming State Convention which they will be Host Council. We all know what amount of work is connected with a State Convention and Des Moines has the dedicated members to insure a highly successful convention. All systes are "GO!" in regards to the convention. Council #306 was represented at the Midwest Conference held in Davenport on April 12th by Rudy Avila, Vince Bejarno and Carmen Cepeda.
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2019-04-21T18:34:42Z
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http://diyhistory.lib.uiowa.edu/transcribe/4132/117893
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Arts
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Business
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nps
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Voyageurs National Park is located in Northern Minnesota. The park shares its northern boundary with Canada and lies just west of the Boundary Water Canoe Area Wilderness. The park visitor centers are accessible by car but in order to truly experience the park, one must leave their vehicle behind and access the park by boat.
Find your way before you go. Download a variety of maps including area maps, camping maps, trail maps, day use maps and winter maps and get where you need to be with ease.
Learn about the different modes of transportion one may use to get around the park.
Download waypoints and coordinates to assist in locating specific locations within the park.
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2019-04-18T22:55:14Z
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https://www.nps.gov/voya/planyourvisit/directions.htm
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Arts
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Recreation
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