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A University of Wolverhampton academic has had two articles published in the same issue of a prestigious academic journal.
Dr Sarah Browne, Head of the School of Performing Arts, had the articles published in Studies in Musical Theatre (Volumne 12, Issue 3) in December 2018.
The articles are both feminist readings of well-known musicals. The first article, ‘Girl Talk: Feminist Phonocentrism as act of resistance in the musical Hair’, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musical – refocusing women of the cast by placing them at the centre of her analysis.
The second article is a feminist reading of the Sting musical, ‘The Last Ship’, focusing on how revisions made to the UK version reposition women as central to the community and the plot, looking at how transferring ‘The Last Ship’ from Broadway to Newcastle results in a ‘feminist political musical for the Brexit era’.
Sarah, whose work has also been published by Oxford University Press, Palgrave and Routledge, said: “I am honoured and delighted to have had two articles featured in the same issue of this prestigious journal.
“The University of Wolverhampton is doing really important work in recognising women’s voices in our joint initiative ‘Hear Her Song’ with the Canales Project and the United Nations Decade of Women.
The journal can be viewed online.
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2019-04-26T14:29:42Z
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https://www.wlv.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/latest-news/2019/january-2019/double-feature-article-is-music-to-academics-ears.php
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Beatlology Magazine is no longer publishing current issues.
Back issues of all 61 back issues of Beatlology are still available for purchase.
Copyright © 1998-2011 Beatlology, Inc.
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http://beatlology.com/
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Sometimes funny, sometimes serious, these images say it with pictures instead of words: From Marilyn Monroe's x-rays to earrings worn by Kate Winslet in "Titanic," celebrity items are hot draws at auctions. Show us what celebrity items YOU would like to see up for sale. Click through the images and then show us your talent by creating a photo op-ed for the NEXT slideshow: Could there be more spies among us? Show us where YOU think they might be hiding. Send your image, full name and hometown to: foxforum@foxnews.com. Mention if you'd like daily alerts on the next topic. None of the images were created by Fox News.
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2019-04-21T14:56:40Z
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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/photo-op-inion-celebrity-items-on-the-auction-block
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PHOENIX -- A hiker who went off a South Mountain trail Monday was attacked by a swarm of bees before falling 200 feet into a ravine, Phoenix firefighters said.
The man, who is in his early 30s, was hiking alone around 5:30 p.m. when he left the trail to hike up a gully and was ambushed by hundreds of bees.
"He was waving his shirt and then he was actually just full of bees," said hiker Ken MacKenzie, who witnessed the incident.
When the hiker tried to escape the bees, he fell.
"He probably fell about 200 feet off of that trail and down into a ravine. He was all broken bones and cut up and tangled up in cholla cactus," said Capt. Lewis Jones of the Phoenix Fire Technical Team.
That's gotta hurt. Glad he survived. Hope he wasn't allergic. Wonders if he stepped on a nest or was simply too close. If these were also Africanized bees which are very aggressive.
This is the time of year in Arizona when the bees swarm while looking for a new place for a hive. This guy might have agitated them, or he might have been just minding his own business. I have been told that at this stage in the game, any bee you encounter in AZ can be assumed to be africanized.
Attacked by bees...fall down a 200' ravine...into the cactus...while it's 110 degrees.
If it wasn't so serious, it would sound like a cartoon.
Damn! Talk about a bad day!
Man, this is a really scary story. I mean I do a lot of outdoorsy things. I travel to AZ and go mountain biking solo. Crap, he's really lucky someone saw him and was able to call for help. This video says it took 2 hours before they got bee-protected rescuers to get him. Meanwhile, several folks had tried to reach him, but turned back due to the bees. I'm really surprised that the report said he'd been stung about a hundred times. I could see it being a lot more than that with such an angry swarm.
On Saturday (5/17) morning an Austin, Texas 81-year-old man was mowing his yard, then went inside his home and his wife heard a loud noise. She discovered him lying on the bathroom floor.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene when EMS arrived. Initially EMS suspected a heart attack and he was released to a funeral home. The funeral home began to inspect the body and discovered multiple bee stings.
The man's body was transported to the Travis County Medical Examiner's office for further examination by a doctor. An autopsy was performed and over 50 bee stings were discovered on the head, neck, and chest areas. The cause of death is being withheld pending further tests.
It has not been determined whether the bee stings caused or contributed to the man's death.
Border Patrol agents helped two illegal immigrants who had been attacked by a swarm of bees while crossing the Tohono O'odham Reservation get medical treatment Tuesday.
Agents encountered a man and a woman walking on Federal Route 19 south of Sells about 6:40 p.m., said Jesús Rodriguez, Border Patrol Tucson Sector spokesman. The pair said they had been attacked by a swarm of bees and needed treatment.
They were taken to the Sells Hospital. The Mexican woman, 40, had been stung more than 100 times and was held overnight at the hospital, he said. The man, 24, also Mexican, had been stung more than 45 times and was treated and released, then processed for a voluntary return to Mexico.
Passing this along to another BBS a poster stated simply.
Some mornings it just doesn't pay to chew through the leather straps.
A Colorado woman hiking the Bavarian Alps fell 18 feet onto a rock ledge that was 4,100 feet off the valley floor She was injured badly enough that she couldn't climb up from the ledge and was trapped there for nearly three days. She saw a steel cable that lumberjacks use to winch trees down the mountain and attached her sports bra to the downhill side of the cable...thus alerting the people below.
A search party found the body of Robert Nawojski, 55, in a wooded area near his mobile home in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, late last week, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish said.
Dale Pate was telling me how a group of visitors was waiting in the amphitheater at Carlsbad for the bats to fly and a deer walked over the entrance. Some tourist filmed it on their camcorders, got it home, viewed it, and discovered there was a mountain lion stalking the deer that no one had seen at the time!
Then there was the cougar that jumped out of the cave entrance that Jim Goodbar had been straddling (and the cougar went between his legs) when he gave a lecture to a group of people.
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2019-04-21T10:27:09Z
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human handler, and the review team in general, as on that developed by the machine. After differentiating human and machine theories of relevance and discussing the way in which these symbiotically co-evolve during predictive coding iterations, we examine the human theory in more detail. We draw on sources from philosophy, psychology and practice to make the case for the centrality of narrative, or story-telling, in constructing and anchoring the human theory of relevance. We then use this to inform a series of guidelines for structuring predictive coding based review around the notion of narrative. These include: narrative frame-working; differentiating sub-plots and episodes; designating a chief storyteller; using external representations; and narrative sharing that leaves no reviewer behind.
DESI V Workshop was held after ICAIL 2013 Conference.
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2019-04-20T10:57:22Z
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http://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/11789/
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Alone in the pyramids of Egypt, loot as many golden treasures as you can. But caution: The mummies are angry and want to keep all the treasure for them! Gold chest hunt features: * Classic gameplay: Climb ladders, fall big heights, cling to ropes, avoid enemies and pick up the chests * 60 levels. * An optional christmas themed skin.
Basic nes era game. Has video ad every few levels.
I was expecting it 2 b a ripoff of either mario or terraria.
Review title of Auxi WolfIt's okay.
Pretty basiic nes type of retro game. Music is pretty tasteless and bland and reminds me of an old 70's workout video.
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2019-04-21T16:52:12Z
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https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/gold-chest-hunter/9nd5qdtz1198%3Frtc%3D1%26amp%3Bactivetab%3Dpivot%3Aoverviewtab&pid=14116424
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Mainland China’s film market might be volatile and unpredictable for many Hong Kong filmmakers, but that does not stop Andy Lo from trying. The long-time scriptwriter and director of “Happiness” says he wants the best of both worlds, and he’s determined to achieve that.
He made his directorial debut in 2016 with “Happiness,” a drama revolving around a young man who has lost his mother and is abandoned by his father. He develops a heartwarming mother-and-son connection with a lonely woman who displays early signs of dementia. Kara Wai won the actress award for her role at last year’s Hong Kong Film Awards. Lo was also nominated for new director.
The film grossed more than HK$3 million ($383,580) in Hong Kong, which Lo describes as “standard” for a low-budget film. But it only took 962,000 yuan ($152,621) with a limited release in mainland China, despite earning the praise of audiences.
The mainland market is a gamble as a film’s success depends a lot on the distribution, says Lo. He says nowadays films go straight to web releases after theatrical release, and if a film has a small budget and does not have a big cast, it might not even get theatrical release. And if this happens before the film is even released in Hong Kong, the box office potential will be dented, which is what happened to “Happiness,” Lo says.
But Lo is not giving up. Compared to other young filmmakers in Hong Kong who are mostly graduates of art or film schools, he is an industry veteran. “College graduates might have wild imagination but my strength is my background as a scriptwriter, and investors are more likely to believe in a project helmed by someone who can produce a good script,” Lo says.
Lo is working on a new drama revolving around secrets among siblings, to be produced by actor-producer Gordon Lam. He calls the film, tentatively titled “Family Pathway,” the second instalment of his “family trilogy” after “Happiness.” It will start filming in the second half of 2018. He is also working on sci-fi project with which he wants to target the mainland.
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2019-04-25T20:55:02Z
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https://variety.com/2018/biz/global/1202699055-jackie-chan-1202699055/
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The day was Sunday the 19th of December, the weather was snowy and Theo Walcott’s mother needed some casserole mix from the local Spar. Rather than trying to brave the icy conditions herself, she sent out her son, believing his lighting running speed could melt the snow in its wake, Billy Whizz-style.
Unfortunately, seven hours later and little Theo still hasn’t returned with eyewitness accounts saying that he ran head first into a particularly large mound of snow, hoping to burst through to the other side, and did not reappear.
Walcott’s mum began to worry around 2 o’clock and rang the local authorities, asking for the help in retrieving little Theo.
“No point,” she was told bluntly by one officer. “He’s probably become encapsulated in a block of ice and floated off to the Shetland Isles. He’ll wake up in the future and there’ll be loads of robots and lasers and Patrick Kielty will probably be dead by then. Don’t you want your son to live in that kind of future?” After contemplating, Mrs Walcott had to agree that this sounded like a far better world for her son and called off the search.
There is speculation that Arsene Wenger, alarmed by Walcott’s lack of improvement comparative to his ageing and unwilling to surrender the excuse “he’s still young and learning” after a bad performance from the striker has orchestrated the whole scheme himself, wanting to keep Walcott permanently young as part of Arsenal’s new youth policy. Rumours say he had Walcott cryogenically frozen then impersonated an officer of the law over the telephone to his mother. He is also rumoured to be lining up similar treatment for Johann Djourou, Abou Diaby and Jens Lehmann.
Rio Ferdinand has been admitted to the casualty ward in a Manchester hospital after a prank or a ‘merking’ carried out by his team mates has gone horribly wrong.
So often the prankster or ‘merker’ himself, Rio became a victim after the prolonged period he spent injured allowed his team mates, allegedly lead by Park Ji Sung, to all change their names to ‘Betfair’ in order to bewilder the United captain.
This worked almost too perfectly, as it sent Rio into a confused state whereby he wedged 42 crayons up his nose and ran head first into a steel door, rendering himself unconscious.
This fresh injury is likely to put Ferdinand out for up to six weeks, a time which he will us wisely to finish his ‘Playdays’ stickerbook, a project and labour of love that he has been working on since he was just 15 years old.
After the departure of Roy Hodgson to Liverpool, Fulham have been frantically on the hunt for a new gaffer, with the new season starting in less than a month. Former Tottenham boss Martin Jol, who is currently managing Ajax, appeared to fit the bill and he was expected to sign with the Cottagers in the next few days.
“The first abuse occurred whilst I was walking past a cinema on Fulham Road which was screening their first showing of ‘Toy Story 3’. Several children mistook me for a man dressed as Mr. Potato Head and requested that they have pictures taken with me. This process took over three hours, as everyone in the queue wanted one, and was repeated ten minutes later when I foolishly walked passed another cinema in Leicester Square without thinking.
“I then had to go past the original cinema to get to Craven Cottage, and, as I had already been made 5 hours late for my meeting with Fulham’s directors, I refused any pictures and tried to walk past. My refusal made numerous children cry and one parent was so angry at this she hit me full force over the head with an umbrella, rendering me unconscious for another four hours. I woke up in Accident and Emergency who demanded that I had to stay the night there.
“This meant I arrived at my meeting with the directors one day and three hours late. Amazingly, the directors had not left, however Mohamed Al-Fayed demanded that I “remove that ridiculous costume” when I walked in. I tried reasoning with him that I was not wearing a costume and that it was just my head’s unfortunate potato-y shape and starchy appearance, but he was having none of it. After trying to explain for an hour, I gave up and left. On my way out I head Mr. Al-Fayed say to one of his directors “where is this Martin Jol, he is a day and four hours late.” They could still be waiting for all I know.
“I then went to McDonalds to get a double cheeseburger to calm my nerves. Instead of complying with my request, the employee tutted, remarked “how did you get out here?” then grabbed me by my head and submerged it in the deep fryer for several minutes, then lightly salted it and served me to a customer.
“The final insult came when the customer bit me, proclaimed that I tasted ‘awful’ and spent over two hours complaining to the manager about my taste. At this point I snapped and pushed over the straw holder in rage. My yells that I was a real person were met with a shrug, and the customer continued to complain.
It is a rare day goes when there are no news stories featuring Ashley Cole in a negative light. This is not one of them.
Cole was routinely booed whilst turning up to attend the wedding of former Arsenal teammate Sol Campbell by members of the public in Corbridge, where the wedding was held, who were trying to catch a glimpse of the wedding’s famous attendees, which included Rio Ferdinand, David Seaman and Ainsley Harriott.
“The boos died down for a bit and Ashley might have thought that it was over, then he made the unwise decision of pocketing all the money from the church collection plate and at this point the guests turned violent.
Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti will be hoping that the Corbridge parish council give him permission to have the stained glass window removed in order to have Cole fit and ready for the start of the new season. However, he has been informed that this it will be a lengthy process that could take weeks, even months. Questions will also be raised about Cole’s match fitness and health after being encased in glass for such a period of time and this has certainly dealt the Blues’ season an early blow.
After a spectacular piece of PR incompetence, the ‘Capello Index’, a website which rates players out of 100 based on certain criteria, has been denounced by Fabio Capello himself, who says he gave “no permission” for it to be published.
It has proved particularly controversial because the only England international ranked within the top 100 is Steven Gerrard, who only comes in at a meagre 65th place. One ‘senior international’ has even allegedly called for Capello to be sacked as a result.
There you have it. Three groundbreaking websites to look forward to coming soon to an internet near you.
Shilts’ first foray into the world of t-shirt selling out of the back of his van was somewhat hampered by his lack of vital tools such as a van or any t-shirts.
As a result, Shilts has now decided to allow the internet to aid him in his latest entrepreneurial venture and, along with his erstwhile colleague, guerrilla art nob Gordon Banksy, and set up Shilts’ Shirts Stall, selling all of the footballing slogan tees nobody wants to wear.
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2019-04-26T11:47:16Z
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https://perezshilton.wordpress.com/category/gordon-banksy/
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This building is classé au titre des Monuments Historiques. It is indexed in the Base Mérimée, a database of architectural heritage maintained by the French Ministry of Culture, under the reference PA00102114 .
Media in category "Église Saint-Étienne d'Avrigney-Virey"
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2019-04-19T06:55:18Z
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https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:%C3%89glise_Saint-%C3%89tienne_d%27Avrigney-Virey
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Born in Ankara, Turkey Dr. Hatiboglu spent the early part of her life in Istanbul where she earned a law degree from Istanbul University's Faculty of Law. She then started working in the field of banking which was undergoing structural reforms in Turkey during the mid to late 1980s. Having moved to USA in the mid 1990s she took some time off to complete a Ph.D in Banking & Insurance from Marmara University in Istanbul. Subsequently she joined Penn at PLC to start a Turkish language teaching program, which in a few years became a successful multi-leveled language program with Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced programs under NELC. Most recently, 2 years ago an Ottoman Language course has been added under the Turkish Language program. Dr. Hatiboglu is dedicated to teaching a fast-paced language teaching program and has been instrumental in getting her students awarded with scholarships in Turkish language and culture programs with different Turkish and US institutions. She is an active member and Treasurer of the American Association of Teachers of Turkic and member of Penn Language Center and American Research Institute in Turkey. She has full Oral Proficiency Interview and Writing Proficiency Test Certification for Turkish from American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and an active consultant to American Councils in International Education in developing Turkish language testing programs.
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2019-04-26T03:39:52Z
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https://www.sas.upenn.edu/mec/people/FerideHatiboglu
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JONESBORO – Two biological sciences faculty members at Arkansas State University will head up research projects involving three institutions and supported by $5.48 million in funding from the National Science Foundation.
One of the projects represents the largest competitive research award in the institution's history.
Dr. Travis Marsico, associate professor of botany, wrote the successful proposal to support the "Upper Delta Region Biodiversity Scholarship Program" through the National Science Foundation's initiative called S-STEM, which stands for Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
Dr. Brook Fluker, assistant professor of aquatic ecology, will lead development of the Arkansas Center for Biodiversity Collections, a proposal funded through NSF's Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR). The project will unify A-State's eight collections into common spaces, making them much more accessible.
"The need to understand how the diversity of plants and animals evolves as a result of changes to the environment around them is vital to our stewardship of the land for future generations," said Dr. Andy Sustich, associate vice chancellor for research at A-State. "These projects will provide valuable experiences to our future scientists while developing this understanding."
Acting Chancellor Lynita Cooksey commented, "I am very proud of the work that Dr. Andy Sustich and his team are doing in terms of generating new research opportunities for our faculty and students here at Arkansas State."
The related projects evolved from the Delta Research Consortium of universities and colleges that formed last year through an initiative of the Delta Regional Authority. This is the first collaborative project to receive funding after the consortium was formed.
"This grant is exactly the type of investment into our region that we were aiming for when forming the Delta Research Consortium," said Chris Masingill, federal co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority. "The Mississippi River Delta region has some of the most fertile, productive, and bountiful farm land in the world - and we have research institutions and educational infrastructure to match it. By investing in our people, we are literally planting the seeds of our economic future. I thank the National Science Foundation for their partnership and am excited to see what the brilliant people at our universities in the Delta can develop."
Marsico emphasized the significance of the projects, saying "This is an unprecedented opportunity to educate graduate and undergraduate students in this field of study at A-State, making us a leader in our region. We are now able to take 70 years of collections data and specimens, house them effectively, curate them appropriately, and make them widely available digitally to the scientific research community. The type of large-scale research that will result is only possible with accessible and digitized specimen data."
The CSBR and S-STEM projects also will work together to provide biodiversity outreach and educational opportunities to K-12 students and the broader community, developing appreciation for the natural history and biodiversity of their home region.
A total of 120 students (44 in graduate-level study and 76 in undergraduate study) will be mentored and supported during the five-year term of the grant. Scholarships to study biodiversity science and natural history collections management will be distributed between A-State, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, and Murray State University in Kentucky.
The collaborative project, for which Marsico will serve as principal investigator (PI), has a total budget of $4,998,672, of which $1,064,170 is designated through a sub-award to Murray State. SIUC's portion of the grant is $1,726,969.
The three institutions will work cooperatively to recruit and retain students in STEM fields.
The project was designed to help serve a region with a high proportion of first-generation college students. In addition to campus studies, faculty will partner with natural resource management professionals from state natural heritage or natural resource conservation agencies to provide hands-on, field-based workshops.
Fluker said his project includes new museum-quality shelving, storage cabinets and a database system that will provide improved access for students and researchers. His grant is for $478,094 over a three-year period. He also is a co-PI on Marsico's project.
The American Museum of Natural History says the term biodiversity refers to the variety of life on Earth at all its levels, from genes to ecosystems, and the ecological and evolutionary processes that sustain it.
Biodiversity collections at A-State include mammal, bird, reptile and amphibian, fish, mussel, aquatic macroinvertebrate, insect, and plant specimens. These individual collections will be unified under the ACBC.
Learn more about the two related projects by clicking here.
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2019-04-25T10:53:14Z
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http://www.astate.edu/news/national-science-foundation-approves-5-48-million-in-grants-for-biodiversity-projects-led-by-a-state-researchers
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Development of algorithmic and computational techniques for solving large scale linear programming (LP) problems on both serial and parallel computers, and using both the revised simplex method and novel algorithms. A consequential research interest is the application of these techniques in other areas of computational optimization and linear algebra.
Born in 1964 and educated at King's School Macclesfield (1974-83). Studied Maths at New College Oxford (1984-87) then Numerical Analysis and Optimization at the University of Dundee (1987-90) under the supervision of Roger Fletcher FRS. Having lived with Agnès Guyon since 1989, we married in 2001 and have daughters Lucie and Katya.
My main research interest is in developing algorithmic and computational techniques for solving large scale linear programming (LP) problems on both serial and parallel computers. For many years this was focused on the revised simplex method but, recently, I have switched my attention to work which will lead to the development of novel algorithms. A consequential research interest is the application of these techniques in other areas of computational optimization and linear algebra.
In collaboration with current and former PhD students, Ivet Galabova, Michael Feldmeier and Qi Huangfu, I am managing the development of the high performance open-source software linear optimization software HiGHS.
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2019-04-23T18:36:54Z
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https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/school-of-mathematics/people/show?person=47
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The Behaviour and Health Research Unit contributes evidence to national and international efforts to achieve sustained behaviour change to improve health outcomes and reduce health inequalities.
The main focus of our work is on developing effective ways of changing four sets of behaviour – smoking, excessive consumption of food and alcohol, and physical inactivity. Changing theses behaviours positively would help to prevent the majority of the preventable non-communicable diseases, including many cancers, cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Click on this page to view our BHRU aims animation video.
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2019-04-21T09:08:47Z
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https://www.bhru.iph.cam.ac.uk/publications/
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The footpath in front of the new condo construction on the Grand Marina in Alameda. The condos have raised steps up to their front doors (about 1 foot high), but during a high tide with storm surges water will reach the front doors.
Adapted from a press release issued by The Rockefeller Foundation.
The Rockefeller Foundation yesterday announced a $4.6 million grant to a coalition of Bay Area leaders to create the Bay Area: Resilient by Design Challenge — a competition that will engage regional innovators, community members, developers and policy makers, as well as designers, architects, engineers from around the globe, in developing creative, realistic and long-lasting infrastructure solutions for climate and seismic challenges confronting the San Francisco Bay Area. This innovative challenge is modeled after the award-winning Rebuild by Design Hurricane Sandy Design Competition, which was pioneered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation.
Bay Area: Resilient by Design will spur innovative infrastructure solutions for Bay Area communities, so they can withstand and thrive in the face of growing climate change-related and seismic threats, while also addressing housing and income disparity challenges. The Bay Area contest will officially kick off this March once the core staff team is in place. Teams made up of designers, architects, ecologists, developers and infrastructure finance experts will be invited to apply this spring, and a jury made up of prominent leaders in design, science and community engagement ultimately will select 10 teams to develop visionary, realistic and replicable resiliency strategies for 10 different locations around the region. The final designs are expected to be completed by the summer of 2018. Each solution must help communities in the nine counties touching the San Francisco Bay to adapt to the impact of rising sea levels, increasing storms and flooding, and/or seismic vulnerabilities.
MTC is a partner in the effort through its role in the Bay Area Regional Collaborative (BARC), which provided leadership in securing the Rockefeller Foundation grant and serves on the Executive Committee for the effort. BARC’s other partner regional agencies are the Association of Bay Area Governments, the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and the Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC). MTC has been a major contributor to the research and science conducted to date by BCDC and other key partners, and will host the Bay Area’s Resilient by Design project staff.
The $5.8 million Bay Area: Resilient by Design competition will be funded primarily through the $4.6 million contribution from the Rockefeller Foundation, which also provided financing for the Rebuild by Design competition that took place in the Tri State region around New York City. BARC and other partners will seek additional funding for the Bay Area competition from both public and private sector sponsors.
The 10 locations on which the Resilient by Design competition will focus will be selected from among some 30 Bay Area places identified as highly vulnerable to flooding and rising sea levels.
The executive director of the Bay Area Regional Collaborative, the president of The Rockefeller Foundation, the managing director of Rebuild by Design, the chair of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, and the president of 100 Resilient Cities weigh in on the Bay Area: Resilient by Design competition.
Background information on The Rockefeller Foundation and associated programs.
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2019-04-20T18:46:25Z
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https://mtc.ca.gov/whats-happening/news/special-features/rockefeller-foundation-grants-46m-bay-area-leaders-tackle
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This newer generation of social networking sites began to flourish with the emergence of SixDegrees.com in 1997, followed by Open Diary in 1998, Mixi in 1999, Makeoutclub in 2000, Hub Culture and Friendster in 2002, and soon became part of the Internet mainstream. However, thanks to the nation's high Internet penetration rate, the first mass social networking site was the South Korean service, Cyworld, launched as a blog-based site in 1999 and social networking features added in 2001. It also became one of the first companies to profit from the sale of virtual goods. Friendster was followed by MySpace and LinkedIn a year later, and eventually Bebo. Friendster became very popular in the Pacific Islands. Orkut became the first popular social networking service in Brazil (although most of its very first users were from the United States) and quickly grew in popularity in India (Madhavan, 2007). Attesting to the rapid increase in social networking sites' popularity, by 2005, it was reported that Myspace was getting more page views than Google. Facebook, launched in 2004, became the largest social networking site in the world in early 2009. Facebook was first introduced as a Harvard social networking site, expanding to other universities and eventually, anyone. The term social media was introduced and soon became widespread.
Facebook and other social networking tools are increasingly the aim of scholarly research. Scholars in many fields have begun to investigate the impact of social networking sites, investigating how such sites may play into issues of identity, privacy,social capital, youth culture, and education. Research has also suggested that individuals add offline friends on Facebook to maintain contact and often this blurs the lines between work and home lives. According to a study in 2015, 63% of the users of Facebook or Twitter in the USA consider these networks to be their main source of news, with entertainment news being the most seen. In the times of breaking news, Twitter users are more likely to stay invested in the story. In some cases when the news story is more political, users may be more likely to voice their opinion on a linked Facebook story with a comment or like, while Twitter users will just follow the sites feed and/ or retweet the article.
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2019-04-23T09:25:59Z
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_networking
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Nader: Is There Life After Crucifixion?
He's full of plans for joining the Green Party to citizens' movements. His critics, he says, are "frightened liberals."
In addition to the demonization of a progressive icon–Nader himself–Nader’s campaign resulted in a sharpening of the sometimes blurry line between inside-the-duopoly progressives who try to nudge the Democratic Party to the left and nonestablishment progressives who eschew the party as part of the problem, not the potential solution. His candidacy hardened positions along this divide. It also diminished whatever opportunity he had to work with left-leaning Democrats in Washington. “He’s totally toast among Democrats,” says a senior Democratic Congressional aide. “There is deep animosity toward him among high-ranking Democrats in Congress. For now, the relationship is completely ruptured.” And with 2.7 million votes–3 percent of the vote–Nader fell far short of the magic mark of 5 percent, which would have qualified the Green Party for federal funding in the next presidential election.
So was it worth it? “Of course,” says an utterly undaunted Nader, who obviously relished the campaign experience. “Look what came out of this–the third-largest party. Tens of thousands of people were energized. It was a great burst. We can continue on and recruit more candidates in 2002. There will be a Green Party presence here [in Washington], which will speak with authority–electoral authority–when it goes to Capitol Hill, not just say, ‘Please, please, do what we want.'” He expresses no regrets; he is unfazed by the harsh criticism; he is unrepentant. With the Florida recount under way, Nader showed no sign of caring much about who will win. Instead, he was more excited about a letter he received on November 8 from Holly Hart of the Iowa Green Party. She reported that his campaign appearances there prompted Republican farmers to contact the party and that “the Green Party and the message of your campaign have come out well ahead of where they started.” Though Nader only scored 2 percent in Iowa, that was enough for the Iowa Green Party to qualify for automatic ballot status. “Not only that,” Hart wrote; “we now have around five new Green student organizations and many new county Green chapters–enough so that we can now organize a real statewide Green Party.” This is evidence of the “benefits” of his campaign, Nader notes; he has created a “ripple effect” throughout the nation.
What might make the task even harder is that Nader hopes his Green Party will be more than a political organization obsessed with elections. In his grand scheme, the party would join with citizens’ movements across the nation to wage local battles untouched by the Democratic and Republican parties. An example: In Florida popular outrage has been sparked by the state’s decision–prompted by agribusiness–to cut down orange and grapefruit trees on the property of private residences to battle a citrus canker that affects only the appearance of the fruit. Neither major party has gotten behind the citizens’ uprising that ensued. Nader believes that fights like this one provide openings for a Green Party concerned with activism beyond elections. Nader also wants to establish Green chapters on campuses and Green Party storefronts in poor areas–“advice centers”–that would help people qualify for Medicaid and other federal programs. At the same time, Nader wants the party to develop an “or-else relationship” with Democrats on Capitol Hill. This is how it might work: The party would zero in on twenty or so lawmakers–including Democrats–who it calculates might be vulnerable to electoral pressure from the Greens, and, depending on whether or not these legislators adopt Green-friendly positions, the Greens would decide whether or not to challenge them in 2002. (Such a get-tough strategy will require plenty of planning and commitment, for it will likely prompt further assaults from progressives–environmentalists, union officials, abortion rights activists, civil rights leaders–still working with the Democrats.) Through a People’s Debate Commission, Nader will continue his campaign against the corporate-funded Commission on Presidential Debates, which froze out all third-party candidates in this year’s debates.
And the money for all this? The 75,000 contributors who helped him raise $7 million in donations of $100 or less will be called upon to finance these new Nader-Green groups. But that won’t be enough, he admits. He hopes to continue holding “superrallies,” which during the campaign attracted tens of thousands of people willing to pay to hear Nader offer his anticorporate/anti-two-parties critique.
Persuasion-lobbying is out for Nader; blunt electoral realpolitik is what matters. “We still have a long ways to go. But the first step in regaining power is to realize you’ve lost power.” Nader’s Green Party run has confirmed his view that resurrection awaits only those progressives who recognize this harsh reality, give up on the Democrats and act accordingly.
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2019-04-19T14:31:46Z
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https://www.thenation.com/article/nader-there-life-after-crucifixion/
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30%43°33°Night - Mostly cloudy. Winds variable at 2 to 6 mph (3.2 to 9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 35 °F (1.7 °C).Mostly cloudy with a high of 41 °F (5.0 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 9 mph (6.4 to 14.5 kph).
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Today - Mostly cloudy with a high of 41 °F (5.0 °C). Winds variable at 4 to 9 mph (6.4 to 14.5 kph).
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/weather/finland/lapland/laurila-567208
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This is the last SIU Today issue prior to Christmas break. SIU Today will resume on Jan. 7.
Tom Imboden, Information Systems and Applied Technologies, discusses how holiday shoppers and travelers can protect themselves against cyber theft.
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2019-04-24T07:57:46Z
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https://news.siu.edu/today/2018/today-121318.php
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You are going to love every minute of your stay at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort. It is a tropical paradise nestled along Seven Seas Lagoon and situated directly across from Magic Kingdom Park. Without question, it is a truly magical place.
As the mother of a teenage boy, I completely understand your desire to expand your accommodations during your vacation. Adding an additional Deluxe Studio to your reservation sounds like a wonderful idea. You can request adjacent studios so that you and your children can still be near you while you enjoy your own separate space. Deluxe Studios at Disney's Polynesian Villas & Bungalows are noted as having either a standard view or a lake view. While they are part of the same resort complex, they are separate from the bungalows.
If the Free Dining offer you mention referred to "standard rooms," they were probably referring to standard guest rooms at Disney's Polynesian Village Resort rather than the villas which are commonly associated with Disney Vacation Club. However, I think it is always worth calling to ask more about the details of the offer. It would be amazing to enjoy a Free Dining promotion during your stay. Wouldn't it?
Let me share one more tip regarding your upcoming stay. Did you know that guests of Disney's Polynesian Village Resort and Disney's Polynesian Villas & Bungalows can order room service from 'Ohana? The feast they serve there at dinner time is one of my must-do meals at Walt Disney World Resort. Having the option to enjoy the cuisine in the comfort of your own villa makes staying at this beautifully-themed resort even more alluring.
On 10/24/2017 Sue from MI Asked: Is Chef Mickeys going to be in its regular location at the beginning of Dec 2017?
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https://disneyparksmomspanel.disney.go.com/question/decided-stay-deluxe-studio-polynow-kids-olderamp-decided-358530/
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Give your dog a night out and bring her to volunteer with you at Matthew 25: Ministries! A fun event for the whole family—including your tail-wagging family member! Simply bring your lovable canine companion with you to volunteer during our evening shift.
No pup? No problem! Volunteering will be open to the public as well, so please join the fun even if you don’t have a dog!
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2019-04-20T14:23:05Z
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http://events.cincinnati.com/cincinnati_oh/events/paws-cause-/E0-001-123091391-6
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At the top of the report click on the drop-down box in the Toolbar.
Then you can click on the Results page for the report you are currently viewing. For example, if you are viewing the Base Salary Funding Report, you want to select Base Salary Results. If you are viewing the Salary Additions Funding Report, you want to select Salary Additions Results, etc.
You will then be taken to the results data of the report (not in the report format) and you can export this data into Excel and manipulate anyway you want.
This report can be found in the Appointments Reports folder in the PHR Queries & Reports folder on WOW.
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2019-04-20T07:27:38Z
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https://uhr.umd.edu/featuredwow/funding-source-reports/
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Romance is in the air! The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra proudly announces the 2011 Concert at The Springs, the orchestra’s popular annual outdoor concert featuring the Orlando Philharmonic performing on a stage built right on the beautiful body of water known as Sanlando Springs. This season’s concert, Broadway Romance at The Springs, is held on Saturday, May 7, 2011, at The Springs Community, 400 Woodbridge Road, Longwood. Gates open at 5 PM. The concert begins at 8 PM. The Orlando Philharmonic is pleased to continue this concert tradition, which has become the orchestra’s most popular concert of the year and a social event not to be missed. Last year, this event sold out!
Grab a blanket, pack a picnic, gather some friends and enjoy this delightful concert in the lush surroundings of The Springs (Alcoholic beverages are permitted for patrons 21 and older. Lawn seating is on a first come first served basis.). Make a date with your special someone and romance is sure to blossom under the musical spell of time-honored Broadway classics at Broadway Romance at The Springs. The concert, conducted by Maestro Christopher Wilkins and featuring Broadway stars Stephen Bogardus and Patty Goble, is more than just a lot of Broadway tunes; it’s more like a Broadway show unto itself, chock-full of your favorite romantic songs with just the right blend of solos and duets from the opening number to the final song. From Cole Porter to Andrew Lloyd Webber, the program offers all the best of Broadway’s romantic show tunes from the past century. You’ll find that love is definitely in the air!
Stephen Bogardus made his Broadway debut in the 1980 revival of West Side Story as Mouthpiece and later starred as Tony in Paris and at the Hamburg Stattsoper. He sings the role of Baby John on Leonard Bernstein’s Deutsche Grammonphon recording of the show. Stephen originated the role of Bob Wallace in the Broadway production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, and is an original cast member of the Broadway production of Falsettos. He was featured in the Broadway revivals of Old Acquaintance and Man of La Mancha. Prior to these engagements he starred on Broadway as Gabriel Conroy in James Joyce’s The Dead and subsequently played the role at the Ahmanson Theater (Los Angeles) and the Kennedy Center (Washington D.C.). He has also appeared on Broadway as reporter Mike Connors in High Society and choreographer Gregory Mitchell in Terrance McNally’s Love! Valour! Compassion!, for which he received a Tony Award nomination and an Obie Award. He was featured in the Alan Menken/Tim Rice opus King David, which opened Disney’s newly restored New Amsterdam Theatre, and the Tony-winning productions of Les Miserables and The Grapes of Wrath. For television, Mr. Bogardus has guest starred on Monk (he was the Leper on ‘Mr. Monk and the Leper’), the trilogy of Law and Order shows, Ed, Without A Trace, Life and Eleventh Hour. His films include Julie and Julia, Second Best, States of Control and Love! Valour! Compassion!
Patty Goble’s credits on the Broadway stage include the original casts of the recent revival of Bye, Bye Birdie starring John Stamos and Gina Gershon, Curtains starring David Hyde Pierce, The Woman in White, the Tony Award-winning musical revivals of La Cage aux Folles and Kiss Me, Kate and the critically acclaimed Ragtime with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Audra McDonald. She has performed the role of Carlotta in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway, Toronto, and the Music Box Tour. Carnegie Hall appearances have included the NY premiere of the controversial hit opera Jerry Springer, the Opera starring Harvey Keitel, South Pacific (PBS) with Alec Baldwin, and Show Boat. Patty has sung with the New York Philharmonic in Candide (PBS), and the Symphony Orchestras of Akron, Alabama, Annapolis, Edmonton, Louisville, North Carolina, Oregon and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Regional credits have earned her rave reviews as Anna in The King and I (opposite Lou Diamond Phillips), Meg in Damn Yankees and Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music. Her soprano voice can be heard on the original cast recordings of Kiss Me, Kate, Ragtime, Curtains and South Pacific (at Carnegie Hall).
Tickets to Broadway Romance at The Springs are presently on sale. Advance tickets are $30 and can be purchased by phone at the Philharmonic’s Box Office at 407-770-0071; on the Philharmonic’s web site at www.OrlandoPhil.org; at the Philharmonic’s Box Office, 812 E. Rollins Street, Suite 300, Orlando (in the Lowndes Shakespeare Center); at the Springs Business Office, at 400 Woodbridge Road, Longwood (by phone, 407-862-3881); or at Petty’s Meats and Specialty Foods, 2141 W. SR 434, Longwood.
Grab another couple and go on a double date with our DOUBLE DATE SPECIAL: 4 general admission tickets for $100 – that’s a savings of $5 per ticket! This offer expires on April 15 at 5 p.m.
Tickets can also be purchased at the door beginning at 5 PM the day of the performance. There are no senior, children or student discounts. All tickets purchased on the day of the performance are $35.
The Friends of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra sponsor a VIP Clubhouse, complete with complimentary food, beer and wine provided by Meiner’s Catering and Joyce and John McLeod. A dinner buffet will be served from 6 to 8 PM inside the clubhouse, with dinner seating available at tables under the trees. VIP concert seating is located on the lawn in front of the Spring. Chairs are provided for VIP patrons. VIP patrons also receive preferred parking. VIP tickets are $125, and can be purchased by phone at 407-770-0071 or on-line at www.OrlandoPhil.org.
Corporate and patron tables are available in the VIP area for $1,500 for a table of ten. Event sponsorships begin at $5,000. Phone Susan Bright, Director of Development, at 407-896-6700 x 225 for details on patron tables and sponsorships.
Broadway Romance at The Springs is sponsored in part by Robert B. Fisher, P.A.; the Friends of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra; Harriett Lake, Joyce and John McLeod; Meiner’s Catering and Bubbalou’s Bodacious Bar-B-Que; Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Winter Park; Orkin Pest Control; Margery Pabst and Bryce West; and Wayne Densch Inc.
For further information on Broadway Romance at The Springs, phone the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra at 407-770-0071, or visit www.orlandophil.org.
The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra is proud to partner with The Springs Community to bring this concert tradition to Seminole County. So grab a blanket, a picnic basket and good friends for an evening of romance, fun and great music at Broadway Romance at The Springs!
A rain date is scheduled for Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 8 PM. If the weather is inclement on May 7, phone the Orlando Philharmonic at 407-770-0071 after 3 PM for updates.
This entry was posted in Broadway, Celebrities, Classical music, Fundraisers and tagged Broadway theatre, Love! Valour! Compassion! (film), orlando philharmonic orchestra, patty goble, Stephen Bogardus. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-20T13:22:42Z
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https://orlandotheater.wordpress.com/2011/03/01/broadway-performers-to-headline-orlando-phils-springs-concert/
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Currently we are progressing though the James Bond 007 novels in chronological order, since quite a number of members are using the club as an opportunity to read the books for the very first time. The club has just finished all fourteen of the Ian Fleming novels as well as the one-time-only Bond novel by Kingsley Amis, Colonel Sun. Most recently, the club moved onto the John Gardner era, and now continues with his seventh novel: Scorpius.
Discuss other places to buy Scorpius or where you got your copy in this thread.
After you have finished reading Scorpius, you can discuss it with other club members in The Blades Library, and give the book your personal rating out of five in this thread.
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2019-04-21T18:10:40Z
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http://commanderbond.net/4456/the-blades-library-book-club-scorpius.html
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csmonitor
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THE Russian Army's deadly struggle to subdue Chechnya has highlighted leadership, manpower, and equipment problems in the force that are deeper than previously believed, United States officials and military analysts say.
``The military is in worse shape than we thought. We knew it was suffering severe morale problems, funding problems, training problems, and equipment problems. That has been confirmed even more so,'' says Prof. John Lepingwell, a Russian military expert at the University of Illinois.
But the quagmire at the front only partly explains the humiliating losses and mistakes of the Russian force, up to 40,000 strong, which has tried since Dec. 11 to claw its way to the center of the independence-seeking republic's devastated capital, Grozny.
US officials and military analysts also blame President Boris Yeltsin and his defense minister, Pavel Grachev, saying they dismissed the Chechens as easy prey with the same blustery arrogance that led the former Soviet Union into its 10-year Afghanistan disaster.
Mr. Yeltsin and General Grachev ignored the rust in their armed forces and opposition by senior generals to intervention in Chechnya. They also failed to give their military leadership enough time to assemble and train a capable force, analysts contend.
The Chechnya intervention could not have come at a more critical juncture for the Russian military. Five years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, it is in the midst of a difficult, underfunded and confusion-rife transition from conscription to voluntary service. The military still relies on conscription. But the draft now meets only an estimated 20 percent of manpower needs, analysts say. Furthermore, many men who would have sought military careers in the old days are now drawn to better-paying private sector jobs.
The result is a serious manpower shortage that has left some units with only about half their required strength, according to a letter sent to the Russian parliament last year by disgruntled generals. The shortages, US analysts say, account for the deployment in Chechnya of mismatched and under-strength units, which were drawn from all over the Russian Federation at the beginning of the war.
The overall quality of the troops was also poor, many of them conscripts hurled into combat for the first time, the analysts add. They cite a lack of training and problems with the draft itself.
In their letter to parliament, the generals complained that because of the military budget cuts, the Army had been unable to hold division-size training exercises since 1992. The draft has been crippled by massive evasion, while other branches of the federal military are given first choices of available conscripts, leaving the Army ``the dregs,'' says Phil Petersen, a former Pentagon policy planner.
Furthermore, there are few noncommissioned officers and junior officers with any experience, especially in the small units crucial to the house-to-house fighting that convulses Grozny. Morale is suffering due to low pay and other problems - including spare-parts shortages, equipment breakdowns, and a lack of housing for many of the more than 500,000 Russian troops withdrawn from the former East Bloc.
Morale suffers further in Chechnya due to a lack of popular support in Russia for the assault, the absence of a clear political objective, and the indiscriminate killing of civilians, analysts say. Some soldiers, including senior officers, refused orders to attack.
Still awaited is the full fallout from the new strains the war has added to existing tensions between Yeltsin, Grachev, and the military. US experts believe a coup is unlikely. Instead, they say that in return for reconciliation, the Army could force Yeltsin to give it a greater slice of his limited budget, thereby threatening new economic turmoil. Beyond that, the generals could work against his reelection in 1996.
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2019-04-20T08:13:14Z
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https://www.csmonitor.com/1995/0125/25031.html
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The National Weather Service says a "truncated version" of a tsunami test message was erroneously broadcast as a warning on Alaska's emergency alert system.
The agency in a statement says it is investigating why the message was sent and will provide more information later.
The National Tsunami Warning Center is a part of the National Weather Service and says it issued a routine tsunami test message Friday morning that was misinterpreted by at least one unspecified entity as an official tsunami warning.
The center says there was no tsunami threat.
Alaska's emergency management agency says tsunami-vulnerable communities were notified by the state emergency operations center that there was no threat.
Some Alaskans got a jolt when they heard an emergency radio and television broadcast indicating the entire U.S. West Coast from San Diego to Alaska's Aleutian Islands was under a tsunami threat. Only at the end of the message sent early Friday morning did it indicate the alert was a test.
The National Tsunami Warning Center says there was no tsunami threat.
The tsunami center says it issued a routine test message at 7 a.m. the same way all tests are sent. Typically, the message says it's a test at the beginning.
It's not clear why the version heard by Alaskans did not say it was a test until the end of the message.
The warning center told KTVA warning sirens may be going off in coastal areas.
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2019-04-23T12:34:50Z
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https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Tsunamie--482396971.html
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Arts
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un
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CPC Vers. 1.1 (8), group 374: Cement, lime and plaster.
United Nations (2003a). Central Product Classification (CPC). Version 1.1. Series M, No. 77, Ver. 1.1 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.03.XVII.3).
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2019-04-20T10:36:51Z
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https://unstats.un.org/unsd/mbs/ddform.aspx?getitem=11
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ucpress
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Departamento de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, Instituto de Filosofía, CSIC, Madrid, Spain; mariaj.santesmases@cchs.csic.es.
In this paper I analyze the trajectory of research objects and experiments on tumor cells that led the Swedish geneticist, Albert Levan, through successive collaborations with Theodore Hauschka in Philadelphia (U.S.) and Joe Hin Tjio in Lund (Sweden), from plants to mice and from mice to human chromosomes. Tumor chromosomes were created and recreated in mice bodies by Eva Klein and Georg Klein as ascites—fluid—tumors, whereas human tumors were transplanted from the bodies of cancer patients into mice by Helene W. Toolan. The cultures of cytogenetics and microscopic observation were therefore opened up, from agricultural and botanical research to the clinical laboratory. I suggest it was research on tumors and cancer cells that led to a method for obtaining clear slides, thereby providing evidence of the new number of forty-six human chromosomes, as presented by Tjio and Levan in 1956. Along this research trajectory, the knowledge and practices of cytogenetics were medicalized—a medicalization that situated both cancer research and cytogenetics at the origins of biomedicine.
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2019-04-25T16:04:21Z
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http://hsns.ucpress.edu/content/45/1/85
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Science
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women
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Philly Lingo – It’s A Thing. How Many Of These Words Do YOU Know?
You can't say you're a true Philly native until you ace this quiz.
Which of these do Philadelphians take REALLY seriously?
Team loyalty might be really divisive in Philly, but which football team does everyone love?
Which of these snacks is a Philadelphian most likely to choose?
If you tell an ice cream scooper you want some jimmies, what will you get on your ice cream?
It's not just any old sandwich. It's a __.
Cut me, Mick! Which classic movie is set in Philly?
You can't eat a Philly cheesesteak without __.
"Hold on, I gotta stop at __."
If you need to get a six pack for the big game on Sunday, you can just grab one from the supermarket.
It's vacation time! Where are you most likely headed?
Let me get you a glass of __.
Let's grab dessert! If your friends say they want to grab some "wooder ice," what do they mean?
There isn't a theme song more iconic to Philly folks than which show's?
Literally nothing is immune to being called a jawn.
Which New Year's parade does everybody watch?
Where did everyone you know probably go to college?
Philly natives only! Besides, you won't be able to pass this quiz about Philadelphia slang, culture, food, and more unless you're a born and bred Philadelphian anyway.
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2019-04-23T01:58:35Z
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https://women.com/SamanthaJoson/philly-lingo-quiz-100118
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what are your childish thoughts on it?
So I wrote up a script for the series I was planning, turns out that if I actually manage to do this thing it will be quite big, the whole animation aspect of it. I finished writing the script for the first episode and by the looks of it I'l probably need help drawing backgrounds and what not. So for now I am putting this project on hold, until I learn how to animate better and what not.
I am involved in the playstation collab for which I am making a god of war like submission (see picture of kratos below) I am still unsure about what my part is going to be, but so far I am designing it.
All right, so after about 9 months of not animating anything (or anything proper) I am making a new series!... this time I am actually gonna do it... Unlike PAML.
So I hope you will all enjoy the new series, I will release more stuff about it as time goes, even though no one reads this anyway.
a new project!!! come yell at me!
I made a new submission!
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2019-04-19T10:13:46Z
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https://annanas.newgrounds.com/news
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"Other illicit drugs are probably more confronting."
Pat Stanton's son died from a heroin overdose and he is supporting the call for the Federal Government for an increase in funding for services to help families with drug issues.
"We found in this society that if a kid dies in a road accident - tragic so that may be - it seems to be more socially acceptable than a kid dying of a drug overdose," he said.
"The family of a child who's died from a drug overdose is probably more likely to get more judgemental responses, which can lead to guilt and shame and isolation."
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2019-04-18T15:08:12Z
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2008-02-25/not-enough-help-for-teen-binge-drinkers-report/1052926
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Costa Mesa, according to recent statistics, has 60% renters and 40% home owners — a ratio that has bothered many elected officials for years.
On April 13, Daily Pilot columnist Jeffrey Harlan wrote a piece, "Stop focusing on boosting home ownership in which he — a professional land planner — provided us with statistics to support his contention that our city leaders should "Instead of worrying about whether someone owns a home, let's focus on keeping Costa Mesa one of the more diverse, eclectic and special communities in Orange County."
He went on to ask, "Why is a higher percentage of renters in Costa Mesa necessarily a bad thing?" That seems like a good question. Harlan postulates that, when considering a hometown, potential new residents measure a community's "desirability," which he describes as crime rate, proximity to parks and amenities and the quality of local schools. He says, "For prospective home buyers, a city's home ownership rate is irrelevant."
A few days later, on April 16, Costa Mesa Planning Commissioner Colin McCarthy fired off a rebuttal, "Home ownership should be the goal," in which he says, "I couldn't disagree with him more."
McCarthy confirms that Costa Mesa is dead last in Orange County when measuring homeowners to renters, and blames that ratio on previous city administrations that approved high-density units with insufficient parking. He also tells us, "Because Costa Mesa is 98% built-out, there are limited opportunities to create new permanent housing." Yep, we know that.
McCarthy tells us that we need to improve our housing stock — but doesn't really give us a practical way to do that and significantly shift that 60-40 ratio — which he and many of his cronies apparently feel is the root of all evil in our city. However, he and the Planning Commission continue to approve developments that will likely devolve into rental units, despite all the assurances of the developers.
We should not forget that our recent national financial collapse was due, in great part, to programs that made it possible for people who could not afford homes to buy them anyhow. And, as Harlan cautioned, we should not paint all renters with the broad brush as undesirable residents. Several powerful officials in our city are renters, including our assemblyman, and former mayor, Allan Mansoor.
McCarthy says, "Removing the barriers to home building and leveling the playing field for Costa Mesa to improve its housing stock is a critically important city goal." Maybe, but a greater goal, in my view, is to make our city safer for all residents.
Potential home buyers — or renters, for that matter — will look elsewhere when they learn that crime in our city is up more than 15% in 2012 compared with 2011. They will pause when they hear that the City Council has imposed dramatically reduced staffing levels in both police and fire departments that force excessive overtime by those organizations in order to try to keep us safe.
If we honestly hope to attract new, upwardly-mobile residents to our city — the goal several council members talk about constantly — we should be worrying about the issues that concern them, not whether someone writes a rent check or a mortgage payment each month.
GEOFF WEST publishes a local blog, A Bubbling Cauldron. He lives in Costa Mesa.
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2019-04-24T18:10:35Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/opinion/tn-dpt-xpm-2013-04-25-tn-dpt-0426-commentary-20130425-story.html
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ala
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Set price reflects 15% savings off individually purchased products.
Libraries Transform—ALA’s public awareness and advocacy campaign—is designed to increase public awareness of the value, impact, and services provided by libraries and library professionals. This set of four banners showcases the transformative nature of your library! Find out more information about the Libraries Transform campaign at librariestransform.org.
These banners are suitable for indoor/outdoor use.
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2019-04-26T16:05:46Z
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https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/libraries-transform-banner-set
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Shopping
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hubpages
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What is it that sparks the interest of a reader or journalist? What makes an online article go viral?
Find out in this episode of the Online Writing Insider (How to Spark Interest) in which PR expert Pia Chatterjee and internet meme fan Simone Smith discuss just various means by which online writers can attract reader and media attention.
With a mixture of expertise, unexpectedness, foresight, and pattern recognition, you can be on your way to composing viral-ready articles in no time!
One of the things I love most about HubPages is the fascinating and varied expertise of everyone in our community. North Carolina Hubber crazyhorsesghost serves as a great example – he is both an excellent cook and an expert in the paranormal.
Yesterday crazyhorsesghost published a Hub about a Big Foot sighting he had on March 22nd that has since gone viral. The Hub is quite well done – it includes both crazyhorsesghost’s original photos and video – and it has already been picked up by the NY Daily News, msnbc.com, Huffpost Green, and Fox News, and liked over 2,000 times on Facebook! Clearly crazyhorsesghost has proven himself to be an expert by going out there and documenting his paranormal experiences.
In true HubPages fashion, crazyhorsesghost publishes all sorts of useful articles, and even shares his award-winning beef chili recipe as well as directions for making the World’s Most Dangerous Chocolate Cake in a mere three minutes. Like many, crazyhorsesghost has several interests and does a great job writing about all of them on HubPages.com.
HubPages is full of everyday experts like crazyhorsesghost who publish truly interesting and useful Hubs every day. We hope you enjoy reading them as much as we do!
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2019-04-23T09:06:12Z
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https://blog.hubpages.com/tag/viral/
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tripod
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http://qayurep.tripod.com/1-day-car-insurance-quote.html
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Prerequisites: First and second degree equations and inequalities; analytic geometry on the plane; main trigonometric relations; properties of powers and logarithms.
Target skills and knowledge: The course provides the basic knowledge of differential calculus, and introduces some fundamental concepts of linear algebra with some of its main applications. The acquisition of theoretical, methodological, and applicative skills in these basic areas of mathematics is a necessary first step in understanding the fundamental results of most contemporary sciences, which increasingly use mathematics as a basic method of investigation and as universal language for understanding and communicating its results.
Examination methods: Written exam with open questions. An oral examination is also possible. The written exam (duration two hours, containing one or two theoretical questions plus 4-5 exercises, each involving a few specific questions) aims to verify that the expected learning outcomes are actually acquired by the students. The optional oral test focuses first on the discussion of the salient points of the solutions to the written test proposed by the student. This leads to a more in-depth discussion of some of the topics covered in the course.
Assessment criteria: Evaluation based on the result of the written exam (theoretical questions and exercises) and the oral questions (discussion of the written exam and theoretical questions).
Course unit contents: Recollections on the prerequisites for the course. Real functions of a real variable. Definition of limit. Theorems and operations on limits. Sequences. Continuous functions: definition and main theorems. Composite function limit; fundamental limits. Derivative. Operations with derivatives. Theorems of Rolle, Lagrange, L'Hopital. Relative and absolute maxima and minima. Concavity and convexity; flexes; asymptotes. Study of functions and graph. Simple constrained optimization problems. Differential; primitives of a function. Notes on the indefinite and definite integral, and on the fundamental theorem of integral calculus. Linear algebra: vector spaces, vectors, generators, bases, dimension, direct sum. Matrices; rank and determinant. Systems of linear equations; Rouche'-Capelli theorem and the space of solutions to a linear system. Linear systems and applications; eigenvalues and eigenvectors.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods: Class lectures: presentation of the topics listed above, with demonstration of some theorems; various examples. Ample space is given to the exercises to complement the theoretical lessons, even with the direct participation of the students. A main point of the presentation of the material is highlighting of the applicative aspects of the proposed theoretical knowledge.
Additional notes about suggested reading: The textbook of the course is supplemented by handout material available at the library.
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2019-04-25T23:52:11Z
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https://en.didattica.unipd.it/off/2016/LT/PS/PS1082/000ZZ/PSP4063395/N0
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Assailed, of late, with health problems that have made it difficult to complete tasks or find the motivation to get back to work at all.
Despite all that has gone before in the relatively long life I’ve lived, I still feel like a failure when I’m forced to rest, and then begin to have doubts about what the future holds – feeling powerless because there is no action beyond the daily mundane.
When in this state, I seek guidance. Because in this state, meditation and mantras, prayers and wishes, don’t seem to be as effective. So I wonder – where did I go wrong? In what way can I do better? How can I get through these problems or obstacles to keep forging a better state of life?
When the answers from that guidance arrive, they often surprise me. I can tell you assuredly that they do not come from my own mind. I could never have made them up. I would not even have thought that way. Their revelations are always interesting and informative, offering a different point of view.
My doctor is concerned about my health and struggling to come to terms with my insistence on trying to treat myself more assiduously with alternative therapies, first. I asked what the medications she wanted to put me on would actually do and countered with the natural therapies I am now using, like hawthorn, arjuna, calcium and magnesium, which will do the same thing, but will take longer to take effect.
We’re keeping an eye on this process together, and I will accede to her medical intervention if something comes to crisis – but the guidance I received from spirit has definitely placed new slants on my modes. It said that my body was going through a transformation – and that this was the reason for all the extra activity going on – the racing heart, the high blood pressure, the inflammation, and even the fragile emotions present.
Along with that message came an image of a computer hard drive defragmenting itself, and the constant ticking vibration of it rearranging information files and cleaning up bad disc areas. That picture definitely aligns to the ever present palpitations I can’t seem to get under control, and the weird buzzing feeling that spreads from my chest to even the soles of my feet.
It’s an interesting idea, because before I got worried enough to go to the doctor and get things checked, I really thought my body was just going through some sort of healing process, manifested by my mantra rituals that had been especially concentrating on fixing problems in my life, of late.
If you know me, you know I believe in spiritual or metaphysical healing, and I do often use such healing techniques on myself, to help my own body ailments improve. So it wasn’t odd for me to believe that the buzzing feeling was a higher vibrational energy that just seemed to be taking much longer to do its job.
A lot of separations have happened in my life relationships in recent years, and many I thought would be with me to the end of my days are now gone forever – some old, some young. If I ever held hope of one day sorting things out with those people, I now have to acknowledge that hope seems to be finally lost. So the image of the hard drive being cleaned up, and of irrelevant files or damaged ones being quarantined away so that the rest of the space becomes more useable is very relevant for me.
It’s human to doubt and become concerned, though. Sometimes, pure faith is not enough. Sometimes, destiny declares we are meant to be helped by others. So when the buzzing continued, and palpitations joined them, and finally chest pains started popping, I sought the counsel of my doctor.
Tests my doctor has already completed on me show I am in fairly good health, though nothing can prevent sudden attacks that come out of the blue – and she likes to tell me that the physical things assailing me, nevertheless, are showing that such an attack would not be quite out of the blue.
Maybe they aren’t, but maybe that is just destiny. Should I just trust my doctor and follow her modes, alone, when I do know the efficacy of natural therapy?
There are still doubts about my modes, because I don’t feel ready to die yet. Whoever is, at any age?
Two key figures in my early life, my mother and her sister, my aunt, both died in recent months, riddled with cancer, and both thought they would always live much longer than they did. I thought so, too.
Death is therefore not something I feel I have real control over. I believe it will come when it is meant to come, no matter what I do to prevent it.
My mother was having stem cell therapy well before they discovered cancer in her lungs. Nothing she had done or did afterwards prevented it spreading to her brain and bringing inevitable death.
It is one thing wanting to live a healthy life. It is quite another trying to cheat death.
So I am listening to my doctor but not yet trying her therapies. (I did take modern medicine in the past, and had many unwanted or dangerous side effects). I am going with my own natural therapies, for now, but keeping watch so that if things do get worse I can claim her backup. And for now, I have to accept rest and attempt rehabilitation, and let time pass so that my natural therapies can do their work.
That’s how natural things work. They take time. They can’t be forced, and if you try to force them, there are often consequences to deal with.
It really does feel like defragmenting my hard drive. Goodness knows, I’ve waited impatiently at times for my real computer to process a proper defragmentation of its hard drive, just itching to get back to work, and feeling frustrated that I had no choice other than to wait things out until the job was done.
And if I don’t complete them before I die… well, I also believe in reincarnation, so mayhap I will catch up, then.
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2019-04-23T08:15:53Z
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https://lilipilyspirit.wordpress.com/2015/04/25/defragging-the-hard-drive/
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WASHINGTON, April 2, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, two major U.S. synthetic yarn producers – Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. ("Unifi") and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America ("Nan Ya") – filed a "critical circumstances" allegation regarding imports of polyester textured yarn from China in an ongoing trade remedy investigation. The critical circumstances claim charges that imports of the yarn surged into the United States in order to avoid the imposition of duties. If the allegation is proven, importers could face significant duty liabilities.
The critical circumstances provision allows the U.S. Department of Commerce (the "Commerce Department") to apply antidumping and countervailing duties retroactively if the agency determines that certain criteria are satisfied. In particular, the Commerce Department looks at whether imports of the merchandise under investigation were shipped into the United States in large volumes after the petitions are filed but before preliminary duties are established.
Unifi and Nan Ya filed petitions with the Commerce Department and the U.S. International Trade Commission (the "USITC") in October 2018 alleging that dumped and subsidized imports of polyester textured yarn from China and India are causing material injury to the domestic industry. The Commerce Department initiated the investigations in November 2018 and the USITC preliminarily determined that imports from China and India are causing injury to the U.S. domestic industry in December 2018.
The products affected by this case are made by Unifi at its production facilities in Yadkinville, North Carolina, and Madison, North Carolina, where Unifi employs approximately 1,100 and 450 people, respectively, and by Nan Ya at its production facility in Lake City, South Carolina, where Nan Ya employs approximately 900 people.
Antidumping and countervailing duties: Antidumping duties are intended to offset the amount by which a product is sold at less than fair value, or "dumped," in the United States. The margin of dumping is calculated by the Commerce Department. Estimated duties in the amount of the dumping are collected from importers at the time of importation. Countervailing duties are intended to offset the unfair subsidies that are provided by foreign governments and benefit the production of a particular good. The USITC, an independent agency, will determine whether the domestic polyester textured yarn industry is materially injured or threatened with material injury by reason of the unfairly traded imports.
Petitioning companies: The petitioning companies are Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. and Nan Ya Plastics Corporation, America, represented by Kelley Drye & Warren LLP.
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2019-04-18T21:34:13Z
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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/us-producers-of-polyester-textured-yarn-allege-critical-circumstances-in-trade-remedy-investigation-of-chinese-imports-300823461.html
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Microsoft Corp. says it didn't pay for the use of its Photosynth image-browsing software on Wednesday night's episode of the CBS series "CSI: New York." But it would be difficult to imagine a more valuable plug for the technology.
The software, which presents a collection of two-dimensional images in a three-dimensional environment, is used by the fictional CSI investigators to piece together and navigate camera-phone photos taken at a high school prom where a guidance counselor is slain.
It's essentially a nationally televised product demo. In the episode, the "CSI: New York" characters refer to Photosynth by name multiple times. At one point, as they're using the program, CSI Detective Stella Bonasera marvels at the incredible clarity of the images. Microsoft says the actual program was used by the actors -- no special effects.
But the kicker is when another character, apparently confronting a suspect with evidence, delivers this line: "It's Microsoft's world, kid. I'm just livin' in it."
Photosynth's appearance is a result of Microsoft's relationship with series creator Anthony Zuiker and his desire to use the latest technology in his shows, said Andy Ma, a Microsoft program manager who works with television producers and others in Hollywood on technology-related issues.
"It's a lot of fun to see" Photosynth in the show, Ma said.
Zuiker and others from the "CSI: New York" crew saw Photosynth and other Microsoft technologies during a visit to the Redmond campus in July.
Separately, Ma said, the "CSI: Miami" crew took inspiration from Microsoft's technology prototypes and its Surface tabletop computer when they rebuilt the set for their audio-visual lab. In that case, some special effects have been required, in part because they wanted a larger Surface than currently exists.
Photosynth is a combination of technologies from Microsoft Research, the University of Washington and Seadragon Software, a startup that Microsoft acquired. By arranging photos in a 3-D environment, it lets people zoom around and view a scene from different perspectives.
Currently considered a "technology preview," Photosynth is available at labs.live.com/photosynth. It works only in Windows XP or Vista. Past uses of Photosynth include a collection of photos showing space shuttle Endeavour on its launch pad.
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2019-04-18T12:24:15Z
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https://www.seattlepi.com/business/article/Microsoft-s-Photosynth-stars-in-CSI-episode-1272052.php
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Published: July 6, 2012 at 08:25 a.m.
Trey Erwin, a 15-year-old Tennessee football player, died of pancreatic cancer Thursday.
Erwin's story touched an entire region that learned about him after he found out he had six months to live. His diagnosis sparked a "Pray for Trey" social media movement, T-shirts, armbands and a song. New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow was among those Erwin touched.
Erwin wrote about a conversation with Tebow back in May.
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2019-04-20T06:42:29Z
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http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d82a5c927/article/tim-tebow-remembers-trey-erwins-battle-vs-cancer
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[image-62][image-83]The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences – Lower Great Lakes Chapter awarded an Emmy Award to "NASA Now," a weekly five- to seven-minute online video series produced for the NASA Explorer Schools project.
An Emmy Award is a television production award. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presents Regional Emmy Awards recognizing excellence in local and state-to-state television.
"NASA Now" was honored with an Emmy in the Informational/Instructional Program/Series or Special category. The series was judged on two episodes, "Icing Research" and "Exercise in Space."
"NASA Now" is a program designed to give students, grades 4-12, who are involved in the NASA Explorer Schools project a front-row seat to view NASA projects, facilities and some of its most dynamic people. Each week, students see real people putting science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, to work in the unique context of NASA careers, missions, research and facilities.
The video series is produced by a NASA Glenn-based core team of accomplished video producers supported by eight educational specialists across the agency. The team works with leading scientists and engineers from NASA Headquarters and the ten field centers to identify NASA topics that bring to life the math and science that students learn in the classroom every day.
The core team includes Coordinating Multimedia Producer, Frank Wilson; Associate Multimedia Producer, Terry Peterson; Production Assistant, Lisa Moyer; and Lead Education Specialist, Alicia Baturoni. All are Oklahoma State University contract staff supporting Glenn's Educational Program Office. Ron Petransky is a WYLE video production specialist and member of Glenn's Imaging Technology Center.
"The videos are carefully designed for curriculum and production quality. Our goal is to provide lively and timely material that will educate and ignite student interest in NASA missions and research," Wilson explained. "We are honored to collaborate with NASA's brilliant researchers, and we work with them to simplify the technical subject matter to be accessible by a middle school audience."
The videos are accessible by teachers on the NES Virtual Campus website at › http://www.explorerschools.nasa.gov to reinforce key classroom topics in science, technology, engineering and mathematics while stimulating student interest in STEM careers. However anyone can log onto their YouTube channel to view NASA Now Minutes and enjoy program excerpts.
NASA uses the excitement of its missions and programs to inspire students and serve as a catalyst for encouraging studies in STEM. The agency continues its tradition of investing in the nation's education programs and supporting the country's educators who play a key role in preparing and inspiring the young minds of today to become the workforce of tomorrow.
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https://www.nasa.gov/offices/education/programs/national/nes2/home/NASANow-emmy-2012.html
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The Wisconsin Occupational Health Lab (WOHL) provides homeowners and businesses testing for asbestos in a wide variety of material such as floor tiles, ceiling tiles, pipe insulation, shingles, and more.
Asbestos can be found in many forms. In the U.S. it was used industrially as a fire-proofing and structural material from around the 1850s until the 1990s. It can commonly be found in flooring, siding, insulation, pipe wrap, drywall and plaster, mixed in with concrete and other compounds and even in fabric.
The cost of testing is $40 per sample for a normal turn-around-time (TAT) of 12-14 working days. A Priority TAT costs $60 per sample and a Rush TAT is $80 per sample. For Priority and Rush, please call and consult our analyst to be sure the workload and sample type allows your request to be analyzed in a time frame that works for you. Send no money with your sample; we will bill you.
Asbestos is dangerous when it becomes airborne and inhalable. To minimize your risk when sampling, moisten the area you are planning to cut in order to keep possible asbestos fibers from entering the air.
For flat material, we need a sample that is at least 1 inch square. Around a 3 square inch piece is ideal. Try to capture a piece that is representative of your project with the various layers you’ll be dealing with. If the sample is glued to something, you’ll want to include some of the mastic or glue as well because even if the tile does not contain asbestos many of the glues do.
For other types of material, we need about 1 tablespoon’s worth.
Place your sample in a zipper-type plastic bag or a clean sealable bottle or container. You can mail your sample to the lab, bring it to our front desk, or use our drop box.
Our mailing addresses for US mail and other delivery services are on the bottom of the Sample Submission Form. If you choose to bring the sample in to our office, our hours are Monday-Friday 7:45am to 4:30pm. A drop box is available by the door if you are here outside of office hours.
When filling out the sample submission form, type in or legibly fill out the Bill To section with your name and address, a phone number and e-mail address. Results are usually reported through email unless you request differently. It’s not necessary but you may assign your own project name if you like (“cabin” or “grandma’s house” for example). Fill in the date the sample was taken if you know it. Check the box next to the turn-around-time you are requesting.
In the table section below, give your sample an identifying name or number like “pipe wrap” or “bathroom floor,” and then enter “asbestos testing” under the Analysis Requested section. If you have multiple samples simply continue to enter them on the table as you did the first sample.
When we receive your sample we will create an account for you and analyze your sample(s). We generate invoices at the beginning of each month and so you should receive a bill for the testing after your results report has been received.
Click here to see an example of an asbestos report. In this example, there are two samples. “Kitchen” did not have asbestos detected in any of its 4 layers. “Bath” does have 60% asbestos present in layer 2. No amount of asbestos is considered safe to inhale or ingest.
If you are looking for reimbursement from this fund, you must send a sample in to the fund. We are not associated with the fund and results from our lab will not satisfy their requirements. They are testing to see if the material came from their mine, not if it contains asbestos.
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2019-04-21T18:34:56Z
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http://www.slh.wisc.edu/occupational/wohl/analytical-services/healthy-homes-2/asbestos-for-homeowners/
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2019-04-25T16:50:42Z
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https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/lec/sites/catchmentchange/news/look-into-the-royaldissertation-co-uk-analysis-of-the-granted-professional-services/
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ehow
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Granite tile is an extremely strong and durable flooring product, which can be installed in both interior and exterior locations. A concrete surface acts as an excellent subfloor for the tiles, being both strong enough to bear the weight of the stone and easily prepared for laying the tiles. Though installation of granite tiles on a concrete surface can be time consuming, with the necessary preparation time, and by following the proper installation procedures, you’ll have a floor that not only adds to the attractiveness of a room but lasts for decades with only minimal maintenance required.
Clean and repair the concrete surface. Sweep the floor using a broom and remove ingrained dirt and debris using a wire brush. Wash the surface of the floor using a pH-neutral cleanser, and then remove any grease stains that may be present using a degreaser. Repair floor cracks or flaking by cleaning out the cracks and removing any flaked areas; fill the cracks with a concrete joint sealant and fill holes or flaking areas with a self-leveling compound, spreading the compound with a trowel.
Find the center point of the room by measuring the room’s walls, marking the center of each. Run a chalk line between opposing walls at the center points; raise the string and allow it to drop, snapping a line against the concrete floor. Where the lines meet is the center of the room.
Place two crossing test rows of the granite tiles onto the floor following the chalk lines, as a dry run to plan the tile layout. Determine the pattern of tile placement that will allow for the largest number of whole tiles placed onto the floor, with partial tiles placed against the walls that are least seen from the room’s doorways. You may need to snap new lines for adjusted tile placement. Remove the test tile rows.
Check on the level of the surface of the tiles using a carpenter’s level, tapping unlevel tiles with a rubber-headed mallet to level them with surrounding tiles.
Purchase a thinset mortar which has been specially modified for granite floor tiles, for the best bonding possible.
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2019-04-22T08:08:51Z
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https://www.ehow.com/how_5767321_install-granite-tiles-over-concrete.html
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libsyn
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Love Mexico? Happy to live in million dollar homes for free with the housekeepers and gardeners while the owners are away? If this sounds like the lifestyle for you then you’d better listen to today’s show. Jason and Deidre enjoyed a six figure corporate income in Kansas City but they were stressed, unhappy and never had any money left at the end of the month. The passing of a friend made them realize that life didn’t go on forever and that waiting for retirement was not the best way to live their lives.
3 years ago they packed up and moved to Mexico, spending a year renting before getting themselves into the housesitting game and they haven’t looked back. They regularly get more houses to sit than they can handle, especially from repeat clients, but are still driven by a desire for a new experience.
Mexico is easy to get into with 6 month visas being the norm for most travelers. Even leaving at the end of your stay needn’t be a problem with a 72 hour turnaround before you re-enter the country. The Mizes know people who have spent 10 years travelling in and out on holiday visas – that said do your homework and make sure you have the right paperwork if you’re serious about committing.
Housesitting may not be for everyone but there sure is a lot of wins to it. You do have to shed much of what you own (and many see this as an advantage in itself) and saying goodbye to pets you get attached to can be hard but the pluses (did we mention the million dollar homes) the chance to travel and the serious reduction in travel costs make it all worthwhile.
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2019-04-23T18:28:35Z
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http://theexpatchat.libsyn.com/burritos-and-bandits-our-housesit-in-mexico
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News
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gatech
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Drone technology is quickly evolving –no longer just for military use, these flying robots now have a place within commercial enterprise. Also known as unmanned aerial vehicles, drones today have practical applications, like delivering packages for Amazon or allowing realtors to take aerial video to show off a sale property. To date, there is usually a weight limit on how much a drone can carry, restricting its usefulness. But Jonathan Rogers, assistant professor at the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, is trying to change that. He is designing, building and programming robotic drones that can link up and carry larger, heavier objects as a unit.
“In my lab, we are working with multiple drones that lift and fly packages together,” said Rogers. “This involves distributing heavy lift capabilities into a number of small drone units that can then organize themselves to pick the object up.” With exceptional portability, unobtrusive size and remote control, drones are ideal for situations that are dangerous for humans. Rogers has designed the world’s first heavy lift small drones – robots that can work together to lift and evacuate wounded soldiers from the battlefield or civilians from a disaster area. Theoretically, three to four man-portable robots fly out together, connect to the person, and lift them 500 yards out of harm’s way. Each drone has eight large propellers and can fold up into a backpack for portability. The drone can lift a 65 pound object, and with three or four drones working together, a human can be lifted. Rogers explains that it’s all about thrust density, a term he invented.
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2019-04-20T17:22:09Z
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http://manufacturing.gatech.edu/news/next-frontier-mechanical-engineering
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| 0.79558 |
uiowa
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Kevin Brockmeier's most recent work is the memoir, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, and he is the author of the novels, The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and, The Truth About Celia; the story collections, Things That Fall from the Sky, and, The View from the Seventh Layer; and the children’s novels, City of Names, and, Grooves: A Kind of Mystery. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He has published his stories in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, Tin House, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has recieved the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards, the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. In 2007, he was named one of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists.
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2019-04-19T09:29:10Z
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https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/people/kevin-brockmeier
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virginia
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Who is eligible for Free File?
Carefully review the Free File vendor criteria before selecting the company. With Free File you will need to file your federal and state tax return together at the same time.
The IRS has more vendors that offer free federal e-file options than Virginia has listed on their page of vendors that offer free federal and free state e-file. To ensure that you can file both returns for free, start with the list of vendors on this website.
How do I get started with Free File?
Review our list of Free File vendors and their specific eligibility criteria. If you go directly to the IRS website to access a Free File vendor, you may select one that does not support free e-file of the Virginia return. Please select a product from our Free File page to assure yourself the opportunity to e-file both your federal and Virginia returns.
Determine if you qualify for Free File and select your vendor. After choosing a company, click on the company's name to visit their website. You will then leave Virginia Tax's website and be sent to a Free File software website.
Continue completing your return and pay the e-file fee.
Is there a charge to electronically file my return with Free File?
Depending on your eligibility with Free File, there is no charge to file both your federal and state tax return. You must select from one of the Free File vendors that support Virginia.
If you do not qualify for Free File you may still use the software, but will be charged a fee to file electronically. We suggest you review all of your options to find the option that's right for you. Review these paid software vendors for details.
I qualify for Free File, so why is the product I selected trying to charge me?
Depending on the software option you select, you may need to create a new account in order to get your federal and state return for free. If you already have an established account, the software may try redirecting you to the product you last used and will prompt the normal fee. The easiest way to ensure you are using the free product is to access Free File from Virginia Tax's website and follow the instructions to create a new account with the software product.
I have already filed my federal return, can I e-file just my Virginia return?
Yes, some software products allow you to file your Virginia return for free and separate from the federal return you already filed. In order to complete your state return with their product, you must enter your federal return information again. Do not file that "second" federal return; only file the state Virginia tax return in this scenario.
However, other software products require you to file both the federal and state return at the same time with their product in order to obtain the free file offering. Review each product carefully.
If I'm filing jointly with my spouse, does the adjusted gross income limitation apply to my spouse and I separately or combined?
If you use the married filing jointly filing status, the adjusted gross income (AGI) criteria applies to the AGI for both of you combined.
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2019-04-18T13:26:03Z
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https://tax.virginia.gov/free-file-faqs
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As supporters wore purple to honor a murdered Staten Island mom, her husband and his girlfriend accused of killing the teacher appeared in court Thursday amid confusion over the charges against them.
Lawyers for Michael Cammarata and his live-in girlfriend, Ayisha Egea asked a Staten Island judge to clarify the charges against their clients after prosecutors issued a felony indictment without specifics.
Cammarata and Egea were arrested after the burned body of Cammarata’s missing wife, Jeanine, was discovered in a storage facility last week.
Jeanine Cammarata, a teacher and mother of three, disappeared March 30, following a planned meeting with her husband two days before they were were due in divorce court.
Her charred remains were found Thursday in a Staten Island storage facility surrounded by air fresheners in an apparent attempt to disguise the smell. She was positively identified Friday through dental records.
Judge Marina Cora Mundy said prosecutors were not obligated to reveal the charges. Both suspects were remanded without bail.
Egea and Cammarata will be arraigned in Supreme Court on the indictment in about two weeks. They also face tampering and concealment charges.
Friends and teachers at Public School 29 in Castleton Corners, where Cammarata worked as a substitute teacher, wore purple Thursday to honor the slain educator.
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2019-04-19T19:13:23Z
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https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-teacher-slain-suspect-indictment-20190411-h7r36wsk65ff3cqskn63zle7zu-story.html
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richmond
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Thomas M. Winn III, Woods, Rogers & Hazlegrove, P.L.C.
Thomas M. Winn III, Labor and Employment Law, 37 U. Rich. L. Rev. 241 (2002).
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2019-04-25T10:21:56Z
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https://scholarship.richmond.edu/lawreview/vol37/iss1/11/
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It doesn’t…quite…smell like a tomato plant. Unless I’m prejudiced, which I might be. But it smells like something. It’s in the driveway bed, plenty of sun, no water other than what the sky has dropped on it except for when I planted it. There’s a Taxi tomato caticorner to it, and you can see one of the branches for comparison.
It looks like a tomato. And it has flowers like a tomato. For a while I was thinking maybe it was sterile, but there are a couple of slender blossoms just appearing now, so no. I’ll have to wait for fruit for a better identification, though.
I dunno…it looks very tomato-like to me, but it seems like it should have more blossoms. Then again, what do I know?
Yeah, it does to me too. I noticed this morning that the flowers only have three petals each, which I don’t think is typical of tomatoes, but then they have a lot of variation. Wait and see, I guess.
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2019-04-22T02:04:17Z
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https://seeded.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/weed-update/
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There he was. That big 10 point buck we had been seeing through the woods while we were at the Wichita Mountains NWR in Oklahoma for a photo shoot with the NPN Red River Sharpshooters. Only this time he was standing out in the middle of a field as we drove by. The problem was that it was 40 minutes after sunset. Never mind, I had a Better Beamer attached to my wife's SB-28, all mounted on an F5 with an AF-I 600mm f/4.0.
I could just make out that buck in the viewfinder, and was he big! So big, I had to rotate the camera body to the vertical position, filling the frame from the grass at his feet to the top of his antlers. As I fired, Marget told me that the flash hit the grass at his feet. So, with my left forearm, I held the Better Beamer up since it had rotated with the camera and now drooped downward. Of course, I still kept my left hand on the top of the lens using proper long lens technique. I also made sure that the zoom of the SB-28 was set to its maximum of 85mm so that we would get the greatest concentration of flash. The instructions for the Better Beamer had said to set the zoom to either 35 or 50mm, so 85mm must be better. Right? And, Marget confirmed that my flash was illuminating that big buck.
Two days later, in great anticipation I picked up our transparencies. And, there they were. The last 2/3rds of a roll of Provia 100F with only two eyeballs shinning brightly. Nothing else. What went wrong?
Let me admit one thing. Yes, I am an engineer. Even worse, I have a Ph.D. After giving me a couple of those "You know an engineer because..." quizzes, Marget says I am really an “enginerd”!
Back when I was in graduate school, we used to hunt. It was important to know how your shotgun behaved and one of the techniques was to "pattern" it. One puts up a page of newspaper, stands back a variety of distances, i.e. 30 yards, aims at the page and fires at it. The pattern shows two things. First, it shows how wide your pellets have scattered at the distance from which you were firing. And second, it shows where the center of your pattern is, as compared to where you were aiming.
We have just enough space in our back yard to do some testing. So, I set up my F5 with my wife's AF-S 300 f/4.0 and an SB-28 with a Better Beamer. Next, with the lens stopped down to f/11, I shot a series of our gray weathered back fence (no, I don't know if it is 18%), changing the zoom on the flash through its range of 24, 28, 35, 50, 70 and 85mm. At each zoom, I approximated the amount of time it took for the SB-28 to cycle. My assumption was that the cycle time would be inversely related to the amount of light bounced back from the flash. That should give me an "instant" measurement, since we didn't have a digital camera and I didn't want to wait for the slides to be developed. Finally, I replaced the 300mm lens with a 24mm lens and took a series of shots of a brick wall, again stepping the zoom from 24 to 85mm.
Was I ever suprised by the results! With the 300mm lens, the longest cycling times were for the 85mm zoom position, while the shortest was at 24mm. That meant that more light was being concentrated when the zoom position was set at its widest beam, not its narrowest. And, the shots of the brick wall take with the 24mm wide angle confirmed that the Better Beamer was concentrating the light more when the flash was set at its widest zoom. I repeated the test with Marget’s new D1X and you can see those results with a 24mm lens in the images included here.
Later, I took the fresnel lens from the front of the Better Beamer and brought it up to my eye to measure when the image flipped. That distance, the focal length of the lens, was 8 inches. The front of the flash sits just over 6 inches back from the fresnel lens, so it is within the focal length. All of the optical effects are reversed! Setting the zoom of the SB-28 (or any other flash) to its maximum actually reduces the concentrating effect of the Better Beamer. To get the greatest range for the Better Beamer, the zoom on the flash must be set to its widest value.
But with the good, comes the bad. As with almost everything else, you can have too much of a good thing. A recent post in the General Discussion Forum asked about the effect of the apparent droop of the Better Beamer relative to the lens axis. That droop is not caused by the Better Beamer, but rather by the flash head which is angled slightly downward.
Again, back to the brick wall and gray fence. Sure enough, shots of the brick wall confirmed that the flash crossed the centerline of the lens axis. I used a 60mm f/2.8 on my wife's new D1X with a Better Beamer attached to an SB-28DX zoomed at 24 mm to produce the narrowest beam. I repeated the test 3 times as there can be a lot of variability in the placement of the Better Beamer on the flash head. Two trials measured the distance at 10 feet while an intervening measurement was 8 feet. And, at about 20 feet, the beam was about 6 inches below the centerline. You can see that the beam was aligned to the center of the frame in the photo on the left while it is about 2 bricks lower in the photo on the right.
However, the real story was with the flash 60 feet from the gray fence. This time, I used Marget's new D1X along with her AF-S 300mm f/4.0 with a TC-14E teleconverter, and an SB-28DX with a Better Beamer. (Boy, she makes our camera dealer happy!) The combination of the lens, teleconverter and D1X gave an effective 630mm f/5.6 lens.
The test images at 60 feet tell the story. Without a Better Beamer, the image is almost black. With the Better Beamer, the image is evenly illuminated with zooms of 85 and 70mm. The latter was slightly brighter than the former, as expected. Remember, the greater the flash head zoom, the wider the beam from the Better Beamer which reduces the illumination. But, as the zoom was decreased below 70mm, the top edge of the light started to creep down the image as can be seen in the image with the flash zoom set at 50mm. This was due to the misalignment of the flash axis with the lens axis, along with the decrease of the area being illuminated by the Better Beamer, as the zoom was decreased to lower focal lengths. At 24mm, almost 2/3rds of the image is not illuminated.
So, what did I learn? First, never assume anything. At least us engineers have heard what happens when we assume. Second, know your equipment. Go out and shoot images of brick walls and/or fences. Determine what conditions work best. The time to find out how your system behaves is not when you get your transparencies back with only two shinning eyeballs on each chrome staring at you, but when you can control conditions in a scientific manner. And third, things change. From one time to the next, there is a variation of the way a Better Beamer is aligned.
As my motto goes, "Experiment, and it will lead you to the light" (by Cole Porter, from "Statistics for Experimenters" by Box, Hunter and Hunter).
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2019-04-24T06:02:57Z
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http://www.naturephotographers.net/tdg0502-1.html
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In September 1885, a group of librarians spent four days discussing major issues for libraries, including handwriting. Though typewriters had been commercially available for over a decade, librarians were still handwriting their catalog cards to catalog their expanding collections, but their writing was without consistency . Thomas Edison was cited for his described handwriting style for telegraph operators (paywalled source), and from this, Melvil Dewey and his crew of “a dozen catalogers and librarians” hashed out the rules of library hand, a precise, almost mechanical style. If you enjoy that summary, you may enjoy The (Lengthy) Context and History of Library Hand, with ample notes and references.
The notes and instructions in this chapter are not out of date, for much of the writing of cards and lists in libraries is still done by hand. But the typewriter has come to be an essential part of the equipment of even the very small library, and typewritten lists and cards are far better than handwritten.
Regardless, this, the third edition, retains its examples and rules for Joined and Disjoined Hand, the two writing styles that were supported by American Library Association.
But if you're more interested in the history of telegraph operations, here's How To Write Telegrams Properly, a digitized copy of A Small Booklet by Nelson E. Ross, 1928.
While looking for information on Thomas Edison's note-writing style, I found How to Take Notes like Thomas Edison from Lifehack.org, seven points that may make your note-taking more effective, as Edison used to do.
If you opened up A Library Primer and wanted to know if there's a modern version of a guide to starting a library, ALA has library guides, including Setting up a Library.
Or, how to build a library.
I feel like library schools these days are neglecting handwriting. Which is just as well, as, otherwise, I would have never graduated.
Same, GenjiandProust. They might as well have asked me to freehand in Quenya.
"Library Hand" sounds like a type of RSI.
I'm an old library hand, from the Rio Grande, but my legs ain't bowed, and my cheeks ain't tan.
This script appears to be a source and inspiration for range of cursive-esque typewriter fonts!
Good find, mwhybark! I was actually looking for "joined hand" and "disjoined hand" fonts, to no luck. It seems I should have instead looked for Olympia fonts and recreations of similar machines.
Surprised there isn't a common TrueType Font called "Library Hand."
I know, it would be easy enough to create one based on the examples in A Library Primer. I might just make two tonight.
That slight backward slant of the specimens in the Wiki article reminds me of my father's and sister's left-handed style.
Or, possibly, a martial arts move in a Louis Cha novel. "The Elegant Southern Librarian attacked with Library Hand following up with the Unstoppable Cataloger's Admonition. The Northern Beggar leaped back, astonished."
The Elegant Southern Librarian attacked with Library Hand following up with the Unstoppable Cataloger's Admonition.
Followed up by The Emphatic Librarian Finger.
Don't you make shushing jokes in a thread full of librarians unless you want to discover what a shushing really feels like, that's my advice.
A find by Simon Beattie: A 1927 guide to "Library script" by a librarian in the Soviet Union.
Oh fantastic! I'd like to know much, much more about this. The article talks about a lot of scripts I hadn't heard of, including telegraph hand and civil service hand. Library hand is so neat and legible!
My research currently involves reading and transcribing about 2,000 pages of court martial transcripts from the late 19th century, and I've noticed certain trends in the handwriting. The transcripts themselves are in one kind of script, but occasionally you'll see a letter or something attached as evidence, and those are often very clearly written in an entirely different script (usually very formal-looking Spencerian). It hadn't occurred to me to think about what those differences meant, exactly. I'm wondering if part of an officer's education might have involved learning some form of civil service hand for official documents.
Like literary manuscripts, draft film scripts are complex artifacts of the process of correction and collation, but the end product is arguably much more complex. The motion picture relied not only on actors and directors, but specialist technicians who worked with sets, props, cameras, lighting, and sound equipment to craft a coherent, continuous narrative. Histories of film and screenwriting have thus focused on the way the text and format of the script evolved to coordinate this effort. Scholars ... have described the evolution of the screenplay from the silent to the sound era, with a special focus on the development of the scenario, continuity, and master-scene scripts and the kinds of information contained therein. But in doing so, they’ve neglected the roles of the stenographic departments and the technological specialists employed by film studios and their relationships to the scripts they produced.
Erin Schreiner, Please Return to the Stenographic Department, Journal of the History of Ideas Blog (4 January 2017).
The scan is just about okay quality, but the joined version will be a nightmare in any of those “scan your handwriting” tools. Even with the simple disjoint version, the descenders are absurdly long compared to modern type.
I should have a crude disjoint version banged out soon.
I tried searching for examples of telegraph hand and came up empty-handed. I covet these styles so much given my entirely indecipherable handwriting.
So did you make the font filthy light thief?
flt didn't but I put up LibHandDis in Font Library. Could use a bit of a clean-up, but surprisingly okay.
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2019-04-19T12:47:31Z
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https://www.metafilter.com/165171/This-question-of-library-handwriting-is-an-exceedingly-practical-one
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Proven Innocent is a legal drama set in an wrongful conviction firm. The drama revolves around a legal team led by a fierce and fearless female lawyer with a hunger for justice. They reopen investigations, putting their own lives in danger to exonerate the innocent that were "proven" guilty. Our lead's motivation comes from her infamous past; as a young adult she was found guilty and later exonerated in a high-profile case in which she became a tabloid sensation, household name and national celebrity. While a hero and a victim to some, her bold and bullish tactics garner her some enemies— one of whom will do anything to see her go down for a crime we know she did not commit. We will watch her defend others as she fights to maintain her own innocence.
This page was last modified on 27 March 2019, at 19:57.
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2019-04-20T06:59:57Z
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http://tviv.org/Proven_Innocent
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SuiteCRM is a free and open source Customer Relationship Management application. Open source CRM is often used as an alternative to proprietary CRM software from major corporations such as Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics CRM applications. SuiteCRM is a software fork of the popular customer relationship management (CRM) system from SugarCRM. The SuiteCRM project started when SugarCRM decided to stop development of its open-source version. The base SuiteCRM application is built on the last open-source SugarCRM release. SuiteCRM is a greatly extended version of SugarCRM which also contains many additional security fixes that are not available in SugarCRM. It was originally released on October 21, 2013 as version 7.0, and provides upgrade paths for existing SugarCRM users.
SuiteCRM has been downloaded more than 800,000 times since the original release. A community of nearly 90,000 developers and collaborators has joined the project. It has been adopted by NHS (National Health Service) England's Code4Health programme which seeks to foster open source in the NHS in England.
The SuiteCRM project has stated that every line of code released by the project is and will always be open source. SuiteCRM project is intended to be an enterprise-class open source alternative to proprietary alternatives.
A detailed installation process for installing SuiteCRM on windows can be found on Step by Step SuiteCRM Installation Steps.
^ "7.0.0". github.com. July 4, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
^ "salesagility/suitecrm: Release v7.11.3". suitecrm.com. March 28, 2019. Retrieved March 28, 2019.
^ "SugarCRM in the Next 10 Years - SugarCRM Community".
^ Davis, Ewan. "Code 4 Health Website".
^ Lorimer, Matt. "SuiteCRM Roadmap".
^ "SuiteCRM -– CRM for the world -: Category Index".
^ "SuiteCRM Store - SuiteCRM Module, Themes, and Integrations".
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2019-04-23T18:27:51Z
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuiteCRM
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manchestereveningnews
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A PUB landlady has quit her job after just ten days after she was mugged during a vicious attack outside her bar.
Jackie Vayro walked out on the Gardener's Arms, in Hollin Lane, after she was robbed of the pub's takings last Friday morning.
She had taken the job as licensee at the establishment only ten days earlier.
A source said: "She was a very popular local girl who everyone got on with. It is such a shame she has gone for good."
She was walking across the car park of the bar, run by Holt's Brewery in Cheetham, at 10.20am, when a man appeared and struck her with a blunt weapon. He grabbed a bag Jackie was carrying containing cash before making off.
The source added: "We thought she would just take a week off to get over it. We were quite surprised that she didn't want to carry on. It really shook her up."
The offender was male, 6ft and medium build. He wore dark clothing and a dark hat.
Area manager for Joseph Holt's Brewery, Charles MacMillan, said: "We have a lot of sympathy with Jackie's predicament but we appreciated her views on the matter.
"This is something we are desperately unhappy with and intend to do all we can to ensure this never happens again."
Anyone with information should contact Detective Constable Andy Clubman, of Middleton CID, on 0161 856 8740 or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111.
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2019-04-23T23:06:48Z
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https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/mugger-forces-pub-landlady-to-quit-1184572
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Hector Tobar says the 33 Chilean miners trapped deep underground for 69 days in 2010 were left “battle scarred” from the ordeal, despite quickly becoming minor celebrities after their improbable rescue.
“They had lived through this event that a billion people had seen unfold on television. But what I found out when I got to speak with them was how hurt they were, how wounded they were,” Tobar, whose 2014 book “Deep Down Dark” chronicles the miners’ tale, told Reuters in an interview.
The miners’ rescue drew heavy international coverage, and Chile’s then-president Sebastian Pinera personally greeted the workers as they emerged from a freshly drilled shaft one-by-one in October 2010.
Eventually, the miners chose Tobar to author the official account of their experience. That account in turn forms the backbone of “The 33,” a film about their ordeal to be released in the U.S. on November 13.
Initially, the 33 vowed to maintain a pact of silence about their time underground so no individual would profit unduly. But that scheme soon broke down, as outlets offered to pay miners for media appearances, leading some to say the survivors were being opportunistic.
For Tobar, however, who recorded hundreds of hours of interviews with the miners, such criticisms hold little merit.
“They feel like they have been treated with a lack of respect. That people sort of see them as these ordinary guys who accidentally got buried underground and hoped to get rich and famous off of it,” Tobar said.
Tobar added that many survivors were drawn to tears by “The 33,” a fictionalized retelling of the miners’ time underground which was released in Chile on August 6.
“For many it was a kind of rebirth and so to see that your near death experience and rebirth played out on the big screen was very emotional for them,” he said.
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2019-04-18T10:55:44Z
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https://ca.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idCAKCN0S32NA20151009
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sum / səm/ • n. 1. a particular amount of money: they could not afford such a sum. 2. (the sum of) the total amount resulting from the addition of two or more numbers, amounts, or items: the sum of two prime numbers. ∎ the total amount of something that exists: the sum of his own knowledge. 3. an arithmetical problem, esp. at an elementary level. • v. (summed , sum·ming ) [tr.] technical find the sum of (two or more amounts): if we sum these equations we obtain x. ∎ [intr.] (sum to) (of two or more amounts) add up to a specified total: these additional probabilities must sum to 1. PHRASES: in sum to sum up; in summary: this interpretation does little, in sum, to add to our understanding.PHRASAL VERBS: sum up give a brief summary of something: Gerard will open the debate and I will sum up. ∎ Law (of a judge) review the evidence at the end of a case, and direct the jury regarding points of law. sum someone/something up express a concise idea of the nature or character of a person or thing: selfish—that summed her up.
"sum." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. . Encyclopedia.com. 24 Apr. 2019 <https://www.encyclopedia.com>.
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2019-04-25T02:26:00Z
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https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/sum-1
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Reference
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New theatre company Giant Olive has taken up residency at North London fringe venue, the Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
A grand Victorian pub on the corner of an imposing street in Kentish Town would naturally incline you to imagine gastropub resides within.
Giant Olive also aims to stage contemporary plays, in the hope that the Lion & Unicorn will act as a springboard for writers, performers and directors.
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2019-04-26T00:22:43Z
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https://www.mandy.com/venue/336/the-lion-and-unicorn?page=4
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wordpress
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This entry was posted on 8 July, 2009 at 11:07 am and is filed under Staff training, Technology & Devices, Web 2.0 & Emerging Technologies. Tagged: 09, libraries, mashed, mashups, oop north, unconference. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-23T20:06:51Z
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https://uollibraryblog.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/there%E2%80%99s-mashed-libraries-oop-north/
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georgetown
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The Public Speaking program is designed to introduce principles of communication and the classical roots from which they were derived. In class, students prepare and present speeches in both formal platform settings and informal group discussions. While attention will be given to extemporaneous delivery, the emphasis of the coursework is on behind-the-scenes preparation: organizing ideas, structuring messages, and adapting messages for specific audiences. Students who experience anxiety in public speaking situations are particularly encouraged to take a class.
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2019-04-19T23:28:27Z
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https://performingarts.georgetown.edu/academics/public-speaking
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wustl
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You can bring Brookings Executive Education (BEE) to your agency or facility anywhere in the world.
BEE onsite programs provide cutting-edge instruction on innovative leadership and management practices. They also allow your workforce the opportunity to learn from some of the best educators in the country and offers credit toward a degree or Certificate in Public Leadership.
Purchasing our leadership or policy courses for on-site delivery eliminates travel expenses and substantially lowers your per-attendee cost. Not only do onsites provide a new way to stretch training investments, they also promote cultural change by having teams attend the same high-quality/high-impact learning experience.
Select from more than 20 courses, each based on an Office of Personnel Management Executive Core Qualification competency. Courses may be delivered in a one- or two-day format.
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2019-04-23T12:11:58Z
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https://olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/partners-resources/Brookings-Executive-Education/Pages/BEE-Custom-Programs.aspx
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Arts
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Business
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shockwave
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Learn the laws of Karma!
Our hero's beloved has been abducted by evil spirits, and the only way to reunite them is to reincarnate himself as a dragon to defeat Evil. But something has gone wrong, and his soul is reborn as a worm named Pip. Now Pip must overcome the challenges of a surreal world, solve mind bending puzzles, and save his love. Choosing between good and evil, Pip learns the laws of Karma, and his choices define the outcome of the game.
Use the mouse to explore your environment and solve puzzles. See in-game help for detailed instructions.
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2019-04-20T18:50:23Z
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http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/karma.jsp
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Arts
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Games
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colorado
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Hearings for Public Benefit appeals are governed by state statute, the rules promulgated by the agency administering the benefit and OAC Policies. If you choose to appear pro se or are represented by a non-attorney representative please be advised that you and/or your representative are responsible for complying with all the same rules of procedure and evidence as licensed attorneys. All state agency rules and regulations can be found on the Secretary of State’s website as well as our FAQ/Rules page.
You may represent yourself in matters before the OAC. This is called appearing pro se. For additional information on appearing pro se please review the Guide for Non-Lawyers. In certain types of cases, parties may also be represented by someone who is not a licensed Colorado attorney. For more information please review the Non-Attorney Representation Guide.
Once your appeal is processed your case will be set for hearing. After your hearing, you will receive a written decision that can be appealed if you disagree with the decision. You may obtain an audio recording of the hearing. The OAC does not provide written transcription of its hearings. To request an audio recording, please complete the Audio Recording Request Form.
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2019-04-19T08:19:22Z
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https://www.colorado.gov/pacific/oac/hearing-information
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Arts
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Reference
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mit
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To find (and keep) top talent, you need to support who people are as well as what they do.
It’s not enough to offer great pay and benefits anymore. Employees want their workplace to reflect and support who they are.
I’m at the 2015 Milken Global Conference in the upscale Beverly Hilton, joining my fellow panelists in the green room to put our mics on for our session. Set on the left coast, the Milken Conference has a different zeitgeist than the global confabs held around the Atlantic. A countercultural Cali vibe survives here, expressed in mashup sessions like “Philanthropy, Technology, Celebrity and Marketing.” Our panel, entitled “Values, Human Capital and Corporate Performance,” is no different.
The panelists are discussing a shift in the values and expectations of today’s best employees. When I graduated from college back in the olden days, the job negotiation formula was simple: Salary, benefits and bonus. It turns out that’s not enough anymore. The next generation wants something different from their work life than their predecessors — and corporations are scrambling to decipher the keys to keeping them engaged and in their cubicles (or the mobile version thereof).
He quit after just two years.
When I asked why, I got a surprising answer: “I was only using a tenth of my being at work,” he said.
Peter has identified the new negotiation formula: salary, benefits, bonus and being.
The inclusion of “being” is part of a long evolution in what we bring to our workday. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, manual laborers were expected to shut up, follow orders and bring their hands. Then, with the dawn of the information age, they became “knowledge workers” and were asked to bring their heads. Today’s high-touch, relational economy requires “emotional intelligence,” so employees are now expected to open their hearts.
Each shift has brought us closer to engaging the whole person at work. Peter is a harbinger of the next “is” shift toward what Abraham Maslow called “self-actualization.” Work is no longer only about solving technical problems in exchange for a paycheck. Employees want an opportunity to express their whole being: Physical, intellectual, emotional and, yes, even a spiritual sense of higher purpose and contribution.
What’s interesting is that my fellow panelists are already seeing this in their businesses and are providing new avenues for personal expression. Efrat Peled, CEO of the Tel Aviv-based Arison Investments, says offering employees the opportunity to express themselves through purpose and values opens up creativity and committed action. Peled notes that “99.9% of employees want to be connected to a positive cause… and I wouldn’t underestimate the knowledge of the people in our systems.” By fostering internal social networks through their Doing Good Model of values, Arison encourages employees to affiliate with each other based on their expressed values and passions. And in doing so, the company unleashes the creativity and commitment of their workforce.
Panelist Pamela Thomas-Graham from Credit Suisse concurs that allowing employees to express their passions and values fosters innovation. One example is a Credit Suisse program called “Real Returns.” It emerged when employees expressed a concern for women who, due to the demands of motherhood or the need to care for an elderly family member, had dropped out of the workforce. The employees wanted to provide a re-entry pathway for these women and created the idea of a “Returnship” — an internship that offered talented professionals the opportunity to get their corporate groove back. Credit Suisse found that the program provided access to experienced candidates who might have been overlooked in the past.
These examples are encouraging, but companies are only beginning to understand both the challenges and opportunities of engaging the whole person at work. What’s clear is that the days of leaving your values and being at the threshold when you step into the corporate elevator are coming to an end.
Gregory Unruh is the Arison Group Endowed Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and the MIT Sloan Management Review ’s Guest Editor for the Sustainability Big Ideas Initiative. He can be reached at unruh@mit.edu.
Teams can develop shared practices that enable email to help, not harm, productivity.
Sustainability is an evolutionary force that will weed out the products unfit for a sustainable future.
Is Your Company Ready to Operate as a Market?
Traditional hierarchies are giving way to market forms of organizing that will recast the role of management.
Aprovo seu artigo. É muito difícil para o líder construir uma empresa que motive seus funcionários. O salário deve ser a média do mercado junto com os, benefícios. O bônus e prêmios devem estar atrelados aos objetivos estratégicos e definidos pelo Balanço Scorecard.
Agora é Ser é fundamental. Todo funcionário quer ser alguém. Pertencer a alguma empresa em um cargo de seu sonho. O funcionário quer Ser reconhecido e recompensado.
Mas se o líder conseguir encontrar na empresa uma função que dê ao funcionário uma oportunidade de realização pessoal aí poderá estar a verdadeira motivação que a pessoa humana costuma procurar.
Um dos artigos que li e que ficaram marcados na minha mente foi “O acordo de expectativas” (Pfeiffer UCLA) quando o líder em uma série de reuniões com o funcionário chega a um acordo para atender a expectativa da pessoa depois que um momento os objetivos da estratégia são alcançados.
The modern era has brought about innovation in the management of human resource. Employees are no longer just a workforce to be paid salary and other fringe benefits and thereby allow them to perform. The totality of human being has to be considered for maximum efficiency. The being in human resource is becoming manifesting and management has to be aware of this for effective and high productivity to be attained.
Adeniyi Elegbede,MBA,CFE,ACA is a Managing Partner of ADENIYI ELEGBEDE & CO , a firm of Chartered Accountants.
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Marilynne Robinson claims in Absence of Mind that we overcome the materialist worldview of T.H. Huxley (exemplifying the new atheists) by appreciating the deeper sense within us. I started thinking that I have heard this before Yes indeed, it is the basic position of Rabbi Soloveitchik in the Emergence of Ethical Man. We need to overcome the materialism and selfishness of Huxley’s worldview by accepting the Divine command and emerge as moral beings.
Robinson is at the forefront of changing the popular image of Calvinism Calvinist defender Jonathan Edwards’s description of man as a “loathsome insect” held over the fire of Hell by God, such a task seems ripe and even overdue. In all of her works Robinson moves the emphasis to Calvin’s idea of a God given religious consciousness. We can sense where our life has gone astray and needs the word of God.
Such warring against historical miscomprehension, however, while effectively waged by Robinson, is not the main task of her essay. Instead, she seeks to describe the religious and spiritual experience of perception in Calvin’s theology, the experience by which seeing the world leads to loving it, and witnessing mankind brings about acknowledgment of man’s infinite beauty and potential. For Robinson, “wickedness is not the only inhabitant of man’s soul. There also reside stores and stores of grace, beauty, and holiness, stores that shine forth when we truly and lovingly look at our fellow man. Created in the image of God, mankind is filled with his divine presence; it is only in comparison with this potential for sanctity and goodness that Calvin so painfully denounces man’s wickedness.” – for more on her Calvinism-see here.
According to Robinson, we have to overcome a material bestial life and learn to appreciate our life stories filled with a wide ethical range of sin and beauty. In her novels, from what I have been told, we find ourselves confronted by God’s vision of human life.
Rabbi Soloveitchik starts with the same need to overcome the scientific materialism and amoral selfishness of Huxley, he also starts with the same Protestant pessimism about human nature in its natural state. So, his solution is the need to accept the divine command of being in the image of God and accept moral responsibility for our actions. Unlike Robinson for whom this is a natural faculty, Soloveitchik treats it as “a redemptive sacrificial act” or as a need to be “confronted by God’s revelation.” We need revelation of Genesis to give meaning to our lives. We rise from our nasty brutish existence to a life of morality and intellectual integrity. He presents this rise from materialism to ethical existence in several works including The Emergence of Ethical Man, Confrontation, Kol Dodi Dofek (in shortened form), and in Ubekashtem MeSham. We gain meaning to our suffering and cognitive gestures through revelation and then as Jews we have a double confrontation in that we also have a second confrontation with God in which we are transformed into the Jewish community of Torah.
As a side point, much of the blog world not trained in theology is not used to distinguishing between revelation and Torah from Sinai. The former is where the divine breaks into the human condition and the latter is the Jewish concept of what occurred at Sinai. Rabbi Soloveitchik was always interested in the former – how we go from materialism to ethical and then to halakhic. He clearly writes that he was not interested in apologetics about the latter. The former was the more serious question.
Marilynne Robinson reminds us why revelation is the more important question. How do we understand human existence that helps us transcend skepticism, materialism, and man’s brutish nature? She answers with a God given sense of the sublime and Rabbi Soloveithcik answers with a double confrontation of man before the Divine.
As a useful contrast, David Novak in Azure set up the problem the same way but offers a different answer. Novak offer a single confrontation. Like Soloveitchik, we no longer use natural theology to know God as a first cause or His involvement in the natural order. We only know God as the commander who creates our moral standards. Novak answers the skeptics and materialists by saying, of course as modern we cannot compete with you and do natural theology that gives values to the natural order. Instead, we have to acknowledge the commander and know that he gives us a natural law to guide us. Whereas Soloveitchik has a double confrontation – our universal meaning in life and then our obedience in halakhah. Novak has a single confrontation and our universal moral sense of natural law should be used to generate a natural law halakhah.
We could say that statements about God are not scientific hypotheses at all, since we are not speaking of God as a cause operating within the natural order, which is the sole order about which natural science can speak with any cogency. And, even when we do speak of God as the creator of the universe and all it contains, we are not speaking of a God whose existence has been inferred from human experience of orderly nature. Instead, we are speaking of a God who commands our community, through his historical revelation to our community, to acknowledge his creation of that natural order in which our historical relationship with him takes place.
A neo-Hasid sees God glory in all things, and does not worry about the science. None of the three thinkers, however, allows nature to prove anything because then the materialists and skeptics win. Today, only fundamentalists conflate religion and science. These are not the only three approaches but Marilynne Robinson has given us a angle to bring together several dialectic thinkers.
Happiness, Salinger, and Popular Religion.
Rav Soloveitchik in his famous footnote number four in Halakhic Man spends over two pages decrying the seeking of happiness and solace through religion. For him, true religion is about psychic upheavals, pangs, and torments from anxiety, anguish and tension. He claims that those who seek the stillness of peace and tranquility are non-Orthodox Jews and are “Typical of this attitudes the Christian Science movement.” Leaving aside the empiricism of this statement, he would not be sanguine about the current Orthodox emphasis on instant happiness through Torah, outreach by promising happiness, or the goal of producing studies to show the happiness quotient of Orthodoxy.
In today’s NYT, there is a review of recent literature that critiques happiness. The quotes speak for themselves on the happiness industry as silly. There are five basic principles of a benign happiness that would apply to the followers of any denomination or Church. And that true happiness is a fleeting emotion related to the peaks of the transient not to a warm bed, friends, and a job.
In “Bright-Sided,” Barbara Ehrenreich recently looked with dismay at what she views as the industry of happiness, a culture bludgeoned by insistent — even aggressive — good cheer.
We could canvass Gore, Rubin, Gilbert, the Dalai Lama and the many authors on the happier.com Web site and produce the Fundamentally Sound, Sure-Fire Top Five Components of Happiness: (1) Be in possession of the basics — food, shelter, good health, safety. (2) Get enough sleep. (3) Have relationships that matter to you. (4) Take compassionate care of others and of yourself. (5) Have work or an interest that engages you.
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it’s happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience. It is deep but often brief (as Frost would have it), and much great prose and poetry make note of this. Frank Kermode wrote, “It seems there is a sort of calamity built into the texture of life.” To hold happiness is to hold the understanding that the world passes away from us, that the petals fall and the beloved dies.
In honor of Salinger’s death, many tributes have been placed on the web. (I am still waiting for an Abrahm Sutzkever tribute with content.) Fifty years ago, a theologically oriented literary critic noted that the success of J. D. Salinger was to offer us the torments of hell that we can enjoy. Salinger’s characters rejected the cant of society including its petty views of happiness for a more exquisite torment of those who truly hope.
Most of Salinger’s work, therefore, is about those who think they are in hell, a place where the soul suffers according to its qualities, and without escape.
Ordinarily, we all are interested in hell. Ten people have read and enjoyed the Inferno for every one who has read the Purgatorio or the Paradiso. It is fun; like looking at real estate, it gives us a sense of our own possibilities. But Salinger’s hell is different. It is hell for the good, who can feel pain, who really love or hope to love. On the gate of this hell we do not read the words, “Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch’entrate.” Hope is not abandoned here—hope is the implement of torture, hope deferred. We identify ourselves both with the victims and the devils. And it is not strange real estate. It is home.
Salinger wrote in the 1950’s. Hudnut-Beumler in his Looking for God in the Suburbs: The Religion of the American Dream and Its Critics. 1945-1965 points out the role of solace and happiness in 1950’s religion and the importance of the jeremiads against it by the intellectuals.
In 1946 Rabbi Joshua Liebman, a leading Reform rabbi promised happiness through organized religion in his best seller Peace of Mind, which reached #1 on the NYT charts. In the 1950’s, many Churches took his advice. As did most modern Orthodox rabbis in the RCA who wrote definitive books on the Jewish Way in Love and Marriage or in Death and Mourning. Happiness and psychological well-being was promised as the immediate reward of the rituals.
We have just lived through a period similar to the 1950’s, with simple answers and projected resolutions of all problems through organized religion. Barbara Ehrenreich and Amy Bloom now and Salinger and Rav Soloveitchik in the 1950’s, remind us that there is more to religion than simplistic quotients of happiness.
Here is the 1945 Minhat Todah- Service for Thanksgiving Day, Congregation Shearith Israel, NY by Rabbi David de Sola Pool.
Happy Holiday- Let me know if anyone uses it.
And in 2014, I posted the Thanksgiving service from Kehilath Jeshurun 1940 and prayer from Rabbi Joseph Lookstein.
This book presents his take on his four favored thinkers: Leibowitz, Soloveitchik, Goldman, and Hartman. I am not sure how much I agree with any of these readings.
Sagi likes Leibowitz for his ability to compartmentalize religion from the modern world. For Leibowitz even the fear and trembling associated with relgion, as in Kierkeguard, are not religious but part of ones secular psychology, personal struggles, and inner self. Only faith is faith. He likes the valuing of the Oral Torah over the written Torah, since the written torah is from God and we cannot know its true meaning, but we do know the Oral law since we create it. And our following it for its own sake is faith. No realization of divine ideal through halakhah as in Soloveitchik but pure lishmah, pure obedience. Modern formulation allows the tradition to be kept.
Sagi’s hero is Eliezer Goldman, (student of Soloveitchik, and trained in American jurisprudence turned kibbutznik and Maimonidean- In my time his articles had a cult following). Goldman distinguishes between illusory and non-illusory faith, illusory faith seeks to remake the world according to ones yearnings. In contrast, non-illusory faith accepts the world as it is and there is no escape from reality. There is no certainty of any traditional metaphysical claims. Faith allows one to accept God and revelation; revelation is not a datum of experience but part of the worldview after faith. Revelation is the recognition of the halakhic realm as heteronomous. Commandments have meaning and value but not reasons, causes or factual referents.
Sagi presents Hartman as a modernist in that he is in dialogue with the tradition and questions it. He quotes Hartman as saying that Jewish thinkers know their period or text, while Jewish philosophers also seek to dialogue the Jewish thought with the present and other cultures. For Hartman, Maimonides as hero of integration and synthesis. Hartman chooses to develop his thought from Halakhah and Hazal over the Bible because the Bible is too theocentric. Halakhah is better for an anthropocentric philosophy. Hartman offers a Torah of pluralism of human construction, answers to human needs, a rejection of the theocentric, and a rejection of terms like “alienation” as vestiges of older European thought. Hartman offers a halakhic hope for the state of Israel and the messiah, which is this-worldly, conservative and realistic—unlike the utopia, apocalyptic and unrealistic hope of others.
This weekend, I read a work on modern Jewish thought that considered the only Orthodox heilsgechichte as that of Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum. The author, writing in 2006, could not name any other Orthodox theory of history.
Actually, by definition most Orthodoxies must have a heilsgechichte to avoid secular causality and historicism. Therefore all of these authors will engage in the general outline of schoolbook history to produce a theology.Heilsgeschichte is German for “Salvation History.” The term is used for theological writing that is committed to two things: the affirmation of God’s suprahistorical activity in history and the need to critically reconstruct these events through the sources. In these approaches, the historical writings of Nahmanides, the Vilna Gaon, and Maharal are drafted into new contexts, to explain modern data.
Rabbi Isaac Breuer and Yeshaya Leibowitz who said that Judaism was ahistoric. This one is not popular anymore because it requires one to take refuge in philosophy. Now people need a theology of history. Especially since historical thinking was so important for modern thinking that it had to be subsumed, integrated and then overcome with a relgious theology against historicism.
As against secular history:Rabbi Elchanan Wasserman turned Graetz on its head and making Torah study the causality for Graetz’s lachrymose history. Rav Shlomo Wolbe wrote a triumphalistic anti-Zionist vision of the end of modernity as shown by the baalei teshuvah. He includes quotes from several modern historians including Scholem.
As a messianic vision: Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook and the age of redemption and ingathering of the exiles. Rabbi Amital’s accounting for setbacks in the redemptive process. Rabbi Kasher (as probably author of Kol Hator), redemption through natural means.
On the Holocaust: Rabbi Teichtel’s blame of the Holocaust on the anti-Zionists. Rabbi Soloveitchik’s Kol Dodi Dofek, with its references to Secretary of State Dulles and recent American history.
Chabad: Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak’s messianism, and his version of Dubnow’s history of the common folk. He also has a history of the hidden saints. Rabbi M M Schneerson’s account of the fall of the Soviet Union and the post-historic messianic age.
Even a figure as progressive as Rabbi Cherlow gave a paper at an academic conference on halakhah and ideology on the need for a theology of history. Cherlow wanted the academics to produce the chronology and raw facts, while rabbis will provide the meaning in history and evaluate the value of the data. Needless to say, it provoked reaction.
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Nature plays a big role in stories. They make characters more real because their actions/behaviors can be caused in part by nature.
In fact, if you ever find yourself stuck as to how to describe one of your characters, add a force of nature in your character description. Describe how your character behaves or reacts during a bad (or good) weather.
Likewise, substitute another force of nature in the examples above and see how it affects the story and the characters.
Deanna Ball possesses a strong sense of duty.
Randall Graves is people-oriented and works well with others.
Dessa Woods has an intimidating personality.
Geoff Earhart is organized and methodical in his approach to everything.
Mac Taylor is the persistent type.
Kerry Watson is calm, practical and down-to-earth.
Devon Griffith has an offbeat sense of humor.
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The Marlborough Returned and Services Association has remembered the soldiers who served in the Boer War in a ceremony held at the Tua Marina cemetery yesterday.
The ceremony commemorated the first contingent of New Zealand soldiers to depart for the South African (Boer) War on October 21, 1899.
More than 40 people attended the ceremony and Marlborough RSA president Royd Woolf said it was one of the best attendances they had had in recent years.
"It's special that the RSA has an obligation to commemorate this day."
Alison Orchard attended to pay her respects in remembrance of her grand-father, George Thompson Crawford, who left in 1901 to serve in the Boer War.
She said Mr Crawford trained in the Wither Hills and was 18 years old when he enlisted.
Mrs Orchard saved a portrait painting of her grandfather from being thrown away when she was a teenager.
She said one of the saddest stories her grandfather told her after the war was when he had to shoot his horse when he was in Africa.
Former Marlborough mayor and RNZAF aircraft technician Tom Harrison said, "It's emotional, these events always are emotional.
"I'm pleased to see the turn out here."
Mr Harrison said the commemoration was all about remembering our forefathers who fought in the war so later generations could experience democracy.
"I hope future generations will never forget."
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Short-term rental service upgrades program to a primary insurance offering, making it available to all hosts in 16 countries, regardless of other coverage.
Airbnb has given its Home Protection Insurance program a makeover, beefing up its liability insurance coverage in an effort to attract new hosts to the short-term rental service.
Airbnb said Thursday that its insurance program, which offers up to $1 million in liability protection, has been upgraded from secondary insurance to a primary program and made it available to nearly 1 million hosts in 16 countries, regardless of other insurance coverage the host may already carry. The expansion is expected to persuade people who were thinking of signing up to be a host but were reluctant due to liability concerns.
"The majority of our hosts are middle-class people that use Airbnb to make ends meet, and we try to make hosting as simple and stress-free as possible for them," Jakob Kerr, a spokesman for the San Francisco-based startup, said in a statement. "This expanded version of the program will make it easier for people to host on Airbnb with peace of mind, and we believe it's a groundbreaking collaboration between Airbnb and the insurance industry."
Airbnb is just one of dozens of companies to describe itself as part of the sharing economy, the idea of using the Internet to create person-to-person marketplaces. Some services let people swap bicycles, tools and musical instruments. Others, like Airbnb, let people sublet their rooms, or their entire homes when they're not around.
Consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that global revenue across all sharing-economy companies, which is roughly $15 billion today, will increase to around $335 billion by 2025. While such companies promise convenience or an easy way to make a buck, they also raise concerns about various local issues, including insurance.
The issue came to prominence a year ago when San Francisco passed a so-called Airbnb law, which allows people to rent their rooms or homes for up to 90 days per calendar year. The law requires, among other things, that hosts carry at least $500,000 in liability insurance, a tricky situation as many homeowner's and renter's insurance policies don't tend to cover business activities in the home.
"Some insurance companies may provide coverage if you occasionally rent out a room, but making all or part of your home available for regular rental likely would be considered business use," the Oregon Insurance Division warns in an advisory page that mentions Airbnb by name. "Homeowner policies generally do not provide coverage for business use."
Airbnb's insurance program provides up to $1 million in coverage if a guest is accidentally injured on a host's property or surrounding area. It may also cover other costly situations in which a guest accidentally causes damage to surrounding property, such as a water leak in a host's apartment causing damage to a neighboring apartment.
Airbnb hosts don't need to do anything to become part of the program. The Host Protection Insurance program covers hosts' bookings as long as they are in one of the countries included in the program.
The program, which launched in the US in January, now covers hosts in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain and the United Kingdom.
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Here’s a project I’m absolutely in love with! Southern Disposition has the plans for an ingenious dollhouse she made from three ring binders, scrapbook paper, magazine pictures and a few found treasures.
It collapses to take up very little space, it’s utterly gorgeous, it’s green, and it’s super affordable. She estimates she made hers for about $30 but she says you could easily do it for under $10 with a little creativity.
Head over for all the fabulous information.
I’m taking a little blogging break. I’ll be back soon!
Happy Monday! Here’s another batch of fun stuff to do with the kiddos this week. If you have other ideas, please add them to the comments!
2. Tie long ribbons to sticks and go ribbon dancing in the back yard.
3. Make some seed bombs and find an unloved place to launch them.
4. Transform unloved stuffed animals into hand puppets.
5. Help the kids make up a list of 20 (or more!) things they love about Daddy, Mommy or another loved one and hide them as a lovely surprise.
6. Help the birds get their nests ready by leaving short lengths of yarn, dryer lint (yes, it’s safe) and even hair from hairbrushes on your bushes and trees. Later take walks and see if you can spot nests from your gifts to the birds.
7. Have the kids use crayons or colored pencils to draw a picture on the back of each bill as you mail it in, plus decorate the envelope and write something cheerful. You might make someone else’s day magical as well.
8. Make some rain gutter ball mazes, or better yet set up a water system with these in the back yard!
9. Declare today a cozy day and wear cozy clothes, cook comforting foods, watch shows that cheer you all up, cuddle on the couch and otherwise make it a special, low-key day.
10. This one comes from Victoria. Today, I taught her how to weave grape vines and skinny dogwood limbs into wreaths and crowns. She wants to make lots of tiny ones and hang them on trees along paths at a nearby state park, for hikers to happen across. It sounds like whimsical fun to me!
Want a little inspiration for making something magical outside with the kiddos? I love this Flickr pool of Land Art for Kids. Check out just a few of the images….
I can’t wait to see what my kiddos can come up with to join in. Best of all, it’s an all season, all climate kind of project. What fun!
My paid account at Live Journal is expiring today and I’m toying with the idea of moving to Blogger. Someone has registered magicalchildhood over there but I snagged magical-childhood in case I decided to relocate.
I’m on the fence. What do you all think?!
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I hate to go all bumper sticker on you, but: “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff.” Your husband pushed for the party and promised to do the heavy lifting, which he has. Sounds as if you’ve got a promise-keeper on your hands. Congratulations.
Your neighbors will be far happier to be invited than distraught by Hubby’s inability to spell Frances. (Or is it Francis?) More important, we must strive not to take our partners’ weaknesses too personally. We will only drive ourselves crazy, and it’s not as if we don’t have a few tiny faults of our own.
Still, I feel your pain. Chicken-scratched invites would not please me. But most of your guests will know you had nothing to do with making them. (And you’ll find a tactful way of letting the others know, too.) Now, the good news: Your husband’s generous hosting is probably reflecting better on the household than any calligraphic envelope could.
As artisanal cocktails grow to $16 each, should I increase the amount I tip the bartender accordingly? When I order a $5 gin and tonic, I leave a dollar tip on the bar. Does a more expensive cocktail warrant a more substantial tip?
Tanqueray-and-tonic than by using some rare gin made from juniper berries harvested by monks under Waning Gibbous moons? Probably not.
15 to 20 percent of your tab as tip. Tending bar is hard work. It involves standing on one’s feet for hours at a stretch and mixing drinks for folks whose inner Oscar the Grouch often comes full flower the more they imbibe.
What’s more, the expectancy of tips is built into a barkeep’s wages. So, if the inequity of tipping less for a generic drink than an artisanal one really gets your goat, simply tip more for the cheaper version.
Short of physical danger or extreme annoyance (children talking through “Happy Feet 2” after making you take them to see it), better to leave child rearing to the actual parents.
Philip Galanes’ new book of essays is “Social Q’s: How to Survive the Quirks, Quandaries and Quagmires of Today.” For help with your awkward situation, write to him at SocialQ@nytimes or SocialQ on Facebook, or send a tweet to @SocialQPhilip.
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I currently hold two positions: Associate Professor in Transport Engineering at University of Leeds based in School of Civil Engineering and Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), and Honorary Academic in Department of Engineering Science at The University of Auckland in New Zealand.
I graduated from ITS in 1993 with an MSc (Eng) in Transport Planning and Engineering. I first went back to Hong Kong in 1993 after I finished my Masters to gain experience in the industry. I spent eight years in the transport industry in Hong Kong, specialising in transportation systems modelling. I have worked in both private and public sectors in Hong Kong, including consultancy, Mass Transit Railway and Airport Authority Hong Kong. I joined the Airport Authority two years before the opening of the new Hong Kong International Airport in 1998, and have experienced both the planning and operations of the airport during my five years there. I then decided to pursue my PhD, which I had always wanted to do since I graduated from ITS, because I was so fascinated with what I learned and just wanted to learn more and more. Upon graduation from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2004, I was appointed as a Lecturer by the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Since then, I have been living in Auckland for the last eight years or so and have gained experience in lecturing, research and also spent some time in the industry as an Associate in consultancy with Booz & Company.
With an operational research background, I have always been interested in transport modelling. My PhD thesis was on 'Strategic Gaming Analysis of Competitive Transportation Services', where I applied game theory to support strategic transport policy analysis. Since I arrived in New Zealand in 2004 to take up a lecturer position at The University of Auckland, I have developed a strong research interest in integrating land use, transport and air quality modelling. In recent years, I have also become interested in sustainability analysis in transport and have started working on research projects to enhance the sustainability and resilience of the transportation system in Auckland.
My journey around the world started in Leeds twenty years ago, where I received the all-round training from ITS. Over the last twenty years, I have put into practice what I have learned from ITS in both private and public sectors, in Hong Kong and in New Zealand. Throughout my career in academia since 2004, I have had the opportunity to share my experience with students at The University of Auckland in New Zealand, as well as students at Ecole des Mines de Nantes in France. Now I am really pleased to be able to share my experience with students at the University of Leeds, where I started this fruitful journey.
I have a first degree in Quantitative Analysis for Business obtained from City University of Hong Kong. After two years working in HSBC, which was the biggest banking corporation in Hong Kong at the time, I decided I would like to see the world and learn something different. I went back to the university where I graduated and worked as a teaching assistant, to prepare myself for future studies. Two years later, I saved up enough money and had to decide where to go and what to study. In those days, internet did not exist. I had to go to the library to find the prospectus of different universities. What attracted me to Leeds was a picture of eight lanes of traffic in Bangkok in the prospectus, where it said, 'People at ITS are helping to tackle and solve the congestion problem in Bangkok'. I just thought that this problem would be challenging and it would require someone with good quantitative skills. I can tell you what I thought was absolutely right. As it turns out, this problem could take a lifetime to tackle and congestion pricing is one of my areas of research interest.
I found that the comprehensive training that I received from the Master's programme in ITS has provided me with the solid foundation for my 20-year career in transport planning and coming to Leeds to do my Masters degree twenty years ago was one of the best decisions that I have ever made in my life. I would highly recommend the Masters programme at ITS to students of any background.
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2019-04-19T20:19:11Z
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https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/transport-masters/dir-record/student-alumni-profiles/390/judith-wang
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When photographer Keen Heick-Abildhauge moved to Russia six years ago, he wanted to capture the beauty of the country and the diverse stories of its people. Two years and more than 230 photos later, the “100 Years Project” was complete, a gorgeous series of photos featuring Russians ages one to 100.
Passion or Dream: Cars are our passion (mother’s words).
Check out Heick-Abildhauge’s full photo series here.
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2019-04-21T06:29:10Z
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https://www.fastcompany.com/3043366/this-beautiful-photo-essay-captures-the-hopes-of-russians-ages-1-to-100
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The field of Neuroaesthetics attempts to identify the brain processes underlying aesthetic experience, including but not limited to beauty. Previous neuroaesthetic studies have focussed largely on paintings and music, while performing arts such as dance have been less studied. Nevertheless, increasing knowledge of the neural mechanisms that represent the bodies and actions of others, and which contribute to empathy, make a neuroaesthetics of dance timely. Here we present the first neuroscientific study of aesthetic perception in the context of the performing arts. We investigated brain areas whose activity during passive viewing of dance stimuli was related to later, independent aesthetic evaluation of the same stimuli. Brain activity of six naïve male subjects was measured using fMRI, while they watched 24 dance movements, and performed an irrelevant task. In a later session, participants rated each movement along a set of established aesthetic dimensions. The ratings were used to identify brain regions that were more active when viewing moves that received high average ratings than moves that received low average ratings. This contrast revealed bilateral activity in the occipital cortices and in right premotor cortex. Our results suggest a possible role of visual and sensorimotor brain areas in an automatic aesthetic response to dance. This sensorimotor response may explain why dance is widely appreciated in so many human cultures.
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2019-04-21T09:19:27Z
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http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/4467/
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Brian J. Frost is the editor of Book of the Werewolf (1973) and author of The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature (1989). Also a leading authority on vampire fiction, Frost was born in Leicester, England, and has spent all his working life in the printing industry. Reading weird fiction has long been his main recreation. A part-time writer since the late sixties, he has contributed articles to fan journals.
Some werewolf pages: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
As I mentioned in a previous review of Isaac Asimov's Werewolves, werewolves garner much less attention than do vampires. Partly this may be because our image of werewolves is that they are bestial and violent, whereas vampires -- while perhaps evil -- can be suave and sensuous. Well, now, with the publication of Brian J. Frost's The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature, you can assuage your lycanthropophilic obsessions, and with its 73 page bibliography of werewolf-related materials, build quite a to-read list.
Frost's extensive and seemingly exhaustive survey of werewolf literature begins with a short introduction to werewolves, a survey of reference works (i.e. non-fiction) on werewolves themselves, a chapter on werewolf fiction from its origins to the early 20th century, an extensive survey of werewolf tales in the pulps, and several chapters on recent werewolf literature. Frost glosses over the 16th and 17th treatises on werewolves in a couple of pages, so if your interest is in this area you best refer to Montague Summers' The Werewolf, but bring along a good knowledge of Greek, Latin, and French.
The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is a reworking of the running introduction (it continued in parts between reprinted stories) of Frost's 1973 reprint anthology Book of the Werewolf -- an excellent collection, by the way. In this earlier attempt at an overview of werewolf literature. Frost was much more forceful about stating what, in his opinion, was good and what wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. Similarly, Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould's The Book of Werewolves (1865) expressed a strongly held opinion that werewolves were people with mental disorders, not tools of Satan, whereas Rev. Montague Summers' in his The Werewolf (1933) clearly took a theological stand that werewolves existed and were a personification of Christian evil. One can disagree with Baring-Gould or Summers' points of view, but one must admire them for their passion. The current work, while it does rank the quality of the works it surveys, seems much more equitable and tactful than the earlier version. This left me a bit disappointed -- the lack of bias in preparing such a work is commendable, but leaves one more with an annotated list than an a critical -- if biased -- review of the genre.
The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature is clearly laid out, with a large, easy-to-read typeface, an extensive bibliography and index, and a survey of werewolves in the pulps that was clearly lacking. However, in each section, the books and stories which are relegated to a mere mention are simply cited one after the other, frequently over more than one page. Here it might have been more efficient for the reader if these had been summarized in a table with title, author and publisher. Also, it might have been nice to see pictures of the covers (or cover pages) of some of the works mentioned, though this is a decorative issue rather than one of substance.
Nonetheless, Frost's The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature remains the best thing out there if you want to explore modern werewolf literature. It is even-handed, gives good coverage to recent works, and avoids the abstruseness of some earlier works. So don't wait for the moon to be full, put on your wolf-pelt and lope out to your local bookstore for a copy.
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2019-04-19T17:38:35Z
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https://www.sfsite.com/03b/wl172.htm
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bellenglish
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Your wellbeing is our top priority. We believe that to perform your best, you need to study in a supportive, friendly environment.
The staff at Bell are very supportive and have helped in every occasion during my stay.
Students who are 16 and 17 are given special care and attention. If you are 16 or 17, you will stay with one of our host families to ensure you are supported outside of school hours. You will be given a curfew of 11pm and advised of the UK laws regarding under 18s on arrival. In addition, you will meet with our student services team weekly to discuss your experience and any concerns you’re having.
I keep coming back to study at Bell because it has a very warm atmosphere and the teachers and staff are amazing! They treat you like a member of their family.
I meet with every student at the end of their first day to find out how the day went. Students are given lots of opportunity to feed back and share any concerns they may have. All staff work closely together to ensure that students are supported and happy throughout their stay.
Arrival: You will be greeted by our student services team and given your student welcome pack, which includes your Bell student ID, maps of the local area, emergency contact form, a pen and note paper.
Language test: Your language level is tested to ensure you are placed in the correct class.
Student induction: You will receive an introduction to the school and take a tour of the facilities.
Lessons: After morning break, you will start your lessons and meet your new classmates.
After lessons: End your first day by attending our Language in Action programme and meet some new friends. In Cambridge we run a city orientation tour every Monday and our London team hosts a welcome talk, where you can ask any questions about staying in the capital.
The most rewarding part of my role is seeing students develop during their stay at Bell. They arrive quite shy on the first day and then flourish by making friends, engaging with their course and taking part in the Language in Action programme.
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2019-04-23T02:29:03Z
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https://bellenglish.com/english-16/student-welfare
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BGSU Computer Training Centers (CTC) delivers affordable, high-quality hands-on instruction to a variety of audiences. Training topics include widely used office productivity software, computer security, troubleshooting, and Internet skills. Training sessions are offered at main campus, Firelands, BGSU at Levis Commons, and on-site for business and industry. Training can be highly customized for individual groups to provide the greatest benefit. On-line training courses are also available on a wide variety of topics.
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2019-04-25T12:24:02Z
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https://www.bgsu.edu/archived-catalog/fall-2015/special-academic-programs-and-services/computers-and-technology.html
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Vienna, Austria and Vancouver, British Columbia (July 20, 2010) – Dr. Julio Montaner, Director of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, said that the Government of Canada’s announcement today at the XVIII International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2010) regarding its response to the HIV and AIDS pandemic is insufficient and disappointing.
It does not address key issues in HIV/AIDS and ignores the call to arms from UNAIDS to expand the treatment as prevention strategy.
Ottawa has ignored the emerging and proven science that supports treatment as prevention, which seeks to provide effective treatment and care to all eligible HIV positive individuals worldwide.
Earlier, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as host of the G8 summit in 2010, turned down an invitation to be a plenary speaker at AIDS 2010 to report on the progress of the G8 in meeting its commitment to universal access. (The G8 has failed to deliver its 2005 pledge of universal access to care, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS by 2010.) Montaner noted that the Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Canada’s Minister of Health, was barely visible at the AIDS 2010 conference. She left AIDS 2010 on the day that her government released its announcement and was unavailable for immediate comment on her HIV and AIDS plan.
Canadians have played a key role in pioneering HAART, the landmark drug cocktail that has been adopted in Canada and around the world as the gold standard treatment for HIV.
HAART uptake today is suboptimal in Canada, where access to the drugs and necessary medical services is free. This is particularly apparent among hard to reach individuals who often have additional challenges related to drug dependency, mental illness, limited education and unstable housing. Particularly affected is aboriginal individuals who have greater risk of HIV infection and greater AIDS mortality than non-aboriginals in Canada. The BC-CfE has shown that actively expanding HAART coverage to all those in medical need would be highly cost effective as a strategy to control HIV/AIDS related morbidity and mortality among those who are HIV infected.
Since 1996, HAART has resulted in annual reduction of AIDS-related diseases and deaths by over 90 per cent in B.C. HAART is credited with saving nearly three million lives worldwide in the last 13 years.
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2019-04-25T02:14:47Z
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http://cfenet.ubc.ca/news/releases/government-canadas-hivaids-response-insufficient-misdirected-and-divisive
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Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2011 Mar;300(3):F772-82. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00042.2010. Epub 2010 Dec 15.
Effect of paricalcitol and calcitriol on aortic wall remodeling in uninephrectomized ApoE knockout mice.
Becker LE1, Koleganova N, Piecha G, Noronha IL, Zeier M, Geldyyev A, Kökeny G, Ritz E, Gross ML.
Despite an only minor reduction in the glomerular filtration rate, uninephrectomy (UNX) markedly accelerates the rate of growth of atherosclerotic plaques in ApoE-/- mice. It has been suggested that vitamin D receptor (VDR) activation exerts an antiproliferative effect on vascular smooth muscle cells, but the side effects may limit its use. To assess a potentially different spectrum of actions, we compared the effects of paricalcitol and calcitriol on remodeling and calcification of the aortic wall in sham-operated and UNX ApoE-/- mice on a diet with normal cholesterol content. Sham-operated and UNX mice were randomly allotted to treatment with solvent, calcitriol (0.03 μg/kg) or paricalcitol (0.1 μg/kg) 5 times/wk intraperitoneally for 10 wk. Semithin (0.6 μm) sections of the aorta were analyzed by 1) morphometry, 2) immunohistochemistry, and 3) Western blotting of key proteins involved in vascular calcification and growth. Compared with sham-operated animals (5.6 ± 0.24), the wall-to-lumen ratio (x100) of the aorta was significantly higher in solvent- and calcitriol-treated UNX animals (6.64 ± 0.27 and 7.17 ± 0.81, respectively, P < 0.05), but not in paricalcitol-treated UNX (6.1 5 ± 0.32). Similar differences were seen with respect to maximal plaque height. Expression of transforming growth factor (TGF)-β1 in aortic intima/plaque was also significantly higher in UNX solvent and UNX calcitriol compared with sham-operated and UNX paricalcitol animals. Treatment with both paricalcitol and calcitriol caused significant elevation of VDR expression in the aorta. While at the dose employed paricalcitol significantly reduced TGF-β expression in plaques, calcitriol in contrast caused significant vascular calcification and elevated expression of related proteins (BMP2, RANKL, and Runx2).
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2019-04-19T15:05:31Z
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21159735
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Briefly describe transition plan The station will go off the air, install new antenna, transmission line, and transmitter and return to operation when all necessary modifications have been made.
Justification for New Transmitter Screen Service is no longer supported and will not operate on the new channel.
Justification for New Antenna Existing channel 48 antenna will not work on the new repacked channel.
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2019-04-20T00:20:18Z
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https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/form399/public/draftCopy.html?displayType=html&appKey=25076ff35c44aa75015c649960f70b23&id=25076ff35c44aa75015c649960f70b23&goBack=N
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VOLKER Reveal Charging New Track "Voodoo Baby"
French rock/metal crossover group VOLKER recently announced the release of their upcoming melodic assault, Dead Doll, hitting North American retailers on May 26, 2017 via Overpowered Records/AISA/RED distribution. North American pre-orders for Dead Doll are available now via Amazon in digital and CD formats.
Today, VOLKER are pleased to reveal the first single off of the new album, entitled "Voodoo Baby". The track charges forward with a raucous hard rock-meets-punk sound, weaving eerie throwback sci-fi film sounds throughout. "Voodoo Baby" is propelled by frontwoman Jen Nyx's signature horror-driven lyricism.
Watch the lyric video and hear "Voodoo Baby" now below.
Guitarist and lead composer Ulrich Wegrich says, "It may come as no surprise that this song is about Voodoo stuff! It's about a lady magician owning her mystical powers and using her spells on men... for revenge! With its energetic beat and touch of 80's pop/punk/rock, this track definitely gives listeners an idea of what VOLKER is all about!"
In addition to the influences heard on "Voodoo Baby", Dead Doll blends assorted heavy music styles such as 90's grunge rock, retro power metal, classic rock and even horror punk to create an accessible, engaging sound.
Whether soaring at the top of her impressive range above striking guitar harmonies, or deftly growling amidst pummeling double bass and searing solos, singer Jen Nyx more than proves her equally-diverse skills on Dead Doll. Conjuring visions of the macabre, Nyx leads with a seductive aggression, flanked byseasoned French musicians John Aupeix on drums, Emmanuel Pliszke on bass and lead composer Ulrich Wegrich on guitars.
Founded in 2014, VOLKER is comprised of a group of friends forged by the French metal scene. Nyx - whose lyrical works have always been inspired by themes of horror, sorcery, dark romance and death - formerly fronted the local metalcore group NOEIN. When musicians Aupeix, Pliszke and Wegrich formed VOLKER as a side project (all three are currently members of extreme black/death group OTARGOS, and Wegrich is also the former vocalist of REGARDE LES HOMMES TOMBER), they brought in Nyx with the intention highlighting her clean vocal abilities. As a band, their ultimate goal was to break out of the extreme metal scene and delve into a heavy, dark rock sound. Thus, VOLKER was born, and went on to record an EP and tour with major metal artists such as MOONSPELL.
Stay tuned for more tracks and other exclusive material to be premiered prior to the release of Dead Doll.
"Would You Play With Me"
"It Summons Me To Follow"
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2019-04-22T23:04:49Z
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http://knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=23643
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europa
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The EU Arbitration Convention establishes a procedure to resolve disputes where double taxation occurs between enterprises of different Member States as a result of an upward adjustment of profits of an enterprise of one Member State. Whilst most bilateral double taxation treaties include a provision for a corresponding downward adjustment of profits of the associated enterprise concerned, they do not generally impose a binding obligation on the Contracting States to eliminate the double taxation.
The Convention provides for the elimination of double taxation by agreement between the contracting states including, if necessary, by reference to the opinion of an independent advisory body. The Convention thus improves the conditions for cross-border activities in the Internal Market.
For clarifications concerning some practical aspects of the Convention, see also the Revised Code of Conduct for the effective implementation of the Arbitration Convention.
The origin of the Arbitration Convention was the Commission's 1976 proposal for a directive to eliminate double taxation in the case of transfers of profits between associated enterprises in different Member States (Official Journal C 301 of 21 December 1976) and the White Paper of 1985 on the completion of the Internal Market.
After long negotiations in the Council, the Commission proposal was transformed from a Directive into an inter-governmental Convention and it was signed on 23 July 1990 (Convention 90/436/EEC on the elimination of double taxation in connection with the adjustment of profits of associated enterprises).
The Arbitration Convention was initially in force from 1 January 1995 until 31 December 1999 for a period of five years. Several months before the expiration of the first five-year application period of the Arbitration Convention, the Council adopted a Protocol to the Arbitration Convention that provides for an automatic extension of the Convention by periods of five years unless a Contracting State opposes. This Protocol of 25 May 1999 amends the Convention of 23 July 1990 on the elimination of double taxation in connection with the adjustment of profits of associated enterprises. This Protocol was, in spite of its timely signature, only ratified by all 15 Member States in 2004 and the Arbitration Convention re-entered into force , with retroactive effect from 1 January 2000, on 1 November 2004.
Convention on the accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and the Kingdom of Sweden to the Convention on the elimination of double taxation in connection with the adjustment of profits of associated enterprises.
Act of accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union through which the two new Member States acceded to the AC and the Protocol.
Council Decision of 23 June 2008 concerning the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the Arbitration Convention then determined the date of entry into force of the AC for Bulgaria and Romania and made the necessary adjustments to the text of the Convention resulting from the accession of the two countries.
Act of accession of Croatia to the European Union through which the country acceded to the AC and the Protocol. Council Decision of 9 December 2014 determined the date of entry into force of the AC for Croatia and made the necessary adjustments to the text of the Convention resulting from the accession of Croatia.
The Arbitration Convention applies in all EU Member States. Further information on the Arbitration Convention, including a list of independent persons of standing, eligible to become a Member of the advisory commission as referred to in Article 7 (1) of the Arbitration Convention is available on the Council website.
Information specific to a certain Member State with respect to the Arbitration Convention can be provided by the respective Competent Authorities.
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2019-04-21T16:52:26Z
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https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/business/company-tax/transfer-pricing-eu-context/transfer-pricing-arbitration-convention_en
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uio
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When the state fails to supply basic security and protection of property, violent entrepreneurs not only seize the opportunity of plundering, but some also enter the protection business and provide protection against plunderers. This uncoordinated division of labor is advantageous for the entire group of violent entrepreneurs. Hence, in weak states a situation may arise where a large number of violent entrepreneurs can operate side by side as plunderers and protectors squeezing the producers from both sides. The problem reached new levels at the end of the cold war. As military forces were demobilized without civilian jobs to go to, many countries got an oversupply of qualified violent people for crime, warfare and private protection. In this "market for extortion" the entry of new violent entrepreneurs enhances the profitability of them all. The supply of violence creates its own demand; an externality of violence that is detrimental to the development in poor countries.
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2019-04-21T22:14:33Z
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https://www.frisch.uio.no/publikasjoner/?pubid=363
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The film features returning cast members Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, Terry Crews, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Antonio Banderas, Wesley Snipes, Kelsey Grammer, Kellan Lutz, Ronda Rousey, Glen Powell, Victor Ortiz, Robert Davi, Mel Gibson and Harrison Ford all join the cast. The story follows the mercenary group known as “The Expendables” as they come into conflict with ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks (Gibson), the Expendables’ co-founder, who is determined to destroy the team. The film was released on August 15, 2014.
The Expendables led by Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone) and formed by Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren) and Toll Road (Randy Couture) extract former member Doctor Death (Wesley Snipes), a knives specialist and team medic, from a military prison and recruit him to assist them in intercepting a shipment of bombs meant to be delivered to a warlord in Somalia. Arriving there, they reunite with Hale Caesar (Terry Crews), who directs them to the drop point, where Ross is surprised to find out that the arms trader providing the bombs is Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), who co-founded the Expendables, but later betrayed the team to profit off of illegal weapons dealing, and was since believed to be dead. In the ensuing firefight, the Expendables are forced to retreat due to Stonebanks’ men’s advanced weaponry, and Caesar is severely injured in the process.
Blaming himself, Ross leaves for Las Vegas, where he enlists retired mercenary Bonaparte (Kelsey Grammer) to help him find younger, mercenaries to join the team. The recruits include ex-Marine John Smilee (Kellan Lutz), nightclub bouncer Luna (Ronda Rousey), computer expert Thorn (Glen Powell) and weapons expert Mars (Victor Ortiz). Skilled sharpshooter Galgo (Antonio Banderas) advocates to be included in the team, but Ross turns him down. The new team rendezvous with CIA operative Max Drummer (Harrison Ford), the Expendables’ missions manager, and Ross’ rival Trench Mauser (Arnold Schwarzenegger), who have traced Stonebanks to Romania, where he is set to make a deal with another arms trader.
Stonebanks sends Ross a video, challenging Ross to come after him. While preparing to leave, Ross is found by Galgo, and agrees to give him a chance. Christmas, Jensen, Road and Doc likewise join his efforts, and they raid the building where Stonebanks is keeping the recruits. But will they rescue the recruits and get out alive?
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2019-04-19T23:01:11Z
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https://sylvesterstallone.com/film-tv/the-expendables-3/
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I want to travel – and I want to do it now!
Wrap up in some sequins… Yes please.
Think I just might have come across the perfect menu!
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2019-04-25T20:06:41Z
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https://designtrolls.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/monday-pinterest-rant-4/
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I played this song for my dad last night and he turned purple. It was so cool.
I love this song. I was singing it in the park the other day.
My bf was going on about some girl in college that he liked a lot....just a bit TOO much!
SHUT UP!! JUST SHUT UP!!
hi, does anyone know which country artist this is a style parody of?
everbody's sayin' that he sure sounds funny but it's still billy joel to me!
I don't really think he had a specific artist in mind. More just country music in general.
I think this is Al's greatest original...behind "I Was Only Kidding" of course.
Having watched "Walk The Line" multiple times recently and being subjected to a ton of his work throughout my life, I can safely agree with this statement.
But yes, I thoroughly enjoy hearing this song. He could do this one live and I'd love it... but I don't think Al is going to do a different Polka Party! original any time soon in the set list.
Thanks for posting that, Helen. They actually did a pretty good job with it.
Noodles @ Jan 11 2007, 01:35 AM wrote: This is by far Al's most underrated song ever.
I agree that this song is very underrated. I discovered this song late because I only had Permanent Record for many years. Only last year did I get the rest of Al's songs that weren't on PR. I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard this song. Al should do a little more country. If you want to hear another great country-sounding song that's making fun of country music, check out Gin Blossom's "Cheatin'" from their album "New Miserable Experience".
I still agree with my review from 8 years ago. Great song. 4 out of 5 stars.
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2019-04-22T15:58:34Z
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https://www.weirdalforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=826959
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Ireland has risen by two places in the latest BDO International Compass, which measures the competitiveness of a country across the three areas of economic, politico- legal, and socio-cultural. Managing partner at BDO Ireland Michael Costello said the result will "surprise some people".
"In a way it shouldn't surprise people, we are a very good country to do business in and we rank very highly across a number of areas," he said.
"Ireland has continued to improve across a range of economic factors and that has been one of the main drivers as to why we've moved up two places. Our debt-to-GDP ratio and unemployment have been two big movers and they've had a big impact on the economic assessment of the country."
The country's high level of education was also cited as one of the most prominent reasons for its strong competitiveness. Ireland is now three places ahead of the UK with Denmark and Norway sandwiched in between.
"Ireland's performance is phenomenal given that when you look at one and two being Singapore and Hong Kong, which are very specific city states very geared towards business," he said.
"One of our closest competitors is the UK and I think we'll actually improve our competitiveness against them. Clearly some sectors will take a hit, particularly in some manufacturing and food and agri. There are other parts of the economy that will be positively affected by it such as FDI and financial services. The wider international services sector shouldn't be as impacted as the traded goods sector."
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2019-04-24T13:00:08Z
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https://www.independent.ie/business/irish/ireland-jumps-to-fifth-in-world-for-competitiveness-37944310.html
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cigaraficionado
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Actor, writer and now director, Laurence Fishburne is in full artistic soar.
When the owners of the Hilton Sandestin Beach in Destin, Florida, decided to include a deluxe restaurant in the hotel's expansion, they wanted "a place to forget the beach and dine like in New York or Chicago." They succeeded.
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2019-04-19T04:16:40Z
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https://www.cigaraficionado.com/issue/jan-feb-00
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twincities
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With Trevor Siemian out of the picture, Kyle Sloter insists he is ready to take over as the Vikings’ backup quarterback.
The salary-cap-challenged Vikings tried to bring Siemian back, but they were outbid Wednesday by the New York Jets, who signed him to a one-year, $2 million contract that could be worth as much as $3 million with incentives. That leaves Kirk Cousins, the starter, and Sloter, last season’s third-stringer, as the only quarterbacks on Minnesota’s roster.
Sloter, entering his third season, has never played in a regular-season game. He was active for six games as a rookie in 2017 when Sam Bradford and Teddy Bridgewater had injuries, but he did not get into any games. Case Keenum was the starter then.
Last season, Sloter played behind Cousins and Siemian. He wasn’t active for any games.
The Vikings are likely to bring in a veteran quarterback to compete for the backup job. One possibility is free agent Sean Mannion, who played the past four years for the Rams and has thrown 53 regular-season passes with one career start.
Sloter said he was “super happy” that Siemian got a good contract in free agency. Siemian made $1.9 million last season but didn’t get into any games since Cousins took every snap.
In the preseason last year, Sloter completed 41 of 56 passes (73.2 percent) for 366 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions and a passer rating of 114.1. His numbers were much better than those of Siemian, who completed 26 of 46 (56.5 percent) for 269 yards with two touchdowns and one interception and a passer rating of 79.0. Regardless, Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said at the start of the regular season that Siemian was the undisputed backup.
Sloter said he has worked out with Cousins “more than 10 times” in Atlanta over the past month. Sloter is from the area, and Cousins makes his offseason home there.
Sloter is in Denver this week working with his personal quarterback coach, Steve Fairchild. He will fly to the Twin Cities on Friday, and spend a few days throwing to Vikings receiver Adam Thielen. Sloter said Minnesota receiver Brandon Zylstra also might join them, along with some other players with local ties.
Sloter played at Northern Colorado and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Broncos in 2017 before being waived at the end of the preseason and joining the Vikings. Sloter’s quarterbacks coach with the Broncos was Klint Kubiak, who was hired by Minnesota in January for that position.
Sloter said he wasn’t in Denver long enough to develop much of a relationship with Gary Kubiak, Klint’s father, who was a Broncos senior personnel adviser and is now Minnesota’s assistant head coach and offensive adviser. Regardless, Sloter is primed to show all of the Vikings’ decision-makers that he should be the backup quarterback.
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2019-04-21T17:05:08Z
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https://www.twincities.com/2019/03/20/with-trevor-siemian-gone-kyle-sloter-more-than-ready-to-be-vikings-backup-qb/
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| 0.262504 |
shsu
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Designed to meet the needs of the combined Master of Science degree and Sam Houston Dietetic Internship Program, this plan of study combines the master's degree requirements with nine hours of practicum in area preceptor sites and a 12-hour minor in one of the following: business, education (counseling), psychology (counseling), or health. The comprehensive examination must be taken in the major and the minor. Students must be enrolled in the University the semester or summer session in which the comprehensive exam is administered. A thesis is not part of the program. The Sam Houston Dietetic Internship Program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606-6995. Telephone (312) 899-4873, ext. 5400; website: www.eatright.org.
Verification of completion from an accredited DPD program.
* FACS 5079 is taken three times for a total of nine hours.
** Selections must be approved by the Graduate Advisor.
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2019-04-23T18:51:43Z
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https://graduate-catalog-2015-2016.shsu.edu/home/family-and-consumer-sciences/master-of-science-in-dietetics.html
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Arts
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Business
| 0.634311 |
npr
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Chew On This For Earth Day: How Our Diets Impact The Planet : The Salt The foods we choose to put on our plates — or toss away – could have more of an ecological impact than many of us realize.
The U.S. has set an official goal to reduce food waste by 50 percent by the year 2030. Universities have begun to chip away at the food waste issue by promoting ugly fruit and vegetables and shifting away from pre-cooked, buffet style food, instead serving more cook-to-order options that can cut down on waste. Food service companies are working with farmers and chefs to get more blemished but edible produce into cafeterias across the country. Even religious groups are getting into the act, raising attention to the problem of food waste among the faithful and connecting with restaurants, retailers and food banks to help redirect food to hungry mouths that might otherwise end up in landfills.
Everything we eat has an environmental footprint – it takes land, water and energy to grow crops and raise livestock. The folks at the World Resources Institute have calculated the greenhouse gas emissions associated with producing a gram of edible protein of various foods.
Why? According to WRI, beef uses 28 times more land per calorie consumed — and two to four times more freshwater — than the average of other livestock categories. What's more, cows are less efficient than other animals, like pigs and poultry, at converting feed into food.
Still, telling people to go cold turkey with their red meat isn't likely to inspire real change. But this message might resonate: Even if you don't give up on red meat consumption entirely, just cutting back can significantly impact your diet's carbon footprint.
And these days, there are lots of vegan substitutes – like plant burgers that sizzle, smell and even bleed like the real thing — that can deliver the meaty taste you crave as you try to scale back.
As interest in plant-centric diets booms, new food businesses have taken root – from the veggie-centric fast-casual chains Beefsteak (from celebrity chef Jose Andres) and Chloe (an all-vegan restaurant) to the vegan meal-kit company Purple Carrot.
Now, a new initiative from the World Resources Institute called the Better Buying Lab is bringing together big companies (including Panera Bread, Sodexo, Google, Unilever and Hilton) to develop and test strategies to nudge consumers towards choosing more sustainable foods. One initiative is to get more plant-based dishes onto menus.
"If you look at menus across the U.S., there tends to be [the same] 25 dishes that are on the majority of menus," says Daniel Vennard, director of the Better Buying Lab at WRI. Think burgers, chicken dishes, etc. "Not many [plant-based] dishes have scaled to become national favorites," Vennard says.
His group is working to change that. It's teaming up with chefs from its member companies to create new recipes likely to have broad appeal. Promising ideas include the concept of "superfood salads" — containing combinations of nuts, seeds, greens, veggies and avocado.
"What we're trying to do is shift consumers towards eating more sustainable food, but we're not advocating for a no-meat diet," explains Vennard. "We're saying, 'Let's moderate.' "
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2019-04-22T21:26:28Z
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/22/525113726/chew-on-this-for-earth-day-how-our-diets-impact-the-planet?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170422&utm_campaign=news&utm_term=nprnews?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170422&utm_campaign=news&utm_term=nprnews
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Arts
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Business
| 0.145391 |
archive
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Individuals and Families: Sign up for health insurance by January 15 for coverage that begins February 1, 2019. Open Enrollment ends January 31, 2019.
Federal law requires most Americans to have a minimum level of health coverage. This requirement is known as the individual mandate, and it’s still in effect for the 2017 and 2018 tax years. If you don’t have health coverage that meets the individual mandate requirements, you’ll have to pay a penalty or receive an exemption.
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2019-04-21T11:05:54Z
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190109011203/https:/dchealthlink.com/individuals/overview
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Health
| 0.987454 |
2ser
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Stumped is one of the documentaries screening at this year’s Mardi Gras Film Festival. It follows the story of filmmaker Will Lautzenheiser, who was rendered a quadruple amputee after contracting a rare bacterial infection.
Robin Berghaus directed and produced this stunning tale, and joined Nic for a chat about the film, the effort that went into its creation and the undeniable spirit of Will Lautzenheiser.
If you’re free on Sunday morning, we really recommend heading to Event Cinemas George Street to experience this stunning story.
Find out more and grab tickets here.
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2019-04-24T20:20:15Z
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https://2ser.com/stumped-story-filmmaker-will-lautzenheiser/
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News
| 0.303947 |
macworld
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Stunning sights, classic songs, and young love anchor this rhythmic ride.
Given the constant juggling act that is my schedule—as a freelance writer and work-at-home dad to a four-year-old—I tend to gravitate towards iOS games that I can play for moments at a time. Quick in, quick out: it’s tough to find focus for much more.
But with Lost in Harmony, I got comfortable in bed one night, plugged in headphones, and played through the entire hour-or-so main adventure in one run. I could have enjoyed a couple of levels and saved the rest for another time, but honestly, I didn’t want to put it down: Lost in Harmony is a uniquely gripping rhythmic odyssey that has a serious narrative underpinning the tap-and-evade gameplay.
Watch out for the bikes! Threats come from behind and occasionally ahead, and you’ll need to switch lanes or leap to avoid them.
It’s an odd concoction of elements, pairing a runner with a beat-matched music game, not to mention a story and delightful graphics, but it all comes together well and resonates rather strongly. At the very least, you can easily claim that you’ve never played anything quite like this on any device. Eager to give it a shot? Here are three ways in which Lost in Harmony enthralls.
Mashed-up melody: Much of the time, Lost in Harmony takes the form of an auto-runner, except you’re skateboarding towards the screen instead of bolting away from it—think of it like Temple Run in reverse (and on four wheels). Here, the goal is to dodge hazards, whether they’re boxes and barriers up ahead, cyclists or cars from behind, or even giant eagles or trucks zooming in from the sides. How do you jump over or skate around something you can’t see? The game helpfully provides a little warning icon, but more importantly, any jumps are timed to the beat of the song.
At times, you’ll tap the little beat-matched icons that appear instead of worrying about the path.
Also timed to the beat of the song are little icons that appear during certain parts of stages, which you’ll tap to clear. Lost in Harmony alternates between these two gameplay elements and occasionally requires you to handle both at the same time, which is a little difficult to manage. But the rhythmic approach helps you stay on top of things when the game gets really intense later on.
It’s surprisingly affecting: Notice how the skateboarding boy (Kaito) has a companion clung to his back? That’s Aya, and she’s very sick—the story unfolds via text message exchanges between levels, as we learn that she’s undergoing treatment… but things aren’t improving. It’s sad and eventually startling, but that adds a richness to the game that’s left open to interpretation.
Given the over-the-top fantasy elements in some of the stages, especially later on, I took it to mean that Kaito is helping Aya escape from her very harsh reality by taking her on these dreamy escapades. The teen dialogue might generate eye rolls, but these short exchanges add real gravity to the adventure.
And then there’s a bonus adventure that’s very much not emotional or serious, in which you guide a wheeled, headphone-wearing robot (M.I.R.A.I.) through some of the same kind of terrain. These stages tend to be tougher, so just think of it as a bonus challenge—and a lighter aside after the affecting main journey.
It’s stunning throughout: Lost in Harmony is a rhythmic game, so obviously the music is key—and it doesn’t disappoint here. Most of the tracks are mash-ups of familiar classical themes, with compositions from Handel, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and Beethoven in the mix, and even if you don’t know the composers, chances are you’ll recognize a lot of songs. But they’re creatively twisted up and intensified, with electronic and dubstep influences popping up here and there. Even Wyclef Jean contributes an original song! It’s a weird blend all around, but everything is well-executed.
The game is a pleasure to look at, too, with transforming backdrops that match the sudden shifts in the music. It’s a sight to behold when the environment suddenly folds up and becomes something else entirely, or later when the pair skateboards atop a trail of dust floating above the clouds at sunset. It has really surreal and strange segments, but also really beautiful, calm moments as well. And you can even create your own levels with imported local or SoundCloud songs.
Lost in Harmony has some really beautiful moments.
It’s worth noting that Lost in Harmony began as a premium, $4 release last year, which is when I first encountered it, but now it’s solely available as a free-to-play experience with some accompanying frustrations. For example, to play through one of the entire stories in a single sitting, you’d need to get extra hearts by watching a video ad or paying the in-game stardust currency, which you can buy with the orb currency… which you can gradually earn or just buy with real cash.
Or you can just pay $4 for unlimited hearts and skip all of that nonsense. Anyone who bought the premium version can get an unlock code for unlimited hearts by emailing in the App Store receipt (instructions are within the game’s menus now), so at least you’re not punished for being an early supporter. Still, the tangled freemium systems are an annoyance that slightly detract from the original experience.
Thankfully, it’s not enough to sour my recommendation. Lost in Harmony is such an imaginative delight throughout, whether it’s sad or sweet, serene or punishing. You don’t have to play each adventure all at once, like I did—but if you enjoy music-based games or emotionally-charged interactive experiences in general, it’s a journey well worth taking.
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2019-04-24T22:57:16Z
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https://www.macworld.com/article/3187348/lost-in-harmony-is-a-stirring-musical-adventure-worth-seeking-out.html
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Arts
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Games
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yorku
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Doris Sung is Assistant Professor of Asian Art History at The University of Alabama. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art of East Asia, cultural interactions between Asia and Europe, and gender and visual culture.
Doris is also an independent curator and has curated a number of exhibitions on the works of Chinese-Canadian women artists, new art of the Asian diaspora in Canada, and experimental calligraphy. She earned her PhD in Humanities and an MFA in visual arts from York University.
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2019-04-20T12:46:46Z
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https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/people/sung-doris/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.989155 |
microsoft
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Releases the specified I/O completion object.
The I/O completion object is freed immediately if there are no outstanding callbacks; otherwise, the I/O completion object is freed asynchronously after the outstanding callbacks complete.
You should close the associated file handle and wait for all outstanding overlapped I/O operations to complete before calling this function—you must not cause any more overlapped I/O operations to occur after calling this function.
It may be necessary to cancel threadpool I/O notifications to prevent memory leaks. For more information, see CancelThreadpoolIo.
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2019-04-19T18:25:07Z
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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/threadpoolapiset/nf-threadpoolapiset-closethreadpoolio
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.34779 |
wichita
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Katti, S. J. & Namuduri K. R. (2005). Distributed video coding for wireless sensor networks. In Proceedings : 1st Annual Symposium : Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS : Wichita State University, p.85-86.
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2019-04-23T04:13:54Z
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https://soar.wichita.edu/handle/10057/489
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Arts
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Computers
| 0.391422 |
wordpress
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A luxurious modern home, featuring a lounge area, home office area, living area, combined kitchen/dining room, master bedroom with ensuite bathroom, a single bedroom and a downstairs bathroom. It also has a semi-detatched guest house with a double bedroom with ensuite bathroom and a small rec area. Outside there’s a pool, dining area, outdoor kitchen and a carport.
Let’s see, some more pics maybe?
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2019-04-18T22:37:06Z
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https://lotsoflinday.wordpress.com/the-sims-3/residential-lots/mocha-modern/
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Arts
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Home
| 0.930658 |
chicagotribune
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Empty classroom at Lincoln Park High School in August 2015.
When I was a little girl, I wanted to be only one thing when I grew up — a teacher. When my older brother, John, walked down the street to school, I would walk with him and "practice" going to school. I couldn't wait until it was my turn to go, so my mom would let me put on my backpack and we would walk down our street to John's school.
My dad was a teacher for 38 years. He taught adult education for the latter part of his career. He taught night classes, and sometimes I would get lucky and be able to go to work with him and hang out with his secretary. She would let me help out, and I would get to witness my dad changing lives as he helped numerous adults get their high school diplomas and GEDs.
Growing up in East Grand Rapids, Mich., I went to excellent public schools. I had art, music, library and P.E. I could choose from several foreign languages to take, and there were so many sports and extracurricular options that nearly every student's interest was represented somewhere in our school. We had nurses, counselors and social workers. Our teachers had 10 years or more of teaching experience. My own school experience not only prepared me for college but it also left a lasting impression and notion of what a school experience should look like.
I moved to Chicago in 2000 with one goal in mind, to teach, and with that I would change the world, just like my dad. I spent four years studying the science of teaching at DePaul University's College of Education. I finally began my career with Chicago Public Schools in 2004.
I am in love with my job. I love getting up in the morning and going to work. I love being at school. I love my students, past and present. I love my colleagues. I love having the amazing honor of being a teacher, my dream job since I was 3. That will never change.
What I do not love is the system that I work in, the lack of attention to our students, the fact that we have to fight for our students to have neighborhood schools. That we have to fight for our students to have basic necessities such as clean classrooms, and for our students to have social workers, nurses, counselors, art, music, library, P.E. and sports programs.
Chicago's students deserve the kind of schools that I was lucky enough to attend. A school district where public dollars first go toward schools and other necessary entities that help a city run, and then — when money is left over — it can be used for "extras" that a city might want. Where I grew up, our town's leadership knew that education had to come first, and our city's government had a deep understanding of putting needs before wants, unlike Chicago. Where I grew up there was an elected school board, and Chicago desperately needs to follow suit.
When I first started working in CPS, I was sad to see things that I hadn't expected. My classroom had asbestos in it, so I called my dad one day after school sobbing because it was beyond me that my students were spending five long days a week in a hazardous classroom. I remember the conversation like it was yesterday. I cried, "Dad, where is the student advocacy? Who do I call to make this better?" My dad calmly explained to me, "Erika, that's the union. The union advocates for students. Think about it, what is good for the teachers is good for the students."
If you're the parent of a Chicago public school student, you probably felt the earth shake a little Monday afternoon when the Chicago Teachers Union announced it had rejected a contract proposal that CTU leaders only last week had deemed a "serious offer."
I called the Chicago Teachers Union, and the next week the president of the mighty CTU was in my school. A CTU field representative was looking around our school and my classroom. While Marilyn Stewart, who was then CTU president, was there she mentioned that our school did not have a delegate and asked if any of us would be willing to take on the role. My hand shot up. I wanted to advocate for my students, despite that it was my first year teaching and I was not tenured. I took on the role, a role that I believe to this day is to advocate for our students. This was why I went into teaching.
I have been an active member and delegate of the CTU ever since. Our union advocates for our students, all of our students. From demanding proper placement for diverse learners to a compensation package that will attract and retain the strongest teachers.
I want to teach and I want to change lives, like my dad did. I want the students of Chicago to have the same world-class education that I had — or better.
Erika Wozniak is a fifth-grade teacher at Chicago's Oriole Park School.
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2019-04-23T05:55:35Z
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-teacher-cps-ctu-schools-students-perspec-0204-20160203-story.html
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Arts
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Sports
| 0.663718 |
wordpress
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The purpose of a road is to connect one thing with another, and to enable travellers to traverse the landscape with greater ease. Yet, what happens when the land seems too great for the road? and when the road seems endless, connecting the traveller to nothing? What becomes of a journey once it appears to have no destination?
Is this not TanZo? Is this not the Way?
Through remote cantons, on humble beasts, a great lord for a guide, the travellers must follow the road, and endure the land – because there is no other road, and there is no other land.
It is said, among the SurGaKu: “For us, all things, eventually, turn into stories | and only by following the story | do we ever come to know of things”.
The SurGaKu teach: “And all stories, of course, come from the past; and to the past, of course, most stories return”.
And some among the SurGaKu add: “The past is a lost place. Do not go there”.
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2019-04-25T22:18:06Z
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https://exiledlords.wordpress.com/2013/06/16/announcement-of-an-event-already-over/
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Arts
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Reference
| 0.658044 |
chron
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WWE flagship series “Raw” is supposed to air from 8-11 p.m. ET Mondays on USA Network, but anyone who has ever tried to set their DVR for it will tell you the wrestling show usually runs long. Not anymore.
Going forward, “Raw” will cut off at 11 o’clock sharp, a WWE spokesman tells TheWrap. That hard out starts on Monday.
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2019-04-24T15:52:14Z
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https://www.chron.com/entertainment/the-wrap/article/WWE-Raw-Won-t-Run-Long-on-USA-Network-13375666.php
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Arts
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Sports
| 0.903405 |
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