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Lowell, a Massachusetts mill town whose minorities nearly makeup a majority of its residents, has a history of all-white governing bodies. But in a citywide election this week, driven by a debate over the high school’s fate, voters elected two Cambodian-Americans, putting one on the City Council and the other on the School Committee.
The two victories in the city, which has the second-largest Cambodian-American community in the U.S. after Long Beach, California, came as voters nationwide elected a diverse group of candidates that included refugees, immigrants and members of the LGBT community, as well as racial and ethnic minorities.
The electoral wins also came during a time of rising xenophobia and white supremacy in the country.
In Lowell, residents also made history Tuesday by electing the first minority to the School Committee, as the school board is called. Cambodian-American Dominik Hok Lay came in fourth in the vote for six open seats.
Vesna Nuon, a Cambodian-born candidate, garnered the most votes — 6,518 out of 90,756 — cast for the nine open Lowell City Council seats. Nuon previously served on the council for one term, 2011-2012.
“I think it is a historical day in the city,” said Rodney Elliott, an incumbent who was re-elected. He credited his victory, in part, to allies in the Cambodian community. “We have a Cambodian city councilor and we have a Cambodian School Committee person. It is good for the city.
“I think it is a strong message that we are one city, and that we are starting to come together and understand and work together,” Elliott said.
About 49.2 percent of Lowell’s population, which totals a little more than 110,000, form the minority bloc, of which Asian-Americans are the largest group. Since 1999, only four minority candidates have been elected to the City Council.
Tuesday’s success is important for the city’s almost majority.
In May, several minority citizens filed a lawsuit alleging the city’s at-large, or “winner-take-all,” voting system dilutes the minority vote and discriminates against candidates from minority communities.
On Oct. 17, at the first public hearing on Huot v. City of Lowell in U.S. District Court, Judge William Young denied the city’s motion to dismiss. This means Lowell may find itself headed to trial against some of its minority residents, unless the council decides to opt for a change from within.
Nuon, 50, came to the U.S. in 1982 as a Cambodian refugee. He said the victory is for Lowell residents, especially the Cambodian community, who he says have trusted in his leadership vision in the city.
Although this was an election when minorities were expected to obtain representation on the two city panels, the future of Lowell High School, whether to build a new school in a new location or renovate the current downtown school, emerged as the largest issue that drew voters to the polls.
The high school issue was pervasive in all races. Of the 18 City Council candidates, 10 supported the estimated $350 million renovation, while eight wanted to spend an estimated $334 million to build a new school nearer to the outlying playing fields.
In June, the City Council voted 5-4 to relocate the high school to Cawley Stadium in Belvidere, a predominantly white and well-to-do enclave. Sixty percent of those who voted in the election Tuesday, which included a measure on the high school, came from Belvidere, according to an analysis in the local newspaper the Lowell Sun.
Sokhary Chau, a Cambodian-born American candidate, lost his bid for the City Council.
A first-time candidate who favored relocating the high school, Chau said he was disappointed with the results, saying the election was dominated by Belvidere voters, although he was proud of the two Cambodian winners, Nuon and Lay.
Another incumbent who was re-elected on Tuesday agrees.
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2019-04-20T20:01:15Z
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https://www.voanews.com/a/lowell-massachusetts-town-puts-cambodian-americans-in-office/4110726.html
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Arts
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Society
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dailytarheel
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"She has strong composition and technical skills. Aesthetically, I think there's a lot of visual depth to her photographs."
A look into the past, present and future of Durham.
"People come to downtown and experience fun, they bring their kids, their dogs, and I just love bringing the community together," Mayor Pam Hemminger said.
Collecting sneakers is a is more than just a hobby for sneaker heads, it's a lifestyle that leads way to self-expression.
UNC professors use their passions to advocate for social justice, build diverse theater communities and tell stories of underrepresented groups.
You may know, or even live, in Horton Residence Hall. But the story behind the name is one that celebrates the power of words.
"We like to describe ourselves as like group of friends that just kind of gives tips to each other and to other people on how to bring art into a storytelling form."
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2019-04-24T02:39:18Z
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https://www.dailytarheel.com/staff/jerome-simpson
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Arts
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Arts
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dallasobserver
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When new Dallas police Chief U. Renee Hall took over in September, she promised to look at the department from top to bottom. Last month, she announced plans to overhaul the Dallas Police Department's command staff, drastically reducing the number of deputy and assistant chiefs serving under her.
On Thursday, Hall's evaluation took another turn as she announced during a planned review and overhaul of DPD's vice unit that she was reassigning 20 cops. Hall's says her decision to reassign the officers stems from "irregularities" she found in the unit during her examination of the department.
"Right now, we found that there are some inconsistencies relative to procedure, protocol and our policies," Hall said at DPD headquarters Thursday afternoon. "We need to take a look at that to make sure we are operating at the highest level of integrity."
New Dallas Police Chief Calls in Outsiders. Very Detroit. Not Very Dallas.
Hall refused to provide specifics about the inconsistencies and irregularities to which she was referring but told reporters she is bringing in an outside company to take a look at how the unit, which tackles crimes such as prostitution and illegal gambling, has been operating. A group made up of members of the International Association of Chiefs of Police called No Limit Investigative and Security Service will handle the investigation.
During the investigation into the vice unit, the reassigned officers will be moved to areas Hall deems to be critical, including domestic violence and robbery investigations. Crimes that would otherwise be tackled by vice will handled by other units within the department, including individual substations and DPD's narcotics unit.
The chief said she did not know whether the investigation would uncover any criminal activity or lead to any charges being filed.
"It's too early for me to make any assumptions," she said. "It's not fair to the officers to make any predictions. We're not in the business of operating in predictions. We're about facts. Right now, I don't have that."
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2019-04-21T12:59:00Z
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https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-police-chief-breaks-up-vice-unit-10056566
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Arts
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News
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asu
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Monitoring frost in Corozal Crater. Corozal Crater has both active gullies and recurring slope lineae. We are monitoring the evolution of seasonal frost, which is the likely trigger for gully activity. Never mind the hulking shadow at the left.
This entry was posted in Reports and tagged Beautiful Mars, Corozal Crater, frost, gullies, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, recurring slope lineae, RSL, University of Arizona. Bookmark the permalink.
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2019-04-23T22:24:49Z
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http://redplanet.asu.edu/?p=31289
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Arts
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Science
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who
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Transmission thresholds and pupal/demographic surveys in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for developing a dengue control strategy based on targeting epidemiology significant types of water-holding containers.
All water-holding containers (ca. 3000) associated with approximately 320 residences in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, were examined for the presence of Aedes aegypti (L.), Aedes albopictus Skuse, and Culex quinquefasciatus Say pupae in four replicate surveys conducted during two dry seasons (1996 and 1998) and two wet seasons (1997 and 1999). Less than 6% of these receptacles had pupae. Ae. aegypti pupae collected were ten times more than Ae. albopictus (ca. 1600 vs. 160 respectively); Cx. quinquefasciatus was rarely encountered. From a dengue perspective, the epidemiological significance of a particular type of container is a function of the number of Ae. aegypti pupae per person – calculated simply as the ratio of total number of Ae. aegypti pupae recovered in that type and the number of residents, ca. 2800. Overall, there was an average of 0.57 Ae. aegypti pupae per person. Assuming an overall herd immunity of 33% and an average temperature of 29 °C, we estimate the transmission threshold in Yogyakarta to be approximately 0.43 Ae. aegypti pupae per person. By eliminating mosquito production in two common household containers – wells and used tyres the number of Ae. aegypti pupae would be reduced from 0.57 to 0.29 per person, below our estimate of the transmission threshold. An assessment of the effectiveness of this strategy is currently being conducted in a multi-year study in Yogyakarta using an insect growth regulator (IGR) for mosquito control.
Dengue Bulletin. 2007 Dec; 31: 83-102.
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2019-04-24T22:51:19Z
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https://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/170451
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Arts
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Science
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ox
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This article is about “marriage talk” and the forms of imagination and aspiration that it entails. It draws on discussions and debates about ideal husbands among young Somali Muslim women in Britain who, in recent years, have begun practicing Islam. Through these debates, these women draw on various different discourses, values, norms, and ideals to rethink and reimagine themselves in relation to multiple others, including kin, friends, and God. Marriage, I argue, is a site of aspiration, as it engages the ethical imagination—the means and modes by which individuals reimagine relations to self and others (Moore 2011). By reflecting on, discussing, and imagining a future spouse, these young women draw on different forms of knowledge in relation to enlarged visions of self and other. I demonstrate that analyses of the complexly constituted Muslim subject need to pay attention not only to the coexistence of multiple moral registers or rubrics, but also to how these connect to the ways in which individuals imagine new ways of being. The article brings to the fore the importance of intersubjectivity and shines light on the processes of imagining and aspiring, which are crucial for understanding the complex lives of young women who turn to practice Islam.
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2019-04-25T12:27:40Z
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https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/2016/imagining-an-ideal-husband-marriage-as-a-site-of-aspiration-among-somali-pious-women-in-london/
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Arts
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indiatimes
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SHANGHAI: China issued proposed new guidelines on Tuesday aimed at tightening rules and standardising criteria for granting car loans, in a move to address concerns over the risk of borrowers defaulting.
Car loans have soared in recent years partly as a result of financing deals offered by automakers to boost sales. Nearly 30 percent of purchases were made on credit last year, up from 20 percent in 2013 , according to analysts from Sanford C. Bernstein and Deloitte.
The People's Bank of China issued the revised guidelines on its website and sought feedback from the public by January 27.
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2019-04-25T00:30:20Z
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https://auto.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/auto-finance/chinas-central-bank-proposes-tighter-rules-for-car-loans/56198658
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jesusfreakhideout
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Ever since re-branding himself, Andy Mineo is solidifying himself in the rap game as one of the best. With 2013's stellar Heroes For Sale and 2014's crave-filling Never Land, fans of hip hop are stoked to hear what one of CHH's uniquely flavored rappers is going to bring this time in Uncomfortable.
First up is the album's title track with a purpose of making listeners squirm in their seats while speaking on some of the harder pills to swallow in this world. That same theme will occur more than a few times throughout "Uncomfortable" as it fills listeners' heads with hot beats and solid rapping from Andy. The next two tracks, "Uptown" and "Now I Know," are good listens that carry a nice old-school hip hop flavor. "Desperados," featuring Mali Music, comes next and is simply banging; this is one of those tracks that I can imagine blasting in house parties for a long time to come. Up next is "Hear My Heart," a song Andy wrote to his deaf sister, Grace. It's a heartfelt track where he raps, "I'm sorry I never learned to sign and even though you were born deaf, I pray you forgive me for the years I was blind." It's one of those tracks that gives you goosebumps and exemplifies those times that we can fully appreciate the openness and raw honesty of such musicians.
Later on, Andy speaks on the depths (or lack thereof) of relationships in "Ghost," while "Vendetta" not only infuses a jazz club production, but on this one, he spits hard to each us needing to be the change in this world if we really want it to. He spits, "I gotta answer to God, for all of these sneaks. I got a hundred pairs, but only two feet" and "the real problem in America is, and always will be me," speaking on behalf of many of us. Tracks like "Rat Race" and "Know That's Right" are solid, and the album's conclusion, "Make Me A Believer" (featuring Mac Powell from Third Day), delivers a unique and triumphant ending that I can't help but enjoy thoroughly.
Overall, Uncomfortable is a good release and Mineo hits home on some serious thoughts for rap fans to consider. He may have set the bar so high in the past that this may feel like a small letdown, but it's honestly good stuff. Not every track is perfect, and I definitely miss having some of Andy's Reach labelmates on this project, but this is definitely worth picking up and playing for a while to come.
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2019-04-18T15:34:51Z
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https://jesusfreakhideout.com/cdreviews/Uncomfortable.asp
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cdbaby
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The latest dose of feelgood music from the purveyors of Desert Rock. An electic mix of rock, pop, folk and blues influenced tunes, laced with the underlying humour, witty and inventive, from the band's home deep in southern Africa's Namib desert.
Formed in 1994 as a garage band by a group of “more mature rockers” in the far-flung south-western corner of the Namib desert in Namibia, where the town of Oranjemund is located, the group has achieved a number of successes including regular airplay, appearing on television in Europe and Namibia and winning various rock band contests.
This is their fourth album release, the last three releases being exclusively comprised of original material written by the band’s members. Their style and influences ebb and flow between those of classic rock, the pop, folk, blues and rock genres of the 60’s and 70’s. Clever lyrics interwoven with a steady stream of humour, often cleverly understated, is a hallmark of their songs.
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2019-04-21T23:26:58Z
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https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/bedrock2
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Arts
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Arts
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architectsjournal
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The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Excellence in the Built Environment has published a 13-point action plan to influence government policy on public building procurement.
Government construction czar Paul Morrell and former RIBA president Jack Pringle were both members of the report’s commission.
It claimed a ‘cultural shift’ was needed by public sector clients and called on the government to commit ‘support and resources’ to achieve a ‘lasting and sustainable behavioural improvement’ concerning procurement.
Other recommendations included allowing more time to develop project briefs and mandatory post occupation evaluations for all projects worth more than £5 million.
He added: ‘The uptake of various studies and recommendations over the years has been limited and we’re yet to consistently deliver outstanding projects that fulfil their purpose, at the right price.
Welcoming the report, RIBA president Angela Brady said: ‘The APPG’s report is a very welcome contribution to the on-going debate on public procurement. For too long, the culture of public procurement has been to prioritise short-term costs ahead of the long-term social, economic and environmental value that results from high quality, intelligently designed public buildings. We are pleased therefore, at the emphasis placed in the Group’s report on a “balanced scorecard”, ensuring that the design quality of buildings is a key consideration from the outset of a project.
‘The Group rightly highlights the enormous success of the procurement on the Olympic Park. The Olympics were proof of what can be achieved when clients have a clear vision andprioritisegood design. It also underlines how a competitive tender process, driven through design competitions, can often encourage innovation and sustainable design solutions, whilst also encouraging access for smaller firms.
More time and resource must be given to the development of a project brief (with clients asking themselves, why do we need this building or infrastructure, what do we need and what is the best way of ensuring we get what we need). Clients must also ensure they allocate sufficient resource to the overall project management by themselves or a management partner, to reduce risk and create a successful outcome.
BSI has introduced a new British Standard BS 8534 - Construction Procurement Policies, Strategies and Procedures, which provides excellent guidance which public bodies would do well to follow.
The Government, through the Chief Construction Adviser, should set up a Best Practice Procurement Advisory Group to assist inexperienced public sector clients (including government departments, agencies, non-departmental public bodies and local government) to define their objectives clearly and adopt appropriate procurement arrangements for the size and type of project. Infrequent clients would also benefit from appointing a professional adviser to develop the brief as we move to outcome based specification.
Projects must be procured on the basis of integrated teams (designers, contractors and, if appropriate, asset managers) with the ability of teams to work together as one of the selection criteria within a balanced scorecard.
At the same time, a dialogue between clients and the design team in contractor-led procurement is to be encouraged while designs are being developed. Clients must also ensure that they and their project management team (if they have one) meet the nominated individuals of their lead consultants and contractors and have the ability to accept/reject on the basis of culture/fit.
Selection of an integrated team must not be made on the basis of lowest price but, like the construction of the venues for London 2012, on the basis of a balanced scorecard; that is, marking the bid against specified criteria, of which sustainability should be one.
Large-scale public projects (e.g. more than £100m in value) should have mandatory construction commitments, based on the 2012 Construction Commitments, on which they would be required to report over the duration of the project. At the same time, Government should encourage voluntary adoption of such construction commitments across a wide range of public and private sector projects with a programme of promotional activity, including awards, to highlight and celebrate success. Key indicators could include: client leadership, sustainability, team integration, design quality, health and safety, and commitment to people, which includes a commitment to employing local people and excellent facilities.
Buildings and infrastructure should be procured on the basis of both capital and operating costs.
Public sector clients need better guidance to help prevent them from over-interpreting EU procurement rules, which can create barriers to entry and create a tick-box mentality. Clients should also drive out waste in the pre-qualification stage by avoiding disproportionate demands on the bidders. For example, unlimited liability clauses should be expunged.
Prequalification questionnaires should be sensible in their scope and not exclude small and medium-sized enterprises from appropriate work.
We wholly endorse that the use of Building Information Modelling should be regarded as best practice and mandatory from 2016 across all public projects, and would urge the Government and private sector to put the necessary resources into enabling this capability to be achieved.
Post occupancy evaluation should be mandatory on all public sector projects above a minimum value threshold (e.g. £5m), with a focus on assessing performance against design expectations. This will help determine good and bad design practice and help inform design decisions going forward. Poor commissioning often leads to performance issues and one way of improving this is to have a phased handover of the building, using a protocol called Soft Landings.
The Government’s Chief Construction Adviser should be required to prepare an annual report on the performance of public sector clients (including Government departments, agencies, non-departmental public body and local authorities) in construction procurement. This should highlight positive achievements in successful projects, as well as failure to deliver value. The report should be a public document, and should provide the basis for follow-up examinations of public sector clients, which have consistently failed to deliver value for money or failed to improve their performance when benchmarked against other comparable organisations.
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2019-04-20T04:15:16Z
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https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/home/mps-champion-design-quality-in-damning-procurement-report/8635963.article
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Arts
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Games
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wordpress
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There’s only 16 days until I’ll be cheering on the US in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
If you’re like me then you may not know that much about all the events during the Winter Games. Of course I like figure skating – Women’s the best.
So, allow me to teach you … Top Ten Tuesday Style!!
1. Biathalon – combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Really. I’m sure there’s a story behind that but that just sounds strange!!
2. Bobsleigh – Just watch Cool Runnings for a history lesson in this. I totally loved that movie growing up!!
4. Curling – consists of two teams pushing 19.1 kilogram stones towards a series of concentric rings or circles on ice. Pushing stones? That seems rather Flintstones-ish to me, but it began 500 years ago so I guess it was!
5. Luge – Racing on an open, fiberglass sleds luge racers lay on their back & steer using their legs & shoulders. They brake by sitting up and all events are timed to the thousandth of a second. That means they’re going really, really fast!!
6. Nordic Combined – This sport combines a ski jumping portion followed by a free-technique cross-country race. Using pack-racing strategies, the athletes cluster into “trains” that chase down other athlete trains! That just sounds like a game my 4-year-old would make up!!
7. Short Track – Speed skating with tight corners that make it difficult to maintain control. Otherwise, skate at your own risk because the person next to you might very well take you out!
8. Skeleton – I’m sorry, but I don’t want any part of an event with a name like that!!
9. Ski Jumping – Athletes ski down a long ramp and launch into air at speeds up to 95 kilometers per hour. Or 59 miles per hour … through the air. Flying. Off a ramp!!
10. Figure Skating – Awe it sounds so peaceful & beautiful to watch … doesn’t it?!! I know it’s probably just as dangerous as the others, but it definitely sounds prettier!
So there’s the info at a glance. You’re officially ready for the 2010 Olympic Games … Go USA!!
Winter Olympics is linked to Top Ten Tuesday at ohAmanda.
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2019-04-23T21:15:36Z
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https://mlbh.wordpress.com/tag/short-track/
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Arts
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Sports
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microsoft
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Welcome to Microsoft Community and thank you for posting your query. Your interest in Windows 10 is much appreciated.
This issue might be due to corrupted or missing System files.
I suggest you to perform the below troubleshooting steps and check.
Right click on the Start button, click on Command Prompt (Admin).
3. To close the Administrator: Command Prompt window, type Exit, and then press Enter.
Method 3: Check if you are able to access the system tray icon using different user account.
Hope this information is helpful. Perform the above troubleshooting steps and kindly update the status of the issue, we will be happy to help you.
This is exactly what the Windows 10 Th2 upgrade has done to my PC. I (used to) have RST service, with that tray icon. According to my preliminary investigation Windows has removed the RST files, but left the registry entries for it. My guess is the package folder is gone. The tray icon folder is not on disk anymore either, though still mentioned in the registry. Windows has also replaced the drivers that came with RST with some ancient drivers from 2006. Essentially, everything is messed up. RST requires that the RST service, the drivers are all the same versions. You cannot overinstall or repair using another version, you cannot run mismatched versions.
1) First a word of caution: only use the RST version that was installed on your PC and was working before the upgrade(Don't install the latest and greatest drivers/RST software, it will create a mess and make your PC unbootable).
2) Do a full disk image of your entire PC. (Command line works for Windows 7,8 and 10. http://www.howtogeek.com/167984/how-to-create-and-restore-system-image-backups-on-windows-8.1/) In case you make your PC unbootable you can always go back.
3) Check Intel Chipset SATA Raid Controller or Intel-"A bunch of old controller names"-Controller in Storage Controllers in Device Manager-- It's been probably downgraded. This is not the version you want to use. We will update those drivers.
4) Get the RST installer ("SetupRST.exe"), you may already have it in your downloads folder if you're lucky or you can get it off Intel's website.--- Just make sure its version matches the RST software you used to have.
5) Unzip the SetupRST.exe, then unzip the MSI files until you find the "iaStore**.inf" file. Make sure you use the 64bit MSI if your PC is 64bit, and 32 if it's a 32bit PC. Use 7Zip to unzip-- Other unzippers may not do a proper job.
-Open the Windows command promt as “Run as Administrator”.
-Run “bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS” (without the “”).
-To finalize the process run “bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON” (without the “”).
-Reboot and repeat Step 6 again, and reboot.
Update: ...OK, I think I've done it.
9) Open regedit as Administrator. Search for "Rapid Storage Technology".
You should find the key for RST product in the installer folder. It will look something like this.
There are 3 places where you can change the path.
10) Run SetupRST.exe. and choose "repair". It should repair the installation and your RST service should start right away and ask for a reboot.
11) You will get a blue screen with a driver IRLQ not equal error... and your PC will reboot itself again and boot into Windows 10 on the second try.
Your RST service and the tray icon will now work.
I'm going to back up this System to another drive and see if I can disable the driver signing without ruining the system. What a hack, huh!
Update: Yes, it seems like turning off the test mode and integrity checks is safe.
Tip: If you don't know your version you can look at the remnants of the RST product in the registry.
Look at the "Version"(look at step 9) key. In my case, the key value 0x0e050000 (e-5-0 in hex) means 14-5-0. My version was 14.5.0.1081. I don't know why the build number isn't there... Better than nothing.
Follow-up: So, now you've got your RST up and running and everything is working as it should(i hope). However, since we have modified the registry to point to OUR extracted package, located in the "Downloads" folder, the repair isn't exactly clean. If you delete those files you'll be back to square one if you want to uninstall or reinstall RST. To finalize our repairs you need to uninstall RST again. Go to "Add/Remove Programs" aka "Programs and Features" in Win 10 and uninstall "Intel Rapid Store Technology"(It will/should keep the actual drivers, just install the RST service). It will ask you for a reboot, and while rebooting you may see another blue screen (Interrupt_not_handled)-- not sure if it's related to our exercise, since it gives no additional helpful information of any sort. Fortunately, the system self-reboots, and loads windows on the second try. Mind you, it will take a long time to boot and there will be a lot of hard drive churning going on. But, once you're in windows, simply install RST again and reboot, and the install packages will be in their right places and the registry entries you had made will be pointing to them instead.
The RST Service and Tray Icon is missing on my set-up after the W10 Th2 upgrade but the storage controller device drivers are still the Intel 12.9.0.1001 I had installed so I'm assuming I can run the 12.9.0.1001 installer again to get my services and tray icon back? Essentially just reinstalling the Intel Rapid Storage Technology software. What do you think?
My registry is also pointing to the correct installer package location so I guess in my case it is just the Intel RST software and service that has been uninstalled.
Does the install package still exist there? If yes, I think you should be good to go-- just run the installer(double click the RST entry in Add/Remove Programs) and choose "repair". In my case, I had the left-over registry, a downgraded driver, and no install package to uninstall/repair from.
But I would do a system image first, just to be on the safe side :).
I just see the name of the responding rep. and I know the answer must be meaningless.
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2019-04-23T20:50:31Z
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https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-other_settings/problem-with-my-intel-rapid-storage-technology/ffa252eb-51dd-433b-b248-83034c8424c0
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Arts
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Computers
| 0.762805 |
aja
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Ki Pro GO is a portable multi-channel H.264 recorder and player offering up to 4-channels of simultaneous HD and SD recording to off the shelf USB drives with redundant recording capabilities.
Designed to be either portable or rackmountable with half rack wide, 2RU high dimensions, Ki Pro GO is well suited for use in any environment.
Record 1, 2, 3 or 4-channels of HD or SD up to 1080p 50/60 in H.264 simultaneously with Ki Pro Ultra GO.
Simplify your setup by connecting up to four HDMI and four 3G-SDI source cables into Ki Pro GO and assign any combination of four inputs at a time for four channels of H.264 recording to the four USB slots on the front of Ki Pro GO.
Time is always tight, especially for live events. Ki Pro GO's Genlock free inputs make it is easy to switch your sources including SDI cameras, DSLRs, or HDMI cameras to the appropriate recording channel, all conveniently mapped within Ki Pro GO's elegant UI.
Pick your Quality. Deliver your Bit Rate.
Low: Suitable for talking heads, conference backups, security backups and more.
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Ki Pro GO offers .MP4 and .MOV for your codec container, providing convenient flexibility for your workflow path.
Ki Pro GO offers a large matrix of possibilities for redundant recording needs.
Ki Pro GO further allows any combination of recording channels to be sent directly to a particular port of choice. The workflows below provide some examples of just some of the possibilities possible with Ki Pro GO's focus on a key concept of ‘pass out’ or ‘pass around’ or ‘handout’ media. Hit stop on your recordings and the show is ready to give to your clients right there and then.
Connect four cameras directly to Ki Pro GO and capture the recording channels discretely to USB sticks in each of the four front of unit USB slots as well as a combination of all four recording channels to a single USB drive connected to the fifth USB port on the rear of the unit.
Connect three cameras directly to a vision mixer and then run the camera ISO feeds as well as the Line Cut/Program Feed from the vision mixer to Ki Pro GO. Capture all four of the recording channels directly to USB sticks in each of the four front of unit USB slots, as well as a combination of all four recording channels to a single USB drive connected to the fifth USB port on the rear of the unit.
For the best of all worlds for multi-camera shoots, connect four cameras directly to Ki Pro Ultra Plus for high quality Apple ProRes capture to AJA Pak Media. Continue the path from Ki Pro Ultra Plus' four 3G-SDI outputs directly to a Ki Pro GO for H.264 Primary and Backup recording. Multiple recordings, discrete camera capture to ProRes and H.264, with redundancy, all in real time.
Multi-camera shoots requiring proxy workflows from Ki Pro Ultra Plus Apple ProRes recordings can benefit from multi-channel capture and redundant recordings of H.264 files on Ki Pro GO at different compression settings, providing redundancy and small file sizes for proxy editing and postproduction.
The video and audio connections on the rear panel of the Ki Pro Ultra GO offers 4x 3G-SDI and 4x HDMI inputs with separate SDI and HDMI monitoring which includes Matrix Monitoring for multi-channel viewing on a single HD display. XLR Analog Audio in offers Mic, Line and Phantom Power for audio recording from master sources, mixers and more. HDMI and SDI 2-channel embedded audio or the XLR analog inputs can be easily assigned to each recording channel.
Four USB ports on the front provide easy to access recording media using off the shelf USB drives, with a fifth USB port on the rear. Each USB can be configured for redundant recording of all channels simultaneously, either for backup or pass on of a secondary copy of captured files to postproduction, clients, or others on your team. Additionally, any combination of recording channels can be assigned to any individual USB port for maximum flexibility.
Four 3G-SDI outputs ensure that signal pass through is available for connectivity into a wide range of devices from routers, to switchers, additional Ki Pros and more.
Redundant power supplies ensure that always up reliability is provided for your critical live event needs.
Multi-Channel recording with Ki Pro Ultra GO provides individual, discrete recordings for each input that are timecode accurate and ready to be imported directly into a multi-channel editing sequence.
No additional conversion or software is required, just drag and drop the files directly from the USB drive into your edit software of choice.
Clip names for Ki Pro GO are laid out in a logical manner for easy data management and tuned for multi-channel editing.
Ki Pro GO automatically appends channel and backup naming for easy data management."
HD HDMI and/or SDI monitors can be fed from Ki Pro GO's SDI and HDMI monitoring ports to display up to four channels of video in a matrix at a time per display or alternatively you can choose to send a full screen single channel of your choice to either output, allowing both matrix viewing and close up detail inspection for a channel of your choice.
This flexibility ensures multi-camera shoots can be monitored on a single monitor when desired, with no matrix converter or independent monitors required for the utmost in efficiency and convenience.
Ki Pro GO provides convenient recording to cost effective, off the shelf USB media with FAT file systems support for cross platform use when transferring files to workstations, servers and more.
Ki Pro GO features a beautiful high resolution large HD display with Video Monitor and Menu/Status Overlays for pristine monitoring of your material and serves as your interface to Ki Pro GO's familiar and intuitive menu system. The detailed overlay UI includes onscreen keyboard functionality and a clear view of the powerful yet simple to operate UI, all pristinely presented on the HD LCD display.
Just like a traditional tape deck, Ki Pro GO features straightforward and dedicated transport buttons - record, play, stop, rewind, fast forward - making the device easy to operate with minimal training time.
For the ultimate in professional Multi-Channel recording, combine your new Ki Pro GO with Ki Pro Ultra Plus and capture multiple streams, up to four per device, of Apple ProRes and H.264 in any combination that suits your needs, in only 2RU of rack space.
Ki Pro GO and Ki Pro Ultra Plus offer half rack width and 2RU height for convenient pairings in fly packs, equipment racks, OB trucks, and facility environments.
Each Ki Pro GO recording channel can capture 2-channels of embedded audio from 3G-SDI or HDMI inputs, or 2-channel Analog Audio from the XLR ports on the rear of the unit.
Each XLR port provides a selection of Line, Mic, or +48V Phantom Power for level control and each recording channel offers the choice of Follow Video or Analog Audio.
This flexibility enables the capture of audio coming straight from the source input or the capture and insertion of audio from an audio mixer or microphone as desired.
In a truck or a machine room, Ki Pro GO is equipped for advanced remote control and configuration. With a standard Ethernet LAN connection to a host computer and any web browser on any OS, all Ki Pro GO parameter settings, clip selection, and transport controls can be controlled; no additional or special software installation is required on the host computer.
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2019-04-22T04:37:33Z
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https://www.aja.com/products/ki-pro-go
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JoVE makes and publishes videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe.
The University Library has provided access to the portal Until 4 March 2019.
You have full access to over 8,800 scientific video articles and 600 educational videos.
JoVE helps increase STEM research productivity and student learning by allowing scientists, educators and students to see the intricate details of cutting-edge experiments rather than read them in text articles.
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2019-04-21T16:05:02Z
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https://www.psychol.cam.ac.uk/news/enjoy-jove-video-journal-collection
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Can college sports ban social media?
Any baseball fan is familiar with MLB's frequent reminders not to rebroadcast a game without "the express written consent of Major League Baseball." But did you ever consider that your Facebook, Twitter or blog posts could be targeted by overzealous media regulations?
Can the SEC prohibit fans from sharing pictures similar to this iPhone shot of a Braves game I posted to my Facebook profile? Should they even bother trying?
According to current policy, Southeastern Conference (SEC) fans cannot "produce or disseminate (or aid in producing or disseminating) any material or information about the event, including, but not limited to, any account, description, picture, video, audio, reproduction or other information."
Adam Ostrow, of Mashable.com, translates that to mean "no Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, TwitPic, or any other service that could in any way compete with authorized media coverage of the event."
The SEC media-credential policy also states that violations may result in "ejection from the Event and prosecution for criminal trespass."
Conference spokesman Charles Bloom told the Charlotte Observer there are plans to loosen the restrictions, but the current policy forbids tweeting from the stands.
While speaking with CNN, Attorney Evan Brown questioned the legality of the SEC policy. Brown equates a ban on social media in state-sponsored schools to a violation of the First Amendment and a form of prior restraint.
Media-coverage rights to sporting events have always been expensive and, consequently, heavily policed (this year the U.S. Open banned all cameras and phones) but can social media possibly be restrained?
Could social media ever compete with authorized media coverage in a way that would threaten profits and rationalize SEC's media policy?
Bloggers Adam Ostrow, Evan Brown and Steve Raquel discussed the SEC policy today on CNN.com Live (Watch Video).
This afternoon the SEC released a revised version of its media policy (pdf). The revision provides exemptions for noncommercial updates and personal messages.
No Bearer may produce or disseminate in any form a “real-time” description or transmission of the Event (i) for commercial or business use, or (ii) in any manner that constitutes, or is intended to provide or is promoted or marketed as, a substitute for radio, television or video coverage of such Event. Personal messages and updates of scores or other brief descriptions of the competition throughout the Event are acceptable.
As a direct challenge to Google Apps, Microsoft is rolling out lightweight, FREE, Web-browser versions of Word, PowerPoint, Excel and OneNote. All based in the cloud, the web-based versions of these products have less features than their desktop cousins but still give users basic tools to edit and change documents.
According to Microsoft, the focus of this update was on three things: to make work flows more efficient; to effectively use Web applications to make your work available anywhere; and to make collaboration with others much easier.
Mashable has a good post on location-based phone services. A new survey says the number of people using location-based services will double to 5.7 million this year. The rise in GPS-enabled smartphones - those that know where you are and act like mini-computers - accounts for much of the increase.
Apps are responding in kind. Zhiing is a new mobile app for sending friends your location as quickly as possible, Yowza sends you coupons based on what stores are nearby, and Google Latitude helps map out where you and all of your friends are. This type of information helps get the most relevant information to you as quickly as possible. Weather forecasts, nearby friends, and local train schedules are automatic.
The Obama Administration in May proposed slashing funding for Enhancing Education Through Technology (EETT), one of the main government sources of technology for public schools, to $100 million in 2010, a 63% decline from this year's $269 million.
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2019-04-23T00:02:17Z
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http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/category/schools/
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Remove `--force' from keys.new-keeper; introduce explicit delete command.
+Delete the keeper set named KEEPER.
+checkword "keeper set label" "$keeper"
+ echo >&2 "$quis: unknown keeper set \`$keeper'"
+ echo >&2 "$quis: deleting keeper \`$keeper' would orphan recovery keys:"
@@ -54,22 +53,14 @@ checkword "profile label" "$profile"
- echo >&2 "$quis: keeper set \`$keeper' already exists"
- echo >&2 "$quis: destination \`$keeper' already exists"
+ echo >&2 "$quis: keeper set \`$keeper' already exists"
+ echo >&2 "$quis: destination \`$keeper' already exists"
## Generate the private keys, one per file, and compute the public keys.
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2019-04-26T03:12:50Z
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http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~mdw/git/distorted-keys/commitdiff/865fc4a1c4add30fbf1b6ab9569682d82e8da7c9
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Why do Canadian kids know more about Davy Crockett than Louis Riel?
Is Riel a Father of Confederation?
To pardon or not to pardon Louis Riel?
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2019-04-18T17:59:55Z
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https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1503883614
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Kids
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Victims of the recent calamity ignore the hot weather just to get their relief goods. A victim (lady in violet) smiles after receiving her pack of relief goods.
Captain Virgilio Cloma PCGA, the 109th Squadron Commander, looks on as his staff members pass the packs of relief goods to one another. The truck is now a quarter empty.
A little boy waits anxiously for his pack of relief goods. After a hard day's work, members of the 109th CGAS take a breather by sitting under a group of trees and drinking coffee.
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2019-04-19T21:18:00Z
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http://pcga109.tripod.com/relief2.htm
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Investigators want to know whether two children bitten on Wednesday in the waters off New York beaches were attacked by sharks.
The incidents took place in the waters off of Fire Island, a popular beach destination off Long Island.
A 12-year-old girl, Lola Pollina, was bitten in Sailors Haven beach at 11:15 a.m. while she was wading offshore, according to Elizabeth Rogers, a public affairs specialist for the Fire Island National Seashore.
Her injuries were not life-threatening and she was able to walk ashore with assistance. Suffolk County responders tended to her wounds and transported her to an area hospital for treatment.
Rogers said the bite marks seen on the victim's leg were consistent with a large fish. No shark sightings have been reported in the area and officials have yet to confirm that the bite came from a shark.
Speaking to reporters outside of Good Samaritan Hospital where she was transported, Lola said she's fine.
"I probably will go in the water again," she said, "but I'll be more careful."
Later, a 13-year-old boy was attacked while boogie boarding off Atlantique beach, according to Caroline Smith, spokeswoman for the Town of Islip.
He stumbled out of the water and was treated at a lifeguard tent for bites that appeared to be a series of small punctures. The boy was able to walk on and off a police boat and was taken to a hospital for treatment.
One puncture contained a tooth that was removed for testing to determine its origin. The boy's injuries were non-life-threatening.
"The Suffolk County Marine Bureau is awaiting identification of the tooth from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Marine Bureau," Rogers said in a statement, "and has not confirmed the incident as a shark bite."
The beaches operated by the Town of Islip and Fire Island National Seashore were closed for the rest of the day.
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2019-04-21T02:38:29Z
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https://www.kshb.com/news/national/2-children-bitten-in-suspected-shark-attacks-off-new-york-coast
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Sir Ken Robinson’s TED Talks have been watched by more people than any other speaker in the conference’s history. Online, his three talks combined have gotten over 21 million views, but Robinson estimates that when you include event presentations, his 2006 “Schools Kill Creativity” talk has been watched by over 300 million people. No wonder he’s referred to “the sneezing baby panda of the TED ecosystem” on their website.
The educator and author sat down with TIME to discuss his new book Finding Your Element, which encourages individuals to seek out their passion and make sure it’s part of everyday life.
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2019-04-23T06:16:56Z
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http://ideas.time.com/2013/05/30/ted-talk-legend-sir-ken-robinson-talks-to-time/
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Amazing Image of Fillable Glass Table Lamp is one of several design collections from 19 Photos Designs Plain Ideas fillable glass table lamp Vera Fillable Glass Table Lamp Amber Black Mango Fillable Glass which is one of the very popular designs of the year.Fillable Glass Table Lamp published on Friday, June 8, 2018 At 7: 28 pm.
We are have 19 beautiful pictures about Fillable Glass Table Lamp. We hope you enjoyed it and if you want to see the high pictures, simply just click the images and you will be redirected to extra large page of Fillable Glass Table Lamp.
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2019-04-25T10:14:29Z
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https://valleyhomegrown.com/6317/fillable-glass-table-lamp/
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« IKEA – Sustainability Report 2010 Just Released!
Model Citizens NYC is founded, produced by, and encourages exceptional independent, and emerging designers, big and small, practical and conceptual, to exhibit and market their furniture, products, ceramics, glass, art objects, and jewelry designs.
The goal is to foster a community representative of the many independent design voices who persevere remaining true to their distinctley individual curiosities, instincts, and design processes coming together to create the extraordinary.
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2019-04-19T22:10:57Z
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https://mexicanrockstars.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/model-citizens-nyc-2011/
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In January 2011, the Faculty of Design featured Rachel Wingfield as guest lecturer. I highly recommend watching it. Wingfield and her husband are researching the use textile properties in architecture. The stuff they make is not wearable but their work and the materials they use definitely inspire wearable technology.
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2019-04-21T06:23:14Z
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http://blog.ocad.ca/wordpress/gdes3b44-fw2010-01/2011/04/rachel-wingfield-smart-textiles-and-archilace/
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Subject: Re: Average Bond Fund Yield?
Personally I don't think the last 5 years of bond performance are quality benchmark.
It would be worth your time maybe do some legwork comparing some popular bond funds to appropriate indices over 5, 10 and 20 years and see what picture develops.
I have personal opinions but they are loaded and biased by my needs and personality quirks. The data is readily available it is best interpreted by you. Certainly bring questions or observations found back here so that we can explore them. I am willing to bet that your interpretation will not be too out to lunch even though some of us may disagree. There is strength in disagreement. Your opinion gets the rough edges knocked off as does mine, we are both better for it.
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2019-04-25T09:33:07Z
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https://boards.fool.com/martini-personally-i-dont-think-the-last-5-years-29358039.aspx
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A data storage library utilizes library-local features to regulate access to shared read/write drives among multiple hosts, and thereby avoid the need for arbitrating host software. The library includes multiple data storage media, multiple data storage media slots, multiple read/write drives, and a library controller. The slots are originally partitioned into multiple logical libraries. Normally, the library shares the read/write drives among all hosts. However, when a host submits a request to unload a cartridge from a read/write drive, the library only honors that request if the host has access rights to the logical library from where the cartridge was originally loaded. Similarly, for each slot, the controller prevents a requesting host from loading a cartridge from that storage slot unless the requesting host has access rights to the logical library that includes that storage slot.
The present invention relates to data storage libraries housing multiple tapes or other data storage cartridges. More particularly, the invention concerns a data storage library that utilizes library-local features to regulate access to shared read/write drives among multiple hosts, thereby avoiding arbitrating host software.
A small computer system interface (“SCSI”) medium changer is a data storage device including storage slots, drives, and input/output (I/O) slots. SCSI medium changers also include robotic mechanisms that move data cartridges among other SCSI medium changer components. One example of a SCSI medium changer device is an IBM model 3575 tape library.
In many applications, it is desirable to share some or all components of a SCSI medium changer among multiple host applications. Sharing is especially desirable for tape libraries, since they are often used for the limited purpose of backing up data, and otherwise lie dormant during long periods when the tape library could be working for other hosts. Thus, especially for large tape libraries, it is desirable to have several host applications take turns using the library and its tape drives.
One problem with achieving this level of sharing is the need to arbitrate access among the different hosts. Namely, the sharing host applications must have some mechanism to ensure that one host does not access, or worse yet, update the contents of another host's cartridges. One popular solution is to install intervening software between the library and its hosts to arbitrate access to the library cartridges and tape drives. This software is known as “middleware,” and numerous examples are commercially available. Nonetheless, there are certain drawbacks. For instance, additional expense is required to purchase and maintain the middleware programs. Installation of the middleware requires the user to sacrifice processing capability of existing host hardware, or invest in additional processing hardware to run the middleware.
In contrast with middleware, a different approach is to logically partition storage slots and tape drives into distinct logical SCSI medium changer devices. This approach is implemented in the IBM model 3575 tape library, for example. The partitioning approach establishes “logical” partitions, each including an assortment of slots and one or more tape drives. Each partition is exclusively associated with one host. Thus, this approach shares the library resources by exclusively associating specific library resources to particular hosts.
Although this approach has certain advantages, engineers at International Business Machines Corp. (“IBM”) are continually seeking to improve the performance and efficiency of such systems. In this respect, one area of continual focus concerns the possibility of greater efficiency and device utilization through more efficient sharing schemes. In this respect, the present inventors have recognized that the partition approach still does not sufficiently share the read/write drives, one of the most expensive components in a tape library. Namely, one drive may be extremely busy processing requests of its corresponding host application, while other drives are inactive. Nonetheless, the other drives cannot be recruited to satisfy the busy host's requests due to the lines of partition.
Consequently, from the standpoint of efficiency, known library sharing schemes may not be completely adequate for some applications due to certain unsolved problems.
Broadly, the present invention concerns a data storage library that utilizes library-local features to regulate access to shared read/write drives among multiple hosts, thereby avoiding arbitrating host software. The library includes multiple data storage media, multiple data storage media slots, multiple read/write drives, and a library controller. The storage slots are originally partitioned into multiple “logical libraries,” with one or more hosts having access rights to the slots of each logical library. The controller will prevent a requesting host from removing a cartridge from a source storage slot unless the requesting host has access rights to the logical library of the source storage slot. In contrast to the partitioned storage slots, empty read/write drives are normally shared among all hosts. However, the controller will prevent a requesting host from unloading a cartridge from a read/write drive unless the requesting host has access rights to the “originating” logical library containing the storage slot from where the cartridge was loaded into the drive.
Accordingly, one embodiment of this invention concerns a method to regulate access to shared read/write drives among multiple hosts, thereby avoiding arbitrating host software. In another embodiment, the invention may be implemented to provide an apparatus, such as a data storage library, including structure to regulate access to shared read/write drives among multiple hosts, and thus avoid arbitrating host software. In still another embodiment, the invention may be implemented to provide a signal-bearing medium tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital data processing apparatus to perform operations as described herein. Another embodiment concerns logic circuitry having multiple interconnected electrically conductive elements configured to perform such operations.
The invention affords its users with a number of distinct advantages. Importantly, the present invention efficiently utilizes expensive library hardware resources by sharing empty read/write drives among multiple hosts. Accordingly, the present invention treats read/write drives as serially reusable resources, rather than exclusively assigning each drive to one or more hosts. Since this sharing scheme is implemented by the library controller, the invention advantageously utilizes library-local components to arbitrate host access to shared read/write drives. Thus, the invention avoids the need for expensive middleware programs to arbitrate host access to shared read/write drives. Similarly, the invention avoids sacrificing processing capability of existing host hardware that would be caused by running host-based arbitrating software. The invention also provides a number of other advantages and benefits, which should be apparent from the following description of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the hardware components and interconnections of a data storage system according to the invention.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart of an operational sequence for library-local arbitration of host access commands according to the invention.
Among other possible functions, the hosts 102 supply data to the library 100 for storage, and send requests to the library 100 to retrieve data. Multiple hosts 102 are shown, since one beneficial feature of the data storage library 100 its sharing of read/write drives among multiple hosts. As illustrated, the hosts 102 include hosts 102 a-102 d.
The host role may be satisfied by various types of hardware, such as a digital data processing computer, logic circuit, construction of discrete circuit components, interface to a human operator, etc. As an example, one or more hosts 102 may comprise IBM RS/6000 machines employing an operating system such as AIX. The hosts 102 may also be coupled to respective interfaces (not shown), enabling the hosts 102 to exchange information with a human operator. Each such interface may comprise a control panel, video monitor, computer keyboard/mouse, or another appropriate human/machine interface.
The hosts 102 manage data in the library 100 using “location-centric” commands, and may utilize the SCSI medium changer protocol as one example. With location-centric commands, the hosts 102 request cartridge movement by specifying source and destination locations in the library 100. Using the SCSI medium changer protocol to further illustrate one example, the hosts 102 may specify locations such as locations of medium transport elements, storage elements, import/export elements, data transfer elements, and the like.
The library 100 is coupled to the hosts 102 by an interface 109, which may be embodied in various forms. Some examples include wires/cables, one or more busses, fiber optic lines, wireless transmission, intelligent communications channel, etc. The library 100 carries out host requests to move cartridges, access cartridges, etc.
In one embodiment, the library 100 comprises a SCSI removable media library, such as a tape library. Along with other alternatives, the library 100 may utilize other connectivity options, such as a fibre channel-to-SCSI bridge product, SCSI-to-SCSI multiplexer, etc.
The library 100 includes multiple drives 106 to conduct read/write operations with cartridges in the library 100. In the present example, two drives 106 a-106 b are shown. Advantageously, the controller 108 oversees sharing of the drives 106 among the hosts 102, avoiding the need for any additional, library-external hardware or “middleware” software package. Since the drives 106 are shared without preference for one or another, the drives 106 a-106 b may be called a “drive pool”.
Each drive 106 comprises suitable hardware to access the format of data storage cartridge in the library 100. For example, in the case of magnetic tape cartridges, the drive 106 may comprise IBM model 3590 tape drives. Cartridges are directed to/from the drives 106 by robotics 110, described below.
The library 100 includes equipment to physically move and store the cartridges. For instance, storage slots 114 house dormant cartridges. The storage slots 114 comprise shelves or other data storage library compartments. I/O slots 112 are provided to transfer cartridges to/from the library 100 without disrupting the operation of the robotics 110 or drives 106. Using the I/O slots 112, an operator can introduce cartridges into the library 100 (“insert” operation), or the library 100 can expel cartridges (“eject” operation). For example, the I/O slots 112 may comprise “pass-through” slots, a carriage, conveyor, etc.
The storage slots 114 are logically divided into multiple “partitions,” also called “logical libraries.” In the present example, four partitions 114 a-114 d are illustrated. The partitions 114 a-114 d may be selected to achieve any desired relationship with the physical storage slots. For example, a partition may include one slot, a row of slots, a panel of slots, a selection of individual slots, or any other arrangement.
According to the present invention, the partitions are used to implement one technique for sharing the storage slots 114 among the multiple hosts 102. As explained below, the library controller 108 acts as a gateway that prevents a host from accessing the slots of each partition 114 a-114 d unless that host has “access rights” to that partition. Access rights occur according to a user selected host-partition mapping that is established at system configuration, or another appropriate time. As an example, the host-partition mapping may specify that the host 102 a has exclusive access to the partition 114 a, the host 102 b has access to the partition 114 b, and so on. Under host-partition mapping, one or more hosts have access rights to each partition.
To move cartridges between the drives 106, I/O slots 112, and storage slots 114, the library 100 includes robotics 110. The robotics 110 access these components by respective paths 110 a, 110 b, 110 c, and 110 d. The robotics 110 may be implemented by any suitable cartridge movement machinery, such as robotic arms, integrated cartridge loading equipment, conveyors, grippers movable on an x-y coordinate system, etc. The robotics 110 may include a single device that is shared among the hosts 102, or multiple devices that are partitioned or shared, depending upon the needs of the application. Likewise, the I/O slots 112 may be partitioned or shared, depending upon the requirements of the application.
The library 100 operates under supervision of the controller 108, which receives commands from the hosts 102 requesting the controller 108 to move cartridges between storage slots 114, I/O slots 112, and the drives 106. The controller 108 communicates with the hosts 102 via the interface 109. In addition to the interface 109, which constitutes a “control” path, the library 100 also includes a “data” path (not shown) that carries data between the hosts 102 and the read/write drives 106.
The controller 108 comprises a digital data processing machine, logic circuit, construction of discrete circuit components, or other automated mechanism, and operates according to suitable programming, physical configuration, etc. To provide a specific example, the controller 108 may comprise an IBM POWER-PC processor.
1. The identity of the drive 106 a-106 b represented by this row.
2. Whether the drive contains a cartridge (“full”) or not (“empty”).
3. If the drive contains a cartridge, the identity of the “originating” partition 114 a-114 d where the cartridge came from.
1. The storage slot's physical address.
2. The identity of the partition containing this slot.
3. The identities of all hosts with access rights to the partition containing this slot.
The controller 108 may be implemented in various forms, including a digital data processing apparatus as one example. This apparatus may be embodied by various hardware components and interconnections; one example is the digital data processing apparatus 200 of FIG. 2. The apparatus 200 includes a processor 202, such as a microprocessor or other processing machine, coupled to a storage 204. In the present example, the storage 204 includes a fast-access storage 206, as well as nonvolatile storage 208. The fast-access storage 206 may comprise random access memory (“RAM”), and may be used to store the programming instructions executed by the processor 202. The nonvolatile storage 208 may comprise, for example, one or more magnetic data storage disks such as a “hard drive,” a tape drive, or any other suitable storage device. The apparatus 200 also includes an input/output 210, such as a line, bus, cable, electromagnetic link, or other means for the processor 202 to exchange data with other hardware external to the apparatus 200.
In contrast to the digital data storage apparatus discussed previously, a different embodiment of the invention uses logic circuitry instead of computer-executed instructions to implement the controller 108. Depending upon the particular requirements of the application in the areas of speed, expense, tooling costs, and the like, this logic may be implemented by constructing an application-specific integrated circuit (“ASIC”) having thousands of tiny integrated transistors. Such an ASIC may be implemented with CMOS, TTL, VLSI, or another suitable construction. Other alternatives include a digital signal processing chip (“DSP”), discrete circuitry (such as resistors, capacitors, diodes, inductors, and transistors), field programmable gate array (“FPGA”), programmable logic array (“PLA”), and the like.
In addition to the various hardware embodiments described above, a different aspect of the invention concerns a method for performing library-local arbitration of host access commands in a partitioned data storage library.
In the context of FIGS. 1-2, such a method may be implemented, for example, by operating the controller 108, as embodied by a digital data processing apparatus 200, to execute a sequence of machine-readable instructions. These instructions may reside in various types of signal-bearing media. In this respect, one aspect of the present invention concerns a programmed product, comprising signal-bearing media tangibly embodying a program of machine-readable instructions executable by a digital data processor to perform a method for performing library-local arbitration of host access commands in a partitioned data storage library.
This signal-bearing media may comprise, for example, RAM (not shown) contained within the controller 108, as represented by the fast-access storage 206. Alternatively, the instructions may be contained in another signal-bearing media, such as a magnetic data storage diskette 300 (FIG. 3), directly or indirectly accessible by the processor 200. Whether contained in the storage 206, diskette 300, or elsewhere, the instructions may be stored on a variety of machine-readable data storage media, such as direct access storage (e.g., a conventional “hard drive,” redundant array of inexpensive disks (“RAID”), or another DASD), magnetic tape, electronic read-only memory (e.g., ROM, EPROM, or EEPROM), optical storage (e.g., CD-ROM, WORM, DVD, digital optical tape), paper “punch” cards, or other suitable signal-bearing media including transmission media such as digital and analog and communication links and wireless. In an illustrative embodiment of the invention, the machine-readable instructions may comprise software object code, compiled from a language such as “C,” etc.
In contrast to the signal-bearing medium discussed above, the method aspect of the invention may be implemented using logic circuitry, without using a processor to execute instructions. In this embodiment, the logic circuitry is implemented in the controller 108, and is configured to perform operations to implement the method of the invention. The logic circuitry may be implemented using many different types of circuitry, as discussed above.
FIG. 4 shows one example of a sequence 400 to performing library-local arbitration of host access commands in a partitioned data storage library. For ease of explanation, but without any intended limitation, the example of FIG. 4 is described in the context of the hardware components and interconnections shown in FIG. 1, described above.
1. The number of partitions.
2. The storage slots 114 contained in each partition.
3. Any “unshared” I/O slots 112, and the partition containing each unshared I/O slot.
4. Any unshared drives 106, and the partition containing each unshared drive. For clarity of explanation, the present illustration does not depict any unshared drives, to focus on the drive sharing aspect of the invention.
After step 404, step 406 conducts host-partition matching. This may be performed, for example, by the operator transmitting further input data to the controller 108. This input data associates one or more hosts with each partition; each host associated with a partition is said to have “access rights” to the facilities of that partition. If desired, a host may have access rights to than one partition; this may be avoided, however, by redefining these multiple partitions as a single partition. Also in step 406, the controller 108 stores the host-partition mapping in the partition map 118.
When step 406 is complete, the initial configuration of the library is finished. Next, the controller 108 determines whether it has received any host cartridge movement requests (step 408). If not, step 408 repeats. When the controller 108 receives a cartridge movement request from one of the hosts 102, the routine 400 branches according to whether the host requested an “unload” operation or a “load” operation. An unload operation involves transferring a cartridge from a drive to an I/O slot 112 or storage slot 114, whereas a load operation involves the opposite action.
If the controller 108 received a cartridge load request, step 408 advances to step 410. In step 410, the controller 108 examines the load request, which includes a load command and various load parameters, including (1) identification of a “source” storage or I/O slot containing the desired cartridge, and (2) optionally, specification of a “destination” read/write drive for the load operation. The controller 108 proceeds to access the partition map 118 to determine whether the host has access rights to the partition containing the identified source storage slot (if a destination drive has been specified and this drive is allocated to a partition). If not, then this host does not have permission to access the source slot and/or destination drive according to the host-partition mapping that was established in step 406. In this event, the controller 108 denies the host request in step 412 by returning an error message to the host, not responding, etc. Step 412 then leads back to step 408, to wait for the next host movement request.
In contrast, if the host has permission to access the cartridge in the source slot (and destination drive, if specified), then step 410 proceeds to step 414. In step 414, the controller 108 directs the robotics 110 to load the cartridge from the specified storage slot into the identified destination drive (if one was specified), or alternatively into any available drive if none was specified. Since the drives 106 a-106 b are shared among all hosts 102, the controller 108 may select any available drive if none was specified. If a specified destination drive is unavailable, of if all drives are unavailable and none were specified, the controller 108 may transfer the desired cartridge into a preloading shelf or loader, enter the cartridge's name in a load-pending memory queue for subsequent physical loading, etc. Assuming drive availability, in step 414 controller 108 also updates the drive map 116, which was described above in TABLE 2. Namely, step 414 updates the drive map to show the following data, cross-referenced against the chosen drive: (1) the partition where the loaded cartridge came from, and (2) the “full” status of the drive. After step 414, the load operation is complete, and control returns to step 408 to await the next cartridge movement request.
In contrast to the foregoing sequence, if the controller 108 received a cartridge unload request in step 408, then the routine 400 advances to step 416 instead of step 410. In step 416, the controller 108 examines the unload request, which includes an unload command and various parameters including (1) identification of the source drive 106 containing the cartridge to be unloaded, and (2) identification of a destination storage slot or 110 slot. Also in step 416, the controller 108 accesses the drive map 116 and partition map 1128 as follows. Namely, the drive map 116 indicates the originating partition, where the cartridge in the drive came from; the partition map 118 identifies the host(s) with access rights to the source partition. If the requesting host has access rights to the originating partition according to the partition map 118, then the controller 108 moves the cartridge from the drive to the destination slow pursuant to the host's request (step 420). Otherwise, if the requesting host does not have access rights to the originating partition, then the controller 108 denies the host request in step 418 by returning an error message to the host, not responding at all, etc. In an alternative embodiment, the requesting host is required to have access rights to both the originating partition and destination location. In this embodiment, if the requesting host has access rights to the originating partition and destination location according to the partition map 118, then the controller 108 moves the cartridge from the drive to the destination slot pursuant to host's request (step 420). Otherwise, if the requesting host does not have access rights to both partitions (i.e., originating and destination slot), then the controller 108 denies the host request in step 418 by returning an error message to the host, not responding at all, etc. After steps 418 or 420, the controller returns to step 408 to wait for the next host movement command.
While the foregoing disclosure shows a number of illustrative embodiments of the invention, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made herein without departing from the scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims. Furthermore, although elements of the invention may be described or claimed in the singular, the plural is contemplated unless limitation to the singular is explicitly stated.
only if the host has access rights to the originating logical library, directing the robotics to remove the cartridge from the shared read/write drive and transfer the cartridge into the target slot.
otherwise, if the received host request to load a cartridge does not identify one of the drives, the operation of directing the robotics to load the cartridge further comprises choosing one of the shared drives and directing the robotics to load the cartridge into the chosen drive.
the operation of directing the robotics to remove the cartridge is only performed if the host has access rights to the originating logical library and the host has access rights to the logical library containing the target slot.
the operations of identifying a source logical library containing the source slot and determining whether the host has access rights to that logical library are performed by referencing the partition maps.
preventing a requesting host from unloading a cartridge from a shared read/write drive unless the requesting host has access rights to a logical library that includes a slot from where the cartridge was loaded into the shared read/write drive.
16. The library of claim 13, where the library further includes a drive map that shows, for each cartridge loaded into one of the drives, the logical library from where that cartridge was loaded into that drive.
18. The library of claim 13, where one or more logical libraries includes one or more storage slots and one or more I/O slots.
19. The library of claim 13, where the data storage cartridges comprise serially accessible magnetic tape cartridges.
only if the host has access rights to the originating logical library, directing the robotics to remove the cartridge from the shared read/write drive and transfer the cartridge into the target slot means.
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2019-04-20T03:32:00Z
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https://patents.google.com/patent/US6425059B1/en
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Arts
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Reference
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somethingawful
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Last week's Conan podcast with Colbert and this new one with Timothy Olyphant could not be more different.
And this week's, with Jeff Goldblum, is still something else entirely.
I mean, wow. This is... Wow.
I think this might be the first podcast I actually want to listen to a second time.
Jimmy Fallon is doing a whole show in the style of The Larry Sanders Show tonight. Featuring Tina Fey, Ben Stiller, Robert DeNiro, Lorne Michaels, Robert Irwin, and Florida Georgia Line.
Apparently copyright issues are holding up the release of the full archive, but all the Conan Remotes are going up in a few days.
Speaking of remotes, isn’t the new format supposed to allow Conan to do more of those? I haven’t seen him do a single one yet. It’s more of the same bad studio bits.
I think the new format will allow him to do more travel remote specials, not so much remotes for the show itself.
He went to Australia a couple weeks ago and filmed a show there. Who knows when it's coming out, but yeah, it seems like he's still gonna be doing those.
How on Earth did he get the rights to any of his NBC stuff back to begin with?
It might have helped that he’s basically a non-entity in late night television anymore. His ratings barely register a blip.
Yeah. His heart hasn’t been in it for a while. It was one thing to say, “if our next gig is doing a show in a 7-11 parking lot, we’ll find a way to make it fun,” but in reality, he was never the same after leaving Tonight. NBC knows he’s basically worthless nowadays, but I wouldn’t put it past NBC to be dicks for the sake of being dicks, either.
On a related note: His podcast has been very fun to listen to, and his episode with Thomas Middleditch and Ben Schwartz was insanely funny. Like, I was just hurting from laughing before it was over.
Also, as of Wednesday night’s episode, Fallon’s show no longer has an opening montage. The network may be getting desperate to keep eyeballs on Chuckles O’ Fallon... this isn’t the first time the show has altered its format over the past couple months.
I imagine it helps being at TBS, which already has deals with NBC to syndicate their old shows, and TBS is probably the only buyer interested in that back catalogue.
Wait, is that jordan schlansky as spock?
Tony Hale was on Colbert last night -- they talked a whole bunch about Veep and Toy Story 4 but not a word about the new run of Arrested Development eps. Not a mention of the show at all except one very brief name drop, in passing, to provide context for an unrelated anecdote, and it felt like he said it as fast as possible to avoid talking about it. Guess the show's done.
The Conan remotes are up!
There's even a Jordan Schlansky playlist!
Oh God, that one where he went to Houston... man, I remember laughing so hard at that. Even the setup was amazing.
If memory serves, watching Conan in the St. Louis market at the time wasn't much easier. You had to get through the Tonight Show, then Jerry Springer, and then Conan. Having Springer in there was very weird. "Hey, here's a late night talk show with comedy-like skits and simulated humor! Oh... here's whatever in the gently caress late-90's Springer is... and now Conan!"
It's like a proto Insomniac. It's great.
Edit: I’m not seeing the Mr T segment I thought apple picking was, the one where they’re reading poetry and Mr T keeps cracking up with that ridiculous laugh.
Unsurprising. They had a PR collapse just before launching the first half of S5, everyone is disgusted by Tambor, and the new episodes are garbage. Nobody wants to see the second half of S5 and releasing it is basically a dreaded formality.
poo poo, was season 5 that bad? Been distracted from finishing my rewatch of S4.
It wasn't bad, it just takes a little more to justify it at this point, and they're not really up to the task.
But moreover, the horrible PR from that interview and finding out about the hostile work environment just kind of sucked the air out of the whole thing. I'm not holding a grudge because I think there were eventually some adequate apologies (and more importantly, forgiveness) but I guess circling back to my point, the cast and the marketing team seem to be signalling that it's over.
So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.
Yeah, people have issues with Season 4, and I get that, but I enjoyed it. I've barely started 5, but probably won't continue.
I wonder how it'll be looked at 10 years from now?
Seth said at the start of the week that they weren’t going to go in-depth on the Mueller report tonight because there just wasn’t going to be time... looks like NBC made time. Late Night with Seth Meyers will run 90 minutes tonight, pre-empting Last Call with Carson Daly.
2. Seth Meyers needs to a 90-minute show every Thursday night.
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2019-04-21T00:47:12Z
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3607075&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=125
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NEW CASIO BABY-G IN-STORE NOW!
Taking a cue from the boys, Baby-G introduces the BG6900 collection that finds inspiration from the Casio G-Shock DW6900 watch collection. A play on all that is sporty-chic, the new line brings high shine and impact to the fashion front. The glossy white or black, durable resin band combines with a large watch face that displays digital time, encased in a mirrored dial, for a new shock-worthy classic. Glossy white or black resin band digital watch with metallic gold mirror face.
For this season, the Nike SFB is remixed with a winter-friendly combination of leather and duck canvas. Inspired by Nike co-founder and University of Oregon Track & Field Coach Bill Bowerman’s time in the 10th Mountain Division of the US Army, the Nike Innovation Kitchen and Tobie Hatfield set out to honor their founding father with a modern athletic boot designed for first responders. Initially launched in 2009, the Nike Special Field Boot (SFB) was engineered for elite military personnel (and scouttroopers on Endor). The boot’s ultra lightweight, breathability and cushioning combine with sensible street appeal. This seasons version drops this month in two colorways – Rebel’s medium olive/black and the Empire’s white/white. Available now at CONCRETE.
Nike drops another simple colorway in its Air Force 1 Premium for Summer 2011. Sporting a simple black/black/white colorway, the uppers see a combo of suede and mesh in black along with black outsoles and crispy white midsoles. Look for them now through finer Nike retailers, such as Concrete.
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2019-04-22T14:03:28Z
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https://concretestore.wordpress.com/tag/white/
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wordpress
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Well, It’s been more than an year since I entered the corporate world. One most important thing I learned is, how to pretend you are interested in what ever they are talking bout in the meetings, coz you can’t sleep.
PS : Increased the contrast using picasa … so images might appear little F***D up.
She hung her gray cloth coat on the fence at 86th floor of the Empire-state, put down her pocketbook with several dollars and a make-up kit filled with family pictures.
She dropped the note and herself from the observation deck. Both of them came to rest at the same time, only the note was still at desk and her body was lying with serenity amidst the crumpled wreckage of UN limousine.
After jumping from the observation deck, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale plunged over 300 meters down Empire State Building and landed on the roof of a parked UN limousine.
PS : pic taken from here.
If u have never heard about “Rakhi Sawant ka Swayamvar”, then please do me a favor and jump off the roof of your building. And if you are sleazy or lazy enough to not compile my request then you can read bout it here .
Once it so happened that I clicked on this youtube link which directed me to NDTV imagine’s youtube page, and I ended up watching all the RSS (read as rakhi sawant’s swayamvar) episode’s there and I am not ashamed of my deed.
The show tells you about the Indian culture; how the princes from different states used to compete with each other to woo the princess with biggest Brr…. I mean Heart in the whole nation. Its like the mythological serial with modern character, “rakhi devi ko dekhte hi saath man bakti bhavna se oot prot ho jaata hai” something of that sort.
The show is trying really hard to increase the awareness about a serious social issue, i.e. Female Infanticide. Seriously now you can clearly see how worse the conditions are in India when 16 (gabru naujawan) Handsome Hunks (all puns intended) has to contest with each other to marry … Rakhi … yes … the Rakhi Sawant. So, we should all watch the serial to promote such noble cause, devi Rakhi has come up with.
If still not, then please please please watch it for the poor aspiring actors (to be rakhi’s groom), they have sacrificed so much to come in limelight. I mean actually signed up to “might be lawfully wedded husband” of The Rakhi Sawant. They are either out of their mind or really really desperate.
I m really sympathetic to all of them … which so much capability and originality going without notice.
Alright, that’s all I could do to persuade you … if you still feel like giving this show a skip… then read the PS….
PS : The best thing about the show is, it proves why they call the TV an Idiot Box.
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2019-04-22T20:23:44Z
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https://theanksden.wordpress.com/2009/07/
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Salk Polio Vaccine Conquered Terrifying Disease On April 12, 1955, the world heard one of the most eagerly anticipated announcements in medical history: Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine worked. The vaccine turned a disease that once horrified America into a memory.
Dr. Jonas Salk, left, and Dr. Julius Youngner shown working in a research lab during the development of the first polio vaccine, which was injectable.
Now 84 and a professor emeritus at the University of Pittsburgh, Youngner says Salk offended some of his colleagues by refusing to credit their contributions to the development of the polio vaccine.
Fifty years ago, on April 12, 1955, the world heard one of the most eagerly anticipated announcements in medical history: Dr. Jonas Salk's polio vaccine worked. The vaccine turned a disease that once horrified America into a memory.
NPR's Joe Palca looks back at the science that created a successful vaccine -- and the people behind the medical milestone.
1800s Paralytic poliomyelitis (polio) takes its toll worldwide, affecting mostly children. The disease is known as infantile paralysis.
1894 The first known polio epidemic in the United States occurs in Vermont.
1908 Dr. Karl Landsteiner discovers that a virus causes polio.
1916 The first major polio epidemic strikes in the United States; 27,000 people suffer paralysis and 6,000 die. Increasing numbers of outbreaks occur each year.
1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt is diagnosed with polio.
1928 Iron lungs are introduced to help patients with acute polio breathe.
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States.
1938 President Roosevelt founds the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP, known today as the March of Dimes).
-- At the New York University School of Medicine, Dr. Jonas Salk begins working with virologist and epidemiologist Dr. Thomas Francis Jr. on an influenza vaccine later used by the U.S. military during World War II.
1947 The University of Pittsburgh recruits Dr. Jonas Salk to develop a virus research program. Techniques Salk picked up while working with influenza are later used to develop the polio vaccine.
1948-49 Scientists confirm the existence of three strains of poliovirus.
1949 Dr. John Enders, Dr. Frederick Robbins and Dr. Thomas Weller develop a way to grow poliovirus in tissue culture, a breakthrough that aided in the creation of the polio vaccine. Their work earned the three scientists the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1954.
1952 The United States reports 57,628 polio cases -- the worst U.S. epidemic on record.
-- Dr. Salk and his colleagues develop a potentially safe, injectable vaccine against polio. Nearly 15,000 Pittsburgh-area subjects, mostly children, receive the vaccine in pilot trials.
-- Salk's former mentor, Dr. Thomas Francis, designs, directs and evaluates field trials of the polio vaccine. Unprecedented in their scope and size, the trials involve around 1.8 million children from the United States, Canada and Finland. They are among the first to use the double-blind process that has since become standard.
1955 On April 12, Francis announces the results of the field trials, declaring that Salk's vaccine is "safe, effective and potent."
1955-57 Once the vaccine becomes available, U.S. polio cases drop by 85-90 percent.
1961 Dr. Albert Sabin develops an oral polio vaccine.
1963 Congress creates the Immunization Grant Program. Reported U.S. polio cases plummet to just 396.
1979 The last U.S. case of polio caused by wild poliovirus is reported.
1985 Rotary International establishes its PolioPlus program. Rotary has contributed more than $500 million to fight polio worldwide.
1988 Worldwide, polio continues to affect some 350,000 people in 125 countries. In response, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, Rotary International and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launch the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
1994 The Americas are certified polio-free.
1999 The U.S. Public Health Service recommends that the oral vaccine be discontinued in the United States, and a modified injectable vaccine becomes the preferred vaccine. The oral vaccine -- which is cheaper and easier to administer -- remains the vaccine of choice for eradication efforts elsewhere around the globe.
2000 The Western Pacific region is certified polio-free.
2002 Europe is certified polio-free.
2005 April 12, 2005, marks the 50th anniversary of the Salk vaccine. Global eradication efforts have helped lower worldwide polio cases to just 1,263 reported cases in 2004.
Sources: The Global Polio Eradication Initiative; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the University of Michigan; PBS Online.
Poliomyelitis (polio) is caused by a virus that enters the body through the mouth. The virus multiplies in the intestine and invades the nervous system. It can cause total paralysis in a matter of hours.
One in 200 infections leads to irreversible paralysis. Among those paralyzed, 5-10 percent die when their breathing muscles are immobilized.
Polio has no cure, but it can be prevented. Given multiple times, polio vaccine can protect a child for life.
Global polio cases have dropped from an estimated 350,000 cases in 1988 to 1,263 reported cases in 2004.
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2019-04-21T05:02:37Z
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https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4585992
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indyweek
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Lombardi could easily have turned out as a football hagiographya particularly apt term for the legendary Green Bay Packers coach who was dubbed "The Pope" by adoring fans and "St. Vincent" by sarcastic reporters. But Eric Simonson's stage adaptation of David Maraniss's biography shows the deep-seated contradictions of a man who ruthlessly bullied and micromanaged his players off the field but gave them autonomy on it, as they ran the Packers' famous "power sweep," a play with myriad real-time options that catapulted the team to a series of national championships.
As the title character in director Charlie Brady's sterling Theatre Raleigh production, David Henderson delivers one of his finest performances yet. His lacerating invective has as much impact as the body checks that famous players Dave Robinson (a vivid Jade Arnold), Jim Taylor (a gruff Dan Callaway), and "Golden Boy" Paul Hornung (a warm, rueful Victor Joel Ortiz) execute in grueling practices. A cub reporter on assignment for Look (a forthright Adam Poole) finds himself on the receiving end of verbal and physical intimidation when his search for the story earns pushback from mistrustful players and a coach unaccustomed to being disobeyed.
Masterful blocking deftly takes us from set designer Chris Bernier's practice field to Lombardi's living room, where his wife, Marie (a nuanced Judy McLane), pulls some strings of her own in her husband's personal and professional relationships. Simonson sanitizes the language of Lombardi's profanity-laden tirades, but if his play gives only a fleeting glimpse of the price Lombardi's family paid in his single-minded regime, it still shows us a man clearly aware ofand haunted and isolated bythe extremity of the demands he places on himself and everyone else in his autocratic world.
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2019-04-26T04:35:42Z
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https://indyweek.com/culture/art/david-henderson-delivers-one-best-performances-yet-famously-volatile-football-coach-lombardi/
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I definitely approve of a country where they enthusiastically celebrate Shrove Tuesday with buns containing cardamom, almond paste and unreasonable amounts of whipped cream, but have very little idea what Lent actually is, let alone any willingness to give up good things.
Chelm stories should not mention the Holocaust. Really. I know there's an actual town called Chelm, but it's not the same as the mythical place where the inhabitants got an extra share of foolishness or wisdom and nobody knows which. And it's deeply creepy to say that 8000 inhabitants were murdered or deported by the Nazis as your introduction to a jolly little story about trying to trade moonlight.
There was a really good and satisfying snowfall this week. I'm a little jealous of Swedish kids who get weather like this reliably for at least a couple of weeks every winter, and get taken on sledging outings during play-time. OK, they don't get a day off school every time a few flakes of snow fall, but still.
Lots of friends and Jewish community folk are really upset about the prospect of my leaving Sweden, even though I haven't committed to anything like that yet. This is making my social interactions a little embarrassing, as people don't know whether to encourage me in job-hunting or hope that everything goes wrong so that I have to stay here. If I actually end up leaving it's going to be unbearable.
I am really enjoying playing with programming for Dreamwidth. It's satisfying, and it makes me regret spending 20 years not coding at all ever.
I [...] have very little idea what Lent actually is, let alone any willingness to give up good things.
Yet I can imagine you might, too, if you remove chametz from your home before Passover and refrain from consuming any for the duration of the holy day. It seems like a similar thing to me.
Hm, I don't think Passover is strictly analogous. I don't feel proud of myself for resisting the temptation to eat bread and pasta during that week, it's not a self-denial thing at all. I do keep two solemn calendar periods where I refrain from alcohol and partying, plus a couple of full (no food or drink for 25 hours) fasts, which are probably more similar.
Actually I'm not at all bothered by religious Christians who use Lent as a period of reflection about incidents in Jesus' life, and who abstain from meat or alcohol or whatever as part of that devotional practice. What I find strange is people who are not religious at all, but insist on giving something up "for Lent" in order to set themselves a test and prove their willpower. But I'm really only joking about what a good thing it is that Swedes don't keep Lent, I just like the idea of having a Shrove Tuesday indulgence with lots of rich ingredients, and then not giving anything up afterwards!
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2019-04-22T16:43:53Z
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https://livredor.livejournal.com/277487.html
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indiatimes
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Domestically, prices could continue to track overseas prices and the rupee.
The commodities markets kept investors glued to it during the week gone by with crude oil swinging to the news reports coming out of the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia while all eyes were on the precious metals amid strong volatility in equity and currency markets.
This week, we tried to capture the emerging trends in these commodities.
The global crude market witnessed yet another volatile week. The week saw oil prices tumble on the back of higher inventories and weakness in the US equity market. The week started on a weak note, after Washington indicated that it might grant waivers to sanctions on Iran's oil exports and Saudi Arabia was said to be replacing any potential shortfall from Iran.
Additionally, the International Monetary Fund downgraded its global economic growth forecasts for 2018-19, potentially tempering demand for oil and its products. Trade tensions and rising import tariffs have started taking a toll on commerce, while emerging markets struggle with tighter financial conditions and capital outflows, the IMF said.
Oil prices were also impacted by weak US equities, which fell for 2 straight days. Rising US treasury yields and trade policy worries sparked the sell-off on Wall Street.
Meanwhile, weekly inventories showed that US crude inventories rose close to 6 million barrels last week, which was more than double of analyst’s expectations of a 2.6 million-barrels. Crude stocks at the Cushing, Oklahoma delivery hub rose by 2.4 million barrels, EIA said.
Looking ahead, prices could continue to remain volatile in the coming week. News from Iran will continue to dominate the market. According to Reuters, Iran's crude exports fell further in the first week of October. The Islamic Republic exported 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude in that seven-day period. That's down from at least 2.5 million bpd in April.
So prices continue to be supported by expectations of a shortage from Iran. However, this trend may continue only till November 04. November 4 is the day when the market will get clarity on the extent of sanctions on Iran. Additionally, the market could await cues from any fresh sanctions from the US.
We believe if the US does not impose fresh sanctions then some correction is due. However, more sanctions will continue to push prices higher towards the $100 level, which everyone in the world is talking about.
Two Indian companies have placed orders to buy Iranian oil in November; India, the world’s third-biggest oil importer, will buy 9 million barrels of Iranian oil in November, Reuters reported.
Technically, on the monthly chart, MCX Crude Oil is retreating from its four years high level and is also facing resistance at Rs 5,520 level which is 61.80% of Fibonacci Retracement of its Rs 7,784 level to Rs 1,805 level downturn.
On the daily chart, crude oil has given a breakdown of its “rising channel formation,” which suggests a further fall on the counter. In addition, on the hourly chart, crude oil is trading below its 21- as well as 50-hourly moving averages, which indicate a negative trend.
The MACD indicator on daily basis has given negative crossover with three bars down in histogram which confirms downward move in the counter. Based on above technical structure, the crude oil is expected to correct further. If it breaks its key support of Rs 5,200 level, then it will continue on the bearish momentum & a downside fall could see Rs 5,120 to Rs 5,050 levels in the coming session. However, if prices sustain above Rs 5,280, then an upside rally could test the Rs 5,350 and Rs 5,450 levels.
Gold prices surged higher this week on the back of safe haven appeal, as US equities tumbled. Silver, on the other hand, remained weak, tracking weakness in base metal prices.
Gold started the week on a weak note as investors sought refuge in the dollar, which has been boosted by a run of strong U.S. economic data reinforcing expectations of further interest rate rises. US unemployment rate fell to a 49-year low, a government report showed last week the latest in a string of positive data that could prompt the Federal Reserve to maintain a path of gradual interest rate increases.
Additionally, the upside could be limited by waning demand due to depreciating domestic currencies in major gold-consuming countries such as India. Provisional data from precious metals consultancy GFMS showed that India's gold imports in September month dropped more than 14 per cent from a year ago as a rally in local prices due to a depreciating rupee reduced demand in the world's second-biggest consumer of bullion.
Additionally, jewellers were carrying ample inventory from August and retail demand was also weak and weighed on prices initially in the domestic markets.
However, after the initial weakness gold surged higher as share markets in Asia and US plunged to multi-month lows and the dollar weakened.
The dollar fell after US President Donald Trump criticised the Federal Reserve this week calling its interest rate increases a "ridiculous" policy that was making it more expensive for his administration to finance its growing deficits.
Looking ahead overseas prices could track the equity and the dollar in the week ahead. In India, demand could be key for prices. October imports could rise on the back of festive demand and could limit downside.
Additionally, rupee movement could impact prices. The Indian government is finalising a second list of items for import curbs and may announce it soon, a finance ministry official said, as New Delhi moved to reassure markets that it will take more steps, as needed, to stem the fall in Rupee and limit its widening current account deficit. So, further depreciation may be limited for the domestic currency.
Technically, on the weekly chart, MCX Gold has seen a breakout of the upper band of the symmetrical triangle formation and sustained above it with ample volume activity which suggests that the prices could accelerate its upside movement.
Moreover, gold is trading above its short-term & medium-term moving averages, which indicates a positive trend in the counter. In addition, MACD indicator on weekly and monthly basis has given positive crossover above the 0 line which shows a positive breath in the counter.
Based on above technical set up & indicator we are on Sideways to bullish move in MCX Gold towards Rs 32,300 level, where an immediate support comes at Rs 31,550 level.
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2019-04-24T14:51:45Z
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https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/markets/commodities/views/crude-may-cool-off-some-bit-gold-looking-up-but-has-limited-upside/articleshow/66191580.cms
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seattlepi
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Need a refresher on the fount of words that have bubbled from Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll over the years? Here you go.
Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church.
If you’ve followed the words of Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll for a while, it’s hard to be surprised about his views on women, cults, yoga, etc. The theme is pretty much the same. But the emergence of one of his old, furious rants was a little enlightening, in terms of displaying the depth of Driscoll’s ability to foam at the mouth.
Who knew? Apparently, the people who’ve planned a Mars Hill protest knew. They’ve organized the event for Sunday at the mega-church’s Bellevue campus.
In light of all that, the slideshow above is a refresher on Driscoll sayings over the years. Then take a look at the slideshow below to see what happened when the Mars Hill pastor did a live Q&A on Twitter that went off the rails. (This was before he swore off social media).
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The St. Louis Cardinals 2012 season was the 131st season for the franchise in St. Louis, Missouri, the 121st season in the National League, and the seventh at Busch Stadium III. The Cardinals made their 25th trip to the postseason in 2012 after taking the NL Wild Card title by one game over the Atlanta Braves on the last day of the regular season in 2011. They began the 2012 season away against the Miami Marlins on April 4. St. Louis was coming off a 90–72 (.556) season, a second-place finish in the NL Central, the aforementioned wild card berth, and their National League-leading 11th World Series championship.
On October 31, 2011, Tony La Russa announced his retirement after 16 years as manager of the Cardinals. After interviewing several candidates, the Cardinals announced, in a press conference on November 14, that former Cardinals catcher Mike Matheny would be the team's new manager, the 49th in team history. At 41, he is the youngest active manager in the majors. He holds the catching major league record for consecutive errorless games at 252, and for consecutive errorless chances with 1,565.
On December 22, the Cardinals signed outfielder Carlos Beltrán to a two-year deal.
On March 1, 2012, the Cardinals announced the extension of catcher Yadier Molina's expiring $7 mil. contract at the end of 2012, for 5 years (with a 6th year $15 mil. option for 2018) for $75 mil., making him the second-highest-paid catcher (to Twins catcher Joe Mauer) in all of baseball. He leads all catchers with 39 pickoffs since 2005, and has thrown out 44% of all basestealers in his eight years. He led all Cardinals batters in 2011 with a .305 batting average, starting more games behind the plate than any other catcher, and established career-highs with 55 runs scored, 32 doubles, 14 home runs, and 65 RBIs.
The Cardinals announced they would retire former manager Tony La Russa' #10 prior to the game on May 11. His number will be the 12th retired by the Cardinals. He ranks third on the managers' all-time wins list with 2,728. 1,408 of those came with the Cardinals in his 16-year tenure there, and his .544 winning percentage with the team is his best of the three clubs he managed in his 33 seasons.
On May 14, Carlos Beltrán was named the National League Player of the Week for the week of May 7–13 after posting six home runs, 13 RBIs, eight runs scored, 30 total bases, and a 1.200 slugging percentage. He collected hits in five of the six games, homering in four of them. This is Beltran's ninth Player of the Week Award and his sixth in the National League. He leads the National League with 15 home runs, and is second in RBIs, with 32.
Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in New York Mets' 51-year history (totaling 8,019 regular season and 74 post-season games previously) with an 8−0 shutout over the Cardinals and Adam Wainwright at Citi Field on June 1. 27,069 witnessed the no-hitter, with Santana throwing a career-high 134 pitches. He walked five, and struck out eight. (box score) Left fielder Mike Baxter robbed Yadier Molina with a great catch in the seventh inning for the 20th out. Umpire Adrian Johnson ruled a hard grounder by former Met Carlos Beltrán (in his first return to New York) down the third-base line 'foul' although the ball made a mark on the chalk in the sixth inning. Beltran subsequently grounded out to third base on the next pitch. The no-hitter was the eighth against the Cardinals in their long history, the first time by Hall-of-Famer Christy Mathewson on July 15, 1901. The previous no-hitter against the Cardinals was by Fernando Valenzuela on June 29, 1990, at Dodger Stadium. The Cardinals were also the first defending World Series champion to be pitched a no-hitter against since the Oakland Athletics in their 1990 pennant season. On the opposite side, Cardinals' pitchers have thrown 10 no-hitters against opponents, the last one by Bud Smith against the San Diego Padres on September 3, 2001. The Padres are now the only present team without a no-hitter.
On June 7, Jaime García (left-hander), landed on the disabled list after his 2-inning June 5 start with a left shoulder sprain. He is the eighth player on it, one-off the season high of nine—at the same time with the seven others which include two starting pitchers (he and Chris Carpenter), two relievers (Scott Linebrink and Kyle McClellan), two infielders (Lance Berkman and Matt Carpenter), and two outfielders (Jon Jay and Skip Schumaker).
On June 15, batting against his old team the Kansas City Royals, Carlos Beltrán became the first switch-hitter in MLB history to attain 300 home runs and 300 stolen bases, with his seventh stolen base in the second inning. Seven other hitters also are members of the 300-300 club.
Carlos Beltrán (of) and Rafael Furcal (ss) won the fan voting to be starters at their positions for the 83rd All-Star Game in Kansas City's Kauffman Stadium on July 10. Yadier Molina (c) was selected by the players as a reserve for his fourth consecutive year; he ranked second in the voting to starter Buster Posey. Lance Lynn was also selected by the players as a reserve pitcher; his first time going to the All-Star Game. Retired Cardinals' manager Tony La Russa will un-retire for the one game. Coaches Derek Lilliquist, Jose Oquendo and Mark McGwire will also be participating in the event, as all are members of La Russa's All-Star staff. Former St. Louis coaches Joe Pettini, Dave McKay and Dave Duncan are members of that coaching staff, as well. Beltran is leading the NL with 61 RBIs, and second in home runs with 20. He also ranks in the top 10 with a .310 batting average. It will be his fourth time as an All-Star fan-vote starter, seventh overall. As an added bonus for Beltran, he was also picked to participate in the Home Run Derby contest on July 9, the night before the All-Star Game. It will be the first time for him in that fan-favorite event.
On July 6, after the passing of Yadier Molina's wife's grandfather, he left the team to join his family in Puerto Rico and was put on the bereavement list. He will miss the three weekend games and won't participate in the All-Star game. Matt Holliday was picked by Tony La Russa to replace him on the roster. Bryan Anderson was recalled from AAA-Memphis to replace Molina on the Cardinals' roster, with Tony Cruz to start as catcher for the weekend games.
After the rosters were opened to the fans, voting was held to decide the final fan-voted addition to each team. The online balloting was conducted from Sunday afternoon, July 1, through Thursday afternoon, July 5. The winners of the final vote were David Freese of the St. Louis Cardinals (NL), and Yu Darvish of the Texas Rangers (AL). Chipper Jones, of the Atlanta Braves, was removed from the ballot on July 3 after he replaced Matt Kemp on the roster due to Kemp's injury.
The 83rd All-Star Game on July 10, at Kansas City's Kaufmann Stadium was an 8-0 blowout for the National League, its sixth shutout win against two shutout losses for the NL. It made retired manager Tony La Russa the first manager to win All-Star Games in both leagues. He was 3-0 in the AL, but 0-2 in the NL before this year's game. La Russa emphasized this was his final game as a manager.
On July 16, Trevor Rosenthal was called up for the first time to the major leagues, and made his debut in the eighth inning on July 18, the 2,000th player in Cardinals' history. No other franchise in baseball has reached 2,000.
On July 21, at home against the Cubs, a 0−0 tight game started by Jake Westbrook (8-8, after getting the win in 7 inn.) was broken in the bottom of the seventh with a 12-run explosion by the Cardinals, won by that 12−0 score with 16 hits against only 4 for the Cubs. The inning-explosion featured 7 doubles, tying a major-league record set by the (NL) 1936 Boston Bees (against the Cardinals at Sportsmen's Park, first inning on August 25), 17 batters with 10 hits including a triple, 2 singles, 2 walks, and a wild pitch. David Freese started the inning with an infield single. Allen Craig then got one of his two doubles that inning, and the merry-go-round was on. The 12-runs in an inning also tied the highest runs in any inning by a Cardinals' team since the 1926 club did it in the third inning against the Phillies on September 15. Gameday Recap The club got 27 total bases and 9 doubles in the game—the last time they did that was on July 12, 1931.
On September 17, the Cardinals announced they were moving their short-season affiliation with the Batavia (NY) Muckdogs to the State College (PA) Spikes in the same New York–Penn League.
On September 19, the Cardinals announced they were moving their low-A team from Quad Cities (Iowa) back to Peoria (Illinois) where they had the team from 1995–2004, in the Midwest League.
On September 19, David Freese and Yadier Molina hit their 20th home runs of the seasons. It marked the first time in Cardinals' history that five players have hit 20 home runs in a season, with the shutout win against the Houston Astros. Carlos Beltrán (29), Matt Holliday (27), and Allen Craig (21) reached 20 previously.
On September 24, closer Jason Motte was named NL Player of the Week after saving all five of the Cardinals' wins in the week of September 17–23, and is leading the NL in saves with his 40th. He became the first closer with the Cardinals to save 40 games since Jason Isringhausen in 2004. It was the first time he has won that award, and the first time a closer had won it since Huston Street in 2009.
For the last game of the season at home on October 3, Shelby Miller, who started 2012 as the club's top prospect, made his major league debut as a starter against the Cincinnati Reds. He has already had five appearances (1-0, 2.35 ERA) in 7.2 IP as a reliever.
As with all 30 teams, Major League Baseball released the Cardinals' 2012 schedule on September 14, 2011. The Cardinals' Opening Day game was away against the Miami Marlins on April 4 and was nationally televised by ESPN at 6 PM CDT.
All game times for the following table were in Central Time Zone, and were broadcast on Fox Sports Midwest, unless otherwise noted. Twenty games from April 9 to August 10 were blacked out for those watching Fox Sports Midwest from their AT&T U-verse cable because of a financial dispute between them continuing from the previous year. Those games are marked with an asterisk (*) in the schedule below.
Game 1 was a nail biter. Carlos Beltrán hit his 14th career postseason homer and David Freese also went deep as the Cardinals took a 6–4 lead over the San Francisco Giants after six innings of the NL championship series opener. Freese hit a two-run homer in the second and Beltrán followed with one in the fourth as the Cardinals knocked out Madison Bumgarner with six runs in 3 2⁄3 innings.
Bumgarner breezed through a perfect first inning but ran into trouble in the second when Yadier Molina singled on an 0–2 pitch with one out. Freese then drove a 3–2 pitch over the wall in left-center to give the Cardinals a 2–0 lead. That gave Freese 25 career RBIs in the postseason and tied him with Molina for third most ever for the Cardinals. Bumgarner then couldn't make it out of the fourth. Descalso doubled and scored on Pete Kozma's double. Jon Jay added a two-out RBI single and Beltrán ended Bumgarner's night with the homer.
George Kontos got out of the fourth and Tim Lincecum pitched two hitless innings as he once again excelled in his new role out of the bullpen.
Lance Lynn struggled to hold onto that lead in his first postseason start after 10 career relief appearances. After starting the game with three hitless innings, Lynn ran into trouble with two outs and a runner on first in the fourth. Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt followed with singles to drive in San Francisco's first run. They both scored on Gregor Blanco's triple. Brandon Crawford followed with an RBI double to make it 6–4 and Lynn left after walking pinch-hitter Aubrey Huff. Joe Kelly got out of the jam when second baseman Daniel Descalso made a diving stop of Ángel Pagán's grounder up the middle.
No runs were scored for the remainder of the contest.
A 3-hour 28 min rain delay was longer than the time of the game itself at 3:02.
The second-largest crowd of the year 47,062 saw the Cardinals win, 8-3. Adam Wainwright went seven strong innings, giving up only four hits and one run, the home run to Hunter Pence, walking none and striking out five.
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Here are a few short extracts from a whole range of Golden Gonk recordings from over the years. Happy listening!!
As of July 2011 I’m now offering EXCLUSIVE and absolutely FREE downloads of previously unreleased Golden Gonk music!! Just click on the Mediafire links below and you’ll be able to download zip files featuring both music and full artwork!!
The simple intention of this series (which started in May 2012) is to showcase a variety of acts from The Golden Gonk’s own Shack in the Barley Productions label roster. As with the ‘Free Gonk’ series, just click on the Mediafire links below to download zip files featuring both the music and full artwork.
Keep checking back for further free downloads!!
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https://thegoldengonk.wordpress.com/listen/
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Abstract: The South Arm Marshes Wildlife Management Area (SAMWMA), officially designated in 1991, is located in the South Arm of the Fraser River. It contains 886 hectares of islands, freshwater marsh, and interfacial marsh. Included in SAMWMA are Ladner Marsh, Ladner, Lagoon, and Woodward, Barber, Duck, Kirkland, Rose, Gunn and Williamson Islands. Ladner Marsh is located in the Municipality of Delta, and the islands are in the Municipality of Richmond. SAMWMA is located directly east of Alaksen National Wildlife Area and the George C. Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary.
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"Biogeochemistry of Sulfur, Fall 2007"
" This course is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with an interest in using primary research literature to discuss and learn about current research around sulfur biogeochemistry and astrobiology."
Movement and dance combinations enable students to make physical sense of the exercises and movement material that they are given in class on a regular basis. In dance, repetition and recapitulation are vital ingredients in the learning process, and so being presented with phrases of movement that progress and develop in complexity will allow the individual to progress and develop too.
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2019-04-22T22:34:04Z
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https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xpert/scoreresults.php?keywords=The%20Labour%20leadership%25&start=2780&end=2800
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Temperatures are expected to climb to just below the freezing point on Thursday, much higher than is usual during an Arctic winter.
Ice floats in the Arctic near Svalbard, Norway, April 23, 2009.
Just a few days before Christmas, Santa may have to take off a few layers to stay comfortable at the North Pole.
According to current weather models, the Arctic is going to be unseasonably warm later this week, with air temperatures climbing to just under the freezing point (32 degrees F.) on Thursday. While that may seem plenty chilly, it's sweltering by Arctic standards, about 40-50 degrees Fahrenheit above normal for this time of year.
While anomalous warm days have always been possible – weather everywhere can have odd short-term fluctuations – some indicators suggest that unseasonable warmth at the North Pole is becoming more frequent due to global climate change and melting ice.
And after a record-breaking warm year and an unusually warm November that significantly dropped ice coverage in the Arctic, it looks like 2016 may be ending on yet another unpleasantly warm note in the far north.
According to a study published in the journal Nature earlier this year, Arctic temperature spikes occur once or twice every decade since the 1950s. But this is the second December in a row where a temperature spike like this has happened in the Arctic. Last year's spike was even more extreme than this one is predicted to be, with temperatures passing the melting point, an extremely rare occurrence in an Arctic winter.
The predicted temperatures later this week are driven in part by a series of storms that are bringing uncommonly warm air to the region. The main culprit is a storm set to hit Greenland and Britain that could be a record setter for strongest storm to develop in that area of the North Atlantic.
While two consecutive years of unseasonable heat in Arctic winter could be an indicator of climate change, Zachary Labe, a doctoral student researching the Arctic at the University of California-Irvine, cautions that two similar instances in a row do not necessarily define a new normal – at least, not yet.
"I don't think anyone can for sure say" that these unseasonable temperatures are becoming more common, Mr. Labe told The Washington Post. "The variability in the Arctic is tremendous."
A heat spike like this may be unusual, but the overall upward climb in Arctic temperatures is clear. While the rest of the world has also been feeling the heat on climate change, the Arctic is warming about twice as fast as the rest of the globe, making for much more dramatic environmental shifts in the far North.
In November, for instance, a month usually associated with the growth of ice in the Arctic, a sudden reversal in this trend led to the loss of 19,000 square miles of ice over five days, a phenomenon only precedented by a smaller ice loss in 2013, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Increasingly low ice coverage may also have contributed to this week's projected highs, since the depleted ice cover east of the Nordic sea has created a channel for warmer air to flow North.
"You have more real estate available to advect the warm and moist air northward," Ryan Maue, a meteorologist with WeatherBell Analytics, told The Washington Post.
And without an icy barrier between a warming ocean and the air, there is nothing to cool off the Arctic air and prevent a massive temperature spike.
"It's all expected," research professor Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University told the Guardian in November, referring to the high temperatures during that month. "There is nothing but climate change that can cause these trends."
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2019-04-26T16:46:16Z
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https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2016/1221/North-Pole-expected-to-reach-50-degrees-warmer-than-normal
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Taylor Swift is once again opening her wallet for a charitable cause.
The 26-year-old pop star donated $100,000 to the fund Dolly Parton has established to help families affected by the recent Smokey Mountain wildfires, ET can confirm.
Swift's hefty contribution matched the donation made by the Academy of Country Music for a combined $200,000 donation in advance of the forthcoming Smokey Mountain Rise: A Benefit for the My People Fund telethon.
"The Academy and ACM Lifting Lives are honored to contribute in a meaningful way to Dolly's heroic efforts to help the people of her hometown – and when Taylor heard what we were planning, she offered to match our gift, which gives it that much more impact," Tiffany Moon, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the Academy said in a statement to ET. "We are so grateful to Taylor for her support to the Academy’s charitable efforts through the years, and for helping us and Dolly Parton assist families in need at a time of crisis."
All proceeds from the telethon will benefit the Dollywood Foundation My People Fund, established by Parton this week to assist fire victims in Sevier County, Tennessee. The My People Fund will also provide $1,000 per month to Sevier County families whose homes are uninhabitable or completely destroyed as a result of the devastating inferno.
The Smokey Mountain Rise: A Benefit for the My People Fund telethon airs on Dec.13 at 8:00 p.m. EST on Great American Country.
WATCH: Taylor Swift Tops Forbes' Highest-Paid Musicians List -- Beating Out Two of Her Exes!
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Testing the atmosphere on College Green Jump to media player Justin Rowlatt gets in among the protesters on both sides of the Brexit debate.
What is no-deal Brexit? Jump to media player There's still no certainty over an agreement for the UK's departure from the EU.
Two pints and a packet of Brexit Jump to media player Wetherspoons boss Tim Martin is touring 100 of his pubs, campaigning for a no-deal Brexit.
Theresa May: We all need to hold our nerve Jump to media player Theresa May tells MPs she believes the government can reach a Brexit deal that the House can support.
Corbyn: PM with 'more excuses and delays' Jump to media player The Labour leader accuses the PM of "recklessly running down the clock" and trying to "blackmail" MPs into backing her Brexit deal.
Theresa May has said that a meaningful vote on her Brexit deal will not take place this week, but that one will be held by 12 March.
The prime minister added: "We still have it within our grasp to leave the EU with a deal on 29 March"
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2019-04-19T01:02:32Z
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-politics-47348177/brexit-meaningful-vote-will-happen-by-12-march-may
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Activision confirms the downloadable content details leaked earlier this month for Transformers: War for Cybertron, with five "new" characters and four new multiplayer maps coming in the first character and map pack, due out next week.
I put the word new in quotes, because of the five "new" characters, three were retailer-exclusive preorder bonuses. Jazz, Shockwave, and Demolishor have been available to players through preorder codes since War for Cybertron's launch. Joining the preorder trio are Scattershot, the leader of the Technobots, and Onslaught, who heads up the Decepticons' Combaticon team.
New maps are always good, especially when two of them are for the game's progressive Escalation mode, where you and a team of friends take on waves of stronger and stronger enemies, spending points earned with kills to unlock new weapons and new areas of the map. The maps District and Forsaken give the Autobots and Decepticons new places to play Escalation, while Havok and Fortress freshen up the standard multiplayer.
The Transformers: War for Cybertron Map and Character Pack 1 will be released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on July 27, with a cost of 800 MIcrosoft points, or $9.99.
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2019-04-25T02:52:55Z
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https://kotaku.com/first-war-for-cybertron-dlc-dated-priced-and-set-to-m-5593652
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Mabuhay Majesty is a new full-length play by local Filipino playwright Robert Francis Flor, directed by Eloisa Cardona and performed at Rainier Arts Center. The play is a historical "slice of life" from early 1960's Seattle. Two teen Filipino American girls are reluctant when their parents encourage them to participate in the Seattle Filipino Community Queen Contest. The play explores the conflict traditional societies face when transitioning into a modern society.
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2019-04-21T06:23:40Z
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http://seattlechannel.org/FrontRow?videoid=x83078
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The total number of new members is a significant increase from the 120 students who signed in to the club in 2010. In 2009, Terrace accepted 115 over the two rounds and reported filling to capacity.
Eight additional students who sought membership were placed on a waitlist for Terrace. Club president Dimitris Papaconstantinou ’13 said in an interview with The Daily Princetonian last week that the club would find it difficult to accommodate more than 140 new members.
Despite the extra 20 students, Papaconstantinou said in an email that the large number of members would not negatively affect the club.
“I would say that having more members means that we will have more viewpoints, more music and more diversity, all of which are elements that Terrace strives for,” he said.
“First and foremost, it is the character of the club, which is one of total acceptance, fun and music, that I think is something that resonates with most members,” Papaconstantinou said.
After last year’s meteoric increase in first- and second-round sign-in numbers, Colonial Club’s membership dropped this year to 107 new sophomores and upperclassmen, slightly less than the 120 expected, according to Colonial president Roland Hwang ’13. A total of 95 sophomores signed in, with 65 in the first round and 30 in the second.
Hwang said that this year’s drop is due partially to a change in possible dining plans.
Cloister Inn added 46 people in the second round of sign-ins, bringing the total number of sign-ins up to 78, according to an email from president Brian Wettach ’13. Last spring, Cloister filled to capacity at 113 members and used a waitlist. Six new members joined this past fall.
The officers of Quadrangle Club did not respond to requests for comment on the total number of sign-ins. Quad historically has not provided sign-in figures for either round to the ‘Prince,’ though Dinesh Maneyapanda ’94 said in an interview last week that Quad saw a 40 percent increase in its first-round sign-in figures due to a new reduction in club fees.
Charter Club, which uses a weighted point system for signing in and ended its waitlist this year, was the only club to fill to capacity during first-round sign-ins with 100 new members.
Excluding Quad, the remaining four sign-in clubs now have a total incoming membership of 445, compared to 904 students who bickered the six bicker clubs, of which 573 were accepted.
Clarification: A previous version of this article omitted the name of the shared meal plan option at Colonial Club. The "9 shared meal plan option" will be eliminated, but the club will still offer 50 shared meal plans.
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2019-04-25T20:31:29Z
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http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/article/2012/02/terrace-takes-160-highest-of-sign-ins
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Let's invite the band in now, to play 'Skeeter Loves Annie' with us.
NOTE: In the previous video, I stated there is no intro to this song. That was incorrect. There is an Intro that consists of 4 measures of G.
You'll find the chart and the lyrics, below.
The songs in this section are not easy!
But you have the knowledge, basic skills, and the understanding to take them on at your own pace. Keep in mind that whatever struggles you are having, you are definitely not alone!
Everyone has a hard time learning to bring all the details together just right to play a song all the way through.
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https://www.guitartricks.com/lesson.php?input=22971&s_id=1871&view=classic
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Radio controlled or RC airplanes are becoming quite the fad these days, particularly the electric versions. Globally, RC flying is one of the fastest growing of all pastimes and the sport or competitive side of the hobby is also seeing quite an increase in both participants and spectators. Hobby, sporting event, stress-buster, family entertainment – RC aviation is many things to many people. It can be enjoyed by all age and gender groups and is within the reach of most budgets. If you are ready to get started, your best bet is to look at RC planes for beginners.
RC airplanes are miniature aircraft which are remotely controlled with a handheld transmitter and receiver. While flying an RC airplane is not exactly like piloting a full-size plane – after all, that’s a plastic figure in the cockpit, not you – it is eerily similar and can be a very satisfying physical and mental experience. Many fly strictly for relaxation but these airplanes are as challenging as you want them to be, once you move on to higher levels of flight skills. Those just taking up the hobby should start at the very beginning, with RC planes for beginners.
Here are some helpful tips for those who are just starting out.
1. Opt for a Ready to Fly (RTF) model with a high wing over fuselage design for added stability and ease of control. This type plane will exempt you from the hassle of assembling the aircraft and installing the various components. RTFs are good RC planes for beginners and most models will come with everything you need except AA batteries.
2. For most newcomers, the electric model is better than a glow or nitro-powered plane. Electrics are more reliable and unlike their gas counterparts are quiet, don’t pollute and require very little maintenance. There is no fuel to add or clean off after flights, just charge the battery pack and you are ready for take-off.
3. Jets aircraft are not RC planes for beginners. Jets are much more difficult to fly and should only be operated by intermediate or advanced pilots. If you try to start with a jet there is a good chance you will only total it your first day out. Better to wait until you’re more experienced and well past the beginner stage. With the appropriate first plane, learning to fly needn’t be hard – all you need is practice, persistence and then a little more practice.
A great started plane is the hobbyzone champ. See what others say about the hobbyzone champ.
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The Baltimore Brigade unveiled new uniforms along with the rest of the Arena Football League on Monday in Washington.
The Arena Football League unveiled new uniforms for the 2019 season during a press conference at Capital One Arena in Washington on Monday.
During the event, new uniforms were presented for all of the teams in the league, including the Albany Empire, Atlantic City Blackjacks, Baltimore Brigade, Columbus Destroyers, Philadelphia Soul and the Washington Valor.
For the custom design and production of the new uniforms, the AFL partnered with manufacturer Phenom Elite.
“Phenom Elite has designed exciting uniforms for the AFL that fit perfectly with the league’s fast-paced, exciting, high-scoring games,” AFL commissioner Randall Boe said.
Teams had the opportunity to design their respective uniforms, incorporating their own original concepts. To ensure long-lasting quality, the new uniform designs were all dyed directly onto the jerseys and pants to prevent cracks, peels or fading.
The AFL’s 32nd season kicks off April 26, when the Brigade host the defending-champion Washington Valor in a rematch of ArenaBowl XXXI at 7 p.m. at Royal Farms Arena. The Brigade, who play their first three games at home, are led by the 2018 AFL Coach of the Year, Omarr Smith, who enters his third season as Baltimore’s head coach.
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Shielding your picnic lunch from London’s plentiful pigeon population is almost as much of a tourist tradition as taking a selfie with Big Ben. But one group of pigeons have a job quite different than stealing your sandwich: measuring the city’s air pollution.
Equipped with air quality sensors and GPS trackers in small, feather-light backpacks, six racing pigeons from the Pigeon Air Control project are flying around London to get on-the-ground (or in-the-air?) readings of nitrogen dioxide and other toxic compounds.
Today, the birds started tweeting. And no, that’s not the chirps of a long-awaited springtime you hear — it’s the pigeons’ Twitter account, which promises to provide air quality readings for Londoners who tweet at the handle @PigeonAir.
The three-day campaign from Pigeon Air Control, from March 14 to 16, is mainly a publicity stunt to draw attention to dirty air in London (aka “The Old Smoke”). In 2015, The Guardian reported that 9,500 Londoners die each year from long-term exposure to their city’s noxious cloud.
It’s become surprisingly popular to strap equipment onto our feathered friends and send them out to gather data in the world’s major cities. First, there were garbage-detecting vultures in Lima — and now, this. What’s next? Strapping laser technology onto the world’s seagulls to measure sea-level rise?
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Hemochromatosis-induced bipolar disorder: a case report. – What Causes Severe Mental Illness, Psychosis and Mania?
Hemochromatosis-induced bipolar disorder: a case report.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2012 Jan-Feb;34(1):101.e1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2011.04.013. Epub 2011 May 31.
Serata D1, Del Casale A, Rapinesi C, Mancinelli I, Pompili P, Kotzalidis GD, Aimati L, Savoja V, Sani G, Simmaco M, Tatarelli R, Girardi P.
A patient presenting with Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, bipolar disorder was found to be affected by high iron hemochromatosis. This prompted us to explore the relation between bipolar disorder and iron overload.
We report the case and review the peer-reviewed literature focusing on mood symptoms in patients with hemochromatosis or iron overload. Animal studies of brain effects of iron overload are summarized. High iron hemochromatosis was confirmed by genetic testing, and treatment was instituted to address iron overload.
Patient’s bipolar symptoms completely subsided after phlebotomic reduction of iron overload.
Clinicians should explore the possibility of iron overload and seek genetic confirmation of hemochromatosis in resistant bipolar disorder to avoid unnecessary medication.
Previous Psychosis associated with thymoma.
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Learn how we give 100% of our profits to charity.
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There’s been a lot of talk recently about what it will take to get trains to run quickly in the Eastern corridor, almost enough to mask the sad fact that we are still the laughing stock of the developed world when it comes to both fast trains and, really, any trains at all. These videos from MIT’s Senseable City Lab that depict the French rail system just make that more clear.
In the first video, above, you can see all the trains moving through the country for an entire week. Green trains are on time, while red trains are late. Clearly, the French have a little bit of a flexible relationship with timeliness, but what’s more interesting is how many trains they have going at any one time. It’s a whole fleet of rail transportation. Contrast that to how difficult it is to travel between most major American cities on Amtrak.
The second video, while slightly hard to grasp, is potentially more interesting. It reimagines the map of France by using travel times to mark the distance between cities. So, a trip between two cities on one of the country’s 175 mph trains moves the cities quite close together on the map. As delays and changing schedules alter the time between cities, the map shifts.
What would a map of America manipulated the same way look like?
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This article is about the men's team. For the women's team, see Egypt women's national football team.
The Egypt national football team (Egyptian Arabic: مُنتخب مَــصـر, Montakhab Masr), known colloquially as The Pharaohs, represents Egypt in men's International association football and is governed by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) founded in 1921, the governing body for football in Egypt. The team's historical stadium is Cairo International Stadium but since 2012 the team has played most home games at Borg El Arab Stadium in Alexandria. Between 1958 and 1961, the team combined with Syria to form the United Arab Republic national football team, although the team's records are attributed only to Egypt by FIFA.
Egypt is the most successful national team in Africa, having won the Africa Cup of Nations a record seven times: the inaugural edition in 1957 and on home soil in 1959, as well as the 1986 edition, Burkina Faso in 1998, 2006 in Cairo, Egypt, Ghana in 2008 and Angola in 2010 edition. Egypt has also been as high as ninth in the FIFA World Rankings, making the team one of only three African national teams to enter the world's top ten (the other two are Nigeria and Morroco). Despite their respectable continental record, Egypt has so far made only three appearances in the World Cup (in 1934, 1990 and 2018), failing to win a game on all three occasions. The Egypt national team was the first team not from the Americas or Europe to qualify for the World Cup.
Egypt is notorious for holding a spectacular continental record but yet failing to deliver in the world stage. Their first and second participation was separated by 56 years and 13 days, a record. Their third participation was 28 years and 3 days later. Another record Egypt holds is the oldest player to have every played at the World Cup. Goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary, at 45 years old, played the full 90 minutes against Saudi Arabia, where he was able to save a penalty.
The first Egyptian national football team was constituted in 1920 to compete in the Summer Olympics in Belgium. The opening match of their campaign was a loss against the Italians. Egypt had appeared in three FIFA World Cups and they are the most successful team in the Africa Cup of Nations, winning the competition seven times, with the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations being the most recent one.
Egypt first participated in the first Africa Cup of Nations tournament in 1957. In their first game, which was a semi-final, they faced Sudan, winning 2–1 with goals from Raafat Attia and Ad-Diba, enabling Egypt to play in their first final. In the final, they faced Ethiopia, in which Egypt won 4–0, with these goals being scored by Ad-Diba, thus making them champions for the first time in the Africa Cup of Nations. The top scorer of this tournament was Ad-Diba from Egypt with five goals.
In their second participation in the Africa Cup of Nations in 1959, Egypt became champions again. There were only three teams in that tournament, being Ethiopia, Sudan, and Egypt itself. Egypt again was undefeated in this tournament, like in the previous tournament in 1957, defeating both Ethiopia and Sudan.
Their third appearance, which was in the 1962 African Cup of Nations, hosted in Ethiopia, in which Egypt faced Uganda in the semi-finals, there were only four teams in this tournament, by a score of 2–1. Egypt then advanced to the finals, where they faced the hosts Ethiopia, but they lost 4–2 during extra time, thus losing their first final in the Africa Cup of Nations, along with Ethiopia becoming champions for the first time and also being the first nation to win it other than Egypt, who were champions twice.
Their fourth appearance came in 1963 in Ghana. Egypt was placed in Group B with Sudan and Nigeria, winning Nigeria with a score of 6–3, but drawing 2–2 against Sudan. Despite being undefeated in the group stage, they were ranked second, behind Sudan by goal difference. Egypt, as runners-up in Group B, participated in the 3rd place match, playing against Ethiopia, winning Ethiopia 3–0.
For the 1965 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt did qualify for the tournament, but they withdrew because of their diplomatic relationship with Tunisia, who were hosts of the tournament. Again, Egypt withdrew from the 1968 Africa Cup of Nations, against hosted in Ethiopia.
In the 1970 Africa Cup of Nations, hosted again in Sudan, Egypt were in Group B along with Ghana, Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, known as Congo-Kinshasa back then. In their opening match, Egypt defeated Guinea by a score of 4–1, in which Ali Abo Greisha scored twice, Hassan El-Shazly scored once, and Taha Basry also scored once during that game. Egypt's next game was against Ghana, which ended as a 1–1 draw, with Ibrahim Sunday scoring for Ghana and Bazooka scoring for Egypt. In their third game in this tournament, they faced Congo-Kinshasa, in which Egypt won 1–0 by a goal from Abo Greisha. Egypt ended being in first place, thus advancing to the next round, where they faced Sudan. In the game against Sudan, Egypt lost their first game in the Africa Cup of Nations by a scored of 2–1, with El-Shazly scoring the equalizer that put Egypt to extra time, before being scored again by Sudan, thus eliminating them from playing the final. However, in the third place match, they won Ivory Coast by a score of 3–1, making Egypt become third place again in this tournament.
For the 1972 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt failed to qualify for the first time in this tournament after being eliminated by Morocco by an aggregate score of 5–3.
However, Egypt returned for the 1974 African Cup of Nations, in which they were hosts for the first time. In the group stage, Egypt were in Group A with Zambia, Uganda, and the Ivory Coast. Egypt was successful, defeating Uganda 2–1, Zambia with a score of 3–1, and the Ivory Coast by a score of 2–0. They progressed to the semi-finals to play against Zaire. Egypt lost 2–3 against Zaire, so Egypt had to face Congo for third place. Egypt won Congo by a score of 4–0.
In the 1976 African Cup of Nations, in Ethiopia, they were in Group A with the hosts Ethiopia, Guinea, and Uganda. Egypt defeated Uganda 2–1, but drew against Uganda 1–1 and Ethiopia, also 1–1. Despite this, Egypt advanced to the final round. In the final round, Egypt lost all their games. Egypt lost to Morocco 2–1, 4–2 against Guinea, and 3–2 against Nigeria. However, they scored in these three matches. This is the first Africa Cup of Nations tournament that Egypt lost 3 consecutive games.
Egypt again failed to qualify for the 1978 African Cup of Nations in Ghana.
Egypt reappeared for the 1980 African Cup of Nations in Nigeria. Egypt, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, and Tanzania, were in Group A. They won in their first game against the Ivory Coast 2–1, defeated Tanzania 2–1 too, but lost to the host Nigeria by a score of 1–0, scored by Okey Isima. Egypt progressed to the next round which was the semi-finals, to face Algeria. Egypt lost this game 4–2 in penalties, after drawing 2–2 after extra time. For the third-place match, Egypt lost to Morocco, making Egypt being in the fourth place rank.
Egypt withdrew during qualifying for the 1982 Africa Cup of Nations in Libya.
For the 1984 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt returned. Egypt, Cameroon, the Ivory Coast, and Togo, were drawn in Group A. Egypt won against Cameroon 1–0, the Ivory Coast 1–2, but drew with Togo 0–0. Egypt advanced to the next round, the semi-finals, to face Nigeria. Egypt lost to Nigeria in penalties, with the score in penalties being 7–8, after drawing 2–2. For the third place match, Egypt lost 3–1 to Algeria.
Even though Egypt were in fourth place in the previous tournament, it changed. In the 1986 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt became the host again. In their opening game, Egypt lost to Senegal 1–0. However, Egypt went on to win their two remaining games in the group stage, with scores of 2–0 against the Ivory Coast, and 2–0 against Mozambique. Egypt were in first place in Group A, and in the semi-finals, Egypt won against Morocco 1–0, advancing to the final since the 1962 edition, to play against Cameroon, who had Roger Milla. Egypt won the game 5–4 in penalties, after drawing 0–0, thus becoming champions for the third time since the tournament from 1959.
In the 1988 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco, Egypt were not as successful than in the 1986 edition. Egypt entered this championship as the current title holders. They were in Group B with Cameroon, Nigeria, and Kenya. In their game against Cameroon, they lost 1–0 by a goal from Roger Milla. However, they did not lose against Nigeria and Kenya, as Egypt drew 1–1 against Nigeria in Stade Moulay Abdellah in Rabat, and defeated Kenya 3–0, also in Stade Moulay Abdellah, with two goals from Gamal Abdelhamid and one goal from Ayman Younes. Despite, they were a point below from entering the next round, which was the semi-finals.
In the 1990 Africa Cup of Nations in Algeria, it got worse. Egypt did qualify for this tournament, and they were put in Group A, along with Algeria, Nigeria, and the Ivory Coast. Egypt lost all their group stage games, thus making Egypt fail to obtain at least one point for the first time in the Africa Cup of Nations. The scores the 3–1 defeat to the Ivory Coast, the 1–0 defeat to Nigeria, and the 2–0 defeat to Algeria.
In the 1992 Africa Cup of Nations, hosted in Senegal, Egypt entered by qualifying to this tournament. Egypt were placed in Group D with Ghana and Zambia. In their game against Zambia, Egypt lost 1–0. In their game against Nigeria, they lost again by a score of 1–0 too. Egypt again failed to obtain a least a point for the second time, being consecutive, along with losing all their games in the group stage.
In the 1994 Africa Cup of Nations, in Tunisia, Egypt were in Group B with Nigeria and Gabon. In their first game, against Gabon, Egypt won 4–0 with goals from Ayman Mansour, Hamza El-Gamal, in which they scored once in that game, and Bashir Abdel Samad, who scored two. In their second game, they drew against Nigeria 0–0. Egypt were able to qualify to the next round, which were the quarter-finals, being first place in Group B by goal difference, to face Mali. In this game, Egypt lost 0–1 to Mali in Stade El Menzah in Tunis, thus knocking out Egypt from the tournament.
In the 1996 edition, hosted in South Africa, Egypt participated in this tournament. Egypt were placed in Group A with the hosts South Africa, Cameroon, and Angola. In their first game, Egypt faced Angola, successful winning 2–1 with both goals scored from Ahmed El-Kass. In their second game, however, Egypt lost 2–1 against Cameroon. In their third game, against South Africa, Egypt defeated South Africa 0–1, with the goal from El-Kass. Egypt qualified to the quarter-finals, as runners-up of the group, being behind the hosts. In the quarter-finals, Egypt were to face Zambia. In this game, Egypt lost 3–1. This eliminated Egypt, with South Africa winning their first title, and as hosts.
In the 1998 Africa Cup of Nations, in Burkina Faso, Egypt qualified for this tournament. Egypt were placed in Group D, with Mozambique, Zambia, and Morocco. In their first game, Egypt won Mozambique 2–0, with the two goals from Hossam Hassan. In the game against Zambia, Egypt again won 4–0, with the goals being a hat trick from Hassan and one from Radwan. In their third game however, Egypt lost against Morocco, 1–0, with the goal scored in the 90th minute from Mustapha Hadji. Despite this defeat, Egypt qualified to the quarter-finals, as runners-up of Group D, and they were to face against the Ivory Coast. In this game, Egypt won 5–4 in penalties, after a 0–0 draw. This made Egypt advance to the semi-finals since the 1986 tournament. In their semi-final, Egypt faced the hosts Burkina Faso, in which Egypt defeated Burkina Faso by a score of 2–0, with the goals scored from Hassan. This made Egypt go to the final since the 1986 tournament, the same tournament that was their last tournament as champions, to play against South Africa. In the final, Egypt were successful, winning 2–0, with a goal from Ahmed Hassan and a goal from Tarek Mostafa. Egypt won their fourth title since they won as hosts in the 1986 tournament.
For the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations, Egypt entered as the defending champions. This tournament was in Ghana and Nigeria. They were in Group C with Senegal, Zambia, and Burkina Faso. In these three games, Egypt won the three of them. Their match against Zambia was a 2–0 victory, a 1–0 victory over Senegal, and a 4–2 win against Burkina Faso. With these three victories, Egypt were the group leaders and they advanced to the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals, they lost to Tunisia 0–1, the goal was scored by a penalty kick. Egypt were eliminated from the tournament, in which Cameroon won their third title.
In the 2002 African Cup of Nations, in Mali, Egypt qualified for this tournament. Egypt were placed in Group D with Senegal, Tunisia, and Zambia. In their opening match, Egypt lost 0–1 to Senegal. However, Egypt won their two remaining group stage games, with the scores of 1–0 against Tunisia and 2–1 against Zambia. Egypt advanced to the quarter-finals, as runners-up, with six points, to face Cameroon. In this game, being Cameroon vs. Egypt, in the quarter-finals, Egypt lost 1–0. This score eliminated Egypt. In this tournament, Cameroon won their fourth title, being the second title won consecutively.
Egypt qualified to the 2004 Africa Cup of Nations, which was hosted in Tunisia. Egypt were placed in Group C with Algeria, Zimbabwe, and Cameroon. Egypt won 1–2 against Zimbabwe, lost 2–1 to Algeria, and drew 0–0 against Cameroon. Egypt failed to qualify for the quarter-finals due to that Algeria scored a goal more than Egypt, after leveling on points and goal difference. Tunisia, the hosts won their first title, beating Morocco in the final.
Egypt starting line-up against Ivory Coast at the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations Final, a match they won 4–2 on penalties after a goalless draw.
The 2006 Africa Cup of Nations was hosted in Egypt, making Egypt automatically qualified. They were in Group A with Libya, Morocco, and the Ivory Coast. In the opening match, Egypt defeated Libya 3–0. In the second game, Egypt drew 0–0 against Morocco. However, in the third game, Egypt won 3–1 against the Ivory Coast, thus making Egypt as the group leader and advancing to the next round, the quarter-finals. In the quarter-finals phase, Egypt faced DR Congo, in which Egypt won 4–1, thus making Egypt advance to the semi-finals. In the semi-finals, Egypt faced Senegal. In this game, Egypt won Senegal 2–1, thus making Egypt qualify for the final to face the Ivory Coast, after playing against each other in the group stage. In the final match, Egypt drew 0–0 with the Ivory Coast, sending them to extra time, and still, the score remained 0–0. After extra time, the game was taking to the penalty shoot-out phase. In the penalty shoot-out phase, Egypt were victorious, winning 4–2 against the Ivory Coast, and claiming their fifth title, being the third title won as hosts, the last time Egypt won the tournament before this was in 1998.
In the 2008 African Nations Cup in Ghana, Egypt qualified for this tournament. In this tournament, Egypt were placed in Group C with Cameroon, Zambia, and Sudan. Egypt beat Cameroon 4–2, won against Libya by a score of 3–0, but drew 1–1 against Zambia. Egypt entered the quarter-finals as the group leader. In the quarter-final, Egypt faced and beat Angola 2–1. Then, Egypt advanced to the semi-finals to face the Ivory Coast. The last time they faced each other was in the 2006 final, in which Egypt won the game, claiming their fifth title. In the semi-finals, Egypt were victorious, beating Ivory Coast 1–4. Egypt advanced to the finals to face the Cameroonians. In this game, Egypt won 0–1 thanks to a goal from Mohamed Aboutrika, helping Egypt win their sixth title. This also marked Egypt winning two consecutive Africa Cup of Nations.
In the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, in Angola, Egypt qualified for the tournament. Egypt were in Group C with Nigeria, Benin, and Mozambique. Egypt won their three group stage games, thus advancing to the quarter-finals, to face Cameroon. In this match, Egypt won 3–1 after extra time, thus eliminating the Cameroonian team. In the semi-finals, they faced Algeria, in which Egypt won 4–0, making Egypt go to the final for the third consecutive time. In the final, Egypt faced Ghana. In this game, Egypt won 1–0 against Ghana, with the goal scorer being Gedo. This led Egypt to their seventh title, win their third consecutive cup, become the first nation to win three consecutive Africa Cup of Nations titles, becoming the most successful team in this tournament.
However, for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, even though Egypt were the defending champions, they failed to qualify. After the Port Said Stadium riot which caused the deaths of 74 people, the Egyptian government shut down the domestic league for two years, which affected the Egyptian national team, resulting in their failure to qualify for the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations. For the third consecutive time, Egypt failed to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations, this time in Equatorial Guinea in 2015.
For the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations, which was hosted in Gabon, Egypt had to qualify to enter. Egypt were seeded into Group G with Nigeria, Tanzania, and Chad. In their first game, against Tanzania, Egypt won 3–0. This made Egypt joint group leader by goal difference with Nigeria, with both nations having won their first game. On 4 June 2016, in their qualifying away match against Tanzania, Egypt won 2–0 and managed to secure their berth in the 2017 edition of the championship. This marked Egypt's return to the competition after 7 years having missed out on the previous 3 editions.
In Gabon, Egypt registered a 0–0 draw against Mali in their first match in Group D. Successive 1–0 wins against Uganda and Ghana saw the Pharaohs qualify to the quarter-finals as group winners. Egypt faced Morocco at the quarter-final stage, and defeated their North Africa rivals for the first time in 31 years to set up a semi-final clash with Burkina Faso. Mohamed Salah's goal against the Stallions was canceled out by an Aristide Bancé strike; however, veteran goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary saved two spot-kicks in the penalty shootout to earn a spot in the final for his team. Egypt then faced for the third time at this stage Cameroon, hoping for history to repeat itself for an 8th title. Egypt opened the score before the break thanks to Arsenal's midfielder Elneny. However, Cameroon stepped up its game in the second half and Nicolas Nkoulou scored the equalizer before Vincent Aboubakar scored the second goal in the last minutes. For the second time in its history Egypt lost an AFCON final, and for the first time lost a final to their rival Cameroon.
Egypt has qualified for the FIFA World Cup three times: in 1934, in 1990 and for the 2018 editions. Egypt was the first African country to qualify for the World Cup. The time it took Egypt to qualify for two successive tournaments (56 years between 1934 and 1990) is a World Cup Record that is shared only with Norway (1938-1994).
After beating Mandatory Palestine, Egypt qualified for their first World Cup. It lost to Hungary 4–2 in their first and only match in 1934. In 1990, Egypt was drawn in Group F with Ireland, England and the Netherlands. Since the Egyptians favored defensive tactics, they scored only one goal in the 1990 World Cup, scored by Magdi Abdelghani through a penalty. This made Abdelgani the first African to score a penalty kick in the World Cup. A 1–1 draw with the Netherlands gave the Egyptians their first point in the World Cup. They then drew again, this time goalless, with Ireland. While the Egyptians needed just a draw to progress to the next round, they lost 1–0 to England. As of June 2018, Egypt had yet to win a game.
On 8 October 2017, Egypt qualified for the 2018 World Cup after a 2–1 win over Congo. The two goals were scored by Mohamed Salah with the second one in a dramatic last-minute penalty. Salah has scored the most goals (tied with Préjuce Nakoulma) in the third round of the CAF 2018 World Cup qualification campaign with five goals.
In the 2018 World Cup, Egypt was drawn with Saudi Arabia, Uruguay and the hosts, Russia. They started their first game against Uruguay, without their talisman Salah, who was injured in the UEFA Champions League final with Liverpool against Real Madrid. Egypt's team built a strong defense with only a few counter attacks. The first half was a boring goalless draw. In the second half, things were looking good for Uruguay, who had more goal-scoring chances, however, El Shenawy made several key saves including a strong kick from Cavani. Near the end, Uruguay had gotten a free kick near the goal. But Cavani's shot hit the post. In the 89th minute, right when it seemed the two sides would draw, Jimenez scored a header from a free kick, ruining Egypt's dreams. Due to strong saves by Egypt's goalkeeper, he was voted man of the match but he refused the reward due to the sponsorship by Budweiser.
Against the hosts, Egypt was more optimistic due to Salah being called up as a starter. The first half was quiet strong for Egypt who had higher position of the ball and made several goal-scoring opportunities, but the first half was goalless. In the second half, Russia scored when El-Shenawy's punch went to Roman Zobnin, who kicked very weakly but Ahmed Fathy, who got the ball, panicked despite there being no Russians nearby, and scored an own goal right in the corner. This led to Egypt's morale going down, with two more goals coming. Mário Fernandes drove into the box before supplying a cut-back from the right for Denis Cheryshev to slot home Russia's second with his left foot. Artem Dzyuba made it 3–0 as he took a lofted ball into the box down on his chest, taking a touch to go past Ali Gabr and finish between El-Shenawy's legs with a low shot. Salah won a penalty after he was fouled by Zobnin – although it was only given after a consultation with the video assistant referee as the referee had initially said the offence took place outside the box. Salah scored from the spot to become only the third Egyptian player to score at a World Cup. This was Egypt's first goal in 28 years. Egypt could have been awarded a second penalty but it went unseen by the referee.
Five minutes before the interval Ahmed Fathy was adjudged to have deliberately handled Yasser Al-Shahrani's cross inside the area. El Hadatu produced a save to deny Fahad Al-Muwallad's kick but his celebrations were cut short when a second penalty was awarded for Ali Gabr's tug on Al-Muwallad's shirt. Salman Al-Faraj stepped up this time to fire past the goalkeeper and draw his side level. Egypt substitute Kahraba fired straight at Al-Mosailem late on. Salem Al-Dawsari finished a right-footed volley past El Hadary in the closing stages. The second penalty shot was the latest goal scored in the first half in a world cup match since 1966 at 50 minutes and 36 seconds. The second goal, while not a record, was scored at the 95th minute (despite there being 4 minutes of extra time) to which the referee ended the match right after.
Hector Cuper who was criticized due to his defensive strategies, was sacked. The Egyptian Football Association was also criticized due to having its base in Chechnya, A Muslim Russian state that has no football history and is far from where Egypt's matches were played. It is believed the EFA did this due to politics.
While the match with Uruguay had few spectators, the match against Russia had tons of Egyptians, to the point the Egyptians outnumbered the Russians (despite the match being hosted by Russia.) This was marred with controversies since a lot of Egyptian celebrities had attended for free, possibly as a deal with an Egyptian Telephone Company.
The low attendance in the Egypt-Uruguay match was due to 'ghost victors,' people who bought tickets but didn't attend. It is one of the least attended World Cup Matches in the Modern Age. The Egyptian Media and public heavily criticized EFA's management of the team. The players also refused to hold post-match interviews, with many of them facing fines or bans by FIFA.
The following 24 players were called up for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification match against Niger and the friendly match against Nigeria on 23 and 26 March 2019 respectively.
Caps and goals as of 26 March 2019 consequent to the match against Nigeria.
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Javier Aguirre, the current manager of the Egypt national football team.
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The Egypt national football team's tradition color is red.
Matches played in last 12 months, as well as any future scheduled matches.
As of 16 November 2018. Players in bold are still active at international level.
Egypt have appeared in two of the nine FIFA Confederations Cups contested, the team was eliminated on both times during the group stage. Egypt's first Confederations Cup appearance was in 1999 as a result of winning the Africa Cup of Nations in 1998. The second appearance was in 2009 as the Africa Cup of Nations winners in 2008. During the second appearance, the team achieved their first win over Italy 1–0 in the second round of the group stage.
Football at the Summer Olympics has been an under-23 tournament since 1992.
Note: * The 1992 edition organised as part of the Pan Arab Games, and also counted as Arab Nations Cup.
^ "157 appearances according to some sources, as FIFA, unlike the Egyptian Football Association, does not recognise two appearances El-Hadary made in a 2–0 friendly away win over Qatar in Doha on 28 December 2012, and in a 1–0 friendly home win over Kenya in Aswan on 30 August 2014.
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This is yet another ensemble romantic comedy, this time brought to you by Woody Allen, set in the city of Rome. There are four main stories and though I mostly watched because of Jesse Eisenberg, I quite like the story of the young couple taking their honeymoon in Rome.
Eisenberg’s story arc can be quite confusing at first, but as it progresses, you realize the tongue-in-cheekness of it. Well, don’t we all wish there was a voice in our head that could guide us along even though we know we would most likely ignore that voice. It’s good in the sense that it really helps to expose the posers around you – take heed!
As mentioned, I liked the story of the young couple because it was one of the funniest – aside from the opera singer in the shower. Alessandra Mastronardi is really classy and beautiful! And her strange encounter is kinda hot. Penelope Cruz also shone in that segment, especially when her clientele all showed up in the same place. I guess the rich and successful need to de-stress in some way.
JERRY: You know you married a very bright guy, I got a 150-160 IQ.
PHYLLIS: You’re figuring it in Euros, in Dollars it’s much less.
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The announcement that ‘Soundings’, which opened in August at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, is, according to the press release, the institution’s ‘first group exhibition to single out sound as a form of artistic expression’, is as baffling as it is unashamed. It begs the question: how can such an important museum have neglected a crucial strand of 20th-century art until the second decade of the 21st?
In London, a slew of recent exhibitions – at Tate Modern, South London Gallery (SLG), Calvert 22, Iniva and the ICA, to name but a few – have reflected a growing interest in art using sound as material. Video art with audio, art works about sound, art made by composers, sound sculpture and music made by artists: any of these could be embraced or rejected as sound art depending on curatorial agenda, personal preference or taxonomic rigour, yet defining sound art is a tricky and difficult task. For instance, Baudouin Oosterlynck’s Variation of Silence (1990–91), a series of hand-drawn maps detailing the locations of particular zones of silence, was, to my mind, the most powerful piece in the slg’s recent exhibition ‘At the Moment of Being Heard’. However, as it was only accompanied by sounds from the street, its inclusion in the category of sound art might appear tenuous to some. On the other hand, Heiner Goebbels’s Stifter’s Dinge (Stifter’s Things, 2008) – a work which exists as a 62-minute cd, a seated ‘concert’ of 80 minutes and an automated scenographic installation – effortlessly straddles the categories of sound-art, sound sculpture, musical installation, composition and performance. Over the last two decades, Artangel, who brought Stifter’s Dinge to London, have been tireless in presenting sound projects from a diverse list of artists including Janet Cardiff, Hans Peter Kuhn and Douglas Gordon.
During the last decade or so, there have been several important books heroically attempting the task of definition. These include: Douglas Khan’s Noise, Water Meat (2001); Brandon LaBelle’s Background Noise (2006); and David Licht’s Sound Art (2007). Each has assiduously examined the development of sound art – its roots in Futurism, its Cagean benediction by way of Erik Satie, the importance of Fluxus in the 1960s, and the accelerating evolution and often interchangeable identities of sound, noise and music over the last half century – while inevitably devoting considerable space to arguing for the inclusion and exclusion of various categories. It would seem that sound art is still so malleable that fulfilling the criteria of the moment can be an end in itself: if something simply has an audio component it may qualify, which is a little like celebrating as painting anything upon which paint can be found.
There is a preoccupation in particular with maintaining a divide between sound art and music, despite constant disagreement about where that divide might sit. I would suggest that certain bodies of musical work should also be seen as sound art. This is not an irreversible translation from one territory to another, but rather a parallel occupation of two zones. The development of a total sonic grammar (Morton Feldman, Harry Partch, John Zorn) and the subsuming of narrative into deep phenomenological experience (Partch, Meshuggah, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Ryoji Ikeda, Henry Flynt, Eliane Radigue) help identify numerous musical canons as perfectly congruent with ideas of art as creation unmoored from practical utility. I have attended performances of ragas in Kolkata that exceeded five hours, during which time people came and went, ate meals, attended to children, concentrated deeply and conversed. While many critics would exclude such an event from the category of sound art, it shares more with the performances of Marina Abramović than with any traditional definition of a musical concert. Indeed, the idea of variable durations, improvisation and the stretching of structure almost beyond recognition, of a sonic environment outside of time, is surely the basis of La Monte Young’s Dream House (1974) as well as of the drone works of Tony Conrad, Pauline Oliveros, Charlemagne Palestine and, more recently, Thomas Köner. Of course, musical performances have evolved and benefited from bespoke venues designed expressly for the experience of listening. Part of the struggle with the definition of sound art is driven by a pervasive sense of hierarchy in which art is supposed to sit somewhere above music, performance, anthropology or cartography.
In Sound Art, Christian Marclay declares: ‘Everything is so portable and easy to share that you don’t need an art institution to tell people what to listen to.’ Yet it is precisely this almost mandatory uncoupling of sound from any and all locations, from the sites of cause, from context and meaning, which induces us to disengage from sound as a primary phenomenon. All sound, even human speech, is in danger of becoming an arbitrary accompaniment to a life of slippery images and fleeting text.
The ‘liberation’ of sound through its ready portability – streaming, mp3 players and file sharing – is a further sign of its dissolution. Manifest artefacts of sound and music are vanishing: cds, tapes, records and a host of fleetingly innovative alternatives are endangered species. The rituals attending our use of sound invest it with an identity that is both intellectual and physical. Now, though, we rarely experience it unaccompanied by images. The ease of mp3 use actually means that most listening is accompanied by the perpetual visual bombardment of travel, by movement, acceleration and the muted newsreel of our days, by Apps, games, YouTube, smart-phones and tablets.
In 1999, I took part in ‘Sonic Boom’ at London’s Hayward Gallery; it was the first – and remains to date the only – large-scale exhibition of sound art in the British capital, and illustrated the degree to which our idea of art and its presentation has developed in the relative silence of an occularcentric environment. The Brutalist splendour of the Hayward wasn’t conceived to host sounding art works. Seasoned exhibitors found ways to isolate their pieces but many of the more delicate works were swallowed up in the ‘mix’ of numerous sound sources sharing the huge, harshly reverberant galleries. Soon after, I visited the newly opened Tate Modern and not one of its 84 galleries had a door; each opened onto the next with complete acoustic transparency. Significantly, aside from a couple of video works often audible metres away, there was not a single piece of sound art included in the display of the permanent collection. In 2010, the Turner Prize was awarded to a sound artist for the first time: Susan Philipsz’s Lowlands comprises recordings of the artist singing a Scottish lament in three different versions, devoid of any visual component. Despite this, a search of Tate’s online archive for works by any of the 20 better-known sound art practitioners from the last 50 years still yields no results. When I visited the newly opened Tanks at Tate Modern in 2012 – which are seemingly perfect for the installation and performance of mixed-media works – Sung Hwan Kim’s specially commissioned, untitled installation was occasionally buffeted by a storm of Steve Reich music from Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s performance Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich (1982) in the adjoining space.
Perhaps we should put aside the labour of reducing sound to genres and categories and concentrate instead on nurturing it as a medium, allowing it the benefits so long bestowed on the visual arts: auditing environments in which the chaos of life is suspended for long enough to allow a direct encounter with the work and the chance to grasp its meaning, intention, identity and our relationship to it. Crucially, galleries need to be designed and run with an understanding of the behaviour and apprehension of sound. We don’t sell advertising on gallery walls, or project films in cinemas which are not lightfast, or illuminate the Rothko Chapel with mirror balls, yet we seem unable to entertain the notion of sound as a vehicle of profound creative importance – one which demands its own sympathetically designed spaces.
The Finnish architectural theoretician Juhani Pallasmaa once wrote: ‘Buildings do not return our gaze but they do return sounds back to our ears.’ In detaching ourselves from sound and its origins, we’re detaching ourselves from our physical environment – which is, in turn, suffering our neglect. Architect Steven Holl, who also writes about sensory environments, designed the Kiasma museum in Helsinki, which opened in 1998; perhaps unsurprisingly, many of its galleries have automatic glass doors that isolate sound and air movement from one space to the next. When I visited the museum, the lack of sonic bleed across galleries transformed the experience of sound art on display.
We have become supine in the face of aural and visual overload. The very fact that our galleries and museums are distinct zones of visual separation from this quotidian chaos enables art and our relationship to it. Let us cultivate sound in zones that nurture its fidelity and our attention, and create environments in which sound can define itself. Sound art, in its broadest, most sympathetic definition, just may provide the key needed to reintroduce a bodily, cultural awareness of all sound.
Paul Schütze is an artist and composer living and working in London, UK.
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2019-04-26T12:55:53Z
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https://frieze.com/article/audio-visual
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BT’s Premier League own goal?
Despite a high profile advertising blitz, BT’s plans to sign up customers for its new Premier League TV channels are apparently not delivering, according to one analyst at least. The £30 million spend is predicted to only add 60,000 customers to the BT Vision service by the end of September.
OFCOM forced Sky to offer its rivals wholesale cheap access to its sports channels, allowing BT to move into sports broadcasting.
Sky’s marketing response has been powerful and emphasised how little you get from BT Vision compared to the ‘full’ Sky Sports package. A case study in defensive marketing.
Sky may have been founded on football but the market has matured. People now sign up for a whole range and package of channels – Sky has realised that and changed its marketing to target the higher revenue family market.
People understand how Sky, Virgin Media and terrestrial TV work, and how they sign up. To get cheap football you need BT broadband and line rental as well. Why go to the hassle of changing everything, particularly as telecoms companies aren’t renowned for getting service spot on.
I know there was a World Cup on so recognisable footballers were thin on the ground, but little Michael Owen is hardly A list anymore. And the inability to use team strips makes the adverts look like he’s playing for Bolton Wanderers.
Convergence of networks and content has been talked about ad nauseum and people understand they can bolt on broadband to lots of other services, like TV. But the brand they trust is the media one – Sky is simply stronger than BT when it comes to delivering content.
We’re obviously less than a week into the new football season and jumping to conclusions is a favourite media tactic –Blackpool for the Champions League anyone? Come November, when BT announces subscriber numbers things may have changed, but time for BT to strike back if it wants to score with football.
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2019-04-25T13:04:11Z
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https://measuresconsulting.wordpress.com/tag/blackpool/
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The English End of Life Care Strategy promises that all patients with advanced, life limiting illness will have the opportunity to participate in Advance Care Planning (ACP). For patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the barriers to this being achieved in practice are under-explored. Five focus groups were held with a total of 39 health care professionals involved in the care of patients with COPD. Participants reported that discussions relating to ACP are very rarely initiated with patients with COPD and identified the following barriers: inadequate information provision about the likely course of COPD at diagnosis; lack of consensus regarding who should initiate ACP and in which setting; connotations of comparing COPD with cancer; ACP discussions conflicting with goals of chronic disease management; and a lack of understanding of the meaning of 'end of life' within the context of COPD. The findings from this study indicate that, for patients with COPD, significant service improvement is needed before the objective of the End of Life Care Strategy regarding patient participation in end of life decision-making is to be achieved. Whilst the findings support the Strategy's recommendations regarding an urgent for both professional education and increased public education about end of life issues, they also indicate that these alone will not be enough to effect the level of change required. Consideration also needs to be given to the integration of chronic disease management and end of life care and to developing definitions of end of life care that fit with concepts of 'continuous palliation'.
Palliative care in the UK has been developed to meet the needs of predominantly middle aged and younger old people with cancer. Few data are available regarding the extent to which services respond to the specific needs of an older group of people with other illnesses. This paper draws on in-depth interviews conducted with 40 people (median age 77) with advanced heart failure and poor prognosis to explore the extent to which older people's views and concerns about dying are consistent with the prevalent model of the 'good death' underpinning palliative care delivery. That prevalent model is identified as the "revivalist" good death. Our findings indicate that older people's views of a 'good death' often conflict with the values upon which palliative care is predicated. For example, in line with previous research, many participants did not want an open awareness of death preceded by acknowledgement of the potential imminence of dying. Similarly, concepts of autonomy and individuality appeared alien to most. Indeed, whilst there was evidence that palliative care could help improve the end of life experiences of older people, for example in initiating discussions around death and dying, the translation of other aspects of specialist palliative care philosophy appear more problematic. Ultimately, the study identified that improving the end of life experiences of older people must involve addressing the problematised nature of ageing and old age within contemporary society, whilst recognising the cohort and cultural effects that influence attitudes to death and dying.
BACKGROUND: Measuring the quality of care for people using neuro-rehabilitation services is a complex area requiring reliable methods that account for variable communication abilities/cognitive functioning. Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) is an observational method widely used in dementia care to improve person-centred care, which may be usefully applied to neuro-rehabilitation settings. Evaluation is vital to determine the tool's acceptability in this setting. PURPOSE: To explore the views of staff/patients regarding whether the use of DCM is acceptable in a neuro-rehabilitation setting. METHOD: DCM was conducted on an acute neuro-rehabilitation ward. Q-methodology, a technique for extracting subjective opinions, was used with 23 staff and 10 patients on the ward to evaluate the acceptability of DCM. RESULTS: Factor analysis was performed separately for staff and patient Q-sorts. Each found a "consensus" factor where all participants indicated positive acceptability for the use of DCM. Further exploratory factors indicated that some staff/patients had additional views/concerns that were not captured by the first consensus factor. CONCLUSIONS: The results from this preliminary study are promising and indicate that DCM is potentially an acceptable tool to use in acute neuro-rehabilitation. Further research is needed to explore the acceptability of this tool more widely across neuro-rehabilitation settings. IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATION: Person-centred care is widely acknowledged as being important in all care settings, including neurorehabilitation. Dementia Care Mapping was deemed to be an acceptable approach for improving the quality of person-centred care on the basis of the views of staff and patients in a neurorehabilitation ward. Dementia Care Mapping, with adaptations for neurorehabilitation settings, successfully provides an acceptable framework for measuring and improving the quality of person-centred care in this setting.
Prognosis in COPD is poor and many patients perceive shortcomings in the education they receive about aspects of their condition. This study explores the experiences of patients with COPD, particularly fears surrounding death and dying. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 patients with moderate or severe COPD. Findings revealed that patient understanding of COPD was poor, most patients were unaware of the progressive nature of the condition, and few were aware they could die of COPD. Despite this, patients often expressed concerns that their condition might deteriorate. Patients had particular concerns regarding the manner of their death; the overriding fear was dying of breathlessness or suffocation. None of the patients' had discussed these fears with a health care professional. Improved patient education is needed in order to improve patients understanding of their condition and prognosis. Open communication regarding death, as advocated in a palliative care approach, is also appropriate to alleviate patients fears and to allow them to make decisions regarding the management of their care at the end of life.
Person-centred care (PCC) is recommended when working with patients with neurological difficulties. Despite this, to date there has been no appropriate methodology for assessing or developing PCC in neurorehabilitation settings. Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) is a well-established tool for assessing and developing PCC in dementia settings and the current study investigated the feasibility of applying DCM on an acute neurorehabilitation ward. DCM procedure and coding required minor adaptations for use in this setting and further recommended adaptations were subsequently identified. It was found that the DCM coding system was generally suitable and could identify strengths, weaknesses and areas for development in ward care. Q-methodology identified that staff views endorsed the feasibility of using DCM in neurorehabilitation, with staff reporting that they found DCM useful and relevant to their work. DCM could be further developed for this setting by amendments to the behaviour coding system, concept and coding of person-centred care, and a population-specific manual. DCM is a promising methodology to develop and promote PCC in neurorehabilitation.
Most research on partners' experiences of living with a person with MND is questionnaire-based with no qualitative study focusing on the period between diagnosis and end-of-life care. This study aimed to provide an in-depth qualitative exploration of the experience of living with, and caring for, a partner with MND. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with eight individuals, and transcripts analysed from an interpretative phenomenological perspective. Two main themes were derived. 'Impact on life' included having concern for partner's safety, having social restrictions, being continually tired, struggling with anger and frustration, loss of intimacy and uncertainty around the future; while 'Adjusting to the situation' included trying to be strong, retaining a sense of normality, appreciation of specialist services, adopting a problem-solving approach, living day to day and ability to remain positive. In conclusion, experiences of stress and loss are illustrated in this sample of partners of those with MND, and it is suggested both these aspects should be integrated into understanding of carers' experiences. Carers appear to inhibit their grief in order to appear strong. Greater understanding of the consequences of this would help in providing appropriate emotional support.
BACKGROUND: Qualitative research has suggested that spousal carers of someone with dementia differ in terms of whether they perceive their relationship with that person as continuous with the premorbid relationship or as radically different, and that a perception of continuity may be associated with more person-centered care and the experience of fewer of the negative emotions associated with caring. The aim of the study was to develop and evaluate a quantitative measure of the extent to which spousal carers perceive the relationship to be continuous. METHODS: An initial pool of 42 questionnaire items was generated on the basis of the qualitative research about relationship continuity. These were completed by 51 spousal carers and item analysis was used to reduce the pool to 23 items. The retained items, comprising five subscales, were then administered to a second sample of 84 spousal carers, and the questionnaire's reliability, discriminative power, and validity were evaluated. RESULTS: The questionnaire showed good reliability: Cronbach's alpha for the full scale was 0.947, and test-retest reliability was 0.932. Ferguson's delta was 0.987, indicating good discriminative power. Evidence of construct validity was provided by predicted patterns of subscale correlations with the Closeness and Conflict Scale and the Marwit-Meuser Caregiver Grief Inventory. CONCLUSION: Initial psychometric evaluation of the measure was encouraging. The measure provides a quantitative means of investigating ideas from qualitative research about the role of relationship continuity in influencing how spousal carers provide care and how they react emotionally to their caring role.
OBJECTIVE: Metamemory is integral for strategizing about memory intentions. This study investigated the prospective memory (PM) deficit in Parkinson's disease (PD) from a metamemory viewpoint, with the aim of examining whether metamemory deficits might contribute to PM deficits in PD. METHOD: Sixteen patients with PD and 16 healthy older adult controls completed a time-based PM task (initiating a key press at two specified times during an ongoing task), and an event-based PM task (initiating a key press in response to animal words during an ongoing task). To measure metamemory participants were asked to predict and postdict their memory performance before and after completing the tasks, as well as complete a self-report questionnaire regarding their everyday memory function. RESULTS: The PD group had no impairment, relative to controls, on the event-based task, but had prospective (initiating the key press) and retrospective (recalling the instructions) impairments on the time-based task. The PD group also had metamemory impairments on the time-based task; they were inaccurate at predicting their performance before doing the task but, became accurate when making postdictions. This suggests impaired metamemory knowledge but preserved metamemory monitoring. There were no group differences regarding PD patients' self-reported PM performance on the questionnaire. CONCLUSIONS: These results reinforce previous findings that PM impairments in PD are dependent on task type. Several accounts of PM failures in time-based tasks are presented, in particular, ways in which mnemonic and metacognitive deficits may contribute to the difficulties observed on the time-based task.
We report patients, family members and health professionals' experiences of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) in Barnsley, northern England. A widespread belief that having "bad lungs" is part of normal ageing shapes everyday experience in this former mining town. People with COPD, and their families, link its cause to the areas industrial past and are sceptical of a medical orthodoxy that attributes cause to smoking. They doubt doctors' objectivity. Encouraging uptake of care, promoting smoking cessation, and developing care planning would be enhanced by engaging with the significance of place in the social narrative of health evident in this town.
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2019-04-24T02:20:08Z
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My grandad took this photo back in August 1979. It shows my grandmother (at the back, 2nd from left); my two cousins (1st from left; 4th from right), my brother and sister (1st from right; in my mother’s arms), my parents (middle; 3rd from right), my aunt and uncle (3rd from left; 2nd from right). My Aunty Joy has her hands on my shoulders – I’m at the front in tomboyish trousers but a pink top.
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2019-04-26T04:03:43Z
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https://oscardandelion.wordpress.com/other-pictures/family-photographs/
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Items where Author is "Vida, Tünde"
This list was generated on 2019. April 21. 02:44:46 CEST.
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The February 7th, 1936 edition of the daily Dong-a Ilbo ran the following article.
Dancer Choi Seung-hee held Korea’s first overseas dance performance in the early 20th century when the nation still regarded female dancers as either gisaengs (entertainers/courtesans) or shamans. Those who saw her dance were so enchanted that she was heralded as “the pearl of the east” or “Isadora Duncan of Korea.” She is truly the nation’s first hallyu star, the ambassador of Korean culture.
Born in Seoul on November 24th 1911, Choi was a bright girl, who finished primary school in just four years at the top of her class and advanced to Sookmyung Girls’ School on scholarship. When she turned sixteen, she saw a performance by Baku Ishii, the pioneer of modern Japanese dance, which set her on the course to becoming a dancer. Choi’s big brother Choi Seung-il, who was working at a broadcasting station at the time, became her biggest supporter and allowed her to study modern dance in Japan under Ishii’s tutelage.
Smart and artistically gifted, Choi soon rose to the star dancer status in the Ishii Dance Company and earned fame when she starred in the company’s Seoul performances in 1927 and 1928. She opened her own dance institute in Seoul in 1929 and held her first dance recital in the following year, revving up her career as a professional dancer.
Then, studying traditional Korean dance under Han Seong-jun helped her shape her own dance world. Even before the idea of “fusion” was born, Choi combined traditional and modern dances to create her own versions of seungmu, knife dance, fan dance, and mask dance. Korean dances which had been relegated to the backstreets or the red light district were transformed into new, yet still beautiful performing arts.
Her ambition was to take Joseon’s rhythm from one end of the world to the other, according to one newspaper interview. In 1934 she held a performance of modernized Korean dance in Japan, which won high praises from the Nobel Prize-winning Japanese author Yasunari Kawabata of “Snow Country,” who extolled that her dance and love for her people should be cherished by Joseon. Then in December of 1937 she went to San Francisco and signed a contract with the Metropolitan Music Company to go on a six-month U.S. tour.
Tall and lithe with sparkling eyes and sensual beauty, Choi mesmerized America with her graceful movements. Even the legendary American actor Charlie Chaplin was reportedly her fan. After America she ventured out to Europe and showcased choripdong dance, which sparked a fad in Paris, France over the hats fashioned after choripdong, a small Korean hat worn by adolescent boys before marriage. Among her fans were world-renowned artists such as Picasso, Matisse, and Rolland. In the late 1930s Choi held some 150 performances in Europe, the United States, and Central and South America, becoming a respected artist in the global stage. However, her name was banned in her homeland for a long time.
Because of her worldwide fame, Choi was forced by the Japanese military to perform for Japanese soldiers. Because of these inevitable performances, she was labeled a traitor after Korea’s independence. She eventually chose to go live in the north with her socialist activist husband. But her husband was executed by the North Korean regime in 1958 and she is also said to have suffered the same fate in 1967. Korea’s turbulent history tore her life apart and subjected her to both criticism and adulation, but it is undisputable that she was an indispensable pioneer of Korean modern dance. Transcending the boundaries of tradition and modernity, and the east and the west, Choi was able to dance more freely and loftily than anyone else. Isn’t it about time that she was seen from a different perspective?
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2019-04-21T16:48:47Z
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http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/archive/program/program_koreanstory.htm?no=25671
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Moreno, R., and J. Kilpatrick. “Student Perceptions of Self-Efficacy in the Foreign Language Classroom: A Design-Based Research Study”. EDeR. Educational Design Research, Vol. 2, no. 1, Apr. 2018, doi:10.15460/eder.2.1.1214.
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2019-04-21T09:15:34Z
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https://journals.sub.uni-hamburg.de/EDeR/citationstylelanguage/get/modern-language-association?submissionId=1214
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I’ve been closely observing the evolution of marketing of the classic database and data warehouse products over the past 2 years with great interest. Now that Big Data is top-of-mind of most CIOs in corporations around the globe, traditional data vendors like IBM, Oracle, Teradata and Microsoft are referring to their platforms as “Big Data” or “Big Data Warehouses”.
I guess, in the final analysis, this is really an attempt by data vendors at shifting perceptions and melding CIO thinking about Big Data away from Apache Hadoop, Cloudera and Hortonworks and toward their own platforms. Certainly, there are some changes taking place to those traditional data warehouse platforms (MPP, in-memory, columnstore) that are important for workloads that are classic “Big Data” use cases: clickstream analysis, big data analytics, log analytics, risk modeling … And most of those vendors will even tack-on a version of Hadoop with their databases!
But this is not necessarily breaking new ground or an inflection point in terms of technologies. Teradata pioneered MPP decade ago, Oracle led the way with smart caching and proved (once again) the infamous bottleneck in databases is I/O. Columnar databases like Vertica proved their worth in this space and that led to Microsoft and Oracle adopting those technologies, while Aster Data led with MapReduce-style distributed UDFs and analytics, which Teradata just simply bought up in whole.
Oracle: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/big-data/index.html. Oracle lists different products for dealing with different “Big Data” problems: acquire, organize and analyze. The product page lists the Oracle Big Data Appliance, Exadata and Advanced Analytics as just a few products for those traditional data warehouse problems. Yikes.
Teradata: In the world of traditional DWs, Teradata is the Godfather and pioneered many of the concepts that we are talking about today for Big Data Analytics and Big Data DWs. But Aster Data is still a separate technology and technology group under Teradata and sometimes they step on their own messaging by forcing their EDW database products into the same “Big Data” space as Aster Data: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/latest-teradata-database-release-supports-big-data-and-the-convergence-of-advanced-analytics-105674593.html.
But the fact remains that “Hadoop” is still seen as synonymous with “Big Data” and the traditional DW platforms had been used in many of those same scenarios for decades. Hadoop has been seen as an alternative means to provide Big Data Analaytics at a lower cost per scale. Just adding Hadoop to an Oracle Exadata installation, for example, doesn’t solve that problem for customers outside of the original NoSQL and Hadoop community: Yahoo, Google, Amazon, etc.
To me, the “pure-play” Big Data Analytics “warehouses” are: Vertica (HP), Greenplum (EMC) and Aster (Teradata). But the next-generation of platforms that will include improved distributed access & programming, better than today’s MapReduce and Hive, will be Microsoft with PDW & Polybase, Teradata’s appliance with Aster & SQL-H and Cloudera’s Impala, if you like Open Source Software.
OK, I know, I am waaaay behind on the next parts of my series on System Center for SQL Server. I promise to continue with SCCM and VMM in the coming weeks. Promise!
That being said, I want to put up a tiny post today on this topic. What I am describing in this series is a data center environment where you are leveraging Microsoft’s best-in-class tools to provide a smooth-running operation where you are monitoring, managing and tuning your SQL Server footprint with minimal wasted effort and time, while maximizing your staff time and your hardware investments.
Seeing that the current trend in IT data centers is toward virtualization to achieve that server hardware optimization, Microsoft has worked with HP to put out a consolidation appliance that is built just for SQL Server database consolidation: http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/en/us/solutions-technologies/Appliances/HP-dca.aspx.
This is a hardware rack solution optimized for virtualizing your SQL Server footprint on a Windows Server Hyper-V environment. And it comes installed and licensed (included with the purchase price) with SQL Server and the full System Center Suite that I have been explaining to you in this System Center for the SQL Server DBA series.
A pre-built optimized HP rack with SQL Server & System Center may not be the answer for everyone. But if you are reading this series because you would like to consider SQL Server consolidation on Hyper-V, managing your complex SQL Server environment with Virtual Machine Manager, monitoring, configuration management, etc. the Database Consolidation Appliance is a good option for you to consider. This entire “private cloud” or “optimized data center” environment with SQL Server & System Center that I am describing in this series is already installed, configured and rack mounted for you!
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This program offers both a convenient online format and high-touch personalized weekly coaching with a PMP® certified professional.
Learn the fundamentals of project management using both PMI frameworks and real-life experiences and perspectives from instructors currently in the field.
PMI student membership and digital version of the PMBOK® Guide 6th edition is included for all students.
Project Management is a dynamic and growing field across many industries. Employers are looking for professionals who have the skills to oversee a project from inception to completion in the most effective and efficient way possible. Professionals at any stage of their career from assistants to directors can benefit from project management training.
This online certificate program covers the frameworks, process and tools for Project Management using the PMI PMBOK (Project Management Institute Body of Knowledge) complemented with real-world applications and perspectives that you can incorporate into your work whether or not you are PMP® or CAPM® bound.
Over the full program, students will learn how project managers frame projects, anticipate challenges and use the tools of the trade. They will also complete a project during the program with the assistance of a personal coach.
Personalized weekly coaching will be provided for all students with a ratio of approximately 1:5 which allows our coaches to learn about your individual situation and how best help you get what you need from this course.
All students receive a one-year student membership from PMI ($129 value) and a digital version of the PMI PMBOK 6th edition ($67 value). PMI members receive access to many additional project management resources including discounts on the CAPM® and PMP® exams.
Full Certificate Tuition $1,499.00 Register Now!
Individuals who are new to managing projects and would like to learn standard frameworks and tools that will help them on the job.
Individuals who have managed projects before, but haven’t had formal project management training and would like to increase impact and results.
Individuals who would like to pursue a career as a project manager and are focused on earning their PMP® or CAPM® credentials from PMI.
Note – This is not an exam preparation course but it will satisfy the PMI formal education requirement. Those wanting to take the PMP® or CAPM® should work with their coach to determine next steps to best prepare for these exams.
This is an instructor-led online program with a fixed start and end dates as opposed to an on-demand start model. The program is offered once a semester and students must start with the cohort.
Format: This is an online, instructor-led, cohort course.
Online Course Experience: This is an instructor-led online program with a fixed start and end dates as opposed to an on-demand start model. The program is offered once a semester and students must start with the cohort.
Through a series of reading materials, learning activities, videos, and online interactions with other students and your instructors / coaches, you can expect a flexible and engaging experience. Students generally may move through the course at their own pace as long as activities, discussions and assignments are completed by their due dates. You’ll experience the class by using the U of U Canvas (Instructure LMS) portal which is like a class website.
Individual coaches: Students will have a personal project management coach with weekly interaction opportunities. Coaches will provide feedback on assignments and guide you through your capstone project required for completion.
Capstone project: all students will complete a project as part of this program. Weekly assignments are due that build on one another and lead towards a complete project. Students will work with their coach to choose an appropriate project.
Time Commitment: To meet the 35 hour PMI education requirement, students will be expected to spend 4 to 4.5 hours a week in active learning.
Frequency: This certificate program is currently scheduled to be offered once in the spring, fall and summer semesters.
Grades: All certificate students will receive a satisfactory (s) or unsatisfactory (U) grade at the conclusion of each class and the certificate program. Requirements to achieve a satisfactory grade will be detailed in the class syllabus.
Drop Policy: More information including drop policy here.
Brent Hansen, D.B.A., PMP®, IPMA-C® is currently working as Business Development Manager (BDM) for FamilySearch International. Prior to this he was Experience Manager (XM) for Africa and Pacific Areas. He is a Product Management and Project Management leader with over 25 years of experience leveraging information technology to execute business strategies, improve productivity, and contain costs in technology, automated material handling, financial, records management, and insurance industries.
He has expertise in delivering business using proven process improvement methodologies and tools such as business process management, capability maturity model and project management, resulting in improved quality, customer satisfaction and profitability.
Randy Cox, PMP, is a project management and productivity expert. He received his undergraduate degree in Business, Corporate Communication, and Applied Information Technology from the University of Baltimore, and his MS in Information and Telecommunication Systems from Johns Hopkins University.
He also has six professional certifications: PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, A-CSM, SAFe, ITIL along with a certificate in Finance and Accounting from the University of Utah.
Kim Grant, PMP, has more than 25 years of experience across a wide range of businesses—from banking to gaming to manufacturing—demonstrating that best practices in project management are both portable and valuable. She has a career-long interest in delivering technology solutions that enhance human productivity and reduce operating costs. Kim believes that developing people and their capabilities are the keys to driving sustainable business improvement.
She’s currently the VP, Sr. Program Manager, Treasury and Deposits Operations for Zions Bancorporation. In this role, she manages a broad portfolio of technical enterprise operations projects. Key responsibilities include horizontal oversight of project execution to ensure that projects realize business benefits, as well as ongoing project management of high profile projects.
She work with operations management to improve business processes, create value, and mitigate risk. She also develops the PMO's strategic relationship with business partners as well as key Affiliate and technical operations stakeholders. Act as an effective change agent in support of enterprise objectives.
Program Cost - Tuition for the full certificate program is $1,499.
All students receive a one-year student membership from PMI ($149 value) and a digital version of the PMI PMBOK 6th edition ($67) value. PMI members also receive discounts on the CAPM and PMP exams.
Students will also receive a 2nd textbook that focuses on project management for non-project managers.
For this certificate, installment plans and deferral payment plans are available for noncredit students. Visit Options for more information.
If your company is paying for your certificate or will reimburse you for the cost of the certificate, we can help you with processing the full certificate cost. Please contact our student services team at proed@utah.edu or 801-585-1780.
Students must complete all assignments, projects, discussions and assessments required and described in the class syllabus.
The completed certificate will appear on University of Utah official transcripts.
Students will be awarded a University of Utah digital credential (badge).
There are no exams but there are assigned readings, discussions and projects that must be completed. Certificate classes are graded with a "satisfactory" or "unsatisfactory" option. For successful certificate completion, students must achieve a "satisfactory" grade in all classes.
We are seeking approval for both of these programs and anticipate approval for fall 2019.
Is this program approved for GI Bill funds or AFCOOL funds?
How will I interact with my coach?
Interaction method and structure will take place by mutual agreement between you and your coach. Interaction could be via email, phone call or video-conference interface. Live interaction with your coach is not required of students.
How does this certificate program differ from the in-person Project Management Fundamentals Certificate?
Both certificates are similar in content with the online program offering the flexibility of an online program with personalized coaching as students create a project plan over the length of the course. Both meet the PMI requirements for formal project management education hours.
Due to project work, the online course requires greater student hourly commitment per week.
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"Sang Matiz" is a Latin Fusion band that was formed in early 2008. The name is a combination of two words: Sang, meaning blood in French and Matiz, meaning "Harmonious Mixture" in Spanish. The band adopted this name because of the diverse cultural and musical backgrounds of its members. The Band has fearlessly fused traditional sounds of Peru with Rumba Flamenca, Afro-Brazilian rhythms like Samba Funk and Reggae along with modern touches of R&B/HipHop.
Back in 2007 Yuriza Jared was playing with a traditional Flamenco Band called "Cascada" based in Santa Rosa, California when she met Eddie Cabezas Flamenco/Latin Guitarist but in spite of Cascada band had been signed to a record label, Yuriza decided to quite and start the beginning sound of Sang Matiz with Eddie Cabezas(all original music) in early 2008.
Later in 2009 the duo moved to San Francisco, California where they met Cata Atria (singer/dancer) and Johny major (drummer) changing the sound to a more Latin/Indie feel. In 2010 Chicho Espinosa (bass player) decided to join part time and add Funk to the mix.
In the process of transformation, Sang Matiz gained world music styles & rhythms trying to fuse them together to send a message of United Cultures. While in the search for musicians who share the same passion, in late 2010 Sang Matiz met Miriam Speyer (Singer Song writer/Bass player) who helped with composing ideas and Bass lines; She introduced a more Pop/Jazz sound to the band.
Right after that in 2011, Joe Castellanos joined the band to push the sound into a more Funk/R&B direction. As a quartet: Miriam, Joe, Eddie and Yuri started playing around the Bayarea & Sonoma County when they met Maya Finlay Sound Engeneer/Musican who joined to play keyboard & Cabaquinho and decided to Record Sang Matiz's first Official Album having won a Recording Grant with Womens Audio Mision.
At that point we realized we wanted to integreate more percussion to our mix, so we asked Braulio Barrera (Percussionist) to join the band & bring in Afro-Peruvian rhythms, wich we fused with electronic sounds.
To close the book Jesus Martinez and Clark Seal decided to join and colaborate by recording in our Album adding traditional brazilian percussion to the mix.
Currently, we just finished our Debut Album with Maya Finlay at Womens Audio Mission to finally say, "We got the right Fusion Music to share with the world."
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Introduction - The aim of this study was to analyze the effectiveness of ga bapentin administration to bipolar patients who had an incomplete response to other mood stabilizers. Subjects and methods - Twenty-two RDC bipolar 1 and II patients were assess ed by means of the SADS and entered if they gave their consent to participa te. Ail them had suffered from frequent relapses, subsyndromal features (mo stly depressive) and incomplete response to other drugs. They all received open-label increasing doses of gabapentin until clinical response. The pati ents were assessed through the CGI-BP and a specific questionnaire at basel ine and at 12 weeks of follow-up. Results - Six out of the 22 patients dropped out for various reasons (four because of relapse, one because of side effects and one more because of poo r compliance). Eight of the 16 patients that completed the 12-week follow-u p showed at least two stages of improvement in the CGI. Using the last obse rvation-carried forward analysis, the improvement was statistically signifi cant for the depression subscale, and apparently related to social function ing, irritability and anxiety. Only one patient dropped out because of into lerance (mild rash). The mean dose of gabapentin was 1,310 mg/day. Conclusion - Gabapentin may be a useful drug for the add-on treatment of bi polar patients with poor response to other mood stabilizers. Gabapentin may improve depressive residual symptoms such as irritability, social withdraw al or anxiety. These results should be confirmed in randomized clinical tri als. (C) 2000 Editions scientifiques et medicales Elsevier SAS.
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DALLAS, Feb. 27, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The Howard Hughes Corporation ® (NYSE: HHC) (the "Company") announced today operating results for the year and fourth quarter ended December 31, 2018. The financial statements, exhibits and reconciliations of non-GAAP measures in the attached Appendix and the Supplemental Information, as available through the Investors section of our website, provide further details of these results.
Net income attributable to common stockholders decreased to $57.0 million, or $1.32 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $168.4 million, or $3.91 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2017. This decrease was largely attributable to the required adoption of new revenue recognition guidance on January 1, 2018, which mandated a change in the timing of revenue recognition for our condominiums, making the comparison between the years less meaningful. Also, several one-time events that occurred in 2017, such as the benefit from the tax law change, also impacted the comparability. Additional details are available in the Financial Results section below.
Recorded strongest annual residential land sales in the Company's history of approximately 456 acres in 2018 compared to 350 acres in 2017, a 30.5% increase, with the strongest performance at Summerlin.
MPC segment earnings before tax ("EBT") increased by $12.6 million, or approximately 6.6%, to $203.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2018.
Substantial growth in total net operating income ("NOI") from operating assets of $20.8 million, or approximately 13.1%, for the year ended December 31, 2018 over the prior year when including our share of NOI from equity investments and excluding the Seaport District, which is non-stabilized with a number of new businesses incurring pre-opening expenses, and assets sold or in redevelopment.
Contracted to sell 668 condominiums at Ward Village in the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to 191 in 2017, including 600 at 'A'ali'i, our building that began public sales in January 2018. 'A'ali'i, which broke ground on October 15, 2018, was 80.0% presold as of December 31, 2018.
Subsequent to the end of the quarter in January 2019, launched public pre-sales of our newest 565-unit mixed-use condominium project and, as of February 22, 2019, have entered into bound contracts for 252 units, or 44.6%, of the total units.
Continued the conversion of our commercial land into vibrant, income producing operating assets by commencing the construction of 110 North Wacker, Las Vegas Ballpark, Creekside Park West and multifamily projects at Bridgeland, The Woodlands and Columbia.
As a result of the aforementioned construction starts as well as the acquisition of Lakefront North, we increased our projected annual stabilized NOI target from $255.1 million as of December 31, 2017 to $317.8 million as of December 31, 2018.
Continued strong leasing activity at 110 North Wacker and, as of February 22, 2019, the building is approximately 45% pre-leased with substantial interest in the remaining vacant space. We expect the building to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2020.
At the Seaport District, celebrated the openings of ESPN, 10 Corso Como, Mr. C Seaport, SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker, By Chloe, Cynthia Rowley and Roberto Cavalli; signed a lease with Nike; and sold out 18 of 23 concerts for the Summer Concert Series on The Rooftop at Pier 17®, which was named "Best New Concert Venue" in North America for 2018 at the recent 30th Annual Pollstar Awards.
Opened our Pier 17 rooftop restaurant, R17, and the Pier 17 Winterland, which includes New York's only open-air rooftop ice skating rink, a bar with stunning views and an event space that can hold well over 500 people.
Highlights of our results for the years and three months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 are summarized below. We are primarily focused on creating shareholder value by increasing our per share net asset value. Often, our long term value creation goals can cause short term volatility in our net income due to the timing of MPC land sales, recognition of condominium revenue and operating business pre-opening expenses and, as such, we believe the following metrics are most useful to track our progress towards net asset value creation.
"2018 was an outstanding year for HHC across the business as our results demonstrated the ongoing success of our portfolio. Our MPC segment had a record year and generated the highest residential land sales in the Company's history. In Honolulu, we continued our momentum at Ward Village by delivering Ae'o, which is almost entirely sold out, and closing on over half of the homes in the building. We also began construction on 'A'ali'i, which was approximately 80% pre-sold at year end and whose homes will feature innovative design and a turn key living solution that does not exist anywhere in the market. The activity in our Strategic Developments segment was accompanied by continued NOI growth in our Operating Assets segment due to increased occupancy, and we increased our projected annual stabilized NOI target by 25% over the prior year to approximately $318 million," said David R. Weinreb, Chief Executive Officer.
Net income attributable to common stockholders decreased to $57.0 million, or $1.32 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $168.4 million, or $3.91 per diluted share, for the year ended December 31, 2017. The decrease was primarily due to a required change in accounting method as to how we recognize revenue on our condominium projects in our Strategic Developments segment. We adopted the new revenue recognition standard on January 1, 2018, as mandated by the Financial Accounting Standards Board for all public companies. The adoption mandated a change in revenue recognition for our condominium sales from percentage of completion to recognizing revenue and cost of sales for condominiums only after construction is complete and sales to buyers have closed. This change relates only to the timing of revenue recognition and will more closely match the actual cash flows from the sale of units. As a result of this accounting change, condominium revenue will be recognized later than it previously had been and will be lumpier, as revenue will only be recognized as unit sales close. The substantial majority of our closings have occurred at the time of building completion as a result of robust pre-sales and units sold while construction is underway. See the Business Segment Operating Results - Strategic Developments section below for additional information regarding the strong condominium sales this year. As a result of this change, total revenues for the year ended December 31, 2018 were $1.1 billion, a decrease of $35.6 million compared to 2017. The reduction in revenue from this accounting change was partially offset by increased land sales in our MPC segment, which experienced the highest residential land sales in the Company's history, and increases in minimum rents and other rental and property revenues as a result of increased occupancy. In addition to the decrease in revenue, largely as a result of the previously mentioned change in accounting methodology, 2017 benefited from several non-recurring items, including the tax act of 2017 and the sale of certain assets, both of which had a one-time positive impact on 2017 earnings and impact the comparability to 2018.
Net income attributable to common stockholders decreased to $37.3 million, or $0.86 per diluted share, for the three months ended December 31, 2018, as compared to $149.1 million, or $3.46 per diluted share, for the three months ended December 31, 2017 despite an increase in revenue of $163.7 million to $464.7 million primarily due to closings at Ae'o which began in the fourth quarter of 2018. We closed on 299 units of the total 465 units in December 2018. The decrease in net income attributable to common stockholders in the three months ended December 31, 2018 compared to the same period in 2017 was primarily driven by a decrease in MPC land sales for the quarter ended December 31, 2018, decreases in gains on sales of properties and gains on acquisition of joint venture partner's interest, as well as the benefit for income taxes in the fourth quarter of 2017 as a result of the tax act that did not recur in 2018.
These factors also impacted our FFO, Core FFO and Adjusted FFO ("AFFO") discussed below.
FFO, Core FFO and AFFO for the year and three months ended December 31, 2018 were impacted by a decrease in Condominium rights and unit sales, net as a result of the required adoption of new revenue recognition guidance on January 1, 2018, which mandated a change in the timing of revenue recognition for condominiums, making the comparison between the years less meaningful.
FFO decreased to $180.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $260.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2017. This decrease was largely attributable to the decrease in Condominium rights and unit sales, net and an increase in Demolition costs and Development-related marketing costs primarily related to 110 North Wacker and the Seaport District. FFO decreased to $74.8 million for the three months ended December 31, 2018, compared to $168.0 million for the three months ended December 31, 2017. While the fourth quarter included an increase in Condominium rights and unit sales, net as revenue and expense related to Ae'o was recognized as units closed in the fourth quarter of 2018, the overall decrease in FFO was largely driven by several one-time items in 2017 that did not recur in 2018 including the 2017 Benefit for income taxes and Gain on acquisition of joint venture partner's interest.
Core FFO decreased to $251.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $298.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2017. This decrease was also largely attributable to the decrease in Condominium rights and unit sales, net. Core FFO increased to $100.5 million for the three months ended December 31, 2018, compared to $75.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2017. This increase was largely attributable to an increase in Condominium rights and unit sales, net as revenue and expense related to Ae'o was recognized as units closed in the fourth quarter of 2018.
AFFO decreased to $233.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2018, compared to $279.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2017. This decrease was largely attributable to the decrease in Condominium rights and unit sales, net and was partially offset by a decrease in tenant and capital improvements as the assets continue to stabilize. AFFO increased to $95.0 million for the three months ended December 31, 2018, compared to $68.8 million for the three months ended December 31, 2017. This increase was again, largely attributable to an increase in Condominium rights and unit sales, net as revenue and expense related to Ae'o was recognized as units closed in the fourth quarter of 2018 and a decrease in tenant and capital improvements as the assets continue to stabilize. Please reference FFO, Core FFO and AFFO as defined and reconciled to the closest GAAP measure in the Appendix to this release and the reasons why we believe these non-GAAP measures are meaningful to investors and a better representation of our overall performance.
Land sales performance in 2018 was very strong with growth in total acres sold and price per acre resulting in the strongest residential land sales in the Company's history. Our MPC revenues fluctuate each quarter given the nature of development and sale of land in these large scale, long-term communities. As a result of this fluctuation, we believe full year results are a better measurement of performance than quarterly results. During the year and three months ended December 31, 2018, our MPC segment EBT was $203.0 million and $30.6 million compared to $190.4 million and $52.6 million during the same periods of 2017, an increase of 6.6% and decrease of 41.8%, respectively. The primary drivers of these changes are discussed below.
The increase in EBT for the year ended December 31, 2018 was primarily attributable to superpad sales at Summerlin and increased single-family lot sales at Bridgeland and The Woodlands Hills. Summerlin sold superpad sites totaling 241 acres in 2018, compared to sales of 202 acres in the same period last year. We achieved a residential price per acre of $566,000 in 2018, compared to $547,000 in the prior year at Summerlin. In addition, there were 620 single-family lot sales in Bridgeland compared to 391 single-family lot sales in the same period last year, an increase of 58.6%, and we achieved a price per acre of $385,000, compared to $377,000 in the prior year. There were 146 single-family lot sales in The Woodlands Hills compared to 18 in the same period last year, and we achieved a price per acre of $274,000. These increases were partially offset by no commercial land sales in Columbia this year as opposed to 2017 when we sold 11.3 acres for $956,000 per acre.
For the three months ended December 31, 2018, the decrease in EBT was driven by the timing of land sales in Summerlin and a commercial land sale in Columbia in the prior period, with no comparable sales in the current period. There were no superpad sales at Summerlin, as compared to superpad sales of 57 acres in the prior year period. However, there was a 6-acre institutional sale at Summerlin during the three months ended December 31, 2018, compared to a 5-acre sale in the prior period. The price per acre achieved for this sale at Summerlin was $399,000, an increase of $74,000 per acre over the prior period. We also saw an increase in land sales at Bridgeland. There were 240 single-family lot sales at Bridgeland which is 148 more lots sold compared to the same period last year, an increase of 160.9%. We achieved a residential price per acre of $389,000 during the quarter, an increase of $27,000 per acre over the prior year. Bridgeland has become a more significant cash flow generator over time. The trend is very promising with residential land sales of approximately $20.5 million, $30.4 million and $48.2 million in the years ended December 31, 2016, 2017 and 2018, respectively.
We are still experiencing strong demand for our land from homebuilders and do not expect a material slowdown in the pace of residential land sales in 2019. We believe that residential home sales are also a leading indicator of continued demand from homebuilders in our communities. Home sales for the year ended December 31, 2018 increased approximately 20.4% relative to 2017. However, home sales for the three months ended December 31, 2018 decreased by 13.1% relative to the same period in 2017, primarily due to exceptionally strong home sales experienced in the last quarter of 2017. Although they do not directly impact our results of operations, we believe the continued strong underlying home sales will continue to drive demand for land in our MPCs. Further, despite the 24.6% reduction in Summerlin for the three months ended December 31, 2018 compared to the previous year, there have been 105 net new home sales from January 1, 2019 through February 3, 2019 at Summerlin. This is quite strong for a traditionally slow time of year. In addition, we had traffic of over 4,750 visitors to our builders' model homes. The following summarizes home sales in our MPCs during the years and three months ended December 31, 2018 and 2017.
In our Operating Assets segment, we experienced strong NOI performance at our office, hospitality, multi-family and retail assets. We increased NOI, including our share of NOI from equity investees and excluding properties sold or in redevelopment, by $16.3 million and $4.6 million, or 10.4% and 12.7%, to $173.3 million and $40.9 million for the year and three months ended December 31, 2018, respectively, compared to the same periods in 2017. The increase for the year ended December 31, 2018 is primarily driven by increases of $6.4 million, $5.5 million, $4.4 million and $2.4 million in NOI at our office, hospitality, multi-family and retail properties, respectively, all mainly as a result of continued stabilization and increased occupancy at several of these assets. For example, we continue to experience particularly strong leasing activity in The Woodlands, and there is no better example than our Lakefront North buildings. We have signed leases for approximately 167,103 square feet and brought the buildings to 91% leased since purchasing them in September 2018. As of February 11, 2019, our office portfolio in The Woodlands was 93% leased. Additionally, NOI for our retail assets, excluding the Seaport District, increased $6.9 million, or 12.5%, over the prior year. Excluding the Seaport District, total NOI for the year ended December 31, 2018 would have increased $20.8 million, or approximately 13.1%, over the prior year period. NOI at the Seaport District was negatively impacted by costs associated with opening new businesses such as our winter attractions, restaurants and other operating businesses. This loss is consistent with our expectations and included in our development budget for the project. We expect these pre-opening losses to continue throughout 2019 as we open many new businesses in the Seaport District.
For the three months ended December 31, 2018, the increase is primarily driven by NOI increases of $2.9 million, $0.8 million and $0.7 million at our office, hospitality and multi-family properties, respectively, primarily as a result of continued stabilization and increased occupancy at several of our office and multi-family assets and increased hotel room rates and conference and food and beverage revenue. The increases for the three months ended December 31, 2018 were partially offset by a decrease of $1.7 million in NOI at our retail properties, driven primarily by NOI loss of $3.7 million at our Seaport District properties. Excluding the Seaport District, NOI for the three months ended December 31, 2018 would have increased $8.3 million, or approximately 22.9%, over the prior year period.
In the Seaport District, we celebrated the openings of several new businesses, including 10 Corso Como on September 7th in conjunction with New York Fashion Week. The store is the only U.S. location for the iconic Milan-based fashion destination. We also celebrated the opening of the first permanent New York location of SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker and signed an agreement with Nike to lease approximately 23,000 square feet of creative office space at Pier 17. In the fourth quarter, we opened the The Rooftop at Pier 17 Winterland, which features New York City's only outdoor rooftop ice rink.
For the Seaport District, we expect to deliver a stabilized yield of 6% to 8% on our total development costs, net of our insurance proceeds from Superstorm Sandy, of $731 million. We now expect the stabilization date for the Seaport District to be achieved in 2022, largely as a result of the timing for construction, interior finish work and time to stabilize the Jean-Georges food hall in the Tin Building, which is expected to open by the end of 2021 assuming we receive the necessary approvals in a timely manner. The expected range of stabilized yields is wider than our other projects as the Seaport District has more volatility than our other projects, and the ultimate results may in fact fall outside of the expected range. The increased volatility is largely the result of (i) business operating risks, (ii) seasonality, (iii) potential sponsorship revenue and (iv) event revenue. Many of the tenants in the Seaport District such as 10 Corso Como, SJP by Sarah Jessica Parker and restaurants such as The Fulton by Jean George, Momofuku, Malibu Farm, Andrew Carmellini's restaurant, R-17 and the Jean-Georges Food Hall will be owned, either directly or in a joint venture, and operated by The Howard Hughes Corporation. As a result, the revenues and expenses of these businesses will directly impact the NOI of the Seaport District. This is in contrast to our other retail properties where we primarily receive lease payments and are not directly impacted by the operating performance of the underlying businesses. Additionally, in the near term, we are opening and stabilizing a range of new businesses and due to this fact as well as the factors above, the quarterly results of the Seaport District will be less predictable than our other operating real estate assets with traditional lease structures. Further, as we open new operating businesses, either owned entirely or in joint venture, we expect to incur pre-opening expenses and operating losses until those businesses stabilize, which likely will not happen until the Seaport District reaches its critical mass of offerings. The Seaport District is part non-stabilized operating asset, part development project and part operating business. As such, we believe that the progress and results of the Seaport should be viewed independently. Starting in the first quarter of 2019, the Seaport District will be moved out of our Operating Assets segment and into a stand-alone segment for disclosure purposes. We believe that by providing this additional detail, our investors and analysts will be able to better track our progress towards stabilization.
In our Strategic Developments segment, we experienced another strong year, including robust sales of condominium units at Ward Village. 'A'ali'i, which launched public sales in January 2018, was approximately 80.0% presold as of December 31, 2018. We celebrated 'A'ali'i's groundbreaking on October 15, 2018. As a result of strong sales at 'A'ali'i, we launched public sales of our newest project, Kô'ula, in January 2019. It was approximately 44.6% presold as of February 22, 2019. Our most recent sales continue to support our ability to maintain a 30% blended profit margin, excluding land, across Ward Village. Given the strong sales momentum at 'A'ali'i and Kô'ula along with Ward Village's reputation and scale, we believe there is opportunity to potentially increase the pace of development and are currently exploring bringing two more buildings to market.
We also increased our projected annual stabilized NOI target by $62.7 million from $255.1 million at December 31, 2017 to $317.8 million at December 31, 2018, excluding the redevelopment of the Seaport District. This increase is primarily attributable to the commencement of construction of 110 North Wacker, Las Vegas Ballpark, Creekside Park West, multifamily projects at Bridgeland, The Woodlands and Columbia, and the Lakefront North acquisition.
Segment EBT decreased $94.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 primarily due to a change in accounting methods discussed previously. During the year ended December 31, 2018, we reported revenues of $357.7 million from condominium rights and unit sales only for homes that actually closed escrow at the three delivered buildings (Waiea, Anaha and Ae'o) in Ward Village. Had we continued to account for them under the previous guidance, we would have reported condominium rights and unit sales of $488.1 million. For the comparable period in 2017, we reported revenue on a percentage of completion basis at Ward Village of $464.3 million. Due to the change in accounting methods, the two periods are not comparable. From inception through February 22, 2019, we have closed on the sales of a total of 938 units to buyers. In addition to the change in condominium rights and unit sales, a $13.4 million charge for future window repairs at our Waiea condominium tower also contributed to the decrease in EBT for the year ended December 31, 2018. This charge represents the Company's estimate of total costs to complete the repairs. While we expect to recover these costs in future periods, we will not recognize any recovery until the amount can be estimated and is considered probable for financial reporting purposes. Segment EBT increased $33.4 million for the three months ended December 31, 2018 compared to the same period in 2017. The increase in the three month period is attributed to closings at Ae'o, our newly delivered condominium tower, during the fourth quarter of 2018. The increase was partially offset by 2017 gains on sales of properties that did not recur in 2018.
On December 20, 2018, the Company amended the $62.5 million Woodlands Resort & Conference Center financing to extend the initial maturity date to February 28, 2019. The financing bears interest at one-month LIBOR plus 3.25% and has two, one-year extension options.
In December 2018, the Company repaid the $174.0 million outstanding balance on the construction loan relating to Ae'o. Three repayments were made in conjunction with closing on the sales of units at the property.
On December 17, 2018, the Company closed on a $51.8 million construction loan for Lakefront North. The loan bears interest at LIBOR plus 2.00% with an initial maturity of December 17, 2022, and a one-year extension option.
On December 5, 2018, the Company modified and extended the Three Hughes Landing facility. The total commitment was reduced from $65.5 million to $62.0 million. The loan bears interest at one-month LIBOR plus 2.60% with an initial maturity of December 5, 2019, and a one-year extension option. The Company had previously extended the facility on January 5, 2018.
On October 29, 2018, the Company modified and extended the Outlet Collection at Riverwalk loan. The total commitment was reduced from $56.1 million to $47.9 million. The loan bears interest at one-month LIBOR plus 2.50% with two, six-month extension options.
On October 11, 2018, the Company closed on a $74.0 million construction loan for Two Lakes Edge, bearing interest at one-month LIBOR plus 2.15% with an initial maturity date of October 11, 2022, and a one-year extension option.
As of December 31, 2018, our total consolidated debt equaled approximately 43.2% of our total assets and our leverage ratio (debt to enterprise value, as defined in the Supplemental Information) was 45.5%. We believe our low leverage, with a focus on project-specific financing, reduces our exposure to potential downturns and provides us with the ability to evaluate new opportunities. As of December 31, 2018, we had $499.7 million of cash and cash equivalents.
The Howard Hughes Corporation® owns, manages and develops commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate throughout the U.S. Our properties include master planned communities, operating properties, development opportunities and other unique assets spanning 12 states from New York to Hawai'i. The Howard Hughes Corporation is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under HHC with major offices in New York, Columbia, MD, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas and Honolulu. For additional information about HHC, visit www.howardhughes.com or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn.
future liquidity, finance opportunities, development opportunities, development spending and management plans.
These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may have a material impact on any future results, performance and achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risk factors are described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 27, 2019. Any factor could, by itself, or together with one or more other factors, adversely affect our business, results of operations or financial condition. There may be other factors currently unknown to us that we have not described in our Annual Report that could cause results to differ from our expectations. These forward-looking statements present our estimates and assumptions as of the date of this press release. Except as may be required by law, we undertake no obligation to modify or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release.
As discussed throughout this release, we use certain non-GAAP performance measures, in addition to the required GAAP presentations, as we believe these measures improve the understanding of our operational results and make comparisons of operating results among peer companies more meaningful. Management continually evaluates the usefulness, relevance, limitations and calculation of the Company's reported non-GAAP performance measures to determine how best to provide relevant information to the public, and thus such reported measures could change. The non-GAAP financial measures used throughout this release are net operating income, Funds from operations, Core funds from operations, and Adjusted funds from operations. We provide a more detailed discussion about these non-GAAP measures in our reconciliation of non-GAAP measures provided in this earnings release.
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In general terms, the Rights restrict any person or group from acquiring beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the Company's outstanding common stock (including, for these purposes, certain derivative securities), which may block or render more difficult a merger, tender offer or other business combination or takeover attempt of the Company without the support of the Netlist Board of Directors. Pursuant to the Rights Agreement, one Right was distributed for each outstanding share of Netlist's common stock held by stockholders of record as of the close of business on May 18, 2017 and for each share of Netlist's common stock issued thereafter (subject to certain exceptions). Each Right entitles the holder to purchase a unit (each, a "Unit") consisting of a fraction of a share of the Company's Series A preferred stock having economic and voting rights similar to one share of the Company's common stock. The Rights will become exercisable only if a person or group (subject to certain exceptions) acquires beneficial ownership of 15% or more of the Company's common stock. In that situation, each holder of a Right (other than the person or group triggering the exercise of the Rights) will be entitled to purchase, at the then-current exercise price, a number of Units (and, in certain circumstances, other consideration) having a value of twice the exercise price of the Right (a 50% discount). Subject to adjustment as set forth in the Rights Agreement, the exercise price will continue to be $6.56 per Right. Stockholders are not required to take any action as a result of the renewal of the Rights Agreement. Until the Rights become exercisable, they will not be evidenced by separate certificates and will trade automatically with shares of the Company's common stock.
IRVINE, Calif., April 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) ("Netlist" or the "Company"), today announced that on April 11, 2019 Chief Administrative Law Judge (CALJ) of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) issued two orders regarding ITC Investigation Number 337-TA-1089. The first order denies SK hynix's April 1, 2019 Motion to Stay the investigation and schedules the recommencement of the evidentiary hearing at the ITC for July 15, 2019. The second order resets the issuance date for the Initial Determination of the investigation as October 21, 2019. Netlist provides high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries. HybriDIMM™, Netlist's next-generation storage class memory product, addresses the growing need for real-time analytics in Big Data applications, in-memory databases, high-performance computing and advanced data storage solutions.
IRVINE, Calif., March 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) announced today that the Chief Administrative Law Judge (CALJ) of the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) temporarily suspended the evidentiary hearing of the investigation into SK hynix due to reasons unrelated to any dispute between the parties. The hearing was slated to begin on March 11 and conclude on March 18, 2019. However, the parties only completed a partial day of testimony before the hearing was suspended. The ITC will schedule a date for continuation of the evidentiary hearing in the near future, and the rescheduled hearing will likely be completed within the next 60 days. Netlist provides high-performance SSDs and modular memory subsystems to enterprise customers in diverse industries.
IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 19, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) announced today an update on an inter partes reexamination of Netlist's US 7,619,912 ("912") patent. The PTAB's extensive rehearing decision rejected Google's three main points involving memory modules and the specific use of rank-selecting signals for rank multiplication.
IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) today announced a co-marketing partnership with Nyriad to enhance its products using Nyriad's software and unlock the power of today's most demanding applications. Netlist and Nyriad have collaborated to advance GPU-accelerated storage to create high performance systems that achieve levels of data resilience, integrity and availability not possible with traditional central processing unit (CPU) or redundant array of independent disks (RAID)-based solutions.
IRVINE, Calif., Oct. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) today announced the appointment of Chuck Hausman as Chief Licensing Officer. Mr. Hausman will oversee and direct the company's intellectual property licensing programs. Mr. Hausman brings to Netlist more than twenty years of intellectual property expertise in the areas of enforcement, compliance and monetization on a worldwide basis. He most recently served as President at Sisvel US where he was responsible for its licensing programs and litigation strategies. Prior to Sisvel, Mr Hausman was Vice President at One-Red, LLC, a joint venture between Philips, Sony, Pioneer and LGE, focused on patent value extraction. He has also held various positions with Philips Electronics, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America. Mr. Hausman holds a BS in Accounting and Finance from Tulane University and earned his Juris Doctor from Southwestern University School of Law.
As previously disclosed in the Company's news releases and filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Netlist was not in compliance with certain requirements for maintaining its listing on The Nasdaq Capital Market, including Nasdaq's $1 per share minimum bid price rule. Netlist submitted a plan to regain compliance to the Nasdaq Hearings Panel with a request for an extension of time to remain listed on The Nasdaq Capital Market through September 25, 2018. On May 17, 2018, Nasdaq granted Netlist's request subject to the satisfaction of a number of conditions. As of September 25, 2018, Netlist has met all of these conditions with the exception of effecting a reverse stock split in order to cure the $1 minimum bid price deficiency.
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with institutional investors for a registered direct offering of securities for gross proceeds of approximately $10 million. In connection with the offering, the Company will issue approximately 22.22 million registered shares of common stock at a purchase price of $0.45 per share. Additionally, for each share of common stock purchased by an investor, such investor will receive from the Company a registered warrant to purchase one half of a share of common stock. The warrants have an exercise price of $0.655 per share, will be exercisable six months from the date of issuance, and will expire five years from the initial exercise date. Roth Capital Partners, served as sole placement agent for the transaction. After the placement agent fees and estimated offering expenses payable by the company, the Company expects to receive net proceeds of approximately $9.1 million.
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / September 10, 2018 / Shares of Okta were soaring after the company reported second quarter financial results. Okta, Inc. shares were up 19.47% on Friday at the close with around 10.7 million shares traded.
IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) today announced that the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a claim construction order in in Investigation No. 337-TA-1089 (the 1089 Investigation) of SK hynix RDIMM and LRDIMM enterprise memory products. The order was favorable to Netlist with regard to both of its asserted patents, U.S. Patent Nos. The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) sided with Netlist on the key claim construction issues at the heart of the 1089 Investigation. The claim construction order serves as the framework from which the ITC will ultimately decide if the patents are valid and infringed by SK hynix, and therefore represents a critical juncture in the case.
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 21, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST) today announced the appointment of Alex Tinsley as Vice President of Sales. Mr. Tinsley will oversee the company's strategic sales initiatives, including planning, new customer acquisitions and overall customer relations. Mr. Tinsley brings to Netlist more than twenty-five years of sales experience in the semiconductor industry. He most recently served as Senior Sales Director at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies where he was responsible for sales in the data center customer segment. Prior to Qualcomm, Mr. Tinsley served in various sales roles at Intel Corporation, Altera and Cypress Semiconductor. Mr. Tinsley holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas.
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 2, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Netlist, Inc. (NLST), a provider of high-performance modular memory, announced today its participation in the 2018 Flash Memory Summit ["FMS"] at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA from August 7-9. Demonstrations of the Company's HybriDIMM™, a next-generation storage class memory solution that lowers cost and improves performance of big data analytics and in-memory computing, will take place at the Convention Center. The Company will also showcase its Enterprise Grade SSDs. In addition, Rahul Advani, Netlist's VP of Marketing will be participating in the Developing Controllers for Emerging Memory Technologies panel taking place on Wednesday, August 8th at 9:45 a.m. PDT. The panel will discuss emerging memory technologies, how their characteristics differ from flash, their special architectural features and the need for unique controllers.
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and all along we talked.
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Understand that any freeze injury is probably localized to sheltered and low lying areas. You should also now that damage to the growing point may not be evident immediately. Leaf tissue that is damaged should show symptoms after a day or two.
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WASHINGTON -- During President Obama's first term as president, Obama was criticized often for his tough stance against government whistle-blowers. The administration charged six people under the 1917 Espionage Act -- more than all past presidencies combined. "Leaks that favor the president are shoveled out regardless of national security, while national security is twisted to pummel leaks that do not favor him," wrote Peter VanBuren in TomDispatch, a liberal website.
Yet President Barack Obama signed legislation Tuesday that affords greater protection to federal employees who expose fraud, waste and abuse in government operations.
The whistle-blower law makes it easier to punish supervisors who try to retaliate against the government workers.
The federal official who investigates retaliation, Special Counsel Carolyn Lerner, said that her office "stands ready to implement these important reforms, which will better ensure that no employee suffers retaliation for speaking out against government waste or misconduct."
More:Does It Finally Pay To Be A Whistleblower?
The new legislation, however, would go beyond restoring protections, to expand whistle-blower rights and clarify certain protections. For example, whistle-blowers could challenge the consequences of government policy decisions.
Specific protections would be given to certain employees, including government scientists who challenge censorship. Workers at the Transportation Security Administration, who provide airport security, would be covered under the law for the first time.
The law also would clarify that whistle-blowers have the right to communicate with Congress.
To stop illegal retaliation, the law would make it easier to discipline those responsible, by modifying the burden of proof required when taking action against those trying to punish whistle-blowers. Also, the Office of Special Counsel, which was established to protect federal employees, would no longer be liable for attorney fees of government managers if the office does not prevail in a disciplinary action.
For years, whistle-blower advocates have pushed for such reform, according to Tom Devine, legal director of the Government Accountability Project, which represents whistle-blowers. "This reform took 13 years to pass because it can make so much difference against fraud, waste and abuse. Government managers at all levels made pleas and repeatedly blocked the bill through procedural sabotage."
But the bill sailed through Congress once some senators who previously worked in secret to block a vote dropped their opposition.
With the number of people it's charged under the Espionage Act, the Obama administration was an unlikely ally, however. Prior to Obama's presidency, only three government workers had been prosecuted under that act. But to some, the Obama administration seemed to all too eager to go after government whistle-blowers who were endeavoring to expose wrongdoing.
In one recent case, former CIA officer John Kiriakou was charged for purportedly disclosing classified information to reporters who were wading into the debate over waterboarding as an interrogation technique. Kiriakou, who'd helped capture alleged al-Qaida leader Abu Zubaydah, became a public critic of waterboarding in 2007, saying, "We're Americans and we're better than this." He was sought out by reporters researching the CIA's interrogation techniques.
Ultimately, the federal government accused him of disclosing the identity of two former colleagues who participated in interrogating detainees. The authorities didn't stop there, reported The New York Times: Friends also said that the CIA "abruptly fired" his wife, an analyst who was on maternity leave. Kiriakou pleaded guilty in October to a charge of revealing the name of a colleague to a reporter.
"There's a problem with prosecutions that don't distinguish between bad people -- people who spy for governments, people who sell secrets for money -- and people who are accused of having conversations and discussions," said Abbe Lowell, a Washington defense lawyer for Stephen Kim, an intelligence analyst who also was charged under the Espionage Act. The State Department employee was accused of revealing classified information as a result of his conversations with the news media. Kim has pleaded not guilty.
Last year, Obama met with advocates of open government who told the president that "leak prosecutions were undermining his legacy," according to Bloomberg. Obama reportedly responded that he was concerned about leaks that could "impact the troops."
With this new law, however, the Obama administration may discover that it has opened the door to people who want to expose wrongdoing closer to home.
UPDATED on Nov. 29, 2012 by AOL Jobs with background on the Obama administration's prosecution of whistle-blowers under the Espionage Act and a military judge's action in the Bradley Manning case.
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Parker Solar Probe is a NASA robotic spacecraft heading towards the outer corona of the Sun. It will reach to within 8.86 solar radii (6.2 million kilometers or 3.85 million miles) from the "surface" of the Sun and will travel, at closest approach, as fast as 700,000 km/h (430,000 mph).
It was launched on August 12, 2018. This was the first time a NASA spacecraft was named after a living person, honoring physicist Eugene Parker.
A memory card having the names of over 1.1 million people was mounted on a plaque and installed below the spacecraft’s high-gain antenna on May 18, 2018.
The card also contains photos of Parker, professor emeritus at the University of Chicago, and a copy of his 1958 scientific paper.
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We’ve shoveled out our sidewalks here in NYC after last weekend’s blizzard, and are happy to share the Storify of tweets from the super-successful (and fun) 3rd annual CUNY Games Festival!
Click here to open the Storify and relive the good times.
If you presented at the conference, please send us a link to your slides! We’ll be posting links on our Schedule page as they come in. And stay tuned for our Proceedings, which will be published soon.
We have decided to cancel the 2nd day of the conference on Saturday due to the rather extreme weather conditions looming (100% chance of blizzard during the event’s time).
Thank you for such an enjoyable and enlightening conference this Friday!
The CUNY Games Festival is nearly here!
We have two days of exciting events this year, including more informal day of game play on Saturday.
Click here: conference schedule to see the amazing side-by-side schedule of events, or here to see the schedule webpage.
Continue on to here: register to get a ticket before they sell out!
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Thank you for sharing this most profound and personal story to illustrate just how beautiful we can make the transition for our loved ones.
You are most welcome. It is an honor to be lovingly present with those who are changing worlds.
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2019-04-20T07:16:13Z
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https://tarotcounseling.wordpress.com/articles/hospice-care-and-communication-through-cards/
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It’s pronounced like teak. I like artiqe (pronounced the same way) because its a little shorter but do like creatiqe too. I’m not sure if my clients would be familiar with the meaning of the Hebrew words but I thought they carried over well to English in the way they look and sound. Thanks for your input.
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The delivery of Business Project module to Applied Engineering & Management students across different programmes is carried over two terms in two years. During this time students are exposed to a variety of subjects and topics covering all aspects of business from basic theoretical principles to real life application including Economics, Entrepreneurship, Product Development, Innovation, Law, Social & Corporate Responsibility, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, etc. The delivery of such a multi-content module by a single person would mean: (i) a stale delivery by-the-book and/or (ii) that the students do not get the best experience in all offered topics. Considering the above and following reflection into enhancing and flavouring students’ experience it was decided to utilise ‘PRO’ approach in delivering Business Project module, which meant that each week the lecture on a specific topic was delivered by a specialist in the field. Additionally, students were expected to obtain ‘HANDS-ON’ experience and become exposed to Group Business Project (GBP), where second year students formed a company and employed first year students, to work collaboratively for a real client and the business project they offered to students. The client would effectively be an external company or organisation, which in many cases was an SME based in Kent or London, and keen to collaborate with local students who potentially can become their interns and employees. Students have found these changes ‘beneficial and encouraging’, lectures ‘much more interesting’ and agreed that GBP is providing them with ‘confidence of securing graduate employment in their area of interest’.
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2019-04-25T00:58:27Z
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Uncertain weather didn’t dampen the spirits of the nearly 600 new graduates of Mount Holyoke College as they gathered in the College’s Field House to celebrate Commencement 2018.
The students gathered in their academic regalia, each bearing a single stem of lilies in their class color, red. As proud families and friends looked on, the soon-to-be alumnae filed into their seats. Their mortarboards were bedecked in flowers and feathers, many with messages to friends and family.
Some thanked significant people in the graduates’ lives: “Thanks Mom & Dad,” read one. “For Bernice,” said another. Others looked to a bright future: “We have infinite potential,” one declared.
In her Commencement address, House minority leader and lifelong Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi echoed the graduates’ optimism and urged them to tackle the world’s issues fearlessly. But rather than pat aphorisms of presumed success, she offered a piece of practical advice: Identify what matters most to you, she told the assembled graduates. Identify your priorities and make a list of goals.
“I have confidence in the impatience of youth to work very hard to shorten the distance between what is inevitable to us and to you, and inconceivable to others,” said Pelosi who received an honorary Doctor of Laws during the ceremony.
The day’s speeches, biographies and citations are available as well as the full Commencement ceremony video, which can be downloaded.
Barbara M. Baumann ’77, the Board of Trustees chair, kicked off the ceremony by speaking of a chance encounter she had had that morning with an alumna who had returned for her 20th reunion from her native India, where she had become a senator.
Within moments the two had connected and exchanged contact information.
“That’s the next chapter in your Mount Holyoke experience,” Baumann said, encouraging the new grads to connect with the more than 37,000 Mount Holyoke alumnae.
Baumann also welcomed Acting President and President-elect Sonya Stephens, who will become the 19th president of Mount Holyoke on July 1. Stephens congratulated the graduates and thanked the thousands of gathered friends and family who supported them through their time.
In addition to Pelosi, Mount Holyoke awarded honorary degrees to Sonia Nieto, educator and activist, who received a Doctor of Humane Letters, and Shirley J. Wilcher ’73, a former Clinton administration official and expert on diversity and equity, who received a Doctor of Laws.
Nieto noted that she was the second Puerto Rican woman to receive an honorary degree from Mount Holyoke, the first being Felisa Rincón de Gautier, the first female mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico. The connection doesn’t end there: In April, Mount Holyoke hosted a visit by San Juan’s current female mayor, Carmen Yulín Cruz.
Nieto’s advice: become mentors. Push, believe, provoke, support and challenge your peers to do better, to be the best.
“I wish you a consequential life and the courage to carry it forward,” she told them.
Wilcher advised graduates to bring an eye to social justice into their careers.
Pelosi noted that with her honorary degree, she joins the ranks of U.S. representatives Nita Lowey ’59 and Richard O’Neill, a former trustee of the College, in their Mount Holyoke connection.
“It is my honor to bring congratulations to the Mount Holyoke class of 2018 from the U.S. Congress,” she said.
Pelosi also spoke about her personal hero, Frances Perkins, who was a 1902 graduate of Mount Holyoke and became the nation’s first female Cabinet member when Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her Secretary of Labor. Offered the job, however, Perkins came with her own priorities and ambitions: a list of demands that the president would have to back her on before she accepted the post.
That list went on to improve the lives of working Americans by ending child labor, implementing a 40-hour work week, establishing a minimum wage and rolling out Social Security.
It was that indomitable spirit that drove Pelosi forward, too, she said, when she was called to run for office. As the mother of five children, Pelosi could not bear the statistic that one in five children in the United States lives in poverty. She outlined her own goals based on her personal priorities: children, health, education, family and safety.
As the newly-minted graduates prepared to go out in the world, they had Pelosi’s words to propel them forward and the strength of those who came before them to give them courage.
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https://www.mtholyoke.edu/media/great-launch-2018
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The RoleManagerModule class is used to assign a RolePrincipal to the User property of the CurrentHttpContext.
When a request completes, the RoleManagerModule refreshes the roles cookie that contains cached role information. If the User property is of type RolePrincipal, and that RolePrincipal indicates that its cached role list has been modified by setting the CachedListChanged property to true, the RoleManagerModule will update the roles cookie that contains cached role information.
This class is not intended to be used directly from your code.
Creates a new instance of the RoleManagerModule class.
Called by the HTTP runtime to dispose of the role-manager module.
Associates the role manager with the specified application.
A global application event that is raised when the RoleManagerModule is ready to create a RolePrincipal that represents the current user.
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heavy
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Dwyan Morgan is accused of shining a laser pointer at Tom Brady in Kansas City.
Raffaella Stroik, a ballet dancer from St. Louis, Missouri, was found dead near a boat ramp in Mark Twain State Park, police say.
Josh Hawley, Claire McCaskill Polls: Who’s Ahead?
Find out when and what time Missouri's tax free weekend is, and what items do and do not qualify for the tax free exemption.
Branson Duck Life Jackets: Were They Required on Boat?
Richard Ives, a teacher at MICDS school in Ladue, Missouri, is accused of sexual contact with an underage boy initiated through the Grindr app.
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2019-04-18T10:24:15Z
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https://heavy.com/tag/missouri/
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(CBS News) Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, visited the Road to 2012: Aiming High exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London on Thursday. The exhibition features newly-commissioned photographic portraits of Olympic athletes.
According to the U.K.'s Daily Mail, while there, Duchess Kate also took in the museum's Diamond Jubilee Exhibition on The Queen, Art and Image.
Welcomed by dignitaries, including Dame Tanith Grey-Thompson, Kate wore a blue Stella McCartney crepe dress, priced online at approximately $809. The dress description notes: "This simple shift embodies easy luxury with its minimalist silhouette and eye-catching bold hue."
Kate, 30, polished it off with a gold chain necklace, featuring a circular pendant, and a pair of black kitten heels.
Prince William's wife kept with the London Olympics theme, both by sporting vibrant blue and by wearing a frock by McCartney, who's also the designer of Great Britain's Olympic uniforms.
Kate's appearance sparked the latest round of online pregnancy reports. As she always does, Kate held her hands by her stomach, prompting even more baby rumors. The Daily Beast pointed out the "fullness" of Kate's figure on Thursday, for example.
Since last summer, speculation about a royal baby has become something of a national pasttime. So far, the reports have not amounted to anything. You can look at the pictures hereand decide for yourself.
This Portrait Gallery visit marks one of the many Olympic-related events Kate will take part in over the next several weeks.
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After reveiwing the responses to my question about using a separate flash unit a s a fill light for landscapes, I've determined that I'll be better off if I carr y a (lightweight) reflector. I'll be using it as a fill light in the near foreg round for backlighted/sidelighted landscapes, for example, wildflowers, shot wit h a 58 mm or 75 mm lens on 6 cm x 9 cm format. Any recommendations as to partic ular reflector brands that are very light weight and that people here like? Wha t size? Is circular better than square? As for surfaces, I'm thinking of a whi te surface on one side (for softer fill) and a combined gold/silver on the other (I don't want the fill to be too warm). Other ideas? I really don't want to c arry a stand to hold the reflector, so I guess I'll need to just figure out a wa y to prop it up in the field. Thanks in advance for your help.
Cardboard with aluminum foil, crinkled up and then taped in place, or an automobile shade - the kind that you unfold and palce between windshield & dash to keep the vinyl from sticking to your backside. You used to be able to find reflective wrapping paper in different colors - gold and silver would be of use here. Mylar space blankets take up very little space and can be had cheaply at sporting goods stores.
The flex-a fill I have, gold on one side and white on the other, was a gift. Otherwise I'd be using the cheap stuff. I think it's 40" ? At least 3 feet.
Check out the photoflex website, i can't remember it offhand but they have an assortment of sizes for lightweight reflectors. the other option would be to make your own. if your local fabric store carries "foil covered fabric" then buy plastic pvc tubing with elbows for the frame. this is quite cheap to make and it is collapsable for field use.
Yes, the Photoflex are nice and fold quite small. I bought a set some years ago with the same intention. But then I found it hard to manage it all and having an assistant to accompany m e was a bit beyond my means and philosophy! The circular reflectors are two types: translucent, to sof ten the direct sunlight on small groups of flowers; or reflective two sides, with choice of white, silver, gold or mixed silver and gold surfaces. A middle size 42" reflector folds in a small 14" package and comes in a nice, strong zipper flat bag. Unfolded, they can be manipulated with one hand if one side lays on the gro und or the photo bag (the other hand holds the cable release), thanks to the stiff steel belt. Folding the m takes a little bit of a habit but is quickly acquired. Manipulating the reflectors while measuring light and firing the shot takes a little bit of a juggle, especially if there is some wind! Thinking it again, I w ould certainly look into a pneumatic, long release, to have both hands available.
Howard, I looked and I discovered that I do use a PhotoFlex.
It can be awkward when the wind is blowing, but then I doubt that you'll do much wildflower work at that time, anyway. I've obtained some nice images of blowing flowers, but shadows don't seem to be as much an issue here.
You don't need a bracket or an assistant. I stand to one side of the camera and hold the reflector in one hand. I don't see this as an issue because your wildflowers are likely to be quite close to the camera.
I tried a foil covered cardboard solution, but the homemade stuff didn't work well for me when I hiked away from the car. If you don't tend to go far from your car, that won't be an issue. It's much cheaper!
My reflector is about 36". The area illuminated seems to be about 2/3 of that. I think that is because I deform the surface of the reflector by holding it with one hand. You might consider purchase of the next size up if weight is not a consideration.
I have a gold/siver model. The silver can nearly eliminate shadows, but the gold definitely does not. I have some concern that a white side would reflect insufficient light for fill, unless you were using it to bounce a strong flash. You might consider a post on PDN Online to see what commercial photographers think.
Get a few emergency ("space") blankets. The disposable ones are a devil to control in a wind, but you can get more substantial double layer ones that do the job very well. You can often make use of the tripod legs and tape the reflector across them.
A newer twist on the spring-framed reflectors is the Chameleon--a translucent diffuser with a reversible zippered outer cover that includes silver, gold, white and black faces. Offers more versatility for about the same cost.
I use a cheap $12.00 a pair truck sunshade. It is built like the photoflex (fabric on wire hoop that can be folded for transport) but is a silver grey material on one side that is not as reflective as the photoflex. Most of these are small double hoops for cars but if you look around you can find the large size (mine are each 30"x36" square) made for large trucks. I mostly use them as a wind shade for flowers in foreground or to sheild the 4x5 in heavy wind but have occasionally used them as a reflector or as a sunshade for outdoor closeups. It has also served to keep rain off camera and lens while I waited for the light to change.
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I recently developed a workshop on Interpreting in Cancer Care (if you live in the Seattle area, there’s another one coming up on March 30, 2019). Many of the participants commented on the curated list of resources I put together as part of the workshop handout and I decided to share it with my blog readers.
Why is there an article on idioms in a blog for medical interpreters? Wouldn’t your time be better spent studying up on medical terminology or learning about medical procedures?
My answer to these questions is this: yes and no. Undoubtedly, fluency in medical terminology, as well as continuing education to keep up with new developments in medicine, are a must for healthcare interpreters. However, interpreting encounters in healthcare settings are not all dense medical jargon. And sometimes, it’s not the name of a new advanced treatment (monoclonal antibodies, anyone?) that will give you pause, but an idiomatic expression.
Idioms are an indelible part of any language. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines idioms as a group of words in a fixed order that have a particular meaning that is different from the meanings of each word on its own. Some examples of idioms are: it’s raining cats and dogs (=raining heavily), to spill the beans (=to reveal secret information), to kick the bucket (=to die, very informal). Doctors, like all people, use idioms all the time. The thing about idioms though is that, while some are easy to figure out from the context, a great many others are tougher. For me, the hardest idioms are the ones that come from the world of sport since I`m not very familiar with American sports (What is a slam dunk??? Just kidding, I know what it is. Which is a good thing, because I recently heard it used by a doctor, as in: this procedure is a slam dunk). Since it would be impossible to write a blog post listing every idiom there is (according to Wikipedia, 25,000 idiomatic expressions are estimated to be in the English language), this post aims to raise interpreters’ awareness of idioms and suggest some strategies for dealing with idioms during interpreting encounters, offer some ideas for learning idioms, and provide a practical translation exercise with real-life example sentences containing idioms.
Reading is life! I am an unapologetic bookworm and I attribute my success in learning English to my insatiable appetite for reading. In addition, by reading books about doctors and medicine, I have gained insight into the medical world and have learned a myriad of new words and expressions that helped me do my job of a medical interpreter.
interpreting skills practice (see the section on audiobooks below for more details on how to practice).
This is a blog post where I finally get to talk about how great Grey’s Anatomy is and nobody can stop me! On the serious side, this blog post will describe a possibly unconventional resource for medical interpreters which can be used to add to their medical glossaries and contribute to their overall knowledge of medicine and healthcare: medical TV shows. You can find a list of more conventional resources in my blog post here.
About 5 years ago, when I was living in Novosibirsk, Russia, I got to interpret at a lecture on totally thoracoscopic radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation. The lecture was given at one of the leading medical institutions in Russia by a visiting professor. It was decided that I would interpret consecutively by standing next to the professor and speaking into my own microphone. As far as arrangements for preparations went, it couldn’t have been more perfect – I was given the lecture presentation slides in advance and allowed to meet with a cardio surgeon from the institute so that I could go over the terminology that I had questions about and run some translation choices by him. The lecture itself went smoothly and afterwards, when the visiting professor thanked me for my help, he asked me if I’d had any medical training. I told him about my extensive preparations but also said I learned a lot from watching Grey’s Anatomy. The professor started laughing until he saw that I wasn’t joking. I’m not sure what he made of that but I stand by my opinion: watching medical TV shows can be a valuable tool for medical interpreters.
If you are a professional medical interpreter, chances are that you have encountered similar situations. If you are only just starting out in the profession, somebody might have warned you about these things happening. Yes, on an ideal interpreting assignment, the doctor and patient speak in utterances of reasonable length and at a reasonable pace, not saying anything they wouldn’t want to be interpreted, all the while making eye contact and speaking directly to each other. In real life, things may not go so perfectly – and not because people involved don’t want us to do our jobs, but rather because they might not have worked with interpreters before and therefore might not know the best way to fully utilize the help of a professional interpreter. They might also have concerns about having another person present at a doctor’s appointment – one that is not wearing scrubs or a white coat and at first glance does not look like part of a healthcare team. As a result, patients might be reluctant to divulge sensitive information in the presence of an interpreter. The list goes on.
As interpreters going into a healthcare encounter, we can either hope that none of the above happens, or we can help ensure that conditions are created that enable us to interpret to the best of our abilities and allow us to do our job – that is, enable people to communicate as if they were speaking the same language. One way to make this happen is by having a pre-session.
Below are some links for websites that can be used to practice consecutive interpreting skills and sight translation skills. I am hoping these resources will be useful for healthcare interpreters with all levels of experience – those just starting out and preparing to take their exams or their first assignments, or those with years of experience wanting to brush up on a specific topic. This list is constantly updated as I find new resources and I welcome your suggestions – leave a comment below or get in touch using the Contact tab.
You can also find some less conventional resources in my other posts which describe using TV shows like Grey’s Anatomy as a resource for medical interpreters , and the ways books about doctors and medicine as well as podcasts about medicine and health can help medical interpreters not only to gain more knowledge but also to hone their interpreting skills.
Role-plays of clinical interviews for mental health and counseling from the YouTube channel of Dr. Todd Grande. He also has a vast amount of videos on various mental health issues.
Animated medical dialogues from the englishmed.com website (there are also some exercises for medical vocabulary).
A series of role-plays of counseling sessions with medical social workers: here, here, here and here.
These videos on the Patient Healthcare Education YouTube channel are not dialogues but still great for practicing interpreting medical information delivered by doctors.
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Amazing Image of Boho Floor Lamp is one of several design collections from 19 Photos Designs Lovely Ideas boho floor lamp 518 best Victorian Lamp images on Pinterest Lamp shades which is one of the very popular designs of the year.Boho Floor Lamp published on Sunday, June 17, 2018 At 3: 02 pm.
We are have 19 beautiful pictures about Boho Floor Lamp. We hope you enjoyed it and if you want to see the high pictures, simply just click the images and you will be redirected to extra large page of Boho Floor Lamp.
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2019-04-18T11:06:22Z
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https://valleyhomegrown.com/27340/boho-floor-lamp/
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Celebrated for his unique style of phrasing and his belief that musical expression should be prized above technical showmanship, German violinist Adolf Busch was one of the first leading artists of his day to embrace the recording process, following the birth of the 78rpm disc. A rich and significant catalogue ensued: from solo and duo works to some of chamber music's most famous masterpieces, this special collection details the many parameters in the classics as laid down by Busch and his esteemed colleagues – interpretations which remain unsurpassed to this day.
This 16 CD set, which you can pick up on Amazon for around $40, is the gift that will keep on giving for any serious lover of classical music. The recordings date mostly date from the nineteen thirties, but the latest remastering is remarkable in preserving the vitality and color of the playing. Simply put, no other recording approaches the level of musicianship on show here in the Beethoven quartets, or in the many other splendors in the box. Don't even bother checking the list of recorded works, just take my word for it, this is to chamber music what Schnabel was to the piano, and then some.
Get The Complete Warner Recordings Adolf Busch And The Busch Quartet at Amazon.
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2019-04-21T12:07:44Z
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http://enjoythemusic.com/magazine/equipment/1216/Great_Audiophile_Gift_2016/Adolf_Busch_And_The_Busch_Quartet.htm
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Today's post might sound incredibly simple, but hopefully the idea will spark a few new thoughts for choreographers, companies, and festivals. For many of us, we are working on joint projects, working with committees and boards, and trying our best to archive information for future years.
Google Drive and Google Docs have now changed it all and streamlined this process. How easy it is to share meeting notes, the spreadsheet with the project budget, and the "to do" list. Google Docs are great in that you can make it possible for multiple people to view and edit the documents anytime.
Google Drive also makes it so easy to access your information on multiple computers, at home, at the library, in a meeting, etc.
For independent choreographers, consider making a Google Doc for rehearsal scheduling and finding out dancers' availability. Keep the most up-t0-date rehearsal schedule on Google Drive. Also consider typing up rehearsal notes for dancers to access before the next rehearsal.
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https://dancingwords.typepad.com/dancers_using_technology/everything-google/
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usedcarsale.wordpress.com is the world’s largest vehicles market with popular vehicles from Japan or overseas at a low price. Even the vehicles which cannot be obtained easily elsewhere can be found with a reasonable price. Which vehicle are you interested in?
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https://usedcarsale.wordpress.com/2012/12/
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List honors companies that have remained ahead of the curve in innovation, growth and service.
SilverEdge Systems Software, a professional services firm dedicated to providing consulting services and software solutions to project-based organizations, is pleased to announce their selection by Accounting Today magazine to the elite 2011 Technology Pacesetter list. This marks the fourth consecutive year that SilverEdge has been part of the list.
The list recognizes top reselling organizations in the accounting software marketplace that have clearly proven to be ahead of the curve in thinking and practices. A firm is invited to apply to be on the list, from the applications, the Accounting Today editors make their selections based on growth, innovation, customer service and participation in building the profession. Many of the list’s members have turned to new revenue resources and are offering cloud technologies.
“We believe technology is a gift,” said Maria Vedral, SilverEdge’s president. “It is imperative that we are always on the leading edge of innovation in order to help our client’s be as effective and as successful as possible.” This year, SilverEdge added Intacct to their product offering. Intaact is a leader in cloud-based accounting and financial management systems.
About SilverEdge Systems Software, Inc.
SilverEdge, founded in 1988, provides business consulting services and software solutions to professional services organizations. As a Deltek Premier Partner, SilverEdge provides clients with a multi-disciplined, experienced team of professionals combined with leading enterprise management software designed to help project-focused organizations streamline and manage critical business functions and achieve business performance results. Please visit us at http://www.SilverEdge.com.
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2019-04-18T14:00:35Z
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I was pretty thrilled with what he did in The Dark Knight Rises with two eyes and couple of eyebrows and a bit of forehead so I thought let's see what he can do with no forehead, no real eyebrows, maybe one eye.
Christopher Nolan is joking of course, but it has to be said that Nolan has seemingly started some sort of trend when it comes to casting Tom Hardy and then covering his face. Following Hardy's performance in The Dark Knight Rises the actor has been seen in Mad Max: Fury Road, where he spent the film's first act with a metal mask in his face, and The Revenant, where he had a bushy beard. It seems that Hardy's most lauded performances have his face mostly covered.
Of course, the other part of the joke is that few would actually claim that Tom Hardy's performance as Bane was one of the actor's best. The mask itself was very much part of the problem as it made the character nearly impossible to understand at various points in the film. Also, in Mad Max: Fury Road Hardy barely says a word at all, with or without the mask. Christopher Nolan, however, tells the Independent that he thinks Hardy is great, and the fact that he can do such great work while being covered up is just a testament to that skill.
Of course Tom, being Tom, what he does with single eye acting is far beyond what anyone else can do with their whole body, that is just the unique talent of the man, he's extraordinary.
Overall we can't disagree. Tom Hardy's a great actor and he has the Academy Award nomination to prove that he's got some skills.
However, if Christopher Nolan thinks Tom Hardy does his best work while covered up, we have to wonder what the director thinks of Hardy's performance in Inception? Did Nolan decide to start covering up Hardy after being forced to look at him during that shoot?
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2019-04-26T16:35:12Z
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https://www.cinemablend.com/news/1685250/why-christopher-nolan-likes-to-cover-tom-hardys-face-in-his-films
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งานศิลป์ Memory (ความจำ) ปี ค.ศ. 1896 ของโอลิน ลีไว วอร์เนอร์ อยู่ที่หอสมุดรัฐสภา ตึกทอมัส เจฟเฟอร์สัน เมืองวอชิงตัน ดี.ซี.
การเข้ารหัสของความจำใช้งาน (working memory) รวมการทำงานของนิวรอนที่เกิดขึ้นเพราะข้อมูลทางประสาทสัมผัส ที่คงอยู่แม้หลังจากข้อมูลทางประสาทสัมผัสนั้นหมดไปแล้ว (Jensen and Lisman 2005; Fransen et al. 2002) ส่วนการเข้ารหัสของความจำอาศัยเหตุการณ์มีความเกี่ยวข้องกับความเปลี่ยนแปลงอย่างถาวรในโครงสร้างโมเลกุลที่ปรับเปลี่ยนการส่งสัญญาณผ่านไซแนปส์ระหว่างนิวรอน ตัวอย่างของการเปลี่ยนแปลงโดยโครงสร้างเช่นนี้พบได้ในกระบวนการ long-term potentiation (LTP) และ spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) การทำงานที่คงอยู่ได้ในความจำใช้งานสามารถเพิ่มสมรรถภาพความเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ไซแนปส์และที่เซลล์ในการเข้ารหัสความจำอาศัยเหตุการณ์ (Jensen and Lisman 2005) .
แม้ว่าเราอาจจะคิดว่า ความจำเป็นเหมือนกับเครื่องอัดวีดิโอ แต่นี่ไม่ใช่ความจริง กลไกทางโมเลกุลที่เป็นฐานของการเกิดและการรักษาความจำมีภาวะที่เป็นพลวัต (คือไม่อยู่กับที่) และประกอบด้วยระยะต่าง ๆ ที่มีช่วงเวลาเป็นวินาทีจนถึงทั้งชีวิต จริง ๆ แล้ว ผลงานวิจัยแสดงว่า สิ่งที่เราจำได้เป็นสิ่งที่สร้างขึ้น (ใหม่) คือ เราสร้างความจำทั้งที่เมื่อมีการเข้ารหัสทั้งที่เมื่อมีการระลึกถึง ความจริงนี้ รู้ได้จากผลงานวิจัยคลาสิกในปี ค.ศ. 1974 ที่ให้ผู้ร่วมการทดลองดูภาพยนตร์เกี่ยวกับอุบัติเหตุที่ท้องถนน และถามว่า ได้เห็นอะไร นักวิจัยพบว่า บุคคลที่ได้รับคำถามว่า "รถเหล่านั้นวิ่งเร็วแค่ไหนเมื่อวิ่งเข้าบี้กัน" จะให้ความเร็วประเมินที่สูงกว่าบุคคลที่ได้รับคำถามว่า "รถเหล่านั้นวิ่งเร็วแค่ไหนเมื่อชนกัน"
↑ "ศัพท์บัญญัติอังกฤษ-ไทย, ไทย-อังกฤษ ฉบับราชบัณฑิตยสถาน (คอมพิวเตอร์) รุ่น ๑.๑"
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↑ How fast were the cars going when they smashed into each other?
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Memory-related resources from the National Institutes of Health.
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VIDEO: Antetokounmpo’s 15 points and 11 assists lead the Bucks over Memphis on Thursday.
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — The Memphis Grizzlies are having a weird season. Right now, they’re just trying to survive with Marc Gasol out for the season and a plethora of other injuries. Seven other Grizzlies missed Thursday’s loss in Milwaukee and only three guys — JaMychal Green, Ryan Hollins and Jarell Martin — have played all 10 games in March. Hollins was signed in January and Martin had played in four games prior to this month.
On Monday, with eight guys out, the Grizzlies lost by 49 points in Houston. It was the second time this season that they’ve lost by at least that many points, having lost 119-69 at Golden State in their fourth game of the season.
The Grizzlies are 2-9 in games decided by 18 points or more and have been outscored by 112 points this season, the ninth best mark in the Western Conference. Yet, they’re 39-30 and in fifth place, despite a four-game losing streak.
Only the Warriors (24-1) and Spurs (15-6) have been better in games that were within five points in the last five minutes than the Grizzlies, who are 25-12 in those games. Memphis has both a top-five offense and a top-five defense in clutch situations.
The Western Conference point differential standings would have the Spurs as the top seed in the West and the Jazz as the five seed, with the Grizzlies in the Lottery. In the East, the Pistons would be in and the Bulls would be out.
With all their injuries, the Grizzlies are seemingly sinking in the real standings, and they have the toughest remaining schedule among teams currently seeded 5-9 in the West. But they still have a four-game lead for fifth place, because the teams behind them haven’t posed much of a threat to move up. The sixth-place Blazers have lost six of their last eight games, struggling against a tough schedule. The seventh-place Rockets are 9-12 since late January and the eighth-place Mavs have lost six of their last seven.
The ninth-place Jazz have won four straight after a 3-10 stretch and are just a game behind the Rockets and Mavs. But the Jazz play their next five games on the road, where they haven’t defended nearly as well they have at home. In fact, no team has a bigger home-road differential in defensive efficiency than Utah.
Even since they got Derrick Favors and Rudy Gobert back from injuries, the Jazz have struggled to get stops away from home. They’ve allowed 108.6 points per 100 possessions over the 11 road games since Favors returned in late January.
After trading Enes Kanter and promoting Gobert to starting center, the Jazz were the league’s best defensive team, by a wide margin, after the All-Star break last season. They’ve been a good defensive team this year, but haven’t been able to replicate last year’s late-season success.
Utah’s five-game trip begins Saturday in Chicago and includes two games against top-10 offenses, including a critical game in Houston next Wednesday.
The Jazz, though, do have a much easier remaining schedule than the Mavs, who look like the pick to miss the playoffs.
The Grizzlies’ season-long mark of minus-112 wouldn’t be close to being the worst plus-minus for a playoff team. Last year’s Nets (minus-236) claimed eighth place in the East by winning a head-to-head tiebreaker with Indiana, who had a positive plus-minus (plus-23) for the season.
The Nets’ mark was the worst raw point differential for a playoff team since the 1991-92 Miami Heat (minus-345). That Heat team (38-44) is one of two since the 1970-71 season that won 10 more games than their point differential said they should. They made the playoffs with a point differential of a 28-54 team.
The 1985-86 Clippers also had a 10-game differential between their actual wins (32) and “expected” wins (22), a mark that could be eclipsed by this year’s Grizzlies with another loss by 40-plus. And with four more games against the Spurs and Warriors, that’s a real possibility.
Instead of pushing him to pattern his game after him, O’Neal said he’s told his son to learn the game by watching power forward Anthony Davis, the New Orleans Pelicans’ transcendent star who finished fifth in the league’s MVP voting last season.
”I told him to watch Anthony because he’s probably going to be the same height and have the same type of build,” said O’Neal, who returned to Baton Rouge to host his annual annual LSU Life Skills Golf Classic at Carter Plantation on Friday in Springfield. ”Not skinny, but long.
Already at 6-foot-8, Shareef O’Neal also is doing his own thing to turn heads. He emerged in AAU ball this summer playing for the California Supreme as a power forward.
Unlike his father, the younger O’Neal has a mid-range game, capable of scoring from the perimeter and can handle the ball. O’Neal said Shareef O’Neal also is learning from watching LeBron James, Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant.
Only a sophomore at the Windward School in Los Angeles, Shareef O’Neal has already received scholarship offers from USC and UCLA.
O’Neal expects more to come, but said he is going to allow his son to make his own decisions and not steer him to LSU or any other school.
At LSU, O’Neal was a two-time SEC Player of the Year and the fourth leading scorer (1,941 points) in school history behind only Pete Maravich, Durand Macklin and Howard Carter. He was the No. 1 overall pick in the 1992 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic.
In the NBA, O’Neal won four NBA championships in 19 seasons, scoring 28,596 career points and grabbing 13,099 rebounds.
Williams’ body and impact have been in steady decline since he was shipped out of Utah as a proactive strike against his impending free agency. But the intrigue surrounding one of the league’s most enigmatic talents continues to grow.
Do you remember when it seemed Williams was on the fast track to the Hall of Fame, when he could do things like this? Yeah, nobody else does, either. And the story of what happened, and what sort of arc Williams’ career will track in Dallas, is no less mystifying than his lethal crossover used to be.
The Mavericks, stung by the reversal of free agent DeAndre Jordan, harbor no delusions that Williams will ever reclaim his once rightful and perennial All-Star status. With a low-risk deal for $10 million over two years — on the heels of the $27 million buyout that mercifully ended his ill-fated tenure in Brooklyn — the Mavs are merely hoping for serviceable.
That’s how far the 31-year-old Williams has fallen. For a player once so dominant and electrifying that he stood toe-to-toe with — and, at times, towered over — Chris Paul in the debate over who was the best point guard in the NBA, serviceable is now the goal.
Williams’ stunning decline in New Jersey and Brooklyn over the past four-plus seasons puts him squarely in the discussion of the NBA’s biggest $100 million busts in the modern era — along with the likes of Shawn Kemp, Allan Houston, Gilbert Arenas and Rashard Lewis. But even more so than any of those guys, the case of Williams’ demise, or at least the suddenness of it, remains mystifying. We know about the ankle problems, the fallout in Utah, all of that. But to fall this far so quickly? According to league sources dialed into Williams’ ill-fated time under the bright lights in New York, the point guard’s journey from elite to scrap heap was both physical and mental — a tale of superstar wanderlust gone terribly wrong.
“He played a lot better with less than he did with more, when he was more of a focal point,” former Nets assistant GM Bobby Marks said.
No one put Williams on blast more candidly than his one-time Brooklyn teammate, Paul Pierce, who torched the three-time All-Star in an infamous interview with Jackie MacMullan back in April.
With NBA legend Moses Malone, there was always laughter, a gift he happily shared and left for those that gathered Saturday to remember him. The pain and shock and loss were still fresh at his memorial less than a week after he had died in Virginia. But there were stories to tell and imitations to share. Malone was mourned, but also fittingly celebrated.
Mourners had flocked from around the country to Houston, Malone’s adopted hometown, with an estimated 1,200 people gathering at Lakewood Church – formerly The Summit, where Malone starred for the Rockets – to honor the life of an icon and to support one another with reminders of why he had become such a beloved part of NBA and Houston sports history.
So as they spoke, they punctuated stories with imitations of Malone’s distinctive, rapid-fire mumble. And as he had so many times before, he left them laughing.
“That’s how Moses was,” said Charles Barkley, who delivered the eulogy for the former Philadelphia 76ers teammate he called “Dad.” “He made you smile. He made you laugh. And he loved everybody.
Malone, 60, died Sunday in Norfolk, Va. The Virginia medical examiner’s office listed his cause of death as hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Malone was survived by his sons, Moses Malone, Jr., Michael Earl and Micah, a granddaughter, Mia.
One of the giants of basketball history was celebrated by many members of that most exclusive club. Among those in attendance were former Rockets teammates Rudy Tomjanovich, Calvin Murphy, John Lucas and Major Jones as well as Julius Erving and Maurice Cheeks, with whom Malone won the 1983 NBA championship with the Philadelphia 76ers.
Other former players who attended the ceremony included Dominique Wilkins, Ralph Sampson, Clyde Drexler, George Gervin, Artis Gilmore, Alex English and Tracy McGrady.
They came out of love and admiration for one their own who was still even in their company special.
“He did it his own way,” Erving said, comparing basketball’s “Chairman of the Boards” to another. “You have to compare him to Frank Sinatra, a guy who did it his own way and in the process, changed everything. Moses wasn’t the smoothest. He wasn’t the most articulate. There’s a short list of things he wasn’t and a long list of things that he was.
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If you are an artist, then you've already succeeded in dressing like one. There is no single "look" when it comes to the clothes artists wear. However, there are certain aspects of your wardrobe you can tailor to make sure that you have the right clothing to work in, that your creative talents will be utilized, and that you will stand out as an artist in professional situations. On the other hand, if you'd rather emulate the popular image of a stereotypical artist, it's a trendy look that's not difficult to achieve.
Wear comfortable clothing while you work. As an artist, you will be spending long hours honing your craft. Whether you're working at an easel or on a computer, you want to make sure you're as comfortable as possible.
If you work with a messy medium like paint, avoid clothing that is too baggy, especially if it has sleeves. Even if you aren't worried about getting your work clothes dirty, too-loose clothing may end up smearing your work.
Protect your clothing. If you work with anything that can stain, such as paint or ink, you should take precautions to keep media away from your clothes. Cover up with an apron or a painting smock. Make sure it's made of a thick enough material that your media won't soak through quickly.
Avoid working in clothes that you mind ruining. Even with taking care and wearing an apron, you are likely to still get the odd splash of paint here or there. Washing immediately may take care of most media on various fabrics, but you are bound to get the occasional permanent stain. Don't wear your best slacks in the studio.
Work with what you have. As a young artist, you probably don't have a lot of money. Instead of pining for designer jeans way out of your price range, learn to build a stylish wardrobe without breaking the bank.
Keep your clothes in good condition. Clothes that last longer will save you money.
T-shirts and jeans may sound like a mundane combo, but you can use your own personal style to stand out. Wear T-shirts of your own design or that are otherwise unique. Wear jeans that are other colors besides the typical denim blue.
A simple, creative way to stretch your wardrobe is to "mix and match" different pieces to create unique looks. Simply switching jackets between two suits will give you two "new" outfits.
Shop at thrift stores. Second hand shops are the best way to stretch your clothing budget. In addition to basics and run-of-the-mill pieces, you'll be able to find unique styles at an affordable price. Look for quirky, odd "signature" pieces that fit your personality and will make you stand out.
You can find retro and modern styles and then easily mix and match them.
Most thrift shops have one or more glass cases in the front where they display nicer items, often jewelry. These items may be more expensive than typical thrift shop wares, but will still cost significantly less than retail. It's a great place to look for interesting pieces.
Stop paying attention to brands. While brand names sometimes mean quality, more often than not you end up paying for the name. As an artist, that's a luxury you are not likely to afford. Besides, how creative can you look when you're dressed just like everyone else?
An exception is to remember which brands actually do make quality clothing that lasts. This type of brand may be a little more expensive but will save you money over time. Keep your eyes peeled for them when thrifting or browsing auction websites.
Do your own thing. Above all, to look like an artist you should dress how you want to. This could mean bright, attention-grabbing getup's that "push the boundaries." Or you may want to keep things casual and monochrome. You may even decide to do both on different days of the week. The choice is yours.
Sew your own clothes. You don't have to be a fashion designer to make your own clothing. Working from a pattern makes sewing your own wardrobe relatively simple. Check out your local fabric store for some wild, off-beat patterns you wouldn't find on store-bought clothes. As your skill-level increases, you may even decide to design pieces from scratch without an existing sewing pattern.
Screen print your own T-shirts. Are you tired of seeing the same old T-shirt designs? Make custom shirts that nobody else in the world can wear.
If you have a business or studio, design T-shirts with its name and logo. If the shirts are eye-catching, wearing them can get complete strangers interested in your art.
Create unique accessories. Find original buttons or add faux jewels to your clothes. Try your hand at basic jewelry crafts to make accessories that are both different and fit perfectly into your personal style. Upcycle any odd knickknack that can be incorporated into your clothes and accessories.
Wear uncommon but not outlandish colors. When attending semi-formal business and social events, you will want to look both creative and sophisticated. These are prime networking environments, and you never know who may want to buy an expensive piece or give you your next job. Look sharp while standing out with a dark green or brown suit or dress.
Add a belt. Belts enhance the style of any outfit they're worn with. When sporting an otherwise plain ensemble, a decorative belt and/or an interesting buckle can help you stand out from the crowd. Let others know more about your personal style and artistic interests with this small detail.
Tooled leather is fairly uncommon in modern belts, and wearing a tooled leather belt is a simple way of looking unique.
You can pick a belt buckle that holds some significance to either you or your art. For example, if your art frequently has an ocean theme, a buckle with a jellyfish or shark is a good choice.
If you work with metal or leather, your belt is a great place to display your talents.
Look for unique jewelry that ties your look together. Look for pieces that are funky, foreign, expensive or well-made. Jewelry with intricate details or pieces that hearken back to the 80s are also good artistic choices. If a piece is particularly large or wild-looking, it may be best to save it for casual outfits, rather than wear it to something dressier like an art opening.
Just like your belt buckle, your jewelry can reflect your interests and art. For example, if you're interested in astronomy and/or frequently incorporate spacescapes, try finding jewelry that features planets or supernovae.
Avoid pieces that look too expensive or ostentatious, even if you didn't pay much for them. It may be harder to sell your work if a potential buyer sees you decked out in gold and diamonds.
Dress down. Artists are famously known to dress more casually than average. However, you want to make sure you don't come off as sloppy or unstylish. If you don't take the time to put creativity into your outfit, some people may doubt the level of creativity you put into your art. Instead, dress down in a deliberate fashion rather than randomly throwing on jeans and a T-shirt. Make sure your clothing is clean and fits well.
Get a blunt cut from your stylist and ask him or her to add bangs.
Arrange your hair into dreadlocks if that works for your hair type.
Dye or streak your hair with a unique color. If you're wary of making a major change to your hair color that you can't undo, then use a temporary dye. If your hair is braided or dreadlocked, one or two strands dyed a bright color will really pop. When adding a streak to your hair, having it closer to your face will have the biggest impact.
Back comb or "tease" your hair with a brush and some hairspray to give it volume. While most people who tease their hair today hide the knots with unteased hair, a popular "artsy" look is to make your back combing look obvious.
Stop straightening or curling your hair. Let it return to its natural state.
Choose a style that defies gender stereotypes. If you're a girl, go with extremely short hair. If you're a guy, grow your hair long.
Get piercings. You can pierce your eyebrow, your lip or your nose for dramatic effect. Gauged earlobes are another popular piercing choice. Just remember that, unlike most other types of piercings, earlobe stretching is likely to be permanent. If you want something more subtle, pierce your ear cartilage.
Consider tattoos. Tattoos themselves are an art form, and having a few may show off your creative side. If you consider your body a canvas, you might want to get tattooed in a way you find meaningful. Don't be thoughtless about it, though; you don't want to get a tattoo you'll regret.
If you are a visual artist, consider drawing your own design for your tattoo artist to use.
The modern artist stereotype often includes full sleeves and/or neck tattoos.
If you don't want to commit to the artist look for life, try temporary tattoos instead.
Stop shaving. You may want to grow out your facial hair or change your other shaving habits. Do what you want, and don't conform to social pressure. Shaving is a personal choice. Some artists shave, and some don't. However, the popular image of an artist usually has a beard or at least some stubble.
Wear stylish jeans. While skinny jeans may be the fashion, remember that as an artist you want to set yourself apart from the crowd. Your jeans can also be ripped and faded. However, artsy guys should never wear ill-fitting or ruined dress pants.
Wear a lot of black. Artists dressing all in black is a stereotype for good reason. In addition to flattering any figure, black also shows dirt and stains much less compared with other colors. When you're an artist with a limited budget, black clothes will save you cleaning and replacement costs. Artists also often wear black to events where they showcase their art. The monochromatic look draws attention away from them and onto their work.
Wear a beret. A black beret is the ultimate artist fashion cliché. Fortunately, it also happens to be stylish. Berets look good on both guys and girls and can be worn a variety of ways. Get one for yourself to really sell the artistic look you're going for.
Dress so that art can happen. Wear leggings that allow you to dance, or choose shirts that can be splattered with paint or charcoal.
Understand that the world, including your clothing, is a palette for self-expression. Find what makes you feel happy or alive, not what others tell you is fashionable. If you throw yourself into your look with poise and self-confidence, then you will pull off any style. Believe you look cool and wear whatever truly appeals to your sensibilities.
Media-stained hands and clothes are often the unifying "look" for most young artists. If you want the world to know you're an artist, don't wash away ink and paint stains when they happen.
Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 309,005 times.
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scream about my own studies, my self derision, what is it that matters what I do?
Do you know who you are? Do you know who you are?
all the work and focus.
I would kill off all of my characters before chapter three.
how have houses held this hell?
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https://natejamesanderson.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/alphabet-soup/
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When Was the Printing Press Invented?
The printing press is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers. Created in China and revolutionizing society there, the press was further developed in Europe in the 15th Century.
No one knows when the first printing press was invented, or who invented it, but the oldest known printed text originated in China during the first millennium A.D.
The Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist book from Dunhuang, China, dating to around 868 A.D. during the Tang Dynasty, is said to be the oldest known printed book.
The Diamond Sutra was created with a method known as block printing, which utilized panels of hand-carved wood blocks in reverse.
Some other texts have survived from Dunhuang as well, including a printed calendar from around 877 A.D., mathematic charts, vocabulary guidance, etiquette instruction, funeral and wedding guides, children’s educational material, dictionaries and almanacs.
It was during this period of early printing that rolled-up scrolls began to be replaced by book-formatted texts. Woodblock printing was also used in Japan and Korea at the time, and metal block printing was also developed at some point during that period, typically for Buddhist and Taoist texts.
Moveable type, which replaced panels of printing blocks with moveable individual letters that could be reused, was developed by Bi Sheng, from Yingshan, Hubei, China, who lived roughly from 970 to 1051 A.D.
The first moveable type was carved into clay and baked into hard blocks which were then arranged onto an iron frame that was pressed against an iron plate.
The earliest mention of Bi Sheng’s printing press is in the book Dream Pool Essays, written in 1086 by scientist Shen Kuo, who noted that his nephews came into possession of Bi Sheng’s typefaces after his death.
Shen Kuo explained that Bi Sheng did not use wood because the texture is inconsistent and absorbs moisture too easily, and also presents a problem of sticking in the ink. The baked clay cleaned-up better for reuse.
By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, which ruled from 1127 to 1279 A.D., books had become prevalent in society and helped create a scholarly class of citizen that had the capabilities to become civil servants. Massive printed book collections also became a status symbol for the wealthy class.
Woodtype made a comeback in 1297 when Ching-te magistrate Wang Chen printed a treatise on agriculture and farming practices called Nung Shu.
Wang Chen devised a process to make the wood more durable and precise and then created a revolving table for typesetters to organize with more efficiency and offer greater speed in printing.
Nung Shu is considered the world’s first mass-produced book, was exported to Europe and, coincidentally, documented many Chinese inventions that have been traditionally attributed to Europeans.
Wang Chen’s method of woodblock type continued to be used by printers in China.
In Europe, the printing press did not appear until 150 years after Wang Chen’s innovations.
Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany, when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France, in 1440.
He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially.
Integral to Gutenberg’s design was replacing wood with metal and printing blocks with each letter, creating the European version of moveable type.
In order to make the type available in large quantities and to different stages of printing, Gutenberg applied the concept of replica-casting, which saw letters created in reverse in brass and then replicas made from these molds by pouring molten lead.
Researchers have speculated that Gutenberg actually used a sand-casting system that uses carved sand to create the metal molds. The letters were fashioned to fit together uniformly to create level lines of letters and consistent columns on flat media.
Gutenberg’s process would not have worked as seamlessly as it did if he had not made his own ink, devised to affix to metal rather than wood. Gutenberg was also able to perfect a method for flattening printing paper for use by using a winepress, traditionally used to press grapes for wine and olives for oil, retrofitted into his printing press design.
Gutenberg borrowed money from Johannes Fust to fund his project and in 1452, Fust joined Gutenberg as a partner to create books. They set about printing calendars, pamphlets and other ephemera.
In 1452, Gutenberg produced the one book to come out of his shop: a Bible. It’s estimated he printed 180 copies of the 1,300-paged Bible, as many as 60 of them on vellum. Each page of the Bible contained 42 lines of text in Gothic type, with double columns and featuring some letters in color.
For the Bible, Gutenberg used 300 separate molded letter blocks and 50,000 sheets of paper. Many fragments of the books survive, with 21 complete copies, and four complete copies of the vellum version.
In 1455, Fust foreclosed on Gutenberg and, in an ensuing lawsuit, all of Gutenberg’s equipment went to Fust and Peter Schoffer of Gernsheim, Germany, a former calligrapher.
Gutenberg is believed to have continued printing, probably producing an edition of the Catholicon, a Latin dictionary, in 1460. But Gutenberg ceased any efforts at printing after 1460, possibly due to impaired vision. He died in 1468.
Schoffer made use of Gutenberg’s press as soon as it was acquired, and he is considered to be a technically better printer and typographer than Gutenberg was. Within two years of seizing Gutenberg’s press, he produced an acclaimed version of The Book of Psalms that featured a three-color title page and varying types within the book.
One notable detail about this edition is the inclusion of a colophon for the very first time in history. A colophon is the section of a book that details publication information. Ten copies of this edition of The Book of Psalms are known to still exist.
The spread of printing as a trade benefited from workers in Germany who had helped Gutenberg in his early printing experiments, who then went on to become printers, and who taught the trade to others.
After Germany, it was Italy who was the next recipient of Gutenberg’s invention, with the printing press brought to the country in 1465. By 1470, Italian printers began to make a successful trade in printed matter.
German printers were invited to set up presses at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1470, with the librarian there choosing books to be printed, mostly textbooks, for the students. By 1476, other German printers had moved to Paris and set-up private companies.
Spain welcomed German printers in 1473, in Valencia, spreading to Barcelona in 1475. In 1495, Portugal invited printers to Lisbon.
Gutenberg’s invention was brought to England in 1476 by William Caxton, an Englishman who had lived in Bruges, Belgium, for years. Caxton went to Cologne to learn to print in 1471 in order to set up a press in Bruges and publish his own translations of various works.
After returning to England, he set up a press in Westminster Abbey, where he worked as a printer for the monarchy until his death in 1491.
The worldwide spread of the printing press meant greater distribution of ideas that threatened the ironclad power structures throughout Europe.
In 1501, Pope Alexander VI promised excommunication for anyone who printed manuscripts without the church’s approval. Twenty years later, books from John Calvin and Martin Luther spread, bringing into reality what Alexander had feared.
Furthering that threat, Copernicus published his On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, which was seen as heresy by the church.
By 1605, the first official newspaper, Relation, was printed and distributed in Strasbourg. Newspapers appeared all across Europe, formalizing the printing press’ contribution to the growth of literacy, education, and the far-reaching availability of uniform information for ordinary people.
The Invention of Printing. Theodore Low De Vinne.
500 Years of Printing. S.H. Steinberg.
Printer’s Error: An Irreverent History of Books. Rebecca Romney.
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 5, Chemistry and Chemical Technology, Paper and Printing. Joseph Needham, Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin.
Cambridge Illustrated History of China. Patricia Buckley Ebrey.
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"I Will Remember", the lead cut, is a powerful Grobanesque work. But the project covers a lot of ground stylistically, as it marks a return to Michael's roots: rock, pop, jazz, folk. Lyrics delve insightfully into commitment and the power of a moment.
Lyrically, this project delves deeply and insightfully into commitment. It does this from a number of perspectives. Michael states that when he writes, it is almost an altered state experience to him, in which he imagines diverse situations and characters. These include the the soldier who promises to lead a group of children to safety, and the young novitiate, both struggling with choices in "The Vow"; the passionate commitment (and love) beginning between two kids coping with a difficult situation in "Diamonds in the Sky"; the couple in "As Sweet as the First" realizing that where dreams don't always come true, perhaps they don't need them to; and the imagined loss of loved ones during the writing of "I Will Remember". "These were often powerful experiences for me", says Michael, "and I am excited to share them thru these songs, in hopes they touch listeners in the way the way they've touched me."
Looking back, though unintended he recognizes another key theme running throughout - the often overlooked significance of a moment: "and these connections, so casually made, they mean so much (from "Diamonds"); the moment of committing (in "Vow"); that "balancing on the edge of a knife" and the point "where the story turns" (in "Meant"); the importance of recognizing "your moment" (in "Times"); or the "chance given once" that ends up taken for granted (in "Remember"). Michael believes "these kinds of moments actually determine our lives, but sadly, there are no posted signs to alert us we are in one."
"360" is Michael's fifth CD, and marks a return for him, to a variety of roots. It is his only collection available on CD comprised of primarily vocal music. It represents many (and diverse) influences including Elton John, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Dan Fogelberg, Daryl Hall, Tony Bennett, Andrew McMahon, Robert Holmes, Josh Groban, John Legend, and Justin Timberlake, likely among many others. The genres on "360" are equally diverse, ranging from the rock of "Under Glass" and "Diamonds in the Sky"; to the pop of "This is the Time of Our Life" and "Meant For Me"; to the jazz-influenced "As Sweet as the First" and "The Road Less Traveled"; to the folk of "Love You for Forever".
Michael Straugh’s latest release truly takes the listener on a 360 degree journey, illustrating Michael’s ability to create a unique glimpse of his musical vision painted across a wide variety of genres. From the anthemic “This Is The Time Of Our Life” to the rootsy “Love You For Forever,” each song showcases Michael’s instrumental and vocal influences while often delivering the unexpected. “Under Glass,” “Meant For Me” and “I Wanna Be The One” should satisfy the adult, contemporary types, while “At The Speed That Light Flies,” “As Sweet As The First” and “I Will Remember” evoke the sort of heartfelt emotion that can only come from a great deal of thoughtful reflection during the crafting of the lyrical content. The audio quality of the project will impress the audiophile as well as the casual listener. The result is a surprisingly cohesive project from seemingly disparate points of origin where all elements are well recorded and purposefully included. This is definitely well worth a listen. Sit back and enjoy!
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https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/michaelstraugh2
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No. But within the focusing series (22 standard + a few S-edition), the G2 and in particular, H2 series provide a very bright view with most Nikkors. However, these screens do not always work with all lenses comfortably, for an example,the H2 is very difficult to focus with 500mm & 1000mm Reflex-Nikkor..). Except for its top sync-speed, the F3 is a very lovely and reliable SLR to use, simple and easy to handle for photographers that knows how to shot. Its main strength is, the camera is very modular and you can custom setup your camera for different kind of photograhic assignments. Besides, there are probably tons of system accessories built around the camera for you to configure your needs. The FM3A is, if you need an all round rigid body that accepts the Nikkors and often play a lot of synchro-sunlight stuffs, that is it for you ! Both bodies serves different categories of users, I think.
one question: is the viewfinder of the F3/T as bright as the one in the new FM3A? i´ve been using the FM3A for almost 3 years now, and i´m extremely happy with it. it never let me down, took through rain, snow and sand, and once it even fell into water - luckyly the shutter curtains didn`t get wet. it still worked after that in mechanical mode, and when it dried out also the A mode worked again. that`s reliability! but ok, that`s not the issue here. i want another body, and i`m very keen on the viewfinder of the F3 HP (i just want the tian version for the fun of it!), but if the focusing screen is not as bright as the one in the FM3A and as i`m actually quit satisfied with that model, i´ll just go for another FM3A. has anyone worked with both cameras and can help me out? no need to pay the extra money, if the FM3A serves me better..
RB Sanders: Can you just assume there are many users also looking for User's manual and posted similar question here ? There is a search function in thei MB, just type in a keyword, will you ?? The search results may provide some surprises..
I'M LOOKING FOR A NIKONF3 INSTRUCTIONS MANUAL,CAN ENYBODY HELP ME PLEASE?
Hi. I've recently purchased a F3HP camera. Unfortunately, the first film developed showed it has some problems with the light meter: the negatives were too dark. Comaring with my old F3 I found out that the meter in the new camera gives 2 stops more, compared to the old one. How can I adjust the meter?
P.S. I want to ajdust the meter, not compensate via ISO settings. Thanks.
Dear Joe: Just go back to the main index page, there is a Swedish link at the bottom section that probably can help you identity production date of your Nikon F3.
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Louisiana Tech graduate (1988) with MA in English; Covered nine head coaches in last 16 seasons at Alabama (1998-2007) and Arkansas (2007-13). Married with 3 children. Native of Atlanta, Ga.
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https://collegefootball.ap.org/dailyadvance/poll-voter/tom-murphy
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Zazu. . Wallpaper and background images in the 라이온 킹 club tagged: the lion king lion king disney zazu header fan art.
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>Hard to keep track of all the new cyberblends. Now there's "folksonomy".
>tags (e.g. wedding), and then the most popular tags float to the top (e.g.
analyzing "folk taxonomies" back in the mid-'50s.
Thomas -- it's a catchy term, which, I guess, is why it has caught on.
It's also inaccurate. What bugs me most is the use of the word "taxonomy."
does not a taxonomy make.
how the folk approach biology, and ethnoscience.
Workshop lead by Susan Leigh Star.
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http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2005-January/044831.html
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As many know, Honors is not just an academic department… it is a community!
Of course, this community would not be possible without the Honors events each year. Here is a look at some of the awesome events hosted by Honors during the 2015-2016 school year!
Dracula Marathon Reading- snacks included Count Chocula, Booberry, and Frankenberry Cereal!
NCAA Game Watch- The Honors Lounge hosted a game watch of the Nova vs. UNC ASheville game, complete with pizza and snacks!
End of Semester Party- featuring food from Chick-Fil-A!
Introduction written, and list compiled, by Newsletter Co-Editor, Richelle Hurley '17 CLAS. Richelle is receiving a degree in Communication, with minors in Classical Studies and Peace and Justice.
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2019-04-24T02:43:40Z
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https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/provost/honors/alumni/alumninewsletter16/yearinreview.html
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The City of Parramatta has developed a masterplan for Cox Park in Carlingford. It sets out and prioritises future upgrades and provides an exciting new vision for Cox Park based on issues identified during consultation with the community and key stakeholders. The masterplan aims to optimise the park through provision of a safe and accessible facilities for the enjoyment of the community whilst maximising recreational opportunities, and protecting important environmental and cultural values.
extended car park with increased capacity.
Read the full Cox Park Masterplan.
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2019-04-23T22:05:26Z
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https://www.cityofparramatta.nsw.gov.au/recreation-environment/our-parks/park-and-reserve-masterplans/cox-park-masterplan
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iTunes makes it easy to lose yourself in a movie or TV show, whether you’re relaxing at home or out in the world. Just download your favourite episodes or movies and you have something great to watch while you’re commuting to work, travelling or just standing in a queue. You can enjoy bonus movie content like deleted and alternative scenes with iTunes Extras. If you can’t decide what to watch, check out Top TV Seasons or the hand-picked Movie of the Week. And if you watch on Apple TV 4K, you’ll be able to enjoy a tremendous selection of your favourite content in 4K HDR.
The iTunes Store is the place to get all your video entertainment. There are thousands of movies you can buy or rent — including blockbusters, indies, classics and a tremendous collection of 4K HDR titles. Plus there’s a huge selection of ad-free TV shows, so you’re sure to find a series to keep you hooked.
Browse thousands of comedies, romances, classics, indies and thrillers. iTunes has movies from every major Hollywood studio and independent producers around the world. And you can buy or rent them in 1080p HD. Selected titles are even available in 4K. Purchase on your iOS device, and your movie will be instantly accessible in your iTunes library on your Mac or PC. And vice versa. Tap to play, or download to keep a copy with you when you won’t have Wi-Fi. You can also watch on your 4K HDR TV via Apple TV 4K.
iTunes brings you a huge selection of ad-free TV shows — many in HD. Buy individual episodes or a full season. With Season Pass, you can prepay for a full season and download episodes as they become available. And with Complete My Season, you can buy an episode or two to check out a show, then get the whole season for the original price minus what you’ve already paid. Whether you buy on your Mac, PC, Apple TV or iOS device, TV shows are instantly accessible in your iTunes library.
With iCloud, the movies and TV shows you buy from the iTunes Store automatically appear on all your devices. Movies and TV shows purchased on any device are instantly accessible in your iTunes library on your Mac, PC or Apple TV.4 Just tap to play, or even download if you’re going somewhere you won’t have Wi-Fi. If you start watching a movie and stop before the end, iCloud remembers where you left off. So you can pick up in the same spot on any of your devices. And with Family Sharing, whenever one person buys a new movie or TV show, everybody gets to watch.
Ready Player One is available on iTunes. Ready Player One © 2018 Warner Bros. Ent. All rights reserved.
Ocean's 8 is available on iTunes. Ocean's 8 © 2018 Warner Bros. Ent. All rights reserved.
Homeland is available on iTunes. Homeland © 2017 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
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https://www.apple.com/au/itunes/video/
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