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Wilmot's presentation is "Enzymes in Action". She will talk about post-translational modifications of proteins, such as phosphorylation and glycosylation, and how they are well known modulators of signaling pathways and molecular/cellular recognition. Only in the last few decades has their wide-spread role in generating novel catalytic cofactors within enzyme active sites been appreciated. Dr. Wilmot's lab is also interested in the use of microbial enzymes in bioremediation (removal of pollutants from the environment using biological organisms) and biofuel production (microbial production of energy-rich hydrocarbons as replacement fuels).
For more information on this event, please contact Normandale biology instructor Teresa De la Mora at teresa.delamora@normandale.edu. | 2019-04-21T02:33:55Z | http://www.normandale.edu/community/newsroom/news-articles/normandale-hosts-slice-of-life-event---dr-carrie-wilmot-enzymes-in-action-on-may-2 |
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It’s not easy being a shoemaker in these modern times. People don’t appreciate quality like they used to. It’s cheaper to buy a pair of boots or sandals at a store than to have them specially made for you.
I can’t tell you what the difference is between those boots and the kind I make. You have to experience my work to know what I mean.
That’s why I agreed to come to Renaissance Faire Village and Marketplace with Jessie Morton and her husband, Chase Manhattan. I was working in Tennessee when they found me at a craft fair. Every day I had to explain to people what made my boots special.
Now everyone in Renaissance Village understands that part of my secret is elf magic. I put a little in every pair of boots, sandals, and slippers that I make. It all began with my great-great-great grandfather—the one in the story with the elves?
We suspect he married one of those elves and her magic passed down the generations to everyone in our family. It was one of my ancestors that made the glass slippers for Cinderella, and the slippers for the three dancing princesses. Our magic and quality has been around a long time.
People here in Renaissance Village believe in me, and my magic. But it’s caused some trouble for me too. I may have put too much magic into Princess Isabelle’s dancing slippers. I think they caused her to leap off the castle terrace to her death.
Jessie doesn’t believe it. She stands up for me. She's looking for the killer, so I have to find a way to make this up to her. Maybe it wasn’t me that killed the lovely Isabelle. But how can I prove it?
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Comment here and one person will be chosen to win a copy of Bewitching Boots coming August 5th!
Haven't read this series yet but look forward to adding this to my TBR stack.
I'd like to have a little elf magic in my shoes and slippers!
Me too, Karen! I love magic and mystery! And shoes!
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Love your cover and story blurb.
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Really enjoy this series. And this new book sounds great - what woman wouldn't love a good mystery and magical shoes?
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I love the books written by the Lavenes—thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of Bewitching Boots!
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Going to the Renaissance Faire with our kids was so much fun when they were little. We even did it one year when we vacationed in Cape Cod. The couple that owned the motel were Titles characters at their local event.
I'm a big fan of the J's writing and would love to win a copy of this book.
Nora A. - you are the winner of a copy of Bewitching Boots! Huzzah!
The book will be out on August 5th. A copy will come your way soon after.
Just stopped by to check the page and am totally thrilled to have one one of your books. The J's are 2 of my favorite authors.
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OMG!! I love this title!! I love the cover!!!!
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I have read two of this series and I loved them. We used to go to a Renaissance Fair in Indiana. It was so much fun seeing the costumes, eating the food, watching all the tournaments.
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Hope you liked them, Sandy!
I've enjoyed this series and I'm looking forward to the next installment.
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I'd love to have a pair of shoes made specially for me!
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Thanks for stopping by! Huzzah!
I love these books because each one lets me meet someone new, fun, and intriguing!
Sounds like an interesting series. Looking forward to reading.
Can not wait to read this one! A pair of shoes custom made for me would be so cool :) Thank you for the chance at winning a copy of the book!
Huzzah! April! Stop by the Facebook launch on August 5th! We'll be giving away more copies on that day.
It sounds like a good book. If Bill isn't too busy, our daughter has several pairs of shoes that need his help!
I'll talk to Bill, kmt! Huzzah!
Sounds like a great series! Thanks for the chance to win.
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I cannot wait until this books comes out. I finished Murderous Matrimony on Friday night, and I was so disheartened that there wasn't another readily available to me. Especially since I had just spend the two weeks prior reading from Wicked Weaves to Murderous Matrimony. So, yes, being able to win a copy of the next book would be awesome, but I also just wanted to express my sentiment of how much I really enjoyed reading the series!
Thank you, Jen! I really appreciate YOU, and other readers like you. Huzzah! Stop by the Facebook launch on August 5th! We'll be giving away more copies on that day.
I love shoes and this cover is great.
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Jim and Joyce have so many fun series that it's hard to keep track of them all. Thanks for all the good reading!
Thanks for dropping by, Sue! Stop by the Facebook launch on August 5th! We'll be giving away more copies on that day.
Wow. How interesting...I will look for this in case I am not chosen.
Would love to add this to my bookshelf! Love their stories!
Thanks for stopping by, Libby! Huzzah! Stop by the Facebook launch on August 5th! We'll be giving away more copies on that day.
This is one of my favorite series. Can't wait to read Jesse's latest adventure. Fingers crossed!
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Love this series as well as all the others....just finished Lethal Lily and really enjoyed it!!!!
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Sounds good! Another of your series to catch up with.
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I've always wanted to go to a Renaissance Faire, but never have, probably because they are in the summer and I can't take a lot of heat...Best of luck with the newest release. Sounds like a great read.
Many Ren Faires happen in the fall and winter too, Karen. Check out the listings at Renaissance Magazine.
Love, love this series!! Looking forward to the new book! Thanks for the chance.
Thank you, Margie! Jessie and Chase love you too. Readers like you are what makes them come back again! Huzzah!
I have enjoyed this series. Glad to see a new one.
I love this series. I look forward to each new book that comes out.
Thank you for coming by, Dotty! Greetings and salutations to you!
Love Bill's connection to Cinderella! Sounds like a great read!
Thanks for stopping by, Judy!! Huzzah! Stop by the Facebook launch on August 5th! We'll be giving away more copies on that day.
I love this series. It really captures my imagination. I can't wait for Bewitching Boots!
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Another series to add to my list.
Sounds like a really interesting series!
Joyce, will the Facebook page be under your name?
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Oh I have loved this series. I would love to read another book. I don't know if I would want to work there with all the murders though.
Thanks rhonda! I know what you mean! although if the place existed, I would take my chances! Huzzah!
Stop by the Facebook launch on August 5th! We'll be giving away more copies on that day.
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I will have to try this series out. It seems more interesting to hthan donuts mystery.
I love this series dearly and if anyone can figure this mystery out, it would be Jesse and her new hubby Chase! I can't wait to read this newest Ren Faire mystery!
Thanks D & S! I appreciate it! Huzzah! Stop by the Facebook launch on August 5th! We'll be giving away more copies on that day.
I'm very excited to have a new Renaissance Faire book. I enjoy the uniqueness in your different series. I don't know how you do it but I'm glad you do.
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I like the sound of Renaissance Fair mysteries and will look out for them.
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I love this series!! This couple can really write cozies.
I can't wait for August to arrive! This is going to be a great addition to the series. Thank you so much!!!! | 2019-04-21T05:02:46Z | https://www.killercharacters.com/2014/07/shoemaker-bill-warren-at-renaissance.html |
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Hey everyone and welcome to my first article here on the site!
As a start I’d like to recap my 2017/18 season in two words: Frustration and Happiness.
In this article I will focus on my start to the 2018/19 season.
I started this season from scratch basically like everyone else did. Due to implications in my own health during the summer my worlds performance wasn’t great and that is of course something I’m taking into account this season in terms of what decks I’m playing. Even though fatigue has been a big part of my everyday life this season, I’ve chosen to put a lot of my focus in testing on a good friend of Limitless: Zoroark GX. During last season myself and Pedro Torres had great success with Zoroark Lycanroc and therefore I thought that it wouldn’t hurt to pay my old man a visit.
Even though I thought a lot about Zoroark, I ended up playing Lugia / Malamar at the Philadelphia Regional Championships in the beginning of the season. I felt like the deck could handle most matchups without a lot of testing and was a strong contender in a field filled to the brink with Shrine decks, a week after the first LATAM regionals, where Shrine of Punishment featured in 7 out of 8 top cut decks. In this article I won’t focus too much on the Philadelphia regionals where even though I delivered a mediocre performance, scraped together a nice 52 CP via the regionals and a League Challenge for the Oceania Internationals stipend race.
The week after Philadelphia I was confused as the meta there had begun to be more diverse. Zoroark decks came into the format with 3 or 4 Judge to disrupt the opponent, while you can just sit and use Trade, gaining momentum while your opponent would struggle to set up.
I played this exact list at both of the cups I had that weekend, got a total of 82 CP with winning one of them and getting top 4 in the other.
So I would describe this as a diverse meta, where I could beat it all, and I did at least one of the days.
Looking at my list, it looks a lot like a mix between Jimmy Pendarvis’ and Poet Larsen’s lists from Philadelphia, where Poet played the Weakness Policy and Jimmy didn’t. I decided to include them due to the expected amount of Buzzwole / Shine decks, and ended up beating both of the decks I played against 2-0.
As I described before, the strength of the deck is to set up while making your opponent struggle with the use of Judge, and after that being able to OHKO your opponent’s Pokemon with Dangerous Rouge, or being able to use Zoroark GX to set tempo in the match, effectively running over your opponent before they even get to play the game.
Going into this regionals I decided to stick with Zoroark / Lycanroc. The League Cup performances I had the week before were simply too strong to suggest otherwise and Zoroark in any form is always a strong call at a bigger event, if you want to consistently make it deep into the tournament.
I ended the tournament with a disappointing 4-3-2 score and that means I likely will be stuck at 155CP until LAIC, since I won’t be playing in the Lille Special Event.
My brother, Steffen Eriksen played 59 cards of my list and made it into the top 32 after starting 7-1-1 after day 1. The feeling I sat with after the tournament is weird. I tried to make a consistent deck that could set up most of the time, but instead got a pile of clump cards when I sat down and played the tournament. In my eyes, the format is unfortunately currently a lot about getting a good turn 1 setup and hitting matchups. Even though sequencing in the game still is hard, this format just unfortunately isn’t as punishing towards misplays as others would have been.
I’m really looking forward to see if the next set can switch up the format and make me like the meta again, currently I don’t see it as a healthy thing.
So for me to grap the stipend for a trip to Australia, I would need to get my last quarterly league cup win and do really good in the LAIC. At this point I won’t give up yet. I really think that the meta will shape up in a good way with new cards like Professor Elm entering the format, helping Zoroark back towards its throne.
I hope that everyone liked this article and for more updates, follow me on twitter @JesperKEriksen and contact me there for coaching as well!
One quick thing about the list, choice band needs to be capitalized both times for PTCGO to load it. But nice article and I look forward to hearing more about your season.
Love the articles on this website. Keep up the great work. This is the kind of stuff I look for when I want to play more competitively.
Hey there, my name is Josh and I love checking this site regularly. As a person who is going to be playing Zoro-lycan for the rest of the season this was really helpful. So thanks for helping so many of us with deck decisions! | 2019-04-23T20:13:59Z | http://limitlesstcg.com/my-start-to-the-season-with-zoroark-lycanroc/ |
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To successfully save a deposit for your first home, you will need to spend less than you earn and this means you’ll need to create and stick to a budget.
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Completely alone in the woods. For many miles around. I didn’t see a single person on the entire wilderness portion of the trail. And now, as planned, it is my first night in the White Mountains is closing in around me.
Even now it seems strange to remember all the nervous mental preparation inside. It started around 3PM that day. I suddenly realized that for the next 12-15 hours I will not meet another person, and I would have to rely completely and entirely on my own.
The sun was on and off behind disturbing dark clouds. The bugs were intense and preferred to ignore the spray. And of course – loneliness. AT&T phone displayed “No Service” even on the 302 parking lot. Miles and miles around there are no phones, no electricity, no people, no roads.
Finally I’ve got what I wanted, and all of a sudden I had doubts about the whole enterprise. But let’s go in order it was perceived.
USA. New Hampshire. White Mountains. Summer of 2011.
I drawn the whole trip on the map. From route 302 I took a Sawyer Pond Road and drove a little over 3 miles into the woods. Right after the second bridge, but before the trail-head parking for the Sawyer Pond Trail I found a gate marked 85 for Fire Road 85.
This road disappeared from many guides and maps long time ago, but somehow was marked on my map. It is barely a road anymore. It is blocked by fallen trees and branches, but overgrowth and by water erosion (deep ditches). But it is still visible, although completely unused. Only a faint narrow path goes along on of the sides, and this “road” is completely unsuitable for the bike.
It took me over an hour to get through 2 miles of “obstacle course” with a bike and full of doubts and mosquito bite, I finally found an intersection with the the trail – Signal Ridge Trail. The road is easier to miss, The trail is a wide flat road passing on the bed of the former rail road.
A quick fast dash deeper into the woods, hide the bike, and take a swim in the river – Carrigain Brook. After a swim your cold body is invisible to bugs for a few minutes. What a bliss. Time to dress up, and walk back to the car. I know it took me from 18:33 to 19:08 to walk briskly back on fire road 85. It is so much faster to walk instead of crawl with a bulk of a bike.
I wanted something very inexpensive and something very close to the starting point of my trip tomorrow. What could be better than Dry River Campground – $25.
It is located right on route 302, right in the middle of it all. After erecting the tent, I cooled off in a very shallow river (3 minutes away) and took off for supper to Fabyan Station Restaurant (10 miles away). If everything goes according to plan, it will be last civilized meal for me for the next day and a half.
Around 22:22 I am back in the tent. This time I remembered ear plugs and eye covers to completely block outside world and sleep like a log. It was warm. It was very warm Summer night that confused me. How could I thing that it could be cold anywhere on the planet earth.
It is hard to start the hiking trip. How much water to pack? Do I need a sleeping bag? How all this stuff on the ground is going to fit into a backpack?
Parking for Ripley Falls is .25 miles away from the main road and you gain some elevation while driving there. Parking is free and donation envelopes only suggest the payment. Most people are tourist with only water and camera in their hands. Picturesque falls are 20 minutes away, but they are not the target of this trip.
Around 10:40 I started climbing up with a heavy backpack unbalanced by a tent. Ethan Pond Trail here coincides with Appalachian Trail, but that is not a particularly impressive section. First hour of the Ethan Pond Trail goes parallel to 302, and you can hear muffled sounds from the road. Meanwhile you are climbing from about 2100′ at Parking lot to 2500′ level at the merge with Kedron Flume, and to 2700′ at Willey Range trail. Bugs are persistent, but moderate. Trail itself is nothing to write home about.
Around 11:50 trail make a turn away from the road into the depths on the forest. You continue to climb another 20 minutes and by 12:12 you at the highest point of your trip – 2929′. You’ve reached a pass into other side, and all rivers and brooks will flow with your movement down.
Just recently I discovered that a standard GPS Unit from Garmin even without topographic maps loaded will detect an elevation, when you save your current location as a Favorite. You you save you location regularly during the hike, you can see a nice trajectory of your trip on plain blank space between the auto roads. Elevation is an estimate of course, it tend to jump up and down a bit, but still it is a very interesting tool to figure your comparative elevation.
You reach Ethan pond and tent sites ($8 per night) around 12:30 – less than 2 hours into the trip. There is only one point of approach to the pond – through the appendix leading the the shelter, and the tent sites. They are located about 100 yards (90 meters) from the pond.
At this point Ethan Pond trail looks like a board walk. You hop from plank to plank to avoid muddy spots. Kind of fun. There are a few people at the pond and you can meet an occasional group of hikers further down the trail. But by 14:00 the trail meet the river (an excellent swimming spot), and by 14:24 you reach the Shoal pond trail and entrance to Pemigewasset Wilderness. Do not expect to see any people from that point on.
All entrances to the wilderness are marked with a familiar signs. For me it will third entrance into the area, but this time I decided to spend a night here.
I deliberately picked a flat route. The purpose here is to penetrate as deep as possible into the wild, spend as much time here, but not to conquer some hills.
First significant stop here is Shoal Pond itself (2685′). I’ve reached it by 14:57 – 4 hours into the hike. The water is very warm, but this is not a great place to swim. The bottom is slimy, and water is reddish and shallow. But the setting is wonderful and somewhat disturbing. There are more hove prints than human boot prints on the path, and here I for the first time realized how far this is from any normal setting.
The patchy clouded sky contributed to the tone. Rain tried to start several times, but couldn’t find the strength. Very characteristic moose droppings are covering the path with an amazing regularity. Bugs are are getting more persistent and daring. And instead of listening to the sounds of nature, you begin to hear things.
I was planning to take it slow, and contemplate every step of the way in the wild. Instead, I begun to hurry, to cover as much distance today, so I have less to track tomorrow. A typical error. I only stopped once to take pictures of flowers, and mostly because a sight of a huge bear turned onto a trunk and roots of a fallen tree.
The rule is you need to pick your camping spot 200 feet away from the trail, but that is not a easy task, if you are surrounded by a dense forest of both sides of a narrow path. Starting from 16:00 I’ve started to search for such a spot, but always was pushed forward by conviction that I will find something better just around the corner.
Finally the trail crossed the river one more time, and the whole bunch of excellent sport opened up right next to the path. I dropped my stuff on the ground and went searching for a more secluded camping spot. I was going to follow the 200 feet rule for two reasons. First, it is good for the rule. Second, it is good for me. I do not want to see or hear another person, or mammal near my camping spot.
I crossed the river (Shoal Pond Brook) and found a very tiny, but sufficient area for the tent and for the fireplace. GPS showed elevation of 2388′.
I though I had enough time to set a tent, to start a fire, to eat and to contemplate the new environment. However time in the wild has its own dimensions.
You think that wild life will disturb and bother you, while you are here. Not at all. Wild life has its own life to live, and it is totally unconcern about yours.
I picked a spot tightly squeezed between the river and a steep hill. With only a few square yards to settle, the spot felt very well positioned and even isolated. That is important to pick a spot to your liking.
Next was the fire. The fire has to be surrounded by stones to prevent it from spreading, or even lowered into the ground for safety. Brook provides an unlimited supply of stones of all size and shapes. I saw a real danger of a forest fire in a wild setting like this. Dead wood – dry and ready to go – was spread evenly all over. I surrounded the flames with large stones from the river and removed all the dry debris a foot around the fire.
With fire going, I could begin to dry of my clothes, and cool off after 6 hours of hiking. The brook again. Water is cool and refreshing, but not freezing. Just right. Wash off all bug spray, and sweat, and muscle tension. Only now I notice that my shoulder are really sore from the backpack straps. I didn’t feel much of a load during the day.
I filled a plastic bag with water from the river and hang it near by the fire to extinguish any unruly behavior. All in all you almost have to set your camp near the running water source. The brook here was a cooling off place, source of stones for the fireplace, source of water to put off the fire, soothing sound source and natural obstacle forming one side of my camp.
Next I was ready to proceed with food and drink, I realized that I am not that hungry, and that I didn’t drink anything the entire day. My two Poland Spring bottles remained untouched. And I didn’t feel the thrust. Very strange.
I didn’t cook anything. I ate an orange, couple bananas, smoked salmon with bread, I drunk half a liter of water and was ready to go to sleep around 20:00. It was pretty warm and comfortable. With ear plugs I went to sleep without ant difficulties.
There is no solid surfaces in the wild. They all hidden by the forest. There is no flat surfaces in the wild. They all angled to the sun this way and that. So, there is nothing to hold on to the day the warmth. As soon as sun disappears, the cold steps in and embraces everything by a still moist grip.
I woke up from the cold. I was shivering. I put on all the clothes I had with me, I created some layering with crumpled parer, and decided to look at the watch. I thought it must be around 3AM. To my surprise it was 23:56. I probably only slept two hours and was fighting with cold the rest of the time.
By 2AM the cold was unbearable. And everything by this time was covered with dew – damp and cold. I decided to get outside the tent and start the fire again. The moon was begging to make its appearance, but only saw a moonlight on one of the steep brook bank. It was intense light , and a welcome sign as any light in the darkness of the forest.
The matches seemed wet and un-cooperating, but the second one finally gave a flame, and the fire started easy and reassuring. I only felt heat in relative proximity to the fire. How do I translate that head into a comfortable sleep for the remained of the night?
The idea came slowly. I would need to heat up the boulders around the fireplace and bring them into the tent to give me warmth for several hours. The problem was only with secure enough surface that will withstand the heat, and isolate tent floor from damage. I placed cold stones first as an insulator, and hot stones on top as a heat source. At 3AM I was back in the tent, and I could feel the invisible waves of energy reaching for me.
I definitely got some minutes of sleep, but the warmth did not last long. At 5:15AM I emerged from the tent into the morning light, and only wanted to start a new fire and start moving again. And again I was not feeling any hunger or thirst. Very strange. The body was distracted by all the new sights and sounds.
I started the fire for the third time and begin evaluating, if I wanted anything to eat. Not really. I had about half a bottle of water left, I didn’t want to drink the reddish water from the brook. I’ll plan to get a better water at Stillwater Junction in the Pemigewasset River.
Daylight has it definite advantages over the stillness of the night – you can see and identify things. Early morning has another important advantage in the woods – all the bugs are resting from their hard work. So, no bug spay is needed at this ungodly hour. Wonderful.
By 06:40 I was on my way, and I witnessed all the magic of a fresh morning mist, and the trees masterly lighted by the early sun. By 07:07 I’ve reached the Stillwater Junction, and that gave me a first firm estimate that I can reach the bike before noon.
Here I spent some time. I force myself to eat some yogurt mixed with Grape Nuts (kind of a hard serial). I’ve collected water in empty bottles, and this time it was crystal-clear. Early morning bliss was quickly ending. Bugs reappeared again in a warmer air. Plus a normal rush to return, to escape out of the wood begin to take over all other emotions.
I quickly realized that I can make 0.8 miles in 15 minutes, and I immediately started to divide and multiply to see when I will be on the other side of the woods.
Carrigain Notch Trail is unremarkable enough. It is connecting dots and providing access to other trails. At 09:26 I’ve reached the pass to the other side of the valley and the border of Pemigewasset Wilderness. Here mosquitoes were simply wild. I only had a few inches of face open to see where I am going, but they would attack my glasses, lips, eyelids, eyebrows. Bad bad timing for this trail for this season.
At 10:21 I was at a junction with Signal Ridge Trail, and at 10:33 I was riding the bike down down back to Sawyer River Road. Only here I begin to see people going in on a hike and surprised to see me on a bike. For a while road was excellent, but nothing lasts. Pretty soon I ‘ve notices that my front tire was flat, and trail became rugged and un-drivable.
I stopped to dip into the cold water, to cool off and to repair the front tire. This time I did have a spare tube with me. I examined the tire and found not one, but 3 thorns protruding through the rubber. Nasty little things. I learned the hard way to always examine the inside of the tire inch by inch before installing a new inner tube.
By 12:00 exactly I escaped from the woods. I was on the downward road to route 302. The speed was excellent. I only had to break to slow down. But on the hot surface of the road movement were harder. Most likely dehydration finally caught up with me, and I was advancing very very slowly on the last leg of my journey.
I needed to go about 12 miles to the car, and it took my hour and 45 minutes. And the first 3 miles I flew down in 9 minutes. So the last few miles were very slow and hot. By 13:45 I climb the appendix from the road to the car, and added a last dot to my 2 day journey. Can’t wait to get back and explore some more.
What lessons to learn from all of this?
Right on the parking lot before leaving for the trip, I did talk to man returning back with his 3 sons from an overnight stay. I asked him what is the most important thing I might forget, and he said – water. I did ask about the bugs and about the cold. And they did confirm that sleeping bag is a must. But did I pack it? – No. I packed too mach food, but I didn’t take enough water and I didn’t take a sleeping bag.
If you are returning back to your car on the bike – you do need a sun screen. You do not need it in the thick of the woods, but on the road, the sun is beating up on you from top and is reflecting back from the road. You are exposed. Let’s learn from this too. | 2019-04-22T02:31:16Z | https://domainwebcenter.com/first-night-alone-shoal-pond-trail/ |
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Lecture 1: What is Discrete Math?
Description: Learn what discrete math is, what problems are solved in this course, and what implications they have.
Lecture Notes - Lecture Notes from the course.
What topics are covered in discrete math?
What are some example problems in counting or combinatorics?
How do you find the number of pins in a bowling alley lane with n rows??
How many possible binary trees are there with n nodes?
How many ways are there to multiply n square matrices?
What is the difference between continuous and discrete mathematics?
How can you show that two combinatorics problems are identical?
What is a proof and how do you prove things in discrete math?
What is the proof that the square root of 2 is irrational by contradiction?
What is Euclid's proof by contradiction that there are an infinite number of prime numbers?
How many pairs of people can you form in a group of n people?
What is the formula for the nth triangle number?
What is a proof by induction and how do you prove something by induction?
What is the geometric proof of the formula for the nth triangular number?
How do you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 or 1 to n?
If you cut a pancake n times, how many pieces do you get?
Why does a proof by induction work?
How do you write formal logic statements?
How do and, or, not, and implies work in logic?
What is a truth table and how do you make one?
How do you write, simplify, and test compound logic statements?
What are some equivalence statements in logic?
What are the distributive, commutative, and associative rules of logic?
What are DeMorgan's Laws of logic?
How do you prove two logical statements are equivalent using truth tables?
Where can I find a Computer Science Discrete Math course?
This lecture does a great job of explaining exactly what discrete math is, what it means, and what types of problems will be tackled in this course. Some actual problems are shown, and the main ideas of this course are laid out very plainly as well as some basic, famous proofs. This is a wonderful introduction to Discrete Mathematics that every math major should watch.
Reviewed by MathVids Staff on March 29, 2009.
Great overview of the course.
Reviewed by JMP92 on November 14, 2010. | 2019-04-24T02:02:07Z | http://mathvids.com/lesson/mathhelp/609-lecture-1-what-is-discrete-math |
"I want to go back to the streets," Grace Njeri said. "This is not where we should be."
"Mother, you can't say that," replied Shiko, Grace's ten-year-old daughter. "We have just been given another chance in life."
Her daughter was lecturing her again, Grace realized. Her wiser-than-her-years daughter. Ten but going twenty. She really wished she could be a good mother.
Grace missed the streets – sniffing coke, taking brown sugar, smoking pot, and living a carefree life.
"I don't like this home. We should go back to where we came from. We were free out there. No one told us when to sleep and wake up, to wash clothes, or what to do."
"But mom, they said they would take us to school, pay the fees and give us jobs. I want to go to school, mommy."
"School?" Grace smiled with genuine amusement. "Hii serikali ya Kibaki ni bure kabisa (President Kibaki's government is good-for-nothing). Do you think they will do that? People like us don't go to school. We are outcasts, cursed. For how long do I have to tell you?"
"But that's what they told us when they brought us to this home."
"Shiko, my dear. Don't you know that they just wanted to clean their streets? We are a menace."
Shiko, the smart street kid, stared at her mother in bewilderment. Though she used to sneak to go to school, her mother always told her that she was not like other kids. She smoked pot, sniffed glue; coke, crack and acid were her ice-cream and candies. That's why she was different.
"Mi nataka kwenda shulee (I want to go to school)..."
Grace felt like smothering her daughter.
"Kibaki brought free primary education," Grace told her daughter. "Got to school if you want lakini usiniitishe kitu. (Don't ask me for anything)." | 2019-04-23T13:53:07Z | http://www.flashesofvices.com/2013/04/i-want-to-go-back-to-streets-grace.html |
BREWER – The Northeastern Technical Division of the Forest Resources Association has scheduled an Industrial Forestry Forum for Thursday Jan. 8, starting at 5:30 p.m. at Jeff’s Catering.
The event, titled “Big Picture Challenges,” will include a social hour followed by a buffet dinner and presentation. Alec Griffin, director of the Maine Forest Service, will be the guest speaker. Cost for the dinner is $18 and can be paid at the door. | 2019-04-20T08:50:50Z | https://archive.bangordailynews.com/2003/12/31/forest-service-director-guest-at-brewer-forum/ |
How do I set up a custom landing screen?
Custom Landing Screens provide more flexibility and control over landing screen content and branding.
The first step in determining your custom landing screen strategy is to decide where to host it. An easy first choice is on your own website - allowing you to tap into all the existing traffic that is coming to you on the web.
If you don't have control over your website, or it's difficult for you to make changes, there are a variety of 3rd party tools that can be used to create a landing page in minutes. For basic needs, we recommend checking out Unbounce or Wix, while more advanced users may consider using a marketing tool such as Marketo or Hubspot that your organization already subscribes to.
Select custom landing screen and input the URL where your custom landing screen is hosted.
Set a background image. This image will display on the login screen for users.
On your custom landing page, be sure to insert the Brazen Login Url.
It's not always necessary to have an individual landing screen for every event you host. The same custom landing screen URL can be applied across multiple events, meaning you can direct users to a page on your website with information and links to all of your upcoming Brazen chats.This can be very powerful when promoting a recurring series or group of events: Users can select a date and time that is convenient to them, and you can use a single URL knowing your promotion is always driving users to the next available opportunity to engage. | 2019-04-18T14:33:45Z | https://success.brazenconnect.com/hc/en-us/articles/218222657-How-do-I-set-up-a-custom-landing-screen- |
What’s up with all the Obamacare Delays?
At first glance, the delay of the employer mandate seems like a complicated but innocuous change to the implementation of Obamacare. Many Democrats and backers of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have been attempting to label it as a fairly minor provision since the mandate was put into place only for businesses with greater than 50 employees.
ALL of the above have also been affected by delays, repeals, changes and glitches since implementation began.
The Obama administration and Democrats ardently deny that this employer mandate delay, announced on an obscure federal blog during the July 4th recess, was politically motivated. Well okay, maybe the agencies were just not ready to implement, but surely it must “help” that the ripple effect of Obamacare turmoil will now be pushed conveniently past the upcoming midterm elections.
Furthermore, Republicans are now calling for the delay of the individual mandate and blaming Democrats for putting big business before the interests of ordinary Americans and families.
But, this delay will cost about $10 billion dollars in revenue from deferred penalties according to the CBO.
No income verification opens the door for subsidy fraud. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will rely on applicants’ attestations and evoke the honor system. The ACA’s individual mandate is effectively invalidated for the coming year because it only works if the government can verify whether or not a worker is full-time and the employer-sponsored insurance is affordable. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that some 20 million Americans will be eligible for subsidies by 2023.
This will hurt job growth in our recovering economy. The full-time to part-time shift occurring currently is an interesting move to turn away from the burdens of Obamacare. This delay essentially gives employers an additional year to restructure their work forces.
Look-back rules: The requirement will force employers to begin tracking the hours of salaried workers, creating major paperwork hassles.
Affordability determination: The determination of “affordable” will be difficult. In the law, affordable coverage has been defined as 9.5% of household income. The test has been modified by the IRS to individual wage income. This basically exempts seven million multiple jobholders.
Aggregation: This rule attempts to prohibit small employers from sub-dividing their firms into multiple parts in order to avoid the mandate. What if business owners want to do that for other reasons? Is Obamacare going to stop them?
Pent up frustration over this delay will cause more employers to dump employees onto state insurance marketplaces. This is both good and bad: good, because it will force people away from the antiquated notion that insurance should be tied with employment; bad, because the exchanges are proving to be significantly costlier than expected. They also have some delays of their own in many states due to capricious HHS guidelines.
So there you have it. The delay is not as minor as others may make it seem.
Obamacare is like a complex machine. We are finding out now that quite a few parts are unworkable. The problem is, fixing each part means affecting another.
Tags: Business, Congressional Budget Office, Democratic Party (United States), Health insurance mandate, Individual mandate, Internal Revenue Service, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Bookmark the permalink. | 2019-04-22T16:34:38Z | https://policyinterns.com/2013/07/15/whats-up-with-all-the-obamacare-delays/ |
THE STARBEMS » Blog Archive » LIVE : Kickoff on Spring 2013!
LIVE : Kickoff on Spring 2013!
LIVE : Kickoff shows will be some music festivals on spring, 2013! | 2019-04-24T06:50:07Z | http://www.thestarbems.com/live/2013-spring/ |
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Surrounded by rolling countryside, Long Ashton lies just a few miles south west of Bristol and enjoys facilities to include a library, supermarket, post office, baker and wine merchant amongst others. Whether it is a relaxed or faster pace of life you are looking for Long Ashton has the answer. The property is well suited to those looking to capitalise on the advantages of Bristol city centre within 3 miles, without losing out on the community aspect that comes from living in a village The beautiful Ashton Court Estate with its deer park and acres of open space is ideal for walking, cycling or riding; three reputable golf courses; a good choice of pubs and, of course, Clifton Village with all it has to offer is only a matter of minutes away. For those with families, Long Ashton and the surrounding areas have a wide choice of primary, secondary and independent schools. | 2019-04-24T15:02:28Z | https://www.alexandermay.co.uk/properties-for-sale/property/7005363-fishers-mead-long-ashton-bristol |
Did you know your skin is a direct tell for how well you are taking care of your body?
Similar to how vitamins can make your body feel its best, they make your skin look and function best. Simply put, what is healthy for your body is healthy for your skin. So, if you are noticing your skin aging, this is a sign that you may not be putting the healthiest of things into your body. This is why we want to tell you about how IV Therapy can actually play a huge role in the look and “health” of your skin, not just your body.
Even though our skin is one of the most important (and largest) organs in our bodies, we still don’t give it what it needs to function optimally. Some ways you can help your skin function properly would be to eat rich colored plants, use protection when you know you will be exposed to sun, stay away from alcohol or smoke (i.e. cigarettes and cigars), and supplement with vitamins.
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Ladies and gentlemen, today I give you what may be the last in my series of author interviews for FROM THE INDIE SIDE. Let me say, before we get to the introduction, that this has been a lot of fun for me. An eye opening experience, but alas all good things must come to an end. Currently, I don’t have any more scheduled interviews. If you’re reading this and thinking “Hey, what about my story?” don’t fret. I would very much like to speak with you. Drop me a line and we’ll make it happen.
Now, on to the introduction. Today we’ll be talking with author, journalist and Mom Melanie Hearse. Check out her website, she has a journalistic bibliography a mile and a half long. Interestingly, however, her contribution to FROM THE INDIE SIDE, THE GREATER GOOD, was a first step into the world of fiction. It’s an interesting mashup of Mother’s Day and Tales from the Dark Side and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it too.
Mel, who lives and works in Australia, has a novel on the way and has since produced several short stories. I had the opportunity to sit down with her and ask a few questions. I hope you enjoy her answers as much as I did.
MT THE GREATER GOOD feels like the first chapter of a dystopian generation ship tale to me. The idea that these people will live a very long time and are aware of the impact that their lives might have on the Earth as-is makes me wonder where you’re headed. Without giving away too much or spoiling future shorts can you tell us a little of what you intend?
MH The story started for me after I wrote an article on the science of longevity. I interviewed some of Australia’s top researchers that have been covering this from all angles — how to make it happen, and how to manage the impact. But writing the article left me with so many unanswered questions, and I have a psychology background and an interest in how we humans function and tick, so this story was really me getting my thoughts on it out. I’m not convinced we do a good enough job caring for the people and the planet we have now, so I’m not sure longevity is a science we need to be focused on.
These characters are going to work through the ying and yang of how I personally see such a thing rolling out, and the two boys are going to eventually find themselves head to head – or heart versus head. The grandfather’s leadership will also be challenged and we get to find out more about their role in it all and what motivates them. Each follow up story takes a different viewpoint – the father/ grandfather and eldest son, the two boys versus one an other…and Leila becomes a surprising ally for one of the boys.
MT As our family’s stay at home parent I can understand the anxiety that Lanie feels once she finds herself in this dilemma; give up your kids and live, or face the consequences. Why didn’t she try to buy more time?
MH What an excellent question. I can’t actually answer it, but it is something I am going to mull over in my mind and it will be addressed in future books as it is a very important question to be answered. My gut feeling is it will come back to the perceived safety of her boys though – after all, she would have felt safe with her husband at the helm and she was proven quite wrong there, so she’s certainly not going to roll the dice that he’d keep the boys safe if she spilled. Watch this space, good question indeed!
MH I’m a stubborn and motivated gal, and having spent some time working with Susan, sharing a space, she knows how I got my start in journalism by knocking on doors again and again (but politely) and never giving in. She also knows I never miss a deadline and if I say I’m going to do something, or I want to do something, I will work my backside off to do it – I don’t ask for opportunities and then bail on them. She also knew I’d been working on a fiction novel and told me if I got something to her that was of a good enough quality, she’d put it up for the book.
My first draft was…well it wasn’t good. She started out critiquing me gently and I told her I hadn’t gotten to where I am today without being able to take brutal honesty in the spirit it’s intended, so she gave it to me. Draft two was a vast improvement and something she could see working, so I rallied a couple of friends to beta read for me and went through that draft again and again until it was ready for David Gatewood.
MT You’ve got a novel headed to the shelves this year, tell us a little about it? Is it done?
MH Funnily enough, it is the antithesis of the GREATER GOOD series! It’s a chick lit, Hollywood glam style beach read, following six emerging stars as their ensemble show skyrockets them to fame. Then folk around them start getting knocked off and each one of them has a good motive. It’s not done, but it is coming along fast and furious and I’m really loving it – and I’m allowed to say that because I have enough bad drafts of started and stopped novels in my computer to know the difference!
MT I’ve started to look through some of what I can find of your journalistic endeavors here in the States You seem to have an interest in health and family. Which, although I am indeed eating a piece of banana bread while I type this question, are both preoccupations of mine as well. Are you a runner? Any other sports?
MH Ha ha ha, my sports are like my writing — all styles, all over the shop! I do love running, and I ride my bike everywhere. I’ve taken up kickboxing, pole dancing, Zumba, more recently slacklining (can’t recommend it enough — great with kids as well, really good for them) and kayaking. Oh, I got one of those “have you got a door? Then you’ve got a gym” resistance trainers for my last birthday – they are fun, if very hard work for anything beyond squats. So I like to be active but I’m not intense about any one sport.
The family writing has been such a blessing – all the issues I’ve ever faced as a parent I’ve been able to write about, and talk to the leading experts in the field AND feel like I can help others in my shoes with what I’ve found out.
MT I am very interested in the tools and processes other writers use to create their works. In THE GREATER GOOD you have a impressive collection of high anxiety scenes. How do you treat scenes like this? Do you use any special tools or techniques when writing anxiety or situations where the outcome is out of the protagonist’s control?
MH I have suffered (and I do mean suffered!) anxiety since I was in my early twenties so it’s an easy one to draw on for me and one I could imagine Lanie would feel a lot – she’s lost her memories and can’t trust her own brain and thoughts; and that’s something I relate to – that wondering if what you are thinking and feeling is real or something you are inventing. When I say easy I mean it comes naturally, but its actually quite draining and confronting to write at times.
MH Specifically for the anthology — I was trying too hard to come up with a story idea and eventually I walked away from trying. About half a day later, the article I’d written on longevity popped into my head and I remembered all the questions and scenarios I saw in my head while doing the article, so I knew it was the story I wanted to write.
MT You share writing space with Susan May. How do you know each other? Were you friends who just happened to both be writers or did writing bring you together?
MH We had kids at the same school and friends in common who kept telling us we had to meet. Then I think we found each other on Facebook, commenting on friends posts. So we caught up and got along. Then I was finding it hard going being a full time stay at home writer, getting a bit isolated – I have kids, so the afternoons and evenings are generally spent doing their things. My hubby suggested renting a shared office space, but I thought about Susan living nearby and asked her if she wanted to trial working together from time to time. We don’t always get a lot of words on paper, but we do bounce ideas off each other and we have a new project we’ll be doing together very soon.
It’s nice being able to talk in writers language to each other – my hubby works in IT, and when he gets together with work mates they always talk in computer nerd speak which no one understands – now I get to talk in writer nerds speak with someone!
MH Susan is the one that bought me over to the Indie side, and she’s taught me a lot about discover-ability. I also grew up in a sales and marketing family, and worked in a bookstore for six years before doing a psych degree and then moving from a govvie health career into health writing – so it’s a bit like all my past experience is lining up in a row, ready for this next step.
Advice wise, I think if you are going to go out alone as an indie, be open to honest feedback — don’t take negatives as negatives, see them as opportunities to improve what you do and be grateful for the time readers give you in getting that feedback to you. Definitely use a good editor — no point reaching readers if your work is still needing a good fine tuning. In terms of reaching them, I think being genuine is key — a writer I have gotten to know that isn’t indie, but has a huge online fan base has built up a cult following just by being herself and sharing her journey and process with her online fans — she asks them questions as she’s writing, she shares whats she’s been up to, and people feel invested in her work, and that she’s genuinely invested in them. Being involved in an anthology is another good one — it’s a chance to be read by fans of more established writers. You just have to get over the fear of sharing a space with them; it can be daunting knowing someone is reading you after something amazing by an established writer!
MT Do believe that there are any specific or unique challenges for Australian independent authors that citizens of other countries might not encounter?
MH Not really, touring would be one, but I’m not there yet!
MT I am very interested in the tools other authors use to create their works. Give us a run down of what your writing space looks like. What are the tools you keep in your tool box? Are you a “planner” or a “pantser”? Is there anything you’re unhappy with or is there a feature request that you have for a particular tool?
MH I have a gorgeous office with a real fireplace, a big teak desk and a view of the grass out my window, all bookshelf lined etc (I have an obscene amount of books). But I write in my lounge room, hunched over a low coffee table with my two dogs snoring next to me on the couch. For some reason the study doesn’t work for me, despite having created my dream writing room!
I like to think I’m a planner, but I write my plans and promptly lose them, so I suspect I’m a pantser. Or I’ll get halfway through a plan and get impatient so I’ll start writing. Yes, Pantser. Can I be a Planser?
MH Best advice I read while going through this process, after I started over thinking everything and stressing to the point I hated my story was by Stephen King. “Trust your reader will follow you.” It’s very freeing. He has people believing an angsty teen girl can move things with her mind…or in possessed cars for goodness sake — he’s the master of trusting his reader and it really works — if he tried to explain these things with logic to the reader he’d lose them, so he just assumes they’ll figure it just is. Leaving him free to get on with the story telling. I’m not 100% there yet, I have to throw off my journalists need to explain everything step by step, but its one of the best pieces of advice I’ve read. | 2019-04-25T18:06:29Z | https://feetforbrains.com/2014/04/25/author-interview-mel-hearse/ |
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Hauser, A. Scott. 2006. Carex filifolia. In: Fire Effects Information System, [Online]. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory (Producer). Available: https://www.fs.fed.us /database/feis/plants/graminoid/carfil/all.html .
C.f. Nutt. var. erostrata Kükenth.
C.f. Nutt. var. filifolia Nutt.
The currently accepted scientific name of threadleaf sedge is Carex filifolia Nutt. (Cyperaceae) [3,17,44,52,53,54,69,89,90,96,99,100,102,108,116,180,181,182]. There are no recognized varieties.
Threadleaf sedge has a contiguous distribution. It occurs from California, north to Alaska, east to Manitoba, and south to Nebraska and New Mexico [3,17,44,52,53,54,69,89,90,96,99,100, 102,108,116,180,181,182]. The Flora of North America provides a distributional map of threadleaf sedge.
This description provides characteristics that may be relevant to fire ecology, and is not meant for identification. Keys for identification are available (e.g. [3,17,44,82,89,90,96,108,129,182]).
Threadleaf sedge is a cool-season, sod-forming, drought-resistant, low-growing, native perennial graminoid [2,32,71,72,107,107,160,164,170,173]. It is densely tufted, with numerous leaf-bearing sheaths at the base [44,90,96,108,116,129,182] and grows in bunches approximately 4 to 6 inches (10-15 cm) in width [38,179]. Threadleaf sedge culms are slender, stiff and wiry [44,90], often curved , and 2 to 15 inches (5-38 cm) tall [3,17,44,71,82,90,108,129,182]. Leaves are mostly basal, stiff, strongly folded, very slender [44,90,108], and 1 to 8 inches (3-20 cm) long and 0.25 to 0.5 mm wide [3,17,71,82,129,182]. Threadleaf sedge is one of the few Carex spp. to contain alkaloids .
Threadleaf sedge is monoecious [165,173]. The spikelets are 0.4 to 1 inch (1-3 cm) long [3,44,82,90,108,129,182], up to 6 mm wide [44,82,90], and 3- to 25-flowered . The flowers of threadleaf sedge are unisexual [17,44,71,82,90,116,129,165,182]. Fruits are achenes, 2.25 to 3 mm long and weigh approximately 2.9 mg [3,165].
The roots of threadleaf sedge are tough, wiry, and 0.8 mm or less in diameter [40,164]. Roots occur in "enormous numbers" and seldom descend vertically, but run away from and under the plant to distances of 2 to 2.5 feet (0.6-0.8 m) [26,179].
Eight threadleaf sedge plants excavated from a Saskatchewan grassland were found to grow obliquely downward in all directions to form a dense mat in the upper 12 inches (30 cm) of soil. The dense mat spread out as much as 15 inches (38 cm) from the base of the plant. The roots were profusely branched, excluding those closest to the crown. The longest lateral roots measured were 2 inches (5 cm). Most of the roots terminated growth at 12 to 24 inches (30-60 cm) below ground surface, though some were found to penetrate 30 inches (75 cm) below soil surface. At the point of termination, threadleaf sedge roots are densely branched with brush-like ends. Plants excavated in Colorado and South Dakota have exhibited a rooting depth of 5.2 feet (1.6 m) and a lateral spread of 32 inches (80 cm) .
Threadleaf sedge generally reproduces vegetatively via tillers, but does produce some viable seeds [72,93,165].
Pollination: Threadleaf sedge is wind pollinated .
Breeding system: Threadleaf sedge is monoecious [165,173].
Seed production: Threadleaf sedge produces very few viable seeds each year [72,170]. In the northern Great Plains, threadleaf sedge generally produces a poor seed crop since it flowers early and is susceptible to frost damage . A threadleaf sedge plant collected in North Dakota contained a total of 232 seeds (viability not discussed) .
Seed dispersal: The seeds of threadleaf sedge are likely dispersed by wind.
Seed banking: Threadleaf sedge utilizes a soil seed bank .
Germination: In the field, threadleaf sedge seeds have a low rate of germination [72,170]. In a controlled study, stratified threadleaf sedge seeds did not germinate significantly (p<0.05) better than control seeds (33.3%). Scarification of threadleaf sedge seeds caused a significantly lower rate of germination than control seeds. Seeds that were cold-moist stratified at 41ºF (5 ºC) had germination rate of 25.3% to 40.1%, while seeds frozen-moist stratified at 19 ºF (− 7 ºC) had a germination rate 28.1% to 38.2%. Threadleaf sedge scarified with a razor germinated at a rate of 22.6% . Threadleaf sedge seed viability does not decrease for at least 14 to 17 months when dry stored at room temperature .
Seedling establishment/growth: Threadleaf sedge seedlings in nature are rare [72,170]. On the northern Great Plains, seedlings of threadleaf sedge establish by the middle of March and grow to maturity by the 1st to middle of June . To evaluate the establishment of seedlings, Griffin planted threadleaf sedge plugs on the grasslands of Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska. Griffin planted sod plugs in fall (28 September to 3 October), late winter (6 March), and spring (26 to 27 May). At the end of 2 years of observations, the average rate of survival by seedlings was only 0.94%.
Asexual regeneration: Threadleaf sedge reproduces asexually from tillers [93,165].
Threadleaf sedge is generally found on warm, dry, well-drained, upper south-facing slopes [16,25,125,145]. Literature on threadleaf sedge describes it occurring on dry ridges [96,173], dry open places and dry meadows [44,90], dry rocky slopes and flats [100,129], dry plains and valleys [17,116,180,181], dry grasslands [108,180,181], and upland prairies [71,114]. Threadleaf sedge also grows on the tundra-steppe of Alaska on sites with favorable southern exposures [56,130].
Climate: Threadleaf sedge thrives under a continental climate regime in which 80% of precipitation falls during the growing season (April-September) [1,14,145]. Threadleaf sedge requires a minimum of 90 frost-free days and favors from 8 to 24 inches (200-610 mm) of average annual precipitation . On the mixed-grass prairies of North Dakota where threadleaf sedge is often dominant, temperature extremes range from 109 °F (43 °C) in the summer to –47 °F (–44 °C) in winter .
During the 1934 growing season, grasslands around Miles City, Montana, experienced a historic drought. Rainfall during the 1934 growing season was 3.53 inches (89.7 mm), down from a 57-year average of 9.32 inches (237 mm). Consequentially, threadleaf sedge plants were markedly shorter than in normal precipitation years and production was down 17% . Near Mildred, Montana, the drought caused a significant (p<0.05) decrease in threadleaf sedge. Production of threadleaf sedge was reduced by 12% to 55% on silty and sandy sites .
Near Virginia City, Montana, cool July soil temperatures correlated (r = –0.77) with increased production of threadleaf sedge. The soil temperature was measured as electrical resistance, thus a negative coefficient meant a positive relationship with soil temperature. However, windy May conditions correlated (r = –0.83) with decreased growth in threadleaf sedge .
Soil: Threadleaf sedge is often found on well-drained, silty clay loam [45,49] and fine sandy loam soil [25,81]. On the Canadian mixed-grass prairie, threadleaf sedge grows on clay loam, loam, and light loam soils. Approximately 65% of threadleaf sedge growth occurs on light loam soils [38,95]. Threadleaf sedge can tolerate saline soils. On the Central Plains Experimental Range, Colorado, it occurs in saltgrass meadows in limited quantities on soils with a pH as high as 9.2 .
A month-by-month soil chemical analysis of a threadleaf sedge-dominated community in the Badlands of North Dakota is presented by Fairaizl .
A detailed review on soil constituents of a threadleaf sedge/western wheatgrass and a threadleaf sedge/blue grama/needle-and-thread grass community in western North Dakota is presented by Hanson and Whitman .
Threadleaf sedge can survive on disturbed sites, such as burns , is shade intolerant [91,174], and is most commonly found on late-seral sites. Forty years following the abandonment of plowed farmland in northeastern Colorado, threadleaf sedge appeared as a minor constituent of a mixed-grass prairie association. The mixed-grass prairie was preceded by a threeawn (Aristida spp.) stage which occurred 20 years after abandonment . Threadleaf sedge is described as a "climax" species on Solonetz soils in western North Dakota , in the Theodore Roosevelt National Memorial Park in North Dakota , and in the Black Hills of South Dakota . Outside of Davenport, Washington, threadleaf sedge is described as a near "climax" species on mixed grasslands . Threadleaf sedge occurs on "climax" grasslands of the Canadian and Nebraska mixed-grass prairie and on sandy, silty, and limey range sites, and eastern and western sedimentary plains in Montana .
In a remote area of the Little Missouri River Badlands in western North Dakota, 2 mesas which have never been grazed were analyzed. Threadleaf sedge, with a relative cover of 2.34%, is part of the "climax" community on the 2 mesas .
Across its range, threadleaf sedge generally flowers from April to May [22,69,90,125,165]. In dry grasslands, threadleaf sedge is considered an "early bird" species in a phenological sense because it flowers early and reaches annual maximum growth before other associated forage species [91,151,171]. On the northern Great Plains, threadleaf sedge begins growing in middle to late March. On 15 May the average leaf height is 4.2 inches (10.7 cm) and achieves a maximum leaf height of 5.0 inches (13 cm) by 10 June .On the mixed-grass prairies of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, threadleaf sedge begins growth during the 1st week of April and the heads appear by the end of the month. Flowering occurs by mid-May, with seeds shedding by the 1st of July .
From 1946 to 1954 flowering data were collected on threadleaf sedge at the Experimental Farm, Swift Current, Saskatchewan. On average, threadleaf sedge begins flowering on 7 May, with the earliest and latest flowering dates occurring on 25 April and 25 May, respectively. The latest threadleaf sedge was observed in flower was 19 June and the mean flowering period was 30 days .
Fire adaptations: Threadleaf sedge establishes after fire by seed and/or by tillering from basal meristem tissue which is protected from fire by soil and/or damp litter [4,50,128,178,185,186,187,189,190]. Since establishing from seed is generally rare in this species [72,170], postfire seedling establishment may be uncommon.
Fire regimes: Threadleaf sedge is found in the sagebrush (Artemisia spp.)-grasslands of the northern Great Basin, in the mixed-grass prairies of the northern Great Plains, and in the mixed forests of the Cascade, Sierra Nevada, and northern Rocky Mountains, which exhibit a wide range of historic fire frequencies.
Mixed forests: On the leeward slope of the southern Cascade Mountains in northeastern California, threadleaf sedge is a dominant species in meadows fringed by Pacific ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa var. ponderosa), Jeffrey pine (P. jeffreyi), Sierra lodgepole pine (P. contorta var. murrayana), and western juniper. Using fire scar and tree ring data in 8 meadow units, Norman and Taylor constructed a fire history of the area for the years 1700 to 1849. During this period widespread fire burned 7 or more meadow units with a return interval of 7 to 49 years. Moderately widespread fires burned 4 or more units during this period 19 times with a return interval of 2 to 22 years. Fire burned in at least 1 meadow unit during this period in 93 of 150 years. Between 1785 and 1835, on 3 occasions there were periods of 2 to 6 years without fire .
Northern Great Plains: Historically fire has played an important role in the northern Great Plains. The large tracts of continuous mixed-grass prairie, which occur in hot, dry areas and accumulate much fine fuel, are susceptible to frequent lightning fires. Higgins estimates that 6 lightning fires consuming 4,000 miles² (10,000 km²) of grasslands occurred a year in eastern North Dakota, and 25 lightning fires consuming 4,000 miles² (10,000 km²) of grasslands occurred a year in western North Dakota. Early records kept by explorers, trappers, and settlers note a high occurrence of fires, both natural and anthropogenic, with fires occurring at intervals of 5 to 10 years [46,135,153,156,192]. Since the early 1900s, fire has been excluded, allowing nonnative species such as Japanese brome, smooth brome (Bromus inermis), Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis), crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum), and Canada thistle (Cirsium arvense) to take a strong hold in the area .
Sagebrush-grasslands: Fire in the sagebrush-grasslands of the northern Great Basin where threadleaf sedge grows likely occurred with a frequency of 20 to 70 years . Wright and others hypothesize that fires likely occurred about every 50 years. Changes in land use and management practices, such as the invasion of cheatgrass, have altered the fire return interval to less than 10 years in some areas [133,135].
Shrub-steppe: Threadleaf sedge is found across the Columbia Plateau of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The fire return interval for this habitat is approximately 25 years .
The following table provides fire return intervals for plant communities and ecosystems where threadleaf sedge is important. Find fire regime information for the plant communities in which this species may occur by entering the species name in the FEIS home page under "Find Fire Regimes".
Threadleaf sedge is likely top-killed by fire, with basal meristems protected by soil and/or damp litter .
Threadleaf sedge recovers from fire by tillering and/or establishing from seed [4,50,128,178,185,186, 187,189,190]. Threadleaf sedge seed dispersal onto burned sites is likely affected by wind. While threadleaf sedge may utilize a seed bank , as of this study (2006), there is a lack of information on seed tolerance to fire.
Several authors list threadleaf sedge as a plant severely damaged by fire [21,137,142,142,157,191, 193]. However, this is based on 1 review by Blaisdell of a prescribed fire on the upper Snake River Plains of Idaho in which he did not differentiate between sedge species. The research presented below provides mixed results on the effects of fire on threadleaf sedge and disputes the generalization that it is severely damaged by fire. In an unpublished report, Whisenant and Uresk state that it takes threadleaf sedge plants approximately 2.5 years to reach reproductive maturity after fire.
On 28 June 1977 a human-caused fire burned 121 acres (49 ha) of rough fescue (Festuca altaica)-Idaho fescue-bluebunch wheatgrass dominated grasslands on Mount Sentinel in Missoula, Montana. At the time of the fire, winds averaged 23 km/hr. with gust to 55 km/hr, relative humidity was 31%, and the air temperature approximately 81 °F (27 °C) . The site burned was ungrazed and had been fire-free for at least 32 years. The fire consumed almost all aboveground vegetation and many bunchgrass clumps were burned to belowground level. Samples taken on Mount Sentinel 4 months, 11 months, and 1 year postfire showed that the fire reduced threadleaf sedge cover. By postfire year 3, cover of threadleaf sedge on burned sites was only 60% of that on unburned sites. While the fire caused a reduction in cover, threadleaf sedge occurrence on and off the burn site is very low and the authors do not discuss whether the difference is significant .
In August 1952, approximately 13.5 acres (5.5 ha) of threadleaf sedge-Idaho fescue was prescription burned on the Upper Snake River Plains of southeastern Idaho. For fast identification, the researchers combined the herbage production of threadleaf sedge and Idaho fescue on burned and unburned plots. In postfire year 3, herbage production of threadleaf sedge-Idaho fescue was 106 lbs./acre on unburned plots and 36 lbs./acre on burned plots .
The following table shows the aboveground standing crop (g/m²) of threadleaf sedge during July 1984 to 1987 on the 4 burn sites and 1 unburned site. The lowest values for controls and all treatments occurred in the dry year, 1985 .
Whisenant and Uresk conducted a 2nd burning study in Badlands National Park, South Dakota, during the spring of 1983 and 1984. While the researchers do not provide fire data on threadleaf sedge, they report that burning did not significantly (p<0.05) affect, positively or negatively, threadleaf sedge production.
In mid-July, White and Currie took basal cover (%) measurements for threadleaf sedge on the 3 treatments described above. The basal cover of threadleaf sedge on spring burn sites (17.4%) was significantly (p<0.05) greater than on fall burned and unburned sites. The researchers also took soil moisture measurements at a depth of 6 inches (15 cm) on the 3 treatments throughout the 1979 growing season which are presented in the table below. These values show little relationship to treatment, but may be related to season or weather patterns.
In southwest Montana, 7 sites were prescription burned within basin big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata var. tridentata)-dominated communities. At only 2 locations did fire cause a significant (p<0.05) change in threadleaf sedge cover. At Wise River, burning of threadleaf sedge caused a significant increase and at Jeff Davis Creek fire caused a significant decrease in threadleaf sedge cover. The following table describes the date of burn and percent cover on burned and unburned sites. All measurements were taken 1 complete growing season since burning .
In October 1976, a wildfire burned approximately 6,000 acres (2,428 ha) of mixed-prairie in the Little Missouri Badlands of southwestern North Dakota. Threadleaf sedge occurred in mixed vegetation stands (western wheatgrass, blue grama, needle-and-thread grass, and little bluestem) and little bluestem-dominated stands. Threadleaf sedge production (g/m²) was generally less on burned sites than on unburned sites .
The research described above suggests that prescription burning may or may not favor threadleaf sedge. If fire is used to manage threadleaf sedge land managers should use caution and follow the guidelines addressed below.
Grazing: Burned rangelands containing threadleaf sedge should be protected from grazing during postfire year 1 to allow for uninterrupted growth of herbaceous vegetation [15,21,189].
Invasive species: Improper fire management may convert desirable shrub and perennial grass stands to annual grass and invasive shrub stands [184,193]. Wright and others suggest that if fires occur in big sagebrush (A. tridentata)-grasslands at a frequency of less than every 50 years, the communities may become dominated by rubber rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnusnauseosus) and gray horsebrush (Tetradymia canescens), sprouting species that respond vigorously to fire. Cheatgrass may also expand after fire and severely reduce native plant coverage [137,184,193].
Precipitation: Two authors suggest that it is harmful to burn threadleaf sedge during drought years [186,189].
Sagebrush-grassland communities: Threadleaf sedge occurs in sagebrush-grasslands with species that can be harmed by fire . June or July fires can be especially harmful to Idaho fescue and needle-and-thread grass [15,192]. Big sagebrush is slow to recover from extensive fires .
Threadleaf sedge is one of the most important grass-like forage species on the northern Great Plains [92,164]. It is particularly important due to its early growth and high palatability in the spring [35,42,146,151,164]. Threadleaf sedge is eaten readily by cattle and domestic sheep when it is young, but is avoided as it ages and becomes tough [109,136,151].
From the end of November to the end of April on rangelands north of Nunn, Colorado, threadleaf sedge and needleleaf sedge constitute 18% of cattle diets on sandy plains and overflow sites and 22% on loamy plain sites. From the 1st of June to the middle of October, the 2 sedges constitute 6% of diets on sandy plains and overflow sites and 12% on loamy plain sites . Threadleaf sedge is preferentially grazed in the early spring by feral horses in south-central Wyoming. In spring 1991, threadleaf sedge composed 62% of their early spring diet .
Small mammals/birds: The seeds, leaves, and roots of threadleaf sedge are eaten by fur and game mammals, small mammals, and birds . Threadleaf sedge is an important food source for black-tailed prairie dogs in western South Dakota. Research collected on their food habits in 1973 found that threadleaf sedge constitutes from 9% to 19% of black-tailed prairie dog diets . In eastern Montana, threadleaf sedge-western wheatgrass-blue grama communities provide the most important habitat for sharp-tailed grouse .
Ungulates: Threadleaf sedge is utilized by ungulates . It is the most important forage graminoid for bighorn sheep in the Badlands of North Dakota during the spring. Threadleaf sedge constitutes 28.8% of bighorn sheep diets in the spring, yet it is only 1.8%, 0.0%, and 0.1% of their diet during the winter, summer, and fall, respectively . Threadleaf sedge is an important forage species for pronghorn and American bison in the Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, and Dall sheep in the Sheep Mountains, Yukon Territory . Elk in the southern unit of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota, utilize threadleaf sedge as a forage species . Threadleaf sedge is an important winter and spring forage species for elk in Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. During the winter and spring, threadleaf sedge constitutes 12.6% and 38.6%, respectively, of elk diets. It is of marginal use during the fall (4.2%) and of no use during the summer [195,196].
Palatability/nutritional value: The palatability of threadleaf sedge early in the growing season is high, but as it becomes dry and tough by the middle of summer its palatability is very low [93,113,175].
The palatability of threadleaf sedge in the National Forests of Region 1, which cover more than 23,000,000 acres (9,308,000 ha) in South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington, is rated as 60 on a scale of 0 to 100 . Palatability of threadleaf sedge on the northern Great Plains is rated as 70 .
Threadleaf sedge is one of the highest protein grass and/or grass-like species in the northern Great Plains . The crude protein value of threadleaf sedge decreases from a high of 12.38% in early June to a low of 5.6% in August . Cows nursing calves require a total protein level of 9.2%. Threadleaf sedge meets this requirement on the Great Plains from the resumption of spring growth until approximately 20 June. Dry pregnant mature cows require 5.9% total protein in their diets and threadleaf sedge meets this requirement throughout the year .
The chemical composition of threadleaf sedge given as a range during the 1976 growing season at 3 sites (Sidehill, Flat Top Ridge, and Creek Bottom) in the Badlands of North Dakota is given below. For a more detailed analysis see the review by Fairaizl .
Cover value: Threadleaf sedge is a low-growing species and therefore has limited cover value [2,32,71,72,107,107,160,164,170,173].
Small mammals/birds: Threadleaf sedge provides principal cover for mountain plover nesting sites in southeastern Campbell County, northern Converse County, and a small portion of southwestern Weston County, Wyoming . It provides cover for a large number of bird species in the Columbia Basin of Washington and on the mixed-grass prairies of the Scott's Bluff National Monument, Nebraska .
Threadleaf sedge provides cover for black-tailed prairie dogs on the grasslands of the Black Hills, South Dakota and in Billings County, North Dakota . The Oregon ground squirrel builds its burrows in northeastern California in threadleaf sedge stands on sandy sites .
Threadleaf sedge forms a dense and tough sod which binds and holds the soil against wind and water erosion [72,147,151,173,175,179]. The roots of threadleaf sedge are able to bind soil years after aboveground vegetation has died .
In Yosemite National Park, California, plugs of threadleaf sedge were collected and used to rehabilitate a 4,200 foot (1,280 m) section of denuded trail with partial success. The plugs were collected in the fall of 1991 and planted during the 1992 growing season. In 1995, threadleaf sedge cover was 8% on the rehabilitated site and 24% on surrounding undisturbed control sites .
Native Americans used threadleaf sedge culm bases as famine food .
Disturbance: Soil disturbance may have long-lasting negative effects of threadleaf sedge. In 1976 the basal cover (%) and mean aboveground production (g/m²) of threadleaf sedge was investigated on 4 plowed (P) and unplowed (U) sites on the mixed-grass prairie of southwestern North Dakota. The plowed sites were formerly farmland which had been abandoned and unworked for 40 years. Threadleaf sedge basal cover and mean aboveground production was greater on unplowed than plowed sites .
Fertilization: Two authors discuss the effects of nitrogen fertilization on threadleaf sedge [45,68].
Forage production: Threadleaf sedge production is 2nd only to bluebunch wheatgrass, which has a forage production value of 341.8 lbs./acre, on the Palouse Prairie of eastern Washington . On the northern Great Plains, the average forage yield of threadleaf sedge is approximately 40 lbs./acre . Threadleaf sedge has a forage production of 308.3 lbs./acre on silty loam soil outside of Davenport, Washington. On grasslands southwest of Virginia City, Montana, the herbage production of threadleaf sedge for the 10-year period 1964 to 1973 ranged from 27 to 51 lbs./acre on southwest exposure sites and 1 to 12 lbs./acre on northeast exposure sites .
Grazing: Research on threadleaf sedge response to grazing suggests that it decreases under grazing pressure [12,92,158]. However, 2 studies [123,148] found that threadleaf sedge increases when grazed. Ross and Hunter list threadleaf sedge as an increaser on the eastern glaciated plains, sandy, silty, and limey range sites, western glaciated plains, eastern and western sedimentary plains, badlands, and foothills and mountains of Montana. In the Pawnee National Grasslands, Colorado, natural barriers such as ravines have excluded cattle from grazing small pockets of short-grasses. The percent cover of threadleaf sedge in the exclusion areas is 3.36%, which is significantly (p<0.05) less than in grazed areas (4.51%) .
In Yosemite National Park, California, recreational pack stock grazing caused a significant (p<0.01) decrease in threadleaf sedge biomass (g/m²). The study, conducted from 1994 to 1998, found that threadleaf sedge biomass decreased 18% on grazed plots in 5 years [33,125].
The colonization of and grazing by black-tailed prairie dogs on the mixed-grass prairie on northeastern Montana has had a significant (p<0.05) detrimental effect on threadleaf sedge communities. On colonized prairies, standing threadleaf sedge biomass (kg/ha±sx) is 2.3±1.2 and 6.8±1.2 on uncolonized prairies .
At the Northern Great Plains Field Station, North Dakota, heavy and moderate cattle grazing caused a decrease in relative cover of threadleaf sedge. The heavily used area was summer grazed for 44 years at an average rate of 1.25 AUM's per acre. The moderately used area was summer grazed for 46 years at an average rate of 0.50 AUM per acre. The ungrazed area had been grazed at an average rate of 1.19 AUM per acre for 23 years but had not been grazed for 19 years preceding the study. The relative cover of threadleaf sedge on heavily, moderately, and ungrazed sites was 9.9%, 24.4%, and 81.7%, respectively .
Herbicides: Two references discuss the effects of 2,4-D on threadleaf sedge [45,128]. One author discusses the effects of picloram, clopyralid, and metsulfuron methyl on threadleaf sedge .
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NOT TOO VIOLENT Small-scale human societies, represented here by African Masai warriors, are neither more nor less violent than state societies, a new study concludes. As often happens in investigations of warfare, the report has sparked controversy.
Contrary to a popular idea among researchers, modern states haven’t dulled people’s long-standing taste for killing each other in battle, a controversial new study concludes. But living in a heavily populated society may up one’s odds of surviving a war, two anthropologists propose.
As a population grows, larger numbers of combatants die in wars, but those slain represent a smaller average percentage of the total population, say Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee and Charles Hildebolt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. That pattern holds for both small-scale and state societies, the researchers report online October 13 in Current Anthropology. | 2019-04-20T10:19:44Z | https://www.sciencenews.org/article/scientists-battle-over-whether-violence-has-declined-over-time |
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Wilson Taylor delivers the apocalypse the only way he knows how: at his son Tom’s expense. It’s the end of the world as we know it. But there’s no need to worry because it’s just a story. Isn’t it? Don’t miss the extra-sized conclusion to the fan-favorite Vertigo series!
How do you write the ending to a story about stories ending the world? How do you wrap up meta-narratives, multiple plots, twisted storylines, intertextualities and gigantic apocalyptic schemes? According to Mike Carey and Peter Gross, you don’t. According to Tom Taylor, you let someone else do it for you. And the two, unsurprisingly, are the one and the same.
The third part of ‘Annals of Comparative Literature’ brings the arc, the Apocalypse chapter and the whole The Unwritten series to a close, and does so with a wonderful flourish of the pen (or other authorial tool) on the page (see previous bracket), and a refreshingly, candidly self-aware reflection on itself as a medium and a series. Characters live up to their descriptions, but not further, stories reach their conclusion, but not more than that, and most of all, the real puppeteers are exposed, reversed, unveiled and dragged down for one last time, in a surprisingly really quite moving sequence.
In the meantime, Carey also manages to voice several thoughts on the comics medium, its relationship to literature, the acceptance of it and experimental fiction in a wider literary canon. There are more quotations, explorations of dangling plots, voice shifts and some fantastic Pauly Bruckner contributions that definitely left me with a satisfied smirk on my face.
Peter Gross, in his co-plotting guise, really sets his skills loose on the script, adapting, twisting and capturing the end of the world that was, what came before, what came between and what will come with the turn of the page. Visual references abound, to external contexts (the human evolution panel is fantastically apt and deployed) and to other moments in the series. I am curious as to whether another artist worked on finished in certain sections of the issue, as no one else is credited but there are some definite callbacks to the Ship That Sank Twice OGN finishes and some of the work by Vince Locke and Al Davison – regardless, the effect is stunning, and the care and detail going into Wilson Taylor in particular is especially moving, throughout the entire issue.
Of course, the visual pleasure of the book, as always, would not be possible without the fantastic chromatic work of Chris Chuckry, who performs double plus good in this super-sized issue. Working with such complex layouts and basic patterns as deployed by Gross’ linework cannot be easy, at all, but once again, for one last time, he delivers. Todd Klein’s lettering performance in this issue was stellar. There are some many fonts, so much personality imbued in each and every other scene, due to its framing, to its context, to its moment in the narrative timeline and the ‘real’ timeline, that only one of the masters of the craft could have tackled it so magnificently.
And finally, but in no means as the least deserving of credit, is the mind behind the hands behind the face of the series as a whole, Yuko Shimizu. I have spoken to several comics readers who have not yet been absorbed by The Unwritten, but they all know Shimizu’s fantastic covers, and we all agreed on the poignant, powerful, sad and beautifully composed final cover, with Tom fading into – or out of – a book (you decide after reading).
This is the actual end of the line, for a series that has followed me through the entirety of my higher education (sudden realisation, that). This is a final issue that manages to acknowledge what it is doing, that what it is doing is wonderfully original, is not afraid of saying so, and yet does not brag about it or inflate it to the point of exhaustion. This is an issue about the power of writing, of books, of comic books, the limits and constraints of canon, the loopholes that emerge from it. This is the story of characters trying to lose their author, in order for the story to continue its life. This is the story of a reader turned writer, unable to convince people and himself of a fictional reality, a world that never happened, never existed, and never will be – but who chooses to write it down anyway.
And in those words, in those images, lies the unspoken, unwritten power.
The Unwritten: Apocalypse #12 is available in shops and digitally here.
I seem to have a theme running, and sometimes it twinkles.
I never thought I'd asked that much of me, of you, of us. All I wanted was the stars.
As always, the site is miniaturestory.org, and it is wonderful. Always.
Another small story to capture the immensity of reality? Probably accurate.
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The end is near, and the final battle is about to be fought – and Tom is back where he never wanted to belong. But if he’s going to die tomorrow, then tonight he’s got some unfinished business – with the most derivative boy wizard in all the worlds.
Despite the lateness of this review, I find myself relieved by the fact that the final issue is still a little while away. It allows a re-reading of the eleventh chapter of the Apocalypse (The Unwritten), and time to think about where the story may end up, well, ending. And punches are definitely not pulled.
Writer Mike Carey takes the first part of this issue to focus, on a slightly slower pace, on the relationship between Tommy and Tom, between Count Ambrosio and possibly Pullman, between the major players of the stories so far, keeping true to the ‘Annuals of Comparative Literature’ arc title. But the main focus, across both parts of the plot, are the nature of evil, and its close connection to guilt. And unsurprisingly, though very craftily done, Pullman is right in the middle of it.
Definitely picking up from issue #10 in terms of story beats, emotional crafting and overall narrative weaving, the penultimate issue in the whole run of the series has some excruciatingly painful moments, reminiscent of the darkest children books, and some fantastic dialogue. And I have no idea where it will go in the finale, at all.
Once more, artist Peter Gross has full responsibility for the basic visual rendition of the story in the book, and the job he does is magnificent. Character-wise, Ambrosio, Pullman and Madame Rausch are as terrifying as ever, and the Leviathan lurking in the background is a wonderful touch. But from a structural point of view, Gross shines even brighter – one long sequence in particular, featuring all the major characters is stunningly devised, and the panel borders blur even further when the Taylors are involved.
The cover, as always by the fantastic Yuko Shimizu, is terrifying, beautiful and really touching. Not only does it have the traditional Pietà structure, and bleak colours of the interiors, I dare you to look at it again once the story is over, and not feel a pang of pain at the death(s) in the book. Go on.
Remember, if you can, all the worst moments from the best children books you have read. Condense them through the filter of a twisted horror writer with a literary vein. See them play out in front of your eyes, rather than just in your head. You’ll have a vague sense of what Carey and Gross have plotted and done in this issue. And remember that those are some of the best books because of those worst moments. And that is nothing, compared to where the story continues, and begins to end, in the painful aftermath of things being Unwritten.
The Unwritten: Apocalypse #11 is available in shops and digitally here.
New year, new short short stories – and this one is definitely not inspired by my Italian grandmother. She hates rhymes.
She always dropped a sick flow with every present. No one ever corrected grandma's understandable mistake.
Make sure to head over to the new 140Story website to find more tiny tales! | 2019-04-21T04:24:04Z | https://angolopolveroso.wordpress.com/2015/01/ |
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Wood shingles, wood shake shingles, slate, tiles, cedar, asphalt shingles – when it comes to roofing materials, there are so many options. Today, one of the most popular choices for roofing materials is metal.
Installing a metal roof has its own advantages and disadvantages. If you are considering getting one for your home, you should be prepared for its pros and cons for you to be able to make an informed decision.
Longevity – Metal roofs have a long lifespan of around 20 to 50 years if maintained properly. Almost all metal roofs are painted and this paint has its own life expectancy of around 25 years.
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The title makes it sound like I know boat lingo. Really, I don’t. But when I was in Mexico for my wedding, a bunch of us took a boat ride out and went fishing somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. We had a blast, caught some interesting fish, ate some interesting fish and I managed to snap a bunch of fun shots. More from my trip to Mexico will come.
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They made it: in less than a year the Belize city council paved more than one hundred streets. And though there were major inconveniences for residents, things are starting to shape up now, and even the most hardened doubter would have to agree that the city is shaping up. The only problem is the other 420 streets that are in bad to terrible condition. The problem with those is that the city council has pretty much spent out the 20 million dollars it raised in a bond to pave those streets. So, to the rescue, here comes the government of Belize. Today Prime Minister Dean Barrow and Mayor Darrell Bradley outlined a plan for phase tow of the project. Here's how it will work:..
"The absolutely splendid job that has been done - the way this city is being transformed, these are things that obliged the central government to partner with the mayor and hic city council in trying to move things forward and so my principal purpose for being here this afternoon is to say that with respect tp phase 2 of the street concreting program that the mayor and the city council have undertaken, central government is now going to contribute 10 million dollars."
"I've provided a map which is to my right that I keep in my office every single day and we have traced the development of Belize City in terms of the concreting project and I remember when this map was very clear and it only had one or two streets. Now it has 102 and very shortly it will have almost 140 streets when the second wave of the infrastructure project will be completed."
"That will mean and result in the fact that one in three streets would have been concreted under just a two year period. I had circulated a listing of the 35 streets that we will focus on in this second wave. The total costing of those streets are just short of 10 million dollars; I believe its 9.8 million dollars and the first wave of those streets will start in the coming days."
"In terms of timeline, I had indicated that this project will start within the coming week. The Prime Minister had indicated that he was very eager to commence at least some of the streets that BWS has already prepared and I had outlined the 6 streets that will be commence in the next week. This project will run us from next week into September of this year. We are trying to work very closely with the utility companies. We want the project to work smart. We are not building streets to build streets; we are not building parks to build parks. We are building these things so that we can transform a space and to build a community and to change lives."
"We are working in an integrated approach and we are ensuring that whatever is done has the maximum impact on the lives of people in the community. We are not perfect in how we implement projects. We are often times uncoordinated; we make a lot of mistakes. It is not a program that will solve the infrastructure needs of Belize City. People often times call and say you are doing one street, why not my street? We cannot in such a short period of time deal with everything. There will be a different city in the next 2 years. The city that my son grows up in will not be the city that I grew up in and by the time the next election rolls around we would declare that every single primary street; streets which connects people from one area or neighborhood of Belize City would have been concreted."
So, with all this talk of how many streets will be paved before the next election, one has to wonder, is the government preparing to call a snap general election. The Prime Minister brushed that off today:..
"Except to say to those who are amused it seems by all this infrastructure work that's taking place and are saying it must be because we will call the elections soon. Please, the next election will be the elections in 2015 - a year from now - the municipal elections, which are the only elections. We will not call a general election. We are doing this work because as we have made clear we see infrastructure as almost the be all and end all."
And while they are focusing on municipal elections, it's not going to be in the city. You might think that seeing how government is spending in the old capital. But the PM made it a point to say that other municipalities will be getting money too.
"Over the next calendar year, perhaps running a little bit into 2015, if Belize City will get 10 million dollars I don't expect that any of the other municipalities will get less than 2 - 2.5 million dollars by way of these street works. Please the 10 million dollars might seem like a lot with respect to Belize City. In terms of population, It is still the capital of the country in terms of commerce, in terms of being the media center, all that sort of thing. So I don't think anybody can quarrel with the size of the contribution especially since I am making it perfectly clear that each and every single municipality will also benefit from government's largess."
Central government is partnering with the Belize City Council for phase two of the city’s infrastructure project, which will see the continued rehabilitation and concreting of at least 40 more streets from 10 million dollars of assistance being provided by Government.
The announcement was made today at a press conference hosted by Prime Minister Dean O. Barrow and Belize City Mayor Darrell Bradley.
Prime Minister Barrow said that the torrential rains have “done a number” on the streets of Belize City, and it is on that basis that the central government has allocated 10 million dollars for repair of the city.
Barrow had high praise for Mayor Bradley and the City Council for coming up “on their own with the municipal bond,” which saw the beginning of the concreting of Belize City streets.
The Prime Minister said that if Belize City will get $10 million, then the other municipalities will get something in the region of $2 million dollars each for rehabilitation of their streets.
Corozal, Benque, Belmopan and the other municipalities will also be beneficiaries of the infrastructure projects being funded by central government, Barrow explained.
“I don’t think anybody can quarrel with the size of the contribution to Belize City, because each and every single municipality will also benefit from Government’s largesse,” Barrow said.
Barrow said he asked Mayor Bradley what he will do about the earthen streets, since he is getting the $10 million to construct more concrete streets, and he said the mayor assured him that he will set aside the funds of a $2 million loan to address those streets.
“I was privileged to see the mayor’s balance sheet and know that he can service that $2 million loan, and the central government will guarantee it”, said Barrow.
He added that right now the focus is on infrastructure, pledging that his government will “ride this right through to the municipal election in 2015”.
Mayor Bradley outlined the second phase of the infrastructure project, and drew attention to the countless benefits that will be generated by the infrastructure project.
Bradley said that the central government has been the trendsetter, in rolling out an aggressive development program that has been centered on infrastructural development. He pointed to the Ministry of Works’ Poverty Alleviation Project that has seen the resurfacing of Collet Canal and the beginning of work on Central American Boulevard.
Bradley said that the development that residents and visitors to Belize City are seeing will continue.
“But we cannot deny the fact that substantial work has gone on over the last two years in Belize City,” he went on to note.
Bradley said the work that has been done with the municipal bond, which is now coming to a close, has seen the concreting of 102 streets.
“We had set the target of 100 streets from the $20 million municipal bond and we have met our target”, he said.
After the second wave of the infrastructure project, Bradley’s map that he uses to monitor the progress of the works being done will show 140 streets concreted.
One in three streets will be concreted in a short two-year period, the Mayor said. The second phase of the project will see 35 more streets concreted, at a cost of a little below $10 million, Bradley said.
The Mayor said that by the time the elections come around every primary street in Belize City that connects people from one area to another would have been concreted.
The streets that will be paved on the Southside of Belize City are Vernon Street, South Street, Yarborough Road, Cemetery Road, West Street, King Street, George Street, Dean Street, West Canal, Regent Street West, Youth for the Future Drive, Antelope Street, Zericote Street, Raccoon Street and Gibnut Street.
The streets that will be paved on the North Side of Belize City are Saint Charles Street, Saint Mathews Street, Castle Street, Cleghorn Street, Slaughterhouse Road, Princess Margaret Drive, Saint Joseph Street, Buttonwood Bay Boulevard, Seashore Drive, Independence Street, Victoria Street, Pickstock Street, George Arthur Street, Jackfruit Crescent, Thomas Vincent Ramos Street, Fourth Street, Third Street, University Drive, Blue Marlin Drive and Bachelor Avenue. | 2019-04-24T08:06:29Z | https://ambergriscaye.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/486988/ten-million-for-city-upgrade.html |
Spring is here - and it's the blue siblings of the wood anemones that are first up through the layer of last year's dead leaves.
I think Peter Watts is trying to tell us that he isn't conscious. Besides being a science-fiction version of The Ego Tunnel by Thomas Metzinger, Blindsight is a story that sets out the author's argument that consciousness is an evolutionary mistake and that we would be much better if we would just let our unconscious get rid of that slow and unnecessary awareness.
The book is good enough that I'd be willing to buy that argument if he'd reveal that it was written unconsciously.
This lens was as close to an impulse buy as I'll ever get. When going from crop-frame sensor to full-frame I had to upgrade not just "normal", day-to-day lenses, but also the ones I use for dance and concert photography. I think I did a single search on Prisjakt and then went out and bought this lens.
A church with a great view over the river. The church was built starting in 1019, making it celebrate its 1000-year anniversary this year.
One of the 72 waterfalls in the valley.
A church by the Kapellbrücke.
How to remove hot pixel noise from images in Photoshop using a median-blurred copy of the image to interpolate the missing image data.
When shooting with flash you may have observed sharp shadows or bright highlights on people's skin. Those are both caused by the flash being close to a point light source. Point light sources give rise to sharp shadows, since, as seen from the shadowed object, the light source is either completely visible or completely hidden. They also result in very bright highlights for the same reason - either the beam bounces completely back to the observer, or it doesn't. A flash diffuser alleviates this by expanding the area the flash beam originates from, and therefore the different angles the light strikes the object. | 2019-04-22T06:15:57Z | https://monochrome.sutic.nu/ |
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A man was shot by police in south London today, Scotland Yard has confirmed.
Armed officers were sent to the scene in Elsinore Road, Forest Hill, after the man threatened local police with "a large bladed weapon".
Scotland Yard said he is in a "critical but stable" condition in hospital.
At around 5.40am this morning police were called to reports by members of the public of a man attempting to break into a car in Elsinore Road, the Metropolitan Police said.
A spokesman said: "Local officers attended and attempted to approach the man who then threatened them with a large bladed weapon.
"The officers retreated and called for further units to assist including firearms officers.
"The man then approached officers on Stanstead Road threatening them with the weapon."
The firearms officers deployed both Tasers and firearms and the man received gunshot wounds.
"London Ambulance Service attended and took the man to a south London hospital. He is critical but stable," the Scotland Yard spokesman added.
"We can confirm a number of knives have been recovered from the scene."
Roads are closed in the area due to the incident.
The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has launched an investigation.
A spokesman said the man in his early 20s, originally from Ghana but now of Forest Hill, was being treated at Kings College Hospital in the capital.
IPCC Commissioner Mike Franklin added: "This young man is receiving medical attention and his condition is described as critical.
"His family have been informed and have been taken to the hospital by the police so that they can be close to him.
"The IPCC investigation will be carried out by our own investigators and will look at the circumstances leading up to this shooting." | 2019-04-25T06:43:51Z | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9091673/Man-in-critical-but-stable-condition-after-being-shot-by-police-in-Forest-Hill.html |
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The movie End of Watch is a slice of life glimpse into the lives of two cops on the beat in South Central LA. It is also a showcase of the talents of the guys from Radiant Images. The LA-based rental house and digital cinema innovator is credited with helping Director/Writer David Ayer and Cinematographer Roman Vasyanov create the unique look and feel of End of Watch, which is already being touted as an Academy Award contender.
Technicians at Radiant Images worked closely with the filmmakers in pre-production to enable the POV and other small camera shots at the movie’s cinematic core. Radiant even conceived, developed and utilized a palm-sized cinema-quality camera – the SI-2K Nano – especially for End of Watch.
The partnership developed in the months before End of Watch was shot over 22 days last summer in Los Angeles. Ayer, who wrote Training Day and directed Street Kings, wanted to find a new, fresh approach in the police genre with End of Watch. He wanted to get the audience up close to the lives, friendship and daily work of a pair of police officers, creating visual intimacy, Vasyanov said.
Ayer knew of Radiant’s budding reputation in the film industry due, in part, to the company’s work on acclaimed Director Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours in 2010. Mansouri and his brother Babak Mansouri, an independent filmmaker and camera operator who works closely with Radiant Images, built custom rigs that utilized the SI-2K digital camera to help DP Anthony Dod Mantle get some of the most creative shots in the Academy Award-nominated film. Ayer and Vasyanov enlisted Radiant to help them achieve their vision by resolving issues and finding solutions before the demands of the tight shooting schedule got underway. A top priority was finding a suitable cinema-quality camera small enough to be worn by lead actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena for POV shots without restricting movement, and also to be mounted as dashboard cams inside a real squad car to capture interaction in a realistic way.
The Mansouri brothers joined Ayer and his team in combing the floor at NAB 2011 in Las Vegas examining the latest digital technology. But they couldn’t find the desired solutions.
Frustrated by the lack of options, Babak Mansouri decided he could design the perfect camera himself. He had seen the inside of a Silicon Imaging’s SI-2K camera and thought if a Kevlar-type material could encase the boards and sensor, the size could be reduced by more than half. He also envisioned a dedicated C-mount lens and just a single soft-ribbon style cable extending from the body.
Babak Mansouri taught himself a CAD program to render his body design in 3D and then took it to a local engineer. Working around the clock, a prototype was developed just in time for it to be unveiled in Radiant’s booth at the Cine Gear Expo in June 2011. Available exclusively at Radiant Images, the SI-2K Nano is one-third the size of the original SI-2K Mini Sensor with the versatility (IMS) to mount to just about anyone or anything. It shoots 2K uncompressed RAW 4:4:4 cinema quality using SI sensor components with 10 stops of dynamic range.
For Ayer and Vasyanov, the tiny, versatile SI-2K Nano proved to be just what the filmmakers needed.
Radiant Images supplied a range of digital cameras to End of Watch in addition to the SI-2K Nano, from the Canon 5D to the GoPro to the RED Epic.
For many of the POV shots, Gyllenhaal and Pena were fitted with straps that mounted the SI-2K Nano to the middle of their chests. They also wore monitors enabling them to see their movements. Vasyanov credited the two actors for quickly adapting to their dual roles of actor and cameraman.
The filmmakers also utilized the SI-2K Nano to bring more realism to shots of squad car banter between Gyllenhaal and Pena. Rather than placing the car on a trailer or creating a car cut out, they used Velcro and gaffer tape to mount cameras on and under the dash and on the interior doors and roof of an actual squad car. Radiant Images also installed LED lighting on the roof for greater flexibility in creating any shape or color of light, he said.
Radiant Images, too, developed a realistic way to capture the sensation of infrared night vision goggles through the lens of a Canon 5D for a spooky scene at a ranch. “We watched a lot of FBI footage to a get sense of the look we wanted, so it was quite satisfying that we were able to achieve that,” Vasyanov said.
With only 22 days to shoot the film, he said, strong pre-production was a key to success along with trusting your decisions, often made on the fly, once shooting begins.
Please check out Radiant Images for more. | 2019-04-19T17:22:26Z | https://cinescopophilia.com/cameras-used-in-the-end-of-watch-movie/ |
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Told you, guy has legit potential, great waiver wire grab!
Yeah huge fan of his but shocked the leash has been this long. He needs to go to the minors ASAP. You can sign anyone and put them in CF, just do it already.
This thread is puzzling. The guy literally got cut because of his handling of the pitching staff and the Sox poor start. Both Sucre & Pedro have be solid. No way would I make a move.
I think it is time we talking extension after today’s game, lock him up through 2040.
Bundy has been atrocious, is his future as a closer?
Bullpen very frequently adds velocity adds most know.
What say you? Have heard this before but curious if it is too soon to give up on him as a SP?
1. Davis (obviously) Complete train wreck. Are they trying to embarrass him so much he will negotiate a buyout? 2. Why is Brady still here? Serious question. He shouldn’t be. 3. Wright : enough is enough The other stuff doesn’t matter to me a whole lot. We are going to be bad and that is the goal, full speed ahead.
Drew Jackson???? Why???? Yet Wright is on the team????
Makes $575k and an extra $250k if traded lol.
Yeah I thought he would be a #5, knew how to pitch just stuff wasn’t there. Def a fan as well. Clemson I believe.
I agree on Davis but I’d thought they would keep Pedro given the minimal time too so open mind. There is hope. Davis is wasted space and he is rich beyond what we could imagine, so let’s not feel bad for him. | 2019-04-20T21:18:53Z | http://forum.orioleshangout.com/forums/index.php?/profile/20727-rene88/ |
DJ Mustard takes fans behind the scenes and into his studio with For Every 12 Hours, a new 30-minute documentary, exclusively released by TIDAL.
Throughout the candid documentary, the 10 Summers boss reflects on his upbringing and his rise to fame.
The film shows just how far the 26-year-old has come, with fans from all over the world singing his praises in different languages.
Like they often do in his music, famous friends join Mustard in the doc. Along with his management team, stars like Big Sean, Ty Dolla $ign, YG, and RJ make cameos.
The Roc Nation DJ capped off 2016 with his new project Cold Summer and is now working on 400 Summers and Just Re’d Up 3 with YG. | 2019-04-21T13:06:31Z | https://www.rap-up.com/2017/01/13/dj-mustard-for-every-12-hours-documentary/ |
The newest wedding and special event venue in Carmel Valley, Gardener Ranch is tucked along the banks of the Carmel River. Gardener Ranch specializes in private use of the venue for Weddings, Family Reunions, Corporate Retreats and Special Events with overnight accommodations for up to 52 guests. The property, within walking distance of charming Carmel Valley Village, has a rich history of hosting Presidents, Dignitaries, and Movie Stars seeking exclusive, private, and rustic charm. The property is an idyllic 24 acres of majestic oaks, and lush meadows. Gardener Ranch is arguably the finest, most unique special event site in California.
Directions: Located on West Carmel Valley Road just outside the Village at Ford Road. | 2019-04-22T04:30:00Z | https://www.seemonterey.com/listings/gardener-ranch/5056/ |
This statistic displays answers to a survey about the place of purchase for books in France, as of 2015. A large majority of respondents declared that they bought books in bookstores, whereas only ten percent bought them on e-commerce websites selling digital books.
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The rest of the puppies were adopted out approximately a week to a week and a half apart. I’m quite pleased with the promised homes for my puppies, as Lily, Amelia and Betty each went to stay-at-home folks either elderly or on disability who could spend lots of time with my needy girls. Also, Freddie went to a middle schooler who carried him off like a really big prize at a County Fair and I understand he sleeps in the house. Boo Boo (did I report on him already?) had gone first to a young lady I know from the high school and I know that he has fit in very well with their other dogs. Frankie was adopted by a young man who enjoys hunting and told me that the first time he took Frankie out with his dad, Frankie stayed right near him, obeyed him each time he called and took every opportunity to dive into water!
Amelia was the last one to be placed, and that was in the evening. She got loose from the fellow in the dark and he called me in a panic to help find her (they are just up the road less than a mile). So me and my flashlight and really loud voice collected Amelia and she successfully spent her first night in her new home. The next morning, I’m letting Nemo and the older dogs out at 7am and I see running out in the road a dog that looked like Amelia! Augh!!! So out I go in my fuzzy bathrobe calling her and as she comes over all “grovel, grovel, rollover, lick, lick” – it dawns on me that this isn’t Amelia. OK. Excuse me, madam, and just who are you??
Bottom line, I put her up on the porch in one of the crates until I had a cup of tea and could decide what to do with her. Letting Nemo, Sparky, Emily and Sadie back in, they sniffed the cage with as much indifference as they could muster and I was floored. It was like they thought it was Amelia in the cage, but she smelled worse. Afterward, they totally adopted her into the pack and she is currently with me, going on two weeks now. And amazingly enough, that first day I had a call in the afternoon from a woman wanting to know if I still had any puppies left. Well, as a matter of fact…… so she’s going to be picked up at Thanksgiving as a surprise for the woman’s daughter.
Did I mention we also got three chickens in early October so we could have eggs? One lovely grey Americana that will lay greenish-blue eggs and two Wellsummers that will look kind of like the Kellogg’s rooster. Literally. Earlier this week, they crowed. And they’re not fond of being handled the way Fiona (the silver one) is. So they need new homes. Or a freezer. (omg – did I say that??). | 2019-04-24T12:01:13Z | https://caffeinatedmusic.com/2010/11/19/lab-puppies-update/ |
Commitment in Criminal Case No. 13395: United States vs. Johnnie O'Hara, defendant. The document reports that O'Hara was sentenced to serve three months in the Johnson County Jail at Warrensburg, Missouri. O'Hara was delivered to the jailer on May 27, 1936.
Indictment in Criminal Case No. 13395: United States vs. Johnnie O'Hara, defendant. O'Hara was charged with in three counts with, in Count I, illegally removing "distilled spirits on which the tax had not been paid" from a distillery; in Count II, concealing untaxed distilled spirits, specifically three gallons of moonshine whiskey, in an alley between Harrison and Campbell Streets; and in Count III, transporting untaxed distilled spirits while not being a "legally established common carrier" in a 1929 Chevrolet Coach. | 2019-04-23T08:26:48Z | https://pendergastkc.org/taxonomy/term/11343 |
Toronto, Ontario – September 6, 2018 -- Discount Car and Truck Rentals recently held its 28th annual charity golf tournament at the Angus Glen Golf Club in Markham, Ontario.
This year’s tournament attracted various members throughout the collision repair industry including insurance agents, corporate partners and auto manufacturer professionals. Attendees raised money towards the Chase McEachern Tribute Fund.
Chase lost his life in 2006 after collapsing at school due to cardiac arrest. The fund in his memorial supports the goal of providing schools and hockey arenas across the country with automated external defibrillators.
Heading into their 12th year working with the memorial fund, Discount Car has been able to raise enough funds to place nearly 40 automatic external defibrillators in schools across Canada, adding to the 14,000 the foundation has been able to provide in the past 12 years.
“The Chase McEachern Tribute Fund is something that is very close to our hearts and to see all of our sponsors and industry partners out in full force to support us once again is just so overwhelming,” said Adam Ceifets, Discount director of national insurance sales.
Approximately $70,000 has been raised by the tournament since 2006. | 2019-04-25T22:09:16Z | https://www.collisionrepairmag.com/news/20950-28th-annual-discount-charity-golf-tournament |
Building a Koi pond in your back yard is the perfect way to turn your backyard into a natural paradise. They offer owners their desired relaxing and tranquil atmosphere. They are lovely all by themselves, however if you add plants and other accessories you will make them appear like a real pond.
When you find yourself building a Koi pond you will need to first find the best spot for your pond. Constructing your new Koi pond in a site that receives too much sunlight exposure isn’t a good plan. If possible, aim to put the pond beneath a tree. This will help hold your pond at the correct temperature and it will also give your fish a bit of protection. For anybody who is apprehensive about falling leaves, try putting a net underneath the tree to catch them.
You also will want to take into account the size of your Koi pond since these fish turn out to be quite large. Many people state that their fish grow 4 feet in length, so you really should try to create your new pond at least 4 feet deep. This will allow it to become a nice place for your Koi to live. If your pond is too small you may have quite a few problems down the road, so take the time to prepare a nice size pond for your new friends.
The way you model your pond is certainly one of the fundamentals in constructing a koi pond. You could also have a specialist design your pond for you. Be sure that you have the blueprint you really want, since as soon as your Koi pond is in the ground you will not have the ability to alter it easily. As much as feasible, get the design which you think that you would be glad about all the time.
Purchasing the correct supplies is also tremendously important when building a Koi pond. These supplies are important to the living conditions of your pond. Having the best supplies for you Koi pond will help keep your pond and your fish healthy. A number of the more popular accessories are pond liners, filtration system, pond nets, and water pumps.
After you have finished the installing process, you will should try to include an aerator and also a koi pond filter into the water. These items will keep your pond water clean so you’ll have even more time to take pleasure in it. A water fall tank is also a very good idea. Possessing a water fall in this pond will keep the water in endless motion, and this makes it exceedingly difficult for most types of algae to develop on the floor of your pond. | 2019-04-24T06:58:25Z | https://koifishmagazine.com/good-tips-for-building-a-koi-pond/ |
Soraiya is a songwriter from Vancouver, Canada who grew up singing Indian devotional songs and studying Western classical music. In November 2017 she released her acoustic folk album That Last Tear in Los Angeles. Currently she is in Nashville where she is finishing a gospel album - due out summer of 2019.
In addition to her solo projects, Soraiya works with other artists. For the last few years she has been co-writing, recording, and performing with hit songwriter Michael Anderson (best known for his country hit "Maybe It Was Memphis"). Their band is The Tender Mercies, and they released their debut EP in May 2018.
Soraiya also sings with Canada's beloved children's musician Raffi in "Green Dream" and "Somos el Barco" on his 2016 album "Owl Singalong".
Victoria, Canada, 2015. Photo by Tessa Lloyd.
Los Angeles, 2017. Photo by Dario Griffin. | 2019-04-19T04:45:27Z | https://soraiyacampbell.com/about |
"IMMACCS: A Military Decision-Support System" by Jens G. Pohl, Anthony A. Wood et al.
Anthony A. Wood, CDM Technologies Inc.
Published in DARPA-JFACC 1999 Symposium on Advances in Enterprise Control: San Diego, CA, November 15, 1999. 9 pages. RESU68F.
The Integrated Marine Multi-Agent Command and Control System (IMMACCS) is a multi-agent, distributed system, designed to provide a ‘common tactical picture’ with integrated and meaningful decision-support facilities to authorized operators at any access node. IMMACCS has been implemented as a three-tier architecture that distinguishes between information, logic and presentation. It utilizes an object-serving communication facility with subscription and multi-casting capabilities that is based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). With an emphasis on application, IMMACCS was designed and implemented in concert with its military users as an integral component of experiments conceived by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory to test emerging concepts in military command and control. It was field tested as the command and control system of record during the Urban Warrior Advanced Warfighting Experiment conducted by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory in Monterey and Oakland, California, March 12 to 18, 1999. | 2019-04-22T16:22:59Z | https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cadrc/48/ |
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PheWAS identifies the potential associated phenotypes of a gene of interest in a selected phenome. Phenomes may either be a large collection of classic clinical phenotypes, metabolites, or expression data sets.
To perform PheWAS, select "PheWAS" under the "Analysis" option, and then choose the phenome of interest from the list of "Data Source". The top data source "Phenotype" includes roughly 5,000 classic traits. Most other data sources are from eQTL transcriptome studies. Enter the gene of interest in the "Gene Symbol" box; the Manhattan plot to the right will summarize the linkage of phenotypes or expression traits with the genetic variants around the gene you entered. The table under the plot shows the detailed p values and phenotype names and categories. The detailed information for each phenotype can be visualized through hovering over the dots in the plot.
ePheWAS identifies the phenotypes associated with the transcript or protein expression level of the gene of interest in the clinical phenome.
To perform ePheWAS, select "ePheWAS" under the "Analysis" option, and then choose the tissue(s) of interest from the list of "Data Source". The significance threshold will be automatically adjusted based on the number of tissues selected. Enter the gene of interest in the "Gene Symbol" box; the Manhattan plot to the right will summarize the association between clinical phenotypes and the expression levels of the gene you entered. The table under the plot shows the detailed p values and phenotype names and categories. The detailed information for each phenotype (corresponding tissue and phenotype details) can be visualized through hovering over the dots in the plot.
Mediation analysis makes use of trans-QTLs of a gene of interest to identify the mediator (which has a cis-QTL, coinciding with the trans-QTL of the dependent variable) between the independent variable (here the trans-QTL) and the dependent variable (gene with a trans-QTL).
To perform mediation analysis, select "Mediation Analysis" under the "Analysis" option, and then choose the data set of interest from the list of "Data Source". Enter the gene of interest in the "Gene Symbol" box; the mediation plot to the right will show the potential mediators of the input gene, revealed by the drop of the QTL LOD score of the target gene. The table under the plot shows the detailed LOD values and gene symbols. The detailed information for each gene can be visualized through hovering over the dots in the plot. The genetic position of the input gene is indicated by a red triangle. The genetic position of the trans-QTL is indicated by a vertical dashed line.
Reverse-mediation analysis is in one way the reverse approach of mediation analysis. Instead of starting the analysis from a gene with a trans-QTL, reverse-mediation analysis focuses on a gene with a cis-QTL (the cis-QTL is the independent variable and the gene serves as the mediator), and looks for other genes (dependent variables) that are mediated by the input gene.
To perform reverse-mediation analysis, select "Reverse Mediation Analysis" under the "Analysis" option, and then choose the data set of interest from the list of "Data Source". Enter the gene of interest in the "Gene Symbol" box; the reverse-mediation plot to the right will reveal the potential mediated targets of the input gene, identified by the significant drop in their QTL LOD scores in the plot. The table under the plot shows the detailed LOD values and gene symbols. The detailed information for each gene can be visualized through hovering over the dots in the plot. The genetic position of the input gene is indicated by a red triangle. The genetic position of the cis-QTL is indicated by a vertical dashed line. | 2019-04-22T16:38:21Z | https://systems-genetics.org/home/bxd_methods_tutorial |
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Reflections Gallery never ceases to put forth amazing artists. Local, regional, new and well-known, their “All Artist” Open House this Thursday will surely be an event not to be missed.
Showcasing over seventeen artists starting at 4 p.m., Reflections will be the place to be this Thursday as they offer the public a free opportunity to meet the artists, observe ongoing paintings and so much more.
A few participating artists will be offering seasonal specials on unframed pieces, small works and prints while Reflections Gallery will be giving guests an opportunity to find the perfect handmade holiday gift on their “Under $100” wall.
Stop by for a visit to watch Margaret Park working away on her Yupo watercolor, or Virginia Skipper as she paints porcelain. Don Hill will be showcasing an atmosphere perspective in landscape at 5:10 p.m., followed by a plein air watercolor demo by Lora Miller at 6:15 p.m., Nadine Koski working in encasutics at 6:45 p.m., and Susan Budash in indirect painting to round it out at 7:15 p.m.
So many artists, so many goings on, and one event that will have you walking away with an arm full of special gifts. | 2019-04-23T13:51:08Z | http://www.chattanoogapulse.com/arts/news--notes/an-all-artist-open-house/ |
LouFest, Food Truck Friday, St. Louis Art Fair, Sweet Tooth Tour, Rams vs Seahawks, Firefighters Weekend, Jon Lovitz, IllumiNite, BBQ Jam, and more. This weekend in St. Louis.
LouFest, Art Outside, Chingy, Greentree Festival, Great Fire Engine Rally, Brewfest, Angel Dash, and the Rams in St. Louis this weekend. | 2019-04-21T13:09:20Z | http://reallifestl.com/tag/firefighters-weekend/ |
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The totem pole is a monument created by Northwest Coast indigenous people to serve in various ceremonies. It also serves as a genealogical record sign board. These totem poles are carved out of cedar trees and painted with bright colours. Completed totem poles are usually erected as part of a ceremony and depict crest animals that are property of specific family roots and reflect history of the ancestors. The crest animals represent kinship, group membership and identity while the rest of the pole may represent a family’s history. | 2019-04-22T22:03:25Z | https://www.artrushgallery.com/the-ancestral-connection-story.html |
Do you have children that like ham and cheese pockets for school lunches? Here’s an idea. Spray you SOS reusable shell, line with biscuits or crescent rolls, stuff with ham and cheese and bake in the oven. Once cooled pop them out of the SOS shell and put in a baggie and refrigerate for the next school day. Kids love them and we love the simplicity. Make up to 12 SOS shells at a time. You children’s food will be the talk of the cafeteria. Cook ham and cheese in your SOS Shells. | 2019-04-19T08:39:08Z | https://sosshells.com/ham-cheese/ |
We are going to expand more and more to solve the needs of our German, European and international customers.
RDE Network Systems was founded in May 1974 as a consulting company. Now RDE is a professional network systems house. IPW as a division of RDE was planned as a local intranet and internet systems integrator and ISP.
With dropping the telephon costs in Germany down to about 10% in 1999, we supply services nationwide. We are running a high performance pop on a very high level of access speed and we supply extraordinary service.
Our location is within the Rhein-Main-Area of Germany very close to Frankfurt / Main airport (about 15 Miles).
Our building is wholly owned by ourselves and we have a maximum of 24 fiber optical pairs directly into our servers, currently running a tiered 155MBit to E3 line (34 MBit) to the Frankfurt exchange point DECIX in Frankfurt. We will expand to 100 Mbit shortly.
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and currently we are going to sell used equipment and offer high tech rentals of used switches and routers. | 2019-04-25T16:22:20Z | http://www.ipw.net/international0.html |
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A mid-afternoon reception would be nice -- maybe an ice cream social, if the season is right for it -- and if you could find some old company photos that depicted the life and times of the 1960's, you could blow them to poster size, frame them and use to decorate the place. Then, use the posters as door prizes or give-aways.
sponsor a contest for employees to send in old photos / mementoes of the company and display them at the reception. | 2019-04-24T07:52:23Z | https://lists.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1006b&L=RECMGMT-L&P=16957 |
Previous message: [Aboriginal] Fwd: Re: greetings!
> what I did, but more importantly _why_.
below. I'll see about completing it over the weekend.
> people for each distro.
> linux has pacman, openembeded has its bitbake recipes, and so on.
> produced a native build environment on target and then _stopped_.
> I found it to be a can of worms. Read the presentation for details.
> > don't think has an option like that. Also, XiniX has the "firmware"
> > present exploitable bugs to crackers.
> You can have the same problem with userspace.
> It's just qemu renders it less interesting, so I ship tarballs instead.
> > the graphical side will be up and running.
What were you using as the graphics backend? X11, DirectFB, etc?
will the transition to musl take?
> > distro so that these issues won't be a factor as often.
> > Um, like Apple did with macosx? Like that /usr->/usr/bin move?
Great article! I actually wondered where all those directories came from.
> says that 50% of what you know is obsolete every 18 months.
> result and uploads the tarball to the host.
> don't have to care.
> basic flexible tool with minimal assumptions about its eventual use cases.
> vegetables. That's about it.
> > GNU/Linux isn't: Linux=GPLv2, GNU=GPLv3+, they can't share code.
> > understand what I'm asking.
> Lemme do a separate email for that one. | 2019-04-22T06:40:27Z | http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/aboriginal-landley.net/2012-July/001097.html |
(lsn) The Board of Trustees of the American Philatelic Research Library (APRL) has elected Steven Zwillinger as its president. Zwillinger, who has served on both the APRL Board and the Board of Directors of the American Philatelic Society, will fill the position vacated by Roger S. Brody, who stepped down as president following the completion of his term. Zwillinger was elected unanimously on 4 August during a meeting that immediately followed the adjournment of the General Board meeting. | 2019-04-22T02:56:09Z | http://aijp.org/aktuelles.php?nId=1&nLang=2&nAid=1793 |
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Image: Blind Justice. Credit: Charles Sturt Uni. | 2019-04-26T04:30:27Z | https://seminyaktimes.com/2018/03/ |
Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2019 >>> Matching the look | HIGHXTAR.Louis Vuitton Pre-Fall 2019 >>> Matching the look | HIGHXTAR.
Inspired by Japan, the first Pre-Fall collection by Abloh for Louis Vuitton explores the intersection between childhood and men’s fashion while continuing its theme of “Vocabulary according to Virgil Abloh”, launched last June during the SS19 presentation.
Virgil presents a proposal that evokes the timeless and connects directly with the essence of the Japanese city, Tokyo. Brushstrokes of workwear, typical of the uniforms of public service workers in the Japanese region, coexist with harnesses that reinvent the look and adapt it to the new era.
The tailoring or work of pattern does not go unnoticed in the collection. In fact, Virgil has done a sublime job. The play of volumes, shapes and fabrics that seem to rest on the body leave again patent that Off-White was the journey and LV is the consolidation of a FASHION designer.
As for accessories, Louis Vuitton – Virgil – uses “accessomorphosis” (the idea of transforming garments into bags) and “compressomorphosis” (bags that can be compressed for travel) throughout the range. In footwear, he has opted for a proposal that refers to extreme sports such as hiking shoes or work boots, allusions that have served as a principle of execution.
In short, a proposal loaded with concept and full of references to Japanese culture that mix with the most avant-garde workwear. The result: tomorrow’s utilitarianism. | 2019-04-18T13:22:57Z | https://highxtar.com/louis-vuitton-pre-fall-2019-matching-the-look/?lang=en |
Hoshi no buranko (星のブランコ) which literally means “The Swing Of Stars” is the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in Japan located in Hoshida Prefectural Park, Osaka with a length of 280 meters rising up to 50 meters above ground. As it is a pedestrian suspension bridge that connects two mountains, people can enjoy a 360-degree panoramic view of nearby Osaka and Kyoto while crossing.
Not many Japanese people know of this place when I mention Hoshi no Buranko during conversations. It’s quite surprising they just heard it for the first time. I’ve read somewhere that this is Osaka’s hidden gem. And yep! It lived up with the word.
We went there mid-November but it wasn’t much of the autumn foliage feels yet. Nevertheless, the view was breath-taking. | 2019-04-23T14:50:05Z | https://knsvisuals.com/portfolio/hoshi-no-buranko-autumn-foliage/ |
Pleated Blinds are perfect for any room and aren’t just limited to conservatories. There’s a wide range of patterns, colours and styles to suit any location and every taste. Pleated blinds is also available in Perfect Fit frames.
A large number of fabrics have sun reflective coatings to reduce glare, provide UV protection and reflect the sun, providing protection and helping to regulate the temperature of a conservatory. | 2019-04-19T18:49:53Z | http://www.solarblindsuk.com/pleated-blinds/4542061724 |
“THE last person to rule America who didn’t believe in the First Amendment was King George III,” wrote MSNBC’s Kasie Hunt, back in June — which is true only if you discount that the colonists actually enjoyed robust speech protections relative to their English cousins; if you are insensible of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, the pro-slavery “gag” rules that bound the House of Representatives from 1835 to 1844, the Civil War, the Espionage Act of 1917, the Sedition Act of 1918, New York Times Co. v. United States, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Schenck, or Eugene Debs; and, most crucially, if you remain wholly incapable of distinguishing between criticism and restriction.
Selective political interest is disastrous in its own right. But when combined with the catastrophic historical illiteracy that is rife among the journalistic class, its result is what might best be described as the everything-happening-now-is-new fallacy, which leads almost everybody on cable news and the opinion pages to deem every moment of national irritation unprecedented, to cast all political fights as novel crises, and, provided it is being run by Republicans, to determine that the present Congress is “the worst ever.” Turn on the television and you will learn that our language is the “least civil,” our politics is “the most divided,” and our environment is the “most dangerous.” When a Democrat is president, he is “facing opposition of the kind that no president has had to suffer”; when a Republican is president, he is held to be badly unlike the previous ones, who were, in turn, regarded as a departure from their predecessors. Continually, we are held to be on the verge of descending into anarchy or reinstituting Jim Crow or murdering the marginalized or, a particular favorite of mine, establishing the regime outlined in “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Past is prologue, context, and balm. Without it, all is panic.
One of the most toxic consequences of this myopia is that both longstanding problems and bad ideas with a long pedigree come to be discussed in the press as if they were unique to the moment. Early in Donald Trump’s tenure, the Internet was thrown into a flat panic by a host of stories warning that President Trump was marking Loyalty Day. Surely, it was proposed, this was proof of his fascistic aspirations? As it happened, Loyalty Day had been recognized annually since 1958, as the law requires. Similar panics have been started by the news that Trump was bombing Syria without explicit congressional authorization; that he was relying on executive orders to achieve some of what he could not persuade Congress to acquiesce to; that he was detaining illegal immigrants at the border and repelling those who became violent; that he reserved the right to use drones anywhere around the world; that he was amending federal websites to reflect his priorities; and that he liked to play a lot of golf. The wisdom and legality of all of these decisions and behaviors is debatable. But none of them is new. Even Thomas Paine didn’t hope to start the world over again that often. | 2019-04-19T23:05:49Z | http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/editorials/110613-opinion-bad-press-2 |
The group's guitarist Ronnie Wood reveals that he and his bandmates recently recorded new songs for their first full-length since 2005's 'A Bigger Bang'.
AceShowbiz - %cThe Rolling Stones% hasn't stopped rolling. Fresh off playing their historic free concert in Cuba last week, the band has confirmed that they are currently readying a new album that will mark their first since 2005's "A Bigger Bang".
In a new interview with The Associated Press, guitarist Ronnie Wood revealed that he and the group recently returned to the studio, where they spent days recording new original songs as well as a bunch of blues covers. "We went in to cut some new songs, which we did," he said.
"But we got on a blues streak. We cut 11 blues in two days. They are extremely great cover versions of %cHowlin' Wolf% and %cLittle Walter%, among other blues people. But they really sound authentic... When we heard them back after not hearing them for a couple of months, we were, 'Who's that? It's you.' It sounded so authentic," he continued. Asked when the album will arrive, he simply replied, "This year."
Wood revealed the new album plans while in London for Monday, April 4's opening of "Exhibitionism", a vast exhibition of the group's history at the Saatchi Gallery. His pals %cMick Jagger%, %cKeith Richards% and %cCharlie Watts% were there with him, but they refused to share more details about their upcoming project. "There's one coming," Richards said. "I can't say no more. My lips are sealed."
The Rolling Stones has released 22 studio albums in Britain and 24 in the United States. Following the "Bigger Bang" release more than a decade ago, the band toured the album in 2005, 2006 and 2007. The aging rockers reunited in 2012 for another tour to celebrate the band's 50th anniversary. | 2019-04-20T18:21:42Z | https://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00095897.html |
Comfort, control and style are the cornerstones of our buyers selection for these kid’s snowboard bindings.
The bindings feature plenty of support for growing limbs and ankle straps with glove friendly over-sized ratchets letting them strap themselves in. Teamed with a medium flex these bindings provide plenty of comfort yet enough performance for all terrain riding. All coming in a variety of colours for boys and girls ensures everyone will be happy and excited to shred. | 2019-04-25T06:59:50Z | https://www.snowboard-asylum.com/kids-snowboard-bindings |
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Aid Modi Announces Crore 500 Pm Imagine all the shame of being dressed up for the occasion and expecting great night out with friends and sparkling bubbly, only to be turned away by unwavering bouncer, laughing at your souvenir novelty ID card. They have seen so many of them, and can tell one apart at a glance. | 2019-04-20T14:43:39Z | http://www.ahhbrastore.com/electric-brothers-Bonefish-hoax-scam-three-murfreesboro-middle-qXFr5fFWwa/augustanaobserver.com-20190108103244.html/bki/ |
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Sliding boards are used to promote independence and safety during transfers.
For those with impaired balance and upper body strength, we highly recommend Stealth's ADI Anti-Slip Transfer Boards as a transfer-assist tool, often providing the needed assistance to enable therapist/caregiver performance of a safer and bio-mechanical friendly transfer.
: Todd showing transfer board use. | 2019-04-24T17:58:55Z | https://stealthproducts.com/541/ |
Send key symbols durations to fixed file 'simsend.out'. Synopsis: irsimsend [-U path] [-s time] [-c count] <file> irsimsend [-k keysym | -l listfile] [-U path] [-s time] [-c count] <file> irsimsend [-h | -v] <file> is a lircd.conf type config file. In the first form, all keys in that file are sent. Options: -U, --plugindir <path>: Load drivers from <path>. -c, --config <count>: Repeat each key <count> times. -l, --listfile <file> Send symbols in file. -k, --keysym <keysym> Send a single keysym. -s, --start-space <time> Send a start space <time> us -v, --version Print version. -h, --help Print this message. | 2019-04-23T22:48:46Z | https://helpmanual.io/help/irsimsend/ |
Above you can find the charger that will work with your Sony CCD-TR503E.
The factories that we use to produce our Sony CCD-TR503E chargers in Shenzhen were selected after extensive quality tests comparing many of the major factories across China. Our products are tested to Australian electrical safety standards and are marked with the Australian C-Tick electrical safety mark, as found on products at retail stores in Australia.
All of our Sony CCD-TR503E chargers come with a 400 Day (13 Month) 100% Money Back Guarantee. | 2019-04-26T04:25:08Z | http://www.betterbatt.com.au/s/battery-charger/sony/ccd-tr503e/ |
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With H-1B cap season around the corner, and an increase in H-1B compliance investigations, employers must fully understand all of their responsibilities under the law. In addition, employers who are readying themselves for the PERM process must also follow a number of steps to ensure all stages are correctly performed.
Join us as we explain H-1B application requirements, the PERM process and best practices to keep your organization compliant.
Scott Kuhagen, an attorney from Global Immigration Associates (a law firm affiliated with Envoy), has built and submitted hundreds of nonimmigrant and immigrant work visa petitions. He has extensive experience handling B, E, H, L, O and TN visa cases, employment-based green cards and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Requests for Evidence.
Chief Marketing Officer & Workforce Analyst, Envoy Jamie, a veteran to the HR technology industry, brings over 15 years of sales, marketing, and branding experience to Envoy. As CMO, she plays a key role in driving a powerful brand for Envoy that represents its dedication to providing education, support, unparalleled value and a better experience overall for both businesses and employees navigating through the immigration process. Prior to Envoy, Gilpin was the vice president of marketing at CareerBuilder where she studied the relationships between job seekers and employers for over a decade and became passionate about solving the skills gap. Jamie has presented on the skills gap, workforce trends, HR, big data, technology and employment branding appearing at conferences and in the media including SHRM Talent Management, SBA Small Business Week, Evanta HR Leadership Summits, Illinois Technical Association, WGN, ERE, SHRM, and more.
The Staying Compliant During the H-1B & PERM Process webinar grants attendees one general HR Certification Institute credit toward the PHR, SPHR, GPHR, HRMP, or HRBP certification programs. The continuing education certifications allow HRs to demonstrate a mastery of industry operations, best practices and regulations.
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In this free webinar, learn about actionable tips and insights to ensure your company remains compliant while managing immigration data for your entire sponsored workforce.
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Learn how global workforce management can be better organized, from documentation to deadlines, so you can stay compliant and retain your foreign national talent.
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Wondering how to prepare for an immigration audit? Here's what you need to know about staying compliant and breezing through an audit.
Here's how automated immigration management can help HR teams and immigration managers ensure their immigration program is compliant.
Find out how technology can help HR with a critical task: tracking global employees in order to stay compliant with U.S. and global immigration laws.
When it comes to immigration processes, your HR team needs the ability to communicate with your immigration attorney faster so you can stay compliant.
Learn tips to stay compliant with public access files and employee status changes, two keys to immigration compliance that often go overlooked.
Join Envoy as we discuss the importance of immigration compliance as it relates to the H-1B visa and properly managing employee status changes and maintaining Public Access Files.
Here’s a look at two problem areas for maintaining corporate compliance: H-1B status changes and public access files as we go head-first into H-1B season. | 2019-04-24T21:01:54Z | https://resources.envoyglobal.com/immigration-compliance/staying-compliant-during-the-h-1b-and-perm-process |
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Mdmgl014.inf errors are easy to repair. By downloading and running the registry repair tool Reimage, you can quickly and effectively fix this problem and prevent others from occuring. | 2019-04-18T21:07:54Z | http://www.errornumbers.com/Mdmgl014.inf/ |
A group of pleasant Cmdr's intent on making ED a pleasant place to be.
We are independent and keen to promote positive vibes throughout Elite. While we engage in all aspects of game play, we only pvp with willing Cmdr's or against those who like to gank or grief on new players.
This group is not for ego maniacs, griefers or people who intend on simply helping themselves. This is a group for those who enjoy helping others and has been built on that basis.
A player group founded on the common interest of wanting to help others. We all enjoy various different activities like bounty hunting, thargoid research and hunting, mining, unlocking engineers, supporting one another with wing missions etc and we are keen to keep helping new pilots wherever they may lurk. We are a lawful lot and enjoy a peaceful approach but also enjoy pvp and will gladly engage in pews to protect the CG or for entertaining events. | 2019-04-24T02:22:22Z | https://inara.cz/squadron/3341/ |
It was a clear, starry night in Glacier National Park. Fourteen-year-old Ted Systead and his father were camping peacefully beneath the rugged peaks and sweeping sky when the unimaginable happened: Ted's father was mauled by a grizzly bear and dragged to his death.
Now, 20 years later, as a special agent for the Department of the Interior, Ted is called back to investigate a crime that echoes the horror of that night. Only this time the victim was tied to a tree before the animal's attack. Ted teams up with one of the park officers - a man named Monty, whose pleasant exterior masks an all-too-vivid knowledge of the area. Residents of the nearby community are less than forthcoming. Suspicious of outsiders and intimately connected to the wilderness that surrounds them, they confront their fellow man and nature with equal measures of reverence and brutality. As the days pass with no clear answers, not only is human life at stake but so too is that of a majestic creature who carries with it valuable evidence. Ted's search for truth takes him far into the wilderness, on the trail of a killer, and eventually to a shocking and unexpectedly personal conclusion.
Rich in atmosphere and evocative, lush descriptions, The Wild Inside is a gripping debut novel about the wondrously perilous intersection between man and nature.
©2015 Christine Carbo (P)2015 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Glacier National Park police officer Monty Harris knows that each summer at least one person - be it a reckless, arrogant climber or a distracted hiker - will meet tragedy in the park. But Paul "Wolfie" Sedgewick's fatal fall from the sheer cliffs near Going-to-the-Sun Road is incomprehensible. Wolfie was an experienced and highly regarded wildlife biologist who knew all too well the perils that Glacier's treacherous terrain presents - and how to avoid them.
In a land sculpted by glaciers, the forest is on fire. Thick smoke chokes the mountain air and casts a twilight glow over the imposing mountains and vistas of Montana's Glacier National Park. When firefighters are called in to dig fuel line breaks near the small town bordering the park, a crew member is shocked to unearth a shallow grave containing human remains. | 2019-04-19T06:42:46Z | https://www.audible.com/series/Glacier-Mysteries-Audiobooks/B072MLSWNZ |
Vivien Goldman is a writer, broadcaster, and musician who has devoted much of her work to Afro-Caribbean and global music. She is the adjunct professor of punk and reggae at NYU’s Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music. Originally from London, Goldman now resides in New York City. This is her fifth book.
“The Book Of Exodus” (subtitled “The Making & Meaning of Bob Marley & the Wailers’ Album of the Century”) follows the sacred journey to create one of the lasting musical masterpieces of our time.
Bob Marley is one of our most important and influential artists. Recorded in London after an assassination attempt on his life sent Marley into exile from Jamaica, Exodus is the most lasting testament to his social conscience. Named by Time magazine as Album of the Century, ‘Exodus’ is reggae superstar Bob Marley’s masterpiece of spiritual exploration.
Vivien Goldman was the first journalist to introduce mass white audiences to the Rasta sounds of Bob Marley. Throughout the late 1970s, Goldman was a fly on the wall as she watched reggae grow and evolve, and charted the careers of many of its superstars, especially Bob Marley. So close was Vivien to Bob and the Wailers that she was a guest at his Kingston home just days before gunmen came in a rush to kill The Skip. Now, in “The Book Of Exodus”, Goldman chronicles the making of this album, from its conception in Jamaica to the raucous but intense all-night studio sessions in London.
But “The Book Of Exodus” is so much more than a making-of-a-record story. This remarkable book takes us through the history of Jamaican music, Marley’s own personal journey from the Trench Town ghetto to his status as global superstar, as well as Marley’s deep spiritual practice of Rastafari and the roots of this religion. Goldman also traces the biblical themes of the ‘Exodus’ story, and its practical relevance to us today, through various other art forms, leading up to and culminating with ‘Exodus’.
Never before has there been such an intimate, first-hand portrait of Marley’s spirituality, his political involvement, and his life in exile in London, leading up to his triumphant return to the stage in Jamaica at the Peace Concert of 1978. | 2019-04-19T20:33:16Z | https://www.reggae-vibes.com/reviews/writings/2006/05/the-book-of-exodus/ |
I got the news from Mary the other day..
Pretty sadders and I hope that he pulls though.
all that they just went through with the grandson too.
In my prayers, any update?
Triavis I've heard a story but want to respect the family and confirm before I post something. | 2019-04-22T14:45:49Z | http://pub17.bravenet.com/forum/static/show.php?usernum=1430426313&frmid=4&msgid=966994&cmd=show |
FitChip Pro (club maker model) gives a recommended shaft frequency and the actual club head speed with each swing, download capability and stores 84 swings and as many as five players and 40 swings per player . $695.00, includes the following items. Software Package, a FitChip Utility for downloading FitChip data to the PC. Stand alone FitChip GSSSA computer program for analyzing the FitChip Data and down load cable..
FitChip Loan Program – This program is basically a FitChip lease program. The FitChip records full swing data for as many as five players, as many as 40 swings per player but a maximum of 84 total swings. It gives a count of the swings made, no frequency recommendations or club head speeds. It includes download software and download cable to transfer data files directly to fitchip@hotmail.com for analysis and recommendations. With each players fitting you will receive a typical swing profile for that player along with recommended club frequencies and average swing speeds. Cost — After the first month trail period you will pay a $50/month lease fee. This payment will entitle you to 2 players free fitting analysis per month. All subsequent player fittings will be billed at $10 + $1 per swing. $25 of the monthly lease fee plus $2 for each fitting over two will be credited toward the future purchase price of the FitChip Pro Club Maker Program.
FitChip Prescription Golf Shafts – These Swing Frequency Matched graphite shafts are produced especially for Perfected Golf Group’s club building partners. They are manufactured especially for building custom clubs and provide a wider range of frequencies to build to (all frequencies including the Green Area) and lengths for tipping outside the OEM (Red Area) standard off the shelf range. The cost is $35.00/shaft. Wood shafts are 51″ long and iron shafts are 42″ long, each with 5″ of tip trimming capability. The driver frequency range will extend from 170 cpm to 320 cpm while the Iron frequency range will extend from 200 cpm to 380 cpm. From our thousands of fittings we find that only about 40% of the players fall within the red zone with about 30% falling in each of the Green zones.
Frequency Matched Demo Clubs - If you are fitting frequency matched golf clubs you need a well controlled set of Demo Shafts. A set of Demo Shafts built at controlled frequency increments, is an outstanding sales tool. When you have fit your customer with the FitChip and can immediately hand him a Demo Club, at his frequency, that shows him the improved results, your sale is assured. Lotus Golf will make up a Demo set of nineteen 5-iron shafts, or nineteen Driver shafts. These sets are made up on 8 cpm increments, allowing anyone to test a shaft that is within +/- 4 cpm of their specified frequency. We have found the +/- 4 CPM variable to be the maximum allowable tolerance to achieve improved results. The Shafts will be fitted with the new "CLUB-CONEX" system (test shafts usable for left or right handed players) for connection to selected left or right handed heads you wish to fit with this system.
You furnish up to four of your own Iron, Hybrid and Driver club heads for installation of the "CLUB-CONEX" adapters and use with the frequency tuned shafts that have "CLUB-CONEX" addaptors. | 2019-04-21T00:12:54Z | https://golfclubfittingsystem.com/fitchip-accessories |
The following sentence is from NY Times. "Another corporate structure being exploited now more than ever is the master limited partnership." In the sentence, the concept of "master limited partnership" is first introduced. So, It does not have any contextual clues to identify what that refers to. But still it has "the" in it. However, the "the" in the sentence might not be used generically as the generic use of nouns is pretty much limited to nouns of animal, plant, or inventions. Then, what is the function of "the" there? What is the difference between the sentence and when I just say "a master limited partnership" or "master limited partnerships"?
It's a Definite Generic Noun Phrase. It's an abstraction.
Another corporate structure being exploited now more than ever is a master limited partnership.
This is a bit confusing and not abstract enough. It seems to imply that there is a corporate structure somewhere, that is, a particular legal entity organized as a master limited partnership, and that it is being exploited.
In other words, using the "tiger" example from John Lawler's link, we want to denote the entire species called "master limited partnership" rather than a particular member of the species. The indefinite article makes it look like we're talking about a member of the species.
Another corporate structure being exploited now more than ever is master limited partnerships.
This is less confusing and is even arguably correct, in terms of its meaning. However, the unbalanced grammatical number of the singular subject and plural predicate is somewhat awkward. If there were multiple structures being exploited, it would work: "Other corporate structures being exploited now more than ever include master limited partnerships and freeble glarb corporations."
Should I use “the” in this sentence? | 2019-04-26T06:26:54Z | https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/198880/the-function-of-the-in-the-following-sentence |
Godrej Horizon: Welcome to a world of supreme luxury and comfort where the sky is the limit!
Pune is a beautiful city that is known for its lush greens, low air-pollution, peaceful atmosphere, education hubs, MNCs, entertainment zones and more. Being one of the most loved cities in the country, Pune has a lot to offer its residents. The real estate industry in Pune is booming today with a number of residential and commercial projects in different parts of the city and its outskirts as well. Godrej Horizon is a new residential project in Pune by Godrej Properties that offers a world of luxury and comfort from start to finish!
Extended over vast acres of land, this development contains 4 spectacular towers that offer 1BHK, 2BHK, as well as 3BHK luxury apartments with large apartment areas that provide beautiful luxury space for all your needs and requirements.
Godrej Horizon Pune is a pre-certified IGBC Gold Green Homes development that offers the highest level of luxury and comfort for a lavish life filled with peace and serenity! The apartments are spacious, provide beautiful natural lighting, cross ventilation and contain high-end fittings & fixtures, high-quality flooring in every room, elegant kitchens with superior platforms and multiple provisions, private gardens, decorative doors, large balconies and windows providing jaw-dropping views of lush greens and the horizons of Pune,hi-tech safety features and the list just goes on. This residential development also offers a wide range of world-class external amenities that will blow your mind! With something special for you and every member of your family, experience a comprehensive lifestyle that will fill you up with joy. The external amenities include a clubhouse for recreation, swimming pool, meditation centre, hi-tech gymnasium, jogging track, internal/external sports facilities and a play-zone for your kids, day care centre, dedicated area for senior citizens, multipurpose hall, large landscape courtyards, cycling track, wide open space of 70,000 sq. ft., efficient car parking, power back-up for emergencies and well-trained security. This development also takes up rain water harvesting and organic waste management to help the environment. This development is where you can experience life like never before!
Located at Undri in Pune, Godrej Horizon NIBM Undri has a number of your daily and emergency landmarks in close proximity and offers a life of convenience that is simply outstanding! Places like schools, colleges, institutes, malls, shopping centres, entertainment zones, clubs, pubs, lounges, cinemas, cafes, restaurants, banks, ATMs, hospitals, medical centres, public transport and a lot more can be found and accessed in the shortest amount of time possible. The strategic location of this development also offers easy connectivity to a number of prime locations in Pune.
Godrej Properties Limited focuses on high-end luxury at low-end prices and the same applies to this remarkable residential development at well. The Godrej Horizon price is affordable and lets you enjoy premium luxury and comfort without worrying about a heavy load on your wallet! You can conveniently choose from a number of payment plans available along with easy home loans at low interest rates, NRI services, customer support and more for a happy purchase.
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I’m sure you’ve heard that buyers have more power now than ever before because of all the tools and information at the buyer’s disposal. The maturation of the internet has changed the B2B buying cycle forever. Long gone are the days where buyers relied on salespeople to be their sole education channel. As a marketer or salesperson, how can you use these tools and channels to your advantage? This white paper will give you a road map for how to attract more customers and win more deals in a rapidly changing B2B landscape.
First off, let’s make the distinction between B2B buyers and B2C buyers because these businesses differ drastically with respect to approach and transaction values. You could consider B2C “low involvement” and B2B “high involvement“.
While B2C buyers may make a purchasing decision the first or second time they come into interaction with a brand, B2B buyers may need several meetings, demos, proposals, and phone calls before making a decision.
A B2C buyer may only be making a decision for herself or with her spouse. In a B2B environment, there may be multiple decision makers at several different levels of seniority. Usually, you’ll have to get buy-in from every decision maker before a purchasing decision is made.
Whereas consumers have no problem switching from one vendor to the next at the drop of a hat, companies don’t have the same agility. Typically, businesses seek out long relationships with their vendors. For larger businesses, switching vendors can cost a lot of time and money because it causes them to change their internal processes.
Unless a consumer is making a large purchase such as a home, car, or college education, most transaction values in a B2C environment are much smaller than B2B. Businesses can typically rack up lots of expenses in multiple areas like salaries, office expenses, insurance, taxes, and marketing.
Consumers usually make purchasing decisions on a small number of criteria such as speed, availability, and brand. Businesses can have a much larger set of criteria, including ease of implementation, budget, committee approval, analyst rankings, product features, etc.
Today’s B2B buyers rarely act alone. Now, more than ever, B2B buyers don’t make unilateral decisions. Purchasing decisions are oftentimes left up to a group of individuals who all have different roles, levels authority, and pain points.
Now, sales reps have to get buy-in from key decision makers before a sale is made. A recent CEB study featured four surveys of over 5,000 stakeholders who were involved in B2B purchasing decisions. In that study, CEB found that an average of 5.4 people are now involved in a B2B purchase.
Sales reps should set expectations by finding common ground between stakeholders and aligning their interests with each other. Making sure that shared interests present themselves can lead to much easier consensus down the road. Salespeople can do this through creating data sets and knowledge banks that put everyone on the same baseline. This can be done through the use of an audit or roadmap that is tailored to what the company is trying to solve specifically. Communication with stakeholders should also contain language that is used in and between departments.
To incentivize an advocate even further you must get them more emotionally invested in your solution. You can do this through your marketing materials or sales conversations. If you can demonstrate not only how your product solves their problem, but can also give them a “warm, fuzzy feeling”, your advocate will be much more likely to champion your product behind closed doors.
Salespeople have to remember that even though they are selling to a specific contact in the company, that their contact usually has to sell the idea internally to get buy-in from other stakeholders. Your prospect does not know your product as well as you and they are usually not salespeople with a skill set that includes persuasion.
You must prepare your contacts with materials that can help them gain buy-in from other stakeholders. That may include white papers, blog posts, demos, videos, presentations, or additional training materials. You want to equip your advocates with everything they need to succeed. To be competitive in the marketplace and reach all the different buyers in the buying journey, you have to mix up your lead gen channels so you can sell to different personas.
These buyers love to socialize and believe strongly in word-of-mouth.
They need to know exactly how your product solves their problem or addresses their need.
These buyers don’t know their pain points or if there is any solution outside of what they already know. You have to create the demand and educate them on how your product/service can solve their problem. You can reach these type of buyers with outbound marketing tactics like cold calling, cold email campaigns, or inbound strategies like content marketing.
Now we’ll look at each stage of the B2B buying cycle to get a better idea of the process B2B buyers go through to make purchasing decisions.
At this stage, the buyer realizes that they have a problem but are not actively looking for a solution yet. They may discover more about their problem through social networks and word of mouth.
At this stage, you will find unaware people and social guys.
In the educational stage, the buyer has defined her problem and is actively researching options to solve it.
At this stage of the process, we see social guys and online buyers actively looking for more information on various solutions.
They will use Google, social media, talk to their peers, search Amazon, read analyst/expert reports, review a company’s website, read news articles, and more.
During this stage, the buyer has recognized their problem and has educated herself on several different solutions.
Now, the prospect has engaged one or more of these solutions in a sales conversation to further learn about a specific solution whether that be through setting up a demo, booking a consultation, or sending an email inquiry.
Now that you understand the buyer’s journey, we’ll look at how to best approach the prospects at each step of the process.
What you have to remember is that everything hinges on the exchange of value. You have to bring someone a lot of value without asking for anything in return to win their attention. It’s best practice to trade value for the attention of the personas.
Analytical marketers and salespeople will look at analytics and metrics to crack the attention code but measuring metrics is a short-term approach. You must focus on where your buyers are and what value you can offer to them. No one method works alone.
They check reviews, forums, Q&A websites, Google their answers, etc. They know their pain points and they know the solution so basically they compare choices to find the best solution.
They jump online and put their question in a search engine, check review websites, ask questions on forum websites, or directly to their solution providers.
You can gain their attention by doing SEO, PPC ads, social ads, and by answering questions on Q & A websites like Quora and Reddit.
They always check with experts, ask their friends, and think logically before taking any decision.
They attend events, webinars, and listen to podcasts to know the root cause of their pain points and how to solve them.
This kind of buyer persona is very humanistic. Doing webinars, podcasts, and educational videos can grab their attention.
They don’t know their pain points so you have to educate them about a certain problem in their process and give them the solution.
They rarely do any research or attend educational events. You have to reach out to them proactively through email, phone calls, content marketing, and other digital platforms.
There is no #1 marketing channel. It doesn’t exist. Each has their pros and cons, are more effective with certain buyer personas, and are best deployed at different stages of the buyer’s journey.
Buyers may move in and out of personas and back and forth through phases so it’s important to make sure you’re perfecting your communication for all personas, and at each part of the process.
The best way to do this is through a multi-channel approach so you can reach all types of B2B buyers at various stages of the buying cycle. Once you start seeing results you should modify and tweak your strategy to take advantage of what’s working best for your particular business. | 2019-04-20T11:17:35Z | https://marketjoy.com/how-b2b-buying-decisions-have-changed/ |
Water, not any old water, cucumber and mint infused, home alone in a massive Kilmer jar, comfortable at the back of the bar in the Georgian Townhouse (http://www.thegeorgiantownhousenorwich.com/), hiding behind the serried ranks of lustrous hand pumps and gleaming taps. Craft water perhaps, fresh tasting, a zingy accompaniment to my glass of High Wire (http://www.magicrockbrewing.com/our-beers/), tzatziki water perhaps, a pleasing draught of difference. Even though I drink a lot of water, I rarely order any whilst in the pub, uninteresting and expensive it is and chlorine takes its bow with tap water but this was glorious, especially as the beers in front of me were equally translucent. As well as High Wire, there were Camden Ink and Pale, Adnams Ghost Ship and something from Redwell, whose name I didn’t catch (I’d had their Bullards No 2 IPA earlier in the day, where aromatics of citra and cascade leapt sprite-like out of the glass). There’s a youthfulness and lightness about the Townhouse, that makes me want to return and study the beers and eat the food (the haddock and chips stirs the soul and stiffens the sinews of gluttony), and as I engulf myself in the High Wire I hear about ghosts and hospitals and voices in the night and the laughter of those who enjoy this pub speak about the time they went to Yarmouth Pier by way of Ipswich town.
I’m in Norwich for the most fantastic City of Ale event (whose organisers treated us to grub at the Townhouse) doing a couple of talks with Britain’s Beer Revolution co-author Roger Protz. | 2019-04-18T19:05:35Z | http://forums.pubsgalore.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-20709.html?s=5360e0dc89203a9d205c310a50aca8e1 |
Life Insurance With or After an Eating Disorder.
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Whenever you apply for life insurance, the life insurance provider will be very interested in your medical history and current state. Your health – and how well you take care of your body – will impact your eligibility and the cost. Any health problems or risky behaviors will likely make you ineligible or at least cause you to pay a higher premium for your policy. Eating disorders are unhealthy and even have the propensity to shorten one’s life, which is why life insurance companies want to know if you have an eating disorder.
To put it in the simplest terms, an eating disorder is an unhealthy psychological relationship with food. There are many different types of eating disorders, two of the most prominent being anorexia and bulimia.
Anorexia is a disorder wherein a person restricts his/her food whenever possible. This can present itself in various dietary restrictions, but the ultimate factor is an obsessive desire to control of food usually driven by a fear of food. People suffering from anorexia may eat as little as 1/10th the daily recommended food intake.
Bulimia is similar to anorexia in that it is an obsessive disorder. In many cases, the individual tries to control food intake, and then spirals out of control into a binge period after which he/she purges the “mistake” by forcing him/herself to discharge the food through vomiting, laxatives or both.
How will a life insurance company know if I have an eating disorder?
Carriers price their policies based on your medical records. If you have ever been diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia, it is your duty to disclose this information to a life insurance company. However, the truth is, millions of people have anorexia and bulimia and are never diagnosed. Whether or not you have been diagnosed, chances are you know if you are suffering from anorexia or bulimia. We highly recommend that you see a doctor at the earliest, even if it means your life insurance policy price may be higher – you deserve to live a healthy, long life.
Why does anorexia or bulimia impact my life insurance eligibility?
Both of these disorders are seriously dangerous and can result in harmful damage to your body. Your body needs food as nourishment, and whenever you deny your body of that, it will have grave affects. Constant gag reflex of vomiting associated with bulimia may increase a person’s chance of getting the relatively rare esophagus cancer. Anorexia can lead to organ failure, including heart failure. Eating disorders can be life threatening, which is exactly why a life insurance company wants to know about it.
If I have been diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia, can I still get life insurance?
Although anorexia and bulimia are very unhealthy, potentially life threatening disorders, it doesn’t mean that you will automatically be ruled out for having one or the other. Not everyone with an eating disorder will be declined life insurance. Different companies may still offer you a different type of life insurance policy, with or without an increased premium, depending on your specific case.
When did you first get diagnosed with an eating disorder?
Have you ever been hospitalized for your eating disorder?
Which eating disorder(s) have you been diagnosed with?
Have you ever been in a rehabilitation center or program?
Are you currently treating your eating disorder? If yes, what is your treatment plan?
What does your doctor have to say about your specific medical case?
Are you seeing a psychologist or therapist for your disorder?
These are sample questions that can help an insurance company determine your risk level. After investigating your specific case, the life insurance company will come to their own decision as to whether or not they should underwrite your life insurance policy. If one life insurance company does not underwrite your policy, you should not give up; another insurance provider could underwrite your life insurance policy even with an eating disorder like anorexia or bulimia. Note: for extreme cases you may need to consider final expense or burial insurance from among the top ten best final expense insurance and burial insurance companies.
What if I used to have an eating disorder but no longer have one?
With a good treatment program, many people overcome eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. This may increase your chances of getting life insurance, but you should be aware that your medical history will always impact your life insurance eligibility.
One reason why an insurance company will take interest in your past eating disorder is because an eating disorder may have caused permanent damage to vital organs that can potentially cause health problems down the line. Another reason is because it is not uncommon for a person who has overcome an eating disorder to relapse later in life. In terms of relapsing, the more time that has passed since you overcame your eating disorder, the less likely you are to relapse – life insurance companies will take this into consideration. It is possible for someone who has overcome an eating disorder to have no long term effects, and to get a life insurance policy at a standard rate.
Do I qualify for life insurance with an eating disorder?
If you want to know whether or not you will qualify for standard or premium rated life insurance despite your current or past eating disorder, you can contact us at TermLife2Go. As we mentioned, no two life insurance companies function the same, which means that you may be eligible for policies through some companies and not through others. That’s where our expertise comes in handy. We thoroughly understand the policies offered by dozens of life insurance companies. This makes us one of the best organizations to help you understand all your life insurance options and come to the conclusion right for your life situation. We will guide you through the entire process and help you get the best coverage possible.
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One of the best features of Vim is its ability to effortlessly remap keys. It gives me 100% control over hotkeys that drastically increase my productivity.
When I started out using Vim, I often caved and opened up Sublime Text when I needed to do some heavy code formatting. Indenting seemed unintuitive and frankly, a pain to use at first.
The first two are key mappings in normal mode. I’m able to type a single > or < to indent or unindent a line respectively.
The second two are mappings for indenting while in visual mode. The gv reselects the last visual selection, which lets me indent a block of code without leaving visual mode.
By default, Vim will exit visual mode after an indenting operation occurs. This is silly. I’d rather be able to indent as much as I like while in Visual mode, and then esc when I’m done formatting.
If you’re working with a single file type, say HTML or CSS, you can type gg=G to auto indent the entire file. Unfortunately, I do a lot of work with inline PHP (er.. WordPress), and auto indenting the entire file will either screw up your PHP or your HTML, depending on what you’ve set your filetype to with :set filetype=.
Until there’s a better way to auto format a file with more than one language inside, I’ve found the easiest way to keep my code clean is with the remappings above. Do you know of a better way? Let me know! Thanks to @mrmrs_ for the auto indenting file tip! | 2019-04-25T00:34:35Z | https://jesse.sh/indents-faster-with-vim/ |
The State of California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) considers $2,033.33 per month or $24,400 a year an “extremely low income” in Alameda County. The average rent for a studio apartment in Alameda County is $1,795 per month. Currently, in California, you can receive only $910.72 each month or $10,928.64 a year as an aged person on SSI. For many seniors, the SSI amount is the only amount they receive to pay for rent, food, clothing, medical costs, and transportation. Seniors on SSI simply cannot afford these basic necessities in a place as expensive as Alameda County.
We, Mercy Brown Bag Program, focus most of our energy on responding to the immediate problem of food insecurity by providing fresh groceries for the seniors in our county. However, we also invest our time into addressing the root issues in our society that can be solved by our policy makers. The current SSI allowance is not enough for seniors to “meet basic needs” in Alameda County. So, we strive to bring real change to our county and to California as a whole by asking for an increase in SSI. By showing up at our Capitol and sharing our perspectives and stories, we hope to change not only hearts and minds, but legislation as well.
“Policy has the power to change social realities and struggles,” said one of our representatives. | 2019-04-25T16:04:53Z | https://mercybrownbag.org/blog/striving-for-real-change/ |
This has been a year of mourning the anti-Black violence that has killed so many and denied the humanity of so many more, both inside and outside the Jewish community. This High Holiday season, we come together in collective grief and with a burning desire for people of color to exist and live with dignity in our country and world. We are offering up Black Lives Matter signs and resource guides to bring the Movement for Black Lives into Jewish communities and congregations. All proceeds from the signs go to Black Lives Matter.
Sam Hamlin- SURJ is a national organization that organizes white people at the local level to take action for racial justice. Tonight’s conference call is part of a monthly program to build skills and learn from each other’s work. Tonight, local organizations will talk about how to organize white people for anti-racist justice through campaigns. Organizations paneling are: Nell from Ground Works in Madison, WI, Amanda with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice from NYC, Martin with European Dissent in Seattle. Then there will Q n A time and small group breakouts. | 2019-04-21T22:34:04Z | http://nb.showingupforracialjustice.org/news?page=5 |
Once, as a graduate student at the University of Missouri, I wisecracked, “the entire world should be turned over to political scientists for experimental purposes.” I was joking and everyone knew it… but I never lived down that moment.
The world should not be turned over to political scientists – or anyone – for experimental purposes, of course. Yet, I cannot help but wonder what would happen if political scientists had more sway over the state of political speech in this country.
With Democratic candidates each suggesting that the other is unqualified to be President, and Republican candidates busy comparing their respective manhoods and insulting one another’s hometowns, perhaps a calmer, more data-driven approach would help.
I thought about this while reflecting on an exchange I had at the MPSA conference this year with a colleague named Jesse T. Richman, who teaches at Old Dominion University.
Together with ODU colleagues Gulshan A. Chattha and David C. Earnest, Richman produced a paper in which they argue that they have evidence of non-citizens voting in U.S. Elections (.pdf). In fact, Richman et al claim that the non-citizen vote is enough to swing a close election such as Minnesota’s 2008 race for U.S. Senate, which flipped party control. I don’t buy it.
With regard to voter fraud in general, voluminous research such as that by Justin Levitt (.pdf) of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU and Lorraine Minnite (.pdf) of Rutgers find very minimal evidence of it occurring, but plenty of evidence of it being marshaled in support of restrictive laws such as proof-of-citizenship, that is, laws that require first-time voter registrants to show a birth certificate or other evidence that they are US citizens. Kansas, Alabama, and Georgia now have such laws on the books, as does Arizona. Court challenges to the laws are ongoing. My own research, with colleagues Chapman Rackaway of Ft. Hays State and Kevin Anderson of Eastern Illinois, has found that these laws lower voter turnout. They also result in tens of thousands of individuals being kept off the voting rolls in Kansas alone. With regards to the claims about non-citizen voting, Stephen Ansolabehere, Samantha Luks and Brian F. Schaffner rebut Richman et al by arguing that they are cherry-picking rare events in a huge dataset-events that are almost certainly due to measurement error. Ansolabehere, Luks, and Schaffner also test Richman et al‘s hypothesis with panel data, that is, survey results in which the same respondents are contacted repeatedly over time, and their analysis finds exactly zero cases of non-citizen voting.
All of this came to a head when I presented my paper at this year’s MPSA conference, citing Ansolabehere, Luks, and Schaffner and my own data to argue that proof-of-citizenship laws are unneeded and that they lower vote registrations. Richman was in the audience. After my presentation, he pushed back by noting that his research claims that non-citizens vote on U.S. elections, it does not purport to show that undocumented immigrants vote, as I had claimed it did. I acknowledged and will correct the error. We talked further after the panel, and Richman told me he has some new data responding to Ansolabehere, Luks, and Schaffner, and that he would be happy to share it with me. He also requested a copy of my paper, which I uploaded to the MPSA conference website and have e-mailed directly to Richman. Richman also sent me a tentative new data analysis, which he argues will show some non-citizens who cast verified votes that had been overlooked by Ansolabehere, Luks, and Schaffner. I plan to look more deeply into it.
I still have serious concerns about the way Richman et al‘s research is discussed in the popular media. While the authors stress that they are finding evidence of non-citizen voting, not undocumented immigrant voting, they have to be aware of the way in which their research has been described in the conservative news media, including the National Review, breitbart.com, and NewsMax. All of these outlets do use the term “non-citizen” rather than “undocumented (or illegal) immigrant,” in describing Richman et al’s research. However, they do not make clear the distinction and they frame their headlines around “illegal votes,” which, while technically true, could easily mislead readers into thinking that the discussion is about undocumented immigrants voting.
Essentially, Richman et al are arguing that on rare occasion, a legal resident or other non-citizen living legally in the US may register to vote and on ever rarer occasion, that person may cast a ballot. Even if true, this is an entirely different argument than the way their research is used, which is to stoke fears of undocumented immigrants subverting American elections. The laws passed to combat this alleged problem have excluded tens of thousands from the rolls. Furthermore, I don’t trust the politicians and interest groups who have made it a cornerstone of their careers to promote such laws.
That said, Richman is convinced he is onto something that has at least academic significance. His additional data and analysis deserve open-minded scrutiny in the name of academic discovery. My own work speaks to the citizens denied their right to vote by proof-of-citizenship laws, not on the possibility of non-citizen voting, so I cannot say with certainty that Richman et al are wrong, no matter how apprehensive I am about how their research is being framed in the popular media. At a personal level, I found Richman to be soft-spoken and approachable, and we both kept our conversation focused on the data. He e-mailed me a follow-up the day after the conference. At no point did Richman or I make our disagreement into a personal one, or impugn one another’s integrity. While our dispute may have political and policy ramifications, we are both committed to keeping this discussion where it belongs – on the data, and the methods used to analyze it.
Academics of all disciplines are certainly capable of vindictive, petty behavior. Time and again we invoke the old adage, “in academia, the fights are so vicious because the stakes are so low.” Yet sometimes, the stakes are not so low. In those cases, if we make the effort, political scientists can disagree without personalizing the disagreement, resorting instead to the data and the analytics used to interpret them, instead of ad hominem attacks. Those are still the professional norms of our discipline, even if we fall short of them at times.
Presidential candidates, please take note.
Note: The views and opinions expressed on this blog are solely those of the original authors and other contributors. These views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of the Midwest Political Science Association, MPSA staff, and/or other site contributors. | 2019-04-20T06:42:12Z | https://blog.mpsanet.org/2016/04/14/if-political-science-ruled-the-world-and-we-were-on-our-best-behavior/ |
Experienced account executive with more than ten years of demonstrated success developing new business, and managing and growing existing accounts. Consistently surpassed sales quotas and recognized as a top achiever. Keen ability to develop lasting relationships with new and existing customers through careful listening skills, attention to detail, and service delivery beyond expectation.
B2B sales position including cold-calling, account management, and retention of canceled accounts selling marketing programs in a 4 state territory to include: print ads; internet advertising-SEM, SEO, websites, video ads, Social Media; mobile advertising; and direct mail marketing.
Develop new business and upsell current accounts to create a multi-prong, multi-media ad campaign.
Spontaneously created compelling ads for clients and followed-up with art department to create spec ad copy, satisfying clients again and again.
Analyze accounts to attain customer's needs, target audience, products/specialties, budget, and demographic and geographic targets.
Prepare marketing plans and make professional sales recommendations based on specific needs.
Interact with multiple departments including Production, Internet Operations, Marketing, and Customer Service.
Resolve customer complaints by investigating problems, developing solutions and making recommendations, or contacting the appropriate department for resolution.
Deliver highly consistent sales results exceeding quarterly and annual targets with an average of 140% of objective.
90% retention (win back) rate of canceled accounts.
Marketed services via telephone and in-person meetings with key managers to senior-level executives for the purpose of presenting services to prospective clients and building on existing client relationships.
Performed sales forecasting and reporting necessary to exceed on target goals and performance initiatives.
Recruited, interviewed, and matched candidates to fulfill client job orders and maintain on-going contact with clients and temporary professionals currently on assignment to ensure both receive exceptional customer service.
Increased new business by 20% Successful in expanding revenue/up-selling within existing accounts by 30%.
Managing broker for start-up real estate firm specializing in residential re-sales, new home sales, investment properties, and commercial real estate.
Hired, coached, and supervised 20 real estate agents and led weekly staff meetings to motivate and train staff.
Handled brokerage duties including public relations; marketing, real estate transaction disputes regarding earnest money, contract terms, etc.; and managed all payroll, taxes, and insurance.
Grew business to over $5 in revenue within the first year.
Full-time sales person specialized in both residential re-sales and new home sales.
Examined and evaluated prospective properties for listing.
Processed all paperwork and marketed listings through open-houses, in various publications, online, local MLS, and created sales brochures.
Made and negotiated offers and coordinated closings.
Established positive flow of communication with other agents, buyers and sellers, mortgage officers, title personnel and attorneys involved in the home buying and selling process.
Rookie of the Year 2001; Top Sales Associate 2002 and 2003; Re/Max Executive and Presidential Awards 2002 and 2003; and Multi-Million Dollar Club 2002 and 2003.
Where can I find a YP-AT&T Advertising Solutions Account Manager resume example in Mableton, Georgia ? | 2019-04-19T08:57:48Z | https://www.livecareer.com/resume-search/r/account-manager-502798c3dd85450cb0054428e2598809 |
Nine people dead and more than 20 critically injured in what police are calling a horrific case of immigrant smuggling.
At least nine people died after being crammed into a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat, authorities said on Sunday in what they described as an immigrant-smuggling attempt gone wrong.
The driver was arrested, and nearly 20 others rescued from the rig were hospitalised in dire condition, many with extreme dehydration and heatstroke, officials said.
"We're looking at a human-trafficking crime," Police Chief William McManus said. He called it "a horrific tragedy".
Many of the victims looked to be in their 20s and 30s, and there were apparently two school-age children, the police chief said.
Authorities were called to the San Antonio car park late on Saturday night or early Sunday and found eight dead inside the truck. A ninth victim died at the hospital, said Liz Johnson, spokeswoman for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The victims "were very hot to the touch. So these people were in this trailer without any signs of any type of water," San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said.
Based on initial interviews with survivors of the weekend tragedy, more than 100 people may have been packed into the back of the 18-wheeler at some point in its journey, ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan said.
Thirty-nine were inside when rescuers arrived, and the rest were believed to have escaped or hitched rides to their next destination, officials said.
Some of the survivors told authorities they were from Mexico, Homan said.
Authorities did not say whether the rig was locked when they arrived, whether it was used to smuggle the occupants across the border into the US, or where it might have been headed. San Antonio is about a 240-kilometre drive from the Mexican border.
The temperature in San Antonio reached 101 degrees (38 Celsius) on Saturday and didn't dip below 90 (32 C) until after 10pm. The trailer didn't have a working airconditioning system, Hood said.
Federal prosecutors said James Mathew Bradley Jr, 60, from Clearwater, Florida, was taken into custody.
No immediate charges were filed.
A person from the lorry initially approached a Walmart supermarket employee in the car park and asked for water late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning, police Chief William McManus said.
The employee gave the person the water and then called the police, who found the dead and desperate inside the truck.
Investigators checked store surveillance video, which showed vehicles had arrived and picked up other people from the lorry, police said.
The US Homeland Security Department stepped in to take the lead in the investigation.
It was just the latest smuggling-by-truck operation to end in tragedy. In one of the worst cases on record in the United States, 19 immigrants locked inside a stifling rig died in Victoria, Texas, in 2003. | 2019-04-20T03:17:04Z | https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/immigrants-dead-lorry-170723140357531.html |
Scientists are as sceptical as they come — but many still engage in personal rituals or use totems in the lab and field.
While investigating how experience can influence brain circuitry, students and postdocs in Robert Froemke's neuroscience lab have developed various rituals to 'bring luck' to their investigations.
The electrophysiologists of the group, who record the activity of single neurons, watch their monitoring apparatus obsessively, even though their experiments can run unattended.
By contrast, the molecular biologists leave their experiments to run unmonitored to avoid 'jinxing' the results, Froemke says.
Superstitions reach into every corner of human endeavour — including the science world.
One student routinely calls off her Friday-night plans, because in the past when she's cancelled, she's noticed that she had greater success with training the mice in her studies.
Froemke's lab members know that none of these minor rituals actually improves the odds of their experiments working, but they do them anyway — if somewhat furtively.
Such rituals “tap into something deep about the human condition”, says Froemke, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute faculty scholar at the New York University School of Medicine.
Whether in archaeology or astronomy, rituals and lucky charms abound among rational, logical scientists who are fully aware that engaging in them has no effect whatsoever on their science. Some principal investigators decry them as distractions or a waste of energy. But other lab heads and behavioural experts support their use, arguing that they serve important roles that might benefit research.
There is some evidence that rituals can soothe anxiety and reduce stress levels, and might therefore serve to prepare experimentalists for a gruelling day's work1. The uncertainty and long hours of science can be hard to deal with — so hard that some labs and scientists turn to familiar rituals and routines to lower the pressure, build team spirit and normalize the culture of frequent failure.
Rituals, say psychologists and behavioural-science experts, can also personalize a project and bring an illusion of control to an unpredictable endeavour. “By the very nature of the word, experiments are often not going to work,” says Stuart Vyse, an emeritus behavioural scientist at Connecticut College in New London who has studied the psychology of superstition.
Researchers who are setting up complex experiments or planning a risky field expedition prepare meticulously for every contingency, he says. But that might not seem like enough to some people. “Once the person has done everything they can think of that rationally can help the outcome, then they are looking for something extra,” Vyse says.
For Loren Davis, an archaeologist at Oregon State University in Corvallis, and his team, that something extra was a totem dubbed Rock Ness. At a dig in an Idaho canyon in 2007, Jessica Curteman, then a master's-degree student in Davis's group, unearthed a rock that looked like the head of the mythical Loch Ness monster. Curteman whipped out a marker pen and drew an eye on it. Ever since, Rock Ness has enjoyed a prominent place in the field each summer to 'watch over' digs around the western United States, says Davis, who studies early human inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest.
Curteman, now a senior archaeologist for the cultural-resources department of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde in Oregon, is the keeper of Rock Ness. She says that the propped-up rock 'reminds' team members at the field site to keep the floors and walls of their excavations neat and organized as they uncover fossils and artefacts. Sometimes, she reports with a wink, the rock seems to 'move closer' to researchers who need an emotional boost, perhaps to yank more sandbags out of a site or to deal with a disruptive rodent burrow.
Dimitris Xygalatas, an experimental anthropologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, has found evidence both in and out of the lab that repetitive hand motions and ritualistic prayers soothe anxiety.
In one lab study, his team induced anxiety in a group of participants by asking them to prepare a public speech on an artwork2. A control group was not given the stress-inducing task. Both groups were then asked to clean the artwork while their hand motions were recorded and analysed. The high-stress group showed more-repetitive and predictable — or more-ritualized — hand movements. The work, say Xygalatas and his co-authors, suggests that people perform rituals as a way of coping with anxiety.
Behavioural ecologist Walt Koenig checks on an acorn woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus).
In fieldwork not yet published, Xygalatas's team induced stress in study participants by having them write about a natural disaster. The researchers found that indicators of anxiety, including increased heart rates, were reduced more quickly in individuals who participated in ritualistic prayers afterwards, compared with those who did not.
Aside from alleviating physiological stress, argues Xygalatas, a ritual can also confer a psychological lift. “If it boosts your confidence and you believe you are going to be better and less stressed, then you are going to perform better,” he says.
When rituals or totems are part of a group setting, Xygalatas says, they can become traditions that promote social bonding. Rock Ness brought a sense of fun to Davis's field team and helped them to gel. “It's an intellectual pursuit, but it's also a lot of physical labour, and we all have to work as a team to get things done,” he says.
Michael Long, a neuroscientist at New York University School of Medicine, says he has seen lab rituals that served to lighten the mood after inevitable experimental failures. During Long's graduate-school days at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, he developed a daily ritual to ward off failure — and the routine spread through his lab. Studying delicate slices of rodent brains, he had to keep the cells alive in a lab dish for several hours and record the activity of the firing neurons. The tricky experiments took all day, but Long wouldn't know until the end whether he had obtained good recordings. On those days, he started buying lunch at his favourite hot-dog shop, Spike's Junkyard Dogs.
“The days I ate at Spike's, I had beautiful slices. It happened every time, so then everyone else in the lab started going to Spike's more and more often,” recalls Long. A lab mate's husband even adopted the practice, and ate there before a job interview. “I don't even know if they liked hot dogs,” says Long with a laugh.
Some scientists partake in group rituals that have a serious side. In Japan, it's common practice for universities and research institutes to hold an annual memorial service for animals that have been killed as part of experiments. Researchers say that they participate in these services to show appreciation and gratitude for the animals and to console their spirits3.
Elsewhere, researchers use rituals and habits on a daily basis. In his work, Walt Koenig, a behavioural ecologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York, has two routines to help him to locate the nests of acorn woodpeckers (Melanerpes formicivorus) and band the birds for study.
To find active nests, which are usually 6–12 metres above the ground in the cavities of oak trees, Koenig yells, “Hello?” in a specific, drawn-out vocal tone towards nest holes to get a bird to peer out. “I'm sure that it has to have that particular nasal quality to get them to look out,” jokes Koenig. Catching the adult birds is a feat that involves climbing a tree, setting an ambush to trap the birds inside the cavity and sawing a new entrance from which to carefully remove them. “It's something of an art form,” says Koenig.
For his part, Davis carries a personal totem in his pocket — a replica of a 13,000-year-old spear point — to remind him how luck led to the discovery of the original.
A collaborator of Davis's, Dennis Jenkins at the University of Oregon in Eugene who also studies North America's earliest inhabitants, always dons his lucky field hat before entering a work site, and takes it off when he leaves in the evening. He also considers his bright orange, multi-pocket field vest and the buck knife that hangs from his belt indispensable items that support his field 'persona', which he says helps him to lead students through dicey situations.
Xygalatas says that charms and rituals might offer some people a sense of stability or control when dealing with the erratic nature of experiments and science. “We know the world is a very chaotic place, and we have no control over most of it. But we can trick ourselves,” he says.
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Kendall Powell is a freelance writer in Boulder, Colorado. | 2019-04-25T23:46:15Z | http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v551/n7679/full/nj7679-261a.html?error=cookies_not_supported&code=3a5ac4e0-6605-4b4b-bff1-4cfb7e1dafb5 |
Wake characteristics of the flow over a finite square prism at different incidence angles were experimentally investigated using an open-loop wind tunnel. A finite square prism with a width D = 15 mm and a height H = 7D was vertically mounted on a horizontal flat plate. The Reynolds number was varied from 6.5X103 to 28.5X103 and the incidence angle a was changed from 0 to 45. The ratio of boundary layer thickness to the prism height was about s/H = 7%. The time-averaged velocity, turbulence intensity and the vortex shedding frequency were obtained through a single-component hotwire probe. Power spectrum of the streamwise velocity fluctuations revealed that the tip and base vortices shed at the same frequency as that of spanwise vortices. Furthermore, the results showed that the critical incidence angle corresponding to the maximum Strouhal number and minimum wake width occurs at acr = 15o which is equal to that reported for an infinite prism. There is a reduction in the size of the wake region along the height of the prism when moving away from the ground plane towards the free end. | 2019-04-26T02:09:38Z | http://techno-press.org/content/?page=article&journal=was&volume=26&num=5&ordernum=6 |
This statistic shows the number of bags of Tostitos corn eaten within one month in the United States in 2018. The data has been calculated by Statista based on the U.S. Census data and Simmons National Consumer Survey (NHCS). According to this statistic, 3.24 million Americans consumed 8 or more bags in 2018.
U.S. population: Do you eat corn and tortilla chips and cheese snacks? | 2019-04-20T21:14:59Z | https://www.statista.com/statistics/288749/bags-of-tostitos-corn-tortilla-chips-eaten-in-the-us/ |
When you’re working towards a goal, it is hard not to run, run, run (as fast as you can) all while keeping your chin up and your eyes on the prize – even if you’re not exactly sure what that prize will look like once you’ve got your hands on it. In the midst of all the running and the panting and the exhaustion… it’s easy to ignore the most obvious question: Why am I doing this in the first place?
Sometimes an answer doesn’t come easily. But when it does, you’ve got to pay attention, and you’ve got to record it either in memory or in physical form, so that the next time you forget, you’ll have at least an answer that worked for you in the past. Recently the answer came to me in the form of two open mic performances.
Two weeks ago at a Monday night open mic in Durham, I got on stage confident that I’d be able to seamlessly perform three of the seven songs that are going to be on my new album – songs that I have played over and over again so many times that I don’t even have to think about them in order to get them right. My mind was free to roam and wander – so I was caught up in how I didn’t like the sound of my voice over the PA system, and how there were three people in the audience and how I felt so silly because I could’ve just sung for them sitting three feet away rather than on a stage into a mic. All I wanted was for the songs to be over and to get off the stage – so of course, I started screwing up, hitting notes off pitch… and questioning why I’m even a performer in the first place, and shouldn’t I be doing something else with my life? The tragic result that night was a performance that was lacking in any emotion other than anxiety.
The next week I was there again on the same stage, deciding what songs to play at the last moment. I had no desire to sing any of the familiar, “go-to” songs, so I chose a few from my past that I hadn’t played in months. This time, I actually had to think about the words I was singing. And because of that, I was totally focused on what the songs were about and conveying that emotion to the people listening. Rather than worrying about a slightly off-pitch utterance, I was more concerned with the overall tone of my voice and how I could use the guitar to get quieter or louder or speed up or slow down, all to control the feeling of the song. And you know what? That night I loved playing, and I think others loved listening.
In my opinion people don’t care so much – or maybe they don’t even notice – when music is slightly imperfect in pitch or when fingers slip up in their picking patterns. Maybe a performer screws up a couple of times, but people don’t remember that at the end of the night. What they do remember is what and how the music made them feel. My goal when I play is to make people feel. I want them to feel what I was feeling at the moment when I wrote the song – nostalgia, longing, despair, fear, uncertainty, rejection – whatever it was, and whether or not it can easily be put into words – they are going to feel it. So that is what I’m going to strive for in every performance from now on, no matter how seemingly insignificant it is.
Because I think that’s the point of songwriting. Songwriting lets us convey experiences, thoughts, and emotions with a power that words on a page, or even spoken words, do not. Because it has the power of music behind it, songwriting allows us to express things that are beyond the scope of human language. In that way, it allows people to connect – whether through the earbuds of an iPod or on the radio or at a live performance – with the writer of the song and with all the other people who have ever listened to that song. Each person’s unique life experiences cause them to take away something different, which of course is another beautiful eccentricity of songwriting – that it is often deliberately open-ended and therefore open to individual interpretation. When we hear lyrics, we are constantly trying to shape them so that they fit into the frameworks of our own lives and minds and maybe lead us to new revelations or introduce us to different perspectives. And when we can relate to the emotion or experience of a particular song, the knowledge that someone else has felt the same way or experienced a similar situation makes us feel less alone.
Next PostNext this song is beautimous. | 2019-04-25T15:48:36Z | https://annarosebeck.com/2011/01/29/an-attempt-to-explain-to-you-and-to-myself-why-i-write-songs/ |
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