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Frank Caliri is a Dallas-based Fiction writer attending AWP for the first time. He is also a former Writing Workshops Dallas student. Check in each day for a recap from Tampa until the conference is over, and find Frank's AWP Day 1 Recap here and Day 2 here. Read to THE END of this post for a special discount code for 10% Off any seminar, class, or editing service that we offer.
AWP’s bookfair is the largest of its kind in North America, showcasing more than 800 presses, journals, writing programs, and other literary organizations. Navigating the Exhibit Hall is not for the fainthearted introvert, and requires you wear your best fedora or beret while smiling, shaking hands, and engaging others. It’s a unique opportunity for the writing community to network across disciplines. It’s also a place to discuss your favorite stories with the editors and staff of literary journals, such as Crazyhorse or Ploughshares, or review the latest selections from presses, such as Graywolf or Copper Canyon, or contemplate the newest trends in creative writing with professors from the best writing programs across North America. You know the names: University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of California Irvine. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
The fair is huge, or as we say in Boston Yuge. Think two football fields set side-by-side, arranged into twenty or so broadways, where you pick and choose literary selections as though you’re at an oversized bookstore. I found myself first at The Paris Review booth, where I spoke with Jeffery Gleaves, the magazine’s Digital Director. According to Jeffery’s Twitter feed, he’s an aspiring junketeer, digital factotum, and platitude tweeter for @parisreview. And he fits the bill in person. Our conversation honed in on the presale of The Writer’s Chapbook: A Compendium of Fact, Opinion, Wit, and Advice from “The Paris Review” Interviews, published by Paris Review Editions. Gleaves eagerly shared the chapbook’s four points of focus: writer profiles, craft, form, and the writer’s life. The book amplifies subjects such as drafts, work habits, writer’s block, and writing prizes; and is engulfed in insights from well-known authors. Preorders of The Writer’s Chapbook ship in April and I for one am looking forward to reading it.
I also met with John Wang, publisher and founder of Juked magazine and editor-and-chief of Potomac Review. John was doing double-time, working both the Potomac Review and Juked booths, which were situated next to each other. Published since 1999, Juked has both an online presence and print issues. My conversation with John led me to read two recently published short-short stories by Alina Stefanescu—Long Flight and the Warlock vs. Cognitive Therapy. Both are entertaining and can be devoured post haste online. According to John, the Juked print version accepts prose submissions of at least 2,500 words, and, for poetry, they look for longer poems (four pages plus) or sequences of two or more linked poems. Check out Juked and submit!
MFA programs are interesting, aren’t they? At the Bookfair, you can learn about the various programs, their niche in the industry, and meet some of the faculty. Although there are a lot of full-residency programs to choose from, I wanted to see what’s going on in the growing domain of low-residency. Over the years, low-residency has become a strong alternative to residency, as program quality continues to grow using a more efficient cost structure; and, you get a great education without the need to uproot your family. So I strolled over to the Vermont College of Fine Arts booth and spoke with Evan Fallenberg, co-director along with Xu Xi, of their new International MFA in Creative Writing & Literary Translation program. This program offers low-residency for both fiction and nonfiction genres. The intent is to bring writers together from across the world, fostering a global perspective on language and literature through multiple 5-day international residencies. Over the next eighteen months, students will write while visiting Reykjavik, Iceland, Hong Kong, and Banff, Canada, among other places. Raise your hand if that sounds fun!
If you’re not in the market for an MFA but want strong program quality and coaching, consider the Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado. In June they’re having their 13th Annual Lit Fest, which includes two-weeks of workshops, salons, parties, and seminars. Each year they bring in a wonderful selection of accomplished writers to teach at the event. For example, when I lived in Denver, I twice attended Lit Fest and took excellent workshops under the tutelage of Dana Spiotta and Jennifer Egan. The Lighthouse also provides financial assistance for emerging writers, which covers the cost of tuition for their Master’s Workshop Program. They also have four fellowships in fiction, poetry, dramatic writing, and creative nonfiction—a great option for those of you who want to continue to grow while surrounding yourselves with fellow writers and the Rocky Mountains.
As the Conference builds toward its Saturday crescendo, more and more people flow into the bookfair where…wait for it… you can win prizes and giveaways! I met with Helen Meservey, Managing Editor of Reed Magazine, the oldest literary journal west of the Mississippi River and also with Harrison Cook, an Undergraduate Ambassador for the English Department at the University of Iowa. You probably know Iowa’s literary production The Iowa Review. Both individuals were highly engaging and helped me better understand what they look for in submissions, such as quality writing and a unique voice, et cetera. Both journals also offered me a free issue, which I gladly accepted. And if that wasn’t enough, yours truly won a raffle prize from PEN/Faulker, where I took home the short story collection, The Dark Dark, by Samantha Hunt, which was a 2018 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction. Hunt’s work is haunting and funny. She writes for The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The New York Times Magazine.
Now that 2018 AWP Conference is done and gone, I look back and wonder if it was worth it. You know, the airports, the car rental, the hotel, the cost cost cost. The answer is an undoubted yes. From panel discussions, to readings, to the bookfair, I’ve learned a lot and will take home many fond memories, intend to cultivate my new friendships, and employ practical takeaways to help me continue on my writing journey. I also plan to attend future Conferences and hope to see you there. Portland, anyone? San Antonio?
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Frank Caliri is a Dallas-based Fiction writer attending AWP for the first time. He is also a former Writing Workshops Dallas student. Check in each day for a recap from Tampa until the conference is over, and find Frank's AWP Day 1 Recap here. Read to THE END of this post for a special discount code for 10% Off any seminar, class, or editing service that we offer.
One of the gems of the writing industry, and attending AWP, is listening to your favorite authors read from their work and engage in conversation. At AWP, think of this as attending a local bookstore reading, but on steroids. Throughout the day, and into the evening, the conference keeps on giving with dozens of well-known and even famous authors who, in addition to reading their work, share their writing wisdom. Some readings were arranged by theme, such as, “Poetry, Myth and the Natural World,” or “Writing Place, People, and Culture: Nonfiction at Its Finest,” while others stood on their own, such as this year’s keynote address by George Saunders. Whether of regional, national, or international fame, I searched out the authors that have resonated with me over the years, putting me under their spell, at least temporarily, to live in the worlds they have created through their storytelling. Similar to the panel discussions highlighted yesterday, I was not disappointed with AWP’s author reading selections.
The Keynote Address by George Saunders was, as expected, fantastic. Saunders recently won the 2017 Man Booker Prize for his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo, and, as someone new to the profession, I could hardly wait to absorb what he had to say. Pen in hand, I wrote down each pearl of wisdom, intent on bringing it home with me, sleeping on it or with it (author’s preference J), and applying it to my own writing life. You know what I mean…shamelessly mirror and steal from him…all that fake it until you make it blah blah. So there I am, scribble scribble scribble, when Saunders admits that as a writing student he’d tried to “climb Hemingway Mountain, working diligently to turn himself into Ernest.” Unfortunately for him, he stumbled, fell down the mountainside, and had to pick himself up again, which is what he did, just before charging up “Kerouac Mountain,” only to arrive at the same non-scenic view of his unsure self. The point being, it took Saunders a long time to find his voice, which, for a new writer like myself, resonated close to home.
Raised in New England, I longed for home and popped into the New England Review 40th Anniversary Reading. Carolyn Kuebler, NER editor, gathered some of the journal’s distinguished authors over the years to share their work. Hai-Dang Phan, whose poems can be read in The New Yorker and Best American Poetry 2016, read “My Mother Says the Syrian Refugees Look Like Tourists,” which contrasts the refugee crisis in Syria with that of his mother’s immigration to the U.S. during the Vietnam War era. Very poignant and illuminating. But what really caught my attention was Kate Lebo’s essay, “Loudproof Room,” which was anthologized in Best American Essays 2015 and tells of Lebo being partially deaf and, as a result, teased at school, which is why she used to cry so easily. As a child, Lebo had difficulty hearing conversational tones and for a long time tuned out the world around her, lived in her own space of books. Curiously, though, her condition allowed her the unique ability to listen to the insides of her body, such as hearing her eyelids blink. What a fascinating world. Older now, and with a new hearing aid, she shared an intimate moment when “a man cups her face with his hand and kisses her, the pressure of his fingers against her ear setting the [hearing aid] speakers off.” Lebo’s reading of “Loudproof Room,” was a brief saunter into the beautiful and sometimes scary world of the deaf.
Next, I attended a reading and conversation with Nathen Englander & Lauren Groff, Sponsored by Penguin Random House Speakers, moderated by Colette Bancroft, the Tampa Bay Times book editor. Here, Pulitzer Prize finalist Englander admits that he took so long to write “Dinner at the Center of the Earth,” a novel about the insoluble Israel and Palestinian conflict, that when people ask him what he does for a living, he often responds, “I write a book.” Funny, or not, consider this inspiration for those of you slogging through your drafts and revisions. The conversation with Groff and Englander also highlighted some similarities between the two authors. For example, when starting a new book, they often write in the opposite direction of their previous book, e.g., from serious to funny, or happy to sad. The intent is to kill the fear, exhaustion, and anxiety they’ve accumulated while working to finish their novel, and open up mind-space to create once again.
When the time came for NBCC Presents: Jeffrey Eugenides, Lorrie Moore, and Dana Spiotta, I arrived at the auditorium early and secured a seat up front. I love all three of these authors and wish I had time to give you all the juicy he said/she said details, but time is not our friend. So, dwindling it down, Moore was the standout and had the audience laughing in their seats with a soon-to-be-published personal essay in which she recalls with depressing, melancholic humor, her decision to get married. The essay is set around the couple’s journey to City Hall as they obtain a marriage license, which, as if to “question the success of the marriage from the very beginning,” the clerk tells them they only have, “45 days to do the deed.” Along the way, Moore considers the relationship as one in which “love went without saying, so we didn’t say it.” She reads like she writes and enthralled the audience with the lugubrious and humorous telling of how her marriage began.
AWP delivered this year on author readings and conversations by bringing serious writing talent to the table, allowing us mere mortals, for at least a while, to dream the dream and to put other’s wisdom into practice. It was great listening to some of my favorite authors, as well as hearing from some of the industry’s wonderful up-and-comers. I left the readings inspired and encouraged to know that with perseverance, talent, and authenticity, I too can achieve my writing aspirations.
Now, where to next? Oh, yes, off to the AWP Bookfair to meet up with friends and to surround myself with the sights and sounds of North America’s glorious literary journals, presses, and writing programs. Until next time.
Frank Caliri is a Dallas-based Fiction writer attending AWP for the first time. He is also a former Writing Workshops Dallas student. Check in each day for a recap from Tampa until the conference is over. Read to THE END of this post for a special discount code for 10% Off any seminar, class, or editing service that we offer.
One of the most rewarding aspects about being a writer is cultivating a writing community, which brings us, as writers, out of our solitary caves and into the fold to mingle with and learn from others in the business. And no better place to do this than at the 2018 AWP Conference in Tampa, Florida, which is where I find myself, having taken a long weekend with a few thousand other writers, agents, editors of presses and journals, and teachers from high-profile writing programs. Over the years the AWP Conference has become the largest literary conference in North America with panel discussions, keynote speakers, and readings from well-known authors, as well as an extensive bookfair, which provides direct access to editors and staff of the leading literary journals.
New to writing, this is my first time attending AWP; and with spring upon us, I hoped to sprout some new understanding of the writing industry from building craft, to gaining insight into the mysterious worlds of agents and publication houses. I know being part of the larger literary community is good for me, as I build my literary network and find a way to…you know…get published, to have people read my work. Is that too much to ask? With thousands of writers, agents, and editors descending upon Tampa, across platforms—fiction, non-fiction and poetry—I figured AWP was a great place to work some magic.
A large component of the conference involves panel discussions—events where writers can learn from those who have come before them, or have alternative experiences that can help broaden their understanding. Panel discussions are the trenches where one learns to be a better writer, or learns to become a stronger advocate for one’s own work, to make positive change, one session at a time.
Sessions such as “Sound & Fury: Understanding Voice in Fiction,” to “Why We Chose It: Crazyhorse,” were both instructive and eye opening and, like most of the panel sessions, started with a general discussion amongst the panelists, led by a facilitator, and then flowed into Q&A from the audience.
For example, in “Finding the Understory: What Connects a Collection,” the panelists, all published authors, focused on how short story collections unify the individual pieces into a cohesive gathering. Dennis Johnson did this superbly in “Jesus’ Son” with his troubled character ‘Fuckhead.’ And Raymond Carver similarly delivers on this in his collection “Cathedral,” by looking at everyday experience through minimalism and realism. Throughout the discussion, the panelists agreed that understory is not something the writer consciously chooses to build across individual stories; but, rather, let’s build from the unconscious. For the panelists, understory was often shown to them after their stories were written, either by their agent or editor, or even after their work was published, and teased out by their readers.
I also wanted to learn more about how literary agencies operate, and what they look for from authors. This year, AWP brought together a fantastic group of New York agents to discuss their work and relationships with authors. In “The Gatekeepers: Behind the Scenes of Literary Agencies,” the agents spoke of long days of pounding the pavement. Many agents don’t even read new work during normal work hours but, instead, find themselves responding to emails from editors, chasing contracts, meeting with publishing or marketing departments, managing book auctions, and meeting with editors. Often, it’s not until later in the evening, over a glass of wine or a beer, that they read new manuscripts—possibly yours? Being a good agent requires operating in opposing realms—art/craft and business/publishing—simultaneously; and success requires that they move fluidly between opposing parts of self: introverted and extroverted, which is something we as writers need to do as well…you know…leave the cave sometimes, go to a workshop, build our social media platform, et cetera.
And speaking about leaving the cave, when should we as writers submit and open ourselves to other’s thoughts on revising our work? In “101 Drafts: Demystifying Revision in the Editorial Process,” the panelists, composed of editors and agents, view the revision process as collaboration with the author, and not, as some writer’s may view it, a tearing out our insides. Since the goal is publication, the agent/editors, who often have many years working the business/publishing side, know what sells and are here to help. This panel had key insights for authors: focus on writing quality work with a strong premise, and a unique voice. And finish the work before sending it to the agent. A common suggestion was to first send your work to trusted readers, or share your work at a local writing workshop. I recommend Writing Workshops Dallas if you’re in the area. Remember, the author, agent, and editor come together to strengthen already quality work and to highlight the author’s unique voice.
I wanted my day at the panels to leave me exhausted, to provide me with new insights and energy. And I wasn’t disappointed. Of course, my time at AWP wouldn’t be a true writer’s experience if I didn’t hang with the writer’s community in a local pub. Right? So, I’m off with some friends to experience the Tampa nightlife, talk shop, and drink beers until...well, who knows?
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1 Department of Chemistry, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
2 Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston 7, Jamaica.
Copyright: Benkeblia N© 2015. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
The effects of gibberellic acid (150 and 300 mg/L) and calcium chloride (40 g/L) on chlorophylls a and b, carotenoids, total phenolic compounds, colour and physiological weight losses of white cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata) during storage at 10 ± 1°C were investigated. Results showed that chlorophyll a and total phenolic compounds decreased in all samples and no significant difference was noted between treated heads and control. Chlorophyll b and carotenoids did not vary much during storage and a steady state was noted in all samples. Treatments maintained well the total colour difference compared to control, and GA treated cabbages maintained better the colour after the fourteen days storage. The chemical treatments also reduced significantly the physiological weight loss which was much greater in controls than in GA treated heads after the storage duration.
Gibberellic Acid; Calcium Chloride; Refrigeration; Storage; Brassica oleracea.
White Cabbage (Brassica oleracea L. var. capitata) is one of the most commonly cultivated vegetables across the entire island of Jamaica. This crop is cultivated mainly in rural parishes and is a staple food for many Jamaican families. In this context it is customary for the immature leaves within the cabbage head to be consumed while the mature outer leaves are usually rejected. Cabbage as a vegetable contains chlorophylls, carotenoids, vitamins and phenolic compounds that are linked with dietary activities, colour, characteristic flavour and therapeutic value.
Chlorophylls, carotenoids and phenolic compounds are important biological compounds found in all vegetables and contribute to the overall visual quality attributes of cabbage. Degradation of these compounds will lead to quality losses of cabbage heads including yellowing of outer leaves, core elongation, internal yellowing in the apex region, and sometimes in rootlet development at the core-end. These quality defects may affect sales as they are obvious to the consumer when the cabbage has reached market . Gibberellic acid (GA3) has been widely used in agriculture. It was reported that GA3 plays a role in the development of colours and metabolic activities in the ripening process of fruits and vegetables, and delays shrivelling and senescence of some fruits . It has also been reported that gibberellic acid reduces physiological weight loss of treated mangoes and lemon during storage.
Calcium chloride is also used to extend the shelf-life of crop commodities . The application of calcium chloride maintains the rigidity of cell walls; and delays membrane lipid catabolism and senescence . Thus, tissues remain firm longer due to the inhibition of many enzymes such as polygalacuturonase which is involved in softening, therefore, ripening is delayed and shelf-life extended [2, 7]. Many investigations have been conducted on the postharvest application of calcium chloride to extend the shelflife of crops. These have shown that calcium chloride reduces physiological weight loss and delays softening of mangoes and rotting of apples during storage.
Although interesting data exist on the application of gibberellic acid and/or calcium chloride during the pre and the postharvest stages of some commodities, no work reported the application of these two chemicals on cabbage and their potential use to extend the shelf-life of this crop. Therefore, the goal of this study is to investigate the impact of gibberellic acid and calcium chloride on the colour, chlorophylls and carotenoids of cabbage heads during storage under refrigerated temperatures.
Freshly harvested cabbage heads of uniform size, and free from damage, disease or spoilage, were obtained from the local fresh crops market in Kingston. Cabbages were transported immediately to the laboratory and packed in perforated polyethylene bags. From the total cabbages, fifty were selected and 10 heads per bag were packed and kept few hours at 10 ± 1°C prior to chemical treatments.
Prior to packaging and storage, cabbages were sprayed six times using spray bottles with the following solutions: gibberellic acid of 150 mg/L (GA1) and 300 mg/L (GA2), and calcium chloride (40 g/L) (CC). Control samples were sprayed with distilled water. After spraying, samples were left to dry at room temperature, then stored at 10 ± 1°C and 90-95 % RH during 14 days.
Chlorophylls a, b and carotenoids are determined according to the method described by Costache et al . One gram of cabbage leaf is homogenised in 50 mL of 90% methanol using a mortar and pestle. The homogenate was filtered through two layers of cheesecloth, then centrifuged 1,000 × g to obtain a clear extract prior to being analysed. The absorbances of the solutions are read at 653 nm and 666 nm against 90 % methanol blank.
Total phenolic compounds were extracted and assayed as described by Singleton and Rossi with some modifications. Samples (5 g) were homogenized in 70% ethanol containing Nametabisulfite (Na2S2O5, 20 g/L) and extracted usingan ultra sound assisted extraction (UAE) with an ultra sound sonicator at room temperature. The extracts were centrifuged at 1,000 × g for 10 min and the supernatant collected for TPC assay. Total phenolic compounds (TPC) of extracts were quantified colorimetrically using Folin-Ciocalteu reagent and chlorogenic acid as standard. Five millilitres of Folin-Ciocalteu (diluted ten-fold in distilled water), 2 mL of sodium bicarbonate (200 g/L) and 2 mL of distilled water were added to 1 mL of extract. After 15 min incubation at room temperature, the absorbance was read at 730 nm using Thermo Scientific™ GENESYS 10S UV-VIS spectrophotometer, and results expressed in chlorogenic acid equivalents(mg CAE/g fresh weight).
The colour of the arils was measured on the fruit surface using a Konica & Minolta CR-400 chromameter (Konica & Minolta Sensing Inc., Osaka, Japan) and the data were expressed in, L*, a* and b* values (CIE). The colour reading was taken in triplicate at the equatorial region of each fruit and averaged to give a value for each cabbage head. The values a* and b* were used to calculate chroma (C* = [a*2 + b*2]1/2), which indicates the intensity or colour saturation, and hue angle (H* = arctangent [b*/a*]), where 0° = red-purple, 90° = yellow, 180° = bluish-green, and 270° = blue .
Weight loss was calculated as a percentage (%) of the initial mass, with an electronic scale. The physiological weight loss was estimated from the difference between the initial and the final weight after each storage period.
Experimental work was duplicated and experiments were run in triplicate. Experimental results were averaged and reported as mean ± standard deviation (SD). A single factor analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed using GraphPad Prism 4.03 (GraphPad Software, Inc., 2236 La Jolla, CA, USA). Treatment means were compared by least significant difference (LSD) at P ≤ 0.05.
Chlorophyll a varied significantly during storage as shown in Figure 1A. Chlorophyll a decreased significantly in control, CC and GA1 after 11 days storage, while in GA2, the decrease was significant after 14 days storage. After 4 days, chlorophyll a decreased by 46%, 27% and 50% in control, CC and GA1, respectively, and the decrease reached 81%, 76% and 81% after 14 days storage, respectively. In GA2 treated cabbage, chlorophyll a decreased by 12% after four days, but the decrease was similar to that observed in other treated cabbage and reached 80%.
Surprisingly, chlorophyll b in cabbage did not show significant variation during storage (Figure 1B). Chlorophyll b varied from an initial value of 2.49 mg/g DW and averaged 2.53, 2.56 and 2.63 mg/gDW after four, eleven and fourteen days storage, respectively. Similarly, total carotenoids decreased slightly but did not vary significantly in cabbage during storage (Figure 1C). Total carotenoids yielded 2.71mg/g DW in fresh cabbage heads, and decreased by 14%, 3%, 15% and 4% in control, CC, GA1 and GA2 after fourteen days storage, respectively. On the other hand, carotenoids in cabbage averaged 2.62, 2.55 and 2.46 mg/g DW after four, eleven and fourteen days, respectively.
Figure 1. Chlorophylls a(A), chlorophylls b(B) and carotenoids (C) concentration in cabbage heads stored at 10 ± 1°C during 14 days.
Comparatively, chlorophylls a/b ratio was estimated and data showed the ratio decreased progressively from 0.31 to 0.17, 0.22, 0.15 and 0.28 after four days, to 0.13, 0.07, 0.15 and 0.16 after eleven days, and to 0.06, 0.07, 0.06 and 0.06 after fourteen days in control, CC, GA1 and GA2, respectively (Figure 2A). On the other hand, the chlorophylls [a+b]/carotenoids ratio varied very slightly and decreased from 1.20 to 1.21, 1.21, 1.07 and 1.17 after four days, to 1.18, 1.07, 1.15 and 1.11 after eleven days, and to 1.19, 1.09, 1.19 and 1.07 after fourteen days in control, CC, GA1 and GA2, respectively (Figure 2B).
Figure 2. Chlorophylls a/b (A) and Chlorophylls a+b/carotenoids (B) ratios in cabbage heads stored at 10 ± 1°C during 14 days.
The use of gibberellic acid as a preharvest treatment is extensively documented. While the postharvest treatment reported is mainly on the use of GA to extend the shelf-life and longevity of ornamental flowers, few reports are available on fruits and vegetables. However, some discrepancies have been reported on the effect of postharvest application of GA on chlorophyll content. Siddiqui et al reported a decrease of c.a. 50% in chlorophylls of mango fruits stored twelve days at room temperature of 28 ± 2°C, and no difference in effect was noted between the different GA concentrations used.
On the contrary, many studies reported that GA retained green colour of fruits and chlorophylls. Gross et al reported that GA treatments delayed the senescence and retained chlorophyll in persimmon for long periods. Pre and postharvest applications of GA also retained the green fruit colour of citrus fruits. Mahajan et al used different concentrations of GA3 ranging from 25 to 75 ppm on guava fruit and no significant difference in effect was noted among these concentrations. Singh and Dankhar reported that postharvest application of GA retained chlorophylls in okra during storage and retention was higher even with visible senescence. They also noted that chlorophyll a decreased more rapidly than chlorophyll b which surprisingly exceeded the content of chlorophyll a in some fruits.
Janowska and Jerzy investigated the effects of GA on the longevity of Zantedeschia elliottiana leaves and noted that GA reduced the degradation of chlorophylls, but no significance was noted between the concentrations and exposure time. Indeed, the mechanisms of GA on chlorophylls are not clearly understood, but it is likely that GA delays the activity of chlorophyllase during ripening of GA treated strawberry fruit as reported by Martínez et al , and/or promotes chlorophyll synthesis . Indeed, the visible colour of plants results from the predominant pigments, even though other pigments are present but are not visible unless the predominant is degraded. Consequently, the degradation of chlorophylls causes colours change in the tissues from green to many other colours such as yellow and orange observed in ripe and senescent tissues .
Calcium chloride is widely used in agriculture and food preservation as well. Investigations showed that postharvest use of calcium chloride maintains firmness and visual quality, therefore, extending the shelf life of the fresh produce. It was reported that dipping fruits in calcium chloride was effective in delaying senescence and extended figs and jujube shelf-life during storage. On the other hand, calcium chloride treatments have also been reported as effective in reducing chlorophyll . Calcium chloride has also been used in combination with gibberellic acid and other organic acids. Bhanja and Lenka combined gibberellic acid and calcium chloride treatments of sapota (Achraszapota) fruit, and they noted that treatments reduced the physiological weight losses and percentage rotting of fruits during storage, and the shelf-life was extended to 36 days compared to control (8 days).
Indeed, these results are not in contradiction with our results, as we noted that chlorophyll a content is much lower than chlorophyll b. Even though chlorophyll a decreased chlorophyll b did not vary much, therefore, making the change in total chlorophylls (a+b) not significant as shown in Figure 2.
The total phenolics content decreased progressively during storage of cabbage heads, however, the decrease was significant in the control after four days, while in GA2 TPC decreased significantly after fourteen days (Figure 3). After four days, TPC decreased from 50.91 to 40.20, 39.97, 45.13 and 47.26 mg/g DW in control, CC, GA1 and GA2, respectively. After fourteen days storage, TPC decreased significantly to 26.17, 26.38, 28.91 and 27.10 mg/g DW in control, CC, GA1 and GA2, respectively, and no significant difference was noted between control and treatments.
Figure 3. Total phenolic compounds concentration in cabbage heads stored at 10 ± 1°C during 14 days. For legends see Figure 1.
Many investigations have reported on TPC of white cabbage heads, and different TPC has been determined. For example and among literature cited, Leja et al reported values ranging between 12.58 and 47.6 mg GAE/100 g FW. The large variations of TPC in white cabbages vary with different factors such as the botanical cabbage group , variety , extraction solvents used , and growing region .
Many works reported on the total phenolics of cabbage, but few exist on the variation of TPC during storage, and no work reports on the effects of GA and calcium chloride on TPC in stored cabbage. Hounsome et al studied the variation of different phenolic compounds during storage and they noted that longterm storage significantly reduced the content of many phenolic compounds such as caffeic, syringic, gallic and trihyroxybenzoic acids, as well as flavonoids, while other phenolics such as cinnamic, dimethoxybenzoic acid, chalcone and flavone were less affected by storage. Hagen et al stored another Brassica variety called curly kale (Brassica oleracea L. var. acephala) and noted that total phenolics increased slightly after six weeks storage at 1°C. Nevertheless, in stored lettuce, escarole and rocket salad tissues, TPC varied differently. TPC increased after one day but decreased after three days storage at 4°C. In escarole, TPC increased significantly after three days, while in rocket tissues TPC decreased after three days at the same temperature .
Figure 4. Weight losses in cabbage heads stored at 10 ± 1°C during 14 days. For legends see Figure 1.
During storage, colour of cabbage heads showed different variations (Table 1). Data of a* are indicating that cabbage heads are less after eleven days storage, and the lightness decreased after the same storage period as indicated by the decrease of L*. The b* decreased from positive to negative values and the H* increased after fourteen days storage indicating that the yellowish colour of cabbages is decreasing and the heads are turning darker and did not retain the yellow colour (as shown in Figure 5). However, no significant difference was noted between control and treated cabbages during the storage period.
Table 1. Variation of colour parameters of cabbage heads during storage. Values with different superscript letters within the same columns are significantly different.
Figure 5. Cabbage heads stored at 10 ± 1°C during 14 days.
Data are showing that control, CC, GA1 and GA2 averaged 12.00, 25.56, 24.69 and 22.92 after four, eleven and fourteen days storage indicating that the colour of control and GA2 are lighter than CC and GA1.
Few works have reported on the variation on colour of cabbage during storage, while no reference is readily available on the effects of gibberillic acid and calcium chloride on stored cabbage heads. Manolopoulou and Varzakas reported similar results and noted that lightness L* and H* values of fresh cabbage stored at 0°C decreased after 15 days storage, but L* decreased after 20 days storage, and these data are in agreement with our results indicating that the reduction was limited regardless of the chemical treatments and the initial colour was to some extent preserved. The increase of H* value observed after fourteen days might be due to browning caused by the senescence . On the other hand, it was suggested that the total colour difference (ΔΕ) could be used as a discoloration index , and our data are suggesting that all treatments did not preserve the colour of cabbage.
During storage, PWL increased progressively during storage,however, control and CC treated cabbages showed higher PWL than GA treated ones (Figure 4). After four days storage, PWL averaged 0.6% to 0.7% in control and treated cabbages, and after eleven days PWL averaged 1.00%, 1.00%, 0.90% and 0.85% in control, CC, GA1 and GA2, respectively, with no significant difference between control and all treated cabbages. Nevertheless, after fourteen days storage, PWL averaged 1.80%, 1.40%, 0.80% and 0.97% in control, CC, GA1 and GA2, respectively. By fitting linear regression lines to weight losses vs time, results showed average losses of 0.13%, 0.11%, 0.06% and 0.07% per day in control, CC, GA1 and GA2, respectively, indicating that GA treatment was more efficient in reducing PWL than CC treatment.
Extensive literature exists on PWL of fresh crops during storage. Weigh losses of fresh crops is the consequence of respiration and oxidative reactions, mainly sugars. However, degradation of energy-source compounds is correlated to many factors such as the physiological stage, temperatures and storage duration, as well as other factors such as gas composition (eg., modified atmosphere packaging), and even the microbial charge of the stored crops . Manolopoulou and Varzakas reported that weight losses of cabbage averaged 3% after twenty-three days storage at 4°C. In minimally processed cabbage, weight losses were higher and averaged 2.81% and 3.32% in control, and 2.28% and 3.35% in calcium chloride treated heads stored during twenty-two days at 0°C and 5°C, respectively .
The application of gibberellic acid and calcium chloride to extend the shelf-life of cabbage heads stored under refrigeration showed that these chemical treatments did not reduce chlorophyll a and total phenolic compounds losses but maintained chlorophyll b and carotenoid levels which contributed to better colour preservation although no statistical difference was noted. However, all the chemical treatments reduced significantly the physiological weight losses which were much higher in the control. We can conclude that gibberellic acid and calcium chloride could be used to maintain the quality attributes of fresh cabbage heads stored under refrigerated temperature, however, the optimal storage period should not exceed two weeks.
This work was supported by a New Research Initiative Research Grant from the Office of the Graduate Studies & Research, UWI, Mona.
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Your employees are the number one asset you have, and also the major cause of data breaches. These breaches continue to increase in frequency even though most organizations have invested heavily in putting network security devices in place. This has not stopped the breaches. Instead, hackers have found new ways to access your information; namely, through what is often the weakest link in your organization – your people, not your actual technology. Therefore, your staff has become the preferred first target of an attacker. You can change this dynamic by empowering your employees and making them your first line of through proper security training designed to spot today’s new attack methods.
Cybercriminals are increasingly using social engineering to gain an undetected foothold within business and government networks. Stolen credentials obtained by social engineers are used in four out of five breaches, regardless of whether the attack was driven by financially motivated cybercriminals, nation-state-driven cyber espionage activity, or hacktivists.
What should security training and awareness consist of?
What will a solid security training and awareness program do for your organization?
JANUS has a variety of generic security classes available to bring to your staff, be they general users or technical staff. These focus on good security practices, leading social engineering techniques to assist you to help staff recognize attacks before falling victim to them, and work as a refresher to their security knowledge. Incorporated are the newest attack methods as well as up-to-date security concepts.
JANUS can tailor an awareness and training curriculum to your specific needs and bring that to your staff. Utilizing knowledge of your processes, this regular reinforcement keeps security knowledge and focus fresh in employees’ minds in a manner that is relevant to their work environment. It also allows for current topics of importance to be brought quickly to staff as new threat vectors emerge. JANUS data security awareness training is designed to reinforce industry best practices and it can easily and cost effectively be customized to reflect your specific policies and procedures.
Over our many years of training client staffs, JANUS has increasingly recognized the need for smaller amounts of targeted information security content at shorter intervals. Therefore, JANUS has teamed up with a leading learning management system provider to develop a series of modules that we recommend to train your employees on a continuing basis – often monthly. Security training has been measured to last approximately 90 days; therefore, employees need more frequent exposure to your security message. This program is focused on a variety of short, highly focused, bite-sized modules that employees can quickly absorb via computer. This information, in turn, fosters greater topic understanding, better comprehension, and longer knowledge retention of your data security policies and procedures.
The largest single cause (52%) of data breaches is human error and social engineering, the primary way attackers exploit that is becoming more sophisticated every day, leading to increased risk. Phishing campaigns, malware downloads, poisoned attachments with embedded macro viruses, phone calls that trick the user to releasing sensitive information rapidly are accelerating. Organizations are realizing the seriousness of this risk and are focusing increasing resources on social engineering testing to determine where their people weaknesses are, and how they can better prepare their employees to recognize and resist these intrusions. Social engineering testing goal is to determine if a person who uses computer systems will reveal IDs, passwords and other confidential information that can lead to compromised systems. JANUS consultants can perform a broad range of social engineering tests to determine what type of exposure your organization has to this form of risk and intrusion. A JANUS social engineering engagement will allow you to quantify your business environmental weaknesses and help you determine what type of training and awareness may be needed by your staff to prevent future attacks.
Contact us for a no-charge consultation and learn more about JANUS’ customized approach to Social Engineering testing.
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eyes sealed in resigned introspection.
here among this clutter of crypts.
the momentary float on air.
being here with these folks.
and the vacancy of Mother’s gaze.
chiding her out to pick cotton with the boys.
harbored for years, clamor for release.
through new cracks in old mortar.
to breach those gravestone eyes.
—A native of Southwest Louisiana, but the daughter of an army officer and diplomat, Cordelia Hanemann has lived in Japan and London as well as in the US. Professor emerita retired, she spends her time gardening, taking classes in art and philosophy, hanging out with friends and family, writing poetry, painting, cooking, eating, dancing, and celebrating the gifts of the universe. Recently the featured poet for Negative Capability Press, she has placed her work in numerous journals, including Mainstreet Rag; in anthologies, most recently Heron Clan IV; and in her own chapbook. A practicing artist and writer in Raleigh, North Carolina, she is now working on a first novel about her roots in Cajun Louisiana.
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AYO and ASRC aknowledges that April is Child Abuse Prevention Month we are: building community, building hope, creating strong, nurturing communities that are supportive of families. You can get involved and play a role in preventing child abuse, neglect and promote child and family well-being.
Stay up to date with AYO by reading our quarterly newsletter. Aurora Youth Options wants to keep you all posted on what's going on with us. You can find all of our quarterly newsletters on the left hand side of the blog page; Titled Newsletters. Here is a link our most recent newsletter.
In honor of January being National Mentoring month, Aurora Youth Options hosted a mentor FriendRaiser to recruit mentors for our youth. This year on January 19th, we held our annual FriendRaiser at Dry Dock Brewery in Aurora, CO. Six of our current mentors shared their mentoring experiences and personal stories on why they wanted to volunteer to help shape the life of a youth with all of our guests. Attendees had a chance to ask the current mentors any questions that they had about mentoring.
Please excuse the inconveniences while we have some remodeling going on at the Hoffman (City of Aurora) building. Jewell Park renovation has begun in the park and parking lot area of the Hoffman building. Please be mindful of the "off limits" areas, watch for changes of the entrance into the building and parking configuration. Afterward the neighborhood will have a wonderful new park to enjoy!
Aurora Youth Options was able to provide 11 AYO families and 12 individual clients with warm winter coats for this season. This would not have been possible without the support of the local Dependable Cleaners and their "Coats for Colorado Coat drive." This event provides our youth and their families with much needed warmth for the long Colorado winters.
AYO thanks Citywide Banks and the community for supporting AYO's Money Match campaign!
Every year, AYO hosts an all-day extended event that is free for all matches to attend as a way to bond and develop deeper relationships with one another. This year, on September 10th, seven matches participated in AYO’s annual Ropes Course Event at West Pines Training Facility in Wheat Ridge. Matches were challenged both physically and mentally to overcome obstacles, all the while building a stronger relationship with their mentor/mentee.
CityWide Banks money match campaign for AYO!
Last Thursday Citywide Banks held an amazing event and AYO was the beneficiary.The Matching campaign is still going on (till Sept 15) and we have only raise $700 of the $2,000!!!!! We need your help! Please see the article below and the link and consider supporting us to meet our goal- THANK YOU!!
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I love traveling. I love seeing beautiful places and discovering uncharted paths. I do not only love doing them but also records experiences. Take photos of them.
It is for these reasons that I am building this website.
I have been living in South Korea for almost two decades now. Living here that long does not make me an expert about this country and its people. However, I presume this qualifies me to say that I know enough about this place.
It has spiky and green mountains under the blue skies during summer.
Its mountains are wonderfully clad with white virgin snow during cold winter.
The same mountains become alive and flashing with brightly-colored flowers in spring.
It has fresh and sparkling rivers, and springs murmuring as they obediently flow towards the wide blue sea of the peninsula.
Yes, I know that my words are not even close enough to painting this page with the country’s amazing setting. Its four seasons did not bore me nor stopped me from exploring and discovering new things each day. However, let me try painting this site with my limited expressions and imperfect words.
I did not only fall in love with the country but also found the love of my life here. Since then, I have been living here 'til this moment. And, will be so in the future.
To learn more deeply, I studied the local language. I tried all the local food. And have learned much the customs and exotic culture.
I have witnessed the changes and progress that South Korea has gone through. I am part of that change.
As part of Korea’s history, I can tell you much about it. About what it can offer to its visitors. In other words, I can be your guide. Let this website be your guide.
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That's right, another blog post!!!
this might get me to do this more!
this is MY Blog...so I am allowed to be excited!
but there are items that fit me to a 'T'!
The revolutionary and the chameleon of the zodiac. Charming. Attractive. Popular. You gather a diverse (and zany!) group of friends from all walks of life. Though you’re highly social, you absolutely hate fighting. This is often at odds with you quest for justice in all aspects of your life. You believe in fairness and equality. Generally speaking, you love pets more than people.
Sensual would not describe me as well as Unpredictable.
I am very predictable, you can set your clock to me!
Charming...ok, I'll take that one!
Popular...oh my! I was never and will never be popular!
this horoscope could not be farther from the truth!
My best and only friend is my husband.
but I am actually fine with that, not worth it.
I do absolutely HATE fighting!
You know how they say get things out and you will feel better?
I don't like having bad feelings at all!
I do believe in fairness and equality...to a fault.
And the best part of this horoscope...I love pets more than people.
Speaking of pets...here's my little Bella.
for a second. I come back to my spot in the bed...and there she was!
While I was taking the picture, she just looked away from me.
and finding some great buys...so I had to stop by on the way home from work and see what I could find.
I did find some goodies. Note cards with envelopes, Jute Twine, Confetti, Push Pins and Paper Clips that I really wanted for the 'test tube' packaging, and a Chalkboard Easel which I did not see previous to going to the store...that was a nice surprise. I also picked up the AC St. Valentine 6 x 6 paper pad that was not in the bins, but I had to pick up since it is adorable.
I also picked up three of the plastic organizers and one of the glass jars.
I have already started to fill one of the organizers with sequins.
Will love this when I start playing with shaker cards again.
The hubster and I went to the Webster Flea Market a couple of weeks back and he, yes HE picked out this nail polish for me.
Thought it was a great mani for the Valentine's Season.
it was not so great coming off my nails.
The poor girl had the hardest time getting it off, but all is ok now! LOL!!
I also went by my local K-mart on the way home since I heard so many are closing. I thought there may be some deals.
they did have a lot of polish on clearance which was sweet!
Seemed to pick up a bunch of pinks...guess I was thinking Valentine's Day!
Can't wait to use these.
I also purchased some new Zoya polish while their sale was going.
So excited to get those babies in the mail!
Thanks so much for stopping by and take care.
I love reading your blogs. I'm the luckiest husband in the world. You are such a beautiful person inside and out.
LOL!!! Sweet...I think more like...'crap, I'm caught!' LOL!!!
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Home Archive by category "Fruiting Bonsai"
Grapefruit Bonsai Tree Pruning and repotting my old Grapefruit bonsai. I look at pictures of old Osage Orange trees for future inspiration. This tree was started from seed about 20 years ago and has been root pruned every two years.
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Burr, Bradley, "Graduate Lecture Recital: Bradley Burr, alto and baritone saxophone" (2009). All Concert & Recital Programs. 4502.
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You are here: Home / Frugal Living / Deals / Free Herb Kit Rebate From Annie’s!
Free Herb Kit Rebate From Annie’s!
Yum, fresh grown herbs! Annie’s is offering a special rebate right now where you can buy two of their products, and then send in your receipts for a FREE herb kit!
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SharePoint Fest returns to Washington, DC March 26-30, 2018 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Nintex, an easy, point-and-click workflow automation software, will be on the expo hall floor as a title sponsor of this annual technology conference.
SharePoint Fest DC will begin with two days of pre-conference workshops on March 26 and March 27, followed by a three-day conference (including an expo hall) March 28 - 30. Be sure to stop by the Nintex booth to see how their focus has been to build software and cloud-based services that provide powerful, yet easy-to-use capabilities to automate a wide range of processes!
Nintex is the recognized global leader in workflow and content automation (WCA) with more than 7,000 enterprise clients and 1,700 partners in 90 countries who have built and published millions of workflow applications. With its unmatched breadth of capability and platform support delivered by unique architectural capabilities, Nintex empowers the line of business and IT departments to quickly automate hundreds of manual processes to progress on the journey to digital transformation. Nintex Workflow Cloud™, the company’s cloud platform, connects with all content repositories, systems of record, and people to consistently fuel successful business outcomes.
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The Megan Meier Foundation exists due in large part to the generosity of those individuals who give of their time and talent. No matter the amount of time or the type of skills you bring to the table YOU are a crucial part of the positive impact the Foundation makes. Like waves, volunteers make a lasting impact on everything and everyone they touch. Change Starts with YOU. Volunteer today!
Are you: 16 or Younger?
If you are 16 years of age or younger and would like to volunteer, please read the printable document below to learn about all the ways in which you can help the Foundation!
ARE you: Out of State?
If you reside in another country, state or more than 40 miles from the St. Louis/St. Charles region, please read the pdf below to learn about all the ways in which you can help MMF!
ARE YOU: A future team leader?
If you are between 18-25 and interested in being a team leader for our upcoming Change Starts with Me Leadership Workshops, please click below to learn more about the requirements.
If you are 17 years of age or older and reside within 40 miles of the MMF offices in St. Charles, MO, we would love to have you on our team! Please fill out the form below and we will get in touch!
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Black Magic Specialist in Agra is harmful for human. In modern generation some peoples are believe in magic art and they used it. It's used for self- protection. With the help of Black magic many problem solve like enemy protection, family problem, marriage problem, business problem, love problem, child problem etc. magic art used for negative or positive. Only black user uses this art properly.
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Congratulations on your upcoming event and thanks for connecting with Crested Butte Events!
Below is a brief description of our planning packages which have been carefully crafted since 2003 to specifically meet the needs of destination weddings.
If you require planning for a social event, we are happy to provide a custom quote based on your specific goals.
As the world becomes more connected, it can feel as if individuals are becoming less connected. We like to think we can change that - one party at a time. Your wedding is an exciting moment and it can take shape in a multitude of ways. The philosophy that has ensured success the last 17 years is simple - your wedding should be 100% FUN while taking place in a financial realm that is comfortable. Nothing makes us happier than seeing a room full of family and friends making memories that will stay with you long after the party ends.
Weddings come in every shape and size and we realize "financial comfort" is a moving target. Any dollar spent needs to be well spent; therefore, budget is a priority. We will create a budget that achieves your financial goals as well as the vision for your event. From that point, we can begin to match you with vendors that are a perfect fit. While there is no limit on communication, we do make a practice of sending monthly updates with tasks to be completed. We understand that it is easy to become overwhelmed and this allows everyone involved to stay on track and adjust details as needed. We will be with you every step of the way.
This package offers comprehensive service in planning your wedding ceremony and reception, start to finish. It is an essential package for destination weddings of every size.
This package is geared toward families eager to immerse their guests in the Crested Butte experience. Whether it be hosting multiple nights of amazing culinary experiences or encouraging guests to join in outdoor mountain adventures, we are here to plan a unique and memorable week surrounding your wedding.
Please note, the Wedding Day package is not available June through September as that is high season for weddings in Crested Butte and Gunnison.
This is a great package for local couples or couples that have time in their schedules to visit Crested Butte frequently and can handle the advance planning.
This plan is not ideal for busy couples that are out of state or have very busy professional lives.
Don't see a package that fits your needs?
Give a call and we'll determine exactly what your event needs, and how we can help make your dream a reality.
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Vida Media, LLC (the “Company”) recognizes that its customers, visitors, users, and others (collectively or individually “Users”) who use www.vidamedia.net or other web sites owned or operated by the Company (the “Websites”) value their privacy. This Privacy Notice details important information regarding the use and disclosure of User information collected on the Websites. Company provides this Privacy Notice to help you make an informed decision about whether to use or continue using the Websites.
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Any personal information or content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, posting messages and chat areas, within your public profile page, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others. Any posts you make on the Websites may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.
You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the Websites, in which case, the Company may not be able to provide certain services to you. You may update or correct your personal information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.
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Welcome to the Andy Gardner Tree Care and Landscaping website, We have been providing our services in the Radlett region for over 7 years now and have many satisfied customers within the WD7 postcode.
We undertake all aspects of tree work together with tree removal, pruning, stump removal and planting. We operate in a range of environments from tiny inner-city gardens with limited access, to estate work, or industrial work on building sites and local authority work. Additionally we work regularly in conservation areas and on trees covered by a Tree Preservation Order (TPO). Planning approval is considered necessary from the council in order to carry out work in conservation areas and on trees protected by a TPO. Gaining authorisation is a service we can also deal with for you.
All of our tree work is carried out in a reliable manner using up to date tree care techniques. Full risk assessments are carried out before all works commence to reduce any potential risks to a suitable level. All waste material from tree work is recycled and turned into woodchip, firewood, or exclusive pieces of made to order furniture. To find out more about this please visit our recycled products page.
You can be very much involved with the landscape design or everything can be left with us to transform your garden, no matter how big or small. By calling on our expertise and experience we can design and build your ideal garden which reflects your personality and lifestyle.
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We are seeking individuals who have experience and/or interest in the fields of fundraising, event planning, or strategic planning. Ideal candidates have diverse networks and/or ties to art-supporting companies in the Chicago area.
Board members contribute, on average, about 6-10 hours per month attending board/committee meetings and other board-related events. In exchange for your service, you have the opportunity to work with a dynamic group of people and play a vital role in Chicago’s cultural community. From our board members, to our artists, to our patrons, Lifeline Theatre attracts a remarkable group of creative and diverse personalities.
For a list of current and emeritus board members, see our Board of Directors page.
For more information on joining Lifeline’s board, please contact Katie Cassidy, Development Manager, at 773.761.4477 x708 or kcassidy@lifelinetheatre.com.
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Finding yourself in legal trouble can be stressful and worrisome, so ensure that you hire the right kind of lawyer who specializes in what you’re going through. Take civil litigation as an example; it alone involves five different types of cases. It includes landlord and tenant disputes, property disputes, personal injury or tort, divorce and family law and breach of contract.
An individual who gets injured because of the careless demeanor of an entity or another person has every right to file a lawsuit asking for compensation.
Conflicts and disagreements stemming from a family relationship is the kind of civil litigation case that majority of individuals have experienced at one point in their lives.
When a party neglects to complete their responsibilities listed on the contract terms, then the other party can file for a breach of contract.
Landlords and tenants often encounter disputes, such as evictions, which can lead to a court battle. Other disputes also include failing to fulfill terms of lease or conflicts regarding services a tenant alleges are missing.
Title claims, disputes on property line and conflicts regarding ownership rights are some of the civil litigation cases under this classification. More often than not, the usual remedy for this is more than just financial compensations.
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Patanwala Estate, LBS Marg, opp Shreyas Cinema, Ghatkopar West, Mumbai 86.
Chip & Dale Pre-school is a children’s activity centre for 1.5 – 8 years old. It was started in the year 2000 and is operating since last 14yrs.We cater to play school & nursery kids.
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All investigations must be in compliance with the Gramm Leach Bliley Act, Fair Debt Collection Practice Act and Fair Credit REPORTING ACT. All investigations must have a permissive use in order to proceed with the investigation of the case.
All investigations are conducted behind the scenes. The investigators have no contact with the subject. Once the investigation is complete our investigators will provide you with a detailed report.
The report will outline their findings of assets and liabilities of the individual or corporation. This critical information will assist you in establishing the facts regarding your case so you can make the right decision.
Once our independent investigators have completed their investigation, our firm’s bonded collection attorneys will provide the legal support necessary.
All searches are performed legally, therefore our firm requires the requesting party to have a valid need to perform an investigation. In order for our investigators to perform an investigation the requesting party is required to execute our permissive use form by clicking below.
Each assignment must be documented and signed, providing copies of the original judgment, child support claim, death certificate, lawsuit or validation of an outstanding debt. All investigations must be paid in full prior to the commencement of an assignment. Your Collection Solution, Inc., and their independent private investigators are not responsible for the outcome of the investigation.
All address skip traces are completed within twenty four hours. A nationwide real property search typically is completed in two business days. When conducting a comprehensive asset search the turnaround time can vary from ten business days to three weeks. However, our investigators may encounter situations where it may take longer. Our investigators will work your file for a period of twelve months.
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Terms and Conditions valid from August 2017: The following terms and conditions apply to all course arrangements of Yasoma GmbH.
1.1 With the confirmation of your booking for a course arrangement by email, a contract is concluded between you and Yasoma GmbH if your booking concerns Yasoma GmbH service. In other cases, Yasoma GmbH acts only as a mediator of third party services. The respective contract conditions of the third party applies.
1.2 We further point out that our services usually only apply from the arrival at the course location or the place agreed together. Please note the corresponding information in the course description. The organization of the journey to the place and the timely arrival is your own responsibility.
2. Terms of payment: Payment by deposit: When booking an arrangement, a deposit of 30% of the package price must be paid at the same time. The balance is due 30 days before the start of the course at the latest. For bookings of less than 30 days before the start of the course, the entire invoice amount must be paid at the same time, when booking for the course. Non-timely payments entitle us to refuse the service and to charge you for any expenses.
3.1 Cancellation or change must be made via e mail or letter to Yasoma GmbH.
3.2 If you cancel after booking the course arrangement, we must always charge the following costs as a percentage of the course price: 30% of the price from 30 to 15 days before the beginning of the course departure, 50% of the price from 14 days until 1 day before the beginning of the course, 80% of the price on the day of the first day of the course.
4.1 In general: Yasoma GmbH indemnifies you for the failure or incorrect provision of agreed services or additional costs incurred for you (subject to chapter 5 and 6), unless it was possible to offer you an equivalent replacement service on site and the failure was not of your own responsibility. Our liability is however limited to the amount of the course price and only covers the direct damage. We cannot be hold on any liability if program changes have to be made as a result of force majeure (riots, bad weather, natural disasters etc.), official orders or delays of third parties for which we are not responsible.
4.3 Property damage: Yasoma GmbH assumes no liability for thefts and losses that occur during the course arrangement.
5.1 If you have cause for complaint during the course arrangement, you must immediately notify the service provider and Yasoma GmbH. This is a necessary condition for the subsequent assertion of your claims for compensation and also makes it possible to remedy the situation in most cases. If your intervention does not lead to an appropriate solution, you are required to request written confirmation from the service provider in question to record your complaint and its content. The service providers, etc. are not entitled to accept any claims for damages.
6.1 Yasoma GmbH also reserves the right, in its interest, to change programs or individual agreed services (such as accommodation) if unforeseen circumstances so require. In rare cases, Yasoma GmbH is also forced to cancel your course arrangement for reasons beyond our control, be it for your own safety or other compelling circumstances, such as those described above. Force majeure (including delayed hotel openings, armed conflicts, riots, strikes, etc.). However, Yasoma GmbH endeavors to inform you as soon as possible in such cases and to offer you a replacement solution.
6.2 If Yasoma GmbH has to change a course arrangement that has already been paid by you, so that an objective lower value for the originally agreed service arises, you will receive a refund from Yasoma GmbH. If, however, additional costs arise after conclusion of the course contract for a reason mentioned in section 6.1, you may experience a price increase. If this is more than 10% of the originally agreed course price, you have the right to withdraw from the contract for free within 5 days of receiving our notice.
6.3 In case of problems with your booking, contact the service provider on site. Corresponding price adjustments according to section 6.2 are reserved.
7. Premature termination or changes during the course arrangement by you. If for any reason you need to stop the course prematurely or want to change services, contact the local service provider. In such case we are not obligated to any refund.
8.1 Yasoma GmbH cannot accept liability for an entry refusal due to unfulfilled conditions. You are solely responsible for complying with the required passport, visa, customs, foreign exchange and health regulations.
9. Flights: For any flights to reach the course location they are solely responsible. You have to organize and pay for yourself. Yasoma GmbH cannot accept liability for flights.
10.1 Collection of information: For Yasoma GmbH the protection of privacy and personal data is of great importance. Yasoma GmbH adheres to the provisions of Swiss data protection legislation in the procurement and use of personal data.
10.2 Disclosure to third parties: Your data may be passed on to third parties in compliance with the data protection regulations, which may be provided as part of a contractual relationship with Yasoma GmbH, whereby data can also be transferred abroad.
10.3 Use of the data: The collected data will be treated in good faith and used for the transaction.
The contractual relationship between you and YASOMA GmbH is governed exclusively by Swiss law. Complaints against Yasoma GmbH are to be made in Zurich.
14. Transfer: Yasoma GmbH is not responsible for the journey / transfer to the location, hotel or agreed place according to the program and therefore does not assume any liability.
Yasoma GmbH, Zurich, August 2017.
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After a few movies exploring the final frontier of space, Karl Urban is landing back on your TV screen.
The Star Trek and Almost Human star has signed on to play the lead role in Amazon’s upcoming superhero drama The Boys, according to The Hollywood Reporter. But he’s not playing a superhero: Instead, Urban will play Billy Butcher, the enigmatic leader of a group of human vigilantes known as “The Boys” who aim to take down corrupt and fame-hungry superheroes… without the benefit of superpowers.
Eric Kripke (Supernatural, Timeless) will pen the eight-episode series, which scored a straight-to-series order from Amazon in November. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg will serve as executive producers.
Best known for playing Dr. Bones McCoy in the rebooted Star Trek franchise, Urban starred as Detective John Kennex in the short-lived Fox sci-fi drama Almost Human, which ended its one-season run in 2014. The New Zealand native has also appeared in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy, the Riddick film series and last year’s Thor: Ragnarok, along with playing Julius Caesar and Cupid on Xena: Warrior Princess.
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The Thunderbolts Project has now moved its site onto WordPress software, and so all of our main pages have a new address. You will be automatically redirected.
If you see this message for more than a moment or if your browser does not support redirects, please click on the link above or copy and paste it into your browser address bar.
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Through the ages, coins have been more than a common standard or a means of exchange between peoples for goods and services. The development of coinage gave men freedom to move beyond their communities, served as a propaganda tool for advancing armies and visually showed people the source of politics which governed their lives. Today, these same bits of metal, these ancient video disks, transmit through time information that might otherwise be lost to us.
This volume comprises a selection of papers given at a conference held at the Nickle Museum of The University of Calgary, Alberta, by perhaps the most distinguished gathering of numismatists ever to assemble in North America. Topics include specific coins of the Graeco–Roman world as well as discussions on coinage and propaganda, art, architecture, and archaeology.
Archaeologists, historians, coin collectors, students of the Classics, in fact, anyone who is interested in art and life as it existed in ancient times will be captivated by this collection.
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Technology is playing a growing role in how we live and how we do business, and the real estate industry is no exception. Nowadays, more than 44% of people looking for real estate services start by searching online, and the figure is only likely to increase once millennials start to settle down and buy property. The industry is rising to the challenge by fully embracing the changes technology brings to its established processes, whether it's through exclusively online real estate services, special apps for property listings, or augmented reality tools for virtual tours.
Here are five technology tools for realtors and brokers that are likely to further reshape the industry, according to leading members of Forbes Real Estate Council.
These tools help industry experts streamline productivity and find new leads.
Keep an eye out for Point. They're trying to disrupt the home mortgage by offering to buy equity in a home. It could be massive. Don't believe for a second that in 10 or 20 years, home purchasing and financing will look the same as it does today. - Jason Freedman, 42Floors Inc.
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Jesus was all-knowing and so he was very aware of the motive behind why people wanted his attention. He knew the Pharisee’s motives. He engaged with them, but he did not spend all of his time, and energy, and attention with them.
Not every interruption is necessarily divinely appointed. In our lives, there may be people who try to abuse our time, energy, and attention. Perhaps the most loving thing you could do for an attention seeker is to not give in to their unhealthy tendencies or dependencies, and instead learn to say no for their sake and for yours.
Can someone else handle this situation?
Am I in a good place (emotionally, mentally, spiritually, physically) to engage with this person?
Am I doing this just to please them?
Is there anyone in my life who has become too dependent on me or is taking advantage of me? How can I have healthy, loving boundaries with this person?
Jesus, help me to love the people in front of me well. Give me discernment and wisdom on what interruptions are opportunities from you, and what interruptions I cannot handle. Give me the strength to say no. God, I am not the Provider, you are. Please provide for those in my life and do the work that I cannot.
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Detroit, MI -- Five medical marijuana patients and caregivers will be sentenced in federal court next week, highlighting the human cost of the federal government’s intolerance for state medical marijuana laws.
Two medical marijuana caregivers from Monroe County who were convicted earlier this year in federal court will be sentenced at 3pm Monday, October 1st before U.S. District Court Judge David M. Lawson (231 W. Lafayette Blvd, Detroit). Gerald Lee Duval Jr. , 52, and his son, Jeremy Duval, 30, were raided by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents in 2011 and charged with felony cultivation, maintaining a place to cultivate marijuana, and conspiracy to distribute. In April, the Duvals were convicted at trial, the expected result of federal laws that prohibit any medical defense or reference to state law in front of juries.
"The Duvals' case is another tragedy from President Obama's war on medical marijuana," said Steph Sherer, Executive Director of Americans for Safe Access (ASA), the country’s leading medical marijuana advocacy group. "This type of enforcement is completely discretionary, unnecessary and far from the public health approach that medical marijuana patients deserve." The Duvals face decades in prison despite no evidence of state law violations.
Days later, three more medical marijuana patients and caregivers will be sentenced in federal court in Michigan. Around the same time federal agents were raiding the Duvals, officers with the Central Michigan Enforcement Team (CMET) and the Mecosta County Sheriff's Department raided the Austin Township home and other property of John Marcinkewciz, 42, and Shelley Waldron, 42. Marcinkewciz, Waldron and Jaycob Montague, 26, were originally charged under state law with cultivation and conspiracy to cultivate, but prosecutors soon turned their cases over to the federal Justice Department, where the three had no chance of defending themselves against federal law. Marcinkewciz, Waldron and Montague all subsequently took plea bargains in May.
"The federal raids and prosecutions in Michigan are unfortunately only an example of the broader aggressive campaign by the Obama Administration to undermine state medical marijuana laws," continued Sherer. As with the Duval raid, DEA agents commonly burst onto the scene wearing full body armor and wielding machine guns in a clear attempt to intimidate. Despite claims by the president that he was "not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws," Obama's Justice Department has conducted more than 200 SWAT-style raids and indicted well over 70 medical marijuana patients and providers since he took office.
A federal lawsuit to force the DEA to reclassify marijuana for medical use will be heard by the D.C. Circuit on October 16th. The case Americans for Safe Access v. DEA is bringing the science of medical marijuana into federal court for the first time in nearly 20 years. If marijuana were reclassified, it would pave the way for a medical marijuana defense in federal court.
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Notes Earnings converted from pounds. At his retirement the highest NZ stake earner-galloper or standardbred. 34 wins and 45 places.
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As the linked article below this article points out, Monsanto’s new super-toxic GMO dicamba-resistant cotton is already wreaking havoc across the U.S. But even beyond Monsanto’s latest “Frankencotton,” there are a myriad of reasons why we need to start paying as much attention to what we wear as we do to what we eat.
Not only do these pesticides linger on the clothes worn next to human skin, but the fish, marine and wildlife surrounding or downstream from cotton fields also suffer from pesticide pollution. Non-organic cotton crops utilize large amounts of chemical fertilizers that routinely pollute groundwater and emit nitrous oxide, the most destructive of all greenhouse gases—300 times more destructive per weight than CO2. Non-organic cotton requires large amount of irrigation water and is typically processed and dyed with synthetic chemicals. Routine spraying of non-organic cotton fields with herbicides such as Roundup, and application of chemical fertilizers, not only kill soil fertility, but also destroy the soil’s’ ability to properly infiltrate and store rainwater and to naturally sequester excess carbon from the atmosphere.
Government regulatory agencies, prompted by large cotton farmers and the garment industry, falsely claim that cotton is not a “food crop,” (in spite of the fact that 60 percent of what is harvested by weight ends up in the food chain). This means that super-toxic pesticides and herbicides are allowed to be sprayed, in copious quantities, on the cotton plant. So-called cotton by-products—cotton seeds, cotton seed oil and cotton gin trash—end up being sold and consumed as ingredients in both animal feed and human food. The pesticide residues in cottonseed accumulates in the fatty tissues of dairy cows, and are passed on in the milk and dairy products consumed by humans. Cottonseed oil is routinely laced into a variety of food products, from vitamins to potato chips, and is often addes to olive oil without being labeled. This means that GMOs and pesticide residues from cotton crops find their way into a wide range of non-organic food products, triggering health issues including food allergies, cancer and liver, kidney and immune system damage.
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An explanation and apology can help mend a company's reputation.
Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) made mistakes in the lead-up to the financial crisis, but those mistakes don't explain the fact that the nation's second-biggest bank by assets continues to get horrible customer service scores. To fix these, the $2.15 trillion bank should take a page out of Chipotle Mexican Grill's (NYSE:CMG) response to its recent E. coli outbreak in Washington and Oregon.
In the latest customer satisfaction survey from J.D. Power, Bank of America scored last in three out of the four geographic regions compared to the likes of JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) and Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC). It produced a middle-of-the-pack score only in the Midwest.
Source: J.D. Power's 2015 U.S. Small Business Banking Survey. Chart by author.
Is Bank of America really this bad when it comes to customer service, or is something else going on here? I believe the answer is the latter. From my experience as both a financial writer and longtime Bank of America customer, I can't help but conclude that the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank isn't as bad as it's made out to be.
There's no question it's incurred more legal claims from the financial crisis than any other bank. But the cumulative $195 billion price tag has less to do with its own imprudent, predatory lending and more to do with the not-so-borderline conduct that occurred at Countrywide Financial prior to its acquisition by Bank of America in 2008.
The reputational and financial damage that Bank of America suffered as a result of this acquisition has haunted it ever since. This is despite the fact that it seems to have halted many, if not all, of Countrywide Financial's most egregious practices.
The ongoing problem, in turn, is this: While Bank of America has simplified and streamlined its operations, structuring them around the bank's core customer groups, it has yet to tackle the lingering reputational harm with an appropriately themed marketing campaign.
Bank of America's current ad campaign comes up woefully short. It tracks the bank's role in its customers' lives, from one generation or activity to the next. One ad shows people using their Bank of America debit cards at restaurants and shops, a man and his sons leaving a Bank of America branch, and a young woman using the bank's mobile app to deposit a check while on a bus.
This is good and fine, but it doesn't address the bank's main problem -- namely, that it's become the poster child of the anti-consumer practices that led up to the worst economic cataclysm since the Great Depression. This is the white elephant in the background of every Bank of America television commercial -- figuratively speaking. And instead of sticking its head in the sand and hoping it will one day go away, Bank of America needs to address this head on.
I've been reminded of this as I've watched Chipotle Mexican Grill manage through allegations of E. coli poisoning in Washington and Oregon, my home state. Chipotle hasn't clammed up and refused to take responsibility, as Bank of America has over the past few years. It's chosen instead to confront the problem with as much transparency and humility as possible from a company that's already facing legal claims from alleged victims.
This letter posted to Chipotle's website provides a case in point. It starts by informing readers about the E. coli problem. It then goes into the steps Chipotle is taking to fix the issue. It then promises in legally admissible writing that the company will "take care of those individuals [affected by the alleged outbreak] and make it right."
This response echoes that of Domino's Pizza's (NYSE:DPZ) circa 2009 marketing campaign in which it admitted its pizza crust tasted like cardboard. Domino's has since fixed the problem and soared on the back of an improved product, with revenue climbing by 27% since the beginning of 2010 alone.
The counterargument, of course, is that Bank of America can't admit fault or responsibility because doing so would expose it to too much legal risk. But the statute of limitations has already closed the door on most of the bank's crisis-related legal opponents. In the second quarter of this year, a judge's holding allowed Bank of America to go so far as to reduce its most vexing outstanding legal liabilities by $7.6 billion.
The time is finally right, in other words, for Bank of America to address its reputational damage as directly as it attacked expenses and its once unwieldy balance sheet. There will be a downside to a public admission and apology, as litigants cite the bank's statements against it, but it's hard to think that the upside, in terms of a desperately needed revenue boost, won't more than make up the difference.
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Hi! I'm Miles, studying Politics, Philosophy and Economics. I was initially very scared about attending Oxford, questioning whether I would fit in or be clever enough to cope. Thankfully, my worries have changed into an absolute love for the University and my College. Given Mansfield's small size, you'll be able to know so many people in the year, and I have yet to meet anyone who wasn't friendly, fun, and interesting. We're also very international here, which for someone who likes to meet new people is a real blessing. Mansfield itself is a beautiful College, which strikes the perfect balance between being awesome and cosy. The Common Room, Crypt Cafe/Bar, Hall and Quad are all great places to hang out with friends or study, and if you want somewhere quieter, we have four amazing libraries, and are close to so many of the main Oxford libraries. I also love Mansfield's location, as we're close enough to wander to the city, gym, park, and much else within minutes. I've also found all of my tutors to be so pleasant and insightful, and they never fail to make me look at my subject in a new light, challenging but also helping me along the way.
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In her new memoir, 'Sign My Name to Freedom,' the activist, pioneer, and National Park Service ranger reflects on the many lives she’s lived.
Betty Reid Soskin is greater than the sum of her parts. She’s greater than the historic floods of 1927, which pushed her Creole family away from their New Orleans roots. She’s greater than the segregation that steeped California in the 1950s, as she put her children through school and worked a white-collar job. And she’s greater than the man who broke into her Bay Area home and stole a commemorative coin gifted to her by President Obama (she had a hot iron ready in case he came back).
Now, at the age of 96, and with two films about her on the way, Soskin wishes to share her story of “living while black” with the world. Her current status as the oldest National Park Service ranger has brought renewed attention to a life spent fighting injustice. (Her lectures at the Rosie the Riveter National Historic Park in Richmond, which pull from her own experiences living and working in the area during World War II, are among the most popular in the country.) But her newly released memoir, Sign My Name to Freedom, still offers fresh insight—on Soskin the daughter, wife, single mother, organizer, protester, and artist.
Audubon spoke to Soskin about why representation in America’s historical memory is so important, and how to keep one’s fighting spirit alive.
Rahawa Haile: You write fondly of your childhood in the Bay Area’s wetlands and your years spent catching tadpoles and butterflies. As someone who feels at home in nature, how did an early love of the outdoors shape your relationship with the natural world?
Betty Reid Soskin: [In adulthood], one of the first times I had occasion to connect with the natural world was with the Golden Gate Audubon Society in the '70s. There was a film called Farallon Light done by Charles Petersen; I provided two songs for his soundtrack. The documentary was on the removal of the lighthouse on the Farallon Islands, which would affect the birds there, and that was when I really connected again with the concept of the preservation of nature.
RH: You’ve spent so much of your life fighting to be heard and proving that your story matters. What do you think about the forms activism is taking today? Particularly concerning calls for diversity in the outdoors?
BRS: I think that the National Park Service (NPS) is at the forefront of that. I think of the efforts that were introduced under Jon Jarvis, the last director, and under Robert Stanton, when he was the national director of the NPS [from 1997 to 2001]. [They both] saw to it that stories that introduced the diversity that is our American narrative—not just black history—were preserved and maintained by the Service. I think that’s a piece of what I’ve been doing, but I only stand on the shoulders of those who came before me. Really, the NPS is the federal agency with the greatest power to affect that interpretation of American history.
RH: How does the complexity of American history become a false monolith of shared experience? What is the importance of the National Park Service granting you a platform to explain why you’re not a Rosie—a title borne from white women who worked the shipyards and factories during World War II?
BRS: When I came into the park system as a consultant in about 2003, it was very clear that black history was not being left out as a conspiracy. We were simply not present in the room where those plans were being made. Since what gets remembered is determined by who’s in the room doing the remembering, I think people were relieved when I arrived.
I haven’t run into any kind of resistance to the telling of Rosie’s history, honestly. In fact, there are times when I feel that my enthusiasm for inclusion is crowding a very legitimate story that white feminists ought to be present for. I don’t think that I need to soft-pedal my history. I think Rosie the Riveter has a wonderful, feminist story to tell, but it’s a white history—it needs to be based frankly on what it is.
RH: You write passionately about the ways music freed you. How did embracing this outlet during one of the hardest times in your life sustain you?
BRS: It freed me because there was no way to escape from the dilemma I was living in at that time. I was caught in the suburbs with a too-busy husband who rarely came home, with other lonely women whose husbands were all in the other side of the hills making money for the mortgage. I had four children; one of them was mentally disabled. There was no way to escape. The only place for me to retreat was into myself, and that’s where I discovered “Betty the Artist.” But I think she was always there; it was the child that was released during that breakdown. Because of that, I got back in touch with the essence of who I was.
RH: How interesting, because in the opening to your memoir, you write about attempting to reconcile all the Bettys you’ve been and all the lives you’ve lived.
BRS: The experience of being filmed over the past three years has done that for me. It’s had me go back and try to pull together all the parts of me that were disparate. The filmmaking has been really revealing for me. One of the things I’ve found looking back at it all is that there’s a consistency to my life. I documented everything that was happening through the 1960s and '70s—not only to me, but the context in which that was happening as well. I did it through my music, and that music is being used as the soundtrack to these films. That consistency is something that I can only see in retrospect.
RH: I’d like to ask you about rage, because one of the most moving parts of your book is where you write about how you thought you’d outlived yours. In the end, however, you seem to conclude otherwise. So much of the activism we see today is driven by similar desperation, and so I ask you, can we ever really outrun our rage? Or does it find new homes in us?
BRS: I think my rage served me well. I don’t see it as an evil or downside, but as a motivator. It let me transform places in my life where that was the only thing I had. I don’t think I could have survived had I not been enraged from time to time.
I found that I couldn’t use rage for my own purposes, but I could use it in defense of someone else or other causes. When I was standing on the sidewalk demonstrating against a variety of things, it was a collective rage. I was participating, and now, I’m still participating. But that wasn’t until I could own it as it applied to me. It’s when it comes out of your shoes, when you know it’s the only thing you have in your toolbox, that it becomes real. And I think that rage served me well.
Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life, by Betty Reid Soskin, Hay House, Inc., 248 pages, $19.65. Buy it at Barnes&Noble.
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Packaging design has long ago established itself as a separate field of graphic and industrial design, and with good reason: the average consumer has more choices than ever, and he or she makes a choice in a matter of seconds. This makes it crucial for products to stand out, whether consumers encounter them online or on the supermarket shelves.
Major product design companies have emerged to help companies create dynamic brands with packaging. Whether you are launching a product or are a designer whose task is bringing new products to market, these essential rules of package design will ensure you’re bringing the heat.
The first rule of package design is to communicate the name of the product and what it is. Although that sounds simple, many products flunk this basic test. For example, organic cleaning products company Murchison-Hume appeared on CNBC’s The Profit in order to get help with branding and financing. Marcus Lemonis quickly identified a huge problem: the name “murchison-hume” had no identification with cleaning. Even worse, some products featured a simple picture, like the image of a lady with a bun on a bathroom cleaner product, which seemed to allude to a hair-care product. In reality, the product was a bathroom cleaner. This was a huge packaging fail. Other packaging was also confusing. A bottle labeled “Cook’s Soap” featured a teacup. The owner wanted to avoid regular words like Dish Soap, but this made the branding overly complicated. Keep it simple.
Related to clarity is simplicity. When the company Help Remedies wanted to revolutionize over-the-counter medication, they chose designer ChappsMalina to revolutionize packaging as well. Since consumers were already overwhelmed by too many choices, Chapps came up with a brilliant idea: why not communicate the content by identifying the problem? The resulting product design captures buyers at the moment of crisis – I have a headache, I have a blister, I have allergies, I can’t sleep – and instantly offers the solution. This simple, minimal design won numerous awards in 2010.
Honesty in packaging design is about more than just accurate labeling. For designers, it’s important to make sure the product depicted looks like the one inside the package. For example, these oysters will not resemble the small oysters inside the pack. Moreover, there are four different pictures on a very small package. This is a jumbled mess that won’t convince consumers they need the product.
Too many designers focus only on what the final product will look like in isolation, when in reality, the product will be in a large store on a shelf next to competitors. That’s why it’s essential to do some testing with the product as it will be displayed. This will help your eye catch familiar patterns. Breaking up the standard pattern, as Help Remedies did with its medicine, is essential if a product is to attract any attention.
Consumers want products to be sustainable and less harmful to the environment. This includes the packaging. Too much packaging and too much plastic is actually a turnoff to consumers, and in some instances can actually cost more. This banana, for instance, is pointlessly encased in a foam and plastic container.
This allergy medication is comprised of a single pill inside a giant plastic and cardboard container.
Both are examples of over-packaging that costs money and are hard to recycle.
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Due to forces beyond our control, we had to cancel the Sunday, February 26 event in Los Angeles.
But the February 25 event in San Diego is DEFINITELY on. Here are the details. We hope to see you there!
to let him know that you are coming so that we can get a headcount.
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Lava launched its first Android four.1 Jelly Bean-powered pill, the Etab Xtron, earlier this yr. The corporate has now added a rear digicam, an HDMI port and up to date the OS to Android four.2, and launched the Etab Xtron+, the successor to the primary Etab Xtron pill. We attempt to discover out if the price range pill delivers worth on your hard-earned cash.
The Lava Etab Xtron+ comes with the identical design and construct as that of the Etab Xtron, exuding a sense of sturdiness. The 7-inch pill seems compact, but sturdy. The entrance of the pill incorporates a 7-inch display, which is surrounded by a big bezel. You will additionally spot a VGA decision front-shooter proper within the center.
The again of the pill is product of polycarbonate however has been given a brushed aluminium end. The body extends to the entrance, and provides to the design of the pill. A microSD card slot and a three.5mm headphone jack sits on the prime edge on the proper facet whereas the speaker grill is positioned in direction of the left. There are not any ports on the underside edge.
The facility button, a quantity rocker, and a refresh/ ‘return to dwelling display’ button and a microphone are positioned on the proper hand facet of the pill.
The Micro-USB, micro-HDMI and a 2.5mm proprietary charging port are positioned at left hand facet.
Turning the pill over, there’s some Lava branding on the backside proper nook and ETab Xtron+ branding within the center. The two-megapixel digicam lens is positioned in direction of the higher half.
The Etab Xtron+’s 7-inch IPS TFT show comes with a decision of 1024×600 pixels, which isn’t that nice however given the worth of the pill, we will stay with it. Pictures and movies look good however textual content, specifically with smaller font dimension, will not be very legible.
The display brightness is under common, and the display is extraordinarily reflective, leading to poor visibility below daylight. It’s totally tough to learn a e-book or click on an image in daylight. Viewing angles aren’t nice both.
The contact sensitivity is sweet, and we did not encounter any points whereas utilizing the machine. Total, we weren’t glad with the standard of the pill’s show and it appears like a downgrade from the Lava Etab Xtron.
The Lava Etab Xtron+ runs Android four.2 Jelly Bean, the newest iteration of the working system on the time of scripting this assessment. It is a close to inventory construct of the OS bundled with a couple of third-party apps together with music streaming app Saavn, a file browser, an app for Video-on-demand service, BigFlix, training app EduKart, a video participant and a neighborhood offers and search app, UAhoy. We like the truth that there isn’t any bloatware.
Just like the Nexus 7, the pill’s onscreen controls are positioned on the centre. Nevertheless, as an alternative of 1 there are two slide-down trays on the prime, one on the left, with the date, time and notifications, and one other one on the proper with toggles for Brightness, Settings, Wi-Fi, Display screen rotation, Battery, Airplane mode, and Wi-fi Show (an Android four.2 function).
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The pill affords 5 customisable dwelling screens that may be full of app shortcuts and widgets.
Throughout our use, we did not discover a lot lag whereas navigating by menus, and Google’s a lot touted ‘Undertaking Butter’ makes the general expertise extra responsive than tablets working Ice Cream Sandwich.
The opposite main function that Jelly Bean brings is ‘Google Now’, a voice-based info assistant and an extension of Google search. You possibly can ask questions and the software returns solutions or search outcomes. It makes use of ‘playing cards’ that are basically small bins that provide completely different units of knowledge starting from climate forecast, instructions, site visitors info, scores, appointments, and forex conversion, amongst others. Google Now collects info primarily based on the person’s behaviour, location and even electronic mail to supply info, robotically.
The pill additionally contains one other Android four.2 function, lock display widgets. You possibly can select from the Clock, Digicam, Gmail, Google Now and Messaging widgets along with widgets supplied by third-party apps put in in your pill. These widgets provide glance-able info from the apps and permit customers to carry out sure app actions even when the pill is locked.
One other Android four.2 function for tablets is multi-user accounts i.e. completely different profiles and entry for various customers. Nevertheless, this pill does not embody this performance, which is a pity.
It additionally affords one other Android four.2 function, Daydream, that shows picture albums or the clock whereas the telephone’s charging. The choice to wirelessly mirror the telephone’s show with an HDMI enabled machine by a wi-fi show adapter can also be current.
The Etab Xtron+ pill comes with a 2-megapixel rear digicam and a VGA entrance digicam. Personally, we’re no followers on utilizing tablets for clicking wants, however some individuals could use a rear digicam for taking informal pictures or simply for scanning some paperwork.
The digicam app is fairly fundamental, providing Nonetheless, Video and Panorama capturing modes. Every mode simply affords pre-set white stability settings for Incandescent, Daylight, Fluorescent, and Cloudy circumstances.
The fastened focus digicam does not take nice photos however it may well save the day when it is advisable to share an image rapidly and haven’t any different digicam machine. Photos shot indoors turned out to be grainy, although. Movies shot with the digicam had been additionally common however it saves them in .MP4 format.
The photographs that we clicked with the entrance digicam, indoors, had been strictly purposeful, however it does a good job when used for making video calls over Skype or different video chat apps.
The pill is powered by a 1.5GHz Cortex A9 dual-core processor, a Mali-400 GPU and 1GB of RAM. We didn’t encounter any crashes whereas engaged on this pill and multitasking was comfy.
We did discover some minor lag specifically whereas switching from portrait to panorama mode however apart from that we had been in a position to play pill optimised video games and HD video clips, with no hitch because the bundled video participant helps all main video file codecs.
The pill comes with the native Android browser and renders all webpages properly. Adobe Flash is pre-installed permitting the browser to show Flash movies, banners and different parts.
The audio system ship common sound that distorts a bit at excessive quantity ranges. The output by the speaker grill was not very loud.
There isn’t any voice calling however the main omission is Bluetooth connectivity. We’re unsure why Lava needed to exclude it since most main Android units provide this performance, and customers would possibly use it for wi-fi file transfers or for connecting a wi-fi enter machine. Nevertheless, we see a variety of price range tablets as of late ship with out Bluetooth and we’re not satisfied it is a good development.
The pill comes with a three,700 mAh battery and we weren’t very proud of the backup that it supplied, specifically when enjoying multimedia information. We had been in a position to get round four hours of video playback, with the show at full brightness ranges. The standby time with push notifications and emails on was first rate, although. With intermediate utilization in the course of the day, we had been in a position to get a day of backup.
The Lava Etab Xtron+ is an above common pill for its worth. At a worth of Rs. 6,990, it affords package deal with first rate , compact kind issue and the newest model of Android Jelly Bean. It is attention-grabbing to take a look at should you’re searching for a tool for searching the Net or enjoying informal video games and are on a price range.
Nevertheless, the extremely reflective display and underwhelming battery backup are a few of the downside areas. You will not be capable to use the pill below daylight for studying, viewing content material or for even taking photos. Regardless of working Android four.2, the dearth of multi-user accounts is a disappointment as properly.
Although the Etab Xtron+ provides a rear digicam, it downgrades the entrance going through digicam in comparison with its predecessor. The rear digicam can also be nothing to speak dwelling about. So should you’re a pill with digicam efficiency, this one will not fulfil your urge for food.
competing units, the Acer Iconia B1-A71 can also be an attention-grabbing 7-inche pill, which additionally affords Bluetooth connectivity, however is inferior by way of construct high quality and prices extra. When you’re searching for a pill that additionally affords voice calling, the Micromax Funbook P360 is one other good choice accessible at a worth of Rs. 7,049. The Wickedleak Wammy Need and Need Tab 2 are different 7-inch tablets working Jelly Bean value contemplating.
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My body is still recovering from the sickness last week and my mind catching up after the holidays. The dating scene currently looks pretty dim, though I do have an Indian dude on Match who is totally trying to act cool. Like OMG I went to NY for NYE’s I am way cooler than you are. I am sure that is not what he is thinking, but in my mind I think he is thinking that. Because I don’t know what kind of a deal is this with guys to actually read the message but not reply back for a day. I mean do you really want to feel so important in life just by pretending to be busy? It is very hard to understand men but harder to understand Indian men I think.
When I initially started my cycle, in India they teach you to be so secretive about it. Like guys shouldn’t know that you are on your period or that buying sanitary napkins or things were considered a hush hush thing. You hide and walked from the drugstore like you were doing a walk of shame. Well after moving here it was nothing like that, you know more open and all. But last night, I had a flashback moment. I went to Walmart to pick up a box, there I see this Indian guy giving me this look. The look that I am not holding a box of tampons but a bomb that is about to diffuse itself. I so wanted to take the box and tell him YES I am PMSING and yes this is what you think it is, and haven’t you been taught not to mess with a woman when she is hormonal. But all that obviously just happened in my head. But seriously guys grow up some of you really need a reality check.
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Reebok tennis clothing are great, fun tennis wear from a great, manufacturer of sports apparel.
Reebok had been around for a long time and consistently produced top-notch sports clothing for all your sporting wear.
For your tennis wear, get your apparel here and enjoy Reebok tennis apparel as they come with comfortable design and manufactured with your comfort and convenience in mind.
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« Oak Knoll Fine Press Book Fair (2012) will be October 5 through 7! Come see the best in contemporary book design and production!
This entry was posted on Thursday, March 1st, 2012 at 11:21 am and is filed under Awards, Herzog Award. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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The data relating to real estate for sale on this web site comes in part from the Broker Reciprocity� program of the Multiple Listing Service of Greater Cincinnati. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than Huff Realty are marked with the Broker Reciprocity� logo and detailed information about them includes the name of the listing brokers. This data is up-to-date as of 4/21/2019 7:09 PM PST.
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It’s modern with a classical twist. Radio Music Society is a string-based music ensemble that specializes in playing modern pop music—anything that can be heard on the radio can be heard from our instruments. Our mission is to bring string music to the masses at the University of Virginia and the Charlottesville Area. String quartets have always been considered a niche or reserved only for classical music, but there’s so much more to it than the world of Shostakovich, Bach or Mozart. We love symphony music, but sometimes we just want to play something more modern. Radio Music Society began as a small string quartet in the Fall of 2011. The first four members practiced string arrangements of popular music Friday afternoons in the Humphrey’s basement common room mostly playing for themselves and the occasional audience of a few friends or the maintenance guy. They even performed a couple times at small gatherings and concerts. After receiving such positive praise from peers and other organizations, the goal turned to sharing this form of music with the University and the community.
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The Apple-GT Advanced Technologies (GTAT) relationship could have been a brilliant collaboration: for Apple, rumoured access to low cost ‘nearly unbreakable’ sapphire screens; and for GTAT, it could have been a ground breaking contract, propelling them into a leadership position in a market they previously did not operate in.
Unfortunately the relationship failure and resulting negative press is turning it into a lose-lose situation for both. The supplier has filed for bankruptcy, they have lost the opportunity to change the market, make the most of working with Apple, and not to mention the human impact with many GTAT jobs at risk. And Apple doesn’t get the innovation it hoped for, has had their supply chain disrupted and is the subject of negative press surrounding its contracting process, behaviours and possible role in the failure of their supplier.
Without knowing the contractual details and having never been involved with either organisation reading the press generated from the failed relationship, it does beg the question, how did they get to this place? Apple claims to have “bent over backwards” to support the supplier. And David Squiller, COO of GTAT has voiced his concerns on the alleged contractual negotiation techniques, including the possibility of being coerced into signing up to an agreement that ended up looking very different from the deal that was discussed when the companies started their engagement. The term “bait and switch” has been used to describe the tactics employed by Apple.
I suspect, like in any relationship, breakdown and blame lies with both parties. It is unlikely a company with less dominance in the market would have felt it could change the shape of a deal so radically. Likewise it is incumbent on any supplier to step back from a deal if they feel they are being coerced.
Like most of us, I like Apple’s products and I’m impressed by how they have changed the market. Because of this and almost by default, it means I like the company too. I can’t think of an organisation that has such devoted followers. Think of the hype and excitement that occurs every time new products are announced.
Apple has a leadership position in the market place and is a brand that suppliers will want to work with. With revenues last year of $170.9bn and cash reserves of $164.5bn, Apple has the ability to spend large, so if you are lucky enough to be an Apple supplier there is potentially a big prize in securing a large revenue stream and the kudos that goes with being associated with such a brand.
Most of us like exacting customers, they push us to raise our game, ensure our quality is top notch, and make sure we are thinking of things from different perspectives. Apple is famous for their exacting requirements and attention to detail. Rightly, they refuse to compromise in terms of quality and are demanding in all aspects of their requirements. It would be wrong to single Apple out in this regard but fastidiousness combined with brand dominance and spending power can create cultural and behavioural problems if not recognised and addressed. The pursuit of excellence is the right objective but surely this is better done and more likely to be achieved through teamwork and collaboration.
The concept of ‘customer of choice’ has been discussed for some time now and the benefits have been validated in our 2014 SRM report. It is evident from both buy and sell side feedback that suppliers give preferential treatment and benefits to customers they regard as their customers of choice.
This chart illustrates the type of benefits the buy side receives. You will note that a much higher proportion of companies with a more developed and mature approach to SRM (leaders) receive customer of choice benefits.
This pattern has developed over the six years we have been conducting this global research into supplier relationship management (SRM) and over this time we have identified three reasons why an organisation would be a customer of choice.
Suppliers would like to align to your brand or have your brand on their corporate CV.
in the same way. Therefore, the attractiveness of this attribute diminishes over time.
Suppliers can earn either good revenue or margin on your account.
Inadequate financial outcomes are a de-motivator, but when financial measures reach a desired level, they no longer drive customer of choice benefits to the same extent.
Suppliers find you easy to work with and there is mutual respect.
Ease of business, collaboration, trust and partnership are all behaviours that will drive sustained customer of choice benefits.
It could be that Apple, along with many other large and dominant companies, have not focused on the third element or not focused on it enough. Many companies struggle with the change in market dynamics that has led to customer of choice being more of an imperative. This seems to be particularly a challenge in larger companies where the old adage ‘the customer is always right’ is taken literally. I don’t think in most cases this is a conscious decision, but more a product of a culture that has propagated the ‘master and servant’ view of supplier relationships. This can only be addressed by strong leadership and behavioural change.
This is especially important when the balance of power is so skewed towards one party. The lesson other organisations can learn from this situation is that brand and spending power are not enough on their own. You need to put in place the third element that consists of people, process and technology to create the right culture and behaviours, and ensure you are working together with your suppliers to maximise the value for both parties.
To borrow from Voltaire, “with great (buying) power, comes great responsibility” and this is especially true in a supplier relationship context.
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Too Using sophisticated methods that scan the genomes of patients.
The Mayo researchers say their results suggest that too little expression of IDE may promote development of the disease, while increased expression seems to protect against the disorder. ‘It is an issue of the level of the normal gene, not really whether a gene can be in a mutant form that’s not acting properly,’ says Dr. Ertekin-Taner. ‘We believe that is a novel and possibly powerful method of understanding the complicated biology behind advancement of Alzheimer’s disease.’ Until these scholarly studies, scientists have searched for Alzheimer’s disease genes by seeking to see if individuals had different variations in genes from non-patients – variants that increased the chance for disease advancement.CEO Semi Korpela, Biohit Oyj: Automated systems conserve time and resources, get rid of human being errors, increase work basic safety and ensure high-quality outcomes. Vice President of Product sales & Advertising Duane Steele, Dynex: Dynex is normally delighted to cooperate with Biohit to include the GastroPanel to your set of validated assays for our systems, additional strengthening Dynex's placement as the global marketplace leader in completely automated ELISA processing for the clinical market. .
BioCryst receives $1.1 million in grants under QTDP program BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc. today announced that the business have been awarded $1.1 million in grants beneath the U.S.
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"Our purpose is to create learning partnerships that help adults and youth enhance their lives and communities."
Farm Economics - Covers a variety of topics including Crop Economics and Risk Management, Farm Management, and Livestock Economics.
Personal and Family Finance - A variety of personal finance-related topics from NDSU Extension.
‘Ed’s World’ - The world according to Ed Ussett, Grain Marketing Specialist for the CFFM.
"Through the College of Agricultural & Life Sciences partnership with U of W Extension, our faculty and staff participate in dozens of extension programs and services."
Integrated Pest and Crop Management - They work to bring research-based information regarding Wisconsin farm profits, water quality, pest management, pesticide use practices, and nutrient management planning to Wisconsin farmers and landowners.
Soil Science Extension Program - Multiple articles from U of W Soil Scientists.
UW Center for Agricultural Safety & Health - The Center works to meet the agricultural safety and health needs of the farming community.
Discovery Farms - Working with more than 40 farmers across Wisconsin on water quality monitoring and nitrogen use efficiency.
Environmental Resources Center - The UW Environmental Resources Center (ERC) works at the crossroads of communities, natural resources and agriculture.
Minding Ag’s Business – Covers a wide range of topics relating to running a successful farming operation.
Technically Speaking – Weekly updates on grain, livestock, and energy markets.
Ag Policy – Continually updated on all aspects of ag policy and government regulation.
Machinery Chatter -- Equipment best practices, maintenance, safety, and more.
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What exactly does it take to run your own cannabis business and where is the best spot to grow and sell cannabis?
By 2020, the market sales of legal marijuana are estimated to increase beyond $22 billion. And female entrepreneurs are making serious waves in this gold mine of an industry as they form their own success stories within the world of cannabis business. What does this mean for other aspiring female pot entrepreneurs? Plenty of opportunities to be a face in the industry, that’s what.
Where is the best place to grow?
What exactly does it take to run your own cannabis business and where is the best spot to grow and sell cannabis? Jazmin Hupp, co-founder of WomenGrow, a group of female entrepreneurs that work to educate and empower women in all parts of the cannabis industry, knows exactly what it takes to run the show.
In states like Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and Alaska, cannabis is legal for recreational use. Then you have states like New York and California, where weed is only legal for medical use. Basically, Hupp says you’re going to want to start where you have more flexibility. This is key for success in such a fast-moving industry that is constantly changing.
The competition is no joke, considering there are a limited number of licenses and it costs a fortune to actually start a business. “Women could have, potentially, been locked out of the New York market,” says Hupp.
The environment is small-business friendly, which female entrepreneurs find success in. Oregon is a state filled with thriving small businesses. According to the 2014 report from the U.S. Small Business Agency, In 2011, 97.6 percent of all employers in the state were small businesses.
This is the very first state to legalize cannabis for recreational use, coincidentally, Colorado is also going through a pot boom. Denver by itself has an estimated 600 cannabis-related businesses up and running. Hupp says that the market will eventually become full, which will leave less room for business opportunities in the future.
Washington was the second state to legalize cannabis. The state is also currently experiencing a pot boom, but it’s a medium to small-business friendly state, says Huff.
Where would you start your cannabis business? What do you think it takes to make a business successful? Let us know on social media or in the commentss below.
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Your 2010 Tournament Committee has put together an outstanding schedule for the upcoming season. The Member-Guest Tournament will be held on Saturday September 25th this year, and we hope to raise more money for junior golf and increase our scholarship donations. Last year we gave $2,500 in scholarships, but we need more member participation. I urge everyone to play in this event or at least help with raising more funds.
Finally anyone found posting an incorrect score or forgetting to post a score will be warned on the first offense. The second infraction will result in disqualification for one or more tournaments. Golf is a gentleman’s game. Our intent is to respect its integrity and enforce what 99% of us already do.
Over the last few years we made a slight change to the NO-SHOW policy which seemed to help. It allows the guilty party to avoid any suspension by paying a $40 fine for the first offense.
Challenge Cup qualification remains the same this year. Again it will be by Net Score, we will take the three club champions and the top 6 from each flight. There will be 3 Golf Committee Picks based on who is playing their best golf at the time leading up to the Challenge Cup. Also we will only go down the list of alternates to the 1st and 2nd alternate, and then the Golf Committee will fill the spots.
Again this year we will have the 70/70 rule. All members who are 70 years old as of April 1, 2010 will only pay $70 to join the club.
The Hole-In-One Pool is back! Last year there was no winner so the money carries over and for anyone who was in it last year there will be a $10 fee to reenter. If you were not in it, but would like to enter, the fee is $20.
ALL Tuesday night league money must be paid at our March 17th meeting date or mailed to Jeff Reismann only (use address above). This is the only way you are able to pay. Any questions, please contact Bill Brunton, Robert Handler or Robert Hurwitz.
This will be our only mailing this year. An updated roster and all pertinent information (see attachments) will be available on our NEW WEBSITE (SPOOKROCK.NET) as well as in the locker room. Please notify Dave Singleton or Marc Niederhoffer of any incorrect information on attached roster.
I hope to see you all on March 17th.
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PKODE5 is a premier global E-Sports video gaming tournament. Held annually, thousands of gamers compete in events in over 16 countries to earn the right to represent their region in the global finals. Part festival, all tournament, KODE5 provides gamers and E-Sports fans alike an unforgettable game experience.
Shaky Egg, in partnership with KODE5 Media built and executed the North American FINAL FOUR tournament hosted at the G4 Television studios in Los Angeles. Over 2,000 gamers from across the U.S. competed in the online tournament.
Shaky Egg also packaged the entire KODE5 program into a series of Global, Regional, North American and Brand specific sponsorship sales decks and collateral materials. Working with the Hong Kong based team, Stafford created in-depth tiered sponsorship packages, secured media partners, created the valuation matrix and produced the television coverage for both the North American Regional and the Global Finals, in Beijing.
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It was a good week for Hillary Clinton. Not only does the Democratic nominee lead Donald Trump by 8 points, a deeper dive into the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Tracking Poll shows that Clinton received a bounce across the entire country — making gains in every census region.
Winning the presidency requires securing Electoral College votes across a geographic range of states, so it is important to understand candidate support across different regions in the country. Below is a break out of our Tracking Poll results by Census region.
Voters in the Northeast have traditionally voted for the Democratic candidate and, unsurprisingly, Clinton is doing very well in that region. She is up 2 points among Northeast voters (51 percent last week to 53 percent this week), and her advantage over Trump went up from 11 points last week to 14 points this week among voters in that region. Trump’s support among Northeast voters is relatively unchanged, 39 percent this week from 40 percent last week.
In the Midwest, where states like Wisconsin and Ohio are typically battleground states in a presidential election, there was some movement. Last week, Trump was leading among Midwestern voters, 47 percent to 43 percent. This week, however, Clinton is in the lead, 47 percent to 44 percent. The 7-point swing in Clinton’s favor could be a direct result of the Democratic National Convention last week. Trump has fallen 3 points among Midwestern voters this week at 44 percent, down from 47 percent last week.
This week Western voters have also leaned heavier in Clinton’s favor; she has 56 percent support from that group, up from 52 percent last week. Clinton went from a 13-point lead over Trump last week to a 21-point lead over him. Trump is down 4 points from last week among voters in the West, 35 percent from 39 percent.
Perhaps the biggest surprise in the results can be found in the South, which is typically a Republican stronghold in a presidential election. While Trump won this region both weeks, his lead dropped significantly this week compared to last week. He was up 10 points –51 percent to 41 percent—among Southern voters last week. This week he is up 2 points among the group—48 percent to 46 percent. Clinton’s support among Southern voters is up 4 points from last week—41 percent to 46 percent.
The NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll was conducted online July 25 through July 31, 2016 among a national sample of 12,742 adults who say they are registered to vote. Respondents for this non-probability survey were selected from the nearly three million people who take surveys on the SurveyMonkey platform each day. Results have an error estimate of plus or minus 1.2 percentage points. For full results and methodology, click here.
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AddressThe address for this sale in Phoenix, NY 13135 will no longer be shown since it has already ended.
Terms on Personal Property: Full payment due day of auction by Cash, Visa, MasterCard, Discover & Debit Cards. Checks w/Bank Letter of Guarantee. Ten percent buyer’s premium. All items sold in "AS IS" condition. Subject to errors and omissions. Refreshments available. Driver’s license required for bidding number. All statements made day of auction take precedence over printed material.
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Farmers and other agriculture businesses can access a variety of assistance programs through the new Northwest Michigan Regional Agriculture Business Services Partnership. The partnership brings together the services of an agriculture innovation counselor, an agriculture business counselor, and the Northwest Michigan Agriculture and Food System Sector Alliance.
"The Regional Agriculture Business Partnership will give farmers and agriculture business owners easy access to information and resources they can use to improve their business, develop new products, or start a new business," said Elaine Wood, CEO, Northwest Michigan Council of Governments (NWMCOG).
The Regional Agriculture Business Partnership was formed by the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments (NWMCOG), Michigan State University Extension, the MSU Product Center, and the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center (MI-SBTDC). The Northern Lakes Economic Alliance (NLEA) has also been instrumental in providing leadership to form this partnership. Funding for the partnership is being provided by the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and MSU Extension.
"This partnership continues MSU Extension's proud history of supporting Michigan's agriculture industry by helping entrepreneurs develop and commercialize high-value products in the agriculture, natural resources and bio-economy sectors," said Patrick Cudney, MSU Extension District Coordinator.
The partnership will offer assistance in a variety of ways including product development, marketing, business plans, financing, education and training, and farm production and distribution.
Agriculture businesses can also request assistance by going to the Northwest Michigan Agriculture and Food System Sector Alliance website at: nwm.org/food-system .
The Northwest Michigan Regional Agriculture Business Services Partnership offers a variety of assistance to farmers and other agriculture businesses. The Partnership was formed by the Northwest Michigan Council of Governments, Michigan State University Extension, the MSU Product Center and the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center. Watch the video to see highlights from a press conference where the partnership was announced.
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To help you find the best server monitoring tools, IT Central Station ranked them based on hundreds of real user reviews, from our esteemed community of enterprise technology professionals. You'll find comparisons of pricing, performance, features, stability and many other criteria. Read below to find out what your peers have to say about server monitoring solutions such as CA Unified Infrastructure Management, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SevOne and others.
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David O. Russell with a cast this good, American Hustle's gotta be EPIC right?
Well, this looks like a best picture!
By now we know that David O. Russell has the formula to win a Best Picture, but as American Hustle shows sometimes taking a risk may be a little more entertaining than more of the same old artsy expressionism. While American Hustle is a very well done film: well acted, well written, and well directed, it just is not that entertaining. The film suffers from an incredible amount of meandering, and not the entertaining kind. Often the meandering in this film just seems to be there in order to let the talented cast flaunt their academy muscles rather than furthering along the story. A story that, according to the film, some of which actually happened (Editor's note: the film is loosely based on the ABSCAM sting operation of the late 70's and early 80's). All of this combines for a type of incompleteness we just have not seen from O. Russell.
which they will never use.
The incompleteness of American Hustle makes for some very interesting episodic period piece moments that just never come together to provide a true message or provide any real meaningful commentary. I guess we were supposed to be impressed that Bale and Adams were good hustlers at the end of the film, although this was set up by an incredibly long voice over sequence within the first ten minutes of the film. All of this made for what felt like it was supposed to be a big reveal Usual Suspects type ending that just fell flat.
At this point Christian Bale is truly a Hollywood Heavyweight!
American Hustle proves that being formulaic, even with a great cast, does not result in a great film. After leaving the theater post American Hustle I felt like I watched a film that was simply made to make a run at "Best Picture", rather than a film that was rooted in the passion of storytelling and the subject matter of the political corruption of the 1970's. Ultimately, the only true hustling in this film came in the form of David O. Russell trying to hustle the Academy into a "Best Picture" win.
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pieces of apples doused in strawberry keffir topped with orange marmalade.
Oh, is it something baked ? I am sure u would have something intersting to Big Sis S in that lovely cake liner :) The plate looks very cute!
I don't think I've ever eaten Nutella. Heck, I haven't even eaten too many apples in the recent past as all are imports and I have my own doubts about their eat-worthiness. I eat only when Indian apples are in season, which is now.
Kids eat Nutella with pancake, bread or anything they can slather it on. I like to eat my plain on a spoon like a lollipop.
Straight from the jar! Nutella tastes great on anything but personally, I like them on crepes. I love eating apple with Almond butter.
God, this is so mystic Sandeepa. I was planning to write about the way I like Nutella for the last couple of days.
Just did and linked your post there.
How do I like it? Neat.
mishti mishti khabarer khub mishti chobi Sandeepa!
Did u frost or stuff the cupcake with nutella? I love nutella in baguette! But none in my house ask a share!
It is nutella cupcake? or fudge or laddoos.. can't wait!
I love nutella with bread, ice cream and gelatin haha It's delicious.
And know... I want nutella, see ya, I'm gonna buy.
It's a tasty recipe to try not just with apple but other fruits as well.
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Hourn & Bishop QLD Pty Ltd has been established since 2000. In that time, we have gained a reputable name in selling rural properties and livestock for the people of Moura and surrounding districts and are now expanding our business into residential house and land sales.
We are committed to providing a totally professional real estate and livestock service to our clients based on sound business practice, efficient and effective service and a thorough knowledge of the Moura and surrounding district real estate and livestock markets.
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Above: (From top left) 1970's Moog Minimoog synthesizer (electronics fully restored by the late, great "Synth Fool" Kevin Lightner in 2006 - wood cabinet restored by Wes Taggart of Analogics); 1981 Korg Poly Six Synthesizer (with MIDI retrofit); 1991 Ensoniq VFX SD Synth/Workstation; 1977 Rhodes Suitcase 73 Electric Piano (fully restored by Mark Jamieson of Keyboard Projects - Ravenna, Ohio) played thru Speakeasy Dyno Pre Amp. To the right: 1957 Hammond B3 Organ. Everything except the B3 is routed thru a Mackie LM3204 Mixer; Lexicon MPX 100 Processor; Samson Power Amp; and Tannoy PBM 6.5 Reference Monitors. The B3 is played thru a Leslie 122 rotary tone cabinet (not pictured).
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Mobile apps require maintenance in the form of updates to keep them useful and relevant. You invested the money and time in building and launching your mobile application, and now you have to begin evaluating how it’s doing. Today, there are numerous well-known and successful mobile applications that frequently update their apps on a weekly basis. Whereas, some other apps are updated as much.
Exclusive App Features: Including state-of-the-art features into your apps make them more personal, aesthetically pleasing, and intuitive. When you decide to add significant new features to the existing ones, it impacts the overall user-experience of your app.
New App Design: App design is a constantly evolving field that plays a vital role in the mobile app development process. You may utilize the idea of releasing a fresh and unique design that tackles problems with significant features, innovative technology, or navigation. If you think the design of your application is lagging behind, whether it is the visual layout, navigation, or customer experience, an update can be easily used to overcome this hurdle.
Under performing App Metrics: In order to survive the digital competition, it’s important to understand, analyze, and track the key metrics of your mobile app. You can also use frequent updates to keep your app’s features and content fresh, thus giving users even more of an incentive to return to your app. Consistent application updates can help you to stay competitive as each new update is a chance to re-engage existing users and pull in new clients.
Consistent App User Feedback: How are you gathering and supporting user feedback in your application?
Feedback is at the heart of business development. Especially the negative one. Beyond any doubt, it stings a little bit at first; however, there are always golden nuggets buried in a negative review. Audience demand and feedback are one of the foremost reasons to release the updates for apps. Prepare 2-3 updates for applications in advance and prospect audience demand. The frequency of patches could also be based on users’ feedback and app performance statistics.
App Codebase is Aging: Do you know your app can malfunction when its codebase is outdated? Not only the performance of your app can take a hit but it also drains revenue and exposes your app to security breaches. With technology changing ever so quickly, an old codebase can be a major driver for updating your app. Just make sure that you update the codebase with utmost devotion, responsibility, and precision.
Expand the App to Other Devices or Platforms: You have an incredible idea, hired designers and developers, and developed your mobile app. However, you are only halfway through. The next step is to market your mobile app correctly by building your app’s online presence and expanding your application to other devices or platforms such as tablets, desktops, or laptops. Otherwise, it stands at the risk of getting lost among the numerous amounts of applications available for your potential users. An update is usually necessary when your application goes cross-wise over gadgets on similar platforms or when it moves to a new platform. This could incorporate making a tablet-specific version or adding compatibility for Android in addition to iOS or vice versa.
An update opens the window of opportunity for your app to shine. You can also go for customization if you want to upgrade any part of your application or deliver a rich user experience, but make sure that you consult a team of veteran app developers, with an extensive expertise in all forays of app development.
We are the leading mobile app development company in Carlsbad. Whether it’s an app that you want to update, customize, campaign, or use to boost your business’s productivity, you can rely on us for your each and every need, every time.
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Making Grandma’s Kitchen is certainly one way to get a food fix, but quilters also use food terms to describe their craft. These days the shelves of quilt shops are stacked with Layer Cakes, Jelly Rolls, Snack Packs, Candy Squares and Honey Buns — just a few of the delicious names of pre-cut fabric squares and strips that make assembling a keepsake quilt faster and easier.
Designers at the fabric companies select complementary colors for each bundle, which is less expensive than buying yards of cloth and stressing over a multitude of pattern choices.
Gone are the days when quilters sat in a circle and pieced by hand. Today’s quilters still gather for camaraderie, but now they meet in busy rooms strung with power cords, the hum of sewing machines a constant background noise.
And again, food plays a part. At the center of these gatherings there’s always a snack table laden with breads, cookies, cupcakes, coffee cake, a lemon pie and snacks galore, many of which are homemade.
When Quilting Bits & Pieces sponsors a quilt camp and late-into-the-night quilting sessions, everyone brings snacks and sets up a tempting buffet, and Lang, a skilled quilter who is also recognized as a good cook, shares both sweet and savory snacks.
“Food is associated with everything we do,” agrees Judy Brennan, leader of Stitch ’n Tyme, a quilting group affiliated with the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection in Leawood, which sponsors several off-site retreats that run nearly continuously for two to three days.
Stitch ’n Tyme recently met in Parkville for a retreat. Group members also meet quarterly at a potluck to celebrate their artistic creations, their ministry and their friendship. Their upscale potlucks include linens, china and dishes — outward signs of how important these gatherings are for the members.
One of the pastors of their church joins them for the meal and leads the prayer that blesses the quilts and their recipients. When pressed about a favorite dish at the potluck, members unanimously praise Diane Tolin and her lasagna, a recipe that is prepared in a slow cooker.
Tolin first made the recipe when she was traveling by RV because it was easy to make and transport. It serves large numbers of people and can be made ahead of an event, so she began taking it to quilting potlucks.
The group started in 2009 when Tolin moved to Kansas City. She began with a Quilting 101 class and followed it with a mother/daughter summer program. Now there are 36 members. Anyone is welcome to join, whether skilled quilters, novices who want to learn or those who just long for fellowship. The women range in age from their 30s to 80s — there’s even a teen who joins in on school breaks.
Their finished charity quilts — they make about 80 each year — are given to the Congregational Care Ministers, who distribute them to anyone in need: the ill, hospitalized, home-bound or those in hospice care. Recipients do not need to be a church member to receive a quilt.
When a fellow member is facing a difficult or challenging time, each member makes a quilt block that they piece into a quilt. That quilt is wrapped around a fellow member, surrounding them in love and support during times of need.
So the next time you hear a quilter raving about a Layer Cake or Jelly Roll, don’t forget to ask if she is creating a beautiful and timeless quilt or a delicious recipe — or both.
Kathy Moore and Roxanne Wyss are Kansas City-based professional home economists and the authors of several cookbooks featuring small appliances, including the slow cooker. After working on this story, Roxanne decided to get back quilting and joined Stitch ’n Tyme.
This recipe can be assembled in a removable crock the day before. Cover and refrigerate overnight; cook as directed, but increase cooking time by 1 to 2 hours on low.
Cook ground meat and onion in a large skillet, over medium high heat, stirring to crumble, until meat is brown and onions are tender. Drain. Stir in spaghetti sauce and season meat with salt and pepper and Italian seasoning, to taste. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, stir together soup, mozzarella cheese and cottage cheese.
Spray a large slow cooker with nonstick cooking spray. Spoon about a fourth of the meat-sauce mixture in the bottom of the slow cooker. Top with about a third of the lasagna noodles, breaking to fit, if necessary. Top evenly with about a third of the cheese mixture. Repeat layer two more times. Top with the remaining meat-sauce mixture, spreading to cover the top evenly.
Cover and cook on low setting 5 to 7 hours or on high setting 2 1/2 to 3 hours, or until hot and bubbly throughout. Turn off and allow to stand 15 to 20 minutes before serving.
Per serving, based on 8: 978 calories (56 percent from fat), 61 grams total fat (24 grams saturated), 142 milligrams cholesterol, 63 grams carbohydrates, 45 grams protein, 2,296 milligrams sodium, 6 grams dietary fiber.
Vegetables for dipping, including celery sticks, radishes, cauliflower florets, broccoli florets, cucumber slices or others as desired.
Mix together sour cream, mayonnaise and seasonings. Blend well. Cover and refrigerate several hours to allow flavors to blend. Serve with vegetables.
Per 1-tablespoon serving: 77 calories (95 percent from fat), 8 grams total fat (2 grams saturated), 7 milligrams cholesterol, 1 gram carbohydrate, trace protein, 111 milligrams sodium, trace dietary fiber.
Butter a 9-by-13-inch pan, or spray pan with nonstick cooking spray.
Combine sugar and syrup or honey in a large microwave-safe glass bowl. Microwave on high (full power) 60 seconds. Stir well and continue to microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring after each, until mixture is hot and sugar has dissolved. Stir in peanut butter and vanilla. Stir until peanut butter has melted and mixture is smooth. Stir in cereal, stirring until all of the flakes are evenly coated. Pour into prepared pan and press to cover pan evenly.
In a medium microwave-safe glass bowl melt chocolate chips and butterscotch chips on high (full power) in 30 second intervals, stirring after each, until melted and smooth. Spread chocolate over cereal layer. Chill 2 to 3 hours or ready to serve. Cut into bars. Store extra bars in a covered container in the refrigerator.
Per serving: 213 calories (31 percent from fat), 8 grams total fat (2 grams saturated), trace cholesterol, 36 grams carbohydrates, 4 grams protein, 128 milligrams sodium, 1 gram dietary fiber.
The longer the cookies are baked the crunchier they will be. If you prefer a chewier bar cookie, bake for about 25 minutes.
Position the oven rack in the middle of the oven. Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Spray a 10-by-15-inch jelly roll pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a large mixing bowl, stir together oats, coconut, flour, sugar, salt and cinnamon.
In a small microwave-safe glass bowl, combine butter and syrup. Microwave on high (full power) 60 to 90 seconds or until butter has melted and syrup is bubbly. Set aside to cool 5 minutes.
Remove from the oven and place on a cooling rack for 10 to 12 minutes. Cut, using a sharp, serrated knife, into 1 1/2 -inch squares while bars are still warm. Allow to cool completely before removing them from the pan.
Per bar: 101 calories (42 percent from fat), 5 grams total fat (3 grams saturated), 8 milligrams cholesterol, 13 grams carbohydrates, 1 gram protein, 101 milligrams sodium, 1 gram dietary fiber.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a 10-inch Bundt or tube pan with nonstick cooking spray.
Cut each biscuit in half. Flatten the biscuit to form a 3 to 4-inch circle. Spoon about 1 tablespoon chocolate chips into the center of the biscuit circle. Place 1 cream cheese cube over the chips. Fold the biscuit dough around the chips and cream cheese, then form into a ball, sealing the chocolate and cream cheese tightly inside the ball. Set aside.
Combine the granulated sugar and cinnamon in a zip-top plastic bag. Seal and shake to combine. Add 6 to 8 dough balls to the bag; seal and shake to coat evenly. Remove the coated dough balls from the bag and set aside. Repeat with the remaining dough balls.
In a small microwave-safe glass bowl, combine the butter and brown sugar. Microwave on high (full power) 30 seconds. Stir well. Continue to microwave 30 to 40 seconds or until it is hot, bubbly and the consistency of caramel.
Sprinkle half of the walnuts in the prepared pan. Top with half of the dough balls. Drizzle with half of the caramel glaze. Repeat with the remaining walnuts, dough and glaze.
Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from the oven. Immediately, using caution, invert onto a deep, large platter. Let the hot pan sit on the monkey bread for 10 minutes, then carefully remove the pan. Serve warm.
Per serving, based on 10: 728 calories (48 percent from fat), 40 grams total fat (18 grams saturated), 50 milligrams cholesterol, 87 grams carbohydrates, 40 grams protein, 1,069 milligrams sodium, 2 grams dietary fiber.
The USDA does not recommend eating raw or undercooked eggs. If desired, substitute pasteurized eggs for the eggs in this recipe.
Lightly butter a 9-inch pie plate.
In a small bowl, stir together graham cracker crumbs and melted butter. Pour into the pie plate and press to cover the bottom and sides evenly. Place the crust in the refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours to set.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk together the sweetened condensed milk and lemon juice. Whisk in the egg yolks, whisking until the mixture is smooth. Pour filling into the crust.
In a medium mixing bowl, beat the egg whites until soft peaks form. Gradually beat in the sugar. Continue beating until the egg whites form stiff peaks. Pipe or spoon the meringue onto the filling. Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until the meringue is lightly browned.
Cool pie, then refrigerate several hours or overnight before serving. Store in the refrigerator.
Per serving: 361 calories (46 percent from fat), 19 grams total fat (11 grams saturated), 127 milligrams cholesterol, 43 grams carbohydrates, 7 grams protein, 270 milligrams sodium, trace dietary fiber.
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Hi i want to know the size of my motherboard ive been searching alot but i didnt find it. I want to upgrade to an ASrock Z77 Pro3,Z77 Width 30.5Cm Depth 19.3CM My pc �... 28/11/2018�� A motherboard also comes in one of a few standard footprints or sizes. This can impact the type of system case in which the board fits. Many motherboard manufacturers also recommend particular This can impact the type of system case in which the board fits.
Motherboard type/chipset, controllers, bus clock speed, and BIOS. Installed memory including what size of chips and what bank they're installed into on the motherboard. Drives including hard drive manufacturer, size, SMART status, network drives, and other disc/diskette drives.... Hate to post a link to Wikipedia, but this page has all the maximum size dimensions of a remarkable number of motherboard sizes and form factors. Probably a good place to start when measuring. Probably a good place to start when measuring.
Motherboard type/chipset, controllers, bus clock speed, and BIOS. Installed memory including what size of chips and what bank they're installed into on the motherboard. Drives including hard drive manufacturer, size, SMART status, network drives, and other disc/diskette drives.
28/11/2018�� A motherboard also comes in one of a few standard footprints or sizes. This can impact the type of system case in which the board fits. Many motherboard manufacturers also recommend particular This can impact the type of system case in which the board fits.
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On November 5th, the United States put into effect the harshest round of sanctions on Iran to date, scaling back Tehran’s ability to do business with foreign entities significantly.
As a result of these sanctions, and mounting pressure from the U.S., Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), the international payments facilitator, has cut off services to the country’s Central Bank. Though SWIFT is a Belgium-based company, some of its biggest clients are in the United States, making it exceedingly difficult not to take American threats seriously.
The sanctions, which were part two of the U.S. campaign stemming from the withdrawal from Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), have been met with criticism from other world powers.
China and Russia, for their part, have stated that they will continue to do business with Tehran, buying and selling goods in euros instead of dollars.
European countries, however, are largely reliant on SWIFT, and without it, lack a sustainable means to make or receive payments from Iran.
Leading up to the latest round of sanctions, however, both the European Union and Iran had proposed two wildly different solutions to this conundrum.
Though little progress has been made towards a SWIFT alternative, it’s clear that the European Union is getting fed up with U.S. overreach in the geopolitical space and getting more aggressive in its plans to move away from the U.S. dollar and U.S. controlled payment instruments.
Germany is also facing off against the U.S. over Russian plans to build a new natural gas pipeline, which the U.S. has repeatedly threatened to sanction, suggesting instead that the EU purchase more expensive LNG from American sources.
On the other side of the table, Iran is scrambling for its own solutions.
Despite its harsh stance against bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the past, Tehran has announced that it will be moving forward with plans to create its own state-sponsored cryptocurrency, much like Venezuela’s el petro.
The Informatics Services Corporation (ISC) has already developed the country’s new rial-backed currency, however hurdles still remain.
Due to the complexity of the endeavor, the still-unnamed digital rial requires the approval from the country’s Central Bank.
The value of the Iranian rial has already plummeted, along with its crude oil production, leaving both the citizens of the country and buyers of Iranian crude caught between a rock and a hard place.
The need for a solution is palpable and it’s becoming increasingly clear that the U.S. is unwilling to back down from its sanctions ploy.
While the EU scrambles to figure out its own solutions on the matter, Iran is rushing to complete and approve its state-sponsored cryptocurrency, which still requires a willingness from other parties to accept.
Iran risks running into the same problems as Venezuela’s el petro in this regard. President Maduro’s coin has yet to have any real impact on global trade, and due to its numerous failures, is unlikely to ever truly take root.
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The Sharks beat the Coyotes, 3-2, in overtime at home on Saturday. They had allowed six goals in each of their four prior games, all coming before the All-Star break. Since December 8, San Jose is 15-0-2 when allowing four or fewer goals.
Brent Burns had an assist and scored the overtime winner against the Coyotes, his 10th goal of the season. He's reached double-digit goals in each of the last six seasons, tied with Mark Giordano for the longest active streak by a defenseman.
Winnipeg got a 5-3 win when these teams met in San Jose on December 20, its third consecutive win over the Sharks. San Jose is 5-2-1 in Winnipeg since the Jets moved there prior to the 2011-12 season.
The Jets beat the Ducks, 9-3, at home on Saturday, tying a franchise record for goals (9-0 vs. Carolina on November 12, 2005, 9-8 vs. Philadelphia on October 27, 2011). Their six first-period goals were their most ever in any period.
Jack Roslovic recorded his first career hat trick in the win over Anaheim, and has five goals and an assist in his last four games. That earned him the NHL's First Star of the Week, announced on Monday.
This game will pit two of the top offenses in the league against each other -- the Sharks' 3.58 goals per game rank third in the NHL, while the Jets are at 3.52, fifth in the league.
When looking for a heated rivalry, the Winnipeg Jets and San Jose Sharks may not leap out at first as one that would provide a can't-miss clash.
But the antagonism between the two clubs is definitely building, which is a very good thing since a Jets-Sharks Western Conference Finals playoff meeting is a very real possibility.
The clubs will reacquaint Tuesday night in Winnipeg, and there are a couple of juicy and heated storylines beyond the possible playoff matchup.
For starters, this is the first time the Sharks have visited Winnipeg since the famous video came out in which Justin Braun, Tomas Hertl and Tim Heed called the Manitoba city "cold" and "dark" and questioned the city's technological abilities because of the Wi-Fi at the hotel. So, it's a good bet those players will hear some catcalls from the always vocal Jets fans.
"They're lucky that I'm on the team," Evander Kane told the San Jose Mercury News. "Everyone is going to be focused on me instead."
Kane may have been traded away from the Jets to the Buffalo Sabres nearly four years ago, but he remains one of Winnipeg's great villains, and naturally expects to hear it from the crowd in his first visit as a member of the Sharks. That said, he admits being hated by the crowd can boost his play.
"I don't know too many guys who don't get motivated by getting booed," Kane said. "It's something you enjoy when it does happen."
Those extra-curricular elements just add to what has the makings for a top tilt. The Sharks, who sit second in the Pacific Division, have won nine of their last 12 games, and two straight outings, the latest a 3-2 overtime victory over the Arizona Coyotes on Saturday.
On the other side, the Jets, currently atop the Central Division standings, are riding a three-game winning streak and have won seven of nine outings. They're coming off 9-3 thrashing of the Anaheim Ducks on Saturday in which they scored six times in the first period and Jack Roslovic recorded his first career hat trick with three power-play goals.
"It felt good. I'm not a big goal scorer," Roslovic said. "I haven't had a hat trick in a while. To get one in the NHL, it's pretty nice."
For his efforts, Roslovic on Monday was named the NHL's first star of the week.
The Jets may also receive a big boost for the game in the likes of defenseman Dustin Byfuglien being back in the fold. Byfuglien, who has missed 14 games due to an ankle injury suffered on Dec. 29, practiced fully on Monday. He's still deemed as being day-to-day.
"He's good. He's felt good for a week now," Winnipeg head coach Paul Maurice said. "(Monday's practice) will be a good indicator of where he is at. We'll go full on and make a decision on how he comes back (on Tuesday)."
Unfortunately for the Sharks, defenseman Erik Karlsson is expected to miss a fifth consecutive game due to a lower-body injury.
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Digital clock use 4 digits to express time, each digit is described by 3*3 characters (including”|”,”_”and” “).now given the current time, please tell us how can it be expressed by the digital clock.
Each case contains 4 integers in a line, separated by space.
For each test case, output the time expressed by the digital clock such as Sample Output.
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We are one week into General Conference. And in this timely season of Pentecost we gather to celebrate and advance our ministry, speaking one faith in many languages with sisters and brothers from around the world.
During the first week of General Conference, the delegates were divided among legislative committees, which considered each petition and resolution submitted to the General Conference. The work of our last legislative committee concluded Saturday night at 9:30 PM. Sunday was a day of Sabbath.
Petitions that were approved by a majority with 10 or fewer votes cast against them in committees are placed on the General Conference consent calendar. Each delegate is required to check the consent calendar prior to voting. Petitions can be taken off the consent calendar for discussion if 20 or more delegates elect to do so.
One of the petitions supported by the General Conference on Saturday was to implement and affirm a full communion relationship with the Moravian church. This affirmation is good news for the church and for our ecumenical relationships that unite us in ministry and worship.
Worship has been central to our days here, ushering us into the start of each morning. During the lunch- break period, a Communion service is offered. On Thursday at noon, our bishop, Peggy Johnson, presided at the Communion table, signing the words of institution.
Our days end with worship in our committees, offering a reminder of why we have come to this place. On Pentecost Sunday, I attended First UMC of Portland where six youth were confirmed. Worship reminds us who we are called to be as disciples of Jesus Christ. We are the ones who are called to make disciples for the transformation of the world.
Our delegation gathers prior to each morning’s plenary session to greet and debrief with one another. We have been blessed to work side-by-side with each other, and we pray for each other daily.
Many petitions will be coming to the floor for debates and voting this week. I invite you to live-stream the General Conference and watch the legislative work of the church being done. I also ask for your prayers, not only for our delegation, but for all of our brothers and sisters in this global denomination.
On the day of Pentecost, the disciples went from hiding in fear to openly, bravely proclaiming the Gospel. On the day of Pentecost, those who didn’t understand each other suddenly found understanding. Come, Holy Spirit, come. Renew us; refresh us; resurrect us, that we may be the people you have called us to be.
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New to DCWS is RJ Bagger, a female Hip-Hop artist originally from Panama, who was raised in and represents Flatbush, Brooklyn. She just dropped her debut album entitled “Servings”, which showcases a wide range in her versatility and diversity with beats that range from melodic to trap, old school Hip-Hop and all things in between.
Raised in a Hip-Hop sneakerhead, bilingual Caribbean/Latin household, RJ Bagger incorporates all aspects in her music. Get a good taste of RJ Bagger’s life right now by streaming her newly released banger “Servings” right now, and be sure to connect with her on Twitter and IG. Also, stay tuned in to DCWS because we’ll be dropping our exclusive interview with RJ Bagger and our in-depth review of the album very soon.
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Actor Rajkummar Rao says that wearing prosthetic make up everyday took six hours and required lot of patience.
Actor Rajkummar Rao plays a 324-year-old man in Dinesh Vijan’s Raabta and his look created a flutter the day it was revealed. Talking about his look, Rajkummar tells us that wearing prosthetic make up every day on the sets took hours and he had to be quite tolerant. “It used to take me six hours every day. It required patience. A special team from Los Angeles was brought in that worked with a team from India for this job,” says Rajkummar.
The actor says that after make up, he could not believe he was looking at himself in the mirror. “I couldn’t recognise myself! But then there was the responsibility of padding up such an amazing look with my performance, which I loved exploring on set,” says the actor, who has a cameo in the film that stars Sushant Singh Rajput and Kriti Sanon in the lead.
Although Rajkummar has had his share of unconventional roles in films such as Shahid (2013) and Aligarh (2016), he was excited to take on this role as he knew it was one of a kind. “I wasn’t nervous. Dinoo (Dinesh Vijan) is a friend and when he told me about this special appearance and how he is imagining it, I was excited. It was a great opportunity for me to do something like this. This happens very rarely in an actor’s career,” says Rajkummar.
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Guests of Višnjica on the north of Croatia can, beside visiting the fallow-deer breeding site and the stud farm, enjoy riding beautiful Arabian horses or spend a day walking, jogging or riding a bike through the nature. To bring the entire estate to its purpose we need capital investments.
» University of Zagreb Medical School announces enrollment in its 2007/2008 MD Program in English!
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Milan, the second-largest city in Italy and the capital of Lombardy.
What is the fastest way to get from Linate airport to Bergamo centre? A quick Google search showed me GoOpti transfer company but I have never heard about them. Would anybody recommend them?
Are there automatic boarding pass gates at Malpensa airport's Terminal 1?
Where to buy a TIM simcard in Malpensa airport?
Should I expect the majority of the shops to be open or closed on Monday 28th December in Milano?
How long will Milan un-used metro tickets last before expiring?
I have several unused Milan metro single ticket after I visited Expo in June. When will the metro ticket expired? I decided to use in next summer with my family.
How can I get from Ventimiglia to Antibes at night?
I am driving from Zurich to Venice. What kind of kind of driving conditions can I expect in mid December, especially through the mountains? Are the roads well maintained?
Which is the best city to stay around Milan for trips to different cities around?
Are many sites, businesses, and transportation services closed during New Years Day in Milan?
When is the Chiesa di San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore open?
How much does the cheapest train from Milan to Monaco (Ventimiglia) cost?
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In 2015 the musical, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown opened at the London's Playhouse Theatre. The play is based on Almodovar's Oscar-nominated 1988 black comedy.
This was the official website for the London show.
Content is from the site's 2015 archived pages as well as other outside sources.
Trailer for the musical adaptation of Pedro Almodovar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown starring Tamsin Greig, playing at the Playhouse Theatre in 2015.
Visibility of Women in Theatre, Film, and Television.
Ahead of the West End musical premiere of Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, this event will engage a high profile panel of leaders in theatre, film, and television who also happen to be women. Chaired by Geoff Colman and featuring theatre and television star Haydn Gwynne and Rosemary Squire OBE, plus others to be announced.
Institute of Contemporary Arts on Thursday 20 November at 7pm.
Parliament Week (14-20 November) is a programme of events and activities that connects people with parliamentary democracy in the UK. Over 300 external partners from across the country host events and online activities designed to spark thought and discussion about politics and democracy, and to look at how Parliament affects people's lives. This year Parliament Week is launching Do Democracy, a campaign to find out the issues that young people really care about and to share them with Parliament. For more information visit www.parliamentweek.org or follow @parliament_week on twitter.
Starring Olivier Award-winning actress Tamsin Greig (Episodes, Green Wing, Jumpy, God of Carnage), the smart new musical comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown also stars Haydn Gwynne (The Audience, Billy Elliot), Jérôme Pradon (Les Miserables, Pacific Overtures), and Anna Skellern (BBC’s The Interceptor, Lip Service). Powered by a live band onstage, music by David Yazbek and a laugh-out-loud book by Jeffrey Lane (writers of the current West End hit musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), the colour and chaos of Pepa’s Madrid will light up London this winter.
On the streets of Madrid, a city pulsing with art, industry, and passion, Pepa’s world is unravelling. Her lover leaves her. And then she meets his wife. And his son. And his new girlfriend. Meanwhile, Pepa’s best friend is tangled up in her own romantic crisis with a suspected criminal, leaving Pepa with only the taxi driver to help navigate the Gran Vía ahead.
Directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The King and I), this hilarious and heartfelt musical based on Pedro Almodóvar’s award-winning trailblazing film celebrates women centre stage at the Playhouse from December.
Starring Olivier Award-winning actress Tamsin Greig (Episodes, Green Wing, Jumpy, God of Carnage), this smart new musical comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown also stars Haydn Gwynne (The Audience, Billy Elliot), Jérôme Pradon (Les Miserables, Pacific Overtures), and Anna Skellern (BBC’s The Interceptor, Lip Service). Powered by a live band on stage, music by David Yazbek and a laugh-out-loud book by Jeffrey Lane (writers of the current West End hit musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), the colour and chaos of Pepa’s Madrid will light up London this winter.
Directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The King and I), this hilarious and heartfelt musical based on Pedro Almodóvar’s award-winning trailblazing film celebrates women centre stage at the Playhouse Theatre now. Book your taxi now.
Hailed as ‘the West End’s boldest and most talked about new musical’ (The Guardian) this smart new musical comedy Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, has opened to critical acclaim from the London Critics.
Starring Olivier Award-winning actress Tamsin Greig (Episodes, Green Wing, Jumpy, God of Carnage), Haydn Gwynne (The Audience, Billy Elliot), Jérôme Pradon (Les Miserables, Pacific Overtures) Anna Skellern (BBC’s The Interceptor) and Willemijn Verkaik (Wicked). Powered by a live band onstage, music by David Yazbek and a laugh-out-loud book by Jeffrey Lane (writers of the West End hit musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), the colour and chaos of Pepa’s Madrid will light up London this winter.
Directed by Tony Award-winner Bartlett Sher (South Pacific, The King and I), this hilarious and heartfelt musical based on Pedro Almodóvar’s award-winning trailblazing film celebrates women centre stage at the Playhouse Theatre now. Last chance to see these unmissable performance's, final performance 23 May. Book your taxi now.
ARE YOU ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN?
I fear that I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown and you are my last hope. I have been living with my boyfriend for the last 5 year. A couple of days ago, he told me that he wanted to ask me a very important question – one that would change both our lives. Obviously I thought he was about to propose and I spent the next two days in a state of excitement (I also couldn't resist telling all my friends)! Imagine my shock last night when, after closing my eyes as instructed, I opened them to find him attired in a full monk's robe. Naturally, I thought perhaps he had some monk fantasy he wanted to act out. If only! It turned out that the he wanted my blessing to take holy orders! Talk about a bolt out of the blue! Now, not only do I not have a boyfriend anymore, but I've booked a big bridal shower for myself at a fancy hotel and invited everyone I've ever known. I'm so embarrassed and upset - I may have to run away. What should I do?
This is indeed a shocking tale. I can see why you might be embarrassed and upset. However, do not despair. Many men go through a monk phase. It's quite easily dealt with. Sew some unpleasant prickly material on the inside of his new robes (distract him with a new bible whilst you're doing it and then he won't notice). As he gets crosser and more itchy, he's bound to think twice about his decision. It works every time!
I would, however, suggest postponing the party for now, as the above might take a while. Why don't you take your friends to see 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' as an interim treat. It has all kinds of good tips for ladies and you’ll be sure to identify with it. They also have some decent group rates so – in this case - size won't matter!
I'm truly on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I seem to have spent my life dieting and exercising, and to no avail. Despite trying every diet in the book, I'm still quite large and, annoyingly, my friend, who eats like a horse and does no exercise whatsoever, is like a stick insect plus she's quite smug and self-satisfied about her shape. It's just not fair. Do you think I should try diet pills? My thin friend has offered to buy me some.
Never mind all that tedious dieting – I think the bigger (sorry) issue here is that thin friend of yours. She sounds like an absolute horror. I had a thin friend like that once and one day, as we walked over a drain, she simply fell through it and disappeared, never to be seen again. This is one of the many dangers of being too thin. If I were you, I would tell your thin friend this cautionary tale, give up dieting completely and go and see 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown'. I lost two stone just watching it, as it's so fast and frenetic – well worth it, plus you can have an ice cream in the interval! Let me know how you get on.
I hope you can help me or I may have a nervous breakdown. I've recently taken in a new lodger. She is a music student and gives guitar lessons in the evenings. At first I thought nothing of this, enjoying the idea of some nice music in the background. However, I've recently noticed that all her pupils seem to be quite dodgy looking young men and their lessons seem to last for hours at a time. I also haven't heard anyone playing a guitar in a while. She seems like a nice quiet girl and she's very helpful around the house. She also seems to be quite well off for a student. Should I be worried?
Oh dear. I'm afraid you should be worried. This young woman is well known to me and countless others. (Does she still wear little guitar shaped earrings?) She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth but unfortunately, butter notwithstanding, she is running some kind of illegal operation from your house – I'm sure I don't need to spell it out. Thankfully, I can help. I'll send one of my policeman friends round, disguised as a guitar strumming, slightly druggy looking youth, and she's sure to reveal her true colours! You'd better be out of the house whilst this is going down, so I'm sending you some tickets to 'Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown' – a truly inspirational story and musical. A word of warning though - it might put you off gazpacho. If you want to find out why, go and see it.
"It’s no wonder that Almodóvar has given this exhilarating version his blessing"
"A stylish hoot. Brilliant. Magnifico!"
"Almodóvar’s edgy women will lift you up and melt your heart"
"A joyous evening: an affectionate, poignant and defiant tribute to female resilience"
"An absolute joy of an evening, built on heartbreak, jealousy and tongue-in-cheek verve"
"Funny and tender. This show sends you out of the theatre feeling repaired"
"Gloriously camp yet seriously heartfelt celebration of female powers of survival"
"Retains the heart, spirit and guts that makes Almodóvar so brilliant. We loved it"
A musical comedy based on a cult Pedro Almodóvar film about a bunch of women going doolally over a cheating middle-aged cad? A show which, moreover, flopped on Broadway and is now trying to woo cash-strapped British audiences in mid-winter? To be honest, almost all of me thought that the producers must have taken leave of their senses in trying to bring Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown to the less frequented side of the Embankment.
I don’t know why I fretted. This is an absolute joy of an evening, built paradoxically on the unhinging despair that almost all of us experience in facing rejection, heart-break and the jealousy that comes with love betrayed. Is it a treat for the ladies? Probably more so than the blokily scripted Made in Dagenham, and yet it’s more palatable, in its tongue-in-cheek verve, for men too. I’d also add that thanks to a smart book by Jeffrey Lane and taut direction from Bartlett Sher, the gag-count is much higher than in the 1988 film.
Here, from the start, there’s movement, fluidity, unpredictable vitality. The mad has been put into Madrid in an opening dream sequence that sets the sleekly designed, brightly coloured scene, complete with hand-clapping, foot-stamping, guitar-strumming and a black female matador in pink socks. You swiftly get to know, and gradually get to love, the main characters.
Making an impressive musical debut, Tamsin Greig plays the leading role of the suddenly dumped TV actress Pepa. Angular, gawky, klutzy, she has us hooked on every astonished and distressed look, every charming smile and legible emotion, oscillating between resignation and rage – and when she sings, as she does often, the power of her voice drags you into the vortex of her predicament about the faithless Ivan (Jerome Pradon).
Hadyn Gwynne is little short of hilarious as the latter’s tall, long abandoned wife – a growling Gorgon in retro clothing who yet finally moves you with her lament for lost years and vanished allure. There’s fantastic work too from Anna Skellern as Candela, a model who has fallen disastrously for an Islamic terrorist (topical, but not tastelessly so and not a dominant theme). Only Hadyn Oakley and Seline Hizli, playing Ivan’s son and demanding fiancée are poor substitutes for their celluloid originals (Antonio Banderas and the strikingly featured Rossy de Palma).
David Yazbek’s warm, Latin American-flavoured music and lyrics sometimes incline to the generic, the words a paella of yesterday’s left-over sentiments but the way it’s all served up, you don’t especially notice. And it never proves like the Valium-saturated gazpacho that provides a pivotal chemical plot-twist to the farce-like action. Instead, no, against the odds, this is a real Madrid tonic.
At one point in the swirling mayhem of Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, a character catches sight of what she thinks is a mirror but is in fact a Picasso portrait. “My God, I look dreadful!” she exclaims. It’s a throwaway gag (and very funny in context), but it’s perhaps also symbolic. With its primary-coloured set, farcical plot, hectic pace and illogical structure, this stage musical of Pedro Almodóvar’s much-loved 1988 film aims to use splintered style and self-conscious theatricality to get at the fact that life, as experienced, often doesn’t make sense. It’s a second shot for the creative team, who mounted an ill-fated Broadway version in 2010. And it seems apt for a show all about tenacity that this slimmed-down version comes nearer its mark and features stellar performances from Tamsin Greig and Haydn Gwynne.
With a plot as twisted and tangled as an old-fashioned phone cord, writer Jeffrey Lane and director Bartlett Sher wisely go for simplicity and theatrical resourcefulness: a couple of chairs stand in as a taxi. This and David Yazbek’s cheeky, Spanish-flavoured live music keep the pace moving and contribute to the dizzy, disorientating sense of life falling away that accompanies the heroine, Pepa, as she lurches round Madrid in pursuit of her errant lover, bumping into his ex-wife and a host of other casualties of love.
The staging deliberately reminds us of the artifice of theatre, pointing up classic farce tactics, announcing scene changes with Brechtian placards, including a nod to Hamlet (the rosemary in the drugged gazpacho) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (the revealing sleep induced by said gazpacho). Shakespeare, after all, was a master at creating dreamlike stage worlds to reflect the complex truth of inner turmoil.
Most important, it thrusts the onus on to the cast to draw out the bruised feelings behind the fizzing disarray. Greig brings her touching tragicomic expertise to Pepa and a rich, rough emotional truth to her musical solos. Gwynne is superb as the ex-wife and her painful song about the invisibility of middle-aged women gets to the heart of the show.
It’s still a little stiff and uneasy: the madcap pace feels particularly forced at the outset. In fact the team could go further in surrendering the style to the surreal logic of the plot: we are accustomed to mashed-up classics. But this becomes a joyous evening: an affectionate, poignant and defiant tribute to female resilience.
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Just three days before Obama arrived in Havana, a cruise ship rescued 18 starving and dehydrated Cubans packed into a 30 foot boat in the Gulf of Mexico about 130 miles west of Naples; nine others had died at sea.
The Castro regime blames these deaths on the Cuban Adjustment Act and demands its repeal — but this is pure hypocrisy. People would never take such risks if life under Cuban communism was bearable. The hundreds of thousands of Cubans who have left since 1959 bespeak the failure of the “Revolution.” And though Havana cannot admit it, the Cuban Adjustment Act probably helps stabilize the Cuban regime.
Emigration has served as a safety valve, enabling the regime to export the discontent it produces so efficiently.
To the extent Cubans are focused on leaving their country — and as anyone who has visited Cuba can tell you, dreaming and scheming to get out, not baseball, is the people’s true obsession — they are not focused on resisting its repressive system.
Many try the limited regular channels such as applying for one of the 20,000 immigrant visas the United States offers each year, or for political asylum in the United States or elsewhere. The regime’s control of passports, criminal records and other necessary documents gives it day-to-day leverage over these people while they wait, sometimes for years.
For many others, though, the prospect of legal residency under the Cuban Adjustment Act tips the risk-benefit balance in favor of the expensive, hazardous extra-legal voyage via the sea or overland through Latin America.
Once in the United States, Cubans send back hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances, which help to pacify an otherwise restless populace and from which the government takes a cut.
On balance, the Cuban Adjustment Act encourages and helps individual Cubans to escape poverty and repression, even as it enables the Cuban regime to continue impoverishing and repressing society.
Sooner or later, therefore, the Cuban Adjustment Act must change if Cuba is to change. But it won’t be easy to reform or repeal such a measure. The moment Obama, or a successor, asked Congress to change the law, there would be a chaotic rush to the exits in Cuba as thousands tried to get out while the getting was still good.
The United States needs a new immigration policy that’s still generous toward Cubans but better focused on the regime’s neediest victims — and that helps Cubans put domestic political pressure on Raúl Castro’s regime, not just escape it. Unable to inspire the Cuban people’s loyalty, and less able to manipulate their yearning for exit, Castro, or his successors, might finally have to heed their voices.
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Welcome To Condale is overall a great set of accessible, easy listening tunes that are perfect for, well, summer. If only the album had been released a few months ago.
Summer Camp’s splash onto the music scene greatly mirrors that of M83. Both bands, with their lush orchestration and heavy synthesizers, were associated immediately with John Hughes soundtracks and ‘80s pop. Both are driven by the visions and musical talent of small amounts of people – M83 is basically just one person, Summer Camp a duo. And now, both have released their latest albums within a month of each other. But while M83 chose to take their latest album in an “epic” direction, with 22 songs and eight of them over four minutes, Summer Camp took a different direction for their debut full-length: short, sweet, and fun.
In fact, Summer Camp’s Welcome To Condale is far more comparable to Cults’ self-titled debut in its brevity, its use of guy-girl vocals, and its catchiness.
Condale starts off with the excellent, cheerful “Better Off Without You,” which draws wonderfully from the cheesy 80s dance-pop it pays homage to. It sets the stage perfectly for a fun, solid album that thrives off peppiness, cutesy vocals and shimmering synthesizers.
Unfortunately, however, there are two sets of songs throughout Condale. The majority of them are in the mold of the opening track, brimming with catchiness, nostalgia, and sing-along hooks. A few, however, drown themselves in fuzziness, pushing beyond danceable rock and instead moving into disco territory. These songs (“I Want You,” “Nobody Knows You,” and “Done Forever”) are well-produced, and will surely please fans looking for that kind of sound. But they don’t fit in with the rest of the album – mostly because, frankly, they aren’t much fun.
While the glaring similarities with Cults here and throughout the album are unfortunate (like the use of spoken word quotes at the beginning of various tracks, for instance), the songs don’t feel unoriginal or ripped-off. “Losing My Mind” and “Down” also make use of the band’s two talented vocalists: they sing over each other, in response to each other, and with each other at various different points.
But despite shoving their influences in our faces, Summer Camp has managed to make an album that sounds both inspired and modern at the same time. Perhaps the best example of this is “Last American Virgin,” which has vintage vocal melodies that wouldn’t sound out of place on an ‘80s pop album, but also a stomp-clap drum beat that wouldn’t sound out of place on a rap album.
While sometimes the choruses just aren’t memorable enough (the anticipated replay potential for a good chunk of this album is low), and the forays into heavier techno music don’t work as well, Welcome To Condale is overall a great set of accessible, easy listening tunes that are perfect for, well, summer. If only the album had been released a few months ago.
Stream 'Welcome to Condale' in full here.
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This gift guide includes gifts for the girl who hosts the events everyone wants to be invited to, the girl who is the life of the party whether it is a dancing on the tabletops soiree or an intimate dinner gathering, and the girl who considers party planning an art form.
These gifts are all about one of my hobbies: entertaining. Some of my favorites from this gift guide include these beautiful champagne flutes, this mirror that would be a great focal point in any room, these tartan mugs that scream for hot chocolate, this chic lamp that is under $100, and these lights available in every letter.
These are perfect gift ideas for those friends that love to entertain! I have a friend in mind for some of these!!
Some great ideas here and I know a couple of friends who would like some of these (and myself of course!) I love those votives.
oh gosh that black dress is so beautiful, somehow reminds me so much of black swan!
Thumbs up for the lamp, the ampersand, candle holder and the lamp. I wouldn't mind finding those in my stocking next month!
I'm agree for the Diptyque's candles !
So many wonderful items, I want all of them. Perfect for entertaining.
I want that champagne glasses and the black gown!
That’s so nice post!! Well dear I always recommend hiring a talented event coordinator for your special occasions. And you are absolutely right that appreciating their work by giving gifts is the best way. I also gave a beautiful gown to my planner that hosted this Christmas party for me at one of my favorite NYC event space. You know she did all this work within my budget.
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I have worked on a number of projects with Mihaly Slocombe, the most recent being a significant renovation in Keilor.
Hi Peter, thanks for the review, much appreciated! The beautiful photos speak for themselves.
Thanks for such a great review, Andrew. Chamfer House is a really challenging project and you've captured it perfectly! Looking forward to the next one together.
I photographed Mihaly Slocombe's Glendearg Grove project last year.
Thanks so much for your feedback, Tatjana! It was a pleasure working with you, looking forward to our next shoot!
Thanks for your review Emma, it was of course a pleasure working with you too. Looking forward to the next opportunity to collaborate.
Thanks for such a great review, it was a pleasure working on your beautiful home with you!
Thanks for such a wonderful review, Clinton. Looking forward to future opportunities to explore the world of architecture together.
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The 6th District recount saga now has an end date in sight — Jan. 14. That's the outside date Worcester Superior Court Judge Richard Tucker has set for the bench trial, although both sides say it could come earlier if everything's ready.
"We're anxious to get on with the process," said Republican Peter Durant, who edged out incumbent Democrat Geraldo Alicea by one vote in November's recount. "My biggest concern right now is that, as of Jan. 5, this district will go unrepresented."
That's when the next legislative session begins, and Durant said he plans to petition Speaker of the House Robert DeLeo to "at least temporarily seat me." He argues the final vote tally means Alicea has "no claim to the seat," and a new election (if the court orders one) could take months. But, he admits he doesn't know what the speaker is likely to do.
Multiple attempts by phone and e-mail to get such an answer from DeLeo's office were unsuccessful.
Alicea said he won't seek such appointment, preferring to let the court make the decision.
"The change of venue pushed us back a little," Alicea said. "Now, we're trying to address all the discovery issues. I think we're all set, but I haven't seen [Durant's] list."
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The Storm Jointed Flatstick perfectly emulates a real fish under water and tricks large predators into taking a bite. The body is built with an open mouth and jointed tail design that exhibits an extremely life-like rolling movement. To increase visibility, this flatstick features external scales, 3D holographic eyes, and UV bright finishes.
The Storm Jointed Flatstick perfectly emulates a real fish under water and tricks large predators into taking a bite. The body is built with an open mouth and jointed tail design that exhibits an extremely life-like rolling movement. To increase visibility, this flatstick features external scales, 3D holographic eyes, and UV bright finishes. The distinct loud rattle this bait produces will attract fish from far away. It is outfitted with VMC black nickel treble hooks on the belly and tail to ensure the fish won't wiggle away after biting.
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WALT DISNEY WORLD, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35) - Calling all Disneyland fans!
A unique, limited-time experience is coming to the Downtown Disney District at the Disneyland Resort in California.
Tickets are now on sale for "Pop-up Disney! A Mickey Celebration," celebrating 90 years of the beloved Mickey Mouse.
According to the Disney Parks Blog, the immersive experience will feature highly-themed rooms with plenty of photo ops in the Downtown Disney District.
Pop-up Disney! opens April 26. Tickets start at $30 and include five hours of complimentary parking.
Check out Disney Parks Blog to learn more.
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FreshNewTracks » Win 2 Tickets To Corona Electric Beach W/ Jillionaire From Major Lazer!
Win 2 Tickets To Corona Electric Beach W/ Jillionaire From Major Lazer!
We’re giving away two tickets to Corona Electric Beach hosted by Jillionaire from Major Lazer, on Monday September 5th (Labor Day) at the McCarren Hotel @ N 12th Street in Brooklyn. The ticket value is $65 per ticket. Retweet and favorite the tweet below for your chance to win! Find all event info here!
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British music, and I would implore you to be a part of it as well. Howard was raised by musical parents who influenced him from an early early age, with the likes of Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan constantly blaring in their household. It perhaps wasn't a surprise he would eventually decide to take on his own career in music. Set Your Currency / Country GBP United Kingdom EUR Ireland ARS Argentina AUD Australia EUR Austria BRL Brazil EUR. Wish he'd played more from his first album. Fittingly, it was self-released the very same year as Mumford and Sons first.P, this finds him among good company, squarely in the second and most commercially successful wave of British folk artists along with the aforementioned Mumfords and Johnny Flynn. Ben Howard is an English singer-songwriter and musician hailing from West London, born in Devon.
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Boyd relies heavily on gifts to support our efforts at providing high quality Christian education to children regardless of financial status. Regardless of amount, we are thankful to be blessed by your gift. We are currently working on Partners in Education and Scholarship Sponsors for the 2018-2019 School Year. If you are interested, please call the office Monday-Friday from 8:00-3:00 at 931-473-9361.
Annually $4,010.00 $4,910.00 Due before the first day of school.
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Above amounts do not include discounts for additional children.
$330.00 discount for second brother/sister in each family.
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Danish toy company Lego has joined top players like Apple, Google and Facebook among the world's most valuable brands.
Lego has claimed the crown of the world's largest toy maker, is coming off of a record year, has produced a blockbuster Hollywood hit and has even accompanied the first Danish astronaut into space.
Now the Billund-based company can stick another feather in its plastic brick cap, as Lego has for the first time ever cracked the top 100 in Interbrand's annual Best Global Brands ranking.
Coming in at number 82, Lego was the top new entry in the Interbrands list, which calculated the Danish company's brand value at $5.36 million (35.6 million kroner).
Apple and Google took the top two spots respectively for the third year in a row. Apple's 43 percent increase in brand value also made it the list's 'top riser'.
While Lego has branched out into films, games and other high tech toys, the core business of simple plastic bricks bucked the trend of the top 100 list.
“Technology and automotive brands dominate this year's ranking, holding a combined 28 positions. Technology brands, in particular, dominate — collectively making up more than a third (33.6 percent) of the total value of all 100 brands,” Interbrand wrote in a press release.
Fifteen of the top 100 brands are in the automotive industry, including scandal-ridden Volkswagen at number 35.
Interbrands CEO Jez Frampton said that in today's world “brands need to move at the speed of life”.
“Many of the brands in this year's Top 100 are so intuitively aligned with people's priorities, that they are able to seamlessly integrate into their everyday lives,” Frampton said.
In addition to Lego, the other new entrants in the list were PayPal (#97), MINI (#98), Moët & Chandon (#99), and Lenovo (#100).
While Lego might have to settle for number 82 on the most ‘valuable' brands list, in February it was named the most ‘powerful' brand of all in the the Global 500 study from Brand Finance.
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If you want an up-to-date monthly measurement of atmospheric CO2 concentration—my candidate for the most important leading indicator of welfare in the world—then I suggest you bookmark the home page of CO2now.org. The site gives you easy access to the longest running monthly time series of atmospheric CO2 concentration, which goes all the way back to March 1958.
The American scientist Charles David Keeling pioneered the accurate measurement of CO2 after setting up a laboratory 3,000 metres above sea level at Mauna Loa in Hawaii. The location was specifically selected to eliminate sample contamination by large-scale factory emissions: no such industry exists for thousands of miles around Mauna Loa.
As the years passed, Keeling’s observations showed a natural annual cyclical movement in CO2 concentrations: an upswing in the northern hemisphere autumn as vegetation died back and CO2 was released; and a downswing in the northern hemisphere spring as renewed plant growth removed CO2 from the air. The explanation for why the northern hemisphere growing season dominates the cycle is simple: 65% of the earth’s land mass resides in the north.
The second observation was even more critical: atmospheric CO2 concentration was on an upward trajectory, a trajectory that has been dubbed the ‘Keeling curve’. And as the years went by it became obvious that the source of this rising CO2 concentration was mankind. A few contrarians (most famously the Australian geologist Ian Pilmer) have suggested that undiscovered volcanoes are responsible for rising CO2 levels, but no mainstream volcanologists support his views; the consensus is that volcano sourced CO2 emissions are around 150 times smaller than those from anthropogenic (human) sources.
An even more simple rebuttal to the ‘it isn’t us’ claim is that any serious alternative must account for where the CO2 from burnt fossil fuels has gone. We know to a high degree of certainty how much oil, coal and gas we are burning, and you can even go onto BP’s web site and look it up here. So if there exists some ‘natural’ source of the CO2 build-up, there must therefore exist a ‘natural’ withdrawal of all the fossil fuel CO2 emissions. Thus for it not to be ‘us’, an unidentified natural process must be removing all the human-produced carbon, while at the same time naturally produced carbon from a separate unidentified source is magically replacing it. I hope the absurdity of this logic is obvious.
More interesting is the fact that annual fossil fuel plus land use change CO2 emissions don’t equate with the rise in atmospheric CO2 concentrations. There are certain numbers I encourage you to get comfortable with. One such number is the annual fossil fuel carbon emission as reported by the US Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center (CDIAC). The time series is reported here and the most recent advance estimates for the last two years are here. According to this source, 9.1 giga tonnes of fossil fuel carbon was emitted in 2010 (which is about 33 giga tonnes of CO2).
The next number to etch into your memory is that 1 part per million (ppm) of CO2 in the atmosphere is equivalent to 2.1 giga tonnes of carbon. Keeping this figure in mind, look at the next two tables. They are taken from the Carbon Budget 2010 report published on December 5th by the Global Carbon Project (a body set up to coordinate academic research on the carbon cycle).
Over the longer term, the percentage of emissions that remain in the atmosphere, the so called airborne fraction, has stayed around 43%. Thankfully, no change in trend for this fraction has yet been found (see here). Yet year to year there is a significant flux. For example, in 2010 we saw the airborne fraction at 50%, significantly above the 43% ish long-term trend. For the first 11 months of 2011, however, CO2 is up around 1.8 ppm year on year, which is equivalent to 3.7 giga tonnes of carbon. If we assume total emissions (fossil fuel and land use change) come in a little over 10 giga tonnes, the airborne fraction will have fallen from 50% in 2010 to somewhere around 35% in 2011. The main driver of this year to year shift is the El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle. Simplistically, cold water absorbs more CO2 than warm water, and during a La Nina phase you get more cold water and in an El Nino less.
Unfortunately, just because the CO2 airborne fraction has been well-behaved to date, does not mean it will always be so. The fear is that at some stage carbon land and ocean sinks will become saturated, causing the airborne fraction to rise. Thus, more of the CO2 we pump into the atmosphere will actually stay there. Should that happen over the next few decades, then temperature rise could also accelerate. The UK Met Office has modelled one scenario which sees the Amazon rain forest dying off, so causing a massive down shift in the CO2 land sink uptake. The result is a surge in CO2 concentrations.
Thankfully, the Met Office model’s horrible looking carbon cycle feedback is still an outlier among climate models globally. That said, I make a habit of comparing CO2 emissions with atmospheric CO2 concentrations. We already have one instance of climate models failing to forecast a major structural shift: the far earlier-than-expected collapse in Arctic sea ice extent. Let’s hope the airborne fraction does not follow a similar path; but keep an eye on it just in case.
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An excellent presentation of the carbon cycle. However, as the oceans absorb the increasing quantities of CO2–even if they can do so without limit–they become ever more acidic with sever impacts on marine life–plants and animals alike. Ocean health is almost as crucial to our existence as is atmospheric health.
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USDOT has awarded three cooperative agreements, collectively worth more than US$45m to initiate the design/build/test phase of the CV Pilot Deployment Program at the test sites in southern Wyoming, New York City, and Tampa. Managed by the USDOT’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS-JPO), the program is a national effort to deploy, test, and operationalize cutting-edge mobile and roadside technologies and enable multiple connected vehicle applications. These technologies and applications have been brought together in innovative ways to have an immediate impact – to save lives, improve personal mobility, enhance economic productivity, reduce environmental impacts, and transform public agency operations.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-24T16:58:35",
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Parents protesting against plans to remove a primary school headteacher’s job have called for a multi-academy trust (MAT) chief executive to go following the resignation of trust directors over the issue.
The non-executive directors at the Diocese of Leicester Academies Trust (DLAT) quit following a meeting with the Bishop of Leicester in which he questioned plans for a restructure affecting Swinford Primary School.
DLAT is set to make Swinford Primary headteacher Edy O’Connor redundant and plans to replace the role with an executive head overseeing two schools.
The Save Our Head parents' campaign group protesting against this move has held a vote of no confidence in the trust and called for their school to be rebrokered out of DLAT.
It has now written to John Edwards, regional schools commissioner for East Midlands and the Humber, calling for DLAT’s chief executive Donna Moulds to be removed following the resignation of the directors.
The letter from the parents' spokesperson Katherine Clarke said: “It is our belief that DLAT is currently not an entity without a board, and the CEO must be removed from office.
“This is an issue that requires urgent resolution for the pupils of schools across DLAT and poses questions about the ability of it to operate without any leadership.
The letter also calls for the process of making Mr O’Connor redundant to be halted.
And it says that a proposed merger between DLAT and Oval Learning Trust should also be put on hold following the DLAT directors' resignation. Ms Moulds is the chief executive of both MATs.
However, the Leicester Diocesan Board of Education (DBE) announced today that interim directors had been appointed to DLAT.
Diocesan director of education, Canon Carolyn Lewis, said the new directors would be inviting Swinford School governors to meet with them early next week. They would also "as soon as possible" set a date to meet the primary's staff, parents and governors to "discuss the next steps for the school – which like most small rural schools faces serious sustainability challenges", she said.
“It is important to clarify that the DBE’s role is as [a] Member of DLAT. Members of an academy trust appoint directors to the academy trust, and are not permitted in law to run or direct them," Canon Lewis added.
The resignation of DLAT's board was revealed earlier this week by the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, after a meeting to discuss the trust's plans for Swinford School.
He said that he had asked DLAT directors to meet him to “seek reassurance that they are ‘serving both Church and community’ and acting in accordance with the vision and values of the Diocese of Leicester”. The resignations followed this meeting.
South Leicestershire MP Alberto Costa has also been involved in the case and is set to raise the matter in Parliament with education secretary Damian Hinds.
The Department for Education said earlier this week that Swinford Primary School being rebrokered would have to be agreed with the school’s existing trust.
DLAT and Oval Learning Trust have been approached for comment.
DLAT has previously issued a statement saying it was having to “adapt and evolve our approach to address the financial challenges that we face".
The trust added: "This means that there are some very difficult and challenging decisions that need to be addressed. These are not decisions that we take lightly, or in isolation. We would like to thank our community for making their views heard so clearly."
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"timestamp": "2019-04-18T18:17:57",
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Google advertises YouTube TV with unlimited cloud DVR storage space, but it's not like that matters. More often than not, YouTube TV swaps out your "recorded" shows for the video-on-demand (VOD) version with unskippable ads. It's easily the most annoying thing about YouTube TV, but that's finally starting to change. Some channels now let you choose between different versions of your saved content.
YouTube TV will now list multiple versions of TV shows and movies that you've added to your library. Just tap the drop-down arrow next to an item, and it (might) show you the versions recorded straight from the live feed (traditional DVR-style) in addition to a VOD version. The DVR versions will have the same ads that the station aired live, but you can skip through them. The VOD most likely has unskippable ads.
Unfortunately, this feature is not available on all channels. Stations that really want you watching those VOD ads can disallow access to the DVR versions, which is dumb. This feature appears to be rolling out sans app update—we haven't seen any hint of the new dialogs in APK Teardowns. The first reports were about two weeks ago, but I only saw the popup a few days ago.
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"timestamp": "2019-04-20T00:55:55",
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