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Author(s): Svend Brinkman
The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: stress, fatigue and depression are at an all-time high, while our social interactions have become increasingly self-serving and opportunistic. How can we resist today's obsession with introspection and self-improvement? In this witty and bestselling book, Danish philosopher and psychologist Svend Brinkmann argues that we must not be afraid to reject the self-help mantra and 'stand firm'. The secret to a happier life lies not in finding your inner self but in coming to terms with yourself in order to coexist peacefully with others. By encouraging us to stand firm and get a foothold in life, this vibrant anti-self-help guide offers a compelling alternative to life coaching, positive thinking and the need always to say 'yes!'
Svend Brinkmann was living the relatively sedate life of a professor of psychology at Aalborg University when Stand Firm was published. The book was an overnight sensation in Denmark and catapulted him into the media limelight as a leading public intellectual and cultural critic. Svend now travels widely to host events and lecture on the big questions of modern life. He has featured in several documentaries, and presented Live Fast on Danish television and the Meaningful Life series on national radio.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Cut out the navel-gazing 2. Focus on the negative in your life 3. Put on the No hat 4. Suppress your feelings 5. Sack your coach 6. Read a novel not a self-help book or biography 7. Dwell on the past Notes | <urn:uuid:e1f5cb72-a767-4b2f-a552-e59fc4a09cc3> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://shop.matildabookshop.com.au/p/self-help-stand-firm-resisting-the-self-improvement-craze | 2020-05-31T10:26:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347413097.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20200531085047-20200531115047-00517.warc.gz | en | 0.942753 | 363 |
Konami has ended its long-running Pro Evolution Soccer series, replacing it with a new free-to-play game called eFootball. The game will be digital-only, and will be playable on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC when it launches this fall. Releases on iOS and Android will arrive soon after, and cross-platform matchmaking will become available at some point after launch.
Konami took a year off from the PES series to transition it to Unreal Engine, but that also gave the developer a chance to reimagine the series from the ground up.
"Starting with the strong foundations of Unreal Engine, which has allowed us to massively overhaul player expression, we’ve made a number of modifications to virtually create a new football game engine that will power eFootball for years to come,” said Seitaro Kimura, eFootball series Producer.
EFootball incorporates new technology Konami calls "Motion Matching," which it says allows for more realistic movement. The game will also receive regular updates and new content post-launch, and certain game modes will be sold as optional DLC.
In a roadmap for the game's rollout, Konami indicated local matches and cross-generational matchmaking would arrive in early fall. Mid fall will bring a team building mode, online leagues, crossplay among consoles and PC, and a match pass system. Mobile will join the crossplay party and gain controller support in winter, which is also when Konami hopes to kick off the game's esports competition. | <urn:uuid:d4b85be5-f21c-4758-b5ab-f7b68e73fc24> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.dbltap.com/posts/konami-replaces-pes-with-free-to-play-efootball-01fb4nt4rdwk | 2022-01-25T04:29:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304760.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125035839-20220125065839-00280.warc.gz | en | 0.945725 | 317 |
If you want to upgrade from smartphone or point-and-shoot cameras to an interchangeable-lens camera, you have two main choices: DSLRs or so-called “mirrorless” cameras. Both of these camera types do essentially the same thing, but each type has its strengths and weaknesses.
Single lens reflex (SLR) cameras have been around for more than a hundred years. Like their film-based predecessors, today’s digital SLRs (DSLRs) use a mirror to divert the light from the lens into a viewfinder so you see exactly what the camera sees. When you take a picture, this mirror flips up out of the way, a shutter in front of the image sensor opens, and the sensor captures the image.
Mirrorless cameras, as the name suggests, don’t need a mirror. Instead, the light passes through the lens and falls right onto the image sensor, as it does in point-and-shoot and phone cameras. To preview the image before you press the shutter button, you look at a screen on the back of the camera.
So which is better Here are the seven quality measures for cameras, how the two types compare and the winner for each category:
Size & Weight
DSLR camera bodies are comparatively larger, as they need to fit the mirror and shutter mechanisms. At the moment, the smallest and lightest DSLR available is the Canon EOS Rebel SL1 ($750), which weighs 22 ounces (0.6 kilograms) with the included zoom lens attached. And that’s a rather pricey camera for a first-time buyer. A more-economical model, Canon’s EOS Rebel T3i ($550), weighs 25.3 ounces (0.71 kilograms) and is 3.1 inches (7.9 centimeters) deep with lens. A midrange model like the Nikon D7100 weighs 2.7 lbs. (1.2 kg) or more, depending on the lens.
Without a mirror or shutter mechanism, a mirrorless camera body can be smaller than a DSLR, and the construction is simpler. A typical mirrorless camera like the Olympus PEN-EPL5 ($549) weighs just less than 1 lb. (0.45 kg) and is less than 3 inches (7.6 centimeters) deep, including the lens.
Winner: Mirrorless camera
DSLRs use the mirror mechanism to divert light into a dedicated sensor that employs a process called phase detection. The sensor measures the convergence of two light beams to quickly snap the lens into focus.
Because they lack a mirror system, most mirrorless cameras must use a slower technique, called contrast detection — the same method used by point-and-shoot and phone cameras. The image sensor captures a small part of an image, tests how sharp it is, and then refocuses the lens and tests it again until it gets the focus right. Contrast detection is especially slow in low light and with moving subjects, as the movement confuses the camera.
Recent mirrorless cameras, like the Olympus OM-D EM-5, have faster processors that can detect the contrast more quickly, so they focus nearly as quickly as DSLRs in most conditions, but still struggle in low light. Going a step further, the Olympus OM-D E-M1 camera ($1,400; body only) uses a single sensor that combines both contrast and phase detection. Sony has also introduced a combo focus system on its new mirrorless cameras: the A7 ($1,700; body only) and A7R ($2,300; body only). But it’s still not clear how well these new models will compare.
The upside of the DSLR viewfinder is that you can see the image directly, previewing exactly what the image sensor will capture.
The downside of mirrorless cameras is that they have to capture a preview of the image to display on the LCD screen. This preview can often be jerky or hard to see, especially on a cheap LCD in bright daylight. In low light, the preview can appear grainy.
Some mirrorless models mimic DSLRs by embedding a small LCD screen in what’s called an electronic viewfinder. These are built into some more-expensive mirrorless cameras (such as the Panasonic GX7) or are available as add-on extras for others.
All modern removable-lens cameras include image stabilization, in which the camera reduces the blur in photos (generally at slow shutter speeds) by compensating for your shaky hands. Most interchangeable lens cameras, especially DSLRs, do this by shifting a small part of the lens. Others shift the image sensor, which enables image stabilization with any lens, even vintage models. Some mirrorless cameras can shift both a lens element and the image sensor — a combination that can be more effective than either of these methods alone. The differences between most DSLR and mirrorless image-stabilization systems are minimal.
Early mirrorless cameras used to offer lower-quality images than DSLRs, with more noise (graininess) and worse color, because they used smaller image sensors that captured less light. But the manufacturers of mirrorless cameras have found ways to reduce the noise, using better (and often bigger) sensors and better image processors, and now there is no noticeable difference in image quality in most consumer models. High-end DSLRs use very large sensors called “full frame” sensors that have given them an edge at the high end. Sony’s recent introduction of mirrorless cameras with a full-frame sensor, the A7 and A7R, could be an important step in closing the quality gap, even for high-performance cameras.
Image & Video Playback
When it comes to showing an image you have just captured, both camera types can use either their LCD screen or an HDMI output to your television. Although the bodies of mirrorless cameras are smaller, most have the same 3-inch LCD screen size commonly found on DSLRs.
Lens & Accessories
If you are looking to purchase a new interchangeable-lens camera, you are buying into an entire ecosystem of lenses, flashes and other accessories that go with it. You can’t use a Micro Four Thirds lens on a DSLR camera body, for example. So, when choosing a camera, you need to consider the range of lenses available for it.
MORE: Best DSLRs 2013
Choosing a DSLR gives you access to a plethora of lenses — from a number of manufacturers — ranging from cheap and satisfactory to professional and wildly expensive. By contrast, most mirrorless models take only a small selection of lenses from the camera maker. The only lenses for Sony Alpha NEX cameras are from Sony itself, for example. However, Sony has just announced five new lenses for its new full-frame mirrorless cameras, which considerably expands the range of lenses available.
The proprietary mirrorless systems from manufacturers like Pentax (Q cameras) and Samsung (NX series) have the fewest lenses, because these companies have only recently introduced mirrorless models. Micro Four Thirds mirrorless cameras have the widest selection because they have been around the longest and are made by several companies — Olympus and Panasonic make the cameras, and lenses are made by Olympus, Panasonic, Sigma, Tamron and others.
You can generally purchase adapters to use DSLR-size lenses on a mirrorless camera. But that often comes at a price of altering the focal length (zoom) and sometimes disabling functions such as autofocus.
The top pick for you
So, which camera type is the best pick overall? That depends on your priorities. If top image quality and speed are most important for you, regardless of weight or bulk of the gear, choose a DSLR for its superior performance and wider range of lenses.
But most mirrorless cameras have enough lens options for most shooting situations, and focus speed is improving. Therefore, mirrorless cameras are the best choice if you want to take a camera everywhere and not get weighed down along the way.
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What you may consider normal parenting methods could be misconstrued as intrusive, causing hurt feelings of distrust, even if you have suspected correctly that certain material you view as harmful is being viewed. Here are some helpful hints to keep the communication lines open, build trust and hopefully reduce stress levels.
Don't Wait To Communicate
While you can try adding changes after damage is done, it is better to curb issues before they emerge. Why wait until our young are in their late teens to rectify concerns, when hardened and determined habits are formed. Have viewing parties-include snacks like you would on a movie night, finding easy recipes as everyone surfs together. Allow suggestions and listen to requests, posing questions without blame or scolding if choices don't match what you had in mind. Have the chat before the web educates your child for you.
Talk About It Often
As our youth make mature discoveries, incorporate positive dialogue during family meetings, preferably away from the dinner table so it creates honest feedback and less of a tribunal feel. Avoid accusing or passing judgment. You want to know what is on their mind. Suggest age appropriate activities that can showcase some of the items of interest found while online. Let the kids construct computer projects you all can participate in and share through email, family community rooms, etc.
Discuss Real Dangers
The family computer can be centrally located but you need to have the conversation. As technology changes more venues for voyeurism crop up with the snap of a finger. Keep it real and current, asking every household member to research and share updated online dangers. Talk about changing passwords and sharing these passwords except on business, critical data not needing to be shared anyway. Check more ideas out here: http://www.parentfurther.com/technology-media/online-safety/computers
Strong Resolves Strengthens Bonds
You may be tempted but do not give in to the pouty mouth, attitude or other mood changes. Once everyone understands what is to be expected, let it be understood by your responsible behavior that you are the parent and setting boundaries is a part of the process. Including your kids in the dialogue is respectful, a privilege they need to emulate.
Being aware of the joys and dangers can enable your child to surf safely without drowning.
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Novels that teach history by telling the life story of an individual can be fascinating journeys into humanity’s misadventures. Likewise, they can also be equally tragic and entertaining. Two such books that fit all of these adjectives and more are Michael Moorcock’s Byzantium Endures and Marc Estrin’s Insect Dreams: The Half-Life of Gregor Samsa. The stories of these two characters are wittily relayed and perceptive each in their own way. Both are simultaneously stories of the century just past; that graveyard of millions via mustard gas and the atom bomb, revolution, counter-revolution and world wars. Naturally, the main protagonists meet a number of captivating and unique characters as they stumble, forge, fly and otherwise do through time.
The reader meets Moorcock’s protagonist, Colonel Pyat, as an old man in one of London’s ethnic neighborhoods; a neighborhood changing ethnicities as he grows closer to death. He is a cynical old man, albeit with a sense of humor that is occasionally wicked and often just appreciative of the absurdity of the human endeavor. Estrin’s protagonist Gregor Samsa is also appreciative of that absurdity, especially given his removal from it. He is, after all, that cockroach introduced to the world by Franz Kafka in his story “The Metamorphosis.” At one time a human, Estrin’s Samsa spends the rest of his life as a cockroach, arguably trying that entire time to become human again.
There are substantial differences between the worldviews of these two characters, despite their similarities. Moorcock’s Pyat finds humor in humanity’s folly but cannot help but to look for blame. Like so many others throughout history, especially in that most recent of centuries, he places that blame on the same groups so many have found convenient: primarily Jews, Asians and Africans. In other words: The traditional Other in European history. He has little concern for anyone that does not fit his chauvinist approach and prides himself on his Orthodox faith and his Slavic ethnicity. On the other hand, Estrin’s Samsa is the essence of the other. Clearly not human in appearance, his emotions and intellect are immediately suspect. Upon his transformation from human to insect, his only recourse is death or life as a freak. Indeed, his first job upon leaving the rooming house he once lived in is in a sideshow along with a number of other freaks.
Pyat is an arrogant egocentric protagonist full of prejudices and assumptions about humanity. Some of those assumptions are based on his life experience. Many more are based on the class he strives to become part of. Despite his humble beginnings, those experiences provide him with a viewpoint of one who is in power. He has no use for the Russian revolution and prefers the counterrevolution of the aristocracy and its foreign imperialist allies. Gregor Samsa is his opposite. The fact of Samsa’s non-humanness makes him appreciate humanity more than most who have never known any other form. He is the Other in every sense of the word. Yet he is the other who transcends his otherness but does not forget it. He is not the African American who mouths the words of the white man after gaining his favor. He is not the Jew who becomes like those who have burned millions of his predecessors. No, his otherness provides him with a perspective that prevents his moving from victim to executioner.
Pyat’s escapades take him from his mother’s home in Kiev to the universities, bars and brothels of Petrograd and into the desolate death ridden countryside of the Russian civil war. As noted earlier, Samsa’s begin as part of a carnival freakshow in wartime Vienna. From there, he flies across the Atlantic, invents the concept of risk analysis for Charles Ives’ insurance firm, attempts to make love to Alice Paul, becomes a family friend and consultant to President Franklin Roosevelt and ultimately ends up working on the development of the first nuclear weapons at Los Alamos in New Mexico, which is where he takes his life. Moorcock’s Pyat is surrounded by the hideousness of modern warfare at the century’s beginning in this first installment of the colonel Pyat quartet. Estrin’s Samsa is literally in the center of an explosion that will make previous horrors of combat seem almost humane in contrast.
What with Pyat’s distaste for much of humanity and cynical disregard for their state of existence, one might think that his was the darker tale. Samsa, while easily more likable and at first impression a more lighthearted soul, is actually the troubled representative and denizen of the century. Upon further thought, it is exactly that which makes Pyat unattractive that ensures his durability in a century of hate, genocide and disaster. Samsa’s irrepressible optimism and larval innocence render him dead almost as soon as his transformation is complete.
Unfortunately in terms of this review, Moorcock’s book is but the first of a quartet. Meanwhile, Estrin’s narrative is complete. This leaves the reader unsure where Pyat’s path of cynical self-assurance will take him as he travels into the century. Estrin’s Samsa, on the other hand, by deciding his fate, ends the narrative and his existence, seeming to say that the only real liberation from the madness of the modern world lies in death. Since this is so, it becomes important to Samsa that he determine how and when his death occurs instead of leaving it up to other human forces over which he has no control. By doing so, his hope is that his death will have some meaning.
There is a poem by the US poet Randall Jarrell titled “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner.” In this poem, Jarrell defines the emptiness of death in modern warfare in a simple line: “When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.” His compatriot, the Baltimore-born poet Karl Shapiro, goes even further on this theme in his poem “Auto Wreck;” placing the entire scale of our lives into the meaningless of that frequent event. This kind of death, he writes
… spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones.
In a contradiction that defies the miracles of modern technology and the possibilities for a long and meaningful life, it seems that the primary accomplishment of modern life is how meaningless it has made death.
Ron Jacobs is the author of The Way the Wind Blew: a History of the Weather Underground and Short Order Frame Up. Jacobs’ essay on Big Bill Broonzy is featured in CounterPunch’s collection on music, art and sex, Serpents in the Garden. His collection of essays and other musings titled Tripping Through the American Night is now available and his new novel is The Co-Conspirator’s Tale. He is a contributor to Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion, published by AK Press. He can be reached at: email@example.com.
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RONDA — Back-to-back.
The Lady Cardinals secured their second-straight Mountain Valley Conference tennis title Thursday afternoon with a 9-0 victory over West Wilkes, posting a 13-1 mark in league play.
A year removed from a perfect 16-0 conference season, East Wilkes was forced to replace four of its six starters on the court, making the challenge of repeating far more difficult.
But seniors ShaNisha White and Molly Callaway — playing at No. 1 and 2, respectively — paced the squad as the Cards won 13 of 14 league matches to claim the title.
White finished the MVAC season with one loss, dropping a tough decision to Ashe County’s Hallie Brown in September, to lead the way. Brown powered the Huskies to the 2A conference title.
Filling in behind White and Callaway were first-year starters Kayla Pardue and Kennedy Lester, who brought senior leadership to the court despite a lack of experience. McKenzie Stokes and Abby Burchette rounded out the East’s top six.
Stokes posted an undefeated conference slate and No. 5.
After wrapping up the league’s top seed, the Cards secured a bye in the opening round of the 1A state dual team playoffs, set to kick off next week.
But first, the squad will look to add individual medals to its already-impressive ledger with the conference tournament Tuesday at the Elkin Tennis Center.
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Linemen work to restore a distribution pole affected by a fallen tree in Coral Gables, Fla., in 2017.
Source: Florida Power & Light Co.
Florida Sen. Joe Gruters, a Republican, has introduced Senate Bill 796, which would require investor-owned utilities to submit storm protection plans for hardening grid infrastructure and managing vegetation to the state's Public Service Commission. In turn, the utilities would be able to recover capital expenditures related to their hardening work through a recovery clause, rather than base rates.
Gruters is confident that his proposal to require utilities to file long-term plans for protecting transmission and distribution lines from major hurricanes will pass in 2019's legislative session, the lawmaker said.
Florida's utilities currently incur and recover from ratepayers the costs of repairing infrastructure after a major storm and, since the 2004-2005 hurricane season, of hardening the grid prior to storms.
Under the legislation, the PSC would have to approve an initial plan covering the subsequent 10 years within six months of each utilities' filing. The commission would also conduct an annual proceeding to allow the utility to recover storm protection costs. Utilities would have to submit an updated report at least every three years to the PSC.
"This will allow the companies of Florida to be able to plan and be able to tackle these projects in a systematic way to create maximum efficiency throughout the state," Gruters said in a March 21 interview with S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Costs recoverable through the storm protection recovery clause would not overlap with costs recoverable through a utility's base rates. If a capex cost is recoverable through the storm protection clause, the utility can recover annual depreciation on the cost, and a return on the depreciated balance of the costs related to the return on equity approved by the PSC in the most recent rate case or settlement.
Gruters hopes the bill will push utilities to harden the entire state's grid infrastructure above and below ground, starting with communities most at risk of power outages in major storms. Preventive measures would reduce power outages and help both utilities and ratepayers save money over the long term.
"We've been hit so hard in the past couple of years and we're going to continue to get hit," Gruters said. "I think people are committed to doing the right thing for Florida and making sure that we become a leader in the nation when it comes to resiliency and reliability for power grids."
Since SB 796 was filed on Feb. 6, the bill was unanimously approved by the Innovation, Industry and Technology Committee and the Infrastructure and Security Committee. Its next stop is the Appropriations Committee before the full Senate. "I fully anticipate this bill passing this cycle," before the legislative session ends May 8, he added. If passed, the bill would take effect July 1.
Strong storms, such as hurricanes Matthew, Irma and Michael, have pounded the Sunshine State in recent years, testing utilities' restoration efforts and storm reserves and hitting customers' monthly bills. In February, Gulf Power Co. asked the Florida PSC to charge an additional $8 a month to its 136,000 customers to recover $342 million of costs from Hurricane Michael and replenish its storm reserve. Florida Power & Light Co. was able to forego seeking $1.3 billion from customers for Hurricane Irma restoration costs thanks to the federal tax overhaul that passed at the end of 2017.
Gruters said under his bill, he hopes customers will not have to pay more, but at most monthly bills would go up by $1 when the utilities complete their storm hardening projects and present their case for recovering costs to the commission.
"All you have to do is look at Gulf Power and their $8/month ratepayer increase request in the PSC and you could see we're better off doing this now and taking the necessary steps," he added.
Duke Energy Florida LLC, FPL, Florida Public Utilities Co., Gulf Power and Tampa Electric Co. – which would have to comply with the bill if signed into law – are keeping an eye on SB 796 as it makes it way through the legislative process. So far, none of the investor-owned utilities in the state have spoken out against the bill. Representatives for Duke Energy Florida, a Duke Energy Corp. company, and Florida Public Utilities Company, a Chesapeake Utilities Corp. subsidiary, separately said the companies are monitoring the bills.
Spokespeople for FPL, a NextEra Energy Inc. subsidiary and Gulf Power corporate affiliate, and Tampa Electric, an Emera Inc. subsidiary, said the utilities support the bill since it would help with long-term planning for storm hardening to make the grid more resilient.
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hes been in 3 "fight of the year"s
HOF is not about pure talent but about your contributions to boxing. And fight of the year is not for some club level talent but is picked amongst world level boxing that is shown on hbo ect. Everyone knows he wasnt the most skilled but he was a belt holder and brought many exciting fights, many more than the average fighter did.
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I can tell you the reason the nurses just click, click, click..
The 'IPOC' is just a reiteration of everything you have been doing for your patient, and nine times out of ten, you are going to choose progressing.(because your patient is progressing through your plan of care) For example, if your patient comes to the hospital with a blood glucose of 300, chances are you are going to initiate a plan of care that addresses abnormal serum glucose. You will be checking your patient's blood sugar regularly, administering insulin, giving a carb consistent diet, teaching about the disease process, consulting a nutritionist, etc. Sounds to me like a decent plan of care, right? Well, you can't just do your plan of care. We have to meet quality measures and prove that we do have a plan and we are acting on it. So even though you know and I know you have identified a problem, chosen a plan of actions, intervened, and reassessed, you have to prove to anyone accessing the patient's records that you have done those things. So, we click click click on our chart, chart, chart! That is the purpose of the IPOC. | <urn:uuid:b4ea13ec-564f-48bb-9a45-9d757db2d0f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://allnurses.com/general-nursing-discussion/ipoc-857120.html | 2017-08-22T02:27:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886109803.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170822011838-20170822031838-00395.warc.gz | en | 0.950678 | 240 |
Cannabis tax windfall won't solve provincial money problems — here's why
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- The provinces are about to start making a lot of money off of legal weed, but while estimates vary, it seems pretty certain that the windfall won't be enough to solve their money woes.
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection is beefing up security along the Canada-U.S. border as the number of illegal crossings rises.
- The family of kidnapped African billionaire Mohammed Dewji is offering a $567,000 reward for his safe return, no questions asked.
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Cashing in on cannabis
Recreational cannabis becomes legal at the stroke of midnight across Canada tonight.
And while there are still lots of "unknowns" about the coming weeks and months — from the efficacy of new anti-pot-driving laws, to the legality of workplace bans, to the future of the black market — one thing is not in doubt.
Governments are about to start making a lot of money from legal weed.
Estimates vary. The tax deal that the provinces struck with Ottawa last December — a 75/25 split, with the feds' take limited to $100 million a year — was based on a projected $400 million in total annual revenue. Which is significantly less than the $618 million a year projection that the Parliamentary Budget Office came up with in its 2016 report on the fiscal fallout of legalized cannabis.
Outside analysts, however, have been throwing around much bigger numbers.
Last spring, CIBC predicted that Canada's retail pot market could top $6.5 billion by 2020, more than what is currently spent on hard liquor and almost as much as wine. It said the provinces would take home more than 70 per cent of the profits and taxes, some $3 billion a year. (A couple of years earlier, a different CIBC report suggested the market could be as big as $10 billion, generating $5 billion in revenue for governments).
Meanwhile, a 2016 Deloitte survey of cannabis consumers suggested the total value of the marijuana business in Canada, including paraphernalia, lab tests and security, will be closer to $23 billion.
The provinces are being a little more circumspect.
Cannabis revenue estimates tabled this past spring ranged from a low-ball $1.8 million in profit on $5.8 million in retail sales in Newfoundland and Labrador — less than tiny PEI's $7.5 million in revenue — to Nova Scotia, which was predicting a budget surplus of $29.4 million based mostly on its take from an expected $87 million in pot sales.
However, Ottawa's decision to push back the legalization day from July 1 to Oct. 17 has messed with the numbers a bit. New Brunswick, for example, revised its cannabis revenue forecast from $6 million down to $3.6 million for 2018.
And changes of government have made things a little more opaque. The Ontario Liberals had been predicting a net loss over the first two years of government-run cannabis stores, before a $100 million profit in 2021. All of which has changed with Doug Ford's decision to move to private retail outlets.
Philippe Couillard's Liberals in Quebec had maintained that they had no profit motive whatsoever, amid plans to set the price of pot at a little over $6 a gram, four bucks less than much of the rest of Canada. New Premier François Legault wants to raise the legal age for cannabis from 18 to 21 and ban smoking in all public places in the province.
The most realistic estimate might be British Columbia's, with a projected government revenue of $200 million by the spring of 2021 and at least $75 million for the coming fiscal year.
Even that is likely blowing smoke, judging by revenue in the U.S.:
- The state of Colorado, with a population of 5.6 million — 800,000 more than B.C. — sold $1.95 billion Cdn worth of legal cannabis last year, collecting $319 million in taxes and fees.
- Washington State, population 7.4 million, raked in $412 million Cdn in revenue from legal marijuana in 2017, up almost $168 million from the year before.
Yet the windfall from cannabis may not make that much of a difference to provincial bottom lines.
In British Columbia, cost overruns alone for the Site C hydroelectric dam — now with an estimated price tag of $10.7 billion, $2.4 billion more than envisioned — are the equivalent of almost 15 years of predicted pot profits.
Last week, the Alberta government pledged $700 million to a possible Calgary 2026 Winter Olympics — roughly 27 years of its estimated $26 million annual take from legalized pot.
And just this morning Ontario's fiscal watchdog, the Financial Accountability Office, tabled a report estimating that the Ford government's decision to scrap cap-and-trade will result in $3 billion in lost revenue over the next four years. That's 30 years worth of what provincially run cannabis stores are predicted to have netted.
All suggesting that cannabis consumers aren't the only ones taking a break from reality.
David Common travelled to Maine and spent time with the U.S. Border Patrol to find out more about who's crossing illegally — and why some are choosing to jump back into the United States after making it to Canada.
My left foot was in Canada. My right foot in the U.S. Who wouldn't hop between the two countries for fun when walking along the world's longest undefended border?
"I've been counting," the border patrol agent in a nearby pickup truck told me. "You've broken the law more than 10 times."
So I stopped.
Luckily, we were on a ride-along with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, so my border-hopping didn't put me in his sights for arrest.
More than 32,000 others have done what I did, leaving the U.S. and walking into Canada without going through an official border crossing-point, except they intended to stay. Now the first batch of their asylum claims are being heard and some are being told "no" by Canada, which has American border agents on guard for their return south.
"The government has deemed that their claim is not valid," the U.S. Border Patrol's Houlton Division chief Dennis Harmon told me from his unmarked vehicle on the gravel road in rural Maine that separates the two nations. "We have some of those people trying to effect their illegal entry into the U.S."
The U.S. border agents I spoke to continually stressed the excellent information exchange they have with their Canadian counterparts guarding the border. They said they also appreciate Canadians who call them directly, to mention things like a suspicious car on a border road. They've been getting a lot more of those calls lately.
While some of those making the crossing are people who left the U.S. for Canada illegally and have decided to return, others are believed to be arriving in Canada directly from Mexico.
It's been a couple of years since Ottawa dropped the visa requirement for Mexican citizens. That means it can actually be cheaper to just buy a flight from Mexico to Canada, get to a quiet part of the border and walk across, rather than pay a Mexican smuggler and take your chances crossing into the southern U.S.
It's not exactly streams of people, mind you. Yes, apprehensions are up 60 per cent in just this one sector of the Canada/U.S. border. But we're talking dozens of people a year, not the hundreds a month illegally crossing the U.S/Mexico border.
And yet, any increase gets attention — enough that the border patrol has added agents and technology to detect illegal crossings along the northern frontier.
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The family of a kidnapped African billionaire is offering a $567,000 reward for his safe return, no questions asked.
Mohammed Dewji, a 43-year-old entrepreneur worth an estimated $1.5 billion US, was snatched from outside a luxury hotel in the Tanzanian capital of Dar es Salaam early on Thursday morning. He hasn't been heard from since.
According to witnesses, a team of three masked, English-speaking men were lying in wait in the parking area of the Colosseum hotel when Dewji, a fitness fanatic, arrived for his daily workout just after 5:30 a.m. They bundled him into a car, fired a shot into the air to dissuade hotel security from pursuing them, and were gone within 30 seconds.
Yesterday, Dewji's company MeTL — a textile, flour and beverage conglomerate — tweeted details of the reward with the hashtag #BringBackOurMo. Azim Dewji, the kidnap victim's uncle, told reporters that the family is only interested in Mohammed's safe return.
"We want to assure anyone with the information about the whereabouts of our son to come forward and we will treat their information as secret."
Kidnapping is a growing problem in Tanzania. At another press conference yesterday, Kangi Lugola, the country's minister for home affairs, cited 56 kidnapping incidents over the past three years.
Police successfully rescued 22 of the 27 victims in 2017, Lugola said, and have freed 17 of the 21 people taken so far this year. (For a while after Dewji's kidnapping it seemed the police had succeeded again, but the reports of his liberation proved false.) The motives ranged from revenge, to political vendettas, to "economic witchcraft beliefs."
The American-educated Dewji is an internationally known figure who served for 10 years as a member of parliament for Tanzania's ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi party and sponsors the country's biggest soccer team. Forbes ranks him as Africa's 17th richest man and the continent's youngest billionaire.
Dewji does not employ bodyguards. He had driven himself to the hotel in his black Range Rover with its hard-to-miss "MO 1" vanity plate.
Police have brought in more than two dozen people for questioning in connection with the kidnapping, including employees of the hotel and Dewji's company. No suspects have been identified, although investigators have said they believe that the masked men are white.
MeTL is Tanzania's largest domestic company, employing some 24,000 people. Dewji also heads two foundations devoted to ending poverty in the country. In 2017, he pledged to give away at least half his fortune, following in the footsteps of Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.
Tanzania's government is promising a swift resolution to the kidnapping.
"The police will never rest until the culprits are brought to book," Lugola said yesterday.
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Today in history
Oct. 16, 1993: Blue Jays fever? Not so much for 1993 World Series
The Toronto Blue Jays' second straight World Series appearance somehow didn't feel quite as special as the first. Hats and t-shirt sales were a little slow, and the scalpers were having trouble getting the sky-high prices they wanted for SkyDome tickets. It all led Paul Hunter to suggest that maybe fans were getting a bit blasé about success. Until a week later, when Joe Carter hit a walk-off home run to seal the deal and Torontonians danced in the streets.
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Friday, 29 July 2011
Favourite Things Friday
This little treasure is the result of unpacking. (I have found soooo many things that could qualify as a FTF item!) I went to a punch needle embroidery class sometime (I have no idea when!) and I made this. I love it. I have done two other embroideries (both have been made up into something) and that's all. I really like the whole process of punch needle and the finished product. I really must do more!
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By Anne Gagliano
|The Gagliano boys getting their tree many years ago…|
Tradition is a comfort and a cornerstone; it is a source of strength and identity. I think firefighters appreciate tradition more than any other profession, for firefighting is an honorable job that involves life and death situations. Without the solidity of tradition, firefighters couldn’t do what they do.
The word tradition means to pass culture, custom, and heritage down from one generation to the next. The rookies learn that which cannot be found in a textbook from the veterans. Tradition is the art of learning by doing; it is the act of cementing who you are.
Families have traditions as well, and these traditions are essential to helping raise solid, beloved children. Never underestimate the importance of your holiday traditions, no matter how trivial they may seem. Even how or where you get your Christmas tree has meaning to your kids. A dear friend of mine recently shared with me her family’s struggle to find a time to get to the tree farm–a tradition they’ve practiced for years. She has four very active kids, three of whom are teenagers. They finally settled on a day they were all free–that is, except for their oldest son. They assumed he wouldn’t mind missing out, since he’d seemed a bit disinterested in family gatherings of late. But happily, they were wrong! When he learned that the tree outing was to take place without him, he protested and insisted they pick a day when he could go too. Tradition–it has meaning to even the most distant of teenagers.
What is it about tradition that is so powerful? I think it is best described in one of my favorite musical movies of all time, “Fiddler on the Roof.” As the movie begins, we hear the haunting yet joyful strains of a distant violin. The camera pans over a humble farmyard then focuses on the farmhouse, where we see a fiddler precariously balanced on the rooftop peek. Then into the frame walks Tevye, a poor milk man with a rich character. Tevye says, “We are all like fiddlers on a roof–trying to scratch out a pleasant tune without breaking our necks. Why do we stay? Because this is our home. How do we keep our balance? That I can tell you in one word: Tradition. Tradition has helped us keep our balance for many years; because of it every one of us knows who he is. Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as a fiddler on the roof.”
I think only a firefighter can truly appreciate the urgency of balance on a rooftop! One wrong step and down you go! Tradition gives you strength by preparing you to face the shaky precariousness of life. It is learned and ingrained in you at home (or at the station) through repetition demonstrated with care.
Our holiday traditions are just as essential to our well-being, for they help complete the soul. Your children watch you, and they learn who they are by your example. Think about what you show them as you prepare to celebrate this year. Repeat the meaningful traditions, and start new ones. My most joyous and memorable childhood moments are of Christmas. Because they are repeated year after year, they become ingrained in our memories. They become part of who we are. If you only do something once, it is more easily forgotten.
One of our most cherished holiday traditions is one we started when our boys were old enough to understand it: We began finding meaningful little stories or scriptures to read to them between rounds of opening gifts. This slowed the process down and made the morning last longer and have more sentiment. Some years we had the boys find their own things to read to us. This has helped incorporate a little more meaning into the day, as opposed to having it be just about gifts (although gifts are special too!) Another favorite Gagliano tradition is to celebrate “Christmas Adam.” This is the name we’ve given to December the 23, the day before Christmas “Eve.” On this day, my husband Mike surprises us with a new game, and we play it all that day, just the four of us, to have time alone before we get together with the rest of our extended families.
Mike and I have traditions we share just between the two of us as well, for we believe it is so important to have time as a couple, away from the kids. Each year, we make a special trek to our favorite mall (which is quite far away), and we shop just for each other. Then we go out to dinner, like a real date. On Christmas Eve, we exchange our private, romantic little gifts, after the kids have gone to bed, and when we’re finally alone. This reminds us of who we are apart from our children. Traditions like these, for both the entire family and just you as a couple, make the holiday season sentimental and so very precious.
This year we are watching our newly married son struggle to meld his beloved family traditions with his new bride’s family traditions. It is both joyous and painful for us all, as both families are very close and very “traditional.” It’s a good problem to have; it should be painful to say goodbye. Tradition has helped our son and our new daughter-in-law to be strong in their love for family and for each other. And we are so pleased to see that our son is already picking up where his father left off; he is planning and strategizing ways to surprise and delight his bride for Christmas on his young and limited budget, just like his father. One generation has passed down a meaningful custom to another: Tradition.
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San Francisco Reverse Mortgage Lenders
All Reverse Mortgage® is proud to be California's #1 Rated Reverse Mortgage Lender by the BBB with a Perfect 5.0 Stars and A+ Exemplary Rating. We currently lend in 16 states and our headquarters are right here in sunny California.
All Reverse Mortgage was incorporated in CA November 2004 and as the name implies, the only loan product that All Reverse Mortgage® originates is in fact, the reverse mortgage.
We’re committed to be your lender because you deserve the best rate at the lowest price possible.
We’re a HUD Approved direct lender lending the national HECM programs and offer a suit of Non-FHA & Jumbo Reverse Mortgages to better suit homeowners in Northern California with higher value homes over the national 2018 lending limit of $679,650.
We welcome you to compare our reviews and our lower rates and closing costs to any other major lender! The difference is clear, and we can’t wait to show you!
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San Francisco Direct Lenders
United Southwest and All Reverse are approved lenders with HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) to originate, underwrite and close the HUD Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM or "Heck-um"). The HECM is HUD's acronym for their reverse mortgage loan.
All Reverse Mortgage originates in San Francisco and closes both refinance loans where borrowers already own their home and are looking either pay off their existing loan and have no more monthly mortgage payment, utilize their equity for other purposes if they have no existing loan or possibly a combination of both.
About All Reverse Mortgage
The owners and management of All Reverse were part of the team that wrote and sold the first fixed rate jumbo reverse mortgage in 2008 and as such, have extensive experience in jumbo or proprietary loan programs as well. We are always looking for new products to offer to borrowers of high valued homes in the higher home priced markets that the HUD HECM may just not serve as well. Jumbo or proprietary programs typically offer much lower Principal Limits as they relate to values though so not all borrowers are better served with the jumbo programs.
Only a seasoned originator can readily inform borrowers which program will best suit their needs and the positives and negatives of each so that the borrower can make an informed decision. It is no longer uncommon anywhere in the country for a market to be a solid HUD HECM market and then within just a short distance for a niche jumbo market to be located where there is a need for a jumbo program.
Therefore, homeowners aged 62 and above in all markets have seen that the reverse mortgage can be a very solid financial tool and many are now seeking the reverse mortgage to augment their retirement plans and not so much the mortgage of last resort. Everything from the elimination of the existing mortgage payments to the line of credit that grows make reverse mortgage borrowers understand that this program allows them to utilize their homes to not only live comfortably in their family home, but to plan for the future as well.
Bay Area Lending Limits
Those living in San Francisco know all about the popular visiting places like the Golden Gate Bridge and Fisherman’s Wharf. What some people don’t know is how difficult it is to keep a house in San Francisco, especially in places like the bay area. At All Reverse Mortgage we will give you the maximum lending limit and customer service for your reverse mortgage needs.
Borrowers in this area where the median home price is above the HUD maximum lending limit (such as many parts of San Francisco, CA) need to consider the additional benefits of the HECM credit line growth rate. What does this mean for local homeowners whose property value may be at or above the HUD limit of $679,650? More borrowers are apt to have higher credit lines available when the loan closes. Borrowers who get a reverse mortgage with a $200,000 available line of credit after paying off any existing liens and mortgages (many will have significantly more) will experience significant growth in the line available to them over time. In 15 years, a 62-year-old borrower in San Francisco would have over $500,000 available if they left the funds growing. If that same borrower had no current loan to pay off, he/she would have nearly $800,000 available to borrow if needed. That's guaranteed borrowing power and allows borrowers to plan for future expenses by knowing what funds will be available to them in advance.
If you reside in San Francisco All Reverse Mortgage® is here to answer your questions. Access our free calculator to estimate your reverse mortgage lending limit or call us Toll Free (800) 565-1722
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At VROCC, we use the power of arts and culture to teach, inspire, and perpetuate values that bring people together. We help to raise bilingual loving men and women, and future leaders that appreciate and embrace diversity.
Veronica Robles Cultural Center (VROCC) mission is to promote Latino arts and cultures as an engine for stronger communities and economic growth.
Inspiring and encouraging community action for social change and racial equity by teaching, promoting and celebrating the rich cultures and colors of the Latin American communities in Boston.
Stronger communities are made possible through collaborations with municipalities, state government, and human service providers across our state. Because of our emphasis on arts, music and cultural programming, VROCC is seen as a safe ambassador for immigrants and their families and a touchstone to their heritage.
We achieve economic growth by encouraging creative entrepreneurship among youth; and offer space and resources for professional development to aspiring and consolidated artists, as well as to community members.
Although VROCC is an abbreviation of our name it also stands for
Values, Roots, Optimism, Cultures and Communities
Where We Are Now
Today VROCC, provides a space where cultural traditions are promoted, and respected. We facilitate cross-generational relationships and learning opportunities around arts and culture. Also, we develop programs for cultural integration.
VROCC, a fully immersion Spanish environment, where children learn various Spanish cultures.
Veronica has created an amazing Spanish community at VROCC, we are so honored to be part of it.
My son Bodhi and daughter Thea started with VROCC in the year 2015. I had searched for Spanish immersion classes of any sort, to continue on their journey of learning the Spanish culture. Some of their ancestors come from Venezuela, but unfortunately no Spanish cultural traditions were passed on.
Finding Veronica, and what she has put together at VROCC is exactly what I was looking for: a fully immersion Spanish environment, where children learn various Spanish cultures (dance, music, art, theater).
The plus (that I didn’t expect) was a loving, nurturing environment. VROCC community very much reminds me of what I grew up with in our Canadian German community, and I can’t say how thankful I am of what Veronica does to embrace the Spanishculture.
Friede our youngest started this year, and she can’t get enough of “La Bamba”.
Thank you Veronica!
VROCC, helping raise loving men and women.
VROCC, a place to call home away from home.
Virtual Classes & Performances
As everyone across the world stays home to stop the spread of COVID-19, we have decided to have some of our classes and events online.
VROCC’s Dancing Elotes project provides jobs to youth and brings art, culinary traditions and traditional dance to the East Boston Farmers Market every Wednesday. This project allows VROCC to reach a broad spectrum of people, support artists and partner with other community organizations.
Veronica Robles Cultural Center’s (VROCC) mission is to promote Latino arts and cultures as engine for stronger communities and economic growth.
Become a member today, and support VROCC’s initatives to keep our classes, events, and performances going!
Volunteer with VROCC and help us to fulfill our mission of promoting Latin American arts and culture, as a way to make communities stronger and foster econimic growth among the youth.
Meet the Founder
Veronica Robles is a woman of courage and principles. As a cancer survivor, she lives her life to the fullest, filled with joy, passion, and love. Her work honors the memory of her only daughter Kithizia who passed away as a teenager. Kithzia was a beautiful dancer and loved her culture. Through her parents community work, she learned to love and celebrate the cultures of other countries. To cope with the immense pain and sadness that haunts her every day, Robles and her husband decided to open Veronica Robles Cultural Center (VROCC), a non-profit organization in East Boston to teach the values of love and respect.
Get in Touch. Get Involved.
Back in 1870 the first library branch in the United States was opened in East Boston, and in 2020 the same building became home to Veronica Robles Cultural Center
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Do you BuJo? Truth be told I never use that term when talking about Bullet Journaling but it made for a snappy open. The question does remain, do you, or have you ever kept a bullet journal? I started it a few years ago and never in a million years thought I would keep up with every month for this long. For me bullet journaling gives me a place to be a little creative, and keeps me accountable of all my monthly goals. It's my happy place, the book that comes with me everywhere and I take joy and pride in updating it.
I take inspiration from a lot of people on YouTube and Instagram. My two favorits are Amanda Rach Lee and Temi Danso. I love their approach to journaling and I have used a lot of their monthly themes as inspiration keeping in mind that I have very little drawing talent, but this is my space to practice right? I have planners and traveler's notebooks where I keep a calendar and daily agenda and notes so my bullet notebook is for my monthly goals and trackers. I always include a list of goals, and I always include a daily yoga tracker. I like to tie my tracker into the theme for the month and over the many months I've had a lot of fun with this.
The Pac-Man ghosts was probably one of my favorite yoga trackers, I feel when it's fun it encourages me to do the yoga so I can draw another little ghost! I don't get caught up in the fact that my bullet journals don't look like anyone else's, I take the inspiration and run with it. Bullet Journals were meant to make order out of chaos and I feel mine do that for me. Trackers, brain dumps, lists, goals, all organized in a notebook that is playful and creative and mine.
Over time I have added different trackers, when I write, when I create, what we watch, what I read, what new recipes I try. These trackers motivate me to try and watch new things, I want to fill in the boxes, I want to be able to look back on this book and have something tangible showing future me what I've accomplished. Trackers have changed, I used to track aerial classes I took and now I just track workouts that aren't running or yoga. I have gone from tracking new recipes to just tracking food I cook, I like seeing the patterns of what I make every month and what new things I try. I allow my book to change with me and my needs.
Here are my tips for starting on the path of Bullet Journaling:
Track what you want to track - Don't compare yourself to what other people track or use their journals for.
You don't have to be an artist - You don't have to be an incredible artist to keep a bullet journal, you can draw as much or as little as you want, you can use stickers, paper, washi tape. Do you!
Treat yourself to a good book - I use Archer & Olive books. Heavy weight paper is key for me as well as strong binding. I purchased a low quality book and all the pages fell out and I was disappointed. If you have something nice to use you will be more inspired to use it.
Bust out the pretty pens and markers - Add color with markers and pens, let yourself go and enjoy it!
BE YOU - I basically say this in every one of the above tips but it is the most important. Track what you want, keep your calendar, draw, use stickers, add photos, whatever you want to do, whatever you want to share, whatever you have to say - this is your place to say it, draw it, write it, track it!
I share my adventures in bullet journaling with you because it is something that has made a difference for me. It is also something I have been able to easily adjust to fit my needs during these months of being home. Keeps me grounded, makes me happy and allows me to play and I encourage you to do the same. Have you tried bullet journaling? Would love to hear about or see what you have created. | <urn:uuid:2782fe70-8152-41dd-8a8b-296838a0f4eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://www.adventuresbydani.com/post/let-s-talk-bullet-journals | 2022-05-25T16:43:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662588661.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220525151311-20220525181311-00190.warc.gz | en | 0.97493 | 850 |
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This is where we start being melodramatic. We mean, we have just experienced a fantastic week of Eurovision extravaganza, we got a winner we could only dream of and a fantastic celebration of it all and suddenly we find ourselves dressed in cotton on our own filthy sofa without a Maltese knight in sight? Not cool at all.
Europe changed a little last night. Who would have known everyone from Italy to Georgia to Sweden could vote for the bearded diva CONCHITA WURST? We believe in humanity again now. Her thank you speech pretty much sums it up:
This night is dedicated to everyone who believes in a future of peace and freedom. You know who you are. We are unity. And we are UNSTOPPABLE!
If there is one person who is unstoppable it is Conchita herself. Wow, we are so proud to be a part of an event that creates such understanding and acceptance. We will cry a little for Eurovision’s achievement every day now, that’s how moved we are. In your unbearded face, Putin!
We were of course disappointed for Malta. We think they did great and hoped they would get better reward for it. Then again, if you spend your time gathering your tensing choir instead of hanging out with your favorite bloggers in Euro Club, that’s what might happen. We also noticed Richard claiming a song about the first world war is based on a personal experience and regret never getting the chance to ask him about time travel. We want Daniel Testa and his fabulous dancers next year, peeps. Elfejno hmistax!
Denmark did such a great job hosting, but their song was all flaggate. As if anybody would like that song any better if the giant flag Basim made in preschool fell down on the end of the entry instead of only falling half down. Poland, however, won the reward for the best multiuse potential. We figure they can solve the next butter crisis in Norway, clean all our Eurovision dresses and send boob tv to Italian viewers in only three minutes. Sounds promising for the future, so we’ll stay in touch.
We have made quite some effort at being better gays than some of our gay friends and have attended all parties possible. Many great people to hang out with there, but no sign of dapper bloke or The handsome family from Malta. Greece quickly became popular with us after dancing with us, though, and so did France. Note to self #1: The song you hate the most will end up as one of your favorites. Makes sense in Eurovision. Note to self #2: Favorites should always be chosen based on who can party.
Now is the time for that serious sit down talk with Greece, though. We did love their trampoline and all, but one also needs a song to score more than a few neighbor friendly points. We can now reveal they actually had a song. Only it didn’t win the national finals for some totally incomprehensible reason. Now, what did we learn from that, greeks? Never keep Kostas Martakis away from an international crowd. It is time for Europe to support the nation of philosophers and stone carved men during this hard, Eurovisional crisis. Please sign and share our petition to get Kostas Martakis for Eurovision 2015. On a trampoline, of course.
We love Azerbaijan for giving us all things free and lovely. Recently we learned that they have 300 bottles of cognac in their hotel rooms because they weren’t allowed to hand it out to the press. Bad move, security people. Not sure if it is actually true or just a last, desperate try to get us into their hotel room, though, but we are starting to know the Azeris pretty well, so probably. Any questions about the funding of it all can be sent directly to Statoil, Fornebu, Norway. Thank you, Norwegian tax payers.
Lastly, we need to talk about the booing.We get that people are mad at Russia for their somewhat troubled political views in issues like facial hair and television scheduling, but was that really necessary? There’s no need to ruin a perfectly bad song performance for those twins. They did that well on their own. From now on we think everyone should ask themselves “What would Conchita do”? And Conchita certainly wouldn’t boo.
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The slow train to a brand new me!! 5:2 ing all the way
Hello 5:2ers. I'm not new to dieting, i've done it for most of my life with varying degree's of success. My recent dabbling was with Cambridge diet, i lasted all of 2 days!! I was hungry, cranky and miserable.
I have recently discovered 5:2 and finished to Michael Mosley book today. Today, as it was also my day off work i have stocked up on herbal tea's and a light ready meal for my first fast tomorrow.
It all seems such a revelation to me. But i've read so many success stories and even though it seems the weight loss is slightly slower than a conventional diet, it seems more liveable and enjoyable.
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After an extended drought, it really is easier to believe it will probably never ever rain once again. Discover why you need to hold looking up.
People who find themselves unmarried, but don’t want to be, find it easy to understand Einstein’s concept of Relativity. He as soon as said, „place your hand on a hot stove for a minute, therefore may seem like an hour or so. Stay with a pretty lady for an hour or so, therefore appears like a minute. That’s relativity.“
Any individual willing to spend time with a pretty lady or a good looking man, but instead has endured numerous years of fruitless researching, does not have any trouble imagining the „hand-on-a-hot-stove“ example. The prospect of another time by yourself feels just as if the years have stopped entirelyâand that love will never arrive.
„Never“ is actually an infectious word, like a flu trojan. When you have caught it, everything loses the luster. Exhaustion and depression become direct weights strapped to your feet. All you want to-do is stay static in bed and pull the covers over your head.
As justifiable because mind-set might be (the kitchen stove really is hot, after all), it isn’t very helpful. Because unlike the true flu virus, that one won’t disappear by itself.
Happily, you will find a remedy. Just as your condition started as an ideaâthat real love is a rare creature it’s likely you’ll never ever seeâit can conclude with one aswell. Right here really: appreciation is definitely deeper than you might think. That’s not another unused credit card motto. Simple fact is that reality. Love is always close by, even though all appearance argues against it.
The intimate comedy „Love in fact“ begins with a montage of pressing views filmed at London’s Heathrow airport. One after another, men and women come through the arrivals entrance and generally are greeted by some body they like. They embrace and kiss. They cry, they laugh. Hugh give narrates the imagery:
„Love is every where. Frequently it isn’t really particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it is usually there: fathers and sons, moms and daughters, husbands and spouses, boyfriends, girlfriends, old buddies ⦠in the event that you choose it, I got a sneaking uncertainty that love actually is all around.“
While you are fixed to resist words like „hopeless“ and „never,“ you will see proof love wherever you go. Might prevent visualizing huge ranges between you and the passion for your life. Instead, you will imagine that they’re just around the corner. You’ll identify the love you can see between a small youngster and her grandfather during the playground, or close friends huddled for hours over coffee. Really a ubiquitous existing that never ever ceases to flowâand which currently carrying you and your partner toward both.
Really love is better than you would imagine. Write these words on gooey notes and wallpaper the world with them. Hook them up to your bathrooms mirror, within vehicle, beside the sleep, on the inside of your front door, so it is the very last thing you see prior to going away. It will help make the hrs of awaiting romance feel like moments instead.
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How to be the Perfect Farm Wife
€12.95 – €65.00
- How can you get your farmer away for a holiday?
- How can you feed eight contractors with ten minutes notice?
- How can you get along with your mother-in-law (especially if she is an Irish Mammy)?
- What do you do with a wellie with a hole in it?
These questions, big and small, and many others are answered by farmer’s wife and writer Lorna Sixsmith. She knows what it is like to have the village appraise your signature dish, how to stay calm during the dreaded “testing”, how to interpret “farm speak”, and what to do to keep the hens happy.
More importantly she knows how to cheat to give the impression you are a PERFECT farm wife. This book is packed with history, advice, recipes, hints and tips (and quizzes along the way to see how you measure up). The best advice is always to keep a sense of humour, and Lorna’s shines through in her writing.
This is a perfect read for all farm wives and girlfriends (and husbands and boyfriends), and country lovers everywhere.
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Billy Corgan, Jack White, Trent Reznor, The Edge, Daniel Lanois, Joe Perry. They’re just a few of the big name guitarists who swear by the strange sounds, textures, interfaces, and custom paint jobs of Zachary Vex’ boutique effects pedals.
“Being weird makes me stand out from other pedal manufacturers,” Vex says. “Weird sounds get people talking. There are a number of musicians who want to produce sounds that make them stand out from the crowd. Our stuff appeals to those players.” And those players are willing to shell out too: The pedals cost between $250 and $500 each.
The light bulb moment
The first pedal Vex ever built was formed out of a small plastic fishing tackle box. “My older brothers got me into electric guitar and they worked at an injection molding company so we had lots of these plastic boxes around, and they and my cousins played through a Maestro Fuzz Tone at my uncle’s house, which I found extremely exciting-sounding,” says Vex. “In high school I heard that sound again. A student was in a practice room with a guitar, amp, and some little box with sliders on it which sounded identical to a Jordan Boss Tone. I knocked on the door and introduced myself, and he explained he’d broken his Jordan enclosure so badly he had to re-house it. A light bulb went off for me. I realized I could build my own effects. I used a schematic from an article in Popular Electronics (my mom got me the subscription) and built my first fuzz in 10th grade, and sold it to that student for $10 a few weeks later. He loved it.”
Vex then went on to build and sell tube amps and amp modifications throughout the 1980s. He did electronics tech work, owned a recording studio from 1985 to 1991, and then worked as an independent recording engineer/producer until 1995. That’s when he started Z.Vex Effects.
Startup funds came from a strange source; The city paid Vex to relocate him and his roommate from their loft because a Federal Reserve Bank was being built next to the property. Vex lived off that money for a couple of months and was able to take a break from recording to work on electronics.
Vex: “My first Z.Vex pedal was an improvement on an Apollo Fuzz-Wah fuzz, which was the Octane. I showed it to Nate at Willie’s American Guitars in St. Paul and he immediately ordered three. I hadn’t planned on going into business, it just happened by accident. I started making a living within about two months after the pedal company started. A meager living, but a living. I believe my apartment was about $300 a month.”
“Being weird makes me stand out from other pedal manufacturers.”
That was in June of 1995. Vex’ signature pedal, The Fuzz Factory, was designed during a late night that November. He recalls, “I remember staying up all night working on it, falling asleep and, upon awakening, wondering if it still would sound as cool as it had the night before. It did! I was in heaven. I loved how weird it was. I had no idea others would like something that essentially sounds out of control on many settings.”
Become a viable business
At first, distribution came one store at a time. Vex explains, “My first advantage was getting into one very famous store, WIllie’s American Guitars, then into his friend’s store Make’n Music, and then going on a road trip and getting into Rudy’s Music Stop, which caused us to blow up as a result of PJ Harvey’s guitarist Joe stopping in and buying an Octane, Fuzz Factory and Super Hard-On, and then writing about them in Guitar Player magazine. That was probably 1996 or 1997. We were able to get into a lot of other stores after that. Now I’m not really the ‘little guy’ anymore.”
It was a viable business almost right away, according to Vex. By 1996, he had to hire an assembler and had already gone through three painters. Now, he employs six full-time people, three part-time, and a number of independent contractors, as well as partnering with a manufacturer in Taiwan for the Vexter products, a more affordable line of pedals that are hand-silkscreened instead of hand-painted.
The Taiwanese partnership raised eyebrows at first. Vex says, “Many of my dealers warned me off introducing the Taiwanese copies of our Fuzz Factory and Box of Rock, saying it would destroy our credibility. I saw it as an opportunity to introduce many other players to our products, people who knew who we are but couldn’t afford the hand-painted, lifetime warranty products. I knew it was a good idea. It was scary, though. Going into the unknown is always scary. But fun.”
Vex is now bringing an open-source mentality to the pedal world with The Inventobox. It’s a DIY pedal kit that lets you alter circuits and create your own pedal sounds. It also includes wires, tools, and spare parts you need to put it all together. Vex plans to give away his pedal recipes online for free too.
Vex envisions hackers will use the Inventobox, which ships in April, both for tweaking his designs and for developing their own pedals. The modules can be chained together, so people can layer multiple tone circuits on top of one another inside a single pedal.
Vex says he intends to eventually publish each of his designs for free on the internet, giving away the schematics and the instructions on how to assemble the circuits for every last one of his signature pedals. He is also creating an iPhone app that will let you purchase new pedal modules as they become available and view the published schematics.
“I’m going to be giving away all my secrets,” he says. “People are already hacking my pedals anyway, posting my designs on the various forums. So, I don’t care what they do to them.”
Why the push to get The Inventobox and this information out there? “I thought it would be a great thing to get people started understanding electronics and keep the spirit of DIY alive,” says Vex. “I thought about how wonderful it would have been had something like this existed when I was a kid and my dad and I could have worked on it together.”
“I thought about how wonderful it would have been had something like this existed when I was a kid and my dad and I could have worked on
He’s not worried about clones either. “Most people who ‘rip off’ pedal makers can’t provide the support – repairs, answering questions, replacement parts and pedals – for serious musicians. They tend to be fly-by-night. We have trademark protection in many countries and if someone insists on advertising using my name or the pedal names we just shut them down, and usually they end up paying us for years.
"It’s not about the schematics. It’s about the support, the history, the ability to get replacements anywhere in the world. Customer service is very important. If a player isn’t willing to pay $179 for a Vexter Fuzz Factory then they probably wouldn’t buy one anyway if they’re buying a $100 copy. You really do get what you pay for. You can sell Z.Vex Effects used for a very good price. Selling a clone is pretty difficult. People wonder: Why is the guy selling this used clone? Maybe because it doesn’t sound good? What if it doesn’t work? Who do I contact?
"That’s one thing that has really helped us over the years. If someone sees a genuine Z.Vex pedal on eBay at a great price and they’re not sure if it works, they know they can get it fixed right and fixed cheap (or free for life, if it’s hand-painted) so they don’t have to worry about the condition of the electronics."
The Minneapolis office
The Z. Vex offices are in a a building in Uptown, Minneapolis, on a long greenway. “It’s a hip neighborhood with a lot of fun performance venues and great bars,” says Vex. “My employees generally set their own hours, some arriving early, some staying late into the night. I usually come in during the afternoon and work into the evening with my engineer Joel. We like the later hours because there are less interruptions. I’ve always been a night person. People are often amazed that I answer their emails instantly at 3AM. Seems normal to me. I was up until about 8AM the night I designed the Fuzz Factory.”
Zachary Vex replaces a tube.
The kooky signature paint jobs on the pedals started out because Vex couldn’t afford silkscreening. “The reason I hand-painted them from the start was that I was producing so few that I couldn’t afford to have them silkscreened,” Vex says. “I just sprayed them in a cardboard booth with a little exhaust fan pointing out the window and used paint pens at first to decorate them. Later I found artists that made them more appealing, and now we have two full-time and several independent painters that put on some of the most beautiful designs we’ve ever produced. It’s really fun.” There’s even a custom paint store online now.
The company also threw up explanatory videos to sell pedals, long before YouTube existed. They were a result of Vex’ long-time administrative assistant and sales person telling him they needed video demonstrations of the pedals so she wouldn’t have to explain what they did and how to use them over the phone. “It was an instant hit for us,” he says of the videos. A self-described “natural joker,” Vex narrates all the videos himself (sample).
His goals for the company are modest: “Keep it running, keep it growing steadily. I’m not trying to get rich. Just keep it all steady and solid.” After years of trying to get signed with his bands or make it as a recording engineer/producer, Vex says, “This seems too easy. I guess it’s the thing I must be good at. It’s a blast! I love making pedals. I’m always working on solving some little production problem. My business is like a hobby where I get paid to be as weird as possible!”
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It’s Episode 160 of In the Mood for Podcast, a British-based film podcast hosted by Calum Reed of Ultimate Addict and Pete Sheppard of In the Mood for Blog.
This week there’s a ton of news, as we discuss the possibility of Damian Lewis as James Bond, the decision by Sean Penn to sue Lee Daniels, and the final submissions for the Foreign Language Oscar, which include a surprising move from the French committee, and a nationally-questionable entry from Ireland. The week’s reviews see us tackle the frosty climate and eclectic cast of Baltasar Kormakur’s “Everest,” Cal caught Anthony Hopkins’ clairvoyant antics in “Solace,” while an unforeseen plot device in Jack Black comedy “The D Train” saw us glimpse far more of him than we’d like. Elsewhere, Ryan Adams’ cover of Taylor Swift’s album has Pete enthused, and the week’s array of hunks pleases Cal greatly.
The week’s news:
- Sixty years without James Dean
- Damian Lewis rumoured to be the next James Bond
- Sean Penn sues Lee Daniels for $10m
- Foreign Language Oscar deadline ends
[4:45 – 20:40]
Opening Segment: This month’s Red Light District, featuring discussion of “Daisy Kenyon,” “It Follows,” “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,” “Singles,” “So I Married An Axe Murderer,” and “There’s Always Tomorrow”!
[20:45 – 30:10]
- The D Train 34:35 – 47:20
- Solace 47:21 – 54:04
- Everest 54:05 – 1:07:30
Shag, Marry or Kill?
The Garrett Gauge
Outro Music: The Waterboys, “The Whole of the Moon”
Episode 89: Bad Badinage
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It’s Episode 89 of In the Mood for Podcast, a British-based film podcast hosted by Calum Reed of Ultimate Addict and Pete Sheppard of In the Mood for Blog.
In this week’s episode we finally put 2013 to bed with discussion of Sunday’s Oscar ceremony, which features theories on how rule changes may have helped a certain Italian film, and when on earth Amy Adams will get her moment in the sun. A listener question turns our attention to acting winners of years gone by, while we review airborne mystery/thriller “Non-Stop,” the first part of the racy “Nymphomaniac,” and Akiva Goldsman’s bewildering “A New York Winter’s Tale.” We have our say on holocaust drama “The Book Thief,” but did its Oscar-nominated score make as much impact on us as its intermittent voice-over? Plus: listen to find out how Uma Thurman is channelling Gena Rowlands this week, why Lars Von Trier’s use of Shostakovich is questionable, and a story from Pete about how unwelcome ‘entertainment’ almost turned nasty. It’s all about the badinage.
Introduction and non-film news
Discussing the winners of this year’s Academy Awards, plus a listener question!
[4:25 – 22:40]
- Nymphomaniac: Volume I
- The Book Thief
- A New York Winter’s Tale (mild spoilers!)
[31:40 – 1:17:50]
The Poupaud Range
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If you’ve spent any time on theFashionSpot forums over the past few years, you’re well aware of complaints that Karl Lagerfeld has let standards slip when it comes to Chanel ad campaigns. According to our members, he once again fails to bring his A-game to the new Fall 2017 campaign, which they deem “underwhelming” and “disappointing.” Playing it safe, Lagerfeld taps regular Chanel girls Cara Delevingne and Lily-Rose Depp, who pose against a basic white backdrop in the familiar surroundings of Karl’s photographic studio in Paris, while modeling Chanel’s space-inspired collection.
The campaign failed to propel our forum members into another dimension. “The most depressing Chanel campaign yet! But guess what, it won’t hurt their books because people are suckers and will still buy this,” stated an underwhelmed Benn98 straight away.
“I expected more, a whole lot more. This is pitiful. Why bother with shooting a campaign if it’s going to end up looking like a basic look book?” asked a dumbfounded GivenchyHomme.
“I’ve seen basic look books looking far more exciting than this,” replied mackos.
Anlabe32 agreed, saying, “This is inexcusable. So extremely bad. Why have two socialites who do nothing for the clothes? Is it really only for the marketing? Karl needs to leave and take Carine [Roitfeld] with him, both have become insufferable. I imagined this campaign with Cara Taylor and Birgit Kos in a very futuristic setting and was so excited but deep down I just knew it would have a random socialite in it!”
Lola701 shared the same sentiments. “I’m not even disappointed. I mean, I love the collection but we can’t say that the Roitfeld/Lagerfeld collab at Chanel has produced flawless campaigns. Between the random choices of models or the more than questionable sets/photography – we kinda end up with nothing,” she pointed out.
“Completely devoid of any spark or creativity. Still, as said here, Chanel is such an institution a dud campaign will hardly affect their earnings,” stated magsaddict.
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MELBOURNE GUITAR SHOW Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 August, 2019 Caulfield Racecourse Australian Musician, in conjunction with the Australian Music Association is thrilled to be able to announce the 2019 Melbourne Guitar Show. We have assembled an inspiring array of guitar players at the Melbourne Guitar Show. Here's just a taste of what's to come The Australian Music Association is thrilled to announce the 2019 return of the Melbourne Guitar Show, set to rock Caulfield Racecourse and I know we say it every year but this year WILL be bigger than ever. Proudly presented by Triple M and Australian Musician, the lineup boasts an impressive haul of both local and international artists. In addition to world class performances from the artists on this massive lineup, #MGS2019 will also present a massive gear expo that will feature a huge variety of electric and acoustic guitars, effects pedals, amps and more state-of-the-art guitar technology, both home-grown and from around the world. See, Try and Buy! It will continue to be Australia's biggest guitar pop-up shop, and that's not all. The Melbourne Guitar Show will host information seminars, demonstrations, and live performances from Australia's most talented guitarists. The first lineup announcement for #MGS2019 includes a great mix of guitar talent including Keith Merrow and Dennis Jones, both from the USA, will join the usual eclectic and star-studded local list which this year features; Ash Grunwald, Sarah McLeod, Lloyd Spiegel, Stars; featuring Mal Eastick, Nick Charles, and Roger McLachlan, plus Sarah McLeod, James Norbert Ivanyi, Anna Scionti, Robyn Payne's Engine Room, and that's just a taste of what's to come. Check out the performer page for more!
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William Rufus King (1786-1853) was a founder of Selma, AL and Vice President of the United States. He is buried in Old Live Oak Cemetery at Selma. At his gravesite is a historical marker that contains the following details about the life of William Rufus King:
Inscription on marker:
William Rufus de Vane King (1786-1853): Native Sampson County, North Carolina. Admitted to bar, 1806. North Carolina House of Commons 1807-1809. U.S. Congressman 1811-1816. Secretary U.S. Legation Naples and St. Petersburg 1816-1818. Moved to Dallas County, Alabama, 1818. A founder of Selma; named city. Delegate Alabama Constitutional Convention 1819. U.S. Senator 1819-1844, 1848-1853. U.S. Minister to France 1844-1846. President pro tempore U.S. Senate 1836-1840, 1850-1852. Vice President of United States 1853.
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A few weeks ago I went to the open house for the new coffee roastery that Ritual Coffee Roasters is opening up in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood. The location will primarily serve as a roastery for their wholesale operations, but they have plans to open a small cafe in the front. Of course if you are not in San Francisco you can always purchase their wonderful coffee beans online.
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Over on the video-sharing platform TikTok, videos with the hashtag #samfender have received more than 258m views. There is cameraphone footage of his gigs, clips of his TV interviews and lists of “top tier indie bois” in which the 27-year-old singer-songwriter seems to rank highly. And there are a wide selection of videos for which the title track of Fender’s second album provides a soundtrack. It plays behind montages of holiday snaps, perfunctory visual guides on how to cook a steak sandwich and how to crochet a tote bag and a bafflingly popular video featuring someone mashing up doughnuts with a pestle and mortar.
And why wouldn’t Seventeen Going Under provide a soundtrack for happy summer memories and doughnut-based antics? It’s propulsive, possessed of a breezy melody and a wordless middle-eight that might have been designed for crowds to woah-oh-oh along to in the huge venues Fender started playing after his 2019 debut album Hypersonic Missiles went gold. Yet it opens with a grim description of numb teenage nihilism (“I remember the sickness was for ever, I remember snuff videos”) shifts into a rumination on violence, toxic masculinity and mental illness, and concludes with the image of Fender’s mother, mired in debt and suffering from fibromyalgia, crying after an unsuccessful application to the Department for Work and Pensions.
It’s a useful indicator both of the unique position Fender holds – a white twentysomething male singer-songwriter with a mainstream pop audience who is distinct from all the other white twentysomething male singer-songwriters – and of the tone of his second album. It isn’t a vast musical leap from his debut. Fender’s primary influence is still Bruce Springsteen, mostly in soaring-anthems-decorated-with-saxophone mode, although the reflective piano ballad Boss of Racing in the Street or Stolen Car lurks behind closer The Dying Light. And the rhythms of his songs still lean towards clipped and taut, equal parts motorik beat and the Strokes circa Hard to Explain. But it offers a big qualitative jump, particularly lyrically. It pares away its predecessor’s well-intentioned but clumsy broad-brush politicking and replaces it with sharp details born of personal experience. It shakes off Springsteen’s lyrical influence, most notably the desire to add romantic, novelistic sheen: there’s a potent collision between the stirring air-punch-inducing quality of the music and the bleakness of what Fender has to say.
The end product is both commercial – big choruses, sticky melodies – and an arresting portrayal of life in his home town, North Shields, “as little England rips itself to pieces”, in the words of The Leveller. The whole thing simmers with a compelling anger, which boils over both on the disarmingly pretty Paradigms – “no one should feel like this” – and Aye, a song that inhabits white working-class disillusionment: “The woke kids are just dickheads.” The beat feels less hypnotic than unrelenting, the melody is scraped away to a monotone and as it reaches its climax Fender’s voice takes on the keening quality of John Lydon: “I’m not a fucking patriot any more… I’m not a fucking liberal any more, I’m not a fucking anything or anyone.”
Elsewhere, his gaze shifts inwards. There’s been surfeit of self-examination in pop over recent years, but Fender’s approach is too acute and unsparing to be dismissed as millennial solipsism. Mantra takes that traditional second album standby, the prematurely jaded fame-isn’t-all-it’s-cracked-up-to-be whinge and turns it on its head, concerning itself not with the unedifying sound of a pop star complaining about being a pop star but the “self-loathing” of impostor syndrome. Spit of You deals with father-son relations in bleakly moving terms, where qualms about an inherited bad temper and an inability to communicate are undercut by the sight of his dad kissing the body of his grandmother in a chapel of rest: “One day, that’ll be your forehead I’m kissing.”
It goes without saying that this is not the usual stuff currently served up to lovers of top tier indie bois: in 2021, what you might call mainstream alternative rock still sells in album chart-topping quantities, small as they are, but it seems moribund and faceless, a placeholder for people who either missed out on Britpop or wish it was still with us. Seventeen Going Under feels urgent, incisive and brave when it would have been easier for Fender to deck out his festival-ready, TikTok-able melodies with something notably blander and less pointed. Instead, Seventeen Going Under is an album rooted in 2021 that, in spirit at least, seems to look back 40-something years, to the brief early 80s period when Top of the Pops played host to the Specials and the Jam. The result is really powerful.
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Are you listening? Not just pretending to hear, but really listen? When we take time to quiet all of the other voices going on around us, and listen to what our hearts are trying to tell us? We have to make that time. HAVE TO! We all are busy in our daily lives, with kids, spouses, work, other responsibilities, etc. It seems like it never ends. I know time is my biggest enemy. I need more of it or need to use it more wisely to accomplish more. I really am trying to listen because there seems to be signs and occurences that seem to be trying to get my attention. I have to listen to whatever is being shared with me. Some times our plans do not seem to serve those we are meant to serve in our life. I am meant to serve others with my ramblings here and in person. I don’t hear what I say when I am talking to others but have been told after the fact that it was neat to watch. I have never seen it and I am such a hard critic of myself, that maybe me watching it would not be a good idea. Listen to those that seek you out – they are coming to you for advice or help. Be willing to share what you have with them. They will always remember that. Listen to what is not said – sometimes we learn more from a touch, from a smile, from a kind gesture. It costs you nothing and you may have just made someone’s day by saying, “hello”. Listen to your heart – it will never steer you wrong and will provide you with all of the answers you seek. Use your heart as your internal compass and it will ultimately guide you to where you are meant to be. Listen to the joy when you can give it away. It is too much for you and you are repaid two-fold when you give it to someone else. Be humble and appreciative for where you come from, how you are today, and what road you must still travel. If you choose to listen, you will be amazed at what you hear. But you have to be open and really concentrate…even on those things that never make a sound. Those are the ones we all search for, but you know it when you find it. Don’t ever let go.
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Adobe made it official today: no updated Creative Suite applications for sale in the future (standalone or suites). Creative Suite 6 is the last in the boxed line of software. In the future, new versions of Photoshop and the other CS apps will be by monthly rental only. That includes the version that will include the motion blur sharpening tool Adobe demonstrated at PhotoshopWorld and other places recently.
If you have a CS3 or later application, you'll be able to get your first year of Creative Suite Cloud applications (coming this June) for US$360 (US$30/month). The regular price will be US$600 a year (US$50/month). The good news—according to Adobe—is that for that price you get access to all the Creative Cloud apps for that price, plus other benefits (your basic assets and preferences are synced across the cloud no matter what computer you're using them on, for example).
Of course, if you were just a photographer using Photoshop as an adjunct to Lightroom (which isn't a cloud app and still remains a standalone boxed product) on one computer, you're suddenly burdened with what will be a US$20/month Adobe tax (for a single cloud app) if you want to continue that process. A lot of this group skipped every other update, so their net cost worked out to something under US$17/month.
This also raises the issue of plug-ins. Google gobbled up Nik recently, and I'm sure they are thinking cloud photography in some way, too. With Adobe disappearing into frequent cloud updates (or so they say), how long will it be before Adobe announces an "add-on" plug-in cloud option?
Adobe says that they'll "continue to sell and support Adobe Creative Suite 6 applications, and will provide bug fixes and security updates as necessary." This statement has no meat on it. For how long? How much priority will they put on bug fixes and security when it isn't their main product? What happens when the code bases start to diverge and it becomes more difficult to keep engineers up to speed on the CS6 code? Given the terrible digital rights management (DRM) in CS6 (I've had to reinstall once, and I've been hit with multiple sequences of re-entering license information, which is a real hassle when I'm traveling), how fast do they want to shut that server down?
Personally, I'm wondering what happens when Adobe gets hit with a denial of service hack on the server that checks to see if people are paid for the month. We've already had one instance of a photographer using Creative Cloud who didn't have Internet service (in Antarctica) when the software went to check his status and shut him down.
My guess is that Adobe just put a cap on the size of their market. Microsoft has their finger in the water with a similar approach for Office 365, but that's a bit different in that it's at a much lower price point, services more users (a household's set of computers), and is still just an option.
As you might guess, the Internet is all abuzz at this news, with lots of Sturm und Drang in the posts. I do think that a lot of people are forgetting about Photoshop Elements, which like Lightroom, isn't running to the cloud (yet ;~). Though I note that Pixelmater today is #19 overall in the paid apps in the Apple App Store, while Adobe Photoshop Elements 11 is #170. (Pixelmater is a Macintosh-only Photoshop-like editor.)
For the time being, CS6 users don't have to worry. But remember, ACR iterates with the Photoshop version, which in the future will be Photoshop CC (according to Tom Hogarty, the product manager, there will be one more iteration of ACR for Photoshop CS6 users). That means your next Nikon camera might not be able to be used with your current CS6 version of ACR. Of course, Adobe will say that if you just subscribe to the Creative Cloud, you'll be protected from that problem forever...wait, no: as long as you pay your bills and can get to their server.
Sigh. I've lived on the technology front edge for almost 40 years now. I've been through a lot of brutal transitions because of that. There's a good chance that many of us will be going through another soon. The problem I have this time is that while I can see the advantage for Adobe, I really don't see much of an advantage for me to make the switch. Indeed, for the implied extra cost--unless they want to permanently grant the discounted price to those of us who've been around since Photoshop 1.0--it just feels more like a pending price increase than anything else.
This one is going to end up a Harvard business school Case Study for future MBA students to chew on. What makes me think that some of those students will come up with a better answer than Adobe did, one that doesn't upset their user base nearly as much?
Update: Several of you have asked me what I'm going to do. Honest answer: I don't know for sure. I've been a suite user, but frankly the latest version of InDesign broke a number of my documents, the latest Dreamweaver still sucks at a lot of things and shows serious signs of neglect, and even Photoshop hasn't delivered many new, useful things to me. My main reason for keeping Photoshop up to date has been ACR, actually. As I did when I abandoned Office, I'll have to think about where I want to go and what I really need moving forward. The natural thing to do is to "just say no" to Adobe and not grace them with any more money. They've already managed to make Acrobat a mess and I stopped upgrading that (the last reasonably decent version was 9.5, and we're on 11). | <urn:uuid:e10bea12-de4b-4271-bb41-564e841ba12a> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://dslrbodies.com/accessories/software-for-nikon-dslrs/software-news/older-2013-software-news/dont-say-i-didnt-warn-you.html | 2017-03-26T20:44:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189252.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00580-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968499 | 1,226 |
NEW YORK —
Thousands of pigeons with tiny LED lights strapped to their legs swooped through the darkening skies in a jaw-dropping display of beauty, but savvy New Yorkers gazing up at the performance art knew enough to keep their mouths shut.
As evening fell over the Brooklyn Navy Yard, once home to the nation's largest naval fleet of carrier pigeons, artist Duke Riley opened an enormous coop and released the homing pigeons of his "Fly by Night" project.
At the call of his whistle, the massive flock took off and circled for 30 minutes late Thursday over the deck of their temporary home on a decommissioned U.S. Navy ship, following a bamboo pole waved in the air by Riley.
Pigeons with LED lights attached to them land as part of the "Fly By Night" art installation by artist Duke Riley above the Brooklyn borough of New York, May 5, 2016.
What resembled air-borne embers swirling from a campfire were actually LED lights in the birds' leg bands, which historically were used to carry messages.
"It is a collaborative project between me and the pigeons," Riley said. "It's a performance or maybe it's just a drawing that they are doing in the sky."
The show will be repeated every weekend evening from May 7 through June 12.
Riley's flock includes a variety of specially trained pigeons, some of which are his own, while others were purchased or borrowed from pigeon fanciers.
After the project ends, Riley will keep many of them as his pets.
"Fly by Night," which was presented by the non-profit organization Creative Time, comes three years after Riley's 2013 performance piece "Trading With the Enemy," in which trained pigeons carried cigars from Havana to Key West, Florida, to protest the U.S. embargo of Cuba and challenge American spying capabilities since the birds evade surveillance equipment.
Pigeons with LED lights attached to them sit by their coops before becoming part of the "Fly By Night" art installation by artist Duke Riley above the Brooklyn borough of New York, May 5, 2016.
The New York City project pays homage to pigeon-keeping, whether for sport, service or companionship. Once a popular pastime on city tenement rooftops, the hobby has dropped off amid escalating real estate prices.
While dubbed by some New Yorkers as "rats with wings," pigeons have been revered for thousands of years, dating back to the ancient Christians of Cappadocia in Turkey, who valued the birds for their excrement, a rich fertilizer.
Pigeon droppings were also at the top of the minds of wary art lovers on Thursday, as 2,000 birds flew overhead, threatening to anoint onlookers with what some superstitions define as good luck.
"It was not a concern of mine at all because most animals, including humans, usually don't like to defecate while they are exercising," Riley said.
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"Canada's thoughts and prayers are with our Australian friends," Harper tweeted.
Police in Sydney said they were dealing with "an armed incident," but wouldn't confirm hostages were being held inside the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Sydney.
Television footage shot through the cafe's windows showed several people with their arms in the air and hands pressed against the glass.
TV footage showed two people inside the cafe holding up what appeared to be a black flag with white Arabic writing on it.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to speculate on whether the incident was linked to terrorism.
Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird tweeted late Sunday that he was in touch with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop.
"We continue to monitor the situation in Sydney closely," Baird tweeted.
The situation in Australia came nearly two months after Harper and Baird were at the centre of a crisis that gripped Ottawa, where a lone gunman killed a Canadian soldier and then stormed the Parliament Buildings before being gunned down by security.
A spokesman for Baird said late Sunday that the government is in close contact with its diplomatic posts in Australia.
"We urge all Canadians in Sydney to use extra precaution and limit their movements as authorities handle this situation," Rick Roth said in an emailed statement.
"We have offered Australia any assistance Canada can provide."
Canada has a consulate in Sydney that is roughly one kilometre from where the cafe involved, but Baird's office said all staff at the mission are safe and accounted for.
With files from The Associated Press
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The Role of the Multidisciplinary Team
The Special Education Evaluation/Placement Team always includes the child's parent or guardian as a valued member of the team. Evaluation, program, and placement decisions are made by a group of persons each representing a different area of expertise (multidisciplinary team). Depending on the child's needs the team may be made up of a few people or several. Team members include the child's parent(s) or guardian, the person making the referral (often the classroom teacher), a special educator, and the team chairperson. The team may also include a speech/language pathologist, school nurse, occupational therapist, guidance counselor, or psychologist. A parent or guardian has the right to request other involved and appropriate people to attend the team meetings concerning the child.
The Team receives and reviews each potential special education referral and determines the next step for that referral. The parent/guardian is involved at every step in the process, as is the team. No one person can make a decision regarding a child's evaluation, coding, or placement.
There is a Multidisciplinary Team in each school, grades K-12, in the Governor Wentworth Regional School District (GWRSD) The contact person for each team is the Diagnostic Prescriptive Teacher (DPT) who serves as the chairperson of the multidisciplinary team. For referral of preschool children (ages 3-5), contact the Preschool Coordinator in the Superintendent's Office. (603-569-5167). | <urn:uuid:7617e0b7-e31a-4e22-a521-4fea3713dc2c> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.gwrsd.org/special-education/referral-process | 2023-01-30T05:09:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764499801.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230130034805-20230130064805-00439.warc.gz | en | 0.937474 | 313 |
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In Path of Exile, the Atlas of Worlds 2.4.0 update added channeled skills. These skills, namely Incinerate, Flameblast and Wither, are unique in that players activate the skill and continue activating the skill until they release the key that activated it to begin with.
In order to keep the skill going, players repeatedly pay mana until the mana supplies are depleted. The mana cost is required to be applied in order to maintain the channeling skill for the same frequency and duration.
Game mechanics can also interrupt channeling skills, and these mechanics include dying, being stunned, various injuries, and other mechanics that interrupt other non-channeling skills.
Survivability is one of the biggest concerns for Path of Exile players when activating channeling skills, since vulnerability becomes an issue.
However, the developers over at Grinding Gear Games have stated that channeling skills scale well with casting speed and attack speed, which makes it a credit to the player to be able to dodge well and reposition themselves when engaged in combat. Meanwhile, they have intimated that they are currently entertaining the possibility of adding support gems that trigger while channeling skills are active. If this comes to fruition, they would be among the most useful and sought-after Path of Exile items to obtain.
Among the most effective mechanics for mitigating damage and otherwise avoiding getting hurt while using channeling skills include Block and Dodge, and, to a lesser degree, Evasion. Fortify, movement skills, and awareness can also enable gamers to mitigate damage while in the midst of an active channeling skill.
Theoretically any setup that can increase survivability while only using passive defenses would be a good fit for players who use channeling skills religiously. For example, a Righteous Fire with Vortex Guardian build, as well as a well-leveled Inquisitor with high Life and Mind over Matter skills can prove useful and effective. Essentially, building your character along the lines of an Aegis Tank Fire Ray also makes perfect sense, because of the high Energy Shield and Life pools afforded by going this route.
Arctic Armour is another formidable defensive skill that players can activate while using a channeling skill. It protects players against physical and fire damage while the character is stationary. And since the trail of ground ice in Arctic Armour is scalable, with a generous 2.5 seconds afforded at the baseline level, this is plenty of time for players to increase survivability when using a channeling skill.
Meanwhile, there are other options that players have when managing skills, much like managing PoE items. Instead of self-casting the channeling skills individually as needed, players can place these skills on the Spell Totem. By doing this, they have the potential to beef up the channeling skill to astonishing levels of destruction.
Invoking the Spell Totem for channeling skills may in fact become a problematic strategy, especially if the developers become cognizant of any overuse or imbalance in strength favoring savvy players who use the Spell Totem to put their channeling skills over the top. For the meantime, if a strong offense proves to be the most effective defense, then players may adopt – and stick to – this strategy to increase survivability. | <urn:uuid:f33dd015-e32a-4541-9152-ef037d0ea696> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://d2legit.com/blog/path-of-exile-channeling-skills/ | 2017-04-24T19:06:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917119782.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031159-00216-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943196 | 649 |
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There’s a really snotty attitude towards the political in novels. Maybe because life has been settled in this sceptered isle for so long, immune to invasion, governed in peace with histories of triumph and consistent progress. So, many English novelists have had the luxury of turning to the interior. The comfort of seeing the individual as something somehow independent from all around them: the book as an excavation of the self. This soon could all change; we live in an age of convulsion and confusion that feels unprecedented. Brexit, Trump, the speed of technology and economic change have created a long endless pit of uncertainty. The Deliveroo job has made us nostalgic for the McJob, Trump for Bush and fellatio in the oval office seems quaint compared to a President wanting to grab women by the pussy.
As the children of immigrants, this snobbery to the political was always an extravagant attitude. An illusion. Life is always subject to the external trends and policies of others. That is something consistent, your individuality is always subject to the external in an obvious way. How your parents arrived here, what access you have to health and education, who your social peers are, what your prospects are in life, all initiated at some stage by unknown men sitting in offices far away. When the community and society you know is in flux, if not crisis, ideas and the political are a currency, an everyday unit of exchange. You regularly spot how external events seem to overwhelm any individual life.
At some point, though, being a subject influenced in this way irritates. Like that mysterious object at the back of your shoe that you just can’t shake out, being defined outside of your control irritates. It needles and grates and annoys.
This is magnified for many Muslims in the UK today. Race, class, history and religion weave in and out of each, they waft and wane, connect and entwine in a myriad of ways. So the challenge becomes how to define yourself. How to not allow others that infringing liberty, and, at some point, as the individual fights for their individuality within an intransigent society, then there can be a flashpoint. A critical moment where you can fall, lose your footing as you have forever been off-kilter. Where struggle becomes a form of violence.
And this is where I started with my characters in The Study Circle. We are now 20 years into talking about Muslims, yet novels published by British Muslims are scant. At best, we are sold exotica from foreign countries in the “East”, or left with praised caricatures by people such as John Updike in The Terrorist, and watch on as white middle class reviewers praise white middle class authors for the authenticity of their portrayals. They endow each other with laurels and ovation yet “Muslims” aren’t part of the conversation. We are talked about and not with.
Maybe this is just a function of the “market”. But part of publishing’s conceit is that writing upholds the civic discussion that represents and frames our society. Publishing, especially literary fiction, has a pretence as a higher form. It claims that it is more than just a prestigious cultural ghetto. A form that is an essential part of our national conversation. What does it say when important parts of society are outside of that conversation?
Portrayals of Muslims tend towards stereotypes. They boy who cycles down the road, sees large breasts on a Wonderbra billboard and decides on the spot to blow himself up. The shrouded, oppressed girl who watches videos of the latest boyband and then pines for lipstick and mini-skirts. They may indeed be valid subjects, but are so often rendered that they become a coarse, deluded ethnography with no serious capacity to represent the view of the characters themselves, just a projection of an outsider’s anxieties and their own pathologies.
So I wanted to write freely, without that entrapping external gaze. To write with honesty and without a foreign filter. However, in this climate, even an assertion of your voice is seen as a threatening act. Among some Muslims there is wariness of being so transparent as there is the fear of being judged and condemned yet again. In educated non-Muslim circles when I bring up the subject of my book and the travails of my characters, there is an air of discomfort. People are nervous: they don’t know whether to be supportive or condemnatory, so the issues are left hanging, waiting for some social permission to make a judgement one way or another. Of course, that permission will never come, there is no judgement to be made – this is, after all, a literary interpretation, not an essay. The characters are beholden to representing their lives as they themselves see it. Nothing else.
I also felt that unease completely during the writing of the novel over a tortuous two year period. There was a feeling of being transgressive and odd. I felt what my characters feel, and writing in such a hostile age has been mentally exhausting. I felt a lot of pressure with this book due to the dearth of voices from a similar background; that the book bears a weight and responsibility for so many. It can never do this of course. It can only speak for itself and cover the voices of a few out of the many.
There is a lot I’ve said here that people can take issue with. For example, we could delve into the issues of cultural appropriation. It is a thorny area but it consistently provokes a reflex reaction from some that their right to express anything they wish is under threat. The fear that we are entering a form of censorship where writers are unable to write about lives outside of their direct experience. I can’t say I care much about that reaction or the conversation as it seems yet another luxury. A luxury because before many of us haven’t even got to the point of practicing those rights, as the current situation is this: that people are not given a platform to write about themselves, let alone others. There are many who can go through a whole lifetime without seeing their lives represented, and even if they do it is through a completely alien filter.
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I skipped this movie in the theater, and only just recently saw it on DVD. Verdict?
Two Thumbs Down.
The special effects were nice when it came to the sequences in outer space. It was cool to see the various aliens that I’m familiar with in the comics, Tomar Re, Kilowog, Sinestro, and Abin Sur, and were all voice-acted just the way I imagined they’d sound (although in the comics Abin Sur is red, not purple, but I assume they didn’t want the movie audience to think there was a connection between him and Sinestro, who is also red). I was surprised they didn’t add in Ch’p, who is basically a little talking squirrel. The planet OA looked fantastic. The training sequences with Kilowog and Sinestro were cool. But it was the scenes on Earth that fell flat.
I’m not that familiar with the villain Hector Hammond, so I can’t say whether or not they got that character right, but Hal Jordan was all wrong. Just as I suspected from the commercials I’d seen when it came out, it appeared that they were trying to somewhat copy the formula of Iron Man. But Hal Jordan is not an irresponsible playboy. As I think I may have said to y’all back when it first came out, the character of Hal Jordan is straight-laced and in control. He has to be, as a test pilot. His job is to get into brand new experimental planes and push them to their limits to see if anything will go wrong. You have to be “fearless” to do that, and be able to think clearly under extreme pressure and make split-second decisions that could save your life. In the late 70’s, he was teamed up in a comic-book with Green Arrow, as a sort of “odd couple” duo, with Green Arrow as the liberal crusader, while Green Lantern was the stereotypical conservative. So, as a comic-book reader, that was hard for me to get past what I considered to be a huge mischaracterization of Hal Jordan, although I guess that wouldn’t bother the general audience that would be unaware of that.
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So earlier I told you that I would post more about my friend Ashley who is a tremendous poet. She wrote the text for the choir piece that I submitted here. I think it's an amazing poem. I received it from a manuscript that she is currently trying to get published. However, herwork has been published in several journals. More information is at the bottom of this blog.
Other people here have thought so too and have expressed interest in using her work for their pieces. I'm excited for her. I think her material needs as much exposure as possible.
For your reading enjoyment, here is her poem...
TONIGHT I'LL SHAVE YOUR FACE
Not because I do it well or quickly but because it slows us both to notice how the skin is delicate and so determined. You'll look forward at the wall and feel where the razor touches down where I sweep it steadily across that jaw line clenched in sweet suspense. You'll trust me to do this because in the morning I'll boil your breakfast eggs. You'll trust me to do this because I've heard you talk in your sleep— something about your father's camera dropped in the muddy creek. Lately your stubble comes from self-defeat and I know where that comes from too and so you'll trust me with this razor, with the blade that cuts the rough dark hair from its beginning and leaves instead a smooth shadow.
The official bio:
Ashley Seitz Kramer was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. She completed her B.A. at Miami University, and her M.A. at Ohio University in Athens, where she taught writing courses for five years. In 2008, she completed her M.F.A. from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been published in Dogwood, Sow's Ear, Wicked Alice, Gihon River Review, Brevity and most recently in Cutbank. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio and teaches writing at Case Western Reserve University. She collects teapots and and is drawn to all things epistolary. She's currently a finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship.
Tonight I went to an incredible restaurant for the gluten intolerant, Des Si & Des Mets. For dinner they have a fixed price menu that is amazing. 26 euro gets you a starter, meal, dessert, and coffee. SUCH good food. If you have Celiac disease or can't eat gluten I highly recommend it. They spoke English better than I spoke French. Very nice people. Great atmosphere. On a quaint street in Montmartre.
I had une salade de chèvre chaud (salad with breaded goat cheese that was delicious. The greatest start to a meal.
Magret de canard à la crème de framboise, haricots d'Espagne (Pan fried duck with Raspberry sauce and Spanish beans)
Succès aux fraises (some cookie thing with Strawberries). Stinking amazing.
The smallest cup of coffee ever with tasty sugar cubes.
I think food feeds my soul.
On my way to the Restaurant on Rue Lepic I passed this Naturalia store. Great place to get GF food. I've been eating some decent corn flakes for breakfast.
So I guess the last time I posted was Sunday. Wow. Time really flies here. I probably already posted a blog about this last year, but time here is a funny thing. Feels like I've been here for forever and for not very long. Weird to think that I've spent 1/12 of the past two years in a foreign country. And missed the past 2 4th of July(' <- ?)s in the states.
I honestly can't remember what I've done. I know that was the subject of last post, but all the days are sort of the same and sort of different. So it gets a little difficult to separate them out.
So highpoints. I turned in my String Quartet on Monday for the opportunity to have it read tomorrow. It didn't get selected because I told them that I had students that were going to perform it which gave some of the other composers a chance to have their pieces read. The faculty has been really cool about it and may still read it if they have time tomorrow. I hope they do but I'm excited to hear the other composer's pieces. It will be a long day of readings, but I think I'll learn a lot. I heard the student performers run the quartet yesterday. They did a great job and I'm really excited to hear it all come together at the final concert. I think I actually like it better than the midi version. Which is good becaue I was worried I might have demo-itis. I got pretty used to the samples. I might want to try a String Orchestra version after this.
Tuesday was class and I was up super late formatting a score for my lesson the next day. That's all I remember.
Wednesday was good. Another good comp lesson. I've really been enjoying the meetings with Dr. Lasser. However, I kind of got a kick in the gut at this lesson. I showed him my thesis. Which I edited. Which took a long time. We talked about process. He believes that composition and orchestration are different processes. And that when composing, you need to focus on your material. Anytime you try to combine the processes you lose out.
It's peculiar because I've actually been trying to figure out a process of composition that works for me and haven't been able to do it. He suggested that I get this gigantic staff paper and write it out in short score form so that I can see my compositional motives. It's totally worth a shot. What I've been doing hasn't been working the best. The only problem is that he is suggesting I go back through my piece and hand write everything. I think it may take forever :) But I'm hoping the end will go faster. From his rewriting the opening few bars, I already learned about some things that existed that I didn't know about. And got more ideas of different things that I could try. So we'll see. So I'll be doing this, as Michael "Squints" Palledorous said, "Until. Forever. For. Ev. Er."
Thursday, yesterday, I went over to Sacré-Coeur with some friends last night. Gorgeous night for it. Rain came in at the end so we got a bit wet. It was totally worth it to see the sky the way it was. I love that Cathedral. From the terrace outside the cathedral, I could see all of Paris.
It's a weird juxtaposition up there though. Very cool area, but the neighborhood around it can be a little seedy. Just say that Larry Flynt would like what has come up not too far away. Inside the cathedral are these enormous mosaics of extraordinary detail and stunning beauty The biggest mosaic in the ceiling show's Christ's return and tons of people worship Him. His heart is on fire and those that are looking at him also have blazing hearts. And not too far away from all that are people that come to seek pleasure. And others who are objectified.
On the way up the cathedral are tons of vendors peddling little electronic dogs and gold and silver Eiffel Towers. And these dudes from Africa that try to tie these bracelets on your hand and then charge you for it. And they won't quit. So persistent. The only time I've ever heard "Hakuna Matata" used in conversational speech. It was weird not to hear it in the context of the Lion King.
And it I had a weird experience in the church. I was looking at all the surroundings and the hushed and reverent environment. And I passed someone that was fervently praying. And I thought about how something so beautiful could draw so much pain to itself or contain that which seeks absolution or assistance. It was a weird contrast and made me draw a ton of connections.
Sorry about that. I'm going to post a long one tonight. Lots of things have been happening. I think I've stayed up until 1:30 or 2 everynight this week. I'll fill you in this evening. Which would be Friday afternoon for most of you.
Hard to believe it has been a week since I blogged. Well I guess not too hard, but it shows that I´m really losing my sense of time here. Each day has been really long and a lot has happened this week, so throw that all together and you get for my lack of posts.
Monday had class. Nothing unusual I think, but I honestly can’t remember the day. Oh, yeah, started off with me editing the choral piece that was due that day, other than that, I can’t remember what I did.
Brought the George MacDonald Book Lilith to read here because I haven’t read anything in a long time. Great book. I think I started reading it on Sunday night and Finished it Tuesday morning. A great book with some excellent lines. Good food for inspiration.
A few favorites:
"No man knows it when he is making an idiot of himself."
"The still face might be a primeval perfection, the live eyes were a continuous creation."
"The part of philantropist is indeed a dangerous one, and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye."
'In this world never trust a person who has once deceived you. Above all, never do anything such a one may ask you to do.' 'I will try to remember," I answered, "-but I may forget!' 'Then some evil that is good for you will follow.' 'And if I remember?' 'Some evil that is not good for you, will not follow.'
"When a man dreams his own dream, he is the sport of his dream; when Another gives it him, that Other is able to fulfil it."
Tuesday – Bastille Day. As opposed to last year, I didn’t get out. I haven’t had a chance to work on my thesis and I NEED it to be done. So I took most of the day, worked on the piece. Realized that what I had written didn’t work. Deleted it. Improvised something real quick and found that it actually worked way better than what I had in the first place. It also gave me the form for the section I’m in, so I should be ready to go from here on out. I think the creative process is sort of like garage sale-ing. Sometimes you have to wade through a ton of junk to find the one good thing.
That night I headed over to West Country Girl to meet up with Josh and Claudia. It was Country night and some GREAT country music was playing. Also visiting was the group She Keeps Bees and Josh had gone to a show of the group called Here We Go Magic the night before so they stopped by. Around 11:30 the different groups played some of their music and all the tunes with a little country inspiration. Josh closed the night off. Really good night of great music and good conversation. I got on the metro and got back home around 1:30.
Wednesday was slightly less because of the Holiday the day before. Can’t remember what went down except it was busy. Oh yeah, I did go to the old Paris Opera house and do a little touristy photographing and shopping. Sweet place.
Thursday was my comp lesson. Went well. Had some good aesthetics conversation and realized that I had to write more for my string quartet as well as add in more articulations. Lasser gave me some great advice. I’ve really been enjoying my lessons with him. Worked on the String Quartet to show Lasser on Saturday. Concert for Lasser’s music with Dr. Clayton (the chamber department head) performing flute. Got back late, worked on the piece more.
Friday was class all day, getting to school late, realizing that the time I spent in composition kept me from some homework and that I didn’t know some of the stuff in class where I really needed to know it, somehow getting the parts that I sort of knew, and taking frantic notes on the stuff I didn’t, working on the String Quartet. Staying up until 1:30. Or maybe that was Thursday.
Anyhow, had Saturday off, except that I worked on the Quartet to show Lasser, showed Lasser, finished the rest of the quartet and edited the parts. I went grocery shopping as well.
Oh yeah, totally missed hanging out with some friends on two occasions. First, because I forgot the definition of tomorrow as meaning the following day, redefining it to mean two days from then. Next, I said that something that was that same day was the next day.
In other news, the choral piece I submitted was selected as one of 4 to be performed in the final concert. I’m really excited and super grateful. It’s a peculiar experience because I’ll actually be singing my own piece. I set the text of a friend of mine who is a fantastic poet. Her name is Ashley Seitz Kramer and she’s currently shopping a manuscript around. I hope it gets picked up because it is really good. I’ll find out if I can get permission to post her poem on my page, but until then, the title of the piece is Tonight I’ll Shave Your Face.
Went to Hillsong Paris today and loved it. Real refreshing place.
Anyway, that was this week. It feels like a blur. I feel like the tone of this blog has been a little frantic, but life here has kind of been that. Not in a bad way. Just really busy. A really good year though.
And the weather has been amazing. We had a crazy storm Thursday night and the temperature dropped 15 degrees for the next day and today. I’m SO grateful for how cool it’s been.
I’ll try to post some more blogs this week. Cheers!
So Sunday is down day here in Paris. It's about time too. We've been working non-stop since last Sunday. Love it but starting to get tired.
Last night I met up with some old friends from college, one whose husband came along. Awesome night of catching up and conversation. We headed into the neighborhood of Moflkasjlkjaslfkjaslkdfjlaskjf And ate at a creperie and then at a dessert place. First place was rude. Second was rad. Definitely the Paris stereotype but in a good way. French accordian music in the background and delicious food. I had some fruit salad that was served covered in kiwi juice. Really really good.
Today I went to the American Church in Paris. They have a fantastic church on the banks of the Seine and the most beautiful stained glass window that I've ever seen. Good message from Ephesians 1 on us existing for God's glory and all that is connected to the phrase "in Christ".
I've been getting some new ideas that have been rolling around in my head and it's been nice to let them roll around.
1) Courtesy of the Rodin Museum last week. I purchased one of the little guides that gives information about Rodin's work and learned a great deal. First, Rodin has a sculpture of the walking man that presents the act of motion in walking. However, it's not accurate in terms of the actual motion of walking. He knew this. He said that if it were possible to capture the image of a person walking for a brief moment we would probably find that the back heel would already be raising off the ground at the moment of impact of the other foot. However, he said that this would give an impression of suspended animation, rather than the motion that actually occuring at that point in time. He says that it is actually the artist, and not the photograph, which tells the truth.
2) His sculpture of Eve remains "unfinished" through a series of random circumstances. His model was pregnant at the time, although this became apparent as the sessions occurred over time. He kept changing Eve's stomach to match the model until he realized why the stomach was changing. Because of her pregnancy, his model stopped coming in before he was finished with the work. However, he cast it as it is and the effect is very powerful. Eve, the mother of all, pregnant upon her expulsion from the garden. I wondered how often the artist must "incorporate" mistakes to make a piece more powerful. Also, pointing to last year, when is a piece complete? Does completion come when the desired effect is achieved, even though it may not be "done"?
3) Sometimes on the metro I try to imagine that the train that leaves is staying still and that it is the platform that begins to move at such a rapid pace. Sometimes, from inside the stopped train I will look at the other train that is leaving and try to imagine us moving away with that train staying still. However, I can never convince myself of these scenarios because I don't feel the force that should be acting on me in the proportionate way. I wonder how true that is for art? Can a piece that intends to convey a "motion" (an emotion, a melodic or harmonic gesture, a texture, or tone) be thwarted because I have not included the proper "forces" within the piece. I believe the answer to this question is yes, but I do not know what is categorized as the proper "force".
4) Lasser has been talking about the idea that a piece's compositional motive will contain all the material required for the rest of the piece. This is a great way to view composition and is identical to what my current comp professor, Dr. Walicki, has been saying to me for the past couple years. This breeds an organic piece that feels right. However, one of the other ideas that has been discussed here is the effect of the surroundings on that seed. When a seed is planted, it will grow straight. Put a building next to it and that shade will then cause the tree to bend in such a way as to reach the sun. Of course this takes time and is an analogy. But it made me wonder what are the external forces that shape a piece apart from its compositional motive. I think the fact that I write the piece verses someone else is a force. I also think that my emotional, mental, or spiritual state may also have bearing on this. This begs the question, is there a best way or a way to provide the right sort of environment in which to work on the seed? Perhaps inspiration is merely the convergence of external factors in such a manner as to provide for the growth of an idea. This seems simplistic, but may be worth exploring.
I ended up talking about this similar idea with Matthew last night (the husband of Ashli). He's studying (I'm going to botch this) ethics in economics and Christian political thought is thrown in there somehow. Great guy. He and his wife are studying French in Paris for the month and will then return to Edinburgh. We somehow got to talking about technology and its effect on education. One of the articles he read emphasized the idea that we are shaped by our things, not necessarily that we shape our things. Which illuminated the idea of not being able to serve God and Mammon. Simplistic reduction of the conversation, but at least the basic gist.
For those of you who had no idea what I've been talking about, I sometimes use these blogs as a means to process ideas. Definitely need to get them out because I may otherwise lose them. I like thinking about the aesthetic aspects of music, but realize that they are no substitute for technique. Unless I have the means by which to reach these sorts of ideas, the ship may never sail.
Anyway, it's nice here. I feel like it hasn't been any huge revelation that has been the main point of this trip. But the importance has been in all the little things. The window at the church today. The light around the Arc the other day. Getting caught under a tree in a downpour. The mist this morning. The conversations with different people.
Well, I think I'm gonna make some dinner. Maybe watch a movie or read a book or walk around the campus. Or maybe work on the thesis a bit. Still trying to figure that out.
Been working a lot. Lots of homework and really trying to understand the keyboard harmony class. It's been making a lot more sense and has been extremely cool.
Swung by the Arc the other day to take some pictures and see the sights. The lighting was great that day. Wish I could have captured it better.
From the middle of the Champs-Elysees. Took several shots trying to get it straight. Don't have the knack for it I guess.
Last night I visited friends of a friend and made some new friends. The place was a crepe shop called West Country Girl. Super cool vibe though a little far from where I'm staying. Made getting home last night tricky because they closed teh RER B and I had to walk from the end of line 4 back home. Not too bad except I got turned around and realized it after I had walked 2 stops. It tripled my time to get home.
Met Josh and his wife Claudia and the rest of the crew that runs West Country Girl. Night of good food, conversation, and good music. I ate my first oysters and had a baked apple with AMAZING homemade Caramel.
Claudia making a crepe. Josh opening an oyster.
Submitting my choral piece today and meeting up with some old college friends to catch up tonight.
I leave you with this. I think I'm going to start selling these sorts of pictures as blurry prints. I think this will catch on.
The program officially started yesterday. Everything is off to a good start. It's funny how time can go so slowly and yet feel like it's so fast as well. And I'm amazed at the limited capacity of my mind to retain the events of the previous day. I think that's why I tend to post more encyclopedia length posts. Partly because I feel like a lot happened. Partly because I have the tendency to forget.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this is how the program is going:
For those of us who prefer words to pictures, the program is off to an intense beginning. Yesterday was a good day for several reasons (some of them definitely nerd status).
First, I found out I'm getting lessons with Lasser. Such a blessing. He's the head of the program and I was really hoping I'd be able to study with him. I received an e-mail that asked me to request people. It was hard because all the professors are good. I'm excited to study with Lasser because he liked the piece I wrote last year and had offered to teach me privately if I could ever make it to New York. 2nd, I think that the way I write music, and the way he thinks about music and analyzes it bear similarities. I think I'll learn a lot from him. My first lesson is tomorrow at 11am my time. I'll let you all know how it goes.
Second (nerd reason), I found out I made Invertible Cannon and Fugue. I'm really excited to learn how to write in this way. We're moving very quickly through review and I spent most of last night doing the homework for it. I woke up exhausted. Next Invertible meeting is Thursday.
Third, the woman who is the student coordinator found a gluten free store for me. She had passed it while she was getting things set up for the Vin, D'honneur and we went over there last night. I got chocolate muffins, gf pasta, and some gf cereal. Really, really good stuff.
Had chorale yesterday. It's a much more solid group than last year, which makes it fun.
Also started musicianship. Practiced singing clefless music with fixed Do solfege in imaginary Treble, Bass, Tenor, Alto, and Soprano clefs. It was a great exercise. I'm glad I'm taking it this year because the class forces me to learn the basics of music for the rest of the classes. Last year I didn't have that and I always felt slightly behind.
Sent some e-mails today and then headed over for Advanced Analysis class. We studied Schumann's Album for the Young. Humbled me as a composer to see the tremendous craft in the 43 little pieces. Also made me start thinking chicken/egg questions of how much I need to be thinking about what I do when I compose and how much I need to let intuition guide my compositions. I'm assuming that the better I am at my craft, the more all the details I witnessed in the pieces today will begin to creep into my music. However, the details might just be the measure of the individual's talent. If that's the case I pray to God that I can have that gifting. I'm going to work at it as though talent it given by effort rather than grace.
Also found out I'm in Keyboard Harmony 4. That class kicked my tail last year. It is planning on doing the same this year. However, I already find certain aspects that I never could get last year to be coming easier. We're also learning it somewhat by rote. Which is interesting and has already opened my eyes to see the benefit of hearing chords as products of individual voices rather than vertical chords. Transposition becomes simpler because the ear knows the pattern. It makes music portable. Like a circus, I can break it down into smaller blocks and reassemble it when I get to my new location, whatever new destination pitch I choose. However, I have to practice a lot to get that sort of level of comfort. I think this class will be the key to a lot of new music for me.
I'm amazed at the level to which I've been prepared emotionally and mentally for this program. Prior to any new thing in my life, something happens inside me where I'm ready to be done with whatever it is I'm in the middle of and I long to be involved in the next thing. However, the timing is usually way before I get to wherever the next thing is and inevitably, I must continue in what I don't want to be doing even as I'm looking to moving on. I think it's God's way of preparing me for what's to come and giving me an opportunity to practice contentment. Maybe a sort of final exam before He gives me something new. Even though I still have several months to go to finish school, these couple weeks are a gift to receive new inspiration and tools to finish up what he's given me for the past 3 years. I'm praying for direction beyond this summer and fall, but I know that when the time is right, the right thing will show up. I can definitely see how some of the lessons here will help me in the future. More on that later.
I'm gonna make some dinner. I'll have more news tomorrow.
It's been a busy couple days... and classes haven't even begun.
Can't remember what I did on Friday. I think mostly details sorts of things. Grocery store runs. Sleeping in a bit. EAMA meeting that night. And getting to bed early. Didn't get into the city. I was way too tired.
Doesn't really matter though because yesterday and the day before made up for it.
Yesterday we went out to Ravel's house in Montfort. Super cool little town. Very quaint. Quaint as in the smallest town I've ever seen. In the town center are some sandwich shops and a gorgeous cathedral. Probably small by cathedral standards, but for a small town, a very large church. It's the sort of church that I imagine the entire town walking filing out of on Christmas eve in good cheer to snow-covered buildings. Very picturesque with gorgeous stained glass, some that was leaded, but remained unpainted. The first I'd ever seen glass that old that wasn't finished. The bells chimed every quarter hour. Apparently Ravel was an insomniac and had an ordinance passed to stop the chiming of the bells past 11. When they rang, they rang for a LONG time. So I sympathized with him.
(Flowers on the hillside. Looked like something my mom would put in her garden)
His house is great. He was a very small man. Close to 5'1". His house definitely reflected that. Very narrow hallways. Very low ceilings. He was somewhat obsessive and a jokester. His house was filled with little toys, practical jokes, and knick-knacks that he collected. He was a craftsman and painted and modified his house just to the way he liked it. He put in a false wall to make a room symmetrical. He painted columns on his bedroom wall upside down so that when he was laying there at night they would appear right-side up. Seeing the way the man lived and connecting his idiosyncrasies to his music was eye opening. The way he lived and viewed life came out in his music. It made me wonder if what I enjoy comes out in music. Or if my music displays my personality and character. It also made me okay with the fact that I still love to watch cartoons.
The town also has some Roman ruins which a group of us went up and saw. I forgot to take a picture but got some pictures of the town from the top of the hill. I heard there was a cemetery there, but I never did get around to seeing it. I ended up talking with different students on the front steps of the church. I pictured us as pigeons, crowding up the town center. We eventually got kicked off the steps and moved to what I thought was a side alley. It ended up being a VERY narrow one way street. We had to move often to move for cars.
I had wanted to check out a diner last year called Breakfast in America, but never made it over. I was talking with folks throughout the day and they said they'd tag along too. I figured it was the best place for a 4th of July anything. 12 of us ended up going over and celebrating the fourth by getting burgers in a place that had red, white, and blue balloons on the walls. The illusionist was playing on the TV, plastic bottles of French's mustard were on the tables, and the waiter and waitresses spoke English with British accents. Fitting that they were serving us dinner on the day we gained our liberty from them. Awesome restaurant. Had a mushroom swiss omelet and tomatoes. 8 Euro for the whole. Burgers were served open faced. The French people next to us ate their top bun separately and their burgers with their forks. All in our group ate with our hands.
Afterwords we walked to Notre Dame and from there walked all the way to the Eiffel Tower. It's a long walk.
Slept well that night.
Today was placement exams. I felt good about it. I hope I made Invertible Cannon and Fugue. I think I'll find out tomorrow. I may also have a lesson tomorrow so I'm gonna have to edit a score tonight. I also found out I'm in Keyboard Harmony IV. It was really hard for me last year so I'm gonna have to step it up. But it's good because I really wanted to spend a good amount of time on Keyboard Harmony for my own music. I think I got my wish.
Also, free museum day. I went and visited my lady at the Louvre (long line to get in, stretched all the way through the courtyard). And also visited my Egyptian friend. For those who know him, Dale Dimapindan also permanently resides in the Louvre. I saw his sculpted head on a pedestal, dated around 1300 BC (? a little sketchy on this because I don't really know french abbreviations.)
I stayed for a couple hours and then made my way to the Rodin museum. Absolutely brilliant. I'll actually post another blog about some of the ideas I got while I was there. A continuation on last year, but I'm still processing. Gorgeous gardens. Great house. I think I'll go back and just hang out in the garden on Bastille Day.
Got back to the dorm around 5 and made a great dinner. Also got some food ready for breakfast tomorrow. I'm off to do some work.
Just wanted to fill you all in.
I leave you with this photo from the Louvre. I have the name plate and painter if you're dying to know, but it reminded me of sci-fi baby Jesus portrait. I realize it probably loses something in the translation, but I like to call it "The Christ-child Strikes Back."
Well, I'm back. Both blogging and in Paris. Last year this blog started up as a way for me to keep people back at home in the loop on life in Paris during the EAMA program. Then I tried to keep it going but felt like life just wasn't all that interesting so it, like every other past attempt at journaling, fell by the wayside. Hopefully the trend won't continue. But it might.
Last year's program ended up well. I never really summed it up all that great, but the basic gist is that I felt like I learned a lot, made a good friend in my roommate Tom, and wrote a piece that I really liked.
So I figured I'd give it another shot this year. That, and I was hoping to get some help on my masters thesis AND just be away from the normalcy of life to try to and do that.
So now this year.
"IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way- in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
Seems a fitting opening to this year for several reasons:
I flew first class across the Atlantic - I left from Orange County and landed in Atlanta where our flight was delayed. While in the airport I saw this dude wearing these sandals.
(For those who can't see, his sandals say "Guinness", as in the liquor. Is that o.k.? I don't think so.)
The Atlanta flight was overfull. So I offered to take a later flight and make $200. Another guy was in front of me in line, but the agent somehow got me through. Best of times. He told me I would walk off the plane to the baggage office where my bags would be waiting for me. Best of times. Then when I got to the other gate I found out that I had been bumped to 1st class. Best of times. However, my gluten free meal doesn't transfer with me, but stays with the plane to which I'm assigned. Worst of times. I snacked on some random things and ate around some stuff hoping that I was making good eating choices and wouldn't end up with being glutened. Worst of times. Awesome Roast Beef. Best of times. I sat there thinking, "Would I trade First Class for Coach with a Gluten free meal?" Still not sure, but I was given First Class and it was awesome. Random thought prayer at the end of awesomeness for learning to be patient. Tried to take it back, but it was already gone. Age of foolishness.
(No Josh and Travis, I didn't have any wine.)
Get to the airport. Walk off the plane. Go to pick up my bags. NOT there. Age of Foolishness. Go to travel lady. Ask about my bags. Says that they haven't even arrived because they weren't in the system. They would arrive the next day and would ship them to me. Don't have exactly the right address where I'm staying. Age of foolishness. Have deodorant in my carry on. Age of Wisdom. Forgot to carry on a change of underwear. Age of idiocy.
Go to leave and remember that the French way of doing things is VERY different from the American way of doing things. Hunt around baggage area. Find two random french dudes guarding a pile of luggage. Rummage through and find my bags. Age of Wisdom. Apparently les dudes had not scanned the bags nor put them where they were supposed to be. Age of foolishness.
Anyway, you get the picture. Have wifi where I'm staying. Unfortunately my MAC is stumping l'IT dude here at the Colegio because I can't get on. Only when I'm plugged in with an Ethernet cable. Which has to be in the computer lab. Which is three flights down on the opposite side of the dorm. But my power plug is unable to connect. So I have a limited amount of time. Lots of inconvenient conveniences.
Also my kitchen situation is good. Since I've got to cook my own food. Every floor has two kitchens. One even has 2 fridges. But the fates have given me a fridge compartment on the floor below. Which isn't super convenient. However, it is large enough to cook and store food. Not too much, but definitely enough.
Season of Light - it's a gift that I'm here.
Season of Darkness - trying to finish Masters Thesis.
I was really nervous about this trip for some reason. Don't know why. But I feel like this is the year where my faith and resolve get tested. And they are being tested in Paris (which is a huge blessing, so how much can I really complain, or compare it to Dickens...). And everything has been working out, though not necessarily without a fight.
So we'll see about this trip. I'm praying for some miraculous things to happen. But my faith is weak. I'll keep you posted.
Pictures (my plug adapter doesn't work with my camera battery charger - got to figure out a way to charge it to keep the pics coming. Worst of times. Someone loaned me a camera and I haven't lost it or my phone. Best of times):
The back patio restaurant as seen from my room.
Views from my room. Fourth floor (= U.S. Fifth floor = inferno)
My fridge locker (minus a point of reference)
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Natural History: The Marbled Godwit forages by pecking and probing for invertebrates. It often feeds at night. This loosely colonial bird is often found in small flocks. It breeds in the the mid-west of Canada and the United States.
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Identifying Characteristics: This large, mottled brown sandpiper has a long, slightly upturned beak that is darker near the tip.
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This Easter Weekend was packed with FUN! We went to Disney on Ice (this show had a huge Toy Story part and I knew that my days of these kinds of events are numbered as I now have a 7 1/2 year old boy!).
We went to Focus on the Family's Easter Egg Hunt with friends.
And of course the Easter Bunny came and did not disappoint! We went to church and had our neighbors, LeeAnn and her kids over for dinner :) | <urn:uuid:d089b4b3-8b09-4ca6-aea7-bdb973501b22> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://cooperharland.blogspot.com/2015/04/ | 2017-06-26T03:32:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00705.warc.gz | en | 0.990434 | 95 |
Watkinson School completed its seventh season of Freshly Squeezed with Colin McEnroe by presenting the program’s community partners — Billings Forge, Hartford Stage, and the Mark Twain House and Museum — with checks from the proceeds to benefit their education departments. Watkinson’s Head of School Teri Schrader presented the profits from the 2018-19 Freshly Squeezed season ($2,341 was gifted to each organization) at a breakfast on June 6th. Fiduciary Investment Advisors is the sole sponsor for Freshly Squeezed and has been since the program began in 2012. After seven years, Watkinson has gifted more than $10,000 to each of the three nonprofits who are community partners to Freshly Squeezed.
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By Marine Corps Sgt. Melanie A. Wolf, Marine Forces Reserve
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. -- Marines with 6th Engineer Support Battalion, 4th Marine Logistics Group, are partnering with British army engineers from the 131 Commando Squadron during Exercise Red Dagger that began here May 12.
The reserve Marines supporting this fifth iteration of training are based out of five locations: Portland, Oregon; Battle Creek, Michigan; Peoria, Illinois; Folsom, Pennsylvania; and Millington, Tennessee.
"Every year we alternate where the integrated training between the Marines and commandos will take place," said Marine Corps Maj. Timothy B. McGovney, company commander of Exercise Red Dagger, 6th ESB. "This year happens to be at Fort Indiantown Gap.”
Ideal Training Environment
Fort Indiantown Gap is an ideal training environment as it provides the Marines and British commandos a perfect area to enhance their skills, officials said. This year’s exercise concludes May 25.
“We are really looking forward to making the most out of the facilities the Marines have here in the United States and particularly the built-up urban environment on Fort Indiantown Gap,” said British army 2nd Lt. David A. Grant, support troop commander, 131 Commando Squadron Royal Engineers.
The U.S. Marines and British commandos have plans to conduct combat pistol training, offensive and defensive military operations on urbanized terrain, or MOUT, and a series of vertical and horizontal engineering and welding projects.
The first half of the two-week exercise will consist of a series of ranges and tactical instruction.
Rifle Marksmanship Training
“We will be teaching rifle marksmanship with the M16’s, M4’s and M9’s,” McGovney said. “Tables five and six, which are short range engagements, will be conducted both during the day and then again at night with the night operations and night vision goggles.”
While integrating the Marines and British commandos into four platoons, they will give all junior-ranking officers a chance to be involved and lead the platoons.
“Two of the platoon commanders are Marine lieutenants,” McGovney said. “The other two platoons will have British commando equivalents as their platoon commanders.”
Even though the troops do not share the same procedures, equipment and tactics, they are able to learn from each other’s knowledge.
"We are learning exactly how they would employ their own weapons, under what conditions they may use their weapons, and how they maintain dispersion in a tactical environment with the gear and equipment they have,” McGovney said of his British counterparts.
Half of the training will provide opportunities for the engineers and metal workers to practice their field craft.
“The second half of this exercise is the engineering projects, where we will be putting up vertical siding construction pieces and installing new flooring in an old World War II barracks,” McGovney explained. “We also have plans for our heavy equipment operators to dig trenches at a local range, to practice survivability positions within a tactical environment.
The British commandos said they appreciate the opportunity to train with the Marines and they look forward to learning how to use the Marines’ weapons, equipment, and tactics.
“This exercise will be a big skill exchange,” Grant said. “It will create a wider appreciation of what each individual unit does and enhance our skills.”
“These are our allies across the Atlantic and we want to be able to go into theater with them and be able to operate, whether adjacently, joint, or bilaterally,” McGovney said of his British partners. It’s important to continue this integrated training in order to shoot, move and communicate together. Both nations have different capabilities and equipment that we can bring to the table to accomplish the same mission.” | <urn:uuid:6990318d-07a8-4742-8266-f235079507f1> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://military-online.blogspot.com/2018/05/us-marines-british-commandos-train.html | 2019-05-24T19:24:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257731.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524184553-20190524210553-00536.warc.gz | en | 0.951755 | 837 |
The premiere of Chinese war epic “The Eight Hundred” has been cancelled, an apparent result of censorship after an association of retired party cadres deemed it “inappropriate” ahead of Communist China’s 70th anniversary.
Hailed as the Chinese “Dunkirk”, the film details a story of a Chinese army unit fighting against Japanese invaders in the 1937 Battle of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
After consultation between the production team and other parties, the July 5 premiere was cancelled and will not be released this summer, according to a statement posted on Tuesday on the film’s Weibo account, a Twitter like platform.
“The new release date will be announced at a later time,” the statement said, without explaining the reasons behind the decision.
The movie had already been abruptly yanked from the Shanghai International Film Festival earlier this month due to “technical issues” — a term often used as a euphemism for censorship.
The abrupt cancellation of the premiere fuelled speculation about the motives on social media.
“The film industry cannot go on like this,” Chinese film director Jia Zhangke wrote on Weibo.
Five days before the film was removed from the festival, the Chinese Red Culture Research Association held an academic seminar on filmmaking in which the storyline of “The Eight Hundred” was criticised because it glorifies the heroic role of Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang).
The Kuomintang eventually lost the civil war that led to the Communist Party’s triumph and creation of the People’s Republic of China on October 1, 1949.
The film is very “inappropriate” to be regarded as a tribute to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the PRC, according to a report on the website of the association cited by Chinese media.
The Chinese Red Culture Research Association, which is managed by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, bills itself as a volunteer organisation that promotes the Communist Party’s history. Most of its members are retired party cadres and writers.
“It makes use of fragments of history to cover up the essence of history. It seriously violates the historical facts of the Kuomintang’s resistance,” the report added. “That should not be encouraged.”
The original report has been taken down from the association’s website for unknown reasons.
“The Eight Hundred” is produced by the Huayi Brothers and directed by Guan Hu, who spent 10 years filming it.
The first Chinese film shot entirely on digital IMAX cameras reportedly spent more than US$80 million in production costs.
Censorship has increased in China since President Xi Jinping took office in 2012. The most powerful Chinese leader since Mao Zedong has sought to whip up patriotic sentiment in the country.
Other films have recently faced setbacks.
Zhang Yimou’s film “One Second” — set during China’s politically sensitive Cultural Revolution — was pulled from the Berlin Film Festival in February.
The Chinese youth drama “Better Days”, which contains a scene of violent bullying, said on Monday it would cancel its release in China just three days before the film was to hit theatres.
It had already been removed at the last minute from the Berlin Film Festival in February as well.
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Why you should watch The Chi, Say Yes to the Dress and more
Feb 6, 2014 11:51 AM EST
[Warning: The following article contains spoilers from Wednesday's Top Chef finale. Read at your own risk!]
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Longshoremen Make Offer In Port Talks
July 18, 2002
Seeking to avoid a strike at West Coast ports, which could put port truckers temporarily out of work, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union has offered to accept new technologies
it says would mean fewer jobs in exchange for higher wages and pension benefits.
However, the Pacific Maritime Assn., which represents shipping lines and cargo loading companies, said the union’s offer did not go far enough, reports the Los Angeles Times.
The contract, which covers about 10,500 dockworkers, was supposed to expire July 1, but both parties have extended it on a day-to-day basis as they try to work out an agreement.
The proposal is the union’s first detailed response to the PMA’s desire to add new efficiency-boosting technology to the ports. The union has resisted the new technology, fearing they would lose jobs.
The paper reports that PMA negotiators believe the number of union jobs would actually be higher under the ILWU proposal, because the union would extend its jurisdiction to clerical jobs that are sometimes performed by nonunion contractors.
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Adrian Bourgeois proves the album is an art form worth saving with his latest release, Pop/Art
The digital music revolution, with its emphasis on EPs and singles, has set into motion the extinction of the traditional long-form album, but local singer/songwriter Adrian Bourgeois says not so fast.
On Feb. 4, 2014, Bourgeois is set to release his latest work, Pop/Art, a 24-song double album. It will be his first release since his self-titled debut, which he put out in 2007.
“You keep hearing that the album is dead and people have such short attention spans and nobody wants to listen to more than 30 seconds of a song… So what’s the logical response to that? Make a double album,” Bourgeois tells Submerge over the phone. “There are really no rules to this thing anymore. Why not just do the absolute worst possible thing to do? You might as well, right? If you love it, if it’s what you want to make, then make it.”
Bourgeois says he’s been working on the songs that appear on Pop/Art for “seven years or so.” After the release of his first album, he’d come to something of a crossroads in his musical career. His debut was getting good reviews and seemed to be generating interest in the industry, but things weren’t quite happening for him just yet. He was unsure whether or not to keep working his first album or start working on a new one.
“I started talking to a couple of different people about the prospects of making a record, and a couple of opportunities came up, but they got postponed,” he says. “All the while, I was writing more songs. At some point along the way, I decided I got to make another album at some point, and waiting for another opportunity to come around is not really getting me anywhere these days, so I should probably take matters into my own hands and do it myself.”
So, Bourgeois armed himself with $500 worth of recording equipment that he says he’d purchased with Christmas money and took a route that many indie musicians have done in the digital age: He started making an album in his bedroom.
While this may sound like a very personal, intimate process (and it was for Bourgeois), the songwriter says he focused more on the craft of the songs as opposed to the feelings behind them.
“A lot of times when I’ll write a song, the first thing that I’ll hear is the track. I’ll hear the finished product before I’ve ever written anything, and then it’s almost like learning the song,” he says.
“It was kind of liberating to sit down and bring them to life.”
He worked on Pop/Art for two and a half years, mostly on his own, playing almost all of the instruments. However, as he said to Submerge in an email, the album wasn’t entirely a one-man show. Cake trumpeter Vince DiFiore and Probyn Wilson (the Brian Wilson Band and many others) both make appearances, as do local colleagues Autumn Sky and Ricky Berger. Bourgeois’ father Brent also pitched in. Bourgeois confides that Berger’s contribution to Pop/Art extended beyond just lending her vocal talents to the record.
“There were some songs on here that I sent to her and she said, ‘You’re better than this. Keep working on it,’ and I trust her enough to hear that from her,” Bourgeois says. “The album would not be as good as it was if not for her.”
Pop/Art is an instantly gratifying album highlighted by Bourgeois’ creamy vocals and lush arrangements. Songs such as “Jonah” provide a grittier rock punch while the piano-driven opener “New December” harkens back to pop’s grand, vinyl past…you know, back when people actually listened to albums en masse. At 24 tracks, it’s impossible to find one that’s simply filler. However, though the album certainly stands as an accomplishment, setting a high bar for Sacramento’s 2014 local releases, Bourgeois remains humble.
“I almost consider this double album to be a complete underachievement because in the amount of time it took me to make this, The Beatles recorded Rubber Sole, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper, Magic Mystery Tour and The White Album, so this is me slumming it I guess, when you think about it, in comparison,” Bourgeois says.
Bourgeois lends further insight into the making of Pop/Art in the following interview.
Were you shopping your debut album to labels?
Yes and no. A label is one potential tool that I considered and flirted with over the years. My goal is to get my music heard by as many people as possible. There were people along the way who have helped me a lot and have provided opportunities. Any musician will tell you this: You get a lot of people with great intentions who say they love you and the music you make and they’re going to make things happen for you, and then you never hear from them again. There’s a lot of that, and that’s fine. I understand there are all sorts of factors that need to be taken into consideration. The good thing about today is that it’s a lot more possible than maybe ever before to say, “I’m going to put it out myself, and I’m going to distribute it myself.” The tools I have to do that really aren’t that much less than what anyone else has. They might have the relationships and the contacts to get it heard by, quote-unquote, the right people…but I don’t even know what “the right people” means anymore. At this point, I want people who like the music to hear it, and those are “the right people.”
It was six or seven years since your last album. Were you getting disillusioned at any point?
I grew up in a musical family. My dad was in the music industry for a long time… I kind of had a balanced view and a realistic view of how everything worked, but it was frustrating sometimes, definitely. I think “Shot in the Dark” [from Pop/Art] was written about that… But I understand. The music industry is a place of short attention spans. They hear you and they love you, but then they hear someone else that they love. There are just so many different factors that I stopped analyzing it too much and took a proactive approach. What can I do to make the life that I want for myself.
Did having a father in the music industry help you gain that perspective?
Yeah, absolutely. It’s definitely given me a lot of experience without necessarily having to experience it first in a lot of ways, if that makes sense.
On the other hand, I feel like I know too much because I’m quicker sometimes to not try something because I know it doesn’t work that way. And then you see some band that knows nothing about the music industry and does something extremely rash and stupid and it makes them world famous. There’s that Catch 22. But overall, he’s great to have around for advice and his years of experience.
You said these songs were written over a seven-year period. You must have gone through a lot of growth as a songwriter and as a person in that time. Do you hear that when you listen to the album? Does it almost sound like a scrapbook of the past seven years of your life?
It’s interesting, because I don’t think I’ve changed all that much as a person over the course of my life. If you’d known me as a 6-year-old, I’m pretty much the same guy, I think…maybe a little wiser, maybe a little less. I think it’s the same thing with my music. A lot of people at some point go through this radical transformation, but that’s never been me. I’ve just evolved over time and refined who I was, but I’ve always been at the core the same person. That’s why I think songs from six or seven years ago fit just fine next to songs I wrote even in the process of recording [Pop/Art]. But it is interesting hearing that growth. It’s almost discombobulating when I imagine what these songs were written about. One song on the record might be about meeting somebody, and the next song is about being in a relationship with that person, and the song after that is about breaking up with that person…
At the end of the day, if nothing else happens, it’s something that I’m always going to appreciate having. It’s like a diary or anything you have in your life that just captures this period of who you were. I’ve never been one for tattoos, but this album is my tattoo, I guess. This is me and who I was and the imprint I made at that point in time.
You said you hear the whole arrangement before you even start writing a song. Have you always listened to music that way? Do you think, “OK, this is how this was put together?”
When I listen to music—I overanalyze everything—but with music, I expect it to be really good. I don’t listen to a wide variety of music. When you ask them what kind of music they like, most people will say they like a little bit of everything, but I’m the exact opposite of that. I like a lot of a few things. It’s less necessarily important to me as to how it makes me feel or if it relates to me, I’m like, “Is this a really great lyric? Is this a really great melody? How is this arrangement brilliant?” And if it isn’t, I don’t listen to it. If I was stuck having to listen to just The Beatles or The Beach Boys for the rest of my life, I probably wouldn’t complain too much.
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Barna Kruzhel, Małgorzata Bąkowska, Stakh Vovk, Ewa Nowakowska, Pavkovych Sergei
Abstract. The results of the research show that there is a deficiency in Se in the environment in most regions. It is crucial to supplement selenium deficiency in ruminants from deficient regions as long-lasting lack of this element may lead to many diseases. Selenium serum or blood level can be an indicator of the supply of this element in ruminants (intravitally) as well as its content in the liver and kidneys. The most commonly used criterion for assessing the selenium status in livestock is its serum or blood content. At a low concentration of this element in the serum/blood of ruminants, its supplementation is necessary.
Abstract. The aim of the study was to analyse the effect of changing the milking system (from a milking parlour to automatic milking) on daily yield of cows and cytological quality of their milk. GLM and FREQ procedures of the SAS package were used in the statistical calculations. The change in the milking system caused a short-term decrease in daily yield and an increase in milk somatic cell count (SCC). In the long term (12 months), daily yield increased (P ≤ 0.01) from 27.7 kg milk for cows milked in the milking parlour to 31.1 kg milk for cows milked automatically. The change in the milking system from the milking parlour to automatic milking had a positive effect on milk somatic cell count as the natural logarithm of SCC decreased from 12.44 to 11.97. The proportion of milk samples with low SCC (<100,000 cells/ml and from 101,000 to 200,000 cells · ml–1) increased by 2.84 and 7.52%, respectively, whereas the proportion of milk samples with high SCC (>400,000 cells · ml–1) decreased by 5.68%.
Ryszard Cholewa, Mirosław Mleczek, Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Stanisław Socha
Abstract. The aim of the study was to analyse the content of minerals and physical properties of hair in the coat of yearling Arctic foxes managed on various farms. Winter hair samples were collected from 86 yearling female blue Arctic foxes from farms located in the Wielkopolska (two farms) and West Pomerania (one farm) regions of Poland. The samples were analysed for the concentration of Mg, K, Ca, using atomic emission spectrometry (AES), Cd, Cu, Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb, Zn, using flame atomic absorption spectroscopy (FAAS), and As and Se, by means of hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry (HGAAS). Mineral concentration in the foxes from the West Pomeranian farm was considerably higher (more than 10%) compared with that measured on both Wielkopolska farms. The foxes from the latter two farms had a similar level of minerals, with a slightly lower values on one of the farms, except for K, Ca, Co, Fe, Cd, and As. This demonstrates that mineral content in hair may differ from farm to farm and may be influenced by environmental factors. Mineral content may also be related to the physical properties of the coat, mainly with the color (length of dark phase of the hair) and the length of hairs.
Ryszard Cholewa, Mirosław Mleczek, Dorota Kołodziejczyk, Stanisław Socha
Abstract. The aim of the study was to quantitatively establish the concentration of minerals in the coat of red foxes and an attempt to relate their composition with the resistance properties of single hairs of the coat. The analyses were carried out on 122 hair samples of red foxes of various color morphs and their crossbreds, collected from 61 live animals, from the middle of the back and from the right side of the body. The study took place during autumn and winter in a fox farm located in the Wielkopolskie voivodship, Poland. The animals were as follows: 11 silver femals, 7 females and 3 males of the platinum morph, 8 platinum-pastel males, 10 females and 4 males of the pastel morph, 3 cross females, and 11 females and 4 males of the fire morph. The samples were analyzed for Mg, K and Ca by atomic emission spectrometry (AES) and for Cd, Cu, Co, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Pb and Zn by flame atomic absorption spectrometry (FAAS). The concentration of minerals in the coat of the studied red foxes varied on the back and the side of the females and males. Most minerals in the coat of females was on both areas of the body in silver foxes, and the least – in the cross foxes. In males, more minerals were on both areas of the side of the platinum foxes compared to pastel and other color variants. Pastel foxes demonstrated the highers hair strength parameters among the color morphs.
Małgorzata Jakubowska, Józefa Gardzielewska, Tadeusz Karamucki, Artur Rybarczyk, Danuta Czernomysy-Furowicz, Paulius Matusevičius
Abstract. The objective of the study was to check whether the application of 0.4% lactic acid solution to chicken broilers during pre–slaughter turnover causes a decrease in the bacterial contamination level of the meat and the technological meat quality. The study included 60 chicken broilers, Ross 308, which were subjected to pre-slaughter fasting for 12 hours. The birds were divided into two groups: the control, which was given clean drinking water, and the experimental group, which was given 0.4% lactic acid solution. 24 h after the slaughter samples were taken from pectoral muscle in order to assess the total number of aerobic mesophilic microorganisms, Salmonella ssp. and Campylobacter bacteria. In the collected material the presence of the Salmonella ssp. or Campylobacter bacteria was not detected. The application of 0.4% lactic acid solution to chicken broilers 12 hours pre-slaughter showed a positive tendency to decrease the number of aerobic microorganisms in the chicken pectoral muscle. The mean number of the aerobic bacteria in the control group muscles was 5.2 x 105 whilst in the experimental group it was half the amount and was equal to 2.7 x 105. The lactic acid solution did not alter the technological meat quality.
Abstract. The aim of the present work was to determine fattening and slaughter results of pigs as well as physical properties of meat Pulawska breed fed mixtures containing faba beans and corn distillers dried grains with soubles (DDGS). Thirty animals were divided into three equal groups: control (I) and two experimental (II and III). Pigs were kept in pens and fed collective ad libitum, the same mixtures throughout fattening. In the mixture of the control animals group only raw material for high-protein soybean meal was, while in mixtures experimental groups 1/3 of extracted soybean meal protein by faba bean (group II) or DDGS (group III) was replaced. Introduction of 10% low-tannin faba bean in the mixtures for pigs did not effect the daily weight gains, while the use of the same amount of corn distillers dried grains with soubles in the diet significantly (P ≤ 0.05) reduced daily gains and, consequently, the final body weight of the fatteners. No effects of the nutrition on fleshiness and fatness carcasses were notice. Longissimus muscle of pigs fed DDGS characterized by the highest drip loss after 48 and 72 hours from slaughter (P ≤ 0.05) and the lowest saturation yellow b* (P ≤ 0.05).
Abstract. The aim of the study was to determine the optimal size and composition of founding groups to create new herds of European bison. The computer simulations of the development of new herds in a period of 20 years was conducted with VORTEX software. The initial size of the founding groups N0, sex ratio (M:F) and carrying capacity (K) impact on the new population development was estimated. The expected level of preserved heterozygosity (EH) and the risk of extinction of these populations were also analyzed. It was proved that the most favorable founding group considering the growth rate, the highest level of expected heterozygosity and the lowest level of extinction probability are those with small prevalence of females. The influence of carrying capacity on population growth rate was observed only in the most numerous founding groups.
Marta Książek, Joanna Gruszczyńska, Beata Grzegrzółka
Abstract. Entropion is a rolling of the eyelid inward toward the eye. It is fairly common condition in a wide variety of dog breeds and its mode of inheritance is not well understood. Entropion has been also documented in the population of Polish Hounds. The current size of the population is estimated at 1000 dogs. The Polish Hound is a breed with low genetic variation and high imbalance of founder contributions to the gene pool of the present population. The first study on entropion in Polish Hounds performed in Poland in 2002 showed that only 29 out of 100 dogs examined were healthy. Further studies revealed that 17 out of 74 dogs had entropion. The aim of this research was to analyze the incidence of entropion in the population of Polish Hounds. In total, 158 letters were sent out to the breeders and owners of Polish Hounds to solicit medical information about the condition of dogs’ eyelids. Overall, we only obtained information on 19 dogs from 18 persons. The conclusion is that Polish Hound breeders and owners, and even the management of the Polish Hound Club are not interested in giving information about the cases of entropion and probably for economic reasons, elimination of affected animals from breeding. Lack of interest of breeders and dog owners in cooperation in this area makes the studies on tracing this defect inheritance in Polish Hounds impossible. | <urn:uuid:5a65288e-b838-427a-8b74-b9327af1e7d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://asp.zut.edu.pl/Volume13(4) | 2017-05-29T20:41:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463612553.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20170529203855-20170529223855-00124.warc.gz | en | 0.945578 | 2,169 |
Antidepressant use appears to prevent depression in patients with head and neck cancer, a large double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial has found. The study was headed by William Lydiatt, M.D., of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Nebraska. The results appear in JAMA Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.
“This study is important in many ways,” Michelle Riba, M.D., a former APA president, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan, and a psycho-oncologist, told Psychiatric News. “It looked at a population of patients—those with head and neck cancer—in whom depression is a very prominent and serious condition. It studied a way to help patients in a preventive paradigm, using [the SSRI antidepressant] escitalopram. Furthermore, even though the study wasn’t designed to study quality of life, patients in the escitalopram arm had an overall improved quality of life during the study and three months consecutively after the cessation of drug therapy.”
More information about how psychiatrists can help cancer patients can be found inPsychiatric News. Information about the mental health challenges that cancer patients and survivors face is presented in the new American Psychiatric Publishing book, Psycho-Oncology.
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Animal Photos - Index
310. Three Cheetahs Spare Tiny Antelope's Life
Source: Daily Mail, UK
Note: This is probably not compassion between species. It's just interesting.
Hello little antelope, would you like to play with us?
Coming from three deadly cheetahs, it's the kind of invitation that's best refused - but amazingly, this impala escaped unscathed from its encounter.
Luckily for the youngster, it seems these three male cheetahs simply weren't hungry.
That's because unlike other big cats, the cheetah hunts in the daytime, either in the early morning or late afternoon. The bursts of speed needed to catch their prey tire them out - meaning they need to rest after a kill.
And that seems to be the secret to the antelope's survival, as it's likely it fell into the cheetahs' clutches when they were already full - and tired out - from an earlier hunt.
Photographer Michel Denis-Huot, who captured these amazing pictures on safari in Kenya's Masai Mara in October last year, said he was astounded by what he saw.
"These three brothers have been living together since they left their mother at about 18 months old," he said. "On the morning we saw them, they seemed not to be hungry, walking quickly but stopping sometimes to play together."
"At one point, they met a group of impala who ran away. But one youngster was not quick enough and the brothers caught it easily."
These extraordinary scenes followed, as the cheetahs played with the young impala the way a domestic cat might play with a ball of string.
"They knocked it down, but then they lost interest," said Michel. "For more than 15 minutes, they remained with the young antelope without doing anything other than licking it or putting their paws on the impala's head."
Even more extraordinarily, this story has a happy ending - after one tense moment when it looked as though one cheetah would bite the impala on the neck, the youngster ran away.
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WILDFLOWER RIDGE LOG CABIN
Nestled in the woods just 12 minutes North East of Nashville and 10 minutes from Brown County State Park, you will find Wildflower Ridge Log Cabin. Close to shopping and adventure, yet you will feel very secluded in this authentic log cabin made of antique logs from a barn of yesteryear.
Upon arrival, you will notice a restful feeling as you drink in nature’s bounty, walking down the path to the front door. Entering the first floor, you will find a cozy living room with a Rumford wood burning fire place, made of Brown County stone. Snuggle up by the fire and watch a movie or just admire the large hand hewn log walls and beams around you.
Off the living room is a large, fully screened, covered porch. What a great place to gather to visit with your loved one. Notice the birds in the nearby trees, who don’t even realize you are right there.
The kitchen is fully equipped for all your cooking needs. Providing plenty of prep. space on the beautiful oak counter tops. The adjacent dining room has an oak farm table. Maybe you would like to dine by candlelight? Our handmade tin chandelier is equipped with realistic candles, no matches needed.
Follow the stairs to the second floor complete with vaulted ceilings, log beams and skylights in every room. The spacious master bedroom offers a king sized bed, comfy loveseat and antique dressers. Adjacent is a roomy full bath.
Heading downstairs, to the game room, Play a game of pool or head out the back door to the deck.
Dine out on the partially covered deck with charcoal grill and hot tub, overlooking the pond and surrounding woods. At dawn and dusk you may catch a glimpse or more of the deer playing in the edge of the pond- a now daily occurrence.
Swing on the porch swing, wander thru the wildflowers, enjoy a campfire….Come, stay a while, you’ll be glad you did!
This property has 1 bedrooms
4300 O'Henry Ln.
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RESERVATIONS #1 - The remaining balance will be due 7 days prior to check-in and will be automatically charged to the card on file. If you want a different charge card used for this balance, you must notify us before this balance is charged. #2 - Refunds are not issued due to inclement weather, snow or acts of God that are out of our control.
Very thorough instructions on what is required before the visit! Although, the written directions how to get to the actual cottage could have used some mileage indicators.
This place was absolutely perfect for my Husband and I’s weekend getaway! Loved the fireplace, hot tub, and the quiet location!! Will definitely be back next time we are in Nashville!
We loved the cabin! Checking in and out was a breeze. The instructions to the cabin were precise! All of my questions were answered prior to arrival! The cabin was cute, cozy, and clean. I loved the fireplace, hot tub and pool table! Even had some vhs movies. I couldn't have asked for anything
Excellent location, beautiful home, loved the hot tub, stocked kitchen. Only slight con - could use more lighting in the living room. We can’t wait to come back!
Hi ! I tried to go on the site and leave a guest review for Wildflower Ridge with 5 stars. I could never find a form to do that!
Excellent and peaceful We enjoyed our stay it was very relaxing and peaceful. 09/28/2020
I would be happy to write a r eview of our stay at Wildflower Ridge for the website, we loved it.
Great remote cabin with awesome amenities! Definitely stay here! September 2020
We had a fine time at Wildflower Ridge this weekend, thanks for everything.
my husband and I had a great time and it was a great experience. all the emails before check in were very helpful and everyone was really nice and helpful when I called with questions. We have already decided to find a cabin and stay sometime in october with our children so i am starting a list of questions i can call and ask soon to find the best cabin for us then. thank you all!
my husband and I had a great time and it was a great experience. all the emails before check in were very helpful and everyone was really nice and helpful when I called with questions. We have already decided to find a cabin and stay sometime in october with our children so i am starting a list of questions i can call and ask soon to find the best cabin for us then.
We came into Brown Co for a 5k trail run and needed a place to lay our head. This cabin was perfect in every way. It was clean, comfortable, and close to every place we wanted to see. If visiting Nashville, I highly recommend staying here 06/11/2020
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Ski in & Ski out
High above the clouds, ski enthusiasts immerse themselves in another world. A world far from the madding crowd and high above the clouds. Besides natural snow pistes there are extra highlights like sky walk, an ice rink and a suspension bridge. Schladming, at about 1330m above sea level, this unique project is created at the middle station of the Planai with a second residence dedication. Your apartment is located in the heart of the ski region Schladming-Dachstein. Ski-in / ski-out and immediately access to the 4 Mountains Ski Area, which connects Hauser Kaibling, Planai, Hochwurzen and Reiteralm! Modern architecture with natural materials – wood and stone immediately with a warm and pleasant atmosphere. | <urn:uuid:ac9b9dc9-962f-4820-9510-af14879cbcb4> | CC-MAIN-2018-30 | http://www.alpentravel.com/hotels/haus-fastenberg/ | 2018-07-20T20:00:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-30/segments/1531676591831.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20180720193850-20180720213850-00304.warc.gz | en | 0.895825 | 163 |
RUST, Johann Nepomuk.
Aufsätze und Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Medicin, Chirurgie und Staatsarzneikunde.
Berlin: Verlag von Theod. Chr. Fr. Enslin, [-1836].1834
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 475, (1), 1 leaf (errata), 3 folding and stilted lithographed plates; viii, 566, (2) adverts, 1 lithographed plate. Contemporary half roan (ends of spines and tips of corners worn). Bookplates of Professor A.R. Hodgson.
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Some employers might assume that slip trip, and fall hazards are only seen in factories and construction sites. They couldn’t be any more wrong. Those safety hazards are also found in the office, and employees can fall victim anytime, despite spending most of their days in front of their screens.
A charger plugged into an extension cord is one common hazard. If the phone is on the desk, and the extension cord is lying haphazardly on the floor, you may trip on it, lose your balance, and end up with an injury on your knees or face. If you happen to be carrying a hot beverage, that will add to your injuries, or cause someone nearby to get hurt as well.
Your pantry and toilets are full of slip hazards. If an appliance or fixture is leaking, and you never noticed, it’s only a matter of time before someone slips and falls. The aftermath could be dreadful to imagine.
That said, here are some safety measures every office should implement:
Improve Slippery Surfaces
If your floors aren’t carpeted but tiled, all it takes is a small spill or leak for someone to slip. Consider changing slippery floors into wall-to-wall carpets, or any other material that’s slip-resistant. Wall-to-wall carpets, after all, tend to collect dirt and are unfriendly to people with dust sensitivity.
The flooring types ideal for an aging adult’s home will be one of your best choices. Such are the following:
This may not be suitable for offices, but if the nature of your business is on the casual side, it may look appropriate in the space. Cork offers some cushioning and sound absorption, so if the noises of footfalls bother you, this flooring will fix that pet peeve. It’s easier to clean compared to carpet, and if you want to keep it from collecting dirt, you can protect its porous surface by applying a sealant.
Vinyl is highly popular, thanks to its affordability, stellar quality, water resistance, and luxurious appearance. This flooring type is ideal for offices with a homely interior design.
Rubber flooring is traditionally used in gyms and kids’ play areas. But it can look appropriate in an office too, as long as you choose the right design. Like cork, rubber also looks good in offices with a casual ambiance. If you’re a little formal, find a place for it in your break room.
Hardwood, Bamboo, and Laminate
The classic hardwood floors, without a doubt, fit any place and aesthetic. Bamboo is a close competitor, possessing equally elegant looks and quality. Laminate, on the other hand, is the cheap alternative for the two. The only drawback to laminate is its poor sound absorption. In fact, it amplifies noise. Bamboo and hardwood don’t have that problem.
Keep Walkways Clear
Aside from removing extension cords out of the way, keep filing cabinets closed and desk drawers shut when not in use. Employees can bump into them and lose their balance. If liquid spills on the floor, wipe it off immediately and put up a caution sign on the wet area. Slip hazards shouldn’t be a problem if you’ve got cork or carpet flooring, but other types aren’t as slip-resistant when wet.
Take Out Dim Light Fixtures
If you’re renting an old office building, chances are some of its light fixtures aren’t bright enough. One of the top causes of slips, trips, and falls is poor lighting. If you have employees with bad eyesight, dim lights are even more hazardous for them. Not to mention tasks become harder when the room isn’t bright enough.
Make Stairways Safer
Another top cause of falls is stairs without railings. Some contemporary designs take out the railing because it can decrease the airiness in a space. However, omitting railings should only be an option if you don’t have elderly, disabled, or visually impaired employees. In addition, skipping the railings may be workable too if the steps are wide enough. Still, some people cannot use the stairs confidently if it lacks railings.
Prevent or Address Leaks Immediately
If you keep a toolbox at home, you should also have one for your workplace. Your maintenance personnel should have tools readily available if a leak occurs in your kitchen or bathroom.
To prevent your plumbing fixtures from leaking, reputable adhesive suppliers can provide your company with a pipe sealant. That should be used on the pipe’s seams and joints to increase its water tightness. A plumber’s putty is also a good product, but it isn’t an adhesive, so it may loosen over time.
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MIUI is a user interface derived from Google’s Android OS. It has been developed and maintained by Xiaomi. Initially, MIUI was available only for Mi, Redmi, and Hongmi series of phones from the firm.
Now, the MIUI launcher APK is available for download on Non-Xiaomi handsets which include devices from LG, Sony Xperia, HTC, Samsung Galaxy, etc. Frankly speaking, the launcher is awesome.
MIUI is a lightweight launcher which will not disappoint you. It is a simple launcher that doesn’t provide options to customize animations, icons, etc. MIUI is as robust as CM launcher, Apus, Hola, etc. Below are some of its interesting features:
Note: If you’re aware of the features of launcher then scroll down and follow the tutorial to install it on your Android device.
Beautiful Lockscreen: When you start your Android phone with the MIUI launcher, you’ll see network operator, date, battery, network signal level, battery power indicator and two icons on the home screen. The home screen provided by the MIUI launcher boasts shortcuts to the camera, SMS app, phone and other utilities. The shortcuts are customizable.
Threaded and categorized messages: This is one of the most impressive features of the MIUI launcher. Unlike other phones, the messages in a phone powered by MIUI are grouped and sorted by date-time. Creating and sending new text or multimedia messages is an easy task.
The latest edition of MIUI launcher enables you to filter messages with keywords.
Attractive notification window: All important social network, call or message notifications can be accessed through this window. The window also features a toggle panel where you’ll find options to enable or disable critical services on your phone.
Unlike other launcher apps, MIUI doesn’t come with App drawer module. All applications are arranged in a grid interface on the home screen.
HD icons: The launcher packs high-definition icons for third-party and system applications. If you’re using MIUI, you cannot change the icon’s size. The icons are of large size.
Download MIUI launcher APK on your Android device via PC [latest v5 or v6]
- Open this link and save the APK file to your PC.
- Enable USB debugging mode on your phone.
- Now connect your phone to the Computer.
- Move the APK installer to your handset’s SD card or ROM.
- Open your system file explorer.
- Navigate to the folder where you move the APK.
- Tap on the file to begin the installation.
Activate the data connection on your phone. Open the browser and tap on this link. Download MIUI launcher APK from the web page. Open the file explorer utility and find the file. Now tap on it. Done!
Now have direct access to 100’s of MIUI themes, wallpapers, and icons.
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Violet’s Victory is an autobiographical picture book about a young girl with lavender hair, who longs to win a track and field race, despite her need to utilize forearm crutches. She discovers a purple handcycle, and trains diligently each day. With perseverance, a dream and her new-found adaptive equipment, will Violet accomplish her victory?
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Jul 13, 2006
Anatomy of the 2006 Prepaid Calling Card Compliance Rules
From the Final Order on WC Docket No. 05-68
July 5, 2006: On June 30, 2006 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may have just effectively eliminated the final “gray” regulatory areas commonly used by prepaid providers who offer “enhanced” cards; menu-driven calling cards; use Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) to transport prepaid calling card traffic; or use IP or local access numbers to hinder, or avoid, carrier reconciliation of access charges for VoIP calls from prepaid cards. In its Report and Order on Docket WC 05-68, The Regulation of Prepaid Calling Card Services, the FCC squarely tackled all above issues as related to prepaid calling cards that utilize IP transport connection with their services, or that utilize other information service offerings in their calling cards to “bend” their regulatory definition from voice telephony services to information services.New Order Impacts All ProvidersThe Order also sets forth an interim series of reporting requirements on all prepaid calling card providers for the directed purpose of clarifying Universal Service Fund contributions and Access Charge liability, and better enforcing of both. A full version of the FCC Report and Order is available at www.fcc.gov for download and review, and will also be available on The Prepaid Press web site. Similarly, a breakout of the major compliance issues and interpretations can be found in the sidebar included in this article. While procedurally the new requirements do not go into effect until 90 days after publication in the FCC Record, providers in the prepaid calling card industry should be keenly aware of the new regulatory regimen of the FCC and the requirements expressly referenced to be enforced in the future. The regulatory playing field of prepaid calling has definitely shifted in this latest Order - whether this is for better or worse remains somewhat speculative.What is not speculative is the Order itself. Released June 30, 2006, but effective June 1, 2006, the Report and Order is actually the latest series of orders enacted by the FCC in response to Declaratory Petitions from AT&T over regulatory definitions and fees arising from Phone-to-Phone IP Telephony Services (2002); and their “enhanced” prepaid calling card services (2003), now pending appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals in the D.C District. This ongoing tug-of-war between the FCC and AT&T over regulatory fees has been highly publicized over the past few years, and reached public notoriety in February 2005 when the FCC levied multi-million(s) in fines against AT&T for failure to disclose and contribute to USF applicable to its “enhanced” prepaid calling cards. The current Report and Order, however, is different as it extends beyond application to merely AT&T, and seems to be the FCC’s last “bit-of-housekeeping” on USF and Access Charge issues raised by AT&T concerning IP and the industry as a whole.(See the chronology of the procedural history of the Report and Order in for full details.)Gray Areas Filled InThe question of prepaid calling and VoIP has been both poignant and elusive in recent years. Though the FCC maintains it has jurisdiction over the regulatory definition of VoIP services since 2004, until this Order, it has historically tended to forebear on specifics or applications. This has left room for informal interpretation by industry players and has created several commonly used “gray” area defenses that prepaid providers have informally fallen back upon in relation to reporting and payment of both USF and Access Charges. They have been more tangibly seen in the industry in the selection of reporting categories of USF in the Form 499-A to report VoIP traffic on cards, as well as in use of local and IP access numbers to transport calls. Some industry players have even taken such interpretive defenses as far as to use them as a basis for non-reporting and non-contribution to both USF and Access Charges. Such “gray” area interpretations and defenses have also hinged upon an unclear regulatory definition between VoIP and information services within the Telecom Act, FCC Regulations, and the courts. The question, however, is no longer elusive; the June 30th Report and Order now makes it clear: Prepaid calling cards utilizing IP transport and menu-driven prepaid calling cards are telecommunications services for the purposes of federal regulation and fees, and prepaid calling card providers are telecommunications carriers for purposes of regulatory compliance. Protecting Inter/Intra Access Charges and USF Contributions The opening of the Report & Order’s Introduction reads as a preamble as to the direction of things to come - the enforcement of regulatory fees:[sic.] … we take steps necessary to protect the federal universal service program and promote stability in the market for prepaid calling cards. In particular, we will treat certain prepaid calling card service providers as telecommunications service providers. As such, these providers must pay intrastate access charges for inter-exchange calls that originate and terminate in the same state and interstate access charges on inter-exchange calls that originate and terminate in different states. They also must contribute to the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) based on their interstate revenues, subject to the limitations set forth below.While enforcement of fees seems to be the prime mover of the new prepaid regimen, the issue may be somewhat overdue. Recent enforcement actions on public record over the past few years to collect back-owed USF contributions, or substantiate reporting gaps, have increased and show a history of long, hard, and costly processes for both the FCC and the prepaid industry when fought. This is not to mention any fines levied by the FCC. Contemporaneously, more and more prepaid providers are registered 499 reporters and are reporting USF liability, leaving fewer and fewer non-contributing prepaid IP calling card providers on the fringes. It seems that USF compliance has become more mainstream among serious players in the industry and is now perceived as a cost of business. As for Access Charges, the reporting of CPN and/or PIU factors (as directed by the Order) may, in fact, create an extra layer of reporting and documentation. This may better identify Access Fee scoffers, as well as the carriers who serve them to the Enforcement Bureau. Similarly, the prohibition for carriers that serve prepaid calling card providers from passing the telephone number associated with the platform in the charge number (CN) parameter of the SS7 stream, and information regarding the calling card platform in the CN parameters in the SS7 stream when transported via VoIP, may alleviate the need for extended, or blanket, requests for information from prepaid providers in enforcement actions concerning access fees. In the end, time will best tell.Corporate Officers Held LiableOne aspect of the Order’s CPN/PIU and USF reporting regimen that looms ominous is the certification by corporate officer requirement. Per the Order, on an a quarterly basis, every prepaid calling card provider must submit a certification, signed by an officer of the company under penalty of perjury, stating that it is in compliance with the reporting requirements of CPN/PIU factors. Similarly, each prepaid calling card provider also must certify the percentages of its total prepaid calling card service revenues (excluding revenue that is exempt under the military exemption) that are interstate and international and therefore subject to federal universal service assessments for the reporting period. While clearly directed to resolving the access fee/USF thresholds of liability, the perjury certification by a corporate officer carries with it the potential to pierce corporate veils should fraudulent numbers be submitted. In many ways, this smacks the application of Federal Excise Tax (FET) liability to corporate owners where and when the company fails to pay.Immediate Effect on Industry – Licensure, Compliance and ReportingThe immediate effect on the industry is clear. If you provide Interstate or International prepaid calling card services utilizing VoIP, through a menu-driven card, or offer those prepaid calling card services in combination with other information services, you are now a telecommunications carrier and must seek Section 214 Authority from the FCC, abide by FCC regulations, and contribute to applicable regulatory fees. In equal fashion, you must now report CPN/PIU compliance to underlying carriers on a quarterly basis and USF inter/intra revenues, and have a corporate officer certify the same under threat of perjury. These reporting requirements are in addition to all applicable 499-A and 499-Q filings, International Circuit Reports and International Revenue Reports due to the FCC.States May Increase Regulation AlsoThough not specifically mentioned, state regulation may also be stepped up because of the June 30, 2006 FCC Order. An example of this is potentially the State of Florida and its Public Service Commission. In 2004, the Florida legislature passed a VoIP Act that mandated forbearance of state regulation on VoIP technology in order to spur development of the technology within the state. The language of the Act however, limited that forbearance until the FCC exercised jurisdiction and imposed regulation over VoIP. The Report and Final Order of WC Docket 05-68 by the FCC patently exerts over prepaid calling cards utilizing VoIP. Does this now mean that the Florida PSC may more aggressively move to require certification from prepaid calling card providers utilizing VoIP? Time will tell. However, with increased reporting of inter and intra state revenues on a quarterly basis to the FCC, public information and shared intergovernmental information may spur state utility commissions to better enforce existing requirements on prepaid providers and the carriers providing their services.Since only a short time has elapsed since the release of the FCC’s Report & Order on the regulation of prepaid calling card services, forecasting as to application, compliance strategies and impact on the industry are largely speculative. However, key to making business and regulatory decisions in the next few months will be your own understanding of the new regimen, its history and its requirements. For this reason, obtaining as much information as possible should be the initial priority.The Procedural History and Major Pointsaccompanying this article should provide a point of venture for you in this process. As The Prepaid Press begins further dissection of the Order and its implications, more information will be readily available and a bigger picture of the lasting effect of this Order will be available. Likewise, an Internet Blog has been established to continue to disseminate information and elicit reaction, response and input as to strategies to meet the requirements and the regulatory changes expected to come. The blog, and other detailed information, can be found by going to The Prepaid Press website at www.prepaid-press.com, and clicking on the “New FCC Order Details” link. Good Luck and Success in the Industry.Edward A. Maldonado is a Founding Partner of the Maldonado Law Group. He is also a Partner in the Regnum Group, a regulatory consulting group serving the telecommunications, stored value and regulated business industries. 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When I first heard about Chipotle, I was tickled pink! A rather food conscious chain that was working a little harder to bring America a better quality of fast food. Plus, they were pretty allergen-aware which, in my book, is a huge plus.
I occasionally have enjoyed a meal there consisting of their burrito bowls to avoid getting glutened since their tortilla offerings are mainly wheat.
About a year and a half ago, I began to get suspicious that there was something in my food that was contaminated. Even though everything I picked for my meal is gluten-free according to their list, I’d leave there very phlegmy and stuffed up. (If you must know, I would order a chicken burrito bowl with mild salsa, lettuce and guacamole.)
Something was clearly up. So I started asking questions every time I went in to eat and was assured that what I picked was gluten-free. I even double-checked their website for allergen info. Finally I did the only possible thing left to do – watch them make my dish.
Here’s why you’re probably getting glutened at Chipotle…
1. Dirty gloves
On any given busy day, I’ve never see the employees change their gloves for each order. That would probably be rather wasteful assuming you’ve not got any food issues that you’re aware of. However, those gloves that touched the wheat burrito wraps are all over my burrito bowl container.
Then those gloves that touched the wheat burrito are dunked in the cheese bin, contaminating all the cheese.
Though I will preach to you to constantly find ways to add in greens whenever and wherever humanly possible, this is one spot in Chipotle that those with gluten AND dairy issues must avoid. Those gloves I’ve mentioned that have been touching the cheese and wheat burritos are then dunked into the lettuce bin.
After seeing the issue with the lettuce and cheese, I wrote an email describing the food prep issue and suggested that the lettuce be served with tongs. Though Chipotle customer service appreciated my feedback, they said that using a utensil would harm the lettuce which is why they would always opt to grab it with a glove.
Design matters- especially when you want to protect certain items from touching something else like gluten. That’s a reasonable problem when utensil holders sit facing up toward the ceiling recessed into a surface on to which people will inevitably place their food.
As I looked for a fork one night not long ago, I noticed lots of food particles, nuggets of cheese and other stuff that had fallen into theses metal canisters. Great- that’s probably been touching my fork that will go in my mouth.
The Bottom Line
Eating out does have a pretty big learning curve… this I admit. That’s why I wanted to share my experience with you as a reminder to constantly be vigilant about your choices.
I want to be clear- I’m not suggesting we all boycott Chipotle since they do not claim to be a dedicated gluten-free facility. They’re a great establishment that clearly is trying to be more aware of some key food issues.
However, I would not ever recommend someone with Celiac Disease go eat there. The risk of contamination is too high. While someone with lower levels of an intolerance might be fine, you still need to be careful about what you choose to eat there.
It has come to my attention that you can request to have your meal made from completely fresh ingredients with fresh gloves in the back, but I’ve never been there during a busy time to see how that works out. I’d also recommend bringing your own utensils or rinsing off the ones they provide before eating. | <urn:uuid:be2e08bf-2226-49ef-9570-372be16e5bda> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.jenniferfugo.com/2011/11/02/gluten-chipotle/ | 2019-05-23T13:04:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257244.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523123835-20190523145835-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.976453 | 795 |
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Last weekend I visited my good friends Amy, Nate, and baby Luke in the Chicago area. We had a great time enjoying our time together in the unseasonably warm weather and fall colors. We visited a Wisconsin orchard (Brightonwoods Orchard and AEppelTreow) where we stocked up on apples, cheese, and cider. In order to “earn my keep” at their home, Amy and I made applesauce and a Tarte Tatin. The tart was a new endeavor for both of us, but it was a surprisingly easy treat.
I suggest you keep an eye on the apples as they caramelize, because mine took significantly longer than the recipe suggested. Don’t worry if you over-caramelize the apples anyway, then you just have burnt-caramel flavor, which is a real flavor unlike “burnt toast”. You must, must, must eat this with vanilla ice cream. You can even use some of the leftover caramel from the skillet to drizzle over your ice cream. In my opinion, this is one of those things that tastes even better the next day, so eat up and save some for tomorrow!
Caramelized Apple Tarte Tatin a la Mode
source: Joy the Baker
1 sheet all-butter puff pastry, thawed but still cold
6-7 apples (I used Fuji)
1/2 c unsalted butter
1 c sugar
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Peel, core, and quarter the apples. Do not slice thinner, because they will shrink as they cook. If the apples brown just a bit while they’re waiting to be baked that’s fine.
- Melt butter in a 10-inch cast iron skillet. Remove skillet from the heat and whisk in the sugar to thicken, and spread evenly over the bottom of the skillet.
- Arrange the apple quarters in the pan by stacking the pieces in a tight circle along the outside of the pan and working your way in. Save any extra apple quarters to add to the tart as it cooks on the stove and more room frees up.
- Return the pan to the stove and cook over medium high heat for 10 minutes or until sugar becomes a golden, gooey caramel. Be sure to keep the flame at medium high, letting the sugar boil and caramelize. Add any extra apple quarters as room becomes available.
- While apples are cooking, remove and unfold puff pastry. On a lightly floured surface, gently roll out puff pastry, extending it about 1/2 to 1-inch on all sides. Find a dinner plate about the size of the 10-inch cast iron skillet to measure the pastry and cut out a circle about 1/2-inch bigger than the plate. Place the puff pastry in the fridge until the apples are done cooking.
- Once the caramel color has arrived, cook for an additional 5 minutes (by this point, the apples have been on the stove about 15-18 minutes, give or take) and remove the pan from heat.
- Carefully place the puff pastry over the hot apples, tucking into the edges of the skillet. Pastry doesn’t need to look perfect. Place the skillet in the oven and bake for 20-30 minutes, until the pastry is puffed and golden.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 30 minutes.
- Run a knife along the edges of the skillet to loosen puff pastry edges. Place a large plate on top of the cast iron and, using two giant pot holders, invert the plate and pan. Lift the cast iron and you should have a gorgeous tarte tatin. If any apple slices stuck to the cast iron, just remove them with a fork and place them right back in the tart.
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- Lesson Context: 8th grade
- Number of students: 10-15 students
- Students’ Age: 11-13, mixed gender
- Level: Intermediate
- Topic: Child Labour
- Lesson Objectives
By the end of this lesson, learners will be able to:
- Express phrases to introduce, present and contradict a point of view
- Use the modal should to express their opinions about child labor
- State their opinions using common expressions (I think, I believe, what worries me is that, the reason I.., etc)
- Warm Up (Opening Activity)
START the class greeting the students and quickly ask them these questions:
Have you ever worked? If you wanted to work, what do you think that your parents will think about it?
LISTEN to 4 or 5 answers. Introduce the topic that they would speak about today by saying that, in general, children and adolescents are not allowed to work in the world and that they will have the opportunity to express their opinions in this regard. To get started with the process and engage in a conversation, TELL them that they will answer to a poll. Using Poll Everywhere, ASK your students to quickly answer the following questions: (5 minutes)
- Should children and adolescents be allowed to work?
- Should children and adolescents be allowed to work in certain conditions?
- Who should decide if children and adolescents can work or not?
- Should countries change their laws about child labor? (Banning child labor can do more harm than good?)
As the students responses are received, CIRCULATE around the classroom and interact with them. Once all the answers have been received, look at the results on a screen. Then, TEACH the use of modals using the questions from the poll and its potential answers as examples. ANSWER to questions and comments. (5 minutes)
DISTRIBUTE the copies of the article Bolivia’s child workers unite to end exploitation, published in the WeeklyGuardian (December 2012), and ASK students to read it. TELL them that they can notes as they read. (10 minutes)
After they are done reading, ANSWER students’ questions related to the vocabulary or the content. CHECK for understanding. ENCOURAGE one or two students to summarize in no more than 3 sentences the main ideas of the article. REMIND them that they do NOT need to provide their opinions. (5 minutes)
Now that they have read the article, ASK them to work in pairs and choose to write:
A- An conversation between Rodrigo Medrano Calle and a curious journalist (writing about children’s rights), based on the article and their own ideas. They can go back to the article and use their notes if needed.
B- A conversation between a very passionate activist and a curious journalist (writing about children’s rights). They can go back to the article, use their notes and add their own ideas to support the opinion of the activist.
Remind students that the dialogues should include questions that ask what should be and should not be done about child labor. In addition, it should express clearly the opinion of the speaker that they chose. Give them time to write, review and edit their dialogues. Students will have to post their dialogues in a blog (as these dialogues will be expanded and recorded in future class sessions). They should also add two elements (aspects) that they think should be included to assess their dialogues. (15 minutes)
INVITE students to share their dialogues. ASK the rest of the class to take notes so if they want to participate they paraphrase ideas that have been already presented or they add new ideas to the class discussion. (10 minutes).
The students answer to the poll again and the whole group compares how the responses varied after reading the article and interacting with their classmates. (5 minutes)
Ask students to imagine that:
A- They support Rodrigo Medrano Calle or Rolando Mamani and that they are going to collect more information to make their opinions stronger (which means that they will support child labor). ASK them to do research on the topic (advantages/benefits/pros of child labor) and ask them to send you two WhatsApp messages that will contain more information (facts, concrete details, specific examples or other references) to support their argument (to support Rodrigo’s opinion). Describe the scenario to at least two people and record their ideas.
B- They are opposed to Rodrigo Medrano Calle or Rolando Mamani’s opinions and they are an activist who works to protect children’s rights. ASK them to do research on the topic (disadvantages, risks, cons of child labor) and ask them to send you two WhatsApp messages that will help them to strengthen their opinion (facts, concrete details and specific examples or other references) to contradict Rodrigo and Rolando’s opinion. Describe the scenario to at least two people and record their ideas.
The information will be used for next class. The messages will be written or recorded depending on the students’ profiles. Students are also invited to send you images or links. The additional comments collected from other two individuals will be differentiated as well.
We teach literacy in multiple forms. This affirmation means that our students’ futures are constantly changing (as ours) due to the rapid evolution of technology. However what is evident is that learners will need a highly diverse range of skills to be considered literate in a form that would look different even by the time that I finish writing the rationale underlying my proposed lesson plan.
Using the multiple ecosystems of MALL, I start proposing the instructor to use Poll Everywhere to promote interaction and motivate students from the start. This short yet powerful interaction could serve (looking from a pedagogical ecosystem) to build the confidence to share opinions as some learners do not feel comfortable expressing their ideas in large groups or feel intimidated to speak immediately. From a cognitive perspective (processing) (linguistic ecosystem) the participation in the poll gives the class the opportunity to think and gradually prepare for the following activities. This is an attempt to reduce the cognitive load that sometimes results from asking students to share and produce ideas. At the end of the lesson, the poll is repeated and students have the chance to compare the opinions they had at the beginning and the perspectives that resulted from the content presented in the lesson.
The poll questions and its responses are used for instructional purposes. The sentences are used to notice the use of modals. I kept in mind the linguistic ecosystem and I intentionally “recycled” the poll questions as an authentic scenario where the target structure taught is found. I can imagine that learners might find more meaningful using a structure that they were already exposed to than looking at artificially created examples.
In the lesson proposal, I also included the use of the blog for students to submit their work. First, I think that it facilitates collecting and storing students’ work and analyzing it to provide them feedback. Second, asking them to provide at least two ideas about how their work should be assessed invites them to reflect about their learning processes and documents their growth. I believe that students will respond effectively and meet assessment standards if they understand clearly what the assessment target is and if it is clear to them. In addition, involving students in the creation of the assessment criteria and definition of the learning goals promotes ownership and democracy in the classroom.
I also propose that students send WhatsApp messages with additional information to strengthen the opinions that they have regarding child labor. I decided this because in doing so I integrated elements of the sociocultural ecosystem (asking students to communicate in a channel that is probably familiar and relevant to them) and also because, understood from a pedagogical ecosystem, it allows me to differentiate the instruction as students are expected to share information in written or verbal form (based on their profiles). Students are also given the freedom to include images and links. Differentiated instruction is about giving learners choices based on interests and learning styles. From a sociocultural perspective, it also gives a new face to “homework”. Doing homework by sending WhatsApp messages is certainly more friendly that submitting the traditional worksheet.
The technological ecosystem (portability) contributes to continuing the conversation that started in the class later outside of it. Furthermore, it allowed me to create an easy channel for crowd sourcing (asking two more people and recording it). I also thought that students might speak to people who do not speak English which far from being a problem could be an opportunity for learners to negotiate and notice the gap (linguistic ecosystem) on how they can express the ideas they collect. The learners’ engagement and the depth of the tasks are very likely to be strengthened. As students do their research, they will have to learn new vocabulary and idiomatic expressions to express their opinions. | <urn:uuid:e8f8e64d-4b84-4d4e-825a-4fdae56cdd79> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://sites.miis.edu/mall/sample-lessons/mobile-lessons-for-intermediates/vargas/ | 2020-10-27T05:55:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107893402.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20201027052750-20201027082750-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.959238 | 1,837 |
Family Law Questions? Ask a Family Lawyer Online.
That will depend on a few factors.
What state do you live in?
Did this end the marriage or simply cause damages?
I do not have good news, Family Code was enacted to abolish the right to bring an alienation of affection lawsuit in Indiana. You can not by law sue her for her actions.
You have the right to file for a separation and request not only that he leave the home but that he pay child support if there are children. Child support is a given if there are minor children and since you are the main caretaker there should be little issue of you retaining custody. You also have the right to request spousal support, in the end that is up to the judge and depends on the circumstances of the case.
As far as him telling you to leave the home you are not required to leave the home and I would suggest consulting with a lawyer before going any further.
I wish you the best,
Alienation of affection is the actions of the mistress not your husbands actions. When you sue for damages from a adulterous relationships that is termed alienation of affections......in the state of Indiana no one is permitted to bring forth a suit for damages stemming from a adulterous affair wither it be from your husband or his mistress.
I am sorry, I do wish I had better news. I have never agreed with this law but many states have adopted it to prevent people from being sued based on adultery.
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With all the controversy about the security of the Windows operating system, at the end of the day it is one of the best and most stable OSes. Yes it is not perfect, however none of its competitors can't quite catch it. Nevertheless, using the same OS for a long time will lead to its becoming filled with bloatware (installed by you); in this case, the only option is to install a clean, new OS. Once you have that clean OS, what applications might you want to install? That is the subject of this article.
I should start by pointing out that this is the second part of my two-part series about this issue. The title of the first is "Windows 7: Great Additions" so make sure to read it. Second, I want to make clear again that this article relies solely on my own experiences, and you may have other opinions. If you do, you can express them in a friendly manner on the blog following this article.
To make this a little more browsable I have split my article up into subject areas. In the first article you could learn about document handling, image manipulation and file sharing applications. Now I will go over the music, video and some other useful applications to have installed on a fresh operating system. Let us jump in it!
Okay, I confess: I am dependent on music. It has become a big part of my life. As soon as I start up my computer, most of the time the first application I start is the music player. In this area, I recognize that Microsoft managed to significantly improve its media player with Windows 7. Nevertheless, the enhancements are not enough to make me switch to it from Winamp.
Winamp pretty much grabbed its customers side by side with the spread of the MP3 file format as the standard for music files. I loved the old format with the classic view, as it was relatively simple and focused on your playlist. Then again, I also like the new Bento skin, as it has some good ideas and looks good with Windows 7. Luckily, I found a couple of additions that allow users to have both under the same system.
After you install Winamp, we need the cPro package. This Winamp plugin will let you use a cPro skin that extends many of the functions of the media player. I for one like the Braun atelier skin as bringing back something from the Winamp classic skin.
Now start up Winamp and hide the playlist, as we can have this in the tab too:
By right clicking on the tabs, you may set the application to auto-hide the ones you do not want to see. Do this with the ones you do not use. The BrowserPro tab hides multiple functions; however, I end up using the one for lyrics:
Besides this, you will need two more plugins. The first is Enhancer for a better quality sound output, and the second is the Winamp Essentials Pack for a general improvement in functionality. Once you have this up and running, you can instantly locate the currently-playing file (Ctrl+F), get many decoders to play all the music files (not just the MP3), auto play using the resume feature and more. Remember to set the enhancer as your output in the settings:
Another great addition is the winamp shell integration tool. The Win7shell will allow you to use the preview functionality of Windows 7 as a controller/quick access:
You can customize what it should show for a better user experience. Additional options here are foobar2000, MediaMonkey or AIMP. In the end I usually end up with something like this:
If you want to keep an online library of what your are listening to and benefit from a free online database and charts for this, make sure to download the Last.FM scrobbler.
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|1st SugarCRM Analytical De-duplication|
Analytical De-duplication for SugarCRM, Finds duplicates with similar sounding names also, Accounts / Contacts module. Relates Leads automatically based on email id.
|1st SugarCRM Mobile integration|
Get all your call logs and SMS logs into your SugarCRM from your mobile automatically. Held/Missed and incoming / outgoing calls. Send and received SMS - all are entered directly into CRM. Assigned and related to respective user and contact or account.
|1st SugarCRM Outlook Connector|
This connector helps integrate MS Outlook (2007 & 2010) with SugarCRM any version any edition. Which provides *Automatic Email Archiving to contact and leads for inbound and outbound Emails.*Manual Email Archiving to other modules of CRM.
|1st SugarCRM Preventive De-duplication|
Prevents duplication in real time (before it occurs), with details Support Contacts, Accounts Modules. Finds duplicates based on Name, Phone numbers, email Warn & Enforce.
|1st SugarCRM SMS Add-on|
Send SMS directly from SugarCRM leads, contacts, accounts, opportunities etc and also from listview & get history also. Supports SMS Templates. Works with all versions/editions.Works with any SMS gateway provider
|Activity Sync for SugarCRM by Opacus|
Opacus Activities Sync will sync your calls, meetings and tasks through your native calendar on your iPhone, iPad, Thunderbird or any other CalDAV / iCal capable device. FOR A TRIAL: http://opacus.co.uk/sugarcrm-activities-sync-trial-registration
|AddressHelper by SYNOLIA|
The Address Helper Plugin realized by SYNOLIA, helps you to quickly fill in Address Fileds . The Plugin knows Cities, Zip Codes and States of USA , France, Germany and Italy. Search either by city name either by zip code.
|Agent for Sugar (TAPI/Aastra SIP)|
Flashes+links leads, accounts and contacts and dial using callto from SugarCRM and select-click-dial any other number on the web. You must have a TAPI-enabled PBX and Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 to be able to use this. 60-day trial.
Publish and track email exchanges with your customers. Agora Mail does it the smart way: it picks up only emails related to SugarCRM Contacts, linking them automatically. Google Mail, Rackspace Email, or your own: it just works.
|Alsamarketing Marketing Automation|
Alsamarketing is an on-demand marketing automation product that makes it easy to automate and measure your marketing campaigns to achieve the best possible ROI. Supports lead scoring, lead nurturing and drip-marketing and real-time Sugar synchronisation.
|A Module with Ajax Call|
An Module with Ajax call in Sugar CRM which enables dynamic view of records of other module like accounts in Order module detail view.
|Antera's Activity Calendar Print Detail|
This add-on to the Activity Calendar displays the details on an event. Calendar events will now display account name, address, phone number, and meeting details. This benefit is for both viewing and printing out a detailed weekly schedule.
|Antera Software's Shortcut Icons|
Choose from 1 to 12 icons which will reside above the main menu to serve as shortcuts (log a call, schedule a meeting, link to other website), which link to any custom actions of your choosing. Available for upload to Community versions 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2.
|A Picture Upload|
upload a picture to all modules EXAMPLE: http://youtu.be/YDYLlm3Jfzw
BeeIM is Instant Messenger for business It's integrated with SugarCRM Your contact in messenger is you customer in CRM. You can manage data from IM. And director can see and manipulate messenger's contacts and history from CRM.
A simple, customizable, dashlet that shows a list of all contacts with an upcomming birthday.
Bonita Open Solution combines three solutions in one: an innovative Studio for process modeling, a powerful BPM & Workflow engine, and a breakthrough user interface. Create process-based applications in a single day with Bonita Open Solution.
This module adds Brilliant Quotes dashlet on home page. This will help to inspire and motivate people.
|Bulgarian Language Pack by CreaSoft |
Българска локализация на SugarCRM
|Business Card Reader for SugarCRM|
Snaps a picture of your business card, automatically recognizes, allows to add additional info and saves data into SugarCRM Leads.
|Calendar Web 2.0 by CARRENET|
New module using web 2.0 technologies for improving the appearance of SugarCRM calendar. It permit a visual representation of user's meetings and calls, by day, week and month. Drag and Drop support for moving and resizing.
|CE Mobile CRM|
Cross-Platform Mobile SugarCRM client accessible through the web that continues to support Community Edition SugarCRM.
This module adds team functionality to *any* module in SugarCRM Community Edition. It uses the logic hooks to hook into any module and is 100% upgrade safe! Please e-mail email@example.com for questions or support.
|Chat for SugarCRM|
FreiChat is a complete Communication/chat toolkit for your website. It allows you to share files and conversations. Hold a group chat and much more. Chat is Currently installed in 10,000+ websites.Thank you all! Project Moved : http://codologic.com
|Contivio Contact Center|
Contivio.com… if you have access to a browser and a headset, you can be up and running with an enterprise level contact center within minutes…including integration to any version of SugarCRM, whether vanilla or customized, hosted or on-premise!
|Customer Portal by Richlode Solutions|
Customer Portal provides SugarCRM and Knowledge Tree integration with Drupal CMS to enhance your communication channels with a new cost-effective way. Set up a Customer Portal for your Sugar CE, Pro and Enterprise editions.
|Custom Jobs by Captivea|
Custom Jobs allow Sugar Developers and admins to add jobs in custom directory without having to overwrite Schedulers module's files (_addjobshere.php) Then, each job will be declared in a single PHP file located in custom directory.
|Cynergy Sync for Google Apps|
Cynergy Sync for Google Apps is a Chrome Browser Extension that allows users to create leads, contacts, accounts, activities, and opportunities, as well as convert leads, & archive emails to SugarCRM from your GMail client.
|Development Tool Kit|
This package enable non developers to implement, in an easy to use way, advanced features as "Dependent Dropdowns" and "Dropdown Based Require Fields".
|Dispage Extension Manager|
Administrator is allowed to manage the SugarCRM plugins in a way similar to the Firefox Add-Ons. Searches for the available packages and updates, checks for compatibility with new Sugar versions and logs the related events. ... more at www.dispage.com
Surf easily SugarCRM Modules with ModuleSurfer, a new plugin turning each Module into an AJAX grid. View all the records at one time thanks to the autoload on scrolling. Sort/ inline-edit/ delete the records: no page reload. ...more at www.dispage.com
|Drag and Drop by Richlode Solutions|
Richlode Solutions Drag&Drop module allows to attach files to SugarCRM with just using Drag&Drop function of your desktop OS. Supported browsers: FireFox (v.3.6 or higher) and Google Chrome (v.5.0 or higher). Not supported browsers: Opera, IE.
|Drip Email in SugarCRM|
Enable Drip Email Marketing Functionality in SugarCRM. It is a marketing tool very useful for those who interested to target their customer to send pre design template based email to their target clients overtime (after number of days).
|DTG Sugar Auto Increment Field|
The Sugar Auto Increment package is a extension to enable Auto Increment Fields. The basic function is to enable Administrators to create fields where the value is an auto generated unique code that increments each time a new record is created.
|Dutch Language Pack|
SugarCRM in het Nederlands. Prudento - gespecialiseerd in SugarCRM.
|Dynamic Target List|
Dynamic Target List turns SugarCRM Target List into dynamically updated, allowing for updates and changes.
Easy Import makes importing and migrating data to SugarCRM fast and seamless. This powerful tool migrates data into Sugar at up to 10x speeds, preserves relationships, and handles errors and bad data effectively.
This module makes DetailView editable. Just doubleclick on a field and edit it. A saving runs very very fast. Lite version allows you to edit only Accounts and Contacts directly from DetailView.
|Email Archiver by Letrium|
Email Archiver for personal email accounts in SugarCRM.
New powerful search features for SugarCRM: From and To date search capabilities, OR / NOT field search options, text/number OPERATOR (LIKE, =, >, <, IN, BETWEEN and RLIKE are supported) and the new Additional Search Fields... more at www.dispage.com
this project is discontinued
|Epicom's Universal Click-to-Call|
Click-to-Call enhances efficiency by eliminating the need for dialing and enables your sales force to quickly get through a call list. By simply clicking any phone number inside SugarCRM, a user can instantly bridge the call to their office phone.
|EXIMEO Outmeeting for SugarCRM|
Le module EXIMEO Outmeeting for SugarCRM vous permet de planifier et d'accéder à vos webconférences (réunions en ligne) depuis SugarCRM en invitant vos contacts et vos leads. - http://www.eximeo.eu/outmeeting_for_sugarcrm
|eXo Platform Plugin for SugarCRM|
eXo Platform Plugin for SugarCRM will let you create collaboration space to help you solve your case. visit at: http://www.exoplatform.com
|eXo Social Plugin for SugarCRM|
eXo Social Plugin for SugarCRM will let you create collaboration space to help you solve your case.
|FabTools by DavidBoris|
Projects goal is to build facebook integration so sugar is able to retrieve information about your customers inside sugar if they are on facebook and you are friends with them, and you are able to send messages to their wall.
|Fonality CRM Module|
Fonality CRM Module provides an integration between SugarCRM and Fonality phone system. This includes Click to Dial through your Fonality phone system and Call Assistant, an inbound screen pop-up for easy access to identify and update records.
|German Language / Deutsche Sprachdateien|
Die deutschen Sprachdateien für SugarCRM CE (Community Edition) Bei Fehlern / Fragen: info (at) iscongroup.net
|Google Analytics Web Visitor Tracking|
Powered by Google Analytics this addon provides the ability to track which organizations are visiting your website from inside SugarCRM.
|Google API and SugarCRM Integration|
This project is combination of Google apis (Contacts,Calendar,Map and Documents ) integration with SugarCRM.
|Go Simple Assets|
GO! Simple asset inventory module is specifically for keeping track of equioment assigned to accounts and contacts. Equipment can also be assigned to cases and assigned to stock.
|Greek Language Pack (6.0+)|
Full translation Sugarcrm to Greek Language. Extra Fields (Tax Registration Number, Registration Number Chamber etc) for contacts, accounts, activities, opportunities, leads With purpose to usefulness in Greek businesess.
|GrinMark: Machine Parks|
"GrinMark: Machine Parks" is a catalog of equipment installed on the client side. It is useful to organize after-sales service, spare and wear parts delivery.
|GrinMark MS Office Addin for SugarCRM|
Archiving (uploading to SugarCRM) Emails from MS Outlook; Creation of Contacts/Accounts/...; Outlook Contact Synchronization; Archiving Documents from Word, Excel ..etc; Template processor for SugarCRM Documents. Custom Fields.
|inetDOCS for Box|
Drag&Drop files into Sugar, they are uploaded to Box and related to the current record. Manage your Box contents from SugarCRM. Link your Box files to your SugarCRM items, including custom modules. Customize inetDOCS through the Studio
|inetDOCS for Dropbox|
Drag&Drop files into Sugar, they are uploaded to Dropbox and related to the current record . Manage your Dropbox contents from Sugar . Link your Dropbox files to your Sugar items, including custom modules . Customize inetDOCS through the Studio
|inetDOCS for HUDDLE|
inetDOCS for Huddle: the #1 SharePoint Alternative now within SugarCRM Your Huddle documents and folders are available from your SugarCRM modules. Link them to SugarCRM items by Drag and Drop, upload or download them inside your favorite CRM tool.
iSAM Mobi mobile access to your SugarCRM 5.5.x and above from iPhone, iPad and Android phones. Provides access to all standard SugarCRM modules, and access to custom fields and modules added or developed in the SugarCRM Studio.
Jelliphy introduces a new concept in web design: a browser-based GUI to modify any web page from the browser itself. Currently tested with the last versions of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Internet Explorer 8 and 9.
|Jigsaw Cloud Connector|
Bring data into Sugar from the Jigsaw database of companies and contacts using the Jigsaw Cloud Connector for Sugar.
This is Joomla plugin which aims to add another "driver authentication" based on SugarCRM. You can then allow access to your Joomla portal for users of your CRM system based on SugarCRM. The Plugin uses the web service API available on SugarCRM.
|Ken Brill: HomePage Manager|
Allows you to create a default home page for new users adding the dashlets that you want to use in the order that you want them to show up. Also allows you to change everyones home page (add dashlets, reorganize them whatever) based off of a template.
|Ken Brill: MyBirthdayDashlet|
A dashlet that displays contacts birthdays. It is upgrade safe and OnDemand compliant and compatible with all versions of SugarCRM.
|KOSS Green Theme|
This Theme is for Sugar 6 version. Compatible with Firefox and Internet Explorer 6, and SugarCRM 6.0 or higher.
|Lampada Portal for SugarCRM|
Lampada Portal for SugarCRM simplifies the deployment of a portal for your customers, partners and other contacts. The Portal is compatible with SugarCRM CE, Professional and Enterprise.
|Lead Distribution and Routing 1crm.info|
Lead User Assignment by lead source, assign leads to only Active Users, Duplicate check of lead, Lead Assignment from Round Robin-push, Cherry Pick-pull, Blind-push, Shark Tank-pull pools
|LeadFormix Marketing Automation|
LeadFormix delivers a game-changing real-time marketing automation and lead gen solution for enterprises that determines website visitor intent, uncovers hidden opportunities, delivers targeted responses and enables sales teams to close deals faster.
|Leads and Contacts Capture for Joomla1.5|
This is Joomla Extension, that captures data from Joomla! contact form into Leads and Contacts Tables in SugarCRM.
Invoice/quote generator for SugarCRM. Features: downloading as PDF file; sending in email; discounting and taxing; Item Price and Hourly Rate modes; template editing.
|Liz, full featured Asterisk plug-in|
Liz is a full featured Asterisk plug-in for SugarCRM 5 and up. It will handle both incoming and outgoing calls. With the management of multiple incoming calls, call transferring and call logging this is a revolutionary Asterisk plug-in.
|Login/Sudo - Admin Timesaver|
Easily see what your SugarCRM users are seeing by logging in as that user without having to pass around passwords. Quickly troubleshoot issues, help configure user dashboards, or train your staff.
|Mobile CRM for SugarCRM|
Tired of mobile CRM solutions that don't fit the Blackberry's unique setup, take a look at our new solution. It works on all versions of SugarCRM and is blazingly fast. NO Hosting fees. Works with or without BES servers.Try it out for free today.
|MobileCRM for SugarCRM|
MobileCRM is a native (100% Objective-C) solution to manage SugarCRM on your iPhone. it supports LDAP. It is available on itune: http://itunes.apple.com/ca/app//id376796112
|Modern Aqua Theme|
MacOSX-like theme on Sugar frameworks. NOTE: NO IE SUPPORT! USE SAFRI, CHROME, OR FIREFOX.
|Net-Results Marketing Automation|
Focus Sales Efforts on Active & Engaged Prospects: Zero-Effort Hot Lead Dashboards, Send Great Looking, Trackable Emails Straight From SugarCRM, Lead & Contact Activity Streams, Auto Schedule Phone Calls from Sales & Campaign Sync.
OnDialog allows you, the marketer, to design, develop and deploy professional landing pages from your desktop in a matter of minutes.
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|OneLogin Free SSO and AD Integration|
OneLogin provides the most comprehensive solution for managing user identities in the cloud and behind the firewall. Easily connect an internal AD or LDAP server to SugarCRM and 3,000 pre-integrated cloud applications and enjoy single sign-on.
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|Opacus Login Audit|
The Login Audit module is an administrative module for monitoring user login events. The module displays the typed username, login date/time, IP address and whether the attempt to login is successful or not.(Visit us at www.opacus.co.uk)
|Opacus PRO SugarCRM Outlook Plugin|
Two way Synchronisation from either Outlook or SugarCRM. Mass auto archive multiple emails at once. Automatically archive new inbound and outbound emails without user interaction. Please visit http://www.opacus.co.uk to obtain a licence key
|OpenOTP Authentication Plugin|
Two-Factor Authentication for SugarCRM 5/6 with RCDevs OpenOTP Authentication Server. Use OpenOTP for SugarCRM with: - OATH Event, Time and Challenge -based, Tokens - Google Authenticator - mOTP Tokens - Yubikey - SMS and MAIL One-time-password
|Outdare KVK connector for SugarCRM|
Connector based on Sugar Cloud Connectors that retrieves all Dutch Chamber of Commerce data available via webservices.nl. For Sugar Professional and Enterprise users the merge option is available to enrich and correct your CRM data.
|Pardot Marketing Automation|
Pardot is a cloud-based marketing automation suite that can show your sales team exactly where to spend its time in order to maximize ROI. Automatically track, score, and nurture prospects throughout the sales cycle.
|PDF for SUGAR|
Populate a PDF form out of SugarCRM: Merge data from a SugarCRM record (like a contact) directly into an editable PDF form. This eliminates the need to re-type data. This is very useful for HR and financial forms. Visit PDFforSugar.com for video training.
|Pharm2Phork for Sugar|
Project supplies the client side artifacts for use with the Pharm2Phork Wave Server.
|Photo - Image Field|
For all editions of SugarCRM, add images to any SugarCRM module and any view using this field. Supports an unlimited number of photos on a record. Simply add a new custom field for each photo needed. Only 5 star reviews on SugarOutfitters.
|Piccolino, Win Client with Outlook addin|
In short, we have created SugarCRM Client and more.Search, Edit, Create, Delete, Sync, Work Offline with SugarCRM data from Windows app.Moreover,we provide powerful tools for integration SugarCRM data with MSOutlook and Thunderbird.
|Plone and SugarCRM: collective.sugarcrm|
collective.sugarcrm is an add-on for Plone which provide integration between the two systems. You will find Authentication plugin query source for Contacts and Accounts Zope component with pythonic API over SOAP API. A contact portlet
|Prevent Multi Login for same Username|
Attractive tool which prevent SugarCRM users to Multi Login for the same username. If user is already logged in a system so its logged out the already logged user and then allow the other user to logged in
|Process Manager for SugarCRM|
Automated workflow engine for SugarCRM 5.5, 6.0, 6.1,6.2 and 6.3. Process Manager allows end users to automatically send emails, schedule calls, or create tasks based on the create or modification of objects in Sugar. Please visit us at www.sierracrm.com
|Project Gantt Chart|
For project management, Gantt chart is very useful. I have rewrite the Project Gantt Chart project on the base of "CallRooM: Project Gantt (timeline) Chart", now it is compatible with SugarCRM 6.x.
|Prospectfinder Module for SugarCRM|
This module makes it possible to import information directly from your Prospectfinder account to your SugarCRM implementation. You can automatically create Leads and match visits from your existing customers and visualise them in SugarCRM.
|QAS for SugarCRM|
Verify and standardize US and international addresses as they are entered into SugarCRM. Organizations will improve prospect management, enhance marketing analysis, cut operational costs, and maintain a professional image.
QuickCRM Mobile is a native app and web client allowing access to SugarCRM data on iPhone, Android, ... With QuickCRM Mobile Pro, you have an offline mode and can create/edit records, manage custom modules and custom fields and search by any field.
Generate simple invoices and export them to PDF and "Facturae" formats. Includes support for Digital Signature in PDF and XML. http://www.regoluna.com/facturas_sugarcrm (spanish).
|rei BullCow Game|
user after install this game and guess what is the four alphabet and after click on guess button. show result where cow means you guess char is in four alphabet but not on correct position and bull means your guess char is correct position.
Re imbursement module used to maintain claim records of your employees where accounts admin update each reimbursement claim with different status paid, unpaid, cancelled, discuss and etc.
|Riptide Popup Alerts|
Do your employees ever need to be alerted to something very important about a customer? Riptide Popup Alerts gives you the ability to easily display that crucial popup alert message on any module.
|Riptide Real Estate|
Riptide Real Estate is a comprehensive, end to end real estate management solution that combines the power of contact management with all the functionality necessary to run your successful real estate business.
|Riva - Sync CRM to Exchange and Notes|
Riva syncs Sugar directly to Exchange and IBM Notes. No desktop software to install. Supports all Exchange and Notes clients and mobile devices – Outlook, OWA, Office 365, Outlook for Mac, Entourage, Apple Mail, iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android. | <urn:uuid:94f0d771-7a48-421c-a43c-f77b361d18ef> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.sugarforge.org/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=394&page=1 | 2014-09-01T21:01:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1409535920694.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140909042125-00035-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.799219 | 5,229 |
- Sep 8, 2020
- Favorite Player
- Chino Recoba
Most Improved Member
I am almost sure, if we had Hakimi now, we would still be where we are. All the players we had both under Conte and Inzaghi significantly regressed with the latter's helm: Barella, Bastoni, Lautaro, SDV. He can't do anything with Lukaku - the striker who kept the whole league in awe for 2 seasons. But yeah, go on blaming players.
Did you saw Hakimi performances in WC?Guy was defensively a beast, much better then in Conte days. No need to mentioning his speed and how would it help us playing on counter. Plus Perisic! These two players over Darmian and DiMarco gives you 50% better squad in 3-5-2 system. | <urn:uuid:c2fc3b52-9509-4fcf-b3c8-cbb4ce4cfb81> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://www.forzainterforums.com/index.php?threads/italian-serie-a-2022-2023.15800/page-113#post-2142492 | 2023-03-29T23:05:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296949035.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20230329213541-20230330003541-00684.warc.gz | en | 0.967175 | 207 |
A number of Apple Mac wikis appear to be cropping up. The first one that I came across is Wikitosh which hopes to be a repository for everything you ever wanted to know about the Apple Mac platform, from todays Macs and OSX, back to information about machines from days gone by (computer archaeology?!).
Wikitosh has information of varying quality. One fantastic example is the section on Apple’s industrial design – “Jonathan Ive RULES at industrial Design!!” – is the sole entry. For some reason they have some odd conventions. Software is named SoftWare. Hardware is HardWare. I don’t like that one bit. Wikitosh has a long way to go before it becomes a mature source of information – and that, of course, is up to (literate) people contributing to and self-moderating it.
The second Mac Wiki is Mac Guides, which was recently set up by Mac Rumors, the popular Mac news and rumours website. Rather than being over-ambitious, Mac Guides aims to “provide an organized outlet for the vast amounts of knowledge that are provided in the forums“. That means tutorials, solutions to common problems etc. This could help with the problem of repetition, and useful information becoming buried in their burgeoning (but extremely useful) forums.
Keep your eyes on both – and remember to contribute something useful to help build a resource which benfits all Mac users. | <urn:uuid:0c7cf023-18fb-4a64-913c-34989d034ce3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pastthinking.com/2005/11/03/apple-mac-wikis/ | 2017-01-19T17:03:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280723.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00221-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942235 | 304 |
VICTORY OVER NORTHS
Wynnum Manly were too strong for the competition leading Norths Devils, winning 30-10 in an historic ANZAC Day Intrust Super Cup match at BMD Kougari Oval.
John Buchanan’s formula of hard running and aggressive forward play was executed almost to perfection as the Seagulls ran rampant at home after a disappointing loss against the CQ Capras.
Back-rower Graham Clark was promoted to the starting line-up and was spirited in defence with a number of big hits rattling the Norths ball runners. On two occasions he forced a drop ball just from the sheer power in the tackle.
Drop ball will weigh heavily on Norths coach Mark Gliddon’s mind, as his team struggled to complete their sets throughout which did not allow them to get into the ball game.
John Te Reo, playing at hooker in place of Jake Granville, scored the first try for Wynnum before Mitchell Frei scored another try on the left edge.
Frei is looking more and more like an NRL player in waiting as his ability to run a hard line and then twist his body at contact to beat the defenders has allowed him to score a number of tries this season. Todd Murphy and the Norths right edge struggled to contain the former Brisbane Bronco and Newcastle Knight.
Murphy was able to claw a try back for Norths. However Ben Cronin scored just before halftime for Wynnum to be in front 18-6 at the break.
Six minutes into the second stanza, flying Norths winger Rogan Dean scored in the left corner after a cross kick from Murphy. Behind just 18-10 with captain Brendon Gibb and lock James Sharkie working tirelessly, Norths had an opportunity to get back into the game.
However the tenacious Wynnum forward pack refused to bend, as they kept coming in numbers time and time again, running with real purpose up the middle of the field.
Hard ball running forces quick play the balls, which interchange hooker Mitchell Moore took advantage of as he scooted over from dummy half to extend Wynnum’s lead to 24-10.
Mitchell Buckett capped off the scoring after a pinpoint chip kick from half Matt Seamark, finding the winger all alone on the left wing for a simple dive over try.
Brisbane Broncos, David Stagg and Jordan Kahu were able to get through a large chunk of minutes which will give them confidence as they both return from injury. Kahu did not see too much involvement however the potential NRL superstar will be happy his knee withstood the full 80 minutes.
Wynnum received a powerful message on the importance of brotherhood from a member of the Australian Defence Force on the eve of their ANZAC Day clash.
WYNNUM MANLY SEAGULLS 30 (Mitchell Buckett, Ben Cronin, John Te Reo, Mitchell Frei, Mitchell Moore tries; Matt Seamark 5 goals) def NORTHS DEVILS 10 (Rogan Dean, Todd Murphy tries; Todd Murphy goal) at BMD Kougari Oval. | <urn:uuid:6a35c7eb-2589-471a-afb0-cf08d2098007> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://wynnumseagulls.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1563:victory-over-norths&catid=12&Itemid=255 | 2017-03-29T22:51:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218191405.12/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212951-00531-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968938 | 651 |
Mediation in Will Contest Claims – Your Questions Answered
1. What is mediation?
A mediation is a negotiation in a formal setting with a professional “mediator” who tries to help both sides to resolve their dispute – often by means of clever questioning, crystal ball gazing (eg. Where will we be in in a years time if the will dispute is not resolved??)
2. Does a mediator act as Judge in relation to your will contest claim?
Definitely not! Moreover everything discussed during the mediation remains confidential to it and cannot be used in any Court proceedings to determine the issue
3. Why bother with a mediation (and thereby pay a mediator) when you can simply negotiate your will dispute face to face or by telephone or exchange of correspondence?
The fact that your claim is still on-going is evidence enough that the more traditional means of resolving it have failed. A mediation is surprisingly (extraordinarily!) effective. The majority of our will contest claims are resolved by means of a mediation and indeed we have a 90% success rate (in terms of will claims that we resolve by means of a mediation).
4. What is the alternative?
There are of course alternative ways of exploring settlement in will contest claims. Simple, direct and/or face to face negotiation as mentioned is an obvious example. However, in our experience these tend to deteriorate into mud-slinging opportunities in will contest claims. The other is to take it to a trial!
5. Why not simply take the case to a trial?
The answer is simple – there is no certainty in so doing. In even the best of will claim or inheritance claim cases, there has to be a 35% risk since there is a large discretionary element in the hands of the Judge, when he or she considers it. Essentially, if your face doesn’t fit on the day, you could end up with a bloody nose! Mediation, in fact settlement in advance of a trial (not necessarily court proceedings – these might be necessary to force your opponent to see sense) buys you certainty in your will dispute, inheritance dispute or will contest claim and yes, it does mean that this “risk” can be considered to have a price.
6. What happens if either I or the other side decide to ignore a request to “mediate”?
The Court of Appeal have made it very clear that a failure to mediate without good reason can mean that the party refusing to participate in relation to his or her will contest claim can be ordered to pay the other party’s costs, notwithstanding they went on to actually win the case!! (refer to PGFII SA v OMFS Company 1 Limited 2013 EWCA Civ 1288). | <urn:uuid:ce97e01f-6961-4943-a36f-b6679fc0b827> | CC-MAIN-2023-06 | https://www.willclaim.com/mediation-in-will-contest-claims-your-questions-answered-2/ | 2023-02-07T14:27:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-06/segments/1674764500619.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230207134453-20230207164453-00799.warc.gz | en | 0.958766 | 564 |
The idea is so obvious and clever, you wonder why this kind of thing isn’t everywhere: children’s poems about our troubled planet, urging us to keep it clean. Or cleaner, anyways. Starting with litter.
Kerry Adams Hapner, Cultural Affairs Director for San Jose, explained that Litter-ature, as the program is called, cultivated then featured 10 winning poems on 500 trash cans in 17 different business improvement districts around the city,
"We have a call to action. It's our youth that recognizes we have to change. Otherwise, we're going to lose different parts of this beautiful earth."
Hundreds of middle and high school students sent in more than 300 short poems. Then, a panel of judges led by Santa Clara County’s Poet Laureate Mike McGee sorted through all of it: thoughtful, anguished, half-hearted, even funny.
"We sweated over the fact we could only pick 10. It was really hard," he said, adding, "Kids are thinking about their environment, because they’re seeing adults not doing anything about it." | <urn:uuid:80b8c362-46d4-4f0e-85ce-9a298330b273> | CC-MAIN-2020-34 | https://www.kqed.org/arts/13855466/young-san-jose-poets-urge-us-all-to-pick-up-that-trash-pretty-please | 2020-08-10T08:44:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-34/segments/1596439738653.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20200810072511-20200810102511-00032.warc.gz | en | 0.965607 | 229 |
O'Neill Roofing re-felted by garage roof and porch. Excellent service and extremely competitive. I was kept fully informed of progress as I was unable to be at property whilst the guys worked.
Very polite, punctual and tidy. Even cleaned my patio table that got dusty
The team battled through all that the weather could throw at them including 6 inches of snow, ice, gale force winds and rain (and they still kept smiling!). Obviously on some days work was not possible but we were notified of this promptly at the start of the day or at the end of the previous day. The only reason for the work coming in above the original quoted amount was due to the existence of a 2nd flat roof hidden below the existing one which no one was aware of. Once this was discovered we had a quote and a breakdown for the extra work required immediately so that the price could be agreed and the work was not delayed. The team were punctual, hard-working and kept us updated throughout the day. At the end of each day we were shown the work completed so far and the work scheduled for the following day was discussed. We had a replacement L shaped flat roof with light tunnels, cooker and bathroom vents and a large lantern window and the workmanship is of a very high standard. We would not hesitate to recommend O Neill Roofing for this type of roofing project. As a bonus, parts of the site were actually cleaner and tidier after the project was completed than they were beforehand.
O’Neill roofing re-felted the garage roof and re-tiled the extension/porch roof to our house in Tamworth. They did an excellent job, were always clean and tidy and started/completed the job on time. I maintain a couple of nursery school properties, so I knew exactly what the job entailed. I was very impressed with their workmanship and they went the extra mile to finish the job to my satisfaction. I can highly recommend this company and would readily use them again. Thank you Lee and Dan.
This morning we asked for a Superhero and we got 3!!! Thanks to the amazing guys from O'Neill Roofing Tamworth who helped save little Snouts from the 3 storey roof. You were so sweet and kind to the cat and the Kids! Superheroes are from Tamworth!!!! Thank you again to these amazing heroes! Love Madison & Nevaeh :) xx | <urn:uuid:41af3e9d-ec47-4e46-aebe-f2c0ca2d4b5b> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://showcase.vocalreferences.com/tamworth-roofing-roofer-tamworth-roofing-repairs-local-roofer-birmingham-roofer-o-neill-roofing-contractors-12598 | 2020-10-22T17:07:54Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107880014.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20201022170349-20201022200349-00230.warc.gz | en | 0.985659 | 498 |
Wright has been on the disabled list since August 3rd with a grade two tight hamstring strain.
The Mets’ captain has hit 17 home runs at Citizens Bank Park during his career, the second-most in any visiting ballpark. (He has connected on 18 home runs at Atlanta’s
Turner Field) Wright also has 58 career RBI in Philadelphia, the most in any visiting city.
Sounds like perfect timing to me…
Over the weekend I wrote that I’d bet anything Wright would be back in the lineup for the Giants series.
Wright continues to work his way back form a strained hamstring that shelved him over a month ago, and insists he’ll return this season.
“I think David is going to play, you’re going to see him back on the field before the season’s over,” said Collins.
“I think it’s going to be important for David to know he’s 100 percent healthy, and I think it’s important for our team, for our organization and our fanbase to know, ‘Hey look, our star is going to be OK when it comes spring.’”
Wright, 30, is batting .309 with 16 home runs and 54 RBIs in 105 games for the Mets this season with a .391 on-base percentage. | <urn:uuid:0841c881-9c69-4282-b1b3-47f93c6d0dd8> | CC-MAIN-2014-49 | http://metsmerizedonline.com/2013/09/wright-to-be-activated-prior-to-tonights-game-against-phillies.html/ | 2014-11-26T21:31:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-49/segments/1416931007510.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20141125155647-00225-ip-10-235-23-156.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970717 | 285 |
ENGL 367 "American Ecofeminism: Intersections between Environmentalism and Feminism" Wednesday 2-5pm Krista Comer <firstname.lastname@example.org>
This course surveys American women's efforts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to define and practice what we term today a "pro-environmentalist" policy toward the natural world. Its method is necessarily interdisciplinary, drawing from literature, women's history, literary criticism, feminist biology, and race and social justice theories. We begin with the literatures written by female settlers like Caroline Kirkland (1830) who counseled westward-moving women in the arts and dangers of frontier survival. We consider the rise of scientific discourse in nineteenth century American culture and its influence on political thought. We also consider the "peace wing" of the nineteenth century Woman Movement, which shapes later feminist philosophies as varied as those of the 1920s and 30s Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and well as the 1980s Women's Pentagon Action. We enter the twentieth century by way of a look at Mary Austin, Zitkaka Sa, Rachel Carsen, and Fabiola Cabeza de Vaca, and the evolving differences, between these thinkers, as to what constitutes environmental feminism. After mid-century a definable "ecofeminist" wing emerges from within especially cultural feminism, and links itself to peace advocacy, feminist spirituality (including paganism and witchcraft), vegetarianism, local toxic waste clean up, etc. Here our readings include social movements theorist Noel Sturgeon, environmental feminist Val Plumwood, biologist Ann Fausto-Sterling, feminist environmental historian Carolyn Merchant, as well as current writers like Terry Tempest Williams. Issues of race, class, and first/third world differences, figure largely in this section of the course, and in our own efforts to define environmental justice. We also repeatedly take up a question about which American women have long been both skeptical and approving: that of the claim that women are "closer to nature" than are men, and therefore constitute "natural" environmentalists. Two essays, a midterm, and a journal. | <urn:uuid:de0d65d9-054f-4b50-af62-ca77a43c3c1a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pjh/courses/ENGL367.html | 2017-01-17T00:46:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279379.41/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00450-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942457 | 433 |
April's Two Cents
April Had A Dream
Everyone in the group,Audrey, Julian, Patrick, April, Chase, Brandon, Tip, Jon, and Janene were hanging out on a Field at Fort Bliss apparently watching an air show of some sort, after a short while Brandon and Chase decided to take off somewhere and we weren't sure where they went.
April and the rest of us, at that time saw an oddly shaped air craft with a propeller starting to spin wildly out of control and losing altitude, panicked we all started to run to April's car to get as far away as possible but it was too late and it crashed and exploded all of us leaping for cover.
April awoke in the hospital with severe burns on her back and learned that everyone was alive but seriously burned by the explosion however no one knew the whereabouts of Chase and Brandon, the nurse explained that they were not hurt because at the time of the explosion...they were at some girl's house engaging in "adult activities". In disbelief Patrick, along with the rest of the injured, uttered one of the most classic one liners I've ever heard...
"You mean they got saved because they got laid?!" | <urn:uuid:5a38fe56-a408-4255-b8ca-b8b081c4ee2a> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://jackassexpress.blogspot.com/2011/02/aprils-two-cents.html | 2018-06-24T05:21:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267866358.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20180624044127-20180624064127-00203.warc.gz | en | 0.982566 | 243 |
The saga of Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard just got stranger. Johnny Depp claims Amber Heard pooped in his bed, which was the last straw that led him to file divorce. He made in the claim in a public statement, and also said he is suing The Sun for calling him a “wife beater”. Johnny Depp added the Amber Heard defecated in his bed as a sick joke, and didn’t think anything was wrong with that.
The first thing that came to our mind when we heard this disgusting news, was James Harden possibly pooping himself during an NBA game. However, Amber Heard pooping in a bed that other people sleep is 100x as nasty. That’s about as Hollyweird as it gets.
It’s no surprise Johnny Depp decided to file for divorce after that. How can you ever look at your significant other same after she left a steaming people of poop in your bed? | <urn:uuid:cddc66e6-2ae3-4af3-b2bb-5193259731a3> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://www.jordanthrilla.com/post/johnny-depp-says-amber-heard-pooped-in-his-bed/ | 2023-12-05T12:56:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100551.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20231205105136-20231205135136-00754.warc.gz | en | 0.987762 | 198 |
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In light of the recession and the budget implications for the State of New York, the State University of New York as well as SUNY Plattsburgh face a difficult budgetary climate. A series of significant cuts to the SUNY and SUNY Plattsburgh budgets have required actions to deal with both the short- and long-term financial stability of our institutions. The administration at SUNY Plattsburgh has taken proactive steps to thoughtfully address how to respond to continued cuts while protecting our core mission and related functions.
A series of actions have already been implemented and other initiatives are being fully considered as the administration works to close the budget gap. The president and members of his cabinet are grateful for the patience and understanding of the faculty, staff and students, and encourage their continued feedback as we navigate the difficult waters ahead.
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