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A discourse on language, technology and politics. An endless text, a finite model of infinite time. The speaker says 'on', and presses the ON swtich of the magnetophone. Recorded on the magnetophone is an endlessly looped sequence of the word 'off'. The tape says 'off'. The speaker presses the OFF key, then says 'on', and presses the ON key, and so it goes on. The text is carried out until either the magnetophone breaks down or the speaker gives up, exhausted. The speech process as a dialogue between natural and artificial elements, between spontaneity and rules (machines). | <urn:uuid:f94da9bb-a0e1-48dd-84b2-6fabf8d18c73> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/synthesis/ | 2017-01-23T10:32:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282631.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00110-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880768 | 185 |
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Re: Object class violation additional info: attribute 'jpegPhoto' not allowed
At 06:58 AM 6/15/2006, Hans Schou wrote:
>Can I in some way let the system tell me which attributetypes I can use?
slapd(8) supports the LDAP subschema discovery mechanism
(RFC 4512, Section 4.4). For information about this, as well
as general information about the LDAP/X.500 data models,
I suggest reading a good book on LDAP. Some suggestions
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After nearly a year of work, the city’s Planning and Building Department, received some very good news this week regarding flood insurance rates: they are going down.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) notified City Manager John Regan that the city’s rating was increased to a Class 7 in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) Community Rating System (CRS). That reclassification qualifies the city for a 15% discount in the premium costs of flood insurance for NFIP policies issued or renewed in Special Flood Hazards on or after October 1, 2011. The current Class 8 rating, secured in 1998, qualifies policy holders for a 10% discount.
"Staff worked diligently with all the related agencies, FEMA, NFIP and ISO, to do everything possible to assist city residents and businesses in lowering their cost of living,” said Mark Knight, Planning and Building Director, adding “This is good news for our community.”
“I commend you on your community actions and your determination to lead your community to be more disaster resistant,” wrote Sandra K. Knight, FRMA Deputy Associate Administration for Mitigation. “This commitment enhances public safety, property protection, and protects the natural functions of floodplains, and reduces flood insurance premiums.”
The city participates in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which makes flood insurance coverage available to homeowners at reduced premiums. Since most areas of the City of St. Augustine are located within a Special Flood Hazard Area, homeowners are strongly encouraged to obtain flood insurance coverage especially with the additional savings now available. Estimated collective savings to property owners in St. Augustine will be approximately $160,000.
To download a copy of the notification letter from FEMA, click here.
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Joining the coppice group
– So what are the advantages?
|Online listing||Inclusion on Database of members Products and services|
|liability insurance||To help our members demonstrate we are able to offer show insurance, by arangement|
|Visits||The group organizes a number of visits during the summer to private woods that would normally be off limits to the public.|
|Talks||During the winter we arrange a number of talks on woodland related subjects, past talks have included: dormice, butterflies and the bodgers of High Wickham.|
|Shows||Invites to demonstrate at shows under the HCCG banner.|
The coppice group meetings are also a good chance to network with other coppice workers. Which means that you can keep up to date with developments and issues relevant to the coppice industry.
If you would like to join the Hampshire Coppice Craftsmen's Group please use the membership form.
Membership renewal can be made by cash or cheque in October each year. Unfortunately we are unable to offer Direct Debit or credit card payment facilities.
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Re: Ed Reed released
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Reed was brought in to provide leadership to the secondary leading up to and in the playoffs. Since the playoffs are no longer a possibility he is no longer needed.
And he obviously provided precious little leadership.
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An area resident wants the city to move this monument honoring a former Pataskala resident who was killed fighting in Vietnam to a more visible location. The Pataskala City Council is considering the request.
A decision to move a monument honoring a fallen serviceman has irked an area resident and prompted the Pataskala City Council to reconsider its new location.
Kirkersville resident Judy Casto attended a June 16 council meeting to express her displeasure with the city's decision to move a plaque honoring former Pataskala resident Jerrald R. Thompson.
Casto said she knew Thompson, who died June 16, 1966, while fighting in Vietnam. Thompson was corporal squad leader for First Platoon, Company C, First Reconnaissance Battalion, First Marine Division. ... | <urn:uuid:9010e939-2f0c-4f03-9cd5-2d1c185b7a99> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20140703/COMMUNITIES01/306280042/Officials-urged-move-plaque-again | 2015-07-31T13:10:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042988250.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002308-00190-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944024 | 157 |
Loris Baz (Kawasaki Racing Team) claimed Pole Position today at Jerez.
The second time this year for Davide Giugliano as pole sitter.
The Italian rider earned second place on the grid for tomorrow’s races, with his teammate Chaz Davies concluding sevent.
Today’s pole position is the 21st of Sykes’ WSBK career.
The second day of the World Superbike Championship round at Silverstone was an emotional one as the riders paid tribute to Andrea Antonelli before Eugene Laverty earned his first-ever Tissot-Superpole.
Teammate Chaz Davies lines up in 11th
Sylvain Guintoli earned the World Superbike series Tissot-Superpole at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca event in California, USA
Riders Ayrton Badovini and Christian Iddon carried on where they left off yesterday.
Tom Sykes claim first pole position of the season aboard his Kawasaki Racing Team machine ahead of his team mate Loris Baz.
Another Tissot-Superpole to "Watch-man" Tom Sykes! Sam Lowes on Supersport pole position on the Netherlands TT Circuit.
Canepa’s best lap of a 1’23.9, ensured him of final second place, an extremely positive result that augers well for the races.
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In the summer of 2002, water pumps in Colorado’s San Luis Valley stopped working.
The center pivot sprinklers that coax shoots from the dry soil and turn the valley into one of the state’s most productive agricultural regions strained so hard to pull water from an underground aquifer that they created sunken pits around them.
“This one right over here,” says potato farmer Doug Messick as he walks toward one of his sprinklers in the valley, near the town of Center. “I came up to it one day and I could’ve driven my pickup in that hole.”
Streams that flow from the nearby San Juan and Sangre de Cristo Mountains slowed to a trickle, some of them before the normal irrigation season had even begun. Rushing water created by snow from the previous winter failed to materialize. That left the ditches, creeks and rivers that recharge the valley’s aquifers dry. The precious groundwater had plenty of demands, and no supply.
“The aquifer was declining,” Messick says. “But nobody really started noticing until they started sucking air instead of water.”
Farmers began to cast blame as to who caused the problem. Fingers pointed at the state, water managers, Mother Nature, and among the farmers themselves, divided into camps depending on where they got their water. All the while, many farmers kept pumping whatever water they could find and the aquifer continued its unprecedented decline.
Instead of giving in to the divisions that could have so easily fractured the rural valley of about 47,000 residents, a group of farmers decided to embark on a risky experiment — the first of its kind in the United States. They agreed to pay more money for the water they pump out of the ground by imposing fees, a kind of tax, per acre-foot of water. To get to that point, family farmers had to put aside old grudges and recognize their shared fate in the aquifer under their feet.
Seeing hope in the farmers’ efforts, researchers are studying the risky gambit to see if it is working.
The rural towns and homesteads in the San Luis Valley are intrinsically tied to the quantity and quality of groundwater found there.
Artesian water pressure — a hydrological marvel made possible by the valley’s bowl-like geology — was accidentally discovered in the valley in the fall of 1887, according to a 1891 report by professor Louis George Carpenter of Colorado Agricultural College, now Colorado State University. A dug well could spurt water from deep underground several feet into the air and irrigate hundreds of acres.
A photograph taken at the time, now-famous among water policy wonks in the West, shows a man neatly dressed in a suit and wide-brimmed hat, his hands tucked behind his back. He is dwarfed by the gushing water fountain next to him shooting up from the valley floor. The San Luis Valley’s water, and the farming opportunities it brought, quickly became the stuff of legend.
Like an oil boom, word of the plentiful water spread quickly and development followed. By 1904, a U.S. Geological Survey inventory in the valley put the number of water wells at 3,234. For generations, the valley’s groundwater was plentiful, able to sustain growing communities and legacy farms.Standing in the valley’s center, near the town of Center, you are surrounded by towering mountain peaks in nearly every direction. At your feet, greasewood bushes and straw-colored native grasses spread out on the valley’s flat expanse. In land area, it’s roughly the same size as the state of New Jersey.
In the valley’s eastern flank, wetlands and marshes are common, temporary homes to sandhill cranes as they make their spring migration. In its western portion, the country’s highest sand dunes rise hundreds of feet to form the main attraction of Great Sand Dunes National Park. In between lie thousands of acres of potatoes, barley, hay, vegetables and grazing cattle — all supported by a sprawling network of ditches and canals and water pumps.
“The San Luis Valley is — I’ve been told — the most intensely irrigated agriculture region in the world,” says Heather Dutton, manager of the San Luis Valley Water Conservancy District. She grew up on her father Doug Messick’s potato farm.
Looking at the valley from above, it is easy to see what she means. The flat expanse of the valley floor is a grid of circular farms with lush, green fields. The corners between fields, the sections not watered by irrigation systems, are dusty and brown.
“So we get — especially here in Center — we get an average of seven inches of rain a year,” Dutton says. “So it’s a high mountain desert.”
The area sees less rain than Phoenix, Arizona, which receives an average of eight inches every year, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
While it’s intensely dry, the desert is also one of Colorado’s most productive and valuable agricultural regions. In 2012, the valley’s farmers sold nearly $320 million in crops alone. That same year, ranchers sold more than $61 million in livestock.
Colorado is the fifth largest state for potato production and nearly all of the state’s potatoes are grown in the San Luis Valley. In 2013, valley farmers produced more than 18 million pounds of potatoes. All of the farm production is only possible because of complex systems to manage, store and distribute water. Without that, agriculture simply couldn’t survive.
Community At A Crossroads
By the end of 2002, it was clear the valley’s farmers were fast approaching a crossroads. Colorado’s top water enforcer, the state engineer, made clear that if the farmers continued to pump from the underground aquifer he would be forced to shut them down.
They were running afoul of the state’s frontier-era water laws, which prioritize water rights based on their effective date. Some farmers who held rights to divert water from streams dating back to the late 1800s were seeing their supplies drop, partially thanks to water wells dug decades later in the 1950s and ‘60s. In Colorado, when a younger water right is curtailing an older one, it is a serious problem.
In the years that followed the 2002 drought, scientists did enough research and monitoring to link the reduction of the aquifer to the limited availability of surface streams.
For the farmers that depend on the aquifer, the choice was simple: keep pumping until everyone’s supplies ran out and risk the ire of state water officials; or, find a way to curb their pumping.
“It was really the first effort here in a recognition that if they didn’t do something that the consequences would be pretty grave,” says Cleave Simpson, director of the Rio Grande Water Conservation District, the valley’s main water management authority.
After years of litigation, court cases and a round of state legislation, the farmers formed a plan. A majority made a painful decision. They agreed that it was in everyone’s best interest to pay more money for water, hoping that the higher cost would cause them to think twice when turning on their pump.
“We couldn’t sit back and just pump to the bottom of the aquifer,” Simpson says. “The schools, the hospitals, the communities would just not survive.”Communities formed a network of subdistricts that could levy fees on water use, self-governed by the farmers themselves. Subdistrict one, the largest and most heavily irrigated in the valley, was the first.
“This is kind of a classic ‘tragedy of the commons’ situation,” says Kelsey Cody, a doctoral student at the University of Colorado-Boulder who is part of a research team that studies groundwater pumping in the valley. “As an individual, I have no incentive to leave any water in the ground because any water I leave in the ground I know my neighbor is going to take out. And he knows the same thing.”
Today, farmers in subdistrict one pay $75 for each acre-foot of water they pump and another $8 for every acre of crops where that water is used. An acre-foot is the standard unit of measurement when talking about vast amounts of water, and easy enough to visualize. It’s the amount of water spread out over an acre at a depth of one foot.
If those same farmers are recharging the aquifer by applying surface water to their crops, they’re given a credit for that added water. Some farmers who pump end up paying nothing at all if their water use finds a balance between the amounts pumped and recharged.
For some bigger farms without surface water rights, that is not the case. Their annual water use fees can total tens of thousands, sometimes hundreds of thousands, of dollars. That money is then invested in a fallowing program that pays farmers not to plant or to purchase farmland outright. While the fees have been tough for some farmers to swallow, at least a majority have internalized the goal.
“The alternative is to shut these wells off until this aquifer comes back by itself,” says Jamie Hart, a barley and potato grower in the valley who sits on the subdistrict one board. “We can’t survive that. There are land payments to make and equipment payments to make. And we can’t continue without producing something.”
But it’s not easy. Subdistrict one’s early meetings were contentious and tense. For months farmers argued about the fairness of the fee structure and the right dollar amount to collect from those who pump from the aquifer. Conspiracy theories popped up, calling the subdistrict idea a nefarious attempt to make agriculture so costly and difficult that farmers would begin selling off their water rights to the highest bidders.
“Working together, that’s hard for farmers to do,” Hart says. “Farmers, they’re pretty independent people.”
A Success In The Making?
This was the first time a group of U.S. farmers decided to tax themselves to pump groundwater, fallow tens of thousands of acres of farmland, and try to save an aquifer, according to research from the University of Colorado Boulder. Because of that, no one really knew if it would work.
The valley’s farmers have been paying for groundwater now for nearly six years. The wells in subdistrict one all have meters that measure how much water they pump. Researchers were able to compare pumping figures collected before the fees went into effect, and after.
“From our analysis of the data, we were able to determine that yes, they’ve been able to reduce their groundwater extraction pretty substantially,” says researcher Kelsey Cody.
Farmers have cut back their pumping by an average of 30 percent since they started paying fees. Since 2013, the aquifer has risen about 250,000 acre-feet. They still need to recharge at least another roughly 600,000 to 700,000 acre-feet to have the aquifer be considered somewhat recovered and stabilized.Many farmers say they have updated irrigation equipment and switched to less thirsty crops, Cody says. Some of the water savings comes from pinpoint timing of when to water crops in order to waste less. Meanwhile, the number of irrigated acres hasn’t dropped substantially. That suggests farmers are irrigating smartly and efficiently, not closing up shop.
“It’s not a fee that so far has caused people to go out of business,” says Craig Cotten, the Colorado Division of Water Resources engineer based in the valley’s most populous city, Alamosa. “But it is a fee that they actually think about what they’re doing when they go push a button on a well.”
The farmers who are part of subdistricts are under a court mandate to recharge the aquifer even more over the next decade-and-a-half. At least within subdistrict one, there are early discussions taking place about raising the pumping fee higher in order to curb pumping even more and make additional progress in aquifer recharge.
“Can we fill up the bath tub that we created, the void that we created for $75 [per acre-foot]? Probably not,” Hart says. “It may cost us a little bit more to ever get that filled back up. But once we get there we can back that fee off. And we can survive.”
There is the fickleness of Mother Nature to contend with as well. In each of the last four years, snowpack in the nearby mountains has hovered at average to above average levels. When it melts, it yields higher streams, which recharge the aquifer even further. Historical weather records are pessimistic about a fifth consecutive year with above average snowpack. Drought is a constant specter hanging overhead with the possibility of undoing all the progress that’s been made.
With aquifers in danger of running dry in many communities in the Midwest and West, like the Ogallala Aquifer under the Great Plains or the aquifer system in the central valley of California, the San Luis Valley could provide a model, says CU’s Kelsey Cody.
“The reason people should care about this is that anywhere there is groundwater there is almost always going to be challenges in managing it,” Cody says, “because it’s difficult to see, it’s difficult to monitor, it’s easy to think that it’s everlasting.”
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It used to be that if a movie was a sequel it was automatically a sub-par film… but nowadays that couldn’t be farther from the truth. Now that Hollywood has become obsessed with film franchises and all the money that comes with it, more and more filmmakers have been pouring in great effort to make sure that their sequels are actually worth their salt. There will certainly be no shortage of great sequels coming in the year of 2015, but here are ten of the most promising looking of those movies.
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Since its inception, the Fast & Furious series has set a high standard action packed and emotionally resonant blockbusters. The quality of these movies has only been getting better as the years have gone by, so it stands to reason that this installment should be a fantastic white-knuckle ride. Add to that the tragic passing of star Paul Walker, and Furious 7 is sure to be most emotional of all seven movies.
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Not too long ago, comic book movies were the kind of thing only a small group of people would have been interested in – but now that comics are cool, the whole world can’t seem to get enough of them. The second film about the famous Marvel supergroup, directed by Joss Whedon, brings back all of your favorite characters from the first film, this time promising a darker story as the heroes go to battle with a terrifying new villain.
The first three Jurassic Park movies are a perfect example of the way franchises used to unfold, with each film being progressively worse that the previous one. But with burgeoning movie star Chris Pratt in a lead role combined with modern effects technology and some scary new dinosaurs wreaking havoc on rich tourists, it appears as though that streak could very well soon be broken.
After it left the hands of James Cameron, the Terminator saga really lost its footing with the third movie boasting a ham-handed storyline and the fourth being void of Schwarzenegger. Despite its odd name, the fifth film uses the time travel angle to completely reinvent itself… and if that isn’t exciting enough, the real Schwarzenegger is really in this one, and not just a bad CGI recreation.
With the success of Casino Royale and Skyfall and the embarrassingly bad show of Quantum of Solace in between, the new James Bond film, Spectre, is most certainly up in the air as to how good or terrible it may be. But with the recent release of its sexy new trailer, hopes get higher by the day.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2
The Hunger Games series has proved itself to be a paragon on book-to-movies franchises, with each of its current three films being equally exceptional. The fourth film, which chronicles the second half of the last novel, is sure be one of the most intense.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens
After J.J. Abrams breathed new life into the Star Trek universe, it seemed to make perfect sense that he would be the man who could do the same for another titanic sci-fi mythology. The seventh chapter in the popular Star Wars franchise boasts not only plenty of exciting new characters but also returns with fan favorites from the original trilogy.
Magic Mike XXL
Channing Tatum and the hunky cast of Magic Mike (minus the charismatic Matthew McConaughey, unfortunately) returning for a stripper-tastic second film? Who could say no to that? This time around the Tampa crew heads to a male stripper convention… who knows what kind of antics that could lead to.
Pitch Perfect 2
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Our homes are our safe space. Unfortunately, they can also become safe havens for unwanted pests of all shapes and sizes. It’s for this reason that the people of Ottawa should always have a professional exterminator in their contact list. How do you know when it’s time to call an exterminator in Ottawa? Here are a few of the major signs for Ottawa’s most common pests that will tell you it’s time to bring in the professionals.
Sign #1: Itchy spots and rusty stains
Did you know that Ottawa has become one of the worst places in Canada for bed bugs? These critters have become more and more common and once your home has them, you need to take drastic action to get them removed.
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Your exterminator in Ottawa can help you get rid of bedbugs quickly and effectively, whether you live in a single-family home or own a building. Since these bugs are unfortunately common in the area, they have lots of experience getting rid of them.
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Ashley York stopped by to share her latest book. The Gentle Knight is a historical romance set in Ireland and England and was released on March 24th. Tell us more!
Ashley- The Norman Conquest series begins with The Saxon Bride, 1075, with a loyal knight of King William's, John of Normandy, being given a Saxon princess, Rowena Godwinson, to wife. Throughout this love story, John's good friend, Peter of Normandy, is fiercely loyal and very helpful in reconciling husband and wife. He was such a great character, I decided he needed his own story. So The Gentle Knight was written.
Peter speaks of his lady love, Jeanette, in The Saxon Bride, but she was not all that he believed her to be. She died in childbirth before Peter returns to Normandy. He is devastated at the loss. The fact that his own mother died delivering him increases his guilt and vows to remain a solitary knight.
He is sent by King William to northern England where they have never accepted William as their king. Peter is accompanied by Mort (also a character from The Saxon Bride) but they come across a strange band of men claiming to be delivering a young woman, Brighit MacNaughton, to a Priory. Peter decides to step in to help the woman even though he's not completely sure of the situation. He learns she has a great sense of family honor and pride and he falls in love with her. She does not want to set aside her father's death bed decree that she become a nun despite her attraction to him.
Nancy- Wow! An awe-inspiring plot. When did you start writing toward publication?
Ashley- I've always wanted to be a writer and even quit my job to write full time. This was before computers, however, and the research and information wasn't readily available like it is now. I raised my family (devouring every historical romance I could find), got my BS in History and then my MA in history both of which exposed me to the plethora of information available online. I always felt like once I met my goal of completing my MA Thesis, I'd never be able to stop writing again. I was right.
I decided to give fiction writing another go and joined a local chapter of RWA (Romance Writers of America). The information I received there was that the traditional publishers wanted vampires and BDSM. I wasn't interested in writing either. However, the booming small press, e-book only and independent publishing caused vast changes at the traditional publishers. It also put a lot of highly respect editors, etc., out into the freelance business. I was able to find some online chapters that shared my interests with amazingly supportive members at all different levels of publication.
I decided to try indie publishing. I had a few setbacks with "editors" who promised one thing but never delivered. Despite what you may hear, not just anyone can be a good editor because it's not just about reading a story. It's also not just about learning proper English grammar. Also, where the editor is from will change their perspective on writing. Culture does affect what people want to read.
One amazing writer even gave me the name of her own editor when she heard what I'd been going through. He is amazing: supportive, encouraging and sincerely good at his job. You can sign a contract with one of the Big Four and not get that kind of editor. I've also found tremendously talented and dedicated formatters, cover artists, and promotion teams to work with. I feel truly blessed.
Nancy- What is your writing routine like?
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Ashley- I'm a morning person so I love to get up with the sun and get going—after my coffee. I do not like winter because the sun takes so darn long to get up. I'm not sure I could live in Scotland during the winter. At the moment it's just me, my husband, two cats and one dog in the house.
Once my husband leaves for work and I get everyone else set, I'm off on my own.
I try to limit the time on social media but promotion and marketing can easily morph into something very time consuming. After a new book release, I have a hard time finding any substantial amount of time for working on my manuscript. Once I have, though, I write for about two hours in the morning and then three to five more in the afternoon.
When my husband goes to work in the afternoon, our time together is the morning. I struggle a little with shifting my writing time to later in the day but I'm not about to spend the few hours we have together to working...unless I absolutely must.
Nancy- Having achieved your goal to be a published author, what is the most rewarding thing?
Ashley- The most rewarding thing is to get a letter or a review from a reader saying how much they enjoyed it, how it gave them an escape, how they didn't want it to end, how they wanted to be a part of the story, how they're going to re-read it...these are all the things I always enjoyed about the stories I read and I totally relate to them as readers. That I could actually be an author who gave someone else the same pleasure that I enjoyed, and still enjoy, just blows me away. I'm accomplishing my dream.
Please Share three fun facts about you that most people don’t know.
1) I'm just learning to play the Irish whistle and I'm not very good yet which is why my heroine, Brighit, is so good at it ;)
2) I'm a terrible dog trainer and my two year old labrador still can't walk nicely around our neighborhood on a leash.
3) I'm a terrible chocoholic! If it's not chocolate, why bother? BUT I can't handle chocolate frosting on chocolate cake. That's too much. I love chocolate and peanut butter, chocolate and peppermint, chocolate and...well you get the idea.
Nancy- What’s next for you?
Ashley- I'm working on Tadhg MacNaughton's story. The Irish legend I grew up with was that the seventh son of the seventh son of the seventh son had magical powers. My father was the seventh son of the seventh son but he had three daughters. I was the youngest.
In my story Tadhg was the sixth son of the seventh son of the seventh son. If his sister, Brighit, had been a boy, Tadhg always believed she would have been the one with the special blessing. In my next story, you'll learn why that wouldn't be true.
A medieval soldier returns home to find his lover died in childbirth just as his own mother had. Believing he is cursed, Peter of Normandy turns from love. When he must give escort to an Irish princess more noble than many knights, he struggles with his decision to live a solitary life. Can he take the chance that his love won't be a death sentence and possibly make them stronger?
Padraig MacNaughton's death bed decree rips his daughter, Brighit, from the shelter of her protective clan in Ireland. Forced to take vows at a Priory in England, she finds herself in the hands of lecherous mercenaries with their own agendas. Dare she trust the Norman knight to see her safely to her new life as a nun? Even when she finds in him the fulfillment of all she's ever wanted?
Or will honor and duty eclipse their one chance for happiness?
The barrenness of the countryside would take Brighit some time to get used to. Perhaps it was only this area, but it seemed nothing like her home which was so lush and green. She missed her family. A tightness began to build in her throat but Brighit refused to acknowledge it. A splashing sound came to her from just beyond the tree stand.
She glanced back the way she'd come. The need to return immediately or confront Ivan's wrath had her clenching her teeth. That splash sounded very much like the lake Lachlann had mentioned. A chance to clean her face and hands in a refreshing body of water rather than with a soaked cloth? The heat in that confined carriage was making her wilt. She sniffed and confirmed her stench was overwhelming. Before even thinking it through, she headed in the direction of the sound.
Brighit paused on the barely discernible path. Sure she heard rustling, she glanced behind at the open field she'd come from. It was empty. Nothing behind her that could make such a sound. Was it a deer perhaps? Taking a few steps farther, the small rise gave way to the breathtaking sight of a small lake. The top glistened like glass without a ripple to disturb its surface.
The slight breeze carried the pungent aroma of honeysuckle and lavender. The plants would be a wonderful thing to find and put in with her few belongings. Each night she would be surrounded by the smell of flowers. Without another thought she headed through the bushes to her right, careful to not make a sound in case the deer were still nearby. Movement along the banks drew her attention and she froze.
A man stood there dripping wet and naked. He pushed his hair away from his face. A handsome face with a strong jaw and a thick brow. She followed the movement of his hands, sloshing the water off his chiseled body. Blond hair spanned his broad chest and across his rippled torso, leading down his muscular legs, glistening in the fading light. His tarse was visible even from this distance. She looked long and hard. Her breathing became labored. Magnificent.
He turned in her direction. She ducked. She held her breath and shivered in the bush, willing her heart to stop pounding so loudly. When she ventured another peek, he was gone. Disappointment welled up inside her gut. She'd wanted nothing more than to sit and watch him, imagine how it would feel to run her hands down his expansive chest and firm body as he had done, to appreciate the rippled strength there. She blew out the breath she'd been holding and licked her dry lips. That certainly wasn't going to happen, not in this lifetime—as a nun. A small bush of purple flowers brushed her hand and she snatched it. Lavender. The sun was dropping below the hills in the west and she needed to get back. Enough of these wasted desires.
Desire made things happen. It was her grandfather's favorite saying. As the seventh son, he had been a man of some notoriety among Irish nobility. He was given the Celtic Princess, Faighrah, to wed. When he sired his own seventh son, the other leaders turned to him for guidance, for wisdom, in return for unfailing loyalty. The belief always that the seventh son of the seventh son of the seventh son had a special anointing from God. No evil could befall him.
Brighit was no son and evil seemed a little too close. Ivan had told her he would not hesitate to make up a lie about who she was. Even saying she was his wife. Others would believe him because he was a man. Perhaps a little more protection from the same God who made her a female was not asking too much.
More About Ashley York
I have wanted to be a writer since the sixth grade. My first story was a mystery and I discovered that my classmates loved it and it kept them guessing. I was a voracious reader, even at a young age, and loved the history in the novels I picked up. I was so enthralled with that history that I decided to get my MA in History. The early medieval period is my favorite, as you can tell from the novels I write.
Although my works are fiction, I often like to incorporate authentic places, events, and people to increase the reader’s enjoyment. One of the more valuable lessons I have learned as a writer is the importance of using real history with the flair of artistic license. You’ll discover a world of fiction wrapped around historical people and events! I hope you enjoy reading my stories as much as I delight in writing them. I live in New England with my husband, two cats and a yellow Labrador named Caledonia.
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On Fri., Oct 7, the first graduating class from Chatham Township High School, the Class of 1966, presented Chatham High School Principal Darren Groh with a Memory Book that they compiled in honor of their 50th Reunion celebration.
The Memory Book contains original photos and text from their 1966 yearbook, as well as updates on each class member’s life after high school.
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Back tomorrow! No time to blog. This goddess business has made for a lot of complications.
March 3, 2011
February 9, 2011
Seinfeld, Schmeinfeld. Now there’s a comedy documentary featuring/involving no fewer than five beloved alums of Breakup Girl LIVE, including the magnificently talented and dare we say dashing Rob P. (alter ego of Defender Stratocaster), who wrote and performed all Breakup Girl music ever on stage and screen. (Oh, wait! Seinfeld, in fact, also performed at Breakup Girl LIVE. True story! And a really long one.) Anyway! Kristen Schaal!
Sadly, it’s not out until June, so we can’t say it’s the perfect Valentine’s Day escape into refreshingly funny alternative jokes about why you’re alone. But in the meantime, enjoy the new trailer, and watch this space for more!
Tagline: Alternative IS the mainstream. W00t! Tell that to your high school.
More info: TellYourFriendsMovie.com.
(Meanwhile: UR FUNNY!)
January 25, 2011
Two new movies starring four very attractive people pose the questions: (1) Can “friends with benefits” arrangements work? and (2) Natalie Portman?! On (1) I’m leaning no, if only on the grounds that I would definitely fall for Justin Timberlake.
But Tracy Clark-Flory of Salon.com gives the matter deeper consideration. But her bottom line is basically this: “When you talk to people who have been there and done that — and even those who are continuing to do that — the response is overwhelmingly negative. As my own former ‘friend with benefits’ put it, ‘I’ve been in so many of these situations and, basically, they work until they don’t.’”
Read the rest (Tracy does a bunch of reporting and covers a lot of thoughtful ground) and let us know what you think: Does FWB ever benefit anyone? Under what particular circumstances? Share away, ’cause don’t worry; we won’t expect anything more from you than a good time.
January 13, 2011
You know how when you break up with someone and then you tell your friends and they make the shocked Macaulay Culkin Home Alone face? Apparently, that’s pretty much what’s happening to Mila Kunis right now. As a “close chum” of hers told E!, “We all found out [she and Mac broke up] and were like, what?” Over at Jezebel, Anna North reacts to that reaction. “It’s nice that Mila’s doing well, and that her pal acknowledges that fact, but when a breakup leaves all your friends So Surprised, it’s even worse than the usual variety,” she argues. Why? To summarize:
1. It was, in fact, probably sudden. And if that gives your friends “emotional whiplash,” what about the actual exes?
2. “When you just broke up with someone, you don’t want to hear how great you were together.”
3. “You feel a sense of unease with the universe.” “…[W]hen your friends are “like, what?!,” as it were, you’re brought face to face with the terrifying unpredictability of life.”
So yes, as North suggests, if a friend’s breakup blows your mind, process with a different friend, mmmkay? To the breakup friend, show compassion, not surprise. Let her or him tell you how they feel, not the other way around. Let’s remember the immortal words of Bridget Jones’s friend Magda, who said, “People’s relationships are quite mysterious. No one from the outside ever really understands what makes them work.” Or not work. But we do know what makes friendships work.
For more on our reactions to friends’ breakups, click here.
December 16, 2010
Remember when breaking up with someone over the phone was scandalous? (What, you couldn’t be bothered to jump in your horseless carriage and look your ex-to-be in the eye?) Now, Jezebel flags the inevitable: not just breakups, but full-on divorces, celebrity* and civilian**, announced — for the first time, to the divorce-ee — via Twitter. Mercifully concise, I guess, but #tacky! “Please,” writes Sadie Stein, “don’t let this become a thing.”
Hear, hear. Though actually, for legal purposes, tweeting’s too concise. Quoth a lawyer at Divorce Saloon: “To say that you ‘twittered’ your intentions to divorce your spouse to your followers on Twitter and that that is somehow enough ‘notice’ of a pending divorce action? That that would be tantamount to ‘personal service’ as required by statute? I don’t think the day will ever come.”
All of that said, while I’m all for every discussion about maintaining civility in the bluish glow of technology, I want to say this for the record: our little beeping and blooping machines have brought far more friends, lovers, and allies together than they have torn asunder. Tweet on!
* “In the past few months, Kelsey Grammer, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy and Eva Longoria all replaced the time-tested PR statement with a tweet. Maybe they feel like their fans deserve to hear it from them.”
** “Apparently one guy did this…without consulting the wife he was divorcing, writing ‘My wife has left me, I wasn’t good enough, isn’t that a shame’ before she’d had a chance to tell her friends or family.”
November 9, 2010
Arianna Huffington introduces a new section, HuffPo Divorce:
“I’ve always thought that, as a country, we do a lousy job of addressing how we can do divorce differently — and better. Especially when there are children involved. That’s why I’m so excited about the launch of HuffPost Divorce.”
Anything that can help families cope with divorce is a good thing. Better still, a considered collection of personal, legal, practical, and psychological pieces that approach and elucidate divorce in the myriad ways… now that sounds really kinda awesome! Inspired by Nora Ephron, fleshed out by family law professionals, essays and advice, and authors of topical books.
It’s almost impossible not to feel a tiny tad jaded, thinking about divorce-affected people as a publishing niche, but that’s exactly what we are. Half the population! I wonder if this is the beginning of more like this.
Meanwhile, I welcome the story and information sharing that may well become a resource for one of life’s most changing events. As a person who went through a starter marriage in her twenties, and who is a child of divorce herself (actually, once I counted and there have been no fewer than 12 divorces in my immediate family) I’d love to dip in now and again to say, find ways to manage doubled parental visiting guilt and the impending holidays!
October 13, 2010
Rick Springfield, sigh, was my second love. And now he’s written his first memoir, with nary a mention of me. This, I venture gingerly to say, is perhaps not a bad thing. Perhaps, much like a General Hospital subplot, we — the female eighth-graders of the world — collectively faked blindness to be with him? Then again, we don’t read celebrity memoirs for the articles, as it were, and yes, this one includes some very handsome photographs. Plus, as BG blogger Amy notes, “I sorta love him for a VH1 thing I saw, like 10 years ago, where these girls had a little dance they did JUST IN CASE they ever met Rick Springfield and he had them doing on stage with them as adult ladies. Come on, how can a guy like that be all bad?” He can’t. Let’s just put it this way: I wanna tell him I could ghost-write, but the point is prob’ly moot.
Anyway! Giveaway! I’ve got a copy of Late, Late at Night right here, with your name on it, unless your name is Jesse, courtesy of Simon & Schuster. And we’re gonna make this wicked easy for you. It’ll go to the first person who e-mails me with:
1) the best-ever quote from, title of, or sheer existence of a celebrity memoir
2) the best-ever brief anecdote about the death-by-disillusionment of a celebrity crush
3) a photograph of her or himself, preferably from the actual 1980s, that constitutes a homage to Rick Springfield
4) wild card: any other Rick Springfield-related awesomeness.
Beat you to this one, though. Same room: Springfield and Duchovny. BG’s head: explodes.
UPDATE: Reader Deb M., though too late for the contest, responded with an entire series of killer pics of her and Rick. Honorable mention!
October 12, 2010
I KNOW YOU’VE SEEN THIS. But while it was going viral, BG was staring at her supercomputer hitting refresh every 15 minutes to vote for David Tennant. And we didn’t want this not to go down on our permanent record. So.
So much better than censored Katy Perry.
October 5, 2010
Do reality shows like Teen Mom and 16 And Pregnant “glamorize” teen pregnancy? That standard hand-wringer has always struck me as weird. Because um, those shows don’t exactly make teen pregnancy/motherhood look awesome. They (unlike, SORRY, Glee) actually make it look pretty crappy — a lot more so than, say, carrying around a sack of flour for a week. Even when cute teen moms glam it up for celeb magazines (which are guilty of overglamorizing post-teen motherhood), teens — who, turns out, are also better at condoms than grownups — still know what’s up.
And now we have the numbers to show it: according to two brand-new studies commissioned by The National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, “most teens (79% of girls and 67% of boys) agree that when a TV show or character they like deals with teen pregnancy, it makes them think more about their own risk of getting pregnant or causing a pregnancy and how to avoid it.” Other findings:
· Among those young people who have watched MTV’s 16 and Pregnant, 82% think the show helps teens better understand the challenges of teen pregnancy and parenthood and how to avoid it.
· 76% of young people say that what they see in the media about sex, love, and relationships can be a good way to start conversations with adults.
· About half (48%) say they have discussed these topics with their parents because of something they have seen in the media.
· 16 and Pregnant got young people talking and thinking about teen pregnancy─40% of those in the treatment group said they talked about the show with a parent, 63% discussed with a friend, and 37% discussed with a sibling.
· 93% of those who watched [a particular] episode agreed (53% strongly agreed) with the statement: “I learned that teen parenthood is harder than I imagined from these episodes.”
This is all information we’re not so sure they’re getting in, say, abstinence-only sex ed — which, while we’re on the subject, glamorizes lies, shame, and fear. (And whose funding just got resuscitated, even as the Obama administration also awarded $155 million in federal grants to support evidence-based, medically accurate sex ed.)
Enough with the mixed messages, as Jessica Wakeman wrote at The Frisky, continuing: “If pregnant teen girls get their moment in the media’s graces, the least we can do is use it wisely. The alternative could be much, much worse.” Of course the media plays a role in the whole teen pregnancy ecosystem, but there are a whole lot of other reasons teens get pregnant, most of which are much, much more complicated and challenging than the simple notion of MTV cause-and-effect (which is exactly why we are reluctant to acknowledge and deal with them). Teens are smarter than we give them credit for. Sometimes, in fact — see phrases bolded above — they just want to talk.
July 21, 2010
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I need some clarification on this whole thing. I checked my email after the beta closed, and saw that I had been invited to the closed beta. I'm pretty sure it's a legit email from Blizzard because there aren't any links to fill something out, or any of that usual phishing sort of stuff. Problem is, I didn't see that I was invited until too late. I never logged in, or downloaded anything. The blue post says that it won't matter and they will still flag me as one of the chosen ones.
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“Wake in Fright” (Image), one of the seminal works of the New Australian cinema of the seventies, is a brutal, blackly funny thriller of an urban schoolteacher (Gary Bond) posted to the Australian Outback, which is a sun-blasted nightmare as far as he’s concerned. He can’t leave fast enough when his Christmas vacation arrives, but his veneer of culture crumbles when he gets stranded in the grimy mining town of Bundanyabba (or just “the Yabba,” as the locals call their little slice of hell), where he unravels in non-stop drink and nocturnal kangaroo hunts. The educated, well-spoken character looks like easy prey to the hard-drinking roughnecks and derelicts of the town but this isn’t an Aussie “Deliverance.” He’s a willing participant in his self-degradation in this lost weekend, and the darkly comic chain of events that keep him stuck the Yabba looks less like a cruel joke by a trickster god and more like a hard lesson in self-awareness. Under all that hubris and arrogance is just another animal acting on base instinct.
The raw, sweaty 1971 film is not a pretty portrayal of life in the outback, where men are crude, hard-drinking mates with no ambition beyond rough-house fun, and it was a flop Australia, but it was critically well received and brought more attention to the nascent Australian film culture. Director Ted Kotcheff is Canadian, its two featured stars (Gary Bond and Donald Pleasance) British, and its producers an international collection, but the self-aware sensibility is unique and impressive and even a little affectionate — the locals (including an impossibly young and beautiful Jack Thompson) are as generous and accepting as they are coarse and raw — and it became an influence on the work of Bruce Beresford, Peter Weir and others.
The film all but disappeared and was thought lost for years until a print was discovered in a film depot in Pittsburgh, and the film was restored by the National Film and Sound Archive in Australia. Drafthouse Films picked it up for its American release, and they present the film Blu-ray and DVD with Image. Both formats feature commentary by director Ted Kotcheff and editor Anthony Buckley, a Q&A with Kotcheff from the film’s showing at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, the new retrospective featurette “To the Yabba and Back,” and archival clips about the film’s production and recovery, plus a booklet with notes on the film and its recovery and restoration. Also includes a bonus digital copy, which can be downloaded from the Drafthouse website.
The original The Man Who Knew Too Much (Criterion), Alfred Hitchcock’s first international thriller of innocents caught up in the intrigue of spies and killers, set the template for the romantic thrillers that made his reputation. It’s also the English language debut of Peter Lorre, whose childlike bursts of laughter immediately set him off from the British restraint and carefully wit of the rest of the cast. Leslie Banks and Edna Best are an ordinary couple whose sports vacation to Switzerland becomes a nightmare when a British agent dies in their presence and foreign assassins kidnap their daughter (Nova Pilbeam) to assure their silence. Hitchcock’s tone is odd, with clever set pieces and tightly-constructed and edited sequences interspersed with awkward scenes of emotional restraint (“Steady, old girl, steady”) and disconnected characters. It lacks the romance and the personality wrestling of his best films of the thirties, something he mastered in “The 39 Steps” and “The Lady Vanishes.” But his pace is snappy and you can see Hitch working out his signature style in key scenes, from the startling assassination of the first act exploding in the midst of a practical joke to the building rhythm of the Albert Hall sequence, and he invites the wife to participate in the rescue of her daughter as only a female sharpshooting champion could.
This public domain film has been widely available in substandard versions, some of them quite terrible. Criterion masters the film from the BFI’s restored fine-grain 35mm print (the original negative no longer exists) for a special edition on Blu-ray and DVD. The source material is not pristine, but it’s been cleaned up and digitally repaired (both picture and sound) as well as could be hoped for, and mastered with a sharpness I’ve never seen in a print of this film. Features commentary by film historian Philip Kemp, a new interview with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, a 50-minute TV interview with director Alfred Hitchcock conducted by journalist Pia Lindstrom and film historian William Everson in 1972, and excerpts from filmmaker François Truffaut’s 1962 interviews with Hitchcock (audio only).
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Original Painting. Standing behind the DBR1 No.2 of Carroll Shelby, Stirling Moss is talking with Reg Parnell and David Brown before the 1959 TT at Goodwood. Nobody images that during the race Moss's car would be destroyed in a pit fire and that Moss would take over No. 2 to win the race and the Sports Car Championship for Aston Martin.
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Classic Navajo style, spider web Bisbee and White Turquoise cluster bracelet and ring set by Native American artist Verdy Jake. This unique bracelet and ring set is truly one-of-a-kind. Both of the Navajo style cluster pieces feature RARE spider web Bisbee Blue Turquoise center stones surrounded by clusters of spider web Colorback White Turquoise. These spider web natural American Turquoise stones are separated by raindrops and rope in the classic Navajo tradition. Both sterling silver bracelet and ring feature heavy prong style shanks. This set of White Turquoise and Bisbee Turquoise bracelet and ring were Native American handmade in New Mexico, USA and are hallmarked “Verdy J. and Sterling”.
The Bracelet measures : The inner bracelet circumference measures 5 1/2", plus an opening of 1 1/2". 1/2" long at the widest point. The bracelet weighs 60 grams. The shank is 2.08mm thick.
The Ring measures : The center stone measures : 15.22mm long X 10.13mm wide. The ring weighs 13 grams and the shank is 1.22mm thick X 6.51mm wide. The ring is a size 7 1/2.
( 1 Inch = 25.4 mm )
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For my first blog of 2022, I wanted to share with you one of my late 2021 finds: Lark Adventurewear! Every year growing up, I would receive new pajamas on Christmas Eve, which I would wear overnight and as I opened presents on Christmas Day. The tradition continued into adulthood, and I received new pajamas yearly for Christmas. Since getting married, I continued the tradition for myself and my husband.
This year I learned about Lark Adventurewear, which uses Softek bamboo material, creating super-cozy sleepwear. The company, founded in 2017, was born when mom Pallavi Golla noticed her son was often sweaty or damp in his clothing. Golla didn’t have the same problem with her adult activewear; and when she searched for similar activewear for babies with no luck, she set out to make her own.
The Softek knit is soft, temperature-regulating, easy to wash and, when applicable, UPF 50 Sun Safe. The fabric is also tested for more than 100 different chemicals, so it’s perfect for sensitive skin. And it’s tag-less and stain-resistant. Today, Lark Adventurewear mostly outfits babies, toddlers and kids, but there is also a women’s wear section, including sleepwear. For the holidays, the company offered unisex adult pajamas, and I was able to grab a pair for myself and for Scott.
I can personally attest to the fabric’s softness and, more importantly, its temperature-regulating effect. At night, under covers, it’s easy to overheat, but these pajamas help ensure a cool, comfortable night of sleep. Our winter-themed PJs boasted skis and chalets on the jogger-style pant, paired with a navy-blue, long-sleeved shirt.
Since Christmas Eve I’ve worn the pajamas several times, and they also wash nicely. I should also point out the pajamas shipped in eco-friendly packaging, as well! I look forward to trying some of the adult activewear.
— Kim Krol Inlander, editor in chief
New Orleans has a full roster of activities, events and festivals enticing guests throughout February and March.
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With Black History Month and Women’s History Month right around the corner, it’s time to highlight and recognize South African women working hard to make the travel industry better.
Since Cheval Blanc, an extraordinary, newly designed and refurbished 72-room hotel owned by Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey, launched in September 2021, it has been the talk of the town. Le Tout-Paris remarks about its WOW factor … and the hard-to-get reservations for the 30 seats at Plenitude, the intimate, first-floor gastronomic outlet headed by chef Arnaud Donckele, who earned three Michelin stars at Cheval Blanc Saint Tropez. Reservations are also recommended for Limbar, the ground-floor bakery/café/tea shop/bar where we watched Pastry Chef Maxime Frédéric preparing desserts and an absolute must-have for dinner at Le Tout-Paris, the 7th-floor, all-day brasserie. This brightly colored space, with its raised seating and Fauve-like floor tiles and the adjacent Milanese restaurant, Langosteria, both have access to terraces facing the Seine River, with amazing views encompassing Notre Dame to the Eiffel Tower.
Located in the South Pacific, The Islands of Tahiti are just eight hours by air from California. Surrounded by pristine, crystal-clear blue waters, the 118 islands and atolls offer natural beauty, authentic island culture and unique French Polynesian style. The Islands of Tahiti are world-renowned for white-sand beaches, stunning turquoise lagoons and varied landscapes ranging from coral atolls to volcanic mountain peaks. Privacy comes naturally in The Islands of Tahiti and offers visitors the space to relax and reconnect and to be Embraced By Mana. Mana is the life force and spirit that connects all things in The Islands of Tahiti.
Nevada-based The Spa at Green Valley by Well & Being and The Spa at Red Rock by Well & Being celebrate the start of 2022 with new health, wellness and spa treatments available through March 31. Both spas offer an array of treatments for guests wanting to relax and unwind before 2022 kicks into full gear.
Now through Jan. 28, JEOPARDY! and Lindblad Expeditions team up for a viewer promotion, the JEOPARDY! Explore Alaska Sweepstakes. The contest will award 10 winners and their guests with an eight-day, small-ship cruise of Alaska’s coastal wilderness.
Go ahead, take a nice, deep breath. Because a Seabourn voyage is all about this moment you’ve come so far in life to embrace. It’s not an escape, it’s an arrival.
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Chef Jessica Theroux spent a year travelling throughout Italy, cooking and talking with Italian grandmothers, learning their secrets and listening to their stories. The result is a charming and authentic collection of recipes, techniques, anecdotes, and photographs that celebrate the rustic and sustainable culinary traditions of Italy's most experienced home cooks. Features the histories and menus of fifteen grandmothers, each of whom welcomed Ms. Theroux into their kitchens and pantries and shared both their favorite dishes and personal wisdoms. From the dramatic winter shores of Ustica to the blooming hills of Tuscany in spring, readers will journey through Italy's most diverse regions and seasons, to discover the country's most delectable dishes, from the traditional to the unexpected, and meet the storied women who make them. Part travel diary, part photo essay, part cookbook, this book features over 100 time-honoured recipes, from the perfect panna cotta to the classic meat lasagna.
Jessica Theroux is a chef and artist whose passion lies in building community and health by gathering people around the kitchen table. A photographer and filmmaker, in 2003 Jessica was awarded the Arnold Fellowship by Brown University to travel to Italy and document food traditions. In 2005 shw was nominated by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse for a year-long culinary fellowship at the Montalvo Arts Center. She is now a freelance chef, teaching cooking at the Esalen Institute, Montalvo Arts Center, in the public school system, and privately from her home. Jessica continues to be in awe of food as a simple yet profound source of pleasure and connection. | <urn:uuid:00e7c306-041f-42db-b190-74b513243231> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.ecampus.com/cooking-italian-grandmothers-recipes/bk/9781599620893 | 2014-10-21T20:15:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507444774.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005724-00195-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944725 | 611 |
WHEELING – A man is suing SWN Production Company after he claims it breached its contract with him.
Abel Lucey signed an oil, gas and coalbed methane lease on Aug. 22, 2006, and the lease was for a primary term of five years and had an expiration of Aug. 21, 2011, according to a complaint filed Aug. 10 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
Lucey claims upon the expiration of the lease, the lessor granted an option to extend or renew the lease and Lucey rejected the extension and subsequently filed suit against the lessor.
Subsequently, on Oct. 29, 2012, the parties settled the litigation in which the lessor was to pay an additional $500 per acre for 189.14 acres, totaling $94,570, according to the suit.
Lucey claims two wells were not commenced within one year of Oct. 29, 2012, and at the termination of the lease terms, no notice of the unit declaration was provided to him, thereby making the declaration void.
At the termination date of the lease on Aug. 21, 2016, there were no well producing oil, gas and/or methane gas in the unit and there were no operations by the lessee in the search for oil, gas and/or coalbed methane gas or the drilling of an additional well subsequent to the plugging of a dry hole, according to the suit.
Lucey claims the defendant breached its contract with him and has trespassed on his land.
SWN has violated the exclusive possession by Lucey of the oil and gas strata that belongs to him and its conduct is intentional, wanton and with complete disregard of his property rights, according to the suit.
Lucey is seeking compensatory and punitive damages. He is being represented by David C. Hook of Hook & Hook.
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DORTMUND, Germany — Borussia Dortmund sporting director Michael Zorc said his team’s performance in a 2-1 defeat at home to Mainz was shameful as they failed to wrap up Champions League qualification on Saturday.
As Bayer Leverkusen, who started the penultimate matchday four points off Dortmund, only managed a scoreless draw away to Werder Bremen, a point against Mainz would have guaranteed Dortmund a top-four finish.
But Dortmund were unable to recover from an early 2-0 deficit against Mainz, who wanted to ensure their top-flight affiliation at the Westfalenstadion.
“It was a performance to be ashamed of,” Zorc said, refusing to stop to talk to reporters after the game. “That’s all there’s to say.”
Bote Baku, who made his Bundesliga debut last week against RB Leipzig, opened the scoring three minutes into the game. Nine minutes later, Yoshinori Muto headed a cross over centre-back Omer Toprak and goalkeeper Roman Burki to double the score.
It looked as though the hosts would quickly force themselves back into the match as Jadon Sancho dribbled into the box, beating a defender with a quick turn before connecting with Maximilian Philipp, who slotted home on the turn in the 16th minute.
Yet Dortmund were unable to create any more significant scoring chances in the following 75 minutes against their well-organised opponents, who had little trouble in dealing with their timid attacks.
“Mainz simply showed more passion, more heart, were more resolute in their challenges,” Andre Schurrle said. “You cannot win a Bundesliga game if you play like we did today. It’s extremely hard to explain.
“In theory, you can say that we must want to qualify for the Champions League as much as Mainz want to stay in the league, but then you must also show that on the pitch.
“We have one game left. We mustn’t concern ourselves with any tactical notions but simply play our hearts out. Then we can make use of our quality.”
Goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller, meanwhile, did not get the chance to play in his last home game before retiring. Weidenfeller, 37, in his 16th season, and has played 452 games for Dortmund, second only to the 571 played by Zorc.
He was, however, duly seen off at the Westfalenstadion before and after the game. After full-time, he climbed over the fence of the Yellow Wall to get on the pedestal where the cheerleaders of the Ultras stand, and later described the moments after the game as “weird.”
— Stefan Buczko (@StefanBuczko) May 5, 2018
“On the one hand, I was celebrated; on the other hand, the team was standing around awkwardly, partly being jeered,” Weidenfeller said. “Obviously, you can understand the discontent of the fans. Everyone had expected that we end the last home match on a high with a win.
“Today’s game was a reflection of the entire season because we were once again lacking consistency despite all the evident quality that we have.”
When asked whether he would share Schurrle’s explanation that the team lacked heart, Weidenfeller disagreed.
“Whoever just saw me in the stands should have seen that lacking heart should not be the issue,” he said. “There’s nothing better than being able to work as a professional footballer and being able to feel these emotions of a big crowd in a massive stadium. It was great to be on the pedestal amid all the fans. Those are moments that I will never forget.”
Weidenfeller also said he was sad about not being able to play in his last home match.
“It’s a pity,” he said. “Of course, I would have been happy to get another appearance at home, but it’s understandable that the coach wanted to make attacking-minded substitutions. It was clear that I would only play if the game had been decided in our favour. But I had enough emotions after the game.
“Obviously, I’m still hoping to play in the last game, but I’m nobody to demand it. We may still need a point so we should make sure to get a result in Hoffenheim.”
Dortmund enter the last game at Hoffenheim holding three points and a six-goal advantage over fifth-place Leverkusen, who will host Hannover next week.
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Laravel is an open source PHP Framework for developing web applications using an architectural template based on Symfony Model-View-Controller (MVC). It is highly popular among developers due to its rapid development capabilities.
In Laravel, the framework code is separated from the developer’s one and each component is easily extensible. It supports working with various databases, sending notifications in various ways: mail, Slack, etc. and websockets technology for creating real interactive applications.
Laravel Framework Installation
Let’s get through the installation process.
1. Enter the Jelastic dashboard, find Laravel framework in the Marketplace and press Install.
2. In the opened dialog, specify the Name of Environment and choose the preferred Region. Click on Install.
3. Wait a few minutes till installation is completed. Open the welcome page of a default Laravel project from the successful installation message by pressing Open in Browser.
Welcome page contains the first essential links for getting started with the framework.
Creating Laravel New Project
The new project is the independent clone of the default one that was created while the framework installation.
Let’s create a Laravel new project with database CRUD operations example.
1. Add a database node to the environment.
To do this press Change Environment Topology and add a database node, for example, MySQL.
Add necessary resources in Vertical Scaling per Node section and press Apply.
2. Once the database node is added to the environment the topology is changed.
The database access credentials can be found in the respective email.
3. In order to cut time, you can use a simple script newdb-project.sh from our Laravel repository that automates the following operations:
- creates a new Laravel project
- creates the database and table to store the URL links
- fills out the table with fake data
- creates data insert form
- adds necessary routes to web.php file
- describes request treatment logic to work with the database and tables in Controller.php file
- displays data from the database at a new project welcome page
- adds an action link Replace links to the welcome page
The script comes with brief comments in it and can be found in the framework root directory ~/webroot/ROOT after package installation or downloaded from GitHub by link.
4. To create a new Laravel project connected to the database, open the Web SSH client and issue:
~ $ cd webroot/ROOT/
~ /webroot/ROOT $ ./newdb-project.sh <Myproject> <entry_point_hostname> root <password>
Where the script arguments are project name and database credentials (see respective email):
- a new project name must contain the alphanumeric symbols only. The first letter must be in upper case (e.g. Myproject) and the rest ones in lower case. The numeric symbols may be applied at any position except the first one.
- database entry point hostname (e.g. node201708.laravel.jelastic.cloud).
In case of database cluster (master-master, multi-primary group or galera cluster replication topologies), to ensure high availability mode via DNS Round-Robin distribution for the domain names with multiple IP records, it is possible to use layer names as entry point hostname e.g.:
- sqldb.laravel.jelastic.cloud if application refers to database nodes layer
- proxy.laravel.jelastic.cloud if there is a ProxySQL load balancer layer in front of database cluster.
After each request is processed, the order of addresses will be cyclically shifted, moving first IP down, which results in even workload distribution among all of the layer nodes.
root - database username
<password> - database password
5. Once script execution is finished, open the link of this type http://<domain>/<Myproject>/public/
In our case, it is http://laravel.jelastic.cloud/Myproject/public/
As it is shown on the picture the Laravel project related links were changed with the fake data links. Open the phpMyAdmin panel specified in email to see these data in the database.
Now, we can change the data in the table, click on Replace links as on the welcome page above.
Change the data in the displayed form that is generated by the insertForm.blade.php layout template file or just press the Replace button to replace fake information with custom.
Once data is applied, it is written to the database and displayed at Myproject welcome web page.
The actual process takes less than 1 minute (see below).
CI/CD Development Pipeline
In order to start coding, you should establish a CI/CD pipeline from your local computer to Laravel application through Git server with the help of Jelastic Deploy from Git/SVN functionality.
To describe an algorithm, we use Linux OS on local computer.
1. Create a new empty repository at GitHub and name it for example as MyprojectCICD.
2. Clone new repository to your local computer with command:
~$ git clone https://github.com/user/MyprojectCICD
3. Copy the content of Laravel Myproject directory to MyprojectCICD repository:
- Log in to application server via SSH and issue commands to create a tar archive:
~$ cd ~/webroot/ROOT/Myproject
~/webroot/ROOT/Myproject$ tar -cf myproject.tar .
- Download myproject.tar file via Configuration File Manager to your local computer.
- Extract files from archive to the directory of local repository:
~/Downloads $ tar -xf myproject.tar -C /home/user/MyprojectCICD
4. Push repository changes to GitHub:
~/Downloads $ cd /home/user/MyprojectCICD
~/MyprojectCICD $ git add -f .
~/MyprojectCICD $ git commit -am "All files of Myproject added to repository"
~/MyprojectCICD $ git push
5. Click on Deploy from Git/SVN to configure deployment as it is described in our documentation.
Once Deploy button is pressed it clears ROOT context directory and puts MyprojectCICD repository content into it. Thus local Laravel PHP project is synchronized with project in the cloud and can be accessed by new ROOT context link, e.g. http://laravel.jelastic.cloud/public. Change your code locally via any text editor or IDE, commit changes, push them to GitHub and Jelastic will do the rest, just refresh the project webpage.
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Hi there everyone!
I decided that in Sept I would run a feature that would see me interview a few other book reviewers. I thought it would be interesting for once to have the bloggers answer the questions that they like to ask others. I thought I would get four or five agree to do this. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that the response would be so huge. I am lucky enough ro be able to share a new blogger with you for every weekday in September. How cool is that!
Tell us a bit about Laura
I am a major bookworm and you can normally find me with my head in a book or sorting out my bookshelves! I am 20 years old and my biggest dream is to become an author; I am currently trying to write my first novel! Books make me happier than most other things in life as they’re always there when I need them and can take me off to so many worlds.
What is your favourite genre to read?
This is a tough one. I love chick-lit/women’s fiction a lot. I love the escapism and happiness that it provides. However, I love crime/thrillers too because they really keep you on edge. I would say I currently read more chick lit than anything else at the moment though.
Do you prefer digital or paperback?
Another tough one! I enjoy both for different reasons. Digital is quick, easy, portable and takes up no room. Paperbacks are more tactile, they’re pretty, they give you the ‘real’ reading experience. I guess I prefer paperback a little more than digital purely because I love to hold a book in my hands but I would happily read digital too.
Do you have an all-time favourite book or, like me, have to split it up in to different categories?
I am definitely like you, I cannot choose a favourite book! One of my favourites is The Perks Of Being A Wallflower and I also adore anything by Linwood Barclay. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is probably the best book I’ve read this year so that one is also high up on my ‘all time favourites’ list!
What did you last read, are you currently reading and do you plan on reading next?
I last read Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick. I am currently reading Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight and I plan to read one of Sophie McKenzie’s YA books next.
Do you prefer contemporary romance or something with a bit more steam?
If you’d have asked me this question a few months ago I would have said contemporary romance hands down, but recently I have really been enjoying the more steamy novels. I was sent quite a lot to review and I decided to pick them up and give them a read, even though they weren’t my cup of tea, and I was surprised by how much I really did enjoy some of them! They have to have a good plot, mind you, and have a story worth telling as well as the steam but I have definitely been converted! I do love my contemporary romance though so I do prefer those slightly over the others.
If you could read any book again for the very first time what would it be?
Wow! This is a hard one. There are so many books I finish and think ‘I wish I could start it again’. The one book that did that most recently was The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty. It was superb and I can’t wait to go back and re-read it again and again.
On average how many books would you read per week?
On average probably about 4. Some weeks I might manage about 10 and some only about 2! So it really depends but I’d say 4 was the average.
Now I know you are an aspiring author, how do you decide how to split your time between reading and writing?
Basically it is dictated by how many books I need to read! If there’s a big pub day coming up with loads of new books being published and I have loads to get through then I dedicate my time to that. Same with taking part in blog tours etc. When it’s a bit quieter and I don’t have a massive-ish queue of books to review then I will take a little break and write. I also find that when I’m reading I can get ideas for my own novel so quickly note them down and come back to them a little later on. That’s quite a helpful thing.
Do you ever feel that by committing yourself to reading and reviewing books it takes the fun out of it?
Very, very rarely. I tend to only review books that I would buy from a bookshop anyway and I am just so lucky that I get them sent to review. If I am sent a review request and it doesn’t seem like something I would normally read then I won’t accept it. I don’t review for money and to get paid, I just review for the love of it, so I would never review books I don’t fancy reading! I think that if you are a book reviewer you have to be selective about the books you get approached about and decide if you really can and want to read that book. I also love reviewing because it gives me the chance to get my feelings out about the book I’ve just read and is also a lovely journal of all the books I have read.
What is the first book you can remember reading?
This is hard because growing up I’ve always been surrounded by books and reading so I’ve been reading from the second I could. I can really remember reading The Rainbow Fish! I used to love going to the library and taking that one out. It was my favourite book for a long time!
Who is your ultimate book boy?
Are you serious? How am I supposed to choose just one?! I have so many book boys that I would happily marry. One of my all-time favourites is Noah from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (just an excuse to show you a picture of Gosling)
Please feel free to provide a visual 😉
I find sometimes I would rather read a book that talk to people, am I alone in that or is that how other book addicts feel?
Oh no, you’re definitely not alone. I often prefer the company of a book over people. However I do love to talk to people about books, so if I find a fellow book addict and we chat about books then that’s an acceptable form of conversation!
If you could take the credit for writing any book what would it be?
It would be fantastic to have the money and success of someone like Rowling or E L James but I think I’d love to have the credit for writing The Gruffalo! I absolutely adore that book and would love to have had the idea for that one myself.
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"Justice and Prosecutorial Misconduct," is the New York Times editorial from the December 29th issue.
Prosecutors have enormous power in determining who is subjected to criminal punishment because they have broad discretion in deciding criminal charges. The Brady rule, established by the Supreme Court in 1963, is supposed to be an important check on that power. It requires prosecutors to disclose evidence favorable to the defendant. But their failure to comply is rarely discovered, and, even then, prosecutors are almost never punished.
The Supreme Court, in an outrageous decision earlier this year, further weakened the ability of wronged defendants to make prosecutors’ offices liable by giving them nearly absolute immunity against civil suits. Justice Clarence Thomas justified the ruling, noting that an “attorney who violates his or her ethical obligations is subject to professional discipline, including sanctions, suspension, and disbarment.” But bar associations hardly ever punish this behavior; judges seldom discipline prosecutors for such violations; and criminal sanctions are rarely imposed against prosecutors.
This is why the Morton inquiry is crucial. The Innocence Project report found that Mr. Anderson willfully failed to disclose police notes that another man committed the murder, concealed from the trial judge that he did not provide the full police report and advised his successor as prosecutor “to oppose all of Mr. Morton’s postconviction motions for DNA testing.” If a court confirms these findings, it must hold Mr. Anderson accountable — or it will send a message to prosecutors in Texas and elsewhere that the criminal justice system is incapable of deterring or punishing this conduct.
There are, however, a small but growing number of prosecutors’ offices around the country that have systems to prevent the gross miscarriage of justice that Mr. Morton suffered. Like the New York County District Attorney’s Office, they allow open records so defendants can have a copy of almost anything in the case file, and they support having courts audit their compliance with Brady.
"Let Anderson's record be heard by a court," is the Austin American-Statesman editorial of December 27.
Michael Morton ends 2011 an innocent man. Meanwhile, District Judge Ken Anderson ends the year under a cloud of suspicion about his conduct prosecuting Morton for the murder of his wife almost 25 years ago.
Last week, District Judge Sid Harle formally dismissed the murder charge against Morton. Morton, wrongly imprisoned in 1987 and not released until October, was always actually innocent of beating to death his wife, Christine, in their Williamson County home in 1986. Now the state concurs; Morton is innocent.
With Morton's innocence legally declared, Harle now should convene a special court of inquiry to investigate allegations by Morton's lawyers that Anderson, who was Williamson County's district attorney when he prosecuted Morton, concealed evidence that might have exonerated Morton of the charge that he killed his wife.
Anderson denies the allegations. In our view, let a court of inquiry consider Anderson's denials.
"Inquiry warranted in Morton case," is the Dallas Morning News editorial of December 23.
One thing is now cleared up for good in the Michael Morton murder case in Williamson County. He was proclaimed officially, unequivocally innocent this week.
One thing is far from being cleared up — whether the man who put him in prison for nearly 25 years, Ken Anderson, is a scheming, unethical district attorney. If there’s an explanation for why the defense never saw critical exculpatory evidence investigators collected before trial, for why the evidence stayed hidden for nearly all of the quarter-century that Morton was imprisoned, the state of Texas hasn’t gotten a straight answer. And it needs to.
Anderson, now a judge, should be held to account, just as Morton once had to defend himself against a far thinner dossier of evidence.
A request for a special court of inquiry in the Anderson matter is now before a state district judge, in a damning, 144-page report filed Monday by Morton’s attorneys. That special proceeding should be held to get direct answers from Anderson and weigh whether he should face charges.
"Stop the prosecutorial misconduct," is the title of an OpEd by Houston criminal defense attorney Robert Fickman in the Houston Chronicle of December 31.
It is past time for us to draw another line in the sand. Too many innocent men and women have had their liberty stolen by some puffed-up bureaucrat with a law degree. It's time to fight back and demand accountability.
What has become of the men who prosecuted Graves and Morton? What is their punishment for apparently fabricating and withholding evidence?
Have they been sent to jail, disbarred or hounded from our midst? No. Nothing has happened to them.
There is no punishment for them. Their lives go on unfettered. There is no accounting for their apparent raw inhumanity. None.
This needs to change. When a prosecutor willfully withholds exculpatory evidence in a murder case, he must be held to answer. When a prosecutor willfully fabricates evidence in a murder case, he must be held to account. Prosecutors who willfully falsify evidence to rob innocent men of their liberty must be held to answer under the law.
The next time the state Legislature meets we must demand accountability. The Legislature must enact stiff laws to punish those prosecutors who willfully break the law to rob men of their liberty. Nothing less is acceptable.
"Special holiday for lawyer John Raley, innocent client," is Patricia Kilday Hart's December 26th Houston Chronicle column.
Christmas, that celebration of miracles, new life and truth, can find expression in unlikely settings.
This year, for Houston attorney John Raley and his family, it arrived six days early in a nondescript Georgetown courtroom, when a state district judge stepped down from his imposing dais to declare the innocence of Michael Morton, a man who spent 25 years in prison wrongly accused of the murder of his wife, Christine.
Raley's involvement in the case began when a mutual acquaintance in Houston's legal community suggested to Innocence Project attorney Nina Morrison that she solicit his help as a volunteer.
Morrison now laughs when she recalls the naiveté that Raley, a civil litigator with expertise in medical malpractice, brought to the criminal court arena: "He said, 'Of course the prosecutors will want to do DNA testing. Who wouldn't want to do DNA testing?' "
Morrison, jaded from years of fighting injustices that occur all too often in the criminal court system, knew better. Prosecutors do not like to admit mistakes.
Brandi Grissom wrote, "Murder Cases Put 'Junk Science' in the Spotlight," for the December 26 Texas edition of the New York Times. It's also available at the Texas Tribune. Here's an extended excerpt from this must-read:
Undigested bits of mushrooms and tomatoes from Christine Morton’s last meal — a celebratory birthday dinner she had with her husband — were still in her stomach when the medical examiner performed his autopsy in 1986.
Those remnants, the prosecutor told the jury during Michael Morton’s trial, “scientifically proved” that Mr. Morton had beaten his wife to death.
Twenty-five years later, DNA science revealed that someone else had actually killed Mrs. Morton and that her husband’s murder conviction and more than two decades in prison were a tragic mistake. His exoneration based on DNA evidence is the 45th in Texas.
Before he dismissed the wrongful murder charges against Mr. Morton last week, Judge Sid Harle recounted the faults the case exposed in the Texas justice system. Among them: the use of so-called junk science in the courtroom.
“The courts and the sitting judges need to be ever mindful about their role as gatekeeper in regard to the admission of science,” Mr. Harle said. “Your case illustrates the best and the worst of what can happen.”
Despite scientific advancements like DNA testing, the use of unreliable scientific techniques in the criminal justice system persists. While some judges say they work to ensure only reliable scientific evidence is presented to juries, criminal justice advocates say that more must be done to root out an array of pseudoscientific practices that can have life-or-death consequences.
“What passes for science in courtrooms is not always, in fact, science,” said Kathryn Kase, interim executive director of the Texas Defender Service, which represents death row inmates.
In recent weeks, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has agreed to review cases that indicate it may also see a need to address the types of evidence that meet scientific standards.
In November, the state’s highest criminal court agreed to review the case of Megan Winfrey, who is serving a life sentence for murder. She was convicted largely on the testimony of a sheriff’s deputy who said his bloodhounds “alerted” to her scent on the murder victim’s clothing. The court has previously ruled that dog-scent evidence, used to convict Ms. Winfrey’s father for the same murder, was insufficient without corroborating evidence. The court acquitted her father on appeal.
This month, the court also agreed to review the cases of two men awaiting execution. Both men, convicted of murder, were sentenced to death after a psychologist who was an expert witness in several death penalty cases told jurors that they were mentally competent to face execution.
Earlier coverage of Michael Morton's exoneration begins at the link.
The responsibility of the state to provide exculpatory evidence to the defense was articulated in the 1963 Supreme Court ruling in Brady v. Maryland; more via Oyez. Related posts are in the prosecutorial misconduct index.
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An award-winning critic and journalist, Kieron Gillen wrote for organizations such as PC Gamer, The Guardian, Rock, Paper, Shotgun and WIRED before turning his attention to comics. His previous credits include the critically lauded Phonogram with frequent creative partner Jamie McKelvie, as well as Thor, S.W.O.R.D. and Generation Hope. Gillen relaunched two long-standing Marvel series in Uncanny X-Men and Journey into Mystery before again teaming with McKelvie for an acclaimed take on Young Avengers. Gillen turned his attention to Iron Man for Marvel NOW! and proved the perfect scribe to put carefully chosen words into the mouth of a legendary Star Wars villain in Darth Vader. Gillen introduced Doctor Aphra into the galaxy far, far away in those pages, and continues her adventures in her own series. | <urn:uuid:54a110c3-43db-486c-8a55-3a149f49c2b5> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://bookshop.org/p/books/immortal-x-men-by-kieron-gillen-vol-3-tba/19956807?aid=2913&ean=9781302951009&listref=best-comics-graphic-novels-for-adults-2023 | 2024-02-21T08:17:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473401.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221070402-20240221100402-00644.warc.gz | en | 0.924393 | 228 |
Date of Death: May 31, 2022
Visitation will be held on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Centreville, starting at 10 a.m. with a service at 11:30 a.m. A luncheon will be served after the service, followed by an interment service at Riverside Cemetery, Three Rivers.
Lee Otis Newport went to be with his Lord and Savior in the early morning of May 31, 2022. He was born April 28, 1942, in Three Rivers, Michigan, to Dale Monroe and Leota Mary (Laudahn) Newport. Upon graduating from Three Rivers High School in 1961, Lee attended Ferris State University and Parsons Business School before returning to Three Rivers to marry the love of his life, Alice Mae (Barker) Newport, on August 15, 1964. They spent the next 58 years building their life together in the Three Rivers area.
Lee was an active member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church for more than 50 years where he was an elder, trustee, vice chairman of the congregation and faithful servant.
In 1978, Lee became co-owner of Trim Pac, Inc., a Three Rivers-based paper factory where he helped build a successful company that is still operating today. Lee was an assistant scout master for Troop 407 in Centreville and enjoyed mentoring young scouts and participating in numerous camping trips and other adventures. He was a Reserve Officer for the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department for many years and cherished his time at the department and the people he worked with.
Later, he worked with his oldest son, Shawn, in a family greenhouse business that grew flowers for wholesale and area farmer’s markets.
Lee loved spending time with his family and many friends and doting on his numerous four-legged companions. In his off time, he enjoyed hunting and fishing, skeet and target shooting, chess and old re-runs of TV shows and movies from his childhood.
He is survived by his wife Alice of Constantine, two sons; Shawn (Sandy) of Marshall and Joel (Samantha) of Mason, two granddaughters; Eryn (David) Sheridan and Madeline Newport, both of Mason; two great-grandsons; Hudson and Sawyer Sheridan; sister-in-law Jane Konitz of New Paltz, New York and several cousins.
Donations in remembrance of Lee can be made to St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 585 W. Burr Oak Street, Centreville, MI 49032.
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MONDAY 23rd January, 2017
Leslie-Anne Menzies Archangel Michael
YOU came to be the Change-Makers. That is who you are. You know this in every cell of your beautiful body vehicles.
You are witnessing all the old world collapsing (3d) is crumbling, falling away, never to return. Allow it to do so. Hold only LOVE in your hearts. Allow yourself to step onto the Platform of LOVE, COMPASSION AND EMPATHY. Seek non engagement in what is leaving, as you will only slow the process if engaged.
As Change-Makers you wish to see the New Earth evolve and it is. However, all that is no longer of the new 5th Dimensional Vibration must leave. Its demise is not pretty - but you knew that is how it would be - it is truly ugly and you know this is how it must unfold. Let it all go, be the LOVE you came to be.
Your LIGHT and LOVE is all that is required from you at this time. You know in your heart that shining your LIGHT into the darkness is the greatest GIFT you can offer your Earth right now. There is no other way to proceed at this time. LOVE truly is all that there is.
YOU are the Change-Makers and the Way-Showers and it is encumberent on you to be ALL you came to be at this time.
The old Earth is collapsing faster than you can even imagine. What you see before your eyes is minuscule compared to what is happening.
Deep within the Core of the Earth - and as you and the Earth are ONE, you also - all is being transformed, regenerated, flowing out in many cases like hot lava affecting everything in its wake.
From the ashes of this change Mother Earth and You will become the beautiful new creations you are all charged with creating.
There is so much beauty in You and the Earth and as you allow the flow of LOVE that you are, you will witness Creation in its purest form.
Wonderfully exciting times on your Planet Dear Ones. If you could but witness all that is falling into place, with the LOVE THAT YOU ARE. Release and let-go Dear Ones, all is transitioning before your eyes.
As you continue to open your hearts even wider you continue to bring more Light into your Divine Being. This Love, this Light is what is needed to saturate your New Earth.
Picture in your minds eye - your Earth, pristine, flowing in Light and Love. All Beings living healthy, abundant, purposeful lives. You are the Power and Authority you have been seeking outside of you. No longer give this Power away Dear Ones. Own it, acknowledge it and watch as the transformation happens for all Beings.
As always we remind you - the Veil between us has lifted significantly. So many more of you are seeing us/feeling our energy within your sphere. We are ONE with YOU. Watch as the magic and miracles continue to unfold.
Many of you are witnessing these Miracles unfold within and around you. Speak of them. Allow others to know the truth of what we speak this day.
Miracles will be the new currency for the New Earth.
You are the Creators of your New Earth Dear Ones, therefore you are the Creators of these Miracles. As you fully regain the knowledge of your own Power, use it wisely. The New YOU and the New EARTH are being created as you read these words - for that is how powerful you are.
When you can take a belief such as this and OWN it in your energetic field then it flows outwards into your reality - the Power of Creation Dear Ones. You are the Creators.
We stand with you as you realise the enormity of what lay before you.
Dear Ones we remind you it is so very simple.
All that is required of you is to BE LOVE - IN ACTION in every situation.
Shine your LIGHT on every situation.
Practice these two simple steps Dear Ones when next challenged - move out of your old re-action-ery state, go into your higher heart, breathe deeply, acknowledge the LOVE THAT YOU ARE and then allow from this space.
We assure you Dear Ones Magic and Miracles will happen in THAT MOMENT.
And so it is.
LOVE, LIGHT AND BLESSINGS Dear Creator Beings.
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PsyBio has filed a new provisional patent and is initiating preclinical studies aimed at treating neurologic and psychologic conditions
COCONUT CREEK, Fla, Aug. 4, 2021 /CNW/ – PsyBio Therapeutics Corp. (TSXV: PSYB) (OTCQB: PSYBF) (“PsyBio” or the “Company“), an intellectual property driven biotechnology company developing novel formulations of psychoactive medications produced by genetically modified bacteria and other innovative mediums for the potential treatment of mental health challenges and other neurological disorders, has initiated a new program to study N-methyl-D-aspartate (“NMDA“) receptor antagonists and associated analogs for potential activity against a variety of human health conditions.
The Company has filed a new provisional patent application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office entitled NMDA Receptor Antagonist-Containing Compositions and Methods of Treatment. The addition of NMDA receptor antagonists with pending patent protection is highly focused on the potential improvement of neurological conditions including traumatic brain injury, other neurological deficits, addiction as well as other psychological conditions.
NMDA receptor antagonists play an important role in the health and function of neurons and have been implicated by a number of studies to be strongly involved with exitotoxicity and also associated with promoting synaptic plasticity. Research also indicates that some NMDA receptor antagonists also interact with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors leading to the release of neurotransmitters. Many compounds in this class have been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA“) as anesthetics and are under evaluation for other indications within the brain.
The scientific discovery, clinical pharmacology and drug development team at PsyBio has identified NMDA receptor antagonists and their analogues for their role in promoting neuroplasticity as potential therapeutic targets for a wide variety of disease indications. PsyBio continues utilizing its resources to rapidly develop and test new drug candidates in anticipation of launching future clinical trials.
“PsyBio is distinctively positioned as one of the leading biotechnology companies sponsoring commercial development of new therapeutic targets for myriad human health conditions,” stated Evan Levine, PsyBio’s Chief Executive Officer. “The Company is actively screening drug candidates across a variety of medical indications and will utilize its regulatory experience to submit proposals for human clinical trials based upon those preclinical studies to the FDA and other regulatory bodies. The Company retains expertise across a wide range of pharmaceutical discovery and development including synthetic biology, molecular engineering, neurobiopsychology, translational medicine and clinical pharmacology and is leveraging this ability to work towards shepperding new therapeutics to treat unmet medical needs.”
“PsyBio has unique expertise in clinical pharmacology and is actively expanding its portfolio of drug candidates and remains particularly interested in advancing therapeutic understanding and potential treatment of neurologic and psychologic conditions,” stated Dr. Michael Spigarelli, PsyBio’s Chief Medical Officer. “The advantages of utilizing compounds, exhibiting previously known neurological or psychological effect, to harness the opportunity to develop potential therapeutics more rapidly than previously conceived.”
PsyBio’s intellectual property portfolio now includes six pending provisionals and one pending non-provisional patent application.
About PsyBio Therapeutics Corp.
PsyBio Therapeutics is an intellectual property driven biotechnology company developing novel formulations of psychoactive medications for the potential treatment of neurologic and psychologic conditions. The team has extensive experience in drug discovery based on synthetic biology and metabolic engineering as well as clinical and regulatory expertise progressing drugs through human studies and regulatory protocols. Research and development is currently ongoing for NMDA receptor antagonists.
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This press release contains statements that constitute “forward-looking information” (“forward-looking information“) within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation. All statements, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking information and are based on expectations, estimates and projections as at the date of this news release. Any statement that discusses predictions, expectations, beliefs, plans, projections, objectives, assumptions, future events or performance (often but not always using phrases such as “expects”, or “does not expect”, “is expected”, “anticipates” or “does not anticipate”, “plans”, “budget”, “scheduled”, “forecasts”, “estimates”, “believes” or “intends” or variations of such words and phrases or stating that certain actions, events or results “may” or “could”, “would”, “might” or “will” be taken to occur or be achieved) are not statements of historical fact and may be forward-looking information. Forward looking-statements in this press release include statements regarding: the ability of PsyBio to develop novel formulations to potentially treat neurologic and psychologic conditions and other disorders; and the ability of PsyBio to launch clinical trials.
In disclosing the forward-looking information contained in this press release, the Company has made certain assumptions, including that: PsyBio will be successful in protecting its intellectual property; PsyBio will be successful in discovering new valuable target molecules; PsyBio will file its initial pre-Investigational New Drug (“IND”) Application request and IND Application within anticipated timeframes; PsyBio will be successful in obtaining IND Applications and will be able to obtain all necessary approvals for clinical trials; PsyBio will be successful in launching clinical trials; PsyBio’s technology will be safe and effective; and that drug development involves long lead times, is very expensive and involves many variables of uncertainty. Although the Company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking information are reasonable, it can give no assurance that the expectations of any forward-looking information will prove to be correct. Known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors which may cause the actual results and future events to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information. Such factors include, but are not limited to: compliance with extensive government regulations; domestic and foreign laws and regulations adversely affecting PsyBio’s business and results of operations; decreases in the prevailing process for psilocybin and nutraceutical products in the markets in which PsyBio operates; the impact of COVID-19; and general business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on the forward-looking information contained in this press release. Except as required by law, the Company disclaims any intention and assumes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking information to reflect actual results, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, changes in factors affecting such forward-looking information or otherwise.
PsyBio makes no medical, treatment or health benefit claims about PsyBio’s proposed products. The FDA or other similar regulatory authorities have not evaluated claims regarding psilocybin and other next generation psychoactive compounds. The efficacy of such products has not been confirmed by FDA-approved research. There is no assurance that the use of psilocybin and other psychoactive compounds can diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Vigorous scientific research and clinical trials are needed. PsyBio has not conducted clinical trials for the use of its intellectual property. Any references to quality, consistency, efficacy and safety of potential products do not imply that PsyBio verified such in clinical trials or that PsyBio will complete such trials. If PsyBio cannot obtain the approvals or research necessary to commercialize its business, it may have a material adverse effect on the PsyBio’s performance and operations.
The TSX Venture Exchange (“TSXV“) has neither approved nor disapproved the contents of this news release. Neither the TSXV nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSXV) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
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Two more men were arrested for trespassing at Splish Splash in Calverton on Thanksgiving that led to a viral YouTube video.
Riverhead Town police arrested Joseph Hanusiewicz, 24, of Massapequa Park and Ethan Solomkin, 25, of Great Neck. They were both charged with third-degree criminal trespass, police said. They were both released on an appearance ticket for Jan. 18, police said.
Police initially arrested four men in early December who each face the same charge. On Dec. 28, Suffolk County Crime Stoppers offered a cash reward for information leading to the arrests of three suspects in connection to the Splish Splash break-in. Police had released images of the men taken from the YouTube video, which now has more than 9 million views.
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CAERSWS manager Graham Evans has challenged his side to go the rest of the Huws Gray Alliance season unbeaten, starting at home to Caernarfon Town on Saturday (2.30).
The Bluebirds go into the game with growing confidence despite losing to a late goal at unbeaten runaway league leaders Prestatyn Town last weekend.
Evans said: “The character and work rate showed in the second-half to come back from 2-0 at the champions elect was immense and hopefully that'll give the lads a big boost despite the manner of defeat.”
The Bluebirds are without the suspended Josh Hartrick with Callum Hawthorne, Jake Parr, Lance Jones, Scott Williams and Graham Jones also ruled out with Phil Jones added to the squad.
Evans added: “We've challenged the lads to go unbeaten for the remainder of the season on but we're expecting another difficult match at home to Caernarfon.
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Guilsfield bid to get their campaign back on track having slumped since the New Year with last week's draw at Penrhyncoch extending their winless run in the league to four games.
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More major structural problems have been discovered in the 200-year-old building that will drive up the cost of repairs and upgrades from $123.8 million to just under $150 million, The Post has learned.
Mayor Bloomberg authorized raising the repair budget by another $25 million about two weeks ago after being told that concrete in the roof deck of the rotunda was crumbling and the wire mesh supporting it was severely corroded at several locations.
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The job is so difficult that it may not be completed until the end of Bloomberg’s administration in December 2013.
A reporter who toured the roof area above the building’s third floor was able with his bare hands to pull away small chunks of concrete said to date back to work done in 1917.
“We have a responsibility to leave the building safe and secure,” declared one official. “You don’t know what you’re going to find until you go in there.”
Workers have been finding additional flaws in City Hall since the project to restore it was announced in 2007, when the cost was estimated at $60 million.
A decision to add a sub-basement for new electrical and mechanical systems, as well as sprinklers, a new elevator, an additional staircase and a new fire-alarm system inflated the figure to $90 million as of November 2009.
Work began in earnest in mid-2010, but was temporarily halted when workers unearthed on the north side of the building a Revolutionary War-era settlement complete with relics.
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RALEIGH, NC (October 2007) — Water is one of the foundations on which full-line vending and office coffee service were built. The need for effective water treatment to prepare the beverages dispensed by coffee and postmix cold-drink vending machines offered an important incentive to the development of modern in-line water filtration and demineralizing technology, and the outcome was today’s reliable cartridge-based systems.
While operators long regarded water treatment as a necessary expense to assure beverage quality and protect equipment, the rise in concern over municipal water quality that began locally almost four decades ago inspired a few pioneering operators to recognize the market value of their water purification equipment. In the Washington, DC, market, the early 1970s were marked by newspaper publicity about asbestos fibers in the Potomac River. That led several of those operators to offer their locations in-line filters on a rental basis, often using the newspaper clippings as the basis for their sales materials.
Over the ensuing decades, negative publicity about cryptosporidium and giardia cysts contaminating municipal water supplies in the Midwest offered similar opportunities for alert operators to solve a problem for customers while creating a new profit center, increasing coffee consumption and reducing their equipment maintenance costs.
Public concern over the nation’s apparently declining supplies of potable water also prompted the swift growth of small-package bottled water as a cold-drink option, which continues today.
Although most vending and coffee service operators were content to leave the water business to specialist distributors of bulk bottled water, some of those bottler/distributors had been among the first route service organizations to offer coffee service. In view of this overlap, it was logical for some coffee service operations to expand into bottled-water distribution.
As enthusiasm for higher-quality drinking water continued to grow and the economics of route distribution began to change, “point-of-use” water treatment emerged as a distinct workplace service. Customers eager to single-source their professional breaktime management began to move vending, coffee service and pure water toward “total refreshment service.”
This trend was accelerated by the decline in heavy-industrial locations that became pronounced as the last century drew to a close. Locations staffed by well-compensated workforces and requiring round-the-clock service proliferated, but their populations were small by traditional full-line vending standards. Operating companies increasingly began to offer combinations of OCS, vending and water service – increasingly, point-of-use treatment systems rather than 3-, 5- or 6-gallon bottles – in order to maximize revenue and streamline equipment expense.
THE OPPORTUNITY STRIKES
One operator who has participated in this historic development is Jerry Allen of Carolina Vending, a full-line vending, coffee service and pure-water company serving North Carolina’s Raleigh-Durham “Triangle” market since 1979.
Allen got his start with a bottled-water operation a decade ago. Employed as a salesman for a chemical company, he found that the onset of arthritis made it difficult for him to carry the heavy sample-cases on sales calls. He thus set out to find a sales position that did not require heavy lifting. Water seemed to be a growing product in an underserved market, so he took a position with a firm whose primary business was the rental of coolers and sale of 5-gallon bottled water.
“The company advertised that we had point-of-use treatment systems as an option, but all salespeople were told not to put any emphasis on that part of the business,” Allen recalled. “There were two reasons for that. Obviously, bottled-water companies make much more money on 5-gallon bottle sales, and we didn’t have anybody who had much experience installing the point-of-use equipment.
“I took note of the fact that we were losing accounts to POU companies, and it didn’t seem to generate any concern,” he said. “So I made a decision to investigate the point-of-use systems.” This led him to join an enterprise whose only business was placing point-of-use water treatment systems. Recognizing the greater potential of selling water as one component of a full-spectrum workplace service program, Allen joined Carolina Vending three years ago.
This was a good move, he reported. “Vending companies, especially those that have already seen the benefit of adding OCS, are in the absolutely perfect position to capitalize on the demand for point-of-use water treatment,” the water sales expert said.
For operators who recognize the logic of adding point-of-use water treatment to their service menu, choosing the equipment is a good place to start. What’s wanted is a reliable line that meets the established standards for commercial water purification. The two requirements here are Underwriters Laboratories listing (indicated by the familiar “UL” symbol) and NSF (formerly National Sanitation Foundation) certification of the filtration media, he said.
Beyond those essentials, he recommends that dispensers containing both hot and cold tanks be fitted with a separate switch for each, and that all the water tanks be made of stainless steel.
When speaking with manufacturers, sales personnel about a point-of-use treatment system, it’s important to get as much information as possible, Allen told VT. “If they mention equipment tested and certified by some university, ask for the data, and when the testing was performed. If they can’t provide you with that information on the spot, you’re talking to the wrong people.”
Existing accounts are obvious prospects for the new add-on service, especially the ones that already have bottled-water systems. “Because 5-gallon coolers have been out there for decades, they are – literally – not even noticed, most of the time,” the industry veteran pointed out. For that reason, he suggests that vending and coffee service route delivery and service personnel be instructed to report the presence of a bottled water dispenser in any location they’re serving and, if possible, the number of bottles stacked nearby. These reports can be used to compile a list of prospects.
The next step is to instruct a sales representative in the benefits of point-of-use water treatment, both as a source of higher-quality water for drinking and for preparing beverages and as a more convenient, efficient, economical and sanitary alternative to 5-gallon bottles. Once instructed, this individual can work down the prospect list and make the necessary sales calls.
It also is a good idea to publicize the availability of point-of-use water treatment systems by including notices in monthly bills. “This won’t be seen as junk mail, and will probably generate more business than you might think,” Allen added.
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When developing the skills required to sell point-of-use water treatment systems, he said, it is a very good idea to give the salesperson or team a thorough grounding in water purification, as well as its virtues in comparison to bottled water.
This is important because competition is growing rapidly, the Carolina Vending executive reported. “The POU business is just beginning to flourish as a separate entity,” he said. “There are companies that lease POU equipment as their only source of income, so their salespeople have tremendous pressure to produce – usually resulting in a large turnover of employees.
“This is to our advantage,” Allen emphasized. “Most of us have been servicing clients for years, and they already know and trust us. If the other POU person gets to the decision-maker first, however, he will go with them – simply because he doesn’t know that you offer this kind of system, and hasn’t been educated properly.”
Even if this has happened, all is not lost if the operator is prepared to provide better information. “There are POU companies out there that love to promote ultraviolet irradiation as the only way to properly treat your drinking water,” the industry veteran instanced. “They will present literature claiming that, because of UV, there will be no HPC (heterotrophic plate count) bacteria; that it will eliminate virtually every virus known to man; and that it does away with the risk of cyst contamination.”
In fact, while there’s certainly no reason not to provide an ultraviolet treatment stage if the client really wants one, it is seldom necessary for purifying water from municipal mains. Viruses and heterotrophic bacteria that may be found in municipal water almost always are harmless – they occur in the air we breathe – and effective particle filtration not only removes cysts, but also screens out suspended solids (turbidity) that affect the appearance, and often the taste, of the water.
“There is no risk of cyst contamination with a 1-micron or smaller particle filter,” Allen said. “We use 5-micron filtration at entry and carbon 0.5-micron filtration as the final stage before tank storage.” The carbon absorbs chlorine, which municipalities add to water to kill pathogens (like viruses and heterotrophic bacteria). It does a very effective job, but imparts an unpleasant taste and odor, which the carbon filter removes. Ultraviolet irradiation does nothing whatever to chemicals like chlorine, and nothing to particles except kill any that happen to be alive.
Dangerous microorganisms that form cysts include the protozoans giardia lamblia, whose cysts are seven microns or more in diameter, and cryptosporidium, which forms “oocysts” that typically are at least four microns in diameter. These are the two most-common pathogenic organisms that, when encysted, can resist the toxic effect of chlorine. Both are removed by a microparticle filter with pores one micron in diameter or smaller.
Allen added that a hot-water tank holding its contents at 175°F. or higher also will kill just about any pathogen that survives municipal chlorination, sedimentation and filtration as well as the microparticle filter. Commercial equipment typically maintains a hot-water temperature around 185°F.
“I’ve seen equipment out there that really promotes ‘in-tank sanitation’ (ITS),” he observed. “Maybe it’s just me, but I can’t figure out how you can sanitize something that your filtration media have already eliminated.”
Carolina Vending offers multifiltration systems, and can provide both floor (console) and countertop units. “We do offer in-line ultraviolet treatment, for those people who already have been contacted by POU-only companies that really push the UV component of their systems,” Allen summed up. “That’s fairly standard with any business that’s serious about providing clients with as many options as possible.”
Carolina Vending plans to establish separate vending and office coffee/POU water treatment divisions in the foreseeable future. Allen believes that this approach will give rise to greater diversity in installation and service, and thus generate more volume. “And that’s what business should be about, in my opinion,” he concluded. | <urn:uuid:24bc008f-d123-41f1-bdfc-95f078edc7ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vendingtimes.com/ME2/dirmod.asp?nm=Article+Archives&type=Publishing&mod=Publications%3A%3AArticle&mid=8F3A7027421841978F18BE895F87F791&tier=4&id=951B5A354A9945968EB5B1BCD1832971 | 2017-01-16T11:01:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00247-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966054 | 2,388 |
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Horses Ass, the political website for Washington lefties, has audio of a speech delivered Aug. 23 at a “No on I-594″ event in Silverdale that has supporters of the measure outraged.
During his speech (the audio is below.) Brian Judy, A Washington NRA official, criticized one of the measure’s financial backers ($385,000), Nick Hanauer. The initiative, if passed, would require background checks for gun sales at gun shows and for those online. It allows for some exceptions.
Judy draws his criticism from a piece Hanauer wrote in Politico arguing that America needs to raise the wages of lower and middle class Americans, that the working class is what creates rich people, not the other way around. The following section reflects much of Hanauer’s main argument.
… the problem isn’t that we have inequality. Some inequality is intrinsic to any high-functioning capitalist economy. The problem is that inequality is at historically high levels and getting worse every day. Our country is rapidly becoming less a capitalist society and more a feudal society. Unless our policies change dramatically, the middle class will disappear, and we will be back to late 18th-century France. Before the revolution.
And so I have a message for my fellow filthy rich, for all of us who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
If we don’t do something to fix the glaring inequities in this economy, the pitchforks are going to come for us.
Judy makes the case that rich people like Hanauer want to take our guns so that poor people will only have pitchforks when they do rise up. They won’t have guns, because Hanauer wants them taken away, apparently.
And then Judy expresses astonishment that any Jewish person could believe that:
And in one of the last paragraphs he talks about his family being run out of Germany by the Nazis. It’s like, How stupid can they, you know? So he’s funding, he’s put a half a million dollars, toward this policy, the same policy that led to his family getting run out of Germany by the Nazis. You know, it’s staggering to me, it’s just, you can’t make this stuff up. That these people, its like any Jewish people I meet who are anti-gun, I think, “Are you serious? Did you not remember what happened? And why did that happen? Because they registered guns and then they took them. And now you’re supporting gun con, you come to this country and you support gun control? Why did you have to flee to this country in the first place? Hello! Is anybody home here?” Yeah, it’s just, I don’t know.
Cheryl Stumbo, a victim of the 2006 Jewish Federation shooting in Seattle, is a sponsor of Initiative 594 and issued this statement:
“The offensive rhetoric from a senior lobbyist at the National Rifle Association is out-of-touch with what the vast majority of Washingtonians want: a reasonable, productive discussion of solutions to reduce gun violence in our communities. Developing those solutions has been a major part of my life since the attack on my co-workers and me eight years ago, and I am honored to have been joined by other survivors of gun violence, gun owners, hunters, law enforcement, and current and former NRA members. We’ve come together because Washington state needs everyone working together to be part of the solution to making our communities safer – and fringe ideas like Mr. Judy’s are part of the problem.”
The Jewish Federation of Seattle issued a statement, too, part of which said:
“Eight years ago today, the Jewish Federation was the target of a violent attack by an individual harboring dangerous falsehoods about Jews – falsehoods that continue to exist on the fringes of our society. It is deeply offensive for anyone to suggest that Jewish supporters of gun violence prevention have ‘forgotten’ the history of our people. For a representative of the National Rifle Association, or any organization, to repeat the out-of-touch falsehood linking gun violence prevention to Nazi Germany and the Holocaust is not only an ignorant distortion but is exceedingly dangerous.”
This is known in technical terms as “Reductio ad Hitlerum” or “Argumentum ad Nazium.” You can read more about that by going to http://www.fallacyfiles.org/adnazium.html.
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Vibe is an informal or slang of vibration. When you are picking up and more importantly putting out good vibrations, you are living right.
Recently, fortunately, our family took an unplugged vacation. We had awesome weather day after day, amassing two weeks of fun in the sun on the coast of a great lake in lower Michigan.
My teenage son uses the word as a verb, “I’m vibing!” When he caught a fish, he was vibing, when we grilled, he was vibing. When we were boating, he was vibing. Prior to our family trip, I hadn’t realized young people were using that slang.
Recently, I read a few books about energy, positive energy in particular. Where does it come from, can it be sustained, and how can I make it work for me. My first read in my pursuit to mastering the law of attraction was Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness by Vex King.
I came away with practical insight on how to invite great opportunities into my life. I learned techniques to manifest goals, and I learned how to flow with the universe.
I had been reluctant to believe in the Law of Attraction. I have pride in my blue collar family roots of boot strapping, hard work, and Christian values. I also have a journalism background of well-honed cynicism. How could manifesting the life I want really be as simple as asking the universe for it?! “Imagining” greatness was certain to have no affect. What some hogwash, that I could just swig down with essential oils while basking in the scent of aromatic healing candles. | <urn:uuid:fc8aa641-45c5-4c27-9576-67ccd32cd7f6> | CC-MAIN-2021-04 | https://wordscrazywords.com/2020/09/09/a-word-on-wednesday-vibe/ | 2021-01-21T05:37:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-04/segments/1610703522242.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20210121035242-20210121065242-00515.warc.gz | en | 0.978063 | 360 |
While I am not connected to today's tragedy in Connecticut in any meaningful way, I am upset. I'm sad, I'm angry, and I'm hurting for all those kids who died and those who will have to live with memories of this day forever.
I'll resume my ornament posts tomorrow. I can't write today. I'm too overwhelmed by a desire to hug a kid and hug a teacher. | <urn:uuid:7ad00416-5441-4c3b-88ef-f20d3ee59293> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://antijenicdrift.blogspot.com/2012/12/while-i-am-not-connected-to-todays.html | 2017-12-12T02:33:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948514250.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20171212021458-20171212041458-00541.warc.gz | en | 0.983111 | 83 |
Ha! I just came across this piece of text about the Barcelona Pavilion, which I wrote a post about not so long ago:
"In reality, the Barcelona Pavilion was a patch-up structure. Technically Mies was unable to erect the pavilion as a pure 'Dom-ino' structure; the eight cruciform columns alone could not support the roof and a number of extra columns had to be lodged in the double-skinned marble screens to help carry the load. But this makeshift structure did the job Mies asked of it and the plan remained inviolate. He pursued the idea in his model house at the Berlin Building Exhibition of 1931..."
- Frank Russell, ed. Mies van der Rohe: European Works. p20.
Assuming this piece of information is genuine, the walls of the pavilion are load bearing even if the concepts states they are not. Good old Mies was surely on the move in this case!
P.S. The dom-ino issue in the text refers to a concept of Le Corbusier where columns, free of facades and walls, carry a roof, basically the same as what Mies did.
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L.Opdyke French Aeroplanes Before the Great War (Schiffer)
In 1901 Firmin Bousson built his first machine, described as a dirigible equipped with flapping wings. He was assisted - presumably unsuccessfully - by Achille and Paul Borgnis, and the 3 stayed together building kites and models; on 19 August 1908 they put out another complicated machine, the Auto-Aviateur. A tail structure of 4 uprights supported a high short upper wing with a longer lower wing close beneath it and shorter third wing below that; the floor of the tower held the pilot and the 34 hp Buchet driving a large 4-blade pusher propeller. A pair of long curved outriggers supported a pair of forward horizontal surfaces in tandem, the front single one a canard, the rear divided pair acting as a control surface; a large vertical surface between the outriggers served as fin. The machine was modified at least once; it may have been the second canard built after Santos-Dumont's.
In 1909 Bousson alone built a large triplane glider which succeeded in remaining for "one hour in the air, 200 meters high." The pilot sat low in an uncovered box frame fuselage fitted with a biplane tailplane with 2 rudders set between; control was through a large rectangular forward elevator. | <urn:uuid:53c679cc-02ee-41c7-9852-e484489ebcf3> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft28965.htm | 2015-08-05T12:23:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438044271733.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728004431-00287-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941748 | 278 |
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Transcript of inuyasha
inuyasha in death inuyasha was mad because
he saw kikyo shot at him but
right when he had the jewel kikyo shot him with
a sacred arrow a years later kikyo was reborn as a human girl named kegome one time she was in the old shrine then she was pulled in by a lady sentiped | <urn:uuid:3facccb2-ea3f-4672-96ab-da679c713107> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | https://prezi.com/0gnoyuxplw2a/inuyasha/ | 2016-12-06T21:06:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698541995.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170901-00044-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951905 | 230 |
Press release from PR Newswire
MGM Resorts International Employees Pledge $4.7 Million To Help Non-Profit Organizations And Programs Serving Communities
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
MGM Resorts International Employees Pledge $4.7 Million To Help Non-Profit Organizations And Programs Serving Communities09:00 EDT Tuesday, October 15, 2013
LAS VEGAS, Oct. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) employees have pledged $4.7 million this year to support nonprofit organizations serving the resort company's host communities in Nevada, Michigan and Mississippi. Additionally, the company's worksite giving program gives employees the opportunity to support other nonprofit organizations nationwide of their choice.
Celebrating its 11th anniversary, The MGM Resorts Foundation has raised more than $54 million (including 2013 donations) and supported more than 2,000 charitable organizations since its inception in 2002. The Foundation supports community charities by distributing employee-designated donations and issuing grants to community nonprofits selected by an employee grants council.
"Our employees have demonstrated, yet again, their enormous generosity and desire to inspire our world through giving," said Jim Murren, Chairman and CEO of MGM Resorts International. "I am proud of our culture, our employees and the excellence they bring to our resorts and carry into our communities every day."
Among the company's 62,000 employees, an average of 46 percent have donated money to the community since 2002 through cash and payroll donations, and Foundation-hosted fundraising events.
"Our employees realize that collectively we can have a powerful impact on effecting positive change through the initiatives, organizations and institutions that make up our social fabric," said Phyllis A. James, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer. "When we use our time, talents and resources to help others, we not only improve lives today, but also preserve our communities for future generations."
MGM Resorts covers all of the administrative costs required to raise and disburse the funds so every employee dollar donated can go directly to the community.
Scott Rollman, Cage Supervisor at CircusCircus Las Vegas and member of the Foundation's Nevada grants council, commented: "MGM Resorts and our employees know the need is great in the community. There is no better feeling than knowing the influence this money will have in touching the lives of thousands of people."
Examples of community services supported this year by the Foundation's grants include:
- Children and Youth: Community-based programs which focus on the overall development and well being of children and youth considered as at-risk.
- Education: Public education programs which enhance student learning from kindergarten through higher education.
- Hunger Relief: Food bank distribution programs which provide children, families and other individuals, access to food they otherwise would not have.
- Mental Health and Substance Abuse: Recovery and counseling programs that help families, children and individuals affected by addictive behaviors, mental health problems, or other special life circumstances.
For more information about MGM Resorts International's commitment to philanthropy and community engagement, please visit: www.mgmresorts.com/csr.
MGM Resorts International (NYSE: MGM) is one of the world's leading global hospitality companies, operating destination resort brands including Bellagio, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay and The Mirage. The Company also owns 51% of MGM China Holdings Limited, which owns the MGM Macau resort and casino and is in the process of developing a gaming resort in Cotai, and 50% of CityCenter in Las Vegas, which features ARIA resort and casino. For more information about MGM Resorts International, visit the Company's website at www.mgmresorts.com.
SOURCE MGM Resorts International
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- Wednesday, June 4, 2014
Matt Hemsley writes for Truro Anglican Church:
Now Alpha has launched Alpha TV, a new way of doing Alpha in homes, cafes, sports clubs, bars … anywhere a group of friends can gather and get access to the internet.
Alpha TV works by linking groups to a live feed of the Alpha Course as it is being run at the main church, Holy Trinity Brompton, that very night!
Why is that better than putting on a pre-recorded Alpha DVD?
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Split fins come in a variety of shapes, sizes and stiffness. These contribute greatly to overall comfort and performance. A fin with short, soft blades will kick easier than a longer, stiffer one, but will require many more kicks to travel the same distance. A blade that is too stiff will require too much effort to kick comfortably. The Atomic Split Fins were specifically designed to optimize all these variables. They are easy kicking fins that deliver high thrust, speed, and efficiency with a comfortable, low frequency kick cycle. | <urn:uuid:1d375c31-6576-4212-bb99-319d2c2aac8e> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.piratediver.com/Atomic-Split-Fins-s/152.htm | 2018-06-18T21:36:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267861163.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20180618203134-20180618223134-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.950811 | 104 |
(Lark Davis Mysteries)
by Annabelle Hunter
About the Book
Leg Up (Lark Davis Mysteries)
1st in Series
Independently Published (June 1, 2019)
Print Length: 165 pages
Digital ASIN: B07R5GVW3X
GoodReads Link – Coming Soon
a Rafflecopter giveaway
A severed leg with no body? Check.
A disturbing lack of coffee? Check.
A murderer bent on revenge and a hot cop using her as bait? Double check.
Larklyn Davis moved to the small picturesque town of Barrow Bay, California, needing a new start on life. She found the perfect cottage house, almost the perfect distance from her ex-husband, and built the perfect stable for her dressage business. But when a severed leg suddenly appears on her front porch, her life takes a turn for the absurd.
As more clues pile up, and the killer not content to leave Lark alone, she’s forced to take things into her own hands. One problem: the hottest detective she has ever seen is convinced she is involved. Detective Brecken Wilson looks like he should be in a movie, not glued to Lark’s side, waiting for the other leg to drop.
There’s not enough coffee in the world for Lark to deal with this crime, the detective who stirs things she hasn’t felt in years, and a matchmaking town, intent help her find the happiness she doesn’t want.
About the Author
Annabelle Hunter is a stay-at-home mom and an avid fan of classic mystery shows and dressage. She lives in Southern California with her husband, two children, and too many animals.
July 15 – Cozy Up With Kathy – AUTHOR INTERVIEW
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A/N: I randomly came up with this after reading a fanfic and wondering… wtf would happen if Shizuo were to catch Izaya one day? So this is my wonderful, with lots of WTF?! moments, that will hopefully make you laugh even though it is very, very short. Please review! I will love you forever and ever.
Disclaimer: I am sad and on the brink of depression to say that I do not own Durarara or any of it's characters otherwise it would be Shizaya all the way! WOOT WOOT! Enjoy….
One sunny day on the bustling streets of Ikebukuro one could see several street signs, vending machines, and people running. But, all these things were not where not where you would think they would be. The signs where scattered all over the road, vending machines were found in craters broken to pieces from being thrown with monstrous strength, and people running for their lives so they wouldn't get caught in the cross fire of two certain people, one a blonde with obvious anger issues and a black haired guy who just kept egging the blonde monster on.
" IZAYAAAAAAA! YOU DAMN FLEA! GET OUT!" the blonde screamed at Izaya, the black haired man.
" Awwww, but Shizu-chan, I'm having soooo much fun!" Izaya whined.
The blonde suddenly stopped and looked down and said something but Izaya didn't quite catch it, " What was that Shizu-chan?~" Izaya asked in a sing song voice.
" I said," the blonde said as he turned around and started walking away, " my name is Shizuo, and I'm tired of this. I'm going home."
Izaya had this dumbfounded look on his face, I could tell what he was thinking, 'why is he ignoring me? Why is he walking away? WTH IS GOING ON?!' The only reason why I could tell that that was what he was thinking was because I could hear him screaming them at him. The blonde just kept on walking. All of a sudden, Izaya started running after him. When Izaya finally caught up to Shizuo, he jumped in front of him and slapped him, hard. Shizuo just stopped and stood there and stared at Izaya.
" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING DUMBASS! YOUR SUPPOSED TO CHASE ME! YOU'RE RUINING MY GAME GODDAMNIT!" Izaya yelled in his face. He just stood there waiting for a response from the blonde and then out of no where, Shizuo pounced on him and grabbed him by the collar and dragged him into an alley…. I was curious as to what was going to happen next, I thought maybe a shooting, but of course, being the awesome person I am (psych!), quietly followed them.
Izaya had a look of horror on his face, " What the HELL was that?! You lied!"
Shizuo just rolled his eyes, " Like you've never lied in your entire life"
" True, but out of you? For shame Shizu-chan, for shame.~" Izaya sang.
" You know what? Shut the hell up," Shizuo suggested still holding Izaya by his shirt collar.
Izaya had a look of doubt on his face, " And how exactly do you plan to do that Shizu-chan? You have no rope, gag, duct tape, or anything else that may shut me up. So how do you plan to shut me up?" The blonde smirked which unnerved Izaya.
" Don't worry, I have an idea."
" Sure you do," Izaya said sarcastically. All of a sudden, Shizuo slammed his lips against Izaya's. They stayed like that for a little bit until they both had to breathe.
" Well then," Shizuo started, " I think that I have won the game and so now I will take my prize."
A flustered and blushing Izaya looked puzzled, " What prize? I never said that there was a prize."
" And who ever said that this was your game and not mine?" Shizuo retorted.
" I never thought that you would beat me and I thought this was my game. You're smarter than I thought you were. Also, may I ask what this prize is? I kinda don't have any money on me so I can't take you out on a date.~" Izaya sang with a curious look on his face.
" You," was all Shizuo said before he picked Izaya up bridal style and carried him off.
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5-STEP METHODOLOGY FOR APPLICATION OF SCRIPTURE TO MORAL ISSUES
By James T. Bretzke, S.J., S.T.D.
University of San Francisco
1. Selection and Precision of the Concrete Moral Case
a. Just as there is a need for the interpretation of any text (no text is self-interpreting), much the same can be said for the moral case, and the larger world in which it is located. There is no such thing as a self-evident or self-interpreting moral case.
b. Thus, there will always be the need to a certain extent for casuistry (analysis and application of moral principles to a particular case).
c. Notion of "reading the world" (in tandem with "reading the text") developed by Stephen Fowl and L. Gregory Jones
"We have argued that Scripture is best read in and through Christian communities. Such communities, however, find themselves within the political arrangements of wider societies. They need to understand these larger contexts and the ways in which they impinge on Christian communities if Christians' readings of Scripture are to enable them to live faithfully. Hence faithful interpretation requires not only `readings of the texts' but also `readings of the world'." Stephen E. Fowl, and L. Gregory Jones, Reading in Communion: Scripture and Ethics in Christian Life. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1991): 44.
d. Similar to reading the "signs of the times", e.g., as found in Vatican II’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et spes.
2. Selection of Scripture Text(s)
a. Logical caveat: no one can consider every possible Scriptural text for each and every ethical issue. However, we need to be aware of, and seek to mitigate the natural tendency to create a "canon-within-a-canon" to such an extent that a major part of the Bible, plus the historical experience of the whole Christian community (i.e., Tradition) are ignored or sidestepped as "irrelevant."
b. Undoubtedly selection must be made, but it should be done in recognition of both the whole biblical canon and the Tradition of the Church.
c. Here, again the notion of a "lectio continua" (continuous reading of the Bible) would be helpful, which acts as a corrective against tendency to create a canon-within-a-canon, plus helps us to here as many voices as possible from Scripture. Such a lectio continua also plugs into the ongoing liturgical life of the Church, and is precisely the moment in the Church's life where this "lectio continua" is practiced, and thus helps better integrate our moral theology into our liturgical life
d. Recognition of different ways in which Scripture speaks to moral issues:
i. specific biblical texts on the specific issue
ii. specific biblical texts on related issues
iii. general or overarching biblical themes, patterns, etc. which have broad ethical ramifications. E.g. sin, forgiveness, cross and resurrection.
e. Pay particular attention to those Scripture passages which have stood the test of time in selection for ethical use, e.g., Sermon on the Mount, key sections of Pauline theology, etc.
f. Make sure you have a complete "unit" and a passage of suitable length
i. Avoid taking the passage out of context
ii. No Proof-Texting!
3. Exegesis of the Text(s)
a. be able and willing to do the research and reflection that this requires!
b. Logical corollary: not everyone will be able to master these scholarly requirements; therefore, need for both specialization and cooperation, and interdisciplinary study.
4. Interpretation of the Text(s)
a. Principle of Hermeneutics: no text is "self-interpreting"
b. Aid here from work done in both hermeneutical theory in general, and more specifically in biblical hermeneutics (i.e., the method of the interpretation of the biblical texts to a contemporary context).
c. Insight from the practice of lectio divina, (spiritual reading) namely the two “moments” of interpretation, namely, first, the meditatio in which we meditate on the text, trying to “open” up the meaning of the text itself, and then second, the contemplatio in which we sit before the text and try to open ourselves to the voice of God who inspires the text and speaks through it to us.
d. The question/problem of interpretation will move us logically and inexorably to the next step: application of the text to the ethical problem.
5. Application of the Text to the Ethical Situation
a. "No situation in which Christians (either now or in the past) find themselves is self-interpreting. The process of faithfully embodying an interpretation of Scripture presupposes that Christian communities have already analyzed and diagnosed the contexts in which they find themselves. Such analysis must be informed and directed by Scripture, but it is not simply an interpretation of Scripture." [Fowl & Jones, p. 45].
b. Involves the whole problematic of the use of models in Scripture, as well as the added problem/concern of Scripture itself as the “normative” source for Christian ethics. | <urn:uuid:ebaddf15-6e0e-47cf-8c52-33fa93bdaee7> | CC-MAIN-2014-35 | http://www.usfca.edu/fac-staff/bretzkesj/ScriptureEthicsGuidelines.htm | 2014-08-23T15:25:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-35/segments/1408500826259.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20140820021346-00151-ip-10-180-136-8.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921639 | 1,140 |
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Abe Vigoda Skeleton
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L.A. kids Abe Vigoda have spent the last four years developing their sound into what PPM label-owner/No Age drummer Dean Spunt describes as “tropical punk.” And while last-week’s-big-thing Vampire Weekend has made Graceland a dangerous line to walk, Abe Vigoda crossbreeds Paul Simon’s signature Afro-pop with face-melting post-punk to maintain the Spunt’s description on Skeleton, their third full-length. From the jovial guitars of “Dead City/Waste Wilderness,” the album explores sunny melodies (“The Garden”) and heavy noise passages (“Whatever Forever”) while keeping a cohesive flow. That’s what happens when you grow up at The Smell instead of an Ivy League university.
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More than the houses and apartments I’ve occupied, libraries are my true home, and that’s not just a figure of speech. I’ve lived in five states and in dozens of cities and small towns within them, and I’ve always colonized the libraries. I remember how books were arranged, the systematic vagaries of Dewey and Library of Congress ordering, in libraries that no longer exist. I remember the bottom shelf on which in the late nineteen-sixties I found Herbert Gold’s The Man Who Was Not with It (1956) in a red library binding and started reading it there on the floor on a rainy Saturday afternoon in Cleveland.
I’ve been looking again at one of Wright Morris’ pioneering “photo-texts,” as he called them – God’s Country and My People (1968). Morris is best known for his novels but was a superb photographer. The picture that grabbed me over the weekend is a close-up of two shelves, twenty-five books, in what appears to be a public library. It’s the “L” section in fiction, with titles by Sinclair Lewis on the top shelf – Dodsworth, Elmer Gantry, Main Street, Babbitt, Ann Vickers. All are worn from use, the bindings loose and lumpy. Many have had the title and author’s name written on the spine by a librarian.
On the lower shelf is a later novel by Lewis, Kingsblood Royal, from 1947, which helps date the photo. The dust jacket is missing but it appears in nearly mint condition: “Random House” is plainly visible. The one book lying horizontally on top of others was unknown to me -- Old Home Town (1935) by Rose Wilder Lane, the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder. Like Lewis’ novels and Morris’, its setting is the American Midwest. Also shelved are Josephine Lawrence’s If I Have Four Apples (1935), The Sound of Running Feet (1937) and Let Us Consider One Another (1945), and Jennette Lee’s The Mysterious Office (1922), among others.
In short, Morris has photographed a typical selection of popular fiction in an American public library, probably in a Midwestern town, circa 1948. It may also represent veiled autobiography. Morris was born in Central City, Neb. His earlier photo-text volumes – The Inhabitants (1946) and The Home Place (1948) – are largely devoted to Midwestern scenes, as is some of his best fiction – The Field of Vision (1956) and Ceremony in Lone Tree (1960). Perhaps he’s taking his place among Midwestern peers but with a hint of pride, as his work surpasses the authors of the well-thumbed volumes in the photo, despite his critical and readerly eclipse since his death in 1998.
When I saw Morris’ photo I felt welcome, even if the titles pictured don’t reflect my tastes. The plank shelves are as worn as the books. A public library is a well-used public space, recognizably democratic and American, part of our informal education, so of course I was welcome. To borrow one of Morris’ titles, it's The Home Place. | <urn:uuid:0fcb2f9c-be9a-4202-abb6-96f98d76f384> | CC-MAIN-2017-22 | http://evidenceanecdotal.blogspot.com/2010/09/home-place.html | 2017-05-26T07:30:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-22/segments/1495463608648.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20170526071051-20170526091051-00257.warc.gz | en | 0.963306 | 692 |
I've got a few theories on self defense. Theory #1: no matter your skill level or equipment, there will always be scenarios you'll be victorious, and those where you'll be defeated. Can a 90 year old Grandma defeat a Special Force operator? Sure, if Grandma is armed and our Special Forces operator is fall-over-drunk. It can happen. The best you can do, therefore, is to incrementally move scenarios from the defeated to the victorious column (In this case: don't piss of grandma and don't get fall over drunk). You won't move them all, but every little bit potentially helps. After all, which hypothetical scenarios you'll actually encounter is anyone's guess.
Theory #2: with the exception of firearms, self defense tools (weapons?) that a civilian carries are not intended to take take down an attacker. Sure, you might get lucky and that the pepper spray or whistle scares off a bad guy, but there's no guarantee. The best you can hope for is that these tools allow you to make space to either fight or run (spoiler alert: I'm running). In most cases, they buy you just a moment. Of course, that moment may be exactly what you need.
Theory #3: every self defense implement has pros and cons. Take pepper spray. Pros: it's less-leathal (which is great if you spray the 12 year old living next door; or the cop who you thought was breaking into your house), relatively cheap and gives you important stand off distance. Cons: relatively hard to train with, influenced by the wind, will be hard to deploy in a stressful situation, makes a mess if you have a misfire in your purse or pocket. That sort of thing. That doesn't mean you shouldn't grab that can of pepper spray when you take a jog, just know its limitations and work around them as best as possible.
Given all of this, my self defense tool of choice is the poorly named, tactical pen. A tactical pen is a take on the kubotan, which is just a glorified stick you can use to make your hitting more effective.
Pros: you can bring this device anywhere; relatively easy to train with; dual purpose, so you'll actually use it; no accidental misfires; doesn't run out of batteries or spray.
Cons: has no stand off distance; requires that you fight back; requires training to be effective.
I can imagine it moving a couple of scenarios from the loss to the win column, so that's good enough for me. Oh, and I like carrying pens on me, so that's a big win.
For about 5 years(!!), I carried and liked the Schrade Tactical Pen. Unlike some pens out there, it didn't have a weapon look to it. It just looked like a big, black, durable pen. Which it was. I didn't love that it was branded as a Schrade, which screams "hey, this is a weapon!" to security guards everywhere. And I also didn't love how the pen wrote, though I think I just never took the time to replace the ink cartridge with gel ink that I prefer. All in all, the Schrade was just about perfect for me: a solid pen, and a solid self defense tool.
But who wants a tool that's just about anything, right?
While looking on eBay I came across this item: SLIM LINE Black Aluminum Tactical Pen with Emergency Glass Breaker LAIX Q1 style. It was the first line in the description that caught my eye:
The Cen-Tac Slim Line is a very attractive slender barrel style tactical pen that looks more pen than tactical.
For $10.00 and free shipping I decided I'd give the pen a try. So far, I'm glad I did.
As promised, the pen is slender and doesn't scream weapon. Plus, it's labeled LAIX-Q1, which is far better branding than say, having Smith and Wesson stamped on your pen.
Like the Schrade, it's all metal and seems quite durable. One could easily ask: couldn't you use any metal pen as a tactical pen? Why buy into this branding nonsense? In response to that, I'd suggest actually holding a pen like the Schrade or Cen-Tac. When you want an implement you can protect yourself with, you're going to want something that's solid and can take a beating. Sure, that Parker Jotter looks tough, but I wouldn't want to depend on using it in a way that it was never intended. That's not to say: (a) you should be picky if you're in a difficult situation--improvise! And (b) definitely be wary of the branding nonsense. However,for under $20, you can get a very solid pen. (Ooh, Amazon has a pink version for $14.99!)
OK, enough talk, here's how the Cen-Tac Slim Line compares to the Schrade and the Pilot-G2:
The photos really don't do the Cen-Tac justice. It's far slimmer than the Schrade and longer, too. It still fits in the front pocket of my jeans without a problem. I also like the quality of ink it comes with out of the box. Again, you can barely tell from the photo, but the black ink is definitely darker than the Schrade. For most writing tasks I still grab the G2, but the Cen-Tac definitely strikes me as more pen friendly than the Schrade.
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We’re four episodes into the fourth season, about a year-and-a-half into the zombie apocalypse, and there has never been so much to talk about.
This week’s episode’s title was Indifference, and the key issue at hand is what to do with someone who has become apathetic, unsympathetic or… indifferent. At the end of the previous episode, Episode 3, Carol calmly looked at Rick and admitted to killing two of the sick in their group. Many would argue Carol had the best of the group in mind, but Rick seems to be concerned about her cheap nba jerseys “indifference” to the needs—the right to live—of the individual.
If you think Carol dropped a bomb on us with that revelation at the end of Episode 3, then Rick went nuclear in Episode 4, because he did something unprecedented: he banished someone from the group. He sent Carol out to fend for herself.
Carol tried to justify her actions to Rick.
Carol: You can be a farmer Rick. You cheap nba jerseys can’t just be a farmer. You were a good leader. Better than I probably gave you credit for.
Rick: I never murdered two of cheap jerseys our own.
Carol: Just one.
Rick: He was going to kill me.
Carol: So were they. They were going to kill all of us.
Rick: You don’t know that.
Carol: If you thought it would save Judith or Carl would you have done it then or would you have just gone back to your crops and hoped it’d all be okay. You don’t have to like what I did Rick. I don’t. You just accept it.
It’s obvious Carol has changed since we first met her. Her fight to survive has slowly metamorphosized her into someone who isn’t scared to… and might just be eager to… plunge a knife into someone’s temple if there’s even a chance of a threat to the group. Like she told Lizzie, “You fight it, and fight it and don’t give up, and then one day you just change. We all change.”
So Rick banished her, something he wasn’t even willing to do to Merle (that makes you think).
Actor Andrew Lincoln gave us a peek into the mind of his character, Rick, in an interview this week:
“The final moment in Episode 3, I had the overwhelming sense when I was doing it, I didn’t recognize this human being, Carol. I was like, ‘Who are you?’ She was in charge. In the first episode she’s giving directions to everybody… she’s telling my child to lie to me. Ultimately, the deciding factor is my family. It distills right back down to that again. And I go, ‘Can I have you around my children?’ That’s why I leave you by the roadside.”
Some argue that Rick might have even saved Carol’s life, after all, Tyreese wanted to find and kill Karen’s murderer. Should Rick have brought Carol back to face Tyreese and the rest of the group?
Rick chose banishment, and the majority of audiences might not even agree with his decision. In this week’s Talking Dead poll, the show’s host asked: What would you have done with Carol?
- 24% of people chose: Send her away like Rick did
- 66% of people chose: Allow her to come back to the prison
- 10% of people chose: Feed her to the walkers
Once again, The Walking Dead has us thinking about the bigger questions in life, deeper than the petty decisions we typically make each day. This episode even dealt with drinking (something I Google deal with in chapter 19 of The Zombie Apocalypse Survival Guide for Teenagers).
In a zombie apocalypse, everyone is forced to grow up real fast. Talking Dead’s Chris Hardwick made this observation:
“It’s interesting the way the kids are portrayed on the show too, because in a pre-apocalyptic world the questions are like, ‘What do I wear to school?’ or ‘How come they’re mean to me at school?’ And now people like Carl and Lizzie are asking questions like, ‘When is it okay to kill someone?’”
The Walking Dead characters are constantly wrestling with morality, making decisions, and then cheap jerseys even questioning those decisions. Like Rick this week:
Rick: Did you think it was right, letting those kids come back (ABAC) with us?
Carol: I think it was the humane thing to do.
Rick: Did you think it was right?
So many conversation points from this one episode, so much to talk about. But one scene popped out at me, the conversation between Michonne and Tyreese after Tyreese showed repeated signs of not caring… of being… indifferent.
Michonne: You should have let him go.
Tyreese: What the Hell you know about it, huh? You the expert?
Michonne: No. I just don’t want to see you die. Is that what you’re trying to do? Do you even know what you’re trying to do? I know you’re pissed and you have every reason to be, but anger makes you stupid. Stupid gets your killed.
This is a great springboard for conversation about anger. Michonne said it well: anger makes us stupid. Here are some questions to wrestle with this issue.
SEASON 4, EPISODE 4 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. What would you have done with Carol if you were Rick?
2. This episode was wholesale mlb jerseys titled “Indifference.” How had Carol grown “indifferent”?
3. Indifference can be defined as cold, apathetic or unconcerned. What signs of indifference have we seen from Tyreese since he lost Karen?
4. Since Karen’s death, one emotion we’ve seen out of Tyreese is anger. How is his anger hurting him and the rest of the group?
5. What reason does Michonne give Tyreese to control his anger?
6. Michonne tells Tyreese, “Anger makes you stupid.” Explain what she The meant. Do you agree?
The Bible provides some pretty shrewd wisdom on the subject of anger. In Ephesians 4:26–27, Paul writes:
“‘Don’t sin by letting anger control you.’Don’t let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil.”
7. According to the verse, is anger wrong?
8. According to the verse, when does anger become sin?
9. Give an example of how anger can control us.
10. What are some ways to avoid being controlled by anger when we feel angry?
11. The verse tells us not to let the sun go down while we’re still angry—in other words, don’t hold on to your anger. What happens when we hold on to anger for a long time?
12. Why would a guy like Tyreese decide to put himself into a torture chamber of bitterness and anger?
Anger is natural. Anger can even be good, such as when we become upset by mistreatment or injustice. Even God gets angry. But we need to keep anger from controlling us.
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As the release date of his new book Decoded approaches, Jay-Z had some interesting things to say about reflecting on his past lyrics and how he rapped about women. Find out how his thinking has shifted inside…
While working on his new book, “Decoded” in which the lyrics to his songs are printed out and explained, Jay-Z admits he regrets his songs that didn’t present women…or his opinion of them…in the best light.
“Some [lyrics] become really profound when you see them in writing. Not ‘Big Pimpin.’ That’s the exception. It was like, I can’t believe I said that. And kept saying it. What kind of animal would say this sort of thing? Reading it is really harsh.”
The lyrics to that track mainly talked about him having women sexually available to him at all times, something he has abandoned since marrying Beyonce in 2008.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Jay-Z said,
“We have to find our way back to true emotion. This is going to sound so sappy, but love is the only thing that stands the test of time. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was all about love. Andre 3000, The Love Below. Even N.W.A, at its core — that was about love for a neighborhood.”
I see his point.
He also said he’d like to hear more about the real challenges facing people today, like the housing crisis and unemployment. Remember the time before gangsta rap when Public Enemy was the CNN for black people? That’s what Jay’s talking about. And he cites hip-hop’s efforts to help Barack Obama elected as proof the community can help foster social change.
“Whether he does a great job or not is almost secondary to what it did for the dreams and the hopes of an entire race. Just based on that alone, it’s a success — the biggest we’ve had. … It’s Martin Luther King’s dream realized. Tangible. In the flesh. You can shake his hand.”
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Teh Wind Knot is not really a true crime guy and I am sure many of you don't read anything not by Gierach, but here is a pretty good one:
Darker than Night, by Tom Henderson
Think Deliverance meets Fargo. A couple of guys go hunting in Mio, MI and are never heard from again. About 20 years later, the authorities prosecute some local good ol' boys for killing them and feeding them to the hogs. Anyone who runs up to Michigan to fish the Au Sable and Manistee as much as Teh Wind Knot will like this book. It features many of the famed local watering holes where one often kills some time with a PBR while waiting until it is time to chase the Hex or swing Mr. Mousie for some of the nicer residents of the region. It sure made Teh Wind Knot think twice about making fun of the folks at karaoke night at Ma Deeter's in the future. Probably won't stop him, but may give him pause. | <urn:uuid:33d789d0-32f7-4e28-b688-933cc5f83cdb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tehwindknot.blogspot.com/2007/01/good-read.html | 2017-01-18T18:05:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00357-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972506 | 209 |
April 20th-23rd 2012 :: 10 Year Anniversary! :: Theme: Tiny World
SS Tiny Worldby JesterBLUE - 48 Hour Compo Entry
First Ludum Dare and the result is playable! I would have liked to design some levels and add more backstory, but I'm pretty happy with what I've got. Thanks, Static Void Games, for hosting! Code was done in Java, graphics in Photoshop.
I've added a gameplay details document to try to make the game more playable, less confusing. This is post-compo.
With this game I wanted to experiment with an idea that has been kicking around in my head for a while, temporal portals. I imagined you having a barrier in your way, but then a portal opens up and your future self emerges, presses a button that clears the barrier, then returns. You then go through the cleared barrier, create a portal and go back in time to clear that barrier for yourself before moving on.
It seems to me that you need to be able to create portals from the future at any time, but with each portal you are also creating a 'promise' that in the future you will enter a portal to the past. I wanted to add something that would individualize the players, something that could change with them over time. I chose hats because they were easy to implement (the same hat graphic is used for facing left right and down, it almost worked when facing up, but it didn't cover the guy's bald spot.) So, when a player with a hat portals in, you have to fulfill the promise by portaling out a (different) player with a hat.
I realized that this might cause paradoxes and introduced code to prevent that, which ultimately made the game very confusing. I wanted to be able to play back the path of the one character through time, so you watch him go through each portal until he finally finishes the room. If the 'promises' were not filled, then this sequence could not be constructed. I considered adding in 'cameos' to fix hat/no hat problems (the player enters a portal, then you see him inside the time portal and finds a hat floating in the inter-spacetime void, which he takes before returning to the real world) but I thought that putting the responsibility for avoiding paradoxes on the player would make a more interesting game. That idea clearly needs to be re-examined post-mortem.
Please let me know what parts are confusing or what parts you have a good feel for. Thanks for playing!
Downloads and Links
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The U.K.’s domestic spy service, MI5, informed the House of Commons speaker that a woman is suspected to have been used by China to exert influence over British lawmakers, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported.
The suspect, Christine Lee, is a London-based solicitor who “knowingly engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party,” authorities said Thursday, AFP reported.
House of Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle confirmed to AFP he had informed lawmakers of the incident through an email, AFP reported. “The Speaker takes the security of members and the democratic process very seriously, which is why he issued this notice in consultation with the security services,” a spokesperson for Hoyle told the outlet.
The email stated that Lee “facilitated financial donations” to politicians currently in Parliament, as well as some who aspired to be, for foreign nationals “based in Hong Kong and China,” Reuters reported. Lee allegedly donated $275,000 to former Labour Party shadow cabinet member Barry Gardiner, with additional funds going to the party, AFP reported.
“This facilitation was done covertly to mask the origins of the payments,” the notice said, AFP reported. “This is clearly unacceptable behaviour and steps are being taken to ensure it ceases.”
“This is the sort grey-zone interference we now anticipate and expect from China,” former defense minister Tobias Ellwood told parliament, Reuters reported.
The suspected spy was presented an award in 2019 by former Prime Minister Theresa May to recognize her contribution to Sino-U.K. ties, and she has been photographed with former Prime Minister David Cameron and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, AFP reported.
Gardiner said that Lee’s son had been employed as his diary manager but resigned on Thursday, AFP reported. He added that all donations from Lee were properly reported and that he had been “liaising with our security services” about her for years.
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Exponential formula for computing effective viscosity.
Law, Adrian Wing-Keung
Date of Issue2003
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
An exponential model is proposed for evaluating the effective viscosity of a particle-fluid mixture. First, theoretical consideration is restricted to the dilute condition without effects of dynamic particle interactions and fluid turbulence. This leads to a power series expressed in terms of particle concentration, which can be viewed as an extension of the Einstein's formula. The derivation is then extended using an exponential model for the condition of high particle concentrations. The exponential formula obtained, which is not subjected to the maximum particle concentration, is found comparable to various empirical formulas available in the literature
DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Theory of computation
© 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Powder technology, [Elsevier Science B.V.. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0032-5910(02)00274-7]. | <urn:uuid:7788a0d4-514c-432a-8b96-c1315a04ad5e> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://dr.ntu.edu.sg/handle/10220/7676 | 2018-03-23T22:48:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257649095.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20180323220107-20180324000107-00015.warc.gz | en | 0.876571 | 268 |
M&A strategy is about knowing what makes your business successful today and what you can add to make it even better in the future. What is the growth story you want to tell?
Regardless of industry, business model or scale, most of LLR’s portfolio companies over the last 20 years looked to M&A as a critical element of their growth plan. We’ve worked with them to source, evaluate, negotiate and integrate hundreds of add-on acquisitions. Each situation brings with it unique considerations, but they also share many of the same core challenges.
We interviewed three highly-experienced corporate development leaders from our portfolio companies about M&A Strategy, Sourcing, Diligence & Negotiation and Integration and will share their insights over the next four GrowthBits. They bring perspectives that span multiple offices (Corporate Development, CFO, General Counsel) as well as industries (Industrial Tech, Healthcare, Software), but their advice is closely aligned.
Our panel of experts:
- Jesse Gray, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development, acceleTEQ
- Joe Luceri, Chief Development Officer, Schweiger Dermatology Group
- Ed Spaniel, legal and corporate development lead at SDI Health (sold to IQVIA in 2011) and SICOM Systems (sold to Global Payments in 2018)
Here’s what Jesse, Joe and Ed shared about how to develop an M&A strategy, who should be involved and what to do when faced with an opportunity that doesn’t align.
Jesse Gray: Develop an M&A strategy by asking yourself 3 key questions
The development of an M&A strategy should always start with three key questions: What is the value creation thesis of your company? How does the target make you, the buyer, better? How do you make the target better?
Know what strategic outcomes you ultimately want from engaging in M&A and consider the implications for both the buyer and seller. Is your goal to enter a new end market? Are you purchasing customers or contacts to geographically expand? To stay focused, always come back to how you answered the first three questions as you consider opportunities.
I am a firm believer in total organizational buy-in when creating an M&A strategy. Executive level management should define the strategy, but people in each department impacted by acquisitions should have input. Keeping teammates abreast of the strategy and development, while gaining their enthusiasm and engagement early will serve the organization well in the long run.
When you encounter an opportunity that does not align perfectly with your original strategy, return to these key questions that defined it. Markets and businesses change, and it is okay to adapt accordingly, if still making the company better and more valuable. Veer, yes, but veer with a thoughtfully revised strategy.
What is the value creation thesis of your company? How does the target make you better? How do you make the target better?
Joe Luceri: Stay the course and focus on the value drivers
Developing an M&A strategy requires knowing what makes your business successful now and what acquisitions can add to make the business even better in the future. It will help you clearly define the value proposition for both the buyer and the seller, as well as the value drivers that should guide acquisition decisions.
Leadership, investors and the board must be aligned on these fundamentals. The biggest mistakes happen when you don’t adhere to your fundamentals. Stick to what you believe are your core values, stay in market, don’t take on too much risk or stray too far from your strengths. Also make sure you consider the stress factors on your business to buy and integrate another company. Your organization must be ready to handle it while at the same time giving employees the support they need to get their primary jobs done.
In healthcare services, you want to make sure there is available capacity to facilitate growth and/or a captive market for ancillary services. Most often you’re buying the producer (the physician) so alignment with his or her personal goals is absolutely critical.
From time to time, things come your way that are more opportunistic. Ask yourself, is the downside risk significantly less than the realistic upside opportunity? Are the seller’s goals aligned with what you want to do? Look at the fit. Will integration require a fundamental change in either business? The answers are rarely black and white but unless you can go back to the initial exercise and clearly articulate the value drivers, stay on course with your original strategy.
Stick to your core values, stay in market, don’t take on too much risk or stray too far from your strengths.
Ed Spaniel: Align an M&A strategy to the growth story you want to tell
I look at M&A strategy development similarly to Jesse and Joe, but from my perspective these are the key considerations when defining strategy: What is your vision for where you want the business to go? How will acquisitions affect the growth story you want to tell? and Is the inorganic value you’re adding something you definitely want to buy (vs. build or partner)?
The more team members you get buy-in from on the macro points of your M&A strategy, the better. Engage a broad group – business development, operations, sales, R&D, financial, legal and your Board – in the early days. By example, lawyers are frequently not brought in until a letter of intent is negotiated, but a legal perspective on deal structure from the outset helps maximize value and avoid headaches later. Similarly, understanding your R&D team’s view of the desired technology platform is key to defining M&A focus. Of course, discretion may limit this group with respect to individual opportunities, but make sure you have alignment on overall strategy from your stakeholders.
Thoughtful development of an M&A strategy should tell you as much about the businesses you should not pursue as those you should. The challenge is to stay true to your strategic direction, not allowing yourself to be distracted by acquisitions that don’t keep you on the story line you want to tell 3-5 years out. People often make mistakes here. Let go of the pursuit of good assets if they aren’t a good fit. All the work (hours and more hours!) you do to meet and evaluate companies, only to walk way, is not wasted. It’s part of staying true to the thesis and testing and achieving your long-term vision for the business.
A legal perspective on deal structure from the outset helps maximize value and avoid headaches later.
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Everyone talks about competency for seafarers. What about self-confidence, without which knowledge and skills are for naught?
Not believing in one’s self and one’s abilities can be a problem especially for Third World ship officers and crews. Many are too diffident to assert their rights, and they often display a slavish attitude towards foreign senior officers. But even those who seem so sure of themselves may see their self-confidence eroded in the face of danger or extreme difficulties.
Our doubts are traitors
And makes us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (about 1603–04)
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings (1854)
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.
— Marie Curie, as quoted in Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie; translated by Vincent Sheean (1938)
Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being.
— Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Self-Reliance (1841)
Life for both sexes—and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement— is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (1935)
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others… So much more respect have we to what our neighbors shall think of us than to what we shall think of ourselves.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antonius; translated by George Long (1876)
When you see a man of worth, think how to rise to his level. When you see an unworthy man, then look within and examine yourself.
— Confucius, The Analects of Confucius by William Edward Soothill (1910)
When I look around, I always learn something: to be always yourself, and to express yourself, to have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.
— Bruce Lee, radio interview with Ted Thomas (1972)
Walk free from the long shadows cast by small people.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer’s Year – Fennel’s Journal – No. 3 (2008, 2017)
Those who spread their sails in the right way to the winds of the earth will always find themselves borne by a current towards the open seas. The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend. So, gradually, the worker no longer belongs to himself. Little by little the great breath of the universe has insinuated itself into him through the fissure of his humble but faithful action, has broadened him, raised him up, borne him on.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Divine Milieu: An Essay on the Interior Life; with Preface by Bernard Hall, General Editor of the Works of Teilhard de Chardin (2010) | <urn:uuid:3e04c201-e7e7-4545-aae3-12bf202c1ba5> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://marine-cafe.com/author/barista-uno/ | 2022-12-07T10:56:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711151.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20221207085208-20221207115208-00412.warc.gz | en | 0.961687 | 900 |
Congrats to Novak Djokovic fans. The Serbian played two sets of the best tennis he’s after played on clay defeating his rival Rafael Nadal 46, 63, 63 in the Rome Masters 1000 final.
Djokovic, who dealt with some doubt after injuring his right wrist early last month, now goes into the French Open full of confidence as he seeks his first title there and with it the completion of a career Grand Slam.
“It’s been a great week considering where I’ve been a few weeks ago with the wrist injury,” Djokovic said. “Luckily for me, I played with no pain and increased the level of tennis as the week went on. I’ve had some tough matches. Four out of five matches were three-setters and I had to come back from one set down yesterday against Raonic and today again. That gives me a lot of confidence. Winning against Rafa in the final of a big tournament on clay, his preferred surface, is definitely a confidence booster.”
In the interview below Djokovic added that he dedicated the win to his country which was hit by severe flooding this week.
Djokovic has now defeated Nadal in their last four meetings, winning eight of nine sets. The victory was also his first with new coach Boris Becker in attendance.
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INSIDE YOUR PACKAGE YOU WILL FIND:
- Boatrax Brain
- GPS Antenna (Yellow Dot)
- Cellular Antenna (Green Dot)
- Reset Tool
- Boatrax Sensor Array
YOU MIGHT NEED, IF NOT ALREADY OWN
- NMEA 2000 Drop Cable
- NMEA 2000 Tee Connector
- NMEA 2000 Terminator
- NMEA 2000 Power Cable
*Quantity of parts will depending on your boats already existing rigging
ASSEMBLING YOUR DEVICE
- Find the antenna with the green dot and attach it to the connection with the green dot on the box.
- Find the antenna with the yellow dot and attach it to the connection with the yellow dot on the box.
- Connect the power cable if you wish to hardwire device to battery so it is ALWAYS ON.
- Wire any on/off digital systems you wish to monitor to the Boatrax Sensor Array.
- Plug the Boatrax Brain to your NMEA 2000 Network.
WARNING: MAKE SURE DEVICE IS NOT POWERED ON UNTIL ALL CONNECTIONS ARE MADE. LAST CONNECTION TO BE MADE SHOULD BE CONNECTING DEVICE TO BATTERY POWER.
We recommend you use a NMEA Certified Marine electrician to perform installation.
There are two different ways to power your Boatrax Brain:
The Boatrax Brain is Powered directly by the NMEA Network
If your boat is rigged with NMEA 2000 find your NMEA Backbone, add a Tee connector to extend it and connect a NMEA Drop cable from the Boatrax Brain to the new Tee Connector. The Boatrax Brain will be powered by the NMEA Network whenever the Network is on (typically with the rest of your electronics). Alternatively, if you want the Boatrax Brain to be ALWAYS On then extend your NMEA network with a Power Isolator and wire that part of the Network to a 24/7 Power source (12V - 24V) similar to the diagram below.
NOTE: the N2K Power Isolator is used to ensure sources that could power the bus are separated properly in the N2K network.
Find you Tag # in the back on your device, you will need that tag number in order to register it online.
After you have installed the device open your Boatrax App and follow the instructions to create your boat's profile and to activate your device.
When finished, use the reset tool found in your packaging and click the reset button on your Boatrax Box. Wait for the Red Power light to make sure that the device is on. After a couple of minutes, the Green Light should turn on to indicate cellular connectivity. Make sure to check that your device shows connection in the mobile or web app. | <urn:uuid:48a097cd-2e41-493f-be0b-d7e9a970d0ba> | CC-MAIN-2024-10 | https://boatrax.com/pages/installation | 2024-02-21T12:04:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2024-10/segments/1707947473472.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20240221102433-20240221132433-00044.warc.gz | en | 0.812942 | 591 |
For Investors with Ambitions to Lead on Climate Action Post COP26
In the weeks following COP26, investors in the UK and worldwide face a myriad of upcoming climate-related regulations heading towards the implementation phase. In addition, major global coalitions such as the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero have sprung up to attempt to accelerate decarbonization via targeted investment.
COP 26: A Spotlight on Emerging Climate Action Themes for Investors
Reactions to the COP26 Conference and the resulting Glasgow Climate Pact have predictably run the gamut from claims of greenwashing to the celebration of progress in the fight against climate change. Ultimately, any judgement on COP26 may be premature, as the success of the conference will best be measured in time by the extent to which commitments made are put into motion. While we wait to see the concrete actions that materialize, the past two weeks have underscored the importance of several themes that will garner increasing attention and should be considered by sustainable investors.
Momentum Around Principal Adverse Impact Data Remains Strong Despite SFDR Delays
Despite the shifting timelines, we observe that the market momentum around PAIs is not diminishing, quite the contrary. Investors in the scope of the regulation are using the fourth quarter of this year to get acquainted with PAI data and set up their systems. Most investors we speak with want to be prepared in time to be able to monitor PAIs throughout 2022 and adjust their portfolios to boost their PAIs (or rather limit the downside, as these are adverse impact indicators). This means that PAIs may significantly impact stock selection and portfolio construction by fund managers keen to have ‘good’ PAI scores.
SFDR and EU Taxonomy Product Disclosure Rules Finally Released
The publication of these rules marks the end of a prolonged period of uncertainty in the market around final rules and timelines - assuming the RTS will be adopted as-is in a Delegated Act, which turns these rules into regulation. There are several noteworthy aspects to these rules, which we address from our perspective in this article.
ESG Risks of Aging Pipelines for U.S. Energy Infrastructure Investors
Pipelines play a critical role in the U.S energy infrastructure transporting natural gas, crude oil, natural gas liquids, petroleum, and petrochemical products. While these pipelines play a vital role in supporting the U.S economy, investors are increasingly scrutinizing pipeline operators' long-term economic profitability and sustainability practices. A closer look into the status of pipelines reveals a particular issue that investors need to consider.
Delays, Questions and Confusion: Updates on the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation
In this blog, we look at the delay of the level 2 regulation, some aspects of the Q&A, and the ongoing confusion and divergence around SFDR. We pay special attention to the potential impact of the Principle Adverse Impact indicators, an element of SFDR.
EU Taxonomy Developments and the EU’s Renewed Sustainable Finance Strategy
On July 6th, the European Commission published its Strategy for Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Economy, the successor of the EU’s Sustainable Finance Action Plan, which launched in 2018. The strategy focuses on transforming the financial system and financing transition plans, building on the 2018 Action Plan, which centered on developing the EU Taxonomy, putting in place disclosure regimes, and developing tools for the market to develop sustainable investment solutions and prevent greenwashing.
The Mutual Influence of Investors and Government
On issues from voting rights to climate change, the relationship between investors, companies, and governments has never been more dynamic. This has spurred a lively discussion about the impact and appropriate role of these actors in addressing systemic environmental and social issues. An increasingly cited view is that commitments made by businesses and investors are often superficial, and at best, can provide only incremental progress towards addressing the problems we face. Some go further to suggest that sustainable investing has done more harm than good, with the notion that these efforts have provided a false sense of progress and have delayed meaningful government action. This is a worthwhile debate, but my experience over the last eight years in the sustainable investing space has given me a very different perspective.
Sustainalytics Weighs in on EU Taxonomy’s State of Flux
On May 7th, the European Commission published draft rules on how corporates and financial institutions should report on their alignment with the EU Taxonomy. The draft rules are laid out in a very technical document and not an easy read. This might explain why certain changes with significant impact on timelines and scope of the EU Taxonomy Regulation have flown under the radar of media and investors. Some of the impacts even escaped the attention of financial market participants responding to the consultation on the rules.
La pertinence des labels ISR dans le contexte de la SFDR et des mesures de l’AMF contre le greenwashing
Une marée de réglementations liées à l’ESG s’abat sur les investisseurs institutionnels. Avec l’introduction de SFDR et les obligations de publication mises en place par l’AMF, se pose la question d’une possible obsolescence des labels ISR dans la lutte contre le greenwashing. Un phénomène qui inquiète de plus en plus les investisseurs et les régulateurs au vue de la croissance constante du marché des fond ISR. Pendant de nombreuses années, l’industrie s’est auto-régulée en s’accordant sur une définition générale de l’investissement responsable et/ou en se tournant vers les opérateurs de labels pour créer des standards de marché.
Royal Dutch Shell Court Order Shifts Paradigm for Corporate ESG Accountability
On 26 May 2021, the Court of The Hague orders Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) to reduce CO2 emissions to a net 45% by the end of 2030 compared to 2019 through the Group Policy of the Shell Group. The order of a national (Dutch) court demands that a global company (RDS) fulfills its obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement, although RDS was not a party in that agreement, and there is no legal equivalent in The Netherlands. What are the broader consequences of this order, also globally and for other companies and potentially also other jurisdictions?
New Draft Disclosure Rules Change Timelines and Scope of EU Taxonomy
In recent months, a lot has been said and written about the EU Taxonomy, the green classification system of economic activities that aims to drive capital flows to sustainable investments supporting the EU’s policy goals on climate and the environment. Political, corporate, and civil society lobbying reached its peak when the EU published draft rules last December, which deviated substantially from expert recommendations. However, the latest draft delegated act with rules on Taxonomy reporting published by the European Commission on May 7th has received far less attention even though some of the proposed changes affect the practical implementation timelines as well as the scope and ambition of the regulation.
Les points communs entre la réglementation française et européenne en matière d’ISR
Quand les nouvelles réglementations sur les investissements durables et responsables (ISR) furent annoncées avec le « EU Action Plan », les institutionnels français n'ont pas cillé. Depuis l'accord de Paris en 2015, de nombreuses nouvelles obligations réglementaires liées à la publication d’information et à l’analyse ESG ont influencé les stratégies d’investissements responsables des institutionnels français. Le règlement SFDR qui est entré en vigueur le 10 mars dernier vient s’ajouter au cadre réglementaire local en matière de reporting.
EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation: An Update
Update - 3 March, 2021: To help investors comply with the new requirements of the SFDR, Sustainalytics launched the PAI Data Solution that maps our research to the 60 indicators defined by the regulator. This new dataset will enable investors to consider the PAIs in their investment decisions as well as supporting disclosure requirements. Visit our website to learn how we can help with you SFDR compliance journey.
Climate Action, Human Health and Responsible Investing
This year, we mark Earth Day under a pandemic. To date, casualties of the novel coronavirus include more than 170,000 deaths, ongoing disruptions to healthcare systems and a deep economic downturn. As we face the first global recession in a decade, Earth Day – the theme of which this year is climate action – serves as a reminder for investors to reflect on how their investment activities relate to social and environmental health concerns.
German Corporate Governance Standards Overhauled
The legal and regulatory foundations of Germany’s corporate governance system are being overhauled in the form of far-reaching changes to the German Stock Corporations Act (AktG) and the German Corporate Governance Code (Kodex). As a result, institutional investors should expect enhanced transparency from German issuers, as well as stronger rights enabling them to effectively exercise their stewardship responsibilities. The reform reflects both the transposition of the EU Shareholder Rights Directive II (SRD II) into domestic law and a corresponding Kodex revamp, both aiming to incorporate governance features that are more typically associated with Anglophone jurisdictions.
PFAS Sparks a Wave of Litigation in the U.S. Chemical Industry
In 2019, a wave of litigation related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) emerged in the United States, as several states filed lawsuits against PFAS manufacturers, including DuPont, Chemours and 3M. This legal action accompanies increased regulatory scrutiny of this potentially risky class of chemicals. In this article, we will focus on the risks chemical companies face related to PFAS contamination of drinking water in the United States and the ESG risks posed to chemical companies and their investors.
Shareholder Rights Directive II gets transposed into local legislation - a look at say on pay
The newly updated European Shareholder Rights Directive (“SRD II”) (2017/828/EU) aims to promote long-term shareholder engagement at companies listed in EU-regulated markets. These changes were prompted by an almost decade-long conversation that arose in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. Since then, many market actors have flagged shareholder short-termism as a key contributor to the crisis, with long-term engagement conversely seen as a bulwark against similar failures in the future.
Controversial Weapons: Regulatory Landscape and Best Practices
Since the beginning of modern warfare in the 20th century, we have witnessed the development of weapon types that have a severe, disproportionate and indiscriminate impact on civilians, even years after a conflict has ended. Over the past decades, several protest movements have attempted to halt and ban the production of specific, controversial weapon types, and many countries have adopted international conventions to this effect. More recently, some financial institutions have begun to restrict or exclude financing of companies with involvement in certain weapons. This article explores what investors can do, beyond existing legal frameworks, with respect to controversial weapons. | <urn:uuid:49b3958d-9e2e-4044-821c-ddc56dd48706> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.sustainalytics.com/esg-research/-in-category/categories/insights-for-investors/esg-topics/governance/regulation/2 | 2023-09-30T13:08:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233510676.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20230930113949-20230930143949-00489.warc.gz | en | 0.864205 | 2,372 |
Day 01 – Arrival Tokyo
Welcome to Tokyo & Japan! After your immigration and custom formalities are complete, you will be met by your English Speaking Guide and transfer to your first night’s accommodation in this vibrant city.
Day 02 – Tokyo – Hiroshima
Transfer from Tokyo to Hiroshima by a Bullet train that can clock close to 300km/per hour. Once in Hiroshima you will be taken to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and see the effects the A-bomb had on this relatively small and gentle City.
Day 03 - Hiroshima
Today’s itinerary includes a Half Day Sightseeing tour of Miyajima and you get there by a short Ferry ride. You will surely be mesmerized by Itsukushima Shrine with its Large and bright orange Torii gate floating on the sea. Also don’t miss the Five-storied Pagoda.
Day 04 – Hiroshima – Kyoto
After 2 days in Hiroshima, you will next travel to Kyoto which was once the Capitol of Japan. After arrival enjoy Kiyomizu Temple, a 1300 year old Shrine which boasts to be the roots of religion in Japan. You will also visit Nijo Castle, and also stroll the most Japanese of Japanese streets at Ninen-zaka & Sannen-zaka.
Day 05 – Kyoto
From Kyoto, Nara is only one hour away, and here you will be fascinated with the history and the shear size of one of the largest bronze statues in the World (Todai-ji Temple). Also visit, Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara Dear park and Kofuku-ji Temple before returning to Kyoto.
Day 06 – Kyoto
Compare the differences of Kyoto and Osaka, the second largest City in Japan. The lifestyle and the tempo of this city is often noted as more relaxed than other areas. Even the Japanese dialect is slightly different in Osaka as is the food and fashion. Visit the Osaka Castle, Observation deck of Umeda Sky Building and Dotonbori Canal Area, an area of total fusion.
Day 07 – Kyoto
Enjoy a full day in Kyoto visiting Kinkaku-ji Temple ( Golden Pavilion), Ryoan-ji Temple with its rock garden Heian Shrine, and then head to central Kyoto and stroll Nishiki-koji Food Market. (If you Have been to Japan before, there are many other options to suit your needs such as Traditional Tea ceremony, Japanese Rice-Wine museum, or the location where Geisha still continue to work today)
Day 08 – Kyoto – Hakone
Transfer to Hakone from Kyoto by a Bullet Train. Once in Hakone, a gentle cruise on Lake Ashi, visit Hakone Shrine and also take the Mt. Komagatake Ropeway. It is here were you have the chance to see the most famous mountain of Japan, MT Fuji in the not so far distance.
Day 09 – Hakone – Tokyo
From Hakone it is a short distance back to Tokyo and upon arrival, visit the Imperial Palace Plaza and stroll through the most popular Ginza shopping district. After Sightseeing is complete, you will transfer to you accommodation and your last night in Japan can be spent at your leisure.
Day 10 – Departure Tokyo
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The 3 types of terror: The Gross-out, The Horror, and the last and worse one: Terror, when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you, you hear it, you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around, there’s nothing there…
~ Stephen King
Happy Halloween, darlings!
You know what I could go for right now? Right this minute? Yes, yes, of course it’s a scary movie. But not just any scary movie. I don’t want to see Frankenstein’s monster or Dracula’s fangs. At this point, the thought of a lumbering Mummy or a howling Wolfman is inducing nothing more than a few yawns.
I don’t want anything classic or black and white. And nothing typical. I want unusual. Creepy. Campy. Cult. With a nice balance of blood, fear, suspense and surprise. And lots of glorious colour!
It’s not that I don’t normally like all those old-time monster movies. I do! But this Halloween, I just feel like something else.
It’s a tall order to find what I’m craving. But fortunately, I’m a bit of an amateur expert on films that just so happen to fill this bill. I mean, when I say I DON’T like a horror film? It’s been suggested that it must have been “insufficiently trashy”. And I do have a penchant for certain, er, “questionable” films like “Chopper Chicks in Zombietown“, “Werewolves on Wheels” and “The Confessional“. But pfft. Whatever. What do YOU know, pal? ;)
Anyone who’s read last year’s Halloween posts, “The Art of Fear” and “Dracula: The Hammer Years: Boobs, Blood & Bondage“, knows what an unabashed fan I am of the British masters of horror, Hammer Films.
I’m sure everyone has seen a Hammer film at some time in their life. But I’m willing to bet that some of the films you attribute to Hammer, actually aren’t.
Also producing those deliciously diabolical technicolour thrillers during the 1960s and ’70s was the lesser-known but no less talented Amicus Productions. It’s very easy to mistake the two, as their films were incredibly similar, both in visual stylings and in subject matter. Further adding to movie misattributions? British stars synonymous with horror such as Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and Ingrid Pitt can be found spooking and scaring in films produced by both companies.
Both Hammer and Amicus put out some killer (pun definitely intended!) content, though. So why isn’t the Amicus name as well-known as Hammer? The most obvious explanation is simply lack of output. Amicus has a very modest filmography. Between 1960 and 1977, Amicus Productions produced only 30 films.* By contrast, Hammer’s productivity was much more prolific, racking up nearly a hundred films in the same 17-year period.
While Amicus began its life in 1960, Hammer had been around since the 1930s. The birth of Hammer in the horror genre was in 1955 with “The Quatermass Xperiment”, an adaptation of a television sci-fi serial. In 1957 came “The Curse of Frankenstein” (the film credited with resurrecting the horror genre), and Hammer consistently turned out what would become some of the best horror films of the ’60s and ’70s.
So for Halloween, I’ve selected 5 of what I consider to be the best mid-century horror films: Two from Hammer, two from Amicus, and one of THE scariest films I’ve ever seen. It’s by neither company, but it’s a great example of a film that LOOKS like a Hammer yet isn’t. And for once, I’m not going to give away the endings. You’ll have to watch each film and see for yourself. Mwahahahahaha!
Tonight is the perfect time to curl up on the couch with a slice of pizza and a blanket. So what if there are droves of snot-nosed, costumed children banging on your door panhandling for candy. Pft. Whatever. You paid for the candy, so you should just eat it yourself. If you ignore them, I’m sure they’ll go away.
So bolt the door, pull down the shades, and turn out the lights. Because now the screaming starts.
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“The Devil Rides Out “
Hammer Films, 1968
Released in the US under the alternate title “The Devil’s Bride”, “The Devil Rides Out” is not only my favourite Hammer film (and arguably their best), it’s also one of my favourite movies, period.
It stars Christopher Lee as the film’s protagonist, Nicholas, the Duc de Richleau — a rare “good guy” role for Lee, who we all know much better as the blood-sucking Count Dracula in seven of Hammer’s Dracula films.
Nicholas and Rex Van Ryn (Leon Greene) are concerned about their young friend Simon (Patrick Mower). He’s become distant, and when he misses a meeting with them, they show up at his door. They arrive to a house full of people, and Simon is surprised and not exactly pleased to see them. He claims it’s a meeting of his astronomical society, but things are not all they appear to be. Nicholas is immediately suspicious and discovers that Simon is about to be baptised into a group of devil worshippers.
Simon and his friend Tanith Carlisle are saved by the Duc and Rex, but the evil Satanic cult leader, Mocata (Charles Gray), who preys on their fears and weaknesses, is determined to get them back.
A personal Hammer favourite of Christopher Lee’s, the screenplay was written by TZ veteran Richard Matheson, directed by Terrence Fisher, and is an adaptation of a novel by Dennis Wheatley. The film adopts a much more serious approach to the occult than other similar films of the time, and I love the blatant Christian overtones.
With the help of Nicholas’s niece and her husband, can Simon’s and Tanith’s souls be saved? Will they be lost to the devil forever? Or will they all become victims of Mocata, the Goat of Mendes, and the Angel of Death?
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“The Plague of the Zombies”
Hammer Films, 1966
1966 was a great year. “Dark Shadows” premiered, as did my beloved Adam West “Batman” series, and the original “Star Trek“. My best friend was born, and The Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Summer in the City” was on the radio.
It was also a great year for films. On January 9, 1966, Hammer Films released two of their best: “Dracula, Prince of Darkness”, and another favourite of mine, “The Plague of the Zombies”.
This isn’t your typical zombie film as you’ll see as it progresses. And while I’m a big fan, I do wish the script had allowed for a few more frights. But as far as how the zombies look? “The Walking Dead” walkers have nothing on these frightening white-eyed corpses. If there were ever a zombie that could scare me? It’d be one of these guys.
Dr. Peter Tompson (Brook Williams) is at his wits end. A mysterious plague is sweeping through his village, leaving a string of dead bodies in its wake. But with the villagers refusing him permission to perform autopsies, he has no idea what’s causing the deaths. Frustrated, he writes to his friend and former teacher, Sir James Forbes (Andre Morell — Doctor Watson in Hammer’s “Hound of the Baskervilles”). Sir James and his daughter, Sylvia (Diane Clare), arrive in the superstitious Cornish town in the midst of a funeral. When the coffin is accidentally dropped, the two catch a shocking glimpse of the corpse inside.
Eager for answers, Sir James and Dr. Tompson promptly set out to rob the grave of the newly-dead man. They get caught by the police, but not before they open the coffin and find it… empty.
Meanwhile, Sylvia, has just witnessed her friend Alice’s (Jacqueline Pearce) murder. She followed Alice to an old tin mine, abandoned after a string of bad luck, accidents, and deaths. The villagers believe it to be haunted. She recognizes the man who kills Alice… it’s the man from the coffin.
Black magic, voodoo dolls in little coffins, human blood, bringing the dead back to life. Someone in the village is practicing witchcraft. But who, and to what end? And what’s really going on at the haunted mine? Perhaps it isn’t quite so abandoned after all.
The film boasts an impressively scary graveyard rising scene. Hands and bodies emerging from mounds of earth, white-eyed, open-mouthed and lumbering around menacingly. I wish there was more of that here, but the film has a good plot, plenty of atmosphere, and as usual, Hammer has some really great visual appeal.
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Benmar Productions and Granada Films, 1972
This is by far one of the scariest films I’ve ever seen. It has great pops of surprise woven into the subtly scary atmosphere. Starring both Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, this is a film that at first glance might scream “Hammer”. But it’s not.
Also known by the title, “Panic in the Trans-Siberian Train”, the two production companies responsible for this cinematic scare-fest are Benmar Productions and Granada Films.
Twilight Zone fans will recognize Terry Savalas (Captain Kazan) from the classic episode “Living Doll”, where his character Erich Streator meets a grisly end at the hands of, yes, a creepy doll.
Aboard the Trans-Siberian train is Professor Alexander Saxton (Lee). He’s returning home from an expedition in the Himalayas. But he’s not alone. He believes he’s found the “Missing Link” — a frozen ape-like caveman creature which he has stowed away in a crate. But something frightening is happening aboard this train of terror. People are being murdered, and all the corpses are discovered bleeding from the eyes — eyes which have turned completely white.
It’s soon discovered that Saxton’s creature has come to life. I don’t need some fancy CGI freak show monster to scare me. Not when we have this terrifying red-eyed, primitive ape-creature running around a spooky train in the night, draining people of all their knowledge and memories.
Oh, and if that’s not scary enough for you? The creature can also transfer its life force into other people, turning THEM into red-eyed, blood-thirsty monsters.
Can Saxton and his colleague Dr. Wells (Peter Cushing) stop the creature before it kills everyone on the train and escapes back into the world? This is 90 minutes of frightening suspense, and one of my absolute favourite films.
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“And Now the Screaming Starts”
Amicus Productions, 1973
Now this is a great period piece. It stars my favourite, Peter Cushing (Dr. Pope), and Stephanie Beacham (Catherine Fengriffen) — a fantastic actress who played opposite Cushing and Christopher Lee in the film “Dracula A.D. 1972” as Cushing’s granddaughter, Jessica Van Helsing. She’s also the star of the aforementioned D-grade film “The Confessional”.
The year is 1795, and young Catherine (Beacham) becomes the victim of rape on her wedding night. The perpetrator, however, is no ordinary man. He’s a ghost. And a very creepy one. She’s haunted by this ghostly specter, who has no eyes and is missing a hand. The Addams Family showed us that a disembodied hand running around can be quite fun. But the one in this film is anything but benevolent. As the movie tagline says, “The dead hand that crawls, kills and lives!!!” With three exclamation points, you know they mean business.
When it’s discovered that she’s pregnant, the news brings a kind of widespread dread to the house and any associates of the family. Her husband, Charles Fengriffen, (Ian Ogilvy) is keeping a deep, dark secret from her. A secret that means death for anyone who tries to warn her of it.
Just who is the mysterious woodsman, Silas, who lives on the grounds and comes lurking around the house? A man who sports the very same tell-tale birthmark on his face as the ghost who pursues Catherine. What is his connection to Charles’s grandfather, Henry Fengriffen (Herbert Lom), a debaucherous and cruel man, who seems to be the origin of this family legend? Who is the father of Catherine’s baby, and what will this mysterious curse mean for the Fengriffens?
This is Amicus at its best. The film is suspenseful, not overly gory or graphic, and the story holds your attention remarkably well for its entire 90 minute running time, despite the fact that we don’t learn what the legend is until the film is nearly over.
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“The House That Dripped Blood”
Amicus Productions, 1971
Amicus produced a number of portmanteau films, including the star-studded “The House That Dripped Blood”. This type of film is made up of a number of short stories, all of them tied together by a major overlying plot. The major plot point in this film is a haunted house. Each story segment tells the tale of the different occupants the house has had, and the crimes committed there. Scotland Yard inspector Holloway (John Bennett) and police sergeant Martin (John Malcolm) provide the film’s narrative, discussing the strange happenings of this peculiar house. Eventually they’re joined by the house’s relator, the aptly named Mr. Stoker (John Bryans).
In the first segment, “Method for Murder”, Charles Hillyer (Denholm Elliott) is a writer of horror. Murder, to be exact. Gruesome, bloody murder. To cure his writer’s block, Charles and his wife Alice (Joanna Dunham) move into a large mansion in the country. Immediately, Charles is inspired to write a new story. The villain is Dominick: an escaped asylum patient whose preferred method of murder is strangling. The more Charles writes, the more real Dominick becomes. Until finally, he begins actually SEEING his character roaming around the house and grounds. And then one night he sees Dominick strangling Alice. He runs to her rescue only to be told that it was he himself who was choking her.
His psychiatrist, Dr. Andrews, tells him that an author’s characters are an extension of his own personality. And he believes that Dominick is simply a way to express negative feelings that Charles has repressed. But everyone, the doctor included, is about to find out how real Dominick truly is. This story has a delightfully diabolical twist at the end that you don’t want to miss.
Peter Cushing stars in the second segment, “Waxworks”, as the house’s newest tenant, reclusive retired stockbroker Philip Grayson. While not married, he does carry a photograph of a beautiful woman he once loved. One day Grayson wanders into “Jacqueline’s House of Horrors” wax museum, and is startled by the resemblance of one of the figures to his lost love. The creepy curator (Wolfe Morris) explains that the figure of Salome was modelled after his wife. He goes on to tell Grayson a gruesome tale: that his wife, like the figure she’s portraying, was a murderess.
When Grayson’s old friend Neville Rogers (Joss Ackland) comes to visit, Neville insists they tour the wax museum. As it so happens, he too was in love with this mystery woman, and is drawn to her likeness. So much so, that he can’t leave town. Grayson rushes to the wax museum to save his friend, but is horrified by what he finds. How are these wax figures so realistic? We’re about to find out.
Christopher Lee plays John Reid in segment 3, “Sweets to the Sweet”. He is a rather cold, disinterested father to Jane (Chloe Franks), his young daughter. At least he seems to be. As soon as they move into the house, John hires a governess for Jane — Ann Norton (Nyree Dawn Porter). Ann soon realizes that Jane is a very lonely girl. No playmates, no toys. She buys Jane a doll, but John immediately takes it away. He insists that it’s for Jane’s own good, and that she’s not all she appears to be. And he’s right.
When Ann discovers Jane has been secretly reading about witchcraft, we all begin to see that she is anything but ordinary. Just what dangerous secret is John keeping about his daughter? The casting for this story is superb. Chloe Franks is the sweetest looking little girl imaginable. Considering there are few things more frightening than evil masquerading as innocence, she’s perfect in the role.
In the fourth and final segment, “The Cloak”, horror movie stars Paul Henderson (Jon Pertwee) and Carla Lind (the gorgeous Ingrid Pitt) are filming a movie, “Curse of the Bloodsuckers”. Frustrated by his wardrobe’s lack of vampiric authenticity, he buys an old cloak from a curious little costume shop, and the proprietor is only too anxious to be rid of it. Paul soon discovers that the cloak has certain… properties. When he puts it on, his reflection can’t be seen in a mirror. And during a scene, he’s so overcome by the cloak’s influence that he actually bites Carla. Then he grows fangs and levitates!
When Paul reads in the paper that the costume shop has burned down and in the cellar, the police discovered a coffin with a well-preserved yet very old body inside, he deduces that his cloak belonged to an actual vampire. But Carla has a secret of her own. What will happen when Carla takes the cloak and puts it on herself?
This story has a great little tongue-in-cheek poke at Hammer and Lee. While lamenting the cheap-looking set of his movie, Paul quips, “That’s what’s wrong with your present day horror films. There’s no realism. Not like the old ones, no. Great ones: Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera. Dracula. The one with Bela Lugosi, of course, not this new fella.”
Back at the police station, Stoker warns the inspector to stay away from the accursed and once again vacant house, but his curiosity piqued, he goes anyway. What horrors await the inspector? If only the walls of this house could talk. Then again, maybe they can. And maybe, just maybe, he’s not alone…
Just what is the appeal of Horror? In books or on film? Why do we enjoy being scared like this? I suppose we don’t really NEED a reason to like something. Whatever the case, I think deep down we all like the feeling of hairs standing on end. The mystery that comes from the unknown. Alfred Hitchcock said, “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” And he was right. The thrill comes not from the scare itself. It comes from knowing there will be a scare, but not knowing when. These films prove that you don’t need a lot of violence and gore to thrill and chill. What you need is something that’s enough of a departure to spark your imagination, but that’s rooted deeply enough in reality to truly scare you.
That’s the recipe for a perfect horror film.
Happy Halloween, darlings. Until next time, unpleasant dreams . . .
The shortest horror story: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
~ Frederic Brown
*The first Amicus film predates the name “Amicus” itself. Amicus Productions was founded by American Milton Subotsky (with his US based partner, Max J. Rosenberg) and in 1960, Subotsky produced “Horror Hotel” aka “City of the Dead”. This was before he settled on the name Amicus and the film is credited to Vulcan Films. | <urn:uuid:7f65a2fe-fe8b-4ff6-a957-0bd3f7329a35> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://wendylovesjesus.wordpress.com/2014/10/31/and-now-the-screaming-starts/ | 2020-01-29T01:49:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251783621.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129010251-20200129040251-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.945672 | 4,699 |
I read an interesting post by Scott Anthony on the Harvard Business Publishing site today called “Better through whose eyes?”
He makes the point that innovation needs to be seen through the customers lens. I couldn’t agree more, in fact if it isn’t adding value to the customer then in my view it is not innovation to begin with….
The second criteria should be whether the business can do it cost effectively, as an innvoation should add customer value but also add profitablity to the company.
Scott provided the example of the new feature on Bank of Amercia ATMs that allows customers to scan checks, he proposed the idea that it was really just saving BoA money and inconveniencing customers but it was interesting to see that the comments were fairly evenly split on this one with many actually believing it saved them time and was easy to use. So one could conclude that it was innovative for some customers but not others?
This leads to the question of segmentation and how to introduce new benefits that only some customers will value. Perhaps BoA could have provided the old method of banking checks as well as the new scanning method, watched customer behavior and phased out the older method over time? | <urn:uuid:2c79e338-a416-43ad-9191-913a690036e3> | CC-MAIN-2018-05 | https://blog.marketculture.com/2009/04/17/how-you-should-companies-innovate/ | 2018-01-18T16:11:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-05/segments/1516084887423.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20180118151122-20180118171122-00748.warc.gz | en | 0.974438 | 248 |
We provide Sikh and other minority women with access to information, employment training advocacy, support and a wide variety of other services. Sikh Sanjog also operates a community café (Punjabi Junction) and outside catering from Leith Walk.
“Sikh Sanjog believe working in partnership with other voluntary and statutory organisations is an effective means of enabling Sikh, and other ethnically and culturally diverse women and their families, to access integrated services and employment.
Services we provide:
“¢Training, personal development and employability facilitation
“¢Inclusive activities for children and accreditation based positive outcomes for young people
“¢Training and coaching in IT and computer use for everyday life
“¢Social and wellbeing support for young women from settled migrant communities, and others new to the community and those with young families
“¢Health and wellbeing activities for over 50’s women
“¢Advice and counselling via ‘drop in’ centre
“¢Proactive in reaching out to new members of the community who could benefit from these services
“¢Extension of the services to other ethnically and culturally diverse groups with similar needs
“¢Provision of specialist advice/consultation to statutory organisations e.g. Police, NHS, Social Services, Edinburgh Council”
Leith Walk Business Centre
130/12 Leith Walk | <urn:uuid:564dd78e-8520-4eaa-88a6-68feed2c3c69> | CC-MAIN-2018-34 | http://www.edinburghsocialenterprise.co.uk/business/sikh-sanjog/ | 2018-08-16T22:11:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-34/segments/1534221211185.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20180816211126-20180816231126-00703.warc.gz | en | 0.923928 | 290 |
Brique is distinguished by its pure lines which recall the Italian Rationalist furniture from the 40’s. A collection consisting of rectangular, round and oval tables, each item is made of veneered or lacquered multilayer wood, natural Ebony Macassar, or in the exclusive Ebony colored version, with either a matte lacquer or glossy polyester finish. The collection includes: dining tables and cabinets. Please inquire for size and finish customizations. Hand made in Italy.
Rectangular Rounded Shape:
94"L x 39"D x 31"H
122"L x 47"D x 31"H
63"Diam. x 31"H
Please inquire for custom sizes.
Top & Legs Wood: Oak (natural, stained or open pore lacquer), Thermo-treated Oak (light or dark), Glossy Polyester finish, Light Recomposed Ebony wood, Stained Recomposed Ebony(blue, red or green) matte finish or Stained Recomposed Ebony(blue, red or green) glossy polyester finish
Oak Wood Stains: Gold Oak, Cherrywood, Walnut, Noisette, Wenge, Grey, Brown or Black
Open Pore Lacquer: Traffic white, Jet black, Cream, Black brown, Stone grey, Reed green, Traffic red or Purple red
Please inquire for full list of available wood stains, RAL lacquer colors or custom finishes. | <urn:uuid:828b2b34-d3e1-4c6c-bb7b-76a1cf17ec53> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://propertyfurniture.com/product/brique-table/ | 2019-05-22T00:45:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256600.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522002845-20190522024845-00007.warc.gz | en | 0.782631 | 302 |
Happy Mothers Day to all the Mums who are celebrating their special day today.
I just had to join in this week at Totally Ladybug Tuesday where the challenge is Going Dotty.
I was one of the lucky ones to be chosen to win one of the gorgeous new stamps from the New Release Blog Hop.
During a bit of tidying up in my craft room I came across a handbag template that I had in a kit from Craftwork Cards and thought it would fit in perfectly with the new image.
So here it is
The base is made with Papermania Textured Pearl Cardstock which I then embossed with a dotty embossing folder.
The image is coloured with Promarkers and highlighted with Sakura Glitter Pen to add more dots to the bag.
The sentiment is from Paula Pascual - Punchable labels (just need to get the punch to with then now....heheheheeee)
Thanks again for stopping by. Another relaxing day in store for me ready for the week ahead.
The sun has come out now after some much needed rain.
Hugs Sally xxx
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