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Regular contributor Simon Hart takes us back to 1937 for today’s page and the coronation of George VI.
He begins a note to me in his inimitable style: ‘I remember my late Auntie Glad recalling the excitement felt in Portsmouth in 1937 for the coronation, especially as the events included a Spithead review.
‘Her earrings swung as her head moved during the recounting of this pleasant memory.’
Glad then presented Simon with an enamel pin badge she bought at the time as a souvenir. ‘It came from a shop in Fawcett Road,’ he recalls.
It will be 80 years in May since the current Queen’s father became king and Simon has dug out four coronation facts relating to Portsmouth:
n William Walton (1902-1983) composed the Crown Imperial march for the coronation. He also wrote the overture Portsmouth Point in the 1920s based on the Thomas Rowlandson painting
n Cosmo Gordon Lang was the Archbishop of Canterbury who crowned the king. His previous appointments included providing spiritual guidance in Portsea in the 1890s
n On May 22, 1937, the Coronation Review of the Fleet took place off Spithead. This was the culmination of the coronation celebrations
n Frank W Wood (1862-1953) described himself in 1907 as ‘naval artist, Portsmouth’. He painted the 1937 Spithead review, a work held in the Royal Collection. | <urn:uuid:ca6994d9-d49c-427e-bd1a-4c3b98925f11> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/heritage/portsmouth-links-to-coronation-of-queen-s-father-in-1937-1-7813207 | 2017-10-21T08:51:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187824675.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20171021081004-20171021101004-00396.warc.gz | en | 0.96102 | 306 |
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Alex is a legal assistant and has completed his Legal Practice Course achieving a distinction. His goal is to become a fully qualified lawyer, which is well advanced.
On his LPC route to Cardium Law, Alex has concentrated on litigation, business law, property, intellectual property, commercial law and corporate finance.
Previously Alex has worked for two central London law firms gaining work experience in a wide range of legal sectors that include professional negligence, commercial litigation, sports law, and property.
At Cardium Law, Alex is building on his knowledge and is providing support on high value complex litigation.
Over the last four years, Alex took some time away from the civil legal system to work with the Metropolitan Police and was involved in Emergency Response units, the Murder Team, and Community Safety.
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Stunning! This show-stopping Lemon Bottlebrush (pictured above) graces the entrance of the Mediterranean Conservatory at the ABQ Biopark’s Botanic Garden. What makes it even more of a thriller is that it’s a container plant. Imagine coming home to this each evening! The exotic blooms and vibrant foilage were welcomed nourishment to this cold-climate gardener’s soul.
Inhaling deeply, I drank in the scent around me. Heavenly days! The Conservatory was hosting Bulbs in Bloom. Raucous displays of a ranunculus, cyclamen, daffodils, and hyacinths poured out of pots and filled flower beds. I quickly drained the cup of coffee I held and tossed the empty cup so as to have both hands free for some serious photographing.
It was such an overwhelming sense of spring that I couldn’t pull myself from the entrance for over 20 minutes. While most of my enchantment came from the flowers, I also enjoyed the response of other patrons as they came through the doors. Mouths dropped. Arms opened wide. Large breaths were inhaled and then exhaled time and again. Retirees, worn-out moms, business folks, toddlers, and teenagers all exclaimed delightfully as they embraced spring.
I loved the double pots (photo on left), especially those with contrasting pink cyclamen. The dark and light shades of pink played off each other in a vibrant and fresh way. While some may be tulip and daffodil lovers, I have always been drawn to the charm and freshness of cyclamen. I wish their blooms would last just a bit longer. Theses springtime gems are here, then gone!
I saw another arrangement repeated throughout the conservatory that caught my attention. It was created of impatiens and succulents. I never thought of putting such different plants together.
The conservatory gardener agreed that these two plants normally wouldn’t tolerate each other well, but within the controlled conservatory environment she could manage their co-habitation because the impatiens are so hardy and can tolerate a little drought.
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In addition, it will greatly improve the chance that you receive the right repair the first time. At Christian Brothers Automotive Shawnee, we understand our loyal customers sometimes visit other Shawnee auto repair shops for their car service.
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Our ASE-certified technicians remove your engine’s dipstick to visually inspect the level and quality of the car’s fluids. The specialist uses this information to determine whether you need an oil change (or the replacement of another fluid).
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The spark plug is responsible for igniting the engine’s fuel/air mixture. This ignition powers the engine. However, when a spark plug has burned out, it will not properly ignite. Replacing your spark plugs saves money and increases fuel efficiency.
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When your battery leaks acid, corrosion forms and may cause battery failure. When the battery is corroded, it will not function properly and could leave you stuck with a dead engine. Regular battery checks will help prevent buildup.
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I know, you want a recipe. Believe me I am working on it. This week I have spent a lot of time brainstorming on new recipes to make for you guys. I did however take an extended break because it was my daughter’s birthday this week as well so I was focusing on that.
I have LOTS of healthy snacks that I rounded up for you over at Cupcakes and Kale Chips. Did you know I did these monthly on Brianne’s site? If you didn’t make sure you check out all of her Tasty Sweet Roundup!
Baked Apple Chips from The Bitter Side of Sweet
Quick and Healthy Snack Bites from Two Healthy Kitchens
After School Snack from Serendipity and Spice
Homemade Honey Granola from Cooking on the Front Burner
Apricot Coconut Energy Balls from Cupcakes and Kale Chips
For more Healthy Snacks head on over to Cupcakes and Kale Chips to view there rest of the list! Check below to enter the giveaway!
Welcome to #EatHealthy16 where over 30 bloggers are coming together to share recipes to help you start 2016 off on the right track with food that is nutritious and delicious. Brianne of Cupcakes & Kale Chips will have healthy snacks, Jamie of Love Bakes Good Cakes will have healthy meals, and Jenny of The Melrose Family will have healthy desserts, so make sure you follow the #EatHealthy16 hashtag throughout the month of January for tons of inspiration.
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Opening: 28.1.2020, 19.00
Exhibition: 29.1. – 22.2.2020
Roberta Segata’s photographic project features the storm known as ‘Vaia’ that struck on 29th October 2018, and its aftermath for the ‘Magnifica Comunità’ of Fiemme and much of the Eastern Alps. That day the face of our woodlands was changed, laid low by a wind travelling at nearly 200 kms per hour. It wrecked everything: the landscape and the lives of the inhabitants. We are here is a non-account of what happened. Thoughts hanging suspended: what is natural and what not? How does humanity dialogue with nature before and after the irreparable? What does it mean to take time out for things to sink in – when all around there is aggressive clamouring for a quick solution? Such is the expectation we’ve been living with. We still are.
One year on from the maelstrom, a host of trees lie flat, despite the community’s constant efforts to safeguard a valley economy based on wood. The magnitude of the event outstrips all possiblity of removing the casulties before nature decomposes them. But life is adjusting all by itself in the penumbra of the forest; the human impossiblity of tidying up the disaster is turning into an opportunity. And the community follows suit: the flattened forest poses a dramatic opportunity to rethink man’s relation with nature, the mountain economy, the future, the past. We are being forced to compare notes with our neighbours, reminded as we are that territorial confines are often political, and by no means so natural. They are a legacy from people who decided the way they did long, long before our time. Which saddles us with the responsibility for those who come after our day of action, and reap what we have sown.
We are here, as a concept and a project, stems from the joint labours of Roberta Segata, Virginia Sommadossi and Elisa Di Liberato, the minds behind Trentino Brand New, a project by Centrale Fies art work space featuring “stories in a minor key” and cultivating new images for the territory. In its first edition the exhibition was produced by the Cavalese Contemporary Art Museum and the Cavalese Municipality’s Cultural Office, curator Elio Vanzo (Director of the Contemporary Art Museum). | <urn:uuid:6601bfe4-877c-49d0-a5b3-c29ae20f85a2> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | http://foto-forum.it/exhibition-we-are-here-roberta-segata/?lang=en | 2020-01-23T14:56:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250610919.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20200123131001-20200123160001-00029.warc.gz | en | 0.957328 | 511 |
Review Road & Transportation Plans
Whether you are a home owner or a business owner, it’s important to know what is planned for the roads in your neighbourhood:
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The City of Regina uses sophisticated computer models to track current traffic patterns/volumes and predict future patterns/ volumes. This analysis allows the City to create strategic plans to ensure the safe and efficient movement of traffic in our growing city and to budget for these projects accordingly in its capital budgets.
Transportation Master Plan (TMP)
The City’s Transportation Master Plan is a long-term plan guiding all future transportation planning and investment in Regina over the next 25 years. It proposes a multi-modal transportation network where residents are provided with choices in how they move around the city including vehicle, transit and active modes such as walking and cycling. The Transportation Master Plan is a key component of the City’s Official Community Plan, Design Regina. Both plans will shape how we experience and live in our city. Developing both plans concurrently provided a solid foundation for the future. | <urn:uuid:efc0e345-01b4-4766-86fa-bc1c929f266e> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.regina.ca/residents/roads-traffic/road-traffic-plan/ | 2017-08-16T15:13:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102307.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170816144701-20170816164701-00244.warc.gz | en | 0.918815 | 275 |
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Belvedere Campomoro is located 17km south of Propriano, in South Corsica. This small fishing village, where you’ll taste charcuterie and Corsican brocciu, has retained all of its soul and authentic charm. The old town dominates the Gulf of Propriano and is home to a wide range of exceptional sights, like its 15th century tower that’s almost 15 metres high with breathtaking views, the house of poet Michel Lorenzi de Bradi, as well as some megaliths. Now doesn’t that make you feel like renting one of our holiday rentals in Belvedere Campomoro?
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If you can’t sit still, there are plenty of walks accessible all along the seafront on the coastal paths (for all ages and abilities). Head for the villages Grossa and Bilia, visit church San Giovanni dating from the 12th century and explore your surroundings in search of coves. The prehistoric site of Alo-Bisuje is also worth seeing, for its archaeological significance and the natural beauty which surrounds it.
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Did you know nearly 46% of all Google searches are seeking local information?
And, an incredible 88% of searches for local businesses on a mobile device either call or visit a listed business within 24 hours.
Due to the rise in voice search and better location tracking, local search is increasingly more convenient and helpful for potential clients to use for research. Therefore, no matter what type of business you have, local search results are vital to your success as a business now more than ever.
That’s especially true for recruiters who are often regionally focused. From Google My Business to mentions on other websites, there’s a lot recruiting agencies can do to improve their local search rankings with locally-focused marketing.
Recruiter directories provide an excellent stream of referral traffic, but they also can boost your visibility on Google’s first page. Here’s how listings in directories can get you that coveted position.
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Over 90% of all internet searches in the United States are done on Google. That means having a strong presence on local Google results is vital to any recruiting business’s success.
Local SEO works to get your recruiting firm to the top of local search results and Google Maps suggestions. If successful, you’ll be at the top of a list like this:
And when someone clicks on your business, they’ll see something like this that takes them right to your website and provides accurate contact information.
Local SEO means more inbound leads, without you having to publish anything on social media or pay for those expensive Google Ads.
And it all starts with an accurate and well maintained Google My Business (GMB) profile. Google established GMB profiles to help local businesses compete with the big chains when it comes to local search traffic and Google Maps suggestions.
By responding to reviews, posting statuses, pictures, and more, you can build your GMB profile to a point where it helps your local search rankings—but that’s just the beginning.
Google’s Three Factors
Google has established that three factors determine its local search results: relevance, distance, and prominence. So in order to improve your local search rankings, local SEO services focus on improving all three of these factors for your business.
Distance is just like it sounds. How far is your business from the location term in the search? The closer, the better. This matters for staffing firms that only have one location, but serve clientele nationwide.
Your local SEO rankings could be hurt by the lack of proximity of your business to the search in question. There’s not much you can do to fix that, other than improving the other two factors that determine local results.
Relevance is how well your listing matches a given search. For example, if you have a Chicago based executive search firm, you might rank better in local listings for “Chicago executive search agency” than just “Chicago staffing agency.”
Relevance can be enhanced in many ways; for example, you can add more specialized service pages that have targeted keywords that improve relevance for local search queries.
Prominence has to do with how well known a business is. According to Google, prominence is based on your firm’s “links, articles, and directories,” as well as your position in web results for similar queries.
For example, here’s a local search from Scottsdale, AZ, for the keyword “staffing agency near me.”
As you can see, Frontline Source Group has the top spot in the regular organic search results below, as well as the third spot in the local search results, despite being further away from the query than the competition.
That illustrates that in order to build prominence, you’re going to need an in-depth SEO strategy. Employing everything from maintaining accurate NAP (name, address, and phone number) citations to improving site speed and content marketing is vital if you want to rank in local search.
So, how does Local SEO work for recruiting firms? It improves all three of the factors Google says help local search rankings in order to bring more local traffic to recruiters’ websites.
Citations are online references to your business that include the all-important: NAP (NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER). The more citations your business has, the more chances you have of locking down customers.
Here’s an example of what a citation might look like.
This one is from the American Staffing Association, and as you can see, the business has the firm’s NAP, along with a Google Maps directions link, and a direct link to their site.
If you’re looking for general directories to list your business, try your local Chamber of Commerce or business associations. These organizations work to support local small businesses.
Beyond that, there are a variety of other directories your business might secure online citations including:
- Apple Maps
- Better Business Bureau
Citations are an easy way to improve your organic website traffic, bringing in more local customers. So don’t wait, get your NAP in as many directories as possible.
The best citations for recruiters come from recruiter specific directories. In particular, recruiting industry associations are some of the best spots to land a citation.
Recently more and more private directories have popped up and quickly become some of the most frequented and valuable spots for recruiters.
These include sites like Security Recruiter Online and the Online Recruiters’ Directory.
Still, the best example of a recruiter directory is the American Staffing Association (ASA). Employers will often go to a directory like the one at the American Staffing Association because they know all member agencies are legitimate, quality businesses.
When employers go to ASA’s site, they’ll find a page like this where they can search through ASA’s huge database to find qualified recruiters.
Just check out the results in the Scottdale, AZ area. You can see how valuable getting a spot here could be for your business.
Landing a position in these directories not only helps improve local search traffic but also builds brand awareness and improves your backlink profile.
Recruiter directories are one of the easiest and most inexpensive ways to get quality citations and improve your recruiting website’s local search rankings. And all you have to do is input your information and, at times, pay a small fee.
Here are the top 10 recruiter directories your firm should consider being a part of:
It all starts with the American Staffing Association (ASA). This is the largest and most well-known recruiter specific directory on the internet. It’s a members-only organization, but joining is worth it just for the chance to be given a citation on such a high domain authority site alone.
Recruiter.com runs the Recruiter Magazine, offers a number of recruiting services, and also has one of the largest directories for independent recruiters. This directory may not be for most recruiting firms, but if you’re an independent recruiter, it’s a great option.
The Association of Executive Search Consultants (AESC) provides education, insights, and training programs for executive recruiters. It’s a members-only organization, like the ASA, but its directory and the network it provides are invaluable for executive recruiters.
The Online Recruiter’s Directory is a great resource for hiring managers and job seekers. And that makes it ideal as a citation for recruiters. Applying to be a part of the directory is quick and painless.
With the rise of cybersecurity threats, data security recruiting has been booming. If you’re looking to take advantage of the trend, think of landing a citation in the Security Recruiter Online Directory.
The National Association of Personnel Services (NAPS) provides another member’s only directory for both independent recruiters and recruiting firms. NAPS is a great recruiter directory because it offers a keyword search function for potential employers instead of just a geographic search.
If you’re a recruiting firm or independent recruiter that specializes in marketing, there’s really only one option for recruiter directories. MarketingHire.com has the market cornered for this niche of recruiting.
Just like with MarketingHire.com, the Legal Recruiter Directory has taken the niche approach and boasts the largest legal only recruiter directory on the net.
The state of New Jersey, along with a few others, provide online recruiter directories as a part of their career services. This is a great spot to get a citation, free of charge—but of course, you have to operate in New Jersey.
Find a Recruiter is operated by Recruiters Online Network (RON). It’s a great place for both independent recruiters and firms to get listed. The site also has recruiters from Canada, Mexico, the UK, and a number of other countries.
Unlock the full scope of local SEO to compete with the staffing industry’s biggest players
Local SEO lets any sized business compete with the likes of Robert Half or Adecco. By appearing on Google’s first page when local clients search for staffing near them, you avoid needing a huge marketing budget to afford visibility through paid ads.
The fact is an astonishing 92% of searchers will pick businesses on the first page of local search results. If you want to tap into that business, you’ll need to strengthen local SEO through citations in recruiter directories and a powerfully optimized Google My Business profile.
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Reds v Bradford City
Sunday 12th October - 3pm
Danny Wilson’s side welcome Yorkshire rivals Bradford City to Oakwell on Sunday afternoon with the visitors looking to protect their unbeaten away league record in front of the TV cameras.
Success on the road has been the catalyst for the Bantams’ fine start to the season, with wins at Crawley, Rochdale and the MK Dons propelling Phil Parkinson’s outfit towards the League One play-off spots.
A four match unbeaten run in recent weeks has erased any memories of the back-to-back home defeats suffered at Valley Parade last month, with last weekend’s 2-0 triumph against Crewe their fifth victory of the campaign.
The Reds, meanwhile, will be looking to secure back-to-back league wins for the first time this season following Saturday’s narrow success across the Pennines at Rochdale.
If they are to do that, the Tykes will need to improve on their home form, having won just once at Oakwell in the league this term, with Crawley, the MK Dons and Swindon all leaving South Yorkshire with three points.
Johnstone’s Paint Trophy elimination on Tuesday night means the Reds have now only won one of their last six games in all competitions but following much improved performances this week Wilson’s side will be eager to pick up their fourth win of the campaign on Sunday.
Despite meeting 101 times, Barnsley and Bradford have not crossed paths since the 2005-06 season when they met a rare four times.
Both league clashes ended in goalless draws with the most recent coming in April 2006, but it was an entirely different story in the FA Cup as the Reds travelled to West Yorkshire for a replay following a 1-1 draw at Oakwell.
In complete contrast to those earlier league games, the tie went goal crazy with two extra time strikes from Barnsley midfielder Martin Devaney securing a 5-3 win for Andy Ritchie’s men.
That victory was the Tykes’ 35th success against the Bantams but their last home triumph against their Yorkshire rivals came back in April 1997, having failed to win in the last five meetings between the two sides at Oakwell.
The Reds will hopefully have winger Keith Treacy back at Oakwell this weekend as the Irishman returned home to marry his long-term girlfriend on Friday.
A deal between Treacy and Barnsley boss Wilson was struck in August when the former Republic of Ireland international signed for the Tykes from Burnley, but Treacy could feature this Sunday.
Ryan Williams should recover in time to fill the void left in midfield, after the Australian’s calves tightened up just 36 minutes into his Barnsley debut against Oldham on Tuesday night.
Devante Cole replaced the winger at SportsDirect.com Park and the on-loan Manchester City forward will be pushing for a recall to the starting XI on Sunday afternoon, as will defender Peter Ramage who nodded the winner in last weekend’s win at Rochdale.
Bradford boss Parkinson opted against recalling top goal scorer James Hanson last weekend, with the striker close to a return after missing the last five games with a thigh injury.
The former Guiseley forward will be eager to return this weekend however, as will on loan Derby frontman Mason Bennett, who made an appearance for the Rams’ U21 side on Monday but has since returned to Valley Parade.
The Reds will not come up against any former players on the field this weekend but in the dugout they will welcome some familiar faces with two former Barnsley men amongst the Bradford backroom staff.
Assistant manager Steve Parkin managed the Tykes from November 2001 until October 2002, while Bradford goalkeeping coach Lee Butler made over 100 appearances for the Reds between 1991 and 1996 after joining from Aston Villa.
Man in the Middle
Yorkshire referee Andrew Madley will be involved with both Barnsley and Bradford for the first time on Sunday afternoon, having never officiated a game for either side in the past. Madley has taken charge of 10 games this season however, dishing out 27 yellow cards and one red which was handed to Swindon’s Nathan Thompson in his side’s League Cup defeat against Brighton. Seven of the 27 yellow cards produced by the Yorkshire official this term came in September’s fiery London derby between Charlton and Watford at the Valley.
Their Star Man
Bradford-born striker James Hanson has once again led the line for the Bantams this season, scoring five times including the winner in his side’s League Cup victory against Leeds United. The former supermarket worker was released by both Bradford and Huddersfield as a youngster but in July 2009 was re-signed by his boyhood heroes. Since then the ex-Guiseley forward has been a regular in the Bantams attack, firing them to both promotion and the League Cup final in 2013, as well as netting 12 times in his first League One campaign last year. That form saw Hanson rewarded with a new three-and-a-half year deal last November, having scored 68 goals in over 200 appearances for the Club.
Andy Gray moved north to join Barnsley in August 2009, joining for an undisclosed fee from relegated Championship side Charlton. The Harrogate born striker hit six goals in his first campaign at Oakwell – including a late winner to earn a 2-1 win at Blackpool. The 36-year-old was released by the Reds at the end of the 2011-12 season after scoring 21 goals in 96 games for the Tykes.
Gray is also no stranger to Bradford City fans following two spells with the Club, the first of which came back in 2002 when the Leeds United academy product arrived from Nottingham Forest. A more youthful Gray enjoyed two successful seasons at Valley Parade, notching 20 times in 77 appearances as well as winning two caps for the Scottish national team in the process.
After leaving the Bantams for Sheffield United in February 2004, Gray made an emotional return to Bradford in January last year via stops at Sunderland, Burnley, Charlton, Barnsley and Leeds. Unfortunately for the popular forward his second spell at Valley Parade was not as fruitful, scoring just once before his contract was ended in May this year.
The Yorkshireman was part of the Barnsley team which thrashed Leeds United 5-2 at Oakwell in September 2010. Despite not scoring, the target man played a vital role as the Reds picked up one of their most famous victories.
After finding the back of the net for the first time in a Barnsley shirt in a 3-1 home defeat against Reading in August 2009, Gray went on to score some important goals for the Club including a brace in a 2-1 win at Leicester in his final season with the Club, as well as the winner in the Tykes’ narrow home triumph over Hull in the same campaign.
Can't make it to Oakwell?
Barnsley Player will provide full match commentary from Oakwell once again, so you can listen from wherever you are in the world! | <urn:uuid:05586ccc-b886-4681-ac1c-d158a6a84819> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.barnsleyfc.co.uk/news/2014/october/barnsley-v-bradford-city-sunday-12th-october---match-preview/ | 2019-04-21T14:26:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578531984.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20190421140100-20190421162100-00188.warc.gz | en | 0.972036 | 1,480 |
Expected Event Conditions: LOW
Vancouver is surrounded by west coast beauty, and with coast beauty comes at times unpredictable weather. Make sure to plan accordingly for changes in weather on race day. All races go ahead rain or shine, so please be prepared. Bring extra rain gear and/or warm clothing with you. Check extra gear at Gear Check and pull it on after the event if necessary.
|ALERT LEVEL||EVENT CONDITIONS||RECOMMENDED ACTIONS|
|EXTREME||EVENT CANCELLED/EXTREME DANGEROUS CONDITIONS||PARTICIPATION STOPPED/FOLLOW EVENT INSTRUCTIONS|
|HIGH||POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS CONDITIONS||SLOW DOWN/OBSERVE COURSE CHANGES/FOLLOW EVENT OFFICIAL INSTRUCTION/CONSIDER STOPPING|
|MODERATE||LESS THAN IDEAL CONDITIONS||SLOW DOWN/BE PREPARED FOR WORSENING CONDITIONS|
|LOW||GOOD CONDITIONS||ENJOY THE EVENT/BE ALERT|
The Event Alert System is a standardized communication protocol used in large events across North America to ensure participants have a great experience and are prepared for race conditions. It will allow the Society, as the race organizer for the Fall Classic, to communicate race conditions in a standardized and simple manner. To update race status, signage will be placed at the Fall Classic Expo, at the Start and Finish Lines, as well as information will be posted on the event website and social media pages. The status will be updated by race organizers in consultation with local meteorologists and other officials.
For the best experience, preparation is key. Runners, volunteers, and other supporters are encouraged to watch for updates on event conditions and plan accordingly.
For more information about the Expo, Start, Finish and Festival click here. | <urn:uuid:516bf9ea-dcf9-41a9-887a-7acf95e9d1a3> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://www.fallclassicrun.ca/eventalert/ | 2019-05-19T18:53:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255092.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519181530-20190519203530-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.843436 | 398 |
George Howell coffee tasting, 10/24, 8:30am-10am, CloverBUR
Come meet the man who invented the Frappucino, the Cup of Excellence, and the really beautiful Ethiopian coffee you’ve been drinking this month at Clover.
That’s right, George Howell is coming to us!
We’ll have apple cider donuts (Mike is making them from scratch that morning) for anyone who joins. And the first 10 folks in the door will get some special gifts from the man himself…
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When a person is diagnosed with cancer, it can seem everyone is focused, and rightly so, on that person’s physical well-being: treatments, side effects, doctor’s visits, tests. But we know there are other parts of life affected by cancer: self-image, work, family, friendships, and your approach to living. Oncology social workers understand these complex issues raised by cancer.
This booklet, based on CancerCare’s online column “Ask CancerCare,” presents a sampling of the many issues CancerCare’s oncology social workers help people address every day. We hope this information will encourage you to contact us for support with any concerns you may be facing related to your or your loved one’s cancer. | <urn:uuid:bf92d0bf-82c3-45ee-8aff-7695f2e881b8> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://www.lungcancer.org/find_information/publications/352-ask_cancercare_questions_and_answers_on_coping_with_cancer/661-introduction | 2020-09-22T13:46:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400206133.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20200922125920-20200922155920-00237.warc.gz | en | 0.956854 | 160 |
Linux+DVD Special edition only about Debian Etch (Spanish)
Hi List, Greetings from Chile, i had a talk with Paulina Pyrowics from
Linux+DVD (Spanish edition) and the will do a special number about Etch.
They are making articles, but Paulina told me that still they need
articles for the magazine (remember that this will be an entire magazine
about Debian Etch, and will distribute 2 DVD's with the magazine)
I read that Martin Zobel-Helas asked for articles.
my question is: can we translate the articles (in english) to spanish,
and use it for Linux+DVD.
Can anyone do articles in spanish??
I am doing some articles, and a Video with the Installation of Etch.
This magazine is sold in Spain, Mexico and South America.
I think that this is a good oportunity to promote Debian.
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Science and Technology Christmas Conference 2011
Tuesday 20 December 2011, 0900-1730
Management School Building
2011's Christmas Conference will include talks from all Science and Technology departments, as well as high profile invited speakers.
David Southwood, Professor emeritus Imperial College and former Director of Science at the European Space Agency, will deliver a talk titled What's the Use of Space Science?: Space Science in a Modern Society.
Also speaking will be Lancaster University's incoming Vice Chancellor, Professor Mark Smith.
The day will also include the Science and Technology Graduate School poster competition, with posters from across the faculty on display. | <urn:uuid:283fba7b-a4ca-46e8-a112-de932dd2d8e2> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sci-tech/events/events_archive.php?event_id=000794 | 2014-03-10T12:13:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394010776308/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305091256-00001-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933292 | 125 |
Designed by Alain van Havre, the Oak Blackbird collection features Ethnicraft’s signature use of sustainable, solid Oak timber enhanced with a striking contrasting case and base frame.
The Oak Blackbird Desk is made from European timber that has been sourced from well managed forests in France and Serbia. The natural Oak is slightly tinted with a water-based colour and then oiled to bring out its natural colour. The case has a matt Black lacquer finish and with the Black powder coated base frame creates a distinctive outline unique to the Blackbird series.
This item is crafted from solid timber making each piece beautifully unique with naturally occurring variations in wood grain, texture, colour, knots and other innate characteristics that are inherent to solid wood.
|Colour:||Solid oak with black metal legs|
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OK, I admit it. I’m a big proponent of shopping local. I don’t care if you’re from Waterford or Birmingham, Ann Arbor or Brighton – patronize your local shops.
A couple of weeks ago, some business owners in Brighton got together and made a video about just that topic.
Now we have a great promo video of being in downtown Howell during the Holidays. A lot of video was shot during the Fantasy of Lights Parade (which everybody should see at least once!) and really gives you the feeling of shopping in a downtown area.
Big box stores and malls are fine for some things, but don’t forget about the folks who work right there on your Main Street. They usually do a lot more for your community than the big franchises (sorry, corporate policy doesn’t let us do that) and they really are more a part of your town than the big outfits.
Make a pledge to yourself that you’ll do at least some of your shopping at the smaller, local businesses this year. And while you’re in your downtown, why don’t you stop at a local restaurant for lunch or an appetizer and try something new? | <urn:uuid:023f816f-1119-48d2-a0bd-d507b0fe30f9> | CC-MAIN-2014-41 | http://activerain.trulia.com/blogsview/2634701/howell-michigan-holiday-spirit | 2014-09-22T12:56:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-41/segments/1410657137046.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20140914011217-00274-ip-10-234-18-248.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955026 | 251 |
God confirmed Smith Wigglesworth’s ministry through powerful signs and wonders, including the creative formation of missing limbs and the disappearance of cancerous growths. His words continue to provide spiritual, financial, emotional, and physical healing as they inspire and build faith.
Graham Jeffs, a solicitor from England who is now an elder at St. James Church in Colorado Springs, attended church less than a half-mile from where Wigglesworth lived and preached. He recently gave me copies of the hand written correspondence between Smith Wigglesworth and the leaders of the Pentecostal Missionary Union (PMU) written after Wigglesworth had been accused of misconduct by two separate women at the peak of his ministry career.
After the situation became known to the leaders of the PMU, they demanded his resignation from the denomination, from ministry, and from public life. In a letter dated October 18, 1920, Wigglesworth repented, asked for mercy, and claimed that God had forgiven him. He also expresses dismay that the leaders failed to stand with him by saying of Cecil Polhill, the leader of the PMU, “I am afraid he is not the strong character I have believed him to be.” What was Polhill’s weak character to which Wigglesworth referred? Perhaps Polhill assumed a position of moral superiority and used his chain-of-command position to supersede a godly response and the respect due Wigglesworth as a fellow brother in Christ.
Two days later on October 20, 1920, Polhill responded to Wigglesworth’s “repentance”. Polhill wrote on behalf of the PMU leadership, “We do not think your statement (of repentance) I received this morning adequate” (underlined by Polhill). He continued, “In a few days I hope to send your draft of one we propose to ask you to sign. . . in any case you ought to send in your resignation to the P.M.U.” He continued, “In the event of your sending in your resignation to P.M.U., we should do our best to avoid any, in our judgment, unnecessary publicity.” Then, he used traditional church methods rather than biblical mandate by writing, “We think also that you should abstain for a prolonged season from participation in the Lord’s public work; and seek to retrieve your position before God and man, by a fairly long period of godly quiet living, so showing works meet for repentance” (underlined by Polhill).
Some speculate that we received the benefit of Smith Wigglesworth’s ministry only because the PMU did not have the ability to command attention in the press or publish their views on the internet to discredit Wigglesworth’s ministry. They certainly did what they could within their own spheres of influence, but Wigglesworth believed in the priesthood of the believer and concluded it unwise to submit to them. This serves as a warning to all of us: God chooses whom He uses, and our self-righteous judgments are typically wrong. Maybe humility, kindness, and helpfulness would be a better approach than the one Polhill took with Wigglesworth. That way, we are advocates for resurrection in the lives of others. It’s the scandal that often makes the man the person he’s always prayed to be. A church scandal seldom excludes the central figure of the scandal from the Kingdom of God. It often strengthens them in their faith walk. Just read the stories of the Bible greats.
Every time someone else sins, our response positions us in their story. We either contribute to their suffering and work with others to hurt them, or courageously stand outside the crowd and help them with their resurrection. I believe there is a time for discipline and justice, but in general, our role as Christians is to lift their burden and help them.
The next day, October 21, 1920, Wigglesworth wrote to Polhill, “The Good Hand of God is upon me & I will live it all down. . . I shall go forward deer [sic] Brother and I ask you be carfull [sic] that the Gospel is not hinderd [sic] thrue [sic] you . . . Do not truble [sic] to send any thing to sign. I signed my letter to you that [is] all” (underlined by Wigglesworth). The documents prepared by the PMU and the character Polhill displayed by his response to the scandal prompted Wigglesworth to send a hand written note dated October 21st to a recipient unknown to us saying, “He (Polhill) rules PMU and everyone else. I think he will have truble [sic] later.”
The PMU demands gave Wigglesworth opportunity to demonstrate his tenacity under fire and his faithfulness to God’s call on his life. Smith Wigglesworth resigned from the PMU, had the strength to keep Polhill from hindering his ministry by disregarding the church’s attempt to discipline and/or restore him, went to the train station to go to his next meeting, and continued doing what God asked him to do. From that time to this day, he is lauded as a pillar of godly strength.
Spoiled goods? Many today would have considered the Wigglesworth scandal, which would not have been kept quiet like it was in the 1920s, disqualifying. And his strong responses to his spiritual authorities would be interpreted as proof of his guilt and lack of repentance in the minds of many leaders in our modern church movement.
The dilemma our religious leaders face in trying to determine who should be used by God and who should not is that God uses problem people. Adam and Eve launched the human race, obeyed the devil and raised a murderer. Noah, the guy who saved all living creatures from wrath, was alone, drunk, and naked in his tent. What in the world was going on in there?! Moses worshipped foreign gods and was a murderer. Abraham often lied, Isaac did too, and Jacob was a deceitful thief. David misused his official position, committed adultery and murder, and raised insubordinate sons. Many of the prophets whose books we read today were hated and rejected by their contemporaries, for good reasons.
To keep from belaboring a well understood point, I’ll just highlight the Apostle Paul for New Testament purposes because he wrote two-thirds of it . . . he was a religious leader who murdered people of faith with whom he disagreed, for the glory of God of course. Long after Paul’s conversion experience and great success in ministry, he had a messenger of Satan tormenting him, frustrating him so greatly that he maintained that sin had an independent life in him that was not reflective of his new life in Christ. We would not accept that explanation from anyone else, but for Paul, we rationalize it. Most evangelical Bible scholars teach that he found relief before he was martyred, but that’s a theological construction, not a sure fact. We all hope it’s true, but it might not be. Regardless, we all accept that a perfect God uses imperfect people. I don’t say this to excuse any of our own sin, but it might explain how we should respond to fellow believers, even fellow leaders, who find themselves trapped in sin. No doubt, we all need to grow in personal holiness, and we will, in fact, be completely perfected when we see Jesus face-to-face. But until then, might our current Christian culture be missing the point? And, is it possible we have apathy about our most deadly sins?
1 John 5:16-17 says, “If you see a Christian brother or sister sinning in a way that does not lead to death, you should pray, and God will give that person life. But there is a sin that leads to death, and I am not saying you should pray for those who commit it. All wicked actions are sin, but not every sin leads to death.”
What is the sin that leads to death? Any sin from which we do not repent. What sin’s might those be? Sins we do not think serious.
Based on the volume of warnings Jesus had for religious leaders, it might be that religious leadership has the most significant potential for undetected sinfulness than any other group. In 2007, I had a global Christian leader visit me. He told me how blessed I was that I had dealt with the type of sin from which people repent. Then he wistfully said that his sins were the type people did not repent of, because they actually strengthened his ministry, increased his income, and increased the respect of others for his ministry. He explained that the more judgmental, loveless, critical, and dogmatic he was, the more Christian people complimented and supported him. He explained how simplistic judgments drew applause, where nuanced explanations cost him support. He said it would be the end of his ministry if he repented of his sins.
The basis of our salvation is that Christ alone is our righteousness. But since sin and self are so deceitful, how can we tell if we are self-righteous? I suggest that it is our response to another’s sin. I’ve learned that to the degree we are impressed with ourselves, we respond to another’s sin punitively. And to the degree that we are dependent upon Christ alone, we respond to another’s sin redemptively. Our responses to another’s sin reveals whether we trust in our righteousness or the righteousness of Christ. God revealed his heart in his response to our sin. We reveal our hearts every time we respond to another’s sin.
Smith Wigglesworth’s life embodies both of these ideas: the way God uses dependent but flawed people, and the way we religious leaders often miss our opportunity to model the Gospel by our response to another’s sin, thinking we are being godly. When we Christian leaders respond to another’s sin, we must choose whether to crucify the sinner or to facilitate their resurrection. It’s our response in this matter that reveals whether or not we are Christlike in our leadership. | <urn:uuid:6cf400f1-21b6-45e6-bbff-bb5694d55f76> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://tedhaggardblog.com/2014/06/06/smith-wigglesworth-disqualified/ | 2020-07-08T11:06:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655896932.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20200708093606-20200708123606-00351.warc.gz | en | 0.979006 | 2,152 |
You might want to have a look at the VO Specials page. There are some spectacular deals there right now.
Since we're still hoping to have the new website up in a few weeks I wanted to get our inventory cleaned up. So we've been going through the warehouse looking for items that we have over-ordered. There are also some products that will change slightly with the next shipment and we're blowing out the old versions. And there are some items that we won't stock in the future. All these are on sale while they last, or until the inventory levels get back to normal.
On another subject, I stumbled across VO's "customer ratings" numbers from Yahoo Shopping. Of the last 500 ratings (that what's displayed) here's what we got:
|447 Excellent||37 Good||3 OK||2 Bad|
I do read all the ratings we get, but I've never looked at the numbers. Not too bad. | <urn:uuid:fbcc7c57-26b5-4bf4-9c1a-3bf6fa586dcd> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://velo-orange.blogspot.com/2010/06/great-deals-on-specials-page.html?showComment=1276557623333 | 2014-04-18T18:36:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609535095.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005215-00415-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965104 | 195 |
MUS 3130 The History of Rock and Roll (3 credits)
From its beginnings in the blues, to modern rock and popular music, this course will study characteristics of the music and the artists who create it. From class lectures, demonstrations and listening examples, students will demonstrate the ability to identify and describe music examples. Each student will demonstrate knowledge of the cultural background of the musical examples. Open to all students. Liberal Education Categories 6 & 7. | <urn:uuid:97d308e5-68f2-4497-b277-e2a8103f7316> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.bemidjistate.edu/academics/catalog/20133/course/mus/3130 | 2013-05-23T13:30:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368703317384/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516112157-00076-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.865191 | 91 |
Subject: RE: setup of redhat RPM Postfix with Redhat RPM SASL
From: Dan Vande More (dvm at firstlink dot com)
Date: Tue Apr 15 2003 - 15:40:03 EDT
Sounds like your creating so many problems with RPM's you'd be better
off installing from source.
Ask around with experienced linux people, and I would assume most hate
rpms. Mainly because if you can get them to do what you want them to do,
you've spent 3 times as much time as you wanted to.
If you have fairly identical servers, simply do a ./configure <options>
make make install.
Then tar and gzip that dir, and do a make install on the remaining
Of course, this is a little different for sasl, I posted to the list
about 2 weeks ago how the only way I got sasl installed was by
installing an openbsd package.
Just my 2 cents.
From: Edward Rudd [mailto:eddie at omegaware dot com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 12:46 PM
To: Ken Murchison
Subject: Re: setup of redhat RPM Postfix with Redhat RPM SASL
but there are consequences with --force that I don't like.
One as I am creating custom rpms for serveral servers I like to be able
to just do an "apt-get upgrade" on the machines and have them synced
with my setup..
Two, when "upgrading" to the same release file removal isn't done
correctly. At least not with RPM 4.0... For example
I create an RPM version 1.0-1 of some program install it.
then I accidentally put some files in the wrong place.. so I repackage
it with the files int he correct place and "Uvh --force" the new 1.0-1
all should be good right? but it isn't.
all of the files in the new package are there.. but so are all the files
from the old package that were in the wrong directory.. I've had this
happen on a number of occasions with RPMS.. so I now put a ".1" after it
for my "modifications" to official RPMS. Or I uninstall with --nodeps
and reinstall the fixed package..
On Tue, 2003-04-15 at 13:01, Ken Murchison wrote:
> Edward Rudd wrote:
> > 4) change the Release: tag toward the top of the spec to 5.1 (RH8)
> > 11.1 (RH9) (so it'll be seen as "newer" than the stock RH rpms.
> This shouldn't be necessary if you use the --force option when
> installing the RPM. I do it all the time when I build my own custom
> kernel RPM and just blow over the existing one.
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Introduction: Wavy Chopping Board
I've made a few chopping boards over the past couple of years. I saw a picture of a wavy wood chopping board and thought I've got a load of off cuts so why not give it a go.
Various hard woods. I used oak, Sapele, ash, walnut and cherry. approx. 25mm x 600mm or 1" x 24".
Titebond III Adhesive or another food safe alternative.
Scrap wood to make the clamping jig.
As many clamps as you can get your hands on.
Thicknesser or a belt sander.
Router with a round over cutter.
Chopping board oil. I got mine from a well know Swedish furniture outlet.
Step 1: Cut the Strips.
I cut the strips on my not too accurate bandsaw from offcuts of the wood listed above. I set the guide at around 3mm or 1/8". The blade left quite a rough finish and a variation in thickness. Both of which I worried about but with enough glue and clamps there was no need to worry. I cut 68 pieces which gave me a finished width of approx. 200mm or 8". Cut more if you want a wider board.
Step 2: Making the Clamping Jig
I used a piece of old worktop as the base and screwed two pieces of 50x50mm or 2"x2" one along the edge of the base the other approx.150mm or 6" higher so the difference in level was around 150mm or 6". I covered the base in decorators carpet protector tape so the glue wouldn't stick the project to the base.
Step 3: The Glue and Clamp
I applied glue to around 10 strips then clamped one end to the jig, I then loosely clamped the other end, added clamps along the length before finally tightening the second end clamp.
Step 4: More Glue and Clamps
I left the strips to dry for a couple of days before repeating the process again and again until I had used up the strips.
Step 5: Trim to Length
As can be seen in the image of the offcut several of the strips had slipped and had not sat against the base of the jig.
I marked the ends and cut off the uneven strips to leave the board as long as possible.
Step 6: Flattening
I ran the board through my second hand well worn thicknesser flipping it over after each pass until it was flat on both sides. I guess you could use a belt sander if you've got one.
Step 7: Finishing
I rounded the corners then ran around the edges with my router to take off the sharp edges both top and bottom.
Next sanding, sanding and more sanding. Once good and smooth make it wet to make the grain stand up, allow to dry then sanding, sanding and more sanding. Repeat the last step and guess what? Sanding, sanding and more sanding.
I applied food safe chopping board oil several times until the board could not absorb any more. Polish with a clean cloth.
Step 8: Finally
Use it which ever way you please. I just seemed to fit the tomahawk steak better than coffee cups.
I hope I made some sense of the process.
All the best and stay safe.
Power tools bite.
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Richard Moline was founded in 2003, and is located at 5529 Durand Dr in Downers Grove. It employs 2 employees and is generating approximately $110,000.00 in annual revenue. Additional information is available by contacting this business at (630) 963-0503.
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Experimental deposition conditions for Pt‐YSZ film.
Thin films of Pt‐YSZ and Pd‐ZrO2 cermets by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) from metallorganic precursors (MOCVD) were evaluated as electrode in solid‐state devices. Morphology and structural characteristics were studied by X‐ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electronic microscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and transmission electronic microscopy (TEM). Electrochemical performance was determined using Tafel and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy methods. Metallorganic precursors were used (metal‐acetylacetonates), and argon and oxygen were used as the carrier and reactive gases, respectively. The particle average size was less than 20 nm, with high and uniform particle dispersion according to TEM measurements.
- thin films
- platinum metals
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is a fast and economic method to obtain controlled deposits of high quality; the main drawbacks are the possible incorporation of impurities due to non‐exhausted remains and poor adhesion of the film in some cases . Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) from metallorganic precursors (MOCVD) is a rapidly developing method for producing films and coatings of ceramic materials for a variety of applications . Among solid electrolyte cells, commonly used for numerous applications including gas sensors, gas pumps, solid oxide fuel cells, and electrochemically promoted catalysts, platinum electrode deposited on yttria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ) is one of the most widely studied examples because of YSZ conducts at temperatures above 300°C via O2- diffusion and platinum has always been of particular interest due to its electrocatalytic properties . The electrochemical performance of electrode layers depends largely on the microstructure of the three‐phase boundaries (TPBs) in which the ionic conductor, the electronic conductor, and the oxygen gas are in contact, being the best pathway to reduce oxygen to oxygen ion at the surface .
Nanoparticles exhibit very interesting features at the nanometer scale due to the quantum confinement, where the changes induced to the microstructure allow them to increase the specific surface area and, in the case of electrodes, more TPBs are arisen. These characteristics are desirable for high electrochemical performance. The higher sintering temperatures are related to the formation of undesirable reaction products highly resistive at the electro/electrolyte interface. By reaching the nanometer size, the sintering temperature can be low facilitating the ceramic processing, due to the more TPBs which as a geometrical parameter required for high electrochemical performance .
The appearance of the material at nanometric scale can be achieved by modification of the preparation methods despite its identical chemical composition. The material undergoes a phase transformation by changing temperature and pressure or by combining different materials. The induced changes onto the microstructure modify the electrode behavior . One approach to increase the TPBs areas, and in consequence the yield of the electrodes, is to prepare a cermet material that spreads the solid electrolyte into the electrode [5, 7–10]. The development in thin‐film technology and the application of ionic‐electronic composites as electrodes have significantly reduced the ohmic loss caused by the electrolyte . The rate and selectivity of catalytic reactions occurring on metal and metal‐oxide porous catalyst‐electrode films deposited on solid electrolytes can be reversibly affected in a very pronounced and controlled manner by polarizing of the catalyst‐electrode, which can exceed the corresponding rate of ion transport through the solid electrolyte by several orders of magnitude . Noble metals are historically known to be extremely non‐reactive, but the possibility for obtaining coatings of platinum metals by means of CVD on the substrates made of different materials was demonstrated widely . Metal, oxide, and metal‐oxide composite systems can be obtained by means of CVD using the process of thermal decomposition of a mixture of the volatile initial metal complexes with organic ligands (precursors) on a heated surface . Additionally, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is one of the most important synthesis processes for making nanoparticles of metals, semiconductors, and magnetic materials. In some cases, Pt is deposited as continuous films whereas in other cases, it is preferred in the form of a dispersion of particles with a high surface area. On the other hand, ceramics based on zirconium dioxide (zirconia, ZrO2) are promising materials for multifunctional applications. In previous works [13–16], ZrO2, IrO2, Pt, and IrO2‐YSZ thin films have been synthesized by MOCVD process and, in the case of ZrO2, a thermodynamic study to explain the phase and the conditions that promote the formation of pure ZrO2 from a β‐diketonate precursor (Zr‐acetylacetonate, Zr(acac)4) and oxygen (O2) as carrier/reactive gas was reported , and now, the structural, nanocrystalline nature and morphological characterizations of Pt‐YSZ composites are completed and reported; furthermore, in order to determine the performance of these composites as electrodes in YSZ solid‐state devices, electrochemical tests were also carried out. Additionally, the synthesis of Pd‐ZrO2 cermets by MOCVD and their characterization are reported. X‐ray diffraction (XRD), atomic force microscopy (AFM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Raman spectroscopy, and electrochemical characterizations were conducted in order to determine the structure, composition, morphology, oxidation state, and electrocatalytic properties of these materials. Metallorganic precursors were used (metal‐acetylacetonates), and argon and oxygen were used as the carrier and reactive gases, respectively.
2. Experimental procedure
The experimental setup has been described elsewhere . Amorphous quartz and YSZ were used as substrates; the composite electrodes were produced by a horizontal hot wall MOCVD. The employed precursors were Zr(acac)4, Y(acac)3, Pt(acac)2, and Pd(acac)2 [Sigma‐Aldrich, ≥97%]. Argon and oxygen gases were used as the carrier and reactive gases, respectively. Before the MOCVD process, the quartz substrates were cleaned with a soapy solution and thereafter rinsed with tap water, deionized water, and acetone. The optimal experimental conditions for producing nanocomposite electrodes were identified as follows: 450–600°C deposition temperature (
Finally, the electrochemical tests were conducted to determine the performance of these films as electrodes. The method for this purpose was a three terminal one: the working electrode (WE, 1.7 cm2 in area) on one side of the YSZ pellet and the reference and the counter electrodes on the opposite side (RE, 0.5 cm2 in area, CE, 1.2 cm2 in area, respectively). Impedance measurements were carried out over the frequency range of 105–10-2 Hz using a Solartron 1255 frequency response analyzer from 300 to 800°C in air. The signal applied to the cell was generally 10 mV rms. Potentiodynamic polarization was obtained from -400 mV to +400 mV at a scan rate of 1.67 mV s-1.
3. Results and discussion
Figure 1a and b shows XRD spectra of platinum thin films obtained at 500°C and 550°C, and quartz is shown as reference (Figure 1c). Pt crystallites in face‐centered cubic structure (ICDD 04‐0802) grow in (1 1 1) orientation at 500°C while at 550°C, is polycrystalline, and at both temperature, the films are purely metallic and shiny. The broadening of the reflections was associated with a small crystallite size, determined by Scherrer equation:
Then, the mean Pt crystallite size was 48 nm. Pt‐ZrO2 composite was obtained at 600°C (Figure 2a); ZrO2 signals are weak, while Pt reflections are better defined than that for ZrO2. It was reported before that ZrO2 at these particular experimental conditions was not obtained below 600°C ; the Pt‐ZrO2 composites had to be synthesized at this temperature, taking in account the experimental conditions for ZrO2, that is, only oxygen was used as the carrier and reactive gas. The next step was the deposition of yttria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ), shown in Figure 3b. These films were transparent. The XRD spectrum displays the signals corresponding to (1 1 1), (2 0 0), and (3 1 1) planes for cubic YSZ (ICDD 30‐1468); the Zr/Y weight ratio to obtain YSZ was 0.87:0.13, according to Wang et al. ; the mean crystallite size was 15 nm. The appearance of YSZ cubic microstructure could be the result of these nanocrystalline sizes [19, 20]. The formation of cubic structure of YSZ film at low temperatures is somewhat alike with the formation of metastable tetragonal structure as a result of nanocrystalline size effect in the transformation of zirconium phase [18, 19, 21]. Finally, once the individual thin films were synthesized, the composite Pt‐YSZ was deposited by combining the different experimental conditions (Figure 3c). The signals of both Pt and YSZ are clearly observed. In this case, the mean Pt crystallite size was 21 nm, while the YSZ size remains the same, 15 nm. The decrement in Pt crystallite size could be attributable to the film microstructure, which is avoiding the agglomeration, sintering, and, consequently, the growth of Pt particles. The XRD spectrum for amorphous quartz is shown in Figures 1c, 2b, and 3a in order to identify the signals arising from thin films. Experimental deposition conditions are summarized in Table 1.
|Thin film||Gas flow (cm3/min)|
A typical view of the composite Pt‐YSZ film is given in Figure 4. The film is porous as a result of its columnar growth (Figure 4d, cross‐sectional view). Thickness of the film was estimated to be about 1 μm with a growth rate of 50 nm/min.
Figure 5 depicts the impedance spectrum at 300–800°C for Pt‐YSZ nanocomposite electrode films prepared on YSZ pellets. According to the associated capacitance value (10-5 F), reactions of charge transfer at the electrode/electrolyte interface were assigned to the small semicircle at high frequency. It seems that a diffusion mechanism rise at the low‐frequency region because of the large semicircle with capacitance values between 10-4 and 10-3 F, attributed to the oxygen diffusion at the finite thickness in the film. The bulk and grain boundary responses are missing due to the frequency scale. According to West et al. ,
From polarization plots (Tafel plots) can be observed that as temperature increases, the current increases through the electrode‐electrolyte interphase (Figure 6). In the anodic branch where higher current was obtained than that obtained in cathodic branch, except at 600 and 700°C, at 600°C, the current in the cathodic branch is slightly higher than in anodic branch; and at 700°C, both values of currents (anodic and cathodic branches) seem to be the same; and the cathodic response looks similar at these temperatures (600 and 700°C). At 800°C, the cathodic response is lower than that observed at 600 and 700°C, but the current increases as temperature increases in the anodic branch. This behavior could be attributed to a decrement of TPB provoked by particle agglomeration, maybe Pt or YSZ, or by a reaction between Pt and YSZ as Badwal and de Bruin suggested . Table 2 shows the interchange current and Tafel slopes from Figure 6. According to the Tafel slopes, one order of reaction was obtained. Besides YSZ, no oxidized phases were found in Pt‐YSZ electrodes after heating in air, which indicates a high thermal stability (Figure 7).
|Temperature (°C)||Log ||Cathodic part||Anodic part|
The synthesis of cermets Pd‐ZrO2 by MOCVD and their characterization were conducted in order to determine the structure, composition, morphology, oxidation state, and electrocatalytic properties of these materials. Metallorganic precursors were used (metal‐acetylacetonates), and argon and oxygen were used as the carrier and reactive gases, respectively. It is expected that these materials could be applied in water purification. The composite thin films were prepared using a ratio of Pd and Zr metals of 10–90 wt%, respectively. The deposition temperature (
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Metal, oxide, and metal‐oxide composite systems can be obtained by means of CVD using the process of thermal decomposition of a mixture of the volatile initial metal complexes with organic ligands (precursors) on a heated surface. The possibility for obtaining coatings of platinum metals by means of CVD on the substrates made of different materials was demonstrated widely. The platinum‐YSZ particle average size was less than 20 nm, with high and uniform particle dispersion according to TEM measurements.
Authors are grateful for the financial support by CONACYT, SNI, and IPN in the projects SIP2016‐0541, and they thank J. Ferretiz‐Anguiano, J.R. Vargas‐García, and H. Dorantes for their technical support. | <urn:uuid:f8a4e18b-3b2d-4a95-bc2b-6014fdeae520> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/51302 | 2022-01-22T20:13:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320303884.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220122194730-20220122224730-00096.warc.gz | en | 0.927436 | 3,213 |
Andy Cohen’s adorable son, Benjamin Allen (AKA baby Ben AKA the cutest Jewish baby alive) just turned 1. Honestly, where did the time go?!?
The Bravo TV host posted a heartfelt message on Instagram to celebrate this milestone, accompanied by a throwback picture of Cohen with his newborn son in the hospital room, taken by his BFF, Jewish musician John Mayer.
“One year ago tonight,” Cohen wrote, “I sat alone in a hospital room with my newborn son pondering our future. I didn’t know then how his smile would brighten my day, what simple joy each new progression of his growth would bring, and most of all what a lovely boy he would become. I am so grateful to my surrogate in California who made this all possible, and for every day of our first year… and can’t wait for the next. Happy Birthday sweet little Ben.”
Aw, we’re getting a little verklempt over here. Happy birthday, sweet bub! We so love Cohen for always thanking his surrogate, and we’re so moved by his candor and how he authentically shares his experience as a parent.
Cohen celebrated Ben’s birthday, which was on February 4 (at 6:35 PM, to be exact!) with a Super Bowl party with the Watch What Happens Live team. There was singing, a rainbow cake, and a hand-embroidered birthday shirt for Ben. Plus, as Cohen said, the guest of honor “was downstairs from 4:30pm until 7:30, being passed around from person to person — didn’t flinch.” What an angel!
“It was nice, it was a great party. I had family, I had friends. It was lovely,” he concluded. Aw. Watch everyone singing happy birthday to a beaming Ben and feel your heart melt:
Happy birthday, baby Ben! To celebrate, here is Kveller’s coverage of this bubbeleh from over the past year for your enjoyment:
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Turkey day is over and all of the leftovers are gone….well, almost. December is right around the corner, so it is time to start decorating for the holidays! One of my favorite activities to do right after Thanksgiving is to go pick out a Christmas tree for the house.
Here are some tips to help you pick the perfect tree this year:
1. MEASURE YOUR SPACE: Before you go, be sure to measure the space you plan on putting the tree. How tall is the ceiling? Make sure you buy a tree at least a foot shorter to allow for the stand and tree topper. How wide is the space? Do you need a plump tree or a skinny one? Best to plan ahead so you don’t get home and the tree won’t fit!
2. CHECK FOR FRESHNESS: When you find a tree you like, give the tree a good shake and run your fingers along the needles to be sure that the tree is fresh and healthy – be sure that not too many needles fall off. Also, bend the branches a little and be sure that they do not snap easily.
3. DON’T FORGET THE TREE STAND: When you trim the base of the tree (or have them do it when you purchase), be sure that the tree stands straight and that the base has about 6 inches or so clear to fit in the tree stand. You might need to measure your tree stand opening before you head out to get a tree.
I’m sure you have already noticed a few tree lots popping up around your town. Why not take a little adventure this year and visit a tree farm? You can walk through the forest and pick a super fresh tree. They will chop it down right while you wait. Visit www.realchristmastrees.org to find a Christmas Tree Farm near you.
There are many different types of Christmas trees, with the Douglas Fir being the most popular in the US. Click HERE to read more about different tree characteristics and choose your perfect fit.
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Despite the dire warnings about the future of physical retail and the continuing pace of store closures, a number of direct-to-consumer brands have been flourishing in the traditional brick-and-mortar space. Digital stars Allbirds and Everlane established a successful store strategy, launching with pop-up shops and frequently converting them into permanent posts after experiencing positive responses.
Others have also taken note.
Today’s DTC store offerings are more strategic and stylized than their predecessors — and are often created in partnership with specialists. For instance, Naked Retail, a turnkey retail service, helps digitally native brands navigate the shopping channel that many of them once said they would never touch: the physical store.
“What a lot of brands, especially online-only brands, are realizing is that without the physical touchpoint, it becomes challenging to get a story across,” said Justin Kerzner, president and co-founder of Naked Retail Group. “That can be a story about quality, it can be about fit. It could just be a demonstration. Seeing something and actually experiencing it firsthand is super valuable.”
The problems that plagued traditional stores — think high rents, e-commerce competitors, inventory constraints — still exist today, particularly in these newer formats that often skew smaller and are shorter in lease terms. That is where companies such as Naked Retail and Leap (also a turnkey service but for permanent stores) step in.
Part consultants and part creative designers, these platforms invite brands to establish and refine goals for the space as soon as they decide to partner on the project. The service then takes over location selection, designing and building the space and, in some cases, helping to staff it. At Leap, there is also the option for full-time store management.
“The approach to retail has shifted to incorporate more infrastructure partners, as the brands that are opening more stores are digital-first,” said Amish Tolia, co-CEO at Leap, which has worked with sneaker brand Koio to supplement its existing physical strategy and help it expand with lower risk. “They are inherently users of tools and platforms; these are the same brands that launched their e-commerce on platforms like Shopify. They know what they do best — great products, innovation, marketing and supply chain — and look to different partners, platforms and tools to help them drive growth.”
Both Leap and Naked Retail also give advice on how best to use a pop-up or permanent space, as many brands new to traditional retailing often lack on-the-ground know-how. Industry executives said they help brands not only sell items but focus on customer experience communicating what the brand is about, so that they can connect with consumers in memorable ways.
Naked Retail’s self-titled “exhibits” frequently don’t involve any revenue component at all, with brands instead offering giveaways and activations that are designed to be shared on social media and encourage return visits. Emphasis is placed on the “experiential” part of experiential retail.
“A great space in Soho, New York, for December is going to run anywhere from $25,000 to $60,000, depending on how big the store is,” said Kerzner. “To spend that kind of money just in rent, plus build, plus design, plus staff and so on — you need to fully maximize the experience. You need to photograph the hell out of it and bring as many editors, press people, consumers and influencers into the space to maximize value.”
For brands that want to test physical retail on a smaller scale, Naked Retail also runs a store in Soho and a flagship in Nolita, New York, where it showcases brands divided into a north and south component — north uses wood and warm tones, while south is monochromatic and minimal. There, brands can engage in pop-up activity in a more accessible way and leverage the other participants for mutual benefit.
“When you walk into a place like Louis Vuitton and you have San Pellegrino being offered, that’s collaboration at its nest, but it’s not being utilized properly,” said Kerzner. “They’re literally buying those bottles on a daily basis, spending thousands of dollars annually to do so — why is that experience not shared?”
Both Leap and Naked Retail believe that small-scale ventures into physical retail will lead to future expansion.
“A pop-up strategy is a great way to test and learn, build a community and dive into retail,” said Tolia. “The permanent and pop- up strategy can co-exist too as brands activate around new collections, explore new concepts and enter new markets. The more brands understand about retail and the customer, the better they are and the better we can deploy stores together.”
McKinsey Joins the Pop-Up Retail Market with New Store at Mall of America
This Company Is Helping Digital Brands Break Into Physical Retail
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Living with a chronic illness is bad enough, but living with an invisible chronic illness is horrible beyond words.
I recently got my permanent disabled parking plates for my vehicle. I often feel guilty using them because of the looks people give me when I get out of my truck. You know the look? The "how dare you park there when you are obviously healthy" look. The look that makes you want to start limping and dragging your leg as you walk. The look that makes you want to explain why you dare to park in that sacred space. The look that makes you want to scream "I dare to park here because I hurt all over, my feet feel like they're on fire and I'm walking on glass, my lower back and neck feel like someone is stabbing me constantly, and my head feels like it's about to explode!"
Yes I look normal! I don't look like I fall under the permanently disabled category! In fact there are days when I don't use the spaces provided, but I'm so happy they are there when I need them. Please quit looking at me as if I'm doing something wrong.
I think that the fact that the signs have a wheelchair on them doesn't help those of us with an invisible illness. Most people see those signs and think only those in a wheelchair should be allowed to park there. Even my plates have the wheelchair symbol on them. I think if they changed the signs to something like this:
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Guest Post by Chris Arnsby
BBC4: Top of the Pops 1979 13/12/79
Mike Read, "Well the week's flown past. It's Top of the Pops again, and here's David Bowie to sing over the chart run down."
The 1979 Top of the Pops repeats stutter to an end. Two December shows are unrepeatable; a regular edition for 20/12/79 presented by J**** S*****; and a post-Christmas special from 27/12/79 with D*v* L** Tr*v*s and Mike Read. The Christmas Day special presented by Peter Powell and Kid Jensen goes out on BBC4 on Christmas Eve. Looking over the skipped editions reveals no significant omissions although we do miss a chance to see Legs & Co dancing to Mike Oldfield's Blue Peter theme. If you must see it, it's on Youtube. They're dressed as sexy sailors, natch. Oh, while you're there watch Simon Groom's Blue Peter report on the making of the theme.
Chart music: David Bowie, John I’m Only Dancing (Again) .
Fiddler's Dram: Day Trip To Bangor (Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time) . Fiddler's Dram crop up fairly often on worst-of-the-top-ten-novelty-one-hit-wonder lists so they didn't give me the traumatic unpacking of memories I experienced when The Ramblers hit the charts. Also, this is a song I remembered from the inevitable spoof by The Barron Knights ("Didn't we have a lovely time at the office Christmas party"), and it's one I remember liking at the time. It's not necessarily a bad song (I'm trying to choose my words with care here), it's simple, and catchy, and doesn't sound like anything else in the charts, so I can see why it would have caught my attention as I moved up from being a Boney M obsessed eight year old to an Adam and the Ants obsessed nine year old (with a brief detour on the way to run around the playground shouting "Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone!"). Watched now the tune is still a weapon grade earworm and I find my eye drawn to the bloke with the perm so enormous that all he can do is shake his head from side to side.
Paul McCartney: Wonderful Christmastime . This may actually be a worse song than Day Trip to Bangor. Where to begin? The plunking synthesiser? The sleigh bells? I'm going for the choir of children who, according to Paul McCartney, have "practised all year long," and yet can't sing anything better than, "Ding dong, ding dong. Ding dong, ding dong. Ding dong, ding dong." Bilge.
The Tourists: I Only Want To Be With You . A song that has grown on me after hearing it a few times.
Abba: I Have A Dream . Wet. Not one of Abba's best.
The Beat: Tears Of A Clown . A really infectious (in a good way) ska cover of the song by Smokey Robinson And The Miracles. "Tears of a clown," says Mike Read in a faux-Jamaican accent at the end of the song. The road to UKIP Calypso begins here.
Status Quo: Living On An Island . A very special Christmas present from Flick Colby to you. In cahoots with L. Rowland-Warne from the Costume department and Humphrey Jaeger in Design she's created a routine for Legs & Co which features famous ladies from history. Living On An Island>The British Isles>Legs & Co>Famous ladies from history. Do you see? There's Britannia herself (Lulu is clearly not dressed as Boudica like Mike Read claims, the clod), Guinevere, Queen Elizabeth, Florence Nightingale, Amy Johnson, and Mary Quant. Wot, no Thatcha?
The Inmates: The Walk . How come the drummer is allowed to not wear his jacket?
Blondie: Union City Blue . Not Blondie's greatest song. (John- It’s one of their best though surely?)
The Barron Knights: Food For Thought . Gone from both the early evening and late night repeat. A spoof of three songs, Lucky Number, Pop Muzik, and If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body Would You Hold It Against Me. It's been edited out because The Barron Knights version of Pop Muzik, Chop Suey, contains all your favourite stereotypes; the lead singer screws up his eyes in a myopic oriental squint, he mixes up L's and R's "London, Blistol, Ipslich, Ripley everyone eating aah-ha chop suey"; the lips get pulled back to imitate that hilarious bucktoothed look popularised by Mickey Rooney playing I.Y. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany's; then there's this bit, "all around the world. I think it's a shame. All them little Chinamen. Well, they all look the same," *hands up to the side of each eye to pull them into slits*. All that said, I'm not sure excising it from history is entirely the right idea. By all means edit it from the early evening repeat, but keep it in the late night repeat and let people see what was considered family entertainment between Tomorrow's World and Blankety Blank at 7.20pm in December 1979. Blimey, that got serious quickly. Sorry about that. At the end of the performance Mike Read says, "myself, I prefer English." We know Mike. We know.
The Pretenders: Brass In Pocket . I clearly remember this song so I know I would have been watching this edition of Top of the Pops. I know I also found The Barron Knights hilarious. Oh well. Time makes fools of us all. I hated this song by The Pretenders when I first heard it. There was something about the line "I'm special, so special" which really annoyed me. It seemed very boastful.
Number 1: Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2). Still sounding fantastic and bleak. It's a song which always reminds me of Ghost Town by The Specials. Musically they couldn't be more different but they both carry the same doom-laden tone. Also, the kids from this promo film could duff up The Ramblers without difficulty.
Closing titles: Rose Royce, Is It Love You’re After .
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Using microelectronics methods, lithographically distinct components and complete photonic systems can be printed onto silicon wafers—fiber optic cables, lenses, splitters, optical amplifiers, phase modulators, polarization transformers, etc.
This enables the integration of laser and sensor systems or photonic integrated circuits (PICs) on chips.
The problem of the rapid increases in energy demand and heat generation in data centers is an important driver for silicon photonics. While electronic cables, circuits and chips require a lot of energy for each data transfer, which mostly ends up as useless waste energy, optical data transmission is far more energy-efficient—fiber optic cables show almost no thermal reaction at even the highest data rates.
Challenges arise, for instance, when connecting the miniaturized, almost 100 nanometer-thin waveguides on the chips to normal optical fibers with diameters in the double-digit micrometer range; or ultrapure materials for which atom-thin optical 2D functional layers on the chips often need to be developed.
Today, researchers are working on compact LiDAR-on-a-chip systems without moving parts. Complex receiver and transmitter systems with dozens of lasers, modulators, wave lockers, detectors, etc. can be accommodated on chips no larger than a fingernail. This doesn’t just save on costs and space, it also leads to robust, functionally superior system designs. A wide range of photonic chips can be achieved on the same waver. It is now possible to fit well over 1,000 optical components on one chip, and this may rise to tens or hundreds of thousands of components per chip as nanophotonic methods and components continue to be developed.
According to Yole Développement, the market volume of silicon photonics will rise from 400 million to 1.4 billion USD by 2025.
We recommend watching the introductory lecture, “The Revolution of Silicon Photonics” by pioneering researcher Michal Lipson at the New York Academy of Sciences and the in-depth version of the lecture, which she held at the 2019 World of Photonics Congress in Munich.
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Armistice Day ceremony – Sunday, November 11, at 9:30am
Posté le 6 November 2018 dans Non classé.
The town of Marnes-la-Coquette will organize the annual Armistice Day ceremony at the Memorial this Sunday, November 11, at 9:30am.… Lire la suite
Eugene Jacques Bullard, The Black Swallow of Death
Posté le 11 January 2016 dans Non classé.
Eugene Bullard was a member of the 269 pilot strong Lafayette Flying Corps, those American pilots who flew under French command from early 1916 until February 1918, and who are commemorated at the Lafayette Escadrille Memorial. Bullard was known … Lire la suite
The visit to the Memorial of US Air Force General Paul Selva
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We were honored today with the visit to the Memorial of US Air Force General Paul Selva, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The General paid homage to the Lafayette pilots and visited the crypt, which is … Lire la suite | <urn:uuid:f198c49c-8e4e-435e-a3db-b3325452868e> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | http://www.lafayetteescadrille.org/en/news/ | 2023-03-25T01:21:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296945292.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20230325002113-20230325032113-00504.warc.gz | en | 0.901494 | 227 |
The tomatillo is a small fruit in the tomato family that grows enclosed in a husk. When peeled, the fruit resembles a small unripe tomato and is usually green or
yellow. The yellow color indicates ripeness, however, tomatillos are usually used when they are still green. Green tomatillos are firmer and
easier to slice. The husk that holds the fruit is paper-like and is
light brown. The flesh is slightly acidic with a hint of lemon.
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How do holographic nail polishes work?
The main types of polishes with holographic effects that I know of are linear holo (e.g. Nubar Reclaim, China Glaze OMG collection, Nfu-Oh 61), scattered holo (China Glaze Kaleidoscope collection, Milani HD) and holo glitter (a lot of glitter polishes have holo bits in them – OPI Teenage Dream is one example). They all work quite similarly.
White light is actually made up of many colours, and can be split – such as in rainbows. Holographic particles do this too – they’re silver particles with a coating which splits or diffracts the light into a colour spectrum:
(Note: this is a very simplified diagram. The production of the spectrum is actually a bit more complex and involves patterns of constructive and destructive interference, but the idea is essentially the same.)
The main thing which changes how “linear” a holo polish will be is how smooth the layer of holo particles is:
Generally, the smaller the particle size and the denser the polish, the smoother the holo layer. If the layer is smooth, then the colours reflected go gradually through the colour spectrum and so you get a linear holo effect. But if the layer is less smooth, then the colour change is less gradual and you end up with a scattered effect. If you have a very smooth holographic surface, such as on the back of a CD or DVD, you will get a perfect uninterrupted rainbow.
I swatched a Spectraflair topcoat over a black creme to show the effect:
From left to right:
1. Incomplete coat – moderately scattered
2. One coat – mostly linear holo
3. Two coats – similar to 2 but more silver due to greater reflectance from more particles
4. Three coats – less linear than the other coats, despite more holo particles – repeated brushing has made the top layer uneven. Very silver.
So application and polish formula is important in determining how scattered a holo is as well.
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As in Malaysia two weeks ago, McLaren headed the times on the first day of practice for Sunday’s Chinese Grand Prix.
Jenson Button was fastest in the morning with team mate Lewis Hamilton on top in the afternoon, with Nico Rosberg second, Button third and Michael Schumacher fourth, making it four Mercedes engines in the top four places.
We didn’t see what the McLaren was capable of in qualifying in Malaysia because rain intervened. The forecast for Shanghai tomorrow is sunny with only a 10% chance of rain, so we will see whether the team has managed to close the gap on Red Bull and Ferrari in qualifying pace. It will also be interesting to see what difference, if any, the new ruling on adjustable suspension has on the field and if Mercedes have got themselves a little closer.
The Red Bull cars of Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber were fifth and sixth and cautiously remain the team to beat. However Vettel has said this weekend that he fears the McLarens here and the team needs to get one of the F duct rear wings as soon as possible to take advantage of the straight line speed advantage it brings.
“It is something you have to have, no matter if you have a midfield car or probably one of the best cars. It is worth quite a bit, and is quite a big advantage in terms of lap time. It probably depends on the circuit, but it is up to five tenths, ” he said.
But as McLaren’s chassis was designed around this clever idea, wth an inlet duct on top of the monocoque, they have the system optimised, whereas the others are having to place the air inlet duct in a less perfect place.
However Ferrari have brought one to Shanghai this weekend, although it has yet to activate it, Mercedes tried one, while Sauber already had one on the car. Williams has one in the pipeline.
Through the speed trap Kobayashi and Hamilton were clocked at 312km/h on Shanghai’s long main straight, with Alonso at 311 km/h.
The morning session was overshadowed by a spectacular accident for Sebastien Buemi in the Toro Rosso; an upright failed and both front wheels came of the car in the braking zone at the end of the long straight. He was not able to get out in the second session.
There was also concern for Fernando Alonso who stopped after just six laps with flames coming from the engine of his Ferrari. The team has yet to release details of what happened, but said before the weekend that it had no engine worries, despite the failure on Alonso’s car in Malaysia. Alonso said after practice that he has “zero worries” on engines, despite the fact that he now has just six units – one of which has done qualifying and the race in Bahrain and will used for the rest of this weekend – to cover the remaining 16 races (including the next two days).
The two ultra long right-handed corners could prove quite influential in qualifying and the race with the six cars from the new teams being some way off the pace. Alonso lost 1.7 secs in final sector on a hot lap, mainly because he was held up by the Hispania car of Bruno Senna in the long Turn 13. The cars are in that corner a long time and if a much slower car is in your way at a critical point it shows how that could affect the lap time for the front runners quite significantly.
Chinese Grand Prix: Practice 2 times
1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.217 26
2. Rosberg Mercedes 1:35.465 + 0.248 22
3. Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.593 + 0.376 26
4. Schumacher Mercedes 1:35.602 + 0.385 28
5. Vettel Red Bull-Renault 1:35.791 + 0.574 30
6. Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:35.995 + 0.778 29
7. Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:36.254 + 1.037 31
8. Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:36.377 + 1.160 43
9. Kubica Renault 1:36.389 + 1.172 29
10. Alonso Ferrari 1:36.604 + 1.387 33
11. Massa Ferrari 1:36.944 + 1.727 36
12. Petrov Renault 1:36.986 + 1.769 27
13. de la Rosa Sauber-Ferrari 1:37.421 + 2.204 32
14. Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:37.431 + 2.214 33
15. Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:37.657 + 2.440 30
16. Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 1:37.804 + 2.587 31
17. Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 1:37.867 + 2.650 29
18. Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 1:39.624 + 4.407 35
19. Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 1:39.947 + 4.730 30
20. Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:40.233 + 5.016 27
21. Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 1:41.008 + 5.791 32
22. di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 1:41.107 + 5.890 28
23. Senna HRT-Cosworth 1:41.345 + 6.128 32
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Taken this morning with flurries falling. The Snake Pit is in the basement. Barry Gordy, Jr.’s apartment was upstairs. There are three bottles of Coca Cola in the apartment. Mr. Gordy and I share similar taste in pop.
The summer of 1964, I found the music that I would love for the rest of my life: Four Seasons, Beach Boys, and Motown. Loved the Four Tops, Temptations, Mary Wells, and all of the other great Motown groups. Tuneful, upbeat, infectious music. That made me just about like every other teenager in the 1960′s.
Fast forward to the 1990′s: I had to go to Las Vegas at least twice yearly for trade shows. They opened the “Motown Cafe” in the New York, New York Hotel (should have been Detroit, Detroit). Every time I visited Vegas I would go to the cafe at least once because not only did they have memorabilia, they had live Motown music at least once each hour. Unfortunately, it closed in 2000 and was replaced with the vastly inferior ESPNZone.
In 2002, an absolutely amazing movie came out: Standing in the Shadows of Motown. Shadows asked a question I (and probably 99% of Motown’s other fans) had never considered: Who played the music for all of these vocal groups? The Supremes didn’t play instruments. Neither did the Tops, the Temps., etc, etc. Yet, there was this identifiable sound associated with Motown. Where did the music come from?
Screen capture from “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” Joan Osborne singing “Heatwave” with (from left) Funk Brothers Joe Hunter and Jack Ashford
The movie is absolutely wonderful, even if you are not especially a Motown fan. Unfortunately, I cannot embedthis clip of Joan Osborne singing “Heatwave.” So, click the link, listen and come back…I’ll wait.
Even though it is not Martha & the Vandellas it is clearly the Motown sound – your ears would recognize it anywhere. Turns out it a small group of musicians — black and white — known as “The Funk Brothers” played on every one of those songs! Collectively, the Funk Brothers had more hits than the Beatles, Elvis, the Rolling Stones and the Beach Boys, combined! But, until the book and movie, they never received any recognition (more about that below).
Once I heard and saw their story, I decided I had to get to Hitsville, U.S.A.
That is what Barry Gordy, Jr., the founder and entrepreneur, called his little complex of homes on West Grand that became the offices and studios of Tamla then Motown records. It is now officially called the Motown Museum. Gordy borrowed $800 from his Mom and Dad on condition he pay it back in a year. He did, and much more.
Standing in the Snake Pit
I met some absolutely wonderful people this morning and learned so much. The most thrilling part was getting to go into the Snake Pit, where every one of those songswas recorded. The original instruments and equipment are still there. They don’t allow photos but I found this video that I could embed.
Seeing Funk Brother Jack Ashford’s vibes, for example, was a complete thrill (pictured in the video above). Or, the organ where they played the intro to Heard It Through the Grapevine. The Snake Pit piano was a loaner. When Paul McCartney visited recently, he wanted to play (sure…they’ll let him touch the instruments!). He was told the piano was in such bad shape, they would prefer he did not. So, Sir Paul sent the original off to Steinway for refurbishing. They have a loaner in there now.
Seeing the Snake Pit and all of the little techniques they used to polish the sound would have been enough. But, there is so much more.
The Reason Dianna Ross Could Always Perfectly Pose for Pictures
I was going to teach them how to act and how to walk.
I wanted them to be able to meet kings and queens.
They all thought I was crazy. They’d say, “I
just want a hit record.”
— Maxine Powell, artist development
When Little Stevie Wonder started with Motown he was 11. Diana Ross was 14. Kids.
So, Gordy realized that their vocal talent was not sufficient. He hired a number of people, like Maxine Powell (above), to coach them on their voice techniques, pose for pictures, move on stage (there is an area where they explain how the choreographer taught The Temptations to move) and how to conduct themselves. There is even a video of some of them being introduced to Queen Elizabeth.
There are displays of how the original album art was created. In the early days, the artists did not appear on the album covers. Gordy was afraid that showing the artists as being black would limit their appeal. That changed when Ed Sullivan embraced them. Gordy, and the artists, found white America loved their music.
At Last, Recognition
From left, Robert White (who played the guitar into to “My Girl”), Dan Turner, Earl Van Dyke, Uriel Jones and James Jamerson
But, still, the Funk Brothers received no recognition. It wasn’t until Marvin Gaye’s (current featured artist in the museum) What’s Going On that any of the names of the instrumental artists even appeared on the album jacket.
Finally, in 2002, the Funk Brothers won two Grammies. One with Chaka Khan for her great performance of What’s Going On in Shadows and for the movie’s soundtrack. In 2004, they won for Lifetime Achievement.
Funk Brothers posting with the two producers (at right) with their Grammies for “Shadows’” soundtrack.
Unfortunately, we’re continuing to lose the Funk Brothers to age. At least two (Uriel Jones and Joe Hunter) have passed away since the movie was made.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown, their story, came out 41 years after they first provided the instrumental music for all of those many, many, hits. I highly recommend the movie (it has been running on cable lately, also available on DVD). And, if you are ever in Detroit, go visit. You won’t be sorry.
Checking this item off my “bucket list” this morning was a tremendous thrill.
Tomorrow: I’ll have a couple of thoughts about Detroit itself.
ADDITION: Shadows is available on iTunes to rent for $3 or to purchase for $10. I’m right now purchasing a copy to watch on the plane back tomorrow, even though I have the DVD.
As long-time blog readers know, I’m a huge fan of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and the musical based on their life, Jersey Boys.
For the first time ever, a Broadway show cast has done a separate Christmas album. It is produced by the original Season, Bob Gaudio (who wrote most all of their hits), and features cast members from the various companies of JB throughout the world.
Some of the songs (“Santa Medley”) are done in Four Seasons style and others are done in a more typical style for Christmas songs.
Two weeks ago tonight, Kathleen and I were supposed to be in Branson watching Andy Williams and Ann-Margaret in a joint show. We got a call from Williams’ theatre informing us that Mr. Williams was ill and would not be able to perform that evening.
Now, we know why: He has bladder cancer and is undergoing treatment. We wish him well.
Kathleen and I look forward to each new episode of the “Big Bang Theory.” I especially like it because I went to school with people just like Sheldon and his gang. In fact, I have to admit there was a time that, as a member of the University of Oklahoma’s Engineer’s Club, I thought young ladies would be impressed with the size of the slide rule I had attached to my belt.
I think the theme from BBT is very clever. There is the full version from the Bare Naked Ladies:
My friends know that I ask for motor skills every Christmas but never quite seem to get them. When I played Prof. Harold Hill in “The Music Man” while in high school they had to dumb down the Shipoopi for me! I greatly admire those that are so graceful they can dance on stage.
Frankie Valli playing with his new “Four Seasons” in Florida Photo: justnews.com
As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. When Billboard magazine published its 50th anniversary issue, we learned the Seasons were #9 in terms of number of hit songs, higher than many other well known groups (i.e., the Beach Boys).
With the huge success of Jersey Boys, a new generation is enjoying this uniquely American
Attending performance #6 of “Jersey Boys” on Broadway, 2005
“Jersey Boys’” Theatre, Las Vegas
So, I was amused to read the Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons became popular because of Jersey Boys. This is a photo of the Seasons in their heyday (1960′s):
From left, Tommy DeVito, Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio, Nick Massi
And, Frankie Friday night:
Note the caption above.
It is great seeing Frankie look so good, he will be 77 in May. I got to hear him in Kansas City last summer.
If you watched Today on NBC this morning, you saw Ann Curry learn to be in a marching band at Bergenfield, NJ High School. The featured song throughout the piece was Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons’ “Who Loves You.”
Coincidence? I don’t think so.
If you have seen Jersey Boys you know that Bob Gaudio was the songwriter of the Four Seasons’ numerous hits. Bergenfield High was the school he attended but didn’t graduate from. So, it is natural Bergenfield is partial to Four Seasons’ hits.
The surviving Four Seasons at the opening of “Jersey Boys.” From right, Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli and Tommy DeVito. Nick Massi passed away in 2000.
In a ceremony on February 3, 2009, Bob Gaudio received an honorary diploma from Bergenfield High School.
ADDITION: The video of Ann playing “Who Loves You” is here.
The Four Seasons. From left, Tommy DeVito, Franki Valli, Bob Gaudio and Nick Massi
I have been a huge fan of The Four Seasons since the first time I heard “Rag Doll” in the summer of 1964. According to Billboard magazine, they rank #9 in hit songs (number of records on the Hot 100) of all artists since the magazine was created in the 1950′s. In spite of that huge success, they were never “trendy” and didn’t get the acclaim of many of the other artists of that era.
In 2004, Kathleen and I traveled to La Jolla, California to see a show about Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons called “Jersey Boys.” We were blown away. People were — literally — dancing in the aisles. Night after night the show was selling out and its run was extended multiple times. We got to stay after the show and talk to its creators and were excited when we learned they were going to take it to Broadway.
On November 6, 2005, “Jersey Boys” opened on Broadway. Six days later, Kathleen, Tiffany and I were in NYC to see the show and it was immediately obvious it was going to be a blowout hit. I spoke with boxing promoter Don King and CBS’s Julie Chen that evening; they loved it, too.
The Jersey Boys Theatre in the Palazzo Hotel, Las Vegas
Now, 5 years, four Tony Awards (including best musical), one Grammy (best cast album), and $852,000,000 later, “Jersey Boys” is one of the biggest hits in the history of Broadway. If you haven’t seen it, make sure you make it a point to see it when you are in New York, Vegas, the touring company, Sydney or London.
This interview with Bob Gaudio, writer of most of their hits and the group’s keyboard player, tells the story well.
Where are the original Four Seasons now? Frankie Valli still tours, Bob Gaudio is still producing, Tom DeVito lives in Vegas and is in the music business, and Nick Massi passed away Christmas Eve 2000.
Congratulations to the Seasons and the show’s creators on five smash years.
UPDATE: Coverage of the many fifth anniversary activities here.
Due to shceduling conflicts, Hoff Longoria Reichard and Spencer Live In Concert “HOLIDAY TWIST” has been cancelled. If you purchased tickets and paid by credit card on line or over the phone, you will be automatically refunded. If you paid by cash or at an outlet please bring your tickets… Read More
UPDATE: Event has been moved to December 17, 2010
“It’s just too good to be true!”… the original cast of Jersey Boys is coming to Wichita with their four man music show.
Kathleen, daughter Tiffany, and I got to see JB six days after it opened on Broadway with the original Broadway cast and — wow. As Tiffany said when it ended, “that was amazing!”
Pictured from left to right, Michael Longoria, J. Robert Spencer, Christian Hoff and Daniel Reichard
The original cast members of Jersey Boys will be in Wichita October 15 at Hartman Arena to sing the songs from JB as well as many non-Four Seasons songs. I got to see a little of their show on television a few weeks ago and it was terrific. This is a one time event. Tickets go on sale tomorrow.
UPDATE: Los Angeles Times has behind-the-scenes details here, including that the spectacular opening number (subject of the post below) wasn’t staged until the morning of the show!
Also, there are two episodes of “Glee” scheduled to air on Fox after the President’s speech tonight. The first, “Home,” stars Kristin Chenoweth and is one of my favorite episodes.
We don’t write much about television and entertainment because there are so many other sources for that type of information. That said, if you didn’t see the live telecast of the 62nd Emmy Awards last night, go here to watch the opening number. It is sheer genius — perhaps the best opening number ever for one of the major awards show.
Especially if you are a fan of “Glee,” take six minutes to watch the number.
I enjoy Norah Jones’ music and was pleased when I learned she was coming to Wichita. So, Kathleen and I bought tickets and were looking forward to the evening. Curtain was 8pm yesterday.
At 7:55 the house announcer did the usual “turn off your cellphones” announcement and ended with “Norah will be out momentarily.” At 8:01, the lights came down and a young woman walked out on stage…but it wasn’t Norah. It was (in my world) the dreaded unannounced opening act. She performed for 30 minutes. Then, the roadies came out and reset the stage (after solo vocalist/guitarist) for 30 minutes! Finally, at 9:07, out came Norah.
While I didn’t care for the opening act, it wouldn’t have mattered if it was Eric Clapton. Concert promoters should list the performers and the times. In my opinion, it is rude and disrespectful of the audience’s time for the main act to keep everyone waiting for more than an hour.
If you want an example of doing it right, go see Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. They arrive on stage at the appointed time and perform for an hour and fifty minutes…without a break! Frankie is an old time performer (at age 75) with far more on-stage energy and enthusiasm than Ms. Jones.
UPDATE: Here is the man himself singing “Sherry” at the Westbury Music Fair in October, 2009.
I heard the most extraordinary program on “Siriusly Sinatra” yesterday. Recorded 45 years ago this week in St. Louis, Johnny Carson hosted a benefit performance by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. The quality of the recording and the performances are terrific. It will be repeated at 8pm Central tonight. More information here.
Yesterday was the annual Symphony in the Flint Hills and it was simply stunning. As guest artist Lyle Lovett said, “once you have seen the Flint Hills you are changed forever.”
My teammates at WeatherData were doing the forecasting and storm warnings and I was the on-site meteorologist for the event (the subject of a posting tomorrow). The weather was quite cloudy at the time the gates opened. However, I was confident the sky would not be “cloudy all day.”
As background, please go to my posting of ten days ago to see the site before the tents and other structures were constructed. One of the goals of the organizers is to give people the opportunity to get deep into the Flint Hills to see their incredible beauty.
Because the weather was quite questionable during the morning, I was extremely busy until I took a quick lunch break. Before you is the view from the food tent before the gates opened.
The atmosphere is quite a bit different from most symphonic concerts.
The Kansas City Symphony and Lyle Lovett performed an exquisite program of music appropriate to both the occasion and location. Click on the photo to enlarge.
The closing number was Mr. Lovett leading the crowd in a stirring rendition of the state song of Kansas, “Home on the Range.” Men were so moved, they put their stetsons over their hearts. The sky was not cloudy all day.
People come from all over the United States for this event and I highly recommend it. If you are interested in tickets for 2011, click here to sign up for information (lower right).
UPDATE: A friend of mine attended for the first time yesterday and emails me the following: I was completely, totally blown away. It was so beautiful, and the music was so wonderful that I find myself using the word “magical.”
I have been a huge Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons fan since I first heard “Rag Doll” in the summer of 1964. Not only are they members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, according to Billboard magazine, they rank #9 in number of hits, more than the Beach Boys and many other more “fashionable” groups. And, with the success of Jersey Boys, the smash hit Broadway musical that tells the story of their lives, a new generation of Four Seasons fans has begun.
Last night, Kathleen, Brandon (son) and Mary (daughter-in-law) and I got to see Frankie and the Seasons at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City. As always, they gave a great show. Frankie is now 75 but is the consummate performer. If you would like to see them, a schedule is here. And, if you would like to see the superb Jersey Boys, the schedules are here.
To make the evening perfect, we were treated to a spectacular lightning show driving back to Wichita.
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harap2 betullah dan mengikut spek yg dingini adikku wana yg comey..
Last beverage → air putih
Last phone call → konojo..tanya kat mana
Last text message → konojo
Last time you cried → entah..tanya konojo
HAVE YOU EVER:
Dated someone twice → konojo
Been cheated → da jugak tp x ingat..
Kissed someone & regretted it → not yet..
Lost someone special→ someone that support me from bottom till top..
IN THE PAST MONTH HAVE YOU:
Fallen out of love → never
Laughed until you cried → yes..SD team.
Met someone who changed your life →konojo & fahmi latiff ~jumpa dalam blog
Found out someone was talking about you → SD team....meja belakang tu
How many people on your top friends do you know in real life? →not so much coz not so bossy
How many kids do you want to have → 24 konojo can
How Do u have any pets → cats, fish & turtles
Do you want to change your name → no...
What time did you wake up today →4.30 pg..awal glew kan
What were you doing at midnight last night → thingking bout konojo.
Name something you cannot wait for →to hear a final words from konojo.
Last time you saw your father→ just now
What's one thing you wish you could change -->to turn back the time
Have you ever talked to a person named Tom --> Tommy can kah?
What's getting on your nerves right now --> why me lord?
Elementary/Primary School → SK Datok Keramat. KL
Middle/Secondary School --> Victoria Institution
Hair color → Black
Long or short → short
First surgery → 5 years old
First piercing → never
First best friend → Qiam
First sport you joined → hockey
First pet → cat
First vacation → langkawi
Eating →ikan masak jintan
Drinking → plain water
Waiting → konojo's story
YOUR FUTURE :
Want kids? → of coz
Want to get married? → yup
Careers in mind? → be a good father, hubby & caretaker of both family
HAVE YOU EVER :
Kissed a stranger → not yet
Lost glasses/contacts →yes in the bus mini after training
Ran away from home →never
Broken someone's heart → been broken??
Been arrested →by police traffic at tol Batu Tiga, lesen mati
Cried when someone died →yes live and drama...do know why.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
Miracles → yes
Heaven → definitely
Santa Claus → no comment
ANSWER TRUTHFULLY :
Is there one person you want to be with right now? → konojo
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BLOOMINGTON — An Indiana University sorority has been placed on cease and desist following an investigation by the school's student-run newspaper into alleged hazing incidents.
IU spokesperson Chuck Carney said the university became aware of new information into hazing allegations against the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. The Indiana Daily Student published an investigation into the alleged incidents on Thursday morning.
Cease and desist is an interim measure placed on a chapter when there is an immediate threat or ongoing investigation, Carney said. Kappa Kappa Gamma is currently suspended from hosting activities.
"IU does not tolerate hazing," Carney said in an email to WRTV. "Organizations and individuals who engage in such behaviors will be subject to any number of disciplinary outcomes up to and including suspension and removal from campus."
The IDS report detailed multiple alleged incidents of hazing at Kappa Kappa Gamma that occurred over in recent years.
The Indiana University Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities & Conduct defines hazing as "any conduct that subjects another person, whether physically, mentally, emotionally, or psychologically, to anything that may endanger, abuse, degrade, or intimidate the person as a condition of association with a group or organization, regardless of the person’s consent or lack of consent.”
IU students can report hazing incidents to the Division of Student Affairs. Students can also contact a confidential victim advocate by emailing email@example.com to learn how to report anonymously.
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…… and stops.
It’s been an eventful week for my family. Exciting things have been happening.
But for other families …… time has stopped.
Granted, I don’t personally know these families, but I have been where they are and I know the journey that lies before them.
And my heart breaks for them.
David Bowie …… and his wife Iman.
Alan Rickman …… and his wife Rima.
Rene Angelil …… and his wife Celine.
I hate that these women are now in this “club”.
I hate what lies ahead for them.
I hope that they find the kind of support and love and acceptance that’s here for them.
And life moves forward.
Slowly. One second at a time.
And then one day at a time.
I’m feeling overwhelmed.
In a good way.
Daughter #2 has been involved in a home remodeling.
It just so happens that this remodel is being done by a very popular show on HGTV.
It’s been going on since early November.
And today was the “reveal” of the finished project.
I was on “Gigi duty”.
Meaning, I took care of Little Man while all of the filming was going on.
I watched the taping from afar.
Which was frustrating, because I would’ve loved to have seen my daughter’s face when she saw her “new” home.
But I’ll watch it on TV when everyone else does.
(Which will be some time in March or April …… I’ll keep you posted.)
I took pictures from several houses away.
I entertained Little Man and then drove him around the block a few times so that he could fall asleep for a nap.
We spent an hour or so in the car.
And then it was done and I was able to wake him up and go into the house.
I knew that the finished product would be wonderful.
I expected to be delighted with the result.
But I didn’t expect to be so overwhelmed that I would cry.
I was shocked.
And so grateful and thrilled for my daughter.
I felt very blessed that she has been so blessed.
The house is more beautiful than I could have imagined.
I feel honored to be a witness to this blessing.
And honored to know that so many of my friends and family have helped out with this blessing.
Daughter #3 and her very good friend (also sometimes known as Daughter #4) created a site for people to donate for this remodel.
Contrary to popular belief, HGTV does not pay for the work.
You have to pay for it yourself, and it is not cheap.
Not by a long shot.
I shared the site on Face Book.
And holy cow, my friends and family rose to the occasion.
I’m flabbergasted at the love and generosity.
It will help Daughter #2 so very much.
She’s a social worker.
She’s a single mom of a foster child (who’s now 15 months old … can you believe it?!!).
And she’s moving forward to try to adopt Little Man.
All prayers are very appreciated.
I think they’re going to keep the site open for a bit longer.
If you’d like to help …… here’s the link.
If you can’t, we’d still appreciate your prayers and positive thoughts.
They still need to finish a few things before she and Little Man can move back into the house.
Which will hopefully be in a couple of weeks.
Right now she’s living in a studio apartment.
Which is about the size of a nice walk in closet.
I don’t know how she’s done it.
But I’ll get to experience it later this week when she goes to a conference and Gracie and I move in to take care of Little Man.
Keep those prayers and positive thoughts coming!
Until then Gracie and I are staying in a hotel.
In Waco, Texas.
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Monday, December 26, 2011
In the USA, a study by Boise State University found that 60% of heterosexual women have been sexually attracted to other women.
In the USA, the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) has found that sexual activity between teenage girls has increased.
And, teenage pregnancy has gone down.
In 2002, 5% of 17-year-old girls claimed to have had sex with other girls.
Figures from 2006 to 2008 showed that 11% of 17-year-old girls claimed to have had sex with other girls.
In 2002, 63% of 17-year-old girls claimed to have had sex with males.
Figures from 2006 t0 2008 showed that 46% claimed to have had sex with males.
Same-sex contact among girls on the rise
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From Pennsylvania, USA:
I delivered a 7 pound, 9 ounce baby boy several days ago. He was delivered at 37 weeks as I had been diagnosed with both pregnancy-induced hypertension and gestational diabetes with multiple complications during the pregnancy. The gestational diabetes had been diet controlled only and blood sugars remained mostly in the normal range during the last 2 months of pregnancy. Since birth, his blood sugars has been unstable ranging anywhere from 24 to 78. He has been asymptomatic with these episodes except possibly for some lethargy. I wanted to know whether this is a transient thing because of my gestational diabetes or if I should be concerned about other causes. I have asked his neonatologist some of these questions, but he just gives vague answers about insulin production which I am well aware of since I am a registered nurse. What could some of the other causes for this hypoglycemia be and is it too early to be really concerned about other causes since he is only 4 days old. I am also interested in what you would recommend for the treatment at this point since he is presently in a small local hospital and only under the care of a neonatologist as opposed to a pediatric endocrinologist.
Neonatal hypoglycemia from maternal gestational diabetes is usually transient, lasting a few days. This is due to excess insulin production by the baby. As the baby adjusts to a more normal glucose intake, the symptoms should improve. If there is no improvement, then additional tests for other metabolic disorders such be obtained. You should discuss this further with the pediatrician taking care of your baby.
Original posting 28 May 1999
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No my post today.
It’s Friday and, for the very first time, I decided to join in the #FeautureAFurriendFriday .
So I want to share with you a pic of a very special guy, that, today, turned himself in a beautiful angel 👼.
I came across Eddie’s profile only a few days ago, but it took me just so little time to fall in love with him. I wish so much I knew him earlier.
Every post I’ve read through these days about his situation, moved me so much. It’s such a hard decision the one his humans made, but I think it’s the right thing for him.
I hope he’ll find lots of delicious tuna and happiness beyond the rainbow bridge! I will always carry Eddie, such a special cat, and his humans in my heart and thoughts!
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The Enchanted Collection (Alice in Wonderland, The Secret Garden, Little Women and More!)
The Penderwicks, Mad About Madeline, The Books of Bayern
The Wee Free Men: The Beginning (First Two Books, Not Prequel); His Dark Materials Collection
The American Girl Collections (there are many more character to chose from!)
The Nancy Drew Starter Set, The Song of the Lioness Series, The Enchanted Forest Chronicles
The Little House Full Set, The Prydain Chronicles, The Spiderwick Collection
Oz, the Complete Collection, Harry Potter Set, The Hunger Games Trilogy, The Divergent Trilogy
Oh My Goodness! So many great books – and so many new titles for me recommended by you!
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Piedmont / Mountain Floodplain Forests
These temporarily and intermittently flooded forests encompass most river floodplain habitats of the Piedmont and major mountain valleys, except those that are cleared or occupied by swamp forests. From the James River north, sandy river banks and first-bottom terraces that are frequently (but shortly) flooded support forests dominated by silver maple (Acer saccharinum) and boxelder (Acer negundo var. negundo), with herb layers containing many broad-leaved forbs such as wood-nettle (Laportea canadensis), clear-weed (Pilea pumila), and white snakeroot (Ageratina altissima var. altissima). Higher, better drained, sandy or silty river floodplains support mixed forests of sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), black walnut (Juglans nigra), hackberry (Celtis occidentalis), American elm (Ulmus americana), and boxelder, with understories of paw-paw (Asimina triloba) and spicebush (Lindera benzoin var. benzoin). Herb layers in the mixed floodplains are usually very lush with nutrient-demanding, early-season species such as Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica), Canada waterleaf (Hydrophyllum canadense), wild ginger (Asarum canadense var. canadense), yellow trout-lily (Erythronium americanum ssp. americanum), white trout-lily (Erythronium albidum), Potomac River only), wild blue phlox (Phlox divaricata ssp. divaricata), miami-mist (Phacelia purshii), large solomon's-seal (Polygonatum biflorum var. commutatum), striped violet (Viola striata), and many others. Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides ssp. deltoides) is a frequent, early-successional pioneer of these habitats, while sycamore and river birch (Betula nigra) are pioneering invaders of stabilized depositional river bars.
In the Piedmont south of the James River, silver maple is infrequent and river bottoms usually support mixed stands of green ash (Fraxinus pennsylvanica), American elm, hackberries (Celtis occidentalis and Celtis laevigata), sycamore, sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua), red maple (Acer rubrum), bitternut hickory (Carya cordiformis), and hydrophytic oaks (e.g ., willow oak [Quercus phellos], Shumard oak [Quercus shumardii)]). Small tree, shrub, and herbaceous composition is highly variable with geography and site conditions.
Most Piedmont/Mountain Floodplain Forests have been severely impacted by clearing, grazing, agricultural run-off, and invasive introduced weeds. Many of these forests have been destroyed and few, if any, of the remaining stands are in excellent or pristine condition.References: Fleming (2002a), Fleming (2007), Fleming and Coulling (2001), Fleming and Patterson (2004), Lea (2000), Rawinski et al . (1996), Vanderhorst (2000).
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|Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica) dominate the vernal herb layer of a rich floodplain forest along the Shenandoah River in Clarke County. Photo: © Gary P. Fleming.|
|Silver maples (Acer saccharinum) line the banks of the James River, while sycamore (Platanus occidentalis) and river birch (Betula nigra) dominate the lower-lying island beyond. Hardware River Wildlife Management Area, Fluvanna County. Photo © Gary P. Fleming.|
|Canada waterleaf (Hydrophyllum canadense) is a patch-dominant herb in rich, well-drained floodplain forests of the Potomac Gorge west of Washington, D.C. Turkey Run Park, Fairfax County. Photo: Gary P. Fleming / © DCR Natural Heritage.|
|Flooded silver maple (Acer saccharinum) stand on the Potomac River. Wood nettle (Laportea canadensis) is the prominent herb in the foreground. Scotts Run Nature Preserve, Fairfax County. Photo: Karen D. Patterson / © DCR Natural Heritage.|
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The University of Limerick has five Learning Centres specific to different disciplines which are available for students to access.
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The Science Learning Centre provides support to UL students whose degree includes a science or engineering component. We also work with staff in science and engineering disciplines to develop transformative pedagogies for STEM disciplines in higher education.
Mathematics Learning Centre
All UL students studying courses that have a mathematics or statistics module can avail of the Mathematics Learning Centre's (MLC) services free of charge.
The Mathematics Learning Centre provides maths support services for students.
Information and Communications Technologies Learning Centre
The ICT Learning Centre aims to support and promote active learning among the students of ICT related programmes in UL, via the use of proven learner support approaches, tutoring innovation, research and evaluation, with the goal of developing learners who are confident and effective ICT practitioners.
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The Writing Centre at UL offers a free and friendly place for all students (undergraduate and postgraduate) to come and address any aspect of their writing. This resource is dedicated to helping students develop strategies to become more confident, critical and autonomous writers.
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Toshiba SD-9200 DVD-Audio/Video player Page 4
Finally, however, I achieved my goal: two-channel playback of "Riders on the Storm." Whew. The DVD-A stereo mix was indisputably more holographic, extended, and dynamic than the garden-variety CD, particularly in how it fleshed out and centered Jim Morrison's vocals in their own acoustic space.
My experience of Natalie Merchant's Tigerlily DVD-A (Elektra 62570-9) was different. The opening menu simply listed tracks, offering no options for choosing between stereo and multichannel, and pressing the Audio button revealed that the disc was in 24/96 Analog 6ch mode. Was the downmix to stereo automatic? You got me. In any event, the CD of Tigerlily just wiped the floor with the DVD-A. The CD version of her hit song "Wonder" sounded like something a rock'n'roll fan would love: the drums had a taut, palpable bottom and crisp, natural attack, but sounded washed-out and opaque on the DVD-A; the bass was punchy, focused, and forceful on CD, amorphous and tubby on DVD-A; and while Merchant's chanting, Dylanesque vocals were nicely centered on CD, they tended to drift a bit on DVD-A.
Just to be clear: I am reacting to the software here, not the hardware, which had given as good as it got on the two-channel 24/96 DADs. Trouble is, who knows what you're getting with DVD-A?
I'm not sure I can draw many conclusions about DVD-A as a medium from this evaluation. The Toshiba SD-9200 performed admirably, and offered a good level of audiophile two-channel performance for the price; I trust that what it offers in the way of multichannel panache might put it over the top for some viewer-listeners, but I'll have to leave that conclusion to those colleagues of mine blessed with true surround-sound setups. And while the SD-9200 is a shade below the long-discontinued California Audio Labs CL-20 in terms of absolute resolution on both 24/96 DADs and CDs, I never felt shortchanged by its performance in the many hours I spent listening to it as my primary source.
As for the efficacy of DVD-Audio as a hi-rez two-channel audiophile format, there were moments when I thought I could really hear its potential. After A/B-ing the DVD-A and SACD versions of Dave's True Story's "Dear Miss Lucy," for example, the DVD-A seemed warmer and deeper, the SACD more open, transparent, and detailed—which suggests that each format, when fully fleshed out, has much to offer. Still, it's hard to say, for now, how far along DVD-A actually is.
But unlike SACD, it was hardly an intuitive experience to navigate DVD-A's varied disc menus and programs and doodads. I found frustrating in the extreme the format's apparent insistence on on-screen navigation and the absence of front-panel or remote features that might allow listeners to simply default the hardware and software so as to make things behave like a two-channel stereo system. The rollout of DVD-A seems aimed at something other than a pure listening experience, in my considered opinion.
I heard enough that was compelling in DVD-Audio to keep an open mind, but the idea that anything you might hear on a DVD-A (or SACD) is automatically going to sound superior to a CD is suspect. I agree with Jonathan Scull that perhaps the best-sounding track on Beyond CD: The Premiere DVD-Audio Sampler (Warner Music Group A 600) is the Béla Fleck bluegrass track, "Katmandu," which is not 24/96 but 24/48. And it's interesting to hear how much information an old analog mix can contain—such as Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Lucky Man." What this suggests, as I've written in "Quarter Notes," is that the ancient values of good room, good mikes, and good placement are still crucial, regardless of recording format. | <urn:uuid:b35cd1d6-78fe-47a7-ac0b-88477f2343f3> | CC-MAIN-2015-48 | http://www.stereophile.com/content/toshiba-sd-9200-dvd-audiovideo-player-page-4 | 2015-11-25T07:59:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-48/segments/1448398444974.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20151124205404-00290-ip-10-71-132-137.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961314 | 895 |
I thought about this painting when I went back to Leopard Creek to paint at the spot where Steve fished two years ago (see yesterday's post).
The Trout Pool
18 x 15
The idea I wanted to convey was the morning light streaming through the trees and bathing everything in a warm glow. As usual, the photography doesn't do it justice (really!) but I am pleased with it. In fact, I want to paint a larger more refined studio version for sure. | <urn:uuid:6c9e79db-e466-4404-80d1-393bf6b774f5> | CC-MAIN-2021-49 | https://deborahparis-apaintinglife.blogspot.com/2011/06/telluride-plein-air-day-iii.html?showComment=1309539119402 | 2021-11-30T23:43:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-49/segments/1637964359082.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20211130232232-20211201022232-00301.warc.gz | en | 0.971402 | 97 |
Look no further: these offices seamlessly blend period-style London flair on the facade with ultra-modern contemporary style for the interior. From the attractive and imposing entryway, flanked by long columns, enter the impressive lobby' professionally staffed' and almost jump forward in time.
Flexibility of both lease and space is a highlight for this location: lease terms are negotiable and break out areas are optional. With modern and efficient IT and telecom systems, on site IT support, high-level security, air-conditioning, and accommodating meeting rooms, this office building promises all that a business at any stage of growth could ask for.
Quite imposing, this building, located on the northwest side of Holborn Circus, will surely not be missed by any passerby. The office space to let in this building is located on the fifth floor, totalling at 4,900 sq. ft.
Completely ready for any business to move in, this office space provides a fully-equipped kitchen, large meeting rooms, and furnishings. Upon entering the building, one is sure to notice the recently renovated reception area which has been increased to double its former height. This building should definitely be considered for a dependable and respectable place in which to conduct business.
Linking the West End to the City, this attractive office building is located in a prime financial district of highly respected companies. Available on short-term lease, office spaces offer impeccable quality and may be reconfigured according to individual convenience and requirements
Offering on-site car parking, staffed reception, state-of-the-art telecom systems, and restaurant, this building promises to be self-sufficient. Meeting rooms and reception facilities, all elegantly designed, are included in the lease agreement. To move into these offices is to step into the rank of highly distinguished businesses competing in today`s marketplace.
If you are looking for an ultra modern office space, this contemporary business centre is for you. Where most businesses settle for an office or two, take your company to another level and consider occupying the approximately 8.751 sq. ft currently for let in this prominent centre.
The entire eighth floor is currently available after undergoing extensive modernizations. With fully refurbished floors and a airy, open floor plan this space features glass wall partitions and the use of meeting rooms, a kitchenette, showers and air conditioning. If your business has outgrown the traditional office space, why not occupy an entire floor and give your company an up-to-the-minute image boost?
This aesthetically-pleasing building has fully serviced offices available to let. The 4th floor space is designed with an open concept plan that creates a modern corporate image and provides pleasant working conditions. Companies benefit from a flexible lease arrangement that provides the maximum range of options. The building includes use of meeting rooms, lounge space, and a manned reception area with administrative support and phone-answering services. Virtual offices, along with broadband access and cabling, make these offices fully equipped for all your communication requirements. The building, protected by CCTV and security alarms, is accessible to employees on a 24 hour basis.
This period building sits immediately above the Holborn underground station. Between the financial district and Westminster's political center, this location is positioned for optimum accessibility. Office spaces are available between floors 1 and 7 and can be let individually or as suites for durations between 3 months and 5 years. Meeting rooms, lounge space, virtual offices, and video conferencing equipment are available to companies, as is a manned reception area with administrative support. The offices, which are accessible on a 24 hour basis, are fully furnished and accessorized for ease of communication with broadband, a telephone system, and cabling. An on-site restaurant provides extra convenience for employees.
This Holborn site combines period charm with a contemporary corporate aesthetic. Its executive offices are available in a variety of shapes on flexible license arrangements that provide large and small businesses alike with the maximum number of options. All offices come fully furnished and fitted with broadband, cabling, telephone systems, and wireless internet. Administrative and IT support are available for all your company's daily logistical needs. Employees have access to lounge areas, meeting rooms, video conferencing, and virtual offices. The building is open for employees on a 24 hour basis and is secured by an alarm system and CCTV.
This building maintains the charm of its period heritage despite extensive renovation and modernization. Overlooking Bloomsbury square, this office complex boasts large windows that create a pleasant, sunlit atmosphere in which to conduct business. Renters benefit from flexible license arrangements that allow for a range of occupancy options. These offices come fully furnished and include access to meeting rooms and a manned reception area with telephone answering services. Equipped for the contemporary communications world, the building includes broadband access, cabling, and use of video conferencing materials. Employees enjoy the convenience of an on-site restaurant and 24 hour site access. The area is protected by CCTV and a manned security force. | <urn:uuid:1d72be46-e655-4ade-9be9-b1d2305f52b3> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://www.yourcityoffice.com/serviced-office-space/uk/holborn/ | 2020-01-17T18:16:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250590107.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200117180950-20200117204950-00371.warc.gz | en | 0.947465 | 1,024 |
Many people around the world who have been involved in RCJ since its inception in 2000 have developed curricular and organizational materials to help students learn about robotics and RoboCupJunior and to help new organizers hold events. Those information can be shared through our RoboCupJunior Forum website. Please add your team website to the community site and share what you have developed/accomplished. Also you can post questions regarding three leagues that we have “soccer, rescue and OnStage”.
If you have any questions or anything to share directly with us, please contact:
Amy Eguchi (email: amy_eguchi [at] bloomfield.edu).
RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop (Workshop on Educational Robotics, WEROB):
RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop – WEROB has been held concurrently with RoboCup Symposium since 2010. Below, we share the WERB presentations so that other teams can learn from those presentations. Please consider presenting your work at the RoboCupJunior workshop as well!
- RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop 2018 at Montreal, Canada, June 22, 2018
- RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop 2017 at Nagoya, Japan, July 31, 2017
- RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop 2016 at Leipzig, Germany, July 4, 2016
- RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop 2015 at Hefei, China, July 24, 2015
- RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop 2014 at Joao Pessoa, Brazil, July 25, 2014
- RoboCupJunior Annual Workshop 2013 at Eindhoven, The Netherlands, July 1, 2013
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Chauffeur driven car hire - choice of stretched limousines or executive saloon cars.
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We hope that all members of the Stonehill College community as well as anyone considering a career with Stonehill College find this website to be helpful and informative. Our goal with these pages is to provide a general overview of our services and benefits. We also want to make sure you understand the reason we are here - to support you! The Human Resources team is dedicated to ensuring you have the support, tools, resources and benefits for a long and successful career with Stonehill.
As a strategic partner of Stonehill’s leadership, the Human Resources Department is committed to providing quality services to all members of the Stonehill Community. Our core services and competencies include recruitment and selection, wage and salary administration, employee and labor relations, benefits, training and professional development, programs designed to support the mission of the college and the development and interpretation of policies and procedures. We strive to foster a work force dedicated to the diversity and the well-being of all members of the Stonehill Community.
- Providing all employees with caring and professional services.
- Aligning with the college’s goals and initiatives, we assist in making sound decisions about human resources to ensure that people are treated with dignity and respect.
- Supporting the mission of Stonehill College and striving to be a strategic value-added partner in service to all faculty, staff, students and visitors.
- Contributing individual strengths while collectively striving to foster a positive, customer focused environment to all members of the Stonehill College Community.
- Embracing the diversity of people, ideas, and cultures while honoring the past traditions of the College and welcoming the future.
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The Sprint HTC EVO 4G Reviewby Anand Lal Shimpi on June 28, 2010 6:04 PM EST
Going from virtually any phone to the EVO 4G will be a pleasant experience. Die hard iPhone users will notice one thing however: choppy animations.
There’s lag or choppy animations when scrolling down a page, swiping between screens and generally interacting with the phone. What’s even more frustrating is if you leave a lot of apps resident in memory there are times when the UI will stop being responsive. If you have haptics turned off there’s no way to tell whether or not a button tap was recognized, often resulting in a double or triple tap which then results in an unintended phone call or similarly frustrating action. It definitely hampers the experience.
The best way to describe it is by comparing it to an old PC that just starts swapping to disk because it runs out of memory. It’s worse than anything I’ve seen on any other Android phone I’ve used (Nexus One, Incredible).
Remember how happy I was that HTC largely fixed the choppy scrolling of the Nexus One with the Incredible? It’s broken again with the EVO 4G. In fact, scrolling appears to be even worse on the EVO 4G than on the Nexus One for some reason. Given that this is mostly the same underlying hardware I can’t help but think it’s a driver or software optimization problem.
All I'm doing here is scrolling and running Task Panel
Scrolling isn't GPU accelerated, so a quick flick down a page will drive CPU utilization up to 40 - 50%. The only way around this is to either optimize the crap out of the code or move to dual core CPUs so there's another core ready to handle anything else you throw at it. Combined with a lightly CPU intensive app I found that scrolling can sometimes even send CPU utilization up above 70%!
To measure web browsing performance I downloaded a bunch of different web pages and saved as much of them as possible locally on a server. I used WiFi (802.11g) on all of the devices to connect to my local server and timed average load time. I repeated the test at least 3 times and threw out any unusually high or low numbers. Performance on the Android devices was from a clean restart with no unnecessary programs running in memory.
What these tests should show is the overall performance of the platform when all network bottlenecks are removed. Obviously hiding in a tunnel under a lead umbrella will make any phone slow, but we’re looking at peak performance here.
The first test is the new AnandTech front page. Here we’ve got tons of images and HTML, meaning we’re stressing both bandwidth and code parsing speed.
The EVO 4G is actually slower than the Incredible, which isn't totally surprising given that the device actually feels slower.
Next up we have the first page of our recent Zotac XBOX HD-ID11 review. The balance shifts from tons of images to more HTML processing:
Here the EVO actually inches ahead over the Incredible, but none of the HTC devices are still as fast as the Nexus One.
Using our Print this Review function, this next test loads our entire 2010 15-inch Macbook Pro review. While the other two tests had some flash ad content, this one is completely devoid of it so the HTC phones shouldn’t be penalized:
This is quite possibly our most unusual result - the EVO 4G is actually faster than the Nexus One and Incredible.
Our most intensive test is up next with a load of the Engadget front page:
And now we're back to normal, the EVO 4G is about the speed of the Incredible in our longest test.
Our most CPU bound test is up next. I put together a custom page with a ton of tabular content and a single page copy of our 15-inch MBP review to make the load take some time at least.
Once more we're a bit faster than the Incredible here.
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I'm always looking for breakfast options that will make my daughter eat and these work well in the morning and at snack time. They are very low fat and tasty without being sugary.
Recipe adapted from Martha Stewart
- 1 medium Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, and quartered (I use any kind of apple and usually use 2-4)
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon plus 2 pinches salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a 12-cup standard muffin tin with cooking spray or use liners; set aside. Cut 3 apple quarters into 1/4-inch dice; cut remaining apple quarter into 12 thin slices for garnish.
- Whisk together sugar, flour, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon in a medium bowl. Add diced apple and walnuts, if using; toss to coat.Whisk together eggs, buttermilk, and butter in a small bowl. Gently fold buttermilk mixture into flour mixture until just combined; do not overmix. Divide batter among muffin cups, filling each about three-quarters full. Top each with an apple slice. Bake until muffins are brown around edges and spring back when touched, 16 to 18 minutes. Let muffins cool slightly, about 5 minutes, before turning out of tin onto a wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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Taylor Soft Serve Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Machine 2 Flavor
Barely used soft ice cream Taylor machine in a price to sell fast. Ideal for restaurant or cafeteria can make two types of soft ice cream or mix one. Cleaned twice a week and took care according to manufacturers manual.
The item "Taylor Soft Serve Ice Cream & Frozen Yogurt Machine 2 Flavor" is in sale since Tuesday, September 10, 2019. This item is in the category "Business & Industrial\Restaurant & Food Service\Refrigeration Equipment\Ice Cream Equipment\Soft Serve Ice Cream Machines".
The seller is "gr8design64" and is located in Lexington, North Carolina. This item can't be shipped, the buyer must pick up the item.
- Brand: Taylor
- Custom Bundle: No
- Non-Domestic Product: No
- Modified Item: No
- Featured Refinements: Soft Serve Ice Cream Machine
- Type: Soft Serve
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What happens when you need a quick and easy way to charge your favorite gadgets? Perhaps now is the perfect time to invest in the best Garmin rechargeable battery pack. Simply said, Garmin has been active in the consumer electronics market for numerous years. The majority of their flagship battery solutions are designed to meet your needs in a variety of ways. Overcharge protection, smart LEDs, and long-lasting, maintenance-free designs are just a few of them. The following are some of the top-rated models to consider:
List Of 10 Best Garmin Rechargeable Battery Pack of (2023) Review:
Use the Garmin Lithium Ion battery for convenience, which can provide an average of 8 hours of battery life depending on usage. This unit works with a number of different devices, including the Garmin Nuvi 500 and 550 series. It has also been built to meet a variety of customer satisfaction standards, ensuring years of dependable performance. This battery is powerful enough to power your gadgets and will last for multiple cycles of use.
9. Genuine Garmin Forerunner Replacement Battery
Discover the superior quality of the Genuine Garmin Forerunner Replacement battery, which restores your battery’s original performance. This battery is easy to set up and works with a variety of devices, including the Garmin Forerunner 110 and 210 GPS smart watches. It also has an extra-durable build that makes it ideal for long-term performance for your requirements. The installation is straightforward, and the battery requires no maintenance.
8. HQRP Battery compatible with Magellan T0052 Replacement
Using the HQRP battery, which is compatible with a variety of devices, you may change the way you power up your gadgets. It is quite easy to set up and is compatible with a wide range of devices. This HQRP battery is compatible with a variety of devices, and the long-lasting construction ensures that users get years of reliable service. The battery is 100 percent compatible with original batteries and has a voltage output of 3.7 volts.
7. Garmin Nuvi 755 Battery Replacement Kit with Extended Life Battery
The Garmin Nuvi 755 Battery is of superior quality, featuring a lithium polymer battery that gives more power duration than the original battery. It’s compatible with a variety of devices, like the Garmin Nuvi 755, and it’s also straightforward to set up. The entire set comes with installation instructions and a money-back guarantee, ensuring years of dependable operation. Furthermore, the battery’s long-lasting construction makes it appropriate for your individual power-up requirements.
6. Battery for Garmin Nuvi
By using this Battery for Garmin devices, you may take advantage of a handy way to charge your devices. It’s been intended to work with a wide range of devices and is also quite easy to set up. The lithium polymer battery is incredibly long-lasting, and it will give users years of consistent performance. Furthermore, the battery has been engineered to provide convenient charging cycles as well as long-term performance advantages.
5. 700mAh Battery for Garmin Forerunner
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Discover the several advantages of the 700mAh battery for Garmin Forerunner devices. This high-capacity, high-quality rechargeable battery offers a number of advantages for charging your favorite devices. In reality, it has no memory effects, allowing it to be charged and discharged as needed without sacrificing capacity levels.
4. Garmin GPSMAP Battery
Use the Garmin GPS Map battery to double your powering capacity, since it is built to withstand the impacts of overcharging and discharging for long-term performance. Aside from that, this Garmin Battery is made of lithium polymer, and the upstart battery gives users the best of a convenient power up solution. Furthermore, this unit has a 2600mAh battery capacity, making it a dependable choice for your GPS devices.
3. Garmin ACCESSORY, AA BATTERY PACK
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Get the Garmin Alkaline Battery Pack, which features overcharge prevention and a built-in battery life chip. Additionally, the battery comes with multiple cycles of dependable performance, allowing you to power up with confidence. This unit is a wonderful complement to your needs, whether you want to use it as a backup or as your primary battery. It’s also low-maintenance and straightforward to set up.
2. EBL AA AAA Rechargeable Battery Individual Rapid Charger
With the EBL AA rechargeable battery’s short circuit and input voltage detection features, you can take your powering skills to the next level. It also has a separate charging status for each slot and may charge the batteries alone or in pairs. This battery easily notifies customers about the current charging process thanks to the inclusion of four LEDs. When the charging method is finished, it will automatically switch to trickle charge to ensure maximum battery capacity.
1. Garmin Rechargeable NiMH Battery for 64s/Oregon 600 Series GPS
By using the Garmin Rechargeable battery, you can make charging your gadgets a more easy process. This battery has been developed to give multiple levels of performance and includes overcharge prevention. Best of all, the battery is long-lasting, ensuring consistent performance for several months.
It’s critical that you make wise decisions while examining all of the main aspects of a convenient power up solution for your devices. One such example is the best Garmin rechargeable battery pack, which we selected based on a variety of criteria. We selected these units based on a variety of parameters, including power quality and maintenance requirements. These batteries, in general, offer the best value for money, and they are also straightforward to install. | <urn:uuid:43b7594a-c2b4-4056-adfc-8b370f97d9b4> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://toptenproductreview.com/best-garmin-rechargeable-battery-pack/ | 2023-09-22T20:44:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506423.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20230922202444-20230922232444-00629.warc.gz | en | 0.934603 | 1,165 |
Just Water Application
Our bodies are over 70% water and we need to keep our fluid intake up to perform at our best.
One of our Australian clients from Health & Fitness industry wanted to develop an app with an aim to provide effective, personal support for increasing your health and happiness, by helping you achieve and maintain your optimal daily water intake. Hence, TatvaSoft brought into existence an iPhone application which calculates target water intake based on your height, weight, sleep-wakeup time etc. User can update his/her intake amount and can visualize the % achievement. Notifications remind the user for water intake at regular intervals which can be set by user. Graph allows monitoring and tracking the historical intakes. User can also share the achieved target on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. The app also teaches different beneficial facts associated with drinking water to create awareness among the users.
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Phoenix Contact USA (Middletown, Pa.): This manufacturer of electronic components and automation technology has named Spencer Bolgard as its V.P. and general manager. Bolgard will oversee the company's U.S. sales subsidiary, including sales, marketing, channel operations and service functions within the United States. He joins Phoenix Contact from Cooper Industries, where he served as vice president of sales and marketing for the Cooper Connection business since 2010. Prior to that, he had a long career in the electrical and lighting industry, including progressively senior positions with Generation Brands-Sea Gull Lighting/Monte Carlo Fans, Affiliated Distributors, Motorola, Leviton and GE. Bolgard holds a bachelor's in economics and political science from the Denison University and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He has also served as an armor officer in the U.S. Army.
JMC Steel Group (Chicago): Jim Hays, V.P. of marketing and business development, will take on the added responsibility of managing the company's electrical portfolio of products manufactured under the Wheatland Tube and Picoma brands. David Burnette, V.P. of sales, electrical division-Wheatland Tube, and Steve Camilletti, national sales manager-Picoma, will report directly to Hays.
National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) (Rosslyn, Va.): President and CEO Evan Gaddis is serving on the Federal Advisory Committee on Supply Chain Competitiveness. The committee will advise the Secretary of Commerce on the development and administration of programs and policies to expand the competitiveness of U.S. supply chains, including programs and policies to expand U.S. exports of goods, services, and technology in accordance with applicable U.S. regulations. This work will support efforts to expand U.S. exports and create economic opportunities for American businesses and American workers.
Leviton Manufacturing Co. (Melville, N.Y.): Rob Spragis has been promoted to region sales manager for the Upper Midwest sales region. Spragis has been with Leviton since 2005 and has covered electrical distribution in the greater Philadelphia market. He was named as the company's Vendor Sales Person of the Year by distributors in the Philadelphia market, and in 2010 was Leviton's National Sales Person of the Year. Spragis' experience also includes work in the construction and HVAC industries.
United Electric Supply Co. (New Castle, Del.): Phil McCloud has joined United as Susquehanna district sales manager, in charge of the Lancaster/York/Hanover, Pa., markets. He has 18 years of marketing, sales, operations and senior-level leadership experience within the electrical industry.
GE Energy (Atlanta): John Lavelle has been named vice president, Digital Energy, for GE Energy Management. The company's Digital Energy business focuses on protection and control, communications, power sensing and power quality solutions. Lavelle joins Energy Management from GE Power & Water where he was vice president, global projects operation. A 28-year GE veteran, Lavelle has held a variety of leadership positions in the business, including general manager, Gasification; region executive leadership roles in Taiwan, China, South Asia and the southern U.S.; and general manager, Energy Services, for commercial operations and marketing/product management.
French Gerleman (St. Louis): Mike Stanfill has been appointed president, taking over for William French who will become CEO. Stanfill, previously V.P. of industrial and commercial sales, brings more than 24 years of experience in engineering, management and executive positions in manufacturing and wholesale distribution. Stanfill earned a B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois. Prior to being named president, he held several positions in his 18-year tenure at French Gerleman, including product management, Tech Center management and two divisional sales V.P. roles. Before coming to French Gerleman, Stanfill worked in engineering, R&D and product management at Unilever and Everest & Jennings. He currently serves as a member of Rockwell Automation's Horizontal Distributor Advisory Council, is a past director on the Electrical Board of Missouri and Illinois, and has served on advisory councils for other electrical manufacturers. In other news at French Gerleman, the company announced the promotion of Steve French to V.P. of operations; Adam Ruebsam to V.P. of commercial and industrial sales; Mike Kelsch to V.P. of supply division; and the hiring of Jim Wojkovich as V.P. of construction sales.
Western Extralite (Kansas City, Mo.): Brian Little has been promoted to construction sales manager for the St. Louis area. A seven-year veteran at Western Extralite, Little is now responsible for contractor relations, managing and developing sales and marketing strategies for account managers, facilitating vendor relationships, and directing project bids. In other news at the company, Jeff French and Kevin Roach have joined Western Extralite as account managers. Both will service and develop St. Louis area accounts. French, who has 12 years' experience in the local construction industry, was a project account manager for Frost Electric before joining Western Extralite. Roach has 28 years of experience in the electrical industry, including sales positions with Vector Electrical Sales, French Gerleman and Butler Supply.
HD Supply Power Solutions (Atlanta): As part of last year's reorganization that combined HD Supply's electrical and utilities lines, the new entity was recently renamed HD Power Solutions. Each geographic region will be led by a vice president reporting to Rick McClure, president, and will be supported by the sourcing organization. Within each of the three U.S. regions, the company will have four vertical markets: investor-owned utilities (IOU), public power, industrial and construction.
The executives who will manage each of the regions and businesses within those regions are as follows: East-Rob Joseph, with Joe D'Orazio (IOU), Mark Sommers (Public Power), Cliff Kemp (Industrial) and Lester Jenkins (Construction); North-Tim Mills, with Bill Goebes (IOU) and Mark Wojcil (Public Power); South-Jason Herin, with Alan Morris (IOU), Jason Irons (Public Power), Tim Klei (Construction and interim for Industrial) and Gary Walker for Canada.
Dominion Electric Supply (Arlington, Va.): Stephen Krooth has joined the company as executive V.P. In addition to practicing law, Krooth has worked on Wall Street as a managing director in commercial real estate finance. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the George Washington University School of Law.
In other news at the company, George Dove is now director of contractor sales. Dove will continue to manage the Laurel branch. His new role will involve a greater focus on pricing and sales strategy. As Laurel location branch manager, Dove oversees the day-to-day sales operations of the Laurel facility, which include the residential lighting showroom, materials sales department, contractor counter and will-call. Dove has worked in many capacities over the 22 years he has been with Dominion Electric Supply including the warehouse, counter sales and inside sales.
GE Industrial Solutions (Mississauga, Ontario): Ajay Gupta has been appointed as the lead Canadian channel commercial director. Gupta will be responsible for developing national channel strategies while creating a distributor framework to help grow business with Canadian channel partners. He will support Adrian Thomas, GE's regional sales leader in Canada. Gupta brings more than 15 years of GE experience to his new position. Most recently, Gupta was the technical channel director for Canada and North U.S. at the GE Energy Global Center of Excellence.
EYE Lighting International (Mentor, Ohio): Kristen Mallardi has joined EYE as business development manager, where she will be responsible for the sales and solicitation activities of the company's products to energy service companies (ESCOs) and related energy-focused end-users. She previously worked within the semiconductor industry.
Buckles-Smith (San Jose, Calif.): The company recently hired two salespeople and one employee for its marketing department. Joey Newton and Grant Hendricks will be account managers and Rachael Esswein will be marketing coordinator. Newton graduated from Gonzaga University and will cover Sacramento and Stockton. Hendricks graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and will service accounts in the East Bay area. Esswein, a San Diego State University graduate, will support the company's communication and branding efforts. | <urn:uuid:53f375ab-9e1b-4490-a7ab-ba6f049ef4da> | CC-MAIN-2016-40 | http://ewweb.com/people/people-september-2012 | 2016-09-25T07:45:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-40/segments/1474738660158.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20160924173740-00143-ip-10-143-35-109.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948878 | 1,748 |
Sixteen refugees from war-ravaged Darfur are rebuilding their lives in the Newark area, thanks to a federal grant and the assistance of the Jewish Vocational Service of MetroWest.
The Darfuris are permanent refugees who are supported by renewable $86,000 one-year State Department grants administered through the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society.
The 10 young men and a family of six have been living in a Newark apartment complex and coping with a host of challenges that range from learning English and computer skills to finding jobs and even crossing a street safely. The first two arrived in New Jersey last August.
“Basically the Darfuris are doing a combination of studying and work,” said Joyce Reilly, coordinator of the JVS Darfur Resettlement Project.
As they focus on acquiring basic educational skills — starting with the difficulty of learning English as a second language — several members of the cohort are working toward general equivalency diplomas.
Others are doing factory, restaurant, and supermarket work. One is about to begin an apprenticeship with a local carpenter.
All of them hope to pursue higher educations.
Seven of the former Darfuris joined Reilly and Nancy Fisher, JVS assistant executive director in charge of education and training, to meet with a reporter at JVS headquarters in East Orange.
“These guys are really smart and they have a wonderful work ethic,” said Fisher. “They are very highly motivated and extremely responsible. Wherever they go they do a good job.”
The Darfuris live in a rent-subsidized Newark housing complex, where the JVS is “trying to create a community for them,” said Fisher. “They can go in and out of one another’s apartments. They cook together and socialize together. It is a very supportive community. I’m not sure that everybody who is resettled from other places gets that, but it makes total sense. It makes things much easier.”
“In Africa people take care of each other and are more aware of each other,” Reilly said. She explained that to the newcomers, “people here can feel very cold. So we make efforts to do things together.”
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has been accused of orchestrating genocide and war crimes against hundreds of thousands in Darfur, a largely rural region in western Sudan.
“We had no idea about America before we came here,” said one young Darfuri. “We did not know about it.”
“New York is very crowded,” said another young man.
“Not like your village?” Fisher asked.
“No,” he said laughing.
JVS is also helping connect the refugees with the Jewish community and beyond.
The two earliest arrivals, Philip Abiballa and Musa Aluga, have already delivered speeches about their experiences at the New School in New York, Kean University in Union, the Pingry School in Short Hills, and several synagogues in the MetroWest area.
Members of the JVS board and others in the community have taken them on trips to museums, zoos, and baseball games in New York.
“People have been very nice, and these men have gotten a great deal of care,” Reilly said.
“We have also been getting more synagogues involved in providing volunteers to work with them,” said Fisher.
JVS is also seeking to create ties between New Jersey families and the newcomers as well as several additional families expected to arrive from Africa in the near future.
“We are hoping for people to ‘adopt’ a family,” said Reilly, by providing help in setting up an apartment and establishing a personal connection.
“We are also looking to raise funds,” Fisher added. “Each new family member is provided with [a one-time payment of] $1,125. For $1,125 you can’t rent an apartment that requires the first month’s and last month’s security. It’s impossible.”
The JVS is also asking potential employers to consider hiring the Darfuris.
“These guys don’t have any resumes or any previous work experience, so it is very difficult to find jobs for them,” said Alla Kotler, case manager of the Darfur Resettlement Project. Without resumes or letters of recommendation, she is asking potential employers to rely on her and her colleagues’ assessment: “We know these guys are excellent,” she said.
“When new people come, we want to have someplace to put them,” Fisher added. “What we are doing is bringing people away from what was a genocide. We want your readers to know that the people here are very bright, energetic, enterprising young men who will do very well in the United States.” | <urn:uuid:2ffdc260-8135-4780-b8a6-223ac7b06cce> | CC-MAIN-2022-21 | https://njjewishndev.timesofisrael.com/darfur-refugees-settle-into-a-life-of-work-study/ | 2022-05-26T01:48:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-21/segments/1652662595559.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220526004200-20220526034200-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.970682 | 1,054 |
Date: Thursday, May 23, 2013
Location: 301 Norristown Road, Ambler, PA 19002 (215) 628-8845
Interactive Map (for directions, click link):
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Report Time: 6:30 PM
Concert Begins: 7:00 PM
Concert Ends: approx. 8:00 PM.
Attire: Men – MCCB shirt, black pants, black shoes;
Women – MCCB shirt, black slacks or skirt, black footwear
Remarks: Bring music stand and clips to hold music. Concert is inside.
Program (subject to change):
Star Spangled Banner (Jack Stamp arrangement)
Variants (movements 4-5)
Fantasy of Flight
Armed Forces Salute
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Politics and Ethnicity in Ecuador and Bolivia: Twins or Opposites?
If one digs a bit deeper, however, the ethno-political situations in the two countries turn out to be quite different. To begin with, indigenous people form a clear majority in Bolivia (55 percent), but a definite minority in Ecuador (25 percent). In Ecuador, Correa gets most of his support from the Spanish-speaking majority, and is opposed by most indigenous groups, whereas in Bolivia, Morales is supported by the Andean Indio majority, but generally opposed by both the Spanish-speaking and Amazonian Indian populations. The two presidents also take different approaches to governing. Correa, who holds a PhD in economics from the University of Illinois, is a technocrat, and is poorly connected with social movements. Morales, in contrast, was the former leader of the coca-pickers union, and is closely connected with grassroots politics.
In Ecuador’s recent election, Correa’s won a mandate, easily beating his rivals. But his victory was not as overwhelming as it might seem once one considers the divisions that weakened the opposition. As can be seen on the first map, from Electoral Politics, Correa won a plurality of votes almost everywhere. What is less apparent is the fact that he won a majority of votes in less than half of Ecuador’ territory. To show this pattern, I have remapped the election data at the provincial level, distinguishing the provinces that gave Correa less than half of their votes from those than gave him a majority. On the same map, I have drawn in rough boundaries separating the Pacific coast region, the Andean region, and the Amazonian region. As can be seen, Correa is very popular in the coastal zone but relatively unpopular in Amazonia. The situation is the Andes is mixed. Here some areas supported him fairly strongly, while others favored the various candidates of the opposition.
The opposition candidates were themselves a highly mixed group, preventing the formation of a united front. Three of them took a plurality of votes in several districts: Guillermo Lasso, of the center-right; Lucio Gutiérrez, a centrist or center-left candidate; and Alberto Acosta, a Marxist. Only Lasso, however, took a significant share of the votes nationwide. Álvaro Noboa, a right-wing populist banana magnate, took more votes than the Marxist candidate Acosta, as did Mauricio Rodas, but neither won the contest in any district, and hence they do not appear on the first map.
The ethnic correlations in the election are fairly clear. In general, Correa did extremely well in predominantly Spanish-speaking areas, and not so well in highly indigenous zones. To make this pattern visible, I have superimposed a map of Ecuador’s indigenous languages on the depiction of its recent election, following the Ethnologue’s linguistic mapping. As can be seen, most of the indigenous areas, both those in the highlands and those in the lowlands, favored the opposition. The Marxist candidate Acosta did particularly well among the Shuar and other Jivaroan-speaking peoples of the center-east, rainforest tribes that are relatively well organized and have experienced pronounced environmental stress. In general, however, the indigenous groups divided their votes widely among the oppositional candidates. The incumbent Correa performed most poorly in Napo (population 80,000), where he received only 25 percent of the vote. As the Wikipedia describes the province:
The thick rainforest [of Napo] is home to many natives that remain isolated by preference, descendents of those who fled the Spanish invasion in the Andes, and the Incas years before. As of 2000, the province was the sole remaining majority-indigenous province of Ecuador, with 56.3% of the province either claiming indigenous identity or speaking an indigenous language.
In the highlands proper, Correa’s worst showing was in Bolivar province, where he received roughly a third of the vote. As the Wikipedia describes Gauaranda, the provincial capital:
Since the 1990s, the indigenous majority has seized political power and most of the local elected officers are of Quechua origin. The city has 25,000 inhabitants (2005) and is growing. It suffers severe problems of electricity and water supply.
Correa’s lack of popularity with indigenous groups is usually attributed to his support for the mining and oil-extraction industries, bulwarks of the Ecuadoran economy. As Freedom House notes:
Indigenous people continue to suffer discrimination at many levels of society. In the Amazon region, indigenous groups have attempted to win a share of oil revenues and a voice in decisions on natural resources and development. The government has maintained that it will not hand indigenous groups a veto on core matters of national interest.
For a left-populist perspective on these issues, one can turn to a recent CounterPunch interview with Marc Becker, an associate professor of Latin American Studies at Truman State University. Becker characterizes Correa as a technocratic proponent of “extractivist modernization” who has little understanding or appreciation of social movements. He further argues that racial discrimination undergirds the voting patterns. As he puts it:
[M]y colleagues in Ecuador say that since Correa was elected there’s been an increase of racist incidents and racism in general. … The indigenous movements are so well-organized that they gain political space that exceeds their numerical representation in the country. In Ecuador there is a certain amount of resentment by non-indigenous of indigenous for gaining political power and political space. It appears that Correa plays the race card and plays into the latent racist attitudes of the dominant population of white and mestizo people. You see this in Correa’s rhetoric. He says very nasty things about indigenous people, environmentalists, and what he terms ‘ultra-leftists’.
In Bolivia, in contrast, the presidency is held by an indigenous person, Evo Morales, a member of the Aymara group. His main base of support comes from the Andean Indio communities. To show this pattern, I have superimposed a map of Bolivia’s indigenous language groups (again following the Ethnologue) on an electoral map (on this map, a “yes” vote on the Constitutional Referendum of 2009 indicates support for Morales). As can be seen, Morales is not popular in the Spanish-speaking lowland economic hub around Santa Cruz. Nor does he receive much support from the Amazonian indigenous communities, several of which have protested vociferously against his road-building and resource extraction policies.
As the political left has gained power across much of Latin America, conflicts between governments and indigenous groups have not abated, and in many areas they have intensified. As Simeon Tegel put it in the telling headline of his 2011 article: Left Vs. Indigenous of Latin America: Once allies, the two have clashed over environmental concerns.
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A vendor's true intentions (to get more $'s out of their customers, to
encourage the use of their product and make money supporting big projects,
or the survival of an industry) are most apparent when you listen to their
response to your problems. :-)
charter member Team-Ada
> -----Original Message-----
> From: W. Wesley Groleau x4923 [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 8:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Programmer's Battlefield
> > My impression is that Rational's products are aimed at making tools
> > to help programmers more easily make more solid programs. They may
> > have decided that the demand is for "chewing gum and baling wire" to
> > hold together poorly designed products, but it seems unlikely that
> > even the best maker of chewing gum and baling wire will have a large
> > market, or a good reputation, as it becomes clear that poor design
> > plus CG&BW doesn't cut it.
> Rational's products are not all "chewing gum and baling wire." True, they
> do have a very good debugger, but some of them do a lot to help programs
> be less poorly designed.
> There are people who think that Ada is "doomed." Let's just try to look
> through their eyes for a moment.
> IF (the big IF) Ada is a sinking ship, will swimming around it trying to
> hold it out of the water do anyone any good? The C++ ship has bigger
> quality leaks, but they also have much bigger bilge pumps (and they're
> pumping a LOT of bilge). Personally, I don't think the Ada leaks are
> sososo bad, but if they were, maybe humanity would be better served by a
> change of tactics. Some possibilities:
> 1. Promote Java. Hey, we know Ada is a lot better, but if Ada can't win,
> Java is certainly the lesser of two evils, right? And while you're
> teaching Java, you can subtly raise the awareness of Better Ways...
> "Now no language is perfect, and the need for a 'break' here is one
> of the old lessons Java missed. If you can't be careful with this,
> you might have to switch to Ada."
> "Now Java doesn't have safe enumerated types like Ada, but here's a
> way to emulate them that's not TOO bad..."
> (Maybe you could title the course "How to Write Java as safely as Ada")
> 2. Promote tools that will reduce the probability of the disasters that
> C & C++ are so prone to (like Rational Apex). Again, sneak in a few
> subtle hints along the way....
> "Everybody knows* this C construct is very error-prone, but the XXX
> feature of our tool, if used properly, can make your code almost as
> reliable as Ada in this area."
> * a little hyperbole--half the problem is that NOT everybody knows.
> (The other half is those who know act like they don't care.)
> I've not given up on Ada myself (yet), but if supporting Ada is a war,
> let's try not to shoot parties who seem to be neutral or less dedicated
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Biography of Isadore Wadow
Isadore Wadow was born in 1950 to Albert and Katherine Wadow of Beardmore, Ontario. Isadore had two sisters and two brothers, one of whom drowned when Isadore was just nine years old.
Introverted by nature and thought by his teachers to be 'slow,' Wadow was mercilessly bullied by his white classmates and abandoned formal education altogether when he was in just grade two after his prized possession, a pedal bike, was stolen by the school bullies.
Much later it was discovered that he suffered from a severe hearing disability which had rendered him almost totally deaf; it may have been an inherited condition, as his mother also suffered from a severe hearing impediment. Instead of going to school, Wadow spent much of his childhood trapping animals with his parents and elders in northwestern Ontario. It was during these formative years that Wadow learned the native Ojibwa legends which later become the subject matter of so many of his paintings.
Wadow's only formal artistic training came in 1972 when he was selected to attend the Manitou Arts Foundation summer school on Schreiber Island, off Manitoulin. Some of the teachers at this school went on to become internationally recognized Woodland artists. Wadow's talent for painting was discovered at the Foundation and he was subsequently invited to show his paintings at art exhibits in Sault Ste. Marie, the Canadian National Exhibition in Thunder Bay, and the Eaton Art Centre in Toronto.
Wadow had many hardships to overcome in his short life. In 1974, his father was shot by his aunt's boyfriend and, just four years later, his mother died. At about the same time, Wadow suffered an accident which resulted in a broken hip and leg, which never healed and rendered him crippled for the rest of his life. With little means to support himself, in 1976 Wadow held an invitation-only exhibit at Westmount Hospital to raise funds for a hearing aid and new art supplies.
Wadow became an extremely prolific painter in the early 1980s as he located benefactors and his work found a greater audience. He held exhibits in Thunder Bay at St. Andrew's Church and the Waverly Resource Library. On June 12, 1984, it was announced that two of Wadow's paintings, "Untitled 1984" and "Fish Eagle Looking for Nest," had been selected for inclusion in the Waabanda-iwewin juried art show.
Tragically, just one day before the show was to open, Isadore Wadow was murdered, stabbed to death in downtown Thunder Bay. His murder remains unsolved.
1950 – born: Beardmore, Ontario
1959 – brother, Joseph, drowned
1972 – attended Manitou Arts Foundation summer school on Schreiber Island
1974 – father, Albert, killed
1975 – suffered numerous accidents, including breaking his hip and leg, which permanently crippled him
1976 – Westmont Hospital (Thunder Bay) exhibit and fundraiser
1978 – mother, Katherine, died
December 5, 1980 – public exhibit and sale at Waverly Resource Library, Thunder Bay
June 12, 1984 – two paintings “Fish Eagle Looking for Nest” and “Untitled 1984” selected for inclusion in Waabanda-iwewin juried Indian Art Show
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California Gov. Gray Davis has proposed a $1 billion economic stimulus package for the University of California-Davis, including $66.1 million to fund and accelerate completion of a new $77 million building for the campus' School of Veterinary Medicine. It will be a 125,000-square-foot teaching, research, and clinical facility. The building is planned for completion in 2005.
The new building is part of the veterinary school's $354 million long-range plan, intended to assist in restoring full accreditation status and preparing for anticipated growth.
The AVMA's accreditation committee cited the need for improvement in 1998. While the school complied with all other standards, it was placed on limited accreditation for its teaching and research facilities' shortfalls.
"Funding of this new [building] forms the cornerstone for restoration of our full accreditation, and this public investment will strengthen the school's ongoing ability to offer Californians access to veterinary care for pets, livestock, and poultry; protection of public health and food safety; and other activities benefiting animal, human, and environmental health," said Dr. Bennie Osburn, dean of the UC-Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
As part of the $354 million long-range plan, several other construction projects are either under way or pending. The school's veterinary teaching hospital is set for expansion. The campus is funding a new veterinary medicine instructional structure, slated for completion in 2004.
A 63,000-square-foot veterinary medicine instructional laboratory, as well as companion animal and equine centers, are also set for construction, beginning this year. | <urn:uuid:be5a65a5-9c89-42c0-87a0-90493f211106> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | https://www.avma.org/News/JAVMANews/Pages/s040102l.aspx | 2016-12-07T16:28:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698542217.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170902-00335-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942482 | 326 |
Planning Our Happily Ever After - A Disneymoon PTR! (NEW 7/13 - TR Link!)
****WARNING! You are about to embark on a year long, OCD planning, over preparing journey as I attempt to plan the trip of a lifetime!***
Hello! And welcome to my Disneymoon PTR! This is my first pre-trip report, but I did write a TR for our January 2010 engagement celebration trip. If you haven’t checked it out, I invite you to take a look! http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=2374482
If you did follow my TR and are now here, thanks for joining me again!
My name is Courtney, and as I mentioned, this is a Disneymoon PTR! My fiance Miguel and I got engaged this past Christmas, and will be saying our I Do’s exactly one year from today on June 18, 2011!
Here are some pics of us from our most recent trip to the world so you can put a face to a name!
Here I am, exploring World Showcase!
My wonderful fiancé Miguel lounging at the Beach Club!
Miguel playing the African drums at AK!
And the two of us with our pal Donald!
When Miguel and I first started discussing a honeymoon, Disney actually was not our first choice because we were both set on going somewhere tropical. But then the more I got to thinking about it, the more and more I really wanted to have our honeymoon at Disney. I know some people (no one here though!) don’t think of Disney as being romantic or fun for adults, but we all know that’s not the case! I took many trips as a child, as a teenager, and now I’ve taken three “adult” trips to the world and I can honestly say I have just as much fun now as I did back then. In many ways, Disney is “our place”. It is the first place we vacationed together, and the place that we celebrated our engagement. So, it seems only fitting that we celebrate our marriage and the start of our lives together there, right?!
Well that’s what we think! So off to Disney we will go and celebrate we will! I have so many ideas for this trip – I really do want it to be “the trip of a lifetime” for the both of us.
With almost a year left to go you better believe there’s going to be a lot of over-analyzing and OCD planning going on! I’ll be asking for suggestions from you all frequently, I’m sure, so not only do I hope you’ll follow along, but I hope you will post along and let me know about your experiences and tips as well!
UP NEXT: When exactly will we be vacationing? And the real question…where are we going to stay?!
Table of Contents:
One Year From Today!
Making Our Trip the "Trip of a Lifetime"
Wedding Details - Part One (Venue, Cake, Flowers)
Exciting Trip News / New Luggage
A Little Shoe Discussion
Our November Home
11 Months To Go!
A Few Updates
Four Months Until November!
Italy Here I Come!
My Italian Adventure Pt. 1 - Venice
10 Months to Go!
Three Months Until November!
The Makings of an Itinerary - November
My Italian Adventure Pt. 2 - Florence
How We Spent Out Summer
Wedding Details - Part Two (Flowers, Photographer, Day of Coordinator)
9 Months To Go!
November Food Budget
2 Months Until November!
Happy Birthday, Miguel! & Life Lately
Wishes/Illuminations Viewing Strategies
My Italian Adventure Pt. 3 - Rome
8 Months To Go!
One Month Until November/Trip Binder
Wedding Details - Part Three (BM Dresses, Mothers' Dress Inspiration, My Dress)
My Italian Adventure Pt. 4 - Rome Pt. 2
Halloween, a New Vera & Trip Planning
November Plans - Days 1 & 2
November Plans - Day 3
November Plans - Day 4
November Plans - Day 5
Outfits & Packing
Time to Hit the Road!
Wedding Details - Part Four (Vendors Booked, Save the Dates, To Do's)
6 Months to Go - ADR Hopes
Happy New Year/2010 in Review
In 12 Days...
First Disneymoon Purchase
Water Park Advice Needed
More DM Purchases & Wedding Stuff
One Day @ Epcot - Pt. 1
One Day @ Epcot - Pt. 2
A Tour & a To-Do List
BIG Wedding Update! (Transportation, Hair & Makeup, Reception Decor, Toasting Flutes & Serving Set)
CG & Narc. Fave Dishes?/V-Day
4 Months to Go & Swimsuit Ideas
Wedding Details - Part Six (Ceremony Decor, Guest Book & Pen, Card Box, Lazo & Arras)
GF Spa Booked!
Pool Cabana Booked!
Luggage Tags & Trip Binder
Room Organizing & Toiletry Bag "Stocking"
Wedding Details - Part Seven (Invitations, Reception Menu, Rehearsal Dinner)
Arrival Day Plans
Day 1 Plans
A Few Trip Updates
Wedding Details - Part Eight (Shower Planning, Mom's Dresses, Dad's and Men's Tuxes) & My Birthday
Day 2 & 3 Plans & a Few Random Updates
Bridal Shower #1
Day 4 & 5 Plans
Bridal Shower #2
Less Than One Month!
One More Signature?
More Trip Shopping
Day 6 & 7 Plans
Let the Packing Begin!
Wedding Details - Part Nine (Jewelry/Shoes/Rehearsal Dinner Dress, Hair and Makeup Trial, Venue Walkthrough)
A Few Updates
Day 8 & 9 Plans
Honeymoon Wardrobe - Part 1
Honeymoon Wardrobe - Part 2
Wedding Details - Part 10 (DIY, Decor, Welcome Boxes, Bridal Party Gifts)
Day 10 & 11 Plans
This is it!!! See you in 2 weeks!
The Wedding Part 1 - Rehearsal Day
The Wedding Part 2 - Getting Ready Part 1
The Wedding Part 2 - Getting Ready Part 2
The Wedding Part 3 - Pre-Ceremony Photos
The Wedding Part 4 - Ceremony & Formal Photos
The Wedding Part 5 - Cocktail Hour and Reception Part 1
The Wedding Part 5 - Reception Part 2
I just commented on your TR, but I wanted you to do know you did have a reader over here! I'm excited to see what you plan for the disneymoon...and maybe you could throw in a few wedding updates as well :)
Awwww man!!!! Beat out for the first spot ;) I knew it, I knew it, I knew it!!!!!! I am so pumped for this PTR and for your wedding. Honestly, I haven't even read your intro so let me go back and read it...I was just too excited not to comment :goodvibes
OK---I read the intro!! I am DYING to know where you are staying, eating, doing....SOOOO fun!! I want to renew my vows at WDW....can't wait to follow along with you :hug:
Hi Courtney, I am here too. Can't wait to read all about your plans.
Thank you for starting a PTR! Can't wait to follow along with your plans.
I've made some predictions about your trip so it'll be fun to see if I'm right. :goodvibes
You're getting married in a YEAR! Woohoo!
PS: I love your PTR title! It is so perfect. I think I have a good feeling about what Resort you are staying in ;)
Oooh, I wonder what your predictions are?
I was sad that your TR was over and then I saw the link! Yay! I'm so excited to hear all about your plans!
I'm joining in! I really wanted to go to Disney for our honeymoon, instead we went on an ill fated cruise to Bermuda. It was so bad that we had a Disney trip to make up for it a few months later. :laughing:
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Today marks the third of four articles dedicated to fully unpacking my recent paper for Rutgers School of Communication, presented earlier this month at the Game Behind the Video Game conference in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Our previous articles focused on vectors for audience engagement and two of the four major taxonomic categories of Let’s Play walkthroughs, the Expert and the Chronicler. We continue our taxonomies today with discussion of the third major LP type, the Comedian, before concluding next week with our final type and an overarching discussion of Let’s Plays as a fan practice.
Returning to our Pokemon analogy of last week, let’s revisit our preliminary description of major Let’s Play types.
Fire: The Expert
Fire-types love to show off. No one can play this game as well as they can, and it’s down to them to demonstrate just what is so spectacular about it. Last week, I cited the work of Baldur Karlsson as being located in this category.
Water: The Chronicler
Water-types revel in subtlety. Or maybe just freezing things in place. Chroniclers are also often completists, aimed at documenting the entire game, as much as can possibly be played. I pointed to the screencap Let’s Plays of Luisfe as being emblematic of this type.
Plant: The Comedian
Forgetting the failed analogy of comparing any group of Let’s Players to sedentary flora, the important thing is that Comedians are entertainers. They may or may not be experts and may or may not be about showing the viewer the entire scope of the game, but they do aim to please.
Electric: The Counter-Historiographer
Finally, the Counter-Historiographer is defined by his or her conscious, stated intention of doing things differently. As a result, this is the most varied type of Let’s Player. The Counter-Historiographer puts a personal or unique touch on whatever game is at hand, be it by revisiting a previously covered title or using other tools, official or not, to personalize the record.
Today, we will be focusing on the third of these, the comic Let’s Play.
(Subtypes: satirist, slapstick comedian, MSTer, machinimator)
This will be the Let’s Play group of greatest interest to most readers. Comedy is a peculiar thing to locate within interactive performance, particularly when a great deal of video game comedy depends on the viewer’s previous understanding of games. We can understand what’s funny about Maxwell Adams and the Freelance Astronauts’ New Super Mario Bros Wii play even from very little formal contextualization, as the ideas that frame the interpersonal dynamics that they display are identifiable even from minimal multiplayer experience. From the systems of signs that allow us to interpret things as essential as left-to-right movement to air control, power-ups, and obstacles, the Freelance Astronauts’ Super Mario play is performed like a three-legged race in which the participants continually sabotage each other. The fact that amusement can be derived from these activities—watching the execution of mechanics, struggling with bugs and balance issues, competing for powerups—paves the way for more complex shared experiences involving narrative and visuality as well as gameplay.
Being a Sega orphan, this image makes no sense to me at all.
In furthering our understanding in how humor in Let’s Plays goes from slapstick (“physical” comedy), we can look to the role of genre in shaping and subverting expectations. Some Let’s Plays derive their comedy from genre awareness, such as VoidBurger’s Silent Hill Let’s Plays (“Huh. LP. What’s going on with this LP? Let’s Play Silent Hill 1!”, Let’s Play Archive, 8 Feb 2011). Others thrive on sheer genre obliviousness, the latter particularly when the game in question is not easily classified or has been made deliberately opaque for the conventional player, such as Schildkrote’s group Let’s Play of Desert Bus (“Satan’s Accountants and Friends Ride the Desert Bus”, Let’s Play Archive, 14 Dec 2007). Thirdly and less commonly, some also allow the madcap absurdity or eccentricity of a title to stand without commentary, but as one of the key characteristics of Let’s Plays is providing the role of a guide, it’s easy to see why this takes a back seat to more personality-driven approaches.
We can also further bifurcate the humor in comedic Let’s Plays into supportive and resistant or subversive styles of comedy. As an example of the first variety, Chip Cheezum and General Ironicus’s Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence Let’s Play (which we discussed last week in reference to chronicle and expert LPs), if anything, enhances the underlying comedy of the game by taking its obsessively detailed systems of acquisition and collection to their hyperactive conclusion:
Chip: Wait, another animal! I have to murder it! Now! You must die, frog!
Ironicus: (laughing) Why are you so violent?
Chip: I have to eat every thing. Every edible thing I must have in my mouth. And you can shoot more fruit off the trees.
Ironicus: But, but you could just pick up the fruit. You don’t have to punch the fruit!
Chip: Well, I could have stabbed it too.
Ironicus: You don’t have to kick the mushroom across the map!
Chip:—I could have shot it—
Ironicus:—Pick it up. Just pick it up!
As to the second kind of commonly-seen LP humor, the resistant or subversive sort, this would be the recognizably parodic form that renders the comedic Let’s Play as the spiritual cousin of Mystery Science Theater 3000, a show unquestionably near and dear to many within the same cultures of geekiness where Let’s Plays find their audience. We see this again with VoidBurger’s subtitle commentary and her gonzo musical interjections. It is also this sort of subversiveness that edges Let’s Plays closer to another form of creative videogame remixing, machinima.
Machinima are animated works created using game engines, the most popular being the Halo machinima Red vs Blue, on which I’ve also written previously. More closely, I’d like to draw attention to another popular web series, Freeman’s Mind, which in many ways is much like a typical video walkthrough with a fanfictional twist: the voiceover commentary is written in character as Gordon Freeman’s thoughts and as he reacts to the increasingly dire and absurd circumstances of the original Half-Life in real time as the director/actor/gamer plays through it.
Obviously, Freeman’s Mind and something like Chip Cheezum’s manic in-game gluttony are created out of separate intentions. There is no pretense that Chip Cheezum’s commentary is a stand in for Naked Snake the character, but the parodic way that Ross Scott exaggerates Freeman’s reactions (or in some ways, doesn’t) makes both works operate on a level recognizably similar for many gamers. This is especially so given the more fluid nature of character association and immersion found in games—in fact, this is one of the more intrinsic qualities qualities that separate Let’s Plays from other media. On some level, we know that Ross Scott is just roleplaying the character of Gordon Freeman, just as we acknowledge that Chip Cheezum and VoidBurger are participating in the roles of Naked Snake and Harry Mason, respectively. Ultimately, the line between Let’s Plays and machinima has the potential to become quite blurry.
“Man, if only I hadn’t gone into work today.”
We’ll conclude next week by looking at the fourth and final of our important Let’s Play types, the counter-historiographer, as well as its implications on the practice of Let’s Playing as a whole. As should be evident from the material covered already, these multimedia web documents serve functions as far reaching as the performance of fan cultural identity, explorations of games as both texts and systems, and oppositional interpretations—all elements that come to a head with the counter-historiographer. Stay tuned for the thrilling conclusion. | <urn:uuid:2e98960d-c8f3-4bdc-8b9e-24bbc85e9ac2> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://www.popmatters.com/post/140151-lets-play-interactivity-by-proxy-in-a-web-2.0-culture-part-3/ | 2014-12-26T23:24:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1419447549877.131/warc/CC-MAIN-20141224185909-00087-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938527 | 1,808 |
The next series of blog posts will focus on the concept of mindfulness and the practice of mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness has received a lot of attention lately and for good reason. According to the American Psychological Association, mindfulness meditation has been proven to reduce stress, increase focus and memory, and boost both relationship satisfaction and immune functioning. Though it has been around for over 2,500 years, the practice of mindful meditation has only been scientifically studied for the past 30 years.
I was initially skeptical about the usefulness of mindfulness meditation until I gave the practice a real chance in my own life. I’ve been meditating almost every day for a year so far and have come to really value the changes I’ve noticed. I now regularly coach clients on utilizing the practice to help manage their stress and difficult feelings like anger and sadness. I find clients who practice regularly stop getting tangled up in negative emotions for long periods of time. as they focus intently on their problems. Mindful meditation doesn’t actually make you feel less emotion, but rather helps you to not get caught up for extended periods of time focused on anxious and depressed thoughts. As a result, people find their stress levels significantly decrease. And less stress means more free emotional space to focus on the things that bring happiness and meaning to your life.
What exactly is ‘mindfulness’ and what does the practice of this concept involve?
Mindfulness is an approach or way to think about yourself in relation to the life as we actually experience it - from moment to moment. It refers to being as fully immersed in the present moment as is possible. The ability to remain in the present moment is cultivated through the practice of a particular type of meditation that typically focuses on your breath. To illustrate, I like to use the analogy of exercise. Think of meditation as exercise and mindfulness as a barbell. Meditation, like the barbell is a tool that unlocks the potential for a muscle to grow. Muscles and the benefits of mindfulness don’t grow overnight just because you have the right tool at hand. They each take time to cultivate through practice.
When people refer to a mindfulness meditation practice today, they are most commonly referring to one aspect of Buddhism that strips away the spiritual components of the religion. Mindfulness meditation is not based on any belief system (like reincarnation), ideology or Buddhist authority. It can stand alone, separate from religious dogma and be incredibly useful in our daily lives.
Mindfulness does not necessarily look like traditional western stereotypes of meditation, either. It need not involve sitting in a cave with a guru in Tibet, burning incense and chanting. There are a multitude of ways to practice including simply lying on your back, sitting in a chair, walking or doing yoga. You can meditate in a dark, quiet bedroom or while sitting at an airport gate waiting for your flight.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, MD, is an early western proponent of mindfulness meditation who pioneered research into stress reduction through its practice. His clinic in Massachusetts has helped thousands of people cope better with a variety of health issues through the development of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) techniques. He maintains that “Mindfulness is the awareness that arises by paying attention on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally.” Kabat-Zinn goes on to stress, “Mindfulness is basically just a particular way of paying attention and the awareness that arises through paying attention in that way. It is a way of looking deeply into oneself in the spirit of self-inquiry and self-understanding.”
When I introduce clients to the practice of mindfulness, there are two primary misconceptions about meditation that most people tend to believe. The first involves the idea that the primary benefit of meditation is relaxation. The truth is, you may be more relaxed as a result of mediation. However, relaxation (as wonderful as it is) is only a side benefit rather than the main event where mindfulness meditation is concerned. A solid meditation practice can yield a fundamental shift in how we experience our lives on a moment-by-moment basis. The bad experiences tend to fade more quickly. Anxiety about the future stays within manageable limits most of the time. The second misconception about mindfulness involves the idea that the goal of meditation is to empty your mind of all thought. People can misconstrue the idea that if you are “doing it right” you will think fewer and fewer thoughts until you are calm and empty of feeling and thoughts – something that has been colloquially branded in the West as a state of “Zen”..
Look for my next post where I will discuss how to overcome these misconceptions. Then, we’ll go on to look at how to you can set up your own mindfulness practice to reduce stress and other difficult emotional states to achieve greater happiness and well-being. | <urn:uuid:05039489-99be-4677-8f95-6ae7801d11e0> | CC-MAIN-2019-18 | https://www.drtimlewis.com/blog/2017/12/2/an-introduction-to-mindfulness-meditation | 2019-04-25T06:47:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-18/segments/1555578689448.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20190425054210-20190425075236-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.960795 | 992 |
They sacrifice time away from their families. They sacrifice the comforts that we take for granted. They place themselves in harm's way so we can enjoy a life of freedom. And in some instances, they make the ultimate sacrifice of their lives.
These brave men and women sacrifice freely and willingly. For us, many of us, that they will never know.Yet when called, they are unwavering in their commitment to serve and protect us, to protect their country, and to protect our freedom.
And now we have a day to honor them, the veterans that have served gallantly and those that are serving now. A day to honor those who are buried in numerous graves both here and on foreign soil. A day to pause in our comfort and freedom to remember those that have made and are making it possible for us to enjoy the blessings of liberty. One day.
As you perhaps enjoy this day off or go about your daily routine, pause for a moment and give thanks for those that have sacrificed for our freedoms. And say a prayer of thanks and protection for those that are defending our freedom today.
A heartfelt "thank you" to all who have sacrificed on our behalf and who are sacrificing for us today.
They were there,
And they remember,
The shock, the horror
of watching strangers die.
A life ended
by a fellow soldiers shaking hands.
The unimaginable debt,
owed by a free world
can never be repaid.
Still we try,
Giving up an hour, a day
to thank you for the burden you now carry
Laid there so we can live our lives.
enemies with faces
identities unknown to the bullets
shattering the protective shield
laid there by those they loved.
For one day a year we honor you.
For our lives
it can never compare.
Still we try
Thanking you on this day
for a million moments you lived
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Human Capital: DOD Should Fully Develop Its Civilian Strategic Workforce Plan to Aid Decision Makers
GAO-14-565: Published: Jul 9, 2014. Publicly Released: Jul 9, 2014.
Air Force: Actions Needed to Strengthen Management of Unmanned Aerial System Pilots
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This magnificent 90m² penthouse is located in the only residence in Cannes with direct access to the beach. Accompanied by a 40m² terrace offering a panoramic sea view on the famous Lérins islands.
Composed of an entrance hall with living room, an open kitchen as well as 3 bedrooms and 3 shower rooms.
This property includes a cellar and a garage.
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Queen: Experts discuss royal taking Coronavirus vaccine
The Duke of Cambridge faced a slew of criticism when it was revealed he had tested positive for coronavirus back in April — but kept it a secret from the public for seven months. The news was only leaked when William confided in a well-wisher about his condition. He reportedly said that he chose not to make the news public because “I didn’t want to worry anyone”.
At the time, the nation was in the midst of its first lockdown, Prince Charles had only just recovered from contracting Covid-19 and Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been hospitalised after he also tested positive for the deadly disease.
Even so, William’s delayed diagnosis news was met with outrage.
Many believed his secrecy compromised the trust in the monarchy during a time when it was needed the most.
He was still conducting Zoom calls at the time in an effort to stay in touch with the public, but did not mention that he was self-isolating.
Prince Charles and Prince William
William reportedly wants to be “more faceless” than his father in his approach to royal life
His silence echoes the tradition of keeping the Royal Family’s health as a private matter.
His father, on the other hand, revealed exactly when he tested positive for the disease and later confirmed that he had “got away lightly” with a full recovery.
As the Covid-19 vaccine is now being rolled out to Britain’s most vulnerable groups, many expect the 94-year-old Queen and 99-year-old Prince Philip to soon receive the potentially life-saving treatment.
Yet there has been a debate over whether or not the Palace will divulge the couples’ decision to be vaccinated, as it would be overlooking the precedent of secrecy which surrounds royal health.
A Palace source said: “The royals are royals, but medical matters are private. If they do decide to have the jab, it is a matter for them.
READ MORE: Camilla forced to skip royal Christmas tradition after flu outbreak
The Queen, Charles and William
William is behind Charles in the line of sucession
“If they decide to then go public, again that is their call — but they certainly do not want to be seen jumping the queue and they will not be doing so.”
This attitude suggests William and the Queen are very much on the same wavelength when it comes to sticking to royal tradition.
As the Duke of Cambridge has previously indicated the monarch is his greatest role model, the Palace’s attitude casts a new light on William’s reticence over his April Covid-19 diagnosis.
Additionally, royal commentator and an acquaintance of the Royal Family, Howard Hodgson, told Express.co.uk why William is unlikely to break the tradition of secrecy around health.
When asked if the royal did not want to put his head above the parapet as he is only second-in-line to the throne — and not as senior as Charles or the Queen — Mr Hodgson said this may be a “spot on” theory.
He explained: “[William] is much more private than Harry and has a desire to be more faceless than his father.
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William has a reputation for being a very private royal
Harry, on the other hand, is very open about his private life
“I think he was very affected by the exposure he received at the hands of his mother as a child in this regard.”
The Duke of Cambridge was considered to be a confidante to his mother Princess Diana when he was growing up.
Yet, he was reportedly furious at her on the occasions when she decided to wear her heart completely on her sleeve, such as during the BBC Panorama interview from 1995.
Mr Hodgson added that William may have been thinking about his young children, too, in light of his positive diagnosis and not wanting much fuss to be made about his illness.
The Queen also has a history of being much more private.
Even so, it’s worth noting that the Queen chose to go public when eight-year-old Prince Charles and six-year-old Princess Anne were vaccinated against polio.
The polio vaccine was produced in 1956, and the Queen’s faith in it helped to dampen fears about its effectiveness and potential side-effects.
Charles told the public when he tested positive for coronavirus back in March
The Queen told the public in 1956 when both Charles and Anne were vaccinated against polio
Downing Street is reportedly hoping that the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will do the same with Covid-19, in an effort to encourage dubious citizens to get the jab, as some fear that the vaccine may have been rushed through the usual stages of testing which can take years.
Yet, it remains unclear what course of action the royal stalwarts will take.
As Daily Express royal correspondent Richard Palmer tweeted: “If royals are irrelevant, then is [health] a private matter?
“But if they are important taxpayer funded people we should listen to, shouldn’t we expect the same of them as we do of prime ministers and presidents?”
Indeed, Mr Johnson’s spokesman has already come forward to say the Prime Minister would “of course be very happy to take the vaccine himself”.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab also indicated that the Queen and Philip may be inclined to take the vaccine, too.
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If you were wondering what Brian Holzinger looks like now, you’ll find out Friday Night. It's Fan Appreciation Night and more than 80 Sabres Alumni have already confirmed their attendance. Pat LaFontaine, Jay McKee, Donald Audette, Don Edwards and Danny Gare among my favorite Alumni expected. And don’t forget Danny Briere who will be playing for the other team. Is it okay too boo him on Alumni Night?? | <urn:uuid:e9369ae7-1a36-427b-92ad-cf265ae4be08> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://929jackfm.com/page/8/?s=Sabres+ | 2017-07-27T01:51:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549426693.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170727002123-20170727022123-00454.warc.gz | en | 0.949202 | 96 |
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A new report published by Arcane Research shows that African countries have some of the highest cryptocurrency ownership rates worldwide.
South Africa ranked third throughout the world with 13% of its internet users owning or using cryptocurrencies. Nigeria took the fifth spot with 11% of internet users owning cryptocurrencies. The worldwide average for the same stands at 7%.
Clear interest in crypto
Arcane Research noted that Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana feature in the top-10 countries searching for the term “cryptocurrency” on Google.
Sub-Saharan Africa also has a huge remittance market that brings in about $48 billion annually. Expats today rely on slow and centralized remittance systems that charge transaction fees as high as 9%. Even mobile payment alternatives charge a fee of around 11%.
These factors along with high inflation rates in some African nations reflect the extreme need for cryptocurrency alternatives within the continent.
But there are obstacles
However, the report notes a significant lack of related infrastructures such as crypto mining operations, supporting merchants, smartphone penetration, and internet connectivity. These are obstructing wider reach and utility of cryptocurrencies among Africans.
Additionally, there’s little to no clarification from governments regarding cryptocurrency regulation in African countries. Almost 60% of African governments, the report states, are yet to clarify their stance on cryptocurrencies, which is causing a drag on the adoption of digital currencies.
The fact that African citizens are relying on crypto assets despite the lack of proper infrastructure and regulatory clarity is a testament to the wide room for cryptocurrency adoption across the continent.
Many major players in the cryptocurrency industry are already entering African markets. In a recent “ask me anything” session, the founder of world-leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance, Changpeng Zhao, said that Africa is an untapped market for cryptos, and the exchange was working on offering its services on the continent. | <urn:uuid:06c74511-5faa-44c4-b22b-caeca46f0b6f> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-africa-is-bullish-on-crypto-despite-infrastructure-and-regulatory-hurdles | 2020-10-27T10:30:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107893845.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20201027082056-20201027112056-00031.warc.gz | en | 0.949671 | 384 |
Hospitality Furniture Buying Guide: Where do US hotels buy their furniture from?
Being a furniture buyer in today's hospitality industry can be a daunting task. With a variety of options in the market, there are various steps to finalize the vendor, adhere to compliances, and meet internal deadlines. Avoiding these can lead to unnecessary mistakes that buyers make while finalizing the furniture manufacturer and purchasing new items for their hospitality facility.
Know the Manufacturer
The most frequent mistake buyers make is not knowing the furniture manufacturers' background, specialization, portfolio, and sometimes it's not even sure that they have a facility to manufacture furniture. It can be possible that you're talking to an intermediary and might just get conned by a commission agent. It is always recommended to request past project details, outcomes, and talk to a few of the clients of the manufacturers. If your budget permits, you can also visit the factory and inspect the furniture in the facility. This is a one time job and will prevent future headaches if there are any trust concerns.
Be part of the Process: Monitoring the Progress
If you want a project to be 100% successful, you need to be part of the process. In fact, the buyer's job doesn't end by signing a cheque. The buyers should request production and inspection reports from the manufacturer or supplier and ensure that production is on schedule and does meet the design quality standards. Best constant monitoring, you can save time and cost of the project. You should always have a point of contact at the manufacturing hub, and someone should address any production issues the custom furniture manufacturing is facing. With constant delegation and project management, it can help you to create a long-lasting relationship and ensure the best in class execution.
The most critical part of the order is the packaging and shipping of the furniture. The buyer needs to get in the process and give detailed information for labeling boxes, crates, and make sure that each product is marked with detailed information about the product, handling charges, and shipping. A single error in labeling can cause dozens of problems to various people in the supply chain process.
Also ensure that the manufacturer packages the furniture in such a way that it can travel miles and face various weather conditions in the process. If the furniture is being shipped abroad, make sure you have all licenses, permits, freight details, and insurance, so that the shipment passes through customs without any hassles.
Top hotel chains and hospitality mammoths have a buying department at the corporate office which establishes the guidelines of the hotel furniture. The department takes recommendations from the supply department. No hotel chain goes to the local furniture to get the entire hotel's fixtures. Furniture from China is also famous, but the shipping cost and handling mostly leads to failed shipments. There are various hospitality manufacturers based out of the United States of America. Atlanta, Georgia is one of the most recommended places to get your hospitality furniture. You can get various dealers and manufacturers as well as visit their facilities to fulfill your requirements. If you're looking for a business trip before buying furniture or fixtures, you should definitely visit Atlanta, Georgia and make the right decision.
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Every once in a while a band comes along that, although labeled a "local band", have a sound tight enough to stand with bands of more renown. Enter Aversion, a quintet based in Central New Jersey whose sound is reminiscent of mid-tempo rock bands such as Breaking Benjamin, yet with a style that can not be placed in any singular field. Aversion consists of Michael Newton (vocals), David Konopacki and Vito Badalementi (guitars and backing vocals), Kevin Czarnecki (bass), and Christopher "Chewy" Spitalieri (drums). I had the opportunity to sit down with cofounder Konopacki for an exclusive interview about fears, the future of the band, and the music industry. Read on!
Ryan Crowley: Hey Dave.
Dave Konopacki: Hey, how are ya.
RC: Alright, let's start with your band's history a little bit, for those who don't know you. You and Mike [Newton] started in 'Nam, apparently? [laughs]
DK: [laughs] I see you've read our band's bio.
RC: Yep, that's for sure. So really, where you guys got started...you're really two former bands, right? It was you and Mike who played together for a while...
DK: We started in a band together probably about 3, 3 and a half years ago...and things kinda fell apart after...well, they had been together for a while, I joined, and then things fell apart so...[laughs] I was the catalyst for things falling apart it seems. But then we decided we would continue to work together. We wrote a bunch of stuff by ourselves, we did programmed drums and I played all the other instruments and Mike sang. And eventually we started looking for other members; despite what our bio says, uh, we found our drummer on Craigslist, and...
RC: Your bio actually does say that, by the way, later on.
DK: It colors it a little bit. The Craigslist part is true...and he brought in Kevin, our bassist, and Vito, who's our other guitarist. They'd previously played together.
RC: So you guys formed and you took the name "Aversion". Is there any personal meaning to that or is it just kind of a cool rock name? What's going on with Aversion there?
DK: There...there's no personal meaning to that at all. [Laughs] When me and Mike were trying to start stuff...obviously the first thing you do before you start writing songs is, you try to figure out a name, right?
RC: Of course.
DK: So...Mike had a long list of things and well, honestly a lot of them were crap. [Laughs.]
RC: [Laughs.] And can you give us an example of that, or are you too embarrassed?
DK: It's not that I'm embarrassed, it's that it was like two years ago and I don't remember any of the other ones. I probably have the list at home, I just can't remember any of them right now. And Aversion is the one that stuck out in my mind, to me. Just fitting the most, and being memorable so.
RC: Alright then, so you heard it here first. Aversion, up off the list. Other bands have done it so that's not...
DK: That's how Nine Inch Nails came about, so...
RC: We're mentioning "More Than Sorry". That's your single on iTunes. You have that and "Lactose", which you sing on, actually...
DK: [laughs] I do, I do. It's amazing that I actually do that, 'cause I'm scared of microphones.
RC: [laughs] Well you're certainly not showing it now.
DK: [laughs] I hide it well.
RC: Yeah, he's holding his arms and sweating profusely, for those of you who aren't here with us. And, I have to ask, I've heard some of your other stuff, I've gone to some of your other shows. What's the next song you're planning on recording, if you have that lined up?
DK: Well, this will be purely my answer, the rest of the band has not...we have not talked about it yet. But, we just wrote a new song, I think the working title is "Conversation", I'm not sure that's the official title yet.
RC: I have to ask, is that the song you opened with at the semifinals at [Starland]?
RC: And of the songs that you've been playing in concert, the other songs..."Funny..." to name one...which for some reason is called your "pop-punk song"...
RC: [laughs] I personally don't hear it but Mike likes referring to it that way. Are those just more for full CD releases or more songs that you've been kicking around until you started recording, or what's the story on those?
DK: Well, if we do a full album, they'll be on it...but we're...we're kinda kicking around some ideas for a new business model at the moment as far as sales and stuff, and I'm not sure recording a full album at this point is really gonna happen. I'm thinking we'll probably do a couple songs here and there, and eventually all of those will probably see the light of day in a studio recording. But for now it's gonna be a couple at a time.
RC: It's working, now it's a great business model, especially in the modern age. So I take it, then, you're big into the whole digital music revolution, not having to release everything on CD but using iTunes, Myspace...by the way, myspace.com/musicofaversion, as selling points and as ways for people to hear your music.
DK: But when it's more you'll get it for free as well.
RC: Well if I didn't like your music so much, I'd say it was a waste of $1.98...
RC: But luckily I do enjoy your songs, so no worries there.
DK: [laughs] I'm sorry to the people who paid for it, we'll make it up to you in some way.
RC: Like a T-shirt or something, I don't know. But it really is worth...more than $1.98, honestly. But moving on with that, talking a bit about getting music out there, have you thought about sending demos to radios, getting some radio play, college radio, anything like that?
DK: Yeah, we're in the process of putting together a press kit to send out to all the local stations that'll have us, and some that probably won't. We've gotten some tiny bit of radio play on the Rutgers RSU station, 88.7 New Brunswick. That's a great station, listen to it.
DK: Yeah. So we've gotten some radio play. Not very much, I'll admit, but a little bit. Also, we should probably do Philly stations too.
RC: Yeah, Philly's pretty awesome that way, we should get you out there. Alright, so, you've actually been playing in better venues now, bigger venues. You're not just a club band, you just did Starland, you literally just did Stone Pony two days ago. How's that been different for you, how's the feeling of those places?
RC: Of course. You feed off the band - the energy of the crowd - and when there's not much crowd, it's a little harder to get the energy going.
RC: Basic band physics 101, as it were. Alright so, anything else you want to say to our readers before...any plugs, anything that I missed?
DK: I think you got everything, but just again, it's myspace.com/musicofaversion, musicofaversion.com, aversion.bandcamp.com. We're on Youtube, just search for us...we've got More Than Sorry and Lactose up there in video form. I'm sure we'll be other places, just search for us. If there's a social media network, we should be on it. And if we're not yet, we will be.
RC: Alright, and I guess I just have to part with one more question. As you - as I mentioned earlier, you sing on "Lactose" and...you're giving me a look here...
RC: And you sing a little bit on "Funny...". Will we be hearing more Dave Konopacki vocals in the future?
DK: Only if the song calls for it. I hate doing it, I really do, I feel like a jackass singing. I am not a good singer, I'm terrible, but sometimes the song just calls for something and that's when I have to step up.
RC: And you can't get Vito or Kevin or Chewy [Spitalieri] to step in?
RC: [laughs] I'm calling you guys out by the way, you gotta start helping out on the mic.
DK: Vito does the background vocals on "More Than Sorry" because I can't. I tried it one show, and I heard a recording afterwards, and...the entire world is better off if I don't do it.
RC: [laughs] Fair enough, fair enough. For Dave Konopacki, this is Ryan Crowley signing off. I hope to talk to [you] and more members of the band soon, hopefully when more people have seen them. Hint, hint. Signing off. Thank you, Dave. | <urn:uuid:93780a00-4d94-42ec-a7de-906077b58d01> | CC-MAIN-2016-50 | http://abovethedin.blogspot.com/2009/07/exclusive-interview-with-dave-from.html | 2016-12-10T10:49:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-50/segments/1480698543035.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161202170903-00204-ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975176 | 2,052 |
You want to add additional columns to the destination sheet?
Here is how:
1 Create your connection
2 On the destination spreadsheet, add a blank sheet tab
3 On this blank sheet tab, put the following formula into cell A1:
Adapt the cell
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4 Add additional columns from column D onward. Obviously, this may vary again depending on the range of your source.
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Moscow Jan. 2011 UFO wave is ongoing, putting Stanley A. Fulham prediction critics to shame
by Alfred Lambremont Webre
The January 2011 UFO wave over Moscow, Russia appears from up to the minute reports to be ongoing and putting early vocal critics of the veracity of the predicted UFO wave, including Dr. Michael E. Salla of the Exopolitics Institute News Service.
One Canadian UFO researcher who is a close associate of the now deceased Stanley A. Fulham wrote this reporter of a huge UFO seen on the evening of January 15, 2011 by a crowd in Moscow, Russia and caught on videotape.
The email from the Canadian UFO researcher reads:
From: K H ([Redacted]@gmail.com)
Sent: January 16, 2011 10:15:56 AM
I’m an American (native New Yorker) living and working in Moscow Russia.
I don't really follow any UFO news, so I’m not a hunter for these topics or things.
However, last night [January 15, 2011], walking from the metro (subway) to my housing complex, as we were walking, we saw a crowd of people standing in the neighboring field, looking into the night sky. I thought they were peeping toms into the building.
As we got closer, I decided to look further, and there in the very close distance, was this flying sphere... it was floating-hovering sporadically from left to right to right to left, stopping in mid air, and this "HUGE" ball of light, at times blinking from the top or bottom, as well as left and right sides...
Naturally the naked eye will see more. This is just a mere clip...
It definitely was not a plane, or a jet, i.e., not the headlights of them too, nor was it a helicopter with a huge projecting lamp, otherwise, you would see the light path of both...
This was a HUGE SPHERE of light, flying and stopping... | <urn:uuid:8b9ffab8-358d-49ab-b8a9-1648a3aa87e7> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://ufodigest.com/article/moscow-jan-2011-ufo-wave-ongoing-putting-stanley-fulham-prediction-critics-shame | 2015-07-28T08:27:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042981753.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002301-00032-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958874 | 417 |
The beautiful blue Lantern Moon hooks/needles/gadgets cozy, a set of Clover US Size 2 dpns and two skeins of Panda Wool. (I'm told the Panda Wool makes excellent socks, though I've never tried it myself.)
And my favorite prize package (lucky for ya'll I'm disqualified from prizes or I would claim this one for myself) Everything you need to learn to needle felt!
A Fiber Trends Needle Felting starter kit with pad, needles and instructions; two packages of roving and a way cool pen style needle holder tool.
Last but not least, here is the gorgeous Anne that goes with the watches in the fundraising raffle! (Only $5 a ticket!)
Hats in the City
I had such a wonderful time that I was nearly convinced to crochet something. Seriously.
Thank you so much, Barbara, for opening up your home and thank you to the whole group for your warm welcome and your good company and your amazing hat knitting! (Carissa tells me she has MORE hats to send me, too. I'm can't wait!!)
Hats from various knitters all over, enjoying the bouncing bridge
and taking the steps up to the spiral slide
More Recent Additions
This week, too, as been an excellent week for hats.
On Wednesday, I picked up all of these that had been dropped off by the local knitters at Hooks & Needles.
I also picked up these two lovelies, knit by a lady named Coby (or is it Cobi?) whom I've never met or spoken to or gotten an email from but who'd heard about the project at the shop. I called them doubled knitted but Kaylee pointed out that while they are doubly thick, they are not doubled knitted. Coby used a provisonal cast on, knit one hat brim to top and then picked up the cast on stitches and knit another hat brim to top then tucked one inside the other for a twice-as-thick, twice-as-fabulous, twice-as-warm extravaganza of hat fabulosity. I neglected to take a picture of the insides but both have the snowflake pattern on the inside as well. They are very cool.
Speaking of this style of hat, I've gotten quite a few from all over knit like this - or maybe actually double knit, I'm not certain - and they are thick and cozy and oh-so-great. I can't say enough about how talented and awesome all of you are. Double thick and single thick knitters alike, ya'll rock.
Early in the week, I received a big box of 50 hats from Gari and her brigade of talented hat crafters at Maranacook Yarns in Maine. (Gari was one of the very first to get on board with the Ravelry group.) Thank you all SOO much. While taking the pictures of the hats above, it came to my attention that my yard had just been mowed. I put down a sheet for this bunch because I didn't want to spend the whole rest of my evening picking grass clippings out of hats. (After all, I had important things to do like....knit a hat and, umm, watch TV.)
All 50 of the Maine hats (some with their very courteously attached fiber content tags showing)
A couple of closer up pictures of the Maine hats.
And though it seems kind of superfluous to even mention, here's one hat. Knit by me.
Malabrigo Chunky in Floral something (can't remember) that I bought at ImagiKnit in San Francisco. That makes a total of 59 from me. I've got one more on the needles and maybe a few more in me after that but we'll have to see.
So there you have it. The latest members of our oh-so-exclusive, oh-so-exceptional Hat Quest club. Current total? 688. I got a call today from a man at our local paper and he asked if he could do a story on our Hat Quest. I'm stunned. I'll let ya'll know what I hear on that front. (I'm secretly a little nervous about this prospect but it is also kind of spiffy.)
I can't say enough about how wonderful it is to do this project and to have all of you do it with me. I am awed and truly, truly giddy happy about this - happier and more inspired and impressed every single day. I tell people about it all the time - friends and co-workers and perfect strangers. I'm sure my parents and my siblings and my SIL and the rest of my family will be glad when it is done so I will stop with the "News Flash! Guess how many hats I have" business. Me? I am so eager to make the trip and share all of this hat love but I am also a little sad about it coming to and end. Maybe next summer we can make hats again!? : ) | <urn:uuid:789429d5-c507-43b8-87c2-3f1579b46c58> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://okwhatnext.blogspot.com/2008/08/ | 2017-04-25T10:23:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917120338.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031200-00562-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964224 | 1,048 |
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– A home invasion escalated to murder in the Waverly area of Baltimore.
Alex DeMetrick reports a man was shot to death and his teenage daughter was traumatized in the attack.
Detectives were still working the crime scene Thursday afternoon in the 3300-block of Westerwald Avenue in Waverly. But it started Wednesday night just before 9 p.m. with a call for help after gunshots were heard.
Police found Tavon Frederick, 35, dead with multiple gunshot wounds to the head. His distraught teenage daughter was also there.
“Unfortunately, the victim’s daughter was present in the location and called 911,” Sgt. Anthony Smith of the Baltimore City Police Department said.
Police say it began at the back of the home.
“There were several individuals that broke into the rear of the home. There were signs of a struggle inside the home,” Smith said.
According to WJZ‘s media partner, The Baltimore Sun, that struggle went from room to room, leaving furniture smashed.
There are only a dozen homes on this block. The few people who answered their doors declined to answer questions.
Off camera, one neighbor did tell WJZ that people are afraid to speak because of an active drug trade in the area. As to whether drugs are involved in the murder:
“We don’t have a motive at this time,” Smith said.
But according to court records, Frederick has had drug convictions in the past, and he might have known his attackers.
“It does not appear to be a random attack,” Smith said.
Whether that buys peace of mind in this neighborhood is another matter.
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IBM launches first integrated quantum computer
IBM has unveiled the Q System One, the world’s first integrated universal approximate quantum computing (QC) system designed for scientific and commercial use.
The company also announced plans to open its first Quantum Computation Center for commercial clients in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2019.
These systems are designed to tackle problems that are too complex and exponential in nature for classical systems to handle.
Modeling financial data, and isolating key global risk factors to make better investments or finding optimal paths in logistics and fleet operations, are some of the possible uses for it in the future.
The Q System One has a modular and compact design optimized for stability, reliability and continuous commercial use. It enables universal approximate superconducting quantum computers to operate beyond the confines of a research lab.
The system is comprised of a number of custom components that work together to serve as the most advanced cloud-based quantum computing program available.
According to IBM, core benefits include:
- Quantum hardware designed to be stable and auto-calibrated to give repeatable and predictable high-quality qubits;
- Cryogenic engineering that delivers a continuous cold and isolated quantum environment;
- High precision electronics in compact form factors to tightly control large numbers of qubits;
- Quantum firmware to manage the system health and enable system upgrades without downtime for users; and
- Classical computation to provide secure cloud access and hybrid execution of quantum algorithms.
The IBM Q Quantum Computation Center opening later this year in New York, will expand the IBM Q Network commercial quantum computing program.
This new center will house some of the world’s most advanced cloud-based quantum computing systems which will be accessible to members of the IBM Q Network.
It’s a worldwide community of leading Fortune 500 companies, startups, academic institutions, and national research labs working with IBM to advance quantum computing and explore practical applications for business and science.
“The IBM Q System One is a major step forward in the commercialization of quantum computing,” said Senior Vice President of Hybrid Cloud and director of IBM Research, Arvind Krishna.
“This new system is critical in expanding quantum computing beyond the walls of the research lab as we work to develop practical quantum applications for business and science,” he added.
The design of IBM Q System One includes a nine-foot-tall, nine-foot-wide case of half-inch thick borosilicate glass forming a sealed, airtight enclosure that opens using ‘roto-translation’.
This new system marks the next evolution of IBM Q, the industry’s first effort to introduce the public to programmable universal quantum computing through the cloud-based IBM Q Experience, and the commercial IBM Q Network platform for business and science applications.
Nonetheless, some commentators think the announcement is more hyperbole than anything else. As the Q system has 20 qubits, it is still short of the 50 qubits that most researchers believe will be required real-life applications.
“A 20-qubit system is unlikely to be practically useful,” said the Director of the Lancaster Quantum Technology Centre, Robert Young, speaking to Wired.
The Q System One is almost like a throwback to the days of room-sized mainframe computers of the 1950s and 1960s. “It’s aimed at allowing a large corporation with a team of engineers to operate a quantum computer in house, rather than at consumers,” says Young.
So while the announcement may be a step forward for quantum computing, it may not quite be the giant leap IBM has made it out to be. | <urn:uuid:60ee2d16-b1c8-403e-b4f5-150db4939d83> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | https://techhq.com/2019/01/ibm-launches-first-integrated-quantum-computer/ | 2023-06-04T17:38:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224650201.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20230604161111-20230604191111-00742.warc.gz | en | 0.909753 | 753 |
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More links over at View from a Cave + Kagame actually said the exact same thing in a Q&A after giving the Oppenheimer lecture at IISS in London last year and this was what we thought.
speech - here.
No, the point underlined is that while some in UN,Human rights grps n media criticise,they r not without serious flaws..!Flashback to a similar excerpt from his second inauguration
speech - here.
Kagame appears to closely monitor Twitter for any mentions of Rwanda. His official feed is dominated by notes of thanks to others who have tweeted Rwanda-related developments. "It is great (Kagame) engaging with a critic like me on Twitter," Birrell noted. "Just shame he doesn't allow such debate in Rwanda with his own people."London Dispatch:
But you have to give credit to a man who feels so passionate about his country that he is willing to take on any critic of his on the ground, at home, away from home and in the air (read cyber space).... You begin to see the reason why PK behaves the way he does. He has been made to believe that he is Rwanda’s savior, Stephen Kinser even referred to him as the Man Who Dreamed Rwanda’s Rebirth. Bill Clinton has showered him with all sorts of prizes for excellently guiding Rwanda out of the rubble to a respectable status as a nation...A View from the Cave commenter:
Rwanda needs to look at NGOs as partners and address their criticism with valid points. Saying everyone who dares speak against the regime and its president is "out of touch with Rwanda and Rwandans" does not address any of the problematic issues. If you tell me that I'm not a professional photographer because you see me using a point and shoot camera, I won't just point out your being out of touch with photography, I will tell you why I chose to use that particular camera. Might be its features, need for subtlety, etc. Same with Kigali, they need to say, for example, that the tabloids were banned because of A, B, and C. That the investigation into the murder of Rwisereka is ongoing, closed, or in some other phase. That Ingabire and other political prisoners are held because of plausible reasons. Based on what I have observed, however, the reasons given by the Rwandan regime don't add up so they seek to attack and marginalize whoever dares raise questions about them. If this is what progress for Africa is, I don't want it and there are many who don't want it either. True progress will come from empowering the people and not hoodwinking them.Kigaliwire... on the technology, the exchange and Rwanda's soft skin:
I can’t recall seeing a similar Q&A exchange between a head of state and a journalist on Twitter. I’m not sure Twitter is the ideal place for tit-for-tat arguments on substantial questions – 140 character messages leave little space for nuance or depth. In addition, while I see engagement in general as a largely positive step on Rwanda’s behalf, I do worry that Rwanda spends an unusually large amount of time responding to critics across social networks, blogs, newspapers and other media. Criticism aside, the geek in me likes the fact that both the President and the Foreign Minister tweet from Blackberry phones… It’s also worth noting that since April, 2011, you can tweet in Rwanda from SMS text message. It’s been surprisingly useful in traffic jams, during power outages and Internet downtime in the capital.Sky and Soil...on foreign minister Louise Mushikiwabo's performance:
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What happens if you eat raw egg when pregnant?
Yes, but make sure they’re fully cooked or pasteurized. Raw or undercooked eggs can carry disease-causing organisms like Salmonella bacteria, which can cause food poisoning. Because pregnancy temporarily weakens the immune system, pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to foodborne illness.
Can you have a runny egg when pregnant?
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Nothing makes a war movie pop like its soundtrack. Films that are scored by famous composers stay with us forever. Hans Zimmer did Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, was scored by John Williams, and of course, the most famous war film score ever, Maurice Jarre’s work for the WWI epic Lawrence of Arabia.
But not every war movie needs to be scored. There are a few movies where a well-placed pop song is an epic use of screen time. When a director uses a “needle drop,” it can push the scene into something unforgettable.
1. “What A Wonderful World” from Good Morning VietnamIn a movie full of great music and memorable scenes, how do you even choose the most poignant? Barry Levinson’s 1987 film juxtaposes Louis Armstrong’s classic song with imagery of the men fighting the war, the civilians caught in the middle, and the corruption of the South Vietnamese regime.
2. “Danger Zone” from Top GunNo opening sequence starts a movie better than the song that keeps Kenny Loggins in the money to this day. The Navy even used this movie as recruiting tool, with a full 90 percent of applicants reporting that they’d seen “Top Gun” the year it came out.
3. “The End” from Apocalypse NowDid I say “Top Gun” has the best opening scene song? It has to compete with the first shots of Apocalypse Now, featuring the Doors’ “The End”.
4. “Tracks of My Tears” from PlatoonCharlie Sheen gives us a stark vision of his future, jamming with his friends to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles’ 1965 hit, smoking all manner of things while knocking back a few beers. This scene is just as iconic as the Sgt. Elias death scene or the end of the movie, where Sheen’s character looks back on his tour.
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6. “Do Wah Diddy” from StripesI think the YouTube commenter Brian Buchanan said it best about this scene from the Bill Murray and Harold Ramis comedy Stripes — “Funny scene, but these two morons would be doing push up ’til they died.”
7. “Dream Lover” from Hot ShotsYeah, Hot Shots isn’t a real war movie in the sense that anything really happened but you can say that about The Hurt Locker too. Even so, I’ll never forget when Topper Harley sees Ramada Rodham Hayman for the first time.
“I was really impressed with the way you handled that stallion. You know, when I saw you dig your heels into his sides, tighten up the reigns, and break his spirit, I never wanted to be a horse so much in my life.”
8. “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin” from “Top Gun”If this movie and Kenny Loggins prompted a bunch of people to join the Navy, I wonder how many late-80s women had to put up with guys singing to them in bars until the fall of Communism.
9. “Sgt. Mackenzie” from We Were SoldiersWhile not technically a pop song, this song was written about the singer’s grandfather’s service in WWI and is undeniably awesome. Awesome. Awesome.
Blake Stilwell is a traveler, writer, and adventurer with degrees in design, television & film, and international relations. He is a veteran US Air Force Combat Photojournalist who has worked for ABC News, NBC, and HBO. Blake is based in Hollywood, but often found elsewhere.
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Midsouth Mechanical has consistently met or exceeded our expectations each and every project. The cooperation and collaboration that Midsouth Mechanical brings to the table is greatly appreciated. All projects have been completed in a timely manner with excellent results.
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I have worked for a large textile company for the past 32 years. I have worked with Midsouth Mechanical for over 25 years. Midsouth has provided maintenance support, fabrication, welding, piping and installation of new equipment on many projects. Midsouth Mechanical is very capable in rigging, transporting, and installing machinery of all types. Midsouth Mechanical also installed many other services, such as installing large 10” compressed-air piping loops, underground repairs, design of tooling/processing aids, insulation, many auxiliary items. Midsouth Mechanical has consistently met or exceeded our expectations. All projects have been completed timely and efficiently. I recommend Midsouth Mechanical as a high-quality mechanical contractor.Charles P.Milliken, Project Manager
Carlisle Services is pleased to provide this business letter of reference for Midsouth Mechanical Inc. We utilized Midsouth Mechanical most recently on a large project located in Columbus, Georgia, and they were great to work with from the bidding phase all the way through completed construction.
We have found that Midsouth Mechanical’s quality of work to be excellent and their pricing very competitive. Their crews work safely and efficiently. Communication between their crews, office, and managers with our personnel has been great and we have been kept up to date throughout the entire project. All deadlines provided were met with ease, they attended all meetings in relation to this project and all materials were delivered with priority and installed flawlessly.
We are very pleased with Midsouth Mechanical Inc. and would recommend them for any and all mechanical contracting needs.Chase. CVP, Carlisle General Contracting
Safety is paramount in everything we do.
ISNetworld Member – Midsouth Mechanical has maintained an A rating through ISNetworld since joining in 2012.
Avetta Approved Contractor – Since 2012 Midsouth has maintained A ratings as an Avetta approved contractor.
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The law requires that any establishment planning to sell liquor receive permission from any church within 500 feet or get a variance from city hall. The notice of the hearing for a liquor license variance was postmarked to Phillips C.M.E. Church the very day of the hearing. So much for due process. This is how the developers, city hall, the Huntsville Housing Authority and Publix do business.
Why hasn't The Huntsville Times fully investigated this story beginning at
least in 2004? Who originated the idea to replace Councill Court with luxury
apartments? When and where? Did any money change hands? Who among the assorted
developers and bankers gave campaign contributions? How much? When? To whom?
Besides the variance, what were the other corruptions?
Why would 17 citizens now agree to cover the malfeasance of the Huntsville Housing Authority? Did any one of them ever protest the forced removal of Councill Court residents?
Why is the Huntsville Housing Authority a secret agency? Why isn't it a city department whose every action must be approved by the mayor and city council in broad daylight?
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At Dutch Fork High, Garrett Anderson anchored the offensive line as a tackle. In his first two years at South Carolina, he was a guard. Now Anderson enters his junior season at center.
“I finally got to the middle. I can’t go any farther inward,” Anderson joked.
Position switches and lineup changes have been a staple of the offensive line lately. Even this year, when center is the only position where USC lost a starter.
The surest bet on the line is that the five who start the opener on Aug. 28 will not start all 12 games. In fact the lineup is likely to change by the game three, when Jamon Meredith becomes eligible.
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The uncertainty is nothing new for the line, which has been beset by injuries, inexperience and under-performance in coach Steve Spurrier’s three years.
But the Gamecocks’ hope a healthy stable of veterans will make a difference this year:
Meredith and right tackle Justin Sorensen are seniors. Backup tackle Hutch Eckerson started four times in 2006, and redshirt freshman Quintin Richardson and sophomore Jarriel King were highly-recruited.
At guard, Lemuel Jeanpierre and Heath Batchelor started four and five games, respectively, last season.
Anderson was in and out of the starting lineup the past two seasons. His competition at center, Seaver Brown, started six games at guard last year.
“Everybody’s been here for at least two years now under Spurrier’s system,” Sorensen said. “So all the offensive linemen know what they’re doing, so there’s a lot more depth than there used to be. There’s not just five of us, there’s a lot more guys who know the plays in the system.”
The left side of the line holds the most uncertainty. Meredith is a two-year starter at left tackle, but the NCAA ruled he has to sit the first two games after playing briefly during his 2004 redshirt season.
Richardson, Eckerson and King are still battling to start in the opener, and if someone plays well enough there, Meredith could slide back in at left guard. That’s because offensive line coach John Hunt isn’t sold on Jeanpierre.
“We’re still working a bunch of people,” Hunt said. “There’s a lot of ideas going through our brains, I can tell you that. We’re not sitting at home, watching TV or nothing now. We’ve giving them every opportunity.”
The line has been a lightning rod for criticism from fans, and Spurrier hasn’t been too pleased himself, often mentioning he likes mobile quarterbacks because of poor pass blocking. But, according to Sorensen, the coach has changed his tactics behind the scenes.
“He hasn’t been on us as much, so that’s a good thing. Usually every summer he gets on us quite a bit for messing up because we usually do,” Sorensen said. “But I think we’re doing a lot better this year. There’s still missed assignments and still guys going unblocked. But not as much as in the past, I’d like to think. And I think we’re doing a lot better as a unit.”
Anderson echoed that. The junior has usually been one of the last guys to leave practice as he gets used to his new position. Now a veteran of the group, he said has been working hard — now he just needs to show the results.
“I think the offensive line has the opportunity to be a strong point for this team, and I hope we can live up to that, because that’s what we’ve always wanted to be,” Anderson said. “We’ve always wanted to be something that could always be dependable on this team.”
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Translation of obstructive in Spanish:
obstruccionista(person)he was being obstructive
que pone obstáculos or dificultadesestaba poniendo obstáculos or dificultadesExample sentences
- That typifies his attitude throughout the case that has been uncooperative, obstructive and difficult.
- That typifies his attitude throughout the case uncooperative, obstructive and difficult.
- The police constable told the court that when Smith was taken to Scarborough police station he was ‘difficult, obstructive and offensive towards the custody sergeant’.
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