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Leaf peepers will have to be patient in Aspen, elsewhere this fall
Local | September 20, 2019
A mule deer crosses the Crater Lake trail as a hiker makes her way up the path on Sunday. Leaf peepers are showing up in the Maroon Lake Scenic Area near Aspen but most leaves have yet to turn.
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People mill around Crater Lake after reaching the end of the Crater Lake Trail near Aspen on Sunday. Leaves have been slow to turn in the Maroon Lake Scenic Area this late summer.
Travelers have noticed that some aspen leaves are turning a sickly brown color and dropping off trees in pockets of national forest in Colorado this year. That was the case with this tree Saturday on Kebler Pass.
HOW TO VISIT THE MAROON BELLS
The shuttle from Aspen Highlands will run 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 6. The shuffle runs 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.
Parking is available at Aspen Highlands for $25. Tickets for the bus must be purchased for $8 for adults, $6 for those under 16 and over 65, and free for children 5 and younger. Tickets are sold at Four Mountain Sports at Aspen Highlands.
Overflow parking will be available at Buttermilk for $6 over the last two weekends in September to accommodate the anticipated increase in visitors. A free shuttle will run from Buttermilk to Highlands every 30 minutes from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
All bus service to the Maroon Bells Scenic Area will end after Oct. 6. Access for private vehicles is unrestricted on Maroon Creek Road after Oct. 6 until closure on Nov. 15, but parking is limited and fills early in the morning on many days.
Visitors should call the Maroon Bells Information Line at 970-945-3319 for information on traffic and parking.
The U.S. Forest Service is preparing for the annual invasion of the leaf peepers at the Maroon Bells, but anyone venturing into the high country around Aspen right now will just see lots of green.
While timing of fall colors always varies from year to year, nature seems stuck on summer in 2019.
"As of now, we're just noticing a lot of green everywhere," said Shelly Grail, recreation staff manager for the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District. She spends a lot of time in the field and has been in Maroon Creek Valley, the Crystal River Valley and Independence Pass within the past week.
"I imagine we're at least a week behind and our peak would likely be more at the end of September and beginning of October instead of the middle of September," Grail said Thursday.
Leaf peepers already have been checking out the Maroon Bells Scenic Area, one of the most popular destinations in Colorado for fall colors.
"What we heard from people last weekend (at Maroon Lake) was, 'We're here, it's not yellow yet, we'll be back,'" Grail said.
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Many local residents have observed that the scrub brush, oak, serviceberry and chokecherry are curing later than usual. There is just a hint of color on hillsides covered in brush.
Some observers also have noted that there are areas where aspen leaves are turning brown, dying and falling off the trees rather than transforming into a vibrant yellow or rust color. Various observers have noted similar conditions in Maroon Creek Valley, Fryingpan Valley, Kebler Pass near Crested Butte and Trapper's Lake on the Flat Tops.
Grail said she has seen pockets of aspen trees in Maroon Creek Valley where the color of the leaves is a dull brown that is "more drab than vibrant." The hope is the drabness won't be widespread as fall progresses.
The state forest service website said the health of aspen stands is critical for the display of strong colors and retention of leaves in fall.
"Unhealthy aspen stands are less likely to have vibrant colors, and the more robust an aspen stand is, the more attractive the colors will be," the site said.
Based on past timing of peak colors, the Forest Service and Roaring Fork Transportation Authority made plans to expand weekend service for the Maroon Bells shuttle starting this weekend.
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The Aspen area checks off all those boxes. It had an abundant snowpack that lingered well into spring, delaying the greening up of vegetation. Wildflowers in the high country bloomed late and lasted into August. The fall has been extremely dry, with August recording its sixth-lowest amount of precipitation in | 112 |
TIM SLADE, Nick Percat and Nick Foster each have separate reasons to look forward to their return to the Liqui-Moly Bathurst 12 Hour next February.
The trio will drive a Ferrari 488 GT3 for Taiwanese team HubAuto Corsa, a leading force from the Blancpain GT Asia Championship that will make their Bathurst debut next February.
Slade and Foster raced for the team throughout 2018, while Percat will make his first GT3 start in an outright car when he joins his teammates at the event.
Though unfamiliar with the team and the car, Percat's relationship with his new co-drivers is a different story.
While he and Slade headline Brad Jones Racing's Virgin Australia Supercars Championship campaign, Percat and Foster also have a lengthy relationship.
"I haven't worked with Foster since Formula Ford, when I used to spanner his car," Percat told Bathurst12hour.com.au of his time at title-winning Formula Ford outfit, Sonic Motor Racing.
Percat, a former winner of the Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000, admitted his relationship with Slade – who joined team owner Morris Chen in HubAuto's Pro-Am combination throughout this year's Blancpain Asia championship – helped ease his way into the outfit.
"They have factory dudes drive their cars all the time so it's a good opportunity for me. The connection with Sladey made it a little bit easier – any questions they had he could answer. We spoke on the phone and email and it was an easy fit.
"I'm going to get up there and do what I can," Percat added. "But I'm really looking forward to watching Nick and Sladey behind the wheel.. they can do all the laps, I can watch the thing go hard!
While Percat's single 12-Hour start ended with a non-finish after one lap of the 2016 race, Slade has established himself as one of the most experienced Supercars regulars in GT3 machinery.
2019 will mark his sixth start in the race; two coming with Erebus Motorsport's Mercedes AM<|fim_middle|> prior. | G entries and the last three years in Tony Walls' Objective Racing McLaren.
Slade said he had fond memories of working with the always-quick if perennially unlucky McLaren team.
The car was in contention for at least a potential podium finish this year before a broken starter motor ended their race at the final pit stop, almost within sight of the field.
"We always had a lot of potential there with Wallsy and McLaren," he explained.
"Between Tony and McElrea they run a really good show and there's never anything spared but unfortunately we were unable to come away with a better result – there was always something that hampered progress. But I have to thank Tony and his team for having me, it was a great experience.
Despite the outfit entering only their second year of racing with the Ferrari 488 GT3, Slade said the team lacked nothing compared to their direct GT3 rivals.
"They are a really good team and I've loved everything I did in Asia with them this year. They're a great bunch of people, they have all the best gear and they're lacking nothing. I've been in a few different reams now but you never walk away thinking that they are missing something.
"I think it will be nice if we can go under the radar during the week," He added.
Former Porsche Carrera Cup Australia Champion Nick Foster has headlined HubAuto's attack for the past 12-months, including several starring performances in the Blancpain Series and in the Suzuka 10 Hours – the Asian leg of the Intercontinental GT Challenge.
He and Slade teamed up to win the Taiwan Festival of Speed in a Ferrari last year before linking again for the Blancpain campaign this year.
"We go way back! Sladey and I have been mates for a long time and have always spoken about driving together," he said.
"We won the Taiwan Festival of Speed together – that was something like an after-the-season race for us and driving a car that was quite unlimited! To join up with him again but in a major race and against a pro field will be very exciting.
Foster, who like Percat has just one 12-Hour start to his credit however has won a Formula 3 race on the Mountain, is perhaps best placed to assess the team's chances going into Australia's International Enduro.
"In terms of the team and where we started twelve months ago with the Ferrari, Bathurst will mark the first anniversary of it all happening," he explained.
"We've come a really long way. The results have been strong from the get go and we hit the ground running. We fell short in the last race of the championship but to finish second overall was really positive.
"But we got to go and have a stab at the Suzuka 10 Hour and that proved the calibre of our little organisation.
HubAuto Corsa's entry into the race marks the return of the Prancing Horse to Bathurst; the brand having no representation in the 2018 race despite winning it a year | 616 |
I was considering why it is that friends come into our lives and some of them go out of our lives again.
There are many and varied reasons I suspect, but for me I think that some people fall away because of the changes I have made to myself. I have learned so much about myself over the past few years that I was unaware of before. For instance I didn't realise until recently that I have stuffed emotions and feelings down for years because I was conditioned growing up not to show emotion or share feelings.
When I was in a toxic relationship I had very few friends, and those I did have were not that close. I wasn't allowed to get close to anybody. Getting divorced and learning to live my life as me has been a steep learning curve.
I have learned how to express my feelings, get close to people I really like and keep others at arms length. Now that I am able to express emotions and share my feelings other people may find this unacceptable to them. And that is okay. What I am comfortable with is not always comfortable for everyone else. And that may be why some friends have moved away. The fact that other people think differently from me is perfectly okay.
The friends I have currently are wonderful. Some live nearby, some live on different<|fim_middle|> for all the friends I have had, still have and those I have yet to meet for their contributions to my life.
Do you have friends in your life that you are grateful for? Have you had friends move away for one reason or another? Is your life richer for having your friends in it? | continents, but I am grateful to them all for their friendship and support. I do my best to support all my friends, it may be in a big way or in a small way. My life is so much richer for having my friends in it.
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I made a small book!
I<|fim_middle|> spine, in the middle of the book. I added a bit of tacky glue to make sure the stitches were strong and then covered the glue with small strips of paper. I also added a a little direct-to-paper with ColorBox inks on the pages. I think perhaps this little book should be titled, "Lady Randolf Churchill of London, England meets the Edward A. Deming family of West Hartford, CT and Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada!" Thanks, Mary!! | downloaded Mary's free collage sheet for the challenge and printed it out full-size on matte brochure paper, and also 1/2 size on a clear transparency because I was not sure what I was going to do yet and I wanted some options. When I saw the check printed out full-size, it gave me an idea! It looked like the perfect size for a small book cover.
I made some pages out of scrap paper and used text, old book pages and some of the collage sheets that were part of Mary's Your Vintage GlueBook class to create backgrounds for the pages and images I wanted to use. While I was planning on using the required challenge images on the cover, my husband Steven Deming had printed out a number of old family photos to make a collage for his aunt's 89th birthday celebration this month. There were lots of leftover photos on my work table that I wanted to use to extend this challenge project into a special book for him. Please click on each photo below for more detail.
The postcard image on the right is the Deming family home on Wolfe Island, Thousand Islands, Ontario, Canada. It is still in the family and we visit it when we spend time on Wolfe Island. Lady Randolf looks as if she approves!
Steven's grandmother Evelyn, born on Wolfe Island in that house.
Steven's father, his aunts & his uncle (father's twin brother). Aunt Lee is the Aunt celebrating her birthday this month; the rest of her siblings pictured here have passed on.
Some of the Deming family on the left, and Steven's father on the right, 1930's.
Steven's grandmother as a young woman, and right, his grandfather and cousin Gail.
Steven's favorite truck - his 1965 Chevy. I had to end the book for him with this!
When all the images were glued in place, I used my sewing machine to stitch all of the pages together down the middle of the | 400 |
Another successful Play in a<|fim_middle|> a lot of fun and enjoyed the day enormously.
Future dates for Play in a Day will be posted on our website so please keep an eye open for these great half term activities.
Your child may also like Boom, our week-long Summer School for primary aged children. | Day took place on Wednesday 20th February with 36 primary aged children enjoying a day of drama, dance, music and film led by Drama Coach Connor Linden and Choreographer Katie Barker-Dale, assisted by Conor O'Sullivan behind the camera. Everybody worked very hard to produce an entertaining and original piece of theatre in just one day.
Their presentation to their excited parents was entitled If Kids Ruled the World and was greeted with enthusiasm and applause by their delighted audience. Songs were sung, dances skilfully presented, and a film in which all the children told us what they would really do if they ruled the world was enlightening, amusing and occasionally a bit weird! Children and tutors all agreed that they had | 145 |
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (BP) –- No one was hurt, but the roof of the Illinois Baptist State Association building in Springfield was in poor condition after high<|fim_middle|>0 p.m. The part that blew off was the rubber membrane of the roof along with the underlying Styrofoam that serves as part of the drainage system. High winds continued to blow smaller pieces into the parking lot over the next few hours.
The state association's staff heard a loud popping sound just before the section of roof crashed into the parking lot. Nearly 50 people -- IBSA staff and building tenants -- were inside when the incident occurred.
"I haven't seen or felt that kind of wind in a long time," IBSA Executive Director Nate Adams said, "but I'm still surprised at what it could do to the roof of a sturdy building like ours. I'm so thankful to the Lord that none of our staff, tenants or guests were injured."
The crew from Springfield Firefighters Local 37 was quickly on the scene. Stationed just down the street on Adlai Stevenson Drive, crew members saw the incident happen. One first responder told the Illinois Baptist, "We were in our incident room and saw the roof come off the building. We knew we had to come right away." The fire crew quickly evacuated the building.
The IBSA Building was open during regular office hours today.
Workers spent Thursday night and Friday morning cleaning up debris and getting a tarp over the roof. At least one vehicle was left with severe dents and scratches and others had minor damage.
The National Weather Service reported wind gusts as high as 61 mph at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield, 10 miles from the IBSA building.
Lisa Misner is communications director for the Illinois Baptist State Association. This report was provided by the Illinois Baptist newspaper. | winds blew part of it off on Thursday (March 14).
Part of the roof of the Illinois Baptist State Association's building was blown into the parking lot March 14 by strong winds.
A gust of wind blew a section of the building's roof into its north parking area around 4:2 | 62 |
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If summer memories have an address, it's at Lake Siskiyou. Nestled at the foot of the Trinity Divide and fed by five mountain streams, the crystalline lake has all the perfect ingredients for a summer holiday—warm water for swimming, miles of sandy shoreline, and plentiful rainbow and brown trout—and it's only an hour's drive from Redding. Non-stop blue-water action is interspersed with quiet, lingering moments—an osprey diving into a ripple-less cove, a stand-up paddleboarder plying her craft across the lake or the morning sun rising over fir-clad hills.
Families flock to Lake Siskiyou Resort, where they can rent a cabin or pitch a tent and take advantage of watersport rentals, from kayaks and paddleboards to 15-person party barges. The younger set can spend all day clambering up and zooming down water slides and splashing around in warm, shallow water—with refuelling stops at the resort's ice-cream kiosk.
Landlubbers can cycle or walk the 11 kilometre Lake Siskiyou Trail circling the lake. The scenic north shore features a single-arch suspension bridge over Wagon Creek—an ideal spot for selfies. Steel cables hang from a massive arch, suspending a sturdy wood-and-steel platform. The forested path offers fantastic vantage points for viewing and photographing Mount Shasta, the largest stratovolcano in the Cascade Range. Shasta's h<|fim_middle|> the global entertainment industry, Hollywood is both a state...
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About 10 miles away, you can walk to two smaller alpine lakes within Shasta-Trinity National Forest—Castle Lake and Heart Lake—which both offer views of Mount Shasta in the distance. Take the out-and-back path from the Castle Lake trailhead and climb the steep kilometre-and-a-half route to reach the small but scenic Heart Lake. This is also a perfect trail for the off-season—bring snowshoes and hike it while it's covered in snow.
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"When I first caught sight of it I was weary and 50 miles away and afoot. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since." – Author John Muir, upon seeing Mount Shasta in 1874
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The Volvo Concept Recharge – a sign of things to come from Volvo's full-electric era
For Volvo Cars, electrification is more than simply a shift in powertrains. It represents a new paradigm in car design, and the Volvo Concept Recharge is a manifesto for the next generation of all-electric Volvos.
True to the heritage of Scandinavian design, Concept Recharge has the mantra of 'less but better' at its core. For example, by removing the complexity of the internal combustion engine, the designers have been able to evolve the car's proportions to increase interior space while also improving aerodynamic efficiency. The result is a car that offers better solutions to support a sustainable family life.
Volvo's first generation of<|fim_middle|> well as a lot more interior space, including a large storage area between the front seats.
In the Concept Recharge these advancements have led designers to reposition the seats, optimise the roof profile and lower the bonnet of the car while retaining the high eye point beloved by drivers of cars such as the Volvo XC40, XC60 and XC90. This approach creates efficiency gains in aerodynamics compared with a typical SUV, which improves range.
This concept car also introduces a new Volvo design language. Continuing the theme of 'less but better', all unnecessary elements have been removed and what remains is treated with a high-precision, flush execution.
The traditional grille has been replaced with a shield-like structure, supported by a new interpretation of Volvo Cars' Thor's Hammer headlight design. These include the latest HD technology-enabled pure graphic which open at night to reveal the main lamp units. Signature vertical rear lamps connect to the brand's strong design heritage but are reimagined with a set of wings that extend at higher cruising speeds to further improve overall aerodynamics.
"Our Concept Recharge represents a manifesto for the all-electric future of Volvo Cars, as well as a new type of vehicle," said Robin Page, Head of Design at Volvo Cars. "It displays new and modern proportions that go hand-in-hand with increased versatility and shows what technology can enable in terms of design."
The Volvo design language also takes a new form inside the Concept Recharge. The flat floor provides more space and a better seating position for all those inside the car. A large, 15-inch standing touchscreen is the centre of a new and improved user experience for the company's next-generation connected infotainment system. Designed to be logical and intuitive to use, technology helps provide a serene and calm experience. The latest infotainment technology goes hand in hand with those other hallmarks of Scandinavian design: clean lines and extensive use of sustainable and natural materials inside the cabin.
"Inside the Concept Recharge, we create a truly Scandinavian living room feeling," added Robin Page. "The interior integrates our latest user experience technology with beautiful, sustainable and natural materials. Each part of the interior is like a piece of art and could stand alone as individual furniture in a room. We use the latest technologies but not for their own sake. We always focus on the benefits that technologies can bring."
Finally, the Concept Recharge also reflects Volvo Cars' safety ambitions in coming years. A LiDAR sensor, built by technology company Luminar and a critical part of Volvo Cars' plan for forthcoming safe autonomous drive technology, is placed in an optimal position on the roof to collect data on the environment around the car.
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Volvo Cars was founded in 1927. Today, it is one of the most well-known and respected car brands in the world, with sales of 661,713 cars in 2020 in about 100 countries. Volvo Cars has been under the ownership of the Zhejiang Geely Holding since 2010.
As of December 2020, Volvo Cars employed approximately 40,000 (41,500) full-time employees. Volvo Cars' head office, product development, marketing and administration functions are mainly located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo Cars' head office for APAC is located in Shanghai. The company's main car production plants are located in Gothenburg (Sweden), Ghent (Belgium), South Carolina (US), Chengdu and Daqing (China), while engines are manufactured in Skövde (Sweden) and Zhangjiakou (China), and body components in Olofström (Sweden).
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To reduce respondent burden, Statistics Canada has entered into data-sharing agreements with provincial and territorial statistical agencies and other government organizations, which have agreed to keep the data confidential and use them only for statistical purposes. Statistics Canada will only share data from this survey with those organizations that have demonstrated a requirement to use the data.
Section 11 of the Statistics Act provides for the sharing of information with provincial and territorial statistical agencies that meet certain conditions. These agencies must have the legislative authority to collect the same information, on a mandatory basis, and the legislation must provide substantially the same provisions for confidentiality and penalties for disclosure of confidential information as the Statistics Act. Because these agencies have the legal authority to compel businesses to provide the same information, consent is not requested and businesses may not object to the sharing of the data.
For this survey, there are Section 11 agreements with the provincial and territorial statistical agencies of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia, and the Yukon.
The shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.
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For this survey, there are Section 12 agreements with the statistical agencies of Prince Edward Island, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut as well as with the Newfoundland and Labrador Department of Natural Resources, the Ministère de l'énergie et des ressources naturelles du Québec, the Manitoba Department of Mineral Resources, Alberta Energy, the British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines, the British Columbia Ministry of Natural Gas Development, National Energy Board, Natural Resources Canada and Environment Canada.
For agreements with provincial and territorial government organizations, the shared data will be limited to information pertaining to business establishments located within the jurisdiction of the respective province or territory.
To enhance the data from this survey, Statistics Canada may combine it with information from other surveys or from administrative sources.
Please report information for a specific reference month 2018.
Please complete all sections as applicable.
If the information requested is unknown, please provide your best estimate.
This guide is designed to assist you as you complete the Monthly Natural Gas Transmission Survey. If you need more information, please call 1-877-604-7828.
Amounts: report amounts (1000m3 or Gigajoules) of natural gas received and delivered during the month under review.
Report total amount of natural gas carried into Canada, by port of entry.
Inclusion: amounts of gas moving in transit (example from the U.S., through Canada, and back into the U.S.)
Exclusion: Receipts from Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) marine terminals
Report volumes of gas received from sources such as:
Report amounts of gas received from fields connected directly to your company's transmission system. Field flared and waste and re-injection should be deducted from this amount.
Field plants
Report amounts of gas received at the processing or re-processing plant gate after the deduction of shrinkage, plant uses and losses.
Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) fractionation plants;
mainline straddle plants;
Gas gathering systems
Report amounts of gas received from gas gathering systems connected directly to your company's transmission system.
Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) fractionation plants and mainline straddle plants
<|fim_middle|>ICS 493190) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
Report amounts of gas delivered to gas distributors (NAICS 221210) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
Industrial power generation plants
Report gas delivered to electric power generation plants (NAICS 2211) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in the generation of bulk electric power, by natural gas.
Other industrial
Deliveries to Other Industrial Consumers
Report gas delivered to industrial establishments other than power generation plants.
Wholesale and retail trade
Other commercial buildings (e.g., public institutions)
Natural gas transmission pipelines
Natural gas storage facilities
Natural gas distributors
Commercial and institutional
Report gas delivered to commercial and institutional establishments.
Report amounts of gas delivered to LNG marine terminals (NAICS 488990) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
Report amount of gas consumed to fuel this transmission system.
Report the change in line pack between the first and last day of the reference month.
Report the difference between the total supply and total disposition. This difference includes
leakage or other losses, discrepancies due to metering inaccuracies and other
variants particularly billing lag.
Report total amount of natural gas received into Canada with the intention of exporting it back to the United States. (Re-Export)
Report total amount of natural gas delivered to the United States with the intention of importing it back to Canada. (Re-Import)
Please report the volume of natural gas transmitted (in 103m3) multiplied by the distance (in km) each shipment has travelled.
Step 1) 2 000 cubic metres transported over 5 km is equal to 10 000 cubic metre km.
Step 2) To report in 103m3km, divide 10 000 cubic metre km by 1000, which equals 10 cubic metre km.
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Field gas plants
Other transmission pipelines
Report amounts of gas received from other transmission pipelines (NAICS 486210) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
Report amounts of gas received from storage facilities (NAICS 493190) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
Storage facilities include natural gas storage caverns and liquefied natural gas storage but exclude establishments primarily engaged liquefaction and regassification of natural gas for purposes of transport (NAICS 488990).
Distributors (utility distribution systems)
Report amounts of gas received from gas distributors (NAICS 221210) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
Gas distributors are establishments primarily engaged in the distribution of natural or synthetic gas to the ultimate consumers through a system of mains.
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) marine terminals
Report amounts of gas received from LNG marine terminals (NAICS 488990) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
LNG marine terminals are establishments primarily engaged liquefaction and regassification of natural gas for purposes of transport.
F – Average Heating Value in Gigajoules/ Thousand Cubic Meters
Report average heat content of your natural gas receipts for the reported reference month.
G – Exports, Specify Port of Exit
Report total amount of natural gas this transmission pipeline physically exported from Canada to the United States, by port of exit.
Inclusion: amounts of gas moving ex transit (example from Canada, through the U.S., and back into Canada)
Exclusion: Deliveries to Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) marine terminals
Report amount of natural gas delivered to facilities and pipelines such as:
Report amounts of gas delivered to other transmission pipelines (NAICS 486210) connected directly to your company's transmission system.
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State of freedom of information, 2013
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The State of Freedom of
Information in Iowa 2013
By Kathleen Richardson,
A report prepared for the Iowa FOI Council's
annual meeting, Oct. 3, 2013
The highly anticipated and much watched Iowa Public Information Board opened for business in July 2013 after a year of rule making, hiring staff and setting up shop. The board's plate immediately started to fill as a pent-up demand for its legal resources became apparent.
The nine-member volunteer board — comprised of representatives from media, government and the public — hired Keith Luchtel, an attorney and former lobbyist for the Iowa Newspaper Association and Iowa Broadcasters Association, as its first executive director. Margaret Johnson, former Fremont County attorney, was hired as deputy director. Cindy Meyerdirk was hired as administrative assistant.
Among the activities of the IPIB in 2012 and 2013:
Board members met once a month, beginning in July 2012. Subcommittees met more frequently.
Board chair Bill Monroe and other IPIB members traveled the state, meeting with constituencies from journalists to government officials. They reported being warmly received, even by groups that had been initially opposed to the creation of the board, because they see the potential value of a free and consistent source of legal advice for access issues.
The board wrote, held public hearings on and approved its administrative rules and procedures, and wrote an ethics and conflict of interest policy.
A board subcommittee created a website, with information about Chapters 21 and 22 and forms for filing requests for information and also formal complaints. The site can be found at: ipib.iowa.gov.
Among the legal issues that the board dealt with in its first months:
The board drafted a formal advisory opinion to the Iowa Civil Rights Commission that settlement agreements resolving complaints should be open records in most circumstances. However, the board was forced to revisit that opinion after the commission provided more information that indicated that a working agreement between the commission and the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would forbid disclosure of certain information contained in conciliation agreements.
The board informally advised that a city council member's private Facebook page fell under the open records law when it was used for public business.
The board accepted two complaints submitted by The Des Moines Registerinvolving records requests about operation of the Iowa Juvenile Home and a request for a declaratory order from the Register regarding the legality of overtime fees charged for a public records search.
Formal open meetings complaints were also received about the Story County Board of Supervisors, the Osceola County Public Safety Commission, and the Linn County Board of Supervisors.
State Rep. Charles Isenhart asked the board to take action to require a task force created by the Dubuque County Board of Supervisors to comply with the open meetings law.
The board's jurisdiction is limited to issues involving Chapters 21 and 22, the Iowa open meetings and records laws, and to addressing complaints submitted within 60 days of an alleged violation of the law. The board has the authority to give informal and formal advice, issue declaratory orders with the force of law, attempt to mediate disputes, and enforce the law through contested-case proceedings under the Administrative Procedures Act. Communication with the board is public record, unless the communicator requests confidentiality and the board grants it pursuant to an exception in Chapter 22.7.
The board will also conduct training and disseminate information about open meetings and public records. It co-hosted a symposium on government openness with the University of Iowa on Oct. 3 that addressed transparency issues at the University and examined transparency in the digital age.
The board is also discussing potential recommendations to the Legislature regarding changes to the open meetings and records laws that would clarify when advisory groups of government bodies are subject to the meetings law, whether charging of overtime fees to fulfill records requests is "reasonable," and under what circumstances record custodians may exercise their discretion to release otherwise confidential records.
The initial board members are:
Robert Andeweg, Urbandale mayor
Tony Gaughan, Drake University law professor
Jo Martin, vice president of Times-Citizen Communications
Andy McKean, Anamosa attorney and former legislator
Gary Mohr, Bettendorf community college administrator
Bill Monroe, retired executive director of the Iowa Newspaper Association
Kathleen Richardson, executive secretary of the Iowa FOI Council
Suzan Stewart, attorney for MidAmerican Energy Co.
Peggy Weitl, Carroll County treasurer
Regents Transparency Task Force recommends public hearings, changes in records request processes
In response to criticism of lack of openness at both the Board of Regents and the public universities (see the rest of this report for details on a string of incidents), the Regents named a transparency task force in February. The task force was charged with recommending best practices for responding to public information requests and also for providing additional access to public information.
The 11 committee members included representatives from the three state public universities, the Board of Regents and its staff, the public, the new Iowa Public Information Board and two legislators. The task force met three times during the spring and summer, and held a series of public hearings around the state. The public hearings were dominated by testimony from members of Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, who expressed concern about corporate influence and conflict of interest on the Regents and at the state universities.
The task force's recommendations, submitted in August, included:
Each of the Regents institutions and the board itself appoint a transparency officer to track and ensure compliance with public records requests, including posting records requests on the web.
Each Regents institution and the board hold a public comment hearing prior to each board meeting to allow opportunity for comment on issues affecting the board and the upcoming agenda.
Require that academic program closures occur only at in-person meetings of the Regents.
Provide each board member with a state email account.
Establish a transparency data page on each institution and board website.
Gartner sues Iowa Public Radio
Michael Gartner — former president of the Board of Regents, former editor of the Ames Tribune and a member of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council — filed two lawsuits against the Iowa Public Radio this spring, claiming that the IPR board twice violated the Iowa open meetings laws. IPR board officials held a closed-door session in December 2012 to discuss the job performance of chief executive Mary Grace Herrington, who was subsequently fired in a closed meeting in February 2013. Iowa open meetings law allows a closed session to discuss job performance, but only when the employee requests the closed session and confidentiality is necessary to prevent needless and irreparable damage to the individual's reputation. When challenged, the IPR board argued that it was not legally required to comply with the open meetings law. In May, the Iowa Attorney General's Office said in an informal opinion requested by state Sen. David Johnson that IPR was subject to open records law and "likely" required to comply with meetings law. The Iowa Board of Regents, which created IPR to run the state's public radio station, in June approved an operating agreement with IPR that requires the station to adhere to the state's sunshine laws. The agreement runs through June 30, 2019.
[Gartner and IPR have subsequently settled the lawsuits, with IPR agreeing to run public service announcements about the Iowa Public Information Board and pay Gartner's attorney fees.]
ISU refuses to release details of NCAA violations
Iowa State University this spring announced that it reported 79 infractions of the National Collegiate Athletic Association rules regarding phone calls to recruits between 2008 and 2011. But the ISU athletic department refused to respond to media requests to provide details of the infractions, including identifying specific sports or individuals who made calls that violated NCAA rules. Some details were finally released in September when the NCAA reported its decision regarding sanctions.
DCI agent's firing leads to call for change to personnel exception
Department of Criminal Investigation agent Larry Hedlund was put on leave shortly after he reported Gov. Terry Branstad's trooper-driven vehicle speeding on a state highway in April. Hedlund was fired in July, but the state insisted that his dismissal was the result of a longstanding disciplinary investigation and had nothing to do with his whistleblowing about the governor's speeding.
The Iowa public records law was implicated when Branstad complained that the state couldn't release Hedlund's disciplinary report to clear up the matter, because of an exception in Chapter 22 that makes confidential "personal information in confidential personnel records" of government officials and employees. Hedlund's attorney refused to release the report because he said it was erroneous and defamatory.
Branstad then appointed retired Iowa Supreme Court chief justice Louis Lavorato to investigate the situation. The governor also called for a change in the law that would allow record custodians the discretion to release personnel information.
Lavorato's report, released in August, said there was no direct evidence the governor's office was involved in Hedlund's dismissal.
Former D.M. school superintendent sues over release of explicit emails
Nancy Sebring, who quit her job as superintendent of the Des Moines public schools in 2012 after it was discovered that she had sent sexually explicit emails to a lover via government computers and email account, sued the district, two district employees and a member of the school board in June over the public release of those emails.
In her lawsuit, Sebring claims that her correspondence was "purely personal and private emails disclosing intimate details about her personal life," and that Teree Caldwell-Johnson, then president of the school board; school district spokesperson Phil Roeder, and district attorney Patricia Lantz released the emails "with malicious intent to harm and punish Sebring and to cause her severe embarrassment, humiliation and emotional distress." Sebring claims that the scandal has so damaged her reputation that her career is a "sh<|fim_middle|> to the plaintiffs on the defamation claims, ruling that the published statements were libel per se, or libel "on the face of it," and that because the defendants were not members of the mainstream media, they were not protected by the First Amendment safeguards laid out in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court caseNew York Times v. Sullivan. The defendants were supported in their appeal by an amicus brief filed by the Iowa Freedom of Information Council and seven media organizations.
The Supreme Court established a two-part test for determining whether an entity is a publisher and media defendant: "a person or entity whose regular practice is to (1) receive written materials prepared by a number of third parties and (2) make finished products from the materials that are designed to be more suitable and accessible for the public to read." The Court said that Author Solutions could be considered a media defendant and as such should have been granted summary judgment on both the defamation and false light claims because it could not be found liable for libel per se. [Bierman v. Weir and Author Solutions Inc., No. 10-1503, Jan. 18, 2013]
Supreme Court rules Dyersville violated public records law
The city of Dyersville violated the public records law when it took more than two months to fulfill a records request, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in July.
The case involved a construction supply business that fought with Dyersville after being denied the opportunity to submit a bid for a wastewater treatment facility project in 2010. Part of the resulting lawsuit involved the business' claim that the city violated the public records law by failing to respond to a request for records in a timely manner: the city took from approximately Jan. 25, 2010, to April 6, 2010, to produce 617 pages.
The Supreme Court said that "there is no explicit time deadline in Chapter 22 for the production of public records when requested." The law places a 20-day time limit on a "good faith, reasonable delay" in producing records in certain circumstances, such as to determine whether the record is a public or confidential record. The Iowa Uniform Rules on Agency Procedure say that record custodians should respond to requests "promptly," though "the size and nature of the request" can be taken into account.
While the Supreme Court declined to set a standard for compliance, because it was not an issue on appeal, it referred to Dyersville's handling of the plaintiff's record requests as "troubling" and "unsatisfactory," even though the amount of material requested was voluminous. [Horsfield Materials Inc. v. City of Dyersville, No. 12-0491, July 5, 2013]
Story County district court enjoins ISU from disclosing research results
A Seattle law firm, the New York Times and others sought results for tests that an Iowa State University professor had done as a private consultant for Beef Products Inc. But the district court for Story County ruled in March that the work, while public record because it was in the custody of the university, was exempted from disclosure because it qualified as confidential business information and could be used by competitors to steal BPI's trade secrets. The court also said that there was no public interest in disclosure, but involved "the university's providing laboratory testing services for a fee to a private entity." [Beef Products, Inc. v. Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Iowa District Court for Story County, March 13, 2013]
Expanded Media Coverage
A task force of lawyers, journalists and judges submitted recommendations to the Iowa Supreme Court this summer that would amend the Court's Rules for Expanded Media Coverage to reflect changing technologies and newsgathering practices, such as live streaming, blogging and Tweeting. Among the issues the committee addressed was changing the definition of "news media" for purposes of who can participate in EMC; changing EMC procedures, especially as regards initial appearances in criminal cases, and amending the technical aspect of the Rules to allow for use of mobile electronic devices in the courtroom. The Court will post the recommendations for public comment.
Winners and sinners
A report by The Des Moines Register in March showed that sheriffs in O'Brien and Woodbury counties were destroying gun permit applications after they were processed. A Woodbury County official explained that officials didn't want to be responsible for the record, which is public under state law.
University of Iowa surgeon John Chaloupka was identified in March as the University Hospitals employee who resigned after being embroiled in a lengthy disciplinary dispute involving another employee. Radiologist Malik Juweid had sued the university, claiming he was the victim of racial discrimination and defamation, among other claims. Chaloupka, who directed interventional neuroradiology at U of I Hospitals and Clinics, filed an affidavit supporting Juweid's lawsuit, but subsequently resigned after being stripped of key duties. He sued as "John Doe" in 2011 to prevent the release to journalists of records that would have identified him in the case. Two courts subsequently ordered the records related to Chaloupka released, and the settlement agreement released this spring identified him. The Associated Press is attempting to recover its legal fees from the state, claiming that the university violated the public records law in refusing to release the settlement agreement even after being ordered to do so. The attorney general's office encouraged the judge hearing the AP's request in September to ignore its own longstanding "Sunshine Advisories" that settlement agreements are public records. [Iowa Court of Appeals, John Doe v. University of Iowa and the Associated Press, No. 2-1003, Jan. 9, 2013]
The Des Moines Register reported in February and March on the University of Iowa's longstanding but unannounced practice of investigating students, staff and faculty who had applied for gun permits. University officials had been providing the Johnson County sheriff with confidential academic and personal information about students who had applied for the permits, but suspended the record sharing after it was questioned as a possible violation of educational privacy.
Gov. Branstad has continued to assert that "workgroups" created by his office to provide advice are not subject to the open meetings law. Chapter 21 requires any "advisory board, advisory commission or task force" created by the governor or Legislature to develop public-policy recommendation to meet in open session. Branstad has maintained that the requirement doesn't apply to his "workgroups."
Iowa's prisons have 86 policies that they maintain are "confidential," without citing specific exceptions, according to a report published in January by The Des Moines Register.The report was part of an investigation into the state's use of physical restraints on pregnant inmates, which was criticized as a potentially dangerous practice. Some of the policies that Iowa's Department of Corrections keep secret are routinely made available to the public by federal prison officials. The department said it would review its policies to determine whether all of them really warrant secrecy.
Faculty and staff at the University of Iowa's College of Education complained in December 2012 that Provost P. Barry Butler and university general counsel Carroll Reasoner told them to destroy survey results that documented dissatisfaction with education dean Margaret Crocco. Faculty said they were told that if they didn't comply, the university would not protect them legally if someone should file a lawsuit related to the situation. The provost denied destroying the records, but said he collected copies of the documents.
The Ankeny City Council backed away from a decision to build a casino in the Des Moines suburb after citizens responded angrily to the hasty vote in November 2012. The city had posted a meeting agenda that did not include the casino vote, but amended the agenda 24 hours and three minutes before the meeting was to begin to include the contract. (Iowa law requires 24-hour posting of the agenda for an open meeting.) The council voted to approve the memorandum of agreement with Wild Rose Entertainment after a 15-minute presentation and a brief discussion. A few days later, the city pulled out of the agreement.
Ombudsman's report
The Office of Citizens' Aide/Ombudsman reported receiving 331 complaints and requests for information related to Chapters 21 and 22 in 2012. Among the issues the office addressed:
A small town that failed to publish or post its minutes, as required by Iowa Code. The city erroneously believed it didn't have to publish minutes because the community had no newspaper.
A woman who was denied her request for copies of dashboard-camera videos from police cars that had accompanied her to retrieve items from her ex-husband. Local police refused to release the videos, citing privacy concerns of the ex-husband.
A county conference board that failed to record the vote of each member present for an action item and broke into groups in a way that made it difficult for the public to monitor discussion.
A police chief who refused a reporter's request for records on an assault that involved juveniles.
A national publication that complained when a county sheriff wanted to charge $5 apiece for copies of mugshots.
The ombudsman's office also worked with the Iowa State Association of Assessors to draft a model policy that would provide guidance on fees for fulfilling records requests.
While the Iowa Public Information Board has authority to respond to issues related to Chapters 21 and 22 going forward, the ombudsman's office envisions a continuing role in handling questions and complaints related to government transparency, including records retention, publication of minutes and alleged violations that are older than 60 days.
The office's complete report can be found at www.legis.iowa.gov/ombudsman/
National survey ranks Iowa 19th in openness
The Better Government Association, a nonpartisan government watchdog group, ranked Iowa 19th in overall openness in its "Integrity Index," released in July.
The 90-year-old, Chicago-based nonprofit compared all 50 states' laws against "best practices" in the areas of open meetings, freedom of information (public records), whistleblower protection and conflict of interest. The last "Integrity Index" was conducted in 2008.
No state scored 100 percent, with the average total score of all states being 55 percent. Rhode Island scored highest overall with 70 percent and Montana ranked lowest with 28 percent. The association said that states have been slow to address changing technology and electronic access to information.
Iowa's scores in the "Integrity Index":
Total score: 58.32%
FOIA (records): 51.8%
Open meetings: 45.5%
Whistleblower protection: 71.9%
Conflict of interest: 64.1%
Some of the factors considered in the grading: procedures for accessing public records, barriers to access and penalties for denying requests; public information required about government meetings and hurdles to citizens bringing action about violations; filing requirements for financial disclosure by public officials and employees, and public accessibility to that information.
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Sebring has sued for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and interference with contract. Sebring had been slated to become superintendent of the Omaha school district, but the job fell through after her racy emails were released in response to public records requests from the Omaha World-Herald and The Des Moines Register. Sebring's lawsuit alleges that district insiders who knew about the emails leaked the information to The Register.
In another lawsuit related to Sebring's resignation, the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa has sued the district on behalf of former school board member Graham Gillette, claiming that a board meeting held in May 2012 to discuss Sebring's departure was closed illegally. Polk County District Court Judge Karen Romano reviewed the audio tapes and minutes of the closed meeting and in July ruled that the school board did go off-topic several times during the meeting, and those portions of the meeting should be made available to the plaintiffs. Iowa open meetings law says that officials "shall not discuss any business during a closed session which does not directly relate to the specific reason announced as justification for the closed session."
The selection in March of Sebring's successor as superintendent in Des Moines was also criticized for its lack of transparency. None of the candidates were identified except the three finalists, and closed screening interviews were held in a warehouse while a reporter was watched by a guard in a separate office. The board met in closed session to discuss its selection, then announced its choice at a press conference and in a news release without any public discussion or vote. During the late-night closed session, board members left the meeting room, telling a waiting reporter that they were just "taking a little break," but then sneaked out of the building. When they tried to resume the meeting the next day, they had to be reminded that the open meetings law requires them to post new notice if the recess lasts for more than four hours.
Additional exceptions added to public records law
The Legislature was relatively quiet on the open meetings and records front this year, but three exceptions were added to Chapter 22, the public records law. Among action:
22.7(62), the exception addressing the Iowa Department of Aging, was amended to comply with a federal law mandating confidentiality of client records.
An exception was added for electronic medical information that drivers will voluntarily provide to the Iowa Department of Transportation to imbed on their licenses to allow first responders to know serious health issues in case of emergency.
An exception was added that would allow government agencies to keep confidential their email lists for mass emails that they send out with routine information and notices. The exception is meant to shield the email addresses of people who sign up for email alerts from being released to commercial interests or spammers.
An exception was added that provides confidentiality for the details of bills submitted by lawyers for work done for the state public defender's office for indigent defense.
A new Code section, 331.339, explicitly states that the new Mental Health and Disability Services Regions, which are replacing county mental health services, are subject to the sunshine laws.
Among legislation that failed to pass was a bill that would have kept confidential the identities of the holders of gun permits; efforts to expunge court records when a criminal charge is dismissed or a person is acquitted, and a bill that would have placed additional transparency requirements on the Board of Regents. Anti-bullying legislation was also introduced that would have given schools the authority to punish students for offensive comments written on social media outside of school. The proposal was criticized as violating students' First Amendment right to free speech.
Also during the session, the office of Citizens' Aide/Ombudsman and the attorney general's office were at odds over access to tapes and transcripts of closed meetings of government bodies. The ombudsman's office supported legislation that would make it clear that it has access to the material from closed meetings, arguing that it needed the recordings and transcripts to fully investigate citizen complaints about government agencies and boards. The attorney general countered that allowing access to closed-door transcripts would encourage second-guessing of volunteer boards.
D.M. Register reports disclose harsh treatment at Iowa Juvenile Home
A series of articles this year by Des Moines Register investigative reporter Clark Kauffman showed harsh treatment of youths confined at the Iowa Juvenile Home, including instances when teenagers were forcibly restrained and kept in isolation rooms for months at a time.
The Register has wrestled with the Iowa Department of Human Services and the attorney general's office over release of records related to the home. The DHS has refused to release security camera footage that allegedly shows youths being mistreated by staff members. The state has claimed that the restraints and isolation rooms could be considered part of the "mental health treatment" received by the children. Four workers at the juvenile home have been fired as a result of investigation of abuses.
The Register claimed in September that the attorney general's office was attempting to block access to information about previously undisclosed allegations of abuse. TheRegister received electronic copies of records related to the home and was able to access redacted information that detailed denial of substance-abuse treatment and violent encounters between staff and juveniles. The Register reported on the redacted content, but did not include the names of the youths.
Supreme Court says volunteer commissioners immune in open meetings case
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in June that volunteer members of a regional planning commission were immune from personal liability for admitted violation of the open meetings law because the violation was not intentional.
The Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission, which serves a five-county area in northeast Iowa, in 2009 studied whether to expand the Postville post office or locate alternative space elsewhere in the region. The commission conducted a secret vote in September 2010 to buy property in Decorah. Immediately after the vote, members questioned the legality of the vote. (Iowa open meetings law requires all final action to be taken in open session.) The office of citizens' aide/ombudsman advised the commission to hold a second vote via written ballot, which the agency did.
The city of Postville and a Postville resident sued the commission, alleging various violations of Chapter 21. The commission admitted violations related to the September 2010 secret vote, but denied the rest of the allegations. Among the relief sought, the plaintiffs wanted each individual commission member to be fined $500 and 11 commissioners to be removed.
The Iowa Supreme Court said that even though the Iowa open meetings law provides for fines for members of governmental bodies who violate the law, a separate section of the Iowa Code, 28H.4(2), provides immunity for citizens who volunteer to serve on government councils. The Court said the volunteers are not personally liable unless the violations were intentional or knowing, or the person derived improper personal benefit.
However, the Court left the door open to further examination of the issue, noting that the plaintiffs argued that this immunity does not apply to open meetings violations, but did not properly raise this issue in the district court.
The Postville plaintiffs also claimed the commission did not provide adequate meeting notice and violated the publication law. The Court rejected the publication claim, but sent the notice issue back to the trial court for further determination. [City of Postville v. Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission, No. 12-1002, June 7, 2013.]
Supreme Court rules in 'libel per se' case
The Iowa Supreme Court ruled in January that Internet publishers should be afforded the same protections in defamation lawsuits as other media defendants, but declined to change Iowa law that recognizes libel per se and distinguishes between media and non-media defendants. Libel per se involves those statements considered so clearly defamatory that malice need not be proved.
The case involved a self-published memoir in which the author claimed that his ex-wife had been molested by her father as a child and suffered from bipolar disorder as a result. The ex-wife and her father sued both the former husband and his Internet publisher, Author Solutions, for libel, invasion of privacy and intentional infliction of emotional distress. A trial court had granted summary judgment | 1,670 |
Members of Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Department of Defense, and Department of Veterans' Affairs honored nearly 200 wounded service members on March 18th, 2009, at the 5th Annual Armed Forces Foundation (AFF) Congressional Gala. The event, hosted by Senator John McCain and Congressman C.W. Bill Young (among others), raised close to $1 million dollars and once again, our very own Project American Heroes was showcased as a featured guest. Prominently displayed in the front of the Atrium in the Ronald Reagan Building at the International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Ave, the '69 Rally Sport Camano's stunning custom paint scheme blended exquisitely with the red and black<|fim_middle|> to Dave Wilson and the professional transporters from Intercity Lines who once again made our trip possible by donating their time and efforts to move the Camaro around the country on its promotional tour. Please keep them in mind when you or anyone you know needs a professional to transport their classic or exotic car.
Next stop for Project American Heroes will be the Source Interlink offices in Tampa, Florida where it will be detailed and prepped for its sale at the Palm Beach Barrett-Jackson auction on Friday afternoon, April 10. I will forward further details on the auction as they become available.
Thanks for all of your generous support. Please continue to help us spread the word about this most worthwhile endeavor so that we can find that one special guy with the funds and the heart to purchase our beauty and provide much needed funds to support our dedicated servicemen. | decor of the evening (this was, of course, no accident thanks to the planning by AFF president Patricia Driscoll and her dedicated staff). Fox New's Brian Kilmeade once again took the podium as the evening's emcee and kept things rolling along while Comedian Jeff Allen (www.jeffallencomedy.com) provided the entertainment.
At the Gala, Admiral Eric T. Olson was awarded the Bill and Beverly Young Humanitarian of the Year Award while Dana White, president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was honored with the Sheldon Adelson Patriot Award for humanitarianism in industry for his and his company's dedication to the welfare of our men and women in uniform.
Other notable attendees included Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General James Cartwright, General George Casey (Chief of Staff of the United States Army), Admiral Gary Roughead (Chief of Naval Operations), General James Conway (Commandant of the Marine Corps), Secretary Michael Donley (Secretary of the Airforce), LTG Stanley McChrystal (Director of the Joint Staff), General Norton Schwartz (Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force), and UFC fighter Kenny Florian.
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Synonyms containing self-originated
self, n. one's own person: one's personal interest: one's own personal interest, selfishness: a flower having its colour uniform as opposed to variegated:—pl. Selves (selvz).—adj. very: particular: one's own: simple, plain, unmixed with any other.—ns. Self′-aban′donment,<|fim_middle|>Self-defeating prophecy
A self-defeating prophecy (self-destroying or self-denying in some sources) is the complementary opposite of a self-fulfilling prophecy; a prediction that prevents what it predicts from happening. This is also known as the prophet's dilemma. A self-defeating prophecy can be the result of rebellion to the prediction. If the audience of a prediction has an interest in seeing it falsified, and its fulfillment depends on their actions or inaction, their actions upon hearing it will make the prediction less plausible. If a prediction is made with this outcome specifically in mind, it is commonly referred to as reverse psychology or warning. Also, when working to make a premonition come true, one can inadvertently change the circumstances so much that the prophecy cannot come true. It is important to distinguish a self-defeating prophecy from a self-fulfilling prophecy that predicts a negative outcome. If a prophecy of a negative outcome is made, and that negative outcome is achieved as a result of positive feedback, then it is a self-fulfilling prophecy. For example, if a group of people decide they will not be able to achieve a goal and stop working towards the goal as a result, their prophecy was self-fulfilling. Likewise, if a prediction of a negative outcome is made, but the outcome is positive because of negative feedback resulting from the rebellion, then that is a self-defeating prophecy.
Which of the following terms is an antonym of the term "pathologic"?
A. ghoulish
B. diseased
C. morbid
D. healthy | disregard of self; Self′-abase′ment, abasement through consciousness of unworthiness.—adj. Self′-absorbed′, absorbed in one's own thoughts.—ns. Self′-abuse′, the abuse of one's own person or powers: self-pollution; Self′-accusā′tion, the act of accusing one's self.—adjs. Self′-accus′atory; Self′-act′ing, acting of, or by, itself, specially denoting a machine or mechanism which does of itself something that is ordinarily done by manual labour.—n. Self′-activ′ity, an inherent power of acting.—adj. Self′-adjust′ing, requiring no external adjustment.—n. Self′-admis′sion (Shak.), admission of one's self.—n.pl. Self′-affairs′ (Shak.), one's own affairs.—adjs. Self′-affect′ed (Shak.), affected well towards one's self; Self′-affright′ed (Shak.), frightened at one's self.—n. Self′-applause′, applause of one's self.—adjs. Self′-appoint′ed, nominated by one's self; Self′-approv′ing, implying approval of one's own conduct; Self′-assert′ing, given to asserting one's opinion: putting one's self forward.—n. Self′-asser′tion.—adj. Self′-assumed′, assumed by one's own act.—n. Self′-assump′tion, conceit.—adj. Self′-begot′ten, generated or originated by one's own powers.—n. Self′-bind′er, the automatic binding apparatus attached to some reaping-machines.—adj. Self′-blind′ed, led astray by one's self.—n. Self′-blood′ (obs.), direct progeny: suicide.—adj. Self′-born′, born or produced by one's self.—n. Self′-boun′ty (Shak.), native goodness.—adj. Self′-cen′tred, centred in self.—n. Self′-char′ity (Shak.), love of one's self.—adjs. Self′-clō′sing, shutting automatically; Self′-collect′ed, self-possessed: self-contained; Self′-col′oured, of the natural colour: dyed in the wool: coloured with a single tint: (hort.) uniform in colour.—ns. Self′-command′, self-control; Self′-complā′cency, satisfaction with one's self, or with one's own performances.—adj. < p>
One's self-concept is a collection of beliefs about oneself that includes elements such as academic performance, gender roles and sexuality, racial identity, and many others. Generally, self-concept embodies the answer to "Who am I?" Self-concept is distinguishable from self-awareness, which refers to the extent to which self-knowledge is clearly defined, consistent and currently applicable to one's attitudes and dispositions. Self-concept is made up of one's self-schemas. Additionally, self-concept interacts with self-esteem, self-knowledge, and social self to form the self. Self-esteem refers to the evaluation or comparison of one's self-concept and self-schemas to form one's overall self-worth. The self-concept includes past, present and future selves. Future or possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, or what they are afraid of becoming. These different selves correspond to one's hopes, fears, standards, goals, and threats for their present selves. Possible selves may function as incentives for future behavior and also provide an evaluative and interpretive context for the current view of self that is used when one self-evaluates, contributing to one's self-esteem. Self-esteem and self-concept cannot be used interchangeably. Self-esteem focuses on an evaluative and opinionated aspect to one's self, whereas self-concept is more of a cognitive or descriptive component to one's self. This distinction is important to note, as self-concept and self-esteem closely interact to form an overall view of the self.
Self-enhancement
Self-enhancement is a type of motivation that works to make people feel good about themselves and to maintain self-esteem. This motive becomes especially prominent in situations of threat, failure or blows to one's self-esteem. Self-enhancement involves a preference for positive over negative self-views. It is one of the four self-evaluation motives along with self-assessment (the drive for an accurate self-concept), self-verification (the drive for a self-concept congruent with one's identity) and self-improvement (the act of bettering one's self-concept). Self-evaluation motives drive the process of self-regulation, that is, how people control and direct their own actions. There are a variety of strategies that people can use to enhance their sense of personal worth. For example, they can downplay skills that they lack or they can criticise others to seem better by comparison. These strategies are successful, in that people tend to think of themselves as having more positive qualities and fewer negative qualities than others. Although self-enhancement is seen in people with low self-esteem as well as with high self-esteem, these two groups tend to use different strategies. People who already have high esteem enhance their self-concept directly, by processing new information in a biased way. People with low self-esteem use more indirect strategies, for example by avoiding situations in which their negative qualities will be noticeable.There are controversies over whether or not self-enhancement is beneficial to the individual, and over whether self-enhancement is culturally universal or specific to Western individualism.
Self-esteem is an individual's subjective evaluation of their own worth. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs about oneself (for example, "I am unloved", "I am worthy") as well as emotional states, such as triumph, despair, pride, and shame. Smith and Mackie (2007) defined it by saying "The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it."Self-esteem is an attractive psychological construct because it predicts certain outcomes, such as academic achievement, happiness, satisfaction in marriage and relationships, and criminal behavior. Self-esteem can apply to a specific attribute (for example, "I believe I am a good writer and I feel happy about that") or globally (for example, "I believe I am a bad person, and I feel bad about myself in general"). Psychologists usually regard self-esteem as an enduring personality characteristic (trait self-esteem), though normal, short-term variations (state self-esteem) also exist. Synonyms or near-synonyms of self-esteem include many things: self-worth, self-regard, self-respect, and self-integrity.
Self-diagnosis
Self-diagnosis is the process of diagnosing, or identifying, medical conditions in oneself. It may be assisted by medical dictionaries, books, resources on the Internet, past personal experiences, or recognizing symptoms or medical signs of a condition that a family member previously had. Self-diagnosis is prone to error and may be potentially dangerous if inappropriate decisions are made on the basis of a misdiagnosis. Because of the risks, self-diagnosis is officially discouraged by governments, physicians, and patient care organizations. Even physicians are discouraged from engaging in self-diagnosis, because doctors also make mistakes in diagnosing themselves. If the self-diagnosis is wrong, then the misdiagnosis can result in improper health care, including wrong treatments and lack of care for serious conditions. One of the greatest dangers of self diagnosis in psychological syndromes, is that you may miss a medical disease that masquerades as a psychiatric syndrome. Self-diagnosis also undermines the role of the doctor-which is not the best way to start the relationship. Then there is the fact that we can know and see ourselves, but sometimes, we need a mirror to see ourselves more clearly. By self-diagnosing, you may be missing something that you cannot see. Another danger of self diagnosis is that you may think that there is more wrong with you than there actually is. Self-diagnosis is also a problem when you are in a state of denial about your symptoms. However, self-diagnosis may be appropriate under certain circumstances. All over-the-counter (non-prescription) medications are offered on the assumption that people are capable of self-diagnosis, determining first that their condition is unlikely to be serious and then the possible harm caused by incorrect medication minor. Some conditions are more likely to be self-diagnosed, especially simple conditions such as head lice and skin abrasions or familiar conditions such as menstrual cramps, headache or the common cold. Complex conditions for which medications are heavily advertised, including conditions like ADHD in adults, present a more challenging situation. Direct-to-consumer marketing of medications is widely criticized for promoting inappropriate self-diagnosis. One other condition that is commonly self-diagnosed is gluten intolerance.
Self-harm or deliberate self-harm includes self-injury and self-poisoning and is defined as the intentional, direct injuring of body tissue most often done without suicidal intentions. These terms are used in the more recent literature in an attempt to reach a more neutral terminology. The older literature, especially that which predates the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, almost exclusively refers to self-mutilation. The term is synonymous with "self-injury". The most common form of self-harm is skin-cutting but self-harm also covers a wide range of behaviors including, but not limited to, burning, scratching, banging or hitting body parts, interfering with wound healing, hair-pulling and the ingestion of toxic substances or objects. Behaviours associated with substance abuse and eating disorders are usually not considered self-harm because the resulting tissue damage is ordinarily an unintentional side effect. However, the boundaries are not always clearly defined and in some cases behaviours that usually fall outside the boundaries of self-harm may indeed represent self-harm if performed with explicit intent to cause tissue damage. Although suicide is not the intention of self-harm, the relationship between self-harm and suicide is complex, as self-harming behaviour may be potentially life-threatening. There is also an increased risk of suicide in individuals who self-harm to the extent that self-harm is found in 40–60% of suicides. However, generalising self-harmers to be suicidal is, in the majority of cases, inaccurate.
Self-knowledge is a term used in psychology to describe the information that an individual draws upon when finding an answer to the question "What am I like?". While seeking to develop the answer to this question, self-knowledge requires ongoing self-awareness and self-consciousness Young infants and chimpanzees will display some of the traits self-awareness and agency/contingency, yet not be considered as also having self-consciousness. At some greater level of cognition, however, a self-conscious component emerges in addition to an increased self-awareness component, and then it becomes possible to ask "What am I like?", and to answer with self-knowledge. Self-knowledge is a component of the self, or more accurately, the self-concept. It is the knowledge of one's self and one's properties and the desire to seek such knowledge that guide the development of the self-concept. Self-knowledge informs us of our mental representations of ourselves, which contain attributes that we uniquely pair with ourselves, and theories on whether these attributes are stable, or dynamic. The self-concept is thought to have three primary aspects: ⁕The Cognitive Self
Self-esteem is a term used in psychology to reflect a person's overall emotional evaluation of his or her own worth. It is a judgment of oneself as well as an attitude toward the self. Self-esteem encompasses beliefs and emotions such as triumph, despair, pride and shame. Smith and Mackie define it by saying "The self-concept is what we think about the self; self-esteem, is the positive or negative evaluations of the self, as in how we feel about it." Self-esteem is also known as the evaluative dimension of the self that includes feelings of worthiness, prides and discouragement. One's self-esteem is also closely associated with self-consciousness. Self-esteem is a disposition that a person has which represents their judgments of their own worthiness. In the mid-1960s, Morris Rosenberg and social-learning theorists defined self-esteem as a personal worth or worthiness. Nathaniel Branden in 1969 defined self-esteem as "the experience of being competent to cope with the basic challenges of life and being worthy of happiness." According to Branden, self-esteem is the sum of self-confidence and self-respect. It exists as a consequence of the implicit judgment that every person has of their ability to face life's challenges, to understand and solve problems, and their right to achieve happiness, and be given respect.
In social psychology, self-assessment is the process of looking at oneself in order to assess aspects that are important to one's identity. It is one of the motives that drive self-evaluation, along with self-verification and self-enhancement. Sedikides suggests that the self-assessment motive will prompt people to seek information to confirm their uncertain self-concept rather than their certain self-concept and at the same time people use self-assessment to enhance their certainty of their own self-knowledge. However, the self-assessment motive could be seen as quite different to the other two self-evaluation motives. Unlike the other two motives through self-assessment people are interested in the accuracy of their current self view, rather than improving their self-view. This makes self-assessment the only self-evaluative motive that may cause a person's self-esteem to be damaged.
A person's self-image is the mental picture, generally of a kind that is quite resistant to change, that depicts not only details that are potentially available to objective investigation by others, but also items that have been learned by that person about himself or herself, either from personal experiences or by internalizing the judgments of others. A simple definition of a person's self-image is their answer to the question "What do you believe people think about you?". Self-image may consist of three types: ⁕Self-image resulting from how the individual sees himself or herself. ⁕Self-image resulting from how others see the individual. ⁕Self-image resulting from how the individual perceives others see him or her. These three types may or may not be an accurate representation of the person. All, some or none of them may be true. A more technical term for self-image that is commonly used by social and cognitive psychologists is self-schema. Like any schema, self-schemas store information and influence the way we think and remember. For example, research indicates that information which refers to the self is preferentially encoded and recalled in memory tests, a phenomenon known as "Self-referential encoding". Self-schemas are also considered the traits people use to define themselves, they draw information about the self into a coherent scheme.
Self-sustainability
Self-sustainability and self-sufficiency are overlapping states of being in which a person or organization needs little or no help from, or interaction with, others. Self-sufficiency entails the self being enough (to fulfill needs), and a self-sustaining entity can maintain self-sufficiency indefinitely. These states represent types of personal or collective autonomy. On a national scale, a totally self-sufficient economy that requires little or no trade with the outside world is called an autarky. Absolute purity of personal self-sufficiency or national autarky is a theoretical concept rather than a reality, but relative degrees are observable in real-world examples. Self-sustainability is a type of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed other than what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include simple living, homesteading, off-the-grid, survivalism, DIY ethic and the back-to-the-land movement.
Self-complexity
Self-complexity is a person's perceived knowledge of herself or himself, based upon the number of distinct cognitive structures, or self-aspects, they believe themselves to possess. These self-aspects can include context-dependent social roles, relationships, activities, superordinate traits, and goals of the individual, which combine to form the larger, associative network of their self-concept. According to self-complexity theory, an individual who has a number of self-aspects that are unique in their attributes will have greater self-complexity than one who has only a few self-aspects, or whose self-aspects are closely associated to one another. In other words, self-complexity may invoke the question, "How full is the self-concept"?
Self-control, an aspect of inhibitory control, is the ability to regulate one's emotions, thoughts, and behavior in the face of temptations and impulses. As an executive function, self-control is a cognitive process that is necessary for regulating one's behavior in order to achieve specific goals.A related concept in psychology is emotional self-regulation. Self-control is thought to be like a muscle. According to studies, self-regulation, whether emotional or behavioral, was proven to be a limited resource which functions like energy. In the short term, overuse of self-control will lead to depletion. However, in the long term, the use of self-control can strengthen and improve over time.Self-control is also a key concept in the general theory of crime, a major theory in criminology. The theory was developed by Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi in their book titled A General Theory of Crime, published in 1990. Gottfredson and Hirschi define self-control as the differential tendency of individuals to avoid criminal acts independent of the situations in which they find themselves. Individuals with low self-control tend to be impulsive, insensitive towards others, risk takers, short-sighted, and nonverbal. About 70% of the variance in questionaire data operationalizing one construct of Self-Control had been found to be genetic.
Self-fashioning
Self-fashioning, a term introduced by Stephen Greenblatt (Renaissance,Self-Fashioning, 1980), is used to describe the process of constructing one's identity and public persona according to a set of socially acceptable standards. Greenblatt described the process in the Renaissance era where a noble man was instructed to dress in the finest clothing he could afford, to be well versed and educated in art, literature, sports, and other culturally determined noble exercises, and to generally compose himself in a carefully intended manner. Additionally, the relationship between self-fashioning and the aesthetic mediums was a reciprocal one. Just as the art of creating oneself was highly influenced by the art and literature of the time, such as conduct books and religious iconography, such a concern for one's outwardly projected image was reflected in the portraiture of the time. According to Greenblatt, during the Renaissance the upper class practiced self-fashioning. Prescribed attire and behavior was created for the noblemen and women, and were represented through portraits. The ideological traits portraying masculinity were symbols of authority and power. Male rulers depicted themselves in armor or with weapons. The most important characteristic attributed to women was beauty. Beauty represents the concepts of purity, virtue and modesty. In portraits, women performed these traits through idealized features, fancy dresses, and elaborate jewelry. The iconography of portraits displays the gender-specific qualities prescribed during the Renaissance through visual devices. The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassare Castiglione, is one of the first texts that depicted behaviors which individuals were expected to adopt in society. As an informal book of conduct, The Courtier included instructions on how people of the noble class were to dress and speak, as well as general rules of interaction to follow in social situations. In his article "The Semiotics of Masculinity in Renaissance England", David Kuchta discusses the role of The Courtier concerning its influence on the self-fashioning of Renaissance England. Men of the noble class were to "create" themselves as works of art, according to the conventions of dress and manner as set forth by the monarchs. Characteristics of this Renaissance self-fashioning involve the use of "feminine" aspects of dress and conduct. A man was to conduct and dress in a way that reflected his position in society. He was not supposed to act in an affected manner, but present naturalness and nonchalance, or sprezzatura. In addition to, The Courtier puts emphasis on the importance of not only trying to resemble one's master, but actually trying to transform himself into his master in a way that exercises sprezzatura. This presents a key theme in self-fashioning: the conscious effort to strive to imitate a praised model in society. For women, one of the most popular figures to imitate was the Virgin Mary. Margaret R. Miles provides a thorough analysis of this influence-through-images of iconography and art in her article "The Virgin's One Bare Breast". The bare breast symbolized nourishment in a time of famine. Depicting the Virgin Mary nursing the infant Christ encouraged women to aspire to provide the same nourishment for their own families and community. Miles goes on to explain that, although women were encouraged to strive to emulate the many virtues of the Virgin, they must also be aware that one could never fully achieve such a standard. Similarly, men were taught that they should follow in the image of Christ, which was believed to be more attainable. Greenblatt's theories are influenced by the French sociologist and historian Michel Foucault. Self-fashioning has implications and applications outside of Renaissance studies. Waleska Schwandt applies the theory to Oscar Wilde in a chapter of the book The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde during the Last 100 Years, edited by Uwe Boker et al. (New York and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002). Alvina E. Quintana uses the theory to analyse twentieth century Chicano literature (see "Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters", in Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology, Hector Calderon and Jose David Saldivar (eds), Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991, pp. 72–83). Jack Chen applies the concept to the writings of Emperor Taizong in a book titled the Poetics of Sovereignty: on Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, (Boston, Mass: Harvard University Asia Center, 2011). In a chapter of the 2018 textbook International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations: Applying Bourdieu's Tools, edited by Garth Stahl et al. (London, UK: Bloomsbury, 2018, pp. 44) in Steven Threadgold's chapter Bourdieu Is Not A Determinist, Guy Mankowski applies the theory with reference to punk music, where self-fashioning is re-appropriated as 'self-design'.
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Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts in While We're Young
Posted on April 26, 2015 by Editor (Retired)
<|fim_middle|> if you're looking for a barrel of laughs from beginning to end. The comedic part of the film is good, but the drama at the end is excellent. I'd see it again.
This entry was posted in Life, Movies and tagged Adam Driver, Amanda Sayfried, Ben Stiller, Charles Grodin, Comedy, Filmmaking, Friendship, Marriage, Movie reviews, Naomi Watts, Noah Baumbach, While We're Young by Editor (Retired). Bookmark the permalink. | Here's a movie, "While We're Young", that contrasts two stages of adult life — middle-aged forties vs. twenty somethings — and touches on enough marriage and family angst to satisfy ten films.
Writer-Director Noah Baumbach packs four fictional documentary filmmakers — all of them quirky — into one narrative, creating excess competitive tension.
Ben Stiller (Josh) is a middle-aged documentary filmmaker who's stuck on a project. His wife Naomi Watts (Cornelia) is also a documentary filmmaker who works with her father. Not surprisingly, the father, Charles Grodin (Leslie), who appears to be the dean of documentary filmmakers, has a strained relationship with his son-in-law Josh. How many times am I going to have to write "documentary filmmaker" in this one movie review?
The story might be better without the intrusion of the older filmmaker. Charles Grodin's take on the character is great, but really, the old guy is a peripheral character. Most of the tension, comic and dramatic, is between the two couples, one young and the other middle-aged..
Adam Driver (Jamie) is the fourth and youngest documentary filmmaker. He's married to Amanda Sayfried (Darby). I'm relieved to report that Darby makes ice cream, not films. I was impressed by Driver's deft portrayal of the young and somewhat ruthless filmmaker. Stiller, with his piercing eyes, puts heartfelt intensity into the conflict between Josh and Jamie.
The two couples embark on an improbable intergenerational friendship, filled with glowing mutual admiration and envy in the beginning. The awkwardness of the friendship is good for humorous scenes at first. Alas, the friendship begins to sour about halfway through, and the comedy morphs into serious drama.
I won't give away any more of the complicated plot, except to say that it leads to a serious dispute over documentary ethics between Josh and Jamie. A secondary theme about parenthood is not fully developed, but it's a worthwhile counterpoint to the main theme, professional striving.
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I've<|fim_middle|> them all below. | just recently found how well distress oxides play with bristol vellum and I can't get enough. It leaves such a smooth clean surface as opposed to watercolor paper with it's toothiness. I'm submitting this one for the Altenew May Inspiration Challenge. I realized I have this gorgeous little stamp that I haven't had a chance to use yet and just wanted to play with it.
To create this A2 sized landscape card I used some bristol vellum and inked the large backrground 'Watercolor Dots' stamp set with some Peacock Feathers Oxide after I misted the stamp with water I just took the vellum and dipped the corners into the watery ink. While I left it to dry I stamped the rose from the Altenew 'Carved Rose' with Worn Lipstick Oxide. I heat embossed this with some clear embossing powder. I heat embossed it about three or four times to get a raised 'sticker' look to it which worked so cool with this stamp. I followed the same procedure for the leaves using Tumbled Glass. I cut a tag out of the rose and leaves (BTW this is bristol vellum as well). Next I stamped the 'my friend' sentiment and heat embossed it with silver embossing powder. I did the same for the 'You will always be' sentiment as well. I used some silver thread wound quite a few times for the tag and adhered it to the main panel. Also, I die cut the main panel with a dotted rectangle. I mounted this to the pink card stock and then mounted the whole thing to a gray card base.
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Do you hide your smile or avoid social situations all together because of your missing teeth? Replacing lost teeth is vital to restore your confidence and help you function optimally in the world. However, aesthetics isn't the only concern when it comes to replacement of missing teeth. The gap left behind causes your remaining teeth to shift out of place in an attempt to compensate for the missing tooth. If this shifting is allowed to happen, your teeth will not only become crooked, but they will also experience excessive wear in some areas. Tooth misalignment and uneven distribution of chewing forces can even lead to bruxism and TMJ dysfunction, which can cause chronic pain in the jaws, face, and head. Replacing missing teeth is imperative if you want to avoid such potentially life-altering problems.
Dr. Engelberg can replace a single missing tooth or several adjacent teeth with a crown and bridge system. Your fixed bridge consists of two parts: the bridge, which can be a single porcelain tooth or several replacement teeth that are connected, and dental crowns that are placed on the teeth surrounding the gap, also known as abutment teeth. Dr. Engelberg and his skilled lab technicians will design both your bridge and your crowns to match your natural teeth in color, shape, and size. He will first place the porcelain crowns on your abutment teeth, and then he will insert your bridge into the space between them, anchoring it in place by cementing it to your new crowns<|fim_middle|> same way as your other teeth. Brush all tooth surfaces and along the gum line twice a day, and floss between teeth, including your crowns, at least once a day. As your bridge rests on top of the gum tissue, food debris and bacteria may collect in the small space between the bridge and gums. Dr. Engelberg or his hygienist can instruct you on how to use special small brushes or thread dental floss into this space for cleaning. | . Your bridge will remain solidly in place, restoring both tooth function and your appearance.
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Huawei has launched the new Honor 6x smartphone but first in its home market China. The Honor 6X by Huawei is very affordable phone having outstanding features. The Honor 6x features a 5.50-inch touchscreen display with 108<|fim_middle|> non removable battery and weight is 162.00 grams. The dimensions of the Honor 6x are 150.90 x 72.60 x 8.20 (height x width x thickness). It also includes finger print scanner feature with fast charging.
In terms of connectivity the Huawei Honor 6X supports dual GSM Nano-SIM and includes Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth. The sensors of the Honor 6x are Proximity sensor, Accelerometer and Ambient light sensor.
The price of Huawei Honor 6x in China is 999 yuan ($148) It is available for pre-order in China today and will be available for sale on 25th October,2016. It will soon be available in Pakistan. | 0×1920 pixels of resolution.
It is powered by the 1.7GHz Cortex-A53 octa-core Kirin 655 processor and runs on Android 6.0 Marshmallow operating system. The new Huawei Honor 6X includes a 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal storage that is expandable up to 128GB via a microSD card. The Honor 6X smartphone features a 12-megapixel rare facing camera and an 8-megapixel front shooter for selfies.
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It's been 20 years of the Delhi Metro, 20 years of a public transport system that has been the nice class leveler and has remodeled the best way Dellhiites work, play and handle their hectic lives in a "city" that spans three states.
As 2022 attracts to an in depth, additionally it is time to hint the previous, current and way forward for a lifeline connecting far corners of the sprawling National Capital Region (NCR) that contains Delhi, after all. , and in addition its affluent suburbs Gurgaon and Noida, in addition to industrial cities Ghaziabad and Faridabad.
It began in December 2002 with a hall of simply 8.2km spanning six stations on the Red Line and has now grown to over 390km. The part of the community contains 286 stations (together with Noida Greater Noida Metro Corridor and Gurgaon's Rapid Metro).
The multicolored community? now with strains in yellow, blue, inexperienced, grey and in a number of shades of pink, together with magenta and purple? it remodeled the town's panorama and boosted its transportation infrastructure. In 2023, Delhi Metro Rail Corporation's focus will probably be on its Phase IV venture, with sections of two of the three precedence corridors anticipated to open within the second half of the yr.
Looking forward, many Delhiites look again on the years of public transport as a security characteristic in a metropolis infamous for being unsafe for girls and bridging divisions with even the wealthiest hopping on a prepare to navigate site visitors and distances
It has opened pathways to work, permitting girls whose households have been reluctant to allow them to journey the bus to affix the workforce and giving others the choice of touring late at night time. Air-conditioned subways have additionally opened up distant corners of the town to commuters.
Simran Sharma, in her 20s, for instance, who commutes for work between Krishna Nagar in east Delhi and Noida, mentioned the Delhi Metro has made touring safer for girls and has been a boon for individuals who didn't enterprise out. lengthy earlier than.
"Every train has a car reserved for women, and there are some seats marked for women, as well as for older people in other cars, which is very good. Many more women are traveling on the metro," she informed PTI.
The DMRC is at present finishing up building work on 65.2 km of the three precedence corridors, protecting 45 stations: Janakpuri West-RK Ashram Marg (28.92 km), Majlis Park-Maujpur (12.55 km) , that are extensions of the already working Magenta Line and Pink Line respectively, and Tughalakabad-Aerocity (23.62 km) which is being constructed because the Silver Line and can join the working Violet Line and Airport Line.
Work on Phase IV had began in December 2019 with a groundbreaking ceremony, however was disrupted after the Covid outbreak in March 2020.
After scuffling with the influence of the pandemic and the lockdown it led to, leading to misplaced income, the city provider is now trying to make up for misplaced floor whereas forging a way forward for transportation that's extra seamless, comfy, and technological with a deal with indigenization.
Delhi Metro "does not anticipate any major delays" or vital price overruns on the Phase IV venture timelines. Some of the sections of two of the three precedence corridors are deliberate to open by March 2023, then DMRC head Mangu Singh informed PTI in an interview on March 31, 2022.
It additionally mentioned that the ultimate commissioning of the whole Phase IV venture could possibly be prolonged till March 2025.
The Delhi Metro began business operations on December 25, 2002, in the future after then Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee inaugurated its first part.
To mark the completion of 20 years of its operations, the DMRC launched a particular prepare on December 24 on the identical route.
On November 19 this yr, Delhi Metro achieved a serious Phase IV building milestone with the completion of tunnel work between Krishna Park Extension and Keshopur on the Janakpuri West-R Ok Ashram Marg hall.
If 2022 was eventful for the Delhi Metro for its twentieth anniversary, it additionally introduced moments of hysteria for a lot of commuters as providers have been disrupted for lengthy hours over many days on numerous sections of assorted corridors.
On March 17, for instance, providers have been delayed for nearly two hours on three corridors (purple, inexperienced and pink strains) of the Delhi Metro because of a technical fault. Many vacationers took out their frustration on Twitter and shared pictures of passengers standing in lengthy strains ready for trains at many stations.
On June 9, its Blue Line providers have been delayed by greater than two hours because of a technical downside. Two days later, providers on the Violet Line have been delayed by nearly two hours. With many lakhs touring every day, chaos was quick.
In November, the Delhi Metro signed an MoU with Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) for the event of an indigenous communications-primarily based prepare management (i-CBTC) system, according to the 'Make in India' initiative of the Indian authorities.
The DMRC has confronted and overcome quite a few engineering challenges in its 20-year journey. In September, a movie titled ?Surmounting Challenges? Related to the third section of its growth, and produced by the DMRC, it gained Best Promotional Film (within the Non-Feature Film class) on the 68th National Film Awards 2020.
The yr additionally noticed the management transition on the DMRC, with Vikas Kumar taking on because the third CEO on 1 April, when Mangu Singh handed over to him.
Delhi Metro in 2022 has additionally made aggressive gives for consulting providers for Indian and overseas metro initiatives, together with these in Israel | 1,316 |
Recovering from Sepsis
By Dr. Liji Thomas, MD
Sepsis is an extreme immune reaction of the human body toward serious bacterial infection circulating in the bloodstream. It becomes life-threatening or lethal when it manifests in the extreme stages of severe sepsis and septic shock.
The time taken for full recovery from sepsis for each individual differs, and it depends on several factors such as the severity of infection, the overall health condition of the patient, and the type of treatment provided.
Effects of sepsis. Presence of numerous bacteria in the blood, causes the body to respond in organ dysfunction. Image Credit: Designua / Shutterstock
Mild Sepsis Recovery
In mild sepsis, complete recovery is possible at a quicker rate. On an average, the recovery period from this condition takes from about three to ten days depending on the response to the appropriate treatment including medication.
Severe Sepsis Recovery
Severe sepsis requires immediate treatment in the critical care area for a period of one month or more. Recovery is achievable, but it takes a longer time. Many individuals are known to have regained normal health after severe sepsis without residual dysfunctions. In severe sepsis, the recovery period duration varies from patient to patient, as it depends on the number of organs impacted by the infection and the extent of organ dysfunction.
Post-Sepsis Syndrome (PSS)
About 50% of severe sepsis survivors experience either short- or long-term cognitive and physical problems, which are collectively termed as post-sepsis syndrome, during their recovery period. The difficulties may include physical (excessive fatigue, weaker muscle strength, bloated limbs, and chest pain), psychological (anxiety, memory loss), and mental (inability to do simple arithmetical calculations) issues.
Recovery from Post-Sepsis Syndrome:
It is necessary to provide rehabilitation facilities to the patient so that they can return to normal life. The duration of recovery from PSS is about two years or more.
Recovery at hospital: Recovery from post-sepsis syndrome is initiated in the hospital by the physiotherapist, who helps the patients to carry out simple everyday activities on their own, such as:
bathing, getting dressed, and walking
doing physical exercises, as advised by the physiotherapist, in order to regain muscle strength
Recovery at home: After discharge from hospital, the sepsis survivor needs detailed care at home along with regular reviews with the healthcare provider.
They need to have complete rest and build up their strength with slowly increasing activities, as they are likely to feel weak and tired.
A balanced diet is essential. Small meals and supplemental nutrition drinks are suggested for those with a lack of appetite.
To avoid depression and anxiety, interaction with family and friends is necessary.
Small targets are fixed to achieve daily tasks.
Septic Shock Recovery
KAIST research team finds cause of sepsis-induced lung injury
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Researchers discover biochemical agent responsible for blood pressure drop in sepsis
Septic shock is a life-threatening stage of generalized infection, where the chance of patient survival is only about 50%, owing to multiple organ dysfunction associated with low blood pressure. Complete recovery from septic shock would imply the termination of any auxiliary therapies, which is not usually possible. In most cases, a patient with pre-existing chronic disease who survives septic shock is likely to need lifelong supportive treatment because of permanent organ dysfunction.
Rehabilitation for Patients with Amputated Limbs
Amputation of a part of the body, such as one or more fingers or toes, or of a limb, either in part or completely, is sometimes done to increase the rate of survival in patients who develop gangrene during septic shock. Amputation leads to scarring and changes in the structure of normal tissue, which is termed as contractures, as a result of the normal wound healing process. To prevent contracture, the physiotherapist will recommend
exercises to make the joint muscles mobile
scar massage once it is healed;
application of appropriate splints to hold the scar area in a stretched position
appropriate medication to avoid pain
in case of amputation of lower limbs, use of prosthetic (artificial) limbs is helpful for the independent movement of young patients, while crutches or wheel chairs may be useful for elders
Rehabilitation of Patients with Kidney Damage
Even after surviving septic shock, some patients require lifelong dialysis due to kidney failure.
The patient should perform physical activities like walking and moderate exercises
Perform small tasks with a goal-oriented approach to achieve eventual independence to as large an extent as possible
Go for dialysis therapy as scheduled by the doctor
Since dialysis is not a cure, the patients may be registered for renal transplantation to ensure partial or complete recovery
New Findings in Recovery of Sepsis
Patients with late stages of sepsis need more time to recover when there is post-sepsis or sepsis-induced organ dysfunction. More research or studies are needed to find the best way of overcoming these complications.
Neutralization of HMGB1 Protein
A recent report by the Journal of Leukocyte Biology states that if a protein called high mobility group box 1(HMGB1), which is elevated in the late stages of sepsis, is increased or neutralized, white blood cell (neutrophil) dysfunction can be corrected. This promotes the ability of the body to destroy bacteria during the recovery period.
Mesenchymal Stem Cell Therapy
The world's first trial of stem cell therapy for sepsis was performed in Ottawa. A septic shock patient in Ottawa hospital was administered 30 million mesenchymal cells along with the specific treatment for sepsis, which resulted in complete recovery.
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Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin. Department of Economics, Austin, Texas. Summer 2000
Assistant Professor, Southwest Texas State University. Department of Finance and Economics, San Marcos, Texas (January 1997-May 1997)
Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin – University Extension Program, Austin, Texas (1995-1998)
Adjunct Instructor, Austin Community College. Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Austin, Texas (1994-1996)
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Ph.D. in Economics
University of Texas-Austin, 1997
M.A. in Economics
B.A. in International Relations
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Program Coordinator, American Economic Association Minority Scholarship Program. Austin, Texas (1997-1999)
Research Assistant, Public Utility Commission, Austin, Texas (1990)
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Last book you read?
Norco '80
Best advice you ever received?
Just try your best and everything will be fine.
What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Head of a non-profit organization that helped developing countries and their people.
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
One thing about your school that you are most proud of?
Our department has changed significantly since I arrived in 1999. We've added an MBA program and the quality of our faculty has significantly improved, in terms of qualifications, over these many years.
I enjoy interacting with the students, at every level.
A piece of advice for students in your school?
I would suggest that you make use of your faculty and peers. They are tremendous resources and are there to help you throughout your education and to help you achieve your goals.
Professor - Economics
Director - Center for Economic Education
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Talking to your teen is often challenging in the first place, and bringing up a touchy subject such as depression makes it even more difficult. At the same time, many parents<|fim_middle|> account for any changes in situations or attitudes that may have occurred. It is especially important to readdress these issues after a big event or life change, such as a graduation or a relocation.
If you keep these ideas in mind, your conversation with your child will go smoothly and be beneficial for both of you. Avoiding the pitfalls can keep your teen open and willing to speak with you. In the long run, talking about depression may be difficult, but it is one of the most important tasks of being a parent in today's world. | rightfully feel it's necessary to discuss what the media is saying about these types of issues, especially now that the new Netflix series 13 Reasons Why has put this conversation right at the front of many parents' minds. Before you try to talk to your child about the themes in the show, however, carefully consider these suggestions about the best ways to keep your child engaged in and open to the conversation.
Do not make your child feel as if she is guilty. A common mistake that parents make when they talk to teens is using a fearful tone. This communicates to your child that you think she is going to make decisions similar to the ones made in the show.
Do let your child know how much you trust her. Preface your conversation by telling your child that you are not worried about her and that you know she will make the right choices. Not only does this open your teen up to a conversation, but it also helps reassure her that she will make the right decision.
Do not just talk about the show. A conversation centered around 13 Reasons Why can give your child the impression that depression and suicide are fictional issues that can only be discussed in the context of a TV show. Also, entering a negative conversation about your child's favorite show may make her defensive and less open to a discussion about the dangers of depression.
Do include real-life examples in your conversation, and make sure you stress the fact that 13 Reasons Why is not the only cause for your concern.
Do not have only one conversation about depression. Parents may be tempted to address this issue and then cross it off the list. Of course, it is an uncomfortable issue for both sides, but your teen will be growing and changing a lot during these next few years, and one conversation isn't enough to keep up with her needs.
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DISCLAIMER: If you would like to try the TORMENT machine and root it (this is currently pending Vulnhub publication), please download a copy of the machine here. Do NOT read beyond this disclaimer because this will be a full post about the TORMENT machine itself.
If you need a walk-through, I have finally come up with a walk-through of this machine. DO NOT download unless you have tried harder, but not hard enough.
Many students in the OSCP comment on enumeration. How much enumeration is enough? The answer is almost always "try harder". While it sounds frustrating and morale-sapping, the "try harder" ethic is often extremely important for red-teamers. The subject of penetration testing is often filled with rabbit holes, and non-exploitable vulnerabilities. And as most penetration testers know, more information is generally good, so enumerate harder.
A willingness to challenge one's limits of knowledge.
A willingness to try, fail, and try again.
I wanted TORMENT to feature different "schoolboy" mistakes in different forms, some of which do not appear on typical CTFs. I had fun introducing multiple services that were not familiar to many. I learnt much about these services as well. At the last, before the era of web applications dominating the Internet, there were services like<|fim_middle|> (these applications were all updated and patched). Since this was intended by design, I did not change this.
The privilege escalation was more well-received, because it was not a run-of-the-mill Linux privilege escalation. Little can be mentioned about the privilege escalation because its design was compact.
I will probably take a break from the series for a month or two, but will return to discuss cyber-ranges. | IRC servers. I thought it would be interesting to introduce the penetration tester to an environment not typically found on CTFs, but might be a legacy machine on a corporate network.
Allow penetration testers to be introduced to somewhat "unfamiliar" network services like CUPS and IRC.
Make penetration testers take dutiful notes; different pieces of the puzzles in TORMENT need to be put together to make sense.
Because of the rough design, this machine will become difficult because of the amount of research required to properly implement the machine.
The steps required for a low-privileged shell on MERCY.
The design for TORMENT differs. Instead of a chain, the penetration tester will need to find different "puzzle pieces" and put them together. An elegant puzzle design is in the usage of SSH.
SSH has multiple methods of implementation. We shall look at the key methods because a SSH log-in requiring keys needs three input fields: username, SSH key and passphrase. For all the fun we have, this is certainly NOT three-factor authentication by any means!
TORMENT will resemble a printing management environment.
Users connect their printers through this server.
Unfortunately, this server is "not clean" – there are other services also hidden and hosted on this server, giving rise to many problems.
This immediately solved puzzle piece #1: users. I then decided to add a bunch of users to the CUPS service. I found a default CUPS installation through apt-get, and install it.
The CUPS service was interesting for a number of reasons. It featured its own web interface. In the old days, CUPS could be used as a local manager to manage printers that will be controlled and connected to this server. However, many administrators prefer remote management from the comfort of their own machines. Misconfigurations of this sort can lead to unintended consequences for the CUPS service.
Misconfiguration #1: We shall let the CUPS web service listen to outside IP addresses as well, with the full printer listing available to anyone that can find it, unauthenticated. The full printer listing has users of members in said enterprise.
Many of us typically manage our servers with SSH, and secure it through IP whitelisting, using an authentication mode such as a key exchange, and assign proper host privileges. However, complacency can happen, and a string of misconfigurations can lead to unwanted information disclosure.
Some users place keys in locations out of convenience for their fellow administrators, but do not realise the insecurity of this. Sometimes, for accessibility, some administrators even think "security by obscurity", and hide the key in an easily accessible service (think of stories where keys to the house were found under flower pots).
In the spirit of adding an IRC server later as well, we shall also add a second file here, informing the administrators which channels they should check for "printer defects". We shall add two ingredients here: a key and a channel list.
Further Perverting the Print Management Server: The Passphrase on IRC!
We designed TORMENT to be an abused, overused, unclean machine. We could further deteriorate its security posture with some common enterprise rhetoric of "one-stop portals". We shall create a "one-stop insecure printing portal" ourselves, by implementing a helpdesk, in the form of a chat, in case of issues with the print management server. This should be a separate application in an enterprise, or simply just reliant on enterprise chat like Skype. Predictably, this is a nightmare for the security department.
The IRC service can be quite enlightening. Despite its age, IRC still sees use, especially by techies, such as surfing the Kali Linux IRC channel. However, it is now a fairly niche community. Let us now get an IRC server to play with.
This is an interesting configuration. After apt-get install ngIRCd, and checking the ngIRCd config file, we noted a password that could be set, but is not set.
Same repository? Hmmm… we all like Debian too!
Same software, different config file because of a different repository.
At this point, I could perform a thought experiment: how many pentesters will try (because they will not be able to brute force the IRC password easily) to replicate the environment, knowing it is a Debian box (Samba will leak this information), and try to set it up?
Many OSCP wannabes complain of the lack of machines to test Windows privilege escalation on. This is partially because of the need for licensing for Windows machines. Hence, you cannot find them on Vulnhub (this essentially means free redistribution of Windows OS, which can't be the case).
I decided to try to look for a privilege escalation technique in Windows to see if it was reasonable to "attempt" a crude implementation on a Linux machine. Some ideas clearly do not work (e.g. AlwaysInstallElevated=1), but I found some analogies between services on the Windows and Linux platforms.
Weak service permissions are often looked at in a privilege escalation enumeration because these can be redirected to run our own binaries. In Windows, we try to adjust the path to the binary to be executed, and we may trigger a restart of the machine for services that start on start-up (this setting is not trivial; you can deny shutdown privilege).
When crudely "attempted" on Linux, I decided to simply make the Apache service configuration file world-writable, introducing a misconfiguration. This misconfiguration alone is not enough; I must similarly provide privileges, through some way, to restart the service. Hence, the introduction of systemctl rights to shutdown and reboot with a certain user account.
Apparently, later versions of Apache did not run as root (otherwise you could simply set to it); I decided to create a "staging account" with higher unintended privileges for the privilege escalation; the ideas as they seem turned out to be more of a TORMENT than I expected (more on validation).
The finalised design for TORMENT looks like this, for a low-privileged shell.
The three ingredients for a low-privilege shell.
Validating was a rather simple affair because there was no exploits to "take care of". There was also no interference from protection such as SELinux, or having to configure iptables to allow users to spawn reverse shells (no need, because the way in is through SSH).
All in all, validating TORMENT was easy. Because there was no real exploit code to use, there was no need to test for exploit reliability.
Even if one man's view of the world was pristine, I needed more than myself to check for the machine's "rootability" and intended difficulty. I was taken aback with my initial set of testers.
Let us recall the design for TORMENT.
What will testers find difficulty in?
probe other services and wonder why they got nothing out of it.
not realise they did not need to probe every service so deeply.
The nmap results from a TCP port scan revealed that I added additional services like Samba, SMTP, IMAP and NFS. There are some vendors who sell "standard boxes" and IT staff forget to disable these services, even if they were unused.
What would you do if you tried to mount all the NFS folders you found, and saw only these? Of course, you stop your work here and go for another service!
Testers were confused at the CUPS service on what they were supposed to find. Mission accomplished — it looked so natural that testers were looking for clues that would shout at them, except that there were clues that lay subtlely.
Testers found FTP access standard. That was OK.
One tester bypassed the IRC channel and brute forced the SSH passphrase without much effort. I had to change that.
Tester 1 previously rooted the box by bypassing the need for SSH. Thereafter, he was asked to try certain steps of the re-test, such as testing whether he could do the same bypass (no longer able to) and whether he could find the intended path, which turned out to be very difficult.
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Curry Puffs, an iconic mildly curried flavored crisp pastry snack from Singapore.
Curry Puffs are a snack filled with a mildly curried flavored potatoes that is commonly found in Singapore. Last week, it was International Night at Jamie's pre-school. This was the second year they organized this wonderful event and every family would bring a dish or artifact from their home country. It was, needless to say, an enjoyable night of tasting all sorts of foods and experiencing different cultures from all over the world.
Bella was especially excited and immediately requested that I make Curry Puffs just like I did last year. It is one of her favorite snacks and she'd always recognize the fragrant aroma that fills the kitchen whenever I make it. Curry Puffs, also known as "epok-epok" is a Malay influenced pastry snack. It is usually filled with curry chicken and potato cubes. Sometimes, a slice of hard-boiled egg is included. Sardines or tuna can also be used as alternative fillings.
It was an instant hit. Everyone enjoyed it and some parents mentioned that the Curry Puffs resembled Empanadas, a stuffed pastry that is baked or fried in many Latin American countries.
by Miss Crumbs A Lot, adapted from "rasamalaysia.com"
1. Prepare the filling first. Heat oil and stir fry onions on medium heat until golden brown.
2. Add the garam marsala powder, curry powder, chilli powder, turmeric powder and continue to stir fry gently.
3. Add the diced chicken and stir fry until chicken is cooked. Add potatoes, sugar, black pepper, salt and mix well. Set aside to cool.
4. Make the pastry. Mix flour, shortening, water, salt in a large bowl and knead well.
5. Let dough rest for 30 min. Note that the dough will not rise.
6. Roll dough out and cut them into 3 inch diameter circles.
7. Place approximately 2 tbsp of filling (and sliced hard boiled egg, if preferred) in the middle of the pastry and fold it over to form a semi-circle.
8. Pinch and fold the edges or you may crimp the edges with a fork.
9. Heat oil to 350 degrees and deep fry for 3 1/2 to 4 minutes or until golden brown.
I DO NOT bake but I made these curry puffs today because my daughter has been asking me for them since our visit to Singapore where she said she was "addicted to Singapore curry puffs". Not difficult at all to find the Ingredients (my local HEB had every single one of these ingredients) and even easier to make. They taste just like the ones we had in Singapore. I consider that a huge success. I ended up with 20 curry puffs and about 1/3 of the filling<|fim_middle|> to try them out!
Thank you! I hope you'll like them.
Thank you! I hope you'll try it! | leftover, which my daughter is more than happy to eat sans puffs. So proud of myself! Thank you, Jolene!
I'm so glad you made them and enjoyed them as much as I do! Thank you for your feedback and support!
Thank you! I hope you'll like this recipe and hope that it is as good as your grand-aunt's.
I love curry! These look so yummy! Can't wait to try them!
Thank you! I hope you'll like them!
I've never heard of those before but they look AMAZING! My little pregnant belly needs them!
Thank you! Curry Puffs are a popular street food in Singapore. I missed them so much and the empanadas that we can get here in Houston reminds me of them.
Yum! These looks sososo good! I need | 168 |
Art of Immortal Beauty
"David Beeri's art is matchless and unreproducible in every respect. His works are made impressively ethereal by a special source of inspiration, unusual spiritualization and a light radiating from within. The beauty and transparent radiance of his colors are created by the secret revelation of EXISTENCE, which makes the paintings reminiscent of a transcendental world." /Dr. Ferenc Matits, Art historian/
"I will limit my creative conception to four principal aspects seeking the original, pure source of Art." /David Beeri/
"By freedom I mean the unlimited distance to which my spirit can soar, where my emotions are unshackled by the unwritten rules of individual and societal selfishness, and where I am happy because I can create with my heart."
PERFECT BRUSHWORK
"It is my fundamental task to achieve the ultimate refinement of my brushwork. I must create visual surfaces where brush traces are virtually invisible to the eye. This will achieve a new type of timeless spiritualization, etherealizing my pictures just like the ones I saw in my dream..."
LIGHT AND COLOR
"Light and color are essential to my art. Both are out of the ordinary, since the light is emanating from within, and the colors appear on my canvas from<|fim_middle|>29236905/62375417
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Where the Spirit-Trees dance in freedom, while love is shining on them.
Impressive optimism, and soul-lifting colors.
WOLRD-PORTAIT BY DAVID BEERI, WHICH HE PAINTED WITH ONLY TWO YEARS OF PRACTICE.
A man, fighting with his imagined enemies for the imagined lady's favour.
Flowers of emotion and soul.
Faces and eyes, touching our spirit.
Strange creatures emerging from the almost unfollowable imagination of David Beeri, seasoned with adorable humour.
Uniquely painted prints on canvas.
ARTICLES about David Beeri
Since 1975, David Beeri has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines, books, lexicons, television, and radio shows etc. The interested reader will find a small selection of these here. Click on the pictures.
On the path toward spiritual impressionism
"Matits Ferenc, an art historian has highlighted that David Beeri is a master of synthetizing different styles, and renders the conclusion on the reminiscence of styles powerful in a unique, personal tone..."
"Four sons and four daughters, more than sixty individual exhibitions, several shared exhibitions — this is what we can attribute to the artist during his career of more than a quarter-century..."
Pressure makes diamonds - precious ones
"David Beeri has suffered a lot to become a successful, worldwide known and acknowledged painter and graphic artist..."
"By having a look at any of his works, either Don Quixote or the 20th Century Human Faces, we are staggered to see that these things surround us, without us having paid enough attention to them previously..."
"The eclecticism of his art is not disturbing; moreover, his personal tone kept beside his ability to synthesise provides his works an authentic postmodern value. Unusual inner light irradiates from his paintings..."
"Family Ties", a documentary film about David Beeri
The documentary of Helge Lindau pictures a day of the Beeri family – starting from the gallery and returning to the gallery.
"The artist has created a unique, new universe of painting... He spiritualizes the physical, visible world, and in order this, in a paradox way, he also needs to use material, physical, nonspiritual tools..."
"His tendency in art (which is presumably to be called beerism) is a spiritual painting style. The harmony in his works has to be found and judged by everyone on their own. The artist admits, he feels exceptionally well when he is painting..."
"It seemed that I entered into another world spiritually, where an inexpressible and marvellous light emerged from heaven which gave rebirth to hills and valleys to become immortal and irradiate the infinite fame of creation for eternity. Long minutes passed before I returned to my common world. My first thought was that I wanted this picture, I could not exist without it anymore…"
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Debora Beeri
manager@davidbeeri.com | an existence beyond time. Therefore, the end result seems to be the revelation of a Life beyond the third dimension. This is further enhanced by the metamorphosis-like appearances of light and color transitions..."
"Yesterday, my canvases proclaimed all the evil residing in man, destroying the world, but today I meditate on how wonderful people are and how livable and beautiful the world is. Depressing darkness disappeared from my pictures, the nervous lines writhing in stress calmed down, and the image of immortal Reality was illuminated before me. That image is the basis of my message, and the foundation of my artistic world."
FINAL AIM
"My final aim is to reconstruct the pieces of art, which have been scattered under the cover of individuality, into a perfectly pure and harmonised artistic world, which at the same time overreaches the three dimensions and composes the reality of further spiritual dimensions."
David Beeri's Art in
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Astoria, Part of Long Island City, Town of Newtown, Queens, Co. L.I.
A scarce example of Fredrick W. Beers' map of the southern part of Astoria, Queens, New York. Published in 1873, this magnificent map covers from Hells Gate and Halletts Cove east<|fim_middle|> far as Broadway. Details the homes of individual land owners and families. Verso contains maps of Newtown, Woodside, Maspeth and East Williamsburgh. This is probably the finest atlas map of Astoria to appear in the 19th century. Prepared by Beers, Comstock & Cline out of their office at 36 Vesey Street, New York City, for inclusion as plate no. 50 in the first published atlas of Long Island, the 1873 issue of Atlas of Long Island, New York.
Very good condition. Original centerfold. Minor transference. Map runs off edge of page, as issued.
New York Public Library, Map Division, 1527281. | ward as far as Third Ave and the 'Lorrenz and Wiegand's Hot Houses.' Street names have long since changed, but by today's reckoning this map covers, roughly, from 1st street eastward as far as 34th or 35th street and from 24th road and Hoyt Avenue southward as | 74 |
Echo & the Bunnymen Open North American Tour in Atlanta
By Max Stewart
Liverpool's Echo & the Bunnymen are trailblazers in the British post-punk scene since forming in 1978, with bands such as Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Pavement, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, and The Killers all citing the band's shadowy psychedelic interpretation of the genre as a major influence. To celebrate their long-tenure, founding members Ian McCulloch (Vocalist) and Will Sergeant (Guitarist) have lead the charge for a leg of shows across the U.S. and Canada in 'Celebrating 40 Years of Magical Songs.' The opening night of the tour at Atlanta's Tabernacle was ripe with anticipation, as droves of Gen Xers and many younger generations of fans were eager to see one of the pioneers of new wave kick off their twenty-something date tour across North America.
Founding guitarist Will Sergeant
The show started with a heavy dose of their seminal 1980 opener, Crocodiles, including "Going Up," "All That Jazz," and a rousing version of "Rescue." The crowd lit up for "Bring On the Dancing Horses," and the band seemed to be finding their groove with the audience fully locked in. At some point in the night, however, it was clear McCulloch was not feeling 100% and shortly after "Nothing Lasts Forever" (with a snippet of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side"), McCulloch exited stage left and the band took an intermission. The audience (and seemingly band members as well) were all perplexed but hoping that McCulloch was feeling well, as he was wearing a trenchcoat on a very hot evening in Georgia.
Singer Ian McCulloch
Like a true scouser, McCulloch muscled his way through the end of the set as the band reemerged to a round of applause. He actually vomited immediately following "Lips Like Sugar" at the side stage, then reemerged for the encore with "The Killing Moon." Wow. We definitely have never seen anything like that before. Pure dedication to finishing the show. The set ended up being much shorter than a typical Echo & the Bunnymen concert, which was disappointing for some audience members who traveled<|fim_middle|> 2022 Live Music DailyConcert Reviews
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Next Post Oh, Inverted World: The Shins Live in Atlanta | near and far, but for McCulloch to power through feeling under the weather was impressive. We all just hope he is alright and we wish him and the rest of the band well the rest of the tour.
The band tweeted after the show: "Thanks for a brilliant gig tonight Atlanta ✊🏻 Mac sends his love & thanks for being with him tonight when was sick, he carried on when he should've stopped but sang on, he's feeling a lot better now, onwards."
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Last week, all of the sudden, my 6-year-old son had to have a "fidget spinner." It's basically a ball-bearing spinner (like a top) that spins for over 2 minutes and you can do tricks with it. Turns out by the end of the week, pretty much everyone in his class had one. And people who didn't have one yet were waiting for theirs to arrive in the mail. My co-workers' kids also all have them now.
In fact, based on search volume across major retailers like Amazon, fidget spinners are the fastest growing, high volume product line ever. Well, at least since we've been measuring e-commerce, which goes back to early 2014. The term 'fidget spinner' reached 10 million searches in the least amount of time. Between January and February 2017, search volume for 'f<|fim_middle|>5 million searches. We excluded smaller volume search terms from the analysis. | idget spinner' quadrupled. By the end of April, 'fidget spinner' had more than 2 | 23 |
You know that you have a kind of a club here and that is a good thing. It is always important to share your path with other humans and with those that you love. Of course you all have felt love and you all know that love is something that you cannot really grab. Love is not something that you can keep. When you love another, sometimes you do not feel it. You might feel something else. That is not a bad thing. The journey of life is one of self-discovery and it is so important to identify all the parts of yourself, not to deny yourself. Not to choose a specific condition of being,<|fim_middle|>. We want to give you all the opportunity to express yourselves here tonight. We will ask you a question. What brought you here today? Advice, curiosity, no specific reason, relief of some fears, questions…You all agree that you want to be here this evening. We do a lot of talking for many years but the real reason that we are here is for energy moving; to shift your energy fields. Not necessarily to make it higher or lower but to rearrange the rooms inside of yourselves. We ask you all to stand up in a circle, close to each other, do not touch. Put your hands down like the energy is moving out of your middle finger. Everyone is different and everyone needs a different adjustment. We heard what you said and we are going to make some fine adjustments. All the answers to your questions are inside of you. Close your eyes.
Now go back to your seats and we will get down to business. | but to allow the energy of the life, of the living, to pass through you. Many times on this so called spiritual life the pilgrim or the participant is encouraged only to believe in goodness, love, light and happiness and not to embrace those shadow sides of oneself. But it is the shadows that define the light. It is the shadows that give you an opportunity to know yourself better; to go deeper and clear yourself out. You might all believe in past lifetimes or other existences and that can be valuable to know or to understand. It can also become an obstacle in realizing the moment. Knowing about the past lives is not so you can excuse yourself but so that you can clear out any clutter that might be lingering inside from those other existences | 152 |
Karl M. Hess, 35, of Appleton, was arrested Tuesday. Police said Hess knew the victims and had previously worked with Richard Miller.
MANITOWOC - Karl M. Hess, 35, of Appleton, has been arrested as a suspect in the September 2018 homicides of father and daughter Richard and Jocelyn Miller.
At a 2 p.m. press conference Wednesday, Manitowoc Police Department Deputy Chief Jason Frieboth said the release of a video of a potential suspect last week led directly to the identification of Hess as a suspect. Frieboth said Hess knew the Millers and had previously worked with Richard.
Frieboth said Hess has been cooperative with police and is being held on two counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Hess was arrested Tuesday and a bail hearing is scheduled for 12:45 p.m. Thursday.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of Richard and Jocelyn," Frieboth said. "We hope that this arrest will bring them some closure on this tragic event."
Officers were called to 3709 Dale St. at about 10:30 a.m. on Sept. 9 for a report of two people who died from gunshot wounds — Richard Miller, 51, and his daughter, Jocelyn Miller, 19, who lived at the home.
Police said their bodies were discovered about 48 hours after they had died. Frieboth said friends and family became concerned when they had not heard from Jocelyn, who was described as very active on social media, for a couple days.
Police have not revealed a motive for the killings.
Police said they had received several leads in the case and conducted many interviews. Frieboth said Hess had only one documented prior incident with police. Online court records show Hess was found guilty of failing to wear a seat belt and operating a motor vehicle without proof of insurance in a case filed Feb. 28, 2018, in Manitowoc County Circuit Court.
The investigation into the double homicide remains ongoing and anyone with information is asked to contact Manit<|fim_middle|>, Target Forensics and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | owoc Police Department Detective Sgt. Mike Stone at 920-686-6557.
Manitowoc Police Department was assisted in the investigation by Wisconsin Statewide Intelligence Center, the Wisconsin Department of Justice-Criminal Investigation Division, Manitowoc County and Brown County drug units, the Appleton Police Department, Milwaukee High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas, Manitowoc County District Attorney's Office | 85 |
<|fim_middle|> | By Xah Lee. Date: 2016-08-30 . Last updated: 2018-09-13 .
Typical way to go thru a sequence is using mapcar. Note that it returns a list, even if input is a vector.
(mapcar FUNCTION SEQUENCE) → Apply FUNCTION to each element of SEQUENCE, and make a list of the results. The result is a list, with same length as SEQUENCE. SEQUENCE may be a list, a vector, a bool-vector, or a string.
1+ is a lisp function. It adds 1 to argument and returns it. For example, (1+ 2) returns 3.
To use a function in mapcar, you need to quote the function's name.
lambda means function, often known as "anonymous function". It let you define a function in the middle of your code.
The form is (lambda (args) body).
For example, (lambda (x y) (+ x y)) is a function that takes two arguments, x and y, and returns their sum.
If you don't need map to return the sequence, use mapc.
mapc → like mapcar, but returns nil.
(dolist (VAR LIST) BODY) → Loop over a list. Evaluate BODY with VAR bound to each element from LIST, returns nil.
(dolist (VAR LIST RESULT) BODY) → returns RESULT.
The major difference between dolist and mapc is that dolist uses expression, mapc uses a function. Also, dolist work with list only, mapc works with list and vectors.
dotimes is useful when you want to go thru a list by a increasing index.
(dotimes (VAR COUNT RESULT) BODY …) → After loop, evaluate RESULT to get the return value.
Another common form to loop thru a list is using the while function. In each iteration, pop is used to reduce the list.
(setq i (1+ i))) ; inserts "345" | 413 |
Getting to Excellent: Digital marketing: revolutionary or evolutionary?
DM used to stand for Direct Marketing – the antiquated art of using computers to communicate with large numbers of people. Now DM stands for Digital Marketing – the new way of using computers to communicate with large numbers of people. In the "old days" of course there was no internet, no mobile phones, no Twitter or Facebook. Much has changed, but equally<|fim_middle|>Digital marketing is revolutionary, and the possibilities offered by technology are wonderful – both from the point of view of purchasers and sellers. But perhaps the biggest difference is that digital marketing is available to businesses large and small. All you need is a computer and a willingness to learn. And that's what events like Internet World offer - the chance to mix and mingle and learn.
Interesting post. I think the big change in DM has been the increased ability to know how people treated your direct marketing approach to them.
Direct Marketers used to mail you (i.e. via Royal Mail) and they knew two things. a) How many people sent a cheque or responded in some way. b) How many people didn't.
But now, the Digital Marketer can learn so much more about how their approach was treated than just those two aspects mentioned above. They will know whether the email got through, whether you opened, deleted or forwarded it. They will know if you clicked on a link and which pages you visited after landing on their site.
For me, that is the big change. Data and lots of it. | much has stayed the same. When Direct Marketing was popular, mail that wasn't of interest to the recipient was called "junk mail" - now it's called Spam - but it's pretty much the same thing.
Despite the rapid changes in technology, people are still people and they still like to receive things that interest them, and they don't like to receive things that aren't relevant.
So wandering round Internet World yesterday I was struck by how much of the old world has followed the new world. Direct Marketers have morphed into Digital Marketers, and their message is still as relevant - all that has changed is the way they choose to communicate with their customers.
What made direct marketing so powerful was its ability to get a response from customers and prospects. Unlike advertising which is one-way, direct marketers constantly worked to get feedback from customers (usually in the form of a cheque) as to what they wanted. Digital marketing may be more subtle, but it has the same benefits of getting a response.
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Fixed Income Essentials
Investing Bonds
Partial Redemption
Updated Mar 5, 2018
What is Partial Redemption
Partial redemption is a retirement or payment of a portion of a callable (or redeem<|fim_middle|> using money (a sinking fund) from the issuer's earnings saved specifically for security buybacks.
Call Premium
Call premium is the dollar amount over the par value of a callable debt security that is given to holders when the security is redeemed early by the issuer.
Hard Call Protection
Hard call protection is the period in the life of a callable bond during which the issuing company is not permitted to redeem the bond. This protection typically lasts for the first three to five years of the bond's life.
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Here's What Happens When a Bond Is Called
Under what circumstances might an issuer redeem a callable bond? | able) bond before its maturity date. Call (or prepayment) provisions govern how early redemptions, whether whole or partial, are handled.
BREAKING DOWN Partial Redemption
Callable bonds are typical of corporate and municipal issuers who wish to have the option to pay off their debt if interest rates drop below the rates on their outstanding bonds. Redeeming the bonds and issuing new bonds at lower rates will save money on interest expenses. In exchange for the possibility that the bond could get called away, the bond investor will receive a slightly higher interest rate compared to a similar non-callable bond. When an issuer calls its bonds, investors receive the call price and any accrued interest to date. The bonds are often called at par value, but sometimes they are called at a premium to par. The call premium is another form of compensation to the investor who now must reinvest in a lower interest rate environment.
Partial Redemption Process
In general, bond investors want to keep their higher-yielding bonds when interest rates decline. When their bonds are called, they expect to be treated fairly and not singled out to give them up. According to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Rule 4340, a financial institution that controls callable bonds on behalf of clients must establish and make available on its website procedures by which it will allocate among its customers, on a fair and impartial basis, the securities to be redeemed or selected as called in the event of a partial redemption. Furthermore, if the redemption is favorable (call price above the current price of the bond), no affiliated party of the financial institution can be included in the allocation pool until all clients' positions have been satisfied. If the redemption is unfavorable, no affiliated party can be excluded from the pool. Though not mandated by FINRA, a lottery process is the preferred method for allocation, as it is considered fair and impartial.
What Investors Need to Know Before Investing in Callable Bonds
A callable bond is a bond that can be redeemed by the issuer prior to its maturity. A callable bond pays investors a higher rate than standard bonds.
The mandatory redemption schedule includes specified dates when a bond issuer is required to redeem all or a portion of the outstanding issues of a bond prior to its maturity.
How a Call Provision Benefits Investors and Companies
A call provision is a provision on a bond or other fixed-income instrument that allows the issuer to repurchase and retire its bonds.
Sinking Fund Call
Sinking fund call is a provision allowing a bond issuer the opportunity to buy outstanding bonds from bondholders at a set rate, | 513 |
In early April I went on a career trek to Union Square Hospitality Group and Brooklyn Food Works, and then ended the weekend by going to the Cherry Bombe Marketplace. In between these events, I got to explore more of NYC's food scene with fellow classmates who also happened to be city natives. A very inspiring, food-filled weekend!
First, we had the incredible opportunity to meet and speak with Danny Meyer, the CEO of USHG. Something that really stuck with me was what he said about what makes a good restaurant. USHG boasts 28 James Beard Foundation Awards and is consistently rated highly by publications such as The New York Times and Zagat.<|fim_middle|> the most difficult achievement.
His words have stuck with me ever since. What makes a restaurant a favorite restaurant? I think that what Meyer described is what draws me most to this industry. A good restaurant isn't just about the food, but about the memories and the people.
Brooklyn Foodworks brought another exciting perspective of the food industry, from the product-based start-up side. Kitchens are expensive and perishable food companies are hard, so Brooklyn Foodworks provides a shared kitchen and thinking space for small food companies to learn from each other before they earn enough money to support themselves on their own. While the USHG office had a creative but definitely fine-tuned maturity, Brooklyn Foodworks buzzed with raw excitement and unpolished energy. We walked through the back kitchen to see the shelves and shelves of ingredients, all with tape labels of the new companies in sharpie. People working at Brooklyn Foodworks came from all backgrounds, ranging from food delivery boys to high-level consultants.
Finally, I ended the weekend by going to Cherry Bombe Marketplace (the more affordable, second-day version of Cherry Bombe Jubilee!). At the Marketplace, I got to meet even more incredible food entrepreneurs, all of them incredible women. I loved looking around at each of the different stalls, each with their unique products, thoughtful designs, interesting backstories; each representing countless hours of hard work and passion. I also got to meet my food blogging idol (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Molly Yeh from my name is yeh, as she gave a sprinkle cake demonstration. Again, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's been almost 2 months now, but I still can't get this weekend out of my mind. I left NY on such a high! | However, Meyer said that while these awards are all amazing honors, what matters most to him is winning awards such as "Most Favorite Restaurant in NYC." He explained that you can make every last detail in your restaurant absolutely perfect: the world's top chefs, the highest quality ingredients, impeccable servers… but becoming someone's favorite restaurant is | 66 |
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GROSS INDECENCY: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
by Moises Kaufman
The Footlight Players
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BY ROBERT JONES
Post & Courier - May 26, 2001
Out-of<|fim_middle|>AMAS:
Footlight Players' Gross Indecency treated the three trials of Oscar Wilde with delicacy and strength, and Scott Adams was shockingly good as the beautiful and sleazy Lord Alfred Douglas. Michael Locklair was dignified rather than pompous as Oscar, and Steve Lepre directed the Moises Kaufman play with style and sureness. | -town festival-goers should take themselves to the Footlight Players, the atmospheric little theater on Queen Street, where Moises Kaufman's brilliantly written Gross Indecency has just opened. The play is about the trials of Oscar Wilde, and it is funny, hair-raising, shattering and unforgettable. If you don't know much about Charleston's theater scene, here's your chance to find out: the town's best actors are on view.
Oscar Wilde, of course, was the literary giant whose self-assurance got the better of him when he locked horns with the London legal system of his day (1895). His was a classic example of a man cutting his throat with his own tongue. Mr. Wilde was hugely successful, had a wife and two children, then in middle age took up with a handsome young man half his age. The youngster, Lord Alfred Douglas, had a father who protested and publicly insulted Wilde. Douglas, who couldn't stand his father, urged Wilde to sue for slander, and Wilde did.
He lost, and in the process found his private peccadilloes hauled into court under the most humiliating circumstances. Three trials ensued, the last ending in Wilde's being imprisoned for two years at hard labor. The experience broke his health, obliterated his fortune, and crushed his spirit. He died three years later, only 44 years old.
Gross Indecency is constructed from actual documents and includes many memorable Wilde witticisms. It contains layer upon layer of meaning, and it questions the meanings of Art, Society, Sexual Orientation, Morality, along with a lot of other things that worry "civilized" people as much now as they did in Wilde's day. The play will rattle your misconceptions and exercise your brain. As if that isn't enough, it will give you an invigorating evening of theater.
Steve Lepre's production is highly theatrical and thoroughly effective. Michael Locklair plays Wilde with dignity, refusing ever to indulge in easy camp, and he beautifully manages Wilde's descent into catastrophe. Todd McNerney makes a terrifying prosecutor, and David Reinwald is a nasty, manic Marquis of Queensberry.
If the show has a star, though, I'd say it is Scott Adams as Lord Douglas, aka "Bosie." Mr. Adams looks exactly like pictures of Bosie, and he is pretty enough to justify Wilde's extravagant descriptions and smug enough to have set off alarm bells to anyone less blind to reality than Oscar Wilde. It's a delicate, strong performance with lots of subtlety in it.
.... You should go. And when you go, don't fail to grab one of those broadsides the actors pass out in the lobby before the show begins. In it you'll find an actual interview with Oscar Wilde that appeared in this newspaper on July 7, 1882. Wilde had come to Charleston on a lecture tour, and had submitted himself to a properly dazzled, but definitely suspicious, reporter. The results are fairly priceless.
Actors Shine in Fascinating Play on Wilde's Trials
BY DIANE SPRUNG
Post & Courier - May 28, 2001
Oscar Wilde once said, "A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
As a dreamer, a prolific writer and aesthete, Wilde was perfect for the Victorian era during which he became one of the most popular figures of his time. He was not only famous for his writings, but also for his homosexuality.
Playwright Moises Kaufman, captivated by Wilde's writings and witticisms, delved further. He researched accounts of the famous man's trials and from that constructed a penetrating work resulting in Gross Indecency: the Three Trials of Oscar Wilde. The Piccolo offering opened Friday at Footlight Players.
The play begins before the house lights dim. The actors stroll through the audience distributing "Wilde Newspapers," eventually winding up on the sparsely set stage. At first their actions seem aimless. However you soon realize that director Steve Lepre has meticulously choreographed every move as they begin to dress Julie Ziff's authentic Victorian set. Plaudits also to Ziff for her scrupulously thought out costumes.
Then the quandary: what does this modern music with references to Clinton and others have to do with Oscar Wilde? Suddenly it sinks in. People have always been fascinated by courtroom activities: Watergate, Clarence Thomas, O.J., Clinton impeachment, TV dramas, Judge Judy, and don't forget Court TV. When sex is involved, the media really get worked up and the public clamors for it.
Exquisitely directed by Lepre, his well-disciplined players glide through scenes as smoothly as skaters on black ice. Also to his credit, the actors react rather than act - a most professional achievement sometimes found lacking in community productions. Lepre keeps his cast focused on the action. The drama is definitely not a clambake, but there is humor throughout.
The program lists Michael Locklair portraying Oscar Wilde. Wrong! Locklair IS Wilde. He is magnificent with every gesture, look and facial expression. He flawlessly runs the gamut from a most confident witty Wilde to the broken, hopeless man he becomes at his conviction and imprisonment. Locklair's work is brilliant.
Scott Adams is perfect as Lord Alfred Douglas, alias Bosie. He delivers an ideal performance exuding cunning seductiveness and charisma.
Other outstanding performances come from David Reinwald, playing Marquess of Queensberry/Gil/Judge; Todd McNerney as Edward Carson/Narrator.
Witty Wilde
BY BILL DAVIS
Charleston City Paper - May 29, 2001
There is a lot to like about the presentation of Moises Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde - fine acting, great costumes, a good looking set, and tough subject matter.
When Michael Locklair, who played Wilde, came out for his curtain call he enjoyed a well-deserved surge of warm applause from the sold-out house. Locklair was able to create a character that balanced both halves of Wilde's signature wit - anger and intelligence. His Wilde swayed from hubris to humiliation, from word play to crushing emotion, and from jilted lover to fey dandy, all without once falling into the easy trap of playing the famed writer as a bitchy drama queen.
Then, like now, everyone knew he was gay, and the actor made a fine choice not to rub Wilde's sexuality in the audience's face. Instead, he gave the play's most complete and easily its most complicated performance. Some of Locklair's better choices were in his mannerisms, seemingly copied from photos of the author, but not from his caricatures. He was able to walk the thin line between the Wilde's intellect and the ridiculous cravat worn around his neck.
And the cravat brings us to the costumes in this period piece. Wilde's urbane finery was a counterpoint to the costume of his archenemy, the pugilistic Marquess of Queensberry, played by the Midtown Theatre's old hand David Reinwald. Where Wilde was outfitted in grays and complicated fabrics, costume designer Julie Ziff dressed Queensberry in hunting plaids to accent Reinwald's affected Scottish brogue. Where Wilde sported a long, slender cane, Queensberry carried a shorter cane that more resembled a cudgel with a gnarled piece of wood for a handgrip.
Scott Adams made for a fine dandy, right down to his haircut. His gaunt features conveyed a combination of youth and dread in the character's make-up as he struggled to fight an oddly Oedipal battle with his father over his affection for the much older Wilde.
Todd McNerney offered a pointed performance as Edward Carson, the lawyer hired to defend Queensberry against Wilde's charge of slander and went on to become the writer's de facto legal attacker. Perhaps "percussive" would be a better word than pointed, as McNerney's delivery had a concussive crash as he delivered each damning syllable.
Mark Wallace was dead-on as a very believable elder barrister, wearied from the case he'd been dealt.
Though his role largely regulated him to the back of the set, Matthew Crosby did enough good work as Charles Parker, one of the four young gay men who came forward with tales of their sexual conquest at the hands of Wilde, to deserve some future trips to the front of the stage with some juicier roles.
During the second trial, each of the men testifying about Wilde's advances carried a successively larger codpiece in the fronts of their long underwear, which became more and more apparent as they stripped down during their testimony. (Nice touch, as was the choice to play Judy Garland's Somewhere Over the Rainbow"over the sound system at the end of the play.)
This was no British farce. A talky history, thanks to the play being culled from a variety of scholarly journals and first-person memoirs.
Director Steve Lepre seems to prefer subtlety to bombast, apparently sticking to the integrity of the play rather than selling out for cheap laughs wrangled out of Wilde's curmudgeonly witticisms.
When different viewpoints were read aloud from various tomes, characters voices would trail off, replaced by one of the plays narrators'. Instead of using a harsh transition, Lepre wisely chose to go with a more organic segue that, while a little soft at the beginning, became seamless by the end. Had Lepre chosen a harsher transition, the performance could have degenerated into one-upmanship. Showing his experience, the director stuck to the storytelling as "the thing."
All in all, this play is intelligent and thought provoking.
Year in review: A look at Lowcountry art scene's best...
By ROBERT T. JONES
Post & Courier - December 23, 2001
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Baseball has been back in Brooklyn since 2001 when the Brooklyn Cyclones landed in Coney Island.<|fim_middle|> the Beach Bums, the team's "cheerleading" squad, pictured above. I suppose their uniforms could be worse — 1970's short shorts, flesh-colored fishnet stockings and Converse low-tops have a certain charm.
To me, the Beach Bums were visual noise that I had to block out to better see the game, but then again, I probably don't represent the target demographic for the hair flipping and bum shaking.
Oh well. At least they wore comfy shoes. And Brooklyn won 4-3.
I strongly disagree with you. This group of cheerleaders was added in 2003 to assist the head male cheerleader. They are the first people to greet ticketholders who enter the park. The last ones to see you when you leave. During the 5th inning they assist the children in the "Dugout Dance". This group of women hold a dance clinic each year to introduce younger girls to the art of Dance. They also make appearances for the organization in the community.
They are a important part of the in game experience. | The team is popular; the stadium is human-scale; the players are friendly to the many kids in attendance. I enjoyed tonight's game, but I could do without | 33 |
Built August 1952 in Birch Grey exterior, red interior<|fim_middle|> (Joe Curto); new brake master and slave cylinders; diff, gearbox and engine oil changed; heater has new core.
The smooth ride, original transmission, 4-wheel drum brakes that actually work quite well and fender skirts add to the charm of owning this car – the 1952 driving experience. Where ever this car goes, people love it because is not a restored car, is in very nice patinaed condition and is 76 years old! | with French Grey top, this matching numbers (Jaguar Heritage Trust certificate) was painted Old English White in the late 1970's and black top added but retains its red interior. Black tonneau and side screens included.
History known from March 1971 with 4 owners. Current mileage shows 72,287 miles. Given the known limited mileage travelled by ourselves and the previous owner, this may be genuine.
We think the car has been in continuous service since new and it shows as a survivor although technically not, there is an abundance of patina. The original seats are in very nice condition with suitable patina. The big deal with this car is no rust – it is unlikely to have been Winter driven.
Period Burgess exhaust sounds wonderful and has been preserved with repair rather than replaced with repro. We've been told the steering wheel is a Derrington period accessory.
Much of the original tool kit is present with grease gun, jack and lug wrench. The air pump is in great shape and works. Original workshop manual and repro handbook included. The original hood emblem was re-cloisonné, the interior mirror and head lamps have been re-silvered all to retain the original parts the car was built with.
Recent service work included: front suspension re-bush; new rear leaf springs; new batteries; carburetor shafts reconditioned | 282 |
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Locally isolated strain originating from extensive research conducted by the ARC.
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Readly, the global digital magazine newsstand, today announced it has raised €10m in additional funding to drive the next stage of its growth<|fim_middle|> to be part of their continued success," says Nathan Medlock, Partner at Zouk Capital. | .
The latest round of funding comes from new investor Swedish fund Swedbank Robur and London based Zouk Capital. The company will use the funds to further its international expansion and support growth in its existing markets.
"Reading magazines digitally has become second nature as the demand for quality, curated content via the smartphone or tablet grows. The funding reflects confidence in our business model, team and market. It plays an important role in ensuring Readly fulfils its vision to be at the forefront of digital publishing by reaching a wider audience with the very latest in digital magazines across both new and existing markets. We are delighted with the continued support of our investors", says Jörgen Gullbrandson, CEO of Readly.
Stockholm headquartered Readly, offers an app for tablets and smartphones that lets customers have unlimited access to thousands of national and international magazines for a fixed monthly subscription. With readers in 46 markets and access to over 3200 national and international digital magazines, Readly is the leading global digital newsstand subscription service. This year, Readly has added Switzerland to its local markets of Sweden, UK, Germany and Austria and expansion to other markets is underway. In addition, 2017 saw close to 100% revenue growth, with strong growth continuing this year.
We are in no doubt that the future of reading magazines is digital and Readly continues to be one step ahead of the competition, revolutionising the way we enjoy magazines. We have supported Readly from the early days and are delighted | 313 |
Every year in late November, we head to Welch Wholesale Florist on the near west side of Indianapolis to pick up several cases of greens and garlands for winter decorations. Their building is a happy space full of bins and boxes of gorgeous flowers. The most fantastic plant smells fill the air. It's always a little chilly to protect the plants, even outside of the refrigerated room, but it's hard to complain when you're surrounded by so much beauty. Vivid flower photos cover the brightly painted walls of the office space. Yesterday when we picked up a shipment we spent some time talking with Annie and Nora, the current owners and the daughters of the owner and founder, about decorating with fresh greenery and about the challenges, rewards, and surprises of working in their industry.
There are five basic kinds of evergreens Welch typically sells for winter arrangements: cedar, pine, spruce/fir, hemlock, and juniper. When we make our arrangements, these materials form the backbone of the design and fill in space. Each of these come with their own variations with different shades of green, different textures, and in some cases berries and cones.
For long-lasting color, cedar is their favorite evergreen. It takes much longer than the others to lose color, and they don't drop needles the way some do. But beyond the evergreens, they have some favorite accent plants for strong color: winterberry, flocked branches, painted eucalyptus, and white birch poles.
It's those accent materials like winterberry that really bring an arrangement to life, and most of their favorites are those accent pieces. Some that they especially love are magnolia, silver bell eucalyptus, painted eucalyptus, winterberry, and flocked branches.
In addition to knowing more about the varieties of greenery and other cut materials, we also wanted to know more about what it's like to work in the cut plant materials industry. In addition to seasonal materials like what we buy from them, they sell just about any cut flower you can imagine, and they shared some insights specific to holiday decorations and some that apply to their full range of cut flowers and materials.
Bleached fern fronds add unique texture to this door swag made by the staff at Welch.
When it comes to holiday materials, one of the greatest challenges is the seasonality of the work. Hundreds of feet of garlands and pounds of branches are sold through Welch alone over the course of about two months. This means a sudden spurt of work not just for Welch, but for their suppliers as well. Many of the<|fim_middle|>'s one of our favorite accounts to follow. | greenery suppliers are small family businesses that are able to operate with a small staff most of the year, but once harvest time hits they need as many employees as they can get. These suppliers are facing the same labor force challenges we discussed a few weeks ago, especially when it comes to the dramatic reduction in work visas and increases in deportations this year, but for them it's even harder to find employees to do such hard labor for just a few months.
Weather is a struggle for all people working with plants outdoors, but when your company's success for the year depends on the weather in just a narrow range of time, the struggle is compounded. One year, a particular type of popular cedar just was not available because the weather conditions that year did not enable the plants to develop their signature yellow immature cones. This year, growers in North Carolina (one of the biggest states for greenery production) are in bad shape because Hurricane Florence destroyed or damaged so many of the areas they harvest from.
The snowy cotton really pops on this wreath, also made in-house at Welch.
This leads to one of the biggest challenges facing both Christmas green producers and cut flower growers: climate change. Climate change is shifting where different plants grow and how reliably they can be harvested. For smaller holiday greens companies, this is difficult because they often have long family histories in an area and can't move around easily, plus they rely on their current relationships with the places where they harvest (Did you know that greens are often harvested responsibly from nature preserves and other wild areas? We didn't!). On the flip side, the cut flower industry is an incredibly high-tech industry dominated by large companies with acres and acres of greenhouses and fields, mostly in Ecuador and Colombia. They can't simply pick up and move such large operations.
On the bright side, climate change does expand the range of flowers Welch can source and the months certain flowers are available. Peonies used to only be an option for spring and summer brides, but now they can be grown late into the fall!
We talked a lot about the challenges facing their company and their industry, but Nora and Annie wanted to be sure to end on a positive note. Despite the challenges of working with fresh cut plants, they think fresh arrangements bring something into our lives that just can't be replaced. Even with synthetic options becoming more and more life-like, you can always see the difference. But more importantly, the fragrances of fresh holiday greens and wedding bouquets and sympathy arrangements sears help build and cement memories the way nothing else can. Fresh decorations bring their own special magic to the holiday season, and they love being a part of bringing that magic to people.
Want some daily flowers to brighten your Instagram feed? Follow them at welchwholesale! It | 560 |
Tomball Business & Professional Women's 2nd Annual Garden Party & Style Show April 10th 2011!!
Tomball Business and Professional Women's 2nd Annual Garden Party and Style Show!
Sunday, April 10th from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm at 30331 Winfro Drive, Tomball, Texas 77375.
Proceeds from this event will help to provide scholarships to local youth, and, new this year, one scholarship will be given to a woman in our community in need of continuing education.
Ticket cost is $35.00. Along with the benefit of the proceeds going to help local scholarships the event itself will be a showcase of current fashions from local Tomball retailers. These retailers include; Dahlia's Boutique, Foxworthy's, Mas Boutique, Branded Western Wear, and GiGi's Baby Boutiques.
Entertainment will be provided by the Texas Repratory Theatre Company; and an intermission show provided by Cindy Jeager Designs, featuring "How to tie a proper bow".
Lunch and desserts will be provided by The Whistle Stop Tea Room and The Market Street Bakery, and the complimentary Mimosa fountain can't be missed.
In addition to everything mentioned, there will also be a Chinese and Live Auction and a Kentucky Derby Style Hat Contest, and all guests will leave with their own bag of Party<|fim_middle|> to weather on April 17, 2011.
Tomball German Heritage Festival March 26-28 2010!!
Lifeline Screening at Heritage Retirement Community - Tomball TX!! | Favors.
If you would like to buy a ticket or get more information give me a call at 832-721-8332.
If necessary there will be a make-up date due | 44 |
Rangers 2
Manager's Notes
Saturday, November 23rd, 1985
John Brown (pen.)
Archie Knox
1. Bobby Geddes
2. Rab Shannon
3. Tosh McKinlay
4. Jim Duffy
5. Jim Smith
7. Stuart Rafferty
8. John Brown
9. Graham Harvey
10. Bobby Connor
11. Ray Stephen
12. Stewart Forsyth
14. Albert Kidd
Stewart Forsyth for Graham Harvey
Albert Kidd for Stuart Rafferty
Tosh McKinlay
G. B. Smith (Edinburgh) (Referee)
R. A. Bisset (Inverurie) & P. Trotter (Edinburgh) (Assistants)
This match has no report.
Squad Statistics (as at November 23rd, 1985)
Bobby Geddes (GK) - 18 - 136 -
Jim Smith - 18 1 146 6
Jim Duffy 26 18 - 18 -
Bobby Glennie - 18 1 319 5
Tosh McKinlay 20 7 - 96 6
Rab Shannon 19 18 - 28 -
Stuart Rafferty 24 14 1 58 5
John Brown<|fim_middle|> currently at Dens do work hard at the game and now is the time for them to have faith in their ability.
Rangers have had both a good spell and a bad spell in the League this season yet they still occupy third spot. Playing Rangers is never easy but while they have the possibility of keeping in touch with Aberdeen and Celtic, they will be that wee bit more determined to do well. We of course beat them at Ibrox earlier in the season so the players know what is expected of them in terms of playing against a member of the 'Old Firm'. A home win would boost the players confidence and also allow us to keep in touch with the teams above us. | - 15 5 57 16
Bobby Connor - 18 2 59 11
Graham Harvey 23 14 2 24 4
Ray Stephen - 17 6 188 42
Stewart Forsyth (sub) 24 3 - 18 -
Albert Kidd (sub) - 5 1 131 14
League Table (as at November 23rd, 1985)
Manager's Programme Notes
The less said about our game against Dundee United last Saturday the better. We are disappointed at the fact that we have lost three games in a row as it's something we are not used to. At the end of last season we put together a good run and we all know that winning one game can be the start of a consistent spell. We are not going to panic after these results even though we are far from happy with the form over these games.
What we have to do is keep working away at what we do during the week, keep faith in our ability and aim for that good result which will improve confidence. Today is one of these bigger games where the players know that there is going to be a big crowd and a good atmosphere. If we can get a result today this could be the platform for better results. Overall, I feel that the team are not that far away from getting back on the rails as they have played some good football recently. The transfer market has very little movement in it at present and if there is not a flow of money going through the game it is difficult to get new personnel. Accepting that is a fact of the game I would repeat the message that we will continue to work with the players at our disposal. The players that are | 375 |
The Basics of Email Marketing: What is it and Why is it Important?
When trying to find the best options for cheap and effective marketing, one of the very first things you should think of is email. As one of the most powerful forms of marketing around, it's up there with the most reliable tools that you can have, not to mention the fact that it's great<|fim_middle|> the first place.
A description that makes it easy for people to know why they should sign-up and what the benefits include.
A visual description that's all about including an image of your lead magnet, such as the book, coupon or guide.
A form that asks for key information like name, email address to make them sign up and want to do so in an instant.
A subscription button that stands out from the rest of the page and makes them want to hit that button and sign-up with you.
Do this, and you'll be much more likely to capture leads.
While we would never feel comfortable telling you how to talk to your customers, we do recommend that you split up your customers into smaller segments. And no, we don't mean in a way that's going to get you arrested! Sending the same email to someone who has already made multiple purchases isn't going to maximise the value of your time and effort. RIght off the bat, for example, you could use customer data to recommend related products based on what somebody already purchased. Get it?
So, you need to segment your lists into various categories. This allows emails to be more relevant to each customer. From segmenting based on how long they've been with you to segmenting on age, location, gender and buying habits you can make the experience personalised and, therefore, better! If you use a CRM, you can easily tag each customer based on their data: middle aged man, no previous purchases, but has spent plenty of time looking at the fishing rods you've got for sale. Sending automated emails based on this data allows you to boost open rates and improve the chances of getting repeat business from that person.
Well, if you're completely new to email marketing, we recommend that you check out one or two of our posts guides on CRM and automation. While the above only scratches the surface of a very in-depth and challenging subject, you should keep scratching– there's a lot to learn, but there's also so much to gain. Simple email automation can save you so much time, close sales, and engage with customers better than ever before, so learn more and dive in. | value for your money. Email marketing, though, is uniquely challenging and it's as easy to fail with as it is to succeed at. If you are serious about using e-mail marketing, you need to know how to do it right. In this article, we'll break down the key credentials of a successful, lasting e-mail marketing campaign!
But before we begin, why do you actually need email marketing?
For one, it can provide you with a chance to build a targeted list of potential customers.
It also allows you to make a targeted message, aimed at very specific 'segments' of your market.
You can automate the process to a great degree, turning prospects into long-term customers, all without having to put in too much grunt work.
To begin with, you need to look at how to get permission to email people in the first place. Start off by creating some form of sign-up option on your official website. A subscription box with an enticing call-to-action that asks for the reader to sign up to your newsletter or download a white paper is a great start.
Don't just start contacting emails on business cards and grabbing emails from social media etc. This is unsolicited marketing, and will land you in some trouble. There are all sorts of laws about this kind of thing, not least is GDPR, which can actually leave you with a hefty fine if you don't get people's consent to contact them. You need to have express permission, which is provided when they choose to subscribe to your mailing list and service. By creating an opt-in form, you make it easy to contact people in the future and market to them.
Now that you know how to get people to sign-up to be part of your list, how do you entice them to join?
An online book that allows them to learn about a particular subject or topic.
A resource booklet that allows the customer to complete something on their own.
Access to a webinar, product sample, service trial or a simple price estimate.
Coupon codes to help them save money when they next shop with you.
Each solution is well worth your time and consideration. The best way to build a list, though, is to make sure it offers value to the reader. Don't just attach any old content or add-on; make sure it's relevant and genuinely useful. For example, throwing some cookbook with recipes that you own the rights to would make no sense if you are offering construction services! It would make sense, though, if you ran a healthy eating business or something on those lines. Building a list means making sure that you offer them something relevant as a hook to make them sign-up. Brainstorm ideas relevant to your industry.
More importantly, though, you need to match up the item to fit with the demographic you're aiming at. You need to be able to create a plan of action that allows you tailor the offering to the right people. So long as it's applicable to your audience and offers something genuine, useful and relevant (as well as delivered right away) this works perfectly.
An enticing headline that makes people want to click on it and to see what you have to offer them in | 634 |
USA Hockey has announced the dates and details for a pair of its 2018-19 membership development<|fim_middle|> For Free Days can click here to register.
USA Hockey's 2 and 2 Challenge program provides youth hockey associations with an actionable season-long plan and support for increasing participation among children between the ages of 4 and 8. Associations have the opportunity to utilize step-by-step guidance, tools and national resources to achieve the program's goal of adding two new players and retaining two more players than the previous season's total.
The three phases of the 2 and 2 Challenge include retention, acquisition, and conversion. USA Hockey supports participating associations through each phase on and off the ice. To learn more about the 2 and 2 Challenge or to accept the challenge for the 2018-19 season, click here.
In support of the Try Hockey For Free Days and the 2 and 2 Challenge, USA Hockey supplies participating associations with marketing resources and other support to promote the game at the grassroots level. USA Hockey also partners with the National Hockey League and its member clubs to market the Try Hockey For Free Days nationwide. | initiatives.
USA Hockey's national Try Hockey For Free Days, which are sponsored by Chipotle, Liberty Mutual and Pure Hockey, are scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018, during Come Play Hockey Month, and Saturday, Feb. 23, 2019, as part of Hockey Week Across America.
Last season, nearly 25,000 children participated in USA Hockey's two Try Hockey For Free Days. These events have introduced more than 177,000 children to the sport since their inception eight seasons ago.
Associations and arenas interested in hosting one of the Try Hockey | 132 |
The winner<|fim_middle|> it out, and it is just a matter of finding the right time, possibly working with a label to schedule them correctly. Sometimes this takes more time than what we artists would like, but it is what it is. Also, I generally prefer releasing stuff myself so that I have complete control over release schedules, the cover art etc, so this is also something I will surely be doing in the near future," he added.
Do you want to take part in the 2019 Demolition Panel? Sign up for program updates! | of the event on how he plans to build on his success after the closing panel of ADE Sound Lab 2018.
The 23rd edition of the legendary Demolition panel, helmed as always by DJ Dave Clarke, was won by wildcard pick kajis, a.k.a. producer Sami Huttunen from Finland, for the trance tune 'Omega'. This was the first time ever that a wildcard pick has taken the coveted first prize at Demolition.
The panel of judges featured Radio 1's B. Traits, Joseph Capriati, Sander van Doorn and Capital Radio's Coco Cole, all of whom chose the track as being the best of a what all agreed was a vintage year. The lucky winner walked away with a Native Instruments Maschine Mikro MK3, an Ableton Live 10 Suite, a Pioneer DJ DJS 1000, a Soundcloud Pro subscription and a pass for ADE 2019.
He has plenty of new music lined up: "2019 will start with a bang! The plan is to get most of | 231 |
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems develop algorithms which optimize the well-known spaced repetition method used for memorizing educational material. By using optimal spacing time, the learning process becomes as efficient as possible. Their findings were published in the prestigious journal PNAS on Tuesday.
Tübingen – Flashback to the days when one tried learning a second language. Whether adult or child – a person's ability to remember those nouns, verbs and adjectives depends critically on the number of times the vocabulary is reviewed, the hours or days in between each review, as well as the time elapsed since the last repetition.
Deciphering the way human memory stores information has always been a fascinating topic for scientists. One primary method for successful memorization of information is known to be "spaced repetition" of content. Many empirical studies have been conducted to assess the appropriate spacing, the best intervals between repetitions to form an optimal strategy for the process of acquiring for instance a foreign language with minimum effort. These studies inspired flashcards, small pieces of information a learner repeatedly reviews, following a certain schedule.
Needless to say, the physical flashcard has long been replaced by the flashcard 2.0. In the past decade, an entire industry of e-learning platforms spewed out of the ground, providing spaced repetition course-schedules. However, most of these online learning providers use spaced repetition algorithms that are simple rule-based heuristics with a few hard-coded parameters. To give an example: a learner may be given a word to review in predetermined intervals of 2 days, then 4, then 8 – independent of the individual's abilities and various difficulties of content under study.
The classical methods do not leverage the automated fine-grained monitoring and greater degree of control offered by modern online learning platforms, a group of scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Kaiserslautern suggest in their recent work. According to this group, modern spaced repetition algorithms should be data-driven and adapt to the learner's performance over time. Staying with the example given earlier, if the student is learning a difficult word he or she may be asked to review that content again in 1 day instead of 2 days while for an easier content the student might be asked to review it again in 3 days – all depending on the probability that this interval maximizes the probability that the learner recalls that content successfully with minimum effort.
In their work with the title "Enhancing human learning via spaced repetition optimization" published in the prestigious journal PNAS on Tuesday, lead author Behzad Tabibian together with Utkarsh Upadhyay, Abir De, Ali Zarezade, Bernhard Schölkopf and Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez developed a mathematical frame-work, that – given an existing machine learning model of human memory – gives the optimal solution on how to decide when is the best time to review a particular piece of content<|fim_middle|>en and a member of the Network Learning group at the MPI for Software Systems, co-advised by MPI-IS-Director Bernhard Schölkopf and MPI-SWS-Faculty Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez. Prior to joining the MPI he completed his Masters degree in the US and his Bachelor in the UK. The main focus of Tabibian's research is developing Machine Learning methods for information systems and large-scale web data. In his other projects during his Ph.D. he worked on tackling problems related to spread of misinformation on social networks using Machine Learning techniques.
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf, born 1968, studied physics, mathematics and philosophy in Tübingen and London and received his doctorate in computer science from the TU Berlin in 1997. From 2001 to 2010, he was Director and scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. As one of the founding Directors, Schölkopf has been Director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen since 2011. He has received numerous prizes, including the Max Planck Research Prize in 2011, the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie in 2012, the Milner Award of the Royal Society in Great Britain in 2014, the Leopoldina Award in 2016, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM, the world's largest association of computer scientists based in New York City), the ACM Fellowship at the end of 2017, and the Leibniz Prize, Germany's most prestigious research prize, in 2018.
Schölkopf is also an honorary professor at the Institute of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Tübingen and an honorary professor of computer science at the Technical University (TU) Berlin. In December 2018 he was appointed affiliate professor for Empirical Inference at ETH Zurich. | . At its core, their algorithm estimates when is the best time to review a word a student wants to permanently remember, all the while avoiding too many attempts, in order to make the learning process as efficient as possible.
To evaluate their scheduling algorithm, they relied on already existing datasets. "We used a dataset released by Duolingo (an online language learning app) a few years ago. It is a comprehensive data-set that contains fine grained records of learners' practices over a period of two weeks", Tabibian explains.
Behzad Tabibian is a Ph.D. student in the Empirical Inference department at the MPI for Intelligent Systems in Tübing | 136 |
Tarpon fishing is great in the morning and evening. Usually the best is what we call "first light bite" starting in the wee hours of the morning! Based on guest preference, trips last 6-12 hours. Capt. Josh normally catches bait before pick up times. However, Capt. Josh encourages guests to join him to catch bait to get the full fishing experience. Start times are subject to change based on weather, tides, and other variables. Fishing time begins when the boat leaves the dock and ends when it returns. Below are the varieties of charters offered by Caloosahatchee Cowboy Charters.
The tarpon is hands down the most adrenaline pumping fish to catch in South West Florida and Capt. Josh's personal favorite. Never disappointing "the silver king" with its explosive strikes and unpredictable airborne acrobatics will leave you in pure amazement. Capt. Josh personally guarantees one will never experience a fish with more strength, more power, and more agility than a tarpon. If you are fortunate enough to stay connected with a tarpon it will be the most spectacular and memorable battle you will ever have. Come join Capt. Josh and challenge the "king" to a little one on one!
Are exactly that, wild and crazy like a bull ride at the rodeo. Guests begin the trip by catching giant baits with Capt. Josh then you will use those baits to hook the tarpon. Night time trips are one of Capt. Josh's favorites to run. More times than not your party is the only party out there and have the fish all to yourself. The tarpon are extremely active in the late hours of the night. Almost every night time trip that Capt. Josh has ever ran results in a minimum of 1- 4 bites to an upwards of 20. Freakish nights can result in 30 or more bites. Night time rates are $100.00 per hour with a minimum of 4 hours and a max of 8 hours. Night trips start times are solely based upon tides and time of year. Come ready to dance, these night time battles can be insane.
Gives you chance to see free jumping and large schools of tarpon moving up the coast of Sanibel, Fort Myers Beach, Cayo Costa, Captiva, and Boca Grande. Typically these tarpon charters start before the sun comes up and end after 6 hours. Capt. Josh highly recommends 6 hours of tarpon fishing to achieve maximum results, 4 hours of tarpon<|fim_middle|> Tarpon trips will be paired with lunch at one our local waterfront restaurants during the heat of the day and slack tide when the fish wont be as active.
Gratuity is not included in the above rates.
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© Caloosahatchee Cowboy Charters. All Rights Reserved. Website By RGB Team Web. | fishing just isn't enough a majority of the time. Tarpon fishing off of Sanibel's beaches typically consists of drifting live baits through scattered fish in the area. During the months of April, May, and June (may is prime time) masses of migratory tarpon show up and are in thick schools all along the Gulf Coast. Booking a 6, 8, or 12 hour tarpon charter in May can often result in 5-20 hook ups especially during the new and full moons. I highly recommend booking tarpon fishing charters in advance due to there high demand during these months.
All trip prices are for 1-3 people.
10 and 12 hour | 144 |
Avance exemplifies student success as academic and professional empowerment and community leadership.
Avance sets the standard for public charter school excellence via rigorous college and career preparation that inspires a life time of learning and leading.
Avance places quality education first, and values a professional culture of community, diversity and fiscal and<|fim_middle|> the world. | social responsibility.
Self-awareness that leads to physical and psychological well being.
Aware of the importance of global citizenship, which includes services to all levels of the community.
Understands the value of social justice and respects all human beings.
Understands the importance and value of effective work habits, including integrity, honesty and self-reliance.
The necessary skills and knowledge for college success.
Creative, critical thinking skills and strategies for successful problem solving.
Ability to research, analyze, evaluate, and logically synthesize information.
Effective multiple learning strategies that will enable a life-long learner as a result of cognitive awareness.
Respect by acknowledges the contributions and opinions of others.
The value of cooperation, collaboration, and sharing of ideas.
Development of personal goals and undertakes the necessary steps to accomplish them.
Ideas and information clearly and effectively through various media.
Leadership skills, including integrity, vision, creativity, and self-discipline.
A contribution to the improvement of the quality of life in their families, community, and | 201 |
Before we get down to the nitty-gritty of this, let me just say something real quick to the people blasting Steven Threet now that he's officially announced his transfer from Michigan: Lay off the kid.
No, I can't support anyone bailing on U-M, especially if it's over playing time -- "Those who stay will be<|fim_middle|> a huge locker room loss? It all depends on how the remaining guys fill in, and we won't know that until at least September. | champions" and all. But I also know that Threet transferred to Michigan when Lloyd Carr was still around, with the intention of competing with Ryan Mallett for playing time in a pro-style offense. Instead, he found himself thrown to the fire in Rich Rodriguez's spread offense.
Threet's not a spread QB, and I say that knowing full well that you're all aware of that already. The situation last season was a mess, all the way around. He struggled a lot and a better fit for the system might have produced another couple wins. Threet gave it everything he had, though, taking an absolute beating. He ran those keeper plays even though he's not a runner, almost always ducking his head at the end and fighting for an extra yard.
Long story short, he did what he could to help Michigan win. It wasn't enough on most weeks, of course, but I have a hard time demeaning him for his efforts. His long run in the waning moments of that epic Wisconsin win will forever be etched in Michigan history. So, I for one wish him the best of luck -- and if he transfers to Eastern, we'll see him again in the 2010 opener.
Now, onto what this means for Michigan.
Obviously, this thins out an already-thin position. You can look around and see some numbers: Nick Sheridan, Justin Feagin, Tate Forcier, Denard Robinson, even David Cone. The problem is that we painfully learned last year how hard it is to run Rodriguez's system without experience in it. Outside of Sheridan -- and maybe Feagin, to a much-lesser extent -- the QB spot is back to where it was before last year.
We can hope that Forcier's early arrival on campus will bridge that gap a little, and Robinson picks things up quickly, but without running the spread in a game, we won't know. So, like him or not, Sheridan's presence just became a lot more important.
Could he be forced to start again? Possibly, depending on the freshmen's progression. If nothing else, he's the guiding force at quarterback -- he has to step up and lead these young guys through the gauntlet, and help them learn this offense.
Of course, it's not like Threet lit the world up when he started last year (he won just one game as the starter), so to assume that there will be some gigantic drop-off is sort of silly. What Forcier and Robinson lack in game experience, they may make up for in versatility. All those QB running plays that went for naught in 2008 may prove very valuable in 2009 -- if nothing else, the playbook can open up.
More than that, this lets Rodriguez stop dancing around his QB issue. He does not have to force Threet, a drop-back style guy, to fit into his spread offense. With Forcier and Robinson he has more prototypical spread guys, so the pieces may simply come together better.
Off-the-field, this is another blow to Rodriguez's Michigan reputation. All the negative recruiting that went on this year regarding his inability to relate to players and his lack of loyalty to his veterans just received some more fuel. Will this transfer kill recruiting? No, of course not, but it won't help.
At least ... unless it helps Michigan land another big QB prospect. The Wolverines will hit the quarterback spot hard in 2010, and now Rodriguez has another scholarship open -- and another spot on the depth chart -- to go get a QB of the future.
Beyond that, this is a wait-and-see situation. Will this clobber Michigan's offense for 2009? Is it | 765 |
First of all a very Merry X'mas 2006 to all my readers, albeit a little late. I had these two bottles of wine opened at a X'mas Eve Dinner with beef steak, turkey and an array of goodies, thus the focus was not completely on the wine.
This wine is available at Carrefour going for S$52 dollars now, compared to what I bought at the fair at S$49.Nice dark ruby red in colour and had a wonderful bouquet.
Smell : Violets, black plums, raspberries. An approachable and yet seductive, delicate bouquet.
Taste : Smooth, well balanced oak and fruit. Matured tannins. Vanilla at the<|fim_middle|>% Sauvignon Blanc and 45% Semillon. This mellow wine offers a light gold robe with a fresh flowery bouquet. Its taste is fine and fruity.
I rather think this is a very pleasant wine on a hot summer day to sip and enjoy. | end.
After-Taste : Good medium finish with no severe tannins.
I must say that this bottle is somewhat of a disappointment, though made in the same style as the Bordeaux Sauternes, the quality falls far short of it. I am totally skeptical about the description at the back of the bottle. The bottle was purchased at Wine Connection at East Coast for S$25 and in the glass a pale yellow.
Smell : Deep ripen lemon peel. With a distinct unpleasant smell of sulphides.
Taste : Mildly sweet finishing off with lemon peel and acidity. Somewhat refreshing.
After-Taste : Short finish with an abrupt end.
Description at back of bottle : Located in Ligueux 8 km South East from Sainte-Foy-la-Grande. Chateau Vaccant is made from 55 | 169 |
Russell O. Stewart
Candidate for Mayor of Cherry Hills Village, CO
Colorado civil litigation and appellate attorney with First Amendment, property rights and economic liberty focus. Career began with federal judicial clerkship with the Judge Richard P. Matsch; retired as partner at Faegre Baker Daniels LLP. National coordinating counsel for mass tort cases responsible for all aspects of very large litigation proceedings, including trial, trial preparation, science and Daubert strategy, settlement negotiations, and selection, management and coordination of regional and local counsel. Professional contributions include membership on the Colorado Supreme Court Committee on Jury Instructions, the faculty of the IADC Trial Academy, and the<|fim_middle|> Kansas (inactive)
Federal District Courts: Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Texas
Federal Circuit Courts: Fifth, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth
United State Supreme Court
Russell Stewart for Mayor. 2018. | Faculty of Federal Advocates, as well published articles, legal texts, and presentations. Community service includes Boy Scouts of America.
University of Michigan, J.D: 1984
Colorado College, B.A. Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa: 1981
Community and Foundation Leadership
Arapahoe County Open Space and Trails Advisory Board: 2016-present
District 1 Representative
City of Cherry Hills Village, Denver, CO: 2006-present
Mayor Pro Tem: 2008-2015
City Council: 2006-2015
Chair, Quincy Farm Committee: 2015-present
Cherry Hills Land Preserve, Inc., Cherry Hills Village: 2014-present
Delegate to the Highline Canal Working Group
Denver Council of Boy Scouts
Board: 2016-present
Frontier District Chairman: 2016-present
Boy Scouts of America, Troop 712, Denver, CO: 2008-present
Committee Chair: 2008-2016
Advancement Chair: 2016-present
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP, Denver, CO: 1988-2014
Partner (including service as head of the Denver general litigation group, appellate practice group, legal personal committee, associate training and summer clerk writing programs): 1992
Associate: 1988
Represent clients in litigation matters ranging from commercial disputes to product liability and mass torts. Representative cases involving First Amendment, property rights or economic liberty include:
~ St. John's Church in the Wilderness v. Scott, 194 P.3d 475 (Colo. App. 2008); after remand, 296 P.3d 273 (Colo. App. 2012), cert. denied,133 S.Ct. 2798 (abridgment of right to free exercise of religion)
~ City and County of Denver v. L.C. Fulenwider, et al., 88-CV-24566 (Denver) (represented landowners in condemnation proceedings taking property for the Denver International Airport)
~ Save the Scenic Santa Ritas v. United States Forest Service, 4:11-CV-00094 TUC (D. Ariz. 2011) (Issue was whether the Federal Advisory Committee Act applies to NEPA review proceeding)
Conover McClearn & Heppenstall P.C. Denver, CO: 1986-1987
United States Judge Richard P. Mastch, Denver, CO: 1984-1986
Member, Committee on Jury Instructions: 2010-Present
International Association of Defense Counsel
Trial Academy Faculty, Stanford Law School: 2014
State Membership Chair: 2014-2015
Chair, Toxic and Hazardous Substances Litigation Subcommittee: 2008-2010
Vice Chair, Class Actions and Multiparty Litigation Subcommittee: 2012-2016
Faculty of Federal Advocates
Board Member: 2014-Present
Professional Honors
"The Best Lawyers in America"
Selected for Mass Tort Litigation and Product Liability Litigation Categories: 2012-2014
American Bar Association: 2011
A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions, Co-Editor
The Colorado Lawyer, Vol. 40, No. 9: 2011
"Legal Trends and Best Practices in Class Arbitration", Co-Author
Defense Counsel Journal, Vol. 76, No. 4: 2009
"CERCLA Contribution Claims and the Collateral Source Rule"
International Association of Defense Counsel Member Meetings: 2007-2014
"Comcast v. Behrend, A Sea Change for Rule 23(b)(3)?"
"Arbitration of Federal Statutory Claims: The DOJ Weighs in on 'Effective Vindication' "
"Managing the Global Law Firm"
"The Summitville Mine, CERCLA Contribution and the Collateral Source Rule"
"Recent Experience with Express Preemption Defenses Following Bates v. Dow"
State District Courts: Colorado, Wyoming (inactive), | 950 |
Campus Advantage and Property Solutions Launch True Online Leasing
Online digital signatures; Advancing the student housing industry; Ease-of-use benefits residents and guarantors alike.
Campus Advantage, a higher education services company, today announced it has partnered with Property Solutions to launch online leasing with digital signatures. The new service provides ease-of-use to residents and guarantors, further advancing the student housing industry.
"For a while now<|fim_middle|>Property Solutions developed online leases with e-signatures to help property managers reduce their paper usage, improve their ability to forecast renewals, and save time spent on data entry," said Dave Bateman, CEO of Property Solutions. "Campus Advantage worked with us in the process to optimize key technical features. We're excited to have them as a partner and eager to see how student housing will adopt this new tool."
"Finding new and better solutions for our current and future residents are hallmarks of Campus Advantage," said Neumeier. "From beginning to end, we strive to provide our residents a top-quality student housing experience."
About Campus Advantage
Campus Advantage (CA) is an Austin-based real estate firm that offers high education management, development, acquisition and consulting services. The Company currently manages more than 30,000 beds, at 52 locations in 21 states nationwide. Campus Advantage works to create winning partnerships between colleges, universities, investors, developers and owners in an effort to help students achieve their academic and personal goals. Campus Advantage is committed to providing innovative and customized solutions for premier student housing communities. For additional information, please visit http://www.campusadv.com. | , many in the student housing industry claimed to have online leasing, but what it really meant was emailing lease documents, printing them off and then faxing or emailing back signed copies," said Tonya Neumeier, Vice President of Management Services for Campus Advantage. "With our partner, Property Solutions, we are able to provide our residents and guarantors true online leasing capabilities with digital signatures in a secure environment.
"This capability helps residents avoid delays in completing a lease themselves as well as removes obstacles for guarantors who usually live hundreds of miles away," said Neumeier. "Now we can simply email a secure link to the resident and guarantor and the entire leasing process can be completed within 15 minutes."
For Kenneth Arndt and his son David, digitally signed leasing made perfect sense. "I live in the Chicago area, so it was very beneficial that I didn't have to drive nine-plus hours just to sign a few papers for my son's new apartment at University Crossing at Kansas State University," said Kenneth Arndt. "Being able to complete everything over the Internet not only saved time, but hundreds of dollars in travel expense and I didn't have to take time off of work.
"It was a significant value-add," said Arndt. "Overall, it was a very easy to use, navigating the website was very easy, it clearly stated which parts I needed to initial and sign, and I knew how much I had left to complete. It was nice having the option of saving my work and coming back to it if I hadn't completed it yet.
"I would definitely recommend the online signing process to people searching for apartments from a distance and I would also recommend it to local people as well because it is quick, easy, and convenient," said Arndt.
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Leaving was both exactly what I thought it would be and yet not at all. With finals and getting grades figured out in a system that has never given us a format for grading- the leaving didn't really get a chance to sink in. That last week, as I started to say goodbye to a few of my classes, it started to become more and more real. I am leaving.
When I got to Thailand, I wasn't ready. I was leaving behind the magical land of China and headed to a place where I was to meet a whole slew of new people and begin a new life. I had finally fallen into my travel groove and was leaving behind a lifestyle, a country and companions that I wasn<|fim_middle|> lack of food choices the strange smells and my D-List celeb status was enough for now.
And so, after a wonderful last weekend with my DKT girls (who I will undoubtedly keep in touch with and see again very soon), I packed my bags, cleaned my apartment and headed to Bangkok. Unfortunately, the morning of my departure brought awful news. One of my students was in a terrible motorcycle accident and passed away. He was a sweet, sweet boy (17) and had his whole life ahead of him. He was remembered fondly by all of his classmates and remembering him brought back to me all of the wonderful things about Thailand. While I was upset I couldn't be there for support and his remembrance, I was also a little relieved. Selfishly I had taken away something from his death, but I also wouldn't even know how to begin giving my students the support that they needed.
And so, with a heavy heart, I arrived in Bangkok, now more ready than ever to live my life to the fullest and begin this crazy journey ahead of me. | 't ready to say goodbye to yet.
But none of that mattered. I was thrown headfirst into Thailand and after the excitement, anticipation and anxiety wore off about making new friends, moving to a new town and starting to teach- I was left with conflicting feelings. My students had touched my heart in a way that I never knew possible. They taught me so much more than I ever could have taught them. But the Thai lifestyle and being a teacher wasn't really the calling I had hoped for when I signed up.
It left me confused and terrified to find out I had come all this way only to be back where I started. A little lost about who I wanted to become. But was I really lost? Was I really the same person I was before I left? If you have read my Valentine's Day post, you'll know that the answer to those questions is no. I have finally accepted that travel isn't a phase I will grow out of and it's not something that I can just get out of my system. It isn't just a part of me. It is me. And so I planned. I researched- pouring over the internet, over my guidebook, talking to other travelers and friends and collecting as much information as I could. And I waited. I waited for the semester to be over so I could travel.
But here it was. The time and moments I had been waiting for for so long, and yet, I was sad. Despite my best efforts, I had made a life for myself. A daily routine that I was accustomed to, a fruit lady, a soup lady, a good relationship with my school and most of all- friends. My amazing coworkers who had inadvertently become a much bigger part of my survival in Thailand that I had realized would no longer be a part of my daily life.
I would never see my students again. I wouldn't get to follow their successes and I wouldn't get to see them grow into the amazing people I know they will all become one day.
That's sad! And I was sad. And I was surprised at how sad I was.
In the last few days, Thailand was able to intervene. It reminded me of all the reasons I couldn't stay. All of the little things that drove me crazy- the lack of communication, of organization and of structure of any kind has driven me mad. The | 479 |
Stress, like anxiety, through its<|fim_middle|> individual thing, as each person experiences it differently. What is stressful for you, may not be for another.
Stress results from having to adapt to situations. How well we can adapt, affects the level of our stress.
Our environment demands that we adjust to things such as the changing weather. Socially, we are stressed by such things as disagreements, deadlines, and financial problems.
Our bodies confront us with issues such as illness, ageing and disabilities as well as reacting to what is happening in our environment through tension and headaches.
Our thoughts induce stress, through the way that we interpret things and dwell on them.
Counselling provides an avenue to examine the cause of the stress and develop strategies to change your reaction to the situation. | emotional and physical symptoms, causes people to focus excessively on themselves. While this is understandable, it shifts focus away from maintaining satisfying relationships and over time the quality of your relationships decline.
Stress is a normal part of life and has its benefits in motivating us and keeping us moving forward. The problem with stress occurs when excessive levels damage our health.
Stress is an | 73 |
Each semester, education loan fraud by criminals who pose as students grows tremendously. Fraudsters are easily able to pose as students because they are not required to make a physical presence.
As long as a student can make it to census date, they are eligible to receive the thousands of dollars from Pell Grant monies. Keeping accurate attendance records is crucial because it's required for Title IV fund eligibility.
However, ordinary attendance records don't tell much beyond the fact that someone logged in with a student password on certain dates. They don't tell you who actually logged in or if they might drop out as soon as they pocket their check.
But imagine if those records could help you identify students who may be potentially fraudulent before they drop out with their check? You have to keep the records anyway for compliance. We'll tell you how attendance records composed of biometrically authenticated students can put more money in your budget.
But first, let's look at why you're required to do<|fim_middle|>. The Dept. of Education mandated that schools institute new "academic attendance taking criteria" to determine attendance and last day of attendance.
Why so many requirements? It's really about fraud.
If an FSA award has been disbursed and turns out to have been given to a scammer, then it is owed back to the Dept. of Education. The institution is required to return the money to DOE whether or not they can recover the funds. Schools are force into acting as collection agencies, but most of the time fictitious and fraudulent students are long gone.
It is a lucrative business with criminal rings as large as 800 fictitious students being reported. Fraud typically comes from individual students, organized crime rings or unscrupulous bad actors within the institution. According to the U.S. Department of Education, improper Pell grant payments topped $2.2B in 2016.
If schools are potentially losing an estimated 4% of Title IV funds to fraudulent students, think what that means to a school that disburses $50M – $100M. That's big money schools stand to retain. While FSA fraud is nothing new, it is rapidly growing. This growth has spurred the federal government to step in and put pressure on institutions to fix the problem.
So, who's on the hook? According to the feds, the schools.
Unfortunately, it's not going to get any better until schools are able to detect and sort the real students from the fraudsters. Luckily, this could all be solved easily with air-tight student authentication and the ability to monitor for the signals of fraud. And it all starts with accurate attendance records.
Did you know that students logging in with just a password or PIN doesn't qualify as meeting those rules? You are required to use a stronger method to fully authenticate your students and verify their identities throughout the course. Accreditation now depends on meeting this obligation.
Yes, administrators could easily get fraudulent money back and return it to their budget. All they need was to simply capture student ID authentication logins between course start up and census day.
BioSig-ID is a gesture-based biometric software can monitor for fraud and send early warnings to administrators that will stop loan disbursement until they can determine whether the student is truly authentic.
Step one is authenticating every student as they enroll at the beginning of the course or during an introductory prep course if your school offers this.
The BioSig-ID password is drawn with a finger or mouse. Only the real student can login because no one else can reproduce their exact method of drawing. So that password can't be shared with others. That alone is a great way to enforce academic integrity.
Once BioSig-ID is in use, distance learning institutions will be able to answer the long-posed question, "Who is taking my course online?" Its in-depth reporting tools can track everything including student attendance patterns, login locations and attempts, history, activity, and time. BioSig-ID takes the guess work out of the forensics and pinpoint the anomalies that could never be detected by an individual or even a dedicated team. Once the bad actors are found, schools can then put their regular procedures in place, issuing warning letters, or other actions they deem necessary.
How about recovering say, $400K, that you might have lost in disbursements to fake students…. would a cost-effective solution that recovers it and meets all federal regulations be worth it?
You do the math. Protect institution funds and get some help to stop the fraud. | .
Tracking official and unofficial withdrawals, Title IV calculations using (R2T4 forms), Last Date of Attendance and other requirements all demand institutions have accurate and accessible attendance data.
Federal financial aid regulations require that schools be able to document attendance in each class where students receive FSA | 55 |
New York (April 3, 2018) — TRUSTX, the industry's only purpose-driven, cooperative programmatic advertising marketplace, has secured $2.2 million in funding from CBSi, ESPN, Meredith, FOX News and NBCUniversal to accelerate the growth of its marketplace created to establish<|fim_middle|> know what's being bought and sold, all the time. | a sustainable future for trusted advertising. The new funds are structured to reinforce the long-term commitment these five top media brands have to the TRUSTX mission and purpose. In total, 35 premium publishers have signed on to TRUSTX as members, with 22 publishers and hundreds of advertisers now live and trading.
First launched in beta in May 2017, TRUSTX has demonstrated to marketers, agencies and publishers that there is, in fact, a tenable path to rebuilding trust, transparency and safety at scale across programmatic markets. "These critical industry topics are central to the digital marketing discussion and dictating media buying strategy everywhere we go. Integrity is a key currency, and advertisers and their agencies are leaning in. We're thrilled to be expanding our operations to better serve them," commented John Vilade, Chief Revenue Officer, TRUSTX.
Five senior executives participating in TRUSTX talk about why they're involved in this video, including Sharmilan Rayer, VP Audience and Programmatic Platforms, NBCUniversal; Nicole Lesko, VP, Digital Ad Product and Operations, Meredith; Matt Minoff, Chief Digital Officer, Meredith; Dave Pond, GM, Display and Programmatic, Vox Media, and Dave Morris, EVP, Advanced Advertising and Client Partnerships, CBS.
100% trading transparency down to the publisher and advertiser URL: All participants | 279 |
The best motivational Quotes (Page 3)
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Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you<|fim_middle|> a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
MotivationLarry Bird
I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.
MotivationTina Turner
It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
MotivationB. C. Forbes
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Success, MotivationPelé
Success, Beginning, MotivationWinston Churchill
You just go with the flow because life is just all about how you feel.
Life, MotivationPost Malone
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Children & Childhood, Genius, MotivationAldous Huxley
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.
Life, Failures & Mistakes, MotivationBilly Graham
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Bosses, MotivationDwight D. Eisenhower
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
Motivation, IronWilliam Butler Yeats
Beginning, MotivationConfucius
The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
Failures & Mistakes, Success, MotivationParamahansa Yogananda
It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
Work, MotivationHenry Ward Beecher
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Failures & Mistakes, Beginning, MotivationMaya Angelou
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Courage, MotivationDolly Parton
Success isn't always about greatness. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.
Work, Success, MotivationDwayne "The Rock" Johnson
Dreaming, Great Works, Motivation, Positive QuotesHarriet Tubman
Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.
Success, MotivationArnold Schwarzenegger
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Life, MotivationErica Jong
I love what I do, and when you love what you do, you want to be the best at it.
Ambition, MotivationJay-Z
History is earned. You win the day, and then you win the day after, and you do the same thing every day until you're dead. And you're remembered not for the winning, but because you never lost.
Ambition, Work, Motivation, ImmortalityFrancis Underwood in House of Cards, Season 5 Episode 8
A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.
Fire, MotivationDante Alighieri
Living in my own world, didn't understand
That anything can happen when you take a chance
MotivationHigh School Musical, by Troy Bolton
I don't have dreams. I have goals.
Objectives, MotivationHarvey Specter in Suits, Season 3 Episode 6
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
Progress, MotivationAndy Warhol
It's not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.
MotivationZig Ziglar
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up.
Beginning, MotivationLes Brown
My stepdad always told me that "good" is the enemy of "great" and I always feel like that's such an empowering thing because there's always room to get better.
MotivationGigi Hadid
God gives his hardest battles to his strongest soldiers.
God, MotivationDeMarcus Cousins
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change.
MotivationTom Clancy
Everyone has a chance to improve part of the world - one's self.
MotivationPaul de Lagarde
If your dreams don't scare you they are too small.
MotivationRichard Branson
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over.
Taking action, Motivation, Falling downRichard Branson
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Motivation, Positive QuotesJane Fonda
He who enjoys his work adds five days to his week.
Work, MotivationMohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
If one does not often make mistakes, then one has not challenged oneself enough.
MotivationFerry Porsche
You have to work hard for it, but first you have to want it, and then you have to dream on it.
MotivationLiza Minnelli
If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.
Motivation, WinningAndrés Iniesta
MotivationSylvester Stallone
Every hurt is a lesson and every lesson makes you better.
Pain, MotivationArya Stark in Game of Thrones, Season 1 Episode 4
MotivationJim Rohn
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.
Giving Up, MotivationJackie Chan
You got two legs and a heartbeat. What's stopping you?
Motivation, LegsInuyasha in Inuyasha
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that: You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years.
MotivationKevin Hart
He who says he can and he who says he can't, are both usually right.
Optimism, MotivationWill Smith
I had to have faith in my dream. No one was going to hand it to me. It was up to me to reach for that dream. Grab it tight and make it come true.
MotivationCoco, by Ernesto de la Cruz
An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
MotivationBo Bennett
Never set limits, go after your dreams, don't be afraid to push the boundaries. And laugh a lot - it's good for you!
MotivationPaula Radcliffe
Push yourself again and again. Don't give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Basketball, MotivationLarry Bird
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I was actually interested in language from fairly early on in my schooldays and this interest was even more stimulated when I started my third foreign language, Russian, in school. This language was so different from German, English, and Latin in so many respects, and I found it quite exciting to see how learning to speak Russian allowed me—in fact forced me—to recognize many conceptual distinctions to which the other languages had never alerted me. I was then also fascinated by linguistics in my very first semester at university when I was beginning to learn how different theoretical approaches attempted to come to grips with the distributions and patterning of linguistic elements. This interest in the ways different linguistic elements are used and the functions which such usage events are meant to fulfill is now also at the center of my own research interests. Much of my work starts out from computationally and/or statistically analyzing large databases of naturally-occurring language to identify formal distributional patterns and how they reflect, or interact with, the meanings and functions that are associated with these patterns. Topicwise, I am currently most interested in the interplay between words and syntactic patterns, the way syntactic structures are acquired by young children, and the creative ways people coin new words; the theoretical framework I feel most closely associated to is that of cognitive/functional linguistics.
Gries, Stefan Th. 2017. Ten lectures on quantitative approaches in cognitive linguistics: Corpus-linguistic, experimental, and statistical applications. Leiden & Boston: Brill, pp. 211.
Gries, Stefan Th. 2016. Quantitative corpus linguistics with R. 2nd rev.<|fim_middle|> and quantitative approach in corpus-based lexical semantics. The Mental Lexicon 5(3). 323-346.
Gries, Stefan Th. & Sabine Stoll. 2009. Finding developmental groups in acquisition data: variability-based neighbor clustering. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 16(3). 217-242. | & ext. ed. London & New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 274.
Gries, Stefan Th. 2015. More (old and new) misunderstandings of collostructional analysis: on Schmid & Küchenhoff (2013). Cognitive Linguistics 26(3). 505-536.
Gries, Stefan Th. & Sandra C. Deshors. 2014. Using regressions to explore deviations between corpus data and a standard/target: two suggestions. Corpora 9(1). 109-136.
Gries, Stefan Th. 2013. Statistics for linguistics with R: a practical introduction. 2nd rev. & ext. ed. Berlin & New York: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 359.
Gries, Stefan Th. 2012. Frequencies, probabilities, association measures in usage-/exemplar-based linguistics: some necessary clarifications. Studies in Language 36(3). 477-510.
Gries, Stefan Th. 2011. Phonological similarity in multi-word symbolic units. Cognitive Linguistics 22(3). 491-510.
Gries, Stefan Th. 2010. Behavioral Profiles: a fine-grained | 299 |
How the internet kept India moving despite the pandemic
When the global lockdowns first began in March and April, there was a spike in data usage across the world. But despite the challenges, the networks managed a solid recovery in terms of speeds in the second half of 2020.
Written by Shruti Dhapola | Chandigarh | Updated: December 31, 2020 5:49:40 pm
In 2020, the networks managed to come out stronger despite the massive changes in user behaviour. (Image source: Pixabay)
2020 is almost over and by all definitions it was an unprecedented year, forcing changes one would never have imagined. It was also the year when we were more dependent than ever on our internet connections, be it for our daily jobs or education or entertainment or to even attend weddings. And despite the challenges, the outages, the network speeds managed to stay resilient in the new normal.
When the pandemic first began in March and April,<|fim_middle|> average download speeds decline slightly starting around the week of March 9, but that dip began to recover in early April and had returned to pre-pandemic levels by mid summer," she said.
The latest data shows that in November 2020, India's average download speeds on fixed broadband are at 52.02 Mbps, while mobile broadband is at 13.15 Mbps. Both improvements on earlier numbers.
Data usage rises
When the global lockdowns first began in March and April, there was a spike in data usage across the world. In fact, most major streaming and video websites such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube announced plans to reduce their streaming rates in order to ease some of the pressure on the networks. The players said they would limit streaming to SD content at bitrates no higher than 480p on cellular networks in India.
Also read: The best gear and gadgets of 2020
There's no doubt that internet consumption, especially on mobiles, grew exponentially in India in 2020. As per the latest Ericsson Mobility Report, India remains the region with the highest monthly usage per smartphone. The average traffic per smartphone user increased from 13.5GB per month in 2019 to 15.7GB per month in 2020. The global average in comparison is around 9.4GB, according to the Ericsson report. Further video traffic continues to be the dominant mobile data traffic driver.
But it wasn't just about more data consumption, the year saw a marked change in user behaviour for which network operators were not prepared initially.
People were more dependent on their smartphones in 2020. (Representational image of an iPhone 12 Pro Max. Image source: Bloomberg)
According to Nitin Bansal, Head of Ericsson India and Head of Network Solutions, South-East Asia, Oceania & India, the shift in user behaviour in India is evident.
"Traffic is shifting from downtown to residential and suburban areas. There is an increase in VoLTE and voice over Wi-Fi traffic as well. In overall terms, one can observe more Mbytes per user usage – that is, higher data volume transmission with more bandwidth allocated per user," he pointed out in an email response to indianexpress.com.
The sudden change in user behaviour also caught operators unprepared in India and in other countries. "What happened was a very sudden change in mobile user behaviour. And it took a little while for the operators to adapt to it. Then as the year went on, operators kind of got used to the new normal of how people were using their networks and adapted to it, " Ian Fogg, VP Analysis at OpenSignal explained to indianexpress.com.
Also read: The year of Zoom: How teams across world collaborated to ensure everyone meets requirements of WFH
In Fogg's view, the pandemic marked a big change in the way data consumption took place. "People were connecting during daylight hours from locations they wouldn't normally be connecting from in pre-COVID times," he explained. Further some users were probably using a fixed network more, and subsequently a lot less of their mobile connection, while there were others who were now more dependent on their mobile connection, "more than before."
The logo for the Zoom Video Communications Inc. application is displayed on an Apple Inc. laptop computer in an arranged photograph. (Image source: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg)
"The locations that people were spending time in were different as well. That's the kind of thing that it took a little while for the operators to adjust to, because they were set up for the normal pattern of where people were spending time at, what hour of the day, what data volume," he added.
Video was the big driver
One big change was the increase in dependency on video, be it video being used for streaming or entertainment purposes or video being used for real-time communications. The latter saw a big jump as more users now needed to rely on video for their daily office meetings, for education and even to stay in touch with loved ones.
The impacted speeds also meant that video experience was often far from optimal, but according to Fogg, things are looking up in India.
"I think in the second half we've seen gradual improvements in the video experience nationally in India. Obviously there's differences by regions, but broadly the video quality experience has been moving upwards, which is really good," he added.
He also pointed out that 2020 changed the notion of group video communication as being a very "business thing" as it moved into "consumer space for keeping in touch with friends, family and relatives." The trend is likely to continue beyond 2020, in his view. "People have gotten used to video calling, much more than they had before," he added.
Yearender 2020
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Explained: What is Parler, now-muted right wing platform? | the stress on the networks was evident. In April, trends observed by Ookla, known for its SpeedTest, showed that across the world fixed broadband and mobile broadband networks were seeing a decline. But by the second half of the year, the networks had made a solid recovery, and in many cases doing even better, despite the changes.
Internet speeds: The numbers in India
Ookla's data showed that India's fixed broadband and mobile broadband download speeds had a dip around the week of March 23. This is also the time when the lockdown had begun for many cities, though by March 25 all of India was in a lockdown.
For the week of March 23 to 29, average download speeds stood at 8.57 Mbps for mobile broadband. Fixed download average speeds in the same week stood at 32.88 Mbps. In fact, the concern over speeds was very real during the period of lockdowns for many consumers.
Ookla saw a large spike in the number of tests taken during the March-April period globally, including in India. According to Adriane Blum, VP of Communications at Ookla, people were very interested in the performance of their internet connection in a manner not seen before. "This increase in tests was particularly high during the early days of the stay at home orders," she added.
Speedtest volumes went up during the lockdown period in India. (Image source: Ookla)
But by mid-July, the recovery had begun. By the week of July 13, mobile broadband average download speeds were up to 12.15 Mbps. India's fixed broadband download averages speeds were up to 40 Mbps, according to Ookla.
"In India, we saw mobile and fixed | 360 |
For Erin Robinson, PhD, associate professor of sociology, anthropology and criminal justice, the intersection of sociology and environmental studies is a key area in her teaching and scholarship. Robinson's research on air pollution in Tonawanda brings together research practices and mechanisms for social change in this newly published article "Sharing Stories: The Role of Personal Narratives in Community Mobilization" Humanity and Society, November 2016, Vol 40:4, 442-461.
The article discusses the role of narratives in social change, specifically how telling stories through qualitative interviewing leads to community mobilization. Residents concerned about environmental contamination in their communities turned to the revelations in each other's stories to empower and inspire action for social change. Reflections on the role of the researcher and ethics give the reader an insight into community-based research practices from a sociological perspective.
Click here to read and access through the Canisius Library.
Canisius observed Domestic Violence Awareness Month with the "The Clothesline Project." Students created t-shirts with inspirational messages and wore purple ribbons to commemorate National Purple Thursday (October 20). The t-shirts are on display throughout the campus.
The Canisius College Chorale, under the direction of Frank Scinta, will inaugurate its 2016-2017 Sacred Spaces Concert Series with a program on Sunday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. at Nativity Church, 4414 S. Buffalo Street in Orchard Park, NY (near Thorn Avenue).
The concert features works by Vivaldi, Whitacre, Faure, Dawson and Ticheli among others. The event is free and open to the public.
The Sacred Spaces concert series stems from an idea proposed 12 years ago to feature the chorale's music in some of Western New York's most beautiful and acoustically resonant environments – namely, the sanctuaries of our area's churches. As a result, the choir has visited nearly 40 houses<|fim_middle|> Great Lakes region and the Abkhazia conflict threatened to destabilize the newly independent post-Soviet state of Georgia.
A volunteer staff of nearly two dozen Canisius College students will moderate and adjudicate the proceedings, which challenge participants to learn rules of parliamentary procedure and specific countries' positions on controversial international issues. The staff is largely drawn from the Model UN Diplomacy Organization, a student club affectionately known as MUNDO. Many, though not all, of the club's members are international relations majors.
Student-delegates will represent countries from around the world – 190 delegations in all – and will discuss, debate and attempt to formulate resolutions on pressing issues of the day, including the situations in Haiti, Libya and Syria; questions of human rights, sustainable development and indigenous peoples; and concerns about fossil fuel dependency and child labor.
The International Relations Program is a multidisciplinary program that offers a major and a minor and draws upon exceptional faculty in the departments of History, Political Science and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, as well as International Business and other programs and departments at Canisius.
We are delighted to welcome the high school students and their advisors to our campus and we hope you will help us in making our guests feel welcome on our campus this coming Thursday! | of worship with its repertoire of sacred and secular music spanning five centuries.
Now in its 20th season, the Canisius College Chorale remains one of Western New York's most active collegiate music ensembles. Composed of 100 undergraduate and graduate members, the chorale regularly presents concert programs to school, church and community audiences throughout Western New York and southern Ontario. In recent years, the chorale has performed with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, Ars Nova Chamber Musicians, Amherst Symphony Orchestra, Camerata di Sant'Antonio, Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus and the Dave Brubeck Quartet.
Please join us for a lovely evening of great choral music.
On Friday, November 4 at 1:00 p.m. in Lyons Hall Room 122, come to the first meeting of the Serious Games Meetup Group. Our goal is to familiarize faculty and staff with theories and tools for design and development of serious games or games for purposes other than pure entertainment.
Serious games can serve a wide variety of purposes: educational topics, scientific simulations, healthcare and therapeutic processes, personnel training, emergency management, city planning and politics. The group will explore learning theories, game design, and conduct workshops using various applications and "game engines" that will aid faculty and staff in the development of serious games…and yes we will play games too!
The group, facilitated by P.J. Moskal, associate professor of communication studies and Mark Gallimore, PhD, instructional designer in the Center for Online Learning and Innovation (COLI), will meet on the first Friday of the month at 1:00 p.m. for one-hour sessions.
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On Thursday, October 27 the Canisius College International Relations Program proudly welcomes to campus 400 students from 19 area high schools for the 38th annual High School Model United Nations Conference. Canisius College students help facilitate this day of diplomacy, public speaking and collaborative, experiential learning.
Coming just three days after United Nations Day, the conference features six concurrent simulated sessions of international deliberative bodies including the United Nations Security Council, the Human Rights Council and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. The conference also features an historic simulation of the UN Security Council in November 1996, just as the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the Rwandan-Zairean refugee crisis sparked armed conflict in Africa's | 515 |
Fears<|fim_middle|> he added.
"We could easily see $35 or $40 per troy ounce for silver [over the next couple of years], and it's about $14 now."
Mr. Spork is also upbeat on molybdenum - a metal with industrial uses like strengthening steel and removing sulphur from crude oil.
Molybdenum prices sat at around $3 or $4 a pound for many years, but in recent years have ramped up to the $32-$33 level, he said. "We think there is going to be more upside, but ... there is a lot of profit to the mining companies at these prices so that's how you have to look at it."
He also considers water to be a resource, and water companies now make up 35 per cent of his fund. "It's still off everyone's radar screen so it's still very inexpensive," he added.
The growing scarcity of fresh water globally will drive up the price of this commodity, he argued. While he owns listed water companies, he also invests in private European companies that own water rights.
The Sextant Strategic Opportunities Hedge Fund's A series fund has gained 60.15 per cent over the year ended Oct. 31. The fund will invest in gold or silver certificates and publicly traded or private companies.
It may also sell short commodities - as opposed to stocks - in which the fund has an exposure. "In the junior mining, it is very hard to borrow stocks to go short," Mr. Spork said.
where He is long:
Adanac Molybdenum Corp. (AUA-TSX-VEN)
The junior miner is closer to getting final permits to bring its molybdenum project at Ruby Creek, B.C., to production, he said. He likes management, including its executive chairman Larry Reaugh, who has successfully taken mining companies public. "We think its [stock] could go to $3 (Canadian) very quickly over the next 12 months," he said. Adanac closed at $1.22.
Goldrea Resources Corp. (GOR-TSX-VEN)
The junior mining company has an exploration property in Shandong province in China and, while the property is undeveloped, they have had some preliminary drill results from it, he said. The stock could go to 75 cents in about 12 months, he said. It closed yesterday at 29 cents.
where He is short:
West Texas Intermediate crude oil
(For January delivery at $98.35 [U.S.] on the New York Mercantile Exchange.)
When he took this short position, he said he believed the price of crude oil was heading south in the short term to between $85 and $88 (U.S.) per barrel. He took some profits yesterday before oil closed at $89.31. Longer term, he expects crude oil to rise beyond $100 a barrel. | make resources sparkle
Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Author: Shirley Won, The Globe and Mail
Hedge fund manager Otto Spork believes the pummelling taken by resource stocks because of fears that the U.S. subprime mortgage mess would slow down the North American economy has created buying opportunities.
"We are looking to buy on this weakness," the portfolio manager with Toronto's Sextant Capital Management Inc. said an interview.
"We feel that certainly the junior gold and other resource stocks are nowhere reflecting their true value."
Mr. Spork runs the $20-million resource-oriented Sextant Strategic Opportunities Hedge Fund LP that was 85 per cent in cash by June before markets headed south last summer. "We saw that the markets were very high, and felt there was a correction coming," he said.
Resource stocks, especially smaller company names, have been hit badly by the "negative sentiment" stemming from a belief the subprime mortgage woes would get worse, he said. "People were going to more liquid [names], taking a flight to safety."
Mr. Spork's buying spree in the past couple of months, however, has taken his fund down to 10 per cent in cash.
He is "very bullish" on the gold sector, saying he believes the price of the yellow metal is en route to $1,500 (U.S.) an ounce within the next two years. While gold has traded over $800 recently, it closed yesterday at $794.70.
But silver has "better upside potential" because much of its production has disappeared through industrial uses while gold still exists in jewellery or bank vaults, | 343 |
Snap Isn't Just a Camera Company, It's an Augmented Reality Powerhouse
Evidence shows that the Snapchat developer is poised to become a pioneer in this space.
Annie Palmer
Feb 3, 2017 2:07 PM EST
SnapInc. wants to be known as a camera company.
The developer of popular disappearing message app Snapchat has long shrugged off comparisons to social media rivals Facebook (FB) - Get Meta Platforms Inc. Class A Report and Twitter (TWTR) - Get Twitter, Inc. Report , hoping to emphasize its visual-first approach to how we communicate and consume media. For a while, Snapchat was able to hide behind a smoke screen of mysteriousness to keep off competitors.
That all changed when Snap decided it would go public.
The company on Thursday publicly filed its long-awaited Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, paving the way for an initial public offering expected in March that could value Snap at $20 billion to $25 billion. The filing provides an in-depth look into Snap's vision and operations, as well as a candid look at some of the substantial risks it could face once it begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under ticker symbol "SNAP."
Investors already are curious as to how the camera company will keep up its rapidly surging revenue stream. Between 2015 and 2016, Snap's revenue shot up to $404.5 million from $58.7 million, according to the filing, even as losses grew from $372.9 million to $514.6 million.
The answer may already be out there, however. Studying some of Snapchat's latest features and its parent's acquisitions -- and adding a mild dose of speculation makes it abundantly clear -- Snap is becoming an augmented reality company (AR).
To see how, look no further than Snap Spectacles, or the lenses and filters that can be applied to photos and videos. Both integrate augmented reality technology, which in its simplest form involves applying computer-generated graphics, sounds or GPS data to a real-world environment. Snapchat's popular dog-ear filter is an example of AR, while Spectacles even have some hidden AR features baked into them.
When Snap released the $129.99 Spectacles last September, the glasses were widely perceived as a quirky, cool tech accessory that would make snapping easier. Experts have argued, however, that Spectacles are actually a resurrection of Google Glass, released by Alphabet's (GOOGL) - Get Alphabet Inc. Class A Report Google unit in 2013. The high-tech headware was quietly killed off last year.
Spectacles put augmented reality in the hands (or on the heads) of average consumers, while Google Glass mostly took off among Silicon<|fim_middle|> will be able to enhance the environment around you."
Those content partnerships that Snap has with media organizations also may hold the key to perhaps one of the most important elements of Snap's augmented reality future: how to monetize it.
"I think Snap's really the one that's monetizing most of AR," said Loup Ventures analyst Doug Clinton, formerly a tech analyst at Piper Jaffray. "All these branded advertisements, geotags, they realize there's huge potential there."
Snapchat said it generates "substantially all" of its revenue from advertising, adding that it made up 96% of its revenue in 2016. The company acknowledged that this heavy reliance could pose future risks, but it might also serve as a significant opportunity.
"Brands are still on the fence about AR -- some really see the potential and some don't," Clinton said. "But I think when you see those dollar numbers come out from Snap and how much money they've generated from AR, we'll see more brands go into AR advertising through Snap and more excitement around AR in general."
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RetailStocksSoftware & ServicesInvestingConsumer StaplesTechnology | Valley developers. Nintendo's (NTDOY) Pokemon Go also has raised consumer awareness of augmented reality tech.
"Spectacles are the best AR glasses available right now," said Lindsay Boyajian, chief marketing officer at Augment, which provides augmented reality technology solutions. "Users don't have to learn a lot of the gestures that Microsoft's (MSFT) - Get Microsoft Corporation Report HoloLens has or Google Glass had."
Snap Inc. is all about the AR
Several of Snap's recent acquisitions further point to the company's bigger ambitions for augmented reality. Snapchat reportedly purchased Israeli augmented reality startup Cimagine Media for $30 million to $40 million in December and is said to have acquired computer vision startup Seene last June. Seene uses face-scanning technology to transform 2-D images into 3-D images on a users' screen, a core function of augmented reality.
Snap representatives declined to confirm whether either of the rumored deals took place.
Song recognition app developer Shazam in December also announced a partnership with Snapchat that could show there's more to augmented reality than what's just in the camera.
"I think [with Shazam] what they've learned is that they're trying to prove that the app and the camera and the sensors can do more than capture images," said Cathy Boyle, a mobile analyst at eMarketer. "I think they're going to leverage more with the sensors on this device."
Snap also may end up embracing its inherently social media-like nature when it comes to augmented reality. Snapchat already registers things in real-world environments, such as a user's face captured by a smartphone camera. The advent of augmented reality could take that even further in a social sense, Boyajian said.
"Facial recognition could be huge for social," Boyajian noted. "[The sensors] could recognize your friend's face and then pull up their most recent Snapchat story. If you're walking around the street, maybe there's a billboard for CNN and you can pull up a CNN story on screen. It | 413 |
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Benjamin Britten – Recommended Recordings
Posted on January 4, 20<|fim_middle|>0) reissued as Chandos 10782
The Prince of the Pagodas, Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta, Virgin
Classics 91103 (oop, reissued on EMI 49829/Warner with Bartók's, Miraculous Mandarin)
Frank Bridge – Recommended Recordings
Maurice Duruflé – Recommended Recordings
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An Interview with Robert R. Reilly
Robert R. Reilly has pursued a most unusual career. He was the music critic for Crisis magazine for 16 years, and continues to review concerts and operas for Ionarts, an arts blog that covers the Washington, D.C. area and elsewhere. He has also written for such publications as High Fidelity, Musical America, and the American Record Guide.
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Review by Walter Simmons
As noted in the accompanying interview, the original edition of Robert R. Reilly's Surprised by Beauty was published in 2002 by Morley Books. Its thesis was, essentially, that the dissolution of tonality in music that was promulgated around the turn of the 20th century, and the concomitant abandonment of traditional aesthetic values, corresponded to a breakdown of the centrality of spiritual order as understood and shared by most of Western civilization, and that this correspondence was no accident.
Review by Sir Roger Scruton
Robert R. Reilly is an assiduous follower of modern music for the concert hall, and has for many years been a champion of beauty against noise and of tonality against the avant-garde. His reviews of recordings have been collected in a single volume – Surprised by Beauty – now reissued in an expanded edition by the author in association with Jens F. Laurson. The result is an indispensable guide to the forbidden land of real contemporary music. | 17 by theglobalanalysts
Britten recorded a great deal of his music for London/Decca. One can turn with confidence to any of these, including the War Requiem. I will not list them here, but I particularly recommend his recording of:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, London 425 663 Peter Grimes, Sir Colin Davis, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Jon Vickers, Heather Harper, et al., Decca 478 5273 5 (formerly Philips)
[VD11] Spring[VD11] Symphony (plus Four Sea Interludes), André Previn, LSO,
Dame Janet Baker, Robert Tear, Sheila Armstrong, EMI 64736 (now
Warner) or Richard Hickox, LSO—Chandos 8855 (plus Welcome
Ode & Psalm 15 | 191 |
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Google Ventures funds mobile biofuel refineries
Posted in biofuels, global warming, Google, renewable energy, tagged CoolPlanetBiofuels, Google Ventures on March 18, 2011| Leave a Comment »
photo: CoolPlanetBiofuels
In The New York Times on Thursday, I wrote about Google Ventures funding a Southern California startup that is developing mobile biofuel refineries that will travel to the fuel source to process agricultural waste and other biomass:
Google Ventures has led a $20 million financing round in CoolPlanetBiofuels, a Southern California start-up that is developing mobile refineries to turn wood chips, agriculture waste and other biomass into biofuels.
CoolPlanetBiofuels, an 18-month-old company, has also attracted the attention of ConocoPhillips, GE Capital and NRG Energy, which participated in the financing round along with North Bridge Venture Partners.
CoolPlanetBiofuels declined to disclose the total capital that it had raised, but it noted that Google Ventures was a major participant in the series B round announced Thursday.
"We take biomass such as corncobs, yard clippings wood chips and fractionate that biomass into discrete gas streams," said Mike Cheiky, CoolPlanetBiofuels' chief executive and a longtime technology executive. "Those individual gas streams aren't really useful by themselves, so we run them through catalytic conversion columns that convert them to useful fuels."
One limitation of using biomass as a feedstock for biofuels has been the expense of trucking low-value waste long distances to a refinery. So CoolPlanetBiofuels plans to take the refineries to the fuel source by packaging its machines in tractor-trailers.
"Biomass cannot be transported very far because in raw form it has a very low energy content<|fim_middle|> gallons of fuel a year.
"There's a very large market opportunity here with a lot of headroom for innovation," said Bill Maris, Google Ventures' managing director. "These are early days and this space won't end up with a single winner but any progress Mike and CoolPlanet can make will have a profoundly positive impact on consumers, the industry and the world."
So far CoolPlanetBiofuels has built a small pilot plant that is producing biofuel for evaluation by oil companies, Mr. Cheiky said. He declined to identify the companies, citing a confidentiality agreement. The company expects to have its first one-million gallon mobile refinery operating within a year.
You can read the rest of the story here. | ," Mr. Cheiky said.
He said a typical refinery would consist of a cluster of tractor-trailers that can process 10 million | 30 |
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Research at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology at Lund displays immense variety and scope. It ranges from explorations of the largest existential questions to investigations of tiny details on whose precise significance whole areas of human knowledge rest. All those who are involved in it have one thing in common: an insatiable curiosity<|fim_middle|> the interdisciplinary orientation that is a special strategic aim for Lund University as a whole.
Look at the individual departmental homepages for more information about our research. | about what it means to be a human being.
Among the Lund research specialities that have been singled out as especially interesting in recent research evaluations are cognition and language, theoretical and practical philosophy, history, grammar and language acquisition, Biblical scholarship, 19th- and 20th-century literature in several languages, and area studies, especially the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and China. But Lund scholars achieve high international distinction in a number of other fields as well, including cultural sciences, archaeology, and the history of religion. New projects are constantly emerging, some of them with | 118 |
>> Local Las Vegas
Pedestrian hit, killed by truck on I-15 south of Las Vegas
The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating a deadly crash involving a pedestrian and semitractor-trailer that occurred before 11 Thursday night on Interstate 15, north of the Sloan exit.
March 28, 2019 - 11:59 pm
Updated March 29, 2019 - 8:05 am
The truck involved in a deadly crash on Interstate 15 on Thursday, March 28, 2019. (Nevada Highway Patrol)
Interstate 15 and St. Rose Parkway on Thursday, March 28, 2019. (RTC)
Interstate 1<|fim_middle|> Blue Diamond and Dean Martin to check for damage and alerted authorities, Buratczuk said. The driver did not show signs of impairment and was cooperating with the investigation.
*UPDATE* Road Closed – I-15 northbound at Sloan Rd in Sloan
Traffic is being diverted off I-15 to Las Vegas Blvd. Use caution around this area. https://t.co/xDLCLYbPwy
— Nevada DOT (@nevadadot) March 29, 2019
It's uncertain why the Toyota driver parked his car on the shoulder of I-15.
Northbound lanes of I-15 re-opened after 4 a.m.
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Oscar Goodman's 80th birthday party promises to be one for the ages
By Al Mancini / RJ
The downtown Las Vegas community will celebrate former Mayor Oscar Goodman's 80th birthday at 6 p.m. Thursday with an 80-martini salute at the Fremont Street Experience.
Cat's Meow aims to hit all the right notes in downtown Las Vegas
By Jason Bracelin / RJ
The 10,000-square-foot-plus entertainment/karaoke club on the second floor of Neonopolis will host its grand opening Thursday.
Kamala Harris' campaign opens Nevada HQ in Las Vegas
By Rory Appleton / RJ
Two senior officials with Sen. Kamala Harris' presidential campaign discussed the importance of Nevada as a diverse early state and shared some insights on the candidate's preparations for the second national debate.
Las Vegas OKs $226K for 25 transitional housing units for homeless
By Briana Erickson / RJ
July 17, 2019 - 6:22 pm July 17, 2019 - 11:15 pm
The units, converted motel rooms and apartments, will be filled on a case-by-case for up to a year by clients who also receive case management and supportive services.
RJ cartoonist at FreedomFest says 1 goal is to draw blood
Review-Journal editorial cartoonist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez discussed his illustration process and journalism at FreedomFest, a gathering for conservatives and Libertarians at Paris Las Vegas.
Great-aunt takes in children injured in Las Vegas crash
By Rio Lacanlale / RJ
"It's going to be a struggle, but we're all going to get through it," said Lucille McKnight, who was already raising another niece's three children.
Windy afternoons continuing in Las Vegas Valley
By Sabrina Schnur / RJ
July 17, 2019 - 11:37 am July 17, 2019 - 10:29 pm
Windy conditions will continue through Friday, and storms could darken the Las Vegas Valley as early as Sunday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
6 treated in Las Vegas after fumes reported on Spirit flight
Six people received medical attention after fumes on a Spirit Airlines flight were reported as the plane arrived at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas Tuesday.
Man arrested in shooting east of downtown Las Vegas
July 17, 2019 - 9:08 am July 17, 2019 - 9:08 am
Ilario Yam, 18, faces charges of battery with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial injuries and discharging a gun within a prohibited structure or area.
Nellis airman killed in US 95 rollover crash north of Las Vegas
July 17, 2019 - 7:18 am July 17, 2019 - 3:32 pm
Four Nellis Air Force airmen were seriously injured and one died after a rollover crash early Wednesday on U.S. Highway 95 near Lee Canyon Road. | 5 near St. Rose Parkway on Thursday, March 28, 2019. (RTC)
Northbound lanes of I-15 remain closed at the Sloan exit after a deadly crash on Thursday, March 28, 2019. (RTC camera)
NHP spokesman Jason Buratczuk said in an email that a driver of a Toyota parked his car on the right shoulder of I-15 and started walking north in the right travel lane when the semitrailer struck the man.
#trafficalert We are on scene of a fatal crash on IR15 and St Rose. The IR15 NB is closed at St Rose, vehicles are being diverted onto the Sloan Exit. Avoid the area if possible. Expect delays. #drivesafenv #buckleup #drivesober #nhpsocomm
— NHP Southern Command (@NHPSouthernComm) March 29, 2019
The man was pronounced dead at the scene, Buratczuk said.
The driver of the truck, believing he had hit something, stopped at the truck stop on | 232 |
BRUINS ALUMNI REPORT: Two Former Bruins Sign NHL Entry-Level Contracts, Driscoll Up for Richter Award
NCAA DI: The first NHL entry-level signing of the off season with Bruins ties was forward Dawson DiPietro (Bruins '15-16). Following his four years at Western Michigan University where he racked up 24 goals and 45 seasons in essentially three seasons (he only played in one game during his freshman year), DiPietro signed an entry-level contract with the Buffalo Sabres this past week. The Sabres are familiar with DiPietro who competed at their prospect camp last off season and turned some heads within the Buffalo brass.
DiPietro becomes the second former Bruin to grace the Sabres organization following CJ Smith (Bruins '11-13). Up next for DiPietro, he'll be invited to the<|fim_middle|>) follows his former teammate Jake Keilly (Bruins '14-15) as a semifinalist in the Mike Richter Award voting.
Driscoll finished up his sophomore season in 2019-20 with the Bemidji State Beavers. The Apple Valley, MN, native, played in 33 games for Bemidji State with a meager 1.63 goals against average and a stout .937 save percentage.
The 10 semifinalists will be widdled down to four finalists in April and the Mike Richter Award will be handed out on on April 10, 2020.
Congratulations to Junior Goaltender @Zach_Driscoll on being named a @RichterAward Top 10 Semifinalist! #GoBeavs
👇 Press Release:https://t.co/QEIopMk9V4 pic.twitter.com/7qyUKKdyC3
— Bemidji St. Men's Hockey (@BSUBeaversMHKY) March 24, 2020
Thank You, Hugh Quinn!
Thank You, Hugh Larkin! | Sabres prospect camp and preseason activities, and based on his performance the Sabres will place him on one of their teams. He could land as high as the Buffalo roster in the NHL or with one of the Sabres affiliate teams such as the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League or Cincinnati Cyclones of the ECHL.
We have agreed to terms with forward Dawson DiPietro on a one-year, entry-level contract.
Details: https://t.co/a8A1UbQDvs pic.twitter.com/yY4L8TiS4f
— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) March 23, 2020
NCAA DI: Only a few days after DiPietro announced his signing with the Sabres, another former Bruin inked an entry-level contract with a New York-based NHL team. This time it was Austin Rueschoff (Bruins '15-16) who signed with the New York Rangers. Rueschoff, teammate of Dawson DiPietro at Western Michigan, finished his junior season with 26 points in 36 games (12G, 14A). His decision to sign an NHL entry-level deal means he is forgoing his senior season as a Bronco.
Much like DiPietro, Rueschoff will begin his hunt to make the NHL roster this off season with the Rangers prospect camps and preseason activities. Depending on how he fits into the Rangers future plans, he could earn a spot at the NHL level, the Hartford Wolfpack of the American Hockey League, or with another former Bruin Mike Keeley (Broadcaster, Bruins '16-18), with the Maine Mariners of the ECHL.
Report: Rangers Ink College Free Agent Austin Rueschoff to Entry-Level Contract https://t.co/NibNxtNlFv
— Blueshirt Banter (@BlueshirtBanter) March 20, 2020
NCAA DI: The Mike Richter Award is handed out annually to best collegiate goaltender in the United States, it's like the Heisman Trophy for goalies. For the second straight season, the Bruins have an alumus named as one of the 10 semifinalists. Zach Driscoll (Bruins '14-15 | 482 |
As much as I love and appreciate digital photography and being able to take hundreds of photos then choose the best, I'm also glad I grew up in a time with 'proper' photos. I recently had a rifle through my parents old albums for some inspiration, although I already new<|fim_middle|> we get home).
Jimena is an old Vespa T5, who despite leaving us regular oil stains on the floor to remind us we really should take better care of her, will hopefully be around for a bit longer.
I've created a collage of the two of them so we always have something special to remember them by and think of all the places they have taken us. | which photo I was looking for.
Although I was too young to actually remember the moment, this photo has always stuck with me and is guaranteed to bring a smile to my face. If only we could always look cute with chubby cheeks and bed hair!
I love moving house (mainly because I get to decorate all over again!) but there's almost always something you're sorry to leave behind.
James and Liz aren't going far, but their new view won't include the big red buoy that sits about a mile out to sea, that they occasionally paddle out to. Liz told me you can get 4 people sitting on it if you want! (although you have to be careful not to fall in because that far out to sea there are almost certainly sea monsters).
Now they have something special to remind them of their time in the old flat.
The buoy itself is a paper cutout, the reflection is watercolour painted on textured paper. No seaside scene would be complete without a few seagulls which can be found in the background repeat.
Thanks Liz for such an interesting project!
I'm planning to try not to eat too much chocolate this weekend and hoping that making some hot cross buns will distract me!
I've made a recipe card especially, which also doubles up as a great Easter card to help spread some Easter food love around.
Let me know if you'd like to print out this recipe card so you can make some yourself. Better still, give one to family and friends for Easter so they can make them for you!
Just send me a message to jodi@jodicherry.com and I'll send you a print ready pdf.
Like many families, we always followed the tradition of naming the family car, (which although quite fun, does make it that bit more painful when you crash it into a Jaguar, R.I.P. Jeremy).
The Shark, a 23 year old Peugeot 405, was my boyfriend's first car and his days are numbered. It will no doubt be a very sad day when we finally take him to the scrapyard, (at least we'll have the trusty Aubergine waiting for us in the garage when | 441 |
Rugby World Cup 2019: Wales v Fiji
James Davies jokingly told Warren Gatland he had "finally seen the light" after being named in Wales' side to face Fiji - but is serious about making the most of a chance to start at the Rugby World Cup.
Back-rower Davies has replaced Justin Tipuric in the pack in one of two changes, the other seeing Ross Moriarty start at number eight.
Wales will be aiming to make it three wins from three in Pool D, though they will be wary of underestimating their opponents. Fiji won 38-34 when the nations met in the 2007 tournament, a result that saw them progress to the knockout stages at the<|fim_middle|> World Cup game when he crossed twice and also provided three assists in the rout of Georgia.
KEY OPTA FACTS
- Wales have won nine of their previous 11 meetings against Fiji (D1 L1). They have outscored their opponents 106-26 in the most recent three meetings
- Fiji will be aiming for back-to-back Rugby World Cup victories for the first time since 2007, having defeated Georgia last time out.
- Wales' 66-0 win against Fiji in 2011 remains the only time they have shut out their opponents at a Rugby World Cup
- Alun Wyn Jones has now made the most tackles (162) by any player for Wales in the history of the tournament. Only Taulupe Faletau (130) has managed more carries than Wyn Jones' tally of 128.
Previous Rugby World Cup 2019: Argentina v United States
Next Rugby World Cup 2019: South Africa 66-7 Canada | expense of Gareth Jenkins' side.
Gatland's line-up suggests he is not taking any risks this year, with the aim to qualify for the quarter-finals by topping the group.
Davies joins older brother Jonathan in the XV, with Wales' head coach revealing the former cheekily suggested his selection was long overdue.
Gatland told the media: "When I congratulated James and said well done, his reply was: 'You have finally seen the light, have you?' - he said he was only joking.
"I loved that - I thought it was brilliant, a great response. I love a bit of banter like that, and I have no problem with comments like that."
Tipuric is likely to return for the game against Uruguay, so Davies understands the need to produce a big performance at Oita Stadium on Wednesday.
"Firstly I'd like to say 'Tips' (Justin Tipuric) and all the back row have been outstanding in my eyes and I was a little bit shocked to get the call," the Scarlets flanker said.
"You get disappointed with selection but it's about doing your best for the team then. You working hard makes the team train a bit better and that's just what I've done I guess."
Fiji round out their round-robin fixtures against Wales and head coach John McKee has made just the one alteration to the side that started the resounding 45-10 win over Georgia last time out.
Viliame Mata replaces Peceli Yato at number eight as the Flying Fijians aim to produce one more big performance in Japan - and perhaps pull off an even bigger shock than they managed 12 years ago.
"We see this final pool game as both a challenge and an opportunity - it is important to finish the pool stage on a high note," McKee said.
Wales - Dan Biggar
The fly-half was forced off during the win over Australia with a head injury but returned to training at the weekend. Rhys Patchell did a solid job as a replacement against the Wallabies, but Gatland has decided Biggar is better for the clash with Fiji.
Fiji - Semi Radradra
The centre became the first player from a second-tier nation to be directly involved in five tries in a single | 466 |
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KEARNEY – Anne Foradori spent five years tracking down and contacting sources to bring "Orphan Train: The Musical" to the University of Nebraska at Kearney.
When she finally landed the production, which will be performed Oct. 3-7 at UNK's Miriam Drake Theatre, the vocal music professor quickly realized this topic was far too impactful to stop there.
"It's such an important story for Nebraska," Foradori said of the Orphan Train Movement, which relocated an estimated 250,000 children from the streets of crowded East Coast cities and orphanages to homes and farms mainly in the rural Midwest.
The Orphan Train Movement, which lasted from 1854 to 1929 and is named after the trains that transported these children west to their new lives, was the predecessor to formalized foster care in the U.S. Nearly 3,500 children settled with families in Nebraska, and an<|fim_middle|> – "Creating the Orphan Train Musical" featured panel with director Patricia Birch, composer Doug Katsaros and librettist L.E. McCullough. Moderator is Janice Fronczak, professor of theater at UNK.
Individual sessions inside UNK's Fine Arts Recital Hall and the Museum of Nebraska Art are free and open to the public.
Public performances of "Orphan Train: The Musical" will be held 7:30 p.m. Oct. 3, 4 and 6 and 2 p.m. Oct. 7 at the Miriam Drake Theatre inside UNK's Fine Arts Building.
Cost is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and UNK faculty/staff members, $5 for youths in fifth through 12th grades and $3 for UNK students. Tickets are available through the UNK Theatre Box Office in the Fine Arts Building or by calling 308-865-8417.
Hope I can make it for both days. I've been involved with the Orphan Train project at the NE State Historical Society since I met Lloyd Castner years ago and learned about the existence of this part of our history I knew nothing about. Sounds like a great two days. | estimated 8 million Americans are direct descendants of Orphan Train riders.
"A social movement that took place over 75 years and involves this many people has a complex history and deep stories that are valid to examine from multiple points of view," Foradori said.
That's why she partnered with her colleagues in UNK's College of Arts and Sciences to organize the Orphan Train Colloquium, a two-day conference scheduled for Oct. 2-3 that will explore the social welfare program through multiple disciplines and perspectives.
The event, which is supported by UNK and grant funding from Humanities Nebraska, will bring educators, researchers, speakers and performing arts professionals together to discuss the Orphan Train Movement and its impact on America's past and present.
"There will be a great diversity of presenters. This event will have broad appeal," said Foradori, noting the connections to U.S. history, rural America, the arts, social work and children's rights.
Keynote speaker John Shontz, an author, retired attorney and former member of the Montana House of Representatives, is coordinator of the Orphan Train Project: Making a Difference based in Helena, Montana.
The Orphan Train Movement relocated abandoned children from the streets of crowded East Coast cities from 1854 to 1929. It was the predecessor to formalized foster care in the U.S.
The project, which he started in 2014 through the Upper Musselshell Historical Society, researches itineraries for Orphan Train riders to help families better understand their relatives' journeys. His project also promotes the Orphan Train story and assists professionals studying the topic.
Two panel discussions are part of the colloquium. One includes the team that created "Orphan Train: The Musical" – director Patricia Birch, composer Doug Katsaros and librettist L.E. McCullough – and the other features Shontz and Shaley George, curator of the National Orphan Train Complex in Concordia, Kansas, as well as Lloyd Castner of Columbus and Mickey Creager of Lincoln, whose parents were Orphan Train riders.
Castner's father Clarence was orphaned in 1905 following the death of his mother. He and two brothers, all younger than 10, were placed in an orphanage for three years before taking the Orphan Train to Madison, Nebraska.
Creager's mother Agnes Widhalm was born in New York City in January 1910 and orphaned at 6 weeks old. In December 1911, she road an Orphan Train to Columbus, Nebraska, and found a home in nearby Humphrey.
"Nebraska has a lot of descendants of Orphan Train riders along the Union Pacific Railroad line," Foradori said. That line, which worked its way west as part of the transcontinental railroad, reached Kearney in the 1860s.
Other speakers will discuss the Orphan Train's ties to agriculture, social work, literature, music, theater and present-day politics.
"These are social issues we still struggle with as a nation, what happens to displaced children, many of whom end up on the streets," Foradori.
UNK faculty members Michelle Beissel Heath, associate professor of English, Chris Steinke, assistant professor of history, and Ben Malczyk, assistant professor of social work, are also part of the committee that organized the Orphan Train Colloquium, which will be held in UNK's Fine Arts Building, the Museum of Nebraska Art and The Archway museum in Kearney.
Museum of Nebraska Art – 2401 Central Ave.
The Archway museum – 3060 E. First St.
2:30 to 3:15 p.m. – "Orphan Train Riders and Their Legacy" featured panel with John Shontz, coordinator of the Orphan Train Project: Making a Difference, and Mickey Creager and Lloyd Castner, whose parents were Orphan Train riders. Moderator is Shaley George, director of the National Orphan Train Complex.
3:30 to 4:15 p.m. | 849 |
Amramp Increases Accessibility in Alberta with Opening of First Canadian Office
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Amramp, a leading North American franchise specializing in quality wheelchair ramps and other accessibility solutions, recently opened its first office in Edmonton, Alberta.
As a leading manufacturer of affordable steel ramps for disability access to residential and commercial buildings as well as special events, Amramp is providing a cost-effective accessibility solution for those with mobility challenges. Amramp's wheelchair ramps are available to rent or buy with no minimum size or rental period. Whether a person has a short-term or long<|fim_middle|> superior customer service and unique distribution method via invested franchise partners. Amramp operates the largest steel-manufacturing factory in Boston with 30-50 hands-on employees and ships parts to local and regional stocking warehouses across the country ensuring availability within 24-48 hours. Both environmentally and socially responsible, Amramp uses 100 percent recyclable steel and partners with local operations to increase accessibility for the most vulnerable of the population. Amramp also has a history of working closely with organizations such as Rebuilding Together, the ALS Society, Homes for Our Troops, Wounded Warriors Program, Volunteers of America and NeighborWorks America. | -term disability, Amramp's network of inventory warehouses allows franchisees to provide rapid delivery.
"Working with Amramp gives me the best opportunity to help my clients get to where they need to go, safely and affordably," said Lorne Wensel, owner of Amramp in Edmonton and fourth generation Edmonton native. "Whether it's installing a ramp for temporary use during recuperation from surgery or modifying a home so an elderly person can live independently, ramps are becoming more and more relevant for the disabled and aging population. Not to mention, Amramp is the most effective ramp solution in Edmonton because of the ramp surface's unique ability to allow rain and snow to pass through. With such long winters and the risk of ice and snow build up, Amramp is just what the Edmonton community needs."
With a 27-year-old daughter who is a wheelchair user, Wensel understands the obstacles those in wheelchairs face on a day-to-day basis. When his daughter, Elfi, was young, Wensel spent many years researching an accessibility solution for her to use to get in and out of their home. With limited options, Wensel succumbed to building an expensive, permanent concrete ramp. Although it did the job, the concrete ramp was not ideal for the Wensels; the concrete surface was extremely slippery during the long winter days and both Elfi and her father felt the concrete ramp was dangerous to use when it snowed or rained. Now that Elfi is moving out of their home and cannot take the concrete ramp with her (nor would she prefer to), the Wensels had no hesitation in choosing Amramp's modular steel ramp for Elfi's new home. This father and daughter team are completely confident in the safety and mechanical integrity of the product. Elfi, a marketing graduate from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, is eager to utilize her marketing skills to spread awareness for Amramp's superior accessibility solutions throughout the area – whether it's getting to and from school or an event, or in and around the house. The Wensels also have future plans to expand their Amramp business to service additional markets within Alberta in the coming years.
"Health care continues to grow in good times and bad because of the aging population and Amramp is expanding with it, providing qualified individuals with a niche franchise option that caters to this growing segment," said Julian Gordon, President and Founder of Amramp. "We are looking to grow with franchise partners such as Lorne who are committed and passionate about making a positive and meaningful impact on these people's lives."
Setting the industry standard for innovation and versatility, Amramp also offers a system of accessibility equipment through its HomeNest® program. Amramp provides a complete, affordable suite of wheelchair ramps, lifts, showers and commodes while providing thorough instructions to certified caregivers on each apparatus so they can safely transfer clients from one location to another. At a fraction of the cost of a traditional nursing home, this system works as a comprehensive solution to enhance independence for the patient and family caregiver.
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For more than a decade, Amramp has been serving the non-weight bearing population with the satisfaction of easy accessibility to and from destinations and in-home mobility with exceptional products, | 668 |
3<|fim_middle|> erroneous surveys to correct errors where Indian land was involved. This reversal was in an Opinion I issued on a boundary dispute between two other New Mexico Pueblos, Santa Ana and San Felipe, in which I concluded that the Secretary has such authority. | 1 p. ; Opinion issued by Solicitor John Leshy on the eastern boundary of the Sandia Pueblo Grant.
The question of the proper location of the eastern boundary of the 1748 Spanish land grant to the Pueblo of Sandia in central New Mexico has been a matter of public controversy for many years. In December 1988, Solicitor Ralph Tarr issued an Opinion, in which Secretary Hodel concurred, rejecting the pueblo's claim that the eastern boundary of its grant should be resurveyed and located along the main ridge of the Sandia Mountain rather than along a foothill ridge. My reconsideration of the Tarr Opinion's conclusion on the boundary issue does not depend on a formal remand from the court, but is based on the implied power of federal agencies to reconsider previous agency decisions. Mindful of the importance of stare decisis, I have, in my tenure as Solicitor, generally reconsidered earlier opinions only when I have become convinced a previous opinion is seriously mistaken on a matter of some importance, and I have provided a reasoned explanation for doing so. Recently I reversed Part IV of the Tarr Opinion, which concluded that the Secretary of the Interior lacks statutory authority to reconsider allegedly | 250 |
Contracting muscles, if they are overactive, can cause all manner of problems. The alaeque nasi is one such muscle, and anyone with bunny lines can attest to that fact. Bunny lines are the lines that form on the side of the nose. They often look like wrinkles and can dramatically age a youthful face. If you have bunny lines and are<|fim_middle|> see great results when you receive Botox treatment for bunny lines at the Aesthetic Institute.
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Justia Patents With Passage In Blade, Vane, Shaft Or Rotary Distributor Communicating With Working FluidUS Patent for System for supporting a turbine nozzle Patent (Patent # 9,528,392)
System for supporting a turbine nozzle
May 10, 2013 - General Electric
A system for supporting a turbine nozzle includes an inner barrel having a forward end, an aft end and an outer surface that extends between the forward end and the aft end. A first fitting that extends through the outer surface is defined within the inner barrel. The system further includes a nozzle support ring that defines a second fitting that is complementary to the first fitting defined within the inner barrel.
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FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention generally involves a gas turbine. More specifically, the invention relates to a system for supporting a turbine nozzle disposed within the gas turbine.
A combustion section of a gas turbine generally includes a plurality of combustors that are arranged in an annular array around an outer casing such as a compressor discharge casing. Compressed air flows from a compressor to the compressor discharge casing and is routed to each combustor. Fuel from a fuel nozzle is mixed with the compressed air in each combustor to form a combustible mixture within a primary combustion zone of the combustor. The combustible mixture is burned to produce hot combustion gases having a high pressure and high velocity. The combustion gases are routed along a hot gas path defined within the compressor discharge casing towards a first stage of stationary turbine nozzles that are mounted upstream<|fim_middle|>1); F01D 11/00 (20060101); | from and/or adjacent to an inlet of a turbine. The combustion gases flow across the turbine nozzles which direct the combustion gases across a stage of turbine blades which are connected to a shaft. Thermal and kinetic energy are transferred from the combustion gases to the turbine blades to cause the shaft to rotate, thereby producing mechanical work. For example, the turbine may be coupled to a shaft that drives a generator to produce electricity.
In particular gas turbine designs, a system for supporting the first stage of turbine nozzles includes an inner barrel or diffuser casing that extends downstream from the compressor within the compressor discharge casing. The diffuser casing defines a flow path for routing the compressed air between the compressor and the compressor discharge casing. A nozzle support ring is bolted to an aft portion of the diffuser casing and extends axially and/or radially between the diffuser casing and the first stage of turbine nozzles to provide mounting support for the turbine nozzles.
As power output requirements of gas turbines continue to increase, the size or overall footprint of the gas turbines also increases. This requires larger facilities to accommodate the larger gas turbines and may increase costs associated with and/or prohibit replacing existing gas turbines with newer designs. As a result, designers are tasked with balancing size, particularly the axial length, of newer gas turbines with the increased power output requirements. One area of the gas turbine that may be shortened while maintaining desired power output and overall efficiency of the gas turbine is the combustion section. However, a shorter diffuser may compromise compressor efficiency. As a result, it is preferable to shorten the axial length between the aft portion of the diffuser and the first stage turbine nozzles, thereby rendering existing support schemes less than optimal. As a result, an improved system for supporting the first stage of turbine nozzles which accommodates for the shorter combustion section would be useful.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
Aspects and advantages of the invention are set forth below in the following description, or may be obvious from the description, or may be learned through practice of the invention.
One embodiment of the present invention is a system for supporting a stage of turbine nozzles. The system includes an inner barrel having a forward end, an aft end and an outer surface that extends between the forward end and the aft end. A first fitting defined within the inner barrel extends through the outer surface of the inner barrel. The system further includes a nozzle support ring that defines a second fitting that is complementary to the first fitting defined within the inner barrel.
Another embodiment of the present invention is a combustion section of a gas turbine. The combustion section includes a compressor discharge casing, a turbine nozzle that is disposed within the compressor discharge casing and an inner barrel that is axially separated from the turbine nozzle within the compressor discharge casing. The inner barrel includes a forward end, an aft end and an outer surface that extends between the forward end and the aft end. A first fitting is defined within the inner barrel proximate to the aft end. The first fitting extends through the outer surface. The combustion section further includes a nozzle support ring having a forward portion and an aft portion. The forward portion defines a second fitting that is complementary to the first fitting. The second fitting is engaged with the first fitting and the aft portion is engaged with the turbine nozzle.
The present invention may also include a gas turbine. The gas turbine generally includes a compressor, a combustion section disposed downstream from the compressor, a turbine disposed downstream from the combustion section and a turbine nozzle disposed at an inlet to the turbine. The combustion section generally includes a compressor discharge casing that circumferentially surrounds a system for supporting the turbine nozzle. The system comprises an inner barrel that extends within the compressor discharge casing where the inner barrel is axially separated from the turbine nozzle. The inner barrel includes a forward end, an aft end and an outer surface that extends between the forward end and the aft end. A first fitting is defined within the inner barrel proximate to the aft end and extends through the outer surface. The system further includes a nozzle support ring having a forward portion and an aft portion where the forward portion defines a second fitting that is complementary to the first fitting. The second fitting is engaged with the first fitting and the aft portion of the nozzle support ring is engaged with the turbine nozzle.
Those of ordinary skill in the art will better appreciate the features and aspects of such embodiments, and others, upon review of the specification.
A full and enabling disclosure of the present invention, including the best mode thereof to one skilled in the art, is set forth more particularly in the remainder of the specification, including reference to the accompanying figures, in which:
FIG. 1 provides an example of a gas turbine as may incorporate various embodiments of the present invention;
FIG. 2 provides an enlarged cross section side view of a portion of the gas turbine as shown in FIG. 1, according to at least one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 3 provides a cross section perspective view of a portion of the gas turbine as shown in FIG. 2, according to one embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 4 provides an enlarged view of the portion of the gas turbine as shown in FIG. 3, according to one embodiment of the present invention; and
FIG. 5 provides an enlarged cross section side view of a portion of the gas turbine as shown in FIG. 2, according to one embodiment of the present invention.
Reference will now be made in detail to present embodiments of the invention, one or more examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. The detailed description uses numerical and letter designations to refer to features in the drawings. Like or similar designations in the drawings and description have been used to refer to like or similar parts of the invention. As used herein, the terms "first", "second", and "third" may be used interchangeably to distinguish one component from another and are not intended to signify location or importance of the individual components. The terms "upstream" and "downstream" refer to the relative direction with respect to fluid flow in a fluid pathway. For example, "upstream" refers to the direction from which the fluid flows, and "downstream" refers to the direction to which the fluid flows. The term "radially" refers to the relative direction that is substantially perpendicular to an axial centerline of a particular component, and the term "axially" refers to the relative direction that is substantially parallel to an axial centerline of a particular component.
Each example is provided by way of explanation of the invention, not limitation of the invention. In fact, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that modifications and variations can be made in the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit thereof. For instance, features illustrated or described as part of one embodiment may be used on another embodiment to yield a still further embodiment. Thus, it is intended that the present invention covers such modifications and variations as come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents. Although exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described generally in the context of an industrial gas turbine for purposes of illustration, one of ordinary skill in the art will readily appreciate that embodiments of the present invention may be applied to any turbomachine and is not limited to an industrial gas turbine unless specifically recited in the claims.
Referring now to the drawings, wherein like numerals refer to like components, FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a gas turbine 10 as may incorporate various embodiments of the present invention. As shown, the gas turbine 10 generally includes a compressor section 12 having an inlet 14 disposed at an upstream end of the gas turbine 10, and a casing 16 that at least partially surrounds the compressor section 12. The gas turbine 10 further includes a combustion section 18 having a combustor 20 downstream from the compressor section 12, and a turbine section 22 downstream from the combustion section 18. A shaft 24 extends axially through the gas turbine 10. As shown, the combustion section 18 may include a plurality of the combustors 20.
In operation, air 26 is drawn into the inlet 14 of the compressor section 12 and is progressively compressed to provide a compressed air 28 to the combustion section 18. The compressed air 28 flows into the combustion section 12 and is mixed with fuel in the combustor 20 to form a combustible mixture. The combustible mixture is burned in the combustor 20, thereby generating a hot gas 30 that flows from the combustor 20 across a first stage 32 of turbine nozzles 34 and into the turbine section 22. The hot gas rapidly expands as it flows through alternating stages turbine blades 36 and turbine nozzles 34 disposed within the turbine section 22 along an axial centerline of the shaft 24. Thermal and/or kinetic energy is transferred from the hot gas to each stage of the turbine blades 36, thereby causing the shaft 24 to rotate and produce mechanical work. The shaft 24 may be coupled to a load such as a generator (not shown) so as to produce electricity. In addition or in the alternative, the shaft 24 may be used to drive the compressor section 12 of the gas turbine.
FIG. 2 provides an enlarged cross section side view of a portion of the gas turbine 10 as shown in FIG. 1, including a portion of the combustion section 18 according to at least one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 2, a compressor discharge casing 40 or other outer casing surrounds the combustor 20. A diffuser 42 is disposed within the compressor discharge casing 40. The diffuser 42 routes the compressed air 28 from the compressor section 12 into the compressor discharge casing 40. The diffuser 42 is at least partially defined by an inner barrel 44 that extends circumferentially around the shaft 24 (FIG. 1).
FIG. 3 provides a cross section perspective view of a portion of the inner barrel 44 disposed within a portion of the compressor discharge casing 40 as shown in FIG. 2, according to at least one embodiment. As shown in FIG. 3, the inner barrel 44 includes an upstream or forward end 46, a downstream or aft end 48 that is axially separated from the forward end 46, an outer surface 50 that extends between the forward end 46 and the aft end 48 and an inner surface 52 radially separated from the outer surface 50. The inner surface extends between the forward end 46 and the aft end 48.
FIG. 4 provides an enlarged view of a portion of the inner barrel 44 as shown in FIG. 3, according to one embodiment of the present invention. In one embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4 a first fitting 54 is defined by the inner barrel 44. In particular embodiments, the first fitting 54 extends from the outer surface 50 in a radially inward direction 56 through the outer surface 50 towards the inner surface 52. In one embodiment, the first fitting 54 is disposed proximate to the aft end 48 of the inner barrel 44. As shown in FIG. 4, the first fitting 54 may extend circumferentially around at least a portion of the outer surface 50 of the inner barrel 44. In one embodiment, as shown in FIGS. 2 and 4, the first fitting 54 is a slot 58 defined within the inner barrel 44. The slot 58 is disposed between the inner surface 52 and the outer surface 50 and extends in the radially inward direction 56 through the outer surface 50 towards the inner surface 52.
As shown in FIG. 2, a nozzle support ring 60 extends in an axial direction 62 and in a radially outward direction 63 between the inner barrel 44 and the first stage 32 of turbine nozzles 34. In one embodiment, the nozzle support ring 60 extends in the axial direction 62 across a portion of the outer surface 50 of the inner barrel 44. The nozzle support ring 60 provides mounting support to the first stage 32 of turbine nozzles 34. As shown in FIG. 2, the nozzle support ring 60 includes a forward portion 64 and an aft portion 66.
A second fitting 68 is defined at the forward portion 64 of the nozzle support ring 60. The aft portion 66 is engaged with the first stage 32 of turbine nozzles 34. In particular embodiments, the second fitting 68 is seated within and/or engaged with the first fitting 54 to provide support to the nozzle support ring 60. In one embodiment, the second fitting 68 is complementary to the first fitting 54. For example, in one embodiment as shown in FIG. 2, the second fitting 68 is a tab 70 that is complementary to the slot 58. It should be known that the first fitting 54 may be any shape that is complementary to the second fitting 68 and that provides adequate support to the nozzle support ring 60 and should not be limited to a slot and tab shape.
FIG. 5 provides an enlarged cross section side view of a portion of the inner barrel 44, the nozzle support ring 60 and a portion of the first stage 32 of turbine nozzles 34 according to one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the nozzle support ring 60 may comprise of multiple semi-annular nozzle support ring segments 72 that are seated within the first fitting 54 defined in the inner barrel 44. As shown in FIG. 3, the inner barrel 44 may be split into semi-annular inner barrel sections 74 that are joined together during assembly and separated during disassembly of the compressor discharge casing 26 and/or the gas turbine 10. In one embodiment, as shown in FIG. 5, a locking pin 76 is provided between the first fitting 54 and the second fitting 68 to lock the multiple nozzle support rings 72 into position during assembly and disassembly of the gas turbine 10.
The various embodiments described herein and as illustrated in FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5 provide various technical benefits over existing first stage nozzle support schemes. For example, deleting a bolted connection between the nozzle support ring and the inner barrel reduces man hours for assembly and disassembly of the gas turbine, thereby potentially reducing assembly costs and reducing outage time. In addition, deleting the bolted connection reduces hardware costs. In addition, deleting a bolted connection allows for a shorter combustion section by allowing for a smaller axial distance between the diffuser exit from the inner barrel and the first stage of the stationary nozzles, thereby allowing for larger compressor sections and turbine sections which result in greater output from the gas turbine.
This written description uses examples to disclose the invention, including the best mode, and also to enable any person skilled in the art to practice the invention, including making and using any devices or systems and performing any incorporated methods. The patentable scope of the invention is defined by the claims, and may include other examples that occur to those skilled in the art. Such other examples are intended to be within the scope of the claims if they include structural elements that do not differ from the literal language of the claims, or if they include equivalent structural elements with insubstantial differences from the literal language of the claims.
1. A system for supporting a turbine nozzle, comprising:
an inner barrel having a forward end, an aft end, an inner surface and an outer surface that extends between the forward end and the aft end;
a slot defined within the inner barrel and extending circumferentially along and axially within the outer surface of the inner barrel, wherein the slot comprises a recess extending axially forward from the slot within the inner barrel; and
a nozzle support ring having a forward portion and an aft portion, wherein the aft position is axially offset from the slot and the inner barrel, wherein the forward portion defines a tab that is complementary to and extends axially into the recess of the slot, and wherein the aft portion is coupled to a first stage of turbine nozzles.
2. The system as in claim 1, further comprising a locking pin that extends radially between the slot and the forward portion of the nozzle support ring.
3. The system as in claim 1, wherein the nozzle support ring comprises two or more semi-annular support ring sections.
4. A combustion section of a gas turbine, comprising:
a compressor discharge casing;
a turbine nozzle disposed within the compressor discharge casing;
an inner barrel disposed within the compressor discharge casing, the inner barrel being axially separated from the turbine nozzle within the compressor discharge casing, the inner barrel having a forward end, an aft end and an outer surface that extends between the forward end and the all end;
a slot defined by the inner barrel proximate to the aft end and extending circumferentially along and axially within the outer surface of the inner barrel, wherein the slot comprises a recess extending axially forward from the slot within the inner barrel;
a nozzle support ring having a forward portion and an aft portion axially spaced from the forward portion, the forward portion defining a tab that is complementary to the slot; and
wherein the forward portion extends radially into the slot and the tab extends axially into the recess, wherein the aft portion is coupled to an inner band of the turbine nozzle.
5. The combustion section as in claim 4, wherein the tab is seated within the slot.
6. The combustion section as in claim 4, wherein the slot extends circumferentially around a diffuser casing.
7. The combustion section as in claim 4, further comprising a locking pin that extends radially between the slot and the tab of the nozzle support ring.
8. The system as in claim 1, wherein the nozzle support ring extends axially across a portion of the outer surface of the inner barrel.
9. A gas turbine, comprising:
a. a compressor;
b. a combustion section disposed downstream from the compressor;
c. a turbine disposed downstream from the combustion section;
d. a turbine nozzle disposed at an inlet to the turbine; and
e. wherein the combustion section includes a compressor discharge casing that circumferentially surrounds a system for supporting the turbine nozzle, the system comprising: i. an inner barrel that extends within the compressor discharge casing, the inner barrel being axially separated from the turbine nozzle, the inner barrel having a forward end, an aft end and an outer surface that extends between the forward end and the aft end; ii. a slot defined by the inner barrel proximate to the aft end and extending circumferentially along the outer surface of the inner barrel, wherein the slot comprises a recess extending axially forward from the slot within the inner barrel; iii. a nozzle support ring having a forward portion and an aft portion axially offset from the forward portion, the forward portion defining a tab that is complementary to the slot; and iv. wherein the forward portion extends radially into the slot and the tab extends axially into the recess, and wherein the aft portion is connected to an inner band of the turbine nozzle.
10. The gas turbine as in claim 9, wherein the tab is seated within the slot.
11. The gas turbine as in claim 9, further comprising a locking pin that extends radially between the slot and the tab.
12. The gas turbine as in claim 9, wherein the nozzle support ring extends axially across a portion of the outer surface of the inner barrel.
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Date of Patent: Dec 27, 2016
Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY (Schenectady, NY)
Inventors: Matthew Stephen Casavant (Greenville, SC), Kenneth Damon Black (Travelers Rest, SC)
Primary Examiner: Gregory Anderson
Assistant Examiner: Maxime Adjagbe
Current U.S. Class: With Passage In Blade, Vane, Shaft Or Rotary Distributor Communicating With Working Fluid (415/115)
International Classification: F01D 25/24 (2006010 | 4,567 |
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0645: Morning has broken, although the rays of the rising sun haven't yet painted them orange and yellow. I take one last panorama from our lanai (balcony) - below - at the Coconut Beach hotel as things brighten. All that's left to do is wake Isaac in fifteen minutes, take a few last-minute items to the car, and head out to Ma's Family for a last meal on Kaua'i. Did I mention that we rented another Chrysler Sebring convertible? Hey, what's that sound? Oh, just Rose taking a photo of me updating this web site.
We return the car, toss our bags onto a cart, and walk across the street to the Lihu'e airport (LIH). We check our bags through to San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and subject our carry-on bags to an agricultural inspection. (I score a sticker for my ukulele case. :-) All the while we're enjoying the live music of two very enthusiastic musicians. Makes me even sorrier to leave.
Very shortly there's a long queue. What you can't experience from the panorama is how incredibly hot the windows get, and so everyone is slowly being baked. It makes everyone's good behavior even more surprising.
The plane arrives, and we watch as some folks deplane from the rear of the plane. The rest - the vast majority - leave from the forward exit, through the jetway. We can see they're a motley group of tourists, not a sports team or somesuch, so we're not really sure why they were chosen to traipse through the heat.
We board our plane. There really is something wonderful about pre-boarding with a child. The ground crew didn't communicate their plans to the waiting passengers, so there was a bunch-up as they tried to sort out the first class, wheelchair, pre-board, and regular folks at the last minute. One would think they'd have gotten it right after the first few thousand tries. Sigh. Still, we get on board without any fisticuffs (not that there wasn't muttering...).
We push away from our gate. Isaac is enthralled by the process, and urges us to go "faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and faster and whoooooooooosh TAKE OFF". And we do, bidding a farewell to Kaua'i. A'hou'e ho (until we meet again).
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Cathrin doesn't want the truth to come out.
Sherri has some pretty good ideas.
Amir didn't know for certain where he should go.
Ken put his finger to his lips.
Jay checked the rearview mirror.
I wish Shane would eat what I give him without complaining.
I thought Dawson might be able to help.
Celia doesn't know the difference between thin and scrawny.
You can tell Allen yourself.
I asked Israel to wait for a | 116 |
The Lucky One: A Novel (Paperback)
By Lori Rader-Day
"This might well be my favorite Rader-Day so far: a brilliant premise intriguingly developed, totally believable characters and a climax that took my breath away." — Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestselling author of The Shetland and Vera Series
From the author of the Edgar Award®-nominated Under A Dark Sky comes an unforgettable, chilling novel about a young woman who recognizes the man who kidnapped her as a child, setting off a search for justice, and into danger.
Most people who go missing are never found. But Alice was the lucky one...
As a child, Alice was stolen from her backyard in a tiny Indiana community, but against the odds, her policeman father tracked her down within twenty-four hours and rescued her from harm. In the aftermath of the<|fim_middle|>February 17th, 2020): $11.99
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Yet Alice hasn't forgotten. She devotes her spare time volunteering for a website called The Doe Pages scrolling through pages upon pages of unidentified people, searching for clues that could help reunite families with their missing loved ones. When a face appears on Alice's screen that she recognizes, she's stunned to realize it's the same man who kidnapped her decades ago. The post is deleted as quickly as it appeared, leaving Alice with more questions than answers.
Embarking on a search for the truth, she enlists the help of friends from The Doe Pages to connect the dots and find her kidnapper before he hurts someone else. Then Alice crosses paths with Merrily Cruz, another woman who's been hunting for answers of her own. Together, they begin to unravel a dark, painful web of lies that will change what they thought they knew—and could cost them everything.
Twisting and compulsively readable, The Lucky One explores the lies we tell ourselves to feel safe.
Lori Rader-Day is the author of Under a Dark Sky, The Day I Died, Little Pretty Things, and The Black Hour. She is a three-time Mary Higgins Clark Award nominee, winning the award in 2016. Lori lives in Chicago.
"This might well be my favorite Rader-Day so far: a brilliant premise intriguingly developed, totally believable characters and a climax that took my breath away."
— Ann Cleeves, New York Times bestselling author of The Shetland and Vera Series
"Rader-Day creates deeply believable, empathetic characters and puts the power in the hands of women, including older women…The tightly crafted storytelling brings heat back into the familiar cold case plot, digging deep into those aches that never really fade."
"The Lucky One promises to be another signature Lori Rader-Day blend of psychology, suspense, and noir."
— CrimeReads
"Lori Rader-Day takes us on a twisting journey into a past riven by secrets and lies that challenges everything we think we know about the ties that bind us. The Lucky One is that rare thing, a nail-biting thriller full of heart and soul."
— Carol Goodman, award-winning author of The Lake of Dead Languages and The Sea of Lost Girls
"I was riveted from page one by this complex, psychologically astute tale of betrayal and hope with twists that keep coming up until the final breathtaking reveal."
— Hallie Ephron, New York Times bestselling author of Careful What You Wish For
"The Lucky One is an irresistible read about two strangers on a quest to uncover the truth about their pasts. Simultaneously a dynamic character study and a riveting mystery, Lori Rader-Day's latest offering is a brilliantly absorbing novel from one of my favorite new crime writers."
— Sheena Kamal, internationally bestselling author of The Lost Ones
"Dark, loaded with memorable twists, and featuring a complex, flawed, and unforgettable protagonist, The Lucky One cements Lori Rader-Day's place as one of crime fiction's strongest and most compelling voices. You will devour this timely, chilling novel and find yourself desperate for more."
— Alex Segura, acclaimed author of Blackout and Dangerous Ends
"[Rader-Day's] gifted storytelling makes this a fine read."
— Booklist
"Another harrowing nightmare by a master of the sleepless night."
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Publication Date: February 18th, 2020
Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Fiction / Psychological
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We are an evangelical Baptist Church in Teddington, West London. We have<|fim_middle|> you would like to know? e-mail us and ask! | about 70 members and most people find us to be a very warm and friendly Church. Our Sunday Services are usually held at 10.30am and 6.30pm - details for any particular Sunday are in the Church Diary. If you are not welcomed warmly by several people on your first visit you should complain to one of the members of our Leadership Team!
We mostly use modern songs projected onto a screen but sometimes use older hymns from Songs of Fellowship or the Baptist Hymn Book. Most people use the NIV translation of the Bible and that's the translation provided for the use of visitors.
We have a creche during the morning service for small children and Sunday Groups for older children and young people. We serve coffee and tea after Sunday morning services. We also offer prayer ministry after each of our services.
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As I turned 28 in Australia, I decided to spend my birthday snorkelling in Coral Bay with some friends, hoping to see some manta rays. That first meant getting into my newly converted green home on wheels, and heading north for a couple of hours. It turns out that the land around where I currently live is an endless expanse of flat, red dirt, interspersed with areas of harsh scrubland<|fim_middle|> before. I probably didn't mind not seeing tiger sharks, although I'm not quite sure.
All in all, it was a pretty nice day and I look forward to getting back into the water already.
Australia is famed for its underwater life (amongst many other things) and there is very much to see. My new best friend is the trumpet fish. They look like a yellow trumpet. Ish.
For now though, my life continues in a small town in Australia, working hard, planning for the future. I cannot wait until I get into my mobile home and drive down those desolate roads with no looking back.
Here is a little bit more of what we saw while snorkelling in Coral Bay. It was a pretty good way to spend a birthday. Except for the wrath of the sunburn that followed. | . And the roads are very long.
Not long into our journey, we encountered a sign for the Tropic of Capricorn, meaning I am living closer to the tropics than I have ever lived before. Living in the warmth is a pleasant at times, but it was a dramatic shock when I arrived, swapping a Detroit winter (of minus 30*C) for an Aussie summer (of plus 35*C). Even during the peak of winter, Carnarvon's daily maximum temperature is a roaring (by British standards) 23*C.
Nearly ten years ago – wow, how time flies – I spent my nineteenth birthday snorkelling. I was on island called Aitutaki, part of the Cook Islands, and had spent many months jamming donuts, wrapping bread, stacking fruit, and digging holes on building sites to get there. Since that time, I had almost forgotten my love of snorkelling because when you live out of a backpack, a snorkel is not something you carry very often.
But now I feel that my love of snorkelling is alive again and for the remainder of my time in Australia, I will carry a snorkel with me, just in case. We were lucky enough to find many manta rays, great monsters of the ocean with wingspans of around 4 metres. It is hard to describe what it feels like to be swimming along behind this gentle giant until you actually get there and try it out for yourself. Yet at 4 metres, the rays we saw were far from the biggest as Reef Manta Rays have been found at 5.5 metres and Giant Oceanic Manta Rays have been found with wingspans of 7 metres.
A couple of turtles then appeared, and to our surprise, we looked down into a rift to see about ten sharks. Ten sharks swimming beneath us! They were harmless reef sharks, but seeing so many of them so close was exhilarating and their small frames seem only to be miniature replicas of larger sharks, although at 1.5 metres long, they look fairly sizable when they swim so close.
Constantly intrigued by every beasty underwater, we investigated jellyfish at close proximities, receiving many stings that were quite unpleasant. Far less unpleasant than the wrath of my sunburn for the following week. At one point, itching to the point of craziness, I stood in the shower for over an hour, wondering what I could do to lose consciousness. Damn my pasty, British skin!
Late in the day, we found a large stingray upon the floor of the ocean, his beady eyes following us as we swam overhead. Once again in Australia, we had to be careful of the majestic and potentially deadly creatures, the story of Steve Irwin (one of my childhood heroes) ringing loud and clear inside my mind.
At the end of the day, I saw my first whale (while in the water). Sadly he was dead and his flesh had been picked to nothing by tiger sharks. According to our boat driver, where we swam had been awash with tiger sharks feeding greedily from the dead giant several months | 638 |
SAN FRANCISCO, February 10, (THEWILL) – The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, popularly known as Shiite Group, has alerted the Nigerian public of movements of unknown gunmen in Zaria, Kaduna State.
Shiite spokesman Ibrahim Musa, who made the disclosure in a statement, said the group had received credible reports of some unusual movements by certain unknown persons with dangerous weapons around the Sabon gari area of the city on Thursday, February 7 2019.
Musa, however, denied allegations by the Department of State Security (DSS) and the presidency that<|fim_middle|>a said.
He assured the Nigerian public and the international community that Shiites were committed to peaceful coexistence between people of different religious, regional and tribal inclination as championed by its leader Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky. | members of the movement were assembling to ensue violence before and during the Nigeria general elections.
"We wish to reiterate our already well known position that the Movement has a total abhorrence to violence under any guise," Mus | 44 |
Preacher (Sunday, 10/9c, AMC): It's a Southern Gothic homecoming for Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper) in the third season of this outrageously bizarre and ultraviolent supernatural thriller. Seeking to save the mortally wounded Tulip (Ruth Negga), whose soul is stuck in a theatrical Purgatory, Jesse exercises his last and most desperate option: returning home to his own personal hell of Angelville, the Louisiana plantation where he was raised. Presiding over the decaying manse, then and now, is his ghoulish Gran'ma, Marie L'Angell, played to the bravura hilt by Betty Buckley. Granny's got a way with spells, but magic always comes with a price.
'[The Saint] is this relentless arrow of death,' says the actor.
And the Winner Is: What would TV be without awards shows? We'll likely never know. First up: the 2018 Radio Disney Awards (Saturday, 8/7c, Disney Channel), with highlights<|fim_middle|> for her pioneering career, and performers include honorees Kelly Clarkson ("Icon" Award) and Carrie Underwood ("Hero" Award), teaming on "The Champion" with Ludacris; and Meghan Trainor.
Jamie Foxx hosts Sunday's BET Awards 2018 (8/7c, BET) from L.A.'s Microsoft Theatre, with performances by Nicki Minaj, Janelle Monae, Migos, H.E.R. and Ella Mai. Leading the nominations: DJ Khaled with six and Kendrick Lamar with five.
Teen Choice Awards 2018: Was Your Favorite Show Nominated?
See who made the first wave of TV nominees.
Endeavour (Sunday, 9/8c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): A fifth season of the popular Inspector Morse prequel opens with Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) having passed his Sergeant's exams and now charged with mentoring young Constable George Fancy (Lewis Peek). Teamed with veteran Fred Thursday (Roger Allem), Morse hunts for a serial killer while an auction for a Faberge Egg leads to a burglary attempt.
Inside Weekend TV: Showtime's documentary Love Means Zero (Saturday, 9/8c) profiles legendary tennis coach Nick Bollettieri, now 86, as he reflects on protégés including Jim Courier, Monica Seles and, most infamously, Andre Agassi, whose falling out with his coach made headline news… Anderson Cooper moderates CNN's Finding Hope: Battling America's Suicide Crisis (Sunday, 7/6c), a town-hall discussion of the roots of suicide with guidance for those struggling with depression and suicidal thoughts… Smithsonian Channel relives The Pacific War in Color (Sunday, 8/7c), an eight-part series featuring rare color footage with first-hand accounts of World War II combat — opening with the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941… The battle for Succession (Sunday, 10:30/9:30c, HBO) within the Roy family goes public when Logan (Brian Cox) insists on attending an annual Waystar gala fundraiser, potentially upstaging son Kendall (Jeremy Strong), whom everyone advises — wisely — to keep jokes out of his speech. No one's laughing when the party's over. | from Friday's ceremony at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre. Janet Jackson receives the first "Impact" Award | 20 |
A large group of survivors wearing symbolic purple shirts makes the turn during the Survivor's Lap at the North Shore Ninth Grade Center.
The Relay for Life-Houston North Channel was a huge success last Friday, May 6 as more than $136,000 was raised to benefit cancer research. The North Channel community is joining together the fight against cancer.
According to North Channel Relay officials, the fundraising totals were still being tallied as of press time and were expected to significantly increase.
With more than 50 teams participating, the "May the Cure be with You" Star Wars themed event drew hundreds of walkers<|fim_middle|> we are extremely thankful," said Superintendent King Davis.
On Wednesday, May 4th, 25 Galena Park High School students received a total of $15,000.00 in scholarships from the Galena Park/Jacinto City Rotary Club. These scholarships will assist the students in pursuit of their college and career goals upon graduation.
GALENA PARK FIRE CHIEF PAUL GREGORY, with firemen Gab Perez, Dean Bailey, and Ed Thraen, stand with the new Sutphen Pumper that went into service last month. This is the first new fire engine for the GPFD in 15 years, according to Gregory. It cost over $500,000, paid for by the Texas Forest Service and the City of Galena Park. Features include a 1000 gallon tank, foam, rescue equipment such as thermal imaging and the "jaws of life," and other saws. The department has 6 full time and 22 part time firemen, and 6 volunteers, and is looking for more. | that participated in the event at the track of the North Shore High School Ninth Grade Campus.
The North Channel group also received an award from the American Cancer Society for raising more than $1 million toward cancer research for the past 13 years.
Voters in Galena Park swept out all the incumbent councilpersons, affirming the changes they started two years ago with the election of Esmeralda Moya as Mayor. With a large turnout of 1063 voters, the unofficial results saw Moya returned to office, with 772 votes, against her challenger Dawn Fisher with 275 votes. This vote spread was also seen in the four council positions,as follows: POSITION 1: Chersky 714, Simms 309; POSITION 2: Silva 743, Hinojosa 281; POSITION 3: Broussard 723, Serna 250, Groba 60; POSITION 4: Ponder 734, Flores 304.
JACINTO CITY, passed the Proposition raising the Sales Tax by 1 cent, to 8.25 percent.
The bond website will be transitioned into a bond construction website in order to provide our citizens information about the status of the bond projects.
On Saturday, May 7, Sheldon ISD voters approved the passing of the 2016 Sheldon ISD bond. The measure passed with nearly 70 percent of the vote.
"The Sheldon ISD voters made a collective decision to invest in their community and our schools, and for that | 335 |
Rope Tricks: 7 Steps to Prepare a Horse for Saddling
By Jennifer Denison May 21, 2021 - issue March 2020
Prepare a young horse for saddling and having its feet handled with Rudy Lara's progressive rope drills.
A rope is an important tool in Rudy Lara's horsemanship, not just to catch a cow, but also to desensitize young horses to a variety of sensations and stimuli. Using techniques from his background in doma vaquera (which translates to Western dressage), vaquero traditions and ranch roping, he has devised a sequence of multi-purpose pressure-and-release drills with a lariat to desensitize a horse and prepare it for saddling, cinching, and having its feet handled and its foot placement controlled.
Here he demonstrates those drills, which can be used for starting a colt or introducing an older horse to a rope for the first time.
"I'll start working on this while halter-breaking colts," he says. "That's the perfect time to start using a rope as a desensitizing tool and building the horse's confidence and your control of its feet. I've also used these exercises on horses that were 10 to 12 years old that have never seen a rope."
1. Move the Horse's Feet
Lara begins each training session by haltering the horse and taking it into a controlled environment, such as a roundpen. Before he begins the rope work, he wants a horse to know how to move freely around the pen, and move its forehand and hindquarters away from him in response to the flag or body cues.
"What I want to accomplish is communication between me and the horse," he says. "[Legendary horseman] Ray Hunt used to say if you can control a horse's feet you have control of its mind. "Before I introduce a rope, I want to first establish control of the horse's feet and movement by teaching it to yield its front [end] and hindquarters as a safety precaution so it won't run into me if it panics."
Picking up the lead rope. Lara tips the horse's head toward him and steps toward the horse's hip, using the flag to get it to move its hindquarters away from him. Photo by Jennifer Denison.
2. Rub With The Rope
When the horse is responsive and focused on him, Lara introduces the rope. Holding the lead rope in his left hand and the coiled lariat in his right hand, he approaches the horse on its left side and allows it to look at and smell the rope.
Next, he slowly rubs the coiled rope against the horse's shoulder, slowly moving up the horse's neck, down its front leg, along its back, and down its hip and hind leg. As soon as the horse accepts the rope touching its left side, Lara does the same on the right side.
3. Release and Coil the Rope
When the horse is comfortable with the coiled rope touching its body, Lara stands beside the horse and throws the end of the rope 30 to 60 feet in front of the horse, depending on the rope's length, and then recoils it. He doesn't build a loop and throw it overhead at this point.
"It can make a horse nervous to have the rope go from being coiled in your hand to becoming super long and moving on the ground in front of it," he says. "I like to coil it with the slack coming toward the horse, like a snake. Horses that have been out on the range associate the rope's movement with a snake and sometimes want to get away from it. I keep throwing and recoiling it until it doesn't bother the horse."
If the horse is reactive, Lara returns to rubbing the rope on the horse. For a horse that wants to move away, he will ask the horse to move around the pen, then bring the horse back to him, disengage its hindquarters and ask it to take a few steps back, and then release and coil the rope again. "It depends on how severely the horse reacts," he explains. "I want to show the horse the rope won't hurt him, so if he reacts and tries to get away I go back to something he is comfortable with, like rubbing the rope on him. If that doesn't work, I put the rope down and go back to working the horse in the roundpen for a few minutes, and then stop him and reintroduce the rope. He'll learn that when he stands still for the rope he gets to rest and it's a positive thing."
4. Loop the Legs
When the horse is confident with the rope's touch and movement, Lara places the loop around the horse's left front pastern while still holding the lead rope in his left hand in case the horse tries to get away.
"I raise the front foot off the ground and hold it with the rope," explains Lara. "I hold the foot up until the horse relaxes and then I place it back on the ground. The release is the reward for standing still." When the horse willingly lifts its foot with the rope pressure, Lara encourages the horse to lift its foot and step forward with that foot, directing the foot placement with the rope. He repeats on the other front leg and then advances to the hind legs.
Directing a horse's foot placement with a rope is a way to gain control of his mind. Photo by Jennifer Denison.
5. Rope Both Feet
Once he can move each foot with the rope, Lara places the rope around both front feet and raises his hand to slightly tighten the loop around around the horse's pasterns, simulating the feeling of being hobbled. If the horse gets scared, he can lower and open his hand to open the loop and release the pressure. "I want the horse to stand still without kicking or trying to get out of the rope," says Lara. "This will be beneficial if the horse gets tangled in a fence or gets a foot caught in a corral panel. The horse will learn to stand still and wait for help rather than panic."
Lara urges the horse to move its feet and feel the pressure, but his goal is for the horse to stop and stand still and relaxed when it feels pressure around its lower legs. When the horse is relaxed, he releases the rope and does the same thing to the hind legs. "As the horse takes a step, whether it's sideways or forward, apply pressure on the rope only until the horse relaxes and stops," says Lara. "Then release the pressure so the horse learns to yield to it."
6. Swing the Rope
Next, Lara swings a loop in the air above the horse to accustom it to the sound and movement above it. When the horse tolerates the swinging loop, Lara gently tosses the loop on the horse's back, simulating a saddle pad and saddle. He works on both sides of the horse so it gets used to him working from both sides.
"When the horse handles me throwing a loop over its back, I'll let it fall over its hindquarters and put a little tension on the rope, pulling the horse toward me," he explains. "This desensitizes the horse to different movement and pressure and builds confidence between him and me. He starts trusting me and moving forward without reaction."
Lara swings a loop above the horse and lets it land on the horse's back. The motion resembles placing a saddle pad on the horse's back. Photo by Jennifer Denison.
7. Simulate Cinching
When the horse is comfortable with the loop around its hindquarters, Lara slips it over the horse's head and down its neck and lets it drape down the front legs. He uses lead rope pressure to get the horse to step through the loop and then raises<|fim_middle|> of Western Horseman.
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"This introduces the feeling of tightening the front cinch," says Lara. "I ask the horse to walk and then trot with the loop around the girth until it is comfortable with it. Then I move it back to the place where my legs will be when I ride the horse. If the horse hasn't felt pressure there it might tense up when it feels your leg pressure, and spook or start bucking. This prepares the horse for the feeling of your legs against its sides."
When the horse will walk and trot in each direction around the pen with the loop around its girth and midsection. Lara, still holding the lead rope, either slides the rope back to just in front of the flank, or he throws it over the hip and asks the horse to back up or step forward through the loop. He keeps the horse at lead-rope distance from him. He lifts up on the rope and applies slight pressure to the area to keep the rope in position.
"This is where you might get the most reaction from the horse," he says. "It's really important that you learn to time your pressure and release right so you don't teach the horse to buck. If the horse starts to buck, I hold the pressure until he quits. As soon as he quits and transitions to a trot or walk, I release the pressure so he learns that when he relaxes the pressure will release." Lara has seen horsemen who slip the loop around the horse's flanks without holding on to the lead rope and let the horse run around the pen bucking.
"I hold on to the lead rope in one hand and the rope with the other hand so I can direct the horse's movement and the rope pressure for the safety of the horse and me," he says. "It's all in my hands. I have enough slack that if I squeeze my hand around the rope it applies enough tension for the horse to feel it. When I relax my hand, the horse senses the release. This is the same thing I'll do on the reins when asking the horse for a soft feel."
If the horse bucks when the rope puts pressure on its flank. Lara says it's important to release the pressure when the horse relaxes and not when it's still bucking, or you could teach the horse to buck. Photo by Jennifer Denison.
At the Colt Starting USA National Finals last November, Lara used these techniques in preparation for saddling his filly. When it came time to saddle her and then ride her through obstacles, "it wasn't a big deal," says Lara, who won the championship title by one point. "People get in such a rush to saddle and get on a colt and don't take time to prepare the horse," he says. "It doesn't take that much time to get a horse used to the sensations of saddling and make it a positive experience. Plus, it helps the horse build confidence in you and carries forward to anything you want to do with the horse in the future."
Our Expert
Rudy Lara has started colts and trained horses for the public since 2009. He started working with his father, Rodolfo Lara, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, but now has his own training program, Rudy Lara Horsemanship, in Taos, New Mexico. He and his wife, Aubriana, have two sons, Joaquin and Santiago. He conducts clinics throughout the United States, specializing in colt starting, problem horses, ranch roping and doma vaquera. He was selected twice to participate in Buck Brannaman's annual colt-starting clinic and has qualified for the finals at the Brannaman Pro-Am Vaquero Roping. He's also placed at and won several colt-starting competitions, including the Colt Starting USA National Finals.
This article was originally published in the March 2020 issue | 809 |
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That is, checking new public company listings. 2018 is on track to record more than 210 IPOs including some big names like Spotify, DropBox and Cushman & Wakefield. This compares favorably with 181 IPOs in 2017 and 105 in 2016. The early 2019 outlook appears exciting with recent confidential filings by Lyft, Uber and Slack.
Yet, this news belies the fact that in the past decade the average number of IPOs per year is 20% below the average between 1999 – 2008 (a period that includes both the dot-com bust and financial crisis).
This is worrisome to many who see a lack of IPOs as reflective of a less dynamic, more stratified economy. The reasoning goes that IPOs are innovative companies who help drive long-term growth, so a decline portends a potentially weaker economy.
Many blame the complexities of the regulatory environment for scaring companies away from going public. Certainly, much can be done to simplify the IPO process and streamline ongoing disclosure requirements. There are a number of ideas and proposals underway in Congress and at the S.E.C. to help expand the IPO on-ramp.
But, this is only part of the story. Others say there's some distinct disincentives for going public including the market's short-term orientation and volatility and the risk of activism. There's also an<|fim_middle|> had a two-fer: Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) introduced The Accountable Capitalism Act and President Trump tweeted the idea of changing from quarterly to semi-annual earnings reporting.
What all these had in common was a concern the short-termism prevalent in today's market is detrimental to the long-term health of companies and economy overall. And each, in their way, proposed changes or actions to counteract those forces. I too am concerned about short-termism, but question why so many seem to think that its companies that need to change to alleviate the problem – it all about companies needing to start doing this or stop doing that.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I rarely hear suggestions on how investors or other financial market participants need to change. Let's face it, there's a significant number of financial market participants who are not long-term focused – think some hedge funds as well as high frequency and risk management traders.
In my view, the majority of public companies are long-term oriented but in the competition for capital they need to deal with the reality of a market focused on quarterly results and the daily news flow. So, what's a company to do? Well, don't give up. Many of your permanent and long-term investors want to hear about your strategies for the future. One great idea comes from the Strategic Investor Forum which suggests companies treat quarterly earnings as "building blocks of longer-term plans and disclosure rather than the central focus." You can also review the 2017 Focusing Capital on the Long Term (FCLT) report for thoughts on how to shift the investor dialogue to a more long-term perspective.
While short-termism won't go away any time soon, by consistently providing a longer-term perspective on the company's framework for creating value and managing risk in a dynamic environment, you'll be better positioned to earn investor patience and plan for the future. | understandable reluctance to cede (at least partial) control to outsiders who weren't part of the company's founding – the classic tension between value-creators and perceived value-extracters.
The reality is many firms don't need to tap the public markets to raise capital thanks to changes to the Investment Company Act in the late 1990s, which increased the number of investors a private company is allowed. It's probably no coincidence that since 1999 over $750 billion has collectively been invested in startups by venture capital (VC) firms. At the same time, private equity (PE) has grown substantially with an estimated $2.5 trillion of assets under management globally in 2016 vs. $600 billion in 2000.
The result: more total companies in the U.S. – up 10% since 1997 – but a much lower propensity of companies of any size, but especially small ones, to be publicly listed. So, while the number of IPOs is lower than in the past, it's not necessarily due to a less vibrant start-up and entrepreneurial environment.
However, fewer IPOs does raise worries relative to retail investors and industry concentration. Equity in young, early-stage companies is typically held by founders, employees, VC/PE firms and sophisticated "qualified" investors. Main Street investors are essentially shut-out of this opportunity and don't share in the significant value created in the early-stages of a company's life. This sounds concerning from an income-equality perspective, but its important to note that only 14% of U.S. households own stock directly. More IPOs will not solve this problem or broaden U.S. household stock ownership levels.
As for increased industry concentration, today there's roughly half as many listed companies as in 1997 and those that are listed are, on average, older and larger than 20 years ago. Stocks are also more highly correlated with each other. This may raise questions as to the robustness of and risks inherent in the market, but in and of itself, its hard to say if it's bad or just a natural evolution of the financial markets. At this point, it doesn't appear to have slowed innovation, impacted the ability of new companies to form and attract capital or affected overall economic vitality.
The dynamics of public and private companies are changing. No longer does being public assure a premium valuation or better access to capital. Younger, smaller companies appear to benefit from staying private longer, while larger, more mature companies appear to benefit from the liquidity and visibility being publicly traded provides. In the end, I believe that going forward the private vs public decision will be driven just as much by a need for liquidity as capital.
The juxtaposition of long summer days against concerns over short-termism seemed to be a key theme in summer 2018. It started in June with the Business Roundtable urging companies to end quarterly earnings guidance. Then in August, we | 614 |
Q: Why doesn't the Riemann Zeta Function have a zero at $s=0$? I have a few questions regarding the Riemann Zeta Function and its zeros. First, I will state what is clear to me. I see that $\zeta (s)$ is clearly defined and nonzero when $Re(s)>1$ since then $\zeta (s)$ is defined by convergent power series. I know that $\zeta (s)$ has a pole at $s=1$ of residue $1$. Likewise, I am familiar with the function equation $\pi ^{-\frac{s}{2}}\Gamma (\frac{s}{2})\zeta(s)=\pi ^{-\frac{1-s}{2}}\Gamma (\frac{1-s}{2})\zeta (1-s)$. From this equation, I see that $-2,-4,\dots $ are zeros, since $\Gamma$ has poles there. I also know that we refer to the the nontrivial zeros as those in the critical strip, i.e. $0<Re(s)<1$. Here are my questions:
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*How do we know that there are no nontrivial zeros to the left of the critical strip, i.e. when $Re(s)<0$?
*How do we know that there are no zeros where $Re(s)=0$?
*Why is $s=0$ not a zero of $\zeta (s)$? This question is particularly key to me, since $\Gamma(s)$ is not defined at any nonpositive integer. By the same reasoning we used to deduce that the negative even integers are zeros using the functional equation above, shouldn't $0$ also be a zero? Since $\Gamma(s)$ is not defined, I don't see how this doesn't violate the functional equation.
*How do we know that $\zeta (s)$ has no zeros on the line $Re(s)=1$?
I understand that I am literally asking multiple questions, but I am hoping that a single clarification will help me answer all four.
A: *
*If you know that $\Gamma(s)$ doesn't have zeros (i.e. $1/\Gamma(s)$ is an entire function) and that $\zeta(s)$ doesn't have zeros in $\Re s>1$ (because it is represented by Euler product there), then the answer follows from the functional equation: $\Gamma(s/2)\zeta(s)$ doesn't have zeros in $\Re s<0$.
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*Yes, $\Gamma(\frac{s}{2})$ has a pole at $s=0$. However, calculating $\zeta(s)$ at $s=0$ cannot be settled with that argument alone due to the fact that $\zeta(1-s)$ also has a pole at $s=0$, meaning that you'd need to resolve an $\frac{\infty}{\infty}$ situation to calculate the actual value of $\zeta(s)$.
A: *
*Consider the functional equation you give, along with some general knowledge of the $\Gamma$ function (it has no roots, and only poles at non-positive integers). No roots for $Re(s)>1$ then implies no roots for $Re(s)<0$, apart from the trivial ones.
| *This follows from the functional equation and item 4.
*Again, follows from the functional equation (if $s=0$ were a zero of $\zeta(s)$ then $\Gamma(s/2)\zeta(s)$ would stay regular at $s=0$).
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1<|fim_middle|>," he said. "This may continually happen to several organizations until they realize that the threat is imminent."
"There needs to be a combination of people, products and training to address this problem," Pizzo added. "Companies can't just get away with using only one; a solution utilizing all of these is necessary to defend themselves against the bad guys knocking on their doors."
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A database for SanrioTown, the online community for Hello Kitty, Badtz-Maru, My Melody and other Sanrio characters, was recently exposed online, Salted Hash reports.
The database, which was discovered by researcher Chris Vickery, held 3.3 million accounts and included full names, birthdates, genders, countries of origin, email addresses, unsalted SHA-1 password hashes, and password hint questions and answers. The first logged exposure of the data was on November 22, 2015.
Sanrio told Salted Hash the database included information on 186,261 people under the age of 18.
In addition to SanrioTown, users of hellokitty.com, hellokitty.com.sg, hellokitty.com.my, hellokitty.in.th and mymelody.com are also affected, according to Vickery.
Vickery said the data wasn't exposed by hackers, but via a misconfigured MongoDB installation.
"We are conducting an internal investigation and security review into this incident; at this time we have no indication that users' personal information was stolen by malicious parties," Sanrio said in a statement published on December 22, 2015.
All SanrioTown users are being advised to change their passwords.
"Given that many organizations have not adjusted their cybersecurity stance to take into account today's multi-level attacks, the Hello Kitty breach highlights yet again that organizations should be focusing on making sure sensitive data remains protected – and leveraging strong encryption with access control is critical to achieving this," Vormetric CSO Sol Cates told eSecurity Planet by email.
"This is yet another case of an organization that has failed to put in place these security controls," Cates added. "Protecting data and passwords using 'hashing' techniques is simply not enough."
And Norse field engineer Joseph Pizzo noted by email that leaks and breaches like the SanrioTown leak and the recent VTech breach are unfortunately becoming increasingly common. "They are a product of poor storage of credentials, a poor security infrastructure, advanced attack methods, or any combination of the three | 447 |
Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons release their first menswear collaboration
The pairing of these two designers has borne its first glorious fruits in the world of menswear.
by JEFFREY YAN / September 6, 2021
The coming together of Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons at Prada has been one of the most exiting fashion developments in recent memory. The partnership yielded its first menswear collection for fall/winter 2021: A tight edit of 42 looks that bring together the signatures of both designers' decades-long careers. The slim, sharp tailoring that opened the show has been a mainstay at both labels, just like the oversize outerwear that came after.
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Both Prada and Simons have also often touched on a certain sense of tenderness in menswear—translated here into boys wearing not much more than soft, clingy undergarments. Some elements, such as the ugly-chic geometric prints, feel purely Prada; others, such as the brilliantly coloured bomber jackets and boucle coats, seem more reflective of Simons's oeuvre. But overall, there is an undeniable synergy that demonstrates just how in sync these two designers had been even before this official collaboration.
For this collection, both designers agreed that it shouldn't be about any grand concept or elaborate narrative, but rather, about a certain feeling. Where the first women's collection was about the duo defining a new Prada uniform, this collection, according to Simons, is "about the tactility and the literal, physical feeling clothes can have".
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Thus, silhouettes that hug and envelop the body, and fabrications that range from plush to glossy. "We were thinking about aspects such as comfort, protection and beauty in general. For that reason, this collection deals with juxtapositions of colour, of softness and hardness—to express the reality of the world and at the same time, the possible feelings that everybody has had, dealing with so much isolation," adds Simons.
In a subversive twist, the collection is built on a foundation piece that last saw its heyday in the previous century: Long johns. Extended into full-coverage bodysuits here and brought to the fore, they are an unlikely yet utterly natural extension of the loungewear that has taken over our wardrobes this past year. Prada elaborates: "It's interesting because it was a uniformity in the show, but long johns are definitely not a uniform. It's not very often you find something in fashion that is so flexible, with so many facets—with this one thing, you can express so many things."
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The duo continued building on the idea of a foundational garment in their follow-up collection, for spring/summer 2022. Here, the long johns give way to a little romper suit—a blank canvas on which the designers projected their vision of a world opening up again, a light at the end of the tunnel (which they made literal by having their models walk out from a tunnel and onto a sun drenched beach). Less about how clothes feel and more about how they can make one feel, the collection pushes the concept of summer dressing to a whole new level while referencing an entirely different set of classic Prada and Simons codes. It is a masterful balance between looking back and marching forward, and a promising sign of greater things to come from this power pairing.
This article was originally published in Harpers Bazaar.
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A passion for wine that has been carried on year after year since 1965, when Franco Casetta decided to continue the traditional family activity. So they started to make known the brand of a winery located in Montà that had always put its trust in the Roero region and its terroir, which produces quality wines such as Roero Docg, Roero Arneis Docg, Nebbiolo d'Alba Doc, Barbera d'Alba Doc and Piemonte Bonarda Doc.
This adventure has led to a<|fim_middle|> vineyards and in the cellar to obtain a product that reveals the Roero region to anyone who tastes it.
The Franco Casetta company offers its customers a spacious tasting room where you can taste wines from the cellar.
You can also make a visit to the cellar to see with own eyes the entire company, taste the different wines and spend a few hours in the quiet countryside.
This possibility is very welcome and even more if you do a phone call to notify us of your arrival to avoid finding the gate closed. | constant growth of the family-run winery, which is now in the hands of Franco's sons, Daniele and Walter.
Strong roots with an international outlook, the brothers Daniele and Walter Casetta decided to combine their skills in order to offer their customers a quality wine with the taste of Roero. Daniele, the marketing and sales manager, keeps up to date with the latest market trends, so the wines by Franco Casetta have been appreciated by several nations through tasting events and trade shows. Walter, helped by his experience in the field of viticulture and supported by his brother, supervises the work in the | 126 |
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Outside: there is a large and sunny private patio terrace with access from the lounge and winding around the side of the property to a gas BBQ area. A beautiful, residents-only swimming pool is close by the villa, (It is secured by a coded entrance, and fenced off for safety). The pool has a large shallow-end with gently sloping entry steps for | 89 |
TOP ska band The Selecter are to headline at a free festival in Ravensknowle Park in September.
The Selecter, whose hits in the late 70s and early 80s included On My Radio and Missing Words, will top the bill at the Timeless festival.
The acts on September 6 also feature dance group Fingathing, The Freestylers and The Bays.
The event, which costs £25,000<|fim_middle|> do not see the park as somewhere they can go." | , has been organised by Dalton, Rawthorpe and Moldgreen regeneration group Dram.
Huddersfield record label Chocolate Fireguard is co-ordinating the festival.
And local young people in the Dalton Rawthorpe and Moldgreen areas are being invited to get involved.
Lyndon Peasley, public relations co-ordinator for Huddersfield Pride, which is also involved, said: "We are finding that music is a good way to involve young people.
"The line-up is really diverse with contemporary groups, and going back to the 50s, 60s and 70s."
Two stages will be set up - a large stage for the main acts and a smaller Clocktower stage in the Cloth Hall monument, for younger unknown bands. Short films will also be screened by Short Circuits.
Mr Peasley said he wanted people aged 16-24 to help stage the event.
The spokesman said one of the aims of the festival was to alert young people to the amenities that the park offered.
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In a<|fim_middle|> targets in the sky and guides the PAC-3 missile to the target; a mobile control station with which ground forces monitor incoming missiles and fire the PAC-3; a launching station that holds 16 PAC-3 missiles
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Iraq has actively pursued production of shortrange missiles, legal under the U.N. resolutions. But it may also have two dozen or more enhanced-and prohibited-Scud missiles left over from 1991 and potentially able to deliver chemical or biological warheads as far away as Tel Aviv, Riyadh or Tehran
MISSILE... | war with Iraq, the U.S. would probably bring out its new Patriot surface-to-air missile, the PAC-3, which improves upon the flawed PAC-2 used during the Gulf War. The new model promises greater p
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The PAC-3 system includes a radar station that detects, identifies and tracks | 91 |
The TYPO3 Community has been buzzing with activity the last few weeks, peaking the last 7 days. One reason for<|fim_middle|> domain models evolved from the Extbase and Fluid code sprint. Most domain models are the foundation of backend extensions that made the switch to Extbase. Extbase received lots of love in the form of bug fixes and additional features like an improved language overlay and sophisticated 'deleted or hidden record' handling. A basic engine to resolve objects of the file abstraction layer is added to Extbase as well.
Namespace support is the most important part of the beta1 release with the highest impact: The whole core switched all class names to PHP 5.3 namespaces. About roughly 1800 class names have been changed. Each of them got a new name, was moved to a new location in the file system and adjusted internally. This masterpiece is supported by a backwards compatibility layer for old class names. Extensions should still be working without any modification. The namespace switch started with a huge patch and was done shortly before this beta1 release. There are still some issues that need to be tackled and it is to be expected that the current snapshot version might run into problems with uncommon setups that were not tested, yet. In general this huge change needs a lot of testing from the community and feedback is - as always - highly appreciated.
The extension manager is completely rewritten and streamlined. The new solution is - like all other major rewrites of core extensions - based on Extbase. The interface is simplified to the necessary tasks, managing extensions: update, install and configure. The language package handling module was moved out of the extension manager into the 'lang' extension as an own module. The lang module is still under construction.
The core now contains a shiny new core logging API. It has flexible logging configuration and is easy to use in ones own extensions, with flexible data enrichment and escalation strategies. We're looking forward to a broad core usage. For now, extensions can use and extend the API for own use already.
While the backend is optically very similar to the versions before, there were lots of smaller improvements for better backend experience. The two top rows of the main modules were swapped, making the top-to-bottom approach more logical. The default page module is now based on a backend layout setting as well and changed its view.
The workspaces module in the backend now is capable of selecting and handling localizations which allows to e.g. only publish all Spanish contents and keep French still in the workspace. The rarely used "percentage of change" value was removed which boosts the loading speed of the module in general.
Tons of smaller features are added to improve behaviour and possibilities of extensions and modules.
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The backend user administration module is substituted with a new implementation based on Extbase and can now handle large amounts of users in a new user interface.
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Managed print service partners positive on Xerox split
Xerox's pending split, slated for completion by year's end, may have limited impact on document technology partners, who generally view the breakup as a favorable development.
John Moore, Senior Site Editor
Xerox Corp.'s pending breakup appears poised to have a mostly positive impact on managed print service providers and other document specialists.
The 110-year-old company, based in Norwalk, Conn., late last month announced plans to split into independent document technology and business process outsourcing (BPO) businesses. That process is expected to conclude by the end of 2016. In the meantime, Xerox contends the split will result in greater operational focus for each company. On the document technology side, where numerous partners sell Xerox printers, supplies and related services, that focus will provide a tighter alignment between the vendor and the channel, according to industry executives.
Joshua Justice, president of Southern Solutions LLC, an authorized Xerox sales agency based in Waldorf, Md., said his company provides office products, managed print service offerings and Xerox apps. The Xerox document technology company will share his company's market emphasis.
"The focus will be on the same things that I do," Justice noted. "I think that is very positive."
He said most Xerox partners he's spoken with also view the Xerox split favorably.
Limited disruption
Jim Hillmann, practice director for managed print services at Pomeroy, an IT infrastructure services provider based in Hebron, Ky., said he is not expecting a lot of change in the Xerox document business, despite the upcoming split and new channel leadership. Based on what he's heard from<|fim_middle|> business will operate much as it did before.
The story is much the same at CompTIA, based in Downers Grove, Ill., where Tim Herbert, senior vice president of research and market intelligence, has had some early discussions with members.
The focus will be on the same things that I do; I think that is very positive.
Joshua Justicepresident, Southern Solutions LLC
"It does appear if you are a traditional managed print firm, or a traditional repair firm or copier dealer, this [split] is generally viewed as positive," he said. "It does provide a greater focus to the relationship with Xerox, and, in some cases, if they had little interaction with the services or BPO side of Xerox, it may not affect them a whole lot."
On the other hand, partners whose business spanned both sides of Xerox may see more of a shift. Herbert suggested partners who sought to provide more of an end-to-end type of offering, incorporating both managed print service and BPO, for example, would end up with different working relationships as a result of the split.
Herbert, however, suggested that the channel is much larger on the document side of Xerox, compared with the BPO component's partner roster.
"I never really dealt with the other side of the business," Justice noted, referring to Xerox's BPO operation.
Future investment?
When Xerox disclosed its breakup plan, it said the resulting document technology company would possess the profitability and free cash flow generation to bankroll "selective investments in attractive growth areas."
One thrust the new document technology company may continue to fund is its current foray in the small and medium-sized business market. Xerox last July launched a set of managed print services to extend its reach among SMBs, where it aims to drive more of its document technology sales through channel partners. At the time, Xerox said the channel would account for nearly two-thirds of its technology revenue by late 2016 or early 2017.
"Xerox can be expected to further drive its channel strategy to gain broader mind share in the [SMB] market -- and effective channel engagement will be key to pushing this forward, given the highly competitive space," said Louella Fernandes, associate director for print services and solutions at Quocirca, a market research and analysis company based in the United Kingdom.
"There has been a lot of growth in SMB," Justice added.
In particular, he said Xerox's A4 printers will open more doors in the SMB space, noting that products' more powerful controllers lend themselves to workflow and app offerings.
Hillmann, meanwhile, suggested that Xerox may also continue its previous direction of having partners take over on-site service delivery for its multifunction devices, such as its A3 and A4 products. He said that's been a fairly consistent message from Xerox over the past couple of years and suspects the company's end game is to have fewer Xerox-badged employees servicing machines in the field.
Hillmann said partners with limited geographic coverage -- within a single metropolitan area, for instance -- can dispatch technicians to provide services. But the local service approach doesn't fit Pomeroy's business model, he said, noting that his company would need to work on equipment across multiple states.
"We can sell, manage the customer, do the invoices and run the help desk, but we need Xerox to turn the screwdriver," he said.
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Jackie Harrington – "Once in a Lifetime"
Ever wonder why some artists never really capture every drip of the magic of love? It just seems strange how some artists fail to establish the sense of floating, that feeling of warmth that won't go away. Love is such a magical thing, and it may be different for different people, as we all are different individuals with different situations. But the feeling of gratification and contentment is commune to all mortals, especially after a moment of suffering. For me, the first time I heard the new single, "Once in a Lifetime", by Austin, Texas based artist, Jackie Harrington, I felt the hairs on every part of my anatomy shiver. Spiritually inclined, the track was born out of the trials and tribulations of a mother fighting for her once incarcerated son. Its story, and evolving testimony, is an affirmation of two essential words for this talented songstress – LOVE and FAITH.
Our ability to love and have faith, is what ultimately drives us to surpass the obstacles life puts along our pathway. Love and faith are terms that Jackie is able to perfectly translate through her music and voice, on "Once in a Lifetime".
This track is simply haunting and uplifting, maybe that's why I get tingles listening to it, whilst honestly summing up what true love is – and not just the good bits – in a way that you need to hear to truly appreciate. Lying eyes closed you can picture your past, present and future – and the stress and strain of your world will appear to vanish before the powerful messages Jackie delivers here. The lady is simply anointed.
"Once in a Lifetime" rides on a phat beat and tasty production, in a nu-old-school way. Gospel has a huge impact on the beauty of this record. And there is a whole lot more, with Jackie's lead melody and the rich harmonies adding gale-force impact.
It<|fim_middle|> song on this EP is an invitation to experience the dynamic and healing presence of God throughout our experiences. Jackie Harrington is a powerful vessel confirming the goodness and glory of God. At the same time though, her music is able to reach far beyond the boundaries of Gospel, and almost anyone can find meaning in "Once in a Lifetime".
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tagsJackie Harrington Once in a Lifetime | is touching, genuine, thought provoking, and shows all sides of our heart guided by faith. Jackie Harrington is one of a selected, who are chiseling at the foundations of an industry which is shoveling meaningless junk down our throats. She is soulful yet languid, as she effortlessly captures the multidimensional nature of black womanhood inspired by faith.
The confidence shown on "Once in a Lifetime" is both comforting and admirable – a reminder of her natural skills. Running through the rest of the songs in this collection, you realize that Jackie has the ability to be subdued, implicit, yet bombastic; she can be calm, collected, and cool…and she knows it.
On "Journey" ft. Toma Johnson, Jackie soars with urban urgency backed by a hip-hop beat, while on "Sinners Pray" she brings forth her soulful nuanced tones in a mid-tempo ballad. Her honey molasses voice will coat all your senses. She is a true artist who knows how to express music that's made to touch the heart, spirit, and soul.
Her sophistication and class shines on "Trust You Always". With many artists, the ballad can sometimes be interpreted as being corny, but Jackie gives it the passion that demands listeners to feel the words she pushes from her lips and soul. That's why her songs unfold almost cinematically in our ears.
"Once in a Lifetime" is definitely a set of experiences, not just another project. It would be an extreme injustice not to share how heavily anointed these experiences are. Jackie Harrington possesses a unique combination of amazing vocals and a pure heart of worship towards a Lord whom she seems to know intimately.
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