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Diatomyidae is a family of hystricomorph rodents. It is represented by a single living species, Laonastes aenigmamus, native to Laos in Southeast Asia. Fossil species are known from the Oligocene and Miocene of Asia and eastern Europe.
"Lazarus effect"
Before Laonastes was<|fim_middle|> of Laos. Fossil diatomyids have been recovered in Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, Japan, and Serbia.
Relationship to other rodents
The uniqueness of the Laotian rock rat was clear upon its initial discovery. The results of the phylogenetic analyses were somewhat inconclusive and contradictory. Both morphological and molecular studies suggested Laonastes is a member of the rodent suborder Hystricognathi. The morphological analysis suggested it is the most basal hystricognath. Fossil taxa were not included in the morphological analysis.
Analysis of mtDNA 12S rRNA and cytochrome b sequence, however, suggested Laonastes might be related to living African hystricognaths such as the dassie rat and the naked mole rat. Another type of analysis on the cytochrome b sequence data produced the same result as morphology. Neither analysis, however, showed entirely robust statistical support for the position of Laonastes within the hystricognaths; altogether, it appeared to belong among the basal African radiation.
Dawson et al. also refuted the notion that Laonastes is a hystricognath and instead argued that the mandible is sciurognathous. They evaluated Laonastes in comparison to several fossil rodents and determined it is closely related to the diatomyids, particularly Diatomys. Their results suggested the Diatomyidae are a sister group to the Ctenodactylidae, and this diatomyid/ctenodactylid clade (along with the Yuomyidae) is sister to the Hystricognathi.
Besides Laonastes, other diatomyids have also been placed in different families. Some placed Diatomys in the family Pedetidae (springhares). Others considered Fallomus to belong to the Chapattimyidae (a completely fossil group). The family Diatomyidae was erected and considered to be a member of the superfamily Ctenodactyloidea. Marivaux et al. united the two into a single family (Diatomyidae), but also suggested this family might be related to the Pedetidae.
Dawson's fossil study was corroborated by more comprehensive DNA sequence analyses, which suggested a roughly Lutetian (about 44 Mya, Early/Middle Eocene) divergence date between the ancestors of the Laotian rock rat and the African gundis, which are each other's closest living relatives. Considering the present-day distribution, the fossil record, and Eocene paleogeography, this divergence probably took place in one of three regions. Either the lineages split in Eurasia, somewhere in today's Zagros Mountains or adjacent ranges of the Alpide belt. These at that time formed a rugged and broken coastline with many offshore islands, as they emerged from the shrinking Tethys Sea. Alternatively, the entire Ctenodactyloidea might be of African origin, or the lineage split took place on India as it joined the Asian mainland, with the gundis reaching Africa via the Mascarene Plateau's archipelagos and island continents. Each hypothesis would unite the paleontological, anatomical, and molecular findings into a robust model. Which one is preferred depends on whether the Hystricomorpha were Laurasian or Gondwanan in origin.
Species
†Fallomus
†Fallomus razae
†Fallomus ginsburgi
†Fallomus quraishyi
†Diatomys
†Diatomys shantungensis
†Diatomys liensis
†Diatomys chitaparwalensis
†Marymus
†Marymus dalanae
†Pierremus
†Pierremus explorator
†Pierremus ladakhensis
†Willmus
†Willmus maximus
†Inopinatia
†Inopinatia balkanica
Laonastes
Laonastes aenigmamus - Laotian rock rat
References
External links
Carnegie Museum Press Release: "New family of mammal really living fossil" with images
Detailed article on finding that Laonastes is a diatomyid
Another article on finding that Laonastes is a diatomyid
Rodent families
Extant Rupelian first appearances | discovered, the family Diatomyidae was known only from fossils. The family has a nearly continuous fossil range from Early Oligocene fossils of Fallomus from the Lower Chitarwata Formation (32.5 million years ago, Bugti Member, Bugti Hills,) in Balochistan, Pakistan, to Middle/Late Miocene fossils (11 Mya) of Diatomys.
Jenkins et al. reported the discovery of a wholly unique new species of rodent, Laonastes aenigmamus, for which they created a new family, Laonastidae. They suggested it was a hystricognath rodent, but basal to all other hystricognaths. Dawson, et al, re-evaluated the phylogenetic position of Laonastes based on morphology and included fossil taxa in their analysis. They determined Laonastes is actually sciurognathous and belongs to the Diatomyidae. They also described the Diatomyidae as a Lazarus taxon due to the 11-million-year gap between the most recent diatomyid in the fossil record and the existence of Laonastes today. The only other comparable length of time for a mammal Lazarus taxon is the monito del monte, which is part of a family (Microbiotheriidae), also most recently known from Miocene deposits. Mary Dawson described Laonastes as the "coelacanth of rodents".
Characteristics
The Diatomyidae are similar to both the Ctenodactylidae and the Anomaluromorpha in being simultaneously hystricomorphous and sciurognathous. The masseteric fossa in diatomyids is enlarged and extends to below the first cheek tooth. The enamel on incisors is multiserial (similar to the springhare, gundis, and Hystricognathi). The single premolar on both the upper and lower tooth rows is enlarged (unlike the reduced state in Ctenodactylidae). Most diatomyids have cheek teeth with four roots except for the first. In Laonastes, the lower molars have four roots, but upper cheek teeth have three roots including a U-shaped anterior root that may be derived from the merging of two roots.
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Walking in a Winter Wanderland
by Tara Nieuwesteeg • Dec 10, 2015
You may remember City Lights, the annual Dallas holiday celebration of years past: a one-day event full of music, fireworks, Santa sightings, blocked-off streets, crowds of tens of thousands of people, and general over-the-top festivities.
The bad news: City Lights is no more. The good news: Downtown Wanderland, Downtown Dallas Inc.'s streamlined, reconfigured holiday celebration, is better—especially for downtown itself.
A DJ spins along Stone Street Gardens downtown. Photo by Thomas Garza.
After some reflection, the folks behind Downtown Dallas Inc. realized that City Lights didn't quite align with their goals. It was spectacular and<|fim_middle|> "social" boutique hotel this summer. The new approach puts guests in micro-rooms in exchange for access to luxurious elements sourced from around the world at a lower rate. Geared toward frequent travelers, the hostel-meets-luxury model provides group spaces, curated travel itineraries, and daily activity recommendations.
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They decided to utilize these businesses in their holiday event. The goal: create a festivity-filled shopping experience that would span the duration of the holiday season—giving people a reason to keep venturing into downtown and patronizing the restaurants and businesses that operate there. Downtown Wanderland was born.
The goal of Downtown Wanderland: create a festivity-filled shopping experience that would span the duration of the holiday season.
Put simply, Downtown Wanderland is a shop-eat-drink extravaganza that runs every week from Nov. 19 through Dec. 31, Thursday to Sunday. It features mural-painting, pop-up local artists, live music, photo-ops with Santa, Christmas card-worthy decor, and lots of shopping opportunities. The festivities span Main Street and comprise many of downtown's surrounding businesses, especially shopping anchor Neiman Marcus. Participating businesses provide discounts (such as $2 hot chocolates from Cafe Estrada, complimentary nail art from Pink Toes Nail Bar, and $6 s'more martinis from Iron Cactus), many of which are unlocked using the special Wanderland bracelet issued upon making a purchase from a participating vendor. Photo ops include a brand-new Christmas tree and a 20-foot wreath at Main Street Garden.
"Downtown Wanderland is about making Dallas a destination all season long," Perry says. "It's about drawing business to local businesses and giving them a chance to shine. This is the whole downtown working together to bring people something magical."
One of the pop-up shops at Unbranded. Photo by Thomas Garza.
Downtown Dallas Inc. has partnered with Unbranded, a group that offers the creative community free retail space in the form of "pop up" shops. Unbranded, started by Matt Alexander (Need) and Bryan DeLuca (Foot Cardigan) in 2014, features a rotation of curated boutiques, artists, and entrepreneurs in the parking garage across from Neiman Marcus. Each week features 25 retailers vending everything from trendy baby clothes to jewelry to cheesecakes. In a similar vein, Wanderland has also introduced "park-it pop-ups," local retailers operating out of small refurbished trailers. Since all the temporary shop space is provided at no cost, small business owners are given a chance to reach a broad range of consumers that they might not otherwise have access to.
"This provides space to people who wouldn't be able to purchase a little booth at a holiday market," Perry says. "Some of these people haven't even sold a product face-to-face before."
"If it works well, there's no reason we couldn't do something like this year round," Shalissa Perry says.
For the thousands of people who live and work in downtown, Wanderland creates a festive environment and convenient, one-of-a-kind shopping opportunity. It also drives suburban-dwellers seeking a regular holiday destination to discover downtown and to patronize nearby businesses and homegrown retailers as they wander. "This is a good way to support local businesses and find truly unique gifts," Perry says. "If it works well, there's no reason we couldn't do something like this year round."
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The Top 10 Super Bowls in NFL History
Nick Kostos@@thekostosTwitter LogoContributor IJanuary 25, 2013
Once the dust settles on Championship Sunday and the AFC and NFC winners are crowned, I get Super Bowl fever. I watch all the game recaps on NFL Network and fully immerse myself in the pageantry of the historic event.
The history of the game is so important, and knowing it allows for a much greater enjoyment and understanding of today's events.
With 46 Super Bowls in the books and Super Bowl XLVII a little<|fim_middle|> Super Bowl XXV: Giants 20, Bills 19
Super Bowl XXV is arguably the cleanest Super Bowl ever played. Neither team committed a turnover, and from the start, the game was intensely contested.
The Buffalo Bills were heavily favored, and after Bruce Smith sacked Giants quarterback Jeff Hostetler for a safety to put the Bills up 12-3 in the second quarter, it appeared Buffalo was ready to pull away. However, Hostetler led the Giants to a touchdown before halftime.
It was then that the Giants established their ball-control dominance, as they held the ball for over 40 minutes, a Super Bowl record. Their drive to start the third quarter stretched for over 10 minutes, culminating in a touchdown run by eventual MVP Ottis Anderson.
Bills running back Thurman Thomas scored on the first play of the fourth quarter, but the Giants went ahead late on a Matt Bahr field goal, 20-19, setting the stage for one of the most dramatic moments in the history of the league.
Buffalo quarterback Jim Kelly led the Bills down the field, and as emotions ran high and tensions rose, Bills kicker Scott Norwood trotted out to attempt the game-winner. No Super Bowl kicker had ever attempted a game-closing field goal in which the result of the kick determined the winner or loser. Norwood's kick sailed wide right, and the Bills experienced their first of four Super Bowl heartbreaks.
Nick Kostos is the executive producer of the SiriusXM Blitz, hosted by Rich Gannon and Adam Schein, on SiriusXM NFL Radio. You can follow Nick on Twitter. | over a week away, let's determine the 10 best Super Bowls of all time.
Super Bowl XLIV: Saints 31, Colts 17
This Super Bowl was full of incredible plays, from the Saints recovering an onside kick to start the second half to Lance Moore's twisting two-point conversion catch, ultimately culminating with Tracy Porter's game-sealing pick-six off Peyton Manning. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to crack the top 10.
Super Bowl VII: Dolphins 14, Redskins 7
This game is on the honorable mention list for one reason: The victory for Miami completed its 17-0, undefeated season. It also featured the funniest play in NFL history, with Dolphins kicker Garo Yepremian losing a ludicrously hysterical fumble while attempting a pass, which threatened Miami's victory. The Dolphins held on, though, and the rest is history.
Super Bowl XIV: Steelers 31, Rams 19
The last of the Steelers' four Super Bowl victories in the '70s, Super Bowl XIV was almost a monumental upset. The Los Angeles Rams had finished the regular season 9-7 and had barely outscored their opponents in doing so. So when they led at halftime and regained the lead late in the third quarter over heavily favored Pittsburgh, it appeared that an upset of historic fashion was in the making.
However, Terry Bradshaw's 73-yard bomb to John Stallworth in the fourth quarter put the Steelers ahead for good, but not before this game made its mark on NFL history.
10. Super Bowl XXXVIII: Patriots 32, Panthers 29
The 14-2 New England Patriots, two years after winning their first-ever Super Bowl championship, met the upstart 11-5 Carolina Panthers in this matchup.
Despite featuring no scoring in the first and third quarters, the teams managed to rack up 61 points and 868 yards of total offense.
In my opinion, the Patriots were clearly the better team, and they were favored by a touchdown, so it was amazing that the Panthers hung around throughout the entire contest. With 1:08 to go in the fourth quarter, Carolina quarterback Jake Delhomme hit Ricky Proehl with a 12-yard touchdown pass to tie the game at 29.
I remember thinking that Tom Brady wouldn't be denied, and like clockwork, Brady led the Patriots down the field, setting up Adam Vinatieri for yet another Super Bowl game-winning field goal. He drilled it, and the Pats claimed their second Super Bowl title in three years, cementing the legacies of Brady, coach Bill Belichick and Vinatieri as Super Bowl legends.
You can relive the whole game here and here.
9. Super Bowl III: Jets 16, Colts 7
Arguably the biggest upset in Super Bowl history, the New York Jets of the AFL defeated the heavily favored Baltimore Colts of the NFL, 16-7.
The result is a seminal moment in NFL history, a watershed event that shaped the league into the way it's constructed today, as the NFL and AFL merged to create the NFC and AFC.
Jets quarterback Joe Namath famously guaranteed victory in the days leading up to the game, and his team delivered, suffocating a potent Baltimore offense en route to victory.
Was the game played in a classic fashion? No, it was not. But its result is important enough to merit its inclusion on this list.
8. Super Bowl XXXIV: Rams 23, Titans 16
This Super Bowl was a thriller, but it didn't really pick up until the fourth quarter. After Tennessee tied the game at 16 with 2:12 left in regulation, Rams quarterback and eventual game MVP Kurt Warner connected with Isaac Bruce on a 73-yard touchdown pass, putting St. Louis in front again.
From there, Titans quarterback Steve McNair led Tennessee down the field on one of the most dramatic drives in NFL history. The late McNair was majestic, showing off both the arm strength and agility that made him one of the league's best signal-callers.
As time waned, one play remained for Tennessee to tie the game.
McNair struck receiver Kevin Dyson, who couldn't escape the vise-like grip of Rams linebacker Mike Jones. Dyson was stopped at the 1-yard line as time expired.
One yard was all that prevented the first-ever overtime game in the history of the Super Bowl. Never before had the title bout truly been a "game of inches."
7. Super Bowl XXXII: Broncos 31, Packers 24
I believe this Super Bowl, despite its monumental matchup at quarterback (John Elway vs. Brett Favre), is underrated.
The storylines were juicier than a Peter Luger's porterhouse. Favre and the Packers were going for their second consecutive Lombardi Trophy, and it would also be another chance for Elway to win a ring after losing three previous times in the big game.
The game lived up to the hype and featured Elway's famous "helicopter" run, as he pinballed off several Packer defenders for a first down, setting up a touchdown by eventual game MVP Terrell Davis.
Denver took a late 31-24 lead, and Favre tried to lead Green Bay for the tying score, but his fourth-down pass for Mark Chmura was incomplete.
Finally, Elway had his Super Bowl ring, and he happened to obtain it in one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played.
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6. Super Bowl XLIII: Steelers 27, Cardinals 23
This Super Bowl presented perhaps the most interesting dichotomy in the history of the game. On one hand, you had the five-time Super Bowl champion Steelers, a team ripe with history and success. On the other, you had the Arizona Cardinals, who had mostly been a punching bag throughout their existence.
Thanks to quarterback Kurt Warner and wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, this iteration of the Cardinals was for real and very nearly escaped with a championship. Fitzgerald had a fourth quarter for the ages, catching six passes for 115 yards and two touchdowns, the second one putting Arizona ahead, 23-20.
But the Steelers were not to be denied, as Ben Roethlisberger connected with eventual game MVP Santonio Holmes in one of the best plays in NFL history, as Holmes got both feet down in the corner of the end zone, putting Pittsburgh ahead for good, 27-23.
This game was also noteworthy for Steelers linebacker James Harrison's Super Bowl-record 100-yard interception return for a touchdown as the first half expired, which I consider the most underrated play in NFL history.
5. Super Bowl XXIII: 49ers 20, Bengals 16
Unfortunately for the Cincinnati Bengals, they were twice the victim of San Francisco 49ers quarterback Joe Montana's magic, losing to him in two Super Bowls in the '80s.
The second stung much more than the first, as the Boomer Esiason-led Bengals held a 13-6 advantage to start the fourth quarter and were up 16-13 late in the game.
When Montana and the 49ers needed to drive 92 yards to score the go-ahead touchdown, they moved the ball down the field in methodical fashion, with Montana hitting eventual game MVP Jerry Rice several times on the possession.
Montana eventually found John Taylor in the end zone, allowing the 49ers to win the game, 20-16, for their third Super Bowl championship of the '80s. After the game, the late, great Bill Walsh, who won three titles in San Francisco, retired, putting a punctuation mark on one of the most pulse-pounding Super Bowls ever.
4. Super Bowl XXXVI: Patriots 20, Rams 17
I remember sitting down to watch Super Bowl XXXVI and thinking the Patriots had no chance to defeat the Rams.
It was clear early on that I, and many others, were dead wrong.
This was a heart-stopper from start to finish, with clutch plays throughout.
Heavy underdog New England built a 17-3 advantage on the strength of a Ty Law pick-six off Rams quarterback Kurt Warner and a Tom Brady touchdown to David Patten. But St. Louis roared back, tying the game with two late touchdowns, setting the stage for Brady to begin to author his legacy.
Brady was surgical on the final drive, leading the Patriots into field-goal range. Then Adam Vinatieri made his first of two Super Bowl-winning field goals, giving New England its first Super Bowl championship.
3. Super Bowl XLII: Giants 17, Patriots 14
Perhaps no Super Bowl in history contained more historical ramifications than Super Bowl XLII.
The Patriots entered the game with an 18-0 record and were attempting to complete a perfect season. A win would have tied Tom Brady with Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw for the most Super Bowl titles by a quarterback with four, and it would have tied Bill Belichick with Chuck Noll for the most Super Bowl victories by a coach with four.
All that stood in New England's way of achieving perfection were the heavy underdog New York Giants and quarterback Eli Manning, whose brother Peyton had faced his share of heartbreak at the hands of Brady.
The reason that this game isn't No. 1 on this list is because it didn't really get going until the fourth quarter, but what a final stanza it was.
Eventual MVP Manning hit David Tyree to put the Giants up 10-7, but then Brady found Randy Moss in the end zone, and the Patriots led 14-10 with 2:42 to go. They were one defensive stop away from perfection.
It was then that Manning authored one of the most improbable drives in the history of the NFL, buoyed by the infamous "Helmet Catch" by Tyree and an outrageous throw down the middle by Manning.
Manning then threw the go-ahead touchdown to Plaxico Burress with just 35 seconds left, and the Giants defense closed out the game, giving New York its third Super Bowl championship and denying the Patriots perfection.
Four years later, the Giants defeated the Patriots again in Super Bowl XLVI in a game that also contained significant drama, but nothing like the spectacle that was Super Bowl XLII.
2. Super Bowl XIII: Steelers 35, Cowboys 31
If you're a younger reader and have never seen Super Bowl XIII between the Steelers and Cowboys, do yourself a favor and seek this game out, as it's one of the very best in NFL history.
The Steelers and Cowboys comprise one of the best rivalries in sports, and this game was the ultimate moment in their history.
In addition to head coaches Chuck Noll and Tom Landry, Super Bowl XIII featured 14 players that would eventually be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The talent level on the field was simply preposterous.
The Steelers had beaten the Cowboys in Super Bowl X, and the winner of Super Bowl XIII would become the first three-time Super Bowl champion. The stakes were high.
In the end, it was a drop by Cowboys tight end Jackie Smith in the end zone that swung the game, as Dallas ended up losing by four. Pittsburgh led 35-17 in the fourth quarter, but the Cowboys roared back, cutting the lead to 35-31. Yet they were unable to retake the lead, and the Steelers beat Dallas again.
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One thing is certain in the automotive industry: disruptive change is here to stay. OEMs and suppliers will need to be much more nimble and adaptable in order to survive and thrive. A transformed FP&A function will be critical to providing the visibility and analysis necessary to navigate the disruption. Focusing on these five key areas will help ensure that transformation is successful.
Multinational automakers and suppliers may be able to reduce their tax rate by capitalizing on their foreign-derived income. | demand erosion.
The impact of these trends to overall profitability is often not well understood, and most suppliers' finance functions are ill-prepared to model and analyze the impact of a fast-moving and unpredictable business environment. It doesn't make analysis any easier when the quality and accessibility of underlying data is often insufficient to perform timely and accurate examination.
Good, timely data is foundational to good, timely analysis and predictive modeling. Unfortunately, most organizations do not have well-organized, high-quality data that is easily accessible. While data clean up and transformation can often take a lot of effort, it is of fundamental importance to improving the output of FP&A.
Identifying and defining the key drivers of the business helps an organization focus on what's important. Driver-based planning and analysis also enables systematic investigation of variances between the plan and actual outcomes, as well as rapid "what-if" modeling of alternative | 177 |
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The website features a very creative design with a colour scheme that is taken from the visual image backgrounds and vector graphics. The majority of the website uses dark blue panels, black vectors and white text.
The website features parallax panels, clickable boxes and graphics, an interactive google map and much more. There are free poster and flyer downloads also for people to view online or offline. The paypal payment facility means that you can make a payment and book online.
The website features the clients own imagery. A websites imagery is integral because people are drawn to images, vidoes and more over blocks of wording. Where wording is needed, the images balance it out and make it interesting to look at.
The website passes Google's Mobile Friendly test meaning that the website looks good on desktop, tablet and mobile. Want to know what responsive design is? Look no further.
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Spire is a startup that's taking the Internet of Things into space, with constellations of tiny, customized, and easily-replaced satellites called CubeSats.
The CubeSat, first developed in 1999,<|fim_middle|> projects and activity | has become a standardized form factor in academic settings for teaching aerospace and engineering students to build small, cheap spacecraft. Usually 10 centimeters to a side, a CubeSat is essentially a lightweight frame into which you can stuff lightweight electronics — like cameras, gyroscopes, or other sensors — to gather data from low-earth orbit.
Two factors set CubeSats apart from traditional satellites. First, the technology of, say, a Hubble Space Telescope is incredibly sophisticated and purpose-built — and therefore expensive. Second, traditional satellites are designed to occupy precise, high-altitude orbits and remain there for decades, and that means they need additional components to maintain their lofty positions. CubeSats, by contrast, are built with off-the-shelf parts and have a short lifespan, designed to drop out of orbit and burn up in the upper atmosphere after a few years
Spire began life in 2012 as the crowdfunded ArduSat project, which created an open-source platform for building Arduino-powered CubeSats that would make it easy for anyone with a little "maker" spirit to design their own apps and hardware for experimentation in space. After incubating at Lemnos Labs in San Francisco, Spire raised $25 million in series A funding earlier this year.
With large networks of CubeSats listening in on remote parts of the globe for unique RF frequencies, Spire offers the ability to collect data about places and activities that ground-based sensor networks have a hard time covering.
The company's main focus is on the oceans (which are two-thirds of the Earth's surface, after all), where it is developing applications for monitoring illegal fishing, high-seas piracy, and accidents as well as standard asset tracking. Since each individual satellite has a limited lifespan but is cheap and relatively easy to replace, the networks can be updated frequently. In tandem this combination of global coverage and updated technology provides the company and it's subscribers with a unique birds-eye view of the global economy in real-time motion.
Learn more at Spire.com, and check out the video below to see technical details of the original ArduSat.
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IGT Expands Strategic Partnership With Optima Group for Delivery Of Sports Betting Services
Agreement provides international customers with quality ongoing support, maintenance, and development of current platform
LONDON, U.K. (December 19, 2017) -- IGT has announced that it has signed an agreement with Optima Group for the licensing, support, and development of IGT's sports betting platform in all international regions outside of Italy, the United States, and Canada.
As part of the agreement, signed on Dec. 15, 2017, IGT is licensing its Sports Betting platform to Optima, enabling it to provide the day-to-day management of IGT's existing sports betting relationships in international markets, and to be IGT's preferred supplier for delivering sports betting solutions in these regions.
"IGT, as legacy GTECH, has successfully partnered with Optima since 2014 when we licensed our sports betting platform to them for a group of existing GTECH betting and gaming customers," said Walter Bugno, IGT CEO International. "With this new agreement, Optima will ensure that all IGT sports betting customers in the international market receive high-quality ongoing support, while benefitting from Optima's ability to develop and enhance the IGT sports betting platform."
"This strategic partnership gives Optima the opportunity to focus on our strength as a B2B Sports Betting provider in the international space," said Optima Group CEO Jacob Lopez Curciel. "As a result, we can continue innovating on our previous investments in the IGT platform, and ensure a first-class experience for sports betting customers and their players."
About IGT
IGT (NYSE:IGT) is the global leader in gaming. We enable players to experience their favorite games across all channels and regulated segments, from Gaming Machines and Lotteries to Interactive and Social Gaming. Leveraging a wealth of premium content, substantial investment in innovation, in-depth customer intelligence, operational expertise and<|fim_middle|> a deal which greatly enhances the bookmaker's online instant win offering.
Following the integration of IWG's Progressive Play RGS via OpenBet, Hills now offers a much improved instant win portfolio with over 100 games to choose from.
The operator's customers will now be able to enjoy popular IWG games including the industry leading Cash Buster and Slingo.
The deal marks another significant commercial agreement for the award-winning supplier, with its content already live with 888, Foxy Bingo and Mecca Bingo.
Rhydian Fisher, CEO at IWG, said: "Partnering with one of the industry's most recognised names is a major deal for us and we're thrilled William Hill has entrusted us to expand their online instant win offering.
"Through our Progressive Play RGS network, Hills will now be able to offer a comprehensive portfolio, and we're sure their players will enjoy the vast array of games on offer."
Ciara Nic Liam, Head of Gaming at William Hill, added: "The demand for instant win games has grown exponentially in recent times and we've been looking to boost our offering in this space.
"Choosing IWG to deliver a high volume of games was a no brainer for us, with their quality content renowned in the industry. The ease of integrating the Progressive Play RGS has made the whole process simple, and we look forward to a long-standing relationship with IWG."
IWG has provided a full online instant win service to lotteries for over 15 years, producing more than 250 high quality instant win games. It won online lottery supplier of the year at the 2017 EGR B2B Awards.
About IWG
IWG is a world leader in supplying online, instant win games to lotteries and commercial brands and platforms in the online gaming industry. It has over 12 years' experience of making top selling, high quality instant win games and the strategic know how to make them work.
IWG has launched over 300 games that perform consistently at the highest level, engaging and retaining players while driving excellent results for customers. It has the knowledge to deliver a winning portfolio of games, the experience to make it grow and the sales figures and data to back this knowledge up.
IWG delivers an end-to-end solution covering all aspects of game development and portfolio management and a Remote Game Server (RGS) delivering content in multiple regulated jurisdictions from data centres in the UK, Gibraltar, Canada and North America. It has a broad library available via the RGS with games covering many proven themes and mechanics that can be developed into an ideal offering for a partner's instant win portal.
SOURCE: IWG press release.
Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) Announce Nine New Members Join Organization
LAS VEGAS, NV (December 15, 2017) -- The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved the membership applications of nine new companies, bringing the trade group comprised of the world's leading gaming suppliers to a total of 162, an all-time high.
The new AGEM members are:
Betson Enterprises, based in Carlstadt, New Jersey, is a leader in providing profitable solutions to the VLT market and location-based entertainment industry.
Dominode, based in Boca Raton, Florida, provides verified identity and licensing solutions for gaming businesses and professionals.
DR Gaming Technology, based in Aalst, Belgium, with offices around the world, is a supplier of integrated casino management and jackpot system solutions.
Genlot, based in Shenzhen, China, is a provider of goods, services and technology to the Chinese lottery.
GET IN Global, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a global gaming events company with 16 years of experience in the industry.
Jackpot Digital, based in Vancouver, Canada, is a leading electronic table games manufacturer for the cruise ship and regulated casino industries.
JP Morgan Chase, based in New York City, offers comprehensive global banking solutions and investment services for mid-tier companies up to large corporations.
Kiron Interactive, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, provides virtual sports content to sports betting and gaming businesses for deployment online or in retail venues.
Visualplanet, based in Cambridge, UK, is a globally recognized leader of large-format touch-sensor technology.
AGEM is a non-profit international trade association representing manufacturers and suppliers of electronic gaming devices, lotteries, systems, table games, online technology, key components and support products and services for the gaming industry. AGEM works to further the interests of gaming equipment suppliers throughout the world. Through political action, regulatory influence, trade show partnerships, educational alliances, information dissemination and good corporate citizenship, the members of AGEM work together to create benefits for every company within the organization. Together, AGEM has assisted regulatory agencies and participated in the legislative process to solve problems and create a business environment where AGEM members can prosper while providing a strong level of support to education and responsible gaming initiatives. For more information, visit www.AGEM.org
SOURCE: The Association of Gaming Equipment Manufacturers (AGEM).
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SOURCE: IGT.
Gaming Technologies Association Statement in Respect of Labor Party's Attack on Poker Machines in Hotels and Clubs
SYDNEY, Australia (December 19, 2017) -- The Gaming Technologies Association (GTA) today said the Tasmanian Labor Party's attack on poker machines in hotels and clubs was an act of economic vandalism that will cost jobs and strip millions from the Government's capacity to fund essential services for the community.
"This policy is a disaster for the 3,000i Tasmanians who rely on jobs in the hospitality sector," GTA Chief Executive Ross Ferrar said today.
"The facts speak for themselves. Expenditure on poker machines in Tasmania has declined significantly in both real and per-capita terms since 2003 but still contributes $31 million to Tasmanian Government revenue.
"Labor's policy creates a $31 million black hole in the Tasmanian budget, that can only mean cuts to essential services.
"Our Association is calling on the Tasmanian ALP to be honest and open with the Tasmanian people; which services does it propose to cut to pay for its promise?"
"Electronic Gaming Machines in pubs and hotels are a legitimate and legal activity. The overwhelming majority of Tasmanian poker machine users are responsible gamblers."
"Removing poker machines from all hotels and clubs rides roughshod over their legitimate choices and those who enjoy poker machines responsibly.
"Tasmania has one of the strictest regulatory environments for poker machines in the world. Regulators impose comprehensive conditions at every stage and on every aspect of poker machine design and operation," Mr Ferrar said.
"All poker machines operating in Tasmania are subject to stringent legislation, regulation and national standards which ensure that machines available for play in Tasmania are safe and enjoyable for consumers."
"The GTA strongly supports harm minimisation efforts, however, we do not believe banning our products is any more likely to assist problem gamblers, then alcohol prohibition would help problem drinkers."
The Opposition has proposed to remove 2,400 poker machines from 98 venues across Tasmania.ii
The Tasmanian Opposition claims this will create 183 jobs at a cost of $50 million in government grants to venues.
Gaming in clubs and hotels supports approximately 3,000 jobs in the Tasmanian hospitality sector.1
In 2015-16, poker machines, along with Keno, in hotels and clubs provided $31,514,000 in revenue for the Tasmanian Government, as part of $81,846,000 in total revenue produced by the Tasmanian gaming sector.iii
Expenditure on gaming machines in Tasmania has been in decline for more than ten years on both an overall and per capita basis.
- In 2003-2004, Tasmanians spent $461.78 per capita on gaming machines. In 2015-16 it was $282.86.iv
-In 2003-2004, Tasmanians spent $167.6 million on gaming machines. In 2015-16 it was $114.2 million.v
i Employment figures for gaming machines are taken from page 122, Volume 1 of the Third Social and Impact Study of Gambling in Tasmania produced by Liquor and Gaming in the Tasmanian Department of Treasury and Finance. The total figure provided in the study was 4,061, however two sub-categories "Licensed Premises Gaming Operatives" and "Technicians" are relevant here.
ii See Gambling Industry Data on Tasmanian Liquor and Gaming website.
iii See Australian Gambling Statistics 1990–91 to 2015–16, 33rd edition, page 340, available here.
iv See Australian Gambling Statistics 1990–91 to 2015–16, 33rd edition, page 336, available here.
v See Australian Gambling Statistics 1990–91 to 2015–16, 33rd edition, page 334, available here.
SOURCE: Gaming Technologies Association (GTA).
Diamond Game Announces 2-year Contract Extension with OLG
Los Angeles, California (December 19, 2017) -- Diamond Game Enterprises, Inc. ("Diamond Game", "Company"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pollard Banknote Limited, is pleased to announce a two-year extension to its Managed Services Agreement to provide, install, manage, operate, maintain and support the Break Open Ticket ("BOT") dispensers and system for the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation ("OLG"). The dispensers launched in November 2012 in Ontario Charitable Gaming Centres ("CGCs") as part of OLG's Charitable Gaming Revitalization initiative. Under this agreement, Diamond Game will continue to provide the OLG with BOT system managed services until November 24, 2019.
The OLG'S Charitable Gaming Revitalization program was designed to revitalize the province's Charitable Bingo and Gaming industry. To achieve this, new products and technologies have been introduced that have invigorated the traditional charitable gaming experience. The new products include Electronic Bingo, Play On Demand, and Diamond Game's BOT dispensers, branded as Tap Tix in the community. Under the program, 31 CGCs have raised more than $175 million in revenue for local charities and their communities. Diamond Game Tap Tix dispensers are a significant contributor to this success.
"We are very proud of our relationship with OLG," said Bill Breslo, President of Diamond Game. "I commend the OLG on the Charitable Gaming Revitalization initiative and am especially proud of the part our product plays in supporting the many charities that benefit from Charitable Gaming in Ontario."
Thus far, over 900 Diamond Game Tap Tix dispensers have been installed in 31 Charitable Gaming Centres.
"We are excited to continue our relationship with Diamond Game," said Rick Gray, Vice President, Charitable Gaming at OLG. "The Tap Tix dispensers provided by Diamond Game have been such an integral part of our initiative and I am truly enthusiastic about their further contribution to our CGCs and industry."
About Diamond Game
Diamond Game designs, produces, and services games, gaming systems, and tickets for the public gaming, Native American, and charity markets. Diamond Game maintains its corporate headquarters in Los Angeles, California and service facilities in Hamilton, Ontario, and Jefferson City, Missouri. Learn more about Diamond Game at www.diamondgame.com.
About Pollard Banknote
Pollard Banknote is a leading lottery partner to more than 60 lotteries worldwide, providing high quality instant ticket products, licensed games and strategic marketing and management services for both traditional instant games and the emerging iLottery space of web, mobile and social channels. The company is a proven innovator and has decades of experience helping lotteries to maximize player engagement, sales, and proceeds for good causes. Pollard Banknote also plays a major role in the charitable pull-tab and bingo markets in North America. Established in 1907, Pollard Banknote is owned approximately 73.5% by the Pollard family and 26.5% by public shareholders and is publicly traded on the TSX (PBL). For more information, please visit our website at www.pollardbanknote.com.
Bill Breslo
Diamond Game
E: bbreslo@diamondgame.com
T: (818) 727-1690 ext. 203
Sara Navidazar
E: snavidazar@diamondgame.com
Doug Pollard
Co-Chief Executive Officer Pollard Banknote Limited
E: dpollard@pbl.ca
SOURCE: Diamond Game Enterprises press release.
Scientific Games Interactive Brings Online Games to Italy
LAS VEGAS and CHICAGO (Dec. 14, 2017) -- SG Interactive, a division of Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company"), announced today that the Company's titles launched in Italy on November 27, marking the first time SG Interactive games are accessible in the regulated Italian market.
Eleven SG Interactive titles are currently certified for release in Italy, including player-favorite brands such as Spartacus Gladiator of Rome, Rainbow Riches Free Spins and 88 Fortunes.
Branded titles including Monopoly, Wonder Woman, Titanic and other popular licensed brands are also available.
A strong roadmap of proven games and new innovative titles will follow from the SG Interactive game studios: WMS, Bally, Barcrest, Shuffle Master and the newly acquired Red7Mobile.
The initial offering is available first with Betsson Group's StarCasino.it, and other clients including Snai, Sisal and Bwin will follow.
The Company expects more partners to jump on board as the market continues to grow.
Andrea Rossi, Managing Director of Southern Europe and LatAM at Betsson Group, said, "We're excited to be the first to launch the new SG Interactive titles in Italy.
The Company's library has proven to be popular and successful in our other jurisdictions, and we're confident Italian players will be thrilled to have these themes available."
Leigh Nissim, SVP and Managing Director, B2B for SG Interactive, said, "It's encouraging to see our games made available to new players in untapped markets.
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This launch is a fantastic milestone for SG Interactive and an indicator that we're constantly looking to expand our online presence in Europe.
We look forward to working with our partners in Italy to bring players best-in-class gaming content."
About Scientific Games
Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) is the global leader in technology-based gaming systems, table games, table products and instant ticket games and a leader in products, services and content for gaming, lottery and interactive markets.
Scientific Games delivers what customers and players value most: trusted security, creative content, operating efficiencies and innovative technology.
Today, we offer customers a fully integrated portfolio of technology platforms, robust systems, engaging content and unrivaled professional services. For more information, please visit: www.scientificgames.com.
SOURCE: Scientific Games Corporation.
Lotto Baden-Württemberg New Year's Eve Million Sold Out in Record Time
BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, Germany (December 15, 2017) -- As early as this year, the lots of New Year's Eve million were never sold out. However, since Wednesday morning (December 13), the lottery is officially sold out.
Now the tension rises: The draw of the winning numbers takes place around the turn of the year in the Stuttgart lottery headquarters.
With no other lottery of the national Toto-Lotto GmbH Baden-Wuerttemberg the chance on a million-profit is as big as with the new-year-millions. The eighth edition was in demand: as early as this year, the one million tickets were never sold out.
Sales start in early November
It has been available since November 6 in the Baden-Württemberg Lotto acceptance points and under lotto-bw.de and the LottoBW app to buy.
The gameplay principle of the New Year's Eve million is simple: From the number range 000000 to 999999 a number is randomly determined. This number will be printed on the game receipt and handed over to the tipper.
Each lot number for the price of ten euros will be awarded only once.
If all lottery numbers from 000000 to 999999 are in the race, the lottery is sold out.
Draw in the lottery headquarters
The drawing of the winning numbers takes place around the turn of the year under supervision in the Stuttgart lottery headquarters.
Lotto Baden-Wuerttemberg will publish all lottery numbers on lotto-bw.de, among others.
SOURCE: Lotto Baden-Württemberg.
N.C. Education Lottery Achieves Top Certification for Responsible Gaming
Becomes only 4th – and youngest - U.S. lottery to reach top level in world program
RALEIGH, NC (December 19, 2017) -- The N.C. Education Lottery's commitment to build the best practices in responsible gaming into all of its operations has won it the highest level of responsible gaming certification recognized internationally. It is only the 4th U.S. lottery to obtain the certification and the youngest U.S. lottery to do so.
The Level 4 accreditation from the World Lottery Association (WLA) attests that the Education Lottery has implemented responsible gaming practices into its day-to-day operations and is committed to continuous improvement of them. The principles govern the protection of lottery players, cooperation with stakeholders, advertising practices and the monitoring of game activities.
In its assessment, a WLA panel of corporate social responsibility experts wrote it saw "a strong management commitment to responsible gaming" in the lottery's goals, strategies, policies and procedures. "It is clear … that responsible gaming considerations are embedded in the culture and in the day-to-day operations," the panel said.
The Education Lottery has followed important principles of responsible gaming since its inception and has worked to strengthen its practices over time. It achieved Level 1 in 2009, Level 2 in 2011, and Level 3 in 2014, and set the goal of obtaining Level 4 as part of its strategic plan.
"Responsible gaming has always been a part of the Education Lottery because we understand that is the expectation of our players and the public we serve," said Alice Garland, executive director of the lottery. "Our duty is not only to grow our sales and increase the money we raise for a good cause, but to work at the same time to protect the interests of those who enjoy playing lottery games."
Since the start of the lottery, it has been the sole source of funding for the N.C. Problem Gambling Program (www.morethanagamenc.com) providing $1 million a year for treatment and counseling and a 24/7 helpline for anyone with a gambling problem. To improve its responsible gaming program, the Education Lottery also has:
Created a stakeholders panel to review its operations and provide feedback on how to improve.
Obtained a license to offer a new interactive player education program that will be introduced in the spring.
Began using a new tool to evaluate new games for risks before they are offered to players.
Made responsible gaming training mandatory for all lottery employees and retailers who sell lottery tickets.
"This achievement demonstrates how serious the N.C. Education Lottery is about operating games that can be played responsibly in our state," said state Rep. Jason Saine of Lincolnton, a co-chairman of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on the N.C. State Lottery. "By participating in this program and committing to continuous improvement, the lottery can ensure that it minimizes any harm that could come from games created to serve the public good."
CONTACT: Townley Cheek, T: (919) 301-3456.
SOURCE: NC Education Lottery.
EL and ENGSO Renew Their Joint Commitment to an Inspirational and Values-Driven European Grassroots Sport
LAUSANNE / BRUSSELS (December 19, 2017) -- ENGSO and EL have decided to renew their partnership for two additional years. Having both renewed their strategy, EL and ENGSO are looking forward to leverage the results of the cooperation to additional projects and activities which will further support the two associations' strategy.
EL President, Hansjörg Höltkemeier, states "The strategy of both associations is based on similar core values, like society, integrity and responsibility and I am convinced that on this basis in the next two years we will achieve much more together, taking the cooperation onto a higher level, in the highest interest of a credible, values-driven and inspirational grassroots sport in Europe".
ENGSO President, Carlos Paula Cardoso has also highlighted "Driven by the natural nexus between the two associations, we will be looking on how ENGSO and EL can be of further support to each other. We need to work further together to raise awareness about the significance of grassroots sport in Europe and the importance of EL Members in this domain, but also see how we can further support each other's strategy through concrete activities".
EL and ENGSO have been cooperating for the 9 last years. During the last term, the two associations have many achievements to look back on, including the organisation of successful events during the European Week of Sport (EWOS), in which they raised issues of significance, the launch of the ERASMUS+ co-funded project "ASPIRE" for the integration of refugees through sport, and the promotion of the importance of grassroots sport in different fora.
• Visit the EL website here
• Visit the ENGSO website here
• Read more about the EL renewed strategy here
• Related press release: Lotteries, policy makers and sport stakeholders highlight the importance of grassroots sport as a tool for inclusion and empowerment: available here
• Related press release: ASPIRE Project on the social integration of refugees through sport: available here
About European Lotteries (EL)
European Lotteries (EL) is the European umbrella organisation of national lotteries operating games of chance for the public benefit. EL has members from 43 European countries including all 28 EU Member States. The association's EU members contribute more than 20 billion € p.a. to the state budgets and the funding of sport, culture, social projects, research and other causes of general interest. Unlike many commercial online gambling operators, EL members only offer gambling and betting services in the jurisdictions in which they are licensed by the respective national government.
EL CONTACTS: Evangelos Alexandrakis, EL Sport Executive Secretary, T: + 41(0)21 311 30 25, E: el-sport@european-lotteries.org
SOURCE: European Lotteries (EL) press release.
OLG Selects Service Provider For West GTA Gaming Bundle
TORONTO, Ontario, Canada (December 19, 2017) -- Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) has selected Ontario Gaming West GTA Limited Partnership (OGWGLP) as the service provider for the West GTA Gaming Bundle, following a competitive procurement process. OGWGLP consists of Great Canadian Gaming Corporation ("Great Canadian") and Clairvest Group Inc. Great Canadian will operate the gaming facilities within the West GTA Bundle on behalf of the partnership.
The West GTA bundle includes:
OLG Casino Brantford
OLG Slots at Mohawk Racetrack
OLG Slots at Flamboro Downs
OLG Slots at Grand River Raceway.
"OLG is bringing economic development and innovative entertainment to the west GTA region by selecting OGWGLP as the service provider for the bundle," said Stephen Rigby, OLG's President and CEO. "OGWGLP's expertise and significant investment will help create up to 1,650 jobs while providing customers with exciting new entertainment options in newly-improved facilities.
"Great Canadian is an established gaming and horse racing operator that will build strong relationships with local communities, employees, stakeholders and the horse racing industry. We are confident Great Canadian will operate the bundle in a responsible way."
"Being awarded the West GTA Bundle is a true milestone for Great Canadian and the Partnership. We thank OLG for their confidence in our company and for providing us the opportunity to showcase and apply our gaming, racing and hospitality expertise to the selected properties," said Rod N. Baker, Great Canadian's President and CEO. "As a Canadian company that has a long history of responsibly and successfully operating gaming and racing facilities across Canada, we are both eager and excited to undertake what we feel will be a dramatic transformation of the gaming experience at these four properties, for the teams that work there, and the communities they reside in."
"We are thrilled that OLG has selected the Partnership as the service provider for the West GTA Bundle. Together with Great Canadian, we are confident in our ability to deliver a unique and spectacular gaming and entertainment experience at the four properties within the bundle," said Jeff Parr, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Clairvest Group Inc.
To OLG, the integrity of its procurement process is of the utmost importance. In order to ensure an open and transparent process for all proponents, OLG has engaged the services of an impartial Fairness Monitor to advise throughout the process and provide oversight on the fairness of the procurement.
While OGWGLP will be responsible for the day-to-day gaming operations in the bundle, OLG will continue to:
Provide strategic oversight of the West GTA Gaming Bundle and Ontario gaming marketplace—including approvals related to material changes to the business
Conduct and manage gaming in the bundle
Require compliance with applicable regulations and standards set out by the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario (AGCO)
Be the owner of key player information
Require service providers to uphold the high standards of OLG's Responsible Gambling program, including the self-exclusion program
Make Municipality Contribution Agreement payments to host communities.
OLG employees will transfer to the new service provider and OLG will work with OGWGLP to ensure they have as smooth a transition as possible. This includes a requirement for the service provider to retain employees for a period of no less than 12 months in their current position and geographic location. OGWGLP will also be required to provide eligible employees with benefits and a registered pension plan.
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OLG has entered into a Transition and Asset Purchase Agreement with OGWGLP for the West GTA Gaming Bundle, which sets out the customary closing conditions to be satisfied for OLG and OGWGLP to enter into a 20-year Casino Operating and Services Agreement (COSA). OGWGLP is required to follow all applicable laws including AGCO's regulated standards which require, among other things, rigorous Responsible Gambling policies and programs.
OLG expects that the service provider will take over day-to-day operations in spring 2018.
Founded in 1982, Great Canadian Gaming Corporation is a BC based company that operates 22 gaming, entertainment and hospitality facilities in British Columbia, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Washington State. Fundamental to the company's culture is its commitment to social responsibility. "PROUD of our people, our business, our community" is Great Canadian's brand that unifies the company's community, volunteering and social responsibility efforts. Under the PROUD program, Great Canadian annually invests over $2.5 million in our communities, and in 2016, over 1,500 charitable organizations were supported by Great Canadian. In each Canadian gaming jurisdiction, a significant portion of gross gaming revenue from gaming facilities is retained by our crown partners on behalf of their provincial government for the purpose of supporting programs like healthcare, education and social services.
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OLG is the Ontario government agency that delivers gaming entertainment in a socially responsible manner. OLG conducts and manages gaming facilities, the sale of province-wide lottery games, PlayOLG Internet gaming, the delivery of bingo and other electronic gaming products at Charitable Gaming Centres and is helping to build a more sustainable horse racing industry in Ontario. Since 1975, OLG has provided nearly $47 billion to the Province and the people of Ontario. These payments to the province support the operation of hospitals, amateur sport through the Quest for Gold program, local and provincial charities and problem gambling prevention, treatment and research.
CONTACT: OLG Media Relations, T: 1-888-946-6716.
SOURCE: Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG).
The Danish Gambling Authority Release Certification Programme for Online Bingo
ODENSE, Denmark (December 20, 2017) -- Due to the liberalisation of online bingo from January 1st 2018 the Danish Gambling Authority (DGA) is currently working on an update to our certification programme.
An updated version is published later this week. We know that a number of interested parties are awaiting the updated requirements, so these will be specified here.
The requirements in the certification programme will reflect the requirements in the executive order. Here are the most significant:
Only online bingo with 75, 80 or 90 numbers/symbols is allowed
Bingo cards for games with 75 numbers/symbols must have 5 times 5 squares
The sale of bingo cards cannot start until 30 minutes before the game starts
There must be at least 3 seconds between the draw/presentation of each number/symbol
The player cannot select numbers/symbols for the bingo card themselves or make changes to their bingo cards. The players are however allowed to select bingo cards between a number of bingo cards randomly generated by the gambling system
Both manual and automatic marking of drawn numbers/symbols must be possible
The game must end when the first player has a full bingo card
The specification above is with reservation for the content in the final executive order, which will come into force on January 1st 2018.
The DGA is aware of and appreciate the fact that it will be very difficult to have games tested and inspected before the end of the year. We must however point out that whether or not a bingo game is tested, it must comply with requirements in the coming executive order.
SOURCE: Spillemyndigheden (The Danish Gambling Authority).
AGA: What Tax Reform Means for Gaming
WASHINGTON, D.C. (December 20, 2017)
Dear Gaming Industry Colleague:
Moments ago, Congress approved the most extensive changes to the tax code since 1986. While time will tell whether this broad overhaul ultimately leads to the type of economic growth proponents have promised, AGA is proud to have actively led an inclusive industry effort to ensure changes to the corporate tax code provide a net benefit to our members.
A reduction in the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent requires many industries to concede significant, long-standing tax preferences and deductions. In this climate, the gaming industry emerged with several important wins. Specifically, the final agreement protects three priorities for our industry:
Largely preserves the ability for our customers who itemize to net their gambling income, despite a late effort in the Senate to eliminate this deduction;
Exempts most operators from limitations on interest deductibility and provides reasonable transition provisions for all businesses that pay interest on corporate debt; and
Helps to ensure favorable rules for research and development, which gaming suppliers rely on to constantly innovate.
A more detailed summary of the key provisions to the gaming industry is available HERE and a document discussing the impact of tax reform on casino patrons can be found HERE.
While there were wins, there are other areas where we will need to continue to engage to protect and promote the industry as "fixes" are considered in 2018 and beyond. High priority targets include:
Lifting the Slot Tax Reporting Threshold: The $1,200 slot tax reporting threshold was set in the 1970s. The tax reform debate provided us an opportunity to introduce this topic to legislators and pave the way for adjusting the threshold in a favorable way for our members and customers. I encourage your continued engagement to help us make a compelling case for how a higher reporting threshold will help lower administrative costs and provide our customers an improved experience when they visit your facilities;
Promulgating Regulations that Work for the Industry: Legislation of this size and scope will undoubtedly require significant details to be determined by the IRS and the Treasury Department. AGA will remain vigilant to ensure any rulemaking by executive agencies is consistent with industry practices and priorities; and
Assessing and Addressing the Impact of Certain Changes: It may take some time to fully understand the effect some changes have on the industry and our customer base. For example, doubling the standard deduction for individuals will likely result in fewer taxpayers electing to itemize and net their gambling income/losses. AGA will need your continued input to know whether this has a measurable effect on customer behavior, and we stand ready to work with Congressional champions to help address any unintended consequences that threaten the health of the industry.
We recognize Congressional consideration of major changes to the federal tax code creates both opportunities and challenges for our multifaceted industry. AGA initiated an inclusive process to determine the most important aspects of tax reform to our membership and to develop a consensus list of priority issues. Through your partnership, we are pleased with the outcome and look forward to continuing on this success in 2018.
Geoff Freeman
Swedish Gambling Authority Warns Newspaper About Carrying Advertising for Foreign Online Gaming Companies
SWEDEN (December 15, 2017) -- On December 1, 2017, the Lottery Inspectorate has decided to post Newspaper AB Metro in the Metro newspaper to cease to expose promotion to the foreign gaming companies Multilotto.com, The Lotter, Ninja Casino and Jackpotjoy.
The order is accompanied by a penalty of 250,000 kr.
Tidnings AB Metro has, despite the previous consideration of the lawsuit, ceased to market the foreign gaming companies, so the Lottery Inspectorate has now moved on and publicized Tidnings AB Metro.
The order implies that Tidnings AB Metro may not market any of the foreign gaming companies in the newspaper Metro, if Tidnings AB Metro violates the injunction, they will be required to pay a penalty of 250,000 kr.
According to Paragraph 38 (1), the Lottery Act is prohibited from promoting in a professional activity or otherwise for the purpose of acquisition participation in a lottery organized outside the country.
The Lottery Inspectorate may, in accordance with Section 52 of the Lottery Act, notify the injunctions and prohibitions necessary for compliance with the Lottery Act.
Such an injunction or prohibition may be combined with a penalty in accordance with the Proof of Law (1985: 206).
Promotion ban:
It is not allowed to advertise games that are not allowed in Sweden, click here to read more!
SOURCE: Swedish Gambling Authority (Lotteriinspektionen).
Online Instant Win Games Supplier Partners with William Hill
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You build with what you have. When you have sea shells, you don't need rock in your concrete. The sea shells thrown in an apparently random fashion, worn smooth by years of footsteps, create an abstract scene worthy of a Gothic romance.
As evening approached, a column of sunlight highlighted a series of high, steep, weathered stairs.
The fountain in Forsythe Square was lit by the streetlights along the pathways in the square making the features glisten.
A streetlight casts its light over Spanish moss and a lonely park bench in Forsythe Square. | like a little park with stately old trees, draped with Spanish Moss, giving shade to the sidewalks and park benches. Many of the buildings date back into the 18th and 19th century. There are so many photo opportunities, I could spend months, if not years trying to document it, if I chose. The buildings and statuary are beautiful in and of themselves. But, when you take the time to study them in detail, there are beautiful intricate features, many weathered to a fine patina. It is a great place. I recommend a visit. Enjoy the images below. Please share.
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YIR: Blank, Marcus and 'Lt. Dan' to Aid Veterans
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February 2021: Co-founders of The Home Depot join with the actor's foundation in donating $40 million to care for veterans and first responders.
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Actor Gary Sinise poses with Bernie Marcus.
A partnership announced in February 2021 teamed actor Gary Sinise with Home Depot founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank to care for veterans and first responders suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury, and substance abuse.
Though not a veteran himself, Sinise — known for his portrayal of Lieutenant Dan in the film "Forrest Gump" — is revered in the military community for his work on behalf of veterans. Sinise credits his awareness of the psychic and physical trauma experienced in combat to his wife's brother, a Vietnam veteran.
Billionaires Marcus and Blank each contributed $20 million from their personal foundations to support the Gary Sinise Foundation Avalon Network, which will build on work done by the Marcus Institute for Brain Health and the Boulder Crest Foundation's Warrior PATHH (Progressive and Alternative Training for Healing Heroes). The plan called for establishing 20 sites nationwide to serve veterans, first responders and their families. Avalon is the island where the legendary British King Arthur was taken to heal after his final battle.
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As I mentioned last week, Doug's mom came to visit us and we crossed several more things off of our California Bucket List!
First, we took her to Venice Beach! I don't think I've really written about this place at all, and it's probably because I never take pictures while I'm there. Half of the stuff would be inappropriate to put on the blog anyways, so I just don't even bother! ha! But it's actually really fun and VERY entertaining.
And then the highlight of the weekend - whale watching! Doug and I had been dying to do this and it did not disappoint!
Doug said this looked like Maisy....mean!
The boat had this underwater capsule, but it was a little too much for this slightly claustrophobic girl!
I know these pictures aren't the best, but it was incredible to see! They showed us a picture of the type of whale we saw, and it was amazing how much there was of him that we couldn't see under water!
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Wow this is SO COOL! Especially since you got to see a whale! I've seen tons of dolphins and seals, but whales area treat.
So funny, we totally watch Storage Wars too!
I love that you are crossing things off your list! We were in Venice last week at Abbot Kinney and we fell in love. That area is so cool!!
Wow, the whale watching looks like so much fun. I would probably have just as much fun people watching on venice beach though!
Pretty! I live in Socal and have NEVER been whale watching...shameful, I know, but these pix totally pique my interest! Awesome shots, looks like the most fabulous time!
P.S. I feel like we're long lost kindred spirits...sorry if that's weird, haha!
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How we should urge MPs to vote
Chair's message to members - 11 March 2019
Dear Member or Supporter
A series of big votes is coming up: the deal, no-deal, an extension - perhaps the deal again if the expected defeat on 12 March is relatively narrow. Let's be clear what we want: Remain. The only valid mechanism is a referendum. There is no time for a referendum before Brexit day so it needs an extension. But it is Remain that we want. So let's not get side-tracked.
The vote on the deal
It does not really matter whether MPs vote for or against the deal or abstain. 2016<|fim_middle|> did in 2016.
These weeks really matter. Write today to your MP (again, I know). Demonstrate with SODEM outside the Houses of Parliament (especially on the days of the expected votes 12-14 March). Join with fellow-campaigners in your local group. Think about what else you might do from our list of ideas. It all counts.
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E-mail: London@euromove.org.uk | was a vote to Leave the EU. The government has turned that idea into a plan of sorts. The Government's deal is a real-world Brexit. It tells us little about the future - so those who think it means an end to the Brexit debate will be hugely disappointed.
What matters is that there is a majority vote in Parliament for a referendum with the option to Remain. Since Parliament needs to be seen to have implemented the 2016 result, the easiest resolution - especially for Labour MPs in Leave areas - is to call for a referendum while acknowledging formally that the deal is a workable Brexit fit to be presented to the electorate.
The People's Vote campaign keeps holding off support before backing a referendum motion until the time is right. True, unusually for a treaty, ratification of the Withdrawal Agreement requires primary legislation. So we could obtain a referendum by amending the EU Withdrawal Bill. But in practice if Theresa May ever wins a vote for her deal without a referendum condition it will be much harder to retro-fit a referendum. So what if we lose a vote? Let's learn this one thing from Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn. Both bring their deals back to Parliament even though they keep being voted down. We can do the same. There is certainly no point in waiting for Jeremy to come out whole-heartedly for a referendum; his commitment to his own Brexit without a referendum and to a referendum only to prevent Theresa May's is as good as it's going to get.
The vote on no-deal
Of course no-deal is a bad choice. No responsible Parliament could agree it. It should be voted down. But then we have to face two facts.
It is the most popular choice of Brexit amongst Leavers - so a third of the country wants it. MPs opposed to no-deal have failed to convince much of the public. We will never unite the country around EU membership if millions of people can say that Brexit would have been wonderful if only the one true Brexit had been given a chance to be chosen.
Everything that makes a referendum more likely makes a referendum less likely. By that I mean that every increase in support for a referendum makes Leaver MPs more likely to rally round Theresa May's deal. The People's Vote campaign consciously decided not to be a Remain campaign. That was a mistake in my view: the best way to create support for a referendum is to create support for Remain: call for a hopeful positive destination not just for an unattractive process. But the campaign's stance does now give us an opportunity. They should follow through the logic of their strategic approach and explicitly call for a three-choice referendum. That could separate the ERG MPs from Theresa May's deal and give us the necessary parliamentary majority.
To overcome the difficulties of a three-choice vote it should be conducted in two stages. Stage one chooses the best available Brexit. Stage 2 is the choice between that Brexit and Remain. With their gift for giving sensible ideas unappealing names, economists call that "Backward induction".
The vote for an extension
There is no point in an extension per se. We have wasted 32 months failing to address what the point of Brexit is. We are only beginning to do so now because a deadline is looming. The idea that a 21 month extension would allow the UK to work out what we really wanted from Brexit is fanciful. With both main political parties promising undeliverable results from Brexit we would just waste the time. An extension is pointless without a plan.
So, let's not get distracted. We wish to Remain. That needs a referendum. That needs an extension. So, let's campaign for Remain/ referendum - an extension is just what follows. So, yes, a vote for an extension, but only with a plan, that plan is the referendum. With the 22 weeks minimum needed to set up a referendum it would be sensible to look for a vote in October or November, implying an extension to the end of this year.
The moral case for a referendum
One argument that we have to win is that the 2016 referendum was billed as a once-in-a-generation vote.
The problem was that the Leave campaign decided not to have a plan. So 2016 was a vote for an idea. But you cannot implement an idea. "I'll go on holiday" is an idea: it is a call for exploration of the options. "I'll go to Milan to look at the museums in the first week of June" is a concrete proposal that can be implemented by booking flights and an hotel. Nor does approval of an idea commit you to whatever plan is later drawn up. Though you said you wished to go on holiday with me, if you do not like Milan you do not have to come.
It would not be a betrayal: the same people as decided in 2016 would determine whether they liked the plan. The people cannot betray themselves.
True, we do not know what the future relationship will be: everything from Norway Plus to May's and Corbyn's plans (they are not really much different) is on the table, as is a Canada style FTA for Great Britain. Whatever the talks going on at Westminster it is hard to believe that the parties would reach an agreement on a real-world plan, build a consensus in the country and set up a legally binding commitment to a compromise in the time available. But at least we know that the hostile relationship implied by no-deal and the have-your-cake-and-eat-it Brexits we have been promised so often are off. We know so much more than we | 1,142 |
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Cochran has had the bright beacon above Starbucks in Franklin for the last few decades, starting in the 1980s. During those years, she said, it's become one of the town's favorite Christmas relics. The four-letter sign lights up Main Street and can be seen driving into downtown via Columbia Avenue.
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"We wouldn't even consider not putting it up," she said. "I've had people call and email me about when the sign goes up every year. They always want to make sure their kids see it, and they want to see it themselves."
The sign's origin
Since the sign's arrival in Franklin, Cochran has learned not everyone knows that it's really an old Nashville hotel sign, not just one designed for Christmas.
The sign comes from the Noel Hotel, which opened in 1930 at the corner of Fourth Avenue and Church Street. It hosted guests until it closed in 1972.
"It's a unique story because it was built before and during the Depression," she said. "They were able to employ a lot of folks and give people a job. It had a fond place in Nashville's heart in those days."
Hotel construction started in 1929, and the hotel stayed in the Noel family's possession for decades. Cochran's former husband is related to the Noel family.
"The sign at the time was neon in those days," she said. "They wanted one that would be really bright and be seen from the Cumberland River. People would stop on the river in Nashville, and from there they could walk to the Noel Hotel. They wanted a sign that was bright enough, and that was indeed true."
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After it was a hotel, the building was transformed into a bank. It will revert back into a boutique hotel in 2018. The Noelle Hotel will have 224 rooms, with a bar, a restaurant and event space.
Its arrival in Franklin
When Cochran's family bought the white Five Points building in downtown, she decided the sign should come with them.
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"This is just such a wonderful thing to have," she said. "I don't think we can imagine a Christmas without it."
Reach Emily West at erwest@tennessean.com or 615-613-1380 and on Twitter at @emwest22. | . The noel sign used to light up Franklin Road in Nashville during the holidays.
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News Monkey on July 1, 2019
Since WordPress allows pretty much anyone to build a website, the playing field for starting a web venture is pretty level. However, while all sites start from the same place, it's what happens after the initial launch that determines whether or not it's going to be successful.
The skill that makes all the difference is the ability to generate traffic. Because there is no "build it and they will come." Nobody is going to just start sending you visitors, you need to make a real effort to attract an audience.
Thankfully, there are many ways to do so. To help you be successful in your venture, in this article we give you a whole bunch of actionable tactics and methods to drive traffic to your newly minted WordPress website. Isn't that a treat? You're most welcome. Now let's get started.
Master On-Page Optimization
At the heart of traffic generation is content. Creating high-quality, optimized content is an excellent long-term tactic to generate free traffic from search engines. However, getting there is a long road since a lot goes into creating content that ranks in Google's top ten.
Write Awesome Headlines
Your page titles are the very first thing most users will see of your site. For that reason, it's crucial that they grab your visitors' attention right away and get them to click through to your site.
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Thankfully, there are loads of existing headline formulas and learning resources out there:
How to Write Magnetic Headlines
The Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Powerful Headlines
49 Headline Formulas to Skyrocket Conversions (And Where to Use Them)
30+ Ultimate Headline Formulas for Tweets, Posts, Articles, and Emails
I also encourage you to sign up to the Smart Blogger mailing list and get their headline cheat sheet. It was written by Jon Morrow, one of the biggest bloggers out there. He really knows his stuff.
Learn SEO Copywriting
Copywriting is about everything that comes after the headline. Good copywriting enables you to create understandable, relevant content that answers user questions, is grammatically correct, and free of typos.
However, SEO copywriting is about more than that. Besides mere content creation and editing, it also involves audience research and on-page optimization. If you'd like to dive deeper into this, you can do so with this in-depth article.
Get Familiar With SEO Plugins
The easiest way to do proper on-page optimization in WordPress is use SEO plugins. They allow you to optimize SEO titles and meta description for your posts and pages as well as change global site options to make your site more digestible for search engines.
Should you be on the fence which plugin to choose, we have a comparison of Yoast SEO and All-in-One SEO Pack, the two leading SEO plugins right here. In addition, we can also offer you an in-depth guide to Yoast SEO.
Start an Email List (And Do It Now!)
As any online marketer will tell you, "the money is in the list." Email remains one of the best ways to reach your audience and keep it around. Anyone who trusts you enough to give you their email address is a valuable member of your tribe and happy to swing by your site repeatedly.
For that reason, start an email list right away, before you even have any traffic. It's super easy, especially if you use a free service like MailChimp that also integrates well with WordPress. That way, you can keep your closest fans up to date with your latest content and stay in touch.
Generate Traffic With Social Media
Google, Bing and other search engines are not the only available traffic sources. In fact, there are many alternative search engines, many of which are social media platforms. Let's go over some of the main platforms and how to stand out.
Twitter has almost 350 million active users and gets 2.1 billion queries from search engines per day. Many people use it to find trending topics and follow their favorite hashtags.
Success on Twitter depends on a number of different factors and it takes a while to build up a following. However, the platform orders its updates by recency. For that reason, if you follow the tips below, you can still get your content in front of a lot of eyeballs (and people to your website) regardless of how many followers you have.
Fill out your profile — Take advantage of all the real estate your Twitter profile offers. Put up a profile pic, a background banner and, most importantly, write a bio (which may include hashtags) and include a link to your site!
Post regularly — Regularity is everything in Twitter. If your profile is mostly dead, not a lot of people will follow you. Regularity can mean different things to different people. Come up with a schedule that you are comfortable with and stick with it. Use a tool like Buffer to make it easier on yourself.
Use hashtags — As mentioned, many people follow hashtags to stay up to date on their area of interest. For that reason, be sure to include 1-3 relevant tags in every post. Use hashtagify.me to find the right ones.
Use media — Studies show tweets that include images and videos get a lot more interaction than pure text tweets, so be sure to take advantage of this option.
Network — The cool thing about Twitter is that you can directly interact with anyone on the platform. Do so by retweeting other peoples' stuff, helping others in your niche solve their problems (especially if you have relevant content on your site) and talk to anyone interacting with your posts.
The biggest social network by a large margin. Even if the reach of Facebook pages seems to be declining, people still use the internal search to find relevant information. Here's how to make sure it will be your content:
Create a Facebook page —To make your page more visible in Facebook, include relevant long-tail keywords in your mission statement and description. Also add your location, especially if you are a business. The social network deems this very important for searches.
Include hashtags — Facebook uses hashtags as well. Add a few to your posts to make them more visible to searchers.
Share posts on your personal profile — Friends and family are always in the first wave of adopters. When they interact with your content it will also get more visible to people outside your direct sphere.
Build a network — Get in touch with other Facebook pages in your niche and ask them to share your content. If it's good, they shouldn't have too many problems with that. When you rack up enough followers, you can also propose larger pages to advertise each other.
Use groups — Groups are also a good way to get traffic. Either join an existing<|fim_middle|>. When not building websites, creating content or helping his clients improve their online business, he can most often be found at the gym, the dojo or traveling the world with his wife.
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Is open source the future? | group, become an active member and drop links occasionally, or create your own niche group and get it to rank well. For the latter focus on engaging content and don't forget to link to yourself.
LinkedIn is a professional network with over 450 million members. It is awesome for business networking and finding paying clients. To divert traffic from LinkedIn to your website, use the following tips:
Share content — Use the "share an update" feature to publish your own and other peoples' content. You can even include others in the update by using "@" as on Twitter, but do so with caution.
Publish to Pulse — LinkedIn has its own content platform called Pulse. To make yourself more present, you can also contribute a full-blown blog posts here with a link to your website.
With close to 60 million users, this platform is another possible traffic source, especially if you create a lot of visual content (i.e. images, photos, infographics etc.). Here's how to be successful on Pinterest:
Fill out your profile completely — To make your profile as appealing as possible, take advantage of everything it offers. Add your logo, description and – most importantly – website address.
Use the right images — Things that do really well on Pinterest are memes, backgrounds with text overlay, infographics, and pictures of people. Consider creating special images for Pinterest as they prefer the portrait format, use tools like Canva or Pablo for that.
Create pins the right way — When posting your own content, include a description (200-250 characters), hashtags and direct link to your site.
Share across multiple boards — Once you have created pins, be sure to share them across several boards. You might even consider posting the same content with different images.
The video platform is actually the second largest search engine out there. It sees three billion search queries every month and has more than a billion users across 76 different languages.
To tap into its user base for traffic, of course, you need to create videos, upload them, and include a link to your website. When they rank well, people will click on the link and come to your site.
Teaching you how to do this is somewhat beyond this article, however, Backlinko has a comprehensive guide on this very topic.
Take Advantage of Content Marketing
Blog posts are not the only way to generate traffic. After all, the saying is "content is king," not "written content is king." For that reason, it makes a lot of sense to use other forms of content on your site.
For example, instead of creating fresh blog posts, you can also repurpose existing articles as video tutorials, presentations, PDFs, podcasts, and infographics. You can use this to get engagement on and highly authoritative links from sites like Slideshare, YouTube, and Docstoc. This will do wonders for your SEO and traffic.
You know how they say it's not about what you know but who? That's as valid in the real world as it is online.
Building relationships with influencers will help your site get ahead quickly. Heavyweights in your niche linking to your site can never be a bad thing.
So, generating traffic is not all about what you do on your own site, it's also about building meaningful relationships with others. Here's how to do just that:
Comment — Write insightful comments on other people's blogs. That means something more than "great post!" Contribute to the discussion. Provide value. Follow up. This might even get others to click on your link and it will definitely put you on the author's radar.
Reach out directly — Talk to people in your niche directly. Email or Twitter are valid options. Again, make it about them. See how you can contribute to their life or business. Later, when you already have a relationship, you might send them your own content.
Traffic Generation in a Nutshell
Starting a new WordPress site is equal parts exciting and dreadful. The latter is because making a site successful takes a lot of effort and you can't always be sure it will get there.
After all, building an audience is not done overnight. At the same time, it's also not rocket science but something that has been done countless times.
The traffic generation tips above are just the beginning. Try out which strategies work well for you and follow your instincts. Start small, throw some stuff against the wall and see what sticks, then take it from there.
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SARAH JESSICA PARKER'S SJP COLLECTION TO LAUNCH EXCLUSIVELY WITH NORDSTROM!
Launching exclusively at Nordstrom stores and Nordstrom.com on February 28,
2014, the SJP Collection by Sarah Jessica Parker is a new collection of shoes crafted by artisans in Italy and imported
handbags, reflecting Sarah Jessica's personal looks and feminine style. The line will also feature the "Manhattan"
trench coat to complement the collection as a whole.
"I've taken inspiration from things in my life such as the grosgrain
accents from the Sex and the City wardrobe, to references to classic styles from the late 70's and early 80's. I'm a firm
ribbons I tied in my hair as a girl, to the flower
believer in quality and timelessness and have created this collection with the hopes that women will love wearing it for
years to come," said Sarah Jessica Parker, President SJP USA LLC.
As a reflection of Sarah Jessica's childhood, grosgrain ribbon detail is intricately featured on each shoe, emphasizing
the feminine design of the collection. With a story behind the name of each shoe, the collection is infused with fashion
influences of Sarah Jessica's life - from "Carrie", understandably so, after her acclaimed character on Sex and the City
to "Maud", named after legendary designer Maud Frizon.
and can be seen in the collection ranging from her spring favorites such as coral, mint, teal and pink, to classic colors
including purple, red and navy. With a wide variety of heel heights, the collection of twenty-five shoes reinvigorates the
classic single sole with a range of silhouettes that fit the styles and personalities of women of all ages.
Colors, as Sarah Jessica has often said are "the new neutral"
The shoe prices range from $195 to just under $500. The entire shoe collection is made in Italy from high quality
leathers and materials.
The SJP handbags are functional pieces but with a fun and fashionable twist. They can be carried by the everyday
woman on the go and transition easily to night out. The line features versatile styles from the "New Yorker" hobo
shoulder bag, the "Waverly" cross body and the "Beekman" clutch, all named after some of her favorite NYC spots.
They will retail from $245 to $375.
The SJP "Manhattan" trench coat was created to highlight the shoe and handbag collection with its A-Line fitted
silhouette and skirting design that is sure to accentuate a woman's figure. Maintaining the integrity of the collection, the
trench coat incorporates the signature blush color grosgrain detail, exclusive SJP buttons, and a signature print lining.
The SJP trench comes both in natural and navy and retails for $495.
The SJP Collection is a personal endeavor for Sarah Jessica as a realization of her enduring affection for fashion as she teams up with business partner George Malkemus to launch her namesake collection exclusively at Nordstrom stores. Nordstrom, which began as a shoe retailer, is a fitting partnership for Sarah Jessica's new collection as the retail store is a staple among fashion driven consumers with the retailer's vast knowledge of the industry and what the customer wants.
"We're honored that Sarah Jessica chose to work with Nordstrom to launch the SJP Collection. It has been a true collaboration and a pleasure working together. Sarah Jessica's aesthetic and style is so inspiring to so many women, and this collection reflects her unique point of view.
"I thought about launching my own line for a long time," Sarah Jessica says. "It just feels like an enormous privilege to be doing it now with George and with Nordstrom."
The SJP Collection will be available on Nordstrom.com and in the following stores:
Fashion Valley, San Diego
San Francisco Centre, San Francisco Santa Anita, Arcadia
South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa
The Grove, Los Angeles
Topanga, Canoga Park
Valley Fair, San Jose
Aventura, Aventura
International Plaza, Tampa
Village of Merrick Park, Coral Gables
Ala Moana, Honolulu
Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Oakbrook Center, Oak Brook
Woodfield Shopping Center, Schaumburg
Natick Mall, Natick
Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill Garden State Plaza, Paramus
Manhattan Pop-Up, New York Roosevelt Field, Garden City
Washington Square, Tigard
The Mall at Green Hills, Nashville
Houston Galleria, Houston NorthPark Center, Dallas
The Fashion Centre at Pentagon City, Arlington Tysons Corner Center, McLean
Downtown Seattle, Seattle
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The Berkshire Room to roll out a new upscale bar snacks menu on Tuesday, January 28,2014
The Berkshire Room to roll out a new upscale bar snacks menu on Tuesday, January 28
Completely new menu from executive chef Chris "Chip" Davies and executive pastry chef Chris Teixeira
The Berkshire Room – a craft cocktail lounge from The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group located at 15 East Ohio Street inside the ACME Hotel Company in River North – will roll out an entirely new upscale bar snacks menu on Tuesday, January 20 from executive chef Chris "Chip" Davies and executive pastry chef Chris Teixeira.
The new upscale bar snacks menu is more substantial in offerings than the opening Berkshire Room bar snacks menu. The menu is broken down into five sections: "Dealer's Choice Bar Snacks", "Dealer's Choice Meats & Cheeses", "Mini Sandwiches", "Bigger Bites", and "Desserts". A PDF of the new menu is attached to this press release.
The "Dealer's Choice Bar Snacks<|fim_middle|> at $12.95, and they have clearly raised the bar on fast casual dining.
The key to Da Lobsta's success has been its ability to prepare an amazingly good Lobster Roll sandwich, with big pieces of lobster claw meat, while keeping the price in line with what the average diner can afford. Served in a fun, colorful atmosphere, with a wide range of flavor combinations to choose from and accompanied by a host of tasty comfort-food side dishes, Da Lobsta's sandwiches are delicious and satisfying for people who want to move beyond hamburgers and sub sandwiches and still enjoy a very casual meal.
Da Lobsta's success also has been due to J Wolf's foresight about Chicago food lovers. He understood that Chicagoans were sophisticated about food and would appreciate creative takes on the traditional Lobster Roll sandwich. He created a menu that features a variety of regionally and globally inspired renditions of the sandwich, such as The Greek (photo, above left). He also offers blue crab ($10.95) and shrimp ($8.95), which bring the prices down even further.
"Until Da Lobsta came along, Chicagoans had basically two options for enjoying lobster: first, sit down at a pricey restaurant and spend a lot of time and money or second, buy live lobsters and prepare them at home," said Wolf. "Neither of these options is convenient nor inexpensive. Our goal was to change all that. We made it possible for people to satisfy their lobster craving while on the go and in a budget-friendly way. Da Lobsta is a guilty pleasure, without the guilt. Our customers feel like they're part of a lobster-loving community of people in the know and it makes the experience really enjoyable."
Much more than the traditional New England Lobster Roll
Da Lobsta "The Skinny"
Da Lobsta Lobster Mac and Cheese
Among the sandwiches choices are the Traditional, with tarragon mayo and garlic butter; the Asian with soy mayo, Asian slaw, Szechwan sauce and scallions; The Mexican, with salsa, Chihuahua cheese, avocado and lettuce; the Greek, with feta, tzatziki sauce, cucumber and tomato; the Indian , with cilantro mayo, mango chutney and potato-paneer salad; the Surf & Turf, with tarragon mayo, apple smoked and maple glazed bacon; and the Skinny with low fat mayo, whole wheat pita, garlic oil, celery, tomato and slaw.
The Lobster Grilled Cheese sandwich is $12.95 and Da Lobsta also serves up daily specials, such as the Lobster BLT with bacon, lettuce, tomato and lobster ($14).
For those who really want to indulge, the signature sandwich is the Gold Coast, a large combo piled high with all three sea foods (lobster, blue crab and shrimp) and truffle mayo ($28). It's meant for sharing but more than a few guests have gobbled it down single-handedly.
Lobster fans who want to try something different can choose the Lobster Mac-N-Cheese (photo above right, $8) or the Lobster-Crab Spinach Dip ($6.50).
Salad lovers can also enjoy their lobster with Da Lobsta's Chopped Salad (photo left), which comes with a choice of lobster ($12.95), blue crab ($10.95) or shrimp ($8.95) and Romaine lettuce, hearts of palm, ricotta salata, chickpeas, tomato, garlic croutons, tossed with green goddess or balsamic dressing.
Every day is New England Clam Chowda day ($6 small; $8 large) along with a daily soup special. Potato chips, coleslaw and spicy butter pickles round out the menu. Da Lobsta's Whoopie Pie ($3) is the sweet finale. For more information about Da Lobsta, please contact J Wolf at (312) 929-2423 or visit the website at www.dalobstachicago.com.
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3 Photography Exhibitions Open at RayKo Thursday, January 23rd! (San Francisco,CA)
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3 Photography Exhibitions Open at RayKo Thursday, January 23rd, 6-8pm!
Three fantastic shows open the new year at RayKo Photo Center. From the mysterious and strange, to the small and sublime, to the traditional and classic, there's something for everyone in these exhibitions.
Vanishing Point: Exercises in Perspective curated by Rachel Phillips.
Madge Cameron, Tabatha Misty, Dee Max, Frances Pane, Abe Rah-Kadabra and Will Fox
Lost and Found, works by Heidi Kirkpatrick
Come join us at RayKo for Heidi's artist's talk!
Saturday, February 8th, 1pm
The CCSF Photography Department in collaboration with SF Camerawork and Rayko Photo Center is proud to present 75 Years: Selections from the City College of San Francisco Photography Department, An exhibition of work at three venues by current and former students, faculty and staff 1939-2014. RayKo will be showing "New Visions, contemporary photography from the 81 Bees Collective of CCSF. Works by 25 devoted students and faculty of City College.
Image by Gordon Szeto
Come help us celebrate the 2014 gallery season on January 23rd!
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Don't forget to enter! 2014 Mirror Awards | " and "Dealer's Choice Meats & Cheeses" sections of the new upscale bar snacks menu focuses on mimicking the popular "Dealer's Choice" cocktails at The Berkshire Room (where patrons pick a spirit base, a flavor profile, and glassware).
Now patrons can select from a trio from seven upscale bar snacks offerings in the "Dealer's Choice Bar Snacks" section for $6 from Davies that mimic the many flavor profiles of the Dealer's Choice cocktails (smokey, spicy, fruity, herbaceous, etc) such as Tobacco Onion Dip with Poppy Seed Crackers, Pickled Grapes, Candied Peanuts & Almonds, and Bourbon Cured Olives. Guests can select their own offerings or ask their bartenders or servers to pair the snack selections to what they are drinking.
Also, Davies will offer a Dealer's Choice "Meats & Cheeses" where he will showcase five rotating artisanal charcuterie offerings sourced from around the country and five rotating artisanal cheese offerings sourced from around the country where patrons can pick either three or five of the offerings that are all served with house accouterments and crostini. Guests can select their own offerings or ask their bartenders or servers to pair the meat and cheese selections to what they are drinking.
Many of the "Mini Sandwiches" and "Bigger Bites" sections feature Davies' riffs on Southern cuisine meant to compliment the 400 American whiskies, ryes, and bourbons that line the back bar at The Berkshire Room.
Menu highlights from these two sections include Cider Braised Pulled Pork Slider (with pickled fresno pepper slaw & BBQ aioli on a potato bun), Pimiento Cheese (with Jamón Serrano, bourbon soy mash & herbed crackers), Fried Chicken Skins (with smoked bleu cheese & house hot sauce), Pimiento Cheese Stuffed Arancini (with salsa verde), and Grade A Foie Gras Torchon (with black truffles, bourbon barrel aged maple syrup, preserved white grapes & crostini).
Teixeira has also amped up the dessert options at The Berkshire Room — expanding his original singular dessert to five dessert offerings. Highlights include Frangelico Butterscotch Pudding (with bourbon barrel-aged maple syrup, candied hazelnuts & crème fraiche whipped cream), Key Lime Panna Cotta (with oat crumble & key lime caviar) and Truffled Chocolate Excess Cake.
Davies was promoted to executive chef for The Fifty/50 Restaurant Group after former executive chef Chris Curren and the restaurant group mutually parted ways on January 8. Davies is now the executive chef at both Homestead On The Roof and The Berkshire Room.
Davies — who joined Homestead as the chef de cuisine when Curren took over the restaurant over the summer— jointly collaborated on the opening menus at Homestead with Curren. Davies has been reworking portions of the Homestead menu over the last few months and all of the savory menu items on the new Berkshire Room menu are his creations.
Prior to joining Homestead over the summer, Davies, 31, was a sous chef under Ryan McCaskey at Acadia, the chef de cuisine at Blue 13 under Curren, an opening sous chef under Dirk Flanigan at Henri, and was a line cook under John Manion at Branch 27. Before arriving in Chicago, Davies was a sous chef at Olea in Portland and cut his teeth as a line cook in his native Seattle.
Davies and Teixeira are both jointly running the West Town Bakery & Diner kitchens.
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(RED), U2 and Bank of America Partner to Fight AIDS
Partnership will deliver more than $10 million to fight AIDS and launch with free download of new U2 song debuting during Super Bowl
(RED), U2 and Bank of America today announced a partnership that will generate more than $10 million to fight AIDS. Details are available at www.bankofamerica.com/RED
The partnership will kick off with a commercial during the Super Bowl, (Sunday February 2) that will feature U2 performing a new song, "Invisible." The song will be available as a limited edition release on iTunes for free download during the game and for the following 24 hours. For every download during that timeframe, Bank of America will donate $1, up to $2 million total, to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, which provides life-saving HIV/AIDS treatment, testing and prevention services to tens of millions of people in the world's poorest countries.
(RED) has already generated more than $240 million for the Global Fund since being founded in 2006 by U2 lead singer Bono and Bobby Shriver in order to drive corporate donations to the fight against AIDS. The additional funding from Bank of America will help (RED) surpass a quarter billion dollars raised.
Bono said, "Bank of America coming on as a (RED) partner to help the Global Fund's efforts to eliminate AIDS is great news. It's the kind of game-changing influence that will not just deliver millions of dollars but raise consciousness and keep public pressure on putting an end to this devastating pandemic which has already taken the lives of 35 million people. And just in...the bank's commitment of $10 million has resulted in the Gates Foundation, SAP and Africa's Motsepe Family matching for a total of $22 million. Incredible."
Key to the success of this initiative will be raising awareness among Bank of America's vast customer base and more than 240,000 employees, and providing opportunities for them to take action at this critical moment in the global effort to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015. Bank of America serves one in two U.S. households with a network of approximately 5,100 retail banking offices and 16,300 ATMs, has one of the most visited websites in the world, and more than 30 million online banking users and 14 million mobile users.
Brian Moynihan, CEO, Bank of America, said, "Just as we dedicate all of our resources to serving customers and clients in the U.S. and around the world, we can
bring these capabilities to (RED) and the global health community in the fight against AIDS. Most importantly, we're encouraging our customers and employees to join the fight."
(RED) funds are fighting AIDS in eight African countries – Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Rwanda, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia – and are used to support HIV/AIDS grants which provide treatment, testing and prevention and care services, with a focus on ending mother-to-child transmission of HIV and achieving an AIDS-free generation. Of the more than $240 million generated by (RED), 100 percent has gone directly to the Global Fund for on-the-ground services, with no overhead taken out by (RED). (RED) and its partners – from Bank of America, to Starbucks, Apple and more – are united in a global push to end mother-to-child transmission of the deadly HIV virus by 2015, in accordance with the UN Millennium Development Goals
Mark Dybul, executive director, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said, "We'd like to thank Bank of America, (RED) and U2 for this innovative partnership to deliver much-needed funds and awareness to our fight to eliminate AIDS. This partnership will have a tremendous impact over the coming years."
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Penske Truck Rental's 2013 Top Moving Destinations List;Chicago #8
Penske Truck Rental's 2013 Top Moving Destinations List
Over the last four years, Penske Truck Rental has produced an annual list of its top moving destinations in the United States. Once again, the Atlanta metro area remained No. 1 for the fourth consecutive year.
In the list below, last year's ranking is noted in parentheses. New to the 2013 list is Las Vegas, coming in at No. 10. Sarasota, Fla., No. 10 in 2012, was combined with the Tampa, Fla., metro area for this year's list.
1. Atlanta (1)
2. Tampa, Fla./Sarasota, Fla. (new combined entry)
3. Dallas/Fort Worth (2)
4. Orlando, Fla. (4)
5. Phoenix (3)
6. Houston (6)
7. Seattle (8)
8. Chicago (5)
9. Denver (7)
10. Las Vegas (new!)
"We have seen a continued migration of Penske Truck Rental customers from the Northeast and Midwest parts of the U.S. into these areas," said Don Mikes, Penske senior vice president of rental.
Penske Truck Rental, based in Reading, Pa., has created a series of infographics to complement the list. The main infographic can be seen below. The infographics include popular destination points within each of the markets, additional factoids, and average home listing prices with data courtesy of Trulia.com
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Morgan Freeman to be Honored by Gene Siskel Film Center June 7,2014 (Chicago)
GENE SISKEL FILM CENTER TO HONOR ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNER MORGAN FREEMAN WITH THE RENAISSANCE AWARD SATURDAY, JUNE 7, AT THE RITZ-CARLTON CHICAGO
The Gene Siskel Film Center (GSFC) of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) will continue in its legacy of saluting important leaders in cinematic achievement by honoring Academy Award®-winner Morgan Freeman, Saturday, June 7, 2014, at The Ritz-Carlton Chicago (160 E. Pearson Street.) The festive evening will celebrate Freeman's legendary career as an actor and director as well as give attendees the opportunity to enjoy a candid and insightful conversation as Freeman reminisces about his favorite performances, key influences and most powerful experiences, as well as discussing upcoming projects and his creative process. A retrospective of film clips from his most memorable performances will accompany the conversation. The evening will culminate with the presentation of the Gene Siskel Film Center Renaissance Award to Freeman by SAIC President Dr. Walter E. Massey.
"Morgan Freeman is a true living legend," said GSFC of the SAIC Executive Director Jean de St. Aubin. "In a film career that spans more than four decades and an incredibly diverse canon of roles, audiences have come to expect that Mr. Freeman will deliver performances that are insightful, moving and always memorable. The instantly recognizable, deep resonance of his voice brings a distinctive richness to every film he appears in or narrates. It is a great honor for us to be able to welcome him to Chicago as we salute him for mesmerizing movie-goers for so many years."
The benefit is co-chaired by longstanding GSFC supporters and Advisory Board members Eda Davidman and Melissa Sage Fadim. All proceeds support the Gene Siskel Film Center's eclectic film programming as well as lecture series and discussions with visiting scholars and filmmakers. This programming provides the opportunity for students and the Chicago community to experience the best in film presentation. The annual fundraiser is the primary event that ensures that the GSFC can continue to present the highest quality films and film-related events in Chicago.
Each year, the Gene Siskel Film Center celebrates the art of film by honoring a filmmaker who advances the art of cinema. Past Renaissance Award honorees have included some of the most respected actors and directors working in the film industry today, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., George Lucas, Nicole Kidman, Bob Balaban, John Woo, Michael Mann, William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman.
The Renaissance Award was designed specifically for the Gene Siskel Film Center by R.S. Owens & Company, creator of the Oscar® statuette.
About Morgan Freeman
Morgan Freeman was awarded the Academy Award® for best actor in 2005 for his performance in "Million Dollar Baby," and has been nominated four additional times. The Golden Globes awarded him the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2012, and he also won a Golden Globe for his performance in "Driving Miss Daisy." He won the Screen Actors Guild Award in 2005 and has thrice been nominated for acting awards by the Chicago Film Critics Association. His first credited film performance was in 1971's "Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?" and television audiences came to know him for his appearances on "Another World" and "The Electric Company." Equally adept in dramatic and comedic roles, some of his most memorable film performances include "Batman Begins, "Bruce Almighty," "The Bucket List," "The Dark Knight," "The Dark Knight Rises," "Driving Miss Daisy," "Glory," "Million Dollar Baby," "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves," "Seven," "The Shawshank Redemption," "Street Smart," and "Unforgiven." He directed the critically acclaimed "Bopha!" in 1993, the story of a South African policeman during apartheid. He frequently serves as the narrator for films and television programs, notably for "March of the Penguins."
The Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago proudly presents the Renaissance Award Gala in honor of the Academy Award ®-winning actor and director Morgan Freeman Saturday, June 7 at The Ritz-Carlton Chicago, 160 E. Pearson Street. Single tickets range in price from $500 to $1,000 (VIP). Table sponsorships range in price from $5,000 to $50,000. Call (312) 846-2072 for tickets, tables or more information.
About the Gene Siskel Film Center
The Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago celebrates cutting edge film programs, independent and international cinema, premieres, retrospectives, and classic films. Internationally recognized for its original film programming, the Film Center is a vibrant cultural destination in Chicago that attracts a diverse and creative annual audience of over 70,000. www.siskelfilmcenter.org
About the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
A leader in educating artists, designers, and scholars since 1866, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) offers nationally accredited undergraduate and graduate degrees and post-baccalaureate programs to nearly 3,200 students from around the globe. SAIC also enables adults, high school students, middle school students, and children to flourish in a variety of courses, workshops, certificate programs, and camps through its Continuing Studies program. Located in the heart of Chicago, SAIC has an educational philosophy built upon an interdisciplinary approach to art and design, giving students unparalleled opportunities to develop their creative and critical abilities, while working with renowned faculty who include many of the leading practitioners in their fields. SAIC's resources include the Art Institute of Chicago and its new Modern Wing; numerous special collections and programming venues provide students with exceptional exhibitions, screenings, lectures, and performances. For more information, please visit saic.edu.
The Gene Siskel Film Center and SAIC are part of The Art Institute of Chicago. For more information about the Art Institute please visit www.artic.edu
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CHICAGO SPORTS MUSEUM AND NEW RESTAURANT FROM HARRY CARAY'S RESTAURANT GROUP TO OPEN IN APRIL AT WATER TOWER PLACE (Chicago,IL)
CHICAGO SPORTS MUSEUM AND NEW RESTAURANT FROM HARRY CARAY'S
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One-of-a-Kind Experience Brings Together Chicago Greats
The new Harry Caray's Restaurant Group (HCRG) venture at Water Tower Place set to open in April 2014 will be a must-experience mecca for all sports fans. Combining dining, entertainment, private event venues and retail, the high-energy complex will anchor Level 7 of Water Tower Place. The 22,000+ square foot complex will include Harry Caray's 7th Inning Stretch and the Chicago Sports Museum.
"We're excited to bring this new breed of dining, entertainment and retail to Chicago," says Grant DePorter, HCRG CEO. "You won't have to be a sports enthusiast to enjoy yourself, but for superfans like me, it will be nirvana."
HARRY CARAY'S 7TH INNING STRETCH
Sports fans and foodies alike will appreciate this new addition to Chicago's Magnificent Mile. In designing the menu, HCRG Corporate Executive Chef Joe Rosetti has put his own spin on classic American comfort food. Inventive burgers, farm fresh salads, oven-fired pizzas and hand-dipped milkshakes dominate. The menu will be complemented by a wide selection of local craft beers, Chicago-inspired cocktails and a carefully curated wine list. The restaurant will be open daily for lunch and dinner.
Designed by Barker/Nestor Architecture + Design, the walls of the 250-seat restaurant and 60-seat bar will be covered with photographs from Harry Caray's private collection as well as authentic sports memorabilia. HDTVs throughout the dining room and bar will be tuned in to all major sporting events. Newly installed floor-to-ceiling windows will provide diners with stunning city views. The urban industrial aesthetic, characterized by the use of turn of the century decorative metal work detailing, Edison bulbs, steel piping and concrete, is an homage to Chicago's historic Water Tower—one of the city's most familiar and treasured landmarks for which Water Tower Place is named.
THE CHICAGO SPORTS MUSEUM
The 8,000 square foot Chicago Sports Museum will offer a highly interactive experience for visitors to explore the legends and lore of Chicago sports. It will combine hi-tech interactive experiences—including skill challenges and simulated experiences—with unique sports memorabilia (think Sammy Sosa's corked bat), and an impressive collection of game-used treasures and other artifacts. A rendering of the Museum can be found at bitly.com/chisportsmuseum.
"In such a sports-friendly city, The Chicago Sports Museum fills a cultural void that will please young and old alike," said Mitchell Feldman, senior general manager of Water Tower Place. "This new anchor venue on Level 7 will give local and out-of-town guests an unparalleled sports experience."
The exhibits, designed by Lincolnwood, Ill.-based Luci Creative and Chicago-based Next/Now, will be organized around five major zones:
Visitors will start their tour with a series of one-of-a-kind interactive experiences where they can compare their abilities to the extraordinary strength, size and agility of many of Chicago's finest athletes. Examples include measuring vertical leap compared to Michael Jordan (reportedly an astonishing 48 inches) and testing reaction time compared to the lightning speed of Hawks goalie Tony Esposito.
Forensic Sports
This area of the Museum will demonstrate how CSI-type techniques can be used to unravel sports mysteries and separate fact from fiction. Over the years, Harry Caray's has worked with the FBI, radiologists, chemists and other specialists to show that in the world of sports, things are not always as they appear. Visitors will be able to look inside Sammy Sosa's corked bat, see how baseballs have changed over time and find out what happened to the puck that scored the winning goal for the Chicago Blackhawks in the last game of the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The center of the Museum celebrates Chicago sports fans. Harry Caray himself was known as the greatest Chicago baseball fan of all time. A replica of the Wrigley Field broadcast booth will allow visitors to call a game like Harry, sing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame", or do their best Harry impersonation. Fans will also put their Chicago sports knowledge to the test with a giant interactive trivia game.
Curses and Superstitions
As guests enter this stone-clad room, they will be immersed in the phenomenon of popular and lesser known sports "curses" as well as player superstitions and rituals. Visitors will learn about curses that have plagued Chicago sports teams as well as those around the world, and can then test their new knowledge with the Curses! game. They will also hear directly from well-known Chicago athletes about their personal superstitions and rituals.
Hall of Legends
This gallery highlights Chicago's Hall of Fame athletes and offers an array of "play with the legends" baseball, basketball, football and hockey interactive games, including:
· All-Star Home Run Contest as Hall of Fame White Sox slugger Frank Thomas
· Quarterback Challenge where players must avoid getting sacked by Hall of Famer and Super Bowl XX MVP Richard Dent
· Defending the Goal as Blackhawks superstar Patrick Kane takes slap shots
· Shooting Hoops as Bulls Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen.
· Learn to Pitch with Kerry Wood, one of the most celebrated pitchers in Cubs history.
Admission to the Museum will be $6 ($3 for seniors and children 3-11; free for children 2 and under). Restaurant guests will be admitted free of charge.
The Chicago Sports Museum will be one of the city's most unique and memorable event venues. Several spaces within the Museum and restaurant are available for private events:
The Hall of Legends
The Hall of Legends, located within the Museum, accommodates 260 guests for seated events and 500 for receptions. It can also be divided in half for smaller events. Massive windows with breathtaking lake views flood the space with natural light and also offer great views of the Navy Pier fireworks. Two jumbo screens roll down from the ceiling for exceptional video viewing.
Entire Museum
The entire Museum can be rented as an exclusive playground for a reception of up to 700 guests or as added entertainment (and a great spot to enjoy cocktails and hors d'oeuvres) for seated events of up to 260 guests. The broadcast booth can serve as a DJ booth and the photo booth can be customized to match the theme of the event.
The restaurant offers a more intimate private dining room for groups of up to 50 guests seated.
CHICAGO SPORTS MUSEUM STORE
The retail store will offer autographed memorabilia, licensed Chicago sports team gear and collectibles. Many items can also be personalized for private event giveaways.
For more information and details about the project as they become available, visit harrycarays.com, chicagosportsmuseum.com, or follow updates through social media:
Facebook.com/harrycarays7thinningstretch
http://bit.ly/ChiSportsMuseumFacebook
Twitter.com/harrycarays
Twitter.com/chisportsmuseum
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At One Year Anniversary, Da Lobsta is on a Roll Da Lobsta celebrates this January and February (Chicago)
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At One Year Anniversary, Da Lobsta is on a Roll
Da Lobsta celebrates this January and February
Chicago's lobster lovers have good reason to celebrate. This January, Chicago's own Da Lobsta restaurants mark their first anniversary and business is-forgive the pun-on a roll. Last winter, owner and founder J Wolf brought his unique, inspired take on the Lobster Roll sandwich to the world, opening his first location at 12 E. Cedar (telephone 312-929-2423) in Chicago's Gold Coast. A second location, at the Chicago French Market (131 N. Clinton; telephone 312-207-5705), opened this past autumn and more locations are planned for 2014 but no dates are set.
"We've had a great run thus far, and it's only the beginning," said Wolf. "We are thrilled, but it was not unexpected that we would build a fan base pretty quickly. We knew Chicagoans love their lobster and there was pent-up demand for lobster served at an affordable price. We have solved the riddle as to how to do it really well at a reasonably low price point." Da Lobsta's Lobster Roll sandwiches are priced | 5,393 |
A mountain<|fim_middle|> | guide friend of mine has a personal statute he follows this time of year: when the snowpack shrinks and the sun strengthens, he packs up his family and goes on vacation. The concept of holiday time is universal, of course, but his reason for the timing differs from most—he does it for safety.
The seasonal arc of Northeastern ice climbing starts in November with unpredictable, wet ice climbing conditions, and we are out of shape and scared. Then the ice builds and temperatures plummet, conditions improve, as do our levels of fitness and confidence. We peak physically and mentally in late Feb / early March, and we are suddenly in a rush to get in our last sends before the season is over (that ephemerality is part of what draws many of us to this silly sport to begin with, after all).
Knowing his own tendencies, my friend takes a vacation, so he is not tempted to climb or guide in hazardous conditions.
Taking a note from his book, I am headed with some friends to the Greek island of Kalymnos for a spring sport climbing "vacation". I have to admit that the gritty, adversity-prone mountain climber in me has had a hard time accepting just how easy life is going to be.
I feel somewhat guilty and unsure of myself if my travel and climbing plans don't involve some level of suffering.
What I do know though is that the long winter of climbing and guiding takes its toll. The skin on my feet is raw from long hours in rigid boots and crampons. My headspace for leading is a mess because the cardinal rule of ice climbing is that the leader does not fall. My spine is out of whack from long belays, and I am itching to shed my 'winter coat' of long underwear, thick socks and a knit hat that I've worn everywhere but in the shower for several months straight.
The doctor would prescribe, I think, a dose of sunshine that includes some time in flip flops, some long, safe falls on overhanging terrain, and lots of stretching and dozing. I packed light: a single Juggernaut roller bag with a bunch of quick draws and a 70 meter rope, and a yoga mat and a Theracane for good curative measure. My core temperature might still be a little low, or perhaps I can't fully stretch out from my winter cocoon yet, as I augmented the selection of shorts and t-shirts with a surplus of fluffy layers to absolutely ensure my comfort.
After three flights and a scenic ferry ride, we arrived at our rented villa in Panormos, Kalymnos, set among orchards and gardens with an ocean view. The brightly painted cinderblock buildings are grouped in villages along the coast, with one loop road connecting them. The grape leaves just broke bud and the lemons and oranges are plump and juicy on the trees.
We wake to the concerto sounds of roosters, goats, barking dogs and droning scooters, and eat real Greek yogurt with local honey and fresh fruit on our sunny porch while taking in the morning routine. My fingers feel soft and raw, and sensing the rock through climbing shoes almost tickles. My internal dialogue is nonsensical, moving into panic mode if I lead out beyond a bolt, so I force myself to take some falls to reorient. I can't stifle my girly-sounding screams of joy from the stomach dropping feeling of falling and being caught.
Suffering? Who said I needed to suffer? Sport climbing vacations are just right for me. Yamas! | 724 |
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October 24, 2011 by Melinda Viergever Inman, 4 Comments, in Character formation, Spiritual Growth, Why serve Christ?
"You see me when I travel and when I rest at home. You know everything I do" (Psalm 139:3 NLT).
My ten-year-old granddaughter sobbed into the phone, "But, Daddy, I'm worried." Departing on a humanitarian mission, her father (my son) sat on the tarmac ready to blast off to the other side of the world, headed for India. My granddaughter understood the importance of her daddy's work and the benefit to those he was going to encourage—at least as much as a ten year old can comprehend; but she was certain he would be in danger. In desperation, she had called him from her cell phone after I'd tucked her into bed. I can relate.
Anytime our loved ones depart from the routine of our day-to-day lives and travel away from us, we somehow feel as if they are more at risk. Unaccountably, we feel as though they can't come to harm when they are in our proximity, as if we, puny humans that we are, can somehow keep them safe from harm by our mere presence. I had felt that very fear grasp at my heart as my son, his wife, and my husband headed off just hours before this tear-filled phone call.
Only God knows what his plans are. We serve him because we adore him—this beautiful Savior who left his comfort and glory in heaven to put on human flesh in order to shed his blood and redeem us. He works out the plan that will bring his chosen ones<|fim_middle|> others while I was waiting for my husband & doctors to see me before surgery. It was amazing – how could I NOT focus on my own fear & anxiety? What a gift that was to me!
We think we have control over things & that our family can't live without us, but truthfully, we don't & they can.
Fear is a killer for us. If we succumb to a spirit of fear, we will never have the confidence or courage to leave our "safe" lives & discover who we are in Christ!
We model this to everyone around us and don't even know who is watching.
Thanks for being a witness of God's love, mercy & grace to me Melinda!
You have, once again, stated so well how the mind tries to get us to think of ourselves as more important and all-powerful than we are! Another good lesson. Easier to say than to do, but once we do trust, how blessed we are!
I have thought these same thoughts and battled the same doubts each year when my husband travels to serve the Lord overseas (India, mostly). I have unbelieving family that struggle with his 'leaving his family to go to a dangerous area', and I always tell them (and remind myself) that life is dangerous everywhere, and how much better to risk it all in service to the Lord, than to live 'safe' at home.
Maybe someday your granddaughter will get to go, too! My daughter worked and saved to go to India with her father and I in 2010. It changed her life and opened her eyes; she's praying to be able to go again this year.
Glad I found your blog! Very good words for Ann in regards to her son.
Tresta, nice to meet you! Such a blessing to "meet" a fellow believer who loves the people of India and serves there. Ours is a family ministry, as it sounds like yours is too. My first child blasted off to the other side of the world for ministry in 1994 (this one to Russia). For the ones who stay at home each time, it gets easier to let them go, the more practice we get in doing it. And the more we do it, the more cognizant we become of the fact that they're safe in the Lord's hands, wherever they are—more stripping away of the fear that often clouds our minds, because we cannot yet see with our eyes the eternal realities of heaven. May the Lord use you and your family for his glory, whenever and wherever you may go. | into his kingdom. We play our part for the flash of time we're on the stage, a bit part among the myriad of other players. And then our opportunity to have an impact for his glory and his kingdom is finished.
And so, some of us travel to help others far away and some of us stay home, praying and rolling up our sleeves on the home-front. What we do here on earth will count for eternity, both in the lives of those we impact and, after we've gone to be with Christ, on our satisfaction with the service we gave the Master.
As we have the privilege to participate in his glorious plan, our family members are in no greater danger in India or any other far-flung corner to which they trek than they are when "safely" by our sides. Our lives are in God's hands as much when we're cozy in our warm beds at home as they are when we're blasting through the atmosphere at 35,000 feet. We're safe. We cannot die until our purpose on this planet is complete. And then, if we believe and have committed our lives to him, we get to see him face to face.
O Lord, give us faith to believe and trust in you. We're so frail. Any change to our normal routine nearly derails us. We are but dust. What would we do without you and your mercy and grace?
God showed me this verse when I was anxious about my own children. He helped me when I was in the pre-op room the day of my double mastectomy by reminding me to pray for | 325 |
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On happier days, Tsioulcas has celebrated the life of the late Aretha Franklin, traveled to Havana to profile musicians and dancers, revealed the hidden artistry of an Indian virtuoso who spent 60 years in her apartment and brought listeners into the creative process of composers Steve Reich and Terry Riley.
Tsioulcas was formerly a reporter and producer for NPR Music, where she covered breaking news in the music industry as well as a wide range of musical genres and artists. She has also produced episodes for NPR Music's much-lauded Tiny Desk concert series, and has hosted live concerts from venues like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and New York's (Le) Poisson Rouge. She also commissioned and produced several world premieres on behalf of NPR Music, including a live event that brought together 350 musicians to debut a new work together. As a video producer, she created high-profile video shorts for NPR Music, including performances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a Brooklyn theatrical props warehouse and pianist Yuja Wang in an icy-cold Steinway & Sons piano factory.
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A jury found the disgraced R&B star guilty of charges that included sexual exploitation of a child, racketeering and sex trafficking. He faces a possible sentence of 10 years to life in prison.
R. Kelly's Federal Trial Is In The Hands Of The Jury
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Astana. January 29. Kazakhstan Today - The Minister of Finance of Kazakhstan, Bolat Zhamishev, at the expanded session of the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday said the lowered rate of taxation will be introduced for the mining enterprises under<|fim_middle|> off their employees, the agency reports. "The tax on extraction of minerals is an innovation for Kazakhstan and the new Tax Code assumes reasonably low system of rates of extraction of minerals. It provides a possibility of introduction of the decreased rate for low profitable deposits," B. Zhamishev said. "The government has been considering approaches on decrease of the rates of tax on extraction of minerals in the mining industry and the decision on establishment of the lowered rates has been prepared," the Minister Finance informed. He also emphasized that the condition for decrease of these rates is not laying off of the employees, who, in the opinion of employers, are not in demand." According to the Finance Minister, such measure will impact the revenue of the budget and will promote stabilization of the enterprises of the mining industry. | the condition that the companies do not lay | 8 |
I also went on an epic adventure around Manchester yesterday so I thought I'd focus on that.
First thing we did yesterday was go to Chetham's Library which is the oldest free public reference library in the United Kingdom. It was also one of the top 10 most beautiful libraries on a list that I found online ages ago.
Next stop was the Manchester Cathedral which was nice- but my church snobbery wants me to tell you that it definitely wasn't the best one I've seen during my travels.
On the way to the Manchester Art Gallery to see the Ron Mueck exhibit (which was pretty damn impressive although it was only 3 pieces- well worth takin' a gander) I grabbed this photo of St. Anne's Church.
Adam was pretty damn ecstatic to<|fim_middle|>ne moore. Tom Ford. yes!
Tom Ford is kinda the man- he's pretty hip yes yes. | find out that Vimto comes in a new flavour- cherry. For anyone not "in the know" learn more about Vimto here.
And these's snazzy drinks. I had a 'Sally Cinnamon' and Adam had an 'Old Fashioned'.
Then we went to Chinatown and had some dim sum om nom nom. Pork buns 4 life!
Today I've just been trying to work on the website more and some writing and yadda yadda. I do have intentions on going to Ireland soon so hopefully that means Dublin photos for you.
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Ensenada's El Rey Sol
Serving French and international cuisine along with local Mexican fare, the El Rey Sol in Ensenada is Baja's most honored restaurant and still reigns as a gourmand's gem.
It appears an anomaly, a fine French restaurant, serene and sedate, with a menu that includes Duck Aux Beaux Arts and Grilled Salmon with Champagne Sauce, just steps from fish taco stands and vendors of blankets and inexpensive souvenir trinkets.
By the time that dessert pastry tray was presented, we knew we had not just enjoyed a meal, but experienced an intricate work of art that is so prized by lovers of French cuisine.
"The Sun King"
The El Rey Sol is a culinary institution celebrating its 70th Anniversary this year. Spanish for The Sun King (Le Roi Soleil in French), it was a popular title given to France's King Louis XIV. El Rey Sol opened its doors on May 23, 1947 as a modest 10-table restaurant on Ocean Blvd. at Calle Primera y Blancarte.
The founding force was Virginia (Doña Pepita) Geffroy de Bitterlin, daughter of a French engineer (who worked at the Santa Rosalia Boleo copper mine in Baja California Sur Territory), and his Mexican bride, Refugio (Cuca) Pozo, from Mulege. Pepita was born March 17, 1910.
In 1920 the Geffroy children were sent to France to live with relatives where they stayed until they made French marriages. Doña Pepita remained abroad for 18 years during which time she married the French artist Jacques Bitterlin and gave birth to her first child, Jacqueline. Two daughters and a son were later born in Mexico.
While in France Doña Pepita became interested in cooking and delighted her sisters and cousins and aunts with delectable repasts from her kitchen. She took classes in French cuisine at the famed Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris. She experimented with inventions of her own and gradually became a very fine chef.
By the 1940s the copper mine at Santa Rosalia had declined, so Pepita joined her sister Mayo and husband Gaston Flourie in the Baja California port town of Ensenada. They had established the Casa Del Sol motel on the town's sandy thoroughfare and Pepita was encouraged to develop a restaurant. Thus, the El Rey Sol was born.
The décor of the original restaurant was done by Jacques Bitterlin, by this time a professor at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California and one of the principal artists of the peninsula.
The family established Rancho Las Ánimas in the Santo Tomás area where to this day, fresh herbs, fruits and vegetables are grown for the restaurant.
The establishment prospered under the day-to-day attention of the family members, including Pepita's mother, Doña Cuca, who provided personal attention to the clientele.
A hit from the beginning
The eatery was a hit from the beginning. The 1953 book "Baja California' by Ralph Hancock, Ray Haller, Mike McMahan and Frank Alvarado states: "Restaurant El Rey Sol is in the latter motel (Casa Del Sol). It is reputed to be one of the best in town, serves French, American and Mexican food and advertises a specialty or two: lobster a la cardinal, coquilles Saint Jacques, Vol-au-vent and filet mignon."
In just a few years the restaurant was forced to move to larger quarters across the street to its present site on Ave. López Mateos and Ave. Blancarte.
Pepita trained Candido Pacheco, an Ensenada farm boy and discovered he had a natural flair for cooking. For over 35 years, Candido and his two brothers presided over the kitchen at El Rey Sol. Candido was guest chef at the 65th anniversary celebration in 2012.
Employee loyalty at the family-run restaurant is evident by the fact that at the 50-year anniversary, 12 employees had been at El Rey Sol for 25 or more years and one waitress, Aldegunda Beltran had retired with 45 years of service.
The restaurant celebrated its 25th anniversary by another expansion in 1972. The new contemporary Mediterranean design offered seating for 240 featuring two elegant and intimate banquet rooms and a modern stainless-steel kitchen. The main dining room has plates and copper pans hanging from thick beams overhead.
I noted the thick, padded wallpaper and stained-glass windows complete with the French fleur d'lis. Cushioned footstools reposed nearby, and freshly cut roses enhanced every table. The restaurant's extensive wine list features primarily local, Ensenada-grown vintages.
A host of awards
The El Rey Sol began garnering a host of culinary awards and honors, including the coveted Grand Mexican Award in 1981, 1983, 1986, 1988 and 1989. It became the only restaurant in North America to win the award five times. In 1996, owner Jean-Loup Bitterlin, Pepita's son and proprietor, was summoned to Madrid, Spain to accept the Gran Collar de Oro (Grand Collar of Gold) award, one of only 11 restaurants in the world to receive the honor. It has been recognized by The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences with the "Five Star Diamond Award" (given to the top 50 restaurants in Mexico), for 9 recent years in a row.
With the recognition came a host of luminaries. Six Mexican Presidents have sampled the French cuisine in the humble port city of Ensenada. On one visit, my waiter Marco recalled greeting four of them: Jose Lopez Portillo, Miguel de la Madrid, Carlos Salinas and President Ernesto Zedillo (who attended the restaurant's 50th anniversary.)
Other international celebrities who have dined at El Rey Sol include John Wayne, James Garner, Anthony Quinn, Jacques Costeau, Mario "Cantinflas" Moreno, Hulk Hogan, two Miss Universes and Vikki Carr (who also headlined the restaurant's 40th anniversary banquet and concert).
I enjoyed a recent meal there too. The thick, hot bolillos (rolls) were perfect, crunchy on the outside, with warm, rich dough inside. The appetizer plate could have sated me, but I was selective and enjoyed cold potatoes whipped up in some kind of egg and mustard sauce. I ordered stuffed calamari and it came very tender and stuffed with all sort of goodies from the sea and was topped with some type of rich sauce.
While I didn't get the recipe for my meal, the restaurant made a couple recipes public, including:
Clams: Style Coquille Saint Jacques
Cook the soft edible parts of fresh Pismo clams whole with onion and parsley in a little dry white wine (about 20 minutes). Grind.
To the ground clams add chopped onion sauteed in butter, chopped mushrooms; salt and pepper. Let cook 10 minutes.
Make a bechamelle (cream) sauce with hot butter and flour, adding hot milk and stirring constantly to make a thick white sauce. Salt to taste.
Combine bechamelle with the clam mixture. Fill the shells with this combination, and add ground gruyere or jack cheese and ground bread. Grill until golden.
The El Rey Sol's al fresco dining gazebo out front sports a distinctive royal blue covering, outdoor heaters, wrought iron tables and chairs, and most importantly, a crepes bar. Crepes vary from simple, to sugar-covered, to Crepes Grand Marnier, all in the $4-$5 range. I couldn't walk past the place recently and smugly enjoyed outstanding mango crepes and coffee as I watched the world go by.
Grupo El Rey Sol
The Grupo El Rey Sol enterprise encompasses five businesses: Restaurant El Rey Sol, the nearby Hotel Posada El Rey Sol (package deals with the restaurant available), the Casa de los Siete Patios (large home available for weddings and events), the Villa Bitterlin (an ocean-front boutique villa for rent), and Cibola del Mar (ocean-front real estate condos). Jean-Loup Bitterlin is the grupo's general manager.
The oldest French restaurant in all of Mexico established a non-profit foundation for the community in the form of the Don Bosco Ciudad de los Niños Orphanage. After establishing the fund, Virginia "Pepita" Geffroy passed away in January 1989. Later that year the Don Bosco "Children's City<|fim_middle|>, will spread your name around."
— T.C., Apache Junction, AZ
PreviousStreet Bargains – Baja StyleNextBoy Detectives on a Baja Beach | " opened to provide a permanent home to 43 boys under age 15.
The restaurant is the big draw and recent TripAdvisor comments confirm that it's still going strong:
"This is fine dining at its best in Ensenada…family run since 1947 and has won many awards for their excellent seafood, distinctive international cuisine and impeccable service."
"Mexico's oldest French restaurant prides itself on a diverse menu, professional staff and sophisticated atmosphere. The extensive French menu includes seafood, chicken, steak, Caesar salad for two prepared tableside and a few traditional Mexican dishes. Our ample portions always include fresh vegetables."
"Great French restaurant in Ensenada, Mexico. Been coming here for over 20 years! El Pato a las Bellas Arte is a must. Savory duck with fresh fruit marinated together! Sweetness!"
That reviewer called the duck "sweetness." For me, sweetness is that succulent mango crepe. Hey, it's all pretty awesome stuff.
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Sorry, Marie Kondo, but I'm hanging on to my old frocks
When it comes to memory, clothes are as potent as any Proustian madeleine
Jane Shilling 27 June 2021 • 4:31pm
It is cheering to find that one's discreditable (if venial) sins are shared by celebrities as glamorous as Joanna Lumley and Kate Moss. The particular sin in question is that of keeping the garments of one's youth into middle age or beyond; and it is one that the hardline tidiers - the Swedish Death Cleaners and Marie-Kondo-ites - don't regard as venial at all. Their doctrine demands that clothes past their wear-by date should be briskly disposed of.
Yet Joanna Lumley, about to unveil an English Heritage blue plaque commemorating the designer, Jean<|fim_middle|> myself strangely disconcerted by the idea that I am making an unwitting fashion statement while scrubbing the sink. | Muir, admits that she still owns her first Jean Muir dress. Kate Moss, celebrating Vivienne Westwood at 80, recalls spending the fee for her first modelling job on a Westwood coat that she is saving for her daughter, Lila.
When it comes to memory, clothes are as potent as any Proustian madeleine. Our great-grandmothers made patchwork quilts of cherished garments. These days, lacking the time and skill for such fine work, we vestimentary romantics harbour our ancient garments like old love letters.
"Just because we can fit into a dress we wore when we were 18, doesn't mean we should," said a friend the other day. No, indeed. But the sight of that dress offers a poignant reminder of what it was like to be young and silly. For the parents and grandparents of 18-year-olds, that recollection could be far more useful than a perfectly ordered closet.
Among the many ill effects of the pandemic on children's education, a survey of primary school teachers reports a deterioration in handwriting skills as a result of using laptops. While the task of making good all that children have lost during the past 18 months is formidable, perhaps handwriting needn't be a top priority, for who now (apart from the Duchess of Sussex) regularly writes by hand as an adult?
The history of terrible handwriting long predates the use of laptops, and a schooling in neat writing is no guarantee of later legibility. As a child, I was taught Marion Richardson cursive; I abandoned it as soon as I started secondary school, with the result that these days I struggle to read my own shopping lists.
An elegant hand is a lovely accomplishment, but given recent reports of a lack of basic literacy and numeracy among young employees, a grasp of fundamental skills seems more pressing than precision penpersonship.
I have never really understood the transformation of trainers - ugly, malodorous, jumped-up plimsolls - into high fashion items. But here's another mystery: leafing through the Sunday newspapers I noticed, nestling between advertisements for luxury cruises and expensive watches, a quarter-page advert for Marigold rubber gloves. It shows a dude making finger-spectacles with his Marigold-clad digits. "Washing up never looked so good", reads the slogan.
The ad must have cost a bomb, yet its message is strangely opaque. Is it that housework is cool? If so, I must tell my son. Or are we witnessing the apotheosis of rubber gloves to Yeezy-esque trainer status? As it happens, I recently bought a pair of Marigolds, but I find | 545 |
Do you believe<|fim_middle|>Who's Eywa? Only their deity! Their goddess, everything they know! You'd know this if you've had any training whatsoever." So basically, Grandmother Willow of the Avatar world...No wait, that's the Tree of Souls. You know, I've only seen this movie once. I get confused.
LAUREN COOPER:
Can I just ox you a question?
Are you talkin' Scottish now?
I wish!
Do you fancy Billie Piper?
Is this the bothered face that sits before thee?
Right, I'm calling your parents.
Are you disrespecting the house of Cooper?
Enough, Lauren.
Art thou calling my mother a pox-ridden wench?
Lauren!
Art thou calling my father a goodly rotten apple?
*uses sonic screwdriver to turn her into an action figure*
HAMLET:
How is it with you, lady?
Alas, how is 't with you, that you do bend your eye on vacancy and with th' incorporal air do hold discourse?
...But yeah, I'm doing pretty good.
What is this quintessence of dust?
Oh Hamlet, you're so emo...It's gonna be okay...Well, not really...
MACBETH:
Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?
That's actually a really romantic thing to say...I think. I mean, no offense, but you're Macbeth. I don't remember you saying anything too appealing. I just remember you killed that dude. Probably lots of dudes...
POCAHONTAS:
Have you ever asked the grinning bobcat why he grins?
Because he's taxidermed that way? With a cool steampunk outfit?
And also...just because: this!
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Not like you can, gurrrrl.
SARA:
What do you think are the merits and drawbacks of a zombie chick flick?
Well...zombies. Depending on your preferences, this could go either way. I'm guessing you've either seen or (more likely) you are contemplating seeing Warm Bodies. I haven't seen it, but the trailer does look funny, so there's a merit. But a drawback is...I don't know...I can't think of anything particularly negative about such a film, but it just doesn't appeal to me so much.
Do you find any similarities between watch Monty Python and being Rick Rolled?
What?...Sorry...What? They're both...unexpected...and funny? Maybe? What? What is this question?
Why didn't you and Jill go to fencing on Tuesday?
Homework :p
How do you think your life would be different if you just went by "Anna"?
People wouldn't get so confused about what my middle name is. I'd be more easily mixed up with other Annas. And old ladies probably wouldn't compliment me on my name as often. Anna's okay, but I prefer Anna Beth. :)
Which of the British countries, in your opinion, is best, and why?
I'm partial to England. I did live there, after all. And it's just wonderful, and London is there, and Harlaxton, and all the things! I mean, I'm kind of biased; I did travel around England a lot, whereas I was only in Scotland and Ireland for a few days, and I was only in Wales for a few hours.
How long can you wear a pair of heels before your feet start to hurt?
I don't know. I've never really timed myself. lol. I can usually stay in heels for quite a while, though. Unless I'm dancing. Then maybe only a couple of hours, at most, before the bare feet come out.
Why do heels make your feet hurt?
Because they're pretty. Fashion isn't supposed to be comfortable. ;)
Favorite kind of accent?
English, and Irish, and Scottish, and Hugh Jackman--I mean...Australian.
Favorite American accent?
My great-aunt Evelyn has a really beautiful voice. Just the way she speaks is so crisp and enunciated. I'm not sure if you'd call it an accent, but...
How's it feel to be 21?
Suspicious of Rachael... :P
Whelp, here we are. That's the end of REVENGE OF QUESTION THURSDAY! And my favorite iiiiiiissssssss...............
ME! Just kidding, it's Jill. So ask Jill lots of questions for next week!
Also, have a happy Valentine's Day, eat lots of chocolate, and...Yeah, that's about it.
The End. This is America.
- that last song, along the way, was the best thing ever! and i only realized who that was after the fact...
- I've only seen a couple of the harlem shake videos, but I thought PJ's was pretty cool :)
- I watched Monty Python recently. And I just thought it felt like the movie version of being Rick Rolled...
Also, Ireland is not part of Britain. Aren't you supposed to know these things, Anna Beth?
You know what, Sara? I debated even mentioning Ireland, but I thought you might have wanted to include Ireland in there. I wasn't aware of how clear you were on Britishness, especially since you don't watch Downton Abbey and are therefore less British! :p
And yes, Along the Way is an ADORABLE song! So adorable, so adorable, so adorable, soooo AWWW!!! He can raise my kids, I'm just saying. lol
I'm pretty sure we had this conversation about Britishness, and you should therefore be perfectly aware that I know these things. But whatever :P
Questions for the Jill:
Explain your interpretation of the scale from "crush" to "love." Where do "feelings" come in? What do you think are the qualifications for being "in love" with a person?
When are you going to open your Christmas present from Kelsey?
Have you opened it yet?
What about now?
Do you ever have just random flashes of memories in your head? And if so, is there anything in particular that you find yourself flashing back to more often than other things? Is it normal to have brief flashbacks?
If you were Ursula, whose voice would you steal?
What's your favorite page of your calendar that your mom made?
If you could have any prop from Farscape, what would it be?
And if you could have any movie/tv prop that's not from Farscape, what would it be?
Would you rather never leave the US or never eat bread again?
What's in your present from Kelsey?
Do you think it's irrational for people to hate Valentine's Day?
How's life without iphone games?
What is the percentage of thoughts that you actually verbalize, if 100% is saying literally everything you think?
What is the worst way someone could insult you?
What do you consider the best compliment someone could give you?
Would you rather have a wolf or a horse?
How do you like sleeping on the top bunk?
If you had to be famous, would you rather be famous for something you did or for being married to someone famous?
Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
Zhaan
Am I the only species in creation that doesn't thrive on conflict?
John Crichton
One thing, just to be absolutely certain, you are the female of your species, right?
What is it like in your funny little brains? It must be so boring.
Why so silent...Did you think that I had left you for good? Have you missed me?
Christine Daae
Who was that shape in the shadows? Whose is the face in the mask?
Stranger than you dreamt it, can you even bear to look, or dare to think of me?
Enjolras
With all the anger in the land, how long before the judgment day, before we cut the fat ones down to size? Before the barricades arise?
Do I follow where she goes? Shall I join my brothers there? Do I stay, do I dare?
What about second breakfast? What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn't he?
If you could only date guys from one major, which major would you choose?
What's the weirdest compliment you've ever received?
Today at church, Pastor Jason defined romance as "making a person feel as valuable as God says they are." What is your opinion of that definition and how does it line up with your own definition of romance? | in love at first sight, or should I show up at your house singing?
Hello from Valentine's Day! Also known as the day customers are going to devour Rachael because she works at a chocolate shop! Yaaaaay! Rachael, if you're reading this, I'm glad you're still alive. Remember, just keep swimming! And ship #racharanda.
Anyway, I was going to talk about last weekend and my birthday until I realized...oh yeah...you were all there...Because we're the only ones left. All the other barricades have fallen. No, wait, I mean all the other bloggers have deserted us. Yeah, that's it. Anyway, on to questions!
RACHAEL:
If you were dating the guy you've always dreamed of, would you still be with him if you felt like something was missing?
No. Even Taylor Swift agrees with me on this one. If something's missing, if there's no spark, if the magic's not there...He must not really be the one. He may meet all your criteria for the "perfect" guy, but I think what's most important is how you feel about someone, not what's on their resume, so to speak. It's both comforting and disconcerting to think that someone who seems so perfect for you might be all wrong, but that's what makes falling in love so exciting, I suppose. The mystery of it all, the riddles. Not that I'd know...But still, I like to offer my unwarranted opinion.
As of right now, what do you think is going to happen to Wickham?
I don't know, man! I DON'T think he and Lydia are going to end up together. They just CAN'T! They won't. I bet Darcy will either pay him to take the site down, or he'll have some really good blackmail on him so Wickham will take it down without a bribe. I just really want to see a Darcy/Wickham smackdown. Maybe not literally. But I want everybody to tell him off and I want him to get what's coming to him. You know, kind of like that episode of Downton Abbey where Mary's fiance gets told off twice and then punched? I want that to happen to Wickham.
If you were Ursula, whose voice would you want to steal?
Samantha Barks.
Whose life would you want to live for 3 months (real people)?
Carrie Fletcher, maybe? She seems to have a really fun and interesting life; she's friends with other cool youtubers; and she appears to be a great person. Plus, she gets to be British every day of her life! My dream! Oh, and she can SING!!!! Yeah, I'd totally be her!
Why does Jill ask so many questions?
Because she wants to win? Or because she has lots of thoughts? Or because she's curious...but also not.
How many days until the warm weather comes back consistently?
I'd like to say 34, but we live in Bowling Green, so consistency doesn't exist here.
Do you get tired of eating a certain kind of food?
Yes. Part of the reason I abandoned my meal plans was that I got so tired of campus food that I had to force myself to eat it. The desire definitely wasn't there.
Favorite old Hollywood actor/tress?
Well, my first instinct was to say Vincent Price. And there's Audrey Hepburn, of course. And Katherine Hepburn is really good. And Bette Davis! She is such a creepy lady. And then there's Cary Grant--I love him! And Jimmy Stewart!
Favorite song at this moment?
Ughh, Rachael, why do you do this to me??? I mean, you did say "at this moment," which makes it a little easier, but noooo. Ummmm.... "A Little Fall of Rain" from Les Mis. That's it. I'd put a link to it, but SPOILERS! So don't even listen to it if you haven't seen the movie. Just don't do it.
But I've also REALLY been enjoying Aaron Tveit's voice lately, so I've listened to a lot of delightful musical theater songs featuring his fantasticalness. Like this. And this. And this!
Fav song to dance to?
I know I have a favorite...Well, Rachael, I really like to dance to "Don't Stop Believing" and "I've Had the Time of My Life" when we dance like we're on Glee. lol
How bout to sing along to?
Hmm...Either "One Day More" from Les Mis or "Elephant Love Medley" from Moulin Rouge, because I like to sing ALL the parts!
Would you date a guy who has the Beatles haircut?
Yeah. Yeah, I think I would if he was an attractive guy (not just physically, I mean all-around attractiveness).
JILL:
Why does the Navy keep sending me things?
They want YOU!
If you were to join one branch of the military, which would you pick and why?
Navy. My grandfather was in the Navy, so that's cool. And boats. Mostly boats.
If you were given a safety lecture for a class similar to what I described in my last blog, what would your reaction be?
I would seriously consider dropping the class. Also, I'd be really worried if I got a lecture like that one of my classes, considering that I'm studying film. lol
Least favorite sound?
Um...vomiting? Especially if it's coming from me. Also, I wonder why you ask this. Now I'm self-conscious that I was making some terrible sound...
Spiderpig or goatfairy?
Oooh. Tough one. I think I have to go with goatfairy, though.
Who's my favorite president and why?
I told you. It's Nixon. I mean, he had that little dog named Checkers. What's not to like?
What does Leadership mean to you?
It means...Where's Dr. Baker when you need him?
What aspect of school would you most like to do away with?
The part with the homework and the tests and the assigned reading and the projects. Oh, and the getting up before 9 or 10 a.m. for class.
Favorite prank that you've pulled, you've seen pulled, or has been pulled on you?
In high school, my parents and I put a lifesize doll I had on a float in our pool, then lured Victoria out there in the dark. When she saw the "body" floating in the water, she screamed. Then she stopped when the flashlight wasn't directed at it. But when my mom shined the light on the pool again, she screamed again. She did that like 3 or 4 times. It was an actual reaction, and it was hilarious! And it turns out that the "dead girl" in the pool prompted us to make our very first film, "Mad Cow." Thus, Random Moments Productions was born!
How does it feel to be owed $369.60?
I feel like a loan shark...and I like it.
What do you look for in a good TV show?
So many things. Obviously I want an interesting story, but I think characters are more important than plot. If you love the characters, they can almost just do whatever. And, like Jill and I have talked about a lot, that feeling of community is something I've noticed I really like in a show. Like, the feeling that the characters all mesh together as part of something bigger than themselves. Firefly is a great example of this: there are 9 members of Serenity's crew, and they're like a family, and watching it, I just want to be part of that. You know? I love those shows that really suck you in, and make you want to be best friends with the characters. Like I said, Firefly is one of those, but also Doctor Who, Sherlock, Downton Abbey. They all feature groups of people who are either family or make their own sort of family together. I also like the shows that are like that in a different way, involving small towns. Examples would be Gilmore Girls and Once Upon a Time. Oh, and then there's 7th Heaven. I was thinking about all the shows I like or used to like a lot, and that was another one, as well as Boy Meets World. Do all tv shows have that community/family dynamic, or just the ones I watch? Because it seems like everything I watch has that to an extent. I guess that's one of my top criteria for a good show, then.
But like I said, I also like really interesting plots, usually ones that are interconnected. That's why I usually prefer the season-long story arcs rather than miscellaneous stand-alone episodes.
Another thing: I like shows with a good deal of drama, but in a classy way. Like Downton Abbey has all kinds of exciting scandals and spats between characters, but it's done well. It's not overdramatized or immature. And it's not repetitive. I used to really enjoy watching Glee, but eventually the excessive on-again-off-again drama got annoying. I still like it okay, but I've quit actually following it. Sometimes I get the urge to watch a few episodes on Hulu, but mostly for the musical numbers. After the original cast became less prominent, I cared significantly less about the new characters. Although I did find Rachel's new life in New York really fun to watch there for a while. Ooops, I just went off on a really long tangent about all the shows I like. The end.
Favorite idiom?
Hotter than a pepper sprout? Crooked as a rainbow? No, I guess those would be colloquialisms more than idioms. I'm not really sure...Colder than a well digger's backside? Dang it, colloquialisms!
What does the phrase "have your cake and eat it too" mean to you (in the context of our conversation yesterday about "fine lines")?
It means having both of the things you want without giving up either. Hence, it is usually preceded by "You can't." Because if you think about it logically, you either get to have the cake (as in keep it) or eat it (it's gone to your tummy). Although, you could eat part of the cake, I guess. But that defeats the purpose, because then you're compromising.
What do you think of the 'Harlem Shake' youtube trend?
I'm not too familiar with it, but from what you showed me earlier on Toby's video, it doesn't seem pleasant...
You gonna survive without tumblr during lent?
ermm...mehhh...what is airrrrrrrr??? *whimpers*
If you could make your own Chinese zodiac, what animals would you put on it?
Monkey, dog, cat, wallaby, mouse, wolf, unicorn, dragon, ood, otter, zedonk, hedgehog...or maybe a fox. Or a bearcoon.
Fight or flight?
Flight.
Your butt.
Right now, punk.
Let's take this outside.
Because I said so.
If you could have one prop from any TV show or movie, what would you pick?
Probably Jack's compass from Pirates of the Caribbean. I mean, especially if it points to the thing you want most. lol. And I already have a sonic screwdriver, but of course I'd love to have THE sonic screwdriver. Or Sherlock's violin...Or the red flag from Les Mis.
"ANNA BETH":
Why do you think people are, as you say, "innately driven to organize the world, other people included, into categories and try to make sense of their surroundings?"
Oh, self, that is so not cool! You can't just barge in here and get all philosophical in the middle of my Question Thursday. This is for Sara, you hear me?
Ugh, I guess I'll answer, though. Wouldn't want to slight myself. Hmm. So, I think people try to categorize themselves and each other, as Sara said, to make sense of things. But also to feel better about themselves, probably. Like, "Well, I'm this kind of person, so that makes me better than that girl over there" and whatnot.
JAKE SULLY:
So who's this Eywa?
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Лабіри́нт () — дуже складне, заплутане розташування приміщень, переходів, доріг, алей. Первісно — споруда, що, нібито, складалася з кількох тисяч кімнат, залів і коридорів. Уперше про один з них повідомив давньогрецький історик Геродот (бл. 484—431 або 425 рр. до н. е.). У другій книжці свого знаменитого твору «Історія», він описав відвіданий ним велетенський Фаюмський лабіринт і розповів про історію його побудови. Цей найдавніший з відомих лабіринтів був заупокійним храмом, побудованим біля піраміди фараона Аменемхета III (1840—1792 р. до. н. е.).
У сучасній мові «лабіринт» також означає не тільки споруду, з якої важко знайти вихід, а й заплутані стосунки, ситуації, думки тощо.
Історія
В античності були відомі чотири лабіринти: єгипетський — на схід від Арсіної, споруджений у II тис. до н. е.; то був величезний палац із гробницею та підземними ходами; грецький на острові Самосі, збудований за наказом Полікрата; в Італії, що його спорудив етруський цар Порсенна як усипальницю для царської родини.
Проте найвідомішим вважається лабіринт на острові Крит. Його за дорученням Міноса спорудив Дедал для Мінотавра. Конструкцією цей лабіринт був подібний до єгипетського. В основу міфів про лабіринт лягли історичні факти. Наприклад, міф про критський лабіринт відбив спогад про розквіт критської держави 2 тисячоліття до н. е. Слово «лабіринт» пов'язують із назвою подвійної соки<|fim_middle|> вигаданих істот» зауважує: «Ідея про споруду, в якій губляться люди, можливо, ще дивніша за ідею про людину з бичачою головою, але вони доповнюють одна одну…»
Лабіринт як форма
Лабіринт у парковому мистецтві
Першими садівниками вважаються монахи. Цікавими елементами монастирських садів є лабіринти.
Як намалювати класичний лабіринт
Намалювати класичний лабіринт зовсім неважко. Малюнок починається з хреста згідно зі схемою. Гострі кути можна закруглити. Дехто вважає, що проходження лабіринтів а також їх малювання заспокоює. Існують клуби, де можна зібратися та збудувати лабіринт з камінчиків або з паличок, а потім пройтися один за одним по ньому. Ті хто хоч раз це робив, стверджують, що це дуже захопливо.
Примітки
Література
Словник античної міфології. — : Наукова думка, 1985. — 236 сторінок.
Посилання
Лябіринт //
Лабіринти
Садово-паркова архітектура | ри — лабриса, зображення якого часто зустрічається на стінах Критського лабіринту. Стародавні греки під лабіринтом розуміли поплутані підземні коридори в копальнях та катакомбах; переносно його вживали для позначення різних складних явищ і плутаних мовних зворотів.
Лабіринти — одна із складних, ще не розв'язаних загадок історії. У різні часи ці дивні витвори у формі печер, палаців або споруд без покрівлі тощо з'являлися скрізь, де мешкала людина.
В епоху середніх віків у Європі схеми лабіринтів вимощували мозаїкою на підлогах соборів. Наприклад, такий лабіринт вимостили в XII ст. на підлозі Щартрського собору в Франції (мал. 3). Пізніше були поширеними паркові лабіринти. Найвідоміший з них — парковий лабіринт з кущів, влаштований у 1690 р. поблизу Лондона у володінні Вільгельма Оранського в саду Гемптон-Корта.
Навколо фортець у давнину споруджували системи валів у формі лабіринту, план якого знав тільки володар фортеці. Такі споруди служили для оборони і могли стати схованкою. Лабіринти використовували й для покарання. Засуджених до смерті відводили в лабіринт. Там, не знаючи його будови, приречений після марних блукань гинув від спраги й голоду.
Найбільшого поширення набули лабіринти-головоломки. Уже діти давніх греків і римлян заповнювали дозвілля такими розвагами, про що свідчить креслення, виявлене на стіні одного з будинків міста Помпеї, засипаного попелом під час виверження вулкана Везувію в 79 р. Біля креслення лабіринту написано: «Лабіринт. Тут живе Мінотавр». З того часу і до наших днів ідея лабіринту стає в цікавій математиці все змістовнішою, збагачується новими мотивами задач. Урізноманітнюються самі форми лабіринтів, з'являються числові, об'ємні й інші лабіринти, де в несподіваних формах розвивається ідея, витоки якої губляться в прадавніх часах. Історії лабіринтів присвячено багато наукових досліджень і популярних видань.
Лабіринти широко застосовуються в науці і техніці. Психологи за їх допомогою вивчають поведінку людей і тварин у повторюваних або екстремальних ситуаціях. Кібернетикам лабіринти допомагають конструювати ЕОМ, зокрема роботів, які здатні до самонавчання. Такі експерименти першим провів американський математик Клод Шеннон (нар. 1916 р.): кібернетичні миші вченого за певними алгоритмами могли вибиратися із найзаплутаніших лабіринтів. За принципом лабіринту виготовляють глушителі в двигунах внутрішнього згорання, заповнюють частини деталей під високим тиском.
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Former NFL wide receiver Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson will host a charity basketball game, the SunTrust Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson Celebrity Super Slam, during Super Bowl weekend.
The SunTrust Celebrity Super Slam presented by Optimal Health Solutions will take place on Friday, January 31, at the Rick Case Arena on the campus of Nova Southeastern University, 3100 Ray Ferrero Jr.<|fim_middle|> Era Cap Company(www.neweracap.com) Wooter Apparel(www.wooterapparel.com) and Grandstand Sports (www.grandstandsports.com). Tickets are available at www.ticketmaster.com and all Ticketmaster locations.
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Next articleGet set for the January 17-19 production of 'Macbeth' at Barnacle | Blvd, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This fun-filled, family event is one of two celebrity sporting events SunTrust now Truist is sponsoring as part of its second annual Confidence Classic. The Confidence Classic brings affordable and accessible community events to Super Bowl host cities, giving hometown fans and visiting sports enthusiasts the chance to take part in one of the most anticipated sporting events of the year.
"The Celebrity Super Slam event is an excellent opportunity to bring sports fans and the local community together to take part in the Super Bowl excitement," said Wendy McSweeney, chief inclusion officer at SunTrust now Truist. "It not only provides an accessible option for people to participate in the weekend festivities, but the proceeds also benefit local children in the South Florida area."
This year's Celebrity Super Slam game benefits the Irie Foundation (www.iriefoundation.org), a local non-profit that empowers at-risk youth to lead productive lives through cultural experiences, educational initiatives mentorship programs and scholarship opportunities. The Celebrity Super Slam will feature current and former NFL players, Hollywood celebrities, music and reality stars, social media influencers and more. Confirmed and invited guests include Hall of Famer Terrell Owens, tennis sensation Coco Gauff, former NFL great Simeon Rice, Demarcus Lawrence of the Cowboys, Janoris Jenkins of the Saints, rapper Flo-Rida, reality TV stars Caesar and Teddy of Black Ink Crew, as well as civil rights activist, Ben Crump, serving as honorary chair. Doors opens at 6:00 p.m. Celebrities are subject to change upon availability.
Attendees will have an opportunity to win prizes, receive autographs and capture photos with some of their favorite NFL stars and celebrities as they come together in support of a great cause. Sponsors of the Celebrity Superslam include title sponsor SunTrust now Truist, (www.truist.com,) presenting sponsor Optimal Health Solutions, iHeart Media Miami, New | 391 |
package hcn
import (
"encoding/json"
)
// EndpointPolicyType are the potential Policies that apply to Endpoints.
type EndpointPolicyType string
// EndpointPolicyType const
const (
PortMapping EndpointPolicyType = "PortMapping"
ACL EndpointPolicyType = "ACL"
QOS EndpointPolicyType = "QOS"
L2Driver EndpointPolicyType = "L2Driver"
OutBoundNAT EndpointPolicyType = "OutBoundNAT"
SDNRoute EndpointPolicyType = "SDNRoute"
L4Proxy EndpointPolicyType = "L4Proxy"
L4WFPPROXY EndpointPolicyType = "L4WFPPROXY"
PortName EndpointPolicyType = "PortName"
EncapOverhead EndpointPolicyType =<|fim_middle|>2 `json:",omitempty"`
InterfaceMediaType uint32 `json:",omitempty"`
InterfaceAlias string `json:",omitempty"`
InterfaceDescription string `json:",omitempty"`
}
/// Network Policy objects
// SourceMacAddressNetworkPolicySetting sets source MAC for a network.
type SourceMacAddressNetworkPolicySetting struct {
SourceMacAddress string `json:",omitempty"`
}
// NetAdapterNameNetworkPolicySetting sets network adapter of a network.
type NetAdapterNameNetworkPolicySetting struct {
NetworkAdapterName string `json:",omitempty"`
}
// VSwitchExtensionNetworkPolicySetting enables/disabled VSwitch extensions for a network.
type VSwitchExtensionNetworkPolicySetting struct {
ExtensionID string `json:",omitempty"`
Enable bool `json:",omitempty"`
}
// DrMacAddressNetworkPolicySetting sets the DR MAC for a network.
type DrMacAddressNetworkPolicySetting struct {
Address string `json:",omitempty"`
}
// AutomaticDNSNetworkPolicySetting enables/disables automatic DNS on a network.
type AutomaticDNSNetworkPolicySetting struct {
Enable bool `json:",omitempty"`
}
/// Subnet Policy objects
// VlanPolicySetting isolates a subnet with VLAN tagging.
type VlanPolicySetting struct {
IsolationId uint32 `json:","`
}
// VsidPolicySetting isolates a subnet with VSID tagging.
type VsidPolicySetting struct {
IsolationId uint32 `json:","`
}
// RemoteSubnetRoutePolicySetting creates remote subnet route rules on a network
type RemoteSubnetRoutePolicySetting struct {
DestinationPrefix string
IsolationId uint16
ProviderAddress string
DistributedRouterMacAddress string
}
| "EncapOverhead"
// Endpoint and Network have InterfaceConstraint and ProviderAddress
NetworkProviderAddress EndpointPolicyType = "ProviderAddress"
NetworkInterfaceConstraint EndpointPolicyType = "InterfaceConstraint"
)
// EndpointPolicy is a collection of Policy settings for an Endpoint.
type EndpointPolicy struct {
Type EndpointPolicyType `json:""`
Settings json.RawMessage `json:",omitempty"`
}
// NetworkPolicyType are the potential Policies that apply to Networks.
type NetworkPolicyType string
// NetworkPolicyType const
const (
SourceMacAddress NetworkPolicyType = "SourceMacAddress"
NetAdapterName NetworkPolicyType = "NetAdapterName"
VSwitchExtension NetworkPolicyType = "VSwitchExtension"
DrMacAddress NetworkPolicyType = "DrMacAddress"
AutomaticDNS NetworkPolicyType = "AutomaticDNS"
InterfaceConstraint NetworkPolicyType = "InterfaceConstraint"
ProviderAddress NetworkPolicyType = "ProviderAddress"
RemoteSubnetRoute NetworkPolicyType = "RemoteSubnetRoute"
HostRoute NetworkPolicyType = "HostRoute"
)
// NetworkPolicy is a collection of Policy settings for a Network.
type NetworkPolicy struct {
Type NetworkPolicyType `json:""`
Settings json.RawMessage `json:",omitempty"`
}
// SubnetPolicyType are the potential Policies that apply to Subnets.
type SubnetPolicyType string
// SubnetPolicyType const
const (
VLAN SubnetPolicyType = "VLAN"
VSID SubnetPolicyType = "VSID"
)
// SubnetPolicy is a collection of Policy settings for a Subnet.
type SubnetPolicy struct {
Type SubnetPolicyType `json:""`
Settings json.RawMessage `json:",omitempty"`
}
// NatFlags are flags for portmappings.
type NatFlags uint32
/// Endpoint Policy objects
// PortMappingPolicySetting defines Port Mapping (NAT)
type PortMappingPolicySetting struct {
Protocol uint32 `json:",omitempty"` // EX: TCP = 6, UDP = 17
InternalPort uint16 `json:",omitempty"`
ExternalPort uint16 `json:",omitempty"`
VIP string `json:",omitempty"`
Flags NatFlags `json:",omitempty"`
}
// ActionType associated with ACLs. Value is either Allow or Block.
type ActionType string
// DirectionType associated with ACLs. Value is either In or Out.
type DirectionType string
// RuleType associated with ACLs. Value is either Host (WFP) or Switch (VFP).
type RuleType string
const (
// Allow traffic
ActionTypeAllow ActionType = "Allow"
// Block traffic
ActionTypeBlock ActionType = "Block"
// In is traffic coming to the Endpoint
DirectionTypeIn DirectionType = "In"
// Out is traffic leaving the Endpoint
DirectionTypeOut DirectionType = "Out"
// Host creates WFP (Windows Firewall) rules
RuleTypeHost RuleType = "Host"
// Switch creates VFP (Virtual Filter Platform) rules
RuleTypeSwitch RuleType = "Switch"
)
// AclPolicySetting creates firewall rules on an endpoint
type AclPolicySetting struct {
Protocols string `json:",omitempty"` // EX: 6 (TCP), 17 (UDP), 1 (ICMPv4), 58 (ICMPv6), 2 (IGMP)
Action ActionType `json:","`
Direction DirectionType `json:","`
LocalAddresses string `json:",omitempty"`
RemoteAddresses string `json:",omitempty"`
LocalPorts string `json:",omitempty"`
RemotePorts string `json:",omitempty"`
RuleType RuleType `json:",omitempty"`
Priority uint16 `json:",omitempty"`
}
// QosPolicySetting sets Quality of Service bandwidth caps on an Endpoint.
type QosPolicySetting struct {
MaximumOutgoingBandwidthInBytes uint64
}
// OutboundNatPolicySetting sets outbound Network Address Translation on an Endpoint.
type OutboundNatPolicySetting struct {
VirtualIP string `json:",omitempty"`
Exceptions []string `json:",omitempty"`
Destinations []string `json:",omitempty"`
}
// SDNRoutePolicySetting sets SDN Route on an Endpoint.
type SDNRoutePolicySetting struct {
DestinationPrefix string `json:",omitempty"`
NextHop string `json:",omitempty"`
NeedEncap bool `json:",omitempty"`
}
// FiveTuple is nested in L4ProxyPolicySetting for WFP support.
type FiveTuple struct {
Protocols string `json:",omitempty"`
LocalAddresses string `json:",omitempty"`
RemoteAddresses string `json:",omitempty"`
LocalPorts string `json:",omitempty"`
RemotePorts string `json:",omitempty"`
Priority uint16 `json:",omitempty"`
}
// L4WfpProxyPolicySetting sets Layer-4 Proxy on an endpoint.
type L4WfpProxyPolicySetting struct {
Port string `json:",omitempty"`
FilterTuple FiveTuple `json:",omitempty"`
UserSID string `json:",omitempty"`
}
// PortnameEndpointPolicySetting sets the port name for an endpoint.
type PortnameEndpointPolicySetting struct {
Name string `json:",omitempty"`
}
// EncapOverheadEndpointPolicySetting sets the encap overhead for an endpoint.
type EncapOverheadEndpointPolicySetting struct {
Overhead uint16 `json:",omitempty"`
}
/// Endpoint and Network Policy objects
// ProviderAddressEndpointPolicySetting sets the PA for an endpoint.
type ProviderAddressEndpointPolicySetting struct {
ProviderAddress string `json:",omitempty"`
}
// InterfaceConstraintPolicySetting limits an Endpoint or Network to a specific Nic.
type InterfaceConstraintPolicySetting struct {
InterfaceGuid string `json:",omitempty"`
InterfaceLuid uint64 `json:",omitempty"`
InterfaceIndex uint3 | 1,246 |
A recap of the tournament, and some plans for the future.
We came, we fought, and ultimately Brian completed a triumphant reclaiming of the Golden Joystick.
Jared took and early lead with the first two games, and then Brian trounced Jared in Windjammers to the point where viewers were donating money to end the slaughter.
Pinball isn't the most specatator friendly sport, however, it did create a<|fim_middle|>ogg but should be far from boring. | lot of drama. Jared mounted an impressive score before it was Brian's turn. Brian then had a fantastic run nearly doubling Jared's score. At this point, it was tied and only one game remained: Tekken.
Tekken was over pretty quickly as Brian's skills were too much for Jared's novice ability. After that Brian had once again reclaimed the trophy he held many years ago.
We were able to accomplish a fantastic goal with your help. We met our fundraising goal of $1,000 dollars for Child's Play. This is something we are eternally grateful for. Thank you so much.
We are currently formulating some future plans for more events that will be more inclusive for everyone to join.
Additionally you should bookmark and follow us on Twitch and YouTube. We will have more regular streaming and video content soon. We are also working on some video highlights of the tournament in case you missed it.
2016 has commenced with a wonderous beginning. We are planning to continue with that momentum and make this a great year for gaming and charity. If you didn't get a chance to donate, you still can!
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The third game for the 4S7P day-long battle is a head-to-head arcade classic, Windjammers.
I first discovered Windjammers in my early days of emulators. I never saw or played Windjammers in the arcades but I probably would have overlooked it since it didn't have guns, spaceships or robots. Although, being a NeoGeo game is definitely a check in the right column.
The characters in Windjammers are along the lines of those you might find in any random pre-2000 volleyball game. Each has their own balance of speed and power, and each come from a different country.
While I've played Windjammers quite a bit, I've never played against another human so going head-to-head with Jared should prove a worthy test. Prior to now, he had never played it at all, so I have a slight advantage but playing the AI is rarely good practice for a human opponent.
I expect Windjammers to be fast, furious play with some very close matches. I don't think it has the spectator excitement of Nidh | 528 |
Clean. Sleek. Stylish. These are all adjectives one could use to describe the latest addition to the Häfele America Co. functional hardware offerings: the Grass Vionaro drawer system.
Adding the Grass Vionaro to Häfele's already robust line of drawer options makes ideal sense. In a way,<|fim_middle|> for internal pullouts too – whether it be to store fine china, kitchen appliances or even typical pantry staples. | it's slim, minimalist box and double-walled design is exactly the sort of thing customers have been clamoring for on account of its superior performance and clean, sleek look.
Mounted on Grass Dynapro rack and pinion slides, the Grass Vionaro has a maximum load capacity of 88 lbs. Available dimensions cover all of today's popular sizes including 15", 18" and 21" depths for drawer boxes up to 48" wide. The Grass Vionaro can be had in 3 ½" inch or 7 ¼" heights, making it a great option for regular and deep-depth base cabinet drawers. Stocking finishes include Graphite and Silver Grey.
Taking function beyond the standard drawer box, the addition of aluminum fronts make the Grass Vionaro an excellent choice | 166 |
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Couples are raving about the Lap Dance sex position - and you need to try it
Bring a bit of heat to your bedroom
Lauren Keane
Things are heating up all over Europe, and they're about to get even hotter.
The Lap Dance is just as sexy as it sounds.
Your partner sits down on his legs, and you're on top, but with your back facing him and your legs either side of his.
This is a very sensual position and is perfect for anyone who loves a bit of foreplay as the hands are free to roam.
It's an empowering position because it also enable the woman to explore a bit of self love, which is seriously on the up.
Laura Whittaker of Ann Summers told Daily Star Online: " Masturbation obviously doesn't require a partner and can be taken to new heights by incorporating a whole host of products including lubes, vibrators, dildos and massage oils – it's the perfect sex trend for everyone to enjoy!"
Try the Big Bend
Mix things up with the T Bone
The Lotus is driving couples wild
The Plow is all the rage
Masturbation can raise the temperature in the bedroom, as you can tease your partner with sex by masturbating in front of them.
Laura went on to say how a recent poll from Ann Summers party planners proves that times are a-changing: "We believe this prediction sends a really positive message about women embracing their sexuality and getting what they want in the bedroom by taking control of it for themselves. It also shows that we're breaking down some age-old taboos."
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Q: Encoding linear hybrid automata using<|fim_middle|> of encoding transition relations. You will typically need to encode the frame condition on variables that are not changed by transitions.
| z3 python API I am trying to encode linear hybrid automata as conjunction of first order formulas as follows:
s.add(Or(Or(And(off,Not(on),Not(S1),Not(S2),(10*x_next)>=(3*t1)-(3*t2)+(10*x),(10*x_next)<=(10*x)-(t2-t1),x_next>=18,(t2-t1)>0,Implies(),
And(Not(off),on,Not(S2),Not(S1),(10*x_next)>=(t2-t1)+(10*x),(5*x_next)<=(5*x)+(t2-t1),x_next<=22,(t2-t1)>0)),
Or(And(x<19,(t2-t1)==0,S1,Not(off),Not(on),Not(S2),(x-x_next)==0),
And(x>21,(t2-t1)==0,Not(on),Not(off),S2,Not(S1),(x-x_next)==0))))
The problem is jump conditions (e.g. if x<19 then ....) needs to be taken, which doesnt seem to work here.
Can somebody help me to encode jump conditions as a conjunction of first order formulas using z3 python API?
A: It may be useful to look for or construct a tool that can encode
HA formulas from a higher-level description. They can help debugging some details.
For example, you say there are two modes "on" and "off". These appear to be encoded as propositional variables. Typically one uses a program counter to encode the state of an automaton, so for example there would be a program counter "state" whose values can be either "on" or "off". You can use scalars in Z3 to encode the possible values of state variables or you can use integers, or bit-vectors or in this case a Boolean flag.
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This chapter describes perspectives for utilizing natural language processing (NLP) to analyze artifacts arising from mass collaboration on the web. In recent years, the amount of user-generated content on the web has<|fim_middle|> and resources within the domain of education. | grown drastically. This content is typically noisy and un- or at best semi-structured, so that traditional analysis tools cannot properly handle it. To discover linguistic structures in this data, manual analysis is not feasible due to the large quantities of data. In this chapter, we explain and analyze web-based resources of mass collaboration, namely, wikis, web forums, debate platforms, and blog comments. We introduce recent advances and ongoing efforts to analyze textual content in two of these resources with the help of NLP. This includes an approach to discover flows of knowledge in online mass collaboration as well as methods to mine argumentative structures in natural language text. Finally, we outline application scenarios of the previously discussed techniques | 140 |
I would love to show you once a month what inspired me while strolling through my neighborhood. I hope you like the little insights into my daily life where I live (at the moment Hamburg, Germany). This is also a wonderful way for me to remind myself on the inspiring things in the hood. Maybe you get inspired by those posts and even invite ME to a stroll in YOUR hood – feel free to grab the logo and leave a comment for me on the post and share!
You gotta love a neighbor hood where an artist works on the street – this guy is working on a canvas and is a friend of the hair dresser – the canvas will be hanging there soon. I hope I will see it finished. It is pretty cool!
One Saturday morning I met my friend Sandra for a breakfast at one of the many portug<|fim_middle|> had visited Hamburg while in Fermany…oh, we'll, a good reason to go back, right? I think strolling is a wonderful way to get to learn about a new area!
I will miss seeing Germany (as I'm sure you will too!), but it will be fun to see NJ too! I enjoy your tours! | uese cafe's in this particular street. It is even called Galao (portuguese expresso with hot foamed milk) Strip . Great place for people watching and catching up before heading out to do the weekend grocery shopping.
Well…gotta say I love Hamburg ;) Only one more Stroll from the hood is going to be from Hamburg. I think I might continue though once I moved to Jersey City- might be a good way to keep me going checking out my new hood. What do you think?
Oh my goodness Hamburg looks so cool. Jersey City has it's cool spots- it's changing so fast due to the increasing rents you'll be a welcome addition to the artist community there.
I hope you continue the tradition…I love your stroll through the hood posts!
Great photos for inspiration! What a lovely city!
I know you will find many hoods, and many new ideas around in NJ…waiting to see your strolls in America!.. The best for you!..
Oh yes, I'd enjoy seeing your new neighborhood adventures!
You will enjoy visiting all over Nj and check out the Lower east side of manhattan. Just a train ride away a d so many different ethnic groups in a Small area of land with sights and sounds to match.
Wish we | 258 |
Local Linemen Head to Georgia
By superadmin | October 16, 2018
Early Friday morning, October 12th, eight Tri-County Electric linemen, two bucket trucks and two digger trucks headed to assist Diverse Power, a member-owned electric cooperative headquartered in LaGrange, Georgia, in the aftermath of Hurricane Michael. Diverse Power provides reliable electric energy-related services to the Georgia counties – Troup, Harris, Heard, Meriwether, Muscog<|fim_middle|> power to their member-owners. That is what co-ops, and our employees, do" said Paul Thompson, Executive V.P. & General Manager. | ee, Coweta, Quitman, Randolph, Clay, Calhoun and parts of Early, Stewart, Terrell. As well as Chambers County, Alabama, all located southwest of Atlanta. The linemen providing assistance are: Daniel Cherry, Casey Cole, Holden Davis, Mark Geralds, Wes Hancock, Holden Pitts, Tucker Scroggy and Chris Thomason.
According to NRECA (National Rural Electric Cooperative Association) "Hurricane Michael left a significant path of damage across co-op service territories in the southeast. Current outage numbers for electric co-ops show more than 117,000 outages in Florida, 27,000 outages in Alabama, 177,000 in Georgia, 13,000 in South Carolina, and 67,000 in North Carolina." NRECA also reports that "this will be a long-duration assessment and restoration event. It could take weeks – not days – to restore power in some of the hardest hit areas."
As with previous hurricanes, Tri-County Electric also released our Seelbach contract crews to assist in debris removal in affected areas.
"I am proud that, once again, Tri-County Electric linemen volunteered to go into areas devastated by storms to help sister cooperatives restore | 268 |
Business owners will be wise to leave the buzz about the forthcoming iPhone 5 to consumers. Apple's<|fim_middle|> comments below. | rumored iPad Mini should be the better option for businesses. The smaller version of the iPad will reportedly measure 7-inches and will likely be announced in September.
1. Small tablets are better sales tools.
Good luck creating a presentation on an iPhone. The screen is small and your pitch could be interrupted by a call, a text message or any other notification.
When it comes to making sales presentations on-the-go, nothing beats the high resolution iPad Retina display. But at $499 for the basic 9.7-inch iPad model -- with 16GB and no access to cellular data -- it might not be worth the expense for cost-conscious sales teams.
But a scaled-down, less expensive version should be. The Galaxy Tab by Samsung, the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire can cost just $199. Assuming Apple's new mini-tablet beats the Nexus 7 and Galaxy Tab for screen quality, the new tool holds promise as a slick, low-cost presentation tool.
2. It'll be more versatile.
Judging by the performance of smaller iPad competitors, shaving off a few inches shouldn't equal less productivity. Mobile apps such as email, reviewing and editing documents, video conferencing, task lists and social media work just as well on a 7-inch screen as on the 9.7-inch iPad screen.
The Google Nexus 7, for example, is easier to read and type on than a full-size iPad, and you can hold it in one hand and enter data with another. With that kind of versatility, and added functionality, a smaller tablet can become more of a go-to business tool than an iPhone, or any other smartphone.
3. It runs on the same operating system in a better business package.
Apple's upcoming operating system, iO6, promises better Facebook integration, video conferences that use cellular data and -- most exciting for road warriors -- better maps. Apple's answer to Google Maps is expected to include 3D environments, turn-by-turn navigation, and real-time information about traffic and accidents.
So, the iPhone 5 will likely to be a faster, sleeker version of the 4S, with improvements to voice tools like Siri and wireless mobile commerce tools. But, barring any unforeseen development, the iPad Mini will operate on the exact same OS. The Mini's slightly larger size makes it easier for users to see a busy email inbox and work with apps that manage complex spreadsheets.
That means the iPad Mini will do most of what a business needs an iPhone to do, but in a package that's better suited for mobile businesses.
Do you plan to upgrade to the iPhone 5 or buy an iPad Mini? Let us know in the | 545 |
An interesting and varied<|fim_middle|>son's' Square. | collection of gardens in North Yorkshire's Orchard Village, from small back gardens to several acres.
Plant sales: Plant sales by Husthwaite and District Gardening Club.
How to get event passports: Tickets on sale at garden entrances.
Number of gardens: Approximately 10 gardens will be open, but the total may vary from day to day – please contact the organisers if you need exact numbers.
No Easter celebration is complete until you've tucked into some delicious chocolate!
Visit The York Chocolate Festival on Parliament Street from 19th to 22nd April and you'll be able to sample some of the tastiest treats at the chocolate market and learn some handy chocolate tips at the demonstration tent. There will be more sweet treats available at the Shambles Food Court, a short stroll from Parliament Street – be sure to explore.
There will also be opportunities to meet some real-life furry friends at the petting farm and for those who fancy a spin of nostalgia there will be a carousel on St Samp | 202 |
Rifle High School Class of 1978 will celebrate its 40th reunion the weekend of June 15. For details call Alan at 970-987-2040 after 6 p.m.
Several of the Storytimes at Garfield County Libraries will be on hiatus through the summer. These include the Storytime on Tuesdays in New Castle (last event June<|fim_middle|> Wednesdays (last event June 6), Infant & Toddler Storytime on Wednesdays in Carbondale, as well as the Storytime on Thursdays in Rifle. The hiatus will last through June and July. For more information visit http://www.gcpld.org.
Join us at the Parachute Branch Library on Wednesday, June 6 at 10:30 a.m. for a big Summer Reading kickoff with a silly reading of a funny book, lawn games, and popsicles. At the event all ages can sign up for the Summer Reading Program – which includes prizes and performances all summer! For more information call the library at 970-285-9870. | 5), Storytime in Silt on | 9 |
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Financial Infrastructure<|fim_middle|>130 countries across the world will call for increased action to achieve Zero Hunger.
According to the UN, the official World Food Day (WFD) ceremony on 16 October at FAO headquarters in Rome will be an opportunity for leaders and key global players in the drive to achieve Zero Hunger and eliminate malnutrition. The day also serves as a reminder to the world that Zero Hunger by 2030 can still be possible.
The latest FAO 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World report shows that world hunger is once again on the rise, and over 820 million people are suffering from chronic undernourishment.
The same report shows that conflict, extreme weather events linked to climate change, economic slowdown and rapidly increasing overweight and obesity levels are reversing progress made in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
World Food Day ties into the UN's second Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of ending global hunger by 2030. The FAO says that World Food Day is a chance to show commitment to SDG 2 in the hopes of ending hunger and malnutrition.
Every year, a large number of events – from marathons and hunger marches, to exhibitions, cultural performances, contests and concerts – are organised in around 130 countries across the world to celebrate World Food Day.
World Food Week began on 15 October and a series of events including World Food Day will explore the actions needed to achieve Zero Hunger by 2030. World Food Week takes place in a global context where conflict, climate extremes and an increase in obesity are reversing progress made in the fight against hunger and malnutrition.
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Today is World Food Day and the 73rd anniversary of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organisation. As one of the most celebrated days in the UN's calendar, events organised by FAO country offices, governments, local authorities and other partners in over | 95 |
On this page, find answers to some frequently asked questions regarding various legal fields. If you have further questions not addressed here, contact Wheat Law Office to speak with a member of our team.
What is the most important issue that the courts consider when making decisions affecting children in regard to custody and child support?
I have an obligation to pay child/spousal support under a court order, but my income has recently dropped and the amount I have to pay is no longer appropriate based on my new level of income. How do I change my support payments?
Why should I put the business agreements I make in writing?
I started a<|fim_middle|> need any estate planning documents other than my will?
Usually, an enduring power of attorney and a personal directive are signed when a will is signed. The primary function of those two documents is to appoint someone to make decisions for you in the event that you become unable to do so prior to your death. . The enduring power of attorney appoints someone to make your financial decision and the power of personal directive appoints someone to make your personal decisions. | new business: or I am thinking of starting a new business. Should I incorporate?
What happens in the case of disputes between tenant and landlord?
What happens after a summons for collection of a debt has been served?
I have signed a Real Estate Purchase Contract with my realtor to sell my house or purchase a house. What do I do now?
I am selling or purchasing my house privately and do not have a realtor. Do I need a written Offer to Purchase?
If I write out my own will, is it valid?
Do I a need any estate planning documents other than my will?
What is the most important issue that the courts consider when making decisions affecting children in regards to custody and child support?
The best interests of the child is the only consideration in proceedings affecting children – not the parents' wants, wishes or convenience, but the needs, means, conditions and circumstances of the child concerned.
To vary a court order for support payments, it is important you have evidence of your reduced income, usually in the form of paystubs or a Record of Employment in the case of job loss. The order can then be varied by consent if both the payor and the creditor agree, or by the court based on evidence of your reduced income.
If the Order contains a clause for the variation of support under the Support Recalculation Program and you are not self-employed, then providing your updated income information to the recalculation program will be the most cost-effective method. Unfortunately, the recalculation program is not available if income is earned through a corporation or more complicated means.
In any case, if you require a variation of support payments, the lawyers at Wheat Law Office are prepared to assist you.
I started a new business or I am thinking of starting a new business. Should I incorporate?
Not always, although there may be a specific reason to incorporate. Some examples are tax-planning strategies, liability issues or WCB coverage. Please contact our office for more information in this regard and for an all-inclusive quote for this service.
Alberta Provincial Court can be used for claims up to $50,000. You can access all the necessary forms at the Alberta Provincial Courts website.
Please go to the Service Alberta website for information about disputes between landlords and tenants.
Telephone our office and speak to a conveyancing assistant who will provide you with a quote for the legal costs for the sale or purchase. If you choose Wheat Law Office, inform both your realtor and your loans officer.
Yes, any agreement for the sale or purchase of real property must be in writing and signed by the seller and the purchaser to be a binding contract. Telephone our office and speak to a conveyancing assistant and we will prepare an Offer to Purchase for you once you have negotiated all of the sale and purchase terms such as purchase price, closing date, and the date that the financing or other conditions are to be removed.
Holograph or hand-written wills are valid in Alberta, but it is extremely dangerous to rely on such a will. A homemade will may have serious omissions, contain costly deficiencies, or result in unintended consequences. The cost of estate litigation far outweighs the cost of retaining a lawyer to draft your will.
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We stay true to our philosophy that effective digital solutions combine great design, rock solid technology and ongoing internet marketing. Our solutions invigorate our client's business, integrate easily into their overall models, and exceed their goals.
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When it comes to projects and project governance, being a sponsor or steering committee/project board member is not like any line management role. It is partially hands-off and partially hands-on. It has full accountability (for the delivery of the business outcomes, benefits and value) but not full control (of all of the elements involved in their delivery). It is part way between being an overseeing board member and an involved manager.
Project governance is a complex role that is certainly not intuitive. Even ex-project managers do not understand the governance role well as it is a very different<|fim_middle|> to be confirmed or corrected.
We know you don't know 20% of what you need to know about project governance but none of us know what that 20% is.
Therefore, as we go through this training, you'll hear things you already know; you'll hear things that confirm or correct what you think you know; and you'll be given some new insights into important dimensions of project governance.
This frames the education as building on their existing knowledge, that there is up to 60% of potential new or correcting knowledge, and allows them to hear the elements they already know without dismissing the whole training as teaching them what they already knew. | way of thinking to being a project manager, just as being a board member is a different role to being a line executive. Yet, educating executives on their project governance role and how to perform it effectively is rarely done. Why?
Executives are reluctant to put their hand up for help, as they believe they should know enough, everyone else seems to be coping with the role and they appear to be muddling through no worse than anyone else. Project, program and portfolio managers are reluctant to tell executives they need to be trained in the role. So nothing happens.
But things do happen. Projects continue to fail on one or more dimensions while being 'governed' by otherwise competent executives. When the causes of project failure are analysed, inadequate project governance is always in the top three reasons for failure, above inadequate project management.
So, by burying our heads in the sand, we continue to allow poor project governance to destroy projects week in and week out. I often point out to governance teams that they can destroy a project's value and intent in five minutes; whereas it can take a project team five months to achieve the same result!
However, we have found over the past 13 years that when you do teach executives about project governance, their confidence in the role increases, their performance improves and poor projects are called out by their governance teams.
We know you know 40% of what you need to know about project governance.
We know you think you know another 40% about project governance that may or may not be correct—this knowledge needs | 317 |
A DECEPTIVELY SPACIOUS SEMI DETACHED HOUSE, SITUATED IN THIS QUIET CUL DE SAC LOCATION. Early viewing is advised to truly appreciate the accommodation on offer which comprises an entrance hall, large sitting room, dining room, kitchen, utility room and a cloakroom WC. To the first floor, there are three<|fim_middle|>. Wash hand basin with a vanity unit below.
Double glazed window to the front. Radiator. Built in cupboard space.
Double glazed window to the side with opaque glass. Fitted with a two piece suite comprising a wash hand basin with a block mixer tap and a shower cubicle with an integral shower. Extractor fan. Radiator. Inset ceiling down lights.
Double glazed window to the side. Fitted with a low level WC. Radiator. Inset ceiling down lights.
An enclosed rear garden with hedged and fenced surrounds. A paved patio leads to a lawned garden with planted beds and borders. Outside tap. Wooden shed. Lawned front garden with a driveway to the side, which leads to a garage.
With an up and over door. Integral door to the rear. Window to the side. Fitted with power and light. Radiator. Wall mounted central heating boiler. | good sized bedrooms, a shower room and a separate WC. Outside, there is an enclosed rear garden, a front garden with a driveway and an attached garage. The property further benefits from gas central heating and double glazing. Viewing is via appointment with Y Homes.
uPVC front door with a double glazed light.
Double glazed window to the front. Gas living flame fire set in fireplace with exposed brickwork surround with a further television display mantle. Radiator. Coved ceiling. Stairs to the first floor.
Double glazed patio doors to the rear garden. Radiator. Coved ceiling.
Double glazed window to the side. Fitted with a range of matching wall, drawer and base units with work surfaces over and tiled splash backs. Gas hob with an extractor over, having a further built in oven and grill. Single bowl stainless steel sink unit. Plumbing for a dishwasher. Telephone point. Laminate floor.
Half double glazed uPVC door to the rear garden. Double glazed window to the side. Radiator. Plumbing for a washing machine. Space for a fridge freezer. Loft access. Laminate floor.
Fitted with a two piece suite comprising a low level WC and a wash hand basin. Radiator. Extractor fan. Laminate floor.
Double glazed window to the rear. Radiator. Built in wardrobes with drawers | 271 |
Memento Mori Istanbul was a conceptual live performance project led by Natal<|fim_middle|>or. | ia Skobeeva, created as a collaboration with 7 students from Mimar Sinan University; young men and women who performed their own personal concepts during the commuting hours of 5pm to 7pm on 27 October 2010, on 7 car ferries of IDO crossing the Bosporus from Europe to Asia and back. The performances were documented by 7 Turkish filmmakers. Performances included the use of a black curtain, over ferry window, knitting, cleaning, sleeping, reading, the putting on and off of make-up and the washing of clothes.
Initiated, produced and developed by Openvizor as a non-commercial project in partnership with Mimar Sinan University as a collaboration with Natalia Skobeeva and IDO.
All rights reserved. Any distribution, publication, exhibition and presentation of film and photography documentation are strictly prohibited and subject to prior written approval for each instance by Mimar Sinan University, Natalia Skobeeva and Openviz | 203 |
Il Nido Toscano is a fully equipped apartment accommodating up to 4 guests located in San Baronto, in that area of Montalbano especially renowned for the production of DOC<|fim_middle|>, is rich in artistic and architectural heritages, such as all the Medici villas lying around the territory, (that one in Poggio a Caiano is particolarly renowned for being the location to many Summer events).
Restaurant and small shops located 1 km far from Il Nido, while for all main services and all kind of shops, Lamporecchio is 4 km far only. | wines.
The apartment is completely equipped for a self catering holiday in the green countryside that surrounds Pistoia, a few steps from Vinci, the birthplace of the famous Tuscan artist Leonardo. Provided with simple but functional furnishings, it's made of an equipped kitchen with oven and microwave, a living room with double sofa bed, TV SAT and direct access to the private garden, a double bedroom and a bathroom with shower and hair dryer.
Il Nido Toscano, located in a recently restored villa on a hillside position, has a private garden with bbq where guests may arrange typical Tuscan dinner, and a private parking with remote control.
Many activites may be arranged for guests nearby the apartment: bike guided tours, wine-and-food tasting, organization of tours to the main sightseeings of Tuscany, spa treatments, transfers to and from airport.
For all those interested in local cuisine, a typical restaurant a few minutes drive from the apartment serves delicious dishes; in alternative, romantic dinners may be arranged in the apartment.
This good value apartment is particularly recommended for its strategic position, since Montalbano is a panoramic hilly area (which truly looks like the more famous Chianti, both renowned for the production of DOC wines and extra virgin olive oil), among the cities of Pistoia, Prato and Florence.
The apartment then, is really close to all the main sightseeings of Tuscany: Pistoia is 20 minutes drive, Florence about 30, Lucca and Versilia exclusive sea resorts about 40 minutes and finally Pisa with its leaning tower only 50, just to mention the more renowned.
Close to the apartment, there are many other smaller tourist attractions that are worth a visit, like Vinci, the birthplace of Leonardo, one of the most important Tuscan artist ever, where the museum dedicated to its life and main works could be an interesting destination to discover.
Then Lamporecchio, renowned for its main product, the brigidini (crumbly anise biscuits) and Montecatini Terme with its natural spa (20 minutes by car) are truly worth your while. All the area, moreover | 447 |
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Posted on May 24, 2009 February 3, 20<|fim_middle|>-faith, activist radio voice. She was a featured guest on CBC's "Tapestry" and subject of a documentary "Heretics" on 360 Vision. She was named Canadian Living magazine's "Outstanding Woman" December 2005 and is the subject of a forthcoming CNN faith segment feature.
Katie Hochstedler
Katie Hochstedler is the full-time volunteer coordinator of Kaleidoscope – an LGBT youth and young adult college programme – of the Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests. She grew up on a farm in Iowa and is a recent graduate of Goshen College in Indiana where she studied Social Work and Women's Studies. She currently lives in Minneapolis with six other volunteers through Lutheran Volunteer Corps. She identifies as a Queer Mennonite. Once Katie has kicked her voluntary service habit, she is thinking of turning her hobby of cooking into a career.
The Rev Maris Sants
The Rev Maris Sants was raised in a Latvian Communist family. Discovering his homosexuality at 11 he became a Christian at 17 years because of the sense of acceptance he found from God. Ordained in the Latvian Lutheran Church in 1994, he was involved in Exodus Europe, an ex-gay movement, lived in a heterosexual marriage and had two wonderful children. After graduate theological studies (1998Ð1999) at Middlesex University, London, he rejected the ex-gay movement. He returned to Latvia, came out to the Lutheran archbishop in 2002, and was excommunicated. He chose to make his excommunication a matter of public record rather than be silenced. Maris is the founder of a continuing Christian gay congregation in Latvia, and may be the only out gay Christian pastor in Eastern Europe. Maris is now a practising psychotherapist.
Dr Moon Joyce
Moon Joyce is a songwriter, performer and song leader currently residing in Fredricton, New Brunswick. She has been songleading for over thirty years in countless settings such as concert halls and schools, palliative care homes, wilderness expeditions, spiritual conferences, prison cellblocks, refugee camps – even Olympic hockey dressing rooms! In each setting, Moon's work confirms the belief that singing belongs to everyone and can enhance every situation where life leads us. Having studied with a range of renowned song leaders from North America, Africa, and the UK, she uses an exciting array of methods from various aural traditions to introduce people of all ages and backgrounds to the joys of singing in group settings. Her academic research into the social and cultural forces that discourage people from singing informs her work as a musician, and her rich voice and vibrant presence inspires those who believe they can't (or shouldn't) sing to find their musical voices and build their own doorway into a rich and everyday singing life. Moon Joyce recently completed her PhD at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (U of T); her thesis was titled Bodies that Sing: The Formation of Singing Subjects. | 15 by Zac Baker
July 27–30, 2006
A four-day conference for people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and ages drawn primarily from the three hosting organizations coming out of Christian faith traditions: Lutherans Concerned / North America, Brethren Mennonite Council for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Interests and Affirm United / S'affirmer ensemble.
Transcripts and Presentations
The following plenary transcripts and presentations in from Together in Toronto are available for download in PDF format:
Anita Fast: Queering the Bible with a Hermeneutic of Foolishness
Katie Hochstedler: Get Your Provocative On
Moon Joyce: Fearless Love – Plenary Congregational Hymn
Maris Sants: War in Latvia – Christians against Christians
David Weiss: Leaning into the Text with Our Lives
Karen Williams: Hermeneutics of Passionate Refusal
Rev Irene Monroe
Rev Irene Monroe is a lesbian African American theologian at Harvard Divinity School. She is a religious columnist and motivational speaker with articles appearing in such publications as The Advocate, The Boston Globe, and Venus Magazine. Her column, "Queer Take" appears online.
Rev Canon Dr Martin Brokenleg
Dr. Martin Brokenleg, is a gay Aboriginal professor at the Vancouver School of Theology. He has co-authored several books and he has extensive experience in teaching religion, gender, and native youth studies.
Plenary Panelists and Music Director
Anita Fast
Anita Fast studied theology at the Vancouver School of Theology, where she is now Registrar. Her thesis work explored the development of a Queer Theology from an Anabaptist / Mennonite perspective. She is on the Board of the Brethren / Mennonite Council of LGBT Interests, loves playing soccer, dancing to ABBA, and spending time with her partner, Kelly.
David Weiss
David Weiss is a theologian, poet, hymnist, and essayist. At Luther College, Iowa, he developed a course on "GLBT Voices in Theology." Presently he teaches at Augsburg College, the College of St Catherine, and Hamline University and volunteers in the Twin Cities, Minnesota Reconciling in Christ program. He speaks locally and regionally on the intersection of sexuality and spirituality, assists with LC/NA RIC trainings, and has written resources and hymns used in RIC work across North America. He lives with his wife and their blended family of five children in St Paul, Minnesota.
Karen Williams has travelled a bumpy and queer ecumenical journey which began with Salvation Army altar calls and brass bands. She then meandered through Baptist, Mennonite, and Unitarian communities and finally arrived in the United Church of Canada where she is now a member of Emmanuel Howard Park United Church and an inquirer for ministry. Legally married in June, 2003, she lives with her spouse, Catherine, and their three children (Phil, Heather and Hal) and two dogs. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation on Paul and teaches New Testament to seminary students at Emmanuel College as well as lay people in congregational settings. All of these aspects of her life are fuelled by her passion to stand in solidarity with those whose bodies and identities are seared by the disciplining gaze of normalcy!
The Rev Dr Cheri DiNovo
The Rev Dr Cheri DiNovo, minister at Emmanuel Howard Park United Church performed the first legalized same sex marriage in North America in 2001. Her book Qu(e)erying Evangelism (The Pilgrim Press) received the 2006 Lambda Literary Foundation, New York, Spirituality Award. She hosts "The Radical Reverend" a twice weekly radio show on CIUT 89.5FM, Canada's only queer positive, multi | 799 |
Silver shoppers save the high street?
Struggling retailers should turn to mobility scooters and hearing aids if they want to prosper, suggests a new report.
Hardly a week goes by without more news of the dismal state of the British high street, beset on all sides by slick new online rivals, rising rent and rates and declining footfall.
But despite the record shift to virtual shopping, and the weather (which, hot, cold, wet or dry,<|fim_middle|>. Oops.
The serious point here - yes there is one in there somewhere - is that the demographic shift towards the elderly in the UK is bound to have economic ramifiactions like this. Especially as real incomes for the working population continue to fall, while many OAPs remain - for now - protected from the worst effects of the recession by their copper-bottomed final salary pensions. | is always the wrong kind for retailers) there is apparently at least one sector where traditional bricks'n'mortar outfits are still cleaning up. According to research from the Local Data Company, shops catering to the growing spending power of the over 65s are booming.
There has been a rise of no less than 17% in the number of stores selling hearing aids and an uptick of 2% in those dealing in mobility scooters. Now 2% might not sound like much but with shops in more established markets putting up the shutters all across the country, it's not to be sniffed at.
Plus presumably there is a multiplier at work here too - every mobility scooter sold is one more consumer on the loose, able to get round a whole variety of other stores and spend, spend, spend. It's Christmas after all, why not treat yourself to another pair of elasticated slacks or a family sized bag of Werther's Original?
Unless, like the 'confused pensioner' reported in last week's Stoke-on-Trent Sentinel, you make a wrong turn on the way to the shops and end up flat out on the dual carriageway at a giddy 8mph | 246 |
Smoking is a bad habit that can have damaging affects on your own health and the health of the people that live with you. It may lead to emphysema, heart attacks, lung cancer, and other health issues. The people around you will also face health consequences from inhaling second-hand smoke. It therefore follows that quitting can be a life-saving decision. This article provides several tips that may be able to help you quit successfully.
Break down the benefits of quitting smoking by creating a list of specific pros and cons. Your mind tends to take something more seriously when you write it down. Use this as a source of motivation, and build your focus on your daily challenges.
When you are trying to quit smoking, consider trying hypnosis. Many individuals have quit successfully after working with a licensed hypnotist. During hypnosis, the hypnotist will give you positive affirmations while you are hypnotized. It can make cigarettes seem less appetizing, leading you to never want to smoke again.
Proceed gently on a day-by-day basis as you work to stop smoking. Don't think about quitting forever; instead focus on today. If you take things in a shorter time frame, it is often easier to cope with the stress. There is nothing wrong with setting long-term goals, but get comfortable with the day-to-day commitment of smoking cessation first.
Avoid some of the places and behaviors that can lead to smoking cigarettes. Change your behavior, so you aren't tempted, for example, go to new restaurants that do not allow smoking. Come up with something that can distract you at those times.
TIP! When you are ready to quit smoking, do everything you can to make your commitment strong and sure. Lots of people fail when they try to quit due to the fact that they didn't have the proper mindset, or they simply gave up too fast.
If you can think positively and be motivated, then those will work in your favor to help you stop smoking. Imagine your life after smoking where you're healthier, happier, and able to stick to your monthly budget with a little left over. Consider the fact that your breath will not smell as bad, your teeth will look whiter, and your residence will no longer have a smoke odor. Make sure to also focus on the positive benefits to life after quitting smoking.
Cut back on how much you smoke. This can begin the process of quitting the habit altogether. Do not smoke in the first hour when you wake up if you are planning on having a cigarette. You can also smoke only half of your cigarette each time you go for a smoke to help you cut back.
You'll get better at quitting each time you do it. Many individuals who have successfully quit did not succeed the first time they tried. Once you have committed to leaving your smoking habit behind, you must do everything in your power to ensure that you to do not fall victim to the habit again. If you do relapse, set a new date to quit again. Keep quitting for extended periods of time, and you will get better at it. At some point, you will be so skilled at quitting that it will become permanent.
TIP! You may want to smoke an alternative brand of cigarettes when you are considering quitting the habit. Consider switching to a brand of cigarettes that you don't care for.
Think about the likely consequences of a major decline in your health caused by smoking. How would your loved ones and friends be impacted? One out of every five deaths are related to smoking cigarettes in America. There is no need for you to be one of those statistics.
Remember, the first week without cigarettes will be the most difficult. Your body will shed most of the nicotine you've been inhaling in the first two days. Once your body sheds the nicotine, the hard part will be mental addiction. Understanding this can make resisting the cravings less traumatic.
TIP! Cut back on how much you smoke. This will put you in the right place to quit smoking.
Realize that quitting smoking is something positive in your life, rather than something negative. When you look at any task positively, including quitting smoking, it is easier to stay focused and motivated. Try to mentally picture how much better your life will be, in so many different dimensions, without cigarettes. This will reinforce your commitment and keep you focused on your reasons for quitting.
Speak with a medical professional about any stop smoking aids that are good for quitting. There has been much progress in the realm of smoking cessation. There are also multiple treatment options to help you along the way, including prescription medications, nicotine replacement therapy and homeopathic remedies. Ask a physician what they'd recommend so you can quit.
Write down a mantra for why you are quitting. Each time you think you might cave, repeat over and over all the reasons why you want to quit. This is a powerful way for you to take your mental and physical focus off of your nicotine withdrawal and to put it on other important wants and needs.
Nearly everybody knows the dangers and health risks involved with smoking. There are various health risks, like lung cancer, heart attacks, and emphysema. Inhaling the smoke of others is risky as well, and smoking poses a threat to anyone near you. You will successfully stop smoking when you start using the information in this article.
People often have noble reasons for kicking the cigarette habit, but may not follow through with their efforts. The tips provided below will help you accomplish your dream. Read them carefully. Apply everything that you know to be able to truly quit forever.
To raise the probability that you will succeed in your wish to stop smoking, try compiling a list on paper of the positive and negative consequences of quitting. Writing it down can affect your mental outlook. This can help you to focus your quitting efforts more clearly, as well as to identify any weaknesses in your plan.
TIP! To boost your chances of quitting smoking, make a list of pluses and minuses about stopping. Writing it down can affect your mental outlook.
When you feel the urge for a cigarette, set a certain amount of time that you will make yourself wait. Tell yourself you need to take a long walk before you could smoke, or try to drink a glass of water prior to smoking. Just a little extra time before you light up might stop you from smoking that cigarette. If you do end up giving in anyway, at least that was a little longer that you were able to be smoke-free.
If traditional methods haven't worked, consider hypnosis. Many people have found it easier to stop smoking after visiting a hypnotist. The professional can entrance you and then give you positive affirmations. It can make cigarettes seem less appetizing, leading you to never want to smoke again.
Consulting your doctor or a specialist can help you get the help that you need to be successful. Some medications can make it easier to stop smoking. Your doctor can also steer you to support groups, programs and other resources to help you.
TIP! When it comes to smoking cessation, do not make things even harder than they already are. You should never attempt to just quit cold turkey.
Concentrate on eating veggies and fruits rather than sweets to avoid gaining the weight that typically occurs when anyone stops smoking. This is one way to combat the characteristic weight gain that comes with quitting. Remember that your body is going to crave food when you quit and the best thing to do is give it healthy food to keep you in a healthy state of mind.
Don't do this all by yourself. Ask for support and encouragement from your friends and family, letting them know you want to quit and letting them give you help. Think about joining a support group in your area. Speak about your predicament and talk about some of the things that you want to change.
Make sure to tell your family and friends you have decided to quit smoking. They can be there to help you quit. Having a system of support is one of the best methods you can use to quit. Doing so helps maximize your likelihood of success, and gets you closer to your goal.
Try to not smoke as much. This helps to guide you down the road to stopping your reliance on cigarettes. You should wait at least an hour before you have your first smoke of the day. Perhaps smoke only half a cigarette instead of a whole one.
You'll get better at quitting each time you do it. The ex-smokers you know probably were not successful on their first try. Just stop immediately, and be a nonsmoker for as long as possible. Once you light up again, choose another quit date. Just keep quitting and go longer each time, learning along the way. Eventually, you will get good at doing this, and you will quit and not go back.
Just stop smoking if you really want to quit. Quitting immediately, will provide the best chance for optimal health in the future. By doing this, you are making a pact never to start smoking again. While this method may seem a bit difficult. However, dropping cigarettes altogether has been proven to work quite well.
TIP! When attempting to quit smoking, you must avoid the particular triggers that cause you to smoke. Change your behavior, so you aren't tempted, for example, go to new restaurants that do not allow smoking.
Consider ahead of time how you are going to handle stress in your life. Many smokers respond to stress by lighting up another cigarette. Have some good alternatives ready so that you can avoid the urge to light up. Have multiple ideas you can use in the event the first doesn't help adequately.
The first week is always the hardest when you stop smoking. Your body will shed most of the nicotine you've been inhaling in the first two days. After this initial period, your nicotine cravings will, for the most part, be psychological. It will still be difficult, but the craving will get less as time passes.
Get fit and have fun! You will find that your lung capacity is quickly improving after you quit smoking, enabling you to exercise more easily. It can also help to avoid putting on pounds thanks to a slower metabolic rate. The natural endorphins exercise produces will also boost your mood and help you to reduce the severity of withdrawal symptoms.
You will be feeling more optimistic about the remainder of your life, because you understand you can stop smoking and live a healthy lifestyle through the coming years. Be sure to apply the things you learned here and have no regret.
You need to be motivated if you want to be successful when you decide to quit smoking. If you quit smoking, the benefits are myriad. Thinking of these benefits can help keep you going if it gets hard. Your health will improve, as well as the health of your family. Not to mention the money that will be saved and the vitality you will exude. Keep reading to find out more about the most efficient methods to quit smoking.
TIP! If you are ready to quit smoking, try hypnosis. A licensed hypnotist will provide you with tools which can't be found elsewhere.
You may wish to join a support group when you decide to stop smoking. Working with other people who are quitting or who have quit smoking can help you to stay focused on your ultimate goal. This support group can give you the benefit of their experience, what works well to make quitting easier. To find a support group near you, check your local community center or community college, or at your church.
If you want to stop smoking, make a list of methods that will work for you. Take time to customize your list as a way to stop smoking more effectively. Everyone utilizes different methods of doing things. Discovering what will work best for your particular circumstances is crucial. Making a list helps with that process.
Take things day by day. Focus on getting through just one day without smoking. You'll feel like you've achieved more by celebrating every single day you don't smoke. Once you feel more comfortable, you can start thinking about long term goals.
TIP! Before you begin your plan to stop smoking, create a personalized list of steps you can take to quit. Making a customized list of things to try, can help you succeed at quitting.
Rest is important when quitting smoking. For many individuals, staying up late at night leads to increased cigarette cravings. Many times, there is nobody around during late night hours, which makes it easier to sneak in a couple puffs. When you get the rest you need, it is easier to focus on your commitment to stop and resist the temptation to give in to cravings.
To avoid experiencing weight gain after you quit smoking, eat a healthy diet filled with fruits and vegetables. These healthy snacks can help you maintain a steady weight. When you stop smoking, your body will crave foods. To stay healthy, eat healthy foods instead of junk.
Reach out to your friends and family to get support, when you decide to quit smoking. Communicate your need for support, so that they can understand their important roles, rather than becoming judgmental or doubtful. Also, warn them that you may be bad-tempered in the beginning and that your judgment may be somewhat cloudy. Quitting smoking is not easy, so you should enlist the support of your loved ones to help you through the process.
Avoid some of the places and behaviors that can lead to smoking cigarettes. You may associate smoking with driving or reading. Take a look at how you can change the way you do these things, so that the associations are weaker and do not make you think of cigarettes. Try to find something to take your mind off of the subject.
Plan out a strategy for dealing with stress now that you don't smoke anymore. Perhaps you could go to the gym during the time that your cravings are at their worst, or you could get a new hobby. When you have some free time, have pleasant distractions around you, such as reading an excellent book, talking with your friends, or playing new games.
One of the ways that can help you quit smoking is to change to a different brand of cigarettes. Start using a brand you dislike or a cigarette you find distasteful. Smoke them as you would your normal brand and inhale them the same. You will enjoy smoking less. This will help you on the way to quitting smoking.
TIP! Make sure to get adequate sleep while you try to stop smoking. For a lot of people, if you are up late, it will make you want to smoke.
Come up with a way to maintain your motivation by keeping it in mind and in sight constantly. Perhaps posting inspirational signs on your wall, or having a piece of jewelry that reminds you of your efforts will help. Whatever method you use, the visual reminders might be helpful in combating the cravings at a later time.
If you are about to give up smoking, you need to be aware that the first seven days after you quit will be the toughest. When you first stop smoking, the nicotine levels in your body drop quickly and lead to withdrawal symptoms. After the first two days, expect to experience mostly psychological cravings. These symptoms aren't easy to deal with, but are nowhere near as bad as the initial nicotine withdrawal.
Try some vigorous exercise. After you quit smoking, exercising is highly beneficial and helps your lung capacity to improve. If you engage in frequent physical activity, you will also be less likely to gain weight. The endorphins exercise produce are no substitute for nicotine<|fim_middle|> smoking they may get scared enough to quit, going over positive changes can help too.
Ask for support online through groups or forums. There are many websites that are devoted to supporting those that are looking to stop smoking. It may be helpful to talk with other smokers about the different quitting techniques they have tried. Those who have already quit can best understand and support the journey you have undertaken.
TIP! Make sure you tell your friends and family that you are quitting smoking. The people who care about you will remind you of your need to quit.
You may have smoked when stressed. If this is true, you'll have to discover some other method of relaxing when you feel stressed. Meditation or yoga are healthier alternatives you should look into.
Lots of people who successfully stop smoking achieve this by creating a different outlook. To be successful, you must understand that in order to quit smoking you must take it one day at a time. Making significant changes to your daily behavior and employing some cognitive behavioral therapy can eliminate the mental bond with cigarettes.
Try to quit for others' sake. Even though you may love these people, chances are you will only stop smoking when you are ready to do it yourself. Stopping smoking is a great thing to reward yourself with, and you know that you can't disappoint yourself if you slip up.
TIP! Thinking in a positive way and being motivated are key parts in quitting smoking. Try to highlight the advantages and the improvements to your overall health.
Research the deadly side effects of smoking. You will realize that quitting is serious and necessary. Take a look at some pictures of advanced gum and lung cancer cases, or read some of the dedication pages that people have made for loved ones lost to smoking-related diseases.
You will almost certainly be blindsided by cravings and urges for nicotine, even when you haven't smoked for a long time. It is essential that you don't cave to the craving, or having a single puff. Think of everything you've already achieved, and in that light, ask if a single smoke is really worth losing that progress.
When trying to quit smoking, only go to places where smoking is prohibited. Try going to the museum or movies with friends. If you decide to have coffee, sit inside as opposed to sitting at the smoking patio. Avoiding places where smoking is acceptable, will help you avoid the temptations.
TIP! If you want to stop smoking, you need to be okay with quitting more than once. It is important to stay persistent, as you may fail the first time.
If you're going to succeed at stopping smoking, you need to have faith in yourself. You have to believe in your ability to quit. You have undoubtedly succeeded in other areas of your life that seemed impossible to overcome. With those successes in mind, be confident that you have all that you need to meet this goal, too.
As you can see, many people wish they could kick the habit, but fail without the right tools. The majority of people who successfully end their addiction to cigarettes have a solid plan and constant motivational factors working for them. Apply the advice of this article to your own well thought out, customized plan and hopefully you will soon be a non-smoker! | highs, but they help take the edge off of withdrawal.
Do not allow yourself to give up if you did not succeed the first time you quit. A lot of people fail even if they are properly motivated. Try to learn something every time you fail. Try, try again and you will succeed down the road.
In the past, smoking may have been your coping mechanism during stressful periods. If that is the case, it will be necessary for you to identify another way to achieve relaxation. Try meditating or yoga, as it will take the edge off your stress levels in a much healthier way than smoking.
If your willpower is at an all-time low and you feel very close to giving in to your craving for a cigarette, you need to call someone for their support. This can be a family member or close friend, but you really need to talk with them about your temptations. The time spent talking to them will help you let the cravings pass. It is also comforting to know that others have been through the same struggles that you are going through.
You have to keep at it to quit the habit. Always remember what motivates you and think about the benefits. Don't forget the tips you've read here, and you'll be on the path to kicking this addiction forever.
Discouragement and apathy are the two main reasons people don't bother to stop smoking, even when they want to. Quitting can be attained by having a positive attitude, and the right tricks that can help you, like the ones written in this article. Follow these tips, and quitting becomes simple.
Quit smoking gradually. Avoid going cold turkey. There's a huge chance you'll fail if you use this method. Because nicotine is very addictive, you should utilize some type of therapy, medication, or a patch. You will have an easier time making it through early withdrawal, which will give you a better chance of quitting.
TIP! If you are finding it difficult to stop smoking, speak to a doctor. There are a number of prescription medicines that will make quitting easier, including, a few anti-depressant medications.
You should consider hypnosis if you need help quitting smoking. Each year, thousands of people utilize the services of licensed hypnotic therapists for help with their smoking addiction. The hypnotist will supply you with positive reinforcement while you are in a deep trance. The effect is that smoking does not seem so powerful and appealing once you awake from the trance. This makes quitting for good much easier.
Come up with your own personalized plan for quitting. Taking time to customize your personal list, is an excellent help in accomplishing your goal. Different approaches work for different people. You must learn the best techniques for you. Making a list for yourself of your own methods will help you reach your goal.
If you cannot quit smoking cold turkey, use nicotine replacement therapies, such as patches, sprays, inhalers, or gum. These therapies work by supplementing your body with a small amount of nicotine to help with the withdrawal symptoms while you quit.
Try nicotine replacement products that are offered. When you withdraw from nicotine, you may feel restless, depressed, irritable or frustrated. Cravings such as these are distracting and overwhelming. Nicotine-replacement therapy will help diminish these feelings. Such therapy can effectively double your chances of quitting. It is very dangerous to smoke while using these products; therefore, to protect yourself avoid smoking if you are using nicotine replacement therapies.
Talk with you doctor if you're serious about quitting smoking. Your doctor may have resources for quitting that you may not have. Your doctor is also the only one that can write you a prescription for a nicotine replacement medication.
TIP! Make sure that you are fully committed before you even start to quit smoking. You will likely encounter various obstacles or triggers – stay committed to your goal! To stay motivated, it is important to remember why you initially wanted to quit.
In your process to quit smoking, grant yourself rewards along the way to enjoy at the milestones towards your goal. You can go to a movie or buy something that you wanted, after not smoking for a period of time. Maybe after a month, you could go to a nice restaurant you have been wanting to go to. As you meet future milestones, you may wish to either increase your rewards or simply phase them out.
Motivation and a positive outlook are key to quitting. Imagine how your life will improve after you've stop smoking. Your teeth will look whiter, your clothes will no longer smell like smoke, and your breath will make you far more kissable. Even though when people know the bad things about | 933 |
The below post was submitted by Marie Dimech, an Operational Volunteer of the Answering TTP Foundation.
"On September 10, 2014, Sydney Kodatsky, the Executive Director of the Answering TTP Foundation, asked me if I<|fim_middle|> for TTP support, education and research! No event is too small or too great!
We can't wait to help you with your event! | would consider attending an event on behalf of the Foundation.
As a volunteer, I was flattered to be asked to represent the Foundation at an event, but also a little apprehensive - what would be expected of me? Would I need to make a speech in front of a crowd? These are questions that swirled in my brain, as I have never been very comfortable speaking in public. Sydney quickly put my worries at ease; she told me that the Foundation had been contacted by the President of the Ontario Insurance Adjuster Association ("OIAA") in the Niagara Region and requested our presence at their upcoming Annual Golf Tournament because we had been selected as the beneficiary of proceeds from their 2014 event. They asked that someone from the Foundation attend the dinner and perhaps say a little something on behalf of the foundation, when accepting the cheque. Sydney assured me that I would just need to say a few words, written and provided to me ahead of the event so I could prepare, thanking the donors and attendees, while also giving them some information about TTP and the Foundation. Easy Peasy!
This is a first for the Answering TTP Foundation, so of course we were thrilled to hear that the Foundation was this year's charity of choice for the OIAA Golf Tournament; how could I turn down this opportunity! I did however, have to consider a couple of things before accepting this invitation: (1) It was going to take me two hours during Friday's rush hour traffic to reach the event and, (2) the event fell on the night before the Walk to Answer TTP Together, the Foundation's global fundraiser/awareness event for which I am Chair. I could easily have passed on the invite, but felt very strongly that it was important to everyone involved that a representative from the Foundation be in attendance. So of course, I happily accepted.
On September 19th, Taryn equipped me with a hard copy of my "speech", awareness materials to hand out, and with a smile, she wished me good luck.
I managed to recruit Janice, a fellow volunteer, to accompany me on this road trip. We arrived at the Sparrow Lakes Golf Course in Welland at 6:00 p.m., and were welcomed with open arms by Katie, the President of the OIAA and her team of organizers. Katie's cheerful and friendly greeting put any lingering apprehension and anxiety to rest right away. She escorted us to her table where we met fellow organizers and enjoyed a delicious buffet dinner.
Katie proceeded to make the announcement that Answering TTP Foundation was the charity they had chosen as the beneficiary of their 2014 golf tournament and how TTP had recently touched this business's community, thus making the cause near and dear to them. Katie's boss was diagnosed with TTP in 2014, and as a result of blood clots floating in his brain he suffered a stroke.
Katie presented me with the proceeds, over $2,000 that will go towards the Foundation's TTP education, support and research initiatives and then asked me to say a few words. Throughout the evening there was a hum of chatter but when I started speaking, you could hear a pin drop in that room. People were keenly focused on learning about TTP and the Foundation.
I was fortunate enough to meet Katie's boss that evening along with his wife, the woman who has been his rock. I was happy to hear that the hospital where he underwent his treatment provided him with education materials that were obtained from the Foundation, and in particular, the New Patient Brochure (it's reassuring to know that the hard work involved in preparing and distributing these education materials is paying off). We spent considerable time just listening to their struggles, disappointments, uncertainties, achievements, concerns, determination and most of all, their positive outlook. They are already brainstorming ideas of how they can support "give back" by hosting a fundraiser to raise more funds for education and research.
We could easily have spent hours talking that night, but as the next event requiring my attention was only 12 hours away, it was time for us to hit the road. As Janice and I chatted on our drive home that night, we were inspired by the courage and strength TTP patients and their supporters exhibit.
One thing is for sure; I will be honored to represent the Answering TTP Foundation the next time that opportunity presents itself."
Are you involved with the Answering TTP Foundation yet?
Why not look at running the Foundation's next third-party fundraiser? Check out the website HERE for lots of great ideas for events that you can organize and run from the comfort of your local community! Third-party events are vital to the Foundation's growth, as they not only help to raise life-saving TTP Awareness, but they also raise life-changing funds | 989 |
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The Rabat American School is a private non-profit institution founded in 1962 as a K-8 school.
The school opened originally in a large house, then two houses, located near the United States Embassy, to meet the educational needs of the children of Americans affiliated with United States Government agencies or private companies.
Over the years the school continued to grow, and although the majority of students continued to come from the resident American community, the enrollment began to reflect the growing interest of the Moroccan and international communities resident in Rabat.
In l969, with about 132 students, the school moved to its present, purpose-built site in Agdal.
By 1974 there were over 170 students, and the school program was enlarged with the addition of ninth grade. In 1978, thanks to a large donation from His Royal Highness Prince Moulay Abdallah, 10th, 11th, and 12th grades were added. The Rabat American School awarded its first high school diplomas to a class of six students in 1979. The school grew steadily and in 1985, with a student body of 250, RAS earned its first accreditation from Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
Over the following years, as student enrollment continued to grow, so did our facilities.
These facilities included a new administration building with three classrooms; two large new classroom buildings; a cafeteria, swimming pool, and gym complex; science and computer laboratories; separate elementary and secondary libraries; a maintenance area; and a parking lot for school vehicles.
By the 1993-94 school year the student population had grown to 366. During this school year RAS had introduced a few courses from the International Baccalaureate program. The International Baccalaureate program continued to grow, and our first I.B. certificates were awarded in the late 1990s. In 1994-95, with 394 students, RAS carried out an extensive self-study and was reaccredited by Middle States in 1996.
By 1997-98 the school reached an enrollment of 441 students and had expanded its facilities to the maximum level permitted by our physical size and our desire to maintain an attractive campus. Importance was given to developing academic programs and utilizing existing facilities to best serve the student body.
In 2006 RAS earned it's 3rd accreditation from Middle States, using the Accreditation For Growth protocol.
Between 1998 and 2006 RAS experienced a gradual decrease in enrollment, to a low of about 376 in 2007. Since 2008, with an unexpected jump in enrollment from 376 to 425, the school has grown to more than 460 students in the 2013-14 school year. Given the continued growth over the last five years, and anticipated growth in the upcoming year, RAS is exploring options for building a newer, larger campus nearby.
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Bears jump for the Owls!
A charity that specialises in supporting people with sight loss is calling for people to take part in a special parachute – but not for them – but for their teddy bears!
The Sheffield Royal Society For The Blind are holding a unique teddy bear parachute at Sheffield Wednesday's annual family fun day, Owls in the Park, that will see hundreds of teddy bears jump off a crane to raise money for the charity.
The bears, which will be sponsored £5 by the owner, will be entered into the parachute jump and taken through various fun stages to replicate a real parachute including a departure lounge, flight number and check-in desk!
As well as bringing your own teddy bear to take part in the parachute people can also buy bears on the day to do the<|fim_middle|> the day with special activities and entertainment throughout what promises to be a fun-filled afternoon!
Owls in the Park 2014 is free to attend and takes place on Sunday 13 July, starting at 11.00am and finishing at 5:30pm. | big jump!
The money raised from the event will go towards the charity's ongoing work to provide opportunity, support, friendship and services to blind and partially sighted people in Sheffield. The charity support more than 3,300 visually impaired people in the city and more than 300 people access the services at the charity's centre on Mappin Street.
Sue Coggin, Fundraising Manager at The Sheffield Royal Society For The Blind, said: "We're so excited to host the teddy bear parachute at Owls in the Park! It's a really different event that all the family can get involved in and raise money for our charity. Thanks again to Sheffield Wednesday for inviting us and we hope many people bring their bears and join in! Each bear will even receive their own bravery certificate!"
The day, which is hosted by Sheffield Wednesday and sponsored by the Brooklyn Steakhouse, is now in its third year and expected to attract thousands of people to the event.
Along with appearances from Wednesday players, other activities include live music, a funfair, catering and fun games at various stalls around the park. The Owls' mascots, Ozzie and Barney, will also make a special appearance!
Supporters will have the opportunity to get the autographs of their heroes and pose for photos – together with buying Season Tickets and official Memberships, which will be on sale on the day.
The Sheffield Wednesday Community Programme, the club's charitable arm, will host various taster sessions and activities which will include a World Cup themed football tournament, inflatable pitches and a range of community stalls.
As well as The Sheffield Royal Society for the Blind, local children's hospice, Bluebell Wood - the Community Programme's official charity partner - will be holding an official bucket collection in a bid to raise much-needed funds for the organisation.
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MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Preston Parks had a season-high 26 points as UT Martin defeated Southeast Missouri 81-72 on Thursday night.
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Preston Parks hit the game-winning 3-pointer with more than a minute left to lift UT Martin to a 66-64 win over Jacksonville State in an Ohio Valley Conference battle on Thursday night.
The loss knocks Jacksonville State two games back of the three-team logjam atop the conference standings.
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio (AP) — Caleb Fields scored 24 points, Demajeo Wiggins scored 20 with 13 rebounds and Bowling Green beat UT Martin 94-80 on Sunday.
Bowling Green's Dylan Frye buried a jumper to tie it at 24-all with 7:07 left before halftime. Wiggins followed with a 3-point play, made 1 of 2 free throws and a layup, and that scoring outburst propelled Bowling Green as they outscored the Skyhawks 27-9.
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Preston Parks banked in a 75-foot heave to beat the buzzer and UT Martin defeated Chattanooga 75-72 on Tuesday night.
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Quintin Dove scored 22 points on 10-of-12 shooting Saturday night, and UT Martin pulled away in the second half to beat UNC Asheville 87-70.
The Skyhawks (3-2) went on an 11-2 run to lead 72-60 and followed with 10-2 run to push to their largest lead at 87-68 on Delfincko Bogan's layup with 50 seconds left.
MARTIN, Tenn. (AP) — Preston Parks scored all of his 21 points in the second half, Delfincko Bogan made two free throws with 0.8 seconds left and UT Martin edged Western Illinois 92-90 on Wednesday.
Bogan made a 3-pointer with 1:48 remaining, and Parks scored UT Martin's next 12 points on a 3-point play, two 3s and three free throws to tie it at 90 with 15 seconds left. Bogan stole the ball from C.J. Duff before making his game-winning free throws.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Zane Najdawi made 12 of 15 from the field and scored 28 points and Tariq Simmons had 16 points, a career-high seven rebounds, four assists and four steals to help The Citadel beat Trinity Baptist 116-66 on Tuesday night.
Kaelon Harris and Hayden Brown scored 11 points apiece for The Citadel (3-2). Frankie Johnson added nine points and five steals, while Preston Parks finished with eight points, a career-high tying nine assists and four steals.
HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) — Preston Parks hit three 3-pointers and scored 16 points and The Citadel rallied in the second half to turn back High Point 79-77 on Saturday.
Andre Fox sank a 3-pointer with 6:33 left in the game to give High Point a 65-58 lead, but the Bulldogs (3-2) put together a 15-0 run to seize control. Parks and Kaelon Harris turned steals into layups to begin the run and Parks buried a 3-pointer to cap the run and give The Citadel a 73-65 lead with 2:20 left to play.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — After averaging 101 points in its first two basketball games of the season, The Citadel went cold Wednesday night at North Carolina A&T.
The Bulldogs missed 28 of 33 shots from 3-point range in a 92-73 loss to the Aggies, a team that won just three games last season.
The<|fim_middle|> on Saturday afternoon, The Citadel basketball team looked out of it.
"People were hanging their heads," said freshman guard Preston Parks. "We were feeling sorry for ourselves, losing energy," said coach Duggar Baucom.
In the first three Southern Conference basketball games of his career, Citadel freshman Preston Parks averaged 25 points and made 10 3-pointers, shooting 37 percent from long range.
No wonder the Bulldogs missed Parks over the last three games, which he sat out with illness.
Parks, a 6-1 guard from Greenville, should be back in action Saturday when The Citadel (9-10, 2-4) hosts Samford (12-6, 3-2) at McAlister Field House.
The Citadel needed all its firepower Thursday night to have a chance against East Tennessee State, a team that starts transfers from college basketball heavyweights Wichita State and Indiana and was picked to finish second in the Southern Conference.
With freshman standout Preston Parks sidelined by illness, the Bulldogs could not come close.
The Citadel's Duggar Baucom spent a sleepless night in his hotel room Sunday night. Four straight losses, capped by a lackluster effort in a 15-point loss at Furman on Saturday, will do that to a basketball coach.
Baucom's restlessness led to a couple of ideas – five-in, five-out substitutions and improved spacing – that helped the Bulldogs snap that four-game skid with a thrilling 104-103 victory over Wofford on Monday night at Benjamin Johnson Arena in Spartanburg.
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Kaelon Harris scored 23 points and Frankie Johnson hit two crucial free throws in the final minute as The Citadel survived in overtime 104-103 against conference rival Wofford on Monday night.
A Preston Parks 3 for the Bulldogs tied the game at 91 with 1:14 left and forced the overtime period. The Citadel kept the pressure on, scoring nine of the first 11 points for a 100-93 lead.
The new year can't get here fast enough for The Citadel basketball team, which closed 2016 with a fourth straight loss on Saturday at Furman.
Paladins forward Kris Acox posted a double-double with 21 points and 11 rebounds as Furman cruised to an 83-68 victory at Timmons Arena in Greenville.
The Bulldogs fell to 7-8 overall and 0-2 in the Southern Conference despite 24 points from freshman Preston Parks, who is from Wade Hampton High School in Greenville.
GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Kris Acox scored a career-high 21 points to go with 11 rebounds and Furman won its Southern Conference opener 83-68 over The Citadel on Saturday.
Acox finished 9 of 10 from the field and hit all three of his free throws. Devin Sibley scored 20 points and John Davis III added 12 for the Paladins (8-6, 1-0), who shot 53.4 percent from the field.
The Citadel opened Southern Conference basketball play Wednesday night with one of its worst shooting performances of the season.
UNC Greensboro held the Bulldogs to 32.9-percent shooting and took a 95-87 victory at McAlister Field House.
The Citadel (7-7, 0-1) plays at Furman at noon Saturday. UNCG improved to 10-4 and 1-0 in the SoCon.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Diante Baldwin scored a career-high 25 points with five rebounds and eight assists as UNC Greensboro beat the Citadel 95-87 on Wednesday night in their Southern Conference opener.
Baldwin was 8 of 15 from the field and 7 of 8 from the free throw line for the Spartans (10-4). Demetrius Troy and Marvin Smith added 18 points apiece and Francis Alonso had 11 points.
A tale of two halves doesn't begin to describe this one.
Up by four points on Virginia Tech at halftime, The Citadel's basketball team looked like it might be on its way to a first signature win under coach Duggar Baucom, and its first win over an ACC team since 1979.
And then the second half happened.
The Hokies scored 73 points after the break and cruised to a 113-71 victory over The Citadel at Cassell Coliseum in Blacksburg, Va.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Shane Whitfield scored a career-high 29 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and Campbell slipped past The Citadel for a 97-91 win Sunday in the Holy City Hoops Classic.
Chris Clemons added 27 points and Cory Gensler had 12 for Campbell (5-4), which shot 60 percent. Whitfield's rebounding total also was a career best and the game marked his first double-double.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Preston Parks scored a career-high 25 points, and the Citadel held on for a 92-97 win over South Carolina Upsate at the Holy City Hoops Classic.
Parks made five 3-pointers and scored or assisted on 10 of the final 12 points for The Citadel (6-3).
Trailing 86-85, Parks' fourth 3-pointer put the Bulldogs in front with 2:49 remaining, and he hit again on The Citadel's next possession to make it 91-86 with 2:05 left.
Zane Najdawi scored 27 points and grabbed nine rebounds as The Citadel returned from a three-game road trip with a 97-83 win over Presbyterian on Monday night.
Freshman Preston Parks added 20 points as the Bulldogs improved to 4-3 before 3,278 fans at McAlister Field House.
The Blue Hose (2-4) were led by freshman Jo'Vontae Millner, who had 26 points.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Zane Najdawi scored 27 points and added nine rebounds and The Citadel methodically pulled away from Presbyterian down the stretch in a 97-83 win on Monday night.
Najdawi finished 7 of 11 from the field and hit all 12 of his free throws. Preston Parks hit four 3-pointers and finished with 20 points for the Bulldogs (4-3), and Quayson Williams added 14. Overall The Citadel shot 55.6 percent from the field and hit 25 of 36 at the line.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Zane Najdawi scored 26 points and grabbed 10 rebounds and The Citadel rolled to a 146-84 victory over Division II member Johnson University of Florida on Sunday.
It was the most The Citadel has scored since beating Bob Jones 121-111 in 2015. The Bulldogs made 46 of program record 107 shots, its most since making 50 against Coker in 1984 and 1985. The Bulldogs shot 102 field goals against USC Aiken in 1982. | Citadel shot 15 percent from 3-point range after making 44.3 percent of its 3-pointers in its first two games, a 109-73 win over Oglethorpe and a 132-93 loss at Virginia Tech.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Femi Olujobi hit 13 of 15 shots from the field to post 29 points to go with nine rebounds and North Carolina A&T built a double-digit lead in the first half and made it stand up in a 92-73 win at The Citadel Wednesday night.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Preston Parks made five 3-pointers and scored 21 points to lead The Citadel over Division III Oglethorpe 109-73 on Friday in a season opener.
Citadel basketball fans got their first look at coach Duggar Baucom's third Bulldogs team Friday, as Preston Parks scored 20 points to lead The Citadel to a 122-98 win over Coker in an exhibition game at McAlister Field House.
Parks, the Southern Conference freshman of the year last season, hit 8 of 10 shots and 3 of 4 from 3-point range. Junior forward Zane Najdawi was 6 of 8 and hit all three of his 3-point shots for 16 points as The Citadel made 17 of 39 (43.6 percent) from 3-point range.
Citadel sophomore Preston Parks has been named to the 2017-18 preseason all-Southern Conference team by the league's basketball coaches.
Coach Duggar Baucom's Bulldogs were picked to tie for seventh place in the 10-team league by SoCon coaches, and finished eighth in the media poll.
Parks, a 6-1 guard from Greenville, was the SoCon's freshman of the year last season, averaging 18.1 points and 2.0 steals for the Bulldogs.
Late last season, coach Duggar Baucom's Citadel basketball team found a formula that seemed to work. The Bulldogs snapped a 11-game skid to win three of their final four games, including a victory over Western Carolina in the Southern Conference tournament.
Now in his third season at The Citadel, Baucom is hoping to put that formula to work for an entire season.
The Citadel's late-season turnaround came to a halt Saturday in the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference tournament.
Top seed UNC Greensboro wore down the ninth-seeded Bulldogs in the second half, ending The Citadel's season with a 76-67 victory at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville.
Coach Duggar Baucom's second season at The Citadel ended with a 12-21 record that included a three-game win streak, including a 78-72 win over Western Carolina on Friday in the SoCon tournament.
Preston Parks scored 28 points and The Citadel opened the Southern Conference tournament with a 78-72 win over Western Carolina on Friday at the U.S. Cellular Center in Asheville.
The 12-20 Bulldogs have won three straight and will face top-seeded UNC Greensboro at noon Saturday in the second round.
Parks, the SoCon freshman of the year, hit 8 of 18 shots and 4 of 9 from 3-point range, and has averaged 29 points during the Bulldogs' three-game win streak.
ASHVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Preston Parks scored 28 points and ninth-seeded The Citadel used a late 8-0 run to defeat eighth-seeded Western Carolina in the opening game of the Southern Conference Tournament on Friday night.
It was late last Wednesday night when Duggar Baucom's cell phone buzzed with an incoming text.
Baucom's Citadel basketball team had turned in a first-half effort against Western Carolina that night that he called "nonsense," falling behind by 20 points to a team the Bulldogs were tied for last place with in the Southern Conference.
"Coach, I know you are mad, and I'm mad too," the text said, according to Baucom. "But I promise, that will never happen again."
It wasn't exactly a court-storming, but it was more than enough for a Citadel basketball team at the tail end of a long season.
The Bulldogs mingled happily on-court with fellow cadets Monday night, celebrating an 85-76 victory over Chattanooga before 3,300 fans on Senior Night at McAlister Field House.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Preston Parks and Ezekiel Balogun combined for 40 points as The Citadel upset Chattanooga 85-76 on Monday night, earning a spot in the Southern Conference Tournament.
Parks scored 22 points and was 4 of 10 from 3-point range, while Balogun scored 18 on a 6-for-9 shooting night with nine rebounds.
Balogun broke a 63-all tie with a layup and Parks followed with a 3-pointer to spark a 16-5 run late in the second half to put the game away.
Down by 15 points just six minutes into the game, Citadel basketball coach Duggar Baucom called timeout and asked his players a question.
This time, the Bulldogs were able to make their comeback stick. Freshman Preston Parks scored a career-high 37 points, and The Citadel rallied for a 102-96 victory at the Hanna Center in Birmingham, Ala.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Preston Parks scored a career-high 37 points and hauled in eight rebounds Saturday night to lead The Citadel to a 102-96 win over Samford that snapped an 11-game losing skid.
Parks was 13 for 22 from the field, including a pair of 3-pointers, and sank 9 of 11 from the line to tally his third game with at least 30 points.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Ashley Williams came off the bench to score 20 points and Western Carolina led wire-to-wire, posting an 84-80 win over The Citadel Wednesday night.
The Catamounts held a 49-31 lead at the break and maintained a double-digit advantage until the Bulldogs made it 74-65 on an Ezekiel Balogun free throw with 4:08 left.
The Citadel rallied from 16 points down and had a couple of shots to tie Mercer in the final three minutes Saturday at McAlister Field House.
But both 3-point shots bounced off the rim, and Mercer survived for an 89-78 victory before 3,809 fans, handing the Bulldogs their 10th straight loss.
The Citadel (9-19, 2-13 Southern Conference) was led by freshman Preston Parks, who scored 24 points with nine assists.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Rian Holland hit five 3-pointers and scored 32 points to help lead Mercer to an 89-78 win over The Citadel on Saturday, giving the Bears the season sweep over the Bulldogs.
Desmond Ringer finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds and Demetre Rivers added 14 points for Mercer (13-15, 7-8 Southern Conference). The Bears shot 57 percent in the first half, and 51 percent overall while holding a 41-30 edge on the glass.
Preston Parks' story is right there in the tattoos that decorate his arms and shoulders. He has initials for each member of his family, an RIP for his grandfather, and the word "Blessed" etched on one arm.
There's also a depiction of a roulette table, to remind Parks to never fear taking chances. The letters "MBK" stand for "My brother's keeper," a pact between friends. And Parks, a freshman guard on The Citadel's basketball team, points to a clock near his shoulder.
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — QJ Peterson poured in 37 points and VMI broke open a close game after halftime to defeat The Citadel 101-78 in a runaway on Saturday.
Peterson was 13-of-23 shooting with five 3-pointers, leading four Keydets into double-digit scoring. VMI led 43-42 at halftime, but opened the second frame with a 9-0 run, held The Citadel scoreless for nearly 3½ minutes and outscored the Bulldogs 58-36 in the half.
The Citadel dropped its eighth straight basketball game Thursday night, falling by 90-69 to East Tennessee State at Freedom Hall Civic Center in Johnson City, Tenn.
Freshman Preston Parks scored 22 points for the Bulldogs, who fell to 9-17 overall and 2-11 in the Southern Conference. T.J. Cromer scored 17 for the Bucs (19-6, 9-3), good for second place in the league behind Furman.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (AP) — T.J. Cromer had 17 points, five assists and five rebounds, and East Tennessee State rebounded from Monday's loss to Wofford with a 90-69 win over The Citadel on Thursday night.
The win is the fourth in five games for the Buccaneers (19-6, 9-3 Southern Conference), who trail conference leading Furman by one-game in the league standings. ETSU plays the Paladins on Feb. 22.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Diante Baldwin scored 19 points and dished eight assists as UNC Greensboro posted its sixth-straight win, beating The Citadel 81-72 on Saturday.
Demetrius Troy added 13 points for the Spartans (16-5, 7-1 Southern Conference). R.J. White had 12 points and seven rebounds and Marvin Smith had 10 points and nine rebounds. Jordy Kuiper led the team with 12 boards in addition to his eight points.
CULLOWHEE, N.C. (AP) — Elijah Pughsley scored a career-high 28 points, Haboubacar Mutombo a career-best 22 and Devin Peterson added 20 with 10 rebounds and Western Carolina outlasted The Citadel 100-95 to earn its first Southern Conference win of the season on Thursday night.
Freshman Preston Parks led The Citadel (9-12, 2-6) with 28 points while Zane Najdawi and Leandro Allende each scored 23, a season best for Allende.
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President Corey Reflects on the Ministry of Chuck Smith
Today I learned of the passing of pastor Chuck Smith, 86, a man whose life and ministry made a huge impact on Christianity both in Southern California and across the world.
Smith's life is a great reminder that it only takes a spark to get a fire going. What Smith started in a church just down the road from Biola (Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa) became a global movement that radically altered evangelical Christianity over the last 50 years.
God used Smith in great ways to grow the global church and transform lives at a time of great flux and uncertainty in the world. As we reflect on the life and legacy of ChuckSmith, my prayer is that we at Biola University would be inspired by our brother's vision and emboldened by his faithfulness to the Spirit of the Living God.
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A great story about the Headwaters Spring is Where does the water go? at the Mt. Shasta Herald website! | spring located at the base of Spring Hill in the Mt. Shasta City Park is known as the headwaters of the Upper Sacramento River (though other branches of the mighty Sacramento reach even further into the wilderness). A viewing patio, benches and pathways make this amazing spring a favorite spot for locals and visitors alike.
The land, which ultimately became the Mt. Shasta City Park, was once part of the hunting ground for the Wintun, Maidu, and Okwanuchu Indian tribes and was first crossed by explorers around 1841. Big Springs, designated as the location of the headwaters of the Sacramento River, once contained a water-wheel and was the city's first source of energy (1901) for generating power to light the local community. The crystal clear water flowing through the park begins its journey high on the snow-covered peaks of majestic Mt. Shasta, flowing through underground lava tubes until finally gushing forth into daylight at the City Park's headwaters area. Along it's journey out of the park the water flows through the Mt. Shasta Fish Hatchery, feeds into Lake Siskiyou, plunging over the Box Canyon Dam as it reaches it's final destination, the Sacramento River. The Headwaters Area is well-known as a local historical point of interest attracting hundreds of curious sight-seers each year.
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Buried amongst the wholesale bad news from the PMI and Mark Carney's financial storm warning, there were a handful of intriguing biomed stories that surfaced this week.
One, in particular, was a welcome shot in the arm for the UK in this post-Brexit fallout. On Monday, we learned that Google and GSK are partnering on Galvani Bioelectronics, a new venture that will focus on bioelectronic medicine, and which will be headquartered at GSK's Stevenage R&D centre. The nascent technology is based on treating diseases with electrical signals that manipulate the nervous system, and could potentially be used to tackle conditions like arthritis, asthma and diabetes.
It's something that GSK has been investigating since 2012, and the pharmaceutical giant will take a 55 per cent stake in the new company. Google brings expertise on microelectronics, software and data. And when the biggest names in tech and pharma get together for a brand new approach to medicine, it's worth sitting up to take notice.
GSK is a blue chip behemoth that by its nature must have caution in its DNA. Google is the epitome of the fail-fast/learn-fast philosophy that has helped make Silicon Valley the de facto capital of global power. It's an interesting confluence of companies from very different worlds, where each is bringing a wealth of specialised knowledge to the table.
GSK's history, in the guise of predecessors Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham, stretches back further than this grizzled publication, all the way to the 1840s. Google was founded less than 20 years ago, but as we all know, has grown exponentially from an internet search engine to a multifaceted technology company with its fingers in all kinds of pies. One of those fingers is Verily, formerly known as Google Life Sciences, and it's this part of the business that will be teaming with GSK on the new project.
Initially there will be just 30 scientists, engineers and clinicians working for Galvani, with a planned investment of £540m over the next seven years. Bringing the technology to market will likely take a decade, but the potential of bioelectronics is such that we could see the sector grow massively in the near future. As Moncef Slaoui, GSK's head of vaccines and Galvani's new chairman, pointed out, bioelectronics offers an entirely new therapeutic model that could soon be working in tandem with traditional medicine and vaccines.
MIT's new system, developed with funding from DARPA, uses a programmable strain of yeast that can be mixed with a variety of chemical triggers in a microbioreactor, which can then be passed through filters to guide the desired type of protein growth. Although still in the early stages of research, the portable system could be a key step in decentralising pharma production.
Finally, this week also saw the appearance of a technology that our news editor has classed as slightly sinister. UC San Diego's wearable sensor can detect a person's alcohol levels via their sweat, and can transmit the data wirelessly to a mobile device. The sensor consists of a temporary tattoo that sticks to the skin, induces sweat and electrochemically detects the alcohol level, alongside a small circuit board that transmits the information. Its creators say it was developed to prevent people driving while intoxicated, by linking the reading to the car's ignition. Here at The Engineer, however, we're convinced it's a precursor to sirens going off as soon as you've absorbed your second pint. Now that's a future that's genuinely terrifying.
But surely almost every part of our lives is 'regulated' (or seeks to be) by some form of examination, test, ability to demonstrate a pass to some level of competence. i do not have the figures (cost and lives lost)to hand: but am sure that<|fim_middle|> I need to point out that the application of existing technology (the item in the hands, pockets and purses of 95+ % of every citizen.) can and should, would do this rather better. Come to think of it, once we have accepted this change, why NOT for every other element of decision making in society. Its all about 'control' -and frankly, the only control I will accept is from persons and groups who have earned my professional respect, or can demonstrate that they are clever, more-learned? more 'rounded individuals than I. Need I say more: we are again daily reminded, by the antics of our apparent betters (from the popular meja 'circus' to the sham of 'elections' bought (and sold) by the few with the money to do so, to child-abuse investigations which have now failed three times to even find a chairman, let alone an answer!). And this at a time when we can literally (and pharmacutically) tailor medication and the cure of disease to the individual. which is where your article starts from! To the baracades of technological advance? yes, please. | saving a single 'accident' caused by an incapacitated driver must be good.
I look forward to the extension of this technology to include an assessment of the moral compass of managers, administrators, and the rest of the sham groupings: so that when they intend to misconduct themselves (affecting all the rest of us!) they will receive an immediate and sharp pain from a well positioned pin!
Absolutely Mike. I don't imagine anyone would have issues with the technology being used to prevent car accidents, but the concern would be over the extension of its use by the G&G in other facets of our lives.
Andrew, I believe we have jointly and severally! touched upon what may be the real key to the advance of a technology based future. Most systems of administration [Church & State!] were established (or like Topsy, they just growed and growed!) when the vast majority of the ordinary folk were illiterate. Such is certainly not the case now! As our illustrious journal reminds us almost daily, the advances in accurate, well-disciplined and 'joined-up' thinking amongst those of us blessed with an education and training in the sciences, and this in our technology driven society, have been and continue to be profound.
In a word -society changing! Cast your mind back a few weeks: like me, because we had no choice, I suspect you went to cast your Brexit vote -in person, by placing a cross upon a scrappy piece of paper: in a booth in which was a pencil (attached by a string) and which you then folded and placed in a box. Others then counted the crosses, and yet others declared 'the result'. Yes, a spectacle for the meja? But I do not believe that | 356 |
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Saw this via a post on Patrick Ross's blog: Want to be a writer? Have a literary parent – Science – News – The Independent. Apparently some researchers in Britain have unearthed, through a complicated study, evidence of a "writing gene." And they support their theory by noting the existence of "writing families" — the Bronte sisters, for example.
I think I agree with Stephen King. Yes, writers have a gift. If you don't have it to begin with, no amount of training or education can give it to you. In that sense, writers are born, not made. But a gift for writing is not a particularly unusual gift. Lots of people have the knack. So what turns a possible-writer into a writer?
The indispensable trait in a writer is that you begin as a reader — a voracious reader. I have a strong suspicion that "writing families" are, in fact, reading families. Clearly, if there are writers in the family — and especially if the writers happen to be your parents — you are going to grow up in a household where books are revered, reading is taken for granted as a primary source of information and entertainment, and any writing you attempt is both encouraged and intelligently critiqued. The "writing seed" will fall on fertile soil.
I did not discover until several decades into my life that there are people — indeed, entire families — who frown on reading as a waste of time, call magazines and catalogs "books" (evidently discerning no difference between TV Guide and War and Peace), and equate a love of literature with snobbery. These people have a point — although it took me years to see it. I have spent a large portion of my life oblivious to my surroundings, for example. Would my childhood have been better spent in the "real" world – doing chores and riding bicycles, for example, instead of sitting motionless with my nose in the Chronicles of Narnia or Girl of the Limberlost? Because it wasn't all great literature that kept me from my chores, you know. Sometimes it was Trixie Belden and Cherry Ames, Student Nurse. When you come from a family where reading is sacrosanct, whatever you are reading is, ipso facto, more important than fresh air, exercise or an uncluttered closet.
I'm guessing that Charlotte Bronte was excused from embroidery and piano lessons when she was writing or reading. I bet the Waughs lived in a dusty house and ate a lot of sandwiches. Mark my words, that "creativity gene" theory is going to be debunked. It ain't nature — at least, not the lion's share of it. It's nurture!
Last week I experienced the Polynesian Paradox: A complete inability to work, or even to think about working, coupled with an absolute conviction that if I could only remain in that oceanfront condo for a month … or two, or three … I would be so inspired, so filled with creativity, so utterly open to the muse, that I would whip out a novel in record time.
Santa brought me a Kindle Fire for Christmas. He got one for my husband, too, so I don't even have to share it. Amazon automatically christened it for me: "Diane's 3rd Kindle." Which is a little embarrassing. I mean, really, how many Kindles does one pair of eyes need?
What's even more embarrassing is, I am lusting after yet another Kindle — one I don't have. The Kindle Touch.
Oooh. Aaah. I got one for my sister-in-law so I can live vicariously.
I have SUCH a crush on Amazon.
The Kindle Fire, if you happen to be wondering, is a different animal from your garden-variety Kindle. It's Kindle-like, but it's also iPad-like, and sort of phone-like as well. There's a bit of a learning curve while you figure out how to navigate to where you want to go and how hard to touch the screen. Too vigorous, and your book jackets go flying by in a blur. Too dainty, and your commands are<|fim_middle|> do!
I sat up in bed beside my sleeping husband with headphones on and watched three hours of Downton Abbey — the most exciting bout of insomnia I've ever suffered. I subscribed to Newsweek and the New York Times, which are now downloaded to the palm of my hand, essentially, in full-color glory. I updated my Facebook status while waiting for a plane at the Los Angeles airport. I played Angry Birds while in line at the cafeteria at work. There is, basically, no earthly reason why I should ever be bored again.
Aren't you glad you lived long enough to experience 2012? I am. | ignored. You feel like Goldilocks at first, struggling to find the place that's juuuuust right. But, oh my, the things it can | 33 |
His is a new type of Disney magic, and it's working
By BROOKS BARNES The New York Times
Late February was a particularly challenging time for Robert A. Iger: Problems were sprouting all around him.
On a Friday, staffers gave Iger, the chief executive of the Walt Disney Company, a 30-minute rundown of final plans for a new multimillion-dollar attraction at the Disneyland Resort. He hated it.
By Monday, a British theater chain had stepped up threats to boycott "Alice in Wonderland" over Iger's decision to fast-track the film's DVD release. And then, about<|fim_middle|> book that chronicled Eisner's fall from power.
The new take on Iger? Let us count the ways: One of the most aggressive dealmakers in media (the $7 billion purchase of Pixar, the animation studio, and the $4 billion acquisition of Marvel, the comic book publisher and movie studio); a risk-taker who isn't afraid to make decisions that rankle Disney's own troops (ripping apart the wiring for how the company does business in Europe); and a guy who, more than any of his big-media counterparts, is retooling antiquated industry practiceg.
In short: blockbuster CEO.
"The spectrum of points of view this job requires is incredible, and Bob is great at it," says Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, who became Disney's largest shareholder -- and a board member -- after the Pixar acquisition. He said that the quality of Disney's products had improved, adding: "The amount of energy and passion at Disney has increased dramatically. The business lines were really in boxes before Bob empowered them."
Iger, 58, has wasted little time enacting major changes at Disney. In a reorganization of the company's movie studio last fall, he got rid of over a dozen top managers -- including the unit's popular chairman, Dick Cook -- and installed a replacement who shocked Hollywood: a television executive. When recession-battered retailers were cutting back, Iger went the other way, unveiling an aggressive plan to overhaul the 340 Disney Stores at a cost of about $1 million each. A month later, Iger had his CFO and the head of Disney's $12 billion theme park division swap their jobs.
Iger also isn't shy about playing hardball to guard Disney's wallet. It was his call last month to yank ABC's broadcast of the Academy Awards off Cablevision to win re-transmission payments. As he continues juggling the dizzying number of corporate and financial balls that Disney has in the air at any given moment, Iger has won over a dedicated group of cheerleaders.
"He's not constantly trying to show you how smart he is, and that is a very important trait in Hollywood, where you've got to rely on talent who consider themselves the center of the universe," says Warren E. Buffett, the Berkshire Hathaway chairman, who has known Iger since helping to finance the Capital Cities takeover of ABC in the mid-1980s.
"Bob is the type of guy you want to help," Buffett adds. "When he calls I don't spend time thinking, 'How do I tell this guy no?' It's, 'How do I tell this guy yes?' And I don't feel that way about many people."
Even Wall Street, that never-satisfied beast, seems newly pleased at Disney's direction. Net income for Disney's fiscal 2009 fell 25 percent, to $3.3 billion, as a result of the recession and problems at the movie studio. But after several notable upgrades from analysts and a nascent recovery at the studio -- "Alice in Wonderland" has earned about $675 million at the global box office -- Disney's stock price has perked up in recent weeks. It now trades at $36.22, an 81 percent increase from a year earlier.
"Bob has done the opposite of muddling through," says Eisner. "He has managed the company aggressively and been steady in a very stormy time."
But Eisner does have some advice: As Iger continues to mature, he must never "allow arrogance to overpower him like it does many CEOs."
Words of wisdom, but easier said than done. Just ask Eisner.
Disney is a huge company, with more than 140,000 employees spread over businesses as disparate as ESPN and time-share condos. All of this brings the company $36 billion in annual revenue and a market capitalization of about $70 billion. So new headaches are a daily event. And Iger says there is another crucial issue on his fix-it list.
"We get credit for being innovative, at least in our space, but I think we can be even better," he says over breakfast at the Lanesborough hotel in London. He complains that in-house lawyers can at times be overly aggressive; instead of simply advising business units, they are too often making decisions.
"The baggage of tradition," he says of Disney's culture, "can slow you down."
Iger started his media career in 1972 as the host of "Campus Probe," an Ithaca College television show. He dreamed of becoming a news anchor but got a job as a weatherman instead. Realizing he wasn't very good at it, he took a production job in 1974 at ABC, where he says his first boss told him that he was "unpromotable."
He quickly found another job inside the network and sped up the ranks. In 1985, when he was vice president of sports programming, Capital Cities Communications bought ABC -- a takeover that ended up shaping his business philosophy. The new owners took a relaxed approach, preserving ABC's culture and approaching integration with respect and patience.
The positive lessons from that experience -- and some from Disney's own eventual acquisition of Capital Cities-ABC -- helped Iger woo the Pixar camp, rebuilding a relationship damaged by repeated clashes between Eisner and the studio.
Iger, who is married to the television journalist Willow Bay, dislikes pomp. Often waking at 4:30 a.m., he drives himself to work and coaches his son's basketball games on weekends.
He has always exhibited a casual charm. When he graduated from high school in Oceanside, N.Y., he was voted both "most enthusiastic" and "friendliest." Told that he had to pick one, he went with the first.
On a recent morning in London, Iger is relaxed -- or as relaxed as a perpetual motion machine ever is. And the three problems that engulfed him over the last few days had been solved.
That Disneyland attraction, a high-tech water show set to music called World of Color (think the Bellagio fountains in Las Vegas on steroids), was being reworked. He felt the attraction overall was outstanding but worried that the music was all wrong. So he had written notes, song by song, for ways to make it more modern.
"Ninety-five percent of the decisions made at the company are made by other people," he says. "But this is a big show, and I felt opportunities were being lost."
The standoff with Odeon Cinemas, the theater chain threatening to boycott "Alice in Wonderland," was over; Iger had paid a personal visit to Odeon's chief executive to explain Disney's position on the DVD release.
Even Dancing Mickey had become a distant worry; the manufacturing difficulty had proved to be a false alarm.
So Iger takes a rare morning off. He goes to a small museum housing Winston Churchill's bomb-proof, World War II bunker, and receives a private tour from Churchill's granddaughter. He touches the maps hanging on the walls and sits in Churchill's chair. This is a treat: Churchill is one of Iger's heroes. When Iger was 12, a family friend carved a wooden figurine of the prime minister for him, and it still sits prominently on his desk.
"Churchill balanced heritage and innovation," Iger says later. "There are big lessons in that for Disney. Our brand is so powerful because of our heritage. But you've got to innovate, and not just in terms of what is new today but what will be new far into the future." | 1 a.m. on Wednesday, he got an e-mail message: "URGENT: Dancing Mickey." A new electronic toy, a boogie-woogie Mickey Mouse, had encountered a hiccup, threatening its availability for Christmas.
In each case, Iger found a solution, sometimes cajoling his people to do more and sometimes intervening more directly.
"I like our people to solve problems on their own, and they usually do," he says later. "But I will do a deep dive if there is a lot at stake or if there are creative challenges."
Deep is not a word that most people used to describe Iger when he took control of Disney five years ago. In fact, he was widely dismissed as little more than a stuffed suit who might have had the skills to fix a highly dysfunctional company but lacked creative sizzle or big-picture brilliance to raise its game. His predecessor, Michael D. Eisner, endorsed him, but faintly -- at least according to "DisneyWar,"the 2005 | 209 |
Maintain sanctity of election, stake holders told
Thanjavur: Deputy Election Commissioner Umesh Sinha has appealed to political parties, candidates and electorate to maintain the sanctity of election.
"We appeal to political parties and candidates to desist from any inducements in any form to maintain the sanctity of the elections. We also request the voters to take a pledge not to accept anything in any form from anybody to cast their votes," Sinha said here today after reviewing the poll preparedness for the Thanjavur constituency with revenue and police officials.
"Our voters' education programme has been emphasizing that<|fim_middle|> for the November 19 elections for Thanjavur, Aravakurichi and Thirupparankundram constituencies, he said, "The arrangements so far are satisfactory. Luckily, Tamil Nadu does not have much law and order problem."
The Election Commission has made all arrangements to ensure free and fair poll. It has directed the observers to visit the vulnerable points and talk to people and meet representatives of political parties on daily basis to brief them on action taken against complaints and also to receive complaints. "We have asked the district electoral officer to brief the media regularly," he said.
Sinha said that awareness campaigns have been carried out to ensure cent per cent voting in the byelection.
"The EC has already sent para-military forces and the number of flying squads has been increased. We are maintaining a close watch on the developments and will further tighten the arrangements. This time, every polling station will have web-casting," Sinha added.
On the complaints of violations of election model code of conduct by political parties, Sinha said, "There are no direct violations so far. Some isolated cases have been reported." | they are not voting for themselves but for the future of their children," he added.
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Stratocaster Parallel/Series Switching
Dirk Wacker
LEFT: On a stock, modern Strat, the dual-pickup settings (positions 2 and 4) use a parallel wiring scheme. RIGHT: When two pickups are wired in series, the output of one pickup goes into the input of the other, increasing volume and emphasizing low and midrange tones.
Hey fellow guitarists, it's time for another cool mod. In this and next month's column, we'll explore parallel/series pickup switching schemes for the single-coil pickups in your Strat. We'll begin with some theory and then look at several cool applications for this wiring.
As you know, like most guitars sporting more than a single pickup, your Strat lets you select any pickup by itself or choose certain dual-pickup combinations. The standard way to connect multiple pickups is to wire them in parallel. This generates the classic tone our ears know from countless records, when a guitarist uses the bridge and middle or middle and neck pickups in tandem (positions 2 and 4 on a normal 5-way Strat switch).
Only a few guitars use series wiring for their pickups. The most popular examples of series setups are the Brian May "Red Special" and almost all Danelectro guitars.
There are several good reasons why you might want to wire your Strat pickups in series. If you want more volume and midrange out of your pickups, the parallel/series switching may be the perfect option. As I mentioned, parallel wiring of two pickups is what you are used to hearing from a Strat. Parallel wiring adds transparency and clarity to the tone.
In contrast, wiring two pickups in series produces a longer path with increased resistance, adding volume while preventing the highest frequencies from getting through. With series wiring, the output of one pickup goes into the input of another pickup, while with standard parallel wiring, each pickup takes its own path to the output. Besides being noticeably louder, series wiring emphasizes low and midrange tones, and this is a perfect combination to drive any tube amp into saturation without the help of a booster.
It's interesting to note that series wiring is a fairly standard Telecaster mod, but not one you commonly find on Strats. Let's change that! It's also worth mentioning that neither series nor parallel wiring has any effect on the sound when only one pickup is selected. The differences occur only when two pickups are combined.
To understand the difference between parallel and series wiring of two pickups, check out the two diagrams. In the first, the two pickups are wired in parallel, so both pickups' inputs and outputs are connected together. This is one of the main reasons why a Strat usually has a very bright tone—parallel wiring allows the signal from each pickup to reach the output jack by the shortest possible route. The result is that the high frequencies reach the output jack almost unchecked, giving your Strat that sparkling sound we all love so much.
In the second diagram, the two pickups are wired in series. The theory behind series wiring is that the ground wire of one pickup is connected to the hot wire of the other pickup. As a result, they become a kind of compound pickup, with one ground and one hot for both. When wired in series, the pickups combine their impedance (resistance) and the output is very high. If your Strat's middle pickup is a reverse-wound/ reverse-polarity type (aka RWRP), you'll get the same humbucking effect as you do when the pickups are wired in parallel—no changes there.
When two pickups are wired in series, a good portion of the treble frequencies is lost because the long pickup wire works like a resistor. Any resistor in the signal path will suppress the signal. The formula works like this: The longer the wire, the higher the resistance, and the more treble is lost. We all know this from guitar cables: When you use a very long guitar cable, the sound isn't as detailed and transparent as it is with a shorter cable. A long cable acts as a resistor.
Higher frequencies are more attenuated by a resistor than lower frequencies, and this explains why pickups wired in series offer more prominent low and midrange timbres. The signal has to travel through twice as much pickup wire to reach the output jack compared to parallel wiring—and that's a lot of wire!
We now know why series wiring attenuates the highs, but why is it louder? Why do you end up with such a beefy, meaty tone? Let's assume each pickup on your Strat puts out 100 x of power. When wiring two pickups in parallel, each pickup loses 3/4 of its output when combined with the other. This drops each pickup's output to 25 x, instead of 100 x. Together, you get a total of 50 x (25 x + 25 x). This power drop is why any dual-pickup combination on your Strat doesn't sound as loud as a single pickup.
But with the same two pickups wired in series, you'll receive 100 x + 100 x, resulting in a total of 200 x. Because the two<|fim_middle|> generates a much louder tone.
However, 50 x does not mean that the two pickups wired in parallel are only half as loud as a single pickup, nor does 200 x mean that the two pickups wired in series are twice as loud as one pickup. Our human hearing does not work this way. Why that's the case is beyond the scope of this column, but for our guitar-wiring purposes, it's enough to know that the human ear doesn't operate in a linear way.
Stay tuned for the second part of our series/parallel discussion next month. We'll pick up the soldering iron and explore some sweet parallel/ series switching options for our Strats. This will also close out our run of Stratocaster mod columns. When we finish the series/parallel discussion, we'll switch over to Telecaster and Esquire mods. Until next time, keep on modding!
Dirk Wacker lives in Germany and is fascinated by anything related to old Fender guitars and amps. He plays country, rockabilly, and surf music in two bands, works regularly as a session musician for a local studio, and writes for several guitar mags. He's also a hardcore guitar and amp DIY-er who runs an extensive website—singlecoil.com—on the subject.
Dirk Wacker lives in Germany and has been a guitar addict since age 5. He's also a hardcore DIY-er for guitars, amps, and stompboxes and runs a website on the subject (singlecoil.com). When not working at his guitar workbench, he plays country, rockabilly, surf, and flamenco. Contact him at info@singlecoil.com.
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INDESCAT was born in 2010 as a result of a strategic analysis on the Catalan sports sector, driven by the "Sports General Secretary" of the Catalan Autonomous Government. As a private entity led by companies, INDESCAT has succedeed in helping companies start businesses together. Since its foundation, it has arranged more than 10 own and facilitated more than 50 projects among our membres.
INDESCAT works closely with ACCIÓ, the Catalan public agency for competitiveness, which is currently working with 22 clusters across Catalonia. It also holds the "AEI" label awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Industry, and the Bronze label for cluster management awarded by the European Cluster Excellence Initiative. Finally, INDESCAT is also an active member of the European Platform of Sports Innovation (EPSI) and has collaboration agreements | 260 |
Ammo just got T'd up for hanging on the rim. He's having a great game against the Suns<|fim_middle|> if you only weigh a buck eighty". | . Unfortunately, the Suns are shooting lights out and the 'Cats can't keep up.
when i turned to the game the 'cats were winning...they're down by 1 now though. Ammo's the high scorer at the moment.
By god, the Bobcats are actually in the game with only about 5 mins left. Ammo's cooled off in the 2nd half, but hopefully he can pull off some magic.
Amen. The 'Cats totally got jacked on that sequence, and on several others in OT. Carroll's offensive foul? Please. Ammo was on fire in the extra period: 6 pts and another 2 negated by a BS traveling call. But hand it to the Bobcats, they played an inspired game. Just gave up way, way too many wide-open threes to a team that was shooting lights out. But that's what makes the Suns the Suns and the Bobcats the Bobcats. It was nice to see Adam take it to the rack so many times and be a leader out there.
Game highlights show only the Suns on offense. Did not show one Bobcat point.
Here are some first-half highlights, including an Ammo three and a huge Amare jam.
Last night against Phoenix, Adam drove down the middle of the key and thundered home a dunk.....and then for good measure, did a pull-up on the rim earning him a techincal foul.
Everybody had a good laugh over it including the announcers that said "It shouldn't be a technical for hanging on the rim | 315 |
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For the first time in more than 20 years, this May will see a major overhaul of European data regulations, reforming rules that were set before popular use of the internet, and before smartphones were invented.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which takes effect on 25 May 2018 will apply equally to data controllers and processors who carry out processing involving sensitive personal (health) data.
Many of the GDPR's principles are much the same as those in the current Data Protection Act (DPA) however the GDPR does introduce some important changes. It builds on the rights in existing legislation, but under the new regulation, individuals rights have been significantly enhanced to deal with challenges of the online world to ensure individuals have effective control of how their personal data is used.
A Data Protection Officer will be appointed to act as the point of contact for individuals on issues over the processing of their personal data or exercising their rights under GDPR.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is producing a communications toolkit which will be launched on 9 April 2018. CBC | 331 |
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Qualys Partners with Google Cloud to Add Container Security Support for Google Cloud Artifact Registry
FOSTER CITY, Calif. November 16, 2020 - Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS), a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions, today announced it has worked with Google Cloud to provide out-of-the-box support for Google Cloud Artifact Registry for its Container Security solution.
The new integration allows security and DevOps teams to set up automated security scans of container artifacts in Artifact Registry, now generally available. Qualys Container Security scanning will assess all images for software inventory, vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, and provide a unified view across multiple Google Cloud regions. Customers can then leverage the Qualys security posture API of these container images for automation of security workflows like container deployments in Google Cloud Build or integrating with DevOps ticketing systems.
Container artifact hygiene across registries with Qualys Container Security
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Qualys and the Qualys logo are proprietary trademarks of Qualys, Inc. All other products or names may be trademarks of their respective companies. | to have a central repository for all their software artifacts," said Philippe Courtot, chairman and CEO of Qualys. "Now, with our new integration, customers can quickly adopt this artifact management offering from Google Cloud in their DevOps pipeline with seamless container security built-in from Qualys."
"It's important that DevOps and IT teams are able to deliver software quickly and securely, and we're excited that Qualys is integrating its container security capabilities with Google Cloud's Artifact Registry," said Juan Sebastian Oviedo, Product Manager at Google Cloud.
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Built on the Qualys Cloud Platform, Qualys Container Security discovers, tracks and secures containers from build to runtime. Container Security continuously flags and responds to security and compliance issues in containers across your hybrid IT environment. The addition of runtime protection extends these capabilities, delivering full, granular visibility into running containers and the ability to enforce policies that govern containers' behavior. As a result, you can immediately detect and act upon containers drifting from their parent images and potentially creating a security risk due to vulnerabilities or misconfigurations.
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Qualys, Inc. (NASDAQ: QLYS) is a pioneer and leading provider of disruptive cloud-based IT, security and compliance solutions with over 15,700 active customers in more than 130 countries, including a majority of each of the Forbes Global 100 and Fortune 100. Qualys helps organizations streamline and consolidate their security and compliance solutions in a single platform and build security into digital transformation initiatives for greater agility, better business outcomes, and substantial cost savings.
The native Qualys Cloud Platform and its integrated Cloud Apps deliver 360-degree visibility across on premises, endpoints, cloud, containers, and mobile environments. The platform delivers the visibility businesses need to assess critical security intelligence continuously, enabling them to automate the full spectrum of auditing, compliance, and protection for IT systems and web applications. Founded in 1999 as one of the first SaaS security companies, Qualys has built a large, impressive customer base and established strategic partnerships with leading cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud Platform, as well as preeminent managed service providers and consulting organizations including Accenture, BT, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Deutsche Telekom, DXC Technology, Fujitsu, HCL Technologies, IBM, Infosys, NTT, Optiv, SecureWorks, Tata Communications, Verizon and Wipro. The Company is also a founding member of the Cloud Security Alliance. For more information, please visit www.qualys.com | 570 |
Jacksonville, FL, December 13, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Avesta Communities announced today that it has completed the acquisition of the former Jennifer Green apartment complex located in Orange Park, Florida. The 120-unit apartment community has been renamed Avesta Park Village.
Avesta Park Village is located in the Orange Park submarket of Jacksonville. The Orange Park Medical Center and Naval Air Station Jacksonville are minutes away and employ 26,000 people collectively. The community consists of one, two, and three bedroom apartments across 18 two-story buildings. Featured amenities include a swimming pool, clubhouse, and washer/dryer connections in each unit.
The multifamily owner-operator plans to implement a long-term capital improvement plan along with immediate interior and exterior renovations.
Avesta is a rapidly-growing apartment investment and management firm based in Tampa, Florida. Since its founding in 2010<|fim_middle|> 8,500 apartments throughout the Southeast, and has assembled a 200-employee team drawn from the best companies worldwide. Avesta's business model is to apply industry best practices to properties that historically under-served, middle-income renters call "home." Avesta's mission is to give people a home where they can live abundantly and create more community in the world. By striving to be the world's most resident-focused company, Avesta creates lasting value and serves each of its stakeholders: employees, capital partners, vendors, communities, and most importantly, its residents. | , Avesta has acquired nearly | 7 |
Black Hole mergers, electromagnetic signals, no counterpart signal?
It seems that black hole theory suggests binary black hole mergers have no electromagnetic counterpart.
That is when you have 2 black holes spinning round each other very rapidly, getting closer together, colliding, merging, loss/conversion of energy, then forming a larger but less mass in total single black hole, then a 'ringdown' period, all in a fraction of a second - they do not produce a unique EM signal of itself.
This is perhaps due to the theory fact that no information can escape the event horizon of a black hole? Also, that 2 large black holes spinning rapidly around and closer to each other will clear all the material in their BBH system.
Living up to their name, black holes don't radiate any kind of light. However, many black holes can be "seen<|fim_middle|> However it remains to be established how likely it is to find a dynamically stable triple system composed of a binary black hole and an additional companion star. | " because they are surrounded by material that is accelerated and heated by the black hole's gravity, causing the matter to emit light.
But two black holes with masses a few tens of times that of the sun are not expected to be surrounded by material as they circle around one another and eventually collide.
Obviously any other space object going through that sort of energy event would produce a startling electromagnetic image.
Secondary EMF signals are associated with and linked to the events surrounding the binary black hole mergers. And of course the now famous LIGO Gravitational Wave.
Astrophysics and science suggest that the mergers of black holes do produce identifying electromagnetic (EM) emissions from surrounding materials and processes such as mechanics on gases in the black hole system etc.
So any space event that astrophysics and science deems to be a double black hole merger will have all the associated EMF and other EM stuff (whatever you call it - electromagnetic waves, signals, frequencies, energies) linked to secondary sources and events.
The source of their creation may be the merging black holes but they are secondary signals and effects.
The above information is all new to me, so if anything has been described or understood incorrectly please let me know by commenting below or contacting the site.
Mergers of stellar-mass black holes (BHs), such as GW150914 observed by LIGO, are not expected to have electromagnetic counterparts.
We shouldn't have a prejudice that black hole binaries are always silent in terms of their electromagnetic signature.
The analysis of the gravitational wave signal indicates that it was produced by the coalescence of two black holes (Abbott et al. 2016). If at least one of the merging black holes was charged, following the Reissner-Nordstrom formula tion, up to 25% of the gravitational energy could have been converted into electromagnetic radiation (Zilh ̃ao et al.2012). However, it is expected that the charge of the black hole is spontaneously dissipated and is not significant for astrophysical applications. There is no theoretical work to date predicting electromagnetic emission from the coalescence of two non-charged back holes in vacuum. Indeed, it is not possible to create photons in a system with no matter outside of the gravitational horizon and only gravitational interaction involved, without invoking effects of quantum gravity, a theory which has not been developed, yet.
During the final moments of a binary black hole (BH) merger, the gravitational wave (GW) luminosity of the system is greater than the combined electromagnetic output of the entire observable universe. However, the extremely weak coupling between GWs and ordinary matter makes these waves very difficult to detect directly. Fortunately, the inspiraling BH system will interact strongly--on a purely Newtonian level--with any surrounding material in the host galaxy, and this matter can in turn produce unique electromagnetic (EM) signals detectable at Earth.
I will review several ideas that may be useful in identifying electromagnetic (EM) emission from supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries, focusing on SMBHs expected to be detectable in gravitational waves by the future Laser Interferometric Space Antenna (LISA). In particular, any detectable EM emission is likely to be time-variable, which should aid in this identification. I will discuss four possibilities for such variable signals: (i) roughly periodic signatures due to the orbital motion prior to coalescence, (ii) a transient "precursor" caused by the gas trapped inside the binary's orbit, and a transient "afterglow" produced by (iii) post-merger gas accretion and (iv) by merger-induced shocks in the circumbinary disk. I will discuss whether these time-variable EM signatures may be detectable, and how they can help in identifying a unique counterpart, even with the relatively poor (fraction of a square degree) sky localization provided by LISA. I will also highlight the extra science that will be enabled if an EM counterpart is found, such as constraints on SMBH accretion physics, cosmology, and gravitational physics.
Coincident detections of electromagnetic (EM) and gravitational wave (GW) signatures from coalescence events of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are the next observational grand challenge ... We find that variable EM signatures correlated with GWs can arise in merging systems as a consequence of shocks and accretion combined with the effect of relativistic beaming. The most striking EM variability is observed for systems where spins are aligned with the orbital axis and where orbiting black holes form a stable set of density wakes, but all systems exhibit some characteristic signatures that can be utilized in searches for EM counterparts.
The final merger of two massive black holes produces a powerful burst of gravitational radiation, emitting more energy than all the stars in the observable universe combined. The resulting gravitational waveforms will be easily detectable by the space-based LISA out to redshifts z > 10, revealing the masses and spins of the black holes to high precision. If the merging black holes have unequal masses, or asymmetric spins, the final black hole that forms can recoil with a velocity exceeding 1000 km/s. And, when the black holes merge in the presence of gas and magnetic fields, various types of electromagnetic signals may also be produced.
A further intriguing possibility for such interaction is through EM fields and in particular through the gravitomagnetic deformation of magnetic fields, anchored to the disc, around the central region where the black holes inspiral and merge. As the black holes proceed in an ever shrinking orbit towards their ultimate coalescence, they will twist and stir the EM fields and thus affect their topology. Moreover, the spacetime dynamics might impact the fields in such a strong way as to generate EM energy fluxes which may reach and impact the disc and/or affect possible gas in the black holes' vicinity. Last, but certainly not least, as the merger takes place the system could acquire (at least at much later times) a configuration where emissions through the Blandford-Znajek mechanism may take place.
General Relativistic simulations show that the final coalescence of black hole binaries typically results in a kick or recoil of the merged black hole away from the center of mass of the pre-merger binary. The kick - which arises because gravitational waves carry away linear momentum - can have a magnitude of several thousands of km / s, although smaller values of the order of a few hundred km / s may be more typical. These kicks are of particular interest for supermassive black hole binaries that merge within gaseous disks. The kick will perturb the surrounding gas, and this can result in an electromagnetic signature of the merger process. Electromagnetic counterparts - if they exist - would be important for a variety of reasons, not least since they would allow localization of mergers that could otherwise be detected only via their gravitational wave emission.
The coalescing black holes may be surrounded by matter, in a form of spherically symmetric inflow or/and an accretion disk, which can form if the inflow possesses sufficient angular momentum. The accretion disk can have high density and large potential energy. Rapid changes in the accretion dynamics during binary coalescence may lead to bright observational signatures (Farris et al. 2012). Magnetic fields, anchored in the accretion disk, can cause bright radio emission simultaneous with the gravitational waves (M ̈osta et al.2010).
τdisk∼ 100 s (Woosley 1993). Sustainable accretion disks can be expected when a constant inflow of matter is provided by a companion star: in these cases, the black hole – star binary can be a bright and variable X-ray and gamma-ray source. | 1,594 |
When a friend of mine found out I'm writing a magazine piece on offal in the Maritimes, he said, "You have to meet Jesse Vergen." Well, last week I had the chance to eat at the Saint John Ale House, where Vergen is the executive chef, and my oh my, was it ever something.
I don't want to poach too much from my piece, but it's fair to say that I know my offal. I've worked with most pieces of most eaten animals, which has included boiling a pig's head for headcheese, sautéing lamb kidneys, grinding chicken livers, peeling a cow tongue, pressing veal sweetbreads and searing succulent little duck hearts.
One thing that is for sure: it's a tricky to make a tough, iron-tasting or super-gelatinous piece of organ, trotter or cartilage taste delicious. So when it comes to eating it, it's good to have low expectations.
But from the moment this array of charcuterie arrived, we had a feeling something magical was about to happen.
On it was house-made cured hog's snout, beef heart tartare, porchetta di testa<|fim_middle|> tartare (which was divine) it was clear that Vergen not only knows what he's doing, but that he seriously respects his ingredients and knows how to work with offal.
The other magical thing with offal is what it can do for food costs in a kitchen. In fact, the crazy-sounding pig skin bruschetta was an exercise in improvisation from Vergen, who challenged one of his cooks to play with the often-discarded skin right before the platter came out. While the final result was a bit soggy, the idea behind the attempt was admirable. The lip-smacking gelatinous effect of the braised skin, cut with the astringency of capers and acid and served on grilled bread, was pretty delicious and certainly unexpected.
Most importantly, that plate helped to make a point, a point I'll write about in Saltscapes in more detail, but one that I think goes thusly: in trying to eat local meat, in trying to eat sustainably, chefs have to be creative, they have to be smart, and they have to let the ingredients lead. Every item on that charcuterie plate was made with the above in mind, and perhaps more importantly, with love. It was obvious.
A brief tangent away from offal: this plate of smoked sturgeon arrived near the end of the meal, and at this point I was convinced Vegen was just showing off. Apparently the locally-raised fish came from an event he recently catered, and it sat on a bed of fermented cabbage with a garnish of green apple julienne. It was beautiful, precise and original.
Smoked New Brunswick sturgeon with sauerkraut and green apple julienne.
I hope Mr. Vergen is aware of how high he has set the bar for himself. Or maybe that's the point.
I friggin love offal done right. This post reminds me of the time Johnathon Strebly, myself a few other Foodists had the chef at Pied-à-Terre in Vancouver create an entire meal of offal for us. It was unforgettable.
We really should start planning The Offal Dinner 2! | (rolled pig's head), pancetta, smoked mackerel with potato and mackerel aoli, pancetta, duck prosciutto, and a pig skin bruschetta (yes, you read that correctly) done in a Sicilian style with capers, olives and tomato concasse. And that was just the proteins. Garniture included crostini, pickled red onions, carrots, cucumbers and eggs quick-pickled in beet vinegar.
Phew, right? It was so extensive it was hard to know where to start. But from our first bite of beef heart | 122 |
St. Patrick stuns Evanston
with overtime win
Saucedo goal in 81st minute holds up for 2-1 win
By Hunter Tickel
EVANSTON -- Despite conceding the opening goal of the game, St. Patrick completed a come-from-behind upset win by scoring 24 seconds into the first overtime.
The no. 4-seeded Shamrocks won a second-straight sectional title and the school's first in Class 3A with a 2-1 overtime win Saturday at Lazier Field in Evanston.
"It just tells us that with heart, nobody can beat us in this state," said junior midfielder Aaron Moreno-Lopez, who scored the tying goal. "We can go all the way and win it all."
No. 3 seed Evanston saw its streak of sectional titles end at three.
St. Patrick (24-3-0) kicked off the overtime session by not allowing Evanston to get a clean touch on the ball.
"We wanted to press high, and we wanted to press right away," junior forward Luis Saucedo said. "(Sebastian Modrzejewski) took a really good touch out wide. Usually, it's supposed to go to the corner, it went right (back) to him.
"He gave it to (junior midfielder Angel) Adame. They had a combination; then he gave it to me. I tried turning on it; (I had a) mistouch. I thought (teammate Joshua Torres) was going to score that one."
The sequence concluded when the ball went to Torres, a sophomore forward, who turned and fired<|fim_middle|> controlled by Saucedo who pushed his shot wide.
Three minutes later, Evanston senior defender Luke Agnew was given a verbal warning for a tackle from behind. The ensuing free kick from 48 yards from Moreno-Lopez sailed over Wildkits' senior keeper Ramin Abraham after he came five yards off his line to defend the shot. It dropped under the crossbar for the tying score.
"He came out a little bit too much," Moreno-Lopez said. "We were hoping for a deflection or something like that, someone crashing on the keeper. That ended up happening, and it slipped in."
Evanston had the bulk of possession and chances in the opening half. In the 35th minute St. Patrick keeper Jorge Cebrero was forced to make arguably his best save of the game when he stopped the rebound try of Wildkits sophomore midfielder Nduwayezu Nkurunziza.
"Because of the quality of both teams, I think there could have been a lot more goals," Saucedo said. "If each team would have scored their chances, I think it could have been 5-4 or 5-5."
The flow of the game evened out in the closing half of regulation. In the 47th minute, St. Patrick senior midfielder Herbert Carrera had a half-volley chance at the back post that was saved.
"We started getting more touches on the ball instead of just kicking it," Moreno-Lopez said.
Torres, who was quiet in the first 40 minutes, moved into a deeper role under the front line in the second half. He got more active with more touches on the ball.
Evanston recognized the skill of St. Patrick.
"I thought they were a good team," Hurtig said. "(Torres) is a great kid. He is one of the best players we have played against. He broke down our midfield and was the key to a lot of their success. We played alright. We could have played a lot better."
The Shamrocks had the best final chance of regulation with four minutes left. Moreno-Lopez had a similar shot to his opening goal, sending it to the near post from 38 yards. It was tipped over the bar.
St. Patrick, ranked 15th in the Chicagoland Soccer Top 25, advances to the Barrington Supersectional at 6 p.m. Tuesday. The Shamrocks will face second-ranked and top-seeded Libertyville (19-0-0). The Wildcats are nationally ranked.
St. Patrick bids for its second-consecutive supersectional title. The first came last year in its run to a fourth place finish in Class AA.
"It's been well over a decade since we've been in 3A. We're the newbies," St. Patrick assistant coach Melchor Castro said. "People, regardless of the success we had last year, questioned if we are a legit team. Little by little we are showing everybody that we are. It's definitely huge; it's good for the program. It's good for the school. Our president is here supporting us almost every game."
St. Patrick (24-3-0)
G Jorge Cebrero
D Juan Leon
D Brian Nunez
D Adam Przytula
D Collin Kroeger
M Angel Adame
M Herbert Carrera
M Sebastian Modrzejewski
M Aaron Moreno-Lopez
F Joshua Torres
F Luis Saucedo
Evanston (16-6-1)
G Ramin Abraham
D Ben Sollinger
D Luke Agnew
M Quinn Ackman
M Noah Greenberg
M Teo Cook
M Nick Marcotte
M Eric Cyiza
F Morais Lee
F Frank Berkely
F Dylan Taglang
Chicagoland Soccer Man of the Match: Aaron Moreno-Lopez, junior, midfielder, St. Patrick
Evanston: Reed Hurtig, 21'
St. Patrick: Aaron Moreno-Lopez, 29'
First overtime
St. Patrick: Luis Saucedo, 81'
Second overtime | a shot. It deflected to Saucedo for a tap-in less than 30 seconds into the session.
Evanston turned on the pressure over the next 19 minutes in an effort to knot the game.
The Wildkits (16-6-1) had their best chance in the 97th minute. Senior forward Will Weinman had a point-blank chance in front of the net on a centering pass from senior defender Ben Sollinger but came away empty.
"That was a valiant effort," Evanston coach Franz Calixte said. "Soccer is soccer. You've got to put away your chances. We came out a little flat in the second half. We weren't as strong as we were in the first half. The boys never gave up to the very end."
The Wildkits got on the board in the 21st minute when senior defender Reed Hurtig hit a one-time shot on a bouncing ball near the penalty spot.
"I'm just proud of all my teammates," Hurtig said. "They worked hard throughout the season. I thought we deserved to win. I think next year's team is going to be great as well. I'm looking forward to them being able to break the curse."
Five minutes later, St. Patrick had its best chance of the early game when Moreno-Lopez played the ball to senior defender Diego Rivera on the right flank. A cross was dummied by sophomore midfielder Sebastian Estrada in the box, and then | 306 |
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Hello people of the internet!!! On today's 'YouTube Wednesday', we are going to discuss Dylan Gardner, an INCREDIBLE singer/songwriter/producer, who is on his way to taking the music industry by storm! Dylan is from San Tan Valley, Arizona, and according to his website's bio, "…has spent the last 10 years of his life obsessed with the art of songwriting…". The bio also says that Dylan is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and Pro-Tools producer (doesn't this guy make you feel like you've wasted your life on Netflix…yeah me too). In 2013, he was signed to Big Deal Music Publishing, and recorded his debut album 'Adventures in Real Time', which was co-produced with John Dragonetti of the indie rock band 'The Submarines'. I first heard his music when he performed as<|fim_middle|>/channel/UCBRDzAp5-vMtxPz3ZlE8J4g
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Dylan uploaded the first video (a cover of the entire second side of The Beatles' 'Abbey Road' album, with each song performed in 15 second intervals) on his YouTube channel on April 9th, 2014 (you can check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIfb4BuTL1A&list=UUBRDzAp5-vMtxPz3ZlE8J4g). I really enjoyed this cover because it was creative (I mean who else would think to cover an entire side of an album), and it really showed what an incredible musician he is. In this video we got to not only see Dylan sing, but also play numerous instruments such as: the piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and ukulele. The cover really flowed well, and felt like one big song of Beatles awesomeness. The next video we are going to discuss is Dylan's cover of Vampire Weekend's song 'Diane Young', which was uploaded on June 18th, 2014 (you can check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZrfTd_7p1s&list=UUBRDzAp5-vMtxPz3ZlE8J4g&index=6). This was a really cool cover because it kept the vibe of the original song, but also added a special energy that Dylan's fans have come to love. Another thing that I really liked about this cover is that it was an acoustic cover that Dylan performed live in his bedroom. This felt really special, because it takes you back to when your favorite YouTube artists would make similar covers in their rooms. This cover definitely holds a nostalgic vibe because of this, which just adds another layer of cool to this video. Next up we have Dylan's mash-up of alternative rock band Ben Folds Five songs, which was uploaded on June 25th, 2014 (you can check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EaUF95V2Hk&index=5&list=UUBRDzAp5-vMtxPz3ZlE8J4g). This is definitely one of my favorite covers that Dylan has done (even though that's sort of hard to say because their all awesome). What makes this cover stand out a bit, is the fact that he performs a mash-up of snippets of Ben Folds Five songs, that start with different letters of the alphabet (by the end he's covered songs that have titles ranging from A-Z). I just found this idea to be not only very creative and cool, but it also shows the type of meticulous dedication Dylan has in his work when it comes to his craft. I can't imagine how long it took to find the songs, arrange them so they sound like one big song, learn to play the music on the piano, and then actually film it. This video should make us all really excited, because if Dylan puts this much hard work into a cover video, imagine how much hard work and creativity he puts into his own music! The last video that we are going to discuss is his 'Let's Get Started (through the Decades)' video, which was uploaded on July 7th, 2014 (you can check out the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FL_6s6U0b4&list=UUBRDzAp5-vMtxPz3ZlE8J4g&index=4). I decided to add this as a bonus video on this blog post, because it was just too awesome to leave out. The video plays the first 1min 40sec of his debut single 'Let's Get Started' (off of his debut album 'Adventures In Real Time', which we talk more about in the section below). The song is divided into 9 sections, and each section shows the sing performed in the style of a different decade of music, ranging from the 1930s-2014. I LOVE this idea so much I honestly can't even tell you guys how much! I have never seen a video like this, and it's definitely a really fun promo piece for the single, and shows that no matter what style of music it's performed in, 'Let's Get Started' is a great song. This video also cements the fact that Dylan is a very creative and talented musician, and makes me REALLY excited to see what he releases in the future.
The first song off of Dylan's debut album that we're gonna talk about is the lead single 'Let Get Started' (you can see the official music video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ZvVm2d5a8). I think that this was an excellent choice to kick off Dylan's career, because the song is fun, upbeat, and incredibly infectious. It has a very indie rock vibe, and will definitely have you singing along and dancing. I am honestly so obsessed with this song that I have had it on repeat ever since I first heard it (I promise you'll feel the same way once you hear it!). Honestly this song does everything a good lead single is suppose to do, it brings the audience in and leaves you excited to see what else is on the album. I definitely give this song 5 smiley faces (because smiley faces are more fun than stars). Next up we're going to discuss another AMAZING song on this album called, 'Heroes Tonight'. This song has a very Coldplay meets The Lumineers kind of feel, that I think will quickly become a fan favorite. The song has a very "young and free" vibe to it that makes it the perfect song to jam out to in the car, listen to while you're working out, or have a hairbrush karaoke session to (release that inner rock star people of the Internet!). The final song that we're going to talk about is the song 'With a Kiss'. I really love the lyrics in this song, because they really show off Dylan's talents as a storyteller. One of my fav lines has to be in the hook when he says, "Love's just a life, we all start with a kiss", this simple sentence perfectly sums up every love story we've ever heard, and is a really interesting take on the classic love song. Although I wish I could have reviewed all of the songs on this album (because they're all awesome), I picked 3 that I felt really showed off Dylan abilities as a singer/songwriter & producer. I would definitely suggest that you all check out the entire album, because all of the songs will blow you away.
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Donald Trump Jr. quietly came to Omaha last week for … a convention of bowhunters?
Donald Trump Jr., right,<|fim_middle|> guy. He doesn't want to be treated any different than anyone else. He just wants to be treated like a fellow hunter," said Ricky Krueger of Fremont, the second vice president of the organization.
Krueger said he heard grumbling from a handful of members about having Trump as the keynote speaker, but they were politically based complaints, and his visit "wasn't meant to be" political.
He added that Trump was the highest-profile keynote speaker for the Pope and Young group ever, and that he appeared as a favor to a hunting buddy. | is shown in Omaha with Gov. Pete Ricketts, left, and Ricky Krueger on Friday at the biennial national convention of the Pope and Young Club, a 7,000-member organization dedicated to bowhunting and big game conservation. Trump was the keynote speaker.
LINCOLN — Donald Trump Jr., the president's older son, knows something about the slings and arrows of politics.
But Friday night, Trump slipped in and out of the Omaha area to talk about another kind of arrows — those used in bowhunting.
Trump, who is an avid bow-and-arrow hunter, was the keynote speaker Friday night at the biennial national convention of the Pope and Young Club, a 7,000-member organization dedicated to bowhunting and big game conservation.
His address, according to those who attended, focused on bowhunting and how it's important for hunters to take their kids into the outdoors — and not on hunting up votes for his father's re-election.
"This had nothing to do with politics. It had everything to do with conservation and the protection of our bowhunting heritage," said Rick Mowery, communications and marketing director for the Pope and Young Club.
About 1,000 people attended the $95-a-plate Friday night banquet at the La Vista Convention Center, including Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican who enjoys hunting. But outside hunting circles, there was no publicity that the president's son, as well as a Secret Service entourage, was in town.
Mowery said Trump's visit wasn't a secret among bowhunters, but because the club doesn't have a big advertising budget, it wasn't widely known beyond that. The governor, for instance, didn't include the event on his schedule of public events released to the media.
Trump, a life member of the bowhunters' club, arrived on Friday afternoon and strolled through the convention, which featured exhibits and booths from hunting outfitters and suppliers. After the banquet, he stayed up after midnight to discuss hunting with some board members of the bowhunting club.
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The feature, which focuses on Phoebe's new window installation which launches at Dover Street Market this Friday, interview Phoebe in her studio in her East London studio.
"For her window display English, whose studies focused on knitwear and textiles, has created a large orb of blue glass beads that will be suspended from the ceiling by a single wire. "I wanted something that looked as though it was floating or hovering – a lunar orb. The textiles we're using are all glass and we found that during the [spring/summer 13] show you got a really great reflection of the show lights while the girls were in motion. We're hoping that the light will sort of sparkle across the surface.""
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After seven months of travelling, I grew weary of thinking about Brooklin as we drove more and more north. I was apprehensive about coming back to our friends and family after such a short time away. I felt like we weren't done travelling and I wasn't done learning what God was trying to teach me. I didn't know how to explain how we spent our time over the last seven months, I didn't know what conclusions to draw for anyone, I didn't know how to respond to everyone's reactions over our homecoming. Honestly, I was more excited to see my Auntie Janie (Who was fostering our cats… And I say "was" because she informed me that they're officially her cats now and won't let us have them back. I knew that would happen, she loves cats too much and our cats are the best cats in the world. And I don't think you're understanding me—they are literally the best cats in the whole world.) and our cats than I was to go back to Brooklin.
Once we were back in town though, our friends and family welcomed us back with excitement, everyone respected our lack of total understanding about our future and we felt more loved than ever. It felt like we didn't even leave (in a good way), like we had been living among them for the last seven years. It was comforting to be in a location we knew well and in a community that meant so much to us.
We planned to stay parked at Bob and Kathy's again for the next two months. We rejoined our bible studies and reconnected with friends, it was a very welcome change from not having this kind of community for the last seven months. We started working on renovations at church, which lasted much longer than we anticipated. Our two month stay doubled and we ended up living in Brooklin for four months. And my heart truly started to grown weary… Brooklin had grown to be an emotional burden for me. I started to question why we made the decision to start this chaos in the first place. I started to feel irresponsible for the choice we made to sell our house, buy a trailer and travel. Because we weren't travelling at all. I started to feel self-conscience about our lack of travel, even though we had no good reason to move on yet. I remember seeing some campers parked for the night at the Walmart in Ajax—I felt my heart yearn. I missed the adventure and discovery, I missed waking up in a new place, I missed the freedom.
I was happy to start packing up our trailer to move again—putting everything away in it's place to become nomads again. When we finally hitched up the trailer to pull away from BobKat's and head to Belleville, it was comforting.
I'm currently reading the book, I Am Second. It's of real people's conversion stories, how Jesus worked in their lives to save them from a life of emptiness and searching. One of the stories referenced the Olympic runner, Eric Liddell, who is the subject of the movie, Chariots of Fire. He said, "When I run, I feel His pleasure." Sincerely, this is what I feel when we're travelling—When we travel, I feel God's pleasure. There's a surreal peace I am supernaturally blessed with when we are living on the<|fim_middle|> has plans for me, plans for good and not disaster, to give me a future and a hope.
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Previous post One Year Has Passed. | road. When I reflect back on our months of travelling and the excitement about all of the opportunities we had at our fingertips, it's still not lost on me. I find myself without real roots in this world, and while it scares the colour out of most everyone I know, it's encouraging, inspiring and freeing to me.
When I remember that I am not in control, it challenges me to trust in Him and it frees me to take life as it happens, to not take offence over not being able to do everything I wanted to do, it frees me to not have to make plans at all. I can look ahead and find freedom and comfort in trusting that God | 135 |
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Milo Ventimiglia Is Challenged to Name Three Mandy Moore Songs -- But Can He Do It?
Milo Ventimiglia is one of his This Is Us costar Mandy Moore's biggest<|fim_middle|>For more on Ventimiglia's This Is Us role, watch the video below. | fans, but can he prove it?
During his Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen appearance on Monday night, the 40-year-old actor was quizzed on his knowledge of Moore's pre-This Is Us career.
"Mandy Moore plays your wife on This Is Us," Cohen stated during a game of Plead the Fifth. "She, of course, started as a pop singer. Milo, name three Mandy Moore songs."
The audience erupted in applause as Ventimiglia visibly struggled.
"I think her album was called Candy," he shared. "And wasn't there a song called 'Crush'?"
While the star did confuse the album name, So Real, with the name of her 1999 hit single, "Candy", he impressively showcased his solid memory of the track by referencing the music video.
"I know she was only, like, 15 when she was driving the bug," he recalled of the "Candy" clip, which featured a young Moore driving around in a green Volkswagen Beetle. "Oh, man, I don't know the rest."
Two out of three isn't bad! The solid effort by Ventimiglia resulted in a friendly fist bump from Ricky Martin, who was also appearing on the Bravo show during its stint in Los Angeles this week.
There was one other question that Ventimiglia found far less intimidating. His This Is Us co-star, Chrissy Metz, was on hand to ask, "Who's hotter -- you, Sterling [K. Brown] or Justin [Hartley]?"
The Emmy-nominated actor didn't hesitate to rank the looks of his other co-stars in the hit NBC series, expressing his own humility in the process.
"Oh, man. Justin," he admitted. "Absolutely, 100 percent Justin Hartley. But Sterling K. Brown is right up there, if not more. I'm definitely the bronze medal. I'm third place on that whole thing."
Ventimiglia is quick to showcase his love for all of his This Is Us co-stars, especially Moore, who plays his onscreen wife. The TV star recently opened up to ET about her engagement to Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith.
"Taylor's the coolest, loveliest cat we've ever met and Mandy's the kindest, most beautiful soul, so for the two of them to come together like that, I'm incredibly happy for her. It's very cool," he told ET last fall, just before the Emmy Awards.
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Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company ( or Utbildningsradion, UR) is a public-service corporation dedicated to serving the needs of the Swedish general public by providing educational programming on radio and television.
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The company originates from experiments with (school radio) by the (National Board of Education) in 1928, a business that became permanent in 1929. In 1931, Radiotjänst became the principal for its broadcasts. In 1961, test broadcasts of school television began, an activity that in 1964 merged with school radio. To this was later added SR's adult education and the activity was financed with tax funds.
In 1967, Kommittén för Television och Radio i Utbildningen (TRU), the committee for television and radio, was started in the education of the state as an experimental activity of sending wireless teaching materials to universities and preschools. The location was in Stocksund and the business continued until 1978 when it was taken over by the newly started Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB.
In 1978, an extensive reorganization was carried out in which Sveriges Radio (SR) was split into four subsidiaries owned by SR: (RR), Swedish National Radio; (LRAB), Swedish Local Radio; Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR), Swedish Educational Broadcasting; and Sveriges Television (SVT), Swedish Television. In 1985, the tax financing ceased and UR's program was financed by the television fee. In 1994, another reorganization was made and UR became an independent company.
Between 1999 and 2006, a series of books on the history of educational programs and UR have been published by . A total of 16 volumes were published in this series of publications. In 2016, UR was rejected by the Discrimination Ombudsman after placing a job advertisement where dark skin color was included in the applicant's qualifications.
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UR broadcasts their programming on Sveriges Radio's channels P1, P2, P3 and P4 as well as Sveriges Television's SVT1, SVT2 and SVT Barn. On 27 September 2004, Kunskapskanalen (The Knowledge Channel) started broadcasting. The channel is run as a collaborative project between UR and SVT. Each company accounts for fifty | 496 |
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Microsoft launches 'Fluid Framework' to transform ...
Microsoft launches 'Fluid Framework' to transform the traditional Office document
Goodbye Word, Excel, et cetera; hello, web-based collaboration.
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Microsoft's Fluid Framework may be the future of Office—a future where the walls between applications melt away, and collaboration is routine. If this sounds familiar<|fim_middle|> Frank Shaw, would perform tasks like fetching content, providing photo suggestions, translating data, and even co-authoring in places.
"On this canvas, we have a different way of looking at these artifacts," Shaw said. "Is this a document or a presentation or a spreadsheet? The answer is yes, and you don't have to worry about that. Everything is just adapting in the background."
According to Shaw, one example of a Fluid Framework application would be in the global collaboration of a corporate HR manual, written in multiple languages. "The Fluid Framework could allow for real-time translation across those teams as they're co-authoring in the manual," Shaw said. "A procurement management could create a document that marries words with calculations in the same document, with those calculations being updated by someone else on the team."
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Here's a look at the Sway.com interface, which I originally used to remix an existing Surface Pro 3 review in a different layout. Will Fluid Framework pull from this?
Whether Fluid Framework ends up looking like Sway is hard to say, though Nadella should clarify things. Sway was noteworthy for living wholly on the web at Sway.com, and for exerting a fair amount of control over the design of the document. For example, you simply assigned an image a particular "weight," and Sway would decide where to place it according to a generalized layout. If the author didn't like the result, they could click a button to "remix" or reorganize the final result into another layout. If Fluid Framework is based upon Sway, it's likely to be much more sophisticated. We'll have to see how much detail Nadella provides, and whether Fluid Framework's influence extends to the Office apps millions use every day.
Mark Hachman | , that's because in 2014, Microsoft experimented with a web-based collaborative app called Sway that combined web publishing, Word, and presentation software into an engaging mess of text and images.
We should find out more about Fluid Framework during Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella's keynote kicking off the company's Build developer conference on Monday morning. From a product standpoint, Microsoft expects to deliver the "first Microsoft 365 experiences powered by Fluid" later this year, alongside a software development kit for third-party developers.
In a briefing before Build, Microsoft described Fluid Framework as a way for Microsoft and developers to build "flexible, web-based distributed applications." What Microsoft appears to be doing is trying to break down the concept of a document as a discrete object, and enable a "free-flowing canvas" where multiple users can collaborate on a document quickly on the web, with artificial intelligence or agents assisting behind the scenes. These agents, according to Microsoft's vice-president of communications | 199 |
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© H.B. Fuller Company. All rights reserved. | IRE) -- H.B. Fuller Company (NYSE:FUL) announced today that Ruth Kimmelshue has been appointed to the company's board of directors, effective October 4, 2017.
Kimmelshue serves as Cargill's corporate senior vice president, Business Operations & Supply Chain, and is a member of the executive team. Before taking her current role, Kimmelshue held a number of leadership positions for Cargill's businesses, including corporate leader for the Animal Protein and Salt businesses, business unit president for Turkey & Cooked Meats, business unit president of Salt, and vice president and commercial manager of AgHorizons. Kimmelshue also led Cargill Supply Chain Solutions, an internal consulting organization serving Cargill's businesses around the world.
"Ruth's global experience and strategic insight, coupled with her experience in operations and supply chain will be extremely valuable to our board of directors and our management team," says Jim Owens, president and CEO, H.B. Fuller. "I look forward to working with her."
Kimmelshue began her career in 1986 at Continental Grain and held various roles of increasing responsibility with the company in the U.S. and Europe until it was acquired by Cargill in 1999. She earned a bachelor's degree in international relations and a master's degree in agricultural economics from Stanford University. Kimmelshue also is a board member with the Agriculture Future of America, a nonprofit focused on building bridges for young leaders to foster engagement and innovation in food and agriculture.
"We are fortunate to have Ruth join our board," says Lee Mitau, chairman of the H.B. Fuller Board of Directors. "With the depth of experience she has leading successful businesses in a challenging global environment, along with her supply chain expertise, she will help propel H.B. Fuller forward."
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Eileen Naski graduated from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at the end of the fall 2018 semester — well over a decade after she had<|fim_middle|>, family law lawyer and a mental health professional who works with families during divorce. Together, they evaluated the perceptions of Arizona's child custody law among family law professionals and citizens. The donated funds allowed Fabricius and his coauthors to present their work at the 2017 annual meeting for the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
Robinson said she plans to continue donating because of the impact Fabricius had on her in college and because she believes in the work he is doing. | taken her first college courses.
So, with the encouragement of her boss, a trusted mentor, Naski chose to go back to school about three years after dropping out of college. That decision began almost eight straight years of a "learning-on-the-fly lifestyle," Naski said.
Naski recalls some friends and co-workers saying, "Oh, electrical engineering, that's a tough one," when she told them what she was studying. "So I'm feeling pretty proud of getting that degree," she said.
"We were completely surprised by the unmet need out there. (The program) grew much bigger and faster than we anticipated," said David Allee, associate director and professor in the School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, one of the six Fulton Schools.
Many of the program's students are older than typical undergraduates. "They have families. They have jobs. Some have careers and they want better jobs," Allee said.
While the online delivery of the program is especially attractive to working students, as many as 40 percent of the students are U.S. military veterans or on active military duty. "So they are highly disciplined and highly motivated and they are in places all over the world," Allee said.
In students' feedback about the program, many of them say online delivery "has been a godsend for them and they express their gratitude profusely," he added.
"My degree gives me an inroad to meet and talk to the right people" to move toward that goal, Naski said.
"When Eileen told me 'I listen to my course lectures while I drive to and from work. It's like going to class twice, and I can do it while stuck in Houston traffic,' that was one of the biggest selling points for me," Garcia said.
When Arizona State University alumna Lynn Robinson had the chance to give back to her alma mater, her first thought was William Fabricius and the ASU Department of Psychology.
While at ASU, Robinson took a developmental psychology class with Fabricius, who is an associate professor of psychology. She recalled one time when she was struggling in the class, so she met with him to ask for help.
A meeting like this is routine for a professor but can have a lasting impact on a student. And the meeting with Fabricius stuck with Robinson. Because he supported her when she was a student in that class, she sought him out when she was a senior, and they worked together on a research project about how young children classify objects.
Robinson has been donating to the Fabricius lab for seven years, and her employer matches her donation.
Since Robinson was a student at ASU, the focus of the Fabricius lab has expanded from studying how young children think and understand the world to also examining the effects of divorce and parenting on children.
Fabricius recently used the funds to disseminate his research on the perceptions of Arizona's child custody law. The law was revised in 2013 based on developmental psychology findings to prioritize equal parenting time when in the best interest of the child. Fabricius collaborated with a family court judge, conciliation court staff director | 636 |
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