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I am picking up my new (used) 2004 V-drive tomorrow, Can't Wait!
Any tips for running, maintaining the V-drive?
Where do you set the wakeplate for the bigggest wake?
Congrats you'll love the boat for wakeboarding. Except for the oil change I have the dealer do all the v-drive service so I can't comment on that.
As far as the wakeplate you'll have to play around with it because it varies by rider speed, rope length and the amount of weight in the boat. I'd start about 1/2 way and after you get up to speed move it around slightly and give it a sec or two to change the shape of the wake. You can really fine tune how steep you want it to be which is really rider preference.
Sextons made a<|fim_middle|> with the wake plate at 3/4 up. This is with the middle ballast bag full, but nothing in the rear tanks. I am getting plenty of pop without needing the rear bags, I don't want to fly that high yet. Here is a pic of me on Friday, with the wake as described. | goog point,. we had ours out last nite and the plate really changes the roll of the wake, just watch it. You can go from a low roll to a nice steep, no foam, mountain. We also played with the tanks as far as weight distribution goes, you dont want one side differentthan the other. Have fun, play with it a little, fast out of the hole too!!!
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Nervous about pitching your new startup? Here's how to bomb your investor pitch, or in other words, what to avoid doing when pitching to investors!
Are you ready to pitch your startup to investors? Here are a few things NOT to do.
Having delivered hundreds of pitches myself (and bombed a few), as well as coaching dozens of entrepreneurs on how to pitch, I've definitely seen some doozy pitches.
I sometimes wish I'd had a video camera with me to create a funny compilation of all the bloopers—something I might have shared with entrepreneurs on how not to deliver a great investor pitch.
I like to say that success is a terrible teacher. I'm not saying you're going to get it right every time, but what's important is to learn from those mistakes and adjust your pitch the next time you deliver it, based on what you've learned.
I have a vivid memory of bombing a pitch that I was delivering to a group of angel investors in Seattle. My flight was delayed by an hour, so I showed up with only five minutes to spare before being invited into the conference room to deliver my pitch.
Because I was late, I wasn't able to check that my slides would be presented in the format I had hoped—and sure enough, the fonts looked wonky and the slide formatting resulted in text running off some of the pages. I was embarrassed and it shook me off of my game while I delivered my pitch.
This is where I could have taken a lesson from Gillette's "Never let them see you sweat" ad campaign from the 80s. I could tell I was sweating and nervous, which took my focus away from the content.
This was also probably only the fifth pitch I had ever delivered—so another lesson is to make sure you've delivered your pitch so many times that you don't need your slides to deliver the content confidently. If I had been better prepared, the wonky slides would not have made a difference.
One of my mottos in life is "practice makes perfect"—and this holds true for crafting your pitch to make it perfect.
I always say, think of delivering your pitch as if you're about to go up on stage and deliver an acting performance to an audience of theatregoers. This approach shifts your perspective from delivering a business pitch to delivering a performance that holds the audience's attention and is hopefully worthy of a standing ovation.
You also would never get up on stage to deliver a theatrical performance without first studying your character, memorizing your script, and doing breathing and confidence-building exercises. You should approach your investor pitch with the same vigor and intention.
Sometimes, it's best to learn how to do something by learning about how not to do it first! That's why this post is about how to bomb your investor pitch.
If you're more interested in crafting a great pitch, you can read more about that on Bplans.
It's important to know your pitch inside and out and have multiple versions of the pitch: 30 seconds, one, three, five, and 10 minute rehearsed versions. This doesn't mean you deliver the pitch as if you're reading from a piece of paper, but practice the content and deliver it like a pro—just like an actor would. However, be ready to be interrupted and know how to get your pitch back on track.
I've seen pitches that made me cringe, where the CEO delivering the pitch is so wrapped up in his or herself that they get halfway through their presentation and they have run out of time. A total disaster! This communicates to investors that you don't care about their time, you're not prepared, you won't be easy to work with if they decided to fund you, and that you have a huge ego.
If I had a nickel for every pitch I saw where the financial projections grow in the shape of a hockey stick, I could have funded my last startup!
Are you pitching "hockey-stick" financial growth?
Investors care more about how you're going to a.) get to revenue, b.) scale it over the first year, and 3.) retain those customers.
Forget the five year financial projections. It's old school and no one believes them anyway. What investors care about more than your "hockey-stick" growth are the numbers behind your numbers, or your financial assumptions (i.e. how many customers you'll acquire and when, how many you'll retain in year one, how many will churn out (leave you), the average revenue each customer will spend, etc.).
This is another one where I wish I would have recorded pitches and scanned the audience of investors to show their faces and body language as the CEO delivering the pitch starts schpealing out things like, "our IP is strong because we're ISO complaint and we've cornered the ABC market by using the XYZ technical blah blah blah." Snore!
Now—all of this is important, so I'm not saying don't share this exciting piece of information, but deliver it in such a way that doesn't cause your investors' eyes<|fim_middle|> or will be, start reaching out and listening to them. Most people like to talk about themselves and share what they'd like to see done better, faster, or cheaper.
Seek out your potential customers and ask them about the pains they have related to the product or service you're building. I can guarantee their feedback will shape how you build your product or service.
Include your learnings in your investor pitch. They like to see the market research you've done. Wherever possible, include testimonies from real customers. No one sells your product better than happy customers.
Best of luck with your pitch.
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In the spirit of community (and commiseration), we'd love to hear about your experiences. Feel free to share them in the comments below. And remember, that always everyone fails before the succeed! | to glaze over and start scanning through their Facebook newsfeed.
Don't assume your audience knows your business or your market like you do. If they did, they'd probably be starting the business. Unless you're delivering your pitch to a highly technical group of investors who have deep industry knowledge and experience in your space, keep it simple. Sell them on the market pain you're solving, not your acronym soup.
One investor told me that if his 80 year old grandmother couldn't understand it in less than two minutes, he's not interested. You may think you're impressing them by speaking geek, but you're more than likely turning them off to your deal.
This is when you start sharing stuff about your market potential without having first done some deep due diligence on your market opportunity.
You might think, duh—I'd never do this, but you'd be surprised how many entrepreneurs do just that. I don't believe they are doing it to pull the wool over the investors' eyes, but new entrepreneurs are often so excited about their product or service that they assume all of their assumptions must be true without first fact-checking those assumptions.
The best practice here is to pretend you're an investor and have your business partner pitch to you. If you don't have a business partner, deliver your pitch to a mentor or advisor and ask them to be brutally honest.
This due diligence process will make you more prepared, because interested investors will want to begin the due diligence process with you, and you don't ever want to appear like you haven't done your homework.
One major mistake a lot of first-time entrepreneurs make is following the philosophy of "if I build it, they will come." After you determine who you think your market is | 351 |
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Q:<|fim_middle|>2a+b>4$. The limit fails to exist otherwise.
In the case at hand, $a=\alpha$ and $b=4$ and we see that the limit is $0$ for $\alpha>0$ and fails to exist otherwise.
| Find $\lim_\limits{(x,y)\to (0,0)}\frac{x^\alpha y^4}{x^2+y^4}$ where $\alpha > 0$ How can we find the following limit? $$\lim_{(x,y)\to(0,0)}\frac{x^\alpha y^4}{x^2+y^4}\qquad \alpha>0$$
By using the polar coordinate, we get
$$\lim_{r\to 0}r^{\alpha+2}\frac{\cos^\alpha\theta \sin^4\theta}{\cos^2\theta+r^2\sin^4{\theta}}=0$$ if $\theta\notin\{\frac{\pi}{2}+\pi k:k\in\Bbb Z\}$.
Now, if $\theta = \frac{\pi}{2}+\pi k$ for some $k\in\Bbb Z$, then we get $$\lim_{(0,y)\to (0,0)}\frac{x^\alpha y^4}{x^2+y^4}=0.$$
Can we conclude that $$\lim_{(x,y)\to(0,0)}\frac{x^\alpha y^4}{x^2+y^4}=0?$$
A: Just notice that since $\alpha > 0$ and $x^2 \geq 0$ you have that
$$ \frac{x^\alpha y^4}{x^2+y^4} \leq \frac{x^\alpha y^4}{y^4} = x^\alpha \overset{(x,y) \to 0}{\longrightarrow} 0.$$
Thus it is clear that one has $\lim_{(x,y)\to(0,0)}\frac{x^\alpha y^4}{x^2+y^4} = 0$. You rarely need polar coordinates for these kinds of questions. The most problems I encountered personally are easy to solve by using this trick above. I hope it helps you :)
A: From the AM-GM inequality we have $$\left|\frac{x^ay^b}{x^2+y^4}\right|\le \frac12 |x|^{a-1}|y|^{b-2}$$
where we assume that either $a$ is such that $x^a\in \mathbb{R}$ for $x$ in a neighborhood of $0$ or that the limit is taken as $(x,y)\to (0^+,0)$.
And equality holds when $x=\pm y^2$. Hence, we find
$$\lim_{(x,y)\to(0,0)}\frac{x^ay^b}{x^2+y^4}=0$$
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A performance of 16 Trompeten, a work by Antoine Beuger in a performance by the trumpet classes of Corrado Bossard and Andreas Wulf conceived by Craig Shepard. Photograph: Betti Vock.
Almost Nothing
Can you hear the difference between a pause and silence? Composer Tom Johnson explores recent trends in European minimalism and silent music.
Tom Johnson
During my fifteen years living in New York, I believed, like almost everyone else, that minimal music was an American music. But now, after living twenty-six years in Europe, I feel that this genre is as much European as American. I am not a critic or a musicologist, and I don't go to lots of festivals and receive lots of CDs, so what I know is mostly just things I run across in my life as a composer. I must also emphasise that I do not in any way feel that European music is better than American music. In recent years my trips to the US are extremely rare, so I am quite out of touch with things there and can't make comparisons anyway.
The examples of European minimalism I want to discuss are fairly extreme in their minimalism, original in style, and of course, pieces that I like very much. I'm eliminating composers like Arvo Pärt, Gavin Bryars, and Michael Nyman, whose names are no doubt already familiar to you. After we consider a few cases of audible music, I want also to discuss silent music, a vast category that seems more important all the time.
I have to begin with Erik Satie, whom I regard as the spiritual father of all minimalist music for three reasons: Le Fils des Étoiles (1892), Vexations (1893), and Musique d'Ameublement (1917, 1924). Le Fils des Étoiles was published in Satie's time only in the form of the overtures to acts one, two and three, but in fact, there was an entire score some forty-five minutes long, which has now been put together, and which you can find if you make the effort. It is not a masterpiece like Socrate (1918) or Danses Gothiques (1893) or so many of Satie's perfect short pieces, but it is quite coherent, and if fulfills many of the basic criteria of minimal music. It is a static piece that never goes anywhere, and it moves steadily along, without crescendos, without tempo changes, and without departing from its few simple themes. I regard it as the first long minimal composition.
Vexations, with its 840 repetitions, is the first hypnotic music. I heard another performance just last March in Amsterdam, when five well-known pianists played quite seriously about four hours each, always in the same tempo, and there were listeners all night. It is meditative music, already a precedent for the many kinds of meditative music that have followed.
It is more difficult to explain why I regard the Musique d'Ameublement as a precedent for minimalism, because this music in itself is basically banal and jolly and not minimal at all. The important thing is that by telling us not to listen to it, to leave it in the background with the furniture, Satie was raising the question of how we perceive music. When is it in the foreground, and when is it In the background? This was certainly important for Cage, who was a great student of Satie's music, and who later asked us to accept silence as music, as in 4'33", and to listen to music and ambient sound at the same time, as in Roaratorio. It seems to me that the sound installations so many people make today, which sit there like furniture in a gallery or a public square all day long, churning on whether anyone is listening or not, may generally be regarded as furniture music, and thus as ambient sound and minimal music.
Satie's furniture music was certainly well known by Luc Ferrari, who reduced music to almost nothing in Presque Rien No. 1 (1970), which you can find on INA Records (the label of Groupe de Recherches Musicales). Ferrari claims that he just put a microphone in the window one sunny afternoon and accepted every sound that came by. With closer examination, however, it seems pretty clear that he also did a bit of editing later in the studios of Radio France, where he worked with Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry and others. Their main concern was musique concrète, and one might think of this as a sort of concrete music, taken from nature, but it is also a musical landscape, ambient music, a piece of furniture, a piece of silence, almost nothing, presque rien.
Other early European examples of extremely minimal music come from a Spanish avant-garde group named ZAJ (pronounced 'THAKH'), which is a comic book word meaning something like POW! or ZAP! Juan Hidalgo and Walter Marchetti had met Cage in Milan in the 1950s, and Cage's influence on them was similar to the influence he had at the New School for Social Research in New York, which led to the Fluxus group a bit later. ZAJ was very different from Fluxus, however, mostly because they were living in Madrid under a dictatorship. A good example of their work is El Secreto, a score of Hidalgo. This began with Hidalgo, Marchetti and Esther Ferrer, who joined ZAJ in 1967, simply standing on the stage looking at the audience. Then one of the performers walks over to the next and whispers in their ear for 10 minutes. Then this performer passes the secret on to the third performer for another 10 minutes. This goes on for one hour, and the audience doesn't hear a thing. You have to remember that secrets are particularly meaningful in a police state like Spain under Franco, where almost everyone has illegal books or newspapers in their homes, for which they could be arrested, and everyone has the possibility of informing on people they know. ZAJ was doing happenings or performance art very differently from the Fluxus artists, who were mostly busy destroying pianos and otherwise attacking traditional art.
Esther Ferrer did some radically minimal pieces too, like the Concierto ZAJ Para 60 Voces. In one version of this piece a performer stands looking at the audience for one minute and then says 'one minute.' A second performer comes on and the two of them look at the audience for two minutes and then say 'two minutes.' This continues, and if they go all the way to sixty performers, the event lasts thirty hours. They never went on for that long, but the piece sometimes lasted quite a while.
My favorite piece by Marchetti is a recording he did for Cramps Records in 1985 (CRSCD 033), after going back to live in Milan. It is called Per la Sete Dell'orecchio (for the soft part of the ear), and it consists exclusively of a sequence of extremely resonant little splashing sounds, one every few seconds. The recording was made by suspending a microphone at the bottom of a very deep resonant well and then dropping pebbles one by one into the water. The piece goes on for some thirty minutes, completely repetitive, except that each splash is completely different from all the others.
American repetitive music had a big impact in Europe, of course, peaking with the Festival d'Avignon presentation of Philip Glass' Einstein on the Beach in 1975. Around this time groups all over Europe were learning Frederic Rzewski's Coming Together, and European composers were beginning to write similar things. This European reaction seems best symbolised by Hoketus, written by Louis Andriessen in 1975–76. This was also the name of the ensemble that played the piece, and which had a huge success all around Europe for a couple of years until the group broke up. The group also played music of other composers, and it became the focal point of a genre often referred to as the Hague School, whose basic interest was to play very loud and very fast for a very long time.
Hoketus is played by two ensembles, exactly the same, one at the far left and one at the far right. Each ensemble has six musicians: pan pipes, alto sax, piano, electric piano, electric guitar and congas. Everyone reads from the score, where the down stems are one sextet and the up stems are the other. In general I don't see a basic difference between European minimalism and American minimalism, though the harmony in Hoketus is more dissonant and complex than in the repetitive American music, which mostly turns on white notes. Hoketus is also harder to play than most American repetitive music, and one reason the piece tends to be forgotten is that after the original ensemble folded, no one could play it really well.
Another Dutch composer began to write repetitive music in 1976: Simeon ten Holt. If you listen to a piece like Canto Ostinato (1976–79, available on Brilliant Classics 7795), you will probably think you are hearing normal piano music, but if you listen closely you will hear four pianos, and you will note that the music is constantly darting from one player to another. Some people say that the orchestration of the four pianos and the rich harmonies of five-note chords make ten Holt's music especially European, but of course, many American composers also write subtle orchestrations and fancy harmonies.
Let's consider a very minimal and very original music from Italy: Hora Harmonica (1983) by Albert Mayr (Ants Records, AG02). Mayr has a German name and some German blood, but he has spent his life in Florence, where he has taught and done musical performances that might be considered conceptual art, though they are always music too. Mostly they have to do with measuring time. This piece was made in the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale in Padua, and it begins with a sequence of digital sine waves that sweep up from the first to<|fim_middle|>, after more than ten years of activity, they are still going. Most music festivals have completely refused to programme Wandelweiser music, but ironically, the most prestigious German festival of all, Donaueschingen, invited Beuger to do a forty-eight-hour sound installation, which I had the privilege of hearing a few years ago. Mostly what happened was a sequence of digital waves coming out of the silence, remaining for three minutes, and then fading back to silence again, from where another similar but different wave would fade in a few minutes later. The remarkable thing here was that when an electronic tone ended one heard the street sounds much more than before, and when another electronic tone arrived the ambient sound disappeared and the room was 'silent' once again. So where was the silence and where was the sound?
The complex subject of silence has already come up several times, so to take that a little further, I want to mention some works I selected for an exhibition of Música Silenciosa that I curated at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid in 2001.
Funeral Music for a Great Deaf Man (1897) by Alphonse Allais is certainly the oldest score of silent music. The preface explains:
The author of this funeral march was inspired by the universal principal that the great pains of life can not speak. Since they are silent, the interpreters here must limit themselves to counting the measures rather than making indecent sounds that would destroy the solemn character of the best funerals.
Incidentally, it may be significant that Allais, who also made the first monochrome paintings in 1897, was born in Honfleur, the same town as Erik Satie, just twelve years earlier.
Another piece of Música Silenciosa was Last Notes from Enderich (above), a painting of Tom Phillips. Phillips is basically a conceptual artist, and he always researches things, a bit the way his English colleague Gavin Bryars did when he wrote The Sinking of the Titanic. In this case the subject is the death of Robert Schumann in the insane asylum in Endenich. Phillips read all the testimonies and correspondence regarding Schumann and the music he was apparently imagining in his last crazy days, and tried to represent it here. Apparently the note A was important, along with the sun and some whirling fast notes, which Phillips represented as well as he could in this painting.
The Belgian artist Baudouin Oosterlynck, who listens to the silences when he goes backpacking in the woods, records them with nice little drawings (above). The text can be translated:
Prelude du silence No. 13, April 2, 1991, Fort de l'Orme, France. A lovely little gorge two kilometers long winds for two octaves. A path on a dry bed. The reverberation is louder from the ledge.
Other pieces by Clarence Barlow and Walter Marchetti in the exhibition are silent because they are impossible to play. Dieter Schnebel's Mono: Lesbare Musik and my own Imaginary Music are basically graphic music, but are intended to be regarded silently rather than interpreted by musicians.
Silent music, in all its forms, is probably the least explored type of minimalism, and it seems to be an area which American minimalists (and most European composers) have not yet even considered. There remain, however, a lot of problems in defining and limiting what silent music really is. A few years ago, for example, I sent Antoine Beuger a copy of my Organ and Silence. He was most interested and arranged a couple of performances of it in Düsseldorf concerts and on Wandelweiser Radio, but some time later I met him and he offered a most interesting observation:
You know, I like that piece a lot, but it's really not about silence. The music is all metric, and I find that I am always counting the silences. That means that they are really just pauses in the music, and that the music has not stopped at all.
Can you hear the difference between pauses and silences? Do you agree that these examples are all music, even though they are silent?
Tom Johnson studied privately with Morton Feldman and established himself as a composer of the minimalist group in New York in the 1970s, later settling in Paris, where he has lived since 1983. Among his works are The Four Note Opera, Failing, Narayana's Cows and the Bonhoeffer Oratorio.
Where Electronic Music Began
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Mark Brend explains how the appearance of the first electronic musical instrument in 1906 set the tone for discussions about electronic music that continued through much the twentieth century.
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Benjamin Dwyer's new book asks hard questions about Irish musical life. | the twelfth harmonic. Following this we have a five-minute silence, which you will find very strange unless you open up the score inside and see that the pause is essential to the logic of the piece. The twelfth harmonic comes back at exactly five minutes because one-twelfth of an hour has passed, then the eleventh harmonic comes back at five minutes, twenty-seven seconds, when one-eleventh of an hour has passed and so on.
Perhaps the liveliest and fastest growing category in all new music in Europe is sound installation, which in my opinion can generally be considered minimal, since installations just sit there like furniture all day, not going anywhere. When I was living in New York, sound installations were extremely rare. Max Neuhaus, who died a year or two ago, was about the only person who was doing such things regularly. As far as I know, this genre has evolved very little in the US, but beginning with a large exhibit in Berlin in 1980 called Augen und Ohren (eyes and ears), it has developed a great deal all over Europe. By now most museums of modern art in Europe have had shows of 'sound art', as it is often called, and in Berlin, which seems to be the centre of this activity, one can see and hear sound installations in at least three different galleries or art centers almost any afternoon. What are these projects all about?
The Dutch and Belgians have always been the leaders in music boxes and calliopes and carillons, and all sorts of mechanical instruments, and now they also make mechanical marimbas and tubas and drums and violins. They even make installations where vacuum cleaners blow into resonant tubes, where cans drip water into resonant bowls, where little motors flip cords against guitar strings, just to mention a few things I have seen. All over Europe one can find sound installations animated by wind or water or bicycles, and I have not yet mentioned any kind of electronically synthesised sound.
Of course, analogue devices, such as those American pianist and composer David Tudor loved, continue to be plugged in, or more often connected to batteries, and much more sophisticated systems are set up with computer programs, photo cells, internet connections, wireless messages and all sorts of sound samples. Sometimes a computer programme turns the sounds on and off, but more often the sequence is interactive, with exhibition visitors controlling what happens, either consciously or unconsciously.
Sound installation artists often start out as sculptors or architects or instrument makers or technicians, but I want to single out the example of José Antonio Orts, a fifty-five-year-old man from Valencia and a real master of sound installation, who is strictly a composer. His Ostinato Perpetuo (1997) is an installation that consists partly of organ-like sustained tones coming through pipes, and partly of soft sputtering sounds produced by insect-like battery-powered gadgets on the floor. Orts' installations are meticulously orchestrated so that the sounds mix well no matter where you go in the space. Photos and recordings of this and other Orts installations can be seen in a 200-page catalogue published by the DAAD Galerie in Berlin (2002), and other published sources are not hard to find.
Especially in the US, the idea seems rather prevalent that minimalism has been completely replaced by post-minimalism, that process music was replaced by freer and more subjective music about the time Steve Reich wrote Music for 18 Musicians (1974–76), that the term 'minimalism' can now be extended as far as John Adams, and that the few musicians who continue to do extreme forms of minimal music, like La Monte Young and Phill Niblock and Alvin Lucier and myself, are basically anachronisms. It is obvious to me, however, that the word 'minimalism' still means working with truly minimal materials, and that quite a few composers continue to do this, often rigorously following logical processes. Moreover, I find that the most radical minimal music today is sometimes the work of musicians thirty years younger than La Monte Young. I want to give you two examples.
Luiz Henrique Yudo has a Portuguese first name because he was born in Brazil, and a Japanese last name because his parents are both Japanese. He studied architecture and earned his living as an illustrator in Amsterdam when I met him in 1992, but his passion was to make music – especially music derived from visual patterns. He knew my Symmetries for piano four hands, so he came to me. I can't say I became his teacher, but I could give him some useful feedback, and we've kept in touch ever since. One of his compositions, On Words, is minimal especially because it is a piece that insists on one simple idea for a long time. Here the musicians play the words of a short English dictionary using three notes corresponding to the three-dot columns of the Braille alphabet.
The performers are free to interpret the Braille formations with any three sounds, changing sounds whenever they wish. I heard a performance of one letter, lasting some forty-five minutes, in which a singer and a harpsichordist played several hundred words, changing sounds every five to ten minutes. Of course, a vaguely defined notation of this sort would never be written by someone with a doctorate in composition, but like other self-taught composers, Yudo turns his lack of formal training into an advantage, coming up with a piece that is much more original and stimulating than most of the music of young erudite composers coming out of the universities.
Another composer about Yudo's age is a Russian from Moscow named Sergei Zagny. Zagny was passing through Paris one day and gave me a telephone call saying that a mutual flautist friend told him he should do so. I had already heard about his piano sonata, which is very Slavic and very repetitive, so I told him to come right over. It was a pleasure to get to know him and to finally see some of his scores, and we have been in touch ever since. Unlike Yudo, Zagny has all the academic credentials you could ask for, and he is now a professor at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. He has done many different kinds of music, mostly quite minimal, but the latest thing I know arrived as an MP3 file only a month or so ago: The Bells. This is another sound landscape, like Presque Rien, and the main thing we hear are church bells, rather far away, with a few extraneous sounds mixed in later, including someone's rooster and a fly buzzing around a microphone.
It would be easy to make such a piece with synthetic bells or sampled bells, but Zagny did it the hard way. He went to a monastery several hundred kilometers from Moscow, where it was very quiet and where he could make his own noiseless recordings, afterwards doing the mix in his computer. When I first listened to this music, it was about 10 a.m., and I immediately forwarded the file to Antoine Beuger with the subject 'Russian Wandelweiser'. Wandelweiser is the name of Beuger's group, which does much minimal and silent music and sound landscapes, and I knew he would be interested. At noon Antoine sent me an email thanking me immensely, and that evening I got a call from Moscow saying, 'Thank you. The Bells are already on Wandelweiser radio. But who are these Wandelweiser people, anyway?'
You are probably wondering that too, as Wandelweiser music is still not very well known, so I will answer by saying first of all that it is, in my opinion, the only truly avant-garde new music group in existence. To be more specific, I should turn to Beuger himself, who is the central character here.
The first time I heard Beuger's music was at a little concert in Brussels some ten years ago. There were two musicians on the stage and about ten listeners in the audience. There are rarely more than ten listeners in the audience for a Wandelweiser concert, or for that matter, for any truly avant-garde concert. We waited for some time until the flautist at the left played a single note. We waited another five minutes or so and then the singer at the right sang the same note. After another five minutes the flautist played the note again. This went on rather boringly until after about thirty minutes, when I began to observe that I was actually hearing this note all the time in my head as I waited for it to be played again. In fact, the imaginary note in my head was more present than the acoustical notes. After one hour and twelve notes, the musicians took a bow, the ten listeners clapped politely, and we concluded an experience I shall never forget.
Beuger studied composition in the correct way at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, but he didn't like the new music scene he found himself in after graduating, so he quit music to become a sort of stockbroker. Apparently he made some money, because when he decided to come back to music ten years later, and to explore silence, as he was doing in this piece, he seemed to be able to do so without worrying too much about earning money. He found some kindred souls who were interested in similar things, and they began to play one another's music in Zürich and Aarau, and particularly in Düsseldorf, where Beuger got a space from the City of Düsseldorf to present concerts every month.
With only ten people in the audience, and zero interest from the press, you can imagine that it was difficult to keep performers performing and keep the energy going – especially since radios systematically refuse to broadcast anything with silences longer than ten seconds. They sold scores and records though, started twenty-four-hour Wandelweiser broadcasts on their web site (and convinced the royalty collecting agency GEMA to pay modest royalties for these broadcasts), and now | 2,059 |
"You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church"
Saints Peter and Paul in iconic embrace.
The same source also informs us that "from an early date it has been said" (and as Catholics we hold on to a very firm tradition backed up by scholarship that dates back to Tertulian at the end of the 2nd century) that Saints Peter & Paul "were martyred at Rome at the command of the Emperor Nero, and buried there. As a Roman citizen, Paul would probably have been beheaded with a sword." In addition we, Catholics also believe that Peter "was crucified head downward." Kiefer writes: "The present Church of St Peter in Rome replaces earlier churches built on the same site going back to the time of the Emperor Constantine, in whose reign a church was built there on what was believed to be the burial site of Peter. Excavations under the church suggest that the belief is older than Constantine." Also we learn from the Catholic Encyclopedia that the "exact spot…of the crucifixion of St. Peter was preserved by tradition throughout the centuries, and in the present Church of St. Peter is marked by an altar" and that a magnificent basilica was begun in the year 323 on the site by Constantine the Great.
To understand what Jesus' words mean in Mathew 16:18 above, Pope John Paul the Great reminds us in his own 2006 Homily on the same Feast (Source: Zenit.org) that the Gospels narrate three different occasions when "the Lord each time in a special way, transmits to Peter his future task." In the Gospel according to Mathew, Peter's own earlier confession & recognition of Jesus as the Messiah and Son of God moves our Lord to confer Peter's special task upon him "through three images: the rock that becomes the foundation or cornerstone, the keys, and the image of binding and loosing." The other two instances cited by Pope John Paul II are in the Gospels according to Luke 22:31-33 and St. John 21:15-19.
To this point, the Pope quotes St Leo the Great: "These are your holy Fathers and true shepherds" and attributes Peter and Paul "as the founders of a new City, the expression of a new and authentic way of being brothers which was made possible by the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this reason, it can be said that the Church of Rome is celebrating her birthday today, since it was these two Apostles who laid her foundations.
Pope Benedict XVI quotes St John Chrysostom:"Not so bright<|fim_middle|> of Hell shall not prevail against it." (Matthew16:18).
Very informative. It refreshes my memory of what seemed to have forgotten. | is the heaven, when the sun sends forth his rays, as is the City of Rome, sending out these two lights (Peter and Paul) into all parts of the world… Therefore, I admire the City… for these pillars of the Church" (Homily on St Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 32, 24).
"…and the gates | 76 |
Espadrilles are well known these days for being a must-have of the warm summer days but they have been used for a long time, even since Egyptian times.
They are made out of natural fibres like jute and cotton making them comfortable and fresh. This typical Spanish footwear has become very trendy internationally. Big names from the fashion industry have chosen them as an accessory to their design outfits.
In this workshop you will learn an easy way to craft espadrilles from the beginning. You will have a great time and will take home your own design to wear this summer or anytime of the year.
We will provide you with all the necessary components and you will have the possibility to choose between a wide range of textiles and accessories to customise them.
Please do not forget to let us know about your shoe size at the time you enrol.
We will have a break where we will invite you to a snack in our cosy kitchen or in our cute patio.
Costuretas Social Club could cancel this workshop<|fim_middle|> hours before the date.
Publicat per Costuretas a 12:31 p. m. | in case the minimum attendance is not met. If you need to cancel your booking please let us know up to 72 | 25 |
Simply Silhouette: Sticky Clean Up!!
I hope you all got a good tip out of this. It really is Amazing!!
Please let me know if you try this and how you like it.
Great video! Thanks for sharing!! Did you get the pure citrus right from home depot or is it available elsewhere?
Great video, thanks for sharing, do you have to use this ari fresherner? Or would another brand work too, I don't think I have ever seen that kind around here.
I got this right from Home Deopt and as for other air freshners, I'm not sure because this one is all natural so I'm<|fim_middle|> it:) Thank you for watching!
Love it! I will be sure to try it! I have a 1 month old, so the fact that its all natural is perfect! My crafting space is 1/2 of my bedroom lol! so GREAT TIP!
We have used Eucalyptus oil since I was a little girl for removing sticky stuff off things....including removing sticking plasters off skin. Just moisten a cotton wool ball or a cotton wool applicator (we call them cotton buds, do you call them Q tips?)and apply. I like the eucalyptus smell.... a little of this also goes a long way. BTW, I'm 71 now, so been using it for a great number of years!
I absolutely love that for an air freshener, it smells so good, never thought to use it for that purpose, I know what you mean about goo gone, it does kind of stink, it does work too but I'd rather smell a nice fresh citrus aroma anytime ;) Thanks for the tip. | not sure what is in it that makes it work so well. You might be able to order it on line somewhere if you Google | 26 |
But on this night, the coach picked the right word.
Two nights after one of the most embarrassing defeats in<|fim_middle|> 15 of 55 shots from maybe the best one-two scoring pair in the league.
Prominent among the Mavericks heroes was Williams, who was listed as doubtful before the game because of a sports hernia. But guard Williams ended up playing 26 minutes, scoring 11 of his 13 points in the key early moments that announced the visitors had come to play.
"None of this would be possible without Deron Williams," Carlisle said. "His effort in the Utah game a week ago — he played a huge game that night — got us into the playoffs.
There are few words in sports more abused and overused than amazing. But Carlisle used it well.
His team showed amazing heart. It played amazing defense and rebounded . . . well ... amazingly.
And the coach did an amazing job as well.
Adding to the stunning verdict was the game's abrupt ending, when the Thunder missed two chances near the rim to win and Steven Adams put back a rebound at the buzzer.
The shot went in. The home crowd erupted. The Thunder players pounded their chests and celebrated.
But when the officials reviewed the replay, Adams' bucket was waved off.
The audience instantly turned eerily mute. The only sounds were the Mavericks, left for dead two nights ago, now celebrating.
Who has the edge in Mavs-Thunder series? | their franchise history, the Mavericks stunned, silenced and, yes, amazed the Oklahoma City crowd with an 85-84 victory over the Thunder.
You know what? I've never seen a greater than 1.0 value assigned to a win or a loss. They all count the same. They're either on the left or the right.
Two days ago most of us amateur undertakers had pronounced the Mavericks dead.
Cause of death? Too many key injuries, too wearying a battle just to reach the playoffs.
As Carlisle reflected Monday, the Thunder's lightning start in Game 1 had staggered his team.
"We just didn't recover from that haymaker," he said.
The final score was 108-70, a margin that sent us scurrying for the record book to see what was the franchise's largest ever playoff defeat. (It was 43 points in a Game 1 loss to the Lakers in 1984).
Oklahoma City shot 31 of 92 (33.7 percent) for the game, including a combined 15 of 55 from Kevin Duran (7 of 33) and Russell Westbrook (8 of 22).
And thus, in dispatches throughout the weekend, most reports — mine included — pronounced the Mavericks dead.
Owner Mark Cuban agreed before Monday's game.
"Our resolve was there," he said.
They did it with defense. Oklahoma City shot 31 of 92 (33.7 percent) for the game.
None of this would be possible without Deron Williams. His effort in the Utah game a week ago — he played a huge game that night — got us into the playoffs. Had he not played the first 26 minutes tonight, we wouldn't have been in position to win.
With Wesley Matthews hounding him all night, the Thunder's Kevin Durant made just 7 of 33 shots. Russell Westbrook, whose ball-hogging took on an air of urgency, was 8 for 22.
That's | 424 |
Perfect if you have technical people in your household or office.
Pitcher with Abstract Candy Corn Design.
If ewer someone else doesn't like the joke then my<|fim_middle|> try to think of stuff we all liked to do together, like mixing vinegar and baking soda in the basement, and making homemade rockets, or tying our parents' shoes together and hanging them out the window to make an "escape" ladder when they came to paddie-whack us because they couldn't find their shoes.
But after awhile we craved our missing peers' company. My brother Stu went over to the Nudnicks across the street and rang their doorbell one day after school. Little Danny opened the door but when he saw me he said he couldn't come out and shut the door. When Stu reported back to me, me and him went to the neighbors catty-corner to us, the Brathavens, and knocked. Little Tommy's mother answered this time, and she said Tommy was not to play on the street anymore. She had a look in her eyes that made us wonder what was going on. We persisted and said, "but we just want to play, can't you let him come out for a little bit?" We tried to stare her down but the look of fright in her eyes confused us and eventually we gave up and left.
After awhile I gave up trying to get my remaining friends from the block to come out and play. I was getting older anyway. That coming year I was entering 4th grade, and I wanted to complete my dinosaur display entry for the school science fair. I spent a lot of time in the basement, making models of tyrannosaurus rexes out of clay. My sister Clove, who liked plants, tried to decorate my exhibit with plastic flowers she found in the garage that my mother had stuffed up on some shelving. So I had a floral dinosaur exhibit. It looked kind of beautiful. The time I had formerly used to play with my neighborhood friends was now devoted to my various scientific projects in the basement, and getting in scrapes with my siblings.
Then one day, my parents called us all up early before our usual dinner time. I knew something was up, but I wasn't sure what. They looked very serious, and Stuart, Clove and I sat down in our respective dinner places, to hear what they had to say.
"Not us too!" cried Stu.
"Yes, us too," mother seconded.
Later that morning, a round disk was seen curling out of sight, as it took off from Newville Street at Downing Trailer Park where Clove, Stu, Roger and their parents had so recently lived. The craft was seen flying at at least 6,000 miles per hour before it disappeared out of sight, and out of the galaxy.
When the new family moved in, all they found were a bunch of clay dinosaurs and an old bat's nest. | jokes might get even pourer!
Enjoy candy corn without getting cavities!
When people started disappearing from my block, I always assumed old Mr. Todd got them. He was a elderly, cranky man who always threatened to get us kids good if we made too much noise playing kickball on the block, or running up to people's houses, knocking and running away, you know, things kids like to do. But when Mr. Todd himself died, I didn't know what to think.
First the people 2 houses down mysteriously left and 2 days later, the police came and put that yellow tape around the borders. The papers said all they were found in their house was a pile of old bat's nests. I was scared good then, so once the sun started going down, or Mom called us kids in for supper, I didn't go out again. But there was always something new that reminded me of the dark, even inside. Dracula was on one night, and I almost bit my new teeth out for fear that the noises outside the window were bats, not the normal sounds of leaves from the trees overhanging the eaves, or an occasional mouse.
Then about a month later, 2 new families disappeared but no one knew what happened to them either, because they left sometime before sunrise, no forwarding address, no nothing. They each had 2 children that me and my sibs liked to play with - little Petey, 8, Sarah, 5, and the other family had 2 boys, Farty Artie, we used to call him - who was 10 and the mastermind of many of our hijinks, and Markie, 9, fun troublemakers and tons of fun. Petey and Sarah were fun too because they would follow along with whatever great thing Fartie Artie and Markie could dream up. One night, we captured a bunch of frogs down at 2 Pipes, what we called our local drainage outlet, and let them all out on Mrs. Haybridge's yard. The scream we heard a few minutes later sounded like a crazed polecat.
After that last prank though, the street got really quiet. Other, less troublemaking kids seemed to avoid our family more and more, and we kids were left to our own devices – which wasn't always a good thing. We would | 482 |
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Onchocerciasis, towards forming alliances for its control and eradication
11 de November de 2014 | 12:00 pm | Tags: Carlos Slim Foundation, casalud, mesoamerica
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Onchocerciasis, also known as "river blindness", is a parasitic disease caused by the filarial worm Onchocerca volvulus. It is transmitted by repeated bites of infected blackflies (Simulium spp.); which breed in fast-flowing rivers and streams, mostly in remote villages located near fertile land where people rely on agriculture.
In the human body, the adult worms produce embryonic larvae (microfilariae) that migrate to the skin, eyes and other organs. When a female blackfly bites an infected person during a blood meal, it also ingests microfilariae which develop further in the blackfly and are then transmitted to the next human host during subsequent bites.
Onchocerciasis is an eye and skin disease. Symptoms are caused by the microfilariae, which move around the human body in the subcutaneous tissue and induce intense inflammatory responses, especially when they die. Infected people may show symptoms such as severe itching and various skin lesions. In most cases, nodules develop under the skin. Some infected people develop eye lesions which can lead to visual impairment and permanent blindness.
Onchocerciasis America
In the late 1980s, an estimated 500,000 people in the Americas were at risk of onchocerciasis in six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela. The donation of Mectizan (ivermectin) by Merck stimulated new partnerships and opportunities to fight onchocerciasis. After PAHO declared elimination as the goal for the region using a strategy of mass drug administration, a regional partnership, OEPA, was established to focus on reaching that objective. OEPA was launched in 1993 with funding from the former River Blindness Foundation which The Carter Center had absorbed in 1996. Both The Carter Center and PAHO provide the affected national country programs technical assistance; additionally the Center provides complementary financial support.
Today, the population requiring treatment with Mectizan on the continent has fallen by more than 95 percent.
In 2013, Colombia became the first country officially verified by the WHO as free of onchocerciasis. Then, in September 22, Ecuador obtained this verification provided by international organization. The governments of Guatemala and Mexico have both eliminated disease transmission, completed their post-treatment surveillance period, and are getting ready to start the official process to request verification from the WHO.
Transmission only continues in the cross-border region between Venezuela and Brazil, commonly referred to as the Yanomami area. Interrupting onchocerciasis transmission from this final area in the Americas is the biggest challenge to the regional initiative, particularly due to the scattered migratory Yanomami population, who live in the dense, nearly inaccessible terrain of the deep Amazon rainforest. The Ministries of Health in Brazil and Venezuela are working with The Carter Center/OEPA, PAHO, and other partners to meet the goal of eliminating onchocerciasis from the Americas by 2019.
In May 2014 Brazil and Venezuela sign an agreement to accelerate cross-border health interventions and interrupt transmission of onchocerciasis, and in this way complete the program of eliminating onchocerciasis in the Americas. The agreement shows that there is political will in both countries to distribute Mectizan tablets to remote indigenous communities that are settled on their common border.
Carlos Slim Foundation will support the OEPA program to intensify the support to these two South American nations' initiatives as well as to assist WHO/PAHO in its international verification of the elimination of the disease in the region.
Onchocerciasis in Africa
In Africa there are over 120 million people spread over 31 countries at risk of developing the disease. The progress made in the Americas is a model of hope for the elimination of onchocerciasis initiatives in Africa, where hundreds of thousands have lost their sight because of this disease. On this continent, The Carter Center provides assistance to the Ministries of Health of Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia and some areas of Nigeria. From August 2014, the organization has assisted in the delivery of nearly 200 million cumulative Mectizan treatments through community channels around the world. The Center hopes to demonstrate practical approaches to eliminate transmission of onchocerciasis in Africa, based on the partnership model implemented in the Americas
Onchocerciasis in Mexico
In Mexico, the disease was first diagnosed in 1923, by Dr. Friedrich Fülleborn. Subsequently, in 1930, a national program that treated the disease through surgery by removing the subcutaneous nodules that form the adult worms. In 1988, a campaign of distribution and use of the oral drug Mectizan began. The medication was considered effective and safe to fight the disease and was part of the Programme for Onchocerciasis Elimination few years later. In 1993, the OEPA joined the fight against onchocerciasis, and by then it had been detected cases in three areas considered foci of transmission in the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas.
By the late 2000s, onchocerciasis was eradicated from foci located north of Chiapas and Oaxaca through implementing a biannual Mectizan distribution and health education. In the southern region of Chiapas, biannual and three times per year drug distribution were implemented to eliminate the disease, which completed its phase post-treatment surveillance during this 2014. With this actions, the country began to file applications for WHO's formal verification, demonstrating that it is disease free zone. Today, thanks to the leadership showed in this regard and the country's strong partnerships there are 170,000 people living in the three areas (formerly endemic) of Mexico free of risk of contracting the disease.
The initiative to eliminate onchocerciasis in the Americas, has been forged with the formation of various partnerships, including organizations like the Carlos Slim Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates, The Carter Center, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation (CDC) the Pan American Health Organization, Merck and the Mectizan Donation Program, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the Lions Clubs International Foundation and the six countries' local Lions Clubs, Mr. John Moores and former River Blindness Foundation, the OPEC Fund for International Development, Alwaleed Bin Talal, the Inter-American Development Bank, health ministries of the six endemic countries, several universities in Latin America and the US as well as thousands of community volunteers and many other individual donors.
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Have you ever wanted to be a superhero? Flying through the sky, wind blowing in your hair, bending steel bars in your hands – admired by everyone and feared by your enemies? Maybe you weren't into comic book characters. Maybe rock musicians are your cup of tea. Or the walls of your room were covered with<|fim_middle|> they prayed in Jesus' name. And Jesus' response to their excitement? Joy. Pure joy.
I bet he still feels the same way. He loves watching normal people do extraordinary things in the power of his name. Everyone gets to play.
This article is reproduced from the booklet 'Everyone Gets To Play' with permission from Vineyard USA. | sports heroes. We all have someone that we look up to and admire. We admire them because we believe that they are different than us, and with some of our heroes, they seem unreachable.
In churches that believe in the power and the presence of the Holy Spirit, and want to see the kinds of miracles we see Jesus and the apostles doing, we create a whole different kind of superhero. We stand in rapt awe watching the 'man of God' on the platform delivering prophetic words proclaiming healing into the microphone. They exude such confidence and charisma, they seem far removed from the petty doubts and fears that normal people experience. They have stories that amaze and power that is obviously from God himself.
Just like the gifted athletes we watch on television, we begin to watch these leaders with awe and admiration. The more we watch them, the more convinced we are of their other- worldliness. We are more convinced with every moment that what they do they do easily – and we should never even attempt to try.
The phrase that John Wimber was known to say often was 'everyone gets to play.' His goal was to create opportunities for normal people to do extraordinary things. The action wasn't always on the stage, but all around the room. In those Vineyard meetings he would give opportunities for people to learn how to pray for one another and begin discerning how to hear God's voice.
As that practice built confidence, faith would spill out of the room, travelling everywhere those people went. The goal of the Vineyard has always been to 'equip the saints for the work of ministry' (Eph. 4:12a). To train ordinary people to do extraordinary things – that has always been the idea behind the calling of the Vineyard movement in the world.
That sense of confidence and faith must have been the same feeling that the 72 felt after being sent out by Jesus (Lk. 10). These ordinary men and women came back amazed at what God had done through them. They couldn't believe that it worked. The sick were healed, and even the demons submitted when | 431 |
(en français Le Sort noir) est un film allemand muet réalisé par John Gottowt, sorti en 1913.
Synopsis
L'action, tout à fait dans la lignée de la commedia dell'arte, se déroule dans un beau paysage méridional. Les membres d'une troupe italienne typique s'y produisent. Le centre des événements initialement gais, puis tragiques est un triangle amoureux composé du triumvirat classique de Pierrot, Colombine et Arlequin. Ils apparaissent tous costumés. La bonne humeur est soudainement assombrie lorsque la jalousie surgit entre deux hommes qui se disputent les faveurs de la belle.
Le jeu se reflète dans la réalité, car le décor est un film dans le film : la troupe d'acteurs performants et colorés sont des artistes de cinéma en mascarades. Dans la mise en abyme, le jeu joyeux devient soudainement dramatiquement sérieux, car le jeu de rôle des protagonistes est transféré dans la réalité. La jalousie conduit à la violence contre Arlequin qu'aime Colombine.
Fiche technique
Titre original :
Réalisation : John Gottowt assisté d'Emil Albes
Scénario : Adolf Paul
Direction artistique :
Costumes : Ernst Stern
Photographie : Karl Hasselmann
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Langue : allemand
Format : Noir et blanc - 1,33:1 -
Genre : Drame
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Alexander Moissi : Pierrot
Johanna Terwin : Colombine
Paul Biensfeldt : Arlequin
: Pantalone, l'époux de Colombine
Heinrich Lux : le capitaine Fracasse
John Gottowt : Brighella
Production
est réalisé au début de l'été 1913, quelques semaines après que le réalisateur John Gottowt termine son rôle dans L'Étudiant de Prague. C'est la réalisation de Gottowt. Le film en cinq actes d'une longueur de passe la censure le et est présenté pour la première fois le à l'Union-Palast Kurfürstendamm de Berlin.
Il est tourné dans le studio Bioscop à Neubabelsberg, les prises de vues en extérieur<|fim_middle|> projeté sous le titre .
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Film allemand sorti en 1913
Film en allemand
Film allemand en noir et blanc
Film muet allemand
Film dramatique allemand
Court métrage allemand | furent prises sur le lac de Lugano et le lac de Côme ainsi qu'à Vienne.
La star du théâtre Alexander Moissi, qui vient rarement devant la caméra, joue ici avec sa future épouse Johanna Terwin.
Le film a une importance, car il est l'un des premiers films de cinéma à se passer d'intertitres. Par conséquent, son sous-titre est . En Autriche-Hongrie, le film est | 103 |
Board index The Kerberos Catalogue SotS2 T.A.R.
I am writing a story. This isn<|fim_middle|>3 tech schools and recommending tech goals in one of those trees. These goals will be 1-3 techs that can be researched one after the other and must then switch to the next character. The starting order will be RD, AJ, PP, TS, FS and RA and then randomized for every cycle afterwards.
Plagues and Cybernetics will be unavailable for research.
Main fleets will have names as seen in the ships and fleets section. Every minor fleet will have a background pony's name. Colonies will have names of places from the show/fandom where possible. Suggestions on Fleet names are welcome.
Is there an MLP badge/avatar set out there somewhere, or did you just make that yourself? | 't a TAR I know, but it was borne from the ORIGINAL idea to DO a TAR in the MLP universe. It started originally as a short little preface for the TAR but has blown up into a full blown story. The idea is to start the TAR soonish when I have a bit of free time to take place 'a year' after the start of the story. The TAR will contain the important parts of the story so that part makes sence at least for those people for whom that is important.
So why am I posting this? Well it's equal parts motivation for myself to DO the TAR and asking for help. Now I am not the most up to date with the lore and I may assume a lot of things regarding the lore that I do not even know to question, so if anyone feels up to it or brave enough and wants to subject themselves to some fan fiction... I wouldn't mind some thoughts on the SotS bits in the story and if anything is incorrect/mangled lore wise.
I am planning on starting the TAR some time in the next few weeks (played a few hours of SotS2 over the weekend, need a Flagship pic for the story) and would like to minimise the egg on my face if the TAR and story horribly desyncs lore wise.
TL:DR - Ponies in space, Bad Fanfiction, Halp.
Perspective Man: Much like common sense, it's so rare it's a gorram superpower.
Agent.nihilist wrote: Ooo! Whats the gesture for ramming!?
Mecron wrote: oy that is wrong at so many levels...well done!
"Any man can defeat a god. Any man can become a god. Why you do either is what you will be remembered for."
I've also been thinking of 'rules' and limitations for my TAR. I might go with something like I am only allowed 9 fleets with ships over 4 cruisers for example. Suggestions regarding limitations would be apreciated.
Also, a timeline yey lol.
Fleshed out some fo the rules for the TAR. Might even start with it tonight hopefully.
During the course of this TAR I will try and integrate as much of the show and the characters therein into the SotS2 experience. What this means is I will make use of both names and places in the show to name things like my fleets, ships, planets and to govern a certain set of rules to make the TAR a bit more interesting and challenging.
There will be 2 Zuul Empires vs the Human(United Equestria) empire. Default starting cash. Research efficiency set to 150% for Zuul to simulate Suul'ka leading them. Ponies have 10 tech start.
In the show (and fandom) there are the generally accepted main characters. To incorporate that into the TAR I will give each of the main characters a fleet that is allowed to be as big as is possible with the tech available and no other fleet is to exceed 3 CR's worth of ships. This means 1 CnC cruiser and 2 other cruisers. These smaller fleets will primarily be for system defense against minor dangers like Von Neumann, asteroids, swarm and specters.
The main characters for this TAR will be: Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie Pie/Discord, Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Celestia, Luna and Cadence.
To up the challenge rating a bit I will also at first limit the fleet composition allowed for each character as well as additional characteristics.
Each of the main 6 will be responsible for 2- | 742 |
I received this announcement from Gaye Strassen's family.
"Dear All,
"Thank you so much for your lovely messages since we informed you that Gaye had passed away peacefully last Sunday.
"We are holding a service to celebrate her life next Thursday January 17th at The Beach<|fim_middle|> minutes on the 17th to raise a cup of tea in her memory.
"Many Thanks again,
John, Charlotte and Sarah" email simonstansy@yahoo.co.uk | Hotel in Minehead at 12pm. The service will be led by a humanist celebrant and there will be tea, coffee and cakes afterwards.
"We understand that a lot of people may not be able to make it as it is too far but the invitation is there for those who are able to make it. If you are able to come please can you let us know as soon as possible.
"The Beach hotel's address is:
The Beach Hotel
Minehead TA24 5AP.
"It is directly opposite the station and there is a small car park at the hotel, you should be able to find car parking at the station car park or along the sea front.
"The Beach Hotel are offering a 20% discount on their current room rate for those who may need to stay, please can you call them direct on 01643 704765. Jackie is our hotel contact and please mention the Strassen service when booking.
"We look forward to seeing those of you who are able to make it next Thursday, and completely understand if you are unable to come along. Please take 5 | 230 |
Recorded LIVE at Christ For The Nations Institute, Glory combines<|fim_middle|>ale. | well known Klaus songs with some great new tunes.
Klaus was born in Germany and currently lives in Canada with his family. He is a graduate of CFNI and following his graduation he returned to be the morning worship leader there from 2003-2005. Klaus produced two album's during that time.
In his latest offering, Glory, he teams up with Integrity Music. Fans of Gateway Worship will love this album. Tracks "When I Speak Your Name" and "The Lord Reigns" are also on the latest release from Gateway Worship "Wake up the World".
Guest vocalist Kari Jobe is amazing as always. It is a modern piano driven album inspired by his greatest influence Keith Green. It has a similar feel to Michael Neale's "No Greater Audience", with it's modern worshipful sound.
While this album does not break new ground, it is a great addition to your worship collection. There are many songs on this album that could be and should be used in a congregational setting. Most can be tailored to suit any style of church setting as well. Overall I was really impressed with this album, love his voice, and was drawn into worship from the moment track one started.
Go pick this album up if you are a fan of early Passion, Gateway worship, Brian & Jenn Johnson, or Michael Ne | 271 |
The Czech Republic is currently going through a pretty big heat wave. With temperatures reaching up to 36 degrees Celsius, it's brutal out there, so it's important to take steps to make sure you stay healthy in the sweltering heat.
One of the biggest health concerns when it's hot out is dehydration, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. Dehydration occurs when your body loses more fluid than it takes in, which can lead to heat exhaustion and heat stroke in the hot weather. Heat exhaustion occurs when the internal body temperature rises and is unable to regulate its' temperature because of lack of water. Heat stroke can come from heat exhaustion and occurs when the internal body temperature rises to 40 degrees C, causing shock, organ failure, or even death. It's important to take heat exhaustion seriously and take preventative measures to make sure you're staying cool in this extreme heat.
When it's hot out, the body sweats more to regulate your internal body temperature which makes drinking water extremely important. The body loses a large amount of water when it sweats and if you're not replacing it, you're going to get extremely dehydrated. loss of water leads to increased body temperature, which can lead to heat exhaustion or heat stroke. The recommended amount of water consumption on a normal day is 6 eight ounce glasses of water and, in the heat, it is recommended to drink more than that. Stay away from caffeine, alcohol, and sugary drinks, as they are dehydrating and can cause you to lose fluid.
If you decide to exercise when it is extremely hot, make sure you take precautions to make sure you aren't doing more harm to your body than good. Drink plenty of water, wear cooling clothing, and (if possible) work out inside in air conditioning. If you start to feel off when exercising, stop and save the workout for another day- the body is already working hard enough to keep you cool, don't put undue stress on it with a workout.
Should you get too hot and start to feel unwell, one way to cool off is by applying ice or pouring cold water over your body's cooling points. Cooling points are areas on the body where the blood vessels are close to the skin and you can find them by searching for your pulse. On most people, these areas are the neck, elbows, wrists, knees, and feet. Cooling these points helps your body cool down by cooling down the blood in these areas quickly, which then gets pumped throughout the rest of the body.
This might go without saying, but when it's hot, save the long pants and jackets for another day. You're going to want to opt of light, airy clothing that wicks away sweat and keeps you cool. If you plan on being outside, wear clothing that protects from<|fim_middle|> have air conditioning, which makes heat waves especially uncomfortable. Try keeping your home cool by running fans to create airflow, keeping heat producing appliances turned off, and keeping the blinds closed during the day. At night, open up the windows to let in the cooler night air to cool off your home naturally. | the sun- the sun's rays can also be incredibly dehydrating and can cause severe sunburn.
A lot of homes in the Czech Republic do not | 31 |
Eleven years ago, tournament founder Nicholas Penberthy, an East Amherst, NY high school student, contacted Sean Green, the Executive Director of Hasek's Heroes, a not-for-profit organization that helps "teach leadership, perseverance, loyalty, commitment, as well as providing a foundation for a winning future" to pitch the idea of a backyard ice hockey tournament fund raiser,<|fim_middle|>ed, , City Fence, DiVal Safety, Eagle IT, Jam in the Valley, The Mac Groups, Merchants Insurance, New Era Cap Company, Pace Landscaping & Rinks, The Angry Buffalo, Rand Capital and Synacor. | featuring high school players that would pay to play. Monies raised would go to his organization to increase the number of children of low-income families that could play hockey.
And so, the Hasek's Heroes Backyard Classic was born. At first, the tournament was comprised of players from Williamsville North High School's varsity hockey team who competed against each other on an outdoor backyard ice rink set up at Penberthy's home in East Amherst, NY. 12 players participated, and an event put together in two weeks managed to generate $500 for Hasek's Heroes through player fees and a corporate sponsorship from Rand Capital.
Despite the short advertising period, The Amherst Bee wrote an article which helped establish the validity of the tournament and Channel 7 aired a segment which spread the news in the community.
The 2nd Annual Hasek's Heroes Backyard Classic doubled the number of players to 24 and turned into an all-day event. Teams from Williamsville High Schools (North, South and East), Nichols and Canisius played. Penberthy, a sophomore at SUNY Cortland studying elementary education, persuaded local companies to donate food for the event, which added to the ambiance. More than $1,500 was raised which was used to defray the cost for Hasek's Heroes kids to play in an inner city hockey tournament in Detroit. For many, it was the first time the kids had traveled outside of Buffalo.
Three months before the 3rd Annual Hasek's Heroes Backyard Classic, Channel 2 News broadcast a story about the tournament, noting that the goal was to double the amount of donations and players. The tipping point came when Chris Taggart, an Amherst resident, saw the story and contacted Penberthy to offer his backyard rink and time to double the capacity, which allowed expansion to 24 teams and 96 players. Taggart now serves as Tournament Director.
Social media created buzz and helped Penberthy secure donations from local organizations, such as Tim Hortons, the Buffalo Sabres, Buffalo Trim, HD Video Café, Papa Leo's, Bocces Pizza, Dangle Hockey and The Buffalo News. Channels 2, 4, 7 and YNN reported on the tournament, in addition to the print newspapers: The Buffalo News, Metro Source News and The Amherst Bee. Monetary donations coupled with registration fees exceeded the goal, with more than $6,000 being donated for new Bauer hockey equipment for Hasek's Heroes kids.
Plans were laid to expand to a third rink. Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate and a scaled down version of the tournament was played on tennis courts. The event still unbelievably raised $13,000 in player fees and corporate sponsors!! A large donation from Tim Horton's Café and Bake Shop bought them the naming rights to the tournament through this time period.
These were great exposure years for The Backyard Classic, but the weather was always a continuous battle. Pace Landscaping and Ice Rinks built and maintained our ice rinks for these years. 2 out of 3 of these years we were able to deal with big storms or get perfect weather just in time, with the exception of the 2016 Event. The weather at the last minute took a turn for the worse and we were forced to move our Tournament to Riverworks Buffalo. Where we were able to use their rinks, and once again, pulled off another very successful event.
This year, Taggart, Tournament Director arranged for the event to be held at a centralized location at The Angry Buffalo, in Williamsville NY, who offered up their facility to accommodate four ice rinks.
In addition to securing a new location, Taggart was responsible for the logistics of setting up and maintaining the ice rinks. He worked with local companies to obtain donations of labor and material for the rinks, fencing and netting, in addition to providing many volunteers to complete the task. Without the help of many local volunteers, including The Bowmansville Fire Department, who not only donated their time, but their Pumper Trucks and the water to fill the rinks, couldnt have done it without them.
Middle School, Adult and Mite (5-7 year old) player divisions have been added this year to bring the number of teams to almost 40. The proceeds of the 2013 tournament were used for an educational resource room at Hasek's Heroes.
The Backyard Classic's executive sponsor is Tim Hortons Coffee and Bake Shop. Gold Sponsors include, the Buffalo Sabres, Atlantic Bedding, CertainTe | 961 |
Abduction in Logic<|fim_middle|>s high-level in-terface allows complex programs to be very short (under 100 bytes), reducing the energy cost of transmitting new programs. Code is broken up into small capsules of 24 instructions, which can self-replicate through the network. Packet sending and reception | Programming
by Marc Denecker, Antonis Kakas
"... Abduction in Logic Programming started in the late 80s, early 90s, in an attempt to extend logic programming into a framework suitable for a variety of problems in Artificial Intelligence and other areas of Computer Science. This paper aims to chart out the main developments of the field over th ..."
Abduction in Logic Programming started in the late 80s, early 90s, in an attempt to extend logic programming into a framework suitable for a variety of problems in Artificial Intelligence and other areas of Computer Science. This paper aims to chart out the main developments of the field over
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in 1979. Since then, various slightly different notions of program slices have been proposed, as well as a number of methods to compute them. An important distinction is that between a static and a dynamic slice. The former notion is computed without making assumptions regarding a program's input
The program dependence graph and its use in optimization
by Jeanne Ferrante, Karl J. Ottenstein, Joe D. Warren - ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems , 1987
"... In this paper we present an intermediate program representation, called the program dependence graph (PDG), that makes explicit both the data and control dependence5 for each operation in a program. Data dependences have been used to represent only the relevant data flow relationships of a program. ..."
In this paper we present an intermediate program representation, called the program dependence graph (PDG), that makes explicit both the data and control dependence5 for each operation in a program. Data dependences have been used to represent only the relevant data flow relationships of a program
Constraint Logic Programming: A Survey
by Joxan Jaffar, Michael J. Maher
"... Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is a merger of two declarative paradigms: constraint solving and logic programming. Although a relatively new field, CLP has progressed in several quite different directions. In particular, the early fundamental concepts have been adapted to better serve in differe ..."
Constraint Logic Programming (CLP) is a merger of two declarative paradigms: constraint solving and logic programming. Although a relatively new field, CLP has progressed in several quite different directions. In particular, the early fundamental concepts have been adapted to better serve
Chebyshev and Fourier Spectral Methods
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by Jonathan L. Herlocker, Joseph A. Konstan, Loren G. Terveen, John T. Riedl - ACM TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION SYSTEMS , 2004
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by Michael Isard, Mihai Budiu, Yuan Yu, Andrew Birrell, Dennis Fetterly - In EuroSys , 2007
"... Dryad is a general-purpose distributed execution engine for coarse-grain data-parallel applications. A Dryad applica-tion combines computational "vertices " with communica-tion "channels " to form a dataflow graph. Dryad runs the application by executing the vertices of this graph on a set of availa ..."
of available computers, communicating as appropriate through files, TCP pipes, and shared-memory FIFOs. The vertices provided by the application developer are quite simple and are usually written as sequential programs with no thread creation or locking. Concurrency arises from Dryad scheduling vertices to run
Volume of Fluid (VOF) Method for the Dynamics of Free Boundaries," Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory report
by C. W. Hirt, B. D. Nichols
"... Several methods have been previously used to approximate free boundaries in tinitedifference numerical simulations. A simple, but powerful, method is described that is based on the concept of a fractional volume of fluid (VOF). This method is shown to be more flexible and efftcient than other method ..."
Several methods have been previously used to approximate free boundaries in tinitedifference numerical simulations. A simple, but powerful, method is described that is based on the concept of a fractional volume of fluid (VOF). This method is shown to be more flexible and efftcient than other
Maté: A Tiny Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks
by Philip Levis, David Culler , 2002
"... Composed of tens of thousands of tiny devices with very limited resources ("motes"), sensor networks are subject to novel systems problems and constraints. The large number of motes in a sensor network means that there will often be some failing nodes; networks must be easy to repopu-late. ..."
for sensor networks. Mat~' | 1,054 |
This Gallipolis Water Treatment Plant pool helps sift sediment such as iron and manganese from the water the plant's serviced residents use.
GALLIPOLIS — According to Gallipolis water treatment employees, the town water treatment plant recently sampled water leaving the plant and found the lead level was less than .05 ppb (parts per billion), which is the lowest detectable limit of an outside testing laboratory.
According to Brent McCreedy, Gallipolis water treatment plant representative, the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency asks that the water plant run all manner of testing on water in order to make certain serviced individuals are safe when consuming water. Typically, the state asks the water plant to test for lead every three years. The last formal test was made in 2013. McCreedy says the water plant will be testing for lead formally again this year, starting in June and ending near September.
McCreedy has said many of the city's water mains are made of ductile iron and trends in the line of new pipe material being inserted lean toward PVC as the choice of pipe used. However, that is not to say that a homeowner should not worry about lead poisoning. McCreedy said that at times a homeowner may need to examine the piping in an older home to make sure certain contaminants are not found in a residence's drinking water.
Water treatment employees are constantly testing the fluoride, hardness, alkalinity and chlorine levels of water passing through the treatment plant in an attempt to keep city residents safe. Testing for other less common materials is sent by the treatment plant to outside labs for testing.
City employees say that residents can expect information on water bills in upcoming weeks to direct them to a link where they can read the 2016 Drinking Water Consumer Confidence Report for the Gallipolis treatment facility. Residents can also request that a<|fim_middle|> However, formal tests over the summer in several different locations throughout the city can further consolidate the claim with more data gathered.
The water report can be viewed at www.ohioruralwater.org/gallipolis.html. | hard copy be sent to their address.
City employees feel that preliminary water lead tests are a good sign that Gallipolis residents don't have to worry about lead poisoning. | 34 |
201<|fim_middle|>I's online General Store, and at the 2010 LMM Conference. | 0 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Montgomery's third novel, Kilmeny of the Orchard. In celebration, the L.M. Montgomery Institute will release a facsimile edition of Una of the Garden, the story that evolved into the Kilmeny novel. Una of the Garden was first published in serial format in The Housekeeper magazine (Minneapolis, MN) from December 1908 to April 1909, but the scarcity of back issues of this magazine made Montgomery's story inaccessible, until now.
The facsimile edition booklet, reproduced from the holdings of the Ryrie-Campbell Collection at LMMI, offers a fascinating opportunity to experience Montgomery's work within the context of the original magazine publication. The booklet also provides insight about the transformation from the story to the novel.
Una of the Garden is edited by Donna J. Campbell and Simon Lloyd, with an introduction by Kate Macdonald Butler. Proceeds from the sale of this publication will go directly to support the work of the L.M. Montgomery Institute.
The booklet is available for direct order from Donna Campbell (campbell.walden@sympatico.ca) at $20. It will also be available soon here on the LMM | 256 |
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Project Policy Analyst 3, SPH (7398U)About Berkeley
At the University of California, Berkeley, we are committed to creating a community that fosters equity of experience and opportunity, and ensures that students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds feel safe, welcome and included. Our culture of openness, freedom and belonging make it a special place for students, faculty and staff.
The University of California, Berkeley, is one of the world's leading institutions of higher education, distinguished by its combination of internationally recognized academic and research excellence; the transformative opportunity it provides to a large and diverse student body; its public mission and commitment to equity and social justice; and its roots in the California experience, animated by such values as innovation, questioning the status quo, and respect for the environment and nature. Since its founding in 1868, Berkeley has fueled a perpetual renaissance, generating unparalleled intellectual, economic and social value in California, the United States and the world.
We are looking for equity-minded applicants who represent the full diversity of California and who demonstrate a sensitivity to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds present in our community. When you join the team at Berkeley, you can expect to be part of an inclusive, innovative and equity-focused community that approaches higher education as a matter of social justice that requires broad collaboration among faculty, staff, students and community partners. In deciding whether to apply for a position at Berkeley, you are strongly encouraged to consider whether your values align with our Guiding Values and Principles, our Principles of Community, and our Strategic Plan.
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The School of Public Health (SPH) is a large and complex professional school at UC Berkeley, with a mission to improve population health, especially for the most vulnerable, through interdisciplinary collaborations, preeminent education, and transformational research.
The School is comprised of six academic divisions and 30 research centers and programs, with over 200 faculty, 120 academic/research staff, 155 management/professional/ administrative staff, and 285 student researchers/instructors/workers. The School offers a core MPH degree with nine areas of study, along with five MA and MS degree programs, a DrPH and five PhD degree programs, and five concurrent programs with<|fim_middle|> its flagship campus - envisioned as a "City of Learning" - was established at Berkeley, on San Francisco Bay. Today the world's premier public university and a wellspring of innovation, UC Berkeley occupies a 1,232 acre campus with a sylvan 178-acre central core. From this home its academic community makes key contributions to the economic and social well-being of the Bay Area, California, and the nation.
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Privacy Copyright HIV/AIDS Content Notice | other UC Berkeley schools and colleges; in addition, the School offers a joint degree with UC San Francisco. The School launched UC Berkeley's first on-line degree program in 2012 and is rapidly expanding the program to reach a wide range of domestic and international audiences through online degrees, certificate programs, and executive education. The School enrolls approximately 575 graduate students per year, as well as educating roughly 440 undergraduate students through an upper-division public health major. The School's more than 13,000 graduates can be found working throughout the world, in both the public and private sectors.
Learn more at http://sph.berkeley.edu/
The Safe Transportation Research and Education Center (SafeTREC), a program of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, is a center involving academics, governmental officials, and community-based organizations in the California. With sponsored funding, the Center's objective is to prevent injuries from traffic collisions through projects encompassing research, training, public service, and/or policy. The Project Policy Analyst will be the lead for Street Story, a transportation safety tool and community engagement program.
Independently designs, writes up workplan, implements and undertakes follow up evaluations, reports and projects for program and educational activities - including independent ability to interact with collaborators for all aspects of their participation including logistics, substantive contributions, follow up action items and analysis of successes and areas for improvement in subsequent meetings.
Works largely independently of senior staff, while exercising independent judgment to identify activities requiring cooperating and collaborating with peer colleagues and program director, to undertake research, coordinate educational programs, prepare and distribute background materials, prepare drafts for discussion with external and internal collaborators and prepares final products for distribution.
Oversees and executes writing, in collaboration with internal and external colleagues, publications, abstracts, or meeting summaries based on content of expert roundtables and individual projects.
Identifies necessary background materials for grant applications and other funding requests, symposia, expert meetings, meetings with regulators and collaborative meetings with scientists, industry representatives, community advocates and other collaborators. Independently collects and distributes such materials and supervises interns and junior staff in the collection and preparation for distribution of such materials,
Manages and assists with grant applications or funding opportunities after reviewing the grant or funding documents.
Works closely with administrative staff, program peers and project director to assure progress on overall work-plan. Independently identifies areas of work-plan that are not being met and proposes changes to plan or implementation and assumes responsibility for execution of changes.
Identifies problems and proposes solutions to problems and, either or both presents solution for discussion and decision by collaborative teams or project director, or independently implements solutions without additional supervision.
Assists junior staff in identification, collection and posting of didactic materials for students per direction of staff.
Works with program director and external expert research collaborators in analysis of transportation data.
Analytical/problem-solving skills. Familiar with Excel and able to prepare and manipulate spreadsheet data. Very well experienced and able to prepare and revise PowerPoint presentations.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate (both orally and in writing) effectively with all levels of staff and a broad range of external collaborators, including community and advocates, scientific experts from academia and industry.
Strong skills in analyzing and synthesizing large amounts of data for preparing sound and relevant proposals, reports, policy papers and academic journal articles.
Ability to multi-task with demanding timeframes.
Ability to use discretion and maintain all confidentiality.
Ability to take initiative and solve problems independently while understanding when to seek guidance from manager or others.
Ability to independently identify or research and find tools, procedures and precedents to improve effectiveness of the unit and our research / policy / analysis team.
Works effectively, both independently and in collaboration with project peers and program director, as a team member with senior internal and external scientists, public health officials, industry representatives, and administrative personnel.
Independently identifies, explains coordinates and manages work assignments of junior staff.
Independently and in coordination with program collaborators, peer program staff and program director, able to conduct scientific and policy research and prepare summaries, meeting minutes, draft scientific abstracts and draft and final papers for publication in peer reviewed journals.
Able to lead and participate in internal administrative team that identifies and implements necessary improvements to the software, including databases, email distribution and related programs. Able to post materials on company website without supervision.
Familiarity with public health issues in injury prevention.
Master's degree in public health or city planning and/or equivalent experience/training.
For information on the comprehensive benefits package offered by the University visit:
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Please submit your cover letter and resume as a single attachment when applying.
This is a two year contract position.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status. For more information about your rights as an applicant see: http://www.eeoc.gov/employers/upload/poster_screen_reader_optimized.pdf
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The University of California was chartered in 1868 and | 1,206 |
USC Stadium (also known as UniSC Arena) is a multi-purpose indoor sports facility located on the S<|fim_middle|> bathrooms and an improved sound system.
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Sport in the Sunshine Coast, Queensland | ippy Downs campus of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. The stadium hosts netball, basketball, volleyball and futsal events for professional athletes and students. The stadium is primarily utilised by the Sunshine Coast Lightning in the Suncorp Super Netball league, who play home matches on the main court and are based at the campus.
History
The stadium was originally opened along with the broader University campus in 1996. The court was fixed with seating for up to 320 people. The seating capacity was increased to 2,000 ahead of the entry of the Sunshine Coast Lightning in the new national netball league in 2017 with two new retractable grandstands at the northern and southern sides. The Lightning's success at the stadium led to further expansion in 2019, with seating added at the eastern end taking the capacity to 3,000. Two of the three bays of seating at the stadium are retractable, allowing for further floor space to be utilised where necessary. The most recent upgrades to the facility resulted in new change rooms, a function room, public | 233 |
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The EU enjoys the status of a global trade powerhouse. It is thereby uniquely positioned to shape the development of a rules-based global trading system and influence its external growth.
Completing Europe's Economic and Monetary Union: The views of organised civil society
The recent economic and political developments in Europe are a wake-up call for our leaders to take swifter action in order to strengthen the foundations of our Union, including the fragile political and institutional architecture underpinning the euro, thus ensuring lasting stability and prosperity for the people of Europe.
The Circular Economy: Beneficial for All
Transition to a circular economy is a must if we are to protect our planet, but also if we are to increase the competitiveness of European industry. This is a long-term process that will require numerous initiatives at European, national and regional level. Companies see the circular economy as an opportunity. "Going green" is beneficial not only for the environment, but also for businesses, providing real savings in terms of raw materials, water and energy.
Factors for Growth - Priorities for Competitiveness, Convergence and Cohesion in the European Union
This Study brings light to the economic factors that contribute to sustainable growth in the European Union (EU) and investigates the political feasibility of economic reforms enhancing such factors. It also explores the aspects influencing competitiveness and fostering convergence and cohesion at EU and Member State levels.
The crisis and the evolution of labour relations in the United Kingdom
Twenty-one months into deep recession a new and untried Coalition government chose deficit reduction and welfare-to-work as its main priorities, confronting the UK's numerically weakened trade union movement in its public sector heartlands over pensions, pay and jobs.
Study on the key factors affecting the future growth of Europe
"Achieving sustainable growth in a competitive world is challenging. The challenge is even greater for the European Union, as the Old Continent faces a severe competitiveness deficit. Without entering into a health review, that could be delivered at a further stage, of each of the 28 Member States, the ambition of this study is to draw-up a comprehensive picture of EU economic growth.
Access to EU finance for SMEs - what can we learn from Greece?
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of the EU economy. According to Commission estimates, the overall contribution of SMEs to EU-27 value added was more than 57% (EUR 3.4 trillion) in 2012. Although the role of SMEs in the EU economy is crucial and their well being should be a priority for European policymakers, they struggle with access to finance, especially in the countries severely hit by the crisis. The Greek experience can and should be taken | 1,090 |
We are all moved in to the new place and things are<|fim_middle|> need to be worked on.
We will be out of town 6/17-6/20. Any purchases made during that time will ship on 6/21/2010.
We're also looking at a new site design. Keep an eye out over the next couple weeks for a whole new look!
We want to sincerely apologize for the down time over the past 2 days. We had some issues that are now resolved.
Thank you to everyone for your patience while this was getting resolved! | coming together. Thank you to everyone for your patience!
About half of the photo pages have been added. If you'd like to see the dolls we own, feel free to browse around!
This means that we will be unavailable that weekend (8/13-8/15/2010) and might be a little slower when responding to emails. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding! Hopefully we will be up and fully functional again before you know it!
The new site is up! The shopping section is functional, but there are still a few more pages that | 119 |
I have to say, after hearing/reading all the recent stories about photographers being arrested or detained for shooting train stations, buildings, etc… in public locations, I was trying to be mentally prepared for a little trouble. In fact I almost just skipped it. However, I had already shot<|fim_middle|> building and soften the clouds. As often happens, I've been working on a file that is over 1Gb in size and more then 6000 pixels on the longest side. The 900 pixel image for the blog post just doesn't seem to do it justice.
I really like the sky in this one and the perspective gives a 3-D effect to the building. | the Wilder building a few days before and I really liked the look of the Powers building and wanted to find a way to capture it too. The Powers building is on the corner of State and Main, diagonally across the street from the Wilder building. There was a lot of heavy traffic at this intersection and there was even a traffic officer here directing traffic even though there were stop lights. Considering the situation, location, the fact that I had a lot of equipment with me, back pack, wheeled camera case, the tripod, camera, promote control and all the "wiring" that goes with it; and I was on the very edge of the sidewalk with one tripod leg in the street gutter I thought for sure someone was going to detain me or at least tell me I could not photograph here.
However, just as I was starting to setup the on-duty traffic officer's shift ended and although he watched me intently for a few minutes, he got in his patrol car and left without saying anything. The arriving traffic officer parked right next to where I was setting up, hopped out of his car and started chatting. He wanted to know what kind of camera I was using, what I thought about it, what kind of photography I did, where I was from, if I did this for a living or just for fun, etc… He was very friendly and it didn't feel like I was being questioned at all – he seem genuinely interested in what I was doing. After finding out I was from Washington state and had never been to New York before he offered suggestions of other interesting locations around Rochester I should go photograph. He also told me the brief history of the Powers and Wilder buildings and directed me to a plaque on another street corner that explained the buildings. He also told me where to go and how to get into the Powers building and suggested that I should go in a photograph it because it was really 'cool'. So, it turned out that I had a very positive experience and even got some good pointers on other places to go. If you come back you'll probably see some of those posted later. I just realized as I was typing, nearly everyone I met in Rochester was very nice and helpful. I was on the streets a lot with a lot of gear, and even went some places I wasn't supposed to – those photos are coming up soon – and every person I interacted with was very pleasant. Maybe that shouldn't have surprised me, but never having been to New York state, I guess I had different expectations.
It was very overcast, but bright outside and it just mostly looked grey. I shot this on the dark side to recover some of the detail in the sky during post processing. The 7 exposures were combined using HDR Express from Unified Color and then after some heavy perspective adjustments in Photoshop I used some OnOne PhotoTools to bring out the detail and contrast in the | 587 |
The George James Institute, established in 2015, is the educational arm of OVP. Named after the African-Guyanese scholar who authored the seminal work, Stolen Legacy, the institute offers courses from an Afrocentric standpoint, critiquing Eurocentric and racist historiography, epistemology, ideologies and systems.
Achieving True Independence and Self-Determination:
Foundation Studies for a National Revolution
In this course we cover a range of topics designed to equip our students ideologically and politically. The course introduces participants to the following areas of study:
Uncovering our universal and hidden history
Principles of Afrocentricity
Political Economy and Black Power Economics
Neo-colonialism and the struggle for true independence
Economic Hitmen and the mechanisms that are used to ensure the continuous plundering of the resources and wealth of Guyana and the entire Global South.
Political Ideologies: Neo-Liberalism, Capitalism, Marxism, Leninism, Jamahiriyan/Green Book/Natural Socialism.
Democracy, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism and Fascism
Religion, Revolution and Liberation Theology
Caribbean Political Thought
Theories of Liberation and Decolonization including Marcus Garvey, Frantz Fanon, Amilcar Cabral, Kwame Nkrumah, Maulana Karenga and Muammar Qaddafi.
It is important to note that this course is relevant to and welcomes all Guyanese, of every ethnicity. References to Black Power and Black Studies are used here to include all Non-White peoples. Black Power is about Black People/Non-White People being in a position to free themselves from their current state of economic, political, spiritual and intellectual incarceration, so that we are able to shape our own destiny from a position of strength. Black Power is not simply a matter of putting Black faces in high places. For example, Black visibility in a neo-colonial arrangement is not Black Power. We have surely had enough of that to know that it is<|fim_middle|> those who live abroad - please consider purchasing even one book and sending – contact us for a list of books needed | meaningless.
What is meant by Black? Obviously it refers to people of African descent, but also to people of Indian and Indigenous descent. However, it does not stop there. Someone could be the darkest black in complexion and completely lack Black Consciousness. It is not about skin colour alone. That is why Kwame Ture could have called Fidel Castro the Blackest man in the Caribbean. It's why Muammar Qaddafi can be said to have led a Black Consciousness movement. It's why both Castro and Qaddafi will go down in history as leading figures in the Movement for African Unity and Liberation. Black Power is a mindset; a paradigm. Black Power is an attitude.
10 months – one three hour evening class per week
Former Chairman of the Young Socialist Movement (YSM) and Minister of Education under Forbes Burnham, Jeffrey Thomas, addresses graduates of the George James Institute.
Leadership Course for Community Activists
The most successful organizations throughout the world be they political, business or religious, have long realized that leaders must be grown, cultivated and nourished. We all possess skills, qualities and characteristics that are identified with leadership, however, most of us do not get the opportunity to embark on the kind of self-development journey that will enable us to galvanize these attributes into action. What we refer to as good leaders are made, not born. Anyone who has the desire and willpower can be become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of study, education, training and experience.
Leadership development cannot be seen as a single training course or as a finite learning experience. Instead, it is a continuous sequence of closely related and systematically organized learning and experience building opportunities. Leadership development is a lifelong journey of education and self-discovery. We can assist you with the foundational knowledge and skills that you will need to embark on that life-long journey. In our workshops, participants will focus on:
Gaining an understanding of the complexities of leadership
Discussing and evaluating various leadershiptheories
Identifying effective leadershippractices
Assessment and enhancement of skills for effective leadership
Identifying the personal qualities and characteristics of a leader
3 months – one three hour evening class per week
Entry Criteria for all Courses:
16 years and over
Member of an organization be it political, social, cultural or religious
No fees and all materials provided free of charge
Cannot join course midway, must register and be present at first class.
Need to bring only exercise book, pen and commitment.
GRADUATION:
Students will graduate with a Certificate issued by the George James Institute for Thought & Action.
OVP National Directorate member, Akram Sabree, presents a certificate to fellow National Directorate member and respected militant, the late Rupert Jervis (aka Juni). Rest in Power Brother.
OUR COURSES AIM TO:
Train and Mentor future leaders, i.e. a bridge of the old and new, thereby contributing to raising the qualities of the new generation activists with capacity for critical analysis of issues. Participants are mentored to be organized, broad-minded, non-sectarian and competent for the challenges of organization and leadership.
Enhance the capacity of participants to acquire a proper understanding of political and socio-economic realities in the Guyanese and global environment, in order to appreciate the theoretical and practical challenges of all forms of struggle, and to understand that revolutionary consciousness is defined and sharpened through struggle. Ideology (thought) and struggle (action) must go together.
Build character and organizational discipline, i.e. to impact on attitudes, outlook and conduct of the participants as organizers and activists, and not arm-chair critics or opportunists.
"Education is the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world"
"Every practice produces a theory, and though it is true that a revolution can fail even though it be based on perfectly conceived theories, nobody has yet made a successful revolution without a revolutionary theory."
"The relationship between thought and action must be clearly understood, an understanding which is essential for advancing the national revolution. Thought is to action what the foundation of a building is to the building itself; a building without a foundation will collapse - indeed, there can be no building without a foundation. Equally, there can be no effective/meaningful action if thought is lacking. Thought is primary and provides the basis for action. Thought without action is meaningless, action without thought is destructive."
Gerald A. Perreira
The Institute has set up a library and is looking for donations of books – please contact us if you are able to donate books – for | 942 |
The Merrimack Valley Region
Manchester Police Ensnare 30 Low-Level Heroin Dealers In Sweep
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Ryan Lessard
16 of the 30 dealers arrested so far.
Over the last two days, police in Manchester arrested 30 street-level heroin dealers. Three were on Wednesday and at least 27 on Thursday since 5 o'clock in the morning.
Police are calling it Operation Clean Sweep. Eight arrest teams were sent out Wednesday with a list of thirty-four names. And other agencies like the FBI, DEA, ATF, ICE and the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Department all assisted. Chief David Mara says the investigation took several months and he hopes to do more operations like this more regularly.
"It's a quality of life issue. People work, play and live in these neighborhoods. We cannot accept that this is going on, so it's very important to demonstrate that it can't go on."
Undercover narcotics officers often describe a three-tiered system including suppliers from Lawrence, mid-level dealers and street-level dealers. Clean Sweep focused on street-level dealers, who police say are virtually all addicts.
Mara says arresting low-level dealers temporarily reduces the most visible crimes in the city. And, he says, these arrests won't negatively affect any investigations aimed at catching the higher level dealers.
Ultimately, Mara says "you can't arrest the drug problem away." He believes more should be done to improve treatment options and prevent addiction, which often starts with prescription painkillers.
Police also seized <|fim_middle|>ard
Before becoming a reporter for NHPR, Ryan devoted many months interning with The Exchange team, helping to produce their daily talk show. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in Manchester with a major in Politics and Society and a minor in Communication Arts. While in school, he also interned for a DC-based think tank. His interests include science fiction and international relations. Ryan is a life-long Manchester resident.
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Disney to offer first British Isles cruise
Disney in 2016 will offer its first cruise to the British Isles and will return to Norway and Iceland for<|fim_middle|>98, the Disney Magic emerged from a massive, six-week makeover in late 2013 that included the addition of new deck-top fun zones, children's areas, eateries and more. Click through the carousel below to see what's new.
Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1C7sPgO | a second year, the line announced today. Disney says the 1,754-passenger Disney Magic will sail a
Disney to offer first British Isles cruise Disney in 2016 will offer its first cruise to the British Isles and will return to Norway and Iceland for a second year, the line announced today. Disney says the 1,754-passenger Disney Magic will sail a Check out this story on USATODAY.com: http://usat.ly/1C7sPgO
Cruise Log
Gene Sloan, USA TODAY Published 10:03 a.m. ET March 24, 2015 | Updated 10:25 a.m. ET March 24, 2015
The Disney Magic will make multiple stops in Scotland in 2016 during its first British Isles cruise. (Photo: Disney Cruise Line)
Disney in 2016 will offer its first cruise to the British Isles and will return to Norway and Iceland for a second year, the line announced today.
Disney says the 1,754-passenger Disney Magic will sail a 12-night voyage departing from Dover, England on June 5, 2016 that will feature stops in Invergordon, Kirkwall and Greenock (for Glasgow), Scotland; Newcastle and Liverpool, England; Dublin, Ireland; Le Havre, France; and Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. All of the stops, except Kirkwall, are first-time ports of call for Disney.
The Magic then will offer two new 12-night sailings to Iceland that will include two days in Reykjavik, Iceland and a stop in Akureyri, Iceland; Bergen, Norway; and Kirkwall. Departing from Dover and concluding in Copenhagen, Denmark, the first of the Iceland sailings will kick off on June 17, 2016 and also include stops in Stavanger, Norway and Newcastle. The second of the Iceland sailings will start on July 13, 2016 in Copenhagen, conclude in Dover, and also include visits to Oslo, Norway; Kristiansand, Norway; and Invergordon.
Disney today also announced that the Disney Magic will operate a seven-night cruise to the Norwegian fjords from Dover in 2016 -- another new-for-the-line itinerary. It'll kick off on May 29, 2016 and include stops in Stavanger, Alesund, Geiranger and Bergen, Norway.
Disney is offering its first cruises to Norway this year with trips that begin and end in Copenhagen.
Disney today said the Disney Magic also will spend part of the summer of 2016 sailing to the Baltic, the Greek Isles and the Mediterranean with a variety of seven-night and longer sailings.
The Disney Wonder will return to Alaska for the summer of 2016 while the Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy continue to sail to the Bahamas and Caribbean from Port Canaveral, Fla., the line added.
Bookings for the newly announced itineraries open on March 26.
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This class is an introduction to wire wrapping where<|fim_middle|> cashier when purchasing your class supplies. | you will learn how to make wire wrapped gemstone pendants. Through the course of this class you will learn about different wire types and gauges of wire to use in the creation of pendants, how to measure your stone and evaluate it for wire wrapping to show off its best angle, and finally, how to use wire to create a beautiful framework for your chosen gemstone. Select and reserve your gemstone from a selection of stones from all over the World! Cost for this class is $20, plus your Gemstone. The instructor will have a selection of stones for you to choose from at a cost of $15/stone, payable to the instructor the day of class. You can see the stones available at The Craft Box, or in the photo here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1086500351557044/permalink/1086501824890230/ You may "reserve" your stone before class (first come first served) either in person at The Craft Box, or through Eventbrite email after registering. Instructor: Kimberly Saffell Minimum 2 students, maximum 8 students. If the minimum number of students are not registered 48 hours prior to class, the class will be cancelled and a refund issued. Online ticket sales will end 48 hours prior to event. If ticket sales have ended, you may call the store to inquire about availability. #Jewelry #WireWrappping #Gemstones #Crafts #DIY #WheatRidge #Classes #BeginnerFriendly Materials List: 1 Focal Gemstone OR $15 to purchase your stone from the instructor Class supplies purchased at The Craft Box will receive a 20% discount. Discount applies ONLY to items listed on this supply list. To receive discount, please present this supply list to | 388 |
Join Brenau in Washington D.C. and New York City for spring break, Friday through Wednesday, Feb. 22-27.
This exclusive<|fim_middle|> visiting the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, touring the international headquarters of the United Nations, making a reverent visit to the 9/11 Memorial, tasting the famous NYC food scene and taking in the views of Central Park, to name a few!
Please view the flyer and itinerary with more information about costs, registration and highlights of the trip. Participants can expect a memorable experience! Access to the online registration is now open if you would like to go ahead and hold a space. Full payment does not need to be submitted to hold a space. A $200 deposit is due by Dec. 1, 2018, with the remaining account balance to be paid in two equal installments: two months and one month prior to the trip. If interested or to read more information, log on directly to academicexpeditions.com/bu2019dcny to review information and complete your registration.
If you have any questions about the trip, please do not hesitate to contact Tami English, Assistant Vice President of Student Services for Brenau, at ude.uanerb@1hsilgnet. Questions regarding registration, payment and insurance should be directed to Kara Williams Mawyer, director of finance for Academic Expeditions, at moc.snoitidepxecimedaca@smailliwk.
We hope you will decide to join us for this amazing opportunity! | experience will offer highlights of our nation's capital: taking a picture at the White House, visiting amazing exhibits of the Smithsonian museums on the National Mall, learning more about the First Amendment while tracing the evolution of communication at the Newseum, and visiting the must see Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. memorials. In addition, you will have the best taste of the Big Apple, taking in views of the Manhattan skyline from the Empire State Building, seeing a Broadway show, marveling at the lights in Times Square, exploring galleries at the Met, | 110 |
Born in California in 1940 Bob Mackie was a student of advertising and illustration before deciding to switch his course of study to costume design . He began<|fim_middle|> side of the spectrum is Iridescence, a much more dazzling and flirtatious scent where its intoxicating exotic aromas are reminiscent of some of Mackie's more flamboyant costume works. | his career as a sketch artist in film, then as an assistant to designers in the industry, and finally as an dependent creating outfits for notables such as Fred Astaire, Mitzi Gaynor, Dinah Shore and Diana Ross and the Supremes. Mackie designed for the Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1978 and has continually ... Read More ... Read More worked on costumes and outfits for Cher since the early 1970s. Among other famous ladies, Mackie has also designed for Barbie of Mattel Toys.
Mackie has won seven of the 15 Emmys of which he has been nominated and is among the most respected costume designers in the industry today. Mackie moved onto haute couture in 1982 and launched his first ready to wear collection the same year. In time he eventually expanded his line to encompass, among other things, stationary and home furnishings adding to the long list of wares already bearing his name—evening wear, suits, ties, handbags, watches jewelry, eyewear and fragrances.
Though he can be known for his flamboyant style, his first women's perfume Mackie by Bob Mackie can be viewed as being very conservative by his standards. Immensely feminine with subtle floral tones this charming fragrance is among the best selling of all Bob Mackie scents. On the other | 282 |
Once I said my goodbyes to a second group of photographers I continued alone towards an island Sulawesi that I longed to visit for quite a while. My main aim was to shoot macaques and the smallest world primates – the tarsiers. All pointed to the fact, that thanks to a detailed mapping of their whereabouts in the park, photographing macaques will be fairly easy. Photographing nocturnal tarsiers, however, should be much more challenging. In the end, all was the other way round.
Some days I spent up to 10 hours in a pursuit of the monkeys. They would travel in large groups stopping at various posts that were not always suitable for photography. On many occasions, shooting them was totally out of question as a blare of sunlight flooded the entire<|fim_middle|> To name but a few, I'd start with drastic bites of microscopic bugs, named "gonone" by the locals; then swarms of mosquitos appearing out of nowhere; and last but not least, ants that surprised me in their numbers as well as their aggression.
Despite all this, encountering macaques was very moving for me, especially when there was about 10 of them near me, all studying my equipment. Funnily enough, I've got no photo of this rendezvous as the cheeky monkeys mucked up my lens with their tiny fingerprints. However, my guide managed to take at least a candid photo that I can keep as a memory of this moment. | scene. Realistically, out of the 4 days spent on shooting the macaques I got barely 2 hours of decent shooting. There were other unpleasant elements at the game, too. | 39 |
Projeto B are a very excellent Brasilian 'out' avant/progressive jazz/rock band<|fim_middle|> Correa (alto sax & clarinet), Yvo Ursini (electric guitar) Vicente Falek (piano and Fender Rhodes piano), Amilcar Rodrigues (trumpet, cornet), Henrique Alves (bass) and Pedro Ito (drums). There's a pretty fantastic jazz/rock take on part of "The Rite of Spring" of all things, which gives you an idea of what we are dealing with here; pretty, happy-jazz this isn't. Recommended!
"On their second CD, Projeto B keep developing their own personal style, mixing, in a unexpected way, modern classical influences like Stravinsky and Messiaen with selected elements from avant-garde jazz and rock. Ranging from Frank Zappa and Miles Davis to Bill Frisell and John Zorn, the result is a challenging album, full of sharp compositions, incredible mood variations, lots of improvisations and instrumental virtuosism." | . Consisting of Leonardo Muniz de | 8 |
When it comes to family travel, San Diego tops most people's list because, frankly, it's kid heaven. We've got beaches, tide pools, amusement parks, animal safaris, train museums, rollercoasters, water sports, surf camps, dolphin shows, koalas, pandas, fast boats, beach bonfires, seaside horseback riding, ziplines, go-kart racing, skate parks, Tony Hawk, LEGO villages, laser tag, water parks, a wave house, whales frolicking offshore and more. Not to mention, the sun shines more than 300 days a year, and there's 70 miles of coastline, 248 museums in the county, 90 golf courses and 18 state parks! Whether you're a toddler, teen or old-timer, San Diego appeals<|fim_middle|>- and two-bedroom condos are spacious and smartly decorated, bright and airy with ocean breeze. The family pool also sports a splash pad with fun water features and playground with a pirate ship climbing structure and dolphins arcing across the lawn. If you're in need of a little peace and quiet, the adults-only pool sits up on the hill with more ocean views and a bubbling Jacuzzi. In keeping with the theme of kid heaven, Seapointe has tennis courts, foosball, ping pong, billiards, arcade games, ice cream socials, movies, game nights, boogie boards and more. Dad can barbecue out back; mom can take a free shuttle to Ocean Pearl Spa, at sister property The Sheraton Carlsbad, for a massage or facial. The team at Seapointe can arrange for stand up paddle boarding in the Carlsbad lagoon, surf lessons, sailing, tee times and more. And of course there's LEGOLAND, only 10 minutes away, where you can ride a dragon coaster, splash bomb each other on boats, wander through the miraculous Lego versions of Las Vegas, Manhattan, Paris and more; cool off at the water park or explore Sea Life, the aquarium. With San Diego being a beer mecca these days, families can hit Pizza Port where the kids can play video games and nosh on pies while mom and dad discover the local craft brews on tap. Karl Strauss Brewing Company sits up on the hill next to the Grand Pacific Palisades Resort & Hotel for pub fare and more brews. So if you are looking for beachside digs in Carlsbad, check out Carlsbad Seapointe Resort. Or if you want to find condo-style accommodations in other locales, check out ResorTime, which has over 1,000 vacation rentals. Wandermelon readers can get a 20% discount site-wide if you use this Discount Code: 55T81. Book by 1/31/14 and travel through 2015 (holidays excluded). And enjoy that family time in San Diego's aquatic playground. Photos courtesy of sandiego.org, LEGOLAND, San Diego Zoo, Next Level Sailing and Grand Pacific Resorts. | to all. If the small fry are tagging along, hotel stays can become very pricey with all those $100 breakfasts, expensive poolside snacks and steep nightly rates. But you can't deny the kids a fantasy trip to LEGOLAND or a wild Manta rollercoaster ride at SeaWorld and the chance to see dolphins and sea lions clowning around. When people ask me where to stay in San Diego, I frequently suggest Carlsbad as it's got expansive, family-centric beaches, pretty parks, kid-friendly eateries, gorgeous flower fields and easy access to LEGOLAND. And our world-famous Zoo, the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Balboa Park, SeaWorld and SeaWorld's Aquatica waterpark are all a manageable 30- minute drive away. Recently, I took my 11-year-old daughter and her best friend for an overnight stay at Carlsbad Seapointe Resort. It's managed by Grand Pacific Resorts which has condo-style units in places like Kauai, Canada, Montana, Tahoe, Napa and SoCal. I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked Seapointe. Tucked across the street from Coast Highway 101 and the Big Blue, the 95-unit Seapointe commands great ocean views, and serves as a perfect perch for sunset. The one | 276 |
Vintage Film About Cardboard Box Crafts
Andrew Salomone
Artist, writer, and teacher who makes work about popular culture, technology, and traditional craft processes. http://www.andrewsalomone.com
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June 11, 2014, 12:0<|fim_middle|> granddaddies of today's crafting and DIY tutorial videos! | 0 pm PDT
DIY tutorial videos (er, I mean films) have been around since well before the internets, as this little gem unearthed and GIFified by OKKULT Motion Pictures proves. The film is called At Your Fingertips: Boxes and it was made by Peter Erik Winkler and Mary Anna Winkler way back in 1970.
The film illustrates some ways that old cardboard boxes can be used to make crafts and makeshift toys in such bizarre and inventive ways that it's already been given the comedic commentary treatment by the RiffTrax guys. Despite some of the amusingly bad crafting that takes place in the film, or maybe because of it, it's well worth a watch just to look back on one of the | 156 |
'Til your chin wants to double.
Since 2006, my go-to headline for my classified ad for PCAs has been Nanny for Granny. It's catchy, it's fun, it rhymes.
You wanted to know: What has my life been like?
For a long time I didn't tell my story, my sense of grief and loss so profound that to put them in words and sentences would be to lessen them. So, now as I try to tell my story, I can't decide whether to start with the best or the worst. Maybe the first.
You have achieved a Master's of Fine Arts.in Caring MFAPCA from Cale Kenney's comprehensive course in Household Management and Client Care for the ambitious and industrious but burnt-out disabled consumers who strive for independence (while chronically ill and in denial).
I joined Community Boating on Boston's Charles River for two reasons: to hone my sailing skills and to meet some men. I was advised on the technique of landing a guy: As a woman you are the lure. You have to think about what you want–so you recognize him when he comes along to catch you.
I first thought in broad categories: intelligent, sensitive, funny, attractive, free- spirited, evolved. The only particular I wanted was a sailor to share my passion. I found, though, I could be very particular about what I didn't want. No boozers, no smokers and no one who owned cats since, because of my allergies, we'd never be able to get close without my sneezing and wheezing all night.
By the end of that summer I hadn't found anyone who seemed available, so I took a look over some of the guys I'd overlooked.
It was fall; we were in the Barnegut at sunset, about four of us, one of whom I'd seen often at the club. He was short and balding, but up close I could see how attractive he really was–blue eyes, nice smile. When I learned he was a researcher at Mass General Hospital I knew he was intelligent. Now, here's a prospect, I observed.
Air travel can be a drag when you're on crutches. A plane is one of the few places they can't be laid conveniently by your side. The flight attendant will notify you that in case of possible airline disaster, or even just turbulence, they have to be stored with carry-on luggage in overhead compartments. I don't like it much, but it's part of the trade-off for traveling with a disability.
In the case of my first time traveling with my friend Paul, who was always protective of my freedom and mobility, taking away my crutches was a transgression on the part of the stewardess he never forgave. I watched a little black cloud form above his head when she asked for my crutches and locked them above.
"Please fasten your seat belts," I heard the captain say while I stretched my back by inching my arms and then my head forward to the floor. I always get more tense confined to small places, so I stretch for relief.
When the stewardess came by, now checking seat belts row to row, she stopped and said to Paul, "What's that?" she pointed to my back.
"What do you mean?" he said testily.
She repeated herself. "Who does that belong to?" she pointed to me.
"That is my girlfriend," he said defensively.
"It's your girlfriend's?" she asked.
"No, she's in pain," he said, irritably.
I then heard her whine back, "I'm sorry. I thought she was a duffel bag!" I have encountered many attitudinal barriers as a person with a disability, but I'd never been mistaken for a piece of luggage before.
I raised up to catch her eyes and to say "I'm ok," and also to help her laugh a little at herself, since everyone had heard her. I smiled broadly.
Unfortunately, she was a humorless person, but many heard her and one man was sniggering, so I just chalked that one up to traveling with Paul. When Paul and I had another encounter at our destination, I realized attitudinal barriers come in all shapes and sizes.
At the Denver airport, you aren't given wheelchairs, but utility carts, to take you to the baggage area. We were informed by the porter once I was seated, however, that Paul wasn't allowed to go with me; it was just for the handicapped. (So much for mainstreaming the handicapped.) Paul, who was so loaded down with take-on luggage, his guitar and my artificial leg–which was stored in a garment bag)–that he looked handicapped, suggested we at least let all our "stuff" ride with me. Keeping his guitar, Paul passed all the bags over to the porter.
Loading the wardrobe bag, the man said to me, "What's this? This your bone?" He had a foreign accent.
"This your bone?" he repeated.
I thought this was the most ridiculous word to describe the leg. Perhaps because he wasn't a native speaker the closest he could get to orthopaedic appliance was "bone?" I laughed to myself while we rode to baggage. I was looking forward to telling Paul. I think he'd enjoy the thing with the duffel bag once it was over. My traveling buddy was by now way behind us walking to the luggage area, the little black cloud reappearing.
When we got to the escalators, the man expected Paul to be behind us, but Paul had gone below to the baggage area. The porter then went to the elevators, leaving me upstairs. I was speechless. What am I? A piece of luggage?
When Paul spotted the man at the baggage area without me he asked where I was.
"She can't come down." the man said.
"She can come down," Paul informed him, as though the man thought I was an invalid.
Continued from Chapter Three: The Voice.
That I have a memory of this might be remarkable, but when it was time to tell the story, I was able to sketch in the details of the accident scene from the memory of someone who had been there. It was someone for whom I could scarcely have known to look, never mind know she existed. For all I knew Charlene Norton could have been an angel or a figment of my imagination.
In 1992, through my sister-in-law, and through a twist in fate, I met the woman who had saved my life 20 years before. My brother Bill's wife Liz was studying under a teacher and nursing mentor – Charlene Norton – in a hospital practicum about chronic pain when they both discovered the connection. Liz told her teacher. "My sister-in-law has chronic pain." It wasn't until sometime later Charlene inquired into the nature of the pain.
"It was phantom limb pain; she lost her leg," Liz explained. Charlene told me later that at that instant she had the strange feeling that something profound was going to be revealed. Her heart sank, and all became still around her – an epiphany.
"How did she lose it?" was Charlene's next question.
"In a motorcycle accident," Liz told her.
After her teacher's inquiry about where it happened, Liz almost hated to answer for fear of what they both might discover. The line of conversation had one of those eerie paths of twilight-zone revelation, but Liz haltingly told Charlene it had been in Amherst, west of Boston, at UMass. When Charlene casually, yet carefully, holding a breath, asked if Liz's sister-in-law was blonde, they both knew this was a synchronous event, discovering that they both knew someone in common – me – and that Charlene would finally meet the person she had expected to one day meet, though she didn't know how.
Liz didn't know Charlene existed in the context of my accident; there were no accounts of her in the family folklore about that disastrous day. But I did have a story. The story of the Voice. I told Liz my memory, and asked Liz to tell me more.
Charlene had once been an emergency room nurse, but in May of 1971 she was working at the University Infirmary while her husband attended school in Amherst.
"I was the one whose helmet stayed on," but Liz told me that my helmet had flown off.
"People were standing by – helpless – while you moaned and cried, 'Someone help me. I can't get up,'" Liz told me, "and you would ask where Mark was–was he OK? She assured you things were under control, and then she just started giving orders.
I knew then that this was The Voice. Liz gave me a piece of paper, and I hung onto the phone number of this person whom I would never have expected to look for, never mind meet. I wondered what Charlene and I would talk about when we met. I have been a reporter, and I have a habit of asking questions, detached, and/or out of some people's comfort range. Would it seem inappropriate if I asked her the gory details? Did I want to know the gory details? Oddly, the first thing to ask her was whether she saw the young man who had hit us. Someone had told me once that he was dazed, and he just walked in a circle around the crowd. She told me she saw nothing but me, and the memory would be imprinted on her mind forever.
"I knew one day we would meet. Accidents don't happen," she told me.
I was awed by her serenity on the phone. We decided to make a time and meet the next day just before my plane left, in Revere, on the beach where I grew up. When we met, I liked her immediately. She was in her late 40's, I guessed.
Charlene is what anyone would call a beautiful person. Her dark eyes, set into the frame of a soft face, reflect intelligence, wisdom, compassion, and humor. Yes, this was the kind of person who could save another's life. I asked her about her family and learned she had a son who had been handicapped at birth with cerebral palsy; I was impressed that she described him as a normal, competent young man, not emphasizing or minimizing the disability.
She was a nursing teacher who encouraged journal writing, and I was a writer who taught journaling classes. On the beach she told me some things about the accident site, and between then and a few years later, when I interviewed her more formally for her recollections, I was given the view from outside my body.
"I think there was initially somebody there directing traffic," Charlene told me. "I stopped and asked, 'Do you need any help?' Somebody said, 'Yes.' I went to Mark because there were people crowded around you. I saw that he couldn't be helped. You were on your left side. I sent someone to get towels to pack you, and we kept you on your left side. If you don't know what somebody's injuries are, you don't want to move them. We didn't have anything to transport you with; we didn't have a collar. We continued to go back and forth and get towels and pack as we could to stop the bleeding.
"Was I screaming?" I asked her because I had heard that I was. Three years after the crash a fellow UMass student on campus who told me cries had haunted him for years.
I reached for my pen across the table. "Would you draw a diagram for me?" I asked, intending to slow things down so I could take it all in. Charlene did not disappoint me, as she replied readily.
"I don't remember. He was face first, head all twisted around. I knew it was a cervical injury that was severe and probably on impact he was dead. Helmet still on. If his head was bent and twisted, it was probably a cervical injury high up and would sever the spinal cord, and unless he had immediate treatment, he wouldn't have survived spinal shock.
I asked her to explain how that works.
"How did you know that he had an abdominal wound? Was there a lot of blood?" I asked her.
"Sure. I'm not an artist … " she said hesitantly.
"Just a graphic," I said.
"No. You were on the side [of the road] facing Sunderland, going that way. He was here with his head in that direction. You were off … " She drew me in on the right side.
I was awed by her straightforward delivery, her memory, and by her understated courage and accomplishment.
"Amazing you had the presence of mind to think of all these things. That you weren't even in shock yourself. . . " I said.
"Not until afterwards. Your adrenaline surges through the whole thing, but you try to keep a clear head, even though you know that at some point you're going to crash later," she said matter-of-factly.
She told me she was just 24, a few years out of nursing school. "I had worked at Beth Israel on a surgical floor, so I'd had lots of post-op patients and rehab patients, so they had nephrectomies and such, and lots of dressings. And then I'd been working at the University Health Services. The college students would come in with all kinds of crazy things. One fellow was in a fight and a guy had bit his<|fim_middle|> to look at it again.'" When she told me this I realize I never questioned that our connection was as difficult for her to look at as I. "But you have," I countered.
How could I help her? I told Charlene that during my first visit with her I heard a message that I had chosen life. My soul knew what it was getting into as I lay dying – even this hard part. For the first time, I began telling people freely, new friends – not just old ones who already knew most of it – openly about what happened to me. And I began to write again, this time about my accident. I began with a letter to Charlene.
"Before the railroads made their way across the vast rise of the Continental Divide, snowshoes, horses and stagecoaches took the first travelers into a region of Colorado called Middle Park. The Cozens Ranch stagecoach stop was a favorite respite for those travelers who came up from the plains to do their business in the Fraser River Valley and beyond. | nose. Lots of human bites, different unusual gashes. I worked the night shift (11-7 a. m.) in the emergency room.
"I think if I were doing it now, after having different experiences, I might react differently," she said, to my surprise. And by way of explanation told me: "I was young and felt I could handle everything and anything myself. I had a sense of immortality. My philosophy was if I saw a situation in which I knew I could help, I'd stop.
"If there were two ambulances, . . . maybe not. If it was a situation like this one . . . It was closer to 5 o'clock, I remember people standing at the scene, looking, but not doing. They probably stopped to help, but they saw that [they couldn't] and they didn't know what to do.
I asked what she said to me, wanting to hear her say what I remembered.
"Did you think I would make it?" To have this time, 20 years later, to reflect and ask questions is a gift, I was thinking to myself.
"Well, the benefit of thought was that you kept talking with us. You were in and out. Most of what I was concerned with was the bleeding and breathing. We tried to give you as much as we could to keep your head turned. In retrospect, your head was already turned, with your face down in the dirt.
I don't say anything, and she picks up the story, remembering what was important to her, and soon ending this report which I had so much difficulty responding to now.
I have that same memory. I believed for years afterwards that it was my will, this desire, that passion for life that shouted down death's throat, "You will not have me. I am staying. I want to live," which saved me. I believed it was my own desire to live and create my own existence that kept me going through rough times. That belief lasted more than 15 years.
At a later time, however, it seemed to me that my own will and desire had nothing to do with living – only surviving. Once I had seen enough death, God's will to save anyone appeared random, and it was conceit to believe I was saved because I wanted to live so badly. By my late 30's, I was a fatalist. Life is a crapshoot; riding a motorcycle, I was a high roller.
I silently wonder about her place in this scheme, and she answers without my asking.
"I believe I was put into your life for a reason. I could've said, 'no, I don't want to do that. It was too horrific. I don't want | 560 |
Very Hard to Kill
Molly's Game (2017)
Kellie Herson
STX Films
I'm not embarrassed to admit that I cried the first time I watched Molly's Game; whenever I watch a movie, the odds are in favor of me crying. It doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, if I relate to its story, or if I like any of the characters. I'm an easy mark for movie magic—swelling music, emotive performances, expansive visuals, the impossible fantasy of a tidy ending—so I've cried more times over movies that I've forgotten or hated than I have about significant events in my own life. What I am embarrassed to admit is how I cried the first time I watched Molly's Game, choking out loud sobs during the first scene, right after the first sentence of voice-over dialogue, and then sniffling for the next hour or so.
The movie begins with young Molly Bloom (Jessica Chastain), the third-best women's moguls skier in the United States, at the top of a course, bracing herself for an Olympic qualifying run. An older Molly, in voice over, describes a poll that asked, "What's the worst thing that can happen in sports?" Answers range from losing a Game 7 to falling to a rival to placing fourth at the Olympics—meditations on the theme of not quite making it; all very poignant to me, a Wisconsin sports fan, and all ways of letting us know that this run will culminate in something far worse than any of those things. As older Molly keeps feeding us context, she clarifies that whatever awful thing happens will be particularly devastating because young Molly—as well as her coach and her heavily invested father, played by Kevin Costner—imagines the qualifier as a formality leading up to the real challenge. The question isn't whether she'll make it to the Olympics but whether she'll medal once she's there.
But a frozen pine bough, scattered along the course for visibility, catches one of her skis at the exact right angle to make her lose control just as she's about to clear a jump, sending her crashing and sliding into a cluster of spectators. It's a fluke, and it's intensified by a past fluke: her spine is held together with a morass of metal after it "exploded" for no clear reason when she was 12. All this narrated context—the past injury, the present confidence, the future plans—amplifies the tension of the moment, both by delaying the inevitable event and by giving it greater emotional depth. What results is a horrifying, gut-punch inversion of the joy of watching an athlete reach their borderline-inhuman peak of achievement, and it frames the movie with a very specific question: what happens when you come so close to accomplishing what you spent years of your life working toward and fail horribly, through no fault of your own?
The rest of Molly's Game never lives up to the promise of its first scene. After crashing out of the qualifiers, Molly moves to Los Angeles and stumbles into running a poker game for her day-job boss Dean (Jeremy Strong, in full Succession-pilot sicko mode). She pushes herself to learn everything she can about poker so she can bring Dean's game to the next level, creating a runway to splinter off, poach players, and start her own game—which swiftly falls apart after a conflict with alpha/demon Player X (Michael Cera, as phenomenally douchey as Strong). Smarting from the loss, she moves to New York to start fresh with a new, optimized game, but she wades in over her head, grows dependent on drugs to keep up with the demands of her work, and inadvertently becomes entangled with organized crime. As everything escalates, one of her players rats on her to the FBI, forcing her to quit the business. Two years later, she's arrested on federal charges related to her involvement with the Russian mob. She hires Charlie Jaffey (Idris Elba) to represent her, then incessantly annoys him with her staunch refusal to turn on her players to save herself. In the end, she pleads guilty, but receives a light sentence—escaping with minimal consequence and, more importantly, with her soul intact.
Instead<|fim_middle|> and other people's expectations to keep me in line.
In the aftermath, I learned—and this might be the only thing I've learned; I'm the same aimless dumbass I was in that movie theater 2 1/2 years ago, I've just found peace with it now—that the structure of what other people want from you is no structure at all. The fellowships and publications and praise and good grades gave me a way to measure my worth (our animal brains love a reward system), but racking up those prizes required running an endless gauntlet of busy work and pointless sacrifice. My work was never enough; I could never marinate in the feeling of accomplishing one thing before succumbing to the pressure to move on the next four tasks; I could never meet everybody's expectations, and I only cultivated chaos by trying.
I'm not sure Molly's Game learns that lesson, but it certainly demonstrates it. Though her abrasive personality and tendency to keep others at a distance don't scream people-pleaser in a traditional sense, trying to be all things to all people proves to be Molly's downfall. She would never have wandered into poker if her skiing career hadn't come to an untimely end—but she ends up running games specifically because she takes an office job with Dean to cover up the money she makes at the lucrative bottle-service gig she's ashamed to tell her parents about. And she only lands in the trouble she does because she attempts the impossible balance of constantly surpassing her own accomplishments while also never making anyone upset ever.
At the same time, the movie itself struggles because it tries to be all things to all people. It's a legal drama, a sports story, a crime caper, the rare fun biopic, a study of familial dysfunction, a parade of that guy from that things, and a throwback to the late '90s/early '00s mid-budget Sunday afternoon cable drama—all at once. It never fully hits the mark in any of those subgenres, nor does it hold up as a cohesive text against even the smallest amount of scrutiny. But, if you enjoy anywhere from one to seven of those types of movies, you'll have a good enough time watching enough of the movie's individual scenes—and, as much as the voiceover tries to tie it all together, it is largely a montage of individual scenes—that its overarching lack of cohesion might not bother you that much.
It's brilliant, on a meta level, to let the movie falter for the same reasons Molly does. My main quibble with Molly's Game as a narrative (not as a viewing experience, which it's a perfectly serviceable example of, which is something more movies could stand to be) is not that it's too messy but that it's not messy enough. While it establishes the contradiction between its protagonist's prickliness and her desire for others' approval—again, due more to Chastain's work than anything else—the film misses an opportunity to dig into the tension between Molly's firm moral core and her willingness to cede certain decisions to happenstance and others' desires.
Ultimately, Molly loses her LA game to Player X because she won't sacrifice other players to shore up his ego. In an off game, in an off hand, Harlan (Bill Camp) loses to the worst player in the game (Brian d'Arcy James), and he makes increasingly impulsive bets to claw his way out of that hole. Player X seizes on these, and tries to inscript Harlan into indentured employment so that he can keep him in the game long enough to beat him—and Molly is appalled. It shouldn't be hard to get an audience to empathize with the urge to sacrifice one's own livelihood to protect Bill Camp, but the script insists on trying to draw a clean line from Molly's troubled relationship with her father to her complex relationships with her players, and ends up flattening both beyond recognition in the process.
That desire for tidiness turns certain segments of the movie into what feels like a treatise on daddy issues written by someone with a solid relationship with their father for consumers with solid relationships with their fathers, and there's no more egregious example than the ice rink scene. Looking for a way to decompress after a fight with Charlie, Molly goes to a public ice rink and tries to goad other skaters—and then the security guards—into racing her. She crashes, looks up, and sees her estranged father, who's been searching for her while keeping tabs on her trial, sitting outside the rink.
Even though she remains hostile toward him for leaving her mother for another woman (presumably sometime after her qualifiers disaster, though this timeline never gets pinned down), she sits with him, and they hash out her neuroses—"three years of therapy in three minutes," he claims. Year/minute one digs into his conclusion that she followed this path out of a desire to "control powerful men." In the second, she demands an explanation for why he favored her older brothers, whose athletic careers both panned out in ways hers did not. The last minute leads them to something resembling a conclusion, one that overhauls his first claim. He resented her not because of her athletic failures—which, he makes sure to note, were entirely random—but because she knew he was cheating on her mother long before they ever separated; she's not protecting her players from what would be revealed about them if she flipped, but their children, who she wants to protect from the burden of that knowledge.
The moment is far too neat, and it feels like a studio-noted pick-up (please, explain why this woman is so unlikable). But the presence of Kevin Costner, who's otherwise absent, gives away the fact that it was woven into the fabric of the film early. No disrespect to Costner, but the movie would hit harder if someone excised this moment and its pat series of explanations for Why Molly Is Like This.
Without this scene, the movie would jump from Charlie accepting and defending Molly's moral third rail—the thing that's kept her intact through all of this, the organism that remains consistent beneath all the surface-level changes and relocations and severed relationships—to the justice system recognizing it as well. (A fantasy, and one that only applies to white people, to be clear.) It would not trace Molly's fraught loyalty to her players to her fraught loyalty to her family of origin; it would not tie a neat bow that draws her past and present together. And, in doing so, it would give her the father-figure recognition she's sought all along—not in the precise form she'd craved it, and not in a way that gives her an easy understanding of the past or a clear direction for the future, but in a way that validates the best things about the person she's been all along, with or without the material signifiers of achievement.
But that's not the movie we have. Instead, it's something that almost becomes the best iteration of itself. There's another line of meta-commentary to be drawn there, but really, it's just disappointing in a way I can't rationalize away. And yet—knowing everything that happens, aware of all the film's flaws, two years removed from my own young retirement, as settled as I'll ever be—I sobbed the second time too.
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Next [birds singing outside] | of taking us through this story from start to finish, Molly's Game wanders from incident to incident, jumping between timelines in a way that forces us to pay attention but also precludes the possibility of marinating in any single moment deeply enough to return to the emotional intensity of its opening sequence. It's the only movie I can think of in which a scene where I know precisely what's about to happen is more thrilling than any of those that leave me with no idea what might happen next. While the later Big Emotional Moments suffer in comparison to the first, I doubt they'd stand up any better without it. Many of the supporting characters are stand-ins for ideas about power and risk shaded in with bizarre quirks, rather than recognizable humans with motivations and inner lives. Despite the deep bench of weirdos involved in each game, poker culture never feels tangible here.
In the hands of another lead actress, I think Molly would suffer from the not-fully-a-person problem almost all the supporting characters do. But Chastain—who tends to gravitate toward precise, driven characters—leverages her Type A energy to answer the question of what happens when that energy has nowhere to go, giving Molly's fundamental aimlessness a depth and intentionality that's easy to extrapolate to the rest of the movie's tendency to meander. It's hard to imagine Chastain having any personal knowledge of failure, but her performance is the only one I've ever seen that conveys the feeling of never realizing your potential. Both in-person and in voiceovers, she establishes the uncertainty around what Molly's doing and why she's doing it, her inability to grow roots in any place or thing, and the endless cycle of trying and failing to transpose a narrative arc onto a past and present that defy all the rules of linearity.
I don't think it helped, on the ugly-crying front, that I watched the movie while in the process of accepting that my academic career was over. The last year of my PhD program coincided with the advent of MoviePass, and I spent at least two afternoons a week sobbing my way through a matinee I wasn't totally sure I wanted to see. But I cried the hardest during Molly's Game—on a Tuesday afternoon, alone, mercifully (although, to be clear, I'd cut off my own finger for the chance to safely cry in a packed theater right now, no matter how embarrassing the movie in question).
I'd spent the 6 1/2 years leading up to that afternoon in grad school, and everyone around me assumed I was preparing for the tenure track. I was a good academic—good at figuring out what my professors and students wanted from me and then delivering it, good at clearing the hurdles of seminars and exams without psyching myself out, good at digesting information and then spitting out a coherent response. (In short, I excelled because I'm a highly skilled bullshitter.) But it made me unhappy in a way I couldn't sustain, and early in my PhD program, I decided my academic career would be over once I defended my dissertation.
When that self-imposed deadline approached, I wavered. My job was miserable and precarious, but if I left, I'd have nothing to show for the work that had occupied my entire adult life, and I'd disappoint everyone who thought I was capable of achieving the statistically impossible feat of a tenure-track job. A not-insignificant part of my brain believed that falling short of expectations was a worse outcome than interminable depression and financial struggle. In the end, it wasn't my decision to leave: I applied to the jobs I swore I wouldn't, came close to getting them, didn't, and couldn't afford to keep trying. And, while I'd wanted an out for years, I had no idea what to do with myself once I got it. I'd never learned how to structure my life without the guardrails of institutional benchmarks | 807 |
Duets for lunch: UofT Opera in concert
Jenna Simeonov Oct 11, 2017
As part of this week's line-up of the Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, young singers and pianists of the University of Toronto Opera School offered a programme of operatic duets. The repertoire ran the gamut of picks that are "stretch pieces" (like scenes from La<|fim_middle|> both as Dr. Miracle in Les contes d'Hoffmann and Silvio in Pagliacci. There's a lot of excitement in the instruments of tenor Matthew Cairns and baritone Andrew Adridge, who proved it with their manly duet from The Pearlfishers. And mezzo-soprano Simona Genga showed off a warm, smooth sound and an onstage poise that belies her age; her Dalila (Samson et Dalila) was a stunner.
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Hearing pre-professional singers is always fascinating, at least for me. It's a chance to hear new voices, in a context that allows for the in-flux status of their vocal development. Personal opinion: voices that are settling and sorting themselves out are one of the world's most interesting things.
The line-up of duets was a great way to show off these singers, while giving them a dramatic partner in crime. It was also a reminder of what's difficult about performing opera scenes: diving headfirst into a number without context, and doing it with a very visible, in-your-face audience like in the Amphitheatre. UofT Opera's Michael Albano gave shape to these scenes with some light staging, which brought the performances up a level from a simple park-and-bark. What worked less well were the spoken set-ups between scenes, which were awkwardly written and bookish. It seemed a shame that the singers were charged with memorizing a speech to introduce the next number (after singing their scene, even); it would have been very cool indeed to hear the singers speak more casually, in their own voices, to hear what they thought about these scenes.
That said, there were some exciting and memorable performances. Pianists Benjamin Zsoldos and Perri Lo were impressively supportive partners in a broad range of styles; it's no simple task to jump from Rossini to Leoncavallo on a dime. Bass-baritone Joel Allison stood out with his acting chops, wielding a dark instrument to match, | 355 |
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ITcon Vol. 18, pg. 99-118, http://www.itcon.org/2013/6
Evaluating a data clustering approach for life-cycle facility control
authors: A. Christopher Bogen, Computer Scientist,
Engineering Research and Development Center, US Army Corps of Engineers
Email: Chris.Bogen@usace.army.mil
Mahbubur Rashid, Computer Scientist,
Email: Mahbubur.Rashid@usace.army.mil
E. William East, Civil Engineer
Email: Bill.W.East@usace.army.mil
James Ross, Computer Scientist
Email: James.E.Ross@usace.army.mil
summary: Data reported by sensors in building automation and control systems is critical for evaluating the as- operated performance of a facility. Typically these systems are designed to support specific control domains, but facility performance analysis requires the fusion of data across these domains. Since a facility may have several disparate, closed-loop systems, resolution of data interoperability issues is a prerequisite to cross-domain data fusion. In previous publications, the authors have proposed an experimental platform for building information fusion where the sensors are reconciled to building information model elements and ultimately to an expected resource utilization schedule. The motivation for this integration is to provide a framework for comparing the as- operated facility with its intended usage patterns. While the authors' data integration framework provides representational tools for integrating BIM and raw sensor data, appropriate computational approaches for normalization, filtering, and pattern extraction<|fim_middle|> up to 55%.
keywords: Building Information Modelling (BIM), machine learning, pattern detection, signal processing, building automation and control
citation: Bogen AC, Rashid M, East EW, Ross J (2013). Evaluating a data clustering approach for life-cycle facility control, ITcon Vol. 18, pg. 99-118, https://www.itcon.org/2013/6 | methods must be developed to provide a mathematical basis for anomaly detection and "plan" versus "actual" comparisons of resource use. This article presents a computational workflow for categorizing daily resource usage according to a resolution typical of human-specified schedules. Simulated datasets and real datasets are used as the basis for experimental analysis of the authors' approach, and results indicate that the algorithm can produce 90% matching accuracy with noise/variations | 86 |
English Style Special Ale is a full-bodied, hearty ale whose complex flavors further emerge as it warms. One reviewer on our panel shared the following story<|fim_middle|> call (715) 284-7553 or check out their web site at www.sandcreekbrewing.com. | about this beer: "When we first featured this beer back in 2004 I was a 'hophead' through and through. I could appreciate malt-centered beers, but only academically; none ever fully resonated with me. I was like the beer panel's hop profile specialist, and that was because I only really indulged in hop-heavy brews. That all changed when I tasted this beer. It was the first 'malt bomb' I had ever fully enjoyed—and it opened my world to what malty beers could offer. Since then, I've enjoyed living 'as the other half does' and now enjoy pretty much all types of beers, from hoppy double cream ales to doppelbocks. This was "the beer" that opened my eyes to the power of malty brew. I'll always have a special place in my fridge, and my proverbial heart, reserved for it."
Them's some pretty inspiring words, touching on an experience all of us "converts" can relate to. "The beer that did it" is a common memory among most if not all better beer drinkers. Do you remember yours? Hey, maybe this is it!
Expect a very malty aroma and flavor, with just traces of spicy hops in the background. Look for malty, nutty, chocolatey, roasty notes accompanied by dark, fruity notes like prunes and raisins, but not quite. This beer goes down with a rich fullness leaving behind big malty notes, tons of caramel, mellow pepperiness, a touch of citrus sweetness, and some maple syrup. Above all, this is a highly drinkable, brilliantly balanced, malt-accented beer. We love it paired against spicy Mexican Mole (make sure it's a spiced version—the bite works nicely with the roasty, lightly peppery hoppiness found in this beer), but it works equally well with a burger topped with pickles and super sharp cheddar.
Brewmaster Cory Schroeder began homebrewing in his spare time in the late 1980s and soon realized his knack for crafting good beers. In the late 1990s, he teamed up with business partner Jim Wiesender, and the two set out to build a brewery on the Schroeder family dairy farm. A large shed served as the brewery location, with various scrounged-up materials serving as the brewing vessels, including a refrigerator semi-trailer which became the beer cooler, and pudding tanks as the mash and brew kettles. The Sand Creek Brewing Company opened for business in 1999, marketing their ales in local taverns and restaurants and via promotion at beer festivals throughout Wisconsin, all the while working to expand and upgrade their brewing facilities. In early 2004 they acquired the historic Pioneer Brewing Company in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and relocated to that facility. The move expanded their beer line up to over 29 different products on a proprietary and contract level. Pioneer Brewmaster Todd Krueger has remained as Head Brewmaster and is now a partner in the new brewery operation. He is a three-time World Beer Championship gold medalist—quite an asset to the brewery. For more information about the brewery and scheduled tours, | 668 |
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History Idol: Lord Durham
Lord Durham is a name that few Canadians recognize. Richard Pound thinks that is a travesty.
Text by Amanda Hope
The name Lord Durham is one that few Canadians recognize. This, despite the fact that he is the father of responsible government in Canada, and that he recommended the union of Upper and Lower Canada — an act that was officially passed on 10 February, 1841.
It is for these reasons that Richard Pound has chosen Lord Durham as his History Idol.
Pound is currently a partner in the Montreal office of Stikeman Elliott, and is included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada. He was the founding Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency (1999–2007), and was named to Time magazine's list of one hundred most influential people in the world for his relentless efforts to rid sport of performance<|fim_middle|> in the 19th-century confronted international and national pressures from all directions. | -enhancing drugs.
He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee, was Chairman of the Olympic Games Study Commission, and was a director of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
A former Olympic swimmer, Pound attended both McGill University and Concordia University, and was Chancellor of McGill University from 1999-2009. He was admitted to the bar in Quebec in 1968, and in Ontario in 1980.
In addition to the above accomplishments, Pound sits on the Board of Directors of Canada's History.
John George Lambtom Durham is born in London, England.
Durham is elected to the British House of Commons.
>Durham is raised to the British House of Lords.
Helps to draft the Representation of the People Act, otherwise known as the Reform Act, which dramatically affected the way seats were divided in the House of Commons, and increased the number of citizens who were entitled to vote.
After resigning from government, he is named ambassador to Russia and serves in the position for two years.
Durham accepts position of Governor General of Canada, and is given a specific mandate: to investigate and report on the rebellions in Upper and Lower Canada in 1837.
Durham resigned as Governor General only four months after accepting the position, but he carries out his assignment, and submits his now-famous report in early 1839. It is officially titled Report on the Affairs of British North America. The key recommendation is that colonies be governed by "responsible government."
Lord Durham dies in England of tuberculosis in July of this year.
The principles of responsible government are recognized by the British government. One year later, they are put into practice in Nova Scotia, which becomes the first colony to adopt responsible government.
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A silky, caressing red, whose cherry, spice and anise flavors are in harmony with the fresh, balancing structure. Offers a fine, spicy finish.
Pretty aromas of violet, raspberry, cherry and incense introduce this elegant, finely wrought red, which has enough structure to develop, with harmony and a<|fim_middle|>as and flavors of citrus fruits and white flowers. Suave, firm-edged wine with good length and lift. This struck me as more feminine in style than the Puligny but it's also a bit higher in alcohol.
Ripe and fleshy, showing peach, apple and stone flavors. Lively, finishing crisply, echoing orchard fruit and light spice accents.
This is concentrated, with a supple texture and bracing acidity framing the cherry, strawberry and earth flavors. Has tension and energy on the lingering aftertaste. | fresh, mouthwatering finish.
(half domain and half purchased grapes; vinified by Bouchard): Bright medium red. Complex if youthfully tight aromas of wild blackberry, dark raspberry, blueberry, licorice and menthol. Then surprisingly supple in the mouth, but with a youthfully medicinal cast to its dark berry, licorice and stone flavors. The 25% whole-cluster component is keeping the wine's flavors under wraps today and accentuating its tannins, but the finish displays noteworthy floral persistence.
Creamy, setting the stage for peach, apple, lemon, pastry and baking spice flavors. Good cut keeps this balanced and a lingering finish echoes citrus and spice notes.
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A Ring-necked pheasant may make an appearance every now and then in<|fim_middle|> band around the base of their neck. Their head is an iridescent blue-green. Their eyes are in the middle of a barn red patch on the side of their face. The rest of their body is light brown with hints or yellow and orange. They have white and black chevrons on their dorsal feathers. Underside is darker.
Female Ring-necked Pheasants have golden-beige feathers with dark brown or black spots on their dorsal side. | the backyards of many Nova Scotians. Although the province is devoid of the wild turkeys that many New Englanders enjoy, a sighting of this elegant game bird is just as exciting. This particular bird was out for a stroll with a friend, chewing on branches during a light snowfall that came after a recent Christmas time ice storm in 2013.
Ring-necked pheasants are smaller than turkeys and larger than chickens. They have long tail feathers that come to a point.
The males are the ones with the ring-neck. They have a white | 116 |
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds: Tiny Desk<|fim_middle|> live album, Fowl Play. | Concert The New York band's punchy horn section, bluesy vocals and uniquely transformative harmonica solos instantly demand attention.
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds' punchy horn section, bluesy vocals and uniquely transformative harmonica solos instantly demand attention. Their obvious joy in playing music together is contagious, and they brought the party to Bob Boilen's desk in a big way.
The seven-piece band, named for the pigeons of New York's Penn Station, is made up of both friends and family. Arleigh Kincheloe (nicknamed Sister Sparrow) leads with her explosive vocals. Her brother, Jackson Kincheloe, makes his harmonicas sound like an organ one moment and a screeching guitar the next; he brought a collection of 48. Sasha Brown (guitar), Josh Myers (bass), Dan Boyden (drums), Phil Rodriguez (trumpet) and Brian Graham (baritone sax) round out the dynamic septet, which just released its first | 207 |
God created us to connect. If that is true, then why are so many of us terrible at connecting? What many of us don't realize is that a lot of<|fim_middle|>: Connection. | our ability to connect with others is either enhanced or hindered in the first couple of years of our lives.
The way a parent, especially a mother, interacts with her baby while in utero, the weeks following birth, and throughout the baby first months will often come naturally. I think every new parent feels ill-prepared and inadequate when they bring a newborn home. However, all you need to do is watch how people respond when they see a tiny baby. Grown men even will begin babbling in some unknown language as they shower a baby with loving attention. Women line up to take turns holding and rocking the baby. Everyone wants to jump into action to meet every need when the baby cries the slightest whimper.
All of these actions create connection. We now know that this connection creates healthy brain chemistry. Every time a child encounters someone who meets their needs, positive synapses connect across their brain. The child feels safe and can explore their ever expanding world.
But what happens when a baby, whether in the womb or after, doesn't receive this kind of nurturing attention? What if something even worse happens and that baby or older child experiences trauma? If a baby or child endures a stressful pregnancy, a difficult delivery, abuse, neglect, or even abandonment, then the brain chemistry takes on a much different path.
Instead of a child feeling safe and willing to explore their environment, this child interacts with their world in a constant state of fear. That alert part of their brain, or the amygdala, is over-developed and is easily triggered into a response of flight, fight, or freeze. This is how most, if not all, children that come to families through adoption or foster care tend to act.
Parenting a child that constantly reacts to their world with some kind of fear can exhaust and confuse a parent. The child's behavior often pushes a caretaker away making it harder for the parent to connect with this child. But connection is exactly what the child needs more than anything.
A child whose behavior pushes you away is a child who needs connection before anything else.
"But doesn't connection before anything else simply excuse bad behavior?" That is the common question when one learns about connected parenting. The approach seems too permissive.
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When HaShem created Adam and Chavah, He wanted them to use their seichel, not just like animals, but to realize that there are things which are higher than seichel, things which we know are there, but don't understand because they are holy and spiritual.
That's why HaShem was so pleased when Adam declared to the world: "Let us bow down to HaShem." Adam had used his seichel to realize that there is a Creator, and that everything should serve Him. When Adam said this, HaShem proclaimed the world completed. This understanding is what He wanted from the first man, and this is what He has wanted from every human being ever since.
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At the end of each day of Creation, HaShem looked at what He had done so far and "saw that it was good." The Creation was good — there was light and darkness, heaven and earth, plants and animals — but it wasn't yet complete. It was only after HaShem created Adam and Chavah that the Torah tells us Vayechulu hashamayim veharetz, "And the heavens and the earth were completed."
Though the heavens and the earth were created on the second and third days, they — and indeed the entire creation — were not considered complete until Adam and Chavah were created.
Why is this so?
After all, Adam and Chavah were only two people. That seems so small when compared to all the animals, plants, water and other things in the universe. Yet when HaShem created man, it is as if He said: "This is what I had in mind when I started creating the world." Not because there were going to be more people than anything else, but because people could be more special.
What makes people so special?
People have seichel; they can think and understand.
But wait a minute. Animals can understand things too. They can figure out how to get food, how to keep warm and how to take care of themselves. Some can even be taught skills and tricks.
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This page was last edited on 13 August 2018, at 10:25. | , coast of Australia, which measures in the whole extent from six to seven thousand geographical miles.
In order to make himself acquainted with the nature of the country to the southward, the Lieutenant-Governor embarked with the Surveyor-General and some others on board a schooner; examined Geography Bay throughout its whole extent, and explored the interior to some little distance; the surface was uneven, rising into high granitic hills, most of them rugged or sandy on their summits, but the valleys contained a considerable quantity of excellent land.
The Vasse River was the next point examined, to the distance of three or four miles from the coast, but the result was not satisfactory, the soil being too light and sandy; but the straight and vigorous growth of the trees seemed to contradict the apparent poverty of the soil. Fresh water was abundant in this district.
They next anchored off the bar of Port Leschenault, where the country presented so favourable an appearance, that a detachment of the sixty-third regiment was landed, together with stores and provisions for the better support of the settlers; and such | 218 |
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0 FREE REIGN will serve as the Grand Marshals of the Rattlesn<|fim_middle|> we are excited to see what the future holds. When the opportunity arose to work with Free Reign I jumped to it! This is something that has never been done before and this band is a long term project. It's also been great working with John Gomez of TQ Management putting this deal to bed".
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Free Reign originated with Colombo handling vocals and Procter on the drums when they jammed in the Cowboys' locker room in 2008. Shortly after, Davis learned to play the bass and joined them, and Chapman was the final piece as he came aboard as a guitarist. Free Reign, which signed a worldwide record deal with Riot! Entertainment in Australia, has produced its debut release, "Tragedy," and will be touring this year.
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Free Reign has been branded 'Heavier than Metal' for their intense musical style as well as their intimidating stage presence. They bring something unique to this powerful genre.
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St Neots Town's<|fim_middle|> things up with goals from Aaron O'Connor and Wilson Carvalho in the second half. | Ryan Hawkins is on the brink of a move to the Football League by following in the footsteps of former team-mate Tom Meechan and joining Newport County.
The winger was on trial with the League Two club last week, and has been spending more time there in the last few days as County boss Graham Westley continues to assess him.
It comes just months after Meechan made the switch from Saints to Newport after a strong debut season in the Evo-Stik League Southern, Premier Division.
Hawkins is contracted to St Neots until the end of the season so any move would involve a transfer fee, but Hawkins' immediate future may not be revealed until the end of the week.
Last night St Neots Town earned a 2-2 draw at Kettering Town in the Evo-Stik League Southern, Premier Division.
James Hall and Sam Mulready put them 2-0 up at half time, with Kettering levelling | 191 |
So, I have a weird history with Swiss Meringue Buttercream.
Don't get me wrong, we've gotten along alright. It's just...we've gotten along almost too well<|fim_middle|> and store in an airtight container in the refrigerator - just bring to room temperature and re-whip with the paddle attachment until smooth, about 5 minutes. You can also store in the freezer for up to 3 months. | . I'm just waiting for something to go wrong every time I make it.
I have only made it twice, and maybe my butter has just been perfectly room temp each time or something, but I've never reached the despairing curdling stage.
The first time I made it, it was smooth and lovely. I thought I was doing it all wrong. But Sweetapolita affirmed that I was doing everything just swimmingly!
So...if yours curdles, I can't help you. But the aforementioned Sweetapolita can! Check out her post on all things SMB. It's been a lifesaver for many.
But don't let these curdle stories scare you away from making these cupcakes! The fluffiness of the sweet strawberry SMB is such a beautiful compliment to the dark cake, and the a strawberry on top is a refreshing topper on all that richness.
From what I've heard, you just have to keep whipping your buttercream. Brave out those curdles, and it will come together! And if you don't get any curdles...you're ok! You're not the only odd duck out there who looks like she knows what she's doing...but really doesn't.
Oh! If you're looking for a patriotic twist, add some blue foil liners, blueberries, blue sprinkles, colored sugar, or whatever to the top, and you've got yourself a mighty fine grill-out dessert. Just don't let that frosting sit in the heat too long.
To make the cupcakes, preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners.
In a double boiler or a heat-proof bowl set over barely simmering water (not touching the water), combine the butter, chocolate, and cocoa. Heat until the butter and chocolate are melted and whisk until smooth (Do not allow the water to boil.). Set aside to cool until just warm to the touch.
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda and baking powder. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs just to combine - then add the sugar, vanilla, and salt and whisk until smooth and fully incorporated. Add cooled chocolate mixture and whisk until combined. Add the flour and sour cream in three additions, beginning and ending with the flour. Whisk only until each addition disappears into the batter. Don't overmix, but make sure the dry and wet ingredients are fully combined before proceeding.
Divide the batter evenly among the 12 muffin cups and bake for about 18-20 minutes, or until a tester inserted into the middle of a cupcake comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 5-10 minutes and then set on a rack to cool completely before frosting.
To make the buttercream, hull the berries and cut into pieces. Puree the strawberries in a food processor or blender and pass through a fine-mesh sieve to remove the seeds; set aside.
Combine the egg whites, sugar, and pinch of salt in a heat-proof bowl set over barely simmering water (Make sure the bottom of the bowl doesn't touch the water and that steam doesn't get out, also be sure you keep the heat low so the water never boils.). Whisk constantly until the sugar has dissolved and the egg whites are hot to the touch - when you rub the mixture between your fingers, it should be smooth, without granules of sugar. This will take about 10-15 minutes. Remove from the heat and quickly wipe off any condensation from the bottom of a bowl with a towel. Transfer to the bowl of a mixer fitted with a whisk attachment. Whip on high speed until the egg whites form stiff, glossy peaks; about 5-10 minutes.
Switch to a paddle attachment and, with the mixer on low speed, add the vanilla. Beat for about a minute, until incorporated. Then, still on low speed, gradually add the strawberry puree and beat for 3-4 minutes, until the strawberries are completely incorporated and all the air pockets are gone. Decorate the cupcakes!
Also, Martha Stewart says that you can make the frosting up to 3 days in advance | 846 |
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"I can't remember the last time I reviewed<|fim_middle|>OLD ON PRESSER | a disc that blew me away like that with every single track. This one is head and shoulders above anything else I have heard from Fletcher." Read the full review
Living Blues Magazine
"Fletcher's vocals are wonderfully balanced with grit. The guitar work and voacal delivery is absolutely sublime.
This is pure and simple genius.
This type of epic had disappeared from the musical lexicon but fortunately Kirk Fletcher could bring us an absolutely perfect example of that passionate style of song writing."
PBS Australia
"His songwriting is at its most fully realized, and the organ trio format really lets his guitar parts shine. Sounds like he has spent some time listening to Albert Kind's singing instead of just he playing that most guitarists do."
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"An absolute master of blues, soul, gospel and funk guitar."
Music Radar
"An amazing singer who has that special "something" in his voice and as a guitarist he is peerless. Blues for Fletcher has his own distinct sound."
"Smooth doesn't even cover Fletcher's approach – his licks sound utterly effortless and prove consistently captivating."
"Kirk fires off soulful, straight-from-the-heart solos that dazzle on big stages…Fletcher also blows people's minds when he's playing rhythm guitar."
Guitar Player Magazine
"Kirk is hands-down one of the best blues guitarists in the world."
"Fletcher's playing is a synthesis of the best qualities of contemporary electric blues, but he isn't confined by it. He displays a limitless flow of concepts in a slow-blues context."
Vintage Guitar Magazine
"Fletcher favors toothy Strat tones, stinging bends, and flurries of tight, staccato riffs that seem to pop from his fretboard like little firecrackers"
"Fletcher clearly has ensemble dynamics down, suggesting that his years as a sideman have been fruitful. But he's also unabashed as a bandleader, and his guitar work earns its prominence."
Blues Revue Magazine
"Performers like Fletcher aren't made or taught, they are born this way and what they have comes from deep within their souls just itching to come out."
…it's one hell of a ride, and proof that Fletcher is ready to make a big splash on his own."
…Fletcher sounds like he is coming into his own on his terms."
"There is no doubt about it – Fletcher is a "monster guitarist" – a huge talent capable of scaling the heights of blues stardom"
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Page: Ambae Island - James Michener's Mysterious Island of Bali Hai
Immortalised by James Michener as the magical island of Bali Hai
Its' official name, Ambae was known as Aoba prior to Vanuatu Islands' independence in the year 1980. It covers 678 square meters about 50 kilometers east of the Espiritu Santo island. The late American author by the name James Michener who was stationed in Santo as a United States Navy lieutenant, in World War II, wrote of Bali Hai as a great mystic isle of fascinating beauty in the Pulitzer Prize winning book "Tales of the South Pacific".
Visible from Santo island, Michener watched the island disappear in the morning mist, which gave him the inspiration for a magical island paradise, he named Bali Hai. The book evolved into a Broadway musical with "haunting ballad Bali Hai."
The magical beauty of Ambae island inspired James Michener's famous
prize-winning book and Broadway musical.
Settlements on the island
The west and the east of the islands are densely populated, with a few villages in between. It's an ideal destination for those who like hiking or walking holidays, with a few secluded beaches on the south parts of Ambae.
Being close to Vanuatu's largest island Espiritu Santo, it makes it an easily accessible island. Transport to the island is available frequently from Santo's largest town of Luganville, at a relatively modest cost.
Ambae is actually shaped like an up turned canoe which has a volcano at the island's center. The Lombenden (1,496 high) has erupted a number times, and most recently in the year 2005 when the villages near the north coast<|fim_middle|> of the top ten most potentially dangerous volcanoes in the world.
Ambae island is home to Vanuatu's tallest volcano, which is considered
one of potentially most dangerous ones. (Image by Wikimedia)
Ambae itself does attract some tourists, usually coming from Santo. There are actually 3 airstrips on the island - Walaha, Redcliffe and Longana airports. The local Vanair company, which serves domestic air routes in Vanuatu islands, has flights from Vanuatu capital Port Vila and of course from Santo's Luganville.
You can snorkel and swim from the beach and/or in the blue hole fresh water pools. Kayaks and landing crafts are also available for viewing corals. For sightseers, you can get to tour the nearby village, as well as several other tours.
Devil Rock which is near the Walaha Airstrip is one beautiful spot and it is possible to go hiking along north coast coming from Walaha towards Saratamata near the Longana Airstrip.
There are some guesthouses on Ambae island, in Saratamata, Walaha and Nduindui, which can accommodate visitors. These include Toa Palms Bungalows, Garden Private Bungalows, and Tui Lodge. There's also a camping ground on the island.
Vanuatu islands information
Santo Island | region were evacuated. It's the largest of Vanuatu volcanoes.
It is possible to actually climb the Lombenden volcano from the Ambanga village but it is a very rough going, and a guide will most certainly be required. The volcano is described as one | 53 |
Max Reinhart Gets More Awesome
By ArikJames Mar 28, 2011, 6:52am PDT
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Today<|fim_middle|> 2nd period the ICE made it 3-0 while shorthanded as Drew Czerwonka fed Max Reinhart near the net and he scored high over the fallen goalie.
The thing that impresses me here isn't just the goal, but it's the implication that while shorthanded Reinhart helped hold the offensive zone with Czerwonka long enough to set up an actual play.
On a related note- can the Flames please trade for prospect LW Drew Czerwonka from the Oilers? The name alone is reason enough.
In other prospect news, Ryan Howse is scoreless in 2 playoff games against the Spokane Chiefs, Michael Ferland has 1A against the Medicine Hat Tigers, Spencer Bennet is scoreless in 2 playoff games against the Tri-City Americans, and Patrick Holland has 1G and 1A against the Vancouver Giants. Given that series has the latter two playing against each other, I'm going to try and catch as much of it as I can.
A more in-depth prospect look will be up later in the week | 's edition of "Max Reinhart is one of the forward prospects we're most excited about right now" news: in his most recent game against the Moose Jaw Warriors, Reinhart posted the game winning goal on a shorthanded goal, further solidifying his chances at picking up his first Kris Chucko award this post-season
The "official" description of the goal from the Kootenay Ice website:
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<|fim_middle|> the Tennessee Aquarium. | When we got to Cincinnati area, we ended up in a back up which is usual for that area. We were relieved when we got past Florence, KY area so that we could stop at the rest stop.
It was a quick stop because it still was in the 20's. I was freezing.
Our next stop was in Berea, KY. There is an artisan center there so we quickly made a stop there. I always enjoy looking at some of the wares they sell there.
We changed drivers in Berea so Hubby could take a quick nap. Hubby usually drives on our road trips. I'll drive occasionally. Of course, this time I ended up having to drive through construction which was annoying at points. Workers were out working so even though I was annoyed with some of the other drivers I was happy to see them out.
Our next stop was the Tennessee welcome center. We walked around for a while. Then I made my lunch to eat on the road.
We made 3 more stops before getting to the Tennessee Aquarium. One was to get gas. We also stopped at the scenic overlook and then at a rest stop to make Hubby's sandwich.
Here are some photos from the scenic overlook.
After we got through Knoxville, we kept seeing signs stating I 75 was closed at the I 75 / I 24 intersection. We didn't know what had happened but knew we needed to find a detour because that was our exit. Luckily, I found an alternative. Later I found out part of the bridge railing had fallen onto the highway. They had to close down the highway to get the debris off the road.
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Chef's Showcase: Peanut butter chocolate rice Krispie squares
By Eric VellendSpecial to the Star
Sat., Jan. 15, 2011timer2 min. read
Food was more than a passion in Leah Kalish's childhood home: it was an obsession.
"I come from a super foodie family," says the 51-year-old. "At lunch we talked about what we were going to have for dinner, and at dinner we talked about what we were going to eat the next day."
Kalish had a knack for desserts, and while she was still a teenager, she started pastry business out of her family's Armour Heights home.
"I started by selling to my mom's friends," she says. "But soon there was a domino effect of who needed to get it."
While the self-taught pastry chef has been self-employed for most of her three-decade career, she did do a two-year stint in her late 20s at Scaramouche under Joanne Yolles.
"I got my first taste of volume. And the time constraint of a restaurant is totally different."
Kalish would soon get used to volume. After Scaramouche, she took Leah's Home Baking to the next level with a commercial space in East York. Her biscotti started flying out of the ovens.
"We now sell over 10,000 pieces a week to stores like Pusateri's and Summerhill Market."
In 2008, Kalish was looking for a new commercial space, when a property in Hillcrest became available with a retail storefront. In February of 2008, Leah's was born at 621 St. Clair Ave. W. (416-785-4711).
"This is American homey baking," she says of her mouth-watering pastry case. "There is nothing French patisserie about it."
The move to retail has been a good one for the ebullient baker.
"The part I like best is the 1000 new friends. There is such community spirit here. It's an amazing location."
P<|fim_middle|>Makes 24 squares.
Star-tested by Eric Vellend.
eric.vellend@gmail.com | eanut Butter Chocolate Rice Krispie Squares
1 cup (250 mL) smooth sweetened peanut butter
4 oz (110 g) semi-sweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
2/3 cup (160 mL) corn syrup
6 tbsp (90 mL) unsalted butter + more for greasing pan
6 cups (1.5 L) mini marshmallows
7 cups (1.75 L) puffed rice cereal (such as Rice Krispies)
Butter 13-inch by 9-inch (32.5-cm by 22.5-cm) baking pan. Line bottom with parchment paper.
In large pot, combine peanut butter, chocolate, corn syrup, butter and 3 cups (750 mL) marshmallows. Place over medium-low heat. Cook, stirring, until melted and smooth. Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes. Stir in rice cereal then remaining 3 cups (750 mL) marshmallows. Pour into prepared pan. Press down evenly with rubber spatula. Cool completely. Cut to form 4 rows of 6 roughly 2-inch (5-cm) squares.
Store wrapped in plastic or in airtight container at room temperature for up to 7 days.
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Pucybut, także: czyścibut, czy<|fim_middle|>
Ginące zawody
Obuwie | ściciel butów – zawód polegający na czyszczeniu i polerowaniu obuwia przypadkowych klientów, wykonywany zwykle wprost na ulicy miasta, za wynagrodzeniem.
Specyfika zawodu
Zwykle obsługiwany przez pucybuta klient kładzie nogi na podnóżek, jego spodnie są delikatnie podwijane (by nie ubrudzić nogawek), po czym pucybut zaczyna czyścić mu buty za pomocą szczotek, past, kremów i szmatek. Na początku usuwa kurz i błoto, następnie szczotkuje buty pastą i na końcu doprowadza je do połysku wełnianą szmatką.
Zawód wykonywany typowo przez mężczyzn lub (w dawniejszych czasach) przez chłopców. W stereotypowym wyobrażeniu, strój pucybuta składa się z fartucha, koszuli z muszką i rękawic, jednak nie wszyscy pucybuci tak się ubierają.
Obecnie w Polsce zawód pucybuta jest rzadko spotykany.
Synonim przedsiębiorczości
Zawód pucybuta stał się synonimem początku drogi w przedsiębiorczości (biznesie), co znalazło wyraz w popularnym sloganie Od pucybuta do milionera. Opiera się to na fakcie, że rozpoczęcie działalności w tym własnym, jednoosobowym przedsiębiorstwie, nie wymaga dużego wkładu kapitału, przynosi skromny dochód, wymaga ciężkiej pracy, która nie cieszy się szacunkiem innych.
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The Badass 50 2020: Meet the Women Who Are Changing the World
As someone who has proved she's not to be messed with, it's only fitting that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi lead our class of 2020.
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Welcome to InStyle's fourth Badass Women issue, which kicked off yesterday with cover star Olivia Wilde. Next up is our bi-annual Badass 50 list celebrating some of the greatest changemakers of our time, from all over the world. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi offers her thoughts on what it takes to be a badass, the Today Show's first female co-anchors Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb get candid about the future for female journalists, editor and author Scarlett Curtis opens up about her mental health struggles, plus more inspiring stories from women who show up, speak up, and get things done.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her Ceremonial Office in the U.S. Capitol Building. Photographed by Jeremy Leibman.
| Credit: Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her Ceremonial Office in the U.S. Capitol Building. Photographed by Jeremy Leibman.
1. NANCY PELOSI: How do you match the badassery of Speaker Pelosi? It starts with finding your purpose. "My best badass advice is to be you," she says. "Be confident in<|fim_middle|>graves, Reese Witherspoon, and Gigi Hadid Made This CMAs After-Party the Place to Be
45. EVA GALPERIN: The cyber-security expert created and heads a privacy and security research group within the Electronic Frontier Foundation that protects vulnerable populations like journalists, activists, women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ communities. Her goal is to eliminate "stalkerware," software domestic abusers often use to track their partners. "I'm working on the most badass thing I've ever done," she says. "I'm working on destroying an industry."
46. MIRAMAR AL NAYYAR: "Gender doesn't matter anymore," says the Jordan-based Iraqi street artist. "What matters most is having the intention, the vision, and the path to achieve your goals." Many of her murals are portraits of influential Arabs like Iraqi-British architect Zaha Hadid, whom she painted for the Baladk Street & Urban Art Festival in Amman. "Besides being a grand designer, her face expresses greatness and edginess," says Al Nayyar. Her next project, a collaboration with local artist Dalal Mitwally, is part of a campaign to end violence against women.
Courtesy Lindsay Shookus & Kristin Merrick
| Credit: Courtesy Lindsay Shookus & Kristin Merrick
47. & 48. LINDSAY SHOOKUS & KRISTIN MERRICK: Two decades after they met in college, Emmy-winning SNL producer Lindsay Shookus and financial adviser Kristin Merrick are spotlighting female entrepreneurs at their annual "Women Work Fucking Hard" event. "I didn't have many female mentors in my former career, but now I try to be one myself," says Merrick. "We want women to kick off their shoes, have some wine, and uplift each other." At NBC, Shookus aims to lead by example. "I try to pay it forward," she says. "I was hired as an assistant at SNL in 2002. Now I fight for my staff to get more money and recognition. In September I promoted my entire office."
49. ERICA ARMAH-BRA BULU TANDOH: Known as DJ Switch, the 12-year-old superstar has already grabbed the spotlight at gigs like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Goalkeepers event and snagged the title of Ghana's best DJ of 2019. The go-getter even has her own foundation, which focuses on gender equality and helps provide learning tools for disadvantaged kids. Her ultimate goal? To become a "Dr. DJ" gynecologist. "I feel powerful when I am able to give back to society and change a person's life."
50. ANN DRUYAN: The Emmy and Peabody award-winning writer, producer, and director has been hell-bent on safeguarding scientific facts and protecting the planet for decades. Now, the former creative director of the Voyager Golden Records (phonographs sent into outer space as a representation of life on Earth) is carrying on her and her late husband Carl Sagan's iconic work interpreting discoveries through National Geographic's Cosmos TV series. "Being a badass means standing up for science at a time when it doesn't seem to matter what's true," she says. "I'm very proud of the work I've done in defense of science and reason."
For more stories like this, pick up the February issue of InStyle, available on newsstands, on Amazon, and for digital download Jan 17. | what you have to offer. It's nice if you want to have role models but be yourself. That has an integrity about it, an authenticity about it. That is what is necessary." The highest-ranking female politician in America's history is steadfast in her pursuit of justice on Capitol Hill. "Take the slings and arrows and then let the real heroes emerge," she says. "I certainly hope that makes me a badass." We can safely say, it does. Read more here.
2. DAKOTA JOHNSON: Since making her phone number public in 2018 and inviting survivors to share their stories of harassment and abuse, the actress has turned the voicemails she has received into a podcast called The Left Ear ("the ear closest to your heart"). The second season will premiere this year, while Johnson continues to grow her production company, TeaTime Pictures. "Speaking freely about your trauma, knowing that there is not someone who is going to judge, diagnose, pacify, or criticize you is profoundly healing," she says. "Being able to listen in this way, to be a safe place for someone else, is everything."
3. KELLY SAWYER PATRICOF & NORAH WEINSTEIN: "We treat Baby2Baby as a business. It's not a charity, it's not a volunteer project; it's an entrepreneurial business," says Weinstein. With Sawyer Patricof, the determined moms have built up their organization to serve more than 200,000 children in the L.A. area alone. Their annual agenda includes a star-filled fundraiser that yields millions of dollars in aid and has helped deliver more than 70 million products to kids in need. They've also urged politicians to waive the taxes on diapers in nine states. Making essential products more accessible for families is their overarching goal. "The sky's the limit," says Sawyer Patricof. "There are so many children who need help."
4. ALLYSON FELIX: Just 10 months after giving birth by emergency C-section, the sprinter broke Usain Bolt's record for most gold medals at the World Championships. Her 12th victory was doubly sweet after she stood up to Nike when the brand refused to guarantee maternity protections in her sponsorship contract. Her actions have led major sponsors, including Nike, to revise their policies to better support athlete moms.
5. DIANA NYAD: "What more can I do than get up every day, grab a tiger by the tail, swing it over my head, and go to bed saying, 'Woo, I just couldn't have put any more into that day than I did'?" says the legendary swimmer who, in 2013 at age 64, became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a protective shark cage. In 2017 she joined the chorus of women sharing #MeToo stories as a means for advocating for change. Now Nyad's energy is as infectious as ever, as she gets ready for her EverWalk initiative this summer, in which she plans to get 1 million people to walk from Miami to D.C. and pledge their commitment to keeping the oceans clean by reducing single-use plastics at home.
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| Credit: JEAN-BAPTISTE LACROIX/Getty Images
6. CICELY TYSON: After 60-plus years in the spotlight, snagging three Emmys, a Tony, and an honorary Oscar, the 95-year-old super-stylish actress proves that retirement just isn't in the cards. She can be seen in Ava DuVernay's upcoming Cherish the Day.
7. SUSAN GOLDBERG: National Geographic magazine's first female editor in chief is no stranger to taking the lead as a boss in multiple newsrooms, including Bloomberg News, where she was the outlet's first woman bureau chief in Washington, D.C. In her latest role she is dedicated to adding more female contributors to the magazine's masthead, in part to honor the centennial anniversary of the women's suffrage movement in America. "Being a great journalist is a badass act in and of itself," she says. "And there is nothing more important than making sure we have a diverse staff to tell stories in their truest light."
CHRISTOPHER STURMAN
| Credit: CHRISTOPHER STURMAN
8. & 9. SAVANNAH GUTHRIE & HODA KOTB: Guthrie and Kotb made history in 2018 as the first female co-anchors in Today's 67-year history, and since then, they've had each other's backs every step of the way. "Now it's about who's right for the job. No one questions whether a female anchor would be able to do a tough interview or cover the news," says Guthrie. Adds Kotb, "Obviously, we're on equal footing with men — we go toe-to-toe all the time!" Read more here.
10. DELTA "WING" CREW: For International Girls in Aviation Day the airline flew 120 girls from Salt Lake City to Houston to tour NASA and learn about careers in aviation and aerospace. The annual event was orchestrated entirely by women, from the pilots and ramp agents to the air-traffic controllers. "The girls clapped as we barreled down the runway," says 737 First Officer Erin Heinlein, who flew co-pilot. "Hearing their joy brought me back to the excitement and wonder I felt on my first flights."
11. GABRIELA SCHWARTZ: The head of global urban marketing for Capitol Records nurtured the careers of stars like Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and Jennifer Lopez, effectively shaping the future of music and pop culture. "I feel badass when I'm surrounded by women with the same purpose," she says. "Hot yoga and martinis help too."
12. KRISTINE DAVIS: As one of the masterminds behind NASA's new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit spacesuit (xEMU), the engineer is making history by designing the helmet, sun visor, and waist assembly that will be worn by the first woman to walk on the moon, in 2024. Her advice for the next generation? "Find something you are passionate about and pursue a career in it," Davis says. "If not you, who? Go change the world."
13. MELINA MATSOUKAS: The Bronx-born director, whose work includes music videos for Rihanna and Beyoncé (e.g., the Grammy-winning "Formation") and TV shows like Insecure, débuted her first feature film, Queen & Slim, to much fanfare last year. Written by Lena Waithe, the movie is a love story that also tackles the topic of police brutality and how tragedy can strike at any moment. Matsoukas's refreshingly real approach makes her a force to be reckoned with.
14. JUDY CHICAGO: Over the course of her 50-plus-year career, the famed feminist artist eschewed preconceived notions of gender by studying pyrotechnics and attending auto-body school to create her work. Though she is often associated with her seminal installation The Dinner Party — and the controversial reviews it received — Chicago is finally getting her due with her first retrospective, at the de Young Museum in San Francisco this spring
15. DEBBIE STERLING: The Stanford graduate's disruptive toy and media company, GoldieBlox, introduces young girls to the literal tools they need to succeed in science. "STEM is often portrayed as a white male in a lab coat who is a born genius. Call it the Einstein effect," she says. "If you're a young girl who is creative and social, you might think, 'That's not for me.' The truth is science, engineering, and technology are incredibly creative. And the stuff you build changes people's lives."
16. REBECCA OPPENHEIMER: The curator, professor, and chair of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History, who has worked with researchers at NASA and her alma mater, Caltech, designs instruments to better study planets (and perhaps one day life) outside our solar system. Since coming out as trans in 2014, she has also challenged people to push past labels. "Astrophysics is nuts, and the universe we live in is absurd, funny, and beautiful," she says. "To empathize with any other human, labels are mediocre at best. We are too complex for simple tags."
17. DOMINIQUE CRENN: "I'm trying to be a good human who kicks some ass," says the French chef, whose San Francisco restaurant Atelier Crenn is the first run by a woman in the U.S. to earn three Michelin stars. Known for her commitment to innovation, sustainability, and equality in the kitchen, Crenn announced her battle with breast cancer in May but has hardly skipped a beat. Most recently she pledged to create meatless menus in an effort to be even more eco-conscious. "I want to tell young women, 'Hey, you are a badass too. If I can do it, you can definitely do it,'" she says.
18. JENNIFER JUSTICE: The entertainment lawyer has worked on major deals for artists like Outkast, Beyoncé, and Jay Z (she represented the hip-hop mogul for 17 years and helped launch his company, Roc Nation). To combat the gender pay gap at male-dominated record labels, she made it her mission to represent more women and negotiate fair compensation. "I was making money for men by day and trying to overthrow the patriarchy by night," says Justice, who now runs her own female-focused advisory and legal firm, aptly named The Justice Dept.
19. KATIE PORTER: "I'm not in Congress to do what is politically easy. I am here to do what is right," says the single mom and consumer-finance expert who represents California's 45th District. Known for her canny questioning of bank CEOs and public officials before the House Financial Services Committee, she says her proudest achievement in office was helping change a bipartisan bill that would have made it hard for Americans to file their taxes for free. "When you have courage to push back against leaders of both parties, we can make real change to help people."
20. - 22. BRIE MIRANDA BRYANT, DREAM HAMPTON, TAMRA SIMMONS: "Many people were healed from this project. It shed light in a dark place and will, hopefully, help fewer people become victims," says Simmons, one of the three female executive producers behind the award-winning documentary series Surviving R. Kelly and its sequel, The Reckoning. Their work led to the indictment of the R&B star after more than two decades of alleged sexual abuse and predatory behavior. "This triggered a global conversation that allowed for more open, robust talks around sexual violence," Bryant says. "The women featured in our documentary didn't all have the same profile, but they had nearly identical stories about the manipulation that preceded the actual abuse," Hampton adds. "We'd like people to understand the signs."
23. SCARLETT CURTIS: The celebrated editor of the best-seller Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies rose to recognition with the success of her book, which showcases essays from prominent female actresses, activists, and other leaders such as Emma Watson, Alicia Garza, and Jameela Jamil. As an InStyle Badass Women honoree, Curtis tells us in her own words how she was able to find bravery in being honest about her mental-health struggles. "Though it's not glamorous or sexy and it certainly hasn't been easy, taking back my life is the most badass thing I could ever do," she says. Curtis's latest book, It's Not OK to Feel Blue and Other Lies, is out now.
24. SUE GORDON: After operating under the radar for 30-plus years as a card-carrying member of the CIA, the former deputy director of National Intelligence was foisted into the spotlight last summer when she had no choice but to tender her resignation to President Trump. "The most important thing was not whether Sue Gordon got to keep the position, but whether the president's going to get good intelligence — and I have a lot of confidence in the community," she says. "You do what's right." Her next act includes mentoring the next generation of leaders, consulting for tech companies, writing at least four (if not more) books, and going on a well-deserved European holiday.
25. ESTHER DUFLO: The Paris-born MIT professor, who won a Nobel Prize in economics for her "experimental approach to alleviating global poverty," is the youngest person and second woman to receive the honor. In her Nobel Banquet speech she said, "I cannot help but hope that this prize, with its emphasis on the essential question of how to improve the lives of others, and with one woman among the laureates, will encourage many others to come join us."
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26. JAWAHIR ROBLE: "I don't want to encourage just Muslim girls and black girls. I want to encourage all females," says the Somalian refugee and first black Muslim woman in the U.K. to officiate soccer matches wearing a hijab. The referee is studying to become a coach now and hopes to lead England's women's national team to victory one day. "I know a lot of girls are looking up to me. I feel like I'm representing them all."
27. BILLIE EILISH: For her début album, the Gen Z pop icon secured six Grammy nominations and became the youngest star to earn a nod in each of the "big four" categories (song, record, album, and best new artist) all at once. She is also the first artist born in the 2000s to hit No. 1 on the Billboard charts. The devout vegan is determined to carry on her phenomenal success while sticking to her guns. "I'm really strong-willed, and I know exactly what I want," she says. "I'm going to f—ing do it."
28. ZARIFA GHAFARI: As one of Afghanistan's first female mayors, and, at age 26, the youngest, Ghafari is starting the conversation surrounding women's rights in her town of 35,000, Maidan Shar, and across the Middle East. "My goal is to make people believe women's power," she has said on Twitter.
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29. MEENA HARRIS: The Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign founder and CEO turned a simple T-shirt collection into a viral empire that supports women's-rights focused nonprofit partners like Families Belong Together and the Black Futures Lab. Her motto? "Screw the haters and keep it moving," she says. "Don't give up. Don't cut corners. Pursue things with passion and commitment."
30. FIONA KOLBINGER: The German surgeon-in-training is the first woman to win the Transcontinental, an endurance cycling race covering over 4,000 kilometers across Europe. In what was her first-ever bike race, she finished in 10 days, 2 hours, and 48 minutes, beating her closest competitor (a man) by more than 10 hours. "Do not let others' prejudice limit your ambitions," she says. "Be confident about your passions and talents."
31. MICHELLE PESCE: The DJ, who has been spinning for 20-plus years at events like the Golden Globes and Coachella, co-founded Woman., a collective formed to "shift the needle on inclusivity, safety, freedom, consent, and mental health in nightlife spaces." This includes establishing physical sanctuary spaces and training security guards in violence prevention. "I work in an environment that often tolerates bad behavior and blurred lines," she says. "But my passion for what is right is greater than my fear of speaking up."
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32. AMANDA NGUYEN: The sexual-assault survivor and CEO of Rise is literally rewriting the law to increase protections for more than 72 million survivors across the country. In just four years her nonprofit has helped pass 27 laws. And, she says, "We're not stopping — we're continuing this badass work into 2020 with more states adopting their own Sexual Assault Survivors' Bill of Rights."
33. SUSAN FOWLER: In a blog entry in 2017 the software engineer exposed the toxic environment she endured at Uber. Her viral post has ignited an industry-wide examination of the treatment of women in Silicon Valley. With her memoir, Whistleblower: My Journey to Silicon Valley and Fight for Justice at Uber, expected to hit shelves next month, she wants to encourage readers to take charge of their own futures. "I hope I inspire people to speak up for what's right, to find greater autonomy in their lives, and to be the heroes of their own stories," she says.
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34. KELLY CLARKSON: Since winning the first season of American Idol in 2002, the singer has been pushing boundaries, winning awards, breaking records, and molding her career all on her own terms. "I have had to fight so hard just to be myself," she says. "I'm comfortable in my skin. I don't want to dress, sing, or think like someone else." With her talk show renewed for Season 2 and a Las Vegas residency on the horizon, the unstoppable star shows no sign of slowing down. "Confidence is everything," she notes. "Say yes to things that challenge you and push you further as an artist."
35. KOTCHAKORN VORAAKHOM: The founder and CEO of Porous City Network and Landprocess turned 11 acres in Bangkok, Thailand's "sinking city," into the first public park there in 30 years, designing it to retain up to 1 million gallons of water. She also looks forward to opening Asia's largest urban-farming green roof. "A park shouldn't be just for beautification," she says. "It should address future climate uncertainties while allowing new landscape-architecture solutions to emerge."
36. CLAIRE BABINEAUX-FONTENOT: "My goal is a hunger-free America, and I have never been better positioned to make that goal a reality," says the CEO of Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization. The finance expert left her corporate career when a breast-cancer diagnosis gave her pause, allowing her to go back to her roots and build on what she was taught growing up in Louisiana with — wait for it — 107 siblings (biological, adopted, and foster). "Among the many lessons I learned growing up in our large family, three stand out: resiliency, the power of diversity, and the fierce potential of female leadership," she says.
37. VIJAYA GADDE: As Twitter's global lead of legal, policy, and trust and safety, Gadde has helped spearhead the social-media company's ban on political ads. "We wanted to address the risk that digital ads bring when it comes to driving political outcomes," she says. "We believe that political reach should be earned and not bought." Gadde is also a co-founder of #Angels, an investment collective that backs start-ups and helps ensure that women receive equal compensation at successful companies
38. GREGG RENFREW: In 2011 she launched Beautycounter, a brand committed to keeping 1,500 toxic ingredients out of its products. This December she went to Capitol Hill to serve as an expert witness at a House hearing on cosmetics reform calling for stricter regulations of potentially harmful chemicals in personal-care products. "I've gotten up in front of thousands of women who have joined us to change an industry that has been antiquated and stagnant for over 81 years," she says. "Those are my most badass moments."
39. LIVIA FIRTH: "The future is about active citizenship, collaboration, new business models, and putting people and the planet above profit," says Firth. As the co-founder and creative director of Eco-Age and the founder of the Green Carpet Challenge, she has been raising the issue of sustainability in fashion for over a decade by highlighting eco-conscious brands on and off the red carpet.
40. DEB BUTLER: The North Carolina House Representative's chants of "I will not yield" became an online rallying cry after she discovered that Republicans in her state had met in secret to override the governor's budget veto while their Democratic counterparts were attending a 9/11 remembrance ceremony. "The New York Times has called North Carolina a place of scorched-earth politics, and I think that might be an understatement," says Butler, who's not giving up the fight. "I'm in it for the right reasons. I want to fix our institutions and make them stable so they can function better than they do now."
41. SHARON STONE: The actress has made a career out of realizing her power and owning her sexuality ever since her famous leg-cross scene in Basic Instinct catapulted her to stardom in 1992. A near-fatal stroke in 2001 almost derailed her career, but Stone is not easily deterred. In addition to starring in the new Ryan Murphy series, Ratched, she's dedicating herself to worthy causes. "It's important to take this thing called fame and use it for things that have value. For me, that has been working on social change," she says. "I have enjoyed working to build refugee camps and schools and taking my initiatives to the United Nations."
42. JOCELYN GUEST & ERIKA NAKAMURA: After a decade behind the butcher block, the married foodies, partially inspired by the birth of their daughter, Nina, created direct-to-consumer sustainable sausage company J&E Smallgoods in 2018. Now their line is sold at grocery stores along the East Coast. "We work with farmers who are trying to make their footprint as small as possible," says Nakamura. "They're being clever about grazing and pasturing their animals in a way that helps the soil rather than hurt it."
43. KATE ORFF: "I'm inspired by women who actively look, listen, and engage in the world and connect the dots," says the landscape architect and founder of Scape, whose ecological designs adapt to climate change and encourage people to protect nature. Her studio's Living Breakwaters project to safeguard the coast of Staten Island, for instance, "is not just a physical structure that reduces the risk [of storm surges] in the Raritan Bay," she says. "It rebuilds structural habitat for shellfish and fin fish and brings educators to the shoreline for citizen science, oyster restoration, and hands-on learning."
44. KACEY MUSGRAVES: Coming off the release of her fourth album, a world tour, and four subsequent Grammy Awards (including album of the year), the country singer-songwriter continues to change the face of her genre, challenging the traditionally conservative ethos with a sparkling modern take that is all her own.
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One Minute Manners
Quick Solutions to the Most Awkward Situations You'll Ever Face at Work
Sabath, Ann Marie
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What makes the difference between an ordinary professional and an extraordinary one? A mastery of business manners. That's why Ann Marie Sabath's pocket-sized guide to business etiquette emergencies is indispensable for new hires and college graduates just starting out, as well as a valuable tool for career veterans looking to add finesse to their workplace repertoire.
Unlike typical business etiquette manuals which run over with irrelevant advice, One Minute Manners is the source for quick solutions to the most awkward situations any professional will ever face at work—as taught by Sabath during her twenty years of domestic and international etiquette consulting for Fortune 500 companies.
In her trademark, easy-to-understand style, Sabath assists professionals in overcoming awkward situations such as:
A bore has latched on to you at a company event. How do you tactfully break away?
You've mistakenly forwarded a confidential message to the wrong person. Now what?
You show up for a client meeting only to realize that you're dressed too casually. What do you do?
You want to introduce a client; however, his name has escaped you. What do you do to get the person to say his name?
Covering everything from how to deal with the fallout of a hasty e-mail to discreetly letting a server know you are picking up the bill for everyone at the table, One Minute Manners minimizes business awkwardness and maximizes your chances for professional success.
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Provides advice on how to cope with a variety of awkward situations at the office, from dealing with the fallout from a hasty, ill-conceived e-mail, to what to do when one forgets another's name, to discovering that one is now working with a former lover.
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, c2007
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On his sixth solo album, former Bible singer/songwriter/guitarist Boo Hewerdine presents his own freshly-minted versions of songs he'd written for others, the list of benefactors including Eddi Reader, Hepburn and the Nashville Bluegrass Band. In his hands these pillow-soft songs are bathed in arrangements that are often little more than acoustic guitar<|fim_middle|>resco "I Felt Her Soul Move Through Me", an English country garden kind of spiritual, cuts through any lingering suspicion that Hewerdine's stock in trade is cloying, Hallmark sentimentality: he's just doing the best he can in the way he knows how. | , sympathetic electronics and delicately nuanced harmonies.
When it's good, this is grown-up pop confectionery of a rare quality. Examine "Slow Learner", for example, exquisitely understated, cryptic and enticing, the accumulating unease of "Sing To Me", or the Ivor Novello-nominated "Patience Of Angels", all songs that feed and flower in repeated listening. The closing alf | 87 |
I fully see the person you once were and the person you are now.
The full weight of all the changes you have made are fully visible to me now.
I see how hard you have worked. I see how hard you have cried. I see the anger and fear and loss that have been fully digested and transcended.
Your shiny new self did not arrive here without some bumps and bruises<|fim_middle|>. Your courage to break it all down, breakdown, and bit by bit, arrive new. | along the way. Some of those, sometimes most of those, self-inflicted.
Forgive yourself of the struggle. Allow yourself to stretch into who you now are.
You stand before me all together new. No longer needing the struggle to make yourself matter. No longer needing restraint of any kind.
You are launched, fledged, metamorphosed. You, but more YOU.
Oh the good! The tremendous change! The ripple! The tide of others now changing because they see the courage of YOU | 101 |
I used to run cross-country in high school. That was many<|fim_middle|> their faith. In regards to their spiritual life, they are puttering around the house and waiting for the next golf game. And they are in the prime of their life. And often those Christians that are spiritually retired are not even in their 50's. They've just decided that they have "done their time" and that it's time for someone to take over. They are sliding for home but they have barely rounded second base.
Paul writes that he was "straining forward to what lies ahead, "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." (Phil. 3:13-14) I love that. Even with all the heartaches and difficulties that he experienced, he kept running. And not just running, but pressing forward. I am so blessed to see Christians that are running at full-throttle for the kingdom. I can almost picture Paul leaning in to the tape as he crossed the finish line. He never gave up. Too many lives at stake. Too many people's eternity in the balance. So he pressed on for the prize. Are you pressing on or walking?
No sitting on your blessed assurance awaiting the return of the Lord, get up , get back in the race, run on His strength, and finish strong in Jesus name!!! | moons ago. I remember running the race and asking myself often in the middle of the suffering why I was there and what I was trying to accomplish. Was it really worth it? I often thought about walking and sometimes slowed down the pace to make it more palatable. I was shamed into continuing on but had great sympathy for those runners that had given up and were walking. Keeping up the pace was hard and walking seemed so appealing at the time.
One of the reasons I became a pastor was so that I could help others finish the race. "Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:1-2) In the challenge to keep running the race of our faith, there is that mixture in the example of Christ of difficulty (enduring the cross) and motivation (the joy set before Him). The motivation helps us through the difficulty. Just like cross-country.
I see people at times walking in their faith. Because of a personal trial that has hampered their race like an achilles tendon injury for a runner. Sometimes it's hard to keep going because they get winded and are not in shape. I found that I can get distracted by the pain and effort and lose my focus. Those things can happen in a Christian's life. Sometimes it's honestly just a lot easier to walk. It may be a given that they go to church. But to run with full effort, to put energy into it? It's easier to walk. You are still moving when you walk, but you don't get as far. Far in terms of the ministry that God has called you to be involved in. Far in terms of impact on the lives of those around you. Far in terms of your own progress in the faith and Christ-likeness. Sometimes that just too much work and it's easier to walk.
I have found some Christians have retired. Not necessarily from their careers and work-life, but retired in | 442 |
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HPE DISCOVER: Do we have to wait for quantum computers?
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Learn about the technology events where Hewlett Packard Enterprise will have a presence in 2020 | PE senior fellow Ray Beausoleil, who heads up Hewlett Packard Labs' Large-Scale Integrated Photonics research group.
Quantum computing has succeeded in capturing the public imagination, but its effect on enterprise users would be minimal, at best. Typically, HPE customers want to start with massive amount of data and analyse it, in order to learn from it. There is an integral problem with quantum computers making this standard computation.
Beausoleil will discuss this and other roadblocks as well as innovative classical alternatives to quantum computing in the HPE Discover session, "Do we have to wait for quantum computers?" (IS5090)
But we'll give you a few insights to arm yourself for the session right here and now.
Classical computers use deep learning and other methods to sift through these large databases. In order for a quantum computer to do this same action, the database would need to be copied into a quantum register, which is a difficult thing to do. But the problems don't stop there.
"Nature is doubly unfair because you can't convert a classical database into quantum memory and then store the quantum database for later use," says Beausoleil. This "no cloning theorem" says you can't copy a quantum state. The implication of that? There can be no such thing as a quantum hard drive. "Deep learning is likely to remain a job for classical computers."
Other reasons that quantum computers are unlikely to provide a valuable assist to enterprise customers include the fact that there is no quantum computer large enough yet to solve an interesting problem. The field as a whole is trying hard to demonstrate "quantum supremacy," where a quantum computer outperforms a classical computer on one of a carefully chosen set of computational problems. Unfortunately, the answers to these problems are not particularly interesting.
"People are working their asses off to get a quantum computer to do anything at all! Quantum Supremacy would be an important engineering milestone that shows that the community is headed in the right direction" says Beausoleil.
The most likely first use of quantum computers will be to simulate other quantum systems. In other words, they may be used to design new materials, develop drugs, and answer longstanding questions in theoretical physics; none of which are likely to be highly valued in the C-suite.
One possible area of interest that quantum computers may prove useful in exploring are NP-hard problems, such as the traveling salesmen problem. But the wait for quantum computing is likely to be too long for people dead set on solving problems in the here and now. For instance, chaos computing has proven helpful in NP-hard problems and on a much shorter time frame, and optical computing may do the same within the next few years.
"For the foreseeable future," says Beausoleil, "the wise enterprise user will be better served focusing on solutions like HPE's Dot Product Engine, an accelerator designed to help deep learning work go much faster and a lower cost."
Beausoleil will outline the promise and problems of quantum computing, and the benefits of innovation to classical computing at the session below.
Session ID: IS5090
Date: Thursday, June 21
Time: 11:30 – 12:00 pm
Session Owner: Rebecca Lewington
Speaker: Ray Beausoleil
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Everyday more than three children under 5 present to a Hospital Emergency Department in Queensland for the treatment of scalds, mainly from hot water taps in the family home. The risk of children and their families suffering traumatic scalds in the home can be reduced by installing hot water tempering devices.
Most homes built prior to 1995 do not have a tempering device installed. Since 1995 Queensland legislation has changed where new homes are required to have a tempering device installed.
A cost effective solution is to have a tempering valve installed in your hot water system. These devices blend hot and cold water to reduce hot water temperature to 50 deg C delivered to either the whole home or to bathrooms only. Legislation states that only a licensed plumber can install a tempering valve. They need to be replaced every five years.
At this time of year when the Winter chill is in full swing, the last thing you want is a hot water crisis for you and your residents. During Winter when demand for hot water is high, hot water systems are under stress due to maximum load capacity. It is important that they are performing to their full potential.
There are very simple maintenance activities that you can carry out yourself. Making simple observations and familiarising yourself with the plant room can help diagnose molehills before they turn into mountains. Not only will you save your body corporate and apartment owners significant dollars in increasing the longevity of your hot water plant room assets, it will also reduce running costs. You will have fewer hot water emergencies in the building and fewer headaches for you as the property manager.
For larger plant rooms we suggest paying a quick daily inspection. Observe the operation of expansion valves, pumps, power/gas supply, check valves, temperature and pressure relief valves. Look for any unusual changes in noise or appearance in their operation.
Temperature and pressure relief valves are safety controls fitted to pressurised hot water systems. These valves ensure that the temperature of the water in a pressurised unvented water heater cannot exceed 99°C<|fim_middle|> plumbing problem I am happy to help you troubleshoot, or my team and I will investigate the problem to offer you an appropriate solution.
Want to cut down on your electricity? | in the event that the normal heater thermostat controls fail. These valves guard against both over-temperature and over-pressure hazards wherever water is stored in unvented containers. This helps to increase the lifespan of the unit.
Check these valves are operational by discharging at monthly intervals, and replacing at no more than five year intervals. It is normal for a relief valve to have minor leaks during a heating cycle. However, if a valve is constantly leaking it may require replacing or further attention to the unit. A leaking relief valve wastes water as well as power by constantly drawing cold water into the system. I welcome any of your general plumbing maintenance questions so please don't hesitate to call us on 0488 50 20 80. If you have a specific | 156 |
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Cryptoys
A world of toys that come to life after they are purchased.
Project keeps postponing plans
Missing token
A lot of competition
Team and community activity
Cryptoys Classic airdropped to early supporters.
Origin story trailer revealed.
Genesis Line of Cryptoys released (30 000 1st edition heroes).
"The Block" (our gaming engine) launched.
First Mattel Cryptoys revealed.
Initital Mini-Gamees launched.
Binary Dust Utility Token ($BD) launched.
3rd Party Marketplace Support.
Staking functionality.
Items & Accessories launched.
Skill Gems (power-ups).
NLP and Al functionality.
Companion App.
Cryptoys Animated series.
New breeds.
Pocket dimensions.
Playsets.
Cryptoys is a collectibles game using the Flow blockchain. The essence of the title is pets (Cryptoys, or toys) that come to life after they are purchased. Once they are alive, players<|fim_middle|> already running. In my opinion, the game cannot come up with any better concept that those. The question is whether it will ever launch at all. I do not recommend investing in the project. However, I might also add that for now there is actually no possibility to invest in anything." | can play various games with them.
No details about the game have been released yet. The authors clearly feel no need to rush. The dates of the first drops or Cryptoys sales are not published either. Events scheduled in 2021 for the spring of 2022 are now postponed until the summer of 2022.
The game will be developed for PC and will be playable after an initial investment. Players will also need to buy a toy.
Since no details about the games have been released, probably the only way to earn will be through NFT sales.
The NFT themselves will be ranked by rarity. There are 7 classes: Common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary, grail and ultra-grail.
In addition, I assume it should be possible to earn by playing, as is the case with similar projects.
The project does not have its own token. In-game payments should be possible by credit card in USD, BTC, ETH, DAI, mUSDC and USDT.
The team consists of people from OnChain Studios. You can find the complete list here. An introduction to the team members can be found on the project's Discord. Yet rather than the creators and their experience, you will only learn about their vision for this project.
Regarding the background of the studio, we certainly find experienced people there, and so the team composition is not bad.
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"I don't have a good feeling about the project. It's been on the market for almost a year, during which time the creators have only managed to set up stickers on Discord. I admit that the team behind the project is good, and we find some interesting partnerships, albeit few of them, but that's all.
After a year of operating, they have a minimal membership base, their activity on the networks is decreasing over time, and it is clear from Discord that the community is not active either. The creators promise that big things will happen soon, but they're probably just postponing their whole plan, as they're failing to deliver on it. Additionally, the game is being developed for PC only.
I personally think this concept is more suited to playing on a phone. Yet according to the creators, this is "not necessarily expected".
There are many similar projects, some of which are | 469 |
John released, Birchall 'unprotected'
According to the team's owner/president Darryl Mahabir, "we had a three- month contract and it came to an end."
Mahabir added that the management decided not to renew the contract of the 35-year-old, who joined the club in August after recovering from a year-long right knee injury.
John has scored 70 goals for the national team in his 114-game international career, and was in the "Soca Warriors" team beaten 2-1 Guyana in Georgetown in their CONCACAF zone World Cup qualifiers and out of Brazil 2014.
In related news, midfielder Chris Birchall, who, like John, last played for the "Soca Warriors" in their defeat away to Guyana, was placed on the unprotected player list by his American Major League Soccer (MLS) club Los Angeles Galaxy.
Birchall was a member of the LA Galaxy team which defeated the Houston Dynamos 1-0 on a goal by Landon Donovan, to win the MLS Cup one week ago.
A story on the Galaxy website stated that the 27-year-old central midfielder is among 16 players on the unprotected list ahead of the MLS Expansion Draft for the Montreal Impact.
"Teams that competed<|fim_middle|> or Homegrown players," the story said.
"John released, Birchall 'unprotected'" | this past season were allowed to protect 11 players as well as any Generation Adidas | 17 |
<|fim_middle|>. The webinar will continue with a look at the Reporters Committee's new Federal FOIA Appeals Guide, an online resource that guides journalists through the administrative appeals process. The appeals guide was funded by a grant from the Sigma Delta Chi Foundation.
To register for the free webinar, go to https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/926938151.
Previous Reporters Committee webinars on "Police, Protesters and the Press" and "Secret Courts" are archived online at www.rcfp.org/webinars. | Navigating the often intimidating process of filing and appealing a federal Freedom of Information Act request is the focus of the next free webinar hosted by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
The webinar will be held Thursday, Oct. 25 at 2 p.m. (Eastern), hosted by Reporters Committee FOI Director Mark Caramanica and Jack Nelson FOI Fellow Aaron Mackey.
Caramanica and Mackey will take participants through the FOIA process, explaining how to file a request and why it may be denied | 109 |
and you and your family will too.
No need for winter jackets here!
Hang 10 at one of our pristine beaches!
Go fishing and catch a big one!
Play a round of golf anytime of the year!
Moving can be a stressful event. Jody Donnelly and her husband John Abbey (a military veteran) would be happy to lend you a hand in finding the right place in the right neighborhood. Jody and John are well respected REMAX, Aerospace Realty, real estate agents in the Melbourne FL area. Drop them an email or give them a call at 1-321-345-7027. Mention that you going to work for Kegman Inc.
Through the creation of Kennedy Space Center in 1969, Brevard County not only underwent a significant economic transformation, but also obtained its nickname, Space Coast. Now almost 40 years later, the Space Center is still contributing to the county's economic growth with 15,000 employees and is also joined by agriculture, citrus production, and the manufacturing of scientific and electronic equipment.
With approximately 1.2 million visitors a year, tourism is also a large contributor to the economy. Through a combination of these attributes, the Space Coast ranks among the top Ten Florida Counties in terms of small business establishments, total employment, labor force growth, and total prime working age (18-44).
In 2005 Brevard students had higher SAT scores than any other School District in Florida.
Within the 10 largest districts, Brevard has ranked first in the number of grade "A" rated schools.
In 2006 & 2007 students in Brevard won almost a third of the state science fair prizes, including the most first prize awards.
Selected by his peers, the superintendent of Brevard schools was selected best in state.
According to the Florida Dept. of Education, 5 of the top 10 Elementary Schools lye in the District.
At the 2007 Robotics World Championships, a team consisting of Brevard County high school students took second place.
Cocoa Beach High School's International Baccalaureate program ranked among Newsweek's top 100 US High Schools in 2005 & 2006.
Brevard high schools lead the state in the number of students dual enrolled in secondary and college courses.
With Orlando only an hour away, you can have the booming experience of a metropolis with major theme parks like Disney, Universal Studios, or Sea World and major sporting events, shows, etc. and then come back to the serenity of the small town feel in Brevard County. Don't be mistaken though! The Space Coast also has some terrific amenities as well.
With its consistent climate, Brevard County has the ability to offer outdoor recreation nearly year-round. With more golf courses than any other place in the world, Florida is a well-known, popular destination for golfers. Being one of the best places to golf in Florida, Brevard County boasts 28 various private & public courses from the North to the South of the county. In fact, golf in Brevard is so popular that many home builders develop communities around golf courses<|fim_middle|> are accessible and very popular in the Port Canaveral area. Deep-sea fishing is among the most popular charters available and are typically run on a weekly basis (weather permitting). Other great water activities include sailing, kayaking, windsurfing, paddle boarding, wake-boarding, water skiing, and jet skiing.
Copyright 2014 © Kegman Inc. | to attract residents.
With 72 miles of beaches, Brevard County, specifically Cocoa Beach, is a well-known Mecca when it comes to surfing. But there's more to Brevard than just surfing. With 35% of the county being made up of rivers and lakes, if surfing doesn't intrigue your interest there are many other water activities available on the Space Coast. Between Brevard's major waterways, the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and the St. Johns River, this is a fisherman and boaters paradise. Don't have a boat? No worries. Boat charters | 126 |
Accented with a black mumm flower print on the shade, this modern adjustable floor lamp has<|fim_middle|> with a brushed nickel finish and a lovely white linen shade.
Designer Rachel Simon melds contemporary and high-tech perfectly in this adjustable height floor lamp.
An exclusive Moroccan Diamonds pattern enlivens the look of this brushed nickel finish metal floor lamp. | a lustrous brushed nickel finish.
A wonderfully expressive floor lamp design from Lights Up! and Brooklyn designer Rachel Simon. This refreshing floor lamp is adjustable to suit all your needs. It features an eco-friendly shade with a black mumm flower pattern that uses water-based inks and is constructed of 100% PET fabric made from recycled plastic bottles. Silk twill feel. Brushed nickel finish base. 3-way socket for easy lighting control. Final assembly in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Adjusts from 54" to 72" high. Shade is 18" wide.
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Brushed nickel finish. Metal construction. Mumm flowers pattern shade.
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A versatile choice that blends into virtually any decorthis contemporary adjustable floor lamp is accented | 211 |
Spring is officially here. The calendar says so, the cherry trees and forsythia in full bloom say so. My allergies say so. And during these first warm days of renewal, I'm always tempted to spring into action with a little colour added to my wardrobe. This morning, in advance of a parent-teacher conference, I was sorely tempted by a bright red and blue hare<|fim_middle|> coat and heading to New York City for the weekend. And I simply refuse to be rushed. | motif tie with the suit and shirt shown above. It's not often I am tempted by a red or maroon tie, but today I was.
I resisted. It's early in the season and I have time to unlimber the colourful and slightly eccentric in my wardrobe. The tie above is a woven maroon, dark blue, yellow and white number that is very serious. The shirt is a lighthearted one for a shirt with a contrast collar. The body is of light blue with white butcher's stripes (at least I believe them to be that wide.) The suit is of an open weave like a fresco or hopsack. It lets each cooling breeze through and allows me to wear a dark blue suit under conditions that would otherwise warrant tan or lighter grey. I like the seriousness of a blue suit and my colouring (what is called high contrast) works well with one.
Forgive the goofy look as I am congratulating myself on resisting another spring temptation — driving too fast. Yes, despite my allergies, I had the windows down and the sunroof open. I wasn't alone. There were quite a few people on the road feeling their oats. But as the oldies soul music poured forth from the speakers, I felt that I owned the road. Why? It's simple. Not a thing nor anyone could rush me.
There's a reason luxury cars are heavy and large. They proceed more smoothly down the road. There is a reason that one desires a driver to worry about traffic and the road conditions. Chauffeurs even take courses to learn to stop a car without a jolt. The whole experience of being driven is meant to be one of enveloping calm. Whilst I have yet to realize my dream of having a car and driver at my disposal, I can proceed gently, calmly and cheerfully when I am behind the wheel. How very much more elegant than speed shifting through my six gears and weaving in and out of lanes.
It's spring, there's nothing else for it. Luxuriate in the weather a bit. Relish the languor of a warm breeze. Relax on the road. And continue to dress with a bit of restraint during the week. We have time. Elegance is never hurried.
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Richmond was in true Spring form last weekend! I drove around all my favorite places, top down and 40s music on, and even got a bit of sun on my face!
I've been rushing the season a bit, too, pulling out the turquoise jewelry for a little spirit-lifting!
I must say I am quite jealous. The raincoat post from a few days back proved to be more useful today. But, no ill feelings of course…I was just getting used to the idea of lounging on the lawn again.
Quelle joie to watch you enjoying yourself so much. It brightens my day. I'm donning my new trench | 623 |
Santa & Cole: Miguel Mila: Cesta Table Lamp, imported from Europe. The Cesta, a magic lantern created by well-known designer Miguel Mila, consists of a cherry wood structure and an inner ball of light. Its oval volume and handle make it equally ideal for table tops and the floor. In the mid-sixties, the Cesta's supporting structure was made of Manila cane and the ball of light was made of plastic. Santa & Cole dignified and updated it after 1996, using heat-curved cherry wood and an opal crystal ball which enclosed the bulb, and adding a dimmer which allowed adjustment of light intensity.
It is a lamp with a sense of nostalgia, which is proving even more attractive for the newer generations. It is reminiscent of the style of lantern which<|fim_middle|> that a wooden pin enables the handle to be turned and prevents it escaping from its guide, with the result that all the materials employed for the mechanism are wood. | hung on coastal houses as a signal for the returning sailors, and which was also found in country houses and terraces open to the dark nights of 1970s Spain. Today, it is a classic lantern found in houses with a wide range of dZcors, and bears the characteristic stamp of its designer Miguel Mila.
Like a Chinese lantern or portable torch, it would not be out of place in the Japanese palaces of the Edo period, with its careful modulation of light and shadow.
The attention to detail is reflected in the fact that not a single screw is visible, and | 121 |
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Nothing can cause a knot or five like the schlep of driving for hours on end just so that you can get away from it all. Which is why I was chuffed to discover that Woodlands Spa is only about a 40-minute drive from Sandton. Set on the banks of the Crocodile River, in Muldersdrift in the Cradle of Humankind, this is the place to go if you're looking for a little R&R. I love that the architecture has been designed in such a way that it makes the most of the lush grounds and tranquil river.
First up we had a breath work session – this involves lying on yoga mats while Dr Ela instructed us how to use different techniques for about 30 minutes. You're supposed to completely let go and only focus on your breathing – this may sounds easy, but it's actually a massive challenge. Dr Ela explained that if you practice this often there are physical and emotional benefits. These breathing techniques help to increase the oxygen in your body - this can help with everything from regulating your blood pressure and insomnia, to burnout. It will also give you the know-how to channel your emotions. While I have never tried anything like this before, I definitely left feeling a helluvu lot calmer and I have every intention of using this in future.
My favourite part about my experience was the full body massage - so serene, so soothing, so satisfying. I dare you to try and stay awake – I couldn't! One hour later I was woken up by the therapist and my body felt fantastic and supple - and she has expertly worked out every single knot. No easy feat.
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HubSpot Impact Awards Submission:<|fim_middle|> approximately June 7th-15th of the month, you can see there is an additional increase to the number of daily views per day during the period of the Sleeping Baby Campaign (June 22nd - 29th).
No other strategic campaigns ran during July, but we did some short post boosts a couple of days right before the campaign launched. However, the we observed five distinct traffic spikes directly from the campaign through the end of the month.
No other campaigns ran this month. GIF #3 was by far the most successful post of the campaign. It's impact is reflected in the daily views through the end of September.
Results & Impact
The results were extremely positive and exceeded all expectations of the budget. Each subsequent post outperformed those that came before it, as measured by the number of people reached, reactions recorded, comments, and shares.
Total number of people reached: 87,473
Total number of reactions (Like, Love, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry): 10,388
Total number of comments: 271
Total number of shares: 957
The leadership team of the Washington Square Hotel deemed the campaign a great success, and it gained significant attention far surpassing our original suppositions. Over the next few months we may recycle the campaign periodically to attract additional likes, followers and to drive traffic back to their website.
Anthony Butler
Anthony Butler is the author of Primal Storytelling and the Founder of Can-Do Ideas
TOPICS: Inbound Marketing, Social Media | The Sleeping Baby Facebook Campaign
Inbound Marketing, Social Media
| By Anthony Butler
The Washington Square Hotel (WSH) is a historic hotel in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village. Marketing a hotel using a unique voice in New York City is very difficult, as there are hundreds of hotels on the Island, many of which are owned by large chains with a nationally known brand.
"The Sleeping Baby" campaign, as we came to call it, sprang from a brainstorming session around this seemingly simple question: why do people choose to stay in a small, boutique hotel in NYC, versus that of a big chain?
Well, there are many reasons why someone chooses to stay in a boutique hotel. Perhaps they wish to get a better sense for the local flavor of a neighborhood; maybe its a particularly unique experience they're looking for. But the one undeniable reason we kept coming back to is this: people are looking to have a comfortable, homey stay in a place that lets them leave the worries of the world behind while they enjoy an impeccably good night's sleep.
The Washington Square Hotel wanted to boost its social media following and interactions, as well as increase website visits via social media to their target market.
Our Solution? The Sleeping Baby Facebook Campaign.
Facebook only recently began allowing the use of GIFs in posts, and we thought it would be great to do something unique with that capability. The campaign features a series of 3 GIFs of "sleeping babies," a puppy, an infant, and a kitten. In each case they are either asleep and doing something cute and funny, or in the process of falling asleep.
Since GIFs were new to Facebook and we had not run a similar campaign prior, we limited the total campaign expenditure to $450.
We created a custom demographic for the hotel based on their target personas and planned to launch each subsequent post near the middle of the month, coinciding approximately with when people might be making travel plans for the following month.
We began with the tag line, "For a good night's rest in the City That Never Sleeps," and then updated to "A good night's sleep in the City That Never Sleeps," believing that the repetition of the word 'sleep' takes on a slightly more poetic feel.
Each GIF was then created as a post and pinned to the top of Washington Square Hotel's Facebook page, beginning on the date they were posted (about the middle of the month) until the end of the month.
Our budget for the campaign was $150 per GIF. GIF #1 was posted, pinned, and boosted for only 7 days (June 22nd - 29th); this means that its daily spend, while higher, delivered in a shorter period of time. While both GIF #2 and GIF #3 were posted, pinned, and boosted for 14 days with the same $150 budget each.
GIF #1 features a sleepy puppy:
GIF #2 features a very sleepy toddler:
GIF #3 features a dreaming kitty:
Breakdown of GIF #1:
Social media interactions increased for shares and comments, and boosted the total number of page likes gained.
GIF #1 Net New Likes:
In the days immediately following the post (June 22nd) there was an increase in Facebook page likes; the trend then dropped back to the monthly baseline, steadily increasing in page likes about 5 days after being pinned to the top of the Washington Square Hotel page. It then tappered back down towards the monthly baseline with a sharp drop after the campaign ended on the 29th.
The week following, the posting of the GIF (July 13th) we didn't see an immediate increase from the monthly baseline of page likes. However, a week after being pinned to the top of the Washington Square Hotel Facebook page, the post gained traction and we saw a sharp increase in page likes. The campaign ended on the 29th and the post tapered thereafter.
Almost immediately after the GIF was posted (September 13th) to the Washington Square Hotel Facebook page, we noticed an increase in page likes. The likes peaked about 6 days after being pinned to the top of the page and continued to stay above the monthly baseline until the end of the month. It was quite unique and showed the strength and popularity of the post.
The campaign ended on September 27th, followed by a taper back to the monthly baseline.
Using the HubSpot reports for traffic sources we tracked the daily number of website views from Facebook specifically. Based off the results, especially from GIF #2 and #3, we were able to draw a positive correlation between increased visits to the Washington Square Hotel website from the campaign. As with the Facebook reach, shares, reactions, and comments results you can also see an increase of success with each proceeding post.
GIF #1 Daily Website Views from Facebook:
Accounting for a separate campagin that ran from | 1,012 |
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Meet the 'fearless' drag queens of Beirut
By Thomas Aagaard Beirut
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-43489374
Image copyright Ida Guldbæk Arentsen
Image caption Creating Melanie's face with make-up can take Elias up to three hours.
Elias's hands tremble as he lights another cigarette. He's never done this before. He's worn the dress, the heels. He's practised the lip syncs. Tonight is his first real outing as Melanie Coxxx - the drag alter ego whom he likes to describe as a "fierce, fearless, fun, and sexy" queen.
Those are all strengths he needs to rely on tonight - especially the fearless part. As he struts along the runway-esque entrance to one of Beirut's few and secluded gay bars, a crowd of people both in and out of drag awaits him inside. Their eyes rest on Elias as he comes in.
He is here to walk in Lebanon's first-ever "mini ball", a type of competition in which contestants - drag queens, women, and, typically, gay men - come with wigs, gowns, high heels, and cinched-in waists to compete in extravagant runway looks, lip syncing skills and voguing.
"I want Melanie to be known. I want everyone to talk about her," says Elias.
A buzzing drag scene is evolving in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, where homosexuality is still technically illegal.
Melanie Coxxx isn't the only new queen on stage tonight. Three years ago, the scene hardly existed, says Evita Kedavra, an Armenian-Palestinian drag queen and one of tonight's judges.
Evita, who only wants to be quoted by his drag name to conceal his identity, was one of the first drag queens to start doing shows in Beirut's night clubs three years ago.
"No-one had the balls to perform in drag yet back then," he recalls of his first show, which quickly turned into regular gigs at Beirut's gay bars.
Since then, drag has moved to the forefront of Beirut's gay community.
Image caption Elias sometimes has help from a make-up artist before a big show.
There are two reasons for that development, Evita says.
One reason is that it has become easier to be gay in Lebanon during the past couple of years. According to article 534 in the Lebanese Penal Code, all sexual relations that "contradict the laws of nature" are punishable by up to one year in prison.
But unlike other Arab countries in the Middle East, Lebanon is edging close to decriminalising same-sex conduct completely, largely thanks to the growing pressure of Lebanese activists fighting for LGBTQ+ rights.
In recent years, several judges have ruled that being gay isn't in violation of Article 534.
Image caption For the Christmas show, Elias is dressed as an ice queen
Image caption Before his first ball 'Andrea' had never been out in public in full drag
Another reason is Western pop culture and the part it has come to play for younger generations growing up in post-war Beirut, Evita says.
"As kids, a lot of us only watched American television. And when we see Western culture embrace drag and gay characters on TV, we begin to do it, too. It's not necessarily that there's a broader acceptance here - it's that there's a broader acceptance there," he says.
Image caption Melanie Coxxx performs at a Christmas drag show
Image caption Robin Hoes earns the runner-up medal in the Dark Couture category
Specifically, he is talking about RuPaul's Drag Race, the wildly popular American reality show that for nine seasons has seen talented drag queens duel off in fashion, acting, singing, and lip syncing challenges. In 2017, the show moved from Logo to a much bigger audience at VH1, and the show's popularity exploded. In Beirut, too.
It's the same kind of fame Elias is dreaming about when the 23-year-old says he wants Melanie to be "known".
Elias is wearing a voluptuous black tulle dress that drags behind him on the floor as he walks in. His boyfriend Marwan keeps two steps behind to make sure no-one steps on the dress. Behind him, Elias's mother Valerie sits down for a cigarette.
"I was the one who showed him his first drag show when he was 14. Not here, of course, but in Turkey," she says, nodding to her son's friend beside her. "Because I knew. I just knew."
But Valerie hasn't always been as supportive as she seems now. When Elias came out at 19 years old, she initially kicked him out of the house.
"When he told me that night, I didn't sleep at all. 'What about our neighbours?' I thought. 'What are people going to say?' At six the next morning, I screamed my husband awake. 'A terrible thing happened to us. Our son died. Our son died.'"
Elias was sent to live with his grandparents for a while before being allowed back home. Members of Valerie's family alternated between giving her advice on how to cure her son, and blaming her as a mother for having influenced him.
In the end, Valerie cut ties with several family members, she says. She chose Elias.
Image caption Valerie, Elias's mother, accompanies her son to every show
Now Valerie sits on the front row of the ball taking place on an improvised catwalk in the middle of what's usually the dance floor of the bar. A panel of three judges has taken a table across from her, ready to score the contestants.
As Melanie walks down the runway, he rips off one piece of clothing after the other. First, the black tight bomber jacket, adorned with gold pedals in the shape of a tall crucifix. Second, the black tulle dress, is ripped off at the waist and thrown to the now-ecstatic crowd.
Then, only wearing a skin-tight leather corset, a black lace mask that covers his entire face, Melanie turns to head back along the runway, opens his mouth and lets a thick, blood-red liquid fluid flow from his mouth to his chest.
The audience goes wild, and Melanie is declared a winner.
Image caption Elias's boyfriend Marwan helps him before every show
When Elias goes outside for a cigarette immediately after, he can't remember his own performance. He is overcome by emotion.
"I thought it was just going to be a show, and then I would go home. But it was huge," he says.
The next day, he is booked for a show in another club, and his Instagram account gains several new followers. Eventually he has to create a new account devoted to Melanie Coxxx.
Four world-famous Drag Race alums have visited Lebanon's capital in the past year. One of them is Pearl, who says he feels like he is "contributing to a revolution".
Evita Kedavra says things are definitely "happening".
"Beirut is a very small city in a very small country, and we're a very, very small community of people. So I used to know literally everyone who would come to the bars. But now all these queens are suddenly emerging and I don't know them.
As we continue coming out, the scene will grow."
Image caption Elias and Marwan have been boyfriends for more than three years. They met each other shortly after Elias had come out to his parents.
Image caption Drag queens Robin Hoes (left) and Andrea (right).
Photos are copyright.
Video Does a new ruling offer fresh hope for LGBT rights in Lebanon | 1,568 |
People with diabetes who enroll in a health insurance plan tailored to their medical condition are more likely to stick to their medication and actively take charge of their own health care, according to a study done at the University of California, Los Angeles and published in May 2015 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. The researchers looked at the effectiveness of a health plan designed for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes.
A release from the university reports that the health plan also helps reduce medication costs, according to the report led by Dr. O. Kenrik Duru, associate professor in residence of medicine in the division of general internal medicine and health services research at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
Other studies have had similar findings, but the UCLA research examined all patients with diabetes who were eligible for the Diabetes<|fim_middle|> for their employees. In one of the tests, they analyzed how diligently participants, over the course of 12 months, took three types of drugs that are discounted by the plan and two that are not. These results were weighed against those of control patients who had plans from UnitedHealthcare that were not disease-specific. Compared to that group, employees on the disease-specific plan continued to take their prescribed medications at a rate about 5 percent greater than patients with standard plans, although this was only true for the medications discounted on the plan.
According to Duru, this can be translated to about a 1 percent reduction in health care spending and 0.6 percent fewer visits to hospitals and emergency treatment centers.
The study's co-authors are Norman Turk, Susan Ettner, Jinnan Li, Lindsay Kimbro, and Carol Mangione of UCLA; Romain Neugebauer of Kaiser Permanente; Tannaz Moin of the VA Greater Los Angeles and UCLA; and Charles Chan, Robert Luchs, Abigail Keckhafer, Anya Kirvan and Sam Ho of United Healthcare.
The study was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of diabetes translation and by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases' Natural Experiments for the Translation of Diabetes study (grant DP002722). | Health Plan — a health insurance plan marketed by Minnetonka, Minnesota-based UnitedHealthcare — whether or not these people were actually enrolled, Duru said. UnitedHealthcare provided data for the study, but the statistics were analyzed and reported by UCLA researchers.
People who regularly take medication for their diabetes are less likely to be hospitalized or need emergency treatment, and have lower costs of care in the long run. Employers therefore have an interest in trying alternative approaches to providing medical care for employees with diabetes, Duru said.
The diabetes-specific plan requires that enrollees be actively involved in their own health care. It includes reduced cost-sharing for medications and office visits, and free or low-cost resources to manage the disease, including telephone and online coaching. It was designed to provide an estimated annual out-of-pocket savings of between $150 and $500 per participant.
Duru's team wanted to determine whether the plan was cost-effective for 10 employers who purchased it | 199 |
Q: Is there any way to merge two conditional probability distributions? Is there any way to construct an expected conditional probability distribution of the form p(x|(y,z)) if I am starting with p(x|y) and p(x|z)? All variables are categorical.
My specific problem deals with a DNA multiple-sequence alignment. Abstractly, I have a two-dimensional dataset, where each position can hold one of four values {G,A,C,T}. The rows are genomes and the columns are aligned positions in the different genomes. I want a way to judge if the observed value is surprising given what I know about the row and column in which it is observed. My intention is to identify regions of a chromosome (a portion of a row, ~1000 columns wide) where the observed values would not have been predicted based on the characteristics of the row and the specific columns. I can easily infer the probability of observing a given outcome (e.g. x = G) for both the row and the column, but I don't know how I would merge those expectations into a single set of expected frequencies.
I would like to say that I am assuming that Y and Z are independent, but I don't know if that's meaningful in this scenario. One obvious constraint is that if a particular outcome is forbidden by one of the predictors, then it cannot occur at the intersection of the two predictors. For example, if the column is uniform (e.g. the genomes are monomorphic) then it doesn't matter what the probability distribution is for the row in question.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious, and I have an intuitive solution but am unable to prove it to myself. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
A: The solution is to treat p(x|y) and p(x|z) as independent distributions, and then focus on the subset of outcomes that meet the constraint that the conditional distributions produced the same outcome.
So...
p(x=G|(y,z)) = p(x=G|y) * p(x=G|<|fim_middle|> estimate is the same as in logistic regression.
| z) / S
where S is the sum over all possible outcomes {G,A,C,T}.
This was actually my intuitive answer, but I couldn't express the reasoning.
A: With logistic regression you can do something similar. The row and the column can be the independent variables. If you work without interaction, then the number of parameters you need to | 71 |
Visitors' opinions about New Zealand
by Jock Phillips
'So … what do you think of New Zealand?' New Zealanders have often been sensitive about the views of overseas visitors, with criticisms by the Rolling Stones, John Cleese and Paul Theroux making scandalised headlines. Other comments have been more positive, extolling the virtues of the landscape, the culture and social reforms.
Early visitors, 1769–1860
Importance of visitors' views
Living in a small country far from the centres of western civilisation, New Zealanders have been highly sensitive about the views of visitors from larger societies about their land and society. English commentator Austin Mitchell noted that a visiting Pom (Englishman) would be 'asked a thousand times how you like the country; two thousand times if you've already left the airport tarmac'.1
Word from on high
In the late 19th century, politician Edward Wakefield commented that 'when any famous writer undertakes to give the world an account of the colonies from his own observation, all good colonists await the publication of his book with feverish impatience, and when it appears each of them takes praise, or blame as personal to himself, and is elated or depressed in proportion as his colony is represented in a favorable or unfavorable light.'2
The views of visitors from overseas have been important in defining national identity for New Zealanders.
European explorers and the land
The first European visitors, the explorers, were interested in the long-term value of the new land for their own societies – so they focused on two issues:
the resource potential of the land
the nature of the indigenous inhabitants.
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and his crew never landed on New Zealand soil, but Tasman did conclude that it was a fine, if mountainous, country when he sailed along the coast in 1642–43.
On his three voyages to New Zealand, British navigator James Cook and his men developed more informed views. At first sight, Cook considered the land infertile, and dubbed the area 'Poverty Bay'. However, these views were quickly revised. On seeing Māori gardens at Anaura and Tolaga bays on the East Coast, Cook's men decided that the land was highly productive. The artist Sydney Parkinson wrote that with cultivation, the country might become 'a kind of second Paradise'.3
Cook himself concluded that while the South Island appeared mountainous and barren, the North Island contained lofty stout timber trees, and the valleys appeared rich and fertile. The seas had many fish that were good eating. There were no wild beasts, although seals and whales were noted, and Cook suggested that flax might be used for rope. He concluded that 'was this Country settled by an Industrus people they would very soon be supply'd not only with the necessarys but many of the luxuries of life.'4 Joseph Banks commented on the melodious birdsong.
French explorers confirmed these judgements. On Marc Joseph Marion du Fresne's voyage in the early 1770s, Julien Crozet emphasised the absence of wild animals and the abundance of fish.
Explorers and Māori
Abel Tasman's bloody confrontation with the Māori of Golden Bay established a view that Māori were an aggressive people, and the French explorers largely supported this notion. Pottier L'Horme on Jean François Marie de Surville's expedition regarded Māori as a lazy, treacherous and thieving people who practised cannibalism, and such judgements were fully accepted by the survivors of Marion du Fresne's expedition. Crozet described Māori as the greatest traitors on earth.
Cook took a different view. While accepting that Māori were warlike and practised cannibalism, he also described them as strong, with fine skills in fishing, crafts and agriculture. He considered them generally friendly to visitors.
Itinerants, missionaries and promoters
In the early 19th century the views of travellers reflected their purpose in visiting the new land. John Boultbee, for example, came as a sealer to southern coasts. His impressions were of tough physical conditions and a wild community of ex-convicts.
Itinerant English artist Augustus Earle came partly because he had met Māori in Sydney and wished to learn more. He painted a picture of them as a good-looking people, a 'splendid race of men'5, who blended ferocity with humanity. Like many later visitors he contrasted Māori with Australian Aborigines – and with European missionaries, whom he saw as inept hypocrites. Those who visited as missionaries had different views. Both William Yate (1835) and William Wade (1842) praised their fellow missionaries and found Māori stupid and lazy. Charles Darwin, who called in at the Bay of Islands on the voyage of the Beagle in 1835, shared such judgements. He found the landscape unattractive, the Māori immoral cannibals and the missionary community at Te Waimate the 'one bright spot' in the land.6
Promoters, such as the New Zealand Company men Charles Heaphy, Edward Jerningham Wakefield and Ernst Dieffenbach, presented a more positive view. Dieffenbach was depressed about the exhaustion of resources such as whales and flax, and was sympathetic to Māori. Soldiers such as Henry McKillop, on the other hand, considered Māori malicious and cruel.
Early judgements said as much about the motives and concerns of the visitors as the reality they experienced.
Austin Mitchell, The half-gallon quarter-acre pavlova paradise. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1972, p. 11. Back
Nelson Evening Mail, 22 September 1886, p. 3. Back
Parkinson's journal, 23 October 1769, http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/parkinson/134.html (last accessed 29 February 2012). Back
Cook's descriptions of places, http://southseas.nla.gov.au/journals/cook_remarks/051.html (last accessed 29 February 2012). Back
Augustus Earle, Narrative of a residence in New Zealand. Journal of a residence in Tristan da Cunha. London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1966 (originally published 1832), p. 57. Back
C. R. Darwin, 'Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. Journal and remarks. 1832–1836.' London: Henry Colburn. http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?viewtype=side&itemID=F10.3&pageseq=515 (last accessed 29 February 2012). Back
The 'Britain of the South', 1860–1900
Tourism begins
Tourist visits increased after 1865 because of:
the peace that followed the New Zealand wars
the development of faster, more comfortable steamships in the 1870s and 1880s
the emergence of travel agencies such as Thomas Cook & Son, and travel guides to New Zealand
the improvement of domestic facilities such as roads, trains and hotels.
Many visitors called as part of a world trip, while others were attracted by the growing international reputation of the Pink and White Terraces near Lake Rotomahana. Some who penned their impressions were tourists who could write. Others were famous writers who visited and sometimes gave lectures, including Anthony Trollope, Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Sir Charles Dilke and James Froude. Froude's Oceana was the most widely-read traveller's account. Most visitors were British, although Germans and Americans also came.
The landscape
Since the travellers followed a standard route – the 'hot lakes' of Rotorua, the cold lakes of Queenstown, and, from the 1890s, the Whanganui River and the fiords – judgements about the land were often similar. Most were enthusiastic about the scenery. Dilke regarded the glacier landscapes of the West Coast the most beautiful in the world. Froude wrote that 'the dullest intellect quickens into awe and reverence amidst volcanoes and boiling springs and the mighty forces of nature.'1 Writers went into rhetorical ecstasy in describing the White Terrace, often called the eighth wonder of the world.
The most common judgement about the society was its Englishness, 'a fac-simili,' as Lord Lyttelton wrote, 'though on a small scale, of England.'2 For some enthusiasts of the British Empire, such as Dilke, Englishness was what they had come to find. Dilke found it everywhere, but especially in Christchurch, where he was pleased to see imported English rooks cawing in the elm trees of the cathedral close.
No escaping England
Anthony Trollope saw New Zealand as 'unmistakably English', but believed this a disadvantage: 'The great drawback to New Zealand … comes from the feeling that after crossing the world and journeying over so many thousand miles, you have not at all succeeded in getting away from England.' When Trollope reached Invercargill, 'I felt exactly as I might have felt on getting out of a railway in some small English town, and by the time I had reached the inn, and gone through the customary battle as to bedrooms, a tub of cold water, and supper, all the feeling of mystery was gone.'3
The Scottish singer David Kennedy not unexpectedly discovered Scottishness, especially in Dunedin. Even non-British visitors noted the English character of the colony. American writer Mark Twain noted, 'It was Junior England all the way to Christchurch',4 and several German visitors such as Ferdinand Hochstetter and Baron Alexander von Hübner agreed.
Britain of the South – a glorious future
The Englishness of New Zealand was one reason many visitors promised the country a glittering future. Believing that the superiority of the English race derived from a vigorous life in a cold island (Britain), they saw New Zealand as replicating these conditions. James Froude anticipated 'a splendid race of Southern English'5 – with great poets, artists, statesmen and soldiers.
Visitors praised the progress colonists had made in the new land. Cities had acquired 'the best fruits of the civilisation', and in the country 'the wilderness had become a garden,'6 said Trollope. The German von Hübner agreed.
Lack of classes
Some noted the relative absence of class hierarchies. Kennedy commented that there was 'more of an equality between master and man'7 and Froude that the country was 'the workman's paradise'.8 Trollope noted the absence of tipping and the well-paid servants. He also claimed that colonials were well-read – 'Carlyle, Macaulay and Dickens' were better-known than at home.9
Most visitors had some criticism of Māori. Those who went to Rotorua were annoyed at the alleged drunkenness and financial greed of Māori. Some believed the modern Māori was degraded and would eventually disappear. Yet Māori were also praised for their hospitality and intelligence, and many visitors shared Twain's view that they were 'a superior breed of savages',10 more impressive than Australian Aborigines or Native Americans. Dilke noted that Māori had more rights than other native peoples elsewhere, but believed this was a tribute to their 'nobility of mind'11 and effectiveness as warriors.
Best in the world
German visitor Alexander von Hübner commented on the enthusiasm of New Zealand locals: 'They compare Auckland with Naples, Nice, Genoa, and Constantinople, and Auckland surpasses all … If the talk turns on the products of nature or industry, the picturesque charms, the climate, the men and things of the country, the refrain is always the same – they are the best in the world. In the face of such exaggerations one is not allowed to maintain a polite silence; one must gush in echo of his New Zealand friends. It is a weakness, an infirmity of children, which is only met with in new countries.'12
The travellers did have a few criticisms – several noted the extent of drinking and particularly the custom of 'shouting' (buying drinks for others); there was a general view that before the abolition of the provinces New Zealand was over-governed, and also over-burdened with debt; and some travellers noted the primitive nature of the facilities and the poor food. In Irish writer Beatrice Grimshaw's words, New Zealand was 'not yet fully opened up.'13 The Germans noted the over-sanctification of Sundays.
But quibbles were few and the travellers' enthusiasm must have reinforced New Zealanders' sense of identity and local pride.
Little wonder, then, that the travellers' most interesting criticism was that New Zealanders suffered from an overweening patriotism. They were excessively keen on blowing their own trumpets, and as Trollope noted, if the New Zealander 'would blow his own trumpet somewhat less loudly, the music would gain in its effect upon the world at large'.14
James Anthony Froude, Oceana, or, England and her colonies. London: Longmans, Green, 1886, p. 206. Back
Quoted in Lydia Wevers, Country of writing: travel writing and New Zealand, 1809–1900. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002, p. 135. Back
Anthony Trollope, Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1873, p. 549, 540. Back
Mark Twain, Mark Twain in Australia and New Zealand. Ringwood: Penguin Books Australia, 1973, p. 297. Back
Oceana, p. 227. Back
Australia and New Zealand, pp. 556, 653. Back
David Kennedy Junior, Kennedy's colonial travel: a narrative of a four years' tour through Australia, New Zealand, Canada, &c. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Publishing Co., 1876, p. 165. Back
Australia and New Zealand, p. 552. Back
Mark Twain in Australia and New Zealand, p. 318. Back
Charles Wentworth Dilke, Greater Britain: a record of travel in English-speaking countries during 1866 and 1867. 8th ed. London: Macmillan, 1885, p. 271. Back
Quoted in Oliver Harrison, 'The paradise of<|fim_middle|>1914, pp. 58–59. Back
Democracy in New Zealand, p. 359. Back
Beatrice Webb, Visit to New Zealand in 1898: Beatrice Webb's diary with entries by Sidney Webb. Wellington: Price, Milburn, by permission of the Passfield Trust, 1959, p. 1. Back
20th- and 21st-century travellers
Famous visitors
At least until the advent of jet travel in the mid-1960s, the arrival of famous people in New Zealand led to considerable media coverage and the inevitable question from an insecure nation, 'What do you think of New Zealand?'. When Irish author George Bernard Shaw visited in 1934, a book of his comments to the New Zealand press appeared just six days after he left.
Some visitors came with a particular focus – American author and angler Zane Grey wrote extensively about his deep-sea fishing exploits, and US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was interested in the role of women. Many rehashed old judgements – in 1925 author A. P. Herbert thought New Zealand more English than England. Four years earlier Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle praised the country's treatment of Māori.
Comparing smells
The American historian Robin Winks wrote in 1954: 'In America it is the accepted thing for men to use some such preparation as a deodorant, a cologne, a shave lotion, and an after-shave powder. This is, of course, regarded as effeminate in New Zealand. It seems to be more common to smell of hair oil, tobacco, and well scrubbedness.'1
New criticisms
Criticisms emerged and became more pronounced from the 1950s. There was widespread disappointment at the quality of New Zealand food, and some disgust at the level of public drunkenness. British author Eric Linklater in 1951 suggested that his meal of cooked mutton 'appeared to have been killed by a bomb, and the fragments of its carcass incinerated in the resulting fire.'2 American writer Sydney Greenbie thought that 'there is one cook from Auckland to Invercargill, and his name is Monotony'.3 Some visitors, especially Americans, considered that New Zealanders dressed atrociously.
A conservative people
More challenging were those visitors who, attracted to New Zealand by its reputation as a reforming social laboratory, found it politically and socially conservative. As early as 1914 English poet Rupert Brooke had noted that New Zealand had implemented a full Fabian programme yet had the same troubles as elsewhere. By 1951 American novelist James Michener decided that the (Pākehā) New Zealander was the most conservative white man in the world.
Suburbia of the southern seas
In 1953 the British broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas wrote a poem, 'Farewell to New Zealand', which attacked the country's conservatism:
Saved by the wowsers from the Devil's Tricks,
Your shops, your pubs, your minds all close at six.
Your battle-cry's a deep, contented snore,
You voted Labour, then you worked no more.
The Wharfies Heaven, the gourmet's Purgat'ry:
Ice-cream on mutton, swilled around in tea!
A Maori fisherman, the legends say,
Dredged up New Zealand in a single day.
I've seen the catch, and here's my parting crack –
It's undersized; for God's sake throw it back!4
Many saw New Zealand as a quiet suburban society characterised, in English playwright Noël Coward's words, by 'aggressive Puritanism'.5 Some, such as Sarah Mussen in the 1960s, thought it 'incredibly dull'.6 The Beatles toured in the same period and thought New Zealand fans were much quieter than the wild Australians, while the Rolling Stones described Invercargill as 'the arsehole of the world'.7 As late as the 1990s American travel writer Paul Theroux was caustic in his criticism of Christchurch as 'prim and moribund', with 'frightful bungalows and dusty hedges and twitching curtains'.8
The most serious criticism came from an American Fulbright scholar, David Ausubel, who spent a year in New Zealand in 1957–58 and whose book The fern and the tiki was a wholehearted attack on the New Zealand character and social values. Ausubel believed that despite their welfare state, New Zealanders were not altruistic or reforming. They were unfriendly, punitive and authoritarian. Smug in their belief that their society was the best in the world, they were unable to confront serious social issues. Their heavy discipline resulted in juvenile delinquency. An earlier Fulbrighter, Robin Winks, in a more balanced account, praised New Zealanders' friendliness but noted their provincialism, narrow-mindedness and refusal to accept criticism.
Ausubel was very critical of New Zealand racial attitudes and presented evidence of prejudice and discrimination. The book created hot debate – but it only presented, in stronger language, ideas that other visitors had shared. Thirty years later British writer Robin Hanbury-Tenison, who had ridden on horseback through New Zealand, was also critical of Pākehā attitudes towards Māori.
Not all negative
Not all 20th-century visitors were so damning. English novelist J. B. Priestley, visiting in 1973, found the country a 'special place' because it was 'new, innocent, naïve, still friendly and not artfully predatory'.9 His descriptions highlighted New Zealand's cultural richness.
Tip for tat
In 2006 the English comedian John Cleese visited New Zealand. He found Wellington sophisticated and Napier fabulous, but Palmerston North did not fare so well. 'If you wish to kill yourself but lack the courage to, I think a visit to Palmerston North will do the trick,' he wrote, dubbing the city 'the suicide capital of New Zealand'.10 In return a sign saying 'Mt Cleese' appeared on top of a compost heap at the city's rubbish dump.
Getting over it
By the start of the 21st century New Zealanders were less concerned about individual visitors' reactions to their homeland. The country was more self-assured and social change had transformed some of the earlier targets of criticism – there had been a revolution in shopping hours and in food quality, for example. There were so many overseas visitors that comments by prominent individuals did not draw the attention they once had. In terms of mass tourism, the judgements of travel guides garnered interest. In general the views of travel publishers such as Lonely Planet or Rough Guide were positive, emphasising the country's physical beauty, opportunities for adventure tourism and good nightlife. Wellington endlessly promoted Lonely Planet's comment that the city was 'the coolest little capital in the world.'11
Robin W. Winks, These New Zealanders. Christchurch: Whitcombe and Tombs, 1954, p. 45. Back
Quoted in Jonathan Eisen and Katherine Joyce Smith eds., Strangers in paradise. Auckland: Vintage New Zealand, 1991, p. 257. Back
Quoted in Strangers in paradise, p. 211. Back
Quoted in Lydia Wevers, ed., Travelling to New Zealand: an Oxford anthology. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2000, p. 256. Back
Quoted in Chris Bourke, 'Close encounters.' New Zealand Listener, 6 November 2010, http://www.listener.co.nz/commentary/close-encounters-5/ (last accessed 5 March 2012). Back
Paul Theroux, The happy isles of Oceania. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1992, p. 22. Back
J. B. Priestley, A visit to New Zealand. London: Heinemann, 1974, p. 149. Back
Quoted in 'Basil finds Fawlt with grotty Palmy.' New Zealand Herald, 8 March 2006, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10371568 (last accessed 5 March 2012). Back
Quoted in 'Lonely Planet acclaim for the "coolest little capital in the world".' http://www.wellingtonnz.com/media/lonely_planet_acclaim_coolest_little_capital_world (last accessed 5 March 2012). Back
Hononga, rauemi nō waho
More suggestions and sources
Eisen, Jonathan, and Katherine Joyce Smith, eds. Strangers in paradise. Auckland: Vintage New Zealand, 1991.
Froude, James Anthony. Oceana, or, England and her colonies. London: Longmans, Green, 1886.
Trollope, Anthony. Australia and New Zealand. Melbourne: George Robertson, 1873.
Wevers, Lydia. Country of writing: travel writing and New Zealand, 1809–1900. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.
Wevers, Lydia, ed. Travelling to New Zealand: an Oxford anthology. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2000.
How to cite this page: Jock Phillips, 'Visitors' opinions about New Zealand', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/visitors-opinions-about-new-zealand/print (accessed 18 July 2019)
Story by Jock Phillips, published 20 Jun 2012
All text licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 New Zealand Licence ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/nz/deed.en). Commercial re-use may be allowed on request. All non-text content is subject to specific conditions. © Crown Copyright. | the southern hemisphere': German and Austrian visitors to New Zealand, 1876–1889. Auckland: Research Centre for Germanic Connections with New Zealand and the Pacific, University of Auckland, 2008, p. 121. Back
Quoted in Lydia Wevers, ed., Travelling to New Zealand: an Oxford anthology. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 2000, p.196. Back
'Social laboratory of the world', 1890–1920
Liberal reforms
The formation of the Liberal Party government in 1891 began a period of social democratic reform which attracted the interest of progressives in the western world. Some visited specifically to report on the measures. Their judgements were influenced by concerns from their homelands. The most important of these visitors were:
Henry Demarest Lloyd from the United States
Albert Métin and André Siegfried from France
Sidney and Beatrice Webb from England.
Least bad
Henry Demarest Lloyd concluded: 'The tactful portrait painter would not say that the New Zealanders were the most civilised, the most happy, the most prosperous people in the world, but they certainly are the least uncivilised, the least unhappy, the least disinherited … and for New Zealand it may be claimed that its government and people are the "least bad" this side of Mars.'1
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Lloyd was a Chicago journalist, involved in campaigns against monopolies and associated with populist and progressive social movements. He visited New Zealand in 1899, and wrote two books about what he had discovered: A country without strikes, which focused on conciliation and arbitration, and Newest England, a broader survey.
Lloyd shared many views of earlier travellers – he praised the scenery and the advanced state of Māori – but the political measures were his focus. He was impressed by publicly owned railways and the government's acquisition of large landholdings in order to divide them into smaller farms. Influenced by the American reformer Henry George and his ideas of a single tax, Lloyd praised progressive land taxes. Aware of the devastation caused by industrial conflict, he was enthusiastic about the New Zealand system of conciliation and arbitration, and the legislation over hours of work and factory conditions.
He praised old-age pensions, the Public Trustee (a state-supported trust set up to protect the assets of vulnerable people), Government Life (a government-owned life insurance provider), and financial advances to settlers – which he saw, in populist terms, as smashing a 'money ring'. In sum the 'New Zealand revolution', as Lloyd dubbed it, was a model for the world. Under his influence other reformers such as Frank Parsons set about 'New Zealandising' the United States.
The whole world's watching
André Siegfried believed New Zealanders had an overwhelming sense of their own importance to the world. 'Many New Zealanders are honestly convinced that the attention of the whole world is concentrated upon them, waiting with curiosity and even with anxiety to see what they will say and do next … they have been so accustomed to being taken seriously that they have become conscious of a mission to humanity … Like provincial celebrities who, coming to Paris, feel that everyone is looking at them, the New Zealanders, in their distant isolation, think that they fill a great place in the world.'2
Métin and Siegfried
Albert Métin and André Siegfried were young French academics. Métin won a scholarship to study social and labour legislation in Australasia. He visited in 1899 and his book surveyed progressive legislation, especially labour laws, in both Australia and New Zealand. Siegfried, who also wrote books about Canada, the US and Britain, visited in 1904 and wrote a comprehensive outline of New Zealand and its reforms.
Coming from a French political world where class conflict and socialist debates were current, both men suggested that New Zealand reforms were pragmatic solutions, devoid of theoretical input. Métin called his book Socialism without doctrine, and Siegfried considered New Zealand politicians men of action with a contempt for ideas. Both noted the absence of classes and praised the labour laws.
Siegfried thought New Zealand was very English and that New Zealanders worshipped England, which they 'endowed with a halo of romance'.3 He also noted the strict observance of the Sabbath.
The Webbs
Sidney and Beatrice Webb were Fabian socialists who visited New Zealand in 1898 and recorded their views in a diary. Like the other socialist visitors, the Webbs were impressed by the reforms and particularly praised the industrial arbitration system. They also approved of the 'independent' manner of the working class and the fact that there were neither millionaires nor slums. They found New Zealand in general 'delightfully British',4 but as well-educated people they thought the country lacked intellectual life. They bemoaned the absence of public libraries and thought that (despite his undoubted political achievements) Premier Richard Seddon was gross, uneducated and rough.
The impact of such visitors was to confirm in the minds of New Zealanders that their country was the 'social laboratory of the world'.
Henry Demarest Lloyd, Newest England: notes of a democratic traveller in New Zealand, with some Australian comparisons. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1900, p. 11. Back
André Siegfried, Democracy in New Zealand. London: Bell, | 1,136 |
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It was a unique experience and definitely something I'd try again – if not just for the novelty. But all the pairings did match (okay – even the Slim Jim to an extent) quite expertly and for $20, it was a fun afternoon at a bargain.
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At Emery Farm, they also give everyone who purchases a Christmas tree a free, hand-decorated ornament. We've amassed a collection of these over the last few years.
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I look forward to this day almost all year. Or at least as soon as Thanksgiving comes to a close. It's even better now that we have a real mantle to decorate over a real pellet stove that keeps us warm and toasty while we sip mulled wine and hang ornaments.
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I love to mow the lawn. Well, at least the first mowing of the season, then I hand over the responsibility to my teenage son. But there is something refreshing and satisfying to me about mowing the lawn. It is tangible and measurable. I can easily tell when it needs to be done and can easily tell when it has been done. I can look behind myself on the riding mower and see where I have been and what has been accomplished. That sense of accomplishment feels good and is very rewarding.
I think the reason I enjoying mowing so much is that the results are much more immediately visible than from the work I do on a weekly basis as pastor of a church. I spend a lot of time each week studying, praying, visiting, counseling, and preaching. However, I usually don't see immediate results from my work. To be sure, when we have an event we can measure the attendance or we can count the number of people of people who respond publicly to the gospel. But most of the work of a pastor is done behind the scenes and most of the results of faithful pastoral ministry are slow, virtually invisible to the naked eye.
I have made a lot of mistakes as a pastor, but one thing I have never regretted is my commitment to expositional preaching. As a young preacher I was impacted by the expositional ministry of John MacArthur. Although I don't agree with him on every issue (I remember being relieved the first time I disagreed with his exegesis of a particular passage as that assured me that I was not trying to be a MacArthur clone.), I have been encouraged and challenged by his model of faithful expository preaching. As a young man sensing God's call to preach, I sought out a pastor who preached verse-by-verse through books of<|fim_middle|> at times to preach topical sermons and series that will appeal to the carnal desires of the unregenerate. There is certainly a place for outreach events that are designed to reach a large crowd. Likewise, a topical sermon or series on practical matters of the Christian life that is faithfully drawn from Scripture can be helpful from time to time. However, for the long term growth and health of a church, there is nothing more effective for the long haul than the faithful expositional preaching of the Word. Ironically, this is the most pragmatic thing you can do as a pastor if your desire is to see an increasing number of healthy Christians developing and using their gifts over decades. If you simply want to draw an ever-rotating crowd, then other methods may indeed be more effective. But if you desire to faithfully shepherd, oversee, and lead a flock of God's children for a generation or more, there is quite simply no better method. | the Bible. This was then a rarity in East Tennessee. I found an Independent Baptist pastor in Kingston, Tn. who was preaching expositionally. His name was Ray Bearden. He recently celebrated his 60th year in ministry and I sent him a card thanking him for providing me the first real live example of this type of preaching that I have followed for the last twenty years and every week for the past sixteen years as a senior pastor. Over the years I have seen a number of benefits of this type of preaching that have assured me that my early commitment to expository preaching is at least one thing that I did right.
Let me be clear, the effectiveness of expository preaching is not in the method in and of itself. The power of such preaching is that it unleashes the Word of God to accomplish its purpose by the power of God in the people of God. Expository preaching "exposes" the Word to its hearers and "exposes" its hearers to the Word. The Word then accomplishes its purpose of conforming God's people to the image of Christ. Although results are often hard to see in the short-term, after nearly a decade at one church I am reaping the benefits of this approach. Here's some of the benefits I've seen that encourage me that expository preaching is indeed the best method of preaching to facilitate the spiritual growth of believers.
1. Spiritual maturity of congregation. All Christians mature at different rates. Sanctification is progressive and is proceeds in a varied fashion in all of God's children. But a church member that sits under faithful exposition of Scripture will mature more quickly than those who are not hearing the Word clearly expounded. I am encouraged regularly by the level of spiritual maturity exhibited by those who have set under expository preaching for prolonged periods of time. Both their knowledge of Scripture and the evidence of the fruit of the Spirit in their lives set them apart from other believers who have not set under an expository ministry. Church life is much better when you have a congregation of regenerate believers who have been fed a steady diet of God's Word for a long period. A spiritually mature body of believers is an inevitable result of the ministry of the Word.
2. Trusted leadership developed. When a pastor realizes that his primary responsibility as a leader is to preach and teach God's Word faithfully, he will see God raise up competent leadership within the membership of the church. Deacon meetings, committee meetings, and even business meetings, can become blessings in the life of a pastor if those leading in such meetings have been consistently taught God's Word. One of the blessings of such a ministry is overhearing Sunday School teachers in whom you have invested teach the Bible to their classes. Hearing them repeat (intentionally or not) things that you have taught them is a real joy to a pastor's heart. Seeing your leaders exercise wise judgment and dispense godly counsel is another encouraging reminder that the Word is producing fruit in the lives of your people. I recently had the privilege of setting back and saying very little in interviews by various committees with a prospective associate pastor candidate. They were asking the right questions and had the right concerns and priorities. That is the kind of trusted leadership that develops under an extended expository ministry.
3. Prayers of the people. One unanticipated benefit of an extended expository ministry in one church is the improvement of the public prayers of the people. People who do not know the Bible pray mundane, man-centered, repetitive prayers. As God's people grow in their knowledge of His Word through expository preaching, the tri-partite prayer of "lead, guide, and direct" becomes obsolete. Prayer meetings become encouraging times as people actually take the time to pray for the requests that are made because they have genuine godly concern both for those who made the requests and those for whom the requests were made. The Sunday morning offertory and benediction are no longer cringe-worthy, border-line blasphemous displays of theological ignorance, but now express biblical concerns in biblical terminology. I've been pleasantly surprised and encouraged in recent years by the public prayers of a people who have been shaped by the exposition of Scripture.
Weeds grow overnight, but it takes time to grow something that is fruitful, beautiful, and lasting. It is certainly tempting to use methods that produce quick results. There can be a lot of pressure | 884 |
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Moi wrote in Studies: Lack of support and early parenthood cause kids to dropout: Caralee Adams writes in the Education Week article, Why High School Students Drop Out and Efforts to Re-Engage:
Parenthood—either being a parent or missing out on parental support—is the leading reason cited by dropouts for leaving school, according to a new survey.
The 2012 High School Dropouts in America survey was released today by Harris/Decima, a division of Harris Interactive, on behalf of Everest College, a part of the for-profit Corinthian College Inc.
The poll was commissioned to help policymakers and educators understand why students drop out<|fim_middle|> Children on Campus http://www.campuschildren.org/pubs/cclab/cclab1.html Moi wrote about childcare in A baby changes everything: Helping parents finish school https://drwilda.com/tag/childcare-on-colleges/
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The survey asked 513 adults, ages 19 to 35: "Which, if any, of the following reasons prevented you from finishing high school?" Here are the responses:
1. Absence of parental support or encouragement (23 percent)
2. Becoming a parent (21 percent)
3. Lacking the credits needed to graduate (17 percent)
4. Missing too many days of school (17 percent)
5. Failing classes (15 percent)
6. Uninteresting classes (15 percent)
7. Experiencing a mental illness, such as depression (15 percent)
8. Having to work to support by family (12 percent)
9. Was bullied and didn't want to return (12 percent)
In the survey, conducted online in October, 55 percent of the dropouts looked into, but had not started the process of getting their high school equivalency or GED. The likelihood of doing so is higher for those who are married (67 percent). The reasons for not getting a GED: "not having enough time" (34 percent) and "it costs too much" (26 percent).
One-third of high school dropouts say they are employed either full time, part time, or are self‐employed. Another 38 percent of the men and 26 percent of the women were unemployed.
Attracting young adults who have dropped out back for more education is a challenge.
Often students don't want to return to the same school they left and are looking for flexible options. One approach that is showing promise is the Boston Public Re-Engagement Center. There, students can retake up to two courses they previously failed; try online credit recovery, or attend night school or summer school. Coming into the program, out-of-school youths are connected with an adult to discuss goals, finances, and enrollment options. http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/college_bound/2012/11/examining_reasons_for_dropping_out_of_high_school_and_ways_to_re-engage_students.html
See, High School Dropouts Worsened By Lack Of Support, Becoming A Parent: Survey http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/15/lack-of-support-becoming-_n_2137961.html?utm_hp_ref=email_share
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Michelle Conerly of the Kent Reporter wrote about a Kent School District program which helps dropouts finish their education in the article, More students making the grade at iGrad:
For students completing the Kent School District diploma track through the new iGrad program, this is what their classroom looks like.
The iGrad academy is a district program funded by the state in partnership with the Kent School District and Green River Community College (GRCC) that offers students 16-21 years old the ability to earn credits toward one of three program tracks. Students also may choose to earn a Washington state diploma or a GED certificate.
This individualized learning model is structured to cater to the students' unique needs.
"At the iGrad site each student is taking the subjects they need to graduate – whatever they are credit deficient in," said Catherine Cantrell, interim dean of instruction – language, academic skills, and wellness at GRCC.
At of the beginning of January, around 460 students were enrolled in the iGrad program, but according to Principal Carol Cleveland, 12 to 14 students are added daily, making the actual number of students much higher.
Before enrolling, every student meets with Cleveland for a one-on-one session to address the student's educational needs and goals. Then, the choice is his or hers as to which track would satisfy those needs.
For the students who choose the GED track, professors come to the iGrad site at 25668 104th Ave. SE, Kent, and students are expected to attend class four days a week in order to prepare for the GED test. For the students who choose to earn a Kent School District diploma, they must attend class for three hours once a week at the iGrad site. The other 12 required hours per week are to be completed remotely via a computer.
For students choosing the Washington state diploma track, they are able to attend GRCC classes on campus. Students are also able to earn college credit while still earning high school credits.
"We consider iGrad students Green River Community College students," Cantrell said. "We encourage them to be a part of the college. The whole benefit of iGrad is that students can transition to college."
To the couple thousand students in the Kent School District that were eligible to participate, a team of administrators sent out postcards informing them of their eligibility. For every postcard that was sent back expressing interest, the administrators called every student to meet with Cleveland and to begin the process of enrollment.
Many of the students who choose to participate in the iGrad program have dropped out of school or never re-enrolled in school for many reasons. Part of Cleveland's job is to address those issues and make learning as accessible as possible for the students in this program.
"I try to remove all the barriers I can," Cleveland said. "My day is filled with figuring out what they need."
From bus passes and reduced childcare services to paying for their first two years of at GRCC, Cleveland has set up funds that allow her to be a "barrier remover" for the students in the iGrad program that qualify for these options.
Students do not have to live within the boundaries of the Kent School District to enroll in the iGrad program, yet if they choose to participate, they must abide by the school district rules. The interest in the program has grown so much that Cleveland has received calls from other districts and even other states as to how this model of education is working out for the students.
Not all the kinks are worked out yet, though. With only five teachers and two counselors, the minimal staffing makes it difficult at times for Cleveland. She is looking to hire an assistant principal to help organize and supervise the program.
For the students who choose to earn a Kent School District diploma, there is little to no social aspect of the program. For some students, the lack of socializing is welcomed, but for others, they miss the traditional classroom setting.
http://www.kentreporter.com/news/187224061.html
Here is information from the Kent School District about iGrad:
Learn more about the iGrad program
Progress reports are available for parents and guardians
Parents and guardians can receive weekly progress reports sent directly to their email. The reports are generated by the software systems that students use in their classes: Edgenuity (formerly known as e2020) and APEX.
To start receiving progress reports, email Assistant Principal, Mary Anderson at: mary.anderson@kent.k12.wa.us . Please include your student's full name, email address(es) that reports will be sent to, and how often you'd like to receive reports: daily, weekly, or monthly.
We hope you'll find this to be a useful tool in supporting your student and encouraging progress.
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For a good discussion of why child care is important to students, see the journal article, Contemporary Childcare Issues Facing Colleges and Universities by Marybeth Kyle, William J. Campion, William R. Ogden; College Student Journal, Vol. 33, 1999.
In order for low-income people, particularly single mothers to have a shot at escaping poverty, they must get an education, trade, or vocation. For many, affordable child care is the key determinant of whether they can advance. Alexandra Cawthorne in the 2008 report for the Center for American Progress, The Straight Facts on Women in Poverty http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/women/report/2008/10/08/5103/the-straight-facts-on-women-in-poverty/ describes the issues facing women in poverty. The National Coalition for Campus Children's Centers has statistics about | 1,753 |
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The MOSFET is the basic factor in most fashionable digital gear, and has been central to the electronics revolution, the microelectronics revolution, and the Digital Revolution. The MOSFET has thus been credited as the delivery of contemporary electronics, and probably crucial invention in electronics. The first working level-contact transistor was invented by John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain at Bell Labs in 1947.
The first to make such a enterprise conceivable, with a brand new digital phone amplifier, was not an American, however the scion of a wealthy Viennese family with a scientific bent. As a young man, Robert von Lieben purchased a telephone manufacturing firm with aid of his parent's wealth, and set out to develop an amplifier for telephone conversations. By 1906 he had built a relay based on cathode-ray tubes, a typical device by that time in physics experiments (and later the idea for the dominant video … Read More
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However, some techniques use the reverse definition ("0" is "High") or are current primarily based<|fim_middle|>. This distinction started around 1906 with the invention by Lee De Forest of the triode, which made electrical amplification of weak radio alerts and audio indicators possible with a non-mechanical device. Until 1950, this field was called "radio expertise" because its principal application was the design and concept of radio transmitters, receivers, and vacuum tubes. Most trendy electrical gear like fridges and vacuum cleaners usually have digital elements in them corresponding to power regulators and temperature management elements. While it's necessary to know the distinction between electrical and electronic tools, technological advancements are making it tougher to categorise a single device or equipment as both electrical or electronic.
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Many merchandise embody Internet connectivity utilizing technologies corresponding to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, EDGE or Ethernet. Products not historically related to computer use (corresponding to TVs or Hi-Fi gear) now present choices to hook up with the Internet or to a computer using a home community to offer entry to digital content material. The want for prime-definition (HD) content material has led the business to develop numerous technologies, corresponding to WirelessHD or ITU-T G.hn, which are optimized for distribution of … Read More
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If you have just finished your first website then the next step is to look into web hosting to promote your site. There are many web hosting companies to choose from but the very basic consideration is to make a choice between free or paid web hosting services. This article will walk you through the pros and cons for both options.
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Although paid web hosting may cost you more money, you should consider some of these advantages before finally deciding on the web hosting service that you need. Paid web hosting means that you can have your own domain name. This means should you move to another provider in the future, you can bring the domain with you to the new provider so you don't loose the traffic that you have built over time. Paid hosts also offer a 24 hour service support whether it be through live chat, email or toll free | 977 |
Fascism and Big Business - Daniel Guérin
Examines the development of fascism in Germany and Italy and its relationship with the ruling capitalist families there.
Fascism and Big Business is a book first written in 1936 by the French historian and libertarian Marxist Daniel Guérin. The book, which was written before the Second World War broke out, examines the development of nazism in Germany and fascism<|fim_middle|> MB) | in Italy and its relationship with the capitalist families there. Its main thesis is that Fascism supported the heavy industrial sector (represented in Germany by Krupp, Emil Kirdorf, etc.) to the detriment of lighter industrial sectors, dedicated to building consumer goods. It points out the failure of "corporatism," which in effect meant the dismantling of trade unions and worker's inability to elect their own representatives, who were nominated instead by the fascists.
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Hayward 1.5 HP Super Pump - High Performance Pump Series.
The Hayward 1.5 HP Super Pump Pool Pump is built for spas and in-ground pools of all shapes, sizes and type. The Hayward Super Pump is the number one selling in-ground pool pump model and doesn't skimp on features. The Super Pump series pumps feature super-sized debris baskets, large see-thru strainer lids, and an easy-to-service design for added convenience. The Super Pump series delivers a sturdy, cost-effective design and sets the industry standard for value and excellence.
Hayward Super Pumps have an exclusive swing-away handle, shown below, that makes removing the strainer cover easier than any other pump model. There are no tools needed<|fim_middle|>.
Click Here for the manufactures website. | , no clamps to remove, and therefore no loose parts. The large 110-cubic inch basket has that extra leaf-holding capacity that helps extend time between cleanings and which you can easily see due to the see-thru lid design | 51 |
Colgate enables future Filipino leaders through scholarships
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Growing up in Negros Occidental with six siblings to a homemaker mother and car mechanic father, Maria Jona Develos-Godoy dreamt of becoming a neurosurgeon one day.
She relocated to Manila and was able to study at Centro Escolar University's College of Dentistry to become another kind of doctor—a dentist. She was then a grantee of a six-year scholarship from Colgate. In fact, she holds the distinction of being Colgate's first scholar in the country.
Since graduating in 1986, Godoy has certainly come a long way. In addition to becoming a dentist, she also became known to many as a hardworking researcher, educator, and<|fim_middle|>ists have had the opportunity to receive scholarship grants from Colgate-Palmolive Philippines and the Philippine Association of Dental Colleges.
Not one to rest on her laurels, Godoy went on to further herself so she could serve students even better. She completed a Master of Arts in Teaching in 1994 and a Master of Science in Dental Education in 2007. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy in 2003.
She has been an active officer representing the Philippines at the International Association for Dental Research since 2000, and represented the country as a summit speaker at the 5th China-ASEAN Forum on Dentistry held at Nanning, China this year.
Godoy now has her own family of three children. She continues to nurture future dentists through her passion and dedication to the profession. Recently, she was appointed as a member of the Professional Regulation Commission's Professional Regulatory Board of Dentistry.
"I hope that Colgate will continue to support aspiring dentists as this will surely make a difference in their lives and the lives of their families," she said.
Keeping Philippines Smiling
As it celebrates 90 years of operations in the country, it continues to partner with different sectors to support nation-building efforts and to make more Filipinos smile.
The Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures (BSBF) program, in partnership with the Department of Education, supports oral health education across the country through free dental screenings and tooth-brushing drills, distribution of oral care kits, and integrating oral health with the primary education curricula.
Last year, more than 2 million Filipino first grade students benefitted from the program. Globally, over the past 25 years, the program has reached more than 850 million children and their families across 80 countries.
Early this year, employee volunteers and distributors conducted the BSBF program to 574 students from Doña Aurora Quezon Elementary School and 500 students from Sta. Ana Elementary School. The Company also partnered with Puregold to help raise funds for Operation Smile Philippines, an NGO focused on providing free surgeries to indigent children afflicted with cleft lips/palates; as well as Robinsons Supermarket to help raise funds for World Vision Philippines, a humanitarian NGO that provides assistance to impoverished children, families and communities.
Colgate has been a partner of the Philippine Dental Association since 2001 in raising oral health awareness during Dental Health Month every February. This year, it provided free dental check-ups and free fluoride treatment to 10,000 children across 100 barangays.
"It has always been the mission of Colgate-Palmolive to bring smiles to more people. We are privileged to have the opportunity to reinforce this mission in the Philippines on our 90th year through our collaboration with different communities and organizations," says Stephen Lau, Vice-President and General Manager of Colgate-Palmolive Philippines.
For more information on Colgate, visit www.Colgate.ph. On Social Media: ColgatePhilippines Facebook page, @ColgatePH on Twitter and Instagram.
Lifestyle and Travel 4920914387894476809 | more recently, a public servant.
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of her graduation year, Godoy said, "I thank Colgate for the great opportunity [of being a Colgate scholar] because I would not have become what I am today if it not had been for its scholarship grant."
Godoy became an instrument of enabling future dentists. After graduating second honors with a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from a batch of 800 students, Godoy joined the faculty of her alma mater and steadily rose the ranks to become Assistant Division Chairperson, Assistant to the Dean, Assistant Dean then becoming Dean of Centro Escolar University's College of Dentistry.
Enabling future dentists
Since then, over 200 other aspiring dent | 153 |
Q: Clipboard data sort in VB.NET I have a form in which I need to sort text from the clipboard into the appropriate fields. Essentially, I copy a customer email, click a button on the form, and it will read the data and put the info into the fields. There are several fields, such as the customer's name, the company's name, the telephone number, whether they have a support plan.
All emails are formatted in the same way (apart from the random spaces which I have no control of) and are used by several employees:
Company: TEST LTD
Customer's name: Joe Johnson
Department: IT Operations Manager
Customer's phone: 012345678910
Customer's email: JOE.JOHNSON@TEST.COM
Instrument: SUP
Serial Number: EM2PC2938C
Coverage: Plan No Warranty
So, my question is:
I need to be able to copy this text straight from an email, click on a button that will look through the text in the clipboard, and put the different pieces of information into different text boxes labelled the same as in the email, but without the identifier (such as 'Email:' or 'Coverage'), so essentially anything after the colon goes into the textbox.
I have some code to get the data and put into into a rich text box which I planned to use to sort the data (I know I can do it straight from code, but didn't know how to)
rtbx_ClipboardData.text = Clipboard.GetText
And some code to remove any text before<|fim_middle|>
Exit For
End If
Next
TextBox18.Text = lines(StartLine).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
TextBox19.Text = lines(StartLine + 1).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
TextBox20.Text = lines(StartLine + 2).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
TextBox21.Text = lines(StartLine + 3).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
TextBox22.Text = lines(StartLine + 4).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
TextBox23.Text = lines(StartLine + 5).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
TextBox24.Text = lines(StartLine + 6).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
TextBox25.Text = lines(StartLine + 7).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
End Sub
I just added a For loop to find where to start reading the data. Tested by copying several paragraphs before and after your data directly from your question. I changed the names of the text boxes to match what I had available.
| the colon:
tbx_Data_Company.Text = rtbx_ClipboardData.Text.Substring(rtbx_ClipboardData.Text.IndexOf(":") + 1)
This code works but I need to do it several times and put data into the appropriate fields which is where I am struggling.
If anyone could suggest anything/provide some sample code I'd greatly appreciate it.
A: Instead of .Substring and .IndexOf, I would use String.Split.
Get the string from the clip board and split it into lines removing any empty lines. Take each element of the resulting array (one line) and split that by the colon. We want the second element of this array (1) trimmed of any leading or trailing spaces and assigned to the appropriate text box. Then repeat with each line.
Private Sub GetFieldsFromEmail()
Dim eText As String = Clipboard.GetText()
Dim lines = eText.Split({Environment.NewLine}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
txtCompany.Text = lines(0).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
txtName.Text = lines(1).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
txtDepartment.Text = lines(2).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
txtPhone.Text = lines(3).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
txtEmail.Text = lines(4).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
txtInstrument.Text = lines(5).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
txtSerNum.Text = lines(6).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
txtCoverage.Text = lines(7).Split(":"c)(1).Trim
End Sub
EDIT
If there is random text before and after...
Private Sub GetFieldsFromEmail()
Dim eText As String = Clipboard.GetText()
Dim lines = eText.Split({Environment.NewLine}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
Dim StartLine As Integer
For i = 0 To lines.Count - 1
If lines(i).StartsWith("Company") Then
StartLine = i | 415 |
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Georgia's Kennesaw State campus lockdown ends
Police have issued an all-clear alert after responding to reports of an armed man on campus at Kennesaw State University in Georgia.
The school posted an emergency alert on its website Friday afternoon, saying a possibly armed man was spotted on campus, and asked all students and staff to take shelter and lock their doors.
Kennesaw State spokesperson Tammy DeMel told Fox News that school officials received a call about a suspicious man on campus with a possible weapon and alerted authorities. As a precaution they also placed the campus on lockdown.
The lockdown was lifted and an all-clear issued just before 3:30pm local time Friday.
"The Kennesaw State police dispatch received a call about a suspicious man with a possible weapon in his pocket. As a precaution, university officials placed the campus on lockdown and searched for the individual," DeMel said in a statement after the lock down ended.
"At approximately 3:30 p.m., police found the individual with a cell phone in his pocket and confirmed that he was not a threat and never posed a threat to the community," the statement continued.
Located in the fast-growing suburbs north of Atlanta, Kennesaw State is the third-largest public university in the state and has more than 21,000 traditional and non-traditional students.
Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher's defense lawyer wants to rejoin the Navy to teach prosecutors, says he fears for law-ab | 298 |
Night Walks is the stunning debut album from Hidden Orchestra. The driving force behind<|fim_middle|> be born from the fact that the emphasis is on being experimental and accessible at the same time, creating music based on feeling and energy, rather than image or fashion. | the Edinburgh-based band is the acute artistic vision of Joe Acheson, a classically trained multi-instrumentalist, composer, music producer, sound designer and producer/presenter of radio documentaries.
An intense and rewarding listening experience, "Night Walks", encompasses the energy and production techniques of studio-produced beats, but replacing synths and drum machines with natural/acoustic sounds and instruments for an emotionally potent style. Built on contrasts – experimental without losing accessibility, electronic and acoustic, complex and simple, dark and energetic whilst intricate and calm – there is a sense of journey and progression, and, in Acheson s words, "the brooding reflections of a solitary walk through the still, restless night". Formerly known as the Joe Acheson Quartet, Hidden Orchestra have a very eclectic fanbase, which could | 164 |
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