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An old farmhouse feel to this pub, the only one in the village. Multiple rooms and nooks and crannies hide lots of space despite the low (some faked) beamed ceiling. There is a restaurant (no smoking) at the top end up some steps where non-pub food is served at slightly expensive prices ?8 average (there is usually a vegetarian choice too). The lunchtime menu is fuller with more vegetarian choices (see also the specials board). The Ol<|fim_middle|> back. Plenty of car parking out front and to side. The skeleton in the church at the other end of the village is a must see. The Olde Coach House sometimes has spring beer festivals. | de Coach House also has Indian and Greek special nights for food. The public bar area has no carpet and a large screen TV - on all the time. Here the seating is wooden high back pews and a couple of tables and stools/chairs. A large fireplace is under the TV. Opposite is the games room with dartboard and pool table (80p). There is some seating here but the room is only large enough for those playing. Further up the pub are quarry tiled floors and long tables for eating/drinking plus a fireplace seat next to a large walk-in fireplace with wood burning stove. The narrow entrance beyond leads to another are with rough wood cordoned cubicle seating - very intimate. Old scales, etc can be seen here. Lighting is subdued throughout with candles in bottles everywhere. The bar is 'L' shaped and extends to both public and lounge bars. Guest ales are spread all along the bar - six on this occasion, though eight have been known before. On at the time were Hop Back Crop Circle, Fullers London Pride, Caledonian Golden Promise, Everards Old Original, Flowers Original. Access for the disabled was not good with steps (though there is a disabled entrance) and narrow entrances everywhere. Accommodation here (?51-?65) is good, one 4-poster bedroom ?10 extra. All en-suite rooms around ?55-?65 a night. There's a beer garden with fairy-lit arbour and children's activity adventure area to the side and | 311 |
It's a commonly accepted truth in the world of advertising that if you tell people they need something enough, they<|fim_middle|> be. | 'll eventually believe it; if you continually reinforce the idea that a man might choose to drink a Budweiser rather than bed a swimsuit model, something trips off inside his brain that allows that possibly to enter, and fantasy begins to blur with reality. Digital imagery has only made that line fuzzier, says photographer Chris Kitze, whose book, The Electric Image (powerHouse; hardcover; $40), explores the collision of the real and virtual worlds. Here Kitze explains a bit of the science and psychology behind the ones and zeroes.
XLR8R: You say that it wasn't until the advent of digital technology that the ubiquity of large-scale photo-realistic ad images were made possible. But haven't we always been inundated by billboards and the like?
Chris Kitze: Yes, we've always been bombarded with advertising. Any place you have masses of people, you naturally have people trying to sell them something, which is especially true in centers of capitalism. If you look at outdoor advertising in public spaces, which is one of the areas of contemporary culture The Electric Image is concerned with, digital production has made possible the ability to globally reproduce images that have a much greater fidelity than was possible previously, and the scale is monumental. In the not-so-distant past, large images on billboards were painted by artists and you definitely had a different cartoonish or caricatured look. Retouching techniques using digital technology create virtual images that were very difficult to create using analog techniques, whether using chemical photography or hand painting. So today any advertiser can afford this level of production value and you see it everywhere. The difference is the hyper-realism of the imaging produced by digital technology are charged images by themselves. You knew the painted billboards referenced the original; we want to believe that the digital images are the original. People seem to have bought into this magic act.
This has led to the globalization of this kind of imagery. Whether I am in Shanghai, New York, or Paris, I get a similar sensibility and aesthetic and the concept that everything is everywhere. Part of this is the powerful multi-national consumer and business brands that are now ubiquitous. When I was a kid it was so exotic to go to Europe–things were much different from the States and there were lots of things that you would never find at home. What is most different now is not the technology but the way people place themselves in this landscape. We have come to accept the virtual as real and vice versa. The apparent richness of the digital image compared with the analog version creates a greater seduction and charged effect, which for advertisers makes digital more compelling.
How has digital technology changed that, really, aside from slight changes in presentation (ie. moving images) and cost?
Commercial images are now ubiquitous and integrated into the landscape to the point where it is difficult to tell where the advertising ends and reality begins. It has created an immersive world where everything is a product placement. For example, I was in Hong Kong a few months ago and every double-decker bus is wrapped with giant photographs of models and products that covered literally every square inch of the bus. Before digital, you might have seen small panels on a bus with images; now, the entire bus has been turned into an ad. It's as though the wristwatch is driving down the road.
However, I believe the biggest change lies in the use of computers and windowing software, which provides a cluttered visual environment with colliding representations of documents, images, videos, programs, and ideas that has indoctrinated people to this way of seeing.
What was your aim with the photographs that make up The Electric Image?
I show the collision of the real and virtual worlds that surround us, and the difficulty we have in decoding truth. This deflates the myth of advertising by reflecting the real against the ideal.
In the book, the images are catalogued with long strings of numbers and letters. What is their significance?
These strings of letters and numbers are identifiers for each file, called an SHA-1 –a computer code that generates a nearly unique ID for each file. If I have two files and the generated codes match exactly, it is very nearly certain that the files are identical (more info is on page 63). What's significant about this is the way files can be nearly infinitely and exactly duplicated, much like the imagery in the ads so to that extent it talks to originality and reproduction, key issues of photography. I wanted to distill the image down to what appears to be a meaningless string of numbers and letters and hint at yet another representation of the image, much like a photograph of a photograph. At another level, you see a reference to the photographic negative here. The SHA code is an authenticator of provenance, but unlike the negative, it allows the digital file to function as a plurality of originals, since the files are available for open-source use.
Is there something that happens, scientifically, when one views a digital image (on, say, a backlit computer or TV screen) that's different from viewing an analog, printed image? If so, how do you find this phenomenon has impacted the approach of advertisers?
There is a difference between transmitted (computer screen, backlit transparency) and reflected light (printed image on board or paper), no question. The quality of the light and the way you experience the image are different–the transmitted image has more immediacy and vibrance, though it is well known that text is easier to read when printed on paper than on a screen. A backlit image has a sculptural quality and depth the reflected cannot match. In the advertising arms race that takes place on the street every day, it's all about grabbing attention. Advertisers have crafted messaging, placement, and the execution of their "works" to exploit the properties of these kinds of media such as video JumboTron, illuminated bus shelters, and the like. It's a safe bet to expect commercial interests to create even more captivating titillations as technology evolves. As a non-scientist, I'm not in a position to give you a scientific explanation.
What do you think is happening to the way we process multiple layers of images in "noisy" settings, like, say, Times Square?
It's safe to say that most everyone, especially younger people who have been exposed to digital media their whole lives, is able to multitask and process multiple layers of images, sounds, and information. Everyone drives and talks on their cell phone, uses their laptop while watching TV, or has multiple windows doing different things on their computer (mine has about 30 open as I compose this email). This wasn't the case even 20 years ago and when you talk to some elderly people, they often have a hard time dealing with this [phenomenon]. It may seem confusing, but these places really force the spectator–that's what they are, viewing these kinds of spectacles–to try to take in this visual overload and because many of us live this way all the time, we have come to expect it. There is no escape. After the initial shock and awe of multitudes of images in a place like Times Square, things settle down and you start to notice smaller, more digestible things where you filter things out and create meaning. You walk around and become aware of the virtual world we inhabit. This ability to process visual overload is opening the way to the belief in and acceptance of multiple dimensions and realities as a worldview.
Do you find that people's absorption/consumption of media is evolving to the point where we have a naturally better sense of "reading" media?
Certainly there is a skill in reading and intelligently consuming media. I think the difference is between knowing and understanding the media, as McLuhan pointed out. Because we are now surrounded by media of all kinds, it has been so gradual that no one noticed it happening. I think we've moved from an awareness to immersion–where we have become woven into the fabric of the reality around us. Many people have more comfort with the sensory overload of advertising than they do with the blank naturalism of nature.
Does this phenomenon also work in reverse, say, with young people being so inundated with "false" images that they tend to accept them as "real"?
I think the point is to ask ourselves, 'What is 'true' and 'false' in this mediated age anyway?' Here's a quote from Jeremy Mende, the designer of the book: "Is an archetypal myth used in advertising any less true than the same one used in epic poetry? Is an emotion that is experienced through an interaction in Second Life any less real than one in first life. The same brain functions and chemistry are activated." We have a desire to privilege non-mediated interaction but isn't that really a value judgment as opposed to a naturalistic "truth"? I couldn't have said this better myself–this is what I mean by decoding truth.
In this regard, can you explain your concept of "visual distortion"?
Anytime you record something, you replace the original with representation–regardless of the accuracy of the recording. Any kind of mediation also distorts. The images in this book actively use optical (they are all reflections in store windows), spatial, and conceptual distortion. These question the friction between the real and the virtual image and who we are and who we pretend to | 1,915 |
Art enjoys quite a momentous position, in our lives and in our hearts. Maybe, it's because it has stood the testimony of time itself. Marking earliest-known human civilization, and etching history ever since, art has helped us identify our lineage, understand our religion and to this day, makes for a critical base for our social system in general and our lives in particular.
For enthusiasts, who vividly understand what art is, and yes, it's not 'few strokes of paint on a canvas', art offers unparalleled potential in its many career options. One such glamorous, multifaceted career is that of Art Restoration & Conservation.
To state plainly,<|fim_middle|> material, such as paintings, books, sculptures or textiles. An art conservator's primary work mainly involves monitoring and controlling the environment in which collections are stored or displayed to prevent deterioration.
They may also restore individual objects directly. Conservators may be involved in conservation science and preventive conservation and may manage laboratories or have individual research interests. It deals with examination, documentation and treatment of the material by getting involved in research.
On the other hand, art restoration involves cleaning up the object of work so as to bring it to its earlier condition. It is a domain which requires specialized knowledge most importantly of painting and history of art and also to some extent of chemistry.
If a student has an interest of working on sculptures, old pictures or manuscripts, then an understanding about these fields is necessary. It should be noted that art restoration is a time taking process which involves going through details minutely.
One should also be able to back academic degree with deep insights into art ideology, artists, cultural amalgamations, abstracts and schools of thought.
It is highly recommended that one goes forward with on ground projects, trainings and apprenticeships, to attain great learnings and experience that will help them acquire credibility.
Much of the art restoration and conservation in the country takes place at National Museum Centers (Lucknow, New Delhi & Kolkata) and at INTACH Art Conservation Centre, which also lends its services to private art collectors and connoisseurs.
Art Restoration & Conservation has always been perceived as an ultra-unconventional career choice, and hence only a handful of youngsters take it up.
However, with Indian art industry gaining worldwide acclaim, a lot of students have started showing inclination towards the subjects. There's also been an increase in the number of art galleries in the country and the demand for art restorers and art conservers. The work profile offers major travel opportunities, in search and conservation of artefacts.
"Art is the signature of Civilizations". The land which has witnessed the Harappan civilization, where the Mughals ruled for over a century, where numerous battles have been fought, won and lost, the land which has a legacy of its own, calls for someone to uncover a thousand untold stories through its art and architecture.
Now that we are ushering into an era where we identify ourselves proudly with our legacy, the day is not far when art conservation and restoration will become one of our top priorities. | an art restoration & conservation professional restores, preserves and analyzes artifacts and works of art. A career in art conservation and restoration requires perfect balance between knowledge of science and skills in art. Although the field is similar, both these career options entail different things.
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I recently read an alarming statistic that Australian<|fim_middle|> rumours don't even start. | employees fear the prospect of losing their relevance within their current organisation and are being denied new opportunities. In fact, more than a third of Australian employees expect to move jobs in the next 12 months.
As we move out of a sluggish market into an upturn in the economy, this is probably not surprising. Employees want to learn new things and access better development opportunities and if they feel that they are not getting that in their current role, they will leave if the right opportunity presents itself.
As a company that conducts national and international searches, we are seeing this more and more as we are approaching potential candidates about openings we have. Some initial questions are around the salary but often not, we are asked what the opportunities are for future growth or promotion.
As the market turns into more of an employee-driven market, people are demanding better pay and rewards, better career prospects and job security. If they don't receive it, they will leave.
All in all, Australia is one of the top three APAC countries with 82% happy and engaged employees. Employees are very aware that they need to remain relevant in an ever-changing world, especially in this age of digital transformation.
39% feel that their job is at risk due to the digital economy while a further 37% feel that they don't have the right skills to compete.
What can you do, as an employer, to better retain your staff?
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By Rep. Jay Rodne, Rep. Joe Schmick and Rep. Shelly Short
As part of her solution to the state's projected budget shortfall, Governor Chris Gregoire has suggested a course of action for our state's Critical Access Hospitals that will endanger the public health, cost the state millions in federal matching dollars, and may – in the end – result in several rural hospitals closing their doors to the public.
Let us be clear, solving our state's budget issues will be no easy task. The lack of sound fiscal decisions made by the majority party in Olympia have combined with an international economic recession to create a serious budget shortfall that needs immediate action.
However, the governor's proposal to cut $27 million from the state budget by eliminating cost-based payments for Critical Access Hospitals would end up doing much more harm than just what shows up on the ledger sheet.
Critical Access Hospitals are an essential component of Washington state's health care delivery system. They are the hub for local health care services in their communities, delivering primary and preventive care, key diagnostics and laboratory services, emergency services, and recuperative care.
To qualify as "Critical Access," the hospital must have fewer than 25 inpatient beds, serve rural areas and must meet specific distance requirements from other hospitals or have been deemed an "essential community provider" by the state Department of Health.
The "Critical Access" designation allows these 38 hospitals across the state allowable cost-based reimbursement for their Medicare and Medicaid patients. This is especially important as these hospitals tend to serve older, rural communities with lower incomes. As such, they treat a much higher ratio of Medicaid and Medicare patients and have fewer privately insured patients.
In a recent committee meeting, we heard testimony from several Critical Access Hospitals that would be severely impacted by the governor's proposal. The services that could be eliminated or reduced because of these budget cuts include nursing home/assisted living care; orthopedic surgery; well-child care; home health care; hospice care; physical therapy; pharmacy; school health; transitional care; counseling/mental health services; ambulance services and other transportation services – just to name a handful.
But it's not just the $27 million from the state budget that we're talking about here. If the Legislature goes through with the governor's proposed cuts to Critical Access Hospitals they'll also lose millions in matching federal dollars. The total cuts to these hospitals would be end up being closer to $85 million.
This is a financial hit that, frankly, many rural Critical Access Hospitals cannot absorb. Most will have to cut major services and some will be forced to close their doors permanently, placing the health care of thousands of Washingtonians in jeopardy.
Urban hospitals will see a significant uptick in emergency room patients, Medicaid patients and uncompensated patients. The state's entire health care system will experience sicker patients as individuals go without needed care until their sickness gets too serious to ignore.
Washington state currently benefits from a strong network of rural and urban hospitals working together to ensure appropriate care for every patient. A breakdown in the Critical Access Hospital network will impact all hospitals in our state.
We are working with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle and in both chambers of the Legislature to prioritize spending, make state government more efficient, and to implement policies that help the private sector create more jobs. The state's budget problem must be solved quickly – but not at the expense of our state's excellent Critical Access Hospitals.
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Unless the IT industry adopts new energy-efficient technologies in the coming decade, it runs a serious risk of being unable to contribute to growing the global economy if limits are placed on carbon emissions.
The findings come from an 18-month investigation by scholars at the Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics (ISAID) in Singapore and Rice University's Baker Institute<|fim_middle|>2020.
ISAID, a bi-national institute founded in 2010 by Rice and NTU, is based in Singapore and dedicated to developing, finding and fostering sustainable, low-cost, energy-efficient information technologies.
The full report is available at: http://www.rice.edu/nationalmedia/multimedia/2010-10-11-ictreport.pdf. | for Public Policy in Houston.
"In the face of growing global concerns over greenhouse carbon emission, the key for the industry is finding new technologies that deliver more performance for each kilogram of CO2 emitted," said Rice computer scientist Krishna Palem, who directs ISAID, a joint institute of Rice and Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU). "Fortunately, there are viable technological options on the table and the information and communication industries have a strong track record of embracing new technologies."
The report found the information and communication technology (ICT) industry in the U.S. is on pace to grow its carbon emissions at twice the rate of its contributions to gross domestic product over the coming decade.
"In the U.S. in 2009, the economic output of the ICT industry per kilogram of CO2 emitted was about $2.83, and in a business-as-usual scenario, that output will fall to about $1.06 per kilogram of CO2 by 2020," said study co-author Chris Bronk, a fellow in technology, society and public policy at the Baker Institute and lecturer of computer science at Rice. "Based on those numbers, the industry is headed for a brick wall if limits are placed on CO2 emissions. In a carbon-constrained economy, green innovation will be absolutely essential for ICT profitability."
The report included a painstaking analysis of both the carbon emissions and the amount of gross domestic product (GDP) that are delivered each year by the information and communication technology (ICT) industry. The report also offers a new metric, the sustainability innovation quotient (SIQ), which expresses the number of dollars returned in GDP by the ICT industry for each kilogram of carbon dioxide it emits.
"Sustainability research and development is one of the key thrusts for NTU, and the latest research findings involving scholars from the joint NTU-Rice Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, are a further affirmation of NTU's capabilities and commitment in promoting sustainability globally," said NTU Provost Bertil Andersson. "The Sustainability theme pervades the University, and it is through initiatives such as ISAID that NTU aims to promote and develop new energy-efficient technologies, playing its global role in achieving a sustainable Earth."
The report grew out of a graduate course on information technology sustainability that Bronk and Palem, Rice's Ken and Audrey Kennedy Professor of Computing, co-taught at Rice in spring 2009. In preparing for the course, Palem and Bronk found a dearth of verifiable information about the ICT industry's carbon footprint, and Palem suggested the in-depth analysis after neither they nor their students found a reliable metric that related the ICT industry's contribution to gross domestic product relative to its carbon footprint.
Working with Bronk and Palem, graduate students Avinash Lingamneni and Kirthi Muntimadugu compiled numbers from government and industry sources. The team determined the number of various devices that are in use today, how much energy they consume and how that consumption is likely to be effected by expected growth in demand. Because IT devices don't emit CO2 themselves, but instead use electricity that is produced largely by burning coal and natural gas, the authors factored in the effect of cleaner, more efficient electric production technologies that will be rolled out in the coming decade.
In addition to information technology staples like PCs and laptops, the authors studied communications devices like smart phones, and they considered the impact of video game consoles -- one of the market's fastest growing product segments. Networking equipment for telecommunications and wireless providers was not included in the report, but data centers were, due largely to previous studies that had looked at their energy consumption in significant detail.
The authors calculated the global carbon emissions that will likely result if the ICT industry continues with business as usual. The calculations showed that global carbon emissions related to PCs and laptops, which accounted for 48.5 percent of all global ICT emissions in 2009, will nearly quadruple by 2020. Data center-related emissions will more than triple by 2020, and calculations showed that emissions related to both game consoles and mobile phones will more than triple by 2020. Mobile phones, which are constrained by battery life, and game consoles will together account for just 5.01 percent of total ICT emissions by | 890 |
Better than your average ice cream float! With all this carnival excitement, we're on an all-time sugar high and we have these Stella Rosa ice cream floats to thank. You heard us right, we've taken your<|fim_middle|> you or shop online or in-store at San Antonio Winery. | favorite childhood indulgence and upped the ante by adding your favorite summer wines!
Chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry ice cream FTW! We chose these classic flavors and mixed and matched them with Stella Rosa Black and Platinum, but there's really no wrong choice when pairing ice cream and Stella Rosa wines, so have fun with this one!
Set up an ice cream float table with all the fixings: ice cream and Stella Rosa Black and Platinum aluminums (it's hot out, so make sure to keep these on ice), whipped cream, sprinkles, Oreos, and gummy bears – because who doesn't love gummy bears?!
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...After fixing the black out at Amaken, once you go back to your house, a cut scene starts and the game freezes. You can't soft reset either.
I'm using an R4DS and a Kingston 1 gb micro SD. Latest firmware.
Hmm, I'm right at that part, I'll<|fim_middle|> won't help much though.
im using same thing as u are u forgetting something in the game or are there cheats that ur using?
I deleted the NDS MENU SYS and that seemed to have fixed it...odd.
No, I don't have hacks on, are there hacks for the game?
Action replay codes for Megaman StarForce Dragon? | see if mine does the same or not..
EDIT: Nope it went through everything fine, nothing froze..
Hmm..it could be something with the SD card, try formatting the card. First back up all your .savs and anything else and after formatting it just put everything back on and see if that helps.
Oh and is your SD card the Taiwan or Japan version of the 1gb Kingston, just wondering, | 84 |
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How Long Is A Moment? The Answer Is Surprisingly Complex
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Have you ever thought about how long a moment is? It's a question that's been asked by many people throughout history, and the answer is surprisingly complex. To really understand how long a moment is, it's important to look at the different definitions of the word.
At its simplest, a moment is defined as "a short period of time." In this sense, a moment can be as short as a single second, or it could be any other unit of time. This definition is often used colloquially, and it's a good way to describe how quickly something can happen.
However, some experts define a moment as "the smallest measurable unit of time." This is because a moment is the smallest unit of time that can be accurately measured. This definition is often used in scientific contexts and can be useful when measuring very short periods of time.
There's also the concept of a "moment of gravity," which is defined as "the amount of time required for a single rotation of the Earth on its axis." This definition is often used by astronomers and other scientists studying the Earth and its relationship to the Sun.
Finally, there's the idea of "moment of inertia," which is defined as "the amount of time it takes for a body to rotate about an axis." This definition is often used in physics and engineering, and it's useful for calculating how quickly a body can move or rotate.
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The bigger picture: Using analytics to predict movie success
Big Data | Data Analytics | Predictive Analytics
Ganesh Sankaralingam
With the advent of Big Data and analytics, the world has changed in ways previously unimaginable. In a rapidly growing and thriving industry such as the motion picture industry, data analytics has opened a number of important new avenues that can be used to analyze past data, make creative marketing decisions, and accurately predict the fortunes of impending movie releases.
The timing of the movie release is critical to the success of a movie. To facilitate the release date selection, studios decide and pre-announce the targeted release dates on a weekly basis long before the actual release of their forthcoming movies. Their choices of release dates and then the subsequent changes are strategic in nature taking into consideration various factors like regional holidays, cultural events, political situation, sports events etc. Predictive analytics using the historical movie release data and their box office performance can help us identify the ideal release date of the movie to maximize performance at the box office.
Consider a scenario where a movie has already been slated for release on a particular date. Suddenly, a competitor movie is announced and the production house should decide whether it should go ahead with the release or make any changes.
Business Challenge:
Determining optimal release date for a movie: leveraging analytics to enhance box office success rate for the movie.
'Cats & Dogs' and 'America's Sweethearts' were scheduled to release on July 04, 2001. To avoid competition, 'America's Sweethearts' was moved forward by a week to July 13, 2001 but soon a new entrant, 'Legally Blonde'<|fim_middle|> social media channels, we can gauge expectations of the target audience and the buzz towards the movie.
There are lot of macro and micro economic factors that affect the release date of a movie. Some of the factors that can be measured and factored during analysis are explained in the diagram below. Most of the data can be collected from public sources like IMDB, Rovi etc.
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The database will contain historical data of all the movies at a studio and genre level including cast, support and box office performance.
Data of competitor movies (those getting released in the same week) needs to be analyzed carefully since other movie releases in the same genre will impact the performance of the movie at the box office.
This process involves analyzing social media conversations along with the themes, sentiment and demographic features. This extracted data will help promote creatives that have the potential to create maximum impact and will also help identify the right target audience.
Cultural events, sports events like the FIFA world cup, political events – elections, protests etc. also play an important role when it comes to the release of a movie. In these scenarios, it may not be ideal to release the movie during these events as theatre occupancy rates are generally lower.
Illustrative Scorecard
All factors considered, the ideal date on which America's Sweethearts was to be released was decided in order to ensure higher probability of success.
A database with the release calendar provided information on competitors release, genre, budget etc. It is important to create a set of rules that satisfy the success criteria (which can be generated based on CART/ Decision Tree Rules Generation using historical data.)
Inferences:
The data was collected from social media by using keywords relevant to the movie; thereafter, using text mining, top themes were extracted from the tweet data. Since the movie revolved around a love story, the most popular theme for the movie was the genre, which in this case was romance. The other significant genre which created a buzz in social media was comedy. Using this analysis, the most apt genre for the movie was decided, which was then used to market the movie.
Using the same social media data, sentiment analysis was carried out. This gave the production house an idea of the public sentiment about the movie. The analysis showed 'Joy' as the top sentiment followed by 'Love'
We also saw the excitement about the movie release at different levels like, age, gender and location. This helped us identify the age group, gender and location where the movie gained maximum publicity, which will in turn helped with the marketing
For e.g. Women in the age group of 21-24 dominated the social conversations while men in the age group of 26 to 32 had higher social engagement
Business Impact:
The inferences from social media data helped to select the final release date for the movie. Hence, instead of releasing the movie in the second week, it would have been better to release it in the third week since it had 25% more chances of success.
While winning an Oscar might be the ultimate taste of success, winning at the box office is as sweet a measurement of success. Though we cannot promise an Oscar, with analytics we can make sure of the latter!
Note: The engagement numbers and impressions mentioned are for representative purpose only.
*With inputs from Sathish Prabahar
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One of those days when it was hard to get motived to spend the day helping out at Van Stadens especially when talking to Goodman it was quite clear that his mind was elsewhere and if we want the massive clearing up of the blue gums to be done it is up to ourselves.
As promised Neil arrived to work on the shade house, admirable to sacrifice a day of his well earned holiday to come and do some heavy digging while we took some pine logs to the arboretum and then started to stack more branches on the picnic site. While doing that we spotted Rob in the far corner by the fence fighting with coppiced blue gums which have seeded themselves long ago from the neighbouring property.
It becomes a bit monotonous to cut branches and drag them away so I interspersed that with cutting some logs as well. I am pleasantly surprised that the wood cuts fairly easily and the awful sap is no longer there to clog up the chainsaw so it will be feasible to clear up most of trunks eventually.
The picture below tells a good story, first of all the new indigenous replacement trees we planted a while ago are doing very well, secondly the huge stack of branches is getting ready for Sisanie to apply a match and thirdly there is still a lot of firewood lying around, hopefully the visitors will take from those piles instead of stealing the logs we have put around the new trees.
Perhaps some cynics will add a fourth point and say that the grass needs mowing.
In the meantime Neil had progressed well with the shade house, adding shade cloth on the open side will surely protect the plants better whilst giving us a little more space as well.
Rob went and planted some Sansevieras around Jenny's succulent garden so all in all a good day.
Lots to do today so we wasted no time to go and chat in the office and headed straight down to the arboretum to install the modified steps into the bird hide. This should make it a little more user friendly for the not so agile bird watchers.
Surprise to say the least that the mounting holes still lined up so the steps<|fim_middle|> branches and, even though we got quite far, we didn't manage enough by teatime to get all the way to the huts. We built quite a stack of branches though so I arranged with Goodman for Sisanie to burn them to make space for some more. Hopefully he will have done that by next week.
On inspection of the misting house I discovered that the ants really like the warm soil and had built quite a nest amongst our seedlings so that got quickly taken care of. Looks like the earthworms have also multiplied, don't know if that is a good thing for cuttings.
After lunch it was too miserable to do the planned sorting out in the nursery so we went for a walk instead to follow the forest stream up to the source. With the running water it is lovely up there.
so we will have to go back there with some poison.
We fought our way up through the dense bush up to the N2 hoping to be able to follow the fence or the powerline. Both were impassable so we ended up climbing over the fence, walk along the N2 for a while and descend via the mud slide where we found this lovely Pelargonium amongst many aliens.
Sunday was the morning for the trail run. Sheena had come out and marked the route and about thirty runners got their instructions and did either the 9km or the 5km loop.
When all the runners had departed we went for a botanizing walk in the River Walk area to look for Aloes and I spotted the turnoff of the old Boulder trail which has been closed for many years. This, of course, begs for some exploration in the near future.
We ended up and Turtle Creek to photograph some tracks in the sand and got this Mongoose print.
It so happened that this weekend we had both the Fovs monthly meeting and the Free Spirit trail training run so we took the opportunity to get some feet on the new trail and get some feedback on it.
Saturday we started the walk from the office and took the southern section towards the Forest walk. Fortunately Sisanie had seen his way clear during the week to mow the necessary section and they looked very good.
It had rained quite a bit during the week so some paths were a bit moist. At the start of the Forest some of us decided to take the shortcut back to the upper section of the Nymph trail while the rest of us included the Forest walk in a clockwise direction.
There were some lovely fungi in the forest and it was good to see the stream running vigorously again.
Quite a few Streptocarpus were in flower but the special aloe we were looking for not yet.
Some of the group had gone ahead and got lost and ended up on the Link Trail. It didn't seem to be a problem because everybody ended up back at the office for tea and some of us stayed on after for a lunchtime braai at the braai area.
The general consensus was that the Nymph trail is a very worthwhile extension to the trail network. Providing adequate and understandable signage will be a challenge though as one can do many loops and variations.
After the usual morning tasks such as hacking and looking after the nursery we went and planted some more indigenous trees to replace the pines. Jenny has donated a lot of trees for that purpose and, if they all take, there will be quite a forest there in the future.
Rob set about digging some holes and planting them with Ellie offering plenty of advice and encouragement, not to mention carrying huge logs to put around the new trees to protect them from inadvertent mowing.
Keith in the meantime did what he does best and attacked the trunk of the pine tree. All branches have been removed and in good time we will cut up the trunk as well. I have some ideas for log furniture which might happen.
First though we will shift our attention to cleaning up the main picnic site. This is quite a job but hopefully a few hours every Wednesday will eventually see it cleared. | were back in no time, then it was a bit of a struggle to put some blocks under the seat to raise it slightly and lastly the railing we fitted the railing.
When all was done I sat there for a few minutes and spotted Drongo, Cape Sugarbirds and plenty of lbj's whilst also enjoying the birds eye view over the fynbos.
Interlude for tea and then to the main picnic site to clean up some more branches. We were very pleasantly surprised that Sisani had done as promised and burnt our previous stacks of branches, very neat and tidy and never mind that he left a clump of blue gum seedlings right next to pile. It was a difficult clean-up with gnarled, intertwined branches full of seedpods and we were not quite finished by lunchtime.
Quick inspection of the misting house confirmed that the ants have departed and a quick stroll through the nursery confirmed that it needs some tlc soon in the form of weeding, rebagging and sorting.
After lunch Rob and Cathy were off to Turtle Creek to tackle some wattle on the dam wall while I was conned into cutting a few Port Jacksons on the mud slide which turned out to be at least thirty with some wattle and other nasties for good measure.
First thing though was to cut down the Strelizias we had spotted on our previous Forest Walk happily invading the forest stream.
This brought us to a few places in the forest where one usually does not venture with its just rewards of some lovely plants on the rock faces.
We scouted around for the aloes which should be flowering by now, plenty aloes but no flowers yet except one in a very inaccessible and awkward place so that will have to wait for another day.
Back to the picnic site to complete our clean up and by that stage no time left for our usual finishing up cup of coffee. We even found the gate to the nursery already locked as the staff loses no time closing up in the afternoon.
The first really cold day of the season with a biting wind. Good thing though that it put a stop to the horse flies and that one needs to keep working to stay warm.
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'Friends' pop-up event opening in Boston; experience to feature Central Perk set, gift shop and photo opportunities
LOS ANGELES - MAY 6: (L-R) In this handout photo provided by NBC, the cast of "Friends", actors Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox-Arquette, David Schwimmer and Jennifer Aniston sat down with Jay Leno for a special "Tonight Show," on the set of Central Perk on May 6, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Paul Drinkwater/NBC via Getty<|fim_middle|> These events cost $55, but will feature activities from the show, such as learning Ross and Monica's dance routine.
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You won't be able to binge "Friends" on Netflix when it leaves the platform at the end of the year, but those in Massachusetts can experience something better, a pop-up shop about to open in Boston.
The "Friends Boston Pop-Up" by Superfly will be open from Nov. 21 to Jan. 5, 2000 at 401 Park at the corner of Brookline Avenue and Fullerton Street.
The half-hour experience will take people through such iconic sets as "Joey & Chandler's apartment, Central Perk (obviously)" and will feature "tons of photo opportunities, original props, limited edition merchandise and more."
Tickets are currently on sale at the pop-up website for $29.50 each, plus tax and service fees. Tickets are available at the door to those who wait in line if a spot is free, however, spots cannot be guaranteed to anyone waiting in line.
If tickets are sold out people can sign up for the mailing list on the pop-up website.
The gift shop will have things like clothes, pins and DVDs. Those who aren't able to make it to the pop-up can still shop online.
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Update: Dec. 20, 2002: A Bump in the Road.
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Job growth slows in Washington, even as it surges nationally
By Paul Roberts, The Seattle Times
Published: November 18, 2021, 7:52am
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SEATTLE — The national job market may be rebounding, but hiring slowed in Washington in October, raising questions about the state's recovery as it heads into its second pandemic winter.
Employers in Washington added just 6,300 jobs last month, according to the October employment report released Wednesday from the state Employment Security Department.
That's down substantially from September's revised number of 18,800 jobs and represents the smallest increase since May, when the state added just 2,700 jobs, according the report. The state's unemployment rate fell to 5%, down slightly from 5.1% in September.
To be fair, Washington's dismal October numbers were heavily affected by the estimated loss of 9,300 education and other government jobs, a figure that may be lowered as<|fim_middle|> recently have offered signing bonuses of $2,000 to $3,000, and many fast-food chains have raised starting wages — to $19 at Dick's Drive-In and $20 at some Taco Time locations.
The resumption of in-person school in September means many parents who were forced to stay home can now look for jobs. And, Turek said, many unemployed workers may be more motivated now that enhanced unemployment benefits, which added $300 a week on top of regular unemployment benefits, are no longer available.
Over the last quarter, a large fraction of economic growth and consumer spending was fueled by people tapping savings, Turek said. But, he added, "at some point, that runs out — you can't hold out forever without income coming in."
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But hiring by private employers was down around 16%, to 15,600, compared to September. "So even if you just look at the private sector jobs … [October] is still coming in a little bit light," said Paul Turek, ESD state economist.
The weaker hiring makes Washington something of an outlier: nationally, hiring in October surged by 531,000 jobs, or 70% over September's revised number.
And, perversely, Washington's slow October also comes as many employers are still struggling to find enough workers.
That was especially clear in the state's leisure and hospitality industry, which includes restaurants, hotels, and arts, entertainment, and recreation businesses.
Nationally, those businesses saw the most October hiring of any industry. But the 1,700 leisure and hospitality jobs Washington added last month represent barely half of what the state would have seen had it matched the national trend, said Jacob Vigdor, an economist with the University of Washington Evans School of Public Policy who has studied state and local job markets.
Leisure and hospitality jobs have also been among the hardest to fill during the pandemic. Restaurants "are still struggling" to hire, said restaurateur Eric Banh, co-owner of the Seattle-area Ba Bar and Monsoon restaurants. Although his own staff shortages have eased from earlier this summer, managerial positions remain hard to fill.
It's not all bad news: Washington posted relatively strong gains in manufacturing, a sector that saw huge losses early in the pandemic. The 6,000 added manufacturing jobs represent around 10% of all manufacturing jobs added nationally, which is more than four times Washington's share of the U.S. population, Vigdor said.
But October's report also underscored the way the pandemic continues to have disparate impacts on industries and socioeconomic groups. While hiring was strong in professional services jobs, it was worryingly low or even negative in several industries that provide jobs for many lower-income workers, including leisure and hospitality businesses.
Also worrying: the state saw job losses in construction, an industry that has long been an economic driver for the region, and the transportation and warehousing sector, which is key to the supply chain.
"This is a funky jobs report for Washington state, with some sectors doing really well and others remarkably bad," Vigdor said.
Some of Washington's lackluster performance reflects the combined impacts of a continuing pandemic and seasonal conditions, Vigdor said. Unusually heavy rains in October, he said, had the twin effect of "deterring people from going out to enjoy leisure and hospitality and slowing down construction projects."
Another potential factor behind the differences between state and national trends may reflect Washington's relatively conservative approach to COVID-19 restrictions, said Hart Hodges, an economist and director of the Center for Economic and Business Research at Western Washington University.
"I wonder if some parts of the country are a little more cavalier about COVID and getting back to 'normal' while other parts — like us — are still being cautious," Hodges said. "If so, we might expect slower job growth in the cautious areas."
The October report also shows how far Washington has yet to go to recover from the massive job losses early in the pandemic. As of October, the state workforce was still 63,500 jobs short of its October 2019 size.
Most of that deficit is centered in the Seattle area, which is still down by 52,100 jobs, compared with October 2019, state data show. But the Seattle area also grabbed the lion's share of job growth in October: Although the region represents around half the state's workforce, it accounted around two-thirds of private hiring in October.
October's job numbers also did little to clarify the reasons behind the state's labor shortage. For example, even as job growth slowed, the number of people collecting unemployment benefits in Washington also fell. The four-week moving average of weekly continued jobless claims dropped by around 13,163, to 50,848, as of Oct. 30, compared to the period ending Oct. 2, the ESD reported Monday. That's the lowest 4-week moving average since the pandemic started last year.
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Still, despite the disappointing numbers, some employers and economists said the conditions are right for job growth to pick up in coming months. Wages are rising in many labor-crunched sectors. Some warehouse operators | 958 |
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Southwest Texas Junior College is situated at an interesting place in Texas, with Mexican and American influences vying for student's attention. Though Uvalde is a town of nearly 15,000 people, several notable figures have been born there. Perhaps most famous of all in John Nance Garner – known as Cactus Jack – who was Franklin Roosevelt's Vice President after serving as Speaker of the House from 1931-1933. The Janey Slaughter Briscoe Grand Opera House is a place to see live theater and other performances in Uvalde. Garner Field's Aviation Museum will transport visitors back to the time of the Second World War. Former state Governor | 589 |
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NU'EST's Aron Graces His First Cover Shoot With INDEED Magazine
Oct 21, 2020 | by Rosen Seth
Dispatch, CC BY 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons NU'EST Aron participated in his first cover shoot with Indeed magazine, where he talked about his time with the group.
American singer Aaron Kwak, 27, famously known as Aron from boy band NU'EST, made his debut in the fashion magazine world as he stars on his first-ever solo cover shoot.
Indeed magazine sets out its best cover star
On October 19 (Monday), Indeed magazine made known Aron as its cover star for the outlet's 9th volume issue. As per Soompi, Aron showed off his shy personality at first but then transformed into a dashing icon as soon as the camera started clicking.
Instantly after Aron's photoshoot concluded, the production team expressed their appreciation to the K-pop idol for his professionalism, natural charm, and intense yet expressive facial setups.
The photos released by the fashion magazine showcases Aron's simple yet mesmerizing looks while wearing street style apparel.
The first photo shared by Indeed sees Aron in an all-black outfit: coat, inner polo, bottom, and leather shoes. The<|fim_middle|>Even if I were to go back to that point of choice, I would still join NU'EST," he said. Aron then added that he enjoys interacting with the group's fans, who call themselves L.O.Λ.E, through social media.
For the time being, Aron is a radio host for the To. Night, alongside fellow NU'EST member Ren. The show releases new episodes at 9 P.M. KST on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It is available for streaming on Naver NOW.
Meanwhile, Aron's full edition of his pictorial and interview is available via Indeed magazine's Volume 9.
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MONSTA X's Kihyun Partners With HARPER'S BAZAAR + Talks About 'Fatal Love' | singer took a pose as if he is a cactus in the middle of the desert, with his hand open wide. However, adding a mysterious concept to the photo is the location where it was shot. It tells of a studio room with a white background and wood flooring, while Aron is beside a giant cactus.
The next photo shared by the magazine is an ultra-double exposure image, showing three personas of Aron.
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Aron's sentiment towards his time with NU'EST
In an exclusive interview with Indeed, Aron exclaimed that he sees opportunities as something that doesn't come easy.
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How I Became a Game Animator for AAA Games
We recently had the chance to interview AnimSchool instructor John Paul Rhinemiller and talk to him about his journey from being an animator for feature films to a game developer at Vicarious Visions for the past ten years. Keep reading to get a taste of what working in the game industry is really like and whether it's the right choice for you.
Tell us your story! What got you into animation?
It's not something I knew from the start. It's more a series of events that led me to want to be an animator. I always was into art but never put the two together until I attended McCann Technical High School where I focused half my time on Computer Assisted Drafting. I loved the computer side of things but not so much the mechanical drafting of parts. After high school, I attended a local community college and took an elective course in animation, and the marriage of computers and art for me is what I needed. I never looked back.
Did you always go for games specifically or did you explore films and TV first?
I think I always had the film itch, just like a lot of students do. They get it into their head "Film is the thing that we have to do. If I don't reach film, I am not a success story." It feels like film is the pinnacle of animation sometimes. In a lot of schools back in the day, a lot of programs were set up like that because the game industry was this weird insular thing. There really wasn't a lot of exposure to games. So I gravitated towards film in the beginning. I worked as hard as I could to get in, and then worked in film for a few years. It wasn't until my wife was looking to go back to college that I came across Vicarious Visions in New York. It felt like, "Ok let's go there for 2–3 years while she gets her degree and then I'll go back to film. That's the plan." I got there and interviewed, and the environment throughout the interview process was just a breath of fresh air. I got to interview with people from all different disciplines, not just animators, and they all wanted to know how I would collaborate with them. There are just so many more opportunities to collaborate since the teams are so much smaller. Over the years at Vicarious Visions, I learned a lot about being an artist and game developer, not just an animator. It provided this opportunity for growth that I don't know I would've gotten in film because it's so specialized. Sometimes there's very little room to lift your head up and see what<|fim_middle|>'s not just about draw-overs, we'll open up the files and I'll do the note, show it to them, and then they'll go back and do it on their own. You can listen to or read something, but are you getting enough clarity in order to interpret it in the way you see animation? Everyone understands and sees things slightly differently. We also get to talk about the industry as a whole. Some of the discussions for the first 5-10 minutes of class are about the industry: how you can advance your career or get better at an interview. There's so much I'm trying to give these students in only 11 weeks. We try to inject as much as the other stuff that's going to get you a job. Your reel is the 70% that'll get you an interview, but if you go into that interview unprepared, you might not get it. We really try to inject a whole lot more about the industry itself (how to succeed and how to get in), rather than just the skillset. There'll always be time to grow the skillset, but how often do you have the opportunity to ask someone with 20 years of experience questions about the interview process or how to tailor your reel? Those kinds of things are gold that never really get seen in a curriculum.
What kind of person should pursue the Game Animation track?
There's a lot of stigma that you have to be a big gamer to go into games and that is not true. I was a casual gamer growing up, but I wasn't a hardcore gamer that knew from day one that's what I wanted to do. There's a love of animation in this industry just like there is in film. The thing that AnimSchool has done is set up tracks to help you understand the multiple facets of being a game animator. Whether that be cinematics, whether that be motion capture, whether that be gameplay animator. The Game Animation Track gives you a good foundation of touching an engine for the first time, getting your stuff in an engine, and being able to present that work on your demo reel. If you want to see where this industry is going and have a different perspective on how animation can be a part of the community and touch people in a different way, then this is for you. Games are an experience. And there's so much new tech out there that allows us to interact with a community and the people playing our games. Games are still in their infancy as an art, and I think AnimSchool does a great job of capturing that base foundation so that when you get out of school, you're not completely lost.
Can you talk about the gender gap that exists in the game industry?
As we continue to develop more young talent and more young gamers, we've seen some good growth in the diversity of the new hires we're getting out of school. However, we definitely need more diversity in games in general, but we also need more females. The thing that this offers is different perspectives. We need those different perspectives in our industry to help create great ideas and good experiences that everyone can enjoy and that represent everybody. Those perspectives are going to help us develop games that people want to play in the future. The gaming industry as a whole has done a better job of being more self-aware, but we have a long way to go. Young female gamers can be part of that change and drive to evolve our industry. It offers a completely different dynamic to our teams and it makes us better. That diversity and inclusion make our games better and just make us all better.
How has working during the pandemic been for you? Do you think video games will shift more towards remote work than it already was?
This is a tough question. While I think we have been successful and very productive, I feel we lose a whole side of our industry that makes it special...the culture. We give it a good try, but trying to inject the fabric of a studio through Zoom boxes will never be the same in my opinion. I feel the collaboration and excitement of being around other creatives can never be replicated from a screen. Part of why I love this industry so much is all of the little interactions and events that happen at a studio that we miss out on when we're remote. I do think that we can strike a balanced approach of hybrid and many studios are, but moving to the extremes of all WFH or all in the office could definitely change moving forward.
What are your favorite games at the moment?
There are two games that have affected me in two different ways. One: The Last of Us 2. I was playing it at the beginning of the pandemic and that story….it felt like an episodic HBO series that I could not wait to pick back up again and see what happened next. And I was interacting with it—I was actually in there—so there were moments that were really tense and I'm gripping the controller super tight and holding my breath. I can't remember the last time I played a game like that. With technology getting really good and the amount of time and effort those devs put into that game, it was just a really good immersion of story with an experience from beginning to end. There's really not a lot of lag time in there. I really felt engaged the entire time. That one stuck with me and it will for a while. The other one is Spider-Man. It's the first one that my son and I really played together. I've started to slowly age him into games and try to keep it as PC as possible, for as long as possible. But that was the first one that I opened up and he saw me playing it, and for 3-4 months I just let him swing around the city. And that one mechanic was so enjoyable to do; to learn about and to watch. They did such an amazing job of creating the experience of swinging through New York, so I just let him do that. Then we finally started the game and we 100% it. All the missions, all the quests. I can't tell you the last game I've 100% a game! My son has played some of the games that I've made, but this was the first time we were in it together for the journey.
Where do you see yourself going in the future? Games, film, or something new?
Games are my future. I am a game developer first and an animator second. The future of games and how we tell stories to interact with our community is still evolving. It's exciting to be a part of and if I'm lucky I can continue to be a part of this industry for some time.
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Posted by Mia Andrea at 7:57 AM 20 comments: | 's out there in film, but in games they encourage that. They push you to follow what you're passionate for and want to go after. Even after I shipped a project, I'd think about looking for another job but then I'd think, "The next project looks really great and the studio has been really good to me and I've learned so much so why don't I just hop onto the next project?" Before you know it, I've been here for 10 years. And I'm not ever going back to film, I'm a game developer now!
Can you talk a bit more about the key differences between animating for video games versus film?
Honestly, the amount you are involved in the entire process with animation in games can be very different from film. I have been able to collaborate with so many departments that it allows me to enjoy being an artist and an animator. The teams are smaller, so even when I interview people now, I'm looking at how their voice is going to impact my team. At a game studio, there can be six animators on a team. When I was at the Rhythm and Hues, we had 90 animators on a team for a short project. My personality is big, and I try to get to know everyone, but at a game studio, you really get to know everyone and you have to work together to solve problems. As an animator you want that quality to be shown, and if there are technical issues, you have to work together to solve them so the rest of the team can be proud of what we ship. You can be involved as much or as little as you want to be. If you want to be heads down and just focus on being a good animator, there's room for that. If you want to solve technical problems and want to work and collaborate outside of just animation, there's also room for that. We expect animators on our team to have more of an impact and a voice. We really want their voice to shine through, because your perspective is very important to round out our team and help give us the different pieces that come together to help us ship a good project.
A lot of student animators aspire to animate for the big screen. Could someone start off in games and transition to film or vice versa?
I feel like the difference between the quality of animation in film and games is narrowing all the time. This means that the qualities each look for are also narrowing. The foundations are super important as your building blocks. One thing that transfers to both industries is showing a wide range of styles on your reel. One thing that sticks out is many of the studios want animators to think like game developers as well. It's important to hone your craft but understanding how games get made is super important to continue to push this medium further. With tools and pipelines, knowledge does not always transfer one to one.
Can you elaborate a bit more about what you mean by "think like game developers"?
Game development is a process you have to see in real-time. Cinematics can be isolating when you do large, full-scale movies. When it comes to game animators in general, it's not just about your animations. You have to get it into the game and see the responsiveness of your controller or PC. When you put it in a playtest, they're immediately talking about how responsive it is, how it feels and what their experience is. And you as an animator have to interpret this and work with designers to make sure that responsiveness not only looks good from a visual standpoint but also plays well with the gamer who's thinking, "Well this guy isn't turning fast enough so I can't get over here fast enough…" There's a level of responsiveness that has to go back and forth with the game and player. When you understand game development, then you can craft and tailor your animations a little bit differently in the beginning. Your approach might be slightly different compared to a shot that's just going straight onto a screen in a film. I was an animator when I started, but now I'm a game developer first. I know what animation systems it takes to make the animation run well in games. I have to understand game development in order to know how to make the animation shine.
How well versed in video game programs such as Unity and Unreal do you need to be to animate for video games?
It is a plus and we teach some intro and basic setup in our game courses. From my experience, as a junior animator coming in, we like to take into account that new hires will need some guidance and mentoring along the way. Getting experience in an engine will always start to set you apart. As real-time rendering becomes more and more widely used in the industry as a whole, it will only serve you better to get some training.
In your class, you also teach cinematics. In the industry, how often do you animators utilize knowledge about cameras and cinematography?
It all depends on the size of the studio that you work at. The larger teams tend to have layout artists. That doesn't mean you won't touch cameras or have a say, but it may not be your primary job. At Vicarious Visions we want our animators to have a good understanding of cinematics as a whole and be active participants in the development of our story content so understanding the foundations of cameras and cinematography is certainly a plus.
What's your biggest piece of advice to students?
1. Everyone's timelines/journeys are different. If you chat with someone working in the industry, most of the stories on how they got there are different. So stick with it if you are passionate. Someone may land a job right after school and someone else may take a year. That's their journey. You have to continue on that journey and continue to find that passion in order to make it happen. If you continue down that road, continue to be passionate, and continue to put your all in it, you'll make it into the industry.
2. It's easy to get distracted by all the areas within school so FOCUS. The earlier you can figure out what you want to focus on the better off you will be and more practice and iteration you will have under your belt. If you want to model FOCUS on that...if you want to animate, do that as much as possible. There's plenty of time for you to learn other things afterward, but if you want to get that job, it is very competitive and you need to focus as quickly and as early as possible in your studies.
What are your biggest demo reel tips for those trying to get into the game industry?
Only put your best on there. If that's 2 pieces then so be it. Organizing your reel around consistency and pacing can show really well. Variety! Showing your range to potential employers can help set you apart.
You've clearly animated a variety of characters and styles. How do you film references for creatures that don't exist and make them feel believable, but also have character/personality?
What a great question! Many places I had would bring in animals if possible for us to take time and study. One good way is thinking about 1-2 features that could ground that creature in reality. Talk to your lead or get input from the team and then you have a good starting point for reference gathering. If you can add something that people can connect with it can help make these fantastical creatures feel a little more believable.
How do you use MoCap in your game animation pipeline?
For the first five years I was here at Vicarious Visions, we didn't use it at all. Since working on the Destiny franchise, we transitioned and have been using a mix of it since. We still feel it's really important to be a good animator at the core. We look at MoCap as another tool for animation to use. You must have solid foundations to build off of. If we are talking from an execution standpoint, we have lots of resources across Activision. They have a large motion capture space for anything that requires that level of effort that we use from time to time, and we also have an Xsens suit that we use at the studio.
In your class, how do you push your students to create industry-level work?
We focus a TON on iteration and feedback. One of the biggest things I push is Weight, Timing, and Spacing. I feel these are some of the important building blocks to an animator's foundation. Without being able to show this off in your work, it is hard to see past the mistakes. They don't have to be perfect, but the sooner you understand this the faster you can show the potential you have as an animator to potential studios.
Where should I start if I only have a little bit of animation experience and want to be a game animator?
There are lots of resources out there nowadays but I like to think we have a good veteran group of game instructors here at AnimSchool. We are constantly trying to evolve the curriculum as the gaming industry evolves as well. We need to be agile just like game development in order to help provide the best training to our students. We care about our students and really work to help them succeed with their hard skills as well as their soft skills.
What's the biggest advantage of taking live classes instead of learning from online tutorials?
The interaction that I have with the students individually and drawing over and being able to explain what's in my brain about animation is so much easier. I can see what's on the page and interpret their animation skillset and give appropriate, individual feedback. They can ask me questions in real-time while we're going back and forth, and we jam just like we would in a studio. During dailies at a studio, if you don't understand it, then we continue to hammer on it until it clicks. It | 2,006 |
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday warned Cyprus not to "overstep the mark" in the eastern Mediterranean, after Greek Cypriots accused the Turkish military of obstructing an Italian vessel exploring for natural gas over the weekend.
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Eni and France's Total, partners in a Cyprus venture, announced last week finding a promising gas field off Cyprus. They said the find looked geologically similar to the Zohr field off Egypt, which holds an estimated 30 trillion cubic feet of gas, the largest field ever found in the Mediterranean. | Cyprus, says some areas of Cyprus's offshore maritime zone fall under the jurisdiction of Turkey or Turkish Cypriots, underscoring tensions in the broader eastern Mediterranean over competing claims for offshore resources.
"Our warships and security units are following all developments in the region with the instruction to do whatever is necessary," Erdogan told members of his ruling AK Party in parliament.
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades declined to comment on Erdogan's remarks, but said there was no cause for worry.
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The area where the drill ship was headed - Block 3 of Cyprus's economic zone - is also claimed by Turkish Cypriots. Turkey's state-owned oil company also plans to search for oil and gas off Cyprus, ethnically partitioned between its Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities.
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In addition to light sensors and occupancy sensors, forward-thinking facility managers are experimenting with sensors such as relative humidity, particulate matter, and environmental pollutants. The awareness of the "as much as possible" sensor is gaining popularity.
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Although new energy regulations have been promoting digital lighting(outdoor LED String lights) over the past 10 years, we still need to mention it in the 2018 lighting trend list. In fact, energy consumption continues to influence many lighting design decisions, especially as regulations are updated and become more stringent. Many in the industry expect that the 2019 version of Title 24 will be effective on January 1, 2020, and that facility managers outside of California will be concerned about this update, as energy licensing may spread to other states.
Although the energy budget is still a key design parameter, experts believe that the new regulations should not prevent anyone from doing good lighting design. For example, they pointed out that ASHRAE (American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers) Standard 90.1 has a 1 watt per square foot trim margin above the baseline quota, which allows lighting designers to strike a balance between | 435 |
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All the pictures are coming in today on Facebook of my friends and the awesome costumes they were wearing at the awesome Halloween parties they went to last night. I could be feeling like, "AW MAN, I SHOULD HAVE GONE!", but I don't. My robe felt awesome last night. I will be very festive on Halloween, buzzing around in my bee costume stealing candy from my baby bassets, but there is no way to get me to go out twice in one week. I should post pics of me on the couch in my robe with the caption, "AWESOME NIGHT!! WOOOO HOOOOO!"
Death Ship (Danforth Saga Book 5)
by Joseph Badal
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A leisurely cruise in the Ionian Sea turns into a nightmare event when terrorists hijack a yacht with Bob, Liz, Miriana, and Robbie aboard. Although the boat's crew, with Bob and Robbie's help, eliminate the hijackers, there is evidence that something more significant may be in the works.
The CIA and the U.S. military must identify what that might be and who is behind the threat, and must operate within a politically-corrupt environment in Washington, D.C. At the same time, they must disrupt the terrorist's financing mechanism, which involves trading in securities that are highly sensitive to terrorist events.
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The Days Lost
by Shannon McCrimmon
Genre: Teen & Young Adult | Science Fiction
On the heels of her high school graduation, Ellie Morales is spending her summer vacation in the mountains of Western North Carolina with her dad and brother, Jonah. Having lost their mother only months earlier, all of them are trying to cope with the loss in their own way. Part routine, part escape, running is Ellie's way of dealing with her grief. Shortly after sunrise each morning, Ellie and her dog, Bosco, set out for a lengthy run on the path that passes by her house and leads deep into the woods of the Blue Ridge Mountains. One fateful morning, Ellie is lead off of the trail and discovers a secret that will change her life, as well as the lives of the family she meets, forever. One member of this mysterious family is Sam Gantry, who seems unlike any guy she's ever known. This meeting sparks a series of events, causing Ellie to question everything she's ever known and believed. The more she learns about Sam and his family, the more she wants to help him find the missing puzzle pieces.
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NextOne Button No Brain | new life for herself away from the drama, secrets and stress of the small town, she must return upon her grandmother's death. Her return brings back wonderful memories, especially of Marc, but also horrible fears from the past.
When fate throws her and Marc together once again, how can they ignore the everlasting love and desire between them? Will Kate stay and face her demons or will the deceit and secrets of the past destroy any future they may have and force her to leave again?
This book can be read as a stand alone, but for more enjoyment read them in the order of the series, as all the characters appear in future books.
The Rendezvous Series: Books 1 – 3
by Win Blevins
Genre: Literature & Fiction | Historical Fiction | Action & Adventure | United States
An extraordinary historical adventure from a NY Times Bestselling author. "Win Blevins has painted an epic saga of life in the early West on a huge canvas of vivid colors."-Tony Hillerman "Blevins is a true storyteller in the tradition of Native American people." Lee Francis, Director, Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers.
In 1822, Sam Morgan dreams of following in the footsteps of the Lewis and Clark expedition. When he steals away on a flatboat headed west, Sam's epic adventure begins. Along the way, he meets a cast of unforgettable characters, including Capt. William Clark himself and fur traders Jedediah Smith and Irish Tom Fitzpatrick, mountain men well on their way to becoming legends.
In a brigade led by the heroic Smith, Sam crosses the fierce deserts to California — a first. But the land of the Golden Bear confronts him with dazzling perils. He must trek the Sierra Nevada and walk thirsty across the Great Basin Desert to save his comrades.
Sam learns that he can survive, love, live with nature, and thrive, by trusting himself, by pushing himself — and his dreams — to the limit.
Runic Awakening (The Runic Series Book 1)
by Clayton Wood
Genre: Fantasy | Literature & Fiction
Runic Awakening is the first book in the Runic series, a contemporary epic fantasy series set in the world of Doma, where magical engineers called Runics rule the land. They are equaled in power only by Weavers, men and women that can manipulate the very fabric of the universe with their wills.
Transported through space and time by an unknown force, Kyle finds himself stranded on a
strange world. A world where magical engineers called Runics have created the Empire, the greatest civilization ever known.
Taken under the wing of a retired Weaver named Kalibar, Kyle is thrust into a dark conspiracy to overthrow the Empire… and murder Kalibar. Hunted by a sadistic undead overlord called the Dead Man, Kyle must learn to master the power of magical runes to keep Kalibar alive. If he fails, the Empire will fall… and Kyle will be | 607 |
Over the last few years, Bitcoin and other virtual currencies, such as Ethereum and Litecoin have gained enormous popularity with both individuals and businesses as a new and convenient way of making both purchases<|fim_middle|> said to be attracting 1 million new users per month.
Coinbase subscribers can use their wallet to seamlessly transfer digital coins to another person. Virtual currency transfers have become a quick and convenient alternative to making fiat currency payments.
Assuming these digital coin transfers are being done as some form of payment, it's time for a reality check. There could be unique implications if you replace fiat currencies with virtual currencies when making certain person-to-person payments.
In situations where a person who makes certain payments in US dollars (cash, check or money order) who would ordinarily be eligible for tax deductions on these payments, would not be eligible for the same tax deduction on the similar payments made with Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, or any other virtual currency.
Jane and Mike are divorced. Jane pays Mike $1,000 in alimony per month, by check. According to their stipulation agreement, divorce decree and the IRS: IRC rule §71(b)(1)(A)&(D), Jane is allowed to deduct these alimony payments on her tax return. Conversely, Mike reports these alimony payments as income on his tax return.
Mike and Jane are collaborative co-parents and are both very comfortable in transacting in virtual currencies. They both believe in Bitcoin as an economic singularity. In effort to reduce their reliance on 'old-school' fiat currencies run by 'evil' banks, Jane has offered to send $1,000 per month in Bitcoin to Mike in place of a check. Mike thought that this was a good idea and agreed to the change.
Regardless of what Mike and Jane agreed on, according to the IRS Virtual Currency Guidance, Jane is no longer eligible to deduct these alimony payments on her tax return. This is because she did not use an IRS recognized form of payment, which is exclusively 'cash, check or money order'.
This small change in how Jane made alimony payments had a potentially big negative impact on her tax return. Jane is likely to be in a worse financial situation simply by making the same alimony payments, just in a different form. For more details on the IRS interpretation of eligible alimony payments, go to IRS publications; scroll to paragraph 17, chapter 18.
Also, depending on how the Bitcoin was originally acquired in the above example, there is another tax matter associated with capital gains that either Jane or Mike could liable for. I will cover that in another article.
It's critical to understand that in some cases, the convenience of using virtual currencies has outpaced some of it's realistic usefulness. There is fragmented adoption to recognize these virtual currencies as true 'currencies', particularly in government tax and regulation.
So, If you are an avid Bitcoin or alt-coin user, you shouldn't blindly assume that your virtual currency wallet can replace everything you do with you bank account (at least, not yet). In certain scenarios, you could stumble into an unwanted tax trap. If you want to change the way you make certain payments that show up on your tax return, always check with your accountant first.
While consumer adoption of virtual currencies increases daily, uneven regulatory adoption means that using virtual currencies to make certain payments is not always beneficial. The IRS concludes that virtual currencies 'do not have legal tender status in any jurisdiction'.
As such, Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin, etc.. all are classified as property, not currency. There are potential tax implications to this different treatment. | and even person-to-person payments.
There are growing believers that Bitcoin itself is an economic singularity, which is the belief that everyone around the world has incentives to use Bitcoin, and it makes the world a better place.
Bitcoin disciples are known to use Bitcoin as their exclusive currency wherever possible, in hopes to completely replace the use of traditional or fiat currencies.
It's also no secret that most of the well-known virtual currencies have experienced massive increases in their market value. As of this post, Bitcoin sits at near $5,700 per coin, that's a 52% increase in the last month and 760+% increase over the last year.
Society is becoming more comfortable with using virtual currencies in everyday purchases and remittances.
At the moment, people are getting rich on speculating on the value of these assets.
I am separating the topic of using digital assets for payments, from speculating on price appreciation of these assets. I have no opinion on the value of these assets. I leave that to the speculators.
Instead, my focus will be on whether these assets are treated as true currencies according to the IRS, and what are the tax implications of this treatment.
Virtual currency wallets now make buying, selling and even transferring digital coins very convenient. For example, Coinbase, a popular digital coin wallet application, is | 271 |
Fish Hoek High boasts highest matric pass rate in far south
On Tuesday 7 January, the Western Cape Education Department minister, Debbie Schäfer,<|fim_middle|> since 2009.
"Over the past 10 years, schools in Quintiles 1-3 (no-fee schools) have improved their pass rate by 16.7 percentage points from 56.7% in 2009 to 73.6% in 2019. Quintile 4 and 5 schools (fee-paying schools) have increased only slightly during this same period with 2.4 percentage points from 83.3% to 85.7%.
"There is still a 12.1 percentage point difference between our no-fee and fee-paying schools, however, it is a great improvement from the 26.4% in 2009 when the current government took over," she said.
"For those candidates who did not achieve their desired results, there are options. I would encourage all learners who did not pass their exams not to give up and to continue doing whatever they can to complete Grade 12."
Counselling is available for anyone disappointed with their results. They can either approach their school or phone the Safe Schools Hotline on 0800 45 46 47.
Those who qualify for supplementary examinations must apply by 31 January 2020.
Hard copy applications must be submitted to the Examination Client Centre, Grand Central Building, Lower Parliament Street, Cape Town. Learners can apply for re-marks (R112 per subject) and re-checks (R27 per subject) until Wednesday 22 January. They can apply using the online service: www.eservices.gov.za.V More information can be found at wcedonline.westerncape.gov.za/nsc-exams.
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Polokwane Jobs | attended the release of the 2019 National Senior Certificate (NSC) results in Johannesburg.
"It was a happy occasion and I am pleased that we have improved our pass rate (in the Western Cape) to 82.3%," she remarked.
"I am also delighted with our highest yet bachelor pass rate of 43.6%, a close second to Gauteng," she added.
She congratulated the schools in the Metro North Education District for achieving the highest district percentage pass rate in the province – 86.3%.
"This district was followed closely by the Overberg District with 86% and the Eden and Central Karoo District with 84.1%. The West Coast District achieved 83.8%. Metro Central achieved 83.4%, Metro South 81%, Cape Winelands 80.7%, and Metro East 78.3%."
In the deep south, which falls under the Metro South Schools District, Muizenberg High School achieved a matric pass rate of 87.5%; at Simon's Town High School the pass rate was 87.7%; 66.3% at Masiphumelele High School and Fish Hoek High School achieved the highest pass rate in the area with 98.3%.
"As we reflect on the achievements of the Class of 2019, I want to thank all the learners, teachers, district and head office officials and their support teams for their hard work and commitment to making these positive results a reality," Schäfer said.
She added that the results indicate significant progress has been made in improving the education system and learner outcomes in the province, particularly in poorer schools, | 354 |
Jesus was born to give us life. The Christmas story has all the drama of a death-to-life story, because the baby in the manger came to die in order to give life to all who believe in him. If you have placed your hope and trust in the Messiah, Jesus, you know he came to give you life. But here is the burning question: what do you think that means? I think many of us have a strong belief and understanding in salvation past, the forgiveness we have received in Christ, and many of us have a pretty sturdy hope of salvation future, the eternity we will spend with Christ, but we are not as sure about the present benefits of the work of Jesus in the here and now. I am afraid that many of us have a big gap in the middle of our understanding of the gospel.
One of the beautiful things about the Christmas story is that it doesn't offer just my past forgiveness and future hope, but everything I need right here, right now. Jesus came so that I would have everything I need to fight the discouraging battle with private sin. Jesus came so that I would have everything I need to have a peaceful relationship with my angry neighbor. Jesus came so that I could stand against the temptations of racism and prejudice. Jesus came so that I could forge with my spouse a marriage of unity, understanding, and love. Jesus came so that I could parent my children with patient wisdom and grace. Jesus came so that I could face the realities of life in a fallen world without doubt or despair. Jesus came so that I would be granted not only the promise of daily forgiveness, but also the promise of fresh starts and new beginnings. Jesus came so that the hate in my heart would be replaced with love and the anger in my heart would be replaced with peace.
The ultimate gift, Jesus,<|fim_middle|> they have been given everything they need for godliness. Now what is this thing called godliness? Godliness is living a God-honoring life between the "already" of my conversion and the "not yet" of my final home-going. Peter knows how important and life-changing it is to know and believe that Jesus came so that we would have all that we need to live as he intended right now. Understanding and believing this will change you and the way you live.
If you do not carry this identity with you, you will look to people and things to give you identity. If you do not have this hope, you will look for hope where lasting hope cannot be found. If you don't carry this assurance with you, you will live with unrest in your heart. If this reality isn't the foundation of the way you approach life, you will live on a constant search for wisdom and strength. The ultimate gift, Jesus, was given so that you and I would have all the things we need to face all the things we encounter between the moment we first believed and the moment of our last breath. Now that's a story worth celebrating!
Thirty-one daily readings from Paul David Tripp equip us to do the one thing that matters most each December—celebrating the glory of the incarnation of God's Son.
1. Fear. Many of us are afraid of being known or afraid of honestly facing what's inside us. Here's the good news of the right here, right now benefits of the birth of Jesus. There's nothing that could ever be known, exposed, or revealed about you that isn't covered by the present grace that is yours because of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus.
2. Regret. Many are rendered timid or even paralyzed by choices, failures, and sins of the past, and when you are, you carry around a heavy load of guilt and you tend to hide in shame. The right here, right now forgiveness of Jesus not only liberates you from the past, but also welcomes you to fresh starts and new beginnings.
3. Discouragement. Many of us are simply overwhelmed by what's on our plate. We feel unable, and we think we are doomed to failure. God's right here, right now grace assures us that God will never call us to a responsibility without also gifting us with what we need to do what he has called us to do.
4. Denial. Many of us are tempted to grab for peace by denying the dark things that are still inside us and the struggles that are outside us. But the right here, right now grace of Jesus frees us from having to play monkey games with the truth. Jesus's works assure us that whatever we're facing, we're not alone and we have help that is way beyond our limited personal resources.
5. Desire for control. Many of us wake up each morning wishing we had more control so we could free ourselves from what we find difficult. The right here, right now grace of Jesus assures us that the One who was born on Christmas now rules over all things for our sake. Our lives may be out of our control, but they are always under his control.
So as you celebrate Christmas, celebrate the abundant life that is yours today because of the birth of that baby in the manger.
This article is adapted from Come, Let Us Adore Him: An Advent Devotional by Paul David Tripp. | was given so that you and I would have all the things we need to face all the things we encounter between the moment we first believed and the moment of our last breath.
I love how Peter captures the now-ism of the work of Jesus Christ for each one of us. "His divine power has granted us all things that pertain to life and godliness" (2 Pet. 1:3). With the heart of a good pastor, Peter starts his letter to people who are facing hardship with a reminder that in Christ they have already been given everything they need to face whatever they are facing. He says that | 125 |
Q: Does inertia imply that a cyclindrical mass in frictionless motion on a horizontal plane keeps moving forever ( with $\vec F = O$)? Suppose I have a perfectly cylindrical pencil and set it in motion on a perfectly smooth and horizontal table, in such a way that the axis of the pencil is in translation.
Is the state of this object , after having been pushed by me, an example of inertial motion?
I mean can I predict that , in case the table were actually perfectly smooth, the pencil would continue to move in straight line with constant velocity ( under the hypothesis that the surface of the table has no bound)?
The problem I see is that the material points that do not belong to the axis of rotation are accelerated ( since they follow not a straight path, but a cycloidal one). But acceleration implies force, so inertia does not apply to these points, but only to those which are located on the<|fim_middle|>ext} = M \ddot{\vec{X}}
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where $\vec{F}_\text{ext}$ is the external force on the system, i.e., the sum of all the forces exerted on the particles in the system by agents outside of the system.
In your case, the center of mass lies on the axis of the pencil. There are two external forces exerted on the particles in the system: the normal force from the table (exerted on the particles instantaneously in contact with the table) and gravity (exerted equally on every particle.) Both of these forces act equally and cancel out, since the pencil is not accelerating upwards or downwards. And since there are no horizontal components to any of the external forces, that means that the horizontal component of $\ddot{\vec{X}}$ is zero, which means that the center of mass (i.e., the axis) moves with constant velocity.
You're correct that the off-axis paths move in curved paths, and therefore they must be experiencing a force. There are internal forces on each particle within the pencil, exerted by other particles in the pencil; and it's these forces that cause the individual particles in the pencil to accelerate. But the internal forces don't affect the motion of the center of mass, which still moves with constant velocity.
| axis.
Other problem, it seems that gravity does some work on the points that are not located on the axis. This work seems to be conpensated by the work done on each symmetric point, but is this enough to say that the sum of the forces acting in the direction of motion is equall to $0$?
A: The "law of inertia" can be extended to systems of particles as well as individual particles. You can view your pencil as a system of particles (atoms in the wood, if you like), each of which is exerting a force on its neighbors in such a way that they always have the same distances from each other.
For a system of particles, it can be shown that the center of mass of the object obeys Newton's Second Law: if $M$ is the total mass of all the particles in the system, and $\vec{X}$ is the position of the mass, then
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\vec{F}_\text{ | 202 |
Heroes & Villains Fan Fest Brings the Stars to Atlanta, Georgia, November 19-20
By Target Audience Magazine @targetaudience2 · On November 4, 2016
Heroes &<|fim_middle|> find your voice as a passionate, creative soul, express yourself and find your target audience. Target Audience Magazine: Where creativity meets business.
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Interview with Jen Kirkman… Organized Traveler and Comedian | Villains Fan Fest, an event that is revolutionizing the fan experience and convention landscape, will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center, November 19-20, 2016 in Atlanta, GA.
Fan access to celebrity guests will be the primary focus of this event, which includes two days of immersive experiences and memories.
Heroes & Villains Fan Fest the brainchild of actor Stephen Amell and James Frazier, creator of the zombie and horror event Walker Stalker Con has become an incredibly popular convention, offering something for everyone from the diehard fan to families to those with a growing interest in the genre. More than 20 of the most popular actors from shows such as Arrow, The Flash, Gotham, Aquaman, Once Upon A Time, and more will speak to the audience, meet fans, pose for photos and sign autographs (see full list).
Attendees can also participate in a range of engaging and unique activities, including:
● Panel sessions led by stars from some of television's most popular shows.
● Interactive "herostyle" games on the Con floor, fun for the entire family.
● Cosplayers roam the event floor, making for memorable interactive experiences.
● Vendors who deal in comic, entertainment, and other genres and industries.
One of the most popular elements of Heroes & Villains Fan Fest is the chance to meet and hear from stars from popular shows. In Atlanta, attendees will be treated to sessions with:
There are even a number of opportunities to volunteer at the event, which can be found on the Heroes & Villains website.
● Stephen Amell (also star of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 ), John Barrowman, Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey, Willa Holland and more from the Arrow series
● Jason Momoa from Game of Thrones and Aquaman
● Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry and Sean Gunn from Guardians of the Galaxy
● Milo Ventimiglia ( The Ogre, Gotham, Heroes and other popular shows)
● Matt Ryan ( Constantine)
● Stars of shows including The Flash, Gotham and The Walking Dead
The full lists of guests is on the Heroes & Villains Atlanta website.
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Target Audience Magazine is a resource promoting independent artists of all genres - musicians, artists, writers, film-makers, and all entrepreneurs/small business owners. Through encouraging our readers to find a voice for self-promotion and marketing to connect to their desired audience, we promote creativity. Our hope is that through education, those struggling to make it in the arts will draw inspiration from those who have succeeded, and continue the circle so that art may reward writing, and all disciplines may cross-inspire. Once you | 579 |
We believe that children deserve the chance to be safe, loved and the opportunity to grow into strong, confident citizens of the world.
We believe in families, we believe in the community around a family and we believe in children's unmeasured potential. Much like a seed, we believe, when children are planted, tended to and cared for in a nutrient rich environment they can flourish to bring fruit, shade and life to their community. We commit to see the empowering of the local Bukit area by employing local staff and services wherever possible.
We believe children's development is driven by their play and curiosity. Learning is sparked by new experiences and new understandings of the world around them. Through play, children test,<|fim_middle|> day online. We upload Our Day slides electronically. Here you can stay up to date with all that is happening at BaliLife Daycare and also Follow us on Instagram and Facebook for regular updates. We also send out a monthly Newsletter to all our families.
At BaliLife Daycare, we are excited to expose children to the world of reading and literacy. Reading can take you on journey's beyond your current circumstances, introduce you to worlds you're yet to experience and connect you with people all over the world. And you're never too young to fall in love with reading!
We incorporate Literacy into every part of our day; literacy isn't just limited to reading it combines talking, listening, reading and writing.
The reading component of our Literacy Rich Environment is supported through our connection with Australian Leader's of Early Literacy Little Miracles Childcare, Our team are mentored and trained in their Teach Your Toddler to Read program. Little Miracles has a 90% success rate in sending children to Kindergarten reading. We will be introducing children to the basics of phonetic literacy in a fun and easy to learn way. We aim for every child to move from our care into formal schooling with established pre-reading skills. | experiment and challenge their surroundings, which are key skills in their life-long learning. We accept the responsibility as care givers and educators to continually drive children's curiosity through age appropriate hands-on experiences, real life explanations and the continual scaffolding of the learning of yesterday.
We honour parents in their enduring role as provider, teacher and nurturer. We commit to equipping and supporting parents in the early years of parenting, through the journey of bringing up strong, smart, engaged children.
We believe that every child is a confident being, mysteriously complex, valued and loved and so commit to bringing high quality interactions and care that build a strong foundation for their future. It is our commitment to the children of tomorrow to teach and model caregiving for the environment through the teaching of modern sustainability.
We believe in a setting that lifts up, edifies and encourages. Through a positive environment we believe that life can grow and flourish, difficulties can be overcome, and lives can be changed.
We believe that every human deserves Hope, Dignity and Purpose, we commit to this through our partnership with BaliLife Foundation and their projects in Bali to help the disillusioned and disadvantaged.
Learning Stories: Every Child is individually observed on a cycle to ensure they are meeting developmental milestones whilst also recording their joys and interests at this special age. These are written in English by our experienced Educators and electronically sent to you with photos.
Portfolios: Throughout the year we also collect samples of your child's participation in experiences. This is recorded in a portfolio that is yours to keep at the end of the year.
Learning & Exploration Web: In your Child's Room, you will be able to see your child's involvement in the Room through our Learning and Exploration Web. This Web will document each child's exploration both individually and as a group. We would love for you to contribute to this also… what has brought your child joy this week?
Each Day at BaliLife Daycare in each room you will see what your child has been up to. There will be photos, stories and possibly some art that they have participated in.
If you weren't the one to pick up your child, no worries, you can catch up on your child's | 443 |
While it may be romantic to think that dogs have an innate predisposition for pleasing their masters, truth is, dogs as opportunistic beings, are more eager to please themselves. Indeed, according to the Association of Pet Dog Trainers, every time dog owners ask their dog to do something, the dog is most likely thinking "What's in it for me?" If there is not much offered, the dog may decide it can live without performing any special tasks and will have little or no enthusiasm for training.
Because the fastest way to a dog's heart is through its stomach, food in most cases is what makes him eager to work. After all, this trend is not unique to dogs. As humans, most of us work for a paycheck or some other form of compensation. Bonuses, pay raises, benefits and additional perks make working even more worthy. While petting the dog and praising may make a dog happy, the truth is, treats will always hold a special place in his heart. Food is the dog's equivalent of our currency.
It is scientifically proven that behaviors that are rewarded will be repeated<|fim_middle|> training program. However, positive training does not mean permissive. Remember to still enforce rules and boundaries for your dog to respect.
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Facts Behind A Pack of Low Quality Dog Food: Cancer! | . Edward Thorndike, a famous psychologist specializing in animal behavior and learning processes coined the "Law of Effect" which outlines that learning is strengthened when accompanied by a pleasant or satisfying feeling, whereas learning is weakened when accompanied by an unpleasant feeling. This explains why dogs trained with positive reinforcement learn faster and with much more enthusiasm than dogs trained using aversion.
Many dog owners are intimidated by reward-based training methods because they fear their dogs will only work if there is food in sight. This is a common myth, but it is somewhat founded. If food is used as a bribe, the dog indeed will only work for food. It is therefore very important not to misuse food. While showing food is effective in the early stages of learning, it must be faded quickly. If you are training your dog to sit or lie down using a treat as a lure, once the dog successfully performs the behavior it must be your top priority to get the food out of the visual picture as soon as possible. This means getting the treat or cookie out from a pocket or treat bag only after the dog performs the behavior.
Another common myth is the belief that reward-based training methods force dog owners to become treat dispensers for life. While treats are given on a frequent basis during the initial stages of training, as the dog progresses, they are given randomly. If the dog is told "good boy" before a treat is delivered, with time, verbal praise will become a reward on its own. Treats are not the only rewards in the dog world; at some point, you can also try using life rewards. Ask your dog a command and then reward him immediately by tossing a favorite toy, taking him out in the yard or putting the food bowl down.
Training a dog with treats is not as simple as getting a handful of treats and having the dog magically perform some of the most challenging tricks. Training takes time and there are important considerations to keep in mind.
Use soft pea-sized treats. These are fast to deliver and are enough to tell your dog he has done a good job without over-filling him.
Find what motivates your dog. While normal treats may work in areas where there are not many distractions, make sure you use high-value treats for distracting environments.
Timing is essential. Praise your dog the moment he performs the wanted behavior to mark it and then deliver the treat immediately.
Avoid bribing; if your dog does not comply don't readily grab a treat to make him comply.
When your dog delivers an outstanding performance, don't be shy to deliver a jackpot. Jackpots are a handful of treats delivered all at once.
Remember to always mark wanted behaviors with praise followed by a treat. When you will need to fade treats, the praise will be rewarding on its own.
Be a splitter and not a lumper. Try to train your dog by splitting exercises into baby steps rather than asking for the exercise all at once, with the risk of putting your dog up for failure.
Always end your training session on a positive note. Ask your dog a simple command he knows well and then praises and reward it. Next time, your dog will be more enthusiastic about his next training session.
Remember to cut back a bit on the food you give when you are using treats for training. When training indoors, you can place a part of your dog's daily ration of kibble and mix it with a few hot dogs. After a few hours, the kibble will have absorbed some of the hot dog smell making it more appealing.
Treats, when used correctly, are a great addition to a reward-based | 724 |
Q: gulp. moving files in neighbors dir The simplified structure of the project looks like this. JavaScript files that lie in the es6 directory must be moved to the neighbors directory js.
var gulp = require('gulp');
var babel = require('gulp-babel');
gulp.task('build-js', function () {
gulp.src('app/core/**/es6/**/*.js')
.pipe(babel({
presets: ["env"]
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest(???)); // need move to ../js
});
Please, help me, how to implement this in gulp?
A:<|fim_middle|> // file.dirname = AdminTools\js
// file.dirname = Permissions\js
}))
.pipe(gulp.dest('core'));
});
| I assume that the babel pipe doesn't move the js files that are in the es6 folder or add any folders. And that your gulpfile.js is at the root level of your "app" folder.
var gulp = require('gulp');
var path = require('path');
var rename = require('gulp-rename');
gulp.task('default', function () {
// with gulpfile.js at root of "app" folder
return gulp.src('core/**/es6/*.js')
.pipe(rename(function (file) {
console.log("file.dirname = " + file.dirname);
// file.dirname = AdminTools\es6
// file.dirname = Permissions\es6
// strip off the last folder 'es6'
var temp = file.dirname.split(path.sep)[0];
file.dirname = temp + "/js";
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Preschool teacher Heather Higgins reads a story to preschool students and parents during the Moffat County School District's extended-year program June 26 at the district's Early Childhood Center. Connections 4 Kids, the early childhood council serving Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, recently released its 2011-12 Annual Report, which included details about the council's professional development projects for early childhood providers. The rug and book pictured above were part of the Early Childhood Center's grant application.
• 101 regional health, dental and early childhood professionals were trained for the program, which is designed to prevent oral disease in young children.
• 282 young children in the area were screened for oral health.
• $6,500 was granted to locations like the Early Childhood Center for classroom materials such as furniture, music and toys.
• 31 scholarships totaling $13,500 were awarded to 20 providers throughout Moffat and Rio Blanco counties from the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation.
• 210 pieces of art by 175 area artists ages 3 to 18 were part of a children's art show in February 2012.
• $8,000 was raised during the show for Connections 4 Kids.
• $153,779 funded by organizations like The Colorado Trust, Colorado Department of Education/<|fim_middle|> about $8,000 in funds from community donations.
For the future months, Balleck said C4K is working on bringing Dolly Parton's Imagination Library to the area. The program provides books to interested families with children younger than 5.
Balleck said her own involvement with the organization has been very rewarding. | Colorado Department of Human Services, Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation and numerous community donations.
Connections 4 Kids, the early childhood council for Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, recently issued its annual report for the timeframe of July 2011 to June 2012.
The report details numerous efforts the organization has made on behalf of youth.
Among the programs implemented by C4K in the last year is Cavity-Free at Three, a three-year statewide effort to prevent oral disease in young children.
The effort aims to engage dentists, physicians, nurses, dental hygienists, public health practitioners and early childhood educators in the prevention and early detection of oral disease in pregnant women, infants and toddlers.
More than 100 health, dental and early childhood professionals in the region received training for the program, screening 282 young children for oral disease.
Now about halfway into the program's cycle, Balleck said the main goals of the organization have been to train 50 percent of health care providers involved in the project to work with young children and further educate 100 percent of child care providers involved.
Balleck said dental care for children so young can be easily overlooked.
"Oral health with baby teeth affects so many parts of overall health like speech and all sorts of things, so it's key that kids have healthy mouths so they can progress the way they're supposed to," she said.
Ashley Moon, former oral health coordinator and registered dental hygienist, accepted the first ever Cavity-Free at Three Recognition Award in May from funding organization The Colorado Trust.
"Ashley did a lot to coordinate with the dental hygiene programs and the nursing programs at (Colorado Northwestern Community College), and they've been so receptive and willing to incorporate this into their programs, and I think it'll help to educate those future generations," she said.
C4K recently brought on Amanda Arnold, who has worked with several health organizations in the area, to replace Moon, who stepped down because of a change in her work schedule.
Moon will remain involved with the council's work and offer trainings in the future.
Among the other activities listed in the report is Connections 4 Kids' distribution of funding from the Temple Hoyne Buell Foundation for scholarships to early childhood professionals in Moffat and Rio Blanco counties, providing $13,500 to those furthering their education.
The organization also provided more than $6,000 in classroom grants to area childhood centers — those that underwent training for the self-assessment Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale — for expenses like furniture, toys, music and other learning tools.
Balleck said C4K also began a new year-long funding cycle at the beginning of May, which will run through April 2013.
Her report also includes details on February's Cherish the Little Things Children's Art Show, which was one of Balleck's first projects once she began working with the organization in December 2011.
The art show, staged in conjunction with the Moffat County School District, featured more than 200 paintings and other art works from 175 children ages 3 to 18.
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ARSENE WENGER reckons Alexis Sanchez is shining for Arsenal because he loves playing for the club.
Wenger fought off competition from Liverpool for the Chile international over the summer, when he paid Barcelona £35m for Sanchez.
Arsenal's determination to get a deal done, plus the player's desire<|fim_middle|> proven himself as one of the Premier League's star names since putting pen to paper with the Gunners.
And Wenger reckons the player's desire to join Arsenal rather than Liverpool is behind his superb form.
"Alexis has played in Italy, in Spain — that of course helps," Wenger told Arsenal magazine. "The second part is that the move is a reward for what he really wanted.
"Alexis had a few options and he chose us because he felt that's where he wanted to go.
"Sometimes a player moves somewhere and it's not the choice that he deeply wanted. In his case, I think he really wanted to join us. I felt that he came into a team that plays in an [attacking] way, where he can express his talent with freedom.
"Another step is that a team welcomes you with the values that you rate, and that in some parts of the team, you can feel at home when you need it sometimes. | to move to a London-based club, led to a switch to Emirates Stadium.
Sanchez has | 19 |
This event provided a hands-on opportunity for Friends and community groups to explore the range of communication tools to make and maintain contact with green space 'non-users'. This workshop was not just about Twitter (although this seemed to be participants favourite!) but about sharing experiences to show how social media and other forms of communication can be effectively used to target harder-to-reach residents and to help break down any barriers (e.g. fear) towards technology held by some Friends groups.
Emily Redmond from Tinder Foundation shares her experience of using social media.
After an overview that explored ideas about how to 'get the word out' and included the Liverpool Friends of the Flyover as a successful example, workshop participants were introduced to Twitter using the Department of Landscapes iPads. The Place-keeping Group gained many new followers as twitter<|fim_middle|> workshop, which was funded as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences built on successful workshops that we ran as part of our Place-keeping Conference this year. Many thanks to Chrissie from the University of Sheffield Enterprise, Emily from the Tinder Foundation, Fiona from Landlayers and Rosie, for their fantastic support, enthusiasm and expertise in delivering this workshop. | accounts were set up and tweeting began. Sue @shefgreenestate declared the experience was 'scarier than email, better than cake!' Place-keeping Group member Dr Nicola Dempsey kept track of proceedings tweeting responses from Bangalore, and in the process demonstrating that potentially anyone, anywhere can read your tweet.
Rosie Duncan, a place-keeping champion, helping budding tweeters!
The plan had been to demonstrate ideas for activating spaces by carrying out a mini-consultation event outdoors, 'on-site', before returning inside to explore ways to communicate 'on-line'. However, heavy rain put paid to that idea, and we instead transferred some of the activities indoors – it had to be said though that the hedgehog and its home were less convincing in the Showroom Workstation than among the vegetation outside! Fiona was still able to explain the idea – to have a 'moving focus' (hedgehog), and a 'fixed focus' (hedgehogs home) to attract attention and give people confidence that they were at the right place for a planned event. The plight of the hedgehog (trying to find a new home in the big city) was used as a way of way engaging peoples' interest in a green space (that might otherwise hold little interest for them) and a series of postcard-based activities was used to both gather user feedback about a space and contacts of people who might be interested in being involved further. Those participating were rewarded with badges featuring the hedgehog's favourite foods and were a way of communicating a little about what hedgehogs need to survive.
The day ended with 'advanced tweeting' and introduction to other communication devices such as Storify to create stories of events. The presentations from the workshop and hand-outs will be made available on our website shortly.
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Playlist: Embrace your inner nerd
Posted by: Jessica Gross
June 19, 2013 at 1:42 pm EDT
Vive les nerds! While the term used to be something of a put-down, meant to mock an excessive interest in math or science, it's now often used in an almost prideful way to signify a passion for pretty much anything. And that applies to pretty much all of those who end up on the TED stage. Here, just some of the talks in which TED speakers refer to themselves as nerds, covering topics from bugs to data to pop culture.
Melissa Marshall: Talk nerdy to me
TEDGlobal 2012
Marshall, a communications teacher, urges scientists and engineers to "talk nerdy to us"–that is, make their ideas simple enough to understand, but no simpler. She's learned something from engineers, too, she says: they've taught her "to become really in touch with my inner nerd."
Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone
TED2004
Pyle begins his talk about life deep in coral reefs with this introduction: "I'm not just an ichthyologist, I'm a bona fide fish nerd. And to a fish nerd, this is some pretty exciting stuff." For non-fish nerds, too.
Bono: The good news on poverty (Yes, there's good news)
"I have truly embraced my inner nerd," says U2's frontman toward the beginning of his talk about inspiring data on worldwide poverty. "So exit the rock star. Enter the evidence-based activist, the factivist." And with that, he flips his rockstar glasses upside-down so they resemble mad-scientist goggles.
Noah Wilson-Rich: Every city needs healthy honey bees
TEDxBoston 2012
When honey bees started disappearing in 2006, a year after Wilson-Rich began his Ph.D. in honey bee health, "suddenly, this little nerd kid going to school working with bugs became very relevant in the world."
Tavi Gevinson: A teen just trying to figure it out
"I am kind of a pop culture nerd<|fim_middle|> her theory of what makes a strong female role model.
Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food
Describing a facility he and his colleagues created to house and protect an astounding range of crop species, Fowler says, to audience laughter, "I know this tags me as a bit of a nerd, but some of the happiest days of my life have been spent in this place here."
BonoCary FowlerMelissa MarshallRichard PyleTavi Gevinson
Dean Kamen says America needs a geek overhaul
By TED Staff
From BoingBoing: TED alum, Segway creator and inventor of a groundbreaking prosthetic arm, Dean Kamen was interviewed recently by John Meigs, editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics, where he discussed his ideas about education and technology, and why it's so important for kids to learn how to build and then stage elaborate death matches with 120-pound robots. […]
Rise of a gangsta nerd: Fellows Friday with Hakeem Oluseyi
By Karen Frances Eng
Astrophysicist, educator, and humanitarian Hakeem Oluseyi trounced race and class to become an important contributor to computer technology and space research. Back on Earth, he's doing all he can to give young and underfunded scientists a chance to reach for the stars. Yours is an extraordinary story. You grew up impoverished — moving frequently from […] | ," acknowledges fifteen-year-old Gevinson, before going on to show how she applies that knowledge to advance | 21 |
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The Irascible Professor-commentary of the day-07-15-02. Grade inflation: the customer is not always right.
"The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.".... ...Robert J. Kibbee.
Commentary of the Day - July 15, 2002: Grade Inflation: The "Customer" Is Not Always Right. Guest commentary by Tina Blue.
Students are not customers. If they are customers, then they are not students.
Most colleges and universities have moved far in the direction of viewing their students as customers and viewing education primarily as a "product" or "service" provided to these customers. The problem with this consumer model of education is that, as any successful retail business knows, you have to please your customers or they will take their money elsewhere.
Now, what do you think would please most undergraduates? Difficult classes with rigorous performance standards, and strict teachers who insist that deadlines be met and who are fair but inflexible about tying grades to the actual quality of the work?
What most students want is to get the highest possible grades for the least amount of work. Even most tenured faculty are unwilling to risk the declining enrollments and negative student evaluations that usually go along with a reputation for being a hardass.
And since 50%-75% of all undergraduate courses in this country are taught either by graduate students or by non-tenured adjunct faculty, for whom negative evaluations and low enrollments will almost certainly mean at least a reprimand and quite probably a termination notice, you can bet they will find it hard not to buckle under pressure to give students higher grades than they deserve.
Nor can grad students and non-tenured faculty count on the administration to back them up if they try to give a student a grade lower than he or she demands. If a student is even a little bit aggressive (and they are often more than that!), the administration will roll over and expect the instructor to do likewise.
Non-attendance, late papers, poor performance, misbehavior in class, actual cheating -- if an instructor tries to lower a student's grade for any of these things, she had better watch out. Students will complain and so will their parents, and sometimes even their parents' lawyers.
When parents, administrators, and politicians squawk about grade inflation and the lowering of academic standards, I want to smack them upside the head. Those of us on the front lines who actually have to assign grades get it from all sides if we don't give almost all our students much higher grades than they deserve.
It's not just at the college level, either. When a biology teacher in Piper , Kansas, failed several students for blatant plagiarism on a term project worth 50% of their grade, parents complained, and the school board changed the grading formula so that the cheating students would pass the course anyway.
The teacher resigned the next day.
In the past two years, because of the convenience of e-mail, I have experienced yet another kind of pressure toward grade inflation.
I spell out my grading standards, late-paper policy, and attendance policy in handouts at the beginning of each semester, so there should not be any doubt in a student's mind about what grade he is getting at the end of the semester, or why.
But now I start getting email from students during the three-week period between the last day of classes and the due date for turning in my final grade sheets. They tell me they need a "B" (or sometimes even an "A"!) to get off academic probation, to avoid losing a scholarship, or to get into this or that major or professional school.
Ironically, I actually warn students throughout the semester not to ask me to fudge their grades. "I won't feel sympathy," I say, "I will just be really, really angry that you are trying to pressure<|fim_middle|> his papers on the day of the final exam rather than when they were due during the semester, sent me email me saying that he'd worked really hard and felt he had made a lot of progress in his writing, so he wanted a "B," since that's what he needed to get into the School of Business.
Although his papers were all late enough to justify my giving every one of them an "F," and his accumulated absences also justified failing him, I decided to wait and see how he did on his final exam. His papers were not exactly stellar. Actually, they were barely "C" quality. But I decided that if he made a strong "C" on his final, I would go ahead and give him a "C" in the course rather than an "F."
I have to admit that is a real weakness of mine where grading is concerned. If a student is able to produce at least "C"-level work, I don't like to fail him if he has attended at least 2/3 of the classes, simply because these kids are so young and often foolish. I hate to see too many doors locked against them when and if they mature and get their act together.
But after this student's response to my generosity, I am afraid I will never feel generous again, at least where grades are concerned.
I got an unpleasant e-mail from him as soon as he found out his grade. He demanded to know why he had gotten a "C" rather than the "B" he had told me he deserved! He pretty much ordered me to e-mail him back immediately with an explanation.
I haven't responded, and I don't intend to. The way I figure it, I owe this little twerp nothing at this point, including any more of my time. I have his paper and his attendance record, everything. If he wants to contest his grade, I have plenty of evidence that I was being quite generous when I assigned that "C."
But I've gotten so disgusted by this unconscionable pressure from students and by the difficulty of holding students to even modest performance standards that I've decided not to cut fools any slack from now on. Henceforth, my attendance and late-paper policies will be strictly enforced, and if that means failing a student, so be it.
If that kid were in my class this coming fall term, he'd get that "F" after all. Then he wouldn't be sending me email wondering how I dared to give him less than a "B."
The IP comments: The IP is all too familiar with students who attempt to pressure teachers or administrators into giving them higher grades than they deserve. (In the IP's day it was a common practice for a student in his or her last semester to write "graduating senior" on final exams in hopes of garnering a little sympathy from instructors.) However, he would be quick to point out that not all students are crass "grade grabbers". The majority of students in the IP's classes seem to want to learn, and most are more than willing to accept the grade that they earn. Those who complain about their grades, and who attempt to wheedle a higher grade than they deserve remain in the minority (at least in the IP's experience). However, there has been a tendency on the part of these "wheedlers" to be more vocal and in some cases more litigious in their quest for the undeserved high grade. Fortunately, here at Krispy Kreme U., the academic structure is such that the grade appeals process is in the hands of an Academic Appeals Board comprised of three faculty members and two students. This has had the salutary effect of keeping non-academic interests out of the process. Both the student who feels that he or she has been graded unfairly and the faculty member who issued the grade have an opportunity to present their cases. The burden is on the student to show that the grading process was arbitrary or capricious. In most, but not all, cases the faculty member prevails.
The IP also is a bit dubious about the statement that 50% to 75% of all undergraduate classes are taught by graduate students or part-time (adjunct) faculty members. The percentage probably is not quite that high, but nevertheless far too many introductory courses are taught by untenured faculty members. | me like that."
But one reason students will still pull this stunt is that the sort of student who does so tends also to be the sort who cuts class, so he is likely to miss such warnings.
Just this past semester a student who had missed enough classes to get an "F" in the course according to my established grading policy, and who had turned in all of | 75 |
New initiative aimed at reducing crime in Cincinnati
Leaders are seeking $50 million
Updated: 12:50 PM EDT Jun 3, 2015
The group said they wanted to make it clear, the is not about short-term crime solution but a more holistic approach: community development, jobs and crime.
Dozens of community leaders gathered in Roselawn on Wednesday to discuss a new initiative aimed at reducing crime in Cincinnati.The plan is a long-range initiative to address issues affecting the African American community.The group is made up of elected officials, community members and members of the faith community.Watch this storyThe group said it wants to make it clear that this is not about short-term crime solution but a more holistic approach: community development, jobs and crime.Leaders said they are seeking $50 million for the initiative."We can't stand in the flow of violence with arrests and incarceration. If we want to have an impact, we must have a holistic approach. There must be economic development component responding to the basic needs of the community," New Prospect Baptist Church Reverend Damon Lynch III said.Council member Wendell Young was also at the meeting on Wednesday. He said<|fim_middle|>0 million for the initiative.
"We can't stand in the flow of violence with arrests and incarceration. If we want to have an impact, we must have a holistic approach. There must be economic development component responding to the basic needs of the community," New Prospect Baptist Church Reverend Damon Lynch III said.
Council member Wendell Young was also at the meeting on Wednesday. He said he will ask city council to tap into a surplus to pay for the initiative, which could cost between from $10 million to $17 million.
Leaders said they will seek state and federal dollars, as well as corporate support. | he will ask city council to tap into a surplus to pay for the initiative, which could cost between from $10 million to $17 million.Leaders said they will seek state and federal dollars, as well as corporate support.
CINCINNATI —
Dozens of community leaders gathered in Roselawn on Wednesday to discuss a new initiative aimed at reducing crime in Cincinnati.
The plan is a long-range initiative to address issues affecting the African American community.
Cincinnati group proposes crime initiative with $50 million price tag
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The group is made up of elected officials, community members and members of the faith community.
The group said it wants to make it clear that this is not about short-term crime solution but a more holistic approach: community development, jobs and crime.
Leaders said they are seeking $5 | 177 |
MK:Smart<|fim_middle|> of its data-led initiatives. HR Wallingford, the Oxfordshire-based independent research and consultancy in civil engineering and environmental hydraulics, is working closely with Anglian Water, BT and The Open University on four complementary activities that look at influencing how much water Milton Keynes citizens use. These include a website where householders can access regular water meter readings for their property and gain advice on how to reduce water usage. | , the Open University-led consortium of local and national partners dedicated to helping Milton Keynes become a smart city, has launched the MK Data Hub. More than two years in the making, it features data from a range of dynamic and static sources relevant to the city. One of its primary aims is to support local start-ups and SMEs to develop applications to make the city smarter by making it easier for them to access and exploit data.
MK:Smart has also announced the launch of the Urban Start-Up Lab, a business and technical support programme dedicated to helping SMEs and techpreneurs build their own applications.
The MK Data Hub project is lead by Mathieu d'Aquin, senior research fellow at the Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, who explains that it will provide the data infrastructure to support more intelligent ways of using and organising the city's resources today and in the future. "The focus is on sustainability and growth," he says.
The MK Data Hub features more than 550 datasets and is distinct from similar data repository initiatives in the UK in that it is a combination of open and private data. Around 200 of the datasets are publicly available and 300 "partially accessible" or available through a direct connection with the provider, explains d'Aquin. "This means we haven't had to restrict the project to open data," he adds.
MK Data Hub was unveiled at the University Campus Milton Keynes (UCMK) where members of MK:Smart demonstrated a number of data-led transport, energy and water applications in development.
These included MotionMap, available to the public in 2017, and which shows the movements of people and vehicles across Milton Keynes in real time. It will feature embedded timetables, car parking, bus and cycle information, and estimate congestion and crowd density in different parts of the city. A demonstration version of MotionMap is currently being used to explore how this type of user-focused information might influence travel behaviour and transform the provision of all types of transport services in Milton Keynes.
MK:Smart is also working with local suppliers to evaluate energy systems and technologies that will allow householders to harness domestically generated solar power for use within electric vehicles. In addition, it is collecting data about the driving behaviour of electric vehicles in Milton Keynes to better understand their real-world energy demand and devise plans to minimise energy consumption.
Water Monitor is another | 480 |
Carneisco, foi um filósofo epicurista e discípulo de Epicuro, que viveu c. <|fim_middle|> a.C.
Filósofos do século III a.C. | 300 a.C.. É conhecido como o autor de um ensaio, fragmentos dos quais foram encontrados entre os remanescentes queimados na Vila dos Papiros em Herculano. O ensaio é intitulado Philistas e é um trabalho sobre amizade que lida com a morte de uma amiga. Filistas (ou Filista) era uma amiga de Carneisco e é apresentada como uma epicurista modelo. Fragmentos sobreviventes contém um uma polêmica direcionada contra Praxífanes na qual Carneisco contrasta a visão epicurista da amizade e prazer com a visão peripatética esboçada por Praxífanes.
Leitura adicional
David Konstan, (1997), Friendship in the Classical World, pages 109-110. Cambridge University Press.
James Warren, (2004), Facing Death: Epicurus and His Critics, page 134. Oxford University Press.
Epicuristas da Grécia Antiga
Gregos do século IV a.C.
Gregos do século III a.C.
Filósofos do século IV | 259 |
\section{Introduction.\label{intro}}
\setcounter{equation}{0}
In the first two sections we consider some variety $\Theta $ of one-sorted
algebras of the signature $\Omega $. Denote by $X_{0}=\left\{
x_{1},x_{2},\ldots ,x_{n},\ldots \right\} $ a countable set of symbols, and
by $\mathfrak{F}\left( X_{0}\right) $ the set of all finite subsets of
X_{0} $. We will consider the category $\Theta ^{0}$, whose objects are all
free algebras $F\left( X\right) $ of the variety $\Theta $ generated by
finite subsets $X\in \mathfrak{F}\left( X_{0}\right) $. Morphisms of the
category $\Theta ^{0}$ are homomorphisms of free algebras.
We denote some time $F\left( X\right) =F\left( x_{1},x_{2},\ldots
,x_{n}\right) $ if $X=\left\{ x_{1},x_{2},\ldots ,x_{n}\right\} $ and even
F\left( X\right) =F\left( x\right) $ if $X$ has only one element.
We assume that our variety $\Theta $ possesses the IBN property: for free
algebras $F\left( X\right) ,F\left( Y\right) \in \Theta $ we have $F\left(
X\right) \cong F\left( Y\right) $ if and only if $\left\vert X\right\vert
=\left\vert Y\right\vert $. In this case we have \cite[Theorem 2
{PlotkinZhitAutCat} this decompositio
\begin{equation}
\mathfrak{A=YS}. \label{decomp}
\end{equation
of the group $\mathfrak{A}$ of all automorphisms of the category\textit{\ }
\Theta ^{0}$. Hear $\mathfrak{Y}$ is a group of all inner automorphisms of
the category\textit{\ }$\Theta ^{0}$ and $\mathfrak{S}$ is a group of all
strongly stable automorphisms of the category\textit{\ }$\Theta ^{0}$.
\begin{definition}
\label{inner}An automorphism $\Upsilon $ of a category $\mathfrak{K}$ is
\textbf{inner}, if it is isomorphic as a functor to the identity
automorphism of the category $\mathfrak{K}$.
\end{definition}
This means that for every $A\in \mathrm{Ob}\mathfrak{K}$ there exists an
isomorphism $s_{A}^{\Upsilon }:A\rightarrow \Upsilon \left( A\right) $ such
that for every $\alpha \in \mathrm{Mor}_{\mathfrak{K}}\left( A,B\right) $
the diagra
\[
\begin{array}{ccc}
A & \overrightarrow{s_{A}^{\Upsilon }} & \Upsilon \left( A\right) \\
\downarrow \alpha & & \Upsilon \left( \alpha \right) \downarrow \\
B & \underrightarrow{s_{B}^{\Upsilon }} & \Upsilon \left( B\right
\end{array
\
\noindent commutes.
\begin{definition}
\label{str_stab_aut}\textbf{\hspace{-0.08in}. }\textit{An automorphism $\Phi
$ of the category }$\Theta ^{0}$\textit{\ is called \textbf{strongly stable}
if it satisfies the conditions:}
\begin{enumerate}
\item[A1)] $\Phi $\textit{\ preserves all objects of }$\Theta ^{0}$\textit{,}
\item[A2)] \textit{there exists a system of bijections }$\left\{ s_{F}^{\Phi
}:F\rightarrow F\mid F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}\right\} $\textit{\ such
that }$\Phi $\textit{\ acts on the morphisms $\alpha :D\rightarrow F$ of }
\Theta ^{0}$\textit{\ by this way:
\begin{equation}
\Phi \left( \alpha \right) =s_{F}^{\Phi }\alpha \left( s_{D}^{\Phi }\right)
^{-1}, \label{biject_action}
\end{equation}
\item[A3)] $s_{F}^{\Phi }\mid _{X}=id_{X},$ \textit{\ for every free algebra}
$F=F\left( X\right) $.
\end{enumerate}
\end{definition}
The subgroup $\mathfrak{Y}$ is a normal in $\mathfrak{A}$. We will calculate
the factor group $\mathfrak{A/Y\cong S/S\cap Y}$. This calculation is very
important for universal algebraic geometry.
All definitions of the basic notions of the universal algebraic geometry can
be found, for example, in \cite{PlotkinVarCat}, \cite{PlotkinNotions} and
\cite{PlotkinSame}. In universal algebraic geometry we consider a "set of
equations" $T\subset F\times F$ in some finitely generated free algebra $F$
of the arbitrary variety of universal algebras $\Theta $ and we "resolve"
these equations in $\mathrm{Hom}\left( F,H\right) $, where $H\in \Theta $.
The set $\mathrm{Hom}\left( F,H\right) $ serves as an "affine space over the
algebra $H$". Denote by $T_{H}^{\prime }$ the set $\left\{ \mu \in \mathrm
Hom}\left( F,H\right) \mid T\subset \ker \mu \right\} $. This is the set of
all solutions of the set of equations $T$. For every set of "points" $R$ of
the affine space $\mathrm{Hom}\left( F,H\right) $ we consider a congruence
of equations defined by this set: $R_{H}^{\prime }=\bigcap\limits_{\mu \in
R}\ker \mu $. For every set of equations $T$ we consider its algebraic
closure $T_{H}^{\prime \prime }$ in respect to the algebra $H$. A set
T\subset F\times F$ is called $H$-closed if $T=T_{H}^{\prime \prime }$. An
H $-closed set is always a congruence.
\begin{definition}
Algebras $H_{1},H_{2}\in \Theta $ are \textbf{geometrically equivalent} if
and only if for every $X\in \mathfrak{F}\left( X_{0}\right) $ and every
T\subset F\left( X\right) \times F\left( X\right) $ fulfills
T_{H_{1}}^{\prime \prime }=T_{H_{2}}^{\prime \prime }$.
\end{definition}
Denote the family of all $H$-closed congruences in $F$ by $Cl_{H}(F)$. We
can consider the category $C_{\Theta }\left( H\right) $ of the \textit
coordinate algebras} connected with the algebra $H\in \Theta $. Objects of
this category are quotient algebras $F\left( X\right) /T$, where $X\in
\mathfrak{F}\left( X_{0}\right) $, $T\in Cl_{H}(F\left( X\right) )$.
Morphisms of this category are homomorphisms of algebras.
\begin{definition}
\label{automorphic_equivalence}Let $Id\left( H,X\right)
=\bigcap\limits_{\varphi \in \mathrm{Hom}\left( F\left( X\right) ,H\right)
}\ker \varphi $ be the minimal $H$-closed congruence in $\ F\left( X\right)
. Algebras $H_{1},H_{2}\in \Theta $ are \textbf{automorphically equivalent}
if and only if there exists a pair $\left( \Phi ,\Psi \right) ,$ where $\Phi
:\Theta ^{0}\rightarrow \Theta ^{0}$ is an automorphism,\textit{\ }$\Psi
:C_{\Theta }\left( H_{1}\right) \rightarrow $\textit{\ }$C_{\Theta }\left(
H_{2}\right) $ is an isomorphism subject to conditions:
\end{definition}
\begin{enumerate}
\item[A.] $\Psi \left( F\left( X\right) /Id\left( H_{1},X\right) \right)
=F\left( Y\right) /Id\left( H_{2},Y\right) $\textit{, where }$\Phi \left(
F\left( X\right) \right) =F\left( Y\right) $\textit{,}
\item[B.] $\Psi \left( F\left( X\right) /T\right) =F\left( Y\right)
\widetilde{T}$\textit{, where }$T\in Cl_{H_{1}}(F\left( X\right) )$\textit{,
}$\widetilde{T}\in Cl_{H_{2}}(F\left( Y\right) )$\textit{,}
\item[C.] $\Psi $\textit{\ takes the natural epimorphism }$\overline{\tau
:F\left( X\right) /Id\left( H_{1},X\right) \rightarrow F\left( X\right) /T
\textit{\ \ to the natural epimorphism }$\Psi \left( \overline{\tau }\right)
:F\left( Y\right) /Id\left( H_{2},Y\right) \rightarrow F\left( Y\right)
\widetilde{T}$\textit{.}
\end{enumerate}
Note that if such a pair $\left( \Phi ,\Psi \right) $ exists, then $\Psi $
is uniquely defined by $\Phi $.
We can say, in certain sense, that automorphic equivalence of algebras is a
coinciding of the structure of closed sets after some "changing of
coordinates" provided by automorphism $\Phi $.
Algebras $H_{1}$\ and $H_{2}$\ are geometrically equivalent if and only if
an inner automorphism $\Phi :\Theta ^{0}\rightarrow \Theta ^{0}$\ provides
the automorphic equivalence of algebras $H_{1}$\ and $H_{2}$. So, only
strongly stable automorphism $\Phi $ can provide us automorphic equivalence
of algebras which not coincides with geometric equivalence of algebras.
Therefore, in some sense, difference from the automorphic equivalence to the
geometric equivalence is measured by the factor group $\mathfrak{A/Y\cong
S/S\cap Y}$.
\section{Verbal operations and strongly stable automorphisms.\labe
{operations}}
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For every word $w=w\left( x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k}\right) \in F\left( X\right) $,
where $F\left( X\right) \in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$, $X=\left\{ x_{1},\ldots
,x_{k}\right\} $ and for every algebra $H\in \Theta $ we can define a $k
-ary operation $w_{H}^{\ast }$ on $H$ by
\[
w_{H}^{\ast }\left( h_{1},\ldots ,h_{k}\right) =w\left( h_{1},\ldots
,h_{k}\right) =\gamma _{h}\left( w\left( x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k}\right) \right)
,
\
where $\gamma _{h}$ is a homomorphism $F\left( X\right) \ni x_{i}\rightarrow
\gamma _{h}\left( x_{i}\right) =h_{i}\in H$, $1\leq i\leq k$. This operation
we call the \textbf{verbal operation} induced on the algebra $H$ by the word
$w\left( x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k}\right) \in F\left( X\right) $. {A system of
words }$W=\left\{ w_{i}\mid i\in I\right\} $ such that $w_{i}\in F\left(
X_{i}\right) $ {, }$X_{i}=\left\{ x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k_{i}}\right\} ,$ {\
determines a system of }$k_{i}${-ary operations }$\left( w_{i}\right)
_{H}^{\ast }$ on $H$. Denote the set $H$ with the system of these operation
by $H_{W}^{\ast }$.
We have a correspondence between strongly stable automorphisms and {systems
of words which define }the verbal operation and fulfill some conditions.
This correspondence explained in \cite{PlotkinZhitAutCat} and \cit
{TsurkovAutomEquiv}:\ We denote the signature of our variety $\Theta $ by
\Omega $, by $k_{\omega }$ we denote the arity of $\omega $ for every
\omega \in \Omega $. We suppose that we have the system of words $W=\left\{
w_{\omega }\mid \omega \in \Omega \right\} $ satisfies the conditions:
\begin{enumerate}
\item[Op1)] $w_{\omega }\left( x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k_{\omega }}\right) \in
F\left( X_{\omega }\right) $, where $X_{\omega }=\left\{ x_{1},\ldots
,x_{k_{\omega }}\right\} $;
\item[Op2)] for every $F=F\left( X\right) \in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ there
exists an isomorphism $\sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ such that
\sigma _{F}\mid _{X}=id_{X}$.
\end{enumerate}
$F_{W}^{\ast }\in \Theta $ so isomorphisms $\sigma _{F}$ are defined
uniquely by the system of words $W$.
The set $S=\left\{ \sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F\mid F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta
^{0}\right\} $ is a system of bijections which satisfies the conditions:
\begin{enumerate}
\item[B1)] for every homomorphism $\alpha :A\rightarrow B\in \mathrm{Mor
\Theta ^{0}$ the mappings $\sigma _{B}\alpha \sigma _{A}^{-1}$ and $\sigma
_{B}^{-1}\alpha \sigma _{A}$ are homomorphisms;
\item[B2)] $\sigma _{F}\mid _{X}=id_{X}$ for every free algebra $F\in
\mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$.
\end{enumerate}
So we can define the strongly stable automorphism\textit{\ }by this system
of bijections. This automorphism preserves all objects of $\Theta ^{0}$ and
acts on morphism of $\Theta ^{0}$ by formula (\ref{biject_action}), where
s_{F}^{\Phi }=$ $\sigma _{F}$.
Vice versa if we have a strongly stable automorphism $\Phi $ of the category
$\Theta ^{0}$ then its system of bijections $S=\left\{ s_{F}^{\Phi
}:F\rightarrow F\mid F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}\right\} $ defined uniquely.
Really, if $F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ and $f\in F$ the
\begin{equation}
s_{F}^{\Phi }\left( f\right) =s_{F}^{\Phi }\alpha \left( x\right) =\left(
s_{F}^{\Phi }\alpha \left( s_{D}^{\Phi }\right) ^{-1}\right) \left( x\right)
=\left( \Phi \left( \alpha \right) \right) \left( x\right) ,
\label{autom_bijections}
\end{equation
where $D=F\left( x\right) $ - $1$-generated free linear algebra - and
\alpha :D\rightarrow F$ homomorphism such that $\alpha \left( x\right) =f$.
Obviously that this system of bijections $S=\left\{ s_{F}^{\Phi
}:F\rightarrow F\mid F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}\right\} $ fulfills
conditions B1 and B2 with $\sigma _{F}=s_{F}^{\Phi }$.
If we have a system of bijections $S=\left\{ \sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F\mid
F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}\right\} $ which fulfills conditions B1 and B2
than we can define the system of words $W=\left\{ w_{\omega }\mid \omega \in
\Omega \right\} $ satisfies the conditions Op1 and Op2 by formul
\begin{equation}
w_{\omega }\left( x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k_{\omega }}\right) =\sigma _{F_{\omega
}}\left( \omega \left( \left( x_{1},\ldots ,x_{k_{\omega }}\right) \right)
\right) \in F_{\omega }, \label{der_veb_opr}
\end{equation
where $F_{\omega }=F\left( X_{\omega }\right) $.
By formulas (\ref{autom_bijections}) and (\ref{der_veb_opr}) we can check
that there are
\begin{enumerate}
\item one to one and onto correspondence between strongly stable
automorphisms of the category $\Theta ^{0}$ and systems of bijections
satisfied the conditions B1 and B2
\item one to one and onto correspondence between systems of bijections
satisfied the conditions B1 and B2 and systems of words satisfied the
conditions Op1 and Op2.
\end{enumerate}
So we can find a strongly stable automorphism $\Phi $ of the category
\Theta ^{0}$ by finding a system of words which fulfills conditions Op1 and
Op2.
\section{Verbal operations in linear algebras.\labe
{operations_in_linear_alg}}
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From now on, we consider the variety $\Theta $ of all linear algebras over
infinite field $k$. We consider linear algebras as one-sorted universal
algebras, i. e., multiplication by scalar we consider as $1$-ary operation
for every $\lambda \in k$: $H\ni h\rightarrow \lambda h\in H$ where $H\in
\Theta $. Hence the signature $\Omega $ of algebras of our variety contains
these operations: $0$-ary operation $0$; $\left\vert k\right\vert $ $1$-ary
operations of multiplications by scalars; $1$-ary operation $-:h\rightarrow
-h$, where $h\in H$, $H\in \Theta $; $2$-ary operation $\cdot $ and $2$-ary
operation $+$. We will finding the system of words $W=\left\{ w_{\omega
}\mid \omega \in \Omega \right\} $ satisfies the conditions Op1 and Op2. We
denote the words corresponding to these operations by $w_{0}$, $w_{\lambda }$
for all $\lambda \in k$, $w_{-}$, $w_{\cdot }$, $w_{+}$.
For arbitrary $F\left( X\right) \in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ we denote
F\left( X\right) =\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{\infty }F_{i}$ the decomposition
to the linear spaces of elements which are homogeneous according the sum of
degrees of generators from the set $X$. We also denote the two-sides ideals
\bigoplus\limits_{i=j}^{\infty }F_{i}=F^{j}$. From now on, the word "ideal"
means two sided ideal of linear algebra.
We denote the group of all automorphisms of the field $k$ by $\mathrm{Aut}k$.
Our variety $\Theta $ possesses the IBN property, because $\left\vert
X\right\vert =\dim F/F^{2}$ fulfills for all free algebras $F=F\left(
X\right) \in \Theta $. So we have the decomposition (\ref{decomp}) for group
of all automorphisms of the category $\Theta ^{0}$.
Now we need to prove one technical fact about $1$-generated free linear
algebra $F\left( x\right) $.
\begin{lemma}
\label{monomials}Let $\left\{ u_{1},\ldots ,u_{r}\right\} $ is the set of
all monomials of degree $n$ in $F\left( x\right) $ (basis of $F_{n}$),
\left\{ v_{1},\ldots ,v_{t}\right\} $ is the set of all monomials of degree
m$ in $F\left( x\right) $ (basis of $F_{m}$), $\varphi $ is an arbitrary
function from $\left\{ 1,\ldots ,n\right\} $ to $\left\{ 1,\ldots ,t\right\}
$. Denote by $\varphi \left( u_{l}\right) $ the monomial which is a results
of substitution into monomial $u_{l}$ ($1\leq l\leq r$) instead $j$-th from
left entry of $x$ the monomial $v_{\varphi \left( j\right) }$ ($1\leq j\leq
n $). All these monomials are distinct, i. e., $\varphi _{1}\left(
u_{l_{1}}\right) =\varphi _{2}\left( u_{l_{2}}\right) $ if and only if
\varphi _{1}=\varphi _{2}$ and $u_{l_{1}}=u_{l_{2}}$, where $\varphi
_{1},\varphi _{2}:\left\{ 1,\ldots ,n\right\} \rightarrow \left\{ 1,\ldots
,t\right\} $, $u_{l_{1}},u_{l_{2}}\in \left\{ u_{1},\ldots ,u_{r}\right\} $.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
We will prove this lemma by induction by $n$ - degree of monomials from
\left\{ u_{1},\ldots ,u_{r}\right\} $. The claim of the lemma is trivial for
$n=1$. We assume that the claim of the lemma is proved for monomials which
have degree $<n$. We suppose that $\varphi _{1}\left( u_{l_{1}}\right)
=\varphi _{2}\left( u_{l_{2}}\right) $, where $\deg u_{l_{1}}=\deg
u_{l_{2}}=n>1$, $\varphi _{1},\varphi _{2}:\left\{ 1,\ldots ,n\right\}
\rightarrow \left\{ 1,\ldots ,t\right\} $. $u_{l_{i}}=u_{l_{i}}^{(1)}\cdot
u_{l_{i}}^{(2)}$, where $i=1,2$. We denote $\deg u_{l_{i}}^{(1)}=c_{i}$.
1\leq c_{i}<n$ for $i=1,2$. For $i=1,2$ we have $\varphi _{i}\left(
u_{l_{i}}\right) =\varphi _{i}^{(1)}\left( u_{l_{i}}^{(1)}\right) \cdot
\varphi _{i}^{(2)}\left( u_{l_{i}}^{(2)}\right) $, where $\varphi
_{i}^{(1)}:\left\{ 1,\ldots ,c_{i}\right\} \rightarrow \left\{ 1,\ldots
,t\right\} $, $\varphi _{i}^{(2)}:\left\{ 1,\ldots ,n-c_{i}\right\}
\rightarrow \left\{ 1,\ldots ,t\right\} $, $\varphi _{i}^{(1)}\left(
j\right) =\varphi _{i}\left( j\right) $ for $1\leq j\leq c_{i}$, $\varphi
_{i}^{(2)}\left( j\right) =\varphi _{i}\left( c_{i}+j\right) $ for $1\leq
j\leq n-c_{1}$. $\varphi _{1}\left( u_{l_{1}}\right) =\varphi _{2}\left(
u_{l_{2}}\right) $ if and only if $\varphi _{1}^{(1)}\left(
u_{l_{1}}^{(1)}\right) =\varphi _{2}^{(1)}\left( u_{l_{2}}^{(1)}\right) $
and $\varphi _{1}^{(2)}\left( u_{l_{1}}^{(2)}\right) =\varphi
_{2}^{(2)}\left( u_{l_{2}}^{(2)}\right) $. If $c_{1}\neq c_{2}$ then $\deg
\varphi _{1}^{(1)}\left( u_{l_{1}}^{(1)}\right) =c_{1}m\neq \deg \varphi
_{2}^{(1)}\left( u_{l_{2}}^{(1)}\right) =c_{2}m$, hence $\varphi
_{1}^{(1)}\left( u_{l_{1}}^{(1)}\right) \neq \varphi _{2}^{(1)}\left(
u_{l_{2}}^{(1)}\right) $ and $\varphi _{1}\left( u_{l_{1}}\right) \neq
\varphi _{2}\left( u_{l_{2}}\right) $. So $c_{1}=c_{2}$ and, by our
assumption, $\varphi _{1}^{(1)}=\varphi _{2}^{(1)}$,
u_{l_{1}}^{(1)}=u_{l_{2}}^{(1)}$, $\varphi _{1}^{(2)}=\varphi _{2}^{(2)}$,
u_{l_{1}}^{(2)}=u_{l_{2}}^{(2)}$. Therefore $\varphi _{1}=\varphi _{2}$ and
u_{l_{1}}=u_{l_{2}}$.
\end{proof}
\begin{corollary}
\label{substitute}Let $f\left( x\right) ,g\left( x\right) \in F\left(
X\right) $. $f\left( g\left( x\right) \right) $ is a result of substitution
of $g\left( x\right) $ in $f\left( x\right) $ instead $x$. $f\left( g\left(
x\right) \right) \in F_{1}$ if and only if $f\left( x\right) ,g\left(
x\right) \in F_{1}$.
\end{corollary}
\begin{proof}
We write $f\left( x\right) $ and $g\left( x\right) $ as sum of its
homogeneous components: $f\left( x\right) =f_{1}\left( x\right) +f_{2}\left(
x\right) +\ldots +f_{n}\left( x\right) $, $g\left( x\right) =g_{1}\left(
x\right) +g_{2}\left( x\right) +\ldots +g_{m}\left( x\right) $, $f_{i}\left(
x\right) ,g_{i}\left( x\right) \in F_{i}$. We assume that $n>1$ or $m>1$,
f_{n}\left( x\right) \neq 0$ and $g_{m}\left( x\right) \neq 0$. $f\left(
g\left( x\right) \right) =f_{1}\left( g\left( x\right) \right) +f_{2}\left(
g\left( x\right) \right) +\ldots +f_{n}\left( g\left( x\right) \right) $.
Addenda of the maximal possible degree of $x$, which can appear in $f\left(
g\left( x\right) \right) $, i. e., addenda of degree $nm$ can appear in
f_{n}\left( g\left( x\right) \right) $. They coincide with addenda of
f_{n}\left( g_{m}\left( x\right) \right) $. Denote $f_{n}\left( x\right)
=\lambda _{1}u_{1}+\ldots +\lambda _{r}u_{r}$, $g_{m}\left( x\right) =\mu
_{1}v_{1}+\ldots +\mu _{t}v_{t}$, where $\left\{ u_{1},\ldots ,u_{r}\right\}
$ is the set of all monomials of degree $n$ in $F\left( x\right) $, $\left\{
v_{1},\ldots ,v_{t}\right\} $ is the set of all monomials of degree $m$ in
F\left( x\right) $, $\lambda _{i},\mu _{j}\in k$. Not all $\left\{ \lambda
_{1},\ldots ,\lambda _{r}\right\} $ and not all $\left\{ \mu _{1},\ldots
,\mu _{t}\right\} $ are equal to $0$ by our assumption. $f_{n}\left(
g_{m}\left( x\right) \right) =\lambda _{1}u_{1}\left( g_{m}\left( x\right)
\right) +\ldots +\lambda _{r}u_{r}\left( g_{m}\left( x\right) \right) $. If
we open the brackets in $u_{l}\left( g_{m}\left( x\right) \right)
=u_{l}\left( \mu _{1}v_{1}+\ldots +\mu _{t}v_{t}\right) $ ($1\leq l\leq r$),
we obtain addenda, which are results of substitution into monomial $u_{l}$
instead all entry of $x$ some monomial from $\mu _{1}v_{1},\ldots ,\mu
_{t}v_{t}$ in all possible options. We can say more formal: for every
function $\varphi :\left\{ 1,\ldots ,n\right\} \rightarrow \left\{ 1,\ldots
,t\right\} $ we obtain an addendum which is a results of substitution into
monomial $u_{l}$ instead $j$-th from left entry of $x$ the monomial $\mu
_{\varphi \left( j\right) }v_{\varphi \left( j\right) }$ ($1\leq j\leq n$).
Therefore all addenda, which we obtain after the opening of the brackets in
f_{n}\left( g_{m}\left( x\right) \right) $, distinct from the monomials
discussed in \textbf{Lemma \ref{monomials}} only by coefficients. All these
addenda have degree $nm>1$, because $n>1$ or $m>1$. So addenda of
f_{n}\left( g_{m}\left( x\right) \right) $ can not cancel one another by
\textbf{Lemma \ref{monomials}}. These addenda can not be canceled by other
addenda $f\left( g\left( x\right) \right) $, because all other addenda have
degree $<nm$. Therefore all these addenda equal to $0$, because $f\left(
g\left( x\right) \right) \in F_{1}$. For $l\in \left\{ 1,\ldots ,r\right\} $
and $j\in \left\{ 1,\ldots ,t\right\} $ we take the addendum which is a
results of substitution into monomial $\lambda _{l}u_{l}$ instead all
entries of $x$ the monomial $\mu _{j}v_{j}$. The coefficient of this
addendum is $\lambda _{l}\mu _{j}^{n}=0$. So $\lambda _{l}\mu _{j}=0$ for
all $l\in \left\{ 1,\ldots ,r\right\} $ and all $j\in \left\{ 1,\ldots
,t\right\} $. It contradicts the fact that $f_{n}\left( x\right) \neq 0$ and
$g_{m}\left( x\right) \neq 0$.
\end{proof}
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\begin{theorem}
\label{words}The system of word
\begin{equation}
W=\left\{ w_{0},w_{\lambda }\left( \lambda \in k\right)
,w_{-},w_{+},w_{\cdot }\right\} \label{words_list}
\end{equation
satisfies the conditions Op1 and Op2 if and only if $w_{0}=0$, $w_{\lambda
}=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{1}$, $w_{-}=-x_{1}$, $w_{+}=x_{1}+x_{2}
, $w_{\cdot }=ax_{1}x_{2}+bx_{2}x_{1}$, where $\varphi $ is an automorphism
of the field $k$, $a,b\in k$, $a\neq \pm b$.
\end{theorem}
\begin{proof}
Let $W$ (see (\ref{words_list}) ) satisfies the conditions Op1 and Op2.
$w_{0}$ is an element of the $0$-generated free linear algebra. There is
only one element in this algebra: $0$. This is the only one opportunity for
w_{0}$.
$w_{\lambda }\in F\left( x\right) $ for every $\lambda \in k$. Denote
multiplications by scalars in $\left( F\left( x\right) \right) _{W}^{\ast }$
by $\ast $, i. e., $\lambda \ast f=w_{\lambda }\left( f\right) $ for every
f\in F\left( x\right) $ and every $\lambda \in k$. $\left( F\left( x\right)
\right) _{W}^{\ast }\in \Theta $, therefore, if $\lambda =0$ then $0\ast
x=w_{0}\left( x\right) =0$. If $\lambda \neq 0$ the
\[
1\ast x=\left( \lambda ^{-1}\lambda \right) \ast x=\lambda ^{-1}\ast \left(
\lambda \ast x\right) =w_{\lambda ^{-1}}\left( w_{\lambda }\left( x\right)
\right) =x.
\
Hence $w_{\lambda }=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x$ by \textbf{Corollary 1}
from \textbf{Lemma \ref{monomials}}, where $\varphi \left( \lambda \right)
\in k$. We can write $\varphi \left( 0\right) =0$. Also we have that for all
$\lambda _{1},\lambda _{2}\in k$ fulfill
\[
\left( \lambda _{1}\lambda _{2}\right) \ast x=\varphi \left( \lambda
_{1}\lambda _{2}\right) x
\]
and
\[
\left( \lambda _{1}\lambda _{2}\right) \ast x=\lambda _{1}\ast \left(
\lambda _{2}\ast x\right) =\lambda _{1}\ast \left( \varphi \left( \lambda
_{2}\right) x\right) =
\
\[
\varphi \left( \lambda _{1}\right) \left( \varphi \left( \lambda _{2}\right)
x\right) =\left( \varphi \left( \lambda _{1}\right) \varphi \left( \lambda
_{2}\right) \right) x.
\
So $\varphi \left( \lambda _{1}\right) \varphi \left( \lambda _{2}\right)
=\varphi \left( \lambda _{1}\lambda _{2}\right) $. If $\mu \in k\setminus
\left\{ 0\right\} $, then the $1$-ary operation of multiplication by scalar
\mu $ is a verbal operation defined by some word $w_{\mu }^{\ast }\left(
x\right) \in \left( F\left( x\right) \right) _{W}^{\ast }$, written be the
operations defined by system of words $W$ - see \cite[Proposition 4.2
{TsurkovAutomEquiv}. Hence, $\mu f=w_{\mu }^{\ast }\left( f\right) $ holds
for every $f\in F\left( x\right) $. Also there is $w_{\mu ^{-1}}^{\ast
}\left( x\right) \in \left( F\left( x\right) \right) _{W}^{\ast }$ such that
$\mu ^{-1}f=w_{\mu ^{-1}}^{\ast }\left( f\right) $ for every $f\in F\left(
x\right) $. $x=\mu ^{-1}\left( \mu x\right) =w_{\mu ^{-1}}^{\ast }\left(
w_{\mu }^{\ast }\left( x\right) \right) $. There exists by Op2 an
isomorphism $\sigma _{F\left( x\right) }:F\left( x\right) \rightarrow \left(
F\left( x\right) \right) _{W}^{\ast }$ such that $\sigma _{F\left( x\right)
}\left( x\right) =x$. So $\left( F\left( x\right) \right) _{W}^{\ast }$ is
also $1$-generated free linear algebra of $\Theta $ with the free generator
x$. Hence there exists a decomposition $\left( F\left( x\right) \right)
_{W}^{\ast }=\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{\infty }F_{i}^{\ast }$, where
F_{i}^{\ast }$ are linear spaces of elements which are homogeneous according
the degree of $x$ but in respect of operations defined by system of words $W
. Therefore $w_{\mu }^{\ast }\left( x\right) =\lambda \ast x$, where
\lambda \in k$, by \textbf{Corollary 1 }from \ \textbf{Lemma \ref{monomials}
. So $\mu x=\lambda \ast x=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x$ and $\mu
=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) $, hence $\varphi :k\rightarrow k$ is a
surjection.
$w_{+}\in F\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) =F$. There exists $n\in
\mathbb{N}
$, such tha
\[
w_{+}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) =p_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +p_{2}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots +p_{n}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) ,
\
where $p_{i}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) \in F_{i}$, $1\leq i\leq n$. We have
for every $\lambda \in k$ that
\[
w_{+}\left( \lambda \ast x_{1},\lambda \ast x_{2}\right) =\lambda \ast
w_{+}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda \right) w_{+}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) p_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi
\left( \lambda \right) p_{2}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots +\varphi
\left( \lambda \right) p_{n}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right)
\
an
\[
w_{+}\left( \lambda \ast x_{1},\lambda \ast x_{2}\right) =p_{1}\left(
\lambda \ast x_{1},\lambda \ast x_{2}\right) +p_{2}\left( \lambda \ast
x_{1},\lambda \ast x_{2}\right) +\ldots +p_{n}\left( \lambda \ast
x_{1},\lambda \ast x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
p_{1}\left( \varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{1},\varphi \left( \lambda
\right) x_{2}\right) +p_{2}\left( \varphi \left( \lambda \right)
x_{1},\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{2}\right) +\ldots +p_{n}\left(
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{1},\varphi \left( \lambda \right)
x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) p_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\left(
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) \right) ^{<|fim_middle|>\mu \right) \ast x=\varphi \left( \lambda +\mu \right)
x=\left( \varphi \left( \lambda \right) +\varphi \left( \mu \right) \right)
x=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x+\varphi \left( \mu \right) x=\lambda \ast
x+\mu \ast x,
\
\[
1\ast x=\varphi \left( 1\right) x=1x=x,
\
\[
x\times \left( y+z\right) =ax\left( y+z\right) +b\left( y+z\right)
x=axy+axz+byx+bzx=x\times y+x\times z,
\
\[
\left( y+z\right) \times x=a\left( y+z\right) x+bx\left( y+z\right)
=ayx+azx+bxy+bxz=y\times x+z\times x,
\
\[
\lambda \ast \left( x\times y\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda \right) \left(
axy+byx\right) =a\left( \varphi \left( \lambda \right) x\right) y+by\left(
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x\right) =\left( \varphi \left( \lambda
\right) x\right) \times y=
\
\[
\left( \lambda \ast x\right) \times y=x\times \left( \lambda \ast y\right)
\
fulfills for every $x,y,z\in H$, $\lambda ,\mu \in k$.
Hence there exists a homomorphism $\sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$
such that $\sigma _{F}\mid _{X}=id_{X}$ for every $F=F\left( X\right) \in
\mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$. Our goal is to prove that these homomorphisms are
isomorphisms. We will prove by induction by $i$ that
\begin{equation}
\sigma _{F}\left( F_{i}\right) =F_{i}. \label{epi_homo}
\end{equation
for every $i\in
\mathbb{N}
$. If $X=\left\{ x_{1},\ldots ,x_{n}\right\} $ then every element of $F_{1}$
has form $\lambda _{1}x_{1}+\ldots +\lambda _{n}x_{n}$, where $\lambda
_{1},\ldots ,\lambda _{n}\in k$
\[
\sigma _{F}\left( \lambda _{1}x_{1}+\ldots +\lambda _{n}x_{n}\right)
=\lambda _{1}\ast \sigma _{F}\left( x_{1}\right) +\ldots +\lambda _{n}\ast
\sigma _{F}\left( x_{n}\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda _{1}\right)
x_{1}+\ldots +\varphi \left( \lambda _{n}\right) x_{n},
\
so $\sigma _{F}\left( F_{1}\right) \subset F_{1}$
\[
\sigma _{F}\left( \varphi ^{-1}\left( \lambda _{1}\right) x_{1}+\ldots
+\varphi ^{-1}\left( \lambda _{n}\right) x_{n}\right) =\lambda
_{1}x_{1}+\ldots +\lambda _{n}x_{n},
\
so $\sigma _{F}\left( F_{1}\right) =F_{1}$.
Let (\ref{epi_homo}) proved for $i$ such that $1\leq i<r$. Every element of
F_{r}$ is a linear combination of the monomials of the form $uv$, where
u\in F_{i}$, $v\in F_{j}$, $i+j=r$
\[
\sigma _{F}\left( uv\right) =\sigma _{F}\left( u\right) \times \sigma
_{F}\left( v\right) =a\sigma _{F}\left( u\right) \sigma _{F}\left( v\right)
+b\sigma _{F}\left( v\right) \sigma _{F}\left( u\right) ,
\
so $\sigma _{F}\left( F_{r}\right) \subset F_{r}$, because, by our
assumption, $\sigma _{F}\left( u\right) \in F_{i}$, $\sigma _{F}\left(
v\right) \in F_{j}$. Also, if $u=\sigma _{F}\left( \widetilde{u}\right) $,
v=\sigma _{F}\left( \widetilde{v}\right) $, where $\widetilde{u}\in F_{r}$,
\widetilde{v}\in F_{t}$, the
\[
\sigma _{F}\left( \widetilde{u}\widetilde{v}\right) =\sigma _{F}\left(
\widetilde{u}\right) \times \sigma _{F}\left( \widetilde{v}\right) =u\times
v=auv+bvu
\
\[
\sigma _{F}\left( \widetilde{v}\widetilde{u}\right) =\sigma _{F}\left(
\widetilde{v}\right) \times \sigma _{F}\left( \widetilde{u}\right) =v\times
u=avu+buv=buv+avu,
\
fulfills. $a\neq \pm b$, so the matrix $\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
a & b \\
b &
\end{array
\right) $ is regular, hence there exist $\alpha ,\beta \in k$ such that
\[
uv=\alpha \sigma _{F}\left( \widetilde{u}\widetilde{v}\right) +\beta \sigma
_{F}\left( \widetilde{v}\widetilde{u}\right) =\sigma _{F}\left( \varphi
^{-1}\left( \alpha \right) \widetilde{u}\widetilde{v}+\varphi ^{-1}\left(
\beta \right) \widetilde{v}\widetilde{u}\right) .
\
Therefore $\sigma _{F}\left( F_{r}\right) =F_{r}$. We can conclude that
\sigma _{F}$ is an epimorphism.
Now we will prove that $\ker \sigma _{F}=0$. Let $f\in \ker \sigma
_{F}\subset F\left( X\right) $. There exists $m\in
\mathbb{N}
$ such that $f\in \bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}$. $\sigma _{F}\left(
\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}\right) =\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}$ by
\ref{epi_homo}). $\sigma _{F}$ is a linear mapping from the linear space
\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}$ with the original multiplication by scalars
in $F$ to the $\left( \bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}\right) _{W}^{\ast }$ -
the linear space $\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}$ with the multiplication
by scalars which we denote by $\ast $. From formulas $\sum\limits_{i=1}^{k
\left( \lambda _{i}\ast e_{i}\right) =\sum\limits_{i=1}^{k}\varphi \left(
\lambda _{i}\right) e_{i}$ and $\sum\limits_{i=1}^{k}\lambda
_{i}e_{i}=\sum\limits_{i=1}^{k}\left( \varphi ^{-1}\left( \lambda
_{i}\right) \ast e_{i}\right) $ we can conclude that if $E$ is a basis of
the linear space $\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}$ then $E$ is a basis of
the linear space $\left( \bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}\right) _{W}^{\ast }
. So $\dim \bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}=\dim \left(
\bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}\right) _{W}^{\ast }<\infty $, therefore
\ker \left( \sigma _{F}\mid \bigoplus\limits_{i=1}^{m}F_{i}\right) =0$ and
f=0$.
\end{proof}
\section{Group $\mathfrak{A/Y}$.\label{group}}
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From now on, $W$ is a system of words (\ref{words_list}) which fulfills
conditions Op1 and Op2.
The decomposition (\ref{decomp}) is not split in general case, i. e.
\mathfrak{S\cap Y\neq }\left\{ 1\right\} $ in general case. The strongly
stable automorphism $\Phi $ of the category $\Theta ^{0}$ which corresponds
to the system of words $W$ is inner, by \cite[Lemma 3]{PlotkinZhitAutCat},
if and only if for every $F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ there exists an
isomorphism $c_{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ such that $c_{F}\alpha
=\alpha c_{D}$ fulfills for every $\left( \alpha :D\rightarrow F\right) \in
\mathrm{Mor}\Theta ^{0}$ (by \cite[Remark 3.1]{TsurkovAutomEquiv} $\alpha $
is also a homomorphism from $D_{W}^{\ast }$ to $F_{W}^{\ast }$).
Hear we need to prove one technical lemma.
\begin{lemma}
\label{F/F^2}If $F=F\left( X\right) \in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ and
c_{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ is an isomorphism then there exists an
isomorphism $c_{i}:F/F^{i}\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }/F^{i}$ such that $\chi
_{i}^{\ast }c_{F}=c_{i}\chi _{i}$, where $\chi _{i}:F\rightarrow F/F^{i}$
and $\chi _{i}^{\ast }:F_{W}^{\ast }\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }/F^{i}$ are
natural homomorphisms, $i\in
\mathbb{N}
$.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
If $H\in \Theta $ and $I$ is an ideal of $H$. If $\lambda \in k$, $y\in I$,
h\in H$, then $\lambda \ast y=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) y\in I$,
y\times h=ayh+bhy\in I$, analogously $h\times y\in I$. Therefore $I$ is an
ideal of $H_{W}^{\ast }$. Hence $F^{i}$ is an ideal of $F_{W}^{\ast }$.
If $\sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ is an isomorphism such that
\sigma _{F}\mid _{X}=id_{X}$, then by (\ref{epi_homo}) we have
c_{F}^{-1}\left( F^{i}\right) =c_{F}^{-1}\sigma _{F}\left( F^{i}\right)
=F^{i}$ because $c_{F}^{-1}\sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F$ is an isomorphism. So
$c_{F}\left( F^{i}\right) =F^{i}$. It finishes the proof.
\end{proof}
\begin{proposition}
\label{stable_inner}The strongly stable automorphism $\Phi $ which
corresponds to the system of words $W$ is inner if and only if $\varphi
=id_{k}$ and $b=0$.
\end{proposition}
\begin{proof}
We suppose that strongly stable automorphism $\Phi $ which corresponds to
the system of words $W$ is inner. We assume that $\varphi \neq id_{k}$, i.,
e., there exists $\lambda \in k$ such that $\varphi \left( \lambda \right)
\neq \lambda $. We denote $F=F\left( x\right) $. We take $\alpha \in \mathrm
End}F$, such that $\alpha \left( x\right) =\lambda x$. We suppose that
c_{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ is an isomorphism. $c_{2}$ is defined as
in the Lemma \ref{F/F^2}, and we by this Lemma we have
\[
\chi _{2}^{\ast }c_{F}\left( x\right) =c_{2}\chi _{2}\left( x\right) =\mu
\ast \chi _{2}^{\ast }\left( x\right) =\chi _{2}^{\ast }\left( \mu \ast
x\right) =\chi _{2}^{\ast }\left( \varphi \left( \mu \right) x\right) ,
\
where operations in algebra $F_{W}^{\ast }/F^{2}$ we denote by same symbols
as operations in algebra $F_{W}^{\ast }$ and $\mu \in k\setminus \left\{
0\right\} $. Therefore $c_{F}\left( x\right) \equiv \varphi \left( \mu
\right) x\left( \func{mod}F^{2}\right) $. $\alpha \left( F^{2}\right)
\subset F^{2}$ fulfils, s
\[
\alpha c_{F}\left( x\right) =\alpha \left( \varphi \left( \mu \right)
x+f_{2}\right) \equiv \alpha \left( \varphi \left( \mu \right) x\right)
=\varphi \left( \mu \right) \alpha \left( x\right) =\varphi \left( \mu
\right) \lambda x\left( \func{mod}F^{2}\right) ,
\
where $f_{2}\in F^{2}$.
\[
c_{F}\alpha \left( x\right) =c_{F}\left( \lambda x\right) =\lambda \ast
c_{F}\left( x\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda \right) c_{F}\left( x\right)
\equiv \varphi \left( \lambda \right) \varphi \left( \mu \right) x\left(
\func{mod}F^{2}\right) .
\
$\mu \neq 0$, so $\varphi \left( \mu \right) \neq 0$, $\varphi \left(
\lambda \right) \neq \lambda $ hence $\alpha c_{F}\neq c_{F}\alpha $. This
contradiction proves that $\varphi =id_{k}$.
Now we denote $F=F\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) \in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$. By
our assumption there exists an isomorphism $c_{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$
such that $c_{F}\alpha =\alpha c_{F}$ fulfills for every $\alpha \in \mathrm
End}F$. $c_{2}$ is defined as in the Lemma \ref{F/F^2}. $\alpha \left(
F^{2}\right) \subset F^{2}$ so we can define the homomorphism $\widetilde
\alpha }:F/F^{2}\rightarrow F/F^{2}$ such that $\widetilde{\alpha }\chi
_{2}=\chi _{2}\alpha $. From $c_{F}\alpha =\alpha c_{F}$ we can conclude
c_{2}\widetilde{\alpha }=\widetilde{\alpha }c_{2}$ fulfills. By Lemma \re
{F/F^2} $c_{2}$ is a regular linear mapping. We can take the endomorphisms
\alpha $ such that $\widetilde{\alpha }$ will be an arbitrary linear mapping
from $k^{2}$ to $k^{2}$. Therefore $c_{2}$ must be a regular linear mapping
from $k^{2}$ to $k^{2}$ which commutate with all linear mappings from $k^{2}$
to $k^{2}$. Hence $c_{2}$ must be a scalar mapping, i.e.,
\[
\chi _{2}^{\ast }c_{F}\left( x_{i}\right) =c_{2}\chi _{2}\left( x_{i}\right)
=\lambda \chi _{2}^{\ast }\left( x_{i}\right) =\chi _{2}^{\ast }\left(
\lambda x_{i}\right) ,
\
where $\lambda \in k\setminus \left\{ 0\right\} $, $i=1,2$. Therefore
c_{F}\left( x_{i}\right) =\lambda x_{i}+f_{i}$, where $f_{i}\in F^{2}$,
i=1,2$. We can remark that now we consider the case when $\varphi =id_{k}$,
hence we need not distinguish between multiplication by scalar in $F$ and
F_{W}^{\ast }$.
Now we take $\alpha \in \mathrm{End}F$ such that $\alpha \left( x_{1}\right)
=x_{1}x_{2}$, $\alpha \left( x_{2}\right) =0$. If $u$ is a monomial which
contain only entries of $x_{1}$, then $\deg _{x_{1}}\alpha \left( u\right)
+\deg _{x_{2}}\alpha \left( u\right) =2\deg _{x_{1}}u$. If a monomial $u$
contain at least one entry of $x_{2}$, then $\alpha \left( u\right) =0$.
Hence $\alpha \left( F^{2}\right) \subset F^{3}$. So we have
\[
c_{F}\alpha \left( x_{1}\right) =c_{F}\left( x_{1}x_{2}\right) =c_{F}\left(
x_{1}\right) \times c_{F}\left( x_{2}\right) =ac_{F}\left( x_{1}\right)
c_{F}\left( x_{2}\right) +bc_{F}\left( x_{2}\right) c_{F}\left( x_{1}\right)
=
\
\[
a\left( \lambda x_{1}+f_{1}\right) \left( \lambda x_{2}+f_{2}\right)
+b\left( \lambda x_{2}+f_{2}\right) \left( \lambda x_{1}+f_{1}\right) \equiv
a\lambda ^{2}x_{1}x_{2}+b\lambda ^{2}x_{2}x_{1}\left( \func{mod}F^{3}\right)
.
\
\[
\alpha c_{F}\left( x_{1}\right) =\alpha \left( \lambda x_{1}+f_{1}\right)
\equiv \lambda x_{1}x_{2}\left( \func{mod}F^{3}\right) .
\
Hence we conclude $b=0$ from $c_{F}\alpha =\alpha c_{F}$.
If $b=0$, i. e., $w_{\cdot }=ax_{1}x_{2}$, $a\neq 0$, then we take
c_{F}\left( f\right) =a^{-1}f$ for every $F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ and
every $f\in F$. It is obvious that $c_{F}$ is a regular linear mapping.
\[
c_{F}\left( f_{1}\right) \times c_{F}\left( f_{2}\right) =ac_{F}\left(
f_{1}\right) c_{F}\left( f_{2}\right) =a\left( a^{-1}f_{1}\right) \left(
a^{-1}f_{2}\right) =a^{-1}f_{1}f_{2}=c_{F}\left( f_{1}f_{2}\right) .
\
for every $f_{1},f_{2}\in F$. So $c_{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ is an
isomorphism. It fulfil
\[
c_{F}\alpha \left( d\right) =a^{-1}\alpha \left( d\right) =\alpha \left(
a^{-1}d\right) =\alpha c_{F}\left( d\right)
\
for every $\left( \alpha :D\rightarrow F\right) \in \mathrm{Mor}\Theta ^{0}$
and every $d\in D$.
\end{proof}
\begin{proposition}
\label{str_stb_group}The group $\mathfrak{S\cong }G\mathfrak{\leftthreetimes
}\mathrm{Aut}k$, where $G$ is the group of all regular $2\times 2$ matrices
over field $k$, which have a form $\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
a & b \\
b &
\end{array
\right) $ and every $\varphi \in \mathrm{Aut}k$ acts on the group $G$ by
this way: $\varphi \left(
\begin{array}{cc}
a & b \\
b &
\end{array
\right) =\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
\varphi \left( a\right) & \varphi \left( b\right) \\
\varphi \left( b\right) & \varphi \left( a\right
\end{array
\right) $.
\end{proposition}
\begin{proof}
We will define the mapping $\tau :G\mathfrak{\leftthreetimes }\mathrm{Aut
k\rightarrow \mathfrak{S}$. If $g\varphi \in G\mathfrak{\leftthreetimes
\mathrm{Aut}k$, where $g=\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
a & b \\
b &
\end{array
\right) $, then we define $\tau \left( g\varphi \right) =\Phi \in \mathfrak{
}$, where $\Phi $ corresponds to the system of words $W$ with $w_{\lambda
}=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{1}$ for every $\lambda \in k$ and
w_{\cdot }=ax_{1}x_{2}+bx_{2}x_{1}$. By Section \ref{operations} and Theorem
\ref{words} $\tau $ is bijection.
We consider $\tau \left( g_{1}\varphi _{1}\right) =\Phi _{1}$ and $\tau
\left( g_{2}\varphi _{2}\right) =\Phi _{2}$, where $g_{1}\varphi
_{1},g_{2}\varphi _{2}\in G\mathfrak{\leftthreetimes }\mathrm{Aut}k$ and
g_{1}=\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
a_{1} & b_{1} \\
b_{1} & a_{1
\end{array
\right) $, $g_{2}=\left(
\begin{array}{cc}
a_{2} & b_{2} \\
b_{2} & a_{2
\end{array
\right) $. Both these strongly stable automorphisms preserves all objects of
$\Theta ^{0}$ and acts on morphisms of $\Theta ^{0}$ by theirs systems of
bijections $\left\{ s_{F}^{\Phi _{i}}:F\rightarrow F\mid F\in \mathrm{Ob
\Theta ^{0}\right\} $, for $i=1,2$, according the formula (\re
{biject_action}). We have $\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}\left( \alpha \right)
=s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}s_{F}^{\Phi _{1}}\alpha \left( s_{D}^{\Phi _{1}}\right)
^{-1}\left( s_{D}^{\Phi _{2}}\right) ^{-1}$ for every $\left( \alpha
:D\rightarrow F\right) \in \mathrm{Mor}\Theta ^{0}$. So strongly stable
automorphism $\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}=\tau \left( g_{2}\varphi _{2}\right) \tau
\left( g_{1}\varphi _{1}\right) $ preserves all objects of $\Theta ^{0}$ and
acts on morphisms of $\Theta ^{0}$ by system of bijection
\[
\left\{ s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}s_{F}^{\Phi _{1}}:F\rightarrow F\mid F\in \mathrm{O
}\Theta ^{0}\right\} .
\
This system of bijections satisfies the conditions B1 and B2, so we can
define the words $w_{\lambda }^{\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}}$ for every $\lambda \in
k $ and $w_{\cdot }^{\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}}$ which correspond to the
automorphism $\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}$ by formula (\ref{der_veb_opr}). The words
w_{\lambda }^{\Phi _{i}}(\lambda \in k)$ and $w_{\cdot }^{\Phi _{i}}$ which
correspond to the automorphism $\Phi _{i}$ have forms $w_{\lambda }^{\Phi
_{i}}=\varphi _{i}\left( \lambda \right) x_{1}(\lambda \in k)$ and $w_{\cdot
}^{\Phi _{i}}=a_{i}x_{1}x_{2}+b_{i}x_{2}x_{1}$ for $i=1,2$. So
\[
w_{\lambda }^{\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}}=s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}s_{F}^{\Phi _{1}}\left(
\lambda x_{1}\right) =s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}\left( w_{\lambda }^{\Phi
_{1}}\right) =s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}\left( \varphi _{1}\left( \lambda \right)
x_{1}\right) =\varphi _{2}\left( \varphi _{1}\left( \lambda \right) \right)
x_{1}=\left( \varphi _{2}\varphi _{1}\right) \left( \lambda \right) x_{1}
\
for every $\lambda \in k$ an
\[
w_{\cdot }^{\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}}=s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}s_{F}^{\Phi _{1}}\left(
x_{1}x_{2}\right) =s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}\left( w_{\cdot }^{\Phi _{1}}\right)
=s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}\left( a_{1}x_{1}x_{2}+b_{1}x_{2}x_{1}\right) =
\
\[
\varphi _{2}\left( a_{1}\right) s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}\left( x_{1}x_{2}\right)
+\varphi _{2}\left( b_{1}\right) s_{F}^{\Phi _{2}}\left( x_{2}x_{1}\right) =
\
\[
\varphi _{2}\left( a_{1}\right) \left(
a_{2}x_{1}x_{2}+b_{2}x_{2}x_{1}\right) +\varphi _{2}\left( b_{1}\right)
\left( a_{2}x_{2}x_{1}+b_{2}x_{1}x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
\left( \varphi _{2}\left( a_{1}\right) a_{2}+\varphi _{2}\left( b_{1}\right)
b_{2}\right) x_{1}x_{2}+\left( \varphi _{2}\left( a_{1}\right) b_{2}+\varphi
_{2}\left( b_{1}\right) a_{2}\right) x_{2}x_{1}.
\
because $s_{F}^{\Phi _{i}}:F\rightarrow F_{W_{i}}^{\ast }$ is an
isomorphism, $i=1,2$. Henc
\[
\Phi _{2}\Phi _{1}=\tau \left( g_{2}\varphi _{2}\right) \tau \left(
g_{1}\varphi _{1}\right) =\tau \left( g_{2}\varphi _{2}\left( g_{1}\right)
\varphi _{2}\varphi _{1}\right) =\tau \left( g_{2}\varphi _{2}\cdot
g_{1}\varphi _{1}\right) .
\]
\end{proof}
\begin{corollary}
\label{intersection}Group $\mathfrak{S\cap Y}$ is isomorphic to the group
k^{\ast }I_{2}$ of the regular $2\times 2$ scalar matrices over field $k$.
\end{corollary}
\begin{proof}
By Propositions \ref{stable_inner} and\ \ref{str_stb_group}.
\end{proof}
\begin{corollary}
$\mathfrak{A/Y\cong }\left( G\mathfrak{/}k^{\ast }I_{2}\right) \mathfrak
\leftthreetimes }\mathrm{Aut}k$.
\end{corollary}
\begin{proof}
By Proposition \ref{str_stb_group} and Corollary 1 we have that $\mathfrak
A/Y\cong }\left( G\mathfrak{\leftthreetimes }\mathrm{Aut}k\right) \mathfrak{
}k^{\ast }I_{2}$. And we have $\left( G\mathfrak{\leftthreetimes }\mathrm{Au
}k\right) \mathfrak{/}k^{\ast }I_{2}\mathfrak{\cong }\left( G\mathfrak{/
k^{\ast }I_{2}\right) \mathfrak{\leftthreetimes }\mathrm{Aut}k$ because
k^{\ast }I_{2}\vartriangleleft G$ and for every $\varphi \in \mathrm{Aut}k$
\varphi \left( k^{\ast }I_{2}\right) \subset k^{\ast }I_{2}$ fulfills.
\end{proof}
The symmetric group of the set which has $2$ elements - $\mathbf{S}_{\mathbf
2}}$ can be embedded in the multiplicative structure of the algebra $\mathbf
M}_{\mathbf{2}}\left( k\right) $ of the $2\times 2$ matrices over field $k$:
$\mathbf{S}_{\mathbf{2}}\ni \left( 12\right) \rightarrow \left(
\begin{array}{cc}
0 & 1 \\
1 &
\end{array
\right) \in \mathbf{M}_{\mathbf{2}}\left( k\right) $, so $G\cong U\left(
\mathbf{S}_{\mathbf{2}}\right) $, where $U\left( k\mathbf{S}_{\mathbf{2
}\right) $ is the group of all invertible elements of the group algebra $
\mathbf{S}_{\mathbf{2}}$. Also $k^{\ast }I_{2}\cong U\left( k\left\{
e\right\} \right) $, where $e\in \mathbf{S}_{\mathbf{2}}$, $k\left\{
e\right\} $ is a subalgebra of $k\mathbf{S}_{\mathbf{2}}$, $U\left( k\left\{
e\right\} \right) $ is a group of all invertible elements of this
subalgebra. Therefore $\mathfrak{A/Y\cong }\left( U\left( k\mathbf{S}_
\mathbf{2}}\right) \mathfrak{/}U\left( k\left\{ e\right\} \right) \right)
\mathfrak{\leftthreetimes }\mathrm{Aut}k$, where every $\varphi \in \mathrm
Aut}k$ acts on the algebra $k\mathbf{S}_{\mathbf{2}}$ by natural way:
\varphi \left( ae+b\left( 12\right) \right) =\varphi \left( a\right)
e+\varphi \left( b\right) \left( 12\right) $.
\section{Example of two linear algebras which are automorphically equivalent
but not\textbf{\ }geometrically equivalent.}
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We take $k
\mathbb{Q}
$. $\Theta $ will be the variety of all linear algebras over $k$. $H$ will
be the $2$-generated linear algebra, which is free in the variety
corresponding to the identity $\left( x_{1}x_{1}\right) x_{2}=0$. We
consider the strongly stable automorphism $\Phi $ of the category $\Theta
^{0}$ corresponding to the system of words $W$, where $b\neq 0$. Algebras $H$
and $H_{W}^{\ast }$ are automorphically equivalent by \cite[Theorem 5.1
{TsurkovAutomEquiv}.
\begin{proposition}
\label{not_geom_equiv}Algebras $H$ and $H_{W}^{\ast }$ are not geometrically
equivalent.
\end{proposition}
\begin{proof}
Let $F=F\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $. The ideal $I=Id\left( H,\left\{
x_{1},x_{2}\right\} \right) $ of the all two-variables identities which are
fulfill in the algebra $H$ will be the smallest $H$-closed set in $F$,
because $I=\left( 0\right) _{H}^{\prime \prime }$, where $0\in F$. If
algebras $H$ and $H_{W}^{\ast }$ are geometrically equivalent then the
structures of the $H$-closed sets and of the $H_{W}^{\ast }$-closed sets in
F$ coincide. Hence $I$ must be the smallest $H_{W}^{\ast }$-closed set in $F
.
By \cite[Remark 5.1]{TsurkovAutomEquiv}
\begin{equation}
T\rightarrow \sigma _{F}T \label{closed_bijection}
\end{equation
is a bijection from the structure of the $H_{W}^{\ast }$-closed sets in $F$
to the structure of the $H$-closed sets in $F$. Hear $\sigma
_{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ is an isomorphism from condition Op2. It is
clear that the bijection (\ref{closed_bijection}) preserves inclusions of
sets. So it transforms the smallest $H_{W}^{\ast }$-closed set to the
smallest $H$-closed set, i. e. $I=\sigma _{F}I$ must fulfills.
It is obviously that $I\subset F^{3}$. By (\ref{epi_homo}) $\sigma
_{F}I\subset F^{3}$. We will compare the linear subspaces $I/F^{4}$ and
\left( \sigma _{F}I\right) /F^{4}$. $I=\left\langle \alpha \left( \left(
x_{1}x_{1}\right) x_{2}\right) \mid \alpha \in \mathrm{End}F\right\rangle $.
Let $\alpha \left( x_{i}\right) \equiv \alpha _{1i}x_{1}+\alpha
_{2i}x_{2}\left( \func{mod}F^{2}\right) $, where $i=1,2$, $\alpha _{ji}\in k
. The
\[
\alpha \left( \left( x_{1}x_{1}\right) x_{2}\right) \equiv \left( \left(
\alpha _{11}x_{1}+\alpha _{21}x_{2}\right) \left( \alpha _{11}x_{1}+\alpha
_{21}x_{2}\right) \right) \left( \alpha _{12}x_{1}+\alpha _{22}x_{2}\right)
\left( \func{mod}F^{4}\right) .
\
We achieve after the extending of brackets that $I/F^{4}$ is a subspace of
the linear space spanned by the elements of $F^{3}/F^{4}$ which have form
\left( x_{i}x_{j}\right) x_{k}+F^{4}$, where $i,j,k=1,2$. Bu
\[
\sigma _{F}I\ni \sigma _{F}\left( \left( x_{1}x_{1}\right) x_{2}\right)
=a\sigma _{F}\left( x_{1}x_{1}\right) \sigma _{F}\left( x_{2}\right)
+b\sigma _{F}\left( x_{2}\right) \sigma _{F}\left( x_{1}x_{1}\right) =
\
\[
=a\left( a+b\right) \left( x_{1}x_{1}\right) x_{2}+b\left( a+b\right)
x_{2}\left( x_{1}x_{1}\right) .
\
We have that $a+b\neq 0$, $b\neq 0$, so $I/F^{4}\neq \left( \sigma
_{F}I\right) /F^{4}$ and $I\neq \sigma _{F}I$. This contradiction proves
that algebras $H$ and $H_{W}^{\ast }$ are not geometrically equivalent.
\end{proof}
| 2}p_{2}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right)
+\ldots +\left( \varphi \left( \lambda \right) \right) ^{n}p_{n}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) .
\
We can take $\lambda \in k$ such that $\varphi \left( \lambda \right) $ is
not a solution of any equation $x^{i}=x$, where $2\leq i\leq n$. So,
p_{i}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) =0$ for $2\leq i\leq n$ by equality of the
homogeneous components. Therefore $w_{+}=\alpha x_{1}+\beta x_{2}$, where
\alpha ,\beta \in k$. If we denote the operation defined by $w_{+}$ in
\left( F\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) \right) _{W}^{\ast }$ by $\bot $, then
x_{1}\bot x_{2}=x_{2}\bot x_{1}$ holds, so $\alpha x_{1}+\beta x_{2}=\alpha
x_{2}+\beta x_{1}$ and $\alpha =\beta $. Also $x_{1}\bot 0=x_{1}$ holds and
\alpha x_{1}=x_{1}$, so $\alpha =\beta =1$. Now, by consideration of
F\left( x\right) $, we can conclude that for all $\lambda _{1},\lambda
_{2}\in k$ fulfills
\[
\varphi \left( \lambda _{1}+\lambda _{2}\right) x=\left( \lambda
_{1}+\lambda _{2}\right) \ast x=\lambda _{1}\ast x\bot \lambda _{2}\ast x=
\
\[
\lambda _{1}\ast x+\lambda _{2}\ast x=\varphi \left( \lambda _{1}\right)
x+\varphi \left( \lambda _{2}\right) x=\left( \varphi \left( \lambda
_{1}\right) +\varphi \left( \lambda _{2}\right) \right) x,
\
so $\varphi \left( \lambda _{1}+\lambda _{2}\right) =$ $\varphi \left(
\lambda _{1}\right) +\varphi \left( \lambda _{2}\right) $ and $\varphi $ is
an automorphism of the field $k$.
Its clear now that $w_{-}=-x\in F\left( x\right) $, becaus
\[
w_{-}\left( x\right) =-1\ast x=\varphi \left( -1\right) x=\left( -1\right)
x=-x.
\]
$w_{\cdot }\in F\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $. We write $w_{\cdot }$ as sum of
its homogeneous components according the degree of $x_{1}$
\[
w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) =p_{0}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right)
+p_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +p_{2}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots
+p_{n}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) .
\
We denote the operation defined by $w_{\cdot }$ in $\left( F\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) \right) _{W}^{\ast }$ by $\times $. So we have for every
\lambda \in k$ tha
\[
\left( \lambda \ast x_{1}\right) \times x_{2}=\lambda \ast \left(
x_{1}\times x_{2}\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda \right) w_{\cdot }\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) p_{0}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi
\left( \lambda \right) p_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi \left(
\lambda \right) p_{2}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots +\varphi \left(
\lambda \right) p_{n}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) .
\
an
\[
\left( \lambda \ast x_{1}\right) \times x_{2}=w_{\cdot }\left( \varphi
\left( \lambda \right) x_{1},x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
p_{0}\left( \varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{1},x_{2}\right) +p_{1}\left(
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{1},x_{2}\right) +p_{2}\left( \varphi
\left( \lambda \right) x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots +p_{n}\left( \varphi
\left( \lambda \right) x_{1},x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
p_{0}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi \left( \lambda \right) p_{1}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\left( \varphi \left( \lambda \right) \right)
^{2}p_{2}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots +\left( \varphi \left( \lambda
\right) \right) ^{n}p_{n}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) .
\
We can take, as above, $\lambda \in k$ such that by equality of the
homogeneous components we obtain that $w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right)
=p_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $. Now we write $w_{\cdot }\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) =p_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $ as sum of its
homogeneous components according the degree of $x_{2}$
\[
w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) =r_{0}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right)
+r_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +r_{2}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots
+r_{m}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) .
\
We have for every $\lambda \in k$ tha
\[
x_{1}\times \left( \lambda \ast x_{2}\right) =\lambda \ast \left(
x_{1}\times x_{2}\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda \right) w_{\cdot }\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
\varphi \left( \lambda \right) r_{0}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi
\left( \lambda \right) r_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi \left(
\lambda \right) r_{2}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots +\varphi \left(
\lambda \right) r_{m}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) .
\
an
\[
x_{1}\times \left( \lambda \ast x_{2}\right) =w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},\varphi
\left( \lambda \right) x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
r_{0}\left( x_{1},\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{2}\right) +r_{1}\left(
x_{1},\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{2}\right) +r_{2}\left( x_{1},\varphi
\left( \lambda \right) x_{2}\right) +\ldots +r_{m}\left( x_{1},\varphi
\left( \lambda \right) x_{2}\right) =
\
\[
r_{0}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi \left( \lambda \right) r_{1}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\varphi \left( \lambda \right) ^{2}r_{2}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) +\ldots +\varphi \left( \lambda \right) ^{m}r_{m}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) .
\
And, as above, we can conclude that $w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right)
=r_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $ where $r_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $ is
a homogeneous element of $F\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $ such that $\deg
_{x_{1}}r_{1}\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) =1$ and $\deg _{x_{2}}r_{1}\left(
x_{1},x_{2}\right) =1$. Therefore $w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right)
=ax_{1}x_{2}+bx_{2}x_{1}$, where $a,b\in k$. If $a=b$ then the operation
defined by $w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $ is commutative. If\ $a=-b$
then the operation defined by $w_{\cdot }\left( x_{1},x_{2}\right) $ is
anticommutative. The isomorphisms $\sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$,
where $F\in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ can not exists in both these cases if $F$
is not a $0$-generated free algebra.
Therefore we prove that if the system of words (\ref{words_list}) satisfies
the conditions Op1 and Op2 then $w_{0}=0$, $w_{\lambda }=\varphi \left(
\lambda \right) x_{1}$ for all $\lambda \in k$, $w_{-}=-x_{1}$,
w_{+}=x_{1}+x_{2}$, $w_{\cdot }=ax_{1}x_{2}+bx_{2}x_{1}$, where $\varphi $
is an automorphism of the field $k$, $a,b\in k$, $a\neq \pm b$.
Now we must prove that for all $\varphi \in \mathrm{Aut}k$ and all $a,b\in k$
such that $a\neq \pm b$ the system of words (\ref{words_list}) where
w_{0}=0 $, $w_{\lambda }=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x_{1}$ for all
\lambda \in k $, $w_{-}=-x_{1}$, $w_{+}=x_{1}+x_{2}$, $w_{\cdot
}=ax_{1}x_{2}+bx_{2}x_{1}$ fulfills condition Op2. It means that we must
build for every $F=F\left( X\right) \in \mathrm{Ob}\Theta ^{0}$ an
isomorphism $\sigma _{F}:F\rightarrow F_{W}^{\ast }$ such that $\sigma
_{F}\mid _{X}=id_{X}$.
We will prove, first of all, that $H_{W}^{\ast }\in \Theta $ for every $H\in
\Theta $. Operations defined by $w_{0}$, $w_{-}$, $w_{+}$ coincide with $0$,
$-$, $+$. So identities of the variety $\Theta $ (axioms of the linear
algebra) relating to these operations fulfill in $H_{W}^{\ast }$. Hence we
only need to check the axioms that involve the operations defined by
w_{\cdot }$ and $w_{\lambda }$ ($\lambda \in k$). As above we denote these
operations by $\times $ and by $\lambda \ast $
\[
\lambda \ast \left( x+y\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda \right) \left(
x+y\right) =\varphi \left( \lambda \right) x+\varphi \left( \lambda \right)
y=\lambda \ast x+\lambda \ast y,
\
\[
\left( \lambda \mu \right) \ast x=\varphi \left( \lambda \mu \right)
x=\varphi \left( \lambda \right) \varphi \left( \mu \right) x=\varphi \left(
\lambda \right) \left( \mu \ast x\right) =\lambda \ast \left( \mu \ast
x\right) ,
\
\[
\left( \lambda + | 3,076 |
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Head coach Doug Marrone said the team is working Glenn in "very slowly", with Glenn saying he's taking it "day by day" with no timetable to full practice participation. Glenn said what kept him out was a medical issue, but the exact problem was personal.
Center Eric Wood was certainly happy to have the third-year left tackle back on the field, a player that is among the league's best at the position in Wood's opinion.
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Henderson said after practice that he's tried to "get better" every day, and the hands-on coaching of Marrone on technique has helped him be successful. Henderson's outstanding play in place of Glenn has begged the question of whether or not the former Miami Hurricane could start on the offensive line even when the team's left tackle is ready to be on the field.
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The expression was matured for 52 years.
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Just in time for the holidays, the distinguished distillery is releasing a major new libation guaranteed to make the season extra merry and bright: the Bowmore 1965 Single Malt Scotch Whisky, which is the fourth expression from its 50 Years Old Vault Series. It was matured for 52 years in the warehouses, and<|fim_middle|> best served neat. The whisky will be packaged in gorgeous hand-blown glass bottles with sterling silver adornments and housed in hand-crafted Scottish oak cabinets.
Only 232 bottles will be released in December, with a suggested retail price of $30,000. The expression joins Bowmore's 1966 Single Malt as the perfect stocking stuffers for the whisky lover in your life.
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The expression was one of the first to pass through Bowmore's then-new steam heated stills in 1965, which ensured smoother, more controlled distillation—bringing out richer qualities during maturation process. The whisky was then matured in oak casks formerly used for bourbon, claret, or sherry. The decades-long maturation unlocked the same rich fruit and smoke tastes found in the 1960s Bowmore whiskies, which are considered some of the brand's most collectible expressions.
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On the nose, the whisky offers hints of dark chocolate, sweet beeswax, and rich fruits, which develops into burnt heather and a fresh spring flower finish. The flavours are balanced with a hint of dried fruit, apricots, and jasmine. It's | 191 |
Northumberland girl excels at London International<|fim_middle|>mouth, chairman of Advance Northumberland, added: "We're delighted to be bringing this mixed use development and cinema attraction to the centre of Ashington.
"It will bring new jobs into the town centre and attract many new visitors, increasing spend and footfall so that the whole of Ashington will benefit, including existing retailers and consumers alike." | Horse Show
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Work set to start on new Northumberland cinema and restaurant development at 'Ashington Hole' site this spring after plans approved
Work could start on the 'Ashington hole' site this spring, after plans for a new cinema, restaurants and shops were given the go-ahead.
By Ben O'Connell
Wednesday, 8th January 2020, 12:09 pm
Updated Wednesday, 8th January 2020, 12:48 pm
A hybrid application, seeking full planning approval for a seven-screen cinema and restaurant space plus outline permission for retail and restaurant development on a second plot, was approved at Tuesday's (January 7) meeting of Northumberland County Council's strategic planning committee.
The cinema, featuring a total seating capacity of 660, will be located on the site south of the Asda petrol station, between the supermarket and Ashington Leisure Centre.
Accessed from Lintonville Terrace, there will be 117 parking spaces – some in an undercroft area due to the sloping site – to serve the cinema and 6,000 sq ft of restaurant floorspace.
An image showing how the proposed cinema in Ashington would look.
To the south, to the rear of existing commercial properties at the junction of Lintonville Terrace and Woodhorn Road, 12,000 sq ft of retail and restaurant space is proposed, with a detailed application to follow for this area.
A further phase of the Portland Park scheme, featuring 20,000 sq ft of new retail space and parking, is anticipated to be submitted in the next few months.
Known as Portland Park, critics in the town have dubbed the site the Ashington hole, as it has sat undeveloped since the incoming Conservative administration decided to cancel the relocation of the county council's HQ from Morpeth in 2017.
Given this background, although the application recevied unanimous support from the committee, there was a bit of back and forth between the Tory and Labour councillors.
Council leader Peter Jackson at the Portland Park site in Ashington.
Coun Rupert Gibson said: "111 neighbours were notified and there was only one objection so I can't see there's a problem with this."
Ashington member, Coun Jim Laing, replied: "I don't know who these 111 people are, because it's just a hole in the ground.
"I'm disappointed the building's not going to be available for a more flexible use, that's just my personal view."
Coun Gordon Stewart said: "I'm delighted for this further investment in Ashington. I can't think of a better use for that hole, as the local member described it."
Coun Barry Flux, who represents Cramlington, added: "I have a cinema in my town and it's very successful. We could have seen £80million spent there on a white elephant."
Coun Laing hit back: "I'm looking forward to the people who use the cinema at Cramlington now using the cinema at Ashington."
Last April, the authority's cabinet approved a non-repayable grant of £3million and a loan of £4.7million (repayable with interest) to Advance Northumberland, the council-owned company which replaced Arch, to deliver this scheme. Advance is contributing £1million.
Then in June, a deal was announced with Reel Cinemas, a nationwide operator with 14 facilities across the UK, before the planning application was lodged in August.
Reacting to the approval, council Leader Peter Jackson said: "This ambitious but deliverable scheme is the culmination of carefully planned public and private investment into Ashington town centre, which has always been one of our priorities.
"It's fantastic news that working on behalf of the County Council, Advance Northumberland has been able not only to secure high-quality private investment into Ashington. but also ensure we have an attractive new, high-quality, mixed-use development on this very important site and we look forward to work starting as soon as possible.
"This major town centre development is an exciting new start for Ashington and its community."
Coun Richard Wear | 871 |
The 2020 Dr McKenna Cup, known for sponsorship reasons as the Bank of Ireland Dr McKenna Cup, is a Gaelic<|fim_middle|> the fixtures confirmed following a meeting of Comhairle Uladh CCC later in the month. For the first time in many years, no university teams will take part, due to the changed schedule for the Sigerson Cup.
Tyrone were the winners for the eighth time in nine years.
Competition format
Group Stage
The nine teams were drawn into three sections of three teams. Each team plays the other teams in their section once, either home or away. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. The points-ratio method (points for divided by points against) is used to determine the ranking of teams who are level on section points (as opposed to the more typical scoring differential).
The competition will begin on Sunday 29 December 2019.
Knock-out Stage
The winners of the three sections and the best of the runners-up in the three sections compete in the semi-finals with the two winners meeting in the final.
Group stage
Section A
Section B
Section C
Ranking of section runners-up
Knock-out stage
Semi-finals
Final
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Dr McKenna Cup seasons | football competition in the province of Ulster for county teams. It is held at the beginning of the GAA season.
The draw was made on 4 December 2019 with | 38 |
Leadership, teamwork, service and ethics — at Comcast NBCUniversal, these are values we embody in our relationships with our employees, customers and partners. We are honored to share those values with the military men and women who serve our Nation.
We are proud to be one of America's most military-friendly employers. In 2017, we officially surpassed our goal of hiring of 10,000 Veterans, National Guard and Reserve members, and military spouses across our company. But we're not done yet.
We are doubling down on our commitment<|fim_middle|> business and for those who give back to our Country.
Meet Ken Collier a Comcast employee who has his fellow veterans' backs as they make the transition to civilian life.
Offer extra support, flexibility, and benefits, making it easier for our employees who are deployed and their families to balance their civilian and military commitments.
Expanded Internet Essentials to include low-income veterans, making low-cost monthly internet service available to veterans that depend on internet service in their homes.
Provide special service offers for our customers who have served.
Identify and work with veteran-owned businesses as part of our supply chain.
Partner with veteran-serving nonprofit organizations, including Project Sanctuary and Freedom Service Dogs.
To learn more about our commitment to the military community, check out this story on Rydne Williams, Area VP of Field Operations for Southern Colorado. | to hiring current and former members of the military community. As a company, we aim to hire at least 21,000 members of the military community by 2021. We know members of the military community have a core skill set that makes our teams stronger. We continue to embrace the military community – because it is the right thing to do for our | 76 |
A second regional costs judge has ruled that an approved budget does not hinder a detailed assessment, but also called on the higher courts or the rule committee to give a definitive view.
District Judge Hale in Nottingham explicitly agreed with the ruling of his Birmingham-based<|fim_middle|> does bring with it a degree of certainty in the sense that the parties will know at the outset what the upper limit of recoverable costs will be at the end of the case unless there is a significant change of circumstances.
The decision of the Court of Appeal last year in SARPD Oil has also caused confusion, and in light of that, rule 3.15 is to be amended on 6 April to make it clear that the case management hearing is not the forum to debate incurred costs, although the judge will be able to record comments on them to be taken into account at a later assessment.
Christopher Perry, instructed by Shakespeare Martineau, acted for the claimant. Robin Dunne, instructed by Acumension, the costs firm which also worked on Merrix, represented the defendant. | colleague, District Judge Lumb, in Merrix v Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust.
In Bhojani v University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, DJ Hale said: "Like Judge Lumb I think the answer… has to be more nuanced than the claimant's contention for a fixed figure and the defendant's contention for an entirely unfettered entitlement to attack a bill on detailed assessment.
Describing the budgeting stage as involving "a consideration of the landscape and assessment as a more detailed survey of the terrain" he said budgeting was not intended to replace detailed assessment.
He added that whether or not the case management judge recorded an opinion that incurred costs were disproportionate, those costs must always be subject to a line-by-line detailed assessment.
DJ Hale said: "It seems clear to me that without an authoritative and binding ruling from the higher courts or a clear and unequivocal change to the Civil Procedure Rules, parties and judges alike will continue to operate in an atmosphere of uncertainty.
In December, the rule committee heard that this was a difficult issue that needed to be put out to consultation.
The judge did not accept that his decision was inconsistent with Lord Justice Jackson's intentions. "At a detailed assessment the budget will still be an important factor in the judge's mind. In particular he is likely to be reluctant to reduce the receiving party's costs on grounds of proportionality when the budget has already been approved as being proportionate.
But he did acknowledge that this approach would not do much to reduce the number of detailed assessments. "So far there is much anecdotal evidence that budgeting has done little if anything to reduce the number of detailed assessments taking place and the points of dispute are no shorter than they ever have been.
"However, this was not the primary objective of costs budgeting. Costs budgeting | 364 |
Everyone has their own feelings about the extent to which PETA goes to get their message across. I'm not here to pass judgment, only to share a message that PETA and their spokesperson, Simon Cowell, want you to hear.
The Summer heat is oppressive. Although you may feel that 78 degrees is comfortable while you sit outside under a tree, inside a car the temperature can quickly rise to over 100 degrees. Just a few months ago I received a letter from a young girl asking what she should do about a<|fim_middle|> she had written letters on quite a few blogs and not gotten a response. I was glad to be there when she left her note for me. I hope you and I will be there for a dog in a parking lot one day. Don't turn a blind eye; get help and stand up for the animal. He's counting on you.
Be the Change for Animals is being celebrated today by pet bloggers everywhere. Join us in our quest to educate the public about important causes and dangers to animals. Thank you!
This is such an important message. We did the same topic for today's Blog the Change. It's hard to believe that people still leave their dogs in cars...this is a message that I hope is shouted from the mountaintops! Thanks for getting the word out.
Hey Lucas, Hey Tanner, Jet here. Hi Miss Carrie.
Boy, this is a "hot" topic today. We cannot agree more and appreciate your post. Living in the tropics as we do, cars here feel like kilns more than ovens! We added a badge on this subject to our blog.
In this heat wave, this topic never gets old, Carrie. I'm so glad you worked with this young girl to resolve the situation. That's what saves lives.
We wrote about dogs in hot cars just the other day. We will never understand why humans think it is okay to leave their dog in a hot car:( We are glad you could help that young girl with her problem. We wish there were more people out there like her!
Tacks and I stopped by to say hello. So happy to be a part of this great cause.
We plan on making a video along with the no Non-cents Nanna blog for the July 23 Unite the bloggers day for our friends in need.
Such an important topic - and a message that really cannot be repeated enough. Your story about the young girl is inspiring - bravo to her for wanting to help, and to you for working with her!
That is very impressive. Reminds me of the character in my book about Madison Morgan and eleven-year-old dog advocate. It is amazing how many people leave their dogs inside the car. They bring the dog because they don't want to leave them at home and then leave it in the car...doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Great blog and a good subject for this time of year! | dog who was left in a car overnight in her neighborhood. Afraid of angering a neighbor, she contacted me for advice. We worked out a plan to bring in authorities to deal with the situation so that she wouldn't have to become involved. She was far too young and her parents were not at home. Yet she wanted to stand up for this dog. How impressive is that? That young girl was very courageous and caring. She told me that | 91 |
How about a national blog tabloid?
Blogs are basically an elite form of communication. It makes possible almost instant dissemination of information, but only reaches people who are motivated enough to make some effort. Blogs don't help much with the Democrats' biggest problem — the passive voters who pick up the ambient opinion from radio and TV. Blogs also don't reach active citizens who, for whatever reason, are not internet-savvy.
I'm proposing a printable blog tabloid which would aggregate news and opinion daily and post it in printable form. That way, individuals could print off copies and distribute them to friends and acquaintances or leave them in public places.
In order to work, this tabloid would have to be attractively and professionally formatted, with punchy stories, quick summaries, nice graphics, and a bit of humor. Hopefully there is a widely-used software available which would make it possible for tens of thousands of people to print off nice-looking copies. This would effectively be a free national hard-copy tabloid printed off at thousands of locations.
The tab<|fim_middle|>. | loid would also be readable online, of course, but the selling point would be its printability. The net is tremendously powerful as a tool for gathering and quickly disseminating information, but it does not reach everyone.
In order for this to work a lot of people would have to be involved — at the editorial end, but above all at the tech and finance ends. Hopefully someone will pick up the ball and run with it.
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Steal the resources. How much does it cost to produce a PDF? That's the total expense. Distribution is simply posting on the net, allowing interested local distributors to print out as many copies as they can afford on their own dime or as many copies as they can get away with on corporate resources they have access to. I especially like stealing the paper and toner from corporations. For me, it's maybe the very best part of the idea.
It's not that there's a lack of resources or interest in the concept. A good sales team could tap into progressive advertisers – and yes, you do need those advertisers, because the publication isn't going to sustain itself in the long run on a patchwork of activists.
You need a solid stable of columnists that create a loyal following, the way Chuck Shepard has built with News of the Weird, and you need to pay them.
The key to making it this work is figuring out the distribution problem. For any publication to reach a critical mass of readers, you have to go through mainstream distribution channels, and that's the big bottleneck.
The Net is great, but it's fragmented.
There are some places with newsstands that accept quite a variety of publications and have a fairly widespread presence. I'm thinking of Books-A-Million and Borders bookstores. Get a publication placed on those newsstands and work outward from there, and I think the concept could fly. Start with the channels used by urban alternative weekly tabloids, and build on that.
Progressive Perspective Weekly, anyone? Lots of humor – be generous with editorial cartoons. They educate and amuse at the same time.
PDF will work for production, the Net becomes the distibution channel for files that go to printers in each market. Then you need a crew to get the paper out reliably each and every week. They have to be paid too. If it's not out consistently, it won't be taken seriously.
I've thought about this often. It should be done.
I'm with DeafScribe, maybe because I've spent many years in book and magazine print production. I think a print weekly could fly. Of course, you could do both–a daily webzine with a weekly print edition. But if you're going to do a print edition, do a print edition that can be distributed through print venues, like newsstands. You don't have to do a four-color glossy; two colors on newsprint would work, and be considerably cheaper. I don't see the point of having web users printing out PDFs, though | 621 |
Earnings and revenue were hit by the deconsolidation of SATS HK after the sale of its 51% stake.
SATS' profits for the fourth quarter of 2017 dipped 1.8% in a year to $65.4m. According to its financial statement, revenue fell 0.5% in a year to $423.5m after the deconsolidation of SATS HK Limited (SHK) and contributions from food solutions dipped 2.4% to $228.3m, offset by a 1.7% increase from gateway services to $194.7m<|fim_middle|> (SGIPF) in the second quarter, and $8.5m from the sale of its stake in Tokyo Flight Kitchen Restaurantes and its investment property.
There was also a gain of $9.3m from the disposal of the Senoko plant. This was partially offset by a $700,000 loss on the sale of its interest in an associate, International Airport Cleaning Co., Ltd and the dilution of shareholdings from 40% to 28% in its associate, Beijing Airport Inflight Kitchen. | .
Group expenditure was slashed by $2.6m to $377.4m, as staff costs and utilities expenses fell mainly due to the deconsolidation of SHK. Share of profits from associates and joint ventures slipped 16.7% to $24m due to lower contributions from food solutions' associates/joint ventures, partially offset by gateway's improved performance.
SATS' Japan subsidiary, TFK Corporation, posted the gain for the disposal of 100% equity interest in its Brazil subsidiary, Tokyo Flight Kitchen Restaurantes and its investment property.
For the full year, profits jumped 1.4% to $261.5m from last year. Revenue was down 0.3% to $1.72b, due to lower contributions from food solutions offset by growth in gateway services. Share of after-tax profits from associates and joint ventures jumped 9.2% to $71.2m.
SATS gained $10.8m from the sale of its assets and a $4.5m write-back to the profit and loss for the earn-out consideration due on the acquisition of additional equity interest in MacroAsia Catering Services, Inc (MACS).
Other gains included $5.2m from the sale of its 51% equity interest in SHK, $1.8m from the restructuring of Jilin Zhong Xin Cheng Food (Jilin JVCo) and SG IPF Pte Ltd. | 306 |
A Tale of Four Megacities and Four Solutions
By Daniel Malloy
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Because cities the world over can learn from these innovations.
The urban blues come in so many shades. There are housing crunches and rising rents; bad traffic and depressing commutes; dilapidated infrastructure and a warming planet. And then, of course, there's the shade known as anomie.
But it turns out that there's an app for the urban blues — er, actually, several apps. (There's also a set of islands shaped like a mythical bird.) Across Asia, swelling metropolises are finding innovative and often surprising solutions to the problems that plague cities. OZY reports:
Jakarta Unfurls the Great Garuda
Indonesia's capital is sinking, sea levels are rising, and time is running out. Several miles south of where the waters of Jakarta Bay spill over the city's seawall, a civil engineer pulls up a striking image on his laptop that reveals the urgency of his mission. It's a forecast of 2030, and it shows a third of Indonesia's largest urban area underwater, nearly up to the presidential palace. "The situation is already urgent," says Sawarendro, who works for a Dutch firm, Witteveen+Bos. (Like many Indonesians, Sawarendro uses a single name.) "We have to make the decision fast."
A fisherman in front<|fim_middle|> he says. "This is real."
The wealthy, skyscraper-spiked city-state of 5.6 million is deploying an array of new technologies to become what it calls a Smart Nation. Sensors help homes become more energy-efficient, and an app uses data from transit riders to help city planners design better bus routes. Beyond day-to-day urban problems, Chan's grander vision speaks to a world of digital loners.
Rather than pry people away from their phones, Singapore is using mobile devices as a tool. The 10,000 volunteers connected by myResponder can apply a defibrillator in the critical early seconds of a heart attack. CareGuide users take an elderly woman in the apartment down the hall for a walk or help her with small tasks. In the Kampong villages of his youth, Chan recalls, neighbors in Singapore's last rural enclave were always around in times of need. Now that everyone knows their smartphone contacts better than their communities, Singapore is creating what Chan calls "digital kampongs" — one helping hand at a time.
An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated Chan's professional title.
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About 40 percent of this city of 10 million lies below sea level, and each year the thirst for groundwater causes several centimeters of subsidence — a fancy word for sinking. The wake-up call for Jakarta was a 2007 flood that killed dozens and displaced hundreds of thousands.
Enter the Great Garuda. Sawarendro envisions 3,000 acres of artificial islands shaped like the mythical birdlike creature — a national symbol — unfurling in a protective arc across Jakarta Bay. The wings would form a barrier to the encroaching sea while offering developers a golden waterfront opportunity and drivers a new beltway that will act as a relief valve for the city's crippling traffic.
The project will cost an estimated $40 billion and take 30 years to build. A lot of the funding could come from developers enticed by valuable new property where 650,000 people could live and 350,000 could work, according to the Witteveen+Bos master plan. Now the Indonesian government must decide whether to let the project take flight.
Manila's Typhoon Canary
Parked in the middle of what seems like a typhoon superhighway, the Philippines cannot prevent extreme weather, but it's getting smarter about predicting it. Back-to-back storms delivered a sucker punch to Manila in 2009, killing nearly 1,000 people with devastating floods and inspiring a disaster-management reboot. Instead of an ark, the government built Project NOAH, or Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazards. Deploying sensors throughout the country, NOAH aims to give communities a six-hour evacuation heads-up. External affairs officer Oscar Lizardo recalled one instance in 2013 when NOAH noticed the Marikina River rising a full meter in just an hour a few dozen miles upstream from Marikina City, so staffers called the city's emergency-response managers to tell them to get moving — now. Before floodwaters swept in, the low-lying areas of the metro Manila city were evacuated with no casualties.
Manila's flood-control infrastructure badly needs an upgrade, but a sophisticated coal-mine canary is better than nothing. And it's more than technology. A big part of NOAH's mission involves anthropologists and social scientists who are trying to bridge the gap between data and people. Translations must be precise for the polyglot country, and the message must be persuasive for people who are more afraid of leaving home than of inundation. "Science is a little scary to the common people," says Jo Briones of NOAH's communications staff. For Briones and her colleagues, nature is the bigger fear.
Kuala Lumpur's Underground Solution
Jakarta is building a wall and Manila is running. Kuala Lumpur's novel approach to rising waters: Send them underground. Opened in 2007 in response to crippling floods, the Stormwater Management and Road Tunnel (SMART) was the first of its kind in the world. The six-mile-long tube contains a lower level designed to handle water and two upper levels for vehicle traffic, which has helped relieve congestion. When a major storm hits, the roads are shut down, and the entire structure becomes a drainage conduit to prevent the national capital from becoming a lake.
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The Malaysian government projects the $500 million tunnel will prevent $1.5 billion in flood damage and $1.2 billion worth of lost productivity due to snarled traffic over the next 30 years — and the tunnel is built to last a century. It's been deployed dozens of times to prevent flooding, but the structure is no silver bullet, leading to public criticism when it does flood. After flash floods crippled Kuala Lumpur in May 2016, the natural resources and environment minister blamed the city's inefficient drainage system and was forced to defend the tunnel. "It is not that the SMART tunnel isn't working," Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar told reporters. "It didn't rain near the SMART tunnel."
Singapore's App Approach
Chan Cheow Hoe was eating breakfast in his Singapore home one Saturday morning when his myResponder app went off: A 68-year-old man had collapsed three blocks away. Fortunately, an ambulance pulled up shortly after Chan arrived, and the ER crew was able to revive the victim. But the incident was an eye-opener for the government chief information officer and deputy chief executive of Singapore's Government Technology Agency. "This is more than just an app," | 953 |
Backstage With JC Stewart
Just before his last show as a supporting act for The Vamps<|fim_middle|> JC Stewart On Instagram
Words: Karolina Kramplova
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Next Cagedbaby and Dorothys Fortress Release Collaborative Single 'Attention' | , JC Stewart opens up about the difficulties of isolation, his VMA nomination, and his new single, 'Don't Say You Love Me.' "I'm playing at the O2 Academy in Sheffield tonight as part of The Vamps tour. It's been so unreal to be back playing live", says the Northern Irish singer/songwriter.
JC Stewart navigates through the irreversible effects of broken heart, love, and friendship as 'a professional sad boy'. Instead of chaotic traverse through the confusing emotion of commitment, Stewart perceives a sense of tranquility within letting it all out. The newest single, 'Don't Say You Love Me,' sees right through all the 'I love you's', when it's time to part ways.
When 2020 took the ability to perform away from him, Stewart experienced huge ups and downs, but now he admits there was a silver lining at the end. To fill the void, he showcased a new side of him and made a quarantine-themed version of the 'Friends' theme song that even caught the attention of Jennifer Aniston.
JC Stewart lets us inside his green room and touches upon his upcoming new second EP while explaining the backstory of songs like 'Loud' and his collaboration with Niall Horan on 'Break My Heart.'
When live shows were back up and running what were you looking forward to the most?
Being able to play with my band again. There is no feeling quite like getting to play to tonnes of people with your mates and just jumping about like an idiot on a stage. I never want to stop again now.
Is there any artist you have on your concert wish list?
Elton John! What a showman!
You're currently on tour with The Vamps, how is it going so far?
It's been phenomenal. I became mates with Brad over lockdown and we worked together in the studio a couple of times so when he invited me to come play with them it was a no-brainer. Their fans are absolutely insane! I don't want it to end!
Could we expect a potential collaboration with The Vamps?
Never say never!
How does it feel to be back performing?
Better than I ever thought it could feel. I really struggled over lockdown with not playing live as I've spent my whole life playing shows in pubs, tiny venues etc and it really makes me feel alive. I just want to do as many shows as possible now.
Do you have any rituals on the road?
I have the best hype song before stage. It's called 'The Heart is a Muscle' by Gang of Youths and I stick it on just before stage to get me fired up.
How was your lockdown experience? What got you through it?
It wasn't easy but definitely could have been a lot worse. I had huge ups and huge downs and really had to figure out who I was again when I stripped back all the shows and the travelling. I was able to spend months with my family and girlfriend though and I've never been more grateful for anything ever. Those first few months were definitely the best of my life weirdly.
What have you been up to since things started opening up again?
It's went from 0-100 so quickly! It's been so hectic getting music finished and touring and doing promo again. I love it though!
What was your reaction to your VMA nomination, do you remember how you found out?
I still can't believe that was actually real. Not being able to go was kinda heartbreaking but holy moly I never thought in a million years I would ever get nominated. I was just in the studio working when I started getting loads of tweets and I was very very confused. What a mad thing haha.
How was it working with Niall Horan on 'Break My Heart' that was followed by MTV naming you their first PUSH global artist of the year?
It was mad! We did the whole thing over email but obviously he is someone who I've looked up too for so long so it was a bit of a crazy thing.
What is the backstory of 'Loud'?
Loud is the most personal song I've ever written. I had to take some time off this week to give my mind a rest. I was finding everything a bit much and my mental health was taking a bit of a battering. I went to Kent with my girlfriend and took some time out to reflect and gather myself. After that trip, I was sitting at a piano at my publishers house in North London and the song just fell out of me. It was everything I had been trying to say to my girlfriend as I know she was finding it hard as well. About how, in the midst of all the noise and the chaos, she was the only thing that really mattered.
What can we expect from your new single 'Don't Say You Love Me'?
It's big, it's bold, its fun. I may be heavily biased but I am obsessed with this song.
It's about knowing you need to leave someone but getting fooled every time they say I love you even though you know they don't.
What can you tell us about your forthcoming second EP?
It's something I've been working away at over lockdown. I knew I wanted to bring out another body of work this year and I finally think I have the right combination of songs. I had so many songs that I wanted to include so cutting it down was tough but I'm so proud of this EP. I worked with some of my dream people on this and I can't wait for the world to hear it!
What themes will you touch upon?
There's heartbreak, self growth, self-realisation and finally some love. It really documents the journey of where my head was at the past few years and where I've arrived to.
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Inaugural Singapore Media Festival to Bring Together Global Industry Players in a Celebration of Asian TV and Film Industry
"More than 15,000 expected to celebrate Asia's best content and talent at the Singapore Media Festival"
SINGAPORE, Nov. 27, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — The Singapore Media Festival (SMF) brings together four complementary film and TV events comprising markets, conferences, awards and festival screenings. Ahead of the inaugural event, the Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA), event partners and chairman of the SMF Advisory Board, shared their vision and goals for the festival taking place from 4 to 14 December 2014.
SMF shines spotlight on Southeast Asia's growing media industry
The combined strengths of the four marquee events under the umbrella of SMF is set to attract the best and brightest film and TV talent from Southeast Asia and beyond to forge partnerships, exchange ideas, trade content and celebrate creativity and talent. More than 5,000 industry professionals including filmmakers, producers and celebrities from over 60 countries are expected to attend the Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF), ScreenSingapore and the Asia TV Awards, while an audience of more than 10,000 are expected to participate in the Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF).
"The Southeast Asian media industry has experienced rapid growth and development over the past few years[1], becoming a source and strong contender of creative and innovative content. Many media industry professionals now recognise the huge potential of Southeast Asia[2], and are looking to tap into this burgeoning market," said Mr Robert Gilby, chairman of the SMF advisory board and Managing Director of The Walt Disney Company (SEA).
"SMF aims to ride on this potential to strengthen Singapore's position as the gateway to the region, and fill the need for a regional media event that will bring together Singapore and Southeast Asian content and talent to be enjoyed by viewers from all over the world," he added.
As a prominent platform to showcase Southeast Asian films, SGIFF has launched the careers of many reputable Southeast Asian filmmakers such as Singapore's Eric Khoo, Kelvin Tong and Indonesia's Riri Riza. ATF and ScreenSingapore also have a strong draw in the region, with 52% of buyers coming from Southeast Asia, while The Asian Television Awards receives more than 1,300 submissions from Asia, of which Southeast Asian entries make up 64%.
SMF to facilitate international interest in Asia as a valued partner in content creation
Singapore is home to over 6,000 media businesses, including international film production and service companies such as Double Negative Visual Effects and Lucasfilm which have set up studios locally. Leading media brands such as HBO Asia have also worked with Singapore partners to co-produce TV series Serangoon Road and Grace, while Hollywood blockbusters, Agent 47 and Equals, were shot and produced in part in Singapore this year, in collaboration with companies and talent based here.
"International players are increasingly looking to Asia for innovative stories and original content, and SMF aims to create more opportunities for international and Asian media players to meet and explore opportunities for collaboration. Singapore is a focal point for business and talent in Southeast Asia. This makes it a great home for both international and home-grown media companies. SMF leverages on the city's connectivity and thriving media sector to serve as a platform for media professionals from Asia and beyond to meet and build meaningful partnerships," said Ms Angeline Poh, Assistant Chief Executive (Industry) of the Media Development Authority.
SMF to harness cross-over synergies between TV and Film
The growing synergies between TV and Film, as evident by the frequent cross-over of talent and content between the silver screen and small screen, serves as another compelling reason for the need of an event like SMF.
Last year, when ATF and ScreenSingapore were co-located for the second year running, it out-performed the previous two editions of ScreenSingapore with more than 4,300 film and TV trade participants from 60 countries, and achieved business deals worth US$220.3<|fim_middle|> and Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), which will take place from 4-14 December 2014. The Singapore Media Festival is hosted by the Media Development Authority of Singapore, and organised by Reed Exhibitions, Contineo Media and SGIFF Ltd.
Quotes from SMF partners
Michelle Lim, Managing Director of Reed Exhibitions Singapore said, "We are excited to be part of the inaugural Singapore Media Festival and envision that it will strengthen the events' abilities to further attract market leaders and prominent brands from around the world to Singapore. The co-location of TV and film events also presents more opportunities for collaboration and growth to meet the changing demands and habits of consumers, fuelled by the rapid development of technology. The line between film and TV will continue to become more porous as the emphasis shifts to quality content that can be packaged for the big screen, small screen and even smaller screens, that is, computers and mobile devices. Having a combined film and television event leverages this exciting trend, and feedback from the industry has been tremendously positive. As a testament to our combined film and TV markets platform, last year's ATF and ScreenSingapore saw over 4,000 attendees from 52 countries, and we anticipate an even stronger turn out this year."
Mike Wiluan, Chairman of Singapore International Film Festival said, "The Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF) celebrates its 25th anniversary this year and our focus has always been on discovering and promoting films and filmmaking talent from Southeast Asia. There are a lot of synergies for a film festival like ours to be part of a broader film and TV event — talents get discovered, exchanges and discussions take place and at a more macro level, the industry gets to experience growth through cross-market regional collaboration."
Raymond Wong, CEO of Contineo Media Pte Ltd and Chairman of the Asian Television Awards (ATA), is pleased that the ATA will be part of the Singapore Media Festival, "Every December, Singapore becomes a hotbed for the distribution of content and the exchange of ideas; and with both ScreenSingapore and SGIFF exhibiting quality films; it leaves ATA the distinct honour of celebrating the best of television in Asia. The ATA is a celebrated industry event that recognises excellence in programming, production and performance, and received close to 1400 entries from across 14 countries this year. The Awards ceremony this December will be broadcasted to more than 30 million homes across Asia Pacific through FOX Star World, MediaCorp Channel 5 and Bangkok Broadcasting Channel 7."
Ms. Neeta Lachmandas, Assistant Chief Executive, Business Development Group, Singapore Tourism Board said, "The Singapore Media Festival is set to become a leading business platform for the international film and television industry. With a programme that promotes greater business opportunities and mindshare, and an integration of business and consumer-facing events, attendees will find the festival a comprehensive and compelling experience. We are confident that the first run of the Singapore Media Festival will be a hit and that it will help establish Singapore as a premier media hub in the region."
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With the media industry operating in an increasingly converged environment, SMF provides a seamless platform that allows more opportunities for cross-over collaborations by bringing together players from the film and TV industries.
More information on SMF can be found at: http://www.sgmediafestival.com/
For more information on SMF's constituent events, please refer to the links below:
Singapore International Film Festival, 4 – 14 December 2014 (http://sgiff.com/)
Asia TV Forum & Market, 9 – 12 December 2014 (http://www.asiatvforum.com/)
ScreenSingapore, 9 – 12 December 2014 (http://www.screensingapore.com.sg/)
Asian Television Awards, 11 December 2014 (http://ata.onscreenasia.com/)
For more quotes from the partners of SMF, please refer to Annex A.
[1] PWC's Global Entertainment and Media Outlook Report for 2013 to 2017 – According to industry forecasts, SEA countries like Thailand and India will become the fastest-growing film entertainment market in the world, following on the back of China
[2] PwC Global entertainment and media outlook 2014 to 2018 – The total spend on Entertainment and Media in the Asia-Pacific* is expected to grow from approximately USD 447 billion in 2013 to over 632 billion in 2018 at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.8%, according to statistics from PwC (*Asia-Pacific includes Australia, mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam).
About Media Development Authority of Singapore (MDA)
The Media Development Authority of Singapore (www.mda.gov.sg) promotes the growth of globally competitive film, television, radio, publishing, games, animation and interactive digital media industries. It also regulates the media sector to safeguard the interests of consumers, and promotes a connected society. MDA is a statutory board under the Ministry of Communications and Information (www.mci.gov.sg).
About the Singapore Media Festival
The Singapore Media Festival is set to become one of Asia's leading international media events, where the industry meets to discover the latest trends, talent and content in Asia for Film and TV. It brings together four complementary events- Asia TV Forum & Market (ATF) and ScreenSingapore (SS), Asian Television Awards (ATA) | 591 |
When Louise took a career break, she wanted to improve her snowboarding but hadn't planned on much else. Her Nonstop course changed everything, and<|fim_middle|>board vacations into a career? Get in touch with Nonstop and become a snowboard instructor or ski instructor this winter. | she made a new life in the mountains.
Since then, she's experienced three different mountain jobs, including snowboard instructing at Squaw Valley, gained new qualifications and ridden at some of North America's most famous resorts. Here's how she did it.
My life-changing experience began when I decided to do Nonstop's 11 week instructor course in Banff. I needed a fresh challenge as I'd become bored of my regular job as a fitness instructor. I was looking for a career break and knew a winter season would fit the fill the bill.
After a great deal of investigation it was obvious that training as an instructor would provide adventure and challenge I craved, and a solid structure to progress. I decided on Nonstop because their program offered the most in terms of coaching and optional activities. The Banff course appealed to me as Nonstop was the only company that could train you at the three different mountains in the area – Lake Louise, Sunshine Village and Mount Norquay.
When I headed out to Canada I didn't really have any intention of becoming an instructor, I just wanted to spend a season in the snow with some like-minded people. I was a novice at the time, having only spent a few days in the snow, so my focus was on improving my riding.
Little did I know how much my life would change.
During my time with Nonstop I gained my CASI level 1 qualification during the first half of the course and spent the rest of the season on All Mountain Pro program. As I had no designs on becoming an instructor, the AMP pathway was perfect. I could focus on improving my technique across the mountain, with clear goals at every stage, without the added pressure of exams.
I could focus on improving my technique across the mountain, with clear goals at every stage, without the added pressure of exams.
On the AMP course, our coaches pushed us every day and really challenged our riding abilities – they completely changed the way I looked at a mountain. Each instructor had their own area of expertise so could cater for everyone's interests, from park to freeriding, performance and racing.
The following winter, along with my Canadian working visa and some friends I'd made during my Nonstop course, I headed back out to Canada. This time I went to Silverstar Mountain Resort, BC.
I worked and lived in a hostel, which gave me free accommodation and enough time off to ride every day. The resort was smaller than Banff but I enjoyed living on the hill and literally being able to roll out of bed and onto the mountain.
That season was great, and we explored as many resorts as we could during our free time. Big White, Revelstoke and Whistler were all swiped from the bucket-list.
Come spring and I wanted to finish what I started with Nonstop, and go for my CASI level 2. So I headed back to Banff to challenge the level 2 exam. And along with many of the Nonstoppers from that year, I passed.
Feeling very much at home in Banff I decided to stay in Canada for the rest of the year and found myself a job in a snow and skate shop. After an amazing summer spent hiking and mountain biking the Rockies, I was ready for winter once again. I got a sponsorship offer from the shop and worked there for the winter season.
During that season, I gained my Salomon ski technician certification and started working in the shop's rentals department. Through product knowledge sessions provided by the brands we sold, I learned a lot about the technology involved in both skis and snowboards.
The shop was owned by Panorama Mountain Resort, so I also had the bonus of having a season pass there. We'd road trip everywhere we could and explored more famous resorts, including Kicking Horse, Castle Mountain and Nonstop's home, Fernie.
It was a truly epic powder season and, living with a 15-year Banff resident and spending the occasional day with the Nonstop crew, I hit some of the resort's best secret stashes around.
After three winters in Canada, I decided to try somewhere completely new and put my instructing skills to use. I got offered an instructing job at Squaw Valley in California, USA – the local hill of snowboard legend Jeremy Jones and the home of gnar. Finally, I would be getting paid to snowboard.
Once the mountains get in your blood it's hard to go back – your vacation has become my life.
Having been a fitness instructor and personal trainer for seven years, teaching came naturally to me and I found it easy to be passionate about something I loved. Teaching children as young as five can be challenging at times, but is equally rewarding. My level 2 certification allowed me to teach higher abilities too and I often cruised the mountain as if I was freeriding with friends.
From snowboarding my way through North America, to becoming a qualified ski technician and snowboard instructor, my career break turned out to be life-changing. I don't know where I'll end up next but I do know for sure it'll be in the mountains somewhere. Once the mountains get in your blood it's hard to go back – your vacation has become my life.
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On Oct. 7, the Stadler Center for Poetry presented world-renowned poet Kendel Hippolyte as the 2014-15 Sojka Visiting Poet.
Before beginning to read poems from his book "Night Vision," Hippolyte asked the scattered audience to move up into the rows closest to him to better unify himself with the audience. Two prints of his book were raffled off at the end of the evening, and the lucky winners were able to get their new copies signed by the author.
Hippolyte said that he finds inspiration for his poetry in his views about how the world should be. All types of sights and sounds can become the stimuli for a poem "just like that," Hippolyte said, while snapping his fingers for emphasis.
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Though he refused to pick a favorite of his original poems, Hippolyte admitted that certain ones have resonated more deeply with him than others.
"Sometimes you learn a lot from finishing a particular poem and taking it through to where it wants to go. It teaches you a lot about poetry," Hippolyte said.
Hippolyte cited a piece in "Night Vision" that he wrote for his son titled "Mamoyi" as a poem that holds a special place in his heart.
"It goes to places within me that no other poem goes," Hippolyte said.
In realizing that writer's block is just a part of the writing process, Hippolyte decided not to stress about its occurrence. Whenever his ideas temporarily stop flowing, he consumes his time with his other fields of expertise, including playwriting and directing.
"It's a part of how [writing] is. I don't worry about it," Hippolyte said. "The most difficult aspect of writing a poem is staying close and true to that knot of feeling that you have. Memory can play tricks on you. You need to re-experience, as closely as you can, what gave rise to that memory in the first place."
In some of the poems that Hippolyte recited, like "Snow" and "Idioetry," he showed off his musical skills, singing or even scatting phrases and popping his lips to the rhythm of the poem. Often before he began reading a poem he told the audience a humorous or moving story of how that poem developed in his mind.
Hippolyte encourages everyone to jot their thoughts down on paper, regardless of whether or not they want to be become a published writer.
"It keeps you in touch with your inner life–what you truly feel, what you truly think. It gives you a chance to be honest with yourself."
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Only a few years ago, leading autism expert David Amaral described the disorder as a lifelong disability. Today, he acknowledges that description is no longer true. "Research lately shows that a substantial proportion of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)—something on the order of 30 percent—show really substantial improvements in their autism symptoms," says Amaral, founding research director of the MIND Institute, an autism center at the University of California, Davis. He adds that about five percent of the children he and his colleagues study at the MIND Institute actually lose their diagnosis over time.
Trained clinicians can diagnose autism by the time a child is 2 years old, and proven-beneficial therapies can then start right away. Unfortunately, the average age of autism diagnosis in the United States is 4.3 years. The late diagnosis is due in large part to a lack of trained personnel to conduct the qualitative assessment and properly evaluate children, including those who have milder forms of ASD. "That's a problem because we know that the sooner you start therapy, the better the child will do. If we don't get a diagnosis until after 4 years of age, and then parents find that it can take another 6 months to a year to get a behavior therapist lined up, that means that you've lost a valuable 2- to 3-year window of opportunity for treating the child," he remarks. The key to good results is catching ASD early, Amaral asserts.
David Amaral, Ph.D., founding research director of the MIND Institute, an autism center at the University of California, Davis. Photo courtesy of David Amaral.
Part of the solution may be a new and quantitative strategy to diagnose autism. Amaral is working with a company to develop an assay for biomarkers associated with certain subtypes of ASD. Stemina Biomarker Discovery of Madison, Wisconsin, and its diagnostic division NeuropointDX, recently released results showing that it had identified an alteration in amino acid metabolism in nearly one in five children with autism, and had developed a tool to detect it.
Stemina originally approached Amaral in 2011 with the idea of collaborating on a metabolomics study to identify the different subtypes of ASD. Amaral thought it<|fim_middle|> component of what will ultimately be a whole series of biomarkers." Such biomarkers will be useful for providing diagnostic confirmation of autism spectrum disorder, and also for detecting subtypes in siblings who are at heightened risk for the disorder. Photo courtesy of David Amaral.
This test is part of a much more far-reaching strategy, Amaral notes. "We see this as one component of what will ultimately be a whole series of biomarkers that could be evaluated all at the same time to see whether a child has one of these metabotypes." The test would not only provide diagnostic confirmation, but would also detect metabotypes in siblings, who have a heightened risk for ASD.
West , Paul R., Amaral, David G., Bais, Preeti, Smith, Alan M., Egnash, Laura A., Ross, Mark E., Palmer, Jessica A., Fontaine, Burr R., Conard, Kevin R., Corbett, Blythe A., Cezar, Gabriela G., Donley, Elizabeth L. R., and Burrier, Robert E. "Metabolomics as a tool for discovery of biomarkers of autism spectrum disorder in the blood plasma of children," PLOS One, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. e112445–e112445, November 2014.
Smith, Alan M., King, Joseph J., West, Paul R., Ludwig, Michael A., Donley, Elizabeth L.R., Burrier, Robert E., and Amaral, David G. "Amino acid dysregulation metabotypes: Potential biomarkers for diagnosis and individualized treatment for subtypes of autism spectrum disorder," Biological Psychology, published online September 6, 2018. | was a great idea. "We had realized at the institute that trying to understand autism without understanding the subtypes would be like trying to understand cancer without specifically going after lung cancer, breast cancer, or other cancers, because there might be different causes and treatments," he says. In fact, the MIND Institute had already begun work to define the subtypes through its Autism Phenome Project and had dabbled in a metabolomics strategy in the early 2000s.
Robert Burrier, Ph.D., chief operations officer and vice president of research and development at Stemina Biomarker Discovery, the company and its diagnostic division NeuropointDX recently released a new diagnostic test for autism. Called NPDX AA, the test arose from the analysis of hundreds of blood samples collected through the Children with Autism Metabolome Project (CAMP), and the discovery of metabolism alterations associated with certain subtypes of autism. Photo by DelRay Sudgen.
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Last week I tried a recipe of Avocado Banana Chocolate Pudding that gave me the idea for the current recipe. Avocado is supremely creamy and satisfying and hence when blended it lends a soft, creamy texture thus giving you a perfect base for a dessert. So this avocado chocolate mousse is super light and healthy. It is done in 5 minutes and is perfect for a guilt-free dessert.
Avocado chocolate mousse is an easy and tasty light dessert that is ready in 5 minutes. And you won't be able to tell that it has avocado in it.
2 avocados about 500 gm.
Pit the avocado and take its flesh out.
Blend together avocado flesh with cocoa and condensed milk till smooth, creamy and airy. Takes about 1 minutes.
Top with sprinklers or chocolate shavings or choco chips and serve chilled.
You can increase the quantity of cocoa powder if you want the taste to be more chocolaty.
The same works for condensed milk as well<|fim_middle|> will like it, Arti.
I had never heard of avocado mousse, but this sounds interesting. Bookmarked!
This was so easy and so delicious, not to mention so much fun. 🙂 Do try it.
I was never a fan of avocado. In Bangalore, during the time I was working on losing weight, my dietitian prescribed avocado for it is a good source of Omega 3 fat. I did not like its taste at all and I had issues with procuring good quality avocados near my place. I could only get very hard ones and then cutting/peeling them was tough. Now, here I get good soft avocados and I have also taken to the taste. About the recipe, I have to ask what does 'Pitting the avocado' mean?
Avocado mousse!! That's a new one for me… Looks super interesting. Would love to try it out.
Wow! This needs to be tried. 🙂 Will do it, Rachna! | .
This can be consumed right away to kept in fridge and then eaten.
Its smooth creamy consistency is delightful and you will get no taste of avocado at all.
Do try this recipe if you like desserts and avocados. I assure you it will become a keeper.
Here are some more avocado recipes if you are interested to try.
Ooh interesting. I made a chocolate mousse some years ago with avocado, banana, cacao and maple syrup as the sweetener. Similar method and oh so easy, isn't it?
Looks very yummy! Avacoda is my hubby's favorite. So I must give it a try!
I hope you like it, Vasantha.
This is so healthy and nutritious, and looks so yummmy – must try!
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1. Pay attention when he tells you about his day, his interaction with classmates, terms he overhead, rumors he was told. Learning about your child's friends and what activities they are involved in can help you guide him in making good friend-related choices. For example, kids in late elementary and middle school tend to want to be "cool" and might think the boy/girl who smokes is a great friend choice because of the "cool" factor.
2. Be a Good Example: Set a good precedent by saying "thank you" and "please," greeting your friends in a friendly way in front of your children, paying attention to a friend and not allowing your child to interrupt. Talking behind a friend's back in a negative way in front of your children teaches them it's okay for them to talk this way with their friends. I have heard Moms and Dads talk negatively about others in front of my friend and me. Even though we might know it's not right, it still sends a message that if Mom and Dad can do it then so can I. Kids are sponges and pick up on each clue you put down for them, both the deliberate and the unintentional ones… I believe leading by a positive<|fim_middle|> only to find the next day they are best friends forever! Parents must guide their children and teach, but to also let their children choose their friends and learn from consequences when things don't go as planned. | precedent is very important.
3. Birds of a Feather: One of the things my Mom taught me was the old saying, "Birds of a feather flock together." This is so true, and kids today need to really be taught to seek friends who have their morals, values, and interests. Being popular isn't the most important thing, even though many kids feel this is what defines them. Teaching children to be loyal, kind, and good listeners is critical. How much money you have, how your house is, and what type of car you drive are not what makes a true friend.
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A touch-typist can make precise keystrokes even with his/her eyes shut. In touch-typing it's not the eyes but the mind that drives the fingers to the right keys. A touch-typist has a picture of the keyboard layout permanently stored in his/her memory. The mind uses this picture as a map to guide the fingers to the right keys on a keyboard. That means memorizing the keyboard layout is the first step for anyone learning to touch type.<|fim_middle|> faster. | Part -1 of this touch typing program prepares you for this crucial first step. Here you watch several video presentations focused on keyboard layout and its geometry. The videos deliver this information in just the right sequence so that you can actually feel the layout of the keyboard being drawn inside your mind as you watch them. After completing Part-1, you will have the keyboard map placed inside your mind. With the picture of the keyboard now permanently implanted into the brain, you can now move to the next step: the Practice Drills. Part-2 of this course is comprised of intelligently planned practice drills so that the mind could be trained to use the memory image of the keyboard as a map to guide the fingers over the keyboard. Once the mind becomes proficient at this important task, you will never ever feel the need to look at the keyboard. With the mind alone intelligently controlling the movement of your fingers on the keyboard, each keystroke will be executed quickly and accurately. This in essence is how touch typing works, enabling you to type | 207 |
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How a Public/Private Partnership Skirted the Law and Destroyed a National Treasure and What We Must Do to Restore The Rule of Law and the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd
Do You Realize Now What You Have Done?
By Guest Column Rena Wetherelt
I was there as a witness in the famous Montana Hunting District (HD) 313 standing above Deckard Flats, the first weekend of hunting season 2015, imagining the largest migrating elk herd in North America funneling en masse from their summer home in Yellowstone National Park, north to the alpine meadows of southern Montana, the winter range of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd.
I saw the vacant animal trails furrowing down the ridge from the horizon worn from the elk streaming single file in jagged rows, shrouded in a cloud of steam and spreading out across Deckard Flats like ants from a hill. My friend, Robert T. Fanning, Founder of Friends of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, described how it was twenty years ago. Horsemen decked with orange<|fim_middle|> the Northern Rockies. Jamie Rappaport Clark, then Director of the USFWS, went on to become President of Defenders of Wildlife, telling Congress that her boss Bruce Babbitt told her she could spend the money any way she wanted. Jim Beers tells the story in Scott Rockholm's expose` Yellowstone is Dead. Although this was a clear violation of law, the new HW Bush Administration did not want that fight and no one was ever held accountable.
In an article titled Bennett V Spear The Endangered Species Act Fall From Grace Harvard Law Review author J. B. Ruhl cites the majority opinion in a ruling that reveals the Supreme Court's recognition of the subversion of the Endangered Species Act. "But the Court found that the ranchers did in fact have a protected interest under the ESA through the requirement in section 7 that the agency base its decisions on the 'best scientific . . . data available.' That requirement, the unanimous Court explained, is intended 'to ensure that the ESA not be implemented haphazardly, on the basis of speculation' and 'to avoid needless economic dislocation produced by agency officials zealously but unintelligently pursuing their environmental objectives.'" Not only are zealots in Executive Branch Federal Agencies abusing the ESA, through partnerships with private organizations, they are supporting United Nations goals and agendas. Congress has given up oversight of the bloated Executive Branch and ignores the influence by UN connected lobbyists. The Rule of Law will never be restored with the laws themselves corrupted. The Endangered Species Act has created a cottage industry and source of revenue for zealots whose goal at the top is to get control of the land, water, mineral and energy resources of the west.
Restoring the Rule of Law
Should a wave of reason sweep the land, the Endangered Species Act would be repealed and collective efforts to remove invasive weeds and animal species, manage predator populations, and treat or mitigate the spread of diseases, in other words create a healthy environment, could be done locally by each state. The long abused public/private partnerships should be outlawed. It is a tried and true technique used by the elitists around the globe to control land and people. A movement has started in the west to require the Federal Government to transfer the lands they have "held in trust" in the western states since statehood. Since the government is utterly corrupt and has proven its inability to separate science from geopolitics, it should not be given power over our lives. A wave of reason would include holding our public employees accountable for breaking the law.
Transfer federal lands to the states, extinguish all the federal environmental bureaucracy, and leave land and wildlife management to the people who know and love that land and wildlife. We would then have a fighting chance to interrupt the entrenched influence in the federal government. It will never be done, however in time to save the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd. That requires immediate action.
Restoring the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd
MTFWP is now taking public comment on changes to hunting regulations in HD 313. Their suggestions include shortening the season, or limiting bull elk permits to 75, and closing part of the unit. Deckard Flats is still a killing field for the now greater percentage of animals migrating out of Yellowstone National Park and yet, MTFWP's quota for wolves in the unit is three. Reason and best available science requires man to step in and remove the large predators from the region. Long-range and night shooter teams could be camouflaged along the trail to take out wolves that are preying on the migrating elk. Collared wolves can be located and the entire pack taken out using aerial gunning. After the wolves are cleared out and once again safe for hunting dogs, send in the lion hunters. Bears, including the now over populated grizzly should be taken out of the unit as they emerge this spring. None of these large predator species are endangered, just protected by zealots at the expense of the local people, our way of life, and the animals we love. The Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd is endangered due to over predation by large carnivores. Remove the large carnivores and the herd will immediately begin to recover. Wolves taken in Montana should be tested for the thirty or so diseases of which they are vectors. If the wolves are infected with EG, mange, parvo, distemper, Moose Tania, etc., this experiment should be officially deemed a failure, and all of the wolves removed from the west.
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How about opening up a year round hunting season on wolves allowing ANY gun, no limits, any methods except poisoning. This is what happens when "Democrats" & "Republicans" (read progressive Marxists & moderate progressive Marxists) get involved with HUGE, MASSIVE, CORRUPT, and HOPELESSLY OVERBLOATED Government.
There is and was a VERY good reason why wolves, grizzly bears, cougars, and panthers as well as a few others are now very rare or close to extinction. Humans and their livestock DO NOT like being on the menu!!!
In the mean time I suggest that you be VERY tactical, cunning, and low key as possible using your favorite extreme long range rifle and follow the rule of the 3 S's after pulling the trigger.
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Thankfully our governor of idaho said he would refuse to prosecute anybody for killing wolves in the state of idaho for any reason.
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But, but... National Geographic said it would all be good, and that Wolves are the only way to restore balance.
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By: Remington92 · 11/04/2019 | riding in as the minute of pre-dawn came and the first shots of the season brought down the first bull elk of a hunting culture passed down since the earliest days of the western frontier. We were alone, except for a Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MTFWP) Warden, there as a matter of bureaucratic habit to make sure no shots were fired before thirty minutes before sunrise-his presence unnecessary. There were no elk to harvest, no swarms of hunters to fire.
When MTFWP announced the closure of Deckard Flats to hunting a few days later, it was the most drastic bureaucratic admission yet of the failure of the experimental introduction a non-native species of wolf into the Northern Rocky Mountain ecosystem done by a public/private partnership twenty years ago. The recent question asked by Russian President Vladimir Putin crossed my mind. "Do you realize now what you have done?"
The Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd numbered over 19,000 in 1995. 2990 Antlerless Permits were issued in HD 313 that year. The District was a General Tag area, home to moose, around 300 big horn sheep, abundant mule deer and antelope. People came from around the state to fill their freezer with wholesome, nutritious wild meat, crowding the roads and parking lots with horse trailers. Trophy hunters and adventurers from around the world converged on Gardiner and Jardine, Montana. Outfitters with pack mules and horses took paying visitors into the most beautiful backcountry, teeming with the wildlife nurtured there for more than a hundred years. The Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd was used to seed elk in areas all across the nation. On the southern border of the Yellowstone National Park, where resident elk remained in the rugged Tetons near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, winter feeding stations were set up. Volunteers and state wildlife managers fed hay to the elk during the deep snows of winter.
The basic tenants of the North American Model of Wildlife Management were followed from the earliest days outside the Park… The wildlife belongs to the people, is managed by the best available science, and management is funded by the sale of hunter, angler, and trapper licenses. To augment state game and fish departments, the federal government established a Pittman-Robertson Fund using taxes from the sale of firearms, ammunition and other sporting equipment, and by law distributed the proceeds to the states. This model was responsible for the abundant wildlife, including wolves, living here in a healthy forest paradise in 1995. Man, in a reasoned fashioned, guided by laws and regulations was the apex predator when wildlife left the protection of the Park. The Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd provided a wholesome source of wild food and a robust economy for the generations living that culture. Then, everything changed.
The latest computer modeling calculates the current Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd at approximately 4000. Anguished locals over the last twenty years have been forced to stand by and watch their beloved wildlife be chased down, hamstrung, sport killed, starved down, drowned in rivers and lakes and eaten alive by voracious packs of Canadian wolves. In the 2015 elk survey, so few bulls were counted in what is left of the Northern Yellowstone Elk Herd, the herd is in danger of collapsing into what biologists call a predator pit; the condition of not being able to raise enough calves to sustain the herds' survival. When heavy snow about a week later was expected to trigger the migration MTFWP declared Deckard Flats off limits to hunting for the first time ever. They did not, however, increase the harvest quota of three wolves. Science is not guiding wildlife management anymore.
In 1993, twenty years after gray wolves were placed in the Endangered Species List, the US Congress appropriated funds for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to do an Environmental Impact Study regarding wolves in Yellowstone National Park. The resulting study considered five different scenarios, from allowing nature to take its' course, to introducing a non-native species of wolf.
A panel of wildlife experts was polled, concluding that the prey base could sustain a population of 78-100 wolves grown slowly over twenty years. In one of the actions covered under the description of the Clinton Administration's War on the West, Secretary of the Interior, Bruce Babbitt ordered the USFWS to chose option number five; introduce a non-native, experimental species of wolf. USFWS opened a public comment period. Cattle and sheep producers, outfitters and sportsmen objected vehemently. Western state Congressmen saw to it that funds to implement wolf introductions were not appropriated. Flurries of lawsuits were filed. Despite the opposition and Congressional denial of funds, in 1995, USFWS with assistance from private organizations flew to northern British Columbia, Canada and returned with canus lupus occidentalus, North America's largest wolves.
Earthjustice and a Wyoming couple, Jim and Cat Urbigit, whose hobby it was to study the native wolf, each filed lawsuits on behalf of canus lupus irremmotus, the native timber wolf. Cat Urbigit's 2008 book "Yellowstone Wolves" chronicles their personal attempt to save the smaller, more coyote-like, more solitary subspecies. She notes in her book, canus lupus irremmotus, first defined by A.E. Goldman in 1944 was a medium to large wolf.
Section 10(j) of the Endangered Species Act, entitled EXPERIMENTAL POPULATIONS, allows the Secretary of the Interior to release an experimental population, "but only when, and at such times as, the population is wholly separate geographically from nonexperimental populations of the same species." In order to carry out this option the USFWS had to ignore the administrative record of hundreds of wolf sightings over the years. US District Judge William Downes granted an injunction pending litigation ordering the USFWS to cease the operation, but stayed the order on the grounds that the released wolves be collared and tracked.
In January of 1996, with a further trimmed budget and despite a Newt Gingrich led debt ceiling battle resulting in a "government shutdown", again this public-private coalition imported and released more Canadian wolves on the unsuspecting native wildlife bringing them in by helicopter to the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area of Central Idaho near the magnificent Lolo Herd, and releasing more near the Montana border of the Park just below Deckard Flats.
Robert Nowack former USFWS Office of Endangered Species employee wrote the forward in "Yellowstone Wolves". He writes, "Cat provides the best available compilation of reports showing that wolves occurred in the Yellowstone region from the 1920's, when they supposedly had been extirpated, until the 1990's when the introduction of Canadian wolves occurred." Her position as he put it, "The grand plan to move wolves from Canada - from another subspecies - to Yellowstone in the 1990s was not a true reintroduction but an introduction of a non-native and aggressive life form that would genetically swamp the surviving native wolves." Five years later Downes ruled for the Urbigits and Earthjustice, ordering the removal of the experimental population. The decision however was appealed to a higher court and overturned. The mantra from the coalition of wolf stakeholders was, "Wolves are here to stay. We just have to learn to live with them." The lovely and illusive irremmotus was the first casualty of an enormous wolf with-as it turns out-Eurasian genetics and diseases.
Living With Wolves
Living with wolves means living with death. A Jackson Hole area man wrote of going to a winter elk feeding station by snowmobile and finding "20 to 30 dead or dying elk, some with their mouths and noses shredded, some with partially eaten hind-quarters unable to get up." The man said he threw up, went home and has been unable to sleep since. Montana biologist, Kurt Alt, testified before the Montana State Legislature in 2003 that moose in the affected area were in a predator pit. At an outfitters rally in the town square of Jackson Hole in 2010, grown men, their voices choked with tears, related the conditions on the ground, a virtual killing fields for the Eurasian gray wolf. One local outfitter related how the big horn sheep had to cross Deckard Flats along the same path as the migrating elk. As they come across, he said, "...wolves are just wiping them out". Central Idaho's Lolo Herd, treasure of the rugged, inaccessible River of No Return Frank Church Wilderness Area was likewise devastated. The adjoining Bitterroot Valley of Montana, another national hunting destination was completely destroyed by over predation. Outfitters went out of business, mules and other equine hunting partners sold off, unaffordable. Hospitality businesses counting on millions of hunter dollars every fall now dusty and run down or closed. Lion hunting hounds are a magnet for wolves. Local residents shared the grief of families who found their beloved dogs on the hunt for lions, ripped to pieces.
Livestock producers have suffered tremendous loss. Elk have been displaced from the forest, seeking refuge and food in the valley ranches eating hay and tearing down fences. Montana biologist Caroline Sime et al in a report titled, "Gray Wolves and Livestock in Montana 1987-2006" reported "62% of all Montana livestock producers experienced at least one confirmed wolf kill. Only 50% of reported wolf kills were confirmed. 85% of confirmed livestock kills occurred on private property. One study found that confirmed wolf losses were a fraction, 1/8th of actual wolf caused losses." With each of these losses, including horses, llamas, guard dogs, sheep, goats, cattle and pets, comes grief and rage for ranch families whose sole purpose is to protect and nurture their livestock. Producers in Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, California, New Mexico, and other states are now dealing with the invasive species.
The wolf is infested with a deadly, cancer-like parasite Echinococcus Granulosus (EG). The State of Idaho has been proactive in testing the experimental wolf for the parasite. A 2014 study conducted for Idaho by Colorado State University traced the genotype strain of EG with which the wolves are almost 100% infected, to "an equally aggressive Eurasian genotype not native to North America". Quoting from a letter by the Tim Kemery, Field Coordinator Custer County WPCA, "One very significant issue that has been highlighted by this Sampling Project has been the Invasive Origins of the G8/G10 Strains of Echinococcus. Both Strains are Eurasian and are not native to our Western States." Humans and wildlife in the region are now infected with the "wolf worm". The introductory statement from the 2014 European Scientific Council on Companion Animal Parasites included the following statement, "Alveolar Echinococcus and Cystic Echinococcus are neglected "malignant" parasitic diseases deserving the same attention as cancer."
Neglected perhaps because the spread of the parasite worldwide has coincided with the introduction and protection of the main vector worldwide, the gray wolf, and the gray wolf has powerful promoters.
With abundant prey, the gray wolf's numbers exploded. Southern Montana, northern Wyoming and Central Idaho reached delisting targets in 2002. The USFWS delisted the wolf in 2008, 13 years after the first releases. But there was a hitch. Defenders of Wildlife and a dozen other environmental groups filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department objecting to the delisting on various grounds, including the claim that there was no "genetic connectivity" between the wolves in the three states. The judge found in favor of the plaintiffs and wolves were back on the Endangered Species List safe from any management. Again in 2011 USFWS delisted the wolves. Again, a similar group sued the government, and again, the same judge ruled in their favor. A close examination of the lawsuit revealed the reason law firms are so eager to donate their time, and why so many groups are lined up as plaintiffs. The judge grants the prevailing party costs and attorney's fees, which amounted to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the judge awarded them, "such further and additional relief" as he deemed just and proper.
Environmental groups are being paid damages as well as attorney fees by the taxpayer when they prevail. Karen Budd-Falen, a Cheyenne, Wyoming attorney launched her own personal investigation of the amount of money being funneled to not-for-profit corporations through the Endangered Species Act. She learned that the Paperwork Reduction Act, also passed with much fanfare in the Clinton Administration, released some Executive Branch agencies from the burden of reporting how much they are paying out in damages; however she uncovered in her words, billions-and why not? The same groups, with their handy Washington, DC lobbying arms, helped write the legislation and regulations they now exploit. Defenders of Wildlife partnered with the USFWS on wolf releases from the beginning. From an article on their website titled, Historic Reintroduction Continues Despite Budget Cuts (01/22/1996), "The endeavor was temporarily stalled by a $200,000 funding reduction and the government shutdowns until Defenders of Wildlife and two other private organizations came forward to help finance the capture and transport of the latest set of wolves." The article quotes then President of Defenders of Wildlife, Rodger Schlickeisen, "Although our country had made a national commitment to restore threatened and endangered species, some Members of Congress want to renege on that promise by cutting the funding for wolf restoration and other programs." Not-for-profit corporations were not the only private partners in the fraudulent release.
Rosa Koire, head of the California group, Democrats Against UN Agenda 21, exposes how wealthy international hobbyists "such as Ted Turner, are using the release of large carnivores to destroy our wild food sources, the well armed hunting culture, and the cattle ranching industry of the west, furthering their agenda to turn the west into vast tracks of land where humans do not dwell." Turner's private foundation continues to facilitate wolf introduction efforts across the west.
In the late days of the Clinton Administration, Congress noticed a suspicious lack of money in the Pittman-Robertson Fund. USFWS Law Enforcement Officer Jim Beers was called in to investigate. He reported back to Congress that 40 to 60 million dollars had been illegally diverted by USFWS and used to build a new office in San Francisco, pay bonuses to their top people, and introduce wolves into | 3,065 |
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Opportunity Finance Network, Goldman Sachs, and the Surdna Foundation will award four CDFIs, including Accion and CSBDF, with the 2016 Small Business Leader Award for Mission-Driven Lenders.
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Wow, what a milestone! It's hard to believe that PureZC has been around for so long. Watching this place mature and grow over the years has been such a unique experience. It's nice to know we all have our own little corner of the internet that's juuuust for us. Happy Birthday, PureZC!! Here's to many more years of neglecting social responsibilities and the crippling weight of reality for more Zelda.
Happy birthday PureZC! It's amazing how long this site and its members have been around.
My engineering professor's name is Bill Wild, and every time I see it written down, I always think of Wild Bill.
Congratulations on 15 years, PureZC!
PureZC has existed for roughly half of my lifetime.
If PureZC were a citizen where I live, it would be old enough to drive next year, be able to smoke in three years, and drink in six.
I'm member 91. I've been registered since October 2002 when I used the name "UpbeatPenguin" which is a name I kind of stole from a friend. There are a few members still active who registered before I did, but not many.
PureZC is old. I'm old. Everything is getting old. Aaagh. Portal came out about ten years ago. Bioshock came out ten years ago. Windows Vista came out ten years ago. Crysis came out ten years ago.
Man, it's crazy to see this site already at 15 years of age. I've mentioned this many times in the past, but wow that's just 3 years younger than myself!
Happy Birthday, Pure. Ah, they grow up so quick. Next year, they'll be driving, then in two more, off to college-- hng, I can't take it!
5 more years, and most of our newest members will be of a different generation from the original in 2002. It says a lot when a site can cross over into generations like that. Many come, many go, some stay, and a few have unfortunately passed away, but its primary purpose remains the same.
15 Years!? Sheesh I don't think many forums actually last that long! Anyways, big props to PZC and all of it's fantastic members!
With more new quests being created and potential new versions of ZC coming out later, it still has a pretty solid future ahead of it.
Thats nice to know.* 2017, this is a year to start releasing some reality changing titles for the ZC engine since the reality shaker breath of the wild has become.
15 years, huh? Damn, I've I've been here for about 13 and a half of them... Time flies. I wish I was more active during my earlier years, but I'm just glad this community still exists.
Let us not forget Wild Bill (may he rest in peace), for without him, we wouldn't have this site. Let's make it to 30!
Member #651 here. I'm barely actually active anymore but I still lurk around the forums and now the official Discord server almost daily, mostly to see what sort of stuff our current questmakers are up to. This community and ZC itself have both come a pretty long way, and watching it all happen over the fourteen years I've | 738 |
Modifying cars typically garners divided opinions, but none divides the line between love versus hate as much as Akira Nakai and his Rauh Welt Begriff (RWB) Porsches. Those who are on the side with Porsche purists condemn this act of sacrilege, while those on the other side praise RWB for pushing modification to a whole new level.
The car you see here was a standard mill Porsche 930. Nakai acquired the car in the late 90's when it was damaged and under the knife at a body shop. To say this car got a second life is an understatement knowing now what this car stood for and what history is was about to create. The modifying mentality encompassing the RWB house stems from drifting world where every bump, bruise and damage body panel gives the car it's battle wounds and creates character and soul. Now that's not to say that RWB cars are half falling apart battle scarred cars. Its far from that.
RWB cars are typically highly modified vehicles where each have a specific spec list depending on the owner's likes, dislikes, and personality. Each creation is developed to suit the person that owns it. The cars usually are modified in the areas of bodywork, suspension, wheels, and engine. What first captures onlookers is obviously the bodywork. RWB cars start with fender modifications and the rest of the body work is selected to compliment the fender work. Suspension modifications generally come by way of race spec coilovers. However, we are<|fim_middle|> but generally wheels are 3 piece modular, wide, and low offsets.
Ultimately, the ethos around each RWB build is to put form and function at the forefront. How that ethos is translated to each RWB Porsche owner will differ. I'm not here to persuade you to love these Porsche rather than fight it. I'm simply appreciating these builds for what they are and the F-U attitude it exudes. | seeing some builds use airride, again to suit the needs and desires of each owner. Last of the visually impactful modifications are the wheels which brings the exterior esthetics all together. Wheel choice varies between RWB builds | 43 |
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North Georgia Technical College breaks ground for Industrial Technology Center
By Rob Moore Reporter
Chad McLeod of Reeves Young, Dean Reeves, chairman and co-owner of Reeves Young; Technical College System of Georgia State Board member Dinah Wayne, Rep. Terry Rogers, TCSG State Board member Jay Cunningham, TCSG Commissioner Gretchen Corbin, North Georgia Technical College President Mark Ivester, Sen. John Wilkinson, NGTC Board of Directors Chairman Jeremy Williams, NGTC Board of Trustees Chairman Dr. Michael Callahan, TCSG Assistant Commissioner Matt Arthur, Smith Dalia Architect Principal Gregg Cross and TCSG State Board member Phil Sutton of Kubota Manufacturing of America break ground for the new Industrial Technology Center at North Georgia Technical College.
Rob Moore
CLARKESVILLE — State and local officials gathered on the campus of North Georgia Technical College in Clarkesville Wednesday morning to celebrate something officials believe will benefit all of North Georgia for decades to come.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the college's new 45,000-square-foot Industrial Technology Center. The two-story building will come at a price tag of about $12 million, plus the equipment required for training in the programs offered inside, bringing the total investment to more than $14 million.
"The building will house our CNC Machine Tool program, which will offer the programs of applied technical management degree, our CNC technology diploma degree, our CNC certificate degree," NGTC President Mark Ivester said. "Also, it will house our air conditioning programs, and they are very important and include air conditioning electrical technician certificate, advanced commercial refrigeration certificate,<|fim_middle|>TC, north georgia technical college, clarkesville, President Mark Ivester, Commissioner Gretchen Corbin, Industrial Technology Center, Kubota Manufacturing of America | and the air conditioning technician assistant certificate."
In addition to teaching opportunities, the facility will include what officials hope will be a hub of economic development in the region.
"The other component of this building will be the economic development department, which will include a conference room that will hold about 250 people, which is badly needed," Ivester said. "Also, the other cool thing about that area is it will offer a general industry lab so that we can bring in existing industry and do customized training in that lab, and that will be so important.
"I just can't say enough about what this means for our community, the students in our community and really, in the long run, our industries in filling a workforce," Ivester said. "It's huge, so we're excited."
Technical College System of Georgia Commissioner Gretchen Corbin, speaking on behalf of Gov. Nathan Deal, said the facility will demonstrate the mission of Georgia technical education.
"The Technical College System of Georgia is about connecting students to companies, so anytime we can build an asset like this Industrial Technology Center that will assist our students going into local business we know it's a good day for a college," Corbin said. "At North Georgia Technical College, this Industrial Technology Center that will house our HVAC program, that will house our CNC program for local industry and advanced manufacturing, and also our economic development center, we know that we are doing what we should do by companies and by communities, and that is preparing for growth and making sure that we are investing in a community for the students, in the companies, in the communities for years to come."
Corbin shared with those in attendance a brief explanation of CNC and the need for those skills.
"CNC: Computer numeric controls – it runs a plant," Corbin said. "When we talk about automated, advanced manufacturing, we are talking about a new type of individual who is going to run our facilities, who will automate our facilities through CNC programming."
Phil Sutton, chief administrative officer of Kubota Manufacturing of America in Gainesville, who also serves on the Technical College System of Georgia State Board, said that company is one of those that benefits from programs such as the ones offered at NGTC.
"Right now, I'm trying to hire 100 folks," Sutton said. "The Technical College System of Georgia is the perfect place. We look to the high schools and the technical schools. This is our future. This is our never-ending, renewable resource of workers for the future, and this is where we're looking just in the very beginning to find folks, so this is a great addition to Northeast Georgia, and it's a great addition for all the manufacturers and all the businesses in this area. The Technical College System is really coming along, and they're providing the lifeblood to manufacturing and other businesses, so I'm just thrilled to be a part of this."
Demolition of an aging building on the Clarkesville college campus to make room for the new center will begin in June, and Ivester said construction will be about a 14-month process.
"A new facility does more about attracting students to these industrial trades, which we need so much," Ivester said. "To change out a 1962 building with a brand new state-of-the-art building is huge. It will attract students, and it will keep them in North Georgia."
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The bus came very late.departure time of bus was 1.40,But it came at 0<|fim_middle|> city than to go straight to its people.
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If you are looking for the return bus journey, take a look at buses from Florence to Rome. | 3.00.Staffs of the bus dont speak english The travel was very bad.i will not use eurolines.
Beat bus ride I've taken so far. The seats were very comfortable and had so much leg room. The bus was incredibly on time, we had a 20 minute rest stop and we still arrives around 15 minutes earlier than scheduled. Very happy with Eurolines and their staff.
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What breathtakingly gorgeous places!! Oh what I'd give to visit one day. The both of you look so awesome, and cozy in your outfits.
And I learned a new thing,<|fim_middle|> and should add, that black is gorgeous colour on you, dear gal. | thanks for telling about the wishing trees, that's so fascinating!
No need to apologize for such beautiful photos - you have no idea how much I adore the beautiful English landscape in your posts :) You look gorgeous as always, and your chap has great style too!
Lovely photographs of beautiful places.
What a lovely post - I cannot wait to move to England and visit all these beautiful places! You look super cute btw - and your friend also looks very dapper!
Such beautiful pictures! So amazing!
This is really beautiful. What an amazing landscape! I would love to wander around here, feeling like a heroine from a Bronte novel. You look lovely, and Max really has some awesome style.
Stunning photos, and what a dapper gent Max is!!
Absolutely adding this spot onto my wishlist.
Such beautiful photos and settings - the cool, earthy, serene hues of the landscape and architecture alike are just what my cold and ear infection riddled mind needs to relax with this morning. You look seriously lovely, too, | 206 |
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Liked this did not love it. The book opens up with Munroe engaged in a situation that doesn't seem to make sense and then goes on from there. I enjoyed this tale of piracy and African political intrigue but I sort of didn't get how she even got there in the first place. A lot of out-of-character stuff for a character that we'd gotten to know pretty well over time. Not a bad<|fim_middle|>. The story was a little pat in the ending but otherwise pretty nifty. A side-trip to Philly and a little more progression with Gunther's relationship with Beverly. Enjoyable but maybe not in my top three. | book but my least favorite of all of them so far.
Still on the gross side, these books are nonetheless fun to read. This one is about the underground system of kidnapping young girls and getting them into the hands of truly awful people. Super yikky but the plot is interesting and the lead character (away from her partner this time) gets to do a lot f what she does best. An ending that confused me until I read the next book.
This may have been a bit too icky for my tastes but I really like the semi-androgynous main character Vanessa Michael Munroe who we saw in the Informationist and wanted to see more of her. In this book she's going down to Argentina trying to get a young girl out of a gross cult where children are routinely abused. But, it gets complicated. As much as I was happy they didn't do that usual trope-ish thing of trying to get to the girl before her honor is besmirched, it still had a bit too much icky child abuse in it for my personal tastes. Enjoyed the internal conflicts of the main character. Will definitely pick up the next book.
Got this right when it came out from the library by getting on the hold list early. Enjoyed it. Good to see the familiar characters again | 262 |
"Split across two unique buildings, a former Telephone Exchange building and a Bank, W Amsterdam is an intriguing design mix of heritage and contemporary. In the W Lounge, over 5km of copper pipes pay tribute to the telephone wires and electricity lines that exchanged information on a daily basis when the building was home to the Royal Dutch Post Building."
Amsterdam is one of those European cities that never seems to sleep what with their notorious offerings of nocturnal proclivities that is legalised vice. This famously liberal nature attracts a young and energetic crowd to a city that is as titillating as it is tasteful. Amsterdam's eclectic offerings - whether it's Van Gogh, tulips and cheese, or a different strain of cheese - makes it one of the European capitals to visit in Spring and Summer.
The W Amsterdam is the perfect springboard from which to dive into all the city has to offer. The amazing location is a given: the hotel is a mere 4 minute walk from historic Dam Square, in the centre of the city whose canals spread out like the veins of a heart that never stops beating. How appropriate a location for a hotel whose philosophy is 'Whatever, Whenever'. Then there's the W's famously hospitality with their unusually attractive and in-the-know staff who will go out of their way to get you everything you want, as long as it's legal. And in Amsterdam, everything is legal.
There's also plenty to enjoy for time-poor business traveller or the visitor who just wants to stay put and enjoy the city at a<|fim_middle|> provided by The W Amsterdam for guests (although one day I would like to take them up on their pets-friendly offer) as the hotel has a prime position - adjacent to Wallen (the red light district) and other tourist destinations such as the Royal Palace. With my previous trips to Amsterdam I've stayed at apartments or boutique hotels in less central parts of the city. So it was a great luxury to check into a 5-star hotel so close to most of the sights I wanted to see. Especially as the hotel is part of a brand I know and trust to deliver the level of care and quality I have come to expect from W Hotels. Special thanks to the concierge who had to listen to me waffle on about how it was impossible for me to find a pancake place open after 6pm and suggesting alternatives for my carb fix.
Coming attractions: My Amsterdam Luxury Restaurant Picks and Museums You Can't Miss in Amsterdam! | languid pace. The rooftop W Lounge offers stunning view of the city and is host to many events while the AWAY spa is the perfect place for downtime. In the way of gastronomical offerings there is Mr. Porter and the baroque beauty that is The Duchess (which I will review in my restaurant roundup). The X BANK, just across the hotel, is a showcase of cutting-edge fashion, art, design, culture from the latest and best in Dutch design and a shopping and cultural destination in its own right.
This is studio living at its most stylish. A room with a view and a open plan bathroom mades 25 square meters seem positively roomy. Throw in the luxurious W signature bed with pillow top mattress and luxurious 400-thread count sheets, and even the smallest of W Amsterdam's rooms became a haven of comfort for my short stay. Bliss spa toiletries, complimentary Nespresso, Marshall speakers, plus a stack of fashion and design books for my perusal completed my Cozy Exchange Room experience, making it a sophisticated bubble of serenity in the centre of an exciting and electric capital city.
I've been to Amsterdam a few times before and have always enjoyed the city whether I'm travelling solo, with friends, or on this occasion with family. Amsterdam is compact and well-connected thanks to its status as one of the world's most bicycle-friendly cities. Even so I had no need for the bikes | 288 |
Local animal shelters seeing spike in animal returns
Published: Feb. 27, 2022 at 12:53 AM CST
KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - Rising inflation and rent prices aren't just affecting putting food on the table for Central Texas families, it's also leaving a few with no other choice but to get rid of their pets.
Angelia Kulbusauskas is making one of the hardest decisions in her life, giving up her dog, Ladybug, for adoption.
"She's my baby," she said.
"I've had her since she was a puppy at six weeks old... She sleeps with me and she's my partner. So, that's gonna be hard to lose. My husband just passed away a few months ago and we have two other dogs together. I live in housing that only allows two dogs or I'll get evicted."
Kulbusauskas isn't alone, because of the COVID pandemic, rising inflation and rent costs, many people are simply unable to take care of their animals.
Journey home rescue and Pearl's Place in Killeen have reported a spike in animal returns in just the last three months. Meanwhile, the Humane Society of<|fim_middle|> where you're making minimum wage and taking care of a dog is tough. The last thing you want to do is give up your dog."
"This year has been really hard for adoptions," said Dorene Burlew of Journey Home and Pearl's Place.
"There's been a lot of people trying to rehome because of financial or moving obligations. I get at least two to three emails and calls a day from people who need to rehome or surrender their dogs."
While both shelters are attempting to either adopt the dogs into new families or give struggling one's extra food and medical care when they can, there's no telling how many more dogs could come in next. As for Kulbusauskas, she's simply hoping Ladybug can find a better home.
"As much as it hurts to have to let her go, I know if I could find her a home with somebody who has a yard and a place where she can run and play instead of being couped up in an apartment is very important."
For more information on adopting an animal or making a donation, you can visit the Humane Society of Central Texas, Journey Home or Pearl's Place websites.
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As proud parents T and I are always so excited to share our new discoveries of what little L can do. Again, when it's your own kid, pretty much everything is amazing and exciting and undeniably new. Nobody but this child has done things in his particular order, and we cherish each and every new addition to his life's experiences. But it does make me chuckle to see what happens when we compel little L to "perform" in front of his, or our, friends.
Lest I digress too much, I was singing my usual "You are my Sunshine" to little L on the car ride home. As I ended the refrain and went into the second verse I heard a little "Yaaaaaay" and a clap clap clap sound, and then after I sang the second verse and refrain again he repeated the "Yeeeeaaaayayayy!" Pausing, I began to realize that he was responding to the song. He was cheering me on! Animatedly I began to sing "Itsy Bitsy Spider" and as I completed the verse he immediately cheered. Amazing. I was in awe.
I would like to think he just likes to hear mommy sing, but I think he had developed and practiced his responses while in daycare, where they traditionally cheer at the end of the songs. Oh the things they learn. You see, he cheers only for a few songs, but when I break into a showtune or a new nursery rhyme tune, the response is crickets, pretty much.
So that evening I raced onto Skype to share this newfound discovery with T and the rest of the family. By phone things seemed to work out, but the minute that I put L on video chat with his family and sang my tunes, I heard crickets, again. Like Warner Brothers' Michigan J<|fim_middle|> not appreciate the plight of "One Froggy Evening's" hapless showbiz agent until this moment. You see the talent, you see the discovery right in front of you, and you dive headfirst into a duet with your child. Yet within moments you realize that you are at the mercy of your performer to deliver his little baby toddler punchline. And it may, or may not arrive. This scenario has repeated itself countless times in the past five days, when L who has learned "No nononono" will not always say it, and when he will repeat 10 words in front of dad but when commanded in front of an auntie he zips his mouth shut. At least he is eating more these days and isn't afraid to show that newfound talent off to the nearest spectator! How he shoves those bits of food in and claps for himself oh so proudly. What can I say, sometimes the performer performs. | . Frog, the little man only performs at his convenience; he decidedly does not perform for audiences. And cheering is no exception.
Truly, I did | 31 |
David Bowie was, among many other things, a chameleon. It felt like he remade his own image countless times within the span of his incredible nearly five-decade career. Some folks have counted him at six alter egos; I've seen other counts as high as eighteen. And while his continued rebirths were almost always successful — and he wasn't afraid to change it up just as his current phase was catching on — perhaps what was most successful was that his fans never felt out of touch with his character.
Bowie was one of rock's good guys. Despite some of the grandeur of his performances and his wild sides, he never felt like a shock rocker — not to the extent that Black Sabbath or Marilyn Manson would be described as — but he continued to have the ability to surprise.
Perhaps most surprising was his ending: knowing that he was going to pass away any day, he finally releases Blackstar (our review) and passes only days later. His final music is about dealing with his own mortality, and in his final music video, he portrays himself as the living dead.
Bowie's final persona was that of Lazarus, a dead man with something more to say to the world.
Bowie spoke for fans all over the world, and paved the way for many of the gay performers we have today thanks to his claims to be gay, straight, bi, and an alien. It's hard to image we'd have artists like Perfume Genius without him.
But more so, it's hard to imagine we'd have any modern rock and roll without him. Bowie influenced everybody — including movers and shakers that were much bigger than him. These are musicians who changed the game on global scales, people who inspired generations to pick up a guitar or a bass and learn to play. Nirvana was inspired by him, for crying out loud.
An image of David Bowie as Aladdin Sane.
David Bowie in the film Labyrinth.
His theatrics inspired Alice Cooper and Ozzy Osbourne (particularly after Osbourne left the afore-mentioned Black Sabbath to start his solo career). He influenced heavy metal and glam rock acutely, perhaps obviously, through presentation alone.
But while Bowie wrote glam rock records, albums like The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust sound much more like singer-songwriter. And they have their origins in the folk nature of it all — so it's not just his experiments on The Man Who Sold The World that solidified his influence on the folk genre.
Perhaps obviously, the Berlin Trilogy led the way for electronic crossover music. Let's Dance helped kick-off the alternative dance music scene. And Bowie's work with funk transcends many genres, ultimately influencing even hip hop. Progressive rock may not even exist without him.
It's rare to find a genre — or a single musician, even — who isn't inspired and can't trace some of their roots back to Bowie. Bowie isn't the man who sold the world so much as he is the one who made it his own. He kick-started genres and catapulted many into stardom<|fim_middle|> rock genre. So it's fitting that today's new musical leaders are able to inspire Bowie in the same way that he's able to inspire us. And thanks to Blackstar, I think we clearly have a love letter from Bowie with his notes (no pun intended) on where he thinks rock music is going. The saddest thing about it is that he won't be along to experience the new journey he's started us on.
David Bowie performs in the early 1960s. | .
He did all of this while being himself.
Ultimately, Bowie's legacy might not be his influence in music itself. It will come down to his voice. For millions, Bowie was the way they learned that it was okay to be themselves. Music didn't have to be as sociologically regressive as country or homophobic (and sadistically vengeful) as heavy metal, and it didn't have to be as blatantly rebellious and angry as punk. In fact, if you were a teenager and didn't find yourself fitting into any of these genres, Bowie was the perfect respite for you.
He made it okay to be weird.
And in that sense, he leaves behind an even greater legacy: the musicians who are comfortable being weird. These are the people like Arca, who are reinventing the language of electronic music with solo releases or production work on Kanye tracks. These are the Petite Noirs of the world. The Fiery Furnaces. The Chet Fakers. Their ability to be themselves is largely a credit to Bowie, the man who pioneered it so many years ago.
Bowie's life is like poetry: every few stanzas, there's a shift in theme and rhythm. But ultimately, it comes full circle. So it's fitting that, in many ways, Bowie's career ended the way it started: with jazz experimentation, a defiance of pop and rock expectations, and a revival of popular interest in jazz fusion thanks to trend-setters like Kendrick Lamar.
And reportedly, Bowie was listening to a lot of Kendrick while he made Blackstar — which is, no doubt, going to go down as a landmark record in the | 334 |
Startup Spotlight: CrowdFlower's Data Enrichment Platform
Thursday Nov 19th 2015 by Ann All
CrowdFlower's technology ensures data scientists don't spend their valuable time on mundane data preparation tasks.
There are not enough data scientists to go around for companies hoping to capitalize on their growing streams of structured and unstructured data. Academic programs designed to produce more of them are growing like crazy and entry-level pay for data science gigs runs as high as $200,000 a year, according to a recent Bloomberg Businessweek article.
Given that, it is "absolutely crazy" that many data scientists spend up to three-quarters of their time cleaning up data, said Lukas Biewald, founder and CEO of startup CrowdFlower, provider of a data enrichment platform for data scientists, and a former data scientist himself for companies including Yahoo and Powerset, a search company now owned by Microsoft.
Algorithms are useless without what data professionals call "training data," Biewald said. "The training data is the most important piece to making data models work. Many people focus on algorithms, but your models cannot do anything if the training data is not good."
Data science was not a common term in 2009 when Biewald founded his company, then called Dolores Labs. Originally it provided data enrichment as a managed service. About three years ago Biewald decided to market the technology used internally by his employees via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform.
He changed the name to incorporate the crowdsourcing aspect of the platform, which handles tasks that include data collection, sentiment analysis, improving machine learning models and tweaking internal search relevance. For the human element, CrowdFlower partners with companies such as CrowdGuru, ClixSense, Listia, Daproim, IndiVillage and iMerit.
Earlier this year CrowdFlower added artificial intelligence (AI) to its platform, which will allow customers to automate more tasks. While the aim is to automate tasks as much possible, Biewald wants to "combine the best of humans and the best of machines," he said. "Your AI tool will solve 80 percent of your problems and you'll have people to solve the last 20 percent of your problems."
Early adopters of CrowdFlower include companies in the retail, financial services and technology sectors. The platform's usage offers "a window into what data science cares about," Biewald said.
Marketing teams, for example, use it to understand how their brands are perceived on social media and to craft product and campaign strategies.
"It's not just about sentiment analysis but asking the next set of questions," Biewald said. "You can see consumers like Samsung, but is it because<|fim_middle|>mer Venture Partners, Quest Venture Partners, K9 Ventures
Ann All is the editor of Enterprise Apps Today and eSecurity Planet. She has covered business and technology for more than a decade, writing about everything from business intelligence to virtualization.
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CrowdFlower licenses its platform to customers for a fee, typically six figures, though the cost varies based on volume of tasks. Customers can use their own employees or workers from any of CrowdFlower's partners, some of whom can provide different language capabilities or other areas of expertise. Payment can take place directly through the partners or through CrowdFlower, Biewald said.
While "now is the time to make AI (artificial intelligence) a reality," he said, his company is "not anywhere near being able to automate everything. We are just trying to make sure that data scientists don't spend 80 percent of their time cleaning data."
Fast Facts about CrowdFlower
Founders: Lukas Biewald and Chris Van Pelt
Product: Data enrichment platform designed to help companies better leverage their data science resources
Customers: eBay, Delectable and Skout, among others
Funding: $28 million, with investors including Canvas Venture Fund, Harmony Partners, Besse | 232 |
Every moment that passes becomes a smaller fraction of my<|fim_middle|>. However, once I separate each moment from this inflexible path - each instance becomes a delicate and valuable piece, part of an endless collection only I will ever intimately know. | memory and is probably why time feels like it moves faster as I get older.
For example: as a two-year-old, 50% of my life was only one year, but now at age seventeen, 50% of my life is almost nine years. I became increasingly aware of this happening in the background of my life as I got older. At first, it wasn't a noticeable change - days would seem to pass by faster, then weeks, and suddenly I'm in the second semester of my junior year. Everything before this time slowly began to fade.
Sometimes I wonder if my mind subconsciously sorts through each experience I have, and discards the "irrelevant" details leaving only the significant parts. As a result, my memory becomes something that has holes where seemingly extraneous aspects once existed. I never really remember the big moments: my first steps, turning double digits, and driving a car for the first time. I remember the feeling of the sun on my back as I bent over to fix a sandcastle, the shadows of rain pattering on a tent, and the scent of warm laundry floating through my house. These moments are not necessarily important to me in an obvious way or defined as important by society. Instead, they are all snapshots of a few seconds where everything fell into place. I never know if I'm going to retain a moment until after the time has passed, which leads me to wonder if I am missing other memories of my life that I overlooked and will never get back. More than just the way an event played out, but also the emotions I felt and senses I was aware of at the time.
Once I became conscious of this dilemma, I desperately tried to capture everything I could. I have over 20 completed journals and more photographs than I can count, yet these are not enough to make me feel as though I am capturing every moment I can. Over the past few years, I realized it is impossible to know what will be significant while in the present or even hours later. I only really know when a moment holds importance months or years afterward, long after recording each detail of that time is possible. It's often the most unexpected moments that stick with me, and the ones I would think to be important that don't. I do not remember the first day of kindergarten or meeting my childhood best friend. I do remember learning to use an apple cutter and sharing secrets on a swing set. Without realizing it, I often stored the little moments in my memory instead of the milestone ones.
There are many gaps in my memory, even within a particular experience. I have a complete memory of the feeling as I rooted through my mother's clothes when I missed her to find the softest sweater so I could be reminded of her smell, but I cannot remember where she was traveling to or for how long. I don't recall how my first day went at Hopkins, but I do remember the smell of the library as I stepped into it as a student early freshman year. The parts of my life that resonate with me on a deep level are never the ones I assume would define my life, yet they are the ones no one else can describe for me. I can ask my mom where she was during that trip, but she'll never be able to tell me the way it felt for me to hold back tears while falling asleep as I buried my face in her clothes. I can read my journal for the description of the first day of school, yet I would have never have thought to record a particular smell while writing that day. I suppose in a way it's good that I save moments like those in my mind, but they still seem disconnected and not as important when considering the big picture.
I worry that I am not holding onto the essential memories and that instead of retaining key moments and milestones, I'm remembering the insignificant things. I fear that my life will just become a series of loosely organized checkpoints composed of irrelevant moments, making my past experiences a puzzle that will never be complete | 813 |
College notes: Rolling Meadows grad Asher O'Hara thrilled to play at "The Big House"
By Bob Narang
Rolling Meadows graduate Asher O'Hara (10) led Middle Tennessee State in a competitive game against Michigan. (Tony Ding / AP)
As Middle Tennessee State redshirt sophomore quarterback Asher O'Hara prepared for the biggest game of his career, he was relatively calm.
His time at Rolling Meadows prepared him to play quarterback Aug. 31 at Michigan Stadium against the No. 7 Wolverines.
"I was more nervous playing in high school for Rolling Meadows than for the Michigan game," O'Hara said. "I couldn't tell you why."
O'Hara's road to starting for the Blue Raiders was a long one. He played for the College of DuPage in 2017 and saw minimal action for Middle Tennessee State last season, when he was redshirted. Against Michigan, O'Hara had nearly 30 friends and family members in attendance, including Rolling Meadows football coach Matt Mishler.
With the support of his own cheering section, O'Hara completed 22 of 32 passes for 217 yards, two touchdowns and one interception. He also led his team with 32 yards rushing, highlighted by an 18-yard touchdown run to give the Blue Raiders a 7-0 lead early in the first quarter.
O'Hara said he was satisfied with his performance, but<|fim_middle|> (Mark Lomoglio / AP)
The 6-foot-2, 232-pound linebacker played in 11 games last season, finishing with seven tackles while forcing one fumble.
Prospect sophomore Andie Will playing well beyond her years
Buffalo Grove's Megan Fontanetta ready for the big moment in basketball, softball
Matt Mishler resigns from role as Rolling Meadows football coach after nine seasons
Beware of the Lions: Owen Hickey shows St. Viator is a team to watch
Joining Sanborn on the Badgers' roster are junior cornerback Cristian Volpentesta (Highland Park), freshman linebacker Maema Njongmeta (Stevenson) and junior linebacker Mike Maskalunas (Stevenson).
Have a suggestion for College Notes? Email Bob Narang at bobnarang@yahoo.com.
Bob Narang is a freelance reporter for Pioneer Press.
Twitter @Pioneer_Press | he understands he will need to keep improving in all facets of the game.
"I thought I did pretty well, but I have a lot to get better at," he said. "That first touchdown gave us a lot of confidence. It was great to get in the end zone and give us momentum. It was really special after the game to be around my dad, family and Coach Mishler. I had a lot of fun. It was a surreal moment that I've been dreaming about my whole life.
"I'm thankful to be where I'm at now. I'm just trying to get better and make a name for myself."
Cullinane claims weekly award: Oak Park-River Forest graduate Molly Cullinane, a sophomore at Concordia University Chicago, had a memorable collegiate cross country debut on Aug. 30.
Cullinane clocked a time of 15 minutes, 36.4 seconds at the Elmhurst Earlybird Invitational 4K to place second out of 127 runners. She finished six seconds behind Concordia's all-time women's record for the 4K distance. Her performance helped Concordia earn fifth place.
For her efforts, Cullinane was named the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Student-Athlete of the Week.
Cullinane ran distance events for the Concordia track team last spring. She was named the NACC Freshman of the Meet at both the indoor and outdoor conference championship meets.
"I feel very happy for Molly winning this honor against some tough competition," Concordia coach Phil Kopinski said in a press release. "This is a nice present for not only her but the team as well, a positive start to the season."
Sanborn off to a solid start: Lake Zurich graduate Jack Sanborn, a sophomore linebacker, collected a career-high five tackles in Wisconsin's season-opening romp over South Florida.
Wisconsin linebacker Jack Sanborn (57) is a Lake Zurich graduate who had five tackles in the season-opening game against South Florida. | 414 |
Your passion is infectious. It can transform the hardest of hearts, causing realization and contrition for past transgressions. Then, the work of rebuilding the corrupted social structures can proceed.
The Superior Person holds an inner Fire that ignites passion in every heart it touches, until all the world is enlightened and aflame. With so searing a flame, success will not be denied you. Take care to be as peaceful and nurturing as the cow in the meadow; you are strong enough to be gentle.
This radiance will cause such an alchemical transformation of circumstances that<|fim_middle|> Instead, understanding the vanity of all things, one may put aside both hope and fear, and sigh and lament: if one is intent on retaining his clarity of mind, good fortune will come from this grief.
Tears of repentance flood. Enlightenment turns the tide for the better.
This is a matter of Positioning — not only yourself, but others as well. There are niches to be filled, potentials to be realized, right livelihoods to be found.
You are not building a new organization, but shoring up an existing infrastructure. It's worth the effort, because it will provide union, community, and an ironclad alliance. | the changes will seem magical, miraculous. Yet they are only shifts of perspective and attitude that bring clarity.
Here the zenith of life has been reached. Were there no warning, one would at this point consume oneself like a flame. | 46 |
Photo by Hailey Garrett/PGA of America PGA of America President, Suzy Whaley and 2018 PGA Merchandiser of the Year Public Facilities recipient, Mark Rashell pose during the PGA Merchandiser of the Year Awards in Florida Jan. 19.
Three PGA members including Mark Rashell, PGA Director of Golf at the Golf Club at Newcastle, were awarded as national PGA Merchandisers of the Year for 2018 at a ceremony in Florida Jan. 19.
Rashell received the 2018 PGA Merchandiser of the Year Award for Public Facilities, according to a media release.
Since he joined the Newcastle course in 2011, golf shop merchandise sales have steadily increased, the release stated.
In January 2019, Brewmaster's Taproom raised $1,850 for Renton Academy and VADIS, according to an email newsletter.
According to the newsletter, the taproom has six events scheduled for the month of February.
• Late opening Sunday, Feb. 10 — a private event will be happening until 2 p.m.
For more information on the taproom and their events, visit www.thebrewmasterstaproom.com/.
Mayor Denis Law's 2019 State of the City is now scheduled for 8 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 28.
The address will be held at the Pavilion Event Center, 233 Burnett Ave. S.
The original date for the address was Jan. 30. Anyone who had purchased tickets for<|fim_middle|> County units including Unit 19 which includes Kent, Auburn, Renton and Tahoma are hosting a retirement seminar for anyone who has or currently works for a public school.
The seminar begins at 7:45 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 23 at the Madison House, 12215 NE 128th St. in Kirkland.
To pre-register for the event or for more information, contact Tina Underdahl at TinaWSSRA@gmail.com. | that date were notified.
According to the city's website, if you can not attend the new date contact April Alexander at analexander@rentonwa.gov for a refund.
Tickets are $25 per person or $200 per table for eight and includes breakfast.
For tickets, call 425-430-6616 or email Jeannie Gabriel at jgabriel@rentonwa.gov.
There is free parking available nearby at the City Center Parking Garage, 655 S. 2nd St.
Renton High School student Lauren Wetzel was awarded Pacific Lutheran University's President's Scholarship worth $26,000 a year.
She was among 127 selected based on academic achievement, service and leadership, according to a release from PLU.
Renton City Councilmember Ed Prince was unanimously reelected to chair the Public Issues Committee of the Sound Cities Association Board — representing 38 King County cities.
For more information visit www.SoundCities.org.
Retired school employees from the Washington State School Retirees Association's four King | 224 |
'Stick with me baby, I'm the guy that you came in with!" booms Seal, striding manfully about, clicking his fingers and singing Frank Sinatra's Luck Be a Lady. Tall, dapper and exuding physical ownership of the space, the 5<|fim_middle|>ors, a feature of his songwriting since the days of Crazy which recurs on 7's punchiest track, Padded Cell. For the first time, the singer is flummoxed. | 2-year-old pop star barely looks up at my arrival.
Meanwhile, his producer, 66-year-old Trevor Horn CBE, sits crumpled up on a sofa, shifting around as if he can't quite get comfortable, a wan smile on his face. The contrast between this unlikely duo is striking.
Horn's presence, by contrast, is as understated as his soft Durham accent, yet he seems to take vicarious pleasure in Seal's alpha-male exuberance, chuckling encouragingly.
The pair met in 1990, when Seal had a lone hit as vocalist on Adamski's Killer and Horn was already a studio stalwart, the former Buggles musician whose enormous productions for Grace Jones and Frankie Goes to Hollywood set the bar for Eighties musical extravagance.
"His voice is so unique, I got excited straight away," recalls Horn. "None of that melisma, no vocal gymnastics, just real feeling. I thought, 'I can make records with that'." Together they crafted Seal and Seal II, monumental blasts of futuristic soul, spawning the multi-million-selling global hits Crazy and Kiss From a Rose.
Seal and Horn stopped working together following the relative commercial failure of 1998's Human Being but have now reunited for Seal's seventh album, simply called 7, recreating their trademark blend of gleaming soundscapes, flowing melodies and philosophical lyrics.
The album has been two years in the making, and it is apparent that the pair share a perfectionist work ethic.
In the course of the sessions, they recorded and ditched a huge number of songs, abandoning orchestras, choirs and American football chants along the way. "We threw everything at it, I drove Trevor mad with hare-brained ideas," says Seal.
Seal and Horn clearly enjoy each other's company, sharing musical fascinations and a sense of humour ("We bonded over Debussy and old English comedians," recalls Horn). They laugh a lot. But there is a deeper, almost familial connection.
"Trevor and I have always been close, but in recent years…" says Seal, his voice trailing off. "We've both had losses," says Horn, whose wife, Jill Sinclair, died last year after a tragic accident left her in a near-coma state for eight years.
"We've both had losses," agrees Seal, whose marriage to model Heidi Klum, mother of his four children, ended in divorce in 2012 after seven years.
It was Sinclair who first brought Seal to Horn. "Jill was my mentor – I truly loved her," says Seal.
Born Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel in London in 1963, the son of a Brazilian plumber and Nigerian wigmaker, Seal has described his upbringing as "fractured" and "violent", involving foster families and homelessness. The scars on his face are from childhood lupus, which can't have made it easy to fit in.
It is easy to see how Horn and Sinclair had a parental influence on the young star.
There is something of the self-invented man about Seal. He is a voracious reader, with a fondness for spiritual and self-help books.
He recalls his first appearance on Top of the Pops, when Sinclair gently suggested he hadn't found a way to connect with audiences yet. "I thought, 'What on earth is she talking about? Connect! I've just been in front of millions of people on TV!' She said, 'You'll know it when you do it.'" Then one night on stage something mysterious happened. I connected, and it was a turning point. It's not anything in particular, it's not something you can put into words but it's what has sustained me over 25 years. Because once you connect, you understand your power.
When Seal and Klum announced their separation in 2012, both were initially very respectful.
But when Seal was confronted by paparazzi with compromising pictures of Klum and her bodyguard, he made some sharp remarks. "I would have thought Heidi would have shown a little more class and at least waited until we separated before deciding to fornicate with the help," he said.
Seal recently revealed a new relationship with Erica Packer (the Australian model and former wife of billionaire businessman James Packer).
Our interview is interrupted by a video call from what Seal describes as "my extended family" in LA, during which he chats with tenderness and humour to Packer and her three children, beaming with pleasure. Meanwhile, Horn slopes off for "a sneaky smoke".
When the odd couple reconvene, I ask Seal about his lyrical use of mental health metaph | 960 |
Data has become a bit of a dirty word given the recent exposé of how social media platforms vacuum up your interactions and the 'less then beneficial' ways these insights can be used! Big data has never had an easy ride in the education world especially given education's often slow adoption of technology driven or enabled trends.
There has always been an ambivalent attitude to the large-scale use of especially digital data in education, which can oscillate between two equally unhelpful extremes. On one side is the view that given the immense detail of digital learner data and the complexity of processing algorithms available, learner tracking and guidance should be automated, albeit by clever machines that can learn as they go along. The other view is that there is nothing that could ever compare with the insights of the teacher in their classroom, so the teacher's view is the only view that should ever be counted. As always in scenarios with two extremes, the approach to the use of data that can yield the most impact (improved learning outcomes) is somewhere in the middle. The problem has been in locating that 'middle' for both schools and education districts and systems.
So what is the elusive recipe for the successful use of data to drive outcomes in schools? I would never lay claim to having THE recipe for success, but I will venture to suggest some possible vital ingredients below. Bearing in mind that all the best cooks will say that the success of the cake depends largely on the quality of the ingredients!
Individualized, detailed, diverse and real-time (where possible) digital learner data is now possible and readily available thanks to the deployment of EdTech on a large scale in classrooms.
This essential ingredient must be complemented by non-digital data sets. They encompass information such as contextual issues, human insights and observations of both learners and learning.
We need to gain the benefits from continuous and comprehensive digital data without losing out on the experience and unique perspective on learning that a teacher can bring.
One of the issues of data use within education is the expectation, found at all levels, that merely assembling the ingredients (data sets) will give you the perfect cake (improved outcomes). As in the world of baking, a multi-step process is needed to achieve results. Again this list is NOT definitive but just a sketch of the steps to consider.
Key metrics need to be decided upon for the analysis and outcome indicators – What is the question that YOU are asking? What do YOU need to know from the data? Prioritize and target the analysis provided! Far too often valuable trends and warning signs are drowned in a sea of unnecessary information.
Data literacy should be addressed. Don't assume that everyone is a data savant and knows how to interpret the huge quantity of analysis available. What am I looking for? What should I expect to recognize if there is progress? What are the warning signs I should look out for? Interpretation is often the hardest aspect to grasp. This is the vital link between a point on a graph and what it is showing about what is actually happening within classroom.
<|fim_middle|>. It is only then that we have a chance of showing how data in education can drive a sustainable and measurable change in outcomes and we can enjoy our cake – chocolate I hope! | Collaborative reflections. We often end up dealing with our particular data in isolation, especially when it is generated electronically. There is such a benefit in sharing our interpretations of the analysis, comparing trends and issues and collaborating on possible solutions.
Learner engagement – data is not just about learners, it should be for them too! We are missing out on an important step if learners are not part of this reflective process. We are hoping to enable learners to analyze and respond dynamically to situations – this is one way to cultivate this type of thinking.
We are not finished yet and we need the final step without which, all of this preparation would have been for nothing. We must put the cake in the oven - which means putting our collaborative 'data informed decisions' into ACTION. The culmination of all of the above should be an INFORMED CHANGE in what actually occurs with a learner, within a classroom, a school or a district | 186 |
The Margie Wilkins gallery at the Lewistown Art Center is proud to host the work of Helena artist Carolyn Caldwell. Carolyn's oil and oil pastel landscapes are evocative or several Montana vistas, but are flurry around the edges, giving us the effect of a memory, or faded photograph. Caldwell's color palette changes slightly from painting to painting, but her mottled skies, deep green hills, and golden<|fim_middle|> winner of the Christmas Cookie Contest will receive a $50 gift certificate to the Lewistown Art Center. Don't worry, there are prizes for second and third place, too. From 2-5 p.m., Santa Claus will be in the house, posing for pictures with little ones, and hearing gift requests.
At 6:30 p.m., we'll have our first "Snowball Drop" for kids aged 0-5, and our second "Drop" for kids 6-12 at 6:45 p.m. Kids will be able to catch "snowballs" dropped from the roof of the LAC and redeem them for prizes and Chamber Bucks, great for shopping downtown!
The Lewistown Art Center will be open until 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 24, and is the perfect place for all your holiday needs.
Everyone is invited for this very special, December Social Night at the Art Center, celebrating our community and the wealth of stories within it. On the third Wednesday, Dec. 20, at 6:30 p.m., we'll cozy up under holiday lights as we eat, drink and be merry...and spin tales into the evening. Will there be romance? Wild adventure? Tall tales and whoppers, myths and flights of fancy? Or perhaps even a few Lewistown ghost stories? Join us and see. No need to register; all are welcome.
We're still looking for more story submissions. If you would like to share a story, please let us know. Give us a call at 535-8278 or stop by the Art Center to pitch your story or get more information.
There is a small cost for the evening's festivities. As always, treats will be provided. Guests are encouraged to bring along their favorite beverage or a dish to share.
Last week, I talked about how giving handmade is about giving "the story" of the gift itself: how long it took to make it, what skills and processes were involved, what the artist's intent might be, can all come along with the purchase of a handcrafted object.
This week, I'd urge you to give handmade to support our local economy. Particularly in rural parts of Montana, cottage industries like craft help to supplement other careers. Indeed, most of the artists represented by the LAC are not full time artists, but rather people who pursue art "on the side." The majority of work in our gift shop is by Montana artists, many from within an hour's drive of Lewistown. Stop by to ask about our artists.
The Lewistown Art Center promotes art, art education and art appreciation in Central Montana. Regular hours are Tuesday – Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Admission is always free. Join the "ArtWorks" volunteer group every second Tuesday at 9 a.m. to support the Art Center in accomplishing its mission. New members and volunteers are always welcome; for information call 535-8278. | fields lend such depth to these two-dimensional works.
One of my favorite parts of this series are Caldwell's collection of small "cowboy" themed paintings and drawings. These paintings and drawings are abstracted, but only to a point. While the image of the cowboy hat remains crisp, the background, action, and details of the wearer fade into her brightly colored compositions. I like the way Caldwell uses the hat as both a symbol for Western identity, yet masks the identities of the wearers in her images.
Be sure to not miss this excellent work, and thanks to ArtWorks for their sponsorship of this exhibition.
Next month, the Wilkins Gallery will welcome the Montana Painter's Alliance with a selection of painted masterpieces from all over the state. Opening will be Friday, Dec. 1.
Join us on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 10 a.m. to hear the exciting lineup planned for the 2018 Central Montana Fair Night Show. The new Night Show act will be announced, along with the opening act, at the Lewistown Art Center on Saturday morning. As always, we're in total suspense, but rumor has it that next year's star is an up and coming, popular talent. We can't wait to hear!
Join us on Saturday to hear the announcement for the Central Montana Fair's 2018 Night Show performers.
The holiday season is upon us. The Lewistown Art Center is getting into the swing of things and kicking off the holidays with the Christmas Stroll, on Nov. 24, the Friday after Thanksgiving. The Lewistown Art Center has a variety of activities going on, and here's your chance to be involved… with prizes.
At 10 a.m., the LAC will accept cookies for our annual Christmas Cookie Contest. Judged at 1 p.m., the | 378 |
Hilton Charlotte University Place offers a tranquil lakeside escape near UNC Charlotte and the area's best shopping destinations. Whether you're here for business or leisure, you'll appreciate our lakeside location just 15 miles from the Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Dine lakeside at our on-site Edgewater Bar and Grille and enjoy stunning lake views from many of our guest rooms and meeting rooms.
Enjoy free WiFi, breakfast for two and a late checkout. Plus, earn double Hilton Honors Points!
Pick the space that's best for you. We offer deluxe and premium guest rooms as well as suites, executive and accessible rooms. Some rooms feature breathtaking views of the lake and executive level Guests get<|fim_middle|>There are so many ways to unwind and relax during your stay. Stroll along the lake, take a dip in the seasonal outdoor pool or get a work out in our fitness center.
Need a bite to eat? Enjoy a unique dining experience morning, noon and night at our on-site Lakefront Restaurant. Cap off your day at the Lakefront Lounge with a specialty martini or relax in the comfort of your room with in-room dining.
Our lakeside location provides a stunning setting for weddings and special events. Exchange vows next to the sparkling lake and dance the night away in our elegant ballroom. Host an unforgettable meeting or conference in our 20,000 sq. ft. of meeting space overlooking the lake. | exclusive access to the Executive Lounge.
Need a light snack? Our on-site snack shop is located in the lobby and is stocked with your favorite treats.
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Is your grass not looking quite like it did last spring? Even though it's still early spring, and<|fim_middle|> fall and even the early the winter season. Shrubs, plants and small trees also get broken limbs and branches that should be removed. Spring is the time to trim your most shrubs and some trees neatly for ideal growth.
Dethaching your lawn is a process to remove dead grass to allow new grass to replenish for a healthier, greener lawn. You can use a rake to remove all waster and thatch buildup, there are also dethatching tools for this process. It can take your lawn a few weeks to recover from dethatching before you start to see fresh grass renew. If your existing grass is dry and clean of waste and thatch, you can go ahead and mow your lawn.
While many folks like to get outside in the sunshine after a long, cold winter, some homeowners are just not interested in or capable of completing yard work successfully. Give Gardenin' Angels a call to provide a spring cleanup for your property. | it takes a while for your turf to come back to life, you may notice that your lawn is much more barren than it typically is this time of year. You may have snow mold fungus affecting all or some areas of your lawn.
The record snowfall we had in Massachusetts combined with such cold temperatures that prevented melting in between storms, created a blanket that kept our lawns dark and wet for an exceptionally long time. As the snow finally melts across the south shore, snow mold fungus is apparent in grass.
Since the sun has not had a chance to dry out grass until now and grass may also have folded over on itself, it's been difficult for air and light to circulate through your grass. These are likely spots where mold developed. The area might just have bare patches, or you may see white or gray fuzz.
At this point it's still hard to tell if some or all of your grass may survive. There is no treatment or chemical to put on the mold to make this mold go away. The best thing you can do to help your grass survive is rake your yard to break up any matted grass and encourage air and light to penetrate. Anywhere you've piled up more snow is particularly where you'll want to rake.
Once you notice weeds start to pop up, that's an indication that the ground temperature is warm enough for fertilizer. You can use a fertilizer to help your grass, and you'll likely need to re-seed affected areas. If you have issues or concerns, give us a call at Gardenin' Angels!
This past winter was one of the hardest winters on record for the northeast. Consistently low temperatures and record-breaking snowfall amounts wreaked havoc on our properties. To recover from the perils and tension of the winter season, we need close and careful landscape care this spring. Here are some suggestions to improve the appearance and health of your outdoor space.
Remove any fallen tree limbs, trash, leaves and dead plants from your yard. You may even still have piles of snow to be removed from your lawn. Don't worry, you're not the only one! Shovel some of this snow off of your lawn and onto a driveway or sidewalk or other area off of your turf. The quicker you can expose your lawn to dry air and sunshine, the better. Grass gets compacted under objects and inhibits the growth of new grass. So, remove any rocks or shovels or other objects that have collected on your lawn over the winter.
Many shrubs do grow wildly during late | 510 |
Rock-A-Doodle - Blu-ray Review - ReDVDit!
Rock-a-Doodle is a 1991 live-action/animated musical comedy film that is loosely based on Edmond Rostand's comedy Chantecler. Directed by Don Bluth and written by David N. Weiss, Rock-a-Doodle is an Irish, British, and American venture that was produced by Sullivan Bluth Studios and Goldcrest Films. The film features the voices of Glen Campbell, Christopher Plummer, Phil Harris (in his final role before his retirement and death), Charles Nelson Reilly, Sorrel Brooke, Sandy Duncan, Eddie Deezen, Ellen Greene, and Toby Scott Granger in his film debut. The film was released in the United Kingdom on August 2, 1991, and in the United States on April 3, 1992.
The film takes place in the 1950s, where an anthropomorphic rooster named Chanticleer (whose special crow literally causes the sun to rise every morning) had left the farm to become a rock star in the city. Without him, rain continues to pour non-stop, causing a massive flood all over the country. The evil Grand Duke of Owls and his birds-of-prey henchmen take over in the darkness. Chanticleer's barnyard friends, along with Edmond, a young boy who had been transformed into a kitten by the Duke, take of on a mission to get Chanticleer to bring back the sun and save the country.
Rock-a-Doodle is an animated film that I had personally grown up with throughout my childhood. I'm not completely sure of exactly why I've loved this film since my youth, but as soon as I saw that Olive Films was releasing this to Blu-ray, I was beyond ecstatic. The film itself is a good natured, innocent kids film that I feel should be viewed at least once by every child today. Maybe it was the slight fantasy adventure that took place, or the slight struggle that the characters go through as they try to get Chanticleer to return to the farm (with a slight hint towards the average day to day life struggles), this movie is one that I will probably love for the rest of my life.
Offering a completely new and remastered video presentation, Rock-a-Doodle looked absolutely beautiful as it played out on my living room television. With it not only having a much cleaner visual display, despite the additional work that went into making this movie available on Blu-ray, the folks over at Olive Films were able to maintain that sense of originality that this movie had when it first came out in the early 90s. While maintaining that aged display, the colors looked significantly cleaner, and animation lines much, much sharper, this release is definitely one to be had, especially if you grew up with this movie.
Packaged with an English Stereo audio track, Rock-a-Doodle makes absolutely every effort to offer an original feel, just like the earlier VHS and Laserdisc releases of this film. While the audio track is not nearly as immersive as it could have been, it was really nicely done and offered a clean and clear audible experience for my wife and I. I do wish, however, that there would've at least been an optional 5.1 audio track included on this Blu-ray so that we could have felt more in the middle of everything, and allowing various elements like the storm to really stand out.
Rock-a-Doodle comes packaged in your standard single disc Blu-ray amaray case. Within that case is the standard Blu-ray copy of the film. The disc art itself, while not containing any character pieces, does use the same title font that's used on the case art, allowing it to stand out from your typical release. There is no DVD copy of the film included, nor are there any digital copy redemption pamphlets. There is no slipcover provided with this release.
Unfortunately, the Blu-ray release of Rock-a-Doodle is pretty barebones in terms of additional content. The only item that's been provided is the theatrical trailer for the movie. I really wish that there would've been more included due to my personal connection with this film, but the lack of additional content is something that is standard with releases from Olive Films.
As soon as the Blu-ray announcement for Rock-a-Doodle came out, I knew that I wanted to get this film for my personal collection. Having grown up with this movie, and the desire to upgrade my personal DVD copy of the film, I was beyond excited for this release. The story that we're given with this movie is one that is directed toward younger audiences, and is started off with a pretty solid foundation and is maintained very well as the movie progresses. The overall visual and audible presentation of this Blu-ray release was much cleaner than the earlier releases of the film, and you can tell that Olive Films put a lot of great work into making this release available. My only personal wish is that it would've come packaged with an optional <|fim_middle|> a more immersive experience for viewers. There really isn't much in terms of additional content included on this release, however that is common among Olive Films releases. If you're considering grabbing this film for your personal collection, I would without a doubt recommend it. Especially if you have children of your own or even if you grew up with it, this is one great addition for your personal library. Rock-a-Doodle is available now! | 5.1 audio track to offer | 7 |
Cast Your Vote For Your Favorite Bengals To The <|fim_middle|>, Jan. 26 in Orlando, Fla. | 2020 Pro Bowl
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Voting is now open for the 2020 Pro Bowl and you can vote for all of the Bengals' players who are on the ballot.
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Fans can currently vote online at NFL.com/ProBowlVote through Thursday, Dec. 12. Voting is free and fans are encouraged to vote multiple times and as often as they would like to support their favorite players.
Fans will also have the chance to vote on Twitter beginning Nov. 28 with voting on the final 48 hours via Twitter will count as double. To cast such a vote, fans should tweet the first and last name of the player, the player's official Twitter handle, or a hashtag including the player's first and last name. All three of these methods must include the hashtag: #ProBowlVote.
Pro Bowl rosters will be announced on Tuesday, Dec. 17 live on NFL Network's Pro Bowl special "NFL Total Access: Pro Bowl Players Revealed" at 8 p.m. ET. The NFL is the only sports league that combines voting by fans, coaches and players to determine its All-Star teams. It was also the first professional sports league to offer online all-star voting in 1995.
The 2020 Pro Bowl presented by Verizon will feature the traditional AFC vs. NFC game format and played on Sunday | 310 |
If you are a business owner who is looking to sell or retire, conditions couldn't get much tougher. Valuations are down from the halcyon days of the mid 2000's, interest rates continue at secular lows and the economy is sputtering. Call it the succession planning equivalent of the Perfect Storm.
So what is a business owner to do? One option is to let it ride until things improve, and maybe see an uptick in the value of the business. After all, you figure the dividends you'll pull out while you wait will equal what you could sell for today, plus you will still own the business!
So one year morphs into the next and you still run the show. But your plans for retirement remain on hold.
Over the years I have encountered many business owners who delay succession planning using this logic. They may have had an opportunity to sell, or considered passing the business on to the children only to let it ride because these are tough decisions and things never quite added up. Sometimes this seat of the pants approach works out just fine. But sometimes not.
For large companies with management depth, financial resources and revenue diversity the rewards of staying the course far outweigh the risks. But for small and medium size companies where the loss of the owner/founder or a key customer can be devastating, letting things ride until 'next year' without adequate contingencies is a big gamble.
So how to explain this seeming complacency? I think that over time entrepreneurs develop a high risk tolerance. They live and breathe risk everyday, for years on end. They see opportunity. They weigh the risks and then they jump in with both feet. This is what makes the economy hum. Risk is in their blood. But that doesn't mean they are immune.
But here is the thing. Risk of any type is by nature invisible, nebulous and random. It is everywhere but apparently nowhere. It<|fim_middle|> he relied on the same gut instinct that had always worked for him, and made the fateful decision to borrow. The takeaway here is that the risk one assumes at age 30 or 40 may not be appropriate at age 50 or 60. This is known as life cycle risk, and there are well known strategies for mitigating it such as grooming successors, accumulating assets outside the business, buying life insurance, and making yourself obsolete so the business can carry on in your absence. In other words, if the decision is to 'wait it out another year' be sure to have a solid Plan B in place. That way if the dog gets startled by the falling tire iron you may hear the bark, but you won't feel the bite.
In the next article we will consider tools for quantifying risk, how risk gets factored into determining the value of a business, and how this impacts succession decisions. We will consider the case of Rachel Riskmore, a business owner who is mulling over the merits of a possible sale of her business.
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We retained Andrew to assist us in exploring the sale of one of our business divisions to key executives, while also investigating a merger of our other business division with a major competitor. | is constantly changing, and it ought to have our attention at all times. It can be friend and foe. It greases the wheels of commerce but too much can cause a spin out. While you can't really see risk, you know it is lurking just out of sight, somewhere in the reeds. And like startling a sleeping dog, it can rear its dark side and bite you unexpectedly.
Arguably, companies could benefit from something like an ERFI. A less fictional, and hopefully more reliable, solution would be to work with independent advisers who would bring the proper checks and balances to nix any creeping complacency that might expose a company to risks it ought to avoid.
But let's consider the curious case of Mr. Zilch, a sixty something business owner who decided to replace his aging equipment with the latest state of the art. While having new machines was going to improve efficiencies, and the financing seemed affordable, doing the deal took his business from debt free to owing a bundle. Then September 2008 arrived and business dropped like a tire iron off a flat bed. Mr. Z was compelled to pursue the sale of his business at an inopportune time and find that most of the equity proceeds he hoped to realize for retirement were offset by the debt he had taken on to finance the purchase of new equipment. In banking lingo he mismatched assets and liabilities.
Had he taken pause to calculate his ERFI, he may not have purchased the new equipment. Instead | 303 |
Ever forget your keys and need to gain access to the office? It happens.
Well, imagine using your smart phone (programmed with an application for keyless entry) to gain easy, secure access and never having to fumble for that key again? Or, how about getting a notification at 11pm Sunday night that someone's entered your warehouse ― and being able to instantly view who it is and what they're doing ...right on your device? Welcome to the future of premises security – where almost anything's possible with the right cabling infrastructure.
Even if you rent your office space, gone are the days when the building landlord did it all. Proactive owners today are stepping up and investing in physical security measures to ensure their people, property and premises are protected 24/7.
And it's not just the threat of random break-ins or vandals. Today's security risks often come from the inside, perpetrated by unscrupulous staff members or contractors. Thefts of physical or digital assets are some of the costliest risks facing business owners today. So how do you control it all effectively – without hiring a troop of security personnel to stand watch?
The answer is in leading-edge, cloud-based tech and tools connected by the right cabling infrastructure.
Today's cameras and motion detection solutions are discreet, secure and cloud-based. They provide you with eyes and ears on your premises, recording any incidents that may occur. With the correct cabling and connections, you'll be able store all data and footage securely and review it in a pinch wherever you are via any device.
Tip: Don't miss a dark corner: be sure your provider fully reviews your premises to ensure all angles are covered.
Know who goes where, when.
The newest premise access control solutions offer easy keyless entry for owners and employees into offices or warehouses. By setting access restrictions and tailoring employee security levels, you can be specific about who enters where, when. Choose from a card fob like 'Keyscan' or a cell phone application, either of which can be programmed for certain hours and locations of<|fim_middle|> choose, peace of mind begins with the right set up and cabling.
Be sure you get a full consultation from a strong infrastructure company that understands your business security needs and the latest advances in premise security. | access. No more contractors or employees entering the premises after business hours – without your knowledge.
Tip: Ensure your provider knows who receives what type and duration of access pass – and that you have designated everyone's access appropriately.
Whichever premise security solution you | 50 |
Tag Archives: Comedy
WHAT'S ON MAY: Gary Meikle The iBrow Guy at Hamilton Town House
Posted on April 11, 2019 by glasgowtheatreblog
Gary Meikle – The iBrow Guy
Scottish comedy award winner & viral sensation Gary Meikle has risen through the ranks quicker than most and is now in high demand at the best comedy clubs across the UK! He has recently been supporting huge names such as Jason Manford, Tom Stade & Milton Jones and now he's bringing his own show, The iBrow Guy, to the people as part of his semi-permanent tour!
He'll guide us throw eyebrow etiquette, logic, laws and how it's changed his life as he'll now forevermore be known as the eyebrow guy.
Gary will lay before you his remarkable life story about how he's survived a troubled childhood to defy the odds, raised a daughter without her mother and became a granddad all before he was 40! As well as all this we'll get an insight into the workings of his mind, his thoughts and his opinions, of which he dare not verbalise until now! Gary is not one for mincing his words so expect the unexpected from this playfully dark effervescent rising star.
Available to book online or by calling The Town House, Hamilton on 01698 452299.
Venue: The Town House, Hamilton
What's on / Listings
<|fim_middle|> people and exploiting every cliche there is about the am-dram world, and while it may not exactly be original or sophisticated, boy they do it well. The sheer cleverness of the writing of Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and the split-second timing of this new cast ensures that Mischief Theatre's smash-hit remains a rib-tickler.
The humour in the first act is relentless, at times it's impossible to catch every gag, and it is genuinely tear-inducing, however, the production's original faults remain, the second act lags a little, either down to audience fatigue at the number of jokes that have assaulted your senses and/or the fact the original production ran for a tidy one hour instead of the current two hours ten minutes. One can't help feel a little judicious trimming would make this near-perfect show truly faultless. That said, any faults are easily forgiven due to the sheer entertainment value of the whole production. Just remember to wear waterproof mascara.
This review was originally written for and published by The Reviews Hub | What's on May
REVIEW: Love Me Tinder – The Town House, Hamilton
Posted on February 20, 2019 by glasgowtheatreblog
Much-loved journalist and broadcaster Cat Harvey, has her finger firmly on the pulse of West of Scotland woman (and man) in her new comedy play Love Me Tinder.
Exploring the minefield of dating in the 21st Century, it follows the story of a group of Glaswegian workmates who decide to embark on an online adventure in internet romance. There's career girl Fiona (Cat Harvey) forever single and looking for Mr. Absolutely Utterly Perfectly Right; Nicola (Michelle McManus) the eternal good-time girl who is ready to swap parties for nappies; Cathy (May Miller), married for 40 years to Willie, who has apparently ran away with a 28-year-old Polish yoga teacher; Ryan (Liam Dolan) unaware of his sexual orientation, unlike everyone who knows him; Davie (Andrew Agnew) who is so commitment-averse he'll date anyone and everyone "from legal to still breathing" and Davie (Johnny Mac) really Cupid in disguise, currently living in Cumbernauld and working his magic from the side-lines.
Harvey has an ear for Glaswegian patter and the naturalistic dialogue certainly strikes a chord with this largely female, sold-out audience. The laughs are sustained from start to end, and it's no small thanks to a knock-out cast. From local cabaret star May Miller, the epitome of a 'wee Glasgow wummin' to TV stalwarts Andrew Agnew and Liam Dolan to panto royalty Johnny Mac and Pop Idol winner and Scottish national treasure Michelle McManus, a woman with the most enviable natural comic timing (and of course, a fabulous voice), each is an absolute gem.
Mac gets the chance to demonstrate his natural comedic talents and his exceptional audience wrangling skills, honed from years as a panto star. His fourth wall breaking turn as Cupid/Danny is warm, good-natured and laugh out-loud funny. As is McManus' turn as the gobby Nicola. She manages to get the audience in tears with just a look, particularly hysterical is her disgust at Polish yoga teacher Klaudia stealing her big karaoke number, (which in an absolute belter of a theatrical trick) turns out to be McManus' real-life Pop Idol winning tune 'All This Time'.
The show is peppered throughout with party hits (you can't not let Miller and McManus demonstrate what made them famous in the first place) and there's even a chance for the audience to get in on the act with a rousing rendition of 'Sweet Caroline'.
The path of true love never does run smooth, and so it is here. To its credit there's also a large dose of reality in the mix to temper the laughs. This is a relatable, realistic portrait of love and friendship in the 21st Century and it's delivered with real heart and soul. Hopefully there's more to come from the pen of Cat Harvey.
WHAT'S ON JANUARY: Strath Laughs
Posted on January 10, 2019 by glasgowtheatreblog
The only regular Student Comedy Night in Glasgow! Introducing some of the most exciting Comedians, hosted by former 'Scottish Comedian of the Year' Jamie Dalgleish. Open to all University and College students.
Headliner: Christopher Macarthur-Boyd.
Billed as 'the next big thing' in Scottish comedy, Christopher is a three-time Scottish Comedian of the Year finalist, a So You Think You're Funny? finalist, and a two-time nominee for Best New Act at the Scottish Comedy Awards.
Already. he's made quite a name for himself as a writer, actor and director for online content for BBC Scotland's Short Stuff and Room To Write.
Thu 17 January 2019 20:30-22:30
Barony Bar
£3.00 (Ticket)
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REVIEW: Milton Jones and Chums – The Town House, Hamilton
Posted on October 7, 2018 by glasgowtheatreblog
The king of the one-liner Milton Jones and star of Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Comedy Roadshow, is touring the country with a slew of local comedians in tow. Luckily for Lanarkshire, Jones and chums are stopping off in Hamilton for one night only.
Compered brilliantly by stand up and star of Scot Squad, Chris Forbes, this is a well-curated showcase that delivers a satisfying night of comedy to the packed crowd.
Chris Forbes
Unenviably, it's down to Edinburgh-based Gareth Waugh to open the show. Waugh is a personable and polished comedian and his self-deprecating stories have enough relatable material to get the crowd nodding and laughing along. It must be said though that for anyone who has seen him in the last few years, much of the material has been culled from his past two Edinburgh Fringe show: granny's mad childhood games, the teenage gang asking him to buy them a carry-out and his jogging exploits to name a few. There's also a fair amount of awkwardly familiar stories to make you cringe in recognition. It's funny enough, and it serves its purpose as a warm up for the acts to come, but there's nothing new or particularly ground-breaking here.
Gareth Waugh
Next up is the Santa Claus bearded and board shorts and t-shirt wearing veteran Graham Mackie. Mackie's look may be benign and affable but his material is deceptively subversive, a combination that goes down well with the Hamilton crowd.
Graham Mackie
Second-to-top-billing falls to recent social media viral sensation Gary Meikle, whose rant on his daughter's obsession with her eyebrows has struck a chord in these self-absorbed times. Meikle a single dad and youthful granddad at 40, delivers a knock-out selection of hugely relatable anecdotes that really do have the audience almost rolling in the aisles. What shines through is his love for his daughter and granddaughter, who provide rich material for the deft story-teller.
Gary Meikle
The wild-haired Jones is well worth the wait and the intellect behind the drolly delivered one-liners is sharp, sharp, sharp. Jones is well aware that some are so clever that they need a moment to land and his deft-touch with an audience allows this to happen.
This is really is a bumper evening of comedy, without a weak link on the bill. Each comedian is well worth seeing on their own and an even bigger treat altogether.
NEWS: NEW COMEDY & MUSIC VENUE IN GLASGOW
GLEE CLUB COMES TO GLASGOW
Comedy in Glasgow has a rich history, and Glee Club are bringing their newest venue to the city.
Every week they will be bringing their own brand of comedy shows on a Friday and Saturday night. They will also play host to some of the best touring comedians. Over the years they have brought the biggest names to their venues including Michael McIntyre, Kevin Bridges, Sarah Millican, John Bishop, Joe Lycett and many more.
The launch weekend will be Fri 1st & Sat 2nd February 2019. The line up will feature Gary Little, Geoff Norcott, Jay Lafferty and a very special guest. Tickets are on sale now.
Glee Club Glasgow
11 Renfrew Street, Glasgow, G2 3AB
REVIEW: Flight of the Conchords sing Flight of the Conchords – SEE Hydro Arena, Glasgow
Posted on June 18, 2018 by glasgowtheatreblog
It's been a long seven years since the "almost award-winning, fourth most popular folk duo in New Zealand" have toured the U.K., made longer by Bret McKenzie's recovery from a broken wrist, sustained from a nose dive down a flight of stairs at the start of the tour.
Flight of the Conchords have come a long, long way both physically and metaphorically. From bumbling young cult duo trying to find their niche in the comedy world to a 13000 person audience at Glasgow's Hydro Arena via Bret McKenzie winning the 2012 songwriting Academy Award and Jemaine Clement's glittering movie career going from strength to strength.
Their 90-minute set is a perfect mix of old and new, launching straight into Father and Son, a seemingly tender ballad that takes an unexpectedly dark turn. There are highlights throughout, so many it would read like a setlist, but Deana and Ian, a tale of inter-office romance is hysterical; The Ballad of Stana a disturbingly funny traditional country story-song; Summer of 1353, a madrigal, yes, you read that right, complete with recorder solos, and two old favourites, Bowie and Foux du Fa Fa (who doesn't love a lyric that rhymes haricots verts with pomme de terres), the list goes on and on.
The duo acknowledge that they look a lot older than they did in their TV show days, and apologise for reminding us of our own mortality, but the wit and intellect and self-deprecating humour is still there. They remain utterly irresistible and, if anything, funnier than they have ever been. This reviewers' love for the pair remains undiminished. Just perfect.
REVIEW: News Hacks – Òran Mór, Glasgow
Posted on May 27, 2018 by glasgowtheatreblog
Political satire may not be dead in Scotland, but it's demise on the comedy scene has left it in dire need of resuscitation. Producers Karen Townsend and Rikki Brown have applied the defibrillator and delivered News Hacks, a monthly riff on the great, the good and the not so clever making the headlines in Scotland.
No political stone is left unturned and no Scottish political figure of any worth escapes examination. While Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, diminutive Scottish Green Party co-convenor Patrick Harvie and Scottish Lib Dem's Willie Rennie come in for some cutting comment, it is the SNP and it's leader, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, one Fiona Hyslop, who are on the receiving end of the most biting satire.
While the lion's share of the night is given over to national politics, it spreads its gaze further: Putin's Russia, TV show Shetland (a highlight of the evening), Lorraine Kelly's somewhat idiosyncratic interview style (having Ed Sheerin and Syria's Bashar al-Assad in the same segment), local TV news anchor John MacKay and newspaper The National and it's independence referendum spin on even the most ridiculous subjects, all come under scrutiny.
The sharply observed script is given greater punch by the three hugely talented actors delivering it. Stand up comedian, actor and presenter Des McLean has the requisite comedy chops to pull this off with great aplomb and his accents are (largely) on the nose, hugely experienced actor and comedy veteran Elaine MacKenzie Ellis has the chance to shine with her spot-on take on a wide range of Scottish female worthies, and Scottish national treasure Jimmy Chisholm's comic timing and ability to get an audience on side, all amount to an absolutely hysterical look at Scotland today and all our quirks.
News Hacks is a hugely welcome addition to the comedy scene: biting, brilliant and about time too for a resuscitation of satire in Scotland.
This review was originally written for The Reviews Hub
The next News Hacks will be at Òran Mór on 20 June 2018 | Image: Contributed
REVIEW: Weegie Hink Ae That present Where Ye Fae? – Websters Theatre, Glasgow
New Scottish sketch group, Weegie Hink Ae That, take the most familiar (and embarrassing) Glasgow stereotypes, and oh so cleverly put a new spin on them to create an original, and frequently hysterically funny evening of comedy.
There's no doubt, from the performers to the material they deliver, where they're from. This is Glaswegian to its very core. From a musical eulogy to the Greggs Pie, through Saturday night with the girls at the dancing, a parody of some familiar playground taunts, to some new and unusual ways to utilise the tattie scone – it's clear there's huge potential here.
The transitions are slick, each of the performers (Gregor Mackay, Conor Hardie, Jack Jarvis Gouther and Elliot Hannigan) pulls their weight, and to their credit, has their own identity (which is quickly established by the clever writing) within the group.
Don't be fooled by the tracksuit/trainer-clad lads you see in front of you. These are highly intelligent writers and performers. It takes a great deal of talent to pull this material off with such aplomb, and it's easy to see this getting picked up for TV. It would make a youthful counterpoint to the geriatric Glaswegian pals in BBC TV hit Still Game.
Not all the material hits its mark, and for broader appeal they could extend their frame of reference a few decades beyond their own youthful demographic to ensure Scotland-wide comedy domination, but these young men are going far – keep your eyes peeled, this won't be the last you'll hear of them.
REVIEW: Alexander Fox: Ringo – Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
Posted on August 18, 2017 by glasgowtheatreblog
It's the moments of pure storytelling that resonate most in Alexander Fox's debut solo hour of original comedy: Ringo.
In 2006, a then teenaged Fox, met and began a pen-pal correspondence with the world's most famous drummer, The Beatles' Ringo Starr. What follows is an at times surreal, biographical tale, with appearances from the Cadbury's gorilla drumming to Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight and Pingu; references to drumming movie Whiplash, as well as a whole lot of audience participation and good-natured banter.
For all the mad-cap antics it's the moments of stillness and genuine emotion that are the most successful. Fox is a natural storyteller and easily grips the audience. He should be confident enough to rely on his considerable skills without resorting to some of the nonsense that litters the tale and takes it off on unnecessary tangents. There's real potential here: the subject matter alone is enough to draw an audience, keeping the path of the narrative a little closer to the key material (or if the silliness were a bit more on-theme) could make this a universal winner.
Fox is genuinely charming and it's easy to warm to him and he provides plenty of laughs throughout. He is naturally ebullient, but this is as much a negative as it is a positive, his youth and exuberance playing to the time-wasting interruptions from the audience rather than keeping it tight and on-point.
With a little bit of work, Alexander Fox: Ringo, could have a long life beyond an igloo on the green at The Pleasance for the Edinburgh Fringe.
Runs until 28 August 2017 | Image: Contributed
This review was originally published by The Reviews Hub
REVIEW: The Play That Goes Wrong – Theatre Royal, Glasgow
Posted on March 10, 2017 by glasgowtheatreblog
A lot has changed in the few short years since the first national tour of Mischief Theatre's The Play That Goes Wrong. The award-winning theatre company has catapulted itself from the room upstairs at the Old Red Lion Pub Theatre to Olivier Award-winning success, has two productions currently running in the West End and an opening this week on Broadway, is riding high on the recent success of the BBC's festive production of Peter Pan Goes Wrong and has single-handedly managed to bring the great British tradition of farce back to the fore.
But the question is, does the show that started it all stand up to repeat viewing? In a word – yes.
For those who don't know, Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society is endeavouring to stage 1920s mystery thriller, The Murder at Haversham Manor, but a lack of talent, finance and sheer common sense makes for theatrical mayhem. Needless to say, everything that can go wrong, does, and the more the mayhem, the bigger the laughs.
Clearly influenced by Michael Frayn's Noises Off, it's theatre people sending up theatre | 3,494 |
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