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My first week on the job as First Lite’s sales intern was definitely a whirlwind. Moving from PA to ID meant a lot of changes and one of the most exciting involved hunting. I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an elk tag which meant I would be going on my first spot stalk style hunt! We wasted no time and within the first few days of being in Idaho, I set out to find some elk.
pack out meat if we were successful in our hunt. We climbed and climbed quickly (working a 9-5 job only allows for so much week day hunting). Panting, sweating, and legs burning we reached the top of a ridge and began to glass. We scanned the mountains up and down, left to right, trying to spot a big brown elk. Glassing was more difficult than I had expected. The focus it requires, especially when recovering from the huffing and puffing of the climb, is another bullet point to the list of reasons why hunting is tough. To my surprise, I saw the brown blob I was looking for. It was the first elk I had seen in person and even though she was over a mile away, my excitement was uncontrollable. We watched for a minute or two longer and spotted what looked to be 2-4 other cows and possibly a bull. My first elk hunt was in full swing.
Move fast. That was all I could think while we hurried down the mountain. Daylight was against us, which added to the pressure to move quickly. We jumped back into the truck and drove about a mile to a portion of the road where we were better able to put a stalk on the elk. We were back to climbing straight up a mountain, but this time I was even more focused on staying quiet, avoiding stomping on sticks, and keeping my eyes up, ears alert. We reached the portion of the mountain where we thought we had last seen the herd. I had read it can be extremely difficult to relocate game after spotting them, and now I understood why. We paused for a second to try and determine where we saw them last when I heard ‘crunch, crunch, crunch.’ A quick hand signal and a turn of my head toward the direction of the noise and we simultaneously stopped and lowered our bodies to the ground. Here is where the classic hunting adrenaline rush ran through my body. Crouching as still as possible, eyes wide and ears intently listening, I waited while my heart pounded through chest. We continued to hear the elk crunching just 40-50 yards below us, but I still did not have eyes on them. I nocked an arrow and readied my release. There was a patch of brush blocking a portion of my view, but between a few branches, I saw her. She was about 35 yards from me, staring right into my eyes. I did not move (I don’t even think I took a breath). With her nostrils flaring and ears wiggling back and forth, I was sure she would spook off, but eventually she dropped her head and slowly moved back down the mountain. I would have taken a shot right there, but the brush was too thick and stopped me from drawing back my bow. The three of us looked at each other with a sort of “hell yeah, here we go” head nod then turned our attention back toward the action. All elk were out of sight, but we could still hear them, so I decided I would make a move toward the brush as a safe place to set up for a shot (we initially crouched down in a place with no cover) and to see if there was in fact a bull in the herd. As I began to crawl, we heard a big blow through the nose of what I like to imagine was a large bull. There must have been eyes on me that I did not see before I began to move. They knew we were there and not a second later the stampede of elk ran down the mountain. The sound of this elk herd running was louder than anything I could have imagined. I could literally feel the sounds and vibrations through my body. With that, I knew the hunt was over. I collapsed over my pack, dropped by bow, and felt the strangest sensation of exhilaration and heart break all in one moment. I was so overwhelmed with happiness to have had such an experience for my first elk hunt, and crushed with defeat because I had spooked the herd off. It was such a beautiful, raw moment that I will surely never forget.
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Last call for volunteers to help us help you by volunteering to take one day out of your busy schedules to attend the MCCC Delegate Assembly this Saturday, April 28, 2012.
At this annual meeting members discuss and vote to set policy and goals for the up coming year, adopt our annual budget and our dues for 2012-21013.
Please volunteer to serve our union as we try to move forward in representing your interests both here at STCC and statewide.
To date I have the names of 8 of your colleagues who have volunteered to serve. We need 14 more to fill out our delegation and give us a strong voice in our union. Please let me know that you will attend.
Since the candidates for the STCC Professional Association’s Executive Committee all ran unopposed, the forty-six PA members present at Monday’s meeting voted unanimously to elect the slate of candidates. The newly elected (or re-elected)Executive Committee will hold office from July 1, 2012-June 30, 2014.
Annо 2205 is a city-building and economic simulation game, with real-time strategy elements, as opposed to the previous installments which feature a historical setting.
In the game, players take on the role of a leader from a corporation and must compete against other corporations in developing future technologies.
At the beginning of the game, players are tasked to build different metropolises on Earth.
Population increases when more buildings are built, and players are tasked to satisfy and fulfill the needs of their citizens.
Besides building houses, players must also produce goods and to build infrastructures like robot production facilities to maintain economy.
These buildings can be relocated or moved around by players. Similar to SimCity, different parts can be added to buildings to enhance their functions.
Upgrading the production structures of these buildings can also improve their efficiency.
Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ALCARAZ live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ALCARAZ represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ALCARAZ in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ALCARAZ by picking someone at random in California than anywhere else.
The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ALCARAZ.
The following words are slight variants of ALCARAZ that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.
Spem in alium was written by Thomas Tallis in c1570 and stands apart from most other choral music because it is written for 40 parts. Most choral music, regardless of the number of people in the choir, only has 4-6 parts. Just for its sheer flamboyance, Spem is famed among choristers due to the challenges of learning and performing it.
Delving into the details of how the music is constructed, rather than being written for a single choir of 40 voices, it is written for eight choirs each of five voices. Each choir comprises one soprano, one alto and either two tenors and one baritone, or one tenor and two baritones.
I decided it would be fun to experiment with recording it, although I don’t currently have access to a choir of 40 with the time to learn and perform it! I thought about William Orbit‘s recording of Barber’s Adagio for Strings and how well the gentle synthesised sounds worked for him. I’m no expert at electronic music but it is something I have played with in the past.
Being out of copyright, it was easy (and legal!) to obtain a MIDI file of Spem which contains the 40 parts as separate tracks. I imported it into my favourite musical editor, MuseScore, and had a look at the tracks.
For those not in the know, MIDI files don’t contain sound but rather are the computerised equivalent of sheet music – they contain instructions about what notes to play. The computer generates the sound during playback by using a soundfont, which contains sound samples. Just like a real font with a text document, you can change the soundfont for a different sound. The default soundfont with MuseScore is reasonably good but the choir sound is lacking. I downloaded a few free soundfonts until I found one with a choir sound that I liked.
As well as using a soundfont to play MIDI files back, MuseScore can generate a WAV or MP3 sound file from the MIDI file. I got MuseScore to export each choral part as a separate sound file, which can then be edited using a multi-track sound editor – in my case, Adobe Audition. I told MuseScore not to add any effects like reverb to the output, as I’ll do that later.
Traditionally, when performing Spem, the 40 choristers stand in a semicircular shape around the conductor, grouped in their eight choirs. This is how I configured my first attempt with the 40 singers standing in a semicircle.
I wondered about arranging the voices grouped not in choirs but in parts: into soprano, alto, tenor and baritone. This would mean all the high notes coming from the left and all the low notes from the right, and that would also sound odd.
Eventually I decided to sort the voices using a numerical pattern to split up the choirs and the parts so there would be no overall weighting. I made a spreadsheet to work out the ordering, and then spread the 40 voices over the arc, 5 degrees apart with a total spread of 200 degrees – just over a full semicircle.
With the positioning set, I applied gentle compression to each individual voice part to limit the dynamic range and then added a surround reverb to the master channel (i.e., after the parts have been mixed). I chose a cathedral reverb for a long duration and a large, swimmy effect.
The final recording was mastered for 5.1 surround but there’s also a stereo version for Internet compatibility.
As a bonus, I’ve also included Spem rendered for more traditional electronic synthesizers, with each of the eight choirs taking on a different synthesized sound.
Last but not least, I thought I’d render a recording of another of my favourite choral pieces, When to the temple Mary went by Johannes Eccard. It was written around the same time as Spem and also sound richer than the average choral motet because it is written for six parts rather than the more common four. I experimented with sounds but didn’t like either the choral or synth takes, so I decided to render it for string sextet. I think it works quite nicely, and if I can ever get my hands on a real string sextet then I will ask them to play it!
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Independence Day. John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, the following: "It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore."
They had just finished the Declaration of Independence, letting the big boys back in England know that they were fed up.
Tired of the shackles, inane regulations and the out-of-touch regulators themselves.
I wonder what the signers would have thought the next year, if some city fathers decided that the kids could not light off a firecracker. Maybe there would have been a second Boston Tea Party.
OK, I can accept the "No Fireworks" in the county-rural areas. But wouldn't it have made sense to allow fireworks inside the city limits? I am a lifelong Kansas resident, having lived through some really dry years. Firecrackers and other fun things are what make Independence Day what it is. Kids need the opportunity to step on a burning ember or experience a firecracker popping their fingers. I don't recall a house fire in Hays due to fireworks since moving here in 1970. This is the second year for this limitation.
Now that our governing regulators have established policy to do away with what John Adams envisioned, the sad refrain begins. The fat lady sings and weeps.
I plan on buying some firecrackers in Plainville. There will be a "Hays Tea Party" on the Fourth of July. Bang, bang.
For much of the last decade, Apple has been consolidating its control over the chips embedded in its products to support graphics, machine learning and other tasks. Inside some of its latest iPhones is another custom chip, a new main power management IC (PMIC) that Apple designed to prolong battery life. Dialog Semiconductor had until recently been selling Apple that part.
The importance of this tiny component came through on Thursday. As part of a $600 million deal, Dialog said it would license the main PMIC technology it developed for the iPhone and transfer around 300 chip engineers to Apple. The company said that the deal allowed it to continue selling main PMICs to other customers and in other markets like the Internet of Things.
Apple is technically paying $300 million in the transaction, which includes patents and licenses from Dialog. The other $300 million is a prepayment for other products to be shipped to Apple within the next three years. Most of the 300 employees being transferred in the deal—which account for around 16 percent of Dialog's total workforce—were already working on chips specifically for Apple products.
On Thursday, Dialog also announced that it had signed new contracts with Apple to supply power management, audio subsystem, charging and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The company, whose shares increased 25 percent following the news, said that it would start earning revenue from the new contracts next year. Another part of the deal: Apple will take over four Dialog offices in Italy, Germany and Britain.
The deal not only removes the uncertainty around Dialog’s relationship with Apple. It could also bolster the company’s attempts to reduce its dependence on Apple. That means expanding its presence in markets like the Internet of Things, which includes smart home appliances and smart watches. The company expects its advanced mixed-signal, connectivity, automotive and industrial businesses to grow between 10 and 15 percent from 2018 to 2022.
“We believe that this transaction is in the best interests of our employees and shareholders who will benefit from a business with enhanced focus, strong growth prospects and additional financial flexibility to invest in strategic growth initiatives,” said Jalal Bagherli, the company’s chief executive officer, in a statement. “Going forward, we will have a clear strategic focus,” he added.
Supplying chips for hundreds of millions of iPhones and other Apple products every year can fundamentally change a company’s fortunes. But the sudden loss of that business can have catastrophic results. Over the last decade, Apple has been ramping up the development of custom chips for tasks like image processing and machine learning. The company introduced its first ARM-based SoC for the iPhone and iPad in 2010.
The potential dangers were underlined when Imagination Technologies announced last year that Apple would remove its graphics processing units (GPUs) from the iPhone’s core chipset for the first time in a decade. Apple developed a homegrown GPU architecture in its place to improve realism of reflected light and other graphics. The move eliminated a significant amount of Imagination’s business, which has been split up and sold off.
Apple deployed the same strategy with Dialog, which will continue selling main power management products to the Cupertino, California-based company before they are gradually scooped out of the iPhone and Apple's other hardware starting in 2019. Bagherli said that the company would continue supplying Apple with current and future generations of another power management chip, the sub-PMIC.
Before Thursday’s announcement, Dialog's market value had been cleaved in half over the last year amid warnings that Apple would develop custom power management chips. For much of the last year, Bagherli has struggled to tamp down concerns about its business. In June, the company acknowledged that Apple was adding another source for its PMIC components. That caused Dialog to lower its projected 2018 sales by around five percent.
Dialog said that the deal would not reduce this year’s revenue. But the company will not take home any revenue from the main PMIC components inside the 2019 iPhone or the 2020 iPad and Apple Watch. Revenue from the licensing deal with Apple is estimated to be $875 million in 2018. But it will decline in the second half of next year, phasing out by 2022. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2019.
Following the deal, the company’s headcount will decline to around 1,800. Its sub-PMIC business with Apple, on target for $150 million before the end of the year, is projected to increase to around $450 million by 2022. Dialog expects Apple to account for between 35 and 40 percent of its 2022 revenues, down from an estimated 75 percent this year, the company said.
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In August of 2018 Luis Javier Hernandez the Mayor of Villalba Puerto Rico traveled to Hoboken NJ to meet with Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla and City Council President Ruben Ramos Jr. Mayor Hernandez described the conditions of his city after Hurricane Maria and the challenges he is faced with. Mayor Bhalla decided to adopt Villalba, Puerto Rico as Hoboken’s sister city and committed to help them by donating 3 police cars and 360 bullet proof panels to be used with their bullet proof vests to help his police force. On Wednesday, January 16, 2019 the city council unanimously voted to donate 3 Hoboken police cars and 360 bullet proof vests to the city of Villalba, Puerto Rico to help rebuild their fleet.
In addition to the police equipment Director Leo Pellegrini, The Puerto Rican Culture Committee, Hoboken High school Hispanic club, More4amore, and Joe Branco decided to collect used kids soccer and baseball equipment to send to the boys and girls of Villalba Puerto Rico. With the help of the Hoboken Community we collected a lot of equipment.
The Rotary Club of Jersey City will be handling all the logistics to help ship and deliver all 3 police cars, vests, and kids sporting equipment we have been collecting over the last couple of months.
We are having a fundraiser on Monday, February 11th at Texas Arizona in Hoboken. We are having this event to bring awareness to our mission and to raise money to assist with some of the transportation costs associated with the donation of these items to Puerto Rico.
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I am 34 and am really just now beginning to understand the power of food. It is everything. What we eat has the power to make us better or worse. I've been listening to podcasts and reading tons of articles about this topic, and I am even more passionate than ever about spreading this message to the masses. Food has the power to alter your moods, your energy, and remedy your ailments, aches, pains, illnesses, and more. And yes, this can feel a bit scary. But it is also incredibly empowering.
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As of 2017, the EBRD has invested almost €6 billion in more than 130 SEMED projects, of which 71 per cent are in the private sector. The Bank has also spent well over €250 million in technical assistance funded by EBRD donors and shareholders.
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This Osprey Command title looks closely at the early life, military experiences and key battlefield exploits of Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1887-1976), perhaps the best-known, most highly respected and most controversial British general of World War II. "Monty's” reputation was made while in command in North Africa, in the Mediterranean and then North-West Europe. Arguably his best-known achievement was rebuilding a dispirited and defeated eighth army and inflicting a decisive defeat on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery's style and exercise of command and his personal reputation were largely shaped by his highly driven, but often difficult and enigmatic personality. He made an incalculable contribution to the Allied victory in Europe, and his leadership had played a crucial role in transforming the British Army into a war-winning weapon.
Tim Moreman is a freelance writer and academic. For several years he lectured in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, from where he obtained his PhD. He also held a six-month appointment as Resident Historian at the Army Staff College at Camberley. His primary interests include the British Indian Army during the 19th and 20th centuries, counter-insurgency, and the British and Commonwealth armies during World War II. In addition to a significant number of articles and papers, Tim has written two major books: a study of the Indian Army on the North-West Frontier 1849-1947, and a book on the war in Burma and Malaya 1941-45. In recent years he has also worked for the new Dictionary of National Biography and the Australian War Memorial, as well as acting as a historical adviser for the BBC and Carlton Television. He is based in Somerset, UK.Graham Turner is a leading historical artist, specializing in the medieval period. He has illustrated numerous titles for Osprey, covering a wide variety of subjects from the dress of the 10th-century armies of the Caliphates, through the action of bloody medieval battles, to the daily life of the British Redcoat of the late 18th century. The son of the illustrator Michael Turner, Graham lives and works in Buckinghamshire, UK.

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