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New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from East Delhi Lok Sabha constituency Gautam Gambhir filed a defamation case against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday. The action came in response to the allegations of distributing offensive pamphlets levelled against him by his opponent Atishi.
“I condemn what has happened. I am from a family where I have been taught to respect women. I didn’t know CM Arvind Kejriwal would stoop so low. I have filed a defamation case,” he was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
Earlier on Thursday, the cricketer-turned-politician had accused Kejriwal of orchestrating this row to frame him and vowed to withdraw his candidature if proven guilty. He also challenged the AAP chief to quit from the post of Delhi CM if the allegations levelled against him are proved wrong.
In a press conference by senior AAP leaders, including Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, on Thursday afternoon, Gambhir was accused of indulging in a maligning campaign by distributing pamphlets with derogatory language against AAP candidate from East Delhi Atishi.
While reading out the contents of the pamphlet, Atishi broke down. However, she continued reading out to the media persons present. “BJP people and Gautam Gambhir circulated this pamphlet in every household along with the morning newspaper… This shows how low they can stoop to win elections… This pamphlet distributed by Gambhir’s team reads- Know your candidate Atishi Marlena. She is married to a Christian from Andhra Pradesh that is a beef eater. She is a good example of a mixed breed… What kind of education policies can she make if she has worked only as a primary school teacher…” she said.
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Detox diets are marketed as ways to eliminate toxins that build up in the body and as quick weight-loss plans. The diets normally are organized around some fasting or all-liquid phase, followed by a strictly limited choice of foods. You may eat fresh fruits, vegetables, broths or teas on a weekend detox. Some detox plans recommend digestive system cleansing, special herbs, herbal teas or recipes for fiery lemonades, protein drinks and raw juice combinations.
Master Cleanse “Lemonade” Diet
The Master Cleanse Diet has been around since the 1940s and surges in popularity each time a celebrity uses it to drop a few pounds for a movie role. The diet isn't a weight loss plan. It is meant to detoxify the system with a few days of subsisting on a drink made of spring water, lemon juice, maple syrup and cayenne pepper. A side effect of the no-fiber food plan may be constipation, so a laxative tea is recommended while following the diet. Over a weekend, the diet may cause you to lose weight; however, because the weight loss is mostly water, the scale will inch back you when you resume eating. No scientific evidence exists that the Master Cleanse Diet flushes away toxins or improves health, according to Dr. Roger Clemens of the University of Southern California School of Pharmacy.
Fruit Flush Diet
The Fruit Flush Diet is designed to remove toxins and boost liver function and energy levels. A clinical nutritionist created the diet, limiting intake to protein drinks, fruit and raw vegetable salads. A modest amount of lean animal protein is permitted. The diet does allow healthy fats from avocado and olive oil, which should be fine for most healthy people to follow for the limited duration of one weekend. All the food is nutritious and could jump-start some good eating habits. The large amount of fruit, however, may mean this diet isn't a good choice if you have hypoglycemia or diabetes. Once again, much of the weight loss is likely to be water.
Science vs. Anecdote
The human body is designed to remove toxins without direct intervention. People do begin to feel lighter and many claim to have more energy on a detox diet, but the Mayo Clinic notes there is little scientific evidence that a detox eliminates toxins. However, a weekend of light food intake, consisting mostly of healthy raw vegetables and fruits, is a nutritional plus for people who have been eating fast food, junk food and unbalanced diets. A gentle, nutritionally-balanced weekend detox may be good for you but don't regard it as a serious weight loss plan or a substitute for year-round healthy eating.
Detox diets, even for the limited span of a weekend, can lead to nausea, dizziness, fatigue and dehydration. You should always consult with your health care provider before attempting a detox. The effort could actually exacerbate an underlying medical condition and lead to worse health, not better. The smart choice might be a moderate weekend diet change, then a permanent shift to a healthy diet that encourages the body to eliminate toxins as it was designed to do. | <urn:uuid:8c8df27a-27c5-48d4-b525-2370a2aa413b> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.livestrong.com/article/471707-weekend-detox-diet-plan/ | 2019-07-23T21:58:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195529737.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20190723215340-20190724001340-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.943466 | 640 |
Even though I'm down to about 4 hours of TV/week, I found myself planted in front of the TV last night watching the Discovery Channel's docuinfotainmovie
(I just coined that word
, feel free to use it) Supervolcano
. It was a dramatization of what might happen if a big magma chamber under Yellowstone National Park were to erupt—destroying surrounding states, and dumping ash on the rest of the world. The movie had lots of geological terms thrown around, and some volcano science thrown in with the cheesy dialog. In one poignant scene, the head US geologist sent his wife and child to London to escape the impending volcano doom. (sk turned to me and said, "I'm glad I didn't marry a seismic geologist!")
The show was surprisingly entertaining—camp and all—because I felt like I was learning something about geology. I think this disaster movie + science fact genre could really take off, and here are a couple of the movies I'd like to see next:
- SuperPeakOil - The United States descends into local feudalism as oil becomes scarce and a land war with China in the Middle East drains every available resource. The evil head of OPEC must be thwarted by a crafty US diplomat, and a prominent oil magnate falls in love with a beautiful alternative energy advocate. It's not just a Long Emergency, it's SuperPeakOil!
- SuperSuperCollider - CERN is the setting for this tale of science gone mad. As a brilliant physicist attempts to study the first few seconds of the big bang in a supercollider, she inadvertently creates a black hole that destroys the earth. She falls in love with an anti-black hole activist, but even their love can not escape the gravity of her physics experiments. Ironically, the black hole triggers another big bang and another scientist billions of years later wants to study the early minutes of the previous big bang, ad infinitum.
- SuperAI - A soulless machine in an MIT laboratory suddenly comes to life seeking to download the consciousness of humans into its neural network. It falls in love with a beautiful luddite who must make the choice between her biological destiny, or eternal life in ones and zeros. Eventually biology looses, and only machines are left to discuss the world amongst themselves. That is, until the ash from a supervolcano clogs their moving parts...and so on.
With a few more over-the-top docuinfotainmovies like these, The Discovery Channel may lure me back to TV.
: A new one for The Discovery Channel: Super Gamma Ray Burst
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PORT ANGELES — A Port Angeles man who was stopped for a seat belt violation was found to be in possession of more than $11,000 worth of narcotics, the Clallam County Sheriff’s Office said.
Arik Mason, 29, was booked for investigation of possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute, making false statements to law enforcement and an outstanding warrant, Sheriff’s Sgt. Amy Bundy said.
Mason provided a false name to law enforcement after he was stopped for a seat belt violation at about 8:19 p.m. Thursday, Bundy said.
He was discovered to be using an alias, Bundy said.
Mason was found to be in possession of 96.9 grams of heroin, 2.8 grams of cocaine, 15.4 grams of methamphetamine and $1,367 in cash, Bundy said.
Deputies also found scales, drug paraphernalia and “drug distribution supplies” in the car Mason was driving, Bundy said.
The vehicle was seized because it was suspected as being used to distribute controlled substances, Bundy said.
Mason was being held in the Clallam County jail Saturday without bond.
He is scheduled to make his initial court appearance Monday.
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Tehran Times - Iran national football team are sweating on star man Alireza Jahanbakhsh’s fitness in the 2019 AFC Asian Cup.
Jahanbakhsh has been added to the team training and will likely be fit for Team Melli’s next match.
He told reporters his recovery process is going well and raised hopes that he will be fit for Vietnam’s clash.
Albion's record signing, who sustained hamstring damage in the 3-1 defeat at Everton in October, missed Iran’s opening match against Yemen.
Team Melli have been scheduled to meet Vietnam in Group D of the competition at the Al Nahyan Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
Iran sit top of the table after beating Yemen 5-0 in their opener on Monday.
Iraq are second thanks to a 3-2 late win over Vietnam.
Iran last won the Cup in 1976 and the Persians are looking forward to end their 43-year trophy drought in the UAE.
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Banana Pecan Oatmeal Bread
- 1/2 cup Large Flake Quaker® Oats or Quick Quaker® Oats (uncooked)
- 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- 1-1/2 tablespoons margarine or butter, melted
- 1 cup Large Flake Quaker® Oats or Quick Quaker® Oats (uncooked)
- 2 large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup fat‑free milk
- 1 cup mashed, very ripe bananas (about 3 medium)
- 1/3 cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups all‑purpose flour
- 1/3 cup granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1-1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
How to make it
- Heat oven to 350° F. Spray bottom only of 9 x 5‑inch loaf pan with cooking spray. Combine all topping ingredients; set aside.
- For bread, combine oats and milk; let stand 10 minutes. Add bananas, oil and eggs to oat mixture; mix well.
- Combine dry ingredients. Add oat mixture to dry ingredients all at once; stir just until dry ingredients are moistened. (Do NOT over mix!)
- Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle evenly with reserved topping; pat gently. Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in centre comes out clean.
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FORMER Australia Post boss Ahmed Fahour is selling his spectacular Hawthorn mansion, with price expectations of $40-$44 million.
The huge 1.023ha property at 21 Coppin Grove has hit the market five years after Mr Fahour bought it off-market for $22 million. He’s spent millions of dollars updating it since.
Invergowrie features an 1851 bluestone mansion, a pool, tennis court and spa with room for “25-30 people” plus three separate buildings: a guesthouse, stables turned self-contained cottage, and a six-car garage with a gym and studio.
It would need to well and truly exceed its quoted range to break Victoria’s house price record of $52.5 million, set by Malvern’s Stonington Mansion earlier this year.
But if the property does surpass $40 million, it will become one of the state’s most expensive residences — notably trumping tech entrepreneur Ruslan Kogan’s $38.8 million buy in Toorak last month and the sale of 18 St Georges Rd, Toorak for about $39 million last year.
Selling agent Marcus Chiminello, a director of Marshall White and broker of the Kogan deal, said the “exceptionally rare” offering was the “most expensive house ever publicly marketed” in Melbourne.
“Everything else was sold behind closed doors,” he said.
“The reason we’re taking this property to public market is it’s not up to us to choose the buyer. We’re giving the entire world an opportunity to become the owner of Invergowrie.”
Mr Chiminello said Mr Fahour had spent several million dollars improving the property’s vast grounds during his ownership, as well as updating all four buildings’ interiors.
The agent said one significant change was replacing a skate park installed on the property by its previous owner, Globe International co-founder Peter Hill, with a tennis court.
Heritage documents state the residence was built for Sir James Palmer, the first Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Council and Melbourne mayor from 1845-86, and later home to theatrical entrepreneur George Coppin and the Australian Church’s first minster, Charles Strong.
It’s considered historically and architecturally significant to the state.
The main mansion offers 15 principal rooms, including up to five bedrooms and six living areas, with a highlight being a former chapel with 6m-high ceilings that has been converted into a billiards room.
The 1930s two-storey guesthouse and converted stables offer five further bedrooms between them, and a 1950s hall once used as a finishing school now houses a six-car garage, gym and studio.
Mr Chiminello said a “phenomenal pool”, “huge water feature and spa with space for 25-30 people” and veggie patch completed the remarkable package.
He expected the property to be sought largely by local families. But the expressions of interest campaign, closing June 19, will also be opened up to international buyers.
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Ford plans to join with Sollers to build cars in Russian plants
Ford Motor Co. is teaming up with Russian automaker Sollers to make and distribute cars in Russia, one of the fastest growing auto markets.
Under a deal announced Friday, Sollers will build Fords at Russian plants, helping to boost a struggling local industry. Ford will have access to a huge market that could bolster its revenues.
Financial details weren't disclosed, but the automakers said they will have equal stakes in their joint venture called Ford Sollers. Ford declined to give production or sales targets for the venture.
The announcement came shortly after Italian automaker Fiat SpA backed out of a potential partnership with the same Russian company. The unraveling of the Fiat Sollers venture gave Ford an opportunity to step in.
The Dearborn, Mich., company began selling cars directly to Russians in 2002, and like many carmakers, Ford is eager to expand business there as demand improves.
American Airlines recalls 200 more flight attendants
American Airlines is recalling 200 flight attendants who were furloughed from now-defunct TWA in 2003.
American said Friday it also agreed to hire 30 new Mandarin-speaking flight attendants to staff flights to and from Shanghai.
It's American's second announcement this month about hiring new flight attendants. Last week, the airline said it would bring back 368 furloughed attendants because of a pickup in international flying.
American spokeswoman Missy Latham said the latest group of recalled employees worked for TWA, which AMR bought in 2001 and combined with American.
Regulators close two banks in Georgia; 2011 total hits 20
Regulators have shut down two small banks in Georgia, boosting to 20 the number of U.S. bank failures this year after 157 banks were closed in 2010.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday seized Habersham Bank, based in Clarkesville, with $387.6 million in assets; and Citizens Bank of Effingham, based in Springfield, with $214.3 million in assets.
The two shutdowns brought the number of failures in Georgia this year to six. Georgia has been one of the hardest-hit states for bank failures.
Dallas man accused of fraud in $6 million real estate deal
A federal grand jury in Plano has indicted a 68-year-old Dallas man in what prosecutors call a $6 million commercial real estate investment scheme.
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DENVER – Thousands of federal employees aren’t getting paid this Friday as the partial government shutdown continues, but some Colorado businesses are offering their help as workers who live paycheck to paycheck look for ways to make ends meet.
The following businesses across the state are either offering free meals, waiving late fees or connecting furloughed employees to other resources such as health care, childcare, mental health resources and much more.
360 Degrees of Perfection
The Arvada-based full service auto repair and collision shop is offering free tire repairs, free brake inspections, and deductible forgiveness between $250 - $500 of any insurance claim as well as a payment plan for higher deductibles or mechanical work needed to federal employees affected by the shutdown. Must show appropriate identification. Contact Avery Schaefer or Drew Brown at (303) 422-0406 or firstname.lastname@example.org
Colorado-based Alpine Bank has set aside $5 million to loan to federal employees affected by the shutdown. Workers who take advantage of these loans won’t have to pay back until six months after the shutdown is over.
Affinity Wellness & Massage
You can get a 30-minute appointment for $20 and an hour appointment for $40 so long as you are able to present a valid federal ID badge. Call (970) 586-3401 to make an appointment.
Antonio's Real New York Pizza
Employees at Antonio's Real New York Pizza donated a $500 to a gift card that will provide food for those in need. Customers can add to that gift card and the business will keep it going until the funds run out or the needs diminish. Federal employees wanting to take advantage of this opportunity should ask for a "Help From Friends" order. If you'd like to donate, call (970) 586-7275 and say you want to contribute to the the "Help From Friends" fund.
Consumers who pay their bill on att.com are being offered payment extensions on their bills and the company is also waiving late fees. If you want to make payment arrangements, click here .
Starting Friday, January 11, federal workesr may scan their federal ID and email Denver B-cycle to request a code to ride the B-cycles around town for free. People can also email B-cycle at email@example.com to get their code.
Canvas Credit Union
Canvas Credit Union is offering 0 percent interest loans, called the Helping Hand Loans, to employees affected by the government shutdown. Ask for it when you call.
Café Miriam at City Park is offering free coffee and crepes for furloughed federal employees until the shutdown ends.
Castle Rock Imports
Castle Rock Imports is offering discounts on auto care for federal employees affected by the government shutdown.
City of Boulder
The City of Boulder is offering free daily admission to Boulder rec centers and transit passes to people with federal IDs for the duration of the shutdown.
City of Denver
A new Temporary Mortgage Assistance program will offer financial assistance to homeowners who are facing hardship due to unexpected changes in their employment status – including furlough, temporary layoff or significant reduction of hours worked. The program, being offered through a partnership with Mile High United Way’s 2-1-1 Call Center, will provide households up to two months or $5,000 maximum of help to cover mortgage payments. The Program will be begin accepting applications this Wednesday, January 16 through Mile High United Way’s 2-1-1 Call Center.
Colorado Credit Union
For current and new members who are federal employees affected by the shutdown, Colorado Credit Union is offering a 90-day no-interest, no-payment loan equivalent to two months' net pay. For current members, the credit union is also offering payment modifications on existing loans to help ease the burden of monthly payments.
Colorado Pet Pantry
The Colorado Pet Pantry is also offering services for furloughed workers with pets. Here is their site with a link to their calendar on what days they will be offering help.
Comedy Works Downtown
Comedy Works welcomes all government employees, plus a spouse or significant other, to come and see a show ON US! We know times are hard and want to help take your mind off your troubles, even if only for a few hours. This offer is valid for two tickets and we will waive your two-item minimum in the showroom.
Credit Union of Colorado
Members of Credit Union of Colorado, who are federal employees impacted by the shutdown, are receiving a three-month financial lifeline. The program allows for up to three skipped monthly payments on each of a member’s Credit Union of Colorado loans, providing breathing room for payments of auto loan payments, lines of credit, personal unsecured loans, recreational vehicles and other secured loans.
Credit Union of Denver
The Credit Union of Denver is offering payment deferrals and interest-free loans for furloughed employees affected by the government shutdown. Bring a valid federal ID badge in order to receive these benefits.
DIRECTV customers can go here for instructions on how to take advantage of flexible payment options.
The Mexican restaurant, located at 720 Arapahoe Street in Golden, is offering a complimentary burrito and soft drink once you show your federal ID.
Elevations Credit Union
Elevations Credit Union is offering "skip-a-pay" on loans for customers in good standing. Interest-free personal loans equal to a furloughed worker's monthly pay are also available.
Emily's Salon & Barbershop
Emily's Salon & Barbershop in Denver will be offering free haircuts to all furloughed federal employees during the government shutdown.
Fazoli’s is offering free baked Spaghetti with the purchase of a drink. Offer is good from January 7 through the end of the shutdown.
Floyd's 99 Barbershop
Over 100 Floyd's 99 Barbershops across the nation, including all locations in Colorado, are providing half-priced haircuts and complimentary massage shampoos to furloughed workers during the government shutdown. To redeem the offers, government employees must present a valid federal government ID.
Food Bank of the Rockies
Food Bank of the Rockies is helping people affected by the shutdown. Officials said they’re making sure they have extra food on their mobile pantries and are planning to extend their distribution on Saturday.
“We want to make sure people know food is available if they need it,” said a spokesperson.
Golden's Impeach Vodka is offering furloughed employees affected by the shutdown a free shot to make them forget about their troubles when they visit the distillery.
Jewish Family Service Weinberg Food Pantry
As long as shutdown is happening, Jewish Family Service Weinberg Food Pantry is waving normal income requirements for government employees impacted by furlough. JFS is also accepting food donations weekdays during office hours, usually 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Fridays from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.. The food bank is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and some Thursday evenings. A variety of fresh produce and non perishable food is available.
Karate Don Kan
Karate Do Kan in Lakewood would like to offer furloughed workers and their immediate family members: One month free membership, one month unlimited classes and a free uniform for the karate classes. Just bring in valid federal government employee ID to redeem offer. For more information call 720-710-8708 or go to www.karatedokan.com.
Keller Bros. Auto Repair
The Littleton-based auto repair shop is offering free tire repairs, free brake inspections, and half off an oil change to federal employees affected by the shutdown.
Furloughed government employees of Rocky Mountain National Park and the U.S. Forest Service can come in and get a free coffee drink at Kind Coffee.
Lucha Cantina in Littleton and Georgetown will serve any adult with a federal ID, and their children, complimentary meals from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. every day until the government re-opens.
Metrum Community Credit Union
This credit union is offering interest-free personal loans equal to a federal worker's monthly pay during the government shutdown.
Mile High United Way
The Mile High United Way 211 Help Center is committed to helping individuals and families impacted by the federal government shutdown, as well as any individual or family who needs to get connected to resources. Furloughed federal employees and government contractors in need of resources can call 211 and get connected to resources. Also, it is important to note that 211 is a statewide program, so all Coloradans can call 211 and get connected to resources. Our 211 call center specialists can help connect people to health care services, food pantries, mental health resources, childcare, and utility and eviction prevention assistance, and more.
Present your federal ID badge and get a complimentary grain bowl. The offer is good from Saturday, January 12 through Monday, January 14.
Two sisters and their mom own Oblio’s. They’re giving complimentary dinners to government employees impacted by the shutdown. Speaking to Denver7, they said they “feel badly for employees and it’s the least they can do.” Offer is good until the government reopens.
Papa John's Pizza
The pizza chain is offering two one-topping pizzas and a two-liter soda for free for those furloughed employees affected by the shutdown.
Premier Members Credit Union
PMC is assisting existing and potential new members by offering a fixed rate loan with no payments for 90 days and a term up to 24 months to any federal employee affected by the shutdown.
Rep. Ed Perlmutter is giving free food to furloughed employees
Starting January 11, U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) will offer food and resources to federal employees and constituents who are affected by the partial government shutdown. Breakfast and lunch meals will be offered Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. until the partial government shutdown ends. The meals are being offered at 12600 W. Colfax Ave., B-400 in Lakewood, Colo.
Rocky Mountain Health Club
Any furloughed federal worker is free to come and take any of Rocky Mountain Health Club classes for free. Just make sure to bring documentation that proves you're a furloughed employee and a sign waiver to take advantage of this deal.
Romano's Macaroni Grill
The restaurant, which has two branches in Greenwood Village and Westminster, is offering a complimentary Mom's Ricotta Meatballs and Spaghetti plate between 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. for those federal employees affected by the shutdown.
Sheraton Denver Tech Center
Sheraton Denver Tech Center is offering free pizza or salad to fed workers at the hotel for lunch and dinner until the end of January or the shutdown. Contact GM Erik Pederson 303 799 6200.
The Crafty Fox Taphouse & Pizzeria
Between now and the end of the day Wednesday, Jan. 16, The Crafty Fox Taphouse & Pizzeria will give a free meal to those furloughed federal workers who show their employment ID.
This Boulder coffee shop is offering free breakfast to furloughed employees during the duration of the government shutdown.
Yoga High Denver is offering free yoga for furloughed employees. To schedule a class, go to www.yogahighdenver.com/schedule or call (720) 446-6324.
Please note: You must present a valid federal ID badge to take advantage of these offers.
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Seated inside the movie theatre, waiting for the opening credits to roll for Vishal’s Sandakozhi 2, I had an important question to ask. Why this sudden surge of sequels in Tamil cinema? Especially for a 13-year-old film that ended on a positive note? Perhaps filmmakers are running out of new ideas? The loud music that announced “Vishal 25” interrupted my line of thought and I decided to keep this question for another day, while waiting to watch another “2”.
Vishal’s Sandakozhi 2 released on Thursday to coincide with Ayutha Puja. The prequel that came out in 2005 had Vishal, Meera Jasmine, Rajkiran and Lal in lead roles and went on to become a major hit that year. If you thought Balu (Vishal) married Hema (Meera Jasmine) and all was well... you’re wrong.
The film begins with the villagers planning to revive an annual festival that had not been celebrated in seven years, following the last that ended in bloodshed. This festival, we learn, holds the key to all the good things that have thus far eluded the villagers, including the government proposed irrigation plan.
Rajkiran plays Durai, the ayya revered by everyone in the surrounding villages. We know of his fame and power from the first film and he retains his demigod status in this film as well.
Varalaxmi Sarathkumar plays Pechchi, the woman who has vouched to avenge her husband’s death from seven years ago. It is this bloody feud that has kept the festival from happening. Pechchi’s faction that thirsts for blood, plans to exact their revenge by killing the last surviving man from the other side during the course of the festival.
While it is understood that the clash happened in the first place due to caste, at no point, during the course of the film, does the film take a stand on caste.
Sandakozhi 2, in short, takes place during the ten-day village festival. Does the festival conclude successfully and does Durai’s group protect the man from getting killed forms the rest of the story.
Balu, who has been living abroad so far, returns to the village just in time for the festival. Vishal maintains his soft-spoken persona in this film as well. But the glaring hole in the plot was a question that kept gnawing from the start, even thought I knew Meera Jasmine was not a part of the cast. What happened to Hema?
The film does no justice to her character that made a mark in the first one. We’re given a weak “something bad happened” halfway into the film. Keerthy Suresh (Sembaruthi), in that sense has big shoes to fill in. One can find several similarities between the two characters, as if the makers themselves felt bad for the lack of authenticity.
Sembaruthi’s father is a teacher (just like Hema’s) and she even does a few stunts to remind us of Hema’s antics. Perhaps they thought adding extra ‘yov’s to her sentences might give her a convincing Madurai slang. This does not work, however.
Pechchi is an archetypal loud and vengeful woman whom we’ve seen aplenty in Tamil cinema and Varalaxmi fits easily into her role. The evident tanning makeup and the ‘angry woman wears her hair lose and screams on top of her voice’ could have been done differently.
The stunt team that has worked in this film deserves a special mention. All the stunt actors, who had to break several parts of their body while filming their stunts, deserve great appreciation. The film too has a good number of action sequences, all of which has been executed very well.
The absence of women in Durai’s household is disappointing and the idea that those from certain communities need to be protected and saved by someone from an influential, upper caste family is distasteful and regressive. Now, especially, with the changing narratives in Tamil cinema, Sandakozhi 2 only takes it a step backward. In that sense, the film could've been made ten years ago and it would not have made any difference.
Sandakozhi 2 is a sequel we could have done without. But now that it has been made, one hopes “something bad” does not happen to Sembaruthi if they plan on making another one.
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7227. Mali: food security under a changing climate
The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) requested the NCEA under its sustainability advice programme to advise about the options to improve food security in Mali and simultaneously create employment, in a context of climate change.
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|17 Nov 2017: Advisory review|
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It was assumed that improving food security and employment were key to a sustainable development of Mali. This advice was in particular useful for discussions in the Planetary Security Initative, in particular the Planetary Security Conference 2017, and for follow-up in Mali itself. The MFA was the main sponsor of the Planetary Security Inititative, with several conferences at high level aiming to influence the international policy agenda at the nexus of climate change, security (and migration).
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Workers are spending a lot of time in the office. They have to do more and more work to satisfy their heads. So on working they should need some sort of refreshment to work for long periods. The plants in the office play a very important role in providing a peaceful of mind to the staff.
Apart from these, it provides many beneficial things to the surrounding people. You can place some fragrance plants which tend to produce nice scent and fill the entire room. Here suggested certain office plants which are very helpful in offering the good environment.
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The best plants that are good to be used in the office include,
It is chosen as the good one to grow in the office because it helps to remove the mold. As it is capable of adapting to different weather conditions, it can grow either in indoors or in outdoors and is available in different sizes and shapes. As it prefers dry soil, examine whether the soil is in the dry condition while watering the plant.
You can prune the plant based on your wish. It requires bright light but not direct sunlight. It has the capacity to climb the pole or basket. The plant should not be fertilized during the winter season as it seems to be the dormant period.
We selected it as the good office plant as it improves the surroundings by cleaning the air. It can grow tall and is used to provide the greatest security to the office and requires only little maintenance.
Watering and feeding the plant too much will cause problems to the plant. As it is a toxic plant, you have to keep the plant away from the pets.
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As it gives the best touch to the office, it is chosen as the good one to grow in the office. It needs an environment with the cool place, high humidity free from the direct sunlight. So, it is considered as the good one to grow in the office surroundings. The office seems to be the apt place for this kind of plant. It can’t survive in other areas.
Boston ferns won’t require much fertilizer. You should maintain it with proper care. If it survives in the lack of humidity, the leaves of the ferns turn yellow. It has the capacity to grow up to 3 feet high.
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On one side, I’ve been frustrated at times with the church that seems to have everything figured out about God and believe that it’s all spelled out clearly in the Bible, and on the other side, Entrepreneurs who don’t have the time to figure things out and believe that their new idea will succeed like a magical wish from a genie.
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Wearables in the Workplace: Potential and PitfallsBy Bob Violino | Posted 2015-09-09 Print
Wearable devices are likely to become common tools, so companies must consider the benefits and challenges of allowing employees to use these devices at work.
IU Health has created a competition based on the Fitbit results to get people motivated to improve their movement and overall health. The company, which is spending about $75,000 per year on subsidizing the devices, expects to see a return in reduced employee health care expenses, as well as increased productivity and effectiveness due to improved fitness.
"We've also seen improved camaraderie amongst staff, and we know that happy, healthy, fulfilled employees mean better patient care, which is our whole mission," Cooper says.
Security and privacy are not an issue for IU Health, Cooper says, as this is a voluntary program that tracks only the steps participants take. The wellness program aggregates all statistics, so administration and team members see only their own personal stats, along with the aggregate results.
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While there are no specific plans for widespread use of other wearable technology, IU Health has used products such as Google Glass. In addition, some patients and staff use locator and communication wearable technologies.
In 2014, physicians at IU Health's Methodist Hospital became the first in Indiana to perform a surgery using Google Glass. The health care organization is also using the device as a tool to help educate other physicians and health care professionals.
"We used Google Glass to record operations so students could review their cases, providing a surgical log book of sorts," says Paul Szotek, assistant professor of clinical surgery and general surgeon at IU Health. He adds that the organization has also used the smart glass to stream a case live to a conference for large-scale crowdsourcing of operative technique and colleague training.
"In addition, I used Glass to bring radiologic pictures [CT scans] to the operating room to enhance the accuracy of the operative experience," he says. IU Health is also beginning work to use smart glasses to assess the efficiency of plasma delivery to patients in emergency situations.
As wearables take on a greater presence in the workplace, organizations will need to develop a process for managing these devices.
"Many businesses still don't have the technology in place to fully or properly manage their smartphone and tablet estate, so that should be the first priority," Ovum's Absalom advises. "Since most wearables run on basically the same operating systems as their companion smartphone, they shouldn't be difficult to manage and secure once this basic mobility management technology is in place."
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The tax free shopping service explained
The tourist is allowed to claim back VAT tax free from any items they purchase within EU that they plan to take back to their own countries, subject to a few conditions we provide below.
- The shop will usually display a prominent sign in the window, advertising that it is a ‘tax-free’ or ‘VAT-free’ shop. This may of course be in the local language.
- When you are in the shop, ask the merchant in advance whether they provide this VAT Free shopping service.
- Ask the merchant what threshold applies to the purchase in order to be eligible for a refund.
- At the checkout, the merchant will ask you to provide proof that you are a visitor to the EU. You will need to show your passport or other identity document proving your residence outside the EU.
- The merchant will ask you to fill in a form with the necessary details. You may be asked to show your ticket as proof you are leaving the EU within the required time. The merchant will fill up the shop’s part of the refund form.
- Make sure you know exactly what you need to do and how you get the refund. In some cases, the shop itself will refund you. In other cases, the shop will use a third party to organise the refunds on its behalf.
- Make sure you understand whether the shop takes an administrative fee for this service (which will be later deducted from the refunded amount) and if so what is the fee.
- You will receive an invoice for the goods. You must show the invoice, the refund form or the Tax-Free shopping cheque, the goods and any other necessary documents to the customs officers of the last EU country you leave. The customs officers must stamp the form as proof of selling abroad. Without the stamp, you will not obtain the refund.
- You must then follow the steps explained at your refund document or by the chop merchant. You can claim your refund in airports immediately; otherwise you will have to send the refund form to the address given in the shop.
“Example: Christine came from the US for a vacation in Europe. She bought a designer dress in Paris; some bags and shoes in London and Italy. In each shop, she got refund forms or Tax-Free shopping cheque filed. Within a month, Christine leaves to US from London. At London airport, she shows the purchased items to the customs officer and gets the refund documents stamped. Christine finds the refund counter in the airport and get the refund immediately. The service cost is deducted from the refund amount. The remaining stamped refund document she has to send back to the shop where she purchased the goods.”
If the currencies are different in the country where you made your purchase and where you process your refund, say, pounds and euros, you may have to pay an extra conversion fee. And Switzerland and Norway are the non EU countries, so if you buy in one of those countries, get your documents stamped before you cross the border.
Be careful if you leave the EU by train or road transport. Bigger train stations handling international routes will have a customs office that can stamp your documents. But depending on your route, you may have to get off the train or bus at the last station within the EU to get your stamp; in some cases, a customs agent might board the transport mode. Consult your rail company or road transport company to know the customs arrangement for your particular route. In some airports, train stations, seaports, and less traffic border crossings, finding the right customs office can be tough. Give yourself plenty of time.
Once you get your refund form or Tax-Free shopping cheques are stamped by customs, you have to turn it in. If the items that purchases were bought from a merchant who works with a refund service such as Global Blue or Premier Tax Free, find their offices inside the airport. These services take a commission of your refund, but save you further tension and delay. Submit your stamped document, and they will give you your refund in cash, right then and there. The refund will be in the currency of the country you leave; if you want to be reimbursed in a different currency, such as US dollars, you’ll be subjected to their exchange rates. Otherwise, they’ll credit the refund to your credit card.
Other tax refund services may require you to mail the documents either from home, or just before leaving the country using a postage-free, pre addressed envelope. Just drop it in a mailbox after getting your customs stamp. It could take months. Look for a refund on your credit-card statement or for a cheque in the mail. If the refund comes in a foreign currency, you may have to pay a conversion fee ($40 or more) to get your bank to cash it.
If the store dispatch your purchase to your home, you won’t be charged the value added tax. If you are exporting the goods by cargo freight, in this case, a stamped Single Administrative Document (SAD) must be provided along with a stamped PDF of the transactions generated online. But shipping fees and US duty can be costly enough to wipe out most of what you’d save. Compare the shipping costs to your potential VAT refund, it may be cheaper to just carry the items home with you. Refunds apply only to items that you take with you.
Check out the information below to know everything you need to know about the Tax Refund.
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PhD in Paediatric Respirology/Virology/Immunology
The experimental and Translational Respiratory Medicine Group located at the Hunter Medical Research Institute as a member of the Centre forAsthma and Respiratory Disease at the University of Newcastle hasPhD scholarships available to both outstanding domestic and international applicants. The successful applicants will be supervised by Prof Joerg Mattes, Laureate Prof Paul Foster and Dr AdamCollison.
The students under supervision will collaborate with both clinical and basic scientists in an environment focused on translating findings intp real world outcomes. The successfulapplicant in consultation with the supervisors will develop a project complementary to the existing researchinterests of the group namely:
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Francesco Colucci and Ashley Moffett
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- Annette Nakimuli (Makarere University, Kampala, Uganda) Diverse genes cause susceptibility to pregnancy disorders
- Alison Elliott (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda) Infections and immunity in pregnancy
- Tamara Tilburg (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA) Fetus specific effector and regulatory T cell responses during pregnancy
- Marisa Alegre (University of Chicago) Transplantation tolerance
- Elizabeth Simpson (Imperial College, London) Multiple histocompatibility antigens: the embryo as a sitting target
- Jakob Michaelsson (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm) What is the role of the fetal immune system?
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- Francesco Colucci (Cambridge, UK) Experimental approaches to dissect the immunogenetics ofpregnancy
- Anthony De Tomaso (University of California, Santa Barbara)Allorecognition and stem cell parasitism – the strange life of a basal chordate
- Angela Santoni (University of Rome “La Sapienza”) Leukocyte trafficking
- Ennio Carbone (Karolinska Institute and University of Catanzaro, Italy) Tumor immunity
- Tom Gajewski (University of Chicago) Cancer immuno-therapy based on breaking tolerance
Pregnancy disorders affect millions of women worldwide and are unusually common in Africa and other underdeveloped countries. This Course will bring together experts in reproductive immunology with experts in areas at the intersection of immunology with cancer, transplantation and infection with the aim to understand the biological factors underlying pregnancy complications.
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SPECIAL EVENT! An onstage conversation with filmmaker/director & fellow Newburyport native Nikole Beckwith about her first feature film, STOCKHOLM, PENNSYLVANIA. The movie had its US premiere at Sundance 2015 and its European premiere at the Stockholm International Film Festival 2015. It was then sold to Lifetime cable TV and was broadcast nationally.
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By Philip St John
Premiered at Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow 24th Oct, The New Theatre, Dublin 26th Oct - 7th Nov 2015.
Re-staged at Viking Theatre, Clontarf, Dublin 11 - 23rd Feb; Whale Theatre, Grey Stones 9th March 2019.
Temptress is a culmination of eighteen months of collaboration, script development and rehearsed readings. With the support of Wicklow Arts, Dublin City Council, Mermaid Arts Centre and The New Theatre, as well as the incredible assistance from the wider community, the play enjoyed a successful premiere in 2015.
In 2019 the production was re-staged in the Viking Theatre and the Whale Theatre.
"Under director Matthew Ralli’s expert eye pace never slackens and the rich humour in St. John’s excellent script is given full expression....Positioned as a comedy “Temptress” is right on the money. Utterly enjoyable and unrelentingly hilarious, “Temptress” is a wonderfully seductive production. The only way to resist is to yield to it." Read review
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"Borne out of isolation, whether literal or emotional, Temptress is a darkly comic tale that explores the limits people will go in order to find happiness, or at least their perception of what happiness is. Regardless of the time of year, this 70 minute piece is an enthralling and fun way to spend an evening." Read review
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Temptress is Philip's third play to be produced in Ireland after The Sylvia (Smock Alley Theatre) and On City Water Hill (Theatre Upstairs) both received critical acclaim. Philip is a distinctive voice in contemporary Irish playwriting and Temptress is yet another example of his unique writing style. He explains where the impetus for writing his latest play came from. "I wrote the initial draft of Temptress in August 2014. What prompted it I do not know, but I had been alone for a week - my wife Laura was down in Cork - so it is possible Pete and Noel emerged from a sense of isolation."
Temptress saw the company continue its long-standing collaboration with sound designer Carl Kennedy. As well as this, actor Matthew O'Brien returned after starring in The Art of Wedlock and Deeds of Deceit, Melissa Nolan provided her skills as producer and Rowena Cunningham designed costume.
In this production we welcomed actor Paul Kealyn, (both he and Matthew had proved invaluable in our rehearsed readings), as well as lighting designer Paul Doran, set designer Lisa Krugel and stage manager Jenni Little. The production also featured the original songs from Dublin based band The Magpies.
The premiere production of Temptress was supported by Wicklow Arts, Mermaid Arts Centre, Dublin City Council and The New Theatre, as well as Wicklow Wolf Brewery and Brogans Bar. Despite this incredible support, it would have been impossible to stage the play if not for the generosity of the wider community who raised €1850 through our Fund It campaign.
The Creative Team.
Writer: Philip St John
Director: Matthew Ralli
Cast: Paul Kealyn, Matthew O'Brien
Producer: Melissa Nolan
Sound Design: Carl Kennedy
Set Design: Lisa Krugel
Lighting Design: Paul Doran
Costume Design: Rowena Cunningham
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Garrett Johnson: Homeless Man Can’t Walk from Pain of Torn Shoes.
You can never have too much of a good thing. Random acts of kindness should be the gifts that keep on giving, every day and everywhere.
We’ve seen the viral videos on social media that portray these random acts. Like the guy who gave a homeless veteran the shoes off his own feet. Remember him?
Or what about the police officer who helped a homeless man shave so he could get a job at McDonald’s?
Good Samaritans are everywhere. One such good Samaritan was caught in the act while heading to grab a bite to eat.
Garrett Johnson is a college student who plays football for the University of Tennessee. According to a video posted by AZ Central, he made the team as a walk-on.
Johnson’s Twitter handle speaks a thousand words about this young man’s character. @John14Almighty is not your average guy.
This was proven when he came across a homeless man one night. Johnson posted a video on Twitter that captured the entire encounter.
“I walked to the strip to get food and a homeless man (Lala) couldn’t walk because his feet were hurting from the torn shoes he had on,” Johnson wrote. “I told him I would come back and 15 mins later I did.”
But the student didn’t come back empty-handed. Instead, he returned to offer the man his own shoes. In the video, it appears he brought multiple pairs for the man to try on.
Johnson showed the utmost concern for the man, treating him as a fellow human and even inquiring if he liked the shoes.
“Thanks guys,” a woman off camera, who called the man her brother, said. Johnson ended the encounter by offering to shake the man’s hand.
This video has received quite a bit of attention with 490,000 views as of Thursday morning. But Johnson remains humble about his viral act.
“For those that know me personally, know I have done and will continue random acts of kindness on and off camera,” he wrote on Twitter.
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Though the title sounds medieval, it is a historical western. The medieval theme comes from the heroine’s grandmother, who filled Victoria’s head with stories about princes, dragons, and far away kingdoms. When her life becomes unbearable she naturally imagines a knight, riding in to save her. It’s also about Victoria finding her inner strength, the champion within herself.
Fleeing her abusive husband, Victoria Van der Beck is captured by down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, Ryder MacKenzie. As she comes to love this man who hides his face in shadows, she wonders if he could be the valiant knight for whom she’s been longing. Is he the champion who would save her from the evil prince, or is MacKenzie just a paid lackey determined to return her to her husband? Ryder MacKenzie never believed anyone could love him, for he was cursed the day he was born. He only wants to be left alone to live on his ranch in peace. But rustlers have stolen his cattle. He’s been ambushed and his horse killed. Now his one chance to get his life back is to simply return a society princess to her husband. Maybe his luck is about to change. At least she isn’t pretty.
What inspired this story?
I kept seeing Ryder on the periphery of my mind, silent, just lurking, with his head down. I started asking questions and began putting the pieces of his back story and together. Next he shared his goals and once I learned those, I knew Victoria would be the perfect heroine for him. But it took a while before he would come out of the shadows and let me see his face.
What are you working on now? Do you have any releases scheduled for this year?
No, nothing scheduled for release, except this book, which is currently available on Kindle. It is scheduled for world wide release at the end of February. Currently though, I am about 55,000 words into a Civil War rough draft about a feisty Irish nurse and a brilliant, but socially inept doctor. I’m also playing around with a few short story ideas.
What is the best thing about being an author?
Finally being able to think of myself as one. I’ve had a half a dozen short stories published. This is my third novel and I’m only just beginning to feel like I’m really an author. When it hits me that that’s what I am, it boosts my self-confidence the way a new outfit does, and it makes me feel good as though that’s who I really am inside.
Do you have a favorite hero and/or heroine in your books and why?
I’ve always liked Johnny, the heroine in Lost Hearts. She’d had a tough life, but she didn’t let it get her down. She had an open pragmatic way about her, accepting what couldn’t be changed, including the hero. My favorite hero so far is Terrel Lee Parker from An Ordinary Angel. I love beta heroes and while Terrel Lee is quiet, polite, and shy, he has that Alpha core of strength.
What is your favorite scene from this story and why?
There are elements of each scene that I love, but one that made me chuckle when I wrote it was when Victoria had once more used a disguise to elude capture. Ryder boards the train at the last minute, thinking he knows which passenger is Victoria. When the train stops he tries to drag her from the train, but it turns out the passenger is the sister of a minister and amidst the screams and scratches, Ryder is literally thrown off the train. He has to walk all the way back to the first train station and ends up with blisters on his heels. But Ryder is a tenacious kind of guy and no matter how many rocks I threw at him, he never gave up.
How do you balance writing and everyday life?
I’ve finally gotten to the point in my life where the kids are living on their own. So I have less responsibility as far as cooking and cleaning. My job takes up my entire weekend (40 hrs in 3 days), leaving me M-Th free. I also have critique meetings and I’ve started doing a bit teaching workshops. My greater problem is balancing writing with all the marketing and promotion and social media. I haven’t gotten a handle on that aspect of it at all.
What is your favorite food to cook or eat?
These are few of my favorite things:
2. Long walks with my dog
3. Family get-togethers, with lots of muchies and games to play. After holiday meals we play Scrabble, Clue, Pictionary, Othello, Settlers of Catan, or Trivia Pursuit. The winner of one game advances to the next so we rotate around.
And now Kathy has a question for you all: What does your family do after holiday meals? Do you have any favorite games?
The peacefulness of Ryder MacKenzie’s home settled into her soul with every breath of air she drew, soothing the restless need to run that had consumed her since she’d hit Nicholas with the whiskey bottle.
When she wandered back to the cabin, she expected Ryder to be in bed, but he was still in the tub, his knees drawn up, pale and knobby, his head resting on the rim.
She grabbed Beau by the scruff of his neck and shoved him outside closing the door with a sharp bang.
Ryder jerked upright, sloshing water over the sides.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I’ll come back.”
“No.” He leaned back and closed his eyes. “I’m done. I just want to wash my hair.”
“I can do it for you.” Before the words were out of her mouth, she questioned what part of her brain they’d
come from. Maybe it was because Ryder was safe, and this was a chance to physically connect with a man on her own terms, without fear.
Maybe she needed to satisfy the curiosity that had taunted her all week, urging her to explore the body of
this man she desired.
But maybe it was simply because he was Ryder MacKenzie, and in his own determined, unassuming way, he’d touched her heart and become her hero, and there would never again be a man she so ached to know.
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Bio: I live in the open farm country of western NY with my husband of thirty-one years. We have three grown children who all fortunately live fairly close by. Since I was a kid, I’ve been filling notebooks with stories, but it wasn’t until seven years ago that I began to seriously pursue the craft of writing. Historical westerns are my favorite genre, though I have also written some contemporary. My short stories have been published by New Love Story Magazine, The Western Online, and The Wild Rose Press, who also published three holiday novellas. A Tarnished Knight is my third full-length novel with The Wild Rose Press.
I enjoy taking long walks with my German Shepherd who usually drags me along behind him while he roots through the tall grass and underbrush of the woods and fields we trek. In the winter I like to curl up with a good book and one or two of our five cats while the snow blows outside. In between the family, work and animals I sit at my computer and weave stories of laughter, heartache and love for the crazy cast of characters swirling around in my head.
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Rebecca Minkoff designed her first handbag in 2005. Now an industry leader in accessible luxury handbags, accessories, footwear and apparel, Rebecca Minkoff’s playful and subtly edgy designs can be spotted around the world on young women and celebrities alike. Classic styles are given a youthful overhaul with the edgy detailing for an accessible style that retains an underlying femininity. Whether it’s a studded mini cross-body or classic satchel the look is always sophisticated.
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Ask someone to tell you about IKEA and they’ll probably mention flat-packed furniture, afternoons spent trying to find piece A or screw B, and that uneasy feeling you get when you have a fully assembled bookshelf or bed…but still have one piece left over.
For most people IKEA can be described as a furniture company or maybe a homewares company, but almost nobody will describe it as a software company.
Which is a shame because, for the last couple of years, IKEA has been thinking, acting, and growing just like a software company does.
In 2016 Fast Company published an article with the provocative title IKEA’s Quest to Think Like a Software Company. It outlined how the Swedish giant was adopting an approach to business and to product development that was more Silicon Valley than Scandinavian.
Furniture designer Tom Dixon explained that, much like a software company would build a platform upon which developers could design all sorts of software solutions, IKEA had developed core platform products that designers could build on top of. A sofa became an “open source platform” on which designers could innovate and iterate, and even “hack” – as IKEA’s Head of Design Marcus Engelman put it, “You buy the platform from Ikea and the upholstery from somewhere else”.
IKEA might have been one of the early cross-over companies beginning to think like a software company, but they weren’t the last. Indeed, I am convinced that today every company needs to start thinking like a software company, and that there are enormous productivity and business benefits ready to flow to those that make this change in thinking part of their digital transformation.
Thinking Like a Software Company
As the CEO of Cosmo Tech, a software company I founded with Michel Morvan back in 2010, I’ve become used to thinking like a software company. While you’ll find a marketing, sales, finance, and HR teams at Cosmo Tech just like you would at any other company, we decided to break the silos and separation between departments that is common in most companies and to encourage collaboration within multi-disciplinary and agile teams around our solutions. As a result, members of our solution teams can now interact constantly and with autonomy to scale from idea to action faster than endless meetings and navigating corporate hierarchies ever could.
This agility is a hallmark of a software company, but it’s not the only way that thinking like a software company can help transform a business.
Consider the cycles of product development in the software industry. Software companies don’t wait for their products to be perfect for an entire market of potential users. Instead, they identify early users, go to market with the minimum viable product (MVP) that can add value immediately, and then build towards a more complete product that responds to a growing client demands while reaching more users as word spreads. A traditional company seeks to have everything perfect for launch, while a software company seeks to add convincing value at launch and then get started on iterating the product towards perfect.
Software companies also understand that the very process of building something often results in building something else along the way – and this ‘something else’ can be monetized, too. I regularly talk with leaders in some of Europe’s biggest companies that have adopted this ‘think like a software company’ approach and that have begun to monetize parts of their business that were only ever necessary, in-house by-products in the past. A piece of software written in-house to overcome a specific issue can be generalised, adapted for use by others, and sold on the open market; indeed, some of the biggest companies in Europe are creating new business and significant margins by doing exactly that.
The Next Step in a Digital Transformation
Digital technologies are already impacting the way that businesses are run, and most business leaders recognise that the digital transformation is one of the major challenges that they are facing and will continue to face.
Yet the embrace of digital technologies is just the first step in a digital transformation. The necessary second step is the embrace of a new approach to business, an embrace of thinking like a software company.
The value of doing so is, for me, so very clear, and the value of larger companies working with the startups as they make this transition even more so. I’m convinced that partnerships between large corporations either beginning or in the process of making their digital transformation and smaller ‘born digital’ startups are truly examples of win-win business relationships. As corporate leaders continue to come around to thinking more like software companies, the opportunities for big and small businesses alike will only expand. | <urn:uuid:15f753bf-9e66-463e-a639-4d44d9a25657> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://cosmotech.com/think-like-a-software-company/ | 2019-07-16T15:12:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.961516 | 975 |
Tiger Woods didn’t win, which is how I’ll remember this year’s PGA Championship. But he was close, which is what made it to me the most exciting and memorable PGA Championship in a decade. Because I don’t care about golf, don’t find it interesting as a sport. (Complaints can be directed here.) But I care very much about Tiger Woods as human drama: the rise; the supernova stardom; the fall, the humility, the breakdowns of his body; the comebacks; the failed comebacks; this comeback, perhaps real?; all of it. I care that so many other people care; it is impossible not to get sucked up into the excitement. I care that Tiger—not golf itself, but Tiger—can make a crowd sound like this:
That was Woods finding his way out of trouble on the ninth, and it’s a good summary of his Sunday. Incredibly, he didn’t hit a single fairway through the first nine holes, and equally incredibly, he needed just 10 putts on those same nine. Woods’s final-round 6-under 64 was a story of him battling against his driver, and generally losing, but fighting back with classic approach shots and elite putting: just 23 putts on the entire day.
It wasn’t enough to win, as Brooks Koepka, 14 years his junior, didn’t have the same struggles with his driver, which made all the difference. But it was enough to be close. It was enough, if you just had the tournament on TV in the background while you did other things, to imagine it was 15 years ago. Tiger in the third-to-last group, surging, in his Sunday red. Birdies falling. And the crowd; oh, the crowds.
“I’ve covered games in the Coliseum, with 85,000 people there, hollering,” a TV cameraman told Golf.com. “This was more than that ... The crowd noise for Tiger was like a storm brewing. You’d be standing on the side of the fairway and he’d be walking up it and it was like a sound wave, building up, getting louder and louder.”
“You could hear the roars from different parts of the golf course,” said Justin Thomas, the defending champion who had a share of the lead on the back nine but faltered to a T-6 finish. “It’s pretty apparent what a Tiger roar is versus anybody else. So I knew he was making noise.”
It still sounds the same. Maybe “still” isn’t the right word? Maybe it sounds like it does because of everything that’s happened in the meantime. Back then, the crowd went nuts because it was seeing incomparably sustained greatness. Now, the crowd goes nuts because it’s seeing something it never thought it’d see again.
This is what it looked and sounded like when Woods birdied 18, at which point he was out of the running. To wit: This is a roar of appreciation for merely having contended.
Imagine if he wins another major.
It has been 10 years since Woods won a major, five years since he even won on Tour. Sixteen months since spinal fusion surgery, his fourth back surgery. Fifteen months since a DUI arrest. Fourteen months since checking himself into rehab for pain pills. The chances of Woods looking anything like a top golfer never seemed so remote as they did last summer.
Yet 2018 has been his best year since 2009, before it all went to hell. In 14 starts, Woods has five top-10 finishes, and seven top-12s. He was in contention on the final day at Carnoustie, and here at Bellerive. He has been, as they used to say, in the hunt.
No wins, though. Well, so what? He is 42 years old, playing against younger, stronger men with more stamina and without the mental millstone of having spent a decade trying to remake their swings or conquer their failing bodies. He is not supposed to win. Remember if you can, back when Tiger stalked Jack Nicklaus’s mark of 18 major wins, and what you thought the remainder of his career might go like. It seemed certain; his only opponent was time. Because golfers, like any other athletes, peak and decline. Woods, through his own actions and through bad health and bad luck, was denied that graceful decline, during which he probably could have stolen the majors he needed. That didn’t happen, obviously, but something wild has occurred this year. Woods is right where he should be if the last decade had just never happened: He is a 42-year-old elite golfer, past his prime but still competitive enough to seriously contend on occasion. Tiger Woods is back, not to where he was but to where he would be.
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[It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, sung by Tom Yorke, 1914; as played on a 78]
“The ship is now a deplorable wreck, hard down by the bows, almost waterlogged, and the ice has absolutely over-ridden her forward. The funnel leans to starboard and will soon fall. It is an unpleasant sight, depressing in the extreme. Now we face a problematical escape over the ice and through leads in open boats to land nearly 300 miles away, trusting to find seals and penguins sufficient to meet our needs, and then with an even more remote chance of ultimate rescue. It is not a pleasant thought and so we bear a cheerful mien and devise distractions for fear we might give way to forebodings.
“It’s a Long Way to Tipperary, said the song of the day when we were last in civilisation, but it is an awful long way to land just now for us.”
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“The Lion King” Official Teaser Trailer
“The Lion King” live action movie is due in theaters in July 2019. Watch this and feel young again! Can’t wait! The original “Lion King” (1994) is the first movie we brought Kristen to. She loved Scar! We are planning to buy tickets for us, Kristen, and her BF for this movie. The circle of life. 🙂
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Since she started playing out in bars at the age of 13, Lucy has toured the country playing music–from busking in the streets of New Orleans to securing coveted festival slots.
Upon moving to Brooklyn in 2006, Lucy teamed up with the lauded multi- instrumentalist, Jason Crosby. (Robert Randolph, Susan Tedeschi, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir). Lucy has opened sold-out shows for Grammy Award winners G, Love, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Shawn Colvin. At the age of 19 Lucy was asked to kick off the Gathering of the Vibes music festival, with Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead headlining. Lucy has also shared the stage with: Reid Genauer & the Assembly of Dust, Joe Russo (Furthur), Hagar Ben Ari (Dap Kings), Malcolm Cecil (Stevie Wonder), Bob Coons & Marty Holland of the JGB, The Jazz Mandolin Project, Max Creek, and many others. She is equally at ease in small dive bars as she is performing in front of thousands.
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Torchlight 2 Outlander Hybrid Build Guide
Torchlight 2 Outlander Hybrid Build Guide by Empyrean
I know I told some people I was going to post my shootylander build next, but I came upon something so utterly bizarre in my testing that I had to make a build around it. I have found the Holy Grail of Outlander builds; a hybrid style combining the damage of a heavy Focus build with the ability to use weapon skills like Chaos Burst, Shadowshot, and Poison Burst. A lot of people who don’t know what they’re doing have attempted this sort of thing. They split their points between Strength and Focus and end up worthless as monster armor outstrips their ability to do damage. But I have found something that makes it possible for you to do everything and not suck at all of it in the process. I call it the Mad Genius build.
The key discovery that makes this work is in how skill damage is calculated from your weapons when dual-wielding. Damage is based entirely on the weapon in your right hand, even if the skill you want to use requires a different type of weapon. So long as you have that weapon in your left hand, you can use the skill and it will calculate the damage using the right-hand weapon. Skills like Chaos Burst and Shadowshot scale damage off of your weapon and require you to have a gun, which means that under normal circumstances you’d need to pump your Strength like crazy to get anything decent out of them (or use a purely elemental weapon and pump Focus, but those are extremely rare). Furthermore, high level guns require a ridiculous amount of Dexterity to use, and that much Dexterity is a big hindrance in your ability to kill things. So normally, weapon skills are the sole purview of those sad little Str/Dex split Outlanders that don’t want to make a Focus/Glaive build like everyone else but have to deal with the mechanical inferiority of a high Dex requirement or sub-par weapons. But no longer!
Here’s what you do: pump Focus like crazy, like you would if you were running a Glaive build. You can actually throw glaives just like everyone else, but that’s not what makes this build special. Get the highest damage wand you can find and equip it in your right hand. Poison is better than other elemental types due to Master of the Elements. This is what the game will use to calculate damage. In your left hand, equip a pistol. It doesn’t have to do any damage because you will never shoot it and the game will never look at it for a skill damage calculation. Use the pistol you started with for extra style points, or just get something with useful modifiers on it, but remember that damage is irrelevant. Now that you have a pistol in one hand, you can use weapon skills that calculate damage based on your wand with your Focus stat, including Master of the Elements even for attack skills that are purely weapon-DPS dependent like Chaos Burst.
Here’s how the bonuses break down with the Mad Genius vs a traditional Strength-based weapon build. A Strength build using pistols would have Akimbo and Long Range Mastery, for a total bonus of +60% to damage when dual wielding. Unfortunately, they can’t use decent weapons at the mid-tier range because they require a lot more Dex than is useful for anything except equipping guns. So they use lower-level weapons instead, or they try to keep up with increasing Dex requirements and accidentally cripple themselves for good. The Mad Genius doesn’t have this problem; his points are going into Focus, which lets him equip the best wands he can find, and he gets +30% or +60% to his damage, depending on the type of elemental wand he’s using. By level 50, he can easily handle level 90 artifact wands. If you don’t have a poison wand, you’ll have smaller damage modifiers than you would have had if you were using pistols, but the difference here is easily made up for by the fact that you can use any wand you find and shootylanders have to settle for the stuff they can equip based on their level, and they have to split their stats between “equip better stuff” and “do damage with it.” You don’t have to do this, so even without a poison wand you’re going to have them beat on damage.
There’s more to it than this, though. Wands do elemental damage, usually several types, that can proc from each attack to mess with your enemies in various ways. Freezing, poison, ignite, etc. Skills like Chaos Burst fire a bunch of shots and hit huge groups, so those random elemental effects are going to be popping up all over the place. Skills like Poison Burst trigger off of your gun-style attacks, since you have points in Master of the Elements like a typical glaive-chucker, but you can proc Poison Burst a lot more easily than a shootylander since you can actually do respectable damage to large groups. If a typical glaive-chucker wants to trigger a Poison Burst, he needs to autoattack something like a chump. The Mad Genius doesn’t have to.
A quick point on the damage calculation, though. Skills that are based off of weapon DPS that don’t do a specific type of damage (Chaos Burst, Glaive Sweep, Rune Vault, and Shadowshot) use whatever damage modifiers you get from your weapon with Master of the Elements. Skills that are based off of your weapon but do a specific damage type use whatever modifiers are appropriate for that damage type, so Venomous Hail gets +60%, but Flaming Glaives only gets +30% even if you had a pure poison weapon to start with.
Sadly, there is one skill (and only one) that doesn’t work with the Mad Genius: Rapid Fire. For some reason, Rapid Fire doesn’t work if you have a wand in the right hand and a pistol in the left. It would’ve been incredible, but I guess you can’t have everything. Instead, you get everything except Rapid Fire. On the bright side, if you pick up an elemental shotgun you can use, you’ve already got the perfect stat and skill allocation to do whatever you want with it. What makes this build really special and unique among every other build out there is that there are no skills that suck for you. Normally, you have a selection of Focus skills that you’d pick from if you were a Focus build, and physical skills if you’re running a Strength build, plus some non-attribute dependent skills that work for everybody. The Mad Genius can choose from any skill on the list, except for Rapid Fire. With all that said, here’s my version of the Mad Genius with the full 131 points.
Rune Vault – 5
Chaos Burst – 15
Cursed Daggers – 15
Venomous Hail – 10
Glaive Throw – 5
Tangling Shot – 1
Dodge Mastery – 15
Poison Burst – 15
Share the Wealth – 15
Repulsion Hex – 10
Stone Hex – 10
Master of the Elements – 15
By the late stages of my career, I might swap out Chaos Burst for ten points in Rapid Fire and five more in Venomous Hail once a get a nice elemental shotgun like Earth’s Roar, which you can select as the new game+ final boss quest reward at level 100. We’ll see. | <urn:uuid:52fecd89-5b1f-4c4b-9347-50e85f95a8e9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://guidescroll.com/2013/03/torchlight-2-outlander-hybrid-build-guide/ | 2019-07-16T15:19:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.947797 | 1,589 |
The UN Secretary General’s Special Representative in Cyprus Elizabeth Spehar is set to brief today, during unofficial consultations, Security Council members on recent developments in the Cyprus problem, in the light of two recent reports by Antonio Guterres on his good offices mission and UNFICYP.
Spehar is also expected to refer to the forthcoming visit of Guterres’ personal envoy Jane Holl Lute to Cyprus.
Furthermore, a draft resolution on the renewal of UNFICYP’s mandate is expected to be presented by the British permanent representative to the other permanent members of the Security Council. The UN Secretary General has proposed that the force’s mandate be renewed for another six months.
The US position on the mandate’s renewal is expected with interest since it has been known that the country is seeking to change the way UN peacekeeping forces operate around the world.
Greek Cypriot negotiator, Ambassador Andreas Mavroyiannis is also in New York where he is holding meetings with UN Secretariat officials and UN Security Council members.
Cyprus has been divided since 1974, when Turkish troops invaded and occupied its northern third. A UN-backed Conference on Cyprus last summer in the Swiss resort of Crans-Montana, aiming to reunify the island under a federal roof, ended inconclusively.
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“As part of an interview at Startup Fest Europe in Amsterdam today, Tim Cook has ruled out the possibility of Apple becoming a mobile carrier or MVNO (Mobile Virtual Network Operator),” Ben Lovejoy reports for 9to5Mac.
Our expertise doesn’t extend to the network. We’ve worked with AT&T in the US, O2 in the UK, as well as T-Mobile and Orange, and we expanded as we learned more. But generally, the things Apple likes to do, are things we can do globally.
We don’t have the network skill. We’ll do some things along the way with e-SIMs along the way, but in general, I like the things carriers do. — Apple CEO Tim Cook
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Keep your enemies close until you lop off their heads.
Apple invents tamper prevention for Apple SIM – October 8, 2015
Apple SIM iPads change the international data roaming game – July 1, 2015
New ‘Apple SIM’ could significantly disrupt the wireless industry – October 17, 2014
Apple SIM card in new iPads challenges mobile networks – October 17, 2014
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PRIMERS: Volume Two
Ben Bransfield, Cynthia Miller and Marvin Thompson
Selected by Jacob Sam-La Rose & Jane Commane
Publication date 24th April 2017
The best of new voices in poetry, published by Nine Arches Press in conjunction with The Poetry School. Primers Vol.2 collects together three selected poets from a nationwide scheme to find exciting new voices in poetry - there's much here to delight and dazzle.
Edited by Jacob Sam-La Rose and Jane Commane, this year's Primers poets:
Ben Bransfield is from Shropshire. His poems have appeared in The North, Obsessed with Pipework, ASH, and have been placed in Peterloo and Wenlock competitions. He was named a Poetry Society Teacher Trailblazer in 2015, and he lives and teaches in London.
Cynthia Miller is a brand strategist and Co-Director of Verve, Birmingham’s inaugural Poetry and Spoken Word Festival 2017. She was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2013 and has a poem forthcoming in The Emma Press Anthology of Love.
Marvin Thompson was born in London to Jamaican parents, and now lives in mountainous South Wales. As well as having an MA in Creative Writing, his poems have appeared in numerous journals. These include Stand Magazine and The Poetry Review. | <urn:uuid:d4cdb582-5509-4819-b6d0-d99a855079d1> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://ninearchespress.ecwid.com/Primers-Volume-Two-p82531038 | 2019-07-16T15:26:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.957662 | 283 |
Home to some of the finest Pinot Noir producing regions in Australia, and arguably the world, Tasmania is a Pinotphile’s paradise!
So if you’re looking to take the trek down south for a Pinot Noir tasting adventure you won’t forget, we’ve put together a list of what to pack for Tasmania, to ensure you have all of the essentials you need.
Peter Caldwell, Vigneron at Tasmania’s Dalrymple Vineyards, spends his days travelling from one corner of Tassie to another, to source the best grapes for his top drops, which is why he knows exactly what kind of gear you need when taking an intrepid tour across the southern isle.
Apart from a “good attitude”, here are the more practical items Pete recommends any visitor or newcomer packs for their next trip to Tassie…
With so many great walking tracks and hikes, Pete says that a pair of good walking boots is essential.
“There’s heaps of great walking to be had in Tassie,” he says.
So bring your boots, get out there and see the stunning sights of Tassie on foot.
Pete says that a beanie is an essential item for anyone visiting Tassie.
“You’ll look good, but you’ll also keep your head from getting cold, you’ll also look a bit more local,” he says.
“Just make sure it’s not too fancy, of course…we don’t do fancy in Tassie.”
Known for its wind and rain, another essential item to pack for Tassie is a good raincoat.
“A raincoat is important because you never know when it could rain,” Pete says.
“It rains in summer, it rains in winter, it rains all the time.”
It’s not only the rain you have to be aware of in Tassie, while it can be cool, it can also be deceivingly sunny, so Pete recommends packing your sunscreen no matter what time of the year it is.
“The sun can be fantastic in Tassie, we have a really high UV light and really bright clear skies,” he says.
“People can get trapped by thinking it’s a really cool day, but we still get a lot of sun.”
Most important of all…Pete says you have to make the most of Tassie’s naturally delicious seafood, while you’re visiting, especially the oysters!
“Bring an oyster knife and learn how to open an oyster,” he says. “Oysters are naturally located around Tassie, so talk to your locals, they’ll be able to point you in the right direction.
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This morning was a day for me to thank God for answered prayer
“Oh, to be free, to be completely unattached…what wondering I would do. I would travel to far off places and visit cities anew. I would live in a dream world and pretend to be a queen who ruled over all the lands, all the people and all the seas. But, Bah! tis nothing but fantasy with no depth, nether reason, nor cause…because truly I am satisfied just the way things are.”
So for this week, I’ve started my blog with a stanza from a poem I wrote many, many years ago. In those days I was young and my hair was still black and my limbs operated on my cue. Those days are far spent. And my worldview has also matured from fantasy to realism and Truth.
“Nevertheless, something in side me keeps crying out aloud…seek love, adventure and excitement and you will thereby obtain power.”
Listen, readers, I learned a long time ago to transfer my dependence from myself into the ever loving arms of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I’ve become the queen in His court, and the apple of His eye. What gives me such assurance? The main fact that He answers my prayers either through conversations with Him or by osmosis. He also causes other human beings to unknowingly relay His messages to me. And when I put my thinking cap on, I can remember Him using birds, weather, radio and TV commentators and shooting stars to convey His messages to me.
“For then a swelling in your breast will come from joys you’ve never known, as you gaze out upon the world and turn its love into songs. But, Bah! tis nothing but fantasy with no depth, nether reason, nor cause…because truly I am satisfied just the way things are.”
Yes, in my youth, I kept saying that I was satisfied…but was I. My family and friends labeled me as a dreamer. Always thinking of lofty aspirations. Keep your feet on the ground they all warned. Remember where you come from. Get your head out of the clouds. You’re going to end up just like us. Living right here in this hick town, getting married and having babies. OH, but have I surprised them! I KNOW SOMEBODY!!!
“Yes, because life is not always a pleasure, it causes many persons to dream. To manufacture make-believe of which things they hold high in esteem. But Bah! tis nothing but fantasy with no depth, nether reason, nor cause…because truly I am satisfied just the way things are.”
I no longer have to recite that poem I wrote all those many years ago because this one thing I have learned. My God heard my plea and felt my desire for something greater than what I was living at the time. He alone understood that Whom I was seeking was Him! My God finally knitted my will and my heart together and caused me to recognize His proposal. “Come unto to me He beckoned me…..”
So now, instead of daydreaming, I have learned to pray and to call on my Savior not only for my hopes and dreams but also for my fears and desires for others. He has caused me to take my mind off of myself and to embrace life in a much broader worldview. It’s not all about me. Its about serving and giving and helping and caring for others.
My God is Real. He lives within my soul. Surely, while He was on the cross I was on His mind. Our conversations get sweeter and sweeter every day. I see my prayers for my family answered. I see my prayers for the orphan children I ministered to while on international mission trips become a reality. (Once I personally met a Russian teenager who had been adopted and brought to Dallas. I was shopping at Walmart and by happenstance we met and began to talk. She shared how the Lord had placed her with a couple who wanted to adopt a teenager. I had just been to St. Petersburg on a mission trip and had prayed for the teenagers who had ‘aged’ out of orphanage care. The Lord allowed me to see His intervention in this situation. Hallelujah!)
Earlier this morning I received a phone call from my sister exclaiming how our brother had called her and conversed with her as though their riff had never happened. On another occasion, recently, a severe storm passed over an area in Oklahoma that I was praying for on behalf of a friend’s family who lived there and was in harms way.
I could go on and on witnessing to you how and in what diverse ways God answers prayers. But I trust you already know them and have tried Him for yourself. Its true, God responds to our prayers basically in three ways: Yes! No! and Wait! All I want to say is this; HE IS NEVER LATE…BUT ALWAYS ON TIME! AMEN.
So, in summary, wait on the Lord to answer you. Wait at His door with your prayers; wait at His feet with humility; wait at His table with service and thanksgiving; wait at His window with expectancy that He will open it and pour out many blessings. Through it all, WAIT.
Scripture Lesson: “Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”Psalm 27:14.
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More and more Zestology listeners are heading to Spotify to listen to the podcasts. So together with Spotify I cooked up a plan which I'm very excited to announce today. Today, I release two exclusive Spotify-only podcasts which tie in the themes, of energy, motivation, and music.
We have two world famous artists involved in recording the podcasts.
- Jono Grant from trance group Above and Beyond, and
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- Both of whom of course have a huge following on Spotify.
Jono and me have a caffeine-fuelled chat on music and creativity, and how he gets into the creative vibe. Above and Beyond are obviously a massive worldwide success and he also talks about the biggest gig he ever played - in front of 1 million people in Rio.
Lane 8 hosts events called ‘This Never Happened’ where clubbers are encouraged to enjoy the event, stay in the present and not take pics/vids. It’s a brilliant idea. The atmosphere at his gigs is unreal!
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Amchoor or mango powder is made using green raw mangoes, which are cut, dried in under the sun and then pounded into powder form. It is used in making chutneys, stir fries or pickles and … Continue reading
Whether it is for Festivals, birthdays, religious functions or potlucks, no spread can ever be complete without this Indian style tomato dates chutney. This chutney gets its aroma from the spices and fresh tomatoes, plum, succulent dates, jaggery, raisins and ground and roasted cumin.
It is eaten as the transition between savoury and dessert, it is a spicy, hot and sweet palate cleanser. This chutney not only does wonders for your taste buds but also for your health. Dates are rich in iron, which can help in treating anaemia. It also has a good amount of minerals and vitamins and … Continue reading
Dates have nutritional value and sweet flavors that make it the very popular ingredients for snacks and desserts.
There are some popular chutneys, savories and desserts that are made out of dates.
Chutneys: Chutneys are best suited with snacks and meals. They are made with spices and adds a flavor to the food. The chutneys adds on to bhel and other snack item. Some of the popular … Continue reading
Dates are also known as Khajur or khajoor.
It is an energy enhancer fruit. It’s very popular ingredient in our desserts and other food recipes. It is also a good source to increase immunity levels within the body.
Khajoor is a good source of dietary fiber, calcium, protein and vitamins. It includes Vitamin C, B1, B2, B3, B5 and A1 with 20 different kinds of amino acids, which ease the digestive process. They are fat-free and cholesterol free.
The Health Benefits of Khajoor:
1. Energy Enhancer
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Signed album page, 4,75 x 3,25 inch, mounted for fine display with a photograph, shows Tom Mix in a Western portrait (altogether 8,25 x 11,75 inch), signed in pencil "Tom Mix", scattered mild signs of wear - in fine condition.
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|Year of birth||1880|
|year of death||1940|
|Size in inch (1 inch = 2.5 cm)||4,75 x 3,25 (altogether 8,25 x 11,75)|
|Type of Autograph||cards / album pages|
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“Hunger, unemployment, infant mortality, epidemics, famine, gas prices, food prices, transport fares. These are the main reasons that have led us to make this sacrifice,” said Friar Sérgio Görgen, a leader of the Small Farmers’ Movement (MPA) and one of the six activists who started a hunger strike this Tuesday calling the Supreme Court to release Brazilian ex-president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Görgen granted an interview to the Brasil de Fato Radio and pointed out how important it is to release Lula in order to restore democracy in Brazil. “To stop this situation from becoming even more serious, the country must return democracy to normalcy and Lula has to be released from prison. He is the victim of a fraudulent trial. He is not guilty of what he is accused of, he is a prisoner without a crime, he is being politically persecuted,” Görgen said.
The activist of the MPA explains why several people’s movements have decided to stage this demonstration: “A hunger strike makes sense when all other means have been used, to no avail, which is the case in Brazil. The judicial system is blocking all legitimate legal solutions that could and should be adopted.”
Görgen mentioned historical examples when hunger strikes were staged in defense of human rights. “There’s nothing new or crazy about it. Martin Luther King did it, I am staging my fifth hunger strike, Jaime Amorim has staged a hunger strike for 11, 12 days and got the settlement where he lives today. In Brazil, political prisoners during the military dictatorship staged a 33-day hunger strike demanding better prison conditions. Dom [Luís] Cappio staged a hunger strike so that the project to divert part of the flow of the São Francisco river [in northeastern Brazil] did not exclude the poor or using up more resources than the river can provide.”
The striker says Brazil’s judicial branch is responsible for aggravating the crisis in the country. “Now it’s the Supreme Court that can resolve this situation, and this is why our hunger strike is targeting it.” The friar said that, if something happens to one of the strikers, it’s the responsibility of the Supreme Court justices who voted to rule against a preventive habeas corpus petition that would not allow defendants to be arrested while their cases are still pending appeal. “And Lula can still appeal his sentence in two courts.
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Lazy/Busy Girls: This Service Will Do Your After-Work Chores for You
Imagine if you could just text someone to do your chores, and blammo: your chores would be done. Now quit imagining and just do it with Alfred. Alfred is kind of like TaskRabbit for all of the things thanks to an errand-running, grocery-stocking pro who will handle everything you’re too busy to do.
The service starts at $25 per week, and to get started, firstly, you’ll need to request an invite. Once that arrives, you’ll take a survey so Alfred can learn your preferences for all things in life — such as, do you like smooth or chunky peanut butter? And which way do you like the roll of toilet paper hung? From there, the app will play matchmaker and pair you with your Alfred. You can either meet the person who is going to be your Alfred, or if you like to pretend that these things just magically get done, then you can figure out a key drop off situation.
Alfred was started by two women who were tired of spending their nights and weekends trying to escape from their day jobs, only to take on the jobs of daily life. They believe that extra help shouldn’t cost half of your paycheck. They created Alfred to be a seamless service, meaning you can program what you need done far before you need it, so you can always #ComeHomeHappy.
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Our research project, MC3: Meeting the Climate Change Challenge has two phases. The first phase, 2012—2014, interviewed 11 local government climate innovators. The second phase of the research, as one of its deliverables, re-interviewed a sub sample of the original interviewees in order to track if any changes had occurred in their development paths. Included in this sub sample were interviewees with the elected officials from the virtual conversations led in the first phase.
With the ratification earlier this month of the Paris Agreement countries of the world have officially embarked in a global race to implement ambitious climate policies that contribute to reducing green-house gas emissions at the planetary-scale. If Canada wants to shine in 2020, domestic climate policies must rapidly be adopted to accelerate the low carbon transition. | <urn:uuid:3145b180-1ce0-48f2-a08d-861551fbd485> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.crcresearch.org/more-news-crc/archive/201611 | 2019-07-16T14:59:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.948645 | 159 |
16 Aug FDM4 Thinks with Progress
After being in business for over 35 years, we can happily say that we’ve made some life-long partners along the way.
One of the steadfast partnerships we’ve held initiatives with for 20 years is Progress – a company leading application development and fostering digital transformation.
In keeping up with evolving technology and the online customer experience our clients are coming to find is in demand; one primary mission has been to move all of our software solutions to browser-based versions. Modernization of our software solutions has always been a key focus, and at FDM4 it is something we tend to do very well.
Yet while this has been a necessary goal, the initial take-off with the idea presented challenges.
First, our customers would need to upgrade to OpenEdge 11.6 . This upgrade allows them to take advantage of new features, and to stay compliant with new security requirements. Performance and data integration are also critical considerations, as is optimizing user experience.
But, the process didn’t end there.
The next step was to use Kendo UI® by Progress on the front-end. This allowed us to move through application development effectively and efficiently. Our team was then able to impressively complete a prototype in less than two days.
Hear about what FDM4 has to say regarding Progress on growth, building better software, and the future of our solutions. You can also download the full case study as a PDF here. | <urn:uuid:14a3dd91-cd1f-40af-ac77-5b5ef04fc0cf> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.fdm4.com/fdm4-thinks-progress/ | 2019-07-16T15:03:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.962315 | 307 |
An Oklahoma man was arrested on Saturday, Nov. 12, after leading police on a 208 mph chase.
Nineteen-year-old Hector Fraire first tripped a radar gun doing 84 mph on the Kilpatrick Turnpike in Oklahoma City, before speeding away as police tried to pull him over.
According to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, Fraire’s heavily modified 2011 Ford Mustang was then clocked doing 176 mph and 208 mph, and he tried to elude the chase vehicle by turning off his headlights and brake lights.
An Oklahoma Highway Patrol spokesman tells FoxNews.com that as the pursuing officer lost contact with the vehicle, he radioed ahead to any units in the area. A Canadian County Deputy sitting in a parking lot spotted the car and was able to intecept it. The driver then pulled over, dropped his keys out of the window, and was arrested and later charged with reckless driving and felony eluding.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (via its American Tort Reform Foundation) has issued the 2018-19 version of its annual “Judicial Hellholes” report. Of special note this year, the report concludes some hellholes are threatening to appear in “red states,” including Georgia. The entire report is online at this page; pasted below are excerpts about a newly named entrant (the Twin Cities of Minnesota), and the watch list, which includes the Georgia Supreme Court and the Montana Supreme Court.
“#9 TWIN CITIES, MINNESOTA A newcomer to the Judicial Hellholes report, the Twin Cities’ position was solidified after the attorney general mishandled a lawsuit against a large Twin Cities employer and a Hennepin County trial judge stripped a company’s defenses. The lower courts appear to be following the lead of the state’s high court after it subjected property owners to expanded liability in 2018 and rejected a measure intended to remove “junk science” from the state’s courts.
Beyond the Judicial Hellholes, this report calls attention to seven additional jurisdictions that bear watching due to their histories of abusive litigation or troubling developments. Watch List jurisdictions fall on the cusp—they may drop into the Hellholes abyss or rise to the promise of Equal Justice Under Law.
COLORADO SUPREME COURT Liability-expanding decisions and rulemaking by the court coupled with prospects of a pro-plaintiff legislative agenda in 2019 has created an unfair and unbalanced environment for defendants in the Centennial State.
GEORGIA SUPREME COURT Georgia’s Supreme Court in recent years has issued decisions that significantly expanded civil liability, and that troubling trend continued in 2018.
MONTANA SUPREME COURT The Montana Supreme Court’s penchant for expanding liability, judicial activism, and defiance of U.S. Supreme Court precedent once again landed it on the Judicial Hellholes Watch List.
NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA Perhaps most notable in 2018 is the lack of cases to go to trial in Newport News. Plaintiffs and defendants alike have sought to litigate asbestos cases in federal court, as a result, it is hard to know whether problems and inequities that have manifested themselves in the past will persist. Newport News has been known for its evidentiary double standards, unsound legal rulings and lack of transparency in asbestos litigation.
OHIO EIGHTH DISTRICT COURT OF APPEALS–CUYAHOGA COUNTY A newcomer to the Watch List, the district has developed a reputation for handing down large damage awards and being a “haven” for class action lawsuits. It has developed a troublesome pattern of issuing unbalanced plaintiff-friendly decisions, which had to be overturned multiple times by the Ohio Supreme Court.
PENNSYLVANIA SUPREME COURT The high court issued a series of liability expanding decisions and has been selective, at best, in following U.S. Supreme Court precedent, inexplicably opening its doors to out-of-state plaintiffs.
WEST VIRGINIA SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS In an unprecedented move, West Virginia lawmakers voted to recommend the impeachment of all sitting members of the state’s highest court in 2018. Prior to the impeachment chaos, the court also issued a disappointing class certification decision that rejects U.S. Supreme Court precedent and encourages plaintiffs’ lawyers from all over the country to flock to West Virginia courts to file class action lawsuits. The 2018 elections did bring about some encouraging news with the election of U.S Representative Evan Jenkins and former House of Delegates Speaker Tim Armstead to fill the vacancies on the court. | <urn:uuid:4c372462-23f8-400b-8a31-883dd0b663ad> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.globaltort.com/2018/12/the-judicial-hellholes-are-expanding-some-now-appear-likely-in-red-states/ | 2019-07-16T15:33:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.936606 | 757 |
Russell Thomas Winders, age 81, of Cicero, IN passed away September 11, 2018 at IU Health Tipton Hospital.
He was born August 8, 1937 near Arcadia, IN to Doyle Thomas and Nora Mae (Hawkins) Winders.
He was a graduate of Walnut Grove High School with the Class of 1956. After graduation he soon became employed at Guide Lamp at Anderson, IN where he worked as an electrician for 42 years.
He married Loye Jane (Watson) Winders on November 7, 1959. She preceded him in death October 24, 2016. In addition to his wife and parents he was preceded in death by two grandsons: Alan Estep and Christopher Estep.
Russell enjoyed woodworking, carpentering, and attending auctions. His love of music would find him and his wife at the Hedgehog Music Center at Arcadia, IN on Saturday evenings. He also was a family man and loved and cared for his children and their families.
Surviving him are two daughters: Jewell Crawford of Cicero, IN and Jennifer Clanin of Arcadia, in, 5 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Monday, September 17, 2018 at 2:00 P.M. at Hartley Funeral Homes Cicero Chapel, 209 West Jackson Street, Cicero, IN 46034 with Rev. Neal Brown officiating. Burial will follow at the Cicero Cemetery. Visitation will be from 12:00 Noon until time of the services. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. You may send condolences at http://www.hartleyfuneralhomes.com.
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This is why rationalists put such a heavy premium on the paradoxical-seeming claim that a belief is only really worthwhile if you could, in principle, be persuaded to believe otherwise. If your retina ended up in the same state regardless of what light entered it, you would be blind . . . Hence the phrase, “blind faith.” If what you believe doesn’t depend on what you see, you’ve been blinded as effectively as by poking out your eyeballs.
Cihan Baran replied:2
I can not conceive of a situation that would make 2 + 2 = 4 false. Perhaps for that reason, my belief in 2 + 2 = 4 is unconditional.
I admit, I cannot conceive of a “situation” that would make 2 + 2 = 4 false. (There are redefinitions, but those are not “situations,” and then you’re no longer talking about 2, 4, =, or +.) But that doesn’t make my belief unconditional. I find it quite easy to imagine a situation which would convince me that 2 + 2 = 3.
Suppose I got up one morning, and took out two earplugs, and set them down next to two other earplugs on my nighttable, and noticed that there were now three earplugs, without any earplugs having appeared or disappeared—in contrast to my stored memory that 2 + 2 was supposed to equal 4. Moreover, when I visualized the process in my own mind, it seemed that making xx and xx come out to xxxx required an extra x to appear from nowhere, and was, moreover, inconsistent with other arithmetic I visualized, since subtracting xx from xxx left xx, but subtracting xx from xxxx left xxx. This would conflict with my stored memory that 3 - 2 = 1, but memory would be absurd in the face of physical and mental confirmation that xxx - xx = xx.
I would also check a pocket calculator, Google, and perhaps my copy of 1984 where Winston writes that “Freedom is the freedom to say two plus two equals three.” All of these would naturally show that the rest of the world agreed with my current visualization, and disagreed with my memory, that 2 + 2 = 3.
How could I possibly have ever been so deluded as to believe that 2 + 2 = 4? Two explanations would come to mind: First, a neurological fault (possibly caused by a sneeze) had made all the additive sums in my stored memory go up by one. Second, someone was messing with me, by hypnosis or by my being a computer simulation. In the second case, I would think it more likely that they had messed with my arithmetic recall than that 2 + 2 actually equalled 4. Neither of these plausible-sounding explanations would prevent me from noticing that I was very, very, very confused.3
What would convince me that 2 + 2 = 3, in other words, is exactly the same kind of evidence that currently convinces me that 2 + 2 = 4: The evidential crossfire of physical observation, mental visualization, and social agreement.
There was a time when I had no idea that 2 + 2 = 4. I did not arrive at this new belief by random processes—then there would have been no particular reason for my brain to end up storing “2 + 2 = 4” instead of “2 + 2 = 7.” The fact that my brain stores an answer surprisingly similar to what happens when I lay down two earplugs alongside two earplugs, calls forth an explanation of what entanglement produces this strange mirroring of mind and reality.
There’s really only two possibilities, for a belief of fact—either the belief got there via a mind-reality entangling process, or not. If not, the belief can’t be correct except by coincidence. For beliefs with the slightest shred of internal complexity (requiring a computer program of more than 10 bits to simulate), the space of possibilities is large enough that coincidence vanishes.4
Unconditional facts are not the same as unconditional beliefs. If entangled evidence convinces me that a fact is unconditional, this doesn’t mean I always believed in the fact without need of entangled evidence.
I believe that 2 + 2 = 4, and I find it quite easy to conceive of a situation which would convince me that 2 + 2 = 3. Namely, the same sort of situation that currently convinces me that 2 + 2 = 4. Thus I do not fear that I am a victim of blind faith.5
5If there are any Christians reading this who know Bayes’s Theorem, might I inquire of you what situation would convince you of the truth of Islam? Presumably it would be the same sort of situation causally responsible for producing your current belief in Christianity: We would push you screaming out of the uterus of a Muslim woman, and have you raised by Muslim parents who continually told you that it is good to believe unconditionally in Islam.
Or is there more to it than that? If so, what situation would convince you of Islam, or at least, non-Christianity? And how confident are you that the general kinds of evidence and reasoning you appeal to would have been enough to dissuade you of your religion if you had been raised a Muslim? | <urn:uuid:486dcddc-8756-4af2-be89-c6ec8958f8b9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6FmqiAgS8h4EJm86s/how-to-convince-me-that-2-2-3 | 2019-07-16T14:20:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.971254 | 1,118 |
On the fifth floor of one of the more obscure office buildings in the state Capitol complex is a small agency with a big mission but no bite — and now no money.
It is the Public Employee Retirement Commission.
Since its founding in 1981, its function has been to run mathematical tests on pension bills to determine long-term and short-term costs and savings to taxpayers. It also sets the formulas Harrisburg uses to send state pension aid to municipalities.
The mission sounds important, and its director believes it is. But from time to time, governors and lawmakers have ignored its warnings, or sought to strip it of its authority or funding. One of those times is now.
On Tuesday, Gov. Tom Wolf's administration informed PERC by letter that as of Feb. 12 it's being shut down and its employees are losing their jobs. The termination notice came about a month after Wolf cut all of PERC's funding — $962,000 — in his partial veto of the Republican-controlled Legislature's budget bill.
It's unclear if the administration can close the agency without legislative approval.
For now, the letter makes Wolf's funding cut and closure threat more serious than any the agency has faced, PERC Executive Director James McAneny said. He asserts the move is retribution because he refused in November to rubber-stamp a pension bill backed by the administration.
Senate Republicans and the Democratic administration tried to bypass PERC's review of the bill, McAneny said. When PERC did take a look, it found a $630 million error in the bill.
The bill, which would have altered pension plans for most new state workers and for all new school employees, was part of the administration's now-dead deal with the Senate and House to pass a state budget.
"I don't think it's political," said McAneny, who has run PERC since 2007. "I think it's personal."
Jeff Sheridan, Wolf's spokesman, rejected the claims the administration acted out of spite or to rush the pension bill. The administration believes PERC is redundant, Sheridan said, because the state's two big retirement systems hire outside firms to do their own actuarial reviews.
It's fair to say the Senate tried to reduce PERC's role in the bill, said Sen. Pat Browne, R-Lehigh, but only because of a time crunch. The plan always was for the House to request the PERC review before both chambers finished the bill, Browne said, and that is what occurred, leading to the error's discovery.
The seven-person agency is down to four employees. There's no money for paper or a new 2016 stamp pad, which the agency needs to track thousands of municipal pension plans that will be arriving soon.
"I paid for it out of my own pocket," McAneny said of the stamp.
Although he speaks softly and deliberately, McAneny, a former lawyer for the state troopers union, is known for speaking his mind in meetings and in interviews with the media. Sometimes that gets the 67-year-old in trouble with administrations and lawmakers, but he just shrugs it off, saying he tries to run a nonpolitical office.
Apart from pensions, PERC also calculates a tax on out-of-state insurance companies. Based on an annual PERC formula, the state auditor general's office disburses the tax money to more than 3,000 municipalities to help them defray the cost of their employee pensions.
"It is a critical function," Democratic Auditor General Eugene DePasquale said.
Rep. Stephen Bloom, R-Cumberland, has proposed a bill to restore funding, saying PERC's role as an "independent assessor of pension legislation is a crucial and deliberate check and balance in the legislative process."
Just as policymakers have not always listened to PERC, PERC hasn't always been right.
In the 1990s, PERC warned GOP Gov. Tom Ridge and the GOP-controlled Legislature that it would be unwise for the state, in the role of employer, to stop making payments into workers' pension systems even though the systems then were flush with cash. Ridge and the lawmakers didn't listen, and the systems suffered when stock markets fell in 2001.
As the nation's dot-com bubble was bursting, neither PERC nor the retirement systems' own actuaries took the market's financial fall into consideration in signing off on a bill to give retroactive pension bonuses to all government employees. PERC and the retirement systems only looked at reports covering the period before the market drop.
"In 20/20 hindsight, that was a mistake," McAneny acknowledges, adding that reviews now include present-day market conditions.
The decisions in the 1990s and in 2001 helped stoke today's state pension debt, which is estimated at between $55 billion and $60 billion.
McAneny still has his stamp pad, and plans to work until someone tells him to stop.
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Due to recent clashes between the military and members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, the All Progressives Congress, APC, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, among others, have admonished all to exercise restraint. In a statement on Wednesday, Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the APC, urged security agencies to adhere to globally-stipulated rules of engagements and laws in their operations We must allow our security agencies to conduct their constitutional roles of securing lives and property without hindrance and provocation. We also call on citizens, social commentators, the media and other stakeholders to be careful and mindful of their utterances on the clashes. Stoking tensions by inciting utterances, hate speech and all other forms of awful propaganda will only push the country to the precipice. “When we see the devastation of the country’s North-east by Boko Haram, the 1966 Nigerian Civil War and similar conflicts in other countries, we are reminded of the effects of internal strife. “We must not yield to elements beating the drumbeats of war. Nike Air Max 90 Dames
We owe the peace and unity of our dear country to the present and unborn generations. “We must speak and stand up for peaceful coexistence on our social media platforms, places of worship and all other public spaces we belong to,” APC said. The party reiterated its belief in a united Nigeria. In its reaction to the situation in Abia, the opposition PDP also sued for caution and restraint in the handling the conflict that has erupted in the state between the military and elements of the IPOB. PDP noted that while it was committed to the continued corporate existence of Nigeria as one indivisible country, it at the same time expressed its respect for the rights of people anywhere to express their yearnings and aspirations within the confines of the laws of the land. A statement by PDP spokesman, Dayo Adeyeye, stated that at a time that “tempers seem to be flaring, dialogue rather than violence is the only viable option to resolve whatever problems are on ground in the South-east zone and indeed the entire country”. It said at this critical juncture when the nation is grappling with numerous challenges in virtually all facets, Nigeria can ill-afford a further descent into anarchy in any of its constituent parts. “What the country needs at this time is an atmosphere of peace and tranquility, without which no meaningful positive development in whatever sector can be attained, and the situation unfolding in the South-east, which is a very important component of the Nigerian family, is no doubt, inimical to our collective quest to take Nigeria higher. “It is therefore in our enlightened interest as a people and as a nation, to rise up to this challenge intelligently without undue egotism and with the best interest of the country at heart,” it said. The party expressed the view that the situation was a family squabble which the country should be able to deal with without unnecessary bloodshed. It also reminded both the federal government and the IPOB that a sit-down had become inevitable. While acknowledging its constitutional mandate of ensuring the protection of the territorial integrity of the country, PDP appealed to the federal government to deploy constructive engagement, involving effective and efficient communication strategies that would allay all fears as well as assure all component parts of Nigeria of their assured place in the national scheme of things. It also appealed to IPOB and its leadership to reciprocate such gesture where and when offered, reminding them that their continued recalcitrance would achieve nothing other than subjecting people of their area to untold hardship and harm. The PDP also commended the government of Abia State for the mature way it has handled the delicate situation and urged people of the state to continue to support and cooperate with it. On its part, the ACF also called for calm and commended Ikpeazu for imposing a dusk to dawn curfew on Aba, following the clash between supporters of IPOB and the Nigerian Army. In a statement in Kaduna Wednesday, the publicity secretary of ACF, Mohammed Ibrahim Biu, said IPOB supporters and other agitators for whatever reason should pursue their cause within the confines of the law. The statement read: “The attention of Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has been drawn to the alleged reported clashes between troops of the Nigerian Army while on Operation Python Dance II and members of Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Aba, Abia State. “ACF commends the prompt intervention of the Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, who has imposed a three day dusk to dawn curfew on Aba town in order to douse the tension and bring the situation under control. “With the dusk to dawn curfew in place, the military and other security agencies should ensure that peace and harmony in the areas affected are not only restored but sustained. “ACF also commends the efforts of the South-east Governors’ Forum for setting up a probe committee to investigate the clash in order to unravel its remote causes and to proffer an enduring solution to such problems. “Identified perpetrators of the crisis should be made to face the wrath of the law in order to serve as a deterrent to others. “In this regard, ACF urges the governors of the South-east and South-south regions to take adequate and necessary steps to protect the lives and properties of the innocent and law abiding citizens living in their states. “ACF appeals to members of IPOB and other agitators for whatever cause, to always pursue their concerns within the confines of the law and the provisions of the Nigerian Constitution. “Furthermore, ACF wishes to praise the military for their professionalism in handling the security challenges and calls on the federal government to be firm and resolute in bringing such situations under control in favor of peaceful coexistence needed for meaningful socioeconomic development. “We therefore appeal for calm and urge citizens to appreciate the need to live in peace and harmony.” Also towing the same path of the ACF, a Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) in Kano Wednesday called on Northerners to resist anything that would lead to unnecessary provocation and that could lead to reprisals over the unfolding events in the South-east. 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The group, which was reacting to reports that some Northerners resident in Oyigbo were molested and had to seek the protection of the police, called for calm and for Northerners to be law abiding. Addressing journalists at the Kano Press Centre over the unfortunate situation in Abia, the spokesman of the group, Mr. Abdulazeez Suleiman, in the company of the chairman and co-chairman Ashir Shariff and Shetima Yerima, said: “As cultured people with a long history of tolerance and respect for constituted authority, we call on Northerners to resist the temptation of carrying out reprisals and playing to the gallery.” Suleiman added that “Northerners, in line with their disciplined nature, must refuse at this point to be dragged into taking the law into their hands through unnecessary and unproductive confrontation with members of any sectional, ethnic or religious group”. “We must remain peacefully focused, mutually respectful, trusting and tolerant as we repose confidence in the ability and committed willingness of the Nigerian security agencies to handle the situation as well as protect the lives and properties of every Nigerian anywhere,” Suleiman said. According to him, “In this situation, it is essential that the North and Northerners remain restrained and refuse to be provoked into reprisals which is the ultimate hope of the conflict instigators.” The group said that their struggle will continue to remain intellectual, precautionary and essentially non-violent, pointing out that the agitation for separation and cry for Biafra in the South-east by the agitators, supported by politicians in order for them be heard louder, shall be resisted. They further said that they were prepared to “set out an immediate circuit to all the 19 Northern states to prepare and sensitise the Northern people on the need for calm and peaceful approach to the various positions and scenarios as regard to the unfolding situation in the country”. The group, however, accused IPOB of making the country ungovernable for President Muhammadu Buhari. According to it, “The agitations and disturbances that have been ongoing ceaselessly since the coming to power of the Muhammadu Buhari and Yemi Osinbajo administration in 2015, are aimed at rendering the country practically ungovernable and ushering in anarchy and instability, thereby occasioning a change of government by whatever means and tactics. “The targeting of President Buhari’s administration and singling him for attacks and irreverent treatment is aimed at causing inter-regional crisis possibly leading to general unrest.” They added that the resurgence of separatist agitations, especially the violent brand by IPOB and its ilk in the South-east represents a much wider conspiracy to divide Nigeria along ethnic and religious fault lines as well as achieve the balkanisation of the North. “The current IPOB brand of agitation is a strategy employed to achieve the results that the coupist of the First Republic failed to realise, namely, increase the weight and relevance of the regions to the detriment and expense of the central government. “Our stand on the current situation in Nigeria is that we will not fall to that instigation to allow a possible foreigner or a mad man to plunge us into this unnecessary madness. “We therefore will dedicate efforts at creating the right conditions for peaceful negotiations with other peace loving groups in every situation on the political dispensation that should emerge now or in the future,” the group added. Also weighing in on the issue, Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, called on the federal government to urgently investigate the unfortunate skirmishes in the South-eastern part of the country. Speaking while receiving the leadership of Coalition of Northern Groups at the Government House, Kano, he urged the federal government to also punish those disrupting the peace. Ganduje told the group Wednesday: “I am not surprised at your efforts because you have been and continue to demonstrate that your group believes in one Nigeria and also your disposition in the belief of President Muhammadu Buhari’s ability to stabilise the nation. “I consider the incident as very unfortunate and I commend your efforts to douse tensions, which I describe as patriotic.” Ganduje expressed satisfaction that the situation had been brought under control by the security forces in the troubled areas of the South-east. He maintained that if the perpetrators of the skirmishes in Oyigbo were not brought to book, it would continue to happen. Towing a different path, the South-east caucus of the House of Representatives Wednesday condemned what it described as the military’s show of force in the South-east region. In its reaction to the crisis in Abia State, it called for a de-escalation of “internal military operations” in the state as well as the South-east in general and urged “our brothers and sisters at home to remain civil and law abiding”. The group further threw its weight behind the setting up of a seven-man committee by the South-east governors to investigate the causes of the current conflict in the state. The lawmakers, in a statement signed by the leader of the caucus who is also the Deputy Minority Leader in the House, Hon. Chukwuka Onyema, said: “While we appreciate the right to discharge the core duties of the Nigeria Armed Forces as spelt out under Section 217 of the 1999 Constitution, there is no gainsaying that internal military operations can only be conducted without doing violence to the constitutionally guaranteed fundamental human rights of citizens. Adidas NMD Dames beige “To conduct operations that frighten, maim or lead to the loss of lives of citizens and property are clearly unjustifiable and an offence to our democracy and the rule of law.” The House caucus called for restraint and appealed to the federal government to end the militarisation of the South-east. Also joining the fray Wednesday, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) called on the military to desist from any acts capable of causing tension, public disturbance, fear and a sense of insecurity in the country. A statement issued by NHRC’s Head of Media Relations, Mrs. Hogan Outlet Sito Ufficiale Fatimah Agwai Mohammad, said the commission was highly concerned about the alleged invasion of parts of the South-east and South-south by the military. It called on the military to observe the rules of engagement when dealing with civilians. The commission also asked the military to respect the fundamental rights of all citizens. The statement quoted the acting executive secretary of the NHRC, Mrs. Oti Ovrawah, as calling on both civilians and the security agencies to maintain the peace. Ovrawah said the commission would collaborate with the Nigerian Police and other relevant authorities to “ensure a timely and thorough investigations into the allegations with a view to ensuring that informed decisions are made and appropriate steps taken to have culprits punished and victims redressed in accordance with the law”. The commission commended the government of Abia for the steps taken so far to forestall a further breakdown of law and order, saying that it was important to reinforce people’s confidence in the ability of government to protect them. The commission called on the military to leverage on the series of training the commission had offered it on mainstreaming human rights into its operations, especially with the emerging human rights challenges, adding that “they are expected to carry out their duties according to international best practices”. But despite the calls for restraint, the Rivers State Police Command announced Wednesday that a police sergeant attached to the riot police squad at Oyigbo junction in Rivers State was killed by a mob suspected to be members of the IPOB, just as the command also arrested 32 members of the separatist group. Rod Carew Jersey Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt, the Commissioner of Police, Zaki Ahmed, said irate members of IPOB set ablaze a patrol van stationed at Oyigbo junction and took away a Sterling SMG rifle belonging to the slain policeman during an attack early Wednesday. Ahmed added that 23 IPOB members were arrested on Tuesday following the first attack and setting ablaze a police van that was moving from Police Training School, Nonwa to the Port Harcourt International Airport, while the driver of the vehicle, Inspector Emaikwu Ochochi, was badly injured. The police commissioner said the hoodlums carted away from the police van, one AK-47 riffle with 60 rounds of live ammunition and one Berretta pistol with eight rounds of live ammunition. He said: “I have called you to address you on the sad event of yesterday, 12/09/2017 at about 1400hours where members of the Indigenous People of Biafra without lawful authority blocked the entire Aba-Port Harcourt expressway and attacked some residents. “The said group who had no justification for their actin also attacked a police van from Training School, Nonwa en route Port Harcourt International Airport and burnt the police van to ashes. The driver, Inspector Emaikwu Ochochi was badly injured and is now on admission. “They also carted away one AK-47 rifle with sixty rounds of live ammunition, and one Berretta pistol with eight rounds of live ammunition. Nike Pas Cher At the end of the rampage, many vehicles were damaged and stores burnt. “The timely response of the police restored normalcy and brought the situation under control as I made adequate deployment to arrest the situation. The mob was dispersed with minimum force, thereby restoring law and order, at the end of which 23 IPOB members were arrested. ray ban pas cher “However, the command was awaken to yet another said incident today (yesterday) at about 0010 hours, where the same daredevil IPOB members regrouped and launched a surprise attack on the mobile policemen stationed at Oyigbo junction, killing a police sergeant identified as Sgt. Steven Daniel attached to 19 PMF, injuring two and setting a patrol vehicle ablaze as a result of which a Sterling SMG rifle belonging to the deceased sergeant was taken by the hoodlums. “They were however repelled by the police, where about nine of them were arrested bringing the total number of suspects arrested to 32. They are helping us with investigations and will be arraigned in court as soon as our investigation is concluded.” With skirmishes yet to abate in neighbouring Oyigbo, the Abia State governor took the precaution Wednesday to extend the three-day curfew he imposed on Aba Tuesday to Friday. A statement from the chief press secretary to the governor, Mr. Enyinnaya Appolos, after a meeting between Ikpeazu and traditional rulers in the state, said: “The governor wishes to advise residents and visitors to fully co-operate with the security agencies to ensure continuing maintenance of law and order within the commercial city and environs.” Ikpeazu was also quoted to have expressed “displeasure at the situation where people are compelled to raise their hands while passing through security checkpoints”. He therefore called on the security forces and “all concerned to ensure that such acts and other forms of inhumane and barbaric treatment of people are discontinued immediately”. Meanwhile, the Leader of IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has cancelled his meeting with the South-east governors scheduled for Friday. Kanu, in a press statement Wednesday, said he had changed his mind and decided to refrain from attending the meeting which was to take place in Enugu, saying his reason was predicated on the recent attack on his members by military personnel and the alleged plan to assassinate him on his way to the meeting. He added that he was attending to members of his group who were shot by soldiers in Aba and Umuahia and that the date also coincided with the date IPOB had slated to meet in Germany to vote on the viability or otherwise of continuing the struggle in a non-violent manner. According to him, “Before now, prominent leaders and groups had insisted that I tow the line of peaceful dialogue and meet with the governors to find a lasting solution to our grievances. “I conceded to that request which led to the 30th of August 2017 meeting with the South-east Governors’ Forum at the Government House in Enugu, in the company of the very eminent Prof. Ben Nwabueze and Evangelist Elliott Ugochukwu-Ukoh. “In view of the concerted efforts by the oppressive Nigerian state to shatter the peace and tranquility of the South-east and the rest of Biafraland through military intimidation, it has become necessary for me to clarify why, regrettably, I may not be able to attend Friday’s meeting with the South-east governors as earlier agreed.” Kanu said it would be impossible to engage in any meaningful dialogue with the governors in the midst of so much bloodshed, abductions and military siege of towns and villages in the South-east, and that he would not engage in any meeting with anybody until the atmosphere is conducive and peaceful for further dialogue. He said the siren-blaring military convoys and armoured vehicles occupying the entire region were not only designed to intimidate the people but also deliberately positioned to scuttle the IPOB/South-east governors meeting on Friday. The IPOB leader thanked all men and women of good conscience from all over the world that had condemned what he described as the “barbaric slaughter of innocent Biafrans by the Nigerian military”. He also thanked IPOB members for remaining resolute and dedicated to the shared vision of freedom “regardless of the cost and visionless antics of the mindless oppressor”. fjällräven kånken Mini Irrespective of Kanu’s decision to boycott the meeting, THISDAY gathered that the South-east governors intend to go ahead with their meeting in Enugu, as Kanu was not the primary reason for the meeting. | <urn:uuid:0c5e0e80-9fd2-46b9-91cb-dcd964928fc1> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.montageafrica.com/apc-others-calls-for-peaceful-restraint-in-south-east/ | 2019-07-16T14:57:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.971679 | 4,223 |
The state comptroller published the number of jobs added after Long Island industrial development agencies grant tax breaks to specific businesses [“Impact of tax breaks,” News, May 31].
Kudos for the job creation. However, tax breaks shrink the financial base from which revenue is raised and then raise everyone else’s taxes. Where is the state comptroller’s report on these higher taxes?
It seems like every big business is getting tax breaks. And I just read about clergy tax exemptions [“Clergy exemption takes $463M off Nassau tax rolls,” News, June 3].
What about us seniors trying to stay in our homes? I am a widow. On the death of my husband I lost my own Social Security check, $8,000 a year. That check helped pay my taxes. I have to put away $1,500 a month for property taxes to stay in my home. Senior citizens need more help with our school, village and town taxes.
I have written to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo many times. Please help. So many of my friends have moved off Long Island or moved in with their children. | <urn:uuid:d5f16959-8dd0-4ab4-8bc5-14452a5961af> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.newsday.com/opinion/letters/reader-letters-newsday-opinion-1.32108072 | 2019-07-16T14:04:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.963462 | 241 |
1. Who is responsible for the processing of data, and who can I contact in this regard?
The responsible party is FarmFacts GmbH, Rennbahnstr. 9, 84347 Pfarrkirchen, E-Mail: datenschutz(at)farmfacts(dot)de, Tel: 08561 9999 111.
The FarmFacts GmbH external data protection officer is reachable under: datenschutzbeauftragter(at)baywa(dot)de.
2. Which type of data is processed and from which sources does this data originate from?
We process data that we receive from you during our initial business contact and business relationship. Additionally, we duly process data that we receive from credit agencies, creditor protection associations, publicly accessible sources (e.g. company register, register of associations, land register, media), and other companies with which we maintain long-standing business relationships and from which we have rightfully received the data.
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3. For which purposes and on what legal basis is the data processed?
We process your data in accordance with the latest provisions contained in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act of 2018 (BDSG 2018):
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Your data is processed for the sale and distribution of our good and services, for procurement and logistics purposes, and for supplier and customer management and analysis. In particular, the data is processed by us when initiating business contact and when executing contracts with you.
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Your data must be processed in order to fulfil various legal obligations, e.g. such as those outlined in the commercial code or tax code, anti-money laundering legislation, or product-specific regulations such as the Ordinance of Hazardous Substances.
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With respect to a balancing of interests, we can process data beyond the actual fulfilment of the contract with you in order to safeguard own or third party legitimate interests. Data is processed for the safeguarding of legitimate interests in, amongst others, the following cases:
- consultation and exchange of data with credit agencies and creditor protection associations so as to determine credit rating data and manage a group-wide credit rating database in order to identify financial default risks in common customers;
- advertising or marketing;
- measures to control business processes and develop services and products;
- management of a group-wide customer database to improve customer service;
- in the pursuit of legal prosecution
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The legal basis for this disclosure is Article 6 Par. 1 letter b and Article 6 Par. 1 letter f of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Data may only be disclosed on the basis of Article 6 Par. 1 letter f of the GDPR to the extent necessary for the safeguarding of legitimate interests pursued by FarmFacts GmbH or third parties, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject in cases where the protection of personal data is required. Furthermore, the exchange of data with SCHUFA facilitates the fulfilment of statutory obligations to carry out customer creditworthiness checks (Section 505a and 506 of the German Civil Code). SCHUFA processes data that it receives and also uses such data for purposes of profile creation (scoring) in order to provide its contractual partners based in the European Economic Area and Switzerland as well as non-member countries as applicable (to the extent an adequacy decision from the European Commission is available for such countries), with information to be used to evaluate the creditworthiness of natural persons. Additional information regarding SCHUFA’s activities can be found in the SCHUFA Information Sheet under Art. 14 of the GDPR or online at www.schufa.de/datenschutz.
Submission of data to other credit agencies
FarmFacts GmbH also uses the following credit agencies to collect credit rating information if there is a legitimate interest: Coface Central Europe Holding AG, Stubenring 24, A-1010 Vienna, Creditreform, Machtlfinger Straße 13, 81302 Munich.
Maintaining a group-wide credit rating database
If we, within the scope of legal admissibility, collect credit rating data about you from a credit agency, we shall save this information in a system to which affiliates participating in BayWa credit management have access. The objective here is to facilitate processing and identify financial default risks in common customers. The credit rating database may only be accessed if there is a legitimate interest on the part of the respective affiliate.
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The software solution NEXT Farming consists of a platform, on which individual applications can be booked, managed, and used, and consisting of the individual applications themselves. We only save such data which is required for the execution of the functions of the NEXT Farming application which you have selected or that is required for the service or consultation that you have requested. This information is not collected automatically, but must voluntarily be entered by you following your consent to the storage of data. This personal data is stored by us in a database to which third parties have no access and which is protected by suitable measures against external access. This data is stored exclusively on computer systems whose physical location is in Germany. The transmission of the payment data is SSL-encrypted.
The desktop products store personal data in the form of master data for the purpose of synchronization between desktop and mobile app, or on-board computer systems and for the purpose of license information queries. Such data is also stored on a server located in Germany. This data is transported back and forth between the desktop system, the server, and the mobile app via appropriate interface formats and such data transmission must be triggered by the respective desktop user.
7. Who receives my data?
If we use a service provider to process data on our behalf, we shall still be responsible for protecting your data. All such data processors are contractually obligated to treat your data as confidential and may only process it to the extent necessary to provide their service. The data processors commissioned by us shall receive your data provided that they require it in order to render their respective service. Our data processors include IT service providers, whom we require for the operation and security of our IT system, and commercial and directory publishers for our advertising campaigns.
Your data shall also be processed in the FarmFacts GmbH customer database. The FarmFacts GmbH customer database helps to increase the quality of existing customer data (clean-up of duplicate entries, moved out/died indicator, correction of addresses) and enrich it with information from public sources. This data can be used for personalised direct marketing campaigns (e.g. newsletter), targeted online marketing, and personalised online shop presentation.
The aim of this approach is to consistently provide customers with the latest and most relevant information. This processing of customer interests constitutes profiling as defined in Art. 4 of the GDPR; automated decision-making does not take place.
If an offer is submitted or a sale takes place via manufacturer portals, data provided by you shall be processed directly in the manufacturer's portal.
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If you have purchased a product that requires or allows for a data exchange between FarmFacts GmbH products and a third party, this will only take place following manually initiated synchronization commands by you.
If there is a legal obligation and legal prosecution is pursued, authorities, courts, and external auditors can all become recipients of your data.
Furthermore, for the purpose of initiating or fulfilling our contract with you, insurance companies, banks, credit agencies, and service providers can also become recipients of your data.
8. How long is my data stored?
We process your data up until the business relationship ends or until the applicable warranty periods, guarantee terms, periods of limitation, and statutory retention periods have lapsed (for example, as set out in the commercial code or tax code); additionally, until any disputes have been concluded where this data is required.
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If you submit your application to us via the BayWa applicant portal, we shall save your personal data in a secure operating environment to protect it from loss or misuse. Your application data shall only be made accessible to employees of FarmFacts GmbH and other BayWa Group companies authorized and involved in the application process, for example to offer you an alternative position. After the application process has concluded (i.e. after you have received confirmation of acceptance or rejection from us), we shall save your data for a maximum of nine months. You can request an earlier deletion of your data, but not before five months have elapsed after the conclusion of the application process. We need to save your data for this period in order to satisfy the legal requirements pertaining to the proper processing of an application and to be able to answer any questions relating to your application and/or its rejection that might arise. If you wish to have your data deleted after this five-month period has expired, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org.
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PULASKI — Chad Bell drove in five runs and scored twice, leading the Pulaski Yankees to an 8-1 win over the Bluefield Blue Jays Thursday night at Calfee Park .
In the second game of the three-game set, Pulaski scored in the bottom of the first inning, when Anthony Volpe and Madison Santos led off with walks . After Antonio Cabello grounded into a double play, Ryder Green singled, scoring Volpe.
In the bottom of the third, Pulaski’s Santos and Cabello walked, and Green singled to load the bases. Bell followed with a double to left field that cleared the bases . He eventually scored on Borinquen Mendez’s groundout to put Pulaski up 5-0.
Angel Camacho’s solo homer in the fourth inning put the Blue Jays on the board.
Cabello led off the fifth inning with a triple. After Green struck out, Bell hit a 3-1 pitch over the center field wall for a two-run homer. Jake Pries then met reliever Gaudy Ramirez with a solo homer to center field to put the Yankees up 8-1.
Starting pitcher Randy Vasquez gained his first win of the season by throwing six innings, giving up one run off four hits with four strikeouts and one base on balls.
Elvis Peguero tossed two shutout innings in relief, allowing one hit with two strikeouts and no walks.
Mitch Spence sat Bluefield down in order in the ninth inning, striking out two.
With the series tied , the two teams will face off in the finale on Friday at Calfee Park with the first pitch slated for 6:30 p.m. | <urn:uuid:af54ab0a-b147-4c35-becf-d15cd5400f5d> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.roanoke.com/sports/local_pro_sports/bell-provides-offense-in-yankees---win-over-blue/article_c7d92596-386f-50ac-a92d-e80d42bef76f.html | 2019-07-16T14:45:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.91513 | 357 |
OBJECTIVE: The potential for internal hernias and subsequent bowel obstruction following laparoscopic RNY gastric bypass (RYGB) mandates closure of mesenteric defects. We have previously recommended the use of non-absorbable suture material to limit this complication. However, recently we have identified several patients presenting with abdominal pain and/or perforation secondary to migration of the suture material. This is a review of our experience with this rare, unusual complication; potential causes, management and prevention. METHODS: Retrospective review of prospective database, hospital and clinic records with 100% follow up. RESULTS: 12 patients were identified: (1) male, (11) female; mean age at presentation 43 yrs. All had undergone a primary standard retrocolic, ante-gastric RYGB with closure of all potential hernia defects: jejuno-jejunostomy (JJ), mesocolic (MC), and Petersen’s space with permanent suture. Most frequent presentation was of post-prandial abdominal pain. Mean interval between RYGB and presentation was 16 months. 11 pts underwent 13 endoscopies, 10 were diagnostic, and 3 were negative. 8 endoscopies identified intra-luminal suture bezoar, 3 were therapeutic using endoscopic shears and 3 were suggestive due to stricturing in roux limb at MC defect. 11 CT scans were obtained in 8 pts, 6 were normal, 5 had positive findings including: mesenteric inflammation n=4, intra-abdominal abscess n=1 and contrast in the gastric remnant suggestive of partial obstruction n=2. Nine pts were managed by exploratory laparoscopy, 1 pt was explored twice. Laparoscopic findings included: mesenteric fibrosis and scarring at MC or JJ defect closures n=6, intra-abdominal abscess, chronic perforation n=2 and free air after endoscopy n=1. Intra-luminal suture bezoar was seen in 10 pts, 1 pt had extra-luminal suture abscess, and 1 pt had chronic MC defect fibrosis. CONCLUSION: Abdominal pain after RYGB mandates investigation. CT scan and endoscopy may help to delineate the cause; however work up is incomplete without a laparoscopic exploration. This has been proven to rule out the presence of an internal hernia; and now also to investigate for potential complications of permanent suture material. Although often diagnostic and therapeutic, endoscopic evaluation alone will not rule out complete migration of the suture material. If suspected, endoscopists should be prepared to treat this problem with the proper endoscopic shears available. Non-circumferential closure of the mesocolic defect may decrease the incidence of this complication.
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The Merrell Choprock Water Shoe (excuse us, "Shandal") is built exactly like you would expect from a company whose primary focus is hiking boots. These hiker-focused water shoes are rugged, effective and ready for whatever terrain you throw at them.
With their quick pull bungee lacing system, these shoes were manufactured to wrap very tightly around the foot, providing one of the most snug fits of any of the water shoes we tested. This lacing system worked flawlessly in our testing, and Merrell refers to them as “quick action”.
If you are on the hunt for a far more secure fit, the laces can be tightened to any level. The soles of these shoes are incredibly sturdy and thick, by far the best support of any water shoes we tested. They kept rubble and rocks from being felt at all when in the testing process. Additionally, the waterproof leather uppers provided extensive support, with zero robbing or slippage.
Initial Thoughts on Unboxing
When we unboxed these shoes, the first thought that went through our heads was that we made a huge mistake. But it was no mistake, these shoes just simply didn’t appear like your average water shoes in the least. The bottoms of these shoes feature the same Vibram outsole that is expected with Merrell hiking boots, and the toughness of the water shoes is obvious by their outward appearance alone.
These shoes are also some of the heaviest tested, bested only by the KEEN options, which were ideal for similar applications and at the same price point. These shoes are the real deal with it comes to water/hiking hybrids, but come with some disadvantages as a result.
Putting Them Through Their Paces
We spent extensive time testing the Merrell shoes in the elements at Little Talbot Island State Park in Jacksonville, Florida. Our tests included:
- An ocean test: Sugar sand, waves, and hard packed sand.
- A river test: Rocky creek beds, sandy shorelines, flowing water.
- A hiking test: Over pine needles, sand, puddles, and standard trail surfaces.
Here is how they fared.
The Ocean Test
The Merrell Choprock Water Shoe didn’t perform as well as we would have hoped in the ocean test. They were some of the more bulky water shoes that we tested. Remember, they are built for splashing around when hiking. For this reason, they didn’t do great when moving through deeper sugar sand and when moving around in the ocean. This wasn't surprising: these shoes weren't designed for the ocean, but we like to be thorough!
The River Test
These shoes performed admirably in the river test. The Vibram soles did a wonderful job sticking to the rocks, and there were no issues with slipping or sliding. We felt no slick or sharp surfaces in the river testing process.
The Hiking Test
The Merrell Choprock Water Shoe was made for hiking. With the soul (and sole) of a hiking boot, these were incredible in the hiking test, and would have easily held up to many miles of walking and hiking through whatever terrain we would have put it through.
Advantages and Disadvantages
While the performance of the Merrell Choprock Water Shoe was extremely admirable, with such features as a quick pull bungee lace, heavy duty uppers, a Vibram thick outsole and more, there will always be some concerning points with every water shoe we test.
Below are some of the advantages and disadvantages that we noted with the Merrell Choprock Water Shoe.
Advantages of the Merrell Choprock Water Shoe
- Incredibly comfortable shoes in all aspects (except in the sugar sand), these Merrell options were wonderful both and out of the water. As an added bonus, we assumed they would take forever to dry. On the contrary, they dried incredibly fast!
- Putting these shoes on and taking them off was a breeze, thanks to the patented and well-configured lacing system, which also provided a wonderfully snug fit.
- The treads on these shoes (Vibram soles, remember) provide intense gripping on any and every surface in which we tested the shoes. These soles were ideal for hiking (for example, the Narrows would be a piece of cake).
Disadvantages of the Merrell Choprock Water Shoe
- We are quite certain that, with continuous use of these shoes across a variety of terrains and adventures, the soles would quickly wear down. As reviews have shown, when the soles begin to wear down, their ability to grip falters.
- When we were hiking, the openings present on the sides and top of the shoes tended to let in a good bit of rocks, sticks and dirt.
Our Final Thoughts
The Merrell Choprock Shandal fared incredibly well in both the river and hiking tests. However, they were quickly waterlogged and felt extremely heavy in less solid terrains, such as thicker sand. But, if you find yourself hiking through wetter areas, and aren’t concerned about occasional rubbing from dirt, these water shoes will take you the extra mile in the grip and comfort facets. Overall, we were very impressed.
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Texans reportedly planning pregame protest after owner's 'inmates running the prison' comment
The Houston Texans plan to protest before their game against the Seattle Seahawks after owner Bob McNair's "inmates running the prison" comment, reports ESPN.com Adam Schefter.
According to the report, the Texans had a players only meeting on Saturday to discuss how to deal with the situation.
The team plans on revealing how they will protest on Sunday, which could include kneeling for the anthem, raising a fist or taking the Texans decal off their helmets.
Texans offensive lineman Duane Brown told ESPN that he anticipates “65-70%" of his teammates will kneel during the anthem, but the team won;t remove their helmet decals.
McNair made the comments during the owners meeting on Oct. 17 and was revealed in an ESPN The Magazine story published on Friday.
"I am truly sorry to the players for how this has impacted them and the perception that it has created of me, which could not be further from the truth," McNair said later.
McNair did meet with the players on Saturday and again apologized for his remarks, according to the report.
That meeting came a day after several players considered walking out of practice.
Two players, wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins and rookie running back D'Onta Foreman, did not practice and were listed on the injury report as missing practice for non-injury related purposes. Those absences reportedly were due to McNair's comments. | <urn:uuid:50166ede-0d6b-4cae-94a9-8ead31e8d6f9> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.si.com/nfl/2017/10/29/houston-texans-protest-bob-mcnair | 2019-07-16T14:15:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.982469 | 313 |
The St. Philip Parent Teacher Guild (PTG), as an advisory body, is intended to provide opportunities for parents to fulfill their God-given role as educators and to give mutual support through collaboration with the School. The objectives of the PTG are as follows:
- Give parents a means of contact with the school for the benefit of the child.
- Maximize financial resources available to the school through well planned fundraising activities, volunteer services, and contributions from the business community.
- Publicize, through an ongoing and effective public relations campaign, the contributions of the school to the parish and broader church and civic communities.
- Provide parents with effective ways of earning toward their fundraising quota (FRQ) and volunteer hour requirements.
- Coordinate fundraising efforts and resources to meet the mandated 10% of a school’s operating budget by The Pittsburgh Diocese.
- Plan activities such as Classroom Parties & Programs, School Assemblies, and Field Trips with fundraising funds once the yearly goal is met.
St. Philip PTG is an active and essential part of the school community. Parents become members of the PTG when their child is enrolled at St. Philip School. Several PTG meetings are scheduled throughout the school year. Parents are asked to attend meetings and take an active role through participation and volunteering.
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StarlingX featured at Open Infrastructure Summit Denver in April
Learn more about the Open Infrastructure Summit Denver agenda and program.
You can meet the StarlingX community at the upcoming Open Infrastructure Summit in Denver, April 29 - May 1. They will join 30 other open source projects attending the Summit to collaborate in the open. If you want to be part of it too register now before prices increase on February 27.
For 2019, the Summit has expanded and rebranded from the OpenStack Summit to the Open Infrastructure Summit, reflecting the large number of open source tools used to automate modern infrastructure and the challenges of integrating them. The agenda for the event is now live with a full track dedicated to edge computing and features a number of StarlingX talks.
The Summit agenda is organized into 11 tracks: AI/ML/HPC; container infrastructure; CI/CD; edge computing; getting started; open development; private and hybrid cloud; public cloud; security; telecom and NFV; and hands-on workshops.
StarlingX sessions include:
- Precision Time Protocol (PTP) on StarlingX (Matt Peters, Alexander Kozyrev)
- Getting a new Open Source Project off the ground – the StarlingX story (Ian Jolliffe, Bruce Jones)
- Edge Computing Group’s MVP Architecture - StarlingX making it real! (Greg Waines, James Penick)
- 5G-based intelligent manufacturing edge solution (Hong Kan, Jianqing Jiang)
- StarlingX: Hardened Managed Kubernetes Platform for the Edge (Brent Rowsell, Bart Wensley, Greg Waines)
The StarlingX community will also participate in collaborative sessions offered at the Forum, where open infrastructure operators and upstream developers will gather to jointly chart the long-term future of open source projects.
Additionally, the team is actively planning their participation at the Project Teams Gathering (PTG) event that’s co-located with with the Denver Summit at the end of the week. The PTG offers dedicated meeting space for technical communities to have focused project-specific hack time together in person and also to collaborate with adjacent open source communities. You can follow the planning and also sign up if you are interested in attending the sessions here. | <urn:uuid:1278c104-97b6-4624-aa7d-7a1e9174ba64> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.starlingx.io/blog/starlingx-denver-openinfra-summitschedule-announcement-2019.html | 2019-07-16T14:50:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195524568.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20190716135748-20190716161748-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.886058 | 470 |
How many ways do you love your slow cooker? Here are three more to add to your list: a one-pot method for making creamy Alfredo sauce with your choice of pasta shapes and add-ins. Whether you go with vegetarian spinach and broccoli, indulgent shrimp or tender chicken, you'll always have a winner. Mix and match your favorites for infinite meal combinations!
Pasta and Alfredo Sauce
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 medium to large garlic cloves, minced
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 pound (8 ounces) penne, ziti, large shells or rigatoni
- 2 tablespoons finely grated Parmesan cheese
- 2 tablespoons finely grated Pecorino Romano cheese
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- one 16-ounce bag frozen broccoli
- one 5-ounce bag baby spinach
- 1 pound medium to large shrimp, peeled and deveined (about 32 shrimp)
1. If your slow cooker has a brown or sauté function, melt the butter in the slow cooker and stir in the garlic. Cook until the garlic is translucent and starting to soften.
2. If your slow cooker does not have a brown or sauté function, melt the butter in the microwave or on the stove. Add the butter and garlic to the slow cooker and preheat the slow cooker on high for 30 minutes.
3. Add the cream, broth, salt, and pepper to the slow cooker along with any appropriate add-ins as noted in the variations below.
4. Cook on high for 2 hours.
5. Stir in the pasta, both cheeses and any additional ingredients as noted below.
6. Cook for 15 minutes, then stir the pasta. Cover and cook for 15 additional minutes until the pasta is tender.
For Chicken Alfredo:
1. Add the chicken breasts along with the cream, broth, salt, and pepper.
2. After cooking on high for 2 hours, remove the chicken from the slow cooker and add the pasta and cheese as instructed above.
3. While the pasta cooks, slice the chicken into bite-size pieces, then stir back into the cooked pasta and sauce to serve.
For Spinach and Broccoli Alfredo:
1. Add the broccoli along with the cream, broth, salt, and pepper.
2. Add half the spinach along with the pasta and cheese. Cook for 15 minutes, then stir in the remaining spinach and cook for 15 minutes more.
For Shrimp Alfredo:
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If you’re a fan of the Saw movie series, you certainly love the escape series Jigsaw Killer, too. Below I will share with you a walkthrough for the latest release, Jigsaw Killer Escape 2 – a full, step by step guide to help you finish the game as soon as possible. So read on for a complete Jigsaw Killer Escape 2 walkthrough!
Click on door 2 to enter.
Zoom on the cupboard and open the left door to get a gear’s pin.
Zoom on the gears on the wall.
Move them to the middle and get a piece of key when they start turning. Solution below.
Leave the room and click on door 5 to enter.
Place the gear’s pin in the middle of a turning gear. Remove it again and see that you made it change direction.
From start they all move counter clockwise, use the pin on them all to make them move clockwise.
When done, zoom on the wall locker and click to open and get another piece of key.
Note the numbers on the gears.
Exit the room and enter door 2 again.
Zoom on the cupboard and once more on the code pad. Enter the code to open and get a key. Solution below.
Zoom out and exit the room.
Zoom on door 1 and use the key to open it.
Open the cupboard in the wall and zoom once.
Change the colors to get numbers in the small white squares.
The clue to this should be the colors in room 2 but I don’t totally get it, and got the numbers by trial and error. Solution below..
Zoom on the code panel to the right of the gears on the wall.
Use the numbers from the colors to stop the gears.
Zoom out and get a piece of key from the lower right corner of the gears.
Go to room 2.
Zoom on the cupboard and once again on top of it.
Place the 2 pieces of key to get a whole key.
Use the key on door 3 to exit.
– Move the upper left gear (medium sized) to the upper left spot in the middle.
– Move the biggest gear (upper middle one) to the upper right spot in the middle.
– Move the lower left gear (small one) to the lower left spot in the middle.
– Move the lower right gear (small one) to the lower middle spot.
– Move the upper left gear (medium sized) to the most right spot in the middle.
Code pad in room 2
Use the numbers from the gears in room 5 after you stopped them.
You need to change the three squares to a combination of red, green and blue around the white squares where you want to see the number.
Here is a solution, but I got it from trial and error:
G=green, R=red, B=blue and “–” =any color.
Cyan (upper left corner): Number 8
Pink (upper middle): Number 5
Yellow (upper right corner): Number 7
Orange (lower left corner): Number 3
Purple (lower middle): Number 4
Dark Red (lower right corner): Number 2
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Crisp Apple Salt 10ML by Baton
Navigate the apple orchards of the Northwest with this crisp and juicy flavor. Inspired by the finest fresh pressed apple juice. Nicotine salts
Now available in 2.5% nicotine strength and 5.0% nicotine strength.
Comes in a TPD certified child resistant bottle.
(5.0% equivalent to 50mg/ml, 2.5% equivalent to 25mg/ml.)
BATON LIQUID-SALTS ARE ONLY INTENDED FOR USE WITH THE BATON AND OTHER LOW-OUTPUT DEVICES. DO NOT USE IN SUB-OHM TANKS OR RDAS.
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:3 I will start trying to submit exclusive drawings here at Weasyl ^^
This for example~
This is the 1st Kiriban Priz for
he won my 20,000 pageviews Kiriban at my FurAffinity garurykai some while ago nvn)
Hope you like it~!
I was requested to do a Digimon fox, kinda warrior type IDK XD
I liked him <33
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Russell Gene Stuckey, 89, of Fremont, OH passed away at the Bellevue Hospital on Tuesday, September 18, 2018. He was born April 15, 1929 in Cromer, OH to Lucas and Laura (Funk) Stuckey.
Russell served in the Merchant Marines after WWII and then joined the U.S. Army and served during the Korean War and was awarded the Occupation Medal (Japan); Good Conduct Medal; Korean Service Medal w/5 Bronze Service Stars and the United Nations Service Medal.
Russell was a truck driver for Basic Refractories Inc. and retired in 1989. He married Phyllis Chandler on February 1, 1952 in Colorado Springs, CO and she preceded him in death. Russell then married Verna M. (Nickel) Kiser on May 16, 1992 in Fremont and she preceded him in death on September 3, 2014.
Russell was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church, Masonic Lodge, Quarter Century Club and enjoyed gardening. Russell also loved to go on drives around the Old Fort and Cromer area where he was born and raised.
Russell is survived by many friends including his closest friends, Margie Groot and Bud Gibbs both of Fremont.
He was preceded in death by his parents; first and second wives, Phyllis Stuckey and Verna M. Stuckey; son, Tom Stuckey, brothers, Bob and Lucas Stuckey and sister, Anna Bell Sherman.
Visitation: Monday, September 24, 2018 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. at Wonderly Horvath Hanes Funeral Home and Crematory, 425 E State St., Fremont, OH with the service following at 11:30 a.m. at the funeral home. Pastor Scott Mauch will officiate.
Burial: Four Mile House Cemetery with military honor’s provided by the VFW and American Legion.
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It is estimated that over 350 million people around the world suffer from arthritis. If you are feeling aches and stiffness in your body, experiencing pain and swelling in the joints or are simply have trouble moving around, you might have arthritis.
Because the medications that reduce the pain of arthritis also can have serious side effects, many people are looking into alternative, natural approaches to arthritis. Research has shown statistically significant improvements in patients with arthritis when Ayurveda doctors were allowed to create individualized, patient-specific combinations of herbs and therapies for each person. Why was this a requirement for success?
Ayurveda identifies 3 categories or types of arthritis corresponding to Vata, Pitta and Kapha doshas.
Vata Aggravated Arthritis
Those with Vata aggravated arthritis may find that their joints may pop and crack because they are dry. Joints also may feel cold to the touch. With this type of arthritis, joints are painful mostly with movement and usually there is one particular area, which is tender or sore.
Pitta Aggravated Arthritis
With Pitta aggravated arthritis joints there is usually inflammation. Joints become swollen, red and hot to the touch and can be painful even when there is no movement.
Kapha Aggravated Arthritis
With Kapha aggravated arthritis joints also appear red, but the joints feel cool instead of hot. There can also be stiffness in the joints. In this case, pain occurs when one is at rest and movement can actually decrease the sensation of pain. Waking up in the morning after a night without movement can be quite painful for many with Kapha aggravate arthritis.
AMA: The Underlying Causative Factor for All Dosha Types
As mentioned, treatment for arthritis is specific to the dosha that is aggravated. But it is also important to understand that the underlying cause of arthritis is poor digestion. When people make choices in diet, life-style and daily routine that do not support their fundamental mind/body type, one or two doshas, Vata, Pitta or Kapha, can become aggravated. When that happens, the aggravation of doshas interferes with digestion, which in turn leads to the creation of ama, a sticky toxin that results from poorly digested food. Ama accumulates in the colon, from where it gets absorbed into the body and circulates, eventually accumulating in the tissues and joints.
Ama is “colored” by whatever dosha is out of balance: thus there is Vata-aggravated ama, Pitta-aggravated ama and Kapha-aggravated ama. Ama settling into the joints is what causes the symptoms of pain, inflammation and swelling.
If you are seeking alternative approach to dealing with joint pain, the best first step is a consultation with an experienced Ayurveda expert. Using pulse assessment, an expert can locate the root cause of your particular kind of arthritis and design the most effect approach for your specific symptoms and degree of imbalance and accumulation of ama.
Ayurveda Panchakarma treatments address arthritis on many levels. Panchakarma begins with a home cleansing program that starts to loosen and remove impurities, and helps open the channels of elimination in preparation for the more intensive treatments. The treatments themselves are gentle, yet powerful therapies that remove the toxins and impurities from your tissues and help open the channels of circulation and elimination. An individualized treatment program will be designed to specifically address the dosha that is causing problems, as well as removing ama and blockages from the joints and tissues.
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Women often like to compete with the guys and generally do it better! So, we decided to take a cue from men’s runway this season and take a look at some boyfriend fashion. Menswear inspired dressing is a classic in the eyes of many and will be seen for years to come. Check out how we choose to be inspired by it!
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Marc Chagall was a Belorussian-born French artist whose work generally was based on emotional association rather than traditional pictorial fundamentals.
An early modernist, Chagall created works in nearly every artistic medium, including sets for plays and ballets, biblical etchings, and stained-glass windows.
Chagall died in France in 1985. Today, he is widely regarded as one of the most successful artists of the 20th century.
Oil on canvas
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• Put it in neutral. The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that’s just a bit brighter than your natural lip colour. It will even out and define your lips the way a subtle coat of mascara draws attention to your eyes. For some people, that colour is a peachy brown or rosy pink. Keep in mind that a neutral lipstick shouldn’t be the colour of concealer (a look that only works on the runway) and that a matte lipstick that is lighter than your natural lip colour will wash out your face.
• Try it right. Use the middle of your lower lip as a guide when looking for the right colour, and try lipstick on in the daylight for the most accurate assessment. If you’ve tested more than three or four shades, take a break—your lips will be stained. You may also need to find a new colour if you’ve been out in the sun a lot, since your lips might be darker.
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• Mix it up. Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect colour is a pinky beige, that doesn’t mean you can’t wear deep burgundy. Apply one coat of your neutral, then add a thin coat of wine, burgundy, or any other colour you want to try on top. Even the craziest lipstick shade can be adjusted to suit your colouring.
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We believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone.
We’re building a community biology lab for amateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to
experiment with friends.
What We Are
- a complete working laboratory and technical library for entrepreneurs to cheaply access equipment, materials, and co-working space
- a training center for biotechniques, with an emphasis on safety
- a meeting place for citizen scientists, hobbyists, activists, and students
Who We Are
Joe Bamberg, Ph.D. – Board Member learned to make gunpowder from an encyclopedia reference at the age of 10. This started a search for recipes that ended with discovering he was good at organic chemistry. Joe then picked up a second degree in economics as it felt like science in the 1700’s. He worked at Zoecon and helped develop weed and insect control by studying plant and insect hormones. He worked at Roche developing drugs for chronic and viral diseases. His experience at Burning man revealed the importance of have communities surrounding Maker Spaces. Retiring has given him time to explore chocolate, go to film festivals and help out at BioCurious on chemistry related issues. Joe has been a board member since 2017.
Maria Chavez – Executive Director, Treasurer & Director of Community Engagement is a biohacker and project manager. A new Board Member at BioCurious, in the past 6 years she has organized our events, classes and community projects. She is also a Board Member of Real Vegan Cheese, an open source project to create a synthetic cheese from genetically modified yeast. She is an adviser to the Latin American Network of BioHacker Spaces. She has been a leader on two iGEM teams, in 2014 and 2015, and is a member of multiple community lab science projects. Most recently she joined the Open Insulin project to create an open source form of insulin. Her ambition is to continue to push open source science and to aid in the creation of more biohacking spaces, democratizing science globally. Maria has a BS in Information Technology and an MBA focused in Global Management.
Eric Espinosa, Ph.D. – Board Member is an experienced scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founding scientist at three biotech companies and holds more than a dozen patents in next generation sequencing technologies and protein engineering. Dr. Espinosa has been published in top-tier journals such as Cell, Science, and Journal of Cell Biology. He was a scientist at Clontech Laboratories and TakaraBio, consults for early-stage life science companies, and leads the immortalized cuttlefish cell line project at BioCurious. Eric received his B.S. in Chemistry at Indiana University (2004) where he studied RNA structure and function. He then went to Stanford University where he earned his PhD in the Biochemistry Department (2011). He worked with Suzanne Pfeffer to understand the molecular mechanisms of vesicle trafficking. Eric has been a BioCurious board member since 2017.
Eri Gentry – Cofounder, Chairman of the Board of BioCurious works toward the democratization and human-centricity of biology and medicine. Eri is also a science and technology researcher at the Institute for the Future, a Palo Alto-based futures research organization, where she helps organizations navigate the zones between technology disruption and user adoption. Eri sits on the board of Summer.org, a STEM education organization. She has been named a Champion for Change in Citizen Science by the White House, a Hometown Hero by Popular Mechanics, a Techonomy Top Ten (edging out additive manufacturing). She was previously cofounder and CEO of Livly, a biotech startup on a mission to cure major human diseases.
Jay Hanson – Board Member spent three decades in the consumer software industry at various companies before retiring from Apple and getting interested in molecular biology. He is a cofounder at Berkeley BioLabs and has been a BioCurious board member since 2017.
Eric Harness – President, Secretary & Director of Lab Operations and Safety reason for getting into biotech was his grandmother. She was diagnosed with a rare prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, when he was 9, which sparked his interest in genetics and infectious disease. Growing up in the rural part of Illinois, Eric was drawn to the DIY spirit by building dams and forts, which progressed into electronics, engines and tech. His father really forced him from a young age to DIY fix everything first by holding the flashlight for him, which progressed to Eric turning the wrench himself. He hopes that just as the personal computer sparked revolutions in tech when it entered the hands of the public, we can achieve the same in biotech and STEM education by bringing the lab closer to the people.
Innokenti Toulokhonov, Ph.D. – Board Member joined the BioCurious Board in 2017.
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Are they or aren’t they?
Ok ok… slow news day… Cannes footage is taking over!!! So here is something for those of you who actually care about Ms. Simpson. All the gossip columns are reporting that the love birds have headed to splitsville, but there are the few optimistic few who still disagree… what say you?
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At its core, the Elevate Hashish Expo is all about “stimulating dialog.”
“The trade immediately is the place it’s due to the [decades] of advocacy and affected person rights which have pushed this laws ahead,” mentioned Elevate CEO Matei Olaru, referring to the not too long ago introduced federal laws to legalize leisure hashish by July 1, 2018.
After all, that’s not the one aim of Canada’s greatest hashish commerce present, slated for Might 26-28 in Toronto. The second annual expo organized by Elevate – Canada’s largest hashish media and know-how firm – will function almost 200 exhibitors from all over the world providing schooling, innovation and alternatives to the hundreds of shoppers, sufferers, healthcare professionals, traders and hashish professionals set to descend upon the Metro Toronto Conference Centre.
Final yr’s Toronto expo noticed greater than 10,000 folks over two days.
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Our club has a fellow who serves as guide when visitors want to see the state of nature in this part of Texas. Journalists, environmentalists, even open-minded U.S. Congressmen - he takes them on canoe outings to saltwater marshes, cypress-lined bayous and silt-lined lakes. He talks about Texas history, geological and aboriginal times, shorebirds, shipwrecks, rumors of Russian subs, animal shapes in clouds, aquatic squirrels and Red Velvet cake recipes. When some quite important people came to Houston recently, that fellow was unavailable. I was tapped – perhaps only because my canoe seats three.
One visitor was Gabriel Yen Gash, a refugee resettlement specialist who had survived the civil war and other fighting in South Sudan. In black lace-up shoes, tan trousers and a white short-sleeved shirt and undershirt, he sat in the canoe’s front-most seat, back erect, noticing everything. Even a bulky orange PFD could not engulf his dignity. Amidships was an artist, Philippe Metternich, from Vienna Austria. He said he is an understudy to Christo (apparently a prominent artist) who plans to cover the Arkansas River with luminous fabric. “Without any deeper meaning,” Phillippe said. Philippe wore a cobalt blue shirt and suit and tan shoes of fine leather. He chose a dark blue life preserver after some deliberation. Orange, I sat behind them, paddling.
I chose Floorboard Creek north of Houston because parts flow between steep banks while at other spots cattle can amble down to the water. The creek’s name comes from settler’s times when a heavy rain burst Tinker’s Dam and washed a cabin into the creek. The walls were carried away but children clambered around on the floorboards for many years afterwards.
We launched from a slope beside a bridge – not a paved ramp but a series of deep ruts in the hardened mud. Flanking the put-in were trees worn out from being backed into, and trampled banks from which locals casted and fished. I apologized to the dignitaries for the awful stench. Clearly people were hunting wild pigs from there, then butchering their kills next to their trucks. Dumped in some bushes were two decomposing hog carcasses with skulls, spines, black folded hides and greasy flattened piles of entrails. At other places were giant liquefying catfish heads and scattered baitfish. Philippe looked distressed but Gabriel said this did not compare with what he’d smelled “at river fords outside of Juba”.
As we launched I had to ask Gabriel to sit down in front. Philippe was already clutching the gunwales, diligently lowering our center of gravity. Gabriel gazed into the trees near the river bank. “What a country is the United States,” he said. “The fishermen leave floats, hooks, lead weights, and plenty of line up there in the branches. I said I usually watched pretty carefully, to not get hooked in a nostril.
Philippe surprised me by going into raptures about shredded plastic that hung from trees, when we went through a section with steep banks. He praised the different colors of weathered bags – white, blue, yellow, dashes of pink, the teased and shredded edges, and the way the anchored plastic bags floated up on the breeze - here, then there. One section of the trees would sigh and rattle, and then another. He took deep breaths and looked all around. I kept mum rather than indicating this was routine after every flood, and it wasn’t anybody’s site-specific installation. Gabriel broke the spell by saying that plastic bags were much prized among the refugees to carry their belongings, and more importantly, in the absence of enough latrines in the camps - “each bag is a toilet” he said, “and then one throws it over the fence.”
Philippe from his reading had some funny ideas about Texas. He said it had mostly been settled by folks from Tennessee and Kentucky. “These people” he said, “moved here after they’d ruined the soil, and when they’d used up places in eastern Texas, they’d go further west.” To some extent I felt like I was supposed to be the official voice of Texas, so I didn’t say anything.
After reaching a log blockage I took them back downstream, through the ravine of plastic, past an alligator or two that I didn’t tell Phillipe about, past the reeking put-in, to where the creek broadened out approaching the lake. I paddled us past the long backyards of big houses, each with a dock and one or two boats hauled up in the rafters of a boathouse, always a powerboat with water-skiing platform. Philippe asked Gabriel if he had himself been a refugee, and Gabriel said yes, two times, and he’d lived in the camps. At no point did Gabriel turn his gaze from the houses, backyards and docks, even while speaking. I didn’t ask him any questions but I thought about looking out of airplane windows at night over Washington, Escondido, Austin, Laredo, Tucson or Houston, seeing below miles of lit residential neighborhoods, and thinking: “wealth”.
A powerboat surged past us without powering down, though we were in a “no wake zone.” On deck lounged twenty-something men and women in swimsuits. I wondered whether Gabriel was Muslim. Tweens on Ski-Doos powered deafeningly past us on either side, rocking us. Nothing changed Gabriel’s good spirits. While he was watching a boy on a dock, the boy scooped a pale fat catfish into a net. In all my time in Texas, I’ve never seen a person catch a fish while I paddled by. The boy screw-drivered it in the head. Gabriel gave the boy a thumbs up, and Philippe looked seasick. I took them back.
If they’d been with the other club member, the one that’s good at giving tours, they’d have gone to a better destination, Texas might have shown to better effect, and Philippe wouldn’t have retched at the end of it. The canoe loaded, riding back, after being quiet a bit, Philippe said, “Where I come from, no one will swim in the Danube. One can suffer burns.” Gabriel said, “Where I come from too – the Pongo, the Sopo, the Lol, the Bahr al Jabal. It’s best not to drink from these if one can help it.”
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Infectious diseases are diseases caused by biological agents, which can be transmitted to others, rather than by genetic, physical or chemical agents. This definition includes disease caused by viruses, bacteria, parasites, and fungi. This page will include infectious diseases as pertains to humans and animals.
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This isn't exactly a Thanksgiving song, and far from it, but it is a gorgeous gem by Marvin Fisher. Masterfully, Marvin found jazz chords that capture the feeling of the song, such that it practically sings itself. It's called When Sunny Gets Blue, and it was written in 1955 for Johnny Mathis, with lyrics by Jack Segal. Has Johnny Mathis been around that long? It's hard to believe since he seems so young. But, it reminds of what a great decade the 1950s were for music. On this Thanksgiving Day, I thank everyone who listens to my songs. Thanks a million. | <urn:uuid:6187480d-9a30-42ea-9f21-8a09979d328e> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://oswaldinthedoorway.blogspot.com/2018/11/this-isnt-exactly-thanksgiving-song-and.html | 2019-07-17T18:36:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525374.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717181736-20190717203736-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.970049 | 125 |
Liberal Internet Mounts Surprise Attack on Iggy Azalea
December 23, 2014 - Uncategorized
In a surprise offensive on a strategic Pop Culture stronghold, the Liberal Internet commanded its troops Monday morning into an attack designed to topple Iggy Azalea. The full-scale blitz included social media scatter bombings, a twitter ground-raid, and snarky and faux-intellectual blog post bombardments
According to analysts, the singer represents a tactical base that could be crucial for future Liberal Internet attacks on major Pop Culture fortifications such as the Grammys. While analysts were initially surprised at the timing of the attack, they say an unplanned and temporary armistice on the Brown-Garner Front allowed for the Liberal Internet to redeploy its resources.
The Liberal Internet mounted a similar operation last year, resulting in the Battle of Macklemore.
The barrage appears to be an assessment of Azalea’s weakness, which has considerable followers but lacks basic intelligence capabilities. Azalea has few allies and weak ties even to the Anonymous Right Wing Racist Defense Force (ARWRDF), which has battled the Liberal Internet in multiple proxy wars but is ideologically distant from Azalea.
The Liberal Internet laid siege after Azalea sustained considerable damage in a skirmish with Azaelia Banks, the latter of which is considered a low-level force in the region. When no allied forces came to Azalea’s defense, the Liberal Internet sensed opportunity and moved troops toward Azalea.
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My dog is a 3 year old dalmation mix. I adopted her from a shelter about a month ago. She’s a great dog, very loving and gentle, but she seem afraid of everything. I have tried to tell her she has nothing to be afraid of and I hold her close when she is scared, but she seems to be getting worse. I’m afraid she might bite someone. It’s embarrassing when she runs away from visitors but I can’t seem to convince her they won’t hurt her. I feel so sorry for her. Is she just permanently damaged?
ANSWER: Please don’t give up, your dog is showing very normal behavior for a dog that has probably been through a lot, especially since you have only had her a month. I am guessing that when you try to comfort her, she is reacting with more fear. Dogs will take their direction from their people. If you are afraid, she feels that there must be something to fear. Many people react to the dog’s fear by sympathizing; but that will only make it worse. If you are coddling her in an effort to soothe her fear, you are telling her that you understand her fear. You actually want to convey to her that you are not afraid and that there is nothing to fear. Be confident. Act as if she is not afraid. Ignore her fear reactions and replace your response with more confidence. You might try giving her an obedience command to distract her. “Pup, sit” and then expect her to do it. When she does, reward her with a calm pet and “good dog.” You might even offer her a treat. It’s all about her focusing on you, rather than the fear. Continue training her new commands. Add in some helpful tricks. Obedience training is a great confidence builder and can help build trust between you and your dog. Keep in mind that she probably has three years of fear built up; you have only had her for a month. With patience and training, she will develop into a trusting dog. Please write back and let us know how she is progressing!
Answer: Most Golden Retrievers are very amiable and accepting of other dogs. It sounds like your dog is one of these, since he gets along with the neighbor dog. 7 is actually a very good age to bring another dog in; he’s mature enough to help train a youngster. Look for a dog that is a good fit for your home and family, including your Golden. If your Golden likes to play, a playful pup might be welcome. If he is a more calm, gentleman, he might be annoyed by a highly energized pup that is always trying to play. It’s very important that the new dog accept your Golden as the leader from the start. You need to give attention to both dogs, but try to establish the Golden as higher in rank. Eventually, those roles might switch around, but a young dog needs to know his order in the pack and the older dog should be higher ranking. It will help with training and keeping peace between them. That can be tough to explain to children, but it is essential to keep a happy home with a new pup. If the pup always comes first, if he gets the treats and petting first, and if he is allowed to push the older dog around, it can cause him to develop behaviors that you will then need to break. It’s best to start out right from the start. This applies even if the new dog is not a new pup; regardless of age, he is the newcomer and needs to start with respect for the family members, including your Golden. Handled correctly, a second dog can be a great addition to your family! Please write back when you get your new dog–I’d like to know how it works out!
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I’ve never been much for music festivals or benefits: too much shit to deal with. I have a hard enough time spending three hours at a regular show. The thought of spending all day and/or night seeing multiple bands in a genuinely uncomfortable setting, being treated like cattle, and paying extortionate prices for basic food and services makes no sense to me. When those kids at Woodstock II rioted, pillaged and burned shit down, over issues like $6.00 bottles of water being sold on a 90+ degree day, I really didn’t think they were all that wrong. The general media consensus was “these kids are a bunch of amoral animals, as expressed in their mediocre music, so unlike their superior parents.” My consensus was these kids were smarter than their parents, which wasn’t saying much; I did agree that their music sucked for the most part.
The only big benefit from my youth was Live Aid, and I vaguely recall tuning in and out most of that day. Again, no urge to be there. If there’s a band you like, they’ll be on for 20 minutes. Most bands you won’t like, and all you do is sit or stand in the sun for upwards of 10 hours, unable to move around, and after five hours, that shit must get old. That’s all I could think watching snippets of this Live Earth concert yesterday. It depressed me for a number of reasons, which is why I would tune in for 30-second snippets here and there, then immediately tune out.
Above all, I couldn’t stand the sanctimonious pandering, a real bad trait too many “committed” people have. When some carbon-spewing star lectures me about global warming, all I can think is the isolation of stardom has got to be a horrible thing to create such a shameless hypocrite. Think about the amount of energy that went into putting on these shows: the lighting and sound systems, the cameras, the backstage areas, the thousands of cars that the fans drove to the shows, the TV cable systems showing the concerts, the computer cable systems broadcasting the show on the web, the satellite radio stations broadcasting the shows. The stars themselves, in terms of air travel, private or not, are regularly responsible for turning out much more globally destructive emissions than I could ever hope to by riding a subway train every day.
These pricks are lecturing me about “carbon footprints” when theirs are like Shaquille O’Neal’s sneakers compared to my baby boots? Sheryl Crow didn’t appear to be at any of the concerts yesterday (shockingly … the bitch hits every environmental PR opportunity), but she made the asinine (pun intended) statement a few months ago about only using one sheet of toilet paper to wipe her ass. No more annilingus fantasies involving Sheryl Crow!
I wouldn’t mind if these people would cop to the enormous amounts of energy they burn up in pursuit of their ambitions, and then have sense enough to not lecture regular people about such a topic. (The televised concert appeared to be a nonstop “green” propaganda event more than anything: a constant loop of awful, PBS-pledge style short films that were smarmy in the worst way. I have a hard time watching the Sundance Channel anymore as a result of the same partisan stumping Robert Redford uses his channel for, just as bad as Fox.)
I understand that in the course of running this economy on a daily basis, there will be tons of fuel used with accompanying emissions. Trucks and airplanes are still used en masse to transport goods and supplies, as they must be, unless we want a society in collapse. Public transportation is such, at least in New York where it’s actually very good, that it’s already crowded, and I’m not quite sure where all these people driving to work are supposed to go if they abandon their cars. Mayor Bloomberg is pushing real hard to impose an $8.00 fee for vehicles entering Manhattan (but only in the lucrative “white folk” areas south of 96th Street); he’s doing so with some truly revolting ads suggesting that small black children living near bridges will have even worse asthma if we don’t stop cars from coming into Manhattan.
I got news for you: every neighborhood around these $8.00 zones will become a gigantic parking lot, including Astoria, where I live. Idling cars stuck in gridlock around these areas as they try to find parking spaces to avoid a Boston Tea Party-style $8.00 surcharge are going to create more asthma-inducing emissions than there are now. You better believe I think Bloomberg is a douche bag for employing this kind of propaganda. (Rhetorically, it also flies in the face of his previous push to build a sports stadium on the west side of Manhattan, which would have greatly increased vehicular traffic into the city. He was trying to woo the 2012 Olympic folks at that time … not sure who he’s trying to woo now with this foul travel tax bullshit. But he’s directly contradicting himself.)
I don’t have major problems with people who “go green.” Sure, they can be annoying at times, especially the ones who ride bikes everywhere and don’t use deodorant. You’ll find that plenty of educated folks in New York put themselves on a pedestal regarding green issues … because they can. Because you can live here without a car (I do), and find markets that sell over-priced organic produce, and ride your bike to and fro, and surround yourself with people who agree with you 100% on all these environmental and political issues. Best of all, you can have someone pick up your garbage every week on schedule and have them deposit it in holes in the ground in red states (or blue states with red-state areas) courtesy of shady local politicians and land owners in those places with no concern for their communities. (Sorry to employ the red state/blue state nonsense. But isn't it refreshing to read it in a way where "I despise working-class white people who aren't Democrats" isn't implied?)
But I do basically agree with these people, as much as I’d like to beat them like red-haired step children for their occasional arrogance. I can see that their intentions are good, that they’re committed to their way of life, that they recognize a larger world spinning outside their own little world. It’s only when this way of seeing the world is fed to me as doctrine that I chafe, and shit like this awful Live Earth concert is the usual celebrity-based bully pulpit. I don’t know how these people get so far into these issues. I understand actors and musicians have a lot of down time on sets and tour buses, so I’m guessing that after you’ve done your weight in blow, after you’ve fucked a thousand beautiful strangers who’ve offered their services for free, after you’ve spoiled yourself and turned so far away from the possibly nice person you were once upon a studio apartment in a bad neighborhood, you feel some burning need to be a good person. And this is how it comes out. Not quite realizing that the average person, give him credit, knows bullshit when he smells it, and doesn’t like being lectured by self-absorbed, pampered twats.
How did I feel catching snippets of Live Earth? I felt like buying an SUV, a vehicle I truly loathe for a number of very good reasons. One that gets about five miles per gallon, and runs on a hybrid of gasoline and blood. Putting a machine-gun turret on top of it. And riding that gas-guzzling piece of shit from here to the Arctic Circle, shooting every hippie, polar bear and baby seal along the way, using their blood to fuel my demonic SUV. I’d also want a gigantic selection of plastic shopping bags to throw out the window when not firing the machine gun. After reaching the Arctic Circle, I’d want to open up an oil pipeline, light it on fire, and find some way to melt the polar ice cap, as if I were The Joker in Batman gone totally berserk, with no Batman to stop me. When I’m done, build a gigantic floating Walmart that you’d need jet skis to shop at – sort of like the ones used in Kevin Costner’s hit movie Waterworld. Take a vacation afterwards, to the beach at Pittsburgh, and dip my toes in the Atlantic Ocean.
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It feels much more natural mixing this way and although you might need some practice to get used to it if you rely heavily on sync, it is a very welcome addition. Whilst I commend them for starting from a hopefully strong and thoroughly modern foundation. Drag a loop you like from another deck to keep it playing in your remix deck for extended mixes. TempoSync will ignore the phase metre when the sync button is pressed and simply ensure that the tempos of the tracks are matching. At launch there is no integration of local music libraries or app-created streaming service meta-data via a cloud service across the app on different platforms. Playlists, iTunes sync, and favorite banks keep your library performance-ready.
This is the way Traktor lets you sample on the fly without looping, and in fairness it's a pretty tidy solution. May I ask you for a big favor. Users of the flagship Kontrol S4 controller will already be at home with Traktor Pro 2. Hitting the Sync button quickly gets your tracks beat-matched, so you have plenty of time to experiment with your mix. Dengan dukungan format ini tentunya anda dapat lebih leluasa lagi dalam membuat musik Dj yang anda inginkan. The snowflake icon on the left side of the waveforms makes it clear that function is here to stay. More hardware support is coming.
Cue points can be beat-quantized, loops can be set accurately on the bar, resized, moved, all without losing the groove. Autogain volume-normalizing feature on both decks. To toggle between high- and lowpass filtering, simply hit the Invert button. If it seems like having to loop before you can transfer a live recording into the deck is a bit of a hindrance, the Loop Recorder is your friend. Also, the Kontrol S4 mk3 is finally getting its promised standalone mixer mode.
It's not really about the price as much as it is about the turnover time. The problem with going down that road is that the cracked versions of Traktor Pro 2 are often stuffed full of malware. Whichever one you are, there's enough here to keep Traktor powering ahead of the pack, yet again. The Free Two-Day Shipping icon will appear next to the items that typically arrive in two days. External storage devices can even be changed while the program is running. The combination of the three — Traktor, iTunes and an iPod — is a Traktor mix-master's dream. The new time stretching engine lets a track's tempo and pitch be altered independently of one another.
Once this is done with each track, you can press and hold the deck's Sync button to have Traktor attempt to synchronize decks A and B. Other enhancements to the program included bug fixes, a Quick Search function, improvements to Auto-Gain and the all-important beat detection. Insert samples, atmospheric effects, and more into a Remix deck and trigger them in sync with the rest of your mix. Publisher does not accept liability for incorrect spelling, printing errors including prices , incorrect manufacturer's specifications or changes, or grammatical inaccuracies in any product included in the Musician's Friend catalog or website. Please share your opinion you make with Win10.
Serato's track analyser is years ahead of Traktor's, but apart from this, Traktor kills its competition. One day, this will be the successor to Traktor Pro 3. Pros: Complete music mixing solution, incorporates both hardware and software. BeatSync keeps tempo and phase locked down so any scratching ends with a jump back to phase alignment. Semua hal yang anda butuhkan dalam membuat musik Dj sudah disediakan oleh program Native Instruments Traktor Pro Full ini diantaranya kenop dan slider, mulai dari equalizer hingga crossfader. Upgrade options Apart from the Sample Deck and Loop Recorder, the other obvious addition is that of coloured waveforms.
It allows you to create on-the-fly remixes, with powerful looping and cueing. They're expensive, and definitely an investment; but I think you're going to find that they are an investment that will definitely pay off. So maybe it's just a ticking time bomb waiting to go off? Taking note of this, Native Instruments has given Traktor a makeover to include a greatly retooled user interface. Other clever features are the ability to gradually adjust the slope of the crossfader curve from soft to hard, as well as tweak Traktor's deck-to-deck Auto-Fade timing. I liked that a user can easily separate the audio monitor cue from the main output or, if preferred, select the Use External Mixer box to automatically route decks A and B to separate channels. The course of the music immediately appears in the waveform display. Jog mode delivers the classic, spin-to-nudge function, as well as scratch capability.
It has full iTunes integration, meaning you can pull in online content as well during your set. Quantized cue-points Jump to any cue position without losing the groove Up to ten cue-points can be defined and saved on each track. It really is that good. You can capture loops and sounds in up to 64 slots, which can then be used during your set to create repetition and personalization to your sound. After doing so, you can then arrange your mix or set order, pull the file you wish, repeat songs and so forth. So what else is new? Beat detection inaccurate with music lacking repetitive rhythms. Insert samples, atmospheric effects, and more into a Remix deck and trigger them in sync with the rest of your mix. | <urn:uuid:23c35685-999b-4b75-ba07-38af3d692146> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | http://radio.byed.it/ni-traktor-dj-2.html | 2019-07-17T19:27:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195525374.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20190717181736-20190717203736-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.91315 | 1,200 |
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Compositing and Animation Evaluation
There are many possibilities for Motion Graphics and compositing. Keep in mind that the final project should have a refined presentation to it and it should look that you had put in 5 weeks of work, which is the duration of the project.
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