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by Eric English
Through the first ten days there have been many obstacles the team has had to overcome. A two day rain storm didn’t slow the drilling operation although it made challenging working conditions even more difficult. The rough mountainous terrain caused a series of flat tires on the drilling rig, extending work days and increasing the hazard. A broken U joint sent the drive shaft through the air brake system causing mechanical damage and creating challenging repairs for the team.
All of these challenges were overcome and six additional fresh water wells were drilled through this first ten days of the summer drilling excursion. The villages of Cherrishib, Abricot, La Palmiste, and Terre Seche received fresh water wells, providing the single source for water within their community.
Crowds of Haitians watched and cheered in each community as the drilling team worked tirelessly for hours in the heat. Celebrations erupted as the clean water flowed from the freshly drilled holes.
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Many Ford fans are dreaming about the performance truck. Well, there is F-150 Raptor. But, this is a more off-road oriented pickup. What they really want is a comeback of the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning. Never mind, this is only what fans would like to see. On the other hand, with rumors about Chevy Silverado 1500 ZR2 and Ram Rebel TRX Hellcat being louder and louder, Ford will have to consider the return of F-150 based performance pickup. Why? Because both of the above mentioned competitors will deliver more than 650 horsepower. Raptor can do only 450.
The 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning might not sell as many would expect. This is going to be a high-end version with numerous upgrades, as it was late in the 90s and early in 2000s. It will cost very expensive. Also, not too many truckers want so much power, since the Lightning version of the F-150 will probably go after Silverado ZR2’s 650 hp or even Ram Hellcat’s 707 hp.
2020 Ford F-150 Lightning Possible Engine
There is a custom version of the Lightning truck made by hard-core fans. While they are waiting for the official model, they built a 650 hp rated pickup. With such output, it is able to stand against main rivals. But, the tuning is not officially supported by the company. However, until we see the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning, this one will serve as one of the possibilities.
Under the bonnet of this custom truck is a 5.0-liter supercharged V8 engine. This unit is already available for the F-150, so its further tuning is possible. But, this time, with company’s chargers and upgrades.
Could This Truck Use a new 7.0-liter DOHC Powertrain?
Yup, this is another rumor related to Ford’s engineering. A 7.0-liter petrol unit will improve the fuel economy and it is about to get a direct injection system. Torque-On-Demand system and a 10-speed automatic transmission are going to be standard for all drivetrains that include a 7.0-liter unit. Well, we still don’t know the exact outputs of this new petrol unit. But, the good thing is that Ford confirmed the development. Also, the latest stories are saying that engine will be built at Windsor plants in Ohio.
Definitely, the new 7.0-liter engine will improve the stats of the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning. But, can it make enough power? If not, what are the other solutions? If the Chevy could use its Camaro’s drivetrain for a ZR2 Silverado truck, Ford could turn to its legendary pony car. The most powerful unit in current Mustang lineup is a 52-liter V8 that bursts 525 lb-ft of torque. What’s more, some tuning could easily make this model a 600+ hp engine. That becomes a real deal for the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning.
Also, the new 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning could be based on a hybrid platform. The truck will get such version sooner or later. Lightning could be one of the first models to test the performance of the hybrid system. However, these kinds of vehicles always need more power, more torque, more energy. So, the new system is not going to be the same as the one that powers the standard F-150.
2020 Ford F-150 Lightning Upgrades – Suspensions, Lift Kit, Brakes
To be complete, the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning will need more than just a powerful engine. The truck must get strong support from the other parts of the drive system. That includes suspension and brakes, at first place. For 600 hp, and more, these parts have to be durable, and as powerful as the engine is. We know that ride will definitely be lower, and wheels bigger.
With less space under the body, the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning is not going to be capable of an off-road drive. But on asphalt, less ground clearance will boost stability and handling. That is exactly what the Lightning needs. This is why its predecessor was so popular.
To make all this even more appealing, the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning will get special body colors and graphics to show this is a special version. Also, bigger wheels, new bumpers, and grille, with probably FORD badge instead of a blue oval, will complete the distinctive look.
Interior will also get significant upgrades, with more sportier details, and seats at first place. Paddle shifters, infotainment screen, smartphone connectivity, and many more options are in the mix for the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning.
2020 Ford F-150 Lightning Price
All upgrades will make the 2020 Ford F-150 Lightning cost a lot more than the standard truck. But, could it be more expensive than Raptor? With a new engine and all upgrades, probably. The custom-made pickup we mentioned previously costs $50,000. But, these are only upgrades to the existing model. The official Lightning truck will cost at least $60,000. If the performance-oriented pickup is going to get a hybrid drivetrain, the price will go even higher. | <urn:uuid:4f892bf2-3012-46f5-aecc-41d101232af6> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://2020pickuptrucks.com/2020-ford-f-150-lightning/ | 2019-07-24T09:22:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.934502 | 1,103 |
I attended Lead Hill High for one year. Before that, I did all my schooling in California. I graduated from North Arkansas Community College in Harrison, AR in 2012. Then I graduated from Arkansas State University of Jonesboro in 2014. Finally, I graduated from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Ar in 2018.
Associate Degree in Elementary Education Math/Science and Middle School Education Math/Science
Bachelors Degree in Middle School 4-8: Math, Science, and English
Endorsement: K-6 Elementary Education
Masters in Special Education K-12 grade
This is my third year teaching. I will be teaching 5-7 grade special education.
I married my husband, Kyle in April 2011. We have one child who is six years old and full of energy. They are my whole world. We have three dogs, one horse, thirty cows, and about 100 chickens.
This is Dusty…. Dusty and Kyle….
Shady one of the horses…..This is Peanut… Blaze hasn’t had his picture taken.
Bubba….. Daisy….. Bobo….
When I am not in school, I like to horseback ride and be with my animals. I also like to make things such as purse, porch swings, and gifts for people. | <urn:uuid:a7d9ae7e-b5c1-4b39-bcba-9cc7d673011e> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://alpenaschools.k12.ar.us/242431_3 | 2019-07-24T09:08:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.961783 | 266 |
Tropical Storm Bill has been threatening the area the past couple days. I wore my glasses to work in case I got stuck here due to terrible rains, but brought my ballet clothes in hopes it would be typical and go past us.
I was right.
This resulted in me doing my first ever ballet class while wearing glasses.
I walked in and the receptionist didn’t recognize me. Granted, my hair was also down and it’s short which people still aren’t used to. A couple of my babies were in the lobby, and Cheyenne walked in shortly after I got there. I hadn’t seen her since recital so I was really glad she was there. I got to talk with her Mom and little sister while she took the tap class before both of our ballet classes. We’re in different levels, so I don’t get to dance with her, but it was just great to see her and her family. Her mom has to be one of the nicest and most encouraging people I have encountered. Yesterday, Mrs. Rowland and I were talking about parents and their support and how important it is. I get that I’m an adult and my parents may not understand why I dance and they may not particularly care to go to all of my shows, but it has taken me some time to really come to terms with this. I also told her about why Mom took me out in the first place when I was younger, even though Mom doesn’t remember it the way I do. (that happens?) She was so incredibly supportive of me and told me they would be at every show I’m in. And I know she means it.
And during class, I looked at the two-way mirror and I saw here there with the other moms, watching me. And it just meant more than I thought it would. I didn’t think I needed anyone, thought I was fine going at this by myself, and I am. No one technically needs other people. But really, you do. To make life enjoyable and to take some of the strain away, you need people. Sometimes this can be life or death and you think you’re okay and you can get through it alone and then next thing you know you’re in your head and no one can pull you out or tell you that what you think isn’t how it is and you forget that things are better than you see them right now.
You need people.
The more people I find I have, the more my heart really explodes.
I have dance friends that love and care about me.
I have older dance friends to look up to.
I have younger dance friends to encourage
And the thing with encouraging younger dance friends, is they encourage you right back. You instill that in them, you’re planting a seed, and that seed turns into a flower right when you need it most.
(Like yesterday when I was really sucking at trying doubles and Ms. Munro was watching me on it and I managed to almost get a good one and one of the girls had been watching me and she made a point to mention that it looked good after. She didn’t have to do that. Such a kind soul.)
Ms. Munro taught our class, so I was a little nervous. My back was hurting and I was wanting to implement what Abby had shown me Thursday but felt the pressure of having Ms. Munro in there. I want to prove myself to her. I want to show her that I’m improving and good enough to do these things I aspire to. I want to hold up the reputation I developed during Oz.
We did this thing at the barre where we lunged forward and did a port de bra forward and then changed the arms for back. She said, “Come on, you’re doing Swan Lake next year!”
(I was a little surprised she said it in this class, because most of these girls are younger and wouldn’t be able to be in the core more than likely. But oh well.)
So I determined to dance it, not just go through the motions. To show her that I can do this, even when it’s just at the barre. I want to make her notice me. I want to show her I can do this.
We do the combination, and she walks around the room, watching and correcting. She gets to me right when we do the “Swan Lake part” and says, “Good, Emilee! That’s it!”
No just kidding, but it was still great. There were things that she would tell us to do and the class as a whole struggled so she would work on it until we got it; she wouldn’t move on with it being mediocre. (Thank God.) And every time she watched us each separately, when she came to me she had no corrections. I was doing it correctly. There were a few corrections during class, but nothing trivial.
She had me trying doubles, and working with me getting more comfortable in them. By the end, I had two revolutions and can build from there. She had me working on balance and control. She kept correcting my Third Position arms because I have a tendency to make them wonky. She complimented me a lot, and the group of three I ended up in was with the other two adults in the class. At one point when we finished a combination across the floor that the class seemed to find difficult, she said, “Maybe it just comes with maturity!” because we were the only ones that seemed to get it right.
She also taught our pointe class, which she used to teach us a variation. We learned a doll variation from Coppelia, which I have yet to see, but I recognized elements of from the doll scene we do in our Nutcracker. (which is my favorite.) It was a simple and really fun variation which involved characterization, so of course I had a blast with it.
We had to adjust the beginning part since we didn’t have props. We figured out a way to do it and Ms. Munro couldn’t seem to remember how to do it, so while running it she literally just said, “Just watch Emilee!” after she kept messing it up. (Knowing it one way for so long, then mixing it up, it must be difficult.)
I used a trick Elizabeth told me about, and that I think I remember seeing Lillian use, of stuffing the empty space from my gimpy toes with paper towels. And, wouldn’t you know, it helped. My toes still hurt, but not blinding pain like last time. We also didn’t dance as much, but I was in my shoes the same amount of time and I think that would make some sort of a difference. I’m hopeful.
So I was able to do the variation fairly decently. Except for this really quick part that no one could do well so I just did it on demi. It was a lot of fun.
I was able to do the pique attitude’s and different things and feel stable doing them, which made me really happy and hopeful. All in all, I left the class feeling really good. Maybe all isn’t lost.
I’m keeping up well and improving at a good rate. I’m able to execute the moves properly for where I should be. I’m not cowering away from challenges. And with Abby’s privates, I should be able to continue to improve.
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App Information Frizzy Seasons Bubble:Easter
- App NameFrizzy Seasons Bubble:Easter
- Package Namecom.maentrus.frizzy.valentine
- UpdatedMay 14, 2015
- File Size42M
- Requires AndroidAndroid 2.3 and up
- DeveloperMT Stage Games
- Installs10,000 - 50,000
- Google Play Link
Frizzy Seasons Bubble:Easter 1.1.25 APK
New Costume on Game.Froggy 🐸🐸🐸Frizzy in Pink 👜🎀An epic Frizzy bubble shooter perfect for the HolidayValentine's Season is coming. With all the Chocolatesandpresents, Frizzy needs some friends to share it with.Frizzy wants a lot of chocolates, candies and gifts inthisValentine's season. Help Frizzy reach the top of theChocolateMountain to get the sweetest and biggest chocolateever!"Frizzy" is a fun Valentine-themed game for children andadultsalike. With beautiful graphics and a joyful soundtrack you'llspendcountless hours solving the numerous bubble shootingpuzzlesavailable. From simple levels that only require you tofreeValentine Chocolates, to complex ones where you get excitinggiftsor trapped animals, Frizzy is a game for all ages.Here are some of the features that make Frizzy the perfectchoicefor a game to play during valentine's day :◆ 130+ levels. Hundreds of fun bubble shooting levelsareshown on a map and Frizzy must travel through the desert, oceanandultimately the Chocolate Mountain.◆ Power-ups. Some levels will unlock power-ups that letourbubble shooting hero advance faster through levels (Five Ballformore moves, bursting Color Ball or an Fire Ball).◆ Valentine Game. Frizzy has beautifulValentine-themedgraphics (chocolate land, glowing bubble and manymore) onlymatched by a joyful soundtrack.◆ Facebook Integration. Connect your Facebook account togetbonuses and follow your friends' progress in their bubbleshootingadventure.◆ Star-based ratings. At the end of each level you get1-3stars based on how many intact bubbles you collect in themagicalbubble pots.◆ Simple Gameplay. Just as the classical bubble shootergame,in Frizzy you aim then tap-and-release to shoot bubbles anddestroy3 (and up) matching bubbles.◆ In-game gold. As you progress through levels you'llobtaingold coins that can be used to purchase power-ups or lives toretryfailed levels faster.There will be lots of cakes, trapped animals waiting toberescued, and exciting gifts along the way to theChocolateMountain. Come with her through this sweet andSensationalJourney/b>.You'll fall in love with this Valentine themed bubbleshooterso you need to follow our social accounts to receive thelatestnews and get surprise gifts:▶Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Frizzy-Christmas-Bubble-Shoot/403506086467222?ref=hl▶Twitter: https://twitter.com/maentrus▶Google+: https://plus.google.com/104359643406993776629/We're always excited to hear from you so if you haveanyfeedback on how we can make this the best bubble shooter intownplease send us an email!
Hop Rock : Rock On! 1.1.3 APK
Hop Rock is a simple yet fun game aboutlaunching a rock as far as you can. You can also bounce the rock tothe mushrooms along the field to reach further distance.The furtherthe rock, the higher your score!Play Hop Rock to kill your time between activities in a fun way.It is playable whenever and wherever. Prove it to your friends thatyou can play better than them!Throwing rock has never been this hop!How to play:• Tap and hold on the slingshot, set the degree and power to throwthe rock as far as possible.• Tap the screen while the rock is airborne to push the rockupwards.• Bounce the rock as often as possible to the mushrooms that areavailable throughout the landscape to reach best distance.• Avoid the quicksand! It can stop your rock and the game will soonbe over.• Get LeafPoint to boost your score.• Get the meteors to upgrade your rock.Upgrades :→Bounce: makes the rock able to bounce when it hits theground→Energy: improve the energy booster during gameplay→Gravity: Reduce the surrounding gravity→Point: Adds the point granted by the LeafPoint→Power: Increases the power on initial launch, slightly adds therock's ability to get through the Quicksand and slightly reducesthe friction on the Grass.→Spore: Reduce the distance between mushroomsFeatures :☆Ranking system to compare your achievements with your friends onfacebook and all players throughout the world.☆Players can upgrade the rock's abilities to help them achive bestscore.☆Radar *Premium Feature*: to help you detect meteors, leafpoints,and mushroomsLet's throw the rock as far as possible, bounce it on the mushroomsand beat your friend's record!Prove how skilful you are by sharing your score and comparing itwith other players throughout the whole world!Play now and maybe you will be the next world record holder!We're open for critics, suggestions and questions regarding thisgame. please kindly contact us.* Always make sure your battery are fully charged beforeplaying. Rock On!===== Update 1.0.18 =====→Invite 10 friends to earn one free meteor!→Special offer! Beat your friends score with radar feature!Costs only $0.99
Bubble Match: Bubble Shooter 1.4.2 APK
The first bubble game in the bubble world to combine sea adventurewith 2016 new classic bubble shooter games free for android.Download and enjoy this fantastic sea bubble adventure of bubbleshooter right now! Catrina needs your help to escape from thenotorious bubble pirate, Captain Hook! With a bubble treasure mapand lots of bubbles legend, Catrina sails out with her belovedparrot bubble Capp!During the adventure:• How can bubble heroCatrina protect herself from bubble trouble turning into stone whenfacing with Medusa, the most famous mythical witch creatures inGreek Mythology?• The bubble King Zeus totem statue has some bubbleexplosion damage. Who dares to bubble rescue the dignity of chiefgod? • Bubble poke Catrina reaches a strange purple island andbubble town quest. What is waiting for her, bubble trouble ordangerous bubble witch saga or bubble beauty?• Who wanders into theundersea bubble deluxe temple, and displeases the beautiful bubbleMermaid and starfish fins here? • Where did Blackbeard bury all histreasure, the ghost ship Flying Dutchman or the bubble explodeDragon Cave?Help bubble rush Catrina jump with her magic journeyand sail on the fantastic Caribbean water to experience the funnypop ly bobble ly coco musical ly adventure! You have tons ofbubbles, bubbles with different colors, bubble candy honey withspecial magic. Shoot them quickly, shoot them wisely, shot themwith a strategy. You can WIN with fun and achievements with thisbubble breaker game here. Features:★ A fantastic and excited bubblepop level ocean adventure about a young bubble pirate, a bubblemonkey and a bubble parrot upnp dlna.★ Lots of funny bubble crushbubble epic ocean creature will bring endless joy for your seajourney: squid, puffer, eel, etc. ★ Thunder Island, MysteriousRuins, Gorgon Island, Purple Jungle fruit and Underwater World, runand raider various bubble characteristic islands, and have excitingbubble adventure★ Cute squids bounce the bubble bobble to get morescores, more amazing bounce and more stars!★ The bubble Medusa,bubble Crazy savage, bubble blast Captain Hook, bubble Mermaid,defeat different boss and experience the refreshing sense of popand bounce.★ Connect to Facebook, invite and play with friends,present hearts to each other, compete to be the great bubbleshooter!★ Bobble mania theme insight out about Valentine ChristmasDay is coming soon★ A bubble quest for iq free bubble quiz gameswith original arcade bubble shooter★ What a fun to make your ownname in bubble letters text messages words and use it for waterbubble keyboard theme for android★ trump on run, trumps on the runand trumps wall build it hugeLike us bubble app on Facebook for thelatest new bubble games for 2016 news, 2016 new bubble shooters forfree games on Android.
Bubble Adventure - Shooter 2.1.2 APK
Bubble Adventure is a completely free game. Bubble Carnival makesyou unable to stop, mobile phone users must have game. This is noboring, lack of dynamic elimination game! Cute little squirrel tocollect pine cones, from the forest to Arctic , through a series ofhurdles ."Bubble Adventure" combination the humorous and innovationinto the classic bubble shoot game. The game has a fresh andbeautiful art style, five different themed scenes, includinghundreds of off features interesting bubble levels. Whether you'reat the airport, bus or train, in short, it is not a game to killtime, it will make you feel the time go where! How to play: ★Aiming and firing bubbles, matching the same color bubbles toburst, to win the victory !★ Clear all the bubbles on the screen,fewer and faster shooting, show your gaming skills, scores will behigher! Game Features: ★ Up to 150 challenging levels. ★ Withgrassland , jungle , desert, deep sea , Arctic and other varioustopics★ Easy to play, but a challenge to master ★ Excitinganimations and music to make you ponder the infinite! ★ Explosioneffects make the game more dynamic Undoubtedly , the Bobble shooteris free and able to eliminate boring mood. The game's interfacebeautiful and simple , and the design is exquisite and perfect.Theoperation is very smooth , you can feel at the moment . This gameis sure to make you let them go ! Bubble crazy pop !You can alwayscontinue the game without losing any progress, this is auser-friendly little feature, smooth and perfect operation of thegame , it almost never have any trouble .So download thisrevolutionary game now !
com.gathercultivatecountry.attack 65.0 APK
Classic puzzle game Bubble Shooting is coming now. Lovely BubbleShooter is a classic bubble match 3 game. Pop, tap and tilt yourway through over 500 addictive bubble puzzles with excitement andpacked with adventure! Features: 1. More than 300 fun andchallenging levels to challenge your brain 2. More than 30 coloringbubbles 3. Easy to learn, challenging to master! 4. Fantasticgraphics, fluent shooting experience You can download it for yourkids or girlfriends or old parents. Raise your finger, simple taptap the screen,feel the funny we bring to you. Note: This is a allfree game. You can play it without wifi. It's a real offline game.
Bubble Match 3 1.0.1 APK
bubble hero shooterdownload the best bubble game, endlessly entertainingSwap and match three or more bubbles to gain points. Collectsweethoneycombs before you run out of moves! Shoot bubbles andmatchcolors to pop and drop your way to victory! Unlock theseexcitingand challenging levels. The levels seem easy, come and win3 stars.Use shooting line and boosters to get a higher score.Discover newfeatures for some seriously thrilling adventures. Crushbossesstanding in your way and aim for total bubble brilliance.Endlesslyentertaining, this game is your colorful road to glory.Exciting Feature● Match three or more cute and lovely bubbles tocompletelevel!● Match as much as you can before you run out of move!● Easy to play, but challenge to master!● Over 200 magical levels and challenges for endless FUN!● Unlock different powerful items and boosters to help you getaHIGH SCORE!This app contains:- The possibility to use and connect with friends viasocialnetworks- The option to make in-app purchases- Alternative options to access all functionalities of theappwithout making any in-app purchases using real money(levelprogress, in-game functionalities)Play now to enter a world full of mysteries, magicandadventuresFun Guaranteed!
Bubble Star 1.1.1 APK
Bubble Star is very addictive bubble shoot game, another classicbubble match-three game come to Google Play.Eliminate all thebubbles on the screen to level up,and try to win best 3 stars oneach level.How To Play:* Tap the place where you want to shoot.*Match 3 or more bubbles to make them burst, more bubbles matchedmore bonus.* Swap the better bubble to match morebubbles.Features:* Puzzle mode,100 different levels for you.*Arcade mode,mania bubbles are waiting for you, challenge agaistbest bubble shoot .* Colorful bubble world and vivid bubbles* Easyto learn, hard to master.* Challenge your friends and world ononline leaderboards.Just play it, and become the best bubbleshooter.
Bubble Star 2 APK
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com.creativevisionapps.underwaterbubblestory 1.1.3 APK
This is an Underwater Bubble Story about beautiful and bravemermaid that goes for a mysterious journey in the amazing wildocean to rescue cute and colorful underwater pets who were trappedin a blocked gem bubbles. You have to shoot, to blast, crush andpop all gem bubbles in this aqua bubble shooter to help to thegenerous mermaid to rescue the gold fish, jellyfish, starfish,walrus and other charming and innocent animals. Underwater BubbleStory is a brand new and addictive bubble shooting game with twospecial game modes which were developed for the first time: PuzzleMode and Endless Mode. Based on the new great bubble shootingalgorithm, very cleverly created levels, unique high qualitygraphics and very smooth and friendly game play that will take youto the highest fun and excitement levels of FREE bubble shootergame ever. Our Bubble Story game here to give the players a bigpleasure on their free time. The game tests all your skills andcommitment to solve the bubble puzzles to release the sweet animalsfrom the trap. Choose your favorite game mode and prepare yourselfto bubble rescue action. The Puzzle mode brings you 500+intelligent, interesting and challenging levels that were createdrelying on the desires of the addicted players to Free fun bubbleshooter games. You need to pass 4 different ocean worlds on yourway to win all levels, powerful bubbles like rainbow bubble andbomb bubble will help you to win faster. The Endless mode presentsto you endless deluxe bubble shoot game where animated bubbles keepcoming to the bottom of the ocean without stop. You need to be fastand sharp to blast the bubbles before they will cross the limitline. You think you are a master? Lets check it with Endless mode.Shoot to match at least 3 pet water bubbles of the same color.Simply press the screen on the place that you want to shoot thebubble, and immediately you will see a guideline that will make yoube very accurate and efficient on your way to the success. Nomatter what game mode you will choose, you certainly will enjoyfrom hours of fun.
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Bubble Ocean Mania is a classic bubble shoot game .Makecombinations of 3 or more bubbles to make them dissapear and scorepoints. The more bubbles you shoot at once the more points youget!How to play:- Tap where you want the ball and shoot thebubble.Features:- Easy to control!- It is free!Bubble Ocean Maniais an addictive game. Just try it and enjoy it every day.
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Cookie bubble Star is a free games asbubbleshooter.You can play this game without the stress.Throw Cookie using your finger in the desired directionMatch three Cookie of the same shapeClear that level, you will receive a special item.Fun and addictive Cookie bubble Star game!Another classic bubble match-three game come to Google Play.Clear all the bubbles on the screen to level up,and try to get3stars on each level.How to play:1.Tap where you want the bubble.2.To group 3 or more bubbles to make them burst.Tips: Breaking the bubbles continuously can get points asbonus.
Case Clicker 1.9.0a APK
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MegaN64 (N64 Emulator) 7.0 APK
MegaN64 is a very fast N64 emulator. Play your favorite N64 gameson your phone! You need to place your own game files onto the SDcard before running this N64 Emulator. MegaN64 is a modifiedversion of the Open Source project Mupen64+, which is licensed byGNU GPL v3. Modifications include performance enhancements forspecific Phone Models such as the Nexus 4 and the Galaxy S4 andsmall UI improvements. If you like MegaN64, please donate to thedevelopers of Mupen64+ by purchasing the app here:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=paulscode.android.mupen64plusFor the license, visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html
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Join hundreds of millions of players for FREE and start your AngryBirds slingshot adventure now! Team up with your friends, gather inclans and take on challenges and events in the all new game modes.Are you ready to evolve your birds and show your skills in the mostdaring Angry Birds game out there? Angry Birds 2 is the best way toget to know all of the iconic characters and experience the fungameplay that has captured the hearts (and spare time) of millionsof players. Features: ● CHOOSE YOUR BIRD. Choose which bird to putin the slingshot and defeat the pigs with strategy! ● MULTI-STAGELEVELS. Play fun, challenging levels with multiple stages – justwatch out for those Boss Pigs! ● DAILY CHALLENGES. Have a minute?Complete a daily challenge and earn some quick rewards. ● LEVEL UPyour birds with feathers and up their scoring power. Build theultimate flock! ● JOIN A CLAN to take down the pigs with friendsand players around the world. ● IMPRESS THE MIGHTY EAGLE in MightyEagle’s Bootcamp and earn coins to use in his exclusive shop. ●COMPETE in the ARENA. Compete with other players for some friendlybird flinging fun and prove who is the best. ● COLLECT SILLY HATS.Collect hats with different fun themes and level up your birds’fashion game. ● BAD PIGGIES. The green baddies are back, stronger,badder, and even greener. ● LOTS OF LEVELS. Play hundreds of levelswith more added in regular updates and limited time events. ●LEADERBOARDS. Prove who is the best in the world on the globalleaderboards. ● FREE to download! --- Angry Birds 2 is completelyfree to play. Although Angry Birds 2 can be downloaded for free,there are optional in-app purchases available.
LINE Get Rich 2.3.0 APK
New Space Station Map now available!Claim power and riches inspace!Cut away at the new space map and flip the game in yourfavor!New Dual-Deck function!Set and change your Cards, Pendants,and Dice in the lobby!Gear up for battles in the stars on theall-new Space Station Map!- Travel virtually, and share excitingadventures with your friends! -Team up with your friends, andbecome financial masters!Are you ready for an excitingadventure?C'mon! Call your friends and family, and become themaster of the board!- Travel the World, discover Space, and havetea with the gods! -Construct Landmarks around the World!- Feel thethrill of taking over your rival's properties! -Roll the dice, andspread your empire to infinity and beyond!Choose your cardscarefully, and roll the dice to become a real Get Rich mogul!- Tonsof unique, and awesome characters! -Meet Alice, the hot-headedwarrior, Wolf Beauty Chihiro, the tough zombie hunter Fran, orGenie from the Lamp! Team up with these lovely characters to reachthe top!- Fortune Cards! -With the help of Lady Luck, you may turnthings around with just one Fortune Card!You can spread viruses onyour rival's properties, decrease the value of their properties, oreven force them to exchange their priced properties! Time to plot,you sneaky genius!- Travel virtually, and share exciting adventureswith your friends! -Team up with your friends, and become financialmasters!Are you ready for an exciting adventure?C'mon! Call yourfriends and family, and become the master of the board!
Stickman Warriors 2.0 APK
Stickman Warriors - fun and addictive beat'em'up game withrealistic physics and hardcore gameplay. With simple controls youcan perform amazing stunts and blows to defeat your opponents.Features: - amazing stuns - realistic ragdoll physics - severalcampaigns - exclusive soundtrack - hardcore gameplay for maturegamers Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ViperGamesDev
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com.king.candycrushsaga 184.108.40.206 APK
Start playing Candy Crush Saga today – alegendary puzzle game loved by millions of players aroundthe world. With over a trillion levels played,this sweet match 3 puzzle game is one of themost popular mobile games of all time! Switchand match Candies inthis tasty puzzle adventure to progress to thenext level for that sweet winning feeling!Solve puzzles with quick thinking and smart moves, and berewarded with delicious rainbow-colored cascades and tasty candycombos! Plan your moves by matching 3 or more candies ina row, using boosters wisely in order to overcome those extrasticky puzzles! Blast the chocolate andcollect sweet candy across thousandsof levels, guaranteed to have you craving more! CandyCrush Saga features: 🍬 THE GAME THAT KEEPS YOU CRAVING MOREThousands of the best levels and puzzles inthe Candy Kingdom and with more added every 2 weeks yoursugar fix is never far away! 🍭 MANY WAYS TO WIN REWARDSCheck back daily and spin the Daily Booster Wheel toreceive free tasty rewards, and take part in time limitedchallenges to earn boosters to helpyou level up! 🍬 VARIETY OF SUGAR-COATEDCHALLENGES Sweet ways to play: Game modes includingTarget Score, Clear the Jelly, Collect the Ingredients and OrderMode 🍭 PLAY ALONE OR WITH FRIENDS Get to the top ofthe leaderboard events and compare scoreswith friends and competitors! Levels rangefrom easy to hard for all adults toenjoy – accessible on-the-go, offline and online.It's easy to sync the game between devices and unlockfull game features when connected to the Internet or Wifi.Follow us to get news and updates; facebook.com/CandyCrushSaga,Twitter @CandyCrushSaga,Youtube https://www.youtube.com/user/CandyCrushOfficialVisit https://community.king.com/en/candy-crush-saga toaccess the Community and competitions! Candy Crush Saga iscompletely free to play but some optional in-game itemswill require payment. You can turn off the payment feature bydisabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings. Bydownloading this game you are agreeing to our terms ofservice; http://about.king.com/consumer-terms/terms Have funplaying Candy Crush Saga the sweetest match3 puzzle game around! If you enjoyplaying Candy Crush Saga, you may also enjoy itssister puzzle games; Candy Crush Soda Saga,Candy Crush Jelly Saga and CandyCrush Friends Saga! | <urn:uuid:7d54cbc9-70b8-4f4e-bbdf-5dbb4ee02250> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://apk-dl.com/frizzy-seasons-bubbleeaster/com.maentrus.frizzy.valentine | 2019-07-24T10:02:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.857013 | 6,134 |
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly feature/meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is Top Ten Things to Read When You Need Something Light and Fun.
Of course, “light” and “fun” are both wide open to interpretation. To me, “light” usually implies some degree of humor. Here are some of my choices when I’m in the mood for something light and fun:
- Aunt Dimity’s Death and the rest of the Aunt Dimity series by Nancy Atherton. As long-time readers have figured out by now, Aunt Dimity’s Death and the first several sequels are among my first choices for comfort reads. Lori’s impulsiveness, Bill’s steadfastness, a blend of humor and sensitivity in the writing, and the down-to-earth practicality of Aunt Dimity (the series’ resident ghost) combined with the English village settings make the early books in this series some of my all-time favorites. And the fact that very few of the mysteries involve an actual death also keeps things light.
- Aunt Dimity and the Duke. This book, ostensibly the second in the series, is probably an Aunt Dimity book only by default, since it takes place some years before Aunt Dimity’s Deathand has a different set of main characters. But it is a charmingly improbable tale, with a delightful mix of romance, humor, mystery, and just a hint of the paranormal. Its differences from the rest of the series are significant enough to give it its own entry.
- The Viscount Who Loved Me, Romancing Mr Bridgerton, and the rest of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. I love Quinn’s witty Regency-era romances, and this series ranks among her best.
- The Trouble with Magic and the rest of the Bewitching Mysteries. Madelyn Alt’s paranormal mystery series features Maggie O’Neal, a fledgling intuitive, as the amateur detective; her mentor and boss Felicity, a shop owner and practicing witch; and handsome Marcus, who would like to be more than a friend. There’s plenty of humor, yet murder and evil are never treated flippantly.
- Lisa Kleypas’s Wallflower and Hathaway series. Lighter and more humorous than some of Kleypas’s earlier historical romances, these related Victorian-era series still have plenty of romance and just the right amount of passion.
- The Fairy Godmother and several others in Mercedes Lackey’s Tales of the 500 Kingdoms. These books meld retellings of several fairy tales into a magical, often humorous, and sometimes suspenseful whole. My favorites are the first book, One Good Knight, and The Sleeping Beauty, though I’m rather fond of Fortune’s Fool as well.
- Murder Must Advertise, by Dorothy Sayers. To investigate the apparently accidental death of an employee in an advertising firm, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover as a copy-writer. Sayers is on top of her game in this book; the mystery is well-plotted and tautly written. But it’s the sardonic, tongue-in-cheek glimpse into the world of advertising that steals the show.
- Never Pick Up Hitchhikers, by Ellis Peters. A stand-alone contemporary mystery (well, contemporary to when she wrote it, probably in the 1960s), this book is as well-written as any Ellis Peters novel, but incorporates a subtle humor that I love.
- The Lightning Thief and the rest of the Percy Jackson series by Rick Riordan. I defy anyone to read this MG book, or most of its sequels, without cracking up. The chapter headings alone should make you chuckle: “I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher,” “I Become Supreme Lord of the Bathroom,” “Nico Feeds Happy Meals to the Dead,” and “Three Old Ladies Knit the Socks of Death” are among the best.
- The Practice Effect by David Brin. A physicist finds himself in an alternate universe where the laws of thermodynamics no longer apply, and practice really does make perfect. A humorous and exciting adventure by one of the stars of science fiction.
- The Ghost Hunter/Harmony series by Jayne Castle. OK, the SF/F elements in these romantic suspense books are neither probable nor terribly well explained, and at times the books border on camp, but they are also a lot of fun (provided you approach them with your disbelief not only suspended but sent off on vacation.) And the dust bunnies are really cute. | <urn:uuid:07314483-1ee4-4572-9292-ba46d3257ad7> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://bookwyrmshoard.com/top-ten-tuesday/top-ten-tuesday-things-to-read-when-you-need-something-light-fun/ | 2019-07-24T09:09:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.937298 | 996 |
Wednesday 6th June 2018 – 10am-1pm
Location: Churchside, Crowborough TN6 1XW
with Caroline Wright & Alison Marsden
The workshop is a unique workshop blending the wellbeing benefits of Mindfulness and Gardening.
You’ll learn how to cultivate the seeds of self-care and nourish your mind in nature. Plus you’ll take away a potted planter!
Investment £25/person (refreshments included)
To book call Caroline on 07855 731416 or Alison on 07803 045327. | <urn:uuid:3ab3f97f-9c2a-40f7-8a08-2aa85905bacd> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://claireamos.co.uk/gardening-for-the-mind-workshop/ | 2019-07-24T09:54:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.8511 | 120 |
September 25, 2009
The Nationals Member for Gippsland Darren Chester has welcomed HRL’s decision to go ahead with a $750m gas-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley.
HRL has announced it will submit a planning application for a new Dual Gas Demonstration project.
Mr Chester said the demonstration plant was expected to create 350 jobs during construction and 35 ongoing jobs once completed.
It will use a combination of natural gas and gas derived from coal to demonstrate carbon capture and storage technology.
Mr Chester said clean coal technology was the key to securing Latrobe Valley power industry jobs into the future.
“Governments need to support and work with power companies in the Latrobe Valley to secure their future and protect the jobs of the local power industry,” Mr Chester said.
“More than 90 percent of Victoria’s power comes from coal-fired electricity, so it is not an option to turn away from coal completely.
“We need to find new ways to use the coal in a more environmentally sustainable way and to do it a way that supports the Latrobe Valley community and power industry workers.”
Mr Chester said he was shocked to hear Lindsay Tanner, Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation, on ABC Radio this morning claiming that there would be no reduction in the Latrobe Valley economy as a result of the Rudd Government’s Emission Trading Scheme.
“Mr Tanner is claiming there is no evidence to support the significant cuts that have been predicted for the Latrobe Valley community as a result of an Emissions Trading Scheme,” Mr Chester said.
“Yet a leaked report commissioned by the New South Wales Labor Government has forecast cuts to the Gippsland economy as high as 20%,” Mr Chester said.
Richard McIndoe, Managing Director of TruEnergy and operator of the Yallourn power station, is on record claiming the ETS will ensure the bankruptcy of several brown coal fired power station operators by 2015.
“TruEnergy has cancelled maintenance works worth $100 million at Yallourn power station this year, due to the uncertainty of the ETS,” Mr Chester said.
“How can Lindsay Tanner suggest the loss of a $100 million contract will not impact on the local economy?”
Mr Chester said the legislation would bring massive pain to the Latrobe Valley for little environmental gain, given that our nation’s contribution to emissions is less than two percent of the global total.
“It is widely accepted that, for most Australian families the ETS will mean a
30-40% increase in power bills – up to $200 extra per quarter for local families,” Mr Chester said.
“There are also claims it would lead to increased taxes of $9,000 for the average dairy farmer.”
Mr Chester said the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) issued a report in June 2009, which found higher domestic transport costs would lead to businesses exiting regional areas.
“I have repeatedly challenged the Prime Minister to be honest with regional communities and undertake economic modelling which demonstrates the full impact of his legislation,” Mr Chester said.
“It makes no sense whatsoever for Australia to act ahead of the world’s largest emitters and place our economy in jeopardy.” | <urn:uuid:e44cefed-0fbe-4235-9051-dd23a3b2a5d5> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://darrenchester.com.au/750m-gas-fired-power-station-steps-forward/ | 2019-07-24T09:45:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.95287 | 692 |
We update complementary learning systems (CLS) theory, which holds that intelligent agents must possess two learning systems, instantiated in mammalians in neocortex and hippocampus. The first gradually acquires structured knowledge representations while the second quickly learns the specifics of individual experiences. We broaden the role of replay of hippocampal memories in the theory, noting that replay allows goal-dependent weighting of experience statistics. We also address recent challenges to the theory and extend it by showing that recurrent activation of hippocampal traces can support some forms of generalization and that neocortical learning can be rapid for information that is consistent with known structure. Finally, we note the relevance of the theory to the design of artificial intelligent agents, highlighting connections between neuroscience and machine learning. | <urn:uuid:1bdf90e4-9026-458a-a972-d3de6841abdd> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://deepmind.com/research/publications/what-learning-systems-do-intelligent-agents-need-complementary-learning-systems-theory-updated/ | 2019-07-24T09:00:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.927719 | 149 |
Not long after we got married, Seth found Lily on Petfinder and sent me her picture. He sent it six times that day. "How about this one?" He kept saying, showing me that same photo over and over. Any self-respecting dog lover couldn't resist.
Lily, the laziest, hard working dog there is. Sometimes she loves accompanying me to the farm. Sometimes it's a battle of wills to get her in the car. We've been through a lot as the three musketeers: moves, mold, career changes, cancer, the tiny house, and now the baby.
We're not the type to celebrate dog birthdays, but I did want to give a shout out to the sweetest dog on the block, eight years almost to the day we brought her home. She has matured into a lovable beast, smart as a whip, with eyes that seem human. Especially when she gives the baby side-eye! Lily runs to the baby now when she starts crying so she can lick her face, and will allow Addie to mess with her back legs and paws, but not her front. She seems resigned to sharing us with this puppy-like human.
Eight is a lot in dog years for a dog her size. And yet I can't start thinking about her leaving us, not yet. It hasn't been enough time together. But I feel pretty confident in her staying with us a while longer. After all, the oldest dog who lived was an Australian Cattle Dog, and he achieved the age of almost 30.
Do you hear that, Lily-bil? We have another 22 years before us. Party on, my sweet puppy girl. | <urn:uuid:8dc29870-6ffe-43a5-ac7b-d8061fec8eb5> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://earthmorning.org/2017/08/07/happy-anniversary-lily/ | 2019-07-24T08:25:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.980383 | 346 |
Differential Cost or Incremental Cost is the difference in total relevant cost between two alternatives. Commonly, these alternatives are ‘make or buy’, ‘two different level of activity’, etc.
Differential cost is known as an incremental cost. It is that additional cost which will incur if one alternative is chosen in place of other. In short, two options are compared in terms of their total costs and the difference between their total costs is termed as an incremental cost. The change in the revenues of two alternatives is termed as incremental revenue.
Differential Cost Analysis
Differential Cost Analysis is conducted to take important decisions such as ‘make or buy’, change in the level of activity, adding/sinking a product, change in product mix, export orders, goods marketed in a new market etc. In differential / incremental cost analysis, only the relevant costs are taken into consideration. Fixed costs or costs that have already incurred in past are not relevant. Future costs that are mainly variable costs are taken into consideration. The use of differential cost analysis is only to take management decision and has no relevance to accounting or book-keeping. There is no journal entry suggested by any accounting standard for a differential cost.
Differential Cost Example
Differential Cost Example of ‘make or buy’ decision and ‘different level of activity’ are explained to understand the concept better. Please refer the table below. Make or buy situation appears when the management has an option to either manufacture a particular product or buy from the market. Apparently, if we see, per unit cost of buying from the market is less than the manufacturing cost. Here, we will have to think twice because the $15 includes $5 of fixed manufacturing cost. The $50,000 is already spent and will become idle capacity in case product is bought from the market. Therefore, the comparison should be done between $10 of manufacturing and $13 of buying and the decision is quite clear. ‘MAKE’ is a better option here.
|Particulars||Total No. of Units||10,000.00|
|Total Costs ($)||Per Unit Costs ($)|
|Total Manufacturing Costs||1,50,000.00||15.00|
|Price of Product in Open Market||1,30,000.00||13.00|
|Output Levels||Output Unit||Differential Unit||Total Cost ($)||Differential Cost ($)||Differential Cost Per Unit ($)|
Long run incremental cost is another concept which is given importance especially when forecasting exercise is done. Long run incremental costs are those costs which a company can forecast beforehand. Examples are fuel price increases, repairs and maintenance cost, rent expenses, etc. | <urn:uuid:732ea042-7ee5-43fb-bffb-49a895d0f5aa> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://efinancemanagement.com/costing-terms/differential-incremental-cost | 2019-07-24T09:52:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.948858 | 562 |
A US$150M loan was approved by the World Bank to support Angolan government projects in the water and sanitation sectors.
The financing was approved on June 21 of the current year, according to a press release from the World Bank representative in Angola to which Angop had access.
This additional funding from the Second Institutional Development Project for the Water Sector (PDISA2) will benefit some 1.2 million people in nine cities of the country with public water connection services.
As part of this project, the World Bank has already made available US$ 200 million.
“It is crucial to maintain the relevant gains from improved water services that the population has achieved with the first installation of the project, since poor water quality can cause disease and poverty,” said Olivier Lambert, country manager of the World Bank (WB) for Angola.
The project, according to the WB official, in addition to focusing on building better infrastructure, will continue to strengthen water sector institutions and give the Government the tools to reform and improve the water and sanitation sector in Angola. | <urn:uuid:98751ccf-1397-4925-ab3b-47bcaeff1fb0> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://furtherafrica.com/2018/06/28/angola-world-bank-approves-us150m-financing/ | 2019-07-24T08:42:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.957323 | 216 |
The intimacy of psychoanalysis is in part the willingness of the patient to allow their thoughts, dreams and experiences, however unpleasant, ill-defined or unacknowledged, to be systematically examined and brought to light. While most people in analysis are there because they know something isn't working, is there ever a moment in which the symbolic light bulb goes off and the tragedy of their life is suddenly revealed to them?
I suspect these things happen only in the movies. Those receptacles of metaphor, illusion and denial show us much about ourselves, the cinematic choices we make its own form of analysis. But if you're an actor, what do your choices of roles say about you? If we follow Hegel's idea that we discover ourselves in our opposite, or his master-slave dialectic (which promises that change comes with self-awareness and consciousness), was John Wayne an impotent man striving to be more powerful by choosing to play proto-fascists? Was Charlie Chaplin exorcising a rich man's guilt by playing the little tramp?
That dream factory is an easy target, but it's also a minefield. A potent area for conceptual artists, Hollywood is part of everyone's consciousness, there's a never-ending supply of material to analyze. Conceptual artist Maura Brewer's trilogy of short films about actress Jessica Chastain uses appropriated images, sounds and music from three films the actress has starred in: Zero Dark Thirty, The Martian and Interstellar. Without giving too much away—the exhibition is short and sweet, and while it's brimming with ideas, you can be in and out of it in 40 minutes—Brewer deconstructs the movies' cinematic messages, giving us a portrait of Chastain as a female archetype, excessively depressed and expending her energies at trying to get closer to absent male figures.
It doesn't matter if it's Osama bin Laden in Pakistan; Matt Damon on the planet Mars; or her father, played by Matthew McConaughey, who is in a parallel universe. Brewer's fascinating intellect addresses Oedipal longings, loss of selfhood, and overcompensation in the workplace with a laser-sharp focus, approaching her subjects in eclectic, often brilliant ways.
I recommend leaving curator and gallery director Juli Carson's attractively organized but academic-speak-filled pamphlet in its neat, tri-folded pile at the front door. You don't need it. Instead, follow Carson's sly, intuitive layout of the exhibition, sit on the floor and watch The Surface of Mars projected on the large wall that bisects the gallery. Its feminist take on Ridley Scott's The Martian is a solid beginning argument for the rest of the exhibit. Pivot to either side, and there are TV screens showing Zero Dark Birthday and Interstellar, and while there is nothing provided to sit on except the floor, slip on the headphones and sprawl out. Each video is less than 15 minutes long and densely packed with ideas that will make you look at each film in a fresh way.
In the front and back right corners are Victorian fainting couches, chaise longues without backs that allowed women defined in that period as “hysterics” to fall onto and “faint,” if their delicate constitutions demanded it. On each couch is a pair of pajamas designed with the same print as the fabric on the couch, wryly reminding us of the widespread infantilization of women that continues to this day: the annoying belief that women are “sensitive” beings, prone to ill health, impulsive and wholly incapable of controlling their feelings. Fainting spells were generally caused by women being forced to wear corsets that were so tight they prevented them from breathing properly, with Brewer taking that symbol a step further: Why wouldn't a woman seem pale, wan and diminished if the life is being squeezed out of her by an overbearing, constricted patriarchal system? With Chastain's characters all driven to be successful in male-dominated fields—covert operations, space flight and science—being out of breath or weepy would seem to be the least of her injuries.
The two ink-and-paper images, Industrial Melanism and Peppered Moth, located on the back of the dividing wall are unrecognizable, but a quick lookup of the titles suggests the vagaries of interpretation, Rorschach tests and the adaptability of women to blend into a society that refuses to let them stand out unless they hide who they truly are. In the corner, on a loop, is Shortcut, an animated film adapted from the very phallic pencil-penetrating-a-folded-sheet-of-paper explanation for wormholes in the Christopher Nolan film.
As you walk out the door, look back; the last thing you'll see, hanging next to the stack of curator pamphlets, is a pair of pajamas patterned with images of Chastain. A nod to the dream factory, as well as Brewer's obsessiveness about the actress, the stiff formality of the headshots and starched flatness of the nightclothes resembles a scarecrow warning us of the critique and the eventual empowerment to come.
“Jessica Chastain” at UC Irvine's University Art Gallery, 712 Arts Plaza, Irvine, (949) 824-9854; uag.arts.uci.edu. Open Tues.-Sat., noon–6 p.m. Through Dec. 10. Free.
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How Accurately do English for Academic Purposes Students use Academic Word List Words?
Previous corpus research on English for academic purposes (EAP) writing has analyzed how often additional language (L2) writers use words from the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000), but few studies to date have explored how accurately those words are used. Therefore, the current study investigated how accurately and appropriately EAP writers (N = 409) use AWL words in their argumentative essays. The 230,694-word corpus was analyzed to identify AWL word families that occurred with at least 20 tokens. All tokens were then coded as being accurately used, or as containing a morphosyntactic or collocational error (or both). The findings showed that the EAP students’ overall accuracy rate was high (67%) and that collocational errors occurred more frequently than grammatical errors. Pedagogical implications for EAP programs are discussed.
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A new hair salon with a twist is due to open on King Street, Nottingham, on 18th November called DNA Art Space.
Local law firm Fraser Brown helped secure the lease for the 3000 sq ft premises on King Street, which will feature a unique creative space and communal area for coffee and tea, open to the public.
Nottingham-based award-winning hair stylists Angelo Vallillo and Dale Hern, owners of DNA Art Space, have over 12 years of experience in the industry.
Angelo Vallillo, said: “Nottingham is home to a lot of quirky and cool businesses and we wanted to add to that. DNA Art Space will be a creative space, not a normal salon and we aim to make this premises feel homely so that people can pop in for a coffee or a break if they’re in town, they don’t have to just come in for a haircut.
“Our passion is creating beautiful hair and we plan to deliver this at affordable prices. We also aim to inspire and attract hairdressers and to encourage young and older people to get involved with hairdressing.
“I’d like to thank Natalie Gibbons from the Fraser Brown team for helping us secure this lease, she had our best interests at heart and made us feel relaxed and supported throughout the whole process, the results have been amazing.”
DNA Art Space will bring 20 new jobs, including receptionist, hair stylist, hair colourist and other roles. Angelo and Dale plan to invest in staff and training, with each new addition due to have the highest standard of hairdressing education.
Natalie Gibbons, a senior associate in the commercial property team at Fraser Brown Solicitors, helped secure the lease for the DNA Art Space premises.
Natalie said: “DNA Art Space is a unique new addition to the city which will provide more options for the local community, and I am really looking forward to the opening, which I believe will have a fantastic reception from the public.
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The former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been criticized by Trump over the 2012 which left four Americans dead.
Trump captioned the video “Hillary has bad judgment.” – GOP DAILY DOSE
Trump is off to a good start, but he needs to do better. How about the video below where Hillary called the mother of a slain Navy Seal a liar on national TV?
Then of course, there is the video that is the NEVER-ENDING list of crimes Killary has committed. It takes over 20 minutes just to name them all…
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February 2019 Retro Pack: Among the Stars
This pack is filled with retro and vintage imagery of things related to the skies above. It has lots of STICKII exclusives including a mini letter set – two unique mini envelopes each with a matching mini sheet of paper!
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Well, yesterday was an amazing day with much rejoicing for everyone who accepted Christ yesterday. Everyone is excited for shopping today but we are also feeling sadness as our wonderful time seems to be coming to an end. We have quickly become a close-knit family like group. As the jokes fly and giggles are inevitable, we have been having ‘mountains’ of fun.
Friday’s medical clinic was about five minutes from the Pacific ocean and it was a refugee village. The coast was beautiful with sugar cane, coffee, and many pretty plants. When we arrived at the church we would be working out of, it was humid and hot. We all joked that we were getting a pore cleansing due to the profuse sweating we were experiencing. After we set up we waited for the families.
We saw more unhealthy people than we did in our last village but we were thankful for medicine to help them. The children were incredibly respectful and after they colored their pictures, they surprised us by either asking for another coloring page or finishing up the picture, handing us the crayons, and giving us the pictures like a gift. They also gratefully accepted their mission balls and had fun laughing at the ‘gringos’ soccer skills. We painted many women and children’s nails while enjoying our challenge in trying to use our Spanish skills.
When we began the Jesus film, many people gathered around and were captivated by the video. Afterwards we sang and the testimonies began again. Todd began with a touching message, Brady moving all of our hearts, with Maria speaking from the heart afterwards. Then Kaysha touched us all with her testimony and Terry finished with a touching testimony. Then we sang ‘Agnus Dei’ and Pablo began to move the villagers hearts with his message. When the altar call came, almost everyone went forward. The few that were left, we pray will soon come to know the love of Christ and experience all of God’s blessings that are just waiting for them. We rejoiced with all of our new brothers and sisters in Christ and cannot wait to see our wonderful siblings in a better place someday.
After the ‘service,’ Sherry was holding a child that was very sick. He had been experiencing diarrhea with a parasite, most likely. We prayed over him and there is hardly a doubt in our minds that our amazing God, which has worked miracles this week, will heal our darling little boy and bless him in many ways. We are trusting the great physician to do what medicine cannot.
Overall we had a wonderful evening and wish we could go back to the village (minus the sweating) for they were amazing people that touched our hearts as much as we touched theirs.
Again, thank you for all of your prayers, we have felt them. Please pray for safe travels and we are so thankful for our powerful prayer warriors. We hope that you know how much we appreciate you! | <urn:uuid:b08f36e3-ee20-46bb-8a58-2b6112a43041> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://teamhopechristian2016.wordpress.com/ | 2019-07-24T09:48:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.988879 | 603 |
What have you been up to this week? The weather has not been very nice in North Devon so I’ve been on a few very rainy walks. Some fiends in Ilfracombe even recognised me and came to say hello, which made me very happy.
I laughed and laughed on Friday when I saw the funniest video of a lady trying on a Chewbacca mask. Have you seen it? I think it really suits her and she is so happy… much happier than fancy dress made me when I dressed as an ewok.
At the time of writing her video had over 106 MILLION views. That is lots and lots! My videos don’t get quite that many yet, maybe I should take some tips from her.
I read an article on Belfast Live about the National Police Dog Trials which are coming up on Friday. Working dogs are so amazing! The article talks about how the canines make concise and clear decisions, which is true but I thought that was a bit obvious. I make decisions all the time! Like will I give Mum the ball back? Shall I meet Moja for a walk? Should I steal the last bit of pizza? Normally I make good decisions, but Police Dogs can’t ever make the wrong decision otherwise people can get hurt.
I was pleased they still get to chase bouncy balls after training though. They also live with their handlers so although these dogs might look a bit scarier than me, they are just as loving and well looked after.
My new video will be up on Sunday evening as usual, and you can catch up on any you’ve missed on my YouTube page. Last week’s video was about when I met my neighbours, what do you think I was talking about with Skip?
Anyway, enough from me. It’s briefly stopped raining so I’ll go for a run around in the fresh air before it starts up again.
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After the third day of activity, Isaiah Mustafa and Old Spice have bid farewell to their ‘Internet friends’ and recorded their final YouTube video. Much has been written about the campaign over the last few days (see our case study with links here), and the buzz on blogs and Twitter have been explosive.
Here at We Are Social, we were a bit curious as to what the viewing figures looked like so we had a closer look at the Old Spice YouTube Channel. This is what we found:
- Total videos uploaded: 183
- 12 July, 2010: 29 videos uploaded
- 13 July, 2010: 89 videos uploaded
- 14 July, 2010: 65 videos uploaded
- Combined viewing figures: 10,954,096
- Average video view (mean value): 59,858 views
- Median value: 40,536 views (Re: Idgit | Old Spice)
- Most watched video: 511,694 views (Re: Perez Hilton | Old Spice)
15 Most Popular Videos
|Rank||Video Name||Views||Date Uploaded||Video #|
|1||Re: Perez Hilton | Old Spice||511,694||13-Jul-10||32|
|2||Re: Anonymous | Old Spice||382,728||13-Jul-10||39|
|3||Re: @kevinrose | Old Spice||329,258||12-Jul-10||16|
|4||Re: @kpereira | Old Spice||290,461||12-Jul-10||27|
|5||Re: rosemcgowan | Old Spice||275,472||13-Jul-10||118|
|6||Re: jsbeals | Old Spice||233,838||13-Jul-10||108|
|7||Re: @TheEllenShow | Old Spice||231,960||12-Jul-10||1|
|8||Re: @Gizmodo | Old Spice||199,040||13-Jul-10||110|
|9||Re: Starbucks | Old Spice||177,008||13-Jul-10||113|
|10||Re: Alyssa_Milano | Old Spice||172,294||13-Jul-10||55|
|11||Re: Alyssa_Milano | Old Spice||165,338||13-Jul-10||88|
|12||Re: wheresweems | Old Spice||157,028||13-Jul-10||115|
|13||Re: pandarr | Old Spice||151,069||14-Jul-10||144|
|14||Re: themrchris0426 | Old Spice||149,183||13-Jul-10||117|
|15||Re: Laiba | Old Spice||144,450||13-Jul-10||3|
Among these popular videos, celebrities and key online figures standout like Perez Hilton, Alyssa Milano and Kevin Rose. The video directed at ‘Anonymous’ deserves a special mention:
According to ReadWriteWeb:
How loved has the new campaign proven to be? 4Chan, the anonymous nihilist obscene messageboard from whence sprang memes like LOLCats and RickRolling, was the subject of [Anonymous]... 4channers hate everything, especially people who talk about 4chan - which this savvy man in a towel did not do.
And now it occupies the second most watched spot, which is no small feat.
This covers off on the publicly available viewing figures (which have surely grown during the time of writing this), but there is surely so much more that can be learned from how the online audience behaved with this campaign and from the viewing behaviour on YouTube. Things like:
- Comments – Which videos were the most discussed/engaging? Was there any discussion of purchase preference or the Old Spice product in these comments, and how can this be fed back into product marketing and development?
- Demographics – Which audience(s) did this campaign appeal to the most? What is the age/gender make up, and the geographic spread of viewers? How does this compare with Old Spice's target customer?
- Sharing data - How did the Old Spice videos make their way across the web? How did videos reach secondary and tertiary audiences? What were the most important platforms in driving this reach (Twitter vs. Facebook vs. Reddit vs. Digg vs. blogs)?
- Embed data – Who and what were the most popular / influential sources to embed the videos? What was the ratio of views on YouTube, compared to views of videos embedded elsewhere?
The opportunities for measurement are almost endless, and Wieden + Kennedy / Proctor & Gamble are sitting on some very interesting data behind the YouTube account login. We definitely hope to learn more over the coming months.
Meanwhile Twitter over the last few days has been busy:
Since 13 July 2010 there's been about 175K Old Spice related tweets, and they were broken down as follows:
26% were retweets, which indicates how readily people passed around the content online. Meanwhile 8% were @replies, and the overwhelming majority of those were directed at @oldspice, showing that people were quite keen to get involved (even me). The remaining ‘regular tweets’ were, by and large, people commenting about the 'old spice guy’/'old spice man' videos as they watched, and shared the YouTube links. A cursory read of these Tweets were found to be extremely positive, which probably comes as no surprise. A word cloud, drawn from a sample of 10,000 Tweets from 13 July – 15 July tends to support this:
It’s worth noting that words like hilarious, like, love and awesome are among the 50 most prominent words of the 157,849 rendered in the word cloud.
So what now? It appears that Wieden + Kennedy and Old Spice have created a bit of a monster, but have phased out activity while it was still fresh and universally liked. I imagine the video viewcount will continue to climb as people make their way through all 183 videos, and the Twitter buzz will likely calm down. I expect attitudes towards the brand will remain positive, though it will be really interesting to see if this translates directly into sales.
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This was a week of cakes, walks, settling into myself some more, and some unexpected changes that though bittersweet make me think of how beginnings need endings too.
What To Remember When Waking
David Whyte, The House of Belonging
In that first
in which you wake,
to this life
from the other
there is a small
into the day
What you can plan
is too small
for you to live.
What you can live
will make plans
for the vitality
hidden in your sleep.
To be human
is to become visible
what is hidden
as a gift to others.
the other world
in this world
is to live in your
You are not
a troubled guest
on this earth,
you are not
amidst other accidents
you were invited
from another and greater night
than the one
you have just emerged.
Now, looking through
the slanting light
of the morning
that can be,
calls you to your
one love? What shape
waits in the seed
of you to grow
against a future sky?
Is it waiting
in the fertile sea?
In the trees
beyond the house?
In the life
you can imagine
In the open
on the waiting desk?
Everything Is Waiting For You
David Whyte, Everything is Waiting for You
Your great mistake is to act the drama
as if you were alone. As if life
were a progressive and cunning crime
with no witness to the tiny hidden
transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny
the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,
even you, at times, have felt the grand array;
the sweeping presence, and the chorus, crowding
out your solo voice. You must note
the way the soap dish enables you,
or the window latch grants you freedom.
Alertness is the hidden discipline of familiarity.
The stairs are your mentor of things
to come, the doors have always been there
to frighten you and invite you,
and the tiny speaker in the phone
is your dream-ladder to divinity.
Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into
the conversation The kettle is singing
even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots
have left their arrogant aloofness and
seen the good in you at last. All the birds
and creatures of the world are unutterably
themselves. Everything is waiting for you.
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Public wall murals have been the subject of much attention recently. Legislators for Los Angeles, considered the “mural capital of the world”, are reviewing a proposed city ordinance to preserve vintage art murals and to repeal an existing ban on private murals (enacted as an overzealous attempt to stem graffiti). Wall murals are the focus of attention in other cities as well. Murals are visible and public “public art”, presenting social, political and aesthetic ideas in and on everyday media.
There are few cases involving art murals but recently, Maya Hayuk, a Brooklyn-based muralist and painter, filed suit against RCA Records and Sony Music over the music video “I Only Wanna Give It To You” (the “Video”). The Video by recording artist and musician Elle Varner features one of Hayuk’s murals titled “Sunshine” (the “Mural”), which was originally created by the muralist for the music video of the same name by artists Rye Rye and M.I.A. Although Hayuk voluntarily dismissed the action on April 14, 2012, the complaint touched on some interesting issues.
Hayuk’s complaint, which was filed in the United States District Court for the District Court of Massachusetts on February 12, 2012, alleged copyright infringement in that RCA and Sony incorporated the Mural into the Video without Hayuk’s authorization. Specifically, Hayuk alleged that the Video includes numerous scenes that incorporate videographic reproductions of the Mural and that such use “adds greatly to the mise-en-scene.” Hayuk, whose art has appeared in numerous gallery shows, installations and publications, previously licensed her artwork for use on apparel, consumer electronics, and sporting goods, commanding “premium fees and royalties for the use of her work in commercial settings.” Hayuk alleged that the Video has been a huge financial success for RCA and Sony, noting that “extensive pre-roll, pop-up, overlay, and other display advertising appears in connection with online streams of the Video,” which had been viewed more than 2.7 million times on YouTube at the time she filed the suit.
This case posed a more interesting query than a typical copyright infringement claim because, notably, the Sunshine Mural appears only for an aggregate of twenty four seconds in the four minute long Video – and it does not appear in its entirety, with only portions of the Mural on display at any one time. Courts have routinely dismissed infringement claims based on de minimis use of a copyrighted work (i.e., that the use was so slight that it did not rise to the level of copyright infringement). See, e.g., Dereck Seltzer v. Green Day, (a recent California case discussing fair use of public art as part of a concert backdrop); Forlenzo v. AT&T, (a 2004 California case dismissing an infringement claim as de minimis where small portions of plaintiff’s mural appeared for no more than three seconds, and a larger fragment appeared for one second). However, here, Hayuk alleged that the Mural added greatly to the mise-en-scene. An argument that the Video was aesthetically based upon the Mural could have had enough traction to overcome a dismissal based on de minimus use.
In a recent case involving Rihanna’s “S&M” music video, for example, Judge Shira Sheindlin of the New York Federal District Court allowed copyright infringement claims brought by photographer David LaChapelle to survive a motion to dismiss. David LaChapelle v. Robyn Rihanna Fenty. In that case, LaChapelle alleged that the S&M video used protected expressions from his photographs. The judge found that while the common theme of S&M and elements like leather, whips, ball gags, etc. were not protectable, LaChapelle’s selection and orchestration of props and the way he controlled “angles, poses and lighting” were copyrightable. The judge noted that “an ordinary observer may well overlook any difference and regard the aesthetic appeal [of the video and the photographs]…as the same.” To that end, although the Mural in “I Only Wanna Give It To You” appears in the background for only a portion of the video, often fragmented, one may argue that the Mural informs the colors worn by the performers and the general “look and feel” of the Video.
Perhaps even more intriguing to the Hayuk complaint was the tension between copyright and public space. Despite having been created for use in another music video, the Mural is painted on the side of an abandoned building, easily viewable from the sidewalk, street, etc. As such, it would be difficult, albeit not impossible, to film the building without incidentally reproducing the Mural. Would anyone taking a photograph containing a portion of this publicly viewable Mural have to pay royalties to the artist? If it had gone to trial, a decision in this case could have proven an interesting analysis of the interplay between copyright law and the public space – for now, there is no handwriting on the wall. | <urn:uuid:38e842cc-d1ee-40c6-9abd-6ed765d7ff08> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.artlawgallery.com/2012/05/articles/artists/a-murality-play/ | 2019-07-24T09:46:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.957456 | 1,095 |
International School Ho Chi Minh City Kicks Off Professional Development Revolution
International School Ho Chi Minh City (ISHCMC) opened its doors to teachers from other schools in Ho Chi Minh City and South East Asia with a common mission of redefining 21st century learning. Attending International Schools came from Australia, Laos, Singapore, South Korea and Vietnam.
This two-day event included workshops and InspireTalks allowing for collaboration and reflection among the educators involved. ISHCMC students, Sydney from Grade 11 student and Kimi from Grade 5 opened the conference with their very own InspireTalks.
ISHCMC educators also gave their own workshops, Grade 2 Teacher, Catherine Brown spoke about Teachers as a Facilitator of Learning. IB PYP Coordinator, Sam Sherratt presented about Exploring the Flow of Learning. They were joined by other invited educators to share insights and inspire. The InspireTalks can be viewed on the ISHCMC YouTube Channel.
“This was an exceptional opportunity to share knowledge and to create an open environment with space and time to further develop pedagogy within our schools. Change is the only certain factor in a truly progressive learning environment and it is fundamental that as a school we recognize the need to be proactive and adapt. After these sessions, there was the realization that shaping the future of education is in our hands. ISHCMC is committed to providing Professional Development opportunities to teachers throughout the year. This ensures that our teachers flourish, continuing to move forward s as the education market progresses”, says Adrian Watts, Head of School at ISHCMC. | <urn:uuid:053c3eee-c1e6-4b6b-905b-6c82f9f09009> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.asialifemagazine.com/education/international-school-ho-chi-minh-city-kicks-off-professional-development-revolution/ | 2019-07-24T09:18:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.962701 | 327 |
Valentine’s Day is only a week away and there are some unique ways to celebrate this year.
First, on Feb. 9, at 2:30 p.m., the Miller Branch library is holding a Celebration of Love, marking the 50th anniversary of the first interracial marriage in Howard County. The event is free. For more information call 410-730-6540.
Also, flowers and chocolates are all well and good, but how about chocolate paired with just the right wine? Or chocolate flavored liqueur? On Feb. 9, at 2 p.m., the Wine Bin is holding a cocktail class featuring Bicerin Chocolate Liqueur, which they characterize as the world’s best chocolate liqueur, flavored with hazelnuts and hailing from the foot of the Alps. The class is $25.
On Feb. 14, at 6 p.m., the Wine Bin is holding a wine and chocolate pairing class. The class is $35. To register for either of these classes call 410-465-7802.
For a more traditional celebration, Tersiguel’s French Country Restaurant is offering a five-course tasting menu on Valentine’s Day for $99 per person. For reservations call 410-465-4004.
Georgia Grace Café is offering a multi-course Valentine’s dinner with wine pairings for $50. Reserve soon as space is limited. Call 410-988-8052.
And, my husband Tom and I visited LaPalapa during restaurant weeks. It was snowing outside but inside a fire warmed us up and the food was fantastic. We always enjoy eating on the patio in warm weather but I must say, the dining room, with its colorful chandeliers, that pretty fireplace and soft music, makes for a very romantic setting for your Valentine’s meal.
I met local artist Deanne Lenehan many years ago, when both of us were involved with Historic Ellicott City Inc.’s decorator show houses. Her murals, decorative paintings and faux finishes are all amazing. I am happy to see that lately she is getting a lot of well-deserved recognition.
She won first place in the Visual Harmony Juried Exhibit with her acrylic on canvas, “Moved On.” The juror was Yumi Hogan, adjunct professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art and First Lady of Maryland.
Lenehan is also in the latest Baltimore Magazine in a feature about “Women who move Maryland.” You can see her work at the Pure Wine Café when they open her exhibit there called “Indulgence,” on Feb. 10. Desserts and cocktails will be served and seating is limited to 40 people. To reserve a spot call 410-480-5037.
I see that A Journey From Junk has reopened its store at 8334 Main St. next to the Ellicott Mills Brewing Co.
The B&O Railroad Museum, Ellicott City Station, is holding its next Kids Night In on Feb. 8. The cost is $15. Its next pre-school story time is Feb. 9 at 10:30 a.m. and is open to kids ages 1 ½ to 5 years. The cost is $3. There will be another story time on Feb. 19 at the Ellicott City Colored School, Restored. For more information and to register call 410-313-0419.
The Howard County Historical Society is holding the next Movies at the Museum series at the Museum of Howard County History on Court Avenue on Feb. 9. This free event features movies by local movie producer Lee Doll. This time it’s “Fred Mulligan’s Showcase of the Stars.” The show starts at 7 p.m. and popcorn is included. | <urn:uuid:ea4ee9ad-6c9a-4a95-8df2-5946140b235c> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/howard/ph-ho-n-mostly-main-0207-story.html | 2019-07-24T09:31:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.936273 | 800 |
Borne Alt Ankle Boot
Born Alt are your next everyday, anywhere boots. Minimal and chic, our Born Alt boots' style is as easy to love as it is to wear. The best part is that they not only work with skinny jeans but look especially cool paired with a suit. Machine washable and with just enough stretch adapt to your foot while providing ankle support. These beauties feel like a hug with a natural suede-covered memory foam insole & shock-absorbing outsole.
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The 13th Annual BendFilm Festival
Coming soon: October 6-9!
- Pass sales are live!
- Tickets on Sale on September 19th for non-Members.
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About the BendFilm Festival
On October 6-9, 2016, Bend, Oregon will be transformed from a recreational haven into a small town possessed by the film industry’s soul. We will gather to behold the work of the most talented independent filmmakers. Downtown theaters, lecture sites, music rooms and party venues will spark with the energy excited by the overwhelming presence of cinema. The event runs deeper than the marathon film-watching that fills guests’ schedules from dawn until, well, dawn. Everyone you see on the sidewalks, in the restaurants and bars will make, care or have an opinion about film. It is the serendipitous encounters and ensuing discussions with the filmmakers and fellow audience members that will make the weekend so inspiring and affecting. | <urn:uuid:0094960a-4eba-46ac-a0ad-d3816e15d181> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.bendfilm.org/festival-archives/2017-festival-archive/purchase-ticketspasses/ | 2019-07-24T09:05:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.913 | 214 |
Visual artist working in River Studios
Through my art practice I want to re-mystify our connection with the more-than-human world. I want to shift the viewer’s attention away from handheld connectivity with a virtual/urban world and move it to a walkthrough experience of the material/natural world. Formed at the nexus between the prosaic and the poetic, my installations are intended to re-charge the relationship we have with the world around us. In my works, the viewer participates as a universal figure in a metaphorical landscape, either by physically entering a field of sculptural elements, or by imaginatively engaging in the conceptual realms evoked by that field. Increasingly I am involved in collaborative works that have a performative or participatory focus.
Generally I make large-scale works (both permanent and temporary) for public spaces. On occasion I exhibit in galleries and outdoor sculpture competitions. Many of my projects are commissioned by private clients or local government. Others are self-initiated or collaborative projects funded by grants and philanthropic patronage. I count proposal writing as the central pillar of my practice, the means by which I shape and hone my ideas for new works, whether they are realised or not.
How do you use your studio?
My studio is an extension of my headspace. It is where I think and write and research ideas. It is also where I make models and drawings for new projects or perhaps handmade components for temporary works. For permanent works I tend to use fabricators so when these are underway, my studio becomes more of a project management office. | <urn:uuid:1eb7e465-1c92-491a-9958-fbc23ff2c7df> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.creativespaces.net.au/artists/521/louise-lavarack | 2019-07-24T09:04:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.951331 | 325 |
Cammy Beans Learning Visions: The Big Question
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Proving A Case Beyond Reasonable Doubt In Los Angeles Criminal Cases
When somebody takes a case to trial in Los Angeles because they’re charged with a crime and they believe they’re innocent, a jury must find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in order for them to be convicted, sentenced and potentially put into custody by a Superior Court Judge in Los Angeles.
If the jury does not find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, then the person is either found not guilty or it’s a hung jury – if all jurors can’t agree – then the case can either be re-tried or dismissed, depending on the circumstances.
This is something that can be argued to the Judge by the criminal defense defense to try to get the case dismissed after a hung jury.
Closing Argument is at Trial in Los Angeles
When it comes to what it takes to get a finding beyond a reasonable doubt – when I do closing arguments in Los Angeles – one of the last things I always tell jurors is in order to find my client guilty beyond a reasonable doubt you’re going to have to have an abiding conviction of guilt.
That means that you’re going to have to look back ten, twenty years from now and if you’re going to find him guilty, you’re going to have to say that he was found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because if you have any doubt. That the doubt is reasonable as to his guilt – then you must find him or her not guilty.
This concept of an abiding conviction as it relates to reasonable doubt in a criminal case really hits home with jurors because a lot of times there’s problems with cases and the prosecutors can’t prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt.
Just because someone’s charged with a crime doesn’t mean their guilty and that’s one of the biggest things I talk about when I examine the jurors at the beginning of a case.
The concept of beyond a reasonable doubt – the concept of presumption of innocence and the concept that someone is not guilty just because they are charged – and anyone that thinks they’re guilty because they are charged either needs to get that wiped out of their mind or shouldn’t be sitting on a particular jury case.
High Standard of Finding Someone Guilty Beyond A Reasonable Doubt
This standard is not a preponderance, which basically says they have to find him guilty by 51%. This is higher than that.
This is where you look at everything, you weigh the evidence and there’s a jury instruction that says after you weigh the evidence – if there’s evidence on one side and evidence on the other side and you really can’t tell which evidence is the strongest.
We call that the tie goes to the defendant jury instruction and the person should be found not guilty and I read that jury instruction in every single jury trial that I do.
Because a lot of times there is evidence on one side and there is evidence on the other side and you can’t tell. If that’s the case, the prosecutors have not proved their case beyond a reasonable doubt and the defendant should be found not guilty and let go.
So, this concept of finding somebody guilty beyond a reasonable doubt is a very important one in American justice and we have the best justice system in the world.
It’s not perfect, but I make sure that the people in the state of California are really put to the task when it comes to the concept of finding somebody guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
I make a list in my closing arguments of the reasons that they did not find my client guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. I tell the jurors – listen, each one of these reasons by themselves shows that they did not find him or her guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
However, when you take them all together it is abundantly clear that the client is not guilty, the case has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, and these are the types of arguments that are going to have to be made when everything is on the line – when your freedoms on the line, your reputation, your record and your entire world sits on whether a jury finds you guilty or not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Perkins v. Auto-Owners Insurance Company
Michigan Court of Appeals order addresses when out-of-state motorcyclists can collect No-Fault insurance benefits
Case impact: An out-of-state motorcyclist who was injured in a Michigan crash with a car or truck can collect No-Fault benefits – if the motorcyclist’s out-of-state auto insurer “has filed a certification in compliance with section 3163.” (MCL 500.3113(c)).
By filing the certification, a No Fault auto insurer guarantees that, if one of its insureds from another state is injured in a Michigan car accident or a truck accident, even if that insured is riding a motorcycle rather than driving a car or truck, then the auto insurer must still pay for and provide Michigan No Fault insurance benefits to the “out-of-state resident.”
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Earn both a master’s in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies from the Middlebury Institute and a master’s in International Affairs from Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), one of Russia’s most prestigious and internationally respected educational institutions.
Designed for students particularly interested in weapons of mass destruction (WMD) nonproliferation and U.S.-Russian relations, the 62-credit (124 ECTS) program covers global security, history, science and technology, area studies, public policy, and research methods—with an emphasis on practical skills. Students complete an internship and also prepare and defend a required thesis.
All subject-matter courses are in English, though students who are not fluent in Russian also receive training in the Russian language. Students take classes at MGIMO in Moscow in the first semester and classes in Monterey in the second and third semesters. The fourth and final semester is devoted to an internship and thesis preparation, with locations determined on a case-by-case basis. See the Dual Degree Curriculum for details.
Graduates are prepared for professional careers in the nonproliferation field in national governments, international organizations, academia, think tanks, and the private sector.
- Dual degree applicants who need a visa to study in Russia must apply for admission by July 15.
- Students who do not have sufficient Russian or English language skills are encouraged to apply earlier as you may be required to attend summer language programs, which begin in early June. Contact your enrollment advisor with questions.
- Dual degree applicants who do NOT need a visa to study in Russia may apply for admission by August 20.
The earlier you apply, the more likely you are to receive our largest scholarships, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Here is a sample of the careers our graduates are pursuing:
- Program Director at the PIR Center in Moscow, Russia
- Research Assistant at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia
- Research Associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation in Vienna, Austria
- Global Trade Compliance Analyst at Tesla in Oakland, California
- Risk Analyst at Morgan Stanley in Baltimore, Maryland
Visit our curriculum page to learn more about internship opportunities.
Students starting the program in 2019 should note the following important dates:
- August 22–23, 2019: Recommended arrival at MGIMO (August 22 is the earliest day students may move into dorms)
- August 28, 2019: Integration week begins (new student orientation)
- August 31, 2019: Tuition due to MGIMO
- September 2, 2019: Classes begin
- December 21, 2019: Classes end
- December 22, 2019–January 8, 2020: Official exam preparation period/no classes
- January 9–17, 2020: *Exam period
- January 21–24, 2020: *Middlebury Institute New Student Orientation, which you are required to attend
- January 27, 2020: First day of class at the Middlebury Institute
* Please note there are only a few days between the exam period in Moscow and the start of orientation in Monterey.
Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies
During your time at the Middlebury Institute you can take advantage of the Graduate Initiative in Russian Studies (GIRS), which enables students with advanced Russian language skills to professionalize their interest in Russia and Eurasia. It provides experiential learning and international opportunities for students interested in careers in policy making, NGOs, and global business.
Estimated Program Cost: 2019–20 Academic Year
|Fall (MGIMO)||Spring (MIIS)||Total|
|Tuition and Fees*||$7,875||$20,797||$28,672|
|Room and Board||$5,250||$7,965||$13,215|
|Books and Supplies||$100||$450||$550|
|Transportation, Airfare, and Visa||$1,900||$428||$2,328|
* Tuition rates are subject to change in future academic years.
For U.S. Students Using Veterans’ Benefits
U.S. students who want to use veterans’ benefits toward tuition and expenses can only do so for the semesters they are enrolled at the Middlebury Institute (second and third semesters). For the first and fourth semesters, while enrolled at MGIMO, students will have to make other arrangements to pay tuition and expenses. U.S. citizens and permanent residents are eligible to apply for federal financial aid. | <urn:uuid:235799a0-db40-42c0-9e84-22dd6dd03c94> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/degree-programs/nonproliferation-terrorism-studies/overview/dual-degree | 2019-07-24T09:14:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.924531 | 967 |
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MEET THE new Slenderman–an evil clown named Laughing Jack. A 12-year old Indiana girl allegedly stabbed her 50-year-old stepmother to death and setting their apartment on fire. Why? To please Laughing Jack.
WE MISS Patrick Heron. This dear brother in the Lord made us think and he did it while making us smile. Today is Paddy’s birthday. In tribute, we bring back an interview we recorded in February of 2007–an hour that will make you think and make you smile. | <urn:uuid:b4ff860e-5c95-432e-81f8-e01af23a91cb> | CC-MAIN-2019-30 | https://www.pidradio.com/tag/fallen-angels/ | 2019-07-24T09:54:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-30/segments/1563195532251.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20190724082321-20190724104321-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.962321 | 155 |
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Why does it work? Well Olive oil is rich in vitamins A and E and is packed with antioxidants. Italy helps to support the keratin in the hair and seal in moisture by penetrating the hair shaft.
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So much of who we are, how we see the world and how we respond to it, is contained in our way of being – we bring those many different facets of ourselves into our coaching. When forming a learning partnership, it’s important to have an understanding of what the other party brings in with them.
Jenny has many years of business and coaching experience but also embodies her values - abundance, authenticity, unconditional acceptance of others, positivity, curiosity, being a learner, love of family and a general excitement about the possibilities that life offers. She believes that life is short and that making her time here significant is the most important reason for working. Kindness is her overarching philosophy of life.
Jenny's personal mission is to make a difference to the world one person at a time and she is always open to any project that will enhance and positively impact the lives of others. She is regularly involved in the growth and learning of others and offers supervision to new coaches inspiring others. Being a catalyst for positive change in their lives is what keeps her coaching and loving every minute of her chosen career.
Jenny’s multi-dimensional approach to her coaching is created via a mixture of many facets:
Personality; personal strengths; business experience; learned skills through degrees and diplomas; conceptual skills through regular reading of books and papers; learned practices through body work and sitting with experts; spending time learning with peers; the combined experiences of 20 years of coaching and learning from her clients during that time; second order learning and self-awareness though regular self-coaching and reflection; consistent supervision, regular mind and body practices such as meditation and Nia and more.
Jenny was blessed to be involved with an IT start-up company in the 1980’s, which grew from a very small core group of people to a company that is now one of the leading listed IT corporates in Africa. For 12 years, she was a part of the executive team that found new innovative global products, created new business divisions and implemented complex IT solutions in many major corporate businesses in South Africa. Her strengths were in business development and also in placing people in the right positions and mentoring them to create very successful divisions. She is regarded as an inspirational leader and years later, is still close to many of the team members that were part of this wonderful time of her life. During this season of her career, she experienced all the challenges involved in growing a business from a small player to the listing of the company and then the sale of the business into a bigger corporation.
This background and the subsequent running of her own businesses for the past 20 years has stood her in good stead to be able to partner with her coaching clients with a relevant understanding and empathy as to what their lives entail. She now coaches executives in many corporate, global and small business environments in many different industries but the goal is always the same – to support and enable them to escalate to their chosen levels of excellence and success.
Jenny adores her daughters, husband and friends. She is an avid reader, enthusiastic traveller and a constant observer of the human condition. She believes in continual learning and is currently studying mindfulness and meditation to further broaden her perspectives. She loves dancing, does yoga whenever she can and is always ready to try out a new adventure! | <urn:uuid:370fdcda-f2a6-4ace-9b52-8e7ccd8b8c46> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://purple-pineapple.com/aboutJenny.html | 2020-09-18T09:40:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.979399 | 674 |
This was my first posting to the Wok Wednesdays group. This is a group of people cooking their way through Grace Young’s Stir -Frying to the Sky’s Edge and meeting and posting and sharing through Facebook and blogging. It works great for me, because I am very interested in wok cooking and there is very little offered here in terms of cooking schools.
Lo Mein Chicken with Ginger Mushrooms was not my first stir-fry, the first engaging with the group. It is a great dish for the Chinese New Year. Also, it prompted me to go out and find some fresh noodles in the market. Found a great little shop with a long line buying noodles. There was great conversation over the lo mein noodles and they were obviously getting the seal of approval from several of the women buying, so I thought it was a good place to buy. We were not disappointed. The noodles were excellent. I was quite pleased with the result of the dish. I would work a little harder at browning the chicken, but I was pleased that the meat was not overcooked and the cabbage was crisp. | <urn:uuid:8476af96-ee13-411c-aa43-f39750fe4d28> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://westernchopsticks.com/tag/stir-fry/ | 2020-09-18T10:37:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.989185 | 231 |
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The Intensive Course in Lecce is the first part of the academic path you are going to complete in Bologna during the fall semester. It is mandatory for all the students and it starts immediately after your arrival in Lecce in August. This course lasts in three weeks and includes 3 hours of lesson from Monday to Friday. This course offers the opportunity to explore the city of Lecce through language and cultural immersion. We cover the topics – the Baroque and the Risorgimento – in their historical, artistic, politic and linguistic context both in class and in guided tours. In this course you will review, practice and expand the language skills and grammatical structures.… Continue reading
Cinzia Venturoli holds a doctorate in History from the University of Bologna and has worked as a researcher there between 2008 and 2015. She has also served as the Director of the Center for Documentation of Terrorism and is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Education at UniBo. She is also a staff member of the Center for History, Education, and Politics at UniBo. She is in charge of the curricula of the Archivi per non dimenticare and of the Associazione fra i famigliari delle vittime del due agosto. Her research interests are the history of WWII, the Resistance, the post-war period, local history, women’s history, public history and history of education.… Continue reading
Vassar College, Wellesley College, and Wesleyan University offer a study abroad program at the Università di Bologna in Italy. The program is committed to high academic standards and to providing opportunities for students to develop their knowledge of Italian language and culture in one of the most venerable and prestigious academic environments in Europe.
Undergraduates wishing to study humanities and social sciences may enroll for the fall or spring semester or for the full academic year. Students who enroll for the full year or for the fall or spring semester and who have at least an intermediate knowledge of Italian will complete two regular university courses at the Università di Bologna, as well as take courses in language and Italian studies offered by the program.… Continue reading
Among Bologna’s famous nicknames, “la grassa” refers to its rich and varied cuisine, which can be enjoyed in the numerous restaurants and trattorie, and in the traditional markets and food shops lining the medieval streets of the city. Culinary tradition is an integral part of the region’s identity, and Bologna boasts some of the best-known Italian dishes as its own: lasagne, tortellini, tagliatelle, and the famous meat ragù are all proudly Bolognese. Cured meats and aged cheeses welcome the visitors to the ancient delis in the Quadrilatero, the old market area near Piazza Maggiore. Local produce is also for sale every Saturday at the Slow Food farmers’ market (Mercato della Terra) near the Cineteca.… Continue reading
QUI LA DESCRIZIONE BREVE DEL CORSO, DI 250 PAROLE CIRCA, ATTENZIONE A NON ECCEDEREQUI IL TITOLO DEL CORSO taught by prof. NOME DEL DOCENTE.
The program is open to sophomores, juniors and seniors in good academic standing at their home institution. Two semesters of college-level Italian constitute the prerequisite for the fall semester, three semesters of college-level Italian for the spring. A “B” average in Italian language courses is required. Students wih less than four semesters of college-level Italian are required to attend the August session in Lecce, in the region Puglia. This course is a three-week intensive review of grammar and an introduction to contemporary Italy, and is required of students with only one year of college-level Italian. Students with two full years of college-level Italian may be exempted from the Lecce session.… Continue reading
Italian Literature Syllabus Vanessa Pietrantonio
In the first half of the nineteenth century, some European writers opted to avoid realistic descriptions in favor of images that were hallucinatory, ambiguous, murky, vague, or misshapen. Such images were often housed in infinite or incomplete spaces, in places where horrors were depicted by grotesque figures, painful grimaces, or decomposing bodies. Illustrious authors such as Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and Charles Dickens, to name a few, were all part of this strain of writing, which also included the Italian writers Alessandro Manzoni, Giacomo Leopardi, and Giovanni Verga.… Continue reading
History/Human Rights Syllabus Alberto Preti and Cinzia Venturoli
This course examines the changing relationship between the citizens and the state in modern European and Italian history. It is divided in two modules: the first, taught by Professor Preti, will introduce students to the history of the welfare state in order to understand the construction of modern European society between the second half of the nineteenth century and the present day. Studying the history of the welfare state involves examining the history of state assistance to the poor, the old, and the disabled, as well as focusing on issues related to health, labor, and the family.… Continue reading
Women's Studies Syllabus Prof. Beatrice Collina The pleasures of the text and the pleasures of the palate blend together, as if writing and feeding expressed analogous biological needs. Food takes on a symbolic role and a metaphorical meaning of far-reaching The pleasures of the text and the pleasures of the palate blend together, as if writing and feeding expressed analogous biological needs.
History of Art Syllabus Lucia Corrain
The goal of the course is to trace a path through Italian artistic production, with a chronological span encompassing the second half of the nineteenth century through the end of the twentieth century. The focus on Italy will be presented in close relationship with European and extra-European experiences, as contemporary art is not confined to a single geographic location. Examined in a way that reveals their close interrelationship, the guiding threads of the course are two: the first has to do with history and the chronological evolution of artistic changes and transformations; … Continue reading
History of art Dott. Stefania Biancani The course aims to give students the technical vocabulary they will need in History of Art courses taught in Italian, the opportunity to use that vocabulary in the discussion of various works of art, as well as an overview of the major genres and historical events of the Italian Renaissance. Students intending to enrol in the ECCO Art and Architecture course offered in the fall are required to attend an introductory course in September.
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Friday 29 April of the seminar will be a singles only movie night and Saturday 30 April will be a movie night just for married couples. Babysitting will be provided on both evenings for P10 per child.
Will you require babysitting for your child(ren) on either of these evenings?
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Payment for babysitting can be turned in with registration payment or on the day of the movie nights.
Fees: P200 per person or P300 per married couple
*Graduates are free and there is no additional cost for current students.
*Spouses of graduates and current students may attend for P100.
DEADLINE FOR PAYMENT/REGISTRATION IS SUNDAY 24 APRIL.
Payment options: You may pay at our office or you may contact us for banking details if you would like to deposit directly into our ministry account.
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I got into a confused frenzy just the other day when my friend /client told me to meet her at the WOLO. I was waiting for her in front of the Fahrenheit 88 or the ex KL Plaza. Being a Klang Valley person now , I seldom step foot in Bukit Bintang unless it was a walk to Pavilion via the covered walkway from the KLConvention Centre.
I had to then walk to Lot 10 and across the road to Sungai Wang looking blank. The policeman at the corner booth looked at me in askance and then I asked him " Bang, adakah tempat di sini nama WOLO?" (Brother, is there are place here called WOLO?) which he then pointed out to me much to my embarrassment since it was the other building opposite Lot 10. Thanking him, I rushed off as I was kinda late for my appointment .
Stepping into the Tous Les Jours was like stepping into a bakery in another country. It brings to mind Europe..
I ordered an tropical fruit tea or something... It was pretty delicious.. actually I think it was iced lemon tea but with tiny chopped bits of mango and strawberry.
Love the deco.. don't you? And the pastries really taste lovely. I bought some buns to take away and I had these in my office with another colleague and they were mouthwateringly delicious... far beyond my expectation..
Another thing I was surprised was that the staff all greets customers in Korean "anyoung haseyo", until I realized it was actually Korean owned..
The pastries, cakes and all sold here are quite reasonably priced as any other boutique bakery that are now adays popping up all over the place.
Tous les Jours opened from 8 am until 11 pm, everyday. The location of Tous les Jours, Bukit Bintang is just opposite of H&M, Bukit Bintang, McDonald Bukit Bintang and Monorail Station Bukit Bintang.
The Tous les Jours (TLJ) at Bukit Bintang offers many types of kinds breads and cakes, all recipes from Korea. I did not know it but TLJ is a very popular boutique bakery in Korea. and that this branch of TLJ is actually the 2nd one. The first branch of TLJ in Malaysia is Tous les Jours at Telawi Square, Bangsar, Malaysia. | <urn:uuid:70e9cc5c-86a4-48d3-ac7b-58ebfb9e46a7> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.mieranadhirah.com/2014/01/a-place-called-tous-les-jours.html | 2020-09-18T11:34:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.968832 | 505 |
Read the letter:
“It is without doubt that I have tried to discharge my duties as a legislator and representative of my people creditably to the best of my ability so far.
“My voice has been very loud on the issues that matter to our people and our country at all time. My support to our party, my people and state government is unquestionable. I am humbled that the national leadership of my party supported by the State chapter in appreciation of my efforts offered to support my reelection to the senate to continue my service.
“I have also intensified consultations in the last couple of week in the course of which I have come to realize an existing local rotational arrangement of over 20 years beginning with the late Great Chief Melford Okilo, by which arrangement the Senatorial seat rotates per local government area among the three councils for four years in the Senatorial District.
“Even with the support of my party at the National and state levels with the full backing of my state government and leadership, as a man of honour interested in the well-being of my people, I hereby announce my withdrawal from the Senatorial race.
“I do not want whatever reason to appear to have used my privileged position and influence to do anything other than the well-being and the stability and the good of the people. I am in all of these for the people, not for myself.”
Bruce expressed gratitude to all those who have contributed to his career as a lawmaker.
He also thanked his constituents for giving him the opportunity to serve.
“Once again, I thank the former President, Dr. Goodluck Ebelo Jonathan, the National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, my colleagues in the Senate and Governor of Bayelsa State, the Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson for their support and encouragement,” he said.
“I also thank the leadership of my Senatorial District and state, for being there for me.
“I thank specially the people of my constituency for their trust and confidence in me to serve and represent them in the Senate. By trusting me with this mandate, I have come to know them and our people even better, an experience I will never forget for the rest of my life.
“I am indeed grateful to my darling wife, my children, and other members of my family for their support and prayers. I appreciate the efforts of my hardworking campaign staff for their support and dedication.
“Again, I thank the leadership of the party for their continuing support. I also assured the party of my availability and readiness to serve at any capacity when the opportunity comes.” | <urn:uuid:61b18c43-de2e-4bc9-97d1-da3fff86eac5> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.newstrapng.com/2018/10/common-sense-senator-ben-bruce-pulls.html | 2020-09-18T09:59:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.973671 | 547 |
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Tomorrow morning Sonzee will start her new medication of Sabril. I practically begged her neurologist for us to start last week, but we had to wait for the SHARE program to receive all of the paperwork. I was so thankful that we wouldn't have to wait until her EEG, which is scheduled for the 29th. This weekend was pretty bad in the land of spasms and seizures for Sonzee. As much as I was fearing the side effects of the new drug, I am more fearful of the damage that can occur from these types of seizures. But then, in true Sonzee fashion, as soon as I wrap my head around a new change and feel a tinge of confidence, she has a great 24 hours where the doubt creeps into my mind.
Is this the right choice? What if we ruin everything for her? What if her vision is effected and there are no therapeutic benefits in terms of her seizures? What if the keppra while not doing much, was doing something? I know, I know, I can't and shouldn't play the "what if" card. I can't play the "question my choices" game either. I am the first person to say "you can't do that to yourself"...but it always happens.
So tomorrow we embark on a new journey. One that we will hopefully look back on and say "this was the best move", "I can't believe we were so worried about this", and "Wow! Can you imagine if we decided not to start Sabril". No matter what, I know that we made the best choice at this time with the information we have, and I am extremely eager to see where this new "pick your adventure" chapter leads us. | <urn:uuid:78d60ab7-614b-46dc-909f-ee7c7230a688> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | http://www.sonyasstory.com/2016/08/a-new-direction.html | 2020-09-18T09:45:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.980198 | 352 |
Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism hereby invites applications for recruitment to the post of Accounting Clerk and State Accountant. The application will close on 12th August 2019.
Location: Western Cape
Western Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism advertised are as follows:
- Accounting Clerk: Financial Accounting (2 posts available), Ref No. DEDAT 2019-26
- Senior State Accountant: Financial Accounting, Ref No. DEDAT 2019-29
- Accounting Clerk: Internal Control, Ref No. DEDAT 2019-25
How to apply
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Chief Fire Officer Orientation Day 4
Course Hours: 8.0 Hours
This program is designed to assist newly appointed Fire Chiefs in development of skills and abilities needed to lead their organizations. While the target audience is Fire Chief who have just recently attained that position, any current Fire Chiefs should find this course beneficial and are encouraged to attend. The "Day 4" delivery addresses the ISO Rating Schedule and Risk Management and Liability for the Chief Officer.
Who Should Attend
Newly appointed Chief Officers, Fire Chiefs, and their designees.
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Recently, I finished reading the Exam Ref 70-532 Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions eBook.
The chapter(s) that I found most helpful were basically all of them! Hence the majority of my highlights are from basically the entire book. Note that I didn’t just highlight all of the “Exam Tip” content, but also additional information that I found useful in learning and understanding the topic.
I’ve decided to share my highlights from reading this specific publication, in case the points that I found of note/interest will be of some benefit to someone else. So, here are my highlights (by chapter). Note that not every chapter will have highlights (depending on the content and the main focus of my work).
Chapter 01: Design and Implement Websites
- When you create an Azure website, you are automatically provisioned with a production slot that represents your live website. With each deployment slot, you can create up to four additional deployment slots (for a total of five) that you can swap with the production slot (or even with other non-production slots). When you swap, the site content and certain slot configurations are exchanged with no downtime.
- Caution: Slot Resources are Shared
All deployment slots for a given website share the same web hosting plan and are created within the same virtual machine (VM) instance that is hosting the production slot. Therefore, take care when performing stress tests on a non-production slot because you will in effect be stressing the production website by virtue of stressing the VM that hosts it. Because the same VM instance is used for all slots, you cannot scale a non-production deployment slot independently of the production slot—you can only adjust the scale settings for the production slot.
- The website for which you want to create a second deployment slot must be using the Standard web hosting plan mode (also referred to as tier). In other words, you cannot create a deployment slot with the Free, Shared, and Basic modes.
- When you swap deployment slots, all of the website content is swapped, but the same is not true of the configuration. The following configuration items will move to the destination slot:
- General settings (for example, .NET framework version, Web Sockets, Always On)
- Connection strings
- Handler mappings
- Application and site diagnostics settings
- Monitoring settings
- The following configuration items will not move to the destination slot:
- Publishing endpoints
- Custom domain names
- SSL certificates and bindings
- Scale settings
- Two websites can participate in the same web hosting plan only when they are created in the same subscription, resource group, and region (with the same pricing tier requirements).
- Websites can be migrated between web hosting plans provided they meet two conditions. First, the website and the web hosting plan must reside in the same region. Second, the web hosting plans in question must be a part of the same resource group.
- A fundamental pattern embraced by the configuration model of Azure Websites is the separation of code from configuration, and particularly the notion that the deployment environment can override configuration.
- Note: App Settings and Connection Strings
App settings and connection strings, while editable in the portal, are strictly read-only when accessed through your web application code. Changes made to these settings at runtime are not persisted and may be lost if your application (or its VM host) restarts. If you need to alter these settings, you can do so manually via the portal or you can use the Azure Management API, Windows PowerShell, or xplat-cli to change them at the website level.
- Real World: PHP Handler Mapping
Azure Websites has built-in support for PHP. You need to configure a handler mapping for PHP only if you want to use a different PHP runtime than that which is included with Azure Websites.
- Type the path to the script processor in the text box with the placeholder text SCRIPT PROCESSOR PATH. Note that this value must be an absolute path
- You can also isolate a virtual directory within its own w3wp.exe worker process by making it an application. A common scenario is to expose a subdirectory of wwwroot as the root website while also exposing a peer to that subdirectory as a separate web application.
- Two types of DNS records effectively express this purpose:
A records, or address records, map your domain name to the IP address of your website.
CNAME records, or alias records, map a subdomain of your custom domain name to the canonical name of your website, expressed as <yoursitename>.azurewebsites.net.
- Note: Using a Custom Domain Name
Use of a custom domain name requires your website to be in a web hosting plan mode of Shared, Basic, or Standard. You cannot map a custom name to your website if it is in Free mode.
- Exam Tip: Server Name Indication (SNI) is an extension of the TLS standard that enables a web server to host multiple different certificates at a single web server host accessed using a single IP address that is shared among all the websites it hosts. Essentially, its function is very practical; it enables a client to indicate the host name of the server it is trying to access during the TLS handshake that sets up the secure connection, and then the web server is able to use this name to select the appropriate certificate from its certificate store to use in securing the communication with the client. This enables greater website density per web server because it allows a single web server host to provide HTTPS across different websites, where each is accessed using a different domain and using its own certificate for securing communication. Contrast this with the IP-based approach, which is limited to one certificate per IP address. To host multiple websites each with different certificates, you would typically need multiple hosts each with a different IP address. In the context of Azure, SNI frees Websites from having to dedicate an IP address (which are a limited resource) to a single website—leading to greater hosting efficiency and, ultimately, cost savings.
The primary obstacle to using SNI is browser support—legacy browsers do not support it and will display certificate warnings. However, the list of modern browsers supporting SNI is not insignificant, and it includes the most common browsers in use today: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (on Vista or higher), Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later, Google Chrome 6 or later, and Safari 3.0 or later.
- In the context of Websites, the Event Log is particularly useful for capturing unhandled exceptions that may have escaped the application’s exception handling logic and surfaced to the web server
- Web server logs are textual files that create a text entry for each HTTP request to the website.
- Detailed error message logs These HTML files are generated by the web server and log the error messages for failed requests that result in an HTTP status code of 400 or higher
- Failed request tracing logs In addition to the error message (captured by detailed error message logs), the stack trace that led to a failed HTTP request is captured in these XML documents that are presented with an XSL style sheet for in-browser consumption
- Application diagnostic logs These text-based trace logs are created by web application code in a manner specific to the platform the application is built in.
- Exam Tip: Your own Failed Request Tracing Logs folder may include multiple folders that start with W3SVC. There are always two such folders because one is for your website and one is for the Site Control Manager (also known as Kudu) that runs in parallel to your website.
- Important: Azure Storage and Log Data Limitations
Application diagnostic logging to Table or Blob storage is supported only for .NET applications. While the portal may let you enable it for any website, log data will be collected to Azure Storage only from a .NET application.
- To debug a deployed website, you must ensure that it is a debug build (for example, it has the debug symbols)
- Important: How Debugging Affects your Website
When you attach the debugger and pause at a breakpoint, you are stopping the deployed Azure website for all requests, so it is not a good idea to rely on this technique for production debugging because users will think your website is down. Also, if you spend more than a few minutes stopped at any one breakpoint, Azure will treat your Websites worker process as having become unresponsive and try to restart it, so be prepared to move quickly when attached with the remote debugger to a website.
- Note: Availability of Endpoint Monitoring
Endpoint monitoring is available only to websites running in the Standard web hosting plan mode
- Operations defined within WebJobs can be triggered to run either when the job runs or when a new file is created in Blob storage or a message is sent to an Azure queue.
- Modify the class Program so that it is public. If you do not make the class public, WebJobs will not detect and run your operations.
- Within a datacenter, Azure will load balance traffic between all of your website instances using a round-robin approach.
- Exam Tip: Unlike other Azure compute services, Websites provides a high availability SLA of 99.9 percent using only a single standard instance. You do not need to provision more than one instance to benefit from this SLA.
- Each metric is measured as an aggregate (typically an average) across all of your website instances over a period of time
- Note: Non-Contiguous Thresholds
It is important to note that the scale-up threshold and the scale-down threshold do not have to be contiguous. For example, you can specify that one instance should be added every time the CPU utilization exceeds 80 percent, and only begin to remove one instance when the CPU utilization drops below 50 percent. This is another way to control the frequency of scaling operations.
- The existing portal allows you to define only a single pair of scale-up and scale-down rules based on the CPU percentage metric. You do not have control over the Over Past period, the step (or number of instances added/removed), or the cool-down period used each time a scaling rule is triggered—these default to 20 minutes, one instance, and 20 minutes, respectively
- Traffic Manager combines endpoint monitoring of your website with DNS so that client traffic is always directed toward a viable endpoint. It is important to understand that traffic does not flow through Traffic Manager to your website endpoint, but rather it is guided to your website endpoint as a result of DNS resolution
- Custom Domain Names and Traffic Manager
If you plan to use a custom domain name with Traffic Manager, you must configure the DNS settings for the custom domain to use a CNAME record that maps to the <yourprefix>. trafficmanager.net address. You cannot use an A record to map to an IP address exposed by Traffic Manager. This means that you can only use Traffic Manager for subdomains, such as www.contoso.com and not for contoso.com.
- Choosing a TTL Value
The default TTL used by Traffic Manager in response to DNS queries is 300 seconds (5 minutes). If you are using Traffic Manager primarily for failover, you might be tempted to set the TTL to a very low value to ensure clients who had been communicating with a now unreachable endpoint can quickly start communicating with a functioning endpoint. The minimum TTL allowed is 30 seconds, and you can use this value, but be aware you are creating additional DNS traffic as well as incurring additional Traffic Manager costs to handle the increased load of DNS queries.
- Avoiding Cascading Failures
When using the performance load balancing method, be aware that if all the endpoints in the closest datacenter are not available, then Traffic Manager will switch to a round-robin method, distributing traffic to endpoints located in other datacenters to avoid overwhelming the endpoints in the next closest datacenter and potentially causing a chain of failures.
- Cloud Patterns
For comprehensive coverage of a number of cloud design patterns, see the material supplied by Microsoft Patterns & Practices at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn568099.aspx.
- If your web application consumes an external service (such as the SQL Database or Storage service), your application code must be aware of how the service may throttle your requests and handle the throttling exceptions properly (perhaps by retrying the operation later)
- An implementation of the Circuit Breaker pattern prevents an application from attempting an operation that is likely to fail
- If everything is working as expected, the circuit breaker is said to be in the closed state, and any requests from the application are routed through to the operation
- If the number of recent failures invoking the operation exceeds a threshold over some defined period of time, the circuit breaker is tripped and changes to the open state.
- In the open state, a timer controls the “cool-down” period of the proxy. When this cool-down period expires, the circuit breaker switches to a half-open state, and a limited number of trial requests are allowed to flow through to the operation while the rest fail immediately, or the code queries the health of the service hosting the operation. In the half-open state, if the trial requests succeed or the service responds as healthy, then the failure is deemed repaired, and the circuit breaker changes back to the closed state
- Application Request Routing (ARR) is a feature of Websites that effectively enables sticky sessions between the client (such as the browser) and the first instance of the website it connects to by providing the client with a cookie that encodes identification for that website instance
Chapter 02: Create and Manage Virtual Machines
- There are two approaches to identifying supported Azure workloads.
- The first is to determine whether the workload is already explicitly supported and offered through the Marketplace, which provides a large collection of free and for-pay solutions from Microsoft and third parties that deploy to VMs
- The second approach is to compare the requirements of the workload you want to deploy directly to the published capabilities of Azure VMs or, in some cases, to perform proof of concept deployments to measure whether the requirements can be met
- Fundamentally, there are two approaches to creating a new VM. You can upload a VM that you have built on-premises, or you can instantiate one from the pre-built images available in the Marketplace
- SSH Key Generation
To create the SSH public key that you need to provision your Linux VM, run ssh-keygen on a Mac OSX or Linux terminal, or, if you are running Windows, use Puttygen. A good reference for the latter, if you are not familiar with it, is available at http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/virtual-machines-linux-use-ssh-key/.
- Manually Installing the Azure VM Agent
If your uploaded Windows or Linux VM does not have the VM Agent installed, you can download it to your VM instance and install it manually. For detailed instructions on how to install the VM Agent, visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn832621.aspx.
- If you have built a VM in Azure, you can capture the VM and create a VM image for future reuse. Note that for a generalized image, you must generalize and shut down your VM before you perform the capture operation. If you attempt to capture a running VM, you effectively take a snapshot of that VM to create a specialized image, but you risk not capturing any changes that are currently in the running VM’s memory because this state is not captured.
- With the Save-AzureImage cmdlet, you indicate that the VM has been generalized by providing an OSState parameter with a value of Generalized. Otherwise, you provide a value of Specialized. Note that when the cmdlet finishes, the target VM is deleted.
- To create instances of your VM image in a region different than the one where the storage account containing the VM image exists, copy the VM image to Storage Accounts in the target region. To accomplish this effectively, consider using the AZCopy utility. You can download this utility from http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-use-azcopy/.
- When you create a new VM in the existing portal or Preview portal, the VM Agent is installed by default
- Exam Tip: After the DSC runs, a Managed Object Format (MOF) file is created, which is a standard endorsed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DTMF). See http://www.dmtf.org/education/mof.
- DSC Resource Kit
The Windows PowerShell team released a number of DSC resources to simplify working with Active Directory, SQL Server, and IIS. See https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/DSC-Resource-Kit-All-c449312d.
- Adding Resources to the zip File
When you build your configuration zip using Publish-AzureVMDSCConfiguration, it will not automatically include the resources you specify, for example additional Windows PowerShell module dependencies or any files or folders that you intend to deploy. You must add those manually to the zip file before configuring the VM with the DSC script.
- Be sure to use an instance size minimum of A2 to support the puppet master extension.
- Exam Tip: If you supply the wrong fully qualified address to the puppet master node during this configuration process, the agent will not automatically register with the puppet master node. If this happens, to fix the address, you must manually edit the Puppet agent configuration on the machine and manually send a registration request from a remote desktop session.
See the guide, “Getting Started Guide: Deploying Puppet Enterprise in Microsoft Azure” at http://info.puppetlabs.com/pe-azure-gsg.html for additional details on these steps.
- Introduction to Puppet
If you are new to Puppet, you can start learning more about it with the documentation at https://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/introduction.html.
- Chef Setup on Azure
The following references provide additional information related to learning Chef and for setting up Chef on Azure:
- Exam Tip: From your Chef workstation, you can run Chef knife commands to generate the client.rb and validation.pem key for the final step in the previous procedure. For more information about the Azure portal settings, see https://docs.getchef.com/azure_portal.html.
- This DNS name resolves to the public virtual IP address of the cloud service, and after the cloud service has been created, the DNS name cannot be changed
- To assign a PIP to your VM, first ensure that your VM is deployed to a regional virtual network (VNET) since a PIP cannot be assigned to VMs that do not belong to a VNET
- If you want to ensure that the IP address remains fixed and reflected as being owned by your Azure subscription, even if the cloud service it is associated with is deleted, then you need to configure a reserved IP address.
- To use a reserved IP address with a VM, you must request it as a part of creating both a new cloud service and new VM. There is currently no support for assigning a reserved IP address to an existing cloud service and VM.
- A network access control list (ACL) allows you to restrict access to your VMs to specific ranges of IP addresses by defining a list of permit or deny rules. They perform packet filtering on the host node running your VM, controlling what external traffic is allowed to reach it via the endpoint. They are defined on a VM endpoint or load balanced set and apply only to external traffic (for example, traffic that flows through the VIP and load balancer). They are not applied to internal traffic and cannot be applied to a VNET or to a subnet within a VNET.
- ACL rule evaluation proceeds in priority order, where rules with the lowest order value have highest priority and are evaluated before rules with higher order values that have a lower priority. The first rule to match the traffic in the list, if there is a match, is applied and stops further rule evaluation.
- Exam Tip: You can use ACL to restrict access to a single host instead of the many hosts that would be described by an IP address range. To do so, when specifying the remote subnet, use the /32 subnet mask, for example 126.96.36.199/32.
- Load balanced endpoints (public or internal) is functionality available only to VMs in the Standard tier and not to VMs in the Basic tier.
- DSR changes the last two steps of this process and enables the VM to return the response directly to the client instead of sending it through the load balancer. DSR is most commonly needed to support SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups.
- Direct Server Return can be enabled only during the creation of an endpoint, and it requires that the public and private ports have the same value.
- Unlike Websites which can automatically provision new instances as a part of scale out, Virtual Machines must be pre-provisioned in order for auto-scale to turn instances on or off during a scaling operation
- Availability sets enable you to improve the availability of VMs deployed to your cloud service by identifying to Azure a group of VMs that should never be brought down simultaneously during updates and that should be physically separated (that is, connected to a separate power source and network switch) so that the failure of a host does not cause all of the VMs in that group to fail.
- VMs located in separate update domains will never experience an update (or a restart of the host machine) at the same time
- Azure provides a fixed set of five update domains in which it places your VMs in a round-robin process. When you add VMs to an availability set, Azure places the first five VMs in separate update domains, then continues to distribute additional VMs across update domains in a round-robin fashion, assigning the sixth VM to the first update domain, the seventh VM to the second update domain, and so on until all VMs have been assigned to one of the five update domains.
- Whereas update domains apply to the roll out of host machine updates, fault domains consider isolation in terms of power and network. When two VMs are placed in separate fault domains, they will never be located such that they share the power source or network switch, which basically means that they will not be on the same host machine or even on the same server rack as one another. When you add VMs to an availability set, they are distributed between two fault domains in round-robin fashion
- For multi-tier applications (such as those having separate front-end, middle, and back-end tiers), it is a best practice to place all the VMs belonging to a single tier in a single availability set and to have separate availability sets for each application tier
- The primary requirement of an availability set is that all member VMs must belong to the same cloud service.
- Auto-scale automatically adjusts the number of VM instances running within an availability set based on load or according to a schedule. It does this by turning on additional VM instances in the availability set during a scale-up event, and stopping (de-allocating) them during a scale-down event. For this to happen, these machines must have already been provisioned, but they can be in the stopped (de-allocated) state as they wait for auto-scale to turn them on
- Using auto-scale is predicated upon a few requirements. To begin, all VMs involved must be in the Standard tier (the Basic tier does not provide auto-scale support). All the VMs you want to turn on or off with auto-scale must belong to the same availability set, and because you cannot create a single availability set that includes VMs spanning multiple cloud services, these VMs must also exist within the same cloud service. Also, all VMs in the availability set must be of the same instance size or you will be prevented from configuring auto-scale.
- Azure Storage can provide a higher rate of random I/Os than the local disk used for caching. For predominantly random I/O workloads, therefore, it is best to set the cache to None and let Azure Storage handle the load directly
- Note that geo-replication is not synchronized across blob files and, therefore, VHD disks, which means writes for a file that is spread across multiple disks, as happens when you use storage pools, could be replicated out of order. As a result, if you mount the replicated copies to a VM, the disks will almost certainly be corrupt. To avoid this problem, configure the disks to use locally redundant replication which does not add any additional availability and reduces costs (since geo-replicated storage is more expensive).
- It does not matter if your VMs’ data disks are located in a different storage account or even if your share uses a storage account that is within a different Azure subscription than your VMs. As long as your shares are created within the same region as your VMs, those VMs will have access.
- Note that currently this means you cannot mount shares across regions (even if you set up VNET-to-VNET connectivity) or access shares from your on-premises resources (if you are using a point-to-site or site-to-site VPN with a VNET).
- Naming Requirements
Interestingly, while Blob storage is case sensitive, share, directory, and file names are case insensitive but will preserve the case you use. For more information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn167011.aspx.
- Note that you cannot create a share below another share
- File Lock Interaction between SMB and REST
If you are curious about how file locking is managed between SMB and REST endpoints for clients interacting with the same file at the same time, the following is a good resource for more information: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn194265.aspx.
- You can mount a share to a VM so that it will remain available indefinitely to the VM, regardless of restarts.
- Geo-replication should not be used for Azure Storage accounts that store VHDs because the added redundancy does not provide additional protection against corrupting the data and may in fact result in data loss if you attempt to restore from a geo-replication
Chapter 03: Design and Implement Cloud Services
- When the install completes, the SDK installs two emulators, the Azure Compute Emulator and the Azure Storage Emulator.
- Cloud Services supports two kinds of roles:
- Web roles Used for web server applications hosted in IIS, such as an ASP.NET MVC application or a Web API application
- Worker roles Used for running a compute workload. It can be used to launch an executable process or for background worker implementations that work in a similar manner to a Windows service.
- Exam Tip: PaaS cloud services discussed in this chapter are conceptually different from IaaS cloud services discussed in Chapter 2, “Create and manage virtual machines.” With PaaS cloud services, you are entrusting Azure to manage the operating system updates, patching, and deployment lifecycle of your applications. IaaS cloud services are a mechanism for grouping assets in your VM topology.
- The cloud service template should be the startup project in the solution. It references the roles associated with the cloud service and holds the configuration settings for each role
- By default, adding multiple roles will result in multiple VMs. Each role then operates in isolation with its own configuration settings. It is possible to configure multiple roles to deploy to a single VM.
- Note: Role Entry Point and Web Roles
You are not required to modify the default implementation of RoleEntryPoint for a web role; however, it is common to add code that interacts with the RoleEnvironment. For example, you can write code to interact with role lifecycle events such as preventing a restart for certain configuration setting changes.
- Consider putting some key configuration settings in the role configuration settings instead of in the web.config application settings. This makes it possible to surface those settings to the management portal for modification.
- If your application has any dependencies that require installation on the destination VM or control over IIS-related settings, use a startup task to provide an unattended deployment for this configuration.
- More Info: Resilient Cloud Architectures
The following reference provides additional insights, some specific to Azure, regarding designing resilient architectures for the cloud: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj853352.aspx.
- More Info: Logging from Startup Tasks
Visibility into your startup task process is important if there are issues that require troubleshooting. Log activity from your startup tasks to help with this. For more information on this and other helpful tips, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj129545.aspx.
- More Info: Examples of Startup Task Implementations
See the following reference for an example of how to create batch files that run Windows PowerShell scripts and initialize IIS settings: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh180155.aspx.
- Add an executionContext attribute with the value “limited” or “elevated.” If you add “limited,” the task will run without administrator privileges. If you use “elevated,” the task will run with administrator privileges and be able to modify the registry, change IIS configurations, and interact with other protected resources
- More Info: Startup Tasks and Role Recycling
Startup tasks must be designed to run more than once for the role VM. When roles restart, the startup tasks run again. For information on how to design startup tasks for graceful restarts, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj129544.aspx.
- Unlike websites and VMs, whose instance size can be adjusted through the management portal, scaling the instance size of a role instance requires that you change the cloud service definition and re-deploy the package
- Also note that you can combine schedule-based and metric-based scaling. When you define a schedule and then select it from the Edit Scale Settings For Schedule drop-down list, you can configure scaling by CPU or by queue conditions within the timeframe represented by that schedule
- Each OnlyAllowTrafficTo element describes the source role endpoint and destination role endpoint for which communication should be allowed; any other combinations will be denied.
- More Info: NetworkTrafficRules Schema
For a complete explanation of the NetworkTrafficRules schema, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/gg557551.aspx
- More Info: NetworkConfiguration Schema
For the complete schema documentation of the NetworkConfiguration element, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj156091.aspx.
- Important: ACL updates and deployments
Currently, you must perform a complete re-deployment if you enable ACLs on a service that already exists. An update deployment will fail with an error.
- To join a role to a particular subnet in a virtual network requires two major steps, both performed by adding configuration within the NetworkConfiguration element
- First, you must associate the cloud service with a virtual network. This is accomplished by adding a VirtualNetworkSite element and specifying the name of the virtual network as the value for the name attribute.
- Second, you need to add an AddressAssignments element that contains one InstanceAddress element for each role in the cloud service. The InstanceAddress element is associated with the role by the value specified for the roleName attribute (whose value must be the name of the role). Within the InstanceAddress element, specify a <Subnets> element that will contain a <Subnet> entry whose name attribute indicates the name of the subnet in the virtual network in which instances of the role shall be placed
- Before you can configure a reserved IP on a cloud service, you need to create a reserved IP in your Azure subscription
- Local storage can persist between restarts of the VM that hosts your role. The data will be lost if your role is migrated to a different VM host. If you require durability, you should use Azure Blob storage
- It is important to be aware of disk space management. If you reach your maximum size of local storage, when you attempt to write again, you will get an out of disk space error message. Note that on the Local Storage configuration tab, you can configure a disk space that is higher than that allotted to your chosen role VM size. No error will be generated until the disk actually fills past the capacity allotted. Always have a method for deleting old files and clearing out space so that writing can continue.
- A single web role is not limited to hosting only a single website. By differentiating between websites using either host headers, a single web role can be configured, by editing the cloud service definition, to host multiple websites.
- The key difference between the two is that an A record maps a domain to an IP address and a CNAME creates an alias that maps a domain name to another domain name.
- When using an A record, you have to be cautious that the IP address value you map to does not change, because if it does, your custom domain will not resolve to your cloud service
- It is a best practice to deploy to the staging slot first and then perform a VIP swap operation that moves your new deployment into production to ensure you don’t lose the VIP associated with production.
- Another way to preserve the IP address of the cloud service is to assign a reserved IP to your cloud service and then use that IP address in the A record.
- If you a have a cloud service with a web role, a worker role, and a cacherole, only instances from those three roles can access the cache, in particular, VMs and websites cannot access the cache provided by In-Role Cache.
- Note: RoleEntryPoint Code within a Web Role
If you are attempting to use the cache within a web role’s RoleEntryPoint logic (for example in WebRole.cs) as opposed to within ASP.NET code behind files, then you must programmatically configure the cache instead of relying on the web.config to provide the settings. See the following link for examples on how to do so: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj852128.aspx.
- When you deploy to Azure using a package, you deploy two files: the application package file and the service configuration file.
- When considering the incremental update option, the most influential setting is the upgradeDomainCount, which sets the number of upgrade domains into which your role instances are distributed. By default, this is set to 5 (such that your instances will be distributed across five upgrade domains), but you can increase that value up to 20.
- When deciding whether to perform an upgrade deployment (either incremental or simultaneous) or a full deployment, note that any of the following changes require a full deployment (or the VIP swap approach, discussed later); you will not be able to perform an upgrade for these changes:
- Change to the name of a role
- Change to the upgrade domain count
- Reduction in the size of local storage resources
- More Info: Supported Changes for an Upgrade
For a list of all of the changes that you can make to a deployment and still perform an upgrade, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh472157.aspx.
- More Info: Diagnostic Data Sources
For a more detailed description of each of the diagnostic data sources, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn205075.aspx.
- As of the Azure SDK 2.5, the only supported mechanism for configuring diagnostics is by using the XML configuration file diagnostics.wadcfgx
- More Info: Manually Querying Diagnostics
For tools and instructions for manually querying the diagnostics data, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh411534.aspx.
- Important: How Debugging Affects your Cloud Service
When you attach the debugger and pause at a breakpoint, you are stopping the deployed instance for all requests, so it is not a good idea to rely on this technique for production debugging or users will think your cloud service is down. Also, if you spend more than a few minutes stopped at any one breakpoint, Azure treats the process that is stopped as unavailable and does not send traffic to that instance. Furthermore, if you are stopped too long, the remote debugger service (msvsmon.exe) detaches from the process.
- Note: Intellitrace Requirements
IntelliTrace requires you to use Visual Studio Ultimate against a cloud service that is running an application built with .NET 4 or .NET 4.5.
Chapter 04: Design and Implement A Storage Strategy
- Azure Storage enables storage and retrieval of large amounts of unstructured data. You can store content files such as documents and media in the Blob service, use the Table service for NoSQL data, use the Queue service for reliable messages, and use the File service for Server Message Block (SMB) file share scenarios
- Exam Tip: There are many ways to interact with and develop against Azure Storage including the management portal, using Windows PowerShell, using client libraries such as those for the .NET Framework, and using the Storage Services REST API. In fact, the REST API is what supports all other options.
- Each blob storage account can store up to 500 terabytes of data.
- Note: Container Access Permissions
You can choose between the following access permissions on the container:
Private All access to the container and its blobs require authentication.
Public Container All access to the container and its blobs are anonymous.
Public Blob You cannot list blobs in the container without authentication, but you can navigate to the blob URL, if you have it, and read it anonymously.
This setting can be changed at any time through the management portal, by using Windows PowerShell, or by configuring it programmatically.
- Always use the primary key for management activities
- Exam Tip: Any updates made to a blob are atomic. While an update is in progress, requests to the blob URL will always return the previously committed version of the blob until the update is complete.
- A container has only read-only system properties, while blobs have both read-only and read-write properties.
- More Info: Blob Metadata
Blob metadata includes both read-only and read-write properties that are valid HTTP headers and follow restrictions governing HTTP headers. The total size of the metadata is limited to 8 KB for the combination of name and value pairs. For more information on interacting with individual blob metadata, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh225342.aspx.
- Exam Tip: If the metadata key doesn’t exist, an exception is thrown
- The Azure Blob service has two different ways of storing your data: block blobs and page blobs. Block blobs are great for streaming data sequentially, like video and other files. Page blobs are great for non-sequential reads and writes, like the VHD on a hard disk mentioned in earlier chapters.
- Any blocks you upload that aren’t committed to a blob will be deleted after a week. Block blobs can be up to 200 GB.
- Unlike block blobs, page blob writes are done in place and are immediately committed to the file. The maximum size of a page blob is 1 terabyte.
- To authorize access to content, you can authenticate in three different ways to your storage account and content:
- Shared Key Constructed from a set of fields related to the request. Computed with a SHA-256 algorithm and encoded in Base64.
- Shared Key Lite Similar to Shared Key, but compatible with previous versions of Azure Storage. This provides backwards compatibility with code that was written against versions prior to 19 September 2009. This allows for migration to newer versions with minimal changes.
- Shared Access Signature Grants restricted access rights to containers and blobs. You can provide a shared access signature to users you don’t trust with your storage account key. You can give them a shared access signature that will grant them specific permissions to the resource for a specified amount of time.
- The copy operation is always the entire length of the blob; you can’t copy a range.
- Exam Tip: A storage account can have multiple Copy Blob operations processing in parallel; however, an individual blob can have only one pending copy operation.
- By default, blobs have a seven-day time-to-live (TTL) at the CDN edge node. After that time elapses, the blob is refreshed from the storage account to the edge node. Blobs that are shared via CDN must support anonymous access.
- Exam Tip: It can take 60 minutes before the CDN is ready for use on the storage account.
- A blob container has several options for access permissions. When set to Private, all access requires credentials. When set to Public Container, no credentials are required to access the container and its blobs. When set to Public Blob, only blobs can be accessed without credentials if the full URL is known.
- Azure Storage is a non-relational (NoSQL) entity storage service on Microsoft Azure. When you create a storage account, it includes the Table service alongside the Blob and Queue services. Table services can be accessed through a URL format
- You can group inserts and other operations into a single batch transaction. All operations in the batch must take place on the same partition. You can have up to 100 entities in a batch. The total batch payload size cannot be greater than 4 MB
- Wherever possible, you should try to query with the partition key and row key. Querying entities by other properties does not work well because it launches a scan of the entire table.
- One technique you can use to update a record is to use InsertOrReplace(). This creates the record if one does not already exist or updates an existing record
- Table storage does not support anonymous access, so you must supply credentials using the account key or a Shared Access Signature (SAS) (discussed in “Manage Access”) before you can perform requests using OData.
- Note: Query Limitations
The result is limited to 1,000 entities per request, and the query will run for a maximum of five seconds.
- For query performance, you should use the partition key and row key together when possible. This leads to an exact row match. The next best thing is to have an exact partition match with a row range. It is best to avoid scanning the entire table.
- More Info: Large Messages
There is a limit of 64 KB per message stored in a queue. It is considered best practice to keep the message small and to store any required data for processing in a durable store, such as SQL Azure, storage tables, or storage blobs. This also increases system reliability since each queued message can expire after seven days if not processed. For more information, see the reference at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh690942.aspx.
- Note: Invisibility Setting
By default, when you de-queue a message, it is invisible to the queue for 30 seconds. In the event message processing exceeds this timeframe, supply an alternate setting for this value when creating or updating the message. You can set the timeout to a value between one second and seven days. Visibility can also exceed the message expiry time.
- You can retrieve up to 32 messages from a queue using the GetMessages() method to process multiple messages in parallel
- Each individual queue has a target of approximately 2,000 messages per second (assuming a message is within 1 KB).
- More Info: Controlling Anonymous Access
To control anonymous access to containers and blobs, follow the instructions provided at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179354.aspx.
- Important: Secure Use of SAS
Always use a secure HTTPS connection to generate an SAS token to protect the exchange of the URI, which grants access to protected storage resources.
- When you extend write access to storage resources with SAS, the contents of those resources can potentially be made corrupt or even be tampered with by a malicious party, particularly if the SAS was leaked. Be sure to validate system use of all resources exposed with SAS keys.
- The stored access policy can be used to control all issued SAS tokens that are based on the policy. For a step-by-step tutorial for creating and testing stored access policies for blobs, queues, and tables, see http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-shared-access-signature-part-2.
- Important: Recommendation for SAS Tokens
Use stored access policies wherever possible, or limit the lifetime of SAS tokens to avoid malicious use
- Important: Managing Key Regeneration
It is imperative that you have a sound key management strategy. In particular, you must be certain that all applications are using the primary key at a given point in time to facilitate the regeneration process.
- When you configure storage metrics for a storage account, tables are generated to store the output of metrics collection
- Retention can be configured for each service in the storage account. By default, Storage Analytics will not delete any metrics data. When the shared 20-terabyte limit is reached, new data cannot be written until space is freed. This limit is independent of the storage limit of the account. You can specify a retention period from 0 to 365 days. Metrics data is automatically deleted when the retention period is reached for the entry.
- Note: Choosing a Metrics Level
Minimal metrics yield enough information to provide a picture of the overall usage and health of the storage account services. Verbose metrics provide more insight at the API level, allowing for deeper analysis of activities and issues, which is helpful for troubleshooting.
- Note: Deleting the Log Container
After Storage Analytics has been enabled, the log container cannot be deleted; however, the contents of the log container can be deleted.
- The major difference is in a measurement called database throughput units (DTUs). A DTU is a blended measure of CPU, memory, disk reads, and disk writes.
- Add the following metrics:
- CPU Percentage
- Physical Data Reads Percentage
- Log Writes Percentage
- All three of these metrics are shown relative to the DTU of your database. If you reach 80 percent of your performance metrics, it’s time to consider increasing your service tier or performance level
- Azure SQL Database does a full backup every week, a differential backup each day, and an incremental log backup every five minutes
- When you restore a new database, the service tier stays the same, but the performance level changes to the minimum level of that tier.
- Standard geo-replication allows the user to fail over the database to a different region when a database is not available. It is available on the standard and premium service tiers. The main difference between active and standard geo-replication is that standard geo-replication does not allow clients to connect to the secondary server. It is offline until it’s needed to take over for the primary. The target region for the offline secondary server is pre-determined. For instance, if your primary server is in North Central US, then your secondary server will be in South Central US. The source and target servers must belong to the same subscription.
- Note: Uses for Creating an Offline Secondary
Another use for this feature has to do with the ability to terminate the continuous copy relationship between a primary and secondary database. You can terminate the relationship and then upgrade the primary database to a different schema to support a software upgrade. The secondary database gives you a rollback option.
Chapter 05: Manage Application And Network Services
- More Info: Directory Integration
For additional information on directory integration, Azure AD Sync, and Azure AD Connect see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj573653.aspx.
- More Info: Multi-Factor Authentication
Azure AD makes it easy to enable multi-factor authentication for users in your directory. For additional information, see http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/multi-factor-authentication/.
- More Info: Administrator Roles
For additional information about directory administrator roles, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn468213.aspx.
- More Info: User Management
For additional information about managing users from the management portal, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh967609.aspx.
- More Info: Authentication Scenarios
See the following reference for a review of these key authentication scenarios with related sample applications: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn499820.aspx.
- More Info: Azure AD Code Samples
Integration between applications and Azure AD involves selecting a protocol for user authentication and for specific application authorization scenarios and choosing components for your application platform to simplify working with protocols. The following reference has many authentication and authorization samples to help you apply the review in this section to code, illustrating the most common integration scenarios: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn646737.aspx.
- Exam Tip: You can substitute the tenant identifier with the tenant name for protocol endpoint URLs. See, for example, https://login.windows.net/solexpaad.onmicrosoft.com/wsfed.
- More Info: Moving a VM to an Existing Network
You can move a VM to a previously created virtual network, but it requires some downtime. Virtual networks are typically chosen when you create a VM. To change the virtual network of an existing VM, you can remove it from the first network and then create a new VM with the same VHD as part of the new network. There is no method to move the VM itself to a different network after it is created.
When you remove an existing VM from a network, the VHD is still attached and registered as a disk in the management portal. When you create a new VM, you can select that disk under My Disks in the management portal to reuse it.
- Exam Tip: Using shared DNS servers with a virtual network allows resources on the network to use a DNS server that you specify. You can use one that Azure provides, but if you need more control over DNS settings, or if you have needs outside normal, you can specify your own DNS servers. DNS servers are not round-robin load balanced. The first DNS server on the list will always be used unless it is unavailable, in which case then the next one will be used.
- More Info: NetworkConfiguration Section
For a complete set of options for cloud services network configuration settings, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj156091.aspx.
- Exam Tip: You cannot modify or delete a subnet after services or VMs have been deployed to it. You can modify prefixes as long as the subnets containing existing VMs or services are not affected by the change.
- More Info: Service Bus Resources and Samples
See these references for a collection of overviews, tutorials, and samples related to Service Bus:
- More Info: Securing Service Bus Resources
The recommended way to secure Service Bus resources is with SAS tokens, so by default, an ACS namespace is not created. With Windows PowerShell commands, you can indicate an ACS namespace for securing the resources in the namespace. For more information on securing Service Bus resources, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn170478.aspx.
- More Info: AMQP Protocol
Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) is the recommended protocol to use for brokered message exchange if firewall rules are not an issue. For additional information, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj841071.aspx.
- Exam Tip: Connectivity issues are common for on-premises environments that disable ports other than 80 and 443. For this reason, it is still often necessary for portability to use HTTP protocol for brokered messaging.
- Exam Tip: TCP relay supports two connection modes: relayed (the default) or hybrid. In hybrid mode, communications are initially relayed, but if possible, a direct socket connection is established between client and service, thus removing the relay from communications for the session.
- It is not recommended to use the root shared access policy. Instead, create an entry for a receiver and sender policy that respectively can only listen or send.
- Note: Sender and Receiver Keys
It is considered best practice to create separate keys for the sender and receiver, and possibly multiple keys according to different groups of senders and receivers. This allows you to more granularly control which applications have send, receive, and management rights to Service Bus relays created in the namespace.
- Exam Tip: You can configure WCF relay endpoints programmatically or by using application configuration in the <system.servicemodel> section. The latter is more appropriate for dynamically configuring the host environment for production applications.
- More Info: Azure Queues vs. Service Bus Queues
Azure queues (discussed in Chapter 4, “Design and implement a storage strategy”) are built on top of storage, while Service Bus queues are built on top of a broader messaging infrastructure. For more information on how the two compare, and how to choose between them, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/hh767287.aspx.
- There are no direct commands for creating and deleting Service Bus queues; however, you can construct a custom Windows PowerShell script that includes code to produce a queue programmatically. For more information, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/paolos/archive/2014/12/02/how-to-create-a-service-bus-queues-topics-and-subscriptions-using-a-powershell-script.aspx.
- Exam Tip: The connection string shown in the management portal for queues, topics, notification hubs, and event hubs does not use AMQP protocol by default. You must add a TransportType=Amqp string as follows to tell the client library to use this recommended protocol
- Exam Tip: The BrokeredMessage type can accept any serializable object or a stream to be included in the body of the message. You can also set additional custom properties on the message and provide settings relevant to partitions and sessions.
- Note: Duplicate Messages
Service Bus queues support at-least-once processing. This means that under certain circumstances, a message might be redelivered and processed twice. To avoid duplicate messages, you can use the MessageId of the message to verify that a message was not already processed by your system.
- More Info: Dead Letter Queues
Messages that cannot be processed are considered poison messages and should be removed from the queue and handled separately. This is typically done with a dead letter queue. Service Bus queues have a dead letter sub-queue available for this purpose. You write to the dead letter sub-queue when you detect a poison message and provide a separate service to process those failures. Messages written to the dead letter sub-queue do not expire. For a sample, see https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Brokered-Messaging-Dead-22536dd8#content.
- Exam Tip: If you enable batch processing for the subscription, you can receive a batch of messages in a single call using ReceiveBatch() or ReceiveBatchAsync(). This will pull messages in the subscription up to the number you specify, or fewer if applicable. Note that you must be aware of the potential lock timeout while processing the batch.
- You cannot create a subscription with filter criteria through the management portal, but you can create it programmatically using the NamespaceManager object and its CreateSubscription() method.
- Exam Tip: Event hubs can by default handle 1-MB ingress per second, 2-MB egress per second per partition. This can be increased to 1-GB ingress per second and 2-GB egress per second through a support ticket.
- Exam Tip: You can create between 8 and 32 partitions, but with a support ticket you can increase that number up to 1,024.
- Exam Tip: By default, there are no shared access policies created for a new event hub. You will usually create at least one policy for each receiver and one for send permissions to separate key access between clients and services.
- Note: Partitions and Partition Keys
You can optionally supply a partition key to group event data so that the data is collected in the same partition in sequence. Otherwise, data is sent in a round-robin fashion across partitions. In addition, you can supply custom properties and a sequence number to event data prior to sending
- Consumer Groups
A default consumer group is created for each new event hub, but you can optionally create multiple consumer groups (receivers) to consume events in parallel.
- For a set of tutorials with steps for each platform supported, including the steps for setting up the mobile application, the back-end application, and the notification hub, see http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/notification-hubs-windows-store-dotnet-get-started.
- Notification Hub Guides
The following references provide additional background and programming guidance for notification hubs and mobile services:
- Notification hubs overview and tutorials: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/jj891130.aspx
- Notification hubs documentation: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/notification-hubs/
- Mobile services documentation: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/mobile-services/
- Exam Tip: Relay services can be replaced with queues or topics to provide greater throughput, scalability, and design flexibility.
- When you create a new queue or topic, you must choose the maximum expected storage from 1 GB to 5 GB, and this cannot be resized. This impacts the amount of concurrent storage supported as messages flow through Service Bus.
- Exam Tip: You can request additional throughput units for a namespace by calling Microsoft support.
- Service Bus Explorer is a tool used for managing and monitoring Service Bus features such as queues, topics, relays, and notification hubs. While you can use the management portal to monitor basic communication statistics, this tool can provide additional insights. For tutorials and to access the source code, see https://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsazure/Service-Bus-Explorer-f2abca5a.
- Exam Tip: The large Redis Cache size is 53 GB.
- Exam Tip: You can add any non-primitive type to the cache when it is serialized. Use any of your favorite serializers, such as JSON format, and then store the result as a string with StringSet(). When you retrieve it, use the same serializer to de-serialize the value after StringGet().
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Perhaps the greatest professional failure of the past ten years came when pollsters almost unanimously assured America that Hillary Clinton would win the presidential election by a landslide. The profession suffered a terrible blow to its credibility, but that doesn’t mean news outlets won’t inundate us with more numbers and more statistics. It does highlight the fact that Christians must be discerning in accepting specific pieces fo information.
The media often portrays polls and stats to as “facts,” but they can be “hard facts” or “soft facts.” Saying that 45 Senators voted for a bill while 55 voted against it is a hard fact because it is objectively verifiable. However, saying that 6 out of 10 people take a particular stance is a “soft fact” because the same poll could yield different results if the pollsters asked the question differently or asked different people. How do we make sense of all the numbers? Here are four questions to ask.
- Who conducted the study?
Knowing what group commissioned or conducted the poll may give you a good idea of what they are trying to prove. If a group associated with a particular political ideology wants to make a point they can conduct a poll and design it to show what they wish. Not all polls and statistics are like this, but the source is a driving force that can shape everything else.
- How were questions framed?
When polling individuals, the most powerful weapon that a pollster has is the question. How they frame a question can dramatically alter the outcome of the poll. For example, people may answer the question, “do you oppose same-sex marriage” differently than if the question were asked more broadly, “do you support equality for all people.” Even if the options mean the same thing, people’s responses can differ.
- Who did they ask?
Most nationwide polls have a general set of standards to try and get a random sampling. However, the move away from landline phones has shifted the broad cross-section upon which many polls rely. As an example of what can go wrong, Alfred Kinsey (cite) famously skewed his study on human sexuality by including the prison population in his statistics. Who you ask matters.
- What does this study prove?
If a headline is promoting the results of a study, ask if the study supports the headline’s assertion. Many studies don’t prove much. Don’t just take the statistics at face value, ask what the statistics show. Then ask what it is being claimed to demonstrate. Statistics and polls are pieces of data that need interpretation, and we must ask whether that interpretation is valid.
Christians recognize that anytime someone presents a piece of data they are also presenting a particular interpretation. We must take steps to ask whether that data is reliable or not. Additionally, the Scripture tells us that polls, studies, and numbers cannot be the final source of truth for the Christian life. They may provide insight into our culture and the world around us, but our ultimate source of truth and morality is found solely in the Word of God. | <urn:uuid:b3911210-3b48-4a6b-afc8-bd3beebb9aea> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://allendavidson.co/2016/12/06/question-the-numbers/ | 2020-09-18T10:32:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.960791 | 639 |
Both Siberian tiger and Bengal tiger are subspecies of Panthera Tigris. Besides, both of these cats are among the wonderful animals of nature. In fact, they are also amongst the most powerful and formidable creatures. So it is quite complicated to make a decision on who will win this fight of the two big cats- Siberian Tiger or Bengal Tiger.
There are several numbers of differences between these two subspecies. So, let’s have a look at these two animals’ interesting facts and significant differences. It may then be simple to finally conclude who will win the battle of Bengal Tiger Vs Siberian Tiger.
What are some interesting Siberian Tiger facts?
At the initial glance, you may be deceived, because different subspecies of the cat family are almost same in appearance but if you observe very carefully then there are some minor differences between these animals.
How big is a Siberian Tiger?
It is one of the largest among the entire subspecies of Panthera tigris. Of course, it is the biggest and the heaviest member of the whole cat family. Along with the body length ranging from 10 to 12 feet and a maximum weight of much more than 600 pounds, the Siberian tiger beats its smaller counterpart.
What does the coat of Siberian Tiger look like?
The coats of the Siberian tigers are thick and pale golden. The black stripes that adorn these coats are white when running through their underbellies.
What are some interesting facts about Bengal Tigers?
The Bengal tiger is also a beautiful cat with attractive physical traits. It possesses comparatively thinner layers that are pale yellow colour. It also has black stripes on their bodies.
What is the difference between Bengal Tiger and Siberian Tiger?
The significant difference in their physical look is merely due to variation in their genes. The mutant gene led to the subspecies recognized as the Bengal tiger.
If it is a competition of beauty, then both animals would win as both of them are with attractively beautiful coats.
Where are Bengal Tigers found?
Bengal Tigers are usually found in Bangladesh, India and also Burma. On the other hand, the Siberian tigers are found in Korea, China, and Russia. Over the last decade, because of over hunting, they have been decreasing in number.
What weather do Bengal tigers prefer?
The Bengal tiger lives in the hot weather of India & Bangladesh. On the other hand, the snowy area of China, Russia, and also Korea is a well-known habitat to the Siberian tiger.
The solid coat of Siberian tigers preserves them from the cold weather condition. Interestingly, they also have a thick layer of fat below their skin that operates like an insulator. The layer of this fat gives rise to their heavyweight physique. The Bengal tiger lacks this layer of fat. Furthermore, it does not require a thick coat since it lives in hot climate conditions.
Bengal Tiger vs Siberian Tiger fight Comparison- Who will Win?
Both of these cats possess similar features as well as behavioural patterns. The Siberian Tiger wins the battle because of its large size and weight. This giant animal can dominate the Bengal tiger. Thus, the Siberian tiger can win the fight.
Watch the two largest wild cats in the world the Bengal Tiger Vs Siberian Tiger fight comparison. Which of them is the real stronger tiger?
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“She never compromises,
Loves babies and surprises,
wears high heels when
Ain’t it beautiful
While Train may not have had my Virginia is mind as they wrote this song, some parts of it still ring true and describe her well. Let me tell you about Virginia today…
I can’t hardly believe that it’s been seven years now since Virginia stormed into our lives at Tennessee Tech. A retiree from the New Jersey public education system, she had moved to Tennessee after remarrying, and soon found that she needed something else to do with her time. On top of her volunteer efforts, crafting projects, and avid reading, Virginia still felt that she had too much free time on her hands. Juggling a load that most would cave under, she carried it with ease, and decided to go back to school for an extra degree just for something else to do. In January, she entered the English masters’ program at TTU. Most of us had entered graduate school together in August, so we already knew each other fairly well. Virginia came into the mix a little late, but left such an impression on all of us. Some days we were so jealous of her that we almost couldn’t stand it. We would spend hours on end trying to finish all the assigned reading for the week, while she could pick up a 300 page novel and read it in one sitting and remember every detail perfectly.
As if studying as a graduate student, and working as a graduate assistant weren’t enough on Virginia’s already crowded plate, she also started volunteering with TTU’s athletic department and began tutoring student athletes in English. In time, this turned into a full-time position and she became the athletic academic coordinator. Impressive, huh?
Virginia gets along as well as she does because she’s so driven. When she gets an idea in her mind, she will see it through to the end. What makes her an amazing friend is that she applies the same tenacity towards helping others. I can’t even begin to thank her enough for all that she’s done for me.
After grad school, I taught a few adjunct English courses at TTU and primarily worked as a trainer at a local stable. I loved loved loved my job at the barn, but giving lessons and coaching can be very inconsistent work, and horses sometimes pile you up in the dirt. I’d looked at picking up a few more classes to teach at the local community college, but its director never called me back after I’d applied. A year later, however, Virginia stepped in. She had started teaching there at this point (on top of working with the athletes, still crafting, still reading, and still volunteering and helping with local charities), and announced to the director that he needed to hire me and she’d be bringing me in to meet him. Then she proceeded to call me and said “get up here!” I went from not being able to get my foot in the door, to being handed four classes to teach that fall. I was even able to buy a new horse that fall my extra income!
A few more years went by, and I continued to teach a million sections of English, well, maybe it was only seven sections, but a normal “full load” is only four sections, and Virginia continued to be my teaching mentor. She was of particular help with the developmental writing courses I taught. Her years of working with learning disabilities in Jersey have shaped her into a master at teaching the basics, and understanding students’ needs. Then, over Christmas break 2011, I received a call from Virginia. Brinn answered the phone, then handed it to me. The first words out of Virginia’s mouth were: “why haven’t I seen your application for this job yet?”
See, athletics had just advertised for a new academic advisor. I’d even considered applying, but what did I know about advising. On top of that, I had just started into a full-time position in English. But my position in English was only a three-year contract, so I listened to everything Virginia had to say. A week later she brought me in to the athletic advising office, introduced me to the director, Dr. Jasitt, and proceeded to share the kindest and most complimentary words about me personally and professionally. I turned my application materials in after Virginia reviewed them for me, and boom, I found myself experiencing a complete career change!
When Virginia chooses someone to become one of her people, she completely adopts them as one of her own. Not only has she taken me in, but she’s claimed Brinn and Ian as well. She’s my TTU parent, and an honorary grandparent to Ian. She has two grandsons back in New Jersey who she drives to see during every work vacation, and her whole face lights up when she shares stories with us about those boys. Virginia also treats our student athletes this way as well. She can be their biggest cheerleader in the classroom, but will also be the first to throw their essays and homework away and tell them that it’s terrible, now do it better. I’m honestly not sure that some of our guys would have made it to graduation if it weren’t for the study skills and work ethic that Virginia helped cultivate in them.
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Norway taking tangible steps on sustainability
Norway is striving to transition from oil & gas dependency to a low carbon, green innovation economy. There is still much to do but government and business heads are raising their ambitions and backing them with actions. This is a guest post by Stuart Brewer.
A college lecturer once taught me a basic yet profound lesson: a country cannot call itself climate friendly based on ambitions only. It needs to continually strive towards acting responsibly. Actions speak louder than words.
Here in Norway we have already seen that the Norwegian government is moving from talk to action on sustainability. In spite of having amassed $885bn (£727bn) in its sovereign wealth fund – easily enough to cope with the cost of looking after a population of 5.2 million as it ages – its political leaders are driving for a greener future and have set 2030 targets for emission reductions and to become a low carbon society by 2050. To meet the goals, there’s an omstilling (the name for Norway’s restructuring process) underway to diversify the economy away from an overreliance on hydrocarbons.
Speaking at the NHO (Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise) conference in Oslo, Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg said, “Norway faces many challenges ahead. The oil industry that has brought wealth and welfare for many years cannot sustain Norway forever. Also, there’s the escalating climate risks the economy faces. We must therefore continue our push for a green, sustainable future.”
PM Solberg firmly believes “Norway has the strengths to make the shift, and is uniquely well positioned to take advantage of the changing landscape”, but warned, “we are also vulnerable to decline if we do not transform ourselves.”
“Everyone must work for a greener future. The government cannot do it alone,” emphasised PM Solberg and added, “There must be a concerted effort by politicians, public authorities, businesses, investors and entrepreneurs. Through our joint efforts we can create new and more sustainable business models, develop productive, profitable and exciting work places that attract skilled workers, investment and bring manufacturing back home to Norway. Also, businesses have an integral role to play and must adapt, become green, smart and innovative to ensure competitiveness in a low carbon society, while creating many new jobs that will be required in the restructuring process.”
But the journey towards sustainability is not without its challenges as pointed out by NHO Director General Kristin Skogen Lund, “It will take the use of technology, competence, leadership, frameworks and access to capital. Also, we need to address structural barriers such as relevant competence and education, innovation and effective public services, to speed up our move towards a low carbon, sustainable future.”
In spite of the challenges, Lund views the green shift as an opportunity to expand sectors, diversify the economy and establish policies to drive investment. Also, she firmly believes it is possible for businesses to flourish in the green space. “Creating value, solutions and jobs requires a big effort but there are many companies already achieving profitability and competitiveness, and we need to make sure that those who are succeeding get the visibility and promotion they deserve. This will hopefully lead to scale-up and encourage others to follow suit.”
Lund is right. There is ample evidence that new and established businesses are seizing the opportunities the green economy offers. Oil, gas and industry have long been the mainstays but there is more to the Norwegian economy, including sustainable energy (hydro power) which is used not just in traditional industrial manufacturing but also data centres and battery manufacturing companies, for example. Med-tech and the healthcare sector in general is another important value generating sector, as is aquaculture. Also, Norway has a huge pool of software-engineering talent and thriving tech ecosystem, which is proving useful as it advances in areas such as clean-tech, med-tech, fin-tech and digital finance. Indeed, Norway is a pioneering country, steeped in sustainability and technology, but this is a well-kept secret for many outside Norway.
Raising the profile of Norway as a forward-facing economy is something Anita Krohn Traaseth is actively engaged in as CEO of Innovation Norway. Under Traaseth’s leadership, the development body is playing an integral role in Norway’s drive for change.
“Green business is at the very heart of modern commercial innovation and technological transformation. Here in Norway we are fortunate to have leading companies and startups, but we can do more to fully exploit the potential in this important, fast-evolving field,” said Traaseth.
Innovation Norway has identified six possible new areas: ocean space, clean energy, bio-economy, health and welfare, smart communities and creative industry & tourism. Traaseth believes these are areas where Norwegian business and industry already has advantages in terms of existing expertise.
“Norway has a cluster of competitive advantages that equip it to make the transition successfully. Key will be continued collaboration between policymakers and business. We have the opportunity, technologies and resources to make a real tangible difference,” said Traaseth.
Advancing ocean sustainability
Further evidence that Norway is delivering on its commitment was seen at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, where PM Solberg launched a major Inter-governmental panel on the new ocean economy.
Through this initiative, Norway is taking a leading role in international efforts in this field. A key deliverable will be a report on the importance of the ocean economy for sustainable development. The panel will work closely with the United Nations (UN) and engage with other international initiatives.
This was followed by an announcement that the UN Global Compact’s new Business Action Platform for the Ocean is up and running with many well-known Norwegian companies taking the lead, including the Norwegian Shipowners’ Association, DNV GL, Wilhelmsen, Kongsberg Maritime and Aker BioMarine to name a few. Statoil, Norway’s state-owned energy group, is also a key participant in the new platform, which seeks to spur change through business opportunities.
Business solutions to help meet UN goals
Linking UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to actual commercial interests is important for getting stronger commitments from business, not only for advancing ocean sustainability but also to help meet all the UN’s goals for 2030 on human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption believes Bjorn K. Haugland, Chief Sustainability Officer at DNV GL.
Speaking on the sidelines at the recent launch of the Global Opportunity Report 2018, Haugland said, “While there has been a considerable shift in understanding and commitment among business leaders, with sustainability increasingly being seen as a strategic priority, there is still much to be done. Creating a strong, solutions-based narrative around sustainability is vital in helping companies to convert risk into opportunity and reconnect with their original purpose: to serve the needs of society. And that’s why we, together with the UN Global Compact and Sustainia, have published the Global Opportunity Report, which shows how innovative private sector solutions can drive progress to achieve the SDGs.”
Haugland firmly believes catalysing action starts with progressive leadership. “It is up to government and business leaders to collaborate and contribute to an equitable, flourishing society. It’s about having the courage to lead and to realise we can do more than we think. It’s great to see the Norwegian government and business leaders making a determined effort to show leadership and take action on sustainability.”
So will Norway make the shift to a sustainable economy ? It would be foolhardy to try to answer the question as no one can predict the future but this much is true: It’s unlikely that Norway will roll back its role as fossil fuels producer any time soon but diversification and climate resilience are very much at the heart of the current government’s sustainability drive – and it’s raising its ambitions and backing them with actions.
As PM Solberg pointed out: “Reshaping Norway’s economy will not be easy. It will require more time, innovation, disruption and changing mindsets.”
If its leaders continue to make intelligent choices, leverage its technology and sustainability expertise and firmly addresses its challenges, Norway will be in a strong position to succeed in its transition to a sustainable low carbon economy.
Actions speak louder than words…
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RAID in Web Hosting
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3 Not so Little Pigs: CSA Summer ’12 – Week #4
A special thanks to all the CSA members who attended the event this weekend. It was a huge success! Also a big thanks to Anna, one of our employees. Not only did she make the beautiful t-shirt designs, she also personally silk screened them on the 100+ t-shirts you all brought with you. Here’s a couple of quick photos:
While we’ve caught you up on most of the changes from this season to last, we haven’t written much about some new additions to the farm: pigs!
This winter, I decided I wanted to have some pigs at the farm. I thought it would be a really fun project for Zea and I. And while we are pretty good at keeping veggie waste down through donations and worker shares, etc., we still have vegetable waste that can be turned into pig protein.
Normally, I try to use the collective ‘we’ when talking about things we do at the farm. However, Mike was a little cold to the idea. Not only do they add another level of work to our already hectic days, what if they escape and get into the vegetables? It’s rare to hear Mike threaten to use a gun, but the thought of pigs in the veggie beds inspired said threat.
I decided to go ahead with the project anyway. I brought home 3 little pigs in April. Before they came, my first task was to design a pig pen that resembles Leavenworth Prison. I was learning that escaped pigs meant not only lost vegetables, but perhaps more importantly, an unpleasant marital rift. I learned that most people use either fencing with what’s called hog panel; or they use 1-2 lines of electric fencing to keep the pigs in. My pen is 48 x 32 feet. Hog panel is used as the main fencing. In addition, I have 1 string of electric fencing that runs right inside the fence, about 6 inches from the ground to discourage the pigs from rooting, or digging under the fence line. Just in case the fence shorts out (as can happen as weeds grow and lay against the line) or we have a power outage that allows the pigs to root under the fence, there is barbed wire buried at ground level so that they will nick their noses if they try to get out. So far, no pigs have escaped. Leavenworth, baby.
The pigs are characters. I feed them organic grain in the morning; veggies in the p.m. I soak the grains (mostly soy) for 24 hours so they ferment slightly and are easier to digest. Each morning I turn on the water pump and fill a bucket with water for soaking. When the pigs hear the click of the water pump (a full 300 feet away) they begin to squeal uncontrollably. They jump up and down in their food bin; and often on each other. Ruby, our dog, hears the squeals and runs at the fence barking at them. They don’t flinch. They keep carrying on until I bring the food. They don’t get out of the way when you try to put the food in their bin either. Often I have to dump in straight on their heads to get it in their pen!
My other favorite form of pig comedy is when we spray them down with water. Pigs are unable to sweat. To keep cool, they generally root and wallow in the mud. Since the soil has been rock hard in this drought, sometimes I spoil them by filling up their wallow with the hose. They take turns rolling around in their pig-sized bath hole. Then they jump out of the hole all crazy and gallop around the pen in circles. It’s as if the cooling feels so good they don’t know how to contain themselves.
Most days, the pigs aren’t all that comical; just simply eating machines. Today they ate 18 heads of lettuce in 3 minutes flat. Zea often helps me feed the pigs in the afternoon, and it’s time I really value and enjoy. Despite the smell of pig manure (which isn’t so bad when there’s only 3 of them), Zea and I often sit by the fence and watch them eat. She loves to throw food over the fence into the food bin, and she likes to talk about which one she wants to eat. We’ve had some frank discussions about how the pigs will become bacon, and she’s embraced this wholeheartedly. To my surprise, she continues to say she wants to eat the pink girl. (They aren’t named.)
The other two pigs we plan to sell by the half. The buyer will pay a price per pound for the hanging weight, plus additional for custom butchering. (Processing the meat into bacon and sausages, for example, costs more.) While the pigs aren’t certified organic, they are being fattened on solely organic grain and vegetables. I plan to butcher the pigs in September. Just exactly how I’m going to get them out of the pen and loaded onto a truck is still part of my learning curve, but we know they are headed to Black Earth Meats for processing. Let us know if you would be interested in a half and we’ll keep you in the know as we develop more details about the butchering and pricing.
Here’s hoping Leavenworth + tasty bacon = a farmer Mike who’ll embrace 3 more little pigs next year.
Enjoy your veggies this week! Sincerely, Cassie, Mike and Zea
In the Box:
- Head lettuce
- Snow Peas
- Purplettes (spring onions)
- Red Russian Kale
- Pearl Onions (spring onions)
This Week’s Recipes:
- Pasta Salad with Goat Cheese & Arugula
- Cucumber and Lettuce Salad with Parsley Garlic Vinaigrette
- Fabulous Kohlrabi Fridge Pickles
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is Russia's first craft
grain spirit, grain distillate, fructose,
glucose, aromatic alcohols: from seeds
(coriander, allspice, dill, caraway seeds),
from rye bread, cumin, alcoholized
infusions: fresh cabbage, bay leaves,
Mexican smoked pepper (chipotle)
of the Morito brand.
Gastronomic “Borshchevka” is the first craft gastronomic vodka in Russia. A guideline for its creation was the production technology of “noble vodka” – a drink that invariably accompanied the high-end snack table.
It was noble vodka that glorified Russia, it was given by Catherine the Great to the Swedish king Gustav, to the German king Frederick the Great, to philosophers Voltaire and Kant.
The strength of the drink is traditional for noble vodkas and drinks of that time – 38.5% ABV.
Vegetables and spices creating the taste of borsch – the most famous Russian dish in the world – formed the basis of taste and gave the name of the drink. The set of ingredients for the preparation of Borshchevka is unique, and the cabbage infusion has never been used before in the production of alcohol.
Gastronomic “Borshchevka” is intended for people who appreciate good Russian cuisine and want to get a real gastronomic pleasure from the feast.
SCHEME OF PRODUCTION OF THE GASTRONOMIC “BORSHCHEVKA”
Following the traditions of the production of noble vodkas, the new recipe combines grain distillate, infusions and aromatic alcohols obtained by maceration (infusion) followed by distillation through a copper alambic in a single bouquet. Original recipes, manual blending, environmentally friendly ingredients compose this fine craft drink.
Distillate, tinctures and aromatic spirits are blended personally by the blending master Dmitry Butyrkin. Gourmet “Borshchevka” is produced in small batches, does not contain sugar and gluten.
Maceration of eco vegetables and spices takes from 2 to 15 days.
• Repeated distillation of aromatic spirits on a copper alembic to obtain aromatic distillates.
• Additional filtration of all ingredients before blending.
• Hand-made blending of distillate, aromatic spirits and infusions from master of blend Dmitry Butyrkin.
• “Rest” in finishing vats before bottling to ripen the taste of a craft gastronomic drink.
* Maceration — the process of infusion of plants in alcohol in order to bestow its properties on alcohol and its enrichment. Thanks to this process, extractive and aromatic compounds, as well as polysaccharides and minerals, are transferred from plants to alcohol.
The composition includes aromatic spirits of coriander seeds, allspice, dill, caraway seeds, cumin, rye bread, infusions of cabbage, bay leaf, smoked red chili pepper.
It has a rich aroma of fresh cabbage, black pepper and bay leaf, with bread tones and notes of fresh vegetables and caraway seeds. The taste is soft, sumptuous, with hints of light sweetness of bread, rich spices and vegetables.
Borshchevka Hot Spiced
The composition includes aromatic spirits of allspice, basil, infusions of peppers: red, black, allspice, fresh cabbage, garlic, onions, cloves.
It has a rich buttery-spicy aroma, where the tones of bread grated with garlic are clearly traced and peppery nuances with notes of spices are gradually revealed. Soft and warm taste with hints of red hot pepper develops in combination with herbs.
Borshchevka Cool Spiced
The composition includes aromatic spirits of mint, fresh dill, infusions of fresh cucumber, cabbage, ginger, lemon, and onion.
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Surreal & Wild Creatures Emerge From Thrown Sand In Photographs By Claire Droppert
Netherlands-based photographer Claire Droppert (previously) has created a new series of images that depict the silhouettes of animals appearing in clumps of thrown Holland beach sand. Dolphins, snakes, lizards, and other animals in the Sand Creatures II collection defy gravity and float through the air in Droppert’s photographs. The “Gravity Project” highlights natural elements set in nature but unencumbered by the force that keeps them grounded.
“After a long time, I finally started my further progress on creating more Sand Creatures, which led me to these newborn photoseries. Just like ‘Sand Creatures I’, these are captured on beaches in Holland, and contain landscape, natural elements and zero gravity.
The Sand Creatures series focuses on nature in an unexpected way. The explosive and at times powdery scenes of the grainy sand being thrown into the air can be taken as a manifesting life form, and they become sand creatures.
These series form part of my ‘Gravity Project’, where earths different elements are captured to let them stand out in their natural surroundings using moments of zero gravity.
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19 July The Hindu VocabularyThe Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams – DipuTony.in
Sunday, 19 July 2020
Here is the list of important vocabs of the hindu editorial. The Hindu Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams. It has given important words, Hindi meaning, syno, anto, and an example sentence of each word. Try to memorize these words with trick or comment if you do not find the trick, I will help you.
The Hindu Editorial Vocabulary For All Competitive Exams.
1. TRAVAIL (NOUN): (कष्टपूर्ण परिश्रम): ordeal
Synonyms: trial, tribulation
To get a good job in govt sector you have to do TRAVAIL.
2. DESECRATE (VERB): (अपवित्र करना): violate
Synonyms: profane, pollute
3. PROVOCATIVE (ADJECTIVE): (उत्तेजक): annoying
Synonyms: irritating, exasperating
My sister is starting PROVOCATIVE to me when I was studying.
4. UPHOLD (VERB): (समर्थन करना): confirm
Synonyms: endorse, sustain
I UPHOLD his action against the public gathering.
5.SCINTILLATING(ADJECTIVE): (बहुत चमकीला): brilliant
Synonyms: dazzling, exciting
His scintillating wit was loved by the public.
6. GRIM (ADJECTIVE): (कठोर): stern
Synonyms: forbidding, uninviting
We made a grim discovery when we came across an unidentified object.
7. CRIPPLE (VERB): (विकलांग बनाना): disable
Synonyms: paralyse, immobilize
The railway accidents have made a person CRIPPLE.
8.UNDERPRIVILEGED(ADJECTIVE): (वंचित): needy
Synonyms: deprived, disadvantaged
there are many needy and underprivileged people in our community.
9. RELAXATION (NOUN): (रियायत): moderation
Synonyms: modification, easing
Antonyms: tightening up
The government gives special Relaxation to a special community.
10. FORGO (VERB): (त्यागना): do without
Synonyms: go without, give up
He decides to forgo smoking and drinking.
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Sober, This Music, Oh Gosh, Naughty Ride…. All names any original Jungist would know and hold dear to their hearts. All these moments of Stateside history came out of one dude from brooklyn’s strained Mac Computer and a big bin of cat food. Jesse Peterson AKA Datcyde was my room mate for a while and one of the first producers who regularly sorted me out with tunes to play months before anyone else. After playing some old school sets recently people have asked me “What happened to Datcyde?” So here is the story, right from the man himself!
What brought you to drum & bass culture and in particular production. At the time there was not a lot of stateside people taking that leap, why?
I was living outside of Detroit in the early 90’s when I first discovered rave culture. It was pretty much all techno all the time. While Detroit was known for the sound, the parties were relatively small loft and warehouse spaces. The really big parties were in Chicago which was a 4 hour drive away. My very good friend Mark (who also came up with the name Datcyde) loved Jungle and would always buy the mixtape packs from the big shows in Toronto. It was his car, and his radio.. so we listened to jungle. His system sucked though and I never understood the appeal at all. Then one night, J.J. Jellybean was on the mainfloor at one of those “wall of sound” gigs and I heard, and felt, BASS! Life changed.
When I moved to New York City in 1995, I had already started DJ’ing a bit a small parties in the midwest. I had a budding techno collection and about a set’s worth of jungle that I only bought to play with Mark. I quickly saw that there was about 100 existing 4 on the floor guys here but there was only about 8 Jungle guys. I really wanted to play out here and felt it was time to make the leap to full time. MC Blaise and I had common friends and I started going to jungle nights with her. She introduced me to everyone and pretty soon I was djing at Konkrete Jungle about once a month. I was new, I would either open, or close. I never got to play the main room or the main slots. I noticed that the main slot guys always had tunes that were not in the record shops and wouldn’t be for months until their official releases. If I wanted that main slot, or at least close to it, I had to have tunes that no one else had. So I made them myself. 1996 through 1998 is a blur, all I did was produce, or play this one video game I had. I didn’t have a TV. I barely had a social life outside of the quest for the slot.
Naughty Ride, arguably one of the earliest and best stateside jungle tunes for its time. Tell the story behind that and why you think it has had such a lasting impression.
Blaise (Stephanie Marco) was my MC when I first started and she was always working on rhymes and songs with a friend of hers. We kept talking about how we needed to make a track one day. One night at a show at Pyramid (pre konkrete jungle I think) She got on the mic and just started riffing with this Naughty Ride Naughty Ride vocal and basically what basically ended up being the chorus of the tune. I knew right away that if we ever did do a tune, that should be the vocal.
A friend of a friend introduced me to Eric Silver who was in his final year of the NYU music business graduate program. The class project was basically to start a label and put out a record. I played him several things that I’d been working on which he liked and he asked me to be part of the project. But he said, give me something brand new just for this. About a week later I had a rough demo of the core bassline and drums down and played it for him, he was stoked. But then my Powermac 7800 with a whopping 1GB hard drive shit the bed. I still had the samples I wanted to use, but in those days it was a lot harder to put things together than it is today. I would have to recreate it all from memory. Eric told me that I could get into the NYU studio and record and mix for free and they had good mics and whatever else I needed. I told Steph right away and we went together. She had this broken english idea scribbled on paper and I brought all my midi gear in a cab and quickly through something together for her to sing too. I think we got it in 4 or 5 takes.
I got my computer fixed and worked on the track for about two weeks. Endless tweeking, endless re-writes. My roommates hated it cause it’s all they heard. Such a weird feeling to know while you’re working that you’re sitting on your first release, and it’s a guarantee. The sampler I was using was absolute shit and caused so much frustration. Listen to the original Naughty Ride, you’ll the tempo jump slightly throughout the song.. it’s the fucking sampler. And the jumps were random. When I finally finished it, I recorded it to DAT easily 50 times hoping to get through without a jump.. fail.
Naughty Ride came out on Village Records in a very limited run. I don’t even have a copy of that record but I’ve seen it on Ebay. After a few days, the excitement wore off. Steph said, we need to get DJ’s playing this, let’s cut a dubplate. We went to Don-one in Bed-Stuy Brooklyn and cut 2 plates. We took one to a party that night at The Bank where DJ Rap, DJ SS, and other huge names were playing. One by one, steph gave the plate to whoever was up next and I’d watch them cue it up, listen, then put it back in their bag. It was heartbreaking. Steph would get on stage, take it from their bag and give to the next. So on and so on until she and I were the last people in the club at 5am. That’s when Soulslinger played it as the last tune of the night. Soulsliger!! that was so awesome.
About a week or two later, Naughty Ride was signed by Liquid Sky Music and it totally launched my career. Were it not for the tenaciousness of Stephanie Marco. I would have had a totally different life. Naughty Ride is MC Blaise. She is why that track is what it is. Then when we did the remix, I think people were mostly just excited cause it was a Reid Speed record.
Are there any other of your tunes that you would have hoped would have gotten the same traction?
Definitely. I wanted them all to be that well received. There were a few more that got attention. I started feeding Odi tunes like Oh Gosh, Sober, Bells of Summer rmx (that was my original. odi), Inspiration. He played that shit for years before they were ever released. But, the one tune I loved was the flipside of the Naughty Ride 2000 remix called This Music. The NR2k track was done in about 4hrs and me and Reid just smoked blunts and wanted something cool to play that night at a Liquid Sky reunion party. It was just supposed to be a little crowd pleaser for the heads. When Taciturn picked it up for vinyl, I honestly thought that “This Music” was my A side. When everyone shit their pants for Naughty Ride again, it was bittersweet. All of the sudden people start throwing words around like “anthem” “classic” etc. But nobody is playing the “A side” lol. I still think This Music is one of my favorites. I had hoped that it would have got the same love as Social Skills because it felt like a similar vibe to me. I had a lot of tunes and a pretty successful run as a producer now that I’m thinking about it. But still, I was only doing it so I could play the 1’oclock drop like Dara does.
At the highest point you were touring regularly, getting a decent amount of attention from some heavy players in the music. Top moment? High points?
In no particular order.
Eco-System 3 festival. Spent a week in Brazil. Dj’d for thousands of people. Took weird drugs in the jungle. Did an interview for Brazilian TV in a 4 bedroom tree house that looked like the Ewoks built it. Amazing trip
G-Force Tour. The only thing better than being a traveling DJ is getting to do it with your friends. And the gigs were just the icing. That tour should have just been called “6 Friends going to Strip Clubs”
Going to a Tower Records in L.A. and seeing my album. Alphabetically I came right between Dara and Deiselboy. Great company. Shit felt so official.
Going to Europe and playing at Forms in the Netherlands. Dj Tyson, Un-real, MC Donskey and all the rest of the Forms crew treated me like family. I played for them 5 times I think and stayed for a week just to hang out every time. Great guys and great crowds. I came out of retirement and played for them again in 2013 for their 15 year anniversary show. Shit is still fun.
Secretly flying up to Rochester N.Y. to dj Sin’s (of Sin&Cos) surprise birthday party. So much fun.
And I’ll never forget the night I was selling cds at a Stuck on Earth party. Odi’s girlfried had the idea that girls that show me their breasts get half off. I got paid to look at breasts. There was literally a line of girls that wanted to give me money and show me their tits. And I don’t mean a few. I couldn’t see the end of the line. That’s right.. Mic Drop… I just won drum n bass.
Have you been paying any attention to the culture lately?
Not really. I’m still friends with a lot of heads and go out on occasion if there are DJ’s I remember from back in the day. This year I went to World of Drum n Bass in Brooklyn. The music is still fucking awesome. But I’ll usually only hang out for an hour or two.
There has been a big rediscovery of the so called old school sound, would you like to get back into it?
I want to play the 1’oclock drop. I want to watch the girls in the front flip out. I want the big rewinds and the lighter crew and the horns crew. Everyone is a producer now, it’s not a means to an end for me anymore. But who knows. If there is a line of woman ready to roll, I’m down and they get half off.
In the years since what have you been up to?
I got into post production sound for film and television. I spend my days in the studio mixing and designing sound fx. I absolutely love it. I chill by myself, nobody fucks with me and it pays my rent. I’m very happy.
What made you decide to move onto other avenues?
I peaked. That’s pretty much it. I had a show in Europe, the next night I had a show in NYC, the next night I had a show in LA. I realized how tired I was when I told Storm to go fuck herself after some disagreement about set times. (sorry Storm) The scene was sort of getting saturated with dj culture, the girls weren’t coming out like they used to. Dubstep had just started happening at that time. When I’d produce, I was worrying more about “will this sell?” than having an exclusive. The thought of what I’d have to do to compete in the new digital dj world was unappealing and I think the fire just went out. Very soon after that, I discovered that with my existing production system I could do film work and it just clicked. I had fire again.
Being a engineer and sound designer has led to some great things for you, anything we may have seen and wouldnt know was you?
Yes, probably lot’s of things. That Droid commercial where James Franco falls off the building, that was me. The original Game of Thrones teaser trailers for season 1, that was me. The Bioshock game Trailer for Xbox, that was me. Particle Fever which is on Netflix, that was me. Today I’m working for NBC making sure you know some show is on Thursday at 9.
Any words of advice or encouragement for the up and comer today?
Yeah. Producers.. Stop worrying about what people like, or going viral or trying please this person or that person at the label. You’re faking the funk and I know cause I did that shit. Make tunes for you and your friends, and hold on to them. The shelf life a tune is short enough without everyone having it immediately for free. I was at my happiest as a producer when my stuff was only for me and my crew.
DJ’s. Get with a crew, play your friends stuff that they produce. You never know who’s at their first show and will discover their new favorite song. And you had it first. That still matters. Avoid the top 10. If Andy C comes to town and drops bombs, you can’t play that shit. You have to play shit he doesn’t have. It’s a lofty goal, but at least aim that way. | <urn:uuid:332b5938-ef94-481e-9434-673c77d0e2f7> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://dnbvault.com/datcyde-where-are-they-now/ | 2020-09-18T10:37:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.986589 | 2,939 |
Of all the Grand Theft Auto series ever released by Rockstar, Vice City is to be recognized as one of the best. In addition to offering stunning game stories and settings, it is also the only GTA series that allows you to "master" the city in the true sense. The ability to buy a variety of properties, organize, and achieve financial benefits from it makes it an irreplaceable classic series, even by the GTAs born thereafter. Want to reminisce again with this phenomenal series? Relax, you no longer need to unload your Playstation 2 from the warehouse. Following GTA III, Rockstar will release GTA: Vice City for Android and iOS-based smart devices!
Welcoming the 10th anniversary of its upcoming release on December 6, Rockstar will release GTA: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition for smartphones and tablets with Android and iOS operating systems. Although it comes with the same plot and gameplay, Rockstar injects some new things for this mobile version. GTA: Vice City 10th Anniversary Edition will get better character models, more perfect lighting effects, and of course a more precise viewfinder to solve problems with touch-screen systems. GTA: Vice City mobile will also support full retina display.
This game itself will be sold on Google Play and iTunes at a very friendly price, only USD 4.99. Rockstar also released a list of devices that will be able to handle this game to the fullest.
Increasingly beautiful graphics, character models and lighting effects
New, precisely customized shooting and targeting options
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Massive campaign with countless hours of gameplay
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Integrated with tactile Immersion effect
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Before I pick up something to wear, one of the things I do is to check the weather. Prague is one of the few places that I think the weather is so unpredictable. It can be good now and for the next moment… Just like what happened when I was taking this shot, but thank God I carried my jacket with me (wink). So to keep myself warm I went for all black with a grey vest. I also had a presentation to make as well so I threw on some real handmade Italian shoe. You already know that when it comes to real leather, talk about Italy. This crafted shoe is one of things I tell people to get, because it’s a real investment when it comes to shoe/boot. Why not get yourself some real shoe/boot? We all do buy some cheap stuffs. But at least, let’s do ourselves a favor sometimes and invest in some quality stuffs.
Area forte shoe/boot withstands ALL, and I mean ALL weather.
When gold meet silver (accessories)
Photos by: Giang Tran
Pants: Piazza Italia
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September 10 Appearance on Debut Week of Television Show Advances 35 mph Town Release (Oct. 9)
(NASHVILLE, Tenn.) Next week, Toby Keith will step onto the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater as one of the first guests on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. When the talk show host introduced Keith’s recent induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, Colbert told the esteemed audience he showed up “because Toby has always showed up for me.” And now, Keith will
continue his support and help to launch the new late night program.
The multi-platinum entertainer and irreverent television icon have a long history that includes Keith’s four appearances on the Colbert Report, plus the Christmas special and the show’s finale. So it is fitting that Toby would join the first week lineup of Colbert’s new role as host of The Late Show on Thursday, September 10. The singer-songwriter will perform “Rum is the Reason,” a song from his upcoming album.
Keith recently performed at WTTW’s Grainger Studio in Chicago for a taping of PBS’ Soundstage. The television program’s initial run during 1974-1985 was legendary and groundbreaking and the innovative music series is set to return later this year. His standing-room-only concert was the first session to be recorded for the new season.
In other news, Keith was recently nominated for a British Country Music Award in the International Song of the Year category. The song, “35 mph Town,” is the title track from his new album which is scheduled for release on October 9.
Another chapter in the anthology of arguably the most prolific self-directed creative forces in country music history – if not music history – 35 mph Town features Keith as producer (with Bobby Pinson) and principle songwriter, in addition to being the artist, lead vocalist and a contributing musician.
The 10-track album credits Keith on nine cuts, seven with Pinson and one each with Scotty Emerick and Rivers Rutherford. The album also features the sly social commentary single “Drunk Americans,” which was written by Brandy Clark, Bob DiPiero and Shane McAnally.
As he prepares for the launch of the album and a national media blitz in support, Keith continues to headline the Good Times & Pick Up Lines Tour Presented by Ford F-Series, drawing standing-room-only crowds from coast to coast. | <urn:uuid:4ea6e133-6ce2-4a17-940f-a61b4a1c32c5> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://ecowboy.com/blog/toby-keith-one-of-the-first-guests-on-the-late-show-with-stephen-colbert/ | 2020-09-18T09:41:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.961875 | 515 |
Random Freezes with repeated sound.
today I'm here to talk about my experience and a problem that's hunting me for over a year and half of owning an egpu.
so let's just start by saying that I have Mid 2014 13' MacBook Pro.
so at the beginning I started with gt 770, Akitio Thunderbolt 2 it was a low end card, but non the less it was working well.
I was excited for an upgrade so I got myself a GTX 680 I used purge-wrangler for Mac OS and refind for windows the card was recognized inside of both operations systems but every time I tried to push that card to do something windows was freezing with a repeating sound, in case of Mac OS it was just restarting.
at that point I tried another PSU from a friend that I'm sure it's perfectly working well without any problems and the problem still happened.
so I took that card placed in a pc and tried to push it with gaming and other stress test apps and the card was completely fine never froze no hangs whatsoever.
so I came back home reinstalled windows, DDU, anything that I could think of I did try it. no luck fixing the issue.
at that time I though it's time for upgrade coz I was desperate about this freezing issue.
and I actually broke my internal ssd because of that freezing issue. it happened so many times which made the ssd fail, and I literally read every article that every reddit suggestion that I come across, and in here I read all the builds with the same specs or similar specs and I did it nothing worked.
so damage was done it was time to upgrade to a gtx 970 the down side is that I won't be able to use that card on Mac OS.
but in windows it worked well no freezing no anything, I could leave my MacBook for day's.
I used it for around good 6 month never had any problems with it.
I used Purge-wrangler and the card worked in Mac OS.
in windows I removed Nvidia GPU drivers using DDU,
and tried to boot with windows eGPU cold plugged it didn't work. so I had to install rEfind
booted eGPU cold plugged recognized on Device manager no problems.
I installed the official drivers everything seems fine.
then out of the sudden freezing with repeating sound.
at this point I tried
-DDU drivers and install them again
-underclocking the card
-installing bootcampdrivers while following their instructions
so I restarted into Mac OS tried to push it as much as possible benchmarks, heaven, games.
it never freeze or restarts so that mean everything hardware wise is good. but I can't make it stable on windows.
I'm tired of that for real, and I just want it work, too much for plug and play for godsake.
well that's my story if you can help me fix that I would be glad.
and without this forum I wouldn't actually have went that far. TY guys.
GT 770 Works in both Mac OS and windows But freezing with a repeated sound at any given load
GTX 680 Works in both Mac OS but restarts at any given load, on windows it was freezing with a repeated sound. * but in a PC it was working absolutely normal*
GTX 970 Works only in windows worked perfectly fine without any issues.
RX580 Works in Mac OS Perfectly without any problems, in windows freezing with repeated sound randomly even if there's no load on the gpu.
Also all those card I tested them with a PSU from friends that works well in their setup.
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Parabrachial neurons expressing CGRP relay affective components of ascending pain information via distinct thalamic and amygdalar pathways, which together contribute to complementary aspects of adaptive threat responses.
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The aged human auditory cortex shows preserved tonotopy, but temporal modulations are represented with a markedly broader tuning, highlighting decreased temporal selectivity as a hallmark of the aging auditory cortex. | <urn:uuid:7ab110c5-22e5-4e0b-a5f3-a798b78a5e39> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://elifesciences.org/search?for=SI&sort=date&order=descending | 2020-09-18T10:32:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.891478 | 206 |
This was a sad story, I think. But I’m not quite sure, because the headline is so confusing.
After much head-scratching, I believe it’s intended not as a sentence but as a title — like “The Silver Lining” — but with a lot of explanatory words added, which turn the title into a kind of thicket.
Is the lining missing the boy’s dad? Is the lining that’s missing the boy’s dad doing the hoping? Is there a word missing? Is this a crash of typos?
- It can be complicated to use a word that might be a verb or an adjective — like missing.
- It can be complicated to use a word that might be a verb or a noun — like hopes. (Or, for that matter, lining — although when lining comes right after silver, most of us will probably read silver lining as a noun.)
- But it can really be complicated to use a number of multi-use words in the same sentence.
- And even more complicated in a setting where you don’t know if what you’re reading is going to turn out to be a sentence or not. This headline came from CNN.com, and they go both ways, presenting both sentence-format headlines and title-format headlines, in the same daily string of headlines.
So — stop me if I’m wrong — I think this headline is about a silver lining that a missing boy’s dad is hoping will come after a hoax.
If I’m wrong, please correct me.
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Now I am into day 3 . yesterday was going great and then I hit the brick wall.. I just tried everything to clear my head.
Yes,I walked,deep breath,and tried to stay focus.
I was so tired ,I couldn't concentrate at all.good thing it was hAlloween night and I was busy enough to remain awake.
Dang storm came through my area. First flooding and the. The winds. Up all night on the volley cutting trees.
Now going to do day 3 and hope I get done early..yesterdAy,was a emotional dAy for me and I am usually a hard headed person.
Enough complaining. So here I give my daily pledge of not using any nic. Today, tomorrow or forever.
This site has been a life savior during the mental crisis of my quit.Physical part,I am learning to deal with. It's the mental game that has me almost in years..but,I know it's the brain and nic messing with me and I just have to show who is boss.
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Born in Owensboro, KY on 17 July 1907, Dudley Morton attended high school in Miami, FL and entered the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1926. Commissioned in 1930, he initially served in Saratoga and Chicago. Having been promoted to Lieutenant (JG), Morton attended Submarine School in 1933.
On graduation from Sub School, Morton joined the Asiatic Fleet, serving in the tender Canopus and in S-37. He returned to the U.S. in 1937 for duty at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. In 1939-40 he served as executive officer of the destroyerFairfax, then assumed command of R-5, where he served until April 1942.
Now a lieutenant commander, Morton reported to SubRon 4 as a Prospective Commanding Officer. After brief service in the elderly Dolphin, Morton reported aboard Wahoo for a PCO cruise. He replaced Lieutenant Commander Marvin Kennedy as Wahoo‘s commanding officer at the end of 1942. Kennedy’s executive officer, Richard H. O’Kane, retained that position under Morton.
In Wahoo, Morton adopted the unusual attack procedure of having his executive officer man the periscope while Morton plotted the attack. It worked well enough that Morton was credited with sinking 19 enemy ships, a total exceeded only by O’Kane, who was Morton’s XO during most of these attacks before leaving Wahoo for his own command.
On Wahoo‘s fifth war patrol under Morton, he entered the Sea of Japan. Post war records indicate Morton sank four enemy ships in that area before Wahoo was sunk with all hands on 11 October 1943 in La Pérouse Strait while attempting to exit the Sea of Japan. Morton received a posthumous Navy Cross (his fourth) for that patrol.
Wake of the Wahoo, by Forest J. Sterling
Wahoo, by Richard H. O’Kane
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Something terrible happened in Detroit yesterday. A Ford Super Duty truck was hauling what appears to be a dealer’s car carrier, and the carrier flipped over with a pair of highly desirable Mustangs onboard. The Mustangs in question were a pair of 2020 GT500 cars being delivered somewhere. Details on the crash are scant. All we have to go on right now is the video taken by a helicopter by Click On Detroit Local 4 Fox news.
What we can see is what appears to be a Ford Super Duty pickup towing a long three-car hauler. The truck is still upright, but the trailer and the pair of 2020 GT500 cars are on their side. One of the GT500s is Grabber Lime with no stripes, and the other appears to be silver with no stirpes.
What happens to these cars now really depends on if they have been delivered to a dealership already. Our understanding is that if Ford still owns the cars and they haven’t been delivered to a dealer, the cars aren’t delivered and are junked. Legend has it that a derailed train of Boss 302 Mustangs met this fate after the load was damaged during delivery in rural Texas back in 2012.
We guess the two cars were sold to a dealership and were being moved from one location to another. We think this considering that the truck and car hauler appear to be the sort a dealership would use to ferry their cars from place to place. There is always the chance that both cars were en-route to their final delivery to a buyer who didn’t want them driven.
If the dealership owned these vehicles, they would likely be fixed and sold or fixed and delivered on to their owners. If Ford still owns the cars, they will probably be sent back, destroyed, and the cars rebuilt to fulfill the order. We wish we could see what sort of damage they sustained. Ford recently announced all 2020 Shelby GT500 buyers will get to attend the GT500 Track Attack. | <urn:uuid:2150edd7-136b-49fe-bd8d-782e695ff6ea> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://fordauthority.com/2019/12/car-hauler-flips-in-detroit-carrying-two-2020-gt500-cars-video/ | 2020-09-18T11:02:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.982072 | 404 |
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Know-how is the vitality that drives our lives. These $6,000 listening to aids also serve as true wireless headphones and may hook up with your smartphone through Bluetooth and be managed with an app. The highest nations of suppliers are United States, China, and Taiwan, China, from which the percentage of gadget technology provide is 1%, 99%, and 1% respectively. | <urn:uuid:4368a256-0d3b-4996-8f86-d3a915646b3a> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://freedomnotfear2009.org/10-hot-new-tech-gadgets-2.html | 2020-09-18T11:10:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.926544 | 1,866 |
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Fear is not a sustainable motivator.
Dr. Dean Ornish made this statement in an interview with John Robbins* last week. He explained that what is sustainable is joy and pleasure. Fear may motivate change, as when people change their diets after suffering a heart attack. However, if the changes they make don’t bring them joy and pleasure, their behaviors will revert to those they previously established.
What my family and I have found is that a vegan diet is sustainable because what we have gained is more than what we have given up. Besides a drop in Chris’s cholesterol level, the gains for us include an increase in energy and an overall feeling of well-being. And to be a bit crude, it’s also great not to feel constipated. In fact, we didn’t realize we were feeling constipated pre-vegan until we began this journey.
But for me personally, the best part about eating a whole-foods, plant-based diet is that I no longer worry about my weight. Although I have been on the slender side most of my life, maintaining my weight used to be work; and I weighed myself daily, tracked calories, and felt guilty or remorseful about what I had eaten a lot of the time. I spent much of my day thinking about food. What a waste of brain power! Now I eat what I want whenever I’m hungry. I maintain my weight, though I seldom get on a scale, and it takes no mental effort. My preoccupation with food is a thing of the past, and I have time to think of other things. This continues to be so liberating!
In the meantime we’re constantly learning more about a vegan diet, and what we eat keeps on changing. We eat a larger variety of vegetables, and we eat much more of them. Five years ago, I never would have thought that we would enjoy cooked greens. Now I look at the recipe I am posting today, and I wonder how many servings to suggest it will make. I think, “Am I just weird, or would everyone happily eat 1/2 a pound or more of cooked kale.”
I decided I was weird and way too enthusiastic; Chris usually eats about a 1/4 pound. I ended up writing that Kale with Ginger and Roasted Garlic would serve four. Does it? Please let me know how many servings it makes for your family!
My family made a sudden change to a plant-based diet because we were afraid that my husband wouldn’t live much longer if we didn’t. Although concern about his heart is still a factor, we have found that there are many other compelling reasons for eating only plants.
What are your motivations for eating or trying a plant-based diet? I’d really like to know.
Hugs of kindness,
*John Robbins, along with his son, Ocean Robbins, organized the Food Revolution Summit, a series of interviews with some of the extraordinary physicians and experts discussing the science behind a plant-based diet. According to Wikipedia, Robbins is the son of Irma Robbins and Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins. Rather than follow in his father’s footsteps, he became a vegan advocate, founding EarthSave in 1988 and publishing Diet for a New America in 1987 and updating the material in The Food Revolution in 2001. I recommend The Food Revolution, which I read after checking it out from my local library. | <urn:uuid:0d1d7f0d-6ef1-4db1-b69e-08b9efa059f5> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://hearthealthyveganrecipes.com/2016/05/15/kale-with-ginger-and-roasted-garlic/ | 2020-09-18T10:39:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.977005 | 721 |
I am running APS 1.9 version. I have added all EMail related properties to Activiti-app.properties file. SMTP Host, port and all other parameters.
Now, I want to test if EMail notifications are working or not? Hence, I created a sample Process definition and on User task, I have set custom mail template. However, on completion of task and process, I am not able to get any emails. I have created few users with valid email ids. Still, mails are not coming.
I have also tried changing status of User account. There is a option to notify user if Account status is changed. After selection of that option also, I am not getting any Emails.
Have you confirmed that standard email is working for task notification first? Assuming you can send emails on the system. It may be an issue with your template. Is the process completing successfully?
Standard Notification emails are not working as well. Processes and tasks are being completed fine. There is no issue.
However, standard Notification emails are not working. I tried with existing email template related emails as well. (ie. APS sends email to user if User profile status is changed. I checked that box to get email notification). However, that didn't work as well.
I checked for SMTP ports as well. All ports are open on server.
Can you please let me know what could be the reason?
Can you send an email completely outside of Alfresco? So, is email working at all in your environment? I would try to send email and also then send email using the email addresses used in Alfresco first. Sounds like it might be an email issue, not an Alfresco issue. Thanks. | <urn:uuid:2801b859-5165-488b-bb90-408838ca8083> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://hub.alfresco.com/t5/alfresco-process-services/email-notification-not-working-in-aps/td-p/295120 | 2020-09-18T12:09:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.950002 | 359 |
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"THE DELIVERER" The family of Jesus receives a visit from the three wisemen from the east. After being warned in a dream, Joseph moves his family to Egypt. After Herod dies Joseph moves his family to the city of Nazareth. When Jesus is twelve the family visits Jerusalem but find out that Jesus is an unusual child when he talks with the religious teachers. Special addendum section on the prophetess Anna. | <urn:uuid:41542702-5381-4e81-be33-0940ea582294> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://kingstonecomics.com/products/the-christ-volume-2 | 2020-09-18T10:22:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.963974 | 91 |
There have been some recent sensational media stories reporting increased risks of early mortality from the consumption of antioxidant vitamins. The scientific review to which these sensationalistic stories refer was a meta-analysis in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews published in April 2008.
The review, written by Goran Bjelakovic of Copenhagen University Hospital, in Denmark was an update of an earlier report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in February of 2007. The JAMA report received considerable criticism from research scientists familiar with antioxidant research.
They reviewed the published evidence prior to 2005 on beta carotene, vitamin A, vitamin E, Vitamin C and selenium. The overall conclusion of the study was that on balance, the best quality research showed that beta carotene, vitamin A and vitamin E may increase mortality risk, but vitamin C and selenium need further study. The mortality risk data included “All Cause Mortality” and that means it included death from car accidents, drowning and other age related issues.
Meta Analysis studies are a collective review of a large number of studies (like pooling all the results into a single study) to assess a scientific trend and presumably to offer some guidance to future research. These studies are always open to criticism because they have to establish a criterion of what studies to include. Studies differ in dosage, source of supplements, data collection methods, duration of the study and the relative health and age of the participants.
In the Cochrane Database meta-analysis they reviewed 67 clinical trials but for some reason ignored or excluded some 750 other studies including 405 where no deaths were reported.
Dr. Bjelakovic is well known for his skeptical attitude towards dietary supplements. In 2007, he co-authored an article in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute entitled: “Surviving Antioxidant Supplements” and has posted an article on a newspaper syndicate entitled “Do antioxidant supplements work?”
There is almost universal agreement by the scientific community that vitamin A does not act as an antioxidant but vitamin A studies were included in this analysis.
There was no scientific connection or mechanism made as to how antioxidants might increase risk of mortality. It is basically a “guilt by association” conclusion.
There is a large body of evidence that supports antioxidant supplements as an important role in maintaining and promoting overall health.
Healthy consumers who are using antioxidant supplements in the manner that they were meant to be used—as complements to, not in place of—other healthy lifestyle habits, can continue to feel confident in the benefits these supplements provide.
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While checking out a small wave of warblers through my binocs near my
home, I felt the lightest of touches on the sleeve of my jacket and
realized that a chickadee landed and worked its way up my arm. I have been
putting dried mealworms out in a platform feeder and suspect this was a
gentle reminder to restock a bit faster with the wintry conditions of the
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From the cages to the road, our man Diego Sanchez knows style. This Yamaha Stryker takes a custom approach with metal cage inlay in the seat cover and the rough appearance from tan paint accents.
From the inspiration of our Yamaha Stryker Smooth rear fender comes the Raider Smooth Rear Fender that keeps the ability to add the LM Raider storage compartment. The complimentary lines follow the tire making the raider look even more low and mean. With paint, you’ll be turning heads! The high end fiberglass construction offer high strength and less weight for the performance edge. Finishes for this fender start with our standard semi-gloss finish but can be upgraded to factory-matched* paint [...]
Our Star Yamaha Raider Chin Fairing is flows with the aggressive lines on the Star motorcycle. This product not only adds style, but function of protecting your bike from debris. You also have access to the oil filter without removing our chin scoop. This product is made from our HFC (Hybrid Flex Composite) material that with high chip and impact resistance. The glossy finish is ready to be for primer and paint just like any automotive bumper. The kit [...]
We’re cleaning up the front of the frame with our Victory Horn Cover. This cover flows with the design of the bike and gives off the bike-show look. No more allowing the bolts that are underneath the horn to be an eye sore. As many riders know, many Victory models share many similarities making this cover a fit for most bikes, including the Highball. Installation is as simple as it sounds with one bolt to hold it on. The horn [...] | <urn:uuid:dd0d270a-1873-4a8e-b897-feb95a2f0658> | CC-MAIN-2020-40 | https://lowandmean.com/author/techsupport/ | 2020-09-18T10:04:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-40/segments/1600400187390.18/warc/CC-MAIN-20200918092913-20200918122913-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.922594 | 332 |
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Defensible space is essential to improve your home’s chance of surviving a wildfire.
It’s the buffer you create between a building on your property and the grass, trees, shrubs, or any wildland area that surround it.
Defensible space will help slow or stop the spread of wildfire and protect your home from catching fire – either from direct flame contact or radiant heat. Defensible space is also important to help protect firefighters when they are defending your home.
Your home may be the most valuable investment you ever make. If you live in a high-risk fire hazard area, protect against the chance of losing that investment by creating defensible space and "hardening" your home with fire-resistant construction materials and design.
Creating defensible space does not mean you need a ring of bare dirt around your home! Through proper planning, you can have both a beautiful landscape and a fire safe home.
Defensible Space Zones
FIRESafe MARIN recommends homeowners utilize the "Home Ignition Zone" concept to make up the required 100 feet of defensible space.
Three zones make up the required 100 feet of defensible space. Zone Zero extends 0-5' from structures, including the building itself, and should be completely free of combustibles. Zone 1 begins 5' from your house and extends 30 feet away. The most aggressive clearance is required closest to the structure. Zone 2 lies beyond the home defense zone, extending at least 100 feet from the house or to your property line. Greater defense zone widths may be necessary if your home is on a steep slope or in a windswept exposure. The Access Zone, Zone 3, is adjacent to roads and driveways, 14' overhead and 10' from the edge of the roadway. Specific recommendations for each zone are described below.
ZONE 0 ("ZERO")
Zone Zero, sometimes referred to as the "Immediate Zone" is the area nearest your house, 0'-5', including the surfaces of the structure itself. There should be ZERO combustibles in this zone! Take steps to 'harden" your home with fire and ignition resistant materials and design!
This zone extends 0'-5' from your house. It's the area closest to your house, including plants, decks, outdoor furniture, and the outside walls and coverings. This area is most vulnerable and should be more aggressively maintained for fire resistance.
- Remove combustible outdoor furniture. Replace with metal or non-combustible varieties.
- Replace jute or natural fiber doormats with heavy rubber or metal grates.
- Remove or relocate all combustible materials including garbage and recycling containers, lumber, trash, and patio accessories.
- Clean all fallen leaves and needles.
- No vegetation is recommended within 5’ of any structure.
- Remove tree limbs that extend into this zone. Fire prone tree varieties should be removed if they extend into this zone.
- Do not store firewood, lumber, or combustibles here, even (especially) under decks or overhangs. Move stored combustibles inside or at least 30’ from any structure.
- Use only inorganic, non-combustible mulches such as stone or gravel.
- Hardscaping is strongly recommended around the base of structures.
Zone 1, sometimes referred to as the "home Ignition Zone" extends from your house's exterior walls to a distance of 30'. The "Lean, Clean, and Green" zone.
This extends 0'-30' out from buildings, structures, decks, etc, and overlaps the Home Ignition Zone described above.
- Remove all dead grasses, weeds, plants, & foliage.
- Remove all fallen leaves, needles, twigs, bark, cones, and small branches.
- Remove “Gorilla Hair” or shredded bark mulch.
- Use only compost or heavy bark mulch to maintain soil moisture, or for erosion control.
- Choose only fire resistant plants, and keep them healthy and well irrigated.
- Remove fire-prone plants.
- Provide spacing between shrubs, at least 2 times the height of the mature plant. Add space on steeper slopes.
- Trim trees to remove limbs 6’ to 10’ from the ground.
- Remove branches that overhang your roof or within 10’ of chimneys.
- Move firewood & lumber out of Zone 1, or cover in a fire resistant enclosure.
- Remove combustibles around and under decks and awnings.
- Clear vegetation around fences, sheds, outdoor furniture, play structures.
- Outbuildings and LPG storage tanks should have at least 10’ of clearance.
- Maintain regularly, focusing on the areas closest to structures.
Zone 2 extends from 30' to at least 100' - more Defensible Space may be required based on topography, vegetation, or building construction (for example, if you live on a hill, in a drainage, or an area surrounded by unusually dense or flammable vegetation, or have a wood shake roof, as much as 150' may be required). California and local laws do not require you to create Defensible Space on property you don't own. Work with your neighbor to gain permission to clear defensible space on their property if it will help protect your home!
Extending from 30'-100' or to your property line at a minimum (you may be required to provide more clearance due to steep slopes, nearby vegetation conditions, and/or other conditions identified by the fire department). This zone should include at a minimum:
- Cut or mow annual grass down to a maximum height of 4 inches.
- Create horizontal spacing between shrubs and trees. (See diagram)
- Create vertical spacing between grass, shrubs and trees. (See diagram)
- Remove fallen leaves, needles, twigs, bark, cones, and small branches. However, they may be permitted to a depth of 3 inches if erosion control is an issue.
- Remove all piles of dead vegetation.
ZONE 3 ("ACCESS")
0'-10', horizontally, and 14' vertically, from roads and driveways
Zone 3, the "access" zone, extends from 3' to at least 10' horizontally form the edge of roads and driveways, and 14' overhead.
Property owners are responsible for vegetation adjacent to roads and driveways. Access roads are critical for evacuation and first responder access. Maintenance is required year-round.
- Property owners are responsible for vegetation adjacent to roads and driveways.
- Clear vegetation 14’ overhead and 10’ from sides of roads and driveways in the same manner as Defensible Space Zone 1.
- Maintain 12’ of unobstructed pavement for passage of vehicles.
- Within this zone, plantings shall be fire resistant and must not extend into the roadway.
- 14’ of clearance is required above the roadway for emergency vehicle access.
- Address numbers must be clearly visible from the road, with at least 4” numbers on a contrasting background. Reflective or lighted numbers are best.
- Create vertical spacing between shrubs, and lower tree limbs. Cut all grasses.
ZONE 4 ("COMMUNITY")
Work with your neighbors
Many homes do not have 100’ of space between structures and parcel lines. Property owners are required to maintain defensible space to their property line. Work with neighbors to help provide defensible space for their homes, and ask neighbors for help if their property threatens yours. In most cases, the most effective solution is a cooperative approach between neighbors.
Remember that the most important zone is closest to your structures - from zero to five feet. If you’ve taken all of the steps outlined here and worked to “harden” your home, neighboring properties typically present only a minimal risk.
Work with neighbors or land managers to reduce fuel on nearby properties or create fuel breaks to help reduce the risk to your community. Contact your local Fire Department for help organizing your neighbors to create a Firewise USA© site. FIRESafe MARIN will help, too!
Defensible Space is required by law! Check with your local fire department for any additional defensible space or weed abatement ordinances.
The information contained on this page is derived from several print and online sources:
- University of California Publication 8228. Home Landscaping for Fire. 2007. University of California, Davis.
- http://www.readyforwildfire.org/ Wildfire is Coming: Are You Ready. CAL FIRE. 2012.
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Look, people, I don’t want to be all ‘I told you so, disabled people warned you!’ But we need to have a talk about disability and the Trump Administration, and how viewing the actions of the administration through a disability-specific lens predicted many of the things that came to pass. As, in fact, disabled people warned you that they would, but you choose to ignore, because first they come for disabled people, and no one noticed. As usual.
No like literally, one of Trump’s first actions was to set the wheels in motion to undermine the Affordable Care Act, a direct shot across the bow at disabled Americans, and people talking about it managed to bring up everything but disability. It was mindboggling and galling to see people bringing up every imaginable permutation of health care user except for the most blatantly obvious, like disabled people shouldn’t even be part of health policy in America.
It was galling to see a long litany of Trump nominees who had terrible disability records — and we warned people, we said ‘these people are dangerous,’ and we were often dismissed. The intense mobilising around Betsy DeVos didn’t happen because of her disability record, but because her family is sinking substantial resources into trying to destroy public education. Don’t think we didn’t notice that anyone addressing disability issues and DeVos did so in a sort of flip ‘oh, and’ kind of way — or from the perspective of parents appealing to concerns about the welfare of disabled children.
It was extremely frustrating to see Gorsuch’s record on disability overlooked in favour of his other (substantial) civil rights violations because it was a reminder, yet again, of the fact that disability is always left off the list. This isn’t about being petulant and whiny that my ‘pet issue’ wasn’t discussed in much of the criticism of Gorsuch that made its way through the public commons. This is about the fact that stances on disability policy can generally indicate that someone’s overall civil rights policy is something that needs to be more closely evaluated and questioned. A man who doesn’t think children have a right to free appropriate public education probably doesn’t think much of children’s welfare, of education, of racial disparities, of parenting.
I seethed with fury when Tom Price and Seema Verma sailed through hearings without virtually no comment from members of the public despite the clear and present threat they posed to the disability community. Again, disabled people warned that this was dangerous for them, but also for the general public. These are the people who are going to be in charge of administering health care policy in America, and all those people who suddenly crept out of the woodwork to oppose the American Health Care Act didn’t seem to care several weeks before when the Trump Administration was putting the wheels in motion to tear health care apart whether or not the reconciliation bill passed.
I could go on, but my point is this: Nearly every Trump nominee has had serious problems on disability, problems that indicated deeper underlying issues that made them fundamentally unfit for the positions they were nominated to fill. But no one seemed to care, even with the disability community saying ‘hey, this is bad for us, but also, it’s a civil rights disaster on a larger scale.’
We warned that the Trump Administration would go after our voting rights, and by extension those of other marginalised classes. It did. We warned that the Trump Administration would come for vital publicly-funded services that support the disability community, but also provide immeasurable good to low-income communities and other vulnerable groups across America. It did. We warned you. We warned you. We warned you.
The only thing that seems to come up in conversations about Trump and disability is the Kovaleski incident, in which Trump blatantly mocked an award-winning New York Times reporter who has a congenital impairment — and does not, incidentally, identify as disabled. At Bitch, I wrote about the pattern of behaviours surrounding that incident, in which Kovaleski’s name and humanity were erased by celebrities and commentators who wanted to leverage the incident to serve their political agenda, one in which disability is infantalised and disabled people need to be protected, advocated for.
People were all too eager to talk about ‘that time Trump mocked the disabled reporter’ but they refused to engage with the disability issues involved with his campaign, including the absence of disability rights in his platform and a number of campaign promises that boded ill for us. Apparently it was more important to rehash whether Donald Trump is mean to cripples than it is to talk about the policies he was promoting that would actually kill us. Again, this isn’t just about my pet issue — though we are 20 percent of the population so it’s not like we’re small potatoes, crisscrossing every marginalised social group in the United States, to boot. It’s about the fact that disability is, as I’ve said in a line that ended up being cut from a feature about these issues, the canary in the coal mine.
The thing about the canary in the coal mine is that you know something is wrong when it stops singing. But the voices of the disability community are so systematically ignored that you won’t notice when people stop singing, because you don’t pay any attention when we are singing. We are warning you, and you’re not listening.
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“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”Thomas Edison
Remember how I said I want to start out on the right foot? Let me amend that a little: I want to start out on the right foot as frugal as I can. For my experiments, if I can’t order my materials cheaply to come up with a prototype, then I try to figure out another approach that would be cheap. I do not have a million dollar lab setup—I have a tool bench with drawers filled with random stuff I use for experiments. I never throw any of it away, in case I can use it for another experiment. So when I say I fund my experiments, what I mean is, that is what I spend my money on instead of shoes, purses, etc. I won’t work on anything that I can’t make affordable, so I don’t break the bank on one experiment. Plus I have worked it out with my husband: if he can spend money on car parts and plant stuff (he’s big into plants), then I can spend money on my experiment stuff.
I love a good deal. Same with business. I try to grow my business as frugally as possible and not spend money out the window. I want to learn for myself what works and doesn’t work, and not spend an enormous amount of money. As the business grows and more cash flow comes in, then I will expand out and try more avenues.
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Failure and Success: After We Fail, We Succeed
Humans tend to get very discouraged when things do not go our way. This may be especially true for younger people, who have grown up attached to their instant gratification digital devices. Below I will list several highly successful people, but I will also note their many failures before they succeeded in life.
To make this post more personal I will begin with myself, although I do not AT ALL pretend to be famous like the people who will follow. I was ill as a child; my illness required me to be home-tutored for about 2 years. I missed all the basics in grades 1 and 2. When I returned to school in the third grade (with an incompetent teacher) I was hopelessly behind in the basics of English language skills, math skills, etc. Things were so bad that I had to participate in special education for a number of months just to catch up on the basics. I failed in my early educational experiences, but I succeeded in many other ways later. Lucky for me that my earlier school failure did not harm my self-esteem. However, even today I notice that I work harder academically than necessary for no clear and conscious reasons. The love from my parents and siblings helped me during my earlier failures. With parental and family supports and encouragement, hard work, and rigid determination I was able to do better later in public school. That said, I did no studying in grades 9 and 10, but decided to open a few books in grade 11 just in case I decided to apply to college. Some, very few, of my high school teachers thought I possessed good potential. I was more interested in part-time work to pay for my car, and going to parties with my friends. My real introduction to learning happened when I was a first year college student; I pulled an all-nighter for a Greek History exam. My Dean had warned me that I may be required to leave college in December due to poor grades (C-s), so I decided to do some academic work. There was NO ROOM for failing in education in my family. My father was totally shocked when he came to my room to say goodnight at 11PM! At that moment I realized (an AHAhhh! moment) that there were some parts of learning and especially reading that I liked. My father, a man of far greater intelligence and wisdom than I will ever have, was unable to pursue his own education – or even complete high school. His father, a skilled stone mason, was injured at work so my dad had to quit school to support his own family of origin. My parents behaviorally conditioned us to desire higher education and training. Of four children, three completed doctorate degrees and one had a long and very successful career in a specialized trade. I graduated with high honors from college and eventually earned two Master’s degrees, a Certificate of Advanced Study, and a Ph.D. (in Psychology). I have had a successful 35-year career in mental health and addictions treatment (mainly psychology of healing) as well as teaching in higher education (The Ohio State University and The University of Vermont, etc.). I now feel generally good about my accomplishments. Now on to the very famous people you all know; these people made it BIG eventually but had many, many failures along the way. They never gave up!
Abraham Lincoln – “Honest Abe” was perhaps the most effective President in American history. He saved the Union and maintained The United States of America at great cost to himself and others. Here are some of his earlier failures before greatness. When he more of less failed as a business person, he turned his attention to politics. He failed to win election to his state legislature; he failed to win election to Congress; he failed to win appointment as Commissioner of The General Land Office; he failed to win election to the Senate; he failed to win nomination for Vice President in 1856; and, again failed to win election to the Senate a second time. Lincoln never gave up!
Henry Ford – The person who revolutionized the industrial age when he made cars successfully via assembly lines at reasonable costs. However, Henry Ford failed five times; he became bankrupt and in debt before he made it big. Ford never gave up!
Winston Churchill – The iron man of Britain in the second World War. He failed the sixth grade. He never won a public elections despite several attempts until he became Prime Minister at the age of 62. His first major political success was in his 60s. He is remembered for many great things. One important thing we remember about him is his statement about “never, never, never, never give up!” Churchill never gave up!
Charles Darwin – Darwin gave up a medical career to pursue his heart-felt interests in biology and evolution. In his autobiography, he noted that all his teachers and his father considered him to be a very ordinary person and below the common standards of intelligence. Darwin never gave up!
Babe Ruth – He was famous for his generally unmatched home run records. Rust hit 714 home runs; however, on the way he also produced 1,330 strike outs. Do the math! His strike out record was close to 50% of his home run record. Ruth never gave up!
Walt Disney – The most famous of all cartoon and cartoon entertainment innovators. He was fired from a newspaper job because he lacked imagination and had few good ideas. His initial proposal for Disneyland park in Anaheim, California, was rejected by the city due to their belief that up-standing people would never attend such a place. Disney Never gave up!
The Beatles – Perhaps the most successful rock and roll group in the history of the world (some say The Grateful Dead). Decca Records and Columbia Records refused to sponsor the Beatles because they did not like their sound and because guitars were on their way out of popular music. The Beatles never gave up!
Elvis Presley – The “King of Rock and Roll” was fired after one performance by Jimmy Denny at the Grande Old Opry. Elvis was advised to go back to truck driving for his work. He eventually changed music forever. Elvis never gave up!
Thomas Edison – His teachers thought he was dumb. He was fired from his first two jobs due to being un-productive. He made 1,000 attempts to invite the light bulb. He eventually succeeded. Edison never gave up!
Albert Einstein – Famous for his theories about Relativity, he revolutionized the field of physics and astronomy. As a child he was a slow learner, not speaking until age four and not reading until age seven. His teachers noted that he was mentally slow. He was expelled from school, and failed to be accepted at the Zurich Polytechnic School. However, he succeeded in so many grand ways. Einstein never gave up!
This post is not to suggest that any of us may be as great as some the famous people noted above. However, it is testament to being stubborn in the face of adversity, and never giving up. Get up and go onward, over and over and over again. Good luck on your journey.
Anthony R. Quintiliani, PhD., LADC
From the Eleanor R. Liebman Center for Secular Meditation in Monkton, Vermont and the Home of The Monkton Sangha
Author of Mindful Happiness
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The F1 Broadcasting Blog continues to go from strength to strength and today marks the sites fourth birthday. The past few months have seen the site break milestones and set new records on the backdrop of two new UK F1 broadcasting deals that have elicited reaction from far and wide.
Here are some of the key performance indicators for the site:
– Total of 1.2 million hits
– 240000 hits so far in 2016
– 57000 unique visitors in March
I never set KPI targets simply because you do not know what is round the corner, the site traffic ebbs and flows depending on what is topical within the motor sport broadcasting world.
As some of you know this site is run single-handed, which has been the case since the site was founded in April 2012. The reward is the comments, the feedback and praise from those within the industry and beyond. The reward is the invitation to press days: such as Channel 4’s Formula 1 media morning last month which was a pleasure to attend from start to finish, for that, I thank them.
Writing and editing this site is just as rewarding and exciting today as it was on day one. I don’t need or have to write this, but I do so because I enjoy it. It is an area that interests me alongside my full-time day job (that is: data science). Readers may have noticed some changes over the past few months: the layout change, domain change, and advertising. But the fundamentals of this website remain the same: it will always be broadcasting based and it will always be my honest opinion and analysis.
Inevitably there is only a finite amount that can be covered in the time available meaning that some topics have been neglected so far this year. Now that the frantic period within the UK F1 broadcasting scene is over, expect the variety of posts to slowly return in forthcoming weeks as my batteries recharge and the motor racing season is getting into its element.
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A few years ago, I was feeling
SUPER frustrated with my recorder curriculum.
I didn’t see the retention I wanted, left hands were everywhere but on top even with reminders, students memorizing and forgetting, and memorizing those songs for belt tests…
- “Belt” Resource issues: Kids focused on the prize but didn’t retain note names. Music was memorized and then forgotten.
- “I don’t know how it goes”.
- Letter names are ‘arbitrary’ so kids don’t retain, even with lots of practice games. When you start with B-A-G it’s super confusing because they aren’t alphabetical, and skip around. Kids can’t understand it in terms of alphabetical order or backwards order because of the jump between A and G.
- OVER. BLOWING.
- Hands anywhere on the recorder but where they should be.
- Method book type issues: Not engaging for students. Very sterile.
- Lack of connection to previous instruction, previous knowledge and there is very little that carried over.
- Playing music without knowledge of tonal center doesn’t help them later in ensemble classes.
- Does not follow “Sound before Symbol” approach. Again, seems arbitrary to the kids. The kids don’t have any frame of reference for what those notes are or should sound like. While this can be argued that “this is how it’s done”, that wasn’t an acceptable arguement for me.
- Doesn’t use what they know, or their first instrument, their voice.
What I Did:
- Did away with belt tests. I don’t like to give a reward for everything, and while I see the value of motivation, my kids weren’t getting the what I wanted them to out of the motivation.
- Use solfege to teach the fingerings, then add note names when the kids know the fingerings.
- Moved to folk songs only
- Quality literature that is kid friendly.
- It’s the music of the people and can be chosen to represent any culture. (So you can tailor it to your student population if need be!)
- Folk Music has all the basic characteristics needed to teach the foundations of music and to develop a love of music – a love that will last a lifetime. (OAKE.org)
- Not contrived – kids will enjoy the music and stories.
- Literature can be used to reinforce melodic and rhythmic concepts.
- Follow a new sequence that starts on E-G instead of BAG. The sequence is actually similar to traditional Kodaly sequencing with the exception of Low Sol and Low La.
- Use fixed Do. For now. My kids use movable Do in the classes, but this allows me to help them relate the music to solfege.
What Has Happened in the Last Two Years:
- Kids don’t have a wandering right hand, and left is on top more consistently.
- WAY less overblowing. Kids start low, so they get there faster. I’m currently 4 weeks in with my 4th graders, and they sound great! They can read Sol-Mi-La-Do notes, and that low C is actually coming out correctly.
- My kids in band have been better readers, and have much better intonation.
- Older students have had better retention of note names.
- I don’t have kids memorizing for belt tests, writing in note names, or relying on knowing how the song goes!
How To Make It Work for You:
- Folk Songs – For this, I use fixed do folk songs. In my classes, the kids use moveable do, but this allows me to help them relate a fingering to solfege. If you need to, you can customize folk songs to fit your students’ cultural needs.
- Teach the solfege – sing each song, sing it on solfege while fingering along and then play.
- After they do this for all the songs on a concept, go back and do it again but with the correct letter names before moving on to the next concept.
- If you really need assessments, you could still add belts after different solfege concepts in the sequence.
This has been a huge passion project for me, and I wrote out the curriculum that I use in my school. You can find it here.
The method comes with a teacher manual (complete with all the games for the songs included so you can add them to your repertoire), a reproducible student book (unlimited copies!), and fingering chart posters! And it comes with the right to make unlimited copies for your classroom!
In addition to the method, I’ve created visually engaging practice sets and worksheets that I’ve been using in my classroom to go along. They can be found here.
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#Showmethewomen, demanded Jordana Gilman ’14, and the Cornell community responded.
The result is “Women in the Big Picture,” a crowdsourced photography exhibit celebrating notable female Cornellians past and present – alumnae, professors, administrators and staff. Adorning Willard Straight Art Gallery are 250 black-and-white photographs honoring some of the university’s most prominent graduates – Nobel Prize winners Toni Morrison, M.A. ’55, and Barbara McClintock ’23, M.A. ’25, Ph.D. ’27, and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 – alongside lesser known, though influential, Cornell women.
“I didn’t want to limit it to the most famous female Cornellians,” said Gilman, the exhibit curator. “By including professors, deans, program leaders and staff who students see on campus every day and recognize as leaders, it sends a powerful message about their impact as well.”
Gilman, a January graduate with a degree in human biology, health and society from the College of Human Ecology, was stirred to action while studying on campus. During a break, she observed that all of the room’s portraits depicted influential men, a troubling trend she confirmed at other campus locations.
“With so few portraits of women, it sends a message that only men are powerful and important in society,” said Gilman. “Women are literally left out of the picture.”
Encouraged by faculty and administrative mentors, Gilman started a #showmethewomen social media campaign to solicit nominations for an exhibit. Thanks to her networks built as president of Cornell Hillel, Risley Hall residential adviser and a Cornell Multifaith Ambassador, hundreds of ideas poured in on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Lacking the resources to create formal portraits, Gilman opted to print and mount 5x7s of these notable women, going against some friends’ advice to hold off until she could raise funds for more polished pictures.
“People told me to slow down, to get everything just perfect, but I felt that would just become another excuse to not take action,” Gilman said. “Women have been hearing for years that it’s only a matter of time before we’re recognized. If we wait for that day to come maybe it never will.”
The exhibit, on display through April 1, opened last month at a well-attended reception; in the crowd were 10 of the 250 featured women, including Kay Obendorf, M.S. ’74, Ph.D. ’76, professor of fiber science and apparel design and senior associate dean for the College of Human Ecology.
“The collection honors the rich history and current contributions of a large number of Cornell women and inspires the entire Cornell community,” said Obendorf, who encouraged Gilman to pursue the idea.
Among those moved by the photos was Sandra Fluke ’03, a women’s rights advocate who toured the exhibit while attending the annual meeting of the President’s Council of Cornell Women. Gilman, a champion for many of the same causes Fluke once rallied for on Ho Plaza, was “deeply thrilled” to share it with her.
Cornell Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy ’73, Ph.D. ’94, whose photo is included, visited the gallery recently. She praised Gilman’s “clear and strong values” and “determination to bring the project to life.”
Perhaps most powerful, Gilman said, is a mirror that hangs amid the rows of photographs. By seeing their faces among the rest, visitors consider their place in Cornell history and imagine how they’ll shape the university’s future. Gilman, for one, aims to make a difference: This fall she will attend SUNY Upstate Medical University, and she plans to become a physician committed to women’s health issues.
“It puts viewers in the picture, both women and men,” she said. “They are inspired to think about their impact and what they’ll do to get their portrait hung on campus.”
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