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A Northern Red Oak is shown in mature second growth forest Aug. 2, 2018 in Florence. file photo
The Massachusetts Senate passed landmark legislation to confront climate change last week. The Next Generation Climate package of bills includes important leaps forward that now await House approval and Gov. Charlie Baker's signature. But even this legislation is just the next step; we will continue to do more in key areas, especially in transportation and carbon sequestration.
The science related to climate change has been clear for 30 years. We are now dangerously close to setting off irreversible chain reactions in our climate beyond our control.
Yet precisely at this moment of crisis, our national government is reversing progress made to date. The president has begun formally pulling out of the United Nations Paris Agreement, dismantled the 2015 Clean Power Plan, repealed rules intended to reduce methane leaks and more. Federal actions demand states and municipalities respond quickly and forcefully.
Last week's action in the Senate aimed to continue reductions in our state's use of fossil fuels to power the electric grid, our vehicles, homes and buildings. It is estimated Massachusetts will emit close to 25% less carbon this year than in 1990. Importantly, this legislation commits in statute to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 with meaningful benchmarks along the way. If the House and governor follow suit, we will be just the third state to commit in law — which is more sustainable than executive action — to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Multiple measures make this legislative package meaningful. It requires the state to adopt carbon pricing across multiple sectors. We know we won't meet future carbon emissions targets unless we determine the true cost of fossil fuels to our climate, economy and public health, and only then if we make sure carbon emissions are properly paid for.
Additionally, a provision allows cities and towns to adopt net-zero "stretch" energy building codes. It changes the mandate of the Department of Public Utilities to include not only energy reliability and affordability, but also reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, when making decisions on the state's energy supplies.
The transportation sector demands serious attention. There are 5 million cars and light trucks on Massachusetts roads and transportation accounts for some 40% of the state's overall carbon emissions. This package requires the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus fleet to become zero emission by 2040, with transition benchmarks along the way.
My amendment was adopted to require electric vehicle charging stations at every exit on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The more we invest in green transportation infrastructure the more we will change individual calculations when buying cars and choosing how we move around.
There is a genuine rebirth in rail taking place in western Massachusetts right now that will contribute to moving people away from a reliance on cars. Four new rail services are under consideration or underway and identifying funding is a priority. These include west-east rail from Pittsfield to Boston, the Valley Flyer from Connecticut to Greenfield, the Berkshire Flyer from New York City to Pittsfield and for northern tier service from North Adams and Greenfield to Boston. In a hearing last week on Capitol Hill, Congressman Richard Neal said west-east rail should be a priority in a multibillion dollar federal infrastructure plan initiated in the Ways and Means Committee he chairs.
Another potential source of funding for major investments in our transportation infrastructure could be the Transportation Climate Initiative that Massachusetts is pursuing with Northeast and mid-Atlantic states. It would take revenue generated by a new emissions cap system and invest payments in transportation and climate change. We anticipate it could bring hundreds of millions of dollars per year to the commonwealth. Investments in rail and cleaner transportation will be steep, but they are a necessary part of the transition away from fossil fuels.
Reducing fossil fuel consumption alone will not be enough. We need to actively remove carbon from the air as well. The good news is we have a natural climate solution right here in our backyard: trees. Trees play one of the most significant roles in removing and storing carbon.
Several amendments, including one I filed, were combined to ensure we understand how much carbon we sequester in state forests and work to enhance storage. Sen. Jo Comerford spearheaded an effort to ensure sequestration progress is included in our regular climate reporting. Nature is a tool we must use to repair our broken climate.
A Boston Globe article last month on the death of noted Harvard oceanographer and climate expert James McCarthy reminded us that delaying action is costly. Professor McCarthy once said to an interviewer, "If you lose a day working on this problem now, it's not like you work an extra day later and catch up. The carbon dioxide we're putting in the atmosphere now, a portion of that will be in the atmosphere hundreds of years from now. So everything you can do to slow it today makes tomorrow easier."
We need to make the right choices, quickly.
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text: Features Mumbrellacast: Ex-McCann CEO Ben Lilley on the problem with big agencies March 7, 2019 4:42 by Josie Tutty 1 In this week's Mumbrellacast, we chat to ex-McCann CEO and SMART founder Ben Lilley (21:34) on founding a business with no experience running one, why the young Ben was difficult to manage, and the problem with big agencies.We also delve into the details behind the merger between Publicis Group's Spark Foundry and Blue 449.In addition, the team discuss Ten's decision to cast an astrophysicist as the new bachelor and whether The Bachelor alone will help Ten's struggling ratings.Meanwhile, we unpack the ACCC's digital platforms report and the NRL's new ad.ADVERTISEMENT https://mumbrella.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/March-7th-EDITED-FINAL.mp3In the news Spark Foundry swallows Blue 449 (1:27) Facebook responds to the ACCC's digital platforms report (07:14) Ten chooses a new bachelor (12:18) NRL launches season with new ad (15:25) Subscribe through iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.Alternatively, copy and paste the following link into your favourite podcast feed reader: https://feeds.mumbrella.com.au/MumbrellaPodcastMusic credit: RetroFuture Clean Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Hard Boiled Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Josie Tutty Josie Tutty was Mumbrella's deputy editor. She worked on the publication between 2017 and 2019. She's previously written and edited in the UK for Jungle Creations and Trinity Mirror. topics ACCCBen LilleyBlue 449Digital Platforms InquiryMumbrellacastNRLSpark FoundryThe Bachelor Share Tweet Share Comments: 1 Add Comment Ben Lilley 8 Mar 19 And (blatant plug) anyone wanting to know more about the investments I'm now making in independent agencies and other creative businesses can contact me via my website: http://www.bensational.com Reply Have your say Name Email Address (optional) Website (optional) ADVERTISEMENT Most Discussed 154 Comments Mumbrella will no longer publish comments: Why we've made the call 33 Comments De-classified: What really happened to newspapers 21 Comments 'Someone's suing Hungry Jack's': Burger trademark battle heats up with new Big Jack TVC 20 Comments Darrell Lea declares it's palm oil free with a famously familiar ad 16 Comments Unruly appoints David Haddad as ANZ managing director

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By Professor Bruno Guimaraes, Head Coach of Soul Fighters Austin TX, black belt 2nd Degree, the year begins with competitions throughout the year, multiple times per month and every month.
For Professor Bruno, athletes can not simply venture to the championship, at least they must be on an equal footing in order to win victories (not always medals).
The old saying "the important thing is to compete" is no longer when athletes, regardless of their age, plan their competitive schedule with previous weight selection, goals to be achieved, physical, nutritional and emotional conditioning, priority in training schedules, commitment , dedication. How does an athlete want to perform well in a championship if he does not appear to train regularly, if he can not sparring 3 times in a row, if his arms are tired and his muscles lose force? Impossible!
There are basic rules to follow when competing:
1) To train frequently as if all training were the final match of the tournament
2) Keep yourself healthy, in the weight of your chosen class between you and your teacher
3) Always exercise, whether you are at home, on holiday or at the weekend. There are no holidays for the muscles.
4) Have a calendar of competitions pre defined by you or your teacher, this calendar should be followed without major changes.
5) The body does not react well to rapid weight loss, so do not change your workout pace, unless it is to stronger and improve your performance.
Nobody likes to lose, so in 2018, get ready. Study the calendar of competitions, choose your class, study the rules, study your techniques, improve your best moves, stay focused to achieve your goals. When you launch into your own challenges, even if no one knows, you will be pulling your boundaries. In a short time, your attitudes will also reflect off the mat. The balance between body and mind that Jiu-Jitsu brings us, only make us stronger for our fights on and off the mats.
Happy 2018!! Good rolls!
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You're the parent, the chef, the nurse, the maid, the coach, the teacher...you do it all! Well, guess what? It's time to drop the kids off at grandma's because you and yours deserve a date night! Choose one of these Indianapolis date night ideas and just be "in love" for a night.
Travel Back in Time
So you think time traveling is impossible, huh? Then you've obviously never visited Fountain Square! To get your time traveling date started, stop in at Imbibe Lobby Bar for Gatsby-era cocktails. Next, step into the 1950s at the Shelby Street Diner for some no-fuss, traditional American food. After dinner, it's up to you and your partner in crime to decide whether to stay in the '50s or head back to the 1920s. Action Duckpin Bowl features early 20th century bowling equipment and pool tables, not to mention an amazing view of downtown Indianapolis. Atomic Duckpin Bowl is furnished with authentic 1950's and '60's bowling equipment and of course, a jukebox.
Get a Little Culture
Saying that the Cultural Trail is an exciting new addition to our city is an understatement. It's way more than a bike path, it's an 8 mile journey adventure through the most vibrant downtown Indy neighborhoods. The Cultural Trail passes by dozens of restaurants, bars, shops, and art installations and murals. Grab your sweetie and your bikes (or simply rent bikes through the Pacers Bikeshare program) and pedal towards adventure and romance!
Be Playful
There are several great places in the city to see a play, but our favorite playhouse is the Indiana Repertory Theatre. The IRT always does a wonderful job at choosing a wide variety of plays each season, covering many different subject matters and spanning the gamut of emotional experiences. And perhaps most importantly, the acting is always top-notch. Because the IRT is located in the heart of downtown, you'll have no trouble finding a restaurant for dinner beforehand and a bar for drinks afterwards. Some favorites include St. Elmo's Steakhouse, Fogo deChão, and The Oceanaire.
Root for the Home Team
Virginia might be for lovers but Indianapolis is for sports lovers! No matter the season, there's always a game to take your sports lovin' lover to go see. Just in case you're new to the city or have lived under a rock for the past 20 years, here are a few team suggestions to get you started: Indiana Pacers, Indianapolis Indians, Indiana Fever, Indianapolis Colts, Indy Eleven, Indy Fuel, Indiana Ice.
Spice Things Up
The Jazz Kitchen has long featured one of Indy's hottest dance nights, the "Latin Dance Party." If you and your hot tamale have always dreamed of salsa dancing but don't actually know how, no worries. The good folks at the Jazz Kitchen offer free lessons every Thursday night. After all that spice, you might need to cool things down afterwards. Try drinks at The Corner Wine Bar or the Lower Level bar at 10-01.
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EXP(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual EXP(3P) PROLOG This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux. NAME exp, expf, expl — exponential function SYNOPSIS #include <math.h> double exp(double x); float expf(float x); long double expl(long double x); DESCRIPTION The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2008 defers to the ISO C standard. These functions shall compute the base-e exponential of x. An application wishing to check for error situations should set errno to zero and call feclearexcept(FE_ALL_EXCEPT) before calling these functions. On return, if errno is non-zero or fetestexcept(FE_INVALID | FE_DIVBYZERO | FE_OVERFLOW | FE_UNDERFLOW) is non-zero, an error has occurred. RETURN VALUE Upon successful completion, these functions shall return the exponen‐ tial value of x. If the correct value would cause overflow, a range error shall occur and exp(), expf(), and expl() shall return the value of the macro HUGE_VAL, HUGE_VALF, and HUGE_VALL, respectively. If the correct value would cause underflow, and is not representable, a range error may occur, and exp(), expf(), and expl() shall return 0.0, or (if the IEC 60559 Floating-Point option is not supported) an imple‐ mentation-defined value no greater in magnitude than DBL_MIN, FLT_MIN, and LDBL_MIN, respectively. If x is NaN, a NaN shall be returned. If x is ±0, 1 shall be returned. If x is −Inf, +0 shall be returned. If x is +Inf, x shall be returned. If the correct value would cause underflow, and is representable, a range error may occur and the correct value shall be returned. ERRORS These functions shall fail if: Range Error The result overflows. If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) is non-zero, then errno shall be set to [ERANGE]. If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) is non-zero, then the overflow floating-point exception shall be raised. These functions may fail if: Range Error The result underflows. If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) is non-zero, then errno shall be set to [ERANGE]. If the integer expression (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) is non-zero, then the underflow floating-point exception shall be raised. The following sections are informative. EXAMPLES Computing the Density of the Standard Normal Distribution This function shows an implementation for the density of the standard normal distribution using exp(). This example uses the constant M_PI which is part of the XSI option. #include <math.h> double normal_density (double x) { return exp(−x*x/2) / sqrt (2*M_PI); } APPLICATION USAGE Note that for IEEE Std 754‐1985 double, 709.8 < x implies exp(x) has overflowed. The value x< −708.4 implies exp(x) has underflowed. On error, the expressions (math_errhandling & MATH_ERRNO) and (math_errhandling & MATH_ERREXCEPT) are independent of each other, but at least one of them must be non-zero. RATIONALE None. FUTURE DIRECTIONS None. SEE ALSO feclearexcept(), fetestexcept(), isnan(), log() The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 4.19, Treatment of Error Conditions for Mathematical Functions, <math.h> COPYRIGHT Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the Institute of Electri‐ cal and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1 applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html . Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.ker‐ nel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html . IEEE/The Open Group 2013 EXP(3P)[top]
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A key focus of the BarTur Photo Award has always been the immense power photography has in influencing the way that we understand and engage with the world around us. Using photography as a means to express ideas and values, the BarTur Photo Award 2020 will cross boundaries and help bring communities together.
In its sixth edition, the BarTur Photo Award also aims to transform the lives and careers of those who participate, like it has done for the previous winners. The BarTur Photo Award (2011 and 2012) in collaboration with University of the Arts London, and the BarTur Photobook Award (2014, 2015 & 2017) in collaboration with the Photographers Gallery, London have all supported, developed, and promoted students and recent graduates to help them realize their potential.
The BarTur Photo Award will be open again in October 2020 and inviting applications from both professional photographers and current students.
The BarTur Photo Award encourages diversity of photographic approaches that reflect vibrant and continuing photographic traditions. At the same time, the Award embraces and reveals how our audience is engaging with new forms and approaches to image making in a technologically changing world. It demonstrates how they respond to and represent both their own personal contexts and some of the more pressing and dominant issues of our time. The anticipated range of work will represent fine art, documentary, fashion, advertising, journalism, and other genres of image making.
The BarTur Photo Award was conceived by Amnon BarTur after considering the positive impact that tutors and lecturers had on him when he was studying at London College of Printing and Graphic Arts (now London College of Communication, University of the Arts London).
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Sinn Féin's leader in Northern Ireland, Michelle O'Neill, is on course to become the party's new vice president without a contest.
Nominations for the vacancy close tomorrow and so far she is the only candidate.
The deputy leader position became available when it was vacated recently by Mary Lou McDonald.
Ms McDonald was the only candidate nominated to succeed Gerry Adams as the party's president on January 20.
She will formally take over that role at a special Sinn Féin Ard Fheis on February 10.
Nominations for the deputy position opened last Monday when Ms O'Neill made it known she would be a candidate for the position.
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This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Hua Chunying.
"This document deliberately discredits the human rights situation in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, denigrates China's efforts to combat terrorism and radicalization, is a malicious attack on the administrative policy of the Chinese government, and seriously violates international law and the basic principles of international relations," she said. commenting on the American bill.
The diplomat added that this region is not about human rights, nationality and religion, but about the fight against terrorism.
"We urge the United States to immediately correct its mistakes and prevent the adoption of the aforementioned Xinjiang bill, as well as stop exploiting this problem to interfere in China's internal affairs. The PRC will respond further in accordance with the development of the situation, "Hua Chunying said in a statement.
Earlier, the House of Representatives approved the bill on the rights of Uyghurs, which was introduced by Senator Marco Rubio.
According to the document, various US government bodies should report to the Congress on the attitude of the Chinese authorities to the Uyghurs in the region, including on the issues of "security of the Uyghur population."
In October, the U.S. Department of Commerce put 28 Chinese organizations on the sanctions list due to the situation with the Uyghurs in China.
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Following the Government's recent decision our Leicester team are all working remotely again and, for the time being the Leicester office itself is closed. The team are still available to help you so please continue to call or email us and we will be happy to assist. Our Loughborough and Market Harborough offices continue to offer all services by appointment. Please call us if you would like more information.
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• An exclusive residential development site
• Outline planning permission granted
• For the erection of one dwelling
• The plot extends to approximately 0.816 acres or thereabouts
• The unique site enjoys primarily a westerly aspect
• Located in the sought after village of Thurcaston.
• Far reaching outstanding rural views towards the village of Cropston
• Mature trees, grassland and adjoins the pretty and babbling Rothley Brook
• Ownership of both sides of the bank frontage which extends to approximately 64 metres or thereabouts
• A collection of buildings used formerly as stabling and agricultural storage
An outstanding opportunity to acquire an exclusive residential development site with outline planning permission granted for the erection of one dwelling on the fringes of the north Leicestershire village of Thurcaston. The plot extends to approximately 0.816 acres or thereabouts and benefits from far reaching outstanding rural views towards the village of Cropston. The unique site enjoys primarily a westerly aspect and the extensive private plot has a wide variety of mature trees and grassland and adjoins the pretty and babbling Rothley Brook. The beautiful winding brook has the benefit of ownership of both sides of the bank frontage which extends to approximately 64 metres or thereabouts. On the site stands a collection of buildings used formerly as stabling and agricultural storage and this is the location for the new dwelling.
The development is situated in the heart of this highly sought after village location of Thurcaston giving access to Charnwood countryside including Bradgate Country Park and Swithland Woods. Neighbouring villages of Rothley and Anstey giving access to shopping and primary schools with more comprehensive shopping in Leicester City Center and Fosse Park shopping center. For the commuter the nearby ring road provides access to junction 21 of the M1 and M69 motorways and Leicester has services to London St Pancras International.
All viewings should be arranged through Andrew Granger & Co 0116 2429922.
The property may be approached from Leicester by proceeding northbound via St Margaret's Way, turn left onto Devonshire Road, turn right at the cross roads onto Blackbird Road, take a slight left onto Parker Drive, at the roundabout take the first exit onto Beaumont Leys Lane, at the next roundabout take the first exit to continue on Beaumont Leys Lane, take the second exit at the next three roundabouts to continue on Beaumont Leys Lane, continue onto Leicester Road, at the roundabout take the third exit to stay on Leicester Road, continue into the village of Thurcaston and the site is accessed off Leicester Road (past the Wheatsheaf public house) on the left hand side easily identifiable by an Andrew Granger & Co For Sale board.
The development site has outline planning which was granted on the 19th December 2018 (Application No. P/18/1241/2), for the erection of one dwelling. Prospective purchasers are advised to liaise directly with Charnwood Borough Council regarding all planning matters.
The plans provided are not to scale and are provided for guidance purposes only and the artist impression is for indicative purposes only and any designs etc will need to be approved with Charnwood Borough Council.
The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all the covenants, rights of way, wayleaves, easements that may exist over the property whether or not mentioned in these particulars.
The approach is via a shared driveway shared with the rights of way, wayleaves and easements.
The purchaser of the plot as the riparian owner will have the exclusive right to fish the Rothley brook that passes through the land.
If you are interested in any of our properties then you should contact our offices at the earliest opportunity. We offer Independent Financial Advice and as part of our service we will ask our Mortgage Adviser to contact all potential purchasers and establish how they intend to fund their purchase.
If you are a cash purchaser then we will need confirmation of the availability of your funds.
Your home is at risk if you do not keep up re-payments on a mortgage or other loan secured on it.
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Andrew Granger & Co is a trading name of Andrew Granger & Co Ltd; Registration No. OC316917.
Registered office: Phoenix House, 52 High Street, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16 7AF.
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1. Prospective purchasers / tenants should note that no statement in these details is to be relied upon as representation of fact and prospective purchasers / tenants should satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise as to the accuracy of the statements contained. These particulars do not form part of any contract.
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3. All measurements mentioned within these particulars are approximate.
No person in the employment of Andrew Granger & Co has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatsoever in relation to this property or these particulars nor enter into any contract relating to the property on behalf of the vendors / lessors.
To comply with The Money Laundering, Terrorist Financing and Transfer of Funds Regulations 2017 any successful purchaser/purchasers will be asked to provide proof of identity and we will therefore need to take copies of a passport/photo driving licence and a recent utility bill (not more than three months old). We will need this information before Solicitors are instructed.
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With our experience and technical capabilities as a complete supplier, we are the ideal partner for every reclaimed wood project.
With our experience and technical capabilities as a complete supplier, we are the ideal partner for every reclaimed wood project.
If you have a feel for things that are real, you won't be able to resist the charisma of reclaimed wood.
From the very beginning, we have worked on preparing reclaimed wood for modern applications; wood that has a special character thanks to decades of use and wear and features traces of how it has been processed in the past. We are now able to cover all customer wishes as a complete supplier and in addition to providing quality and know how offer professional consulting for every project.
Altholz has 20 years of experience working with reclaimed wood.
Reclaimed wood is real joy in the genuine article. As a competence centre for reclaimed wood, we develop products made of historical wood that radiate the joy of something special and inspire people all over the world.
The art is in preparing these natural and non-standardised pieces of wood in such a way that on the one hand the character is preserved and on the other hand further processing is easily possible.
The traces of old craftsmanship and elaborate woodworking methods, traces of use and natural ageing create an incomparable patina over many decades - something that cannot be produced artificially.
Our employees have now been working with great enthusiasm for over 20 years on reclaimed wood from old farmhouses, barns, grain stores, factories and other buildings. In order to preserve the real thing and avoid damage, you need heart, sensitivity and a lot of manual work.
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What unique and beautiful projects can arise when original reclaimed wood is processed, we show here in the altholz project worlds.
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You can find the altholz-ideenhaus in Inzersdorf, at a distance of about 5 km from the altholz premises. Here it is possible to see a vast array of design possibilities and get a first-hand living experience.
Three different apartments are designed to give an impression of the basic themes: Oak, Granite and Color.
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5 Cool Techie Gadgets For Your Next Trip
Traveling is simply awe-inspiring, life-changing and wonderful
As you wanderlust in a destination, you get endless of opportunities to meet new people, gormandize on a variety of culinary treats, and experience a lot of different things. Of course, traveling is a terrific way to unwind, and get away from your hustle bustle working schedule.But, getting to your destination, whether via plane or an exciting road trip, can take a toll on your mind and body. As a traveler, you are going to endure a few uncomfortable situations in your trip, such as sitting crunched in a small airplane seat or standing in line for minutes.
Not to mention, there are a number of things you have to worry about like losing your luggage, passport and important travel documents.Thankfully, there are plenty of cutting-edge gadgets that can make your escapades a bit more convenient. In addition, there are a few devices and gadgets that may help you with some of the problems you might encounter of your journey. As a matter of fact, there are some gadgets that have helpful and compelling route finder features.
1. iPod
Bringing an iPod loaded with all your favorite music is truly a great way to add personal touch to your trip to an unfamiliar territory. Plus, it can be quite comforting, and can even help you get a good night's sleep during your trip, especially if you have a slight or moderate problem in sleeping in places that you are not familiar with. On top of it all, it is oozing with features and apps that may come in handy in your vacation. For instance, it can help you plan your trip.
→ Prep up yourself with these functional and stylish travel accessories!
2. Sony Vaio S Series Laptop
The Sony Vaio S Series Laptop has been a traveler's delight, thanks to its light, sleek and speedy design. With a high-definition display and webcam, plus a built-in DVD, this high-tech gadget is absolutely a great multimedia tool for any vacation. With internet access, this laptop can also be used as your route finder. And, best of all, Sony Vaio S Series has a very impressive battery life for a sophisticated laptop.
3. Traveler wallet
Made from a water-resistant, lightweight and strong nylon, the traveler wallet like is spacious enough to carry essential cards, a passport as well as bills from a couple of different currencies. Yet, amazingly, it is designed to carry a lot of documents and cards, while remaining super-thin. The magic in this one-of-a-kind wallet lies in its blend of materials as well as how its compartments are properly distributed. With the traveler wallet, you will have the benefit of having your ID and money in one place, and not buried in various pockets and bags.
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4. An electronic juicer
Free yourself from all the confusing tyrannies of unusual foreign electrical outlet adapters with a Solar Charger. With a Solar Charger, you get to juice up all your electronics in a much more convenient fashion. Aside from a solar charger, you may also use the Kensington's Absolute Power to charge up your laptop, tablet or mobile phone.
→ These are the must-haves, perfect for your next exciting getaway!
5. Casio Pathfinder watch
Are you adventurist who is planning to climb Everest? Then, make sure to watch from Casio. With Casio's Pathfinder, you get a state-of-the-art solar-powered route finder watch that sports a dive log, depth gauge, tide graph, automatic-setting atomic clock functionality, barometer, compass, thermometer and altimeter.
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Pack all these cool gadgets for your next trip, and enjoy a vacation of a lifetime. Of course, don't forget to plan your trip with the help of Trekeffect! Cheers!
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We want to hear from you! What are your thoughts on the article? What did you find most interesting and do you have any of your own experiences you can you share with us to make this article even better? Let us know in the comments!


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"Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably searching out those passages which were full of advice for magicians who wished to awaken dead young ladies."
— Susanna Clarke —
"He arranged a balloon expedition, just to impress you. He asked you to dance-he even argued for your acquiescence. I've heard enough gossip to know he's not regularly out in decent society, and certainly not to dance with unmarried young ladies. Even if you wish to blame all that on your brother," Evangeline said as she pursed her lips, "I'm quite certain Douglas never told him to look at you as if you were a fascinating riddle he can't stop thinking about and longs to solve."
— Caroline Linden
"Hoping to soothe her, Joe said, "Whatever it is I'll get it. Just tell me."
Joe stalled. Tampons. But she was only ... well, fourteen. He had no idea when young ladies needed such things. He said, "Uh ... '
"I know," she all but wailed. "I'm sorry. But there aren't any here, and you're already there."
"Yeah, of course." He glanced at Austin. "No problem at all, hon." He swallowed. "Any particular kind?"
Hell, he could kick ass on felons, play bodyguard and bounty hunter, so surely he could buy a stupid box of tampons."
— Lori Foster
"A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor - ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock."
— Julia Quinn
"The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a
creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the
managers, or a product of the absurd and impressionable brains of the
young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the
cloak-room attendants or the concierge. Yes, he existed in flesh and
blood, although he assumed the complete appearance of a real phantom;
that is to say, of a spectral shade."
— Gaston Leroux
"The room was dull now, and meaningless, with the young ladies gone from it. They were both lovely, almost luminous. And Sarah was, she knew, as she slipped along the servants' corridor, and then up the stairs to the attic to hang her her new dress on the rail, just one of the many shadows that ebbed and tugged at the edges of the light."
— Jo Baker
"Forty-five minutes later, Benedict was slouching in his chair, his eyes glazed. Every now and then he had to stop and make sure his mouth wasn't hanging open.
His mother's conversation was that boring.
The young lady she had wanted to discuss with him had actually turned out to be seven young ladies, each of which she assured him was better than the last.
Benedict thought he might go mad. Right here in his mother's sitting room he was going to go stark, raving mad. He'd suddenly pop out of his chair, fall to the floor in a frenzy his arms and legs waving, mouth frothing-
"Benedict, are you even listening to me?"
He looked up and blinked. Damn. Now he would have to focus on his mother's list of possible brides. The prospect of losing his sanity had been infinitely more appealing."
— Julia Quinn
"The man was a legendary scoundrel. An expert ruiner of young ladies. And he'd never once been punished for it. Perhaps because he was so very good at it. It seemed a shame to punish someone for what was clearly a remarkable skill."
— Sarah MacLean
"To a man of certain age ... all young ladies start to look delightful. It's the first symptom of senility."
— Lois McMaster Bujold
"Your friend Mr. Tulip would perhaps like part of your payment to be the harpsichord?" said the chair.
"It's not a
ing harpsichord, it's a
ing virginal," growled Mr. Tulip. "One
ing string to a note instead of two! So called because it was an instrument for
ing young ladies!"
"My word, was it?" said one of the chairs. "I thought it was just of sort of early piano!"
— Terry Pratchett
"And visitors say: how does such a big city exist? What keeps it going? Since it's got a river you can chew, where does the drinking water come from? What is, in fact, the basis of its civic economy? How come it, against all probability, works?
Actually, visitors don't often say this. They usually say things like, Which way to the, you know, the ... er ... you know, the young ladies, right?"
— Terry Pratchett
"Blowed if I ain't all in a muck sweat,' said the Giant, puffing like the largest railway engine. 'Comes of being out of condition. I suppose neither of you young Ladies has such a thing as a pocket-hankerchee about you?"
— C.S. Lewis
"What could two men, so different from each other, see in this "brown patch", as Mary called hereself? It was certainly not her plainness that attracted them (and let all plain young ladies be warned against the dangerous encouragement given them by Society to confinde in their want of beauty)"
— George Eliot
"How can he"-and he pointed at me with the same look and gesture as that with which once he pointed me out to his class, on, or rather after, a particular occasion which he never fails to remind me of-"know anything of a young ladies?"
— Bram Stoker
"Young ladies take their notions of our sex from the novels written by their own, and compared with the monstrosities that masquerade for men in the pages of that nightmare literature, Phytagoras' plucked bird and Frankenstein's demon were fair average specimens of humanity.
In these so-called books, the chief lover, or Greek god, as he is admiringly referred to -by the way, they do not say which "Greek god" it is that the gentleman bears such a striking likeness to; it might be hump-backed Vulcan, or double-faced Janus, or even driveling Silenus. He resembles the whole family of them, however, in being a blackguard, and perhaps this is what is meant."
— Jerome K. Jerome
"Framed in black moldings on the wall, other works of arts, conceived and committed on the premises, by the young ladies; being grim black-and-white crayons; landscapes, mostly: lake, solitary sail-boat, petrified clouds, pre-geological trees on shore, anthracite precipice;"
— Mark Twain
"That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
— Jane Austen
"But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies - about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are - all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. - It is a regular thing"
— Jane Austen
"[She] is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex by undervaluing their own, and with many men, I dare say, it succeeds. But, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art."
— Jane Austen
"As for any society in Portsmouth, that could at all make amends for deficiencies at home, there were none within the circle of her father's and mother's acquaintance to afford her the smallest satisfaction: she saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome her own shyness and reserve. The men appeared to her all coarse, the women all pert, everybody underbred; and she gave as little contentment as she received from introductions either to old or new acquaintance. The young ladies who approached her at first with some respect, in consideration of her coming from a baronet's family, were soon offended by what they termed "airs"; for, as she neither played on the pianoforte nor wore fine pelisses, they could, on farther observation, admit no right of superiority."
— Jane Austen
"If there are young ladies in the world at her time of life more dull of fancy and more careless of pleasing, I know them not and never wish to know them."
— Jane Austen
"Enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by"
— Jane Austen
"I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal."
— Jane Austen
"Captain Fisher, the commander, with a party of young ladies from the city and gentlemen belonging to his ship, came one day to pay me a visit in the midst of a deluge of rain."
— Joshua Slocum
"The next visit I paid to Nancy Brown was in the second week in March: for, though I had many spare minutes during the day, I seldom could look upon an hour as entirely my own; since, when everything was left to the caprices of Miss Matilda and her sister, there could be no order or regularity. Whatever occupation I chose, when not actually busied about them or their concerns, I had, as it were, to keep my loins girded, my shoes on my feet, and my staff in my hand; for not to be immediately forthcoming when called for, was regarded as a grave and inexcusable offence: not only by my pupils and their mother, but by the very servant, who came in breathless haste to call me, exclaiming 'You're to go to the school-room directly, mum- the young ladies is WAITING!!' Climax of horror! actually waiting for their governess!!!"
— Anne Brontë
"Man, or at least criminal man, has lost all enterprise and originality. As to my own little practice, it seems to be degenerating into an agency for recovering lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools."
— Arthur Conan Doyle
"Come back? There is no coming back, young ladies, on the impetuous stream of life."
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"With every morsel I consumed, I was informed that princes most love slender young ladies. As I was as interested in a prince's love as in sticking my fish fork into my ear, I reacted to this by cleaning my plate ever more thoroughly."
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
"There is a particular circle of hell not mentioned in Dante's famous book. It is called comportment, and it exists in schools for young ladies across the empire. I do not know how it feels to be thrown into a lake of fire. I am sure it isn't pleasant. But I can say with all certainty that walking the length of a ballroom with a book upon one's head and a backboard strapped to one's back while imprisoned in a tight corset, layers of petticoats, and shoes that pinch is a form of torture even Mr. Alighieri would find too hideous to document in his Inferno."
— Libba Bray
"It had the word bitches in it, which is perfectly fine to use if you're a rapper or a director making a movie about career women, but not if you're a teen girl talking about her homies."
"Good point, Petra. We know that young ladies of the teen persuasion do not use these indelicate words. Nor do they have thoughts about sex, masturbation, violence, being competitive, or farting."
— Libba Bray
"I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies."
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Mr Thornton sighed as he took in all this with one of his sudden comprehensive glances. And then he turned his back to the young ladies, and threw himself, with an effort, but with all his heart and soul, into a conversation with Mr Hale."
— Elizabeth Gaskell
"Then Mr. Norrell roused himself and took down five or six books in a great hurry and opened them up - presumably searching out those passages which were full of advice for magicians who wished to awaken dead young ladies."
— Susanna Clarke
"This young woman," he indicated Miss Wintertowne, "she has, I dare say, all the usual accomplishments and virtues? She was graceful? Witty? Vivacious? Capricious? Danced like sunlight? Rode ilk the wind? Sang like an angel? Embroidered like Penelope? Spoke French, Italian, German, Breton, Welsh and many other languages?"
Mr. Norrell said he supposed so. He believed that those were the sorts of things young ladies did nowadays."
— Susanna Clarke
"One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies."
— Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
"She handed Lord Payne a steaming cup, and he took an immediate, reckless draught. A devilish smile curved her way. "Gunpowder tea? Well done, Miss Finch. I do enjoy a lady with a sense of humor."
Now this one ... he was a rake. It was written all over him, in his fine dress and flirtatious manner. He might as well have had the word embroidered on his waistcoat, between the gold-thread flourishes. She knew all about men of his sort. Half the young ladies in Spindle Cove were either fleeing them or pining for them."
— Tessa Dare
"Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair."
— William Makepeace Thackeray
"Some of the young ladies even ate the salmon without concern to vital humors
when everyone knew colored fish flesh could bring on an attack of hysteria."
— Gail Carriger
"In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby."
— M. E. W. Sherwood
"I have listened to much dull and heavy conversation in America, but rarely to any that I could strictly call silly (if I except the every where privileged class of very young ladies)."
— Frances Trollope
"Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community."
— Carol Leifer
"If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised."
— Dorothy Parker
"I feel really connected to these young ladies I get to work with; I'm dancing around with them and playing music for them. We sit down and get to know each other so we have a shorthand."
— Drew Barrymore
"I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured."
— Jane Austen
"Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?"
— Jane Austen
"And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness"
— Ezra Pound
"The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages."
— Jonathan Swift
"The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night."
— William Makepeace Thackeray
"The whole question of pornography seems to me a question of secrecy. Without secrecy there would be no pornography. But secrecy and modesty are two utterly different things. Secrecy has always an element of fear in it, amounting very often to hate. Modesty is gentle and reserved. Today, modesty is thrown to the winds, even in the presence of the grey guardians. But secrecy is hugged, being a vice in itself. And the attitude of the grey ones is: Dear young ladies, you may abandon all modesty, so long as you hug your dirty little secret."
— D.H. Lawrence
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(Jon Ratcliffe speaking at last year's Summit in Pittsburgh, USA)
In October last year I was fortunate enough to attend the One Young World Summit in Pittsburgh. This is an epic event with participants including some of the most inspiring leaders in the world. Over the course of three days, I heard incredible speeches from world luminaries like Bill Clinton, Jamie Oliver and Kofi Annan. We also had the opportunity to hear from some incredibly motivating young people; globally based youth leaders who are all doing the most remarkable things with their lives like feeding the starving, sheltering the homeless and healing the weak. This bunch certainly made (and continues to make) a real difference in the world.
I left last year's One Young World Summit brimming with inspiration and excitement and a strong drive to go out and make a real difference. I had been back in the real world for only a few months when a perfect opportunity to create global impact came across my desk.
I was having a chat with Sello, a friend and someone who I have great respect for. He has been instrumental in the great work the Nelson Mandela Center for Memory has done in South Africa and at the time was their Communications lead. We got to talking about how we could potentially take Mandela Day online in a unique way and get the world to truly rally around it. In this conversation, we agreed that getting some of Madiba's long time friends to call the world to action on YouTube could really get the online community to get involved and commit to the cause.
The plan was agreed, emails were sent out, and many a late night phone call took place and in a matter of weeks videos from all over the world started to stream in encouraging people to participate in this year's international Mandela Day. The Dalai Lama, Richard Branson, Desmond Tutu, Hillary Clinton, Morgan Freeman and numerous other international personalities including the crew on the International Space Station sent through videos of support and in just a few days this incredible video was live on YouTube and driving thousands of people to pledge support on Mandela Day.
In only seven days, over 18,000 hours of time had been pledged and people from around the world had uploaded videos to tell their friends what they would be doing for Mandela Day. Thousands of people from 92 countries around the world pledged to give clothes to people on the street, help out at animal welfare centers, make food for local homeless shelters and generally make the world a better place.
This whole experience taught me so much but most striking for me, is the realisation that the internet is an incredibly powerful tool to help change society and that in the name of an incredible man like Nelson Mandela, entire mountains can be moved - both online and off.
Madiba himself once explained that a world of good deeds is the best gift he could ever hope for on his birthday, I hope that you were able join me and many thousands of people around the world in pledging some time to do something awesome on Mandela Day, in the name of one of the greatest men who has ever walked our planet.


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Tokyo, Feb. 24 (Jiji Press)--A Japanese quarantine official and a health ministry official, who both worked aboard the coronavirus-hit Diamond Princess cruise ship docked near Tokyo, have been confirmed to have the virus, the ministry said Monday.
Both have been hospitalized with symptoms such as fever, the ministry said.
The number of government officials who worked on the cruise ship at the port of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and caught the virus rose to six.
The quarantine official in his 50s had been on duty onboard since Feb. 3 and complained of fatigue on Tuesday, the ministry said.
The ministry official in his 40s had been engaging in clerical work on the ship since Feb. 15 with two others whose infections were confirmed on Thursday, the ministry said.
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CHICAGO — The addition of concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide to hyperfractionated radiation therapy significantly improved PFS and OS among older patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma, according to phase 3 study results presented during the plenary session of the ASCO Annual Meeting.
Patients with MGMT–methylated tumors derived the greatest benefit from temozolomide (Temodar, Merck), results showed.
Although glioblastoma occurs primarily in older adults, no clear guidelines for treatment have been defined.
"The peak age of incidence of glioblastoma is 64 years, and the incidence appears to be increasing with our aging population," James R. Perry, MD, FRCPC, Crolla Family endowed chair in brain tumor research at the Odette Cancer and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centres in Toronto, said during a press conference. "The current best practice is surgical resection, followed by radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy."
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"The studies that we have in older patients over 65 years have only compared radiation schedules head-to-head, or radiation alone vs. temozolomide alone," Perry said. "There has never been a trial of combined chemotherapy with radiation in elderly patients."
Perry and colleagues conducted a global randomized clinical trial of 562 older patients (median age, 73 years; range, 65-90; 61% men), whom they randomly assigned to 40 Gy radiation therapy in 15 fractions, with or without 3 weeks of concomitant temozolomide and monthly adjuvant temozolomide (n = 281 for both).
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A total of 462 patients provided an adequate tissue sample for MGMT analysis, which has been conducted in 354 patients to date. Patients with MGMT–methylated tumors (n = 165) assigned temozolomide had a median OS of 13.5 months, compared with 7.7 months for those assigned radiation alone (HR = 0.53; 95% CI, 0.38-0.73).
Unmethylated patients assigned the combination had a median OS of 10 months, compared with 7.9 months in patients assigned radiation (HR = 0.75; 95% CI, 0.56-1.01).
A quality-of-life analysis showed no differences in physical, cognitive, emotional or social functioning between arms. Patients assigned temozolomide reported more nausea, vomiting and constipation than those assigned to radiation alone.
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Thirty-nine percent of patients assigned temozolomide and 41% of patients assigned radiation alone received systemic therapy after progression.
"Oncologists now have evidence to consider radiotherapy with temozolomide in all newly diagnosed elderly patients with glioblastoma," Perry said. – by Cameron Kelsall
Perry JR, et al. Abstract LBA2. Presented at: ASCO Annual Meeting; June 3-7, 2016; Chicago.
Disclosure: This study received funding from the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute and through an unrestricted grant from Schering-Plough/Merck. Perry reports stock and ownership interests in DelMar Pharmaceuticals and VBL Therapeutics. Please see the abstract for a list of all other researchers' relevant financial disclosures.


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I know it has been a while since my last post, I'm sorry. But in my defense things are really getting busy in regards to the upcoming Tour de Fat season. And speaking of Tour de Fat, let me be the first to welcome the newest member to the carnie crew (Carnies Local); Coleman! Coleman joins us from a long and storied career at the local Brave New Wheel bicycle shop. He is starting today and our arms are wide open with welcome-ness.
Next, my shoes. You ever wondered what kind of toll a years worth of work takes on some shoes? Well friends, wonder no longer:
The shoe on the left is one from the pair I have been sporting for the last year, on the right is a shoe from the pair acquired last evening, the difference is remarkable, and the wear-ability, let me tell you, off the the charts.
I would also like to talk about first Friday. First Friday is the art walk here in the 970 (that is the real awesome way to say Fort Collins), it (obviously) happens the first Friday of the month. We walk around looking for art (and by "art" I mean free white wine and cheese plates). But this Friday there was a kick-ass photo board. You know the type, it's a board with a painting on it, and some face holes cut out so people can stand behind it and get a picture taken and it looks like they are doing what ever the painting is doing, it (as you can tell from my description) is totally awesome. There was one placed on the Oak Street Plaza Friday night and my friend Racheal and I took full advantage. Right now I would like to share that with you:
Doesn't the time we're having look fun? It was fun!
And on that note, I'm out.
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text: michael sam wild Posted June 15, 2014 (edited) I found a nice photo in Bygone Shireoaks , the ex pit village in N. Notts on the N.Derbys and S.Yorks border we moved to last Christmas. It shows The Shireoaks Toppers band from the Miners Lockout in 1893. They raised awareness and funds and kept their spirits up. I am trying to find their repertoire. I thought the ones in the pic were EC and AC At the other extreme I found by chance a few weeks later a piece in the diary of the 4th Duke of Newcastle of Clumber Park who was called by one enemy 'the most hated man in England' he first sank the pit in the 1840s and his later family would have been involved in the miners' dispute . 3rd January 1848 " We resumed our evening concerts again today my 4 daughters and I. harp, piano forte, treble and bass concertinas, and violin. It terminates the evening most agreeably" He died 1851. I wonder if his concertinas had found their way to the workers 45 years after their soirees ? !. Edited June 15, 2014 by michael sam wild Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-22 11:05:55
"Noel Belcourt" <kbelco_at_[hidden]> writes:
> On Feb 21, 2006, at 12:38 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
>> "Noel Belcourt" <kbelco_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>> For example, if on Darwin I asked for a gcc 3.3 build but the last
>>> invocation of gcc_select left the 4.0 compilers as the defaults, would
>>> bjam detect that the wrong compilers were being run? I guess my
>>> question is does bjam perform a version check on the compiler if the
>>> user has requested a specific compiler version?
>> I know that's a common configuration technique, but Boost.Build
>> doesn't work that way. It's designed so you can build with as many
>> versions of the compiler as you like, in one invocation. So you
>> should arrange your
>> using gcc : ... ;
>> invocations in user-config.jam (or site-config.jam) so that they can
>> run the compilers without using gcc_select. For example, my
>> user-config.jam contains:
>> using gcc : 4.0.2 : /usr/local/gcc-4.0.2/bin/g++.exe ;
>> using gcc : 3.4.4 ; # this one is what you get when you just say
>> # "gcc" at the command line.
>> using gcc : 4.0.0 : /usr/local/gcc-4.0.0/bin/g++.exe ;
>> using gcc : 2.95 : /bin/g++-2.exe ;
> Dave,
> This solution would be ideal if, on our other systems, the paths to the
> compilers, linkers, and communication libraries were known and fixed.
> Unfortunately the paths are only known each time we login and load the
> necessary modules as sysadmin can and does move the installations
> around with regularity.
That's the reason for site-config.jam. Your sysadmin should just edit
that when he/she moves the installations.
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Good morning folks
A bit of a bonkers/busy week: Exams (my students, not me), end of cycle (marking, marking, marking) & a chunk of red-tape tossed in for good measure.
Now I know that some weeks it is more of a Moan-goliando.com blog.
Things are (very) different here & at times I get so, so, so frustrated.
Generally however, I hope that this blog leaves you in a good mood!
A week of four "firsts".
One which I wish hadn´t happened.
One which still shocks me (part of a bigger problem).
One which I shouldn´t have done (but probably will do again).
One which I was lucky to get away with (& I promise I will never do again!)
We headed south with my good mate Matthew & his family to Punta Rojas, less than a marathon distance away. Travelling back, the traffic heading north (on the Panamericana Sur) was bad, really bad & worse than expected.
We had left in good time (2-3pm) & were surprised how bad it was (one of our friends had got stuck for 5hrs a few weeks back. 5hrs to do 20 miles!)
The Police sometimes change the flow (like the Yorkshire Show, but less predictable, in that there is no real pattern here).
Instead of 3 lanes north & south, they´ll make it 5 lanes north (back to Lima) & one lane south.
So all 5 lanes north were rammed. Crawling along at sloth pace, we soon found out why.
A partially-covered-up body lay in the middle of the road, an outstretched arm from under a makeshift tarpaulin, with traffic driving round the poor soul. The traffic had slowed down because of people rubbernecking.
I don´t know how the poor person died, I can only surmise that they were knocked down crossing the road.
The Panamericana is a motorway/highway that stretches almost 20000 miles from Prudhoe Bay (Alaska) down to Ushuaia (Argentina), only broken up by the dark & mysterious Darien Gap.
From Lima it charges south & the traffic (when moving) cracks on at a fair old pace.
Despite signs stating the dangers of crossing & advising folk to use the bridges, people still ignore these warnings.
I´d never seen a dead body, we see them in the news more & more nowadays, but to see one real life is a sad & poignant moment. Sorry to be morbid.
The haves have everything-&-more & the have-nots have less than nothing.
I was out on the Clunk, tailing a shiny blue pedal-moped (just like the battered old Puch Maxi Clunk, like the first bike I first rode on!).
The traffic on Av. Javier Prado was erratically lurching & every time the traffic stopped, the guy wobbled a lot & then put down a crutch on his left hand side.
Was he riding with a broken leg, I wondered?
I passed him & noticed that he only had one leg.
It must take incredible courage to do such a thing, but as people here get no help from the state, he probably has to ride, to go somewhere to work or somehow make money to eat. It's a very sad state of affairs.3) Many moons ago I convinced myself that I would learn to surf.
I took a course up the East coast of Oz & tried the poor instructor´s patience to the full!
For somebody with as little balance/coordination as me, surfing was always going to be a big ask.
After my course I poured my heart & soul into the sport. Living in North Bondi I was 97 steps from the beach.
I had one near drowning & generally didn´t improve. I moved back to Peru, bought a new board & continued to not improve.
(I have now sold my board!)
I always remember the Instructor passionately telling a tale about a huge & gnarly "tube" he had surfed in "Indo" (How the Aussies love to shorten words!)
He said that the most amazing part was exiting the tube, the noise/sensation at the end of the tunnel.
Clunking to work midweek I had a similar experience!
"La Via Evitamiento" is a free-for-all five-lane toll-road chaosfest. Five lanes painted on the rutted tarmac mean nothing.
It frequently has seven lanes of traffic & it´s basically a funnel for everyone going north/south.
"Evitamiento" means avoidance in Spanish, but it is very difficult to avoid this monster!
A bit like rowing a paper boat between two container ships, a risky business!
Completely committed, on a 125cc dirt bike (that I´m still running in), the two coaches were swaying wildly & seemingly angered by my intrusion. Pushing the Clunk as hard as I dared, into a bizarrely quiet tunnel of metal. I j-u-s-t got to the far end (avoiding certain decapitation with the mirrors by inches) & popped out of the far end, into a wall of noise. Survived!4) Never-to-be-repeated!
Presentation of the General Certificate in hindering traffic flow!
Whilst waiting for a Combi, the infamous "Ola Verde" were out in full force, doing everything in their power to make things worse (than they already were). Peru has the largest Police force in all of Latin America & they all seem to be blowing their whistles at the traffic lights, waving fluorescent batons, or waving their yellow gloves, in a perculiar fashion. Completely out-of-sync with the lights & any kind of logic!
Just stop everybody…
There is a "Paradero" (bus stop), but the baton wavers weren´t letting any buses stop (at the bus stop!)
I had to get to work, but this was looking unlikely. It was hot, tempers were flaring & I snapped.
& give them a ticket!
The angry man inside of me flipped & started ranting at the Police Officer. Not my wisest move.
I have absolute respect for the Police. It´s a tough & often unrewarding job, but these clowns really, really weren´t helping.
Fortunately the Police Officer didn´t understand a word I was saying.I wasn´t arrested & I walked 3 blocks to the next Paradero, chuntering under my breath…
Gracias amigo 🙂
Anyroad, I headed down to the tower block of dread; Imigraciones, in the centre of Lima on Tuesday morning.
Take a ticket-wait-get the forms-wait-see somebody after a monster queue-get some (normally duff/inaccurate/wrong) information-queue at the Banco del Nacion…
That was as far as I got, as the queue was so long, I'd still be there now!
So I went to a different Banco del Nacion on Wednesday, paid my fee & then went back to Imigraciones on Thursday.
Early doors, take a ticket-queue-wait-&-so-on-&-so-on.
When I got to the front of the (right) queue (eventually) I was then told I was exempt from paying, being married to Lina (I knew I'd get my reward one day!) So I then had to take another ticket-queue-make photocopies of everything (was tempted to take one of my backside by this point!)
Then fill in more forms & was told it should be back in my account in 45 days time!
The only good bit of the whole pantomime was that I saw my old boss Alex. A top bloke, diehard West Ham fan, skinhead & scooter boy.
He was always telling me to get my haircut when I worked for him, so was impressed with my (lack of) hair, he said I just needed to stand a bit closer to the razor!
Having to learn over a hundred new names was a task in itself.
I'm lucky to have some awesome students, who really want to learn.
Occasionally they bring me gifts, which is nice.
One student gave me his Firefighter's Badge, which was an honour, as the Fire Service here are all volunteers.
Another lad brought me a box of chocolate muffins, having not eaten chocolate for 22 years, I was under pressure to taste one, but I made the excuse that I was going out for a meal after work. Lina polished them off, she said they were very nice!
I don't know what it is about the place, but it is ace!
Real ale at the Barranco Beer Company & then a new haunt, Wick's (no DIY involved), run by a nice couple from Holland & Romania.
I impressed them with my 3 words of Romanian!
After telling myself I was getting the last bus, my pacing/plan was shot to pieces when we headed back to Miraflores & Houlihan's.
Not sure what time I got in, but needless to say Sunday was an endurance test of self-inflicted-suffering.
It is summer here & that means it is hot enough to fry eggs on the pavement & sweatier than a glassblower's backside!
Probably slightly more sweaty than hot in fact.
Therefore the buses are like little microwave ovens & the bizarre thing is that nobody opens the window, ever!
It must be linked to the whole air conditioning theory that a slight change in temperature will give you the flu (or kill you).
In classes my students would rather sweat cobs than turn on the dreaded air-con, I have to respect this & sweat cobs with them.
On the buses people do a strange finger fan to (supposedly) cool themselves down. It is about as effective as using a fork to empty a bucket of water.
"Mucho aire!" ( a lot of air, generally useful stuff I find) punters exclaim. The terrifying fear of a refreshing breeze.
I broke all the rules on Thursday morning & opened the window wide open.
Ignoring the piercing looks to the back of my head, it felt good. What a rebel!
Especially with technology.
I resisted for years with digital cameras & then bought one & sold out completely.
Being an ex-British Library employee, books are in my blood.
Only the printed kind though.
However my small pile of books had all been read three times each & I needed something new.
I ummed-&-ahhhhed & finally bought one, which my mate Matthew brought out last weekend.
I love it, it's a simple & cracking bit of kit.
(having resisted so long, I am completely sold by it. It's ace & although it'll never replace the feel, touch, smell & sensation of a book, it's good to have new (limitless) reading material).
With my shocking memory (useful when I only had 6 books & re-re-read them all), I can only read one book at a time, so I've started off with an awesome read called "Long Ride Home" by Nathan Millward.
As most of my reading material generally includes motorbikes, travel & adventure, this is exceptional.
Well worth a read 🙂
I spotted it on a mate's FB wall (cheers Graham).
"People are Awesome!"
These certainly are :-)Have yersens an awesome week.
Salud 🙂
Johnny, Lina & the Nipper


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Whether you want to do it on your own or as part of a remote or socially distanced team, we need you to inspire others and fundraise for the charity. Due to Coronavirus closing our shops for months on end and with major fundraising events being cancelled or postponed, Tenovus Cancer Care desperately needs your money to ensure we can continue to deliver our vital services to all those affected by cancer, now and into the future.
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149,000 people protested against the pension reform in France on Saturday, the Home Affairs office has said.
21,000 of them were in Paris.
The CGT said there were 150,000 protesters just in the capital, responding to call from Unions. The minister said there were 452,000 protesters (56,000 in Paris) on Thursday.
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Friendster, the hugely popular "social networking"/hookup engine, has attracted attention from venture capitalists, lonely twenty-somethings, and at least one friend of mine looking to add a little extra oomph to a breakup by defriendsterizing her ex. It's also attracted fakesters, people who have decided to enliven the site by adopting identities like Giant Squid, Bat Boy, or Patty Hearst. People like the fakesters; Giant Squid had 335 friends tied to his account. The Friendster corporate team doesn't care for them nearly as much, and they've been angering some users by shutting down fake accounts left and right. Fakesters like "Ecstacy" and "Tootsie Roll" have entered the graveyardster; innocent non-fakes have been caught in the purge. One particularly vulnerable group, apparently, has been DJs; they're sociable, well-liked, and oddly named, three symptoms of fakester behavior. It's not easy being popular. Researchers discovered social networks a while ago. Sociologist Stanley Milgram did a series of experiments in which subjects were asked to deliver letters, via a chain of acquaintances, to complete strangers across the country. Milgram's research may have been flawed (although Columbia University's recent Small World experiment has provided some confirmation), but it provided one catchy idea: six degrees of seperation. Milgram put his results through a strainer and decided that strangers (from similar racial and social backgrounds, admittedly) who lived across the country from one another across the country were linked by an average chain of just six acquiantances. And some strangers were more popular than others; in an article about a truly remarkable specimen of stranger-binding, Malcolm Gladwell notes that
Some [subjects] went through college acquaintances. Some sent their packets to relatives. Some sent them to old workmates. Yet in the end, when all those idiosyncratic chains were completed, half of the packets passed through the hands of Jacobs, Jones, and Brown. Six degrees of separation doesn't simply mean that everyone is linked to everyone else in just six steps. It means that a very small number of people are linked to everyone else in a few steps, and the rest of us are linked to the world through those few.
The six degrees of separation theory posits that just a few highly connected nodes tie together networks. It seems to be true, too; in seemingly disparate networks like the neural map of nematodes, American power grids, or P2P filesharing systems, a few connectors make all the difference in tying things together. Malcolm Gladwell knew Lois Weisberg (and Lois Weisberg knew everyone from Harold Washington to Arthur C. Clarke); Friendster's users knew the Tootsie Roll (and Friendster's rules imply that Tootsie Roll therefore "knew" everyone else). You can examine a map of the Western U.S. power grid and figure out which power station bear the most connective responsibility. But how does a researcher figure out who the connections are in a more abstract, social network?
In some cases, they just make it up. The Kevin Bacon game rests on the fact that practically every actor who ever appeared in a feature film made in any country, in any language, since the beginning of motion pictures, can be linked to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less. (The keepers of the Oracle of Bacon used to record people who found actors that required seven steps in a Hall of Fame.) A good map of film roles and some skill with databases are all that's needed to demonstrate that, say, Elaine Garreau has a Kevin Bacon number of 3 (Garreau to Frank Langella to Kevin Bacon). But over a thousand actors are better centers of the film universe than Bacon, who just caught the attention of the Game's inventors as a young actor who worked frequently and with a great many different actors.
The idea of the Kevin Bacon number was inspired by the idea of the Erdös number, and the selection of Paul Erdös was far less arbitrary. Erdös, a Hungarian itenerant academic, speed freak, and legend in the mathematical community. He was the subject of a two popular biographies and a documentary film. Erdös was modern mathematics' second most prolific author of papers, and an astonishing proportion of them were significant. Just as importantly, Erdös was a maniac for collaboration, with a staggering 507 coauthors throughout his career (and the number continues to rise as papers are published posthumously).
Like Swift's fleas, Erdös' collaborators have collaborators, and so on ad infinitum; six thousand people, including Albert Einstein, are collaborators of Erdö's collaborators, and thus have an Erdös number of two. Practically the whole of the twentieth century's most celebrated mathematicians and physicists have small Erdös numbers. Being what they are, mathematicians (particularly graph theorists, who are concerned with networks and work in one of the fields that Erdös published in most frequently) have plotted out a number of interesting facts about Erdös' social network, making it perhaps the most studied example of a time-stamped (research collaboration) multigraph.
Thanks to that documentary, Paul Erdös had a Bacon number of four. His Erdös number was, of course, zero; barring a career change late in life, Kevin Bacon is unlikely to receive an Erdös number of his own. A handful of mathematicians have finite Bacon numbers, largely through cameo appearances in A Beautiful Mind. To the best of my knowledge, the only working actor with a finite Erdös number is Danica McKellar, whose senior thesis, "Percolation And Gibbs States Multiplicity For Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models On Z2" (by Chayes, McKellar, and Winn), was published in Journal of Physics A. McKellar's most noted role was that of girl-next-door Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, but she's been popping up on The West Wing lately and, as Daniel Drezner notes, has played the lead role of a mathematician's daughter in the West Coast staging of Proof. McKellar's official website (now defunct) used to offer a column called "Dear Danica", which offered "math tutoring in addition to advice on love, life, and relationships", making her perhaps the coolest human being in Hollywood.
But what of people who aren't wired into society? William Labov, a scholar of African-American Vernacular English, examined the lives and speech of adolescents in Harlem. He asked children to list their friends, then compared lists. Those who listed people as their friends but were not themselves listed as friends, he discovered, had distinct language patterns from those more tightly bound into the social networks. The chapter of his book that discusses the phenomenon sums it up neatly: "The Linguistic Consequences of Being a Lame."


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