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Today on Epic Game Music I do an original guitar cover from Five Nights at Freddy's 3. FNAF 3 is very popular indie point-and-click survival horror video game available on steam and was developed by
Scott Cawthon.
Epic Cover track info:
This is a remix of a song entitled "Good Ending" or "Good End"
The OST was composed Scott Cawthon
More about Five Night's At Freddy's:
"The game is set 30 years after the events of Five Nights at Freddy's. The player assumes the role of a newly hired employee at Fazbear's Fright, a horror-themed attraction designed to capitalize on the disastrous past events at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. During the week before the attraction is scheduled to open to the public, the player must watch over the facility from the security office during the night shift (12:00 am to 6:00 am game time), using a network of surveillance cameras placed in the rooms and air vents. In addition, the player must monitor the status of three operating systems – cameras, audio, and ventilation – and reboot them whenever they begin to malfunction. Camera problems cause the video feeds, already poorly lit and distorted, to become totally obscured by static, while ventilation breakdowns cause the player to hallucinate that various animatronics from the first two games have entered the office and are attacking the player. Such attacks occur as a jump scare, but do not end the game.
After the first night, a badly deteriorated animatronic rabbit named Springtrap salvaged from a sealed room found in the restaurant is added to the attraction. The player must now prevent it from entering the office and attacking; if this happens, the game ends. The player can seal off the air vents at certain points to block its progress, but cannot seal the door or air vent that lead directly into the office. The audio system can be used to play sound effects that draw it away from the office.
As the nights progress, the player hears a series of instructional cassette tapes, similar to the telephone calls from the first two games, that instruct employees how to operate the Springtrap suit, which can be worn by both humans and animatronic endoskeletons. However, later tapes discourage usage of the suit by employees due to a series of fatal accidents involving the failure of the suit's spring-lock mechanism. Low-resolution minigames between nights hint at the restaurant's troubled past, with the first four nights' minigames depicting the original animatronics following a purple Freddy animatronic before being violently disassembled by a purple-colored man, previously seen in the minigames of Five Nights at Freddy's 2. In the fifth night's minigame, the ghosts of the five children who inhabited the animatronics corner the purple man, who attempts to protect himself by hiding in the Springtrap suit. However, the suit's spring-lock mechanism fails, and the purple man is crushed and killed as the children fade away."


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1. Tell us about your practice.
Government contracts is a multifaceted practice that is intertwined with a number of industries and practice areas, which lends itself to collaboration with other practice groups. It is a constantly changing field, and we have the opportunity litigate, provide compliance advice, and act as subject matter experts in M&A transactions.
2. How did your previous work at the Public Contracting Institute and at the Department of Homeland Security, Office of the General Counsel prepare you for your associate role at Bass, Berry & Sims?
I have seen government contracts from both the contractor and agency points of view. Public Contracting Institute is a government contractor (and a provider of government contracts training), and I had the opportunity to assist in preparing a successful proposal to a solicitation. At the Department of Homeland Security, I was in the Procurement Law Division where I experienced the full life cycle of a government contract – I commented on draft solicitations, reviewed justification and approvals, and assisted on bid protests. I also had the unique opportunity to attend contracting officer (CO) meetings to better understand the relationship between the CO and the agency customer. I believe experiencing and understanding government contracts from both sides allows me to be an effective advocate for my clients.
3. Why did you choose to pursue a career in the legal field?
The legal field appreciates creativity within bounds, and that dichotomy keeps me interested. It was a natural choice as someone who enjoys problem solving, and it has turned out to be a rewarding path.

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One of the main reasons the plant at Madison and Rutledge goes unnoticed is because, unlike the City Water, Light and Power electricity-generating station out on Lake Springfield, this plant doesn't emit dense plumes of smoke from its lone smokestack. The toxins it emits – sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury – are invisible.
But in the case of coal power plants, size doesn't matter. As a rule of thumb, the older, the dirtier. And the smaller the aged plant, the fewer environmental protections that are in place. In fact, adding pollution controls on old plants is cost inefficient, leaving them without controls and thus dirtier than their larger counterparts.
Environmental groups argue that the Capitol power plant is one example of the hundreds of other small coal boilers across the country at Capitol complexes — including the U.S. Capitol. The plants are also at state-run universities, hospitals and prisons across the nation. They go overlooked by citizens, regulators and the media while large coal-burning utility companies capture all of the attention.
Using momentum from the national clean energy movement, from the debate over the American Clean Energy and Security Act now working its way through Congress, and the recent passing of an Illinois capital spending plan, local environmentalists are calling for the Capitol power plant to be shut down and replaced with a cleaner plant.
Will Reynolds, vice-chair of the Sangamon Valley Group of the Sierra Club and board member of the Illinois chapter, is spearheading that effort.
"I grew up here and I always saw this random smokestack and never thought much about it," Reynolds says.
While doing some digging around, he says he became alarmed on learning that the Capitol plant's air permit from the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency expired in 2007, how few emission controls the plant has on it, and that mounds of coal sit on the site a few feet away from the sidewalk uncovered and largely unprotected.
Reynolds notes that the General Assembly appropriated $250 million from the state construction bill to replace the aging and woefully inefficient Stratton Building, where steam from the Capitol power plant is converted to chill water for air conditioning. He figures now is the best time to press for a new plant.
The organization will begin by asking the IEPA to start the re-permitting process to bring the plant into compliance and, as part of those discussions, to hold a series of public hearings.
"Sierra Club can't force them to shut down this coal plant but it's an opportunity for the people of Springfield to say whether we want an aging coal plant with almost no pollution controls in our downtown or whether we want something different," Reynolds says.
"The whole country and the state are moving towards clean energy — and we should start with our own state Capitol building."
The power plant doesn't make electricity, but steam that is used for heating and cooling the Statehouse and 22 other buildings located around the Capitol complex.
Built in 1948 and coming online two years later, the system, which also makes hot water and chill water for air conditioning, was at that time the cheapest way to distribute steam throughout the complex.
There are a total of five boilers — three coal boilers and two natural gas units. On summer days, only one of the coal boilers needs to run. The natural gas boilers, installed in 1973 at the height of the energy crisis and designed to also run on diesel fuel, are used sparingly because coal remains the cheaper fuel.
Officials at the plant, run by the Illinois secretary of state's office, like to say the plant is clean — for one that's 60 years old.
Bruce Biggs has been the chief engineer for the Capitol complex since April.
"We've spent a lot of money over the years to stay in compliance. We're proud of this building because we run it as efficiently as we can," Biggs says.
A baghouse, which collects fly ash, was added in 1990. In 1999, an opacity monitor that measures the toxins emitted from the plant was installed, with the reports generated going to environmental regulators quarterly, semi-annually and annually. The plant is not equipped with sulfur-reducing scrubbers, however.
"If you ever notice, you don't ever see any black smoke coming out of our stack. It's real clean," Biggs says.
Additionally, a sample from every truckload of coal that is delivered from Tri-County Coal mine in Farmersville is sent to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources mines division for testing. The plant burns through approximately 14,000 tons of high-sulfur Illinois coal each year. (To provide some perspective, CWLP uses 700,000 tons in the same time period.)
Finely ground coal ash that is left over at the end of the process, along with the dust from the baghouse, is trucked back to the Farmersville mine for storage rather than stored on site.
Of the large black piles of coal outside — 10 to 15 days worth, in case of a snowstorm or workers' strike — Biggs says there are no requirements to cover it or lock it away.
Verena Owen, chairwoman of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign in Chicago, says the biggest problem with the Capitol power plant is quite simple.
"It's close to people!" she says.
"There are always health concerns with any kind of coal combustion. Certainly they are not in the magnitude of a full outright power plant but they do emit things like particulate matter and mercury. We know that mercury is a terrible pollutant. I'm not saying there's a ton of mercury coming out of small plants but it's an additional concern."
The Capitol plant's bag houses, she points out, do not mitigate sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), or mercury.
Another concern she has is coal dust blowing around. "I would think it's probably more of a nuisance but I wouldn't want to breathe it. Intuitively, it doesn't sound like something I would want in my lungs."
In recent years, the Sierra Club has fought successfully to keep about 100 new coal-fired power plants from being constructed in the U.S. In 2006, the group, which is based in San Francisco but has a strong presence in Illinois, waged a contentious public battle with the city of Springfield to add more pollution controls to the new Dallman IV power station, purchase wind energy and implement citywide energy efficiency programs.
Now the Sierra Club is gearing up to take on old dirty boilers common at large government buildings and campuses like the Illinois Capitol's. In addition to Illinois, Alaska, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Minnesota, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin all use coal-fired boilers at state-run colleges and universities.
In Illinois, that includes the flagship university at Champaign-Urbana, Eastern Illinois University, and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Others are located at the Danville, Vienna and Lincoln state prisons, Jacksonville Developmental Center, Choate Developmental & Mental Health Center in Anna, Lincoln Developmental Center, and Warren G Murray in Centralia as well as the Illinois Veteran's Home in Quincy.
Owen points out that, unlike large power plants, these small plants are located in the middle of communities of patients, students and neighbors. In addition to being one of the leading contributors to global warming, coal emissions have been linked to heart disease and respiratory illnesses such as asthma.
"If you live right next to it for 20 years, I don't know what it does to you," she says.
The Sierra Club may not have a very tough fight on its hands as far as the Capitol plant is concerned.
Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White's office has submitted a $45 million request for a new power plant to the Capital Development Board, which oversees state construction projects.
"If CDB were to provide us with the funding, we'd certainly be interested in building an even more efficient plant," says White spokesman Henry Haupt.
The CDB is also currently finishing up a new Capitol complex master plan, scheduled to be released in the coming weeks.
Biggs, the engineer, says in all likelihood a new facility would be a biomass plant that could burn anything from coal to Christmas trees. And even at $45 million, rebuilding would be cheaper than retrofitting the existing coal boilers.
Whether they get the money or not, Reynolds, the Springfield activist, is confident the plant won't be around much longer.
"I think it'll shut down," he says. "It's just a matter of time."


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This unique ring features a beautiful high contrast design, with a tapered band for comfort and a plain base to allow for re-sizing if needed.
The design is loosely based on this ring:
The design on the sides is totally organic looking and I really love the high contrast look of the oxidized silver against the polished surfaces.
This ring has five different stone options:
~Moonstone (blue)
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Each ring is made to order in about 1-2 weeks.
This ring is solid sterling silver.
The band is about 10mm wide at the top and 6mm wide at the base.
All stones are 8x6mm oval cabochons and 100% natural.
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Monsters are creatures — of whatever kind — with innate elemental abilities, ultimately born of a chance exposure to pure aura. Collectively, monsters span a wide range of characteristics and features, from creatures only a little out of the ordinary all the way up to unholy scourges entirely unlike anything else in the world. Monsters are collectively feared and hated, although some few may only be tarred by association with their more dangerous cousins; monsters are also the readiest source of aura crystals, and even the least harmful are hunted for that reason.
see also Monster List
With the vast diversity of their origins and features, monsters are difficult to classify based on natures and traits. Rather, the easiest — and thus most common — means for categorizing monsters is based on the magic they possess: how many elements and how powerful their effects. Coincidentally, having more magic seems to correlate with greater deviation from mundane species; it also serves as a good guideline for the monster's threat potential, although not necessarily the likelihood of it doing harm. This scheme remains a subject of much argument among natural philosophers, with new methods proposed (and discarded) on a frequent basis.
Monsters in this category are essentially only one step away from their mundane progenitor, and in the vast majority of cases behave much the same: preferring the same environments, eating the same things, following the same lifecycle. They are not noted for particular intelligence, but rather are characterized by drives and instincts. Their magic is always weak and limited to a single elemental effect that is either integral to the monster (e.g. stone armor, burning fur) or short-ranged and limited to one target at a time. As monsters go, Aberrations are the most common by far, though there might be only one for every hundred of their mundane counterparts, and also the easiest for even ordinary hunters to deal with.
Note: Players may self-mod encounters with Aberrations within reason.
A Monstrosity is more removed from its mundane progenitor, but its ancestry remains at least somewhat recognizable in its characteristics. Often, monsters in this category have considerably reshaped bodies; they may have developed traits outside their mundane heritage (e.g. feathers, scales on a mammalian monster), and often shift towards carnivory if they were not so already. Monstrosities are likely to be intelligent; problem solving, tool use, and a theory of mind are common characteristics, and more social species may exhibit intelligence on par with humans. Their innate magic always features one strong element and may include a second weaker element; effects are again either integral or short-ranged.
Note: Players may self-mod encounters with Monstrosities provided a Storyteller has approved the plot in advance.
Note: Horrors are restricted concepts limited to Senior Storytellers and above.
Note: Abominations are restricted concepts limited to Senior Storytellers and above.
Elemental Abilities
- induce paralysis
- body parts made of an earth material
- body parts made of exposed bone
- spontaneous creation of an earth material
- psychokinesis of an earth material
- enhanced strength or endurance
- slow regeneration
- spontaneous generation of electric current
- psychokinesis of electric current
- psychokinesis of air
- induction of thunderstorms
- sensitivity to or suppression of scents
- unusually lightweight
- enhanced agility (action speed, balance, coordination)
- immunity to drowning / no need to breathe
- body parts extremely hot or made of fire
- spontaneous generation of fire/heat
- spontaneous generation of light
- ability to bend light (invisibility)
- rapid growth
- immunity to cold/heat
- enhanced light perception (night, infrared, UV, 360-degree)
- induction of arid environment (clear skies, drought, dry soil)
- body parts extremely cold or made of water/ice
- spontaneous generation of water/ice
- psychokinesis of water/ice
- protean (able to reshape part/all of self)
- immunity to bleeding (no blood loss, continually replenishes)
- immunity to drowning / water-breathing without gills
- induction of wet environment (rainstorms, mudholes/pools)
- induction of cold environment (snow/ice)
- psychokinesis of any object
- levitation or flight without wings
- translocation of self (teleportation)
- multiple instances of self (one being, multiple locations)
- unusually heavy/dense
- enhanced speed (movement across distance)
- awareness of surroundings (independent of senses)
- accelerate entropy, erosion, decay
- aggravate injuries and other conditions
- slow or stop time in limited area
- enhanced speed of thought; precise actions, rapid reactions
- metamorphosis, multiple diverse stages
- immunity to aging / immortal
- rapid regeneration
- induce sleep, interact with dreams
- empathy or telepathy
- induce fear, safety, etc. (in absence of empathy)
- interfere with perceptions (illusions for any/all senses)
- interfere with memory (erase/consume, immerse subject in)
- detect other minds in vicinity
- enhanced sociality, intelligence, or hive mind
- able to jump between bodies


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What's New
- iOS 10 optimized
App Description
Festive recipes
for great tasting cupcakes
and holiday muffins
- all quickly and easily prepared
without yeast.
So spoil yourself
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Add the recipes to the app's shopping list
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Business Strategy NZ exists to help our community of companies grow their business through creating connections, advancing their skills in different disciplines, and promoting their purpose, mission, and business services to group members and the wider business community. We have a range of opportunities to help you get known using BSNZ as a platform for growth.
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An opportunity to engage, inform, and connect our members with your mission and brand. Each month we hold open invitiation social meetups for entreprepreneurs at all stages of their business journey. For most people, this is their first exposure to Business Strategy NZ.
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No matter your level of prominence or business size, your specialist knowledge about your area of expertise is something that others at different points of their entrepreneurial journey can benefit from.
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If you offer a consulting service, development products, or add value in an area that has high owner involvement, this opportunity allows you to build brand, reputation and engagement opportunities, while building more awareness about areas aligned to your mission.
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Developing better cancer trials for non-small cell lung cancers
Despite the development of new drug treatments, there are a lack of radiotherapy and drug combination trials for non-small cell lung cancers. Due to the challenging symptoms of the disease, many lung cancers are diagnosed at quite a late stage where treatment options are very limited. There are no established drug-radiotherapy combination studies in the field of curative treatment for stage III or IV non-small cell lung cancer, this presented an opportunity to develop better treatments for patients.
To address the shortage of high-quality studies in this area, NCRI brought together experts from a range of different disciplines, including industry, with the aim to create a plan for working towards better clinical trials in non-small cell lung cancer.
The meeting led to the formation of a consortium to focus on this challenge, including researchers from a range of disciplines and research centres interested in developing high-quality trials in this area. There is an editorial about this in the Clinical Oncology journal.
The Consortium is currently developing two uniquely designed multidisciplinary trials – a phase one trial that will focus on the addition of new drugs to radical radiotherapy doses in stage III non-small cell lung cancer ("CONCORDE"), and a phase two trial in stage IV of the disease that will explore the immunomodulating effects of stereotactic radiation in combination with immunotherapy ("SPITFIRE") – with a view to using their expertise to develop more trials if these are successful.
Additionally, this collaborative approach to developing clinical trials will greatly speed up the development of the trials; getting trials up and running is a priority if we're to tackle the lack of research in this area. Having a multi-centre, collaborative team also supports the use of innovative trial designs drawing on varied expertise – something that would not usually be possible in trials developed in a traditional way by a single research centre.
Because it's already working in related areas with the best researchers from a range of related disciplines from across the UK, NCRI's CTRad is in a unique position to be able to bring researchers together and support them to form a consortium like this. This is further supported by specific expertise from other NCRI activities such as the Clinical Studies Groups.
Dr Fiona McDonald, co-Chief Investigator of the SPITFIRE trial, said, "CTRad provides leadership and mentorship to help get new radiotherapy trial ideas off the ground, help get them funded and into the clinic to bring benefit across the board to patients".
By simply supporting researchers in the right way, with the right conversations and support at the right time, we have supported the development of better trials that will get under way faster. We're breaking down the barriers to high quality research and enabling it to happen faster.


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Skip to comments.Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out President Trump For Being Locked and Loaded
Posted on 09/15/2019 11:55:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ANKENY, Iowa -- As many presidential candidates call for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanuagh, Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard focused on other issues during her campaign stop in Ankeny.
Gabbard opened up the town hall by referencing a CNN article and criticizing President Donald Trump for bending the knee to the wishes of Saudi Arabia and for using American military to carry out that countrys wishes.
People like Mike Pompeo and the Trump administration, theyve been trying to go to war with Iran for a really long time and they are really taking action and laying down the groundwork to do so, said Gabbard. Pushing us to the point where we are literally right now on the brink of a war with Iran. Trump says we are locked and loaded and I believe him.
(Excerpt) Read more at whotv.com ...
Hoping tulsi runs on an independent ticket and splits the liberal womens vote...
Tulsi Gabbard....simply just another one of the Democrat Party nutcases. I trust POTUS, Trump...not some moron, buffoon, Democrat America hater!!!
Bitch, we've been at this for 40 some odd years
This aint new and beating their azz will eventually happen however, not on this president's watch, as he is not intrested in going to war with anyone
Don't lay this Shiite on this president
Tehran has been at war with the West since 1978
At some point they will pay the Piper
Wow. Gabbard is as tone deaf as Mitt Romeny.
What irks me about her is her projected air of always speaking for "her brothers and sisters in the military". And usually speaking for the ones who don't want to be anywhere near the big sandbox. Or, in other words, the few who wish to avoid fighting and are in the service for the benefits. Granted, we do need to cut the size of our forces there and work smarter instead of harder.
There were about 722,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S.A. during the years from 1992 through 2018 (~ 68,000 in 2018).
U.S. combat deaths in all of the U.S. wars over hundreds of years add up to about 721,975.
The total U.S. deaths from the widely publicized "mass shootings" committed by whites was...?
Don't be fooled by a few sensationalized anecdotes devised to evoke emotional reactions: a common socialist feminist tactic.
Different link for one of those statistics.
There were about 722,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S.A. during the years from 1992 through 2018 (~ 68,000 in 2018).
And this is why she does not have a "warrior's heart" like her campaign would leave you to believe.
Actually, the U.S. has effectively been at war with Iran since we helped Great Britain topple the elected government of Iran in 1953 on behalf of British Petroleum.
"Tulsi Gabbard Calls Out President Trump For Being Locked and Loaded"
In stark contrast to Brocko Bomba's preferred posture known as Bent Over and Grab Ankle.
I can't stand her. She's a fake patriot. She's trying to peel off some stupid conservative voters with all this " let's not get into anymore wars"garbage.
You are right. I doesn't hurt that men will go ga ga over her the way women did over the Kenyan.
Islam has been at war with Civilization since AD 610, and at war with these United States since AD 1784.
But she's hot and we need pix!
Actually she's not particularly hot; anyone who gets off drooling over her pictures is really pathetic.
The best that can be said of her appearance is that she's less ugly than most demonicRAT women.
Hey Gabby Gabbard, just STFU!!
She's Helen of Freaking Troy compared to Madeleine Albright or Helen Thomas or Babs Mikuski. Other than those three...
This in - your - face "I was in the military " LIB is a typical LIB lunatic . Many of us were in the military . Let me reassure you that some people in the military are absolute LIB nitwits . She has many defective ideas that would Har m our society . She is a fraud .
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Caitlin Dechelle, one of the incredible women behind Wonder Woman, will be at ClexaCon 2018! You might not know this, but Caitlin performed most of the incredible stunts for Gal Gadot in the recent blockbuster hit Wonder Woman.
Next April, Dechelle, will be a featured guest at ClexaCon – a media and entertainment convention for LGBTQ women and allies. Join thousands of attendees from around the world to hear about Caitlin's experience playing one of the most iconic bisexual characters of all time. There will even be opportunities to get photos with her!


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Edwardian inlaid mahogany display cabinet
An Edwardian mahogany display cabinet dating to around to 1900. The cabinet has tear drop moulded cornice over astragal glazed doors with. It boasts its original rippled glass. (note the shelves a new glass replacements). The cabinet stands over an apron inlaid with bellflower garlands, and is raised on swan neck legs with boxwood line inlays.


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Indigenous, literate…and talented
The home-grown painters of colonial Ecuador made their own way through society through art
Combing through volume after volume of archival records, the lives of artists in colonial Quito, Ecuador, started to take shape.
That's how Susan Verdi Webster, Jane W. Mahoney Professor of Art and Art History and American Studies at William & Mary, did the groundbreaking research for her new book. Her painstaking inventory of archival documents in the city resulted in Lettered Artists and the Languages of Empire: Painters and the Profession in Early Colonial Quito, which was published in 2017 by the University of Texas Press.
"It's a book about painters and the profession — who they were and how they practiced the profession," she said. "Moreover, the documents tell us that, counter to previous assumptions, the vast majority of these painters were native Andeans."
Webster has been conducting research in Ecuador for the past 20 years and has used information she gathered for previous books on architects and builders. Her next project will be on sculpture.
Using mostly notarial archives, she was able to trace the activities of numerous previously undocumented artists by name as they built their livelihoods making religious-themed paintings. She was fascinated that the indigenous painters were able to master not only the language, but the art of painting, and to thrive in colonial-era Quito.
'Every day is like Christmas'
Webster used public, religious, private and other documents to amass a database of thousands of pages of records captured in digital photographs. Making her way through the vast quantities of data written in 16th-century Spanish script took quite some time, but she described archival research as "every day is like Christmas" in that she never knew what surprises awaited her. From the national archives, she obtained notarial records and systematically combed through every volume from 1550 to 1800.
"So what I did was not just collect material on architects and builders and buildings and materials and things like that, but I kept coming across all of these painters, sculptors, gold- and silversmiths — a whole range of artisans," Webster said. "And so I just collected all of that material along the way, too."
Up to that point, only a handful of artists in colonial Quito had been identified and credited with most of the paintings done there between 1550 and 1650. Webster documented approximately 50 painters through specific information on their purchase of land, homes, commodities and the commissions and sales of their work.
Their recorded transactions gave her a window into their level of literacy and skill, which is why she included the words "lettered" and "languages" in her book title. At the time when the Spanish ruled what Ecuador, the 95 percent of those artists who were indigenous were learned and flourishing in the artistic landscape centered in Quito.
These local artists did not work the way Europeans did at the time with step-by-step educations, workshops, assistants and guild structures.
They signed their names, but not their work
"So they're native artists who learned the European language of painting," Webster said. "And they almost never signed their work."
They did, however, inscribe their names on scores of notarial documents with calligraphic signatures "that demonstrate a deep knowledge of European scribal conventions," she said.
"And this is early," Webster said. "In 1534, Quito was established as a Spanish colonial city and already by the 1550s and '60s you've got indigenous artists — painters — who are successfully negotiating the Spanish bureaucratic system. They're going before notaries, and they're creating documents that protect and promote their own interests."
She points out that in the Andean region prior to the Spanish invasion, none of the cultures developed any form of alphabetic or pictographic writing. Their communicative forms employed other types of graphic expression, which they continued to use after the Spanish arrived.
"The alphabetic script that indigenous painters obviously mastered was just one more form of graphism, one more form of graphic communication similar to European painting, where you're manipulating colors and forms and iconographies," Webster said. "So one of my main points in this book is that these early painters in Quito were masters of both the pen and the brush. And it was primarily indigenous painters who were creating these pictorial graphic worlds for a diverse colonial audience."
Masters of communication
The paintings were almost exclusively religious because most people in both South America (and Europe) at the time were illiterate, and images were thus a primary form of communication and religious indoctrination.
"So it's in that context that we have this group of indigenous painters who are consummately literate, they are lettered, and hence the title 'lettered artists,'" Webster said. "And I take that lettered status to go farther than simply the ability to manipulate alphabetic script, but a mastery of all of this range of languages, graphic, iconographic, pictorial — languages of empire. And I mean not just the Spanish empire, but the Inca empire because Quito was built on the site of an Inca settlement and the son of the last independent ruler of the Inca empire, Francisco Atahualpa, lived in Quito during the colonial period."
Atahualpa's extensive residence and lands in the southern part of the city attracted all manner of artisans, and was surrounded by the houses of indigenous painters, stone masons and gold- and silversmiths. Webster also discovered that their surnames indicated that the Inca-descended painters lived in this part of the city and the non-Inca, autochthonous painters in another.
Doing well through painting well
She traced the upward trajectories of many of the painters by seeing what they were able to purchase over time — houses, land, commodities — but also their rise in social status was indicated by their titles changing as time went by, as many came to bear the honorific title "Don" (roughly, "Lord"). Though there was no formal guild structure, some artists might go from painter to journeyman painter to master painter over the course of their lives.
Painters signed contracts for their works, acquiring ever-greater commissions for massive multimedia altarpieces or multiple copies of the same painting, and they also sold paintings locally and regionally, some of which were exported to Europe.
"This is a whole language of iconography that was initially completely new to indigenous painters, yet they came to be the principal creators of religious images," Webster said. "They were the majority that were creating Christian religious images for a colonial public of Spaniards, Creoles, Africans and indigenous people as well. They dominated this visual field. That seems pretty remarkable to me, too."


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Acadiana – A high end "Contemporary Louisiana Fish House" in Washington, D.C. serving a menu inspired by some great Louisiana culinary traditions.
Location: 901 New York Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20001 — Phone 202-408-8848 — Web: Acadiana
The first thing to know is that the crawfish boudin is not something they usually serve as a stand alone item. It is an accompaniment to the crispy catfish entree. However, they were kind enough to bring us one of the mini links they make and they served it with a swipe of red-bean puree (awesome!) and a shrimp cream sauce (delicious).
It is an interesting little link with no casing to speak of. Whatever they used for the casing sort of melded into the tiny link. Breaking it open revealed–low-and-behold–a crawfish tail (one of two) popping out of the spongy, riceless, and sort of shrimpy filling. To be certain, this is a delightful morsel of food, but it does not strike the pallet as boudin. Instead, it is a sort of shrimp and crawfish sausage. There isn't any identifiable shrimp, but there is a clean shrimp flavor. The filling is like a tight and encased shrimp mousse.
Overall Rating = Not Really Boudin But it is Delicious
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text: Regulations | Fish Identification | How-to-Fish Videos and Further Information Regulations NOTE: The red abalone season closure has been extended through April, 2021. Phase-out of Printed Regulation Booklets: As part of a broader effort by the department to go paperless, CDFW is in the process of transitioning to online regulations books and will be decreasing the number of printed books shipped to license agents and CDFW offices in 2019 and beyond. The cost to print and ship regulations books is significant, and money saved will be put toward fish and wildlife conservation. This year's booklets will also be returning to the smaller, mostly black-and-white format. Visit our California Ocean Sport Fishing Regulations Map to find out when fishing seasons are open or closed on the California coast. Just click on your location on the map to see a summary of local sport fishing regulations for California's most popular sport fish and invertebrates. Try our Ocean Sport Fishing Interactive Web Map on your next fishing trip! This new resource is designed to help you visualize sport fishing regulation boundaries, including marine protected areas and groundfish conservation area depth restrictions, on your mobile phone. 2020-2021 Ocean Sport Fishing Regulations (PDF) Regulations effective March 1, 2020 – February 28, 2021 unless otherwise noted. This is the annual sport fishing regulations booklet distributed in March, 2020. General Provisions and Definitions Finfish Fishing Regulations Includes limits, filleting, individual species regulations, and more Finfish Fishing Gear Restrictions Invertebrate Fishing Regulations NOTE: The red abalone season closure has been extended through April 1, 2021. 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Booked! West Dunbartonshire Festival of Words 2015
11th May – 22nd May 2015
West Dunbartonshire Libraries and Cultural Services
Since its launch Booked has become well established as West Dunbartonshire's annual literary festival offering a wide a range of topical, entertaining and stimulating events. This year's line-up continues that tradition mixing the best contemporary writers with poets, musicians, an actor and fascinating talks on topics as diverse as the Lusitania and the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe. We aim to appeal to all ages and tastes and this year present our first fantasy novelist, Elizabeth May. Fantasy has captured the wider public imagination with Peter Jackson's popular adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit plus the massively successful Game of Thrones books and television series. Poetry features twice this year and it is a real pleasure to welcome back Kenneth Steven who has always been a Booked favourite, this year accompanied by the musician Wendy Stewart. The amazing young poet Rachel McCrum makes her festival debut performing her lyrical work. As ever crime fiction remains hugely popular in Scotland and Denise Mina, one of the leading lights of crime writing returns to Booked. Denise has a huge international following transcending her Scottish roots and her latest novel is based in Helenburgh. Booked also takes a pride in showcasing the talents of emerging writers and this year Kirstin Innes will be talking about her debut novel exploring the realities of the sex industry. We are also especially delighted and honoured to welcome Michel Faber to West Dunbartonshire. Michel is one of the most highly regarded and versatile contemporary writers and as well as receiving numerous literary awards his novel The Crimson Petal and the White was adapted by the BBC and his cult classic novel, Under the Skin,portraying an alien on the streets of Glasgow was recently released as a highly acclaimed film starring Scarlett Johansson.
We have always been very keen to stimulate thought and to provoke discussion and have put as much emphasis upon non-fiction as fiction. Leading actor Alex Norton will be talking about his career in show business. This year's Alastair Pearson lecture will be delivered by Lesley Riddoch who played such a prominent role in the recent independence referendum and she will explore how Scotland can continue to grow and flourish post-referendum. Carol Craig has written two highly regarded books The Scots' Crisis of Confidence and The Tears of the Clyde. She has also both commissioned and contributed to a series called Postcards from Scotland exploring many of the key economic, educational and environmental challenges that confront our nation and four of the featured authors will be talking about their books. Rob Cowen first came to prominence with his well-received book Skimming Stones and Other Ways of Being in the Wild and his new book Common Ground takes forward the theme of how we can all engage more deeply with the natural world on our own doorstep. Finally, we are very excited about the Mill Girls on Tour, which is a wonderful fusion of poetry, drama and song celebrating the lives and struggles of the mill workers of Paisley and a wonderful evening's entertainment.
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This is timely. A previously unavailable classic — F. A. Hayek, "Decline of the Rule of Law, 1", from The Freeman, April 20, 1953, pp. 518-520 (pdf). Here's the article in html:
Political wisdom, dearly bought by the bitter experience of generations, is often lost through the gradual change in the meaning of the words which express its maxims. Though the phrases themselves may continue to receive lip service, they are slowly denuded of their original significance until they are dropped as empty and commonplace. Finally, an ideal for which people have passionately fought in the past falls into oblivion because it lacks a generally understood name. If the history of political concepts is in general of interest only to the specialist, in such situations there is often no other way of discovering what is happening in our time than to go back to the source in order to recover the original meaning of the debased verbal coin which we still use. Today this is certainly true of the conception of the Rule of Law which stood for the Englishman's ideal of liberty, but which seems now to have lost both its meaning and its appeal.
There can be little doubt about the source from which the Englishmen of the late Tudor and early Stuart period derived their new political ideal for which their sons fought in the seventeenth century; it was the rediscovery of the political philosophy of ancient Greece and Rome which, as Thomas Hobbes complained, inspired the new enthusiasm for liberty. Yet if we ask precisely what were the features in the teaching of the ancients which had that great appeal, the answer of modern scholarship is none too clear. We need not take seriously the fashionable allegation that personal freedom did not exist in ancient Athens: whatever may have been true of the degenerate democracy against which Plato reacted, it certainly was not true of those Athenians whom, at the moment of supreme danger during the Sicilian expedition, their general reminded above all that they were fighting for a country in which they had "unfettered discretion to live as they pleased." But wherein did this freedom of the "freest of the free countries," as Nicias called it on the same occasion, appear to consist both to the Greeks themselves and to the Elizabethans whose imagination it fired?
I suggest the answer lies in part in a Greek word which the Elizabethans borrowed from the Greeks but which has since gone into disuse; its history, both in ancient Greece and later, provides a curious lesson. Isonomia, which appears in 1598 in John Florio's World of Wordes as an Italian word meaning "equalitie of lawes to all manner of persons," two years later, in its Englished form "isonomy," is already freely used by Philemon Holland in his translation of Livy to render the description of a state of equal laws for all and of responsibility of the magistrates. It continued to be used frequently throughout the seventeenth century, and "equality before the law," "government of law," and "rule of law," all seem to be later renderings of the concept earlier described by the Greek term.
Equal Laws for All
The history of the word in ancient Greek is itself instructive. It was a very old term which had preceded demokratia as the name of a political ideal. To Herodotus it was "the most beautiful of all names" for a political order. The demand for equal laws for all which it expressed was originally aimed against tyranny, but later came to he accepted as a general principle from which the demand for democracy was derived. After democracy had been achieved, the term continued to be used as a justification and later, as one scholar suggests, perhaps as a disguise of the true character of democracy: because democratic government soon proceeded to destroy that very equality before the law from which it derived its justification. The Greeks fully understood that the two concepts, although related, did not mean the same thing. Thucydides speaks without hesitation of an "isonomic oligarchy," and later we find isonomia used by Plato quite deliberately in contrast to, rather than in vindication of, democracy.
In the light of this development the celebrated passages in Aristotle's Politics in which he discusses the different kinds of democracy, even though he no longer uses the term isonomia, read like a defense of this old ideal. Readers will probably remember how he stresses that "it is more proper that law should govern than anyone of the citizens," that the persons holding supreme power "should be appointed only guardians and servants of the law," and particularly how he condemns the kind of government under which "the people govern and not the law." Such a government, according to him, can not be regarded as a free state: "for when the government is not in the laws, then there is no free state, for the law ought to be supreme over all things"; he even contends that "any such establishment which centers all power in the votes of the people can not, properly speaking, be called a democracy, for their decrees can not be general in their extent." Together with the equally famous passage in the Rhetorics, in which he argues that "it is of great moment that well-drawn laws should themselves define all the points they can and leave as few as may be for the decis1ion of the judges," this provides a fairly coherent doctrine of government by law.
How much all this meant to the Athenians is shown by the account given by Demosthenes of a law introduced by an Athenian under which "it should not be lawful to propose a law affecting any one individual, unless the same applied to all Athenians," because he was of the opinion that, "as every citizen has an equal share in civil rights, so everybody should have an equal share in the laws." Although, like Aristotle, Demosthenes no longer uses the term isonomia, the statement is little more than a paraphrase of the old concept.
Seventeenth Century Rediscovery
A characteristic dispute between Hobbes and Harrington, from which, I believe, the modern use of the "government by laws and not by men" derives, indicates how alive these views of the ancient philosophers were to the political thinkers of the seventeenth century. Hobbes had described it as "just another error of Aristotle's politics that in a well-ordered commonwealth not men should govern but the law." Harrington countered that the "art whereby a civil society is instituted and preserved upon the foundation of common right or interest" is "to follow Aristotle and Livy … the empire of laws, not of men."
To the seventeenth-century Englishmen, it seems, the Latin authors, particularly Livy, Cicero, and Tacitus, became increasingly the more important sources of political philosophy. But, even if they did not go to Holland's translation of Livy where they would have found the word, it was still the Greek ideal of isonomia which they met at all the crucial points. Cicero's Omnes legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possumus [we are all servants of the laws in order that we may be free] (repeated later, almost word for word, by Voltaire, Montesquieu, and Kant) is perhaps the most concise expression of the ideal of freedom under the law. During the classical period of the Roman Law, it was once more understood that there was no real conflict between freedom and the law, their generality, certainty, and the restrictions they placed on the discretion of the authority, which was the essential condition of freedom. This condition lasted until the strict law (ius strictum) was progressively abandoned in the interest of a new social policy. As a distinguished student of Roman Law, F. Pringsheim, has described this process which started under the Emperor Constantine:
The absolute empire proclaimed together with the principle of equity the authority of the imperial will unfettered by the barrier of law. Justinian with his learned professors brought this process to its conclusion.
Struggle for Economic Freedom
When it comes to show what the Englishmen of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries made of the classical tradition they had rediscovered, any brief account must inevitably consist mainly of quotations. But many of the most telling and instructive expressions of the central doctrine as it developed are less well known than they deserve. Nor is it generally remembered today that the decisive struggle between King and Parliament which led to the recognition and elaboration of the Rule of Law was fought mainly over the kind of economic issues which are again the center of controversy today. To the nineteenth-century historians the measures of James I and Charles I which produced the conflict seemed antiquated abuses without topical interest. Today, some of these disputes have an extraordinarily familiar ring. (In 1628 Charles I refrained from nationalizing coal only when it was pointed out to him that it might cause a rebellion!)
Throughout the period it was the demand for equal laws for all citizens by which Parliament opposed the King's efforts to regulate economic life. Men then seem to have understood better than they do today that the control of production always means the creation of privilege, of giving permission to Peter to do what Paul is not allowed to do. The first great statement of the principle of the Rule of Law, of certain and equal laws for all and of the limitation of administrative discretion, is contained in the Petition of Grievances of 1610; it was caused by new regulations for building in London and the prohibition of the making of starch from wheat which the King had made. On this occasion the House of Commons pleaded:
Among many other points of happiness and freedom which Your Majesty's subjects of this kingdom have enjoyed under your royal progenitors, Kings and Queen of this realm, there is none which they have accounted more dear and precious than this, to be guided and governed by the certain rule of law, which giveth both to the head and the members that which of right belongeth to them, and not by any uncertain and arbitrary form of government. . . . Out of this root hath grown the indisputable right of the people of this kingdom, not to be subject to any punishment that shall extend their lives, lands, bodies, or goods, other than such as are ordained by the common law of this land, or the statutes made by their common consent in Parliament.
The further development of what contemporary Socialist lawyers have contemptuously dismissed as the Whig doctrine of the Rule of Law was closely connected with the fight against government-conferred monopoly and particularly with the discussion around the Statute of Monopolies of 1624. It was mainly in this connection that that great source of Whig doctrine, Sir Edward Coke, developed his interpretation of Magna Carta which led him to declare (in his second Institutes):
If a grant be made to any man, to have the sole making of cards or the sole dealing with any other trade, that grant is against the liberty and freedom of the subject … and consequently against this great charter.
We have already noticed the characteristic positions taken on the critical point of executive discretion by Hobbes and Harrington respectively. We are not interested here in tracing the further steps in the development of the doctrine and shall pass over even its classical exposition by John Locke, except for the rarely noticed modern justification which he gives it. Its a'im is to him what contemporary writers have called the "taming of power":
Laws made and rules set … to limit the power and moderate the dominion of every part and member of society.
The form in which the doctrine became the common property of an Englishmen was determined, however, as is probably always true in such cases, more by the historians who presented the achievements of the revolution to later generations than by the writings of the political theorists. Thus, if we want to know what the tradition in question meant to the Englishman of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, we can hardly do better than turn to David Hume's History of England which indeed is to a large extent an interpretation of political progress from "government of will" to "government of law." There is particularly one passage, referring to the abolition of the Star Chamber in 1641, which shows what he regarded as the chief significance of the constitutional developments of the seventeenth century:
No government, at that time, appeared in the world, nor is perhaps found in the records of any history, which subsisted without a mixture of some arbitrary authority, committed to some magistrate; and it might reasonably, beforehand, appear doubtful whether human society could ever arrive at that state of perfection, as to support itself with no other control, than the general and rigid maxims of law and equity. But the Parliament justly thought that the King was too eminent a magistrate to be trusted with discretionary power, which he might so easily turn to the destruction of liberty. And in the event it has been found that, though some inconveniencies arise from the maxim of adhering strictly to law, yet, the advantages so much overbalance them, as should render the English forever grateful to the memory of their ancestors who, after repeated contests, at last established that noble principle.
Later, of course, this Whig doctrine found its classic expression in many familiar passages of Edmund Burke. But if we want a more precise statement of its content we have to turn to some of his lesser contemporaries. A characteristic statement which has been attributed to Sir Philip Francis (but which probably occurs in the Junius letters) is the following:
The government of England is a government of law. We betray ourselves, we contradict the spirit of our laws, and we shake the whole system of English jurisprudence, whenever we entrust a discretionary power over the life, liberty, or fortune of the subject to any man, or set of men, whatsoever, on the presumption that it will not be abused.
The fullest account of the rationale of the whole doctrine which I know occurs, however, in the chapter "Of the Administration of Justice" in Archdeacon Paley's Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy:
The first maxim of a free state is, that the laws be made by one set of men, and administered by another; in other words, that the legislative and the judicial character be kept separate. When these offices are united in the same person or assembly, particular laws are made for paricular cases, springing oftentimes from partial motives, and directed to private ends: whilst they are kept separate, general laws are made by one body of men, without forseeing whom they will affect; and, when made, must be applied by the other, let them affect whom they will….
Parliament knows not the individuals upon whom its acts will operate: it has no case or parties before it: no private designs to serve: consequently, its resolutions will be suggested by the consideration of universal effects and tendencies, which always produce impartial and commonly advantageous regulations.
Here, I suggest, we have nearly all the elements which together produce the complex doctrine which the nineteenth century took for granted under the name of the Rule of Law. The main point is that, in the use of its coercive powers, the discretion of the authorities should be so strictly bound by laws laid down beforehand that the individual can foresee with fair certainty how these powers will be used in particular instances; and that the laws themselves are truly general and create no privileges for class or person because they are made in view of their long-run effects and therefore in necessary ignorance of who will be the particular individuals who will be benefited or harmed by them. That the law should be an instrument to be used by the individuals for their ends and not an instrument used upon the people by the legislators is the ultimate meaning of the Rule of Law.
Since this Rule of Law is a rule for the legislator, a rule about what the law ought to be, it can, of course, never be a rule of the positive law of any land. The legislator can never effectively limit his own powers. The rule is rather a meta-legal principle which can operate only through its action on public opinion. So long as it is generally believed in, it will keep legislation within the bounds of the Rule of Law. Once it ceases to be accepted or understood by public opinion, soon the law itself will be in conflict with the Rule of Law.
(This is the first part of a two part series on "Decline of the Rule of Law".)


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The Inner West Sydney is an area directly west of the Sydney central business district, New South Wales, Australia. The suburbs of the Inner West are predominantly located along the southern shore of Port Jackson (Parramatta River), stretching south to the shores of the Cooks River. The western boundary is Homebush Bay Drive & Centenary Drive.
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The Inner West is an imprecise geographical region. The Australian Government Bureau of Statistics,[2] the New South Wales Government Department of Planning and Infrastructure,[3] and local media variously describe the Inner West region to include the local government areas of:
Based on the distribution area of the Inner West Courier local newspaper[4] and various Inner West Courier and media articles, the Inner West generally includes the suburbs:
Indigenous land
Prior to the arrival of the First Fleet, the Sydney region was home to the Darug people. This nation was broken up into a number of Aboriginal clans who tended to live in a certain geographic area. Each clan contained about 50 to 100 people and, to avoid genetic problems, the men would marry women from other clans. So the clans were interrelated and members from one clan would frequently travel in the territory of others, including to hunt, trade and perform ceremonies. They didn't consider themselves owners of the land, rather custodians.[5]
What is now the Inner West was formerly home to two clans, the Cadigal, whose land stretched along Port Jackson from South Head to Lewisham, and the Wangal, whose land was immediately to the west of the Cadigals and stretched to about Homebush Bay. Other clans that would have been regular visitors to the area would have included the Birrabirragal and Muru-ora-dial in what is now the Eastern Suburbs, the Bediagal and Kameygal from the Cooks River area to the south, the Burramattagal from the Parramatta area to the west, and the Wallumattagal, Cammeraigal and Gorualgal from the northern shores of the Parramatta River.[6]
The topography of the Inner West reflects rolling hills intersected by shallow valleys through which waterways including Iron Cove Creek, Hawthorne Canal (formerly Long Cove Creek), Whites Creek and Johnstons Creek flow. These waterways have been drastically altered since the late 19th century by the means of concrete lining. In the 1860s iron Cove Creek was a freely flowing waterway which in places broadened into ponds that made excellent and picturesque swimming holes. It is now barely a trickle lined by residential areas, parkland and fast-food restaurants.
The suburbs within the region are characterised by a wide range of housing, ranging from timber cottages in Leichhardt and Lilyfield to substantial mansions in Stanmore and Strathfield and increasing amounts of medium to high-density housing, particularly along the railway lines. The Inner West includes some of the older constructions in Sydney such as the terraced houses of Glebe, Newtown and Annandale. Balmain has many old stone houses, dating from the mid to late 1800's. Parts of the inner west have been subject to gentrification, particularly in Marrickville, Newtown and its surrounding areas.[7][8]
It is also the location of several tertiary institutions such as Australian Catholic University, Catholic Institute of Sydney, the University of Sydney, which is reflected in the high student populations amongst the more downtown areas.
The Inner West also features schools such as Sydney Secondary College, Fort Street High School, Burwood Girls High School, Homebush Boys High School, Strathfield Girls High School, Ashfield Boys High School, Presbyterian Ladies' College, Sydney, Meriden School, MLC School, St. Patrick's College, Strathfield, Trinity Grammar School, Newington College and its preparatory school Wyvern House, Santa Sabina College and Rosebank College. The Inner West's two oldest schools are Newington College (established in 1863) and Rosebank College (established in 1867).
Public transport in the region includes trains, buses, ferries and light rail.[9] Sydney Trains Airport, Inner West & South Line runs from Central station, largely running south of Parramatta Road to Strathfield and then to Macarthur via Granville. The Northern Line follows the same route to Strathfield and then branches off to the north to Epping, with stops at North Strathfield, Concord West and Rhodes. The Bankstown Line provides train services to suburbs such as Erskineville, St Peters, Sydenham, Marrickville and Dulwich Hill. There are various bus routes provided largely by State Transit. Sydney Ferries operates services in the inner harbour and Parramatta river. The Dulwich Hill Line of Sydney's light rail network connects Pyrmont, Glebe, Lilyfield, Leichhardt and Lewisham to Central railway station.
Parramatta Road runs through the middle of this area. Although still playing only a small part in the overall transport task, use of bicycles for transport has increased significantly in the Inner West since the 1990s. Denser populations and shorter distances mean cycling is often quicker and more convenient than driving or taking public transport. A network of bicycle paths, signed bicycle routes on local streets and other aids to safe and convenient cycling is developing. Main bicycle routes include an East-West route from Five Dock to the Anzac Bridge cycleway, a Northwest route from Gladesville Bridge to Anzac Bridge, a Southwest Route from Marrickville to the City via Newtown. Groups of local bicycle user groups (BUGs) provide help for new cyclists, under the parent banner of Bicycle New South Wales.[10]
The local government areas with responsibility for the Inner West are Burwood, Inner West Council, and Strathfield. Parts of Canterbury-Bankstown and the City of Sydney are sometimes considered to be part of the Inner West region.
In the state parliament, the region is represented by the electoral districts of Balmain, Canterbury, Drummoyne, Newtown, Strathfield and Summer Hill. Following the 2015 state election, these seats were divided amongst the three main parties with Drummoyne represented by the Liberal Party, Canterbury, Strathfield and Summer Hill represented by the Australian Labor Party, and Balmain and Newtown represented by The Greens.[11]
In the federal parliament, the area is represented by the electorate of Grayndler and part of the electorates of Reid, Sydney and Watson (which also encompasses a substantial section of the Canterbury-Bankstown area). Three of these four seats are currently held by the Labor Party, with the seat of Reid represented by the Liberal Party at the 2013 federal election, which won the seat for the first time in 91 years.[12]
The Inner West is represented in the National Rugby League by the Wests Tigers, a merger of the Balmain and Western Suburbs clubs. In the tier below known as the New South Wales Cup, the area is represented by the Newtown Jets and Wests Tigers.
In rugby union, the area is represented by Sydney Uni (the University of Sydney) and West Harbour in the Sydney grade competition. The Inner West also has many semi-professional soccer teams playing in the various divisions of the NSW State Leagues. The most high profile club is NSW Premier League side APIA Leichhardt Tigers.
In the 2016 Census, the most common responses for religion in the Sydney Inner West were No Religion, 31.7%, Catholic 27.4%, Not stated 9.4%, Anglican 6.9% and Hinduism 5.4%.[13]
- Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Sydney - Inner West (SA4)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 15 August 2019.
- "1216.0 NSW statistical divisions, subdivisions, local areas". Australian Bureau of Statistics. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
- "Centres and corridors — Inner West" (PDF). NSW Department of Planning. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2008. Retrieved 30 July 2008.
- "Inner West Courier - Inner West Edition Distribution". NewsLocal (News Corp Australia). Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- Speed the Plough — Ashfield 1788-1988, by Sheena & Robert Coupe, published by Ashfield Municipal Council, 1988 ISBN 0-9595234-1-3
- Archived October 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- Tovey, Josephine. "Bars open, property up: arise the 'new Paddington'". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- Horin, Adele. "Grunge gives way to gentrification in streets of Newtown". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 15 November 2013.
- "Inner West - Sydney City". Retrieved 14 March 2016.
- Home - Bicycle NSW
- "NSW State Election 2011". Elections NSW. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
- Needham, Kirsty (8 September 2013). "Bloodbath in west just did not happen". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 November 2013.
- "Sydney - Inner West (SA4)". 2016 Census QuickStats. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
External links
Sydney/Inner West travel guide from Wikivoyage
- Inner West Live - Community Blog by local Inner West people


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"Make the comeback stronger than your setback"
Lately, I've been talking to a few people with similar situations and I thought I'd post about it. It's nearing the end of 2017 and I just want to impart some of my thoughts on how to handle failure, reoccuring mistakes, and feeling sorry for yourself and my approach to it.
I am the biggest critic of myself, I have self-doubts, and sometimes I let some of these negative opinions bother me. I also have my fair share on things that let me down. Things I thought would be my saving grace, whether it be financial success upon graduation, being in a stable career, and so on. If there's one thing I learned from the amount of time I've had being 27 is that failure is what will lead you to your true calling and what you are meant for. If it didn't work out better luck next time. Also, you don't have to be 13, 27, or 52 to realize this. You can start to realize that failures are just a minor set back to what you are really destined to do right now as I tell you this.
Reoccuring mistakes
If you don't see a problem, it won't be solved. If you can't admit to your own mistakes, you are also partly the problem and the solution (if you choose). I think sometimes we as people need to see that we are all imperfect and we all have a choice. We are imperfect in the way that we all make mistakes. I think sometimes the problem is we tend to fight or develop self-loathe because we want acceptance and love (which is all necessary). Despite all the things you hate about yourself there are many qualities you are and should aim to be. Know you are capable beyond belief to choose and that you deserve self-love and happiness.
Sometimes we face conflicts with ourselves by comparing or wanting to be something we aren't to fit in. I think thats when social media is bad. That's when you need to reevaluate your friendships and your life. Here's something you can try, if you're a social media junky like me. Remember back in the day when we didn't have Instagram or Facebook?
Rip the band-aid and stop feeling sorry for yourself, you are braver than you think
This is a big issue. If you linger on the problem, you are just going around like a goldfish in a fishbowl. We all have struggles to deal with, but it's the way we deal with these struggles that are most important. This is where I think experiencing new surroundings, becoming friends with people who have a different culture than you or younger/older than you, and meeting people from all walks of life is much needed and so important. Whatever it is you are facing, you need to know that you are worth it, you deserve the best life has to offer, and you are not alone. Everything you feel is only human. Let all failures and mistakes make you stronger.
Muniba Mazari
Muniba has faced adversity with such grace that it reminds us all to cultivate gratitude for the life we live and to stand tall and face our challenges. Sometimes we get lost in things we wish we were or had rather than see what we already have in front of us. She strives to show and encourage us to put our best self forward despite the things that may hinder us along the way. Hear her story below.
Welcome 2018 in this way. Make your comeback stronger than your setbacks.
"Don't die before your death. Real happiness lies in gratitude"
Love always,


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- Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume s1-25, Issue 5, 1 Sep 1945, p. 385 - 389
The Douroucouli (Aotus) in Laboratory Cycles of Yellow Fever 1
Four douroucoulis (Aotus trivirgatus) from the Villavicencio area of eastern Colombia were tested in laboratory cycles of yellow fever with the mosquito Haemagogus capricornii and a local strain of virus. All four animals showed acute, fatal infections, characterized by fever and a very high titer of circulating virus; death occurred on the fourth or fifth day after infection. Three of the animals showed stomach hemorrhage, and liver tissue from all four showed lesions characteristic of fatal yellow fever in man and rhesus monkeys. Virus was transmitted by the bite of the mosquito Haemagogus capricornii from saimiri to douroucouli, douroucouli to douroucouli, and douroucouli to saimiri. There is some evidence that the douroucouli may be important in the epidemiology of yellow fever, since it is said to be the only monkey in certain areas in Colombia where the disease is endemic.
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A new poll shows Pennsylvania native Rick Santorum now losing his home state to former Massachusetts governor and GOP front-runner Mitt Romney.
In the latest Public Policy Poll in Pennsylvania, Romney is now leading Santorum 42 to 37 percent. However, the margin of error is +/- 4.9 percent, thus making the race a virtual dead heat.
Nonetheless, Santorum's struggles in Pennsylvania may be magnifying the core issue that many GOP voters doubt that he could defeat President Obama in a general election and that Romney has a much better chance.
"The momentum in Pennsylvania is moving completely against Rick Santorum," said Dean Debnam, PPP's president in a written statement. "Mitt Romney has a great chance to deliver a final crushing blow to his campaign on April 24. A home state loss would be incredibly embarrassing for Santorum."
According to the poll, only 36 percent of GOP voters think Santorum has a realistic chance at the nomination to 54 percent who believe he does not. And when it comes to matching up against Barack Obama in the fall, only 24 percent of Republicans think Santorum would provide their best chance for a victory while 49 percent think that designation belongs to Romney.
Political analysts view a Romney win in Pennsylvania as not only a setback, but also a huge blow for Santorum if he wanted to run for any office in the future. Although the former Pennsylvania senator served a total of 16 years in Congress, his devastating 16-point loss in 2006 leave some wondering if he is the right person to take on Obama in 2012.
"We have to win here, and we plan on winning here," Santorum said on Wednesday while campaigning in Pennsylvania. "People in Pennsylvania know me. All of the negative attacks, I think, are going to fall on a lot of deaf ears here, and we've got a strong base of support here."
Meanwhile, the Romney campaign is sensing an opportunity to upstage Santorum in his home state and they are showcasing a list of Keystone GOP Leaders who have endorsed the former Massachusetts governor.
The list includes former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, former Gov. Mark Schweiker, Rep. Jim Gerlach, Rep. Bill Shuster, Rep. Charlie Dent and Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick to name a few.
Romney made a campaign swing through Pennsylvania on Wednesday and stopped in Broomall to rally a group of suburban GOP moderates who have made up the base of his support thus far. Romney is campaigning in Scranton and Harrisburg today.
Santorum has chosen to take Easter weekend off to rest, worship and spend time with his family prior to resuming his campaign schedule in his home state on Monday.


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- Title The Complete Windows 7 Shortcuts
- Author(s) Nitin Agarwal
- Publisher: The Windows Club (2010)
- eBook 43 pages
- Language: English
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This eBook comprises of more than 200 keyboard shortcuts containing almost all the keyboard shortcuts that are available in Windows 7 and its default programs like Paint, WordPad, MS Office, Calculator, Help, Media Player, Media Center, Windows Journal, Internet Explorer, etc. Topics covered include: What is Keyboard & how to use it?, How keys are organized on a standard Keyboard, Typing & editing the text using Keyboard, Using Keyboard Shortcuts, Find program shortcuts, Choose menus, commands, and options, Some useful shortcuts, Using the keyboard extras, Using navigation keys, Using the numeric keypad, Three odd keys, Use your keyboard safely, Create keyboard shortcuts to open programs, Make the keyboard easier to use, Type without using the keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard), Set On-Screen Keyboard to use for various handy tasks.About the Authors
Nitin Agarwal is an independent technology analyst for Windows IT Pro and other Microsoft products. He writes about Windows 7 and gives tech updates on his blog, known as Windows Lifestyle (www.windowslifestyle.com). He is an active member of Microsoft forums & communities. TheWindowsClub is his favorite Windows discussion forum.
He is Microsoft Certified Professional and also completed various courses, Clinics & certifications conducted by Microsoft eLearning Website. He also attended several of Webcasts, Podcasts & Virtual Techdays sessions conducted by Microsoft MVPs, Professionals & Windows Experts.
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If you're expecting a new baby, then you probably know that you have to buy a lot of accessories. The stroller is one of the most important things you have to get for your baby. You need a good-quality item, because you will use it a lot. Most parents use the stroller at least until the baby is two years old. When you go outside, a safe, easy to maneuver stroller is a must. Unfortunately, strollers are pretty expensive items. But, if you shop around a little, you will certainly find cheap strollers, which are also safe and reliable.
Cheap Strollers, Just As Safe As Expensive Ones
Paying hundred of dollars on a stroller it's frustrating. This is why, if you are expecting, you should start searching for cheap strollers in advance. If not, you will end up paying a lot of money on one, because you really need it and you don't have the time wait a special offer. There are some features that are very important with strollers. You need to be very careful with the safety features, like the belt and the different positions of the stroller. The seatbelt should be able to hold the baby inside, whether he or she is standing up or lying down. You need to know that cheap strollers have the same safety features as the expensive ones. Stroller manufacturers must follow a lot of safety rules and they can't sell items that weren't tested and approved by authorities as being safe. This is why you don't have to worry if you can't afford expensive ones and you are trying to find cheap strollers. You baby will be perfectly safe, whether you buy expensive strollers or cheap ones. The price difference generally comes from the number of accessories and size, or is strictly brand related. Most parents, especially when they have their first baby, tend to buy really expensive accessories. They feel like their child deserves the best, and they are totally right. Only that the best items aren't necessarily the most expensive ones. The same thing is true when it comes to strollers. Cheap strollers do the same job as expensive ones, so you really don't need to pay double or triple just to get a certain brand.
Buy Cheap Strollers Online
A good place to start searching for inexpensive strollers is online. Online stores and sales websites have a lot of special offers and discounts, and you don't have to spend hours in a busy mall to see different models. If you want to buy a certain brand, but that particular brand it's outside your price range, you can wait for sales and discounts. If you are getting all the baby items you need from the same place, which means that you will spend a lot of money there, you can ask the seller for a discount.
Cheap Strollers For Practical People
There are lots of cheap strollers that might be perfect for you and your baby. All you have to do is analyze your needs and think about the way you will use the stroller. If you are an active family and you like to go out a lot, then probably a big, expensive stroller is not the right accessory for you. A compact, light stroller is not only affordable, but also easier to maneuver and helps you maintain your active lifestyle. If you travel a lot with your baby, you need a durable, light item – you can find a lot of great travel strollers that are quite cheap.
Most new parents have to manage on pretty tight budgets. Clothes, furniture, car chairs or strollers – they all cost a lot of money. Don't waste your money on unnecessary items and accessories. Brand strollers, with a lot of accessories, might temp you, but you need to be realistic about how much you will use such an item. Do you really think you should pay double or triple on a stroller, just because it has one supplementary position, has some toys attached to the snack table or it's large enough not for a baby, but for a 6 years old? You will be use the stroller when you go shopping or walking in the park – you need it to be light, easy to pack and easy to maneuver. And, if you can find cheap strollers that have all those characteristics, why pay extra?


text: DNR's own Associate Professor Angela K. Fuller has been elected as a The Wildlife Society Fellow in recognition of her exceptional service to the wildlife profession. TWS Fellows are appointed for life and serve as ambassadors of The Wildlife Society. The Award will be presented during The Wildlife's 24th Annual conference at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Congratulations, Angela!


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LAS VEGAS - The Penguins' Evgeni Malkin, who led the league in scoring this season, won the Hart Trophy as the NHL's most valuable player Wednesday, besting the Lightning's Steven Stamkos and the Rangers' Henrik Lundqvist
Malkin, who had 50 goals and 109 points, won the Hart for the first time at the league awards ceremony at the Wynn Las Vegas casino. The award is voted on by the Professional Hockey Writers Association. Malkin had 1,473 points to 598 for Stamkos and 144 first-place votes to one for Stamkos. Lundqvist finished third.
The Penguins center also won the MVP award voted on by the players, the Ted Lindsay Award, over the Lightning center, who led the league with 60 goals (and was presented with the Rocket Richard Trophy for that accomplishment), and the Rangers goalie. "This is the best day of my life," Malkin said.
Stamkos said he was disappointed but hadn't expected to win. "I knew that not making the playoffs was going to hurt my chances," he said on a blog he did for NHL.com. "(Malkin) had a dominant season. He deserves both. It's just an honor in itself to be nominated for those awards."
Lundqvist won the Vezina Trophy as the top goalie.
The Blues' Ken Hitchcock, who replaced fired Davis Payne in November, won the Jack Adams Award as coach of the year. He went 43-15-11 and took St. Louis to the Central Division title. The Blues lost in the second round of the playoffs to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Kings.
Hitchcock dedicated his award to his friend and coaching pal Lightning assistant Wayne Fleming, who has brain cancer.
The Lightning has another connection to Hitchcock, he said, one not affectionate. He said the best team he has coached was the 2003-04 Flyers, who lost to eventual Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay in the East final. "I thought, quite frankly, we were unstoppable," he said.
All-Stars: Malkin was voted a first-team all-star by the hockey writers and Stamkos the center on the second team. Also on the first team: Lundqvist; defensemen Shea Weber of the Predators and Erik Karlsson of the Senators, and on the wings Pittsburgh's James Neal and the Devils' Ilya Kovalchuk. No other Lightning player made the teams.
surprise performance: Stamkos said he had no idea he would be participating in a bit with Dancing With the Stars' Cheryl Burke during the show, broadcast on the NBC Sports Network.
"(Burke) was doing a scene beside me, and I saw the teleprompter, saw my name, and I was like, 'Oh no, I might have to get up here,' " he said on the NHL.com blog. "She made me dip her - at least that's what I think they call the move in dancing - and I was on a little bit of an incline there, so I was a little worried, but I didn't drop her. Man, if I did, I probably would have gotten sued by Dancing With the Stars."
Burke said on Twitter, "Thank you Steven Stamkos for dipping me. You really should do (Dancing With the Stars)!!"
around the league: Flyers wing Claude Giroux was voted by fans to be on the cover of EA Sports' NHL 13 video game. ... Rob Zombie, the director of the horror movies House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects and a reimagining of Halloween, will write and direct a movie about the Flyers' Stanley Cup-winning Broad Street Bullies teams of the 1970s, he told Hollywood news website deadline.com.
Fast facts
NHL awards
Winners of the major NHL awards:
Hart (MVP voted by media): Evgeni Malkin, Penguins
Lindsay (MVP voted by players): Evgeni Malkin
Vezina (top goalie): Henrik Lundqvist, Rangers
Norris (top defenseman): Erik Karlsson, Senators
Calder (top rookie): Gabriel Landeskog, Avalanche
Jack Adams (top coach):Ken Hitchcock, Blues
See the complete list at NHL.com.


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Desire is one of the most difficult emotions to assuage.
Month: January 2011
On Programming
Programming is like writing an essay in the language of logic.
Creativity and Success
Creativity is not about success, but about the joy and fulfillment of creating.
Unconditional Love
Though love is neither an ability nor a skill, it takes practice to love unconditionally.
Handling Differences
We cannot get along with everyone, but we can get beyond our differences.