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Last night was a monumental moment for hip-hop as Drake headlined the final night of Coachella's opening weekend. During his performance he busted out a few songs from his surprise new album If You're Reading This It's Too Late. The biggest (and most bizarre) moment of his set came midway through, when Madonna made a surprise appearance. After a brief performance of "Human Nature" and "Hung Up" she circled around Drizzy, leaned down, and initiated a long, kiss. After a few seconds, she uttered her latest catchphrase "B**ch, I'm Madonna" – and sauntered offstage. Watch the entire performance after the jump. It's a doozy.
Esco hit the stage at Coachella last night where he performed Illmatic in its entirety, while getting some help from a few old friends.
While hanging out at Coachella over the weekend, Mr. Numbers On The Boards hooks up with the good people over at FUSE to talk about one of the most anticipated albums coming up. Read More
Digital Domain Media Group, the company responsible for the Tupac hologram at Coachella, has filed for bankruptcy. Read More
Some of the best footage to come out of the festival so far. Kendrick Lamar, A$Ap Rocky, Odd Future, Alchemist, Snoop Dogg, and more make guest spots. Read More
This past weekend Tupac Shakur made his first public appearance since his tragic death in 1996. He could not have chosen a better place to make his triumphant return, a sold out arena there to see his former Death Row mates Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. When 2Pac suddenly appeared on stage the excitement was palpable, Pac had been known to be a restless soul releasing posthumous albums for years after his death. A live performance, however was something different altogether.
2Pac only spent a brief time on stage but it was clear that he did not miss a step. While Snoop and Dre were clearly worst for the wear since his departure, 2Pac was his old energetic self. He barreled through the first verse of fan-favorite "Hail Mary" then treated the crowd to a gangsta party as he teamed up with Snoop for "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted". Noticeably missing was "California Love" with Dr. Dre but that is probably asking too much from a rap icon who had been dead for fifteen years.
The Internet has been abuzz with 2Pac's holographic appearance since the news and video broke on Monday. Twitter had 2Pac trending for the first time since the anniversary of his death in September. Facebook became a hotbed of discussion concerning the ethics of hologram projecting a deceased music icon on stage.
In one of the conversations I was involved in people wondered aloud if Dre and Snoop are given a free pass on resurrecting Pac how long until other artist begin to imitate them. How long before Nas is regularly doing duets with Bob Marley? How long until Drake revives his long-time crush Aaliyah for a remix of "One in a Million"? The Hip Hop Community may need skis for the slippery slope the good Doctor has set us down.
The danger does not stop there however. how long until these hologram artists begin going on tour by themselves? How long until P. Diddy, in collaboration with the Christopher Wallace Estate, produces "The Life After Death Afterlife Tour". A tour, starring a hologram makes perfect business sense. The hologram does not need a hotel room or security. It does not need a steady stream of liquor or even a hot meal. The hologram rapper would not even need a tour bus. It could travel in the trunk of the tech guy's Ford Focus.
I am 27, when Pac and BIG died I was twelve. I never got to see either in concert, if you could reproduce that priceless experience for $35 a ticket, would I go? I do not know, but I would sure be sorely tempted. If you do not have front row seats it would be difficult to tell who is being projected and who is not anyway. From the nose bleeds Snoop probably looked just as ethereal as 2Pac did.
The Hip Hop purist in me says no to holograms! Whether the artist is living, dead, consenting or not I would rather have a flesh and blood person behind a mic. However, is there not something alluring about having your favorite artist in the prime of his career with perfect breathe control? They would not miss a beat, would not show up to the arena forty-five minutes late. For promoters they would not even have to pay them! Sure the projection crew would be paid but they would be paid peanuts compared to what these artists garnered at the prime of their careers.
These are all interesting questions and possibilities. One, must keep in mind that in order for a virtual 2Pac, or any other deceased artist for that matter, to go on tour it would need the approval of the person's estate. The overseer's of the estate will have the final say over who gets projected on to stage and who does not. However, now that Pandora's Box has been opened it is going to take a lot more than Afeni Shakur to close it. Word.


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Alternative Ballistics, based in San Diego California, shows an inside look at what it would be like to use "The Alternative". It's a handgun accessory which prevents death by firing a bullet that embeds to a metallic ball while shooting, causing harm to the suspect, but not killing him/her.
In a stressful situation, you will not rise to the occasion. You will default to your training. This has been pounded into my head by one firearms instructor after another, including those who train law enforcement officers.
Most people I know who have undergone law enforcement training are taught to fire "controlled pairs" (two sight pictures, two trigger presses) or "hammers" (one sight picture, two fast trigger presses) at shorter ranges, along with "failure drills" (a controlled pair to the center of mass, followed by a third shot to the head). Two shots. Two shots. Three shots.
Officers are taught to fire multiple shots before assessing the situation because handguns are inherently weak, and a single shot is very unlikely to stop a lethal force threat.
I don't see the law enforcement officer using "the Alternative" overcoming his training when he puts a clown nose on his gun. I see him firing the clown nose at the suspect, with the second, real bullet impacting a split second later. It is what he has trained his entire career. He will default to his training.
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Hi Cesare, sorry for the slow response, comments embedded. Am Monday 09 January 2012 schrieb Cesare Leonardi: > On 07/01/2012 18:48, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > I recently setup zram (for compressed swap space in RAM) on an older low > > RAM machine. I was quite happy with the result and started now to do the > > same setup also on my other machines. I am wondering if anybody is > > investigating, if debian should do that by default when installing a new > > machine or even better also when machines get upgraded. > > Hi Rainer. > > What do you mean saying that you are happy with the result? In what > aspects? see below... > I ask you because while i'm skeptical too in wasting ram for swap, i > think i'll give zram a try to see the effects on responsiveness of > dormant application. > > Let me explain. > There is something that i find annoying in the default kernel setup and > is its tendency to swap out to disk even when there are plenty free ram. > So if you have an open application that you leave dormant while doing > other things (that app could be also the Gnome menu, for example), when > you'll need that you'll find a strange lag and unusual disk work. The > system is swapping even if the ram is about 50% free! > > So, in the past, i've modified the kernel setting with vm.swappiness=0 > (from the default=60). > Now it's better but not sufficient to avoid swap: for example today, > with an uptime of about 8 hours without suspend to ram or to disk, i > have 47 MB of used swap. And i see its effect as lag when i want to > restore from the screen saver or when i use the applet to change display > brightness, and so on. > > I'm almost sure that there is some other parameter that i could change > to avoid that preventive swap. In the past i've done some searches but i > found that was not so easy, as some other related parameters had to be > used with care. So i gave up. > And i also know it's a debated area, where different points of view > apply: IIRC Andrew Morton is one that is for vm.swappiness=100, to > minimize wasting ram from least used applications, that are moved to the > swap quite fastly. Probably if you have a super fast SSD the swap is not > so perceptible. > > So, returning to zram, maybe have you seen good result from a > responsiveness point of view? On one system, that is exactly, that is what I observe. Before disk swap was always used, now I have never seen that disk swap is ever used in this system: I posted this before: blackbox:~# swapon -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sdd partition 3910652 0 -1 /dev/zram0 partition 2070080 6360 100 /dev/zram1 partition 2070080 6388 100 blackbox:~# And certainly accessing zram is faster than accessing swap hdd. I do not see delays due to swap access anymore on my desktop.....this was in particular visible, since I migrated to an SSD on that system (and left swap on a frequently spin down hdd). The other system is a low end system with 512 MB RAM and it is running KDE4. With zram the system is much more responsive than just with HDD swap space. > In fact the point that i find interesting with zram is that, if you have > plenty of free ram, you can use it as a swap area for the data that, on > average on your desktop pc, the kernel will usually swap out (in my case > always < 100 MB). I guess that could have a positive impact on > responsiveness of the least used processes. > > Now, the best solution would be to tweak the right kernel parameters to > make it swap in a way i like more, rather than this hack. And the bad > opinion expressed so far make me more pessimist. > > By the way, i'll give it a try. ;-) Let us know what is the outcome. I think it would be good if we would have quantitative benchmarks....next time, when I have access to the low end system myself, I could try to measure boot time + KDE login time + Iceweasel start time + digikam start time + libreoffice start time + shutdown time or something like that with and without zram.... It certainly does not measure responsiveness, but I hope that avoiding hdd swap space gives a total speedup.... Thanks, Rainer -- Rainer Dorsch Lärchenstr. 6 D-72135 Dettenhausen 07157-734133 email: firstname.lastname@example.com jabber: email@example.com GPG Fingerprint: 5966 C54C 2B3C 42CC 1F4F 8F59 E3A8 C538 7519 141E Full GPG key: http://pgp.mit.edu/
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Raven is a bit under the weather this week and briefly forgot how numbers work before we pressed the record button. Sorry if it's all a bit flaky! We had the wonderful Caz with us though and it's a great show.
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The cogeneration plant is situated at an altitude of 328 m asl and has been in operation since 2009. The plant, fired by biomass (virgin wood from short supply chain), produces electricity, which is sold to the grid and sanitary hot water through the district heating networks in Cassettone, Pratomano and Cacosio in the municipal area of Sedrina. The network has a length of about 14 km.
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Adolf Hitler, the simple mention of his name conjures up memories of total war, death and destruction on an unprecedented scale, and always the deaths of millions of Jews and other "undesirables" in the Holocaust. How did this happen? How was it possible that a failed artist could rebuild Germany in just six years, challenge the world to mortal combat, and nearly win? He simply possessed what few other politicians of his day had, he was a man driven by an unquenchable thirst for revenge and triumph. Another equally important trait of Hitler's was his ability to gauge his opponent, gamble all, and come out on top. He was a huge risk taker and up till late August 1941, he was almost never wrong.
The story begins with Hitler as the leader of the National Socialists in post-war Germany. The National Socialists or Nazis as they under which moniker they would become famous, were a small, Bavarian fringe party who attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic in a Munich beer hall in 1923. After its dismal failure, Hitler was sentenced to prison where he wrote Mein Kampf, a quasi-autobiography and his justification of his future actions. This book provides a valuable insight into his mind that few had at the outbreak of World War II. In it he states, "Only adequately large space on this earth assures a nation freedom of existence." This may or may not have been a legitimate statement but it was crucial for through his droive to achieve this, he precipated World War II.
With his assumption of power in January 1933, Hitler immediately set about remaking Germany in his image. Discarding all previous arms-limitation treaties, he moved to build the German military into one of the most powerful in the world. Hitler assumed quite correctly, that up to a certain point, the main European powers, Great Britain and France, would let him facillate many bold and provocative political actions. They, especially the United Kingdom felt guilty about the harsh penalties imposed on the German nation by the Versailles Treaty so they had few qualms when Hitler publicly disavowed it in 1935. Likewise, the Great War had badly crippled the economies of both Great Britain and France and in the latter's case, had even handicapped the birth rate for years to come. These two countries could not afford confrontation resulting in war.
Great Britain was in the midst of the Ten Year Plan where the idea was to avoid conflict for ten years in order to stabilize the economy and get the nation back on its feet and out of the then, worldwide depression. Even more importantly, it wanted the nation of Germany built back up because they badly needed the export market and greatly increased potential revenue a resurgent Germany would bring to the world economy. This was a nation with a larger population than either the United Kingdom or France and a normally larger economy and its absence created not only a power but an economic vacuum. Not only did the British feel guilt about the penalties imposed on the Germans by Versailles, they also needed the increased business that only a more powerful Germany could create and support.
France was in a situation that while being to similar to that of Great Britain was also fundamentally different. Being the nation which did most of the fighting against the Germans and the one that lost the most men, France had a deep-seated mistrust and even hatred of the Germans. For the French, if the Germans never dragged themselves back out of poverty, that would be too soon. The French had lost between one-third and one-fourth of all French men during the Great War. Due to this, the birth rate was disastrously low and added on to this was the fact that northern France had suffered tremendous damage from the war. But even with these massive injuries to the nation, French society could not unify for long against the Germans.
True, French action in the occupation of the German industrial heartland; the Ruhr in 1923, had crippled Germany's economy and then destroyed both it and the Mark, but this was not enough. As Machiavelli had stated, "If you see your enemy in the water up to his neck, you will do well to push him under; but if he is only in it up to his knees, you will do well to help him to shore." By this crucial point,
the French had tried the former, but now would not dare think of the later. Still the French social classes and political apparatuses could not agree on any single approach and the country was starting to move towards class war. This was exacerbated by the onset of depression in France in 1936. The bourgeoisie and the upper class wanted a stable Franc among other things, while the proletariat wanted more social spending and higher wages causing inflation and to stir the cauldron more, the leftists and socialists were for the moment running the government. In effect, Hitler had little to fear when he began the dance in 1935.
His actions and decisions were not just statecraft but almost poetic and fluid in his first years, hence the term dance. He maneuvered perfectly between the mutual French and British suspicion of the other and their conflicting interests. He knew just how far and when to push each nation to its limit. His sense of timing was suberb with Great Britain and France. True Italy had aborted his first big move in 1934; the attempted anschluss of Austria, but now they were allies and the path was clear for Germany and the Nazis.
In his first successful move, Hitler renounced the Versailles Treaty in 1935. No one made much noise about it because the action seemed just. This encouraged Hitler. The next year he repudiated the Locarno Treaty guaranteeing and recognizing the borders of Belgium and France. Then he moved to remilitarize the Rhineland and for the first time in eight years, German troops stood on the French border.
This was an extremely risky and inflammatory move on the part of Hitler. He had in essence, announced that he no longer recognized the international borders of both Belgium and France, leaving the way open for possible war over Malmedy and Alsace-Lorraine. On top of this, he had moved the newly reconstituted, but still very weak German army to the borders of the two nations. This was ostensibly to reaffirm German sovereignty over the Rhineland, but in reality, it seemed as if Hitler was testing France and Great Britain.
Once again their was no reaction form the two countries. The British were busy with their empire and rebuilding their economy, letting the French deal with Europe. The French, though, were in no position to take exception to the German manuverings. The French people had just elected a communist-socialist government headed by a Jewish prime minister, Monsieur Blum. Along with the new very working class oriented social policies this infuriated the French upper class. The government almost fell during massive rioting in Paris, partially precipated by the Germans and Hitler felt supremely confident.
When he took over Austria in 1938, no one seemed to care, least of all, the Austrians. Hitler boldly targeted the Czechs next and the three million Sudeten Germans who lived within. Deftly moving between saber rattling and seemingly genuine pleas for justice for the oppressed Sudetenlanders, Hitler pushed France and Great Britain to the brink, one which they were desperate to avoid. The British military had investigated the expediency of going to war over the
Czech crisis and one of their more important conclusions, one about the French armed forces was that, "The French have based their military doctrine on defense, and it seems unlikely that a nation which always acts on a basis of logical thinking and hates last-hour improvisation would leave their fortified zone to undertake a big-scale offensive against prepared positions in enemy country." In short, there would be no war over Czechoslovakia and its subsequent assimilation by the Germans.
Now Hitler honestly believed that the French and the British would never move against him and he set his eyes on a new victim, Poland. Invading Poland on September 1, 1939, he and his close advisors were very surprised and dismayed to find that the French and the British had declared war on Germany. After watching them back down for so long, he could not believe their sudden change of heart. Still with the recently signed Russo-German Non-Aggression Pact coupled with incredibly fast German advances throughout Poland, the issue was decided far before any action could be taken against the Germans. Then, under the guidance of a plan drafted by a young General Manstein, after the rapid occupation of both Denmark and Norway, the Germans seized the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg in a bold move to destroy the fruit of the British and French armies.
Still Hitler almost snatched defeat from the jaw of victory by attempting to order his panzers to halt on the 15 of May. But through the enterprise and drive of several young and very driven generals, notably Heinz Guderian, the military kept moving to cut off the Allies in Belgium before Hitler could do any more damage to the war effort in France. Finally though, Hitler's greatest strengths, his unerring drive and focus and his ability to take risks, would leave him. Oddly enough he was hyper-conservative in wartime and would often almost break down during offensives, Barbarossa in particular. This would end his spectacular string of successes and ultimately bring the fires of ruin and reckoning to the Reichstag itself in May 1945. The most amazing aspect of this quasi-fatalism Hitler displayed was that he had snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in late August
1941 by not allowing his panzer and panzer-grenadier corps to move east to victory. Units, that after destroying eight of the nine Soviet armies would
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S. Bay-Cheng, "Inside/Out: Kris Verdonck and the Ontology of the Box," Kris Verdonck Anthology, ed. Peter Eckersall and Kristof van Baarle. London: Performance Research Books (forthcoming 2019).
S. Bay-Cheng, "Ready for My Close Up," M. Lamar: Negrogothic, ed. M. Lamar. New York: Participant Press (2019): 88-93.
S. Bay-Cheng, "The (Not So) Deep Time of Social Media Theater: An Afterword," Deep Time of the Theatre: Archaeology/Technology of the Senses, ed. Nele Wyants. New York and Basingstroke: Palgrave, 273-283.
S. Bay-Cheng, "Knowledge Transmission: Media and Memory," in A Cultural History of Theatre: Modern Age, ed. Kimberly Solga. Series edited by Tracy Davis and Christopher Balme. London: Bloomsbury Press (2017): 201-220.
S. Bay-Cheng, "Preface: Performance in the Age of Intelligent Warfare," Performance in a Militarized Culture, eds. Lindsey Mantoan and Sara Brady. New York and London: Routledge (2017): xiv-xvi.
S. Bay-Cheng, "Digital Culture" in Performance Studies: Key Words, Concepts, and Theories, ed. Bryan Reynolds. New York: Palgrave (2014): 39-49. (pdf here: sbc-digital-culture-2014)
S. Bay-Cheng, "T.S. Eliot's 1950s Drama" The Decades of Modern British Playwriting: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations. Ed. David Pattie. London: Methuen (2012): 95-118. (pdf: sbc-eliot50s)
S. Bay-Cheng, "Intermediate Bodies: Media Theory in Theatre," Playing with Theory in Theatre Practice. Eds. Megan Alrutz, Julia Listengarten, and M. Van Duyn Wood. New York: Palgrave (2011): 63-74. (pdf here: SBC Intermediate Bodies 2012)
S. Bay-Cheng, "Theatre History and Digital Historiography," Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions. Eds. Henry Bial and Scott Magelssen. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press (2010): 125-136. (pdf here: SBC Digital Historiography 2010)
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S. Bay-Cheng, "Network of Terms," "Temporality," "Telematic," "Virtuality," "Instance: Richard Foreman," "Interactivity," "Intertextuality," Mapping Intermediality in Performance. Eds. Sarah Bay-Cheng, et al. (Amsterdam University Press/University of Chicago Press, 2010): 24-26, 85-90, 99, 142, 163-170, 186, 187. (pdf of book here: Mapping Intermediality in Performance)
S. Bay-Cheng, "Old Possum's Practical Book of Cats and Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats," A Companion to T.S. Eliot. Ed. David Chinitz. Wiley-Blackwell (2009): 228-238. (pdf here: SBC Away We Go 2009)
S. Bay-Cheng, "Avant-Garde Drama: Western Europe," Columbia Encyclopedia of Modern Drama. Eds. Gabrielle Cody and Evert Sprinchorn. Columbia University Press (2007): 107-109. (pdf here: SBC WE avant-garde 2007)
S. Bay-Cheng, "Following the Gaze: The Influence (and Problems) of Feminist Film Theory in Theatre Criticism," Theatre and Film: A Comparative Anthology. Ed. Robert Knopf. Yale University Press (2005): 162-171. (pdf here: SBC Following the Gaze 2005)
S. Bay-Cheng, "Famous Unknowns: The Drama of Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes," Blackwell Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Ed. David Krasner. Blackwell Publishing (2004): 127-141. (pdf here: SBC Famous Unknowns 2007)
S. Bay-Cheng, Introduction to Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, Theatre of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950: A Critical Anthology. Eds. Bert Cardullo and Robert Knopf. New Haven: Yale UP (2001): 422-424. (excerpted from longer essay in Journal of American Drama and Theatre, 2000) (pdf here: SBC Stein Intro 2001)


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In July 2016, HRSA established cooperative agreements with 6 grantees, each of which focuses on a specific aspect of primary care education:
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University of Washington School of Medicine, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, and University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
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Enrolment information for years 8-12
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Not all students who seek admission to The University High School can be accommodated. Parents who feel that the learning of their child would be best fostered at The University High School are invited to make an application.
It is Government policy that parents may apply for a place on behalf of their child in any Government School regardless of where they live. The University High School is held in high regard and, consequently, experiences a very heavy enrolment demand. The School is constantly liaising with the Department of Education and Training regarding the management of enrolment applications which greatly exceed the capacity of the school.
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I moved, from a big dark apartment that I liked in Brooklyn to a big dark house that I hate in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. Clarification: I like both Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley.
My new (temporary!) house has sulfur water. For the unbaptized, sulfur water smells like rotten eggs. Which means every drop of water I use is a negotiation on whether I need to use it. Wash my hands after handling ground meat? I guess so. Rinsing tomatoes and apples before eating? Not anymore. I let flowers die because I don't want to smell the sitting sulfur water in the vase, but also don't want to waste the bottled water on keeping them alive.
I have no friends here. Except for the birds.
Two of my bird friends I brought with me. My two parakeets, Tickles and Dusty. They love it here. They didn't have windows before and now they do, a big one. Sunlight, all day every day, except for the week we moved here, when it rained every day, all day. Tickles has always been friendly and generous, so this transition was easy for him, like any transition for him. Dusty, who's five, is easily frightened and unfriendly and stays in his cage despite being encouraged to fly. Well, he used to. Now he flies around all the time, even to land on my knee, a first. I didn't dare move when he did this, not even to take an Instagram picture. Dusty preened Tickles the other day, another first. Before that, it was always Tickles who preened Dusty.
I won't lie. I'm waiting for my own metamorphosis into social animal.
But for now all I have are birds. There's the usual: cardinals, chicadees, titmice (titmouses?), mourning doves. Red-winged blackbirds in droves, grackles in floods, brown-headed cowbirds by the handfuls. Goldfinches and house finches and a purple finch too. A downy woodpecker twice a day. A wild turkey at the edge of the property.
My new neighbors moved in when I did, two eastern phoebes who built a nest in our eave. They're small, an underwhelming grayish brown, and I imagine they are here because they think I am sweet. I like them best.
I was excited, maybe thrilled, to see a brown thrasher, which my bird app says is uncommon, and white-crowned sparrows, which my bird app says is rare. Though I've seen the white-crowned sparrows every day, so they must really like me.
The misnomered red-bellied woodpecker visits too, as do the catbirds and blue jays, chipping sparrows and song sparrows. When I go for my walks, down those lonesome country roads, robins follow from telephone wire to fence post, making sure I don't get lost.
Just today, for the first time, I saw a common yellowthroat and an eastern wood peewee.
There's a sanctuary close by, an old airfield, that bobolinks and kingbirds party on, and I'm invited but only allowed on the unprotected pathways. I've been here before, metaphorically, at readings in New York where I didn't know anyone and sat in the corner as I watched revelry unfold around me.
So much is different for me here. I own a car for the first time in my life. I have a view of a mountain ridge and a view of a vineyard. I look forward to phone calls.
When I first moved in I had a celebrity sighting of two indigo buntings, in full mating regalia, which led me to believe that seeing spectacular birds was going to be an everyday effortless occurrence. They haven't been back.
So some things are the same. In New York, every few years there was a mass exodus, friends would leave for San Francisco or Portland. Now they leave for L.A. Every time I went to a goodbye party I thought, this will never be me. I'm never leaving. But here I am, left. I didn't even throw myself a goodbye party.
That first week here, I saw northern flickers (a woodpecker who hangs out on the ground) in the backyard. They have adorable red cheeks and black half-moons just below their throats. They were here for a few days and now they're unceremoniously gone. I haven't seen them, and I look, while I pour bottled water into my parakeets' bowls.
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After twenty years, Jane Liddle has gone back home to the Hudson Valley. Her short-story collection Murder was published by 421 Atlanta in March 2016. She is currently working on a novel and a book about daydreams. You can find her on Twitter @janeriddle and liddlejane.tumblr.com. She is a friend to birds.


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Service-disabled veterans are finding a new mission in the
Human Exploitation Rescue Operative Corps.
For the third year running, classes of wounded veterans have gathered for a new mission: to take on a vile and rampant adversary in the online child predator. The former soldiers have been primed to help the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement division process an immense backlog in child exploitation cases.
Virtual warehouses worth of case data sit unexamined on servers around the country. The backlog has weighed heavily on Brian Widener, who leads a computer forensics division within ICE.
"How many victims are sitting there on a computer for X number of months because we didn't get a chance to get to it?" he said. ICE's computer forensics teams processed 3.9 petabytes worth of data on child exploitation cases in 2013, and 5.2 petabytes worth of data in 2014, according to Widener.
This dire staffing need bred the Human Exploitation Rescue Operative (HERO) Corps, a yearlong program to train veterans to use computer forensics to combat the sexual exploitation of children. The program has expanded beyond the veterans of Special Operations Command who initially participated, to include veterans of the National Guard and Reserve. ICE said it has hired several program graduates as computer forensic analysts in its Homeland Security Investigations division.
The application process is competitive. From a pool of 94 applicants, 24 veterans were chosen for the latest class. The curriculum is both technical and emotional, but applicants do not necessarily need computer skills to apply – computers are just one "component of the battle on child exploitation," said Joseph Arata, ICE's chief of strategic recruitment.
The course begins with three weeks focusing on the gravity of the mission. The veterans are trained to cope with a new sort of trauma, that of processing the graphic and disturbing imagery of child exploitation.
Many of the veterans "are driven more than anything else in life by wanting a new mission," said Grier Weeks, executive director of the National Association to Protect Children, the program's nonprofit partner that conducts the immersion training. "And it's been amazing to see how they grab ahold of this mission."
After getting to know the depraved underworld of child predation, the veterans do eight weeks of computer forensics training at ICE's Cyber Crimes Center in Fairfax, Va. They start with the basics -- things like creating hash values to catalog digital images. Within two to three weeks, the veterans have typically earned a CompTIA A+ IT security certification, according to Widener. Software vendors then teach the veterans how to use platforms such as EnCase to log forensics. And the end game is never far from mind: Last year, trainees took part in a moot court in which lawyers grilled them on the data they unearthed.
The third part of the program is a 10-month internship at ICE field offices around the country. The veterans work side-by-side with investigators, often processing evidence where a warrant has been served. "They're an integral piece right from the get-go," Widener said.
Two of the veterans in the program said their young children inspired them to participate in the program. Mark and Joe asked that their last names be withheld for privacy reasons.
The more Mark heard about the program from a friend, the more it "re-sparked that interest and that motivation to continue to serve my country … not only for the country, but for the kids themselves, the victims," he said.
"It's a good mission," Joe said of the forensics training. "Sometimes we don't get to pick and choose our missions in the military. … But here, now that we're out … we have this opportunity to pick and do something we want to do, so this is important to us."
Joe, a multiple amputee, said he originally wanted to be an investigator in child exploitation cases, but realized that "for every one investigator, there [are] 35 dudes punching on computers, pulling up information that they use to build the case file," he said. "For me, I knew that switch had to be made to the technology side."
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There is a constant drumbeat about multi cloud among the pundits, especially the ones who are fans of AWS. Most of them are dismissive of multi cloud and talk about using one cloud provider (and it is mostly AWS for them). While it might serve as good chatter on social media, it is not going to help the end users who care about solving problems that matters to their organizations. In this post, we plan to highlight why an argument against multi cloud is too simplistic and how it is based on FUD.
FUD Against Multi Cloud
Let us first highlight some arguments made against multi cloud and explain why it is either FUD or doesn't make any sense from the enterprise customers point of view.
- Multi cloud is not cheaper than single cloud: There was never a cost argument for multi cloud except under certain scenarios. If you are approaching multi cloud with just cost savings in mind, you may be in for a surprise. While the constant price competition between cloud providers may present you an opportunity to move workloads from one cloud provider to another, it can end up being more expensive. Similarly, using a multi cloud strategy for use cases like HA will be very expensive. Everyone knows that running different components of an application on different clouds makes no financial or user experience sense. However, if you have the right automation in place or use a platform like the one offered by SpotInst that takes advantage of spot instances, you could definitely save money with the multi cloud strategy. By default, multi cloud is not just about cost savings.
- Multi cloud is not more agile: This is another misconception or FUD. The use of multi cloud comes from the need for flexibility (more about this later) than about agility. Multi cloud is as agile as using a single cloud provider. With the right DevOps pipeline in place, it doesn't matter whether you are using one cloud provider or more. The bottleneck could be in having the right talent or training for all the cloud providers but it is no different from training the employees on a single cloud. With right automation in place and by avoiding the use cases that are not suitable for multi cloud (eg: HA across different cloud providers), organizations can have the same agility they get with a single cloud provider.
- Multi Cloud is not about depth: One of the arguments made against multi cloud is that while using multiple cloud providers, developers are forced into using a common set of features. Partly, this is due to the past approach towards multi cloud where a common library was used which took into account least common set of features and gave an easy interface for developers to use. That approach failed because these libraries offered breadth but not depth. Today's multi cloud approach is different and, it is about taking advantage of unique services offered by different cloud providers than HA/Portability in mind. Developers are encouraged to use the right set of services needed for their applications and, in many organizations, this automatically leads to a multi cloud usage.
So, what is multi cloud then?
Multi cloud is about giving developers the flexibility to use any cloud service from any cloud provider for their applications. If my app demands Google's AutoML, I should be able to use Google Cloud Platform provided I can take the data to the platform. If I have a new app with limited traffic, I may not want to run a database instance continuously either on a container or from a database service. A better way is to take advantage of Serverless database. I may want to run that app on AWS even if my organization has other apps running on Azure. The key is to give the developers flexibility to use the right service than force them to make compromises on their apps to use the service offered by a specific cloud provider. Multi cloud provides organizations a lever to empower their developers than constrain them with services from a single cloud provider. Multi cloud is about flexibility without compromising on agility. Under certain circumstances and with right tools, it can also save costs.
Ha, the multi cloud is the magic pill?
At the same time, people should be aware of the real challenges (as opposed to the FUD in the media) with using multi cloud. I am listing the critical ones but there are other challenges too.
- Multi cloud can create the same problem with shadow IT if the service provisioning is not managed through a central authority but without compromising on user experience. This implies allowing developers to provision directly from the cloud provider on demand or by providing an API that offers the same cloud provider like user experience
- Each cloud provider has different IAM options and, without managing it properly, organizations will end up with a huge governance problem
- If security in public cloud is a problem for any organization, managing security across multiple cloud providers is a bigger problem. Without the right guardrails in place, this will become unmanageable fast
So, what do I do?
At Rishidot Research, we always tell CIOs that it is about giving flexibility to the developers without having to manage complexities. Whether you are a startup or a large organization making a foray into cloud, start with a single cloud provider giving them the flexibility to use any service they want. If your developers feel that the services are too constraining for their application needs or you acquire a company which is using another cloud provider, allow them to use multiple cloud providers but have the right set of tools to manage the challenges that come with multi cloud.


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According to Business Insider, Apple released its next big thing and nobody noticed
It seems pretty clear that 2017 is going to be the year that Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant really begins to hit its stride, going from a fast-growing niche product to a mainstream must-have.
While Microsoft and especially Google have made their competitive strategies clear — even Samsung and Baidu have started to make rumbles in the market — there's one elephant that, notably, isn't in the room yet: Apple, the most valuable company in the world and a notorious latecomer to any new product category.
While Apple recently built Siri into the Apple TV, the company is said to be working on a direct competitor to the Amazon Echo — one that would apparently be more advanced than anything we've seen, down to a possible facial-recognition camera so it knows who's talking. That device, if and when it comes out, would bring Apple's 5-year-old Siri assistant head-to-head with Alexa.
And the clock is ticking. Every Alexa-compatible Echo speaker, lightbulb, thermostat, refrigerator, and car that people buy today they probably won't replace for many years, meaning the critical market for early adopters is already self-selecting outside of whatever Apple has up its sleeve.
Meanwhile, Wall Street is worried as ever that Apple is falling way behind as computing moves past the touch screen and into augmented reality, virtual reality, and yeah, artificially intelligent voice-powered assistants like the Echo. It doesn't help that sales of Apple's all-important iPhone are showing signs of sagging.
But when Apple introduced its AirPods wireless earphones in September, it also took the lid off of the W1 chip, a little technology for improving Bluetooth audio that lays the groundwork for Apple's next big thing. It's already here, and it's going to make a big splash in the months and years to come.
What the heck is W1?
The W1 chip is Apple's new technology for making Bluetooth a lot more user-friendly. It debuted on the AirPods ($159) and the Beats Solo3 Wireless ($299) headphones, both available now.
In many ways, the AirPods, Beats Solo3, and other W1 devices are standard Bluetooth headsets. They'll work with any Android phone, Windows PC, or Blackberry you might happen to have lying around, the same way Bluetooth gadgetry always has.
But the magic happens when you're using a W1 headset with an iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Mac.
First, you turn it on next to your unlocked iPhone or iPad. Second, you click "connect." Now they're automatically paired with any other Apple gadget that's signed in to your iCloud account. Switching from iPhone to Mac and back takes a click.
Apple's W1 confers other benefits, too. When you're using it with an Apple gadget, the chip grants tremendous range — with the Beats Solo3, I was able to vacuum my entire small house with my phone charging in the bedroom without losing audio. Better yet, W1 uses some kind of magic optimization technique to greatly extend battery life.
The next W1 device we know about is the long-delayed BeatsX fitness earbuds. Going into 2017, expect a lot more W1-powered headphones to hit the market, most — if not all — manufactured by Apple and its Beats subsidiary.
So what does it mean for Apple?
The W1 does something crucial for Apple right off the bat: It provides something cool, different, and convenient in a way that requires you to own all kinds of Apple gadgetry. Not only has the W1's it-just-works experience swayed me from considering an Android phone, it also caused me to spend considerably more time on my Mac after a year and a half on Microsoft's Windows 10.
It means Apple has something that no Android phone — or Windows laptop, for that matter — can match. It also opens the door for a world where people are always wearing their headphones, with Apple's Siri only a tap away.
This, in turn, means that Apple's competitor to the omnipresent Alexa is hiding in plain sight — in the iPhones and iPads that more than a billion people own and in the wireless headphones that Apple is so keen to push. In other words, the W1 brings together all the pieces of the Apple puzzle, from Siri to Beats to the iPhone, in a way that hasn't been done before.
There are hurdles ahead, though. Siri can handle basic tasks just fine, but because Apple has been so cautious with its nascent smart-home strategy, it's not as great a hub for home appliances and the like as Amazon's Alexa ecosystem. Still, Siri boasts compatibility with high-profile apps like Uber, Venmo, Skype, and your phone's messages app so it can read you your texts.
And as a nice bonus for Apple, Siri currently can control only the Apple Music streaming service and your downloaded music. In a weird way, the push toward voice controls seems likely to have a nice spillover effect for Apple's subscription services as people look for the best and easiest integrations with their new setups.
Looking ahead
I'm going to call my shot right here based on these factors: Apple's Echo competitor, whenever it arrives, won't have Siri built in, but rather will use Bluetooth and the W1 chip to connect directly to your iPhone and call Siri from there. It would look like the Amazon Echo or Google Home but use the W1's insane range to link to your phone from anywhere in your house. This would accomplish Apple's goal of requiring you to have an iPhone to use its best stuff.
Looking further ahead, if Apple is indeed working on augmented reality, as everyone thinks it is, Siri could be your holographic assistant, with your W1-enabled headphones acting as the way you talk to it. After all, if you're going to hold a conversation with imaginary computer people, you wouldn't want to type your answers.
And, hey, if you want to get really weird with it, Apple's long-rumored, not-soon-to-be-released car would be a great vehicle (pun intended) to get W1 going in the car.


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In a sense, psychedelia has always been an extremely English genre.
Spending afternoons exploring the outer reaches of the human consciousness in Hertfordshire, diving into the recesses of the soul in Devon... from Syd Barrett to TOY, Robyn Hitchcock to Temples psychedelia seems to work at its best when aligned to a splendidly English identity.
Teleman have such an identity. The band's music is continually pulled back to the early 70s, to an era when Jon Pertwee was Doctor Who and Brutalist architecture began poking through the skylines of our cities.
The band's debut album was a fantastic distillation of English psych-pop, with highlight 'Skeleton Dance' now gaining a full single release (check out the memorable video HERE.
Set to play a nationwide tour this Autumn, Teleman will be joined by Boxed In as support. To coincide, the producer has decided to re-work 'Skeleton Dance' and the results are marvellous.
Honing in on those trippy textures, Boxed In heightens the band's lysergic tendencies while also pushing a driving, motorik rhythm through the heart of their songwriting.
An inspiring, enchanting remix you can check it out below.
Teleman have confirmed the following shows:
18 Leeds Brudenell Social Club
20 Manchester Gorilla
21 Birmingham Hare and Hounds
22 London Heaven
24 Brighton Haunt
25 Bristol Fleece
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I actually did a VERY dramatic look to start of my festive looks posts with but I'm afriad it will scare any passer bys if I posted it first! So here's a soft, refined and very feminine look I did with a single take!
Continue below for the look and products used!
|Festive soft pink and smokey gray look with a nude lip!
|Eyelashes from the $2 Diaso store! So soft and fluttery! Although the band is a bit stiff!
|The lashes look so good with my small eyelids! Although when I look down, all light seems to disappear!
|Fall out that was swept away with a clean brush because I touched up the inner corner!
NOTE: The sleek, lime crime, revlon and maybelline products have yet to be reviewed! They were recently purchased and hauled!
|Simple Clear Skin moisturizer (to be reviewed), Maybelline magnum Ultra comb (to be reviewed), Sleek Creme to Powder foundation in Sand (to be reviewed), Kate gel eyeliner (my review here!), Majolica Majorca Jeweling Eyes quad (my review here), Wet n wild Lust palette, Canmake Powder cheeks blush (my review here), Lime crime opaque lipstick in Coquette (to be reviewed), Revlon kissable balm stain in Precious (to be reviewed)
|Revlon lip balm stain in Precious, 2 layers, feeling slightly moist...its a peachy nude.
|Lime Crime coquette. I've never had a lipstick so opaque in one layer. Feels so creamy and makes my lips look soo big! A touch too pink, I need to mix this!
|Revlon in Precious
|Lime crime in coquette
|In person I much prefer the shade of Precious but much prefer the texture and finish of the lime crime! Hope you've enjoyed this soft pink and gray eye look!
I've been eating, will be eating and will be very happily receiving orders from Asos.com and have finally gotten all my beauty orders in! I definitely will be getting more things online, so much cheaper even though I have to wait and rely on reviews!
This year has been ending off real well, I just wish I could have my boyfriend by my side at all times. Then life would be perfect. Until my next post which will be real soon, stay safe and happy!


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Welcome to the website of Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church, a parish of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA) located in Mentor, Ohio. Our church has been serving Lake, Geauga, Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, and Summit Counties since 1973.
Orthodox Christianity is the original Christian Faith of the Apostles. It is the Church that composed the New Testament Scriptures, defended the Faith against all of the early heresies, and is comprised of 250,000,000 members worldwide.
Please feel free to use the menu to the left to browse through the many resources offered on the site.
Of course the best way to learn about our parish and the Orthodox Christian Faith is to experience it firsthand. So as the Apostle Phillip said to Nathaniel when he inquired about the Lord Jesus, "Come and see!"
St Nicholas Orthodox Church • 9650 Johnnycake Ridge Rd
Mentor, OH 44060 • 440-946-9571
Now accepting contributions by PayPal
Click here or on the image above to donate and thanks for your continued support.
Orthodoxy 101
Orthodox basics for seekers
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General Schedule of Services *
All Services at the Church are suspended for the time being as per order of our Bishop Paul.
Hopefully we will resume these soon.
Eve of Feasts
* Special Services to be noted on Monthly Calendar and in the Weekly Bulletin
Our Missionaries in Uganda
"Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them; for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven." (Matt. 19:14)
Peter and Sharon are home and will return to Uganda in late Summer. They are availabe to visit your parish and better acquaint you with their very successful Ministry. Donations can be offered by visiting their website below.
Their Mission Statement:
To provide for the education, health, and welfare of Ugandan children, teens, and young adults.
Visit the website of the Uganda Children's Fund here.
Uganda Update
Children in Uganda attend primary school for seven years. In November of their final year, they sit for national exams, the results of which determine their likelihood of success in secondary school. Based on their scores, students who pass are ranked in four divisions. Last year, ten of our students took the exams. All of them finished in the first or second division and have recently completed the first grading period of high school. Congratulations to our hardworking kids and the teachers at Alund'Entono Nursery & Primary School!
Check out the latest Newsletter here.
From Route I-90 follow exit #195, Route 615, Center Street. At the end of the exit ramp turn north and follow Center Street (Rt. 615) approximately 1 mile to the 2nd light, Johnny Cake Ridge Road (Rt. 84). Turn right (east) and follow Johnny Cake Ridge Road (you will go through 3 lights) approximately 2 3/4 mile and St. Nicholas Orthodox Church will be on your right on the south side of the road.
Ancient Faith Radio offers streaming audio 24/7. Choose from an array of Church Music from the various Orthodox musical traditions or Educational Podcasts on both theological and timely topics. Click here to go the home page.


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Little Words That Make All the Difference
We are often called upon to help. We, who are a bit more seasoned, a bit more experienced, a bit more knowledgeable about God, his ways, and his Word—we are called upon to answer questions, to resolve concerns, to solve dilemmas. And rightly so. The younger should rely upon the wisdom of the older; the older should seek out and influence the younger. However, when we impart such wisdom, a few short words make all the difference: "This is me, … Continue reading Little Words That Make All the Difference
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Thanks to all of you who joined us for the opening reception of BURST: Andi Steele and Anyone's Ghost: Kyle Worthy
Both exhibitions are on view in Ross through August 7. We hope to see you!
Artist Heather Freeman's project "Denisovan" is coming to CPCC Pease Gallery from July 14 to September 4, with a closing reception on August 28 from 5-7 p.m.
She will show prints and text from the app she created to illustrate a fictional narrative of the Denisovan child.
About the project
Denisovan is an interactive artist's book by Heather D. Freeman, Associate Professor of Art at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. This mobile app is neither a game, nor a book, but resides somewhere between the two and is available on iPhone, iPad and Android mobile devices.
The story is a fictional imagining of a girl who died 40,000 years ago. It was inspired by the genomic mapping of a contemporary of early humans and Neanderthal: the denisovan hominin. Bone fragments from a single individual were found in a Siberian cave, and paleogeneticists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology mapped the genome, determining that the fragments belonged to a previously unknown hominid.
The story of human evolution is many things. One part of this story is the nurturing of children by mothers and fathers, generation after generation. We know that the denisovan girl had brown hair and eyes, but we can only speculate on her family structure, and how parent-child relationships may have evolved in the last 40,000 years.
Download the app for iPhone and iPad
Learn more here: http://denisovan.blogspot.com/
Andi Steele arrived Monday morning (5/12) to begin installing her site specific installation, BURST. She arrived with orange painted planks cut to 13′ tall and fitted with a line of fish-eye hooks. It took all of Monday to install these planks vertically throughout the gallery, with one long horizontal piece above the large window wall. The artist navigated unwelcome "surprises" like boarded up windows patches of brick behind the sheetwall, adapting her design so that it still achieved her goal.
CPCC Gallery Facilitator Heather Felts helped lead an installation team that included our workstudy Kelly Rambo, student volunteers, and Arts Programming Coordinator Alice Jenkins.The team worked all day to string red and yellow monofilament wire through fishhooks on alternate sides of the gallery to create a specific environment.


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Employers across the country have been putting greater emphasis on the health of their employees over the last few years — it's both the right thing to do and can help to save on insurance premiums. Particularly for self-insured employers, having a healthy population can be an important success factor for any business.
With that in mind, there are some diseases that employers should be aware of due to their very serious nature and the potentially devastating impact on insurance costs. One of these is nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), a disease that is on the rise among younger generations, and may impact as much as 25% of the American population.
The costs can be astronomical, both for patient and employer. Fatty liver disease is a major reason that more individuals need liver transplants. The average "list price" for a liver transplant is about $330,000, while the average negotiated price, through an insurance company, is $100,400. Additionally, liver transplant complications can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars more, depending on the complication. Post-transplant, the long-term drug regimen can cost more than $3,000 per month — having that Rx spend on your benefits program can be a significant negative for employers.
Consequently, awareness of the disease is important. Most people are not aware of fatty liver disease until they are told that they have this potentially deadly, life-sapping condition. Even once diagnosed, people often don't know how to address the situation and reduce their risk. Early detection and intervention of NAFLD can prevent, slow or reverse symptoms, and reduce liver cancer, liver failure and future liver transplants.
What employers should do
Employers can assist employees by raising awareness of the rising incidence of NAFLD and what can be done to prevent it.
It begins with educating employees about who is at risk. NAFLD is more prevalent in individuals with type 2 diabetes, those with symptoms of metabolic syndrome and individuals who are obese. While some NAFLD patients have no common risk factors associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, the following symptoms and conditions are frequently associated with the disease:
· Diabetes
· Excess weight or obesity
· High cholesterol or triglycerides
· Rapid weight loss
· Poor eating habits
· Metabolic Syndrome
· Sedentary lifestyle
These factors showcase the importance of wellness and condition/disease management programs —these initiatives when well-designed are intended to influence employees to make better health choices — for example getting them moving and active. NAFLD can be prevented or slowed by addressing sedentary lifestyles and poor eating habits, and encouraging those impacted to work with their healthcare provider and nurse health coach/nurse navigator to manage health risks and chronic disease conditions.
Consequently, employers should work to add people with NAFLD to the candidates for wellness promotion and/or condition and disease management, as they do for those with other chronic conditions like diabetes, hypertension, advanced chronic kidney disease or other ongoing health diagnoses that improve with professional nurse intervention.
HR professionals, benefits managers and wellness program administrators need to be aware of NAFLD, and raise awareness of it among their employee populations. Knowledge is power, and early diagnosis and attention can be a lifesaver.
Understanding how to prevent nonalcoholic fatty liver disease should be a part of your wellness initiatives, both for your employees' sake and for the company's financial wellbeing.


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Greeting from Medori Putih Homestay
Medori Putih Homestay, Bali Homestay that are very useful for Hindus in Bali. Which the interest is useful for Hindu religious ceremonies.
Hopefully with the name of this flower that has a deep philosophy, can as a symbol in our efforts.
Medori Putih Homestay Bali is Situated in Uluwatu, The property offers free Wi-Fi access throughout its premises. Medori Putih Homestay is just a 5-minute drive from Padang Padang Beach, a popular surfing spot, Suluban Beach, Dreamland Beach, and Uluwatu Temple, Nusa Dua.This white sandy beach and clean, and quiet so it is suitable for recreation, relaxation and sun bathing and, of course, also very suitable for surfing, a lot of surfing like this place.
Medori Putih is a 20-minute drive from water sports at Jimbaran Beach and a 40-minute drive from Ngurah Rai International Airport. Nightlife, shopping and dining options at Kuta are an hours drive away. Cooled with a fan, bungalow-style rooms feature a terrace with a seating area, overlooking the garden. Private bathrooms come with shower facilities. Breakfast is served in-room.
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The VAT flat rate scheme (FRS) allows small businesses to simplify their VAT records and, in many cases, keep a slice of the VAT they collect on behalf of the Government. Unfortunately, there has been abuse of the FRS, so HMRC is changing the rules. From 1 April 2017, it will be more difficult to make money out of the FRS. A VAT registered business which spends less than 2% of its gross turnover, or less than £1,000 per year on goods, will have to use an FRS percentage of 16.5%. The 'goods' counted for this test don't include food and drink for the employees, motor expenses, or capital items.The high percentage of 16.5% means the business will have to pay over almost all of the VAT it collects, with no deductions permitted for VAT incurred on purchases. Businesses which operate in the knowledge and service sectors are unlikely to benefit financially from using the FRS after 1 April 2017, although the simplification for VAT records remains. If your business supplies services (anything from hairdressing to consultancy services) and you use the FRS, we should talk about whether you should remain within the FRS and, in some cases, whether you should even remain VAT-registered.
Since 6 April 2015, there are few restrictions for those aged 55 and over who wish to access their savings in money purchase pension schemes. You may have taken advantage of this 'pension freedom' as it is called. However, if you have drawn more than the tax-free lump sum from your pension fund, you need to think carefully about making further pension contributions. The total amount you and your employer can contribute each year to a pension fund in your name is limited by your Annual Allowance (AA). This is set at £40,000 per year, plus any unused AA brought forward from the three previous years. Once you have taken taxable income from your pension fund, your AA is replaced by a Money Purchase Annual Allowance (MPAA) for that tax year and all subsequent tax years. The MPAA is currently set at £10,000, but it will reduce to £4,000 on 6 April 2017. It can't be boosted by unused allowance or carried forward to later tax years. If your pension contributions exceed your AA or MPAA (where that applies), you must pay tax on those excess contributions at your highest tax rate. The purpose of the MPAA is to discourage people from drawing funds from one pension scheme, then replacing that money in another pension scheme, attracting additional tax relief. This is called 'pensions recycling'. The low level of the MPAA may catch you out if you are still employed and contributing to an occupational pension scheme under auto-enrolment. Take professional advice before accessing any of your pension savings.
How and When Will It Affect You? Individual taxpayers We've been submitting personal tax information securely online to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for many years now and from April 2017, every individual and business in the UK has a digital tax account. If you have chosen for us to look after your personal and/or your business's tax affairs then, managing this account is another part of the tax service we provide for you. How HMRC receive information currently Information about your personal and your business's tax affairs arrive with HMRC in various ways. An example would be information on an employed person's weekly or monthly wage or a pensioner's pension payments which comes directly to HMRC from the employer's payroll submissions or in the case of the state pension, from the Department for Works and Pensions (DWP). Self-Assessment Tax Returns Businesses and many individuals complete an annual Tax Return called a Self-Assessment, which is needed to substantiate the information from the third parties and the information submitted by the individual, or from us as your accountant. Some examples would be year-end accounts, rental income and expenses, income from investments and sale of assets. Some big changes are happening HMRC want to rely more heavily on third party information via the digital tax accounts, and less on the end of year Self-Assessment Tax Returns. They want to collect this information in Real Time, with the ultimate intention of abolishing Self-Assessment Tax Returns for many individuals. The biggest change is that paper records will no longer be acceptable under tax law. Digital records and digital filing of quarterly reports, together with a year-end statement, will become mandatory for many taxpayers. As HMRC move forward with modernising the whole tax system, the changes being made will impact on you. Because of this, we want to let you know what's happening and the timetable for the changes over the coming months and years. Which businesses will be affected? There are expected to be around 1.6 million companies, 2.4 million self-employed individuals (including Partnerships) and 900,000 landlords of residential properties affected by the changes to the way information is reported. Who's exempt? Individuals, businesses and landlords of residential properties where the gross income is less than £10,000 will be exempt. Also exempt are those who are not able to engage digitally for religious reasons, or due to a factor such as age, disability or location (e.g. no availability of broadband). What will you have to do? As a business or individual comes to their Making Tax Digital for Business (MTDfB) entry date, they will be required to start keeping digital records and provide quarterly updates of income and expenses to HMRC via a dedicated online system, which will mean using software specifically designed for this purpose. After the end of the fourth quarter, a year-end statement will be required, which pulls together all of the submissions made, gives the opportunity to make any final adjustments and pulls in any gains from the sales of residential properties, if applicable. Who's first? Businesses with a turnover above the VAT registration threshold applicable on 1st April 2018 will be the first to be affected by MTDfB. The threshold for VAT has not yet been set for 1st April 2018, but we are working with the current threshold of £85,000 until it is known.In this first tranche, HMRC mean businesses which are not incorporated (not limited companies) but include the self-employed, the majority of partnerships and those with residential property income. Turnover above £10,000 but below £85,000 Individuals and businesses (including landlords with residential property) who have a turnover in excess of £10,000, but are below the VAT registration threshold which applies on 1st April 2018, will be required to start keeping digital records on their accounting period start date which falls after 6th April 2019 although they can choose to do this voluntarily prior to that date. For more information on this article please call us on 01227 712714.


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Rolling across a hardwood floor, with poodle-skirt-era music filling the room, used to give skaters a spin back in time at The Palace west of Lantana.
But cribs, dressers and bunk beds are taking over the roller rink where Andy Kraus and other retirees skated to exercise, socialize and even recapture a little of their youth.
New owners planning a furniture store and other retail shops bought The Palace and closed it in January.
Aside from closing a birthday party destination for Palm Beach County children, the sale shuttered one of the few roller rinks that reserved times and days for adults-only skating, according to Kraus.
"It was a heartbreaker," said Kraus, a Boynton Beach resident and retired marine yard supervisor who competes in couples skating. "We are slowly being squeezed out of the picture."
The Palace, on Old Congress Avenue south of Lantana Road, opened in the early 1980s. The 2-acre property was owned by the Hankey family, which ran the largest chain of roller rinks in the country.
Business slowed down over the years, and the Hankey family sold the property for $2.35 million, according to the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser's Office.
New plans call for the building to house Crib & Teen City, a New Jersey-based chain, which offers furniture "from cradle to college," according to the company Web site. Company officials said it will open in January.
Room remains for other shops to open in the building, said Russell Scott, a development consultant who represents the property.
The Palm Beach County Zoning Commission in August approved exceptions to parking rules needed to allow the new stores to open in the old rink.
The variances were needed because today's parking rules require more spaces for retail shops than were needed when the county approved the roller rink in 1981, Scott said.
New landscaping and other site improvements are planned before the stores open, Scott said.
"They are going to dress the place up and move right in," Scott said.