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WITH the coming of the new Rotary year, the Hereford City Club, which was established 84 years ago, welcomed its new president, Judy Bolton.
Judy took over from the previous president Paul Morris on July 7 at the club's lunch-time meeting at the Bay Horse in Hereford.
"In the last year, the Hereford City club has raised over £25,000 for local, national and international charities". Commented Paul "and my thanks go out to all my Rotary colleagues for their help and support, and particularly Colin Hunt who has done a fantastic job as secretary and Heather Gorringe who won Rotarian of the year for her efforts in attracting new members to the club."
The first big event of this Rotary fundraising year is The Hereford River Festival which is at the Rowing Club on August Bank Holiday, August 25. The proceedings start at 10.30am with Dragon Boat Racing and culminates at 4pm with the Duck Race.
"Hereford City Rotary Club is a little different from the normal Rotary Club, for a start we have 46 members in our club aged from 28 – 92, we like to think that we are a friendly bunch, enjoying ourselves whilst raising tens of thousands of pounds for local charities and good causes whilst supporting national and international Rotary projects. It's all about fun and friendship whilst helping people less fortunate than ourselves."
Evening meetings include a speaker and members have been educated and entertained by a huge variety of people in the past 12 months. This year they have also visited their twin club in Tromso in Norway and they have also come across the pond and visited Hereford. A group of us also went to India to help immunise 100 million people against polio, one of the most incredible experiences in many members' lives. Evening meetings are from 6.30pm until 9pm and lunchtime 12.30pm until 2pm and all are held at the Bay Horse in Hereford.
If you want to have fun and make lasting friendships with an amazing bunch of local business people whilst helping people more fortunate than you then Hereford City Rotary Club is the place for you.
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This is the first skit I wrote with dubbed lines in Spanish. This version was recorded with the whole stage in view and the camera stationery, but the emotions and expressions are hard to see. For English-speakers, this one has subtitles. Please keep in mind that this is a very early practice and characters and emotions were not grasped yet. It just gives a perspective of what is happening on the two different spiritual plains, since the other one had too much zooming going on..


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API:Client code
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|This page is part of the MediaWiki action API documentation.
MediaWiki action API
- Introduction and quick start
- Tutorial
- Formats
- Error reporting
- Restricting usage
- Cross-site requests
- Authentication
- Queries
- Searching (by title, content, coordinates...)
- Parsing wikitext and expanding templates
- Purging pages' caches
- Parameter information
- Changing wiki content
- Create and edit pages
- Move pages
- Merge pages
- Rollback
- Delete pages
- Restore deleted revisions
- (Un)protect pages
- (Un)block users
- (Un)watch pages
- Mark revisions of watched pages as visited
- Send email
- Patrol changes
- Import pages
- Change user group membership
- Upload files
- User options
- Tokens
- Page language
- More...
- Watchlist feed
- Wikidata
- Extensions
- Using the API in MediaWiki and extensions
- Miscellaneous
- Implementation
- Client code
- Asserting
API access libraries[edit]
Notes to library developers
- Please use GZip compression when making API calls (
Accept-Encoding: gzip).
- Bots eat up a lot of bandwidth, which is not free.
- You must set a descriptive User Agent header (
User-Agent: User name/email/framework/...)
- Please include your username and wiki or email address.
- You should attempt to minimize the number of API calls by asking for multiple items in one request. Use
titles=PageA|PageB|PageCand get all the needed lists and properties at the same time. Only ask for what you actually need.
- We are planning to migrate to JSON-only API, removing all other formats like XML, YAML, and PHP.
- When querying, use the new continue parameter. (March 2013)
- MediaWiki Awk API Library. Call the API with Awk! Includes an example program (retrieve backlinks ie. Special:WhatLinksHere). Last updated May 2015.
- libmediawiki. There is a tutorial in KDE TechBase. Last updated Mar 2015.
Common Lisp[edit]
- cl-mediawiki is a Common Lisp wrapper for the mediawiki API. It is available as a direct download, or (more conveniently) via quicklisp. Last updated in Dec 2014.
- go-mediawiki Go wrapper for the MediaWiki API
- go-mwclient another Go wrapper for the MediaWiki API (supports maxlag, query continuations, OAuth)
- Bliki Engine — Can convert wikicode to HTML, DocBook or PDF. Has a helper library for API calls.
- Deuterium — Java with Lua using LuaJ bot in development.
- dkpro-jwpl
- JavaWikiBotFramework — a Java library that makes several API functions accessible. (Evaluation)
- jwiki — A simple, and easy to-use Java library.
- Kaspar — supports Wikidata.
- Mediawiki-Japi — just another Java Library .
- Wiki.java — a simple one-class API implementation.
- Wikidata Toolkit — A Java library with functions to process data from Wikidata and other Wikibase sites, via XML dumps or the API. For more info, see Wikidata Toolkit.
- WPCleaner — a Java editing tool that includes a package for MediaWiki API.
- mwbot - MWBot is a Node.js NPM module for interacting with the MediaWiki API. It uses the Promise pattern and is written using modern ES6. (2016)
- https://github.com/macbre/nodemw - Node.js client, actively maintained as of July 2015.
- mediawiki.api.js - A module that ships with MediaWiki core, abstracts a handful of API calls into simple one liners (uses
- Node.js MediaWiki module - A JavaScript framework of standard requests (e.g. log in, log out, read, edit, etc.) as well as a general wrapper method. Includes some helpful stuff like throttling.
- WikiJS - a simple node.js library written in Kal language that serves as an interface to MediaWiki
- Wikidata-sdk - a javascript tool suite to query and parse wikidata data
- CeJS – A JavaScript framework including MediaWiki functions to build bots, running on node.js or JScript. See Wikipedia bot examples on GitHub.
- wikifetch
- mwapilib2 - A layer overtop of the requests. Make JS gadgets easier. Updated 2012.
- JsMwApi A convenience wrapper around raw requests, with some helpers for editing and parsing.
- AutoWikiBrowser's WikiFunctions library has classes for editing and getting lists of pages via the API. See ApiEdit
- DotNetWikiBot Framework - written in C#, based on Microsoft® .NET Framework 3.5 (Tutorial)
- MorebitsDotNet contains C# code for uploading files through the API.
- LinqToWiki, strongly typed library for accessing most of MediaWiki API, with support for autocompletion
- WikiClientLibrary - A .NET Portable & asynchronous MediaWiki API client library for wiki sites. This library aims for human users, as well as bots. Last updated July 2017.
- MBWikiEngine - library under development; it currently supports both user authentication and editing. Link dead as of April 2017.
- MediaWiki::Bot - A higher-level Perl module with read and write functions. Easily extensible with plugins, for example to provide administrator functions. Updated Jan 2014. (Evaluation)
- MediaWiki::API - A Perl module for interfacing with the MediaWiki API with file upload/download and editing support. Updated Nov 2015. (Debian package). (Evaluation)
There are many PHP frameworks for the api, see here for a full list and comparison of frameworks.
- Apibot - a modular, somewhat ambitious bot with overlayed UNIX-like framework
- mediawiki-api-base - Library for basic MediaWiki api use, actively maintained as of May 2014.
- mediawiki-api - Library for querying MediaWiki, actively maintained as of May 2014.
- wikibase-api - Library for querying Wikidata, actively maintained as of May 2014.
- wikidrain - A wrapper for the WikiMedia API centralized around easily and simply querying Wikipedia articles. (Still actively being developed as of April 2014)
- MediaWiki_Api - A simple PHP curl based API wrapper with basic functionality. Almost completely undocumented.
- Wikimate - Gets and edits MediaWiki pages, actively maintained as of October 2016.
Sometimes people try to use this kind of libraries to access a MediaWiki installation on the same server. This is often unnecessary because MediaWiki itself is written in PHP, especially when the only purpose of the script is interacting with MediaWiki. By
require'ing WebStart.php (
MW_INSTALL_PATH may need to be set beforehand, see Manual:$IP), a script gets access to MediaWiki components and consequently it can call the API internally or use other MediaWiki classes and functions directly, which greatly reduces server load.
- wptools - Wikipedia tools (for Humans). Last updated June 2017.
- Pywikibot - A collection of python scripts and a powerful library for bot writing. Actively maintained as of June 2016. (Git repository) (IRC) (Evaluation)
- wikitools - Provides several layers of abstraction around the API. Doesn't support Python 3. Last updated in August 2016.
- mwclient - A Python library that makes most of the API functions accessible. Last updated in June 2017. (PyPI) (Evaluation)
- python-mwapi - A simple wrapper around the Mediawiki API, meant to closely mirror its interface. Last updated in March 2017. (PyPI)
- ceterach - Python3 library, fully PEP8 compliant. Last updated in November 2016.
No updates after October 2015:
- analytics-zero-sms - Last updated in October 2015.
- wiki-api - access to Wikipedia.org's search results and article content. Last updated in July 2015. (PyPI) (Evaluation)
- Pattern (GitHub) - web mining module, has classes for handling MediaWiki API requests, handles continuations. Last updated in January 2015.
- Wikipedia - A Python library that makes it easy to access and parse data from Wikipedia. Last updated in November 2014. (PyPI)
- mwstreaming Last updated in April 2014.
- simplemediawiki - A simple, no-abstraction interface to the API. Handles cookies and other extremely basic things. Python 2.6+ and 3.3+ compatible. Docs at http://pythonhosted.org/simplemediawiki/. Last updated in March 2014. (PyPI) (Evaluation)
See also:
- WikipediR - a read-only API wrapper.
- mediawiki/ruby/api (GitHub mirror), Mediawiki Ruby API (Gerrit master repo) - Ruby API client library in active development by Wikimedia Foundation Release Engineering as of January 2015
- MediaWiki::Gateway - Ruby framework for the API. Maintained (as of January 2015) but not actively developed; patches are welcome. Tested up to MediaWiki 1.23, compatible with Wikimedia wikis. Currently incompatible with new
continuesystem. (Evaluation)
- wikipedia-client - Ruby framework using the API.
- Sunflower - Provides Ruby access to MediaWiki API; can be used as a base for more sophisticated bots or as standalone by beginners
- MediaWiki::Butt - Stable but powerful Ruby framework for the API in active development. (Evaluation)
- MediaWiktory (low-level) and Infoboxer (high-level, semantic) clients to MediaWiki, with idiomatic API, support for custom Wiki modules, in active development.
- WP:RS - An extremely low-level wrapper to the MediaWiki API. Newly released; under heavy development as of June 2017.
- scalawiki by User:Ilya
- dbpedia extraction framework data extraction framework for DBpedia with support Wiki source retrived via MediaWiki API
- scmw Simple MediaWiki API wrapper for needs of Commonist image upload tool
Comparing clients[edit]
API:Client code/Gold standard describes best practices for web API client libraries.
A support-matrix of many of the actively developed packages from this page for some of the more used API features can be found on the Wikia API Wiki. (19 May 2014; note this has not been updated since 2011.)
See Also[edit]
- Collection of bot libraries on Wikipedia, several of these use the API.


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My preference would be a demisexual/panromantic. In fact, I think I am an extreme demisexual ...with hints of asexuaity, since I don't have a preference for race, skin color type, religion, body size/shape/type, gender (not necessarily), social status, a particular fetish, sexual orientation, occupation, personality, and etc. Honestly, all I care about is how someone feels about me and how I feel about them. People will often remark, "oh that reeks desperation" or "someone who has a lame concept of love or attraction." Yet, I find it very exciting that I have no idea what my future love/significant other looks like, acts like, or etc. I've had it happened all through out my life, and I enjoy alot of the surprises of what mild friendships or encounters lead to. Moreover, I don't find most people attractive (in personal terms), regardless if they are famous, at school, co-workers, walking around in the city, and etc. Not necessarily in the sense of physical attraction, but more so in the sense of emotional attraction or a special kind of chemistry.
I tend to be more attracted to women, other transsexual/transgender (MTF/FTMs) individuals, genderqueer (or non-conforming), or people who identify as genderless. I will not say I dislike or hate men, because the world has alot of wonderful men that occupy it and I wouldn't want to undermine them, like that. Though, it's much harder to have a relationship or connection with cisgender men, especially if they identify as heterosexual (or not openly bisexual/gay). I can understand, but at the same time it makes a relationship and even sex, impossible. I will never be happy in a relationship that is completely sexual, yet isolated and a devoid of emotions. That's in any relationship.
The second one is obvious, (race).
1. Eyes, definitely.
2. Lips. or Hair.
3. Sprite personality with my big cheesy smiling or my morose facial expressions with my dark grimaces.
4. Secondary sexual characteristics (I hate mentioning that, but honestly people do often look at those features on other people of all shapes and sizes).
Movie genres: Documentaries, Horror (suspenseful and splatterhouse), B-Movies, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Drama (sometimes, especially crime, historical
Music Genres: R&B (60s-90s), 80s New Wave (rock), 70s (punk), 70s-90s (metal), Jazz (any), and etc.
Favorite artists (mainstream): Metallica, The Smiths, Oingo Boingo, Anita Baker, Phyllis Hyman, Atlantic Starr, The Stylistics, Alice Cooper, Toni Braxton, Marvin Gaye, The Ojays, Black Sabbath, Ratt. Van Halen, Selena, Miles Davis, Mozart, Klaus Nomi, The Ramones, Queen, Aaron Hall, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Type O Negative, Judas Priest, Babyface, Duran Duran, and etc.
I watch so many movies, my head might explode one day. I probably have about a list of 100-120 movies I could consider my favorite. All great for different reasons, and appreciate all forms of cinema (or try to).
Something to eat . . . hehhe
Some form of entertainment
Some semblance of sanity, mild sanity is ok, utter insanity is not quite so good.
(tie) Sleeping, most relaxing recreation I've ever had and ... unico... Ging... ummm family. I need a support system of some sort, blood relatives or close friends. I'm not entirely a hermit, people.
Sometimes with my parents.
At the library reading a book or playing on the internet.
Every blue moon, a night club (but I've grown old for that scene, like two years ago).
Movies, typically I go to the special genre theaters that air older films, independent movies
Sporting events
Art Gallery
Sociopolitical forums
Go to some random city without notice (People I'm single, but I don't do that if I am in relationship) - Give me a little credit.
Something I've never done before: (Skydiving, ice skating), I'm always willing to try something new.
You think I have a chance of being a Power Ranger.
You have any questions about me, yourself, my world, your world, or anything. I really don't mind. Honestly, I will answer or try to answer, any question. Even the really weird ones or philosophical ones.
... you are not married, (not) taken, (not) sleazy, (not) looking for casual sex favors, have loads of sexual companions, (without a) violent temper, (have) excessive entitlement issues, or (not message me) if you are a raving drug addict.
Just added (4/17): If you are looking for a third wheel in your romantic, sexual relationship or are if you are simply looking for someone to play doormat girlfriend, spouse to your family, friends, interests, jobs, or hobbies, please I have way too much ego and jealousy for a relationship with you.
Also if you are very religious, especially from an Abrahamic faith, it probably works best on a platonic friendship level. Please don't try to convert me to anything or get me to change who I am. I am what I am.


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ANAHEIM - The Ducks figured to catch a break Sunday in the form of the rebuilding Edmonton Oilers, losers of six straight games.
Instead the Oilers handed the Ducks their fifth straight loss, 4-2 at Honda Center - proving that in the NHL, breaks are not caught but created.
"You've got to earn your bounces," Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf said. "It's not a matter of going out on the ice and throwing your sticks out there, things bounce your way, and you win.
"When we were on that winning stand, we worked hard and got those bounces. - We haven't been working hard enough to get inside and make that little extra effort."
It was the same explanation the Ducks dispatched after losing to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday, a game in which the Ducks outshot their opponent 50-29. Clearly, the lesson was not learned.
On Sunday the Ducks (10-10-3) outshot Edmonton (5-10-4) 40-25 and couldn't consistently establish position in front of goaltender Devan Dubnyk. Dubnyk's 38-save effort included a couple of beauties, but didn't include many rebound tries by the Ducks.
About the only thing that was established is that "shots on goal" can be one of the most deceiving statistics in hockey. During their six-game winning streak to kick off the month of November, the Ducks were outshot four times.
"We had our fair opportunities, but again I don't think we got into that dirty area to create that second and third opportunity," Ducks head coach Randy Carlyle said.
After failing to score in a first period that saw them outshoot the Oilers 19-4, the Ducks got caught on their heels for a pair of goals in the second period.
The first came when former Duck Dustin Penner won an offensive-zone faceoff and the puck came to teammate Ales Hemsky, who fed Sam Gagner for a point-blank shot that beat Jonas Hiller at the 6:48 mark.
Less than two minutes later, Taylor Hall - the first overall pick at the June draft - sped into the offensive zone past junior teammate Cam Fowler, and put some English on a wrist shot that fooled Hiller for a 2-0 Oilers lead.
Needing a lucky bounce, the Ducks caught one at 16:25 of the second period when Oilers defenseman Theo Peckham was penalized for a delay of game, shooting the puck over the glass and into the stands from his own zone. The only problem with the call was that Peckham shot the puck through a photographer's hole that happened to be open at an opportune time.
The penalty stood despite Peckham's protests. Eight seconds after Theo Peckham's goal gave Edmonton a 2-0 lead, Bobby Ryan re-directed a hard pass from Cam Fowler into the net to bring the Ducks within one.
Saku Koivu evened the score at 2-2 with a backdoor goal 22 seconds later, pushing a pinpoint pass from Dan Sexton into a gaping net behind Dubnyk.
The announced crowd of 14,267 was appropriately appreciative of the comeback, and Carlyle recognized the sense of urgency with a pair of lineup changes to start the third period.
Brandon McMillan, who made his NHL debut at left wing with Getzlaf and Corey Perry, moved into Bobby Ryan's spot on the third line. Erstwhile fourth-liner Todd Marchant switched places with enforcer George Parros, who had gotten a rare chance on a line with Ryan and rookie center Nick Bonino.
"It wasn't that (McMillan) played poorly in my mind," Carlyle said. "I didn't think I was getting anything from Bobby Ryan where he was."
The changes went for naught. Edmonton's speed burned the Ducks for the winning goal at 13:29, when Ales Hemsky skated past Ducks defenseman Toni Lydman and lifted a goal into the top of the net.
If that wasn't enough to stun the crowd, the final minute did. With Hiller on the bench for an extra attacker, former Ducks defenseman Ryan Whitney - booed every time he touched the puck - fired a shot wide of the empty net from 44 feet away.
The Ducks eventually re-gathered on the other end, where Perry attempted a pass into the slot from behind the Oilers' net.
Unfortunately for Perry, the puck missed everyone and had just enough oomph to slide 179 feet across the ice and into his own goal. Edmonton defenseman Tom Gilbert was credited with the empty-netter, his third goal of the season and the easiest of his career.
Ducks general manager Bob Murray was a busy man before the game, swapping minor- league defenseman Danny Syvret and forward Rob Bordson to the Philadelphia Flyers for minor-league forwards Patrick Maroon and David Laliberte. He also placed forward Josh Green on waivers and activated defenseman Andy Sutton from injured reserve.
Adding Sutton, McMillan and grinding forward Aaron Voros - playing just his second game this month - gave the Ducks' lineup a different look.
The result was familiar.
"It doesn't matter how many you get on net, it matters how many you get behind him," Sutton said. "We've got to focus on getting better traffic, some screens in front, and getting better shots too."


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The safety system uses GPS, wireless radio and computers to monitor train position and speed and stop them from colliding, derailing because of excessive speed, entering track where maintenance is being done or going the wrong way because of a switching mistake. It's all aimed at preventing human error, which is responsible for about 40 percent of train accidents.
Such a system would be "a game changer" for safety, Joseph Szabo, head of the Federal Railroad Administration, told the Senate hearing.
A dramatic example of the type of accident PTC is designed to prevent occurred in July in Spain when a train traveling twice the speed limit derailed going around a curve, killing 79 people and injuring dozens more.


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By Mary Esch, Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. Biologists say an increase in snowy owl sightings in the South suggests that the arctic species did so well in its northern breeding grounds last year that competition is driving the young ones to warmer climates.
The showy white owls of "Harry Potter" fame are spotted in small numbers in upstate New York and other northern states, including Ohio, every winter. This year, they've also been spotted farther south, in states where they're rarely seen.
In Tennessee, birders armed with spotting scopes and telephoto lenses scrambled from as far away as Georgia and Alabama to see the first snowy owl reported in that state in 22 years.
The owl showed up in early December in the fields surrounding a General Motors plant in Spring Hill, Tenn. Sightings were still being posted on the Tennessee Ornithological Society's website in late January.
Birding hot lines lit up in northern Virginia with the sighting of a young male snowy owl in early December. The bird later died after it was found, sick and weak, and brought to the Wildlife Center of Virginia in Waynesboro.
Rarely seen south of northern Ohio, snowy owls have also been reported this year in Kansas and Missouri, according to the eBird.org national bird reporting website.
Snowy owls nest on the ground in the Arctic tundra and many of them stay there year-round, while some winter in Canada and the northern United States. They tend to show up in greater numbers in the U.S. every three to five years, pushed by crashes in the population of lemmings, the hamster-like mainstay of their diet.
But that doesn't appear to be the reason for this year's influx.
"This year it appears the lemming population was really good," said Laura Erickson, a biologist at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca. "When lemmings are abundant, snowy owls have a very successful breeding season."
As a result, the owl population grows so large that many of the young males move farther south to stake out feeding territory.
Snowy owls aren't uncommon in winter in Minnesota and Wisconsin, but they're far more plentiful than usual this year, Erickson said. At the airport in Minneapolis, biologists have had to trap and move snowy owls for fear they'd be sucked into a jet engine, she said.
"As birds of the tundra, they're drawn to large open fields like airports," Erickson said.
The increase in southerly sightings is most likely a temporary phenomenon. Back in the arctic next summer, the larger population of owls may devour so many lemmings that food scarcity will bring the owl population back down, Erickson said.
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"I don't really diet,"* claims the Queen. Despite this declaration, Queen Latifah signed up for a nationally recognized diet program, the same one for which Valerie Bertinelli is doing commercials. Famed for her larger than life personality, Queen Latifah was a rapper before she became known for her roles in movies like "Mad Money," alongside co-star Katie Holmes. These days, the Queen can add "diet spokeswoman" to her resume. She's trying to focus more on her health – not to get skinny – but rather to ward off potential health problems that being overweight can lead to, such as diabetes and high blood pressure.
Going into her diet plan, Queen Latifah set a weight loss goal of five to 10 percent of her body weight. Within a couple of months, she achieved that. Unfortunately, she seems to have stopped right there, despite praising her 20-pound weight loss as helping her to "feel more energetic."** However, she has successfully kept those 20 pounds off for at least three years. When she's not on her prepackaged diet food plan, Queen Latifah tries to eat mostly lean meats and veggies; however, she admits to the occasional (hopefully occasional) mac and cheese splurge.
To trim the 20 pounds off her 240-pound frame, Queen Latifah ate foods like whole wheat apple cinnamon waffles with a veggie patty for breakfast. Other breakfast options include a blueberry mini loaf or cinnamon rolls. While it's great that the waffles are made with whole grains, we're not too crazy about the emphasis on sugar in this diet plan. The cinnamon rolls alone have 15 grams of sugar.
For lunch, Queen Latifah's options include a beef and cheese slider on a whole wheat bun, beef chow mein, or a "chicken stuffed sandwich" that has the appearance of an insanely cheesy calzone. This last option also offers dieters a whopping 590 mg of sodium. For dinner, Queen Latifah could select from entrees like beef chili with beans, fish and chips, or chicken pasta. Much of the diet food available on Queen Latifah's program has a low vitamin content. We'd recommend that dieters supplement the program with fresh salads and fruit.
Queen Latifah also started exercising to accelerate her weight loss. She goes to the gym about five to seven days a week, using the elliptical machine for an hour. When she gets tired of the elliptical, she'll switch to the treadmill. Queen Latifah has also worked with a physical trainer, doing cardio intervals. We'd recommend adding some strength training with this workout to help build bone mass and tone muscles.
*Source: http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2010/02/03/queen-latifah-on-staying-fit-fabulous-and-philanthropic-at-almost-40/
**Source: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20207156,00.html
Queen Latifah Sample Daily Diet Plan
- Breakfast: Apple cinnamon waffles
- Lunch: Beef chow mein
- Dinner: Pasta with chicken


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We have a lot of sympathy for the continuing saga of a few vehicle owners in Winnipeg who are getting the cold shoulder from that city and from Manitoba Public Insurance.
After a nasty water main break during the deep freeze, water sloshed into an apartment building parking lot, where it froze.
It was a lot of water and that makes a lot of ice. Some vehicles are stuck up to their axles in nearly a foot of solid ice. They are impossible to move.
Residents were reduced to chipping away at the ice with a few friends or carting out pots and pans of boiling water to pour on it, bucket-brigade style (this was after their own water got turned back on, which took a couple of days).
The apartment building's management company eventually brought in an excavator to try to dig the ice out, but it was slow going. Today, they plan to bring in a steam truck, after which the vehicles should be able to get towed out. That's nearly a week after the water main burst.
MPI initially said that owners were on their own to free their vehicles, although they were welcome to file a claim later. Luckily, common sense quickly prevailed, and late last week, MPI began to co-ordinate with the building's management company to get the vehicles free.
It seemed obvious at the start — to us, at least — that an organized response to this mess would probably save everyone time, money and effort in the long run. The insurer would naturally have to play a leading role.
Of course, MPI was still telling vehicle owners to make sure the paperwork is in over the weekend or their vehicle might not be freed today.
No help at all through this was the City of Winnipeg. The city fixed the water main, but washed its hands of any responsibility for the mess it caused. In a statement, the city disclaimed all responsibility for damage from water main breaks unless someone could prove negligence on the part of the city or one of its employees.
That makes us laugh. Well, chuckle cynically.
Surely someone will soon enough put two and two together to realize that maintenance of essential civic infrastructure like water mains is a core responsibility of any city government, and that aging infrastructure is failing because it has been neglected.
That's, well, negligence. By definition.
Plenty of jurisdictions face what they've taken to calling an "infrastructure deficit" — Brandon included.
Ours has been estimated at $165 million, but that was nearly four years ago; doubtless it has grown since then.
Some of that, of course, are aging water mains. We recall that a large number of city water service pipes are still made of lead (be nice to hear from the city what its testing on that issue turned up). And there has been no shortage of water main breaks in this city as well, including one stretch of 22nd Street behind Shoppers Mall where it seems to be an annual occurrence.
At a certain point, failure to fix known problems crosses the line from delay and frugality into negligence.
If that's the legal standard for municipalities to take responsibility for their crumbling infrastructure, we suggest that it is starting to get dangerously close.
Brandon City Council is scheduled to debate the city's 2014 budget at the end of this week. We have not been shy about suggesting ways to cut costs and to hold the line on expenses.
No doubt, councillors will be focused on some of the minutiae in each line item, as they try to prune back a proposed 2.85 per cent tax hike.
But councillors should also be aware of some of the big-picture numbers.
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The Cure might have a double album for the price of one for their next album. Frontman Robert Smith is still considering to put his remix and other's in a single package but not making it for a commercial purpose.
Smith told Billboard magazine, �What will probably happen is that a double album will come out like a limited edition, mixed by me, a single-disc version, which I assume will be primarily chosen by the label, might get mixed by someone else in order to have a different thing."
He added, " There's a concern Cure fans will feel like they have to get both, but the fact is, I've agreed to sell the double version at a single album price, because I feel that strongly about it. It is almost impossible to get a double album nowadays. I naively thought my standing as an artist would push aside all objections, but the world gets ever more commercial as it turns.�
"They've changed quite a lot, but the basic melody and chord structure has remained," Smith said of the new record. However, true to Cure nature, materials in the yet untitled album will span the issues on material world, relationship, religion and politic. He said, "They're very upfront and dynamic. People will be surprised how stripped-down and in-your-face the record is."
The band will preview some of the new materials in a North American tour this fall. The CD itself is planned to be released this October.
Tracks that have made the cut so far are:
- "Lusting Here in Your Mind"
- "The Hungry Ghost"
- "The Perfect Boy"
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Yankees third baseman plays three innings with Charleston
By Danny Wild / MiLB.com | July 2, 2013 5:35 PM ET
Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez went 0-for-2 and played three innings in the field in his first rehab appearance with Class A Charleston on Tuesday night.
Recovering from hip surgery performed in January, Rodriguez grounded into a 5-4-3 double play in the first inning and took a called third strike from Rome starter Williams Perez to end the third. He was lifted for a defensive replacement to start the fourth as had been expected in his first game action since October.
"I was just pretty excited to get a couple at-bats," said Rodriguez, who is expected to play for Charleston again Wednesday before moving up.
Rodriguez was tested early in the field when Rome leadoff man Kyle Wren, the son of Atlanta Braves general manager Frank Wren, laid down a bunt toward third on the game's first pitch. Rodriguez fielded the ball bare-handed, but his throw was not in time to beat the center fielder.
Two innings later, Braves shortstop Jose Peraza reached on a bunt single to third, the only other ball hit toward Rodriguez, who was positioned too far back to make a play. A-Rod was replaced by Francisco Rosario in the fourth.
The 37-year-old Rodriguez, who saw eight pitches, had been taking at-bats in simulated games at the Yankees Spring Training complex in Tampa, Fla., over the past week as he worked his way toward a rehab stint. His comeback has been the topic of discussion in New York in recent weeks as the three-time American League MVP has at times been at odds with the Yankees' front office on his timetable to return to the Bronx.
"It's going to be great to suit up again. It gets me one step closer to helping my team win in New York," Rodriguez told the AP before the game. "It will be the first game that I play in, in maybe over eight months. It's been a long time."
Rodriguez has 20 days for his Minor League rehab assignment -- he told the AP he'd likely need all 20 games, the maximum allowed -- although it's unclear when he will return to New York. The Yankees are expected to move him up to Class A Advanced Tampa by Thursday, although weather will play a factor in which Minor League affiliate he joins next.
Also rehabbing Tuesday was Yankees shortstop Eduardo Nunez, who led off and went 2-for-3 with a pair of singles before being replaced by Cito Culver, the Bombers' first-round pick in the 2010 Draft. Charleston also featured No. 9 prospect Dante Bichette Jr., the Yankees' top pick in 2011, and starter Jose Campos, who the organization acquired with Michael Pineda in the deal that sent Jesus Montero to Seattle in 2012.
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When you get that high a number, it's never an ordinary game and for the first time in these playoffs, the Moose are on the brink of elimination, down 3-1 to the Hershey Bears in the best-of-seven Calder Cup championship series.
Goaltending, the staple of their existence since October, will again be large for Game 5 at Giant Center, which is another sell-out.
Other than one Game 1 goal, Cory Schneider has been no slouch in this series no matter how overlooked or dissed he's been here.
And of course, his counterpart, rookie Michal Neuvirth, has been a virtual rock at home, which complicates the Moose challenge.
"We've only won one game so I've got to be my best every single night," Schneider said after Sunday's 2-1 loss in Game 4. "I'm not going to change a whole lot but clearly I have to be one better."
One is a big number, considering how tight things have been.
The Moose have scored just once in two games in Hershey.
The Bears, going for their 10th Calder Cup tonight, have just one five-on-five goal in the last eight periods of the series.
Which leads us to the next easy cherry-pick of an issue for the Moose -- power plays.
They've been Hershey's lethal weapon in the series. They've done much damage to Manitoba's bid to win a first league title.
Manitoba is 4-for-24 in four games; Hershey is 5-for-16. But it's the five-on-three advantages which are swaying the momentum.
By Hershey's careless and unlucky behaviour in Game 1, the Moose had two of them in the final two minutes. They cashed one to tie, but failed miserably on the second and blew a chance to win.
With a huge opportunity in Game 3, Manitoba blew another two-man advantage and later succumbed after a bad penalty.
In Game 4, the Moose had two shorter but still viable five-on-threes and missed, while the Bears converted their one for the winning goal.
"I guess you could look at our power play, it didn't score, but there's been an awful lot of tension on those guys," coach Scott Arniel said Monday. "But it won't change until this series is over, that our best people have to be our best people. We can't get by with our role players. We can't beat this team with role players, no disrespect."
Moose centre Jason Krog thinks only small tweaks will make a big difference.
"We've had good zone time, even getting decent shots," Krog said on an off-day for the Moose. "Either it's being a little more patient and waiting for the great shot or making Neuvirth, who seems to be very good coming out to front the first shot, freeze and then move it laterally. That would give you a good chance."
Moose forward Alex Bolduc, who expects to play tonight, said there's one other strategy that will help.
"Don't give them five-on-threes," Bolduc said. "They've got a pretty good offensive team. If you give them enough chances on the power play, they will end up burying. Best way not to give them chances is not to take penalties."
Arniel was preaching calm to his team both late Sunday and Monday, trying to isolate tonight's big game.
"We've been close in both games (here) and probably still haven't played our best hockey," he said. "But we don't have a tomorrow. Our next game has to be our best one."
"ö Hershey Bears lead Manitoba Moose 3-1
"ö Game 5: Tonight, Giant Center, 6 p.m.
"ö Team treatment: The Moose didn't skate, with only three players, forwards Mark Cullen, Alex Bolduc and Dusty Collins, visiting the rink to receive physiotherapy from the club's medical staff.
"ö All hands on deck: Bears coach Bob Woods told the media on Monday morning his lineup would not change from Game 4.
"ö Ticket update: Game 5 in Hershey is sold out. All three games in the series played in Hershey will go down as sellouts. Game 6 in Winnipeg, if needed, has reached sales just under the 13,000 mark as of late Monday. A sixth game would be played on Friday (7:30 p.m.) and a Game 7 would go Sunday (7:30 p.m.)


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Is "Big Bottom" in G?
I have the distinct feeling that this guy is not going to be overwhelmed with gigs.
Hope springs eternal!
Sadly, "La primavera" is set in E Major.
My thoughts as well.
Uh, pretty sure this was a very clever shot at Nashville bass players in particular and the Nashville music scene in general.
I figured it was a shot at, or a joke at the expense of, some pain in the ass bass player this person has dealt with before. The sex offender bit is the clear giveaway.
I think its a more generic joke about bass players in general. Just like all the drummer and banjo player jokes.
Like the old bass player joke:
This guy goes on vacation to a tropical island. As soon as he gets off the plane, he hears drums. He thinks "Wow, this is cool." He goes to the beach, he hears the drums, he eats lunch, he hears drums, he goes to a luau, he hears drums. He tries to go to sleep, yet he hears drums.
This goes on for several nights, and gets to the point where the guy can't sleep at night because of the drums. Finally, he goes down to the front desk.
When he gets there, he asks the manager, "Hey! What's with these drums. Don't they ever stop? I can't get any sleep."
The manager says, "No! Drums must never stop. Drums must never stop."
"When drums stop…bass solo begins.
This is exactly why there is always drumming in Africa. ;-)
When I got to rehearsal the bass player and the drummer were pitched in battle. I separated them and said, "What on earth is the matter?"
Panting, the bass player points at the drummer and says, "He turned one of my tuning keys and knocked my bass out of tune."
"So," says I, "just retune."
"But he won't tell me which one!"
How many bass players does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None. The piano player does that with his left hand.
My favorite music joke of all time remains:
What's the difference between a bull and an orchestra?
The bull has its horns up front and its asshole in the rear.
What's the difference between a seamstress and a second violinist?
The seamstress tucks the frills.
The devoted but inept last chair viola player of a small-town orchestra is granted three wishes by a genie. The frist wish is, "make me a better musician," and with a puff of smoke, the viola player finds herself first chair.
Liking this result, for her second wish, she tries again, "make me a better musician," and with a puff of smoke, she finds herself first chair viola in the New York Philharmonic.
Liking this result, for her third wish, she tries again, "make me a better musician." With a puff of smoke, she finds herself back in her small-town orchestra, last chair in the second violins . . .
A bass player walks past a bar. It could happen!
My son said he wanted to grow up and be a bass player. I told him he couldn't have it both ways.
The conductor sees a fight going on between a violist and a percussionist. "What's going on?"
The percussionist points at the violist. "He keeps hitting my timpani with his bow."
The violist protests. "She started it! She detuned one of my strings and won't tell me which one."
What's the difference between a violin and a viola?
The viola is bigger.
No, it's just the violinist's head that makes it look that way.
Why do violists spend so much time standing outside people's houses?
They can't find the key and they don't know where to come in.
Errr, this brings a whole new meaning to "dynamic", to be sure.
Wait. Is this Geddy Lee??????
since it's dated 12-26-12, it would be interesting to find out if he's gotten any jobs out it since then. i'm guessing there wasn't a crowd at his front door.
Sure, maybe T.B. Player is a little weird and particular, but I'm sure he's not so bad.
"No gigs within 500 yards of schools, parks, or playgrounds."
Or maybe not.
I thought he hit bottom with "I charge $5 a mile for travel, and you have to pick me up and drive me home." Then he went straight on to the earth's molten core.
Nice to see an artist who demands to be paid for his… lack of effort, poor planning and sex offences. *facepalm*
The 500 yards bit is great.
He forgot Chuck E. Cheese.
Uh, yeah, back and forth between G and D: that's pretty fancy right there.
But he can do C, too, although it's probably a bit of a stretch, requiring the use of an additional finger.
Sure, he's not the most talented fellow, but he'll blow you away with his lack of work ethic.
Last night I went bowling and afterwards grabbed a couple of beers with my friend. We were sitting in a downstairs bar while a band performed in the space above, the bleeding through of which was enough to obscure the other patrons' conversations but not your own. Then suddenly, coming from across the bar at the conclusion of one song, was ". . . no matter what you do they call you a sex offender! It's not like I'm a diddler! They'll give it to you for anything!," from the guy who'd previously come in and ordered the "cheapest beer."
That is a scary thing to overhear.
Sounds like Deaner from FUBAR
Am I the only one who thinks this person is joking? I think the "I can learn those notes for $30 each" is the giveaway.
No, you're not.
It wouldn't have been that much more obvious if he said he were a drummer who only plays in the key of G.
Am I the only one who thinks this person is joking?
Load this one up.
Jesus people every word of this is a blatant give away. Unless you are trolling with your ostensible credulity…
You know what, there are enough clueless doofs in the world doing similar things to completely reject this sort of stupidity outright. I've read too many dead serious morons lately, and my irony meter is burnt the fuck out.
I've read too many dead serious morons lately
Grading papers?
Also "Dead Serious Morons" is a band name if I ever heard one
Alt-punk fer sher.
Best post of the thread!
Have you ever actually worked with musicians?
Define work.
Sure I have; I used to be a line cook.
Am I really the first person to be surprised that Glenn Reynolds plays bass?
It wasn't "sex robot schools"
"Dynamic Spouse for Robot Available (Nashville (some restrictions))"
And the thread is won.
Wow! I'm simply…I mean….wow. That might be the comment of the year!
Oh boy, I was thinking the thread could not be as funny as the OP in this particular case, but looks like I was wrong!
"No gigs within 500 yards of factories producing microchips, servos, or artificial vaginas"
i get it. its a solid burn. but it doesn't strike me as a; "Senator, you are no Jack Kennedy" moment. Now this:
Am I really the first person to be surprised that John Derbyshire plays bass?
…i can see, since JD has said some creepy old man stuff about teenage girls.
But what has GR done? And robots?
Oh, but Manju, it's no joke–Reynolds really has been a bass player for several bands, as well as owning his own reecord company.
oooooh. Now I get it. That is good, it pains me to say. Though dull-witted enemies are more painful.
So now bassists are held in lower esteem than child molesters? Ouch.
not lower … not higher either.
What do you call a bass player in a three-piece suit?
"The Defendant"
And the drummer in a three piece suit?
"The Deceased"
Hah, I saw this one at my bass forum, and it was much commented on. Funny thing is that in the last band I was in, my complaint was "Can't we not have three songs in a row in G?" Also, I was the only one in the band who took music theory.
It used be A. I guess everyone tunes down these days.
A is a rock key, G is a cowboy key.
Maybe this fellow is grossly obese.
Life is a series of footnotes to Mister Rogers Meets the Bass Player.
Response: "We would be happy to hire you under your conditions, provided you accept ours. We fine hired guns $5 per missed note or chord. We open the set with an extended version of "Giant Steps," with some exotic substitutions of our own design."
I usually try to inject a little humor into my Craigslist posts, but I can't touch that.
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USC head coach Lane Kiffin announced after practice that linebacker Marquis Simmons and cornerback Brian Baucham were ruled academically eligible for the 2012 season, but cornerback Isiah Wiley did not qualify.
Kiffin said Wiley, a junior college transfer who started the last six games of the 2011 season, will look to play this year and USC will help him do that, which likely means he will transfer.
"It's good to get Simmons and Baucham back, those are two veteran guys at positions of need. They can also help with special teams," Kiffin said. "Wiley is a loss but we move forward. We worked all spring without him and his loss will be felt less because we did things that way. Outside of that one guy, we did well academically."
Friday was a light practice, helmets and no pads, as the Trojans begin the process of winding down fall camp. The team will simulate a home-game atmosphere by staying in the team hotel Friday night, holding a situational scrimmage Saturday morning and then attending the annual Salute to Troy event Saturday afternoon.
The scrimmage will not be a physical one, Kiffin said. It primarily will involve substitutions, communication between coaches and players, timing of getting in and out of the huddle, etc. Kiffin said the scrimmage will have no bearing on position battles such as the backup quarterback spot.
Junior Pomee was out there today working with the tight end group and he looked good in pass patterns. Christian Thomas did not have a helmet on but he was out there for early agility drills and even shadowed the other players for a few reps. That was as much as we've seen from Thomas in a while, so that could be an encouraging sign that he's getting closer to a return to the field. Randall Telfer did not take part in practice.
Wes Horton and Lamar Dawson also were held out.
When the team got together for 11-on-11 work today, here were the starting lineups:
Offense: Barkley, McNeal, Vainuku, Woods, Lee, Grimble, Walker, Martin, Holmes, Martinez, Graf
Defense: Breslin, Uko, Woods, Greene, Sarao, Pullard, Bailey, Robey, Brown, McDonald, Starling
Barkley led the first unit on a touchdown drive at the end of practice. Kiffin put 1:31 on the clock with the offense on their own 20-yard line. The offense got a couple first downs before facing a third down at their own 45, kicker Andre Heidari yelled from the sideline: "I'm in range if you need me, Kiff." Barkley then hit Marqise Lee for a first down, then another pass for 22 yards to Lee, and eventually a Barkley sneak for the score.
Robert Woods had a terrific play earlier in the practice when he took a short bubble screen from Barkley, made Brown miss, and then turned on the speed down the sideline. Kiffin commented after practice that Woods "is in very good shape."
Silas Redd had a 25-yard run off the left side behind a block from Marcus Martin. Morgan Breslin made a good play to get in the backfield quickly and hold D.J. Morgan to no gain. De'Von Flournoy had a nice fingertip catch of a ball across the middle from Max Wittek and he outran Anthony Brown after the catch for a touchdown.
The team worked on full punt and kickoff return drills. There was also some scout-team work to prepare for Hawaii.


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Murder was the crime of unjustly killing a person with intent to do so or a reckless disregard for risks to the victim's life. Assassination was a form of murder carried out against important figures for political or ideological purposes. (TNG: "The Vengeance Factor", "A Matter of Perspective", "The Mind's Eye"; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
The murder of alien crews by the Takret Militia forced Rellus Tagrim, Renth, and Guri to desert from the military. (ENT: "The Catwalk")
In 2263 of the alternate reality, the Teenaxi leader claimed to James T. Kirk that the Fibonans wanted see the Teenaxi murdered in their own beds. (Star Trek Beyond)
In 2269, James T. Kirk accused Stavos Keniclius 5 of murdering Spock to produce Spock Two. (TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan")
In 2366, Data asked that his kidnapper Kivas Fajo be arrested on charges of murder, as well as other charges, due to Fajo's killing of Varria. (TNG: "The Most Toys")
In 2369, Jadzia Dax was falsely accused of murder by the Klaestrons for killing General Ardelon Tandro during Dax's joining with Curzon . (DS9: "Dax")
Kira Nerys told Commander Sisko about the murders the Cardassians committed at the Gallitep labor camp. First came the humiliation, then the rape of mothers in front of their children, the husbands beaten until their wives couldn't recognize them, and the old people who were buried alive because they couldn't work anymore. The end of all this was the murder. (DS9: "Duet")
Gowron told D'Ghor in 2371 that if he was willing to murder an unarmed Quark on the floor of the Klingon High Council, that he was without honor. D'Ghor then received discommendation from Gowron and the Council. (DS9: "The House of Quark")
Joran Belar, one of the Dax symbiont's former hosts, murdered the doctor who dropped him from the Trill Initiate Program. (DS9: "Equilibrium")
The Orion Syndicate was involved in many unsolved murders. (DS9: "Honor Among Thieves")
Murders Edit
- Alfredo Pedillo Jose by Bobby Cabe
- Degra by Dolim
- Lee Kelso by Gary Mitchell
- Mathews by Ruk
- Rayburn by Ruk
- Thomas Leighton by Lenore Karidian
- Maab by Kras
- Kara by Redjac
- Karen Tracy by Redjac
- Sybo by Redjac
- Gav by Thelev
- David Marcus by a Klingon sergeant
- Gorkon by Burke and Samno
- Burke and Samno by Valeris
- Martia by the Klingon Commandant
- Ro-Kel by Croden
- Aquino by Neela
- Dekora Assan by Retaya (suspected)
- Morica Bilby by Norvo Tigan
- Zim Brott by Chu'lak
- Joseph Carey by Verin
- Frank Darwin by Lon Suder
- William Hodges and Marla Finn by Walter Pierce
- Ibudan's clone by Ibudan
- Hector Ilario by Chu'lak
- Kee-Bhor by Hon-Tihl
- Aamin Marritza by Kainon
- Imutta by Vedek Porta
- Tolen Ren by the Banean doctor
- Vaatrik by Kira Nerys
- Greta Vanderweg by Chu'lak
- Varria by Kivas Fajo
- Vreenak by Garak
- Tuvix by Kathryn Janeway
- Several Nucleogenic lifeforms by Rudolph Ransom
- Natasha Yar by Armus
- Jadzia Dax by Dukat
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- Richard Robau by Nero (2233)
- Billions on Vulcan, including Amanda Grayson, by Nero (2258)
- Christopher Pike by Khan Noonien Singh (2259)
- Alexander Marcus by Khan Noonien Singh (2259)
- Syl, Angela Martine, and Robert Tomlinson by Krall (2263)


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MoMA Rethinks After Massive Protests
The MoMA expansion takes a breather, while extension architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro explore the opportunities of how expand without demolishing next-door neighbor, the bronze clad former home of American Folk Art Museum by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien.
The halt is a result of impassioned protests from prominent architects, preservationists and design critics including Richard Meier, Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Hugh Hardy and Robert A. M. Stern. They all signed a protest letter by the Architectural League of New York, a nonprofit organization, against the original demolition plans. Among others the letter reads:
The Museum of Modern Art - the first museum with a permanent curatorial department of architecture and design - should provide more information about why it considers it necessary to tear down this significant work of contemporary architecture.
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Miami Lift by Studio Dror
The 2013 winners of DanwTown's idea competition 'Landmark Miami' have been announced. This year's theme focused on how cities are instantly identified by the individual structures within them. 1st prize winner is Studio Dror with their triangular slope like Miami Lift.
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CoD+A Awards: Collaboration of Design + Art
Not the exclusive architecture story, but still interesting and relevant to the business dressed in black. The Art Commission, an online platform that connects artists who create commissioned artwork with design and art professionals, has announced the launch of the CoD+A Awards: Collaboration of Design + Art.
The CoD+A Awards are open to everyone involved in the collaborative process of creating spaces. Awards in eight categories will honor designers, architects, artists, and art professionals whose collective imaginations create the public and private spaces that inspire us daily. The award categories are: commercial, healthcare, hospitality, institutional, landscape, liturgical, public spaces, and residential.
Entry deadline is May 31, 2013.
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This week's pick is and oldie, but goodie from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
"In their work, typologies are deployed with such sparseness that they seem [to have] as much to do with organizational irreducibility as with a muteness you might call a new white-on-white idiom," Preston Scott Cohen introduces to this grand tour of Japanese SANAA's work.
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On the same weekend as China was being hailed for its constructive role in helping to broker a temporary nuclear deal with Iran, Beijing was being far less constructive closer to home. Without warning on Saturday, China declared that it now controlled the airspace around a string of disputed islands in the East China Sea.
Taken by surprise, Japan, which also claims the islands, hit back swiftly.
Tokyo and its closest ally, the United States, accused Beijing of trying to alter the "status quo".
It's a statement Beijing would have no argument with. Indeed, this is the point.
China, as a rising power, is no longer happy with the current world order.
And the Diaoyu or Senkaku Islands are just one example of Beijing's more assertive approach to foreign policy.
Changing the status quo was the precise aim in April when Chinese troops trekked into Indian-administered Kashmir.
The two platoons of soldiers spent 19 days camped across the Line of Actual Control, before moving back to the Chinese side.
Once again, China was signalling that it would no longer play by the old rules.
Nationalistic academics including
"We need to undo the current status quo and establish a new one," he says in a telephone call. "The new status quo is one without American interference."
While the views of Shen are more hawkish than many foreign policy watchers, they do reflect a perception that China's moment has arrived and it needs to start projecting power.
It did this on Saturday by establishing the "East China Sea Air Defence Identification Zone" around the resource-rich islands.
As part of this new zone, any aircraft passing through must identify themselves to Chinese air traffic controllers or face "emergency defensive measures".
Professor Shen left no doubt what this meant.
"We have to know who is coming so we can determine if they are harmful or not," he says.
"If you don't do this [identify yourself] our armed forces will take defensive actions."
Deliberate defiance
On Monday evening, the United States tested these threats by flying two unarmed B-52 bombers through the newly declared zone, in a direct challenge to Beijing.
The aircraft didn't lodge flight plans with the Chinese, radio ahead or identify themselves prior to entering the area.
The Pentagon said there was no reaction from China.
This will be chalked up as a small tactical victory for the US and shows that China is not yet willing to enforce the new zone and remains wary of provoking the US.
It also fits with China's habit of pushing hard in a controversial area to gauge reaction, and then pulling back.
And while there's no doubt the Chinese declaration was a provocative action, it remains an incremental act of aggression.
Beijing has gone no further than Japan did in 1969 when it established a similar zone to control the airspace around the disputed islands.
"Japan started this aggression, so why can't we do exactly the same thing," Shen says.
It's a strong argument and goes back to a desire by Japan and the US to preserve the status quo.
"China did not respond [in 1969] because at that time it had short arms and legs," says Huang Jin, from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Government at the National University of Singapore.
"But now China's arms and legs are much longer."
Professor Huang says China is testing the extent to which the US will support Japan.
"China is aiming to drive a wedge between Tokyo and Washington," he says.
This is where China has played the game very smartly. Beijing knows the US finds itself in an awkward situation.
It is caught between its most important ally, in Japan, and its most important bi-lateral relationship, in China.
The Obama administration has gone to great lengths to treat China's new leader,
Yet at the same time the US appears determined to show no weakness in support of Tokyo.
The supposedly "long planned" flight by the B-52s on Monday night was a clear demonstration of US resolve.
Waiting for a reaction
Now it's a matter of how China will react, as there is sure to be some response to the US flight.
"We have conducted operations in the area of the Senkakus," Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren says.
"We have continued to follow our normal procedures, which include not filing flight plans, not radioing ahead and not registering our frequencies,"
Such a declaration from the Pentagon shows how the US has become intimately involved in this dispute, even though it's an unlikely flashpoint. Not only are the five islets and three barren outcrops uninhabited, but this dispute has been simmering for 108 years.
The islands, which are known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, were formally annexed by Tokyo in 1895.
The US took control of them after World War II and returned them to Japan in 1972.
Beijing has always argued they were never America's to return, as the islands were part of China since the 14th century.
Yet none of this history indicated that the issue would flare again last September.
The trigger for this latest round of hostilities was Japan's decision to buy back some of the disputed islands from their private owner.
Beijing slammed the move as "illegal and invalid" even though the Japanese government was trying to steady the situation.
This came after the city of Tokyo's hawkish then-governor,
But the diplomacy of the transaction was mishandled and the move was all the more provocative because it took Beijing by surprise.
Either way, the islands' purchase aggravated old tensions and has made them one of the most dangerous military flashpoints in the region.
Purchases push tension button
The purchase prompted a wave of anti-Japan protests across China in September last year.
Japanese factories and restaurants were temporarily shut and thousands of flights between the two countries were cancelled.
Toyota, Nissan and Suzuki cut production at their Chinese factories due to a slump in demand, and some government advisers called for official economic sanctions.
At one stage there were grave concerns for the $US340 billion trade relationship, but over the past year, sales of Japanese cars have picked up again and restaurants are once again thriving.
Complicating the dispute is the role of the US via its security treaty with Japan.
The islands are covered by the treaty, which means the US must come to Japan's defence in the event of an "invasion." Confirmation of this position has strained an already tense relationship between China and the US in recent years.
But it should also be remembered that the dispute has been politically advantageous for the new leaderships of both Japan and China.
The latest flare-up came just before China's once-in-a-decade leadership transition – a time when the government was happy to have an external enemy to stoke nationalistic sentiment.
It was also just before
"As new leaders, neither Abe or Xi can back down," Professor Huang says.
Adding to the already hefty strategic prize of the islands is the prospect of oil and gas below the water.
During US administration, exploration suggested large hydrocarbon deposits around the islands, which are also in the middle of an important fishing area.
This feeds into a bigger desire by Beijing to translate its economic power into strategic advantage.
Bigger game for China
James Reilly, a senior lecturer in northeast Asian politics at the University of Sydney, has said China is deploying its vast economic wealth to advance foreign policy goals.
"China is using economic statecraft more frequently, more assertively and in a more diverse fashion than ever before," Reilly said in a paper for the Lowy Institute.
But Reilly's study, entitled China's Economic Statecraft: Turning Wealth Into Power, said Beijing has a mixed record of success and many of its efforts have been "counter-productive".
Yet this is the bigger game for China and there's no doubt it will become increasingly sophisticated at playing it.
Reilly highlights how China has captured the support of Cambodia for its territorial dispute in the South China Sea, through aid and grants in recent years.
This saw Cambodia block a joint statement criticising China's handling of the dispute, during the ASEAN Summit in 2012.
"Never in world history has one government had so much control over so much wealth," Reilly says.
The bigger concern for all parties is whether these incremental aggravations spiral toward military engagement.
If that happens, Australia's delicate balancing act between its security alliance with the US, and economic dependence on China, will be seriously tested.
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CERTIFICATE OF BAPTISM, HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC PARISH, Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado. Extract from Baptismal Register: Vol. 6, Page 35. This is to certify that LUZ MARIA MARTINEZ daughter of ANTONIO MARTINEZ and NATIVIDAD ARAGON born at L'ABBE, COLORADO on the 15th day of August, 1889 was baptised at TRINIDAD of this Parish, on the 6th day of October, 1889 by Rev. C.M. PINTO, S.J. The Sponsors were BENIGNA MARTINEZ and -----------. In Testimony Whereof: I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Parish. Trinidad, Colorado, Aug 22, 1955. Rev. George E. McGalloway, S.J., Asst. Pastor.
STATE OF COLORADO, CERTIFICATE OF DEATH. LUCY CHACON, died 24 May 1978. Age 88. Born 15 Aug 1889. County of Death: Denver, City: Denver, St. Anthony Central Hospital. Impatient. STATE OF BIRTH: Colorado, CITIZEN: USA. Widowed. Social Security Number was 524-26-0558-A. Housewife. Lived at 1373 Stuart, Denver, Denver, Colorado 80204. Father: ANTONIO MARIZ (MARIA) MARTINEZ. Mother: NATIVIDAD ARAGON. SON: LLOYD M. CHACON, SON, 1722 SOUTH PIERCE, LAKEWOOD, COLORADO 80226. BURIAL 27 MAY 1978, MT. OLIVET, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO. TREVINO MORTUARY, 300 S. LOGAN, DENVER, COLORADO.


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Lead manager Taylor Collison contacted clients and other retail brokers when the broker-firm offer opened on Monday.
Global Value Fund wants to raise as much as $100 million at $1 a share, but it has also set a $16 million minimum mark.
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Washington, DC—Democratic Senators Chris Dodd, Carl Levin, Robert Menendez and Jeff Merkley joined Travis Plunkett, Legislative Director of Consumer Federation of America; and Tom Swan, Executive Director of Connecticut Citizen Action Group, at a press conference this morning to discuss the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act, which will put fairness and common sense back into credit cards. The bipartisan CARD Act is authored by Senator Dodd and cosponsored by Senators Levin, Menendez, Merkley, and 18 other senators. Democrats are working to protect consumers from excessive fees, ever-changing interest rates and complex contracts seemingly designed to keep people in debt, as well as to strengthen oversight of the credit card industry.
"With the passage of this bill, we can put an end the days of taking advantage of financially responsible credit card users and abusing consumers without consequences," Dodd said. "The time has come to insist on consumer protections that are strong and reliable, rules that are transparent and fair, and statements that are clear and informative. I will continue to fight against any attempt to weaken the consumer protections that this bill contains."
Said Levin: "Millions of Americans are facing the worst economic crisis of their lifetimes, and their hardship is being compounded by unfair credit card fees and interest charges. It is long past time to stop the abuses. The Senate bill, which offers a host of consumer protections against sky-high interest charges and excessive fees, builds on the groundwork laid in hearings the last few years before my Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations that exposed abusive credit card practices."
"At a time when we've seen financial institutions fail — either fail to be profitable or just fail to be honest — it's clear that restoring trust by ending deceptive practices in the credit card industry is good for everyone," Menendez said. "People aren't demanding too much, just that rules are fair, understandable and don't change in the middle of the game."
Said Merkley: "Credit cards have become a bait-and-switch game that lures consumers with low-interest promises before trapping them into sky-high interest rates. We need to end the outrageous fees and retroactive interest rate increases that strip wealth from our working families. I thank Chairman Dodd for his continued leadership on this issue and look forward to restoring fairness for consumers."
"The Credit CARD Act is picking up broad bipartisan support because it will transform a broken and dangerous credit card marketplace," Plunkett said. "For too long, credit card companies have been allowed to use traps and tricks to unjustifiably increase interest rates charges and fees. These practices are not only unfair, but have destabilized the finances of many families. We applaud Senator Dodd for his leadership in moving this legislation through the Senate."
Said Swan: "It is great to see Senator Dodd's tireless fight on behalf of working families to reform abuses by credit card companies become a reality. With so many families struggling to make ends meet, we and President Obama are fortunate to have a leader like Chris Dodd on this issue."
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2014 is just around the corner, which means it's time to make extravagant, untenable oaths to yourself like "Next year, I'm going to volunteer five hours every day, become a professional floutist, master underwater basket weaving and only use Facebook to message friends!"
It's easy to feel cynical about New Year's resolutions, or "those special little promises you make to be less like yourself and more like other, better people," but they can actually be successful — so long as you create realistic goals for yourself and then break those goals into manageable, bite-sized chunks.
For example, if your New Year's Resolution is to find a better job, you could:
- Devote a Pomodoro a day to a variety of career-related exercises like finding your strengths, improving your resume or getting better at interviewing.
- Spend three or more Pomodoros every weekend looking at and replying to job postings.
To have a less stressful new year:
- Try doing a basic yoga stretch at your desk during every five minute break. See here for more. Alternately, you could try deep breathing or meditation.
- Spend a Pomodoro a day doing something relaxing like devoting time to a longer yoga session, a relaxing stroll, cooking your favorite meal or taking a bath.
To lose weight:
- Make an oath to yourself to use your Pomodoro breaks to exercise.
- Devote a Pomodoro a day to preparing a healthy, delicious meal at home.
Add all of these tasks to your activity inventory, and then create a long-term timeline that incorporates them into your daily schedule.
Make sure your goals are SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time-Specific. For example, if you were planning on losing weight, think about the kinds of tools could you use to track your weight over a period of time (not just your scale).
You can avoid having a less-than-stellar success rate (52% of resolution-makers were confident they'd achieve their goals, yet only 12% succeeded according to a study by author and psychologist Richard Weiseman) by rewarding yourself along the way, rather than throwing yourself a big party when you reach your goal. Try to find small ways to give yourself a pat on the back every week.
Lastly, don't overreact to any momentary lapse in judgement. Remember: the next Pomodoro will go better.
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