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The Harp Legacy Project website was made possible by the technical expertise and creativity of designer Elizabeth Allen. She generously contributed her time and skills as webmaster from 2011 to 2014. Additionally, Elizabeth constructed Dr. Blankenship's teaching website: shirleymeyerblankenship.com , a vehicle for providing online music lessons via Skype.
As of July 2014, Jacob Barton assumed the website responsibilities for the HLP site including the creation of an extensive additional format for Shirley's Prodigious Legacy 70+. Her legacy encompasses over 70 years of recordings, pictures, films, and programs.
Shirley's recordings date back to 1953 and are primarily from live performances. During the 1980's, Mark Rubel, from Pogo Studios in Champaign, Illinois, transferred the early reel to reel data onto more accessible cassettes. Many years later, all of the recordings were digitized. Due to their age, inconsistencies in recording expertise and equipment used, and the effects of the transformations from reel to reel to cassettes and ultimately to digital formulation, the recordings required the services of an audio technician before presenting them publicly. Over the past year, audio engineer Paul Weston utilized his considerable expertise to upgrade the quality of the recordings. The results of his work are extraordinary. In addition and as necessitated by the online Indiegogo Fundraising Project - designed to secure funds for the preservation of Shirley's legacy - Paul also exhibited his mastery in creating CD covers and booklets and in film editing. For the past year, 2013 to 2014, Paul spent countless hours on behalf of Shirley's legacy.
As a notational expert, composer Michael Miller has been at the helm of Shirley's compositional legacy. He skillfully engraved Dr. Blankenship's scores into Finale including: Terse Trio for violin, viola and cello, Duo for Violin and Cello, Visions and Revisions for 22 players, Chansons Innocentes for soprano and ensemble, Peace for Guidosan and Metaphysical Waltz for harp alone, Fantasy I and Fantasy II for harp and viola, Three Trios: Be Careful, Sagileo, and The Squirrel for violin, clarinet, piano and percussion and all of the lead sheets in the collection entitled Synerjazz by jazz saxophonist and composer, Guido Sinclair, Shirley's husband. With ingenuity, Michael addressed the unique notational issues of Shirley's harp works.
Preceding Michael Miller was composer and outstanding engraver Mark Zanter who significantly contributed to the preservation of the music of Guido Sinclair. He was the initial copyist for Synerjazz, the 3 trios based on Guido's music (Be Careful, Sagileo and The Squirrel), and also the harp solo, Metaphysical Waltz, dedicated to Guido. These works were preserved on floppy discs and then later converted to digital formulations by Michael Miller. After Guido's death in 1992, Mark was the guitarist in The Guido Connection created to promulgate Guido's music.
The generous donations received, via the online Indiegogo Fundraising platform, facilitated the upgrading of Shirley's works. The funds from this source have thereby significantly contributed to the preservation of her legacy and the results are now being presented in Shirley's Prodigious Legacy 70+.
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England's brand new Nike 2014 World Cup home kits online.
Brazilian media giants Globoesporte were the first to unveil an image of the new England kit over the weekend, and the all-white number is likely to go down well with Three Lions fans.
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Some people just have that something special – it's a warmth, it's a charm, it's a genuine 'bloody nice bloke'. That's Paul Borrud, who moved to Aus for a 2 year work assignment and never left. He fell in love with our lifestyle and our worth ethic, go hard while you're there – but make time for the things you love when you're not. The old aussie dream of work life balance – that we all strive for.
Originally from the California – LA, then 10 years in San Francisco in the Silicon Valley, Paul moved to Sydney, Bondi in 2009. He has 3 beautiful daughters – equally beautiful girlfriend Becky who lives in Florida. He is one of the 'originals' of the Facebook revolution and came to Aus to set up and head up the company for Australia, New Zealand and most of Asia.
Now retired he focuses his big generous heart on philanthropic projects in Guatemala and Kenya. He's on the board of The Village Experience which combines holiday travel with service work – all to give back. He's a Lifeguard at Tamarama and has more energy for adventure hikes and climbs than 2 humans combined. Mt Everest base camp twice, Mt. Kilimanjaro are a just a few on his been there done it list. If he's not in the east or sometimes the North or flying to meet Becky somewhere exotic he chooses to spend time down at his farm in the Southern Highlands where he's learning to make wine as well as hosting Australia's Longest Slip 'n' Slide on Australia Day. You should see this thing – EPIC.
He found Aquabumps not through a mate or on Facebook – but through his morning ritual, with a surf down at the beach and always noticed this guy walking around with his camera. He finally introduced himself. Uge told him what he did – 'just that', wondered around the beach taking photos and Pauly thought that was pretty interesting. He also mentioned he was looking for some artwork for the first Facebook office in Australia. From then on they have done a bit of business together, got to know the better half and kids, then friendship and several surf trips to Indonesia and Hawaii.


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Rijnboutt worked together with Fokkema & Partners and Lensvelt on the remarkable interior of their brand new office on the Moermanskkade in Amsterdam. The design agency immediately fell for the outspoken furniture of Atelier Van Lieshout (AVL) for Lensvelt, that even designed special 'Tree Tables'. Now AVL runs through the 1600 m2 building like a red thread.
Rijnboutt designed large polyester tables with embedded planters, matching the AVL Lensvelt line. Piet Hein Eek's round stools on wheels are also custom made. They can be stored away under the desks and can be taken out during brief office consultations.


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If you are found to be partially at blame for your injuries when making a claim against another negligent party, the law in Florida allows your damages to be reduced by the percentage that you are found to be responsible. In other words, if you are found to be 50% responsible for your injuries, a judge would have the ability to reduce your recovery by that 50%.
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Interested in using data and innovative methods to improve everyday care? Join our October conference.
Dr. Jennifer McClure reflects on using personalized genetic knowledge to improve health and health care.
Improving long-standing problems of access in the digital age requires a critical look at today's electronic health record, writes Dr. Eric B. Larson.
Dr. Yates Coley joins GHRI faculty to continue her work in precision medicine and statistical methods for electronic health records data.
On a recent podcast from Vox, health policy commentators wondered why U.S. health IT isn't better. Dr. James Ralston responds.
In our daily lives, we generate a trail of personal data. Dr. Andrea Hartzler is making sure we have a say in how our data are used.
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A freak accident causes two couples-a pair of Los Angeles liberals and Mexican illegal's-and their opposing worlds to collide in a tragicomedy of error and misunderstanding.
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T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World's End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.


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Press conference of the Embassy of Bulgaria, Embassy of Italia and the Tourism Advisory Board
The Embassy of Bulgaria and Italia in Viet Nam organized a joint press conference to introduce two European cultural capitals: Plovdiv in Bulgaria and Matera in Italy. The European Cultural Capital Program conducts the selection of outstanding European cities for this prestigious title every two years. In 2019, two European culture capitals are Plovdiv in Bulgaria and Matera in Italy. Accordingly, in 2019, there will be high-quality cultural events such as performances, concerts and exhibitions for local people and tourists. The program was first initiated by the former Greek Minister of Culture in 1983 and began in 1985. Since its original idea to promote European culture, up to now, there have been more than 60 cities are honorably entitled as European cultural capitals. Cities are selected five years in advance, so there is enough time to prepare activities and invest in infrastructure if necessary.
On the same day, the European Union also announced the mission of providing technical assistance to Vietnam's tourism industry through the Tourism Advisory Board. The two main contents of this press conference include: (a) Technical support of international experts in the operation of the Tourism Development Fund and (b) Developing the competitiveness index for Vietnam tourism destinations.
The project will undertake a consultation process with public institutions and the business sector. Upcoming activities include a series of events including public private dialogues, consultation workshops, training sessions and piloting of the Competitiveness Index in five priority tourism destinations of Hạ Long, Hà Nội, Huế, Hội An and HCM City.
Key results of the project will be presented later in the year at a high-level event before being officially submitted to the Prime Minister.
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The times are changing for energy suppliers as new players, disruptive technologies and changing consumer habits take hold. The industry is seeing new competition from non-traditional companies selling power through utility-independent subsidiaries. To future proof revenue, Energy and Utility suppliers need to diversify beyond the single innovation units traditionally used to explore and validate new opportunities. This eBook, Getting Ahead in the Diversifying Energy Market, explores these topics and takes a look at what the power of service provision and the use of technology can do to aid Energy and Utilities companies in the 21st Century.


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Kansas Governor Sam Brownback says he will accept President Trump's nomination to become ambassador at large, leading the Office of International Religious Freedom within the State Department. As Celia Llopis-Jepsen (YOH-peace JEHP-sehn) of the Kansas News Service reports, for the governor... the issue is personal.
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The Easter Holidays have arrived and if you're looking for ways to keep your family entertained, this guide is just what you need…It's time to dig out the PVA glue, round-up the little yellow chicks and start getting creative.
The stakes are always high when it comes to decorating an Easter bonnet and Poundland is making it easier than ever, with its wide range of craft accessories and decorations from £1 each. Discover everything from the bonnet and mini chicks, to polystyrene eggs and pom poms in store in Poplar Way.
Quick Tip: Are you thinking of making your bonnet into a bunny? Find the perfect fluffy tail (cotton wool balls) at Boots in Mell Square.
For your art cupboard essentials, WHSmith in Mell Square is the place to go. With reams of coloured card, crepe paper and a wealth of poster paints, it's the ideal place to find the basics for any craft project.
Have you seen WHSmith's Easter craft inspiration yet? From getting arty making handmade Easter cards, to creating small paper-based crafts, including suncatcher eggs and crazy paper chicks, there's something for children of all ages. Discover more craft ideas and instructions here.
Or, if getting creative in the kitchen is more your style, Sainsbury's in Poplar Way is the ideal place to pick up your ingredients and find some recipe inspiration. Whether you're opting for the classic Easter chocolate nests, made from chocolate-covered cornflakes and mini eggs, or fancy giving iced shortbread biscuits a whirl, Sainsbury's has it all. Find more Easter recipes here.
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A five-star hotel in Bath Spa has unveiled the new-look of its luxury suites, following a £150k refurbishment.
Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel has added three new suites to its offering, which come complete with a butler service on hand to deliver Champagne and canapés each evening and then fill the bath ready for when guests return to the room.
Each of the furnished suites – The Grange Presidential, The Cavendish, and The Belgrave Executive – has a panoramic view over Bath, a four-poster bed, complimentary mini bar and a bathroom with a cast iron roll top bath.
The hotel's spa is said to be the real jewel in the crown at the property, with its own heated hydrotherapy room, plus treatment and relaxation rooms. Alongside this, the hotel is home to a 2 AA Rosette restaurant, Vellore, and Colonnade and Rotunda bars.
Jonathan Dawson, regional managing director of Macdonald Bath Spa Hotel said: "This £150,000 investment in our stunning new suites really elevates the hotel.
"The new suites offer something for everyone – be it a sensual soak in a roll top bath or a luxurious night's sleep in a four poster bed, these rooms are the perfect place for a little luxury."
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There is a price to pay for the many intangible benefits we gain from living in a community. Personally, I like it that the butcher, the guy at the office supply store, the woman at the café, all know who I am and make small talk when I come in. We aren't great friends, what we know about each other is pretty shallow, and yet there is a sense of human connection that gives greater satisfaction to my little economic transactions.
Yet, we are too often unwilling to pay the price to sustain our communities. The reasons are varied, from the eternal tension between individual freedom and social obligation to a distrust of bureaucratic inefficiencies and corruption to what some would argue is an innate propensity for economic maximization.
Germans are generally more willing to pay a premium for positive social externalities. This is partly cultural and partly structural. There is a tendency to value quality over quantity in personal consumption, and yet this is often enforced through regulations that reduce choice. Practices are rapidly changing here, but compared to the U.S. the difference in attitudes is striking.
Within a few blocks of my Südstadt apartment in Hannover, there are four bakeries, an apothecary (Apotheke) , drug store (Drogerie), a news stand, a book store, a bottle drink store and delivery service (Trinkhalle), an office and school supply store, and any number of kiosks and cafes. These are all owner-operated, single-location small businesses. (They coexist alongside the chain supermarkets in the area.)
I could take a bus out to the Staples and get my printer paper cheaper, but it is worthwhile for me to pay a bit more to save the time and hassle of getting there and to have a brief social interaction with my purchase, and leave with the feeling that I have supported a business and a person that I like.
But in late July and August, it can be a real pain in the ass, as small businesses here take a summer break (Sommerpause) and reduce their hours. I've been frustrated lately going to get bread (the bakery that makes the good Gästebrot was closed) and a notebook (the store closes early during Summer).
When I first started coming to Germany, I found the laws and norms around store opening hours inconvenient to the point of being oppressive. Under the Ladenschlussgesetz, the federal law that governed store opening and closing hours until 2006, most stores could open only Monday through Friday between 6:00am and 6:00pm and for a half day on Saturdays. Some cities and states additionally allowed extended hours on a "Long Thursday" (or other weekday) once a month. Stores in train stations and gas stations were exempt, and these grew into mini-supermarkets for emergency purchases. (Since 2006, state laws have replaced the federal regulation, and most have significantly loosed restrictions; two grocery stores in my neighborhood now stay open until 8:00pm six days a week.)
These hours can be a huge hassle as one tries to balance shopping for necessities with the other demands of daily life. But it also helps sustain small businesses, as many family-run stores cannot afford to stay open extended hours. So, it would seem, the market can make a rational choice for us here: we may value convenience more than the experience of shopping in local stores, and so the market responds. But it might also be the case that we find it difficult to place a clear value on the social externalities of going to our local stores, which heightens the attraction of a clear financial, euros-and-cents-in-my-pocket advantage.
Behavior economists have show that most of us are highly predisposed to take modest short term-gains over more lucrative long-term rewards. Would you rather I give you $1 right now or $2 in a few weeks? Waiting a bit would produce a 100% gain, but most would rather take the money now and run. Most smokers would like to quit and see the long term gain in abstinence, but the pull of the immediate hedonistic gain proves too compelling.
Might it be the case then that laws, regulations, and social norms that reduce our range of choice and individual freedom might make us better off? Not just better off physically or financially, but a greater self-defined, subjective sense of well-being, of being the sort of people we want to be, approaching an Aristotelian eudaimonia.
Having to do one's shopping on a Saturday sometime sucks. But the Saturday shopping experience also speaks to the social externalities of store opening hour laws. Forcing a concentration of shoppers at certain times brings folks from all walks of life into communion. Sure, it is convenient to grocery shop at 2:00am, but there are also benefits for us collectively when we all go out Saturday mornings and see each other.
It is not only store opening hours, but vacation times that can be a hassle for customers, as my late summer shopping experiences here have shown. By law, German workers get four weeks of paid vacation, although the national average is a much higher 7.8 weeks of vacation (paid and unpaid); the U.S. average is 3.9 weeks. All in all Americans work on average 1824 hours per year and Germans work 1480. The value added per employee in the U.S. is substantially higher, but productivity per working hour is higher in Germany.
This suggests one (economic) reason why Americans work more: their time is more valuable. Salaries are higher, and so taking time off become more costly. Other economists have suggested it is European tax rates: working is not as lucrative in Germany, which tilts the balance toward taking more time off.
Another, more plausible, solution also emerges from economics, namely that this is a coordination problem. Except for those at the extremes of the socio-economic spectrum, vacation time is not decided unilaterally. This is not just a matter of formal regulation but informal norms as well. A young associate in a law firm would be at a huge disadvantage if she took off on vacation while her colleagues worked. It might be the case that everyone at the law firm would love to take off more time, but the coordination problems of the network-the structures and incentives of the system as a whole-would thwart those desires. Americans might want to work less, but in the competitive economy there is little chance to coordinate such desires. In a recent paper, Alberto Alesina, Edward Glaeser, and Bruce Sacerdote (quoted in The Economist) argue that "national policies that enforce higher levels of relaxation can, at least in theory, increase welfare." And not just in theory, I would add.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Enforcing Leisure: German Store Opening Hours and the Common Good
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Eight get death for smuggling heroin
They include Nguyen Quoc Hung (Thai Binh province), Nghiem Cong Dung and Nguyen Van Tinh (Hanoi), Lo Van Hoan (Son La province), Dam Viet Thang, Luc Van Thuong, Loc Minh Duc and Dam Ngoc Giang (Lang Son province).
Nguyen Quoc Hung was also found guilty of illegal possession of weapons.
Three others, namely Dang Minh Chau, Vi Van Tuan, and Hoang Thi Lien, from Lang Son province, were given life sentences for drug dealing.
Nguyen Hoang Quan from Can Tho city received 18 months in prison for illegally possessing weapons while Huynh Kim Thu from Hanoi faced a 12-month suspended prison sentence for not reporting crimes.
According to the court, the Police Department for Drug Crime Investigation under the Ministry of Public Security along with the Vietnam Coast Guard Command and police from Hoa Binh and Hanoi, arrested six people for trafficking 170 bricks of heroin hidden in a blue gas cylinder in July 2015.
The police also discovered two pink industrial gas cylinders, containing 320 heroin packages while raiding Hung's rented house in Hoai Duc district, Hanoi.
Expanding the investigation, the police uncovered a nationwide drug ring.
From 2004 to 2015, the defendants traded 1,182 bricks of heroin, 568 of which were seized by the police. They also used weapons to resist arrest.
Among the 13 defendants, Dang Minh Chau was identified as the ringleader, involved in the illegal trade of 862 bricks of heroin weighing more than 303kg.
The death penalty was considered in Chau's case, but the court sentenced her to life in jail as she is raising young children.
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It really is amazing when you realize how small this world is!
My fiance and I recently started talking and hanging out with a couple who moved in next door about 7 months ago. They have 3 boys and their oldest son started playing with our daughters. It started with my fiance and the husband, Corban, started talking and really hit it off fast. They quickly became close friends in just a matter of weeks! I had never met Corban's wife, Jillian, but had heard lots about her from my fiance and her husband Corban. The guys were on a mission to get us together so we would all be friends and be able to hang out more often. One night when Jillian and Alan were both off work, Alan and I went down to hang out by the bonfire with the neighbors. Jillian and I hit it off wonderfully and it was pretty funny when Corban and Alan gave each other a high-five when they realized we were going to be great friends lol
Last night, Alan and I went back down to hang out with Jillian and Corban. The boys started playing video games while Jillian and I started looking at some pictures and talking about our kids. I then had a bright idea to ask Jillian what school she went to... She replied with Erwin, which just happen to be the same school my aunt and my childhood best-friend went to (I tried to get my mama to let me go to Erwin too but she wouldn't change my schools). I asked Jillian if she knew my friend and she didn't. But when I mentioned my aunt..... A light-bulb lit up above both of our heads!! My aunt use to be Jillian's neighbor when she was little, Lori (my aunt) use to be close friends with her sister! Come to find out, I use to hang out with Lori and Jillian's big sister often and I knew Jillian as "The annoying little sister!" HOW FUNNY IS THAT?! I am now very close friends with Jillian and I can't believe that I have knew her since she was a little girl! It's amazing and I couldn't be happier to reconnect with Jillian! She is no longer the "annoying little sister"! She is now a mom of 3 beautiful little boys and a great friend. her boys and my daughters love playing together and I can't wait to let my aunt know about this awesome new friendship!!! (If I can get intouch with her....) :-)


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Lee Ann Canaday awarded Orange County Business Journal's 8th annual Women in Business Award.
The luncheon was held at the Hyatt Regency Irvine. Additional recipients included Nancy Nygren with Girl Scouts of Orange County, Laila Pence with Pence Wealth Management, Ellen Bancroft with Dorsey & Whitney, Kay Napier with Arbonne International LLC, and Dr. Judy Rosener received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
Lee Ann Canaday is the owner/broker of RE/MAX Fine Homes, an active agent leading her team the Canaday Group, and supports numerous philanthropies. Even with a full schedule, she tries to play tennis once a week. "I wear a lot of hats, and if I don't work seven days a week, I can't get everything done," Canaday said. "To me, if you don't work hard it's not really moral."
Canaday was an algebra teacher and was looking for a way to earn extra money. "I couldn't make enough money teaching, so I got into real estate to supplement that void," Canaday said. She started selling homes on the side in 1979. Then she started buying homes as rental properties. Canaday originally planned on buying an apartment building, but she purchased houses instead. She made four times her teaching salary in her first year selling real estate. Canaday purchased a RE/MAX franchise in 2008 creating RE/MAX Fine Homes with offices in Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, and a soon to open Huntington Beach location. Lee Ann is proud to be part of RE/MAX because of its global presence in 90 different countries. International buyers account for about $82 billion in U.S. home sales. "I want a piece of the foreign buyers," Canaday said. "RE/MAX is the perfect vehicle
for that." She also focuses on the short-sales segment through an office she maintains in Costa Mesa. Canaday has an extensive marketing program, with presence online and offline. She also sells homes directly through her half-hour weekly TV show that airs every Saturday at 9am on KDOC-TV.
One of the things she's learned in her 30-plus years in real estate is to try to be prepared for the unexpected. "The thing you learn is never to be surprised, and always to be prepared," she said. Canaday supports several charities and sits on numerous boards. She was one of 12 women honored by Girl Scouts of Orange County last year and appeared as one of the dozen women in the Girl Scouts' keepsake calendar, which is unveiled at the Celebrate Leadership fundraiser each year. She was also a presenting sponsor for the first annual ball of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Orange County, based in Costa Mesa. She also supports United Way of Orange County's Women's Philanthropy Fund, whose members give more than $10,000 annually. Lee Ann is an advocate for Chapman University and is part of the Board of Counselors for the Geroge L. Argyros School of Business and Economics. Canaday's daughter, Christa Lee Canaday, graduated from Chapman and now works out of the Newport Beach office. Canaday said she's involved with charities because she wants to help. "I feel so thankful for what I've been given that I want to give back," she said.


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The United States of America has expressed worry about the heavy indebtedness by African countries a few years after they were relieved of their debts by international financial institutions.
The US Department of State, during a background briefing on the first trip of Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson to Africa, said such loans were unhelpful to the continent.
Mr. Tillerson will meet with Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari and also leaders of Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya during his travels from March 6 to 13.
To date, debt reduction packages under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries, HIPC, Initiative have been approved for 36 countries, 30 of them in Africa, providing $76 billion in debt-service relief over time.
In 2005, to help accelerate progress toward the UN Millennium Development Goals, the HIPC Initiative was supplemented by the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative, MDRI.
Nigeria was one of the countries that benefitted from the debt relief under ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. About $12 billion debt was cancelled for Nigeria in a deal that saw the country repay about $18 billion.
The burgeoning debt by the Nigerian government since then, especially during the Muhammadu Buhari, has been of concern to observers.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, however, allayed the fears in an interview on Friday when he said the borrowed sums were judiciously being utilised for massive infrastructural projects across the country.


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Buying a used car can be a difficult process. Between unreliable sales ads and unprofessional sellers, it's understandable that many people buy new cars just to avoid the hassle. But for some, that's just not an option. That's why Dayton Toyota offers used cars right alongside the new ones. Our showroom and service department are conveniently located in South Brunswick Township, and easily accessible from Plainsboro Township and New Brunswick.
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Happy June, Everyone! I've got a few things to report this month. Some personal, some book stuff. I'd say that it's a happy balance. Let's start with the personal stuff:
Renovating our master bathroom. Healthy, but still working toward remission. Read some good books. Reactivated my Facebook account. Planning a beach vacation.
Okay, let's get to the good stuff!
A few weeks ago, I had decided to take a break from writing my forth book, SoulCatcher. My ideas were beginning to get all jumbled, and I just needed a break. This was when I made the decision to "revamp" The Turning Series.
I started writing these books in 2014. I had never written a book in my life when I published Turning Grace. I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't hire a professional editor or a cover designer or a formatter. I did everything myself, with the help of my husband and a few beta readers.
Despite the fact that I had won awards and even managed to collect some great reviews and a few fans, I was never truly happy with those books. I always felt like they could be better. And because of this, I decided to unpublish my books and do everything the right way. Also, I've grown quite a bit as a writer over the years. My style of writing has changed—in a good way, I think.
For my few fans out there, don't worry, the story is NOT going to change. I'm just simply…sprucing it up a bit.
As of right now, I don't have a re-release date for the first book. However, it is in the hands of an editor and I'm thrilled! And maybe a little scared. I feel like I might have an insane amount of errors.
In a couple of weeks, I will be working with a very talented cover designer and formatter. Soooooo, the release of my first revamped book should be sometime in late July or early August.
I've been a busy little bee doing rewrites and edits on my former books but as soon as I'm done with those, I'll be able to set them aside and finish working on SoulCatcher.
Who said writing books was going to be easy?!?! Because it's definitely not. It's actually torture sometimes, but I love doing it!
I will be sure to keep you all updated on my writing (and my master bathroom). In the meantime, I hope you all have a happy month!
P.S. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram!
🖤, Jo


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Cloud computing is the latest technology that is in trend to unleash a tsunami of change in our society and lives. Generally, rather than as a product, the cloud refers to computing as a service. Computing is evolving as devices take the place of traditional hardware and software. Computing companies and customers are having to update themselves with the times, changing up their ways of delivering applications.
Business people, who will be contemplating a switch the signal from cloud computing firstly need to try to comprehend the main advantages of cloud computing. The medium of delivering the assistance may be the ubiquitous web via a network. The World Wide Web itself is referred to as a cloud. The good qualities of this system are that no expensive additional hardware has to be installed and this makes it popular with users.
1. More Output with Less Effort
Cloud computing can easily lessen software cost by replacing servers and the number of professionals required to carry out a technical task. It can reduce the total size of a data center. Even though it can take the place of all these, it will not fail to offer effective output. In other words, it will significantly lessen IT expenditure but without any negative effect on the total result of an organization.
2. Easily Adjustable
The requirements of business might not be the same with the passage of time. But to cope up with such changes, it is necessary that you possess flexible IT infrastructure. And with the help of cloud computing, it becomes smoother to stand tall to the changing condition. It can quickly overtake fresh projects and make them live, allowing you to have an innovative mindset.
3. Unlimited Storage
This is another advantage of cloud computing. By implementing cloud computing, you need not worry about increasing your storage space for maintaining more information. It has an unlimited capability to hold data which will not run out easily.
4. Reliable
In comparison to in-house IT infrastructure, cloud computing is much more reliable as it comes with a managed service platform. Your business can take advantage of the massive pool of unneeded IT resources, along with a swift failover mechanism.
5. Enhanced Collaboration
With cloud computing, since it is possible for different groups of professionals to meet virtually and share information through shared storage, it plays a vital role in enhancing collaboration of your organization. Down the lane, it improves customer service and product development by reducing the time-to-market.
6. Multiple Access Options
Another plus point of using cloud computing is that it allows you not only to work from the concerned system, but as well through varied options like iPad, mobile phones, tablets, netbooks, etc.
7. Data Recovery
It is easier to collect fresh information rather than restoring lost data. By making use of cloud computing, you can stay tension free about storing your precious information in another physical device. It is so because it comes with automatic backup.
8. Automatic Software Updates
Most all cloud computing providers including ezTalks take care to roll out updates themselves whenever required regularly. It is one of great cloud computing benefits because you need not waste time and money additionally in maintaining your system.
9. Data Security and Backup
If any of your professionals misplace any one of the laptops, it can be a huge loss for you. The piece of gadget might not hold much value for you as you can easily replace it but the data inside the systems can bring you bad news. But with cloud computing, you can stay away from such incidences. Here your information will be stored in the cloud, for which you can get access to any other device and get back the data.
1. Network Connectivity
Cloud computing is reliance upon network connectivity. The most obvious of the negative concerns is the network connectivity. If the network goes down for any reason, the company loses access to Cloud computing applications, data, and services. Of course, there can be a temporary use of off-site or wireless connections, but for a company focused on forwarding momentum, a technical issue such as this can be a daunting risk. Such issues are very short-lived and can be immediately addressed through the company's network provider.
2. Shared and Dedicated Servers
With cloud computing, you have two options: dedicated and shared. In a private cloud, only your data is on a server, which might be very costly. In a public cloud, the storage space is shared by others, which may bring fresh headaches such as server crashes and security breaches. If you are using a public cloud, it will surely affect your applications' performance.
3. Bandwidth
The perk of unlimited storing capacity is not free. The majority of the companies that offer their cloud servers to store your data allow you to store a maximum of 5GB for free. Afterward, you have to pay a sum of money to buy extra storage space. The facility of storing your data on an online server proves to be quite expensive in the end. If you require huge storage space, then it is better to buy that yourself rather than pay someone else for it.
We have discussed the cloud computing advantages and disadvantages above. As we can see, the advantages of cloud computing far outweigh its disadvantages. There is no denying the present and future f cloud computing. One of the most beneficial realms for us is telecommuting . Another is the online applications like online project management, file sharing, online backup and more. The cloud is becoming the core of our individual and corporate computing experience.
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Jaha Dukureh will always remember the year she turned 15, for many reasons. It was the year her beloved mother died, and in the midst of that grief, the year she was sent to New York to enter into an arranged marriage.
It was a marriage that had been arranged back in her native Gambia when Dukureh was 8 years old, and when she arrived in the Bronx, her husband was in his 40s.
Mired in grief, grappling with a new culture and struggling to connect with her new husband, Dukureh found that worse was yet to come. She found sex excruciating with her new husband.
"Firstly, he couldn't penetrate me, and then there were a few very, very painful days of trying," Dukureh reveals.
Within time, the terrible truth came to light: that Dukureh had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) when she was a week old. Doctors told her that she had undergone its most extreme form, type 3 FGM, where the clitoris and labia are removed before the girl is stitched together. A New York doctor opened her vagina, instructed her to have sex that day to avoid complications, and Dukureh admits that 'it was like I went through the FGM all over again."
"FGM is where the vagina is stitched up to only allow for urinating and menstruation," she explains. "It prolongs menstruation and leaves a woman exposed to many urinary tract infections. It's carried out for different reasons: it is believed to make women more 'clean'; it's done for chastity reasons. Each culture has its own reason."
In 28 countries in Africa – as well as some in the Middle East and Asia – girls are told they're more beautiful if they're cut, and that they're more likely to get married. At least 200 million women and girls worldwide have undergone FGM, according to figures from Unicef.
An estimated 3,780 women have already undergone FGM (or female genital cutting) before moving to Ireland, with a further 2,639 girls estimated to be at risk of undergoing the practice.
When asked if it's possible that FGM could be carried out in Western countries like Ireland, Dukureh notes: "It could happen. When people come to a new country, they don't let go of their culture, or their identity. Where I live in the US, I have heard that there are cutters working there."
Realising that she had undergone FGM, recalls Dukureh, predictably brought feelings of shame and anger.
"I was so young that I don't remember going through the practice, but lot of internalisation went on," she recalls. "Having American friends and not knowing how to talk about my body made me ashamed of my African culture.
"I think I felt it was something taken without my right, and it was something I could never get again, and that in itself was hard for me with live with. I was angry with my parents, that wouldn't have trusted that I wouldn't be promiscuous. There was a lot of self-hate and my mother was no longer there to answer questions. It wasn't easy for me to talk to my father (her father was a respected imam, or religious leader, in the community) about my body. I felt abandoned, and that my whole life was over."
A chance meeting with the feminist activist Taina Bien-Aime, from Equality Now, changed her life. Unbeknownst to her, the genesis of her own activism was being sown. After the breakdown of her marriage, Dukureh divorced her first husband and remarried, moving with her now-husband to Atlanta. With a loving partner fully supporting her desire for an education, she finished high school and put herself through college, and started work as a bank teller. In three and a half years she had been promoted three times. All the while, she began to realise that young girls were missing so much of the normal girlhood experience because of FGM.
It was after the birth of her second child (her first daughter) in 2010, that she began thinking about campaigning against the worldwide practice of FGM. Along with other survivors, Dukureh set up a foundation, Safe Hands For Girls, and currently tours schools and community centres to talk about the dangers, and effects of FGM. A mainly word-of-mouth organisation, demand for Safe Hands' services are high in the US.
Thanks to Dukureh's tireless activism, Gambia finally passed a law banning FGM in 2015. The mission to eradicate FGM by worldwide is moving apace. In Ireland, the National Steering Committee on FGM led by Akidwa is calling on the government to develop an action plan to ensure proper protection and support for girls and women who have been subjected to or are at risk of FGM.
And while policy change and reasoning with religious and cultural leaders is a huge part of the job, Dukureh understands that it's as grassroots level that change can be more easily affected.
"It's hard but I know there's huge power in our voice," she says. "We need to tackle it in people's heads, and need to tackle the way they view women. It's about getting people to come around to our point of view."
Dukureh's activism also meant going back to Gambia and having difficult conversations with her father. Initially, there was a backlash when she spoke out, and critics had targeted her family, saying – wrongly - that she wanted to get people locked up for practicing FGM and, by extension, to break up families.
"I don't think (my father and I) had any conversation when I realised what had happened (at 15), and at the beginning, I concluded that he had his beliefs and I had my beliefs," says Dukureh. "But now, he is one of the biggest feminists I know."
For now, the woman Time magazine has called one of the most influential people in the world continues her mission. A film about her life, Jaha's Promise - directed by Irishman Patrick Farrelly - premieres later this month in Denmark. In the meantime, there's the not-insignificant task of ensuring that laws that have made FGM illegal are also enforceable.
"When the girls who continue to be at risk are finally safe, that's when I'll stop," Dukureh smiles. "Then, I'll find something else to do that I'm equally passionate about."
* Jaha Dukureh is in Ireland for the World Congress on Women's Mental Health, co-hosted by NWCI and Trinity College, which runs in the RDS, Dublin until March 9. For more information, see nwci.ie
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The Red Wings just beat the Canadiens, 4-3.
Category Archives: NHL
Did it Again
I cooked the stuffed chicken breast again. This time I did a better job cutting in the pocket and stuffing it. It was my last piece of chicken and smaller. Within the next few days, my brother is going to pick up my next order from the Brower Farms and bring it to me, and I'm going to try this recipe on him.
Red Wings at 7.
The Seventeenth Day of the New Year
Wrote five new pages into the novel. Edited five pages of a short story. Might get more work into the novel and story tonight. Went out to eat with Dad. I had Lake Smelt and Fries, which was mostly good, but then one of the smelt pieces had something funny about it and I damn near threw up on the table. Instead the Godzilla of burps blasted out of my mouth. It was embarrassing, but I survived.
I got a new order from the Brower Farms today. I really, really love the cuts of meat I get from these guys. I don't like buying meat from the grocery store anymore, because I have a hard time finding satisfying cuts. The guys at the Brower Farms know how to cut meat satisfyingly.
I'd say it was a good day.
Red Wings at 7:30.
The Red Wings just beat the Senators in a shootout.
Dug up trees today, to sell. Got home in time to watch the last quarter of the Michigan game. Watching the Red Wings now and having beer.
Just got home. I had a bunch of stuff in mind that I wanted to blog about tonight, but I'm too damn tired. All I want to do is drink beer and watch the Red Wings.
Red Wings
Got the Red Wings on. Preseason game.
Today's Luck
Sports in the D
The Pistons started first, against the Dallas Mavericks. I think the Piston-Maverick game was in the second quarter when the Red Wings started their game against the St. Louis Blues.
I spent much of the evening flipping back and forth between the two games, but the Pistons had most of my attention. They played very well tonight. They were ahead of the Mavericks the entire game, leading by more than twenty points at times.
The Mavericks were closing the gap as the final minutes ticked off, but when the time ran out, the final score was Mavericks 91 and Pistons 98.
Reggie Jackson was very impressive tonight.
The Red Wings and the Blues were starting their third period when the basketball game ended. The score was still Blues 1 – Red Wings 0, which it had been since the first period. The score only changed within the last minute when the Blues shot the puck all the way across the ring and right into the goal. So, bummer there.
Major League Baseball is finally starting up. Though it's not on TV, the Tigers' pitchers and catchers have reported in and had their first workout yesterday. The first Spring Training game is next week, against the Moccasins, but I don't think it will be on TV.
It doesn't look like the Tigers will have a Spring Training game on TV until they play the Yankees on March 11. The Tigers will start their Regular Season on April 3rd, against the White Sox.
My Minute Bio
The magazine I just submitted to required a publication-ready bio be included in the submission, so I threw this together. Hope it does the trick.
Rob Darnell lives in a nice neighborhood. His office window looks out on a lake. He has a cat named Buddy and a dog named Luci. He loves the Detroit Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, Pistons and the Michigan Wolverines. An avid deer hunter, he spends time in a tiny shack from the beginning of October until the end of December. His website is robdarnell.com.


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City of Heroes MMO Mission Architect Feature Review
City of Heroes is the massive multi-player online game that allows subscribers to build unique heroes and villains in a fantasy setting of Paragon City, Rhode Island, USA. This fictitious city has become the unintended intersection of super powers, aliens, and giant robots. Throw in some dinosaurs and Will Ferrel and you've almost got Land of the Lost. This unfortunate city has been the target of dozens of alien invasions including being the epicenter of a world invasion, inter-dimensional invasions, a bizarre cast of villains vying for control of the city, and if that isn't enough this place has ghosts, witches, and zombies every Halloween. This rich tapestry of characters has been woven by both the players, designing their own heroes who participate in this menagerie of menace, and the developers who provide the backdrop, city, tapestry of villains, and more. Recently, the developers of CoH realized that their talents might not be enough to keep it's denizens entertained, so they have unleashed a first in the MMO-world: Player-generated content.
Mission Architect Background
Mission Architect is part of the Issue 14 update and it allows players to create their own NPCs, missions, dialogue, story, and more. Essentially, the developers have taken their own mission creation tools and refined them into end-user class tools that players can leverage to create their own stories and content. The process is as easy as Choosing Your First Archetype. The player activates one of the Architect Entertainment terminals, click new story, and start filling in the blanks! Everything is driven either with fill in the blanks for things like dialogue, story title, and more; or it utilizes simple drop down boxes with choices. This makes building a mission a snap. You can make your very own in less than five minutes.
As with any new feature to an established game, there has been some mixed reaction and, as new features go, it has it's share of issues while bringing a surprisingly fun element to the game. Let's first tackle the good parts, then the bad parts, and lastly some analysis.
The Good
The Mission Architect feature really excels in allowing someone to easily and creatively tell a story in the world of City of Heroes. The simple menu choices and fill-in-the-blank methodology leaves even the most skiddish of would-be-developers instantly within a comfortable setting not unlike a web page might offer simple dialog boxes and drop downs. I cannot stress the importance of the accessibility of this feature to even novice computer users. The developers get major kudos for lowering the bar to, arguably, just the right height especially for introducing the feature.
Architects may select a map, an enemy, and a host of mission goals to create obstacles and challenges. Some of the basic mission goals include obvious elements like defeat a boss or defeat all enemies. There are advanced mission goals including things like adding an ally to the map, or creating a battle on the map between two different NPC groups. Some of the more advanced mission elements can create exciting behavior like ambushes, enemy patrols, and more. Beyond this, architects are offered a very modest selection of triggered speech so that they can add dialog by the NPCs. With so few opportunities to guide the story, it's critical that architects really take advantage of every chance to push their story forward.
The Really Good
The system is really all about creating stories, and the players have done that with a whopping 250,000 plus arcs already registered into the system with more being added daily. So many stories in so short a time clearly indicates this feature is getting a good deal of exercise. If anything, it proves that CoH players have been starved for content for quite some time. Arguably, that was the main reason to release the feature. Let's face it, about the only activity left before this was reading CoH powerleveling guides. The developer's content, over the past five years, adds up to a very light game with about 1/3 or less content you typically find in a game of this age. The Mission Architect feature changed that practically overnight with player-generated content now far outnumbering developer created content. If I'm being honest, a great deal of the player generated content is absolute drivel. It's just awful and proves why the majority of people aren't cut out to be writers, developers, or any other skill required to create these missions. On the other hand, you have these exquisite works of arts lovingly hand-crafted by an inspired individual with a story to tell. This is powerful. This is moving. This is fun.
The Analysis (Good)
In a game where nearly every developer-created mission appears to suffer from the "Just Another Warehouse Mission" (JAWM) syndrome, a breath of fresh air gets whisked in with this latest feature despite the fact the players are limited in their selection of maps and other mission building material. I've already played several missions focused on creating content the game has sorely lacked for four years – end game content. Until now, the NCSoft developers managed to create the only MMO in the world you could actually beat, but the players have taken up the call where the devs have not. Players are creating compelling, dramatic, and story-driven level 50 content so that you can continue to enjoy your favorite hero long after the developers suggest shelving him, her, or it.
The Bad
Most of the bad falls pretty squarely under the "leaves me wanting more" category as opposed to the flat out stupid category. Most importantly, the largest number of complaints about the system have to do with the level of control the architect can exert over the story. Mission builders are already clamoring for more complex tools, scripted behaviors, and even cut scenes. In fact, players want basically the same tools available to the developers. For example, conditional dialog cannot be created beyond the standard mission pass/fail dialogs. Architects need the ability to create conditions based on mission goals as well. This would allow for many outcomes instead of the incredibly rigid and linear storytelling now. If, for example, I build a story that spans three missions I cannot branch the story based on the success or failure of the missions; nor can I branch to a totally different mission based on some combination of failure and success. That means that the two mission results: failure and success must blend into the next mission narrative smoothly regardless of the outcome. It's very difficult to write a second mission so that it reads correctly whether the previous mission was failed or succeeded. The unintended consequence of this is that it seems, for all the but the best written stories, mission success and failure in all missions but the last matters little.
The Really Bad
The system contains some very heavy restrictions specifically designed to combat "farming." Farming is a typical MMO term referring to repeating the same actions or activities over and over until a desirable result is produced, or until some goal is reached as each successful repetition of the activity results in some net gain. Most people know this term in relation to "Gold Farming," which is a practice popularized originally by games like EverQuest where large amounts of money were required to participate effectively in the highly volatile virtual economies. In CoH, experience points, recipes, merits, Vanguard merits, and a few other items/stats can be farmed effectively. Heck, we even have a guide or two about it. The devs, every month or so, come up with a new way to "combat farming." Like fighting spam, this cycle will continue endlessly until the activity is devalued to the point where no one willingly participates. This is one of those incredibly stupid "You're playing the game wrong" attitudes often adopted by stubborn developers who are convinced their game should only be played in specific ways. When I instruct my martial arts students, I often have them stand waist high in the ocean and ask them to stop the waves with their bodies. When they report they cannot, I ask them instead to work with the wave and ride it to shore. Nearly all of them do this on the first try and comment it was easy. I'm afraid we have a similar situation here, but none of the devs are as smart as my students.
The Analysis (Bad)
If this new system has an Achilles' heel, then it must be the limited slots for each individual story. Players are given only three slots to publish arcs – period. In anticipation of the system's success, the devs have started selling additional slots in packs of 1, 3, and 5 for $9.99, $15.99, and $19.99 respectively allowing for a maximum of 8 slots. The only way to ever earn slots beyond this is to have your story voted into the Hall of Fame or the Dev's Choice. This will free up that slot from your published limit and allow you to create a new story. To date, there are exactly 16 Dev Choice and 6 HoF stories so I wouldn't plan on getting an extra slot anytime soon. Compound this with the fact that the players themselves conspired to push certain arcs to the top by forming voting cartels, and you have a situation where the stories garnering the accolades and attention may not even deserve it. Much of it seems to come from self-promotion or popularity in the official forums.
The Opinion
The Mission Architect feature, overall, is a welcome improvement to CoH, but it isn't without its flaws. Sadly, some of those flaws threaten to hurt the feature overall, but it remains to be seen exactly how that will be handled in the future. In general, this is a solid feature, but the devs need to wake up and smell the discontent. Charging for extra story slots is a bad move especially when you've made it pretty much impossible for the average person to ever earn that slot. The voting system is ripe for exploitation and the result is that many great stories get little or no attention.
Personally, I'm disgusted by the selling of the additional story slots. Arguably, I'm already doing their job for them, and now the devs want me to pay for the "privilege" of doing their job? That's too much! You already charge me $15.99 per month, restrict costume and power choices with pay-per-add-on booster packs at $9.99 or more each, and now you want to charge for my creativity too? No! No, I say. You have gone too far, NCSoft. Of course, this just brings us right into the new paid expansion they have planned called "Going Rogue." Essentially, this expansion will allow your villain to play hero missions and vice versa, which they will gladly charge you anywhere from $29.99 to $49.99. Of course, I object because they artificially created the need for this expansion by separating the two games initially. Introducing bad design and then charging me to fix it is not a good practice! At this rate, I'll have to [take up with nefarious gold farmers to learn their secrets](https://How Gold Sellers Operate in Commercial and Free MMORPGs like World of Warcraft and Runescape) just to afford the game.
At the end of the day, no other MMO, including Champions Online, Lord of the Rings, DarkEden Online, or even Pangya is offering you the chance to create content so you'll have to take the good with the bad here. On the plus side, CoH still has plenty of time to fix this offering before some other MMO realizes this could be a real money-maker if implemented correctly.


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Discussion in 'USA - East Coast' started by 3rdMan, Jan 8, 2011.
1pm to 5pm
Idle Org
Musics, signs, flyers...
Expect us.
I'm going to bust my ass to be there ,
Ill be there
Balls! Bad weekend for me. I'm ready, though. Next DC protest, I'm there.
Yeah, so this happened, it was just me and 3rdman. It was so balls cold that we ended up bailing by 3:30. One passerby was so happy to see me he stopped and held a sign for a while. Sorry if anyone showed up after 3:30 and didn't see anyone. I couldn't feel my goddamn feet by the end.
Yes, we were very happy to see your postgame thread. Good job out there!
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