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Our story goes back to 2010 when Sylius was a family business selling cosmetics. The company went out-of-business, but the custom eCommerce software powering its website was still a valuable asset. In 2011 it has been rewritten to Symfony and released as a free collection of eCommerce components. It turned out to be an interesting solution for companies all around the world and managed to gather a strong following of developers and a bunch of active contributors.
2013 was an exciting year because the development of the main platform started and brought the community to the next level. In 2014, we co-founded an agency business, which meant to provide commercial services around the project and help with the development of the stable release. Our first BETA release came out in 2016 and the daily package downloads have more than doubled, with the total downloads counter clocking in at over 4,000,000 with more than 400 contributors.
In 2017, we have transformed into a product company and released the first stable version of our product. We started 2018 launching Solution Partner Program, already joined by over 20 awesome solution providers across Europe. In March we have ratified a holacracy constitution, becoming one of the first teal organisations in Poland.
As for 2019, we have been further expanding our Partner Program and professional services scope. In the end of May we have introduced the first paid product – Sylius Plus, which is a powerful set of enterprise-grade features backed with our professional support.
Our focus now is to further develop the amazing Sylius ecosystem and new solutions. As always, we are excited to see what the future will bring us!
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Due to expected severe weather conditions, all New York City public schools will be closed tomorrow, Tuesday, March 14, 2017. After-school programs, adult education, YABC programs, and PSAL activities are also cancelled tomorrow.
DOE central and field offices will remain open. We urge New Yorkers to exercise caution when going outside and avoid traveling.
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I was on Show Me Your Mic to talk about podcasting. Had a great time!
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Short Circuits 008 – Apple's October 30th Event
I was on Short Circuits 008 – Apple's October 30th Event. We talked about the recent Apple event where they announced the new MacBook Air, Mac Mini and iPad Pros. I had a great time geeking out!


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Our custom here at Designer Digitals is to use fifth Saturdays to spotlight one of our own Creative Team members, and this time it seemed fitting to honor our friend Pam Patterson whose recent passing saddened all of us. Pam and her husband John owned a family ranch in Montana, and her pages about their ranching life were an education about the sturdy stuff of which ranchers are made. Her love for her two sons and their families also filled her pages, and no one was a prouder grandma than Pam. Our three guest CTs were quick to volunteer to lift Pam, and I know her gallery will be a special treat for each of you. Here's how Deborrah, Mirjam, and Kelly were inspired.
Deborrah was inspired by Pam's blended photo and the twist that highlights it. She also incorporated the simple and grungy background to keep the focus on her photo.
Credits: Patterning Palettes No. 02 Solids Paper Pack; Artsy Vintage Value Pack No.01; Blendable Layers No. 66; Baskets of Joy Brushes and Stamps; Blendable Layers No. 67 {coming soon}
I love that both Pam's and Mirjam's pages were inspired by photos of the beach. The cool blues are perfect, and I really like that sketchy brush on Mirjam's page with the sea in the background.
Credits: Artsy Seaside VALUE Pack; Watery Typecast Sentiments Brushes and Stamps No. 01; Painted Patterns Diamonds Brushes and Stamps No. 01; Watery Typecast Blends Brushes and Stamps No. 03; Edge Overlays No. 02; Edge Overlays No. 09; Pencil Line Twists Brushes and Stamps No. 02; Watery Bookshelf Dots No. 01; Watery Photo Masks No. 01; South Beach Scrapbooking Kit; Atlantic Element Pack; Artsy Layered Blends No. 01; Watery Spot Brushes and Stamps No. 10; Blendable Journalers No. 01; Dictionary Blendables: Beach No. 01; Curled Notebook Paper; Oceania Blendables; Collageable Journal Spots No. 01; Painted Lace Edgers No. 01; Far Away Fairyland Kit; Beach House Memories Brushes and Stamps; Delmar Shores Scrapbooking Kit; Coastal Kit; Flair Minis No. 01; Vintage Journal Spots No. 02
Credits: Blendable Layers No. 66; Bold Scripts: Take the Highway Brushes and Stamps; Determined Layered Template; Dictionary Blendables: Summer No. 01; Flourished Page Corners No. 01; Twisted Stitches No. 03 Neutrals; Vintage Blendable Layers No. 10; Watery Typecast Sentiments Brushes and Stamps No. 05; Wildwoods Scrapbook Kit; Wildwoods Solids Paper Pack
Pam's gallery is a treasure trove of wonderful pages; I hope you'll spend a little while browsing it and see how she inspires you. Remember to post your page in the Creative Team Spotlight Scraplift Gallery and in the April Challenge Sign In thread in the forum. Happy scrapping!


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Christine Janis wrote:And what do you guys think about the strange disconnect between Patterson's 1980s words on this site: ttp://bevets.com/equotesp.htm and his late 90s words in the email he wrote? (http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/patterson.html )
A lot of Patterson's quotemines come from the days when he was supporting the (then new) cladistic approach to systematics. The original aim of cladistics (as used by Patterson and other paleontologists in the early 80s) was to reveal the *pattern* of evolution (i.e., the sets of nested hierarchies) without reference to the *process* (i.e., scenarios of why something might have happened a certain way), so that then the pattern can be used to test the process.
So, many apparently "antievolution" quotes made by Patterson relate to him being a little scathing about those people who mixed up pattern and process, and sought to find actual ancestors in the fossil record. Of course, Patterson himself did not think that evolution was not a valid hypothesis --- one only need reference his books and articles on the subject. Plus I knew Patterson personally and can affirm this.
Thanks Christine. That makes more sense. I suspected it was something like that, but not having any personal knowledge of Patterson or his writings made me unsure. Not that pointing out Patterson's real leanings will do any good with my interlocutor. He quotes Lewin's Evolutionary Theory under fire wherein Lewin quotes Ayala as saying that changes do not accumulate. This is a well-known misquote and so I responded by citing Ayala himself saying that the quote was fictitious and that changes could not help but accumulate. How does my interlocutor respond? With the usual creationist response to inconvenient information i.e. denial. Apparently (and I'm sure you've all encountered this excuse before) Ayala really did say what Lewin attributes to him but later on lied about it, denying it just to cover his ass. What integrity!


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Adriatic. Mont Blanc, Mont Cenis, Mont St. Bernard, the
Simplon Pass, the Bernese Oberland range, and further to the northeast
the long range of the Tyrolean Alps, are recognized with their white
snow-caps glittering in the bright sunlight. The forest of pinnacles
beneath our feet, mingled with a labyrinth of ornamented spires,
statues, flying buttresses, and Gothic fretwork, piled all about the
roof, is seen through a gauze-like veil of golden mist.
Milan has several other churches more or less interesting, but the
visitor rarely passes much time in examining them. No traveller should
fail, however, to visit the Brera Palace, the one gallery of art in this
city. It was formerly a Jesuit college, but is now used for a public
school, with the title of Palace of Arts and Sciences, forming a most
extensive academy, containing paintings, statuary, and a comprehensive
library of nearly two hundred thousand volumes. There is also attached a
fine botanical garden, exhibiting many rare and beautiful exotics as
well as native plants. In the gallery of paintings the visitor is sure
to single out for appreciation a canvas, by Guercino, representing
Abraham banishing Hagar and her child. The tearful face of the deserted
one, with its wonderful expression, tells the whole story of her misery.
This picture is worthy of all the enthusiastic praise so liberally
bestowed by competent critics.
No picture is better known than Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper,"
millions of copies of which have been circulated in engravings, oil
paintings, and by photography. We find the original in the Dominican
monastery, where the artist painted it upon the bare wall or masonry of
a lofty dining-hall. It is still perfect and distinct, though not so
bright as it would have been had it been executed upon canvas. Da Vinci
was years in perfecting it, and justly considered it to be the best work
of his artistic life. The moment chosen for delineation is that when
Christ utters the words, "One of you shall betray me!" The artist said
that he meditated for two years how best to portray upon a human face
the workings of the perfidious heart of Judas, and ended at last by
taking for his model the prior of this very monastery, who was well
known to be his bitterest enemy! The likeness at the period of its
production was unmistakable, and thus perpetuated the scandal.
We must not fail to make an excursion from Milan to Pavia, one of the
oldest of Italian cities. It lies on the left bank of the Ticino River,
and was in the olden times the residence of the Lombard kings, who did
not fail to beautify and improve it in their day to such an extent that
it was known all over Europe as the "City of a Hundred Towers," many of
which are extant and in excellent preservation. Though the finger of
time has pressed heavily upon it, and its ancient glory has departed,
still Pavia has a population of over thirty thousand, and lays claim to
no inconsiderable importance. If it were not a little off the usual
track of travellers, we should hear much more of its associations. The
university founded here by Charlemagne, over a thousand years ago, is
still prosperous; and the famous church of San Michael, erected at even
an earlier period, is still an object of profound interest. As we wander
about the quaint streets the impress of antiquity is upon everything
that meets the eye. Just north of the city, about a league from the
walls, is the Certosa, one of the most splendid monasteries in Europe,
founded about five hundred years since. It is absolutely crowded with
fine paintings, statuary, mosaics, and rich art ornamentation. Private
palaces abound, though now largely diverted from their original
purposes. There are also theatres, libraries, museums, gymnasiums, still
thriving after a moderate fashion. Pavia looks backward to her past
glories rather than forward to new hopes. Sacked by Hannibal, burned by
the Huns, conquered and possessed by the Romans, won by the Goths and
Lombards, it was long the capital of what was then known as the kingdom
of Italy. Then came a period of fierce civil wars, when its history
merged in that of the conquerors of Lombardy. Taken and lost by the
French so late as 1796, it was stormed and pillaged by Napoleon, but
once more came into the possession of Austria, until it finally found
refuge in the bosom of United Italy. The famous battle of Pavia, which
occurred in 1525, when Francis I. was taken prisoner, was fought close
to the Certosa.
Our next objective point is Vienna, and we take the route through
Innspruck, the capital of the Tyrol, which is most charmingly situated
in the valley of the Inn just where it joins the Sill. The town is about
two thousand feet above sea-level, and is surrounded by mountains six
and eight thousand feet in height. It derives its name from the bridge
which here crosses the river--Inn's Brьcke (that is, the Inn's Bridge).
We enter Austria through the Brenner Pass, and after a long Alpine
journey of three or four hundred miles are very glad to pause here both
for rest and observation. There must be about twenty thousand
inhabitants, but the town seems almost solemnly silent. At certain
periods of the year, known as "the season," doubtless its two or three
large hotels are plentifully supplied with guests. Historical
associations are not wanting; among them is the Franciscan church of
Innspruck, containing the elaborate and costly monument to the Emperor
Maximilian I., which, though constructed by order of the monarch
himself, does not contain his remains. The structure consists of a
marble sarcophagus supporting the emperor's effigy in bronze in a
kneeling position, while on the other side of the aisle are rows of
monumental bronze figures, twenty-eight in number, representing various
historic characters. The mention of this unique group in the old church
of Innspruck, by the poet Longfellow, will be remembered.
The Schloss Ambras is of considerable interest, having been the favorite
home of the Archduke Ferdinand II. The view from its battlements is
worthy of a pilgrimage to enjoy. Innspruck looks like a toy-village, so
far below, upon the plain. The broad streets of the new portion of the
town lie spread out as upon a map. The three handsome bridges give
variety to the scene. The central one, as the guide will tell us, was
the scene of a fierce battle, in 1809, between the Bavarians and the
Tyrolese. The former could not withstand the superior marksmanship of
these chamois-hunters, who picked off the men at the cannon as fast as
they came into action, until the Bavarians fled in despair, abandoning
their guns.
On resuming our journey towards Vienna, we pass up the constantly
narrowing valley of the Inn, through a range of mountain scenery,
covered with snow, and grand beyond description, where Alp is piled upon
Alp, until all distinctive outline is lost in the clouds which envelop
them. Now and then we see a rude but picturesque chamois huntsman
struggling up the mountain side in search of the special game which is
growing annually scarcer and scarcer. There is a wild interest which
actuates the chamois-hunter, amounting to fanaticism. The country is
very sparsely inhabited, but we occasionally come upon a cluster of
picturesque habitations, quite theatrical in effect, the counterpart of
the familiar pictures and photographs we see in America. By and by,
after a long day of travel, we reach Salzburg, in the Noric Alps.
Salzburg was the birthplace of Mozart, and is still a musical place,
that branch of the fine arts being universally cultivated among the more
refined class of inhabitants. There are several public monuments
commemorative of the great composer, who played his own compositions
before the public here at the age of five years! The massive wall which
once surrounded the place is now mostly dismantled, and could only have
been of use in the Middle Ages, at which time Salzburg was probably in
its greatest state of prosperity. The manufacture of Majolica ware has
been a specialty here for a couple of centuries or more, and it has a
reputation for the production of fine fancy leather goods. Its
connection by rail with Vienna, Munich, and Innspruck insures it
considerable trade, but still there is a sleepiness about the place
which is almost contagious. It was probably different when the
archbishops held court here, at a period when those high functionaries
combined the dignity of princes of the Empire with their ecclesiastical
rank. It was at this period that the town received its few public
ornaments, and the half-dozen fine public edifices, still to be seen,
were erected.
In the absence of statistics one would say there was a population of
fifteen thousand. Some of the street scenes are peculiar. We see single
cows and oxen harnessed and worked like horses, not in shafts, but
beside a long pole. The entire absence of donkeys, so numerous elsewhere
in Europe, is quite noticeable. The women surprise us by their large
size and apparent physical strength--quite a necessary possession, since
they seem to perform the larger portion of the heavy work, while their
lazy husbands are engaged in pipe-smoking and beer-drinking. We see
girls and dogs harnessed together into milk and vegetable carts, which
they draw through the streets at early morning, to deliver the required
articles to the consumers. When the little team arrives before a
customer's door, the girl drops her harness, measures out and delivers
the milk or vegetables, while the dog waits patiently.
There is no special beauty observable among the female population. The
dark eyes and hair with the lovely faces of the South are left behind,
as well as the soft, musical cadence of voice which so charms the ear in
Italy. German is not a musical tongue. It is a vigorous language, but
not a harmonious one in speech. Doubtless there are pretty blonde
Marguerites--like Goethe's heroine--hidden away somewhere among the
domestic circles of Salzburg, but their long golden braids of hair and
their fair, rose-tinted complexions are not often seen in public.
Undoubtedly Vienna is the finest city on the European continent next to
Paris, and it is often called the Northern Paris. It resembles the
French capital both in its social life and its architecture. The style
of the modern buildings is very attractive, displaying great richness
and beauty of outline, while the charming perfection of detail is by no
means neglected. At least one-quarter of Vienna is new, presenting broad
streets lined with noble edifices. The Ring Strasse is a notable example
of this, being an elegant avenue, which takes the place of the old city
wall that once surrounded the town, but which it has long since
outgrown. This metropolis now contains considerably over a million
inhabitants. It is situated upon an arm of the Danube where it is joined
by the two small streams known as the Wien and the Alster, from the
former of which the city takes its name. Vienna is not lacking in
antiquity. It was renowned in Roman times two thousand years ago, and
there is an ancient aspect quite unmistakable about its western portion
in the vicinity of the Emperor's palace. This imperial assemblage of
buildings, with the broad court about which they stand, presents no
claim whatever to architectural beauty, being exceedingly heavy and
One of the principal attractions of the city is its numerous parks,
squares, and breathing-spots. Above all else in this regard is the
Prater, situated on the verge of the city, forming one of the most
extensive pleasure drives or parks connected with any European capital.
It was in this park that the famous exhibition buildings were erected,
covering twelve or fifteen acres of ground; but the Prater could afford
room for fifty such structures. All the fashionable citizens, including
the royal family, come here for the enjoyment of their afternoon drive
or horseback ride. The sight presented on these occasions is one of the
very gayest conceivable, recalling the brilliancy of the Chiaja of
Naples, the Maiden of Calcutta, or the Champs Elysйes of Paris. One does
not see even in Hyde Park, London, more elegant vehicles and horses, or
more striking liveries than on the Prater at Vienna. Equestrianism is
the favorite mode of exercise here, both with ladies and gentlemen, and
the Austrians are better horsemen and horsewomen than the English.
Cavalry officers in uniform, as well as representatives of other arms of
the service, add much to the brilliancy of this park during the popular
hour. It is divided into a broad driveway, a well-kept equestrian track,
and smooth walks devoted exclusively to pedestrians. For spaciousness as
well as attractive gayety, the Prater is scarcely equalled--certainly


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Administrator Workshops
Brain-Compatible Learning - The administrators will learn how to the brain works and how people learn. They will learn strategies to help their students improve their learning in school. Teachers will also learn what activities and actions can hurt student's learning.
Memory - A main goal of teaching is for the students to learn the content. Many teachers teach the material to the students. However, they might miss the connection between, teaching, learning, and memory. The students must remember what they are being taught to be able to remember it. The workshop will discuss how memories are formed and strategies to help the students be able to remember the information.
Learned Helplessness - The teachers will learn about learned helplessness. They will learn how to notice some basic signs of learned helplessness starting to development and some strategies to assist students with learned helplessness.
Stress and Learning - Everyone knows that stress impacts learning, but stress has positive and negative impacts on learning. The workshop will discuss the positive and negative impacts of stress on learning and memory. The workshop will also include strategies to decrease stress for the students and tutors. It will also include a guided meditation and breathing exercise as a way to decrease stress.
Mindset - The teachers will learn about the Growth Mindset and the False Growth Mindset. The administrators will learn strategies that they can use to help develop a growth mindset throughout the school. This will include strategies to help the teachers, students, and parents.
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107.8 Radio Jackie - Bulletins aired each hour
Sunday, 23 April 2017
Harmondsworth resident walks to Scotland to speak to Nicola Sturgeon
A massive 400 mile walk is almost over for one man.
Harmondsworth resident Neil Keveren has taken on the challenge to try and put a halt to plans for a third runway at Heathrow.
If the plans go ahead, his village, and home, would be demolished.
He's decided to walk to Scotland to get answers from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as to why she's supporting the idea:
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Lego Club for Older Kids, ages 8 & up
Thursday, August 167:00—8:00 PMStory & Craft RoomGoodnow Library21 Concord Rd, Sudbury, MA, 01776
This month, explore outer space: LEGO rockets, Mars rovers or the new NASA Parker sun probe! Or as always, build whatever you like! Once finished, everyone will enjoy viewing your creations in our display case in the Children's Department! Registration is suggested and can be completed starting two weeks prior to the event. Or drop in and check out our LEGO Club for older kids.
Children under the age of 10 may not be left unattended in the library.
Generously sponsored by the Friends of the Goodnow Library and patron donations.
Capacity: 20 of 20 spaces available.
Note: Registering more attendees than spaces available will automatically place your attendees on this event's wait list.
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Practical Performance
This is an overview of issues that can influence the practical
performance as you should have seen when measuring the time performance
of the algorithms in task 1 to 4. Key factors in execution time are:
- Instruction count
As in the theoretical approach to the time complexity of algorithms the number of instructions executed heavily influences the time behaviour of your programs.
- CPU speed
Assuming every instruction requires approximately the same time on the CPU the speed of the CPU multiplied with the number of instructions determines the time your program takes.
- Pipelining
Pipelining in modern CPUs means that every branch instruction in your code can slow down the execution of your code. Necessarily branch prediction has to fail some of the time and if the branches taken depend on your input data for the algorithm, different data may expose different timing behaviour.
- Data layout and access
Usually this is not considered for time complexity and memory complexity usually just considers the amount of memory required for the algorithm.
- Cache
Multiple levels of memory caches in modern CPUs mean the order in which you access the data and the layout of that data in memory have a notable effect on the performance of your algorithms. The generic rule is to store your data in memory in the sequence you access it and access data in memory as much as possible in the sequence it is stored to avoid cache misses. More complex issues are beyond the scope of this course, but see http://www.lamarca.org/anthony/caches.html for more on this
- Dynamic compilation
The presence of a virtual machine with dynamic compilation makes performance measurement more difficult. You must have an understanding of how the virtual machine executes the byte-code to properly assess the performance of your programs.
Compilation Effects on Timing
- Static compilation
Convert instructions directly into machine code optimised for the hardware platform (to some user-defined degree).
- Dynamic compilation
- Compiler converts instructions into intermediate byte-code as instructions for a virtual machine. Most optimisations are performed during runtime instead.
- Interpretation
- Initial JVMs simply interpreted the byte-code, which made them rather slow.
- Just-in-time compilation
- Lazy conversion of byte-code into machine code before execution
- Time for code optimisation vs. patience of user
- Hot-spot dynamic compilation
- Combination of interprteation, profiling and dynamic compilation
- Interpret first and compile hot code only
- Use profiling data for optimisation decisions
- JVM: client and server compiler (platform dependent)
- Specify -server or -client when starting the JVM
- Server to maximize peak operating speeds for long-running server applications
- Client designed to reduce startup time and memory footprint with less time-consuming optimisations
- Also see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tech/index-jsp-136373.html
- Continuous recompilation
- Keep gathering profiling information, even after compilation
- Recompile with better optimisation later (very hot code, better optimisation)
- Run JVM with -XX:+!PrintCompilation to see when compiler runs
- On-stack replacement
- Initially compile a method if it was executed more than certain number of iterations (~10,000?), but only use compiled code after interpreted code finished (so may never execute)
- On-stack replacement switches from interpretation to compilation (during loop execution) or replaces code with recompiled code
- Measuring time of individual algorithm typical to assess performance
- Dynamic compilation means timing of such code has to be done carefully to assess real performance
- Initially interpreted code is timed, but this is not so useful for full practical performance
- With simple just-in-time compilation, run code to be timed for some iterations
- JVM will switch from interpreted to compiled code then
- A single "re-start" in the performance data
- With recompilation and on-stack replacement
- Hard to tell when compiled code is executed
- Even harder to tell when optimal code is found
- You see multiple "re-starts" in the performance data
- All mixed up with time required for compilation
- Amount of warmup required is rather unknown
- Run with "-XX:+!PrintCompilation" to get an idea of what is going on
Garbage Collection
- Code that allocates new objects may eventually trigger garbage collection
- One iteration more can do this * Distorts average timing results
- Use --verbose:gc with JVM to see when garbage collection takes place
- Or (better) run for very long time to get average results that also account for allocation and garbage collection
Dead Code
- Code that has apparently no effect may not even be executed.
- Some code can be made much faster by replacing "return RESULT" with "return 0.0" or otherwise ignoring the result, which in particular is an issue for pure timing tasks
- Compiler can inline instruction into calling code to optimise code (larger code chunks are easier to optimise)
- If instructions being called are replaced with other instructions, the complete optimised code is invalidated and replaced with a slower version again. The slower version may be optimised again or not.
- Check with
- Issue here is often the use of virtual methods
- Cannot conclude anything from
the timing results except that timing is very difficult to get right
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DELUXE VINYL EDITION!!! "Greatest Hits Vol. 2″ is the second album by the Punk/Oi! legends Cockney Rejects, originally released in 1980. Despite the title, it is not a greatest hits compilation. Cockney Rejects spawned a punk sungenre, and that subgenre is Oi- the dirty, ugly, and more politically charged troublesome cousin of punk. This album is the essence of it- sloppy, catchy riffs that are accompanied by pummeling bass lines, steady but uncapable drumming, and punky vocal wailing which sounds like a more polished Johnny Rotten.
Tracks 1-14 originally released in 1980 on the LP of the same name by EMI Records (UK) (ZONO 102).
Tracks 15-19 originally released on 7" singles.
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|Nether Wick
|Type: Throwable
|This wick of magical power is made of some special materials acquired from the farplane. A planer channel is created when ignited (for a very short period of time and extremely unstable). Any creatures near the channel will be sucked in and permanently expelled to the farplane.
|Use: Directly exiles an enemy (Invalid on Boss)
|Upgrade the Farplane Ranger title after getting the Night Walker title
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TTHERE is one journey that, if only in memory of two dead poets, all must make who stay more than a single day in Padua. It is a journey to the Euganean hills, and the two poets such a pilgrimage will commemorate are, of course, Petrarch and Shelley. But such a journey made with due piety will be something more than a duty performed, it will be in a very real way its own reward. For of all the various country of Venetia, of sea and seashore and delicate visionary island, of mountain, valley, and plain, nothing may compare for sheer loveliness with these Euganean hills which beckon one so mysteriously from Venice, and which fill every vista of the plain with their strange and mysterious beauty, where
" Beneath is spread like a green sea The waveless plain of Lombardy, Bounded by the vaporous air, Islanded by cities fair…."
It was with these lines in my head that one morning when the sun was shining after many days of rain I set out from Padua by Barriera Vittorio Emanuele for Battaglia, Arquà, and Este. The road was broad, straight, and flat, but the world was refreshed, the day young, and all the flowers in the world seemed to have come to meet me. So that for all the monotony of the plain I was not weary, but took courage and lifted mine eyes to the hills, ever growing clearer and more lovely as I approached them; and before midday in very good spirits I came to Battaglia, where I ate frugally but well, and setting out again presently turned out of the straight road westward, and a little after found myself at the foot of the delectable mountains, which, after I had passed a little lake, I began to climb, and before long found myself in Arqua Petrarca.
Now to describe the beauty of this place, and the hills, in a valley of which it lies, has been the vain attempt of so many of my betters, from Disraeli to Gabriele D' Annunzio, that I shall content myself with bringing the reader hither, giving him what information he should need, and perhaps quoting for my own delight a few lines of Petrarch's, a few verses of Shelley. Arquà is still what it was when Petrarch in his old age first saw it and fell in love with it, a little mountain village and a gracious fountain :
" Fonti numen inest ; hospes, venerare liquorem Unde bibens cecinit digna Petrarcha Deis."
What fame it has and since mere beauty is too common in Italy to attract the notice we give it at home, it would otherwise be but little renowned what fame it has it owes all to Petrarch.
That noble, lofty but pedantic poet found here the peace which he had sought in vain his whole successful life long, and here amid his roses in July, 1374, he died.
It was in the year 1369 that Petrarch had found out this village in the Euganean hills which ever after became his summer residence, where, indeed, he seems, with his usual generosity, to have kept open house, with something more of lavishness than might be looked for in a "simple canon." The Pope, Gregory XI, a Frenchman, loving him well, seems, indeed, to have been anxious about him, and instructed Francesco Bruno to write and inquire how he did. Petrarch answers that his means are sufficient for a simple canon, but since he has, as he can most truly say, a wider circle of acquaintance than all the rest of the Chapter together, he has very many unforeseen expenses. Besides an old priest who lives with him a whole swarm of these acquaintances will often suddenly descend upon him, and he has not the heart to turn them away without their dinner. Then, too, he finds he cannot do without servants, a couple of horses, and five or six scribes. Then he is building a little chapel to the Blessed Virgin, and he must accomplish this though he should be compelled to sell even his books. So he is rather pinched, and age makes pinching the harder. Therefore if Gregory is minded to do something for him he will not say nay. This letter so characteristic of Petrarch, he will ask for nothing, but, as he had ever done, accept what God sends him was written from Arquà at Whitsuntide, 1371. That was his third summer there. At first, in 1369, he had stayed in the convent of the Austin Friars, and it was then he was so taken with the beauty of the place that he got one of his friends to buy on his behalf a plot of ground with a vineyard, a garden of olives, and a little orchard. There he built the house we still see above the village on the hill side under the castello which in his day, unspoilt and unbroken, crowned the summit of the hill. Here he spent his old age, which was already come upon him. He was continually ailing and constantly ready for death.
In 1372, however, he had to leave Arquà, for war had broken out between Francesco da Carrara and Venice, and the country was full of marauders. Francesco, as we know, was compelled to surrender, and when called upon to plead before the Venetian Senate he sent his son to Petrarch to ask him to plead for him. Petrarch was much loved in Padua and had received many kindnesses from the Carrara House. He tried, in fact, to help his friend, but was too ill to speak on the day appointed, though his speech was delivered well enough on the following day. This unhappy affair can only have distressed him to the utmost. For Francesco was not only his friend, but in some sort his pupil, and it was to him that Petrarch had addressed the long letter on government, "on the best methods of administering a State," in which, knowing the House of Carrara, we may think he lays great stress upon the moral qualities necessary to a good ruler.
In Arquà, doubtless, too, in his quiet chair at night between the vines, and under the olives at morning or at evening, he composed that letter to Posterity which makes so noble an autobiography, so pathetic a plea, too, for remembrance, " what sort of man I was and what was the outcome of my works." There we read of his, home at Arquà : ' In one of the Euganean hills," he writes, " near ten miles from the city of Padua, I have built me a house, small, but pleasant and decent, in the midst of slopes clothed with vines and olives, abundantly sufficient for a family not large and discreet. Here I lead my life, and although, as I have said, infirm of body, yet tranquil of mind, without excitements, without distractions, without cares, reading always and writing and praising God, and thanking God as well for evil as for good ; which evil, if I err not, is trial merely, not punishment, and all the while I pray to Christ that He make good the end of my life, and have mercy on me and forgive me and even forget my youthful sins ; wherefore, in this solitude no words are so sweet to my lips as those of the psalm, ' Delicta juvenlutis meae : et inorantias meas ne memineris.' And with every feeling of the heart I pray God when it pleases Him to bridle my thoughts, so long unstable and erring ; and as they have vainly wandered to many things, to turn them all to Him the only true, certain, immutable Good."
Such was Petrarch at Arquà, blessed in the quietness which led him thus so perfectly to God. Nor is this merely a mood. His letters to all his friends are full of such words, only less beautiful than when he spoke them to himself and to us. To his best friend, and, in so much, his most devoted disciple, Giovanni Boccaccio, he writes in the same way : "You write that my ill-health makes you sad; I know it and am not surprised, for neither of us can be really well while the other is ailing. What I should really like is, not to be younger than I am, but to feel that I had reached old age by a course of more honourable deeds and pursuits; and nothing disturbs me more than that in all this long while I have not reached the goal I ought to have reached. . . . There is no nimbler or more delightful burden than the pen; other pleasures flee away and do you a mischief even while they soothe you ; but your pen soothes you in the taking up and delights you in the laying down of it; and it works profit not only to its master but to many beside, often even to the absent, and sometimes to posterity after thousands of years. I think I speak absolute truth when I say that of all earthly delights as there is none more honourable than literature, so there is none more lasting or sweeter or more constant; none which plays the comrade to its possessor with so easily gotten an equipment and with so little irksomeness. . . . This do I desire for myself, that when death overtakes me he may find me either reading or writing or, if Christ so wills it, praying and in tears."
Petrarch had his wish ; the best supported account of his death tells us that he died in his library turning the pages of his " De Viris Illustribus " on the morning of his seventieth birthday.
What his death meant to his friends we may gather best, I think, from that wonderful letter of Boccaccio's which he wrote to Francesco da Brossano, Petrarch's son-in-law. In reading it we may realize perhaps what manner of man Petrarch was.
Boccaccio, ill and himself not far from death, writes as one heart bnoken : " I received your sorrowful letter, most well beloved brother . . . and not knowing the writing I broke the seal and looked for the name of the writer, and as soon as I read your name I knew what news you had to tell me, that is to say, the happy passing of our illustrious father and master, Francesco Petrarca, fnom the earthly Babylon to the heavenly Jerusalem. Although none of my friends had written me save you, since everyone spoke of it I had known it for some time to my great sorrow, and during many days I wept almost without ceasing, not at his ascension, but for myself thus unhappy and abandoned. And that is not wonderful, for no one in the world loved him more than I… You say that he has ended his days at the village of Arquà in the contado of Padua; that he wished his ashes to remain always in that village, and that to commemorate him for ever a rich and splendid tomb is there to be built. Alas ! I admit my crime,if it can be called a crime. I who am a Florentine grudge Arquà this shining good fortune that has befallen her, rather through his humility than through her merit the guardianship of the body of the man whose soul has been the favourite dwelling place of the Muses and of all Helicon… It follows that not only Arqua, almost unknown even to the Paduans, will now be known to all foreign nations however far off, but that her name will be held in honour by the whole universe. One will honour thee, Arquà as without seeing them we honour in our thoughts the hill of Posilipo at the foot of which are placed the bones of Virgil . . . and Smyrna, where Homer sleeps, and other like places…I do not doubt that the sailor returning laden with riches from the farthest shores of the sea, sailing the Adriatic and seeing afar the venerable summits of the Euganean Hills, will say to himself or to his friends : `These, hills guard in their breast the glory of the universe, him who was once the triumph of all knowledge, Petrarch, the poet of sweet words, who by the Consular Senate was crowned in the Mother City with the laurel of triumph, and whose many beautiful works still proclaim his inviolable renown.' The black Indian, the fierce Spaniard . . . seized with admiration for this sacred name will one day come and before the tomb of so great a man salute with respect and piety the ashes which it holds, complaining the while of their misfortune that they should not have seen him living whom dead they visit. Alas ! my unhappy city, to whom it has not been given to guard the ashes of so illustrious a son, to whom so splendid a glory has been refused ; it is true that thou art unworthy of such an honour, thou hast neglected to draw him to thee when he was alive and to give him that place in thy heart which he merited. Ah! had he been an artisan of crimes, a contriver of treason, a past-master in avarice, envy, and bitter ingratitude, thou wouldst have called him to thee. Yet even as thou art I should prefer that this honour had been accorded thee rather than Arquà. . . . But since God has wished it let the name of Arquà live through the centuries, and let her inhabitants preserve always an honour for which they should indeed be thankful."
Florence, however, who had expelled Dante, threatened him with death, and had seen him buried with honour at Ravenna, was not to be so easily resigned to the loss Boccaccio bemoans, though in truth since she expelled Petrarch's father and confiscated his goods she deserved nothing else. Petrarch was buried at Arquà with much ceremony, his coffin was borne by sixteen Doctors of Law, and four Bishops took part in the funeral. He was laid temporarily in the parish church till, six years later, a sarcophagus was made in Padua. For many years Florence watched, hiding her envy and her shame. But one day in 1630, when the tomb had fallen into disrepair, a certain monk, or friar, more like, named Tommaso Martinelli, attempted to steal the body, and actually brought away with him to Florence one of the dead poet's arms, which is said now to be in Madrid. Petrarch no more than Boccaccio, the one for love, the other for hate was allowed to rest in his grave.
There is really very little to be seen within the old house that indubitably was Petrarch's: a few poor frescoes concerned with his life, his bedroom, which is said to be as it was in his day, his study with his broken chair, table, inkstand, andhis stuffed cat. These are all, and these remind us less of him than the landscape does, the byways of the village, the tender vines and quiet gardens, and the beautiful hills he loved. It is to these we shall be wise to give ourselves ; to these and to the road which will presently lead us down into the valley beyond Arquà, and winding about Monte del Castello bring us through Baone to Este on the southern skirts of the Euganean, where another poet had for a brief summer his home.
The villa I Cappuccini, which may still be seen, was lent to Shelley by Byron, who had rented it as a summer residence for himself. Writing to Rogers on 3 March, 1818, Byron says: "The villa you speak of is one at Este which Mr. Hoppner (Consul-General here) has transferred to me. I have taken it for two years as a place of villeggiatura. The situation is very beautiful indeed, among the Euganean hills, and the house is very fair. The vines are luxuriant to a great degree, and all the fruits of the earth abundant. It is close to the old castle of the Estes or Guelphs, and within a few miles of Arquà, which I have visited twice and hope to visit again."
Writing from Venice, where, leaving Mrs. Shelley at the Bagni di Lucca, he had gone to meet Byron, Shelley writes to his wife in the late summer of that year : ". . . Pray come instantly to Este, where I shall be waiting in the utmost anxiety for your arrival. You can pack up directly you get this letter and employ the next day on that. The day after get up at four o'clock and go post to Lucca, where you will arrive at six. Then take a vetturino for Florence, to arrive the same evening. From Florence to Este is three days' vetturino journey,and you could not, I think, do it quicker by the post. Make Paolo take you to good inns, as we found very bad ones ; and pray avoid the Tre Mori at Bologna, perchè vi sono cose inéspressibili nei letti. I do not think you can, but fry to get from Florence to Bologna in one day. Do not take the post, for it is not much faster and very expensive."
That letter tells us that travelling in Italy was of old as leisurely a business as one could wish.
In a letter to Peacock, dated Este, 8 October, 1818, Shelley says : " We have been living this last month near the little town from which I date this letter, in a very pleasant villa which has been lent to us. . . . Behind us here are the Euganean hills, not so beautiful as those of the Bagni di Lucca, with Arquà, where Petrarch's house and tomb are religiously preserved and visited. At the end of our garden is an extensive Gothic castle, now the habitation of owls and bats, where the Medici family resided before they came to Florence. We see before us the wide, flat plains of Lombardy, in which we see the sun and moon rise and set, and the evening star, and all the golden magnificence of autumnal clouds. . . . I have been writing, and indeed have just finished, the first act of a lyric and classical drama to be called ` Prometheus Unbound.' "
On 7 November Shelley left Este for Naples. He had written something more than the first act of the "Prometheus" at Este, he had composed the "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills," and there we find, as we might expect, one of those strangely vivid pictures that none knell better how to paint of the world that lay before his eyes in those quiet autumn days:—
Noon descends around me now : 'Tis the noon of autumn's glow, When a soft and purple mist Like a vaporous amethyst, Or an air-dissolvèd star Mingling light and fragrance, far From the curved horizon's bound To the point of heaven's profound, Fills the overflowing sky ; And the plains that silent lie Underneath ; the leaves unsodden Where the infant frost has trodden With his morning-wingèd feet Whose bright print is gleaming yet; And the red and golden vines Piercing with their trellised lines The rough dark-skirted wilderness ; The dun and bladed grass no less, Pointing from this hoary tower In the windless air ; the flower Glimmering at my feet ; the line Of the olive-sandalled Apennine In the south dimly islanded ; And the Alps, whose snows are spread High between the clouds and sun ; And of living things each one; And my spirit, which so long Darkened this swift stream of song,
thirteenth-century church of brick, S. Lorenzo ; here is a fresco by Montagna in the choir chapel on the left ; and here Montagna was buried. To the north-east of S. Lorenzo we pass another Palladian palace, Palazzo Valmarana, before we come to the Church of S. Rocco, where over the High Altar is the masterpiece of Buonconsiglio, the best of Montagna's followers. It represents the Madonna enthroned with SS. Sebastian, Bernard, Peter, and Paul, and was painted in 1502.
But the best work Vicenza has to offer us, and the most characteristic of her greatest painter, is not within the city wall, but just without it in the great Temple of the Madonna that crowns one of the spurs of the Monti Berici, about a mile from the town. The way thither is steep and perhaps tiring, but it is full of rewards, for the views we get thence over the plain and towards the mountains are finer than anything to be seen in Bassano or, I think, at Arquà. The whole Veneto seems to lie at our feet not divorced from the hills, but indeed their own child, created by them and in a very real way subject to them.
A church and convent have stood here since 1428, in which year the Blessed Virgin appeared in a vision on this mountain to some shepherds. In 1688 the church was rebuilt in the latest fashion, that is to say, in the form of a Greek Cross under a dome. The church is coldly interesting, but what we have come to see is the marvellous picture by Montagna a Pietà, one of the few truly religious pictures painted in the sixteenth century.
Beyond the church there is a magnificent walk along the ridge of the hill, where all that is best and most characteristic in the Venetian terra firma, is spread out before you. Vicenza is at your feet, and as evening comes over the vast plain you begin to understand what primarily a city is, why it was built, and whence its origin.


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The House Judiciary Committee is set to take over the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump next week, scheduling a Dec. 4 hearing on the question of "high crimes and misdemeanors" set out in the Constitution.
The hearing will feature legal experts who will examine the constitutional grounds for impeachment, according to Democratic aides who discussed the schedule on condition of anonymity before any announcement.
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Renowned Italian artist Nicola Strippoli Tarshito is displaying nakshi kantha, a type of embroidered quilt, of different designs at a solo show underway at Edge Gallery in Dhanmondi.
The artist has been experimenting with different traditional art forms of the Indian subcontinent for well over a decade now. He has already earned a name for his experimental embroidery works, done in association with a number of Jessore-based embroidery artistes, which were displayed at exhibitions in 2015 and 2016, respectively, at Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts and Nalinikanta Bhattashali Gallery of Bangladesh National Museum.
The artist's ongoing solo titled 'The Red Thread of Bangladesh' at Edge Gallery in Dhanmondi displays 41 works.
The displayed works at the show have been made by Tarshito, in collaboration with Jessore-based artist Totini Saha and artisans' organisation Chhonya Hosto Shilpo.
Led by Totini Saha, a team of 15 nakshi kantha weavers of Jessore-based Chhonya Hosto Shilpo embroidered the quilts on which Tarshito made his acrylic, mixed media works.
Besides depicting folk motifs and figures, Tarshito has painted real and imaginary maps of different countries and places on the quilts.
The shapes of the maps painted by Tarshito resemble both human and animal figures like fish, turtle, tiger and others.
In the work titled 'One Only Land, One Only Humanity' the artist has depicted a unified world through threads of different colours embroidered on a map of the world. The threads represent different continents and people from different parts of the world.
The artist has also painted maps of different regions and cities of Bangladesh including Dhaka, Chittagong and Jessore.
Tarshito has depicted forests and manmade structures in his displayed works like Ark of Abundance, Ark of Lightness, Ark of Fortitude and Ark of Tolerance.
The exhibition will remain open till March 9.
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Miras Lady At Reception Desk: Because Anti Gravity Shuttle Pods DONT COME CHEAP'. It
costs the city council money to run those things. Plus I need a little bit of overhead
for my personal maintenance costs like looking good before the customers. My hair takes
time as well as lots of money to maintain. So the costs have to come from somewhere.
Miras Lady At Reception Desk: You're all offworlders. Very well, when you make up your mind
just chat to me to book the ticket if you are still heading into the city area.
+ If you have less than 1000 credits in your account.
Miras Lady At Reception: Are you trying to rip us off. You don't even have enough
credits left in your account to pay for the trip. We cannot let you board the
shuttle pod. You will have to leave and come back later on when you have
the required amount of credits for the ride. You have to buy a two way ticket
if you want to leave the city once you get thrown into it.
+ Note once you take the shuttle pod, you will not beable to come back here until you are thrown back out of the city.
+ if you have enough money
+ You lose 1000 Credits
Miras Lady At Reception: There, that wasn't so hard was it. Now that you've paid for your ticket you cannot back out of the trip. The anti Grav tubes are already warming up. You best board the shuttle pod right now.
Miras Lady At Reception: Complain. Save it for the city complaints department bud.. Your shuttle is about to now depart. You have under a minute to get on board now. Your droid is already on the shuttle. Oh and just to make your day more complete. City Complaints also charge fees to hear a complaint as well. I do not know what the fee is for that so you will find out when you get into the city as its not my department.
Complain again (script below)
Get on board the shuttle quickly
Miras Lady At Reception: Congratulations you've just missed your shuttle ride umm there it goes, your droid was on board. Now you've lost the droid. Hes been flung into the city without you because you wanted to stop and complain to me. You are in the wrong place. The Complaints department is in the main city. The droid is going to the right place. Now you will have to book another shuttle to catch up to your friend. Next time don't argue with me and get on board the shuttle and it won't cost you in extra shuttle booking fees.
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4. I need to take a vacation.
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The over 3,500 acre land demarcated to host more than 50 industries under the Shama District Free Zone project is said to have rail lines to facilitate easy movement of goods in the free zone enclave.
Mr. Ato Panford, the Member of Parliament for the Shama constituency has disclose that the Shama Traditional Council and the Ministry of Railway Development are in talks to ensure the extension of the Western Railway lines project through the free zones enclave at Assorkor Essaman to ease carriage of bulk cargo to and from the industries to the port of Takoradi.
Mr Panford, in an interview with Spice News, said the Shama District has lots of prospects in terms of lands for development which could speed up the economic fortunes of the area.
"I am also talking with the leadership of the Ghana Ports and harbours Authority to see the possibility of a port in Shama to support the industries that are to spring up in the area".
"As I speak, the Ghana Ports and Harbour Authority has began conducting feasibility studies along the coast of Shama in earnest preparation of the free zones enclave.
Mr Panford said the realization of the project could contribute significantly to employment and wealth creation for the constituents and the country.
Some investors, he said, have already expressed interest to commence business in the District.
The MP said, the one district, one factory project would equally contribute to industrial growth in the area.
The free zone site is being developed by Black Ivy limited and the realization of the project could contribute significantly to employment and wealth creation in the district.


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Any estimate comes with a degree of uncertainty, but often that uncertainty is ignored. This is incredibly dangerous in finance, as a wrong estimate can be the difference between steady gains and massive losses. This lecture will cover some problems with how estimates are often taken and discuss some ways to quantify the uncertainty.
The lecture will be presented at this meetup. We will be releasing a video lecture as well, watch this thread for a link.
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Technical Computing in the cloud
Earlier today Bill Hilf blogged about Microsoft's Technical Computing initiative and Bob Muglia sent an executive email on the topic. So what is the Technical Computing initiative? I think Bob captured it nicely by positing that recent world events have clearly demonstrated our inability to process vast amounts of information and variables. Two events in particular - the behaviour of global financial markets and the (ongoing) occurrence and impact of a volcano eruption in Iceland. I've been personally affected by both with my mortgage going down and almost missing a trip home for a wedding due to the volcano (my own wedding!).
The Technical Computing initiative seeks to bring vast computing power to the scientists and communities who are focused on these problems. It will focus on 3 areas as Bill called out in his blog:
Technical computing to the cloud: Microsoft will help lead the way in giving scientists, engineers and analysts the computing power of the cloud. We're also working to give existing high-performance computing users the ability to augment their on-premises systems with cloud resources that enable 'just-in-time' processing. This platform will help ensure processing resources are available whenever they are needed—reliably, consistently and quickly.
Simplify parallel development: Today, computers are shipping with more processing power than ever, including multiple cores. But most modern software only uses a small amount of the available processing power. Parallel programs are extremely difficult to write, test, and troubleshoot. We know that a consistent model for parallel programming can help more developers unlock the tremendous power in today's computers and enable a new generation of technical computing. We're focused on delivering new tools to automate and simplify writing software through parallel processing from the desktop… to the cluster… to the cloud.
Develop powerful new technical computing tools and applications: Scientists, engineers and analysts are pushing common tools (i.e., spreadsheets and databases) to the limits with complex, data-intensive models. They need easy access to more computing power using simpler tools to increase the speed of their work, and we're building a platform with this objective in mind. We expect that these efforts will yield new, easy-to-use tools and applications that automate data acquisition, modeling, simulation, visualization, workflow and collaboration
All 3 are important, big hairy computing issues we're looking to solve and enable the great minds in computing to solve the really big, global scale challenges (and smaller ones of course) with the power of computing.
A supporting website was also launched today at www.modelingtheworld.com to discuss the trends, challenges and opportunities. There's some funky new stuff there for Microsoft and in particular I like the social side of it at http://social.modelingtheworld.com/#/home – the team is also on Twitter with the handle @modelingtw


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2017 PLAA News
Kristy Glass Knits Interviews Long Island yarn & farm's Tabbethia Haubold
"He was just about to fall asleep."
When I came back he was sound asleep…at Buck Hollow Llamas …dreaming of sugar plums I am sure. Or perhaps green grass.
"Great Seeing Llamas Promoted Heavily for Great Animals They Are!" Meet Long Island yarn & farm's Newest Farm Family Member
It's a boy! Our latest cria was born at the end of September, weighing in at 27.2 lbs (llama crias range from 20-30 lbs at birth) and has been gaining a pound a day his first few weeks! His dam is Luck Etta ABSR, and his sire is BAL Count Me. He may be the last of Count's crias, since we will be retiring him from stud soon. The baby has no name yet, but his pedigree name, like those of all Count's crias, will have the word "Count" included in it, so stay tuned! He is "Jackson"'s maternal half-brother, but the two have very different personalities. This little guy, the spitting image of his dam, is very curious, already coming up to investigate and sniff human visitors! You can click here and here to see videos of his birth, and here to see one of him learning to walk and nurse.
Meet The Crias of Long Island yarn & farm
Morning Meeting at Wunsapana Farm (it appears some weren't invited…)
Look Who's New at Buck Hollow Llamas, Inc.
According to Carol Reigh, Daffy tries to ignore our two new mousers. When she isn't sleeping she is growling at them. Sure hope she learns to tolerate them better. Thanks Rachel Diamond for these two precious kittens.
Q: Who Was Trick or Treating at Your Door?
A: Long Island Yarn & Farm
Cabelas Uses Niki Anderson Kuklenski's Cayetano in Instagram Post "Great Seeing Llamas Promoted Heavily for Great Animals They Are!"
Long Island yarn & farm Solid Rock's Sir Arthur Rocks The Hampton Classic Horse Show September 2017
Amazing athleticism. Tabbethia Haubold bring out the best in her llama's showmanship.
Proudly Announcing A Blue Sky Fibers Partnership
The the first of a series of a limited edition, made-in-the-USA collaboration. American Scenic is being offered in 4 beautiful color options: Blue Sky, Sandy Beach, River Rock, and North Shore. Designed by Tabbethia Haubold, this worsted weight yarn is a soft blend of 50% US alpaca, 30% US Merino and 20% silk. Available for purchase 2017.


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Food & Drink
12 Twists on Traditional Tabbouleh
Summer is salad season and one of the quintessential salads of summer is tabbouleh (or tabouli). This vegetarian Middle Eastern dish is chock-full of crunchy vegetables and fresh herbs which makes it perfect for a light summer meal or a flavorful side dish.
Traditionally made with bulgur wheat, there are lots of new ways to make this summery dish. Using quinoa or lentils in place of the bulgur makes it gluten-free while substituting cauliflower makes it low-carb. Add grilled vegetables or greens such as kale for added nutrition.
Whether it's Carrot Top Tabouli Salad, Breakfast Tabbouleh or Tabouli with Fresh Jalapeno, don't let summer go by without trying some of these delicious, fresh and flavorful twists on traditional tabbouleh!
Carol's blog is From A Chef's Kitchen where she shares easy gourmet recipes. In addition to blogging, she's a personal chef with over 16 years of experience providing custom in-home cuisine to private clients. She's also a former newspaper columnist, recipe developer and obsessed cookbook collector. With all that experience, Carol knows a great recipe when she sees one!


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How And Why Did It Take 30 Years To Get Another Mad Max Movie?!
"Every time Heath [Ledger] would come through Sydney, we'd chat about Max. The world lost someone great when he went. Tom [Hardy] was the next to walk through the door…" – George Miller.
As mad as it may seem, there are other, more alarming and frustrating, ways to spoil a promising franchise than giving a starring role to Tina Turner. In those dark Maxless years that followed Beyond Thunderdome (1985), another instalment of everyone's fave Interceptor-driving, dogfood-guzzling cop seemed highly unlikely. After Mel Gibson's impressive directorial debut with Braveheart (1996), Australian master of the post-apocalyptic roadkillfest: George Miller felt that the time was right to return to his beloved dystopian franchise.
During the late 1990s, impressive conceptual art for a fourth movie about the Road Warrior started doing the rounds. It is very pleasing to learn that renowned British comics artist (and Mad Max fan): Brendan McCarthy was involved in these preparatory stages (and even gets a co-writer credit on Fury Road!) but then, the film industry – as well as everyone else – could never have foreseen 9/11. That infamous day not only deflated the American dollar but also drastically inflated Max's proposed budget.
Unfortunately, not long after, Gibson went, well, mad. His much-publicised troubles with the law forced a "heartbroken" Miller to seek another Max. It is said that in 2006, Miller had intended to offer the lead role to Heath Ledger, and there were serious discussions before said actor met his untimely fate. So, by not getting the Joker, Miller opted instead for… Bane?!
Honestly, how mad does that sound?! But hold on, 'cos it gets madder…
"As the world fell, each of us in our own way was broken. It was hard to know who was more crazy… me… or everyone else" – Max Rockatansky.
Amid all this kerfuffle, Miller was able – also in 2006 – to direct Happy Feet, an animated sure-fire sprog-pleaser featuring the voice of Frodo Baggins as a dancing penguin… for pity's sake! Obviously not the form of madness that Rockatansky-fans the world over had in mind…
One of the more intriguing diversions on the way to realising a fourth Mad Max movie came as recently as 2007 in the amazing – and quite unbelievable – form of an ensemble DC superhero movie(!) which Miller was all-too-ready-and-willing to direct.
However, by all accounts, the provisional script for Justice League:Mortal was poor; with a writers' strike in full swing, it could never hope to get developed. Moreover, the all-too-familiar blight of an uncontrollable budget, and unfavourable Australian tax incentives doomed it further.
If all had gone to plan, Justice League:Mortal would have featured Megan Gale (who makes an appearance in Mad Max: Fury Road) as Wonder Woman, Armie Hammer as Batman, and…!
Get this – Hugh Keays-Byrne (who plays both Immortan Joe in Fury Road and the Toecutter in the 1979 original) was tipped to play Martian Manhunter!
Mad? Why, that's positively insane!!
"When I came in, there was no script, just… storyboards. So I spent the time just writing a 'bible of tribal'… The stunt guy and I used to say we were making the last real, live stunt-action film" – Colin "Not Mel" Gibson.
Possibly the only sane news to gain from this delirious state of affairs is that – yes! – there will be more pedal-to-the-metal Mad Max mayhem to come!
"We've got one screenplay and a novella," Miller reveals about our chances of seeing at least two more movies of Mr. Rockatansky(!) "It happened because with the delays [on Fury Road] and writing all the backstories, they just expanded." Despite all the troubles that beset Fury Road, Mad Max: The Wasteland is definitely a go.
"Fast and Furious 7 is all CG," dismissed Colin Gibson, Mad Max: Fury Road's Production Designer. "The cars are shiny and pretty, but there's not much physics in there." Hell no, make cars do things that cars can't do and suspend all belief in one gear-shift? No thanks. Quite rightly, Gibson realised that live stunts, evoking the movie-making of the original Max movies, was in order: "to make it completely real."
The Australian Outback served as the perfect setting to evoke that grungy post-apocalyptic look for the original movies, but this time, even that could not be guaranteed; Namibia had to step in.
"Part of the problem was we built for the firm, hard ground of Australia," Gibson explained. "And then it pissed down with rain for two years running, and you couldn't shoot the desert for blooming flowers and camels fucking each other and pelicans dancing."
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When Nat King Cole wrote "Straighten Up and Fly Right" in 1943, he probably had no idea that it could become Jackie Robinson's theme song, especially the line "Cool down papa, don't you blow your top." Cool down was exactly what Robinson had to do 3 years later when he became the first African American to play in the Major Leagues. Branch Rickey signed him with the Brooklyn Dodgers and they both knew there would be lots of pushback, even if he let the baseballs fly right.
The Murphy Library is showing the film about Robinson's move to the Dodgers this Thursday at 6 p.m. The film is rated PG-13 and running time is 128 minutes. Previews may be seen at the web site http://www.friendsofmurphylibrary.wordpress.com.
Two ball fields may look familiar: Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, and Engel Stadium in Chattanooga, Tenn. were used for the games. Call the library at 837-2417 for details.
If you remember looking into the night sky and watching Sputnik pass overhead, the next Murphy Library movie is for you, and for all budding young scientists you may know.
Homer Hickam was a coal miner's son in the late 1950's when he first saw Sputnik and a glimpse of his future. If only he could convince his father. The library is showing October Sky, the story of the first rocket scientists, starring Jake Gyllenhaal this Thursday at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. Running time is 108 minutes and the film is rated PG.
Frankie Lymon, Elvis and the Coasters urge Homer and his friends along. The story was filmed throughout East Tennessee, including the towns of Petros, Harriman, Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley Railroad in Chattanooga.
And don't miss this — young engineers and scientists can join Youth Services Librarian Bridget Wilson at a special Airplane Science event Thursday, April 10 at 6 p.m. where they will learn to make and race paper airplanes. Call 837-2025 to participate.
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An introduction to intaglio etching: learn the process of dry point by incising an image into a solid material and using the upraised burrs to create a design. We will cover the process from beginning to end including how to compose your image, preparing the plexiglass plate, and making prints with safe inks. Create fine art prints, hand printed note cards, stationary and more.
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A WOMAN who was dragged into an alleyway and raped was then raped again by a passer-by as she lay helpless.
Mustafa Yussuf (21) was jailed for seven years yesterday for the initial attack in Manchester but detectives are still hunting for the second man, who has never been identified.
The woman was attacked on New Year's Eve in Manchester city centre. She was lead into the alleyway near the city's Church Street by Yussuf after being refused re-entry to a nightclub. There, the then 20-year-old raped her. And, instead of coming to help her as she recovered from that ordeal, another man raped her again as Yussuf fled.
She was unable to remember the attack for hours afterwards but the court heard that it left her life shattered and her in fear of leaving the house. Judge Steiger told Manchester Crown Court: "At some point in the course of her ordeal she was raped by another individual.
"There was never any charge laid against this defendant [Yussuf] for being party to that incident, which the complainant found in many ways the most traumatic feature of her ordeal."
Zoe Nield, defending Yussuf, said: "This offence does appear to be an isolated incident, it was out of character for this defendant." Her client claimed to have had consensual sex with the "mature" woman but the jury found him guilty. The court saw CCTV evidence which showed that the woman, who drank heavily after hitting relationship problems, was unable to stand.
She was turned down when she asked to get back into a nightclub to find her lost handbag but Yussuf lead her away. Judge Martin Steiger QC, passing sentence, said he "hadn't the slightest doubt" that the man – from the Moss Side area of Manchester - was "perfectly aware" she was too drunk to consent to any activity.


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De Angelis, M (2019) Female Asylum Seekers: A Critical Attitude on UK Immigration Removal Centres. Social Policy and Society. ISSN 1474-7464 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474746419000216
De Angelis, M (2017) Narratives of Human Trafficking: Ways of Seeing and Not Seeing the Real Survivors and Stories. Narrative Works, 7 (1). ISSN 1925-0622
De Angelis, M (2014) 'I thought I am Modern Slavery': Giving a Voice to Trafficked Women. British Journal of Community Justice, 12 (3). ISSN 1475-0279


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Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1767: Lewis and Clark
Posted on · Episode: 1767 Weighing the near and far wake of Lewis and Clark. Today, after Lewis and Clark.
Posted on · Episode: 1767 Weighing the near and far wake of Lewis and Clark. Today, after Lewis and Clark.
Posted on · The decision is a blow to the administration's efforts to scale back Obama-era regulations on the chemical industry
Posted on · A new version of an Obama-era rule keeps a requirement for companies to share emergency plans with local authorities, but allows flexibility on details that could pose security risks.
Posted on · The town saw some leave after the blast to start their lives over and has seen some return
Posted on · Episode: 1211 Theodore Roosevelt and the mad Marquis create Medora ND Today, we visit Medora, North Dakota.
Posted on · Officials believe it was intentionally set and called it a criminal act.
Posted on · Episode: 1148 1846: Origin of the Smithsonian Institution in a momentous year Today, let's talk about American expansion, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Posted on · Episode: 1107 In which we call ourselves engineers, for the last 200 years Today, we learn where engineers come from.
Posted on · So far, the Houston Rockets' West Coast road trip included a blow-out victory over the Lakers followed by an end to the team's 8-game win streak at Golden State. But Houston got back on the winning track with a 115-112 victory over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday night. CultureMap Houston sports writer MK Bower joins […]
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Posted on · At a memorial service on Thursday, President Obama and Texas officials honored those who were injured or died in the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion. "Today our prayers are with the families of all who we've lost — the proud sons and daughters of West whose memories will live on in our hearts," President Obama said.


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Center Stage Hershey Arts in Health
2019-2020 Arts Opportunities for Medical Students
The Practice of Art
Tours of the exhibits at the Susquehanna Art Museum for healthcare providers, medical students, and their guests. Professionally guided tours allow for new perspectives and reflection on the role of art in health and well-being. To register email email@example.com
October 23, November 13 & December 11:
WAR IS ONLY HALF THE STORY Ten Years of The Aftermath Project
Sara Terry is a documentary photographer and filmmaker, and a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, who began The Aftermath Project while working on her first post-conflict photography project, "Aftermath: Bosnia's Long Road to Peace". In a post-9/11 world, she wanted to encourage other photographers to concentrate on post-conflict storytelling
March 4 & April 8:
Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India
This exhibition features works from four major indigenous artistic traditions in India: the Gond and Warli communities of central India, the Mithila region of Bihar, and the narrative scroll painters of West Bengal. The exhibition features 47 exceptional paintings and drawings, selected from private collections in the United States and Europe, by 24 significant indigenous artists including Jangarh Singh Shyam, Jivya Soma Mashe, Sita Devi, and Swarna Chitrakar. The exhibition explores the breadth of cultural traditions in India, revealing a dynamic aesthetic that remains deeply rooted in traditional culture, yet vitally responsive to issues of global concern
Resiliency through Art Workshops
Join Center Stage staff to create an artistic piece to find relief from your busy schedule. Through art, we create community and promote wellness. All are welcome. No artistic talent needed. No need to register – we will have supplies on hand.
October 1 & November 5; more TBA for 2020
11:00am – 1:00pm (Drop In)
Dining Room B
For more information email email@example.com
The Visual and Tactile Arts in Medical Education (V-TAME) is a series of participatory arts workshops for our medical students. Professional teaching artists lead 2-hour art workshops designed for pleasure, reflection and community building. Sponsored by the Doctors Kienle Center.
Various Art Making Workshops:
September 25, October 8 & 17, December 4, January 8, March 5
6:00 – 8:00pm • T2500
To register email email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.com
Wild Onions
Wild Onions is an annual publication funded by the Department of Humanities, Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. It is a journal of poetry, prose, and visual art, created by members of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Community. Most entries will pertain to some dimension of medicine (for example, the experiences, observations, and reflections of patients, nurses, physicians, medical students, family members, hospital staff, volunteers, visitors, etc.). This year's theme is "The Voice Within Us." We invite submissions until Jan. 15.
For more information email email@example.com
In the Key of D
Concert and community dinner series for healthcare providers, medical students, faculty and staff. These performances by local and national professional musicians are sponsored by the Drs. Kienle Center for Humanistic Medicine and feature the Steinway D concert grand piano in Lecture Room D. Concert at 5:30 pm and dinner follows the performances.
Oct. 2:
Great Music Unplugged, email Kerry Royer for concert details
Nov. 19:
Maria Corley and Sarah Male, local professional musicians, piano and cello
Feb. 10:
Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz, email Kerry Royer for concert details
March 16:
Maria Corley, professional local pianist
April 27:
Great Music Unplugged, email Kerry Royer for concert details
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Lilium henryi
Pronunciation: Lill-ee-um hen-ree-eye
Family: Liliaceae
Common Name: Henry lily
Plant Type:
- perennial
USDA Hardiness Zones:
- -50 to -40ºF ZONE 2
- -30 to -40ºF ZONE 3
- -20 to -30ºF ZONE 4
- -10 to -20ºF ZONE 5
- 0 to -10ºF ZONE 6
- 10 to 0ºF ZONE 7
Pests and Diseases: Gray mold, viruses spread by aphids, red lily beetles, slugs, snails, deer, rabbits, voles, groundhogs
Propagation: Sow seed as soon as ripe in containers in a cold frame, or germinate indoors under lights at 65-70f in spring. Remove scales, offsets, or bulbets from dormant bulbs as soon as the foliage dies down or detatch stem bulbils (where these are produced) in late summer.
Notes for Identification: Single stalks bear broad, dark green, lanceolate leaves. Flowers are nodding, turk's cap blooms in clear orange with brown specks. Plant type: perennial plant form or habit: upright/vertical plant use: plant in groups in beds or borders. propagation: division light requirement: full sun flower color: orange bloom period: late summer height: minimum: 48 inches maximum: 72 inches width: minimum: 18 inches maximum: 72 inches foliage texture: medium usda hardiness zone: 2-7 water requirements: average additional comments: propagate from bulbils along the stems and bulblets. Prefers fertile, slightly alkaline soil. 'black beauty' is a hybrid cross between l. Henryi and l. Speciosum. Flowers are deep reddish-purple. Deer love to dig and eat lily bulbs.
USDA Heat Zones (days above 86ºF):
- Less then 1 day ZONE 1
- 1 to 7 days ZONE 2
- 7 to 14 days ZONE 3
- 14 to 30 days ZONE 4
- 30 to 45 days ZONE 5
- 45 to 60 days ZONE 6
- 60 to 90 days ZONE 7
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- Franklin Resources has agreed to pay a $5 million fine in connection with charges that it allowed market timing in a fund that prohibited the practice in its prospectus.
The state of Massachusetts said Franklin
Franklin Advisers and Franklin Templeton Alternative Strategies admitted that they allowed market timing, a violation of the Massachusetts Uniform Securities Act.
Market timing refers to rapid buying and selling of fund shares to exploit inefficiencies in mutual fund pricing. Though not illegal per se, many funds try to prevent it because it can hurt long-term shareholders.
The two Franklin units admitted in a consent order that in 2001 William Post, who was vice president of Franklin Templeton Alternative Strategies, entered into an agreement with Daniel Calugar, a "well-known" Las Vegas market timer, according to a statement from the office of the Massachusetts secretary of the commonwealth, William Galvin.
The pact allegedly allowed Calugar to move up to $45 million in and out of a Franklin Templeton mutual fund -- Franklin Small-Mid Cap Growth Fund
"This case was a blatant example of one rule for the ordinary investor but a different practice for a high roller," Galvin said in the statement.
Senior Franklin executives were aware of the arrangement, the statement added. In one e-mail, Philip Bensen, who was president of Franklin/Templeton Distributors at the time, said that Charles E. Johnson, a member of Franklin Resources' office of the president, "agreed to accept the client's money in various funds and a hedge fund."
Franklin said in a statement that while "Franklin Advisers and FTAS did not admit or deny engaging in any wrongdoing, the company believes that it is in the best interest of the company and its funds' shareholders to settle this issue now and move forward."
The market-timing privilege allegedly hinged on Calugar investing $10 million in the Franklin Templeton Hedge Fund. When Calugar invested the money in the hedge fund on Sept. 6, 2001, the investment represented about 80 percent of the fund's totals assets.
The consent order also bars the Franklin from paying the fine from insurance coverage or deducting it from taxes, the Massachusetts statement said.


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The provincial government is paving the way for ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft to set up shop in B.C. as early as next year.
The Ministry of Transportation unveiled Monday the Passenger Transportation Amendment Act — a piece of potential legislation intentionally devoid of words like "app," "ride-hailing" and "taxi."
"We've learned from other jurisdictions to get this right, so proper checks are in place," Transportation Minister Claire Trevena said, noting the delay in getting service in place is due to ICBC's development of an insurance product to cover drivers and protect passengers.
That process is underway and expected to be completed next year.
"Then it's a matter of how quickly the Passenger Transportation Board can move," Trevena said.
Under the legislation, B.C.'s Passenger Transportation Board would handle applications from potential "passenger-directed vehicle" operators in a manner similar to what is now used to license taxis.
The PTB will determine how many operators work in particular geographical areas.
The legislation also includes hefty hikes in fines for offenders operating in the ride-hailing market without proper licensing. What was once a $1,500 fine for an illegal operator now has a ceiling of $50,000 and companies could be dinged for up to $100,000.
Trevena said she expects to see applications filed soon.
Also included in the proposed legislation:
• The Passenger Transportation Board will have authority to determine rates charged to passengers, as well as the supply and operating area of vehicles operating under the authority of a licence authorizing transportation network services.
• The authority of municipal governments to limit supply or operating areas of passenger-directed vehicles that the board has approved will be restricted.
Local governments will still set vehicle type, taxi stand locations and local business-licence requirements.
• A new per-trip fee will cover a portion of costs to fund accessible taxis, as well as administrative costs of the Passenger Transportation Act. The existing industry would pay current fees for a fixed period before transitioning over to a new fee structure.
• All drivers of passenger-directed vehicles will be required to meet a provincial standard to be set by regulation for criminal and driver record checks by eliminating the need for taxi and future drivers to obtain a municipal chauffeur permit in each municipality.
According to the ministry, ride-hailing services could be in operation by the fall of 2019.