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Ending the 'war on drugs' requires justice for the impoverished communities who grow them
By Lauren Tapp, for Open Democracy
Amidst media furore over illicit drug use, Tory leadership favourite Boris Johnson dodged questions today over past drug use, whilst the wheels of Michael Gove's campaign for the premiership are careering to a halt. Eight of the eleven candidates have admitted to some form of drug consumption, from Hunt's cannabis infused lassi, to Rory Stewart's opium smoking in Iran.
Quite rightly, Gove has been taken to task for advocating policies which saw teachers banned from their profession for taking class A drugs while he was education secretary and for upholding a justice system which incarcerates people for up to seven years for the very behaviour he previously engaged in. Despite the political elite's refusal to deviate from the party line that prohibition is essential to create a 'drug free world', the evidence from around the world is clear - more people now produce, sell and consume illicit drugs than ever before.
Undoubtedly, the scandal has shone light on the hypocrisy of the so called 'war on drugs' in the United Kingdom, particularly, the highly racialised and class based dimensions of its application. It is clear this is not a war on illicit substances, but on racialised and working class people.
Yet the scope of drug policy discourse rarely turns to the people whose livelihoods depend on the production of plants which go on to be consumed by the political elite as illicit drugs. Indeed only Rory Stewart made passing reference to this when he referred to the communities he smoked with in Iran, saying "the family may have been so poor that they put very little opium into the pipe."
Despite the dominant narrative of the drugs trade painting a picture of assumed wealth, violence and organised crime, the majority of people involved tend to be poor and otherwise marginalised due to their race, gender, indigenous status and/or lack of formal land rights. The global commitment to prohibit drugs at all costs means that rural and indigenous communities involved in the cultivation of prohibited plants such as cannabis, coca leaf and opium poppy are routinely targets for repression and suffer from discrimination, stigmatisation, criminalisation, imprisonment, and the destruction of their livelihoods.


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First-person shooter Titanfall 2 is coming out on October 28 and a new single-player footage is here to excite us even more.
Thanks to YouTube Gaming, Trial by Fire mission now can be seen before the launch. While playing Titanfall 2, we will be able to control both the pilot and the Titans but Trial by Fire is a Titan-on-Titan mission. According to some reviews, Titanfall 2 will be beyond all expectations, even the best shooter of this year.
You can watch the video below. Enjoy!

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The Gift (United Kingdom, 15min)
Directed by: Andrew Griffin
Written by: Andrew Griffin
Davie McKay, Gary Lewis, Kate Dickie, Lorraine Stanley
A middle aged couple live out an uncommunicative, isolated existence in a house on remote wetlands. Childless, the wife is neurotically consumed with the rituals of IVF treatment, whilst the husband smokes cigarettes outside.
An uncommon visit from a neighbor unsettles the woman, alerting them to a missing pet, and after which the husband begins to find dead animals left on their step, which he then dismissively casts aside.
With the husband preparing to leave to work overnight, the wife is out collecting firewood and spies a vast stork nests atop a nearby pylon, harried by aggressive, swooping Rooks. That night, as the woman sleeps, the house is apparently visited upon by an apparition, rattling windows and beating at the door before all goes quiet. The woman tentatively opens the door, peering outside to no avail, until she notices something has been left for her on the step. It is the gift she has always wanted, but with it comes the question of where it came from, and with her returning husband come uncomfortable questions, divisions and tragic consequences.


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Anna Soubry , Member of Parliament for Broxtowe, will be holding a Drop-in "Meet the Team" surgery in Nuthall on Saturday 13th July.
Residents keen to raise any concerns they have about local or national issues can come along to Mornington Primary School between 11 and 1pm to meet their local Conservative team.
Speaking of the event, Anna said: "This will be my second 'Meet the Team' event, and will be a great opportunity for Nuthall residents to meet their MP in an informal setting.
There was a good turn out to our previous event and I hope to hold similar such Drop-in surgeries throughout Broxtowe in the coming months."


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A resource for posting process and finished art from two professional artists. Mike Lancette's self-published graphic novel, Master of the Edge, is available on IndyPlanet.us James Eric is a published Illustrator currently working as an artist, chalk board specialist and mural painter in St. Petersburg, FL. James will be vending at the Atlanta Soccer Con June 23rd. Check the links below for both artists Instagram accounts.
New Chalk Art at Zaytoon Grill
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Kerouac Night, New T-Shirt Design Contest
The Friend's of the Jack Kerouac House Charity have been gathering money for years and negotiating with members of the Kerouac estate to purchase and preserve the local St. Petersburg, FL house Jack lived in, which has stood practically untouched like a time capsule since his death in 1969. T-shirt sales are a big part of how this 501C-3 charity collects donations.
I will be hosting a design contest for fresh ideas on the traditional Kerouac shirt. The famous "mad ones" excerpt from the novel "On The Road" remains on the back. The front of the shirt is open for a redesign contest: two color design in Black and White, without the portrait of Kerouac, something that evokes his spirit, journey or unique style. Calling all artists to submit work either in person or via email ( email@example.com ) deadline is December 1st 2017. File types excepted are .png, .jpeg, .pdf, .psd and vector files. Dimensions 8.5 by 11 inches. Top three finalists will receive a prize for their efforts and compensation for the winning design, subject to final approval by the FOJKH Charity board. The new shirts should be available for purchase at the bar by the holidays.
Please help to spread the word about this shirt design contest to any artist you know of, both near and far. Jack Kerouac is a part of the often untold history of St. Pete, events like this one, run by a grassroots charity help to breathe new life into understanding the roles artist played in shaping the tradition of expression in this city. By looking backward we can appreciate the past more and illuminate what the future holds for the next generation of artists, writers and "mad ones."
SHINE Mural Festival 2017
Hopefully the announcement that SHINE will also be doing smaller paint projects on electrical boxes around downtown during and after the festival is intriguing. Where do artists apply to get in on the action? It would be fun to share in the joy of local artists getting a chance to paint their style onto a smaller canvas and beautify the city with art. Having seen the results in Decatur, GA of how gorgeous and thought-provoking art is when it covers everyday objects, trashcans, crosswalks, electrical boxes, even MARTA overpasses. Public art helps us connect with our surroundings and community, something we could all use more of.
Find more at their official IG and Twitter account @SHINEonstpete
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Always a joy doing lettering outside for the sidewalk sign on the 1600 block of Central Ave. Breathing in the scene, passersby, occasionally dodging rain and moving indoors. Nu-pastel brand chalks, pastel pencils and a ruler used in this piece. If you know someone who needs hand-done lettering for their menu boards, signage or beer list please email email@example.com as I am open to commissions.
Rowdies Fan Art Unvieled
The painting itself was produced by a local fan group, but the quality of design and the fan's positive reception of this unique banner is usually reserved for larger overseas clubs with a hundred plus years of history and support. Overall design and font are similar to a video game cover for Grand Theft Auto, with its own twist, soccer style, unique characters, and Rowdies color scheme.
Pardon my progress on the lack of posting in September as Hurricane Irma interrupted life. I evacuated the Tampa Bay area. Forever grateful for the little things as the localized damage could have been much worse considering others areas of Florida were harder hit, blessings are being counted. Thoughts and prayers with those in Texas and Puerto Rico still recovering.
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Eleven Things We Loved About Event Inception
Australian Technology Park (ATP) and Decorative Events and Exhibitions (DE&E) recently teamed up to host an amazing venue and supplier showcase for 300 event professionals. Together with some of Sydney's best caterers and suppliers, they created an elaborate event aimed at highlighting the latest in event styling and décor trends and inspiring guests to create sensational special events of their own.
For those of you who were unable to attend, here are eleven things we absolutely loved about the night (in no particular order):
1. The HOT entrance!
Who doesn't love walking up a red carpet, especially one lined with fire!? On arrival, as we walked up the red carpet towards ATP's towering archways, we felt like a star, but the thing that made it extra special was the blast of heat from the Howard & Sons Pyrotechnics firejets as we walked past.
With a yelp of delight (and shock), good first impressions were made and the temperature for the evening was set.
2. The format of the night!
Forget a standard sit down dinner or a long evening of endless canapes, the creators of Event Inception wanted to mix things up! ATP's Director of Sales and Marketing, Ruby Chronis, mooted the idea of a roving dinner experience and, with a little creative power from the rest of the team, voila! – three amazing pop up restaurants were created!
Decorative Events set up three very different 'rooms' behind luxurious floor to ceiling drapes. Within each unique event space a different caterer waited to serve guests entrée, main and dessert – the guests moving to a new location for each course. The anticipation ahead of each room reveal was electric!
3. The venue!
Australian Technology Park is one of Sydney's best venues – not only is it rich in history and architectural awesomeness, but the venue provides endless opportunities for creative event managers, both in terms of event style and size. With the help of countless metres of drapes from DE&E and AV1's clever lighting and production, ATP's Exhibition Halls felt intimate, impressive and immersive. Australian Technology Park is a blank canvas venue located minutes from Sydney's CBD and proved to be the perfect destination for this event.
4. The styling & décor!
We can't go any further down the list without highlighting the spectacular styling and décor showcased at the event. The team of stylists from Decorative Events and Exhibitions did a stellar job of creating an immersive experience for their guests. The DE&E team featured three different styling collections: 'Miss Antoinette's Masquerade', 'Jungle Funk' and 'Future Lines Collective'. The styling was detailed, in-depth and intoxicating – a fabulous example of how a client can create a unique environment without walls. The styling and décor certainly left us feeling inspired!
5. Lobster entree!
Yes, you heard it right – we were served lobster for entrée! Bayleaf Catering matched the luxurious Miss Antoinette's Masquerade room styling by serving Western Australian lobster with squid ink, baby elk, sautéed kale and saffron vanilla sauce, along with champagne from a crystal coupe (aka champagne saucer) – oh la la!
6. Beef cheeks with watermelon!
An unexpected, but super delicious combo – beef cheeks and watermelon – made up one element of Laissez-faire Catering's divine main course. The full dish – braised Wagyu beef cheek, frenched lamb cutlet, artichoke puree with potato croquette and pan juices – was served in the Jungle Funk room and was a roaring success!
7. Dessert…!
The dessert served to us in the Future Lines Collective was amazing! The Chocolate Salted Caramel Pretzel Marquise, Orange Curd and Ale Roasted Pear by The Fresh Collective was divine, delicious, delectable and just so damn good! Hats off to Executive Chef Geoff Haviland.
8. The Diamonds!
As soon as The Diamonds (a trio of gorgeous ladies in sparkly dresses singing pop and disco songs from famous divas of the 20th century) took to the stage, guests were hitting the dance floor! Produced by SMA Productions, these gals are sure to be booked out over the Christmas party season – we LOVED them! Other fabulous acts provided by SMA Productions included Miss Bird Sings and The Rat Pack's Back.
9. The waiters – they looked the part!
Even the fabulous wait staff from staffing agency, Clifford Wallace, were styled! Simple things such as sunglasses and lipstick on the waiters in the Future Lines Collective room, and jungle warrior face paint on waiters in the Jungle Funk room, ensured the theme was carried through the entire experience, rather than just the décor.
10. A pamper session!
After roving around the spectacular venue, sipping on delicious wines (provided by Angove Family Winemakers) and throwing some shapes on the dance floor, there was just enough time to fit in a pamper session with the lovely ladies from Pure Chica. Nothing like a buff of the nails, a spritz of perfume and a touch up of the hair mid-event to make you feel amazing.
11. Camera phones and hashtagging galore!
You know an event is going well when almost every single guest stops at the entrance to take a photo of the room. And then again when the meal is served. And then again when the entertainment starts…


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For the second day in a row, Jim Harbaugh has made an addition to his Michigan coaching staff.
Thursday, it was confirmed that Alabama wide receivers coach Josh Gattis had been named as U-M's offensive coordinator. Friday, U-M announced the addition of Anthony Campanile to Harbaugh's staff.
No specific title has been given to Campanile, who was referred to as "a defensive assistant coach" in the football program's press release.
"Anthony has a strong reputation for developing all-conference performers and future NFL players," said Harbaugh in a statement. "Our student-athletes will benefit greatly from his mentorship. Anthony is an excellent addition to our coaching staff and provides great flexibility with his experience working on both sides of the ball and at multiple positions. Michigan football looks forward to having Anthony, Tracey, and their children, Valentina and Serafina, join our University family."
Campanile spent the past three seasons as the defensive backs coach at Boston College. In his last season with the Eagles, he was given the additional title of co-defensive coordinator.
Prior to that, Campanile spent four seasons at Rutgers as tight ends coach and wide receivers coach.


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Machine Learning in Cybersecurity, Part 2: Specific Applications and Challenges
Spam detection, facial recognition, market segmentation, social network analysis, personalized product recommendations, self-driving cars – applications of machine learning (ML) are everywhere around us. Many security companies are adopting it as well, to solve security problems such as intrusion detection, malware analysis, and vulnerability prioritization. In fact, terms such as machine learning, artificial intelligence and deep learning get thrown around so much these days that you may be tempted to dismiss them as hype. In order to provide a framework for thinking about machine learning and security, in our recent webinar on Machine Learning in Cybersecurity, we covered the core concepts of machine learning, types of machine learning algorithms, the flowchart of a typical machine learning process, and went into the details of three specific security problems that are being successfully tackled with machine learning – spam detection, intrusion detection, and vulnerability prioritization. Finally, we covered some common challenges encountered when designing machine learning systems, as well as adversarial machine learning in specific.
In our last week's blog post, we outlined the first part of that webinar, without going into the three specific applications and the challenges. In this post, we complete the story by summarizing the remaining topics covered in the webinar – the three specific applications of ML to security problems and the challenges. For each of the three specific problems, we will describe the problem and the motivation behind it, possible ML approaches, and what the results have been so far. For more details, the webinar is available on demand here. For even more details, and implementation examples in Python, we highly recommend Machine Learning & Security book by Clarence Chio and David Freeman – many of the examples we used in the webinar and in these posts are discussed in more detail there.
Problem 1: Spam Detection
Spam detection is one of the oldest problems in security. Spam is defined as unsolicited bulk messaging, usually for the purpose of advertising or selling. It usually refers to email, even though it can similarly affect other ways of messaging. Even though it need not be malicious in nature, spam could include phishing or malware spreading. It is often dishonest, unethical, and fraudulent, and promotes products that offer little or no value. It is therefore important to differentiate legitimate messages from spam.
How big is the problem? Based on the most recent data from Talos Intelligence Group, about 85% of daily email volume can be attributed to spam!
Source: https://www.talosintelligence.com/reputation_center/email_rep.
Why aren't we seeing more spam in our inboxes? We do not see as much spam as the numbers coming from Talos would imply, because the spam detection problem has been successfully tackled with machine learning and nowadays most of these emails never make it all the way to our inboxes!
If we were tasked with the problem of identifying spam, we could start with simple filtering of keywords. For example, we could tag all messages that contain the expression 'make money' as spam. This would likely catch some spam messages, but it would not get us very far. We would need to add keywords to identify different types of spam, and as the attack tactics used by spammers are likely to evolve over time, it would be difficult to keep up. Even more concerning is that we'd likely end up with many false positives – messages that are not spam but get labeled as spam due to some of these keywords being mentioned. A much more promising approach is to use supervised machine learning to classify emails as spam or non-spam based on a large collection of labeled spam and non-spam messages by using features derived from both the email content itself (message text, subject, links and images included, etc.) and the metadata (information about the source, time the message is sent, etc.). This approach has been so successful that Google claimed to be able to detect 99.9% of spam way back in 2015. Today, your Gmail inbox is likely almost entirely spam-free and a legitimate message will rarely get classified as spam. These are performance levels that are not achievable via simple filters and rules. One of the main advantages of ML is that ML algorithms have the capability to utilize large number of features and automatically adapt over time.
Problem 2: Intrusion Detection
It should come as no surprise that breaches can be very costly to recover from, but what may be surprising is that 68% of data breaches stay undetected for months, according to the 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Intrusion detection systems (IDS) are one way to stay a step ahead of potential attackers. An intrusion detection system monitors the network traffic looking for suspicious activity, which could represent an attack or unauthorized access. Intrusion detection systems have been around since 1986, but as those data breach detection timelines would suggest, the problem is far from solved.
How would we approach this problem starting from the basics? Let's say there is a database we particularly care about. We may decide to monitor the number of requests to this database and set a threshold to raise alerts – for example, define an upper limit to the number of queries to this database in some time period. We immediately encounter issues such as:
- How do we set the threshold?
- Should some users be allowed a higher threshold than others?
- Could there be times when users legitimately need to access the database more often?
- Could an attacker exfiltrate data by taking over many accounts and sending an allowed number of requests from each one of them?
Some improvements to this static threshold-based detection could include using a dynamic moving average (or median) number of requests for the number of allowed queries, grouping users by roles, setting different thresholds or a combination of thresholds in different scenarios, etc.
Just like with this basic thresholding example, simplest IDS work based on defined signatures. Signatures are distinctive characteristics present in exploits of known vulnerabilities. As such, signature-based IDS are designed to detect known attacks but cannot identify previously unseen threats. Some IDS incorporate rules (expert systems) to identify attacks that are similar to previously encountered attacks. In fact, just as we could start with simple filtering of words in the problem of spam detection, using thresholds, heuristics and simple statistics can be a reliable way of detecting intrusions for known attacks or attacks that follow the same pattern as the previously encountered ones. New signatures must be created when new attacks are discovered and they must be imported to the system immediately. As such, these systems are not resistant to true zero-day attacks. However, a major improvement can be made by using a hybrid approach where the benefits of combined signature and rule-based detection are further aided by ML, this time in form of anomaly detection.
As we discussed in last week's post, anomaly detection aims to establish what the vast majority of data look like, and to identify any deviations from normal. An example method to detect anomalies would be time-series forecasting. For example, by looking at CPU utilization or number of requests over time, we may notice that these time series are linearly dependent on their own previous values and have observable trends, and methods like ARIMA (autoregressive integrated moving average) are likely to provide a good prediction of what future time-series should look like given what they looked like in the past. This prediction will come with a confidence interval, and anything outside of that confidence interval may then be labeled as an anomaly. More complex time-series data may require neural network applications to get reliable predictions. Forecasting methods work well when anomalies are contained in test data only, but not in the training data (novelty detection) and when the time series follow observable trends.
Anomaly-based IDS is able to detect zero-day attacks, but could also have a high false alarm rate dependent on the threshold for anomaly detection, which in turn may be very application-specific.
Problem 3: Vulnerability Prioritization
At the moment of writing of this post (April 3rd, 2019), there have been ≈ 110 000 vulnerabilities published (and assigned CVSS scores) in the National Vulnerability Database, with ≈ 34 000 of those having been disclosed since the beginning of 2017. The vulnerability spike could be explained by many factors such as an ever-expanding attack surface, companies being better at engaging with the security community, proliferation of many private and public bug bounty programs, etc. Given this sea of vulnerabilities documented in the NVD, a full scan of all of a company's assets may reveal hundreds of thousands, or even millions of vulnerabilities to address, as the numbers get scale by the number of assets and ports scanned.
Since remediation requires considerable efforts, prioritizing what to fix first becomes very important. The traditional way of using CVSS score to do this has been shown to be inadequate. CVSS base score is a measure of theoretical severity of a vulnerability (ease of exploitability and potential impact if exploited), but not a measure of the actual risk as it does not consider either the temporal evolution of the vulnerability (such as incorporation into malware) or the user context (asset value). In our 2018 State of Vulnerability Risk Management Report, we showed that prioritizing based on high or critical CVSS is neither an efficient nor a safe strategy due to two major issues:
- CVSS labels a large portion of vulnerabilities as high or critical severity, but very few are actually exploited in the wild and used in targeted attacks – about 38% of vulnerabilities score high or critical on the CVSS scale, but only about 2% have links to malware and exploit kits, and
- CVSS also fails to label as high or critical a large portion of vulnerabilities that do get weaponized – about 44% of vulnerabilities that have been historically linked to malware and exploit kits have CVSS base score that is medium or low.
To estimate the real risk, we need to compute the probability that a vulnerability will be associated with a threat – incorporated into malware (ransomware, remote access trojans, etc.) and exploit kits, or used in targeted attacks.
We have also found that factors beyond the CVSS base score, such as vulnerability age, type and number of vendors and product affected, language used in vulnerability descriptions, existence of exploits based on multiple threat feeds, and social media mentions, may be important in distinguishing those vulnerabilities that do not get associated with threats (and hence pose lower risk) from those that do.
Vulnerability prioritization can then be framed as a supervised classification problem: given historical vulnerabilities with some characteristics (such as the factors mentioned above) and labels ("not associated with a threat" vs. "associated with a threat") we would like to know the likelihood that a newly disclosed vulnerability will be associated with a threat. We can then train a supervised classification algorithm to predict threat association. We have found that the algorithm obtained this way performs way better (relative to CVSS) in both reducing the number of vulnerabilities to focus on by having fewer false positives, where vulnerabilities that will never get associated with a threat get labeled as such (issue 1 above), and fewer false negatives, where vulnerabilities get omitted from prioritization efforts but do end up getting weaponized (issue 2 above).
There are many challenges encountered when designing machine learning systems, some of which are:
- Biased, non-representative, or small data – Successful ML applications require large representative datasets. Sample bias occurs when the distribution of training data does not accurately reflect the actual environment that the machine learning model will be running in.
- Data integrity and/or label inaccuracy – Garbage in, garbage out. Algorithms assume clean representative data, and if this is not the case, we may be in trouble. At the end of the day, humans feed the data into ML systems and, rather than replacing human experts, ML should add value and efficiency. Humans decide what goes in and what they are trying to get out of ML algorithms. For example, in vulnerability prioritization, we place a high emphasis on the integrity of the data we use, making sure it comes from trusted sources and makes sense. Domain expertise is a crucial part of feature engineering.
- ML systems need to adapt to changing trends in the data – For example, a vulnerability prioritization model may need to be retrained continuously to account for the ever changing vulnerability landscape.
- ML systems need to be resource efficient and suitable for real-time applications.
- ML systems often need to be explainable – Why was an alert triggered? Why is the risk score what it is?
- Solutions to different problems may need to be optimized for different metrics – For example, false negatives in spam detection and false negatives in intrusion detection can have vastly different consequences: while a few undetected spam messages may be merely an annoyance, a failure to detect an intrusion could turn very costly.
- Not all problems can be instantly solved with ML.
Adversarial Machine Learning
Machine learning tools and advances are available not only to those looking to protect us from spam, intrusions, and exploits, but also to those on the opposite side of this battle – researchers have been warning us for a while now that attackers have begun to adopt machine learning techniques themselves. Some examples that have been seen "in the wild" include hacking tools making advantage of machine vision to defeat Captchas and spammers applying polymorphism techniques (changing the form without changing the meaning) to circumvent detection. Researchers have even shown that it is possible to use ML to craft more successful phishing messages based on personal data available on social media.
Another major concern is model poisoning – intentional introduction of misleading data. If attackers can figure out how an algorithm is set up, or where it draws its training data from, they may be able to figure out ways to introduce misleading data. ML systems need to be designed with security in mind!
Machine Learning & Security by Clarence Chio & David Freedman
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Hello Merck Veterinary Manual World! I'm excited to have joined the Vet Student Stories Blog as a contributor this summer! Hopefully, you'll see my posts around a bit this year, starting with, you guessed it, numero uno, right here!
You might wonder what exactly vet students do with their precious time off during summer break (if they are lucky enough—read between their 1st and 2nd or 2nd and 3rd year of school). As you might imagine, it involves sleep, and more sleep, and even more sleep. Lots of catching up on sleep. That is, until we realize just exactly what we have in front of us—almost three months of unlimited opportunity! Summer is the time to find what you love about veterinary medicine and go after it full force, hands-on, and in the thick of it. During the year, we don't get much in the way of extracurriculars, at least that relate to what we envision ourselves doing for a career. Sure, there are plenty of clubs and wet labs and student organizations, but, honestly, though we may be leaders and members and participants, our whole heart is not always there during the semester. Sometimes it's because we have a test the Monday after a weekend wet lab, sometimes we feel so overwhelmed during the week that we just want to go home and binge watch something that doesn't take our entire mental focus for a while, and sometimes, well, sometimes we are just dog tired, unmotivated, and not feeling very veterinary at all. Fear not, though, there are constant reminders of how amazing veterinary medicine can be even in the toughest of times, and especially during the summer.
This summer, I was lucky enough to be able to work as a student researcher in a veterinary pathology lab. Which means, among other things, I spent most days staring at slides on a microscope and coming home cross-eyed. But, for me, this opened yet another possible door in the ever-evolving field of veterinary medicine: pathology. Oh, pathology! Gross lesions (in more ways than one), miniscule findings (that make you jump for joy), beautiful stains and fluorescent colors…The great equalizer, pathology, the field in which you can examine any species or organ system. Have you figured me out yet? I think pathology is really cool. It also makes me appreciate the world of veterinary diagnostics and just how very much we know as veterinarians. When my lab mentor for the summer, a veterinary pathologist, and one of our second-year pathology professors race through slides pointing out the tiny things I have to look for twice (probably more like twenty times), I see a world of possibilities in this one discipline: parasites, bacterial diseases, viruses, protozoa, and the list goes on! But of course, as research all too often goes, this summer we saw almost everything BUT our target bacteria. The upside is that pathology is a discipline of short-term wins (cool lesions and microscopic techniques) that lead to long-term and incredibly important advances in the understanding of disease and baselines for the study of the mighty microbiome. There is almost never a down point, unless, that is, you see nothing at all. As my research experience comes to an end, I can move into the fall semester with a brand new appreciation for the work veterinarians are doing every day to improve our knowledge of animals, diseases, and how all these things relate to us and our world.


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Festival season starts Memorial Day weekend at Shawnee Mountain!
Kicking things into high gear the popular resort calls for all Irish, Scottish and Welsh clans to share in their annual plan for Shawnee Celtic Festival this year running May 26 & 27.
A long standing tradition of live music, delicious food, themed vendors and dedicated kid's activities continues as this, the first in a series of highly anticipated events, gets underway rain or shine from 11a.m. to 5p.m. both days.
Two stages are filled with virtually non-stop Celtic music, Irish step dancing and shows. Engage everyone in outdoor fun, from a Celtic farm petting zoo and face painting; to working sheep dogs.
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Galbijim – cool new site for foreigners in KoreaDecember 15th, 2005 . by Matt
David announces his new site ^^
Some of you may have noticed a new blogroll link to the Galbijim wiki in the last couple of weeks. In truth this wiki is part of a new site and is being fronted by well known foreign newspaper and media figure David MacLeod, and will become a great meeting place for foreigners to exchange views, seek work, and most of all, get valuable information about living in Korea. Because David has made this Wiki, it means that everyone is able to contribute their knowledge to it, and there is already a great deal of information on it.
David has some information that I want to share here on Occidentalism.
The Galbijim Wiki was started as part of the Galbijim.com site as a place to store all Korea- related information for expats in the country. Though Wikipedia has a certain amount of information on Korea, as an encyclopedia information too specific gets deleted. That means that you could write an article on a station on the subway for example, but not the small store outside exit 7. You could write an article on the Korean language, but not usage of the word 화이팅 (fighting). At the same time, other expat-related sites on the net have a lot of information but the majority has to either be gleaned from postings on bulletin boards, or it is contained on static sites that only get updated when the owner feels like it. The Galbijim Wiki, however, uses the exact same software that Wikipedia does, which means that any page can be edited by anyone. If you see a page that is too small, needs some work or is inaccurate, hit the edit button and write in the changes. Since the content isn't copyrighted to an individual you can copy it and use it wherever you want, and if you have pictures you want to upload that you don't care about the copyright too, you can do that too. You can even create or modify the Korean lessons on the wiki and upload sound files as well.
To give you an idea of exactly how varied the subject matter can be, take a look at these pages:
Lastly, facts are welcome while mere opinions are not. It is better to write "yy is a bar in xx town that is located in the centre of the city and has a large foreign clientele" than "yy is a sleazy club with loser expats" – the second sentence would just be deleted. If a bar *is* sleazy, however, you can mention the fact with something more objective like "yy is a popular bar in xx town, but avoided by many that consider it to be sleazy". Besides that, however, all content is welcome, you can ask questions on the wiki itself, and it does not bite. At present it has over 2100 articles and needs much, much more.
By the way, if you know about the old Korea Wiki, I was the one that started that but have since stopped. It's a free service and the server was way too slow, which is why we moved to the paid service we have now. This is its successor, and already ten times the size.
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If you're lucky enough to live near a studio that offers special events and workshops, take advantage of it! I've been to two special yoga events in the last two months at SunMoon studios in Mankato.
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In December, lightworker Amy Heilman visited to perform a cacao ceremony. As a group we slowly sipped the cacao drink, paying special attention to the taste of it, the feel of the cup in our hands, and meditating on the source of the drink — the sun that warmed the plant, the people who picked the plant, and its journey to here. We followed this with a vinyasa flow.
On January 18, I attended a vinyasa flow/meditation with background music provided by Kevin Paris. We set our intentions for 2018 and then practiced a calming, mindful vinyasa flow.
These type of special events stand out for the following reasons:
* A break in the routine. We go to our regular class, we teach our regular class, we work our regular jobs, etc. It's nice to attend a class at a different time with a different teacher.
* Open up new experiences. I would not think of signing up for a cacao ceremony on my own. I had no idea what to expect, and I'm glad I had the experience. Same with live music — I had never done a yoga flow with a musician in the room.
* Sense of community. Both of these events were sold out. I saw women whom I'd known for years because we'd been in yoga classes before. I saw women whom I'd only recently met. I saw new faces. You can feel the energy in the room when people gather in a place like this to meditate, set intentions, and practice yoga.
After both of these events, I felt a little drugged, yet energized. Thursday had been a long day for me — I started the day with teaching the 6 a.m. yoga class at Fitness for 10 and ended the day with another yoga practice. When I went to bed I was tired, yet I wasn't quite ready to settle down. When I did fall asleep, my sleep was deep and solid.
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The Mayor of Tokyo gave the United States of America the young plant of the cherry tree in those days for several years from 1909. It was the opening of the American dogwood in Japan that it was given Tokyo City as the return favor in 1915 by the U.S.A. and became famous as a tree of Japan and the United States friendship. This flower of the spring is very beautiful, but also the autumn colored leaves and fruit are beautiful also. This flower word is "Please accept my thought"
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We spend a vast percentage of our lives at work, so it makes perfect sense to try and ensure that we look after our health as much as possible whilst doing our jobs. If you work in an office the chances are that you suffer from some sort of muscle pain, especially in your back area. Workers also snack a lot more than they normally would do at home. After all, if you are in the midst of a hectic working day there isn't always time to sit down and eat a wholesome meal. This does not add up to a particularly healthy lifestyle. However, there are a few things that you can do in order to improve your health whilst at work, so here are our top five tips.
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Statistics show that from 2010 to 2011 approximately 26.4 million working days were lost at work due to ill health, and that stress and back pain were two of the biggest culprits for people to be absent from their jobs. Finding a comfortable chair which gives your back the right type of support is a simple method of helping to ease your back pain. A lot of modern office furniture is designed to give greater support to your spine. Talk to your bosses about updating your executive office furniture to ensure that every member of staff has access to properly designed chairs and desks.
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Many workers complain of suffering from repetitive strain injuries (RSI) whilst at work. RSI is often caused by doing a particular activity on a repetitive basis for a long period of time, and mainly affects people who work with computers or manual workers. RSI can be incredibly painful and usually affects upper body parts such as the elbow, wrist, shoulders and neck. Taking short breaks on a regular basis will give your muscles a chance to relax and ease the tension on your body. This will help to boost your productivity and concentration levels when you return to your tasks after the short break.
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Saturday, December 14th, 10 am – 4 pm. $150, ALL SUPPLIES PROVIDED.
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Payment is required at the time of registration. Cancellation policy: $130 returned if cancelled by 12:00 pm on Wednesday, December 11th. Please add your child's name and age at the time of registering, as well as your contact phone number.
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Coming up: Pixies @ Budapest Park, 1 September 2021
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We've been waiting for this for more than three decades! Pixies, that reunited in 2004, released their latest album called Beneath the Eyrie in 2019.
The legendary band, who influenced the underground guitar scene for decades, is coming with a new material and era-defining hits (like Where Is My Mind? which became popular as the soundtrack of cult film Fight Club) for the first time ever to Hungary – they're playing on 2nd September at Budapest Park.
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THE BLOODLINE, the Chicago-based metal band featuring members of BROKEN HOPE and DIVINE HERESY, has made a new song, "Midnight", available for streaming and free download at this location. The track was produced by Joel Wanasek and THE BLOODLINE and was enginered by Scott Creekmore at Mercenary Studios. It was mixed and mastered by Joel Wanasek at JTW Studios.
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A Monthly Blog Post?
As you know, I have been working hard to get my second book "A Few Drops of Fantasy" out by August 1st. In addition, I am trying to keep up with my author blog and mommy blog (found here). After the release date of "A Few Drops of Fantasy" I will be working to revise and edit Part 2 of the first volume of N.A.V.S.A., the sequel to "The Recruit", followed by the first part of volume 2, the Michael Henson Saga, "My Transformation".
I have found that keeping up with my real life responsibilities, keeping up with my two blogs and also trying to launch my career as an indie author is too much. This is why I have decided to update this blog only once a month, every 15th day.
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Robots! We love 'em. In real life and especially in pop culture. Join us as we talk all things robot, droid, cyborg, and AI, from lovable WALL-E to the not-so-lovable T-800. Beep boop.
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May 11, 2017
Hey guys! Today we marvel (heh) at Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2, sharing our positive vibes and nitpicking a few tired tropes. We also play Gender Swap, casting a gender-swapped version of Guardians as well as swapping Sherlock and the Avengers!
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Some 30 Chinese government officials broke into a Christian church in Guangzhou, Guangdong, and heavily fined the house of worship for illegally gathering, the pastor who was arrested during his sermon said.
"20-30 government officials broke in (to Bible Reformed Church) while I was delivering my sermon and asked us to stop gathering. They also ordered us to submit our ID cards," Pastor Huang Xiaoning told ChinaAid, describing the June 10 incident.
Huang and three other Christians were taken by police and interrogated for hours, after which the church was fined the equivalent of $7,685.45 USD for holding religious activities.
Communist authorities are arguing that the building used for worship violated Article 41 of the Regulations on Religious Affairs, namely that it was not registered with the state.
The pastor vowed to fight the fine and the crackdown on his church, saying he will take legal action "in order to become witnesses on God's behalf."
"I've been a pastor for nearly 20 years," Huang explained.
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08: Just hold Me (Soft) – Tiziana Rivale
09: Believe Me – Fred Ventura
10: Goodbye – Aldo Lesini
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12: Don't stop the Music – Siberian Heat
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DC Shorts Returns to Celebrate the Art of Short Film - The Apartments at CityCenter
The DC Shorts Film Festival is Washington, DC's only film festival dedicated to showcasing and discussing short films from around the world. The lineup covers a variety of genres: dramas, comedies, animation, sci-fi, documentaries, and creative experimental films. All films are 20 minutes or less. The DC Shorts Film Festival includes 131 films and 6 screenplays from 33 countries. The 11-day event will include film screenings of shorts in every conceivable genre and style, Q&As, filmmaker workshops and parties.
Joe Bilancio, Director of Programming for the DC Shorts Film Festival and Associate Programmer Derek Horne viewed 1,368 submissions for this year's festival, culling the final number down to 131. Bilancio bemoans that they could have added another few hundred to that final tally. "There's literally at least another 200 films that were so good, you're almost crying that you can't screen them," he says. Special this year is the amount of films that have been critically acclaimed at other festivals around the world including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, Telluride, Toronto, Berlin, and Cannes and are making their DC premiere.
The DC Shorts Film Festival runs Sept. 8 to 18 at various locales throughout the city (though most of the Showcases are at the Landmark E Street Cinema). Tickets are $12 to $15 with all-access passes available for $125. Seventy-five of the shorts are available for online viewing for $30. http://festival.dcshorts.com


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Cramps, The – Real Men's Guts Versus The Smell Of Female Vol. 2
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Live at the Peppermint Lounge, New York City on Saturday, 26 February 1983. Full show from the second night of the legendary "Smell Of Female" recordings.
Track listing
A1 Love Me
A2 I Ain't Nuthin' But A Gorehound
A3 New Kind Of Kick
A4 Goo Goo Muck
A5 Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill"
A6 Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White
A7 You Got Good Taste
A8 Thee Most Exalted Potentate Of Love
B1 Call Of The Wighat
B2 Weekend On Mars
B3 TV Set
B4 Sunglasses After Dark
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Recent research has reinforced ideas that frontier technologies such as AI will boost job security rather than threaten it.
The report, Tech for Good: Smoothing disruption, improving well-being, by McKinsey looks to the elements that contribute to well-being as a whole. It draws out job security – alongside factors including education and health – as being an area where emerging tech will likely have a significant positive effect.
As we will see, businesses and governments need to manage developments in a proactive and careful way for this to happen. But the research may well help allay fears among workers that technology is putting their jobs at risk – a trend we have seen occurring in the marketing industry (see Is martech a threat to marketing jobs?).
Let's take a look at McKinsey's latest data from the business/jobs perspective.
According to McKinsey, well-being as a whole is dependent on ten factors
Tech for Good cites six of these: material living standards, education, health, equal opportunities, environmental sustainability, and job security as being likely to be impacted by technology.
The report also identifies the technologies that will have the biggest impact in these areas:
Data and AI
Connectivity and Platforms
Job change in the new tech age
As the report highlights, new technologies will cause job displacement. It will cause job creation. But perhaps the most significant impact is the degree to which it will bring about job change.
McKinsey estimates: 'that about 75 million people worldwide will need to switch occupations by 2030 in the event that automation takes hold at a pace in the middle of our range of adoption scenarios.'
'If the speed of adoption is faster, at the top end of our range, it could affect up to 375 million people, or about 14 percent of the global workforce,' the report states.
Social, emotional and technological skills among workers will need to change also. The report found that two-thirds of firms it asked believe that at least 25 percent of their workforce will need to be retrained or replaced in the next five years.
And with this changing workforce, workplaces will need to adapt too.
Impacts by specific technologies
In the briefing which accompanies the report, the authors cite a number of instances where the aforementioned key technologies are already having an observable positive impact. They are:
AI: 'AI augmentation complements employee skills—eg, in frontline customer-service roles.'
Connectivity and Platforms: 'Career orientation and job-matching systems can reduce job-search times by 40–50%.' 'Digital cloud-based work spaces complement geographic mobility.'
Robotics: 'Robotics helps to shift human labor to higher-value work—eg, from data gathering to data interpretation.'
Route maps for business leaders
Business leaders (alongside governments and individuals) have a clear part to play in ensuring new technologies have a positive effect on the job security and, ultimately, well-being of tomorrow's workforce.
Tech for Good advises that businesses focus on proactive management of transition, as well as innovation and augmentation to ensure job change is frictionless and job creation outweighs job displacement.
'Companies will need to embrace Tech for Good tools,' the report states. 'Retraining workers will enable them to fill a growing skills gap. Accelerating product innovation will open new markets and create new jobs. Higher job satisfaction and safety will improve profitability. And addressing societal issues head on will improve the trust and stability needed for sustainable consumption and economic growth that will ultimately benefit business, too.'
The report highlights three paths forward for companies. In as brief a way as possible, CEOs and business leaders firstly need to understand that being proactive in the adoption of new technologies is crucial to their own success tomorrow, as well as being beneficial to society at large.
Secondly, frontier tech such as AI and automation need to be a core part of digital transformation and reinvention plans.
And thirdly, there needs to be a spirit of collaboration across stakeholders in business and the public sector. Education, research and development, healthcare and a two-way conversation between these groups is fundamental to achieving the Tech For Better Lives goal.
Tech for Good is a fascinating read and I have really only scraped the surface here. Well-being isn't entirely dependent on job security, but job loss and unemployment have highly negative effects on individuals and during times of significant change it is easy to understand why fears of these risks can grow.
The report also sheds light on just how interconnected job security is with other well-being factors such as opportunities, living standards and health.
According to McKinsey, we are potentially on the cusp of a fundamentally better standard of living and working thanks to frontier technologies. This is in part due to the jobs they will create, but more significantly thanks to the change they will bring about leading to higher-value occupations and more work that is augmented by AI.
Whether this period will be as frictionless as we hope remains to be seen, but the report does point to the important role business leaders have in guiding this change. One hopes that with the right understanding, the correct strategy and the spirit of collaboration, we can ensure that tomorrow's tech-enabled workplace is an arena of innovation, augmentation, and one that is proactive.
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John Beasley's MONK'estra Vol. 2 was recently in session at United Recording in Hollywood with conductor/arranger Beasley and co-producers Gavin Lurssen and Ran Pink. Vol.1, which was released in August 2016, has been nominated for two 2017 Grammys: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album and Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Capella on "Ask Me Now".
Jazz recording artist Kari Kirkland has teamed up with four-time Grammy nominee Shelly Berg and multi-Grammy winner and 2010 "Producer of the Year" Gregg Field to cut a new EP at the iconic United Recording in Hollywood. Kirkland, Field and Berg were joined by guitarist Dean Parks and bassist Kevin Axt for the new album, which will be released early summer.
"When you've produced your masterpiece in the studio, and recorded it impeccably, sweetened it with overdubs and mixed it to perfection, there is only one final step before manufacturing and distribution: mastering. This is when your work is finalized so that it sounds the very best to the listener. Mastering needs the latest technology and a gifted engineer to deliver the best music possible," explained Steven Miller, United's Executive Consultant on the new mastering studio.
Virtually All Formats Supported for Superlative Restoration - United Recording has launched its new archiving division, it was announced by Studio Manager Robin Goodchild. United was founded in 1957 by recording engineer, Studio Designer and Electronics Inventor Bill Putnam and expert archiving is a key element of the studio's heritage. United's new suite is perhaps the most complete, purpose-built archiving studio today, a secure, climate-controlled suite that features such attention to detail as a specially built anti-static floor to prevent any electrical mishaps. A full-time dedicated maintenance staff means the gear is well cared for and running correctly at all times.
Hollywood, CA, September 2016 – Popular indie rock band Local Natives recorded the enchanting "Sea of Years" for their third album, "Sunlit Youth," at United Recording. Based in the Silverlake arts community, the band created the new album while touring and traveling, and stopped in at United's venerable Studio B for the track.
Superlative singer-songwriter and fiddler Sara Watkins recorded tracks at United Recording for her new album "Young In All the Wrong Ways," due out July 1 on New West Records.
Iggy Pop and Josh Homme began secretly working on the new album "Post Pop Depression" in early 2015 and recorded brass and strings at United Recording studios last April. The clandestine Pop and Homme self-financed recording was without a record label at the time and with no outside influences on the project. "Post Pop Depression" debuted at number 17 on the Billboard 200, making the album Iggy Pop's highest charting in the US. The tour in support of the Loma Vista Recordings album began March 28 in Seattle, WA and runs through May 15 at Le Grand Rex in Paris, France.
"The Last Shadow Puppets were looking for an iconic sound for their new record," commented Grammy Award-winning engineer/mixer/producer Ross Hogarth. "Producer James Ford and masterful string arranger Owen Pallett desired sonic landscapes harkening back to 60s and 70s retro with some avant garde thrown in. A studio like United Studio B has such a definable sound with the addition of its live chambers and echo plates. It gives an engineer the raw tools to deliver that vision to a project like this. I was extremely impressed with the depth of feel and musical intuition that Miles (Kane), Alex (Turner) and James (Ford) have as writers and artists.
Much-admired singer/songwriter Rachel Goodrich is tracking her new album with co-producer and engineer Matt "Linny" Linesch at United Recording Studios in Hollywood. Linesch has been operating for two years out of his personal studio at the United facilities. For the new Goodrich project, he is tracking analog to an Ampex 16-track tape machine in United's adjacent Studio B.
British-born, Nashville-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Karen Elson has recorded tracks at United Recording for her forthcoming sophomore album. Producer Jonathan Wilson helms the project with recording engineer Bryce Gonzales and featured musician Pat Sansone (Wilco, The Autumn Defense).


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Sample the world-famous Belgian chocolate in Brussels, try award-winning Dutch wines in Limburg, and enjoy a visit to the colourful Keukenhof Gardens on this springtime cruise along Holland and Belgium's waterways, accompanied by guest speaker John Ducker. Includes return flights from London Heathrow or rail journey from St Pancras, complimentary drinks on board and guided shore excursions
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Experience the best of Dutch and Belgian cuisine as you cruise the region's beautiful network of waterways on this tulip time cruise, which includes a visit to the famous Keukenhof Gardens.
Discover the medieval heart of Antwerp, known as the 'Diamond Capital of the World'. See the stunning Renaissance Town Hall, Market Square and Gothic Cathedral of Our Lady, before cruising to Brussels. The city's Art Deco facades and regal 19th-century mansions contrast with the beautiful medieval core. During your time in Belgium's capital, try some chocolates, created by one of the master chocolatiers.
Take a stroll through Maastricht, one of Holland's oldest cities, before travelling to the vineyards which grace the slopes of the Limburg Hills. Meet the Bollen family and sample some of their award-winning red and white wines, before returning to the ship and cruising to Cuijk, your gateway to the village of Nuenen where Vincent van Gogh created over a quarter of his works of art.
Gouda is renowned for its cheese and a visit to the Cheese and Craft Museum reveals how the cheese is made and how it has been traded for centuries. Your final day is spent at the world-famous Keukenhof Gardens, over 70 acres of gardens and parkland. Admire the spectacular displays of flowers in full bloom, including tulips, daffodils, roses and lillies.
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Fly from London Heathrow to Brussels or travel by rail from St Pancras to Brussels, then transfer to Antwerp, where you'll embark your ship.
Spend the day in Antwerp, known as the 'Diamond Capital of the World'. A guided tour takes you to the city's medieval heart to see the Renaissance Town Hall, Market Square and Brabo Fountain, not forgetting the Gothic Cathedral of Our Lady. Amer lunch, head to the printing office and house of the Plantin Moretus family for a unique insight into this influential publishing dynasty.
Belgium's capital, Brussels, offers a fascinating mix of architecture, from Art Deco facades to 19th-century mansions and medieval buildings. It is also renowned for its chocolate making and your tour concludes with a tasting of chocolate created by one of the master chocolatiers.
Maastricht is one of the oldest cities in Holland which you will explore on a stroll. Until the late 19th-century, Maastricht was a fortified city with strong walls and bunkers. Churches and merchant houses blend seamlessly with a range of architectural styles. Just outside of the city, many vineyards grace the slopes of the Limburg hills. Some were planted in Roman times. Sample award-winning red and white wines from the lime-rich soil.
Visit the Van Gogh village of Nuenen to learn about how the artists lived and worked. During the two years that he returned to Nuenen to live with his parents, he created over one quarter of his total works. Spend the afternoon cruising the Dutch waterways to Schoonhoven.
Gouda cheese is one of Holland's biggest exports. Today 60% of Dutch cheese is produced in the region which surrounds Gouda, known as Cheese Valley. The Cheese and Craft Museum documents how the cheese is made and how the products have been traded for centuries. A walking tour of Gouda's historic centre takes in monuments including Sint Janskerk, the longest church in Holland and renowned for its Gouda windows. Another highlight is the old City Hall.
Enjoy a visit to Keukenhof Gardens to see the blooming tulips and other colourful flowers. The gardens encompass over 70 acres of gardens and parkland. Take in the incredible displays of over seven million bulbs in bloom, as well as the shimmering lakes and water gardens.
Disembark the ship and transfer to the airport of Brussels railway station for your return journey to the UK.
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Sunday, November 22, 2009
64 Days...
It's hard to complain when you wake up Sunday morning with the sun streaming through two French doors that open onto a patio above a quiet Parisian street. I could get used to this! We all enjoyed a top-notch brunch at home, complete with fresh croissants, pain au chocolat, other pastries I cannot pronounce, various baguettes, jams, orange marmalade, different types of thick, crystallized honey, slow cooked scrambled eggs, clementines, homemade apple puree, stewed rhubarb, coconut macaroons, apple juice, orange juice, and coffee.
I love how you can walk downstairs to a local baker and pick up bags of baked masterpieces in minutes! I took some mental notes on all the different pastry variations, and memorized the coconut macaroon recipe. I'll try to recreate that brunch someday!
Within the blink of an eye, I had to reluctantly head back to the airport. With any luck, I'll be back. You can be sure of that.
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Halle Berry's TV Show Promo Is Frustratingly Vague
I get that this teaser is supposed to be all vague and make me want to see more of the series, but in all seriousness, I just don't get it. If I wanted to know the definition of the word "extant," I'd probably Google it, or, at the very least, I'd pick up a dictionary. I certainly wouldn't watch a new teaser for a CBS show called Extant — but for some reason, CBS thinks I would, because that is pretty much a perfect description of the teaser they've just released for this show.
Despite this misstep, though, Extant is worth paying attention to — if only for the fact that it will star Halle Berry, the latest film star to make the big transition to television (after Kevin Spacey in House of Cards, William H. Macy in Shameless, Lucy Liu in Elementary, and Don Cheadle in House of Lies, to name a few). As previously reported, the show will center on Berry's character, a female astronaut, who returns from a mission in space, "only to watch her work above Earth change the lives of everyone in the world." So, like a continuation of Gravity? Kind of?
Anyway, you can check out the promo below. Since the show's on CBS, it's probably gonna be a hit, so it's probably best to get acquainted with it now.
Extant will premiere on CBS this summer.


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Yoram Yasur Izz: How to gain light in spaces without windows
We all dream of a large home in which a lot of natural light enters our windows each morning to make us start the day in a better mood, and yet the reality is often very different: many of us must settle for floors in one or more of the rooms (bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, etc.) do not even have windows.
If you have ever wondered how to gain light in spaces without windows you have to know that this may not be an easy matter to solve, but without a doubt there are many ways to maximize your possibilities.
The importance of good lighting
Yoram Yasur Izz: In order to gain light in spaces without windows it is essential that you take into account the lighting that this space receives. It must be very well thought out and is that the space will not have natural light or a single 24 hours a day.
In this sense, we advise you to adapt a good system of general light in the ceiling with one or more focal points (depending on the dimensions of the space) and to establish other secondary points of light in specific places: on the bedside tables, next to the sofa in the living room, on the dining table, on the bathroom mirror, in the extractor hood of the kitchen, etc. In small spaces also avoid hanging lamps, because those fixed to the ceiling will better expand the light in the room.
The color, an essential element to gain light
Yoram Yasur Izz: Another of the basic points to be able to gain light in spaces without windows is that we take into account the colors with which we dress this room. Surely you are already aware of the influence and visual effect of colors in space, although it is worth remembering that light tones will favor the expansion of light (natural or artificial) while dark colors will achieve the opposite.
If you want to use both ranges, we recommend you opt for the clear and neutral for the largest surfaces (walls, furniture, etc.) and give the touch of color in secondary furniture and elements for decoration.
Transparent structures
Yoram Yasur Izz: The furniture, ornaments and even walls and walls of plastic or glass are not only the most modern for decoration but also let light penetrate to all corners. Some good ideas are the handles in transparent glass, the glass walls of paves or the transparent plastic chairs (with or without color). To finish, one last piece of advice: take the opportunity to place mirrors on the walls of some of your rooms, as they are not


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Hey everybody, Happy Wednesday.
My morning was so great as I was invited to Dublin Zoo to be apart of The National Confectionery Company's Launch of their new Zoo Pack sweets called 'Dublin Zoo Friends'.
This packet of jellies are full of different zoo animals like tigers, giraffes penguins and more. They are so delicious. We got to take some sweets to try out.
Another campaign that was launching today was the 'Zoo Cam campaign' which is a national television advertising campaign that will show case exclusive Dublin Zoo elephant footage throughout the summer. TNCC will be sharing footage of the elephants in Dublin zoo on their Facebook page and will be encouraging visitors at the zoo to take their own 'Elfie' (selfie with elephant) to be in with the chance to feature in one of their television advertisements at the end of the summer. 👍🏻🐘
The group of us that we're there this morning got to go out to see all of the the elephants. I took some photos for you's to see! 😝
Dublin Zoo is such a nice place. The zoo keepers were full of knowledge and brilliant with all the kids! I will have to take a visit back during the summer.
Check out The National Confectionery Company out on Facebook and Twitter here. Follow Dublin Zoo on Twitter here too.
Thanks to Victoria & Suzy from The National Confectionery Company for having me.