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Registration is now open for fall music lessons and classes at the NIU Community School of the Arts. Children and adults of all ages will find something perfect: The CSA offers year-round programming for more than 500 students who come to DeKalbRead more
African Student Alliance needs volunteers for concert
NIU's African Student Alliance will greet Huskies for the fall semester with a Welcome Week Concert scheduled Friday, Aug. 26. Musicians, bands and event crew volunteers are asked to sign up to be part of the concert. Organizations are encouraged to helpRead more
WNIJ announces new local, award-winning national programs
WNIJ-89.5 FM presents local and national programs as part of its continuing effort to bring a variety of quality and relevant radio to northern Illinois. Beginning Monday, Aug. 1, the station will launch a new schedule of programming designed in accordance withRead more
Registration due June 6 for summer music classes for children
Register now for summer music classes for kids at the NIU Community School of the Arts! Prelude and Development classes meet June 25 through Aug. 6, with no class meeting July 2. A parent or caregiver attends every class with their child.Read more
Spotlight on faculty: Cheng-Hou Lee
For musicians, perfecting their craft is a lifelong symphony. Those best prepared to hit the right notes are dedicated, lifelong learners. Cheng-Hou Lee, associate professor in the NIU School of Music, sets the stage for his students' success. "I tailor what IRead more
Renowned violinist to teach summer master class at NIU Community School
The NIU Community School of the Arts will welcome international concert violinist Rachel Barton Pine will teach the annual master class at this summer's Advanced String Quartet Workshop. "An exciting, boundary-defying performer – Pine displays a power and confidence that puts herRead more
Spoken word artist, activist Stephanie Camba to speak April 26
Spoken word artist and activist Stephanie Camba will present "Home in Poems" at 5 p.m. Tuesday, April 26, in the Duke Ellington Ballroom of the Holmes Student Center. The event is sponsored by PLUSH (Promoting Leadership through Unconditional SisterHood) and the AsianRead more
Community School of the Arts plans spring recitals, concerts
The NIU Community School of the Arts has announced the schedule for spring recitals and concerts. Solo and ensemble performances are featured in April and May on the stage of the Recital Hall and Concert Hall in the NIU Music Building. AllRead more
Registration open for Summer in the Arts at Northern 2016
Theater, visual arts and instrumental jazz are on the summer camp agenda at NIU this summer. At Summer in the Arts at Northern residential camps for junior high and high school students, campers work and live with NIU faculty, alumni, and students,Read more
New NIU Jazz Ensemble to perform March 31, April 5
The New NIU Jazz Ensemble, formerly known as the NIU Jazz Lab Band, directed by Rodrigo Villanueva, is booked to perform this week at the House Café in DeKalb and next week at the legendary Jazz Showcase in Chicago. Shows at theRead more
World Music Festival begins April 7
NIU's 2016 World Music Festival is approaching. The NIU Middle Eastern Music Ensemble, directed by Omar al Musfi and guest artist Issa Bolous, will kick off this year's festival at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in the NIU School of Music's RecitalRead more
NIU choirs host Minneapolis composer for world premiere
American composer Timothy Takach is in residence at the NIU School of Music Choral Department for the next three days. During his residency, Takach will present an all-school convocation to talk about entrepreneurship as professional musician, meet with students in conducting classes,Read more

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By Yash Thakur. Posted on March 18, 2015
Yesterday, Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival announced its full line-up for the upcoming 22nd edition at a press conference in Toronto. From over 2500 film submissions, this year's slate will present 210 titles from 45 countries in 12 screening programs.
Hot Docs, which in 2014 featured a 'Made in' Denmark program – is shifting its focus this year to South Asian docs with 'Made in India' Program, featuring Spandan Banerjee's English India; Parvez Sharma's A Sinner In Mecca, Anuj Adlakha & Farha Alam's The Superstars Of Koti, Samarth Dixit & Jessica Sadana's 'Journey With Prabhat' and Saumyananda Sahi's 'Small Things, Big Things'.
Furthermore, continuing it's festival run, Abhay Kumar's spine chilling documentary Placebo too will feature at the renowned festival. The festival will also showcase three short documentaries along with these. These include Hana Kitasei & Shriya Pilgaonkar's 'Panchgavya', Pritha Chakraborty's 'Silent Voices' and Udita Bhargava's 'Imraan, C/O Carrom Club'
"This year's festival takes us around the world, showcasing stories from 45 different countries and the best in Canadian filmmaking," says Hot Docs director of programming Charlotte Cook. "Through even more live and interactive experiences we have more ways than ever for the audience to be a part of the Festival. Bringing this exceptional work to Toronto is a huge honour and we can't wait to join the filmmakers in sharing their work with our incredible audience" Cook added.
English India, which comes from Spandan Bannerjee (who is closely associated with rock band Indian Ocean), tells the tale of a country coming to terms with its own identity as it shakes off the weight of its colonial past with the main focus on language. Spandan's last outing To Let won the best long documentary award at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Kerala.
A Sinner In Mecca, directed by Parvez Sharma, is a powerful personal essay on a gay Muslim's inner-most struggles. The New York-based Indian writer and documentary filmmaker is best known for the 2007 film A Jihad for Love which documented the lives of gay and lesbian Muslims, and for which he received the 2009 GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.
Superstars Of Koti ( A debut feature by 20 somethings Farha Alam and Anuj Adlakha) is an intriguing story surrounding deitydom and three children in the mountainous village of Koti. The three adolescents are a witness to identity crisis, crashing and reinstating age-old hierarchies.
According to Kathleen Mullen of Hot Docs, Small Things, Big Things is;
"A diaristic love letter to the benefits of a school that listens to what childhood can be. Director Saumyananda Sahi, who himself went to Sita School until he was 11 years old, gently observes the activities of the students and teachers for one year. As they express their experiences and memories, whether through puppet theatre or a time capsule buried for the future, the children's personalities shine through as they interact daily with their peers and teachers."
Similarly Amira Abdellahi, while profiling Journey With Prabhat states;
"Mixing archival photos, film clips and personal testimonies from industry veterans, Journey with Prabhat is a tender ode to the art of cinema, proving India's roots run deeper than Bollywood."
Slient Voices is the story of three sisters with major musical aspirations give up their dreams, bowing instead to the traditional demands of starting a family. Directed by Pritha Chakraborty it is 26 minutes long.
Panchgavya is an eye-opening look at the dichotomy that exists between human behaviour and belief. It lays bare the hypocrisy that exists in the Hindu society with regards to the worship of cows on the one hand and their treatment on the other.
Imraan, C/o Carrom Club screened at multiple festivals last year. Directed by Udita Bhargava it is the story of Imraan who works at a carrom club in the slums of Mumbai. Other notable screenings also include Indian-Canadian filmmaker Rama Rau's high profile documentary No Place To Hide: The Rehtaeh Parsons Story- an alarming account of the effects of cyber-bullying and Florian Heinzen-Ziob and Georg Heinzen's Original Copy- a delightful ode to Mumbai's last one-of-a-kind film poster painter.
Hot Docs will run from April 23-May 3, 2015. To see the full line up, click here.


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'City of Bones' coming to theaters on August 23, 2013
According to ScreenRant, Sony Pictures has set a U.S. release date of August 23, 2013, for The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones.
We now know (via Box Office Mojo) that Sony has set The Mortal Instruments to hit theaters in the U.S. on August 23rd, 2013. That's probably a wise move, as Clare's source material is not the best-selling monstrosity that other young adult series-turned-blockbusters are (see: Twilight, The Hunger Games). Not to mention, neither of the film's attached stars – Lily Collins (Mirror Mirror) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Camelot) – are big enough names so as to make the film more bankable – and thus able to hold its own against some of the "big guns" that will grace the silver screen during the more competitive portion of next summer.
This is great news as a release date is usually the final step toward getting an official green light.
Principal photography will begin on August 15 in Toronto.
Constantin Film and Unique Features will produce with Sony Pictures set as the distributor. Harald Zwart is set to direct and Lily Collins (Clary) and Jamie Campbell Bower (Jace) are attached to star.
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I recently saw Patrick Schwerdtfeger speak on building success. He said something that really stood out to me: "There's no such thing as a confused buyer. If they're confused, they're not buying."
Think about that for a minute.
When you're confused, you are not likely to open your wallet. Even if the situation is urgent, you need some understanding of the "solution" before you throw down your money. Even in an emergency, you have to have some understanding of what you're paying for.
In IT consulting you face this all the time – whether you realize it or not. And prospects will almost never tell you that this is the reason they're not buying. After all, they think they'll look stupid if they say "I don't understand what you're trying to sell me." So it's easier to make up an excuse about budgets or timing or something else.
It's actually very difficult to tease out whether prospects are "confused buyers." It takes quite a bit of prodding to uncover this objection. Because the prospect will give you all kinds of other objections, you can spend a great deal of time addressing all the other minor objections before you finally figure out that the real objection is confusion about what you're selling.
One of the classic sales techniques is to address every objection, no matter how small. That assumes that the prospect will give you all the time and attention you need to accomplish that. But most technology consultants don't want to go down the path of professional sales and don't have an interest in spending hours addressing every objection – real or not.
Here's an approach that may help.
Luckily, there's a simple formula for cutting through this issue. First, emphasize education-based selling. Second, assume that confusion abounds and keep addressing it until you have positive proof that confusion has been eliminated.
Education based selling has been around for quite a while. In addition to developing your own educational materials, you can find lots of materials from various vendor partners. Microsoft has a long history of providing slide decks and other materials to help you put on seminars for clients and prospects. Other manufacturers and suppliers hold client-facing events that you can participate in.
If nothing else, you should be constantly educating your clients through your newsletter, web site, and blog. You may also produce lunch-and-learn events or other seminars. I am also a big fan of white papers that describe a problem and discuss the solution.
One concern I've heard is that some consultants don't want to come off as preachy or know-it-all. Another is that they're worried that clients and prospects will get tired of hearing the same message over and over again. Don't worry about either of these.
When you assume the role of expert, people assume you know what you're talking about – until you prove them wrong. Think about the newsletters you've seen from other industries. The veterinarian gives advice about keeping fleas at bay or how to prepare your pets for the hot weather. The dentist gives information about foods to avoid and how to get kids to floss their teeth.
You never ask why the vet is giving advice on animals or why the dentist is giving advice on oral hygiene. And your prospects won't wonder why you're giving advice about disaster recovery, virus protection, cloud services, or remote management. You're the expert. This is what you do. So educating clients helps them to make good decisions.
As for repeating yourself, just remember that you have to repeat yourself constantly whenever you take on the role of teacher. On one hand, most people don't hang onto every word that comes out of your mouth. Sorry to tell you that, but it's true. So many people won't hear your message the first time. On the other hand, people simply need to hear a message again and again until it sinks in.
You've heard the old advice that a salesman has to ask seven times before the prospect agrees to be given a pitch. Well, you should plan on giving the message seventy times. If any given prospect hears your message ten percent of the time, they'll hear it seven times.
In many cases, your message can go on forever. Because technology and the challenges we face are constantly evolving, you need to be constantly educating your clients. The latest information on viruses, passwords, PCI, HIPAA, and everything else you do will be welcome to clients and prospects. They may not read every word. But they'll definitely see you as the expert on these topics.
If you assume that the prospect always has some level of confusion, you would be correct. Your prospect is not a technologist. Of course they will never have your level of knowledge. That's not the goal.
Your goal is to eliminate enough confusion so that the client believes he can make a good, educated decision. He knows he'll never understand all of it, and he doesn't need to. But he does want to feel like he has enough information to justify his decision.
Education is also important for the relationship because the prospect needs to trust you and trust that you are helping him to make a good decision. As you educate the client, you also demonstrate that you know a great deal about the technology and the options available. When you work hard to educate the client, you build a sense of trust that goes beyond the specific proposal.
You become more than an expert. You become a consultant who can be relied on.
Our industry is full of great opportunities for educational selling. The good vendors are always educating us. We, in turn, need to be educating our clients and prospects.
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If you live in Providence, it is likely that you have attended an event at Aurora at some point during its three-year run. The space, located in the Whit Building at 276 Westminster Street, has hosted an immense constellation of events and projects, catering to countless communities and interests. Queer dance parties, all-ages rap battles, noise performances, design conferences, nonprofit fundraisers, and punk shows all found a home there, and its managers always strove to provide surprising intersections between every niche of its broad fanbase.
On August 4, Aurora announced that it would be closing after the building's owner and manager, Arnold 'Buff' Chace of Cornish Associates, slated the property for redevelopment. Aurora will be holding its last party on November 3. The Independent asked community members who have managed, staffed, and performed at Aurora what they wanted to honor about the space.
Jenny Young, booking manager at Aurora:
We are very much an open canvas for artists to work with. I think that people have really been able to make their own [kind of space] because there aren't a lot of spatial restrictions and we like to encourage that. So to be able to come here and have that sense of ownership over the space allows for a lot of creativity. There have been a lot of artists who have worked with us for the entirety [of our time running Aurora], and they have definitely grown in terms of how they build upon an initial idea and have the space and time to grow.
People are really, really bummed out that we're closing, and I'm really bummed that we're closing, but I'm definitely really hopeful and optimistic that there's so many creative people here that something else will open up. Maybe it'll be a while, and people will be trying new things, but definitely something else will happen. Now [organizers] have a resume under their belt and they know more about selling an event, so they can go to another venue with a lot of experience.
There are definitely a lot of stories, and one doesn't stick out more than any others, but for me personally Tuesdays have always been a difficult day to program. Finally, this summer we were able to produce some really great Tuesday night programming, which were game shows that we conceived of having here and asking people who we know to host it. This bingo game that's happening tonight started because one of our bartenders has issues with insomnia. Sometimes we get out of here at four or five in the morning, and instead of going home, she would go to Foxwoods to play bingo, because the games start at 8AM on Sundays. It was her idea that we should have bingo! It was such a successful night, we decided that we'd also have Family Feud. Finally, just as we're closing, we've finally figured out Tuesdays.
We also recently had a drag contest here. It's something that happens all the time at the Dark Lady, but it was able to be a really special event here, with a cash prize, and so many people had talked to me that night saying, "We couldn't have had this at our normal bar, because it's our normal bar, and it wouldn't have been special." Being able to have this stage really made it come alive.
Buff Chace, developer and owner of the Whit Building at 276 Westminster Street:
We purchased the building Aurora was in three-and-a-half years ago from the owners of the Roots Café. They wanted to close their business and needed to sell the building. We are part of Cornish Associates, which is a downtown property developer—we've taken 12 buildings and revitalized them over the past 15 or 20 years—so we took on the Whit Building and we put together a wonderful team of individuals to open Aurora and run it with the idea that at some point we would work with the city and the state to try to revitalize and upgrade not only that building but also three buildings adjacent to it. The Whit was built in the early 1900s, and it just needs to be revitalized so we can get another century out of its use. So we have gone through a process with the Commerce Department, competing for Rebuild Rhode Island tax credits as well as working with the city to get support from them for the Federal Historic tax cut. We anticipated completing that process around the first part of November. We were working with Chrissy and the people who ran the property and decided that somewhere around the end of October was the date that made sense to close the business in an orderly fashion and to celebrate their successes and to give the people who were regular users of the state plenty of time to find other venues.
The Indy asked Chace to explain his comment published in the Providence Journal in August that a music venue does not fit into his plans for Westminster Street: I don't recall if that was an accurate quote. I said that I think that if there was music in that space that it probably wouldn't be something that was closing at two o'clock in the morning given that there's a housing component to the new development. So it's the fine point of what the hours would be rather than a question of music or no music.
I've also been working with AS220 on possibly opening a different music venue. Right across from where Trinity Rep is, there's a smaller venue that's currently closed. AS220 bought it from the strip club that was there. The reason that would work as a music venue and Aurora wouldn't is that the location means that they can exist and do their things without disrupting other activities. If I'm going to be responsible for people living above there I need to take that into consideration.
I intend to have a use of the Aurora space that contributes to the mixture of uses on Westminster street. The strongest demands right now are for food and beverage on that street, which can have a music component, too. So when we get to 12–18 months down the road we'll see what ideas people bring. We will be interviewing lots of people to see what ideas they have for the space and we'll go with the best one.
Chrissy Wolpert, general manager at Aurora:
On the possibility of a new music venue in the building: I'm not really sure what's going on with that, I'm not involved with that. I think that what has happened here has been a really magical thing. I definitely feel like we were just starting, over the last six months, to hit the potential and feel like the web was coming together in terms of where we were moving towards. Different communities need something like this. If that does reincarnate two years from now somewhere else, then let's do that and support that… As far as something new coming along, if that happens, then I think that, y'know, do I think that it's going to be this? No. Because this is what this is, just like the legacy before us. We were never going to be the Black Rep, and we were never going to be the Roots Café, and we didn't want to be, but we wanted to honor what existed in this building. Things are what they are just like moments are what they are—it's a moment.
I got to Aurora roughly around a year after it opened; I was not part of the original crew that evolved the space. I think that both of the spaces that existed here before us were wonderful because of what they offered to different communities downtown. That's what we tried to do—to create an environment where people could come in, whatever you looked like or dressed like, and feel like they could be in the sense of who they [already] were without any bologne. It's not always easy! But it had so much to do with the staff, who are all people who have either performed here, made the wallpaper, painted the back bathroom, made all the drinks—the people who work here cared about what was here.
A lot of performers cared about making sure people felt taken care of and respected, and hopefully we earned a little bit of change to put in their pocket when they go home, and gave them an environment that was taken care of. The Black Rep and the Roots Café definitely did those things—the beauty was that everyone did it in their own way, and it was made by the communities who came through the doors. It's been so nice, especially over the last year, when we've had more people who have come and told us, "I was here when it was the Black Rep!" You can see it on their face: this fond memory of being in the building when it was that space.
We are a multi-use space that does programming seven days a week—it's our greatest benefit and our greatest challenge, because it's not like, "Every Tuesday we have this, and every Friday we have this." Just like anything, it grew organically. [Strict scheduling] rebelled against us—it didn't work!
It wasn't always about curating. We didn't curate for genre—we curated based on whether events were good for the community and whether they aligned with our mission, and from there, if there was respect and love coming into the space from these people.
One thing that's been really cool here has been to see so many groups of people interacting all the time. The hope is that sometimes we can cross some of those lines, so that people can continue to interact and see new things. This place has taught me a lot about care, and what it means to care and nurture for something. [Providence organizers] should continue to give people an opportunity—give people a chance. Because it changes you too.
I've definitely been somebody who comes to work and says, "Oh god, what do we have to do today? Somebody broke off the stall door in the men's room again?" (because it has happened—twice), but these last few weeks have brought wonderful moments of reflection. I've been looking at my staff and thinking that these people are so awesome, and seeing the greater good that has come from this place—and it's also coming from a state of total denial that I have to say goodbye to everything and everyone. But that's fine. I'll deal with it when I have to.
It's changed me too. I've been somebody who's played music in Providence for a long time. But to be connected to something from this place… I feel incredibly lucky that I got to do that.
Norlan Olivo, organizer of 'Running through the 401' dance parties at Aurora:
As a lot of the mill [DIY spaces] began to close down, first Building 16, then Capitol Records and Spark City, which was a space Joey [DeFrancesco] and Victoria [Ruiz] and I did events in Olneyville. Spark City was one of the most inclusive spaces in Providence in terms of programming that had bands with people of color playing there. But as those spaces fell, Aurora took a big lead to host the people who didn't have a space anymore—especially local youth of color who came from New Urban Arts and AS220. A lot of those people came to Aurora, as well as the noise community.
Last year, we started doing dance parties here once every two or three nights. Last Halloween we had a dance party, and it was super packed—there's definitely an audience for these dance nights. Ever since then, we've been doing our parties once a month, called "Running through the 401."
At this point, when you talk about different audiences who use Aurora, I feel like a lot of people of color were doing great things out of this space and culminate their own projects just from having monthlies at Aurora. Things like that won't exist in the city until we find a space that is just as flexible. When you can have Luv You Better and Running Through the 401, and then a Salsa Night and a Gay Goth Night—no other venue catered to making each community in Providence heard, at least once a month, in their space.
I think a lot of downtown is being developed into things like condos, hotels, and parking lots, but in eliminating spaces like Aurora, people forget that you need something to do. You'll have people living downtown with no entertainment at all. It boggles my mind to have all of these developments happening without keeping the local community, local artists, and entertainment in mind. No other city that I know functions that way. I still don't know what the vision for this city is.
[Pointing out the window] I mean, that Superman building is empty! The building across the street is empty! [How development works] is just a game—you get people really excited and invested in a space, and when it's about to reach its peak, you take it away and take that momentum and build something else. I don't think it'll work—we're not New York, there's not the same type of industry here, and the community's too strong. Nothing will ever work without the community.
Lady J, MC at Aurora's Bingo Night:
I've got a long history here. Ten years ago, [my friends and I] were walking down Washington Street and we saw a line of people outside. It was the Black Rep, and we saw people drumming, there was a giant piano in the window, and everybody was dancing. This was the spot we knew you could come to on Friday and Saturday nights. When that closed down, I was happy because it got taken over by the Cabral brothers [the original owners of the Roots Café], and they brought me in after grad school and I was a bartender here. I got to work on a lot of the decor that was here, so I was very involved with that. It was good to see their community come back up, because they've had the same group since the '60s—that was the kind of theater group that was hanging out at the Roots Café. And then having Aurora—it's been such a great home for artists of any type, no matter your skill level. If you want to book a night, you book a night here. It's so experimental and welcoming. For me, this has been [important] to my growth as an artist—coming out and hosting the game night, and being able to play a character and get a following—so this is just the beginning of what [my work] is going to be.
The diversity of the people here is great. I've had two 15-year-old boys who have asked their dad to bring them, so they kept coming back. I've had first dates, all-girls dates, bachelorette parties, older people who love bingo and don't want to talk to anybody, and my friends who come out to support me. It's family style, so people are meeting each other, talking, and working so hard to win a box of Kleenex!
I'm going to miss having a go-to creative space. I'm in a band and work for a company, and any time I need a place to go to, this is the first place I go. I'm going to miss having that home base. This is like our community center, this is like our club house. I feel like we're going to lose that—a little bit of the heart of the city. We just have to figure out where to find that next.
From the Aurora Family Feud survey question "What will you miss most about Aurora?":
Mori Granot-Sanchez, Owner/Founder of RI Latin Dance and organizer of Aurora's Salsa Con Soul event series:
We've been involved with Aurora for a little over three years and it's unfortunate it's closing because it was such a beautiful thing we created in the community—just collaborating and bringing the community together. All of our network basically had a place to go and interact with one another right downtown, it was very convenient for students to come out from all the different schools. It was an awesome place to interact and see and feel the different instructors, you know, because we were a team.Everybody got the opportunity to teach and we had a chance to have different DJs, different instructors from different places, different performers, to kind of expose the community to that aspect as well.
And the birthdays! The birthday celebrations were awesome, [they were for] people in the community or if it was one of us, we always made a big deal out of it and would recognize the people at a beautiful birthday circle, we had a table with some balloons and snacks. We'd have them come to the middle of the circle so everybody gets the chance to dance with them, to have a little moment for them. That's memorable.
I really feel that this was a hub. People knew that every first of the month, and some Saturdays, they had a place to go and interact and dance, and had a place to put in action what they learned in classes. There are other events, but they're hosted by one company or one school, it's not collaborative. It's not one person or company that goes [to Aurora], it belonged to everybody. And it feels like they belong there.
I think also for the gay community, that they felt they had a place they could actually go where it was just okay—it was never a question—of two females to lead and follow in the dance or two males to lead and follow, like it was just a gender neutral environment and everyone was just accepted.
I wish there would be something to replace it like that—that would be so convenient for people and that everybody could just go to. I hope something will come up.
Next week (we haven't announced it yet) but we're doing a master class and we're bringing in a Cuban instructor from Montreal to do a lecture and workshop at the club right before we go to Aurora for the last night; on Wednesday it's going to be the last Salsa Con Soul at Aurora. Next Wednesday, from 6-8 at Alumnae Hall (194 Meeting St.), there will be a lecture on salsa history and Cuban history, and the workshop, and then we'll move over to Aurora where the social starts at 10.
Chris Cordon, a member of The Broken Few who held his wedding at Aurora:
I wanted to have my wedding [at Aurora] because not only was it cheap—like they were going to give us the whole venue for $300, maybe $400—but also because I wanted to show [Aurora] to a lot of my friends who are not in the Providence music scene, or are outside of the city, and to all my friends and family—this is where I spent the last four years of my life... It's like me presenting this treasure that I've kind of like… not kept to myself, but I feel like it's been so important in my development as someone in the city, as a local, and it's helped me grow as a musician, just watching all these cool people come and play at Aurora, and they fucking kill it. I'm constantly inspired to kill it like they are.
Once we got past all the ceremonial stuff, my pastor Andrew jumped into the sound booth and DJed the whole night. I have photos of him just chugging vodka, as he's playing the playlist we gave him. Even [the puppet performance group] Big Nazo showed up. We emailed them like two weeks before the wedding, and they got back to us the night before.
Joey DeFrancesco, guitarist in Downtown Boys and frequent performer at Aurora:
Aurora was a key place for Downtown Boys and for so much Providence music. Especially following the evictions of most Providence DIY spaces, Aurora provided an all-ages spot for culture to happen in the city. And it had a really low overhead for artists. The door deal was one of the best around, and it effectively operated like an underground space [in terms of its pricing] for artists. That was amazing and is exceptionally rare anywhere in the country. It's another big loss for artists in Providence—we should be able to make our spaces more sustainable than this. Still, I'm confident people will continue to build new places for culture to happen.
Burbage Theater Company, from the playbill for their last performance in the space:
"It was like a dream. The live performances were unlike anything we'd encountered. An exacting mix of in-the-know, ultracool live music and genuinely strange, rough-around-the-edges obscura. People came from every concievable walk of life and they had a great time. Aurora also had one of the most competitive cocktail programs in the state as far as we're concerned. They squeezed fresh juice daily. People don't do that. But they did because they cared about their drinks. Whether behind the bar or on the floor, Aurora's staff kicked ass every single night. We are eternally indebted to them…
Aurora allowed us to pursue more daring, provocative, and compelling work that beat to the tune of downtown Providence's infinitely varied and incredibly welcoming arts community. Aurora gave us our first taste of being a truly autonomous, year-round theater. They gave us the freedom to be ourselves, they gave us their stinky basement. Aurora gave us our first glimpse at what we can do and who we could be as an organization. And while the Burbage story is pretty specific, we're willing to bet that other creative people had defining, formative moments on that stage because of them.
We are eternally grateful to Aurora's staff and management for providing us with such an incomparable workshop. They are permanently in our bones."
THE INDY recommends that you dance under the Aurora lights one last time at its Puerto Rico benefit show and dance party on November 3 at 7 PM. A donation of $10 is encouraged, but not required.


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There's this special little loop that heads southeast from Austin, and covers the 70ish miles to Lockhart and back. It's too gnarly for my 23c tire road bike. There's too much gravel. Too many loose dogs that chase you down the carpet bombed roads. It always too hot. Too cold. Too windy.
Too everything.
Every time my little group of friends ride it, we stop halfway to eat too much Black's BBQ.
These are the rides that the Felt VR is designed for. All day adventures over uncertain terrain. Days when the next gas station oasis is more than a few miles away.
And that baby blue color... That may be a bit of cheating on Felt's part. It's hard to see a blue like that and not imagine that you're a young (possibly less attractive), Tom Boonen, attacking the cobbles in your Belgian National Champion kit.
I've written about the Felt VR line in the past, but this VR5 is something special. It exists in the consumer sweet spot. Carbon Fiber frame. Shimano 105 drivetrain. Endurance geometry.
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Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton had different reactions to Nelson Piquet's escape earlier this week from the World Motor Sport Council.
Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton had different reactions to Nelson Piquet's escape earlier this week from the World Motor Sport Council.
Piquet Jr, 23, admitted to crashing deliberately during the Singapore GP last year and blew the whistle on his co-conspirators Flavio Briatore and Pat Symonds, who were ousted by Renault and banned from motor racing.
The Brazilian driver, however, emerged without sanction due to an immunity deal with the FIA, even though he had already been sacked by Briatore.
"The only thing I don't quite understand is (why) Nelson Piquet didn't get anything," German Rosberg, who drives in F1 for the British team Williams, told the Singapore daily Today.
"For me, he's just as involved as the others because he is the one who actually did it and agreed to it," the 24-year-old added.
Reigning world champion Hamilton has a different view, having gone wheel-to-wheel with Piquet as rivals for the GP2 title three years ago.
The Briton said he hoped to see Piquet Jr back in F1 some time.
"He's a good driver and he's had a great career, so who knows?" Hamilton, 24, told reporters during the McLaren media 'phone-in' this week.
"For sure, there are opportunities for him in the future and I can only wish him the best," he added. "He's still very young, he's experienced and he'll take it in his stride."


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Avanti along with the Government of Haryana aims to impart the best quality Science and Mathematics education in Grade IX Science and Mathematics by integrating with the ICT (information and communication technology) platform. Our aim is to convert 59 English medium government schools into model centers of excellence by bringing about pedagogical and systemic change, using existing government personnel and resources.
Our Goal
- → Two-fold increase in the number of students at grade level (from 20% to 40%)
- → Two-fold increase in the number of students on track for 4-year degree courses in a Tier 1 college (12% to 30%)
- → Three-fold increase in the number of students on track for premier colleges
Teacher Training
- Elements of Peer Learning Classroom
→ Introduction to Avanti's Pedagogy and how to use its elements for an effective teaching in classroom
- Challenges for a Teacher
→ A session on understanding their challenges and ways to improve at school and administrative level to be able to achieve better student achievement in schools
- Assessing Learning Outcomes
→ Using the data of objective tests to identify conceptual gaps and design intervention accordingly
- Micro teaching Sessions
→ Each teacher provided with content to prepare and present in groups and share feedback
Mentor Training
- Elements of Peer Learning Classroom
→Introduction to Avanti's Pedagogy and it's elements for an effective teaching in classroom
- Classroom Observation and Feedback
→Mock sessions of teaching to identify strengths and improvements and sharing feedback for better delivery of lessons
- Assessing Learning Outcomes
→Using the data of objective tests to identify conceptual gaps and design intervention accordingly
Program Management
The Mentor Trainers, experts from DIET in Science and Mathematics, selected and nominated were oriented in April 2017 to provide on-ground support to teachers. They began their school visits from July to interact with Principals and teachers to initiate the program. The mentors visit their assigned schools twice a month to identify and resolve the on-ground challenges.
- → Transforming Classrooms into Smart Classes
- → The mentors helped in setting up the room for best audio-visual quality and class timings during which the teachers can conduct classes.
- → Mentors conducted in-school pedagogical sessions and training to ensure a smooth transition to peer learning pedagogy.
- → Baseline, Midline and Endline Assessments will be conducted throughout the academic year to measure learning improvements.
- → More than 5000 students of Class IX in Model Schools were tested on Class VII-VIII syllabus of Science and Mathematics.
- → One day orientation was conducted for over 130 Block level Resource Persons in Panchkula Headquarters on the process of assessments.
In 2017, Avanti successfully trained the SCERT and DIET in the Government of Haryana to take on the implementation and monitoring work for a 59-school pilot and this gives us confidence that a similar train-the-trainer model could be implemented for other organizations as well.


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I have been in the Veterinary field for over 30 years.
In that time, I have seen, and heard a lot of things. (Crazy, but true- you can't make this stuff up!) Priceless memories I will share with you…
Some people will not think that some of these stories are funny. I wont apologize for that, ( I'm only recounting what really happened), but if you are or were ever in the same field, you certainly will enjoy the tapestry that is about to unfold. Reading about what happens behind the front desk has to be much better than actually living it in some aspects. Day in and day out…An easy day, as an employee at the veterinary hospital is non existent. Just when someone even whispers that it seems quiet, co worker or client, you know the sh:t is about to hit the fan.
Somewhere along the beginning of the decades of being involved with working with animals, I decided that I needed to write a book, encompassing all of the stories that could be shared. Numerous notes were brought home with little reminders of what could be written in this comedy of a novel. They were stuffed in a notebook, a change jar, scattered across the bureau, on the refrigerator and other random places, at any given time. Now its the dog days of summer, and I have temporarily retired, ( its not all you dream of when there is no bi-weekly paycheck and haven't won the lottery…) hence the birth of this blog aka "book."
I've met Doctors, coworkers, clients and pets that I came to love. I also came across a few that I began to strongly dislike. ( Hate is such a strong word…which shouldn't ever be used… toleration is key.) That is a subject for later. Some of my best friends were made through my employment, which I am forever grateful for. We rarely spent a lot of time outside the office together, but it was quality when it occurred. Co workers in a veterinary hospital are like family. More time is spent with them than your own personal family. For the most part everyone had the same "off" sense of humor ( required in the field, although not mentioned at all when you go to school to be tech.) Being that the majority of the technicians in a veterinary hospital are female, we were like sisters who fought with each other periodically, but when it came right down to acting upon an emergency, everyone was right where they should have been, doing what they had to, to get the job done. Menstrual cycles began to synchronize, I swear. It was said once it's like living on Estrogen Island. Even when there was a male tech in the office, he certainly would have his fair share of PMS.
An important role as a technician, you must be good at playing "Twister." You have to be a master of awkward positions involving two or more people and a patient. When you are involved or just walking by these feats of loving care for the patient, you are subjected to more ass crack than you bargained for and quickly need to look away with the knowledge of which team member is wearing a thong that day. You must have good knees and be able to and react fast in order not to get bit, scratched, mangled by that retractable leash that 99% of the clients don't know how to use properly. (Being good at Chinese jump rump, also comes in handy when is comes to the client who cannot control the dog on the end of the leash. I'm pretty certain most people are clueless.)
Blood, vomit, diarrhea and anal glands are things you can expect to see, smell and clean up everyday. (Another thing they don't tell you in school) People just assume that we play with puppies and kittens all day long. Its not that pretty. Can you imagine if people had anal glands??? We won't go there…If you don't know what they are, they are glands located at 4 and 8 o'clock inside the anus. Many dogs never have a problem with them. Some dogs come in routinely to have them expressed. (Ever see your dog carpet surfing or scooting? That is a sure sign that something is going on in that department.) I've even seen a few cats with this problem, not many though. That lovely smell is is one you will never forget. Old, dead fish. How many times a day does a tech witness that odor? Too many to want to remember. You clean it off the dog, yourself, the table, the wall even…then you throw away the trash and air the room out. No air freshening spray ever really covers up that odor. Sometimes you even need to change your scrub shirt. Feeling sorry for the owner who has to ride home in a car with these patients, the receptionist at the desk, processes their bill as quickly as possible in order to make the waiting area smell a bit better. A real pro at expressing anal glands can do it alone, double gloves ready and still come out smiling. A friend of mine use to refer to the process of expressing anal glands as "squeezing the grapes." which actually is quite fitting.
Dog vomit can be quite interesting. Really. It's always a total victory when you induce vomiting and whatever was ingested comes spewing out. It's usually a surprise, because that "Fur Baby" (a term I've come to really dislike for some reason) wasn't being watched. Admittedly the one time the owner knew what Fluffy ate, I was a bit skeptical. Sure enough, the whole ace bandage came up! Yes, that dog ate the ace bandage right off herself and swallowed it in one piece. How long is an ace bandage??? The owner had applied it for some reason ( not recommended by the way…) and came home to the dog not wearing it. It was no where to be found in the house and the dog had been acting sick. Amazing that surgery was not required, right?
Chocolate covered espresso beans. Yum! Quite dangerous if eaten in large quantities by your dog though. Chocolate by itself is toxic to dogs. Add in a ton of caffeine and you've got big trouble. (Most dog owners are not aware that Hydrogen Peroxide should always be kept in the house. It is used to induce vomiting in dogs. Yes, you just pour some down the ole gullet, then go outside and pray.) The call comes in to the hospital, JoJo ate a pound of chocolate covered espresso beans, and the owner didn't have any hydrogen peroxide on hand. It was advised to bring him right in. Upon arrival, the magic potion was given and the fifty pound dog was placed in a cage. It may have taken a couple of doses and then- BOOM, up comes the whole load. Can I just say, that was the best smelling vomit EVER! Granted, it was not pleasant to look at, or clean up, but it did smell pretty darn good. JoJo was a very lucky dog. The snack he decided to indulge himself on, could have been fatal. Another case where the owner was alert enough to bring her pet in, in time.


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Workable's ATS links up with a powerful set of external apps and tools to extend your reach, capacity and potential for personalizing your hiring toolkit.
In a series of blog posts customers from different sectors and of varying shapes and sizes explain why they use Workable and how it's impacted their recruiting and hiring process.
Based in Utah, HireVue provides recruiters with digital video software and predictive analytics to attract and assess candidates and build high-performing teams. Experiencing significant growth with Fortune 500 companies, demand for their software is increasing.
In this post, they show how easy it is to scale your hiring operation using Workable's ATS and its many integrations.
"Because talent lives in unique places"
Transforming the way recruiters interact with new talent, HireVue provides digital video software to attract and assess candidates and build new, high-performing teams. It also specializes in predictive analytics. Clients use HireVue data and insights to support faster, more productive and successful selections.
HireVue believes in the power of technology. But it also believes in people. Its fully automated, smart suite of digital hiring software is primarily a channel connecting recruiters with candidates. Their video technology gives life, personality, energy and an all-too-undervalued human voice to the early stages of the recruitment process.
"We believe in the human element. That everyone has a story to share is the foundation of our company. We listen to each person's story. We have chosen to do that because talent lives in unique places," Abby Mathews, Recruitment Marketing @HireVue.
Making these enriched connections possible for its customers, HireVue mirrors this in its own recruitment strategy. HireVue's talent acquisition team consists of just two people; John Grotegut and Abby Mathews. Despite being a small team, every candidate interested in a role at HireVue can submit their own video interview. And every video gets screened.
Founded in 2004, HireVue has seen significant growth with Fortune 500 companies and demand for their software is growing at pace. Which means an ongoing need for more talent.
Managing a high-volume, high-achieving, enriched, end-to-end hiring process requires a smart approach to managing workflow. Particularly when you're a small team. So, how do they do it?
Here's how…
At the heart of HireVue's hiring success is a fully integrated and automated approach powered through Workable's ATS.
"We automate as much as we possibly can. Starting with our product suite. This is how Workable plays into our ambition," Abby Mathews.
Automate, automate, automate
"Between Abby and I, we're handling four times as many requisitions per headcount as most of our competitors in the area. Workable allows us to automate our applicant tracking system and using its many diverse integrations we can scale up to a really powerful operation with just two people," John Grotegut, Head of Global Talent Acquisition @HireVue.
Being a smart-tech company, HireVue had already invested in an ATS to manage its recruitment. But the ATS wasn't growing at the same pace as HireVue. It didn't support the collaborative, fully integrated approach required to meet the growing needs of the business and the team.
"We had an ATS we liked. But it didn't allow collaboration with our wider team. It met some of our automation needs, but not everything. When we started looking for a new ATS one of our requirements was for everyone to be able to log in and use it in some way. For employees to see our jobs. For hiring managers to communicate, see the workflow and the process, and to be involved as much as they want and need to be. Workable met this need perfectly. But what also interested and swayed us was Workable's integration with Zapier. With that API we were able to automate initial tasks and the process of our ATS," John Grotegut.
Integration #1 – Zapier
Linking apps, triggering workflows, sharing information across different tools, HireVue quickly saw the benefits of Zapier's integration with Workable's ATS.
"When our candidates apply to a job they, of course, get that initial email from Workable. But using Workable alongside Zapier also allows us to build up an automated series of events. So they then get an email from our recruiting team, thanking them personally for applying, and giving them more info about our company and our values. We can then follow that up too. Zapier allows us to delay and customise emails. So we then send out a series of follow-up emails; inviting them to do an online interview and introduce themselves for that role. We can create templates and pick specific interviews for each candidate," John Grotegut.
Using a powerful combination of Zapier, Workable and its own systems, HireVue has set in motion a series of ongoing, automated actions. From triggering candidate emails to importing candidates into Google; setting up Slack alerts for new applicants to creating marketing lists through MailChimp; time-consuming but essential admin tasks are lifted from the team. This creates a more effective hiring process and frees up valuable time for sourcing passive candidates.
"This is us using some of our technology, some of your technology, and then combining it with Zapier. We can keep candidates warm and notified throughout with some clever automation. We're a small team. A team of just two. Abby focuses on employment branding. I focus on recruiting. Our goal is to automate the whole applicant process. We can then spend our time outreaching to senior level candidates for roles we're not going to be able to fill through that automated approach," John Grotegut.
Integrations #2, #3 and #4 – Namely, Facebook, LinkedIn
Linking up with Zapier triggered a series of different, time-saving integrations for HireVue. All achievable through Workable's ATS.
To automate onboarding, the team use Workable's ATS integration with HR, payroll and benefits platform, Namely. Information about hired candidates is now exported directly from Workable into HireVue's Namely account. A simple, one-off setup ensures all available candidate data feeds directly into Namely on an ongoing basis for all future hires. So everything from contact information to start dates, from resumes to LinkedIn URLs.
To automate job-posting, the team uses APIs provided by Workable to add new positions to its Linkedin Recruiter and Facebook accounts. HireVue already maximizes exposure using Workable's one-click, integration with multiple free and premium job boards. By also syndicating Workable with these two key professional networks they ensure hiring information is visible and consistent across all accounts.
"We're on a mission to make HireVue a verb, so it's incredibly important for candidates to have visibility into our employment brand on various job boards. Workable provides an easy solution for posting jobs so we can focus our efforts on buying ads," Abby Mathews.
Continuing to build great hiring processes
Integrations supported through Workable's ATS have transformed the team's operation and shifted its focus.
"Workable allows us to completely automate our applicant tracking system and capture candidates we can interact with in the future. But it also opens the door to so much more. By using its integrations we can massively scale up our operation with just two people. This is a real bonus for us and gives us tremendous power, potential and resiliency," John Grotegut.
The clever, creative approach and progressive vision of the small team have also powered the transformation. Aware that by building effective hiring processes they're building a stronger future for the team, John and Abby continue to explore other ways to automate workflow. And using Workable factors highly in all of this.
"We're growing as a team. We're becoming more efficient with every role. But there will eventually be a time when we hit a tipping point, when we're more efficient and we have our process but we need to hire more people because our customer-based requires it. That's why we've tried to automate so much and prepare. We're always trying to build great processes and think about that. Workable is a large part of this and we're really excited about future integrations with Workable and where it might take us," John Grotegut.
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One cannot imagine life without furniture. Furniture is a requirement of the home, office or everywhere else. These removable objects are widely-used to service various human pursuits like sitting, relaxing, eating and writing. Furniture can be a product of design and is considered a form of decorative art. The importance of furniture has increased over time. This is because a great number of people around the world are more interested in lifestyle living. The concentration is on improving their standard of living by choosing appropriate furniture that not only look good but also offer high level of comfort.
The importance of the furniture in our daily life has often been a neglected subject. Furniture is a silent aspect of everyday life and the significance is known, only when we have to face situation without the assistance of proper furniture.
Each and every part of our homes, offices and spaces is filled with different variety of furniture. Furniture takes up the majority of your space and helps make your home feel lived in, welcoming and complete. It is important to choose comfortable and practical furniture.
When choosing furniture for your living space, it's important to pick timeless, functional pieces that fit your space and budget! There are several kinds of material that furniture is made of. You can choose between wood and wood laminates, metal, wrought iron, glass, plastic, leather and so on… The list is endless. Your final decision will depend much upon your taste and personal requirements. One of the most versatile materials is wood, and you would do well to gain knowledge of the various kinds of wood available to decide what will work best for you. An in-depth understanding of the properties of wood and how it behaves is essential.
There is something to be said for beautiful wooden furniture. It gleams and gives warmth to a room. It is made from a variety of wood materials such as oak, pine, and maple. There are so many different types to choose from nowadays. Just think about it and you will be wondering how it would have been living without furniture. If you can find a unique design as well as comfort then you will have everything. So don't be afraid to get creative and buy the furniture you love.


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Financial FAQs
If we would listen to the Europeans advocating austerity measures to punish Greece and Italy in particular for their profligacy, then inflation is right around the corner, according to the Germans who fear it most. Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaubele is the most hawkish in advocating that the Greeks won't get the next installment of their rescue package unless they shave off 130B euros in spending cuts to bring down their some 400B euros in debt.
Herr Schaubele is the principal advocate of what Paul Krugman calls the "confidence fairy". The confidence fairy is the myth that too much debt causes the loss of confidence in a sovereign currency, driving up interest rates and inflation, even during recessions. It is the rationalization extreme fiscal conservatives use to justify their ideology that all debt is bad (though it is their wealthy supporters who do the most lending), and so debtors must be punished for their borrowing.
That is behind Herr Schaubele's attempts to drive Greece out of the euro by insisting on such draconian austerity measures that Greece cannot possibly fulfill. Herr Schaubele's efforts have succeeded instead in pulling several EU countries back into recession, as prices and output are falling, which is what one would expect, because such austerity measures cause a huge drop in incomes, and so any stimulus to grow economies. Great Britain, Ireland, Italy the Netherlands, and Spain are just a few countries suffering from its effects.
"We doubt that the euro zone will be able to avoid further contraction in the first quarter and very possibly the second as well in the face of tighter credit conditions, a further tightening in fiscal policy in many countries, the ongoing pressures facing consumers (high and rising unemployment, and still squeezed purchasing power) and limited global growth," said Howard Archer, chief European economist at IHS Global Insight, said in a Marketwatch interview.
Economists have been discussing the dangers of inflation since the beginning of economics, but don't really spell out that there are at least 2 kinds of inflation. There is consumer inflation measured by such as the Consumer Price Index, and there are many commodity price indexes that measure asset inflation.
Graph: World Bank
Consumer price inflation was nonexistent in December at the headline and core levels. The consumer price index in December was unchanged for the second month in a row with lower energy costs playing a key role. Excluding food and energy, the core CPI decelerated to a modest 0.1 percent increase after gaining 0.2 percent in November, and is up just 2.2 percent year-over-year.
Graph: The World Bank
For the U.S., commodity prices are best measured by the U.S. Producer Price Index for producer goods, which at the producer level in December was tugged down by gasoline and food costs but the core was warmer than expected. Producer prices edged down 0.1 percent after rebounding 0.3 percent the prior month.
The two are not necessarily related, because producers cannot always pass on their costs to consumers, though economists still take sides. The so-called monetarists, or neo-classicists tend to be fiscal, small government conservatives that believe all economic activity depends on the size of the money supply. And government should not be in the business of boosting the money supply with stimulus, which only causes more inflation.
Whereas Keynesians, or neo-Keynesians, believe that there is really no danger of inflation as long as unemployment is high, which happens during recessions. That's because consumers who power some 67 percent of aggregate demand cannot create inflationary pressures as long as personal incomes, wages and salaries and the like are stagnant.
In fact, Keynesians maintain from their Great Depression experience that the overall money supply doesn't increase during recessions, but is hoarded, causing deflationary pressures. And deflation is the hardest to root out, as Japan found out since their bubbles burst in 1990. In fact, corporations are the largest hoarders of cash (some $2 trillion to date), so don't expect much hiring from them.
Yet, it is really small businesses that provide 70 percent of new hires, so that is where we should look for jobs' improvement. A good measure of small business is the National Federation of Business Optimism Index, which hasn't yet risen above recession levels. But the jobs market is tightening, in line with U.S. overall improved employment.
"Reports of workforce reductions are at their lowest level since October 2007," said the latest NFIB report. "Forty-one percent of owners hired or tried to hire in the past three months, but 31 percent reported few or no qualified applicants for the position(s). The increase in the percent of owners with hard to fill job openings indicates that job markets are tightening somewhere, and correctly anticipated a decline in the unemployment rate."
So beware of the confidence fairies, says Nobelist Paul Krugman. If you believe in them, you will surely lose confidence in the very institutions that create economic growth.
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JLG Industries NSW have recently announced design upgrades to the JLG LiftPod FS80 model, which boast a range of features making it faster and easier to use.
An already revolutionary and award-winning design, the LiftPod is the first portable aerial work platform designed to replace the ladder. The new FS80 model features a bigger work tray that is easier to fit and use, and that attaches to the basket to keep tools and materials within reach of the user.
"The improvements in the new JLG LIftPod model have been undertaken with the user very much in mind," says Bob Mules, JLG Industries general manager for Australia and New Zealand.
"Everything we do is focused on providing greater convenience and flexibility for the user while making the LiftPod more durable," adds Mules.
Operated using a 28-volt power pack or an 18-volt cordless drill, the new LiftPod FS80 portable aerial work platform is 10% faster than the previous model, and also boasts 15% more up/down cycles to help enhance productivity. Furthermore, it is also far quieter than the previous model. The gearbox has been improved to enhance performance and efficiency, which allows more cycles per battery charge.
A lightweight and mobile model, the LiftPod FS80 aerial work platform can be transported by one person on the back of a utility vehicle. The portability of the work platform is due to the combination of a high-strength steel base with a lightweight aluminum mast and platform.
The LiftPod FS80 platform contains an entrance gate and a platform railing system, which provides the user with more opportunities to work with two hands for greater productivity.
The LiftPod FS80 aerial work platform reaches a 4.4m working height and is 25% the cost and weight of traditional work platforms, making it ideal for a number of maintenance and repair jobs in almost any building type.


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When in season you can get anywhere between 7 to 10 plantains for $1. When we first moved here we could get 18 plantains for $1. Plantains are starchy and can be replaced for rice or potatoes with any meal.
We like plantains once in a while, but not deep fried. Deep fried foods are really bad for your health of every organ in your body, not to mention artery health, as the oil they are deep fried in is hydrogenated and rancid.
We have found a simple and healthier way to prepare (ripe) plantains and we share the recipe with you today.
Two (ripe) Plantains - (serves two or three people)
Extra Virgen Olive Oil
Sea salt
Slice the plantains about 1/2 inch thick (see photo)
Coat cookie sheet with olive oil
Line the cookie sheet with the plantains
Drizzle olive oil and sea salt on the plantains.
Bake each side of plantain for 15-minutes, in a 200 Celsius oven if in Ecuador, or at 400 Fahrenheit oven if in the states. You want them to be lightly browned as seen in this last photo.
Serve hot as a side dish in place of potatoes and rice. They are very good this way and better for your health!


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Swiss drugmaker Novartis on Monday offered to buy France`s Advanced Accelerator Applications (AAA) in a $3.9 billion cash deal to strengthen the oncology portfolio at the world`s biggest maker of prescription medicines.
Basel-based Novartis`s offer of $41 per ordinary share and $82 per American depositary share represents a 47 percent premium to AAA`s price before media reports on Sept. 27 that Novartis was interested.
It said it would finance the deal with debt.
Novartis is seeking to add AAA`s radiopharmaceuticals that use trace amounts of radioactive compounds to not only create functional images of organs and lesions but also to treat diseases like cancer.
AAA`s flagship product, Lutathera, won European Union backing in late September for use against gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours, the kind of cancer that killed Apple founder Steve Jobs.
"Novartis has a strong legacy in the development and commercialisation of medicines for neuroendocrine tumors where significant unmet need remains for patients," Bruno Strigini, head of Novartis Oncology, said in a statement.
"With Lutathera we can build on this legacy by expanding the global reach of this novel, differentiated treatment approach."
Lutathera, which has also been submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval, harnesses a molecule not only to diagnose cancer but also to deliver treatment by hitting cancer cells with high-energy electrons.
In a separate statement, AAA Chief Executive Stefano Buono said his company backed the deal, not only to support Lutathera`s expanding launch but also to speed up development of its other therapies.
"We believe that the combination of our expertise... together with the global oncology experience and infrastructure of Novartis provide the best prospects for our patients, physicians and employees, as well as the broader nuclear
medicine community," Buono said.
AAA, which was spun off from Europe`s physics research centre CERN 15 years ago and listed on Nasdaq, had sales of $78 million in the first half of 2017, with a net loss from continuing operations of $24.2 million.
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Images taken before and after Hurricane Irma from space highlight the powerful storm's profound devastation to islands, towns and cities in its path.
This is Providenciales, a gateway island of Turks and Caicos.
See more: Complete coverage of Hurricane Irma
Credit: satellite image ©2017 DigitalGlobe
Anse Marcel, one of the most popular beaches on the French side of Saint Martin island, was ravaged by Irma. Left side was taken on Sept. 8 and the right side was taken on Sept. 11, 2017.
The powerful storm ravaged much of the Caribbean, leaving dozens dead and infrastructure in shambles.
Philipsburg, the capital of Sint Maarten, on the Dutch side of the Caribbean island, seen before and after Irma ripped it apart.
Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean, took a major hit during Irma.
Most of its vegetation appeared to be wiped away by the storm in the photo on the right, dated Sept. 11, 2017.
Satellite photos show Codrington on the island of Barbuda before and after Irma's widespread destruction.
Satellite imagery shows contrasting tales for Barbuda and Antigua.
The small island of Barbuda was directly hit by Irma on Sept. 6, 2017. The "before" image at left shows it green with vegetation; in the "after" image at right, the land is battered and brown. Antigua missed the storm's center and sustained less damage.
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens
Satellite images taken by NASA show the Virgin Islands on Aug. 25 (top) and Sept. 10 (bottom).
The browning seen in the photos was possibly caused Irma's strong winds blowing away vegetation, giving satellites a clear view of the ground or salt desiccating leaves while they are still on the trees, according to NASA.
Satellite images of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands before the arrival of Hurricane Irma and after it swept through the area.


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Where Does All the NCAA March Madness Cash Go?
Players aren't making any money, so where does all the cash from the NCAA Tournament go? Sales Huddle Group CEO Sam Caucci explains. Photo: Getty
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UTA researcher working to improve response to gas-emission incidents
Understanding methane migration
Credit: UT Arlington
Nearly 2 million miles of natural gas pipelines crisscross the United States, most buried underground, and some of those pipes develop leaks and allow gas to escape. As evidenced by several recent high-profile incidents, these leaks may lead to catastrophe.
Kathleen Smits, an associate professor in the Civil Engineering Department at The University of Texas at Arlington, recently received a $414,000 grant from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration to develop a method to predict the conditions under which gas migration may occur and establish best practices to improve response to gas migration incidents, and finding and fixing leaks.
She will lead a team of researchers at Colorado State University and UTA in collaboration with state agencies such as the Texas Railroad Commission and the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and industry partners including pipeline operators and service providers.
When a pipe develops a leak underground the gas generally doesn't rise straight up from the leak site. Rather, it disperses in different directions depending on the type of soil, temperature, pressure and other factors. Eventually, it rises to the surface, but it may not be anywhere near the leak and the levels of gas in the atmosphere where it comes out at another location are often not detectable with current instruments, even though large pockets of gas may still be trapped underground. This migration and difficulty in detection costs time in finding and repairing the leak. It also may lead to greater danger as the gas continues to build up.
Smits and her colleague, Dan Zimmerle of Colorado State University, created a pipeline test bed as part of the Methane Emissions and Technology Evaluation Center or METEC that allows them to control the pipeline leakage rate, subsurface conditions, moisture, surface conditions and other factors, and use sensors to monitor how gas moves underground and how it acts once it reaches the surface. Using the data collected, the team has created a data set that can predict how gas will act under specific subsurface and atmospheric conditions. Smits is now working to apply this modeling to create an algorithm that can be applied in the field by industry leak first responders.
"Our research shows interesting results that go against the conventional wisdom that if there's a large leak you'll be able to see it or easily detect it aboveground. In fact, we have found that the concentrations of gas in the atmosphere are often very small in comparison to the size of the leak," Smits said.
"The methods being used today to detect natural gas leaks from pipelines are flawed because most of the technologies are not sensitive enough, the methods aren't consistent enough, and there's a general denial that there's a problem. We're hoping that by providing data-based guidelines for industry first responders that allow them to take all of the environmental and geological factors into account at a potential leak site, leaks will be detected and repaired before they become a larger problem."
Once Smits completes her algorithm, she and her team will accompany first responders from five industry leaders to leak sites to test whether their modeling works and get the industry on board with the new guidelines.
"It's important for oil and gas companies to show that they're trying to get a handle on the problem. With so many pipelines and aging infrastructure, leaks are inevitable. Companies need to be able to reassure their customers and communities that they are able to detect and repair leaks effectively to ensure safety," Smits said.
Smits' research is an example of data-driven discovery, one of four themes of UTA's Strategic Plan 2020, said Ali Abolmaali, chair of the Civil Engineering Department.
"Natural gas has led to several deadly explosions in the past few years that could have potentially been avoided if there was a better understanding of how gas acts when it leaks from a pipe and how to better detect it. Dr. Smits and her team have done excellent work in their research, and in getting cooperation from industry to apply their findings in a way that could save lives and property," Abolmaali said.
– Written by Jeremy Agor
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Guess time may tell.
Or Not.
Sitting out a year for a Hendrick seat to open up? Going to IndyCar? Sports Cars? Only Carl knows.
Well whatever the reason is I just can't see someone in that position waking up one day and saying, Hey I think this is dangerous, I think I will quit.
My guess is he had some outside influence.
At the least you would expect him to finish the last year of his contract.
But hey, any way it boils down I hope he does not end up regretting his decision and he enjoys life.
Something tells me he would need to get an OK from the wife first.


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Finland's Burning Point was always a tolerable "also ran" in the Euro-power sweepstakes, with several decent but unremarkable albums full of by-the-book melodic speed. 2012s The Ignitor however, benefitted from a heavier, meaner sound and had vastly superior writing. It became a dark horse favorite of mine and it's the only album of theirs I go back to. When news reached me that Battle Beast's original singer, Nitte Valo was coming aboard along with two other new members, I was unsure whether to celebrate or despair. With big line up changes come uncertainly, and coming off their best album, the timing seemed to bode poorly. After a few years of waiting, we finally get their self-titled opus, and before hearing one note, I already had serious issues with what the band did here. You see, rather than releasing a full album of new material to introduce the rejiggered lineup, they opted to record only FOUR new tunes and re-record SIX from previous albums. If that doesn't seem like a sketchy, cash grabby decision to you, I have a few bridges in New York City I'd love to sell you. Oh, I almost forgot the cover version of a marginal KISS song. That makes everything better, right?
First up are the new tunes: opener "In the Shadows" is the best in show, with a raging, rowdy energy and tough edge. It will remind many of Battle Beast's debut and that's a very good thing. Valo is off the leash, belting her lines out like a leather-lunged demon and the backing riffs are heavy and aggressive. This is the kind of material I envisioned when I heard Valo was taking over vocal duties and it's good, aggressive fun. Sadly, the three other new songs are much less gripping. "Find Your Soul" is decent with a strong Helloween bent to the vocal lines and riffs, but lacks real punch. "My Darkest Time" is a semi-moody power ballad with a nice enough chorus, but it's a bit dull and Valo's delivery is too restrained; and "Queen of Fire" is saturated with cheesy 80s synths and keyboards and feels generic. This isn't an auspicious beginning for the band's new era and none of these cuts are on the level of the last album's material.
As for the re-recordings, they selected some of the better songs of yesteryear but the new line up fails to put any kind of unique stamp on them. Valo is more than capable but she doesn't redefine how these "classics" should sound or make them her own in a major way. Only "All the Madness" truly benefits from her presence, as she gives it a more over-the-top energy and the song itself is in the same epic-cheddar wheelhouse as Battle Beast cuts like "Band of the Hawk." Part of the problem lies with Burning Point catalog, which just isn't all that memorable or earthshaking to begin with, and there's no denying the pedestrian nature of tracks like "Dawn of the Ancient War" (nonsensical title) and "Blackened the Sun." This makes it all the more perplexing that the band would think we'd want to hear redone versions of them in the first place.
Aside from the whole re-recording thing, which truly sticks in my craw, another big issue is how the band utilizes the talents of Nitte Valo. Her way over-the-top performance on the Battle Beast debut was one for the ages and made that platter very memorable and fun. Here however, she's mostly reigned in and forced into a less interesting, garden variety power metal delivery. She sings well, but she isn't adding a whole lot to the Burning Point sound and she's nowhere near as wild and raucous as she was with her former band. It begs the question, why get such a wildcat vocal talent if you're just going to muzzle her? Puzzling and disappointing, and ultimately, I ended up missing Pete Ahonen's vocals more than I expected, considering how much I love Valo's proven abilities.
Burning Point is essentially a re-recorded "best of" album with a new singer and a few new cuts, and as such it's decently enjoyable but far from a must hear. If you have the older Burning Point albums, I'd wait for a full-length of new material. If you're new to the band, I suppose it's an adequate entry point and indicative of where the band is headed, but I'm much less bullish on their future than I was before hearing this. Now kindly remove your hand from my pocket. This cash grab is over!
Rating: 2.5/5.0
DR: 5 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: AFM Records
Websites: burning-point.com | facebook.com/burningpointfinland
Release Dates: EU: 2015.06.12 | NA: 07.07.2015