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Meditation is the practice of training the mind, much like weight lifting is a practice of training the body. It is easy to flounder around in the beginning stages of meditation. I tried and failed for almost a year before I realized that there is no failure, there is no right or wrong. There is only you, and to truly commit yourself to this type of practice you will need patience. I now realize that I wasn't feeling "successful" due to a lack of technique. My own lack of commitment and need for perfection were the only two things holding me back from the full experience of meditation.
1. Make Time for "You"
It is easy to get caught up in the daily drama's and trauma's of life! The first step in developing a lasting meditation practice is to become aware of how much time you allow for yourself to slow down (dare I say stop) for a moment and just breathe.
2.Find a Comfortable Spot
You don't necessarily need a "sanctuary" or "altar" to meditate. I meditate every morning and every night without fail and I throw in the occasional lunch meditation if emotions or stresses are running high. A key element to meditation is consistency and I have found that using the same place for each meditation helps trigger awareness in my brain. I am never in the same "place" morning, noon, and night so I have three separate locations for my meditations. In the morning I have a corner in my office, if I need an afternoon pick me up I meditate in my car, and at night I have a special place in my home. A main component of meditation is to bring awareness to the practice its self and familiar surroundings will help create a trigger in the mind.
3. Find a Comfortable Position
It is easy to judge posture too harshly, as above it is important not to overthink the process. You can sit lotus, half lotus, laying down, sitting in a chair, the main goal is to get comfortable. You do want to embody an alert awareness no matter which way you choose. The key here is complete comfort and relaxation. During meditation, it is normal for slight discomforts and irritations to arise within the body. Try to bring awareness to the discomfort by breathing in to that sore muscle or itchy foot before adjusting. If you are physically unable to sit through the annoyance you can adjust, scratch, etc. but by bringing awareness you will be doing so consciously and without irritation.
4. Start Slow
Meditation does not have to be an hour-long torture fest. Many suggest easing into the process by starting very slow and practicing for 5 minutes a day. Once you become comfortable sitting for that amount of time you can move it up to 10 minutes, 20 minutes, and more! The trick is to be consistent, there is no right or wrong method. Set yourself a goal for 5 minutes a day for 7 days, by the end if you are able to sit comfortably without a restless mind or body then try 10 minutes for the next 7 days. Don't get discouraged and try not to let your mind judge too harshly. There is no end goal. I have meditated multiple times a day for over a year but there are times my mind is too restless to sit, on the days I am aware of this I will scale back my sessions to fit my needs. Two days ago I was able to sit for two, 40 minute sessions and today I am only able to sit for two 10 minute sessions. I am still able to reap the benefits of meditation practice without allowing my mind to tell me that I am practicing incorrectly.
5. Taming Thoughts
A common mistake made is in the thinking that you must clear your mind. This is not only not impossible but is very counter-productive in the early stages of practice. Think of the mind like a wild mustang. If you put the mustang in a pen so small it feels trapped, the mustang will push back.The mustang will resist being contained; however, if you give the horse a long lead for it to run it will barely notice that you are slowly drawing it back to the corral. This part of the practice takes patience and lack of judgement. Try at first to focus on breathing, counting your breaths can help to relax your mind and help you focus. Each separate breath is 1 count, go up to 10 and start again. The mind will wander even if you focus on the count. When it does you shouldn't judge yourself too harshly, simply recognize where the mind has gone and begin again. It helps me to actually name my wandering thought before I go back to the breath. For instance, my mind wanders to a thought of what I will prepare for supper this afternoon, I am aware my mind has wandered and I recognize that it is a planning thought. I acknowledge that my mind is planning and gently guide my focus back to the breath. I also carry that practice throughout my day to maintain mindfulness and presence.
6. Let Go of Judgement
The previous tips all have an underlying theme..... cut yourself some slack. Our own mind is our worst enemy. I judged myself so harshly in the beginning that I almost never got started! I would sit perfectly still with such good posture it hurt and get angry when I couldn't keep my mind from thinking. JUST LET IT BE! A benefit of meditation is it can move you from the thinking mind and allow you to sit within your body and your heart and just simply be, but in order to do so you will need to let go of judging the experience. There is no failure in meditation.
7. Try Guided Meditation
I had many failed attempts at meditation due to my critical perfectionism and my lack of commitment in the beginning. A friend of mine recommending trying a guided meditation to help get me started and it was the best thing I have done. You can find them all over the internet. I suggest mindful meditations or checking into Jack Kornfield.
8. Use Aromatherapy
I started using Hawaian Sandalwood on the soles of my feet before every meditation. The properties in the essential oil promote awareness and will help you find center. I have been able to sit for longer periods of time and go deeper within myself.
9. There is no Goal
There is no goal in meditation. Once you become aware of the different depths of meditation it is easy to get caught up in "a goal". The point of meditation is to raise awareness, promote relaxation, and connect with your inner self. Going into your session with a certain goal is counter productive to the practice itself. For instance, you are so focused on what your end goal is that you are not aware of the meditation or what may arise from moment to moment. The minute you begin to think about what you want from the meditation, the moment is gone and you are just sitting still and thinking.
10. Be Grateful
Were you able to feel your body relax and your heart open? Be grateful. Were you able to quiet the mind for a few moments? Be grateful. If you sit for 10 minutes and you felt 30 seconds of relaxation and inner peace, be grateful. Focus on the high points of your meditation instead of wishing the meditation to be different. Some people will spend their entire lives looking for what already lives inside them. You will have the opportunity to find it within yourself everyday with practice and commitment.


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I Can't Give You Anything But Love
Words: Dorothy Fields; Music: Jimmy McHugh (1928)
I can't give you anything but love, baby,
That's the only thing I've plenty of, baby,
Dream awhile,
Scheme awhile,
We're sure to find
Happiness — and, I guess,
All those things
You've always pined for.
Gee, I'd love to see you
Looking swell, baby,
Diamond bracelets
Woolworth doesn't sell, baby.
'Til that lucky day
You know darn well, baby,
I can't give you anything but love.
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love" was the hit of Blackbirds of 1928, was McHugh and Fields's first hit, and has been covered extensively by subsequent popular artists and jazz musicians.
Some controversy surrounds the song's authorship. Andy Razaf biographer Harry Singer suggests that Fats Waller might have sold the melody to McHugh in 1926 and that the lyrics were by Andy Razaf. Alternatively, Philip Furia has pointed out that Fields' verse is almost identical to the end of the second verse of Lorenz Hart's and Richard Rodgers' song "Where's That Rainbow?".
Here are two very different versions by two very accomplished female singers. First a rendition by Judy Garland:
Here is Doris Day's take on the number:
And here is the Sing-A-long version for listening to and downloading:

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'Setbacks' force Hunter Gatherer to close permanently
Emergency crews respond to a fire Wednesday evening at the Hunter Gatherer Vegetarian Diner on 15 Ave. (Cole Davenport/CTV News Regina)
REGINA -- The Hunter Gatherer Vegetarian Diner will not reopen after being closed for several months, the business said in a Facebook post Tuesday.
"It's with a heavy heart that I have to announce that Hunter Gatherer will not be reopening, at least not in its current iteration," the restaurant said in the post. "After all of our setbacks and the uncertainty of the industry going forward, we just can't push through this."
The restaurant had been closed since July, after a fire caused extensive damage to its building. It had also been broken into several times in the past year.
In the post, Neil McDonald, the owner of the restaurant, thanked the community for its support and said he will continue cater. He added he hopes Hunter Gatherer will be able to "regroup and rise again."
"I very much appreciate everyone who came in to dine with us and support my dream, as well as those who have worked alongside me through the last four years," the post said.


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"This is pretty much what my dressing room looks like before every show," Luke Bryan posted on Twitter on Thursday (March 17).
And before you even click the link he included, you pretty much know exactly what his dressing room would look like. And it ain't all champagne and velvet couches and hair and makeup teams.
Because that's just not who Bryan is.
This video shows "what really happens backstage before the show." For the first half of the video, Bryan and his band crowd around one little cell phone watching viral videos of people falling off hover boards. And for the second half, Bryan tries to record a promotional video but the words just keep coming out wrong.
So, to recap, Luke Bryan backstage is just like the Luke Bryan onstage. And off. What you see is what you get with him.


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Possible to make an Infinity Magic Mirror ?
Hello everyone,
(firstly, sorry i'm french so my English is not very good…)
Do you think it's possible to make an infinity magic mirror by replacing the real mirror of infinity mirror by two-way mirror and put the monitor behind ?
Maybe the infinite effect would be less strong, but it does not matter.
Could we see the screen and the infinite effect?
thanks ^^
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I don't think so. The infinity mirror is a layer of (front to back) a two-way mirror, LED lights, and a solid 100% reflective mirror. The effect is achieved by some of the light behind the front layer bouncing off the back layer and making its way through the two-way mirror and into your eyes.
The Magic Mirror design replaces that 100% reflective mirror with a computer monitor. You can have one or the other, but not both.
Sigh. All that said… you might get a similar effect with two layers of one-way glass. It won't be as efficient as a normal infinity mirror, but it might be enough to create something unique.
The design would require two one-way mirror panels with the LED light between them, and a computer monitor backing the last panel. Be warned that the display from the computer monitor will also be replicated like the LED string from the default infinity mirror design. If you're willing to shell out the cash for two pieces of one-way mirror and build a hybrid infinity mirror from it… more power to you.
@bhepler thank you for your answer, i think it's possible by replacing the normal mirror by one way glass, but, why you say 2 one way glass ? the other must be a two way mirror no ?
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@tirando - Two way mirror = one way glass = one way mirror. They're all synonyms. Much like how flammable and inflammable both mean "no smoking nearby".
Two way/One way mirrors are both just terms for a mirror that allows a percentage of the light behind it to pass through.
oh ok ! thank you for your explanation !


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Because the Intelligent Retail Connect software has been designed to serve all product information from one database, all sales come back to the shop till, which can then be 'picked, packed and despatched' in the normal way, just as if the buyer was standing in your shop - much easier than learning a new system for each online trading channel!
The Connect EPoS system is integrated with leading supply chains for many different trading verticals, meaning that you have a one-stop solution end to end for your business. In some cases, the patented Intelligent Retail 'black box' system can supply your product images, titles and base descriptions just by scanning your product's barcode - a massive time saver!
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Please tell me how much this site helps you with a number from 0.0-1.0
In a utility system we calculate the utility, or usefulness of each action. It's a normalized value that allows us to compare the actions with each other and pick the one that looks the best right now for the agent. There are two major steps do this and they are data processing and decision processing.
Data processing
This step takes the state of the world and the agent and map them to normalized utility values. This values are called concepts and can be modified and combines to form new concepts.
Example: The number of enemies around the player can be normalized to the concept of threat. The more enemies around the more threat the agent will feel. At the same time we have the concept of homies that is the normalized amount of friends around that make the agent feel more safe. These two can be combined into a new concept called anxiety that can then be used in the flee action to see if the agent panic's and runs for it.
Collect State
The state data need to be collected and it can be expensive so that's why data processing is a separate step from the decision processing. This can run every n frames or update when event's about state changes are revived. Some data will also be older then one frame no matter what, ex is ray casts.
This is done with graph functions. Ex ones are Linear, Quadratic, Logistic or Logit.
Concept values can be combined in a number of ways. The most easy one is an average or multiplication.
Decision processing
The decision process calculate the utility for each action and then use some way to pick the one to perform.
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You may never again be told to turn off your iPad during a flight if a U.S. agency finds it's safe to operate tablets and other gadgets on board.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday it will reassess its policies around the in-flight use of electronic devices, with the aim of loosening the rules.
And, depending on what the FAA finds, Transport Canada told QMI Agency it may follow suit.
"We're looking for information to help air carriers and operators decide if they can allow more widespread use of electronic devices in today's aircraft," acting FAA administrator Michael Huerta said in a news release.
Because cellphones and tablets can use different power levels and different frequencies - not necessarily tailored to aviation standards - their effects are difficult to gauge.
The FAA wants to find out which gadgets passengers can safely use on board, and when, and establish a standard set of guidelines. Current FAA regulations put it in the hands of the airlines to make those determinations.
A study group, which will include wireless companies, airlines, pilots and flight attendants, airplane manufacturers and consumer groups, will meet for six months starting this fall before submitting its recommendations to the FAA.
Transport Canada is watching closely but has no immediate plans to revise its rules.
At the moment, passengers are allowed to use mobile devices during the taxi-in phase only, spokesperson Kelly James said in an e-mail.
However, Air Canada has conducted trials on the use of Wi-Fi on two Airbus 319 planes, and "the result of Air Canada's trial, as well as the findings of the FAA's working group, will help the department assess potential future regulatory change."
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Oast House Farm Snack: Helen Nash
Helen Nash had never imagined she'd run her own business, but when she started working for Oast House as an employee, she discovered an opportunity she couldn't miss.
Helen explains: "Having previously worked as a Post Office Manager and then as a personal banker with a supermarket bank, I was desperate to find a new job that would be something different.
After meeting Matt, the MD at Oast House, I handed in my notice the next day. I immediately loved the job as I was out and about meeting people but I'd never considered running it as my own business."
When Matt mentioned the franchise opportunity, Helen discussed it with her husband and went through the figures with Matt, after that she decided it was too good an opportunity to miss.So after five months of working as an employee she became a franchisee covering Worthing, Hove, Peace Haven, Brighton, Newhaven and Halisham, and hasn't looked back.
Since then, Helen has found the team at Head Office easy going and very supportive. She says: "I'd never thought about running my own business before but with the support of the team at Oast House, I've been able to take on things that would previously have been very daunting, like tax! I've had regular training sessions and they're always at the end of the phone if I need anything."
Helen adds: "Running my own business has made me focus more on what gets bought at each location so I can tailor the contents better each time.
"I've never been a natural salesperson but I'm finding that I'm always looking out for new locations for boxes and I have the confidence to approach them. It helps that nobody is setting me targets, I just do it all at my own pace,"
As she's dealing with the same people all the time, Helen is enjoying getting to know everyone in her locations, which include schools, hospitals, GP surgeries, offices, car show rooms and large retailers.


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I am the Egg Man
Pizza and a Pint at The Tavern.
Pizza Rosso has certainly put some life into The Railway Tavern in Elmswell. Friday night's only, grab yourself a lovely thin and crispy stone baked pizza from the food truck in the car park (from about 5pm to 8.30pm). Order your pizza, pop into the pub and have a pint while you wait for a text to tell you the pizza's ready. We ordered the Carne with salami, spicy beef and prosciutto and the special Code di Gambero with cray fish tails, jalapeno, sweetcorn and cajun seasoning. The smoked chipotle chilli dip was so fiery that it called for another pint of Aspall's. Lovely service from the owner and his mum, plus a pudding of the day too. Note that The Tavern, as the locals call it, only takes cash and despite it being run down has a dart board, a pool table and a friendly landlord. Unlike Elmswell Fox who has a grumpy landlord, I mean who shouts at customers for walking through a door in the wrong direction? Pizza Rosso is in Woolpit on a Monday, Stanton on Tuesday, Bacton on Wednesday and Thurston on Thursdays.
- Code di Gambero with crayfish tails, jalapeno, sweetcorn and cajun seasoning
- Carne with salami, spicy beef and prosciutto ham
- open from 5.30pm until about 8.30pm
We love a new butcher...
...especially the one in Elmswell who we promised to mention a long time ago and only just got round to doing it. Why? Because it's on our doorstep, has lots of great value choice, couldn't be more helpful if you want to learn about meat - and why would you drive all that way to buy meat from a supermarket if you could get it here?
Cake from the Co-op
The Wheaten Mill in Elmsett made this and they sell through the Co-Op (and probably other places too). It was nearly as good as our own home-made coffee cake and looks just the same. A bit less icing and more coffee flavour and it would have been perfect, but much much nicer than most shop bought cakes if you can't be bothered or run out of time to make one to have with your cup of tea.
The Womens Institute pop-up in Elmswell
Hello Steve - from Clavering Pigs...
Steve sells his own farm-reared pork at local farmers markets and he was at the new Elmswell market last Sunday. He doesn't have a website and only uses the internet to check the tide tables when he wants to go fishing, so Google Clavering Pigs if you want to find out where to find him.


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7 x 7 exhibition revisited
Last year at this time, I had the pleasure of reviewing the "7 x 7" photography exhibition at Gallery Raymond (at 334 Princess St. downtown), and I took the opportunity to view this year's iteration of the show as well. With an array of images by an almost completely new roster of photographers, the show once again makes for interesting and enjoyable viewing.
In my column on this show last year, I provided a little rundown on the history of photography and its relationship to other visual arts, particularly drawing and painting (see "Photos worth a thousand words," Feb. 2, 2019). As part of that, I noted that with advances in photography and the greater portability of the camera in the later mid-19th century, a new way of viewing the world began to emerge — that of the snapshot view. Painters saw the potential in these photographic views and began adopting and adapting similar viewpoints in their artworks, which became one of the characteristics of Impressionism. (This was actually already happening in painting to a certain degree before photography took off, but that's another story.) Over time, photographers and painters increasingly pushed the boundaries of the image, creating very tight, fragmented, occluded views that verged on abstraction by virtue of the fact that the subject being represented was made virtually unrecognizable due to the close focus.
There were some examples of this type of imagery in last year's 7 x 7 show, but the approach is in even greater evidence in this year's exhibition, with several of the photographers offering very close, fragmented views. It makes for very interesting viewing, and with at least a couple of images, it will take you some time to realize exactly what you're looking at (which I found rather entertaining). Christine Gibson's colourful photographs, for example, are all in this mode. She has taken everyday objects and structures and has seen the potential to make them highly visually interesting by virtue of unique perspectives and judicious cropping.
Photographers Karen Dolan and Judith Belanger have also taken this route with some of their images. Along with colourful, wonderfully evocative East Coast views, Dolan provides close-up images with organic patterning in a natural setting, variations in texture in an unexpected venue, and a unique perspective on structures some people love to hate. Belanger has also explored the symmetry of the natural world in her work, as well as looking in-depth at some man-made objects returning to nature in a pair of photos that (before you read the title) could be almost anything. It is indeed remarkable how changing how you view something completely alters your thinking about that object or subject.
Photographer Jack Parker offers some truly stunning images of some of our avian friends. In these works it is less about the close-up view than it is about light and how that light illuminates the plumage on the birds and on the environment in which they are found. In this case, light, the raison d'etre of photography, is the master stroke in these pictures. Light and colour are also the key players in Ray Vos's images from Kenya. If you imagine that Africa is a predominantly dry, colourless, dusty place, think again. Vos's images reveal the love of colour and exuberance of the people he came to know there, as well as the colourful characters of particular individuals. As well, Vos's lens has captured the expansiveness of the landscape with good atmospheric effect.
Black-and-white photography, which doesn't seem too prevalent these days, also makes a significant mark in this year's 7 x 7 exhibition. I rather like black-and-white photograph — it can be so very moody, and it encourages you to see textures and patterns that might otherwise be missed in colour images. Dan Fleury's photographs of natural and architectural scenes in both black and white and colour provide an opportunity to see how the tonality of the image impacts the subject matter. The cold crispness of snow, the symmetry of neoclassical architecture, these look very different depending on the photographic media chosen (and be sure to examine the image of Kingston City Hall quite closely, to see just where that reflection is coming from). And speaking of moody, Bill Milward's (mostly) black-and-white portrait photography is an essay in human character, with glimpses into personality. Each of his images is singular and intriguing, due to the qualities each sitter allows to be revealed (deliberately or not). Very little is hidden from Milward's lens, but each visage also leaves room for the viewer to imagine stories for each individual, so that each portrait is much more than a record of a face.
All in all, though the 7 x 7 photography exhibition is thematically the same as previous years, the approach of the different photographers in each iteration makes is a novel and refreshing viewing experience. The show runs until the end of February.
Kamille Parkinson earned a PhD in art history from Queen's University, and is presently a freelance writer and art historian at large. You can find her writing at Word Painter Projects on Facebook.
Art About Town
Agnes Etherington Art Centre
- The Pathos of Mandy, by Walter Scott (to April 2020)
- Face of the Sky, from the collections (to August 2020)
- Inuuqatikka: My Dear Relations, by Arnait Video Productions (to April 2020)
- From Tudor to Hanover: British Portraits, 1590-1800 (to August 2020)
- B-Side Agnes Etherington, by Paul Litherland (to August 2020)
- Quest for Colour: Five Centuries of Innovation in Printmaking (to April 2020)
- Playing Doctor: General Idea Multiples (to April 2020)
- The Art of African Ivory (to April 2020)
Gallery Raymond
- "7 x 7" Seven photographers, seven images each (to Feb. 28)
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North Carolina orthoimagery project will improve emergency services in 100 counties.
North Carolina is using a $12.3 million grant to fund a statewide aerial photography project that will give emergency responders a common operating picture.
In 2009, the North Carolina 911 Board awarded the grant to the Durham Emergency Communications Center on behalf of all counties for the NC Statewide Orthoimagery 2010 project, which will provide aerial images to 100 counties. According to a state report, the grant included the "acquisition of high-resolution aerial photos from digital cameras, processing into images that fit the Earth with accurate distances between features, quality control, packaging for delivery to all 100 counties and online public access." Orthoimagery is used as reference points for locating calls to 911 centers.
Though individual counties have previously obtained funding for orthoimagery, Tim Johnson, director of the Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, which manages the project, said it's an unprecedented occurrence on a regional or statewide level.
"This was the first time that something of this magnitude was funded by the 911 Board to include the entire state," Johnson said.
Having a statewide project as opposed to creating one for each county should result in significant cost savings, Johnson said. For example, if two neighboring counties are working on separate projects, the potential for overlapping data collection increases since counties often fly over county line to take photographs. With an integrated project, however, data redundancy is eliminated, and time and money is saved.
Before the project started, orthoimagery was inconsistent and patchy. Some counties had more recent orthoimagery than others, Johnson said. If a county with updated information was located next to a county with out-of-date orthoimagery, it created a disjointed environment for those responding to 911 calls. In some cases, crucial aerial images weren't available when emergency personnel responded to a 911 call.
"We've heard of instances where a call was coming in from an address related to the fire, but there was no fire," Johnson said. "There was no house showing up on the imagery where the fire was supposed to be occurring."
Images acquired for the project will help 911 centers respond during emergencies, said James Soukup, director of the Durham Emergency Communications Center. "Location is the most critical piece of information in a 911 call," Soukup said. "Consistent statewide data ensures that all North Carolina residents will be better served by this project."
The Center for Geographic Information and Analysis gathered the aerial images during January through April 2010. The images will then be delivered to the counties by the end of this month, according to NC OneMap, a geospatial data resource website affiliated with the project.
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Ed Klop left the province in the late 1990s to find a job and a better life. He did eventually return to British Columbia, but not intending to see the NDP form government again. He believes the Liberals gave up their chance quite a while ago so Klop has decided he is the one to represent the B.C. Conservatives, the one who really understands the working people of the riding.
Ed Klop grew up helping on his family's dairy farm, then took to driving highway tractor-trailers, then real estate became his passion before starting an asphalt repair company – which he still runs. All of these experiences as a small business owner lend themselves to making him the best representative for the Kamloops-North Thompson riding, he says.
While living in Quesnel, Klop started getting involved in politics but it was while living in Alberta that he really started to advocate a common sense approach to politics – something we says the Wildrose Alliance Party did well. He ran twice under the party flag while living in Alberta.
After moving back to B.C. a few years ago with his wife—Yvonne grew up in Kamloops—the self-described "true conservative" put his name in for nomination in the Shuswap riding but Tom Birch ultimately became the Conservative candidate.
With his paperwork already filed it was a quick transition to fill Ed Fehr's shoes as the North Thompson candidate when Fehr was forced to step down because of health issues. Fehr did get the okay today from his doctor that he is doing well, but his health is still a concern and he sees himself more fit to help Klop run his campaign, instead of taking part in his own.
When asked about his late entry into the Kamloops candidate pool, Klop notes he was approached last October but wanted time to think about it. By the time he got back from a winter break from seasonal work, Fehr had already decided to take the plunge himself.
The blue collar worker does not think living outside of the riding will hurt his chances. He lives in Sorrento but says he understands the life of a hard-working individual and the rural life, he says. He feels having worked in the "trenches" puts him closer to the constituents and makes him the most qualified for the role of Kamloops-North Thompson MLA.
"It's unfortunate, maybe (not living in the riding), but I don't have any businesses in my back pocket either."
He also hasn't ruled out moving in to the riding, but is currently enjoying the lake-side living the Shuswap is providing his family.
Klop wants to see "made in B.C. Jobs" created for the people of the region and wants to do so by bringing investments into the Kamloops area.
"That's how you keep feeding the fire," Klop says of the cyclical role industry plays in the economy.
Complete scrutiny is needed at all levels of government and the hospital in order to build on efficiencies, save money and be able to hire the people that are needed, he says.
Klop also questions how a province that has done so well in the past now boasts one of the highest overall taxation rates for citizens.
"We have to have the guts," he says, "(to not vote for) the ones who want to spend, who act like they're on a talent show."
"Common sense can lead to prosperity. We need to take a serious look at all debts, get back to basics. I don't think it's wrong to demand what's going on with our money."
As most party members have been noted as saying at some point during this campaign – Klop is not concerned over any notoriety the party leader, John Cummins in this case, has faced coming into the election.
"No party has a perfect slate, you have to look at the candidate as well," Klop states, noting the Conservatives are also given free vote within the party, meaning they can still fight for their constituents even if the party and the leader are looking at different choices.
"We need to keep persevering, take the gloves off (and fight.) We're almost masking who we are, skirting the issues – we need to cut through and get back to basics."
Your other Kamloops-North Thompson candidates:
Kathy Kendall, NDP
Terry Lake, Liberal (incumbent)
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After reacting to a robbery in Ipanema, an American tourist was detained for insult to a Civil Police agent during a mess at the Tourist Attendant (Deat) in Leblon. Joe Ianco, a 54-year-old American, fought in the body with suspected assailants in the police station and was arrested. When cursed, he cursed the policeman in English.
"The tourist said that it did not mean anything to be in a police station and cursed civilian police in English. His behavior was unacceptable, "said titular delegate Valéria Aragão. In Rio since December 26, the American signed a circumstantial term of occurrence (in case of light infraction) and was released.
Joe was with a friend, Michael Bottari, 57. The two were approached by Anderson Cardoso, 42, who was armed when they left a building on Nascimento Silva Street. According to the Civil Police, Anderson tried to shoot at least four times against the victim, but the weapon failed. The American, who is a marathon runner, chased the bandit and went into a body fight with him.
He still slashed the American's face and fled toward Rua Farme de Amoedo. There, while trying to surrender a taxi driver, he was surrounded by PMs from the 23rd BPM (Leblon). The military fired on the criminal, but he was not hit.
Before Deat, Joe and Anderson were taken to Miguel Couto Municipal Hospital in Gávea, as they were injured. Then, at the specialized headquarters, the tourist came back from the thief, but was restrained by an agent, who asked him to remain calm. "They (tourists) need to know that the legislation of each country needs to be respected", stressed the delegate.
The robber accused was arrested in the act and will respond for attempted robbery (robbery followed by death). The indictment adds up to 13 notes in his criminal record, for theft, robbery, gun possession, drug use and domestic violence.
In the case of Ipanema, military police seized the weapon used by the accused, a 9-mm pistol with ammunition. Two rolex watches and a gold cord from the Americans, in addition to $ 1,070 in kind, have also been recovered. Joe is from New York (USA), but his friend Michael lives at Nascimento Silva Street in Ipanema. The assailant is also a resident of Morro do Cantagalo, also in Ipanema.


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And while those reactions are cute, an enterprising developer has found a way to make them better: swapping out Facebook's standard cartoon faces out for different Trump faces, or Pokemon, or whatever someone can think up next.
Here's how it works.
First you have to download the "Reaction Packs" browser extension for either Chrome or Firefox. Once that's done, you can swap out the default reactions for any of the custom packs that either the creators, or other developers, have uploaded. The extension launched with three: Trump, Pokemon, and Soot Sprites.
The Trump ones are particularly brilliant. However you feel about the Republican frontrunner, he does have truly incredible facial reactions. Just check out what his pack looks like:
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Only the person applying them can see them , so it's of no use ….. Others in your friends list see the default reactions …
And here is the Pokemon version:
We should note that the customized emojis will basically transform all the emojis that you see in your own News Feed, but they will not appear as Trump or Pokemon in your friends' feeds when you use an emoji to react to someone else's post (unless your friends have also downloaded the Reaction Packs). Still, it's a great way to add a touch of humor to your feed.
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Friday, May 1, 2009
Home for a Day
7 comments:
- Hummingbirder said...
You all look so happy! Wow! Spain! How fun to visit other countries.
- May 1, 2009 at 6:59 PM
- Krista said...
...and the countdown for you BEGINS! You can make it 5 days, no problem. :) Let me know if you need any help or want company!
- May 1, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- Stef said...
Yay! I'm glad you guys were able to have a fun day together!
I love that picture of you all - very cute! Hmmmm.... maybe you need some company this week? :)
- May 2, 2009 at 10:52 AM
- laura said...
You guys look so cute! And you look AMAZING!
I'd be a nervous wreck if Bruce was out of the country this far along, you're a brave lady. :)
- May 2, 2009 at 11:41 AM
- Nicola said...
You look great Erin. Don't sweat the small stuff. You're going to be just fine. We're praying that she waits until Scott is home. Take care.
- May 5, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- Melissa Joy said...
Have I mentioned that this is probably my favorite picture ever on your site?! PERFECT. Such an unquestionably wonderful family. Hope your hubby is home again now, and that all is well. I am praying for you.
- May 8, 2009 at 7:52 AM
- Stef said...
So... I heard some amazing BABY news on Facebook and I just wanted to say CONGRATS! I can't remember what day you said Scott was coming home, but I sure hope he made it! Can't wait to see pictures!
- May 8, 2009 at 8:58 PM


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On May 4th, tens of thousands of would-be pirates joined The Hunt, part of Volvo's promotion with Disney's new film Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End and set sail on a virtual high seas adventure, solving a series of online clues and puzzles that will eventually lead to the treasure.
Three-quarters of the earth's surface is under water, so finding a sunken treasure chest is not going to be easy," said Linda Gangeri, national advertising manager for Volvo Cars of North America. "We want our hunt to be challenging, but we don't want participants to become discouraged, so we thought we'd help narrow the playing field by revealing ten places where 'X' doesn't mark the spot."
1. The Dead Sea. We wanted to sink our treasure, not float it.
2. The Red Sea. Volvo's brand colors are blue.
3. The Sea of Love. While we truly admire our treasure hunt participants, this sentiment may be a little strong. Besides, it's a song.
4. The Sea of Tranquility. We wanted to make our hunt accessible to everyone, not just astronauts landing on the moon.
5. The Caspian Sea. It may be the world's mightiest lake, but it's no challenge to our sea-faring pirates. We needed a real high-seas adventure.
6. Off the Shores of Skeleton Island (a.k.a. Treasure Island). Way too obvious � we learned from last year's Hunt that we have to keep our treasure hunters on their toes.
7. Bermuda Triangle. We wanted to make sure our treasure was difficult to find, not impossible.
8. Atlantis. It was a hot favorite, but we couldn't find it.
9. Sea World. We already have enough sharks going after our treasure.
10. Watergate. Enough people went under.
There's still time to join The Hunt! Participants 18 and older must visit any of the Volvo Philippines showrooms -- either in Makati, Ortigas or Cebu -- to pick up a special pirate chart then register at www.volvocarsphils.com/thehunt anytime between May 4 and May 29. The first person from each of the participating markets to finish the online hunt will compete against one another in one final exciting online challenge June 2. The first of those 22 individuals to solve the final puzzle will be named the winner and will receive a trip to the burial location to retrieve the chest filled with $50,000 in pirate gold and a key to a new Volvo.
In addition to the United States, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand and the United Kingdom are participating in The Hunt.


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Action: Set lines underwater to reduce seabird bycatch
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- Four replicated and controlled studies and a literature review in Norway, South Africa and the North Pacific found reductions in northern fulmar Fulmarus glacialis, albatross and petrel bycatch rates when using an underwater setting funnel. Although one found a disproportionate number of albatross were caught during day line setting.
- A replicated and controlled study found that underwater setting increased attack rates of shearwaters Puffinus spp. on longlines and did not reduce bycatch.
Most birds caught on longlines are caught when the lines are being set, after the bait has been attached to hooks but before they have sunk out of the reach of surface-feeding birds. If lines are set underwater then it may reduce the time they are available to birds and therefore reduce bycatch.
Supporting evidence from individual studies
A randomised, replicated and controlled study off the coast of Norway (Løkkeborg 1998) found that seabird bycatch in May 1996 was significantly lower when an underwater setting funnel was used to set longlines (28 birds caught, 0.49 birds/1,000 hooks for 13 line sets) than in control sets without the funnel (99 birds caught, 1.75 birds/1,000 hooks for 13 line sets). Lines were set during daylight and bycatch was mainly northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis.
A randomised, replicated and controlled experiment, with 11 repeats of each treatment (each approximately 6,500 hooks), off the coast of mid-Norway during daylight in August 1998 (Løkkeborg 2001), found that longlines set using an underwater setting funnel significantly reduced the number of seabirds caught compared with control lines, set without a funnel (six birds and 0.08/1,000 hooks vs. 74 birds and 1.75/1,000 hooks). The majority of hooked birds were northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis.
A randomised, replicated and controlled study (Melvin et al. 2001) in a North Pacific fishery in August 1999 found that using a setting funnel ("lining tube") reduced the number of seabirds caught on longlines, compared to controls (0.045 birds/1000 hooks vs. 0.218 birds/1000 hooks). However, this decline was only fewer northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis being caught, with the bycatch rate of shearwater Puffinus spp. remaining constant. Overall, the number of birds following and the rate of attacks on baits were consistent across treatments, although attack rates by shearwaters were twice as high when using a setting funnel. The study took place in the Pacific cod Gadus macrocephalus and walleye pollock Theragra chalcogramma fishery southeast of the Pribilof Islands, USA. This study is also discussed in 'Weight baits or lines to reduce longline bycatch of seabirds', 'Set longlines at night to reduce seabird bycatch', 'Use a line shooter to reduce seabird bycatch' and 'Use streamer lines to reduce seabird bycatch on longlines'.
A replicated, controlled study in a South African fishery, between 1998 and 2000 (Ryan & Watkins 2002) found that seabird bycatch in longline sets that used an underwater setting funnel was significantly lower than sets that did not use a funnel, both during the day (funnel: 2,255,150 hooks set, 23 petrels, 10 albatross killed, 0.015 birds/1,000 hooks; no funnel: 434,598 hooks set, 20 petrels, 1 albatross killed, 0.048 birds/1,000 hooks) and night (funnel: 317,503 hooks set, 3 petrels and no albatross killed, 0.009 birds/1,000 hooks; no funnel: 2,045,912 hooks set, 56 petrels, one albatross killed, 0.028 birds/1,000 hooks). However, a disproportionate number of albatrosses were killed during day-time sets using the setting funnel. The study took place in the Patagonian toothfish Dissostichus eleginoides fishery off the coast of the Prince Edward Islands.
A review of two randomised, replicated and controlled studies off the coast of Norway (Løkkeborg 2003) found that fewer northern fulmars Fulmarus glacialis were caught on longline hooks when an underwater setting funnel was used (34 birds and 0.08-0.49 birds/1,000 hooks) compared to control line sets (174 birds and 1.06-1.75 birds/1,000 hooks). Both papers are outlined above.
Referenced papers
- Løkkeborg S. (1998) Seabird by-catch and bait loss in long-lining using different setting methods. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du COnseil, 55, 145
- Løkkeborg S. (2001) Reducing seabird bycatch in longline fisheries by means of bird-scaring lines and underwater setting. Pages 33-41 in: E. Melvin & J. Parrish (eds.) Seabird Bycatch: trends, roadblocks and solutions. Alaska Sea Grant, Fairbanks.
- Melvin E.F., Parrish J.K., Dietrich K.S. & Hamel O.S. (2001) Solutions to seabird bycatch in Alaska's demersal longline fisheries. Washington Sea Grant Program, University of Washington report.
- Ryan P.G. & Watkins B.P. (2002) Reducing incidental mortality of seabirds with an underwater longline setting funnel. Biological Conservation, 104, 127-131
- Løkkeborg S. (2003) Review and evaluation of three mitigation measures – bird-scaring line, underwater setting and line shooter–to reduce seabird bycatch in the north Atlantic longline fishery. Fisheries Research, 60, 11-16


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Hey guys! So today was a very VERY fun day. I live in Chicago yet I've never been to Chinatown. Today was the day I got to explore more of my beautiful city!
This is a candid of me and one of my best friends, Alyssa. I went with my little sister, my mom, and her friend as well!
While we headed to lunch, we found these awesome statues of the Chinese zodiacs and we were all reading the little plaques that tells us what each sign means. I'm the rabbit!
So we headed to this restaurant on South China Place in Chinatown and it was so delicious! My friend recommended this place and it is now one of my favorite Chinese restaurants in Chicago. I totally recommend it!
This restaurant had tons of choices: noodle dishes, soups, meat dishes, rice dishes, and a ton of bubble tea options on their menu! I love bubble tea so much! I feel like it's a hit or miss with some people but, I really enjoy the tapioca balls and the amazing range of flavors you can get!
We stopped in one of the small bakeries in town and I forgot the name of this one but, they had an awesome selection of Chinese pastries. I had this red bean sweet bun type thing. I have always wanted to try red bean. It kind of tasted like almonds or an almond paste in the middle. It was really good!
Another thing I bought was this really cute (fake) jade bracelet. Alyssa and I decided to get matching ones. I loved how it looked with my watch.
There were a ton of stores filled with a ton of stuff. Sometimes it was just your basic needs like dishes, kitchenware, clothes etc. There was a lot of random stuff too. It was all really cute though.
Here's my little sister being a little weirdo. Haha she loves me so much. She was like, "Nat, I want to model like you do in your blog!". Whelp, there's my sister for yuh.
There was a ton of beautiful architecture around Chinatown. It all looked so detailed and someone really knew what they were doing with this building.
You probably can tell that I am not that educated on the Chinese culture. I'd love to learn and know more about it. I loved experiencing this new part of my town that I'd never seen before. Chicago is so diverse and it made me happy that I got to explore and experience it all. Sure it's not actually China, but I met a lot of really nice people and I've seen a lot for what it's worth.
Traveling and exploring for me is only going to continue due to my love and passion for learning about different cultures and meeting new people. I had a really fun day and I hope to come back another time!
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Another type of geometry – celestial geometry – is present in "Nomad Maps II" by Irene Dubrovsky, who evokes the sidereal spaces of the Northern Hemisphere, as seen from the Sahara Desert. The installation consists of a series of suspended paper discs; their surfaces contain maps whose grooves mark the placement, movements and relationships of remote planets. At the same time, the writing of heaven is understood as sheet music, where the location of the astral bodies is the equivalent to the notes; their position in space and time allows sonorous interpretations which spread, pass tangible limits and metaphorically connect the Cell with the vibrations of some distant unknown worlds. (Helena Braunštajn)
Contemplation of a starry night in the desert is represented in the collection of suspended Discs, like a system of circular star charts. Through perforations and grooves in the discs (the path of displacement of the stars in the sky), maps/sheet music are created, which are transferred to a system of musical reading, a "pentagram" to be played on piano. The result is a soundtrack which creates the Music of the Stars.Español


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Booting cars now illegal on private property
Using a wheel device to immobilize a vehicle on private property in Washington is now a crime punishable by a year in jail and a $5,000 fine.
That's likely a welcome development for Seattle consumers in particular, who repeatedly have complained to state and local law enforcement agencies about having their vehicles booted by parking-lot entrepreneurs charging anywhere from $100 to $200 to have the clamps removed.
Late last month, another booting business, the fourth in Seattle within two years, began clamping cars on Capitol Hill and in Belltown. On the last weekend in June, Fineline Productions, doing business as In-Line Parking, might have booted as many as 16 vehicles.
"They just decided to take advantage" of the fact that the law didn't go into effect until last Sunday, City Attorney Tom Carr said.
In a letter to Fineline owners July 1, Carr told the company to cease its operations.
Company President Laurence Miller replied in a letter a few days later that he would honor Carr's "request," not because he agreed booting was against Seattle's code, but because the act would be expressly prohibited in a few weeks, anyway.
On July 15, the state Department of Licensing ordered Fineline to cease and desist its activities.
Fineline owners Miller, Chris Sinkey and Mark O'Shea could not be reached for comment. A wireless phone number on receipts they gave to vehicle owners was disconnected. A message left on another wireless number, listed in state business records, was not returned.
According to police officers responding to 911 calls June 25 and 26, In-Line agents demanded payments of $195 to have the clamps removed. The agents would take only cash. In one lot, they announced themselves with paper signs duct-taped to the walls.
During that time period, police ordered clamp removal for a 79-year-old woman who called police after finding her car impounded at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on Capitol Hill.
But police ordered another subject of In-Line's booting, in a Belltown lot early the next morning, to pay the parking enforcers the $195.
That victim had removed the clamped tire, replaced it with a spare and was about to leave the lot when police arrived.
In-Line's agents asked police to charge the victim with theft.
Carr said he is considering filing a criminal charge against the company's owners or the people who did the clamping.
Police discovered that the people doing the clamping were not traditional employees, but friends of the company owners who were expecting to be paid in cash at the end of the night.
Seattle's jurisdiction is limited, but the city had a previous law that made an exception for the operators of pay lots to clamp the vehicles of deadbeat parkers. Violating that law could land the booter in jail for 90 days.
The stronger state law that took effect Sunday supersedes Seattle's exception for pay-lot owners.
"We thought we had the whole clamping situation settled," said Brad Benfield of the state Department of Licensing. "The new law does not change the fact that it was already against the law."
Though it was technically against the law, police had no way of enforcing or seeking punishment against people clamping cars on private property until now. Because the companies did not carry any state licenses, there was little officials at the department could do to follow through.
According to the department's opinion, only registered tow-truck operators are allowed to impound; that is, take into custody vehicles improperly parked on private property. But tow operators are prohibited from impounding vehicles in place.
In response to numerous consumer complaints, the Legislature passed a law making such impounds criminal.
"We expect it to go away at this point," Benfield said. The department does not plan to pursue any of the clamping businesses on behalf of consumers, but people who got booted in Seattle can file for a small-claims hearing in King County District Court.
In July 2004, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported about a company called Clampdown Washington that had been booting vehicles unlawfully parked in private parking lots on Capitol Hill.
At that point, Clampdown had been in business a little more than a year, despite being advised by state attorneys that booting was illegal under Washington's towing laws.
In January, after consumers complained to the Department of Licensing and the Attorney General's Office, the state ordered the company to stop operations.
But Clampdown's business spawned a few copycats, including one, Total Parking Solutions, owned and operated by a college student from Mercer Island, whose online job advertisement sought parking enforcers who were big and appeared as if they could withstand physical confrontations.
Licensing authorities ordered Total Parking Solutions and its owner, Josh Moultray, to cease as well.
But according to the latest police investigation, Moultray apparently had signed over his contracts with parking lot owners to In-Line Parking.


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A massive English Regency-style display cabinet at least 116 years old that was used for many years in London's British Museum has been donated to Chapman University's Leatherby Libraries by Newport Beach resident Tim Wood, managing principal of Wood & Associates Design Group, and his wife, Jan.
Constructed of mahogany, nearly 8 feet long and weighing about a half ton, the display or specimen cabinet was built especially for the British Museum to hold works of art, historical documents, small sculptures and jewelry in its 24 glass-topped drawers, according to Wood, a certified interior designer and member of the American Society of Interior Design.
"The cabinet," added Wood, a former adjunct professor of interior design at UC Riverside, "was built in the late 1890s or early 1900s during the reign of either Queen Victoria, who died in 1901, or that of her son, Edward VII, who acceded to the throne upon her death."
Wood said the Regency period of British furniture design that flourished from the early 1800s until the end of the 19th century is characterized by the use of mahogany, rosewood, ebony and other dark woods in combination with metal, bronze and brass drawer pulls and cabinet decorations.
"Regency style also is distinguished by symmetry and plain, slender, elegant lines rather than the excessive use of carvings and complicated contours," said Wood, who bought the cabinet in 1981 from a San Francisco antiques dealer to store his design group's projects.
Upon his recent semiretirement, he donated the cabinet to the Leatherby Libraries, where is it now being used to showcase documents from Chapman's Center for American War Letters Archives on the lower level of the library building.
Moving the cabinet to the War Letters Archives room was no easy task. It took half a dozen workers to load it onto a large truck, transport it from Wood's office to the university, maneuver it onto dollies, wrestle it into the library's freight elevator and then move it into the War Letters space.
"The moving operation went well, and a few days later we had a post-arrival reception," said Dean Charlene Baldwin of the Leatherby Libraries. "The librarians and staff of the Center for American War Letters Archives in the Leatherby Libraries are proud to be collaborating with the Chapman's new M.A. program in War and Society, as well as the academic programs in history, political science, Holocaust education and even the advertising and marketing students in the Argyros School of Business and Economics.
"As we develop this space on the lower level of the Leatherby Libraries, we are including special and ongoing exhibitions of the letters and memorabilia in the archives. We were especially pleased with the gift from Tim and Jan Wood of the British Museum specimen cabinet where we can showcase new acquisitions to the archives. It is a focal point of the space."
Among those attending the reception were Wood; Baldwin; Chancellor and Chapman President-Elect Daniele Struppa; board of trustees Chairman David Janes Sr.; library development coordinator Essraa Nawar; professor Gregory Daddis, director of the M.A. program in War and Society; trustee David C. Henley and his wife, Ludie, longtime friends of Tim and Jan Wood; and several students and members of the library staff.
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Looking to give someone you love a treat to remember this year? It's perfectly true you could go for the safe options such as chocolates or their favourite tipple. But to really surprise them for Christmas 2016, why not choose a special personalised experience? These represent some of the most memorable and unique gifts Devon can offer.
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(Reuters) - Coal miner Peabody Energy said on Thursday it intends to permanently seal the area where high methane levels have been concentrated after it reported fire in parts of its North Goonyella mine in Australia's Queensland last month.
The company said three of the mine's five openings remain temporarily sealed to reduce air flow into the mine and issued force majeure notices to coal customers and vendors.
The coal miner expects the fire to have financial impacts to future periods and intends to provide an account of the financial and other impacts in its third-quarter earnings report.
"The market for metcoal was already pretty tight. North Goonyella was producing decent volume so it's certainly going to have an impact on the market," said Lachlan Shaw, a UBS analyst in Melbourne.
"That said, spot is up 10 percent at $220 (per tonne) for premium ex Qld coal, compared to before everyone found out about North Goonyella. I think it's supportive to the markets, but to a large extent already priced in," he said.
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These days, it can be difficult to tell where fashion ends and memes begin. And no one knows this better than Alexander Wang, who took to Instagram on Tuesday to call out Phillip Plein for plagiarizing the Alexander Wang x H&M show in 2014, which bore an uncanny resemblance to the Plein Sport show that took place at Milan Fashion Week Men's a few weeks ago. Wang posted two side-by-side videos comparing the runway shows, which both featured an all-black track and field setup, parkour, and models in sports bras, boxing gloves, harnesses, and helmets. "Can I copy your homework?" reads the caption. "Yeah, just change it up a bit so it doesn't look obvious you copied."
Plein—who made another splash at New York Fashion Week on Monday night with a runway show featuring Desiigner, Young Thug, and that "hot felon," plus Tiffany Trump and Madonna front row—has yet to comment on Wang's accusations. But Wang, having "no after party" this season, clearly has more time on his hands to craft some memes of his own.
Wang's most recent meme succeeds for many reasons, the most obvious being that it is an example of delicious fashion shade, which seems to be a dying art these days. It also takes a relatable action, like copying homework, and applies it to a specific and exclusive event, which few were privy to at the time.
As we learned from the election, memes have the power to not only say what everyone is thinking, but also call out B.S. in real time. They're a tool just as much as a gag, and Wang, being good with his hands, spun viral gold. In other words, regardless of whether Plein copied him or not, Wang literally made a meme, which is like the haute couture of the Internet. Needless to say, we're impressed.
This was not Wang's first meme, however. The designer has a reputation for posting fashion-related memes on his personal Instagram account that both call out the ridiculousness of fashion and also make it fun again. See them all, below.
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(Also, I wonder if her LinkedIn profile literally says "best hacker in the world" somewhere...)
Also, there's the whole "not in prison" thing...
(It just might...)
You are absolutely correct on the surveillance thing. She currently doesn't have the privilege of going to the corner to get a hot dog without a chaperone.
She has her reasons for not betraying the team at this point...
Sorry to blow up this comment.
What we see here is a fundamental difference in how the Shroud operates as opposed to, say, the Shadowlight League. If she were working for the latter (and for the sake of this argument, let's say SL had the pull to offer a similar deal), she would probably have a much looser leash (since they can scry her pretty much at will, and they are just generally more decent to their people).
There is one other consideration: the more "good behavior" she exhibits, the more leeway she is given. The machine (in this case exemplified by Bishop and co.) likes its parts cooperative. Falchionne's place on the carrot/stick spectrum is not static.
And, of course, shifts in the team's status quo can have interesting effects on everyone's relative place...
(Yeah, I'll stop my strange fixation upon Falchionne's financial situation now...)
Bishop needs his team to be functioning on all cylinders, whatever that takes.
Still, if the currently ever-so-slightly delicate balance in the team were upset, things could get... "interesting".
If Falchionne has hacked the ABPD, she could probably add a few files as well as read what's already there. If that thought doesn't keep Bishop up at night, perhaps the fact that she would also have access to NCIC might do it. ^^
Just imagine what kind of a rap sheet she could create for someone who ticked her off......
For a hacker of her caliber, any amount of petty revenge is possible. :)


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Indeed, the main failure mode of fiction for me is if I don't care about the characters. If you ever see me nitpicking worldbuilding and pointing out plot holes they're either really egregious or else the real problem is that I didn't care about the characters and I was poking at other things. Go to somebody else to hear about what's wrong with the windmills in _Red Mars_ or the carnivorous aliens in _The Sparrow_, my problem with both books is with characters not acting like people. If I care about the characters I'll overlook or forgive almost anything else.