text: Crime / cold cases Girl Missing 33 Years Tweets via Sheriff's Account Fla. cops use 'eerily unorthodox campaign' to refocus attention on cold case By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore, Newser Staff Posted May 31, 2017 7:44 AM CDT Updated Jun 4, 2017 9:06 AM CDT Copied Christy Luna has been missing since 1984. She was 8 years old and disappeared on Memorial Day. (Twitter/@PBCountySheriff) (Newser) – Florida authorities have let the imagined voice of an 8-year-old girl who went missing on Memorial Day Weekend in 1984 take over the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Department Twitter account. Through a series of tweets with the hashtag #Justice4Luna, they led a social media campaign that included the tweets "HELP!!!" and "Why are you taking me? Why are you doing this? Nothing will ever be the same after this." The Washington Post calls it "an eerily unorthodox campaign to resurrect the girl's story—by resurrecting the girl." And while many seem to agree that the tweets are disturbing, the social media response has been largely positive, with people thanking the department for trying to revive interest in the 33-year-old case. story continues below The last time anyone saw her, Marjorie "Christy" Luna had slipped out of her house in a turquoise swimsuit and walked to Belk's General Store to buy cat food while her mother napped, reports the New York Daily News. The Post reports that authorities suspect one Victor Wonyetye is responsible. He was at a party in her neighborhood the day she went missing and soon moved to New Hampshire, where an 8-year-old girl went missing while walking to school. He died in 2012 after being released from prison for indecent exposure and burglary, and inmates claim he admitted to killing both girls. Canadian authorities used a similar social media campaign in the hopes of finding a girl who went missing in 1986, and say it brought information that made it "absolutely worthwhile." (This cold case has had numerous twists.)


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Jazz Drummers Workshop
The Music of the Drums, Pt. 2
by Barry Altschul
In the late 1890's the drummer with trumpeter Buddy Bolden put something together that enabled him to play the bass drum, snare drum and a cymbal simultaneously. In 1908, W. F. Ludwig further developed this and created a bass drum pedal which became standard equipment in the early 1920's. Side drums, descending from the medieval "tabor," evolved into all metal separate tension snare drums with either calf hide or metal heads. The hi-hat stand was developed around 1922. It was known then as the "Charleston cymbal pedal," or the "low-boy" or "snow shoe." Its utilization started around 1926. With these innovations, it became possible for one person to play a full drum set: Snare, bass, hi-hat, and cymbals. It then became a personal choice as to additional drums and percussion instruments used. Tom-toms came into popular use in the 1930's, a period in which drummers like "Papa" Jo Jones helped streamline the modern drum set. Jones also developed and augmented the use of brushes (invented around 1926) as well as, the hi-hat, to help the band swing rather than merely for textural/coloristic effects. Percussion instruments started to be used in Afro-American improvised music which throughout the world, is regarded as the classical music of America.
As far back as the 1920's, drummers like Baby Dodds, Zutty Singleton, Sonny Greer and others, utilized tympani. gongs, woodblocks, sirens, ratchets, and various other percussion instruments. The re-introduction of these percussion instruments in today's music is not an outgrowth or innovation of the music. Sounds of all sorts were used as part of music for quite some time.
Sound and it's quality has always been a great part of one's personal expression. Sound becomes a factor in distinguishing one instrumentalist from another. This applies to every instrument, whether reed, string, or any other. One's sound develops as one grows musically. The basis of this sound is you. You can play the sounds you hear in your head. They are waiting to be brought out of the drums.
First, you must have a concept of how you want to sound, and how that sound feels. Then comes a process of experimentation until you find the sound that best expresses you. After that, it is a continuing process of change, according to personal concepts, feelings, and growth. One of the physical things you should experiment with is tuning your drums. This will help manifest your sound which will bring out the melodic aspect of your rhythms.
There are as many ways of tuning as there are people who play the instrument. But, there are three general areas of skin tensions.
1.) The bottom skin tuned tighter than the top skin.
2.) The top skin tuned tighter than the bottom skin.
3.) Equal tensioning of the top and bottom skins.
Before you start tuning, I suggest you take your drums completely apart, all hardware, screws, etc., until you are down to the bare shell. Then put it back together again. You will see how a drum is made, what might hurt or help its sound, and learn how to fix your drums. Then, find out what tensioning allows the drums to sing out best, taking into consideration pitch, ring, and overtones. Then, tune the top and bottom skins to the same pitch. I might tune the bottom skin slightly tighter (sharper), because when sound travels, it has a tendency to sound a little flat.
I tune my tom-toms and bass drum with both skins the same pitch. The overtones, produced by the skins being tuned to different pitches, will be cut out and you will have a pure note or tone. Then I tune the drums to each other, making it so that no matter what combination I play them in I can create a melody. The smallest drum produces the highest note, and the largest drum the lowest note. When this is accomplished, you will understand the purpose for having two skins on a drum. First, it gives a certain sound quality. Rounder and more complete. Secondly, the bottom skin is for the permanent tone; the top skin is for fine and quick tuning, as well as, for stick response. I tune my drums to each other rather than to any melodic instrument. This might otherwise get in the way of, or lock a sensitive soloist into the harmonic and/or melodic mode that the drums are tuned to.
My snare drum is tuned for sound. You must experiment for the sound and response that you desire. The same principles apply to the snare as to the other drums. How one tunes the drums depends a great deal on what type of music is being played. High tuned drums produce a distinctiveness, clarity, a quick attack, and a more pointed sound. Tuning the drums lower produces a bigger, more embracing sound, meatier, and richer. Tuning real low, where there is almost no tone, produces a flat sound that is almost physically felt.
There are many dampening systems available to reduce ringing, ranging from nothing, to drums stuffed with pillows and paper. I like a drum to ring just enough so the tone is complete, but not long enough to ring into the other drums as I'm playing. When tightening the skins, make sure that the tension is equal all the way around the drum. You can check this by striking the skin close to the rim near each lug making sure the sound is the same all the way around. This also helps to produce a pure tone, less overtones, and lessens the possibility of the drums becoming warped.
Remember that the individual sound you make through your instrument is a great part of your personal expression, and should be taken just as seriously as every other part of your development in becoming a more creative, aware and complete musician.

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Video: Full Donald Trump Speech From Pensacola, Florida, on 1/13/16
Donald Trump held a massive rally in Pensacola, Florida, on Wednesday, just a day before he'll appear in the Fox Business Republican debate on Thursday, January 14, 2016. The crowd was huge (YUGE!) and Trump hit it out of the park as he always does on the stump.
Report from the Miami Herald:
When Donald Trump walked into a packed, 10,000-capacity arena Wednesday night, the crowd erupted.
The GOP frontrunner for president has a bulls-eye on him more than ever this week. In Tuesday's State of the Union address, Trump was the target of veiled criticism from both President Barack Obama and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who delivered the Republican response. At Thursday night's Republican debate in South Carolina, he anticipates taking flak from his rivals while he's at center stage once more.
But here, he was in his glory.
With "Eye of the Tiger" blaring on the loudspeaker, Trump waved, opened his arms wide and pointed at supporters as he walked to the stage.
"We don't win anymore, you understand that?" he said, seizing on a signature line. "We're a country that doesn't win."
He's going into tonight's debate facing some incoming fire from the rest of the field, though I expect he'll deliver a stellar performance as usual.


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CI-NERGY Project holds Poster Award at Vienna City Hall during 2nd Training Module of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Program
The second Training Module of the CI-NERGY Initial Training Network Project will take place from 09 - 17 October 2014 in Vienna, hosted by partners AIT (AIT Austrian Institute of Technology) and Wien Energie, in cooperation with the associated partners Vienna University of Technology (TUW) and City of Vienna. The Training Module, 'Energy Technology & Systems', will highlight the City of Vienna Case Study, delving into the city's energy planning methodology, infrastructure, database systems, performance monitoring and policies, with representatives from the City's planning and energy departments in attendance. Theoretical seminars in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and 3D city modelling, district energy, electrical appliance modelling, and data management will be held, in addition to basic research skills training. The CI-NERGY Fellows, eleven Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and two Experienced Researchers (ERs), shall also present their research hypotheses, which address integrated energy concepts based on geographic spatial and energy data, utilizing the associated partner cities of Canton of Geneva and City of Vienna, with their very ambitious sustainability goals, as case studies.
Contact in EIFER: Markus Peter
CI-NERGY is coordinated by the University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart
The University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart is coordinating the CI-NERGY ITN Project, a consortium composed of seven of the best academic research centres (HFT, AIT, NUID-UCD, UNOTT, POLITO, EPFL, EDF/EIFER,) and three of the leading energy and software technology companies in the industry (Siemens, Wien Energie, and IES).


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Rafael Nadal extended his Open Era record to 40 for consecutive sets won on clay on Thursday when he eased past Spanish compatriot Guillermo Garcia Lopez 6-1, 6-3 and into the Barcelona quarter-finals.
World number one Nadal, chasing an 11th title at the tournament, a week after claiming the Monte Carlo Masters for an 11th time, will next face Slovakia's Martin Klizan.
Qualifier Klizan, ranked at 140, knocked out Novak Djokovic in the second round and reached the last eight on Thursday with a 6-1, 6-4 win over Spain's Feliciano Lopez.
It was Nadal's 397th match win on clay in a career which includes 76 titles on all surfaces.
He set up the foundation for victory by winning nine straight games from 1-1 in the first set to 4-0 in the second set against Garcia-Lopez, the 34-year-old world number 69.
Second seed Grigor Dimitrov had a far tougher afternoon needing to save two match points to besat Tunisia's Malek Jaziri 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (10/8) in a match which lasted 10 minutes short of three hours.
Dimitrov will next play fifth seed Pablo Carreno Busta of Spain, who saved three match points to defeat French 11th seed Adrian Mannarino 6-2, 4-6, 7-6 (8/6) in two hours and seven minutes.
Carreno Busta wrapped up victory on his fifth match point.
Third seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria, the runner-up to Nadal in Barcelona last year, reached the last eight with a 7-6 (7/5), 6-2 victory over Slovakian lucky loser Jozef Kovalik.
Thiem will next face Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece who saw off Spanish 10th seed Albert Ramos-Vinolas 6-4, 7-5.


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Global public relations giant Edelman got caught with its pants down twice recently, exhibiting the same kind of PR blunders it warns its clients about.
First, its president was found to have written a dismissive email about an inquiry into the firm's practice of representing climate change deniers. Then an Edelman blog post suggesting that Robin Williams' suicide represented an "opportunity" for a national conversation about depression was seen as insensitive and exploitative.
More flubs followed, as Edelman officials tried to distance themselves from the individuals who committed the initial errors in judgment then handle the fallout when they were called to task.
Management has finally managed to pull its pants back up to its waist, but the fingers buckling the belt are still trembling. Edelman officials say they'll treat themselves as if the company was a client.
That's a positive…
Such gaffs are not the exclusive province of the unschooled, obviously, but it's troubling when such a well-known firm so ineptly manages its own reputation.
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A thousand beginnings and endings : 15 retellings of Asian myths and legends /
by Oh, Ellen [editor.]; Chapman, Elsie [editor.]; Chokshi, Roshani; Wong, Alyssa; Lee, Lori M; Charaipotra, Sona; Bodard, Aliette de; Myers, E. C. (Eugene C.); Saeed, Aisha; Ahdieh, Renée; Kanakia, Rahul; Chhibber, Preeti.Material type: BookPublisher: New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]Description: 328 pages ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780062671158; 0062671154.Subject(s): Mythology, Asian -- Juvenile fiction | Tales -- Asia -- Juvenile fiction | Short stories, American | Mythology, Asian -- Fiction | Folklore -- Asia -- Fiction | Fantasy | Short stories | Asia -- Fiction | Short stories | Folk tales | Fantasy fiction | Fantasy fiction | Fiction | Folk tales | Juvenile works | Short stories | Short stories
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|Home library
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|Altadena Main Library
|Young Adult Collection
|Young Adult Fiction
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries. This young adult novel is an excellent choice for accelerated tween readers in grades 7 to 8, especially during homeschooling. It's a fun way to keep your child entertained and engaged while not in the classroom.

Sixteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate.

Compiled by We Need Diverse Books's Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman--who both contributed stories to this edition, as well--the authors included in this exquisite collection are: Renée Ahdieh, Sona Charaipotra, Preeti Chhibber, Roshani Chokshi, Aliette de Bodard, Melissa de la Cruz, Julie Kagawa, Rahul Kanakia, Lori M. Lee, E. C. Myers, Cindy Pon, Aisha Saeed, Shveta Thakrar, and Alyssa Wong.

A mountain loses her heart. Two sisters transform into birds to escape captivity. A young man learns the true meaning of sacrifice. A young woman takes up her mother's mantle and leads the dead to their final resting place.

From fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge, these stories will beguile readers from start to finish. For fans of Neil Gaiman's Unnatural Creatures and Ameriie's New York Times-bestselling Because You Love to Hate Me.

Forbidden fruit (Filipino) / by Roshani Chokshi -- Olivia's table (Chinese) / by Alyssa Wong -- Steel skin (Hmong) / by Lori M. Lee -- Still star-crossed (Punjabi) / by Sona Charaipotra -- Counting the vermillion beads (Vietnamese) / by Aliette De Bodard -- The Land of the Morning Calm (Korean) / by E. C. Myers -- The smile (South Asian) / by Aisha Saeed -- Girls who twirl and other dangers (Gujarati) / by Preeti Chhibber -- Nothing into all (Korean) / by Renee Ahdieh -- Spear carrier (South Asian) / by Rahul Kanakia -- Code of honor (Filipino) / by Melissa De La Cruz -- Bullet, butterfly (Chinese) / by Elsie Chapman -- Daughter of the Sun (South Asian) / by Shveta Thakrar -- The Crimson cloak (Chinese) / by Cindy Pon -- Eyes like candlelight (Japanese) / by Julie Kagawa.
Fifteen authors of Asian descent reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia, in short stories ranging from fantasy to science fiction to contemporary, from romance to tales of revenge.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- From the Editors (p. 1)
- Forbidden Fruit (p. 5)
- Olivia's Table (p. 20)
- Steel Skin (p. 47)
- Still Star-Crossed (p. 73)
- The Counting of Vermillion Beads (p. 90)
- The Land of the Morning Calm (p. 109)
- The Smile (p. 139)
- Girls Who Twirl and Other Dangers (p. 155)
- Nothing into All (p. 184)
- Spear Carrier (p. 202)
- Code of Honor (p. 224)
- Bullet Butterfly (p. 238)
- Daughter of the Sun (p. 259)
- The Crimson Cloak (p. 282)
- Eyes like Candlelight (p. 302)
- Author Biographies (p. 324)


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The National Association of REALTORS® is the nation's largest trade and professional association. Founded in 1908, NAR has more than one million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries. NAR employs more than 300 people in Chicago and Washington, D.C., to help fulfill its mission of helping its members be more successful and advocating for property-ownership rights throughout the U.S.—and continually seeks talented people to join its team.
When you join NAR, you join an award-winning organization with a team of professionals committed to serving our members and producing top-quality work. We take pride in our vision to be a trusted ally, guiding our members and those they serve through the ever-evolving real estate landscape. So we're honored to have been acknowledged by third parties for our exceptional programs, products and services.
- American Society of Association Executives / Gold Circle Award (Rebranding)
"That's Who We R" campaign
- Elearning! Media Group | 2019 Learning! 100 Award
Commitment to Excellence (C2EX)
- Business Intelligence Group | 2019 Sustainability Award
Sustainability Program
- 2019 Folio Eddie & Ozzie Awards
- 2019 APEX (Awards for Publication Excellence)
- American Society of Business Editors | ASBPE (Regional Azbee Award – Bronze)
- Graphic Design USA | American In-House Design Award
- Tabbies International Editorial & Design Awards (Honorable Mention)
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Mariners sign veteran pitchers Owings, Mills
SEATTLE — The Mariners moved to bolster their organizational pitching depth this week by confirming recent reports of minor-league deals with two veteran pitchers: right-hander Micah Owings and lefty Brad Mills.
Owings, 34, was 7-6 with a 4.30 ERA last season in 23 games, including 19 starts, for the York Revolution in the independent Atlantic League. He pitched in parts of six big-league seasons from 2007-12 with three clubs.
Mills, 31, is remaining with the organization. He was 3-3 with a 5.28 this season in nine starts at Triple-A Tacoma before a shoulder injury forced him to the disabled list. His rehab is expected to continue into spring training.
While Owings' deal includes an invitation to big-league camp, he and Mills loom as likelier candidates to fill out a Tacoma rotation that currently projects to include Cody Martin, Zach Lee, Paul Blackburn, and Andrew Moore.
Owings was 32-33 with a 4.86 ERA in 138 games, including 68 starts, for Arizona, Cincinnati and San Diego. He has not pitched in the big leagues since undergoing elbow surgery in 2012.
The elbow injury prompted Owings, who has a .283 career average, to attempt to return to the big leagues as a first baseman/outfielder with Washington, Milwaukee and Miami in 2013-14.
After sitting out the 2015 season, Owings began his comeback this season as a pitcher at York.
Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto held front-office posts at Arizona during Owings' tours with the club in 2007-08 and 2011.
Mills' resume also includes part of six big-league seasons, although on a more-limited basis. He was 4-4 with a 7.97 ERA in 21 games, including 14 starts, from 2009-15 with Toronto, Oakland and the Los Angeles Angels.
The Mariners previously signed Mills to a minor-league deal on Dec. 15, 2015.
JORDAN NAILON | Still just a bird out of a cage
Pheasant season is open through November 30 (1)
Sports Wire
Novak Djokovic wins 3rd straight match at ATP finals
LONDON (AP) - Novak Djokovic won his third straight match at the ATP finals on Thursday, finishing group play undefeated for the fourth time in the past five years.


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I've been really a curious person behind all those tricks that you can do to make yourself look better. This is not to showoff but to at least boost little bit of self-confidence in you. Here is not a professional guide but rather more of a sharing from what i've learnt from the salon/hair dresser. Hope you'll like it.
First off, we'll have to clean our hair with a round of shampoo washing on it. But it's optional of course, if you choose want to rinse it with water to make sure there's moisture then it'll still be alright. Of course, you'll have to make sure that your hair is equivalent to the length of what I have to have the same effect, short-medium length. I don't think it'll look nice if it's too long.
Before proceeding with styling the hair, we'll have to use the hairdyer to blow dry our hair. Set it up on the highest speed to speed up the proceed.
We'll just have to make sure it's blowing onto our hair to create a fluffy hairstyle. Use your hand to style the way how you want the hair to be. Just some setup. Blow drying about 10-20 second is sufficient, just to make sure it has moisture but not too dry.
Now to the next stage, waxing!
You can get almost any brand on the market that suits your need, I personally started off with using Lucido and it worked pretty fine for me, not much of a smell and holds firmly. But then I've switched to Gatsby for a trial, and well so far the smell of it is pretty strong, and might be unbearable to some of you but it really depends on your choice. I'd suggest to get a small one before proceeding with the big one.
Open it up, and make sure your hand is clean.
Apply some of the wax onto your hand (both of it because I was taking picture, so i couldn't do it lol)
Spread it evenly across your palm.
This is roughly how it looks like before it's being wax but after the hairdrying session.
Now slowly, brush your palm across your head, from front to back, with both of your hand. Instead of using finger, spread it evenly using your palm.
And after 1-2 rounds of wax spreading, reapply some wax again onto your hand/palm and style the tip of your hair slowly.
Like this.
Repeat the process and you'll soon to get the desired effect you want.
Allow yourself to have around 5-10 minutes for this process depending on how complex you want it to be. Usually would take around 5 minutes for me.
And after you're satisfied, do make sure you clean your hand properly with soap. So you do not get food poisoning. Enjoy!


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We asked our contributors what they see for resilience in 2018:
When we are talking about Resilience, whether personal, organizational or community, we should always have in mind different treats like financial, organizational, natural disasters and many more that we can think of.
I sincerely believe that in creating Resilience, the most important question to ask is what kind of person or organization we want to be and what are the threats for us as a person or organization.
This will lead you, with the help of international standards, to build a system that will act in the direction of creating and maintaining Resilience.
Do you agree with Suzana's vision? Please share your thoughts in the comments section below!
Suzana Popovska
Suzana is a food safety and quality management professional with over 10 years of experience. She is now the acting head of the sector for EU and international cooperation in the food and veterinary agency in Macedonia. Suzana is a member of the ContinuityLink Trainers Team.


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Night Connections 2
Unabridged Audiobook
Narrated By: Dick Summer
Date: April 2009
Duration: 0 hours 45 minutes
"Night Connections 2," a soulful follow-up to "Night Connections," is a collection of stories, mostly collected from listeners to Dick Summer's middle of the night radio program on NBC Radio. They are very short connections, but they will stay with you for as long as you stay with them. Connections are fragile. It is only touching you that gives them life.


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The Tiny Agency Behind 'Devil Baby' Is Scaring Up Good Business
The conventional wisdom in the ad industry is that you can't create a viral video. You can make a video that you think will catch on big, but there's no way to have a hit every time.
A three-man digital marketing shop called thinkmodo is challenging such thinking. All of the agency's videos on behalf of clients have gone viral and each one gets bigger than the last. Thinkmodo's latest hit, for the movie Devil's Due is a real doozy. The agency put a baby stroller on the streets of New York. When curious onlookers leaned in to look at the baby, they got the shock of their lives:
Released just two days ago at this writing, the video was already up to more than 25 million views. That's already more than six of the top 10 most-viewed YouTube videos of 2013. And it's only the third week of the year.
That's pretty good promotion for a campaign that cost somewhere between $500,000 and $1 million according to James Percelay, co-founder of thinkmodo. Lucky for 20th Century Fox, the studio behind the release, thinkmodo charges a flat fee. "If we were smart, we would have made it performance-based," says Percelay of the compensation scheme. "The upside is that in every case, the ROI is well beyond the cost of production." Percelay estimates that his shop's videos typically produce $10 million to $15 million worth of free media coverage.
Percelay, a former Saturday Night Live writer (he did commercial parodies), formed thinkmodo about three years ago with Co-Founder Michael Krivicka (pictured above at right next to Percelay) and the agency has one other employee, Associate Producer Sam Pezzullo (not pictured). The three represent a new kind of marketing some call "shockvertising" that scares up viral responses with elaborate practical jokes and hidden cameras. While larger agencies try and often fail to make viral videos, thinkmodo is producing hit after hit on a shoestring budget.
Before Devil Baby Attack, thinkmodo's biggest hit was a stunt for the movie Carrie in which a woman in a coffee shop appeared to have telekinetic powers. That video is now up to 53 million views, a figure that would have made it the third most-popular ad on YouTube last year if YouTube considered it an ad.
Other hits have included:
"Bubba's Hovercraft," a vehicle dreamed up by golfer Bubba Watson that has been good for 8 million views so far.
"The Popinator," about a device that shoots popcorn straight into your mouth (2 million views).
"Flying People," a hoax for the 20th Century Fox film Chronicle that shot human-shaped planes in the air and fooled New Yorkers into thinking they saw flying people (8 million views).
As the portfolio illustrates, thinkmodo isn't just a little shop of horrors. That's why Percelay takes issue with the "shockvertising" label. That said, thinkmodo might be guilty of one criticism of the ad business lately — that it will go to almost any length to get consumers to pay attention. This complaint was nicely satirized by Canadian ad agency John St., which imagined marketers scaring the crap out of consumers by abducting them at home and stealing their children to "engage" them. "Good advertising should make you nervous," says a fictional ad exec in the video. "It should scare you."
The video was close enough to reality to be plausible. For instance, LG recently tried to convince some people that the world was ending while Heineken put some poor guy through the world's worst job interview, all in the name of marketing.
Percelay says that's not thinkmodo's modus operandi. The agency's videos go viral because they're clever, he says, not because they're mean. "Even when we scared people on the street," he says, referring to the Devil Baby stunt, "they were frightened, but then they were awe-struck. They wanted to see how it worked."
That said, after watching one of thinkmodo's videos, some viewers might be less scared than skeptical. After all, there have been several viral videos over the last year or so that were purported to be real, but were actually staged, notably Pepsi's "Test Drive."
Percelay insists that's not the case with thinkmodo's videos. Instead, he says the agency's practice is to lure onlookers into a situation by inviting them to see something cool. "But we never tell them what it is," he says. "It introduces a little safety valve in the conversation."


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What is your favorite line from your piece featured in The Ginger Collect?
"The forest is ablaze with red, the sun spins in the sky like a giant pinwheel, and Fay divines her future with Emil in the chaos of windblown leaves."
Who is your most beloved author?
Anton Chekhov has a special place in my heart, because he brings subtle details and emotions to life with a such simple and concise style. Even after a century and a half, they feel modern and relevant to me. I feel like I recognize his influence on some of my favorite contemporary authors.
Do you have a favorite quote from this author?
"It is devilishly cold, but the poor birds are already flying to Russia! They are driven by homesickness and love for their native land. If poets knew how many millions of birds fall victims to their longing and love for their homes, how many of them freeze on the way, what agonies they endure on getting home in March and at the beginning of April, they would have sung their praises long ago!"
What inspired your piece?
This piece was inspired by that first breath of cold autumn air that always feels electrified and heavy with significance to me, and by certain moments of my life when I try hard to see around the bend of time and into the future, but to no avail.
You can read Shawn McClure's piece in Issue Three of The Ginger Collect: The Clapping Leaves.


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The SQL API
You can connect to Flussonic Media Server and request data via the MySQL protocol, like with any original MySQL server.
Turn on this feature by enabling MySQL port in the configuration file (or in the web interface):
mysql 3306;
If there is no such line in the configuration, Flussonic uses port 14406 by default.
Now you can use your admin login (edit_auth and view_auth) to connect using mysql client or any other sql library of your choice.
The database name is
mysql -u admin -h 127.0.0.1 -p flussonic mysql> show tables; +---------------------+ | Tables_in_flussonic | +---------------------+ | streams | | files | | sessions | | stats | +---------------------+ 4 rows in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select * from streams; +---------+------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+-------------+---------+ | name | url | ts_delay | bytes_in | bytes_out | client_count | lifetime | retry_count | bitrate | +---------+------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+-------------+---------+ | channel | tshttp://transcoder:9000/ | 59 | 1003280707 | 0 | 0 | 46056397 | 0 | 647 | +---------+------------------------------------------------+----------+------------+-----------+--------------+----------+-------------+---------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
Similarly, you can access any other table, for example, the
files table.
Available tables
streamsinformation about active streams
filesinformation about open files
sessionsinformation about open sessions
sessions_historyinformation about history of sessions
statsinformation on various metrics
dvr_statusstatistics on dvr recording for a particular period of time. Stream name and time (utc) are required parameters.
Some advice
When requesting dvr_status table, you have to use stream name (
name) and time (
If you miss one of this parameters, you will always get "ERROR 1210 (HY000): name and utc conditions are required" in the MySQL client.
Quote charactes are important too. Value of
name should be wrapped in single quotes, аnd
utc should be used without quotes at all.
For example:
select * from dvr_status where name='mystream' and utc > 1411084801;
If you use invalid quotes, you will always get "Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)" in the MySQL client.
Also please note that you can't use exact equality (utc=1411084801), but you have to query some range (utc > 1411084801).
Statistics storage time
At the moment, the statistics can be stored for about a day. This time can not be increased. Perhaps in future versions of the Flussonic Media Server we'll implement long-term storage, for year or so, but at the moment this feature is not available.
Relation to MySQL database server
FAQ: Should I install/uninstall Oracle MySQL Database Server, or manually avoid conflicts with it, or I can just add MySQL API support to the config file and that's all?
Installing MySQL Server is not necessary. Just add MySQL API support to the configuration file by specifying the port that the Flussonic Media Server will listen to.
Don't forget to use a port that isn't bound by your native database (3306 is the default port for MySQL, so it's better to use something different).
Flussonic Media Server doesn't use real native database (mysql server or anything), it's just an emulation module inside Flussonic Media Server that can parse simple SQL queries.
Because it's not an actual database, you can't use PHPMyAdmin or something like that for viewing tables. You can access it only by running simple SQL queries inside a MySQL client, library etc.


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Heres a log pedestal I made!
It was very easy!
The log is Elm wood
Cut it rough in the yard… layed it on the shop bench..
Used a square to project a square line to cut..
Cut with the chainsaw, then 60 grit on an angle grinder, then finished with a palm sander and some linseed oil!
Very easy to make, looks nice! With the right wood, Im sure you can make a very beautiful log pedestal.
Check out more of my stuff here!
Thanks for lookin!
-- Jeff, Bobcaygeon, Wilderness Explorer
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#1 posted 01-21-2014 11:05 PM
Nice rustic piece. When you decide to redecorate, you can always use the piece for something else later, should the mood hit you. Nice, especially if you can get the wood for free.
-- Hand Crafted by Brett Peterson John 3:16 http://www.TheCrookedNail.blogspot.com
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The subject matter contained herein is loosely listed as follows, inter alia. An adumbration. Adam's abrasion. Debussy Fields. Paronomasia. Very punny.
- Lose the fascination with and in why. As in why did this occur? Just fix it.
- This year think aside and apart from the left-right paradigm. It's a waste of time and accomplishes nothing.
- Don't agree with someone, just listen to the ideas presented. Don't agree with someone who's teaching you how to make a paella, just listen. And learn.
- The most important issue that is at the core of everything that rules the world is the monetary system. And that has nothing to do with economics and certainly not the shrill and routinized blather of such institutional apparatchiks like that Krugman feller, the double agent.
- Pay attention and start learning about cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin. A distributed, decentralized and secure information economy, consensus based with built in deflationary controls and limited circulation.
- Global reconfiguration will be more evident now than it's ever been. And that means you have to grasp the BRICS and Western Alliance separations and dualities. But the ruling class always stays in power.
- Watch Saudi Arabia and Russia mix it up. And Ted Baxter will be nowhere to be found.
- Social media will plumb the depths of human idiocy and psychopathology at exponential levels.
- The greatest threat to the survival of any society is incompetence and the elevation of the incompetent.
- Rarely is anyone surprised or the least bit concerned with celebrities who come out and proclaim their sexuality, a sexual predilection that everyone seemed to know about for years in the first place. Sexual preference is anything but apodictic. Especially in women whose palette is far more variform than that of the dude.
- Pope Francis is a frontal assault against austerity jackals and globalist asset-stripping kleptocrats. His impact and impact are far greater than his thoughts about gay folks. My favorite line was "Who am I to judge?" Funny.
Listen up. The most important lesson you can teach your kids is that there is no such thing as a meritocracy – except in the world of sports.
The legacy. The Bloomberg administration gave us 12 – count 'em 12 – years of habituation to control. Control over items and areas that no mayor had ever possessed jurisdiction over. New York took it. And took it. Making it easier for subsequent mayors and governments to exact more and more control. Habituation, control, conditioning, priming. Getting us used to it. We just sighed and said, "Oh, well, what can we do?" Some were so confused they even applauded the measures confusing agreeing with a program's subject matter with agreeing with or consenting to the extent of the mayor's jurisdiction in the first place. Sodium, transfats, Styrofoam, composting sugar drinks, baby formula, no smoking, bike lanes. Agenda 21: full-throated and full-throttled. 'Twas brilliant. And some even thought Giuliani was overreaching. Rudy on his best day wouldn't even consider hiding baby formula from new moms. Brilliant! The United States of Obeisance.
Spoken Word Radio: RIP. Let me be perfectly clear about this one point. If you're attempting to host a talk radio program, especially if you're guest hosting which to anyone with two neurons to rub together means you're auditioning for a permanent gig, have the decency to talk and not be a slave to guests. Especially bad guests, e.g. experts to assist you in keeping your new year's resolutions. It's clichéd and pathetic and hackneyed and you should be indicted for wasting your audience's time with such dreck. Guests take away from you and it's about you. Your personality, likes, dislikes. It's about you. You're not an interviewer. You're not Larry King. Guests are a crutch. They're the crack of talk. They're Hamburger Helper. They fill in the space and stretch a nutrient-bereft dish. Talk radio and spoken word are under attack right now and this stale format has to go. Or you will. Or the medium itself will. There's new talent and personalities out there and if you keep recycling the usuals and perennial fill-ins you'll die on the already necrotic vine. Be unique. Be different. Be smart and funny and daring and piquant. It's not the message, it's the messenger, stupid. Ahem.
Erratum. For the last time: To show excited approbation it's Hear! Hear! And not Here! Here!
Cryptocurrencies. This year you'll be immersed in Bitcoin and crytocurrency fundamentals. Expect nothing from the Ted Baxter sockpuppet MSM on the subject. Please find infra a commentary I did on Mother PIX in April. I knew at the time that the subject wasn't one of universal conversance, but as I've never underestimated your interest in that that matters, I proceeded forward undaunted. Trust me, no one — and I mean NO ONE — in the country, especially on a heritage television station and network, devoted any time to even scratching the surface of this fascinating issue. But when it comes to Miley twerking, Ted was abuzz and awash with wall-to-wall dreck coverage.
Walk in the direction of your face. To the 109th Mayor of NYC, adopt this tutorial as a law. Mandate civility. And prohibit pedicabs.
Doppelgänger and Dollop of Doppler. These were the arguments and bases of the last NYC mayoral race. Expertly presented, I most humbly submit.


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Tea Party Leader Launches Political Outfit
NASHVILLE, Tenn.–A leading organizer of the National Tea Party Convention here announced the launch of the Memphis-based Ensuring Liberty Corporation, a political outfit that will include a political action committee to help fund candidates supported by Tea Party activists.
Mark Scoda, a 55-year-old Memphis businessman and local Tea Party leader, said today he will lead the new effort along with a board of directors that he said he will name next week. The group will have the common goals of the Tea Party Convention, but will not be directly affiliated, he said.
Scoda said the group intends to target House and Senate races this November, in particular the Senate seat held by Democratic Sen. Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, as well as House races in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee.
"Let us not be naïve here, holding up signs does not get people elected," Scoda told reporters, in reference to the various Tea Party rallies and marches that have been held in the past year.
He said the PAC will seek out small donors and will accept corporate donations—which may not sit well with some of the movement's activists. He also offered a bold prediction: "I think we can raise $10 million this year." Ensuring Liberty will also partner with California-based Win by Cell, which helps candidates and movements organize and raise money from supports through their cell phones…


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Ramadan Kareem from this part of the world! Recruitment is a commitment, a passion, a process, a profession and not everyone's cup of tea.
Do you believe in collecting, "God Bless you" for happiness? Talking about spiritual case instead of the professional side but don't you think it's all connected?
I have been recruiting the senior positions for past 11 years. I have recruited General Managers, F&B Directors, Chief Engineers, Area General Managers, Project Managers, Chief Engineers, and Executive Housekeepers, Spa Managers, Executive Chefs and many more Senior Executives in Asian and African Islands as well as in the Middle East. I have received remarks from clients and candidates about being professional and all but it was recently when we took up a big recruitment project that involved Senior and Line level all positions.
This was the first time ever I was calling, emailing and following up with waiters, waitresses, and hostesses. I had never done this before; to me, it always felt like a lot of headaches. Senior positions are much more concrete and there is a high level of professionalism, they are more prone to constant email responses. While the line-level candidates were a bit difficult to handle as they would be busy in their jobs and wouldn't attend their calls. They wouldn't be able to commit to interviews on the mentioned date and so on.
But as I had committed to the client, I had to do it and glad I did. There were a few people on visit visa who had left their home country. One of them mentioned, she doesn't want to go back as it's like hell where she lives. She had a good experience and all she wanted is to come out of the place to work in a better company and environment. Another guy on visit cried when he heard he was selected.
It took 1-2 months of following up back and forth with the candidates and clients. People called me at 10pm and 5:30 am, it was crazy. But once they joined each and every one sent me messages, saying "Thank you" and "God Bless You". It gives me immense pleasure that I was able to help someone by getting them a good job and most important thing, they are happy. I cannot thank God enough to have given me this opportunity. I hope and wish, I would be able to continue doing this and can earn more "God Bless you".
No matter what profession you are in, receiving more and more "God bless you" messages can boost your motivation.
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At CashBoxoptional Hosting our Web 2.0 features especially lend themselves to enhancing the unity and success of any group.
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"Dr. Strong's book, 'Rediscovering an Evangelical Heritage,' is really a book within a book. It is a re-publication of the Donald Dayton essays originally published in what is now Sojourners Magazine, compiled into a book in 1976 and updated in 1988, with new commentary in 2014 from Dr. Strong relating it to 21st-century Christians. [….] These early evangelicals were grounded in Scripture and dedicated to the conversion of souls. But they didn't stop there. Instead, they led major – often radical – social reform movements, work that today we would call 'social justice.'"
"This book should be a must-read for both identified populations and many others. [….] It deals with so many of the questions I've heard and sought inadequately to answer over the years on the whole concept of God in three persons. From one who has studied and appreciated John Wesley, Dr. Castelo sprinkled in just enough to make me feel at home. He made the trinity come alive for me and I will be utilizing this as a resource, if not the resource, for an upcoming study."
In his new book, "Calling and Clarity: Discovering What God Wants for Your Life," Associate Professor of Theology Doug Koskela seeks to ease frustration people often feel when wrestling with their vocation and calling by distinguishing between "missional calling," "direct calling," and "general calling."
"A book that has so many different pieces, each with its own author, poses a particular challenge to a reviewer limited to a few quick minutes. I could begin by noting that this book is clear, sharp, accurate, accessible, and its authors are good-looking. I could simply pile up adjectives praising this book, but that might not really get at its true importance for the church today."
Video of Seattle Pacific University (SPU) Asian Pacific American (APA) undergraduate students, seminary students, faculty and staff developed for SPU's APA Heritage Month Chapel service on May 5, 2015.
"So many first-year courses … deal only with how do you read a text, how do you interpret a text, [etc.] And while we consider that important … we couple that with teaching, […] with something that Scripture and all of our hard work in interpreting scripture does so that it puts Scripture to use…."


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EXCLUSIVE: Disney XD has added another pilot to its growing development slate. The boy-centric cable channel has greenlighted Pack of Wolves, a comedy from writer Jason Ward (Living with Fran). Ward and Jay Kogen (Frasier) are executive producing the project, which centers on the Oppenheimer siblings (Edison, Darwin, and Albert). They are being raised by their single dad, a brilliant professor, who rents their extra bedroom to a guy named Timberwolf (aka the Wolf), a rogue spy looking for a place to lie low. The Wolf proceeds to teach the kids how to apply spy tactics to their teen lives in the suburbs. Disney XD has been relying mostly on broadcast sitcom veterans for its development. The channel recently handed out a series order to multi-camera comedy Wasabi Warriors created by Jim O'Doherty (Grounded for Life). And in May, it ordered a comedy pilot from That '70s Show alumni Mark Brazill, Chris Peterson and Bryan Moore. Disney XD just posted the most-watched November in the channel's 10+ year history, posting double-digit year-to-year increases in total day.
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In four decades of writing about the art market, I can't recall a more wildly excessive binge of presale promotion than Christie's press release for its upcoming auction of the Jeff Koons' "Balloon Dog (Orange)," 1994-2000, consigned to this fall's evening sale of contemporary art by Greenwich, CT, collector Peter Brant, chairman of Brant Publications (which owns Art in America magazine).
Brant said he will use the proceeds to support the Brant Foundation Art Study Center in Greenwich:
Describing the Koons "inflatable" as "one of the most recognizable images in today's canon of art history" [can't we just settle for recent art history?], Christie's asserts that the Nov. 12 sale "promises to be a landmark occasion for the art market [assuming this dog can hunt]….This monumental work…is the most beloved of all contemporary sculptures. [I can think of more than a few that I love more.] Its spectacular [or banal] form has been celebrated around the world, having graced the rooftop of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venice's Grand Canal and Versailles Palace outside Paris."
Here it is "gracing the rooftop" of the Met in 2008 (while Koons, in the background, on the left, is interviewed by journalists):
Christie's publicists continued to heap the hype: "It [the dog] has become an icon of Popular [their uppercase "P"] vernacular, adored by the public and collectors for its unabashed celebration of childhood, hope and innocence" [not to mention male sexual arousal].
Christie's goes even further out on a limb:
Estimated at $35-55 million, "Balloon Dog (Orange)" is expected to surpass the artist's current record of $33.6 million, established in 2012 by Christie's New York with Koons' chromatic "Tulips"...and is set to make history for the sale of a work by a contemporary artist.
Not content to leave it at that, Brett Gorvy, Christie's chairman for Post-War & Contemporary Art, hawks the shiny trophy-dog as the ultimate status symbol:
The 'Balloon Dog' is the Holy Grail [!?!] for collectors and foundations. In private hands, the work has always communicated the prominence and stature of its owner [emphasis added]. Like Andy Warhol's portrait of Marilyn, which influenced Koons' choice of the orange metallic color for 'Balloon Dog,' it is the ultimate masterpiece, instantly recognizable to the art world and public alike. To own this work immediately positions the buyer alongside the very top collectors in the world and transforms a collection to an unparalleled level of greatness" [or conspicuous consumption?].
Gorvy points out that Koons canines of other colors are owned by the Cohens, the [Eli] Broad Art Foundation, Dakis Joannou's Deste Foundation and Francois Pinault (Christie's owner, but not identified as such in the auction house's press release).
Here's the Koons balloon, poised on the manicured grounds of Brant's Art Study Center, as seen at a May 2009 press event (which Koons attended):
Falling in line, Carol Vogel promoted the pooch in her NY Times Friday scoop (second item) on the page directly opposite Christie's strategically placed full-page ad.
Vogel gushed:
For every big Impressionist, modern and contemporary art auction season, there is always one work that becomes the symbol of those two weeks. It's plastered on ads and party invitations, catalog covers and window displays. Bets are that by the time this year's sales start, in early November, that image will be Jeff Koons's "Balloon Dog (Orange)," one of the artist's most coveted sculptures and one of the most recognizable images of 20th-century art.
I'm not sure whose "bets" she's talking about, but my bet is that this pooch won't be "plastered" on any "ads and party invitations, catalog covers and window displays" at Christie's arch-rival, Sotheby's, which been conspicuously quiet so far about its November contemporary art offerings, save for a consignment that it shouldn't be proud of.
We can only hope that Christie's has lined up an irrevocable bid that will match its manic predictions for "Balloon Dog." After such a buildup, this "adored" "Holy Grail" status-symbol has become too big to fail.
For its part, Sotheby's had better hope that it can perform better this fall in the crucial contemporary-art battles than it did last spring, when Christie's trounced it in both quality of offerings and sale results. In its effort to snare megabucks consignments, Sotheby's announced in an SEC filing on Thursday that it had "entered into additional auction guarantees totaling $147.6 million, which increased the aggregate amount of outstanding auction guarantees [amounts promised to consignors, whether or not bidding reaches the level of the guarantee] to $166.4 million [from a mere $18.8 million, as of July 31]….
"As of the date of this filing, Sotheby's financial exposure under these auction guarantees is reduced by irrevocable bids totaling $23.5 million. [That leaves a large amount backed only by Sotheby's, unless there are also third-party guarantees.] Sotheby's may further reduce its exposure under these auction guarantees through the use of additional irrevocable bids prior to the sale. The property related to these auction guarantees will be offered at auctions in the fourth quarter of 2013 [the season of the major evening sales of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art]. As of the date of this filing, $70.8 million of the aggregate guaranteed amount had been advanced by Sotheby's."
This seems to signal an end to the conservatism that characterized Sotheby's approach to taking guarantee-related risks after it got burned by such obligations during the market crash of 2008-9.
As for Christie's, it's counting on the shiny, high chromium stainless steel quadruped to be a consignment magnet. It urges readers of its full-page ad (image at the top) to "BE PART OF THIS LANDMARK AUCTION."


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Foundation Repair Requires Building Permit
"Effective July 17, 2014, the City of Haltom City requires a building permit for foundation repair. The permit fee shall be based on the value of work disclosed with the permit application via a bid, contract, or estimate. An original engineer's sealed letter of required repairs must be submitted with the permit application and must adequately describe the location of piers and footings. Prior to calling for final inspection, an original engineer's final report shall be submitted to the City that verifies repairs were performed to engineered specifications."
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Anthony Schlegel Tackles Fan on Field
Source: www.youtube.com / Via: www.youtube.com
When a fan runs onto the field at an Ohio State University, Coach Anthony Schlegel takes it upon himself to not let the fan disrupt his game. How did he do that? By taking the fan down to the floor and walking him off of the field.


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Easy Reference List of Documents Recorded in The Recorder's Office Back
The following is a quick reference guide to the main types of documents recorded at the Recorder's Office. For information on a document not listed, please contact the Recorder's Office directly at 513.946.4570.
To begin your search for a document, please click here.
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It's interesting that UK-based Videojug, the 'how to' video website, has attracted the likes of Nancy Cruickshank, the high-profile head of Hearst Digital, to become its global chief executive. Videojug founder Dan Thompson will move into the chairman's seat. Videojug has 30,000 'How to' and 'Ask the Experts' video clips, which it shares with media partners such as MSN and Virgin Media. It won £15m in private equity funding in May and officially launched in the US in June.
Cruickshank is a UK web veteran. She launched Conde Naste's online operations in the mid-90s, later going on to greater feats, including seeing Boots joint venture Handbag.com through to a sale to NatMags, the UK arm of Hearst, after a six-year stint. She has been Hearst Digital MD for the last 12 months, but appears to have caught the startup bug again. In the 90s she co-founded 'moving house' website Smove, which was sold to Norwich Union in 2000 (and no longer exists). In an email to me she said Videojug was a "global opportunity" and had a "great team with track record".
Let's hope so. There are an increasing number of 'How to' video sites.
In the summer Israel-based internet company, E-learning Knowledge Solutions, launched SuTree, a video aggregation service where users can add and categorise instructional videos from across the web, providing a directory of video that would often be buried on the host sites.
5min is another 'instructional video' Israeli startup similar to YouTube, where content is hosted on the site and is user submitted. Video creators can add a storyboard to uploaded videos to help others better understand the content. To aid learning video on 5min can be played in slow motion or frame by frame, and the inline player supports zooming in and out for a more up close experience. Let's see Videojug do that.
Videojug's main revenue stream currently is advertising. The pitch is that when people use VideoJug they are most often asking "how do I do X", which creates a opportunity for advertisers to answer the "what do I need?" and "where can I get it?" questions. This pre-qualifies the audience for MPUs, post-roll video advertisements and bespoke sponsorships.
However, I didn't find many ads on the site and – in the UK at least – is still a very early market. It may be that Videojug fairs better with its B2B play of syndicating content to existing media owners than relying on advertising. But the jury is still out.


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Western Spruce Budworm
The western spruce budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis) is an important native defoliator of interior Douglas-fir. Population levels periodically reach outbreak proportions.
Outbreaks have been recorded in British Columbia's interior forests from the early 1900s up to the present. In 1987, the budworm's peak outbreak, more than 800,000 ha were under attack, mostly in the southern interior. Outbreaks can last more than 25 years.
Biology & History
The western spruce budworm requires one year to complete its life cycle. Certain factors contribute to a stand's susceptibility to outbreaks.
The insect's greatest impact is among suppressed and intermediate trees. Repeated budworm defoliation causes tree mortality over large areas, reduction of growth rates and reduced lumber quality. Sustained attack results in complete defoliation in four to five years.
Once an infestation has subsided, defoliated trees take several years to regain full foliage. Radial growth therefore requires several years to return to normal rates. Successive years of defoliation in stands may predispose trees to other insects and pathogens. Tree mortality may continue due to root disease, bark beetles, loss of vigour and other causes.
Long-term strategies consist of stand manipulation, such as thinning, harvesting and alternative species. Short-term strategies include spray programs.


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Yesterday, EGM Now wrote a story pointing out a section in Microsoft's Game Content Usage Rules, stating that people may not directly profit from videos that contain content from Microsoft games.
Here's the part of the Game Content Usage Rules in question:
You may post your Item to a page or website that has advertising, but only if you do not earn any money from that advertising. For example, if you post your video on Youtube or Vimeo and there happens to be an advertisement next to it, then as long as you don't get paid for that advertisement, the fact that there is an advertisement on the page doesn't break these Rules. But enrolling in the Youtube partner program (or other similar programs), where you are entering into an agreement to get paid, is not allowed. On a similar note, if you create and distribute a free app, then you can't earn any money from advertising in that app.
On top of being a source of entertainment for millions of people everywhere, games can often become major sources of revenue for popular filmmakers on sites such as YouTube and Vimeo, who frequently use in-game content/footage in their videos. Of course, select big-time producers — such as Rooster Teeth, for example — are unaffected by this; they have licensing deals with Microsoft to use the in-game content. However, it does seem like people who don't have such deals with the company are in the wrong here… right?
Frank O' Connor — franchise development director at the Microsoft subsidiary 343 Industries — posted a comment (he goes by "Stinkles") on the NeoGAF forums saying that this isn't exactly the case, despite the rather intimidating legal jargon:
As I mentioned in the Halo community thread, these rules actually haven't really changed, and even the updated and clarified text has been up there for months. I assume somebody just noticed this and posted this morning because it sort of blew up. This has always been the Legal status for the IP (and MOST IPs in fact), and as you also already know, nobody is being sued, or in jail, etc etc etc.
The language isn't designed to stop kids streaming their games, or covering their costs, it's designed to stop big companies from using somebody else's IP to run a business.
We'll put together some language that will help community people navigate this easily, and give people workarounds.
It's also interesting how EGM Now reported that this was just recently added to the Game Content Usage Rules; according to O' Connor, they have been there for months:
These guidelines have been out there for months. How many of you are posting from jail? We'll get some clarifying messaging out there, but the legalese won't change, because it's legalese. We'll craft a path through the semantic minefield, however.
We're awaiting comment from Microsoft on this.
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DATE: October 17, 2017
Cristen McMillan
Phone: 772-564-5527
Vero Beach, FL - October 17, 2017 - The School District of Indian River County is pleased to announce that Sebastian River High School has received a $1,365.60 STEM grant from the Toshiba America Foundation (TAF). These funds will support the Biochemistry Inquiry in Mrs. Dawn Arnett's 1B Chemistry II course.
Juniors in the 1B Chemistry course are investigating the Biochemistry option as one of four scientific exploration options in the 1B curriculum. The goal of this project is to provide hands on experiments in Biochemistry using wet lab inquiries such as Lipids, Antacids, and Lactose Intolerance.
Principal Todd Racine, stated, "This grant, written by Mrs. Arnett, will provide students the real-life experience that is critical in connecting theory to practice. We are grateful for her motivation to bring STEM opportunities to her students through this Toshiba grant."
Toshiba America Foundation's grants fund projects designed by individual classroom teachers. This "direct-to-teacher" approach brings immediate results. Teachers are able to change the way they teach Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum because of the equipment for hands-on experiments and inquiry-based approaches the grant supports. At TAF, we believe that STEM is a lot more fun than just reading a textbook. TAF grants provide teachers with the tools they need to be more effective educators. The grants make the classroom a more exciting place for both teachers and students.
About Toshiba America Foundation
Founded in 1990 with support from Toshiba Corporation and the Toshiba America Group Companies, Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) is a non-profit grant making organization dedicated to helping classroom teachers make STEM learning fun and successful for K to 12 students in U.S. schools. TAF grants support public and nonprofit private schools throughout the United States. For more information, please visit: www.toshiba.com/taf.


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It's one of those beautiful nights in the Hamptons. Black velvet sky studded with stars. Still warm enough to leave the top down on the car as you and your fabulous companion motor home from an incredible dinner, night out with friends or the ever-popular fundraiser involving potent designer cocktails and cute little goody bags. Life is perfect.
And then, you realize—you are not alone. None of us is. Something huge and furry has just scampered across the road. And it wasn't alone.
Yes, there is an abundance of wildlife in the Hamptons, and I'm not talking about what goes on at the Stephen Talkhouse at 2 a.m. Of course, you love nature. That's why you're here—the beach, the fresh air, the sweet sounds of birdsong waking you in the morning. But there is another side to nature in the Hamptons…a dark, creepy side. [expand]
After watching a seemingly endless parade of raccoons, rats, possums, fox and deer go bounding past, it seems pretty clear—nature is on a mission to either freak you out or mess up your car.
Of course, we all know about the deer. They're cute, they're adorable and they have a nasty habit of leaping out of nowhere directly into the path of your headlights. If you don't slam on your brakes, it's going to be bad for you, the deer and your car. But, at least the deer aren't out to get you, unlike some of our other Hamptons fauna.
I got the following text from a friend.
"They got my Silkies right out of my backyard." At first I thought she had said selkie, which is a mythical creature somewhat like a mermaid. It sort of made sense, although it seemed hard to believe that you could keep them in your backyard.
So, I called her, just to get a little more information. It turned out that Silkies are a breed of chicken. "It was the raccoons," my friend said, darkly. "They're getting out of control. Who knows what they'll do next?" She went on and on about the raccoons, telling story after story of raccoons eating their way through plastic garbage cans, wooden fences, and other assorted atrocities.
Now I'm really upset, and not just over the murder of a bunch of innocent chickens. Weird mental pictures are forming in my brain. As a person who grew up in the city, I have always found raccoons very scary. Yeah, I know people think they're kind of cute, with their monkey-like paws and that adorable little bandit mask. They also look like freakish aliens when they scurry across the road at night, their eyes glowing like they've been possessed by demons. Sure, today they were content with taking out a couple of ornamental chickens. What if they started to escalate?
Could a bunch of raccoons take down a grown man? Or dog? A small dog, sure. A small dog would be no match for a demonically possessed raccoon. The average raccoon in my neighborhood could easily turn a Shih Tzu into Shih Tzu tartar. But a grown man? It would take a lot of raccoons to overpower and drag off a full-grown man. They'd have to be organized, too. There would have to be a raccoon leader, someone the rest of the raccoons respected and trusted with their lives. With good leadership, the raccoons could take over the Hamptons, systematically slaughtering anyone who stood in their way. Who was going to stop them? The wild turkeys? Ha! Everyone knows they're stupid and gullible. They wouldn't stand a chance against an army of fierce, food-washing raccoons.
By now, I just wanted to get off the phone so I could start gathering up canned goods and bottled water, and barricade myself in the basement with the children. The raccoons are coming! The raccoons are coming!
"What should we do?" I asked my friend. "How can we stop them?"
"Well," my friend said, philosophically, "I guess I'll just build a better coop and order some more chickens on line."
I promised myself to return to an urban setting ASAP, where all I'd have to worry about were rats and roaches. But then, I went to the beach and forgot all about the raccoons. Because I was way too busy worrying about the jellyfish.
P.S. Raccoons have never been known for their organizational skills. And they've never attacked as a group. So, no need to worry. But you weren't worried anyway, were you? [/expand]


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Rogue One was written by Chris Weitz and Tony Gilroy, from a story by John Knoll and Gary Whitta. Notable as the first stand-alone film in the Star Wars Anthology series. The large, international cast includes Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Ben Mendelsohn, Donnie Yen, Mads Mikkelsen, Alan Tudyk, Riz Ahmed, Jiang Wen and as unhinged revolutionary Saw Guerrera, Forest Whitaker.
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Get into the carnival spirit at the Festival of the Trees 2.
Then enjoy the rides at Circus of the Spineless XI.
Yesterday evening, I visited an enormous bur oak tree in a friend's back yard. Other photos are here and here.
Get into the carnival spirit at the Festival of the Trees 2.
Then enjoy the rides at Circus of the Spineless XI.
Yesterday evening, I visited an enormous bur oak tree in a friend's back yard. Other photos are here and here.
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There is a god in that tree – perhaps an Antler God, or Cernunnos. A Green Man. It's evocative and powerful. The strength of trees, really Druidic man. I like the mythic sense you've captured in the strong twiny twist of ancient bark.
On a completely different topic, how do you pronounce qarrtsiluni?
Share this image of Jean's, which I've loved since he posted it. It's enough to make me hunt through 60 packed boxes of books for Graves' The White Goddess!
The question is, do you have conversations with the face that is 'fifteen feet off the ground, as plain as day'?
I must be more of a nutcase than I thought, then.
But, then again, spiritus loci, the deva, or local genius of the tree. And divining.
But, then again, you're
Ah, maybe that's it. If the tree talks first. Yes, I suppose that's how it happened…
(Warning: long recollection now). The lake at my cottage on the island 'spoke' to me on about day 2 of a three day fast, or, ahem, 'vision quest,' which I used to do by the beach amidst the trees by myself once or twice a year. After that, we talked endlessly :grins: My Dad, a man of reason, a scientist, rational & all that, was originally a geologist and once, when I mentioned, oh, how do I put this, talking with various nature sprites, he said that that was very odd but that if he really thought about it mountains spoke to him. He was a hard rock geologist. Being out in the bush for months on end collecting samples was one of the joys of his life and he missed it later in life when he became office bound.
The Secret Life of Nature I really loved: it's perhaps simply another way of appreciating what's around us, another perception perhaps as valid as, for instance, dendrology.
I hope that explains my initial comment…
And not to overdo it. If you're tired of this comment thread, snip it (oh, fun puns).
Premodern animism sounds interesting. Would you like to elaborate further, or perhaps your postings in poetry and prose 'show' that worldview…
My father, a POW for 4 years in North Africa, Italy and Poland, emerged from the war completely agnostic. He maintained a refusal to say anything because he said we simply do not know. He wasn't any kind of spiritualist though his mother was very psychic and so he did respect intuition. When he was dying, though, he was talking to and praying most of the time, and was 'seeing' his parents; it could have been the morphine, or that the consciousness returns to a more primal belief in the magical thinking of childhood, I don't know. But the highly refined intellectual apperception of religion and life and death and war seemed to give way to an emotional substrata in the last months of his life (he passed away in 1984).
Following in his footsteps in a kind of reverse way, I am willing to suspend not belief but disbelief. While I fully agree that we simply do not know, I tend towards believing in everything, in a multiplicity. And ultimately in 'nothing,' 'the void,' the 'great emptiness.'
But we have talked of this before in your comment threads.
May I pull this back to the 'antler god' image in the bur oak – one of the first cave art depictions of 'light' was a line drawing of a shaman, a human figure, a man if I recall, with antlers… I can't find it right now on the NET, but if I recall the antlers were a precursor of the fronds of the sun, and solar worship, and the God of Light…
Oh, cripes. I'm working reception at an office today, constant phone calls, couriers, tasks, sorry if that comment was a bit disjointed!
When I say antlers=rays of sun=god of sun=god of light, it's because I was working on a fairly large piece of work back in the early 80s on light (was never finished), and this particular sequence seemed the most logical (building on Gimbutas' methodology on the Art of Old Europe). It could be entirely off the mark, of course.


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Workshop on Testing Embedded and Cyber-Physical SystemsISSTA 2017
Embedded and cyber-physical systems (e.g., avionics, robotics, medical devices, IoT devices) are different from traditional systems: they are environment (e.g., hardware) dependent; they are distributed and can employ different concurrency control mechanisms to coordinate software components; they can have timing and performance constraints; they are heterogeneous and different components can be written in different languages; they have high security concerns. These characteristics render inapplicable the static and dynamic analysis techniques on which the traditional testing techniques (e.g., coverage, automated test case generation) rely. Therefore, applying these approaches can result in inadequately tested software.
The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the challenges in testing real-world embedded and cyber-physical software systems, exchange ideas, and propose solutions to the challenges. The workshop also aims to bring researchers and practitioners together, identify the gap between theory and practice, and provide insights for future work.
The ISSTA Workshop on Testing Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems (TECPS) will be co-located with ISSTA in Santa Barbara, California. The workshop will take place on Thursday, July 13th, 2017: the day after the main ISSTA conference. TECPS covers a wide range of issues and topics including how to perform effective and efficient analysis on large-scale and complex embedded and cyber-physical systems, how the characteristics of these systems affect the maintainability of these systems, how to handle bugs and security issues that are specific to these systems, how to automatically generate test cases and test oracles, how to monitor and diagnose these systems, and how integration between applications and lower-level software components can be improved to facilitate testing for certain types of systems.
Workshop Format
TECPS is a participatory workshop, where attendees will have the opportunity to actively engage in the many discussion activities planned for the workshop. Authors whose abstracts or short papers are accepted will give presentations. Sessions will be organized around the workshop theme and determined by the organizing committee. The workshop will include keynote presentations and invited talks around the original vision of TECPS.
Accepted Papers
Testing Uncertainty of Cyber-physical Systems in IoT Cloud Infrastructures – Combining Model-Driven Engineering and Elastic Execution
Call for Submissions
Two types of submissions are invited:
One page (or less) structured abstracts: Abstracts will be selected by the organizing committee. Selected abstracts will be presented at the workshop.
2-4 page short papers: Papers will be reviewed by the organizing committee. Accepted papers will be included in the ISSTA workshop proceedings and presented at the workshop.
Both types of submission should describe at least one primary thrust of your prior or current work. Your submission could be a summary of the primary challenge you have addressed in testing embedded and cyber-physical systems, or it could describe current work you are engaged in, or it could present a challenge even without any current solution.
All papers must be formatted using ACM Conference formatting guidelines.
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Chair(s): Tingting YuUniversity of Kentucky
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Michael WhalenUniversity of Minnesota
10:30 - 12:00: TECPS - Session 1 at ESB 2001
Chair(s): Alex GyoriUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
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Chao WangUniversity of Southern California
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John-Paul OreUniversity of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
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Vaibhav SharmaUniversity of Minnesota, Taejoon ByunUniversity of Minnesota, Stephen McCamantUniversity of Minnesota, Sanjai RayadurgamUniversity of Minnesota, Mats HeimdahlUniversity of Minnesota
13:30 - 15:00: TECPS - Session 2 at ESB 2001
Chair(s): Kristen Walcott-Justice
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Stephen McCamantUniversity of Minnesota
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Tingting YuUniversity of Kentucky
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Alex GroceNorthern Arizona University, Paul FlikkemaNorthern Arizona University, Josie HolmesPennsylvania State University, USA
15:30 - 17:30: TECPS - Session 3 at ESB 2001
Chair(s): Stephen McCamantUniversity of Minnesota
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Alex GyoriUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, Earlence FernandesUniversity of Michigan, Amir RahmatiUniversity of Michigan, Atul PrakashUniversity of Michigan, Darko MarinovUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Testing Uncertainty of Cyber-physical Systems in IoT Cloud Infrastructures – Combining Model-Driven Engineering and Elastic Execution
Hong-Linh TruongTU Wien, Luca BerardinelliJohannes Kepler University Linz
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Amin AlipourUniversity of Houston


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Ha! This Blog is called Candid Caleb and so I don't feel bad having these pictures in such a random order. Let's just say that things happened in all different stages and it's kind of melting together as I look back.
First off! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Find my creative and silly children below. They like to make hammocks and such in their bedrooms and then stuff them with all their stuffed animals and then themselves. I got so tired of movies and video games, and lo and behold when you remove those things, really cool life starts to happen.
Bella just really rocks those shades... also Asher, Liam and Bella made up some game with a blanket where you have to pull the person on the blanket all the way back to your bedroom while they resist... yeah Asher won :). But, they all had fun!
Our family has inherited a tradition from the Gebauers where we light candles and talk about our relationship with the Lord. We have a symbolic Christ-candle in the center of the table and light our own candles from His. It's a time for reflection and hope for the future. I really enjoy hearing my kids talk about their love for the Lord and their heart to know Him even more!
We celebrated Christmas with my family on Christmas Eve. My sister wanted to get some great pics and so we did. Here is one of all of us that a ghost took... I mean Cameras don't need people... I mean... well never mind.
So this past month has been relentless fun :). We went to see our friends the Sieks down in Austin and also I went to meet some of the team that is going to Thailand. It was great! The trip was quick and we got back Monday around noon and then kicked off our MK Hobbit/Lord of the Rings marathon at 3 pm. We did two movies on Monday with a delicious spaghetti dinner in between. Then we did the rest the other four evenings. It was fun connecting with the kids and also a lot of fun watching those movies again!
Have I mentioned before that I live with weird people? I love these amazing weirdos. Yeah... they do this when I leave. I have no idea what crazy stuff they will get up to with underwear and who knows what else while I'm gone this time.
Here is a picture of my two sons singing in their school program. Good luck finding them... yeah even I can't figure out where they are... maybe I need a better camera phone.
Here are some pictures from the MK Christmas party this year. Needless to say, it was amazing and huge and so fun. Three years ago we had maybe 20 kids come to this... we doubled that this year! It's so cool to see the group grow, MAN! I really LOVE these kids!
We went all out in decorating our house this year. I think the electric bill was more than my trip to Thailand, but the winter wonderland, mysterious Christmas joy for my kids is well worth it. Okay, never! This is a house that we found in my cousin's neighborhood. Yes, imagine being their neighbor and feeling so inadequate with your decorations! This picture does a poor job of reflecting the sheer spectacle of it all! Anyways, really fun times.
Speaking of cousins, my amazing cousin David got Diane and me tickets to see Josh Garrels for my Birthday. It was his Christmas tour and it was fantastic!
I don't have pictures of it all... there is too much! What a season! It was good to have some time off, but I'm glad to be back at work for a short time before I head off again to Thailand. I leave this Friday and get back next month. I'm excited!
Diane and I just finished up a Trauma Healing course. She took it and I helped to teach it. This was planned for awhile ago but was complicated by the unexpected death of my dear cousin Laura Davis. On New Years day she went to be with the Lord. My wife brought in the New Year by her side in a hospital room full of family. Laura hung on to see the new year and then headed home to celebrate with her heavenly father. We have done two memorials and they both came during the Trauma Healing workshop. Diane spoke at the second one among many others. She and Laura were really close and this passing is very painful. I'm so proud of the family coming around Andrew and his three kids and lifting them up. How do you fill a void like this? How do you go on in the face of so much pain and hardship? You go on together... you let God heal and comfort... but it takes time and many tears and much grief. Laura, you will be missed. You lived a full life, I'm sorry it wasn't a very long one. I'm glad to have known you and I'm glad to know that I will see you again!
Please pray for my family while I'm gone! For safety and health. For help with the kids and for things to work properly!
Please pray for me and my team as we travel. For safety and health, for fun adventures. Pray that we can be a blessing and that God is glorified. That His love working in us then works in others.
I love you all so much! Thanks for being a part of my adventure and my life with its ups and downs! Thanks for your support both financially and spiritually! Your relationship is priceless and I'm so grateful for you. I couldn't do this without you and I wouldn't want to.
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