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If you live in some of the largest cities in the UK such as London, Birmingham or Liverpool then you're probably programmed to ignore the hustle and bustle around us as we go about our busy schedules every day. We may see that local man who sits in the same spot, day in and day out with nothing but a sleeping bag for comfort. But, do we actually allow ourselves to see more than the dismal looking character in front of us?
I know I am not alone in saying that I have turned a blind eye to those in the past. Young Everyman Playhouse presents to use The City and The Value Of Things bringing what can only be described as a compelling piece of theatre, that provokes your deepest and darkest thoughts surrounding the issues that are in society today in these cities.
The phrase 'Quality over quantity' most certainly does not apply here. Especially, when you have 56 performers who bring passion, dedication and grit to their performances and roles tonight. It's clear to see the diversity among the talented cast, heightened by their individual costumes but it's their unity and appreciation of one another when on stage that I think creates a strong production of young aspiring performers.
Based around a 'Hunger Games' twist on the classic board game Monopoly we see YEP tackle issues in these cities today such as; love and relationships, feminism and equality, freedom of speech, the ever growing issues of homelessness and living on the breadline to name a few. Focusing on how those with higher financial status have power and cleverly disguising them, into the game as the well-known figurines from Monopoly. It's a modern concept that works brilliantly and to see that it was devised by Young Everyman Playhouse themselves shows that the talent isn't just in their acting and the use of realism and humour is perfectly balanced. The portrayal of the ever growing 'Student Accommodation' that is flooding our cities and the 'Housing Issues' (supported by the good use of set) where two highlights for me in this production and it really strikes a chord when you can relate with the storyline - as I am sure many of us in the audience did tonight, seeing the daily struggle of our issues falling on deaf ears. It wasn't only the concept that impressed tonight it was the professionalism that the performers took on, it's not easy to portray such mature stories at young ages but the delivery of the issues raised was done so realistic and that's because it's happening to all of us and we have all been affected one way or another by issues raised in this production. Chloe Nall-Smith and Keeley Ray took on the roles of G & T tonight and their dynamic comedy duo stood out, as did Natalie Vaughan who portrayed Debbie and really grasped her role as a 21st century 'breadline' scouse mother well, performances you should all be proud of. But, every single member of YEP deserves a mention for their performances tonight so WELL DONE! If I had one constructive criticism it would be that the running in the 'Ariana Grande' scene was slightly distracting due to the noise of the feet, maybe some more running on the toes is needed to provide a quieter sound to avoid distraction from the ongoing scene.
Chris Tomlinson & Matt Rutter have directed something special with The City and The Value of Things and trust me I am not easily pleased when it comes to theatre. The use of a scaffolding structure to portray the housing units works perfectly from an audience perspective and adds visual levels and dynamics to the story, a clever design to support the performance. We are treated to sharp formations and patterns, dynamic use of the space and artistic characteristic of 'Wii Characters' by movement director Grace Goulding who shows that sometimes small, isolated moves can be visually effective if done correctly and in the right concept.
If this was a professional production I would not hesitate in giving this 5/5 stars in the review and I hope this could developed in the future because it's a perfect portrayal of 21st century issues, cleverly portrayed by strong young performers. Please support local talent by seeing this wonderful production if you get the chance!
Reviewer: Daniel Cox
Reviewed: 21st February 2018
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The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
Unabridged / Go to Abridged Audiobook
Written By: Leah Stewart
Narrated By: Staci Snell
Date: September 2005
Duration: 8 hours 16 minutes
Searingly honest, beautiful, and full of fragile urgency, The Myth of You and Me is a celebration and portrait of a friendship that will appeal to anyone who still feels the absence of that first true friend.
When Cameron was fifteen, Sonia was her best friend—no one could come between them. Now Cameron is a twenty-nine-year-old research assistant with no meaningful ties to anyone except her aging boss, noted historian Oliver Doucet.
When an unexpected letter arrives from Sonia ten years after the incident that ended their friendship, Cameron doesn't reply, despite Oliver's urging. But then he passes away, and Cameron discovers that he has left her with one final task: to track down Sonia and hand-deliver a mysterious package to her. Now without a job, a home, and a purpose, Cameron decides to honor his request, setting off on the road to find this stranger who was once her inseparable other half.
The Myth of You and Me, the story of Cameron and Sonia's friendship—as intense as any love affair—and its dramatic demise, captures the universal sense of loss and nostalgia that often lingers after the end of an important relationship.


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If you attend or have even thought about attending New Life Church Riverfalls you're invited to the Reavelys' back yard this Sunday, September 25th, at 5:00.
We'll have time to hang out together. We'll probably have a game to play. We'll also pray together.
In honor of the new New Life Church, please bring food that reminds you of new life (candy corn, eggs, baby food, candy corn, green things, baby shower mints -- okay, we can't think of a lot either -- be creative) that you can share. Thank you.
Friday, September 23, 2005
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A large indoor mall with a variety of stores and other services.
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date approved: 1/24/2014
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This large indoor mall is one of the "Extra" premium malls in the Big C chain, the largest in Thailand.
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The Elephant's Walk Complex in Victoria Falls offers a wide variety of shops and service providers.
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A mall in Daly City, CA.
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The Whitgift Centre is a large shopping mall in Croydon. It sits between Wellesley Road, on its east side, and North End, a pedestrianised street, on its west side.
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A great little mall in the Tucson Foothills at Ina and La Cholla.
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This triple-domed building was built in 1837 for Richard Grainger and is now a shopping mall.
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location: North East England, United Kingdom
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In the center of Stuttgart, Germany, Baden-Württemberg is an indoor shopping mall located. It is called 'Königsbau Passagen'.
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location: Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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A shopping Mall in Perth's mid-north
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This small indoor mall was the first mall in Portugal
location: Lisboa, Portugal
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Dapto Mall is the key shopping location in the town of Dapto.
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Géant Casino is one of the largest shopping malls in the closer area.
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The sole Indoor Mall in Kiama.
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Kleine, exklusive Mall an der Kurpromenade in Timmendorfer Strand. / Small but exclusive indoor mall at the coastal boardwalk at Timmendorfer Strand.
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This Indoor Mall is located at 3601 S Constitution Blvd in West Valley City, Utah.
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The sole Indoor Shopping Mall in Nowra.
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Castle Mall - Located next to Norwich Castle One of the city's most famous buildings. The Mall has most of its 5 floors underground.
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A good shopping mall in the suburb of Winthrop.
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The Mall at Robinson - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Mall at Robinson is a two-level, enclosed super-regional shopping mall located just off the Parkway West (I-376) and PA Route 60 in Robinson Township, Allegheny County between Pittsburgh International Airport and Downtown Pittsburgh
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A local shopping centre that has markets every Sunday morning outside the shopping centre.
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This modern shopping plaza, opened in 2011, is one of the largest shopping malls in the northern city of Chiangrai, Thailand. It covers 55 acres.
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Central World - Bangkok, Thailand
Central World is the largest shopping complex in Thailand, and one of the top ten in the world.
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- Source: The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 3, Issue 5, 1 Sep 1954, p. 878 - 882
The Transmission of Dengue by Aedes Polynesiensis Marks
Epidemiologic observations in Polynesia suggested that Aedes polynesiensis Marks served as a natural vector of dengue in that area. This mosquito species was shown to be capable of transmitting dengue from monkey to monkey in the laboratory. A hemagglutination-inhibition test was used to demonstrate the occurrence of the infection in the experimental monkeys.
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an eminent physician and botanist, the son of the Rev. Alexander
Colden of Dunse, was born February 17, 1688. He studied at the
university of Edinburgh, and in medicine and mathematics especially
made great proficiency. In 1708 he emigrated to Pennsylvania, where he
practised as a physician for some years. In 1715 he returned to
Britain, and while in London acquired considerable reputation by a
paper on Animal Secretions. He afterwards went to Scotland, but the
rebellion which had broken out there induced him to recross the
Atlantic in 1716. He settled a second time in Pennsylvania, but in
1718 removed to New York. After a residence of a year in that city, he
was appointed the first surveyor-general of the lands of the colony,
and at the same time master in chancery. In 1720 he obtained a seat in
the king's council, under Governor Burnet. For some time previous to
this, he had resided on a tract of land about nine miles from
Newburgh, on Hudson river, for which he had received a patent, and
which he employed himself in bringing into a state of cultivation,
though much exposed to the attacks of the Indians. In 1761 he was
chosen lieutenant-governor of New York. During the absence of Governor
Tryon he displayed his ability in the management of affairs, and
formed several benevolent establishments. After the return of Governor
Tryon in 1775, Colden retired to a seat on Long Island, where he died,
September 28, 1776, in the eighty-ninth year of his age, a few hours
before nearly one-fourth part of the city of New York was reduced to
ashes. Governor Colden was distinguished for his acquaintance with
botany. His descriptions of between three and four hundred American
plants were published in the 'Acta Upsaliensia.' He paid attention
also to the climate, and left a long course of diurnal observations on
the thermometer, barometer, and winds. He sent a great many American
plants to Linnaeus, with whom he corresponded, and who gave to a new
genus of plants the appellation of Coldenia. His works are:
The History
of the Five Indian Nations of Canada. 2d edition, London, 1701, 8vo.
The same, 1747, 1750, 8vo. And 1755, 2 vols, 12mo.
The History
of the Five Indian Nations depending upon New York. New York, 1727,
8vo. Lond. 1752. 4to.
Principle of Action in Matter, the Gravitation in Bodies, and the
Motion of the Planets, explained from their principles. New York,
1745, 8vo. Lond. 1752, 4to.
Coldenghomiae in provincia Noveboracensi Americes sponte crescentes.
Act. Societ. Upsal. 1743, p. 81, &c.
concerning the Throat Distemper. Med. Obs. and Inq. i. p. 211. 1755.
Epidemic Malignant Sore Throat.
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Definitions for "MIRACLE"
Keywords: supernatural, wonder, divine, extraordinary, marvel
An act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
A wonder or wonderful thing.
An event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event, or one transcending the ordinary laws by which the universe is governed.
a landmark debut LP from a band who couldn't catch a break in a record industry filled with dimwits who literally made it up as it went alone
Miracle is a concept album credited to singer Céline Dion and photographer Anne Geddes. It was released on October 11 2004. Miracle is Dion's 12th English album and 32nd in total.
"Miracle" is the third single from Whitney Houston's third album, I'm Your Baby Tonight. The song, written and produced by L.A. Reid and Babyface, and is about a girl who had an abortion but later feels she made a mistake.
Keywords: intriguing, novel, falters, little, worth
an intriguing novel that falls a little flat at the end, but still worth a read
an intriguing novel that falters a little at the end
Keywords: guggenheim, gavin, o'connor, biographical, brooks
a film of absolute and beautiful abandon
Miracle (2004) is an American biographical sports film about the United States men's hockey team, led by head coach, Herb Brooks, that won the gold medal in the 1980 Winter Olympics. The USA team's victory over the heavily favored Soviet team in the medal round was dubbed the Miracle on Ice. Miracle was directed by Gavin O'Connor and written by Eric Guggenheim.
A story or legend abounding in miracles.
a fast paced story with enough twists and turns to keep our readers up late into the night
an abundant, lively and lyrical story, filled with joy and hope
a pop gem a marriage of the above inflences with an injection of Chic
Miracle makes Celtic or "Scottish" jewelry, jewelry using ancient Celtic designs and stones such as agate. The Miracle pin pictured above is made with agate stones.
an authentic change of fear into love
a shift in perception from fear to love
a single mom working two shifts and still taking time to get the kids to soccer and dance practice
Keywords: causeth, admiration, work
Keywords: veracity, imposter, saint, token, manifested
Keywords: workbook, bookshelves, yourself, recommended, self
a recommended do-it-yourself workbook addition to self-help, self-improvement bookshelves
Keywords: inexplicable, stunned, phenomenon, experience, leaves
an inexplicable phenomenon that occurs and leaves stunned those who experience it
Keywords: materialist, escape, idea, materialism
Keywords: contradiction, christian, mind, set
A magical moment of awareness of receiving and/or experiencing exactly what is needed for the greatest good of all concerned.
Keywords: coincidence, sudden, accumulation
Keywords: consciousness, changed
Keywords: false, thinking, introduced, correction, factor
When a player who has a high chance of losing, receives the one or two cards which allow him to win the pot.
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President Trump has defended his calls for Ukraine and China to investigate the Bidens in constitutional terms. He said:
This is not about politics. This is about corruption. If you look and you read our Constitution and many other things, I have an obligation to look at corruption. I have an actual obligation and a duty.
As I read the Constitution, it does not obligate a president to investigate a given case of alleged corruption. Rather, it leaves the president with the discretion to investigate or not investigate.
There are two other problems with Trump's statement. First, if this is not about politics, show me a case in which Trump has pushed a foreign government to investigate a specific individual, family, or entity for corruption where there were no political implications. Surely, the Bidens, Hillary Clinton, and Democratic committees/operatives aren't the only Americans who have, or likely have, engaged in corrupt dealings abroad.
Second, the issue here isn't Trump's power or obligation to investigate corruption. The president is free, in good faith, to have the U.S. investigate any corrupt individual, including political figures who oppose him. (Thus, there is no point in announcing, as a commenter at Ann Althouse's site facetiously did, one's permanent candidacy for the presidency. Doing so will not insulate one from investigation).
The president is also free to ask foreign governments to cooperate with good faith U.S. investigations where such cooperation is needed. Again, this should be true whether or not the target of the investigation is a political opponent or rival of the president.
The issues here are different. One issue is whether it's wrong for the president to alter, or threaten to alter, U.S. policy towards a foreign country if it refuses to investigate a political rival or opponent of the president. Another issue is whether, assuming this occurred and that it's wrong, it provides proper grounds for impeaching the president.
I answer the first question in the affirmative. It is wrong, in my view, for the president to alter, or threaten to alter, U.S. policy towards a foreign country if it refuses to investigate a president's opponent or rival..
I answer the second question in the negative, subject to a caveat. In my view, it is not an impeachable offense, in itself, for a president to alter, or threaten to alter, U.S. policy towards a foreign country if it refuses to investigate a president's opponent or rival. However, if the policy alteration is major and the threat is carried out, then I think there's a case for impeachment.
Here, the withholding of military aid authorized by Congress to an ally that is being attacked would be a major alteration. It's not clear at this point whether Trump made or authorized such a threat. In any event, the military aid ultimately was not withheld.
The two issues I have just considered are core questions. One either sees wrongdoing or one doesn't. One either sees an impeachable offense or one doesn't.
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Danny has sought to establish a viable industry association since 1990 when he first began working in the industry. The IAPPR is the result.
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The All Blacks face another potential set back ahead of the Lions tour, which starts a month today, the 3rd of June. It is now Dane Coles who is in doubt for the visit of the British and Irish Lions after he is suffering with signs of concussion along with a calf injury.
Although the hooker was confident that he would be making a return this month, this has now gone under speculation, as his club coach Chris Boyd stated that he has been suffering from headaches during training. Although concussion within the game is not too rare, there could be cause for concern for Coles, as medical staff cannot find the source of the possible concussion, with Boyd stating; "We genuinely don't know where he got those symptoms from.." after medical staff searched extensively through his last game tape.
Coles joins captain Kieran Read on the list of doubtful's for the tour, as Read is also in recovery after he sustained a broken thumb in a club game for The Crusaders against The Cheetahs.
There is no doubt that the quality of the All Blacks' play will not differ much from the current standards if the pair were to sit out the meeting on the 24th of next month; but I'm sure Hansen would rather have his full strength side for the clash against Gatland's new look Lions side.
Whoever is on the team sheets next month, it should certainly be a quality game.


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New features in Aspera SmartTrack 4.2 cut time needed by 50% for Software Asset Management*
Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study by an Independent Research Firm finds high impact of SmartTrack for software savings and IT efficiency
Boston, MA, March 20, 2017 – To dramatically reduce costs and give customers deeper insights into their software licenses, Aspera announces the new release of its SmartTrack platform. Powerful features in Aspera SmartTrack 4.2 include the ability to create custom dashboard widgets, an easy view of the license history for every software product, and a single sign-on for Aspera's family of applications.
Aspera is an international leader in the strategic approach to Software Asset Management (SAM), and SmartTrack is the industry-standard solution for large and enterprise companies to identify up to 30% savings and reveal high-risk compliance gaps.
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You 2.0: Why Disorder May Be Good For Us
If you're lucky, summer gives you time to breathe, maybe go on vacation, slow down. You finally have a chance to get to that long list of things you've been putting off - books to read, exercise, spending some time on yourself. The episode you're about to hear is part of our summer series about rebooting and reimagining our lives. We're calling it You 2.0. This week, we bring you a conversation from the fall of 2016. It explores the idea that the chaos of your regular life might have some secret benefits.
VEDANTAM: If you're a parent, you've probably told your kids a thousand times, your room is a mess, clean it up. We hear the same message in other contexts. Managers at companies around the world tell their employees to get organized. Here in the United States, we elect presidents to go clean up Washington.
This is HIDDEN BRAIN. I'm Shankar Vedantam. My guest today has a radical idea. In many cases, he says, it's disorder rather than order that's our friend. Tim Harford is the author of "Messy: The Power Of Disorder To Transform Our Lives." He joined us recently for a live taping just blocks from the White House at NPR's Weekend in Washington. It's an annual event that brings together public radio fans and supporters.
Tim Harford, Welcome to HIDDEN BRAIN.
TIM HARFORD: Thank you very much, Shankar.
VEDANTAM: I want to begin by playing you a piece of music, Tim.
VEDANTAM: How did that piece of music come about? What's the story?
HARFORD: It's beautiful, isn't it? My - two of my children were born to that. It was played by Keith Jarrett, great jazz pianist in 1975 in Cologne. And if you had been there two or three hours before the concert, you would not have expected things to go well. Keith Jarrett had just refused to play. And the reason he'd refused to play is because he had arrived on stage, met the piano. He was supposed to be - completely improvised, by the way - the whole thing was going to be improvised. Met this piano and realized that there'd been a mistake. And the thing was literally unplayable - without a tune, black keys were sticking. The pedals didn't work. The upper register of the keyboard was harsh and tinny 'cause all the felt had worn away. And, most importantly, it was too small. So it didn't have enough volume to actually reach the back of the Cologne auditorium. And so, of course, he refused to play.
And the organizer of the concert, who was this young German girl - she's just 17 years old - desperately tried to fix the piano, to replace the piano. She managed to get it somewhat in tune. But, basically, she couldn't really improve on it. And she couldn't get it replaced. And so the only option she had was to beg Keith Jarrett to play. And of course he saw this teenager, thought of the 1,400 people who were about to show up and listen to the concert and said to her, never forget, only for you. And he went on stage. And he and his producer recorded the concert because they wanted documentary evidence of what a musical catastrophe sounds like so they could play it to future promoters to tell them to do a good job and get a proper piano. But, in fact, it's a masterpiece. It's Keith Jarrett's most popular work. In fact, it's the most - the best-selling jazz album in history - solo jazz album in history and the best-selling piano album in history. It's "The Koln Concert."
And the surprising thing is that all the adjustments that Jarrett had to make to cope with this bad piano made the music better. So he avoided the harsh upper registers. He stuck to the middle of the keyboard. That makes it sound very soothing. But he also had to compensate for the fact that the piano was so quiet. So he had these rolling repetitive riffs in the bass to try to get some resonance. And he also just stood up and pounded down on the keys.
HARFORD: So you can hear him moaning in frustration during the concert. He's hating it. But it is amazing.
HARFORD: And that combination of the peacefulness and the dynamism makes this electrifying piece of music. So he did not expect that a bad piano would produce a great concert. But, in fact, it did. And the argument in my book is, very often, we're faced with the unplayable piano. And, actually, we produce something great out of it.
VEDANTAM: You have a number of examples besides Keith Jarrett about how disruptions and inconveniences and surprises can sometimes have paradoxically good effects on us even though we all try to avoid those disruptions. You talk about commuters, for example, who suddenly have to find a new way to work or scientists who are working on so many projects that they are discombobulated because they don't know what they're working on. In many of these cases, you find that disorder and confusion could actually be helpful.
HARFORD: Yes. So in the case of commuters, there was a transport strike in London a couple years ago - Shut down not all but most of the London underground stations for 48 hours. So not a long strike. But most commuters in London use public transport. It's not really set up for the car. But you could travel on the bus. There are over-ground trains where you could use some of the tube lines that were not shut down. They have various other options. And the economists who studied this got hold of the data as to the trips that people were making. They identified people who took the same route to work every single day. Well, there's a technical term for this, it's called commuters.
HARFORD: You would think that these are the people who have absolutely perfected their route to work. Surely, commuters - they know every step. They know, you know, where to stand on the platform, which track. And yet the economists found, looking at the people who took the same route to work every day, who then changed their route during the strike - thousands of them, about 5 percent, thousands upon thousands - stayed with the new route. So these are people - this is the optimum population for having honed their route to perfection. And yet, 1 in 20 of them discovered that when they were forced to find a new way, they found a better way.
And I think that that's quite a common situation. We get into particular habits, whether it's creative or whether it's just trying to get to work. We get into a particular habit. We're knocked off course. And very often, of course, our original habit was the right way to do things and we go back. But often enough to be useful, we find that the new way of doing things is actually better all along. And if only we'd been forced into it, we would have discovered that years ago.
VEDANTAM: One of the things I want to do in this conversation is try and tease apart when messiness can be our friend and when it can be our enemy. There's a reason many of us try and avoid messiness. It's because messiness causes delays. It causes disruptions. You're ending up - you end up being late for some things. And I'm wondering, as I read some of the examples in your book, whether it was the case that messiness helps people who actually have a base of preparation.
So in other words, Keith Jarrett - he's a professional musician. He's very gifted. He's practiced, and he's learned the rules of how to play a proper piano for years and years and years. You place me before that piano, and what you're going to hear is not genius. What you're going to hear is just a mess. And the reason Keith Jarrett could adapt was because he had the base of knowing the rules to now say, I can throw out the rule book and create something brilliant.
HARFORD: Yeah. I think that's absolutely right, Shankar. And is it OK - can I open a big bag of complexity science on you? Is that all right?
VEDANTAM: Absolutely.
HARFORD: OK. So, basically, if you are trying to solve a very complex problem, we have various algorithms that try to solve this. And we - I'll come to the question of skill in a second. And the algorithms - computer algorithms searching for solutions in a very, very complex problem space, one possible approach is to look for step-by-step improvements. So that's the equivalent of skill. You are looking for step-by-step improvements to get from a bad solution to a better solution and a better one and a better one and a better one. And, eventually, you find the perfect solution.
It turns out that way of looking at complex problems doesn't usually work. And the reason is the algorithm, as it looks for these small improvements, gets stuck. So these algorithms that search for solutions - they work much better if you add random shocks. Lots of different ways to do that. But, basically, for most of this kind of problem I'm discussing, a computer scientist would approach it by saying, we're going to have the step-by-step quest for improvements. But we're also going to have lots of randomness, lots of shocks. Just keep knocking the algorithm off course because then it won't get stuck.
So now we come back to Keith Jarrett. He's like an algorithm that's searching for step-by-step improvements. He's a great musician. He's always looking for the perfect concert. Clearly, he's a very creative person 'cause he's improvising every night. But he always starts with a good piano - always. And then this one night where they say, you know what, Keith? Twelve of these notes don't work, and you should probably avoid most of that part. And that thing with the pedals - don't do that either. And - but then he sits down at the piano and then his skill kicks in, and he's looking for the incremental improvements. He's looking for a path to find great music. And he finds it. So, yes, you need skill. But the random shocks help.
VEDANTAM: So for all the children who are listening to this podcast, I want to make clear that you're not saying that every time your parent tells you to clean up the room, you should just say, Tim Harford says I shouldn't.
HARFORD: Well, I have to say since writing the book, I have stopped asking my children to clear up their room.
HARFORD: And the reason is I read an amazing study that had been conducted by two British psychologists - Alex Haslam and Craig Knight. And what they did was - it wasn't anything to do with children, but it was to do with clean desk policies. They got people to sit down and work in artificial office environments. You know, we've created an office for you. Here are some tasks. Sort this paperwork. Do these puzzles. Handle these emails. Regular sort of knowledge, worker tasks, standard stuff. And they measured how well people did. And there were four different arms to this experiment. People were randomized into different arms.
So in one case, the office was very, very minimalist. Just a chair, you know, pencil, paper, no distractions. People did fine in that. They didn't really like it on average - suits some people. The second approach - there were more decorations in the office. There were pot plants. There were posters, you know, some distractions. But it felt friendlier. People liked that more. But here's the real kicker to this research. The other two treatments, the other two parts of the research - first, the researchers said, you can organize this office how you like. Bring in the posters, send away the posters, put the pot plants where you like. Or if you want, we'll take the pot plants away for you - however you want. People loved that. They got so much more done. They felt happier. They were more productive - significantly more productive.
In the fourth part of the trial, they did that. They said, arrange it however you like. And then the experimenter came in and said, oh, I'm sorry, this isn't appropriate for the experiment, and rearranged everything, put it back the way it was in the second part of the trial where people had been perfectly happy to work in these decorated offices. What they weren't happy with was having someone come in, override their decisions, take away their control, take away their autonomy. They felt physically sick. And they hated everything about it. They hated the work. They hated the space. They hated the company that was hosting the space. And they absolutely hated the experimenter.
And after that, I made two vows to myself. Number one, if I'm ever a boss - nobody should make me a boss, by the way - if I'm ever a boss, I will never impose a clean desk policy. And number two, me and my wife - we kind of are the boss in our house. And I no longer ask my children to tidy their rooms. And you know what? We don't argue about it as much. And the rooms are kind of as messy as they ever were. It hasn't made any difference to the physical state of the rooms. There's just a little bit more peace.
VEDANTAM: Tim Harford comes from Britain. We're having this chat in the United States. In both countries, there have been enormous political upheavals recently. When we come back, I'm going to ask Tim about messiness in public life and in democracy. Stay with us.
VEDANTAM: This is HIDDEN BRAIN. I'm Shankar Vedantam. With Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, Tim, we've had populist revolutions on both sides of the Atlantic that reject the advice of scientists and economists, experts in general. Democracy, of course, is famously messy. Could you remind people why it's such a good thing?
HARFORD: Yes. I think, in both cases, I try to remind myself of Keith Jarrett's unplayable piano, actually. To me, the Brexit vote felt like an unplayable piano. The expert consensus in the U.K. was that this was not a very good idea. The British people disagreed with the experts. And so they voted to leave. And so I thought to myself, OK, well, this is going to pose all kinds of obstacles and all kinds of difficulties. In what ways might they actually turn to our advantage?
So not to try to be foolishly optimistic in the face of disappointment, or what was disappointment for a lot of people, but to say, well, there is an opportunity in everything. What are the solutions that we look for going forward? And I think that's an important thing to bear in mind whenever we are faced with an obstacle. It's easy to get frustrated. But we should then say, OK, how is this going to make me stronger? How is this going to make my society stronger? What are the solutions that are going to come out of disappointment?
VEDANTAM: Donald Trump ran a campaign that many people thought was extremely disordered. He didn't listen to the experts. He went off script all the time. He said things that people said would be sure to make him lose. Now, your book came out only a few weeks ago, but clearly he must have read an early draft.
HARFORD: I deny leaking the book to Donald Trump. However, you're absolutely right. There is a section in the book about Donald Trump's campaigning style that was written before he won the election. And it was published before he won the election. And I said, he is a master of using chaos to his advantage.
One of the interesting parallels between Trump's campaign and the Brexit vote in the U.K. is that the Brexit vote in the U.K. - there were two different leave campaigns, and they hated each other. They were taking legal action against each other. They actively contradicted each other. This may sound familiar - I don't know. You would think that that's a disadvantage. Turns out to be an advantage because support - they were able to coalesce two different groups of supporters who wanted different things. And they just tuned in to the things they liked to hear.
Meanwhile, the opposition - the remain vote in the U.K., the Democrats in the United States - they weren't sure what to criticize 'cause there was, you know, no coherence on the other side. So there was no target to aim at. Trump, by the way, is not the only person to use this. The use of chaos as a weapon works perfectly well in wartime. I talk about Erwin Rommel, the great German tank commander. It works in business. Jeff Bezos at Amazon explicitly targeted - we're going to move fast. We're going to make a mess. We don't understand what's going on. But at least Barnes & Noble are more confused than we are.
HARFORD: And as long as Barnes & Noble are more confused than we are, we're doing OK. He was very, very clear about this. And it has proved very effective.
VEDANTAM: I want to talk about another example of messiness in public life. And I want you to watch this video which describes a very famous speech. And I want to ask the question right after it.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR: We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their selfhood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating for whites only.
KING JR: We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote.
VEDANTAM: So as you can see from that speech, Tim, Martin Luther King is reading from a script. And he has some - a nice line there, but it's a writerly line. But at a certain point in the speech, he decides to leave the script behind and turn his eyes to the audience. And here's what we see after that.
KING JR: I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up, live out the true meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.
VEDANTAM: Talk about this for a second because you talk about the speech in the book. And you talk about this moment when King left his notes behind and essentially stepped off the ledge of what he knew and what he was certain about and just rode the wave of what the crowd was telling him and what he was feeling.
HARFORD: He had prepared that speech meticulously the night before. He'd stayed up very late. He was operating on a number of constraints. It was quite a tight time schedule. The eyes of the world were on him - he knew that. There were also various political constraints about what was his response going to be to the civil rights legislation. Would he embrace it? Would he criticize it as not going far enough? Other civil rights leaders were making different claims. He had to balance all of those.
So he took great care. The result was a speech that was well-crafted but a little bit lifeless. And so six or seven minutes into the speech, he looks down at the script and there's a line there that's terrible. And it must have been terrible when he wrote it. But he looked, and he realized it's not working. Now let us go back to our communities as members for the society for creative dissatisfaction. He doesn't say it.
HARFORD: He says instead, go back to Alabama.
KING JR: Go back to Alabama. Go back to South Carolina. Go back to Georgia. Go back to Louisiana. Go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities.
HARFORD: And there's another pause. And the people behind him on the stage know he's not on the script anymore. And Mahalia Jackson, great gospel singer, yells out to him because she's heard him talking in church about this dream. She yells out, tell them about the dream, Martin. And then he starts to improvise. And that is when he touches the crowd.
VEDANTAM: I understand that after writing this book, every time you find yourself in a mess, and you turn to your wife for comfort, she now reminds you that being in a mess is a good thing.
HARFORD: Yeah.
HARFORD: Actually, just two days ago, Shankar, I was trying to check into a hotel at Dublin Airport at midnight, knowing that I was going to have to get up very early in the morning and fly and then come over to Washington to speak to you. You know, I - just desperate to get that little bit of sleep that I would be able to get.
And when I showed up at the airport hotel, they didn't have my reservation. And they were full, so nowhere to sleep. And as I toured Dublin in a taxi looking for hotels that were open, I could just hear my wife's voice in my head saying, this is making you smarter, Tim. This is what you say. This is making you more creative.
HARFORD: So, you know, I've really sort of created a rod to beat myself with.
HARFORD: I think it is - it's important. Look, sometimes, bad news is just bad news. Sometimes, an obstacle is just an obstacle, and there is no good side to be found. But very often when things go wrong, we need to stop and say, well, what could come out of this? Brian Eno, a musician who I interviewed for the book - he worked with David Bowie, he worked with U2, Coldplay, an amazing producer - he described his creative strategy as - it's a little bit similar to being in an accident.
When you're in an accident, you get that sudden feeling of you paying attention to everything because there's this tremendous sense of threat. Well, but that attention - the threat is bad. The accident is bad. But the attention is good. And so he puts the musicians he works with in stressful situations so they feel almost like they've been in an accident. And, suddenly, he has their attention.
And I think it's worth bearing in mind even if the accident is a problem, even if the obstacle is a problem, the sudden attention, the sudden feeling of being present may lead us to some kind of solution. And that's worth hanging onto. When everything is perfect, when everything is tidy, we're on autopilot. And we're not necessarily living in the moment, we're not necessarily paying attention. And that's a problem for us.
VEDANTAM: Tim Harford, thank you for joining me today.
HARFORD: Thanks, Shankar.
VEDANTAM: HIDDEN BRAIN is produced by Maggie Penman, Jennifer Schmidt, Rhaina Cohen, Lucy Perkins, Parth Shah and Renee Klahr. Our supervising producer is Tara Boyle. Our unsung hero this week is an institution. We want to thank the NPR Foundation board of trustees, many of whom joined us for this taping for Tim Harford. They played a vital role in getting HIDDEN BRAIN off the ground - not just financial support but guidance and emotional support, as well. I'm so grateful. Next week, we'll continue our You 2.0 series with an episode about how to achieve your dreams - really. I'm Shankar Vedantam, and this is NPR.
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#miymatch18 has been the first photo challenge that I have fully completed. I've enjoyed waiting to see the themes for each day and then think of how I can fit with it. I was ill this week so I had to play a little catch-up.
When I first saw the theme I instantly thought of a boomerang moving photo. However when I read the prompt the theme was about activewear. The closest I've made to active wear is this Measure Teice, Cut Once 'Henrietta' Swimsuit. I loved the challenge of making my own swimwear and was surprised at how easy it actually was. I've written more about this make here
My style hero is the character Carrie Bradshaw. I loved her walk in closest and have always dreamed of raiding it. My friend once described my style as 'quirky' so I guess it suits my style hero.
Before sewing for myself my go to outfit was jeans and a t-shirt. My handmade wardrobe has changed my style in every way and now the first outfit I pull out is usually a dress. This is one of my early makes, a Sew Over It 'Betty' dress hacked with a gathered skirt. That makes it feel more suitable as a day dress rather than the full circle skirt.
This was my first photo I shared when I set up my sewing Instagram account. It's an Alex shirt from Sew Over It. I'd started the make a few garments and I felt that my friends in my normal account might be getting fed up with my photos of my clothes! I really love the oversized fit of this shirt and it's regularly worn to work. I have hoped to make a dress version in a lovely plain cotton but I haven't got round to it yet.
My sequin Betty dress has been my proudest achievement and it's certainly an outfit kept just for best! Sewing with sequin initially frightened me but I did some research and it went great! I've written more about sewing with sequins and other challenging fabrics here here.
The last photo of the challenge!! I shared my recent t-shirt make. A 'Frankie' t-shirt from Tilly and the Buttons new Stretch book. I love it!! It's just so roomy and comfortable but still has a female shape.
What next??? I'm hoping to join in #memademay for the very first time. I've never felt confident that I could make the whole month but I've made many basics for my wardrobe since last year so I'm hoping I can do it.
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The Piano Roll editor lets you view and edit your MIDI sequence. Horizontally, you can scroll through the MIDI events in time and vertically, you can scroll through the different keys/octaves. You can zoom in and out by pinching with two fingers horizontally or vertically.
Just as the timeline/main screen, the Piano Roll editor screen has different 'modes' which you can select using the buttons on top. For creating new MIDI events, select the Draw mode as displayed in the screen shot above. The left panel will change and presents the following options:
The Event type allows you to choose which kind of MIDI event you want to create. Besides notes, you can also enter Note Velocity (the volume of individual notes), Control Changes, Program Changes, Channel Pressure and Pitch Bends.
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Rock n' Roll Memorabilia - Old Vintage Rock Posters
Rock and Roll - The Good Ole Days
Vintage Rock and Roll, Rock Memorabilia,Vintage Rock Posters....geez just the name vintage is making me feel OLD!!! Growing up in the 60's and 70's, I went to my share of rock concerts back in those days. As a child of the 60's living in the San Francisco Bay Area, many of my favorite rock and roll bands made their way to the Bay...playing at places like Candlestick Park, Winterland, Oakland Coliseum, the Concord Pavilion and the Shoreline Amphitheater.
Funny how if you hold onto things long enough they usually end up being valuable - and rock and roll memorabilia and vintage rock posters are no different. I have a few pieces of prized rock and roll items in my possession- A Beatles concert program from a 60's concert in San Francisco -and an old Santana poster from the 70's that fared in far worse shape thanks to being plastered on my garage wall. My brother, 10 years older than me (lucky dog) was the one that brought that Beatles program home to me one night after the concert, along with a big Beatles poster (which unfortunately I don't have anymore, sure wish I did!)
Vintage rock poster: Jimi Hendrix Mr. Experience
60's and 70's Rock and Roll Designs Were Very Creative
To find your favorite favorite vintage rock and roll posters today, EBay is one of the best places to score your favorite poster. Posters on EBay go quick though so steady sleuthing is encouraged. If you don't mind having a "newer" vintage rendition of your favorite rock and roll band, you can also find some interesting rock posters on Amazon. And if you are really patient, Craigslist under collectibles might net you your favorite rock band poster.
I think one of the things that attracts us to these old rock posters is the art - there is just nothing like the graphics from the 60's and 70's - prior to the computer age. Covers, posters and rock memorabilia were just so artsy! I love computer design but there is just something so original about the drawings from the pre-computer days. The colors, the layout and the straightforward photography are definitely eye-catching and memorable. How I wish I had saved all my rock posters from those days!
Valuable Rock N' Roll Posters
For the serious collectors, there are vintage rock posters that cost some serious money (out of my league but fun to look at anyway) Like the Jimi Hendrix EXPLOSION Poster MARTIN SHARP 1973 Big 'O' lithograph that was just listed EBay.
Although Jimi Hendrix died when I was young and I never got to go to one of his concerts, I have always always admired the artwork on Hendrix's music materials. Explosion is definitely one of the finest pieces I have seen. Looking at this poster takes you right back to the 60's.
Rock Memorabilia - from Hats to Concert Programs
If vintage rock and roll posters aren't your thing but you love the era and want something cool to remember the 60's and 70's rock bands by, you can always find interesting and offbeat rock n' roll memorabilia on EBay too. One of my favorite things I came across recently is LYNYRD SKYNYRDS - VINTAGE STAGE WORN TOP HAT!
For all you Lynard Skynard fans you must remember that famous hat worn by Leon Wilkerson, Lynard Skynards bassist. I was fortunate to see them in concert back in the 70's at the Concord Pavilion before their tragic airplane crash. Skynards concert that day was one of the best I ever attended - a day on the green. Free Bird and Sweet Alabama I'll never forget that day. Nuthin like seeing the real thing in concert!
At least, thanks to those that save, we can still find rock memorabilia and vintage rock posters to remember those times by. And of course, the music by those awesome classic rock bands. They have truly left us a treasure trove of songs that will never get old!
(Dorsi Diaz is a freelance writer, rock n' roll music lover, graphic designer and artist)
Hello...Does anyone out there have any ORIGINAL bob dylan or rolling stones concert posters from 1963-66? I will $3,000 cash for each one any condition accepted! Please call 310-346-1965
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You brohgt back some good memories. Thanks for the well written hub.
I remember the "keep on truckin" poster with the pimpin guy in the zoot suit! I loved that poster...
Dorsi...I used to attend many of the concerts in the '60's...in San Francisco at the Avalon Ballroom, Filmore and Filmore West and Winterland Also in the East Bay Area; Berkeley and Oakland. We used to go to the parties thrown by local rock groups; some BIG NAMES. and I met Janis Joplin on Haigh Street where I spent so much time. We went to the Straight Theatre 'after hours' when the other music was over for the night. We hung out on "hippie hill,' in GG Park. I've seen myself in several PBS documentaries about those days. I met Jim Morrison, and so many other 'icons' of the time. "Light my Fire"...oh! We 'hungout' at the "Psychedelic Shop" on Haight and spent many nights w/people we just met but, back then, it was 'ok!' because no one meant any harm and we innocent girls were never bothered. Boy, those were wonderful, whimsical and fantasy times. I used to have 100's of posters which were handed out at those concert venues as we entered the doors after paying for our tickets...back then, they'd give out apples and posters to everyone. Really amazing. Sadly, I let the posters go over the years and I had so many...because my two best girl friends and I went every weekend and during the week, too, for years. We were nuts! it was great fun! Thank you so much for stirring old memories.
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WOW reading this hub brought back memories of those concert going days.Those posters we had back then were so awesome,black light ones were so cool !
Thanks for the memories, great hub!!!


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Until the XV century, Otrar, together with the rest of the Great Otrar Oasis, represented the main urban centre on the marginal zone between southern towns and northern steppes, between settlers and nomads of Central Asia. The oasis constituted a peaceful economical and cultural complex, an avant-post in attracting northern nomads, settling them down, and so importing elements of the nomadic culture into the sedentary societies. This is reflected in the town planning, architecture, in the art of pottery and jewellery.
Archaeological excavations brought into light the general plan of the territory, the irrigation system, the suburbs, and the earthen ruins of the towns. They are almost reduced to the plan, but, through the remains of towns, of canals and roads, it is possible to observe the evolution of this interaction of cultures stage by stage, from the very beginning to the period of final decay, when the Eurasian route lost its importance and the towns their economical role.
This film presents the most interesting facts on the history of Otrar and gives information on the safeguarding measures and conservation works undertaken by the team of Kazakh and international experts, under the UNESCO project.


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3 week study guide for CompTIA A+ certification
Certification: Universitas 21 Global - Universitas 21 Global
If I had a coin for every time I had to write that studying for an exam can be tedious work I'd be a very happy Italian plumber. (Mario reference) yes, it can be, it can also be a drag, but you have to do it. Luckily, since the CompTIA A+ exam is only a foundation, or entry-level certification, it is not overly hard. Yet without any study at all it can become quite hard, as any exam can be, unless it's, let's say, a sleeping exam, or a do-nothing exam. However I don't think many of us are raring to put in months into studying for an exam, at least at the entry-level, with all the things, your job, your kids, the other even more tedious useless things that we call responsibilities, but thankfully, if you follow the steps in this exam, you should have it down in less than a month, specifically 3 weeks.
The exam itself
The exam itself is made out of 2 separate tests that each need to be passed individually, specifically the CompTIA A+ 220-801 and CompTIA A+ 220-802 exams. The maximum score you can hit on either exam is 900 with the pass bar being held somewhere upwards of 675 for the 801, and 700 for the 802. The exam lasts about an hour and a half, with a grand total of about 90 questions. The questions themselves are mostly multiple-choice questions, with some performance-based questions in there too for diversity.
The exam covers most topics related to computer and mobile device hardware and software, a bit of networking, security and troubleshooting. It can be taken in a multitude of languages including English, Japanese, German, Thai, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, French, Arabic and Brazilian Portuguese.
While there are no formal requirements, CompTIA does advise that candidates have some experience in the field of IT, around 6 to 12 months of employment in the field, before attempting. The certificate will provide an immediate raise, or at least reason for a raise, to holders and will permit the employment in some firms in which interviews are granted only to individuals holding such a certificate, like Dell or HP.
The topics
The topics themselves are not all that vast, however they do sometimes go in-depth about hardware or some software features.The hardware of a PC is 40% of the first test's questions, with the rest divided into Laptops/ Printers/ Networking/ Operational procedures almost equally. While for the other test, Operating system encompasses 33%, Troubleshooting 36%, and the other split between security (22%) and mobile devices.
You will be expected to know the general abbreviations and full name titles of objects or IT domains, a bit of networking, security, and lots and lots of specs. Also, be ready to know the in-out and differences between the Windows versions and know how to differentiate an Android phone from an iOS.
1st Week
Now to business. You will hate your first week, most probably. Why? Because the first week isn't for any actual work. I don't mean that you will just stand around and do nothing the first week, more that it won't be as productive as the later two. During the first week you will more likely get used to studying, find out WHAT you need to study, and create an actual study plan.
So it's best to do some practice tests, to try and figure out what you know, and what you don't know. Get a copy of each of the two test's topic book (from here and here), and then start grading yourself on a scale of 1 to 5 on the subjects, depending on how well you handle them. You can find some free sample questions on the CompTIA A+ main site, or here. If you are in doubt what topics are more important, you should see my "7 most important topics to study for CompTIA A+".
2nd Week
By the end of the first week you should already have a well-made plan of study, covering the more important topics first, and then putting accent on the topics you are not entirely sure of, ending with a short recap of what you already know already. You should be already used to studying now, working through your busy schedule from the first week, finding gaps in during lunch breaks and such, so it should move along fluently. You won't finish everything, but you should have around 60% of the studying done by the last day of the 2nd week. Just don't slack off.
3rd Week
At the beginning of the 3rd week you should be still in full study schedule, so finish that diligently. When you are nearing the end though, it may become apparent that you will still have some time left. This is the time to polish. Even if you still are reviewing some old topics, make sure you run another practice-test or two, to see if or any gaps remain. If any big gaps appear then, make sure you fix them, putting in overtime if need be.
It is also worth noting that studying a day before the exam is detrimental to it, and it won't really help anyway, as information usually requires a day or two tor really sink in. Leave your last day before the exam free. Take a break, you deserve it. Also, going in the exam rested might be a much better idea than taking it with 5 coffee cups gulped down before-hand to keep you awake.
General advice
Remember, there is no right or wrong study schedule. However, as long as you tailor it to your needs and make sure to cover everything, you can make a better study schedule than I can make you, not knowing your needs.
Also, make sure you create a good studying environment while studying. Hitting the books while keeping an eye on the oven, cradling the baby and thinking about that really good movie last night is quite useless and no information will stick.
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The threat of a global trade war continued to hang over the stock market Friday, a day after plunging in a broad selloff that analysts pinned largely on President Donald Trump's announcement that he would impose tariffs on billions of dollars of Chinese imports.
For investors, it might inspire déjà vu after the administration's decision in early March to institute tariffs on steel and aluminum imports provoked a steep selloff, only to see most of the decline reclaimed in subsequent weeks.
See:Worried about a trade war? Stock-market investors should think small
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Check out: Here's all the stuff the U.S. imports from China, causing a huge trade deficit
Will this deeper pullback also prove fleeting or does it reflect a heightening of trade tensions that pose a real threat to global growth and corporate bottom lines? Here's what investors need to know:
Sinking sentiment
In themselves, the tariffs outlined Thursday won't have a big impact on the economy even if implemented in full, but that doesn't necessarily dictate how market participants respond, said Andrew Hunter, U.S. economist at Capital Economics, in a note.
See:Trump-Xi relationship enters rocky phase as U.S.-China trade fight heats up
As the market reaction highlights, "there is a clear risk that sentiment continues to deteriorate. And the damage from a further escalation of the trade conflict with China could be much greater," he said.
Indeed, the worry for investors might have more to do with concerns about potential retaliation and escalation. China's government criticized the punitive actions and said it would take "all necessary measures" in response.
Opinion:Who gets hurt in a trade war? Mostly not China
"For companies that sell to China, or indeed any country outside the U.S., the effects are likely to be negative—which is why markets are reacting again. Even the best-case results would still be worse, economically, than where we are now," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial Network, in a note.
That doesn't mean investors should panic, said McMillan and others. Despite the rhetoric, there is time for negotiations.
Beijing on Friday said it had plans to impose tariffs on just $3 billion of U.S. imports including fruit, pork and recycled aluminum, in response to the previously announced U.S. steel and aluminum. China had previously signaled it would prepare retaliatory tariffs against a range of agricultural products, taking aim at farm states that backed Trump in the 2016 presidential election.
Read:U.S. soybeans would be China's biggest weapon in a trade war
Hunter, noting the watering down of the previously announced aluminum and steel tariffs, argued that it isn't inconceivable that Chinese officials could offer minor concession that would allow Trump to claim victory.
See:EU, Australia, Argentina, Brazil and South Korea to get steel tariff exemption
Others, however, warned against underestimating Beijing's willingness to retaliate if push comes to shove.
"President Xi Jinping has spent the past few years cultivating the image of a strongman, and it would be very surprising if he were not to retaliate," said Ian Shepherdson, chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, in a note. "Nothing rallies support at home more effectively than being seen to face down an external threat, even one whose actions, arguably, you have provoked."
Pantheon, he said, is prepared to pull back its growth forecasts for this year as a result of the Trump tariffs, depending on how aggressively China responds, "and the stock market has already delivered its own verdict."
What to watch
Investors worried about the potential damage to global growth from rising trade tensions should pay attention to actions taken by the world's largest economies, paying particular attention to tariffs that target nonagricultural goods, said Peter Donisanu, investment strategy analyst at Wells Fargo Investment Institute, in a note.
That means that in addition to the U.S. and China, investors should watch Japan, Mexico and Canada, as they're key trading partners of the world's largest economies, he said. And watch what gets targeted (see chart below).
"We would become increasingly concerned if policies were enacted by these large economies that specifically targeted trade in automobiles and auto parts, electronics, petroleum products, and electronics and machinery," he said.


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Internet radio station Radioio, and IP delivery services provider Limelight Networks LLC have teamed up with Apple Computer to launch a new Internet radio station based on MPEG-4.
The companies worked with Apple using a combination of Apple's QuickTime Broadcaster, QuickTime Streaming Server 4 and the QuickTime 6 MPEG-4 codec to become the first in the industry to deliver a comprehensive MPEG-4-based Internet broadcast.
Apple's QuickTime format was chosen by the companies based on its popularity - to-date, more than 100 million copies of QuickTime have been downloaded, with 300,000 new downloads each day. QuickTime 6 also leverages the new Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) codec in MPEG-4.
President and Radioio founder Michael Roe said: "We're very excited about being able to bring Radioio content to the large and growing base of QuickTime users and folks who are using other ISO-compliant MPEG-4 players.
"We believe MPEG-4 will soon become the industry standard for webcasting. It's already becoming the industry standard for the delivery of audio and video via cellular in pretty much all of Europe and most of Asia."


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The MS Society, the UK's largest national charity focused on MS, has appointed Russam GMS as its first corporate partner to support its 'Stop MS' appeal.
The appeal aims to raise £107m in the next 10 years in a bid to stop people developing MS.
Russam has pledged to raise 100k over the next two years; £1 for every person in the UK suffering from the disease.
The company has planned many fund raising activities to help reach its target including a London to Paris Bike Ride, regular 'Bake offs', a MS Walk, a 'Night Rider' event and wine tasting events. The company will also appeal for corporate donations towards the appeal.
With medical research into MS at a tipping point, MS Society hopes that by raising £107m funding in the next decade, new treatments will be developed that will not only dramatically improve symptoms, but potentially bring progression to a halt.
Jason Atkinson, Managing Director of Russam and a trustee at MS Society said, "MS is a subject close to my heart. The MS Society is doing some ground breaking work to support people with MS and to halt the progress of MS. We're delighted to support them and to be their first corporate partner. All our activities over the two years, will be focused on raising money for the 'Stop MS' appeal."
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Russam GMS is the longest established Interim Management Provider in the UK and has a 32 year track record of providing Interim Management, Project Management and Executive Search solutions, both here and internationally. Our human capital solutions across our clients' businesses underpin our belief that 'Who we find changes what you become'.
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The concept of empowerment has deep roots in social work practice. Building upon the work of empowerment theorists of the 1980s and 1990s and applied broadly in the 2000s [Itzhaky and York (2000), Social Work Research, 24, 225–234; Travis and Deepak (2011), Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 20, 203–222], the concept of empowerment has evolved from a philosophical level to practice frameworks and methods. Substantial research confirms empowerment outcomes as personal, interpersonal, and sociopolitical. Practice interventions contain both personal and structural dimensions and are accomplished through multilevel interventions. Based on transformation ideology, empowerment is a counter to perceived and objective powerlessness. Social work relationships provide an opportunity for experiencing power and collaboration. Empowerment interventions are often useful with vulnerable populations, such as women and members of stigmatized groups.
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| 11.5°C Belfast
A Northern Ireland man who witnessed the aftermath of a "spontaneous" knife rampage in London, that killed an American woman in her 60s and wounded five others, has spoken of the horrifying ordeal.
The attack happened on Wednesday at around 10.30pm in the Russell Square area of the city.
A 19-year-old man, a Norwegian national of Somali origin, has been arrested on suspicion of murder.
Paul O Geibheannaigh - a London resident for 12 years - said he had not seen such a heavy police presence since the 7/7 attacks.
"I was out at the cinema when we stumbled across what was a heavily armed police presence in Russell Square - and then we saw the body lying on the pavement, which was quite disconcerting as it was not covered at the time," he told the BBC.
"Then we went for a late night drink with a friend and everyone was in shock in the bar. Then the police came in and interviewed us and at that stage we didn't know there were others injured.
"At first we thought it was gang-related.
"There was a massive police presence - I have not seen a police presence like it since 7/7. And that just brought those memories back.
"You don't really see that in central London. There must have been 70 or 80 police officers, all carrying sub machine guns."
The American woman who died was named last night as Darlene Horton (64).
A post-mortem examination was to take place today at St Pancras Mortuary.
Florida State University (FSU) has confirmed that Ms Horton was the wife of psychology professor Richard Wagner.
It's also reported that a British man was stabbed in the stomach and remains in hospital in a "serious but stable" condition.
Four other victims have been released from hospital; an American man stabbed in the chest, an Australian woman stabbed in the back, an Australian man stabbed in his chest and an Israeli woman stabbed in her arm.
Speaking yesterday outside Scotland Yard, Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley said: "While the investigation is not yet complete, all of the work we have done so far increasingly points to this tragic incident as having been triggered by mental health issues.
"At this time, we believe this was a spontaneous attack and that the victims were selected at random."
Mr Rowley, Britain's most senior counter-terrorism officer, added: "I emphasise that so far we have found no evidence of radicalisation that would suggest the man in our custody is in any way motivated by terrorism."
He said "urgent progress" had been made in five areas of the investigation: interviewing the suspect, speaking with his family, witness accounts, address searches and a full intelligence review by police and security services.
A spokesman for Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that the unidentified attacker emigrated from Norway in 2002.
Matthew Barzun, US ambassador to the UK, has tweeted his condolences: "Heartbreaking news that a US citizen was killed in #RussellSquare attack. My prayers are with all the victims and their loved ones."
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Thai Spicy Eggplant with Sweet Basil
This home-cooked meal probably contains less fat and fewer calories than most carry-outs, and preparing it takes no longer than a pick-up trip to a restaurant. Adapted from Rachael Rays 30-Minute Meals Veggie Meals.
- servingServings
- 1 cup jasmine rice
- 2 Tbs. peanut or vegetable oil
- 1/2 to 1 tsp. crushed red pepper, or to taste
- 3 baby eggplants, cubed into bite-sized chunks
- 1 medium-sized onion, diced
- 1 medium-sized red bell pepper, seeded and diced
- 4 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 2 Tbs. white vinegar
- 3 Tbs. dark soy sauce, such as tamari
- 2 Tbs. dark brown sugar
- 20 leaves fresh basil, shredded or torn
- Cook jasmine rice according to package directions.
- Meanwhile, heat a deep skillet or wok-shaped pan over high heat. Add oil and crushed red pepper, and let sizzle for 10 to 15 seconds. Add eggplant, and stir-fry for 2 to 3 minutes. Add onion, bell pepper and garlic, and stir-fry for 3 minutes more. Add vinegar and soy sauce. Sprinkle with sugar, and toss for 1 or 2 minutes longer.
- Remove pan from heat, add basil leaves and toss to combine with eggplant. Serve over hot cooked rice.
Wine Suggestions
The spices in this dish call for a Riesling or Gewerztraminer that's slightly sweet but won't overpower the spices. Try the J. Lohr White Riesling or a less sweet but fruity Firestone Gewerz
Nutrition Information
- Serving Size: SERVES 2 to 3
- Calories: 500
- Carbohydrate Content: 86 g
- Fat Content: 14 g
- Fiber Content: 3 g
- Protein Content: 10 g
- Saturated Fat Content: 2 g
- Sodium Content: 1540 mg
- Sugar Content: 13 g


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lmao where did you hear that fromwindu34 wrote:Idk, Ive heard that they lost their main builder(s) and all their tech/physics has gone down the holeUnome wrote:There was that time Centerville was top 4 at Nationals for 9 years in a row before placing 12th with no warning. But I generally agree, Harriton is probably a little underrated.antoine_ego wrote:I'm not buying that Harriton isn't still powerful. MIT was basically their builds failing, so I think they're being severely underestimated. A top 3 nationals team doesn't drop this quickly.
i think the builds are making improvements
we will see what happens
but yes i agree hhs only failed widi and builds
that was pretty much the only thing bringing them down


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The pungent scent of smoldering charcoal was an instant reminder of a place I visited before. It was two years ago, on my first visit to Nairobi on behalf of non-profit organization to educate kids called Friends of Ngong Road, that had brought me here. And I wanted to come back, […]Read More
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It's a clear indication of Barun Sobti's popularity that I, having never seen any of his shows, still know exactly who he is – perhaps because .gifs of Iss Pyar Ko Kya Naam Doon were abundant on Tumblr, or maybe because my Twitter timeline tends to get filled with tweets from Sobtians (as his fans are known). In any case, when we saw these shots of him, we knew we had to make him our Hottie of the Week!
Barun is perhaps best known for Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon, his STAR Plus serial where he played business tycoon Arnav Singh Raizada. When he left the show last year due to health reasons, it was the first time in Indian television history that a show shut down because the actor quit. Since then, Barun has signed two Bollywood films – Main Aur Mr Right (opposite Shenaz Treasurywala), which he's already completed shooting for; and 22 Yards, which is in pre-production.
The good news is, we're interviewing this hottie today – and we definitely want to ask your questions! So leave your Qs for Barun in the comments below, and we'll try to get to them when he drops into our office today!
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