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...Your groups are interesting. I mentioned this somewhere else on here, but I think group one is the smokescreen group and they have no plans of drafting any of them. And the group they seem totally disinterested in is where their first choice will come from.
Quote from: RT on April 13, 2018, 06:35:20 PM...Your groups are interesting. I mentioned this somewhere else on here, but I think group one is the smokescreen group and they have no plans of drafting any of them. And the group they seem totally disinterested in is where their first choice will come from.Not sure I see the value in smoke-screening. What is gained? Or harmed, if other teams know you're interested in somebody you're interested in? I'm guessing 3 hypotheticals: 1. Team will trade under: You've got your heart set on player "X"; if team 15, 16, or 17 knows you're taking "X", then they'll trade up to 13 and steal your guy under your nose? 2. Gute is smarter: If other GM's know what rookie GM Gute wants, they'll assume they're dumber than he is, and that their boards are dumber than his? So team 12 or 13 will change their mind and choose your guy instead of the guy they'd have otherwise chosen? 3. You want to trade back: Team 15, 16, or 17 might trade up to get pick 14, if they think you might take the guy they want? But if they already know who you like, and it isn't the guy they want, they won't make you a useful offer anymore? I don't imagine #2 is really a thing. I'm guessing #3 is kinda plausible. Perhaps #1, but probably unlikely. I actually don't think there's all that much value in smokescreening. Teams in front of you don't care much who you like; and you can take who you like, so who cares if the teams after know?
Just read that Kyle Lauletta/QB/Richmond is visiting the Packers
It is called the lying season for a reason. ...For the Packers it is of interest to keep the Redskins right were they are at and they draft the player that they have at the top of their board. If the Redskins know what the Packers are going to do with 100% certainty it empowers them to tradedown and still draft the player 1st on their board and gain additional draft picks. At the sametime the Packers lose their top choice. .... Are the headscratching visits by DT Vita Via and CB Mike Hughes smokescreens or is their real interest in drafting them at 14? Is it just coincidence that they are probably 2 of the top players on Washington's board?....
@TonyPaulineFollow Follow @TonyPaulineMoreOren Burks/LB/Vanderbilt had an official 30 visit with the Green Bay Packers on Monday...has already worked out for the NY Giants. Would make a nice replacement for Joe Thomas. Good player. Might be the selection with the Packers 1st pick in the 4th round.
Their is probably a fair chance that this guy is the 4th QB/Camp arm for the Packers 90 man roster.Aaron Wilson @AaronWilson_NFL 2h2 hours agoMoreEastern Kentucky QB Tim Boyle has top 30 visit with Green Bay Packers on Monday, according to league source. (6-3, 232, 4.75, 35.5 vertical, 9-9 broad jump, 16 reps)
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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Below is the full statement released today by State Sen. Jim Ferlo on the West Penn Allegheny Health System-Highmark situation.
"I am gravely disappointed in today's announcement that West Penn Allegheny and Highmark are ending their effort toward an Affiliation Agreement. West Penn has been an honest broker in this process, is an important community asset, and is a vibrant health system whose survival is instrumental if the Pittsburgh region is to have a competitive and vigorous healthcare market."
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I'm off again — another trip (ah, the retired life). This time to New York.
I've been visiting the city since the mid-1970s (quite a different scene back then), and watched the city change.
Conclusion: NYC has become an 'historic' city, reflecting in its architecture the power and wealth of the 20th century, just as Florence did in the 16th century, as Amsterdam did in the 17th, London in the 18th, Paris in the 19th.
But there's always something new. On top of the must-visit list is Hudson Yards — and in particular the public-art centrepiece, The Vessel, pictured above. (It's not open yet, but should be near completion).
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T-Mobile made much ado about the value of its new plans' simplicity at its Uncarrier event last week. It's a topic I'll be writing more on soon but the bottom line is that, despite progress, there's still room for improvement in that story. One of the complications of the plan come with the usage of mobile hotspot regardless of whether it is created via a separate product or with a smartphone. Consumers must pay an extra $20 for 500 MB worth of hotspot data and can then add 2 GB increments for $10.
When asked about why mobile hotspot is treated as such a black sheep in the flock of simplicity, T-Mobile represnetatives noted that it came down to usage and drew comparisons to caps that are imposed by cable companies that are in the hundreds of gigabytes per month that would put too much strain on the network. But that is not how most people use mobile hotspots. Indeed, they are most inclined to use them when they are outside the home, not as a home broadband substitute.
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For the last couple of months I've been trying to figure out why i've been feeling a weird kind of restless. I've been faced with some harsh realities, some new opportunities, and some possibilities lately which have given me a chance to decide where to from here. I realised I am a seeker.* Dreams, goals and projects are part of who I am.
And it's prompted a big decision. A decision I didn't think i'd be making.
I've often described my life as having been an adventure. A three continents in three years kind of adventure. A three professions in ten kind of adventure. It's the blank cheque life that I came to realise was part of my journey with God about eight or so years ago. It's the wonderful friends and communities I've been privileged to be part of that make me pause. They make it easy to come, easy to stay and hard to leave.
These 'blank cheque' commitments have been tested, and will continue to bear. They are the kind of not-without-the-fire-of-life commitments that one equally must not be proud of for your own sake. Even still, if i hadn't sat with them through years and across continents I wouldn't be sharing them with you now. They are not commitments without cost. Nor are they commitments kept in your own strength.
In its most trivial, it is a life experience that both takes a deep breath when considering the long haul flight but doesn't let it faze me. It's the enaction of the "It's all relative when it comes to international travel" that comes from being Australian! At it's deepest, it is a longing to be willing always. to honestly, and in the quiet of my heart, to be able to say:
I will go anywhere! I will hold all that I have lightly!
But even this decision has even knocked me sideways. This is a decision that isn't about external factors making the way obvious.
There isn't a massive "sign" that seems to declare "this is the way you shall go."
You see, the moves from Australia to the US and then to Scotland was about graduate school and the availability of funding (and work) that came with those offers and the fairly spectacular ways in which obstacles were overcome that could not have been overcome by me (or any other person) alone. The way seemed most obvious, even when it wasn't the road most travelled – turning down a fully funded PhD in the States before finding out about funding in Scotland could even be considered reckless. How i came to move to Scotland was pretty out of the ordinary (i should share that story some time).
This decision, however, is (in a really weird kind of way) about me. Actually, it's sort of about alot of people that aren't me too! It's about putting my vocation into practice in the country whose heartbeat I feel. It is about family, and treasuring those moments. It is about realising that the world is a different place than the one that existed when I moved to the US 4 1/2 years ago.
This is a proactive decision. But it's also one that is about stepping out into the unknown a little while also being able to relish to known, the cherished, the familiar. It is about making places. It is about returning to a place and knowing it for the very first time. It's also about seeing the world anew. It is about serving others.
After that massively long preamble, here goes:
In a few months, Australia will once again become my home.
I've told my supervisors and my family .
I worked through many aspects of this decision with friends who know me and love me.
I have flights. which i guess means it is official!
I'm already overwhelmed by how much there is to do. moving to the other side of the world is not exactly straight forward. but first, i still have a couple more days off!
In the meantime – I'm embracing my reality as a journeywoman. And moving to the land of my birth is merely an extension of that.
*I'm so not talking the Harry Potter kind.
I wouldn't be involved in Life:Unmasked if it wasn't for this challenge and invitation from the lovely, Joy. This post I wrote about "getting real" prompted my involvement with This Life: Unmasked. This is my thirteenth post for the challenge. Here is my first: Life: UnMasked, my second, Ready or Not, my third, Is the Heart Home?, my fourth, Like Fireflies in the Night and Swallows in the morning, my fifth, This is a Choice, and my sixth, A little less of a superhero, my seventh, Just another day…, my eighth, In Control? and my ninth, The travails of my single mindedness and my tenth, marking time, marking place and my eleventh, and my twelfth.


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I find everyone stays essentially themselves. I've reconnected with people I knew from school when I was twelve, and they are still essentially the same as their twelve year old selves. They mature of course, and are more experienced in the world, and so have a bigger perspective, but still the same strengths and flaws and ways of thinking. Even if they completely change their political or religious views, they hold the new views with the same approach/attitude as they held the old ones. They may have more self-awareness about their flaws and limitations, but these don't go away.
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I definitely feel the same way,
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I was thinking the same thing the other day.
But then realised I am actually kind of ok with that as I had been sulking feeling like I wasn't "me" anymore, go figure lol
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There isn't anything necessarily wrong with not changing. Unless you're a raging lunatic with shady tendencies, it's fine to stay the same person. That said, perhaps you have changed but not seen it because you're too close to it.
I found that since I've hit my thirties I've accepted my faults, changed the ones I could change, and accepted that I'm just never going to be patient, nor am I going to be able to deal with small talk. There's nothing wrong with that. And there's nothing wrong with not having changed. Some people just know who they are right off the bat. That's a win in my books.
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should is a terrible word. i find it only makes you feel badly and its often not helpful to think you should be this or that. as soon as i gave up trying to be this or that i was much happier.
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REVIEW/THESIS: Thee Oh Sees Are the Garage Rock Equivalent of Cocaine
A little background on why I wanted to write this post: I graduated from grad school a month ago (which is not a big deal, but if you want to send me some belated "congratulations" checks, I'm not NOT gonna cash them). As if the ceremony wasn't languorous enough, they dedicated an extra 45 minutes to those obtaining their doctorate and went into a 5 minute spiel of what each person's thesis was. If you want to laugh/scoff for a good 45 minutes, then just see what they're giving doctorates for these days. One woman's thesis was on why fried fish is worse for you than grilled fish. I shit you not, someone wrote a thesis on THAT obvious shit.
Cut back to this week. After posting just three posts after a long hiatus, I start getting flooded with more press releases than before and one of them contains something I'm actually interested in: the new live album from Thee Oh Sees, Live in San Fransisco. Having been a casual fan of the band for a good while, I decide to throw it on.
I'm only a few seconds into the album but John Dwyer and co. waste no time in throwing it into fifth speed without grinding a gear. And then they stay there for pretty much the rest of the album. This is great for the first five songs but it made me realize something: Thee Oh Sees are the audible version of cocaine.
Bear with me here. They always start off strong. Their groove is tight, their sound is fucking loud, and their riffs cut hard between each song. When you first hear them or see them live, it's a spectacle. You're bewildered at how fast they play and how many tunes they have. The first time, your mind is truly blown that a band/feeling like this really exists.
Kind of like cocaine….
You decide after one listen that you want to hear it all. You get all of their albums and listen to them all the time. Suddenly, it becomes the soundtrack to your day to day life and because of that, everything seems faster and more exciting. If you go to one of their shows, your mind is further blown and pretty soon, you're shaking your head so much that it might cause a nosebleed.
Like cocaine….
Then two weeks pass and you realize the fatigue is setting in. You start to realize that a lot of their songs don't stray from a high speed tempo and because of this, they start to blend together and sound exactly the same. You feel like you've flushed a shit ton of money down the drain because you now have all 40 of their albums when really, all you needed was 3 of them to begin with. Now you're exhausted from being in a constant state of audible mania, you feel broke, and all of your friends who are still going on about the band annoy the ever-living shit out of you. So you drop them and the band and wait until you're no longer sick of either before you indulge in them again.
JUST like cocaine.
Hence my theory, Thee Oh Sees are the audible version of cocaine.
I'll accept my doctorate now.
As for the live album, it's pretty good, but after 3 listens, I think I'm good until the new LP or when they come to Nashville.
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Photo-shoot Tips and Advice: Makeup
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Why do we hate dental visits so much? Modern technology makes the trip nearly painless. The hygienist, our first line of defense, is invariably chatty, friendly and competent. X-rays don't hurt. Freezing and a choice of relaxants usually take care of any discomfort during procedures. Most dental clinics even have TVs and headphones to keep our minds distracted.
So why do we hate dentists? It could be loss of control. Someone else has taken over a part of our body and we can't see what they're doing with it. It's a bit like calling IT at work and watching in apprehension and ignorance as our cursor flicks madly about our screen without any assistance from us.
It might be an atavistic fear handed down from our great-greats who really had a reason to fear dental care. Have you ever taken a tour of a dental museum? I thought not. No one in their right mind would want to vicariously feel that pain.
Then again, some of it might be hype to get a little TLC from our family. A little moan, a little touch of hand to cheek, might just get an offer of some delicious treat.
Whatever the reasons, there is little similarity between the head-bowed, leaden-footed creature who enters the dental clinic and the joyous creature that exits it.
I'm still reeling from the heady joy of completing yesterday's visit. Total freedom! Well, almost total. Now if only they wouldn't hand out those little cards with notices of my next appointment written on them.


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INTERNATIONAL SUPERCOMPUTER CONFERENCE 2006, DRESDEN, GERMANY – June 26, 2006 – Mellanox™ Technologies Ltd, the leader in business and technical computing interconnects, today pledged its support for the recently released Linux-based OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution (OFED) revision 1.0. The entire family of Mellanox InfiniBand host channel adapters (HCA) and switch silicon solutions has been tested with OFED revision 1 by multiple industry partners, delivering for the first time a comprehensive, hardened, and supported open-source software stack. This combined hardware and software solution is ready today for end-to-end InfiniBand RDMA deployments suitable for enterprise data centers and high-performance computing environments.
"Mellanox's support of OFED provides OEMs with support for a wide range of 10 and 20Gb/s HCAs and enables unprecedented price/performance and flexibility of deployment options," said Thad Omura, vice president of product marketing for Mellanox Technologies. "Numerous Mellanox silicon-based HCAs, switches, gateways and storage solutions from InfiniBand OEMs are interoperable when OFED is used in the cluster or grid applications, enabling faster end-user acceptance."
The Industry Behind the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution
The OpenFabrics Alliance (OFA) is an organization that consists of over 25 industry-leading silicon and systems vendors, software solution providers and end-users focused on open-source development of kernel and user level software used for high performance clustering and grid applications. OFED revision 1 supports clustering and grid connectivity using InfiniBand solutions, and is distributed through the OFA website (www.openfabrics.org). Availability of an open-source, interoperable and supported RDMA software stack is sparking interest in the operating system vendor and independent software vendor (ISV) community. Major Linux OS distributions, such as those from Novell and Red Hat, plan to include OFED in their distributions.
OFED revision 1 includes kernel and user level software for high-performance and RDMA based connectivity over InfiniBand. It provides all popular application interfaces such as sockets, IP, SCSI, iSCSI and DAPL, offering existing end user applications the ability to seamlessly deploy over InfiniBand. Various open source and proprietary MPI (Message Passing Interface) solutions have also been validated over the OFED distribution for high-performance computing applications. OFED supports popular InfiniBand host channel adapters available in the market today, and includes management and diagnostics tools, as well as performance benchmark tests.
OFED is the result of open source community-wide development since the inception of the OFA, previously known as OpenIB.org. The Enterprise Work Group (EWG) and other members within OFA worked collaboratively to create a hardened and supportable version of the open-source OFA software, and OFED revision 1 is the culmination of such an effort. Mellanox lead in this collaborative and intensive development effort over the years.
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Mellanox Technologies is the leader in high-performance interconnect solutions that consolidate communications, computing, management, and storage onto a single fabric. Based on InfiniBand technology, Mellanox adapters and switch silicon are the foundation for virtualized data centers and high-performance computing fabrics that deliver optimal performance, scalability, reliability, manageability and total cost of ownership.
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Just think how much the crime rate in Gotham could be reduced if they would just turn up the streetlights a bit.
I mean, wouldn't it be easier to keep an eye on the Penguin and all the other villains in the Batman universe if everything weren't so dark?
"It's noir!" said a laughing Ben McKenzie, who plays the young James Gordon in the new series Gotham, which is a Batman prequel coming to CTV and Fox this fall. "We can't have it too light."
Literally and figuratively, I assume.
"You feel it's not quite the present but you can't quite define when it is, because it's Gotham," McKenzie said of the atmosphere and look of the show.
McKenzie was in Toronto on Thursday as part of the annual Bell Media upfront presentation, as were co-stars Donal Logue, who plays Harvey Bullock, and Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Oswald Cobblepot, the young man who eventually will become the Penguin. McKenzie's rookie detective James Gordon will become Commissioner Gordon, of course, but Gotham is set many years before that.
"Yeah, there is," McKenzie said when asked if there's pressure stepping into such a well-known world. "I think it's a responsibility. We're competitive, and we want to do it well."
McKenzie meant that the cast members on Gotham are competitive with other Batman franchises, rather than being competitive with each other. Although that can work, too, given the fog of tension that Gotham endeavours to create.
Gotham exists in the era when the parents of Bruce Wayne, who is still a young boy, are murdered. While some actors might regard it as limiting in the sense that we know where the characters are going to end up – you know, Bruce Wayne becomes Batman, etc. - McKenzie is taking a different view of it.
"I think it's incredibly freeing," McKenzie said. "We know what the last shot of the last episode of the last season will be – hopefully it will be season 10 and not season one – but it's Bruce (Wayne), now a young man, putting on that suit and he's Batman. But I'm very interested in how the story gets to that point."
Well, maybe it wouldn't get to that point if they'd just fix those damn streetlights. Just sayin'.
Also on hand at the Bell Media upfront were cast members from another new comic-book show, The Flash, which is coming this fall to CTV and CW. There's a scene in the pilot episode where the transformed title character stares into a mirror and marvels at his own stomach. Star Grant Gustin answered the big question:
"Those are my real abs," Gustin said. "That took work.
"I just auditioned for Arrow (as Barry Allen), and I knew (The Flash) was a potential spinoff. But I thought there was no chance I was going to be cast in the first place, based on what it felt they were looking for, too. The breakdown was older than I am. And a lot of the guys there (auditioning) were blond and big. I was like, 'Aw crap, this one is not going to be me.'
"I don't know what happened, really. They said they saw Barry just inately built into my character. Whatever that means, I'm forever grateful."
In other Bell Media news, a new project called the Super Bowl Canadian Ad Challenge will give Canadian advertisers an incentive to create big new ads for the Super Bowl. Certainly Canadians are known to complain about the fact that simulcasting means Canadians usually don't get the see the big U.S ad blitz.
"It obviously came out of that," said Phil King, CTV president. "We always wondered, 'Why don't the Canadian advertisers save some fresh ads for the Super Bowl and get some free publicity out of it? ' So this is our way to edge them along and maybe give them a free Super Bowl spot. We'll give you an incentive to maybe make that day a little bigger for Canada.
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The global distribution of neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) is a sensitive probe of Galactic structure. Single dish 21cm studies have revealed large-scale phenomena like the Galactic warp and the flaring of the HI disk, but limited angular resolution has prevented the examination of features smaller than a few hundred parsecs in the outer parts of the disk.
We are conducting a new investigation of the structure of the Galactic disk using 21cm synthesis data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey. The CGPS resolution of ~ 1 arcminute permits a much more detailed examination of Galactic HI structure. We use this resolution to define the HI midplane as a surface in (l,b,v) space with the full precision allowed by the CGPS data. This determination allows us to extract high-resolution longitude-velocity diagrams passing through the true midplane of the Galaxy and at fixed angles offset from it. Applications of our results include the study of new small-scale features of Galactic structure, kinematics of HI clouds in the disk potential, and establishing the context of HI absorption features used to probe neutral gas properties.
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SEO Jargon
If you are just getting started with search engine optimization there are probably many terms that make you scratch your head. Thinking about this problem the guys over SEOMoz decided to publish the "Complete Glossary of Essential SEO Jargon." Some of the mentions are straight forward, others are not. Below you will find my favorite ones:
Cloak: The practice of delivering different content to the search engine spider than that seen by the human users. This Black Hat tactic is frowned upon by the search engines and caries a virtual death penalty of the site/domain being banned from the search engine results.
Doorway (gateway): A web page that is designed to attract traffic from a search engine and then redirect it to another site or page. A doorway page is not exactly the same as cloaking but the effect is the same in that users and search engines are served different content.
Google bomb: The combined effort of multiple webmasters to change the Google search results usually for humorous effect. The "miserable failure" – George Bush, and "greatest living American" – Steven Colbert Google bombs are famous examples.
Google bowling: Maliciously trying to lower a sites rank by sending it links from the "bad neighborhood" – Kind of like yelling "Good luck with that infection!" to your buddy as you get off the school bus – there is some controversy as to if this works or is just an SEO urban myth.
Google dance: The change in SERPs caused by an update of the Google database or algorithm. The cause of great angst and consternation for webmasters who slip in the SERPs. Or, the period of time during a Google index update when different data centers have different data.
Hub: (expert page) a trusted page with high quality content that links out to related pages.
Keyword Cannibalization: The excessive reuse of the same keyword on too many web pages within the same site. This practice makes it difficult for the users and the search engines to determine which page is most relevant for the keyword.
Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI): This mouthful just means that the search engines index commonly associated groups of words in a document. SEOs refer to these same groups of words as "Long Tail Searches". The majority of searches consist of three or more words strung together. See also "long tail". The significance is that it might be almost impossible to rank well for "mortgage", but fairly easy to rank for "second mortgage to finance monster truck team". Go figure.
Link Condom: Any of several methods used to avoid passing link love to another page, or to avoid possible detrimental results of indorsing a bad site by way of an outgoing link, or to discourage link spam in user generated content.
Sandbox: There has been debate and speculation that Google puts all new sites into a "sandbox," preventing them from ranking well for anything until a set period of time has passed. The existence or exact behavior of the sandbox is not universally accepted among SEOs.
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Your definitions are good, plus theres some suprizes, I would link to it from my site if it was just a little bigger.
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first time I ever heard of link condom …
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They are some great definitions some which i did not know 🙂 (link condom in particular)
Great Article! Here is something more about google bowling
These tips are really useful !!!
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Thanks for that post, have included it in some my SEO posts as it is nice to have them explained in a simple way like this.
ezams, if I am not wrong Google never confirmed publicly its existence.
Daniel, did you ask Matt Cutts about the "sandbox" existence? If you did, what the answer? Thanks.
Good compilation of new terminologies, haven't yet come across any of these terms until now.
Had not heard about the link condom one before.
Google bombs are the funnier ones :).
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Nope, never thought any of these things
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In Anticipation of TNT's New Psychological Thriller The Alienist, Random House to Re-Release CalebCarr's Modern Classic in Bookstores Nationwide on Nov. 21
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Twenty-three years after its original release, Random House is republishing the Anthony Award-winning international bestseller, The Alienist, by Caleb Carr, available in bookstores nationwide on Tuesday, Nov. 21. The novel sold millions of copies after spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list. Turner's TNT will tap into the critically-acclaimed novel with the eagerly anticipated premiere of its original series, The Alienist, which is slated to premiere on Monday, Jan. 22 at 9 p.m. ET/PT across TNT platforms.
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We are all saddened by the passing of our good friend Dale Kennedy. There are no words to fully describe what he meant to me, co-workers and this radio station. He was a true friend in every sense of the word and will be missed. We will air an encore
Coeburn, VA ~ Dale Travis Kennedy, 73 passed away Thursday, May 24, 2012 at Bristol Regional Medical Center in Bristol Tennessee. Dale was a member of Hoge Masonic Lodge # 8 in Wise, VA. He was the son of the late
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Quebec is the only province in this country doing things right.
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someone said to me today
"it's stupid that the students in Montreal are protesting the tuition hikes because so much of their tuition is already subsidized by the government."
which made me mad.
because yeah sure a lot of schools here in Canada get hefty subsidies from the government and that's how most of us can afford to go to school without going totally bankrupt but that isn't not the point and it's starting to get to me that people see these protests as a bunch of whiny upset kids instead of concerned citizens making themselves heard.
see I think the problem is that in a lot of democratic societies people go around thinking that the only way to make there voices heard is to vote, and most of us don't even bother to do that.
and then people go and shit all over students who don't want to take something they don't agree with lying down? c'mon.
I try not to get too political here on the Blog, but if the rest of Canada got its shit together in the way that Quebeckers have we wouldn't have a majority government who constantly do sneaky shit like try to add one-liners to repeal important laws in 400+ page bills, wants to allow already dead animals to be processed for human consumption, pleaded guilty to illegal campaign spending and, oh, did you forget the robocalls?
everyone makes jokes about Canadians being super polite and nice and to some extent that's true but it concerns me that the vast majority have become wishy-washy on being involved in the democratic society of which they are a part.
or even worse, they don't care.
and then we have the gall to dismiss people who are exercising their rights under the Canadian Charter as "entitled" for not wanting to have the shell out because the older generation accepted government pensions and family allowances without wanting to pay the taxes that supported those programs.
now my generation has to work two years longer.
now my generation may not have the Canadian Pension that our parents looked forward to.
now post-secondary students are being asked the shoulder the burden of increased tuition because nobody wants to help pay to educate the people who will be shaping our country's future.
among other things.
I didn't ask for this. my generation didn't ask for this.
and it's unfair and irresponsible and selfish for the older generation to assume that we should shoulder the burden because this country is rapidly becoming a place where individualism, capitalism, greed and selfishness are touted as virtues.
what ever happened to giving a shit about other people?
what ever happened to shouldering the responsibility as a nation, together?
what ever happened to making sacrifices so our children could be more prosperous, better educated, healthier and happier than we were?
I don't know what is happening to the country that I know and love, but it scares me and I don't like that so many people out there are dismissive of their ability to take part and change the course of our nation's history.
instead of shunning the protesters in Montreal we should be applauding their efforts and taking notes. this is the only way to get anything done in a democracy, people. by making yourself heard to your government.
TL/DR: fucking rights, Montreal. the rest of Canada could learn a thing or two from you.
Here are some guys doing something amazing
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to make up for the fact that I am not.
in fact I was supposed to hang with my mom tonight but cancelled on her which I feel pretty bad about because you know I love my mom. but it's been a long couple of weeks and I have to go in to the office at 7:30am tomorrow morning and Tyrone's out building projects so it's just me and Ford and Netflix and that's okay.
it's pouring rain outside and I had my hair up and it's nice to take my hair down and my wet clothes off and blog from the couch by myself.
which is so, so boring, I know.
but I can't always be entertaining and tomorrow I'll be back with stories about School Nights complete with pictures but for now it's just you, me, and the Top Gear Christmas Special where they drive through Iraq.
happy Monday kids. xo
Once I knew a boy who owned a skateboard
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it was a few years ago and he was a cute guy from my high school who I'd always thought was a bit of a dumbass but he was popular and all the ladies loved him and I couldn't figure out why.
we reconnected while I was sitting outside having a beer with friends at the Toad in the Hole and he went by on his skateboard and we started chatting and didn't stop for the next month or so. most of our correspondence was veiled jabs at one another because we clearly both came from different worlds which didn't collide nicely.
I think he thought I was stuck up which I was and I think I thought he was useless, which he was.
he picked me up once in a beatup old red car wearing a fluffy plaid parka and a toque even though it was only early fall. there was no radio and he had groceries from his mom's kitchen in the backseat. he held my hand because it was colder in the car than it was outside. at his place we tried to watch Brazil but his pirated copy didn't work so we watched Bronson instead and made out on his couch, interrupted only once by his lesbian roommate who made a point of talking about how she was a lesbian which I thought was overcompensating a bit.
the apartment had walls of either wood panelling or brick, and the furniture were all scruffy antiques except the shelves that housed his record collection, which were 2x4s held up with cinder blocks and covered in paper doilies probably stolen from somewhere. at one point we listened to Bob Dylan, sipping cheap beers and listening to the freezing rain.
it was like being in a Wes Anderson movie.
but when I got up to use the bathroom I walked by his bedroom and saw the mattress on the floor with the dirty sheets and the pile of car tires that he was going to sell at some point, or so he said, I knew that it was over.
I was too much of a snob, and he was too useless for us to be anything but offensive to one another.
but sometimes when I hear Visions of Johanna I remember the time I let that boy who really wasn't good for me at all put his hand up my shirt while the record skipped and the rain came down, even though I knew I shouldn't have. I knew it was over and I knew it was useless but I think I kissed him harder and enjoyed the moment more knowing that once it ended, that was it.
so we kissed like we didn't mean anything to each other, which we didn't.
and that was alright.
Hip Hop Sunday #40 Kanye West ft Jay Z - No Church in the Wild
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yes I know this track is everywhere right now
but that doesn't stop it from being good
Happy (stormy outside) Hip Hop Sunday!
Ford is weird
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every morning when I wake up he hears my alarm go off and he comes running out of the living room where he's been sleeping and starts meowing at me to get him food and water or if he still has some from the day before, to watch him eat/drink and then he'll sit outside the bathroom door while I shower, meowing.
then he'll walk around the apartment yelling at us while we have coffee and get dressed and I do my hair and then he'll lie in front of the front door because he doesn't want us to leave and yells at us as we're going so we always yell
"bye Ford!" back at him.
in the afternoons he needs at least a good five minutes where someone has to sit on the couch so he can jump up and fall on you over and over and meow and bat at your hands until you pet him, because he knows that hands are Petting Devices. when you're in the kitchen doing something he'll wrap his arms around your legs and hug your feet.
because he loves you.
he knows how to open doors and cabinets and his favourite toy is a a Q-Tip he took from the bathroom garbage while we weren't looking.
Tyrone is in the kitchen saying "what the fuck are you doing? you're so fucking weird" to him
which just reinforces my point.
happy Caturday to my favourite little guy
So The Great Gatsby looks pretty good
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which is on one hand surprising because I found the book to be a pretty big snore
but isn't on the other because Baz Luhrman made Moulin Rouge! which is one of my favourite movies and also he gave a speech which got turned into the sunscreen song, which I also enjoy. sometimes it's nice to get a bit cheesy for no particular reason.
I like to think that I liked the 20's before it was cool to like the 20's because I've liked them forever, but they've also been cool ever since so maybe I'm not the trendsetter I think I am.
I was disappointed that I didn't much care for Gatsby The Book because while some of it was interesting it sort of just meandered on and I didn't find myself overly concerned about any of the characters, especially Gatsby.
or maybe that was the point?
either way I'm excited for the film and plan to see it in theatres even though it comes out on christmas and I'll be too busy partying it up on xmas to go to a movie
and speaking of partying
did anyone else notice the zebra in the pool at 0:18?
now that's a party.
Regina I don't want to fight
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but I will if I have to.
Hip Hop Sunday #39 Childish Gambino - Put It In My Video
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yes, this is Troy from community
my mind was blown too
especially at 1:50
Happy Hip Hop Sunday
enjoy yr long weekendddddddddd!


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If you ever run into a security validation on Instagram and upon completing it - get into a vicious cycle of Instagram asking for security code, we'll show you how to get past that and successfully connect or reconnect your profile.
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In This Article:
Steps to Reconnect
- Request the Security code and enter it into the page.
2. Instagram will then redirect you to Instagram.com and not back to Fanbooster to connect the profile. At this point, make sure you DO NOT close the current browser window or tab.
3. Use the back arrow of your browser, once at a time until you land back on the authorization page.
4. From here, you can simply click "Authorize" and you will be sent back to Fanbooster to connect the Instagram profile to your project.
Here Are Some of Our Findings
It seems that this is caused by users logging in from the same browser using multiple Instagram profiles. Instagram seems to think that this is suspicious and they flag your computer and account.
If the steps above do not work, try to resolve it by attempting to login to Instagram directly (without going through connecting of profiles in Fanbooster). You want to make sure you are able to login directly to Instagram from your browser first.
Once you submit the verification code, wait a few hours before trying to connect to Fanbooster.
Try using Incognito window in your browser and see if that helps with getting past the security validation.
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The difference between weather and climate
The difference between weather and climate is neatly summed up in the saying "the climate is what you expect; the weather is what you get", frequently attributed to Mark Twain.
Climate is the average weather – for example the mean annual rainfall in Glasgow, the average January temperature in Paris, or how many hurricanes usually happen in the North Atlantic each year. However in any one year, it might be wetter or drier than usual in Glasgow, colder or warmer than usual in Paris or there may be more or less North Atlantic hurricanes, but this won't necessarily affect the average unless there is a string of years the same.
Usually, the climate is defined as the average weather from the past 30 years.
Have a look at the climate station map of the UK produced by the Met Office. Choose one of the stations, then look at the 'averages table' tab to see the various climate parameters for that location. Are they what you expect?
Next, have a look at the 'averages graphs' tab. In addition to the 'average' value of each parameter (the thick horizontal black line), you should see a range of values between the green bars. In six out of ten years, the temperature (or whichever other parameter you look at) will fall within the green bars. In two out of ten years, the values will be lower than the bright green line, and in the remaining two out of ten years, the values will be higher than the pale green line.
You may also like to watch this short animation on YouTube, produced by Teddy TV, which uses the analogy of a dog walking with his owner to explain the difference between climate and weather. It nicely sums up how the weather can change from week to week or year to year, whilst the climate remains the same, or, as in the case shown in the video, gradually warms.
This is an additional video, hosted on YouTube.
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To submit forms containing files, non-ASCII, and binary data, the multipart form data content type must be used; however, this type of request is not as simple to parse for the server. Given the common requirement to submit files to the Alfresco content repository, the Web Script Framework provides explicit support for handling multipart form data submissions by hiding the complexity of request parsing from the developer of the web script.
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Plants Anonymous –
AUG 20, 2018 – The proliferation of retail boutiques in California did not really bother him, Evan told me, but the billboards did. Advertisements for delivery, advertisements promoting the substance for relaxation, for fun, for health. "Shop. It's legal." "Hello marijuana, goodbye hangover." "It's not a trigger," he told me. "But it is in your face." When we spoke, he had been sober for a hard-fought seven weeks: seven weeks of sleepless nights, intermittent nausea, irritability, trouble focusing, and psychological turmoil. There were upsides, he said, in terms of reduced mental fog, a fatter wallet, and a growing sense of confidence that he could quit. "I don't think it's a 'can' as much as a 'must,'" he said.


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On 1st September 1951, a 7-seater De Havilland Dragon Rapide took off from the Fiji's Nausori Airport to Drasa Airport near Lautoka, on the west coast of the main island. This first commercial flight saw the birth of what today is a truly international, Fijian airline. Together with its domestic/regional subsidiary of Pacific Sun, Fiji Airways flies over 400 flights a week to almost 15 cities in 10 countries around the world.Taking on various challenges that no airline in the global airline industry is immune from, Fiji Airways has passed various tests with flying colours, more than ably fulfilling its dual roles of flying Fiji and contributing significantly to its economy.
Harold George Gatty was born to British parents in Campelltown in Tasmania on 5 January 1903 and came to settle in Fiji after World War II. He was no stranger to the island nation, as he was based in Auckland before the war as Australasia's representative of Pan American World Airways. He joined the US Army Air Force during the war, serving first in Java before relocating to Brisbane at General Douglas McArthur's headquarters and New Guinea after that. He returned to his Pan American job in Auckland at the end of the war and moved to settle in Fiji a few years later. Here he bought an island in Fiji's eastern island group called Katafaga and turned it into a coconut estate. Before his Pan American job, Gatty had made his name in air navigation in the United States. Using his good sea navigation skills acquired as a cadet midshipman trainee at the Australian Naval College, Gatty invented a navigation system for pilots.
In conjunction with the so called 'Weems Curves',Gatty devised his revolutionary ground speed and drift indicator. This allowed for navigation by dead reckoning and did away with the need to take shots from the sun or stars, and it was the forerunner of the automatic pilot, now standard equipment on virtually all commercial and military aircraft.
Gatty got to use his own invention that shot him to international fame when Canadian pilot Lieutenant Harold Bromley invited him to be his navigator in his attempt to fly across the Pacific from Honshu, Japan, to Tacoma in Washington State, USA in September 1930. Fuel tank problem forced the plane back to Honshu after 1,900km of flying, and it is said that despite heavy fogs, Gatty navigated the plane by dead reckoning back to their starting point.
Again he followed this up in 1931 when Wiley Post, a native American oil rigger and stuntman flew around the world in eight days. Gatty was his navigator and that feat earned the two aviators a ticker-tape welcome in New York City. As a British citizen, the US Congress awarded him the Distinguished Flying Cross. It was said that despite the accolades, Gatty declined the offer to become an American citizen. His appointment not long thereafter as Pan American World Airways representative based in Auckland brought him to the Pacific, and to Fiji.
Gatty submitted a proposal to Fiji's then Colonial Government to operate the country's domestic airline and registered it as Katafaga Estates. The first commercial flight was one September 1st, 1951. While Gatty died on August 30th1958, his bold and visionary initiative had taken off to greater heights, and today has etched its place in Fiji's aviation history.
During the eventful 60-years, Air Pacific was also about an attempt at regionalism that almost succeeded. By the early 1970s, up to seven island governments of the Pacific, some of them still under British colonial rule then, held shares in Air Pacific. This was in addition to shares held by QANTAS, New Zealand's TEAL and the British Overseas Airways Corporation, forerunners of Air New Zealand and British Airways respectively. But the regional airline idea fizzled as other Government's bailed out, leaving Fiji as the majority shareholders in the airline.
For a small airline, Fiji Airways has always been punching way above its weight. Early in the 1980s, it pioneered the code-share concept with Qantas. Today, code-sharing is an accepted airline practice the world over. 25 January 1995 was another watershed date for Fiji's airline when it launched what was believed to be a trail blazing concept of joint leasing of aircraft with the then Royal Tongan Airline. The concept came complete with the livery of the two airlines painted on each half of the Boeing 737-300 fuselage.
There's general consensus that a long list of men and women helped Fiji's international airline get to where it is today. From the pioneers and visionaries brave enough to operate an airline out of the middle of the Pacific during its early years to the hundreds of dedicated and committed Fijians working hard to make it the world's friendliest airline; words cannot do justice to describe the gratitude of the company.Several years ago, long serving former chairman of the airline, retired business executive Gerald Barrack paid tribute to Gatty's vision and the pioneering spirit of men and women like him "from the days when pilots flew Dragon Rapides and Drovers by the seat of their pants." Days like the one where passengers boarded the Rapides plane and realized that there was no pilot, so a man wearing a bright bula (floral) shirt volunteered to fly the machine. Little did they realize that the man with the bright shirt was actually Fred Ladd, Gatty's first Chief Pilot, playing his usual practical jokes!
Invited for his observations as "Air Pacific" celebrated its 60th anniversary, past CEO John Campbell said the men and women who built the airline are a source of great pride. "It is not easy to operate a reliable airline with a wide spread network from a small country in the middle of the Pacific. There are logistical, training, spare parts inventory and skill retention and development issues that an airline based in a major market does not face. That the airline has been able to overcome these barriers is a credit to its people and a testament to their commitment and frequent personal sacrifice.
"Fiji citizens can take pride in the overall success of their airline, which truly is the critical link between Fiji and the world and has been and hopefully will continue to be fully committed to serving Fiji's aviation needs. I believe this is what was hoped for by Harold Gatty when establishing the airline."As it celebrates its 60th birthday, the Managing Director & CEO at the time, Dave Pflieger, joined his predecessor in praising Harold Gatty's vision and the people of Fiji for making Air Pacific a world-class international airline.
"Air Pacific's greatest asset is its people – from our maintenance and ground crews, to the pilots and flight attendants, to our schedulers and administrative staff," Mr. Pflieger told Fiji Islands magazine. "The many changes and the improvements they are making now will serve Fiji and Fijians well for another 60 years. They are rising to the challenge of new competition and an ever changing world, and creating a strong legacy. It is an honour to work with everyone here."
For an airline that was started by an acclaimed air navigator, inventor, airline manager, plantation baron and legislator, Fiji Airways has grown into Fiji's proud flag carrier. From flying De Havilland Dragon Rapide in those days to the new Airbus 330-200 jets of today, the airline has truly come of age. It boasts a strong position within the region, and is often ranked among the region's top carriers.
In May 2012, the airline announced that it would reintroduce the name Fiji Airways to reinforce its role as the proud national airline of Fiji. Offering its customers brand new Airbus A330-200 aircraft and warm friendly Fijian service, Fiji Airways connects the islands of Fiji to the world and proudly welcomes visitors to its home.As our airline proudly returned to its roots as Fiji Airways, we embarked on a new and exciting chapter of our story.
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Saturday, October 29, 2005
Just The Tip Of The Iceberg
I've already made my view known that this case is far from over, but here's a visual interpretation.
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Our paper titled 'Approaches to Visualising the Spatial Position of Sound-objects' has been accepted for publication as a paper and demo at the International Conference on Live Interfaces. The paper, brings together research conducted to-date as part of our AHRC-funded Transforming Transformation project, a collaboration with Glasgow School of Art's Digital Design Studios and immersive and interactive audio company TwoBigEars. The paper will be presented on Tuesday 12th July. The abstract is shown below.
In this position paper we present research from the AHRC-funded project Transforming Transformation: 3D Models for Interactive Sound Design. The project entails exploration of a new interface for live audio transformation whereby sound can be manipulated through grasp as if it were an invisible 3D object. This approach contrasts with existing GUI-based systems, which primarily use 2D input and 2D visualisation. In the paper we describe the first phase of this research, which enables audio sources to be positioned and moved within a 3D space by grabbing them from a palette and controlling their spatial location using hand movements. Feedback regarding spatial location is provided through a visualisation of these sources within a virtual 3D space. Spatial trajectories can be 'drawn' in the air, and sounds can be 'rolled' along these trajectories thus providing a 'direct manipulation' interface to specifying spatio-temporal dynamics. We describe the design of the system along with findings of the initial system usability tests.


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Volcanic eruptions can be induced by tipping large quantities of red ink on to the top of mountains. Mountains are quick to jump on bandwagons, and will identify the ink as magma. Its natural reaction is to instantly become an active and erupting volcano.
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