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Raising a heavy teak sao in Chiang Mai with Saman and Kanit Chaleekanha (2002).
This is the blog of the poet, Christopher Woodman — you can click on his name for some of his published work. There is also a Bio , contact information, and a brief introduction to his poetry on the same page.
For more on his life in Chiang Mai where he has lived for over 25 years, and specifically for a glimpse of the work he is doing there with his Thai doctor-wife, Homprang Chaleekanha, and her family, you can go to www.homprang.com.
Christopher with the whole Chaleekanha family, Songkarn, April 2016.
For writing on what might be called his 'extra-curricular life,' i.e. beyond the walls of Baan Hom Samunphrai, you might begin with his description of a visit to his favorite temple in Chiang Mai, Wat Pha Lad — it's on the jungle trail up Doi Suthep, the holy mountain that hangs over the city. If that sort of reverie interests you you might want to continue to read backwards from there.
Christopher also writes frequently about poetry, and is at present just finishing up a 4 month long thread called "In Praise of the Still Unweighed: off the Record at 80." The initial poem is followed by 50 Comments in which he develops the theme with a little help from his friends.
If you are up for more after that, you might go first to Why I Wrote How Bad is the Devil. You will see that the introduction is an essay in itself, and that the development continues for 3 months in the 57 Comments that follow, some of which are essays in themselves too. And How Bad is the Devil with its 70 Comments continues on from there for another 3 months.
There used to be more autobiographical links in "About the Author," but there were so many high jinks, and the musical accompaniments so compelling, Christopher felt they were beginning to distract from what he was trying to say. But not so with Under House Arrest — Galileo is a risk he's willing to take any time, he says, and the music is the soul of the argument. And it's extremely personal as well — "a very quick way to get to know me," is what he says.
With Homprang in the Gros Ventre Mountains in Wyoming (2014).
Whoa! 'Cowpattyhammer?'
It's an odd history, not to mention an odd name.
It started 11 years ago as an Archive of Scarriet.com, a site which a small group of poets had set up six months before as an alternative to yet another site which had recently been started by The Poetry Foundation of America — 'Blog: Harriet.'
On September 1st, 2009, four of the most active members of the Harriet community woke up to find that they could no longer access Harriet, and soon realized that they had been banned.
Unknown to each other in person and indeed posting from 3 different continents, we had in common only our love of poetry and aversion to the special interests that seemed to distort so much discussion of it at the time. We were followed in our exodus by a number of regulars, and in just six months Scarriet had established itself as a popular site all on its own. And the final irony was that the Poetry Foundation closed Blog:Harriet to outside commentary altogether on April 1st, 2010, and I still miss it!
Yes, the four of us were certainly mavericks, and yes, we did speak out where angels hardly dared to whisper — and that's not always a wise thing to do, needless to say. On the other hand, we always hoped that as we became more a force on our own the ability to talk about poetry without fear or favor might be possible. We hoped we might recreate what we had so valued the summer before on Blog:Harriet, an open forum free of snark and critical posturing, but unfortunately Scarriet stumbled on its own freedom. History repeated itself, and we ended up just as narrow-minded, cantankerous and intolerant as the community we were fleeing!
So I moved on. At 70 blogging hardly came naturally to me, and I found the increasing noise and insensitivity on Scarriet impossible to live with — you can read how my sense of frustration grew in the Scarriet Posts for January and February 2010 a few of which I have preserved in the Cowpattyhammer Archive. To this day some of them make me feel extremely uncomfortable.
In March 2010 I began to distance myself from Scarriet, and despite all the hope, effort, and good will I had put into it everyday for 6 months, I parted company with it forever that spring.
And now, much to my amazement, another 10 years down the road and all of 80, I'm Cowpattyhammer!
Resident Plumber, Chiang Mai — photo by Sharon Camhi, March 2nd, 2018.
- You will find the origin of the name itself in the July 2009 Blog:Harriet thread called "Keep the Spot Sore," a passionate, no-holds-barred discussion of Robinson Jeffers led by Joel Brouwer. You can scroll down to my July 6th, 2009 Comment for the origin of what became my nickname. That was painful, needless to say, but in the end my own poetry along with writing about it in some detail in Cowpattyhammer brought me back to the greener grass that was promised in the original image, one which I am now proud to own.
- The first dedicated Cowpattyhammer thread is "The Adoration of Anything You Think You Own is Fire" (April 11th, 2010). That might be a good place to start, though it's still pretty bumpy.
- Posts before April 2010 can be accessed in the Archive on the left, most of which consist of original Blog:Scarriet threads from September 2009 to April 2010. Loosely overseen by the joint editors, Thomas Brady and Christopher Woodman, there are substantial contributions by Desmond Swords from Dublin, Ireland and W.F.Kammann from Mexico as well as a number of very striking visitors like Franz Wright, Dawn Potter, Diana Manister, and Alan Cordle. The mix and the wonderful in-your-face muddle is well-illustrated in Scarriet's longest ever thread, Pop Goes the Weasel (February 21st, 2010). The sensitivities that culminated in the rupture, largely my own, I freely admit, are expressed more forcefully in Poems That Have Spoken to Us in the Past (March 11th, 2010).
- For the sort of Scarriet dirt you may have come here to find, you can click on the photo of me with my brother Tony at the Gran Prix of Czechoslovakia in Brno in 1964. (You can see how grease-stained we were, and also how closely we were watched by the iron-curtain goons behind us. And you can't imagine the noise!)
- Now you can return to the Cowpattyhammer Homepage where you will find what I'm up to right now. And do feel free to leave a comment anywhere — almost all the threads are open, and I'd be delighted to discuss any of it with you.
………Christopher Woodman


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Thurrock Local Area Co-ordination
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Local Area Coordination helps vulnerable people in Thurrock find support in their local communities. It forms part of Thurrock's Building Positive Futures programme, which aims to support older and vulnerable people to live well; to increase their health and wellbeing; improve housing and neighbourhoods and create stronger, more hospitable and age-friendly communities. LAC was selected as an approach because more than 20 years of evaluation of its use in Western Australia has shown it to lead to positive outcomes for individuals, build community resilience and reduce demand for formal services.


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This Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Visual Communications degree program gives students the opportunity to learn the principles, practical applications and methodologies used to complete competent and creative graphic solutions for specified design problems. Coursework is structured to assist students in the development of their goals as they acquire the knowledge and skills common to digital design professionals.
The Visual Communication program at American InterContinental University is designed to educate and develop artistic and imaginative students in the fields of commercial art and design. Emphasis is placed on the development of thinking process and the ability to solve design problems creatively. Students can learn the principles, practical applications, technologies, and methodologies used in solving complex design problems in a creative and unique manner. Graduates of the program should be able to apply their knowledge to become leaders in their field.
The AIU BFA in Visual Communication gives students the opportunity to learn the principles, practical applications and methodologies used to complete competent and creative graphic solutions for specified design problems. In this industry-focused curriculum, students can learn how to:
13.5 credit (3 classes, 1 quarter) £4170 Home students and £4260 Non-home studentsStart date January,March,July,October 2015 Duration full-time 36 months Languages Take an IELTS test
Total General Education Requirements 54
Total General Elective Requirements 13.5
Total Lower Division Core Requirements 27
Total Upper Division Core Requirements 31.5
Specialization Requirements 54
Total Bachelor Degree Requirements 180
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*The Generalist specialization provides students the opportunity to transfer in or take specialization courses in any area of Visual Communication. The courses below are suggestions but may be substituted for any upper level course in the Visual Communication discipline.
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Universities in the United Kingdom use a centralized system of undergraduate application: University and College Admissions Service (UCAS). It is used by both domestic and international students. Students have to register on the UCAS website before applying to the university. They will find all the necessary information about the application process on this website. Some graduate courses also require registration on this website, but in most cases students have to apply directly to the university. Some universities also accept undergraduate application through Common App (the information about it could be found on universities' websites).
Both undergraduate and graduate students may receive three types of responses from the university. The first one, "unconditional offer" means that you already reached all requirements and may be admitted to the university. The second one, "conditional offer" makes your admission possible if you fulfill some criteria – for example, have good grades on final exams. The third one, "unsuccessful application" means that you, unfortunately, could not be admitted to the university of you choice.
All universities require personal statement, which should include the reasons to study in the UK and the information about personal and professional goals of the student and a transcript, which includes grades received in high school or in the previous university.
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To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you totake an IELTS test. More About IELTS
To be considered for admission, first-time students and transfer applicants must fulfill the following requirements:
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Prospective students whose first language is not English are required to provide proof of English proficiency prior to admission. Accepted methods for the demonstration of English proficiency at AIU include but are not limited to:
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"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student's tuition fees."
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Windsor To Host Historic WWII B-29 Superfortress Bomber FIFI Aircraft Tours
The U.S. Commemorative Air Force (CAF) AirPower History Tour will fly their vintage B-29 bomber into Windsor, Ontario, later this summer. The WWII B-29 Superfortress "FIFI", one of only two in the world that are still airworthy, will be hosted by the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association at the CH2A Hangar next to Windsor International Airport from August 22-26, 2018.
(Photo above: WWII B-29 Superfortress Bomber FIFI shown in flight, to be part of rare Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour stop in Canada, including Windsor, Ontario. Photo by Scott Slocum / Commemorative Air Force.)
This is the first time in history the CAF will bring it's Second World War aviation national tour to Canada. Windsor is one of eight Canadian cities that will get to experience close up views of the aircraft, tours of the cockpit, talk to the crew, learn its history, and have the opportunity to purchase an actual ride on the plane. This gives participants the chance sit in the seat once occupied by a veteran and ride the plane as it flies through the sky.
B-29 bomber missions are credited as helping the United States to end WWII. It was the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb (on Japan's Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945).
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress, first flown in 1942, began active service in 1944. It was designed as a replacement for the older B-17s and B-24s, having the longer range and greater bomb loads necessary for operations in the World War II Pacific theater. The B-29 was also used in the Korean War in the early 1950s and was a staple of the U.S. Air Force until the late 1950s.
FIFI was acquired by the CAF in the early 1970s when a group of CAF members found her at the U.S. Navy Proving Ground at China Lake, California where she was about to be used as a missile target. The airplane was rescued and restored and flew for over thirty years until 2006 when the chief pilot made the decision to ground her pending a complete power plant re-fit. What followed was an extensive four year restoration that included replacing all four engines with new custom built hybrid engines. FIFI returned to the sky in 2010 and since that time has traveled coast to coast attracting large crowds at every tour stop.
The B-29/B-24 Squadron of the Commemorative Air Force brings together the aircraft, pilots and crews from over 70 CAF units across the country to create the AirPower Squadron – an ever changing assortment of military aircraft touring together to bring the sights, sounds and smells of World War II aviation history to audiences across the United States. In 2018, the tour will make several stops in Canada for the very first time.
The public will be able to view the B-29 and other vintage military aircraft that will also be on display at the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association in Windsor, Ontario, from August 22 to 26 between 9:00 AM and 5:00 PM daily.
FIFI flights can be purchased in advance through the CAF website at www.airpowersquadron.org
Food and drinks will be available for purchase during the event.
For more information please visit the Eyes On Windsor events calendar listing for this event.
The Canadian Historical Aircraft Association is proud to uphold our mission to "Honour Canadian Veterans by preserving, maintaining, restoring, displaying, and demonstrating antique and vintage military and civilian aircraft and artifacts considered important to Canadian Aviation history." In fulfilling our mission and gathering and telling the stories of our veterans, we help our children and grandchildren understand the sacrifices made for our freedom.
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Working with the top 1% talent will help you master your technical skills and become a specialist in some of the parts of our software factory model, such as the administration of internal systems and different SaaS platforms for our customer-facing products.
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Thousands of working-class and middle-class people largely voted against their own interests in bringing a wave of Republican candidates, including many Tea Party members, to victory in last week's midterm elections.
But on at least one front, the American public seemed to vote in favor of positions that protect and maintain American jobs as well as decent living standards in other countries, according to a new report by Public Citizen analyzing 182 races.
Both Republican and Democratic candidates whose records, campaigns and positions opposed free trade, offshoring and government purchase of foreign-made goods – and those who actively supported fair trade – fared significantly better in the election than those who did not espouse these ideas, the study found.
Public Citizen's press release says:
House Democrats that ran on fair trade platforms in competitive and open-seat races were three times as likely to survive the GOP tidal wave than Democrats who ran against fair trade…
The GOP tsunami obliterated many candidate-specific features of the midterm contests, but trade, job offshoring and/or government purchases of foreign-made goods were a stunningly persistent national focus of midterm election campaigns, with 205 candidates campaigning on these issues. A record number of 75 Republicans adopted some fair trade messaging as well, 43 of whom won their races.
Public Citizen says that more than 60 races "became 'fair trade-offs' with either party campaigning largely on a fair trade platform." Fair trade, the antithesis to "free trade," emphasizes cutting out the middleman and making sure producers in developing countries are paid justly and treated with dignity in the course of their work. The report says only 37 candidates actively advocated in favor of NAFTA-style free trade pacts, and half of those candidates lost.
This is good news for labor rights worldwide. Fair trade creates decent jobs and economic independence, at least on local scales, in the developing world; while curbing free-trade pacts is of course a key tenet for organized labor in the U.S. in terms of avoiding the outsourcing of jobs to other countries where workers can be paid pennies an hour and labor protections are few.
Republicans have of course attacked the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, ot "the stimulus") as part of their assault on all things related to President Obama. These attacks took on an anti-offshoring component for at least 33 of the Republicans who claimed seats formerly held by Democrats, according to Public Citizen, as they made an issue of stimulus spending going to offshore operations.
Public Citizen also found a huge uptick in ads featuring fair trade themes, with 220 this year, compared to only 25 in 2006 and 138 in 2008. The tenor of these ads isn't necessarily always about workers or their rights; for example Tea Party candidate Rand Paul, who won the Senate seat in Kentucky, slammed the World Trade Organization as a violation of national sovereignty.
Public Citizen cites a survey showing Americans identify offshoring of jobs – more than the subprime crisis or other banking issues – as the main cause of economic woes. This election showed politicians responding to such public opinion. For example Washington Senator Patty Murray has been a reliable supporter of free trade in all 13 major trade-related votes since she cast her vote for NAFTA in 1993. But this cycle she led the pack in number of separate fair trade-related ads, with seven.
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch director Lori Wallach noted the results should encourage U.S. legislators to push domestic production and fair trade in the future, and more importantly to oppose any efforts to revive Bush-era fair trade pacts with Korea, Colombia and Panama.
Public Citizen is pushing the passage of the TRADE Act (for Trade Reform, Accountability, Development and Employment), originally introduced in 2008 and since reintroduced by Rep. Mike Michaud (D‑Me). The AFL-CIO, Change to Win and various individual unions all support the act. It would require the reviewing of and potentially renegotiating existing trade agreements, including NAFTA. It would also set forth requirements for future trade pacts and replace the Fast Track mechanism often used to push through unpopular agreements. Wallach said their recent study shows it is in the self-interest of politicians on both sides of the aisle to support the TRADE Act and other curbs in unfettered free trade in the future.
Freshmen GOP congressmen being asked by their leadership to support trade agreements most Americans consider job-killers undoubtedly will have the foreseeable 2012 Democratic attack ads in mind. The co-sponsors of the TRADE Act will represent a growing share of the party, and many of the leaders from the House Trade Working Group campaigned on trade and won their re-election races.
Public Citizen chided Democrats who failed to leverage the anti-fair trade records of their opponents in contentious races. For example, Republican Roy Blunt hammered at Democratic opponent Robin Carnahan's history as a trade official during the Clinton administration to help him win the Missouri Senate seat, even though Blunt himself was a key backer of the controversial Central American Free Trade Agreement.
Public Citizen also notes that despite these political winds, the White House is still pushing for passage of the unpopular free trade agreement with Korea, drafted under President Bush. Public Citizen's press release says opponents of the Korean FTA:
…hope the administration will seize the opportunity offered to them by the opportunity to renegotiate this pact to start implementing Obama's promised reforms, gain support for a new model of trade expansion from the majority of Americans opposed to the NAFTA model, and re-energize union members, environmentalists and other progressives who are key to the Democrats' political success.


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The latest album from OneRepublic, Native, has it's moments but it falls short of making the impact that OneRepublic's last record did. It's a front-loaded affair that's strengths lie with the things that you'd expect them to; Ryan Tedder's outstanding production and vocal, and yeah... some pretty catchy choruses too. It sounds really appealing at first, but unfortunately those catchy choruses don't come in as often as you'd like them to.
Ryan Tedder knows the power of a hook far better than I do. He's more than adequate at songwriting too. But this album just doesn't feel as well written as the past two albums did. Waking Up was a quintessential pop album, 90% of the songs on that record weren't just catchy, they were addictive. Dreaming Out Loud before it was the same, just not as much. Native is different. It's a pop album with great melodies on each and every song, but the hooks just don't catch all of the time. And when they do catch there are a couple of moments where they revert to modern pop cliches. If I have to hear about someone lighting up or being on fire again I'm going to light myself on fire. They're not just cliches, they're redundancies.
Most of the songs aren't as good, and there are some annoyances, but there's also some great music and superior production. Very few people do as good of a job getting amazing percussion sounds in pop music as Tedder. That stands out, as do some of the other sounds. There are very few instances in music where you get to hear a sound that you've never heard before; Tedder does that over and over on this record and his vocals on the album are outstanding.
Native isn't as good as what we've heard from OneRepublic, but it's serviceable. There are some good songs at the front of the album but the back of the record is fairly weak. It's not a must listen, but fans of the band will be happy with the record.


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Children lost motivation for physical activity – wearable health devices can have opposite effect
Fitness and health tracking devices are designed to get us to exercise more. But these digital fitness and health tracking devices can have the opposite effect, according to a study of school children, in which researcher Mikael Quennerstedt participated. The pupils felt monitored and had feelings of inadequacy.
Fitness trackers measure such things as how many steps you take and how many calories you burn.
They have become increasingly common among exercisers and cost from a few hundred kronor up to a few thousand, depending on the brand and features.
"These kinds of digital devices are often presented as a solution for how to get young people to exercise more," explains Mikael Quennerstedt, Professor of Sport Science at Örebro University.
Negative effects most explicit
However, the English study in which he participated shows the opposite. One hundred students, 13 and 14 years old, wore the fitness trackers for eight weeks. 41 of the pupils were interviewed after the test period and it then turned out that they were less motivated to exercise.
"Sure, there were things that were positive, but the negative effects were quite evident. At the beginning, the pupils said they felt motivated and were physically active. But this dissipated and motivation decreased over time," says Mikael Quennerstedt.
The explanation: pupils felt monitored and felt guilty if they did not reach the daily goal of 10,000 steps.
"If they did not achieve the norm, they felt overweight and unhealthy. One student expressed it as 'I feel fat'. Being healthy meant not being overweight."
The fitness trackers measured, among other things, how many steps the pupils took and estimated how many calories they burned. They were linked to an app where teens could see not only their own data, but also their friends' results.
"The pupils felt that they were being monitored all the time. And the fact that their friends could see their results contributed as well."
Manipulated fitness bands
Occasionally, the pupils manipulated the fitness trackers by tapping on them or jumping up and down, just to reach the 10,000 steps. They did this to feel good about themselves, but also to compete against their friends.
Were you surprised by these results?
"I was a little surprised by how clever the pupils were in that they questioned many aspects of the actual measuring," says Mikael Quennerstedt.
He lists some of the critical questions that the pupils asked: Why should we do 10,000 steps exactly? Shouldn't goals be individually set? Why is the school calculating how many calories we burn? That is surely a concern for the school nurse or parents?
"Pupils also questioned the educational value of just walking round and round in PE classes – just to collect steps."
Even still, the young people in the study had mixed feelings; while they were very critical, they also really wanted to reach their daily goal.
Do you believe that adults who buy fitness trackers might also become less motivated to do exercise?
"It is difficult to say. Some are most likely very motivated to become active, but if you never reach your goals, I believe that you will stop using it. You can ask the same question as the teenagers did in the study: why 10,000 steps?"
Hesitant about digital solutions
Mikael Quennerstedt is hesitant whether physical inactivity in teenagers can be solved using digital technology. In England, however, there are several schools that use such fitness trackers.
"They are most likely good for some, but in this study many did lose their motivation. Therefore, we believe that you must be a bit cautious before introducing them in schools. In any case, you must both consider the educational value, and listen carefully to what the young people have to say."
This study has attracted the attention of SVT Örebro and Sky News.
The research article is Open Access during 2017 and can be downloaded here.
Text and photo: Mattias Frödén
Translation: Jerry Gray
More about the study
Mikael Quennerstedt has previously worked with the study's English researchers – the lead author Victoria Goodyear at University of Birmingham and Charlotte Kerner at Brunel University.
There is an existing collaboration between sport science at Örebro University and University of Birmingham, and Victoria Goodyear has participated in a teacher exchange in Örebro via Erasmus. Kathleen Armour, Professor at University of Birmingham and honorary doctor at Örebro University, is Victoria Goodyear's mentor.
The study included 100 English school children, 13 and 14 years old. For eight weeks, they wore a fitness tracker around the clock. The device registered the number of steps, the distance the test person travelled by foot, the number of steps up and down stairs, and estimated the number of calories burnt.
Of the 100 teenagers, 84 responded to a questionnaire before and after the test period. After that, 41 were interviewed in a group.


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The Samsung Galaxy S III smartphone will soon receive the Google Android 'Jelly Bean' update in the United States. The Android 4.1 update was confirmed on Wednesday by Samsung; however, the company noted that the update is ultimately dependent on carrier support. What that means is that certain providers will push out the upgrade faster than others.
Samsung did not give an exactly release date, only noting that it will be rolling out "in the coming months."
The US roll out follows this months international update, which starts with Poland and then spreads throughout Europe.
Samsung notes that the 4G model of the device, which will roll out in the UK on Everything Everywhere, will come already equipped with the Jelly Bean OS pre-installed.
Given the availability of the OS upgrade at the time of the 4G model roll out, there is a good chance that other UK Galaxy S III handsets will receive the software upgrade at the same time.
Samsung has recently announced system upgrades for various smartphones manufactured by the handset provider. Among devices receive Android updates are Tab 2 7.0 and 10.1, S II, Note, Tab 7.0 Plus, S Advance, S II LTE, Music, Chat, Ace 2, Beam, Ace Plus, Mini II, and S Duos.
Also bringing the power of Google Android 4.1 into the mix is the Galaxy S III Mini, which was announced just several weeks ago.
Are you excited to get your hands on the power of Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, or will you be sticking to your current Google Android install?


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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul is now playing at Film Forum. If you are in the city this month, don't miss your chance to experience the Cannes Palme d'Or winner on screen.
Originally slated to close tomorrow, show times are now extended through March 29th!
And if you would like an in-depth perspective on this avant-garde filmmaker, get your hands on Issue 70 of ArtAsiaPacific. In a feature length article, Agrarian Reincarnations of Cinema, HG Masters explores the director's work and locates him within Thailand's highly politicized cultural landscape.


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AG Tanchev: Germany Discriminates Amateur Athletes without Nationality by Excluding Them from the Award of National Titles. 10 March 2019
Advocate General Evgeni Tanchev thinks that a German rule excluding participation of non-nationals in the national championships, or allowing them to participate only 'outside classification' or 'without classification' and not letting them participate in the finals of races and contests, and excluding them from the award of national titles or from the standings, violates EU law. Do you agree? Let's discuss this together at the summer school.


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DropMeNot is a handy device that attaches securely to the wall and can be positioned around the home, wherever you need it.
The device can be screw fixed to a wall within minutes and the springs have been tensioned so that they are strong enough to hold your cane but smooth and easy to use, even with limited use or strength in your hands and arms.
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Hope sounds a lot like home. Perhaps that is because when we think of hope, we think of peace and safety, and these are the attributes that make a house a home. We think of our loved ones, how much they mean to us, and how we enjoy being with them.
Hope has a similar connotation. It is the essence of looking forward with anticipation to a better world. We often use the word when we want something better to happen in our current circumstance. We feel that we are exerting our faith in a higher power by expressing our desire that things will get better.
Setting aside religion, what role does hope play in our emotional health? Hope is the ability to look above and beyond our current circumstance, realizing that it is only temporary. Things change. They always do. No matter where we find ourselves at the current moment, whether in happiness or misery, that state is not permanent. It will change. The only constant in this world is change.
Once we realize that life changes regularly, we give ourselves permission to see past what is happening in the moment. This flexibility gives our emotions a chance to evolve with the change around us. If we adopt a rigid viewpoint, we are setting ourselves up for disappointment, heartache, and even despair.
Despair is the opposite of hope. It sees only the pain and frustration of the moment, and leads to discouragement, disillusionment, and depression. These "d" words leave us feeling at the mercy of the dragons of the deep, deprived of peace and happiness. Hope is the ability to look up, to find something positive in the situation, and to focus on that small morsel of goodness long enough that a better future opens to our point of view.
Whether we are dealing with long-term illness, the pain of separation from our loved ones, or difficulty in our employment, hope gives us the opportunity to set these things aside momentarily, just long enough to taste what it feels like to be home, surrounded by our family and friends, feeling the arms of love embrace us.
Hope, then, is the ability to see a light at the end of the tunnel, to grasp the path that leads to that light, and then, to bask in its warmth once we arrive there. Indeed, hope is the flame that lights our way back home!
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No matter how you look at it, YouTube is one place where you can find almost any video you want and is also a place for many creative folks that do a lot of crazy things. That being said, downloading videos from YouTube is nothing new.
In fact, there are many software and online services that help you in downloading the YouTube videos. You can even download entire YouTube playlists if you want to. But in recent times, YouTube changed how they deliver videos to you. That is, YouTube now delivers video and audio in separate streams. So when you try to download, audio and video files are downloaded separately in M4A and Mp4 formats respectively. In order to watch the downloaded YouTube video, you need to merge or combine the downloaded video and audio files.
So, if you ever need, here is how you can combine downloaded YouTube video and audio files using FFmpeg.
Installing and Configuring FFmpeg
Merging or combining downloaded YouTube video and audio files is pretty simple and straightforward. Even though there are several programs that can be used for this purpose, we are going to use FFmpeg as it is an open-source and very powerful application.
For Windows 10 follow this: Install FFmpeg in Windows 10
1. To start off, head over to the official website and download the latest build according to your system architecture (32 or 64 bit.). In my case, I'm downloading the 64-bit version.
Note: to find your system architecture, search for "System" in the start menu and open it. Here, you can see your system architecture next to "System type" under the "System" category.
2. Once you've downloaded, open the file using 7-Zip or other equivalent software and copy the folder inside it to the C drive. Once copied, rename the folder to "ffmpeg". The name change will make it easier to deal with.
3. The next thing to do is add FFmpeg to Windows path using "System Variables". To do that, press
Win + X and select the option "System." If you are using, Windows 7, you can search for it in the start menu.
4. In the System panel, click on the link "Advanced System Settings" appearing on the left sidebar.
5. The above action will open the System Properties window. Here, click on the button "Environment Variables."
6. In the Environmental Variables window, select the variable "Path" under System Variables and click on the button "Edit."
7. Now, enter the path
C:\ffmpeg\bin at the end of the line in the "Variable Value" field. Don't forget to separate the paths with
;. If you've stored the FFmpeg folder somewhere other than the C drive then change the path accordingly.
Merge Downloaded YouTube Video and Audio Files
8. After completing the installation procedure, go ahead and download your favorite YouTube video. As you can see, I'm using the KeepVid service to download the YouTube video. As I said before, the audio and video files are displayed separately. Just download the audio and video files.
9. For instance, I'm downloading the 480P video file in MP4 format and the audio in M4A format. Make sure the downloaded files have same file names. In my case, the file names are "videoplayback.mp4" and "videoplayback.m4a."
10. Once the files have been downloaded, open the Downloads folder. Here, right-click while holding the
Shift key and select the option "Open Command window here." On Windows 10, you will see the PowerShell option. That will work too.
11. Once the Command Prompt(or PowerShell) window has been opened, copy the below command, paste it and press the enter button to execute the command.
ffmpeg -i videoplayback.mp4 -i videoplayback.m4a -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mp4
12. Once the command has been executed, FFmpeg will merge or combine both the files and saves it in the same folder with the name "output.mp4."
13. If you open the Downloads folder again, you can find the new file "output.mp4." If you want to change the output file name, then you can do that by simply changing
output.mp4 part in the above command.
That's all there is to do. As you can see, it is really simple to combine downloaded YouTube videos using FFmpeg.
Hope that helps. Do comment below sharing your thoughts and experiences about using FFmpeg to combine downloaded YouTube videos.
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Dec 07, 2012– Memphis, USA (Techreleased) – Medtronic, Inc. the world leader in spinal technology, announced the U.S. launch of the company's latest addition to their cervical surgical technique portfolio. The announcement was made at the 40th annual meeting of the Cervical Spine Research Society.
The CERVICAL FACETLIFTSM ID/S surgical technique is an innovative procedure that indirectly decompresses the neural foramen and stabilizes the cervical spine. This technique is accomplished by placing structured allograft spacers, CORNERSTONE® Facet MicroGrafts, into the posterior cervical (neck) facet joints. The system is comprised of a small set of surgical instrumentation that will aid in the preparation of the facet joints and for the placement of the grafts into the joints.
The technique increases the volumetric area of the exiting nerve root that may be compressed causing a neurological deficit.1 In addition, this technique may reduce the bending direction of the cervical spine.2 This reduction in bending may assist in fusion following supplemental fixation such as the VERTEX SELECT® Reconstruction System when used to treat DDD (neck pain of discogenic origin with degeneration of the disc confirmed by history and radiographic studies), spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, fracture, dislocation, failed previous fusion and/or tumors. These results were shown in biomechanical studies and may vary in human clinical outcomes.
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President Donald Trump and Congress failed to reach an agreement on a spending plan by midnight Friday, triggering a partial shutdown of the federal government. In the past quarter-century, the government has partially shut down three times -- and far more often in decades past.
U.S. troops will stay at their posts and mail will get delivered, but almost half of the 2 million civilian federal workers will be barred from doing their jobs if the shutdown extends into Monday.
The U.S. military will continue to fight wars and conduct missions around the world, including in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. And members of the military will report to work, although they won't get paid until Congress approves funding.
But Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned Friday that a shutdown will have far-reaching effects.
"Our maintenance activities will probably pretty much shut down," he said during remarks at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. "We do a lot of intelligence operations around the world, and they cost money. Those, obviously, would stop. And I would just tell you that training for almost our entire reserve force will stop."
And, while ships will remain at sea and airstrikes against enemy fighters will continue, any National Guard forces heading out to do weekend training duty around the country will arrive at armories and be told to go home.
Shutdowns have led to furloughs of several hundred thousand federal employees, required many government activities to be stopped or curtailed and affected wide swaths of the economy.
During Jimmy Carter's administration, shutdowns happened nearly every year, averaging 11 days each. During Ronald Reagan's two terms in the 1980s, there were six shutdowns, typically just one or two days apiece.
Here's a look at recent shutdowns, their causes and impact:
— October 2013. Sixteen-day partial shutdown, which came as Tea Party conservatives, cheered on by outside groups, demanded that language to block implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law be added to a must-do funding bill. Then-Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, tried to avoid a shutdown by funding the government piecemeal, but the effort faltered.
The shutdown affected most government operations and resulted in the furlough of 850,000 employees, costing the government 6.6 million days of work and more than $2.5 billion in lost productivity, according to a report by the Congressional Research Service. Boehner survived the shutdown but stepped down two years later amid conflict with the hard-right House Freedom Caucus.
— December 1995-January 1996. Republicans led by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, intent on slashing the budget, forced a three-week shutdown in a bid to coerce President Bill Clinton to sign onto a balanced budget agreement. Republicans were saddled with the blame, but most Americans suffered relatively minor inconveniences such as closed parks and delays in processing passport applications. The fight bolstered Clinton's popularity and he sailed to re-election that November.
— November 1995. Five-day shutdown after Clinton vetoed an interim spending bill to block Medicare premium increases. Led to longer shutdown a month later.
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A screen can keep things out or keep things in. I have my own screen that protects me from life's bad stuff, but it's old and in need of repair.
I can see and feel through my screen and decide what to allow in. If I'm weak, I let things in that I shouldn't. I let things in that cause me pain. If I'm weak, I keep things out that I should let in even though they cause me pain. Some pain is meant to be felt.
The bad stuff reaches me more often these days. The worst of it is all the hate that spews out of people's brains and onto the Internet. I need to know that this hate exists, but sometimes it causes me to hate. I think that every time I hate, it kills a piece of my soul. I must learn how to counter hate with love.
Does my screen let in enough love? I'll bet that it does not. Sometimes love is hard to accept. It can seem too good to be true. Does my screen let out all of the love I have to give? I can try my best to let that happen.
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Pointer, tracker, retriever, show dog, agility dog, obedience dog — and most of all, companion — the German Shorthaired Pointer may be the most versatile breed on earth. This versatility is the result of a concerted effort to produce an all-around hunting companion.
Do you own a German Shorthaired Pointer? Have you spent time with one? Let's hear what you think about this fascinating breed in the comments. And if you have a favorite breed you'd like us to write about, let us know that, too.
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About the author: Caroline Coile is the author of 34 dog books, including the top-selling Barron's Encyclopedia of Dog Breeds. She has written for various publications and is currently a columnist for AKC Family Dog. She shares her home with three naughty Salukis and one Jack Russell Terrier.


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Investing in Europe
A few months after its launch, the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), also known as the Juncker plan, is on track and financing projects in the real economy.
Backed from the beginning by the EPP Group and championed by Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, this plan, which is due to activate at least €315 billion in private investment – and especially €75 billion for SMEs – has already seen 13 projects approved for an overall investment volume of €9.4 billion. These projects come from many Member States, including Finland, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Ireland, France, Austria, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands, and cover, amongst others, the fields of energy, health, transport and Research & Development. More projects are being chosen every month.
The European Investment Fund (EIF), which is destined to smaller businesses under EFSI, has already signed more than 60 operations, with total financing exceeding €1.5 billion, which in turn should trigger more than €19 billion of private investment.
The EFSI helps European companies, especially the SMEs that represent 99% of businesses in Europe, to launch projects that would not be possible without this aid. In the coming years, tens of thousands of SMEs could benefit from it throughout Europe.
The Juncker plan is a real opportunity for the European economy to boost innovation and create jobs. Growth cannot be produced overnight, with billions of euros. It is built step by step, brick by brick, and EFSI has laid the initial foundations.
The European Investment Advisory Hub provides aid to companies who are looking for help to construct their financing project. From the beginning of 2016, the European Investment Project Portal will explain the projects in need of financing to potential investors.
The EPP Group's priority is to trigger new investment, without creating new debt.


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The government and treasury of the British Indian Ocean Territory have issued (25th January) a new crown coin and gold coin which were minted in celebration of one of most solemn events that took place in the United Kingdom 65 years ago: The Queen's coronation.
It was nearly 66 years ago that the then-Princess Elizabeth acceded to the throne at the age of 25 upon the death of her father, King George VI. The succession occurred on the 6th February 1952, while the Princess, along with her husband Prince Philip were en-route to Australia in place of her ailing father. She was in Kenya on a scheduled stop-over when she was told of the sad news that her beloved father had died and, as such, she was now Queen of Great Britain. The new Queen flew back to London and upon touching down on British soil, she was proclaimed Queen by her various privy and executive councils. The coronation took place more than a year later due to the tradition that holding such a festival is inappropriate during the period of official court mourning following the death of a monarch. The celebration and solemn ceremony was the first major royal event to be broadcast on television (against Winston Churchill's advice). It was broadcast in both black and white and colour, and was viewed by 27 million of the then-36 million Britons. In the ceremony itself, at Westminster Abbey, Elizabeth swore an oath to uphold the law and govern the Church of England. Every English and British monarch since William the Conqueror (who reigned long enough to hold a coronation) was crowned at Westminster Abbey, and on a cold and rainy day on the 2nd June 1953, the young Queen was no exception. Tens of thousands of Londoners and many spectators as far away as Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales, (not to mention many foreign visitors) lined up overnight the day before to secure the perfect place to witness the spectacular event for themselves.
Queen Elizabeth II became the longest-reigning monarch in 2015 when she overtook her great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria, who herself reigned for 63 years and 216 days. The recent death of Thailand's King Rama IX in October 2016 means Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and the Commonwealth Realms has now become the world's longest-reigning monarch. The 65th anniversary is associated with the sapphire — a gem symbolic of loyalty, inner peace, fulfillment of dreams, and prosperity. The colour associated with this anniversary is blue, which is symbolic of trust, peace, loyalty, and integrity — all of the characteristics you would expect to see in an exemplary sovereign.
The lion and the unicorn signify the United Kingdom and appear as its heraldic supporters on its coat of arms. The lion represents England and the unicorn represents Scotland. The combination of the two animals dates back to the accession of James I of England in 1603, who was also James VI of Scotland. Over the last 400 years, these animals have become strongly associated with royalty and, by proxy, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The coins are produced by the Pobjoy Mint on behalf of the treasury of the British Indian Ocean Territory. Both the silver crown and gold coin share the same designs which feature a lion seated behind a unicorn with an English rose, a Scottish thistle, a Welsh daffodil, and a Northern Irish shamrock. The wording, 1953 • H.M Queen Elizabeth II • 2018, appears in the surround. The reverse design is inspired by the hand-painted personal invitation given to Prince Charles for his mother's coronation, which featured these magnificent beasts.
The obverse features an exceptionally detailed effigy of HM Queen Elizabeth II, which is an exclusive design of the Pobjoy Mint. The issuing authority, the British Indian Ocean Territory, is included in the legend placed around the Queen's portrait along with the year of issue.
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Stone Bridge Club was founded in 1947 and has a current membership of around 140.
The club prides itself on its friendly and welcoming atmosphere, and fully encourages people of all abilities to attend their meetings.
"Duplicate bridge" is played at the club, and new guests are most welcome.
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A professor of medical ethics at Fordham writes in The Los Angeles Times about California's decision to legalize doctor assisted suicide. "The poor, blacks, Latinos, and virtually every disability rights group are skeptical of assisted suicide." Read the piece by Charles Camosy here: California's Right to Die Legislation Betray's Its Progressive Principles. What the Church teaches about end of life care here. Photos after the jump:Read More
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Our faith demands that we see Christ in the marginalized. Despite his disability, cerebral palsy, Paul Smith creates works of art using only a typewriter. Watch a video about his art and faith and see some of his work after the jump:Read More
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When Seattle poet Heather McHugh was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" of $500,000, she used the money to start a charity that gives vacations to exhausted caregivers. Read the story from The Seattle Post here: Poet Uses MacArther Grant Money to Give Vacations to CaregiversRead More
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Sr. Rosemary Connelly who runs a center for people with disabilities, Misericordia, has been named a Chicagoan of the Year. Watch a video about her ministry after the jump:Read More
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Good collection of fashion designers biography. The lifestyle e-newsletter from the Kinds, Travel and Meals sections, providing the newest trends to news you need to use. One such instance of Vogue's popularity is the younger version, Teen Vogue , which covers clothing and tendencies that are targeted more towards the "fashionista on a budget".
Oscar de la Renta is a kind of fashion designers that many people don't know the place he got here from. The blue denims worn within the 1980s are very memorable; many of the jeans that were worn within the 80s were named by well-known fashion designers, identical to they are in the present day.
Black garments have been used throughout long time amongst men for special events during historical past. In some cases, great hype is constructed about new designers' collections earlier than they're released into the market, due to the immense publicity generated by practitioners.
Charles Frederick Worth, who in the 19th century was the primary fashion designer to have his label sewn into the garments that he painstakingly created, would be smiling at how the clothing design software can assist churn out inventive fashion ideas in minutes, and never in weeks as was the case method again then.
On the time, it was trendy to seem in uniforms as a result of uniformed men and women had been a typical sight and were seen in every single place. Individuals who like or respect these people turn out to be influenced by their private model and start carrying equally styled garments.
Pattern makers produce and maintain patterns for clothes that designers have sketched out. Quickly, other design homes joined in as jeans took on a new celebrity identified with high fashion and glamor. Within the early 80s when many individuals had been simply beginning to attend center faculty, they keep in mind that everyone was sporting a reputation brand jean known as Wranglers.


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Firstly we need to figure out how does that best version of yourself look. I think we should begin with something easy, meaning/purpose of life for example. As far as I know there is no divine higher meaning of life (and it's awesome! It's mind-boggling to me how people assume it's better to have one rather than create one by yourself). Therefore we are free to fulfill our lives with the purpose of our own choosing.
For majority of people the most fulfilling thing is "to make a difference"(including the author of ramblings above and below). But what does it mean "to make a difference"? I think the following definition is a good one: "The number of sentient beings whose lives you improve, and how much you improve them by."
So what are the best ways to make a difference? This is the list of behaviors which imo make the biggest difference and are manageable for the majority of people in the Developed World starting with the easiest ones and moving towards the hardest (and ones which make the biggest difference as well):
1) Be nice and kind to your family & friends(call your mother and grandmother at least once a month for example if you live far away).
2) Be nice and kind to anyone you meet(compliment a Salesperson in the Supermarket for example).
3) Volunteer at least once in awhile at a soup kitchen, home for the elderly etc. Make some blood donations once in awhile at your nearest hospital or to someone who needs it elsewhere.
4) Become a Vegan (for those who needs clarification why is it so high in the list I highly recommend to watch Cowspiracy and Earthlings preferably in that order).
5) Donate a % of your income to Charity (money is the most efficient way to help a person in need whether they needs food, medical care or any other help outside of some types of a mental one).
This is the list of behaviors I want to see myself doing for the rest of my life.
Another key aspect of making a difference is constantly improving in all of the behaviors listed above; Call your family & friends more often, give a compliment to a stranger more often, volunteer more often, try to explain to other people why becoming a Vegan is very important rather than being offended by their instantly triggered defense mechanisms, work hard on improving your professional skills therefore increasing amount of money you can donate to the Charity.
The process of improving in these areas that are most important to you is precisely what I would call becoming the best version of yourself.
Even if all of the behaviours listed above are a part of your daily life you still might feel that you aren't good enough since you aren't donating 100% of your income minus life expenses, you don't spend 100% of your time at soup kitchens. That's the time when schelling points come in handy and it's our personal responsibility to determine reasonable schelling points to avoid anxiety and self-loathing . For example donating 2% or more of your income(REG), 10% or more (giving what we can), having some pre-scheduled days of the month/periods of the year for volunteering work.
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The U.S. government's budget deficit fell to its lowest level in eight years for the fiscal year that ended September 30, as the recovering economy boosted tax revenue.
Treasury Department officials reported Thursday that the deficit fell 9 percent to $439 billion, an amount equal to 2.5 percent of the total output of the world's largest economy.
While the deficit is growing more slowly than it has in other years, adding it to past deficits brings the total national debt to $18.4 trillion, which is around the size of the entire U.S. economy.
The Republican-dominated Congress and the Democratic Obama administration are in a political squabble over a looming deadline to renew the legal authorization for financing the debt.
Under U.S. law, Congress has to authorize borrowing money by raising the debt limit. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said Thursday that Washington would hit that limit on November 3, a few days sooner than previously thought.


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Zephyr Gewurztraminer 2013
Our top wine brings together fresh fragrances such as rosehip and quince and more savoury spice notes such as nutmeg. It is fresh and lively, finishing dry with an attractive textural flourish. "It's not a flamboyant version," said John Belsham. "The savoury element doesn't detract, but makes it more complete and food-friendly." Winemaker Ben Glover says it is "stunning" with warmed De Brood Bakker's sourdough baguette with Over the Moon's Galactic Gold Wash Rind Cheese.
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The decision to plant gewurz at the Glover family vineyard in the Wairau Valley back in 1993 came when paterfamilias Owen Glover was given a glass of perfumed Alsatian gewurz and was won over in an instant. "Must have some of that," he decided, so in it went. The Glover family's own Zephyr label made its debut in 2007 and gewurz has been part of the portfolio from the beginning. "I'm not a fan of the rich talc-and-Turkish Delight style of gewurztraminer," says winemaker Ben Glover, son of Owen and his wife Wendy. "I go for purity and vibrancy – you want lushness, but not too much." To add interest to the 2013 wine, Ben "played around" with the popular Italian orange wine techniques, when white wine is left to get chummy with the grape skins and seeds. "It gives the wine a bit more structure and a 'what the hell is that?' quality." This result wasn't the only cause for Glover celebration. Zephyr Riesling 2012 was third in the Top 10.


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Ged Quinn, an English artist, studied at the Ruskin in Oxford, the Slade School of Art in London, the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and theRijksakademie in Amsterdam. Quinn makes paintings that appear at first sight to re-visit artificial locations from the tradition of European landscape and other genres. Using the methods of seduction and deflection as a visual and conceptual strategy, these works interweave contemporary themes and become extravagant environments for Quinn's own imagery and ideas. By referencing and then distorting recognisable sources within European art history they present viewers with apparently collective memories unsettled by his own observations.
Quinn was also the keyboard player in the Liverpool group The Wild Swans (band). He was one of the three original core members, along with Paul Simpson and Jeremy Kelly, and played on their Zoo Records 12" single The Revolutionary Spirit/God Forbid released in 1982.
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We are very lucky in Lloret to have a bus station with so many links to other places, both near and far. To start with there is a choice of 3 free buses which will take you to either the Go - Karting, Waterworld or Marineland, ( but you do have to pay the entrance fee when you get there)....
There are direct buses to take you sightseeing or shopping in the nearest cities of Girona or Barcelona. Then there is the direct service to the nearest airport of Girona.
Other resorts such as Tossa de Mar or Blanes are also easily reached by bus from Lloret, both places are only 20mins away.
For trips further afield its possible to catch buses to Olot, Palafrugell or Auigamolls, on the way seeing a lot more of the beautiful Catalan countryside!
Also very handy - although not so much these days with the bargain flights available, is that the Eurolines bus company have a ticket office in the bus station. From here you can book and travel to anywhere in Europe.
A genuine AWARD WINNING blog with all the insider info you need to know about Lloret de Mar its events, excursions, restaurants, pubs, bars and nightlife.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Lloret de Mar - Weather
After all rain which we've had last week, the weather is now back to normal, for this time of year. The beach is quite busy with the boats and water sports centre up and running again.
With the hot weather this year we had a lot of jelly fish out at sea - gladly, they now seem to have cleared up.
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Friday, September 15, 2006
Lloret de Mar, Weather .
Over the last 4 - 5 days we have had very bad rain and storms, its certainly gave everyone some thing to talk about. Not only here in Lloret but just about all over Spain. The heavy rain along with thunder and lightening caused severe flooding in many places, so much so that its been the main topic on the Spanish TV news.
Streets here in town were almost deserted, with only people venturing out were those who had to!
The holidaymakers here just now probably didnt fetch suitable clothes or shoes for the unsuspected bad weather, so they have been dodging in and out of their hotels in between downpours in shorts and t shirts!
September is usually a nice month here weatherwise, with the heat being a little less harsh than that which we get in July and August...
Today so far has been dry, although more rain is forecast until Sunday, we may get back to the sunshine then!!
Streets here in town were almost deserted, with only people venturing out were those who had to!
The holidaymakers here just now probably didnt fetch suitable clothes or shoes for the unsuspected bad weather, so they have been dodging in and out of their hotels in between downpours in shorts and t shirts!
September is usually a nice month here weatherwise, with the heat being a little less harsh than that which we get in July and August...
Today so far has been dry, although more rain is forecast until Sunday, we may get back to the sunshine then!!
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Monday, September 11, 2006
Lloret de Mar - Best Bars
The bar at Cala Banys......
Walking past the statue of the Donna Marina (the lady looking out to sea) on Lloret sea front will bring you to what must be the best location for a bar on the Costa Brava.
The bar is tucked into the cliffs running between Lloret de Mar and Fenals. All the rock has been cut away to enable the building of the bar and also paths and stairways, leading in and out and up and down the cove of Cala Banys.
Drinks are a little more expensive here, but you will find it a very relaxing place to have a drink while looking out to sea - where the only noise heard is that of the waves breaking on the rocks below!
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Sunday, September 10, 2006
Lloret de Mar - Holidays
Now that we are well into September, all the children are back at school here after a long summer holiday, just as they are in the rest of Europe.
The children above are on a school outing in Girona, all dressed in their very smart uniforms.
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Thursday, September 07, 2006
Lloret de Mar - Meeting New Friends.
We are now into September with August the busiest month of the year behind us. With September we seem to get a much more relaxed atmosphere in Lloret!
August is the favorite month for many old friends to meet up here.
One family in particular who come back every year, is the Vinall family from Bicester near Oxford.
They have been coming to Lloret for many years now, Colin and Maggie even lived and worked here back in the 80s. Their children Lucas, Callum and Poppy now seem to look at Lloret as their 2nd home, as they come for the whole of August every year!
Here for the first time this year was some of my family, Bev, Daz, Amy and Jodie. They were here for one week and immediately hit it off with all the regulars in town.
So hopefully they will come back to see us again, and all the new friends they made while they were here !!
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Friday, September 01, 2006
Lloret de Mar - Marineland
Marineland is an excellent day out for all the family, with everyones favourite - a show put on by the dolphins. Situated just out side Lloret de Mar, its easily reached by the free bus which leaves the bus station every hour starting at 9.15am.
The entry price is 20euro for adults, with a reduced price for children aged 4 - 12yrs, (under 4s are free)
The days entertainment begins with the parrot show at 10.30, followed by the very funny sea lions at 11.30. The dolphins do their excellent show at 12.30, after which the rest of the day can be spent in the waterpark area with the slides and watershutes etc. So it is actually 2 parks in one.... for more info along with video clips and a 3 euro discount voucher click here!
(Looks like Amy enjoyed this water slide, not sure about Daz though!! Hope you all enjoyed your week in Lloret, Hope to see you all again soon :-)
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Given $x\sim \mathcal{N}(\mu=0, \sigma^2=1)$, the squared distances of the $x$ values to $\mu$ are distributed $\chi^2_1$.
I am interested in the distribution of the squared distances to an arbitrary $x$. For instance, what is the distribution of the squared distances of the observations to $x=2$?
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Once again a bumper year for cameras, 18 to be exact, from shoulder mount to large sensor.
Ikegami brought out the HC-HD300 CMOS studio field camera, Ikegami unlike most other manufacturers tend to build for the broadcast market.
This was the surprise from Canon previewing an 8K Cinema Camera, price is anybodys guess.
Canon showed the C300 MK11 with 4K internal recording but spoiled it with uncompetitive pricing and reducing the C300 to a ridicules price at the same time.
The Canon XC-10 was also announced and to be honest has not taken off partly due to the non constant aperture fixed 10x lens.
Another camera to make its debut was the URSA mini, great price at £2000 but spoiled by the EVF sold separately for a further £1000 half the price of the camera itself !
Black Magic also brought out the BM Micro Cinema Camera that takes micro four third lenses, I don't know how well this camera has sold but at £679 you can't go wrong.
Another shoulder mount from Panasonic the AJ-PX380 is a top end P2HD camcorder for the broadcast market.
The NAB show stopper was the Panasonic AG DVX-200 with its sexy red back. At £3,358 this 4K 50p camera has set the heather alight.
I know very little about this camera only that its 6K and sell in the US for $8000.
So thats up to April 2015 and already we have 9 new cameras, I will go through the rest of the year during the week.
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The Ikegami AGAIN with a small handle.
What's your favorite 2015 camera for small independent documentary filmmaking ?
HDW : Its up between the Sony FS5 and the JVC LS-300, my friend and blogger Rick Young has 6 Sony F3's yet he is blown away by the features on the JVC LS-300.
I on the other hand bought a Sony FS5 as a "B" camera to my FS7. The main difference between the 2 cameras are the availability of proper servo zoom lenses for the FS5, something JVC need to look at as 3x M4/3 zoom lenses are not in the same league.
Dear Philip:
Is there any possibility of a test to the Sony NX100? It seems a versatile camera.
gentlemen, want to point out a possible design flaw in the new agdvx 200 from panasonic, for the 2nd time I am sending it back to bh video with a viewfinder problem. Anyone else hearing about this. Thinking about moving to the sony fs 5 instead,


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Video Interview: Understanding the Next Generation Science Standards
Still have some basic questions about the Next Generation Science Standards? You're not alone. Many teachers and schools around the country are still trying to figure out what the new standards are all about and how they'll change teaching and learning.
And with some states, including Illinois, planning to roll out tests aligned to the new standards as soon as this spring, understanding them is now more critical than ever.
Our EdWeek Video team recently sat down with David Evans, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association, and asked him some questions about how the standards were developed, what makes them different from previous standards, and whether teachers are ready for the changes ahead.
"Adopting new standards is not like putting on a fresh shirt," he says at one point. "This is a real process and it's going to take a while to do it. It's going to take a while for instruction and it's going to take a while for assessment."
(View the story in the video below, and then click on each of the nine questions to hear Evans' explanations.)
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HIGH POINT, N.C. – Ethan Allen Global Inc. has successfully completed Sustainable by Design registration, awarded by the American Home Furnishings Alliance for the company's continued environmental improvements.
To enter the Sustainable by Design program, Ethan Allen first had to implement AHFA's EFEC environmental management program at all of its domestic manufacturing facilities. EFEC was created by AHFA for the home furnishings industry to help companies develop specific systems and procedures for improving management of resources and raw materials, reducing energy and water consumption, and reducing waste disposal and associated costs.
Ethan Allen completed EFEC at five manufacturing plants and one sawmill in August 2012.
These included a wood furniture plant in Old Fort, N.C.; an upholstery manufacturing complex in Maiden, N.C.; a wood furniture plant and sawmill in Beecher Falls, Vt., that dates back to the 1800s; a wood furniture plant in Orleans, Vt.; and a home accents (custom lighting and wall décor) plant and distribution facility in Passaic, N.J.
The Sustainable by Design program takes EFEC's culture of environmental stewardship and extends it throughout a company's global supply chain. The program helps companies establish internal standards, practices and management systems that measure their own environmental performance, but it also helps them arrive at standards for monitoring the environmental performance of suppliers worldwide.
"We are very proud of the eco-conscious culture and the significant environmental achievements Ethan Allen has made throughout the entire company," states Ethan Allen Chairman, President and CEO Farooq Kathwari. "Our SBD registration is an important milestone for us, and we will continue to advance our efforts to improve our impact on our domestic and global communities."
EFEC sets the course for a company's environmental journey, because it works to change the culture within a company, beginning on the factory floor, explains Bill Perdue, AHFA's vice president of regulatory affairs. "Sustainable by Design moves companies to the next level, helping them establish corporate goals for environmental improvements that take into account the global supply chain, not just domestic operations."
To complete its Sustainable by Design registration, Ethan Allen was required to establish goals and a system for evaluating annual improvements in the following areas:
• Supply chain management, including assisting suppliers worldwide in the development and implementation of sustainability programs;
• Using eco-friendly materials, including certified lumber and low-emitting UF resins;
• Global climate impact, including calculating a baseline carbon footprint; and,
• Social responsibility, including establishing policies that define the company's commitment to the protection and advancement of human rights in all areas of the world where the company does business.
In the area of supply chain management, Ethan Allen has implemented a program to partner with its suppliers in improving environmental performance. The program encompasses both domestic and offshore suppliers.
Ethan Allen's commitment to using eco-friendly materials includes using only CertiPUR-US certified foam in mattresses and upholstery. This means all foams have been tested and certified by an independent, accredited laboratory as containing low-VOC emission materials made without formaldehyde, mercury, lead, heavy metals, PBDEs, ozone-depleting chemicals or phthalates.
Most of Ethan Allen's lumber requirements are met with native hardwood species from lands that are intensively managed by professional foresters on a sustained yield basis. The company also has systems in place to help ensure that suppliers of non-native species, including mahogany, are sourcing legally from properly managed forests.
For measuring global climate impact, Ethan Allen has developed a carbon footprint calculator to monitor greenhouse gas and CO² emissions for all of its processes. Baseline emissions were established for 2010 and are being tracked with a goal of reporting results on the company's corporate website.
In the area of social responsibility, Ethan Allen has documented its commitment to human rights in a policy published on its website. The company has also established preferable purchasing guidelines for the selection of suppliers and contractors based on their commitment to human rights and environmental awareness.
Ethan Allen is the eighth AHFA company to achieve Sustainable by Design. Others include Flexsteel Inds., Century Furniture, Kincaid Furniture, C.R. Laine, American Drew/Lea Industries and Hickory Chair. All Sustainable by Design registrations are audited annually.
In addition to achieving Sustainable by Design within the manufacturing arm of the company, Ethan Allen has completed the first step in extending the EFEC environmental management program throughout its entire retail division – a vanguard effort spearheaded by the company's environmental leadership, including Paul Kaminski, corporate director of environment, health and safety, and Jack Clark, corporate manager of environment, health and safety.
In October the first six facilities – all retail service and warehouse/distribution centers – completed EFEC registration. Ethan Allen plans to eventually extend the EFEC program into all of its company-owned retail locations, which currently number about 150.
Altogether, the EFEC environmental management program has been implemented at 79 different U.S. facilities, including manufacturing plants, warehouses and corporate headquarters buildings, in 17 states and Mexico.
The American Home Furnishings Alliance, based in High Point, N.C., represents more than 200 leading furniture manufacturers and distributors, plus about 150 suppliers to the furniture industry worldwide. AHFA helps develop voluntary environmental, product safety and construction standards for residential furnishings and advocates on behalf of the residential furniture industry on legislative and regulatory issues that impact the health of the industry.
Source: American Home Furnishings Alliance
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Happy Thanksgiving Android and Me readers. We hope you all are taking some time with family eating lots of good food, playing games, and watching a little football. While giving thanks for all the good things in your life, be sure to be mindful of those Android apps that you enjoy or that make your lives easier in some way.
On this day of thanks, I wanted to share with you five applications that I'm thankful for. But it's not all about me, we want to hear from all of you as well. Be sure to leave a comment on this story with those applications that you're thankful for this holiday season.
QuickOffice HD/Pro
I've tried several of the office-suite applications out there, but I keep coming back to QuickOffice on both my Android phone and tablet. I haven't found anything out there that matches both the beauty and functionality of QuickOffice. We tweeted out a little bit ago when Amazon was offering this software for free, so hopefully all of you managed to download it then. If not, the suite will set you back $ 7.49 for the phone version, and $ 11.99 for the tablet version.
Wind Up Knight
Wind up knight came out of nowhere to become perhaps my favorite casual game on Android. Basically, you control a wind-up toy esque knight as you jump and slash your way through several levels, collecting coins and keys along the way. You can unlock new swords and other things to help you on your journey.
Whether I'm going for a run, hanging out at home, or driving to work, I like having music going to distract me. I've tried out several of the streaming-based music services out there, and while the likes of Google Music and Amazon MP3 store are good for listening to your music that you already own, and purchasing music you don't already own, there's something to be said for listening to music from a massive collection. When it comes to these types of music apps, I've always come back to Pandora, and have even sprung for a Pandora One membership. It is the best, in my opinion (remember, it's an opinion, you probably have a different one, but this is my list!).
Android Photobooth
Yes, this one may show a bit of bias; the Photobooth application was put together by Android and Me founder Clark Wimberly and resident Android Programmer Justin Shapcott. Still, since it was released, it has become the standard way I share my photos with others. Photobooth allows you to either take existing pictures or snap new ones and put them together into a traditional photobooth-like picture. You can easily share with the likes of Google+, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, or basically any other service you can imagine.
Skitch is a drawing application that allows you to use your Android smartphone or tablet to free-draw or take quick notes that can be saved or shared with others. I actually do this pretty frequently on my Android tablet, whether I'm coming up with a quick idea for a post image, or drawing out some concept I'm having trouble explaining with words.
Final Thoughts
I've shown you mine, now show me yours! Leave a comment below with the applications that you're thankful for and why you're thankful for them. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!
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