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There's a little place in Brazil that has stolen my heart. I loved it in 2013 and now, after a month-long stay this winter, Trancoso feels like home.
Unspoiled and virtually undiscovered, it's an escape from the everyday madness that we all encounter. Life in Trancosco is simple and centers around two areas: the Quadrado and the beach. The first is a grassy square lined with colorful shops and anchored by a sweet white church overlooking the sea. The Quadrado is where everyone gathers and where you begin to live like a local.
When not on the Quadrado, you are on the beach. If you head out when the sun is rising, you may be the only one walking along the beautiful shore. Later in the day, you might head over to UXUA's (ooh-shoo-ah) rustic beach bar and restaurant to relax after paddle boarding. Can you tell that the pace in Trancoso is slow and easy? Here comes Maria, the beach masseuse with her big smile, ready to rub the feet of weary beach combers. Can you imagine it?
For me, the ideal stay would begin with a few nights at Uxua on the Quadrado before moving to a fabulous villa with your favorite people in the world. My group of family and dear friends stayed at Anderson Cooper's lovely retreat (you can, too), which was hard to leave.
I thank my Trancosco family of Bob, Lua, Gabrielle, Edna, Alvero, Layo, and Sheila for their good care while at Uxua. Their energy and enthusiasm for life were contagious. I can still feel their spirit, even now from afar.
Caroline Travels the World…And So Can You.


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School Districts Purchasing Cycle – Timing is Everything
School Districts Purchasing Cycle
Though the budget crisis for school districts frequently makes the headlines, nationally each district spends about $12,000.00 per student annually. Knowing money is always an issue, if you want to be the vendor who secures the contract, it is imperative you understand the purchasing schedule of the district or districts to which you are marketing your products. Schools are organized chaos because their clients are so varied, but within the chaos, an organizational infrastructure keeps them moving along. Knowing this organizational infrastructure for purchasing will be your best marketing tool.
First it is important to remember that no school wants to hear from you at the beginning of the school year or at the end of the school year. Budgets have been spent by July so schools are ready in September. Knowing this, the next important marketing tool you need is to understand the purchasing cycle of the district you want to procure as a client. In general purchasing cycles have five parts: assessing needs, setting goals, gathering information, doing research and purchasing decisions.
Needs assessment: May – August
Beginning in May and continuing over the summer, administrators start looking at the year, assessing how it went. Each school district is an entity unto itself with its own unique needs, so assessments of what works and what doesn't work are particular to each district as well as each school within that district. One program may be working wonderfully for the high school but the same program in the middle school may need to be reevaluated. In this step data is gathered and analyzed, and it is this analysis that provides the platform for setting goals for the following school year. The needs assessment covers staff, programs, materials, technology, etc.
Goal setting: June – October
Goal setting starts in the beginning of the summer and continues through early fall. It is the result of the needs assessment. Since schools are involved in data driven decision-making, the end result of a datum analysis is a goal or goals. Usually a committee made up administrators, staff, parents and community members meets over the summer to analyze the data gathered and decide what will drive the school district to success during the next school year.
Gathering information: Nov – Feb
Once the needs assessment and goal setting phases are complete, information has to be gathered. Just getting the information on vendors who are credible can take weeks. Competition is fierce and many companies have wonderful options. It is getting this information together, having weeded out those that do meet school standards that takes time. The process begins in late October or early November.
Research: Feb – Apr
Once the information is gathered, then researching begins on each company, its strengths and weaknesses, its options, materials, etc. During this time, school districts will take an in depth look at the vendors and why one is better than another. This process continues through March or April.
Purchasing: May – July
After all the steps of the purchasing cycle are completed, it is time to decide which materials, programs, technology, etc. to buy. Purchasing usually takes place in the summer, so it is ready for use at the beginning of the school year.
Vendors What to do when Summer
Introductions need to be made before the purchasing cycle begins. Since school districts work on relationships and most are long term, going with the familiar that can be trusted, you will want to lead with your strengths and get to know the purchasing agent in the district. You will be working for the next school year purchases, so be sure you know what is being purchased for the current year. Do your homework and go prepared to meet district officials. Call to make a summer appointment. Offer to be a resource. Get in touch with the school board and come to a meeting. Be a presenter at a Parent/Teacher Organization meeting. Get your face our there and become known.
Fall, excluding the first two weeks of school
Schools will be assessing needs and setting goals and you need to know what is going on. Administrators will have an idea of staffing, materials and initiatives for the next year based on the comparison of baseline data to the current school year data. Know what materials are not working, what initiative falls short or what technology is needed. Every school district has a website. Visit it and be sure you know successes and where things need to improve. Make an appointment to see the purchasing administrator. Meet building principals.
November to April
During the information gathering and research stages, you will want to be very visual. Offer yourself as a support, offer tools that might help, provide answers to questions, and build your rapport. You have to build trust.
April through the end of school
Building principals will send in their preliminary budgets and their needs to the district in late April or early May. You want to be one step ahead, with principals supporting your product because you have spent the school year building relationships and trust. You have met teachers, talked with parents, school board members and community members. You have demonstrated your product, shown its competitive edge and led with your strengths.
July through August
Teachers will become familiar with the products. They will ask questions about the products and you will need to be available to answer those questions. Though administrators buy the materials, the teachers use them and you need to meet their needs and work with them.
The purchasing cycle is not set in stone, but it is a guide for the vendor to follow. Stages overlap, materials need to be purchased during the year, and supplements to materials may be needed. Regardless, as a successful vendor, you need to know the schedule, know when to introduce yourself, when to sell your products, when to be a resource and when to be a friend. As the old saying goes, timing is everything!


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It seems strange to write about anything other than Covid-19, but my guess is that we are all seeing enough news about that to satisfy our need for information. So let me go back to what we were doing before this turned most of us into home-bound people.
Our last stop on this past visit was in Zambia. We were invited by the United Church of Zambia, after meeting them through a visit in Malawi last year with World Renew. The United Church of Zambia (UCZ) is the largest Protestant church in Zambia, with churches in all ten provinces throughout the country. It was formed in 1965 through the combination of a number of different churches, mainly Presbyterian and Methodist. There are just over 1000 UCZ churches with 3 million members across the country.
Zambia is a country of about 18 million people. It achieved independence from the UK in 1964, and the first president was a socialist who held his position until 1991. At that time, Zambia became a multi-party country and moved toward democracy. Zambia is officially a Christian nation, as declared in their constitution in 1996. Approximately 75% of the population is Protestant and 20% is Catholic.
Compared to the geographic size of Burundi, where we had just come from, Zambia is 27 times larger than Burundi, but the population is not even double the population of Burundi (11 million). (To contrast, Zambia is 5 times larger than Michigan.) There is much land that is unused and lots of space for growth.
We were privileged to meet with the Synod Bishop of the UCZ, as well as two of the bishops from two provinces. They seemed to resonate with the message of DML and the need for this in their denomination. Our workshop was done at the denomination's Agricultural College, where we had a number of students in attendance. It was good to have youth present and wrestle with the call to view farming as a good and holy thing, as it continues to be the thing to do when you have "failed" at getting the government or other "white-collar" jobs.
About twelve of the students sang for us each time a break was over and it was amazing the sound and volume that they produced with twelve of them and no microphones. The UCZ service that we attended in Lusaka (of about 2000 members) had six choirs that involved hundreds of men, women, youth, and children. It was beautiful, fun, lively, and interactive.
We pray that the seeds that were sown on our visit there will not be lost in the Covid-19 pandemic, but we also trust that God remains on the throne and is working in and through His people! We continue to watch Africa, which seems to be much more proactive with much fewer cases so far. We pray that the governments and people continue to be wise, and that the number of cases may stay lower. They are heading toward their "winter" now so that may also cause more cases to emerge.


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HOLLYWOOD – The Florida Project and Last Temptation of Christ star Willem Dafoe is in hot water because of a radical new diet book that is centered on eating bats.
Radical celebrity diets are nothing new. From Gwyneth Paltrow's Dust and Despair Diet to Jeff Goldblum's 12-Day Arsenic Plan, but Willem Dafoe's new diet book is causing quite the stir. Bat to Basics was written by Dafoe and nutritionist Selma Kayak and is packed cover to cover with recipes for flying rodents.
Selma came into the Studio Exec Bungalow to explain what the hell was going on:
When Willem first came to me it was the early 80s and he was working on To Live and Die in LA. We only had tree weeks until the shoot began and he was morbidly obese. I immediately suggested the rat diet which I originally discovered in Vietnam. However, Willem wanted something spicier. The bat diet was perfect. Not only are bats high in protein, they also contain all sorts of diseases which can function as naturally manifesting enemas.
Plus as part of the diet, Willem would catch the bats himself, which involved a lot of jumping around at twilight trying to grab hold of the little shits as they swooped past his porch light. He's Canadian so he was very good at this.
But aren't bats gross?
That's the point. They taste like dead man's dessicated knuckles. After a while you're just never hungry. When he was making Platoon he didn't eat for the whole shoot.
Animal rights groups have reacted with predictable blah-blah-blah.
Joan Stockings told the Exec:
Bats are beautiful creatures and many species are endangered. Willem Dafoe is blah blah blah. Blah blah boycott blah.


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Earlier this week The Times reported a suggestion that national service could usefully be re-introduced. Many people do not like the idea of return to a system of military training for all young people.
However, national service need not be military service. From the age of sixteen young people might benefit from being able to volunteer to make themselves useful to the community in a variety of ways.
Basic training would enable them to look after themselves, their surroundings and their companions, prepared to work purposefully away from their usual surroundings and familiar company. Away too from recruitment into criminal gangs. Young people at risk of trouble with the law might be obliged to volunteer by the courts and employers, including the armed forces, might well use such a service as a recruiting ground.


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They are two of the most revered American pop artists of the 20th century, but Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol were a source of derision for Francis Bacon, according to previously unheard recordings released to the Guardian.
The British master can be heard dismissing one of Johns's paintings as "ridiculous" and calling Warhol's works "very bad".
His criticisms have come to light in private conversations taped by his friend Barry Joule, who lived 20 metres from Bacon's studio and home in South Kensington.
The two men had struck up a friendship in 1978 when Bacon invited Joule for some champagne after he had repaired another neighbour's TV aerial. The friendship lasted until the artist's death in 1992.
Bacon agreed to be recorded on condition that Joule did not release the tapes until at least 12 years after his death.
On one of them, Bacon spoke of his astonishment that Johns's 1959 abstract painting, a red, yellow and blue canvas titled False Start, had sold in 1988 for $17.05m (£12m).
"It is such a ridiculous thing," he said. "The whole thing, it is nothing. It is just a series of a number of diagonal scratches going in different directions in red and blue."
Johns, now 87, has been described as America's foremost living artist, admired for his trademark images of flags and targets.
A major retrospective, titled Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth, was staged at the Royal Academy of Arts in London last year, and is now in America, at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles.
At the 1988 sale at Sotheby's, False Start was reportedly purchased by New York art dealer Larry Gagosian, who ignored the pre-sale estimate of $4m to $5m.
Subsequent reports suggest that, in 2006, the Johns painting was sold to a US collector, Kenneth Griffin, for $80m, while one of his signature 1950s flag paintings went to the US hedge fund billionaire Steven Cohen for $110m.
Bacon once told another friend: "When I die, my paintings won't be worth anything, I'll be forgotten."
Yet his prices soared dramatically after his death. His 1969 portrait titled Three Studies of Lucian Freud sold in 2013 in New York for a record $142.4m. The buyer was rumoured to be the US billionaire art collector Elaine Wynn.
On the recording, Joule asked Bacon to explain why "some supposedly sane people will pay a huge sum of money for something like" the Johns painting.
Bacon replied: "It is the fashion. It is what the Americans are interested in … they are not interested in art. They are only interested in being talked about – about being mixed up in the latest thing … now it has become absolutely ridiculous in America."
Bacon was no less scathing about Warhol. On the tapes, he can be heard dismissing the 1991 pop art exhibition at the Royal Academy. Having just returned from a visit, he said: "These pictures are bad. The Andy Warhols are very bad."
Joule has a photograph of Bacon looking at one of those Warhols, the car crash imagery from the Death and Disaster series, reflecting Warhol's obsession with news reports of violent death.
The whole exhibition had disappointed Bacon, who added: "It is dull really. I thought it might just have some superficial excitement, but it doesn't even have that."
The artist's paintings are featured in Tate Britain's current exhibition, All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life. In 2004, Joule donated a collection of 1,200 sketches from Bacon's studio, then valued at an estimated £20m, to the Tate. It was described as one of the gallery's most generous gifts.
Joule has decided to release the recordings ahead of an exhibition of about 60 drawings which he kept and which he is lending to an exhibition in Italy, at the Villa Fiorentino museum in Sorrento between 19 May and 21 October.


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Do you need removed superficial veins later? The short answer is, no, you don't need that vein in the future. This blog explores why. The venous system is responsible for moving blood from the body and returning it to the heart and lungs. There are different sizes of veins ranging from very small capillaries to large veins, with veins located either deep in the body or closer to the skin surface. Veins are floppy structures that contain valves to keep blood moving toward the heart.
Since veins do not have muscles within their walls, they rely on the movement of the body muscles to push the blood through the veins. In certain instances, the valves may no longer close or become leaky, allowing for blood to move backwards, accumulating in the veins, and therefore increasing the vein pressure. This process creates varicose veins and spider veins, which can be seen on the skin surface.
The veins that you can see from the surface are called "superficial veins" and when removed due to a vascular disease, they will not be needed later. That is because the majority of the blood travels back to the heart via the deep veins, so by closing off the leaky veins, the blood will find a path through the good veins.
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Treatment Options for Varicose & Spider Veins
There are multiple treatment options available to treat varicose veins and spider veins. These procedures all use different techniques to achieve the same result, which is closing off the affected vein, so blood no longer flows through it. Over time, this vein is absorbed by the body.
Despite some of these problematic veins being closed off, circulation still occurs and you are not affected by the diseased veins being closed. This is because there are alternate blood vessels that blood can flow through and the majority of the blood in circulation is actually located in the deep veins, which are not treated with the procedural options available for spider veins and varicose veins.
So, go ahead and treat those pesky veins, since you won't need that vein the future.


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09:00 | 15/04/2017 Industry
(VEN) - Due to a power source imbalance, the southern region of Vietnam will be at risk of power shortages from 2018 on, while thermal power projects not managed by Vietnam Electricity (EVN) are lagging behind schedule. Therefore, EVN is seeking solutions to the problem.
Rising demand According to an EVN report, during the 2017-2020 period, the national power system will still maintain a crude reserve capacity of over 30 percent. However, the allocation of power sources among regions is not even, with most of them located in the north and central provinces. The south gets its power through a transmission system. With a higher growth rate compared to the national average, power shortages in the south will not only directly affect industrial and agricultural production, exports and foreign investment attraction, but also slow down socio-economic development.
Ngo Son Hai, deputy general director of EVN, said the southern region currently has some operating coal and gas-fired power plants, while others are under construction. In addition to local power sources, the region needs about 15 billion kWh of electricity by 2017 and 21 billion kWh of electricity by 2019 through the transmission system. However, this system only provides about 18.5 billion kWh of electricity a year and is under great pressure due to large and continuous transmission.
To ensure sufficient power supplies for the south, EVN has invested in the development of power sources according to the National Power Development Planning for the 2011-2020 period, with a vision to 2030 (Power Planning VII), such as expanding coal-fired power plants in Binh Thuan Province's Vinh Tan Power Center and Tra Vinh Province's Duyen Hai Power Center, and developing renewable energy projects.
EVN has also invested in the development of various power transmission projects, such as the Vung Ang-Doc Soi-Pleiku 500kV transmission line. After these projects are put into operation, capacity could increase by 5.5 billion kWh of electricity a year in the northern-central transmission system, and about 2.5-3.6 billion kWh of electricity a year in the central-southern transmission system. Accelerating progress
The development of power sources managed by EVN in the south has basically been on schedule. However, the group is urging units to further speed up the progress in order to ensure sufficient power supplies for the south.
According to the plan, the national power system still guarantees supplies for the south in 2017 thanks to local power plants and the transmission system. However, power transmission is very risky, while hydropower plants are constrained by water resources and new thermal power plants take three to five years to be stable.
Vu Ngoc Minh, the general director of the National Power Transmission Corporation, said that the corporation is preparing for the construction of the Vung Ang-Quang Trach-Doc Soi-Pleiku 2 500kV triple circuit transmission line at the end of this year. However ground clearance is the most difficult problem in this project.
Nguyen Phuoc Duc, the deputy general director of EVN's Southern Power Corporation, said that to meet the load demand of about 14 percent, it is necessary to accelerate the construction and put into operation the Can Tho and Tay Ninh 2 220kV transformer stations. In addition, the corporation will take the initiative in maximizing capacity from small hydropower projects in the provinces of Lam Dong, Ninh Thuan, Binh Phuoc, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Soc Trang and Tay Ninh to ensure power supplies for the south.
On the actual survey of Soc Trang Province's Long Phu 1 Thermal Power Plant and Hau Giang Province's Song Hau 1 Thermal Power Plant, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung said that power plant projects are facing risks of lagging behind schedule. Therefore, solutions to resolve difficulties for investors are required.
Regarding coal ports, if the Vietnam National Coal-Mineral Industries Holding Corporation Limited cannot carry out the projects, it needs to call for more investors, including private ones.
Guidance by the government, local authorities and power businesses is required in accelerating the progress of power projects, resolving difficulties for investors and arranging preferential loans to ensure sufficient power supplies for the country in general, and the south in particular.
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Issue 4/2011, 103. Volume Page 312–325
Katja Driesel-Lange, Ernst Hany, Bärbel Kracke, Nicola Schindler
Concepts and Quality Features of Career Guidance at Comprehensive Schools
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The transition from school to work is one of the most important developmental tasks of adolescents. Viewing vocational development as an individual process, vocational guidance should accommodate special needs of students, which differ even in comparison with classmates of the same age. Schools are asked to support pupils in their vocational development with interventions fitting the individual needs of girls and boys. Due to the lack of both, theoretical foundation and empirical evidence, we do not know enough about the critical ingredients of effective vocational interventions in schools. Despite that, individual guidance of vocational development can be seen as a major resource of support for young and inexperienced learners. Basically, a theoretical model is needed that emphasizes individual vocational development and describes phases as well as phase-adequate behavior of adolescents. This would allow the arrangement of vocational interventions based on the identification of individual needs. The development of the Thüringer Berufsorientierungsmodell (ThüBOM) facilitates the integration of individual perspectives and organizational contexts of vocational guidance in schools by postulating a complex model of vocational development and learning. Future research should address (1) the empirical test of the efficacy of vocational guidance activities, (2) the development of diagnostic measures and effective school-based trainings of career adaptability, and (3) the further theoretical foundation of vocational promotion in schools.
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Pecans and Buttermilk in a Brooklyn Kitchen: My Food Journey from South to North
This article is part of our series, Migration Meals: How African American Food Transformed the Taste of America. During the Great Migration, millions of African Americans left the South and settled in the rest of the United States, bringing rich culinary traditions with them—sweet potato pie, black-eyed peas, mac and cheese, barbecue and so much more.
All eyes have been on the soil where I was born, a place where Arkansas Black apples perch in the Blue Ridge mountains and satsuma oranges dangle in the South Georgia groves' winter light—an edible geographic contrast that fades or comes into focus when racial politics inspire a new generation to move below or above the Mason-Dixon line. The Peach State's new power structure points to Black American's pliancy to carve out refuge where opportunities are ripe. Leaving home and falling into the bustle of a big city means cherishing the specialness of a place and ingredients no longer in arm's reach. The flavors of home are present along every winding route.
As a young person, I read award-winning writer and activist and fellow Georgia native Alice Walker, who was raised in Eatonton, Georgia, the exact location where I attended Rock Eagle 4-H summer camp (named for a Native American effigy mound on-site). Walker's stories of women, power and gardens paint vivid pictures of rural Black life. The taste of oppression fades with her writing of black-eyed Susans, scuppernongs and "jars of canned vegetables." Walker crafts words that give the courage to grab a giant mixing bowl for a labor-intensive dough or a reminder that sitting still and shining bright is fine too. After graduating first in her high school class, Walker left town for Atlanta and then Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York.
In 2008, I followed the same path as many African Americans and moved to New York City. Unlike my ancestors, I left behind a comfortable lifestyle for the gritty navigation of hauling grocery bags up to a fourth-floor walk-up apartment. A notable Black restaurateur's baritone voice once said to me, "You move around like a Mary Kay lady." I often reflect on his pointed description of my personality and took it as a flattering moniker—I have perfected getting the most interesting people around a dinner table to believe in one singular vision. As an early podcaster for Heritage Radio Network, and one of the first employees for the Brooklyn Food Coalition, I was an accidental member of a creative group that flocked to Brooklyn and helped transform the language around how eaters spoke about restaurants and dining at home. The blue-collar values of my upbringing provided a roadmap of how to thrive. I lived through the hope of President Barack Obama, rose above the last decade's economic hardships and navigated food's rise to rock-star status.
Today, I remix and interpret (just as I remembered) my familial foods based on experiences exploring farms, markets and specialty stores. My great-aunt Bessie Goolsby's bouncy yeast rolls are converted to cardamom-laced cinnamon buns every Christmas morning. I put on a traditional pot of zipper peas with pork bits or no-sugar cast-iron cornbread to soothe cold weeknights. My youth's pantry staples—full-fat buttermilk, pecans, sweet potatoes, dried hot peppers—are highly prized treasures and my forever starting point. Roasted sweet potatoes become a savory pie with fancy cheeses. And my recipe for a savory Dutch baby flecked with sweet potato bits takes weeknight dinners up a notch and reminds me of the hanging wire basket of potatoes in my Georgia childhood kitchen.
When the scenery changes around me, I spend all my time cooking in the kitchen and making sure I'm stocked with my basics. Not just this month but year-round, my foundation is honored. The journey to a new point puts a value on memories; staying put gets you nowhere. Let's go!
Nicole A. Taylor is the author of The Up South Cookbook and The Last O.G. Cookbook, and has written for the New York Times, Departures, Atlas Obscura and Food & Wine. Follow Taylor on Instagram @foodculturist.
Photographs by Jerrelle Guy. Follow Guy on Instagram @chocolateforbasil.
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Institute of Energy, Water and Food aims to research on provision of intellectual contribution to human development policies in frame of sustainable development and develop proactive interactions/recommendations on the national and global levels for energy, water and food security issues.
It also aims to contribute to the cases of competing in a global market, meeting growing and undergoing structural changes, demands of management, productivity, cost reduction, entering new markets and upgrading of existing markets.
Today, there is almost no problem that is limited to a single country, which means problem is able to affect a region and even whole globe. Energy, water and food security issues particularly require more international cooperation rather any other field.
Particularly on the base of energy, water and food security and in the context of human development, the institute aims forming awareness and intellectual contribution to the solution of problems; to provide interaction and strategic outcomes within cooperation development in the context of energy, water and food policy of Turkey and this way to contribute to the capacity building.
Institute of Energy, Water and Food is planned to be founded in the frame of all these considerations, intends to develop systematic and preemptive approaches for identifying and better understanding of existing and possible major changes.


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The bridal bouquet can be traced back to ancient Rome when women carried or wore flower garlands, believing that the blooms represented new beginnings, fidelity, and fertility. Things have changed a bit since then. For the modern bride, the bouquet is her ultimate accessory. Flowers are chosen not only for their symbolic nature, but also for their color, texture, and shape, complementing personal style, taste, and the overall wedding day look. Once they find their perfect floral aesthetic, many of our brides have added deeper sentiment by incorporating a special element into the arrangement. From keepsake jewelry to photos of loved ones, here are inspiring ideas from the Real BB Weddings archives for adding a heartfelt and personal touch to your bridal bouquet.
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Flying Lotus's third full-length, Cosmogramma, was released in May of this year. FlyLo's personal sphere of inspiration while making the record reportedly gravitated around his own mother's untimely death, and it's probably now appropriate to mention the Los Angeles beat-maker's blood connection to Alice and John Coltrane, as their astral inspired brand of free jazz seemed to be an important musical signpost Steven Ellison aspired to channel on the record (Cosmogramma refers to a lecture Alice Coltrane gave). Trane's son Ravi can even be heard with a tenor sax on two of the seventeen tracks. With this in mind, it's a good guess Cosmogramma is much more inspired by the Coltranes or even Sun Ra rather than FlyLo's contemporaries. The new exploration of sound was a bold move, and one that more than paid off. Flying Lotus has managed to transcend the sound and scene he helped create by completely stepping into a realm beyond the general approach of electronic music.
Cosmogramma itself flows as a singular experience. It creates a context that lives up to it's astral-based name, born from a place that feels more connected with spiritualism, psychedelia, place and time. Something to fall into. The scene from which it was born still remains though, it's just hard to imagine anything like this coming from something built upon a collective. It boasts Flying Lotus's vision as a producer and musician. There's a moment with some records where you feel the music is really only a means to an end. Where the musician's voice is alluding to something deeper and bigger instead of just pulling back a curtain to show you a couple songs they made, which in most cases could describe (however fantastic) the sound that's come out of LA in the wake of Flying Lotus's Los Angeles. Or even electronic music as a whole. It's something historically relegated to high concept music, definitely not hip-hop inspired beats.
As I mentioned in Part I, J Dilla's Donuts was a sort of opus for his experience and memories. And feels like that in how cyclical and fleeting it is. Dilla is known for aesthetics, but it's that element of Dilla's musical voice that lasts, especially as a statement right before his death. Flying Lotus has built that into his own music, starting with Los Angeles and making it completely his own with Cosmogramma. It's easier to talk about how Dilla's "submerged" bass lines or FlyLo's off-beat programming helped create something new in electronic music (it's definitely important) than how these guys have brought something unique and highly affecting in regard to their personal outlook and perspectives, communicated through their music. But, oh well, I guess. In the end the musical experience speaks for itself. What's the point of trying to force it into words (like I'm doing right now)? Listen to the records.
With all that said, in 2010 Los Angeles still stands and Flying Lotus's Brainfeeder record label is in a prolific infancy. More than a few talented producers have come out of the city or are making their name as apart of the Brainfeeder crew. Here are a couple of my favorite records out of that scene from this year:
Baths – Cerulean
More than a few have compared Baths to Flying Lotus when his debut, Cerulean, dropped in June. You don't have go any further than the gorgeous opening track, "Apologetic Shoulder Blades," to hear the rickety beat, yet you'll hear the immediate difference on that track as well. Baths employs his own angelic falsetto, often burying it into the samples or creating new loops from it, to create something easier described as pop amongst a sample chopped melodic aesthetic. Despite it's dreamy pop leanings, the beats provide some teeth to the whole thing that drop it into somewhat of a crossover position, satisfying indie kids and electronic fans alike.
Lorn – Nothing Else
One of the few Brainfeeder standouts, Lorn creates a little bit of trip-hop or IDM–maybe even a little dubstep. His midrangey drum loops and grinding bass tones make him an adequate addition to Brainfeeder even if he's not a Los Angeles native. Lorn provides a little more momentum than most out of the LA scene, with gorgeous percussive samples contrasted with break beats and huge synths.
Teebs – Ardour
Another faithful FlyLo/Brainfeeder acolyte, Teebs keeps things pretty simple, with a track rarely going over three minutes. The focus is on huge intricate bass kicks and lovely Dilla style snares. Both do a good job at shaking up the hazy cascading samples that can often sound more like melodic found-sound than anything chopped for beats."Pretty" is an adjective thrown around a lot when Teebs is around (it sounds like the cover art–drawn by Teebs), but like Baths, there's some undeniable weight beneath it all.
Gonjasufi – A Sufi and a Killer
It helps this record's case that the beats are provided by Brainfeeder artist, The Gaslamp Killer (FlyLo contributes the track "Ancestors" as well). Gonjasufi is best known for a guest spot on Los Angeles as one of the few vocal contributions. The LA-native's follow-up is definitely a fitting sequel to the hazed-out "Testament." Sufi's voice sounds like beautiful burnt lungs and if his name doesn't explain enough, the intro track, composed of nothing but an unaffected sample of an American Indian pow wow, certainly will. The record makes stops at Eastern-tinged pop to "I Wanna Be Your Dog" style rock.
Flying Lotus – Pattern+Grid World EP
Oh yeah, FlyLo put out an EP last month that splits the difference between his old sound and Cosmogramma. Tonally it sort of feels like a more experimental take on his "fun" 1983, Adult Swim bump music contribution days.


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Francis Russell Snell
Age 94, passed away June 20, 2018 in Desert Hot Springs, California. The youngest of three children, Russ was born September 21, 1923 in New Castle, Indiana to Elizabeth Wenz and Thomas Boliver Snell, II. His sister, Alice, and brother, Thomas, preceded Russ in death. A veteran of WWII Russ served in the 101st Airborne. He participated in the D-Day Normandy Invasion, the Market Garden Operation, and the Battle of the Bulge. Russ earned numerous accolades and medals including the Bronze Star, a Purple Heart with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Good Conduct Medal. Russ is survived by his loving wife, Marjorie Anne (Delafield-Tomlin) Snell; two daughters: Jayne and Lisa; three step-children: Robert, Richard and Tanya; eleven grandchildren; six great- grandchildren; and extended family.


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9-11 - "Living Memorial" Chapel Avenue, Cherry Hill, NJ
Cherry Hill's two-mile avenue of blossoming cherry trees can be seen on Chapel Avenue between Haddonfield Road and Kings Highway. Cherry blossoms arrive during the last two weeks of April!
The millions of cherry blossoms -- an impressive, beautiful living spectacle -- the best Cherry Hill has to offer for a solemn remembrance, prayer and tribute for the 2996 innocent victims that perished on that fateful day of September 11, 2001
Chapel Avenue is located between NJ State Hwy 38 and NJ State Hwy 70 -- easily accessible from either highways.
Above - Cherry HIll's - 9-11 "Living Memorial"
Photo reflects a two mile drive through Chapel Avenue starting with the bottom photo - at Haddonfield Road traveling East on Chapel Avenue. Next upper photo is a drive by Cherry Hill West High School, middle photo - cherry trees in front of Kennedy Memorial Hospital approaching Cooper Landing Road, next upper photo is the Knollwood section of Chapel Avenue and the top photo is at Joyce Kilmer School looking toward Kings Highway!
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Photographer: Natavan Werbock
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
On Thursday, December 15, between 8 a.m.-2 p.m., the Office of Safety and Security will be testing the fire alarms in the academic buildings. If the alarm should sound for more than a minute you will need to evacuate the building, otherwise evacuation is not required. Sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause!
What's Happening Today
The University of Evansville Suzuki Violin Students will be performing solo recitals on Tuesday, December 13, Wednesday, December 14 and Thursday, December 15 in Wheeler Concert Hall, Krannert Center for Fine Arts. The concerts begin at 6:30 p.m. each evening and are free and open to the public. In 2012 the UE Suzuki program celebrates its 40th year as part of the University and the Evansville community.
Upcoming Events
Attention all UE students! Habitat for Humanity is searching for an additional 7 students to join the group on a trip to Amman, Jordan for a build. The group will be leaving for Amman on May 11 and returning to the U.S. on May 18. If you are interested, please contact Kendra Morehead at email@example.com or Lesley Nash at email@example.com for further details.
The University of Evansville Aces Dance Team would like to invite you to our Holiday Dance Clinic on Friday, Dec. 16 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m in the Maikranz Family Gym (small gym). Children ages 4 to 12 will learn a holiday dance, receive a t-shirt, have a pizza party with the team, and play games. The dance will be preformed with the team on Saturday, Dec. 17 during the halftime show at the UE vs. Tennessee Tech game. The game starts at 1:05 p.m. Youth admission is free with a scanned QR code on the Aces Pocket Schedule. All other tickets may be purchased through the Aces Athletics Ticketing Office. Pre-registration is welcomed but will also be available at the start of the clinic. The total cost of the clinic is $25.
Please direct any questions to Coach Mariel Arata: firstname.lastname@example.com or 502-689-4085.
Info You Should Know
The last meal for the semester is dinner from 4:30-5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, December 14. The first meal back will be dinner on Sunday, January 8. Ace's Place & Jazzman's will close at 2 p.m., on Wednesday, December 14 and reopen normal hours on January 9.
Over the 2011 UE Holiday Break, UE Mail Services will pick up mail from the downtown United States Post Office and sort it on the mornings of Wednesday, December 28 and Friday, December 30 beginning at 8:00 a.m. While mail will not be delivered to campus areas over the break, any designated department representative may pick up their respective department's mail at 9:00 a.m. by making arrangements with Kim Winsett (email@example.com or extension 2940) or Doris Cook (email@example.com or extension 1067) between now and Monday, December, 19. Be sure to provide a primary contact name and phone number as well as a backup contact name and phone number.
Students who rented UrEntal books from the UE Bookstore for the Fall term are reminded that those books are due back in the Bookstore no later than Dec. 14 at 4 p.m. You may return them anytime prior to that date. Also if you bring them in during Book Buyback make sure you take your UrEntal books to the counter clearly marked as the return depot for UrEntal books. Rental books not returned by the deadline (Dec. 14) are subject to late fees and/or replacement fees. If you have any questions please contact the Bookstore.
1. Buyback in the Bookstore runs from noon on Dec. 7 to Dec. 14.
2. Please bring your student ID with you to sell your books.
3. You do NOT need your original receipt to sell books.
4. Bring all components that came with your book, it may increase the value of the book.
5. You will receive CASH ON THE SPOT .. no future credits or other craziness.
6. In general, if we have an adoption for a book for next Spring you will receive generally half of the price you paid. Other books will be paid at wholesale value which varies depending on the age of the book and its popularity.
7. Workbooks need to be clean and complete (no pages missing) to have value.
8. You may sell books back as many times as you wish during Buyback week, one at a time or in stacks.
9. We buyback books whether used or purchased on this campus or not. We FREELY quote any price and it is your option to sell.
Keep in mind during this time of the year you will receive lots of claims which may or may not be truthful. If you have any concerns or questions you can always check our prices against anyone. And remember books bought at our Buyback stay on this campus so that UE students can benefit from cheaper used prices. Also during buyback we will have daily giveaways, promotions, and offer discounts on store merchandise. All UE clothing and gift items will be 15% off BUT you can increase that discount to 20 or 25% during buyback. We will have a grand prize drawing five straight days where you can with an XBox, Wii and other prizes. You get one entry every time you sell a book (minimum $5 transaction) and it remains in the bin all week long.
The Spring 2012 booklist will be posted at the close of Buyback and will clearly list the availabillity of new, used or rental books in the store. You can then reserve your books and they will be waiting for you when you come back to school in January. If you have any questons please contact the Bookstore.
• Wednesday, December 7: 7:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
• Thursday, December 8: 7:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
• Friday, December 9: 7:45 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• Saturday, December 10: 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
• Sunday, December 11: Noon – 1:00 a.m.
• Monday, December 12: 7:45 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
• Tuesday, December 13: 7:45 a.m. – Midnight
• Wednesday, December 14: 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Thursday, December 15: 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Friday, December 16: 7:45 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
• Saturday, December 17: CLOSED
• Sunday, December 18: CLOSED
As we approach the end of the fall semester, the Office of Financial Aid would like to clarify our policies regarding students' academic performance and its connection to scholarship and financial aid renewal. The Office of Financial Aid does not monitor grades or credit hours earned after the fall semester. The stated Grade Point Average and credit-hours-earned standards that govern UE scholarships and all aid eligibility are monitored each MAY.
Therefore, if your GPA dips below the required minimum at the end of the fall semester, you have the spring semester to restore your cumulative GPA to the necessary level. Aid is neither reduced nor restored in mid-year. (The exception is a student who is using a semester of conditional financial aid for fall under a specific appeal plan.)
See the full policies for the renewal of UE Merit-based Scholarships, as well as maintaining Satisfactory Academic Progress for the renewal of all forms of aid, including federal loans. Please direct your questions to the UE Office of Financial Aid at firstname.lastname@example.com, or 1-800-424-8634 or 812-488-2364.
Congratulations to UE alumnus Jack DuArte '66, who recently published a new historical fiction novel titled Spitfire. The book is the third installment of DuArte's World War II series, which also includes The Resistance and Singapore!. DuArte's books are available online at www.jackduarte.com .
DuArte and his work have been featured in festivals such as the International Book Projects Passport to Literacy, the Kentucky Book Fair, and the Western Kentucky Book Fair.
DuArte, a Vietnam War veteran, resides in Lexington, Kentucky with his wife Susan.
Congratulations to Jessica Russell-Pope. Her two creative nonfiction pieces, "Natural Highlights" and "Black Ties" will appear in Catfish Creek, a national undergraduate literary journal of Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Jessica is a double major in creative writing and psychology and co-director of the Creative Writing Department's Student Writers of Indiana Program.
Sympathy to...
Louise White Benton, 91, Henderson, died at 9:20 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, at Redbanks nursing home. She taught harp at the University of Evansville for 33 years before retiring in 2007. She was a past member of the Evansville Philharmoni, and a life-long member of First United Methodist Church, where she was an active member of the Chancel Choir and United Methodist Women. She was preceded in death by her husband, William "Billy" Benton; one son, Boyd Benton; and her parents, George W. and Mai Korb White. Survivors include one son, Bruce Benton of Lexington; and one grandson. Services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Benton-Glunt Funeral Home. The Rev. Willard Knipp will officiate. Burial will be in Fernwood Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today and after 9 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to First United Methodist Church Choir.
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Contract Drafting for Non-Lawyers
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Herbert Wolfson
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As the business world gets more complex, ensuring smooth and uninterrupted operations coupled with long-term relationships with all parties is extremely critical. Contracts are now considered vital as they not only instill high levels of confidence in the organisation one deals with, but also save the time and effort one might face in dealing with unpredictable concerns and arguments. This course will guide you through a step by step process to understand, draft and negotiate a successful contract and at the same time ensure that the interests of your organisation are well protected. You also will strengthen your expertise to build sound contractual relationships.
Who Should Attend
This course is designed for Managers who need to negotiate contracts, terms and discounts with outside suppliers of goods and services or manage contractor performance. This will include Purchasing, Procurement, Contract, Commercial, Sales or Marketing Managers/Supervisors and staff taking up such appointments for the first time.
It will also be of benefit to those who have had little formal training in contracts, purchasing and negotiation and those who wish to consolidate their experience.
Benefits of Attending
- Understand the impact different legal systems in the Middle East have on contract drafting and interpretation
- Identify essential contract clauses, terms and conditions
- Investigate the impact of e-commerce on digital transactions and contract formation
- Discover how to work with model and template contracts
- Achieve the confidence and skills to properly review, understand and negotiate effective contracts
Course Director
Herbert S. Wolfson
Herbert S. Wolfson is an American lawyer and arbitrator who has more than 25 years of experience in the United Arab Emirates and neighbouring countries.
Over the years, Herb Wolfson has lived and worked in Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Dubai. He serves as lead counsel for multinational corporate clients and has provided expert testimony in US courts on commercial disputes governed under the UAE, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian legal systems.
Herb has published numerous articles about UAE law, including a detailed analysis (accompanied by his own English translation) of UAE Federal Law No. 4 of 2000, which established the Emirates Securities and Commodities Authority. He has a degree in law Magna cum Laude, as well as an undergraduate degree and a master's degree in Arabic, all from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2003, Herb was also the lead drafter for a new contract law for the Government of Afghanistan.
Digital Certification
Upon completion of this training course, participants will earn a digital badge.
Earners of the Contract Drafting for Non-Lawyers badge are able to review, understand, draft and negotiate a successful contract, whilst ensuring that the interests of an organisation are well protected and whilst building sound contractual relationships. They are able to understand the impact different legal systems in the Middle East have on contract drafting and interpretation, and have investigated the impact of e-commerce on digital transactions and contract formation.
Contract drafting, utilising template contracts, reviewing contracts, identifying essential contract clauses, understanding parts of a contract, negotiating contracts, understanding the legal system
- Attend and participate in the 4 full days of training course duration, led by the designated training expert, with less than 2 hours of noted absence.
- Successful completion of the course assessment
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Course fees include documentation, luncheon and refreshments for in-person learners. Delegates who attend all sessions and successfully complete the assessment, will receive a Informa Certificate of Completion. A hard copy will be provided to in-person learners and a soft-copy will be provided to virtual learners.
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We are extremely busy in the Finance Section, with many unique challenges. On Tuesday, May 6, we gathered to discuss how we can best support the lab, highlight ongoing and upcoming activities, and shine a spotlight on Payroll Department. Here are the highlights from the meeting:
- Safety is paramount. This includes physical safety, but also cybersecurity – especially when executing business transactions. The Finance Section is vulnerable to cybersecurity risk and often targeted, especially in our purchasing and payables functions. Continue to be mindful of emails and requests for urgent actions from suspicious sources.
- We are a support function and need to align and support the lab's efforts and strategic priorities. We must understand the plans, priorities and problems of the lab to be effective business partners. For example, supporting PIP-II, LBNF, DUNE, Mu2e and upgrades at the LHC are key for the success of the lab.
- We're moving toward managing with metrics for operational excellence. This includes developing key performance indicators in our area and looking at metrics to be able to understand what we do, how we do it and identify opportunities to improve.
- The Finance Section continues to focus on strengthening business processes and internal controls. This includes invoicing and better understanding the prime contract, policies and related processes.
- There are a number of key activities under way, including budget formulation and addressing PEMP notables. We have to produce a quality outcome, since it affects funding for the lab. We're making good progress on several of our PEMP notables, including rebuilding the procurement team, acquisition planning, and effectiveness measures.


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Courtney Kerr, RDN, LD
Registered Dietitian and Community Liaison
Courtney is a registered and licensed dietitian, as well as a certified yoga instructor. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Dietetics with a Dual Emphasis in Nutrition and Exercise Physiology in May of 2017. She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Missouri Dietetic Association, SCAN (Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition) dietetic practice group, and the Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitian Association. Courtney aims to assist patients in restoring flexibility, balance, and variety in their diets. She is a firm believer that everything fits in the diet in moderation and wishes to confront common misconceptions about what a "healthy" diet really looks like. Courtney joined the McCallum Place team in 2017 and works with patients in residential, partial hospitalization, and intensive outpatient settings.


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Fall is a great time to focus on garage door security
5 easy tips to keep your property safe
The change in seasons often means a change in household routines.
Different Knoxville and area school schedules mean that our kids are coming and going at different times. Between classes, practices, and hanging out with friends, distracted children sometimes forget to close the overhead garage door.
Law enforcement professionals tell us that most burglars live within a 2-mile radius of their intended targets. An open garage door can be seen as an invitation, making your home an easy target.
Consider, too, a thief actually parking their car in your garage. With the overhead door closed, they can burgle your home, hidden from view, loading their car with your possessions.
Take sensible precautions
1) Change your opener codes
Set a reminder on your family calendar to change the opener codes every few months (or as often as suits you). Simply follow directions to re-sync your remote to the powerhead. Overhead Door systems feature more than 1,000 random codes, a significant barrier for even a tech-savvycriminal.
2) Keep your opener out of sight
Just as you wouldn't leave your valuables on a car seat, keep your garage door opener hidden from passers-by. If a thief can't easily spot your opener, they will likely leave your car untouched and move onto the next. Thieves can break into closed cars, then grab the opener as well as the owner's vehicle registration or insurance card, with the home address printed right on it. Should your car ever be burgled, immediately change the codes on your overhead garage door system.
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3) Engage the slide lock
To secure the home while you are out of town, take the extra minute to lock your garage door from the inside. Just as you would deadbolt the front door, your overhead door may have a manually operated slide lock. This slider can only be accessed from inside. Upon your return, reverse the process. Your overhead door system cannot work with the slide lock in place.
No slide lock? Other options include sliding a bolt or even a padlock through a drilled hole in the track, just above the position of a roller. With the obstacle in place, the door will be unable to be raised.
4) Lock the access door
Many homeowners use the garage door as their main access, along with the connecting door to the home. Year-round, you may leave that connecting door unlocked. When securing your home, remember to lock it. Should a thief get into your garage, they will have an obstacle between them and the rest of your home.
5) Unplug the opener
An easy way to secure your garage door is to unplug the powerhead. With no power, the drive system and bullet are frozen in place, keeping the door locked and secure.
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Garage door damage can make your home vulnerable to intruders. Be vigilant and check these areas:
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Thomas Edison's greatest invention? His own fame.
At the height of his fame Thomas Alva Edison was hailed as "the Napoleon of invention" and blazed in the public imagination as a virtual demigod. Starting with the first public demonstrations of the phonograph in 1878 and extending through the development of incandescent light and the first motion picture cameras, Edison's name became emblematic of all the wonder and promise of the emerging age of technological marvels.
But as Randall Stross makes clear in this critical biography of the man who is arguably the most globally famous of all Americans, Thomas Edison's greatest invention may have been his own celebrity. Edison was certainly a technical genius, but Stross excavates the man from layers of myth-making and separates his true achievements from his almost equally colossal failures. How much credit should Edison receive for the various inventions that have popularly been attributed to him—and how many of them resulted from both the inspiration and the perspiration of his rivals and even his own assistants?
This bold reassessment of Edison's life and career answers this and many other important questions while telling the story of how he came upon his most famous inventions as a young man and spent the remainder of his long life trying to conjure similar success. We also meet his partners and competitors, presidents and entertainers, his close friend Henry Ford, the wives who competed with his work for his attention, and the children who tried to thrive in his shadow—all providing a fuller view of Edison's life and times than has ever been offered before. The Wizard of Menlo Park reveals not only how Edison worked, but how he managed his own fame, becoming the first great celebrity of the modern age.
Randall E. Stross writes the Digital Domain column for the New York Times and is a professor of business at San Jose State University. He is the author of several acclaimed books, including eBoys, Planet Google, and The Wizard of Menlo Park. He has a Ph.D. in… More about Randall E. Stross
"In The Wizard of Menlo Park, [Stross] makes a fascinating and altogether contemporary contribution to our understanding of an iconic American figure." –Los Angeles Times"Randall Stross once again reveals a keen eye for the hidden details and forgotten nuances in the lives of great men. His re-creation of the life and achievements of Thomas Edison will become the standard reference to which all historians will turn for years to come. And yet the book is written with a flair for observation that reads more like a great mystery novel than your standard biography. A must-read!"–Roderick Kramer, William R. Kimball Professor of Organizational Behavior, Stanford Business School, Stanford University
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KUWAIT- Kuwait and Saudi Arabia plan to resume oil production from their jointly-operated Khafji and Wafra oilfields on July 1, a senior Kuwaiti oil official told Reuters on Monday.
Output from Khafji oilfield, which was halted for a month, is expected to be about 80,000 barrels per day (bpd) on July 1, before rising to 100,000 bpd two month later, said Abdullah al-Shammari, deputy chief executive for finance and management at Kuwait Gulf Oil Company, which operates the field.
Production is expected to reach 175,000 bpd from Khafji field by end of the year, he added.
Wafra field will also start production on July 1, and initial output is expected at 10,000 bpd, before rising to 70,000 bpd at the end of August, and then up to 145,000 bpd by the end of 2020, said al-Shammari.
Khafji and Wafra are located in the Neutral Zone on the boundary of the two countries.
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Book Review: Stop Living in This Land, Go to the Everlasting World of Happiness, Live There Forever
Emma Cox
I have always longed for happiness since I was a child. How can I be happy? Why am I not happy being alone? I've always compared myself to others and it seemed that everyone else is happy, but only I lived unhappily. One of my acquaintances told me about this book, Stop Living in This Land… by Woo Myung. I bought this book online and started reading it.
First off, I like the title of this book. The fact that the word happiness is in the title of the book aroused my interest. As I started reading it, I started to get answers to the questions that I had about what happiness is and where happiness is. The happiness – the happy world that I was looking for – is not somewhere out of the world. And happiness doesn't come from material possessions, honor or the love that I seek out. Happiness can be felt when I empty my mind and find it within. In this book, teacher Woo Myung is able to answer all of these questions.
In my life, I thought that the words "happiness" and myself were far apart, and I kept comparing myself with others and thought I was only one who was unhappy, but the thought itself was wrong. Happiness is when I don't have any mind about happiness, and as the Bible says, God is within me and heaven is within me, there is fortune when my mind is poor (or empty). I wasn't happy because of my inferiority and because I constantly compared myself to others. It wasn't because I didn't have the same things as others.
Reading this book, I remembered studying theology in college. At that time, my professor showed us the Tora (original Hebrew Bible) and taught us the dictionary meaning of heaven. While reading this book it reminded me of what my professor taught me: even in the Hebrew dictionary, the definition of heaven is not a place but a state of one's heart, and that when I have God in me, it is living in heaven and eternal happiness.
I was ashamed of myself, 20 years after I graduated from college, I totally forgot the theological knowledge that I'd learned. I was thinking that I was always unhappy, envious of others' success, pessimistic about my own situation and chasing happiness. This book reminded me of that for the first time. I felt like going back to the times when I was young when I studied the Bible and hoped to fine Truth.
Reading this book, I experienced the message as if my mind turned to the mind of the truth. The contents of this book are stories about the truth and we often say that we read the Bible or scriptures, but each one of us has his own way of interpreting the message and no one seems to correctly interpret the Bible. Woo Myung really interprets the Bible's meaning most accurately among the people with whom I've studied.
As I read this book, I spit out things like, "This book is wonderful, it's amazing" constantly. Even now, after I've already finished reading this book, I still make time to read it over for about 10 minutes everyday. Whenever I read this book, I am happy and turn to the right mind about the truth without noticing it. It is a really interesting book.
Although this book is neither a Christian book nor a Buddhist book, I want to recommend this book to all religious people, those who really want to know the True meaning of the Bible. In this book, teacher Woo Myung gives clear answers to the questions we usually want to know such as where the world of happiness is, where God is, what is the definition of happiness and so on. It's amazing, and you're going to agree entirely with my opinion when you read this book. It's a really amazing book, the content is quite interesting and I highly recommend it to anyone reading this review.
Source: http://www.meditationusa.org/


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Here are 5 UT Vols football story lines to monitor throughout the preseason
Football time in Tennessee is less than a month away, and preseason practice is nearly here.
The Vols will begin practice on Friday ahead of their Sept. 1 season opener against West Virginia.
Here are five story lines to watch throughout preseason practice.
Who is winning Vols QB job?
Preseasons featuring quarterback competitions are always more interesting. That's the situation at Tennessee.
When spring practice ended, returning starter Jarrett Guarantano appeared to have a stranglehold on the spot. But the competition resets following the summer arrival of Keller Chryst, a graduate transfer from Stanford with 13 career starts.
How does Trey Smith look?
Smith was sidelined throughout spring practice and limited to non-practice conditioning due to an undisclosed medical condition. ESPN reported Tuesday that Smith had blood clots in his lungs. Pruitt said two weeks ago that Smith will participate in practice on Friday and be ready for the season. That's encouraging.
But given what he went through and his importance to the team — Smith was a preseason first-team All-SEC pick — he'll be worth monitoring throughout the preseason.
Plus, beyond his health, what position will Smith play? He can play guard or tackle. Where he lines up will play a role in determining the other starters.
Which summer arrivals will make an impact?
The Vols added 17 summer enrollees to the roster. Several are candidates to see playing time.
Two players worth close monitoring are tight end Dominick Wood-Anderson and defensive tackle Emmit Gooden. They are highly touted junior-college transfers who project as impact players in their first season at UT.
Who is poised for a breakout season?
The preseason offers a chance for players who aren't established names to prove their worth.
How about running back Tim Jordan or wide receiver Josh Palmer? Ty Chandler seems in line for the top tailback position, but carries will be spread around. Jordan looked the part of rotation regular in the spring game, when he rushed for 57 yards on nine carries working behind the first-string offensive line. Palmer caught only one pass last season, but the sophomore registered a game-high 77 receiving yards in the spring game.
Perhaps Baylen Buchanan breaks out as the lock-down cornerback Tennessee needs. The Vols are looking for a pair of new starters at cornerback, and Buchanan has the most experience among the candidates.
How will Vols top players returning from injury do?
Wide receiver Jauan Jennings and safety Todd Kelly Jr. didn't practice during the spring while recovering from knee surgeries. Linebacker Darrin Kirkland Jr. practiced sparingly and did not play in the spring game. Each player is a former starter who has had a big season in the past.
It's yet to be seen whether the Vols can count on these players to produce at a high level this season.
UT Vols:Projecting the depth chart for Tennessee
UT Vols:5 Tennessee Vols flying under the radar you should pay attention to this season


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I tried walking the girls together again tonight, but it didn't work. Sigh. I walked them separately and that worked out fine.
Later, they went out in the backyard and got muddy. (Again? Still?) Quincy did her usual thing of coming inside and jumping in the bathtub. The miracle occurred when Q jumped out and Cookie jumped in. Yep, for the first time I didn't have to fight Cookie to get into the tub. I tried to reinforce that behavior as much as possible. Hope it happens like that from now on. She may weigh only 40-some pounds, but it feels like more when I'm wrestling her into the tub.
So much to do to get ready for North Carolina. I'm doing laundry now. Tomorrow night is cards, and Wednesday night is choir practice. I leave really (really) early on Thursday so tonight is really the only night I have to prepare.
Knowing me, though, I'll finish late on Wednesday night. Ms. Procrastinator!


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House of Romanian Academy – 2 February 2018 ~
In view of better supporting and promoting the access of Romanian relevant stakeholders/beneficiaries to the European Funds mostly related to the bioeconomy, innovation, sustainable development, good governance, the International Honorary Chair "Jean Bart" in favour of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (CIO-SUERD), project founded by EUROLINK-House of EuropeFoundation in 2012, in partnership with the Romanian Academy, will launch at the House of the Romanian Academy, on the 2nd of February 2018, the "SMART Innovative Learning Hub". Other main Institutional Partners are: the Local Communities along the Danube River Association (CLDR), the Romanian Smart City and Mobility Association, the Professional Association for Quality in Training for Public Administration (CINAQ) and URBASOFIA Agency (Rome-Bucharest).
The above mentioned Hub will play the role catalyst and institutional lobby mechanism aimed to reunite new transnational partnerships through the participation to important European networks and projects. As Romania is placed on the last place in acceding European Funds from Programs such as Horizon2020, URBACT, UIA etc., this Hub is highly needed in this period.
Among the Special Guest Speakers we mention: from DANUBEPARKS – Network of Protected Areas – Dr. Grigore BABOIANU, Honorary Member/former Governor of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reservation; from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs – State Secretary Cristian WINZER; from the National Agency for Protected Natural Areas, President Florian UDREA; Academician Prof. Nicolae MANOLESCU, Dr.H.C. Honorary Member of the Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences. Also leading project management consultants from Italy, Germany and France will attend this meeting.
For more information, please contact the Technical Secretariat at phone/fax: 021.2304997 or e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
For conformity,
CLDR Association
Comunicat de Presă: Hub-ul "SMART Innovative Learning" a demarat în favoarea creșterii accesului României la programele complexe UE


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Main libraries
- lib/github.com/diku-dk/linalg/linalg
Small library of simple linear algebra-ish operations.
- lib/github.com/diku-dk/linalg/nmf
Non-negative matrix factorisation.
- lib/github.com/diku-dk/linalg/qr
Implementations of QR decomposition. At the moment, these are not very fast for single large matrices, but they are serviceable. Performance is quite good on "batches" on many smaller matrices (i.e. when you
mapQR decomposition), where "small" is less than 16x16 or 32x16.
Supporting libraries
- /prelude/ad
Definitions related to automatic differentiation.
- /prelude/array
Utility functions for arrays.
- /prelude/functional
Simple functional combinators.
- /prelude/math
Basic mathematical modules and functions.
- /prelude/prelude
The default prelude that is implicitly available in all Futhark files.
- /prelude/soacs
Various Second-Order Array Combinators that are operationally parallel in a way that can be exploited by the compiler.
- /prelude/zip
Transforming arrays of tuples into tuples of arrays and back again.
- lib/github.com/diku-dk/cpprandom/random
Random number generation inspired by
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Ys IX: Monstrum Nox will release in North America and Europe on PlayStation 4 on February 2021, publisher NISA confirmed today.
The ninth main entry in the action role-playing game series developed by Falcom will be released on PlayStation 4 on February 2nd, 2021. The PC and Nintendo Switch versions will come a few months later, during Summer 2021.
A new Ys IX: Monstrum Nox trailer has also been released online, focusing on combat. You can check it out below.
Protecting the city from the creatures of the Grimwald Nox will require the strength and courage of truly extraordinary fighters. Learn how to utilize your strengths, skills, and Monstrum Gifts in the heat of battle with our new trailer for Ys IX: Monstrum Nox!
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox has been confirmed for the West back in June when it was also revealed that PH3 GmbH is assisting with the development of the PC release. This should prevent the PC port from having the same issues that Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana had at launch and that took a long time to be fixed.
Renowned adventurer Adol "the Red" Christin and his companion Dogi arrive at Balduq, a city annexed by the Romun Empire, only for Adol to be detained before setting foot inside. While imprisoned, he meets a mysterious woman named Aprilis who turns him into a Monstrum, a being with supernatural Gifts and the power to exorcise monsters. Now, Adol must ally with his fellow Monstrum to fend off the fearsome threats emerging from a shadowy dimension called the Grimwald Nox, as well as unravel the mysteries of the Monstrum curse, and the truth behind the unrest within Balduq.
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox launches on PlayStation 4 in North America and Europe on February 2nd, 2021. The game will hit PC and Nintendo Switch sometime during Summer 2021.


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How To Make Events Successful On Your Lakeland Parking Lot Paving
Categories: Lakeland parking lot paving
If you want to host an event on your Lakeland parking lot paving, you will need a lot of resources to make it work. For one, a parking lot is not a suitable location for an event especially because most events need electric outlets.
Unless your parking lot is indoors, there is a big chance that you don't have that many electrical wires running under it. This means that hosting an event in your parking lot will require you to provide additional amenities.
However, that should not discourage you from planning an event in your parking lot. Since not all office buildings have a large space where they can hold events, the parking lot is still your best bet. It is still convenient to hold an event in your parking lot because of the space it provides. Parking lots are also convenient for your guests.
So, how do you market an event that is being held in your parking lot?
Don't Make It Too Formal
You cannot hold formal events in your parking lot because that will require a large canopy tent, chandeliers, flooring, carpets, and many other things. You should choose carefully the events that you would want to hold in your parking lot. The best events that you can organize for your space are farmer's markets, music events, festivals, circuses, and fun run.
These events will only require you to provide electrical sources. These electrical outlets will be used to put on lights and music equipment for the event.
Manage the Guest List
Make sure that your parking lot is sturdy enough to hold special events. If you are unsure about the stability of your parking lot, you need to manage the number of guests you will invite. For example, you should limit to 100 (or even less) the number of guests if you have a small parking lot.
On the other hand, if you have a large space, you can invite as many guests as you need and want. Of course, that is provided that you can also accommodate their vehicles.
Mind Local Regulations
Some local laws and regulations may prevent you from holding certain events in your parking lot. This is especially true if your parking lot is outdoors. You can check with your local government what permits and licenses you need to apply for when holding an event in your Lakeland parking lot paving. Not doing so might have your events halted.
So, see? Your parking lot is not only important for your customers, but for you as well. You can earn additional income from it by renting it out to event organizers and other businesses.


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This week, the Avengers are unseen almost entirely as we finally get around to what Hank Pym's been up to, as well as some awesome guest appearances from the show's ever-expanding universe.
We open on a bank vault, with money just sitting on the table, the way it does in cartoons, as the camera serenely pans around the empty room. Suddenly, the money begins to glow a bit, shrinking down past the point of visibility. The camera pans around, looking for a culprit, but finds none. At last, the lens focuses on a speck and when it zooms in, it appears to be Ant-Man, flying atop a red ant and carrying a duffle bag full of cash.
I think the theme song is dead, folks. I don't know whose decision it was, but since EMH is already facing either cancellation or creative upheaval, I'm just gonna go ahead and blame Jeph Loeb.
At the Avengers Mansion, Hank, it seems has finally returned, as Jan chats merrily around him, talking about all the things they're going to do as Avengers. He enters his lab, collecting up data and test tubes and samples and other scientific detritus and, to Jan's surprise, destroys them. Turns out, Hank's not back to rejoin the Avengers. He's leaving for good. Jan tries to get him to reconsider but he tells her he hasn't felt like an Avenger since the Ultron catastrophe (where his robots went all sentient and tried to destroy Earth and all.) The scene is decidedly very somber and Hank actually seems really depressed about the whole ordeal, there some good voice acting. (I'm usually the one going "Alright Hank, we get it. Diplomacy.") On the TV, Hank catches the story about the bank robbery and sees the security footage of his suit. He runs off without explaining anything to Jan.
At Grayson College, Hank looks around in his lab to discover that his suit has indeed been stolen, but nothing else was. He looks over a newspaper, specifically at one want ad. (Something like "Need help? Call 1-800-somethingsomething") He begins to try and figure out what to do about the thief and wonders what he must be going through right now. We see the thief enter a shady motel room, while Hank's thoughts narrate the scene. The thief finds that the money he stole has now completely disappeared. The man doesn't quite have control over the Pym particles yet and shrinks down into the dirty carpet. Once there, he's accosted by giant ants and finds that he has super-strength to fight them, or well, normal human strength that is not proportional to his tiny size. He learns how to use the ant-speak helmet and sets off into the night on another ant.
Cutting back to Hank, it now seems he's explaining the situation to an unseen party, about how he can't let his work hurt other people and asks "Will you take the case?" He turns to none other than the Heroes for Hire themselves, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.
(I squealed like a teen girl at a One Direction concert.)
On the streets, the thief rides down the street with another bag of cash, only to be sniffed out and accosted by a security dog. He bolts and leaves the cash behind. In an alleyway, Luke and Danny are monitoring the situation at the bank, which is under heavy security, and also just being really cool. Apparently the bank is a front for Hydra, and they both wonder if the thief even figured that one out. Danny asks why Hank would go to them, when he's supposed to be on the Avengers. "I don't get it." he says. "I do. Man's got pride." Luke responds. After some more banter about how Luke's too angry and probably something about Danny's costume, Danny realizes, with a grin, "We're working with the Avengers." Meanwhile, back at his lab, Hank's having a good-old fashioned freakout about what this could potentially mean for his career. Many test tubes are smashed. In case this show made you forget, Hank Pym can be kind of a dark dude. One important development here is that Hank catches sight of another insect: a yellowjacket wasp.
Luke and Danny find some D-List supervillains lurking further down the alley, and realize that they've been waiting not just to apprehend someone, but apprehend a superhero. They get in a fight, in which the show quickly showcases their powers in neat, witty ways: Luke barely has to do much work while the villains exhaust themselves trying to break his skin and Danny shows off his martial arts prowess. After the fight, Luke and Danny run into none other than the Ant-Thief. A fight ensues, although the thief insists he doesn't want to fight them at all, and manages to escape.
The thief returns to his hotel room only to find Luke, Danny and Hank close behind. He finally gets the helmet off and Hank realizes, to his shock, that he knows the man. His name is Scott Lang and he works as a janitor at Grayson College. (Marvel fans, you know this dude and his story.) Scott begins to explain: He used to be an electrical engineer, until he fell in with the wrong crowd and used his prowess to perform bank robberies, even though he had a family. He stole money to help his daughter Cassie, who had a serious heart condition and was caught, doing three years in prison. When he got out, he couldn't find work and got hired as a janitor at the college. But now his old partner wants the cut he lost when Scott went to prison and even worse, he's kidnapped Cassie. Scott's old partner is none other than William Cross, and he was responsible for the goon squad that Luke and Danny fought earlier. (Somewhat unrelated note: During this monologue, there's a really great shot of Hank looking into a fractured mirror. That always portends something.)
At Cross's hideout, we see him threatening an adorable little blonde girl, namely, Cassie Lang (she of future Young Avengers fame) as they wait for Scott's ransom money. But of course, Scott's brought the cavalry, namely, the Heroes for Hire and Hank bringing up the rear. When one of them asks who they are, Luke flatly replies "We're the Avengers. I'm Captain America. My friend in the pajamas is Thor." Scott's still in the Ant-Man suit and an epic fight ensues between our heroes and a bunch of wacky villains whose names I cannot be bothered to look up, there were too many of them. Hank uses the Pym particles to get Cassie out of Cross's clutches. The fight is finished, our heroes win and Scott and Cassie are reunited. Scott offers to turn himself in, but everyone's pretty okay with him getting away with it, especially Hank, who gives the Ant-Man suit to Scott for good.
Well kids, what can I say? I loved this episode, which is weird considering…well, the Avengers weren't even in it, save a Wasp cameo. I can't lie and say that Hank was ever my favorite character, although I appreciate the moral argument he always brought to the trigger-happy team, and considering we haven't seen him all season, his departure, however long it lasts, from the team felt genuinely earned, like it was a real fracture instead of just a throwaway moment. When you compare Hank now from where he was at the very start of the show: there seems to be a real arc here. Hank never wanted to be a superhero, but he tried it, and even though he's good at it, it still blew up in his face, and he's still really really depressed, and even angry about it. (Needless to say, you remove one trademark facet from Hank's character for the purposes of kid's TV and he becomes a lot more sympathetic. You know what I mean.) It doesn't feel like "Hank is qutting the Avengers for the billionth time" because the plot needs that, it feels that way because that's who the character is. I always got the idea that Hank is a mad scientist in training, as his dark freak-out in his lab would suggest, but he got waylaid by his superhero girlfriend's goodness and his own moral compass. Hank Pym never quite figured out how to be a hero but could never be a proper villain.
This episode reminded me a lot of film noir, with the beautifully rendered animation of the shady hotel and Luke and Danny's back-alley fights, the way they stood around cooly surveying the scene and chatting, as opposed to the tense muscular fronts we're used to seeing from the Avengers. The narration and animation of Scott learning to use the Ant-Man suit was particularly well done and I was glad to see it from EMH, because animation quality is the first thing to go on this show. It had a slow build, nothing very explosive on the plot scale, but good character stuff, and some new faces.
While my affections for Hank waver constantly, I will always get excited to see Luke Cage and Danny Rand in any capacity, although it's odd to see them so serious here after watching their teen selves in 'Ultimate Spider-Man'. I'll never not love their partnership, their powers and personalities, which are on opposite ends of the spectrum, and I really hope they show up again and soon and often. (Or give them their own show. I'd watch it and love it.) And Scott Lang! Forever Marvel's least shady Ant-Man. I look forward to seeing him take on the helm of Ant-Man and possibly join Earth's Mightiest. Well done with this one, EMH. I had my doubts after last week's okay-at-best run-in with the Kree, but they really delivered here, giving us an electric script and gorgeous visuals. What did you think of the episode?
If you missed the previous episode be sure to read our 'Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes Welcome To The Kree Empire' recap to catrch up.


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Learn the steps I'm taking to reduce wasted fabric and other textile materials here at Tangible Culture and get a sneak peek at one of the quilts that will be available soon in my forthcoming Etsy shop! Read more →
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Article 3363 by Dave Sindelar
Viewing Date: 9-16-2010
Posting Date: 10-29-2010
Directed by John A. Bushelman
Featuring John Ireland, Beverly Bain, Cliff Fields
Country: USA
What it is: Psycho-killer, sleazy style
A tortured artist is under suspicion for the murder of a model. Meanwhile, his wife is being terrorized by a strange woman in sunglasses.
The second I saw the woman in the sunglasses, I pretty much knew the general arc of the story, and nothing the movie did from that moment on surprised me. In place of coming up with an interesting variant to a familiar story, the movie fills itself with sleaze (lots of topless women), plays up the artist's sexual hangups (among other things, he's into sadism and voyeurism; he pays women to make out in front of him while he breaks down in tears from shame and guilt) caused by having witnessed his mother making love to a man other than her husband. Some plot descriptions of this one talk about a woman coming back from the dead, though I didn't see notice anything to support that story line, but then, the movie is just muddled enough that maybe it just failed to clearly establish that the woman in the sunglasses was supposed to be dead. Unless you're into sleaze or find the sexual hang-ups fascinating (I find them silly and overdone here), there will be little to hold your interest.


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Favorite 80's Creatures I Love And Introduced To My Kid
80's Creatures I Love
If your favorite and unusual creatures from the '80s battled it out, who would you want to win? If the battle were between Gizmo, ET, and Alf, it would be hard to choose a favorite! You remember these alien creatures from our favorite movies Gremlins, E.T., and television show Alf. Most humans usually fear unknown creatures, but instead, Gizmo, E.T., and Alf cast a love spell over us despite their funny looks. I am having a hard time trying to decide which I would pick since I love them all. Even my family and I introduced my son to these 80's creatures I grew up loving. But I do have a fond memory of Alf since I grew up watching his show with my family. His witty remarks and always trying to eat the family cat when he has a chance. We remember Gizmo for his cute baby babble, E.T. when he got drunk from one beer, and Alf for his witty remarks. Pick who your favorite 80's creature is the poll down below.