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President Trump holds a rally in Ohio
President Trump launched an unusual story about two of his predecessors – former President Abraham Lincoln and former President and General General Ulysses S. Grant.
Trump said that Lincoln is a phobia & # 39; had developed against General General Robert E. Lee, who by Trump had a "big general". was named, and that Lincoln sought Lincoln Grant, who was born in Ohio, to defeat Lee.
Trump also referred to Grant & # 39; s alleged drinking problem. He added that Grant "is finally recognized as a great general".
This is what Trump told the crowd in Ohio:
"It also gave you a general who was incredible, he drank a little too much, you know what I'm talking about right? So Robert E. Lee was a great general. And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia. He could not beat Robert E. Lee.
He was crazy. I do not know if you know this story. But Robert E. Lee won the fight after the fight after the fight. And Abraham Lincoln came home, he said, "I can not beat Robert E. Lee." And he had all his generals, they looked good, they were the best in their class at West Point. They were the best people. There is only one problem: they did not know how to win. They did not know how to fight. They did not know how.
And one day it looked bad. And Lincoln only said: & # 39; You, & # 39; he hardly knew his name. And they said, "Do not take him, he has a drinking problem." And Lincoln said: "I do not care what problem he has. You are not winning. & # 39;
And his name was Grant. General Grant. And he went in and he beat hell out of everyone. And you know the story. They said to Lincoln: "You can no longer use him, he is an alcoholic." And Lincoln said, "I do not care if he's an alcoholic, frankly, give me six or seven like him." He started to win. Grant really did it – he had a serious problem, a serious drinking problem, but he was a good general. And he is finally recognized as a great general.
But Lincoln had almost developed a phobia because he had a hard time with a really great hunter, a great General Robert E. Lee.But Grant came up with it. Grant is a great general and Grant came from here. & # 39; | {
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Hey friends! In addition to the above-mentioned new Noon Fifteen video (one more forthcoming to complete the Volume 1 video album), lots of chances to catch me playing music in the near future — both in person and in the digital domain.
Two of my projects will feature on the premiere season of a new podcast called Ithaca Is Music, which will be a combination of live performance and behind-the-songs storytelling by local artists. Subscribe to the podcast (Apple/Google) to hear the episodes when they air. If you’re in the Ithaca area, you can attend the live performances free of charge on Thursdays at 7pm at Lot 10 on Cayuga Street in Ithaca.
June and July are packed with live performances, all of which are listed on samuelblupowitz.com. I’m spending a lot of time in the recording studio as well, so you can count on hearing about the results here, too.
Thanks as always for reading, and for keeping up with me. I hope all is well with you, too. Drop me a line and let me know what’s going on (musical or otherwise).
Hello friends! The beginning of 2018 has been fairly restful, musically, and I’m excited for another creative year.
Tonight, Friday, February 9th, I’m playing a special show at The Range in Ithaca, NY with Thru Spectrums, featuring many special guests. A lot of my extended musical family will be joining in and singing over the course of the evening. Looking forward to it tremendously. Music starts at 9:30, and it’s free!
On the heels of Noon Fifteen’s debut record release this past December, and our accompanying podcast and videos, we’re gearing up for more activity this year as we welcome our new drummer into the fold. We’ll be debuting our new (old) friend at Atlas Bowl in Trumansburg, NY on Monday, February 19th. Music starts at 6pm with Citizen O’Kane, and we’re up not long after.
I’ve also been in the studio recording some music by singer/songwriter Joe Gibson, a hidden treasure of the Ithaca music scene. I’m looking forward to releasing that later this year.
Looking ahead, March will kick off with performances by Julia Felice and the Whiskey Crisis (at reasonable hours for grown-ups!) and more from Noon Fifteen and Thru Spectrums. More on that soon.
Later this year, in addition to performing with my main projects, I’m excited to do some stripped-down duo shows with Mandy, as well as some piano/percussion performances with my buddy J.P. Feenstra. More on that when we get closer — it will be a really fun opportunity to pound a piano and sing my own songs again, especially with J.P. adding his signature flavor. There will be improvisation, and possibly a samba whistle.
Other than that, look forward to more videos, podcast episodes, and (of course) recorded music as the year goes on. Things are good on the creative front. I imagine I’ll stay pretty busy… especially with Mandy and me getting hitched in October.
More news to come. Gigs and other news will be posted at samuelblupowitz.com. Thanks as always for reading!
Cheers,
Ten Square Miles
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SEC Charges RIA With Fraud for Paid Investment Recommendations
WASHINGTON -- An investment advisory firm is facing fraud charges in connection with an undisclosed compensation arrangement the advisors allegedly maintained with their broker involving a set of mutual funds they were recommending to clients.
The SEC claims that over an eight-year period, the Houston-based Robare Group netted $440,000 in payments from a broker for persuading clients to invest in the funds in question, amounting to a clear conflict of interest that the co-owners of the firm failed to disclose.
"Payments to investment advisors for recommending certain types of investments may taint their ability to provide impartial advice to their clients," Marshall Sprung, co-chief of the SEC Enforcement Division's Asset Management Unit, said in a statement. "By failing to fully disclose its agreements with the brokerage firm, Robare Group deprived its clients of important information they were entitled to receive."
The SEC notes that the Robare Group and its co-owners, Mark Robare and Jack Jones, disclosed the compensation arrangement with the broker in December 2011 -- but says the firm did not acknowledge the full extent of the quid pro quo by denying that the firm received non-client income for providing investment advice. The SEC alleges that the broker paid the Robare Group a percentage of every dollar the RIA's clients invested in the mutual funds in question.
Robare and Jones did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The Robare Group, which does business as Robare & Jones Asset Managers, is an independent asset management firm catering to retirees, which account for about 85% of its client base, according to the firm's website. The practice counts around 350 separately managed accounts totaling about $150 million in assets under management. Both Robare, the firm's founder and principal, and Jones are CFPs.
'WARNING MESSAGE'
The cease-and-desist order that the SEC issued on Tuesday is the latest action from the commission in an initiative to root out undisclosed compensation arrangements that could influence the investment advice that investors receive from their advisors.
The SEC put the advisory world on notice when it issued its 2014 examination priorities in January, citing "compensation arrangements for the advisor, with a particular focus on undisclosed compensation arrangements and their effect on recommendations made to clients" as one of the chief conflicts that the staff would be looking for as they conducted evaluations of practices.
"This is another warning message to all investment advisors that the SEC is serious about breaches of fiduciary duty when an advisor fails to disclose conflicts of interest," says Duane Thompson, senior policy analyst at the fiduciary training firm fi360.
The SEC did not identify the broker involved in the alleged compensation arrangement with the Robare Group. A spokesman for the commission cited a policy of not disclosing the names of "uncharged entities" in public charging documents.
On its website, the Robare Group states that it offers securities through Triad Advisors. A Triad spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the SEC would not confirm that Triad was the broker in question.
FEE ARRANGEMENT
The SEC's order details provisions in a servicing fee agreement between the Robare Group and its broker. That agreement included a fee schedule whereby the broker would pay the RIA between two and 12 basis points for clients' investments in eligible no-transaction fee mutual funds that were mostly unaffiliated with the broker, but available through the broker's platform.
"Thus, under the Servicing Fee Agreement, the Broker paid Robare Group a percentage of every dollar that Robare Group's clients invested in NTF mutual funds unaffiliated with [the] Broker," the SEC's order alleges. "The percentage amount the Broker paid pursuant to the Servicing Fee Agreement increased when the amount of client assets Robare Group placed into eligible NTFs reached specified levels."
That agreement was in place from 2004 through 2012, when it was revised to a payment of 10 basis points on clients' investments in eligible NTF funds. The Robare Group assumed responsibility in those agreements for making the requisite disclosures about the compensation arrangement, which the SEC charges were missing from the firm's Form ADV filings and from other communications with clients.
The Robare Group and its co-owners, each facing charges of violating the Investment Advisers Act, will have 20 days from the service of the SEC's order to formally respond. The commission would then convene a public hearing within one to two months of serving the order.
Thompson of fi360 suggests that the arrangement between the Robare Group and its broker, as described in the SEC's order, does not inherently run counter to the advisor's fiduciary duty. But, as with so many instances of conflicted advice, the chief error appears to have been the failure to disclose the full extent of the relationship and the monetary incentives in play.
"With regard to the overall advisor community, I don't think this kind of enforcement issue poses a problem if an advisor fully discloses all indirect compensation arrangements, or simply avoids them altogether," Thompson says. "Of course, the SEC flagged this as a problem at the beginning of the year, so that alone suggests there have been more than a few incidents of this type and advisors who do accept third-party compensation need to ensure that the client is fully informed and understands the conflict."
Kenneth Corbin is a Financial Planning contributing writer in Washington. | {
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If cap and trade is meant to solve our climate crisis, why does the bill include funding to understand climate change?
Section 451 of the Waxman-Markey cap and trade legislation includes funding to research the effects of “human-induced or natural changes in the global environment (including alterations in climate, land productivity, oceans or other water resources, atmospheric chemistry, biodiversity, and ecological systems) that may alter the capacity of the Earth to sustain life.” The government will pay for five-year reports on scientific knowledge regarding climate change and how various resource capacities are affected by it (Sec. 451).
The bill also establishes a National Climate Service to “advance understanding of climate variability and change at the global, national, regional and local levels,” among other climate change-related functions (Sec. 452, b1). Provisions for a report that will identify “specific needs for new climate products to be delivered by each Federal agency and its partner organizations,” as well as “potential user groups and stakeholders that may be served by expanding climate products and services” (Sec. 452, d2B(iii-iv)). It also creates a “Natural Resource Climate Change Adaptation Panel,” composed of the heads of various related government agencies, to serve as a forum for interagency consultation on the national resource climate change adaptation strategy.
A few things are certain. The verdict on climate change is quite uncertain. A recent BBC News article notes that “for the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.” The long-term trend of increasing temperatures is something to study, as is climate change in its entirety. If climate change is going to cause dramatic sea level rises or a new ice age, whether it’s human-induced or not, a changing climate could be a major problem. But it’s not right now and there’s no near-term imminent danger that would justify an expensive response, which most Americans seem to understand according to recent polling.
Indeed, it seems that they are seeing right through the façade of global warming alarmism. The American public requires more than overplayed claims by Vice President Gore that global warming not only caused Hurricane Katrina but that Katrina was itself evidence that we were entering a new era of deadly hurricanes. Despite these assertions, the hurricane seasons in 2006-09 have, by most measures, been quite normal. As Heritage energy and environment expert Ben Lieberman often states, everything that you hear about global warming that sounds terrifying is not true, and what is true is not particularly terrifying. The public gets this, which is why global warming ranks low as a priority of issues for Congress to address.
Studying the climate is worthwhile and Waxman-Markey would be an acceptable bill if it solely included these provisions for the world to better understand climate change. But pairing it with a costly cap and trade system, along with countless other problematic provisions, as the world recognizes that the scientific debate over global warming is far from over is not the solution to the nation’s dwindling climate concerns. | {
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The 18-count (amended) charge is punishable under sections 97 and 315 of the Penal Code Act Cap 532, Laws of the Federal Capital Territory.
The suspects had earlier been arraigned alongside convicted pension thief John Yusuf before Justice Mohammed Talba.
However, as a result of that uproar that greeted the sentence meted out to Yusuf, the EFCC withdrew the trial of the remaining suspects from Justice Talba.
Justice Talba sentenced Yusuf to two years imprisonment, but gave him the option of a N750,000 fine.
The sentence infuriated many and drew uncomplimentary remarks both from within and outside the country against the judiciary.
The development caused the trial of the alleged pension thieves to be re-assigned to Justice Hussain Baba.
Count one of the amended charge alleged that the suspects conspired between January 2008 and June 2011, to do an illegal act, to wit: criminal breach of trust in respect of N20.155 billion, an offence punishable under Section 97 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Laws of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nigeria 2007.
The accused persons pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
The court fixed their trial for June 3 and 4, 2013.
Justice Talba said the bail granted the accused persons by the former judge should continue to run since they had complied with the conditions.
“In the same vein, the sixth accused (Attang) is granted bail on the same terms and conditions with other accused persons,” the judge said.
The indication given by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), not to oppose bail application, bearing in mind the fact that the case was transferred cleared the way for the accused person temporary freedom.
Justice Baba adjourned to June 3 and 4 for trial.
Outside the courtroom, a big drama was on. Relations of one of the suspects — Mrs Onyegbula—beat up some journalists trying to take her photograph after the proceedings.
Those manhandled include Femi Ipaye (TheNews), Jide Oyekunle (Daily Independent) and Rotimi Ósasona of National Mirror.
Let us all pray to the almighty God that true justice will be delivered this time around. Let us also pray that President jonathan will not grant state pardon to those found guilty even if they are from his village.
John
WHY IS THAT THEY DID NOT USE RELIGION IN THIS DEAL?
mbukar
John you got it right. Religion is not the problem is the greed and lawlessness. We should know that we have common enemy i.e class
jameselijah
Good pick! Religion is just an instrument they bring up when they quarrel about the sharing pattern for the loot which is the Nigerian state. The Nigeria handed to us by the colonialists is everyman for himself, God for us all. So the ruling elites of the tribes are doing kill and divide because NOBODY believes in this forced marriage where no marriage contract was ever signed regulating how we are to behave in the matrimonial home! Did you not notice how the relations of the woman pension thief were fighting to protect their benefactor? As far as they are concerned, she has done absolutely nothing wrong! That is the summary of Nigeria!
Coco-Bassey,Esu
where were policemen to arrest those relatives of madam looter,they suppose to hide their face in shame,if d journalist cannot get her face in d court,they can get from his office file and let see her thieving face and beside i know it will b business as usual,they continue to get bail and adjournment till 2029 since part of d money as pump into 2011 election campiegn
Tola
Can something good come from Jonah’s administration? I doubt it. This is a retrogressive govt I have ever seen. As usual, they’ll be let off the hook by giving them ridiculous judgment. Sell-out Abati & Basket-mouth Okupe would go online to defend the action again. Cluelessness is their watchword.
uraloman
Pls pay police retiree with what you have recovered from those thieves so far they are dying, you in authority remember Gods judgement that await you .
Ukah Augustine Obaah
The case if not messed up by the prosecution’s lack of tactics and intelligence will be concluded to the satisfaction of the Nigerians and the Nigerian state.
Kunle
Business as usual. This government should take the issue of corruption seriously. Amend the laws – I mean capital punishment shd be melted out to dos found guilty. This will deter people from this devilish act, its killing us all.
Nathan
This is another script being acted out. Get ready for pension thief part 2. Madoff’s case was resolved on record time. In Nigeria, steal big and buy your way through.
It is only when the punishment metted on this corrupt politicians is comeasurable with their crimes then, shall we (NIGERIANS) see a difference. If a man steal N1m nd he is asked to pay N50,000 fine for what he stole, you (THE COURT) are indirectly encouraging him to steal more.
anonymous
Even in their best moments, these armed robbers would not appear better than this; they look unfazed. However their true ages appear to be showing on them with this problem. They should be kept permanently; while Thief Ufoma Cyril Attang pastors their den of robbers as they buy and sell. Oles!
anonymous
If Onyegbula knows she doesn’t like medals, she should not have participated in this shameful olympics. Now that she has won “laurels”, she becomes a public property. Her pictures must be taken unfettered. Its just like Ufoma Cyril Attang refusing to be video-taped while preaching lies and fraud to her followers. Until this divine rejection, no one would know her heart as she smiles to kleihlight. They should ALL submit willingly to camreas. The public they robbed want to see their robbers. Esai has been long and deep-necked in this business.
With all these ugly developments happening here and there within every facet of Nigerian economy,it will not be false if i conclude that there is no govt in Nigeria but all we have is a set of day light robbers imported into the country by the devil and for the purpose of killing the good glory of Nigeria and her real citizens.Looking at the whole things,you will find out nothing is working in Nigeria.Our system is messed up and the unstoppable insect called corruption has dominated every place.From home to church,from church to every corner of the Nigerian society.Infact,it is very unfortunate and injurious to the human race that people are suffering hugely in the midst of plenty.But despite the present predicament of Nigeria,i am sure one thing is certain.God shall liberate Nigeria and the real Nigerians from their enemies soon and all the perpetrators of injustice and mega corruption shall vanish from this able country in jesus name
Nigeria should treat pen robbers in the same manner as gun robbers because both are criminal offense of armed robbery. If legal punishment for gun robbery is death penalty so it should be for pen robbery. We Nigerians hope that the corrupt Nigeria legal system will render reputable justice this time. I personally pity this Nigeria. God help us get reed of these criminals. | {
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Ambassador Hills. Vaughan, Ontario Your Personal Tour
March 29, 2015
Ambassador Hills is a relatively new area, in fact, neighborhood construction only started with standalone homes in 2000-2001. Between 2000 and 2001, the average selling price for the lot was around $150,000 – $170,000 per lot. Keep in mind that this does not include an actual built home. Depending on the size of the lot, the developer than started to sell the homes within the 400,000 – $600,000 price range. The price depended on the size of the home and the size of the lot.
One of the benefits of buying into Ambassador Hills is the fact that no two homes are the same. Each of the homes is custom built. Especially considering the lot sizes, most may regard this as a luxury property area. The minimum size is 70 feet, the maximum about 200 feet. The lot is at least 100 feet deep and the most we have seen is around 300 feet.
It is possible to find a number of different options in the area. These may range from bungalows to two-story homes. The square footage of the homes is anywhere upwards of 2,000 square feet, all the way to 5,000 square feet. This should accommodate even the largest families.
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MH-212 Reaching Quiet - In The Shadow Of The Living Roomwhy? and odd nosdam, two-thirds of the cLOUDDEAD dirt-hop massive, have produced a full-length of catchy bits that each maintain the mystique of a hidden track. A year in the life of two art school dropouts, In The Shadow Of The Living Room finds the obsessive-compulsive duo fighting demons from the bedrooms of their parent's suburban homes. why?'s lyrics read like a list of secrets the world is keeping from itself; odd nosdam's production echoes the slow and low ghost of lo-fi past. Their first full-length release nearly killed them; it's the sound of Edison's ghost, a player piano, and a drum machine broadcast over a Ham radio; or Daniel Johnston and the Ghetto Boys rolling deep in a '57 Chevy with the top down in the dead of winter.
Full of the joy of creating and exploring - All Music Guide / Add this to your arsenal - Tokion / There are so many wonderful beats and sample constructions here that I really have to recommend it - Aiding & Abetting / A fascinating piece of work – Dusted / To be idealised by shoe-gazers and utterly confused by hardrocks for sure - Hip-Hop Connection
This is what happens when you finally drop out of art school and go on a strict diet of cough syrup... you fucking snap, and before you know it, you make a record that is a giant sample fart and jerk-off fest but you don't care because the end product smells as good as it feels. Still with me? Didn't think so... because it's more of a "we're too smart for our own good" sound collage. But what's really frustrating about In the Shadow of the Living Room is that it works. Reaching Quiet is why? and odd nosdam (aka 2/3 of cLOUDDEAD). Is it starting to make sense now? You should own this record. In fact you should own this record and play it while you're also playing the Songs in the Key of Z compilation while watching Cooley High, and then it will all make sense. - Heckler | {
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These Women Made History
The Arlington Public Library has a new digital collection chronicling local women's achievements.
Suffragist Gertrude Crocker. Courtesy of the Center for Local History, Arlington Public Library
In 1920, Gertrude Crocker, a noted suffragist and treasurer for the National Woman’s Party, opened the Little Tea House on Arlington Ridge Road. In the years that followed, the famed restaurant (which closed in 1963) would welcome the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart. It was also one of the first Arlington establishments to allow racially mixed groups to dine together.
Crocker is just one of the pioneering women—along with figures such as Monopoly game inventor Elizabeth Magie and WETA founder Elizabeth Campbell—included in the new digital collection Women’s Work, in the Arlington Public Library’s Center for Local History. Set to be unveiled on March 20, the collection chronicles the stories of pivotal females in Arlington’s history through archival documents, letters, oral histories and photographs. “This year is the year of the woman,” says Center manager Judith Knudsen. “It makes [this resource] more important than ever.”library.arlingtonva.us/center-for-local-history | {
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The Man Booker Prize
I have not followed the Man Booker prize before, or any literature prize prior to my enjoyment of reading this year’s Women’s Prize for fiction. As with the Woman’s Prize I am going to try and read the shortlist before the winner is announced in October. The short list won’t be announced till September, so right now I am playing guesswork. I find it disappointed that there are only three female authors on the longlist, and only two woman on the all white judging panel. I could reflect on this further, however, Naomisums my feelings perfectly. Especially in regards to the argument put forward that this is about great fiction, not positive discrimination. Which, when reading Naomi’s post, you can’t help but question.
Frustrations aside, I am excited to read quite a few of the books on the longlist, which is as follows:
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, Karen Joy Fowler
The Blazing World, Siri Hustvedt
How to be Both, Ali Smith
To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanagan
J, Howard Jacobson
The Wake, Paul Kingsnorth
The Bone Clocks, David Mitchell
The Lives of Others, Neel Mukherjee
Us, David Nicholls
The Dog, Joseph O’Neill
Orfeo, Richard Powers
History of the Rain, Niall Williams
I was surprised by the addition of David Nicholls, as a big fan of One Day I am excited to read it. First on my to-read list are The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt, History of the Rain by Niall Williams, and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. For no other reason that they interested me, and they are published. I’m not sure I can sit patiently and wait till September for either Nicholls book or The Bone Clock by David Mitchell. With their nominations I wonder their publication dates will be pulled forward.
I was disappointed to see there were only three women on the longlist too. I haven’t read any of the books on the longlist yet – I think I’ll probably read We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves first because I’ve read good reviews. It’s a shame that some of the books aren’t published yet! Looking forward to reading your thoughts on the books.
I’ll be posting my first reviewon History of the Rain tomorrow, it was good, but not what I expected from a Booker long lister. I’m looking forward to We are all Completely Beside Ourselves now, hoping for good things.
I’m so far behind, I’m still catching up with the 2009 longlist 🙂 Some really good writers on the list, though, so I’m sure you’ve got some great reading experiences ahead of you between now and October, Alice!
I’m disappointed with that lack of women and the lack of diversity, but there do seem to be more readable books than some years. And I’m particularly pleased to see Niall Williams, whose writing I love.
You’re right Fleur, there is a distinct lack of diversity too. But, as you’ve said perhaps it’s a more readable list. History of the Rain was certainly readable, although not what I expected to be nominated. I’ll definitely want to read some of his other books now though, I can see why you love his writing.
I’m SO delighted that the Karen Joy Fowler book is on the shortlist. It was one of my very favorites last year, so it’s great to see it getting recognized like this. I hope you read it soon! I hope you love it!
I gave up on literary prizes when I realised that they are just marketing campaigns. I did try and read the Booker shortlist a few years ago but most of the books that year were fairly ordinary and some were downright disappointing. I don’t like the idea of the Booker being open to Americans authors. I think publishers just want to use the prize for publicity in the UK. Literary prize culture is fairly warped, if you ask me. It’s more about selling the writer to the public and building his or her ‘brand’ to enhance sales of current and future books than it is about rewarding excellence in writing. Good luck with your reading. I hope there are some decent books in this crop of nominees. | {
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The real purpose of Weibo’s action was to tackle web scrapers who take data or content for use elsewhere without permission, according to Joe Simone, director of SIPS, a China IP specialist with offices in Shanghai and Hong Kong. Weibo “is trying to create a better paper trail for denying scrapers,” he told Bloomberg BNA. | {
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Google Not Playing “Content Farms”
Google, we thank you. In a world where it’s easy to dislike the big and powerful, you continue to give us even more reasons to like you.
I’m sure before the Yankees were winners, or back when Wal-Mart only had one store—they were loved. They were the greatest thing since Bell Telephone.
But as we do with so many teams and companies and celebrities—the bigger and more successful you become, the more skeptical we Americans become toward you.
Google could easily rest on it’s billion-dollar laurels. But they don’t. The same company that just gave us the most-played guitar in the history of the world has now given us some online peace of mind as well. Google has developed a new search engine ranking algorithm called Panda 2.2, which will help those doing legitimate SEO fight the constant battle against content farms.
Content farms are back-alley businesses that hire writers to do nothing more than write popular buzzwords into poorly-written articles and headlines. They mislead internet searchers into finding sites that won’t have any useful information for them—wasting their time, but adding to the traffic data that those misleading sites can use to give value to their advertising sales.
To learn more about this practice and what Google has created to fight it, I invite you to read The New York Times’ Virginia Heffernan, who writes a great opinion piece about this subject this week:“Google’s War on Nonsense†| {
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High Performance Ruby on Rails and MySQL
MySQL is among the fastest relational databases commonly available today; unfortunately, the database alone is only part of the picture. For today’s web applications, the one weak link in the entire performance chain – from the network to the web application and ending in the database – can cause an entire application to seem slow.
Unfortunately, Ruby on Rails on exacerbates this problem: Rails makes it easy to develop complicated web applications fast, but it also makes it easy to access your databases in an extremely inefficient manner. Thousands of queries may be generated when just a few are necessary. Even if you can get past that problem, ActiveRecord itself can be a problem: it may create thousands or even millions of objects, and in many situations – such as bulk loading or updating data – this can cause a serious performance problem. Replacing ActiveRecord in key situations can result in the length of batch process going from days to minutes.
This talk will demonstrate the following for your attendees:
What kind of performance problems am I likely to run into with Rails?
How can I tell if Rails is responsible for my performance problems?
What specific techniques can I use to reduce the number of queries and the size of ActiveRecord objects returned?
What are some real world examples of ActiveRecord speedup using these techniques?
David Berube
Berube Consulting
David Berube is a Ruby developer, trainer, author, and speaker. He’s used both Ruby and Ruby on Rails for several years, starting in 2003 when he became a Ruby advocate after he wrote about the language for Dr Dobb’s Journal. He is the author of “Practical Ruby Gems,” “Practical Reporting with Ruby and Rails”, and the coauthor of the book “Practical Rails Plugins.”
His professional accomplishments include creating the Ruby on Rails engine for The Casting Frontier, which has been used to cast commercials for companies ranging from AT&T and Bank of America to Verizon and Wal-Mart. If a commercial has been cast with digital auditions recently, it probably used his code to do it. He also worked with ThoughtBot (www.thoughtbot.com) on the Rails engine that powers Sermo America’s Top Doctor contest. Additionally, he has worked on numerous other Ruby projects, including the engine powering CyberKnowHow’s BirdFluBreakingNews site.
David’s journalism has been in print in over 65 countries, in magazines such as Linux Magazine, Red Hat Magazine, Dr Dobb’s Journal, and PHP International Magazine. He’s also taught college courses and given lectures at various colleges and universities, notably including Harvard University’s Extension School. | {
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Chipotle
Serves meat, vegan options available. Fast food chain where you could customize your order (tacos, burritos, bowls) and request no cheese/dairy. Some of its locations offer a soyfrito filling that's made from soy protein. Be sure to ask for plant based protein. Open Mon-Fri 11:00am-11:00pm, Sat 11:00am-10:00pm.
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I feel dirty going here. So much death here. Popular place among meat eaters who seem to get given as much meat as they want. Also, at more or less the same price as the veggie option, which makes it feel like a rip off.
Cheap, tasty, filling vegan burritos, tacos, and bowls. Unlike Chipotles in the US, this one didn't label their beans as being cooked with dead pig or not, so we got the black beans and hoped for the best (they tasted clean). We didn't find many vegan restaurant options in this part of town so Chipotle fit the bill. I liked the spicing on the veggies better than on the "fajita veggies" in the US branches. Like most Chipotles, this one played noisy music. Friendly and attentive staff. One unisex wheelchair-accessible restroom. Outdoor seating as well as indoor, but it's just as noisy due to nearby construction jackhammers. | {
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Following the latest trends,going to the hottest launches,meeting the coolest people,gossip and traveling.Taking full advantage of being young, outrageous & spontaneous. keep an eye on this blog, its gonna be sassy, cheeky, spunky & utterly entertaining...Fulled with danger,love and passion...and of course Crazy Videos & Pictures.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
So I went to a wedding this past weekend. It made me remember how important marriage is and how the world is changing constantly everyday and so are peoples morals. Its so easy now days to give up on marriage, the divorce rate amongst the 25-30 year age group is extremely high, divorce is the easy way out.
To see a couple dedicate themselves to one another on their wedding day is a beautiful thing there is so much love and happiness, on the day it seems as though it is going to be forever which it should be but now days forever in many instances turns to a short memory of the past.
It took you long enough to fight for someone’s love and their hearts and you should fight forever to keep it. I don’t know about marriage yet, but what I do know is I believe marriage is for life and no matter what; you should fight for the person you decided to spend the rest of your life with.
I felt inspired to write this blogg as at the wedding I met an inspirational women at the age of 84 who was the queen of the party, dressed in a baby blue frock dancing up a storm in the middle of the dance floor, not only did she have incredible rhythm but she kicked up her leg as though she was doing a can-can show and in an instant won me over in a heart beat.
She drank, she smoked filter cigarettes and had a smile on her that could light up a room and she was still wearing her wedding ring. Her husband died a few years ago and it made me think how hard it must be to lose your life partner but she was still so dedicated to him. A wedding ring is round because it stands for ETERNITY. We should love the people we decide to spend the rest of our lives with until eternity and if they leave this place before you, continue to love life. Surround yourself with people you love, dance to music that makes you feel happy and kick your leg higher than you have ever kicked it before even if you are 84.
I want to share this with you as a gentle thought on how you live your lives. Take care of your body; exercise so you can dance at your grandchildren’s wedding one day. Have a tequila because it makes you laugh and so you can cheers to the people who have made the decision to dedicate their lives to one another.
Be happy in the space that you are in and if you are unhappy, CHANGE not for anyone else but for YOURSELF. Get rid of the negative people, meet new ones who are going to follow your dreams, make NEW friends.
I know it has been said that life is SHORT, but everyday try to be inspired, try to inspire others.
Be Positive and your life will be filled with Love, Light and Dancing. So here’s to all the married couples who work at their marriages everyday to make it work. Fight for it; listen to music that makes you kick your legs in the air no matter how old you are. | {
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Welcome all around the world to learn and share through project-based learning!The StarT project has been launched in honour of Finland’s centenary by The LUMA Centre Finland, together with its network of cooperation partners. Schools, kindergartens, families and extracurricular activity groups from all around the world are invited to invest in the future and take part in StarT to share the excitement of collaborative learning!The president of Finland, Sauli Niinistö, is the official patron of StarT in 2017. StarT promotes interdisciplinary, project-based and phenomenon-based learning – it puts science and technology into a context that is relevant for students and makes learning both exciting and meaningful. It also supports girls’ interest towards science, technology and mathematics through creative working methods and contexts that girls find fascinating. With support from StarT everyone from around the world learns together and from each other through project-based learning!
StarT brings people from all around the world together to share the excitement of working, succeeding, and learning together. We kindly ask you to pass on the invitation to join StarT to others in your home country. Participation is free of charge, welcome along! (Link to registration)Project-based learning in StarTThe project involves students carrying out science, math, and technology projects in schools, related to the seven StarT themeswhich will be on display at science fair events organized as a part of StarT – the project strives to give student projects and educational models developed by schools the visibility and fame they deserve. The media will also be following the progress of the projects – so stay tuned!
The projects carried out by students can be either small-scale explorations or longer learning modules. StarT encourages schools and kindergartens to develop their own models of interdisciplinary project-based learning that work best for them!
Learning together
StarT gives schools and kindergartens new ideas and support for the implementation of project-based learning and establishes a new kind of science-fair culture that focuses around collaboration. Learning communities network with each other, get visibility, and learn from each other as they see each other’s projects and ideas. The best student projects and best practices developed by schools are awarded by the StarT jury, and the grand prize is a trip to Finland. Check out the StarT awards in more detail here!The main objective of StarT is to emphasize the role of the learning community a collaborative learning environment. Learning can be exciting, meaningful, and effective all at the same time – StarT is aimed at just that!
Instructions for countries participating from outside of FinlandThe instructions found on this English version of the StarT website are only for schools, kindergartens, and extracurricular activity groups participating in StarT from outside of Finland. Instructions for participants from Finland can be found on the Finnish and Swedish versions of this website. Check out the schedule for StarT here.
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Two Presidents, Two Different Reactions To Hamas Violence
The Trump Administration’s reaction to last weekend’s Hamas rocket barrage and Israeli self-defense was much different than that of the Obama administration.
In some ways, the team Trump reaction to the conflict was somewhat similar to that of Obama’s, with one significant difference. The Trump administration’s response was unequivocal, Obama’s statements of Israel’s support usually had a “but” statement walking back the support somewhat. The Obama administration would declare the United States supported Israel’s right to defend herself; however, they wouldn’t end there. Obama and his team usually found a way to add a false equivalency statement inferring both sides bore some responsibility for the violence.
The 2014 conflict began with a Hamas rocket barrage. Amid the rocket attacks Jen Psaki, the State Department Spox told the media. “No country should be expected to stand by while rocket attacks from a terrorist organization are launching into their country.” She continued with a false equivalency statement, “At the same time, in the secretary’s conversation, in the conversations of all of our senior administration officials, they’ve been encouraging all sides to de-escalate the situation.” That statement neglected the fact that for “all sides to de-escalate” Hamas had to stop firing rockets.
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This past Saturday as Hamas was firing rockets into Israel, State Dept. Spox Morgan Ortega provided this statement to the press:
“The United States strongly condemns the ongoing barrage of rocket attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from Gaza upon innocent civilians and their communities across Israel. We call on those responsible for the violence to cease this aggression immediately. We stand with Israel and fully support its right to self-defense against these abhorrent attacks.”
Jason Greenblatt, Special Asst. to the President for Special Negotiations added his two cents on Twitter,
Hamas & PIJ have engaged in yet another deplorable act of terrorism, indiscriminately firing hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilian communities. The U.S. stands firmly in support of Israel’s right to self-defense and we call on the international community to do the same.
Five years ago, the AP reported that then-President Obama “condemned the rocket attacks and said Israel has the right to self-defense. But Obama also urged both sides not to escalate the crisis and to restore calm.” Obama didn’t seem to care that only one side could restore calm, Hamas who started the conflict and continued the violence by firing rockets into southern Israel.
On Sunday, as Hamas was launching rockets at Israel, President Trump tweeted a different message:
Once again, Israel faces a barrage of deadly rocket attacks by terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. We support Israel 100% in its defense of its citizens….
As of this writing, there are twenty-one Democrats are running for the party’s nomination to face president Trump in 2020. Usually during campaigns; even when candidates aren’t particularly friendly toward the Jewish State they will make a statement condemning Hamas rocket attacks, and if necessary for their base, they will add false equivalency statement. Perhaps another indication of the Democratic Party’s distancing itself from Israel is the fact that as of this writing, Monday morning, not a single one of the twenty-one candidates mentioned the Hamas rocket attacks. Even worse is the fact that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been silent, and the Senate Minority leader New York’s own Senator Chuck Schumer.
Perhaps he was too busy trying to impeach the president or trying to hold AG Barr in contempt for not wanting to break the law about grand jury testimony. Maybe he is only trying to impress the Mullahs who he made happy with his support for the Iran deal because Rep. Jerry Nadler the Democrat who represents NY’s 10th Congressional District was silent about the attack on Israel until 3:42pm EDT almost eighteen hours after the cease-fire. Nadler’s silence seemed strange because 38% of his constituents are Jewish, making it the most Jewish Congressional District in the country (but then again, his vote in favor of the JCPOA was strange also as his reaction to the Omar antisemitism. He criticized Rep. Omar then blamed the right-wing)
Steny Hoyer (D-MD), the House Majority leader, made a strong statement supporting Israel that said in part:
“Hamas must immediately stop launching rockets into Israel. The targeting of innocent communities is never acceptable, as is the exploitation of protected sites like schools and mosques by Hamas and its affiliates for the purpose of launching attacks. Israel has every right to defend itself against these rocket attacks from Gaza.”
But the new crop of Congressional Democrats seemed to reflect the Democratic Party’s move away from supporting Israel that began long before they were elected. For example, Rep. Ilan Omar (D-MN) tweeted,
How many more protesters must be shot, rockets must be fired, and little kids must be killed until the endless cycle of violence ends?
The status quo of occupation and humanitarian crisis in Gaza is unsustainable. Only real justice can bring about security and lasting peace.
When will the world stop dehumanizing our Palestinian people who just want to be free? Headlines like this & framing it in this way just feeds into the continued lack of responsibility on Israel who unjustly oppress & target Palestinian children and families. #FreePalestinehttps://t.co/p3X3j8WtwM
If she were honest, Tlaib would understand that it is Hamas that is oppressing the people of Gaza.
The American administration’s reaction to Hamas rocket launches into Israel, and Israel’s self-defense is much different in 2019 that it was in 2014. There is no equivocation as there had been in the past. The Trump administration’s stance is, Hamas needs to stop firing rockets, and Israel’s self-defense is justified—PERIOD.
Supporters of Israel who will vote in the 2020 elections should carefully consider the silence of the twenty-one Democratic candidates/ Their silence can only mean they are intimidated by the anti-Israel progressives who dominate their party. If they cannot muster a statement about Hamas rocket attacks as candidates, they will not feel the need to support the Jewish State if (God-forbid) they’re elected.
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The document, which Mr. Nunberg allowed The New York Times to review, is dated Feb. 27 and calls for him to preserve documents from Nov. 1, 2015, through the present related to several people connected to the Trump campaign. They include President Trump; the departing White House communications director, Hope Hicks; the former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski; Stephen K. Bannon, the president’s former chief strategist; Mr. Trump’s longtime bodyguard, Keith Schiller; the former Trump Organization lawyer Michael Cohen; and Mr. Nunberg’s mentor, Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of Mr. Trump.
“They have requested a ridiculous amount of documents,” Mr. Nunberg said. “Should I spend 30 hours producing these? I don’t know what they have. They may very well have something on the president. But they are unfairly targeting Roger Stone.”
Nunberg also spoke with Katy Tur on MSNBC (above) and said that he thought it would be “funny” if Mueller tried to arrest him.
Nunberg also said that “Trump very well may have done something during the election…I don’t know that for sure.”
Nunberg told Gloria Borger, “Screw that. Why do I have to go? Why? For what?” He added that Mueller believes that Trump is the “Manchurian candidate.”
Nunberg added that he had already sat down with investigators for close to five and a half hours.
“I’m not going back in,” he said.
Nunberg said he was refusing to cooperate with the subpoena because he believes investigators are trying to get him to impugn controversial Trump ally Roger Stone, who Nunberg called his mentor.
“They want me to testify against Roger,” Nunberg said. “They want me to say that Roger was going around telling people he was colluding with Julian Assange.”
Stone denied wrongdoing in a statement provided to CNN.
“I was briefly part of the Trump campaign and has [sic] been the President’s friend and adviser for decades; and would expect that Mueller’s team would at some point ask for any documents or emails sent or written by me. But let me reiterate, I have no knowledge or involvement in Russian Collusion [sic] or any other inappropriate act,” Stone’s statement read.
Nunberg also told Jake Tapper that Trump knew about the Trump Tower meeting with Russians.
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“Well, that’s what we want: We want to get to the playoffs,” Wittman said. “Do you think this is the first time I’ve been on a one-year contract? No. It doesn’t mean anything.”
Wittman and team President Ernie Grunfeld — both men have deals that end after the upcoming season — held a joint news conference Wednesday and made pretty clear what the aim should be for point guard John Wall and the rest of the Wizards.
“We want to build on what we started to establish last year. Obviously, our initial goal is to be a playoff contender and ultimately, by the end of the year, make the playoffs,” Grunfeld said.
Washington went 29-53 last season, missing out on the postseason for the fifth consecutive year.
Since their last trip to the playoffs — in 2007-08, when Gilbert Arenas, Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler were still on the roster — the Wizards haven’t even won 30 games in a season once. They had a low of 19 wins in 2008-09.
A year ago, Wall missed the start of the season, when the Wizards opened by going 5-28. With the No. 1 overall pick from the 2010 NBA draft in the lineup, though, they managed to be close to a .500 team, going 24-25.
Wall was given an $80 million, five-year contract extension, the biggest offseason move for a club that drafted Otto Porter Jr. and added Al Harrington and Eric Maynor.
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“They put up a good fight,” he said.
“It also demonstrated to the indigenous population there are avenues for employment within the Army.”
Errors cost the team in its first game against the Black Jacks where it suffered a 18-6 loss but it regrouped against Bindal Sharks the eventual finalists and hosts of the carnival, only going down 27-20. It then played the plate final against Wuppa Bellas and despite getting away to an early 8-0 lead was beaten 24-15 and finished 13th in the competition.
Before the match, Corporal Leon Abdul-Rahman, Regimental Police Cell Headquarters, said he couldn’t wait to play with the team. “Access to sporting opportunities such as this is one of the highlights of being in the Army,” he said.
After some strong performances, Corporal Abdul-Rahman announced his retirement after playing for Army since 2003.
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The event attracted more than 5000 spectators and 18 teams with 20 of the Murungal team coming from Townsville-based units and the remainder from as far afield as Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney.
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Walsingham is a powerful symbol as the Church faces a crisis
I returned from leading a retreat in Walsingham with the sensation of being filled, rather than emptied spiritually by the experience. Fullness was everywhere in the natural world: the horse chestnut trees laden with candles, the poppies spattering the hillsides and the cow parsley decking the hedgerows with lace. In the spiritual realm it was my intuition that in the days leading up to Pentecost, Erasmus’s prayer to Our Lady of Walsingham, which I have long made my own, was granted. It asks that through the power of the Holy Spirit we, imitating Mary’s attitude, might conceive the Lord Jesus in our inmost souls.
There is something romantic and sublime (in the original senses of those words) about the ruined shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, just a single tall arch straight and noble, because it makes history visible. The grandeur of a past in which the faith of England shaped its culture, and was as intrinsic to it as its beautiful landscape, reveals itself through the evidence of the loss, even at the same time as it reveals something of the indestructibility of that same true faith and devotion which perdure despite the vicissitudes of history.
I find it a powerful symbol as we contemplate a Church facing a great crisis and the destruction of many visible manifestations of its power and presence, as parishes and convents and colleges close and Catholic guilds and associations dwindle. You can destroy a temple, but what is founded on Christ the Cornerstone is not so easily destroyed. It will rise again. The beauty of a ruin encourages us to reflect on all in us that needs to be rebuilt in our personal lives of faith.
Walsingham lives by tradition – and tradition, by definition, is dynamic. It does not cling to the past out of grief for what was lost but in order to define and refine the deeper value and truth which is literally unlosable because it contains what is essential, the soul of an institution. Tradition is a spiritual reality. To ignore or despise it is to damn the flow of a stream and in so doing turn it into a powerful torrent.
These are exciting times as the Catholic shrine is being developed in many ways in fidelity to its tradition. The image of Our Lady of Walsingham is being venerated all round the country to prepare for the reconnection of England as Mary’s Dowry. The emphasis on the original message of the apparitions, that Our Lady wishes us to share in the joy of her Annunciation, emphasises the same truth that the medieval peasant leaning on his spade at the sound of the bells acknowledged with his body thrice daily. The Word was made Flesh and lived among us. He is the pattern for all that is human. There can be no joy in our own incarnation if we do not seek to live as he did and as he asks.
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Thursday, September 30, 2010
...okay dont play play...now its the real deal..what fascinates me is their over 250,000 application in practically every category under their App Store. WOW!
But those who know me, also know very well that i LOVE traveling. So when i get to know that there is an Application for Traveling, it’s like a jackpot screaming to my ears.
Even though i believe every journey starts with the very 1st step of my foot, there are also some unavoidable moment i have to go through in order to reach the destination. Sometimes, things like this happen ...errr
Hrmm...i think i need to transit at KLIA or was it Changi Airport..eh wait..was it Dubai?
Alamak..Where am i again?
Gulp, this map is confusing
Hey bahasa apa ni ah? what the heck is this? walao
Oh dear..where on earth am i now? I need to get this translated..panic attack
But no matter where i go, DIGI is always there to send me a welcome SMS..ooohh..now i know where am I..hehehehe But fret not, coz with the App for Travelling installed in the Iphone4 that soon to be mine (wink wink)...i’m going to walk the talk and talk the err..language too.
It will come really handy as i'll be going to the country of the Asian raising sun soon. Metro maps can be just a piece of cake to understand. Arigato gozaimasu (thank you in Japan)
Currency exchange? yeah they have that too!!!With the simple converter, i can now decide on the bargaining to the locals within split of a second. They definitely going to adore me!!!
And on top of that, i can reach the destination easily and still on time to take some pictures.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Because I am one of DIGI biggest loyal fan!I subscribed to DIGI PREPAID while i was studying in University. There's where i received my first phone from my dad. I still remembered the days of 'topping up' each time it runs out of credit. Having said that, it was a bless to stay connected with my loved ones. From happiness to sadness, all our moment are shared when we are apart.
DIGI connecting people like me and you with our loved onesEven when we are Psychically ApartDIGI being the CUPID...I love surprises & DIGI never fail to amaze me by giving away all the surprises a fan could ask 4.And you throught it was not wrapped?Taadaaaa..good things come with small packages..nicely tied with ribbonFrom Birthday Bonus to DIGI Birthday Bash to DIGI Tripping/Fuyoh to Special invitation for events to awesome CONTESTS and its getting better and bolder each dayBirthdays always excites me especially when all my family and friends able to wish me or sending cute MMS or even bubble talk..:) :) :)A travel and adrenalin junkie myself, DIGI has been generous to offer the best rate and best connection line even in the jungle or up on a mountain. Loving DIGI to bits!Then after few years, i upgraded the line to DIGI POSTPAID. And i personally see how it has grow to a full force corporation.Basically it has spread their wings and fly further and further. Just like the butterflyNot only it saves a lot of hassle of running out of credits, i enjoy receiving Bonus Points to be exchanged as credit or even new phone. How nice if they could do that with the new Iphone 4?
On top of that, I love watching DIGI advertisement on tv especially the quirky yellow man with -I must admit pretty creative & kinda blow my mind storyline. Isnt the yellow man adorable?Be it during festive seasons or during promo offer. DIGI always the BEST! enough to make my day filled with laughter and inspiration. But why IPHONE 4 with DIGI?need to say more???? Coz currently my phone has gone cuckoo...then i have to borrow from B, his old hp which was also broken and have very limited features to use. i've been eyeing Iphone 4 the minute this kambing came to town with all 4 forbidden apples. Nice to see, nice to touch, but once taste it, things will never be the same again! C'mon it’s the phone that needs no introduction. From stunning Retina Display, FaceTime technology, 720p HD video-recording abilities, iOS4 and to the all-new iMovie for iPhone video editing software, packaged in the distinctive glass and steel form typical of Apple design.It is officially my new found love interest and i cant take my eyes of it
And with the yellow man around, i know that the Iphone4im about to own is going to be alright. Like how DIGI has been taking care of me all these years. And i have the confident, DIGI will 4eva.. oh yeah!!
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Are YOU a DIE HARD fan of Formula 1? Then listen carefully, even if you are not, I'll make an offer you can't refuse. well im certainly not a Godfather, but..here goesYup..that includes some A-list artiste from Hollywood too Or maybe just an excuse for you to visit Singapore. It's about time right?
Okay this is the offer.1 return air tickets from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore (Singapore Airlines) PLUS 1 pair of 3 Day ZONE 4 WALKABOUT passes worth $188 per ticket.
If you have any friend in Singapore and want to surprise her/him, then maybe this is the time for you to do so. So let me know ASAP if you are interested.
Monday, September 6, 2010
I've been receiving a lot of requests from others asking tips on winning. Honestly, there are no tips or secrets. infact deep down, i believe everyone knows about it but maybe it was not practiced / feel with all your heart and soul yet.
1) Winning don't come easy at times. so put your effort, spend some time to think outside the box, take risk, Be unique and different sometimes playful. be it for slogan /photo/blog/video /story contest. it takes a lot of patience, practice, persistence and most importantly determination. Luck however come unexpectedly as well too.
2) Be honest and true to yourself. The ideas will be flowing naturally when u know u r doing the right thing. It's always a great self satisfaction coz even if u dont win, you know you have tried ur very best. Indescribable feeling! "Do what u love & love what u do." Live ur life to the fullest. Adventure & Mother nature keeps me inspired.
*Im against plagiarist esp when i found out they steal my winning slogan for other contests and they actually WON. or even if they copied the slogan from a SONG/ POEM or whateva form from someone else piece of work. how pathetic?. well, Cheaters will fall eventually.3) Read and understand of the contest theme. Do your homework/ research about the organizer nature of business. It might help sometimes
4) make a list/reminder of the contests that you are keen to participate. coz procrastination is a friend that tag along uninvited. And you dont want to miss the boat when everyone start sailing away.
5) Always keep a positive & winning attitude. DREAM BIG coz you'll never know when would THAT BIG DREAM come upon u 1 fine day. Keep trying n trying n trying. Even if you lose, (i know it's hard and can be frustrating), take this as a reason to improve urself.
I believe in karma so its always good to do some charity /contribution to the unfortunate and stay grounded..even if u prefer to fly
if u think i want to brag, i might as well dont hv to share this in the 1st place, right? so there u go...my 3.8 cents worth of shares.(sam pat in chinese means kaypo/vain)..and my blog entry always has pictures on it coz i love them lots, so enjoy!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Heheeheheh.dont worry its not the real crocodile..But the CROCS WAREHOUSE SALE is BACK! yeah i posted the video about it HERE few days ago....so quick get yourself ready and head to Ikano starting from today, 2 September 2010 until 5 September 2010. Today? yeah Today is the day! BUY ORIGINAL! Trust me, no Regrets!A collaborative effort with HOPE worldwide. So come and get it fast before your favorite pair run out of stock/size. Here are some of the sneek peek product you might find interesting.
This elegant Cyprus is going down to RM100 only (Retail Price :RM209)
How about this cute as button, Prima? Warehouse price at only Rm40!!!! (Retail price at Rm129)
U R still here? Go and grab it first before it too late! tell your friends about it too okay?
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
I received a call from one of the writer of The Star on Monday (30 Aug 2010). I didnt know how she got my number but i agreed to be interviewed via phone after she said she is writing an article on contest winning. So it was a pleasant surprise this morning when i was informed by some fellow friends that i was featured in the Star newspaper today (1 September 2010) under STarTwo(RAGE). ..i went down to the convenient shop and get a copy for myself...wweeeeeeee
Yeah i know, some might say "eh i won a house/car before"..BUT look here,I'm happy on ur winning but i dont compare myself with others, so dont u compare urself with me. Lil Devil gotta do what Lil Devil do best for her. I pretty much 'love what i do and do what i love' type of person. Everyone has a piece of story at the back of their achievement. So be happy with ur own, will ya.
But few things i would like to clarify on the article...i have not won 60 free trips YET but the trips i've won may sum up to RM60K or more...wow that is a big different all together there. Anyway, Tian Chadtold me error like this will make me popular. Errrr...but this is absurd. I hope the writer could amend it soon on the online version as she said she cant do much for the printed one. ahaks. Megan McCormick / Ian Wright -please.if you could read this ..i want to host my own travel shows too or maybe get featured in one of your episodes. But hey, im a strong believer in having BIG DREAMS. so now u know why i mentioned "i have not won 60 free trips YET". Anyway thanks to The Star/RAGE for featuring me.
Wah now everyone thought i am 4 years younger than my actual age today. well..age is just a number..so that doesn't bother me much. Anyway..i'll be writing some of my 3.8cents worth of shares on contest winning soon.why 38? coz its sam pat (chinese meaning itchy,,hahaha). Well there have been numerous request from others asking tips on how to win, so why not?
My Selangor Story 2013
Faces of EOS
Faces of Efamol 2009
FEATURED
I MAS TRAVEL(I was top 15 finalists)
About Me
i adore travelling and as much as enthusiastically discovering the culture, tradition, art and the beauty of life through photography. my passion among others are putting myself into contest and competition. i love to wonder about the meaning of life and the joy of happiness the world gotta offer, the more i give the more i'll see. | {
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The {{translation|'''Yin–Yang Release'''|陰陽遁|Onmyōton, In'yōton|engtv=Shadow and Light Style}}<ref name="c510">''Naruto'' chapter 510, pages 11-12</ref><ref>''Naruto'' chapter 606, pages 15-16</ref> techniques make simultaneous use of [[Yin Release]] and [[Yang Release]]. Yin relates to one's spiritual energy and Yang relates to one's physical energy and it's necessary to utilise both of these in order to mould chakra for [[ninjutsu]]. According to [[Yamato]], the [[Nature Transformation|manipulation]] of Yin and Yang is the source of non-elemental techniques such as the [[Shadow Imitation Technique]], [[Multi-Size Technique]], [[medical ninjutsu]], [[genjutsu]], etc.<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 316, page 9</ref>
The {{translation|'''Yin–Yang Release'''|陰陽遁|Onmyōton, In'yōton|engtv=Shadow and Light Style}}<ref name="c510">''Naruto'' chapter 510, pages 11-12</ref><ref>''Naruto'' chapter 606, pages 15-16</ref> techniques make simultaneous use of [[Yin Release]] and [[Yang Release]]. Yin relates to one's spiritual energy and Yang relates to one's physical energy and it's necessary to utilise both of these in order to mould chakra for [[ninjutsu]]. According to [[Yamato]], the [[Nature Transformation|manipulation]] of Yin and Yang is the source of non-elemental techniques such as the [[Shadow Imitation Technique]], [[Multi-Size Technique]], [[medical ninjutsu]], [[genjutsu]], etc.<ref>''Naruto'' chapter 316, page 9</ref>
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The [[Sage of the Six Paths]] had such a mastery over the Yin–Yang Release that he used Yin to makehis dreamstakeform, and then used Yang to makehisfantasiesreal. He could even make them come to life. According to [[Tobi]], the Sage's ability was called {{Translation|[[Creation of All Things]]|万物創造|Banbutsu Sōzō}}, which he employed to create the [[tailed beasts]] out of the chakra from the [[Ten-Tails]].<ref name="c510"/> The technique [[Izanagi]] is based on this ability.
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The [[Sage of the Six Paths]] had such a mastery over the Yin–Yang Release that he used Yin to createformfromnothing, and then used Yang to breathlifeintowhat he has created.<ref name="c510"/> He could even make them come to life. According to [[Tobi]], the Sage's ability was called {{Translation|[[Creation of All Things]]|万物創造|Banbutsu Sōzō}}, which he employed to create the [[tailed beasts]] out of the chakra from the [[Ten-Tails]].<ref name="c510"/> The technique [[Izanagi]] is based on this ability.
The Sage of the Six Paths had such a mastery over the Yin–Yang Release that he used Yin to create form from nothing, and then used Yang to breath life into what he has created.[1] He could even make them come to life. According to Tobi, the Sage's ability was called Creation of All Things (万物創造, Banbutsu Sōzō), which he employed to create the tailed beasts out of the chakra from the Ten-Tails.[1] The technique Izanagi is based on this ability. | {
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Industrial Mist Testing
Mist collection systems are not all the same. Unfortunately, some systems effectively move air around more than they actually filter it.
Glacier Technology can provide mist testing at your facility to determine if your mist collector is delivering the clean air you need in your application. Fill out the form below to request mist collector testing at your facility. | {
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Old versions
Easily paste preformatted code from your clipboard into Live Writer. The code will be surrounded with a "pre" tag and have a prettyprint stylesheet applied to it. You can then use Google Code Prettify to do client-side syntax highlighting. This Live Writer plug-in surrounds the contents of your clipboard with: pre class="prettyprint" The contents of your clipboard "/pre" Doing this alone DOES NOT apply syntax highlighting to your code. To apply syntax highlighting you must MANUALLY attach Google Code Prettify to your web site. More details on Google Code Prettify can be found here: http://google-code-prettify.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README.html The advantage of this technique is less HTML is generated and stored in your blog post. | {
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Introduction of GST
Tax on sale or purchase of goods within a State as per Entry List II of Seventh Schedule of the Constitution is a State subject, and accordingly, VAT was been introduced by the concerned States, in place of turnover taxes. The introduction of VAT ensured that credit of taxes paid on the inputs were available to a tax payer while discharging his output tax liability. This helped in minimizing cascading of taxes at the State level and in increasing compliance because of the in-built mechanism of transfer of input tax credit. VAT led to a simplification of taxes at the State level.
Presently, the Constitution empowers the Central Government to levy excise duty on manufacturing and service tax on the supply of services. Similarly, it empowers the State Governments to levy sales tax or value added tax (VAT) on the sale of goods. This exclusive division of fiscal powers has led to a multiplicity of indirect taxes in the country. Further, central sales tax (CST) is levied on intra-State sale of goods by the Central Government, but collected and retained by the exporting States. In addition, many States also levy an entry tax on the entry of goods in local areas.
This multiplicity of taxes at the State and Central levels has resulted in a complex indirect tax structure in the country that is ridden with hidden costs for the trade and industry. Firstly, there is no uniformity of tax rates and structure across States. Secondly, there is cascading of taxes due to ‘tax on tax’. No credit of excise duty and service tax paid at the stage of manufacture is available to the traders while paying the State level sales tax or VAT, and vice-versa. Further, no credit of State taxes paid in one State can be availed in other States. Hence, the prices of goods and services get artificially inflated to the extent of this ‘tax on tax’.
The introduction of GST would mark a clear departure from the scheme of distribution of fiscal powers envisaged in the Constitution. The proposed dual GST envisages taxation of the same taxable event, i.e., supply of goods and services, simultaneously by both the Centre and the States. Therefore, both Centre and States will be empowered to levy GST across the value chain from the stage of manufacture to consumption. The credit of GST paid on inputs at every stage of value addition would be available for the discharge of GST liability on the output, thereby ensuring GST is charged only on the component of value addition at each stage. This would ensure that there is no ‘tax on tax’ in the country.
GST will simplify and harmonise the indirect tax regime in the country. It is expected to reduce cost of production and inflation in the economy, thereby making the Indian trade and industry more competitive, domestically as well as internationally. It is also expected that introduction of GST will foster a common or seamless Indian market and contribute significantly to the growth of the economy.
Further, GST will broaden the tax base, and result in better tax compliance due to a robust IT infrastructure. Due to the seamless transfer of input tax credit from one stage to another in the chain of value addition, there is an in-built mechanism in the design of GST that would incentivize tax compliance by traders.
This was stated by Shri Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today. | {
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Jack Ryan hits the big time
Catch the Prime Video commercial before it airs at Halftime.
By Day One Staff
on February 2, 2018
In the new Prime Originals series, Jack Ryan is an unlikely hero who transforms from CIA analyst to super agent. The commercial for the Tom Clancy thriller plays around Halftime during the big game and features John Krasinski, with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “All Along the Watchtower” performed by Devlin and featuring Ed Sheeran. Watch for the series coming to Prime Video in August. | {
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By DJ Lady Duracell, Oct 22 2018 09:16AM
It's time to Get Lifted once again.. this time a little vinyl crate digging had to be done, & from the depths of the crates some unreleased soulful nuggets were re-discovered. Added to that, a few newer tracks and a 'Li'l Lady D' edit.. Get Lifted 49 is yours for the taking.
*Re-release
Back by dope demand! The Get Lifted mixes are gradually coming back, chosen by the listeners.
By DJ Lady Duracell, Sep 16 2018 04:09PM
As well as some fresh soulful house from my current favourite, HyperSOUL-X feat. Sabrina (Doug Gomez Soul Remix) - Happiness, I also brought back some older tracks, like Marie Joly, Black Coffee ft. Rebecca Murray (Orig. Mix) - Gratitude... gems that cannot be forgotten, because music has no expiration date.
Sending love through the music to Edd & The Bang for inviting me to do this guest mix, it was such a pleasure. Please go and follow them on Twitter and Podomatic, they are making big moves! I wish them great success for the future.
By DJ Lady Duracell, Aug 26 2018 12:36PM
It's time once again for the Get Lifted Throwback Edition. Taking you on an hour's journey back into time, with some of the best in deep, soulful, afro house music.
For Maggie (RIP). I'm dedicating this mix to my great friend who recently passed away. These are tunes that she absolutely adored, such as It Ain't Love by Kai Martin & Quentin Harris. I always used to play back in the day on Passion FM. Maggie tried to get it, eventually hunting it down online and buying 2 copies! Then there's Raising Vibrations - KlevaKeys feat. Diamondancer, the last track that she recently asked me about in a PM on facebook. I'm going to miss my friend always. I hope she's dancing in heaven to her favourite tunes. | {
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Enigmatic 'dark energy', thought to make up 68% of the universe, may not exist at all, according to a Hungarian-American team. The researchers believe that standard models of the universe fail to take account of its changing structure, but that once this is done the need for dark energy disappears. The team publish their results in a paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
A mysterious flash of X-rays has been discovered by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in the deepest X-ray image ever obtained. This source likely comes from some sort of destructive event, but it may be of a variety that scientists have never seen before.
In a study led by Sandy Morais, a PhD student at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço and Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP), researchers found massive super bubbles of gas and dust around two distant radio galaxies about 11.5 billion light years away.
Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water is most likely to exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Other potentially habitable worlds have also been discovered in recent years, leaving many people wondering: How do we find out if these planets actually host life?
A remarkable new discovery using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveals three stars that now hold the record as the youngest-known examples of a super-fast-flying breed. "Until these observations, only a few—but older—examples of such rapidly-moving stars had been found with origins traceable back to the volatile systems that likely ejected them," said lead researcher Kevin Luhman of Penn State University. "The new Hubble observations provide very strong evidence that these three stars were ejected from an unstable multi-star system." The new discovery is published in this month's Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Solar wind and radiation are responsible for stripping the Martian atmosphere, transforming Mars from a planet that could have supported life billions of years ago into a frigid desert world, according to new results from NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission) spacecraft led by the University of Colorado Boulder.
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to observe the remnant of a supernova explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Beyond just delivering a beautiful image, Hubble may well have traced the surviving remains of the exploded star's companion.
The mound in the center of this Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image appears to have blocked the path of the dunes as they marched south (north is to the left in this image) across the scene. Many of these transverse dunes have slipfaces that face south, although in some cases, it's hard to tell for certain. Smaller dunes run perpendicular to some of the larger-scale dunes, probably indicating a shift in wind directions in this area.
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos provided a sneak peek today into the interior of the New Shepard crew capsule, the suborbital vehicle for space tourism. He released a few images which illustrate what the flight experience might be like on board.
Our sun is a chaotic place, simmering with magnetic energy and constantly spewing out particles. Sometimes the sun releases solar flares and coronal mass ejections—huge eruptions of charged particles—which contribute to space weather and can interfere with satellites and telecommunications on Earth. While it has long been hard to predict such events, new research has uncovered a mechanism that may help forecasting these explosions.
Have you seen it yet? An old friend greeted us on an early morning run yesterday as we could easily spy brilliant Venus in the dawn, just three days after inferior conjunction this past Saturday on March 25th.
The "InSight" Mars mission planned for 2018 by NASA and European partners is aimed at studying geophysical properties of the "red planet." In addition, fundamental questions relating to the planetary and solar system shall be answered to better understand the history of creation of planets of the inner solar system, one of which is the Earth. A highly sensitive seismograph (SEIS) will be one of the main instruments of the mission. The qualifying model, or sister instrument, of this seismometer is presently being tested by the joint geoscientific observatory of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Universität Stuttgart, the Black Forest Observatory (BFO).
Spotting a face in a crowd, or recognizing any small or distant object within a large image, is a major challenge for computer vision systems. The trick to finding tiny objects, say researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, is to look for larger things associated with them.
(Tech Xplore)—Sidewalk robots will deliver pizza this year. Domino's pizza, to be exact. Datelined London, a news release on Wednesday on the Starship Technologies site brought news of the launch of a pilot program with Domino's Pizza Enterprises—"the master franchisor for the Domino's Pizza brand in Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Japan and Germany." Across these seven markets, DPE and its franchisees operate over 2000 stores.
South Korea's largest auto show provides a look at the future of Asian premium cars and electric vehicles, as well as efforts by Asian auto and tech companies to catch up in the field of autonomous driving.
Long queues at certain approaches to some roundabouts could be reduced using magnetic detection devices under the road surface that would activate a traffic metering signal at another, less congested approach. Researchers at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain) have released a guide for technicians to implement this intelligent traffic system, already used on roundabouts in Australia and on various highway on-ramps.
America's manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and Silicon Valley executives, among many others, know it's already happening. And a new report from PwC estimates that 38 percent of American jobs are at "high risk" of being replaced by technology within the next 15 years.
The late data visionary Hans Rosling mesmerised the world with his work, contributing to a more informed society. Rosling used global health data to paint a stunning picture of how our world is a better place now than it was in the past, bringing hope through data.
Researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and the Council for Scientific Research (initialed CSIC in Spanish) have patented a method for making new ceramic electrodes for lithium-ion batteries that are more efficient, cheaper, more resistant and safer than conventional batteries.
The dark web—which utilizes a technology created by military researchers in the 1990s to allow intelligence operatives to exchange information completely anonymously—is unknown to many. It's been said to be a breeding ground for organized crime, sex traffickers, and hackers. But it's also used by good actors, including whistle-blowers and activists.
The research team of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed a system for three-dimensional (3D) fingerprint identification by adopting ground breaking 3D fingerprint minutiae recovery and matching technology, pushing contactless biometric technology into a new realm of speed and accuracy for use in identification, crime investigation, immigration control, security of access and forensic applications at an affordable cost.
Ford Motor Co. will hire approximately 400 employees from software company BlackBerry Ltd. as part of sizable new investments in Canada that include a connected-vehicle research center in Ottawa, company officials said Thursday.
Thanks to a new sensor system developed collaboratively by Professor Andreas Schütze and his research team at Saarland University and a group of industrial project partners, unnecessary oil changes could well be a thing of the past. The new system can provide operators of combined heat and power plants with reliable continuous feedback on the current state of the oil. And the system can also warn the operator if the condition of the oil suddenly deteriorates. The oil flows through a small measuring cell where it is analysed spectroscopically to record the condition of the oil. The method offers numerous benefits: it is better for the environment, it lowers operating costs and it simplifies maintenance scheduling.
A businessman based in Cyprus is suing the Buzzfeed online media outlet for defamation over its publication of an unproven dossier on President Donald Trump's purported activities involving Russia and allegations of Russian interference during last year's U.S. election.
Blind tadpoles were able to process visual information from eyes grafted onto their tails after being treated with a small molecule neurotransmitter drug that augmented innervation, integration, and function of the transplanted organs, according to a paper published online today by researchers at the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University in npj Regenerative Medicine, a Nature Research journal. The work, which used a pharmacological reagent already approved for use in humans, provides a potential road map for promoting innervation - the supply of nerves to a body part - in regenerative medicine.
Effective care and prevention strategies have managed to reduce the spread of HIV in the U.S. and other resource-rich countries. But in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 25 million are infected, the epidemic rages—as does the debate over how to stop it.
Gaucher disease is a genetic disorder of lipid metabolism. Sphingosine, a compound as enigmatic as the sphinx, plays a key role in this metabolic disorder. Scientists from the Bonn research center caesar have identified some of the complex molecular mechanisms of how the disease develops. These findings could contribute to the development of new therapies in the future.
The human brain is constantly abuzz with electrical activity as brain cells, called neurons, respond to sensory input and give rise to the world we perceive. Six particular regions of the brain, called face patches, contain neurons that respond more to faces than to any other type of object. New research from Caltech shows how perturbations in these face cells alter perception, answering a longstanding question in cognitive science.
(Medical Xpress)—A very large team of researchers with members from the U.S., Italy and the Netherlands has found what might be a marker for ALS, which the team suggests could be used as a yardstick for measuring the effectiveness of treatments in clinical trials. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the team describes how they connected a genetic abnormality common in ALS patients with a protein they found in blood cells and cerebrospinal fluid.
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.K. and one in the U.S. has developed a faster and cheaper way to figure out which drugs on the market might be useful for treating other ailments. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the team describes how they pulled information from databases and used it to identify possible treatment matches.
Each face is unique, even though the genes controlling facial shape are almost identical in every individual. Filippo Rijli and his team at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) have discovered an epigenetic mechanism that regulates face morphogenesis. During early development, the neural crest cells that give rise to the various facial structures maintain chromatin plasticity, with all the genes involved remaining poised to respond to local cues. Once the cells are exposed to these environmental signals, a switch from a poised to an active chromatin state occurs, inducing position specific transcriptional programs that give rise to the chin, cheekbones or forehead.
The part of the brain that creates mental maps of one's environment plays a much broader role in memory and learning than was previously thought, according to new research published this week in the journal Nature by researchers at Princeton University.
Researchers from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), University of Cambridge, the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and the Cancer Research UK-Cambridge Institute (CRUK-CI) have shed light on a long-standing debate about why the immune system weakens with age. Their findings, published in Science, show that immune cells in older tissues lack coordination and exhibit much more variability in gene expression compared with their younger counterparts.
Detailed analysis of two brain tumor subtypes has revealed that they may originate from the same type of neural progenitor cells and be distinguished by gene mutation patterns and by the composition of their microenvironments. The results of a study led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard are being published in the March 31 issue of Science.
The human brain's cerebellum controls the body's ability to tightly and accurately coordinate and time movements as fine as picking up a pin and as muscular as running a foot race. Now, Johns Hopkins researchers have added to evidence that this structure also helps transfer so-called motor learning from one part of the body to another.
Every £1.00 spent on public health returns an extra £14 on the original investment, on average—and in some cases, significantly more than that—concludes a systematic review of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health.
Women who follow a high-fat diet during pregnancy may increase their children's risk for asthma. A mouse study by Oregon Health and Science University researchers suggests that consistent consumption of fat-laden foods may change the immune response of the offsprings' respiratory system. The article is published in Physiological Reports.
In a study published in Brain Research, biophysicists from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics (ITEB) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and MIPT have shown that drug-induced activation of the endocannabinoid system of the brain leads to reduced or completely suppressed epileptic activity in test animals.
There is so much debate currently about how best to provide health insurance coverage in our country that we risk losing sight of what it really means to be healthy and of how health care should be optimally provided.
When people scan the latest political headlines or watch a video from a war-ravaged land, they tend to feel snap ethical or moral responses first and reason through them later. Now a team of psychologists have developed news tests and mathematical models that help to capture and quantify those snap moral and empathetic judgments.
In Balaka, Malawi, HIV-AIDS has been an epidemic for so long that young adults have never known any other reality. Anti-retroviral drugs, which keep infected people healthy, are available, but there aren't enough to treat everyone who needs them. So policymakers in the east African nation must prioritize.
In 2015, more than 30,000 Americans died from overdosing on opioids, and a new study led by the University of Georgia shows that one of the hardest hit populations-low-income Americans on Medicaid-isn't getting the help it needs to combat opioid addiction.
The first study of oral health in children with type 2 diabetes, including those who are obese, has found that these children tend to have poorer oral health than children who do not have type 2 diabetes.
Nearly all high school youth with autism spectrum disorder who participated in an intensive job skills program gained and maintained meaningful part-time employment after graduation, according to a forthcoming study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Eager for the next phase, ready to dedicate himself wholly, the youngster could not wait. Soon he would get his hands on the blueprint for the yellow jersey, those scientifically grounded steps to cycling glory.
Mindful eating is increasingly being promoted as a solution to being overweight. Mindful eating, we are promised, will help us eat less, transform our relationship with food and end our battle with weight once and for all. The truth is, we simply can't say with confidence that mindful eating can help with weight management.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), a cancer associated with underlying liver disease and cirrhosis that often only becomes symptomatic when it is very advanced, is the second leading cause of cancer deaths around the world, and yet it has no effective treatment.
An international research team led by Osaka University built a novel "Catch-Load-Launch" microfluidic device to monitor the resilience of red blood cells after being held in a narrow channel for various periods of time. They found that the time for the red blood cell to spring back into shape was shorter for when starved of adenosine triphosphate or exposed to endotoxins. These findings may help improve treatments for patients with sepsis or malaria.
A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has uncovered hidden vulnerabilities on the surface of the dengue virus. This novel discovery means that scientists can now develop strategies to target these weak spots for treatment of dengue, and possibly other closely related diseases like Zika, influenza and chikungunya.
Celebrity chef Pete Evans was reported recently as saying "calcium from dairy can remove the calcium from your bones", and can worsen osteoporosis. The Australian Medical Association has expressed concerns that Evans is disseminating misinformation, and in so doing may endanger lives.
An estimated 31 million people in the United States—10 percent of the adult population—are living with chronic kidney disease. For many adults it will go undiagnosed, according to the American Kidney Fund.
Radiotherapy, in which radioactive radiation is used to damage cancer cells, is a common cancer treatment. However, the people applying the treatment are only human and there are other uncertainties involved in it. On March 31st, Marleen Balvert will be defending her PhD thesis in which she shows that these risk scan be reduced using mathematical optimization models.
It's often said there are too many tests and exams in UK primary schools. And, while there is a general sense that tests can be demanding and stressful for all children, they can be seen as particularly difficult for autistic children.
The appearance of your dinner date affects whether you want to spend money on healthy or unhealthy alternatives from the menu, but only if you are a woman. The more attractive women find their company, the more likely they are to buy healthy food. Men are rather more likely to buy expensive drinking and dining options. These are the findings in a new study by Tobias Otterbring at CTF, Service Research Center at Karlstad University.
Can't sleep? Your sleep problems may be improved if you try an Indian herb, Ashwagandha. Researchers in the sleep institute in Japan found that an active component of Ashwagandha leaves significantly induces sleep.
Certain white blood cells play an important role in bringing a harmful virus under control after kidney transplantations. The results of a research group at the Department of Biomedicine at the University of Basel and University Hospital Basel could contribute to improving control of immunosuppression, avoiding transplant rejection and developing relevant vaccines.
An article published in Experimental Biology and Medicine (Volume 242, Issue 6, March, 2017) identifies a new signaling pathway involved in breast cancer cell growth. The study, led by Dr. Chan-Wha Kim, from the Department of Biotechnology at Korea University in Seoul, reports that inhibition of the actin-binding protein transgelin prevents vasculogenic mimicry (VM), a process that provides tumor cells with the nutrients required for growth.
Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread so quickly to other parts of the body. In a study published in Neoplasia, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine created a map showing which genes were switched on and off in different parts of the tumor, providing a "signature" of these switches throughout the genome.
Natural genetic changes can put some people at high risk of certain conditions, such as breast cancer, Alzheimer's disease or high blood pressure. But in rare cases, genetic errors also can have the opposite effect, protecting individuals with these helpful genetic mistakes from developing common diseases.
New research reveals a high-resolution view of the Zika viral life cycle within infected cells and shows dramatic changes in the cell's architecture throughout the infection process. This novel perspective may lead to the development of new vaccines and treatments.
A common symptom of schizophrenia - not knowing that you're ill—can be temporarily alleviated using a balance test that stimulates part of the brain with cold water, an exploratory study at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has shown. The study was published in Psychiatry Research.
A new analysis of patients who have undergone treatment for prostate cancer shows a connection between androgen deprivation therapy (ADT)—a testosterone-lowering therapy and a common treatment for the disease—and dementia, according to researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Their previous studies have shown men who undergo ADT may be at an increased risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease, compared to men who were not treated with the therapy. This new analysis—the largest of its kind ever performed on this topic—shows that all existing studies taken together support the link to dementia and show a possible link to Alzheimer's. The findings are published this week in Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases. "Since publishing our initial findings, there has been a lot of other research on this topic, and we wanted to see what that research was saying," said the study's lead author Kevin Nead, MD, MPhil, a resident in Radiation Oncology at Penn. "This analysis tells us that the composite message of existing studies is that androgen deprivation therapy is associated with dementia."
In study that included Chinese, Malay, and Indian participants, researchers found that among those with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) there were ethnic differences in visual function, such as the ability to read a newspaper or labels on medication bottles, according to a study published online by JAMA Ophthalmology.
An online metabolic calculator developed by a University of Virginia School of Medicine doctor and his research partner at the University of Florida predicts patients' risk of developing heart disease and diabetes more accurately than traditional methods, a large new study has found. The tool's creator hopes it will prompt patients to make lifestyle changes that would spare them the suffering and expense of avoidable illnesses.
Cases of depression have ballooned almost 20 percent in a decade, making the debilitating disorder linked to suicide the leading cause of disability worldwide, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Not surprisingly, healthcare workers are almost twice as likely to get flu vaccines as those in other occupations. However, fewer than 30 percent of workers in other occupations in frequent contact with the public - such as food preparation and serving, sales, personal care, and service occupations - are likely to be vaccinated, according to a study published in the April issue of the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC), the official journal of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).
Clinical trials found that it is safe to regularly infuse brain and lung cancer patients with 800—1000 times the daily recommended amount of vitamin C as a potential strategy to improve outcomes of standard cancer treatments. In a work presented March 30, 2017 in Cancer Cell, University of Iowa researchers also show pathways by which altered iron metabolism in cancer cells, and not normal cells, lead to increased sensitivity to cancer cell death caused by high dose vitamin C.
A new computer-based brain simulation shows that motor tics in Tourette syndrome may arise from interactions between multiple areas of the brain, rather than a single malfunctioning area, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology.
Filarial nematodes—microscopic, thread-like roundworms—currently infect up to 54 million people worldwide and are the leading cause of disability in the developing world. Now, researchers reporting in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases have described the relationship between one species of the worm, Brugia malayi, and a bacteria, Wolbachia, that lives in the worm's body. The symbiotic relationship, they found, could represent an Achilles' heel for the nematodes.
Throughout the course of a leprosy infection, patients often have episodes of painful inflammation affecting their skin and nerves. Researchers have continuously struggled with finding effective drugs to treat these so-called "type 1 reactions," and now one more study has come up empty-handed. The immune-suppressant azathioprine did not improve the standard of care treatment with steroids, researchers report in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.
Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have successfully grown stem cells from children with a devastating neurological disease to help explain how different genetic backgrounds can cause common symptoms. The work sheds light on how certain brain disorders develop, and provides a framework for developing and testing new therapeutics. Medications that appear promising when exposed to the new cells could be precisely tailored to individual patients based on their genetic background.
(HealthDay)—Children who suffer through multiple ear infections are often candidates for ear tube surgery. But a new study finds that the use of one type of ear drops—quinolones—after these surgeries may raise a child's risk for a perforated eardrum.
(HealthDay)—As the Trump Administration moves to undo certain climate change policies, a leading group of U.S. psychologists has issued a report that says warming trends and related extreme weather events could wreak havoc on mental health.
(HealthDay)—The next time you sit down with your doctor, it may help to know that they most likely love what they do. Nine out of 10 American doctors are happy with their choice of profession, even though they have some challenges.
(HealthDay)—Assessment of hand function is an important component in the clinical evaluation of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic sclerosis (SSc), according to a study published online March 21 in the International Journal of Rheumatic Diseases.
(HealthDay)—For patients with dementia, proton pump inhibitor (PPI) use is associated with increased risk of pneumonia, according to a study published online March 21 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
(HealthDay)—Patients with chronic tension-type headache (CTTH) have impairments in cognitive ability and dysfunction in the neuroendocrine state, according to a study published online March 24 in Pain Practice.
(HealthDay)—For patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), the rate of target-vessel failure does not differ significantly for those receiving a bioresorbable vascular scaffold or a metallic stent, according to a study published online March 29 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
(HealthDay)—Enteral docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) supplementation does not reduce the risk of bronchopulmonary dysplasia for infants born before 29 weeks of gestation, according to a study published in the March 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
A first-of-its-kind, potentially groundbreaking new option for treating a form of eye cancer is now in its first phase-1 clinical research trial at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia. The treatment, called light-activated AU-011, developed by Aura Biosciences of Cambridge, Massachusetts, is an investigational drug that targets and aims to selectively destroy malignant cancer cells in patients who have life-and vision-threatening eye cancer, also known as, ocular melanoma. Ocular melanoma is a malignant cancer that develops within the eye. It affects as many as 3,000 people per year in the United States. While melanoma is often associated with skin cancer from sun exposure, ocular melanoma does not relate to the sun, developing instead from abnormal pigmented cells in the eye.
Britain's High Court has denied a bid by a terminally ill man to challenge the law on assisted suicide, ruling that the issue was already considered in recent years and does not merit further analysis.
In all the discussions about the proposed health care law, it was easy to overlook a statement made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on March 15: "I think we have too much of a tolerance for drug use – psychologically, politically, morally… We need to say, as Nancy Reagan said, 'Just say no.'"
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a Washington University in St. Louis faculty member in the School of Engineering & Applied Science a total of $1.3 million to study new imaging techniques designed to better fight breast and ovarian cancers.
A gene-silencing therapy under development for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is being tested at Tufts in dogs with degenerative myelopathy, a fatal paralytic disease that is similar to ALS.
A recent study conducted at the Gerontology Research Center of the University of Jyväskylä shows that walk-friendly environmental design may provide opportunities for physical activity in old age. However, especially when mobility function starts to decline, it is important that older adults are aware of attractive environmental factors in their neighborhood.
Researchers from the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program (PEBC) led by Dr. Manel Esteller at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have discovered how an epigenetic lesion can lead to T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The article, published in the journal Leukemia, leader in the field of hematology, correlates the lesion with the activation of a powerful oncogen capable of malignizing this type of cells of the immune system.
The first step in shaping the brain is that the neural plate, a sheet-like cell layer, curves to form the neural tube. Assistant Professor Makoto Suzuki of the National Institute for Basic Biology, Professor Naoto Ueno, and their colleagues have shown that during the process of neural tube formation a transient increase in the concentration of calcium ions in cells causes these morphological changes and is essential for neural tube formation.
Legumes are a food group rich in B vitamins, contain different beneficial minerals (calcium, potassium and magnesium) and sizeable amounts of fibre and are regarded as a low-glycemic index food, which means that blood glucose levels increase only slowly after consumption. Due to these unique nutritional qualities, eating legumes regularly can help improve human health. In fact, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) declared 2016 as the international year of legumes to raise people's awareness of their nutritional benefits.
Even a single dose of a specific ribonucleic acid molecule, known as a small interfering RNA (siRNA), offers patients at high risk of cardiovascular disease long-lasting protection against high LDL cholesterol - one of the main risk factors for heart attack and stroke. This is the result of a clinical study that researchers from Charité and Imperial College London have published as leading authors in the current edition of New England Journal of Medicine.
One change to field triage guidelines for emergency medical services (EMS) responding to older adults with head trauma could make a "clinically important improvement over usual care," according to a study and accompanying editorial published earlier this month in Annals of Emergency Medicine.
Three major national databases include varying estimates of racial gaps in the use of immediate breast reconstruction (IBR) after mastectomy for breast cancer, reports a study in the March issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
A new study indicates that the success of a kidney transplant may rely in part on a kidney donor's weight and sex, factors that are not typically considered when choosing a recipient for a deceased donor kidney. The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), suggest that changes may be needed to current immunology-based protocols that match donors and recipients.
The ability to generate oxygen through photosynthesis—that helpful service performed by plants and algae, making life possible for humans and animals on Earth—evolved just once, roughly 2.3 billion years ago, in certain types of cyanobacteria. This planet-changing biological invention has never been duplicated, as far as anyone can tell. Instead, according to endosymbiotic theory, all the "green" oxygen-producing organisms (plants and algae) simply subsumed cyanobacteria as organelles in their cells at some point during their evolution.
A new University of Maryland study has found that fruit flies genetically coded to take frequent naps had the strongest resistance to both a fungal infection and to a bacteria that the World Health Organization says is one of the world's most dangerous superbugs for humans.
The reason behind mosquitoes' unusual flight behaviour has long puzzled scientists. The angular sweep of their wings is around 40 degrees, which is less than half that of the honey bee, prompting speculation over how they fly at all.
Using a newly developed method, researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) have been able to shed light on the complexity of genome reorganization occurring during the first hours after fertilization in the single-cell mammalian embryo. Their findings have recently been published in the journal Nature. The team of researchers (from three continents) have discovered that the egg and sperm genomes that co-exist in the single-cell embryo or zygote have a unique structure compared to other interphase cells. Understanding this specialized chromatin "ground state" has the potential to provide insights into the yet mysterious process of epigenetic reprogramming to totipotency, the ability to give rise to all cell types.
Jumping genes are double-edged sword: By copying and integrating themselves into other parts of the genome these so-called transposons can lead to a variety of genetic disorders such as haemophilia or breast cancer. On the other hand the mobile DNA bits can create new genes and new gene expression programs. This is crucial for maintaining high genetic variability and adaptability to environmental changes. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics Freiburg in collaboration with the University of Freiburg have now found that an enzyme called DHX9 can neutralize the harmful structures formed by transposons and effectively increase the tolerance of the genome to include these jumping genes. By understanding this process better scientists can devise better therapies for diseases caused by transposons while retaining their evolutionary advantage.
Fang blennies are small fish with big teeth. Specifically, they have two large canine teeth that jut out of their lower jaw. Since blenny fish are only about two inches long, these "fangs" would be less than intimidating if not for the venom within. Blenny fish venom most likely causes a sudden drop in blood pressure in would-be predators, such as grouper fish, that have been bitten by blennies, researchers report on March 30 in Current Biology.
Rubber is a substance usually made from petroleum or from the Asian rubber tree plant. But rubber can also be produced from a domestic plant called "guayule." Guayule is a woody desert shrub cultivated in the southwestern United States as a source of natural rubber (latex), organic resins, and high-energy biofuel feedstock.
Male domestic fowl are less aggressive towards related males than to unrelated males when competing for copulations, according to a new study from Linköping University in Sweden. This finding, which has been published in the scientific journal Behavioral Ecology, suggests that domestic fowl can recognise their kin among individuals in a group, and that their behaviour is different towards kin and non-kin.
According to research conducted at the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), some fungal viruses (mycoviruses) that infect fungi associated with forest trees are able to cross the barriers between distantly related fungal species. This overturns the former theory that mycoviruses are host specific, and will create new perspectives on their possible roles in regulating forest biodiversity.
As anyone who has spent wakeful nights suffering from jetlag will attest, the human body has a strong sense of time. The body clock runs on a 24-hour cycle, or circadian (from the Latin meaning "about a day") rhythm. When our internal cycle gets out of sync with our surroundings, such as when crossing time zones, jetlag can result. The circadian rhythm therefore needs to be reset, which is achieved primarily by exposure to light.
Is it a boy or is it a girl? For baby sea turtles it's not that cut and dry. Because they don't have an X or Y chromosome, baby sea turtles' sex is defined during development by the incubation environment. The nest's thermal environment determines whether an embryo will develop as a male or female. Warmer sand temperatures produce more females and cooler sand temperatures produce more males. To make things even more complicated, in some species of sea turtles, their sexual anatomy is not physically apparent until about a decade or so when they approach sexual maturity.
Instead of turning carbon into food, many plants accidentally make a plant-toxic compound during photosynthesis that is recycled through a process called photorespiration. University of Illinois and USDA/ARS researchers report in Plant Cell the discovery of a key protein in this process, which they hope to manipulate to increase plant productivity.
Manatees are no longer an endangered species, US officials said Thursday, declaring success after decades of efforts to rebuild the population of the chubby sea cows in Florida and the Caribbean region.
Scientists from the universities of Granada (UGR) and Southampton (United Kingdom) have designed a new method to reduce noise problems caused by road traffic, one of the main environmental impacts of roads, and which has important effects on people's health and their physical and psychological well-being.
In spring 2016, student Wendy Hapgood walked around midtown Manhattan, visiting antique stores advertising mammoth ivory for sale that she found on Google maps. "Mammoth tusk is so interesting," she explained, "A piece of ancient past, a long extinct mammal, dug up in the tundra in Russia, sent to China for carving, then finding its way here."
In North Carolina, the seventh most-productive blueberry state in the U.S., blueberries ripen between June and August. But North Carolina shoppers can buy blueberries throughout the year. That's because most people only eat a few kinds of food, so farmers around the world are growing the same crops to meet the demand of consumers thousands of miles away. As Rob Dunn points out in his new book, that practice poses some significant risks.
A new methodology developed by the Indian Statistical Institute, and WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) may revolutionize how to count tigers and other big cats over large landscapes.
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Israel envoy accepts President’s apology
ISRAEL’S Ambassador to the Philippines accepted President Rodrigo Duterte’s apology to the Jewish community for his remarks likening his campaign on illegal drugs to the Holocaust that resulted in the death of millions of Jews during the time of German leader Adolf Hitler.
On Tuesday night, Duterte again apologized to the Jewish community saying his references to the Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were meant to hit back at critics who had likened him to Hitler.
Ambassador Effie Ben Matityau said the President’s apology was accepted.
Duterte’s Hitler comment had caused outrage among Jewish communities around the world.
“He is the President. He said it was never intentional so we accept his apology...from the start we knew his personality already, and we know it is not intentional,” Matityau told reporters after Duterte spoke before the members of the Jewish Association of the Philippines at the Rosh Hashanah or the Jewish New Year celebration at the Beit Yaacov Synagogue in Makati.
The Ambassador said the President’s historic visit to the Jewish Synagogue carries the blessings of the New Year’s holiday which symbolizes soul search, forgiveness and atonement.
He said the President decided to come to the Synagogue of the Jewish community in Manila to apologize personally to the Jewish world on statements made connecting the Jewish Holocaust and his war on drugs.
“The President made it clear what was already clear and known that he did not mean disrespect to the Jewish people. Referring to his personal life, his wife Elizabeth Zimmerman is actually a daughter of a Jewish father who found the Philippines as a shelter and home,” Matityau wrote in a post on his Facebook account.
He added that Duterte expressed his respect and affinity to the Jewish people and Israel, paying homage to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his desire to strengthen ties with Israel. | {
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BJP Government in MP Banned Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Padmavati'
Bhopal: The BJP government in Madhya Pradesh has banned Sanjay Leela Bhansali's 'Padmavati'. Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan said the film would not be screened in the state.
The Kshatriya Rajputs also has come up against the releasing of Padmavathi in the forefront of Lok Sabha polls. They alleged that this film will overturn the history of the Rajaputs. The main characters in this film, Alauddin Khilji and Rani Padmavathi are falling in love, is the fake history, which high lighting in this film, they added.
Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone are playing the lead roles of Alauddin Khilji and Rani Padmavathi. BJP has announced a five-crore bounty for the killing of Banzali and Deepika for acting in Padmavathi. The film's releasing date was postponed earlier after the protest. The first decision was to release onDecember 1st. But the censor board has not given the sanction to the film anymore. | {
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The Computer Science Activity Book is the perfect companion for curious youngsters — or grown-ups who think they'll never understand some of the basics of how computers work. Work through this brief, coloring book-like collection of fun and innovative hands-on exercises and learn some basic programming concepts and computer terminology that form the foundation of a STEM education. You'll learn a bit about historical figures like Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, and Alan Turing; how computers store data and run programs; and how the parts of a computer work together (like the hard drive, RAM, and CPU). Drawing a garden of flowers using for loops, create creatures with conditional statements, and just have a bit of fun.
Author Bio
Christine Liu and Tera Johnson are the co-founders of the art collective, Two Photon Art. Together, they have created several zines and continue to explore the medium as a way to inform a general audience about science.
Christine Liu is currently a Neuroscience Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley.
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A Teen by Definition is Not “Mature”
*Little disclaimer: By “mature” I mean as physically developed and/or experienced in life as adults. I am not referring to responsibility, which many teens are better at than some adults.
I was just 16 but I knew it was love, and my boyfriend, also 16, and I secretly but seriously discussed our future. It was my 18th birthday when my new boyfriend and Sr. year highschool sweetheart proposed to me at our favorite park. I was 18 still when we married and my 19th birthday came one week later. My husband was barely 20.
Over the past 13 years of marriage, we have occasionally reflected on the past. On this issue, we both have come to the conclusion that marrying so young is not something we would now recommend to others. We were in love, but we were not prepared. We were not prepared financially, reproductive-wise, and he was not prepared mentally. Until my new husband kindly walked me through the steps, I had never paid a bill before. I didn’t know how to cook beyond pasta salad and boxed mac and cheese. We had no long-term plans, no goals other than my determination to get my Bachelor’s (it took 7 years, but I finally did).
We were strongly encouraged to marry fast in order to avoid living or falling into sin (sex), and we happily and naively agreed for the sake of our spiritual health and physical desires. It never occurred to our superiors/supporters that if we couldn’t be mature and responsible sexually before marriage, we weren’t mature enough for marriage. Our best friends and family were devastated and deeply concerned. They thought we were being way too hasty.
We struggled much for the first few years, forced to grow up very quickly and alone, for our friends were still in college when we began having babies. Not knowing how to budget, how to pay bills, or how to plan for long-term savings, and neither of us having a college degree, we suffered financially. Some decisions we made so long ago still haunt us today. We were encouraged not to take birth control since they were “full of toxins” and “not natural”, but to try the spit and microscope method of birth control instead. Wouldn’t you know it? Within 7 months I was pregnant.
Underage Marriage in the United States?
I was skeptical when a spiritual abuse blog I follow, posted an article on their FB page about child marriages in certain fundamental, homeschool, patriarchal, Christian circles. I knew it happened in many developing countries. I knew about the practice in fundamental Mormon (FLDS) churches out West. I knew it was a growing issue in the US due to the influx of immigrant cultures, but surely this article was grossly exaggerating the occurrence of underage marriages in these Protestant Christian groups. The article only highlighted two instances of child marriage, and both happened in the same family with a mother (married at 15) and her daughter (married at 16).
I asked for more information, and the moderator of the Spiritual Sounding Board Facebook page generously provided me with 3 more articles. While none of them could make a convincing case for the actual practice of child marriages, the positive mindset among several general commenters, the remarks of Kevin Swanson and Dave Bruehner-two big names in the conservative Christian homeschooling movement, and even Phil Robertson of “Duck Dynasty”-fame, began to show a disturbing trend.
There is a legal, and for some, ethical, difference between underage child marriages which occur between 12-17 (more typically, 15-17) years of age, and young or early marriage, which happens between 18-22 years of age, generally speaking. While the latter has been increasingly pushed by some in Evangelical circles to prevent or reduce sin, when the former does occur or is promoted, many times it is for very similar reasons.
Early/Young Marriage, 18-22
Today there is “a sort of attitude … magical thinking, that if we get you married, then you’ll be fine and we don’t have to worry about anti-poverty programs… we don’t have to worry about child care.” Scholars, pundits and other policy elites need to end their magical thinking about marriage and acknowledge the widespread nature of marital poverty and economic hardship. Married Without Means, p. 3
Statistics have told those with “ears to hear” for years that the rate of divorce decreases, the older a couple is when married. Couples between the ages of 18-24 (or younger) have the highest rates of divorce among married couples. This age group of married couples also tend to suffer significantly lower incomes, many times at or even below poverty level. Poverty’s fallout among young people and society includes poor education, single parenting (related both to the high divorce rate and young, unmarried mothers), severe stress, poor mental and physical health, drug abuse, child abuse, abortion, and the ignominious welfare state-all issues that conservative Christians are deeply worried about.
Still, there are many examples of conservative celebrity Christians, politicians, and leaders who strongly promote the idea of early marriage as a panacea for society’s ills. The often-cited op-ed article from Christianity Today called, The Case for Early Marriage (July 2009), by Mark Regnerus, a sociologist with much to say on the topic of young marriages in the church-see also Regnerus’s similar article titled, Freedom to Marry Young (April 2009), from the Washington Post-seems to be mostly concerned with abstinence (rather a lack thereof), baby-making, the “decreasing market value of women” as they age, and economics; it is cheaper to live together with someone, pooling resources, than living alone, he insists. Continuing in the CT article, Regnerus appears to idolize marriage as a “formative institution” and elevates it to the status of duty, meanwhile stigmatizing singles (especially women) as if they are forced to settle into their singleness. Regnerus is a real romantic.
The Duggar Family’s long-running reality TV show has garnered them much influence. The Duggars, of “19 Kids and Counting” fame, do not self-identify as a Quiverfull family, but they do maintain similar strict beliefs concerning children, homeschooling, marriage, modesty, patriarchy, and courtship. “Jim Bob and Michelle were married on July 21, 1984, just after Michelle’s high school graduation. She was 17 and he was 19 when they married; neither went to college” 19_Kids_and_Counting.
It would seem that oldest son Josh Duggar and his wife, Anna, were married when they were both 20. Anna says on their webpage, she first saw Josh via the TV show when they were both 13. They met at a homeschooling conference in 2006, when they would have both been 18. After a carefully cultivated courtship, they were married in 2008 and now have 4 children.
Josh was recently found to have cheated on his wife with a prostitute (at least once), engaging in rough, unprotected sex and potentially exposing both his wife and unborn child to venereal disease. Of Josh’s two married sisters, one was married at 20, the other waited until the ripe old age of 24. Both young women became pregnant immediately, none of the Duggars have gone to or have been encouraged to attend college. Although the Duggars’ lifestyle has worked for them financially because of their celebrity status, the average couple who marries early becomes just another statistic.
Child Marriage: A Rose by Any Other Name
Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly;defend the rights of the poor and needy. Proverbs 31:8-10
Rather than at least remaining neutral on the subject or better yet, speaking up for voiceless girls and young women like the Bible adjures Christians to do, certain teachers, preachers, and celebrities like Swanson, Bruehner, Robertson, the Duggar family, and others, actively encourage early marriage, even child marriage, although most Evangelicals draw the line at age 18-20 (*Disclaimer: I do not know that the Duggars advocate for child marriage, but the others in this list have, as has already been discussed in this article).
“At a Sportsmen’s Ministry talk in 2009, [Phil] Robertson had some advice for a young man. “Make sure that she can cook a meal, you need to eat some meals that she cooks, check that out,” he said. “Make sure she carries her Bible. That’ll save you a lot of trouble down the road. And if she picks your ducks, now, that’s a woman.”
“They got to where they’re getting hard to find,” Robertson remarked. “Mainly because these boys are waiting until they get to be about 20 years old before they marry ’em. Look, you wait until they get to be 20 years old, the only picking that’s going to take place is your pocket.” The Duck Commander company founder added: “You got to marry these girls when they are about 15 or 16, they’ll pick your ducks. You need to check with mom and dad about that of course.” “
In a radio broadcast defending Phil Robertson’s comments above, former Executive Director of Christian Home Educators of Colorado, and current head of Generations with Vision, Kevin Swanson stated: “Remember that one concern people had over Duck Dynasty, when the guy came out and said the girls, 15 or 16 years of age, she’s able to get married, they got all mad. Because boy, you get a girl married at 15 or 16 years of age, that’s a sin! Dave Bruehner: Well it is because she doesn’t have a whole life of fornication ahead of her anymore. Later on, the men remarked, “I mean, think about what the president of the Girl Scouts would say about this, Dave, if we said, “Hey, these 15 year old girls, 16 year old girls, they may be ready to get married. They don’t have to live these, you know, independent lifestyles.””
The story of Matthew Chapman is famous/infamous depending on your perspective. He is well-known in conservative homeschooling groups for courting a young teen named Maranatha while she was 13 and he 25, eventually marrying her with her father’s permission and approval when she was 15 and Matthew was 27.
It seems that Matthew Chapman is going to be a keynote speaker at Christian Home Educators of Ohio’s annual homeschool convention this summer. This is a major convention…In addition to Matthew serving as keynote speaker, his wife Maranatha is slated as a featured speaker. Matthew runs Kindling Publications, and both Maranatha and Lauren is featured heavily on organization’s website.Matthew Chapman and Why I Included Lauren’s Picture-Love, Joy, Feminism
Child marriages heralded by the above-mentioned men, seem genuinely logical in their anachronistic culture which sometimes encompasses such names as Quiverfull, Patriarchy, and Evangelical Homeschool Movement (*there is much overlap here; not all families that adhere to these labels believe all the same things, perhaps especially on the issue of underage marriages). These movements, along with some Fundamental Evangelical Christians and churches, strive to bring back a romanticized 1950s, in some cases 1850s, believing those times to be Christianity’s heyday in America. Interestingly, or perhaps not surprisingly, those eras in history saw higher rates of underage marriages and sexual abuse, wife submission, and patriarchy-centered households -all hallmarks of the above-mentioned movements. It wasn’t until women’s groups moved strongly to shed light on the issues and promote change, that child marriage began to become a thing of the past.
While many might consider child marriages to be a form of pedophilia, medically and legally speaking, pedophilia is limited to sexual attraction to prepubescent children and child molestation is limited to the sexual touching of children 14 and younger. Sexual abuse, then is the term to be used concerning the topic of child marriages.
The manipulation and power plays on the part of adult authority figures/taking advantage of a child’s innocence, naivete, and inability to say “no”
The safety and health of a child which includes the possibility of pregnancy, STDs, and/or physical damage
Using a child for the gratification of an adult
While the legal definitions exclude underage, child marriages from being classified as pedophilia or child molestation, there are still strong similarities because of the unique, fundamental culture of the groups that propose it:
The young girls in such families are not able to give their own consent, because the consent is settled between the father-patriarch and the bridegroom.
There are significant power plays on the part of older adults as they take advantage of such a sheltered girl’s innocence, naivete, and inability to say “no”.
The safety and health of the young lady is not taken into consideration, since medicine has shown how dangerous pregnancy can be for teens and their babies, yet in many of these families, contraception is considered a terrible sin against God. As was seen in the Josh Duggar-Ashely Madison case (see link above), these innocent teen girls may still be at risk of STDs as well.
Finally, these young marriages are pushed or arranged purely for the gratification of the adults involved and not the benefit of the girl.
Conclusion
Young/Early marriages occur between at least one party who is between 18-24 years old. In most cases, the couple are peers in age.
Young/Early marriages are often encouraged among traditionally-minded churches and religious groups as a way to reduce sexual sin and single parenthood.
Young/Early marriages and child marriages have the highest rates of divorce among married couples. Many times, young couples are uneducated, leading to poverty, which in turn leads to a variety of personal, familial, and social problems.
Child marriages are marriages that occur between at least one party who is between 12-17 years old. In many cases, the minor is a female and the bridegroom is in his mid-20s or older.
Child marriages are happening in the United States due to the culture of immigrants coming in and religious fundamental cults throughout the states.
Child marriages are a form of sexual abuse, no matter how prettily packaged it may seem.
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I find it interesting and enlightening that Josh Duggar stated on that cheating site that he wanted a girl who could speak her mind and wear jeans…something 100% opposite of his wife and is considered taboo among his family for women to do. I think that alone shows how women under patriarchy or legalist christianity are being misled as to what the Bible really says about God’s will for women. The Duggars ascribe to the teachings of Bill Gothard, privately but not publically since their guru is up on charges of sexual molestation.
p.s. I got married at age 22 and my husband was 25 and we went through all sorts of struggles, mainly due to legalist christianity trying to tell us how to live our lives about what we wanted to do and did not want to do. As a result my husband has many many illnesses and i have had to carry the burden of being a wayward wife because i have independent thoughts of my own and have many decisions apart from him.
I find it interesting and enlightening that Josh Duggar stated on that cheating site that he wanted a girl who could speak her mind and wear jeans…something 100% opposite of his wife and is considered taboo among his family for women to do.
I find it interesting that his ideal Jezebel Harlot sounds a lot like what my generation would call “the girl next door”. Shows just how out-of-it his Perfect Christian Family Upbringing was.
(And then there was the OTHER Josh Duggar Scandal — where he felt up and groped his underage sisters. And the hot-and-heavy “Hand Sex” whenever him and Anna held hands on the show during Courtship(TM)…)
◾The young girls in such families are not able to give their own consent, because the consent is settled between the father-patriarch and the bridegroom.
Sometimes including a Bride Price — bridegroom pays cash up front to get father-patriarch’s consent, to the tune of anywhere between $2000 and $20,000. You pay your money, you get your merchandise.
◾Young/Early marriages and child marriages have the highest rates of divorce among married couples. Many times, young couples are uneducated, leading to poverty, which in turn leads to a variety of personal, familial, and social problems.
Making them even more dependent on Patriarch/Paterfamilias/Daddy.
Feature, not Bug.
And don’t forget the 200-Year Plans for the Patriarch’s Dynasty (including estates and house servants). In the words of (Patriarch) Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones:
“Making them even more dependent on Patriarch/Paterfamilias/Daddy.
Feature, not Bug.” Yes! Very much so. Do you have any reference points for the Bride Price? I would be interested in looking into that.
“Bride Prices” (aka dowries) are still very common in very poor, rural areas of China and India, despite governmental attempts to quash the practice because it is so detrimental to women and the poor (I heard a story on NPR about this some years ago.) Dowries were quite common in the western world up until Victorian times as well, and to some degree, the “Bride Price” lives on in the form of the conventional wisdom/tradition that it is the responsibility of the bride’s father/parents to pay for their daughter’s wedding. Which was one of the main reasons my husband and I said “f*** tradition” and eloped to Las Vegas, taking not a dime from my parents (who didn’t approve of my husband anyhow.)
Also worth noting: my husband and I were 27 and 28, respectively, with degrees and careers established, when we wed. We are still very happily married 20 years later. We both came from families where early marriage was the norm, between ages 18 and 22, generally. The only underage marriage I know of was a cousin who deliberately knocked up his 16-year-old girlfriend when he was 17 so he could marry her, because he believed that was the only way he could get her out of a really bad home situation. Needless to say, that marriage did not end well…and neither have many of the other early marriages in my family. Poverty, divorce, remarriage (sometimes multiple times) and misery are the norm, not the exception. Those in our families who waited until they were older to wed are happier, period, than those who wed early.
The only people who seem to benefit from early marriage are divorce lawyers, therapists, and Patriarch types who aren’t happy unless everyone else around them is miserable.
All I can remember is some anecdote on one of the Spiritual Abuse blogs when the subject was Christianese Courtship. Woman commenter said she broke the Courtship engagement Patriarch Daddy had set up with a guy seriously older than her and Daddy had to return the $20,000 the guy had paid him for the arrangement. Apparently took place in THIS country.
I know of some child marriages due to my work in the public school system.
I had one student who dropped out of school at age 18 when she was very close to graduating. I called her house to see what was going on. She told me that her husband was concerned that she was flirting with boys during school. I hadn’t realized that she was married and asked some follow-up questions. They had married when she was 16 and he was 22 because her parents were being deported and wanted to be sure that she had someone to look after her while she was alone in the US. (My student was a US citizen and had never lived in Mexico.) She wasn’t interested in leaving him until she finished schooling and he wasn’t abusive (although I consider making your wife drop out of school to be abusive). The student was highly motivated to finish school.
So…I improvised and threw a Hail Mary pass.
I asked her if he would be willing to come to school so we could all work out a plan together. He was. I swallowed my pride and offered to act as a chaperone….implied that the female student had never even looked at another boy…..mentioned increased earning power for people with HS diplomas and how much more she could make with the CNA she was planning to get. He decided to let her finish school.
She finished school four months later. I wrote a letter of recommendation for her CNA program. She got through it with flying colors. She filed divorce papers within the year.
Her story worked out as well as it could – but she was never systematically denied an education like most of the previously homeschooled kids I had in class. If she had been 2 years away from graduating rather than a few months, I doubt it would have worked out.
OMG Would you please tell this girl off for me? (Or set her straight). She thinks that getting married underage is a good idea /SIGHS LOUDLY. Here’s the link to her video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge2bdemUAKo
Thank you Loura! I hope this girl learns something. I really enjoyed your article, there’s no way I want to get married young but I’ve heard young marriage being spoken of as a good thing an annoyingly high amount of times (it almost starts to seem like it wouldn’t be so bad) so it’s great to read your article and be reminded again of why it’s not.
PS. If I have to hear another person say that two people should get married young to avoid sexual ‘sin’ I’m going to scream!
Thank you for the kind words, AWCV! “…Two people should get married young to avoid sexual ‘sin’” This was pretty much the reason my husband and I married when we did. So much grief could have been spared us, and continual setbacks from choices we made in our late teens…but it is only one part of a larger, religious cultural mindset.
I was taught to trust, respect, and obey my elders, but my parents were shocked at the elders who ended up roping me in!
That’s a good question, but I do not have the answer. One reason some leaders push for such matches, is to prevent divorce. When a young woman has no education and no career experience, it is very hard for her to make an independent stand, particularly if her family will not even emotionally support her.
If the woman is pregnant or has children at a young age and has no job prospects or experience being independent, those circumstances often force such women into staying in bad or unhealthy situations. Couple that with leaders and parents who have stricter views on divorce than God himself, who spiritually and emotionally manipulate these women into staying married. | {
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JONNIE PEACOCK LAUNCHES PARASPORT POWERED BY TOYOTA, AN ONLINE HUB TO HELP DISABLED PEOPLE BE MORE ACTIVE
Parasport powered by Toyota, an online hub to empower disabled people to become more active, is being launched today by Jonnie Peacock.
The double Paralympic champion has teamed up with ParalympicsGB and Toyota (GB) PLC to support the campaign which will create one online destination for disabled people to discover and share the physical activities best suited to them.
Recent research shows that inactivity is more common for those with a disability or health condition* (42%) than those without (21%). Parasport helps to address this challenge by encouraging people with disabilities to try new physical activities.
New Parasport will:
Connect disabled people to opportunities to get active through a new digital platform: Parasport.org.uk, creating a vibrant community for people to share their experiences and become advocates for the benefits of being more active.
Increase awareness of physical activity opportunities that are available for disabled people in the UK by enriching current listings and sourcing new ones, including accessible and inclusive sessions
Challenge attitudes to disability and empower disabled people and their networks by providing the information, inspiration and confidence they need to become active
Parasport will be launched with a new film campaign, “It’s Anyone’s Game”, which focuses the dramatic spotlight of sports ads onto an everyday cast of people with different impairments. It treats what usually happens in local leisure centres with a reverence usually reserved for the elite few, showing that sport and activity really is “anyone’s game”. For those with visual impairments, an audio described version of the advert is also available, narrated by ‘The Last Leg’s’ Alex Brooker in his own unique style. The campaign will make its TV debut in Channel 4’s The Last Leg on Friday 15th March and is predicted to reach over a million viewers.
The ad will also feature across a number of online and video channels, including Sky’s ‘AdSmart’ platform, ALL4 and YouTube, and will be viewed more than 2 million times. There will also be a strong presence across social media platforms, with the ad featuring on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, reaching more than 20 million people.
The campaign will also target the family and friends who can play a vital role in supporting disabled people to take part in more physical activity.
Jonnie Peacock commented: “I wanted to be part of this campaign as sport and physical activity has transformed my life in so many ways, providing countless great memories, friendships and filling me with the confidence to try new things – even dancing!
“There is a sport or activity out there for everyone, no matter their age, gender or impairment – it doesn’t matter whether you are competitive or not. My message to everyone is if you just turn up and have a go, you are already a winner.”
Mike Sharrock, Chief Executive of the British Paralympic Association, said: “Parasport is a key part of helping us to deliver our vision: through sport, inspire a better world for disabled people.
“I am delighted that working closely with Toyota we are able to highlight the wide range of opportunities available for disabled people and provide the resources to empower them to make informed choices about the activities they would like to try.”
Andrew Cullis, Toyota GB Marketing Director, said: “We are extremely excited to start on this journey with ParalympicsGB. Toyota believes strongly in creating a lasting legacy for our partnerships with the Olympic and Paralympic Games and this is an important step in our commitment to make movement better for everyone.
“Through Parasport Powered by Toyota, we have a great opportunity to significantly improve the landscape of grassroots disability sport in the UK, helping to remove some of the barriers to getting active.”
The UK network of 180 Toyota retailers will also use Parasport to engage with their local communities and encourage fundraising and volunteering initiatives with employees.
Toyota GB’s support for the national Olympic and Paralympic teams accords with the spirit of Start Your Impossible, Toyota’s global campaign for inspiring the world to move in its role as the Worldwide Mobility Partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
Toyota respects the Games as the world’s biggest celebration of human movement, where the true power of sports to challenge, inspire and unify people can be learned.
Start Your Impossible reflects the many ways in which sport can bring people together and help them achieve their goals through dedication, team-work and the joy and excitement of competition. At a global level, Toyota is working with the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to help aspiring Olympians and Paralympians reach their dreams, regardless of their circumstances.
About the British Paralympic Association and ParalympicsGB
The British Paralympic Association is the National Paralympic Committee for the UK, responsible for the promotion of the Paralympic movement in Great Britain and selecting, entering and funding the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Paralympic team.
ParalympicsGB is the Great Britain and Northern Ireland Paralympic Team competing at the summer and winter Paralympic Games. We know that the outstanding performances of our athletes have a powerful impact on the British public and can shift perceptions of disability in society, helping to inspire a better world for disabled people.
Our partners are tremendous supporters of the BPA and ParalympicsGB both through direct funds as well as their own fundraising activity. Further details are available at http://paralympics.org.uk/partners. | {
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Vitesse plans $23.2M stock offering
Shares of Vitesse Semiconductor Corp. plummeted 11.3 percent on Thursday after the company revealed plans to raise $23.2 million by selling common stock.
The Camarillo-based chip design company said Thursday that the proceeds of the offering, a planned sale of 7.5 million shares at $3.35 each, would be used for working capital and general corporate purposes.
Vitesse shares have traded in the $2.23 to $4.69 range over the past 52 weeks and closed at $3.39 after news of the offering.
The planned raise would be Vitesse’s third stock offering in two years as it works to pay off debt. In June 2013, the company closed an offering of 18.7 million shares at a price of $2.15 for gross proceeds of $40.2 million. In December 2012, it announced an offering that netted $17.1 million.
The proceeds from the sales have gone toward paying off debt and growing a new line of business for Vitesse. The company still had $48.3 million in total debt on its balance sheet as of March 31, securities filings show, but that’s down from about $160 million when CEO Chris Gardner took the top executive position in 2006. The company had $48.2 million in cash at the end of March.
“It’s been a very good year,” Gardner told the Business Times in April. “In the technology business, particularly in the world of semiconductors, transitions like this one just take a long time. We’ve definitely seen the transition happening. Our new product revenues are growing nicely.”
Vitesse lost $22.1 million last year on $103.7 million in revenue. In 2012, it lost $1.1 million on $119.5 million in revenue.
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Vitesse’s target companies are ones that move around a lot of data over short to medium distances, mostly outside data center environments.
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Real estate prices have been on the decline for the last three years due in large part to oversupply from the off-plan market, and not enough demand to meet handovers.
Those monitoring the headlines recently will have noticed a volley round of new initiatives that are set to boost the real estate sector in the UAE.
First, the visa and company ownership reforms set for the end of this year. Then, the Dubai Land Department's efforts to bring real estate transactions online and cut out red tape by Q1 2020. Then, this week, Dubai and Abu Dhabi went back and forth on their own economic stimulus plans.
"We have seen the market shift in different ways over the last few years, a significant amount of supply was released into the market and majority of sales in 2017 were on off-plan units [70%]," says Lynnette Abad, Director of Research & Data at Propertyfinder Group.
"The amount of new supply in the market has put pressure on sale and rental prices with both declining over the last three years. This is not necessarily a bad thing, as the cost of living in Dubai has been relatively high, therefore a decline in prices have helped many households," she adds. "The new proposals will continue to relieve the pressure put on by simple cost of living."
Of particular interest for the real estate sector and residents is the creation of permanent home licences for working from home, instant licensing for most commercial license types and all government services, new faster payments for private sector contractors and a review of fines incurred by delays they cause, and a cost-cutting review of building regulations for residential and commercial properties. Further detail on these initiatives is expected within 90 days.
For Dubai, the school fees freeze for the upcoming academic year may ease the burden in households already feeling the pinch of VAT, and encourage people to stay in the country longer.
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WebGL was created initially at Mozilla, standardized by the Khronos Group, and supported by Google
A security firm raised new concerns today about WebGL--but Microsoft
piled on with an opinion that's likely more damaging to fans' hopes for a
universal 3D Web graphics standard. "We believe that WebGL will likely
become an ongoing source of hard-to-fix vulnerabilities," Microsoft said
in a security blog post flatly titled "WebGL Considered Harmful." "In
its current form, WebGL is not a technology Microsoft can endorse from a
security perspective."
Microsoft Declares WebGL 'harmful' to Security
The move effectively kills WebGL fans' hopes, at least for now, that WebGL could become a standard Web programmers could count on finding in modern browsers. And that means one hot area of programming, games development, won't have an easy, unified way to tackle Web-based software.
WebGL was created initially at Mozilla, standardized by the Khronos Group, and supported by Google. It's built into Chrome and Firefox right now, giving those browsers a way to display hardware-accelerated 3D graphics useful for games and other visually rich tasks.
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Our Charity Work
At Aveley Lodge we want to support local charities, because we know they matter to our residents, staff and our visitors and make a big difference in the community we serve.
Over the years we have regularly supported various charities such as the British Legion, HistioUK, Cancer Research UK, Children in Need and Red Nose Day by donating money or making items with the help of our residents which we have either then sold to raise funds or have donated. We have collected thousands of used stamps in the past from our residents, staff and visitors which we have then sent to charities such as Nowzad Dogs and Guide Dogs for the Blind and are currently collecting for the charity Canine Partners. We also support the annual World Wildlife Day set up by the charity World Wide Fund for nature (WWF). On the 14th June 2018, our residents took part in the Cupcake Challenge in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society by getting involved with the baking and decorating process and then enjoying their tasty treats with friends, family and our staff while raising £141 for a worthy charity at the same time.
Our resident knit and natter group alternate the charities every three months which the residents knit for. In the past, hats and booties have been made for the babies in Special Care at our local hospital and we aim to help a local homeless charity and animal welfare charity by making blankets. We host special themed days where special cakes are made by our residents and items sold for specific causes and we also support our local Church here in Fingringhoe too.
Aveley Lodge has previously supported Exploring Educational Opportunities (EEO) in Colchester for assistance with one of their educational courses they are running in conjunction with Refugee Action – Colchester.
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much” Helen Keller
Our chosen charity though that we predominantly fundraise for is The Isobel Parmenter Memorial Fund, a special named fund attached to the charity The Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group (registered charity number 286669) . This cause is very close to our hearts as Isobel was the much loved daughter of Registered Care Home Manager and Business Owner Michael Parmenter and PR Manager Suzanne, and Niece to Co-Business Owner and Finance Manager, Deborah Blick. Isobel sadly passed away in October 2014 aged only 22 months old from a rare cancer called Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis (LCH). For further details about the fund and the charity please watch the video opposite and visit www.cclg.org.uk/Isobel-Parmenter-Memorial-Fund
With the love, help and support of the residents, their families and our fantastic staff team by participating in cake sales, theme days, high teas, “wear a funny hat” day, barn dances, 10k runs to the extreme of skydiving, they have all helped us raise to date over £40,000 in memory of Isobel for her fund and other related charities such as HistioUK, Cancer Research UK, East Anglian Children’s Hospices and Well Child. Suzanne and Michael Parmenter were runners up in the “Community Champions Award” at the Pride of Essex Awards in November 2015 for their fundraising efforts, an achievement they are highly proud of.
On the 28th September 2017, the Registered Care Home Manager Michael Parmenter and his nephew and fellow staff member Jake Blick successfully summited Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania raising just under £5,000 for the Isobel Parmenter Memorial Fund. On 25th March 2018, Michael completed the first ever London Half Marathon for “Make a Wish Foundation” raising just under £500 and then on 22nd April 2018, he also successfully completed the prestigious London Marathon in 6 Hours 30 minutes, raising just over £1,579 in memory of Isobel.
In May 2018, Michael, Suzanne and Deborah were runners up at the Essex County Council Who Will Care? Awards 2018 for the Business Award in recognition for making an impact on their local community through volunteering and charity work and were finalists at the National Family Business Awards 2018 for the Big Heart award, again, for their charity work. In April 2020, Michael will take part in the London Marathon.
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Context The clinical syndrome of lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common diagnosis in older adults presenting with lower extremity pain.
Objective To systematically review the accuracy of the clinical examination for the diagnosis of the clinical syndrome of LSS.
Data Sources MEDLINE, EMBASE, and CINAHL searches of articles published from January 1966 to September 2010.
Study Selection Studies were included if they contained adequate data on the accuracy of the history and physical examination for diagnosing the clinical syndrome of LSS, using a reference standard of expert opinion with radiographic or anatomic confirmation.
Data Synthesis Four studies evaluating 741 patients were identified. Among patients with lower extremity pain, the likelihood of the clinical syndrome of LSS was increased for individuals older than 70 years (likelihood ratio [LR], 2.0; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.6-2.5), and was decreased for those younger than 60 years (LR, 0.40; 95% CI, 0.29-0.57). The most useful symptoms for increasing the likelihood of the clinical syndrome of LSS were having no pain when seated (LR, 7.4; 95% CI, 1.9-30), improvement of symptoms when bending forward (LR, 6.4; 95% CI, 4.1-9.9), the presence of bilateral buttock or leg pain (LR, 6.3; 95% CI, 3.1-13), and neurogenic claudication (LR, 3.7; 95% CI, 2.9-4.8). Absence of neurogenic claudication (LR, 0.23; 95% CI, 0.17-0.31) decreased the likelihood of the diagnosis. A wide-based gait (LR, 13; 95% CI, 1.9-95) and abnormal Romberg test result (LR, 4.2; 95% CI, 1.4-13) increased the likelihood of the clinical syndrome of LSS. A score of 7 or higher on a diagnostic support tool including history and examination findings increased the likelihood of the clinical syndrome of LSS (LR, 3.3; 95% CI, 2.7-4.0), while a score lower than 7 made the diagnosis much less likely (LR, 0.10; 95% CI, 0.06-0.16).
Conclusions The diagnosis of the clinical syndrome of LSS requires the appropriate clinical picture and radiographic findings. Absence of pain when seated and improvement of symptoms when bending forward are the most useful individual findings. Combinations of findings are most useful for identifying patients who are unlikely to have the diagnosis. | {
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Verse 1
I’m alive I feel so fine, hey
I decide what I want in my life hey
You don’t know, you can’t let go
You hold on to society’s status quo
(Hey)
Yes I know, I’m unique with my flow
I use it so I know that I will rule this globe
You can’t just fly so you can’t decide what you have in mind so you keep it inside
Chorus
I want to go O O, with you home O O
I want to Danceee, With you , Dancee
I want to go O O, with you home O O
I want to Danceee, With you , Dancee
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
I’m never worried hey
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
Hey I’m never worried dnt mind.
Verse2
I explode with this song I wrote,
my fans made me float
And I don’t dig boats
Yes Life is Hard, folks will break your heart
People grow apart, a stone and a heart
(High)
But you have to, believe in you
When no one else does, you will make it through (Hey)
Wipe your eyes my dear don’t you cry
Sometimes we must die so we can be alive.
Chorus
I want to go O O, with you home O O
I want to Danceee, With you , Dancee
I want to go O O, with you home O O
I want to Danceee, With you , Dancee
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
I’m never worried hey
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
Hey I’m never worried dnt mind
Bridge
I decided, all my people I will never let u down, Never let you down
If ur excited, join me on the floor play the music loud, play the music loud
Some people will say, that you are not the way
You don’t have to listen to them talk
But if you come my way
Then you will understand
You will understand this path I walk
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
I’m never worried hey
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
Hey I’m never worried don’t mind
Chorus
I want to go O O, with you home O O
I want to Danceee, With you , Dancee
I want to go O O, with you home O O
I want to Danceee, With you , Dancee
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
I’m never worried hey
But I don’t mind , hmmm, I don’t mind
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conversion
conversion
[kon-ver´zhun]
1. the act of changing into something of different form or properties.
2. an unconscious defense mechanism by which the anxiety that stems from intrapsychic conflict is altered and expressed in a symbolic physical symptom such as pain, paralysis, loss of sight, or some other manifestation that has no organic or physiological basis.
3. manipulative correction of malposition of a fetal part during labor.
conversion disorder a somatoform disorder characterized by symptoms or deficits affecting voluntary motor or sensory functioning and suggesting physical illness but produced by conversion. Called also conversion reaction.
Patients' anxiety is “converted” into any of a variety of somatic symptoms such as blindness, deafness, or paralysis, none of which have any organic basis. The anxiety may be the result of an inner conflict too difficult to face, and symptoms are aggravated in times of psychological stress. Patients often exhibit remarkable lack of concern, called la belle indifférence, about their symptoms, no matter how serious.
From their symptoms, patients achieve both the primary gain of relief from their anxiety and a number of secondary gains such as support and attention from others and the chance to avoid unpleasant responsibilities. Symptoms are often increased at times of psychological stress. The symptoms often have an important symbolic relationship to the patient's unconscious conflict, such as incapacitating illness in those who cannot acknowledge dependency needs. Symptoms are neither intentionally produced nor feigned, are not limited to pain or sexual dysfunction, and may affect a part of the body the patient considers weak. One of the first observed examples of conversion disorder was combat fatigue, in which soldiers became paralyzed and could not participate in battle.
Treatment of conversion disorder aims at helping the patient resolve the underlying conflict. Under former classifications, this disorder was called a neurosis (hysterical neurosis, conversion type).
3. In virology, the acquisition by bacteria of a new property associated with the presence of a prophage. See also: lysogeny.
[L. con-verto, pp. -versus, to turn around, to change]
conversion
/con·ver·sion/ (kon-ver´zhun) an unconscious defense mechanism by which the anxiety that stems from intrapsychic conflict is converted and expressed in somatic symptoms.
conversion
(kən-vûr′zhən)
n.
1.
a. The act of converting.
b. The state of being converted.
2. A change in which one adopts a new religion, faith, or belief.
3. Something that is changed from one use, function, or purpose to another.
4. Law The unlawful appropriation of another's property.
5. The exchange of one type of security or currency for another.
6. Logic The interchange of the subject and predicate of a proposition.
7. Football An extra point or points scored after a touchdown, as by kicking the ball through the uprights or by advancing the ball into the end zone from the two-yard line or a similar short distance.
8. Psychiatry The development of physical symptoms, such as paralysis or sensory deficits, as a response to stress, conflict, or trauma.
9. The expression of a quantity in alternative units, as of length or weight.
con·ver′sion·al, con·ver′sion·ar′y(-zhə-nĕr′ē, -shə-) adj.
conversion
[kənvur′zhən]
Etymology: L, convertere, to turn around
1 changing from one form to another; transmutation.
2 (in obstetrics) the correction of a fetal position during labor.
3 (in psychiatry) an unconscious defense mechanism by which emotional conflicts that ordinarily cause anxiety are repressed and transformed into symbolic physical symptoms that have no organic basis. Loss of sensation, paralysis, pain, and other dysfunctions of the nervous system are the most common somatic expressions of conversion.
conversion
Psychiatry An unconscious defense mechanism by which anxiety caused by intrapsychic conflict is converted and expressed in a somatically symbolic fashion Clinical Paralysis, pain, sensory loss
con·ver·sion
2. An unconscious defense mechanism by which the anxiety that stems from an unconscious conflict is converted and expressed symbolically as a physical symptom; transformation of an emotion into a physical manifestation, as in conversion hysteria. See: conversion hysteria
3. virology The acquisition by bacteria of a new property associated with presence of a prophage. See also: lysogeny
[L. con-verto, pp. -versus, to turn around, to change]
conversion
1. the act of changing into something of different form or properties.
2. manipulative correction of malposition of a fetal part during labor.
conversion formulae
formulae for conversion of one numerical mode of expression into a different mode, e.g. avoirdupois to metric weight.
conversion ratio
a measure of activity of the thyroid gland; it expresses the proportion of the total radioactivity of the plasma, subsequent to the injection of radioactive iodine, which is bound to protein (protein-bound iodine test).
Patient discussion about conversion
Q. What are the common caloric conversions? Hi my new friends, help me to find out how does caloric expenditure affect weight loss? What are the common caloric conversions?
A. Hi my new friend. Welcome to this community. I have given here the caloric equivalents for your reference:
Example: How does caloric expenditure affect weight loss? An individual creates a caloric deficit by walking one mile to and from work each day. Assuming a 100 calorie per mile caloric expenditure, how many weeks would it take to lose one pound? 1 lb = 3500 calories 2 miles per day x 5 days = 10 miles 10 miles x 100 calories = 1000 calories per week 3,500 calories ÷ 1000 = 3.5 weeks
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Q. While in a conversation with anyone they have about a minute before I loose tract and intrest, Is this ADHD I always feel like I have to go full speed 24/7 and can never relax, sounds strange I know but it seems to be catching up with me.
A. not necessarily...i see that you are 31. those symptoms are new? if so- thee are other conditions that might cause them. hyperthyroid can get you in that state too. so it might be a good idea to go and get checked up.
However, it is the individual institution's drug acquisition cost that is the most important factor in the cost comparison between these agents, and underscores the importance of determining the dose conversion ratio for a specific group of patients.
NYSE:TS) (BCBA:TS) (BMV:TS) (BI:TEN) announced today that its board of directors has approved a proposal to alter the conversion ratio of its American Depositary Shares (ADSs) from the current ratio of one ADS being equal to ten ordinary shares to a new ratio under which one ADS will be equal to two ordinary shares.
As a result of the reverse split, the conversion ratio of the company's Series A-2 preferred stock has been proportionately adjusted, which will decrease the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of each share of Series A-2 preferred stock from approximately 90.
As a result of the reverse split, the conversion ratio of our Series A-2 preferred stock will be proportionately adjusted, which will decrease the number of shares of common stock issuable upon conversion of each share of Series A-2 preferred stock from approximately 90.
The items identified by the Company relate to the valuation method used to account for certain equity issuances which did not properly include a full analysis of the embedded conversion feature associated with such issuances as required under EITF 98-5, Accounting for Convertible Securities with Beneficial Conversion Features or Contingently adjustable Conversion Ratios, or which were otherwise incorrectly valued.
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And here we are. For those of us who grew up from around 1985 to 2001, the mathebracketal beauty of a 64-team field is what the NCAA Tournament is all about. Today and tomorrow are a mixture of so many highs and lows that it’s impossible to keep track of it all. We won’t be able to do that, but we can at least get you ready. Here’s a preview on each of today’s evening games. Enjoy the Madness.
Villanova should take care of Lafayette, its Philadelphia area counterpart. (Mark Jordan/City of Basketball Love)
After leading Lafayette back to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2000, Fran O’Hanlon now gets the pleasure of facing his alma mater in the Round of 64. Problem is, there won’t be anything pleasurable about it. Villanova enters the Dance hotter than arguably any team outside of Kentucky, ripping off 15-straight wins to end season and drubbing opponents by nearly 17-points per game in that span. The Big East champs boast the fourth-most offense efficient in college basketball, while their defense has allowed over one point per possession just five times since January 19. The Leopards might actually wind up exceeding that mark – their offense is really good, and no other team in the tournament shoots as well from long distance (41.4% 3PT) – but their Patriot League-worst defense simply won’t be able to stop the Wildcats on the other end. Darrun Hilliard (37.8% 3PT), Josh Hart (46.8% 3PT) and the rest of Villanova’s motion attack should have a field-day from behind the arc against O’Hanlon’s zone, and Lafayette doesn’t really have the athletes to stop their dribble-penetration. Leopards’ forward Seth Hinrichs (13.1, 5.8) is a legitimate stretch-four and could have his moments on the offensive end, but barring some strange Pennsylvania voodoo, expect Jay Wright’s bunch to light up the scoreboard and win going away.
Just like in the Butler/Texas match-up, the lower seed is the favorite in this one. Purdue, making its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2012, is a two-point favorite in this match-up of contrasting styles. The Boilermakers are led into action by junior center A.J. Hammons and Big Ten defensive player of the year, junior Raphael Davis. Purdue’s biggest advantage on any given night is its size. Matt Painter has two seven-footers at his disposal in Hammons and freshman big man Isaac Haas. While Purdue averages a respectable 70 points per game, Cincinnati struggles in that category as it puts up just 62.4 a game. The Bearcats do get strong production from junior forward Octavius Ellis, who leads the team in both scoring at 10 points per game and rebounding at 7.3 boards per game. Expect this game to be a low-scoring grinder that will likely be close until the final buzzer. That being said, Cincinnati’s offensive issues will be too much to overcome and Purdue will move onto the Round of 32.
As the holiday break kicked in, some ACC teams and players were probably thrilled to review their last few weeks of action with family and friends. Others were undoubtedly just glad they had some time away from the hardwood to refresh and reset expectations. We’ve now had three weeks since we last evaluated the state of the conference’s players and coaches, so here’s the Holiday Edition of the ACC Stock Watch:
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Notre Dame. All the Fighting Irish have done since we last checked in is to reel off five straight wins, bringing their overall record to 12-1 (including an early ACC win over Florida State). Mike Brey’s team is one of the most dynamic offensive groups in the country, averaging 86.1 points per game and putting up 94 and 91 points, respectively, in blowout wins over Purdue and Northern Illinois. More impressive than the overall offensive output in those two games is that Jerian Grant scored a total of 21 points on just 5-of-22 shooting from the field. Once the All-American candidate returns to form, look out.
Virginia. Don’t look now, but the Cavaliers are finally getting their due as a serious national title contender. Tony Bennett’s team may be even better defensively this year than last, holding a talented Harvard team to eight first-half points en route to an impressive 76-27 win following a 17-point victory over rival VCU in Richmond two weeks prior. Duke and Louisville have gotten the majority of the attention so far, but the Cavaliers’ 11-0 start is something more pundits on the national scene are paying attention to.
Malcolm Brogdon and Virginia’s latest win, a throttling of Harvard, proved the Cavaliers are a player in the national conversation (AP Photo)
North Carolina. For all of the talk about this team’s uneven play and noticeable deficiencies, the Tar Heels actually have put together a nice stretch since our last stock watch. Although they fell to Kentucky in Lexington, it took the Wildcats’ best shooting day of the year to knock off the Tar Heels by a mere 14 points (plus North Carolina actually outscored the Cats in the second half). In addition to blowout wins over East Carolina and UNC-Greensboro, the Heels won an important non-conference battle with a good Ohio State team last weekend. At 8-3, there are still some reasons for pessimism in Chapel Hill, but you can’t ignore that Roy Williams’ team has earned some solid wins while playing the ACC’s toughest non-conference schedule.
Coming into the 2014-15 season, N.C. State’s biggest issue was to replace the scoring of T.J. Warren, last year’s ACC Player of the Year. With four games now under their belt, the Wolfpack are starting to give us some clues as to how they are going to try and compensate for the almost 25 points per game that Warren put up last year. A look at how Mark Gottfried and the N.C. State administration set up this season’s early schedule reveals a distinct plan of starting cautiously but challenging this young team afterwards. The first three contests were all against teams not in the nation’s top-250 and, as expected, the Wolfpack won each comfortably. On Sunday night, South Florida proved much more of a challenge in the season’s fourth game, as N.C. State led by around six to eight points for most of the way but had to survive a potential game-tying three at the buzzer to hold off the Bulls, 68-65.
N.C. State’s Trevor Lacey has led the Wolfpack with good all-around play. (Ethan Hyman/newsobserver)
Now the schedule really toughens as even before January the Wolfpack will face eight non-conference opponents that are currently ranked in KenPom’s top 90. Ironically, the only one that’s not in that highly rated group is Charleston Southern (#191) who somehow is #65 currently in the RPI. Of course that points out the ridiculousness that the RPI is still the primary metric that the NCAA Selection Committee uses to sort teams. Any system that at any point of the season has Charleston Southern ahead of Wisconsin (RPI #71) is a joke. But let’s get back to N.C. State and how they are compensating without T.J. Warren around. Read the rest of this entry »
Rush the Court is back with another edition of One on One: An Interview Series, which we will bring you throughout the preseason with previews of each of the major conferences.
With the college basketball season nearly upon us, we thought it would be a good idea to gather some expert opinions on the nation’s major college basketball conferences. As part of our national preview with the ACC, RTC correspondent Walker Carey (@walkerRcarey) recently had the pleasure of speaking with an ACC expert in Bret Strelow (@bretstrelow), the ACC basketball reporter for The Fayetteville Observer.
Rush the Court: Duke was an extremely talented unit last season, but it was ultimately done in by its defensive deficiencies in its stunning NCAA Tournament loss to Mercer. The Blue Devils once again have a talented roster and are widely projected to win the league. Will this season be any different than last when it comes to the defensive end of the floor?
Bret Strelow: It would be hard to get much worse. The Blue Devils ranked in the 100s in defensive efficiency, which is a far cry from what a Mike Krzyzewski-coached team usually is. With Jabari Parker, defense was not his calling card. Rodney Hood took on some tough assignments and struggled at times. The current thought around the Duke camp is that Jahlil Okafor at 6’11” and 270 pounds is a legitimate rim-protector. Duke can clean up some of its mistakes and pressure the ball a little bit more with Okafor back there. I think Duke should ultimately be a better defensive team, but we will see how much of a difference that will make.
RTC: Marcus Paige alone can probably keep North Carolina competitive in the ACC, but if the Tar Heels want to compete for the league crown, they are going to need a supporting cast to step forward. What Tar Heels can you see breaking out this season?
Strelow: It really might be a little bit of everybody. If Marcus Paige has to carry the load like he did for much of last season, North Carolina is probably not going to reach the goal that it has of contending for a Final Four and a national title. I think you can expect a little bit from everybody. Brice Johnson was extremely efficient last season in a secondary role behind James Michael McAdoo. If Johnson can stay out of foul trouble and guard well enough, I think his offense will be there. Kennedy Meeks has slimmed down. His offense has never been a problem. With Johnson and Meeks, you have two solid front line guys. When you look at the North Carolina freshmen class, Justin Jackson is a guy who has the uncanny ability to score. He has a way of scoring quickly and scoring in a way that does not require a lot of dribbles. I think he can really have a big year. He is probably more of an offensive threat than fellow freshmen Theo Pinson and Joel Berry II. I think outside shooting might still be an issue for North Carolina outside of Paige and if Jackson can hit a few. When you look at a guy like J.P. Tokoto, outside shooting is not his game. I think the Tar Heels have enough inside and with Jackson coming along, they are going to have enough to help Paige carry the load this season.
This team preview is part of the RTC ACC microsite’s preseason coverage. You will find a list with links to all the team previews on the ACC Microsite Preview Page, locatedhere.
Can Cat Barber run this team effectively?
NC State made its third NCAA Tournament appearance in a row last season as head coach Mark Gottfried cajoled his team to a surprising 22-14 record. The Wolfpack were immensely reliant on ACC Player of the Year T.J. Warren to get there, as he accounted for 34 percent of the team’s scoring and 32 percent of its shot attempts. Warren has since departed as a lottery pick of the Phoenix Suns, so NC State will put its hopes on a balanced scoring effort this season to make up for his lost production. That will start with sophomore point guard Anthony “Cat” Barber. His ability to protect the basketball and facilitate the offense while also looking for his own shot will largely determine his team’s fate this season.
Barber (#2) needs to utilize his speed but keep turnovers low to help move NC State along. (AP)
Barber was erratic in the early going last year, largely because he had been a score-first point guard in high school who was suddenly asked to find good shots for his teammates (primarily, Warren). Those struggles to run the offense led to Tyler Lewis earning a large share of the available minutes at the point, with the team often looking significantly more fluid with him running the show. That won’t be an option this year, as Lewis has since transferred to Butler. Barber’s improvement during conference play, where his assist-to-turnover ratio was just a tick above 2-to-1, could be a precursor for the floor leader’s 2014-15 campaign. If the sophomore can cut down on turnovers while improving his overall scoring (8.5 PPG) and three-point shooting (26.1%), he’ll be able to keep defenses honest and make the game much easier for his supporting cast. Read the rest of this entry »
The ACC Tournament finally came to life Thursday night when NC State took the floor against Miami. The Raleigh contingent was boosted by departing Maryland fans, as Wolfpack red bled into nearly every section at the Greensboro Coliseum. NC State still held on to the NCAA Tournament bubble, but desperately needed at least one marquee win to have a chance. Miami looked to play spoiler. Durham native TJ Warren had other ideas.
TJ Warren gets a chance for history and revenge Friday against Syracuse.(photo: Grant Halverson/Getty Images)
Warren is the best scorer in the ACC. Good luck finding someone to play devil’s advocate. He scores off the dribble, in the post, spotting up, you name it. Watching the Wolfpack grind out a win over Miami tonight, it was clear how Warren held his efficiency despite taking on nearly twice as many possessions. He picks his spots really well and has a great handle. Miami threw the book at NC State to stop him. Surprisingly, Jim Larranaga opened the game in man-to-man, switching to a zone before opting for a triangle-and-two as Ralston Turner found his groove. None worked. In the first half Miami did a good job playing Warren physically and switching on everything, but between Warren’s constant off-the-ball movement and Turner’s threes, the Hurricanes eventually wore down.
There has been a multitude of change in the college basketball landscape this season and the ACC is no exception. Incoming teams Syracuse, Pittsburgh and Notre Dame have had good to great success in their inaugural ACC seasons, with the Orange and Panthers looking like two of the conference’s most elite teams. Even Notre Dame, likely the weakest of the three after losing star guard Jerian Grant, has had its shining moment in defeating Duke last weekend. While the ACC has taken some hits and cannot lay claim as one of even the best two conferences in the nation, those three teams have done their fair share to elevate the overall profile and are not to blame. And as the college basketball landscape shifts, so too do the tactics and strategies used by coaches and programs to keep up with competitive trends. The utilization of transfers was once something of a rarity among power conference teams and an equalizer for mid-major programs, but it is now becoming a more widespread commodity. The ACC is not unique in that regard, as the league has its fair share of transfers playing major roles on its teams this year.
Transfers can often be viewed as damaged goods, and some people tend to shy away from them as a result. But with many young athletes bouncing between high schools for various reasons, it has become more of a collegiate trend in recent years for players to seek instant gratification elsewhere. Coaches have learned that some transfers can bring an instant dose of maturity to a team and provide leadership and experience to propel a team to the next level. Many successful programs today have used that to great effect, including 14-0 Iowa State and 13-1 Oregon. It is difficult for a coach bring in new players and get them to mesh properly, and sometimes it backfires. UMass senior guard Chaz Williams is a great example of a successful transfer on an Atlantic 10 contender who has played a large role in turning Derek Kellogg’s program around. While the ACC doesn’t have any of those this season, the seven ACC transfers listed below have been meaningful contributors and are not too shabby in their own right.
Boston Globe: You can tell that Steve Donahue believes in his team if you just look at how he scheduled this season. Unlike the cream-puff schedules of the past, Donahue decided to take the RPI head on this season. That means five non-conference road games along with four neutral games. But more interesting than his scheduling considerations are a motive beyond making the Big Dance: “I think it’s important that we separate ourselves somehow. […] Why would kids choose us? Why would fans be excited?” It’s very interesting that Donahue is already looking to carve out a niche in a bigger league where it certainly looks possible to get lost among the giants.
Sports Illustrated: Donahue’s RPI experiment got off to an ugly start with an overtime loss at Providence thanks to the new rule changes. 55 fouls in 45 minutes. Six players fouled out. And like Pete Thamel points out, Boston College wasn’t known for committing lots of fouls last season (in fact quite the obvious), though the team certainly played physically. Here’s to hoping coaches and players adjust quickly so we can avoid anymore games like this one.
Testudo Times: Here’s a good tempo-free heavy preview of Maryland this season. I’m most interested in the battle between Shaquille Cleare and Charles Mitchell for minutes. Here’s to hoping Maryland runs a twin towers line-up at least a little this season. This year Mark Turgeon has to get over the hump. I doubt his seat is hot (or even warm), as the athletic department probably wants some continuity going into the Big Ten–especially after the personnel nightmare following Gary Williams`s departure. But if Turgeon can’t get this team to the NCAA Tournament this season, red flags will start going up and he risks losing interest of a fan base that he’ll desperately need fully engaged as the Terrapins move to their new conference.
Run The Floor: Michael Rogner is very high on Duke this season (and he has every right to be if the Blue Devils continue shooting better than 70% from the floor). He`s also very high on Virginia, a team many are snubbing in favor of the gravitas that comes with the North Carolina and Syracuse programs. The only starter Virginia has to replace this season is the offensively challenged Jontel Evans. Sure his on-ball defense will be missed, but opponents will also miss being able to ignore one player as long as he wasn’t at the rim. Sophomores Justin Anderson and Mike Tobey also look ready to make the sophomore leap.
Burlington Times-News: NC State fans should be really happy about newcomer Desmond Lee`s play in its opener. While Cat Barber was getting most of the press this off-season, Lee looked like the second-best player behind TJ Warren (who was very quiet for half the game). If Lee, Barber, and transfer Ralston Turner all pan out, the Wolfpack will be a lot better than many predicted before the season.
North Carolina State head coach Mark Gottfried’s squad entered last season with the loftiest expectations the program had seen in some time. His Wolfpack was ranked as high as #6 in preseason national polls and was chosen as the odds-on favorite to win the Atlantic Coast Conference. Instead, immaturity and inconsistency from a team loaded with talent landed the team in a fourth-place tie after the conference regular season. NC State finished 24-11 and bowed out of its first-round NCAA Tournament match-up with Temple.
This year, expectations are drastically lower for Gottfried’s squad. Significant departures decimated his roster and left him with a very young team entering his third season in Raleigh. Gone are starters Richard Howell and Scott Wood to graduation and C.J. Leslie and Lorenzo Brown to early entry. Add to that the transfer to Connecticut of highly-touted freshman Rodney Purvis, who had an up-and-down first season at NC State, and the Wolfpack find themselves down all five starters from a year ago. Gottfried has assembled an impressive recruiting class for 2013-14 (though it may pale in comparison to the one he’ll have next year), but replacing all of that scoring and experience will be a mighty task for this year’s team. Gottfried’s returnees this year have experience, but much of it was in reserve situations and in spare minutes giving the aforementioned starters a breather.
The New York Times reports that incoming Kentucky freshman Nerlens Noel is being investigated by the NCAA for relationships among his inner circle. While some point fingers of allegations because of John Calipari and Kentucky’s involvement, CBSSports.com reminds us that this issue will continue to be a problem with many of the top recruits regardless of school affiliation. “Just change the name and you’ve got a new story,” a high-major assistant coach said to Jeff Borzello this week. But coaches like Bob Knight (long-time Calipari critic) and media members like Pete Thamel (author of the NYT story) continue to point to Calipari as what is wrong in college sports. “People want to say Calipari is the problem with the system,” said an SEC assistant coach. “They want to point their finger at him. But he’s no different than any of these other guys.”
Despite the buzz of allegations, Noel feels very confident that he will be eligible to play for Kentucky next season. He says that at this point the NCAA has not contacted him or his immediate family, and he feels that he is in a “great position to qualify,” even though he is aware of the investigation. “I don’t want to be too specific, but I’m in a good position to qualify,” Noel said in response to the NYT story. A Kentucky spokesman declined to comment, but Noel’s confidence has to be good news for the Cats.
While many of the nation’s top recruits end up in Lexington, Wright State transfer shooting guard Julius Mays may end up rejecting Cal’s Cats. Mays shot an impressive 42.4% from beyond the arc last season, but rather than use those talents for Kentucky he is looking instead at Matt Painter’s Purdue squad. “I would have a chance to score the ball and play guard with a great group of guys,” Mays said. “I feel like I could play for coach (Matt) Painter. I watch a lot of basketball, and any time Purdue is on, I watch them. You never know if this is my last visit. If I’m ready to choose, that’s what I will do.” Kentucky needs depth for next year’s team, and of course, a deadeye shooter wouldn’t hurt either.
Big guardRalston Turner is considering a transfer and has been granted a release from LSU’s new coach Johnny Jones, who was hired to replace Trent Johnson this offseason. Turner indicated that he would like to take some time to think about his decision, but his release does not necessarily mean that he is leaving the Tigers. “I have been given my release and I will be taking a visit (to another school),” Turner said. “That’s all. I didn’t say I was 100 percent leaving (LSU). It’s something I have thought about for a while and Coach Jones is allowing me to do it. I am going to take a visit and when it’s over I will weigh my options.” Turner averaged 9.1 points and 3.0 rebounds per game in his sophomore year with the Tigers, and would be a solid returning player for Jones in his first year on the bench for LSU.
A lot of talk has centered around non-traditional schedules and Calipari’s desire to play at neutral sites, and now Indiana coach Tom Crean is defending his position regarding the recently dropped rivalry between the Hoosiers and the Wildcats. “First off, someone asked me do you not want to play neutral sites? We have neutral sites,” Crean told reporters. “When the Crossroads Classic came in, that became something that was going to be locked in every year. Even though it’s in Indianapolis, it’s a neutral site. It’s not a home site. You always want to have the ability to play in exempt tournaments. We’ve done that in the past. We have it this year, playing in New York. So there’s three right there.” It is a shame that Indiana and Kentucky cannot find a way to play considering the history and tradition that goes into that rivalry, but ultimately Calipari and Crean (and obviously the rest of the athletics staff involved) have to do what is perceived to be in the best interest of their program. Both head coaches have done enough recently (Cal with a National Championship and Crean with rebuilding IU from shambles) that trust in terms of whether or not each program is going in the right direction should not be an issue. | {
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His fascination for Blockchain technology led to the decision to co-found ‘nexussquared’, a blockchain business platform based in Zurich. There he drove the efforts to enhance the attractiveness of Zurich and Switzerland for international start-ups. Through nexussquared, Daniel initiated blockchain meet-up groups across Europe and holds regular events in Zurich, Vaduz, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Tallinn.
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faith, hope and love
Yesterday our tree got a
a trim, only it isn’t really
our tree. It is actually our
elder, deeply rooted in
earth. Being closer to sun,
it beams. Scooping up wind,
it sings. Stretching across our lot,
it draws us in, only it really
isn’t our lot, our plot, our earth.
We belong to it, or so said
Chief Seattle, and I suspect
we would all do well to
trade “seize” for “see” and
be a bit more circumspect
at the prospect that we
own anything. We are
but a flicker across the
spectral vision of the divine
whose seeing us is the only reason
we have not yet slipped back into
the dust from whence tree imbibes life.
Yesterday, our tree got a trim.
Today, I touched its trunk and breathed.
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Not so very far from
the door You stand, You,
source of my life, my strife both.
You stand between here and there,
and yet ‘stand’ is not quite right:
You whom I chance to meet with
the breath of a child, in
the wrinkle of the aged, on
the hard, smooth surface of
a rock – grandfather, grandmother.
I do not know You and yet I know You knowing me.
Come, sit with me a bit.
Let our breath be as one, so when mine
ceases, death is bested by love.
Let our seeing be as one, so that hope
finds a fallowed field seeded with tears.
Let our hearing be as one, so I finally
hear the trees, the stars, singing You,
in my hearing, seeing, breathing
You.
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Last week at curling I had a most interesting interchange with a fellow in the locker room. He mentioned in passing that the lock on his locker was one he had in high school. He is a bit younger than me, but not so very much, and so I knew that his combination lock is about the same age as my eldest adult daughter. “You must have that number burned in your brain,” I commented, and he replied “Actually, I have no idea what three numbers open up this lock. My fingers just make the motions needed.” He said he would need to watch his fingers do the motions to find out what the numbers are. But I suspect that this wouldn’t work, because when I think about a repetitive task, I find that thinking about it gets in the way of doing it. He would probably have to have someone look over his shoulder while his fingers opened the combination. Every now and then I have a similar kind of experience when working with a bolt, or such, in a tight spot where I cannot see. It is almost as if I have to stop thinking, or think about something else while my hands go to work. It seems that our fingers sometimes know things that our heads do not.
There are philosophers who have noted that one of the conditions of the peculiar kind of thought that comes with being human has been a snuffing out our instinctual capacities. We have lost what other species retain: an ability to intuit when storms come, where danger lay, etc. Of course, these capacities are not entirely lost, and may be more lost for some people than others, for some eras more than others, etc. Some would argue that the age of enlightenment that ushered in the modern era, with scientific developments and the prizing of reason over faith, has caused an estrangement with flesh. Some might say that the enlightenment has cost us our body: we are no longer so comfortable or familiar with the skin we are in. That is probably overstating the matter. It is, I suspect, a question of degree. Our bodies are not stupid, we just have forgotten how to listen to them, or don’t take the time needed to do so.
There are, I suspect, ways to learn anew from our bodies. Spending time with children, with animals, and with trees, for instance, might help, or perhaps rolling dirt between our fingers as we bring it to our nose and smell again the whence of our existence. Spending time in quiet most certainly sharpens our hearing. Exercise can’t be bad. But above all, we need to learn to love our bodies. So many voices command us to despise our bodies. The religions get a bad rap for this, but there are resources in religions for reclaiming the body. It is important to note, for example, that in Christianity one of the favoured metaphors for the church is the body of Christ. If bodies were bad, this would not be the case. Other religions have other ways to affirm the body even while all religions have problematic practices. But I suspect that most of us will find that religion is not our biggest problem in making peace with our bodies. We need to turn away from advertisements. We need to refuse narratives that standardize what a good body is, and so the try to sell us products purported to make us in the image of the model we aren’t. Clever marketers tell us that beauty and worth have to manufactured and purchased. But as we look at the natural world around us, complete with the marvel of birth and the mystery of death, we are reminded that worth and beauty are created, not manufactured, and the fingertips of the creator are imprinted on us, on our body. And so, we can come to accept the body we have so that we can be the body we are.
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And then You come to me
again, and again, and again,
slipping Your words into the silence
of my speech. You right and write
my wrongs in strophes of
reconciliation, allowing
my ears to be hallowed
by Your cries; my
eyes to be sanctified by
the sight of Your tears
now made mine.
You are not
content to see
me face to face
but embrace me
from the inside out:
Your presence now my joy,
Your absence now my hope,
my words now my tongue
limping toward
You.
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Falls ebbs away in
this turning season. The
leaves no longer sing, now
aching to be
earth.
This gathering at
forest floor of raw
dying is primal, the
smell is sui generis, an
olfactory echo of the
odor of earth and birth
both, replete with
whiffs of bird’s
song and
the aroma
of being green: shot
through with chlorophyll, racing to leaf’s skin
And now this once verdant
blush lies at the feet of this
sylvan source
of life
of death
and everything
in between.
To everything there is a season…
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Saturday was leaf day at our house. It wasn’t really planned that way, although we did know that it was soon time to wrestle the trees’ labours to the curb, where the city will collect them in early November. We are fortunate in our neighbourhood to have this service, which occurs because we have an inordinate number of older trees that tower over our streets and homes. This time of year is so very gorgeous; as the leaves come down we find ourselves swimming in a sea of orange, and red, and yellow and a coral-like pink too.
My eldest and her boyfriend popped by Friday night, and in the morning Anelise exclaimed that she wanted to rake some leaves. I was quite glad for this intervention, and so the plan was that after brunch – we all had a handful of jobs to do – we would return to turn the yard from its fire-hued palette to green again. I went for a run, an especially lovely thing to do in autumn, and came back to find everyone hard at work. I gladly joined in, as we visited, and joked, and amassed the leaves at the curb, where they will be collected sometime in early November.
I do so much work that generates such little concrete results that I find a rich pleasure in things like raking leaves. A deep satisfaction attends my settling them curbside. I’m not sure if it is the rush of colour on the blue-black pavement, slick with rain from earlier in the day, or the return of the lawn to a contented fall green, but there is a kind of aesthetic pleasure in the process. Or perhaps it is the rhythm of moving a rake. I think at some deep level, it is because we were created to be moving and so many jobs these days are at desks, and the closest thing to activity that we manage is moving a mouse, or making our way to the coffee pot, and such.
Certainly, part of the attraction of this is the way it ritualizes our immersion in the cycles of the season. It seems many of us have lost our sense of identity with the earth. We live in a market driven world with an unrelenting concern with progress that drenches our days and drowns our souls. We are forever wondering about how our portfolios grow, how our careers advance, and how our communities compare with others. We feel like failure without progress. Nature doesn’t progress. It adapts. And deep down, I think, we know that we need to have this truth drench our very being, and bless us with contentment.
And so, we grinned today as we rallied our rakes in recollection of the cycle of life. Blood pushed around our body, and air cycled in and out of our lungs until we worked up an appetite for lunch. As we gathered around the board, and reminisced about this and that, it struck me that what goes around comes around: the “round” matters as much as most everything else. | {
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1x03Cadé Sindon té Sin & An Damhán Alla
Iarla continues on his journey in the third episode and meets Donegal sisters Maighread & Tríona Ní Dhomhnaill who sing a new rendering of their well known Cad é sin don té sin? a song they made famous in the 1970s with the ground-breaking group Skara Brae. He also meets Declan O’Rourke who records a new version of the humourous An Damhán Alla. | {
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Daily Archives: November 14, 2012
BuzzFeed: The White House announced on Wednesday that President Obama has nominated Judge William Thomas, an out gay man, to serve on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Thomas would be the first out LGBT black man to serve as a lifetime-tenured federal judge.
LifeNews: Leading pro-life attorney Phill Kline is involved in the fight for his life tomorrow at the Kansas Supreme Court — which political enemies may strip him of his law license for daring to prosecute Planned Parenthood.
Amy Ziettlow at Family Scholars: More than a century and a half ago Alexis de Tocqueville made the striking observation that an individualistic society depends on a communitarian institution like the family for its continued existence. The family cannot be constituted like the liberal state, nor can it be governed entirely by that state’s principles. Yet the family serves as the seedbed for the virtues required by a liberal state. The family is responsible for teaching lessons of independence, self-restraint, responsibility, and right conduct, which are essential to a free, democratic society. If the family fails in these tasks, then the entire experiment in democratic self-rule is jeopardized.
LifeNews: A Ohio legislative panel today approved legislation that will revoke taxpayer funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business. The vote is the first step in a long legislative battle to protect Ohio taxpayers.
Washington Post: Washington Teachers’ Union President Nathan Saunders said Wednesday that he wants to unionize the city’s charter schools and will push for legislative changes to make it easier to organize their teachers, who educate a growing number of D.C. students.
Wall Street Journal: Shedding light on the issues of divorce and health care, a new University of Michigan study estimates that 65,000 American women become uninsured each year as a result of marital dissolution.
MinnPost: In recent weeks yet another chapter has been opened in the controversy over the Anoka-Hennepin School District’s handling of bullying. A group of parents and students is petitioning school board Chair Tom Heidemann to remove a vocal anti-gay activist from a district anti-bullying task force.
Jennifer Roback Morse at the Ruth Institute: The policy proposal known as “same-sex marriage” is actually a proposal to redefine marriage. Instead of being a gender-based institution oriented toward the procreation of children and the good of the spouses, what is called “same-sex marriage” makes marriage into a genderless institution, oriented toward the good of adults only. Any possible negative consequences for children, according to this way of thinking, are not worth considering. We, and the children themselves, must simply accept any negative outcomes as collateral damage on the road to the nirvana of “marriage equality.”
Ryan Anderson at Double Think: Is there really “something highly contradictory,” as Kathryn Shelton argued here on Doublethink, about a position that “advocates the regulation of marriage, but rallies behind a platform for smaller government”? Or, on the contrary, is the promotion of marriage critical to limited government, as traditionalist conservatives—among others—regularly contend?
Jeff Jacoby at the Boston Globe: Supporters of same-sex marriage have reason to cheer after last week’s election. Supporters of democratic self-government, even those of us who oppose gay marriage, do too.
WorldNetDaily: German politicians from Angela Merkel’s governing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister Christian Social Union (CSU) told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that they are willing to accept Christian Syrians fleeing the violence in their country, in comments due to be published on Sunday.
WorldNetDaily: he HRC ranks U.S. companies according to their support and non-support for “gay,” lesbian, bisexual and transgender causes. The scale is from zero to 100, with those closest to zero being firms that are not supportive of homosexual policies, and those nearest 100 being very “gay”-friendly . . . Here is the latest list of companies scoring 100 percent on the index . . .”
Turtle Bay and Beyond: Just elected or re-elected to the 47-member Human Rights Council are the US, Germany, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Gabon, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Montenegro, Pakistan, South Korea, Sierra Leone, the United Arab Emirates, and Estonia.
Vatican Radio: Do people in Britain want to see genetically modified babies such as children being born with two genetic mothers? This is essentially the question at the heart of an ongoing government consultation over whether to allow two possible techniques intended to eliminate mitrochondrial diseases through genetic engineering of embryos.
LifeSiteNews: Parents and ratepayers in a Hamilton area school board will never know exactly what a homosexual activist told their children during a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) assembly a year ago. The Information and Privacy Commissioner (IPC) of Ontario upheld last week the decision of the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board (HWDSB) to “deny access to the record” of the speech.
Christian Institute: Sir Gerald Howarth, who served as a Defence Minister until September this year, made his concerns known in a letter to Defence Secretary Philip Hammond. Sir Gerald cautioned that a chaplain who was also a Church of England minister could be “disciplined or dismissed” for preaching in support of traditional marriage.
Christian Institute: Newspapers and Tory MPs have reacted strongly against George Osborne saying redefining marriage will help his party win the next election. One MP said: “The social liberal values of Notting Hill don’t translate well outside the M25.” The Daily Express called him a “part-time Chancellor” and said long-time Conservatives are “fed up seeing their party’s leadership trampling on their beliefs”.
The court held that a possessor of child porn images is not jointly liable for the total amount of restitution owed to victims by distributors of such images, because the amount of harm caused by possession is less than that caused by distribution. The Court also held that there is no right of intervention for child porn victims where claims of restitution are denied, but rather the appropriate remedy is to seek mandamus at the court of appeals pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3771(d)(3).
Baltimore Sun: Lori said he hopes the bishops can take better advantage of “the most persuasive argument of all” — the living example of “strong families with loving fathers, mothers and children” — and some of his colleagues suggested finding more positive terminology for their position, as they had in debates over abortion.
allAfrica.com: The House of Representatives Tuesday dared western nations and their donor agencies, advising them to keep their grants, aids and other financial assistance if the new condition for Nigeria to access such credit facilities was for the National Assembly to legalise same gender marriages.
The Atlantic: “The United States is, perhaps other than India, maybe, the most religiously diverse country in the world,” said Rassbach. “It’s a recipe for societal strife to force people to try to conform to a particular ideal.” Despite Americans’ evolving views on marriage and the increasing legal recognition of marriage equality, the strife around the definition of marriage isn’t going anywhere. “Do you really think that we’re going to be quiet and go away?” Brown said. “Just because the state says it’s so, we’re never going to accept it.”
allAfrica.com: “The President needs to come out with a clear statement to the Liberian people on the issue of same sex marriage; she has to take a definite position on the matter,” Rep. Henry B. Fahnbulleh (UP) once told reporters. However, after the US State Department took exception to President Sirleaf’s ambivalence on gay rights, she reconsidered, saying her government would “guarantee people’s civil liberties.”
PennLive.com: Harrisburg City Council unanimously adopted a law Tuesday night preventing protesters from being within 20 feet of entrances and driveways of abortion clinics and other medical facilities.
Boston Globe: In a partial defeat for the socially conservative wing of the Massachusetts GOP, the Republican State Committee effectively rejected the national party platform’s strict language on abortion Tuesday night. By a voice vote, the committee voted overwhelmingly to endorse Mitt Romney’s presidential platform as an addition to the current state party platform, rather than embrace the national plan.
Center for Reproductive Rights: Today the European Court of Human Rights re-affirmed its recognition of involuntary sterilization of Romani women as a major human rights violation in its ruling in I.G. and Others v. Slovakia. In the significant decision, the court found that sterilization without prior full and informed consent violated the applicants’ right to be free from inhuman and degrading treatment and their right to respect for private and family life. | Case of I.G and Others v. Slovakia
Rasmussen: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely U.S. Voters shows that 54% describe themselves as pro-choice on the issue of abortion, while 38% say they are pro-life. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Washington Post (AP): The debate over legalizing abortion in Ireland flared Wednesday after the government confirmed that a miscarrying woman suffering from blood poisoning was refused a quick termination of her pregnancy and died in an Irish hospital.
LifeNews: Americans United for Life (AUL) filed a brief today in Nebraska v. Health and Human Services, a case initiated by the state of Nebraska and six other states challenging the Obama Administration’s “HHS Mandate,” which requires that employers provide insurance coverage for all forms of FDA-approved “contraception,” including life-ending drugs and devices classified as “emergency contraception.”
WDBJ7.com: Roanoke County lawyer Paul Mahoney said he put in a lot of work to draft a policy that didn’t discriminate or set out to cause any religious divides. Mahoney got help drafting the 12-page resolution from the Liberty Council and the Alliance Defending Freedom.
Paul Coleman at the Bell Towers: “A secular society is not an anti-religious one. Rather, it is one where fundamental beliefs that we disagree about – beliefs that provide strong motivation to some but mean little or nothing to those who do not hold them – are left aside in public debate about communal decisions.” So says the European Humanist Federation. Such a statement is no doubt intended to comfort the religiously minded that often hold the sneaking suspicion that the secular vision for society is, a contrario, anti-religion. But do the secularists really practice what they preach, and is secularism really neutral in matters of religion and belief, as it is claimed.
Mathew Lu at Public Discourse: From the beginning of its existence a human being is always already a person because personhood belongs to it essentially as an instance of that natural kind. The second of a two-part series.
SCOTUS Blog: The Supreme Court will consider all ten of the same-sex marriage petitions at its private Conference on November 30, instead of at the next session on November 20, according to the Court’s electronic docket.
DailyCaller.com: By 6:00 a.m. EST Wednesday, more than 675,000 digital signatures appeared on 69 separate secession petitions covering all 50 states, according to a Daily Caller analysis of requests lodged with the White House’s “We the People” online petition system.
Christ Church Pentecostal is appealing a lower court’s decision to deny the church tax-exempt status on part of its property under the argument that they are not an integral part of the church’s ministry even though the facilities, a gymnasium and non-profit bookstore, are used exclusively for ministry outreach. Tennessee law allows similar facilities that are not on church property to be tax-exempt.
Pew Research: While Europe is not the region with the highest level of religious hostilities – that remains the Middle East-North Africa region – harassment and attacks against religious minorities continue in many European countries. Indeed, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, hostilities against Jews in particular have been spreading.
Law and Religion UK: The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg has agreed Resolution 2036 on Tackling intolerance and discrimination in Europe with a special focus on Christians, based on a Report by the Assembly’s Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination. | {
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For decades, photo manipulation software has been whittling the waists and thinning the thighs of celebrities and models, and the AMA says it’s caused unrealistic and unhealthy body image issues — especially among children and adolescents. | {
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About Unified
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History of Taekwon-Do
General Choi Hong Hi
General Choi Hong Hi – Father of Taekwon-Do
General Choi Hong Hi is widely recognized as the founding father of Taekwon-Do, something for which history will unquestionably give him due credit.General Choi dedicated virtually his entire life to the inception, development and proliferation of Taekwon-Do.Despite being a man of small physical stature he had an enormous, and positive, impact on millions of lives by successfully spreading Taekwon-Do throughout the world.
General Choi’s military career is noteworthy, however Taekwon-Do will unquestionably be his enduring legacy and it represents one of the great human works of our time.While General Choi’s Taekwon-Do, and the International Taekwon-Do Federation became synonymous, it should be remembered that the ITF was his administrative organization and not Taekwon-Do itself.The elements of Taekwon-Do are definitively detailed in the Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do, that General Choi wrote, and that should serve as the guiding light for those who are truly interested in preserving his beloved art.
What follows is a brief history of General Choi, the development of Taekwon-Do, and the ITF:
Choi Hong Hi was born during the Japanese occupation of Korea, on November 9th, 1918, in the rugged area of Hwa Dae, Myong Chun District, in what is now North Korea.By all accounts he was a diminutive and frail child.During his early teens he was sent to study calligraphy under Mr. Han II Dong a teacher who was also versed in the traditional Korean foot fighting art of Taek Kyon.In addition to calligraphy, Mr. Han engaged him in the rigorous exercises of Taek Kyon to help build up his body and confidence
At the age of 19 Choi Hong Hi was sent to Japan to further his education, first at college in Kyoto and later, in the law faculty of Choong Ang University in Tokyo.While there he began studying Japanese Karate and after several years of intense training he attained the rank of II Degree black belt.He also spent a period teaching Karate at a Tokyo YMCA before returning to home to Korea.
During World War II, Choi Hong Hi was forcibly conscripted into the Japanese army.Subsequently he was implicated in an insurrection, against the Japanese occupiers, and was held in a Japanese prison many months while awaiting trial. While in prison, he practiced martial arts in the solitude of his cell.It is reported that initially his cell mate and his jailer became his students and eventually the entire prison courtyard became a training facility. Thanks to the liberation, in August 1945, Choi Hong Hi was spared from a pending execution.
Following his release, Choi Hong Hi relocated to Seoul and shortly afterward he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the new Korean Army.He quickly began using his military position to teach the martial art that he learned in Japan and had begun to reshape.What followed was a rapid succession of military promotions each accompanied by an increase in his ability to use his growing military status to teach and influence the use of his martial art, which he then called Tang Soo Do.In 1949 Choi Hong Hi, who had by then been promoted to Colonel, visited the United States for military training, first at the Ground General School at Fort Riley, Kansas, and later at the Advanced Command School at Fort Benning, Georgia.Colonel Choi also used that time as an opportunity to introduce his martial art to the American military and he made many connections that would eventually figure significantly in the spread of Taekwon-Do.In 1951 Colonel Choi was promoted to Brigadier General.
In 1953, at Jeju Island, General Choicreated the notorious 29th Infantry Division, in which he employed Tang Soo Do training to build character, strength and superior fighting skills.That division, also known as the ‘Fist” Division, became the crucible in which General Choi consolidated the use of Korean Martial Arts in military training.In 1954 Brigadier General Choi was promoted to 2 Star Major General.
On April 11, 1955 the 1st ROK President, Dr. Rhee Syngman, PhD produced a calligraphy that made Taekwon-Do, a term that General Choi had conceived, the official name of the new Korean martial art. Moreover, the name Taekwon-Do was officially to replace Tang Soo Do, and other names, that had up to that time been used for Korean martial arts. That marked the birth of Taekwon-Do which General Choi ardently nurtured and developed for his entire life.
In March 1959, General Choi led the 1st Taekwon-Do Demonstration Team abroad for the first time, by visiting Vietnam and Taiwan. In September, he formed the Korean Taekwon-Do Association and served as its first President. Also in 1959, he authored the first ever Taekwon-Do book in which documented the first five Korean Patterns, also known as Tuls, (Hwa-Rang, Choong-Moo, Ul-Ji, U-Nam and Sam-Il) that he had created with the assistance of some of the soldiers under his command. The following year General Choi introduced Taekwon-Do to the United States while attending a Missile Course in Texas.
In 1962, General Choi was appointed as Ambassador to Malaysia, and he used the opportunity to spread Taekwon-Do. In 1964 Ambassador Choi went to Vietnam to teach Vietnamese military instructors the advanced Taekwon-Do Tuls that he had perfected after years of research. That marked a new era for Taekwon-Do because he had by then eliminated the remaining vestiges of Karate thereby drawing a clear distinction between the two arts. As that distinction continued to evolve General Choi introduced Sine Wave, a movement methodology not found in Karate, and movement timing variations such as Connecting Motion as found in Yul-Gok Tul, and Continuous Motion in Po-Eun Tul, for example.
In 1965, General Choi and his Demonstration Team toured and staged Taekwon-Do demonstrations in Germany, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Malaysia and Singapore. General Choi also used the tour an opportunity to distribute his English book on Taekwon-Do: The Korean Art of Self Defense. That was the first book on Taekwon-Do written in the English language and it was the precursor for his encyclopedia that would become the standard bearer of his art.
On March 22 1966, General Choi founded the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) with associations in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, West Germany, the United States, Arab Republic of Egypt, Turkey, Italy and South Korea and he was elected as its President. The establishment of the ITF was a pivotal moment in history of Taekwon-Do. During the following years General Choi was unrelenting in his efforts to establish associations and spread Taekwon-Do throughout the world.
In 1972 General Choi wrote Taekwon-Do (The Korean Art of Self-Defence) a textbook that also became known as the “bible of Taekwon-Do”. That year General Choi also moved the ITF headquarters to Toronto, Canada which was strategically located between Asia and Europe as well as being conveniently positioned for the spread of Taekwon-Do throughout the Americas.General Choi’s also expanded his Canadian base to Montreal, Quebec where he held the First World Taekwon-Do Championship and the first International Instructor’s Course in 1974.
In 1983 General Choi, completed the Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do, a 15 Volume work that is without precedent in the martial arts world. It is a highly detailed compendium of every aspect of Taekwon-Do including comprehensive written and pictorial coverage of the art’s diverse techniques and applications. The Encyclopedia of Taekwon-Do is essentially a permanent registry that will serve as the Rosetta Stone of Taekwon-Do for all time.
In 1985 General Choi Relocated the ITF Headquarters to Vienna Austria. Its Central European location and its long-standing political neutrality both served his vision of disseminating Taekwon-Do without regard to nationality, politics, religion, race, creed or national boundaries.
In the early nineteen nineties, having concluded that the singular National Governing Body model was problematic for large countries, General Choi established the KoreAmerica Taekwon-Do Union (KATU) as the second ITF NGB in the USA, and he appointed then Master Hwang Kwang Sung as its president. Grand Master Hwang served in that capacity president for KATU’s entire duration. After General Choi’s passing, KATU ultimately evolved into Unified Taekwon-Do under Grand Master Hwang’s stewardship with the ongoing mission of preserving General Choi’s legacy by preserving his Taekwon-Do.
In 1997 General Choi promoted the first three ITF grand masters; Grand Master Rhee Ki Ha, Grand Master Hwang Kwang Sung and Grand Master Charles Sereff. That was followed by General Choi promotion other individuals who had figured prominently in Taekwon-Do’s development.
Although General Choi was, unquestionably, the driving force behind Taekwon-Do’s development and was the engine that drove its consolidation, he employed the assistance of key collaborators over the years. One such was Grand Master Hwang Kwang Sung, who continues to be a loyal disciple, tirelessly dedicated to preserving General Choi’s legacy through his teaching and through Unified Taekwon-Do.
General Choi Hong Hi, vigorously continued on his mission of spreading and teaching Taekwon-Do throughout the world until shortly before he passed away on June 15, 2002.
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GLPK/Background theory
It can be useful, on occasion, to provide background theory for material located elsewhere in this wikibook. This page affords a place. But this page should not be used to blindly replicate foundation material from the official GLPK manuals, nor to write general entries on linear programming.
Note also that mixed-integer programming (MIP) and mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) are treated here as synonyms. And that the term pure linear programming is used to exclude mixed-integer problems.
In the general case of nonlinear programming (NLP), the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions (KKT) provide the necessary first-order conditions for a solution to be locally optimal (together with some regularity conditions that also have to be satisfied). Linear programming (LP) is a special case of NLP in which both the feasible region and the objective function are convex. In this particular case, the KKT conditions alone are necessary and sufficient for the solution to be globally optimal.[1] The KKT conditions can be applied to the basic and interior-point solutions of any LP problem, but may not be applied to the solutions from mixed-integer linear programming (MIP). That said, the first two KKT conditions can be applied to mixed-integer programs to confirm that the solution is feasible.
where is a vector of dual variables,[3] is a vector of Lagrange (or simplex) multipliers (shadow prices) for the equality constraint and is a vector of Lagrange multipliers (reduced costs) for the inequality constraint .
The Karush-Kahn-Tucker optimality conditions for an LP make use of all the constraints from the primal and dual formulations and include a complimentary slackness condition. The five KKT optimality conditions conditions are:
KTT.PE
KTT.PB
KTT.DE
KTT.DB
KTT.CS
The KKT.CS condition can be rewritten as or meaning vectors and must be orthogonal.
The implementation of the KKT conditions within GLPK is a little more complicated because GLPK supports variables with lower and upper bounds, which also implies no bounds. In general:
minimize or maximize
subject to
where (as earlier) is the vector of structural and auxiliary variables and is an identity matrix. Nonetheless the conditions used in GLPK are equivalent to those shown above and have the same meaning.
Finally, be aware that the KKT conditions KKT.PE and KTT.PB can be calculated for an MIP solution and GLPK will do this on request. In this case, these two conditions are described as "integer feasibility conditions" instead of "Karush-Kahn-Tucker optimality conditions"
↑Some readers may not be familiar with the KKT formulation used by GLPK. Textbooks on linear programming often present the optimality conditions in terms of strong duality and complementary slackness. These together represent a special case of the KKT conditions for differentiable optimization.
↑The LP terminology for equation types is unfortunately inconsistent. This expression is also referred to as the canonical form and the term standard form then applies to something else. | {
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NORTONTHORPE CC 1st Xl beat the rains to get their promotion hopes back on track with a timely five point success against Cawthorpe B last Saturday.
After their defeat at Bradley and Colne the previous week batsman Steve Swap was in good form as he steadied the ship with a solid 54 and the home side posted a total of 150 for seven in their allotted overs.
R Schofield was Cawthorne’s most successful bowler with impressive figures of 3-33.
C Sansom with 4-42 then led the way as the Nortonthorpe bowlers kept a tight rein on the Cawthorne batsmen who finished on 138-8.
G Kilburn top scored for the visitors with 42 and C Mott made 41 as Cawthorne held out for a batting point. | {
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The Husband’s Secret opening line: Poor, poor Pandora. Does the truth really set you free? In this book we discover that the truth can harm and hurt and that the truth can result in peace and absolution. Centered around St. Angela’s …more ♥
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Hamas fuels ‘Palestinian resistance’ through cryptocurrencies
Palestinian freedom fighting movement dubbed terrorists by the United Nations decree have now adopted cryptocurrencies in a bid to keep their cash flows running for anti-Israel movement, media reported.
The step has been taken to have secure monetary transactions without the fear of Israeli intelligence and other authorities. Hamas has active support in Muslim countries across the globe and the organization is now taking donations in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash.
Hamas has taken up social media to call for donations and the official channels have issued the statement against Israel claiming that the Palestinian resistance has been time and again subdued through financial barring by the “Zionist enemy.” The social media post also calls for supporters across the globe to take this opportunity to fund the resistance movement.
While on the other hand, Whitestream – Israeli intelligence agency has been tracking transactions to find out connections with Hamas and so far Bittrex, Coinbase, and Binance accounts have been found by the agency. The agency claims that Hamas is using these accounts to gather funds.
Israeli agency believes that various payments through banks, currency exchanges, and other methods are funneled through cryptocurrency accounts to fund Hamas militant groups and political activities in the region.
The ploy has been used by different groups such as the Islamic State. Hamas has now been revealed to use similar channels. | {
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Of the five he played in prior to Brazil, Schweinsteiger reached the semifinals on three occasions and at Euro 2008 he was part of the Germany team that lost to Spain in the final.
All that changed on Sunday night, though, when he and his teammates beat Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup in the Maracana.
Schweinsteiger does not want this to be the last time he lifts a trophy, however.
With a young squad in place, he feels there is plenty of potential there for Germany to go on and win many trophies in the near future.
"This will give us hunger now, absolutely," the midfielder said. "We want to do it again at the next tournament. The important thing is that the young guys have the experience of this tournament and we will go to France (for Euro 2016) and try and do it again for sure. | {
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'Hunger Games' Comic: Hilarious Parody Of The Novel Goes Viral
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What could be better than reading, watching, or talking about The Hunger Games? Well, it might be reading these unbelievably funny Hunger Games comics from Noelle Stevenson of the Tumblr gingerhaze. The 20-year-old illustration major at Maryland Institute College of Art loves to watch movies like "Lord of the Rings" and "X-Men" and then draw comics about them. Her latest comic, a hilarious parody of The Hunger Games, recently went viral -- and we're kind of obsessed with it.
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Benedict XVI calls for continued path to reconciliation in Cyprus
Pope Benedict XVI
Nicosia, Cyprus, Jun 6, 2010 / 04:14 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Concluding his Apostolic Journey to the island of Cyprus on Sunday afternoon, the Holy Father expressed his hope for the peace and reconciliation of the people of the island.
Wrapping up the day's events, which included the consignment of the Instrumentum laboris for October's Special Assembly of Middle Eastern bishops, Pope Benedict XVI addressed a delegation headed by the president of the nation, Demetris Christofias at the Larnaca International Airport.
The Holy Father called for redoubled efforts to build "a real and lasting peace for all peoples" in the Eastern Mediterranean region, which is "no stranger to conflict and bloodshed." He then highlighted the role of the island of Cyprus to the promotion of dialogue and cooperation.
"Striving patiently for the peace of your own hearts and for the prosperity of your neighbors," he told them, "you will then be well placed to hear and understand all sides of many complex issues, and to help peoples to come to a greater understanding of one another."
Noting his encounters with the Orthodox Patriarch of All Cyprus, Chrysostomos II, and the history of relations between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, the Holy Father said, "We have a divine call to be brothers, walking side by side in the faith, humble before almighty God, and with unbreakable bonds of affection for one another." He thereby invited all Christians to "continue this journey."
Then, Benedict XVI took the opportunity to express his "sincere hope and prayer that, together, Christians and Muslims will become a leaven for peace and reconciliation among Cypriots and serve as an example to other countries."
Noting that he himself had seen the "sad division of the island" from his stay at the Apostolic Nunciature, located in the U.N. buffer zone between north and south, he said, "surely truth and reconciliation, together with respect, are the soundest foundation for the united and peaceful future of this island, and for the stability and prosperity of all her people."
He went on to say that much has been done positively for this end, "though much remains to be done to overcome divisions."
The northern third of the island has been separate from the southern portion since a series of conflicts between Turkish and Greek-backed forces in the 60s and 70s led to a complete division in 1974.
Pope Benedict concluded by asking everyone to "work patiently and steadfastly with your neighbors to build a better and more certain future for all your children."
After saying "peace be with you," to the people of Cyprus, he boarded the plane for Rome. | {
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Fitting Muslin to Pretty Pink Corset
Created by: Farmhouse Garde
What you will need
A thrifted cotton tee
Button Craft Thread
Clear Chop Beads
Alabama Chanin Corset Top Pattern
Q&A with Farmhouse Garde
Farmhouse Garde asked:
I muslined the corset top 5 times, and this was the final muslin. I basted it by machine to test the fit, and then when I found I was finally happy with it, I decided to fell the seams and attach the ribbing using AC methods. I beaded the front corset seams as well as the herringbone stitching at the neck. I also stitched the herringbone over a cord made from tied pulls- it adds more dimension and was fun to do. I actually really love this top! Now that I am comfortable with the fit I am excited to make many, many more. My copy of Alabama Studio Sewing and Design arrived in the mail today!
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BARNSTABLE — The Mendes murder case is set to take another step forward next week when one of the juvenile defendants heads for a court appearance in Plymouth.
Mykel Mendes, now 17, is set to appear in Plymouth Juvenile Court on Monday on charges that stem from the murder of his half-brother nearly five years ago, according to a source familiar with the case. Kevin Ribeiro, also 17, has a trial date set for Sept. 10.
Mykel Mendes and Ribeiro — both 13 at the time — along with Robert Vacher, 23, were charged in 2009 with the murder of 16-year-old Jordan Mendes in December 2008. The Cape and Islands District Attorney's Office, as well as attorneys for Ribeiro and Mykel Mendes, declined comment for this story.
Family members found Mendes' body smoldering in a pit off Jennifer Lane in Hyannis shortly before Christmas. He had been stabbed 27 times and shot in what prosecutors say was a robbery. The three defendants allegedly stole a large amount of oxycodone and about $10,000 in drug money from Jordan Mendes that they later used to buy a BMW.
Following a three-week trial in November 2011, a Barnstable Superior Court jury convicted Vacher of first-degree murder. His case is on appeal to the Massachusetts Appeals Court, according to court documents.
The two juvenile defendants were spared the same fate by three months.
According to state law, a juvenile offender convicted of committing an offense before his or her 14th birthday cannot be incarcerated on those charges beyond age 18. This means that even if convicted of murder, Ribeiro and Mykel Mendes face less than a year of prison time, although they have both been in custody since their arrest.
Before 2009, the state Department of Youth Services could hold a juvenile defendant after age 21 if it determined he or she was dangerous. The state Supreme Judicial Court overturned that ruling, citing questions of constitutionality in the law.
That isn't the first SJC ruling to apply to the teens' cases.
In April, the high court upheld a change-of-venue ruling from Barnstable Juvenile Court Judge James Torney, citing the significant pretrial publicity surrounding the case.
The district attorney's office had appealed the decision, arguing that the judge should have at least tried to empanel a jury before moving the trial. | {
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Although it is a historic decision it is not really news. Establishing a permanent base somewhere in the Middle East is an inevitable corollary to the decision, made some years ago now, to build new fleet carriers, ships larger actually than any built during the days of the empire. The timing however had everything to do with the launch of the first carrier, which itself had everything to do with the timing of the referendum.
Such indeed is the lack of a proper discourse in the UK media around issues of war and peace that this inevitable corollary to building fleet carriers is only getting to be reported now.
The 1971 decision of the Wilson Government to remove a permanent expeditionary capability East of Suez has been treated by many historians as a key, if not the key, date when the UK officially gave up on Imperial ambitions.
The decision of the Cameron Government to establish a permanent naval facility at Mina Salman in Bahrain, will , quite rightly, be interpreted as a historic decision to resuscitate imperial ambition.
The UK’s 21st imperial ambitions however will be quite different from those of earlier centuries. There will and already are of course many similarities. There are already lots of dead people , notably civilians, even more injured and countless homeless people. Here at home fear of the other is a core issue in the British, if not the Scottish political discourse.
Constant expeditionary warfare has become the default and supporting , even underpinning aspects of that are being skilfully woven into some dimensions of popular 21st century domestic culture.
The so called War on Terror, now constant, is the media strap line. A problem to be addressed certainly, but surely within the paradigm of human security and policing rather than deploying multi billion pound air groups from carriers who’s activities will be counterproductive in relation to the actual security needs of the citizens who have to pay for these extraordinarily expensive machines.
Britain’s 21st Century imperial role has been mapped out and in truth endorsed and largely ignored by the media in a series of Strategic Defence and Security Reviews by successive Westminster Governments. The 2015 SDSR probably be will be no different.
British defence and foreign policy must be shaped above all else, to secure its place as the United States principle imperial auxiliary force in the Northern Hemisphere, Australia fancies the role down under.
The media focus on the 2015 SDSR will focus on inter service wrangling around some cuts. The elephant in the room of course, the Trident replacement program, will be ignored .That this program is as military ridiculous as it is potentially deadly for the future of humanity will hardly feature in the discourse.
Post referendum the SNP Westminster Group, in conjunction with Plaid Cymru and some others , voted against the re start of an air war in the skies of Iraq, this marked a promising change in focus of SNP defence and foreign policy. The SNP parliamentary group needs to take an unequivocal decision on the matter of the re-establishment of a permanent British presence east of Suez also.
Scotland was most certainly a partner in Britain’s past imperial adventures. The vision and then the reality of a future independent Scotland simply cannot be a part of the biggest bit players role in someone else’s imperial adventures.
Darien : I sympathise with that point of view, but I’ve found, on balance, you can achieve more as a minority insider than a minority outsider. It’s maybe just that the minority needs to be bigger! Roll on may 2015.
The inevitable red and blue Tory voting alliance in the HoC means it does not matter how many SNP MP’s get elected next May, they will always be outvoted on constitutional matters. Reds and blues can always be expected to extend their BT alliance to protect the ‘integrity’ of the British state. Scots should not be naive about this.
I wonder if they realise that an ever-growing number of UK citizens are sick of endless war and imperial misadventure. There again; I suspect that if they are, they don’t care.
Why the hell can’t we just walk away from these idiotic schoolboys and join the adult nations of the world?
It’s a handy place to ‘by chance’ have servicemen and women if the Sunni minority government have another Shia majority uprising or if Iran raises its head. Very near other places of interest for other wars too. Protect the oil flow – that’s all there is to care about.
Para 5: ‘The decision of the Cameron Government to establish a permanent naval facility at Mina Salman in Bahrain, will , quite rightly, be interpreted as a historic decision to resuscitate imperial ambition.’
On going “east of Suez” adventurism, in this case supportive of the repressive Bahraini regime and its allies in Riyadh, makes Scotland’s independence more urgent. Our citizens should not become entangled in this web of neo-imperialist conceit.
It’s really good to see William Ramsay’s Bella Caledonia piece on Mina Salam. The Cameron government’s decision to establish a naval base in Bahrain should be given the widest publicity – it represents a major (tragic and terrifying) step in the neoliberal militarisation of the Middle East. Campaigning against the projected naval base should be a focal point in the political activity of the radical left. Ramsay comments on ‘the lack of a proper discourse in the UK media around issues of war and peace’: he’s right – there is such a ‘lack’. It’s a lack that has to end.
The other day some top ranking generals spoke of the high risk of a nuclear war. John Pilger reports on the US provocation of Russia especially in Ukraine, and how the press conspires to conceal all this.
If 1971 the decision would have been made or carried out under the Tory government of Ted Heath, not Wilson, unless the decision was taken prior to Heath’s election in 1970, by Wilson & Co eventually taking effect in 1971, but even then clearly there was no ‘Wilson government’ in 1971.
Such big vessels are sitting ducks, tracked from space in real time by any real or potential adversary and eliminated easily almost immediately there was any cause, including the precautionary principle, to do so.
This seems just like sabre-rattling towards Iran, at the behest of the Saudis, who’re absurdly armed to the teeth themselves and big customers for rUK defence contractors/arms dealers.
Imperial pretensions it seems are never far below the surface of U-KOK politicians and their side-door puppet-masters. | {
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Supreme Court refuses to ban firecrackers this Diwali
However, it ordered the Centre to publicise the dangers of fireworks from October 31 to November 12.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to ban firecrackers during Diwali this year, saying it could be dangerous to infringe on the common man’s right to enjoy religious festivities, reportedThe Hindu.
However, the bench comprising Chief Justice HL Dattu and Justice Arun Kumar maintained an earlier decision that crackers could not be burst between 10 pm and 6 am, while addressing a petition filed by three children that had called for a blanket ban on fireworks. The petition stressed on their right to a pollution-free environment and pointed out the alarming levels of air and noise pollution in cities like Delhi.
The bench also made it mandatory for the government to publicise the dangers firecrackers pose, between October 31 and November 12. | {
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We mention them now and again, usually as a question ......"I wonder if one of those home use kits would help with this?"
So far as I'm aware nobody has actually piped up and admitted to trying it out. So I've bought one and will now share my thoughts on the matter.
First the history, when I was a yoof every small town had a back street engineering shop or garage where for the price of a pint you could get an item chromed. Then Elfin Safety stepped in and pettily banned it all on truthful claims that Hydrochloric and Sulphuric acid weren't really the sort of things that should be dumped in the water course. Likewise they were a bit tetchy about the cyanide and arsenic
by-products that wafted around shortening lives and causing kerfuffle to break out all over.
Consequently regulations and restrictions leave us now with only a fraction of expensive places left to go to.
Consequently home kits abound.
How does this get around the danger side of things?
Well, first of all, it's not real chrome it's a product they call "Replica Chrome" so that's not confusing is it?
Secondly, you don't tend to rely on vats of pickling acids bubbling away on your dining room table. Using low voltage (3V DC - 12V DC) you mainly use a brush that incorporates an anode to slowly coat the piece, Rather like painting.
So I spent about £40 on a basic kit.
The instructions I found a bit vague and confusing.
This was probably down to simple things like a list of what's included in the kit using names that are different to those used in the instructions. Plus no pictures of what all the different parts look like, so you're left trying to guess what a "Plating Brush Standard" looks like as opposed to a "Plating Brush Detail" or a "Plating Pen". You can take an inspired guess but why does only one of them contain an anode?
So following the instructions precisely I tried it out on an old penny first. I used The Alkaline Cleaner, then Acid Activator before connecting myself to The National Grid.
The penny went from a dull copper colour to a dull greyish hue. Not unlike the result you get from base nickel plating, but without the roughness.
It didn't look too bad, but was quite dull. After about an hour it took on a very flat and uninspiring look.
So I repeated the process with another identical penny, which this time, after allowing it to go the same I polished it with a cheap liquid metal polish.
This one buffed up nicely, like a very highly polished copper penny but without the yellow tinge. It wasn't so deep and dazzling as chrome but a quite good first attempt.
I spoke to the distributor before buying as I wanted to know how "Replica Chrome" compared to the real stuff. He described it as just like the real thing. The trouble with somebody else's opinion is that they're entitled to it and it tends to be subjective. My interpretation of just like the real thing is errrr .... just like the real thing. Then again I'm not trying to sell something.
My biggest concern is if it's going to need constant polishing to maintain it's shine and stop it reverting to plain old dull. The thickness of plating will be so thin that polishing it is likely to wear it away.
This photo shows the three stages 1) Raw coin 2)Plated coin after an hour 3) Plated and then polished coin.
Being as truthful as I can, in my opinion the photos are better than in reality, you can click on them to enlarge for closer scrutiny.
It's important to remember that an old penny is copper which is the best of metals to electro plate. Many of the machine parts I'd want to plate are cast from alloys which won't take, without first being coated in Copper or Brass.
None of this eradicates the need for total cleanliness and buffing.
The way he gobbed the paint on when he brushed it how could you not expect pooling and streaks.
Likely too easily scratched as well I'd think.
A good hard clear apoxy like used on a pained countertop might help with scratching. | {
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The band on stage was introduced as a family act. At least that’s how the lead singer explained it. I found that hard to swallow but I liked the idea. My guess was that he was in his 50’s. He had a gregarious banter, was very fit, shaved head, black t-shirt with sleeves torn off at the shoulders, tight jeans with boots and big pink Elton John-like glasses. The bassist, his wife (allegedly) could win any Kim Gordon look-a-like contest. The lead guitarist/alleged son (looked too old, no resemblance) had shredded dye-black hair, shimmering gold shirt, studded neck gear and a cigarette. I missed the relationship of the drummer. Why the sunglasses? The two dozen or so fans who crowded the front of the amp jammed staged, blankly oogling, swaying and shaking, kept their black coats and sweaters on as the walk-in traffic let in the cold, rainy night through the open front door.
This was the darkened, chaotically typical scene as I tried to photograph the current clown exhibition at notsuoH. All the clowns faced stagewards. The only way to document the show was to impede myself and my tripod among the subdued pseudo mosh pitters and face the other way trying to avoid bumps and kicks. I surmised that most of the glances my way were more curious than annoyed. Most anything is allowed and tolerated, even celebrated, at notsuoH.
I asked Jim Pirtle, artist and proprietor/curator of notsuoH, to sit down with me and discuss the current exhibition of clown art.
“So, what’s the title?”
“Um. I’m not sure…”
“Okay. We’ll come back to that later. Let’s get the other details first. The show opened on December 26, right?”
“Boxing Day.”
“And when does it close?”
“February… No, wait. Groundhog Day!”
“Okay. So, how did this show come about? Where did this stuff come from?”
This is the complicated, non-verbatim story as explained by Jim.
Every Wednesday night at notsuoH is Poetry Night which is hosted and organized by Mike McGuire. One recent night, Mike shared with Jim’s friend, Cheryl, that she looked strikingly similar to his mother who recently died. So much so, in fact, that he guessed that Cheryl might even fit in all the shoes left by his mom that he still had not divested. Mike extended an invitation to Jim and Cheryl to come by his late mother’s River Oaks house for Cheryl to try on any shoes she might like to have. And that’s how Jim discovered the extensive clown collection of Mike McGuire’s mother.
It turns out that Mike’s father, Ben McGuire, whose business was in real estate, had dealings with the former Judge Roy Hofheinz of Astrodome fame. Jim related that in the 1960’s Ben McGuire was somehow involved with Hofheinz’s acquisition of the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus – the self-declared Greatest Show on Earth. Whether Ben McGuire actually partly owned the circus is not clear, but that’s how Jim explained it to me as told to him from Mike. In fact, Jim said that Mike said, Hofheinz planned to use the Astro Hall, which no longer exists, as the home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. And that’s the whole reason it was built. Again, this was in the 1960’s when the idea of families going to the circus was still viable. The circus would be another cog in the Astrotainment complex.
So, in some mysterious way, lost in the fog of family history, the McGuires began their circus and clown collection. They liked circuses and clowns. Clearly. And in the same way people collect plates from states or thimbles with images of country music stars, the McGuires collected clown art. A lot of it.
The future of the collection, Mike indicated to Jim, was in limbo. As often happens with children of deceased parents, they don’t know what to do with all the stuff their parents leave. After a little discussion Jim offered the win-win solution of notsuoH as a venue to showcase and sell the collection for Mike while providing a ready-to-go art exhibition for Jim.
The exhibit begins in the front window of notsuoH with an installation of clown toys, dolls and statuettes installed in a glistening bed of faux snow which I think are actually shards of tempered glass, remnants from a recent broken front window fiasco. On the wall behind this scene is a Ringling Brothers poster that features a photographic image of the famous clown Lou Jacobs who performed for the Ringling Brothers circus for more than 60 years. It’s a sweet little arrangement, more akin to an east Texas storefront “antique” display than sculpture, but in the context of its setting and with little imagination, it branches out into other aesthetics. Lou is fondly shepherding his little flock of tchotchkes in a proud “Aren’t we funny?” way.
Just behind and to the right, adjacent to this front window is something more akin to “Killer Klowns From Outer Space ” and, I suspect, not from the McGuire collection. If these clown dolls did come the McGuire collection, Jim got his hands on them. It is a heap of tangled doll clowns enmeshed in some sort of metal armature with a clamp light illuminating it all in a ghastly way. It looks like an old Kienholz piece sans drippy varnish. Creepy. Fun!
Most of the rest of the show is inside, hung salon style on the left (south) wall as one enters notsuoH. There are paintings, prints, posters and sculpture. Most are of clowns, some not. Truth is, I’m not completely sure exactly where the show begins and ends which is in keeping with notsuoH’s blurring of lots of boundries. It can be hard to see too, especially at night when the lights are low.
I think it’s all for sale but even Jim isn’t completely sure of that. These are unimportant details in the notsuoH Gallery. In any case, I bought what is probably a worthless, but nevertheless great, shag rug bath mat clown. $15.
Because I’m not a clown art expert, I’m not sure which things may be truly valuable, if any, and which aren’t although I’ll bet the Ringling Brothers posters are true collectors items.
There’s a Red Skelton print that’s made to look like a painting with an imposter impasto that’s hard to detect except up close. It’s exactly like something you’d see at the rock-bottom art sale at the Marriott Motel. It’s not signed but you can bet it’s authentic because it has his trademark on it. It’s one of the few million or so left in the world. You can tell the McGuires prized it because the frame has a gold plaque on it, a further sign of its pedigree.
Just to its left is another clown doll creepfest sculpture, this time with them jumbled together on the top end of a small crib sized box spring. Mike Kelly meets Rauschenberg “Bed.”
(L) untitled clown sculpture at notsuoH…(C) Bed, 1955, Robert Rauschenberg…(R) More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin, 1987, Mike Kelly
Jim pointed out to me the similarities of three clown portraits, all paintings – real paintings with real paint. Two are smallish measuring not more than a foot square. The other, hung high above the bar on the west wall, is perhaps the best painting in the whole show. It seems like a true piece of art painted by someone who knew what they were doing. It’s hard to inspect very closely, however, as it’s hung about eight feet up. All three of these portraits are of clowns in whiteface with shaggy shortly cropped orange hair dressed in a costume with a fluffy/frilly collar. They all have the same heavy black eyebrows, red button noses, and melancholy, droopy-eyed expression with a smear of red lips. None are dated and only one is signed by someone named “Talessandra.” I have yet to discover if this image is a depiction of an actual clown or if it’s an image of the ultra-typical kind of clown that Sunday painters paint when Sunday painters paint clowns. Could this be the all time primordial über-clown? Jim didn’t know either.
Jim talked about the history of clowns, the Commedia del Arte, the difference between clowns – whiteface, Auguste, tramp. Jim also explained where slapstick comes from and what a slapstick actually is. Throughout the evening he kept quizzing people if they knew the difference between a hobo, a tramp and a bum and then proceeded to explain if you didn’t know.
My discussion with Jim concluded as he indicated that he really didn’t know what else to say.
“Well, do you have a title for the show yet?”
“ClowntsuoH!”
clowntsuoH is on view at notsuoH Boxing Day, 2009 through Groundhog Day, 2010
Michael Galbreth is an artist living in Houston. He is one of The Art Guys.
Who deleted asshole’s comment? It was relevant ( to me anyway). You people seem to consistently have problems seeing bigger pictures…., abstract, representational, conceptual or simply formal. I hate clowns and men in Santa suits, mostly anything human in costume. Although …I force myself to wave at the person in the gorilla suit pushing a vacuum on August days here locally. If he/she isn’ t smoking he usually waves back.
I recently bought in garage sale the same clown here in color beside the white and black,this painting of the killer clown came from Sao Paulo Brazil in 1997,seeing this page i saw the same painting hanging in an exhibition in same page, this canvas on oil has the same characteristics and measurements, even file # as 2182, searching in Google i knew this painting was missing, i would love to know if any of this is true, this painting is well painted like original and the artist’s name is Allans, please i would appreciate some information from someone ,thanks | {
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US' AIRISTOTLE TAKES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP!
OULU, FINLAND -- With an unprecedented showing of United States air guitar talent on the world stage – where the stars and stripes took three of the top 5 spots – America tonight achieved the highest honor of them all: on just his fourth trip to Finland, competing against a dozen countries in the name of world peace, our very own AIRISTOTLE (Matt Burns) became the Air Guitar World Champion. | {
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Morning Coffee
By Ta-Nehisi Coates
The lack of love last week for the Led Zepplin epic of our time has forced my hand. Seriously though, this conjures memories of me, circa 2001, sauntering up to Kenyatta and saying something like--"Hey, have you heard of this band Led Zepplin? They're pretty good!"
Kenyatta greeted me with all the disgust I'm sure you're radiating while reading this. She went to school in the suburbs of Chicago surround by white kids who played this joint incessantly. I labored under no such constraints and proceeded to put IV in heavy, heavy rotation. I'm a little upset that's it's dropped.
At any rate, here is your black privilege--The right to enjoy "Stairway to Heaven" without the weight of trite radio and a predictable "best of...," I hear "Stairway" and I don't roll my eyes. I hear it as something new and amazing, the way you hear "Daytona 500."
It's amazing how art ties itself to memory. I don't just remember "Triumph" as a great song, I remember the first time I heard it, I remember people whistling in the club during U-God's verse. It's how we make music our own. This song is tied to everything I was never supposed to like, and a lot of what I never thought I wanted.
So, in that vein, I hear "Stairway" and I am humiliated by my old young prejudice. It's awesome. Happens every damn time. | {
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AJ-PX380High Definition Camcorder
P2HD Memory Card Camera Recorder
The AJ-PX380G has been thoughtfully created to cater to your video production needs and to undoubtedly enhance your operations. This shoulder-type camera recorder with interchangeable lens not only provides broadcast picture quality and enhances network-based workflows whilst boasting compact, lightweight mobility and low-cost operation it can equally be used as a camera recorder or in studio/live applications. The camcorder's 1/3-type 2.2-megapixel 3MOS sensor features high sensitivity; and high S/N. Broadcast-level AVC-ULTRA*1 codecs (AVC-Intra, AVC-LongG, and AVC-Proxy) further enhance recording quality.
With this variety of options, you can effortlessly select the codec which is most suited to your needs. Not only does this high definition camcorder offer high-quality 4:2:2 10-bit recording to low-rate HD streaming and FTP transmission, it also supports 1080/50p, 59.94p acquisition and 3G-SDI output. It comes equipped with a P2 card slot*2 and microP2 card slots. Network functions** support wired LAN, wireless LAN, and 4G/LTE connectivity. New workflow functions include Wireless Preview/ Remote with PC/Mac, tablet device or smartphones, Rec during Uploading, and On-Air Streaming. An SDI input and wireless slot are also featured, providing all-round networking support.
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The AJ-PX380G also comes in two variations, one consisting of only the high definition camera recorder,*5 and the other AJ-PX380GF comes complete with a FUJINON 17x Zoom Lens and AG-CVF15G Colour HD Viewfinder.
*1: AVC-ULTRA is the name of Panasonic's professional video codec family. The AJ-PX380G does not support all of the formats included in the AVC-ULTRA family.
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*5: This model is not available in some regions. ** For 4G/LTE 3rd party module is required, availability of this function may very dependent on area, Optional wireless module AJ-WM30 required for wireless LAN functions, see ‘Service and Support’ on the Panasonic website http://pro-av.panasonic.net for more details. The use of DCF Technologies is under license from Multi-Format, Inc
Features the AVC-ULTRA*2 multi-codec family, including the popular AVC-Intra100/50, the AVC-LongG50/25 with low-bit-rate Full-HD (1920 x 1080) 4:2:2 10 bit picture quality, and the AVC-LongG12 (8 bit 4:2:0) for extended recording.
Dual-codec recording with the low-bit-rate AVC-Proxy further enhances network operation.
Two standard-equipped microP2 card slots dramatically reduce media costs and enable Simultaneous Rec. and Hot-Swap Rec. One P2 card slot*3 is also equipped. The use of DCF Technologies is under license from Multi-Format, Inc. Versatile Network Functions** Include FTP Data Transfer and Streaming
A new function, Rec during Uploading, automatically uploads recorded clips to an FTP server or cloud server. Uploading is done in the background, and recording/playback continues during the transfer.
On-Air Streaming can also be conducted while recording. In addition to selecting from 800 kbps to 6 Mbps (Full-HD), a QoS (Quality of Service) mode is available for streaming. It automatically controls the bit rate and frame rate to match the network conditions, for stable streaming performance.
When connected by wireless LAN, recorded clips can be previewed and metadata can be checked and edited with a PC/Mac, smartphone or tablet device.
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Local commerce will temporarily halt for today's New Orleans Saints game
One could credit the New Orleans Saints' unexpectedly successful football season with sending team merchandise sales skyrocketing, canceling a few Carnival parades and inspiring many local musicians to pen celebratory songs. And today the team's winning season will get credit for one more feat: halting local commerce.
David Grunfeld/The Times-PicayuneGordon's in Metairie is closing early today because of the Saints game."Nobody's going to stay open and miss that," said Greg Dombourian, who owns Dombourian Rugs on Magazine Street and is president of the Magazine Street Merchants Association. Instead of closing at 5 p.m., Dombourian Rugs will remain closed all day.
The Magazine Street store will not be alone. Several area retailers and service providers say they will either not open or close early on Sunday in deference to the NFC Championship game.
No orders will be taken at the popular Mid-City eatery Mandina's Restaurant after 5 p.m. Sunday. The restaurant, which usually closes only on Thanksgiving and Christmas and for mandatory hurricane evacuations, will shut down early this weekend, general manager Martial Voitier said.
"We're figuring that probably by about 4 p.m. there will be nobody on the streets or in the restaurant," Voitier said. "They'll be in the Superdome or in somebody's house."
'No one would be out'
A sign posted on the door of Gordon's of Metairie alerts customers of the store's plans to close on Sunday.
"We knew that no one would be out shopping," said Robyn Soileau, manager of the craft store. "I'll be at home celebrating with the family."
Soileau said the 100 employees between Gordon's two stores in Metairie and Kenner were thrilled to get the day off."Everybody was excited and very grateful that they can stay home and watch it," Soileau said.
Although they won't get the entire day off, employees at Creole Creamery, which is usually open until 10 p.m. on Sunday, will be able to leave early this weekend. The store, which has a location Uptown and another in Lakeview, will close at 5 p.m., 20 minutes before the game's scheduled kickoff.
"All of our employees want to see the game," Creole Creamery Chef Bryan Gilmore said. "If we stay open, by the time the game is over and people filter out we're going to be about to close anyway."
Pam Clark, who owns Aesthetics & Antiques, said the slow pace of business during last week's playoff game convinced her to close this week. Business was so slow, Clark said, that she and other shop owners spent much of their time last Saturday watching the Saints game on the television of a nearby restaurant while standing in the street and keeping an eye on their respective businesses.
"We were open. We partied, but there was no business," Clark said. "I really thought we'd have more business that day but it seems like everybody was tailgating."
Gilmore said the slow pace of business during last week's game was also a factor at Creole Creamery.
"Last week we brought in TV, but there was nobody in here but the employees," Gilmore said. "When a game comes up like this it's kind of like a local holiday."
'It's hurting me'
Not everyone will close.
Although he's expecting business to be slow, Vic Loisel, who co-owns vintage furniture store Neophobia, doesn't plan to close the shop on Sunday. Loisel said he has no real interest in football and admits that the successful season has disrupted his business.
Meanwhile, Feet First does its most brisk business when people are in a "joyous mood, throwing caution to the wind," much like they feel before a Saints game. The shoe boutique will operate as usual on Sunday, said Evie Poitevent, the store's co-owner.
"You want to be open as long as possible to catch all the tourists who will be in town," Poitevent said. Feet First has locations on Royal Street in the French Quarter and on Magazine Street Uptown.
Some Saints games have provided banner sales for the shoe boutique and the later the game, the better, because potential customers have a full day to shop and are in a joyous mood, Poitevent said. "Given that the game is on Sunday after 5 p.m, we're expecting it to be really busy."
Should the Saints win today's game and earn a spot in the Super Bowl, area business owners and operators say they are already prepared to close again.
Voitier of Mandina's has had two black and gold signs printed. In the case of a Saints loss, a sign will display the restaurant's earlier operating hours on game day. But if the home team advances, the sign will read, simply: Closed Super Bowl Sunday.
Jaquetta White can be reached at [email protected] or 504.826.3494. | {
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Okay guys things are calmer now.. I just wanted to get that update
out quickly, because ADBE was buggin me and yeah it could blast
over 34 and run, but that's what we bought it for, it didn't run,
then got down graded.. nah,,,
Sorry I'm a bit late folks, I had a radio interview with a great
host Phil Miken, out of the Boston area, and I'm just settled down
now. The morning has been weak, despite the "better" economic news
about the so called consumer. I suppose at some
Sorry for all the flash emails. While I was scrambling to get
another notice out that I had screwed up the entry price on CAT, my
signal hit on COG and I had picked up 800 shares of that at
40.00,40.01. It ran to 40.44 and now
A while back, actually quite a while now ( time flies) we
posted a "white paper" about silver. So to start of with I want to
repost that, BUT THIS IS IMPORTANT.. I'M ADDING THINGS INTO IT. SO
EVEN IF YOU SAW | {
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“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.”
1 Corinthians 13:8-9
By FamTeam
Saturday, August 01, 2015 @ 6:00 PM Central
“As one who is in the Lord Jesus, I am fully convinced that no food is unclean in itself. But if anyone regards something as unclean, then for him it is unclean. If your brother is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother for whom Christ died.”
Romans 14:14-15
By Dad
Saturday, August 01, 2015 @ 12:22 PM Central
Cathy is heliping Mary-Elizabeth paint her bedroom.
By FamTeam
Saturday, August 01, 2015 @ 6:00 AM Central
“Be exalted, O God, above the heavens; let your glory be over all the earth.”
“These were his instructions: ‘Take nothing for the journey except a staff – no bread, no bag, no money in your belts. Wear sandals but not an extra tunic. Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you leave that town. And if any place will not welcome you or listen to you, shake the dust off your feet when you leave, as a testimony against them.’”
Caleb and Nathan studying the green before putting. Should I make a loud noise?
By Dad
Thursday, July 30, 2015 @ 11:53 AM Central
Jacob and I are filming at the ruins of a stone church that was built in the 1800s.
By FamTeam
Thursday, July 30, 2015 @ 6:00 AM Central
“He was chosen before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for your sake. Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and glorified him, and so your faith and hope are in God.”
“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show men they are fasting. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen; and your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”
“Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done.” | {
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Fantastic Neighborhood 128 – The ReturnLook, I’m not saying that there is a direct connection between us not recording new episodes and how horrible everything in the world has become, but you cannot deny the…Listen:
Fantastic Neighborhood 118 – THIS IS JUST INOn this episode of Fantastic Neighborhood we are going to discuss the ongoing political turmoil… HOLD ON A SECOND. YES. YES. THIS JUST IN, we have some late breaking news…Listen: | {
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Your oral surgeon uses anesthesia to stop you from feeling pain during the procedure. The exact type of anesthesia used depends on your personal requests as well as the doctor’s recommendation. Here are the three most common types used during oral surgery. Local Anesthesia You receive an injection in the gum that numbs the surgical […] | {
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Hi! My name is Carolyn. I love pets, cooking and reading. I figure if you like to cook you like to eat and vice versa. I have 6 beautiful grandchilden,a new great grandson- born on st. Patty's day, a grown daughter and son. I also am mother to Thumper(a beagle dachshund mix) and Jack a beautiful orange and white male. Jack is short for Crackerjack if that tellls you anything. Oh, I almost forgot. I have a great husband, Charlie. He and I have made it through 43 years of marriage. ...
Hi! My name is Carolyn. I love pets, cooking and reading. I figure if you like to cook you like to eat and vice versa. I have 6 beautiful grandchilden,a new great grandson- born on st. Patty's day, a grown daughter and son. I also am mother to Thumper(a beagle dachshund mix) and Jack a beautiful orange and white male. Jack is short for Crackerjack if that tellls you anything. Oh, I almost forgot. I have a great husband, Charlie. He and I have made it through 43 years of marriage. I am a diabetic and until recently suffered a great deal with pain from Lupus. Then a friend of mine told me of the medicinal values of vinegar and honey. I started taking it and haven't looked back since. The pain is almost gone and I sleep well every night. I have a great caring doctor and she has helped me also tremendously with control of hte lupus and Diabetes. Over the last two years I've had two knee replacements, a badly torn quadrecep, which has been repaired and back surgery which required the insertion of three x-stops. I am learning now how to walk again and can walk a little with a cane and a rollater. I Thank God for all of you.
Congrats on taking the next step to reaching a healthier you by getting active with SparkPeople - it's a great community, wonderful resources and fantastic support.
Please check out the SparkTeams - I think you will find a lot of others 'just like you' there. You can choose SparkTeams by age group, lifestyle or interests, geographic location or several other ways - in fact, I suggest joining more than one group, post your intro there and write blogs as often as you can - you will find tons of friends and support that way, I promise!!
In my experience, SparkPeople is like a in some ways - it's lots of fun and easy to make friends because we're all in this together. I like the way a HEALTHY LIFESTYLE is emphasized instead of a 'quick fix wonder diet' - it's about waaaaaay more than 'just' losing weight so you have definitely come to the right place!
If you ever need any help using features of the site, there are tutorial videos under the HELP section that can show you how to use the features of the site. You can also find them on the START page and several other places on the site.
If you haven't discovered The Spark book and/or the SparkDiet linked at the bottom of the START page, check them out - the program is simple but extremely effective. There is a TON of information on this site - so much it might even seem overwhelming but fortunately we don't have to 'digest' everything at once! The FastBreak program is a good way to start.
Another nice thing about SparkPeople is that we have permission to be human - we don't have to change everything at once or be in a hurry to reach our goals. Take a few baby steps and then a few more and before you know it, you'll have completed a long journey - I hope you enjoy this community as much as I do - it teaches us how to make positive lifetime changes because that's the only thing that will work over time!
Hi and welcome back to Spark People where you will find lots of information and tons of support and encouragement from all our members. You will find that we also have fun along the way. Drink your 8-8oz glasses of water a day, watch your portion control and walk, dance or do any exercise you enjoy. Use your fitness and nutrition tracker daily. These tips will definitely help in lowering your numbers. Don't expect miracles right away...this is a lifestyle change not a diet. You will be much healthier in the long run. Post any concerns, comments or questions you may have and someone will respond quickly. Start each day with a positive thought just for that day. Reading and reflecting on an inspirational thought or message before you start your day can put you in a positive frame of mind. Your thoughts determine whether you have a good day or a bad day. Fill your mind with positive ideas, suggestions, and thoughts. You will find it will change your attitude and changing your attitude can change your life. Sometimes just reading an inspirational quote or a short paragraph helps one see the positive in a situation. Sometimes as your day progresses you just need to take a break…Take a mental break and read or think about a message of inspiration. Never underestimate your power to change and improve! You are a good person, with wonderful qualities, and you can reach your goals! Maybe you would be interested in doing the chair exercises after your surgery. That might help to keep you moving when you are not able to do other exercises. If I can be of any help to you, please let me know with a spark mail or a comment on my page. I am here for you. God bless you on your journey to a healthier you. Hugs, Helen
Wanted to say Hi! I am new to spark, but saw you on the Lupus/Fibro page.
I was dx'ed with lupus in 1996 and Fibro in 1997. At the time I was a young mom, and everything I read said there was about a 10 yr lifespan for people with lupus. Research has come a long way since then. | {
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Anahata Technologies Joins Hands with Java EE Guardians
Anahata Technologies Pty Ltd, an Australian Oracle Java Specialized Gold Partner, has recently joined Java EE guardians for preserving the interests of the Java EE community
A globally popular software development company, Anahata Technologies Pty Ltd has joined hands with Java EE guardians to raise voice for safeguarding the interests of Java EE community. Java EE guardians is basically a group of people, organizations and Java User Groups interested in moving Java EE forward. The main purpose of Java EE guardians is advocacy, raising awareness and finding solutions to the lack of commitment to Java EE. Presently, they are strongly supporting active Java EE 8 JSRs with the collaboration and mutual support of individuals as well as companies. Anahata Technologies Pty Ltd is also supporting this cause and recently they have contacted Java EE guardians to provide them full support in whichever way possible. The whole team of Anahata is set to strongly support Java EE guardians in bringing Java EE in the limelight again.
Anahata Technologies offers a wide range of services, like Business Process Improvement, E-Commerce Development, Enterprise Software Development, Cloud Development, IT Staff Provisioning and many others, to fully suffice the varied needs of their customers. These services are rendered by their experienced software developers who have deep knowledge about different databases like Oracle Java, JavaFX, Java EE, Linux and MySQL, and proven experience working in this domain. They employ latest technology to ensure high quality standards of the service are maintained and they fully satisfy their clients’ needs. Those interested in opting their services can contact their professionals by filling a simple questionnaire provided on their official website, Anahata.net.au. In addition, they also offer a free initial assessment to businesses located within the Perth or Melbourne metropolitian area.
Speaking more about their motive behind joining Java EE guardians, Mr. Pablo Rodriguez, Founder, Owner and CEO of Anahata Technologies Pty Ltd commented, “We are aware that almost every application and framework depends on many Java EE APIs today and going forward. Hence to safeguard the interests of Java EE community, Anahata has joined hands with Java EE guardians and will offer them support in whichever way possible. | {
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Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Celebrity reporter Mike Evans went on Minnesota’s KQRS radio last week and talked about his conversation with Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie. According to Evans, the Governor explained that he has unable to prove that President Obama was born in Hawaii and that the state did not have a birth certificate of Barack Obama.
The entire interview can be founded below. What's interesting, is now Evans is claiming that he misspoke. LOL
Obama's Hawaii certificate of live birth (not an actual birth certificate) does not prove that he was actually born in Hawaii. Because even Hawaii law states that a child can be born outside of state and receive this certificate if the parents apply within one year of the birth.
No Hard Evidence of American BirthThere are documents that state which doctors and nurses attended his birth in a Hawaii hospital
Academic Records Sealed
Why would Obama seal his academic records? Because if he was a foreign national, it would state just that.
Should Congress hold hearings on this issue? I think so. If he wants to be President of the United States, he must prove that he is qualified. Check out my videos on this subject on my youtube channel DEMCAD.
Sunday, January 9, 2011
On Saturday, January 08th, 2011, Jared Lee Loughner walked into a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona and opened fired on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Loughner killed 6 people including a 9 year old girl and U.S. District Judge John Roll (who worked a controversial case when illegal immigrants sued an Arizona Rancher). As tragic as this incident, its sadness is only exceeded by its strangeness.
A youtube page that is believed to belong to Jared Lee Loughner has been highlighted by various sources. Youtuber channel Classitup10 features vague rambling about the government, mind control and religion. But the bizarre nature of the channel only makes you wonder why Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' youtube channel was subscribed to it in the first place. That's right, the Congress woman who was shot was apparently subscribed to the man who shot her. If youtube channel giffords2 is her official channel, someone has some explaining to do.
When you look at Louchner's supposed channel, he lists some pretty interesting books as favorites: "Mein Kampf', 'The Communist Manifesto' and 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Keep in mind that there are left wing operatives already trying to pin this on conservatives. Politico is reporting that one veteran Democratic operative said,
“They need to deftly pin this on the tea partiers... Just like the Clinton White House deftly pinned the Oklahoma City bombing on the militia and anti-government people.”
In the next few weeks, you will hear people in media call for more gun control, less talk from the tea party and more blaming. Let me make myself clear. This is not a left versus right issue, this is an act of violence perpetrated by a disturbed man. Trying to used this tragedy for political gain is absolutely immoral and disgusting. I hope people will keep a cool head. | {
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Jason Hartman’s 5 Important Tips to Keep In Mind When Creating Your Podcast
There are thousands of podcasts on the internet, each with it’s own unique personality and flair. With so many for audiences to listen to, how can you get your podcast noticed? What can you do to make sure your podcast is the best it can be? Jason Hartman, President of Platinum Properties Investors Network, has been creating high-quality podcasts since 2007. For 10 years, Jason has devoted himself to improving his craft and making sure that audiences get the podcast that they want. Jason Hartman has accrued a lot of knowledge over the years, and he prides himself on spreading that knowledge to those who are ready and willing to get started making podcasts of their own. Here are the tips that Jason Hartman of Platinum Properties Investor Network wants you to be keeping in mind when crafting your podcast from the ground up.
Jason Hartman Says: Have Something to Offer That People Want
Many podcasts focus in on a topic, but aren’t clear on the specifics of what value they hold for listeners. What does/will your podcast offer to it’s listeners? Is it informative AND entertaining? More importantly, make sure that your podcast isn’t offering something that the audience doesn’t want. Jason Hartman of Platinum Properties Investors Network wants you to go out and study your intended audience by making social connections, hunting around on forums and blogs, and reaching out to individuals who can tell you what they’d like to get out of a podcast on your given topic.
Remember, however, that you don’t need to be an expert in the field that your podcast centers around, though you should have a healthy internet in your topic and an open mind. Often times, you may find that the experts and other guests that you invite to speak during you episodes teach you more about the subject. As is often the case, podcasts are a perfect example of “learning via teaching” – even the President of Platinum Properties Investment Network, Jason Hartman, admits to having learned more during his time recording podcasts than he knew prior to recording them.
You Should Play to Your Strengths and Harness Them, According to the President of Platinum Properties Investment Network
What are you good at? You’ll need to become incredibly comfortable with this question, and dig up as many answers as you can. Your podcast shouldn’t look to push you too far out of your comfort zone, and should focus on playing to your strengths.
If you’re not great at interviewing people and socializing with them, should you really focus your podcast around guest speakers? Maybe you instead realize that you’re very good at giving advice – if this is the case, focus your podcast around speaking directly to the audience and addressing common concerns or problems among those in your field. The President of Platinum Properties Investors Network, Jason Hartman, found that he loved interviewing experts in his field, and decided to devote his podcasts primarily to that, and to the Platinum Properties Investor Network – he found his strength, and you can too.
Don’t Make Your Episodes Too Long or Complicated, Says Jason Hartman
There are a plethora of podcasts that stretch each episode to an hour or longer, but statistics show that most adults don’t have time to listen to a podcast that lengthy. Focus on trimming down your length, and provide a high-quality episode in just 15-25 minutes. From what Jason Hartman, President of Platinum Properties Investment Network has experienced, 30-35 minutes is pushing into the longer territory, so you really shouldn’t make them lengthier than that.
Similarly, try to keep the material of your podcast focused on the intended topic. A lot of podcasts tend to allow for a lot of rambling speech, often using 10, 20, even 30 minutes of recording time talking about menial matters that the audience doesn’t much care for. Jason Hartman of Platinum Properties Investor Network hates to listen to podcasts filled with fluff, and he knows he’s not alone. There are audiences for those types of podcasts, of course, but the bulk of listeners come to engage in thoughtful material, not to hear about what your guest speaker had for lunch today. Platinum Properties Investor Network has netted Jason a huge amount of success, in large part because he chooses to give his podcasts a pivotal, informational focus.
Don’t Be Afraid to Be Controversial, President of Platinum Properties Investors Network Explains
Most of us try to keep things polite and civil in our everyday lives – we don’t purposefully try to get in arguments most of the time, and we usually try not to offend people. It’s in human nature to try to avoid conflict with other people, and humans are a pretty civilized bunch these days.
So it may be difficult to bite the bullet, but you shouldn’t be afraid to be opinionated in your podcast… even controversial. Some of the biggest and most popular speakers got that way because their strong opinions resonated with a lot of people, though the same strong opinions also made a group of people come to hate them. Listen to the President of Platinum Properties Investors Network’s advice: don’t be afraid to step up and say what you want to say, as it could garner you a very devoted crowd of listeners!
So many people have asked Jason Hartman of Platinum Properties Investor Network the same question over the years: How can I know that I’m successful? How much should I be earning? How many listeners or downloads should I have a month/week/day?
While it’s tempting to go looking for specific details on how to measure your success, President of Platinum Properties Investor Network Jason Hartman has some very specific advice to give: don’t do it!
It’s pivotal for hosts of a podcast to define their own terms of success, and to not directly compare themselves to other podcasters that are out there. Do you want to earn a certain amount of money? Have a certain sized audience? Maybe you just want to be able to pay your bills with the income you make from your episodes? Maybe you’re looking to use your podcast to reach out to potential customers for your business? There’s only one person who can answer if you’re successful or not, and that’s you.
Platinum Properties Investment Network’s Jason Hartman currently has over 10 different podcasts that he runs, and he’s soon going to start up three more! This is part of his plan for success, and it’s furthering his personal goals. Make up a personal plan and list of potential goals for yourself, and you’ll be well on your way to success in podcasting. | {
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Tom and Jerry Music
Preamble: Yes, I know that arguably this post falls into the class of “pointless stuff I generally detest”, but I figured it might interest someone else looking for the info.
This morning my hi-fi alarm went off (as usual), was tuned into some kind of classical music station (as usual), and just about failed to wake me up (as usual). What was unusual was that as I was half asleep listening to the static-filled music – my hi-fi has no aerial to speak of; it’s a wonder it gets any reception at all – was that I recognized the piece that was playing. While I didn’t know its name or even the composer, I could clearly see the scene from the Tom and Jerry cartoon Mice Follies in which it featured. The scene is the one where Tom is effortlessly keeping up with Jerry and Nibbles’ skating while dodging chairs and various other part of furniture. At the end I just about made out the presenter mentioning Strauss and “spring”.
It turns out the piece in question was in fact Voices of Spring by Johan Strauss. The other bit of classical music more prominently featured in that cartoon is The Sleeping Beauty Waltz by Tchaikovsky. I’ve known that for a while, but before I did it irritated me not knowing. However, it had escaped me that they had segued a part of another piece in there.
It’s the little things in life…
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I might as well include a couple of things to sustain your interest. The following is my favourite expression of the cartoon (though there are a couple of close contenders):
Tom always has such great expressions.
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What’s the story behind The Second Box? While moving house, I found out that a brand new cardboard box sells for $10-20 in shops. That’s when my friend and co-founder of The Second Box, Herbert Wu, came up with the idea of buying used boxes from elderly scavengers instead of wasting money on new ones. Herbert offered to buy a box from a woman for $5, which she happily accepted.
Why did you start the company? Elderly scavengers earn an average of 70 cents for every kilo of cardboard, which is around the weight of one medium-sized cardboard box. The elderly have spent a lifetime working hard, so why can’t we give them a stable retired life? Why are they excluded by society? But the sad truth is that the recycling business is struggling too. Cardboard waste is sold to mainland paper factories for roughly $1,300 per ton. After paying rent and wages, the profit margin isn’t that high. That’s why the elderly get so little. But what if we bought used boxes from scavengers at a higher price, and at the same time reused the boxes? With this in mind, we submitted a business proposal as our entry in a business competition at our university. That’s how we were awarded $100,000 to start The Second Box.
What’s a typical day like for you at The Second Box? Four times a week, we push a trolley out onto the streets of Sheung Wan and collect cardboard boxes from elderly scavengers. We meet with them at a specific time and place and buy their boxes, for $2 per kilo. We then clean, stack and label them at our office before reselling them to shops and the public. I’ve also been organizing craft workshops for kids and parents to educate them about upcycling and social issues like the wealth gap, the aging population and poverty, so that kids are aware of the stories behind these craft projects.
You must have some memorable tales. Last November, my teammates and I were trying to find cardboard boxes in Sheung Wan when we passed an alley and saw an elderly woman with a huge stack of them. We rushed towards her and asked if she would sell them, but she ran away. She probably thought we were a bunch of hooligans! Another elderly woman who took the trash out for a small supermarket was reluctant to sell us her boxes at first. Now she accumulates a stack of boxes at a secret location for us to collect on a regular basis. She tells us to pay her back later, and has even started introducing us to some of her fellow scavenger friends. She keeps inviting us to eat ice cream with her, and wants to treat us to yum cha. The best part is seeing this trust and friendship we have built with these elderly people. It took us a while to get to know our contributors, but we now have a community of about 12-13 elderly people who sell us boxes regularly. They aren’t our beneficiaries: They are our business partners.
Is it ever a difficult job? Always. When we started, our main customers were dried seafood stores in Sheung Wan. We had to knock on every single door. At first store owners didn’t care. The first batch of 10 boxes we sold took hours of scouring the streets under the blazing sun—all for $5! I couldn’t believe how little I earned having spent so much effort. It was discouraging: I’d just graduated from university and my parents were urging me to find a steady job. They thought I was picking up trash for a living. But now our business has gained a lot more attention, especially since we started selling boxes to the public, and my dad is showing more interest. While it’s a very tough job, I won’t give up on this business any time soon. | {
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Elder Devan Gubler, son of Evan and Myrta Gubler, has returned home after serving in the Micronesia Guam Mission. He will speak March 9 at 9 a.m. in the Orchard 11th Ward, 155 Coventry, North Salt Lake. | {
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Understanding Brexit
Understanding Brexit
Understanding Brexit provides a concise introduction to the past, present and future of one of the most important and controversial topics in modern British politics. Written for both those familiar with the topic and those new to it, the book sets out in a clear and accessible way many of the fundamentals for understanding why Britain voted to leave the European Union and what happens next.
"An indispensable guidebook to the labyrinth of Brexit. Tim Oliver shows not only how Brexit came to happen and how it is unfolding as a series of processes in the UK, Europe and the world. More importantly, he shows how to study and analyse it." Henrik Enderlein, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
"An excellent introductory text for the generalist reader and for students coming to Brexit as an academic subject for the first time. If you have not read a book on Brexit, this should be the first you read." Michelle Cini, University of Bristol
Tim Oliver is a Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University London, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and an Associate of LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has lectured widely on Brexit, taught at LSE, UCL and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and worked at research institutions in London, Berlin and Washington D.C., as well as in the British House of Lords and the European Parliament.
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If you like a tiny balcony with a beach view overlooking the grand promenade and don't mind sleeping in a swanky cell with a ship's toilet, then this hotel is the choice for you. Don't bring your heavy luggage either since you'll have to carry it up the stairs. The place has no lift, no bell service and barely any...
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We stayed for three nights in this lovely hotel. Our view of the sea was superb; sitting on the balcony with morning coffee was divine and breakfast was adequate to begin the day. Staff very friendly and helpful to secure transport to Monte Carlo and carry our bags one flight up. Room very very small and my suggestion is to...
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We've been for 9 days in this hotel and its location is excellent, right on the seafront and at the same time in the Centre of Nice, lots of stores, restaurants and bars. As the hotel does not have elevator, we ask for a room on the ground floor, because we had a lot of bags. The room was small,...
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The hotel is perfectly located to all the nearby amenities. It's literally on the seafront. The staff are very friendly and the hotel is very clean. However, the room sizes leave a lot to be desired. We chose a superior room and all the pictures we saw of this hotel pictured a balcony with table and chairs. The room we...
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Just across the road from the Mediterranean Sea. Tidy rooms which show some wear. Our room was above a busy restaraunt so no restful sleep. The Nespresso machine made up for it. Great center to explore the city on foot or by tram. Breakfast was tasty and staff helpful.
We booked a Superior Double and on arrival, were upgraded to one with a sea view.
Unfortunately, this proved to be a downside as we were given a ground floor room (behind the reception desk) but as this was right on the road, the noise was very loud even at the end of October.
It also meant that we couldn't...
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clean room with balcony. great seafront view! a short walk to the tram station which is convenient. 3 stops away from Nice Ville train station. located near to the Old town where there is lotsa food. good to sit at the balcony to enjoy my dinner and drinks (bought food back to hotel).
in general good location to explore Nice....
Really affordable hotel! Because of that I have to say this hotel surprised us for good. I thought the room was pretty nice, clean (which is the most important thing for me), great location, comfortable bed and the blackout blinds were a great addition!
We only had a couple of nights in Nice and needed a good centrally located hotel. This hotel could not be in a more perfect location. Facing the sea, a stroll from the castle hill and stones throw from the flower market and old town delights. It is comfortable, friendly and efficient. The breakfast was fresh and delicious and served...
A very small Mercure in a great location. The front desk, bar and concierge is all done by 1 person it seems. Walk behind the hotel and restaurants abound and during the day a huge area is dedicated to markets of different types. The train station is about 20 minutes walk. Across the road the beach (pebbly rocks) lures swimmers,...
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The Mercure Nice Marché aux Fleurs hotel enjoys an exceptional location, on the beachfront and directly overlooking the Promenade des Anglais. This 4-star hotel with 49 rooms, but no lift, is just a few yards from the tram route and 5.3 miles from Nice International Airport. Staying at the Mercure Nice Marché aux Fleurs hotel provides you with an ideal base in the town center, in Old Nice, a short walk away from Cours Saleya and its famous Flower Market. Free WIFI and 3 public paying car parks nearby. Breakfast room and bar fully renovated in 2015. Charming hotel with Provence-inspired rooms. Located on the French Riviera, the Mercure Nice Marché aux Fleurs hotel offers a prime location on the Promenade des Anglais, facing the sea, allowing a direct access to the beach. In Nice city center, more specifically in the Old Town, the Mercure Nice Marché aux Fleurs hotel is adjacent to the Nice Opéra. Discover the French Riviera while being just steps away from the Flower Market and the Cours Saleya. Enjoy its outstanding location to visit or to hang out in the lively area of Nice historical center....more less
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Specifications : Each Tent or Canopy is made from 2 fabrics as follows:
Exterior Fabric is made from fine 15 oz. marquee canvas material, which has been treated to ensure that it is water resistant and rot proof. It is specially manufactured to resist inclement and difficult weather
Interior Fabric decorative inner lining and pole covers are made of the finest cotton and hand-block printed by our skilled and experienced staff in a range of designs and colors, hand-made to your specific needs
Each Tent or Canopy is Fully Equipped with bamboo poles, pole covers and a set of instructions and plans for pitching the tent properly
The various designs as shown below are available in different colours combinations. Custom fabrics designs can be accommodated | {
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Description
Late Victorian quest romance has recently attracted renewed attention from critics. Much of this interest has centred on its politics of gender, and its vision of Empire. This book prefers to view the genre in the light of debates within the then nascent sciences of Anthropology and Archaeology. Starting with a discussion of the nature of romance, it goes on to interpret the encounters with lost or buried pasts. By describing encounters with remote places and times, so it argues, these authors were asking their readers disconcerting questions about humankind, and about their own culture's institutions and beliefs. The book ends by considering the implications of such a view for the whole colonial enterprise.show more | {
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Explore the Collections
British-born architect B. Henry Latrobe is known to have designed furniture for the interiors of many of his commissions and, between 1808 and 1810, at least two painted furniture commissions-for the White House of Dolley and James Madison that was destroyed in the 1814 burning of Washington, D.C., and this one, which was made for the house of Philadelphia merchant William Waln and his wife Mary Wilcocks Waln. George Bridport, a London-trained draftsman and ornamental painter of walls and furniture, executed the ornamental wall decoration for the drawing room of the Waln's house and the painted decoration on this set of drawing room furniture.
The other surviving components of the set include a pier table, a pair of card tables, a Grecian sofa, a window bench, and at least fifteen side chairs. This chair, with its klismos form---characterized by curving legs and a concave tablet top---and its flatly painted surfaces represents the earliest American manifestation of the decorative style known as Etruscan. While the chair's design is related to that of the other pieces in the set, no two tablet backs have the same central ornament. The modern yellow silk upholstery is based on careful investigation of remnants of the original. | {
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About the Book
Take a look back in the past with our vintage tech section, or skip to the future with upcoming tech. All tech, in fact, is jam packed inside this book which features puzzles, games, reviews, and free competitions! | {
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It's common for Thai boxers at the heavier weights above 60-65 kg to take fights in Europe. The pay, once converted to Thai baht, is substantial, and three rounds can be a nice change from five.
Ekapop fights at 72.5 kg, which is huge in Thailand. Most of the small handful of Thai nationals who have competed internationally at this weight are well known. Among them, Lamskongkram Chuwattana, Kaoklai Kaennorsing, Yodsenklai Fairtex, Pajunsuk Lukprabat, and Changpuek Kiatsongrit.
This fight was a semi-final bout in a four man tournament in Bagnolet, France. Where that is, I'm not sure. Google Maps tells me it's somewhere in France.
The fight is quite nice to watch, with the fighters having entertaining and well-matched styles. Ekapap wears black gloves, Frederich red.
I had the pleasure of watching Ekapop work the bag leading up to this fight. I asked him why he didn't hit pads with a trainer and he said he didn't quite have the time to do a proper camp.
That said, his bagwork was a tremendous show of technique and power. It can happen that a fighter his size will have trouble getting fights in Thailand. It is certainly not as easy as for someone 65 kg or below, but due to the large flow of foreign fighters in Pattaya, and his European contacts, Ekapop stays active enough to keep his technique at a good level.
Unfortunately, his conditioning falls short in this fight. Berbichon was able to overcome a deficit in experience and overall technique to take the fight through solid defense and conditioning. Ekapop clearly dominates the opening two rounds and looks, from the start, to have superior timing and all around skills. His kicks, in particular, seemed to land well and his evasion of two headkicks in a row from Berbichon near the 7:10 mark is quite funny to watch. He looks more relaxed, on the whole, and racks up points in the first while Berbichon exhibits some stiffness in technique.
This is the first fight of Berbichon's I've seen, but he soaks up damage well and knows when to move in and out. He fights patiently, avoiding exchanges, and has a good eye for openings. When Ekapop tires near the end of the second and in the third, Berbichon is relentless in attacking. Patience plays a large part in Berbichon's victory. He clearly has a good grasp of basic technique and is in tremendous physical condition, but biding his time while his opponent is fresh and dangerous is a smart choice on his part, especially in a tournament opener.
Ekapop was not expecting to lose by stoppage in the tournament. Leading up to the fight, his attitude was very relaxed and confident. This seems pretty common in fighters, in and out of Thailand. Ekapop's been fighting since he was 9 or 10, so I suppose that level of confidence is understandable.
If anyone knows who ended up winning the tournament, please let us know. And keep an eye on Loopnoub's channel. The videos there are a good mix of classic fights and current bouts broadcasted on TV. | {
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Bright outlook for mining remains: Swan
Growth at the tail end of 2012 might not have been as upbeat as expected, but new data suggests the economy will continue to be underpinned by mining investment for a while yet.
And there were further signs that lower interest rates were making their mark with new home sales rising for a fourth consecutive month in January.
Treasurer Wayne Swan said the latest capital expenditure (capex) data on Thursday was a further sign of continued resilience in the economy.
"While investment can be lumpy quarter on quarter, these figures confirm the bright outlook for mining investment over the next year or so, with substantial investment still to come," he said.
Economists were quick to nudge down their forecasts for next week's national accounts after capex data for the December quarter showed an unexpected a drop in actual spending, falling by a seasonally adjusted 1.2 per cent to $41 billion.
Like Wednesday's construction work for the same period, economists had expected a positive outcome.
As such, growth looks set to fall well short of the 1.1 per cent needed to achieve the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) forecast for an annual expansion of 3.5 per cent.
However, the central bank will draw comfort from the planned investment contained within the capex report, which shows mining projects will retain a solid presence in the economy.
Last Friday, RBA governor Glenn Stevens told federal politicians that the peak in resource investment was now close.
TD Securities strategist Alvin Pontoh said the data left him even more confident that the post-peak will be more akin to a "plateau than a cliff".
The latest estimate for capex spending in 2012/13 was $168 billion, a 1.3 per cent downgrade from that forecast three months earlier.
This was partly owing to a 2.7 per cent downgrade in mining investment, although this still stood at $106 billion for the year.
At the same time, the first estimate for 2013/14 capex was $158.5 billion, of which $100 billion would be in mining.
Mr Swan said while the transition from mining to non-mining growth drivers may not be seamless, there were encouraging signs with investment intentions rising for service industries, while recent data showed a tentative recovery in residential construction.
However, the treasurer said other parts of the non-mining economy remained subdued because of a sustained high dollar.
Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey told a conference in Brisbane that while there is no "correct" value for the dollar, its movements create both losers and winners.
"Those who argue for a lower dollar are effectively arguing in favour of higher prices for consumers," Mr Hockey told the Committee for Economic Development of Australia.
"We would need to be extremely cautious in tinkering with such a successful policy measure."
Separately, the Housing Industry Association said new home sales rose for a fourth consecutive month, increasing 4.2 per cent in January.
"It is a promising update to see the momentum of late 2012 carrying into the new year," the association's chief economist Harley Dale said. | {
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Who We Are & What We Do
WHO — We are a community of recreational dancers, singers and musicians, teachers, callers and dance historians who enjoy dancing, playing and singing traditional dance, music and song with roots in English and North American culture.
WHAT — We support these traditional arts with participatory programs, resources, services and funding, serving as a hub of information within the field.
WHY — We believe in the joy and enrichment that participatory dance, music and song bring to individuals and communities, and we are committed to their vitality and sustainability.
WHERE — Our community is in the US, Canada and overseas. Our office is in western MA, camp programs are in eastern MA, NH and WV, and regional conferences and meetings vary in location.
What are our traditions?
The Social Dance Traditions
“Turning, moving, spinning, dresses swirling, music beating, eyes in contact with a partner, then another, then another, then another, and the fiddle turns a corner, the phrase repeats, the dance repeats. You smile. Your body smiles. Everywhere.” — Doug Plummer, in his introduction to his contra and square dance photographs.
Contras and English country dances (ECD) are done by couples, with partners across from each other in long lines (longways sets). Each couple dances a round of the dance with another couple, then moves up or down the set to dance with the next couple, and then another, repeating the figures many times, until the dance is done. Then new couples and lines are formed, and the next dance begins. The dance is “walked through” before beginning each new dance, and figures are called or cued by a caller until the dancers have the pattern.
In square dances, four couples arrange themselves in a square set, with each couple forming one side of the square. Circle dances consist of everyone beside or across from a partner, all moving in the same direction with their partner or in two different directions to a new partner. Other set dances are done in smaller sets of three, four or five couples. Like contras and ECD, squares and circles are led by a caller.
Figures and footwork are simple and easily learned — for example: allemande, cast off, do-si-do (back to back), hey, ladies chain, star right and left, sashay, promenade, reel (weaving), swing your own, turn your partner, up a double. A comfortable walking step is the most common for the dances, but there are skipping, slipping, hopping, waltz, clog and polka-like steps as well. All can be done by beginners, and done well with practice. Knowing where to go may be disorienting at first, but the caller and those in your set will guide you.
Dress is casual, although some people like to dress up for balls and special events. No special classes are required, but some groups have sessions before a dance to help beginners with the basics. You do not have to come with a partner since it’s common in many communities to switch partners for each dance.
The Music Traditions
Traditionally, depending on which form you’re dancing, you may hear fiddle, bass, piano, mandolin, flute, pennywhistle, hammered dulcimer, banjo, concertina, guitar, washboard, or bodhran — contra dancing especially has a strong Anglo-Celtic and French-Canadian element in parts of the country, a more old time sound in other parts — but these days you may also hear clarinet, tuba, oboe or sax, hip-hop or techno music. Most dances in our community are done to live music, although recorded music may be used.
“If I’m ever in a coma, somebody announce “Hands four’ and start shuffling your feet. If that doesn’t bring a smile to my face or get my toes tapping, then you know I’m beyond hope.”— Greg Rohde, in The Commonspace
The Song Traditions
Based primarily in the English and Anglo-American traditions — folk songs, ballads, sea shanties, rounds, songs with choruses — we also enjoy spirituals, work songs, country harmony, African call and response, shape note and gospel, contemporary a cappella, and new arrangements of traditional songs. Our emphasis is on community singing. We also have a strong interest in early music, for its own sake and for how it enriches the experience of dancing English country dances of the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Display Dance Traditions
Cotswold morris, longsword, rapper sword, Northwest, Border, stepdance (clog) and garland dancing are part of a long tradition of display (or ritual) dance and music in England and, since the early 20th century, North America, and they are performance-oriented.
Characteristics of Cotswold morris are energetic dancing and jumping to music (pipe and tabor, fiddle, concertina, for example), accompanied by coordinated movement of the arms and hands, often with hankies, stick clashing or clapping. In most cases, bell pads are strapped to the legs, enhancing the festive sound. Dances may be performed by one, two or three dancers, or more usually are danced in a set consisting of six dancers in two lines, with carefully choreographed figures similar to English country dance figures, but executed more vigorously. North West morris is danced in wooden clogs, with a more precise stepping than Cotswold, but with similar figures, carrying garlands, twizzlers or short sticks, and danced to a brass band. Border morris is a simpler, vigorous style, often done with blackened faces, danced to music which may include melodeons, fiddle, concertina, triangle and tambourines, tuba, sousaphone, flute or oboe.
English sword dance is a team performance, with the dancers linking and unlinking their swords several times throughout a dance, highlighted by the “lock”— intertwined swords passed over the dancers’ heads. Longsword is generally done by six to eight dancers with long rigid metal or wooden swords. Rapper sword, generally done by five dancers, is performed with swords made of flexible sprung steel, giving the dancers a tighter formation and quicker movements. Music for sword dance may include concertina, fiddle or pipe and tabor.
Step dance, or clogging, characterized by dancers’ hard-soled shoes producing musical, rhythmic and audible footwork, can be found in many countries. Our specialty is English and American clog, and it goes by several names, such as buck dancing, buck and wing, clog dance, flatfooting and jigging. It is performed solo or with a group, and with a choreographed routine or done freestyle. | {
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