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It is pleasant to find that the Advocate intends in the future to pay more attention to the point of view section because a just criticism of college papers has always been that there is usually little suggestion of college about them. In the current number, for example, there are two letters on a subject of direct local and contemporary interest--the new method of assignment of rooms in Senior dormitories, these very letters, moreover, bringing out the point that articles in such a paper as the Advocate should be much more carefully thought out and should be expressed in a more nearly final form than are such letters in the CRIMSON. The Advocate should be able to contribute really helpful discussions in times of undergraduate stress of opinion whereas most attempts to rush into print through the medium of the CRIMSON are of the ill-advised and often a source of regret to their authors. On the question of Senior dormitories, Mr. Lewis gives earnestly, if not always convincingly, one view of one opposed to the new plan. His fear that it is undemocratic seems to be founded on the idea that it is always undemocratic for more than four men who like each other to want to room together. He also insists strongly on the lonely Senior and his need of meeting his fellows. One may grant the lonely Freshman but even under present lodging conditions our "lonely Senior" must be a very disagreeable person or at least one whose wish for friends is of abnormally late development. The editorial and the letter from S. B. Steel seem to answer many of the objections adequately and, as Mr. Steel says, the committee does not pretend to have made a perfect plan. It is a pity that this letter descends to a wholesale arraignment of the business methods of the last administration, a matter of which, since he was not a member of the Corporation, he can manifestly have no intimate knowledge.
Of the poems none stand out except the one by C. P. A., the second stanza of which would be especially charming were it not for the "paradisal snow." Mr. Gray's "Utopia" is not an improvement on Shakspere. The stories are rather slight sketches than stories. "His Valley" by H. B. Wehle is not effective because the one character lacks the terse expression that would make his story live. The descriptions--not by the old prospector--are overdrawn. The reader balks a little at the "clear scarlet sky" as other readers protested at Coleridge's sky with its "peculiar tint of yellow green." H. K. Moderwell's "By Night" has a vigor that makes one wish for more. "The Last Edition," by Wm. C. Green is an admirably told incident of the conflict between principle and financial need, principle winning less blatantly than is usual. "College Kodaks" are true but unpleasant, therefore belying the title since one tries to make permanent with a camera something that one wishes to remember. | <urn:uuid:a8ace897-cbf4-4ca4-b25e-4a85f1d667d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1910/3/7/review-of-advocate-by-dean-castle/ | 2017-06-25T03:51:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320395.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625032210-20170625052210-00634.warc.gz | en | 0.974891 | 619 | [
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Its understandable to be bombarded with questions after having a baby, esp one who was born at home with absolutely no outside medical intervention. I will try to answer as many as I can.
First let me say there is no better way to introduce a child into the world. The calm serene environment a home provides is ideal for such an event. Not only is the mother in a comfortable location and can move about freely, to make her delivery easier, the newborn is reprieved of all the prodding the medical community deems necessary and is justified in doing to the most delicate of humans. The first thing a newborn needs is skin to skin contact with mother. Nursing as soon as baby is ready is very important. I think many adults forget that the baby also went thru an incredible ordeal.. They have just been born. They have exerted energy and have wiggled their way out into our cold stark world. They also need a bit of quiet downtime. It just seems cruel to do it any other way.
I know not all women can birth at home. Many midwives offer birthing centers closely designed to a home like environment. These have become increasingly popular. And of course for women who are high risk, hospital births are advised. My only concern is what is truly considered "high risk". For my local hospital, anyone who has had a previous cesarean birth WILL have another one here. They do not encourage vbacs at all.. Take a trip 45 min north and you will find many Dr's to encourage vbacs. There are many many testimonies to vbac homebirths on the web. This, among other "risk" factors, are pre decided by a medical community, not on a case by case basis, as it should be.
I had my first child in a hospital with a midwife. It was a great experience and I was pleased with the results. The hospital was a midwife friendly place and everything was done in the same room. I also admit I didnt know as much as I do now. When I was pregnant with my second I was in another state and it was easy to find a midwife to birth at home. She attended that birth and the 2 others that followed. It wasnt till the 5th child we decided to go unassisted. We felt confident to do so. We took the time to do some extra studying and we researched the "what ifs".
Childbirth comes with risks. Life comes with risks.Whether you are in a hospital, at home or a taxi cab in between, the potential for tragedy is there. Childbirth is not math. There is generally more than one answer and several ways to get to it. Some common concerns about homebirth are as follows: Cord wrapped around the neck~ this has occurred with two of ours. Its actually so common its considered normal. The first time a midwife was present and the second time was not. In both instances the cord was adjusted as to allow the baby to be born as normal. This not something to panic over. True knots can be dangerous as they cut off supply to the baby, but are also extremely rare. Umbilical cords are meant to be stretched bent and twisted.Again, this is completely normal and can be corrected quite easily. Breech, transverse, posterior positioned babies. ~ The difference between the woman who delivers these types of babies and the women who have them "rescued" by a surgeon lies on many factors. How empowered the mother is, her trust in her own body and her faith in God, whomever that may be to her. I agree in some cases medical intervention is necessary, but by taking away a woman's empowerment and her faith, medical intervention becomes even more necessary. Spend 20-30 min on you tube watching "natural breech births". Its pretty fascinating... well for me it is :). Homebirth also allows for a woman to regulate her movement. Being able to move freely is important to help the baby move down the birth canal. Laying on your back is the worst position for childbirth as it reduces the pelvic opening and causes many babies to become "stuck". Yet most hospitals restrict a womans movement. Heart rate dropping~ The idea of constant fetal monitoring seems to helping attorneys, not physicians. Consistently watching fetal heart rate can actually cause an increase in the mothers heartrate and inturn the baby's. Again we have to remember the baby is also feeling every contraction. Group B Strep~ Along with antibiotic treatment, Garlic, Vitiamin C, Echinasia can be taken to remedy GBS during pregnancy. The reduction of vaginal exams, esp duing labor, decreases the chance of the baby getting an infection. Preventative measures~ when you are preparing for a homebirth you are not only more inclined to educate yourself on birthing issues, but you are also more likely to care for yourself better. Not just simple nutrition but ways to avoid birth complications such as pre-eclampsia. Education plus preparedness will help guide you to the birth you desire. We must first take responsibility for our bodies, and in turn, the body growing inside of us.
Another area of question is pain management: This is a key word for childbirth. To have a successful childbirth you have to admit to yourself that childbirth is painful. The kind of pain you never imagined. Then you have to learn how to manage it. You have to have control over it, or you succumb to it.The techniques for each woman is different and can differ from delivery to delivery.I prefer the use of hot showers and baths. Hip movement and walking around is also helpful. There are several birth positions that can be used. The traditional lithotomy position ( on your back) actually creates problems ( and pain) and is generally only used in hospitals for the convenience of the doctors. Think about it.. when you are 9 mos pregnant, does laying on you back EVER feel comfortable? It also cuts off blood flow.. not a good idea. Its also reduces the pelvic area as I addressed above. Crawling, squatting, kneeling, even standing can make a huge difference in pain management. I know for myself, going from an upright position to laying down is impossible in the laters stages of labor. The pain is unmanageable at that point. Its no wonder so many women rely on epidurals. Those types of birth positions also encourage the baby to descend into and out of the birth canal. Its like some supernatural being had it all planned out ;)
As soon as our babies are born I hold them as close to me as possible and clean the airways. I gently rub the babies skin as well, observe activity and watch for signs of rooting. As soon as the baby is ready we nurse. We wait for the placenta before we do anything else. Once the placenta is delivered we clamp the cord and wait a few min before cutting. Our oldest had had the opportunity to cut twice. Daddy begins clean up ( I know how awesome is that!) While mom, baby and siblings bond. Then we rest.
Childbirth has been occurring since the beginning of time.. Hombirth was the only option untill the earyl 1900's when hospitals became more accessible and homebirths were encouraged to be phased out. In the 1950's the creation of Obstetrical organizations created a greater decline in homebirths and midwifery. Recently the desire to homebirth has come back but is now labeled "trendy" or " dangerous" depending on ones outlook. Talk Show Celeb Ricki Lake brought nationwide awareness the "new trend" of freebirthing, aka unassisted homebirth. I find the media reference to this being "trendy new idea" amusing. I didnt realize Eve was such a trend setter.
When it comes to prenatal care that is something we do on a limited basis. I last saw a midwife in the beginning of my second trimester with my 7th child. I had just wanted a basic check up appt so we made one. I am not opposed to prenatal care, nor do I see anything wrong with it. I just use it on a needs be basis. If I have a concern I have it looked into. We do not do sonograms either unless we have a concern. I did with my first after suffering two prior miscarriages, I had to see the strong heartbeat!! I also had one with #3 and #4 as we needed to be sure of the EDD. I do not screen for disabilities. They have been wrongly diagnosed in the past and I want to enjoy my pregnancy. If I have a child with a disability then I have a child with a disability. There is no other option for me.
What it boils down to is there are no guarantees in life. Childbirth is a beautiful natural process which sometimes has casualties. There is nothing man can do to change that. While we have taken great medical measures to reduce those casualties and injuries, we have seemed to go full circle and our mortality and injury rates are increasing. I feel that every mother to be should be educated in all aspects of birth. I feel saddened when I hear of a mothers traumatic birth story that has made hear fear another. Especially when, in many of those cases, unnecessary intervention caused it. We can spend our days doing the "what ifs". Once you are educated on an issue it comes down to what is the best option for you. Unfortunately for most women they are not educated, they are being made fearful of childbirth.
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Saturday morning started with a bang, or more like a scream, from Junior Awesome's room at 3:00am. I don't know what woke him up but I have a theory that when he wakes up he doesn't know if it's 3 in the morning or 7 in the morning, he just knows that his next move is to scream for us. His room is really dark at all times, maybe we need to change that? Anyways, I got up with him and when I realized we were both sitting on the couch like zombies I turned and asked him, "Do you want to go night-night?" He looked at me, slid off the couch and walked to the stairs saying, "night night, night night" I put him back in his crib and that was that. Until 4:30am when he did it again. We were getting up at 5:15 anyways, but this made for not great sleep for the two of us. And what do we do about these early morning wake ups that he clearly is not intending for (babysitter said he was so tired that he took a nap from 7am-9am!) Parent advice wanted.
We were getting up early for our last event in the Triangle Open Water swim series. There was a front pushing through so it was quite chilly and very windy. The water temperature was still in the 80's as there hadn't been enough time for it to drop yet, so no wetsuits. The water was quite choppy - but this is what makes open water swimming challenging! I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you want flat calm water where you can see perfectly, go do a swim meet.
This did not stop 'swimmer Bri' from coming out when I was getting in the water. She is whiny with a bad attitude. Many friends have dealt with her before (how to deal with her: ignore her but never, ever splash her). She disappeared once the gun went off. I mainly used this race as a workout since I haven't been swimming much and I have one last triathlon next weekend. I figured I'm going to cram some workouts in and hope that it's wetsuit legal on Saturday.
After announcing awards (not my favorite thing to do, deep down I'm an introvert) and cleaning up - and once again, thanks for all my OSB volunteers. You guys rock. Hard. So after all that I went for an hour bike ride. I'll be on a beach cruiser next weekend in the race, but I figured I do need to ride a couple of times to make sure all fitness has not been lost.
Sunday morning, Marty went and killed the swim/bike (Aquabike division) at the Finish Strong half iron distance. Logan and I hung out and I tried to keep my running around with him to a minimum. We still went shopping and to a park, but he also got to watch a few episodes of Elmo which we usually try to keep to a minimum at home. But his number one favorite thing to do right now is chase me or Marty around a loop through our kitchen/dining/living room area, and when he kept asking for me to do that with him I asked, "how about we watch Elmo instead and mama can sit here and relax for 20min?" He was very amenable to this suggestion.
The reason why I wanted to sit at least for a little while after park playing was because of the Magnificent Mile at 2:20pm in downtown Raleigh.
Kari volunteered to be my sherpa which was awesome because going solo wouldn't have been very fun. Timing was prime nap time for Logan so Marty stayed home with him (and don't think I was fooled, I knew this was also prime nap time for Marty, too). Kari was so awesome and warmed up with me even though she had already also done the aquabike that morning, and run a little after, and done the swim the previous morning, and helped at our packet pickup AND the Finish Strong half packet pickup!!! Then she held my stuff and gave me encouraging words and told me that, no my foot wasn't hurting and I was going to do great and oh I love that girl.
Men went at 2:00pm which I didn't get to see because I was busy doing drills and strides and anything else I could think of that would get me properly warmed up for this effort. But the guy who won did a 4:09. Not bad.
They say this is a flat/fast course, and it is flat...but not as flat as you can get in other places. Downtown Raleigh is not really flat anywhere so this was as good as it gets. The course was a slight incline towards the Capitol, a tight box where you could run 2 good tangents and 2 very hard lefts, and then 400 meters to the finish. I lined up behind the roped off area for the really fast girls but really wanted to figure out how to get in there because instead I was surrounded by little girls and people I knew would get in my way. When they dropped the rope I tried my best to elbow close to the front.
The gun went off and as much as I didn't want to go out too fast, it was inevitable in this type of race. And it's not like there is a lot of time to make any grand moves if you go out too slow. And for what it's worth, I passed people all up to 3/4 of a mile and no one passed me the entire time, so maybe I did need to get out faster. Buuuuut, I don't think it would've been physically possible for me to go any faster at the beginning. The start was crowded and I was super worried about getting tripped/running over some little girl. Anyways, went through half way in 2:38. I knew I wasn't going to hold that pace and it was all about hanging on the best I could. I ended up finishing in 5:26 - 15th overall and my throat and lungs were burning so bad that I was coughing for a solid 30min afterwards. I think Kari probably wanted to kill me.
Here is a picture towards the end that she took. Because of the angle and shadowing it looks like I have a chest - she is a true miracle worker.
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Ayrton Senna was the most dominant driver of his era, basing his success on the strong ability he had to dominate whatever car he drove. Here is an small Ayrton Senna biography so you could get to know him better.
Senna’s father business success allows him to race since he was very young. Hi did his firstrace when he was just 8 years old, the pole was decided by picking up a piece of paper
His father supported him from the very beginning and hired the services of Lucio Pascual Gascon to help improve the young talent. Immediately Lucio spot Senna’s potential because of the passion he puts into each race to be the first one. Senna entered each race with the mode that he was to be the first or nothing he was a truly perfectionists and he brought that to formula one as well.
He moved to Europe 1981 to pursue his plans to be a Formula One Driver. Immediately he started establishing himself as a competitive driver winning the Townsend-Thoreson Formula Ford 1600 Championships with the Van Diemen team. In 1982 he won the British and European Formula Ford 2000 championships and in 1983 he won the British Formula Three Championship with West Surrey Racing.
As it used to be, talented and mediocre drivers always started their careers on small F1 teams and Senna was not the exception. In 1984 he got the opportunity he was waiting for with the Toleman Team. But Senna’s talent helps him differentiate over the young and established drivers on small teams. On his first Formula One Race he out qualify his teammate by a gap of 2 seconds. | <urn:uuid:fcc1f277-69a2-42cb-a4c5-95ef0bb3afa8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://racingisinmyblood.net/2011/09 | 2017-06-25T22:35:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320593.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625221343-20170626001343-00714.warc.gz | en | 0.987317 | 333 | [
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The reference book I have used stating that: Axiom 1 stating that 0<=P(E)<=1 Axiom 2 stating that P(S)=1 Axiom 3, the probability of union of mutually exclusive events is equal to the summation probability of of each of the events. And the author says that, hopefully, the reader will agree that the axioms are natural and in accordance with our intuitive concept of probability as related to chance and randomness. But what if axiom 1 and axiom 2 is changed to Axiom 1 stating that 0.5<=P(E)<=1.5 Axiom 2 stating that P(S)=1.5 (Axiom 3 no change) or Axiom 1 stating that 1.1<=P(E)<=2 Axiom 2 stating that P(S)=2 (Axiom 3 no change) and rebuild the probability model base on the new axiom? Will there be any problem in this new probability model? If not can I say that the original Axiom 1 and Axiom 2 is just taking some reference value so everybody on the earth can follow it? | <urn:uuid:3a815262-5a66-4e62-9cdc-f575c04531e6> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/change-of-axiom-of-probability.205883/ | 2017-06-25T22:55:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320593.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625221343-20170626001343-00714.warc.gz | en | 0.929251 | 235 | [
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Hostage (Predators MC #3)(9)By: Jamie Begley
She didn’t flinch when Hennessey pulled out a gun from under his leather vest.
“Why is the only other black brother dead?”
“I caught DJ calling Striker, telling him to show up early. He was going to take the money and disappear before you and the brothers could get here. If I didn’t try to stop him, he would have taken off with our money.”
“He’s lying,” Penni found herself saying then found herself shoved into a chair. Cruz placed a heavy hand on her shoulder.
Ricky had taken a step toward her, but Hennessey blocked him before he could reach her.
“She’s lying.” Ricky’s raised his hand as if he were going to strike her.
“I’m not.” Penni glared back, lifting her chin, prepared to tell the truth, even if it meant taking a hit from the man glaring at her, promising retribution.
Hennessey caught Ricky’s arm in his grip, and Ricky’s expression became a mask of fear.
Penni’s bottom lip curled in contempt. The biker was making a fatal mistake by letting the men see his fear.
“He didn’t have a cell phone in his hand when he was stabbed in the back as I came in through the door. Ricky would have had time to call you if he wanted to,” Penni explained.
“She’s lying!” Ricky screamed as Hennessey aimed his gun.
A pool of blood appeared on his thigh.
“Dammit, listen to me.”
Another pool of blood appeared on his other leg.
Ricky fell to the floor with Hennessey standing over him.
“Dumbass, DJ would have never betrayed me. He knew the price for betraying me.” The gun was pointed at Ricky’s temple.
“Please, brother …”
“Don’t call me brother when DJ’s blood is smeared all over your boots.”
Penni covered her mouth with both hands when the shot rang out in the bar. Sadly, she didn’t feel any sympathy toward the dead man a few inches from her feet. He would have raped her and probably buried her where she would have never been found. Then the other bikers would have shown up to find their friend dead with no one able to prove the lies Ricky had told.
She stared mutely at the bald-headed president with his diamond earrings glinting at her, which seemed to mock her emotionless response to the killing that had taken place in front of her.
“Get that piece of shit out of here,” Hennessey ordered, not taking his eyes off her.
“What do you want me to do with DJ?” Cruz removed his hand from her shoulder.
“Call Stefan; he’ll take care of him for me.”
Penni pressed her back against the chair as the black president took a step toward her. Penni expected him to strike her; instead, he crouched in front of her.
“You better have been telling me the truth.”
“Why would I lie?”
“You tell me. Maybe you were trying to cause trouble between my men.”
“Maybe you should have figured this out before you killed him.”
“Maybe I should have, but he pissed me off.”
“Do your friends usually end up dead when you get pissed off?”
He shrugged. “Only one of them was considered a friend.”
Penni lowered her eyes to the pistol resting on his thigh. “I’m feeling like I need a friend myself right now.”
“You’re shit out of luck. You’re not black the way I like my women, and you’re definitely not a brother.”
“Maybe not, but I can keep my mouth closed, and I don’t care what deal you and your men have going down. I just need enough gas to get to the nearest gas station, and you never have to see me again.”
“Why would I trust you?” The man’s lip was set in a sinister sneer.
“Because I know how you can find Striker.”
Jackal hazily blinked at the light filling his bedroom.
“Turn off the fucking light,” he growled, searching for a pillow on his jumbled bed. Muttering to himself, he managed to find one jammed against Rita’s side. He drunkenly dragged it upward to relieve the headache hammering a hole through his brain.
“Ice wants you.”
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Onex Corp. ca:ocx on Thursday reaffirmed its plan to complete the purchase of Boeing Co.'s BA, -1.11% Kansas and Oklahoma commercial-jet operations. "Onex expects to complete the transaction by mid-June," managing director Nigel Wright said in a statement after machinists there rejected a contract from Onex a day earlier. "We are disappointed with the outcome of the [International Association of Machinists] vote. We feel the IAM-represented workforce missed a real opportunity to have a contract in place," Wright said. "In light of this, we will evaluate our staffing needs and extend revised offer letters with new employment terms to that workforce over the next two weeks." He said Onex will be extending job offers to non-union employees within the next three weeks.
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These sites are about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)during their resurgence in the 1920s and 1930s. Also, there is information about the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. In addition, there are resources dealing with the Leopold and Loeb Trial. Included are links to eThemes Resources: Decade: 1920-1929 and Decade: 1930-1939.
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Read about American life during the Roaring Twenties. Listen to jazz music, learn how to dance the Charleston and view pictures of the fashions during this era. Topics include Prohibition, gangsters, flappers, the Teapot Dome scandal, women's suffrage, the 19th Amendment, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Red Scare. Find out what common products were invented during this era and read biographies on famous people, including Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, Louis Armstrong, Babe Ruth, and more. Includes interactive timelines and a link to an eThemes Resource on "The Great Gatsby."
These sites are about the history and events of the 1930s. Learn more about the causes and
effects of the Great Depression. There are many primary documents, including oral histories, photographs, newspaper articles, and audio files. Also includes maps and timelines. There are
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[Originally posted to my blog ‘Point of Tears’ on Feb 15, 2005.]
I took the day off today. I don’t take days off very often, but we were suppose to go up to the lake but decided to wait until the four day weekend.
As such, I didn’t have any plans to go anywhere, or anything special planned for my day off so when my Mom suggested a day trip to Capitola and the beach the Brat and I jumped at the chance.
But Fate, you’re probably saying, the weather was horrible today on the coast. Couldn’t you have picked a better day?
Probably. But you see, my daughter and I love the water so much it’s unlikely you’d get us to say no to a trip to the coast. So off we went.
And yes, we did go to the beach in the rain. We weren’t any crazier than the tens of surfers out there. I mean, all we did was roll up our pant legs as high as they could go and wade in the surf a bit.
The beach was actually beautiful today. The sky with dark blue-grey roiling clouds, and the tide coming in. . .I could sit there all day and take it in.
But I didn’t sit. I walked along the beach, tempting fate by veering further and further into the rising tide. If I could have, I would have stripped down and dove into the water. Yes, I know it’s cold. My feet were numb after about five minutes. . .but I love the water. I love the ocean and the feel of the sand under my feet, the crash of the wave over me, the salty smell. . .I love everything about it. I mean, it wouldn’t be the first time I went into the ocean in the middle of the winter!
I taught the Brat how to stand still as the tide went back to sea so you could feel the water drag the sand out from under your feet. I ran after her and splashed her, (were we really dumb enough to not bring extra clothes?), waded into the water further and further, picked up shells (she’s a collector of EVERYTHING), and generally just had a good time.
But underneath the fun, my mind was tinged with sadness. For this beach town is my son’s town. This is where he lives with his family, and I miss him. It probably sounds silly to say, but I can almost feel a closer connection to him in that town. I spent some of my last weeks pregnant with him laying on a beach just down the road. Waddling out into the waves to float suspended in the salty water, introducing him to one of my favorite places in the world. I know that now he loves the water. Much like myself and his sister, he loves the water with a passion and would rather be in it than out of it.
I took a moment there today at the edge of the ocean. A moment to close my eyes, open my senses, and think of him. I hope my message got through.
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Now that zombie season has officially ended I can actually start reading books that don't give me dreams involving being trapped in libraries & eating brains. Interestingly enough, I suddenly discovered I had started reading the girliest books possible: ones where fashion is practically it's own seperate character. I'm chalking this up to some sort of mild post-zombie apocalypse shock. The cool thing about these three books -- "Freak Show," "Lola and the Boy Next Door," and "Hollywood Nobody" -- is that the fashion isn't some magazine's idea of what'll be cool next year. Instead, it's all about declaring yourself awesome and wearing whatever makes you happiest, even if it's a mermaid outfit complete with Cheerio suction cups on your face.
If any book truly deserved to be pink and covered in glitter, Freak Show by James St. James is that book. The fabulous Billy Bloom, drag queen extraordinaire, is sent to live with his father in rural Florida. Unfortunately for Billy, he ends up in a private school with rich kids who wear nothing but polos in pastel colors, khakis, and have names like "Biff" & "Muffy." Billy won't let that stop him from being the most fabulous person at school, though. The wild ride that follows – including a football player crush, a secret society of outcasts, a creepy stalker, & a highly publicized Homecoming Queen competition – will keep equally fabulous people laughing and happy through the whole book. It'll also supply some wicked awesome Halloween costume ideas.
"Lola and the Boy Next Door" by Stephanie Perkins hooked me the minute the main character stated she didn't believe in fashion, she believed in costume. Lola is a budding costume designer living in San Fran with her two dads and dating a punk rock musician. Life pretty much seems awesome and she's looking forward to her last year of high school. Then her neighbors, the Bells, return after several years away. Now Lola must deal with the crush she had on Cricket Bell, who incidently happens to be madly in love with her. Is it possible to be friends with someone who's in love with you? Will her romance with the musician survive Cricket? More importantly, will her Marie Antoinette outfit for the Winter Formal get finished in time?
I know very little about Hollywood but when I saw the cover for "Hollywood Nobody" by Lisa Samson I had to read it; with my vast collection of glittery and/or cat's eye glasses I couldn't NOT read it. Main character Scotty lives in an RV with her mom who designs food for movies, which I didn't even realize is an actual job. Scotty meanwhile goes to school on-line & gets to make her own cool assignments, zip around on her scooter, and blog about Hollywood goings on. Rather suddenly, she discovers herself in some sort of danger... of course that still doesn't keep her from vintage shopping. | <urn:uuid:b0b2ea2d-5221-4404-94fb-9397f218b213> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://pcpl-offtheshelf.blogspot.com/2011/11/project-costume-designer.html | 2017-06-27T14:06:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321426.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627134151-20170627154151-00154.warc.gz | en | 0.976841 | 612 | [
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Does anyone really need to be told who the Beach Boys are? Oh well, here is a brief summary anyway:
The group’s original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. They emerged at the vanguard of the “California Sound,” first performing original surf songs that gained international popularity for their distinct vocal harmonies and lyrics reflecting a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars, and romance.
The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, and widely influential bands of all time, while AllMusic stated that their “unerring ability… made them America’s first, best rock band.” The group had over 80 songs chart worldwide, 36 of them US Top 40 hits (the most by an American rock band), four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The Beach Boys have sold in excess of 100 million records worldwide, making them one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time and are listed at number 12 on Rolling Stone magazine’s 2004 list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time.” They have received one Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions (2011). The core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
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This is the spot for live coverage of Apple's iPhone 3.0 event later today from Apple headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., which kicked off at 10 a.m. PDT.
This is a play-by-play account of the presentation. For a summary of what got announced, including the long-awaited cut-and-paste and MMS,.
9:53 a.m. PDT: Welcome to Cupertino and Apple's Town Hall auditorium for the iPhone 3.0 software preview. Everyone's settling into their seats, undeterred by a 9:10 a.m. fire alarm that briefly evacuated the building. A mixture of press, analysts, developers, and employees are expected to attend--somewhere around 250 to 300 people. Classic Apple build music at the moment: Jack Johnson.
10:01 a.m. PDT: Dave Mathews Band's "Everyday" at ear-splitting volume takes us into the start of the event, remarkably on time at 10 a.m. compared to the last several of these events. Greg Joswiak, Apple's vice president of iPhone and iPod marketing, takes the stage to kick things off. "We're going to give you a preview of iPhone OS."
10:02 a.m. PDT: Joswiak starts with an update on the iPhone: It's in 80 countries, 13.7 million iPhones were sold in 2008, and there was a clear uptick following the launch of the iPhone 3G. Apple has now sold 17 million iPhones.
10:03 a.m. PDT: He points out that the iPod Touch also runs iPhone OS, and that Apple has sold 30 million iPhones and iPod Touches combined through the end of 2008. I believe that's the first time they've broken out iPod Touch sales figures. The SDK, unveiled last year at a similar event, has been downloaded 800,000 times, and 50,000 developers are in the iPhone Developer Program.
10:05 a.m. PDT: 62 percent of those developers were brand new to Apple, Joswiak says. He says the App Store levels the playing field for developers, pointing out the success of both Gameloft and Steve Demeter, an independent developer. We're treated to one of those slick corporate-produced videos, a fixture at the last several Apple events but a rarity during any Steve Jobs-led events.
10:07 a.m. PDT: Demeter is basically talking about his experience over the last year, and he's done well. CNET editor Kent German and I didn't catch the name of his app, but it sounded like Drizzle. The video ends, and Joswiak notes "we've had a lot of curiosity about the App Store approval process,". 98 percent of apps are approved, he says, and 98 percent of those are approved within seven days. (Editor's note: In a Q&A after the presentation, Apple later said 96 percent of apps are approved. We probably mistyped it here.) The App Store has seen 800 million downloads to date, he says.
10:08 a.m. PDT: Scott Forstall, the head of iPhone software development who reports directly to Jobs, takes the stage for the business end of the presentation. "I'm here to tell you about iPhone OS 3.0, and this is a major update to the operating system."
10:10 a.m. PDT: He starts with the news for developers. He reviews the current iPhone SDK (software development kit), introduced a year ago and allowing developers to use the same APIs that Apple developers use. "We've spent the last year working hard to make this SDK even better." Apple has unlocked more than 1,000 APIs (APIs are communication standards that developers use to have their application interact with the iPhone).
10:12 a.m. PDT: Forstall reviews the App Store policies, such as the pricing on the App Store and the developer's cut. Some developers, however, were interested in other business models, such as subscriptions. Forstall gives the example of magazines or game developers who want to sell game levels from within a game, or content sold within an application, such as that much-discussed application of the last month: the e-book. With iPhone 3.0, Apple will support all those business models.
10:14 a.m. PDT: They're calling this In-App Purchase. The example is a magazine where you can renew a subscription within the app. Or, say, a game has 10 levels, but you want to keep going: the game will download the new levels automatically upon prompting from within the app. Everything works with your iTunes account, it's sort of the same thing as when you download an update to an iPhone application, prompting you for your iTunes password and sending the download after verification.
10:15 a.m. PDT: Developers still get to pick their prices, and they still get 70 percent of any revenue generated inside an app. This only applies to paid applications, not free applications. Some developers had expressed interest in distributing free applications to try, and then buy, but that doesn't seem like it's going to happen.
10:16 a.m. PDT: The next thing? Support for peer-to-peer networking. This should be interesting. You can find other iPhones and iPod Touches in a given area that are playing the same game as you; Forstall gives the example of two kids in the back of a car. iPhone 3.0 will automatically discover other applications over Bluetooth, and there's no pairing. "Completely seamless," he promises. Bonjour is the back-end technology behind this, and it's not just for games.
10:18 a.m. PDT: Accessories is the next topic. Lots of companies have been working on iPhone and IPod Touch accessories, such as speakers. Accessory companies will now be able to build applications that talk directly to the accessory, such as an EQ built into an application that controls a speaker's sound from the iPhone.
10:19 a.m. PDT: Medical devices are a telling example, Forstall says. Take a blood pressure cuff that could be hooked up to an iPhone and send your blood pressure to your doctor from your iPhone. This works through the dock connector and wirelessly over Bluetooth. Standard protocols are supported, but custom protocols are also supported.
10:20 a.m. PDT: Kent German notes: "The peer-to-peer through Bluetooth profile is welcome, though it would be nice to send contacts and other data files through Bluetooth without needing an app."
10:21 a.m. PDT: The Maps application is the next topic. Apple and Google developed this application and developers want to be able to add a map into their application. Developers are going to get access to the Maps API with iPhone 3.0 and embed maps in their apps. That means you can take advantage of all the views and zooming capabilities in the Apple/Google Maps in your application. Location information is also part of this.
10:23 a.m. PDT: "But there is one more thing we're doing with apps." Core Location, the GPS technology, will let app developers finally build turn-by-turn directions, but there's a catch: they can't use the Maps application due to licensing problems, Forstall said. Developers who want to build that will need to use their own maps.
10:24 a.m. PDT: Push Notification is next. "We're late on this," Forstall admits. Apple was supposed to roll out a quasi-background notification system last September, but it never appeared. The company was caught off guard by the growth in iPhone apps, and the system they had built couldn't scale. They took six months to build a truly scalable system, he said.
10:25 a.m. PDT: Kent German: "Applause for turn-by-turn apps. Previously, the SDK had prohibited this, so it makes sense that developers will need to use their own maps."
10:26 a.m. PDT: Those hoping for true background processing, however, will be disappointed. Forstall talks about how true background processing saps battery life, up to 80 percent in a test Apple ran. Performance is also an issue, he says. Other phones do offer true background processing, but Apple seems to be sticking to its original plan.
10:27 a.m. PDT: How does it work? Notifications pass through an Apple server and are then passed to a phone. You can pass badges (letting users know if things are waiting for them, like IMs), audio alerts, or text-message alerts. "The reason we're doing this is because it scales." Forstall also says this is optimized for mobile networks, which was probably a concern on the part of Apple's carrier partners when they discussed true background processing.
10:29 a.m. PDT: Forstall briefly goes through a few other new APIs, such as in-app e-mail or iPod library access. You can play music in an app directly from your library, for example. All told, more than 1,000 APIs will be available to developers with iPhone 3.0.
10:29 a.m. PDT: Apple showed off the new SDK to some developers a few weeks ago, and let them build new apps using the new SDK. Meebo is the first app to be demoed, and they plan to move it native to the iPhone.
10:32 a.m. PDT: Meebo's Seth Sternberg takes the stage to explain the app. He's the co-founder and CEO. Meebo lets you talk to friends across IM networks. The company was waiting for push notifications to build a native iPhone app, Sternberg says. He demos the application, showing how the application provides a background notification that a new IM is waiting.
10:35 a.m. PDT: EA is the next company to take the stage. They've developed 10 games for the iPhone thus far, and EA's Travis Boatman comes up to talk about their new app. The Sims 3 for iPhone was developed with the new SDK. "Scott" is the Sims character that they're using, and this appears to be a demo of the in-game purchase capabilities, using the "simoleans" that serve as money in the Sims. "Scott" buys a stereo, which lets you play your iPod library in the game through the virtual stereo.
10:38 a.m. PDT: Forstall promises everybody that he doesn't dance like Seinfeld's Elaine in real life, unlike EA's "Scott." Now Oracle's Hody Crouch is crashing the party, bringing an enterprise tinge to the iPhone 3.0 software. He's demoing an Oracle app that uses the background notification systems to let him know when Oracle Business Systems has a new alert. That information can be used by traveling businesspeople to fill inventory needs, adjust to outstanding orders, and access other business data.
10:42 a.m. PDT: ESPN is next. Forstall praises the ESPN Web app, but ESPN's Oke Okaro will show us the Worldwide Leader's new native iPhone app. The new SDK is letting ESPN deliver better notifications of scores or news to play that ubiquitous "dah-dah-dah, dah-dah-dah" ESPN tone, using the custom sound capability. Okaro is showing how game highlights can be delivered to the iPhone, rather than pulled by the user. The app uses the new video-streaming capability in the SDK.
10:46 a.m. PDT: Kent German: "Push notification is a good add, though I'd prefer it to be a native feature rather than driven by individual apps. I'd like to see one umbrella push system for all linked e-mail accounts. The functionality seems to be a bit scattered as they're currently describing it."
10:47 a.m. PDT: ESPN's app was one of those that forced Apple to rebuild the push notification system to make sure it could handle the traffic, Forstall says. LifeScan, owned by Johnson and Johnson, will bring Anita Mathew up to discuss the company's diabetes iPhone application. The app works with glucose monitoring hardware, a blood sugar reader, to transmit a patient's data back to a database, and allow the patient to note how they feel or what they've eaten to better manage their blood sugar.
10:49 a.m. PDT: The data is sent from the blood sugar reader to the iPhone over Bluetooth. Within the app itself, patients can track blood sugar levels over the course of the day, allowing them to plan future meals by checking sugar levels in certain foods. The patient can also e-mail or text that blood sugar information to others, such as parents, helping them monitor their kids' health.
10:54 a.m. PDT: Ngmoco is the next company, a start-up that builds games for the iPhone and iPod Touch and that received money from Kleiner Perkins' iFund. Neil Young (not that one) from Ngmoco starts talking about their new game built with the new SDK. They built two apps, a virtual pet game and a first-person shooter. That's diversification. The virtual pets game allows you to set play dates with virtual dogs, believe it or not. You take the role of a dog, interacting with other dogs, taking on missions, and, of course, buying accessories.
10:56 a.m. PDT: LiveFire is the other game, which is slightly different. This lets you play a first-person shooter game over a WI-Fi network with other players, allowing you find friends over a network and play against each other. Kent German: "Buying apps and game levels without going through the iTunes Store will be easier, but like the gum in a supermarket check-out line, I suspect that it will lead to a lot of impulse buying."
11:02 a.m. PDT: Smule is coming next. Ocarina is a very popular iPhone app that lets you use the iPhone as a musical instrument. Ge Wang is talking about their new app, called Leaf Trombone World Stage. It's a social gaming experience geared around music, Wang says. The app lets you create music by blowing into the microphone, like Ocarina, but you can have a backing track and you can synchronize with another player over Wi-Fi. Wang and another Smule developer demonstrate the app by playing Phantom of the Opera on Leaf Trombone, harmonizing more or less in time.
11:04 a.m. PDT: Forstall retakes the stage, saying that Apple created the SDK to make developers successful. (They probably also wanted to sell more iPhones.) Now Forstall will talk about some of the new features in iPhone 3.0. And yes: copy and paste is coming to the iPhone.
11:05 a.m. PDT: "We've been working really hard to design an easy-to-use, straightforward user interface for cut, copy, and paste," Forstall said. He opens an e-mail message, and double-taps on a piece of text to select it, with grab points at the end of the text bubble and three buttons overhead the bubble with cut, copy, and paste options.
11:06 a.m. PDT: Kent German: "Now the good stuff...Hallelujah for cut, copy and paste."
11:08 a.m. PDT: Copy and paste works across all applications, not just mail. The Notes application is also demonstrated, showing how you can "select-all" from Notes and paste into an e-mail. You can also copy Web content, such as text from a Web page. This looks sort of like the text selector used in a PDF document, with four buttons on the four sides of a text bubble that let you expand your text bubble by dragging the button. If you messed up, shake the phone to undo any of the actions: cut, copy, or paste.
11:10 a.m. PDT: SMS messages can also be copied, as well as text from third-party apps. Photos are also included, with the ability to select a certain photo, copy it, and paste into a mail message. Kent German: "Cut, copy and paste seems easy to use, particularly with the movable grab points...like the shake to undo. Wondering if you can access a clipboard and if you can copy images on Web sites."
11:12 a.m. PDT: Landscape is the next feature Forstall plans to show. He's showing how you can read a Web page, for instance, in landscape mode, rather than the iPhone's usual portrait mode. The landscape keyboard that could be used in Web pages can now be used in all applications, particularly mail. That will be a key addition for e-mail addicts, and perhaps a concession that some people were finding the portrait keyboard difficult to use.
11:13 a.m. PDT: The text message application has also gotten a few new features, such as forwarding and deleting individual and multiple messages. "But the big news, for the messaging application, is that we're adding support for MMS."
11:16 a.m. PDT: There's a new voice memo application from Apple. Several third parties have built voice recorder applications in the meantime. Calendar is also getting an update. Last year, Calendar got support for Exchange synced over-the-air, and this year, Apple is adding support for CalDAV, a standard supported by Yahoo and Google used for shared calendars. The other is support for subscriptions, such as adding a sports team's schedule to your iPhone's Calendar.
11:17 a.m. PDT: Kent German: "Can't describe how needed the multimedia messaging functionality is. Though, I'm wondering if it's shameful that I'm getting excited about such a basic functionality."
11:18 a.m. PDT: Search is next, it's getting added to all main applications, including Mail. You can search text and headers in Mail as well as on the server. Calendar is now searchable, as well as your song library in the iPod.
11:20 a.m. PDT: Apple's Spotlight technology from Mac OS X is what's coming into the iPhone. A search bar will appear when you flick the home screen to the left, bringing up a search engine. Enter your search term into the Spotlight box, and it takes you right to that application, such as a contact, where you can dial or e-mail. Forstall notes that this is a much better way for iPhone owners with dozens of applications to launch specific application, rather than flicking through the various home screens to find the app you need.
11:22 a.m. PDT: Forstall reminds the crowd that 100 new features will arrive with iPhone 3.0, but that he doesn't have time to go through them all. You can sync notes with your Mac, use the "shake to shuffle" feature on the iPod Nano, and stereo Bluetooth, a much-requested missing feature from the current iPhone. Safari will have antiphishing technology and auto-fill. Parental controls can now be applied to the App Store, perhaps allowing you to block your kids from using those naughty fart applications. (Editor's note: After the presentation, Apple said it would not issue the complete list of the 100 new features today. So far, they're just making public the ones they announced during this presentation.)
11:23 a.m. PDT: Kent German: "Surprised we get stereo Bluetooth. Surely an Apple stereo Bluetooth headset can't be far behind."
11:24 a.m. PDT: Forstall recaps the day's major news: the new SDK features and the new user features. Hopefully he's getting to the "when" question: when will this be ready?
11:25 a.m. PDT: Joswiak is coming back to announce when this will arrive. A developer beta will come first, and that's available today, and available to everyone in the iPhone Developer Program.
11:26 a.m. PDT: Interesting to note that they keep calling this "iPhone OS 3.0," which they had done informally for a while but seems to be coming into parlance now as an official term, distinct from Mac OS. Joswiak says the App Store is coming soon to additional countries in which it is now available.
11:27 a.m. PDT: "But how about the rest of us?" Joswiak promises to ship it "this summer," free to IPhone customers, and it will work on the original iPhone. Not all features will be available on the original iPhone, such as MMS and stereo Bluetooth.
11:27 a.m. PDT: It will cost $9.95 for iPod Touch customers, in keeping with the different accounting treatment Apple uses for the iPod Touch.
11:28 a.m. PDT: Kent German: "Too bad iPhone Classic users can't get MMS with the update. Interesting that the hardware changed that much."
11:28 a.m. PDT: Joswiak winds down by thanking everybody for coming. Developers are getting a little party upstairs, and the press is going to hang out for Q&A. Five-minute break, everybody.
11:33 a.m. PDT: Phil Schiller joins Forstall and Joswiak on stage to take questions. The first question, "Why did it take so long to get cut and paste on the iPhone?" Forstall says it's not obvious on how to do it, taking into account security issues and making it work nicely with the touch interface.
11:34 a.m. PDT: The next question concerns Flash, and Schiller says they have no announcements about Flash today. But Forstall says that HTML 5 video is supported, as well as h.264. There's now HTTP streaming for audio and video: "We actually think there are a lot of great video solutions for a single clip and live streaming solutions."
11:37 a.m. PDT: Another reporter wants to know about the peer-to-peer functionality. Forstall says the P2P connection is about a device-to-device Bluetooth connection, about using Bluetooth and Bonjour to make an IP connection. The accessory piece of this is handled differently, Forstall says.
11:38 a.m. PDT: The logical next question is whether you can trade files or music over this peer-to-peer capability. Joswiak says you can stream music to other apps, but he says it would be "confusing" to have applications that could download music from outside the iPod capability.
11:39 a.m. PDT: "Where do you guys stand on tethering?" That was a rumored capability for this release. Forstall says there are two pieces to support that, client side and carrier side. Client side support will be built into 3.0, but the carrier part is a work in progress, Forstall says. That sounds like it's coming as soon as the carriers decide to make it ready.
11:41 a.m. PDT: Apple is not going to make any kind of uptimes guarantees to developers regarding the push notification service, Forstall says in response to my question. Our own Larry Magid wants to know if external third-party microphones can be used with the voice memo application, and Joswiak says yes.
11:42 a.m. PDT: "Do you plan to deal with some of the performance issues in the current hardware?" Forstall says Apple takes performance very seriously, and that some of the units used in the demos suffer a bit because of the way they are tethered. No suggestions of better hardware on the horizon, as might be expected.
11:44 a.m. PDT: The original iPhone uses a different radio, which is why it can't support MMS. Forstall wonders how to respond to a question about access to another person's iPod library with the peer-to-peer connection, and Schiller isn't quite sure how to answer that either. That sounds like Apple hasn't exactly decided how the peer-to-peer application will interact with the iTunes/iPod franchise.
11:46 a.m. PDT: Harry McCracken wonders if Apple plans to get a bit more open about the App Store approval process, a well-documented source of frustration for developers. Schiller notes the growth of the App Store has been amazing and that customers want quality. He says they've improved the turnaround time, and let me correct something from earlier: Apple is quoting a 96 overall acceptance rate, not 98 percent we said above.
11:47 a.m. PDT: Schiller says Apple watches for profanity in the applications, as CNET's David Carnoy knows. The ability to use parental controls with applications should help get around some of the issues around objectionable content, Schiller says.
11:48 a.m. PDT: That's going to be the last question, and that's going to be all for this live blog. Stay tuned for all kinds of followup and reaction from across CNET, and, as always, thanks to everybody back on Second Street who make it possible to bring you these live blogs. | <urn:uuid:72edd62a-385a-407d-a8c7-f61e84460e19> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://www.cnet.com/news/live-blog-iphone-os-3-0-preview/ | 2017-06-27T14:25:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321426.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627134151-20170627154151-00154.warc.gz | en | 0.953011 | 5,273 | [
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Cherry Vanilla Cotton Candy
Organic cotton candy? Yup, it’s true. But organic sugar still spins up a lovely, fluffy candy that melts in your mouth from the second it touches the tongue.
- Includes: 12 pack Cherry Vanilla
- About Spun City
- Seeking a way to satisfy snackers who had both a serious sweet tooth and an eco-centric sensibility, Spun City fluffed up its first batch of cotton candy using organic sugar in 2008, starting with classic grape flavor and ultimately spinning out to cherry vanilla. Their cotton candy has no chemicals, dyes, or pesticides, and is vegan, fat-free and sodium-free.
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The Bakersfield office of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration searched a medical marijuana facility and the facility's owner's home early Tuesday morning, according to the Kern County Sheriff's Department.
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Speed Reading, Assessment and Online Reader Software.
AceReader Pro is 3 tools in one: (1) It is a training tool that will help you
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Utilizes Tachistoscope Technology to pace your reading. Designed for all ages.
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speed relative to personal reading ability. Test results are logged and graphed
for accountability. With the Online Reader you can rapidly read and skim text
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Well, you're just gonna have to take my word for it....
I tried and tried to post some pictures of fibery goodness that arrived at my house this week, but alas, Blogger would not cooperate. :(
From Mandy, I received a gorgeous skein of Lana Grossa cotton sock yarn color 2213 and 2 sets of handmade stitch markers, very lovely.
From Allison, I received a "Knit Tea Party" which consisted of 2 different tins of tea, one is "white tropics" and the other "mango melange". Also 2 Knit Picks Palatte balls - one in the color "Pool", which is a nice cool blue, and the other is "Mint", which is green, of course. I felt like taking the Nestea Plunge when I received that, LOL! Very nice!
And from Stacey, I received a skein of Malabrigo in Red Java, a skein of Knit Picks Sock Garden in Pansy, some Aran Weight silk in a deep purple color, (wow, I've never worked with silk before), a bag of fiber for spinning, a handmade soap, a handmade bag- works great for socks or other small projects, a Mary Kay zippered bag - inside were 2 balls of Debbie Bliss merino aran, a smaller Mary Kay bag with some creams and such inside, a Mohave California postcard - and I think that's every thing! (whew!)
Am I spoiled, er I mean, Blessed, or What?! Thanks everyone!
Also, thanks for all your sympathies on my burning eyeball situation. I was able to wear my contacts the next day, without problem, thank God! :) So everythings fine in that department!
Oh, and I finished another dishrag, and a hat. I made the hat out of Paton's Divine - it's a Mohair blend type yarn- bulky weight, and fuzzy. The hat came out nice and cushy. It matches the shawl I made a while back. I also cast on for another hat - in gray acrylic. It's to match a basketweave scarf (of the same yarn) I finished a while back. These are for Christmas presents for my grandparents who live in the Northeast. Yay!
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Executive Security Concepts: Armed Guards in Alexandria, Blacksburg, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg, Richmond, Roanoke, and Salem VA
If you are looking for a security resource that can provide armed guards for personal protection or facility security, Executive Security Concepts can and will exceed your expectations. Our company is headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, and we serve clients who come from many different surrounding communities. We understand the needs of high profile individuals who may get unwanted attention, and our vast store of experience sets us apart. Our armed guards have protected visiting foreign dignitaries, politicians, highly recognizable celebrities, high-ranking business executives, members of royal families, and others.
We have been leaders within the security community since 2005, and we are built on the strength of our leadership. Christopher Ragone is the owner and founder of our company. He brings an impressive background to the table as a United States Navy veteran who is a graduate of the highly respected Executive Protection Institute. Rex Crockett is the Executive Security Concepts Director of Operations, and he adds a wealth of military and private sector security experience to the company. The rest of the team is comprised of top quality security professionals who come from military, law enforcement, and private security backgrounds. We conduct extensive background checks, and all of the armed guards that we work with are carefully vetted.
Our company has the expertise to adapt our personal and property protection capabilities to address any scenario. We analyze venues that our clients will be exposed to, and we assess potential threats and crowd control scenarios. With our vast experience to draw from, we devise strategies that are custom crafted to address each respective venue or itinerary. Executive Security Concepts can provide you with a single armed guard for a relatively short period of time, but we can also accommodate clients who have large-scale, long-term needs.
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If you have questions about armed guards for any type of security situation, we would be more than glad to provide you with detailed answers. Call right now at 540-314-4098 to speak with one of our knowledgeable, experienced security experts. | <urn:uuid:347d46bb-5692-4aec-afe9-b7bd6cac27ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.executivesecurityconcepts.com/armed-guards-in-alexandria-blacksburg-charlottesville-fredericksburg-harrisonburg-lynchburg-richmond-roanoke-and-salem-va/ | 2017-06-29T03:48:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323864.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629033356-20170629053356-00314.warc.gz | en | 0.943976 | 433 | [
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7 by Studio Millionroses
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Oscar Jenkyn Jones
Producers - Eleanor Crouch
- Rose Wardlaw
President - Jamie Demetriou
"One of the best sketches you will find in Edinburgh this August"
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"Beautifully crafted sketches... the Revunions throw sketch after hilarious sketch at the audience with more twists and turns than a seriously bent Twizzler"
(The U-Review- 2011)
"The writing was some of the most impressive I think I've ever heard... Nothing short of incredible"
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This past Monday I started my new gig with Powered, an Austin-based company that creates social commerce web destinations for big brands (Sony, HP, etc.). I’m currently a “Business Architect” – which basically is another way to say strategic pre-sales, or even better, the guy who does the demos.
I’m really excited about the company and the role I’ll be playing. Social commerce, which is basically social networking wrapped around online shopping for products and services, is a part of the web that is really on the upswing. Powered is an emerging company in this space, and offers a unique service by bundling a strong content development offering with a social technology platform.
Basically, if you are a marketer scratching your head about how to leverage this Web 2.0 business for the benefit of your brand, Powered can have you up and running with a fully loaded social site driving interest and business in three months (mileage may vary). Do I sound like a sales guy yet? I’m working on it.
Powered has roots in “Online Consumer Education,” and if you go to the website now you’ll see it still reflects that content-focused approach. But next month we’ll be relaunching with a push into Social Commerce and a brand new technology platform named Panorama. Exciting times.
Beyond the impetus to join Powered because it’s a well-positioned company in a rapidly growing area of the internet, I joined up mostly because I was really impressed with the management and leadership here. People is always the first place I look to not only know if I will be happy somewhere, but also to know whether a company is going to ultimately succeed or not. I have a good feeling about this one. | <urn:uuid:fe0b9adb-15b8-449e-919d-4a63b0cf2e6e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://dougwick.com/2007/10/09/powered-social-commerce-out-of-the-box/ | 2017-06-22T20:28:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319902.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622201826-20170622221826-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.960802 | 373 | [
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Melrose Place Guest Lodge is an apartment in Johannesburg within short distance of AECI Dynamite Factory Museum, South African National Museum of Military History and Origins Centre. This property offers laundry, room service and concierge service.
Guests will appreciate convenient location just near Gautrain Rosebank subway station. Johannesburg city center is 8 km away. Offering a variety of dishes, Amarcord Osteria Italiana da Luciana e Mario and Parea Restaurant are just about 200 meters away.
The property is conveniently located next to OR Tambo airport.
Non-smoking rooms offer central heating, a personal computer, pay TV, a private safe and a writing table. The rooms have elegant furniture and carpet floor. A detached bathroom with a shower cabin and a bathtub as well as a hairdryer and free toiletries is at guests' disposal.
Eat & Drink
The apartment provides an electric kettle, a fridge, a dishwasher and coffee/tea makers in a kitchen.
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WASHINGTON, March 6 The International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) held its 2008 annual meeting in Washington, DC, February 25-27. This organization involves collaborative efforts among academic and research clinicians, representatives of the pharmaceutical industry, and governmental drug-regulatory bodies to improve methods for testing efficacy and safety of drugs used to treat psychiatric and neurological disorders. A half-day symposium explored FDA-required "black-box" drug safety warnings of evidence of increased risk of suicidal thoughts and actions during treatment with antidepressants in juvenile and young-adult patients as a case study. The symposium was chaired by FDA-advisor Andrew Leon, Ph.D. (Cornell Medical Center), and Ross J. Baldessarini, M.D. (Harvard Medical School). Other speakers were Neil Chayet, J.D. (Harvard Medical School), Thomas Laughren, M.D. (US FDA), James McNulty (Past-President, National Alliance on Mental Illness [NAMI]), and Sharon-Lise Normand, Ph.D. (Harvard School of Public Health).
Dr. Baldessarini noted: "Studies aimed at reducing risk of suicide remain far less well developed than many other treatments for psychiatric patients, despite the importance of the problem. Evidence of whether antidepressants increase or reduce risk of suicidal behaviors remains surprisingly inconsistent and inconclusive."
Symposium speakers reviewed evidence supporting the expanded safety warning for all drug products that are FDA-approved for the treatment of major depression, that involve 180-million prescriptions a year in the US. The FDA also is conducting a systematic review of suicidal risks associated with anti-epilepsy drugs and considering use of more systematic assessments of suicidal thinking and behaviors to replace current incidental patient and clinician reporting of adverse events during trials.
Suggestions for further action discussed at the symposium include the need for longer studies of both potential beneficial and adverse effects of various medicines that act on the brain, as well as greater collaborative relationships and more open information-sharing among psychiatric patients, clinicians, researchers, the pharmaceutical industry, and FDA. Redoubled efforts are needed to identify more tolerable, safer and more effective treatments for depression, and to limit suicidal risks, as well as adequate information to guide sound treatment planning so as to balance risks and benefits of antidepressant treatment. ISCTM plans to continue its consideration of methods for suicide assessment with drugs that act on the brain, and approaches to treatments aimed at reducing suicidal risks.
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“I am shocked beyondwords. It’s like adream - a bad dream. This cannot be! Howcan Michael Jackson not be here?
As a kid, Michael was alwaysbeyond his years. He had aknowingness about him that was incredible.
When I first heard him singSmokey’s song “Who’s Lovin’ You” at10 years old, it felt like he had lived the song for 50 years.
Somehow, even at that firstmeeting with him, he had a hunger to learn, a hunger to be the best and waswilling to work as hard and as long as it took.
I had no concern about hisability to go to the top. He waslike my son. He had warmth,sensitivity and two personalities.
When he was not on stage, hewas loving, respectful and shy. When he WAS on stage, he was so in charge you would not believe he wasthe same person.
Michael was and will remain oneof the greatest entertainers that ever lived.
He was exceptional, artisticand original. He gave the worldhis heart and soul through his music.
I extend my sympathies to Joe,Katherine and the entire Jackson family. My prayers are with them.”
June 25, 2009
"It is always hard to lose a friend. I will miss Michael and allthat he brought to the world through his music and his creative genius. I knowhis legend will live on and the world will miss him dearly."
“The world has lost one of the greatest artists of the 20thcentury. The Motown family has lost an irreplaceable son, brother and friend.”
(Jackson 5 Manager from 1969 - 1972)
“To me, he is ‘Michael the Magnificent.’ Michael Jackson wastruly one of a kind and we will never see anyone like him again in ourlifetime.”
“I knew Michael when he started out as an incredibleyoung performer and watched him grow into one of the most outstanding talentswe have witnessed in our lifetime. He was a terrific young man whose talent and creativity grew as he did. Iwas one of the lucky ones who was present at the Motown 25 that year when he debuted BILLIEJEAN. I was sitting in the audience and there was an incredibleenergy in the room that I can only call "spirit" that reached out andforced everyone to their feet. It was the most powerful energy I've everwitnessed from an entertainer. Michael was not only a great artist andperformer, he was a philanthropist and such a generous man whose gifts wereboundless. The last time I saw him was at a small dinner party in New York atthe home of a mutual friend. He was an intelligent business man and a gentlesoul who had tremendous love and respect for all of us who came before him inthis business. I will miss him terribly. My heart goes out to his family.”
(Holland Dozier Holland)
“On the day Michael Jackson died, like Hal Ashby, we’re leftonly to mourn. But we can also celebrate their life’s works because that’s whatwe are going to remember them by.”
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Best Decoration Bedroom Ideas for Boys and Girls
Here we will discuss best decoration bedroom ideas for boys and girls. As we know that bedroom is an ideal place where you can have rest and relaxation. Person should keep in mind that bedroom is the center of attraction in every house. So, it should be decorated in a perfect manner. The decoration of your bedroom should matches with the purpose it is meant to serve and design. It’s the dream of every person to have beautiful and attractive bedroom.
Bedroom is the only place where person can take rest, think and also sleeping. Now the question is that how to decorate bedroom for young boys and girls. Well, there are so many decoration bedroom ideas are available in the world of internet.
Bedroom Decoration Ideas for Girls
If you want to decorate bedroom for young girl then you need some great and best ideas. There are so many themes and ideas are available for the decoration of girls bedroom. The top and best decorating ideas for girl room are given below.
Painting is considered to be the most important and main thing in order to make your room beautifully decorated. Just choose the favorite color that young girls normally like and then paint with it. Paint the walls according to her favorite color. You can also paint the ceiling according to the theme. In other words you should be creative with your painting idea.
The second interesting idea for girl’s bedroom decoration is bedding. There are so many amazing colors and bright paints are available for girls bedding. Moreover, use the fun paint on the bedding in order to decide the color scheme for girl’s bedroom.
3. Use Accents
On number 3rd, we would like to mention the use of accents as a best idea for girl’s bedroom decoration. You can accent the paint by using decorative pillows. Attractive and bright colors of pillows always look nice on a beautiful bed. Moreover, you can also add stuffed rugs, animals and colored frame pictures.
4. Curtains And Blinds
You can also decorate the girl’s bedroom with beautiful curtains and blinds. You should try sheer or semi sheer curtains for girls room because these types of curtains allows the maximum amount of light to enter in the room.
For girl’s bedroom decoration, use beautiful and stylish mirrors. As we know that every age of girl wants mirror in her bedroom. Just place an ideal mirror above the dresser where she can use it daily.
6. Add Quotes
Another best and unique idea for girl’s bedroom decoration is to add quotes. Just add painted quotes on the walls for making your bedroom modern and ideal. The best quotes are love, joy or girls have the most fun. In simple words, just be creative with your quotes and sayings.
For decorating girls bedroom, you can also add little table or desk in order to make her room nice and attractive. The color of table should be match with the bedroom theme. In this way, bedroom will look more beautiful and attractive.
On number 8th, we have use of chairs as an important bedroom ideas for girls. You can add stylish bean bag chairs or comfortable stool in order to create a fun space. You can place stylish chairs in the corner of your bedroom. Having reading corner in a girls room is considered to be a fun idea.
9. Bunk Beds
Bunk beds are best for sleepovers and slumber parties. Well, bunk beds are very popular among young girls. A wide variety of bunk beds is available in the market.
Lastly, we have best lighting as a decoration idea for girl’s room. The lighting in the bedroom is very important for girl’s room. You can choose bright lamp shades or simple lights according to your preference. You just make sure that the lights should be oriented, beautiful and well placed. The best and ideal colors for girl’s bedroom lighting are pink, green and many more.
Here are some examples of Bedroom Decoration Ideas for Girls
Bedroom Decoration Ideas for Boys
After discussing the bedroom decoration ideas for girls, now we would like to discuss main and important decoration ideas for boy’s room. The main ideas are given below.
1. First Impression Count
The most important decoration idea for boy’s room is the first impression count. It means that just polish up the front door. You can also put the popular cartoon character painted at the door.
On 2nd number, we have the use of lamps as a best boys bedroom decorating idea. Use of beautiful lamps will surely add light to your son life. You just keep in mind that lighting is very important and significant for every type of room. For boys room, just buy the lamps in bright colors like blue, grey and many more.
3. Artsy Letters
For decorating boys room, you can also use artsy letters in order to create individualism. You can use letters in different designs and styles. You can hang artsy letters in the ceiling or fix them in the wall.
4. keep Things Tidy
Lastly, for boys bedroom decoration you should keep all the things tides. You can teach your child that how to maintain cleanliness in his bedroom by using beautiful decorative shelves. Basically, bookshelves are considered to be best organizers. You can add bookshelves in boys bedroom for placing his books, gadgets and other things.
Here are some examples of Bedroom Decoration Ideas for Boys
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2ND ANNUAL HAIRBILLY SHOWDOWN CONCERT
Headlining this years show will be The ROCKSHOW.
Imagine, attending a live musical event, listening to the sounds emanating from the stage and hearing a song from your childhood or simply a favorite tune from your past. Focusing your eyes on the musicians, you are first surprised, then shocked to not see the original
artist but - The ROCKSHOW. You will never come any closer to the original artist as this showstopper is receiving rave reviews touring across the country. . .
THE ROCKSHOW: AN ULTIMATE TRIBUTE TO JOURNEY! Tommy K's remarkable 'perryesque' vocal performance must be observed and heard in person to be believed! Close your eyes and you will think it's the real deal! Michael Hawkes (guitar/vocals), Bruce Shew (bass/vocals) and Chris Bartnikowski (drums/vocals) round out the Journey complement.
Steve Armstrong & The 25 Cent Beer Band:
Steve Armstrong & The 25 Cent Beer Band have made a lot of progress in a short time. After winning the Michigan Idol Competition in 2007 Armstrong put together a powerful lineup of top notch muscians with expertise in different generas of music and began playing in local clubs. People soon began to take note. The band won it's first Music Award in 2009. The Review Magazine Fans voted # 1 Country Music Band, and followed it up in 2010, again voted # 1 Country Band. In addition each member of the Band won top honors in their individual categories. 2011 marked another win for the band. In 2012 Steve and the guys made history by winning the top spot for the 4th year in a row. Never before has a band won this many times, in any genera of music. In all the band has won 12 Review music awards, another record. Their fan base continues to grow as do the crowds at their shows. The band's highly anticipated debut album was released in mid June 2012. These guys are at the top of their game and are ready to kick off this summer with a big BANG !! The band is now signed on with Spin Doctors Music Group, Nashville.
Jedi Mind Trip:
Jedi Mind Trip has been one of Michigan's best and longest lasting 80's band for over a decade. Stronger than ever, Jedi Mind Trip will take you back in time and rock out all your favorite hits from bands like Bon Jovi, The Outfield, 38 Special, Europe, Poison, Def Leppard, Eddie Money just to name a few.
Dani Vitany & Ten Hand Tall: New to this years line up!
From the onset of their arrival on to the Flint/Tri-City area music scene in the late fall of 2012, Dani Vitany & TenHands Tall has been turning heads in night clubs and on stages across the state.
Logging in 125 plus shows in 50 weeks throughout the state of Michigan and Ohio, they have proven their dedication
and passion for their craft. Their talent and willingness to work hard earned them two first place wins in two separate battle of the bands competitions in 2013, awarding them the opening showcase for American Idol's Chris Daughtry this summer at the Bay City's Just for Kids Concert in front of a crowd of over three thousand fans.
In the annual Bay Area Music Awards this year lead singer Dani Vitany captured Country Lead Vocalist of the
Year and lead guitarist Barry Forster picked up the Country Instrumentalist of the Year.
Ten Hands Tall is anchored by veteran drummer Dan Currier and bassist Rick Brown, in combination with versatile
guitarist Jerome Ratell and multi-instrumentalist Billy Gunther. A blend of youth and maturity, the group takes the
stage and captures the crowd with tight renditions of New Modern Country music, and Classic Country songs as well.
There is literally something for everyone at every show.
Highlighted performances include the Bull & Barrel Stage at the prestigious WYCD's Hoedown in Motown, Jackson
MI's Country Palooza, the Bobby Randall Birthday Bash featuring, Mark Wills, headlining Michigan's Big Country Music Fest in Frankenmuth, Michigan and opening at the Machine Shop for the Lacs.
This year a portion of the Hairbilly Ticket sales will be donated to the Shannon McIver Osteosarcoma Cancer Fund.
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At a time when Pakistan’s film industry is on the rise and grossing huge amounts at the box office, it’s only fair we have more stellar films to look forward to. According to local website hipinpakistan.com, director Wajahat Rauf himself confirmed the news about Saba Qamar starring alongside prominent Pakistani actor Yasir Hussain.
According to the director, the plot of the movie will this time focus on the character Moti, who travels from Lahore to Pakistan’s Northern Areas. During the course of the journey, he comes across Saba Qamar’s character.
The director also said the movie will not have an item song, unlike its predecessor. However, it was revealed that the movie would feature a couple of new, catchy tracks. Saba Qamar has starred in a couple of drama serials. According to another local report, director Wajahat Rauf had snuck into theatres and been delighted at the audience’s heartwarming reaction to Yasir Hussain’s character from the first movie. Hence, this was what convinced Wajahat to focus the next movie more on Hussain’s character.
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Volume 1 Supplement 1
Early measurement of double negative (CD4-CD8) T-cells as a possible predictor for MODS after severe blunt trauma?
© Current Science Ltd 1997
Published: 1 March 1997
The exact pathogenesis of the multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) as the leading cause of late postinjury death is still unclear. We investigated 35 patients with an injury severity score (ISS) greater than 15 (range: 17 to 50, mean 30) and an age greater than 16) years (range: 16 to 89; mean: 38.1 years) during the first 6 days after severe blunt trauma. Patients who died within the first 24 h were excluded. The clinical state of the patients was - among various other clinical parameters and scores - examined by daily calculating of the multiple organ failure score according to Goris et al. To recognize immunological alterations in the early postinjury phase, we observed several subpopulations of lymphocytes (labelled with monoclonal antibodies and analysed by flow cytometry) at 10 times, starting at the site of accident.
Two of the regarded cell-groups were T-lymphocytes (CD3+) and one of their subpopulations, the double negative T-cells (CD3+ CD4-CD8-). The vast majority of these cells are ?d-T-cells , a little cell population (1 to 9% of the T-cells) which expresses another T-cell receptor as the longer known aß-T-cells. To ascertain that the examined cells were really ?d-T-cells, we additionally labelled the cells of the last seven patients with ?d-antibodies, compared both groups and noticed that they were corresponding.
?d-T-cells are completely different from aß-T-cells, eg they do not show MHC-restriction. Although their exact function remains still (10 years after discovery) unknown, they have some characteristics which seem to be very interesting for our examination [2,3]: (i) Their prominent residence epithelial tissues, primary in the intestines, an area which is strongly involved into the early pathogenesis of MODS. (ii) They show a rapid mobilisation in the early response to infections. (iii) They have immunoregulating functions for the specific and non-specific immune system and they secrete many lymphokines.
Corresponding with these functional descriptions, we found significant differences (Wilcoxon two sample test for groups of cases: P < 0.0001) in the counts of double negative T-cells during the first two samples (site of accident and emergency room) (Fig). The patients with severe MODS (reaching a Goris-score of = 5 during the observation period) showed high cell counts whereas the other patients showed low cell counts (moderate: P25 = 38/µl, P50 = 56/µl, P75, = 72/µ severe: P25 = 159/µl. P50 = 181/µl. P75 = 272/µl). To exclude the possibility that this effect would not be limited on ?d-T-cells, but would be characteristic for all T-cells or for all lymphocytes, we examined the ratio of ?d-T-cells to all T-cells and we saw a less clear, but significant and similar picture (moderate: P25 = 3.2%. P50 = 5.4%, P75 = 7.25%; severe: P25 = 7.75%, P50 = 9.55%, P75= 14%). We further controlled the influence of other clinical parameters on the MODS (by using Fisher's Exact Test), but we found no statistical connection between any other clinical parameter and the multiple organ dysfunction. | <urn:uuid:0f93a92a-ba50-48bc-97ea-82a0ed81a575> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/cc18 | 2017-06-25T07:10:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320443.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625064745-20170625084745-00194.warc.gz | en | 0.943829 | 785 | [
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Thursday, July 14, 2016
Game Cam Pics
I finally set up the game cam again--and perhaps in a better spot for seeing what comes through our yard (seems it is a wildlife trail), but not aesthetically or composition-wise.
No surprises here--deer...but it is great to see the fawn. With a bit of cropping some of the photos don't look so bad. :)
But deer were not the only wildlife to show up on the game cam.
Among some of the common critters that one would expect to see,
some surprises were in store for us.
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Sun Ra / Merzbow
UK COLD SPRING RECORDS CSR228CD (2016)
A pretty overpowering blast here from Masami Akita as he applies his “remix” and noise skills to the music of Sun Ra. I’m really not sure if I like it or not. I’ve been enjoying the music of the Sun Ra Arkestra from a long time now, and it’s encouraging (though slightly bewildering) to find how his music has somehow become fashionable, especially with younger broad-minded listeners, after being despised or ignored by many jazz purists during the man’s lifetime. And of course we’ve also supported Merzbow as the supremo Rolls-Royce maestro of precision noise pretty much since we started this magazine, and Jennifer Hor is one who has enthusiastically stepped up to sing his praises in the noise arena. Today though we’re dealing with one of those post-modern hybrid experiments, informed by a reckless try-anything spirit that delights in forming melds and mergers between incompatible genres, perhaps in the name of breaking down barriers and broadening the taste horizons of a thousand young polymorphous listeners. Although since those same listeners now have such a glut of music to enjoy, perhaps this kind of excessive noise-jazz chimera is the only way we can get their attention, or just make ourselves feel anything.
It’s not exactly a collaboration between Merzbow and Sun Ra. When Merzbow collaborated with Richard Pinhas or Genesis P. Orridge, he teamed up with a living musician and they made sounds together, often live and in real time. This particular release is more like a collaboration with Irwin Chusid, who licensed tracks from the Sun Ra archive for Merzbow’s remixing purposes; Justin Mitchell of Cold Spring Records may have been involved in the negotiation process to get the tapes into Masima’s mitts. I may be splitting hairs, but Merzbow is working exclusively with recorded music for this one; members of the current Arkestra have not been personally involved, as far as I can make out. Were they even asked about the project? As to the provenance of the source materials, this isn’t crystal clear; some say it’s derived from Strange Strings and The Magic City, hence the album title which merges them into a single line. But the press release states “rare and unreleased tracks” were involved. Strange Strings and The Magic City may be rare records, but they were not unreleased.
On the CD I have in front of me, there are two long cuts over 30 mins each – ‘Livid Sun Loop’ and ‘Granular Jazz Part 2’ are fantastic titles, and remind us that Merzbow has kick-started (or put the boot in to) free jazz records before, such as on the groovy record Door Open At 8 AM from 1999, which sampled Tony Williams Lifetime and John Coltrane. ‘Livid Sun Loop’ could almost be a Sun Ra title, but it’s two-thirds Masami Akita; you know how much he loves to refer to his method (looping) and to the use of excessive adjectives to make the music even more threatening than it already is. ‘Livid Sun Loop’ sounds like something from outer space that would give you an incurable disease, an unstoppable cancer that changes the colour of your skin to a mottled grey. That may be the idea. The music he wreaks on this track has the same relentless quality of an invasive disease. I suppose you could say he’s captured the energy of the Arkestra, and perhaps hinted at the sheer weirdness of Sun Ra himself. But whatever free jazz has survived is buried in a thick wodge of noise, much like diamonds in clay. Admittedly, fragments of Arkestra music are recognisable in the few gaps of breathing space that are left us, but here again it’s two-thirds Masami Akita, as he occupies and colonises every available inch of the ether. Sun Ra Arkestra horns, strings, and piano fragments leak out in among modern, digitally-crunched, metallic harsh noise; the jazz parts feel like ancient archaeological fragments, barely daring to assert their significance in today’s uncaring world.
And yet, I found myself enjoying the futuristic electronic swoops that Merzbow belches out of his follicles so effortlessly, and wondering to myself if these noises didn’t count as an authentic update on the outer-space, space-travel, sci-fi themes that Sun Ra made his very own. In places, ‘Livid Sun Loop’ could take its place among the strangest recordings in the Ra discography, including Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy. I have no doubt that Merzbow has heard and loved every known Sun Ra recording, and more besides. On the other hand, he clearly has no desire to replicate the subtlety and ellipsis of the 1960s work, nor any interest in leaving gaps in the continuous tidal wave of noise. I also miss the percussion, which was one of the group’s strongest skill-sets; I think a few precious moments of Arkestra drumming may surface, but not much. However, Merzbow (who used to be a drummer) knows about rhythm, and it’s not too far-out to think he’s set Sun Ra music to a complex, intense and multi-layered beat, and it will take us several spins to truly get to the groove.
‘Granular Jazz Part 2’ is even more overwhelming, rushing past at such high speeds and overlaid with so much debris that eventually it becomes a blur; I’m unable to make out any Sun Ra presence in this tornado, but his serene figure may be sitting somewhere in the epicentre of the storm. It’s like Metal Machine Music on speed; buried melodies and pulsing rhythms thrashing it out against non-musical feedback and electronic swoops. The entire El Saturn catalogue overlaid with itself like some multiple-exposure movie. Masami Akita may see free jazz as an all-out explosion of wild, inchoate energy; that’s certainly what comes across on this spin.
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The opinion of the court was delivered by: Kuskin
Sears, Roebuck & Co. ("Sears") and The May Department Store ("May") are anchor tenants at the Livingston Mall ("shopping center"), a super-regional mall in Livingston Township. They have both moved under R. 4:33-1 to intervene as of right as party plaintiffs in appeals filed for the tax years 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997 by Livingston Mall Corp., the owner and landlord of the shopping center. Neither Sears nor May filed an independent appeal of the shopping center assessment for any such year, and the deadlines for filing such appeals have passed. Plaintiff Livingston Mall Corp. and defendant Livingston Township oppose the motions to intervene. Plaintiff has moved to compel arbitration of the intervention issue. Sears and May oppose this motion. I will refer to Sears and May together as the "intervenors" for convenience of reference only. Obviously, whether they are in fact intervenors depends on the outcome of the motions.
I will first address plaintiff's motion to compel arbitration because, if I grant that motion, there is no need to decide the motions to intervene. I have been provided with excerpts from the May lease for its premises at the shopping center dated January 28, 1971 (originally between R.K. Winston Corporation, as landlord, and Adcor Realty Corporation as tenant) and the Sears lease for its premises at the shopping center. In both documents, Article IX is entitled "Taxes," and contains comprehensive provisions as to the rights and obligations of the parties with respect to local property taxes. The contents of both Articles IX appear to be identical. If there are any differences between the two, those differences are of no substantive significance to the motions.
Section 9.2(f) of Article IX provides in part "Any dispute under this Article IX shall be determined by arbitration." Section 25.1 of both leases provides in part: "In the event of any dispute arising out of the provisions of this Lease, ... the rights and obligations imposed thereunder or the Tenant's use and occupancy of the Demised Premises, such dispute shall be determined by arbitration."
I conclude that the dispute as to whether Sears and May may intervene in tax appeals previously filed by their landlord is neither a dispute under Article IX nor a dispute arising out of the provisions of their leases, and does not involve the "rights and obligations" imposed under such leases.
Section 9.2(g) of each lease contains the provisions relating to tax appeals. This Section provides as follows:
So long as the Demised Premises are not separately and independently assessed as a separate Tax block, Landlord shall, at Tenant's request, which Tenant agrees not to make unreasonably, contest in good faith by appropriate proceedings, or in any other manner permitted by law, in Landlord's name, any Taxes assessed or levied on the Shopping Center, and Tenant agrees to cooperate with Landlord and to execute any documents reasonably required for such purpose. Such contest shall include appeals from any judgments, decrees or orders until a final determination shall be made by a court or governmental department or authority having final jurisdiction in the matter. During any such contest, payment of the Tax by Landlord may be deferred for the maximum period permitted under Subsection (b) of Section 9.1 if Landlord and Tenant so agree in writing. Any Tax refund and all costs, fees and expenses (including reasonable counsel fees) actually incurred and paid by Tenant or Landlord in connection with a contest requested by Tenant pursuant to this Subsection (g) (whether or not resulting in a Tax refund or a lowering of assessment) shall be apportioned between Landlord and Tenant on an equitable basis, and if Landlord and Tenant cannot so agree, the issue shall be determined by arbitration. If Landlord fails or refuses to contest such Tax within 30 days after Tenant's request, and thereafter to prosecute the same with due diligence, Tenant shall have the right to contest such Tax in Tenant's name and/or in the name of Landlord and the costs, fees and expenses of such contest shall be allocated between Landlord and Tenant on the same basis as if such contest had been prosecuted and such costs incurred by Landlord.
Here, the landlord (plaintiff), either of its own volition or upon request by one of the intervenors, filed appeals for each of the years 1994 through 1997. As a result, the provisions of Section 9.2(g) relating to the filing of appeals are not, and cannot be, the subject of a dispute. The only provisions of such Section which could generate disputes relate to cooperation by the intervenors in connection with the pending appeals, the diligence with which the landlord pursues the appeals, and allocation of the costs of the appeals. Article IX contains no provisions relating to tenant participation or intervention in a pending appeal. Accordingly, the applications to intervene do not involve issues under, or arising out of, the leases, and I deny the motion to compel arbitration for this reason.
I also deny the motion because the applications to intervene and the dispute relating thereto involve the interpretation and application of the Court Rules relating to intervention. Even though arbitrators have broad powers, see State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. Moline, 289 N.J. Super. 406, 411 (App. Div. 1991), I conclude that they cannot determine for this Court the rights of parties in pending litigation under the Rules of Court. Cf. Wm. Blanchard Co. v. Beach Concrete Co. Inc., 150 N.J. Super. 277, 298 (App. Div. 1977) certif. denied, 75 N.J. 528 (1977) (holding that once a matter is submitted to the judicial process, the Rules of Court are binding in such process).
I turn now to the motions by Sears and May to intervene under R. 4:33-1. This Rule provides:
Upon timely application anyone shall be permitted to intervene in an action if the applicant claims an interest relating to the property or transaction which is the subject of the action and is so situated that the Disposition of the action may as a practical matter impair or impede the ability to protect that interest, unless the applicant's interest is adequately represented by existing parties.
The Rule was interpreted in Chesterbrooke Ltd. Partnership v. Planning Bd. of Chester Tp., 237 N.J. Super. 118 (App. Div. 1989), certif. denied 118 N.J. 234 (1989), as follows:
Rule 4:33-1 sets out four criteria for determining intervention as of right. The applicant must (1) claim "an interest relating to the property or transaction which is the subject of the action," (2) show he is "so situated that the Disposition of the action may as a practical matter impair or impede his ability to protect that interest," (3) demonstrate that the "applicant's interest" is not "adequately represented by existing parties," and (4) make a "timely" application to intervene.
There is little or no dispute as to three of such four criteria. To the extent these are in dispute, I find that the intervenors satisfy those criteria. Specifically:
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It was a lovely afternoon. I was making some fococcia in the kitchen. The girls were off playing somewhere. Gwenie came down with makeup all over her face. I just thought, "Oh man, another mess to clean up." Then Gwenie came to me and said, "I cut Rozzy's hair, Mommy!" Me: "What?" Then I saw Rozzy, walking to me, crying, with chunks of hair falling from her head. "Gwenie!!!!! Go to your room!!" This is the horror that I came across in the moments following(while bawling my eyes out):
I am a Colorado girl who met and married a Utah man in July 2003. We live in Utah with our 7 beautiful children: Duncan(12), Liam(11), Gwendolyn(9), Rosaline(8), Alastair(6), and Briony (3), Felicity(3 m). I am sure there are more babies coming for us in the future. I guess you'll just have to read along and find out! | <urn:uuid:23c7936a-0d5e-4c6a-bca5-a9e73fe270ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://smithpartyof.blogspot.com/2010/01/rule-1-no-one-is-allowed-to-have-or.html | 2017-06-26T20:52:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320865.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626203042-20170626223042-00354.warc.gz | en | 0.967463 | 220 | [
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Rooftop of the Holiday Inn – Center City, Charlotte, NC
What was your budget?
Our goal was to stay under $10,000:
$5,300 for an all-inclusive venue (wedding cake, dinner, appetizers, centerpieces, linens, wedding planner, wait staff, bar, and several other things)
$700 for wedding attire (utilized coupons and sales for bridal gown and groom’s tux)
$500 for DJ – worked out a deal with a co-worker!
$170 for flowers – shopped around and asked florists to beat pricing from competitors – also chose single stem flowers, to avoid arrangement charges.
$130 for hair and make up for entire wedding party – we booked appointments with a Cosmetology School.
How many guests did you have?
What creative or personal aspects did you include in your wedding?
We enjoy classic, older pieces; so we shopped at thrift stores and flea markets for all of our decorations – books, beads, lanterns, cages, jewelry. Also, I enjoy DIY, so I made our invitations, menus, programs, and even the little tags that went on our favors, by hand.
What was the biggest thing you did to save money?
Shopped around for flowers. Check out your local grocery stores, obtain a quote, and then find a florist willing to match it. Additionally, we did flowers that didn't need arrangement – we were able to wrap them ourselves, if we wanted to – but we didn't. We chose to carry them individually. Also, we had a friend DJ our wedding – that saved a bunch as well. Finally – having an inclusive venue saved us quite a bit – since individual pricing of most of the items that are included would have been outside of our budget.
What’s the best advice you have for planning your wedding now that you’re on the other side?
Don't assume that the lower the pricing, the lower the quality. We made it a point to meet and talk with several different vendors before making a decision, and seeing who was willing to offer us the best deal. It never hurts to try and negotiate. Also – think outside of the box. When we came up on an expensive charge (i.e. makeup and hair or wedding flowers) – we thought outside of the box.
What was your biggest splurge?
What was your favorite detail?
The location. The city of Charlotte at night is just so magical and beautiful.
What is the most memorable moment of your day?
Wiping a tear from my husband's eye at the altar.
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Okay, it happened. Like a shock to the system. Like an unsuspecting slap to the face. There I was pushing my cart full of groceries with two very small children in tow when I was approached by a young swedish, college-aged guy. He asked if I would be interested in buying from a selection of books he was selling. Well, the last thing I needed was a book with no time of my own to read and we already had so many children’s books but he was young, hardworking and did I mention stunningly cute? Well, okay he was. Yes, I know that I am married but this was just an innocent purchase I was making. So, cut me some slack here. Fast forward past the book selection process and the payment until the exchange was made, and I thanked him. As I turned to part ways, he responded with, “Thank you, MA’AM.” (Audible inhale) I was stunned. Was he just being polite? Would I be bothered by this if I was 30 or even 20? Oh come on, he wouldn’t say that if I was 20. In that single moment, I think I even felt my skin wrinkle a bit. Is that actually possible? So, what am I expecting? Well, would it be too much to ask that “Ma’am” be used in reference to women over 60? I know I am just putting it off to deal with at a later date, but I’m fine with that. What do you think? Has “Ma’am” lost it’s hold in the manners category?
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“¡Figaro! (90210),” Morningside Opera’s blasphemous, brilliant new adaptation of “Le Nozze di Figaro,” owes Peter Sellars an even greater debt than it does Mozart and Da Ponte.
It was Mr. Sellars who in 1988 set “Figaro” in an apartment in the Trump Tower, the better to bring out the work’s continued relevance to an era still struggling with the issues of class and power that bedeviled the 18th century.
“Thank God the feudal system remains firmly in place in the United States of America in the ’90s,” Mr. Sellars said when the production was broadcast on television a few years later. While he used the original Italian text, “¡Figaro! (90210),” which just finished a short run at the New School for Drama in the West Village, goes several steps further. It retains the opera’s music — even its aria-and-recitative format — but freely riffs on Da Ponte’s libretto in English and Spanish, with slang-filled lyrics that move the action to a Beverly Hills mansion today.
In this version, fearlessly written by Vid Guerrerio, Susanna (excuse me, Susana) and Figaro are undocumented Mexican workers employed by the Contis, a real estate magnate and his aging-actress wife. The randy adolescent page Cherubino has become Li’l B-Man, an aspiring rapper pursuing the Contis’ daughter. (“Ma’am, I don’t mean to sound twisty or pervy,” goes one line in his rejiggered “Non so più.” “Damn, I just love when a body’s all curvy.”)Continue reading the main story
The stakes could not be more current, clear or urgent: Firago and Susana face deportation if they rock the boat — if Susana refuses Mr. Conti’s advances. That “¡Figaro! (90210),” seen on Saturday evening, remains uproariously funny under the cloud of such serious matters speaks to Mr. Guerrerio’s ingenious text and the smooth, clever production, adroitly directed on a nearly bare stage by Melissa Crespo.
Joined by a six-member orchestra led with verve and precision by Raphael Fusco, the cast energetically inhabited a world both realistically contemporary and timelessly comic, creating characters simultaneously stereotypical and personal. Two sopranos — Donata Cucinotta as Mrs. Conti and Sophia Benedetti as Susana — were particularly fine, but there was no weak link in an ensemble that also included the baritone Robert Balonek as Mr. Conti, the bass-baritone Carlos Monzón as Figaro and the vocally and physically agile tenor Anthony Chatmon II as Li’l B-Man.
If there was something jarring about the final chorus of reconciliation — a celebration of American multiculturalism — coming after the exposure of so much injustice and bad behavior, that was in keeping with the original. Much more than the proto-revolutionary Beaumarchais play on which the opera is based, Mozart and Da Ponte — and, now, “¡Figaro! (90210)” — seek to moderate social critique, to show both good and bad in everyone.
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Fourth International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials
13 - 15 May 2008
Overview and Opening Address
The fourth International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials took place recently in the Algarve, Portugal, organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology.
HPSM 2008 followed the success of the previous three conferences in the series held in Seville (2002), Ancona (2004) and Ostend (2006). The resulting papers have been published in book form and distributed around the world. Lecture HPSMThey have been also archived in the WIT eLibrary as WIT Transactions on the Built Environment (ISSN: 1743-3509), where they are easily and permanently available to the international scientific community. This has contributed to the continuous success of HPSM which addresses issues involving advanced types of structures, particularly those based on new concepts in materials.
The meeting was opened by Professor Patrick de Wilde, the co-chairman of the conference, who explained that Professor Carlos Brebbia was unable to attend the conference due to a broken bone in his foot. However Professor Brebbia prepared a special welcome address for the delegates which was presented by Dr Bill Blain, the Academic Director of the Wessex Institute. Dr Blain gave an overview of the Institute describing research and training activities carried out at WIT including the very successful Master and PhD programmes which are available within the four main divisions at WIT, namely: Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Damage Mechanics, Information and Communication Engineering and the Industrial Research Division. Dr Blain continued by describing the publishing activities at WIT Press, the publishing arm of the Institute, and finished his presentation by describing the WIT campus and the new accommodation facilities available on site.
The conference, which was well attended, attracted papers on the following topics:
- Optimal Design
- Material characterisation including the behaviour of FRP structures
- Structural dynamics and impact behaviour including fatigue
- High performance concretes
- Composite materials and structures
- Adhesion of fracture
Special SessionsA special session on Natural fibre composites was organised by Prof Katayama of Doshisha University and Prof H Takagi of the University of Tokushima, Japan. The session was divided into two parts consisting of five presentations in each including three invited papers.
Invited PresentationsThe conference included several invited papers which were as follows:
- "Optimisation at the conceptual design stage with morphological indicators: design for strength or design for stiffness?" by T Vandenbergh, W P De Wilde & P Latteur, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium.
- "Effect of plasma treatment on the mechanical properties of natural fiber/PP composites" by B S Kim, M H Nguyen, B S Hwang & S Lee, Korea Institute of Material Science, Korea.
- "Flexural properties of all bamboo 'green' composites" by H Takagi, A Mizobuchi, K Kusano & Y Okitsu, The University of Tokushima, Japan.
- "Eco-efficient manufacturing process for fibre reinforced thermoplastic" by K Tanaka, T Katayama & K Uno, Doshisha University, Japan.
- "Small volume mechanical response insights: revealed contributions in advancing high mechanical performance" by Y Katz, Negba Institute, Israel.
- "From high strength and high performance concrete to high performance RC bending elements" by I Iskhakov & Y Ribakov, Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel.
- "Cost optimization of composite floors" by S Kravanja & U Klanšek, University of Maribor, Slovenia.
- "Nonlinear Hasin-Shtrikman bounds for hereditary problems" by P P Procházka & M Toman, CTU Prague, Czech Republic.
- "Experimental evaluation of the torsional behaviour of thin walled beams: elastic and buckling situations" by G Belingardi, L Peroni & A Scattina, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.
International Scientific Advisory Committee
The meeting of the International Scientific Advisory Committee took place during the first evening of the conference over a traditional Portuguese dinner where members met and discussed the next conference in the series. The discussion included new topics and objectives of the conference, suggestions for other colleagues to be invited to join the committee and possible locations for the next conference.
Conference DinnerThe conference dinner took place at Porches Restaurant in the heart of Porches village a few miles from the conference centre. Delegates were transported by coach to the restaurant which in the past had been used as a wine store. The building dated back several centuries and still has its original bamboo cladded roof. The menu consisted of roast duck and excellent local wines. During the dinner live music was provided by a Fado ensemble playing traditional songs. As this was a joint dinner with delegates from the 10th international conference on Structures Under Shock and Impact (SUSI08) both Prof Patrick de Wilde and Prof Norman Jones (co-chairmen of HPSM and SUSI respectively) gave a short address to the delegates thanking them for their participation.
Publication of Papers
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Ignorance in Congressional Voting? Evidence from Policy Reversal on the Endangered Species Act
In 1978 Congress weakened several key provisions of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), which had been enacted only five years earlier. The objective is to compare alternative explanations for this policy reversal. Copyright (c) 2004 by the Southwestern Social Science Association.
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What is apostasy and how can I recognize it?
Question: "What is apostasy and how can I recognize it?"
Answer: Apostasy, from the Greek word apostasia, means “a defiance of an established system or authority; a rebellion; an abandonment or breach of faith.” In the first-century world, apostasy was a technical term for political revolt or defection. And just like in the first century, apostasy threatens the Body of Christ today.
The Bible warns about people like Arius (c. A.D. 250 - 336), a Christian priest from Alexandria, Egypt, who was trained at Antioch in the early fourth century. About A.D. 318, Arius accused Bishop Alexander of Alexandria of subscribing to Sabellianism, a false teaching which asserted that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were merely roles or modes assumed by God at various times. Arius was determined to emphasize the oneness of God; however, he went too far in his teaching of God’s nature. Arius denied the Trinity and introduced what appeared on the surface to be an inconsequential difference between the Father and Son.
Arius argued that Jesus was not homoousios (of the same essence) as the Father, but was rather homoiousios (of similar essence). Only one Greek letter – the iota (i) – separated the two. Arius described his position in this manner: “The Father existed before the Son. There was a time when the Son did not exist. Therefore, the Son was created by the Father. Therefore, although the Son was the highest of all creatures, he was not of the essence of God.”
Arius was very clever and did his best to get the people on his side, even going so far as to compose little songs that taught his theology, which he tried to teach to everyone who would listen. His winsome nature and revered position as a preacher and one who lived in denial of himself contributed also to his cause.
With respect to apostasy, it is critical that all Christians understand two important things: (1) how to recognize apostasy and apostate teachers, and (2) why apostate teaching is so deadly.
The Forms of Apostasy
To fully identify and combat apostasy, it is important that Christians understand its various forms and the traits that characterize its doctrines and teachers. As to the forms of apostasy, there are two main types: (1) a falling away from key and true doctrines of the Bible into heretical teachings that proclaim to be “the real” Christian doctrine, and (2) a complete renunciation of the Christian faith, which results in a full abandonment of Christ.
Arius represents the first form of apostasy—a denial of key Christian truths (such as the divinity of Christ) that begins a downhill slide into a full departure from the faith, which is the second form of apostasy. It is important to understand that the second form almost always begins with the first. A heretical belief becomes a heretical teaching that splinters and grows until it pollutes all aspects of a person’s faith, and then the end goal of Satan is accomplished, which is a complete falling away from Christianity.
A recent example of this process is a 2010 study done by prominent atheist Daniel Dennett and Linda LaScola called “Preachers Who Are Not Believers.” Dennett and LaScola’s work chronicles five different preachers who over time were presented with and accepted heretical teachings about Christianity and now have completely fallen away from the faith and are either pantheists or clandestine atheists. One of the most disturbing truths highlighted in the study is that these preachers maintain their position as pastors of Christian churches with their congregations being unaware of their leader’s true spiritual state.
The dangers of apostasy were warned about in the book of Jude, which serves as a handbook for understanding the characteristics of apostates like those chronicled in Dennett and LaScola’s study. Jude’s words are every bit as relevant for us today as they were when he penned them in the first century, so it is important we carefully read and understand them.
The Characteristics of Apostasy and Apostates
Jude was the half-brother of Jesus and a leader in the early church. In his New Testament letter, he outlines how to recognize apostasy and strongly urges those in the body of Christ to contend earnestly for the faith (vs. 3). The Greek word translated “contend earnestly” is a compound verb from which we get the word “agonize.” It is in the present infinitive form, which means that the struggle will be continuous. In other words, Jude is telling us that there will be a constant fight against false teaching and that Christians should take it so seriously that we “agonize” over the fight in which we are engaged. Moreover, Jude makes it clear that every Christian is called to this fight, not just church leaders, so it is critical that all believers sharpen their discernment skills so that they can recognize and prevent apostasy in their midst.
After urging his readers to contend earnestly for the faith, Jude highlights the reason: “For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ” (vs. 4). In this one verse, Jude provides Christians with three traits of apostasy and apostate teachers.
First, Jude says that apostasy can be subtle. Jude uses the word “crept” (found in no other book of the Bible) to describe the apostate’s entry into the church. In extra-biblical Greek, the term describes the cunning craftiness of a lawyer who, through clever argumentation, infiltrates the minds of courtroom officials and corrupts their thinking. The word literally means “slip in sideways; come in stealthily; sneak in; hard to detect.” In other words, Jude says it is rare that apostasy begins in an overt and easily detectable manner. Instead, it looks a lot like Arius’ preaching in which, in a nonchalant manner, only a single letter differentiates his doctrine from the real teaching of the Christian faith.
Describing this aspect of apostasy and its underlying danger, A. W. Tozer wrote, "So skilled is error at imitating truth, that the two are constantly being mistaken for each another. It takes a sharp eye these days to know which brother is Cain and which is Abel." The apostle Paul also speaks to the outwardly pleasing behavior of apostates and their teaching when he says, "For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ. No wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11:13-14). In other words, do not look for apostates to appear bad on the outside or speak dramatic words of heresy at the outset of their teaching. Rather than denying truth outright, apostates will twist it to fit their own agenda, but as pastor R. C. Lensky has noted, “The worst forms of wickedness consist in perversions of the truth.”
Second, Jude describes the apostates as “ungodly” and as those who use God’s grace as a license to commit unrighteous acts. Beginning with “ungodly,” Jude describes eighteen unflattering traits of apostates so his readers can more easily identify them. Jude says the apostates are ungodly (vs. 4), morally perverted (vs. 4), denying Christ (vs. 4), ones who defile the flesh (vs. 8), rebellious (vs. 8), people who revile angels (vs. 8), who are ignorant about God (vs. 8), those who proclaim false visions (vs. 10), self-destructive (vs. 10), grumblers (vs. 16), fault finders (vs. 16), self-satisfying (vs. 16), people who use arrogant words and false flattery (vs. 16), mockers of God (vs. 18), those who cause divisions (vs. 19), worldly minded (vs. 19), and finally (and not surprisingly), devoid of the Spirit/unsaved (vs. 19).
Third, Jude says apostates “deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.” How do apostates do this? Paul tells us in his letter to Titus, "To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their mind and their conscience are defiled. They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny Him, being detestable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed" (Titus 1:15-16, emphasis added). Through their unrighteous behavior, the apostates show their true selves. Unlike an apostate, a true believer is someone who has been delivered from sin to righteousness in Christ. With Paul, they ask the apostates who promote licentious behavior, “What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?” (Romans 6:1-2)
But the apostates’ false teaching also shows their true nature. Peter says, “But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves” (2 Peter 2:1). Another aspect of true believers is that they have been delivered out of spiritual darkness into light (Ephesians 5:8) and therefore will not deny core truths of Scripture like Arius did with the divinity of Jesus.
Ultimately, the sign of an apostate is that he eventually falls away and departs from the truth of God’s Word and His righteousness. The apostle John signifies this is a mark of a false believer: “They went out from us, but they were not really of us; for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but they went out, so that it would be shown that they all are not of us” (1 John 2:19).
Ideas Have Consequences
That God takes apostasy and false teaching seriously is evidenced by the fact that every New Testament book except Philemon contains warnings about false teaching. Why is this? Simply because ideas have consequences. Right thinking and its fruit produces goodness, whereas wrong thinking and its accompanying action results in undesired penalties. As an example, the Cambodian killing fields in the 1970s were the product of the nihilistic worldview of Jean Paul Sartre and his teaching. The Khmer Rouge’s leader Pol Pot lived out Sartre’s philosophy toward the people in a clear and frightening way, which was articulated in this manner: “To keep you is no benefit. To destroy you is no loss.”
It should be remembered that Satan did not come to the first couple in the Garden with an external armament or supernatural weapon; instead, he came to them with an idea. And it was that idea that condemned them and the rest of humankind, with the only remedy being the sacrificial death of God’s Son.
The great tragedy is, whether knowingly or unknowingly, the apostate teacher dooms his unsuspecting followers. One of the most frightening verses in all of Scripture comes from the lips of Jesus. Speaking to His disciples about the religious leaders of His day, He said, “Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit” (Matthew 15:14, emphasis added). This verse is alarming because Jesus affirms that it is not only the false teachers that go to destruction, but their disciples also follow them. Christian philosopher Søren Kierkegaard put it this way: “For it has never yet been known to fail that one fool, when he goes astray, takes several others with him.”
In A.D. 325, the Council of Nicea convened primarily to take up the issue of Arius and his teaching. Much to Arius’s dismay, the end result was his excommunication and a statement in the Nicene Creed that affirmed Christ’s divinity: “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten of his Father, of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father.”
Arius may have died centuries ago, but his spiritual children are still with us to this day in the form of cults like the Jehovah’s Witnesses and others who deny Christ’s true essence and person. Sadly, until Christ returns and every last spiritual enemy has been removed, tares such as these will be present among the wheat (Matthew 13:24-30). In fact, Scripture says apostasy will only get worse as Christ’s return approaches. “At that time [the latter days] many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another” (Matthew 24:10). Paul echoes Jesus in his inspired writings as well. The apostle told the Thessalonians that a great falling away would precede Christ’s second coming (2 Thessalonians 2:3) and that the end times would be characterized by tribulation and hollow religious charlatans: “But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be . . . holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; avoid such men as these” (2 Timothy 3:1-2,5).
It is critical, now more than ever, that every believer pray for discernment, combat apostasy, and contend earnestly for the faith that has once and for all been delivered to the saints.
Recommended Resource: The Moody Handbook of Theology by Paul Enns
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Naughty? Will look into that anon?
PS anon, just asked a cooncillor about that
Who would ever have thought that one corner of the Bermuda Triangle could disappear?
Caley to go next?
caley has already closed months ago
Caley is already shut so its now a one-sided triangle
Nocompany brains worked out yet that a holiday Town with a fairly large pop. Boosted in the tourist season there is not a pair of shoes etc to be bought . Someone is missing a trick
Caley shut ages ago, has been sold & will be a kitchen/ interiors shop as reported on here & in HC planning applications I think?Anyway you can't have a one sided triangle in this case. As two of the points of the infamous Nairn Bermuda Triangle have now "gone" you are left with just one point (as you cannot draw a line to the other points which encompass the said area).Therefore you are now left with a point in which everything disappears...which is a black hole!
@dr grigorTrying to think when was the last time I went on holiday and bought a pair of shoes, don't think I ever have
@DRoss'Therefore you are now left with a point in which everything disappears...which is a black hole!'Hopefully it's still the Star!
This observer bought a pair of trainers when he went on holiday but it was in Sports Direct before getting on the bus in Inverness :-)
The Caley shut too? Nobody told me. I better just stay in the Star for a few more months then.
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A closer watch of the ongoing crises in various countries clearly indicate that first the United States facilitates creation of rebel groups and then supply these groups and arms to fight with the regime. Two of the most recent examples are Syria and Libya. A person with average wit fails to understand the motive but the reality is that these crises are created to keep arsenal factories of United States operating at full capacity. To read the details visit http://shkazmipk.com and also share with others.
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Most of the cities in Pakistan witnessed fear and commotion on Friday as Sunni and Shia groups were adamant at taking out rallies. Ironically, it looked that certain elements were keen in showing ‘street power’ rather registering their protest or condemning the perpetrators
However, there was a consensus that local administration failed in controlling the situation in Rawalpindi which led to calling army and imposing curfew. Some observers even went to the extent of saying that whatever happened was part of the grand agenda to fan Sunni Shia clashes.
Most regrettably this policy has paid off in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria and the same is being followed in Pakistan. After facing a humiliating defeat in Syria the perpetrators want an action replay in Pakistan. It is being alleged that the perpetrators and their funders are the same.
On Friday late evening twin blasts were caused in Karachi’s Incholi area, with majority Shia population, killing at least seven and injuring 28 people. On Saturday Pakistan’s leading English newspaper Dawn dawn.com posted a story of AFP that he Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for twin bomb attacks in Karach.
Reportedly, Shahidullah Shahid, a spokesman for umbrella group TTP told AFP that the attacks in Karachi were carried out in revenge for violence in Rawalpindi on November 15. He said the attacks were aimed at Shias in Karachi and vowed further violence.
On may recall that clashed took place between Sunni and Shia groups in the garrison-city of Rawalpindi, which neighbors the capital Islamabad on Ashura (November 15) when a procession of Shia to mark the Martyrdom of Imam Hussain, was passing by a Sunni mosque. Officials said 11 people were killed and more than 60 injured.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
While John Kerry blamed Iran for backing out from the negotiations, it is France which turned the table. In this endeavor it enjoyed complete support of Saudi Arabia and Israel, who are most unhappy on US decision of not to attack Syria. It is believed that if the US and Iran agree on certain points Iran may once again enter into global oil trade, which does not bode well for Saudi Arabia. Similarly, Israel will also not be able to continue its atrocities in Palestine. France has a major stake because it there is peace it will not be able to sell its arms to countries, which have been made to believe that Iran is the biggest threat for their existence. To read the details visit shkazmipk.com.
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Ashura‚ the 10th of Muharram is being observed today with due solemnity and sanctity to pay homage to Hazrat Imam Hussain and his companions who laid down their lives to preserve the uprightness of Islam in Karbala.
The Federal and provincial governments have taken strict security measures to maintain law and order on the occasion. The law enforcement agencies have been put on high alert throughout the country to deal with any eventuality, cell phone service suspended in more than eighty cities and close circuit cameras have also been installed at sensitive points to keep watch on Majalis and processions.
Despite these arrangements perpetrators succeeded in creating a blast near an Imambargah situated in Karachi Shadman Town area early on Friday injuring at least one person. TV reports quoted police officials as saying that unknown persons riding on a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade from a bridge near a group of policemen deployed for security at the said Imambargah, near Nagan Chowrangi. The Majlis-i-Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) condemned the attack on the Imambargah.
It is necessary to remind the readers the statement of Karachi Police Chief Shahid Hayat given on Tuesday “Conspiracy is being hatched to fan Sunni-Shia clashes in the city”. The gunmen killed five Sunnis a day after six Shias were assassinated in the metropolis.
Responding to a question, the IGP Sindh said the police were alert to possible reaction to the recent killing of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud in a drone attack in northwestern North Waziristan agency, close to Afghan border.
Police said five, killed on Tuesday, belonged to Deobandi sect and were either members or sympathizers of banned extremist outfits. “Apparently they were targeted because of their sect,” senior police officer Muneer Shaikh told AFP.
Over the last few years shias have been victim of ‘targeted killing’ by some banned religious outfits, the most brutal and notorious being Lej, TTP. On Ashura special security arrangements are made for the security and safety of mourners but perpetrators outperform law enforcing agencies. Now it is being said opening that terrorists are embedded in law enforcing agencies. The point gets some credence because nearly 70,000 people have been killed over the years but no perpetrator has been punished. Most of the accused have been acquitted due to lack of evidence. For the latest update and share my latest blog, Karachi comes under terrorist attack, once again. To read further please click shkazmipk.com
Sunday, 10 November 2013
When it looked certain that the five permanent members of UN Security Council and Germany were about to arrive at some sort of understanding that may pave way for easing sanctions on Iran, France raised the question which has remained unanswered even by those who have the state-of-the-art technology at their disposal. While some of the critics may be surprised or shocked, I am neither amused nor frustrated. To read the details please visit shkazmipk.com
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
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- HS Code: 9406000090
Modular house is made of light steel as the structure and sandwich panels for wall and roof. The sandwich panels can be polystyrene, polyurethane, rock wool and fiber glass sandwich panels for insulation. The house can be assembled and disassembled more than 6 times, and the service life is more than 20 years.
1. Environment protective, no garbage caused
2. Doors, windows and interior partitions can be flexibly fixed
3. Beautiful appearance, different colors for the wall and roof.
4. Cost saving and transportation convenient
5. Anti-rust and normally more than 15 years using life
6. Safe and stable, can stand 8 grade earthquake.
Technical Parameter of standard prefabricated house:
Wind resistance: Grade 11(wind speed≤ 111.5km/h)
Earthquake resistance: Grade 7
Live load capacity of roofing: 0.5kn/m2
External and internal wall heat transmission coefficient: 0.35Kcal/m2
Second Floor Load Capacity: 150 kg/m2
Live load of corridor is 2.0kn/ m2
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Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria’s ailing ruler, is facing calls to stand down amid attempts by officials to impose a news blackout on reports that he is terminally ill.
Despite claims by the Algerian government that the 76-year-old President is recovering and will soon be back at work, Algiers is awash with speculation that he is in a coma.
Mr Bouteflika’s health is the source of intense concern amid Western diplomats given his reputation as bulwark against Islamic fundamentalism. He has been President of the former French colony since 1999.
Two Algerian newspapers, Mon Journal and Djaridati, are to be prosecuted for “undermining state security and national unity” after they sought to report that Mr Bouteflika had been flown home with a terminal illness.
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Yours truly had an accident yesterday at the doggie park. Many thanks to Brady’s curiosity and his adventurous nature, he sneaked out of the fenced in doggie park to an locked area not accessible to the public. The only way to get to him was to climb the fence.
We were just hanging around trying to keep a watchful eye of Brady when hubby suddenly noticed that he’s on the other side of the fence! And there’s no way to get there unless you’re as tiny as Brady or climb the fence. We were also afraid he’ll wonder around and somehow make his way into the woods.
Hubby ran towards Brady, I ran after hubby….it was probably the quickest run I had in years! And an over excited big black dog ran after me!! The dog sort of outran me and somehow managed to trip me or caught my legs. Next thing I know it was TIMBER!!!!! I fell; pretty badly I must say.
When I regain my “consciousness” and composure, I saw two holes in my jeans, one bigger than the other. For split second, I couldn’t remember which jeans I wore; perfect no hole jeans or the ones with holes…. And then I felt all the pain!!! and peaked into my torn jeans……. I was SOOO UPSET; big bloody right knee and big bruised left knee! I wasn’t upset about my jeans (more excuse to shop!), rather my injured knees! There goes my big plans to wear skirts and dresses now that the weather’s warmer!!!Hubby said he heard a thud behind him, turned around and saw me on the road. Yes, I fell on TAR ROAD which worsened my injuries! Thank goodness the first thing he thought of was me, and ran to my “rescue”. Asked if I was ok (I wasn’t!!), but I told him to go get our mischievous little Brady!
While other dogs helped themselves to the treats that fell out fro my pocket, the other dog owners helped me, and got me some first aid kit, Kelvin managed to persuade Brady back into the park. Brady was kind enough to “visit” his injured mom once he came back in. I prepped my wound and finally saw how big and bloody my right knee was; the “bloody” part was about the size of about 2 quarters and the whole wound size smaller than a tennis ball. My left knee had a few scratches and a big bruise was smaller than a tennis ball! And a few more scratched on my hands. I haven’t gotten such a big wound probably since I was a kid and I was always so ever careful protecting my knees!!!
We stayed for a bit, and then went home for the injured girl to rest, and receive butler service from the hubby!! We think we’re now very famous the the dog park! Hubby and I think that I would be known as the girl who fell….. or Brady to be known as the dog who ran away (this was his 2nd time running out of the fenced in park…On Easter Sunday, he ran out of the front area as they did not securely fence it!). Hopefully they won’t ban us or Brady from going to the park next weekend!
I rested most of yesterday.. in pain ….and in more pain when I noticed a deep scratch on my wedding ring..**sobs**… I found the whole incident bitter sweet….bitter for all the wounds and cuts I end up having…and sweet coz
I have an excuse to shop for a new pair of jeans and a new ring with bigger diamonds??? haha!! Brady was very adventurous and curious (unlike the other dogs in there). And at least he recognized his owners, was able to respond to his name and made his way back into the park through the same place he left it!
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Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation
There are some remarkable people out there who are fighting to end hunger. These people have dedicated countless hours to ensuring no one goes hungry, whether it’s in their own communities or around the world. Some have donated thousands of pounds of food to people in need. Some have recruited others and inspired them to get involved in service. And some have done all of this before graduating high school.
Katie Stagliano is one of those remarkable people. Katie is now 17 years old, but she was only nine when she founded Katie’s Krops, an organization that encourages kids across the country to grow fresh produce to feed people in need.
Way back in 2010, The Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation named Katie, who was then only 11 years old, as one of our Stephen J. Brady Scholars. In the past six years, we’ve not only watched her grow up, we’ve watched her grow more and more produce, and we’ve watched her grow her organization as well. We were thrilled to invite her to speak at our annual dinner in June, where we gave her the Growing Together Award.
In her speech, Katie shared how the idea for Katie’s Krops began. “I brought I tiny cabbage seedling home from school, and I would water it and weed around it,” Katie told the audience at Sodexo Foundation’s recent dinner, where she was honored. “Before I knew it I had a 40-pound cabbage in my backyard.”
Katie’s father always told her that food shouldn’t go to waste because there were some people who didn’t have enough, so she decided to donate the giant cabbage to a soup kitchen. “The director of the soup kitchen, Miss Sue, said it wasn’t enough just to donate my cabbage. I had to come back and serve it,” Katie recalled.
That cabbage fed 275 people, and it gave Katie and idea. “I wanted to see how much a garden could feed,” she said. Katie’s Krops was born.
Just two years later, the Sodexo Foundation named her a Brady scholar, which earned her a $5,000 grant for Katie’s Krops. “I was only 11 years old when Sodexo put its faith in me,” Katie said. “Katie’s Krops was in its infancy.”
“By naming me a Brady scholar, the Sodexo Foundation gave me the confidence to pursue my dream,” Katie said. “In 2016, I’m happy to say that Katie’s Krops has expanded to one hundred vegetable gardens not only in my home state of South Carolina but in 32 states across the country.”
Katie has been able to start her own grants to help kids across the country plant their own gardens. Katie’s growers get to attend all-expense paid summer camps and have access to their own website.
While growing healthy food feeds those in need today, growing leaders means we’ll make progress in the fight against hunger for years to come.
Shondra Jenkins is the Executive Director of the Sodexo Stop Hunger Foundation and a passionate advocate in the fight to end childhood hunger in America. Ms. Jenkins believes that eliminating childhood hunger is possible through the active engagement of young people. She is working with national non-profit organizations to empower youth to have a voice and take action in their local community. With fresh eyes, energy and a different perspective on many social issues, Ms. Jenkins believes young people are the key to ending childhood hunger. | <urn:uuid:f2011254-2413-4fc7-b4a0-cbfd892143c2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://sodexoinsights.com/growing-future-leaders-fight-end-hunger/ | 2017-06-24T13:44:28Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320263.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624133941-20170624153941-00394.warc.gz | en | 0.974122 | 772 | [
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I HAD to give this myth a try, and I found that there is still a way to dye lemons with food coloring. Just not as vibrantly. And NOT the whole lemon!
This is as good as you will get it. The Skin of the lemon will not soak up the coloring like the rest of it does.
All you do is slice up your lemons, pick your color & dump it into some water. Next, submerge your lemons into it and let them soak it up until you get the color you want (I let mine soak for about 30-45 minutes.)
One thing I learned was NOT to dump the food coloring on lemons without water. It will give the lemons uneven coloring. Instead, as shown in the picture with the blue lemons, submerge them completely in water that has an even distribution of food dye. If you do dump them onto the lemons raw, you will end up with a Pinstrosity!
As you can see in the right picture, the lemon skin turns a slight greenish color.
Wish it dyed the whole lemon!
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In December of 2009, my Maddie was only 2 months old. I was a new mom, and I began to worry about the responsibility of Christmas. My own childhood memories of Christmastime are fond. Magical, really. “How did you do it, Mom? How did you always make Christmas so magical?” I remember asking my mom.
“Oh, I don’t know, Dana,” she replied thoughtfully. “It just happens.”
I took a moment yesterday to pause in the hectic pace of the holiday season, and I knew my mom was right. The magic of Christmas has come to the Murphy house. It just happened…
It happened because a few weeks ago, we pulled out the dusty Christmas boxes from the garage, and we decorated our house. A myriad of holiday trinkets – some old, some new – add a feeling of warmth to our house. The old ceramic Santa face that adorned my childhood home now hangs proudly in our living room. The tree twinkles brightly in the corner, each ornament holding a story of its own. The Frosty the Snowman cookie jar, chipped but still cheerful, was passed down to me from my mother-in-law. He now watches carefully over our kitchen. He sees Maddie running downstairs each morning to move the candy cane on the “Days Until Christmas” decoration which hangs on the kitchen wall. “Four more days!” Maddie announces. My husband spent many weekend hours decorating the outside of our home with lights and a Rudolph and some snowmen. If you drive past our house in the evening, you might catch two little faces in the window, watching the blink-blink-blink of Rudolph’s nose.
It happened because our family calendar began filling up with fun things to do. We went to my husband’s work party where the girls got to sit on Santa’s lap and eat candy canes and dance. We bought tickets for the Polar Express and took a snowy train trip to the North Pole. We saw aunts and uncles and cousins who I know we don’t see often enough at our annual family Christmas party. Santa had been there before us and left a small gift for each child under the tree. There were cupcakes and cookies and sweet things to eat at every turn. Maddie had a special night out with Mommy and Daddy to see Rudolph, the play, at a theatre in downtown Chicago. There has been ornament-making and baking and shopping and wrapping. Most days, you will find Maddie and Kate dressed in tights and a skirt made of tulle. If you ask, they will each do a little twirl to show off their pretty outfit.
It happened because Mommy and Daddy each got a long break from work. And this, I think, has created the most magic of all. Among the bustling of getting ready for Christmas, we suddenly have time. Time to play the Rudolph board game we found in the closet. Time to watch the Grinch and Rudolph and Frosty on TV. Time to let Maddie and Katie wrap their own presents and use lots and lots and lots of tape. Time to play Polly Pockets. Time to play in the snow with Daddy. Time together. There is an easiness and a sense of calm in the Murphy house that, unfortunately, isn’t always here. If you stop by one evening, you’ll notice it, too. You will find the four of us together, and you, too, will feel the easiness in the air.
My mom was right. It just happened. The magic of Christmas happened – almost on its own – when we started listening to Christmas carols in the minivan and when Katie learned that Santa says “ho ho” and when my husband took an entire week off work. It just happened. And it’s beautiful.
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Passion is people. People who love what they do and take your enjoyment personally. Passion is what to expect from the people who take your order and the people who craft your meal.
- The Drew Family, Owners
Trennick Mill is a fine example of the sum of it's parts being greater than the whole. Our team has experience that far surpasses their individual job requirements and such passion for food and wine that the end result is an experience of food, wine and service that is simply, award winning.
The flexibility of the dining room encourages leisurely family lunches, business dining, appetisers and drinks at the bar, pre-theatre dinners or a full gastronomic experience. For a truly memorable experience the restaurant can also be hired for exclusive functions such as weddings, christenings, work Christmas parties or engagement parties. | <urn:uuid:2dc6fc73-c03b-4f10-a661-5a74e21d8a03> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.trennickmill.com/about.html | 2017-06-26T03:36:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00554.warc.gz | en | 0.956063 | 172 | [
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When the Dutch returned to Indonesia after the collapse of Napoleon, the situation had totally changed. The time of great profit on spices was over. The trade in Chinese porcelain and Indian fabrics did not have the profit margin either. The time of the plantations had arrived. Products like coffee, tea, sugar, tobacco and later rubber and petroleum were now in high demand on the world markets. The countryside was laid open. Roads and railways arrived. Under command of King William I, painters and illustrators travelled through the immense empire and captured everything in their pictures and paintings and later on also in photographs.
During the time of the East-Indian Trading Company, the possessions were defended in forts along the coast. These forts were placed on strategic locations along rivers and harbours. Now, the countryside had to be governed with small forts at the intersections of roads. There were a lot more officials needed because the area to be governed had grown in size, while the power of the countryside rulers had been restricted. This led to a lot of unrest and friction, for example with the succession of the sultan of Djokjakarta. The Dutch wanted another ruler than the expected Dipo Negoro, the brother of the dead sultan. The Java war was the result.
The resistance of Atjeh led to a bloody war that lasted for years. For the inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies taxes were also imposed. This was done in a sneaky way via the so-called Culture System. The Dutch decided which products were required for the trade and the local farmers were forced to cultivate a part of their fields with the desired products. Every product was worth five guilders a year for each head of the inhabitants. At that moment, it was a major annoyance for the Indonesians and in hindsight it was the start of a shift in agriculture, which created the basis for prosperity.
Just like during the time of the East-Indian Trading Company, the aim was to eliminate the competition. The Dutch Trade Society was founded and this institution was given the monopoly on “colonial goods” from the Indies. The directorship of the immense colony was in the hands of a select group of officials. It was the same thing for the maintenance of order. There were too few soldiers and policemen. The Dutch government in the Indies was again looking for contact with the abiding native rulers for support of the regime. The result was that a lot of Indonesians had to serve two rulers, pay twice as many taxes and were put into really awkward and random situations.
It was a situation the official-writer Multatuli was very indignant about. Besides that, people were looking to train up local men for the military and official roles. This wasn’t an easy job because the East-Indian Trading Company had never cared about the education of the inhabitants in the Company’s regions. One exception, however, were the Moluccas Islands. As the result of the monopoly on clove trading, that region had been acting as a real colony for ages. A lot of Moluccans already spoke Dutch, were Christian and were in education. As the spice trade had almost entirely stopped, with the result of a lot of unemployed Moluccans, it was obvious that they were the people to put in positions of trust and in offices and military barracks all around Indonesia. With that, the base for the later problems of the Moluccans was set. For decades the products from Indonesia formed an important part of the incomes in the Netherlands. Now it was about plantation products like coffee, tea, sugar and tobacco and at the end of the 19th century petroleum and rubber were added to this. From 1820 to 1840, the first cracks appeared in the colonial order with a slowly dawning realisation of the Indonesians. The attack of the Japanese didn’t only bring terror, but above all dismay that an Asian country had managed to gain so much power.
After the Second World War, they tried to keep the old colony through use of violence. However, the “actions of the police” ended on the 27th December, 1949 because of the transfer of sovereignty. In the sixties, a part of the old Dutch Trading Company’s activities where carried out by the ABN, a bank which enjoyed a great trust from the Indonesians, but nevertheless pulled out of Indonesia and the rest of Asia in about 2000. With that there came an end to 400 years of trade with Indonesia. However, the relationship between Indonesia and the Netherlands has remained steadfast, regardless of how people look at it.
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This Swaziland based airline has itís head office at Matsapha Airport and is staffed by citizens of Swaziland.
The airline is able to participate in various airline programs normally associated with major international airlines, through the association with SA Airlink and itís Franchise relationship with SAA.
The airline provides convenient daily return scheduled flights between MTS and JNB further improving accessibility to and from Swaziland, utilising Embraer 135 jet aircrafts.
Passengers can enjoy all the benefits of our membership in the Voyager frequent flyer program and also seamless connections onto a multitude of airlines who have Inter-line agreements with us and provide services into the whole of Africa, South Africa and the rest of the world.
Safety is a non negotiable philosophy within our airline and our crew and ground staff are continuously subjected to stringent recurrency training.
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Pioneers drop first home match to Oklahoma Baptist 3-2
Published 7:00 am, Sunday, October 9, 2011
The Wayland Baptist men's soccer team lost its first home match of the season on Saturday afternoon, dropping a 3-2 decision to Oklahoma Baptist.
The Bison struck first with a goal just over 11 minutes into the contest. The Pioneers tied it up 10 minutes later when an OBU player inadvertently headed the ball into the WBU goal during a mad scramble in front of the net.
Oklahoma Baptist regained the lead at the 27:26 mark on an unassisted goal, but Wayland's Cristhian Ospina made it 2-2 on a direct kick 13 minutes before the end of the first half. Ospina's kick deflected off the bottom of the crossbar and into the net to give the junior transfer his first goal of the season.
The visitors outshot WBU 10-5 in the opening period. In the second half, the Bison got off six shots, but none bigger than Timothy Thomsen's three minutes in. Mario Maia placed a corner kick directly in front of the net, and after a quick pass from Matheus Costa, Thomsen gave his team the one-goal advantage.
The Pioneers had numerous opportunities in the final 45 minutes, highlighted by Guillermo Villarreal's header that just missed landing inside the right post.
"We fought really hard again today," said head coach Jamath Shoffner, "but just couldn't take advantage of the goal-scoring opportunities we had. It was such a winnable game for us, but now we just have to regroup for our next game."
Jevaughn Vance and Ospina combined to take eight of the 12 Pioneer shots. Only three of those shots forced a save, however.
OBU had 16 shots, eight of which made it on goal.
Shoffner was upset about the three goals his team allowed against the defending conference champion.
"The goals we let in were really soft, and we have to focus more mentally if we want to win these important conference games."
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You would think a snow day would be the perefect excuse to actually get some things done- unless you're me. I woke up at 7, emailed my boss that in fact we would be closed, called and changed the automatic answering message (in my most amazing 7AM voice), texted my employees the good news, and called the local news to let them know that we were all staying home. Then, I went back to bed. Snow days are the equivalent of staying home sick- but the sick when you feel fine, but are contagious and must not do anything. At the very least, I'll catch you up to speed...or at least til the end of summer. August is easy because it consisted of the most epic wedding to date...at least until mine...Basically, there were too many amazing people and too many amazing photos to list here (and I'm being good and not using any of the pro's photos), but here are a few highlights:
So to sum up the Bryenton/ Pierce wedding, here are the points I'd like to make:
- A lobster, a steak, & some pork for all 250 people
- A hired helicopter to take ariel photos
- An 80's hair band
- It got shut down by the cops
- My mom made everything she promised and more!
- The best Hookers & bartenders money could buy
- Beautiful weather for August 7th in New England-and I'm not just saying that!
- An impressive gathering of awesome people
- A loving couple that couldn't be happier
Congrats to my big brother and the newest Pierce.
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My father passed away suddenly last night, while he was vacationing in Taiwan. The whole family's still in some kind of shock right now... my grandmother had just passed away not too long ago. Although me and my father were not close, it nevertheless is just as sad and shocking to me. My stepmother is inconsolable and is on her way to Taiwan as I am typing this. I will most likely be traveling back also to escort his body back to the stateside for burial... in his usual fashion, he never did leave a will to the effect of what he wanted to do with his remains. My grandfather doesn't know it yet.... I don't know how or when to tell him... you just don't expect your own son to go before you do.
I hope that he's in heaven right now with his mother, as some sort of weird coincidence, or some kind of pre-destiny, both mom and son had passed away in their sleep... I only hope that I'll be as lucky when it's my time to go.
Below is a short eulogy to him. I typed it in Chinese, my father never really learned much English while he was alive so I thought that I'd type it in Chinese so he'll be able to understand.
很難相信, 您昨晚離去這地球. 我抱歉,我們不是像父親和女兒能一樣緊密, 但我還是很哀傷的. 我希望您將平安的休息,並且對祖母說你好......您兩個現在是在一起....我肯定的在天堂. 很多人說,我們真正的相似.....我希望我能繼續您的優良,並且以某種方法使您驕傲. 我們將設法照顧繼母,您不要擔心! 到我們再見面時,好好睡吧! | <urn:uuid:d7c36f5c-4657-4baa-8fec-80dd005cf70e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://atypicalasian.blogspot.com/2008/03/rest-in-peace-dad.html | 2017-06-23T01:53:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319943.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623012730-20170623032730-00513.warc.gz | en | 0.974827 | 568 | [
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A Longmont police officer used a Taser to subdue a 51-year-old Longmont man who twice pointed a knife at him on Tuesday, according to the man's arrest report.
Longmont Police Cmdr. Jeff Satur said Officer Jason Malterud "made some great decisions" to prevent anyone from getting hurt.
Police were called to Mental Health Partners, 834 S. Sherman St., at about 11:10 a.m. to help with an uncooperative man who had walked away from the office. As the man turned from Iowa Avenue to South Lincoln Street, Malterud followed in his marked squad car and asked the man to stop walking.
The man pulled out a small pocket knife and ran toward the squad car. Malterud could not back up because an ambulance was following him, so he rolled up his car's window and made sure the door was locked, according to the arrest report.
The man "was at the driver's side door of my patrol car and was pointing the knife at me. I heard (him) yelling but was unable to make out what he was saying," Malterud wrote.
Turning away from the car, the man walked north on South Lincoln Street. Malterud exited his squad car and followed the man, again calling for him to stop. The man turned, took the knife from his pocket and again pointed it at the officer, who had taken his Taser out of its holster.
The man at first said he would not put away his knife until Malterud put away the Taser, but returned his knife to his pocket after the officer's second request to put down the knife. As the man walked away, Malterud jogged to about 20 feet from him and deployed the Taser, striking the man in the lower back and right leg.
As police handcuffed and arrested the man, officers found the knife, which was about 4 ½ -inches long, including the 2-inch blade. The man was transported to Longmont United Hospital, where he was yelling and talking, but not making sense, Malterud wrote. | <urn:uuid:2cbea09d-a99c-4e30-bcac-d17acd79eaab> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.timescall.com/longmont-local-news/ci_25479339/longmont-officer-shocks-knife-weilding-man | 2017-06-23T01:41:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319943.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623012730-20170623032730-00513.warc.gz | en | 0.990232 | 434 | [
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Article: article from journal or magazin.
The human loricrin gene.
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Loricrin is the major protein component of the cornified cell envelope of terminally differentiated mammalian epidermal (stratum corneum) cells. Using a specific human cDNA clone, we have isolated and characterized the human loricrin gene. We show that it has a very simple structure of a single intron of 1188 base pairs (bp) in the 5'-untranslated region; there are no introns in coding sequences. By use of rodent-human somatic cell hybrids, followed by in situ hybridization with a biotin-labeled genomic DNA clone, the single-copy gene maps to chromosome location 1q21. Polymerase chain reaction analyses of genomic DNAs from different individuals show that human loricrin consists of two allelic size variants, due to sequence variations in its second glycine loop domain, and these variants segregate in the human population by normal Mendelian mechanisms. Furthermore, there are multiple sequence variants within these two size class alleles due to various deletions of 12 bp (4 amino acids) in the major loop of this glycine loop domain. By use of a specific loricrin antibody, we show by immunogold electron microscopy that loricrin initially appears in the granular layer of human epidermis and forms composite keratohyalin granules with profilaggrin, but localizes to the cell periphery (cell envelope) of fully differentiated stratum corneum cells.
Amino Acid Sequence, Base Sequence, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 1, Cloning, Molecular, DNA/genetics, DNA/isolation & purification, Epidermis/ultrastructure, Genomic Library, Glycine, Humans, Intermediate Filament Proteins/analysis, Membrane Proteins/analysis, Membrane Proteins/genetics, Microscopy, Immunoelectron, Molecular Sequence Data, Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods, Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length, Protein Conformation, RNA Caps/genetics, Restriction Mapping, Skin/ultrastructure
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Yeah, I had plans to buy a piece of select pine to test some things on-- different cuts and layers of shellac, and maybe some Danish oil or Waterlox for good measure. I also wanted to test the sealcoat and water-based poly, as I have heard some reports of crazing in this process...
Well, "select" pine isn't really gonna cut it for my purposes. I know it's a good thing-- they had clearcut a shocking percentage of forest by the early part of the century, and that was a terrible and unfortunate practice. It also means there is nothing I can get at the big box store that compares, and I have a feeling that the newer heart pine that you might find at a good lumberyard is not really comparable either-- at only 50-80% heart, it's just not the same. And the big box stuff? It had maybe 8-10 rings, maybe 20-30 in some of the tighter-grained boards, across a 6 or 8 inch plank. Ours has about 15-20+ rings per inch, as many as 30 in some places. Granted the newer boards are not quartersawn, but this is also a much less common practice these days-- and rightly so, because it wastes a lot of perfectly good wood.
So I abandoned the plan-- I'd hate to waste the time and money testing something that isn't even a fair representation when I could be baking yummy English toffee and stained glass cookies for Christmas!
Anyway, I guess we'll be testing the stuff in a closet while we work this weekend. Results to come.
Building a Vineyard Trellis
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A classic book deserves a classic book club cuisine pairing.
This month we challenged our minds, and our palates. Our literary selection was the classic Shakespeare play The Tempest, and we were treated to an array of cheese… from the fancy case! It was another fun conversation starter. Not only can you share your feelings about the book, you can compare the cheeses and talk about which ones you like and why.
Among our choices… a gouda, a red pepper infused cheese, and a ‘recommended’ cheese from Whole Foods. Taking their word for it turned out to be an awesome decision. It was my favorite. I just wish I could remember the name! Don’t be afraid to ask employees for their recommendation. They typically know what they’re talking about!
As for the book, I haven’t read Shakespeare since high school, so I was somewhat apprehensive about tackling The Tempest. Would I be able to follow it? Would I understand the language? Would I feel downright stupid? But it was actually fun! You can breeze through the entire thing in an hour and a half. It had magic, drunks, and scheming. Sounds like a party to me! My book had annotations explaining what different words and phrases meant, but I found it more distracting than anything. I actually understood more by just reading through it (then checking out the overview on Wikipedia to make sure I was on the right track). 🙂
I’ll have to check out the movie next.
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When I saw this film I knew nothing about the plot, having never read the mid-1980s comic book of which (as I learned later from the Wiki entry) the film is said to be a faithful adaptation. I'm not sure whether this was an advantage or disadvantage; at least I didn't spend my time checking its authenticity and was able to evaluate the film purely on its own merits.
The setting is an alternative 1985 in which the USA has had a history of masked vigilantes (superb fighters but otherwise normal humans) now all retired. There is also one genuine superhero with god-like powers as a result of a laboratory accident, who is now a glowing blue figure known as Dr Manhattan. His existence enabled the USA to win the Vietnam War and gave them a dominant position over the Soviet Union. However, he is becoming increasingly remote from normal human affairs and seems to have disappeared, causing Cold War tensions to become increasingly hot: nuclear war threatens. Meanwhile, someone is killing off the vigilantes and the survivors get together to try to discover what is going on.
Having experienced something of a surfeit of Hollywood superhero movies of late, I had certain expectations. I was expecting light entertainment: a fast-moving thriller with a straightforward good vs evil plot, lots of action and special effects, probably a dash of humour in the quieter scenes, and maybe a touch of thwarted romance. I was therefore rather surprised to discover that, although Watchmen has most of those elements (I can't say I noticed much humour), it also has a lot more. It is a generally slow-paced and indeed very long film, running for over 160 minutes. It is also rather confusing, hopping constantly between the present and the pasts of several of the heroes at different stages of their lives: I wasn't always sure who the younger versions of the characters were meant to be. Overall, it is a rather grim and downbeat film with a pessimistic twist in the ending.
I understand that many aficionadoes of the comic book rate this film very highly. My own view is rather more mixed. There are some good elements and some strong scenes, but overall I suspect that the desire to be faithful to the comic has resulted in a rather messy and confused structure with too much packed into it. It was involving enough for me to watch to the end, but I'm not likely to want to see it again. | <urn:uuid:bc915e87-c1a6-4d4b-bd88-493d7feb2b5c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://sciencefictionfantasy.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/film-watchmen-2009.html | 2017-06-24T15:46:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.984544 | 487 | [
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Who knew sixteen words could collectively bring forth a plethora of emotions from the conservatives, liberals and everyone in between; that they could rip families apart, cause loneliness, criminal activity and restrict certain types of families from forming.
“No person eligible to adopt under this statute may adopt if that person is a homosexual,” according to Florida’s legislative statute 63.042.
Florida is the only state with a legalized ban on gay and lesbian adoption, as stated in facts presented at a town hall meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, yet it also holds a spot in the top five states in America with the highest number of children in the adoption system.
Read more of the article at the Miami SunPost
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Footloose capital skips from place to place. It goes where the best opportunities for profit are – the best mix of state subsidy, docile workers (skilled or unskilled), access to raw materials etc.
This we decry as irresponsible, short-term, selfish.
Footloose activism skip from “issue” to “issue.” It goes where the best opportunities for adrenaline, attention and affiliation are. Opposing the War (whichever one), The Cuts, Climate; where the cameras are, where the “comrades” are. This we do not decry as irresponsible, short-term, selfish. But it is.
To even be in the game, let alone win, we need to have the same long-term investment, flexibility, market-imposed discipline and creativity that capitalism (on its good days) displays. | <urn:uuid:dc06f774-2ef6-4bfa-ac40-bcc9d8e28107> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://dwighttowers.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/footloose-capitalism-footloose-activism/ | 2017-06-24T15:34:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.907323 | 181 | [
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This morning and this evening will feel like polar opposites. This morning, we are mentally sharp, and it’s a good day for editing or anything that requires attention to detail. Moon in Gemini trine Mars in Aquarius gives us mental agility, but it could also give us some irritability. Venus moves into Aquarius later this morning smoothing the mental waters, though, so we can get some work done. This evening, as the Moon enters Cancer, we become more emotional than mental. Pour your feelings out onto the page. Grab a box of tissues and write those sad scenes tonight. Try not to drip tears onto your keyboard. | <urn:uuid:317d7c2f-dd8f-4e07-9383-512db1ccea6f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://elizabethedgett.com/january-3-writing-with-the-stars-daily-astrology-for-writers/ | 2017-06-24T15:52:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320264.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624152159-20170624172159-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.931574 | 131 | [
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The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is looking to change the current process in which social landlords can apply for Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) payments.
DECC is speaking to regulator Ofgem about upgrading its IT system to allow ‘bulk’ applications for the [RHI](http://www.sustainablebuildingsolutions.co.uk/resources/incentives-for-energy-efficiency/articles/the-renewable-heat-incentive domestic scheme, which incentivises landlords to install green energy measures. Currently social landlords have to submit individual applications for each property.
Speaking at the Homes 2014 conference last month, Stephen Roberts, head of market intelligence at DECC, said: ‘What we are trying to do with Ofgem is work on its IT system so that for social landlords there will be an easier way to do it, we recognise that [it] is [currently] a little bit onerous.’
A spokesperson for Ofgem said: ‘We will be interested in looking at ways to further streamline the application process for those applicants, such as social landlords, who have multiple applications.’
SBS can help you take advantage of the growing RHI market through a range of training and services. We also have a variety of products for your renewables projects. For more information on how we can support you and your customers, please email [email protected].
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As usual, Kate Hudson had her boys by her side around New York yesterday. She spent her afternoon with little Ryder who kept his long hair pulled out of his face in a ponytail. After the sun went down, it was all about Lance time for the actress who headed out to dinner at Daniel with her new man and some friends. It was a busy weekend for Kate and Lance bringing their two families together and they're showing no signs of cooling down — though most of you think the new couple is bringing their kids into the mix too soon.
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I was back home in the North East recently to see my dad, who is recovering from a major heart attack. He is 89 and still living at home and doing a very good job of being independent. Since my last trip 6 months ago, he has become more frail and a tad forgetful, but he still insists he does not need help. I was only allowed in the kitchen to eat the food he prepared for me with loving precision. He wouldn't even let me wash up. I did get to take him out in his car for small trips to see relatives, or do the shopping at Aldi. You know time is hanging heavy when he insists on taking their catalog home to read. I couldn't get him to stay anywhere for more than 10 minutes before he wanted to be back home. I didn't understand this until my sister in law told me that home is where my Mom is in his mind, and he just wants to be back with her.
I did score one success on this trip. I found him a mobility scooter he can use to get to the local shops. He doesn't really need it yet, but it won't be long before that short trip will be out of his range. When we got home, he took it out on the pavement to try it out. As he was backing it into his garage, he looked at me and said, " Well, it isn't as exciting as my old Yamaha 250, but I will get used to it."
Apart from seeing my Dad, I had two very special surprises. A good friend of ours, Victoria and her daughter Kaitlyn, were in Greece as a present for Kaitlyn's graduation. They ended their trip by coming up to the North East to visit me. It was a very special few days, as I got to show friends from my new home, how special my old home is. I took them to see the castles and beaches, of which there are many in Northumbeland, and we hiked part of Hadrian's wall.
We stopped in for lunch at the Battlesteads Pub in Wark, a highly acclaimed Gastro Pub and had some wonderful cheese and potted ham. The home made piccalilli tasted wonderful, but it did look a bit like cat vomit. Too much sauce and not enough pickle.
I did notice a sign in the toilet that perhaps reflects the current anti immigrant feeling in the UK.
When I go back, I always have to go for dinner at the Rat Inn, one of the best pub restaurants in the country. Their Lamb is to die for, and their beer selection is sublime. The girls ended up their brief stay tucking into the best food this region has to offer.
They promised a return visit. I hope so.
I spent some time with Terry Docherty and Pete Scott in Newcastle the following week, catching up with the local music news and trying out all the new beers and watering holes down by the old quayside.
When in London, I always try and see my two lovely friends Jill and Sarah, both from school days. I usually stay with Jill and her husband Paul, and we save one night for a few drinkies in Soho.
Last, but certainly not least, I got to meet the Lovely Hestia (Alison Cross). Now to say this lady has considerable talent, is a bit like saying the Pope is a Catholic. I love her writing, her humor, and all the little ways she has helped and encouraged me to write over the last few years. She was in London at a Tarot conference where she was presenting, and had some free time for a lunch on Sunday. I met Ali and her husband and son at the Dickens Inn. We had tried to get Jo from "A Girl's guide to turning 50" fame to join us, but we failed to let her know where we were in time for her to be there:(
To use one of Ali's expressions, I luff her. We had a great lunch and a wee walk through the deserted streets of the city, before they went on their way and I headed back to Jill's for the night.
I am now back home on Vashon and straight back into the routine.
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VANCOUVER — A 29-year-old Vancouver man has been sentenced to eight months in jail for his role in the 2011 Stanley Cup riot.
In passing sentence Tuesday, a B.C. Provincial Court judge called Vasilios Makris’ involvement in the riot “the most serious of any case heard so far.”
Justice William Kitchen added that it was “difficult to imagine how any rioter could have been more involved in the mayhem” that followed the Canucks’ Game 7 loss to Boston in the final.
“He was there at the start of the riot and remained for the whole four-hour period until the very end,” wrote Judge W.J. Kitchen as reported in the
Kitchen said Makris, who was charged with assault and taking part in a riot, was actively “cheerleading” others during the riot, taunted police, broke into a store and was involved in three vehicle fires.
Makris had said he believes he drank well over a dozen beer and 14 ounces of vodka on the night of the riot.
But Kitchen writes that “considerable video footage” shows Makris walking and running and not displaying the “usual signs of impairment” such as stumbling.
The judge also noted that Makris is a first offender and somewhat remorseful and has continued to be a responsible citizen with a steady job since the riot.
Kitchen also wrote that Makris has a lengthy record of volunteer work, including time working for a United Nations agency in Afghanistan, Palestine and Israel.
In addition, wrote Kitchen, Makris does not abuse alcohol or drugs, is not a danger to the public and there was no premeditation involved.
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Many people have asked who we are and what we are all about, and we are happy to say that we can tell you exactly who we are and what we are all about as a community.
Who are the World of Thomas Modelling?
The World of Thomas The Tank Engine Modelling, is the name of our model railway community, that takes great pride in modelling Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends in many scales ranging from the most popular OO/HO brand to the new G scale and even model characters in 009 gauge, a scale which is most popular with modellers wanting to make replica characters that reside on the Skarloey Railway and have featured in many of the Rev .W. Awdry's books.
Our community is 100% non-profit and doesn't take any sorts of commissions for the works produced by it's members or followers.
What is the purpose of the Community?
The purpose of the community is to discuss model railways, mainly about Thomas & Friends, we don't consider our group to be a 'fan forum'. The main focus of the community is to share skills with other fellow modellers and help others to improve their own!
We always are willing to help others to make their models look as good as they can be, and our friendly members are always looking to give advice and other helpful information regarding the paints, weathering and building of models to represent the fictional characters as seen in the TV and Book series e.t.c.
Do you affiliate with other Thomas Websites/Forums?
We used to, but, we don't affiliate with any sorts of 'Thomas Fan Forums' or 'Fansites' anymore, we only now affiliate with websites who we think deserve to be given attention, those can be found in our Website Links & Affiliates Page as well as our Official Friends Links!
How do i become an 'Official Friend' of the Community?
Simple, all you need to do is add our banner to your web page or blog or online store, and we will add your site to our Links page, if you have a page that you post to, like Facebook or YouTube for example, all you need to do is forward the url of the site to us and we shall add it to our link directory.
But we ask that all links are checked before sending them, any broken links will be removed.
Where is the Community Forum?
The community forum is located here - http://worldofsodor.proboards.com/index.cgi?
The url of the forum is subject to be changed in time, once we sort out our Google account to enable the paid features. The forum is easy enough to use, there is no screening, once you register and activate your account, it will be approved by a member of staff, but, we advise that you DON'T make multiple accounts, if you forget your password anytime, use the 'Forgot Password' link to change it. | <urn:uuid:a357f3cc-d689-42a7-9040-5ac6084c6404> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://theworldofthomasmodellingcommunity.blogspot.com/p/coming-soon.html | 2017-06-27T01:59:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320887.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627013832-20170627033832-00194.warc.gz | en | 0.961694 | 608 | [
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Our trained technicians have been through technical school, pipefitter training, factory training, Hazmat training and carry a high-pressure piping, refrigeration
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Siebel To Pay Fine To SEC
$250,000 SETTLES CHARGE OF DISCLOSURE VIOLATIONNov 26, 2002 | Mercury News
Siebel Systems agreed to settle a federal charge that it had violated a Securities and Exchange Commission regulation prohibiting companies from selectively disclosing information to favored Wall Street analysts before releasing the news to ordinary investors.
The agreement with the San Mateo software company marked the first litigation brought to enforce Regulation FD (for Fair Disclosure), which was adopted in August 2000 in order to ensure the public equal access to important investment information.
The SEC also announced Monday the settlement of administrative proceedings against Secure Computing, a San Jose security-software maker, and Raytheon, a Lexington, Mass., defense contractor.
All three companies agreed to cease and desist from any future violations of Regulation FD without admitting or denying any wrongdoing. Siebel Systems also agreed to pay a civil penalty of $250,000.
``They are trying to send a message that SEC is serious about enforcing the Regulation FD,'' said Gordy Davidson, chairman of Fenwick & West, a Silicon Valley law firm that emphasizes its technology practice.
The three cases illustrate how broadly Regulation FD has affected the way companies communicate with investors. Before it was adopted, analysts generally relied on private conversations with executives to form an opinion about a company's financial prospects. Analysts at larger, more prestigious firms often received special guidance.
``These cases, and Raytheon in particular, describe the kind of conduct that Regulation FD was supposed to prevent,'' said Mark Schonfeld, associate regional director of the SEC's Northeast Regional Office.
According to SEC documents, Raytheon Chief Financial Officer Franklyn Caine called individual analysts following a February 2001 earnings call to let them know their estimates for first-quarter earnings were ``too high'' or ``very aggressive.''
After speaking with Caine, who was named as a party in the SEC action, analysts lowered their estimates, enabling Raytheon to beat the consensus estimate by a penny a share when it announced financial results three months later.
Regulators said Motorola avoided becoming the subject of a similar action because the company's in-house legal counsel told a senior executive it was OK to telephone selected analysts.
In the case involving Secure Computing, Chief Executive John McNulty told selected analysts about a deal the company had made to bundle its software with products made by Cisco Systems before it issued a press release, according to SEC documents which named McNulty as a party.
Though regulators determined the initial disclosure was accidental, McNulty continued to talk about the deal with still more analysts as his employees prepared a press release, said Robert Mitchell, assistant district administrator of the San Francisco District Office. ``That was a particular problem for them,'' Mitchell said.
CEO not named
Tom Siebel, CEO of Siebel Systems, was not named in the action brought against his company, though it concerned statements he made during a Goldman Sachs technology conference in November 2001.
On a public earnings call three weeks before the conference, Siebel had spoken pessimistically about ``an exceptionally soft market'' and a tough business environment. But a few days before the conference, the company's director of investor relations told a Goldman Sachs analyst that business was looking up. When Siebel struck an optimistic tone during his 10 a.m. presentation, the company's stock took off. It closed more than 16 percent above the previous day's close.
According to SEC documents, attendees at the conference began trading the stock even before Siebel finished speaking, and Goldman Sachs was the most active firm trading Siebel Systems stock that day.
A company press release Monday said Siebel's remarks ``were deemed to be in violation of Regulation FD because the presentation was not Webcast or otherwise simultaneously broadcast to the general public.'' The company said Siebel did not know the conference was not being transmitted on the Internet.
``This is a great reminder to management teams everywhere that they better be careful what they say in question-and-answer sessions and in breakout sessions at conferences,'' said Patrick Walravens, an analyst at JMP Securities. | <urn:uuid:04c36acb-c345-490b-b518-2f33ca17869b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.yourlawyer.com/articles/title/siebel-to-pay-fine-to-sec | 2017-06-27T01:49:58Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320887.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627013832-20170627033832-00194.warc.gz | en | 0.967187 | 839 | [
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Title: Matthias at the Door
Publisher: The Macmillan Company, New York
Publication Date: 1931
Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good
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No. 460 of 500 copies printed by D. B. Updike and signed by Robinson. Gilt page tops. Uncut page sides and bottoms. Spine label. Some unopened pages. Sun fading to spine and front cover top edge. Bookseller Inventory # 370
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The Eventual Death of Dungeon Synth
I have been following dungeon synth for around two years cataloging its history and charting its progression as a microgenre in an age where microgenres have ephemeral existences. I have always professed a love for this style and its community of creators, recorders, and fans. Dungeon synth has existed for decades in various identities from strange black metal/dark ambient offshoot to an independent electronic genre with sometimes new connections unrelated to its past. Dungeon synth has existed before the age of the internet and in 2017 is still wrestling with its existence as an internet based genre. While continual exposure for this genre causes some discord among the community leading to splinter groups and spats of internal conflict, the resilience of dungeon synth, and an ultimate desire for worlds not our own, seems to be winning over the forces that conspire to destroy it and the novelties which wish to discredit it. I am sure one day there will be reasons to write “The Death of Dungeon Synth” as a eulogy for a style I once loved but that day doesn’t seem to be today. I will mark the decline of a genre when the amount of interesting and new work ceases to be made. Every month I am continually surprised by the amount traditional releases which explore the styles roots, the growing revamping of the sound’s new wave, as well as the wild experimentations which continue to challenge what we know and think of the genre. I will mark the death of dungeon synth, personally, when the style ceases to impress me as a sound and the community of weirdos ceases to be fascinating. I am glad the style is stronger than a Bandcamp article, or a popular Youtube channel, or even an influx of new creators. I count my blessings there are a dozen new releases I first have to enjoy before the eventual death of dungeon synth.
This month’s image comes from the “Tomb of Spells” figurine set from Grenadier Models. This Pennsylvania based company produced metal figurines during the late 70’s and actually released Tomb of Spells and Woodland Adventures which then caught the interest of TSR. The two started a short partnership which led to a plethora of figures made for both Dungeons and Dragons and Gammaworld. The hobby of miniatures is stupidly deep and is as big as the game itself. What I love about the image is its calling to the people who find roaming skeletons and a mysterious figure weilding a scythe to be enjoyable and a place where they could spend hours of the day lost in imagination.
There is certainly something to be said about the space between albums. As I said before in many articles, DS moves as an accelerated rate so the space between some albums is much shorter than other genres. This is why a year feels like an eternity between albums. The time spent listening to Barak Tor’s 2016 releases Wizards of Morcar and Silent Passages and Hidden Realms have allowed the mystic of Barak Tor to grow which in turn allowed March of the Triumphator was greeted enthusiastically by its fans. Grand in scope both musically and thematically, March of the Triumphator signals the fires of the old dark mountain to be lit once again. Time sometimes adds to the enjoyment of a record and this is certainly one of those moments.
ElixiR was one of my first tape purchases in the world of DS and has since been a staple of interest. I still have the decorative envelope that Moonlight on Black Castle came in sitting in my growing library. What this French based artist does is allow the listener to be transported to a magical realm that while very far away from the darkness of dungeons, is inhabited by various mystical creatures. Dreamy and arcane with shades of melancholy, Forgenoir is a welcome addition to my growing ElixiR library.
Much has been said about the topic of experimentation and the future of DS within that framework. While there is the certain and the direct, there are also others from Russia. RævJäger has mentioned several times that his release is not “pure” dungeon synth in the traditional defintion. While all RævJäger albums lack the darkness rhythm of the underworld, each one is increasingly forming its own world. These are places where fey and trickers gallop around in half delirium. I have always liked RævJäger’s releases and watching this artist grow from a goofy acolyte with 2015’s The Tale of Axe & Torch to a premiere creator with this latest release has been nothing but inspiring and entertaining.
DIM is a newcomer in the world of DS and by the gods, it looks like the debut is making quiet a splash. From the mystical font of the name to the album covers which show ancient and overgrown ruins, DIM offers melody and intrigue which can span a thousand generations. Compendium is a tremendous debut from an artist that, until most recently, was a complete mystery. Perhaps this is the part of joy that revolves around this style. Both competent musically and entrancing melodically, Compendium details a loose story of a wandering minstrel leaving familiar places for the embrace of the unfamiliar.
To be honest, I had this record already in the queue for review and now I am just reading who actually composed it. Rômulo has been a big source of inspiration in my personal journey into dungeon synth with not only the Masmorra Dungeon Synth Zine but also the Iami releases. Altar is not a strict dungeon synth record rather it takes the sound and mixes it with new age and dark ambient with a tribal theme to offer something incredibly unique and inspirational. Perhaps it is just the fate of this creator to keep doing different things which open new chapters for others.
I love demos. Even when they are less than quality they still have an air of fresh exuberance. Dusk by Forlorn Citadel does not fit into this category as the artists 2017 demo is of high quality but the sentiment still stays. Demos are a fantastic way to approach the world with a low stakes release that gauge interest. If you are this artist and your 2017 demo is a fantastic release which is better than most full lengths of the year, then you already have a good future lined up in front of you.
Who wants to get dark? I certainly do. Catacombs Enshadowed is made for fans of Lamentation and Early Mortiis according to the Bandcamp page. There has been a growing interest in the dark varieties of dungeon synth which sound like haunted castles, ruined landscapes and the hum of an unsettled cave. Catacombs Enshadowed speaks to that growing interest with a release that sounds like the procession of a ghostly court. Best used to contrast the regal delicacy of other releases, Curse of Dark Centuries certainly has the ability to turn the skies black forever.
Wow, this is certainly something. Hedge Wizard is interesting because aside from being my introduction into DS, 2014’s More True Than Time Thought is a nearly undisputed classic in the community. This was also Hedge Wizard’s last release until very recently. The Local Portal demo takes the idea of dungeon synth and adds in some prominent vocals which is reminiscent of darkwave and other more flamboyant experimentations from the 80’s and 90’s underground. Wether or not this release will stick like the debut has yet to be seen but regardless, this demo is certainly a giant step for the artist and certainly moves the clock forward for a style that is wrestling with its identity.
I reviewed an Ekthelion release in March of 2016. I am sure of it. That particular record has since been removed with Age of the Faceless Demon being the earliest release. I find it interesting that I can not find the name of the first release and whatever I enjoyed has since been erased from collected history. With all of that said, Ekthelion still manages to grab attention with keyboard driven atmosphere which dredges up the painful memories of DS’ past. Dark dungeons and medieval ambient hang around this release like memories of a love once lost.
Waeltaja is interesting and I am wondering why I never caught onto the 2016 release. I say this as the music on Autumnal Echoes is both mystical and near classic in its compositions. Reminiscent to acts like Abandoned Places, the minimalism employed by the artists is deafening with interest in the few droning sounds enough for a captivated audience.
I do not know what to say about this other than I am very intrigued. I have no idea who Llathasa is but Illusory Games is an Australian label/project that seems to host DS acts along side of power electronics, cold wave, and noise projects. All albums are given the same style of album covert which is near psychotic in its design. Entol is certainly an interesting cog in a machine that has yet to be identified.
Celebdi is certainly an artist that does not rest. Already in 2017, this Spanish artist has produced 6 releases which is already shaping up to beat Sequestered Keep’s track record in 2016. Just as would say that quantity does not dictate quality, I will also say quality does not dictate quantity and if there is an artist who moves at a faster rate than others so be it. Essence is certainly interesting for being the 6th record released in a year and charts the artist’s mental progression as they use songs as written notes hashing out ideas for an audience of few.
I think it is time to get weird. Lets get weird. Urchun is a Swiss artist who uses dungeon synth as one of the many vehicles to create a nightmarish landscapes of historical specters which floats around a vortex of madness. Somnus Reliquit details and devotes itself to the archaic and arcane prose of ancient Roman poets particularly their delve into dreams. It is a fascinating subject matter that is made ever more surreal with atonal dungeon synth.
Ransuer has been releasing records every year for the past 4 years. I first become aware of Ransuer’s music on the DS forum when the thread Dungeon Noise became a hot topic of conversation. There is certainly room for easy criticism for Ransuer’s music including the handdrawn covers to the intentional noise woven throughout the simple melodies. While this music is certainly not for everyone, these is an undeniable charm to this type of music even adding into it the fact this does sound like music made by goblins by a greasy fire in the dawn of some bleak morning.
One of dungeon synth’s most popular releases comes from an artist that doesn’t really do dungeon synth. Anthony Linell is the person behind Abdulla Rashim, a techno/ambient outfit supported by Northern Electronics. 2015’s A Shell of Speed was a brilliant exploration into electronic texture and ruminating soundscapes. Now Linell seems to be inspired probably due to the styles recent explosion in the “mainstream.” Consolidate is DS as art exhibit and does not really possess any concrete connections to the style rather minimal interpretations in expected fashion. While Linell’s album certainly fits into the other wave of experimentation its representation of the style it emulates is stretched out into three to ten conceptual steps. | <urn:uuid:48374e6d-97a2-4c64-aa3e-8d405e48497b> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://hollywoodmetal.com/2017/05/19/dungeon-synth-digest-xxiv/ | 2017-06-27T21:01:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128321553.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627203405-20170627223405-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.966707 | 2,329 | [
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LACONIA, N.H. — The police department in Laconia, New Hampshire, has requested $60,000 for body cameras and digital storage space.
The Laconia Sun reports (http://bit.ly/2thubG1) Police Chief Matt Canfield said the cameras are increasingly being used by law enforcement. The cameras have gained national attention following officer-involved shootings over the last couple years.
The department submitted its budget proposal to the City Council.
Canfield said the cameras increase officer and citizen accountability, provide for training opportunities and have the potential to improve personnel policy.
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As 2016 comes to a close and we continue through a retrograde, now is a great time to reflect and celebrate all that we have accomplished. Both in terms of knowledge gained, lessons learned, and desires to grow more into a powerful, light-filled being with the coming new year. Some easy wins in terms of…
A beautifully warming, aromatic spice of the winter season, even a small amount of Cinnamon goes a long way. Its antioxidant properties are what makes it so beneficial for our bodies; it has even been ranked number one of the medicinal herbs (26 total) to have the highest amount of antioxidants.
The key ingredient in Ginger, Gingerol, the oil resin from the root acts as a highly potent anti-inflammatory and antioxidant agent. Studies have evaluated and maintain that using ginger on a regular basis can aide in your body’s overall well-being. Below are just five amazing benefits of this powerful plant.
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There are lots of great days, working for MAKE, but April 2 was one that’ll stand out in my memory for awhile. I got to skip out on real work and take a field trip out to the new ATX Hackerspace location on Dessau Rd., here in Austin. ArcAttack’s Joe and John DiPrima, Sam McFadden, and Steve Ward were there, with one of their big Tesla coils, along with two of my favorite peeps from MAKE headquarters in California, flown in just for the occasion: Creative Director Jason Babler and Associate Photo Editor Gregory Hayes.
When I arrived late in the morning, they’d already blacked out the windows in ATX Hackerspace’s big central “warehouse” room, and hung up a huge backdrop. People were milling around checking levels and setting up equipment. Jason positioned his Canon T2i off to one side running a timelapse, embedded above, to record the day.
After many hours of prep work, the lights were ready, the cameras were ready, the coil was ready, and ArcAttack front man Joe DiPrima was suited up center-stage in his grounded metal armor. Hackerspace staff, members, friends, and friends of friends were gathered around, in the back, waiting for the show. The house lights went out.
And the sparks, literally, began to fly.
We only needed one coil, for the shoot, so we could only hear half—one audio channel—of ArcAttack’s set, which is normally performed through two coils singing in stereo. It didn’t matter. We were close-up, the crowd was small, and the space was, at times, completely dark besides the flashing of the arc itself. When it was over, the small crowd of onlookers erupted in cheering and applause.
I remember one moment very vividly: The arcs are flying, the shutter’s clicking, and Jason is hunched over the laptop watching the snaps roll off Greg’s camera. A spark cracks, the shutter snaps, and Jason’s face lights up. His shout is inaudible over the roar of the arc, but there’s no mistaking that look. He claps his hands and pumps his fist in the air. He’s got the shot he wants.
I don’t know if it’s that image, in particular, that ended up on the cover of our new Maker Projects Guide. We took hundreds, that day. It was sunset by the time we left the building. I do know, now that I’ve seen the finished cover, that all that time and energy was well worth it. Those arcs are real, friends, not ‘shopped. And because I’m just a writer, not a visual guy, I think I can get away with bragging on our design team here: Greg, Jason, Juliann—ya’ll rock. Well done.
Thanks to ATX Hackerspace for playing host, ArcAttack as always, and to everyone else who helped make this cover happen.
Make: Maker Projects Guide Special Issue: MAKE Magazine’s annual Maker Faires have become the engine that drives the diverse and ever-expanding maker movement. At the heart of these events are the projects that their clever creators bring to show off and to inspire others to create. This special edition of MAKE celebrates the best of these projects, as seen at the Faires and in the pages of the magazine, as well as profiles of the makers who create them and the Faires that bring them together.
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Monday, December 01, 2008
The book is available at the LexisNexis Online Bookstore. My publishers will ship the book to any where in India for just Re 1. Keeping the touch with the difficult times that lie ahead of us, the book is priced at Rs.295 /-
Title: The Touchstone Effect: The Impact of Pre-grant Opposition on Patents
Author: Feroz Ali Khader
Publisher: LexisNexis Butterworths Wadhwa Nagpur
Format: Soft Cover
Price: INR 295.00 / US$ 14.75
Pages: xx + 166 pages (Appendices starts from pg 137, followed by Chapter Notes and Subject Index).
Wednesday, April 09, 2008
Justice AR Lakshmanan, Chairman Law Commission of India; Justice PP
Naolekar, Judge Supreme Court of India; Justice Ravindra Bhat, Judge Delhi
High Court; Justice DV Shylendra Kumar, Judge Karnataka High Court
Dr. Anil Gupta, IIM Ahmedabad; Shamnad Basheer, Oxford IP Research Centre;
Srividhya Raghavan, Oklahoma University; T. Ramakrishna, NLSIU; Sudhir
Aditya Sondhi, Advocate Karnataka High Court; Vinay Aravind, Poovayya & Poovayya
Leena Menghaney, Access Campaign Manager - India, MSF; Mr. Gopa Kumar,
CENTAD; Dr. Anand Grover, Director, Lawyers' Collective
Friday, April 04, 2008
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
4.5.3 The examiner makes comparison with regard to properties or enhancement of efficacy between the known substance and the new form of known substance. In case the new form is further converted into another new form, the comparison is made between the already existing form and another new form but not between the base compound and another new form.
4.5.4 The comparison with regard to properties or enhancement of efficacy is required to be made at the time of date of filing of the application or priority date if the application is claiming the priority of any earlier application but not at the stage of subsequent development.
4.5.5 The efficacy need not be quantified in terms of numerical value to determine whether the product is efficacious because it is not possible to have a standard numerical value for efficacy for all products including pharmaceutical products.
Like any effort, there is scope for improvement and the good thing is that the Patent Office believes so. Please send your comments to the Patent Office on any suggestion and improvements by 25 March 2008. It is a good effort and your participation will certainly make things better. | <urn:uuid:06fedcc4-1926-4d70-bbd0-c9ce0f710c98> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://pharmapatents.blogspot.com/2008/ | 2017-06-28T15:50:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00354.warc.gz | en | 0.903043 | 586 | [
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Soft and sporty everyday style. This French terry jacket from Denim &. Co. earns extra style points for its fresh, cropped length and mesh details. It's casual and around-the-house comfortable, but pretty enough to wear to the beach or ballpark. From Denim & Co.(R) Fashions.
- Fabrication: French terry
- Hardware: zipper front
- Features: hood, drawstring closure, long sleeves, two functional front pockets, mesh detailing
- Fit: relaxed fit; generously cut with maximum wearing ease
- Length: missy length 20-1/2" to 22-5/8"; plus length 22-1/2" to 24-1/4"
- Content: body 95% cotton/5% spandex; hood/lining 100% polyester, exclusive of decoration
- Care: machine wash, tumble dry
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Welcome to our first Fun Facts Friday, where we take a look at something crafty and learn about it's uses, tricks, tips and more! Today's post, whether you love it or hate it, is a staple in every sewing household... the seam ripper.
What is there to tell you ask? Well my friends, I first want to explain why every seam ripper has that little red ball on it. It's not just for looks and when used correctly will make the job go 10x faster! I also wanted to share a list of unexpected uses for this little tool. Mind boggling, I promise!
First things first... why the little red ball?
If you are anything like me, you will pick each (or at least every other) stitch with the seam ripper to undo a sewing "oops". But did you know that you can put the ball side down and simply run the seam ripper all the way down the opening of your seam? It's just like using a rotary cutter except for that little red ball protects your fabric from ripping or catching while the sharp long end quickly cuts through the stitches.
Check out this video from Keeping u n Stitches Quilting for a brief demonstration of this technique. I can't believe how fast and easy this is. I also can't believe that I have learned this before and yet keep forgetting! That's valuable sewing time!
WANT EVEN MORE USES FOR THE SEAM RIPPER?
Obviously it rips out seams (duh) but this handy little tool can also help you in other areas of sewing and in life.
Check out this list of "10 Reasons To Love Your Seam Ripper" put together by ikatbag. It's a funny (and informative!) article and she's a funny blogger.
[photo credit to ikatbag.com]
My favorites are to cut open button holes, poke holes for prongs/fasteners and... make pleats! Genius. I love it.
The seam ripper can also be used in non-sewing areas of life...
[photo credit to www.realsimple.com]
Oh.My.Gosh. Yes... it can be used to get all those strings, hairs and who knows what else that gets all twisted in the vacuum cleaner. I repeat... genius! Check out other "life hacks" from Real Simple.
I hope this Fun Facts Friday was informative and fun! I've always been grateful for this tiny little tool, but now that I know what all it can do, it might just bump up to one of my favorite sewing tools of all time!
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The architects at Monad Studio hope to disrupt the musical instrument industry—by way of 3-D printers. The studio recently unveiled a series of 3-D printed instruments, and CNBC had a Juilliard-trained musician, David Heiss, test out the cello.
Heiss, a member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and principal cellist at the New York Pops, warmed slowly but surely to the 3-D printed instrument.
"You can get all kinds of sound effects, space-age things," Heiss said. "It's tomorrow's sound world I think, and it's really an amazing feat to come across something like this and play it."
The cello is one of five instrument prototypes designed and printed by Monad Studio. In addition to the cello, designers Eric Goldemberg and Veronica Zalcberg unveiled a violin and an electric bass guitar-like monobarasitar on Friday at MecklerMedia's Inside 3-D Printing Conference in New York. The two other instruments, a small didgeridoo and hornucopia (large didgeridoo), were still being printed and assembled at the time of the conference. | <urn:uuid:368f8ffe-1f45-42ea-bfe3-38f529fdf36f> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.cnbc.com/2015/04/22/roll-over-stradivarius-a-3-d-printed-cello.html | 2017-06-29T12:22:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323908.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629103036-20170629123036-00434.warc.gz | en | 0.947987 | 240 | [
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I asked the Oconomowoc Quilt Guild if I could get a quilt to give to Ben. He was coming home for Christmas (09). They had a quilt to me within a few days for me to give to Ben. The quilt was one of the most beautiful quilts I have seen. It was made by Jean Higleman from Brookfield Wi. Ben received the quilt on Christmas at his parents home. His sister wrapped it for him. I had dropped the quilt off at his fundraiser a few weeks before. Ben really liked it.. as you can see by the smile on his face. As the story goes on I sent photos to the guild and to Quilts of Valor. And it so happens that they want to use the photo of Ben and his quilt in American Patchwork and Quilting magazine. This is pretty exciting. Ben is going to be having a lot of Physical Therapy and is in a lot of pain.. if you could please keep him in your prayers that would be wonderful. He needs all the prayers he can get. Now.. drumroll please... here is Ben and his Quilt of Valor.. he is a true hero... and my adopted soldier. Hang in there Ben.. We all are pulling for you....
Background StoryOn July 2, 2009 Ben left for his second tour of duty, serving with the Blackhawk 8-1 Cavalry in Afghanistan. He was scheduled for a year long tour of duty.
On the morning of Sunday, September 13, 2009 we received word that the vehicle that Ben had been driving hit an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) and that Ben had been severely injured. All that we knew at that time was that Ben had sustained a head injury and severe injuries to both of his legs. We were told that we would receive updates on Ben's status every eight to ten hours. The next few hours were very stressful for all of us, filled with anger, tears and heavy hearts. Later that afternoon a phone call came in bringing great news! Ben's injuries, although serious, were not as bad as initially thought. He had sustained a laceration to the back of his head and had compound fractures to both of his legs. We now knew that the injury to his head did not involve his brain, but were unsure of the full extent of his leg injuries.
We learned that the blast occurred when Ben's squadron was in route to pay a farmer for damage that they had done to his watering system while completing a mission on the previous day when the vehicle encountered an IED. Ben was driving a Stryker Armored Vehicle, one of the newer kinds of military vehicles containing a double layer of armor, when he drove over the IED that produced, in Ben's words, "one hell of a blast!" There were five other soldiers on duty with Ben that day, one including a medic. They pulled Ben from the vehicle, and a Blackhawk helicopter was on the ground to airlift Ben to safety within minutes.
Ben was stabilized in Afghanistan and had some surgeries done. He was scheduled to be airlifted to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. In Germany, Ben would have any additional surgeries that he required, and his wife, Tara, would be able to be with him while he began on his long road to recovery. On Monday, September 14 we received news that Ben had been honored with a purple heart!
After being boarded onto the first plane that was scheduled to leave Afghanistan for Germany and getting in the air, Ben's plane caught on fire and had to make an emergency landing. Finally, on Wednesday, September 16 Ben arrived SAFELY in Germany. Since being in Germany, we have learned many things about the extent of Ben's injuries. Even with all the damage to Ben's legs, there was NO damage to the nerves in his legs. He is able to wiggle his toes on both feet. In addition, fractures were found in Ben's pelvis and vertebrae (thankfully | <urn:uuid:e94f9aaf-f3bf-4624-b273-081050a238df> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://laurasartontherun.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-adopted-soldier.html | 2017-06-23T05:10:33Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320003.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623045423-20170623065423-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.994731 | 820 | [
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Today I want to show you my eight Zombicide season 1 Runner zombies that I have converted. These are, for the most part, simple conversions.
The first two zombies in line (going from left to right) have had leg and body swaps with the shorts-wearing zombies shown below in the last two photos. All four of these Runners have the same upper bodies. Doing a leg swap seemed an obvious thing to do. Fortunately, Zombicide figures are made of a hard plastic, so it is very easy to cut them with a craft knife. I cut the figures at the waist. In order to get a good join between upper body and legs I used a pin drill to drill a very small hole in the centre of the flat surfaces of both parts. I pinned the two halves of the body in place with a small length of wire (actually cut from a paper clip) and I used superglue to glue the two halves together. I added a small amount of Milliput to cover up the slight gaps between the two parts. The upper body parts were posed slightly differently. The one at the far left is facing front, whilst the second one is twisted a bit further to his right. To help further differentiate between the two, I painted one as an African/American and the other as a Caucasian.
The third zombie in line has had his right arm cut off. I added a bit of Milliput to the stump to show the bone sticking through. I also added a small amount of Milliput to his head to cover his baldness. Underneath the right foot of each figure is a small tab which helps raise that leg from the ground. These tabs have been hidden by my basing materials (sand and cat litter). However, for the fourth Runner in line, I cut away this tab and glued his foot directly to the base. This had the effect of making him lean forward slightly more than the others. It is not a very noticeable conversion from my photos. So in order to show that he was a conversion I gave him long hair with a small blob of Milliput sculpted into shape on his head.
On this second batch of zombie Runners I simply replicated the conversions I did for the first four. So, to start off with, we have two more figures who have had body and leg swaps. The technique was exactly as before. Once again, the bodies have been posed slightly differently upon the legs.
The third Runner in line from the left has had his right arm cut off. My Fatty zombie chef (shown last time) ended up with his arm. Once again, I added a bit of Milliput to the arm stump to show this was not a clean cut and to show the bone. The fourth Runner in line also had the tab raising his right foot cut away and I glued his foot to the base with superglue. From my photos, especially the one above, you can see his pose is much lower to the ground than the other three. He looked to be a lot faster than the other Runners so I painted him with dark skin like a zombified Usain Bolt. | <urn:uuid:1491ffa4-caf0-4767-89a6-7536a66fe290> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://vampifansworldoftheundead.blogspot.com/2014/10/zombicide-zombies-season-1-runners-02.html | 2017-06-23T05:07:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320003.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623045423-20170623065423-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.985218 | 642 | [
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Western Australian Government Open Data
The purpose of the Western Australian Whole of Government Open Data Policy is to improve management and use of the public sector's data assets in order to deliver value and benefits for all Western Australians.
This includes greater release of appropriate and high-value data to the public in ways that are easily discoverable and usable.
Where's the data?
Western Australia isn't lacking for good, publicly available government data. However, until now it's only been discoverable by visiting individual agency websites, or accessing it from isolated portals. We've harvested data from the largest of these existing portals - Landgate's SLIP geospatial data platform - and added over 800 datasets to our data portal. And we’re continually making data from all of these separate agencies and portals discoverable on data.wa.gov.au.
How can I begin publishing data?
If you're from state or local government or a related organisation in Western Australia and would like to begin publishing data, get in touch with us and request a publishing account. | <urn:uuid:6d5e2a2a-ca39-4b65-95e0-ba945451eb70> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://data.wa.gov.au/ | 2017-06-24T00:04:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320206.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623235306-20170624015306-00154.warc.gz | en | 0.901741 | 214 | [
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Id like to broaden my horizon and experiment with any type. Very much would like to colab with anyone on anything. Learn a few things, ya know? I also play guitar, and hopefully soon can get the right cables in to record that, but its mostly acoustic and filtered electric as i have no pedals at the moment. I've also been experimenting with vocoding lately. Check my soundcloud for sounds. PM me any interest! | <urn:uuid:424ec21a-47ba-4e3f-9a05-27bd888884f2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://idmforums.com/showthread.php?s=12affd20bdd10fe65f4b86a9a8ab735b&t=119045 | 2017-06-24T00:04:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320206.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623235306-20170624015306-00154.warc.gz | en | 0.986541 | 88 | [
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Storytime Station: Fancy Pants
This month on Storytime Station we journey to France - for a dance - with some "Fancy Pants"! There is an excited young man who is in need of some pants, so follow along to see if he finds what he is looking for! You and your children will love this rhyming story -- from the bright colors to the the talented reader... Fancy Pants will have you smiling from ear to ear!
Author: Gary Applegary, Learn more at the "Gary Applegary Author" page on Facebook!
Illustrations: Matt Pfahlert (Pfahlert Creative Labs)
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Apr 1, 1975
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Categories:Anal, Ass licking, Ball licking, Black Hair, Blow Job, Boss's Wife, Deepthroating, Desk, Facial, Floor, Foreign Accent, High Heels, Latina, MILFs, Natural Tits, Office, Tattoos,
She hails from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and is ready to fuck! Monica Santhiago has made it to sunny San Diego, as far as Naughty America is concerned, and we love having her here! No matter what scene she's in, Monica Santhiago always cums with an appetite for a dick sliding in her wet pussy! Drool over Monica Santhiago pictures and videos today! | <urn:uuid:6f88247b-173e-423f-9544-9b89d068231d> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://tour.naughtyamerica.com/pornstar/monica-santhiago?nats=4.4.8.8.1169.0.0.0.0 | 2017-06-24T00:21:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320206.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623235306-20170624015306-00154.warc.gz | en | 0.762433 | 184 | [
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I have just been down Dog lane looking for Rose cottage- and it can hardly be seen from the lane. A garage seems to have been built on the front garden. The golf course is immediately the other side of dog lane. I wonder what Goudge would have made of it?
I do think it sad that Devon websites can acknowledge Elizabeth Goudge’s having lived at Providence Cottage and Oxfordshire doesn’t know about Rose Cottage. If I lived in a house previously belonging to someone like Elizabeth Goudge, I would be proud of it, not try to hide.
When I saw it in the summer there was a big hedge all round it – but it did look as if there was still plenty of land at the back of it.
C.S. Lewis’s house -the Kilns-and its land, in Oxford, was sold off by his brother and Maureen Moore, and internally altered by 1970’s owners but is now restored by an American society. I think it has recently got a Blue Plaque. Perhaps something like that might happen to one of Elizabeth Goudge’s cottages
I saw somewhere that a film is being made of the Little White Horse- so there may be more interest than ever in Elizabeth Goudge. When I was a child I enjoyed equally The Valley of Song. I do some part time online bookselling now, and – of second hand books, – and occasionally benefit from the fact that publishers are too silly to reprint it. – Copies are quite rare. | <urn:uuid:ae56b095-8dbf-4ea1-9246-954d3993f1cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.elizabethgoudge.org/index.php/2016/07/16/pride-of-place/ | 2017-06-24T00:06:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320206.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623235306-20170624015306-00154.warc.gz | en | 0.983668 | 322 | [
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- Fungicides & Fungicide-Compatible
- Fertilization & Nutrients
- Genetic Expression
- Plant Growth & Health
- Root Growth
- Stress Reduction & Management
- Yield Improvement
- Pollination & Flowering
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The difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures has an effect in the movement of sugars out of leaves and into fruiting parts of the plant. High daytime and low nighttime temperatures can lead to reduced production of the auxin hormone and cause sugars to be retained in vegetative cells. Temperatures between 68°F to 89°F increase the flow of sugars out of stems and leaves and into grain or fruiting parts of the plant.
During the growing season, unusually high and low temperatures cause the enzyme activity needed for hormone production to be limited resulting in impaired cell division. During temperature extremes, additional hormones and/or hormone cofactors must be externally applied or cell division and growth can stop.
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“Turn up and play” mix-in sessions are held at the following times:
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From personalised recommendations to fraud protection, the data-crunching powers of artificial intelligence are changing the face of financial services, writes Alexey Utkin.
The past few years have seen a number of exciting advances in artificial intelligence (AI) which could change the way customers interact with financial services. Examples are the evolution of predictive analytics, recommender systems, anomaly detection, decision trees, computer vision and voice recognition. These have enabled delivery of an industrial-scale personalisation and automation of various processes in the financial services industry.
The majority of financial services are still aimed at specific financial products, meaning it falls to customers to analyse their own situation and then research which products they should be using. Alternatively, they have no choice but to use expensive professional advisers to guide them through the thicket of choice.
AI can help deliver a relevant, personalised financial service or dispense advice to a consumer. This advice or product offer can be customer-centric — delivered within the context of a particular customer situation or behaviour, or even a current location.
An AI-powered system can help users with initial personal financial planning, but once it has done this it can also them help choose the best financial products available to put the plan in motion. AI can take into account a range of factors, from the companies you favour to those which are in line with your risk/reward appetite. Automation, including that delivered with AI, will bring personalised experience, with a wider coverage at lower staff costs.
Many believe that customer age is a major factor in whether AI is useful. A significant portion of millennials actually prefer a digital or mobile experience to face-to-face. However, a recent study by Catalyst Pro Group indicates that human connection is still valued by millennials. I believe it depends on context. For routine matters such as payments, statements, loan approvals, most people, especially the younger demographic, prefer not to have to make a trip to a bank or even having to have a telephone conversation. However, when it comes to larger, potentially life-altering decisions and where trust is involved — say, for mortgages or financial advice — face-to-face will work better, even if it is just a proxy to some AI-powered system, which can take more data into account than a human being and come up with better and more relevant advice.
A major benefit of AI-powered processes is that the lower cost will improve access to financial services and advice for a wider population, and extend accessibility to those who were previously shut out because of cost.
Two areas that will massively benefit from AI are fraud detection and credit scoring. Currently, in the case of fraud checking, anti-money-laundering (AML) and ‘know your customer’ (KYC) are not always well delivered. Fraud is often left undetected. Credit scoring is frequently not in line with a default probability due to lack of data and can cause unnecessary friction — for example when your credit card is blocked after a first coffee in an airport on your holiday trip. These areas can certainly benefit from the increased ability of AI to detect patterns or find anomalies, taking more data into account.
Biometrics/voice and face recognition is another area of huge innovation, which will be integrated to the digital channels of financial institutions and deliver better security and customer experience.
Robo-advisory, such as Schwab Intelligent Portfolio, is certainly making wealth management more accessible to less wealthy customers. It is still the case that the personal experience is beyond the budgets of most less wealthy customers. For this group of people, it’s robo-advisory or nothing. Robo-advisory today is not necessarily powered by AI, but in the long term AI will evolve to make engines that deliver a quality comparable with the expertise dispensed by many of today’s financial advisers.
AI can take more data into account and can, ironically, offer more personalised insights. However, what it cannot deliver is intuition. The ‘gut-feel’ of a highly experienced adviser will be absent. It is quite possible that top-tier clients will be provided with the best of both worlds and will have access both to experienced advisers who themselves will use AI-powered systems to increase the quality of their advice.
Recommender systems — the type of information-filtering AI that stands behind things like Amazon or Netflix suggestions — revolutionised the retail marketplace. Customers have a footprint of data — about them, their situation, their behaviour. All that data, when aggregated, allows you to come up with the most relevant suggestions for the benefit of the customer, filtering out irrelevant noise.
AI can deliver stronger business performance via smart, predictable analytics and cost efficiencies by speeding up and automating thousands of manual, paper and human processes that every financial institution currently has to staff and fund today. An example is Rainbird, an AI system that supports business operations, including customer service and decision-making. Another system is Nuance, a virtual customer services assistant. Fingenius uses AI for data analytics and natural language processing for banking and insurance use, including intelligent customer question and answer systems.
Challenger banks are likely to move ahead with AI that will be a factor in disrupting the banking system. However, those established banks that are progressing with their digitalisation programmes are also looking into AI-powered business process automation and predictive analytics. It is quite likely that some incumbent big-name banks will partner with innovative fintech companies, bringing new AI-powered capabilities into their offerings.
A few years ago it was a common belief that, since mobile operators often have more customer data (gathered from calls, location capture, site visits and so on), they could build better analytical systems powered by machine learning and deliver more relevant services, including financial services and products. Then, it was believed the mobile operators would mount a serious challenge to incumbent banks. However, evolution did not go this way and most banks now have mobile apps and are able, with their customers’ permission, to collect and use just as much data as the mobile operators, integrating with other apps that customers use on their phones. A real challenge for an incumbent bank is to bring all this valuable data into a single platform to be able to analyse it. Challenger banks, with newer systems built from the ground up, may have the edge. | <urn:uuid:32c5fd5f-efc5-4606-9a0c-02954d70bbcd> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.spearswms.com/ai-powered-platforms-can-disrupt-banking-system/ | 2017-06-24T18:49:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320323.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624184733-20170624204733-00234.warc.gz | en | 0.962933 | 1,296 | [
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