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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Phlebotomist to join our Diagnostic Services department in a new private patient imaging centre on Welbeck Street, in Central London. This is a rare opportunity to work with a group of leading imaging specialists and industry experts from the early (pre-launch) stages of a completely new unit.
We are looking for a candidate who provides the highest standards of care to our patients. You must have effective communication and clinical skills and must be prepared to gain extended skills
You will be joining us as we embark on an exciting journey and there will be1 Welbeck Street and elsewhere in the growing Welbeck Health network.
Cutting edge equipment: the opportunity to work in a premium facility, ensuring the most effective service can be delivered.
Drive innovation: support the Centre Director and staff in the adopting of ncy using the visibility provided by site digital tools.
Ensure appropriate and accurate labelling and dispatch specimens to laboratories. Specimens are carefully packaged for transport to our lab. Where appropriate, deliver urgent specimens to laboratories in person.
To seek immediate assistance from medical and nursing staff should the patient’s condition deteriorate during phlebotomy procedures.
To ensure that the patient is regarded with dignity and respect by upholding the Philosophy of Care and adhering to Policies and Procedures.
Be responsible in documenting patients details and bring to the attention of your manager any shortfalls or discrepancies that occur.
To ensure that good working relationships are kept with other Departments and services.
To answer routine and non-routine enquiries. On occasions this could involve handling users of the service who may be unhappy, agitated, rude or aggressive.
Report and assist with the investigation onto our reporting system Rdaar. Ensure resolution of complaints within the area of responsibility, ensuring lessons are learnt and implemented.
Be responsible in maintaining and order supplies.
Assist with managing and overseeing the staff rotas.
Oversee the day-to-day supervision of both phlebotomy staff and admin staff.
Provide support to Pathology Manager in assisting with staff one to one’s and maintaining staff HR files.
Provide support to Pathology Manager in recruitment for phlebotomy staff and phlebotomy admin staff.
Ensure all daily, monthly, and yearly audits are completed and updated.
To cover Inpatient phlebotomy duties as requested by the Pathology Manager and bring any problems to the attention of the Pathology Manager.
To adhere to the phlebotomy standard operating procedure.
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The project represents an investment of £650m, and is described by the company as “a significant opportunity for Wales to take the lead in the tidal industry for the UK.”
Ton Fijen, technical director for Tidal Lagoon Power said: “Our vision is to deliver 10,000MW (megawatts)M.”
The power plant could be connected to the National Grid and be ‘power ready’ in 2017.
The offer included £5m of qualifying Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) shares, which require a minimum investment of £24,000, alongside £5m of non-EIS qualifying shares at £800 per share.
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groomed” – some areas have only minimal coverage – but now that the snow has formed a hard crust it skis just fine. I wasn’t expecting great skiing, in fact i wasn’t sure if there would be enough snow to ski at all. But more than the skiing, the day was really beautiful..looking down from the first Alto de Guarramillas almost always produces sensations of sublimeness in me, and it certainly did the other afternoon. Back up for the third and last time..all alone once more..basking in the sunshine and silence..i was really getting off on it – “man, this is like..sublime” – when suddenly i heard shouts and squeals coming from the other side of the metal Virgen that crowns the summit rocks..and then three energumenic young people emerged into the evening light. One after the other they flopped down on to their asses and began to slide down the hard snow, squawking and yelping as they went, straight towards an area of exposed stones, tumbling over, jumping back on their feet, chortling to and laughing at each other and back down on their asses. Down the hill they went – ignoring my sternly censorial stare – amid screams of fear, howls of laughter, imprecations, assurances that this was so good that money couldn’t pay for it..one of the guys insisting that the others would have to sew up his anus if he hit a rock..the other repeatedly emptying cold granulated snow from the back of his low-waisted trousers..the girl – who was equipped with some kind of plastic tray to slide on – not getting left behind, indeed keeping well up with her male companions both in speed and decibels. Happy headless chickens. Having fun in the snow. Just like me, i guess.
So much for sublimity. </s>
Odd choices aside, Josh Boone made a solid teen flick and the New Mutants are most definitely teens. It could be the perfect match for a box office smash, especially if some of the casting rumors prove true. Anna Taylor-Joy as Magik? We’re all for that, as long as Black Phillip doesn’t show up with Jonas and Mercy in tow. You can also expect fans to flock to the movie if Maisie Williams is cast as Wolfsbane, which would be fun considering a fellow Stark is currently Jean Grey.
This is the main book to have, featuring 1st appearances of the main cast. A difficult book to find in NM condition due to it being a graphic novel with a black front and back cover, it’s also a great read.
- Mirage (Psyche if you’re picky)
Warlock is a fan favorite for many reasons and is assumed to be part of the first film. How they will introduce him into the mix remains to be seen, especially with Demon Bear rumored as the big bad instead of Magnus. If he translates well to the big screen, Warlock will have a legion of new fans. Hopefully Douglock will follow down the line as it’s hard to imagine one without the other.
Many of us have already seen her covers, and several have made us say “Bozhe Moi!” She should be one of the most popular characters from the team, and Lockheed (Uncanny X-Men #166) is the icing on the cake. Illyana also opens up a whole realm of mystical possibilities if we get to the sequels.
She is one of the few New Mutants that has a nice collection of covers as well. A few are already pricey due to the artist, but here are some more you may want to keep an eye on.
Demon Bear – New Mutants #3 (hallucination), New Mutants #18
Until we hear otherwise, it’s Demon Bear which makes for an interesting Big Bad to say the least. Hopefully they can pull it off well as villains have been a weak point across the board in comic book flicks. Thanos he is not, but he should suffice unless it’s all a ruse and we get this guy…
Magnus is Warlock’s daddy and would be the most convenient choice. Like Demon Bear, he isn’t the meanest villain around so don’t expect too much if they go this route. That said, they do have to introduce Warlock somehow unless the go with a simple flashback shot.
In a nutshell, Marvel Graphic Novel #4 and New Mutants #18 are the ones you’ll want to focus on for the film itself. If things go as we hope, the early issues from the regular run with the killer Bill Sienkiewicz covers will rise in price along with any variants featuring the team or popular solo members.
Hastings Deadpool Exclusive Variant by Ed McGuinness
Demon Bear would be great. Another major villian is Selene who most recently appeared in the Necrosha event. Her first appearance is NM 9. That book can still be found for pennies.
I pulled the two Demon Bear issues (#3 & #18) from the $.50 boxes at a con last month, and got both signed by artist Bob McLeod who was appearing.
I think New Mutants #1 Canadian Price Variant might be another one to keep an eye on as well. </s> In such times of austerity seemingly no policy issue, regardless of whether it defines our society, is ‘off the table’. In an a typically contentious suggestion which makes overwhelming generalisations, Lord Warner, who is currentlyhas said that ‘Baby Boomers’ should fit their own bill for their own care later in life.
Lord Warner’s remarks are based on the assumption that the post-war baby boom generation “has done pretty well for itself” and as a result can well afford its own health care as they get old.
In effect, the idea is that those who own their own homes should pay for their own health care in their old-age; this flies in the face
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Book reviews » 104 in 2014: The March of War March
104 in 2014 104 in 2014: The March of War
Posted by Timothy on 29 March 2014 in Book reviews | 2 Comments
This month I’ve been binge-watching John Green play FIFA 2011, FIFA 13 and FIFA 14, while he discusses life and the writing process. I’ve also been binge-watching Thug Notes. This has prevented me getting a lot of audiobook listening in. Still, here are my reads for March. You’ll note they look a lot like the reading list for Crash Course Literature.
My earlier post of book club discussion questions contains links to the catalog and free online versions.
20 Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
I’m sorry we don’t have the rest of the myth cycle this comes from, because it is well written but fragmentary. This gives it an uneven feel as a story, because we have neither the rising nor falling action. Well, that’s not strictly true: I just haven’t read Oedipus at Colonus or Antigone, which were written later and elaborate the story. Recommended for those interested in the way that plays have evolved over time.
Again, m1 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Brilliant, of course, but I’d like to highlight the excellent version on DVD with David Tennant as Hamlet. It is staged in a modern setting, and uses metaphors of observation in a way that is distinctly dependent on the text, but is fresh and clever. I think it’s incredibly accessible – far more than some of the period-piece Hamlets we have in the collection.
22 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I was disappointed by this. I understand that it is a character study of the doctor, rather than a monster movie, but I didn’t find his character as engrossing as it needs to be to draw the reader along. The pace is slow, and the philosophical issues which were so shocking and exciting back at publication are now little more than curios.
Let me give you an example: I’m listed as an organ donor. I’m not shocked at all by the grave robbing and tying bits of people together in this novel, indeed I have volunteered to have it done to myself once I’m done with my various bits of gibblet. I can say that, and no-one is shocked or offended or scandalized. We may get a joke or two about recycling, and one or more of my relatives may chip in about how they might be eyeing off my liver, but that’s about it. We really have moved on from this book as a society. I hate that I can’t hold this up as a peerless jewel of early science fiction by a female author, but in good conscience, I can’t recommend this book broadly. The Library Service has more versions of this than any sensible person would read.
23 & 24 Marvel Zombies 3 and Marvel Zombies 4
Of negligible interest.
25 On War by Carl von Clausewitz
When I say I read On War, what I mean is that my wife and I recorded it, and released it into the public domain as a free audio book. It’s ridiculously long, and I’ve been steadily digging away at it for about a year. I’m tremendously pleased with the results. I’ll post the details in a separate post once the post-production team is done with it. The new book I’m going to record is The Tale of Terror, which I became aware of while writing for our 28 days of Horror event, so, thanks book coasters!
The book from my personal library that I finally got around to reading was
26 New Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko.
This is the fifth book in the Watch series, following the somewhat confusingly-named Final Watch. In it, there is a man sensitive to the existence of the Light and Dark Others, mystical humans who live hidden among us, and fight a Cold War we have been observing in the earlier books. He calls the Others “dogs” or “wolves” depending on their orientation. The story starts when he sees something else. Something new. Something he calls a “tiger”.
Recommended for fans of urban fantasy, but I’d also recommend reading the series in order.
You’ll recall in my first post for this reading challenge I said that nominating a number of books was like saying how many kilos you’d like to lose? 19 kilos so far, gang! See you next month!
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loupie 31 March 2014 I like your Frankenstein observations, Timothy. I read a graphic novel called My Boyfriend is a Monster: I Love Him to Pieces, by Paul D. Storrie, and the heroine reacted in exactly that modern way to the big reveal re. monster status – so what? It’s like organ donation, right? Do you feel the same about having your organs stolen, though?
Reply Timothy Post author1 April 2014 I think my family should have first call on my organs once I’m done with them, but I do see that this is an entirely selfish opinion, and that there are quite cogent arguments for everyone to be donors.
I mean, say someone needs a bone graft. Given that I’m not entirely certain my wife isn’t going to use my bones as art and craft supplies (you’ve been to my house) you could argue the other person’s greater need.
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Why Do I Care About Self-Promotion?
Getting Published: I’m an Author!
I’m imagining that you’re standing in the aisle of your local bookseller, or at your local library, or you’re flipping through these pages on Amazon, and you’re wondering: Should I read this book? And, I suppose you might be looking for me for clues and insight: Well, should I? Look, you’re busy.
So, rather than feed you a bunch of bloated text about what a gem this book is and how genius its authors are, I’m going to keep it simple and direct and give you an easily digestible five reasons why I think this book may be important to you.
The truth is I do believe this book is a marvelous means by which to help someone understand how to build and sustain a meaningful network through the smart use of both on
(And by “someone,” I mean practically ana cook to a CEO to a candlestick maker.) But borrowing a page from Erik and Kyle’s book, I’d rather show you than simply tell you, so you can see for yourself what I mean.
1. Online tools like Twitter, blogging, LinkedIn, Facebook, and so on have created an enormous opportunity for individuals to build their reputations and create networks with unprecedented reach.
No longer are you confined to do business or create relationships with people you know in “carbon form,” as my friend Mitch Joel calls face-to-face meetings? Instead, you can grow your network exponentially, with people from all around the globe. Yeah, but how? And what’s the best way to connect? Well, that’s what this book tells you.
2. Wait a sec…Twitter? Isn’t Twitter just a bunch of people talking about the burrito they just ate for lunch? Yes, Twitter. And umm, no; it’s not just about lunchtime menus.
Twitter is a much richer experience for those who know how to leverage it. As Erik and Kyle say, “Do you care about 150 million people paying attention and understanding your message?” That’s why you should care about Twitter.
And what you say on your blog (and how you say it) is the key way you can begin to build an online reputation and “promise” to your would-be clients, customers, or potential employer.
It’s also a key way to differentiate you from your competition, especially if you have a compelling, interesting, and wholly authentic point of view.
4. Authentic equal passion (and passion is everything). It’s one thing to show you how to leverage online tools, in-person networking, and public speaking tactics.
But its meaning and value become much clearer when you start to think about it in the context of your passion and how you communicate it to those around you, both online and in-person.
5. Finally, this book is not another boring business book. Erik and Kyle made me laugh out loud with their asides, comments, and analogies.
I’m a sucker for those who write about business with both humor and honest empathy in part because it gives you a sense of the real people behind this book and in part because it’s flat-out a whole lot more fun to read.
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Carson City’s population is projected to grow at a faster pace than had been expected just a year ago, reaching nearly 64,000 by 2032, the state’s demographer said Thursday.
The data, which extends from a base population and year of 55,441 in 2012, shows Nevada’s capital will reach 63,506 by 2031 and 63,982 by 2032. The 2031 projection put out last year, which was based on and projected from a 2011 figure, projected that the city would grow to 60,106 people in 2031. That means the new estimated 2031 figure is 3,400 higher.
Gil Yanuck, chairman at the Carson City Chamber of Commerce, agreed. Calling it positive news, he said many chamber members are optimistic compared with some naysayers who don’t see the community’s strengths. He acknowledged there are weaknesses thats, but counseled seeing the bright side.
Hardcastle’s annual report in October, which covers the state and each county along with the consolidated community of Carson City, also included data on private-sector employment growth here through 2032.
Mining, according to the projections, will leap 150 percent, but from the low base of 103 in 2010 to 258 in 2032.
Categories expected to lose were forestry, fishing and related activities, utilities, and information. But all of them were small to begin with, and continue dwindling in the projections.
Crowell and Yanuck focused their comments on the population-growth projection.
He emphasized the optimism and he and his chamber colleagues feel.
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Please only use quantity 1 and add each student separately.
Ocean Dives: Ocean dives can be done through our Dive Program.
Program Materials: All SCUBA equipment for the pool sessions is supplied except for mask, snorkel, fins, and boots (if strap fins).
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Tom is a stone carver, letter cutter and designer.
He shares his workshop with his previous masters Christopher Elsey and Geoffrey Aldred at The Stone Carving and Lettering Studio in East Sussex.
Tom's clients include St. Paul's Cathedral and The Oscar Wilde Society.
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The massage industry is pretty much unregulated in Australia…anybody can set up shop as a massage therapist (there are about 6 at Westfield Doncaster alone mainly staffed by untrained people, relying on their convenience rather than skill or knowledge).
1. Are you qualified (do you have at least a Cert. IV or better still a Dip. Remedial Massage)?
2. Are you a member of a professional body that governs standards, ethics and ongoing training such as the AAMT? Accreditation is personal so it needs to be specific and not just the manager of the clinic.
3. Are you accredited for Health Insurance rebates?
If you get a YES for each of these questions you are on your way to finding a therapist that will be able to help you!
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Mandelbrot's revelation presented a new way of perceiving nature, not as something disordered and chance-governed but as something intricately engineered. The resultant field of fractal geometry provides people with a way of defining and measuring these mysterious forms and — when it's applied to the field of biomimicry — re-creating them. And humanity's newfound ability to copy nature's fundamental structures raises an obvious question: Why don't designers do so more often?
It turns out that strategically embedding fractal shapes into almost anything helps make that thing stronger. Physicists have made concrete more durable and impermeable by using fractals to engineer its ingredients. And created a biodegradable alternative to plastic known as shrilk, which owes some of its exceptional strength to the inspiration for its engineering: the fractal layers of an insect's cuticle. "[Many of] the structural properties found in nature are not just chemistry," Donald Ingber, the institute's director, told the Harvard Gazette. "They're architecture."
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Friend just got a banjo and I want to get her a banjo-related gift. Li'l help?
A co-worker, who is leaving the office and the state soon, was just given a banjo as a surprise going away gift. She LOVES it and is learning some chords from a very simple book with accompanying CD, and spending all her time learning. She's a complete beginner. She loves bluegrass and other banjo-including music.
I'd like to get her a gift, and I'd like it to be banjo-related, but I just don't have any bright ideas. Fun accessories? A great book? Something else?
Oh, and it should be $40 or less. And I'm not going to pay for a lesson, she's arranged all that already.
Get her some John Hartford CDs. Best damn banjo picker I ever did hear.
(these are about as expensive as they come, though. You can also get them for pennies.
An I pick, therefore I grin t-shirt.
A Deliverance DVD.
A Felix the Cat t-shirt, or banjo gourds.
Grateful Dead Banjo t-shirt.
Does she have a stand for it?
Does she already have a strap for it? My banjo didn't come with one, and they're surprisingly hard to find at a lot of music stores. If she doesn't have one, you could get it for her, and then she can play standing up!
"Look out, he's got a banjo!"
A banjo mute.
This may not sound very fun and a little rude, but it'd be very useul if she's got roommates/family/sensitive neighbors. Banjos are VERY loud for an acoustic instrument and outside a mute, there's little one can do to adjust the volume.
Also if the banjo doesn't already have them, you may go to a hobby store and buy these tiny little nails to use as a capo for the high string.
See here for what I'm talking about.
These are great ideas. Maybe I'll get a little goody-bag of fun accessories.
High quality hand lotion? Oh, and a copy of Deliverance.
The least heard phrase in the english language?
Pete Seeger's "How to play the 5-string banjo" is a great book for beginners.
A set of replacement strings would come in handy as well.
Unfortunately thay're sold out at the moment, but the first accessory I got for my banjo was a Strobopick.
A tuner would be a practical gift. I've got an Intellitouch PT-1 which has worked fine for me.
How about a case? That was the second thing I got after my uke.
Chaw, and some Steve Martin albums.
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ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of salesman-turned-pastor Michael Spurlock (John Corbett), the tiny church he was ordered to shut down, and a group of refugees from Southeast Asia. Together, they risked everything to plant seeds for a future that might just save them all. The film delivers an incredibly relevant and timely message of faith, hope, community and the power of the church. ALL SAINTS stars John Corbett (MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING, “Northern Exposure”) and Cara Buono (“Stranger Things”, “Mad Men”, PAPER TOWNS).
"Love your neighbor.” We all know we’re supposed to do it. But who exactly is our neighbor? That was a question that was asked of Jesus in the Bible and as illustrated in His answer—the Parable of the Good Samaritan—our neighbors are everywhere we look. And equally important, we are to show God’s love to our neighbors.
John Corbett is on the cover of the August Guideposts magazine, and shares his heart for ALL SAINTS. “I’ve learned, like the priest I play in ALL SAINTS, that when God sends a suggestion our way, the best thing we can do for ourselves is say yes.”
Beloved comedian Chonda Pierce plays Ruth, one of the members of a small church that appears to be in its final days. Opening in theaters nationwide August 25, ALL SAINTS is based on the inspiring true story of a church that provided much-needed hope to its community. As Chonda says, “it's the church being the church.” Tickets are now available, so invite a friend or bring a group to see ALL SAINTS.
Image provided with permission by Sony Pictures
Recommended ages: 10 and up
Download and use this discussion guide and student discussion guide.
I would enjoy watching it with my 17 year old, who helps me with the garden at home. :)
I would enjoy watching this with my hubby.
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Cape Town - Ayeon Wednesday, was extinguished by the power station’s fire team, Eskom said.
The power utility said that no one was injured in the fire.
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Come to experience the newest and most fashionable wallpaper for top status bar, which will add gorgeous colors for your screen and make your friends greatly surprised!
Note: What such software provides is only to decorate your wallpaper and don’t really change status bar’s function.
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RUPERTKBD 30,405 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 10 minutes ago, The Lock said: Playing devil's advocate mostly here, but perhaps it's not so much what's "missed" as opportunities we don't see happen because of it. For example, I believe I read somewhere that in Sweden (or somewhere in Europe anyway), there was supposed to be a "men's health festival" that was supposed to happen. However, through backlash from "feminists", it got cancelled. I don't know all the details of this, but hearing things like this can also be just as alarming as the other things that "cancel culture" is targeting. So I think, while there's generally good reason for "cancel culture" to happen, it can also go a little too far. Perhaps also, if events such as these were shown in the limelight more, there would be more "cancel culture" of the "cancel culture" in situations where "cancel culture" just isn't appropriate. (if that made any sense whatsoever ;)) I'd be interested to see this. It doesn't make a lot of sense, since there are obviously health concerns that affect men exclusively. (such as Prostate Cancer) I did a quick Google search and the closest thing I could find was the cancellation of a "Mens Rights" Music Festival, but in that case, it was cancelled by the Venue (for fears that it would be "too political") not "feminists".... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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Home» Questions » Accounting » Accounting - Others » Accounting Standard Codifications » Problem A) The Total assets and liabilities of...
The Total assets and liabilities of Robot Company at January 1 and December 31, 2014, are presented below.
Assets $76,000 $112,000
Liabilities 26,000 28,800
Determine the amount of net income or loss for 2014, applying each of the following assumptions concerning the additional issuance of stock and dividends paid by the firm. Each case is independent of the others.
Dividends of $10,800 were paid, and no additional stock was issued during the year.
Additional stock was issued for $4,800, and no dividends were paid during the year.
Additional stock was issued for $62,000, and dividends of $15,600 were paid during the year.
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So I guess, whatever, I'm here...and likely to go on a tangent.
The girls are now 6, 4 and 8 months old and as ridiculous and cliche as it sounds, the days and the weeks fly by so fast now it terrifies me sometimes to think about. Life can just get so busy (like real-busy, not just saying-it kind-of busy).
This was definitely not the point in me taking to my blog today for the first time in months. But I guess it kind of leads in to the fact that sometimes I'm a teeny-bit tapped out when dealing with those crazy moments of motherhood and this morning was a fine example of that.
I was totally calm about it, but just told her that she couldn't come have breakfast until she was dressed, and she needed to wear what I put out. After a while too long went by, I think I let out an exasperated sigh, and made eye contact with Emeline, who was cheerfully eating her bagel and entertaining her baby sis. I think she read my mind which went something like this, "I give up. I give up. I give up." (regarding Lucy)
Within 2 minutes the tears had stopped and Lucy came out of her room as if the entire meltdown of epic proportions did not just happen. She bopped around, popped into her chair and asked for breakfast, in the clothes I had set out for her.
Instantly I shriveled up and died a little inside. Are you kidding me? No chance could I think of something I'm better at than anyone else (I mean let's be real here, there are 7 billion'ish people in the world after all), and I didn't even want to try to come up with something. I couldn't! It felt so...wrong. Maybe even a little vain? I don't know. My partner and I both mustered up something sort of safe-and followed it up with, "but I'm not necessarily better than others..."
My brain has been reeling on these thoughts for days now.
I'm trying to figure that out.
What I do know is that I'm learning through this process of pin-pointing who I am, the gifts that live inside me, my talents, etc--that relationships are critical. Having people who know you, who love you, who absolutely do not BS you when it comes to who you are, and the things they see and know in you that you can't always recognize, -well, it's absolutely important.
Don't get me wrong, though. Oh, there are moments of chaos. The ones where I swear there are hidden cameras somewhere because this simply cannot be real.
Take last Thursday for example. I was being Super Woman again, and cooking a nice meal for the family so it would be ready when Declan got home from work and we could get out the door to our community group. The big girls were outside on the playset playing with their neighbor friends. Hattie was in her rock-n-play in the kitchen right near me, sleeping away.
I run to her, leaving 3 burners going on the hot stove (giving myself about 45 seconds to handle snail situation), and noticing that Hattie is now awake and suddenly equally as pissed off. Hattie must wait.
I pick up the limping-one-footed monster and run her down the hallway to the bathroom to rinse her foot off from snail shell disaster. Her face is almost purple from crying so hard. I pat her tush and tell her to run along and play, she will survive this, I believe in her. (fist bump)
Hattie is still freaking out. Burners still going. I flip some food around so it doesn't burn, while rocking the rock-n-play with my foot, and trying to get the pacifier back in her mouth. She isn't having any of it. She is ticked.
I'm doing some sort of acrobatic pull-all-her-clothes off, put-her-on-the-potty, while also asking her 349038409 questions like, WHAT THE HECK WERE YOU THINKING? and YOU NEVER PEE YOUR PANTS--THIS IS NOT FUNNY, WHY DID YOU DO THIS? OMG IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING AND IS THIS MY LIFE? I wipe her up with baby wipes (another bonus of having a baby back in the house!), get her dressed in 10 seconds flat, and manage to get back to the stove without having ruined dinner, and pick up the crying, neglected infant. I probably sent Declan a text somewhere in there to tell him how crazy his children are.
We take the easy days peppered with random bouts of crazy (evidence above), and we roll with it. I savor the seconds the big kids are in school and I get to cuddle a little baby in peace because I know in a half a second she'll be a toddler and I'll be whining about how fast she grew. We are ooh'ing and ahh'ing over every little smile she gives us, and taking a tally of who's winning in getting the most. Emeline claims she's at 116. I'm calling her bluff on that.
Posted by Katie @ Loves of Life at 3:50 PM 7 comments:
Saturday, February 6th we attended a marriage conference/seminar at church. I was just over 39 weeks pregnant and wasn't quite sure if we'd make it there or not, but alas, we did. I'm actually glad we did because I love stuff like that. Investing in my marriage is always super worth it to us.
At 3:30am I sat straight out of bed and heard/felt a POP in my insides. It was followed by some intense pain/contractions and a series of bad words that flew from my mouth (whoops?). I did not have a water-gushing experience, but I was *pretty* certain my water had just broke and ish was getting REAL. Fast and furiously and a whole 'nother level of contraction-pain, and everything just started changing. I remember staring in the mirror at this point, my hair a mess, no makeup on, in pjs with no bra, and thinking "This.is.happening." I stumbled around the room and grabbed a bra, different pj pants and a top and managed to get them on.
We spent only 36 hours in the hospital, as I chose to be discharged a day early. Meeting her big sisters was everything I had hoped it to be. There were times I had my three girls sitting on that bed with me and my eyes filled with tears because my heart felt so full, so overwhelmed with gratitude and these blessings upon blessings. Being their momma is the ultimate gift.
When it comes to your home....
We'll figure it out, right? If not, there are meds for that I'm sure :P
Me? Well, I'm good, mostly. I feel suuuuuper pregnant (duh). I am convinced that every pregnancy is definitely harder and harder on your body though, you know, with age. Things HURT. Sleeping hurts my hips and back and all the things. I feel like an achey old woman half the time, and I don't remember feeling it that much in this way last time. I could just be forgetting, or it could just be because I'm older? I don't know. Either way---soon there will be an outside baby to love and snuggle and hold and take photos of, and I'm really stinking excited about it, and ready to savor, savor, savor.
Posted by Katie @ Loves of Life at 6:22 PM 3 comments:
The crazy news is that somehow we must have brought the warmth with us. Over the next few days the temps rose up to wildly high record setting numbers, and we experienced a 70 degree Christmas Eve & Day in Pennsylvania. These things are basically unheard of. I did not complain, and Lucy stopped crying. :)
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Seventy years to the day after Deseret Chemical Depot opened, the facility was handed over to Tooele Army Depot to become its South Area once again.
Since being designated as a chemical depot in 1943, DCD’s name underwent changes, but its mission remained more or less the same: to store and dispose of chemical munitions.
To date, more than half of the 31 Solid Waste Management Units, or SWMUs, had been cleaned and cleae, with the rest in various states of clearance. Many members of DCD’s environmental department had been hired by TEAD to continue cleaning operations.
Safety was also emphasized at DCD in its later years. In the mid-1990s, the reportable injury rate was four or five a month. In June DCD reached a reportable injury rate—meaning injuries that require more than basic first aid for treatment—of zero.
“I thank God for blessing DCD over these past 70 years. I thank Him for protecting our workforce, for helping so many to find jobs as we close,” he said. “I pray that He will continue to bless those who work here for Tooele Army Depot in years to come.”
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I didn't know any other way to the metro other than the way that I came, and frankly it was a battle requiring spiderman-like flexibility to bend through the charging crowd into the fest. I made it back to the station, and had to take the train only a few stops away to Marienplatz – the center of Munich, which was past the Hauptbahnhof, and then meet Ciocia Zosia at "die bekante statue"…
Which famous statue?...
There were tourists EVERYWHERE. This was the heart of Munich, and it was the first day of Oktoberfest. It was packed. Around me was a beautiful church, the ornate Rathaus [city building] with its large clock, other statues and landmarks around – Where is my little Polish Ciocia?I paced around a bit, and saw a pillar fountain on the other side of the street. I went back underground took another exit and fortunately there she was next to that statue…
We were the surrounding city place and also head over to the Saturday evening Polish mass [ Ciocia laughed because there was going to be no communion for us after that beer, that was for sure!
A beer bigger than a persons head..LOL....sweet...I sure would not do well in Germany since I do not care for beer...
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15 Things Guys Think About Hitting On You
by Frank Kobola | Apr 21, 2016
1. "I need a good opening line."
To be fair, you don't really need a good opening line. You just need something sufficient to start up good conversation. An opening line is like underwear: You don't need it as long as you're wearing pants. Is it nice to have? Sure. But no one is going to notice your underwear if you're wearing nice slacks. You'd get arrested for going out pantsless, but no one would even notice if you were going commando. Still, this doesn't stop guys from totally overthinking the whole opening line and freaking themselves out.
2. "OK, now what?"
Some guys get so excited about having a great opening line, they forget it takes a lot more than that. A smooth start to the conversation means nothing if it's followed by 30 seconds of blank staring.
3. "I can't tell if she's really into me or really polite."
Maybe she's just too shy or reserved to flirt back too obviously, or she's not touchy-feely? What is happening?
4. "I just realized I have no idea how to end this story I'm telling right now."
This is an awful feeling. A terrible story can totally screw up even the best flirting opportunities. Personally, if a story isn't going anywhere, I just end it with "and then I threw up."
5. "She's nodding and smiling too much.
She's just hoping I stop talking and leave, isn't she?"
6. "She's not nodding and smiling enough.
She's not even trying to pretend she's interested."
7. "What should I do with my free hand?"
So you've probably got a drink in one hand, but as soon as you start flirting, it becomes painfully immediate that your other hand should be doing something. Is it too casual to put it in your pocket? Too cocky to hook your thumb through your belt loops? Rest it on the wall? On the nearby counter?
8. "I'm too drunk for this."
Sometimes, there's a moment of clarity, and you realize that you are way too drunk and there's no way this is going well unless she is equally as drunk or drunker than you, but only by one drunk tier. That's how drunk conversations work. There's a very small window that both parties need to be in to get what the other person is mumbling.
9. "I finished my drink, but I don't want to have to leave to get another drink."
So instead, I'm just going to nurse this very last sip of beer that I have, which is gross. Hopefully she can't see inside my cup.
10. "If I blow this, I'm going to get so much shit."
The biggest problem with flirting in a crowded place is the audience. Some people just can't perform in a crowd.
11. "I have to go to the bathroom ... but what if I come back and she's gone?"
This is a very real fear. Depending on the size of the party, you may never see each other again.
12. "Dammit, her friend is coming over."
This is a huge moment because it could mean a few things. Either this friend is coming over for approval or to save her friend from a nightmare flirt situation. WILL YOU SURVIVE?!
13. "Great, now I have to spend time talking to her friend, but not too much time."
You don't want to scare off the girl you've been talking too by focusing too much on her friend, but you also don't want to ignore the friend and look like you're mean. It's like a delicate juggling act, wherein you're juggling two balls. Which sounds easy, except you're also trying to make out with one of those balls.
14. "NO, PEOPLE CAN'T LEAVE NOW!"
There is nothing worse than a party winding down just as you finally think you're getting somewhere. As soon as it hits 3 a.m. and people start stumbling out the door, panic sets in and you've got to scramble to make sure you at least leave with a number.
15. "Oh, shit. I just realized I didn't get any of her contact info. I'm gonna have to social media stalk her and hope she remembers me."
Facebook it is. And if that doesn't work, how will you find her Snapchat or Instagram? This could be an impossible quest.
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There’s a striking new reissue from Craft Recordings I’m sure many jazz fans and collectors are as excited about as I am: 1957’s The Poll Winners. This LP features three of the greatest jazz musicians of their time (as well as the immediate future) — Barney Kessel on guitar backed by Shelly Manne on drums and Ray Brown on bass. From the liner notes, we learn all three of these fine musicians won the three major American jazz popularity polls in 1956 in Down Beat, Metronome, and Playboy magazines.
At any rate, getting these artists together for a recording session was an obvious stroke of opportunistic genius. So popular was this trio, in fact, that they went on to record four more albums in this series. First, some background. The central focus here is, of course, Barney Kessel, one of the all-time great guitarists in jazz history, a fantastic player who crossed many cultural/societal and musical boundaries in his career. He recorded with everyone from Chico Marx and Charlie Parker to Lester Young, Oscar Peterson, and Art Tatum. But Kessel’s career did not end there, and by the early 1960s, he was a much in-demand session player, one of the first-call musicians in that now-beloved aggregation known as The Wrecking Crew. You can hear his work on many pop and rock hits by the likes of Sonny & Cher, The Monkees, The Beach Boys, The Coasters, and Sam Cooke.
Shelly Manne was also one of the go-to session and live players in his day, a regular on the West Coast Jazz scene and a prominent figure at Contemporary Records. They issued many albums with him backing others as well as by his own band (Shelly Manne & His Men). You can hear Shelly on recordings with Stan Getz, Hampton Hawes, Benny Carter, and even on the first Ornette Coleman album. He also worked on many film soundtracks.
Bassist Ray Brown is often remembered for his work with Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald, but if you poke around in your collection, you’ll probably see his name on many other sessions and liners. He’s played with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Steely Dan. (He’s on their second album, July 1973’s Countdown to Ecstasy.) And Brown also put out many albums as a bandleader himself.
So now you have some understanding of who these players are, why they were hot in 1957, and — hopefully, with this perspective — why they’re still popular enough today to warrant a premium reissue like this new QRP pressing from Craft Recordings.
Before I get to how this sparking new reissue of The Poll Winners sounds compared to my original pressing, I must point out that simply finding a fairly clean original stereo (or mono) copy of this particular album is not an easy task six mono and five stereo copies (at best, in VG+ condition) on Discogs selling for upwards of $50. It took me many years — and several upgrades along the way — to find a fairly decent copy, and even that has its moments of click, ticks, and pops. But I don’t really mind, as the recording is excellent and timeless.
Another interesting detail about The Poll Winners is it was originally released at the dawn of stereo recordings. Initially issued in 1957 in mono on the Contemporary Records branded label (which was bright yellow), it was issued in stereo in 1958 on a new — and short-lived — subsidiary label non-ironically titled “Stereo Records.” Eventually, the Stereo Records label went away and just became a black label Contemporary Records variation, but for that year or so, it was a thing. They issued quite a number of well-recorded albums, mostly in the jazz realm. However, they did issue some classical albums, and I see on Discogs they even issued some 45rpm singles. Talk about being ahead of their time, issuing stereo singles. . .
However, some of that dynamic might have been pulled back on the low end a bit, so as to not cause mistracking on average turntables of the period. Thus, the new edition is much bigger-sounding in many ways, notably on the low end. Ray Brown’s bass here is richer and rounder than on my original. The high end on my original is a wee bit better, but that isn’t surprising if you understand the nature of magnetic tape — it deteriorates over time, losing bits of information with every pass of the tape. I’m no doubt splitting hairs as the new edition sounds excellent, all things considered. And I think that, at the end of the day, I’d rather have richer, rounder lows and mids than worry about a slightly brighter high end.
Kudos to Bernie Grundman for his fine finesse on this all-analog mastering from the master tapes. The 180g black vinyl Contemporary Records Acoustic Sounds Series pressing from QRP is well-centered, dead-quiet, and, ultimately, musically invisible. All these factors are easily checked off my list.
In fact, I was so pleased with the reissue that I was almost prepared to purge my original. But then I noticed one little physical incongruity that makes the completist collector in me want to hold onto my old copy — namely, the cover and the label designs are a smidge different!
The album designs are pretty much identical, but if you look closely, you’ll see they had to invoke some production alchemy on the title text over in order to make room for the longer album ID number there. It’s really quite clever what they did, as it is easy to overlook. The label design is period-accurate and similar to my original “deep groove” version, but it too shows some variance. If you care about that sort of “OG” minutiae [I do! —MM], do take note.
I’m more than happy to keep my original as a reference copy, but will likely play the new Craft Recordings issue from here out for regular listening. And that’s the best compliment I can offer: I’ve enjoyed listening to this fine reissue of The Poll Winners featuring Barney Kessel, Shelly Manne, and Ray Brown. I suspect you will too.
Have you heard the 45 RPM Analogue Productions reissue? I’d love to hear how it compares to this pRedding.
I was shocked how much better the Kevin Gray/Steve Hoffman mastering two-LP 45 rpm was compared to this new 33 1/3 edition. The bass response is much fuller on the 45rpm, which gives Manne's percussions more life. If the two had been similar in sound I would've sold my 45 rpm copy, but I decided to keep both.
It’s refreshing to be able to read this kind of review again now that Fremer’s kids have vacated the premises. Keep ‘em coming.
talking to yourself... nothing new.
Malachi is living in your head and not paying rent. How much longer will you be obsessing over him, Humbert?
Isn’t there a teen digital music forum you could go troll?
These new contemporary releases are grade A.
I didn’t buy this one for musical reasons (so I agree with your 9 rating), just have it as hires, but severeal others of Craft on vinyl (ordered or received) and got the Ornette Coleman set already. I also agree with the sound rating of 9 for the Ornette. They are really great, but due to partly quite left/right panned channels and other reasons, I’d also rate them as 9. I also agree with most of the message of your comparison with the originals. Did so for the Ornette set and the result is similar, the cymbal difference a bit different. But you compared the Poll winners and I the Ornette, so no wonder that’s not the same. Keep on posting such reviews and compare with as many reissue versions as you know.
I just saw in a video of Fremer, that he”ll maybe be working and publishing another 3 years or so and within this time completely hand over to Malachi Lui. So I think you have a good chance in future to keep part of the crowd here if you continue like that.
that he said this already in 2020. From 14:14 minutes on he says he’d like to hand over the site to you in about 5 years (if you want). He might have forgotten meanwhile, but on the other hand, preparations seem to be on their way. Great interview by the way!
but I suspect, if you don’t want, he’d retire not much later. My focus wasn’t if you want, but what he aims for.
After watching how MF acted in the various videos on "Laquers", there is simply something wrong there. In a way, it's kind of sad. Michael should contribute sparingly and let Malachi do the bulk of the work. Eventually riding off into the sunset with a positive legacy. Analog Planet seems to be in good hands and will keep producing great content.
Thank you so much for your refreshingly adult thoughts on the different pressings of this album. And no 'hip' swearing. Never heard of it but I'm buying a copy. I look forward to reading more of your critical positive/negative record reviews. Cheers!
Though I can't say I share your taste in music, I respect your good writing and eager interest in music. Keep on keeping on. And one more thought.. I hope you pick up on Fremer's love for vinyl, LP playing systems, excellent analysis of sound quality and objectivism. BUT, SKIP his argumentation / engagement with trolls on the internet and defensive posture. Just read past it. If you are confident in your knowledge or analysis, they won't get you upset in the first place. And if you end up arguing with a manufacturer... you will bite off more than you can chew legally and probably financially.
using his normal screenname.
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The Daily Grind: Solar-car team member Nohemi Flores sands the mold her team will use to shape their vehicle. The students will spend the next four hours, and two whole weeks, perfecting the surface of a body plug from which they'll mold the car's exterior. While changing the paper on her sander, junior Karen Bermudez explains that time is essential to making a smooth mold. "If we get bumps or something, we're going to get turbulent flow," she says, "and we don't want that.
Key Skeleton: me.
For example, after studying the Dell-Winston regulations and researching top-notch race cars, mechanical-team captain Juan Carlos Saenz decided to construct La Maquina Solar's car frame with tubing made of a light, strong steel called chromoly. "I had other options," he says. "Titanium is a strong metal, stronger than the chromoly, but it's a lot harder to weld, and it tends to snap under pressure. The chromoly won't."
Although each student works on every part of the car, each also has a specialty -- motor, solar cells, frame, suspension --it and for ordering parts. "They're the ones guiding the other students through that part of the car," Wickenheiser explains. Bermudez, for example, is in charge of the suspension. "I have to weld, put the shocks together, get the right measurements, and make sure it's strong," she says. "If it isn't, the car doesn't work."
Several La Maquina Solar members do say they plan to study engineering in college. But it doesn't really matter what they study or how they finish in Fort Worth. The solar-car project has prompted them to apply advanced math and science in a real-world scenario, required them to develop critical-thinking and leadership skills, and fueled their interest in pursuing higher education. Edcouch-Elsa High School's effort is already a success, on and off campus. "Schools hold the key to educating not only children but also whole communities around solar energy," adds Reyes. "Everybody can benefit."
La Maquina Solar -- Great job!
Excellent learning and teaching project. Innovative ideas like this will give us the scientists and leaders we need for the future. Keep up the good work!
Crossing the finish line at Fort Worth's Texas Motor Speedway will be an exhilarating thrill for all involved!
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So relatively fast drive to the San Diego Zoo, arriving before it got really crowded. We seemed to be making the rounds as they were starting feeding, so we were able to see the koalas waking up and having breakfast, the giraffes having some greens. I mostly enjoyed the zoo. I know they are at the forefront of conservation, but I find as I'm getting ...
... west after the zoo aiming for the Joshua Tree National Park. Far from Easy Street we hit the 6 lane busy commuter route at rush hour on interstate 215. Made very slow progress at first but turned east into the desert and lost most of the commuter traffic. On the way to Joshua Tree we entered the Valley of the Wind-turbine (Coachella Valley) thousands of them filling the valley. Checked into High Desert ...
.... **** food washed down by **** beer. Even Danielle hated her Bud - ... ...
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Peter R. Ryder | 2017 ULI Asia Pacific Summit
Peter R. Ryder Chief Executive Officer
Peter is the CEO of Vietnam-based (Indochina Land). ed(advisory, equities and finance).
Today Indochina Land is pursuing a wide number of real estate development opportunities within , and Indochina region hospitality projects via its joint venture with Vanguard Hotels25 years. He wa5, rejoining the board in 2015. Educated as an anthropologist/archaeologist, Peter rea in 1983.
As much of the region grapples with high urbanization rates and inadequate infrastructure, learn how the desire to attract foreign capital can be balanced with provision of affordable housing. Hosted by Aon.
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Once again. A young man with a grudge and guns. Ten students dead this time. Second Amendment? Just because it was set in place in the aftermath of the Revolutionary War doesn't mean that it is set in stone, nor can its fundamental ideology be questioned. In the light of the fact that people without proper training or experience can acquire not just a hunting rifle but in certain states a semiautomatic assault rifle more usually seen on the battlefield, and remembering that when the Amendment was written, all that was available was a single shot, breech loading device that could, in very experienced hands, fire between three and four rounds a minute, it is time for a review, gun lobby or not since the Amendment as written is no longer fit for purpose.
The statistics are overwhelming. I wonder which of Washington’s successors will have the courage to do the right thing.
Left here by John MacArthur on Tuesday, October 06, 2015
BruceWednesday, October 07, 2015 5:44:00 PM
Enjoyed reading your thoughts on gun law.
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The Stratford Festival has announced that Martha Henry has decided to move on from her position as Director conclusion of her contract.
Henry’s first term as Director of the Conservatory began in 2007, when the baton was passed to her from David Latham.
When finished, Ann Stuart [the coordinator of the Conservatory] and I will have had 10 years of watching, nurturing, coaxing, paving the ground for young actors about to step firmly into their careers.
“Martha has served as an incredibly important bridge between our history and our future in her capacity as Director of the Birmingham Conservatory,” said Executive Director Anita Gaffney.y’s Journey Into Night), Martha (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Mrs. Alving (Ghosts), Agnes (A Delicate Balance), Linda Loman (Death of a Salesman) and Prof in Taking Shakespeare, directed by Diana Leblanc in the 2013 season“Brief Lives” (featuring Douglas Rain), “Richard II” (Geordie Johnson), “Richard III” (Tom McCamus), “Of Mice and Men” (Graham Greene), “An Enemy of the People” (David Fox) and “Three Sisters” (Lucy Peacock and Tom McCamus).
Henry’s rs’ Equity.
The Festival reports that a search for a new Conservatory Director is underway.
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DrThe flu vaccine is the best form of defence against the flu virus, so please book an appointment with your local GP practice or pharmacy.
Discover more information about the flu vaccine and the Covid-19 booster.
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- Neutralize your emotions. Allowing your emotions to run wild causes you to become irrational.
- Consider your different options to reach a solution or compromise.
- Walk away without burning bridges.
Identify the type of person you are dealing with.Is the situation causing problems? Is the other person being mean or just reacting to the situation? Is the other person acting difficult and arguing because this is how they solve their problems? Is this a person who is always difficult? Are they in a position of power and used to taking what they want no matter what?
other person questions.What is wrong? Why is this so important to you? What do they feel you will lose if this doesn’t go your way? Does this remind you of a similar situation in the past that did not work out?
Now that you have a better picture of what is happening, ask yourself questions.What do you have at stake? Is this an argument you can win? Do you need to win this time? Will this turn into a long term problem? Is it only a problem in the short term? If the other person is attacking you they may be attempting to control you?
- In what way can that reaction be turned into a positive action?
- Practice, practice, practice! Teach yourself to react in a way that does not escalate negative emotions or violence.
- Are there parts of this lesson you feel you need to work on?
- Can you think back to instances when you were emotionally abused?
- How can you create a dialogue with your female friends about emotional abuse?
- What advice can you give to your daughter, niece, or younger women about your own experiences with emotional abuse?
Emotional abuse often happens before a physical assault. Learn how to fight back with Physical Self Defense.
My word I have come to recognize the enormous price I then had to pay.
It’s time to now move forward looking back only to learn and grow back into what was mine to claim all along.
Very helpful. I’m glad I took a moment to read your blog.
I hope your foot is better. New Mexico balloon festival looks like fun.
Missing your cheerful and positive attitude(:
I will send you a Facebook message with my email.
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Drs. Lorraine and Peter Hoffman
Circuitous and Fortuitous
Dr. Lorraine Hoffman is helping ensure access to an Iowa State education
Dr. Lorraine Hoffman received sage career advice early in life.
She was completing her bachelor's degree in biology from a small, private Iowa college, where she was the only female pre-med student in her class. In the fall of 1964, she applied to medical school, but few women were accepted into medical school at the time and she learned that she was not chosen.
She was faced with a dilemma because she didn't have a backup plan.
During the second semester of her senior year, she took a microbiology class and shared her story with her professor, who gave her good mentoring advice: Pursue further education in an area of interest, watch for doors of opportunity, stay open to new passions and interests and never give up on long-term goals.
She took his guidance and applied to graduate programs in microbiology and zoology, one of which was at Iowa State University. She was immediately accepted to Iowa State's department of bacteriology master's degree program and was offered a teaching assistantship.
"I had to redefine myself, develop skills and abilities I did not know I had and work hard to learn and grow into my career to be the best I could be," Lorraine said.
To be a life-long role model for others has been one of her greatest joys, which has continued into retirement. "I feel blessed to share far greater insights, advice and empathy than what I received as a young female growing up in a small Iowa town at a time when girls were encouraged to explore and pursue specific career stereotypes or marry right out of high school," Lorraine said.
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It’s a challenge to make Greek tragedy feel current, but Uprising Theatre Company has cracked the code with their current production of Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound. Of course, it helps to have an adaptation with a modern feel to it, here provided by translator Bryan Doerries, excerpted from his book All That You’ve. It also helps to have a director with a modern vision of the story, and director Denzel Belin really delivers on that score. Uprising Theatre has also yoked the production to discussions and partnerships with local organizations dealing with the prison population, and the quest for criminal justice reform - particularly addressing the all too common use of solitary confinement as punishment. I thought any or all of these 21st century approaches might feel like a stretch, but surprisingly they all pay off.
Prometheus is taken to the ends of the earth by Kratos (Missy Watson) and Bia (Yvonne Freese), who task Hephaetus (Janay D. Henry) with chaining up, shackling, and driving spikes into Prometheus’ body so she is unable to escape (no stage blood, just convincing physical work by the actors, the squeamish like me in the audience can relax. The torment is no less real, however). Prometheus is not completely alone, though, as a pair of sympathetic chorus members (Fernanda Badeo and Kendra Yarke) keep her company. There are also visitors - Oceanus (Damon C Mentzer), Io (Emily Rose Duea), and Hermes (Ronald R Giroux) - who each in their own way plead with, cajole or threaten Prometheus to try and get her back in line, perhaps to even help lighten her prison sentence. But Prometheus remains resolute, unshakeable in the feeling that she has made the right decision.
Green T Productions’ presentation of A Thousand Cranes is a simple but affecting piece of theater based on a true story whose message we probably always need to hear, but perhaps especially now.
Death, particularly the death of a child, is tricky onstage. It can feel manipulative if you’re not careful. Here, Sadako’s journey starts out as just a fun trip with Grandmother, and transitions through ritual and dance to the revelation she is staying with her ancestors and not going back. I heard a lot of sniffles in the audience toward the end. It’s hard to be unmoved by a story with such simple, honest emotion.
A Thousand Cranes is brief, just an hour, and its symbolism, ceremony, and use of puppets, music (by Miriam Gerberg), dance and shadow are a great (and gentle) entry for the children in the audience into discussions of larger issues like war and death.
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Like I said, blink and you miss it. Not much of a chance to catch this one, so if you can, you should. The other theater will still be around next week.
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William James Potter from Convinced Quaker to Prophet of Free Religion: Volume 2: Visionary Social and Religious Reformer – Freedom, Duty, and the Creation of Character – My Books
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William James Potter's name is virtually unknown to contemporary Unitarian Universalists, even by many of those who consider themselves scholars of this liberal religious movement. Why forgotten? He was a founder and the mainstay of the Free Religious Association, an organization whose members radically transformed American Unitarianism and had a significant influence on American public life. He was the president of the Index Association and, later, editor of that influential journal of religious and social commentary. Few remember that association or the journal, still fewer, Potter. Coming of humble origins, shy and withdrawn by temperament, he did little to put himself forward. He preferred to let his organizational skills and his brilliant and powerful writings do his talking. In the New Bedford, of his thirty-two year ministry, he was a major public figure, universally respected for his integrity and his commitment to the community, especially to the disadvantaged. He initiated many major programs and organizations. But he shied away from assertive leadership, preferring to initiate and then move on. With his congregation he was awkward in personal relationships, avoided parish calling, and only agreed that he would be available when needed. Respected more than loved! His immortality is in his quiet, but progressive and profound influence.
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Trey Songz lawsuit dismissed: Here’s why the case was dropped after a few months
Trey Songz’s most recent lawsuit was officially dismissed.
Earlier this year, the singer-songwriter was embroiled in a controversy after a woman filed a civil rape case against him. According to recent reports, the lawsuit was dismissed after the statute of limitations on the alleged victim’s allegations expired.
The case was dismissed earlier this week, according to Complex, after the musician’s lawyerswoman filed the lawsuit.
The complaint was filed in February, and the alleged victim, who identified as Jane Doe, claimed they had a consensual relationship in 2016 before the singer became a “savage rapist.”
The woman allegedly sought $20 million in damages but could not be compensated because the case was dismissed.
The unnamed woman claimed in the lawsuit that she attended Songz’s party at his home, where he anally raped her despite her protests that she did not want anal sex.
The woman claims she told him to stop during the alleged incident, but he refuses. She later went to the hospital, where an examination revealed “severe anal tearing” that would allegedly necessitate surgery.
This was not the first time Songz, whose real name is Tremaine Neverson, had been accused of a crime, as a woman claimed in Nevada that the singer had sexually assaulted her.
The incident allegedly occurred in his hotel room at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, where he had invited a group of women to celebrate his 37th birthday.
Latercident and were investigating it. They also mentioned how cooperative the singer was at the time.
They later issued a statement confirmsician and stat
Songz’s lawyers told TMZ that they are grateful to the authorities for their thorough investigation and that the case revealed inconsistencies in witness testimony and insufficient evidence.
The singer has made no public statements about either case.
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Harry Styles opens up about ‘Wonderful Experience’ working on ‘My Policeman’
Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift friendship explored: Here’s how much they love each other
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1995 as part of Bill C-68 as a replacement for the FAC (Firearms Acquisition Certificate) system ... Whereas the FAC was only required to acquire a firearm, a PAL is required to both acquire and possess firearms and to acquire ammunition ... A PAL for non-restricted firearms allows its holders to acquire and possess any non-restricted firearm, while a PAL for restricted firearms (which also covers prohibited firearms to those ...
... ...... been intended to be classified as a prohibited firearm, making it all but impossible to privately own one ...
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- Prepare your home before you go
o Turn down your thermostat. It will save money on your electric bill and you’ll avoid wasting energy.
o Unplug all nonessential electronics. Coffeemakers, computers, televisions and so on use electricity even when they’re not being used. Unplug these energy suckers and save energy while you’re away.
o If you’re traveling by plane, try to book direct flights. Takeoffs and landings use a lot of fuel.
o If you’re traveling by car, get a customized map with low gas prices along the route. Getting lost while driving in unfamiliar areas could lead to an expensive waste of gas. Check out GasBuddy.com to find the lowest gasoline prices between your home and your destination.
o Include items like a reusable stainless steel bottle, rechargeable batteries, a few reusable shopping bags and maybe the nPower PEG (Personal Energy Generator) Kinetic Energy Charger by Tremont Electric.
o Pack only the essentials. According to Audubon.org, just an extra 10 pounds per passengeannually, which is enough to fly a 747 continuously for a decade.
o Pack your travel snacks in reusable containers.
- On vacation:
o Instead of renting a car, check out public transportation at your destination.
o Support local, sustainable businesses. Check out DineGreen.com for certified eco-restaurants and LocalHarvest.org for farmers markets.Make it a priority to take your sustainable habits on the road. Reduce, reuse and recycle. Support local businesses. Treat the people and places you visit with the same respect you show when you’re in your own local community. You’ll have a great vacation and so will the planet!
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Published InPrint Edition When cousins Aaron Everitt of Jamestown Builders and Luke Schilling of Schilling Interiors decided to open an interior design studio together, something felt right.Coming from four generations of Fort Collins entrepreneurial spirit and interior design, the two have a style that tips its hat to its Northern Colorado roots but is unafraid to embrace the modern – evidenced by a hanging marshmallow window display. Everitt shared what they bring to Northern Colorado spaces and why we should care about our interior environment.Question: How did you come together with Luke Schilling, and what makes your partnership work so well?Answer: We are actually cousins. We both are the same age and grew up here in Fort Collins. When I was building houses for Jamestown Builders, I used Schilling Interiors for all of my home projects. I had a client that wanted a very unique finish for a home I was designing for them, and Luke and I, through a little brainstorming, invented our reclaimed wood wall tile and the partnership was really born. As the national builder presence returned to Fort Collins, I decided I would reduce my homebuilding operations and merge our talents in the interior design and manufacturing portions of our business.Q: Why is design important when it comes to the spaces we live and work in?A: It impacts everything: how we feel, how we interact and live with each otherGreat spaces make us more creative and productive and help bring perspective to a busy and chaotic world that comes at us at light speed. Living in Fort Collins, we often take great design for granted. The city has been well designed and thought through and, I think, is one of the compelling reasons it is such a sought-after place to live in the United States. If design is done well, it can translate that very same feeling of quality and community into every aspect of our life.Q: What does E&S bring to the culture of downtown Fort Collins?A: Our hope is we can provide community-enhancing design ideas that pay tribute to the heritage and history of Fort Collins while elevating the overall aesthetic of the homes and commercial spaces that are built in the town that both Luke and I love. We felt that while there are several wonderful design firms in Fort Collins and some other great places to purchase material, Everitt & Schilling could bring a unique spin on innovative materials and design ideas. We are not a design firm, but we are not just a flooring store either. We hope to be a team of curators for people who want great ideas and amazing products who work right alongside builders, designers and architects to give them the lat.Q: You've got a great space on Mountain Avenue downtown. Does most of your business come from foot traffic or has E&S become a destination?A: We love the new location because it has generated a lot of foot traffic. Both Luke and I have a long history of doing work here in Fort Collins, and there is a little bit of word-of-mouth that helps sustain our business locally. Interestingly, the tile that we invented has really started to sprout wings, not just locally but nationally, and even to some degree on an international level. We have nine employees now in Windsor who make our reclaimed and up-cycled tile, and we now ship this great product all over the world.Q: As a design studio owner, I'm guessing you put a lot of thought and creative energy into your own space. store, and how is that reflected in its interior design?A: I hope people feel comfortable and inspired. I want them to be able to walk around and get great ideas quickly without feeling overwhelmed by too many choices or too many products that are all similar. We do subtle things each season that help give inspiration to the store and to liven up the space. This Christmas we became known as the store with the marshmallows because of our decor ideas for the season. We hope people will come in, grab a cup of our own roasted coffee or an adult beverage and spend time being inspired. Many of our customers just want to come look around see what we have to offer simply because they feel at home here. I like that feel and hope that we always hold onto that aesthetic ideal.Q: What has been your favorite E&S project so far?
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8 months through 5 years of age who exhibit potential symptoms of the disorder.
Jeff Shuren, M.D., J.D., DSD as a "" and is estimated to affect about 1 in 54 children. Because ASD symptoms can vary greatly, the disorder may be difficult to diagnose. While ASD may be detected as early as 18 months old, many children are not diagnosed until later in childhood, which can delay treatment and early intervention. The average age of diagnosis for ASD is 4.3 years. Some delays in diagnosis are due to the need for children to be referred to specialists with expertise in ASD.
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Tags: Autism, Children, Developmental Disability, Diagnostic, Disability, Health Care, Healthcare, Machine Learning, Misdiagnosis
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If you are building an Aurelia application then you have the choice between A) using the plain JavaScript
of ag-Grid or B) using the ag-Grid Aurelia Component from the ag-grid-aurelia project. If you use the ag-Grid Aurelia Component, then the grid's properties, events
will all tie in with the Aurelia ecosystem - this will make your Aurelia coding easier.
Please use the github project ag-grid-aurelia
for feedback or issue reporting around ag-Grid's support for Aurelia.
Every feature of ag-Grid is available when using the ag-Grid Aurelia Component. The Aurelia Component wraps
Aurelia ag-Grid when it comes to features.
ag-grid-aurelia-example
The example project includes a number of separate grids on a page, with each section demonstrating a different
TypeScript html
A Cell Editor Example - one with a popup editor, and another with a numeric editor. Each demonstrates
different editor related features
Once you have the ag-Grid dependencies installed, you will then be able to access ag-Grid classes and components
your html page, or as part of creating your bundle if bundling. Teh following
<link href="node_modules/ag-grid/styles/ag-grid.css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="node_modules/ag-grid/styles/theme-fresh.css" rel="stylesheet" />
You will also need to configure Aurelia (aurelia_project/aurelia.json) to use ag-grid and ag-grid-aurelia as
All the above items are specific to Aurelia and is intended to point
you in the right direction. If you need more information on this, please see the Aurelia documentation.
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Sorry for the delay. I wanted to do justice to this episode!
Betty tosses and turns in bed, dreaming that Claire threatens to kill her if she tells anyone that Claire killed Fey. After snapping out of this dream, she then finds Henry in her bed... with his girlfriend, a hot blonde. Henry tells Betty it's too bad things didn't work out, but on the other hand, Claire Meade's going to kill her anyway.
Betty finally wakes up and looks at her clock, which ticks loudly like a windup but looks like one of those flip-digital clocks from the 70's. It's only 11:11 pm.
The next morning, Wil watches sulkily as Alexis and Daniel get off the elevator together, laughing about old times - apparently, Daniel once shoved three grapes up his nose. (Good to know.) Wil whines to Fido about Daniel's and Alexis's newfound amity. Fido puts out a "gay-P-B" to find out what's going on. Meanwhile, Wil tries to pump Christina for information.
Christina doesn't have any info, but Fido hears through the grapevine that Alexis has no friends except Daniel. Wil sees an opportunity to reestablish her relationship with Alexis. However, she is not so sure about Christina's loyalty, and orders Fido to become Christina's new best friend.
Daniel gives Betty a pair of tickets to a Stella McCartney party tonight - he's planning to hang out at a bar with his long-lost friend Becks instead. Betty suddenly (and loudly) blurts that Claire killed Fey. Daniel scoffs, but Betty tells him that Claire said she cut Fey's brakes, followed in her blue Aston-Martin, and watched her crash.
Daniel goes to visit his father in jail and asks about this. Bradford denies all of it, but says he needs a better lawyer - someone named Grace Chin, aka "The Chin." Daniel looks worried.
Meanwhile, Betty visits the Closet and invites Christina to the party. Sarah Jessica Parker's "people" call and say they'd like Christina to design SJP's dress for the Oscars... and she needs it tomorrow. Christina is too shocked to answer, so Betty takes the phone and does her best to mimic Christina's accent. It's very convincing, too... if you think Christina sounds like Paul Hogan. Betty accepts the offer for Christina, and ends with "g'day, mate!"
Daniel comes back to the office and explains his predicament to Becks: he knew Grace Chin in school. He invited her to a keg party and then stood her up in favor of a better offer. He shows Becks a yearbook picture: in those days, Grace looked like an Asian Betty.
Becks predicts that she probably has even more chins now, and won't turn Daniel down. If anything, she'll be grateful just to hear from a man.
Grace Chin arrives for their meeting, and she looks a lot better than her yearbook photo. Betty announces her arrival to Daniel and can't imagine why he ever stood her up. Daniel tells her she looked different in those days - braces, glasses, and "crazy hair." Looking at Betty, he does a double-take and says that look works for some people.
Daniel nervously drops a few hints around Grace, fishing for some trace of recognition or hard feelings. When she doesn't respond, he relaxes and asks her about the case. She says it will be tough, and only she can win it... except she's not going to take the case.
She remembers everything. She tells Daniel she spent that night playing Wolfenstein. She had even bought him a corsage (she was new to dating).
Daniel protests that his father isn't the person who stood her up, but he offers to make it up to her. He calls over town trying to get a table at a good restaurant, but mentioning his name only gets him a dial tone - between Sofia's betrayal and Alexis's takeover, his name's mud and he can't get anything.
Grace has a better plan anyway. She tells him about the fates of some other women he hurt in college. "The Chin's all about justice," she says, waving a list of names and phone numbers at him.
Daniel dutifully calls everyone on the list and gives a heartfelt apology to each one. She interrupts one apology to tell him that his remorse is hot, and totally jumps his bones.
(Actually, Grace has made the mistake of letting him dial the phone himself, and all of these calls are going to Becks. After an evening of hearing all these regrets, Becks now gets to listen in on Grace's enthusiastic approval as well.)
Later, Grace tells Daniel that the case against Bradford is not very strong. Most of the evidence is circumstantial. A witness was spotted near the scene - a woman in a blue Aston-Martin - but no one has been able to find her.
Christina goes crazy worrying about Sarah Jessica Parker's dress. Thanks to the snow, she can't get her hands on any new fabric - certainly none that's worthy of SJP. Fido lends moral support, and you can tell from his attitude that he's motivated by more than just Wil's threats. He throws himself into the task with gusto. He steers Christina away from a taffeta nightmare and suggests "repurposing" some of the other garments in the Closet. Christina thinks that SJP will recognize any reused fabric.
They brainstorm what type of design would be "edgy" enough for SJP, and gather all the raw materials they can find. The result is not impressive: coffee filters, staples, packing material. Fido encourages Christina to work with these materials to make SJP a truly unique gown.
Eventually, Christina pulls something together and sizes it on Fido. It could definitely pass for a dress... that was made in the back room at Kinko's. In any case, they are happy about it. Wil calls to check in (and ask Fido to get her a car... more on that later) and is glad to hear that Fido and Christina are getting to be bestest buddies.
Wil catches Alexis eating a very fattening lunch alone at her desk. Alexis complains that her old friends have been "unforgiving." They cried at her funeral, but aren't happy to see her now. Wil says that one good friend is all she needs, and suggests that they have a girls' night out, including the opera.
Unfortunately, the heavy snow limits the number of taxis available that evening. They duck into a sports bar for shelter. It's a little bit of a dive, and Wil looks out-of-place in her stark white outfit with gigantic fuzzy marshmallow hat. Alexis, on the other hand, likes the place, saying it's like the bars she used to go to. She wants to hang around for a while.
Alexis impresses a man named Joel (Jerry O'Connell) with her ability to throw a basketball. Alexis confides to him that she'd rather stay there than go to the opera as planned. Wil approaches, and Joel says she looks familiar. Wil very rudely cuts him off.
Alexis takes Wil aside and says she thinks Joel is cute. She points out that he has friends, too. Wil does not share Alexis's enthusiasm, but accepts Joel's offer to throw a basketball. She misses. The guys laugh, but she silences them with a glare. She finally gets Fido to arrange for a car to pick them up. She urges Alexis to wait with her outside, but Alexis wants to stay. Wil angrily leaves without her.
Joel asks Alexis for her phone number. Alexis eagerly writes it down for him. She savors the moment: the first time she has ever given out her phone number as a woman. The other men begin cheering. Laughing, Joel tells Alexis he just won a bet: they all know who Alexis is. "I don't hit on freaks unless I know I'm getting paid for it," he brags.
Wil comes back into the bar. She apologizes to Joel for not having been nicer to him earlier. She then slugs him hard enough to knock him right off his barstool. She gives him an extra kick as she ushers Alexis out to the waiting car.
"People are kind of awful," Alexis moans. Wil reminds her that some people have been good to her. Alexis says yes - Wil... and Daniel.
Alexis says she no longer sees Daniel as an enemy. (Wil gets nervous.) Alexis assures her that she's still the best creative person in the business - and she can have a raise if she likes.
Wil does not like.
At home, Hilda is preparing to do something with Ignacio's hair. She's planning to go to cosmetology school and wants to practice on her dad. Dad is a little worried about this, given that Hilda's already had two beers.
Justin is worried too, watching the snow come down. He's afraid the weather will interfere with his plans to see Hairspray tonight with his mother and father. Hilda admits to Ignacio that Santos doesn't yet know that he's going to see a musical. This inspires her to reach for a third beer.
Santos arrives later and is not happy when Hilda tells him the plan. (Justin is up in his room and doesn't hear any of this conversation.) Hilda reminds Santos that he said he wanted to spend more time with Justin, and this is what Justin likes to do. Santos says he put money on a basketball game, and he'd prefer to watch that game at a bar and then meet them later.
Later, on the subway, Santos is about to break the news to Justin when the train breaks down. They'll be stuck there for a while. Justin frets that they - especially his father, who's never seen the show before - will miss the opening number. Then inspiration strikes: he'll perform it! He begins singing and dancing, acting out the entire play for everyone on the train.
Some time later, Justin is still performing. It is the most excited Santos has ever seen his son. Finally, another passenger complains and calls Justin a fairy. Hilda gets up and starts yelling at the passenger. Santos gets right in the man's face and tells him that his son is going to finish, after which he, the passenger, will clap.
Santos sincerely encourages Justin to finish the story. When he's done, all of the passengers clap with admiration and/or terror.
In the lunch line, Betty befriends a wide-eyed girl named Charlotte (Charlie for short) who seems to be lost in the big city. Charlie tells Betty she has an amazing aura. she says she makes jewelry out of "found objects," but the finds aren't as nice here in New York. She confesses that she finds the city very scary. To cheer her up, Betty invites her to the Stella McCartney party.
Just then, Henry arrives. Before Betty can introduce them, Henry tells Betty that Charlotte is his girlfriend. He's too busy hugging Charlie to notice the miserable look on Betty's face.
After lunch, Betty sees Henry approaching and tries to hide behind Fluffy's desk. Fluffy gives her up quickly, hoping to add some excitement to her own day. (Betty tells Henry she lost a contact lens. Then she hurriedly explains that it wasn't hers.) Henry thanks Betty for getting Charlie to go out. He says all they've done since she arrived is order in and watch movies in bed. Again, he is oblivious to the look of horror on Betty's face.
Henry asks if it isn't too weird for Betty, because of that "vibe" they had. Betty denies that there was ever an "us" or a vibe. Henry looks hurt, but says good, okay, have fun at the party.
Fluffy tells Betty to "grow a pair" and "fight for your little dweeb." She urges Betty to find Charlie's weakness, and exploit it. Betty refuses to consider such a thing.
That evening, Charlie is a nervous wreck at the subway platform. It's crowded and scary. She can't understand why Henry couldn't have taken an accounting job in Tucson. Betty says maybe his dreams are bigger.
Betty imagines she sees Fluffy everywhere she looks, urging Betty to hit Charlie or push her in front of a train. The train approaches and the crowd pushes forward. Panicking, Charlie takes Betty's hand and begs her not to let go. An old woman in hair curlers turns into Fluffy and orders, "ditch her."
Charlie gets on the train. Their hands slip apart. (Later, Betty will claim that she let Charlie's hand go, but it looks to me like someone pushed between them. In any case, Betty would have blamed herself just for thinking about it.)
Regardless of Betty's intentions, she is horrified when she sees Charlie screaming in terror on the other side of the train window. As the train pulls away, Betty tells Charlie to get off on the next stop, switch trains, and come back.
But Charlie doesn't do that.
Henry meets Betty at the subway platform. Betty admits that she lost Charlie on purpose. Henry doesn't understand. Betty blurts out that she did it because she likes Henry. She says she broke up with Walter - to be with Henry.
She runs away, but Henry follows her. She allows him to split the cost of a pretzel. She admits that he's not the reason she broke up with Walter; she did it because she didn't love Walter.
Henry observes that their timing sucks, but now she can meet someone new - someone who sees how wonderful, how caring, how beautiful she is...
Their faces are very close. "Is this a good idea?" Betty asks.
"No," Henry sighs, but it looks as though a kiss is about to happen anyway - until Charlie calls from across the street. She rushes toward them, oblivious (she didn't see anything). She babbles on and on about her great adventure. She's become a quite the subway expert. She's excited and wants to stay in the Big City after all. She tells Betty it was fate that separated them!
Betty gives her party tickets to Henry and Charlie and goes home.
Exhausted, Christina and Fido admire their handiwork when Wil breezes in, tired and grumpy. She warns them that Alexis has crossed them. Christina walks out, saying she's not one of Wil's "flying monkeys." Wil says that Christina owes her for her exposure as a designer. (No, it wasn't enough for her that Christina turned in the evidence against Daniel's father. For what it's worth, I didn't think Christina was even going to do that much. I thought for sure that she and Betty would snoop through the package first.)
Soon afterward, Sarah Jessica Parker's "people" call and cancel the dress. Sadly, Fido tells Christina that Wil works fast. She'll get used to it.
Claire visits Bradford in prison. Brad asks why she told Betty that she committed Fey's murder. Claire says she's going to turn herself in. Bradford protests.
Later, Daniel watches his mother get out of a blue Aston-Martin (kind of an anticlimactic ending if you ask me).
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Feb 8, 2007: How Claire keeps busy
Justin gets home early, accompanied by his father Santos. He was sent home from school for fighting, which was supposedly provoked by him waving a flag around, I assume with the school band or something. Santos thinks its all Hilda's fault for raising him wrong. Hilda points out that Santos hasn't been involved in his upbringing at all. She is also annoyed that Justin called his father instead of her.
The situation is compounded later when Hilda meets Justin's opponent and his mother. The boy's mother also says Hilda hasn't been raising Justin right, and ridicules the trampy way Hilda dresses.
When Hilda prepares to take Justin back to school, she is wearing a very baggy, drab-colored shirt. Justin complains and says that although she tends to over-accessorize, she has her own style and he loves it. She is relieved and whips off the ugly shirt, revealing a brightly colored, ruffled, and revealing blouse underneath.
At Mode, Henry the Hotty invites Betty to a show: Wicked. (I don't know how the show is, but I recommend the book highly.) Betty eagerly accepts, but says they can only go as "friends," because of Walter. "Great, another friend" Hotty mutters sarcastically as he walks away.
Meanwhile, Walter (who I'll lay off calling Turd Sandwich) is offered a promotion to assistant manager at a new store... in Maryland. He's considering turning it down to be close to Betty. Dad urges Betty to make a decision about Walter. If she doesn't love him, she should cut him loose so they can get on with their lives.
Alexis puts Wil in charge of Mode and fires Daniel and Betty. Wil goes around firing other people she doesn't like. Alexis says she has an old (never updated) document from Bradford that says in the event he's unable to run Meade publications, control of the company will go to his oldest son. Daniel gets the lawyers to halt Alexis's takeover on the logic that Alexis is not a son.
In light of this legal maneuver, Alexis sends Wil home. Wil watches telenovelas and other fine Spanish programming at home with her cleaning lady. She also reveals to Fido that there's a small camera at the office, hidden in some flowers. She asks him to direct the camera towards Daniel's office so she can keep an eye on things.
Daniel's mother Claire shows up at the office. She is euphoric, having bought some awesome dresses for Alexis. She wants to hang out with Daniel for a while. This worries Daniel; she always gets this way under stress, and then she crashes. Not good. He feels that she needs supervision. Betty sees Walter arrive and suddenly, desperately wants to leave, so she agrees to go out with Claire instead. Walter is disappointed, but still wants to use his 2-for-1 lunch coupon. He tries to tempt Daniel with baked potatoes, but Daniel politely declines, saying he had a potato for breakfast.
Betty and Claire go to the spa and Betty endures a number of uncomfortable beauty treatments. They take baths - Claire in rose petals, Betty in mud. (Ha!) Walter calls repeatedly. Betty won't take the calls. She explains her confusion to Claire: her mother always told her to find a man who loves her, and never let him go. Claire sees it differently: Betty's mother wanted Betty to be happy, and Betty's not happy with Walter.
They talk about old times with the Meade family, too; they used to go to Coney Island.
Some time later, Betty rushes back to the offices and tells Daniel and Alexis that Claire gave her the slip. They wonder where she might have run off to. After a LOT of prodding, Betty finally gets these two geniuses to figure out that she went to Coney Island to relive happier times. They go to Coney Island, and sure enough, there's Claire, waiting for them, at the bumper cars. Daniel and Alexis ram one another repeatedly and air their grievances to one another; it turns out that, contrary to Daniel's belief, Alex(is) was not the favorite. Bradford knew that Alex was "different," and all of the special attention was not because he preferred Alex, but because he desperately hoped to change Alex.
When Betty gets home, she finds Walter waiting for her. She is about to break up with him, when he breaks up with her. (This was no surprise to me, since Verizon had recently started re-airing the ads with that actor.) They bid one another sad farewells, and Betty is free to pursue a relationship with Henry.
Back in the office that evening, Daniel and Alexis make nice and agree to run the magazine together. Wil sees this on her spy-cam and suspects that she's about to get screwed.
Next day, Henry informs Betty that he can't go to Wicked after all; his old girlfriend came to town, and they wants to give it another shot. Since she's got Walter, he figures it's for the best. He offers her the Wicked tickets, but she gives them back and says he and his girlfriend should enjoy the show.
Daniel sends Betty on an errand to bring a credit card to his mother. Claire is drunk in a hotel room; she didn't want to be alone in that big house. She confides to Betty that Bradford won't be in jail for very long; he's not the one who killed Fey. How does she know that? Easy - she killed Fey.
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Feb. 1, 2007: Shocking revelations!
Hey, folks. It's just going to be one-size recaps for the foreseeable future. I'd like to go longer, but there just isn't time. This one's bigger than a mini, anyway.
Shocking Revelation #1: Constance is a player
Betty's father is filling out forms with his immigration case worker, Constance. She seems to be forgetful and distracted. She admits that she's been dumped by her boyfriend, and shows signs of having a crush on Ignacio. Later, while Ignacio is playing dominoes with Betty's semi-faithful boyfriend Walter (who I sometimes call Turd Sandwich), Constance comes over to make him some gumbo.
Ignacio is worried that her crush on him will interfere with his immigration case. Walter suggests that the best way to solve the problem would be to reconcile Constance with her boyfriend. Ignacio somehow locates this man - a taxi driver - and invites him to the house.
The boyfriend tells Ignacio that Constance was once his caseworker. He says this is how she operates - frequent visits, gumbo, moving her chair a little closer, and complaining about her ex. His advice? "Ride that squishy train until you reach your destination!"
Shocking Revelation #2: Henry left a message
It's Fashion Week at Mode. Apparently, t-shirts are involved. The shirt that Fluffy gives to Betty (who seems to pretty much be planning the whole event) is way too big. But Henry the Hotty shows up, so the shirt conversation is cut short. Unfortunately, so is the Henry conversation, because Hilda also shows up - looking for a job. Betty doesn't want Hilda working there - apparently, their previous coworker experience was a bad one (something about being the Lemon Ice Sisters) - but Daniel, passing through the reception area, tells Betty to hire her, because they need all the help they can get.
The next day, Betty shows up to work in her baggy, oversized t-shirt, while Hilda is cute and fashionable, having modified her own Mode shirt to her liking. Justin steals Hilda's car keys and threatens to run away and buy crack if they don't take him to the big fashion event.
Hilda is a big hit. All of the models love her. This irritates Betty, who finds fault with everything Hilda does. Hilda stomps off to find something else to do.
Henry shows up again and makes Betty laugh. He also gives her a smaller, more flattering t-shirt. They talk briefly, and Betty finds out that he had left her a message after the Christmas party, which Hilda had failed to give to Betty.
Betty confronts Hilda, who is now helping with the models' hair. They punctuate their bickering with blasts of hairspray. A model lights a cigarette, and the cloud of hairspray bursts into flames behind her. Betty fires Hilda. Hilda stomps off to drink with Daniel, who is reeling from a big surprise (more on that later).
Later, she unloads on Hilda for being the one that everyone likes. Hilda is equally jealous of Betty because she's smart and has a good job. She says she didn't give Betty the message from Henry because she thought he was a "big city guy" who would hurt her.
Shocking Revelation #3: Fido steals from his employer
Okay, maybe that's not so shocking, but I needed a decent headline for this segment, right?
Fluffy catches Fido planning an "Island Boys" cruise. She wonders where he'll get the money for a cruise. He admits that each year, during Fashion Week, he swipes some special "it" item and sells it to a mall store, which produces a knockoff item.
Fluffy wants in on this deal. Fido rebuffs her at first, but has to cut her in (at 40%) due to Wil's run-in with a duck (more on that later). Fluffy picks out the "it" item - a "faux rabbit fur micro-mini." (And... now I know why Fluffy has to rely on fashion magazines to know what's fashionable and what isn't. I bet no one is going to pay for that thing.)
Fido and Fluffy scheme to get the skirt. They decide that Fido will have to seduce the model in order to get the skirt off of her, but it doesn't go well. Fortunately, a womanizing friend of Daniel's hits on Fluffy, and she recruits him to get the model's skirt off. (Fluffy must be really desperate for money to turn down Daniel's friend.)
Shocking Revelation #4: Alex isn't dead
Brad and Daniel chat over their morning scotch. Brad tells Daniel that he's proud of him, and that he's proved himself fit to run the Meade empire. He says he'll make the announcement to the press right after the big fashion show.
Meanwhile, Fabia visits Wilhelmina and they squabble over a dress. Fabia denies that she's had cosmetic surgery, and tells "Wrinklemina" that her skin is perfect thanks to the work of a Dr. Wong and some treatments with duck sauce. Not the food - she specifies that it is the "sauce" of a male duck. After Fabia leaves, Wil makes an appointment with Dr. Wong.
Later, Wil and Alexis chat on the phone, planning Alexis's triumphant return at the fashion event. Alexis hears a quacking sound and asks what that was. Wil says she's getting her teeth cleaned.
Wil wakes up later with a red, blotchy, swollen face. Fido consoles her and they agree to hide her face. He will lead her around and be her "seeing-eye gay." This works out for a while, and then Fido, needing to assist Fluffy with the fur skirt theft, hands Wil off to Justin. Wil has trouble remembering Justin's name, but is impressed by his knowledge of the fashion world.
Meanwhile, at the event, Daniel's long-lost photojournalist friend Becks (not to be confused with The Tripod in the first episode) is disappointed that Daniel isn't the walking hormone he used to be. He tries to get Daniel to bet $1 on which of them will score with the hottest woman. Just then, Alexis walks in (wearing red). Daniel sees her and agrees to take the bet. (Ew!)
Daniel asks Alexis if they've met before. She calls him Danny and claims that she used to date Daniel's brother. He tells her that it's a relief to finally be out of his father's shadow. She says he isn't just yet, and whispers something in his ear.
She says, "look into my eyes, because that's the only thing they couldn't change." She convinces him with a few only-we-would-know anecdotes and a tattoo on her leg, and says she's felt female since she was 5.
Daniel is impactado. And mad. He wants to know why didn't she say something beforehand - they all thought she was dead. Alexis is equally mad that they've all "moved on." Angry, Daniel tells her their mother still hasn't gotten over it yet.
Alexis is also angry that Daniel hit on her, thinking that she was his dead brother's ex. Alexis leaves him to get ready for the show. Daniel drinks and consoles himself with Hilda, who is upset about fighting with Betty.
Later, Daniel drunkenly asks Betty, "is it fun having a sister?"
Shocking Revelation #5: Bradford is arrested
Christina is filled with self-doubt about her designs. Wil assures her that they're good, but swaps out Christina's last model at the last minute.
The show begins - it's a big hit, thanks largely to Betty's planning. Wil draws attention to Christina's designs, which are well received. Brad begins to give a closing speech and an announcement about Daniel's future, when Alexis - the last model in the show - takes the microphone from him and makes her own announcement: she's Alex. Yep, Bradford lost a son two years ago, but today he's gained a daughter.
Before anything else can happen, Brad is arrested for murdering Fey.
Christina figures out that this has something to do with the package Wil asked her to deliver to the police. She is furious and accuses, "you used me." Wil replies, "I made you a star."
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“Music stimulation increases endorphin release and this decreases the need for medication. It also provides a distraction from pain and relieves anxiety” –from research conducted at an Austin, Texas medical center.
After meeting and hearing Margaret Tilly play for him, Carl Jung said: “I don’t know what’s happening to me. What are you doing?” After describing some of her case histories, he said, “This opens up whole new avenues of research I’d never even dreamed of, not because of what you’ve said, but what I’ve actually felt and experienced. I feel that from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis, because it reaches the deep archetypal work with patients.” Joel Andrews’ meeting with Margaret Tilly around 1963 helped to inspire him to begin his work as a music healer.
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“It has been found that the rhythmics of the human organism function utterly harmonically — that is, the frequencies of pulse, breathing, blood circulation, etc, as well as their combined activities.” ~ Rudolf Haase, German musicologist
“The human organism is not only constructed according to harmonic principles, but also functions within them.” ~ Gunther Hildebrandt, German physiologist
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From “The Sounds of Healing,” by: Dr. Mitchell Gaynor:
“Music can have a powerful salutary effect on our cardio- vascular, immune, and nervous systems, not to mention our emotional and spiritual selves.”
“Sounds permeate our systems, resonating with our essence, so that inner chaos, conflict, and dissonance seem almost immediately to be transformed into harmony.” “I believe unequivocally – and I’ve seen for myself the proof – that the use of sound is among the most powerful modalities ever embraced by twentieth-century practitioners.”
“Through the process of entrainment, sound can transform negative, repressed emotions into a state of psychological equanimity that has direct and immediate effects on our physiology. Sonic entrainment can also restore harmony between our innermost selves – our essence and the universe, thus re-awakening our spiritual consciousness.”
“When properly mobilized, sound can specifically entrain the human organism toward the greater harmony and homeostasis that it requires to remain vibrant and to regenerate after injury or illness. The properties of sound medicine -entrainment, harmony and homeostasis- represent the rational AND spiritual foundation for a new movement in the healing arts and sciences.”
“Sound and music can help you develop your own intuitions which, in turn, can help you with your own healing. The human capacity for intuition and its effects on the body, on relationships, and on one’s environment is not grounded on the occult or esoterica, but rather in hard scientific investigation by some of the great minds of physics and philosophy.”
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Dr. Herbert Benson, M.D., of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Boston’s Deaconess Medical Center, having studied the effects of chanting mantras on human physiology, found that repeating a single syllable or word produced measurable changes in energy consumption, respiration rate, heartbeat, metabolic rate and pulse, as well as an increase in alpha brain waves.
Energy healing processes are profoundly direct, effective and efficient. By creating a point of focus for the mind, sound forms an energetic grid through which previously blocked energy can flow. This creates a healing mechanism of resonance and vibration, allowing sound to move to those parts of us that are “out of tune,” returning it to its natural rhythm and frequency. In Northern Middle English, the meaning of the word health is “to make sound.” Sound, then, is the antidote.
Dr.Hans Jenny, a Swiss scientist who studied the effects of sound upon organic matter, called the work cymatics, or the study of waveform phenomena. Using various organic substances vibrated at different frequencies, he found repeatable patterns that represented cellular growth, mandalas, and microscopic life forms. From his work it has been proposed that sound creates form and changing frequencies affect form at a cellular level.
Dr. Andrew Weil, author, lecturer and founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine in Tucson, Arizona, states that “The new science of psychacoustics — the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system — shows that [frequency] can relieve pain, help stroke patients, and benefit other conditions.”
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Kruithoff said they wanted to start this series ever since she started with the ACIR but didn’t quite know where to start until Charity Jacobson mentioned that she had heard Saif speak and thought he would be a good candidate for this series. Kathryn said a big goal with this series is showing that our town has more culture than it might seem at first blush.
Similarly, Saif said when he first came to Great Falls, he too thought that it wasn’t big on other cultures, but the longer he stayed here, he quickly discovered there were many other people here who come from a lot of different places.
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Figure 2 Different components showing rig circulating system with solids control equipment.
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The wave of new restaurant openings has definitely subsided since the frenetic pace set last fall and winter. Still, March had its share of big-name openings as well as a couple of surprises. The Baron family (founders of the Udi's brand) shuttered Sylvi's Kitchen in the Lowenstein complex at the end of 2014 and repurposed the wood-burning oven for Detroit-style pizzas at the Good Son, which opened this month. And at the very end of March, Asian cuisine wunder
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Since its founding in 1946, the Juilliard String Quartet has been one of America's premiere classical music ensembles. It has also comprised four men — until one year ago, when Astrid Schween replaced retiring cellist Joel Krosnick. In many ways, it is a comfortable fit. Schween spent two decades in the Lark Quartet before pursuing a solo career. She also earned herfor a time with a founding member of the quartet, Robert Mann. Nevertheless, she understands the symbolic significance of her hiring. "Whenever glass ceilings are broken, it's a big deal," she said in a phone conversation with the Independent. "I see it as a sign of real progress for us as a country. That said, my daily preoccupation quickly moved from that to, 'How do you want to play this phrase?'"
How does the quartet come to agreement, about both what you choose to play and how you play it?There's a real sense of delight when it comes to decision making about repertoire. Considering what to play from this great repertoire, I feel like a kid in a candy store!
Your Lobero Theatre program includes the Fifth Quartet of Béla Bartók. What are the unique challenges of playing Bartók's music?
Finally, we've all been reading about instances of sexual harassment and worse in the entertainment industry. Does that happen in classical music as well?
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What Sanders Would Have Told AIPAC... In Which He Talked About Palestinian Rightss"T" declared Sanders in a speech that offered stark contrasts with those of his presidential rivalsbyJon Queally, staff writer 0 CommentsSpeaking at a school in Utah, Bernie Sanders delivered the speech he would have made to the AIPAC conference in Washington, D.C. had he chosen to attend. (Photo: berniesanders.com)Though credited for skippon Monday, he gave a speech on the campaign trail in Utah which he says is the same one he would have given to the powerful pro-Israel lobbyists and their allies if he had attended.
Text of prepared remarks follow:
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But it is important among friends to be honest and truthful about differences that we may have. I am here to tell the American people.
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Nobody can Let me just say a word about an overall agenda for the Middle East.
Of course, beyond the Palestinian question, Israel finds itself in the midst of a region in severe upheaval. First, the so-called Islamic State – ISIS – threatens the security of the entire region and beyond, including our own country and our allies. Secretary of State Kerry was right to say that ISIS is committing genocidmust continue to participate in an international coalition to destroy this barbaric organization. While obviously much needs to be done, so far our effort has had some important progress, as airstrikes have degraded ISIS’ ear. So we are making some progress.
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In Syria, the challenges are even more difficult. The fractured nature of the civil war there has often diluted the fight against ISIS – exemplified by the Russian airstrikes that prioritized hitting anti-Assad fighters rather than ISIS. And, just like in Iraq, ISIS cannot be defeated until the groups that take territory from ISIS can responsibly govern the areas they take back. Ultimately, this will require a political framework for all of Syria. So what we need is a coalition of those countries.
Now, I am not suggesting that Saudi Arabia or any What I am saying is that the major powers in the region – especially the Gulf States – have and the defeat of ISIS.
What I am saying is that countries like Qatar – which intends to spend up to $200 billion to host the 2022 World Cup – Qatar which per capita is the wealthiest nation in the world – Qatar can do more to contribute to the fight Against ISIS. If they are prepared to spend $200 billion for a soccer tournament, then they have got to spend a lot spend a lot more against a barbaric organization. What I am also saying is that other 4th largest defense budget in the worldn. And keep in mind that while ISIS is obviously a dangerous and formidable enemy, ISIS has only 30,000 fighters on the ground. So when we ask the nations in the region to stand up to do more against ISIS – nations in the region which have millions of men and women under arms –estroy ISIS. Now the United States has every right in the world to insist on these points. Remember – I want everybody to remember – that not so many years ago it was the United States and our troops that reinstalled the royal family in Kuwait after Saddam Hussein’s invasion in 1990. We put these people back on the throne. Now they have the obligation to work with us and other countries to destroy ISIS. The very wealthy – and some of these countries are extraordinarily wealthy from oil money or gas money – these very. Uncle Sam cannot and should not do it all. We are not the policeman of the world. As we continue a strongly coordinated effort against ISIS, of efforts to fight ISIS and al-Qaeda. But it is the countries in the region that have to stand up against these violently extremist and brutal organizationss. But we can help set the agenda a
Another major challenge in the region, of course, is the Syrian Civil War i In other words, we all recognize that Assad is a brutal dictator. But I think that our priorities right now have got to be destroy ISIS, work out a political settlement with Russia and Iran to get Assad out of power.
I applaudnegotiating a partial ceasefire between the Assad regime and most opposition forces. The ceasefire shows the value of American-led diplomacy, rather than escalating violence. It may not seem like a lot, but it is. Diplomacy in this instance has had some real success. Let me also say what I think most Americans now understand, that for a great military power like the United States it is easy to use a war to remove a tyrant from power, but it is much more difficult to comprehend the day after that tyrant is removed from power and a political vacuum occurs. war. And the situation is not totally dissimilar from what has happened in Libya. We got rid of a terrible dictator there, Colonel Gaddafi, but right now chaos has erupted and ISIS now has a foothold in that area. Bottom line is that regime change for a major power like us is not hard. But understanding what happens afterward is something that always has got to be taken into consideration. In my view, the military option for a powerful nation like ours – the most powerful nation in the world – should always be on the table. That’s whyBut it Another Wwant to thank the Obama administration for doing a verent. BuOf course not.
I, but Israel’s security as well. And I am not alone in that idea. While Prime Minister Netanyahu is vocally opposed to the accord, his is hardly a consensus opinion in Israel and it’s important that everyone understand that. Dozens of former security officials, including retired Army generals andes support the agreement. Netanyahu may not, but many others in Israel do.
B Moreover, the deal does not mean we let Iran’s aggressive acts go unchecked. The world must stand united in condemning Iran’s recent ballistic missile tests as well as its continued support for terrorism through groups like Hezbollah. Going forward, I believe we need a longer-term vision for dealing with Iran that balances two important objectives.
First, we must counter the destabilizing behavior of Iran’s leaders. But secondly we must also leave the door open to more diplomacy to encourage Iranian moderates and the segments of the Iranian people – especially the younger generations – who want a better relationship with the West. While only a small step in the right direction, l. But a more balanced approach toward o honest enough, and sometimes we are not, to admit that Saudi Arabia – a repressive regime in its own right Balancing firmness with willingness to engage with diplomacy in dealing with Iran will not be easy. But it is the wisest course of action to help improve the long-term prospects of stability and peace in the Middle East – and to keep us safe. I would conclude by saying there has a disturbing trend among some of the Republicans in this presidential election that take a very, very different approach. And their approach I think would be a disaster for this country. The Republican front-runner, Donald Trump, suggested limiting immigration according to religion and creating a national database based on religion – Now this would not only go against everything we stand for as a nation, but also –ld – it would be a disaster. Let me just conclude by saying this: the issues that I’ve discussed today are not going to be easily solved. Everybody knows that. But I think the United States has the opportunity, as the the to people together – to try to put together coalitions in the region to destroy ISIS. And that is a responsibility that I, if elected president, would accept in a very, very serious way. We have seen too many wars, too much killing, too much suffering. And let us all together – people of good faith – do everything we can to finally, finally bring peace and stability to that region. Thank you all very much.
More in: War & Peace, Rights, U.S., Bernie Sanders, Election 2016, Israel, AIPAC, Palestine, Gaza, Middle East, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Iran
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TurtleBot3 is a small, programmable, popular ROS-based mobile robot for use in education, research, hobby, and product prototyping. The goal of TurtleBot3 is to dramatically lower the barrier to entry of a hardware robotics platform for tinkering. While this is true for the hardware, the software development for TurtleBot3 is not as streamlined as it could be.
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Note: Use the Linux MATE version from the TurtleBot3 official tutorial.
If you want to use the docker-compose option as the run time for TurtleBot3, ensure you have an SD card with at least 16GB of space.
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On-boarding TurtleBot3 onto rapyuta.io
Registering or on-boarding TurtleBot3 on to rapyuta.io platform is intuitive, clear and quick. The basic steps include:
Sign in to rapyuta.io platform in a web browser.
On the left navigation bar, click DEVICESet's call it TurtleBot.
Provide the absolute path of the ROS catkin workspace that you created in TurtleBot3.
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Adding TurtleBot3 onto rapyuta.io
Now that TurtleBot3 is on rapyuta.io as TurtleBot, we can:
Subscribe to ROS topics.
Visualize system metrics and ROS topics via graphs and plots.
Remotely SSH into TurtleBot3.
It's important to understand the concept of "building code" and "cross-compilation" "building code""Cross-compilation" 's raspberry pi.
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TurtleBot3 Teleoperation
We intend to remotely control the TurtleBot using a web-based remote control. rapyuta.io provides all of the tools and services that enable us to remotely control and configure devices.
In this tutorial, we would create and deploy two packages for the teleoperation of TurtleBot. The packages are:
bringup package: It sets up the TurtleBot to listen to user instructions or commands on the ROS topic, /cmd_vel
teleoperation package: It is the remote control for the TurtleBot. It is a web-based control panel where the user can provide instructions for the TurtleBot to move in a specific direction.
Create and Deploy bringup Package
rapyuta.io lets you create a package by uploading a package manifest (JSON file). Steps:
On the left navigation bar, click CATALOG.
Choose the device on which the component "bringup" .
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Create and Deploy Remote Control package
The teleoperation package plays the role of remote control for the TurtleBot3. Once the package is deployed on the cloud, it spawns a web-based control panel for sending move commands to the TurtleBot. The package contains a web server, a user interface to visualise the environment of the TurtleBot and a built-in rosbridge server.
A colored blinking dot indicates the Build Status of the package creation. The package is successfully built only when the dot turns green in color."bringup" package that we created previouslyg.
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Now, get the URL address of the WebSocket connection from the endpoint named websocket_HOST. In the text box of the UI, enter the URL: wss://<websocket_HOST>
How to onboard a TurtleBot3 onto rapyuta.io
Create and deploy packages on the cloud and on TurtleBot3 using rapyuta.io
Remotely control TurtleBot3 using a web-based remote control with the help of rapyuta.io
Visualise the environment of TurtleBot3 in a web browser
If you want to learn more about bringing your ROS projects on to the cloud, check out Rapyuta Robotics. For any questions, queries or concerns contact us at [email protected]
Also, we are hiring! Check out our Job Postings and write to u'.
A series of blogs introducing the "culture and six core values" cherished by everyone who works at Rapyuta. #7
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Four justices disagreed. Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing a dissenting opinion joined by three others, wrote that allowing "a prosecutor to commen," according to the New York Times. The dissenting opinion continued that the man was given the impossible choice ""
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Barnesville, MN – Governor Dayton has declared April 18-22, 2016, Water Action Week in Minnesota. This week is dedicated to encouraging Minnesotans to begin the important work of establishing an ethic of clean water practices. Throughout the week, state agencies will be promoting practices and work being done to restore and protect Minnesota’s water.
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World leaders from the telecommunications industry are to gather in Brussels next month, when the International Engineering Consortium (IEC) brings its Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 conference and exhibition to the city. Backed by official host sponsor Belgacom, the four day flagship event - running from 29 September to 2 October will focus on how developments in telecoms technology are being combined to produce new innovations for business.
"In collaboration with the co-located ICT Symposium, this year's event will combine telecommunications solutions with innovations for enterprise," commented IEC President John Janowiak. "The exhibition and workshops will cover technology, business, strategic and operational issues on topics such as mobility, collaboration, security, and risk management, and address the most promising alternatives for moving forward in the ICT industry."
Themed "Delivering the Promise," the Broadband World Forum Europe 2008 will present key industry leaders at the event including World Forum Chair e at Belgacom; and Keynoters Didier Bellens, chief executive officer of Belgacom; Pat Russo, chief executive officer of Alcatel-Lucent; John McMahon, president and managing director of the European department at Sony Pictures Television International;Julio Linares Lopez, chief operating officer of Telefonica de España.
The event provides "a great opportunity to see what is happening, what is on the future time path, and great interaction with all of the professionals around the world," declared World Forum Chair Scott Alcott.
Continuing the tradition, this year's InfoVision Awards will honor the most unique and beneficialces in the industry.
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"It's a liver detoxifier."And, frankly, I don't want my waitpersons mentioning my internal organs.
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Doesn't anyone eat anything just because it tastes good anymore?
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Why would you think it doesn't taste good?
If the restaurant is serving dandelions of any sort, I would assume its overall menu would be suited to those interested in good "health."
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Liver detoxifier?
And here all this time I thought that one of the main purposes of the liver itself was to be a detoxifier. Weird.
Sorry; that's the dandelions talking.
I said just because it tastes good, not because it tastes bad but is good for you. When did food become medicine? What's wrong with eating something only because you like it? Does there have to be a health benefit behind every calorie we consume?
Is this really necessary? What's wrong with waitress?
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It's been against the law for many years both in the US and EU to advertise for wait staff positions (or any others, for that matter) by gender.
Are "bride" and "groom" going to be the next words to go? "Mother" and "father?" "Brother?" "Sister?"
I hear Kobe beef is good for that.
Had a waitress at a steakhouse in Salt Lake City really sell me on the bone-in Kansas City Strip by telling me all about how a special enzyme that is created in the bone makes the steak extra tender when it's aged bone-in...at the time, I was pretty put off by the description of the biological processes going on in my soon-to-be meal.
Yes, most European languages classify nouns by gender. In German we have three genders (no jokes yet please): masculine, feminine, and neutral. The definite articles are der, die, and das, e.g., der Mann; die Frau; das Mädchen ("the man"; "the woman"; "the girl"). Yes, girls are neutral until they attain a certain age or are married; only then do they become feminine.
The disadvantage is that German has retained a traditional written form. There has been no obvious, written break with the past, just a change in societal mores and the meaning of an old abbreviation.
Thus, we have your female "actors."
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I frequently hear Python referred to as a ‘scripting’ language, because it’s not compiled. Unfortunately, for this reason, a lot of people seem to assume you can’t write ‘real’ programs with it. This post is about moving beyond using Python as a scripting language. I’m assuming you’re already comfortable with basic python data types and methods.
Note: Most of the content here is specific to Python 3. If you’re just learning Python now, don’t learn Python 2, it’s being deprecated and many current libraries already stopped supporting it.
What is OOP and why you should learn it
OOP stands for Object Oriented Programming. It’s a way to create more structure in your code. More structure means your code is easier to extend, and easier to test.
When I first started learning OOP, I found it kind of confusing, and since then I’ve taught a few other people how it works, but I never had great references or textbooks to use for reference. So I’m making my own.
I’m going to start with a very simple example, related to food. Let’s start with dessert, because life is short.
class Sweets:
Let’s create a class to keep track of all the different kinds of desserts we want to make. The class keyword in python is not capitalized, but the name of the class is.
A class name is a noun, and usually something that refers to a group, or something that can be grouped. For example, you could have a Flock class or a Bird class. There’s usually not much point in making a class unless you know it’s going to have multiple copies or versions of an object type.
The first thing we’ll do is write an __init__ method to initialize an object using our class definition. This special double-underbar or ‘dunder’ method will let us set default values for attributes. I’ve never seen a class without one. Usually, if you can’t think of anything to put in the __init__ method, or you don’t need a set of methods attached to an object, those are hints that you might not need to make a class.
In this case, the __init__ method can take inputs to define each of our different types of dessert.
The self argument is a reference that python uses to keep track of which instance of the class we’re talking about. So each time we create a new Sweets object, it will have its own attributes, which we refer to by using self within the class methods. This will become clearer, hopefully, as we go along.
Let’s add some attributes into our __init__. Attributes are like adjectives, since usually they’re used to describe the class or the instances in the class.
def __init__(self, sweetness:str, crunchiness:str, stickiness:str):
self.crunchiness = crunchiness
self.stickiness = stickiness
Here, I’ve added some arguments into our __init__ method. Note that I’m using type hinting to indicate that they’re all strings (str). Then I convert those inputs into attributes by saving them onto self with names. So here’s how you use that:
First, I’m going to instantiate (create) a baked_donut, which is an instance of the Sweets class.
baked_donut = Sweets
Note that you don’t have to add self when you create the object, the python runtime does that for you automagically in the background.
Let’s check that our baked_donut is the type we expect:
> type
__main__.Sweets
> isinstance
And now let’s check that our inputs were saved onto the baked_donut instance of the Sweets class.
> baked_donut.sweetness
The advantage of doing it this way, is now we can create other dessert objects with different attributes.
ginger_cookie = Sweets
And we can add methods onto the class, which all the instances can use.
def was_eaten(self):
self.eaten = True
More specific classes: inheritance
So now let’s say we want to add a specific method onto only a subset of Sweets. One way we can do that is by inheriting from or subclassing Sweets.
class Cookie(Sweets):
def crumble(self):
So now the Cookie class inherits the __init__ method and the was_eaten() method from the Sweets class. So Cookie can use those methods, even though you don’t see them here, and we don’t have to write them out again.
And, we added a new method. We want our crumble method to reduce the size attribute down to 0. But what was it originally?
We want to add this new attribute, size, into the __init__ method for Cookie that was not in Sweets. We can just do that, and it would look like this:
def __init__(self, sweetness, crunchiness, stickiness):
if self.eaten == False:
elif self.eaten == True:
print
But now, since we created a new __init__ method, Cookie will run this local __init__, and it will not run the __init__ that was in Sweets.
With this version of the code, we can’t use sweetness, crunchiness, stickiness, or eaten, because this version of the Cookie class didn’t initialize any of those attributes, so it doesn’t know what they are. This is not really the behavior we expected.
raw_cookie = Cookie
> raw_cookie.sweetness
AttributeError: 'Cookie' object has no attribute 'sweetness'
Super() is superior
What if we want to use all the attributes that are defined in the Sweets __init__ method, AND add new attributes specific to Cookie?
To do that, we use super().
Super refers to the parent or base class that we’re inheriting from.
In this case, we’re going to run the parent (Sweets) __init__ method first, and then add the size attribute.
super().__init__
This part is a little confusing sometimes, so I want to break it down a little more.
The arguments being passed into the Cookie __init__ method are the inputs you’re entering.
Then we pass them to the __init__ method that was inherited from the Sweets class, which is why we have to list them again. We don’t have to list self again.
To use this with inputs, we instantiate a new cookie object:
c = Cookie
And then we can check that both our inherited attributes and methods, as well as our new attributes and methods, are all there on our new object:
> c.size
> c.sweetness
> c.was_eaten
> c.crumble
Multiple inheritance happens if you want to inherit from more than one parent class. The only time this really makes sense is if the two classes provide very different functionality. So here’s an example where it could be useful:
self.side = 4
class Chassis:
class ModelTrain(Box, Chassis):
print
Note that I did it this way to make sure the __init__ methods get called for both of the parent classes, as described in more detail in the answers to this StackOverflow question.
Having said that, if you’re considering using multiple inheritance, be very careful. Here’s my advice on that:
Multiple inheritance gets messy and confusing.
If you need to do it, think hard about changing your design.
Unique names are helpful.
If you still think it makes sense, or you have to use someone else’s code and you can’t change it, at least try to name your methods differently in the parent and children classes, if you can.
Obviously, you can’t do this with __init__, which is why you have to know about how super() works.
If you can’t avoid it, remember the MRO: method resolution order.
If you have methods with the same name in your class and in one or more parent classes, the local one is used first, and then the parent.
Beyond that, I recommend trying to check the MRO using the .__mro__ attribute, as described elsewhere.
Composition is another term you’ll hear, as in ‘composition is better than inheritance’. Composition just means that one object or class knows about another one, but doesn’t inherit from it.
Here’s a very simplified example of the type of design I’ve used a lot for data engineering:
def __init__(self, inputdata):
self.raw = inputdata
self.cleanup_method
def fill_null_integers(self):
#todo: fill missing integers with 0
def fill_empty_strings(self):
#todo: fill missing strings with "None"
def remove_bad_characters(self):
#todo: replace '-' with '_'
def cleanup_method(self):
self.fill_nulls
self.fill_empty_strings
self.remove_bad_characters
class DataPipeline:
self.inputdata = inputdata
self.dataframe = DataCleaner
#todo: reshape
def third_step(self):
#todo: flatten, etc.
So in this case, DataPipeline uses the DataCleaner class as a way to encapsulate some code and pass it around in a more readable way. It also makes it easier to reuse the DataCleaner class, as well as making it easier to write and run tests for the DataCleaner class separately from the DataPipeline class.
In this case, composition is arguably better than inheritance. The DataPipeline class doesn’t need to use what’s in the DataCleaner class, it just has to be able to use the output of DataCleaner.cleanup_method().
Sometimes, inheritance is actually simpler than composition.
Here’s our Cookie example again, but this time with composition instead of inheritance, so we don’t have worry about using super() at all, which seems simpler at first:
self.description = Sweets
But now when we want to access the attributes that came from Sweets, we have to do it via self.description, which gets kind of confusing, since we have to keep track of what’s in there vs. what isn’t:
composed_cookie = Cookie
> composed_cookie.description.sweetness
This is a big topic, so I’m just going to stop there for now. This is enough to get you started, at least. Future posts may include discussion on abstract base classes, metaclasses, mixins, etc. if that seems useful.
Special thanks to Danek Duvall, Tom Marthal, and Jeremy Abramson for suggested clarifications on this post.
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One of the many appealing features of attending the New York Film Academy is your ability to study “bicoastally” at both our New York City and Los Angeles locations. Essentially, getting the best of both worlds. Acting for Film graduate Johanna Finn studied her first year in New York and the second year in Los Angeles. In this time, the Finnish native acted in about 35 student student films in both NYC and LA.
“At NYFA, I learned a specific skill set for film acting, met a lot of future filmmakers, and I also learned about building a career as an actress from a business standpoint,” said Finn. “However, the great thing about life is that you are never ‘done’ and there is always more room to grow and learn.”
“Somewhere in the Middle, which made it a fascinating project for me as an actress,” recalled Finn. “The main cast was able to contribute to the script much more than in traditional filmmaking, and I have huge respect for Lanre for taking this approach as a director.”
And now, Finn will be appearing in an episode of Lifetime’s and A&E’s My Haunted House.
Finn says her ultimate goal as an actress is to help tell stories that create understanding, empathy, compassion, and hope in the world. “I believe that compassion is a powerful force that can really change the world. The camera comes so close to the actor in a close-up that the audience can see the actor’s bare soul living in the character, and the audience will reflect this onto themselves.”
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Medical Robotics Market Expects Medical Robotics Companies to Ramp up R&D Efforts
Meanwhile, the R&D undertaken by robotic surgery companies has allowed surgeons to derive assistance from surgical robots to complete surgeries with a high degree of care and accuracy. The Medical Robotics Market is expecting a lot more progress from robotic surgery companies on this front.
Overall, medical robots offer several advantages that conventional healthcare protocols do not like minimizing the loss of blood, excellent surgical precision, reduction in post-surgery complications and patients recovering more rapidly.Scope & Regional Forecast of the Medical Robotics Market
The Medical Roboticgreater adoption of biomedical robotics for cardio logical and neurological surgeries; technological advances improving precision rapidly; and innovations in the services provided by medical robots.
The Medical Robotics Market is currently being dominated by demand from the Americas. This demand is likely to grow even more in the future owing to high healthcare investment by the United States as well as greater affordability due to Obamacare.h till 2021 due to various new government initiatives to improve public health.
The Medical Robotics Market is currently experiencing a lot of demand from the Urology and Gynecology medical verticals for various surgeries and treatments.
According to IndustryARC findings, the Medical Rourgical Robots (Neurosurgical Robots, Orthopaedic Robots, Laparoscopy Robots), Rehabilitation Robots (Exoskeleton Robots, Prosthetic Robots, Assistive Robots), Non-Invasive Radio Surgery Robots, Robotic Catheters, Telemedicine Robots and Hospital Robots.
Geographical Location: Americas (Canada, U.S., Brazil), Europe (United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy) and Rest of World.
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Complications in Anesthesia 3rd Edition PDF
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and L.A., and The Turin Horse opening in New York City.
- St- Chronicle -$12.8m (-41.8%)
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Yellow striped cat drawing in markers and crayons by teen, Maine artist, Jordan Allen. NOTE: Words will NOT show on your print. Thanks for looking :) </s> First, I'm not an experienced user of AutoCAD Electrical. It recently became part of the Inventor Design Suite we use, so now we have it.
Is it really that much better and faster, once you learn how to use it?
Bottom line, if you go that route, do some testing and be prepared to go all in and set aside some time for setting up symbol libraries. This P&ID was done with Acad Electrical and is virtually identical to the same document in vanilla Autocad.
Read up on it, try a few... you'll get it in no time.... I hope.
Sounds like block editor on steroids! I was going to go through the tutorials before I dove into it.
The advantage of using P&ID, Hydraulic, and Pneumatic symbols from AutoCAD Electrical is that they can be intelligently linked to their electrical schematic counterpart, using the WDTAGALT attribute. Find out more in the advanced productivity section of help.
You were right. The symbol creation seems pretty easy. I went through the tutorial and have since created a custom component. In looking at the drawing I'm converting, I suspect I'll be creating a few! </s> Moderators : CVG Staff, CVG Moderators
richomack360 wrote:tanukilou wrote:I've been saying all along this game needed a block button
You were clearly saying it to the wrong
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US News and World Report ranked the 38 top diets and we will discuss why top 7 are so good.
More than 46 million Americans will try a new diet this year and not all diets are created equally. How easy is each diet to follow, the weight loss effects and the nutritional value of each were evaluated? Check out why each diet is beneficial and why they should be tried if you are searching for a weight loss solution.
Well-done Weight Watchers, Oprah would be proud. In today’s world, you must be able to adapt and this older weight loss system has shown that ability. They still use their familiar point system but they rely much less on the scale to monitor progress.
The TLC diet stands for Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes and focuses on lowering cholesterol first. Celebrated by heart doctors and wellness experts for its cholesterol fighting ability. A great diet for anyone who wants greater heart health without sacrificing too many food groups.
The Mayo Clinic diet focuses on breaking bad habits and replacing them with better ones and was developed at he Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. This diet wants you to eat better foods and therefore you get more so you feel fuller. Instead of eating 200 calories of a candy bar, you eat 200 calories of broccoli, same calories but much better quality calories.
In this two-part diet, the first two weeks are tough but you will lose at least 5-10 pounds. Try the mayo Clinic diet out if you value being full instead of sweets.
The Flexitarian diet is for someone who wants to eat vegetarian but not totally give up delicious meat. This diet simply wants you to introduce “new meat,” which switches out traditional meats for tofu, beans, lentils, nuts and eggs. You can still eat meat but with these new additions, you should eat much less meat overall. Allowing you to still enjoy meat on occasion is a very easy diet to follow as its not completely restrictive.
The Mediterranean diet remains a popular choice because it’s so effective. This diet is what people that live around the Mediterranean Sea eat and they have exceptional overall health. You will enjoy fruits and veggies, fish and plenty of whole grains. This is a very easy diet to follow as it contains plenty of food for you to eat without being too restricted.
THypertension is very high blood pressure and can cause some serious health issues. You focus on loThink about how a slice of pizza is around 640 milligrams of sodium, so that’s a quarter of your daily intake. This is a very easy diet to stick to and it should allow you to get healthy quickly.
Check out these diets and see which one fits you best. The most important aspect to any of these diets is how easy they are to follow, so keep that in mind when choosing.
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Home / UK / Interviews About Albums: Josh Keech - Warrior In The Clouds (2022)
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Well firstly, it’s my debut solo EP. It’s a project I’ve been working on for many years. I want it to help get my name out there and help me make a big step up to the next level in terms of my music career. The songs I wrote between the ages of 15-19, and from 2020 I have been perfecting them to what they are today. I originally had 12 tracks for a full-length album, however, when starting the recording process we thought it would be best to split it in half, concentrating on 6 tracks first, then once they’re released (Warrior Pt.1) we’ll make the 2nd 6.
This EP encapsulates all of my influences while growing up and learning guitar, from Thrash Metal to Rock, and more Extreme Metal to classical music. It’s also an instrumental project, paying homage to some of my virtuoso guitar heroes who have made countless instrumental albums. I wanted this EP to show what I can do, and show the potential I have for future projects and hopefully getting bands together.
The ! So I am hoping to make more projects in the future.
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As it’s an instrumental album, there aren't any lyrics. However, in “Society INC.” there is a spoken word part in the middle. That song is all about me seeing society as one big corporation just manipulating the way we all have to live. I got really annoyed at how society and the media turn their back on people like me. So the “lyrics” say;
I was inspired by many bands and artists during the making of this project. As I said I wrote what I was listening to, and that really came through with these songs. The main bands/artists that influenced me most for this project include Metallica, Megadeth, Joe Satriani, Marty Freidman, Randy Rhoads, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Slayer, Machine Head, Nirvana and Pantera.
Also for this EP, they have given me so much support and motivation to carry on and get to this point. Obviously I have to thank my parents for letting me do this and follow my dream, they’ve put up with me trying to get this project done and get myself out there. I really appreciate them for this opportunity. All of my close friends and friends online for their support, I wouldn’t be doing this without their support and belief in me. My YouTube subscribers for helping me get to this point and the positive feedback they have given me about my EP, it has meant the world to me!
And lastly my good friends Alfie and Kim for everything they have done to help me make this EP happen. They helped me record it (Kim on drums and Alfie on bass) at their home studio, and they produced it for me. It was a long process going to their house almost every week, I really appreciate all the help and support they’ve givenHere’s to the future, thank you.
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I don't know when I'm due exactly. Just sometime at the end of June. ;-)
Yeah, I hear ya on the generational gap with Faceb ook. But thankfully I was a youth leader and a school teacher 7yrs ago, so I have a lot of friends in the Facebook Generation!
I was just cruising around and came across your blog, stopped and visited. Had to laugh, I too am on facebook and most of my friends there are high school and college age.... :0)
I love your blog here it is great
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The reason for this acoustic inefficiency is that most of the turbulence does not radiate. Without external mass or momentum sources, turbulence as an acoustic source is nearly self-cancelling. In the zero-Mach-number limit, it is famously quadrupole (Lighthill 1952), a character that persists up to the near-sonic exit velocities of most civilian transport aircraft. Because the acoustic wave equation does not support waves for subsonic phase velocities, a turbulent eddy that advects unchanged lacks a frequency–wavenumber makeup that would let it radiate sound. Only its evolution as it advects can lead to radiation (Crighton 1975), so sound leaks out only via the energetically minor mechanisms that violate Taylor’s hypothesis.
Given this fundamental challenge, statistical turbulence models for nominal sound sources work admirably well, although they often lack the fidelity needed to meet the needs of engineering design. Seeking sub-decibel (sub-dB) predictive fidelity to design aircraft within noise regulations, many have turned to simulations that include explicit representation of at least the larger turbulence scales. The same near-cancellation of acoustic sources also makes these challenging, since both numerical and physical-modelling errors can lead to spurious sound. It was about 20 years ago that this author had the pleasure of working on some of the first such simulations (Freund 2001); simulations such as by Brès et al. (2018) leave those far behind in every regard.
The main challenge is representing the near-nozzle shear layers, which develop from boundary layers on the inner wall of the nozzle. Contractions upstream of the nozzle exit plane make these remarkably thin (see figure 1), with $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}<0.01D$ . The authors use adaptive meshing to resolve the turbulence both in the $D$ -diameter jet and in the $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$ -scale near-nozzle shear layers. This is particularly important, because despite the scale mismatch, jet noise is sensitive to the turbulence in this thin layer. Laminar shear layer jets are louder (Zaman 2012), and even when the initial shear layers are turbulent, the radiation still depends upon $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}$ even for $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6FF}\ll D$ (Fontaine et al. 2015). Early simulations of jets avoided the nozzle altogether, and specified perturbed laminar profiles (e.g. Freund 2001), which is only true at uncommonly low Reynolds numbers, or turbulent but artificially thick. Bailey and Bogey and co-authors (e.g. Bogey & Bailly 2010) have studied the sensitivity to inflow conditions in simulations with nozzles, and more recently they have used very large meshes ( ${>}3\times 10^{9}$ points) to meet this challenge (Bogey & Marsden 2016). It is this set of long-standing challenges that the present paper has met with modest computational expense.
A longer-term question is how to best use such predictions. One route towards this might be to use them to achieve sufficient understanding of mechanisms to guide noise-reduction strategies. Informed by successful predictions, wave-packet models based on the growth and decay of disturbances in the jet might provide a framework for this (Jordan & Colonius 2013). These models illuminate mechanisms by which characteristics of the large-scale turbulence are reflected in the far-field sound. They may also prove useful in reduced-order models of radiation and to inspire noise-control techniques, but they are not yet predictive, and it is unlikely they would ever achieve the kind of sub-dB prediction of the radiated sound now achieved with large-eddy simulation. An alternative approach is to directly use inverse methods together with large-eddy simulation to point the way towards noise reduction (e.g. Freund 2011). I am personally more optimistic about the latter approach, as it includes all mechanisms including subtle ones that may elude reduced-order modelling. In the end, though, there is significant space for improvement regardless of the specific approach.
One technical challenge, which might be important for engineering and an interesting modelling challenge of itself, would be to increase the frequency of the sound that is accurately predicted. The maximum accurate Strouhal number for the present simulations is $St\approx 2$ . This frequency is consistent with the mesh scale of the simulations (which further supports that the mesh is used efficiently). However, higher-frequency components receive significant weighting based on human perception. Increasing the mesh is the brute force way to expand this range. The approximately double-density mesh in the present paper (at approximately 16 times the computational cost) expands accuracy to $St\approx 4$ . This general trend seems to persist; with their $3\times 10^{9}$ points, Bogey & Marsden (2016) achieve good agreement up to $St\approx 8$ . There are likely opportunities to develop models for the high-frequency sound, perhaps by revisiting earlier such efforts (e.g. Bodony & Lele 2003), now with a firmer simulation platform to build upon.
Finally, I want to emphasize, that the Brès et al. results do not invoke significant empiricism. Instead, they were achieved with thoughtful analysis, careful simulations, and rigorous comparisons that respect the turbulence mechanics. Empirical spectra can fit data far better than might be expected (e.g. Tam et al. 2008), which is fascinating and may speak to the underlying mechanisms, but such fits offer no guarantee for extrapolative engineering prediction, and reliance on them for prediction is a step away from advancing true understanding.
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Scheduled testing along Phase One of the Silver Line will take place this weekend, the next step forward to eventually opening the 11.5-mile line within the next several months.
Trains will be running along Silver Line tracks from East Falls Church to the Wiehle Avenue station overnight Saturday, Jan. 25 said Dulles Metro spokesperson Marcia McAllister.
"With [Saturday's] test of the system, the Airports Authority will have 15 days to ask them to go back and tweak a few things, look at some other things, the idea being after that 15 day period they would be substantially complete and would tuNicoson said. "They in turn have 90 days in which to review it."
She expressed hope that the full 90 days wouldn't be needed by WMATA.
"They have been participating in the testing all along, so a lot of it they're going to accept as things they would have done themselves," she said. "But they do have to train their operators and emergency personnel and get used to the equipment."
Phase Two is expected to reach substantial completion by mid-2018, with full operations starting by the end of 2018.
Once testing is done it's still about 100 days away from opening after WMATA takes over. There are 2 transition periods. One 15 days the other 90.
Assuming they do the test tonight with the weather and assuming the handover to WMATA happens on Monday, it'll be ready by mid-May.
Open the flood gates, here come the criminals from DC! Suckers.
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The phrase "expensivea whole array of food dishes/ products that are priced so unimaginably high.
These mushrooms go for as high as $600 for a kilogram due to their extreme rarity. They are native to Japan but grow in various other Asian countries as well. But their number has majorly reduced as a result of insect attack and tree growth invasion into where the mushrooms grow. And because these Matsutake mushrooms have no way to be cultivated, it's highly likely they would become completely extinct in the future.
The cost of this coffee fluctuates between $250 to $1,200 per kilogram. It is known as the highest costing coffee in the world and its manufactured in The Philippines, Southern India and Indonesia.
The cost of this meal is about $3,000 for a kilogram. It is a Chinese delicacy cooked with the nest of swallows. These nests are made almost completely from the birds' saliva. This dish is so pricey as a result of how risky it is to collect the nests (swallows build their nests on high cliffs).
A kilo of white truffles costs about €2,000 ($2,100). Their high prices is due to the special conditions necessary for their growth, collection and preservation. They also have excellent aroma and taste amazing.
A single Ayam Cemani chick costs about $200 in Indonesia and thousands of dollars in other countries. However, this bird is rarely exported due to bird flu spread possibility. But on the other hand, in Malaysia the Ayam Cemani is so easily found that its price is almost the same as the normal chicken.
Wagyu Steaks are made from Japanese beef. One kilo of this Japanese beef can go for as high as $450. This type of beef has a renown buttery texture and fantastic aroma. It also has the second highest score for marbling. The bull calves that produce this beef are given beer and massages. They are even played classical music.
A kilogram of this dry-cured ham goes for as much as €365 ($392).Made in Spain, the Jamón Ibérico is the most costly type of ham worldwide. The Iberian pig is given solely acorns to eat and expansive areas are provided for their grazing.
This cheese costs about €1,000 ($1,074) for a kilo. The moose cheese is one of the priciest worldwide and it is produced (in limited amounts) in just one place – The Moose House Farm in Sweden. This cheese is white colored and bears resemblance to the feta cheese.
Top of this list goes to the Banana. The masterpieces made of out this fruit by artist Stephan Brusche are truly incredible. It is art that you must enjoy before it goes rotten.
Artist Stephan Brusche has become famous for making unique masterpieces out of this particular fruit. This is art that you really should enjoy before it rots away.
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With this software, you can download YouTube videos free online.
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Senator McGreehan raised the issue around public spaces, respect and the litter issue. If we are asking people to vacation or holiday at home and move around the country it is a very real issue. I was at the beach in north Mayo at the weekend. Usually not many people attend these beaches and it is quiet, with the other side of the county being more popular. There was a lack of bins there. There was only one bin and it was full by midday. The place was heaving. There was very little space to park and people were pulling up on the side of the road. There was no lifeguard on duty. Again, as Senator Garvey has said, months ago we knew this was coming. We did this last year also. A lot of money has been given to local authorities. Where is the additional seating?I have not seen it. Where are the bins?I have not seen them. Why are lifeguards not on duty a little bit earlier given that we know people will be at the beaches since there is nowhere else to go?
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About Us: About MotorCities: MotorCities recognizes Sen. Carl Levin with 2016 Milestone Award
DETROIT – dedicated to historic preservation of the automotive and labor industries, recently bestowed its 2016 Milestone Award to long-serving U.S. Senator Carl Levin.
Levin helped create the legislative groundwork for the Automobile National Heritage Area in 1998 and was instrumental in its Congressional reauthorization in 2014.
A longtime champion for the automotive industry and for the preservation of its history and culture, Levin said automotive heritage is a source of great pride for many Michigan residents.
“This award relates to a subject that is dear to my heart, dear to the hearts of every person who lives in Michigan,” said Levin upon accepting the award. “It’s a matter of great pride to everybody who lives here, works here, or who has benefited from (the automotive industry). The middle class was almost born here; it surely was promoted by the automobile industry.”
Levin called it a “critically important heritage,” and commended the work of MotorCities to preserve, promote and interpret that heritage through grant funding, educational programming and tourism.
“This represents a lot. Such as tourism which is so important to (the state); the federal designation this has put on our automobile heritage benefits those efforts. It is very important to promote tourism and protect this heritage,” Levin said.
MotorCities Executive Director Shawn Pomaville was honored to present the award, and thanked the Senator for his unyielding commitment to the National Heritage Area.
“None (our work) would have been possible without Sen. Levin’s creation of the National Heritage Area in 1998, and again in 2014, when he paved the way for the reauthorization of the MotorCities so that we were able to retain our affiliation with the National Park Service,” said Pomaville. “
This marks the third year of the MotorCities Milestone Award. In 2015, The Hon. U.S. Rep. John Dingell received the award along with the UAW International Union – each part of a group whom came together with an idea to preserve southeast Michigan’s rich auto and labor heritage.
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In the recent years, many human social interaction and communication have taken interesting turns due to the rapid advancement of technology. Once of the things that drastically changed is datingonline that can help you find the one. There are many stories that told happily-ever-after but there are even more stories that would say that they have tried being tricked by someone online — and not just once!
Since people with ill intentions could not be avoided on the online platform, you need to be ready and extra careful. Choose the online dating site that has been esteemed highly by many users. How will you know that a certain website is highly recommended?
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Pen. Page. Possibilities.
At WriteYourWayIn, I believe that everyone has a unique voice, a unique story to tell. My mission is to encourage, support, and protect that voice.
In a safe and creatively vibrant environment, writers at all levels of experience can explore, experiment, and take creative risks.
WriteYourWayIn Workshops and Retreats refresh and revitalize your love of writing.
One way I and many others have found to stay afloat creatively and emotionally in these challenging times is to write in community online. Writing together, however virtually, has provided the next best thing to hearing the scratch of pen on the page.
These guided workshops will keep you writing, maintain connections to other writers, and support your writing sanity in these times of CoVid-19.
All sessions are offered through user-friendly meeting software.
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Each 3-hour workshop offers several unique prompts to launch the pen, invitations to read your freshly generated work, and receive supportive feedback–all designed to keep words flowing.
Throughout this 6-week series, participants can work on a project or generate a series of shorter works. Whether you have a spark of an idea, in the midst of a longer piece, or are simply looking for inspiration to get rolling, this is the place for you. We’ll explore aspects of craft through example and experimentation, and especially through developing our listening skills.
The group provides every writer’s much needed support and encouragement to cultivate trust and confidence.
At the completion of the series, writers can submit up to 10 pages for a thorough manuscript review.
Deepam’s workshops are always wonderful. The prompts she chooses are inspiring, and I love the supportive, creative environment she creates. Even though we are all on-line, I still feel like I have been among friends when the workshop is over.
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I have quickly become addicted to Deepam’s online workshops, which have lost none of the intimacy and immediacy of her in person workshops.
Deepam’s prompts dig deep and illicit writing that is unexpected and beyond the range of what I normally write. I’ve even written my first poem in a recent class. Her feedback digs even deeper and she provides so much insight, it’s as if she’d written each piece herself. She gets inside the writing and so our discussions are meaningful, helpful, and rich.
If you love to write this is a wonderful way to spend some time. If you’re new to writing, this is a safe and accepting learning environment, where you’ll feel you’re with your tribe.
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We have worked with various UK businesses for over 10 years, providing sustainable, cost-effective EPS compactors. Thousands of tonnes of EPS have been recycled so far this year!t's transported it’s a non compacted form.
when valued at up to £600 per tonne.
The amount of polystyrene from households is increasing due to the amount of online shopping. Data suggests that from the 20,000 visits to household waste sites, this results in ½ a tonne of polystyrene (British Plastics Federation). This accumulates to the same volume of one rolling off container, on average this would cost approx £250 to handle. This same 500kg is also worth £300, making the actual difference in value £550 or £1,100 per tonne. This is a serious venture for councils.
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Still Life with Violin and Daisies SOLD
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Roberto Lupetti ( 1918-1997 ) WaHe.
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Lupetti explains that as a student of the Royal Academy, He was offered a position to help restore the Vatican's Sistine Chapel. With his successful restoration of the Vatican, Lupetti was invited to do similar work on the immense fresco "The Battle of Ponte Miluio" by Giulio Roman, A disciple of Raphael, Lupetti earned five degrees at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. For more information on the modern classical master contact the gallery.
Still life with Pumpkin and Mushroom
Still life with Violin and Pitchers
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XD awesome - trying to get them done now though!
Im working tomorrow/Fri/Sat evenings so I will try getting mine done when I'm not working but if I dont finish on any of those days I will for sure Sunday!
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Mesenchymal stem cell, Isolation, Culturing, Detection
It's also isolated from many adult tissues like stromal bone marrow, marrow aspirates, periosteum, trabecular bone, synovium, skeletal muscle and deciduous teeth and adipose tissue these cells haveincluding bone, fat, cartilage and muscle. It has ability potency [2,3]. MSCs have plastic adhesion ability to express CD105, CD90, lack expression of CD45, CD34, CD14 or CD11b, CD19 and HLA-DR surface molecules and must differentiation [4].
Albino mice used in this study were obtained from the Iraqi center for cancer research and medical genetics/Al-Mustansiriya University. Mice age was from 4-8 week. It was subjected to unified condition of temperature, light and feeding. A bone marrow cell was isolated from the femur of 4-8-week-old male albino mouse with weights ranging from 10-15 g.
Passaging of the cells were done in suspension culture at cell density of 8.3 × 106 cell/ml concentration. the first time to passage occurs at 5th after culturMEM free serum and detached by incubation with 1 ml of trypsin-versene for 5-10 minutes at 37 ℃ temperature. Then 5 ml of culture media containing 20% FBS was added and mixed to obtain a single cell suspension.
The following CD markers (primary antibody) for detection of MSCs: (mouse anti-human CD105+, mouse anti-human CD90+, Mouse anti-human CD44+ and Mouse anti goat CD 34- [12].
Mice bone marrow isolated from the femurs and tibias of young albino mice by simple and easy flushing all stromal cells method. Then, direct culturing cells in aplastic tissue culture flask, MEM media with 20% FBS. After 24 hours the mesenchymal stem cells have round shape or quasi-circular shapes attached on the surface of flask and other cell like hematopoitic stem cell, still suspended in media. The media was discarded and changed with fresh 20% serum MEM media simply without any additional growth factors.
In this study MSC cultured directly without washing step to preserve cell activity in MEM media at concentration 8.3 × 106 cell/ml and show benefit isolation and growth. After 24 h the media was discarded and freshly media added, this step represent a benefit method for purification of culture from other cell type and dead cell, fresh MEM media added and the growth observed. The attached cell have circular mononeuclear structure, after 48 h the cell begun small spindle structure formed.
Bone marrow mesnchymal stem cells are multipotency, ease of purification and amplification, therefore be an ideal stem cell source for cell therapies. Some researchers isolated and maintained MSC in media without additional growth factors together with passage-dependent reseeding following trypsinization [15].
The cultured media changed every 3-4 days and in the third day of culture the cells have small spindle like shape starting propagation. At the end of 5th day of culture the number of cell increase forming colonies distributed in flask, 70-80% field forming in concentration 2.5 × 106 cell/ml, cell have short fibroblast like structure with two polar cell shape and some cell have triangular shape in a homogenized monolayer (Figure 1, Figure 2 and Figure 3).
Figure 2: A,B) Immuonocytochemical study of mesenchymal stem cells for CD105 (10 × 20) (10 × 40); C) Positive CD90 (10 × 20) (10 × 40); E,F) Positive for CD44 (10 × 20) (10 × 40) brown of chromogen accumulated. View Figure 2
Mutlak [17], results at the end of 5th day of cultivation, a numerous fibroblast like cells formed and gradually grow to form small individual colonies like fibroblat morphologicaly.
Scientific work on MSCs morphology and size indicate that the cells changed from small, spindle-like cells in the early passage to large and polygonal types in later passages. Their growth was highest in the third passage, followed by a gradual decrease. There were no special modifications of cell surface antigens or the karyotype of the MSCs from the first to the tenth passage [19].
Bonab, et al. [20] showed that multiple MSC passaging more than 9 passages will reduce the population doubling of cell from 7.7 to 1.2 in the 10th passage and telomere length decreased from 9.19 Kbp to 8.7 kbp in the 9th passage results in differentiation potential dropped from the 6th passage on.
Mesenchymal stem cells phenotypic characteristic detected in culture passage one by culturing passage 0 cell on multi well tissue culture slide, when reached monolayer, fixed with 4% paraformaldehyde and using immunocytochemistry test for detection specific CD markers for MSCs, these CD markers were CD105, CD90 and CD44 as positive markers and CD34 as negative marker and the results are shown in the Figure 2 and Figure 3. Mice bone marrow MSC detected using chromogen accumulation on the secondary antibody of the primary antibody of CD105, CD90 and CD44 showed dark brown color while cell for negative CD34 was still blue, the color of hematoxylin, with no brown stain.
This project was done by the foundation of Iraqi center for cancer and medical genetic research.
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[ Parent ] I don't think we know...
…what you say we know. There is a law (the budget) saying what to spend, there is a law (the tax code) saying what to tax, and a law (the debt ceiling) that says how much to borrow. Why does the debt law outrank the spending law?
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However, the population density is lower than in most Caribbean countriesIn 1985, the United States invaded Cuba, an ally of the Soviet Union, resulting in an escalation that was eventually referred to as the Third Wor weapons of mass destruction, shifting the world balance of pouba?oldid=39170"
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Writing this blog post, and taking on this challenge was difficult for me. What if I fail? What if no one cares? It’s difficult to take risks and challenge ourselves but that is precisely why I need to do this. I hope you read to the end.
It’s easy to get cynical when non-profit CEO’s make half-million-dollar salaries or when fundraising and administration expenses take up 40% or more of total donations raised, but again not all charities are equal. So
One billion of those do not have access to clean drinking water.
Stop and think about that for a few seconds. In our lives, of iPads, streaming online movies, inexpensive air travel, 3000 square foot suburban homes, over-sized SUVs, superstores and access to anything we want, any time, one billion people don’Here are a few quotes from the CharityWater.org website:
I had the privilege of seeing Scott Harrison of CharityWater.org present at Chris Guillebeau’s World Domination Summit this year. He told his story (definitely worth a watch) about how he transformed his life from a New York City club promoter to starting ChairtyWater.org and raising tens of millions of dollars to bring clean water and hygiene education to two million of the most impoverished on the planet. The best part is that 100% of donations go directly to the cause. All administrative and fundraising expenses of CharityWater are funded separately. Brilliant.
Step 3: Decide to give your birthday to CharityWater.org. It only takes a few minutes and it can make a world of difference.
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Dr. Goldberg recognized as a true pioneer in dermatology with one of the highest honors in the industry.
(PRWEB) March 8, 2010 -- The Sturge-Weber Foundation honored renowned dermatologist Dr. David J. Goldberg with one of the industry’s highest awards at a tribute dinner held in Miami on March 05, 2010. Dr. Goldberg is a pioneer in the field of d.
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Browse > Home / Musical / Guns N' Roses: Welcome to the Videos - WhatDVD.Net
Director: Sante D'Orazio, Nigel Dick, Del James, Louis Marciano, Duff McKagan, Andrew Morahan, Josh Richman, W. Axl Rose, Slash, ,
Starring: Steven Adler, Gilby Clarke, Shannon Hoon, Duff McKagan, Riki Rachtman, Dizzy Reed, W. Axl Rose, Stephanie SeymourSlash, Matt Sorum, Izzy Stradlin, ,
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Watching this DVD collection of three previously released Guns N' Roses videos the only thing more discerning then the lack of special features is the reminder of how great Axl Rose and this band where in their heyday and how it is no more.
A few years ago Guns N' Roses made a special appearance on the MTV Video Awards and Axl's performance was so far removed from how I remember him I did begin to wonder if the whole thing was some kind of Saturday Night Live parody. Bloated and breathless the once great stage presence cut a depressing swathe across the stage that left viewers distinctly unimpressed
To be fair while this DVD isn't exactly cutting edge, for fans (and I hardly know anyone that isn't) the songs and videos is a pleasing trip down memory lane. They remind exactly why whenever Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine or Live And Let Die are played in a pub or club, everyone sings and everyone knows the words.
Gun's N Roses were always deemed an authentic metal band and certainly the themes that flowed through songs like Appetite for Destruction reeked of a powerful realism. That the songs resonated deeply with listeners is largely due to the absolute believability that Axl, Slash and the rest of the band had experienced the worse kind of hedonistic excess Los Angeles had to offer. Welcome To The Jungle was an immediate classic when it was originally released and a powerful introduction to the fevered passion that would become the band's trademark.
Sweet Child O'Mine and Paradise City followed quickly after the success of Jungle and became big hits. Canny marketing from the record label ensured these popular, and less controversial, songs gained lots of exposure and radio play.
The celebrated double album Use Your Illusion I & II expanded their sound and their videos became more lavish and memorable. Nine videos spewed forth from the success of this record and two videos, in particular, November Rain and Estranged, incorporated the kind of lavish production values only previously seen in the movies. November Rain was the most visceral and exciting of the videos and the 2nd guitar solo alone, with Slash walking out into the desert, is the definition of rock star cool.
Ultimately this DVD only succeeds as a collection of great videos from a once great band. Geffen Records have declined to include any extras so if you're looking for any insight into the group – look elsewhere. A nice inclusion would have been some short background or concert footage or even a biography of the group instead this is, unfortunately, a bog standard cash grab.
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Gen Muhoozi congratulates President Kagame's son for completing the Sandhurst tough military training - whispereye
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Commander Land Forces of the UPDF Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba has come out to congratulate the son of Rwanda President Paul Kagame officer cadet Ian Kagame for almost completing his military training at Sandhurst military academy which is rated among the best military academies in the world.
Ian Kagame who is seen as the heir to the Rwanda’s throne is a serving military officer in the Rwanda national army known as the Rwanda Patriotic Front.
Ian who is in his early 20s unlike his elder brother Duncan Kagame who chose to do business after dropping out Sandhurst has lived to the expectation of his father Gen Paul Kagame who has for long wished to have his own biological son become a full well trained military officer.
“Let me congratulate my young brother, officer cadet Ian Kagame on almost completing the very gruelling course at Sandhurst. Unlike the elders we found in the military when we graduated, our generation welcomes all young people.”. Gen Muhoozi tweeted
It has forlong been a trend by African leaders to have their own children join the army and go through the specialized military training with many intending to have them take over after they leave power.
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Posted March 20Generally a headstone conveys two very basic facts about the person interred below it – their name plus the two most important dates of their life. Thanks to some new technology, headstones can now convey much more that: a photo and note written by the deceased, delivered right to your phone.
The product is called RosettaStone and comes from a company called Objecs. If you were to purchase a RosettaStone, you’d receive what looks like a granite iPod with a few symbols visible on the outside and a microchip embedded on the inside. That device is then secured into your headstone so those symbols can be seen by visitors (each symbol represents an area of your life you want to share info on).
When your great-great-great granddaughter stops by sometime in the next century and wants to know who you were, she’ll touch her NFC-RFID enabled cellphone (or whatever device we’re using by then) to one of those symbols on the granite iPod-looking device on your headstone and she’ll get your note.
NFC stands for “near-field communication” which is a subset of RFID – “radio frequency identification.” You’re probably using this technology already. RFID is what allows you to pay a toll while driving 30 mph by way of the little box stuck to your rearview mirror. NFC works in a similar way but only in extremely close proximities — within just centimeters in this case.
By touching the RossettaStone symbols with her phone, your great-great-great granddaughter will activate the microchip via her phone’s magnetic field. That small bit of power is enough for the microchip to connect the phone to a URL containing the note you typed up waaaaay back in the 2010s.
NFC technology probably isn’t in your cellphone – yet. But it’s likely coming soon since it would also allow you to pay for goods using a tap of the phone.
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My All-Time Favorite Travel Movies (2019)
by Grant Simpson | Inspiration
The All-Time Best Travel Movies
Even though my life now feels like I'm starring in my own travel movie adventure; Trekking to lost cities like Indiana Jones and speeding through strange towns like Peter Fonda in Easy Rider. I still constantly find myself curled up in front of the computer screen.
Top 4 Travel Movies
Camino…
…for Saturday reveals a world of long-term, solo…
Vice…
Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones goes looking for some of the world's most sought-after…
1980's / English
Indiana Jones – Complete Adventures
The drama2004 / Spanish…
Two counter-chopes to find the true meaning of…
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A frustrated son (Ewan McGregor)Th…
Necessary Death Of Charlie Countryman…
Hopefully, by now you've watched a few of these inspiring adventure flix and are ready to star in your own travel movie. Your next step will be to get up off the couch and do it. I've put together some travel resources to help plan your trip and a backpacking checklist to make sure you leave home with all the necessary gear for any adventure.
The Mae Hong Son Loop - Thailand's Best Motorbike Adventure
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The Hà Giang Motorbike Loop - A Grand Adventure In North Vietnam
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We need chemical policy reform for the health and safety of all Americans. Guess who's standing in the way?
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) may not be a household name, but its influence on chemical policies has affected millions of Americans. Many chemicals in your household are there because ACC lobbying and advertising has prevented or delayed federal regulation of them.
Of course not all chemicals found in consumer products are dangerous, and "chemophobia" needs to be tempered with science. But there is plenty of evidence that many common chemicals do pose significant health risks to consumers and workers, and we need more effective regulation to address those risks.
The ACC has too often worked to obstruct such regulation, fole, launch misleading advertising campaigns, and pressure decision makers to abandon restrictions on the chemical's use.
A major lobbying force
Fo, the ACC today boasts an annual budget of more than $100 million.te-level lobbying, both directly anACC also has a sizable budget for political contributions to members of Congress. Several members sitting on key committees overseeing chemical policy have received sizable donations from the ACC and its member companies in recent years. And the proverbialhas been spinning hard for the ACC and its member companies: in the 2013-14 election cycle, nearly 70 percent of ACC's registered federal lobbyists had previously held jobs in Congress or in the executive branch.
Pushing against chemical safety reform
ACC influence has been a factor in several recent chemical policy battles:
The Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA, pronounced "Tosca"), though well intentioned, has been remarkably ineffective. In four decades, the EPA has completed reviews and issued bans or restrictions on just nine of the 84,000 chemicals currently registered for commercial use in the U.S.
As a result, many chemicals long known to pose serious health risks, such as formaldehyde and asbestos, are not adequately regulated at the federal level. To fill this gap, many states have issued regulations of their own.
As of our report's release in July 2015, two bills addressing TSCA reform were being considered by Congress. The ACC has endorsed and lobbied for these bills, both of which would pre-empt state regulations, though the House version would give states more freedom to regulate before EPA takes action.
Whatever TSCA reform bill does pass, chemical regulation is still likely to be a slow process: under current proposals, it would take the EPA 50 years or more to assess even 1,000 of the most toxic chemicals in commerce.
Safety at chemical manufacturing facilities
In recent decades there have been about 30,000 documented chemical facility accidents per year, resulting in more than 1,000 deaths. Recent catastrophes such as the plant explosion in West, Texas or the spill at Elk River in West Virginia have demonstrated how devastating such accidents can be for unprepared communities.
Despite the seriousness of this problem, the ACC has worked to limit regulatory oversight of chemical plant safety. As a result, companies are not required to implement technologies that can reduce risk. And chemical facilities can foist responsibility for emergency response onto local communities without ensuring that local authorities have the information or resources they need to respond to a disaster. Compounding the problem, access to information about risks at specific chemical facilities is tightly restricted—and the industry, citing security concerns, has lobbied to keep it that way.
The aftermath of the chemical plant explosion in West, Texas in 2013. Photo: shane.torgerson/Wikimedia Commons
The ACC hasn't confined its lobbying efforts to domestic chemical policy. It has also worked to influence the outcome ofternship (TTIP) agreement.
For instance, ACC has joined other industry groups in targeting EU regulation of pesticides containing endocrine disruptors (EDCs), whichSo far, this effort is paying off: in May 2015, the EU announced that it would delay implementation of a ban on 31 pesticides containing EDCs. A leaked document obtas that this is part of a larger strategy to slow regulatory developments at all levels.
How ACC undermines chemical safety science: five examples
Here are some common hazardous chemicals that the ACC has helped to keep unregulated or under-regulated:
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What it is: A synthetic compound used as an additivs commonly found in many productscompact discs.
Health effects: BPA is an endocrine disrupter that mimics estrogen. Itespecially harmful to children. Animal studies suggest that BPA exposure could lead to reproductRegulatory status: Largely unregulated in the US, but banned or limited ACC's role: The ACC has lobbied against legislation to regulate BPA and has launched The campaign's website refers to several flawed studies and uses misleading quotations to lend seeming scientific authority to the group's own pronouncements.
Photo: Eric/Creative Commons (Flickr)
What they are: A group of chemicals added to furniture, clothing, electronics, and building materials in order to meet flammability standards. (Recent evidence suggests that flame retardants may not in fact be very effective in delaying the spread of fire.)
Health effects: Studies have linked flame retardant exposure to lower IQ in children, early puberty in girls, endocrine disruption, birth defects, and cancer.
Regulatory status: No federal rule governs the use of flame retardants; strict state regulations, especially in California, have had some impact on the industry.
ACC's role: The ACC has responded to California's strong regulation push with a misleading website, relentless lobbying, "astroturf" activism, and industry-sponsored studies, oe of which was published without a required conflict-of-interest disclaimer and has been strongly criticized by leading fire scientists.
Photo: RotorDB/Wikimedia Commons
What it is: A colorless, flammable organic compound used in building materials, medicinal and personal care products, and furnishings.
Health effects: Formaldehyde's status as a human carcinogen addition to the long-term cancer risk, short-term formaldehyde exposure causes nausea, headache, and eye, ear, nose, throat and skin irritation.
Regulatory status: Formaldehyde was one of 62,000 chemicals grandfathered in when the TSCA was first passed in 1976, so testing to establish its safety has never been required, even as evidence of its carcinogenic effects has continued to accumulate.
ACC's role: As with BPA and flame retardants, the ACC has posted a website with misleading information about formaldehyde's health impacts. ACC lobbying has won a five-year delay in EPA implementation of 2010 legislation settingPhoto: gumersindorego/Wikimedia Commons
What it is: Silica (also known as quartz or silicon dioxide) is a very common mineral, used in a variety of building materials such as concrete, bricks, and glass.
Health effects: Silica dust is created when cutting, grinding, drilling, or mining materials containing silica. When this dust is inhaled, it can cause silicosis, a progressive, irreversible, sometimes fatal lung disease.
Regulatory status: Worker exposure is regulated by OSHA, which defines Permissible Exposure Limits (PELs) for silica dust. However, current silica PELs are more than 40 years old, and in recent years OSHA has proposed updating the standards to better protect workers.
ACC's role: In 2013, a group of OSHA opponents, including the ACC, contributed $151,266 to a group of 16 senators—who three months later submitted a letter to OSHA requesting an extension of the hearing process. As of 2015, the silica rule is still tied up in the rule-making process.
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What it is: A building insulation material that can contain harmful chemicals, including diisocyanates.
Health effects: Diisocyanates are respiratory, skin, and mucus membrane toxicants that can cause asthma or trigger severe asthma attacks in sensitive populations.
Regulatory status: As part of its Green Chemistry Initiative, California has added SPF products to a list of priority products that companies are encouraged to avoid in favor of safer alternatives.
ACC's role: The ACC has argued publicly against the inclusion of SPFs on the priority products list, despite scientific evidence of their harmful effects.
Our chemical policies should protect the public, not the chemical industry's profits. The chemical industry and its trade association should be held accountable for their work to influence decision makers and undermine science. The public has the right to know both about the chemicals in the products around us and about industry efforts to influence elected officials and regulators.
Chemical policies should protect the public
Congress should pass legislation to strengthen TSCA so that more chemicals are reviewed and regulated.
The United States should reject any international trade agreement that compromises science-based public health and safety protections concerning chemicals.
The EPA should revise the Risk Management Program (RMP) to prioritize disaster preparedness, prevention, transparency, access to information, and overall industry accountability. Specifically, the agency should
fully utilize web tools and social media to ensure timely, accessible, and public access to RMP information;
require chemical facilities to evaluate, document,ble;
require chemical companies to take greater responsibility for accident response, rather than shifting costs to local governments;
require comprehensive reporting and investigation of all incidents.
The political activities of the ACC and its members need to be more transparenboth their direct and indirect political activities. 1.2 millionEC to do this.
Congress should approve legislation, such as the DISCLOSE Act, enhancing disclosure of indirect political contributions.
Investors and their representatives should pressures companiesg, disclose whether they agree with the scientific and policy positions of their trade and business associations, and influencegroups, or leave groups whose positions do not align with the company's.
Companies should insist that their associations accept the best available science on chemicals and their impacts and adopt policy positions that reflect this acceptance; where their position differs from their trade group's, they should publicly state such differences, attempt the influence the trade group's position from the inside, or leave the group if differences are irreconcilable.
Consumers should hold their congressional leaders and companies accountable by demanding access to information on the effects of chemicals they may be exposed to; where there is strong evidence that chemicals in commercial use have harmful health effects, they should pressure companies to shift to safer ones.
Tricks of the Trade:ns (2014)
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Q: Merge changes from parent branch I created a branch for a new feature, and now i want to pull in any changes from the parent branch/baseline?
--> my branch
I want to pull in any changes to 'my branch' from baseline.
A: If you have unsynced changes (see them with hg incoming), you will have to pull first:
You can allways cancel the merge by doing a hg up --clean
If the merge is ok, then you must commit the result:
hg ci -m 'Merging baseline into my-branch'
Branch created in the same repo usually, "pulling" from "baseline" to "my branch" can be really merge
A: You need to pull the changes from the baseline (parent).
hg log -P
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March 29, 2018 by Iain
Aberdeenshire 7-day trip
Rent from Go Scotland Motorhome hire to enjoy an incredible trip in ‘Scotland’s castle country.’ his east coast trail in your motorhome will see you enjoy the truly stunning array of castles. Breath-taking views and vast history will keep you constantly entertained.
Leave Go Scotland Motorhome Hire’s office and head north over the newly built Forth Road Bridge. From there you will head to Falkland Palace & Garden if you have time (depending on your pick up time), one of Scotland’s finest Renaissance palaces, adored by none other than Mary, Queen of Scots.
Head north following directions for Aberdeen. Your first stop will be the idealis. Visit here in your camper for your own memoran unconquer. From here you will head north from Stonehaven on the A957, that brings you to . Not only is the castle itself fantastic, there are plenty of woodland trails you can explore. Next you will head 5 miles to Drum Castle. This is where you will discover 700 years of history at Drum Castle, Aberdeenshire. Climb the Tower of Drum, walk in the Garden of Historic Roses and wander the Jacobean mansion.
Day three of your motorhome adventure starts at Cit is located just over 15 miles west of Aberdeen, the imposing and distinctive Scottish castle is full of historic stories. From here you continue to head north, taking in all that the Aberdeenshire countryside has to offer. Tolquhon Castle and Haddo House are next on the list, both vastly different but equally beautiful. Tolquhon Castle at Tarves is one of the most aesthetically pleasing castles in the Grampian countryside, while Haddo House is stately and striking,et eyes on it. The surrounding grounds and near by country park has plenty of walks, lakes and monuments. Make sure you check them out before tucking in for the night in your motorhome.
We start in Turriff for day three, so it could be an idea to rent a stop at Boggieshalloch Caravan Site. First stop is Fyvie Castle, which is a pure example of Scottish Baronial architecture. From there continue driving north until you arrive at Delgatie Castle. Don’t let the modern coffee shop fool you, this castle dates from the 11th century and is immersed in Scottish history throughout. Your last stop will finally take you to the coast and the North sea, there you will encounter Kinnaird Head Castle Lighthouse and Museum. Explore the fine castle turned lighthouse, originally built for the Fraser family in the 1500s.
Head along the north coast at the start of day five, unless of course you choose to make the trip across the previous night. Here Spynie Castle awaits with 500 years of history. Spynie is. You will finally be taking your Go Scotland motorhome south, through Elgin and Rothes. Next is Balvenie Castle, whichnitiae influential Comyn family and later amended in the 15th and 16th centuries. After this you will really feel the advantage of being in a camper, heading south through the spectacular Cairngorms towards Braemar Castle. Take this unique opportunity to drive leisurely across the Scottish countryside in your mobile home.
You will want to spend more time gazing at the surroundings at this point of the trip, so make sure you leave with plenty of travel time to spare. Starting day 5 at Braemar Castle which was built in the 1200’s as the seat of the powerful earls of Buchan. This will act as a great warm up for what will undoubtedly be the highlight of your motorhome hire trip, You will want to spend a good few hours here taking in the deep history, enjoying the views, visiting the eatery and of course the gift shop.
(Depending on when your drop off time is).
After you have headed south though the Cairngorms into Perthshire. Take your motorhome to one of the following castles that are on the way back to Go Scotland’s office. Balhousie Castle and museum, which sits on the edge of the North Inch in Perth. The origins of the Castle are to date back to the 12th century, which you can learn all about at their highly rate museum. Dunfermline Abbey, where so. Founded as a priory, it w
Touring Scotland’s most famous castles can be a trip you will never forget.
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This is Amigo who we believe is Etta’s brother. Amigo was also saved from Breasta kill list as a frightened puppy in May 2018.
Amigo is still to date the most scared dog I have ever rescued. When he arrived he spent several days hiding behind his bed, squashed up against the wall. He would literally try and climb the wall to escape us when we went in with him and Etta.
Gradually as the weeks went by he started to trust that we would not hurt him and although he kept his distance he started to come for walks. I remember the first time he jumped up at me when I took in breakfast – it was a real breakthrough moment!
Now every single day he jumps up excitedly for his food and on rare occasions will come up and sniff my hand. He is the most gentle and handsome dog.
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"We're different. We're the same, but we're different," said 18th-year Gonzaga coach Mark Few. "I don't think we pretend or think we're b. t, but we understand we don't have that tradition that dates back 40, 50, 60 years."
"That's gratifying and reassuring. It's earned. It's deserved. It's not like a one-hit wonder, or an anomaly."
"I think we are the best team in the tournament," senior Jordan Mathews said. "If we're David at 37-1, then who wouldn't be David?"
"If you look at history, it would be David vs. Goliath, but you have two No. 1 teams playing in the national championship. It doesn't get any more evenly matched than that."
"If we come out with a win, I'd like to see what everybody has to say," Gonzaga sophomore Josh Perkins said. "If that does happen, I'm not sure what anybody can say."
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I have to leave but something just occurred to me…now is the time to promote school choice. And allow private schools to open…and push tax credits for parent that want to take their kids out of public schools. Take those tax credits from federal funds.
Now I know the democrat congress won’t pass it…but will put them on defensive.
School choice is a good idea. I sent mine to Christian University(There really weren’t private k-12 schools in the rural area we lived in) and my middle daughter and husband are sending theirs to private Christians schools from preschool through college!
Take those tax credits from federal funds.
Why federal? It should be local.
Aren’t k-12 schools mostly paid for by local taxes?
Were people homeschooling anyway because of an epidemic then?
They’re doing it anyway. What better time?
I don’t really have a problem with tax credits for people that want to homeschool equal to their annual direct contributions to public schools.
#1 I disagree that it should come from Federal funds as individual schools divisions receive only - on average - about 10% of overall funding from federal sources and those are typically targets to low income and special education. But if there are to be 1:1 credits it should be based on the taxing agency not absorbed by FedGov.
#2 To take such a credit, the child should be formally removed from public education responsibility and the parent sign legally binding notification that the school system will no longer be required to maintain infrastructure to support the child (classroom space, transportation, extra curricular activities, etc.) and that parents cannot re-enroll the student in public schools for two years calendar years or the completion of the second school year after any school year in which the credit was claimed.
Basically if the student is withdrawn, the public school system funding should go down and the school division therefore isn’t responsible anymore.
How about the people wanting to send their kids to private schools get jobs to pay for it instead of taking money from the taxpayers? And if their jobs don’t pay enough then take Ivanka advice and “do something else”.
go for it just dont ask for any special tax credits.
A tax credit is typically a 1:1 reduction of tax owed for the subject of the credit.
That helps clarify it for for me. Thanks. As long as its not a tax credit higher then i have no issues.l but i still have a feeling people can game the system.
I just dont want my tax dollars subsidzing someone who wants to send their kids to private school.
Funding public schools i have no issue with
Typically a “deduction” is a reduction in taxable income on which the tax is then calculated. A “credit” is a reduction in the tax owed. Credits typically have a bigger impact on bottom-line taxes when compared to a deduction.
About 8 and half percent of schools funding comes from federal government if myu memory serves me correct.
Use it. Also have mixed online and class room education to lower the cost as well.
Time is ripe for private schools. If teacher unions want to punish Trump and Trump supporters by holding people kids hostage…then now is perfect time to make that push.
My sister was - her kids have been home schooled their entire academic career.
And they still have to pay taxes on public schools.
I was homeschooled k-12. I wouldn’t do it to my children.
If I ever have kids, I’ll probably send them to school rather than homeschool. Ideally, I’d like to send them to a good private school, depending on how I’m doing financially.
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ing for collar up to 4.5cm wide (don't forget to allow for buckles and D-rings etc) </s> “The penalties are getting so harsh that they are almost taking the characters out of cricket ,” feels Nel. © AFP
With the way cricket is now, do you think it is losing out on characters such as yourself?
The rules have also changed so much that you cannot be a character anymore. You have to be quite restrained, you can’t do as much anymore. It does make it difficult to have characters in cricket these days. But there’s so much talent that that almost overpowers the characters. I can probably name the characters on the fingers of one hand. That’s a sad thing. . Yes, there are a lot of people watching, lot more kids and you have to note that and be sensible about that. But it would be nice to see a bit more characters, it’s more fun watching guys – not sledging it out but having a little go at each other. Something different is always exciting to see. I’m very sad to see not as many characters in the game anymore.
I always wanted to get the best players out. Yes I might fail, but if I can get him out, I know I can compete at that level.
(Laughs) I was about to say that! I wouldn’t have played a lot of matches. I think it’s a good thing, but also these days you should try to push the boundaries. They’re all too scared to push the boundaries. Rules are there to be pushed. Not bent, but pushed to the limit.
Yes, it’s a good thing. Manages players better, and less trouble. More respect for players and for kids and people seeing it. That’s a good thing but it takes away a little bit of the characters. It would be nice to see some characters coming out and pushing the boundaries more. I know I wouldn’t have played a lot. But I also know that if I hadn’t done that, I would never be as decent a player that I was. Some good, some bad. I guess that’s what life is about.
I think it’s a brilliant contest. The Indian batsmen have equipped themselves really well with the bouncy wickets. They also are a lot younger and tend to take the battle on now. They don’t back down. It’s the nature of Kohli as captain. He likes a battle and it rubs off on all his players and the team.
Do you see an evolution in the Indian team from the time you played them to the current side?
It’s different eras. Different wickets, different conditions, different kind of bowlers, different mentality of winning Test matches. We hadn’t played as much T20 cricket. Now the batting rates are much quicker than then. Different eras, it’s hard to compare. The game has developed so quickly so big that you can’t compare. You had Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag. Brilliant players, but you can’t compare them. There’s always been good players. If you sit them down and compare eras, they’ll be just as good as each other.
“I don’t think I was angry, I can’t even remember what I said to him. These things are probably in the heat of the moment and battle, and after it was done, I forgot about it straightaway.” © AFP
Are you aware of Sreesanth’s status now?
It’s the funniest thing, how the name started. We played in England, one of our technical guys in the team, said sometimes when I bowl… You know when German guys go to the mountains, and they don’t get enough oxygen to the brain, they go slightly loopy. He said when I bowl, it looks like I get lack of oxygen to the brain and I go loopy. So we nicknamed me Gunther. do anything. So it helped me because the press helped me talk myself up and make myself more aggressive than I wanted to be. But no, he never comes out! He disappears. He hardly ever comes out (laughs).
Donald will always be my role model as a paceman and a person. Shaun Pollock and me – it’s almost like opposite attracts. He is a quiet guy and I’m crazy.
(Laughs) It’s funny, you guys have
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La rivière du Calumet est un Il conflue avec la rivière des Outaouais.
côté est : rivière du Calumet Est ;
côté sud : rivière des Outaouais ;
côté ouest : rivière Rouge.
Le lac Wilson (altitude : ) constitue le principaldu Calumet.
La rivière du Calumet coule vers le sud surtout en milieu forestier, sauf une zone agricole dans la partie inférieure. La rivière du Calumet:
en amont du hameau Calumet, de Grenville Bay, de l'embouchure de la rivière Kingham et du village de Grenville ;
en aval du village Pointe-au-Chêne et de la Petite rivière Saumon.
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breeds at all. He comes from a long line of original village dogs."
Maybe not. There are only so many ways that canine parts CAN look -- and these "looks" can occur in any dog. A dog doesn't have to "get" his black and tan markings, or prick ears, or curled tail from some purebred. A non-purebred is entitled to the same basic canine genes and canine characteristics as a purebred is.
You can't accurately guess which ones.
You're concerned, because you've read that terriers can be energetic, noisy, and stubborn. You reject the puppy.
But what you don't know is that this particular Fox Terrier mother was one of the calmest, quietest, and most obedient dogs you could ever hope to find. She was not typical of her breed. Perhaps her puppy may have been the same way.
Now here's an example from the other side of the fence...
You're looking at a puppy at the animal shelter. The shelter manager assures you that the puppy is a Saint Bernard mix -- he personally saw the mother, he says, and she was a purebred Saint Bernard.
You're looking at a "Pek-a-poo" puppy. His father was a Pekingese, his mother was a Poodle. You know for sure that both of them act normal for their breed, because they live next door to you.
You can't get around it. Non-purebred dogs are unpredictable.
Now, I don't mean they're unpredictable as DOGS, as though you can't tell what they're going to DO from day to day! No, no! All I mean is that you cannot look at a non-purebred puppy and predict what he will grow up to look like and act like.
of course, is finding him!
But many purebreds were specifically BRED to have those temperaments and behaviors because they aided the breed's performance of his work. In non-purebreds, extreme temperaments and behaviors are by happenstance rather than deliberate design.
Many people are reluctant to spend $500 or $1000 for a purebred dog. You can get a non-purebred at the animal shelter for $25 to $75. Classified ads in the newspaper may charge the same, or may even give their puppies away free.
With all of the problems purebred dogs are facing, breeders do not have a compelling argument that you're automatically getting a better dog for all that money.
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Yesterday was spent traveling for the most part. I wasn't home until around two in the morning, by which time I was rather exhausted. It was a good trip though, and I'm glad that we agreed to do it. We weren't sure if we were since we don't know when the move will be – but since it's still going to be a few months, I'm glad we did. It'd been way too long since we last saw each other!
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Merak, A. J. (pseudonym of John Glasby). DARK ANDROMEDA. London: Panther Books, [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An ace saboteur is given a desperate mission: destroy an alien armada from the constellation Andromeda that plans to attack Earth. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 99. Harbottle and Holland A201. Reginald 06017. Spine panel lightly spotted, pulpy text paper just a bit tanned at margins, a very good copy in bright, very good or somewhat better dust jacket with light wear at edges. (#146475).
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«Sans nouvelles»de son client, Mohamed Ould M’Kheitir, un blogueur condamné à mort en 2014 pour apostasie, dont la peine a été réduite à 2 ans de prison à la faveur d’un repentir constaté en appel le 9 novembre 2017, maître Fatimata M’Baye, conseil constitué du jeune homme, est déterminée à faire bouger les lignes.
Ce, dans un contexte où les autorités de Nouakchott campent sur la version«d’une détention administrative quelque part à Nouakchott, pour assurer la sécurité de Mohamed Ould M’Kheitir».
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Caroline Co. man charged in connection with false imprisonment incident
A Maryland man is in custody several days.
Henry Kulesza, 57, of Federalsburg is charged with false imprisonmentMaryland State Police say they received a call Thursday morning from a women saying that Kulesza held her against her will for two days, assaulted her and threatened her with a chainsaw. Investigators say that the woman was able to escape the residence on the 7000 block of Reliance Road in Federalsburg after Kulesza fell asleep.
When officers arrived, Kulesza had already fled but was found by troopers Thursday afternoon and surrendered without incident.
Police also discovered that Kulesza was a fugitive from Virginia for weapons charges and now Virginia authorities are requesting he be extradited.
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https://www.wmdt.com/2018/06/caroline-co-man-charged-in-connection-with-false-imprisonment-incident/753249103/
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delivered to right eyes only. Group B: Ten-week-old, LHBETATAG mice received a single subconjunctival injection of anecortave acetate (600, 300, and 150 μg) delivered to right eyes only, either during a cycle of carboplatin (six subconjunctival deliveries) or after the completed cycle. Carboplatin was delivered at the subtherapeutic concentration of 62.5 μg.– anecortave acetate –300 μg) PDF is available to Subscribers Only
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How the Biden Administration Can Save the Census
By Alex Tausanovitch December 3, 2020, 9:03 am
The census provides the only comprehensive data on the American people. When businesses decide where to open and expand, when the military decides where to focus recruitment, or when local governments decide where to build new schools, they all rely on census data. Tre perhaps uniquely dependent on the census because accurate census data are absolutely essential to measuring any kind of societal progress—on issues including education, crime, and the rate of new COVID-19 infections, to name just a few.
And yet, the census could be on a path toward disaster. U.S. Census Bureau employees are dedicated experts, but they have come up against unprecedented challenges. They have had to collect census data during a global pandemic on an extraordinarily compressed timeline while also facing unprecedented levels of political interference. The COVID-19 pandemic put the census months behind with data collection, which was delayed because census workers were scheduled to go door to door just as the pandemic began to escalate dramatically. Rather than ask Congress for an extension of the deadlines to collect and finalize the data, as U.S. Department of Commerce and Census Bureau officials had initially requested,1 the Trump administration reversed course and is now racing to pack five months’ worth of data processing and error correction into two months—raising bureau concerns that serious errors may not be fixed.2
Furthermore, this review should —at a minimum, biweekly disclosures of any problems uncovered or remedial measures recommended, with more frequent updates if warranted. Regular, comprehensive updates will help with the critical task of restoring trust in the census.
2. Rescind previous executive actions In Julym that violated the law and the Constitution by seeking to remove undocumented immigrants from census data for the purpose of apportionment.9 In October, a three-judge federal court in California concluded that this policy “has.”10 In September, a three-judge panel in New York found that the memorandum “exceeded the authority granted to [the president] by Congress,”d the constitution.11November 30 in its review of the three-judge decision in New York.12
liberations, the Biden administration should rescind the presidential memorandum and ensure that apportionment counts, and all other census data, include every person residing in the United States. Since the first census was conducted in 1790, the government has always included noncitizens when determining seats in the House of the Representatives13 and should continue to do so. Moreover, the Biden administration shothe U.S. Department of Commerce with data on immigration status beyond what the Census Bureau has previously collected.14ripled the number of political appointees at the Census Bureau from three to nine, injecting additional political interference into an agency that had previously been overwhelmingly guided by career professionals.15 At the end of the current administration, the Biden administration should eliminate those additional political appointments and restore the agency to its previous status, with only three roles filled by political appointees: census director, associate director of communications, and chief of congressional affairs.16
4. Convene a commission of experts to recommend longer-term changes to ensure that the Census Bureau undergoes lasting reform in preparation for 2030 and beyond.
Addressing problems with the current census should be an urgent priority. But the incoming Biden administration must alsCensus Bureau is set up to succeed over the next decade and into the future. That means addressing recurring, long-term problems with the census, including the difficulty planning a 10-year census on a one-year budget cycle, consistently inadequate resources,17 the regular specter of political interference, and a crisis of trust.18 It also means addressing areas where the census can continue to do better, keeping pace with technological change,ty engagement, and getting closer to ensuring that every person—even those living in the hardest-to-reach communities—is accurately counted.
The Biden administration should convene a presidential commission to recommend long-term reforms to the Census Bureau. To be most effective, the commission should include a diverse set of stakeholders, including leading experts in relevant fields, users of census data, representatives of undercounted populations, advocates for transparency, and individuals who can speak to the inclusiveness of both the data-collection process and the census questionnaire. The commission members should be charged with issuing a report, within six months of convening, that details both procedural and structural changes in preparation for the 2030 census. As necessary, they should consult with additional experts as well as with the existing census advisory committees—measures that can be implemented unilaterally by the president as well as measures that would require congressional action. Topics for the commission’s deliber
Freedom from political interference. While the Census Bureau should be receptive to public feedback, it should also be insulated from inappropriate political pressure. Bureau employees should be assured that those who attempt to interfere with their work for political gain will be held accountable.
Given the number of high-profile issues facing the incoming Biden administration, prioritizing the census early on may seem a lot to ask. However, ensuring an accurate census iover the next 10 years in a multitude of ways. Prioritizing the census will ensure that representation in Congress is fairly allocated. It will also guarantee that more than $1.5 trillion in annual census-guided federal funds are fairly spent;19 ensure that businesses can make countless decisions, large and small, based on reliable information; and enable the administration to reliably know if the American people are better or worse off. All this is only possible if the administration has reliable data.
Press release, April 13, 2020, available acovid-19-2020. ↩
Hansi Lo Wang, “Leak Reveals Warnings Inside Census That Shortened Schedule Risks ‘Serious Errors’,” NPR, September 2, 2020, available at https://www.npr.org/2020/09/02/908852878/leak-reveals-warnings-inside-census-that-shortened-schedule-risks-serious-errors. ↩
Michael Wines and Emily Bazelon, “Census Officials Say They Can’t Meet Trump’s Deadline for Population Count,” The New York Times, November 191/19/us/2020-census-data.html. ↩
2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act, S. 4571, 116th Cong., 2nd sess. (September 15571/text. ↩” ↩
American Statistical Association, “” (Alexandria, VA: 2020), available at f. ↩
Executive Office of the President,: Memorandum for the Secretary of Commerce,” Federal Register 85 (142) (2020): 44679–443/2020-16216/excluding-illegal-aliens-from-the-apportionment-base-following-the-2020-census. ↩
Hansi Lo Wang, “Court Blocks Trump’s Attempt To Change Who Counts For Allocating House Seats,” NPR, September 100/908768472/court-blocks-trumps-attempt-to-change-who-counts-for-allocating-house-seats. ↩
Hansi Lo Wang, “2nd Court Blocks Trump’s Push To Alter Census Ahead Of Supreme Court Review,” NPR, October 22, 2020, available at https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/919063603/2nd-court-blocks-trumps-push-to-alter-census-ahead-of-supreme-court-review. ↩
Steven Shepard, “,” Politico, October 1 ↩
Hansi Lo Wang, “s,” N/2020/10/16/917713444/supreme-court-speeds-up-case-on-trumps-push-to-alter-census-for-house-seats. ↩,” July 11,llecting-information-citizenship-status-connection-decennial-census/. ↩
Hansi Lo Wang, “Census,” NPR, September 30, 2020, available https://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/916526935/census-bureau-gets-4th-trump-appointee-in-3-months-as-count-nears-end; Hansi Lo Wang, “Trump Appointees Join Census Bureau; Democrats Concerned Over Partisan ‘Games’,” NPR, June 23, 2020, available https://www.npr.org/2020/06/23/882433973/trump-appointees-join-census-bureau-democrats-concerned-over-partisan-games/. ↩(Washington: 2016), p. 2. ↩
Benjamin Chevat and Terri Ann Lowenthal, “Meeting the Challenges of the 2020 Censupp. 10–145/03/03/106224/meeting-the-challenges-of-the-2020-census/. ↩
Sam Levine and Madeleine Gregory, “‘A perfect storm’: US census imperiled by Trump rhetoric and growing distrust,” The Guardian, January us-census-trump-rhetoric-distrust-undercount. ↩
Andrew Reamer, “B), Part B: State Estimates%202020%20-%20Comprehensive%20Accounting_Report%207B%20Feb%202020%20rev.pdf. ↩
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time of the night and this place, and flying so low, it could not be an airplane. There was absolutely no sounds and the night was beautiful and clear. Also the trajectory of this craft was like nothing we have ever seen. So then we thought, oh, it's a helicopter. But no helicopter in the world has such lights and with no sound whatsoever, even in such a remote place and at this time. Also it flew like a plane but hovered like an helicopter with extremely intense lights, so we thought it must be a human craft because human need lights in the night, but this light was extreme.
It was like a series or rows of projectors in front of this craft, at about one hundred meters in front of us traveling at a speed of 25 miles an hour. We also were in the car and traveling with open windows. When we saw it, we reduced speed as it flew right toward us. It was like the craft was following the road, yet still coming toward us and then it turned slightly right above us. The light became more intense on every side, then it suddenly took off at an enormous rate of speed and disappeared, with no lights, it just vanished. Also there was no hills and it could not have vanished just like that. The size of theobject was maybe fifty meters and it was the size of a Boeing Jetliner.
The next day we asked if there are planes landing, no planes at all and also not every day of the week and surely only twice a day morning and afternoon but not at 3:00 am in the morning. If you ask me what this craft was doing there, there is no question that for sure it is around there often, and for sure it must have a resting place. But it was not at all hostile. It was as surprised as us to see us there in front of each other now. I just remembered our car had very bad light so our car lights were very dim, so it was not afraid of us. But for sure it has identified us before, we did it so there are some more information tell you later some more must recollect the facts. I don't know how to do a diagram on the com I am not good enough with computers. </s> Individuals that sign up to receive NYCTTPWtechtalentpipeline.nyc/techtalentpipeline.nyc, so Whttp://techtalentpipeline.nyctechtalentpipeline.nyc domain, and the WDre is now a 4 die <b>PennyPressProfits</b> machine at this location, it replaces the single die Eurolink machine that was removed in 2009. The new machine requires £1 per design<p> <b>Machine 2 designs</b>: Each have a text message and a solid ring border<br> 1) (h) I Saw the Birds of Prey at The Scottish Deer Centre, img of Falcon...<br> 2) (h) I Saw the Wolves at The Scottish Deer Centre, img of Wolf...<br> 3) (h) I Saw the Otters at The Scottish Deer Centre, img of Otter...<br> 4) (v) I Saw the Deer at The Scottish Deer Centre, img of Deer...<p> There has been a 4 die machine in place over the festive period, this had festive designs. No details are known, but hopefully it will return each year. <p> <b>Retired machine</b><p> A single die Eurolink machine was removed in 2009. <br> The design was a leaping Stag, The Scottish Deer Centre, Cupar, Fife in text and a dotted border.
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. Nice bit of grey with a flash of neon which is all the rage at the mo. The arm belongs to Valerie Boster, bookings editor at American Vogue. She says about one of her bangles "I've had the Hermès cuff for ages and I adore it because I haven’t been so precious with it" alright for some eh?!
Have a look on her website for more work, plus paintings and architectural projects.
I am enjoying the email marketing for Bourne and Hollingsworth’s new pop up bar... a series of clues to the where abouts of the location. More about it here.
Hattie Stewart - Illustrator
You might well recongise her, I think she must have done a lot of things around town and t-shirt illustration etc. You can buy prints of her work from a cool shop on Kingsland Road. 3939 which is also online here. See more of Hatties illustration on her site.
Arctic Monkeys new one...
'ow 'ansome does our Alex look in this video? obviously a lot of film and lighting tricks in there, sorry Alex, but still. Great hair.
Did you ever make butterfly pictures...
I love his prints! This would look great as a homeware print.... His line for Topshop available on Friday.
A friend took me here at last weekend, just off Vauxhall roundabout of all places. It was really nice, apparently the antiques dotted around change all the time depending on what has been bought. The food looked really good and the cocktails definitely got me pissed. Apparently its owned by the brother of whoever it is who owns Franks on Peckham Rye carpark. You can read more about it here, which is where I stole the image from.
Shag-tastic
Tamar Levine Photography
Found these images via All the Mountains blog. Lots more images on Tamar's site.
Orange and cream/tan
I noticed a small theme over at Need Supply. Cream/tan and orange. I like. </s> The 2009/2010 season started in late November and the weather forecast looked good enough for the 27th of November. Robbie, with whom I had drytooled two weekends as Newtyle and climbed minus one direct in summer, was also happy to do Mitre ridge as his first winter climb. I got up at 3 am, picked up Robbie at 3.30 am and we started to cycle in at 7 am. It was well below zero and there was ice on the path. At 7 we saw that Beinn a Bhuird was covered with lots of snow from 700 m upwards allowing us to cycle nearly to the point where a rougher path ascends to the Sneck. The winds were less than forecast and we walked into Garbh Choire and through deep powder to arrive at a very white Mitre ridge at 9.30 am. Here is Robbie entering the corrie...
Pitch 1 was a 50 m chimney line at tech 4/5. The turf wasn't frozen but it was mainly hooking the broken granite under a lot of powder. Here is me approaching the shoulder on the impressive West face that is hidden on the approach. Cumming Crofton is the large open book corner to the right and Slochd wall, the new winter desperate even further right.
We climbed the short crux wall direct. There were only small potrusions for the front point and marginal hooks. I ensured to keep the front points in position, gently stepped up and after a breathhold found a reasonable hook and stepped up. The easy looking slabs, a hackfest if neve is present, were tenuous, often poorly protected and slow because a lot of powder had to be removed. Here is Robbie lost in a white void.
The belay was a corner with two reassuring pegs that showed that we were on the right line and to the left was the splintered chimney. The traverse on deep powder on slabs seemed trickier than the chimney itself which had meaty hooks and good gear. Here is me climbing the splintered chimney.
Above the turf was frozen but finding the turf under the powder was another matter because only the longest blades of grass were visible. A steep corner followed and then a traverse on a half-foot wide ledge to a run out, delicate, diagonal line to another corner and then a good belay behind two rocks. It was 14.30 h and because it would start to get dark at 15.30 h we decided not to do Bell's variation but ascended the Tower on the Eastern side to reach the belay above the very steep West wall. For the final ridge I ran the rope to the left and right of the mini towers instead of gear and then made another delicate traverse to the col. Here is Robbie belaying above Bell's variation.
I agreed Robbie to just walk off onto the plateau making sure not to pull too hard so that Robbie would not be pulled off one of the Towers.
HWGTO - Volume 17 is the sevenya GI peeps, It's Tuesday and it's another
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