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This was also the time when I got to see and meet these street musicians. Not only did they play good music, but they also looked the part. One of them had such beautiful long straight hair that even girls would feel proud of it. And I met one more guy who not only had long hair, but had also painstakingly braided it to such extents that he can never remove the braids but cut it in case he wanted his natural hair back.
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en | N/A | N/A | rian Glanville, the English author and soccer writer, headed up an investigation in the early 1970s for the _Sunday Times_ newspaper. The investigation discovered that a Hungarian agent, Dezso Solti, was working to fix matches for the Italian team Juventus. Glanville and his colleagues revealed that Solti had invited a Portuguese referee to meet him in his hotel room before a European Cup semi-final. When the referee showed up, Solti had an attractive blonde woman on his arm and offered the referee a car if he helped Juventus into the final. Barin seems to be from the same man-of-the-world mould as Solti: a sophisticated, multilingual fixer from the former Soviet empire, Barin dresses immaculately in finely cut suits. You could imagine him showing up at a referee's door with a blonde on one arm. The difference is that Barin would be providing the referee with the blonde.
For years, Barin provided referees and club owners with women, gifts, and bribes all in an attempt to help his French client clubs with European success. He established a financial network across two continents with bank payments to accounts in Zagreb, Switzerland, and Vienna. Barin knew how to fix games. He had style, a worldly knowledge, and ability to judge human nature. And on July 11, 1995, he gave the ultimate insider's tutorial in match-fixing in an office room in a Marseilles courthouse to French magistrate Pierre Philipon.
Barin claims his match-fixing began in 1981 when Claude Bez, the president of Girondins de Bordeaux, watched his beloved soccer club lose yet another UEFA Cup game on a disputed penalty from an allegedly bought referee. After the game, Barin turned to a disappointed Bez and said, "If you want us to win, you've got to make a move and do what all the others do." Bez said, "Okay."
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When a club asks me to look after the referees, it is not because I work as a translator. But, for sure, because I can influence the referees. It was important for me to organize a favourable atmosphere for the referees before a match. To accommodate them, to make sure they were well-received, give them gifts. You have to know which of the referees have children, so when they leave, they leave with well-packed suitcases.
In other words, Barin bribed referees. He gave them fur coats, Rolex watches, perfume, expensive clothes, and stylish pens. Barin also worked for Olympique de Marseille, owned by the charismatic businessman Bernard Tapie. Barin recounted that they often met the referees before the matches on Tapie's yacht.
I remember one occasion when a referee was on the _Phocéa_ , Bernard Tapie's yacht, and he remarked that it was a nice watch on Tapie's wrist. The next morning that referee got a gift of that type of watch... I believe that it was a British referee, but I don't remember which match he acted in.
When Barin was working for Bordeaux, they ran two sets of accounts: the first, the legitimate and public account; the second, the secret blackmarket accounts where they hid money from the French tax authorities. To get money for the black-market accounts, they fiddled the books on the international transfer of players. For example, they would declare publicly that a player would cost 7 million francs; however, the _real_ cost would actually be much less: 3.5 million francs. Then they would take the 3.5 million off their books and put it in secret slush funds. Using these methods, Barin built a trail of secret bank accounts across Europe. It is his claim that the money in those accounts was used to bribe referees and teams in at least sixteen European games for Bordeaux and dozens of transfers for the two teams. However, in the early 1990s, the whole scheme began to unravel. He claims now that he was caught up in a series of political and economic manoeuvres. Bernard Tapie was considered a left-wing politician, so the right wing came after him.
French magistrates tell a different story. Under the French legal system, there is a role that does not exist in English common law: prosecuting magistrate. They can be remarkable investigators, launching independent inquiries with resources and power that most police forces simply cannot match. One of them began to question the hundreds of millions of taxpayers' money that went to help support the Bordeaux soccer club. Then other magistrates began to investigate the fix that Bernard Tapie and Olympique de Marseille arranged against a struggling northern club, Valenciennes. (They set up the fix without using Barin, which was a big mistake.) Barin, who at the time was one of the biggest player-agents in international soccer, was drawn into the investigation. He refused to submit voluntarily to a cross-examination by the French magistrates and a European arrest warrant was issued. Between 1992 and the winter of 1995, Barin was an international fugitive from justice. There were a series of dramatic escapes in hotels, and rumours that he was tipped off before police raids in Graz in Austria and at the Novotel Hotel in Bordeaux. Finally, on February 23, 1995, German police caught up with him at Düsseldorf airport. He was arrested and extradited to France.
The French magistrates, thinking of the trouble they had taken to get Barin, kept him in prison for five months. It shook himsting the "inhumane conditions." It was all to no avail. Softened up by his time in prison, Barin appeared before Pierre Philipon on July 11, 1995, promising to tell all if he was released from jail. The hearing featured a dramatic meeting between Barin and Jean-Pierre Bernès, the former general manager of Olympique de Marseille. After four and half hours, a shaken Gilbert Collard, Bernès's lawyer, came out of the room and said, "Mr. Barin has pointed the finger at the entire organization of world football. It is a system of giant corruption that it is no longer possible to ignore. This dossier is going to touch upon other investigations which will go in all sorts of directions.... There is going to be a tidal wave that is going to submerge the world of football."
What had shaken Collard was that Barin was not only giving a tutorial in his match-fixing methods, but he was also providing the investigators with receipts, exact financial amounts, and numbers of illicit bank accounts. Between Jean-Pierre Bernès and himself, Barin revealed that Olympique de Marseille's match-fixing was more than simply a one-off event; it was a pattern of consistent and constant corruption. They had created special slush funds totalling 5 to 6 million francs a year to fix certain key, usually European, matches. At Bordeaux, Claude Bez had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and cash payments to referees.
Among other specific examples, Barin and Bernès talked about arranging matches between AEK Athens and Olympique de Marseille in the European Cup in October and November 1989. To fix the first game, which was played in Athens, they claimed they paid the players of the opposing team to lose. The day before the match, Bernès transferred 1.76 million francs into a Swiss bank account controlled by a Panamanian company led by Greek businessman Spiros Karageorgis, who had connections to AEK Athens. For the return match in Marseilles, Barin was in charge of taking care of the referee, Helmut Kohl of Austria. Barin said, "M. Kohl was a big friend of mine. He died in 1992 of cancer. He was employed by the Austrian postal system. He was in financial difficulties. I relayed him the sum of 310,000 French francs or 698,190 Austrian schillings to his Austrian account on the 10 November 1989."
There were other revelations: receipts purportedly for bribes of 100,000 Deutschmarks to the German referee and linesmen in a European Cup tie; Italian officials being approached before a Marseille match against the Danish team Brondby (there is no evidence that they took any money); and bribes paid to the Russian team Spartak Moscow in the semi-final of the European Cup in 1991. |
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Riding a modern e-bike is an addicting feeling. I’ve found that when I’m riding, my mind often starts sewing plans that will get me, and everyone I know, spending more time in the saddle. A similar experience set wheels in motion at Oregon E-Bikes.
Oregon-E Bikes is a sister store to Big Winds, one of the largest windsurfing, kiteboarding and stand up paddleboarding product and accessory outfits in the United States. Both shops are located in downtown Hood River, OR.
Steve Gates, owner and founder of Big Winds, is an avid adventurer, strong as an ox and stubborn when he needs to be. In May of 2016, Steve was in the middle of chemotherapy and an all-out assault on cancer. Still, he didn’t want chemo to prevent him from doing the things he loves, and he started thinking that an e-bike might help him to stay connected with his family and the outdoors. When he started shopping around he found that, in many stores, the e-bikes were positioned in a forgotten corner in the back of the shop. As a retail store owner for 30 years, Steve was disappointed when he felt that his only option was buying online. He also sensed an opportunity.
Steve eventually found an e-bike, and he and his family immediately started logging miles. They were hooked, and they wanted to get the whole town on board. Hood River is a community that’s built on a hill. The town is an oversized auditorium that looks out at beautiful Mt. Adams and the Columbia River Gorge. Biking from downtown to the neighborhood known as “The Heights” will get even Hood River’s fittest residents huffing and puffing. For a town of it’s size, Hood River is home to a disproportionately large number of world-class athletes and, still, most residents find bike commuting impractical. Avid mountain biker, kiteboarder, surfer and Hood River local Gabi Carroll explained: “After work, I don’t usually want to sweat it out so I try to find creative ways to get up the hill without having to use a car.”
Big Winds managers Jodie Gates and Matt Morrow started thinking about all of their friends and coworkers who prefer to bike instead of drive. They recognized how many of their neighbors resort to driving their cars when they’re running late or have stuff to transport. Compared with cars, e-bikes are kinder to the environment, more economical, better for the rider’s health, easier on the town’s infrastructure and more fun to ride — while being fast and equipped to haul cargo. It seemed like the perfect solution.
Steve and the team envisioned Oregon E-Bikes as a sidecar attached to Big Winds, and they started sketching out plans. In March of 2017, Big Winds blew a hole in the front wall of their retail store to make room for an addition that would house the new bike shop. Oregon E-Bike’s official opening was in May of 2017. Jodie, Matt, and Steve are dedicated to getting Hood River residents out of their cars, and they’ve seen steady progress toward this goal since opening the store.
One of Jodie’s unofficial roles at Oregon E-Bikes is getting new riders hooked on the products. When she took me out to test ride a Faraday Cortland, we went straight to the base of notorious 7th Street, the steepest climb in town and the last place I want to find myself when I’m on a bike. With my Cortland in “boost mode,” I flew to the the top of the hill. I didn’t have to snake or switchback, and I was amazed when I found myself at the top without dripping in sweat. While it’s fun to describe the experience of riding a Faraday for the first time, you really have to try it yourself and experience their “Sweat Less. Smile More.” motto first-hand. If you’re lucky enough to find yourself in Hood River, stop by and say hello to the Oregon E-Bikes team.
No matter how you feel about the kids heading back to class this year, dreading the drop-off line is a universal emotion. Here are a few e-bikes and accessories to load up your offspring, score cool parent points, and kick off the day Riding Happy.
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Abstract : The Shapley value is defined as the average marginal contribution of a player, taken over all possible ways to form the grand coalition $N$ when one starts from the empty coalition and adds players one by one. The authors have proposed in a previous paper an allocation scheme for a general model of coalition formation where the evolution of the coalition of active players is ruled by a Markov chain, and need not finish at the grand coalition. The aim of this note is to develop some explanations in the general context of time discrete stochastic processes, exhibit new properties of the model, correct some inaccuracies in the original paper, and give a new version of the axiomatization. |
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en | N/A | N/A | Anomaly detection is an important quality control method used in many industries. Two areas where this technique is used are in the manufacturing of new products and the inspection of existing goods. With recent advances in hardware and state-of-the-art deep learning techniques, much of this can be automated. Here we present a recent effort to detect anomalous objects from raw pixels in a pill capsule manufacturing setting.
We would like to automatically detect the presence of foreign objects in a manufacturing setting for capsules. The capsules move along a conveyor belt and are visible for inspection. A camera, positioned above the belt, points straight down and captures a number of images per second as the pills move along with the belt. Figure 1 shows three images from this scenarios: pills on the belt with no anomaly (left), with a foreign object present, and with an anomaly present (right).
Figure 1: Examples of capsules on a conveyor belt. Left – no anomalies present. Center – a foreign object is present. Right – Anomalous capsules are present.
We would like to create a model which analyzes every frame taken by the camera, computes the location and likelihood of anomalies, and presents this information in a human-parsable format.
To capture these anomalies, we are going to train a convolutional autoencoder (CAE) to reproduce our training images. A CAE is a neural network consisting of two parts: an encoder, which transforms the original image into an encoding of lower dimensionality via a series of convolutional layers, and a decoder, which transforms the encoding back to a tensor with the same size as the original image via a series of transposed convolutional layers. A high-level representation of this type of network is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: High-level architecture of a concolutional autoencoder.
CAEs are trained by feeding an input image into the network, calculating the error between the reconstructed image and the input image, and propagating this error backwards through the network to update the invididual neuron weights. Because the error is defined as the difference between the entire input and output images, CAEs have the convenient advantage of not requiring labeled data.
However, when training a CAE to detect anomalies, some care must be taken when choosing training images. The general strategy for anomaly detection is: overtrain the CAE to reproduce commonly-seen objects as accurately as possible. In this way, any other objects that the network has not seen before (or has not seen many of) will be reproduced poorly by the network. Note that this is different than usual machine learning applications, where oftentimes the goal is to have the model generalize well to as-yet-unseen inputs. When comparing the input and output of a reconstructed image with an anomalous object, the pixels in the vicinity of the object will have a larger error than the rest of the image.
The strategy for choosing training images is to therefore obtain a large number of images containing the usual objects without any anomalies (in effect, low variance). For this application, we collected a few thousand images of capsules on a conveyor belt and trained our CAE until the error rate did not improve for 20 epochs in a row.
Figure 3: Model architecture optimization. Left – total reconstruction error of the image. Center – error in the vicinity of the anomaly. Right – anomaly error divided by total error.
Another important factor is to choose the smallest encoding possible while still being able to accurately reproduce the commonly-seen objects. Being able to accurately reproduce the common objects results in a low total image reconstruction error, and using a small encoding ensures that the network has a difficult time reproducing anomalies. We chose an encoding size of 20 x 12 x 12 not because it has the absolute lowest error, but because it had the largest relative anomaly error.
Figure 3 shows the optimization process we used to determine this size. The total reconstruction error of the image, along with the error of the image in the vicinity of the anomaly, are plotted as functions of the number of convolutional layers in the network. As expected, the total and anomaly errors decrease as the size of the encoding increases since the network is able to store more information in this encoding. However, the maximum ratio of anomaly to total error occurs for a distinct combination of network layers and filters. Increasing this ratio allows us to more accurately locate anomalies during post-processing, so we chose this combination of values.
Now that we have a trained model, we still need to display our results in a meaningful way. We also have to get rid of as much inconsequential error (noise) as we can. Post-processing through OpenCV can help us achieve these goals.
Figure 4 shows the input image, the reconstructed image, and the normalized error between the two.
Figure: Left – original image. Center – reconstructed image. Right – normalized error between original and reconstructed images.
We can see that the network did a reasonable job at recreating the pills. It managed to capture the location, orientation, size, and colors, but there are some expected small-scale errors. The network managed to recreate the color of the background but not the texture. Finally, the CAE failed entirely at recreating the anomalous ring object. It looks like it appeared to recreate it as a series of pills, but due to the size and shape of the object this was not possible. This manifests itself as a rather obvious white object in the error plot.
We can remove small-scale errors from the background and the pills using a few techniques. First, we will compute the predicted error of the CAE by running the recreated image through a single-filter convolutional layer. In a sense, the output of this represents what the network knows that it got wrong. This is shown in the left-most plot of Figure 5.
Figure 5: Left – predicted error. Center – mask created from thresholded predicted error. Right – reconstruction error with the mask applied.
Here, lighter pixels represent a higher predicted error. The center pane of Figure 5 shows the result of creating a mask from the predicted error. We set a conservative threshold so that only pixels with the highest predicted error will be removed. The result of applying this mask to the reconstruction error is shown in the right pane of Figure 5. Compared to Figure 4, we can see that quite a few of the small-scale errors have been masked out, especially near the edges of the image.
One more technique to reduce the small-scale errors still visible is specific to this application. The errors from the pills tend to result from the CAE failing to fully reproduce the shape and the glare present on each. We can apply a simple median blur with a conservative kernel size of 7 pixels to remove many of these. The results are shown in the left pane in Figure 6.
Figure 6: Left – median blur applied to the masked reconstruction error. Center – thresholded and colorized error. Right – the final result.
The blurred image has removed most of the small errors but has barely altered the error from the anomaly. We apply a simple threshold to this frame, and then convert the remaining error pixels to a blue-to-red color map, with higher value pixels being represented as more red and vice versa. This result, along with the final superimposed frame, are shown in the center and right frames of Figure 6, respectively.
Here is a video showing the result of anomaly detection on a moving conveyor belt with a handful of anomalies present:
We look forward to applying this technology to other anomaly detection applications. |
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WHY NOT...pick a theme, like favourite TV characters or nationalities from around the world?
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WHY NOT...leave the fort' up all holiday week if you have room?
When children get involved with cooking it's not just fun, it encourages them to be more adventurous eaters, too!
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For Apple it's not about rushing a single device to market that's flashy, short lived and immersed in super hype. If you look at the sheer depth and variety of patents that Apple has filed, you can see that they're looking at a family of mixed reality headsets and glasses.
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Summer time in the South calls for iced tea or as we call it "Sweet tea". This is were sugar plays a very important role in the making of "sweet". If you like "Grandma tea" you'll add 2 full cups of white sugary goodness that you're dentist will scold you for later. Or a more preferred amount of sugar. Just enough to put the sweet in Sweet Tea.
I made these mini match box gift boxes using collage sheet Tea Party which is adorable. Word stickers are one of my favorite things to use along with gems . I gave them each a pull cord for adult fingers..
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Caies had extra “Ragin’” flair across Acadiana, New Orleans, and Washington D.C.
The University kicks off that weekend in D.C. with a “Cocktails and Conversations” social with Dr. E. Joseph Savoie, President of the University. The social is held for UL Lafayette alumni living in D.C. and gives them the opportunity to meet and socialize with University administration. This year included special guests Dr. J. Bret Becton, Dr. Bryan Maggard, Director of Athletics.
Back in Acadiana, Alumni Association past president, Dr. Michael Judice ‘77, reigned over Lafayette’s Carnival 2018 as King Gabriel LXXIX. Queen Evangeline LXXIX Lauren Guilliot is a freshman at UL Lafayette majoring in pre-dental hygiene and is a member of Kappa Delta Sorority and Ragin’ Jazz Dance Team. Traditionally, King Gabriel, the King of Carnival, is selected from the membership of the Krewe. Queen Evangeline, a young woman of college age, is a daughter of a Krewe member.
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Photo: Dr. Michael Judice dons the required signature beard as the King of Carnival. </s> So I’ve been trying to outline 1 John for our commentary project. “Trying” being the key word. As much as possible, I’ve been trying to deduce the structure without leaning on other commentators much; yet after several days of staring at 1 John saying, “Umm…” I finally gave in and began researching for some sort of outline.
Turns out nobody can outline 1 John. It made me feel better and worse all at once. Better because, “Yay! I’m not the only one who has trouble with this.” Worse, because, “Oh, no! This really is just that hard to sort out.” I decided it’s like trying to outline a pretzel. An apostolic pretzel. A beautiful, moving, inspired apostolic pretzel. John’s thoughts flow really nicely from one point to the next, but there’s not much of an overarching progression of the whole work. He starts a theme, branches off and develps another theme, and then returns to his first theme with a slightly different angle. Beautiful reading. Difficult outlining.
I am making headway though, and I’ll post my thoughts once they’ve had a little more time to simmer.
Oh yeah… not everyone I know talks about the same stuff all of the mathematicians I went to school with talked about.
OK, so I just looked it up to see if wikipedia could describe it better than I could. And it uses language from topology… which was my most difficult math class in college… that I took while getting my math degree. So never mind that one! (A really interesting branch of math, though, if you’re into that stuff.)
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Infection results: it means when the other countries start to call for the democracy, the countries nearby would be affected and the citizens would appeal to their government to reform and therefore forms the domino effect. For instance, the third wave in East Europe in 1990’s and the fourth wave democratization in North Africa in 2011.
The collapse of the authoritarian government: when the current regime couldn’t provide the basic need of its people and maintain the order of the politics, civilians will call for the reform and even the revolution to rebuild the democratic regime. The collapse of USSR is one of the examples and we can see that due to its serious problem brought by the economic recession.
The growth of economic system: the notion of the liberalism indicates that the boost in economic growth will create the richer middle-class which would ask for the opportunities of getting involved in politics. In this kind of situation, the social mobilization and the information will become faster to decrease the legitimacy of the authoritarian government. South Korea and Taiwan belong to this part.
The issues of political reform and the democratization always draw the attention of the world. In 2010, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao appealed for the political reform for seven times received great deals of attention in the media. After the “Jasmine Revolution” in the Middle East this year, these issues have even become the focus of the attention. But why PRC is still a so-called authoritarian regime instead of the democratic regime even though it holds so many elements in the theory of Samuel Huntington? We can see that the greatest social conflicts are the corruptness. For more than 30 years, its government has used all kind of methods to solve those problems but unfortunately become worse. For corruptness, the only method the government hasn’t used is the supervision by the people. As for the unbalanced issue of distribution, the government emphasizes the people’s livelihood lately and it would like to solve by the method of raising the minimum wage. It is a good thing to place importance on the people’s livelihood but it should raise its aspect of view from the livelihood to the democracy to eliminate the corruptness. In this part, the author still takes the points of view from Huntington to analyze the possibility for democratization of PRC.
The predicament and the decline of the legal government: When the leaders of PRC face the crisis of their regime, they might refuse this kind of situation as well as carry out the brutal forces to solve the mitigation of their prestige. The Tiananmen Square Incident happened in 1989 though was not a threat to the Chinese government, the number of riots ascends hurriedly since then. There might be more collides once the government cannot smoothly solve the problem properly. This bottom-up struggling power forms a great challenge to the government.
The impact of the religion and Confucianism: Falun Gong has long time been suppressed by the Chinese government and this situation of pursuing for the freedom of religion draws people’s attention and might bring more and more people to support Falun Gong. Some people criticize the thought of Confucianism is one of the reasons why China cannot become a democratic country while the other group of people support the Confucianism is compatible with democracy. However, the pluralism and the feature of tolerance in the traditional culture of Confucianism often didn’t transform to the inclusive policy but maintain the monarchism in the history of China. Even though the elements of Confucianism might sustain in the politics of China, the ideas form the West is possible to change the ruling style of the Chinese leaders. The authoritarianism will still be the principle while the government tries to keep balance between the economic growth and the development disorder. And this kind of tendency of resisting the wave of democracy would bring about the protests and reform form the society naturally.
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markers throughout time and are now using those markers as part of their deception?
The mark of the beast – look at Digital Angel.
Pestilence – H1N1 and the plague in the Ukraine that has killed upward of 300 people.
War in the Middle East – Ezekiel 38, or Psalm 83.
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This is from the people who have built up a $50 trillion financial bubble since Alan Greesnpan took office.
If employment really was as good as they say, the interest rates would be going up to keep inflation from setting in.
David Stockman, photo below, calls it the Warren Buffet economy. It has certainly made him rich. His net worth is at about $73 billion.
He said “Janet Yellen doesn’t have a clue as to whether we’re at 30% or 20% unemployment of the potential adult labor hours in the U.S. economy.” He said the same thing about the clueless “Census Bureau survey takers and the BLS numbers crunchers.”
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Stockman calls the U-3 number “an absolute and utterly obsolete joke”.
What economists are boastful of is the steady 57-month increase in job creation though the trend is flattening. They feel we have jumped a hurdle and they think this is all quite remarkable.
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en | N/A | N/A | Davit Grigoryan, a soldier of the Armenian Army, destroyed 15 enemy tanks while repelling the Turkish-Azerbaijani terrorist attack, which entered our land. Naturally, I first wanted to talk to the hero's mother, Mrs. Susanna. But he said that his best friend, Sargis Hakobyan, would tell the best about Davit , because Sargis and Davit have been friends since the day he was born. They played together in the yard, went to kindergarten together, studied in the same class, were together during the military service.
Q: Sargis, how did you find out that your friend became a National Hero, how did you feel?
A: I was in the bus, and suddenly Davit 's cousin called and said, "Sako, did you hear that your friend Davit has received an Artsakh hero title? He has hit 15 enemy tanks և 1 armored vehicle."
I could not believe my ears. How can one person hit 15 tanks and 1 armored vehicle? It was unbelievable. And when I learned that the President of Artsakh had personally announced the news on TV, I immediately thought about what my friend went through, what a cruel battle there was, what efforts he concentrated on his soul and body that he was able to hit 15 tanks and 1 armored vehicle. . Along with that concern, my soul was filled with extraordinary strength and pride. It was as if I was the hero, as if I had hit those tanks myself. You involuntarily rise next to the heroes, they prompt you new, higher standards, set a new bar of morality in front of you.
Q: As a child, did you think during your school years that Davit could become a hero? Were there any preconditions for heroism in his temperament?
A: We have a wrong idea about heroes, if we think that they should have heroic behavior in peacetime, in human relations, when communicating with relatives, neighbors, friends. Heroism lives in the depths of the human soul, it is not at all necessary for the inner strengths of a person to be openly displayed. Davit is a quiet, modest boy. It was like that in the kindergarten, in the school, in the military unit. He was not at all quarrelsome, he was very tolerant and peace-loving. But he always strived for the maximum result, he was not satisfied with the achievements. Davit was a good student, capable, and hardworking. I competed with him, I wanted to achieve his results, but I did not get upset when my friend was more successful. We both participated in the Kangaroo math competition, but Davit won. We both went to chess, but Davit 's results were higher and he was sent to participate in the tournament in Georgia. We were both part of a German-speaking group, but Davit was offered the opportunity to continue his studies in Germany.
Q: You are describing your friend's success with such a love…
A: Davit 's writings were copied passing from hand to hand. Davit helped everyone. He was self-contained when communicating with acquaintances, he did not even open up at home, but he became a different person with close friends. He was so funny, he had such a delicate humor. We were not going anywhere without Davit , because he was spreading joy with his presence.
Q: And did Davit 's courage and patriotism somehow show up, even among his close friends?
A: He was so sad during the April war, he said, we must fight in such a way as to put an end to all this, so that this fight will be the last. That is how he fought with all his might, with all his patriotism, with all his hatred, against the enemy terrorist army that was bombing the civilian population, firing on kindergartens and churches. Davit proved his love for his homeland, his masculine dignity, and the power of his spirit.
Q: Does he have a girlfriend?
A: No. He is such a reserved and self-contained boy that even if he loved someone in his heart, no one knew. And at school, Davit was loved by everyone — boys, girls, and teachers. If I were to describe Davit in one word, I would say that he was very lawful.
Q: How did it happen that you, two childhood friends, served in the same military unit?
A: It was a happy coincidence. I was the first to be drafted. When I learned that I was going to serve in Hadrut, an inner voice reminded me that in six months Davit would come to our military unit.
Q: Did you tell Davit what your inner voice said?
A: I told him, he laughed, he couldn't believe it. During our service, we talked on the phone almost every week. Davit was very interested in the service, he asked about the positions, about the combat duty. He spent six months of his service in a training military unit and became a bassoonist. One day I saw Davit in a military uniform appear in front of me. I was both surprised and very happy.
Davit quickly adjusted to his service life. He earned love and respect as an exemplary soldier. I remember the day I was demobilized, holding my bag and taking me to the checkpoint. He was upset.
After my demobilization, I often visited Davit 's mother. He said, "I take the longing for Davit from you." When I learned that my friend had become a Hero of Artsakh, I ran to their house again. Davit 's mother hugged me as warmly as if she were hugging her hero son.
Q: Did you talk to Davit after receiving the title of hero?
A: Yes, I spoke yesterday. I said, return safely to enjoy your glory. It was as if he did not realize the greatness of his heroism. I am looking forward to the return of my hero friend to realize our dreams together. And let's do bolder, bigger and more beautiful deeds in the homeland that has finally won. |
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en | N/A | N/A | Racism also works both ways...so you might wanna check to see that African American's are voting against Hillary by 90 percent. :)
Posted by: Ben | Mar 14, 2008 7:26:19 PM
So only delegates that will put Obama over the top are allowed to exercise their judgement. The Super Delegates have to set aside their political experience, Super Delegate description rules and judgement in favor of following the state delegate judgement. This is Democratic? Pelosi, you are showing yourself. I guess the Democrats are completely divided and the Speaker isn't above it.
Posted by: irma | Mar 14, 2008 7:27:23 PM
As usual, send grandmom Pelosi back home!
The delegate were created TO PREVENT VOTERS from having their say! Democrats don't believe in this form of government! It's only because Queen Bee Nancy can't stand the thought of a woman over her!
She hates Hillary! It has nothing to do with fairness....
Posted by: Mda | Mar 14, 2008 7:28:19 PM
ya what s.b. said LOL
Over 500+ of the pledged delegates are not even allocated (some from the states that have voted have not completed their conven).
Many states do not bind the delegates to the electorate.
Superdelegates are not bound to the electorate and should not be - otherwise they would serve no purpose.
All of the delegates will cast votes in Aug and the outcome will be determined at that time unless someone wimps out and does not let all of the voters to have a voice.
Let it play out and stop trying to pressure the SDs into anything other than what they are supposed to do and that is exercise their best judgement. With all the pressure from people like Obama and Pelosi it is obvious they are scared of allowing the process to play itself out as designed.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 14, 2008 7:29:23 PM
Tell Pelosi that I won't support a candidate that says one thing and then does another. Obama, Hillary and HER included!!!
I'm done with the lying democrats and my husband won't vote for Obama.
There is two you've lost!
I will write in Ron Paul at least he hasn't lied to me during this election or on the ecomony!
Posted by: Done with liars | Mar 14, 2008 7:29:44 PM
what happened to "one person, one vote - er delegate"? I guess it's OK to insist in democracy in our state legislatures, but not in the nomination of our presidents? Just puzzled and wondering...
Posted by: puzzled | Mar 14, 2008 7:36:42 PM
She has no chance to catch him in the popular vote; that is a myth. If you calculate the caucuses, he is currently up 1 million voters. Without the caucuses he is up 600,000. Add in Florida and Michigan and it still wont matter. This thing is done, but the MSM needs a story.
Posted by: cicero7 | Mar 14, 2008 7:37:17 PM
To those bringing up the fact that we're a "Representative Government" . . .
. . . exactly. Delegates are representatives. The voters themselves are not representatives. Bills need a majority of representatives to pass in Congress, not a majority of citizens. Presidents need a majority of electors behind them, not a majority of citizens. And so in primaries, candidates need a majority of delegates behind them, not a majority of voters. That's party rules for the delegates (which could be as undemocratic as they wanted, if they wanted), election rules for the president, and constitutional rules for the Congress.
Posted by: Chris | Mar 14, 2008 7:38:02 PM
I think Pelosi doesn't want Hillary Clinton to steal her "First Lady Speaker of the House" history making thunder. Too bad, her uncontrollable urge to hint about where she stands doesn't exactly reflect leadership skills. Pelosi is joining right in with the division. Politicians...
Posted by: irma | Mar 14, 2008 7:40:47 PM
Of course Pelosi is right, however, after hearing Obama's role model and inspiration (his words) Jeriamiah Wright the racist, marxist, ignorant hatemonger. He has no business being in the Senate, let alone President. I can't stand Hillary, but she's clearly better than the manchurian candidate. Obama has been in this church 20 years, he was married by this guy and his kids were baptised by this guy. You can't tell me that he didn't know about his racist views. To disavoy him now is too late! It was fun watching the dems tear each other apart, but now it's serious. Obama must be stopped! The only choice either way is to vote for McCain.
Posted by: Scott | Mar 14, 2008 7:42:10 PM
Eric - the TX SOS has already stated officially that Clinton won the popular vote in TX. You cant count the caucus voters again in terms of the popular vote. Now the Obama camp claims the popular vote is the will of the voters so he obviously concedes TX to Clinton. Disproportionate allocation of delegates in TX and the fixed caucuses currently being challenged are the only reason he might win more delegates for TX but even he himself expects it to be a split. The representive disparity caused by caucuses or low turnout are offset by the SDs.
The nomination process is the pregame practice for the election. Democrats have only won 3 elections for President in the past 40 years because they keep nominating candidates who are not the most electable. The SDs the call they feel is the right one to actually get a dem in the WH again.
Pelosi is not a true democrat (just like Obama) if she does not support a process that the party agreed to from the beginning of the campaign. (I suspect she knows she may be out of office soon and is trying to get an appointment of some sort.)
The MI and FL revotes are within the rules and hopefully will happen as well. Prior to their delegates being taken away, Clinton said she believed they should not be disenfranchised and that whomever the nominee is should ask their delegates to be seated which is within the rules.
Pelosi and Obama are consistently working to pressure SDs to not abide by party rules and that is just wrong and not loyal to the party that claims to be democratic.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 14, 2008 7:43:06 PM
Posted by: Mike | Mar 14, 2008 7:46:16 PM
Come on people - Pelosi is pulling for Obama because SHE wants to be the first female president.
Posted by: Alan | Mar 14, 2008 7:48:07 PM
Exactly Irma and Scott - let's suppose the information comes out about the selected nominee that could lead to some sort of indictment (as an example) after all the voting is completed. The SDs would use their best judgement as the rules allow to potentially select a different nominee. Of course this only works if the vote is close enough to allow them to tip the nomination. State delegates who are not bound to the electorate would be free to change their vote as well at the convention. In the event that still did not prevent that originally selected nominee from running in Nov the general electorate would likely cross party lines to prevent that person from being elected. The system should be allowed to work as designed not as dictated by Obama and surrogates including Pelosi.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 14, 2008 7:48:15 PM
... unh ... without hearing the full context, admittedly, I do think a faulty headline here has most of the political universe looking bassackwards. Pelosi's delegate stance does not augur for Obama in the slightest - it undermines him, unequivocally. So he wins the popular vote |
en | N/A | N/A | Been thinking a lot about Michael Jackson lately. For obvious reasons, he is a bit of a pariah here in North America. However, like David Hasselhoff, for some reason he is still huge in Europe.
While in London earlier this month, we watched some of the World Music Awards. Michael was being given some lifetime achievement award. Beyonce, acting like his press agent, was the one who gave him the award.
As he came out to accept the award, the crowds were screaming like it was 1963 and these were the Beatles. On youtube, there are dozens of uploads from people who were there recording this with their cell phone.
Later in the show, he then sang a song...sort of. They had a choir of children on stage (very bizarre considering Jackson's many allegations) and the song We Are The World was playing. Jackson came out and sang along with the record. Literally, you can hear Bruce Springsteen or Willie Nelson singing while Jackson interjects by singing along at certain points. It was like really lazy karaoke. Most of the time he was just walking around the stage shaking hands like a politician.
The other reason I was thinking about Jackson was Coglero recently emailed me asking for ideas for the ultimate 80s compilation CD. The 80s were a funny decade as there are so many one hit wonders and totally obvious overplayed songs that most 80s CDs are kind of boring. Seriously, do you really need to hear Soft Cell's Tainted Love or The Human League's Don't You Want Me? And why does all 80s compilation CDs have to include Jackson's own Billie Jean when there are much better songs of his from the 80s.
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4. I Just Can't Stop Loving You
Plus most 80s compilation CDs always ignore some of the great rock and roll from that era. David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen and Van Halen all had great music throughout the 80s. Or they include the obvious songs from some of the new wave bands like Duran Duran's Hungry Like The Wolf or The Reflex when Rio and New Moon On Monday are much better songs and do not feel so dated. I couldn't really help with ideas for the Ultimate 80s CD as I would purposely ignore alternative stuff like The Smiths and The Cure and since a lot of the new wave from that era feels so "20 years ago", I really could not include that kind of music either.
So Gerald Ford is dead and I still do not know about his place in history. Anytime a person dies, one must feel some sorrow and look back fondly at that person. However, Gerald Ford PARDONED Richard Nixon. Let's think about this for a second, a president of the United States either committed or had people commit illegal activities. And the person who takes over for him lets him get away with it.
In a television broadcast to the nation, Ford explained that he felt the pardon was in the best interests of the country and that the Nixon family's situation "is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on and on, or someone must write the end to it. I have concluded that only I can do that, and if I can, I must."
During his tribute to Ford, current President Bush (who knows a little something about illegal activities) mentioned that Ford "helped heal our land and restore public confidence in the presidency". Rather ironic that Bush made these statements considering that in a 2004 interview with Bob Woodward, Ford said that Bush "made a big mistake" with their justifications for the Iraq war. What is even more interesting is that these anti-Bush comments did not come to light until after Ford died. Apparently, Ford requested that Woodward not publish the interview until Woodward had written a planned book about Ford or until he died.
Anyway, getting back to Ford's pardoning of Nixon, a lot of political pundits believe that Ford doing that is what cost him the re-election. He ended up losing to Jimmy Carter in 1976. However, some believe that it wasn't really Ford's idea to pardon Nixon in the first place.
You have to remember that Ford's ascension to the presidency was a rather bizarre one. Spiro Agnew was Nixon's original Vice President. He resigned, while in office, after he was charged with tax evasion. Nixon than nominated Ford to take over as VP. Soon after taking over that role, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig advised Ford that Nixon was probably going to end up taking the fall for the Watergate scandal. In other words, Ford would soon end up being the 38th president of the United States.
According to Bob Woodward's book Shadow, Ford becoming President and the pardon of Nixon was part of a backroom deal between Ford, Nixon and Haig. In the same conversation where Haig advised Ford about what was going on with Watergate, he also advised the three options there were to protect Nixon from jail time. (1) Nixon could pardon himself and resign, (2) Nixon could pardon his aides involved in Watergate and then resign, or (3) Nixon could agree to leave in return for an agreement that the new president would pardon him. It looks like Ford went with option #3. Interestingly enough, Ford's first press secretary and close friend Jerald terHorst resigned his post in protest after the announcement of President Nixon's full pardon.
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So the magazine Rolling Stone has released their Top 50 Albums of 2006. There was a time when a top 50 albums list would either be stuff I already have, stuff I want or stuff I was never interested in getting in the first place.
This list kind of makes me feel old. I literally own one album on this list, Bruce Springsteen's We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions. But then again, I only own four albums that were even released in 2006, the others being The Who's Endless Wire, Katie Melua`s Piece By Piece and Neil Diamond's 12 Songs.
What kills me is that most of these groups I have never even heard of. Phoenix? Rhymefest? Wolfmother? There are even albums by artists I've heard of that I didn't even know were releasing an album. Fats Domino, Lindsay Buckingham and The New York Dolls all have albums on the list and I am so out of the loop, I wasn't even aware.
The #1 album on the list appears to be the unanimous #1 on a lot of people's lists. Bob Dylan's Modern Times. I have heard most of the tracks and it really rocks.
Top 5 Bob Dylan Albums
1. Bringing It All Back Home
2. Highway 61 Revisited
3. Blonde On Blonde
4. Blood On The Tracks
5. Another Side Of Bob Dylan
I may have to pick up that new Dylan CD, but right now I am in the middle of CD hell. Since J-Mac and I moved to this new house, we have never got our CDs in order. We have 1000s of CDs, from every genre from classical to jazz, rap to rock. I can't get them into any semblance of an order. I try putting all the rock in one area, jazz in another...but then what do I do with all that celtic stuff that J-Mac has? Seriously, what do you do with Clannad? As I write this, I just found J-Mac`s The Comedian Harmonists!!!! Where do I put that! (actually THAT one is easy...jazz). Anyway, getting these in order has been a project that has been ongoing for about a week. I may have to quit my job in order to get it completed.
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He was known as The Godfather Of Soul, The Hardest Working Man in Show Business and Soul Brother Number One...James Brown has died at the age of 73.
The man`s music has influenced everything from funk to disco to rap. He was still touring endlessly and had an upcoming 2 night gig at Casino Rama in early January 2007.
I have mentioned before that I have seen him in concert at the Blues Fest in Ottawa. It was entertaining, he did all of his obvious songs (including the shtick with the cape) and I was certainly glad I was able to see him at least once. However, he was in his late 60s at the time and the show felt almost over-rehearsed like he and his band had done the same show thousands of times. So here is some footage of James Brown at his best.
Top 5 James Brown Songs
1. Please Please Please
2. Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
3. Papa Don`t Take No Mess
4. I Got The Feelin`
I do always find it interesting when famous people die on Christmas Day. Like that somehow has more special meaning than if they had died on June 11. Off the top of my head, the most famous people to die on Christmas Day were former baseball player and manager Billy Martin, singer/actor Dean Martin and Hollywood icon Charlie Chaplin. Looking at that list, yeah, clearly there is no meaning behind dying on that day.
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To follow up that exciting Die Hard trailer from earlier this week, the folks George Clooney and director Steven Soderberg are about to release another sequel to Ocean's Eleven. Here is the trailer for Oceans 13.
The trailer looks good. The movie damn well better be good as Clooney et al pretty much owe us after that debacle they called Ocean's Twelve. That sequel started off as good as their version of Ocean's Eleven but once Ocean's wife Tess (played by Julia Roberts) has to pretend to actually BE Julia Roberts in front of the Bruce Willis, the movie really lost me. But I love Clooney's Oceans 11. It is funny, it is exciting and actually is a remake that improves on the original.
Top 5 Steven Soderbergh films
1. Out Of Sight
Don't get me wrong, I like Frank Sinatra's Oceans Eleven...but I didn't believe it for a second and the actors seem really bored (or just on a permanent hang over).
Another trailer that has me excited is for the film Transformers. I had been hearing whispers about this movie for about a year but I hadn't really given it much thought. I remember the cartoon, it was the first big cartoon that I remember after I became to old to really care about cartoons anymore. Anyway, this Transformers seems to be aiming at an older audience than the cartoon. The tone seems to be a mix of the Terminator films and the Stephen King short story and subsequent movie Maximum Overdrive (the film version was actually directed by Stephen King!!!).
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No, this is not going to be about Star Wars, Indiana Jones or (god forbid) The Lord Of The Rings. This is actually about Die Hard. I always liked the first Die Hard movie due to that great performance by the bad guy Alan Rickman. To me, the second one in the airport was even better with more action and a plot that was a little more complex. And then the third one which turns the previous two on its head by not making it at Christmas time, having most of it during the day and making you think that it has something to do with the events from the first Die Hard...when in reality, it doesn't!
The reason I bring it up is that there is now a trailer for the fourth Die Hard entitled Live Free Or Die Hard.
This trailer is pretty cool as it is all action with a little bit of talking at the end. Just what you want from a John McClane movie. I am a little concerned about this film as it is directed by Len Wiseman (you know him as his only other movies are the Underworld movies, plus he is married to Kate Beckinsale).
However, despite what is essentially a no-name director, the bad guys are played by Timothy Olyphant (you know him from Deadwood) and Jeffrey Wright (you know him from the remake of Shaft). This should be enough to make the movie great. The one thing that the Die Hard franchise has always understood more than any other franchise, a good bad guy is the key. This fourth Die Hard certainly continues the trend. It is not out till late next Spring...but I am already pumped.
Top 5 Non Die Hard Bruce Willis Films
5. The Last Boy Scout
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The underbelly of UK telly
TV is rather funny in the UK. Watching on satellite, we could still watch some North American based shows like CSI, Frasier and The Daily Show With John Stewart.
The UK produced shows all seem to be crime dramas. Gritty, dirty crime dramas. The one that seemed to be most of interest was Torchwood. A futuristic crime drama that is a spin-off from Doctor Who featuring Scottish-American actor John Barrowman. It is hard to tell whether he speaks with an american accent faking an english accent or the other way around. However, like the film Minority Report, it seems to take place in the near future with some cool special effects but the background still looks like current day Cardiff, Wales. As the show is co-produced by our own CBC network, it is sure to be premiering in Canada soon.
Of course, our Welsh hosts were rather befuddled by some of the North American shows we watched while at their house. We showed them an episode of Frasier. It was an episode where Frasier, Niles and his father were in the back of a cab and the cab driver went into labour. Pat commented on how cheap the sets looked in comparison to UK produced shows. He asked me where the show was filmed, I told him it was meant to look like Seattle but was shot on a soundstage in Hollywood.
Of course, my favourite british TV show will always be Fawlty Towers.
Top 5 Fawlty Towers Episodes
1. Communication Problems - Selectively deaf Mrs. Alice Richards, a woman with the power to annoy everyone and anyone, has chosen to stay at Fawlty Towers, to the dismay of Basil (John Cleese) who fails to cope with her repeated phrase "What?". When she loses some money she makes everyone's life hell until it turns up ... or is it hers?
2. The Germans - After a heavy blow on the head during a fire drill, Basil finds himself unable to stop himself mentioning 'the war' when a group of German tourists come to stay at the hotel.
3. Gourmet Night - Basil is trying to climb up the social ladder, and with it, the hotel. When VIPs of Torquay visit for a gourmet night, Basil's new Greek chef gets drunk, and once again teetering on a nervous breakdown, Basil tries desperately to repair the situation...
4. The Wedding Party - Basil is disgusted when two young lovers, Alan and Jean, begin 'hanky-pankying' under his very nose while checking in. He becomes convinced that they and two other guests are engaged in sexual misbehaviour, along with Polly (Connie Booth). Meanwhile circumstances conspire to put him in apparently compromising situations whenever they are around.
5. Waldorf Salad - Two demanding guests check in after 9 p.m. after a gruelling journey from London. They want to have a proper meal but unfortunately the chef stops at 9. Basil tries to convince the chef to stay, but having failed to do so, tries to cook the meal himself.
When UK television gets really interesting is at night. The channels are filled with quiz shows. Not game shows, but call-in quiz shows with names like It's Your Call and Quiz Call. The host talks to the camera and gets people to call in, pay 75p (about $1.50) and guess answers to questions like "Name an occupation that begins with the letter T". They have 6 predetermined answers, and callers have to guess what one of the six are. If you are correct, you can win around 200 pounds ($400). I found some clips on youtube of the most famous of the hosts of these shows Greg Scott, you have to see it to believe it.
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Are you like me? Are you frustrated by the CRTC regulations that prevent us from watching full episodes of TV shows on the websites for NBC, CBS and ABC? I have been told that websites like youtube do feature some episodes but it is impossible to find.
However, here is a website called Peekvid that has links to websites such as youtube so you can watch entire episodes of TV shows. Plus it is categorized by tv show in chronological order so you can watch whatever you want. Obviously, not every show is on there. Nor is every episode on there but with episodes from shows as wide ranging as 24, How I Met Your Mother and House...you certainly will be able to find something you may have missed when it was originally broadcast. I plan on checking out all of the first season episodes of The Office later today.
If you are looking for something new on that website, may I recommend Justice. This show is already hanging on by a thread having been moved three times, put on hiatus and been destroyed in the ratings. Some call it a legal show for the CSI generation. Personally, I think it is better than any of the CSI shows. The show is your basic legal drama, as this firm called Trott, Nicholson, Tuller & Graves take big name cases in the Los Angeles area. The show has a gimmick that at the end of the show, they show you who actually committed the crime (whether it was the defendant they had or someone else). Therefore, you, as the audience can truly decide whether "justice" has been served.
However, that gimmick is not the reason to see the show. The reason to see it is the lead actor Canadian Victor Garber. His performance is probably one of the best in TV drama right now. What is interesting is that his character doesn't actually try the cases, he is more the figurehead of the firm that is an expert at dealing with the media and ensuring that his clients get off. As an added bonus, the show takes shots at Nancy Grace. Plus, it has the coolest theme song on TV. Lawyers, Guns and Money by Warren Zevon.
As a tribute to "anonymous" who commented on my Mandy Patankin blog entry...here is my top 5 list. Justice features the actor Victor Garber who was in Titanic. Titanic was the second "water based" movie by director James Cameron. The only current director who has done more "water based" movies is Wolfgang Peterson.
Top 5 Wolfgang Peterson movies
1. In The Line Of Fire
Unrelatedly, is your office like mine today? Everyone is talking about the Justin Timberlake/Andy Sandberg Christmas song from this weekend's Saturday Night Live called D*** In A Box.
The volume is kind of low on this, a better version appears on SNL's own website under Featured Videos.
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Our final time in the UK at Heathrow Airport
So, we're back from merry old England. Our final moments in the UK were a real kick in the ass. Heathrow Airport is the busiest airport and it certainly showed as we flew out of there on Saturday night.
People were milling around everywhere...it was impossible to walk anywhere. The funniest part was we had some garbage to throw out before we got on the flight and because of the threat of terrorist bombing, the airport does not have a single trash can anywhere. We literally had to hunt down a janitor and put it in his refuse bin.
As we lined up for the first time on the second floor of the airport..we began to see the magnitude of people who were travelling out of there. Our passports were checked five times before we got on the plane. They were then checked another three times after we landed back in Toronto.
The flight home featured three movies. The first was horrible, My Super Ex-Girlfriend with Uma Thurman and Luke Wilson. The story made no sense in the first place, unless you are one of those parents-basement-residing-losers who wonder what it is really like to have sex with a female super hero. The movie starts off funny with Luke Wilson playing the same type character he did in Old School who meets Uma Thurman who in reality is a super hero named G-Girl. When he dumps her for being too needy...she seeks vengeance on him. At about half way through the movie is when I officially gave up on it. No joke, G-Girl throws a shark at Wilson and his new girlfriend in their apartment. Seriously, she threw a LIVE SHARK. I have heard of jumping the shark when it comes to television shows but this was the first case I can remember of a movie throwing the shark.
Top 5 Uma Thurman Movies
4. Kill Bill, Vol. 2
5. Mad Dog And Glory
The second film was The Devil Wears Prada. I understand the book was a huge success, but I had never read it. I am guessing the book is different than the movie. The movie really makes Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) fairly sympathetic and almost the movie's hero. The movie's actual hero is Andrea Sachs (Anne Hathaway) comes off as whiney, self important and ungrateful. Interestingly enough, this film has gone on to be the most financially successful of Streep's career.
The third film was Edward Scissorhands. Apparently Air Canada has started showing old films on their international flights. It was a good movie to be on as it helped me sleep for a couple of hours. More posts of our tales from Wales coming later.
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So our trip to the UK is about complete. After having spent the first three days in London, the rest of our time was spent in Wales. Each day was action packed with trips to the capital of Cardiff (the capital of Wales), a train up to Bath, England and much time spent in Caerphilly, Wales where J-Mac's cousin lives.
Each day was filled with a lot of culture shock, so much so, it reminded me of that Jerry Seinfeld American Express commercial about his time in England. It is not on youtube, however, go to this link and you can watch the full length version.
Aside from the fascinating castles we visited, my favourite part of the trip was filled with visits to pubs. As a north american, if you have never been to a pub in the UK, you really haven't been to a pub. The difference is so pronounced that I will never refer to these places in North America as pubs. I will either refer to them as ''pubs'' (complete with the little rabbit gestures with my hands) or simply Disneyland.
It's not just that the quality of beer is different...it is better here but I can get over that. It is just the whole process of eating and drinking in a pub that is so different. Assuming that the pub actually serves food, there are no waiters there. You simply note your table number and order food from the bartender. There is no need to tip as you do not tip bartenders when ordering food or drinks. You simply pay the amount, grab your drinks and a table runner will bring your food.
My favourite pub was in Cardiff called The Old Arcade. No joke, it was the best hamburger I have ever eaten. It wasn't even close!!! I don't know what the second best burger I have ever had was but this was certainly #1.
Another pub I enjoyed was The Globe in London. This place was nothing special but the atmosphere was just perfect. People simply grabbing a pint at their local establishment. And that is the other part that kills me, there are pubs everywhere. Walking distance no matter where you live. Just this very second, I walked out of the house, took two steps out the front door and took a picture of the pub near by. In Toronto, an excursion to the pub means grabbing your friends, figuring out what pub to go to, which one has good food, making either driving or TTC plans to get there...it becomes a whole procedure. Unless you are really lucky you don't have a local ''pub''. I have to admit, I am quite sad to be leaving the pub lifestyle here.
Thursday night was the last time we were in Cardiff...I took a quick trek to Virgin Records as I wanted to buy some sort of CD here. Live At Leeds by the Who would have been good as Leeds is in Wales, however, I picked up Quodrophenia instead.
Top 5 Who albums
5. Who Are You
Of course, the title of this blog refers to the ever present rain here. Not that it is constant...but no matter what...it can rain at any time. Literally, every day we have been here...it has rained for at least parts of it. The only true sunny days were yesterday and today (so far).
I hope to post some pictures once we get home late tonight.
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Okay, i have been in the UK for four days and I have learned alot. The first three days were in London, England and let me tell you...everything you have heard is true.
Top 5 True things about London
1. Everything is ridiculously expensive here. The cost of eating and drinking is reason enough to make you go on a diet.
2. Traffic is a nightmare. Do not even bother driving or taking a taxi anywhere. It just isn't worth it. There are too many cars on the road to make it worth the bother. The tube (subway) is the only way to get around.
3. Drinking is a rampant disease in the UK. Our first night in London, thanks to the time delay from North America, we found ourselves in Leicester Square around midnight. The amount of drunks who were bumping into us our couples simply making out based on the amount of alcohol they consumed in the middle of the street as we struggled to pass by was incredible.
4. The most underrated landmark of London is the Globe Theatre. We walked by there and I was in awe. This was the home of Shakespeare's theatrical work. English language drama and comedy started right here!!! Yes, I should have been more awestruck by Big Ben or The Tower of London...but it just did not hit me vicserally like the Globe Theatre.
5. Yes, there are pubs everywhere. Really, don't like the looks of the pub in front of you? Walk a block and you will find yourself choosing between numerous other pubs. I just wish I could sound like I come from there. Not necessarily that I want the British accent...just that I could say "cheeers" or "ta" without sounding dorky.
As of last night, we are staying with J-Mac's cousin in Caerphilly, Wales which is a suburb of Cardiff. The local beer is Brains Beer which is quite good. The SA Gold is my current favourite. Our current plan is to stay here till Friday. That morning, we will by flying off to Glasgow. We will then return to London later that weekend for one last night before flying home. Considering the prices in London, we will probably be eating at Burger King and drinking the ever present rain water as the cost of living in London will probably not have improved. |
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For friends & mensen die ons nog niet kennen. "wat voor relatie hebben jullie nou.." wordt ons vaak gevraagd.. zondag gaan we er nog eens even uitgebreid voor zitten..
Wat we doen met Art of Loving is delen. De bliss-side en de black-side. Wij mogen in dit leven het hele spectrum meemaken wat je tegenkomt in een relatie.. geen taboes, it's time to get naked!
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We invite you to explore the sexual and spiritual polarities between Shiva (the masculine) and Shakti (the Feminine). How to offer personal obstacels to the Divine and melt into unconditional Love. Embracing taboos of ecstatic release and surrender.
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Wat: we trakteren op een drankje, een hapje. Maak kennis met het Art of Loving Team, neem een kijkje in onze keuken voor 2013 (Tantric Touch, Tantric Dance, Temple of the Goddess en Shiva Groep). We launchen de Tantric Dance video. En je kunt deel uitmaken van een Wild Tantric Dance Experiment.
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The cat and I are once again hooked on nature's reality show, and I'm thinking about what I might learn from this simple drama outside my window. I recognize in myself an inclination to apply abstract ideas and expectations, cooked up in the isolated kitchen of my own head, to everything around me. I want all of the plants and people and creatures to play along according to my whims. But what I am learning from the wild is how to pay attention to what is going on outside my head and step into the thing that is already happening apart from my impetuous will. What plant wants to grow here in the shade without irrigation?What have we been referring to as a weed that is actually medicine, good for what ails us, or food for the creatures we love to see hanging around?
Within the safety and privacy of my garden I am exploring my growing understanding of nature's interconnected web and breaking down the barriers of an old separatist belief system I no longer believe in… |
en | N/A | N/A | The biggest collectible for fans of MARIA'S LOVERS is the elusive soundtrack, however the film also had many desirable promotional items and different poster designs...some of which I have highlighted here.
I will begin my coverage of Nastassja's next film, HAREM, later this week an will soon be looking at the disastrous REVOLUTION... a work that effectively ended Nastassja's initial period in America.
I hope everyone here enjoyed my look at MARIA'S LOVERS and that it might cause a few to give it a first or perhaps even second look. It is a special film that has been under the radar for too long.
My posts on HAREM will begin later this week. |
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en | N/A | N/A | That evening, Justins listened to my tale and he shook his head and grinned. Now that is something that doesnt happen every day my friend.
Yeah, no kidding. What should I do?
He proceeded to make a very good point. You have to put yourself in his shoes. What if you had made a mistake like this? How would you feel?
Justin straightened me out. And what will you say if he calls your bluff? Justin mimicked my manager by pounding his fist on the table.
So you do you think Im a fool. I know you found that spreadsheet!
He was right. I had to come clean. I thanked Justin and had a very restless night trying to decide my next move.
Hey buddy, do you have a moment? Lets step into my office.
Im guessing you looked at this, he said as he stared intently at me.
He leaned back in his chair and let out an es.
I thought, fair enough. I mean what would I say to my fellow developers? Hey congratulations, you make more money than me?
So I took the opportunity to ask some questions while I fidgeted uncomfortably in my seat. Ok, then I do have questions. Why am I the second lowest paid on the team and everyone else received a higher increase when you just gave me a very positive review?
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The story of today. My visit to the famous church of Lund. I have been to Växjö today. On my way back home to Malmö i made a stop over at Lund to catch up with a friend. After food, shopping, icecream and way to many wasps he took me sitseeing at the famous church of Lund. There wasw suppose to be a giant in the church…But the giant was a dwarf…I was soooo disappointed! |
en | N/A | N/A | . A lot of the people simply do not want—they don’t care what, they just don’t want the violence to return. This is something—I don’t know if it is good or bad, but for me I think it’s good that they are not so quick to pick up arms anymore. But as I said formerly, if a government that was formed outside the auspices of our constitution, it will give rise to legitimate resistance, and there are many, many inside Iraq and outside Iraq who would take advantage of this to rile up the situation and make it come out to, I don’t know, civil war—it won’t be civil war, but it will be violence. It will be political violence. The parties would be killing each other.
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Waterfall model’s one weakness is that it can’t react quickly to requirement changes. But in the agile software development, we know that requirement changes are inevitable, and agile is designed for changes. Same is with SRP. We know that code and its requirements will change. By applying SRP we can make those requirement changes easier because we have to change only one class.
Testability also increases with SRP. It is more simple to test a class with only one responsibility. Test cases will be simple and we don’t even have to have many test cases.
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en | N/A | N/A | Cauliflower is such a versatile vegetable and I’ve grown to love experimenting with it. One of my favorite things to do with this cruciferous vegetable is to turn it into “rice.”
Because rice can often leave dishes feeling heavy, it’s nice to substitute a vegetable where a starch would usually be. In addition, it’s a great way to squeeze more servings of vegetables into your day.
There are two techniques for making cauliflower rice. You can either use a box grater with the medium-size holes (pictured below) traditionally used for cheese, or a food processor with the grater blade to blitz it into small pieces. With both techniques you’re aiming for little pieces the size of rice.
Once you have your cauliflower rice, it’s easy to cook! Simply sauté in a large skillet over medium heat in 1 Tbsp oil. Use a lid to cover so the cauliflower steams and becomes more tender. Cook for a total of 5-8 minutes, stirring occasionally, then season as desired (such as with soy sauce or salt and pepper).
1-ingredient cauliflower rice, perfect for practically any dish that calls for brown or white rice!
Wash and thoroughly dry cauliflower, then remove all greens and cut into 4 even sections (see photo).
With a box grater, use the medium-sized holes (see photo - the side commonly used to grate cheese), or a food processor with the grater attachment, to grate the cauliflower into the size of rice, leaving any large, tough stems behind.
Once you have your cauliflower rice, it's easy to cook! Simply sauté in a large skillet over medium heat in 1 Tbsp oil. Cover with a lid so the cauliflower steams and becomes more tender. Cook for a total of 5-8 minutes, then season as desired (such as with soy sauce or salt and pepper).
Use cauliflower rice in recipes that call for rice, such as stir fries, fesenjan, or fried rice!
*This recipe is not my original concept! It's just my preferred technique.
Serving size: 1 cup (of 4) Calories: 25 Fat: 0.1 g Carbohydrates: 5.3 g Sugar: 2.4 g Sodium: 30 mg Fiber: 2.5 g Protein: 2 g
Very easy and tastes great…This is recipe I will use often.
Have you tried using the grater on the food processor and if so, do you still prefer the S blade?
October 2, 2016 at 9:01 am
Hi there! This recipe looks delicious! Can any remaining be saved for leftovers or does it spoil quickly?
Hi Cassidy, this is likely to keep for a few days in the refrigerator!
How does it keep the longest? Riced and cooked or just riced?
I would think it would keep longer uncooked, but cauliflower tends to brown within a week or so. I would use it within a few days whether it’s cooked or not!
You can keep your uncooked cauliflower rice in the refrigerator for a week,I just sprinkle with a little bid of lemon juice so it doesn’t turn brown.And it’s even more delicious with lemon juice.
Hi can you make it in a food processor without the grater blade?
It doesn’t work with the S blade but if you use the shredding blade it does work.
Hey. I don’t have a skillet. Can I just use a normal pan? If so is no water needed?
Yup, other pans should work for this!
Just made it with your method. Very easy and so tasty. Didn`t even have a very distinct cauliflower taste, so I think it wouldn`t change the taste of the sauce too much. However, next time I`m adding some carom seeds (Ajwain), as cauliflower tends to cause a bit of bloating with me. he he
Have bee going to try this for ages, did so last night and cooked it in the microwave with teaspoon of water, loved it with other steamed vegs.
I love cauliflower rice! When I am feeling lazy, I use Trader Joe’s cauliflower rice in the frozen food section. It’s very convenient.
I shall try this with grandson who won’t eat veg much watch this space obviously oes eat rice so will cook.
I have hesitated to try the blender or food processor versions because I was afraid it would turn into cauliflower puree (which is delicious but not what I wanted to have tonight). So I tried your cheese grater version. Thanks for the suggestion!
Maybe I’m a bad grater because it was a bit messy with little pieces of cauliflower flinging out everywhere. (The dog enjoyed that part.)
I finally managed to grate 3/4 of a large head into a bowl, squeezed out some moisture, sautéed/steamed it with garlic and evoo and splashed some soy sauce on at the end and it was really nice.
Now that I know cauliflower rice really does taste good, I have the courage to try the food processor version next time. Thanks again! Your pictures are beautiful.
I made it in the processor and it turned out just like rice :)
Denise Drago Kornblatt says
Confused here. You said use the S blade to the food processor to grate and some commenters said it works better with the grater blade. So which works better in your opinion? Thanks Denise
I think both work! But I have been using the grater blade recently as well. I’ll clarify – thanks for the note!
I just bought mine ready made in a plastic bag at my supermarket, it still has another day to run on the ‘use by’ date. I thought it didn’t smell right as I put in the microwave and sure enough now I’ve tasted it it is off, horrible sour taste. I did think this must be hard to keep fresh in plastic packaging. |
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Some marketers, especially newbie marketers often wonder how they can attract influencer’s audience for their brands.
But you should know that investing in influencers can help you skyrocket your email lists. It can also skyrocket your other marketing campaigns that involves database in the fastest time possible.
For example, eMarketercoInfluencers, as you may already know, have the audience you’re looking for, and also have influence over the behavior of their followers. They have the power to influence and control the buying behavior of their followers.
Influencer marketing simply involves marketers and brands to hire an influential person, or a group of influencers to spread content about their brand’s product and services.
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Like my friend would always tell me: “Promoting a product as a celebrity sells more than doing so as an expert.” This boils down to the power of influencer marketing. Banking on the trust our potential clients have for their role model, we can sell a ton of products without stress.
It’s great to have you read my article, and to leave your honest comment about the post. One thing that fascinates me is the fact that you agree that Influencer Marketing is a powerful digital marketing tool.
I think influencer marketing has been long time ago in the game, but now it’s taken a much bigger place in the marketing industry. I remembered back in 2013 when top celebrities like Kim Kardashian was promoting a website. Now influencer marketing is everywhere, all agencies are spending huge budgets on it now. We can call it as a good thing, because it also will divide blogs that deserve to get a link from, from the blogs that are made just for link purposes.
As a result brands and businesses are increasing their Influencer budget, while others have made plans to invest in Influencer marketing.
It’s nice to e-meet you! Thanks for sharing these reasons with us. Having worked with brands as an influencer, it’s a great opportunity for bloggers. Some of them even go on to become brand ambassadors and work exclusively with their favorite brands, which is a goal for myself as well.
I have worked with Sway before. Tap Influence is another great influencer marketing platform.
Thanks so much Cori. I appreciate your coming by and commenting.
I m “influencer marketing”Influencer marketing is the key in 2018 and beyond to boost sales, brand and traffic.
Influencer marketing is ringing bells all over the market-place. It’s so phenomenal that it’s growth had become significant and will continue to grow beyond 2018.
However, as you noted, you has to create mutual bonds with the influencer’s you want to work with. That way it will be a lot easier for you to partner on a project with them.
Thanks for coming Ryan, for your thoughtful comment, and for announcing your new project.
The first test show we did on Sound Cloud registered 21,000 plays in 11 days. It exploded. Our chats were doing so well on YouTube – 225,000 via only 6 videos – that we tested it, and today was the step forward. But connecting with an influencer like him required me to help him out, to chat casually and to make it all about befriending another awesome human being.
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en | N/A | N/A | Some of the hairpieces are intricately pock-marked to look like coral, others resemble beehives, or bunches of bananas. Black faces are transformed into exotic alien lifeforms. Gallagher seems to be lampooning one kind of facial transformation while making another attractive: why go from black to white, when you could go from black to gloriously coiffed cyborg? Faces are artworks: express yourself! It’s not surprising to find that Gallagher has titled a work Drexciya (1997), after the afrofuturist Detroit techno duo (recently celebrated by the Otolith Group) who reimagined Atlantis as a community of amphibious black warriors born from pregnant women who had been thrown off slave ships. In her take on the myth, Gallagher has laid out a grid of women’s heads, and given them ice cream-white afros and eyes that ooze pink goop. The pirate portrayed in Bird in Hand (2006), in oil, pen and cut-out pieces of paper, is a better icon of transhumanism. His peg leg has sprouted black tendrils, and jellyfish swarm round his hair; the lace of his cuff is as intricately patterned as the coral that surrounds him. For Gallagher’s Drexciyans, marine lifeforms are style advisers.
For the ‘Black Paintings’ of the late 1990s, Gallagher made whole canvases wear blackface. Complex collages of faces, weaves and geometrical shapes were painted over in black paint, then scrawled on in spidery white. They offer, perhaps, a metaphor for the way that the reductions of racial thinking have buried black art. But they are also effective abstract works in their own right: post-Rauschenbergian reflections on the play of light and texture on the canvas surface. They are, Gallagher has said, ‘a kind of refusal. If yle.’ Her interest in the manipulation of light and surface is again on show in the Morphia (2008-12) series of double-sided drawings/collager, ans’ve. |
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Following that, one more new official update from the film has arrived, and here is what you need to know. Ace actress Simran will be playing the female lead in the film and she is expected to be paired opposite Chiyaan Vikram. Simrane good news with her followers and well wishers. Sharing a selfie picture with Karthik Subbaraj and Chiyaan Vikram, Simran wrote, "An exceptional opportunity to team up with #karthiksubbaraj again!
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en | N/A | N/A | "As far as I'm concerned, what was important was that the court addresses the issues from the perspective of the constitution, which they have done," he said. "If in the process by reason of the result of their judgment, politicians find themselves with additional time in parliament, good luck to them." |
en | N/A | N/A | Over at the Catered crop challenge blog (love the inspiration there) I was drooling over the cute cards! Yep...I am in for this one lol.
ALSO: Over at the "spotted chick" the challenge is to use "kraft" paper so this is my entry! TFL Have a great week! :)
Your sister will be chuffed to receive your lovely card I'm sure :-)
Oh Jane, I love it, and I love that you joined us at Catered crop! This will surely help your sister feel better. What a fun sentiment!
Wowzers Jane, I LOVE this! The buttons and ribbon are fantastic and that sentiment is well..... divine!! GorgeouThis is a beautiful card and I'm sure it made your sister feel better just getting it and knowing you are thinking of her. I love this saying!
Great card. I love the sentiment and all those wonderful buttons!
What an awesome sentiment! And love the buttons across the top like that! |
en | N/A | N/A | The 746kW Hennessey Exorcist Camaro is, surprise, faster than the new 563kW ZR1 Corvette.
Hitting a top speed of 217mph, or 249km/h, the Exorcist topped the ZR1 by 3mph (about 4.8km/h). We suppose 1197Nm of torque is handy for this, too.The 1.7-litre supercharger was upgraded to a 2.9-litre unit, with a larger intercooler, ported cylinder heads, and camshaft and valve train upgrades.
“The factory 10-speed transmission was also used and the 217mph speed was achieved in ninth gear.
“To date, HPE has delivered 20 Exorcists to clients and the company plans to only build 100 units in total.”The standard Exorcist wheels and tyres were even used during this test.
“It’ four people – but faster.”So far, Hennessey says the Exorcist will hit 60mph in under 3 seconds and run a quarter in under 10. |
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When asked what he thought might be the secret to staying young, healthy and in good shape, Nigel Miller, National Sales Director of Plus Fitness Health Clubs, responded, "Have a good balanced lifestyle including everything that you do in moderation."
It's advice that some of us may have heard before. And we often have excuses for not taking it. 'If only I had the time to find someone to watch little Charlie so I could take a Zumba class, lift some weights, watch my favourite show while getting in my cardio, then enjoy a nice relaxing massage to de-stress.' Sounds like I'm living in some sort of fantasy land, right?
And regarding the notorious intimidation which seems to be a global trend many (women especially) feel while working out at a gym, Nigel explains, "In the Plus Fitness 24/7 gyms we have a simple strategy of keeping our dumbbells to a maximum of 45 kilograms." This deters those with the more intimidating physiques from coming in and showing off too much. "We are very particular about the layout of the gym as well. We believeoor plans." Nigel and his business partner John Fuller have used their experience in the industry to "come up with an exceptional floor plan with not just aesthetics in mind but also consideration to the members and having them feel like they are not being stared at while they are working out. John will place the cardio equipment so it is not facing the doorway…stationary equipment will never face a doorway." Nigel confesses, "We get quite a lot of recognition for the way we lay out our gyms."
When I asked Nigel about the type of equipment Plus Fitness uses across its two gyms models, he answered, "only the very best equipment in the business." At the smaller Plus Fitness 24/7's, SportsArt is a main supplier of the state of the art equipment one would expect to see at a reputable gym facility. "SportsArt is the third largest distributor of commercial grade gym equipment used in America, and is number one in Eastern Europe," Nigel sharego to Taiwan to meet with the family that formed the company at least once a year to network and keep a good business relationship."
Being a strong community supporter that sponsors local sporting groups, Plus Fitness also work with childcare centres and local schools promoting nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. "Last month a chain of childcare centres had a health awareness week and we sent in personal trainers for free to educate the children on the benefits of regular exercise and healthy lifestyles."
A Plus Fitness franchise opportunity, Nigel shared, is one with great potential for success. "With any new business there are risks, however all of our Franchisees are financially successful and continue to grow due to our fool proof systems and support." Nigel has yet to experience a non profitable club and has even seen some operators open a second and third club. Nigel and John are also at the head of an outstanding property selection and fit-out team that searches for new and pre-existing sites for Franchisees. "We have training provided through modules at our head office, and we also go into the new gym and train new Franchisees with existing Franchisees, their employees and their managers. Once a franchise is opened, a Franchise Support Manager will keep working with them ongoing to assure their success."
As Mr Miller affirms, "We just have a really solid culture in our business. Your culture is what drives your reputation and success; if you haven't got a good reputation you haven't got a good business, if you haven't got a good business you're gone." |
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en | N/A | N/A | The “fourth industrial revolution” brings unprecedented opportunities. But while robots and automation are becoming an inseparable part of our lives, we still have many challenges to solve in terms of technology and practical implementation.
Living in a fast-paced city like Shenzhen in China allows Jonathan and Gianni to be first witnesses to new technologies being implemented daily and experience the difference in applications in the East and West.
Driven by curiosity and the urge to learn more about new robotics technologies and automation happening in China and the rest of the world, Jonathan and Gianni bring this podcast to share their experiences and learn with you, the listener.
In this episode, they introduce their experience with robots in the present and share a glimpse of the future. |
en | N/A | N/A | ESPN WWE Power Rankings for 5/7/13 Jon Robinson of ESPN.com is featuring the latest WWE Power Rankings for 5/7/13. The top five includes Dolph Ziggler, Mark Henry, The Shield, Ryback and Triple H. To check out the full power...
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t’s now time to take stock: have countries’ge?
The EU REDD Facility has assessed the revised NDCs of several of its partner countries, and that of Brazil.home to four of the top five largest remaining tropical forests. Looking at these countries as well as Cameroon, Ghana, Laos, Liberia, the Republic of the Congo (RoC), Thailand and Vietnam, a very mixed picture emerges in terms of increased ambition generally, and of the treatment of nature-based solutions in particular.
In terms of NDC scope, the revision process has led most countries, apart from Thailand and Ghana, to cover more sectors and greenhouse gases than in their initial contributions. For example, Liberia’s revised NDC covers emissions from the forest sector, which were excluded in its first NDC.
Cameroon, Colombia, Liberia, Thailand, Laos, RoC, DRC and Indonesia mention restoration efforts.
Nonetheless, numerous forest-related targets are still unquantified. This is a missed opportunity to enhance understanding towards countries’ commitments, raise the profile of the agriculture, forest and land sector and attract more public and private support.
Giving forest governance efforts the place they deserve
While Cameroon, Colombia, RoC, DRC and Liberia refer to gender, Colombia, and to some extent, Cameroon, are the only countries to detail how such considerations will be taken into account in implementation.
Considering deforestation drivers and trade-offs among sectors
Liberia includes the goal to implement a net-zero deforestation mining policy by 2030.
Other countries, such as Laos and Indonesia, present renewable energy targets that rely heavily on biomass or hydropower, which carry the risk of driving deforestation. These countries do not analyse the potential impact of these energy or agricultural targets on achieving their forest and land-use objectives.
Overall, many of the revised NDCs analysed do not read like strategic documents integrating existing and planned national policies. For example, revised NDCs should draw linkages with the SDGs to ensure and assess the alignment and integration of climate-related policies and measures with development needs and strategies. The alignment of these two agendas, as well as with other relevant processes, such as national adaptation plans or FLEGT processes, is imperative to increase efficiency and maximise resources, technical capacity and expertise sharing. While more countries have drawn links with the SDGs in their revised NDCs, in many cases, such as in Liberia, Ghana or RoC, only general references to the SDGs are made, without specific information on how synergies and coordination will be ensured.
Achieving the objective of the Paris Agreement will depend on countries’ ability to turn their climate plans into action and work towards more ambition. By enhancing the forest sector components of their NDCs, Colombia, DRC, Liberia and Laos have paved the way to achieving their mitigation and adaptation goals. They have also raised the profile of the forest sector to attract the required investments and support to implement nature-based solutions. The increased granularity and ambition contained in these NDCs can provide the basis for futureagricultural, forest and land sector policies. More countries would do well to follow suit. |
en | N/A | N/A | We quantified the damage caused by a major ice storm to individual trees in two 1-ha permanent plots located at Mont St. Hilaire in southwestern Que?bec, Canada. The storm, which occurred in January 1998, is the worst on record in eastern North America; glaze ice on the order of 80-100 mm accumulated at our study site. All but 3% of the trees (DBH ? 10 cm) lost at least some crown branches, and 35% lost more than half their crown. Damage to trees increased in the order: Tsuga canadensis, Betula alleghaniensis, Ostrya virginiana, Acer saccharum, Fagus grandifolia, Quercus rubra, Betula papyrifera, Acer rubrum, Tilia americana, and Fraxinus americana. Only 22% of the saplings and small trees (4 cm < DBH < 10 cm) escaped being broken or pinned to the ground by falling material. Levels of damage generally were greater in an exposed ridge top forest than in a cove protected from wind. By August 1999 only 53% of the trees had new shoots developing from the trunk or broken branches; among the more dominant canopy trees, Fagus grandifolia had the least sprouting and Acer saccharum and Quercus rubra the most. We anticipate and will monitor both significant turnover in the tree community and some shift in composition of the canopy dominants. |
en | N/A | N/A | Nokia E72 NAM Now Available!
I was very shocked this afternoon when I opened NokiaUSA to check if there were any discounts and saw the Nokia E72 next to a "Buy Now" button. I thought, "this phone hasn't been released in Euro/Asia and it has not been in pre-order in the last weeks." Well, it is not an error!
It is amazing, that the E72 NAM is available. Nokia did it really well this time, first, the US received the E72 before anyone else, instead of the usual 3 months waiting time. And, there was no Pre-Order!The E72 went available without a pre-order stage which just causes more problems than benefits. Congrats Nokia!Finally you can release a phone in a decent way!
Anyway, the E71 successor, the E72 is a worthy successor! |
en | N/A | N/A | By Rebecca Felsenthal from Parents Magazine
Maybe you've already decided that you're going to ask for an epidural as soon as you feel the first twinge of pain -- or maybe you've vowed to get through childbirth drug-free. Either way, you should learn about pain relief before the big day. "The more that you know about anesthesia a smart decision," says Joseph J. Apuzzio,Here's what you need to know.An epidural is a local anesthetic injected into an area of your lower back just outside the spinal-fluid sac. It takes about 15 or 20 minutes to work and the anesthesiologist can leave the catheter in place to allow for top-offs. One of the upsides of epidurals is that you and your anesthesiologist can decide the strength of the dose. "Patients who are nervous can ask for an 'epidural light,' and then get more medication if they need it," says Samuel Hughes, MD, director of obstetric anesthesia at San Francisco General Hospital.
A spinal is a shot of analgesic injected directly into the spinal fluid that takes effect almost immediately but lasts only for about two hours. Spinals are often used in emergency C-sections because they're fast-acting.
m!) for your anesthesiologist to finish the emergency C-section she's performing next door.
It's smart to stay flexible. Go into the delivery room with an open mind. "Remember that labor is an experience that you can't plan," says Dr. Hawkins. "You should prepare yourself as well as you can by taking birth classes, but you'll have to wait to see what your own experience is like." It's possible that you'll decide to go without any drugs -- but it's also possible that you'll have a difficult labor and will definitely want the meds.your delivery.
Why Epidurals Are Not for Everyone
Your doc can't find the spot. If you've had scoliosis, it might be more difficult for the anesthesiologist to find the right location on your spine. It can also be difficult for doctors to place regional blocks in obese women because it's harder to see or feel the spinal bones.
The drugs -- but it's not something to worry about. In low doses, narcotics won't have any permanent effects. After all, children are safely anesthetized all the time.
If there are complications, your doctor may not give you these meds. Sometimes the obstetrician won't want the mother to have narcotics in her bloodstream.
Pregnancy Confidential Podcast Week 30: Epidurals |
en | N/A | N/A | Find out how much Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management Achieved for a Composite Organization...
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Enterprise Management is easy to use in a familiar web browser and on mobile devices, providing the freedom to work where it’s needed. It is also simple to manage and highly configurable to adapt to unique processes, roles, and preferences. Enterprise Management is a versatile solution — use it as a service in the cloud and reduce demand on in-house teams to maintain the system, or deploy the solution on a choice of infrastructures. |
en | N/A | N/A | Now is the perfect time to start thinking lean – to take a good look at your business operations and apply some lean management to get some quick wins.
Removing waste from their manufacturing processes gave Toyota a competitive edge andn fact, their ‘lean manufacturing’ was eventually adopted by most other car producers in the world.
Toyota and other lean-thinking businesses have identified that there are SEVEN types of waste in any business. And who better than your own team members working at the ‘coal-face’ to understand the way the different processes within your business work.
By making your team central to this lean thinking you’ll bring them closer to the decisions you make to reduce waste and costs, to increase efficiencies and security during this unprecedented time of turmoil.
Lean thinking has secured the future of many businesses; secure the future of yours too and better manage the 7 types of waste in your business.
Click here to learn what the 7 types of waste are and have a brighter future when you take a closer look at how to implement lean thinking in your business. |
en | N/A | N/A | "Carly Fiorina & Ted Cruz" Courtesy of [Gage Skidmore via Flickr]
By Mariam Jaffery | April 28, 2016
The right-wing's dynamic duo has arrived: after much speculation, Ted Cruz confirmed Wednesday at a rally in Indianapolis that former candidate Carly Fiorina would be his running mate. If this announcement seems premature, that's because candidates don't normally choose their number twos until after they have actually ensured their position as the nominee. However, as the outlook for Cruz's nomination looks increasingly grim day by day, Fiorina may provide him with a much-needed (but probably too late) bump in the polls. The former HP executive endorsed Cruz after dropping out of the race in February, saying that he was the only candidate with the potential to beat Trump.
After this Tuesday's round of primaries, where The Donald won victories in all five of the Republican contests, it's looking more and more difficult to slow down the Trump train. In Wednesday's rally, Cruz reiterated his confidence that no one wouldcreating a contested convention.
The announcement also comes after Trump received criticism for accusing Hillary Clinton of using the "woman card" to secure votes. While Cruz's speech didn't address these comments directly, he hit hard on Fiorina's accomplishments as a professional and said that she "shattered the glass ceiling." Having Fiorina on the ticket stands in contrast to Trump's comments, and could provide a compelling reason for female GOP voters to side with Cruz.
If I am nominated, I will run on a ticket with @carlyfiorina as my Vice President. Join us: https://t.co/sGy8idmZDEhttps://t.co/4RZxR2zlMz
Another narrative that Cruz and Fiorina emphasized at the rally was the idea of Trump as a "Washington insider," comparing him to Clinton and insisting that he was a "liberal" and lover of big government. Regarding the potential Trump-Clinton contest, Fiorina stated: "They're not going to challenge the system; they are the system."
For the Republican Party, Trump is looking more and more like the super-villain that can't be beat, despite the fact that everyone is teaming up to bring him down. Earlier this week, Kasich and Cruz announced their plan to work together to weaken Trump's lead and create a contested convention, but it seems like it might be too little, too late. Bringing down the relentless Trump machine may be too far out of reach at this point, but there's certainly not a lack of trying.
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en | N/A | N/A | Warner Bros. Home Entertainment acquires gaming company Rocksteady Studios
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en | N/A | N/A | Imagine hearing your eulogy—while you’re still able to savor it. In this funny, touching 2021 TEDxSeattleWomen talk, Andrea Driessen shares a story about what she calls Gracenotes, or living eulogies. And how to write such a note to lessen grief and regret. Through humor and poignancy, Andrea challenges us to honor others by telling them that they #matter—and HOW they matter—while we’re all still alive. Andrea is a longtime hospice volunteer with Providence Hospice of Seattle. Through her interactions with people who are dying—and their loved ones—she’s developed this compelling, how-to practice for easing grief and boosting peace. She’s also a learning, training, and development expert who helps people and organizations worldwide become more capable, communicative, and connected. An internationally award-winning business owner who built her business from the ground up, she’s dedicated her career to helping others grow. Her 3x is in its second printing.
Learn more about Eulogies for the Living at https://www.grace-notes.org/. |
en | N/A | N/A | . A customer environment is connected to an MIaaS cloud environment via a wide area network WAN or the like. Initially a discovery process is carried out to determine both the physical and virtual instances and their configurations in the customer environment . Analysis and planning is then carried out in step . If the results are unfavorable other methods such as physical to physical P2P migration application reinstallation retention of the legacy systems and the like are pursued as shown at . Also if either of steps indicate that remediation i.e. small changes to the instances to make them compatible with the cloud is required the same is carried out at and then process flow returns to step . On the other hand if step indicates that migration using one or more techniques disclosed herein is feasible flow proceeds to baseline test and backup in step . In step as shown at a set of test cases are run to prove that the source system fulfills criteria that are desired to be maintained in the target environment e.g. that it still tests correct under all of its functional test cases or performance claims. This is done to ensure that any errors already present are fixed before the migration process. Furthermore a back up process is carried out as shown at to permit recovery in case of any issues encountered in the migration process. Preferably before finalizing the backup applications on the physical or virtual instance or are stopped so that no further changes take place in the customer environment under conditions such that they would not be copied to the MIaaS cloud environment. Processing then proceeds to step wherein the instances to be migrated are captured. One or more illustrative embodiments focus on specific aspects of migrating to an MIaaS cloud which are largely per instance. As to the overall migration it is typically done in waves of multiple instances each e.g. per weekend attempting to keep workloads or interacting instances within one wave. Such aspects have been disclosed e.g. in Athey at al. System and method for object migration using waves United States Patent Application Publication 20110213883 Sep. 1 2011 and Devarakonda et al. Total cost based migration waves planning United States Patent Application Publication 20120109844 May 3 2012
As seen at this instance capture step can include for example both physical to virtual P2V and virtual to virtual V2V techniques with one or more suitable tools. One non limiting example of a suitable tool is PlateSpin Migrate a physical virtual conversion tool for fast and efficient P2V more broadly anywhere to anywhere migrations it is available from NetIQ Corporation Houston Tex. USA another is VMware vCenter Converter available from VMware Inc. Palo Alto Calif. USA. In one or more non limiting exemplary embodiments the end result of step is a Virtual Machine Disk Format VMDK file.
It is to be emphasized that many product names are mentioned herein these are intended as examples for the skilled artisan and to convey the applicants understanding of the best mode. They are not intended to limit the claims unless expressly recited therein but rather are to be considered exemplary of corresponding generic software products e.g. PlateSpin Migrate is broadly representative of physical virtual conversion tools.
As seen in step the captured instances are then transported into the cloud location via network . Data outside the boot disk may be transported separately from the aforementioned vmdk file seen at in particular if it is large and the data transport might start earlier. As noted at the instances and data are transported through network using appropriate tools to control the transfer. Non limiting examples of such tools include the aforementioned PLATESPIN tool as well as the Softek Transparent Data Migration Facility TDMF tool for data registeredUSA . Data is typically not affected by special aspects of MIaaS cloud i.e. it can be migrated and linked back with the vmdk in usual ways. Thus further details about the data are omitted from the figure to avoid clutter.
In step functional testing is carried out on the transported instance s that was restarted from the image on a cloud hypervisor. As seen at this can include for example playing a set or subset of test cases this can be repeated several times between adjustments. Also it should be noted that upon initial arrival in cloud environment the transported instances reside within MIaaS cloud landing zone . If functional testing is successful at this time processing flow proceeds to instance adjustment and adoption . This is a significant step to modify the instance so that it can run in the standard MIaaS environment. After all adjustments and possibly between certain adjustment steps functional testing is repeated as shown by the backwards error from Step to . After each successful functional test instances can be backed up i.e. a snapshot of the instance can be taken as shown at step e.g. as vmdk files in an efficient instance repository for later reference as a most recent correct seeming state of the instance. If functional testing is successful after all adjustments the transported instance s are instantiated on cloud hypervisor within MIaaS cloud production zone . On the other hand if functional testing is not successful in one of its repetitions processing flow proceeds to remediation step . The remediation process can proceed via a number of avenues. Typically error messages will be analyzed and related to the latest changes. These latest changes are the virtualization and new hypervisor in the first execution of the functional testing . In subsequent executions they are the changes by the adjustments since the previous execution of the functional. For this it may be useful to refer to a snapshot of the instance before these last changes. If remediation of these errors is not successful which might be determined by a rerun of the functional test flow returns to step i.e. the migration of this instance is stopped at least for the moment and the backup is used to restore the source instance or in the customer environment . When remediation is successful the processing proceeds as if that functional test had succeeded at once i.e. with the first or next adjustment or if all adjustments are done with instantiating the instance
Within the instance adjustment and adoption step the instances on hypervisor are adjusted to cloud delivery standards and adopted into the cloud BSS and OSS as seen at . As seen at this process employs provisioning flows extended by adjustment subflows. For example the standard provisioning flow of the MIaaS i.e. for instances chosen from the cloud catalog rather than migrated may register a new instance in an asset management system a monitoring system and start billing and accounting for it. This functionality can be reused from the standard provisioning flow. On the other hand the standard provisioning flow may not install a certain monitoring agent that the MIaaS cloud requires on the normal instances because they would be preinstalled in the cloud catalog images. Hence installing this agent would be part of the special adjustment flows. Similarly an update of the security patches to the level that the cloud catalog images have may be an extra step in the adjustment flows. When the functional testing after all adjustment steps finally has successfully completed as noted instantiation occurs on cloud hypervisor within production zone .
In one or more embodiments the landing zone is a special zone added for migration to an MIaaS cloud because when the instances are first started on a hypervisor the MIaaS cloud environment see item in order to test and adjust they do not yet fulfill cloud standards and thus the normal cloud management cannot handle them. They may also not fulfill the security standards that the OS management in the cloud provides and assumes. For this reason one may physically separate the landing zone and the production zone at least by using different servers to host the hypervisors and separate them by firewalls that only let the controlled information through as indicated by the two arrows between the zones. Also the storage systems may be separate. Another advantage of physical separation is that the cloud management systems such as capacity and performance management then don t have to deal with hypervisor s that are partially filled with normal managed cloud instances and partially with as yet unmanageable imported instances. However it is also conceivable to use logical separation i.e. trust the cloud hypervisors to not let the potentially insecure imported images impact the others and to extend the cloud management systems to deal with partitioned hypervisors.
Once the pertinent migrated instances are instantiated on cloud hypervisor in production zone user acceptance testing may be conducted for example to verify that performance is equivalent to the baseline. If not so remediation is carried out at to correct the instances on hypervisor . This remediation process can make use of instance repository or alternate techniques as appropriate if this happens the instance should be removed from the production zone again until it is remediated. The test cases in the user acceptance test should preferably be identical to those in the baseline test . They often cover multiple instances together if the user relevant function is performed by multiple instances e.g. a web server an application server and a database. In contrast the functional test may be per instance only. When testing is successful cut over is carried out in step taking into account any customer domain name server DNS changes or the like as seen at . Upon completion of cut |
en | N/A | N/A | Tyra went on to say that she felt that Naomi didn’t like her, she felt alone, and just wondered why it was Naomi (seemed) not to like her!Imagine that!Tyra Banks was a young, pretty, Black girl that is modeling–a very non-Black space, and the person that could help you–hates you!That struck me, deeply. It was from that show–that moment!
With Brandy and Monica, Monica and Brandy I see the same thread. Women in an industry that thrives on talent, yes, but also exploits!This is the same industry that helped to take WHITNEY ELIZABETH HOUSTON from us!
The killer part?There was so much shade thrown on social media, that it overshadowed the fact these women have had careers in an industry that devours women or replicates them!What was the sweetest thing was this 30 second clip Verzuz didn’t show–Monica and Brandy actually hugging back stage. There was shade thrown at their outfits, and how they tried to make small talk. What I will say is the conversation did look forced. But, that is from the context of not seeing what happened backstage? |
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