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DOT Physicals
Beginning October 15, DOT Physicals at the Chipola Quick Care location will only be available Monday-Friday 7AM-7PM. Weekend DOT Physicals plan to resume in early December.
Chipola Quick Care – 850.526.6700 | {
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About Us
The board members of the Swainsboro-Emanuel County Joint Development Authority (SECJDA) have the experience to help your business succeed. We realize that where a company is located has a significant impact on its ability to control costs, generate income and maximize business productivity. SECJDA is a one-stop organization that assists in all your location or expansion needs. There is no red tape. You get immediate answers to your questions. The city and county governments and the SECJDA work together to provide incentive packages, based on job creation and private investment, that help your business become profitable in the shortest amount of time.
SECJDA realizes that your location/expansion is on a definite timeline. We help you meet that timeline with seven different industrial parks to choose from, some of which have pad ready sites with all infrastructure in place. For other sites, we are in the process of “certifying” sites by doing the preparation work in advance, such as environmental studies, geotechnical studies and others, to minimize time to ground breaking and to meet your critical timelines. One 40 acre pre-qualified site is already in place with all utilities at the site. A 51 Acre Georgia Ready for Accelerated Development (GRAD) site is located at the Airport industrial park and adjacent to the the four-lane U.S. 1 By-pass.
Our newest park, the Highway 297 Industrial Park, 376 acres with rail, has all utilities at the site with construction to begin in late Summer 2018 to put water and sewer on site.
Another significant factor is our county and labor draw area can provide qualified labor at the right wages and salaries. Plus, if you meet certain criteria, the state of Georgia, through its Quick Start Program, can provide free training for your new employees. There are many reasons to choose Emanuel County. Please contact us to set up a visit so that we can show you why you should come to Emanuel County!
Jack Bareford
President
478-237-6426
[email protected]
Our Board Members
Will Donaldson
Chairman
Wade JohnsonVice Chairman
Tim GarrettMember
Butch FryeMember
Rufus YoumansMember
Greg BennettMember
Kenny GriffinMember
Richard McNeelyBoard Attorney
Our Staff
Ken WarnockChief Executive Officer, Swainsboro-Emanuel County Chamber of Commerce and Joint Development Authority | {
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På skive
MICHAEL FOSTER & BEN BENNETT
«In It»
ASTRAL SPIRITS
«In It» is the sophomore release of the American free jazz-underground duo of sax player Michael Foster, known from the Andrew Barker Trio, Weasel Walter Large Ensemble and New York Review of Cocksucking, and drummer Ben Bennett, following their self-produced, digital download-only 2015 debut «». «In It» still keeps the underground spirit and is published by the Texan label Astral Spirits as a limited-edition of 150 cassette tapes plus digital download.
«In It» was recorded during two days on May 2016 in Brooklyn. Foster and Bennett departure point is John Coltrane iconic sax and drums duets with drummer Rashied Ali (as captured on the «Interstellar Space», Impulse, 1974). There is a similar spiritual vein, especially on the ritualistic, folksy introduction. But later on Foster and Bennett emphasize that both sketch their own independent course and don’t subscribe only the American blues and jazz legacies, in their many incarnations, Both are willing to embraces rock and punk aesthetics and their improvisation strategies owe much to the European school of free-improvisation. Both sound as more inspired now by John Butcher and Mats Gustafsson or Han Bennink and Paul Lovens than the classic Coltrane-Ali duet.
The intimate yet stormy duet feature both Foster and Bennett all over their instruments, pushing themselves and their instruments sonic ranges into the most extreme terrains. Foster talks and shouts through the saxes mouthpieces and often uses his instruments as percussive instruments in addition to his strong rhythmic articulation while Bennett blows on his membranes as if there were reeds instruments. Both have developed such a close affinity that they can shift the level of intensity and energy within a second or instantly alternate between a muscular, roaring blow-out and an abstract, almost silent sonic searches. There is a sense of thematic development to Foster and Bennett performance as both communicate a kind of story full of hair-raising adventures and wild twists that demands a certain showmanship. No doubt, these two hard-working improvisers know how to keep their audience alert and attentive. | {
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Oracle SQL Hints --- Abstraction
SQL HINT description and demonstration
SQL Hint is one of most important approaches to change the activity of optimizer and SQL execution, it’s also pretty important for SQL tuning. For instance, HINT is a part of the SQL Profiler advised by SQL Tuning Advisor. In each Oracle version, corresponding to the SQL features changes, new hints will be introduced, and old hints may be obsolete. Oracle introduced a new dynamic view, V$SQL_HINT, to show in which version the hint was involved in, and in which version it began work as outline data. The hints are associated with special SQL features. It will work only if the related features are enabled. Take HASH_AJ for example, it’s a CBO (QKSFM_CBO) feature hint, and it will not work if the SQL optimizer mode is set to RBO.
Some hints are only effect in the internal recursive SQLs, cannot be used in user SQL directly.
The embedded hints in SQL are a piece of comment, with the format /*+ <hint 1> [<hint 2> ...]*/. One comment may involve multiple hints, and one SQL may also involve multiple hint comments. And the hint will work only if they exist in the comment following the key words, SELECT, UPDATE, INSERT, MERGE and DELETE. If the SQL is a complex query involved in sub-query, the hint could be written as global or local format.The local format hints exist in the sub-query, and it can only affect the sub-query. While the global format hits exist in the main part of the query, it can be specified to affect any object in whole query by adding <object>@<block>. The alias could be used to replace the object name.
Tip: Since the embedded SQL hint is a piece of comment, its format could also be --+<hint>. For example,
HELLODBA.COM>select --+full(u)
2 * from t_users u where user_id =1;
We will descript all of hints, and also give demonstration of their usage.
SQL Features
Below hierarchy diagram shows all SQL features and their dependencies. Be aware, some features may be based on multiple features. | {
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Worker ‘left accident scene’
An aerospace worker drove away from an accident scene after colliding with another car.
Neil Davies stopped to collect his number plate which had fallen off during the crash but he did not exchange details with the other driver.
Davies, 31, of Halton Gardens, South Shore, pleaded guilty to failing to stop after an accident and failing to report it.
He was fined £175 with £85 costs plus £20 victims’ surcharge and had five motoring penalty points put on his licence by Blackpool magistrates.
Alison Quanbrough, prosecuting, said the incident happened on December 20 at around 12.15pm .
The court heard how Davies’ Ford Fiesta came out of a retail park on Cornelian Way, Marton, and collided with another Fiesta driven by a woman. He got out to pick up his number plate from the debris and then drove off. When interviewed by police he said he panicked after the collision and left the scene.
Davies, who had no previous convictions, told magistrates: “The woman pulled out in front of me. I braked, but we collided. I got out and nodded to her to see if she was OK. I picked up my number plate and again indicated to ask if she was OK. She did not get out of the car. It was very busy in the area.” | {
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A world leading professional services firm, providing accounting and auditing services, management consulting and legal and tax advice. In Belgium they are the largest professional service provider. The offices offer services to multi-national and large organisations, public institutions and innumerable small, fast-growing companies. | {
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Watch and Yearn
Julia pulled open the front of her black lace kimono style wrap and brought both of her hands up to her breasts. Pulling down her black lace push-up bra slightly, she began brushing her fingertips gently back and forth over her nipples, causing them to stiffen hastily. She then began pinching and pulling on both at the same time. An elegant, fine-boned woman in her late forties, she was clearly comfortable with her sexuality, as well as her own body. A low moan escaped her lips as she flipped her head back in elation, the soft, sinuous waves of her luscious blonde shoulder length hair swinging seductively. She could feel her pussy getting wet. While still tweaking her left nipple, she reached down and slipped her right hand inside her black, lace-trimmed hip-hugger panties. As her fingers connected with her clit, she gasped lightly, arching her back as her piercing, almost cat-like eyes stared at the scene playing out on the bed in front of her.
Lisa was facing her, turned away from Roger and straddling his hips in a reverse cowgirl position. Julia knew how much her husband enjoying having sex this way and could tell that this young woman's body was built for it. She watched in blissful awe as the slim 28-year-old's tight little pussy stretched over his cock as her perfect ass slammed up and down repeatedly. He groaned quietly as she reached down and began playing with his balls as she rode atop him, her modest sized tits dancing to the rhythm of their fucking. She lightly bit her lower lip as she reached back and slapped herself once on her right ass cheek, making sure to steal periodic glances at her lover's wife sitting only a few feet in front of her.
Roger let out a ravenous grumble as he watched the sumptuous ribbons of long, shiny brown curls bounce radiantly in front of him with each plunge onto his dick. The slender, darkly handsome 53-year-old ran one hand through his bristling, brush cut salt and pepper hair while she took hold of the other one and placed it on her firm ass. Following her lead, his hand almost immediately pulled away from her flesh and then quickly came crashing back down onto her cheek with a loud smack that echoed throughout the bedroom. He smiled in satisfaction as he heard the distinctive yelp of pleasure and pain from his young lover.
Julia was still absent-mindedly playing with her left nipple as her other hand plunged her middle finger deep into her pussy. She took a sharp breath and arched her back as she began to finger herself to the sight and sound of her husband being ridden by this beautiful creature. Her hand left her breast and joined its partner in between her legs, rhythmically massaging her clit as she marvelled at how utterly turned on she was by watching Roger fuck another woman. Pumping her middle finger in and out of her cunt, she began fucking herself as if her finger were a small penis. She tried to match the couple's lovemaking tempo, pushing her hips forward to meet her thrusting finger in time with their cadence. Her eyes made contact with her husband's lover as she fucked herself silly with her finger.
Lisa was grinding her pussy down onto him now, his cock buried deep inside her as she writhed in ecstasy. As good as the dick felt in her insatiable cunt, seeing his wife masturbating right in front of them and enjoying the show was just as fulfilling. The two women's eyes met and they both knew that they were trying hard to reach orgasm at the same time. A shiver of exhilaration rippled through her body as she once again began slowly gliding her wet snatch up and down his shaft.
Roger's eyes darted back and forth between the hot young vixen on top of him and his wife pleasuring herself a few feet away. Even in his wildest fantasies, he never imagined how incredibly arousing such a scenario truly would be. An involuntary groan of pleasure escaped his lips as he took hold of his lover's hips and started to guide her motions, attempting to synchronize her movements with those of his wife's thrusting hips.
Julia increased the pressure on her clit as she put another finger in her pussy. When she and her husband had first discussed the idea of bringing a third party into their bed, she was instantly turned on by the thought of watching him fuck another woman, but this was even better than she had hoped for. By now she was almost panting for breath, her two fingers buried deep in her cunt and her sticky juices slowly starting to run down from her engorged slit. Watching the two of them fuck was the most erotic thing she had ever seen.
Lisa's body glistened with sweat as she ran her hands through her curly mane and licked her lips, all the while keeping her eyes locked on the woman fingering herself in front of her. She had always been an adventurous girl sexually, so when the not-so-innocent flirting with her boss escalated to an offer to join him and his wife in the bedroom, it had not taken her very long to accept. With a wry smile to their audience of one, she finally laid back on top of him so she was facing the ceiling. She pinched her nipples firmly as she continued to wiggle back and forth on his cock.
Roger buried his nose into the mass of curls tickling his face and wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her down harder on top of his dick. Once he and his wife became seriously committed to their new sexual venture, his thoughts on potential candidates quickly narrowed to one young lady in particular. Ever since she had started tending bar at his restaurant six months earlier he had felt a strong attraction to her and, based on her flirtatious personality and the gossip about her promiscuity, he was cautiously optimistic that she would be open to his invitation. His hands moved from her hips and joined hers on top of her tits as she turned her head to the side and touched her lips to his.
Julia's body quivered as she took in the intimate kiss between her husband and his new lover. Subconsciously, her legs spread even further apart as she thrilled at the sight. Leaning further back in her chair, her fingers teased her clit with little circular motions as her other hand returned to her bosom to caress the nipple on her left breast. She could tell how much he was enjoying fucking this young woman, and was quite certain that his gratification was easily being matched, if not surpassed by her own. A soft moan warbled from deep inside her as she watched the couple reposition themselves on the bed.
Lisa knelt on all fours, facing her lover's wife and presenting her beautiful ass to him. Her long, curly brown hair flowed over her left shoulder as she turned to smile at him, and her body trembled as he reached under her to caress her pendulous tits, gently swaying back and forth as he began to massage them. Never before had she had any interest in voyeurism or given much thought to just how exhilarating being watched could be, but this was quickly turning into one of the most sexually satisfying exploits she had ever experienced. She locked eyes with their spectator and licked her lips as she felt his hands slide up her back and steadily work their way down to her firm ass.
Roger's hands glided over her perfect ass and onto her thighs, where he guided her legs apart as he quickly got on his knees behind her. His rigid cock slid easily into her smouldering snatch and he immediately began pounding away into her deliciously tight cunt. Reaching forward, he grabbed a length of his young lover's curly locks and yanked her head back as he shoved his dick as far into her pussy as it would go. As his thighs slapped continuously against her ass cheeks, he made sure to shoot a look at his wife as she enjoyed the show. Seeing her so thoroughly engrossed in the act of pleasuring herself as she watched her husband slam into this young vixen, he was fairly certain that his prick had never been harder in his life.
Julia was desperate to come. While one hand rubbed her sensitive clit, she pumped the middle two fingers of her other hand in and out of her fiery cunt. Her hands were a blur as her ass almost lifted completely off the seat to allow her pumping fingers to penetrate deeper. Focusing her gaze on the expression on the face of her husband's lover, she could tell that he was fucking her as hard and as fast as he possibly could. Jealousy non-existent, a jolt of pure erotic bliss rocked her body as she started to come.
Lisa's eyes widened as she saw her lover's wife bring herself to orgasm right in front of her. It was an unbelievable sight and one that was arousing her in ways she had never imagined. As the hard cock pounded into her from behind, she lifted her ass up as far as she could thrust it and rested her head on her arms to watch their voyeur come down from her orgasm. Within seconds, she was lost in the intensity of her own explosion as he stroked in and out of her mercilessly.
Roger marvelled at the double satisfaction of seeing his wife get off watching him fuck another woman combined with his new lover enjoying her own release thanks to his hard working dick. Wanting to put off his own orgasm as long as possible, he hunkered down over her body and placed his hands over hers, riding her deeply as she began thrusting backwards to meet each of his strokes. He never realized anything could feel as good as this did, his cock buried deep inside one hot babe as his beautiful wife fingered herself steps away.
Julia tried to catch her breath as she spread her legs wide and gently grazed her fingers over her dripping slit. She knew that her husband had always loved to watch her masturbate and she had always thoroughly enjoyed doing it for him, but never before had she ever felt an orgasm quite as powerful as the one she had just experienced. There was no doubt that watching the young woman on the bed reach her own release at the hands (and cock) of her husband was definitely to thank for taking her to new levels of sexual gratification.
Lisa squeezed her eyes shut and tried to steady herself as she came down from her release. She had known from the moment that he slid his hard-on into her tight, hot cunt that she was likely going to enjoy her biggest and best orgasm ever, and she had not been disappointed. As sexually liberated as she had always thought she was, what she was experiencing right now was by far her most satisfying and erotic escapade. Her eyelids fluttered open and she once again locked eyes with her lover's wife. The two women smiled knowingly in each other's direction, their sexual connection, though not physical, was electric, and filled the room.
Roger could not take it much longer. Watching both of these amazing women explode, plus fucking one of them as furiously as he possibly could, had driven him to the edge. He pulled out of his young lover and flipped her onto her back as he wrapped his hand around his shaft and began to stroke. Groaning in anticipation, he watched as she squeezed her tits and bit her lower lip hungrily while his hand slid over his throbbing cock. Finally, his balls began to boil and he knew he was about the come.
Julia gasped aloud as she watched her husband, dick in hand, take aim at the young woman laid out in front of him. The first shot of come splattered across the bottom of her tits, with the second landed between them and ran up her chest all the way up to her neck. His wife stared in wonderment and lust as he seemed to spurt an endless fountain of come.
Lisa smiled widely and her eyes darted over to her lover's wife just as a shot of come splattered across her face. Her fingers moved to her breasts and she pulled on her nipples mercilessly as another string of his hot fuck juice splashed across her chest. She clutched her tits in her hands and began rubbing them, smearing his come into her skin.
Roger, completely spent, collapsed onto the bed beside his come-drenched lover and tried to catch his breath. He watched as she mindlessly continued caressing her breasts, rubbing his jizz around her nipples, and could not help but smile at the sight. As impressed as he was with that vision, when his eyes moved to take in his wife, his grin widened even further as he watched her gaze fixed on the sticky young woman massaging his come onto her tits. To his own amazement, his cock was already starting to get hard again as he saw his wife's hand slip back in between her legs and a sensual moan escape her lips. | {
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Image credit: Bob Brown’s confident prediction was made in 1931. Sourced from James Gleick’s blog.
Originally written for the Creative Industries Innovation Centre, 2011.
Closing the 2011 Sydney Writers’ Festival was a plenary address by author James Gleick, whose book The Information has been recently described by the ABC’s Robyn Williams as the ‘best science book ever’.
Detailing the modern history of information technology, The Information tracks how it was that ‘information’ came to be conceived as an abstract quantity, giving rise to terms like ‘bit’ to describe a unit of data. It’s obvious to us now, but it took people like Bell Telephone Labs engineer Claude Shannon to imagine that everything from the morse code to thermodynamics to jungle drums might have a measurable scientific quantity, before the information age we now live in could emerge.
But while The Information offers readers insights into how the abstraction of data has created what he calls an ‘information flood’, Gleick’s SWF address, titled ‘Perish the Thought’ was far less inclined to treat books as mere ‘containers’ of ‘content’.
“The separation”, he suggests, “is not entirely satisfying – we interact with a book in a more complex way”. A book is not merely a container for content, in the way that a wine bottle holds the wine. It is, he suggests, a “peak technology – one that is ideally suited to its task”. That means, contrary to the deafening roar of technology boosters and bloggers, the book will never die.
To support his case, Gleick took us on a journey through the many moments of the book’s anticipated demise. In the 1930s, for example, a relatively obscure American author Robert Brown wrote a manifesto declaring books “antiquated word containers”. We were reminded of Marshall McLuhan’s impassioned embrace of print’s demise in the early 1960s – the potentials then offered by fuzzy black and white television were, to MacLuhan, portents of new participatory forms of literacy in the coming ‘electric age’. Nicholas Negroponte was calling for an end to the book back in 1996, just as he claimed in 2010 that “the physical book is dead” – that digital books will replace physical books as the dominant form.
So it’s not that the claims are new. It’s just that the e-book is now a reality, and what’s more it’s splendid. Jacob Weisberg wrote in Slate in 2009 how much he loves the Kindle as his “cool new literature delivery system”. Audiences agree: last week Amazon announced a new milestone, now selling more Kindle versions of book titles than print. Forget the future – the death of the book is clearly happening right now.
Not so, says Gleick. As someone who has thought a lot about the relationships between ‘containers’ and their ‘content’, Gleick is more inclined to think of the value of the book as lying in its print form. It’s the human instinct to collect objects of value that makes us love the book as an object, he suggests, and he quotes I.A Richards, who thought of the books as ‘a machine to think with’.
Like other treatments on the subject, such as John Thompson’s Merchants of Culture, Gleick tends to think the bigger problem at hand is not in fact the demise of the book – after all 2010 saw the publication of 316,000 new titles, and that’s not including the nearly one million titles borne of ‘internet-driven’ non-traditional publishing – but rather the publishing industry itself. Gleick contends here that the trouble may be less about digital formats and more to do with the short-termism of publishers and their insatiable greed, chasing after block busters and leaving the backlists for dead.
It’s these characteristics that are only letting the e-books down too, he claims. Sloppy editing, too many widows and orphans, charging readers too much, paying writers too little – they all stand in the way of creating a satisfying e-book experience. ‘Enhanced’ e-books offering readers embedded video and applets may be well and good, but don’t, he pleas, start embedding hyperlinks into text, and don’t start introducing social bookmarks! In other words don’t introduce anything that will take the reader out of the book.
This may be a fanciful desire on Gleick’s part, but it also goes to the crux of the matter. The word not mentioned in this address was ‘narrative’, and it seemed a strange omission – after all, isn’t the only thing distinguishing ‘the book’ from ‘the internet’ in an age of e-publishing the coherence of the narrative perspective? And that old authorial voice?
In the end, for Gleick, it came down to a bit more than narrative consistency, and the trusted authorial voice nourished by publishers committed to the task of connecting writers with their audiences. The book as a ‘peak technology’ was key. Technology barriers limit the time horizon of video to around 100 years. For the internet, the time horizon is around 20 years; Facebook give or take a couple of years. The genius of the book as a peak technology is its ability to break through the technological barriers of the past, with a time horizon dating to the beginning of human history. In the antiquity of the book, then, lies its future. To Gleick: “When we find ourselves living in the perpetual present, books become the furniture of eternity”.
James Gleick is an author, journalist and biographer whose books explore the cultural ramifications of science and technology. His most recent book, ‘The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood’, is being hailed as his crowning work. Gleick is also the author of the bestselling books ‘Chaos’, ‘Genius’, ‘Faster’ and a biography of Isaac Newton. Three of these books have been Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists, and have been translated into more than 20 languages. James divides his time between New York City and Florida.
Sarah Barns gets excited by digital publishing, but judging by the unwieldy pile of books stacked up by her bedside, remains stuck with the antiquated habits of what Ben Ehrenreich would call a ‘biblio-necrophiliac’.
I could tell you how many steps make up the streets rising like stairways, and the degree of the
arcades’ curves, and what kind of zinc scales cover the roofs; but I already know that this would
be the same as telling you nothing. The city does not consist of this, but of relationships between
the measurements of space and the events of its past.
—Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, 1974
In Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities fluid assemblages of signs and images litter a subterranean landscape which mark the destinations to which Marco Polo has travelled. Polo recounts these destinations to his Emperor Kublai Khan without recourse to a map or a wayfaring guide; we are given little by way of their geography, or any sense of the spatial connections between each recalled location. Instead there are only fragments, the improbable exceptions of remembrance and experience. Calvino’s invisible cities are all given names, women’s names like Irene, Chloe, Raissa, Adelma: Irene, for example, “is the city visible when you lean out from the edge of the plateau at the hour when the lights come on” (1974: 112). There are many cities, but always the one: Venice. This is the Venice collapsed or hidden behind its contemporary, over-exposed tourist façade, whose ‘invisibility’ is cultivated as the imaginative potentiality of everyday encounters with a familiar space. Of this Venice there are no general claims made, instead, from the singularity of this one city, are teased provisional cities that capture a mood, a memory, a fleeting gesture, the tracery of a half-glimpsed pattern…
What might Calvino’s peculiar treatments of urban spatiality offer to today’s practitioners of urban computing? M. Christine Boyer (1996: 142) has noted the way Invisible Cities represents a network “much like the matrix of a hypertext, in which the reader can select multiple routes and draw a variety of conclusions”. During the 1960s Calvino was interested in what the combinatory complexities of cybernetics meant as a way of perceiving the world, one that could divide it into a series of discrete, divisible parts, rather than continuous in form, a shift he considered radical in the way it altered the theoretical image of our mental processes. Invisible Cities sees this recombinatory logic of cybernetics in action, allowing for an imaginary projection of urban space via a set of algorithmic relationships that enable places to exchange their form, order, and distances, as qualities assorted “like the letters in a name” (Calvino 1974: 164).
In Invisible Cities this recombinatory logic incorporates not only discrete spatial entities, but also “the measurements of space and the events of its past”. An imaginative projection of the city’s spatiality is thus evoked as intimately temporal – but again, this temporality is not continuous, as in the steady passage of time, but is rather experienced as discontinuous and elliptical. Just as there is no clear linear passage through the spatial environment of the city of Venice, so too there is no clear passage through its shifting temporalities, or the discrete stages of Marco Polo’s journey: “all the future Berenices”, for example, “are already present in this instant” (1974: 146). For this is a temporality that figures like the experience of memory, in which recollections emerge without warning, as discrete, embodied moments, which might flash up at any given time – such as, perhaps, when you lean out of a window in the early evening.
In this way Calvino animated invisible cities as topologies of moments, whose recombinations and recollections continue to haunt imagistic projections and abstract modes of knowledge. Released two years after the publication of Invisible Cities, Jonothan Raban’s Soft City (1974) offered a similar treatment of the urban terrain as intimately personal, and therefore malleable and indeterminate: “Decide who you are, and the city will again assume a fixed form around you” (Raban 1974: 1). The fractured identity of the modern condition was mirrored in the malleability of urban space, as Raban’s narrative itinerary teased out the many from the singular, navigating agitated spaces of illusion, myth, aspiration and nightmare. The dynamic of cities was presented as “plastic by nature”, criss-crossing both the real and the imagined, the voice of commentary mixing it up with the musings of a wondering, wandering traveler. Dense with labyrinthine alleyways of possibility and happenstance, Soft City presented urban spaces “in our images; they, in turn, shape us by the resistance they offer when we try to impose our own personal form on them” (Raban 1974: 1-2).
Both writers offered their accounts of the city not as scholars of urbanism but instead as conjurors of stories. Jeannette Winterson (2001) has written that “[r]eading Calvino reading Venice is a reminder of how often the controlled, measured world of knowledge fails us. So much of life resists the facts. Imagining Venice is imagining yourself, as Khan discovers – an unsettling exercise, but necessary, perhaps.” At one point in his account of invisible cities, Calvino describes the way Kublai Khan had focused so narrowly on a chessboard of black and white squares that the game’s meaning had eluded him, as it had simply become an abstract piece of wood (Boyer 1996: 143). But when Marco Polo reminded him that this chessboard was “inlaid with two woods, ebony and maple” Khan’s imagination took flight. As Boyer has suggested, in this way Calvino teaches us a lesson: we might reduce events to abstract patterns that facilitate the procedures of logical operations, or we can work to engender or revive imaginary projections – in this case, making words reveal the very tangible qualities of a given object – which in turn might allow for the continued presence of the unfathomable, the invisible (ibid).
This Chapter considers some of the ways in which we might continue to encounter the elliptical invisibilities of contemporary ‘real-time ‘ cities. Today, the ability to graphically enhance our imaging of cities as multi-scalar, networked environments offers profound potentials, introducing an array of new urban management and design techniques using more detailed, real-time urban data. Just as a shapeless dust cloud invaded the continents of Invisible Cities, today’s real-time cities are underpinned by an information architecture of sensors and applications, whose databases express the mutating, multi-scalar complexities of the material world. The ability to visualize these interactions in real-time radically disrupts our conception of the city, by representing urban spaces according to their everyday uses as much as by their physical, built structures. Real-time usage patterns can, for example, be applied to predict the impact of new developments, replacing of out of date census data with predictive models more closely attuned to the complex interactions and spatial flows of the city. Embedded sensor networks reveal that which might otherwise be invisible to the naked eye; like coins rubbed over waxpaper, they make visible a myriad of fluid, complex exchanges between material, social and informational universes.
For many, this computational intensification of the material world retrieves hidden, hitherto banished possibilities, and can be put to disruptive uses (Foth 2008: 19). To Foth, practitioners of urban informatics can act as ‘urban anatomists’, dissecting urban environments and infrastructure by “trying to microscopically uncover the connections and interrelations of city elements”, seeking to “picture the invisible and to zoom into a fine-grained resolution of urban environments”. Peter Hall and Janet Abrams have suggested “[m]apping has emerged in the information age as a means to make the complex accessible, the hidden visible, the unmappable mappable” (2006: 12). The application of hyper-local, multi-scalar and real time mapping techniques, it is argued, present opportunities to expose ‘hidden’ or hitherto invisible relationships, including the relationships between centre and periphery, power and influence (see Sassen 2008; Boyer 2006).
For Dan Hill, there is the potential to avoid grand infrastructural interventions which become “hardwired into the urban fabric” for subsequent generations, and to instead develop a more “iterative, responsive field of ‘urban acupunctures”. Location-aware computing has in such ways been seen to greatly expand the range of possibilities for artists, architects and designers to “re-enchant the world”, offering “a way of making visible all these hidden stories of place” (Crang and Graham 2007: 815). The embedding of microprocessors via sensor web networks in physical environments also enables the informational life-worlds of millions of ‘users’, human or otherwise, to be made visible, such that needs not only of humans but also natural environments can be revealed as diffuse, complex systems of interaction.
But as practitioners of urban computing seek to actively to disrupt established views of the city, visualizing that which has hitherto remained hidden from view, a return to Invisible Cities also prompts us to reconsider the enduring presence of that which still remains out of view in today’s real-time cities. In a sense, many of the potentials associated with real-time mobile networks are predicated on making visible that which might otherwise remain unseen. But the twentieth century has already witnessed many costly lessons associated with relying too heavily on technologies of visual abstraction and representation as a means to progress urban reform. So when we today assess the potentials associated with enhanced, contextually-aware spatial representations of the real-time city, Calvino’s writing reminds us of the need to be remain mindful not only of what this capacity for spatial measurement reveals, but to consider also how we might continue to enfold the ‘the events of its past’ within these emergent, distributed networked configurations.
The title for the chapter was inspired by reading Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting, in which she takes her readers on a walk through London one winter’s eve in search of a pencil. Happily, it’s available online now, and can be read below.
Another inspiration for the piece are the Lost Laneways of Sydney – one of the images from this fine collection is below. It captures a man walking down Exeter Place in Sydney, 1906. Exeter Place was obliterated as part of the Wexworth St Resumption.
NSW SuburbLabs is a pilot project connecting historical content in government and public archives and institutions to the testbed locations of the National Broadband Network in NSW.
The project was funded by the NSW Government in 2010 as part of its Broadband Testbed Trials. Two of the test-bed locations feature here: Middleton Grange and Kiama.
The project differed from some other recent digital archives projects, in that it focused on what you could do with widely-accessible publishing platforms like WordPress and Flickr. It also benefited a great deal from Trove, launched by the National Library of Australia in 2010.
As I pieced together collection materials drawn from vastly dispersed collections relating to highly-localised sites, whose significance rested primarily on their having been chosen as broadband test-beds (rather than their particular historical significance), I was once again reminded of the the importance of storytelling, context and interpretation. The tools of the trade for curators and historians, whose work remains vital even as the data – in the form of digital archives – becomes accessible to many in ways not seen before.
And what stories!
Middleton Grange was only given its name in 2005, but explorations of the archives reveal many a fascinating tale about this perimeter suburb of Sydney. Hoxton Park, for example, has long been a place to which struggling inner-city types fled in search of easy money through property – a not unfamiliar tale to residents of the city today.
It also happens that Australia’s first published poet, Barron Field, took up humble residence on the 2000 acres known as Hinchinbrook – publishing his much-maligned ‘Kangoroo’ while employed as a judge on the NSW Supreme Court.
Much of the archives work featured on this site has contributed to a PhD I’ve been undertaking through the University of Technology Sydney. It’s been a long and winding journey – starting out in the Faculty of Computing and IT and ending up in Public History – and finally submitted in August 2010.
Titled The Death and Life of the Real-Time City: Re-imagining the City of Digital Urbanism, this is a somewhat ‘non-traditional’ PhD which traverses a number of different fields and takes in ideas relating to urban computing, utopian images of the city, urban activism during the 20th century, sound practices, and the digital distribution of media archives today.
If you’re wondering how all those ideas fit together, you best have a read. A copy of the unpublished dissertation can be downloaded here.
The Abstract begins like this:
Information and communications technologies are becoming increasingly diffused within the material spaces of the city, generating novel ways of representing complex, hitherto ‘invisible’ urban behaviours in real-time. Many digital urbanists are inspired by the capacity of these network technologies to radically transform our perceptions and experiences of urban space. But how ‘new’, really, is this emergent vision of the city?
My primary interest has been to critically interrogate how it is that digital urbanists approach the space of the city – not only in descriptive terms, in terms of the ‘what is’, whether that be current GPS-enabled bicycle trips or mobile phone usage patterns, but by projecting a kind of anticipatory urban imaginary which agitates for ‘what might be’ and in doing so, is implicitly critical of the status quo.
By digital urbanists, I basically mean those practitioners and researchers who are excited by the potential for urban computing – wireless networks, mobile devices and so forth – to alter the way we use and understand urban spaces. Just as the term ‘urbanism’ is sometimes used to denote a passionate interest in, or engagement with, the vicissitudes of urban life, I’ve used the term ‘digital urbanism’ to capture a largely optimistic engagement in the potential for urban computing technologies to reform cities.
MIT SENSEable City Lab 2010. Project: Network & Society
I’ve been fascinated with the rise of digital urbanism because it stands quite apart from the orientation of many cyberspace cheerleaders of the 1990s, who predicted the demise of the city. Where previously the anti-materiality of this post-urban fantasy had looked to the Internet as a kind of utopia of pure space â?? where a virtual world of pure information served to ‘decontaminate’ natural and urban landscapes and annihilate geographical constraints, today’s real-time communications are instead championed as potentially enhancing the behaviours of the city.
The concept of the real-time city is only one of the many ways in which ‘the city’ is being re-visioned using contemporary network technologies. It’s associated primarily with the work of practitioners of urban informatics, a discipline championed by researchers such as Marcus Foth, Anthony Townsend, and Howard Rheingold, along with industry practitioners like Carlo Ratti, head of the SENSEable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Dan Hill, Senior Consultant at Arup and creator of cityofsound.com.
In my thesis, I approach the concept of the real-time city a bit more broadly than it is usually understood within fields like urban informatics, because I’m interested in it not as a functional term but as an aspirational term. The real-time city, I argue, serves to project a particular vision of the city, one whose performance rests on the capacity for distributed computing to ‘enhance’ representations of cities as complex urban systems, often using data visualization techniques to capture otherwise ‘hidden’ data flows between distributed computing devices, including mobile phones.
My central concern with this vision is its reliance on technologies of visualisation, which are used to offer better representations of urban complexity. Despite the emphasis on urban complexity, my contention is that this vision nevertheless progresses particular, and in fact quite restrictive, notions of the urban. I’ve found that many of the claims of digital urbanists tend to pivot around the revelatory capacity of real-time networks to ‘make the invisible visible’. In its approach to the city, this entrenches an intensely visual agenda which is evident across much of urban studies, setting certain parameters around what can be ‘seen’ and what remains ‘unseen’ in the life of the real-time city.
I treat the emphasis on visual abstraction as a concern, not only for its tendency to privilege the visual over other sensory modes of urban experience, but also for its privileging of a formalistic, design-led approach, which tends to engage with systems design at the expense of social process. Such tendencies have not gone unnoticed; the architect Peter Eisenmann recently decried practices associated with digital urbanism as a ‘new, virulent breed of formalism, more virulent because it [is] posed under the banner of a neo-avant guard technological determinism’ (cited in Anthony Vidler’s Histories of the Immediate Present, 2008).
So that’s where Jane Jacobs comes in, with her seminal text The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1965). Urban planners during the 1960s were enchanted by the potential to introduce greater order into the city – think of Le Corbusier’s Radiant City – and put forward models of ‘urban renewal’ which could be easily replicated across other cities. Death and Life was essentially a tirade against these practices of post-war American planning, mourning the way American cities were being transformed into forests of high-rise buildings, leaving their citizens ostracized and isolated, and subsequently undermining the vitality of American public culture.
Jane Jacobs on her bicycle, New York 1960s.
Aghast at the impersonalized urban landscapes transforming modern American cities, Jacobs urged that greater attention be paid to the values of locatedness and connectedness to place. In a strong but gentle polemical style, Jacobs argued that urban spaces worked best when strangers could easily encounter each other, when children played on the street, and when planning decisions could be made at a local level, rather than through centralized planning bureaucracies and the imposition of abstracted ideas about cities.
The challenge Jacobs presented to modern urban planning was therefore not just about the particular technique of urban renewal being promulgated by the American planning profession at that time. It also concerned, more fundamentally, its claim to be reviving urban spaces through new approaches to urban development, which relied heavily on techniques of urban abstraction. To Jacobs, such techniques famously represented ‘the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served’ (1965: 25). Rather than resorting to a plan, a grid, or a highway network, Jacobs reconceived cities as disorganised collections of haphazard incidents and accidental encounters between strangers.
Robert Moses’ plan for the Lower Manhattan Expressway
Across contemporary urban planning and architecture today, Jacob’s target of post-war modernist planning tends to be framed for its tragic failures, a product of the over reliance on the urban spatial form as a basis from which to alleviate social ills, seeking to reform or renew built environments while leaving social relationships intact. Jacobs’ polemic is required reading for today’s students, who are taught of the failures wrought by these modernist regimes, and the geographies of single-use enclaves and far-flung highways they spawned. Indeed, the criticisms she waged against the profession might today be considered planning orthodoxy: in particular, the need to avoid widely-replicable, abstract urban schemas, and to instead take into account the local conditions that give rise to productive diversity.
In recalling its title, my thesis is not so much interested in what Death and Life had to say about the ideal conditions of urban form, the length of city blocks, the presence of mixed industry, etcetera, as its symbolic and now historic project of re-imagining ‘the city’. In challenging the conventional wisdom about how to understand cities, part of the radicalism of Death and Life was its steady insistence that the trickiness of cities can be as evident in everyday interactions on downtown sidewalks as it is in the abstracted representations and codifications of specialised disciplines. So the title of my thesis draws from Jacobs to affirm the continuing importance of this central challenge as it applies to the emergent fields of digital urbanism today.
Somewhat working against the grain of conventional approaches (if you can use a term like ‘conventional’ in relation to a relatively nascent field of practice!), my PhD has gone on to retrieve some different practices and perspectives, drawn from the fields of critical spatial theory, cultural geography and sound studies, to re-imagine a ‘real-time’ experience of the urban terrain. Through a practice-led response, I’ve re-imagined the digital terrain as a historical topology that enfolds within it different time-spaces – what I’ve cheekily called the ‘real times of space‘.
This practice has made tactical use of the mobile device as a listening platform, capable of retrieving the substrata of today’s digital terrain through its archival audio traces. Working in Sydney, Australia, I’ve retrieved the ambient resonances of particular moments in the life of the city in the way one might navigate a memori topi, using archival sound traces to facilitate experiential audio-visual interactions with the past-presences of an urban space.
This practice has tried to figure out a way of navigating the digital-urban terrain not as a networked space of contemporary connectivity – the perpetual present of real-time interaction – but also as a way of experiencing what Doreen Massey has called a ‘simultaneity of stories so far’ (for space, 2003, p.109). Massey has been influential for me here – in an exhibition catalogue for Olaf Eliasson’s Weather Project at the Tate Museum in 2003 Massey writes of the times of space, , which is not quite totally spatial in its privileging of the present, but open to loose ends, to connections yet to be made. If we shift the concept of ‘real- time’ away from that of the networked connectivity of the present, to the ‘loose ends’ of space’s real-times, what practices might that lead to?
Here I’ve turned to sound, and specifically ambient sound archives of city spaces, as a way of listening in to the resonant traces of past moments. By doing so, I’ve hoped to enrich the spatial imaginary of the real-time city and its digital practices; to not only illuminate the contours of its networked connectivity, but to also listen, and learn, from what we might retrieve when we return to its forgotten spaces.
Ultimately, I’m totally fascinated with the rise of urban computing, and the potential for spatial technologies to re-shape not only the way we use cities, but also the way we imagine them. Nevertheless, I believe it’s time for more critical debate about the extent to which technologies of urban computing can themselves reform the deeper institutional and political practices that underpin the production of contemporary cities. From Web 2.0 to City 2.0 – how might that take shape within institutions of urban governance?
Listening in to the city’s recorded geography might help to answer that question. When we do listen, we hear that the agitations of urban crisis are not so new, we can listen to the mistakes of urban modernism, and can perhaps begin to recall the dangers of believing reform is something to be designed by only a few.
Through ABC Pool, I’ve been working to publish a number of the archival recordings featured on Sydney Sidetracks through an open access Creative Commons licence. That means they are now available for re-use and remix. The project is starting with the Sydney collection, but will be expanding to include other cities very soon.
The project has featured on the ABC’s social media website Pool. It launched on January 2011 and has since seen the release of a number of additional ABC TV & Radio Archives items into the public domain.
An example of some of the items I have cleared through this project include:
VP Day 1945
Voices
Through this project I cleared a number of voice recordings of infamous Sydney-siders, including the gunman Chow Hayes, the activist Juanita Nielsen and the colourful lady-about-town Bea Miles.
Living on the Fringe
As part of this ABC Pool project I conducted an interview with the director, Gian Carlo Manara, and undertook further research into the ABC’s document archives to uncover some of the unwanted press associated with the release of this once controversial documentary.
Q&A With GianCarlo Manara, Director of Living on the Fringe
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GianCarlo Manara, director of the ABC’s 1963 documentary Living on the Fringe, shares some of his memories about the film with Sarah Barns.
SB: What opportunities were there for documentary makers working in Australia at this time? How important was the ABC in supporting documentary production?
GM: At the time we made Living on the Fringe, there weren’t so many opportunities for the few people with sufficient professional skill to make documentaries. The ABC was one of the first institutions to offer that chance, through programs like Big Country.
SB: Was this a difficult film to make within the ABC at this time?
GM: Documentaries like this weren’t very common. It was Allan Ashbolt in the Talks Dept who wanted to use television to make more political documentaries like this one. We worked together on Four Corners – our association grew from there.
SB: What inspiration did you draw from when making this film? (for example, Italian neo-realist films etc).
GM: I graduated in Film Direction and Scriptwriting in Italy in 1955. We all in the school were the products of Italian neo-realism. I personally have been also influenced by other filmmakers such as Grierson, Rota, and Cavalanti.
SB: Did your own migrant story influence this film in any way?
GM: No, I was not influenced by my migrant experience, but by the stark reality of the life of the neglected and the poor. The the media at the time always preferred to ignore this.
SB: How did people on the streets of Sydney react to your filming of them?
GM: Filming in the streets at that time was still a novelty. I often used a “candid camera” approach to catch reality. An exception was when I asked my sexy friend Diana Roberts, now the well know writer Di Morrisey, to walk around some streets in East Sydney. At this time many Italians and Maltese migrants used to hang around on Sunday morning. Migrants at the time were very lonely â?? no social life and above all no women! The “Latin Lover” was not yet a trendy image!
SB: What did you hope audiences would learn from Living on the Fringe?
GM: My hope was for the average viewer to understand that Australia was not just the land of milk and honey – that here, just like other part of the world, there were people in need.
SB: Do you think Sydney is a better city today than it was when Living on the Film was made?
GM: Is Sydney a better place today? It is a big question. It is certainly different – there is more social awareness in the area of welfare and help. Of course lifestyles are also very different. Is it better? If I look back at the Sydney of this time I see a child, and today I see an adult. But is the adult of today better than the child of yesterday? It is a big question… I often think about it, about the old beach carnival when the Life Savers were marching like soldiers, when the girls were wearing petticoats and Saturday night was the night of dance at the Trocadero! All gone! However the girls are still beautiful, and the Life Savers are still so important and so Australian!
But one thing is for sure: the “greed” that today is often rampant was not so much at the time, even if everyone of course attempted to make some â??quidsâ??!
The back of the Theatre Royal in Sydney - near Rowe Lane, site of the demolished Rowe St.
resonant traces of the city: an archaeology of recorded action
A component of my PhD was the production of a number of sound pieces which I’ve labelled ‘sound marks’. These pieces are intended to take the listener back to historical moments and events in the life of Sydney. Todayâ??s listener might chart a course through central Sydney, â??visitingâ?? these moments in much the same way that one might visit a monument or landmark. Theyâ??re not, in the main, attached to visible landmarks.
It was 9am Sydney time on August 15 1945 when British Prime Minister Clement Atlee announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. ‘The last of our enemies is laid low’ he said. PEACE! roared The Sun. In downtown Martin Place, massive crowds spontaneously gathered, to dance and make whoopie in celebration of the end of the War.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s Talbot Duckmanton was there that day to record the scenes, describing to his audience some of the finer details of the setting: a Hitler effigy being hung from the windows of one of the banks, circles of dancing women before him (‘fine looking ladies, too!’), the din of a mosquito zooming around maniacally over head.
Duckmanton’s recording captures the emerging style of documentary radio reportage adopted by the ABC’s radio correspondents after the war, as they took advantage of new, more versatile recording technologies to head out of the studio and into the streets and backwaters of Australia (Inglis 1983: 164; Thomas 2007).
Standing in Martin Place today, listening in, through headphones, to the sounds captured by the ABC’s recording of these ebullient scenes some sixty-five years ago, one feels a giddy sense of time travel, being transported to that celebrated moment as it had been experienced right here. That sense of immediacy Duckmanton had worked to establish for his radio listeners back in 1945 draws today’s listener back in, to participate with his audience of the day in imagining the scenes at Martin Place. ‘There’s no policeman directing traffic on Pitt St today’ he tells us. No, indeed there is not.
Today Martin Place is unusually quiet. It’s Saturday and the office workers who normally mill about here are nowhere to be seen. Weekend shoppers and tourists are perhaps avoiding the tunnel of wind that blows constantly up through the pedestrian promenade, making the place feel somewhat chilly even on hot summer afternoons. Duckmanton’s narration continues:
Over on my right, on one of the buildings at the back, somebody has hung out a big dummy of Adolf Hitler with a great swastiker on the front of it, and to the cheers of the crowd he was lowered down from the top of the building and – duly hung!
Today’s solitary listener might look up, wondering on which of these buildings here the spectacle occurred.
Listening to the sounds of this old radio recording through personal headphones, we join with Duckmanton’s audience of the day in imagining the scenes being described. But we’re not listening to the wireless, whether from home or work, we’re in Martin Place, separated through time, not by distance, to the sounds of this euphoria en masse of the manic joy of wives soon to be reunited with husbands, of a city jubilant with the prospect of an immanent end to war-time rations.
As we ‘return’ to this moment as it was documented here, in-situ, we are also just another person in the crowd with headphones on, enclosed, as Bull (2007) would have it, in a ‘pleasurable and privatized sound bubble’ of own own choosing.
We might consider the peculiar sound bubble of this listening experience to be hallucinatory in its effects, in eliciting ‘visions’ of that which can no longer be seen. The experience is reminiscent of a movie soundtrack, transforming what is seen into a kind of cinematic-like visual feast. While this experience is all too familiar to headphone wearers everywhere, this particular piece of audio, an old, scratchy recording of a public event that took place right here some time ago, brings back a sense of the collective memory of an invisible past.
So this audio recording facilitates a slightly different kind of audio-visual interactivity to that which might ordinarily be experienced with headphones, as the displacement affected by the auditory frame is also something of a ‘return’; an intimate commemoration with that previous, broadcast present.
Today’s listener might ‘visit’ a number of these archival recordings as one would visit a monument, or some kind of a physical artefact that describes a historical event. Further up the street at Chifley Square, our listener can hear the chants of a student demonstration. It’s 1968 and Australia’s involvement in the war in Vietnam is under fire. The protesters have gathered outside the Commonwealth Centre, a towering 1960s office block demolished in 1988 to make way for the Chifley Tower. She hears a voice projected through a loudspeaker proclaiming the rights of conscientious objectors to a trial by jury, muffled cries calling for Mr. Robert Kennedy’s resignation, boos and hisses, muffled and dispersed at first and then becoming louder. The listener hears these sounds through her headphones, while the ambient noises of Chifley Square bleed into her densely, scratchily archival audio space. Further down at Circular Quay, she can ‘visit’ the voice of Paul Robeson singing Old Man River to the construction workers of the Sydney Opera House in 1963.
If she heads over to the Rocks, she’ll also hear the sounds of Green Ban protesters fighting against the prospect of further high-rise construction, clashing with police in 1973; a bird sings in the background as a reporter details the scene. As she visits these recordings, the listener’s experience of these events yields a city of discrete, temporally-discontinous moments in time: a topography of events, as captured by recording technologies of the day.
Today’s s listener could chart a course through central Sydney visiting these ‘soundmarks’ as one might visit different places of historical interest. Her experience of these sounds in-situ amplifies a different historical geography to that of the ‘sculptured narrative’ (ref) of monuments and memorials. When she stands in Martin Place listening to the sounds of VP Day, she’s looking at the Victorian sandstone buildings wondering on which one the Hitler effigy hung, and may only take a passing interest in their architectural features. Down at Circular Quay, she’s imagining the Sydney Opera House as a mess of scaffolding. When the listener returns to these moments, she revisits the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’. In these recordings, she hears journalists detailing a contemporary (now past) scene, not recollections as described by someone from a future vantage point in time. The sense of immediacy yielded by these ambient street recordings, as it retrieves an experience of ‘being there’, is in this respect quite different to a studio-based oral history recording, which looks backwards from a contemporary vantage point.
These pieces are not intended to structure the listener’s physical navigation of an environment, but simply to ‘mark’ a space-time, or series of space-times. They don’t offer the listener a structured navigation through a given locale. When you listen, you’ll hear no instructions as to which way you should walk; which way you should look. Each piece simply seeks to triangulate, like Calvino’s invisible cities, the measurements of space with the events of its past.
Each of these sound pieces experiments with different approaches to working with sound archives for a site-specific listening experience. All are relatively short – the longest is 14 minutes. All were produced using the ABC’s archives, with the exception of one piece I produced using materials identified from the National Film and Sound Archive.
Some simply present a single archival recording; others are more complex edited compositions that integrate a number of different sound sources. Some are narrated; others are not.
Many of these pieces relate to what I have called ‘resonant spaces’ in Sydney; spaces whose amplification through the documentary record illuminates sites of conflict and contestation which otherwise remain hidden from view. Listening to these recordings in-situ intends to amplify a different historical geography to that of the sculptured narrative of official monuments and memorials.
Such resonant spaces amplify the contested nature of a site’s contemporary spatiality. But other pieces are not about urban conflict at all: they simply ‘return’ to particular moments in the life of the city, yielding a topology of events and moments, as captured by different recording technologies of the day. I find some of these recorded moments particularly compelling as they enable the listener to revisit the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’ specifically for the purpose of contemporary documentary reportage.
As compositions, these sound marks are not intended to demonstrate new methods of sound composition, or examples of context-aware media technology. They are simply intended to demonstrate what different kinds of auditory remnants might be retrieved when we listen in to the real times of space. Wherever possible, I have made these recordings available for re-use by others interested in working with street’s acoustical historical geography. I make no claims over ownership of the final compositions, but only gesture towards their possible incorporation into contemporary practice.
Sydney has long been a city well-known for poor planning decisions, reflecting a historically laissez-faire approach to urban design. Planning advocate J.D. Fitzgerald lamented in 1917 that Sydney was “a city without a plan, save whatever planning was due to the errant goat”. “Wherever this animal made a track through the bush”, he observed, “there are the streets of today”. Sydney historian Paul Ashton has subsequently called Sydney an “accidental city”, because its planning history has been shaped by, at best, opportunistic development and disjointed or abortive attempts at holistic planning. As declared by one frustrated onlooker: “There is no such thing as planning [in the city of Sydney] – [ it is] all opportunism on the part of every agency.”
That can make for some fairly unruly spaces at times, as local residents and activists have intervened to protect their homes from speculative property development, then and now. A particularly notable period for citizen activism in Sydney was the 1960s and 1970s, when a colossal development boom utterly transformed the city. When developers capitalised on relaxed building height restrictions and relatively low interest rates, much of Sydney’s Victorian-era buildings within the CBD were demolished, replaced by commercial high-rise.
Residents, activists and builders’ labourers joined forces at this time demanding the right for greater consultation in planning decisions. In their heyday the BLF Green Bans were successful in holding up more than $300m worth of development across Sydney. They saved many buildings – most notably the Rocks, a tourist mecca today – but not all. They also encouraged the development of stronger participatory planning processes in Australia. But when residents dared to speak out against the loss of their homes, they encountered the darker side of Sydney’s criminal underbelly…
There are a number of sound recordings here clustered around Victoria St, dealing with the tumultuous period between 1973-4 when resident action forced delays to the construction of the Victoria Heights towers overlooking the city.
It was 9am Sydney time on August 15 1945 when British Prime Minister Clement Atlee announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies. ‘The last of our enemies is laid low’ he said. PEACE! roared The Sun. In downtown Martin Place, massive crowds spontaneously gathered, to dance and make whoopie in celebration of the end of the War.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s Talbot Duckmanton was there that day to record the scenes, describing to his audience some of the finer details of the setting: a Hitler effigy being hung from the windows of one of the banks, circles of dancing women before him (‘fine looking ladies, too!’), the din of a mosquito zooming around maniacally over head.
Duckmanton’s recording captures the emerging style of documentary radio reportage adopted by the ABC’s radio correspondents after the war, as they took advantage of new, more versatile recording technologies to head out of the studio and into the streets and backwaters of Australia (Inglis 1983: 164; Thomas 2007).
Standing in Martin Place today, listening in, through headphones, to the sounds captured by the ABC’s recording of these ebullient scenes some sixty-five years ago, one feels a giddy sense of time travel, being transported to that celebrated moment as it had been experienced right here. That sense of immediacy Duckmanton had worked to establish for his radio listeners back in 1945 draws today’s listener back in, to participate with his audience of the day in imagining the scenes at Martin Place. ‘There’s no policeman directing traffic on Pitt St today’ he tells us. No, indeed there is not.
Today Martin Place is unusually quiet. It’s Saturday and the office workers who normally mill about here are nowhere to be seen. Weekend shoppers and tourists are perhaps avoiding the tunnel of wind that blows constantly up through the pedestrian promenade, making the place feel somewhat chilly even on hot summer afternoons. Duckmanton’s narration continues:
Over on my right, on one of the buildings at the back, somebody has hung out a big dummy of Adolf Hitler with a great swastiker on the front of it, and to the cheers of the crowd he was lowered down from the top of the building and – duly hung!
Today’s solitary listener might look up, wondering on which of these buildings here the spectacle occurred.
Listening to the sounds of this old radio recording through personal headphones, we join with Duckmanton’s audience of the day in imagining the scenes being described. But we’re not listening to the wireless, whether from home or work, we’re in Martin Place, separated through time, not by distance, to the sounds of this euphoria en masse of the manic joy of wives soon to be reunited with husbands, of a city jubilant with the prospect of an immanent end to war-time rations.
As we ‘return’ to this moment as it was documented here, in-situ, we are also just another person in the crowd with headphones on, enclosed, as Bull (2007) would have it, in a ‘pleasurable and privatized sound bubble’ of own own choosing.
We might consider the peculiar sound bubble of this listening experience to be hallucinatory in its effects, in eliciting ‘visions’ of that which can no longer be seen. The experience is reminiscent of a movie soundtrack, transforming what is seen into a kind of cinematic-like visual feast. While this experience is all too familiar to headphone wearers everywhere, this particular piece of audio, an old, scratchy recording of a public event that took place right here some time ago, brings back a sense of the collective memory of an invisible past.
So this audio recording facilitates a slightly different kind of audio-visual interactivity to that which might ordinarily be experienced with headphones, as the displacement affected by the auditory frame is also something of a ‘return’; an intimate commemoration with that previous, broadcast present.
Today’s listener might ‘visit’ a number of these archival recordings as one would visit a monument, or some kind of a physical artefact that describes a historical event. Further up the street at Chifley Square, our listener can hear the chants of a student demonstration. It’s 1968 and Australia’s involvement in the war in Vietnam is under fire. The protesters have gathered outside the Commonwealth Centre, a towering 1960s office block demolished in 1988 to make way for the Chifley Tower. She hears a voice projected through a loudspeaker proclaiming the rights of conscientious objectors to a trial by jury, muffled cries calling for Mr. Robert Kennedy’s resignation, boos and hisses, muffled and dispersed at first and then becoming louder. The listener hears these sounds through her headphones, while the ambient noises of Chifley Square bleed into her densely, scratchily archival audio space. Further down at Circular Quay, she can ‘visit’ the voice of Paul Robeson singing Old Man River to the construction workers of the Sydney Opera House in 1963.
If she heads over to the Rocks, she’ll also hear the sounds of Green Ban protesters fighting against the prospect of further high-rise construction, clashing with police in 1973; a bird sings in the background as a reporter details the scene. As she visits these recordings, the listener’s experience of these events yields a city of discrete, temporally-discontinous moments in time: a topography of events, as captured by recording technologies of the day.
Today’s s listener could chart a course through central Sydney visiting these ‘soundmarks’ as one might visit different places of historical interest. Her experience of these sounds in-situ amplifies a different historical geography to that of the ‘sculptured narrative’ (ref) of monuments and memorials. When she stands in Martin Place listening to the sounds of VP Day, she’s looking at the Victorian sandstone buildings wondering on which one the Hitler effigy hung, and may only take a passing interest in their architectural features. Down at Circular Quay, she’s imagining the Sydney Opera House as a mess of scaffolding. When the listener returns to these moments, she revisits the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’. In these recordings, she hears journalists detailing a contemporary (now past) scene, not recollections as described by someone from a future vantage point in time. The sense of immediacy yielded by these ambient street recordings, as it retrieves an experience of ‘being there’, is in this respect quite different to a studio-based oral history recording, which looks backwards from a contemporary vantage point.
These pieces are not intended to structure the listener’s physical navigation of an environment, but simply to ‘mark’ a space-time, or series of space-times. They don’t offer the listener a structured navigation through a given locale. When you listen, you’ll hear no instructions as to which way you should walk; which way you should look. Each piece simply seeks to triangulate, like Calvino’s invisible cities, the measurements of space with the events of its past.
Each of these sound pieces experiments with different approaches to working with sound archives for a site-specific listening experience. All are relatively short – the longest is 14 minutes. All were produced using the ABC’s archives, with the exception of one piece I produced using materials identified from the National Film and Sound Archive.
Some simply present a single archival recording; others are more complex edited compositions that integrate a number of different sound sources. Some are narrated; others are not.
Many of these pieces relate to what I have called ‘resonant spaces’ in Sydney; spaces whose amplification through the documentary record illuminates sites of conflict and contestation which otherwise remain hidden from view. Listening to these recordings in-situ intends to amplify a different historical geography to that of the sculptured narrative of official monuments and memorials.
Such resonant spaces amplify the contested nature of a site’s contemporary spatiality. But other pieces are not about urban conflict at all: they simply ‘return’ to particular moments in the life of the city, yielding a topology of events and moments, as captured by different recording technologies of the day. I find some of these recorded moments particularly compelling as they enable the listener to revisit the past as originally experienced, and documented, as the ‘present’ specifically for the purpose of contemporary documentary reportage.
As compositions, these sound marks are not intended to demonstrate new methods of sound composition, or examples of context-aware media technology. They are simply intended to demonstrate what different kinds of auditory remnants might be retrieved when we listen in to the real times of space. Wherever possible, I have made these recordings available for re-use by others interested in working with street’s acoustical historical geography. I make no claims over ownership of the final compositions, but only gesture towards their possible incorporation into contemporary practice. | {
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About the Song
“Rhiannon” is the second U.S. single from Fleetwood Mac’s 10th studio album, the eponymously titled Fleetwood Mac (1975). Issued as a radio remix, the single reached #11 on the Billboard Pop Singles chart in June 1976 and #46 on the UK single charts in February 1978 (upon reissue).
The remix appears on The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac (2002) and Fleetwood Mac reissue (2004).
Rhiannon is a character in the 1973 science fiction novel Triad by Mary Leader. Enamored by the name, Stevie wrote the song that became the classic “Rhiannon.” Years later, Stevie learned that Rhiannon was the Welsh horse goddess in Celtic mythology. The striking similarities between the song “Rhiannon” and Rhiannon of the Welsh stories inspired Stevie to write other songs about Rhiannon, many of which are still unreleased.
When Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham joined Fleetwood Mac in 1974, many of the songs they had written for a proposed second Buckingham Nicks album (“Monday Morning,” “Rhiannon,” “Landslide,” and “I’m So Afraid”) were used for Fleetwood Mac instead. | {
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HOMOSEXUAL (SAME-SEX) MARRIAGES IN CANADA
Province of Nova Scotia
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Overview:
The Province of Nova Scotia in Canada is located generally south
east of New Brunswick and
to the east of the state of Maine. 1Statistics Canada estimates that
the 2003 population of the province is 936,000 persons. 2 On 2004-SEP-24, it became the
sixth
political jurisdiction in Canada to expand marriage to include same-sex
couples. The province did not do this willingly; it was ordered to do so by
the courts. With that development, plus similar court orders across Canada,
over 90% of same-sex couples in Canada were then able marry without
leaving their province.
The events leading up to legalization of same-sex marriage in Nova
Scotia:
1999: Nova Scotia was one of the first provinces in Canada to
partially recognize and accommodate same-sex couples. The government
created a domestic partner registry that gave such couples the same
legal status as opposite-sex couples in areas of pension, wills, etc.
Some same-sex couples decided to not join the registry. They were
holding out for marriage and felt that a domestic partnership would make
them feel like second-class citizens.
2004-JUL-15: Sean Foreman, chairperson of the Nova Scotia
Rainbow Action Project (NSRAP), issued a news release. Referring to
the Yukon decision, he stated: "We are now considering a change in
strategy, to proceed with a similar application in Nova Scotia in the
near future, rather than wait for the Reference." He said that the
court challenge is likely to go ahead unless Nova Scotia judges "do
the honorable thing," He sent a letter to the Nova Scotia and
federal Attorneys General, asking "...that the Province of Nova
Scotia immediately begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples."
It was not successful. 3
2004-AUG-13: Three same-sex couples, with the support NSRAP,
launched a lawsuit against the province to seek the right to marry. They
were Brian Mombourquette & Ross Boutilier; Kim Vance & Samantha Meehan;
and Ron & Brian Garnett-Doucette. Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm
announced that "Nova Scotia has refused to proactively begin issuing
[marriage] licenses." But he announced that the province would not
oppose the lawsuit.
Brian stated: "Both of us have constantly and consistently stood up
and said that we are a couple and we want to have what we deserve as a
couple. Our colleagues have respected us, and our friends have come to
love and care for us as we are, and our family is just so accepting, and
our church is where we draw our strength."4 The Garnett-Douchettes
attend the Safe Harbour Metropolitan Community Church.
2004-SEP-18: Two days after the Manitoba court decision which
legalized same-sex marriage (SSM) in that province, and six days before
it was legalized in Nova Scotia, the Toronto Star newspaper
published an editorial stating that: "Gays and lesbians have had to
turn repeatedly to the courts to eke out equality rights because
politicians have not had the courage to address them ... But forcing a
same-sex couple to ask a court to strike down a law the government has
already agreed is unconstitutional shows just how unwilling many
politicians are to fight for their gay and lesbian constituents. Like
many previous cases on gay and lesbian rights, it also placed onerous
costs and unnecessary emotional strain on the couple and is an affront
to their human dignity ... legislators must take greater responsibility
for the rights and well-being of all their constituents, no matter who
they are. Just like other Canadians, gays and lesbians hold jobs, own
property, raise children, get old, love, and are loved. Their rights are
a matter of fundamental human dignity and politicians must do better."
5
2004-SEP-24: Nova Scotia Supreme Court Justice Heather
Robertson handed down her decision in the morning of SEP-24. She upheld
the marriage of the lesbian couple, Kim Vance and Samantha Meehan. They
had previously registered their relationship in Nova Scotia. They went
to Ontario to marry, and returned to continue living in Nova Scotia.
Justice Robertson declared that "civil marriage between two persons
of the same sex is therefore lawful and valid."
The couples were supported by many friends, including lawyer Sean
Foreman, the Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project, and Safe
Harbour Metropolitan Community Church. 3 Ron and Bryan Garnett-Doucette,
became the first same-sex couple to obtain a marriage license in the
province. Just hours after the court decision was handed down, they went
to purchase a marriage license application in a storefront office in
Halifax, "under the glare of TV cameras and cheers of encouragement
from a gaggle of friends, gay activists and lawyers." 6 Ron said: "We feel
really, really good. It's a great day to be a Nova Scotian." Both
spouses had grown up in Nova Scotia. Ron was 21 when he first met Bryan.
He later told the court that it was "love at first sight." They
moved in together a few months later, and have been together since. A
clerk explained to the engaged couple that marriage licenses cannot be
executed on the same day, "in case you change your mind." Bryan
chuckled: "I don't think that's going to happen. Not after twenty
years." 6
Some reactions:
Halifax advocate Jay Thordarson said: "Nova Scotia has always
been known for its conservative rant amongst the rest of the
country. After all, the province still does not have Sunday
shopping and continues to battle politically about this issue.
However, this is a clear indication that human rights take priority
within this province."
Darrell Dexter, a New Democratic Party (Socialist) party
head and Leader of the Opposition in the Nova Scotia legislature
issued a statement saying, in part: "The law in Nova Scotia is
now clear on this aspect of human rights... every individual should
have equal treatment and equal access to marriage."
Most Rev. Terrence Prendergast, Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Halifax and Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Yarmouth
stated in a news release that marriage is a natural institution that
precedes all social, legal and religious systems: "We must
recognize this decision as the end of state support for marriage as
we have always known it. The civil institution of marriage is now a
registered domestic partnership system for adults in a co-dependent
relationships....Today we recognize that the full burden for
the social and cultural support of marriage in Canadian society must
be accepted by religious communities." 7
The impact of this decision on same-sex marriage in Canada:
As of the end of 2004-SEP, same-sex couples are free to marry in Yukon
Territory, and half of the provinces of Canada -- British Columbia, Ontario, Manitoba,
Nova Scotia, and Quebec. That
leaves two territories and five provinces where same-sex marriage was not yet
permitted. Same-sex couples in the
Northwest Territory, Nunavut Territory, and the Provinces of Alberta,
Saskatchewan, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and
Newfoundland/Labrador are in a legal limbo. The courts have decided that
the couples can marry, but they cannot obtain marriage licenses without initiating
a lawsuit.
Assuming that same-sex couples are evenly distributed across Canada,
82.3% of them could marry after 2004-SEP-24 without having to leave their province or territory of
residence. In fact, many gays and lesbians gravitate towards the larger
cities like Halifax, Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and Vancouver where
same-sex marriage is already allowed. So the actual percentage of gays,
lesbians, and bisexuals in committed same-sex relationships who were then able
to marry in their own province or territory is probably somewhat higher. 1
About ten months later, on 2005-JUL-20, federal bill C-38 was proclaimed,
making SSM available across Canada. | {
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Continuous integration is an automatic re-building of project code base that is triggered by new changes to ensure that new changes integrate well into the existing code base. Continuous integration gains popularity among software organizations for its ability to provide quick feedback on quality of new changes. This feedback is used to deliver timely fixes if the changes don’t integrate well and break the project code base.
While failures of continuous integration builds are generally inevitable, there are a number of causes of repeatable build failures, or patterns. It is important to understand that once recognized, software build breakage patterns can be avoided. Reduced build breakage means decreased risk of the project falling behind schedule and more enjoying software development.
"Five O'clock Check-In" PatternOur analysis shows that vast majority of the build failures falls on the end of the day, with factual build breakage time ranging from 5PM to 8PM, depending on the duration of the build.
We call this pattern "Five O'clock Check-In." As the name implies, builds get broken because of check-ins made after five o'clock. Below you can see a histogram that is provided by one of our customers that shows distribution of build failures by hour (this and other statistics is available to Parabuild users). While numbers vary from company to company, this histogram is very characteristic. You can see a clear spike in build breakage at 6PM.
"Five O'clock Check-In" pattern has even more dramatic effect on software organizations distributed in multiple time zones. The following histogram shows distribution of build failures in a software company that has two R&D facilities, at PST and at GMT+13:
There is a known tendency to check in changes in the end of the day. At that time engineer's ability to critically assert actions is at its lowest level. This, combined with readiness to go home, produces the main excuse not to run clean build and tests before checking in changes (see "It Is a Small Change" pattern below).
This pattern can be (and is) avoided by establishing a simple, easy to follow policy: No check-ins should be made after 5PM (or whatever your de-facto end of the day is). This alone may reduce build breakage, typically by 20% to 50%.
"Spoiled Fruit" PatternModern software projects increasingly use code generation. Often to simplify build scripts code is generated directly into code base directory structures. This approach may save few lines in a build script, but it causes build failures when generated code becomes orphaned and goes out of sync with the current state of the code base. That is why we call this pattern "Spoiled Fruit." After such breakage occurred, the only way to get a clean build is doing a clean check out. With code bases growing in size, a clean check out may take tens of minutes, and even hours, significantly increasing feedback time from a continuous integration server.
"Spoiled Fruit" pattern can be avoided by generating code and storing other build-time artifacts under a single temporarily build directory. The build script should automatically empty this directory at the beginning of a build cycle, usually as a part of "clean" target. Below is an example of a pseudo-code that uses this approach:
"It Is a Small Change" PatternRepeatedly the size of change serves as an excuse not to run build and tests cleanly before checkin in new changes. "It is just a comment," "It won’t break anything," "I only removed an empty line." Yet, even a small change moves code base into a new, often broken, state. We call this build breakage pattern "It Is a Small Change."
To avoid build failures caused by "It Is a Small Change" pattern, it should be made mandatory that build and tests are run cleanly before checking in any changes into a version control system, to ensure that the changes, to one’s best knowledge, don’t break the build.
Conclusion
It is possible to reduce software build failures by avoiding common build breakage patterns thus decreasing risk of the project failures and making software development more efficient and enjoying.
Slava Imeshev is president of Viewtier Systems, Inc. http://www.viewtier.com, makers of software build management server Parabuild. Slava has been developing software for 16 years. You can reach Slava at [email protected]
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JP/Kadin says FTAs need `guidelines'
The Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin) has requested inclusion of guidelines for bilateral and multilateral trade agreements in the coming trade law in a bid to create a better fit between trade and industrial policies.
"Liberalization should also have rules," said Benny Soetrisno, Kadin's deputy chairman on trade and distribution.
Kadin's request was driven by the concern of local business players over potential negative impacts from FTAs, particularly with China, Australia and New Zealand.
The FTA with China, part of the ASEAN-China FTA, beginning with an early batch of tariff cuts in 2005, will see full eradication of tariffs on most goods starting next year.
Indonesia textile, nail and wire manufacturers are among those suffering the most from tariff cuts in the past four years.
The Indonesian Textile Producer Association (API) estimates that 70 percent of textile products distributed in Indonesia are imported from China. These imports have forced Indonesian producers to focus on upper scale goods, mainly for exports, as they can't compete with *underpriced' Chinese products.
The nail and wire producers suffered a more rapid deterioration with their production level plunging to 30 percent of capacity in 2007 from 80 percent just a year before. The dire condition of the industry has forced the government to impose safeguard measures on nail and wire imports from China.
The FTA with Australia and New Zealand, which was signed this year, is feared may hurt domestic meat and milk producers.
Kadin's concerns were welcomed by members of House Commission VI. Commission member Mukhamad Misbakhun said the upcoming trade law - currently being drafted by the trade ministry - must protect the interest of both the domestic market and industry players.
A trade law must serve as a guideline to regulate "how wide Indonesia, as a market to imported goods, is opened", he said.
He also said the government "must" review FTAs that were already implemented and "delay" the implementation of unfinished FTAs until a trade law was issued.
The Commission said it will summon trade ministry representatives to discuss the inclusion of extra provisions in the draft to guide FTAs. The completion of the draft is part of the ministry's 100-day program. | {
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Re: The Necromancer's Pact VIII: The Rising Tide
Adalmar
He had not the words to convince them. Frustration. His hands balled into fists. So he says, softly : "I cannot abide what he's done. But do not take the life of a man lightly."
Only after he utters those words does he realize that he erred. The very solution he proposed, handing him to the Rashemen, would result in his certain death, for he now remembers that they also oppose the Night fervently. And it would slow their critical mission down.
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Smithwick's Brewery Tour, County Kilkenny
Over 300 years ago in 1710, John Smithwick began brewing his first Ales - although the Smithwick’s story started long before then. He chose the site of an ancient monastery - St.Francis Abbey, to position his brewery. John was inspired by a tradition of brewing on this site, the foundations of which were laid four centuries earlier. Back in the 13th Century The Franciscans established an Abbey, with its own well, on the banks of the River Nore in Kilkenny. Whilst brewing and barley cultivation are recorded in Irish Annals from the mists of time, the strong brewing tradition that exists in Kilkenny started with these monks who would have brewed their own light ale for their visitors, using water from St. Francis' Well.
To this day the Abbey stands proudly at the heart of the brewery and continues to inspire the brewers. Smithwick's is a brand with years of heritage. Starting in 1641 with John Smithwick in Kilkenny, who was left orphaned in the Irish rebellion, his is a tale of courage, determination, loyalty and triumph over adversity. He dragged himself up by the bootstraps and started a successful family of his own which began brewing Smithwick's ale in 1710 with the brewery mainly serving the local community. It gave the Smithwick family a sense of what's important in life. The experience handed down through the generations has seen Smithwick's thrive against the odds and has created a brewing dynasty that has flourished for over 300 years.
To celebrate the 300 year anniversary, the St. Francis Abbey Brewery now offers exclusive brewery tours. These unique tours will take visitors through the working brewery in Kilkenny and include a visit to the remarkable 12th Century St Francis Abbey which is on the brewery site. Tours operate from Tuesday to Saturday (closed Sunday and Monday) The tour takes approximately 1 and a half hours and includes a complimentary tasting in the brewery’s Cellar Bar.
St Francis Abbey is primarily a production facility which unfortunately cannot cater for wheelchair users or persons with impaired mobility due to the structure and layout of our 300 year old site. Over 18s only. For your safety please wear appropriate footwear (No high heels or open toe footwear).
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Sub: Submission of resolution passed by 11th
Federal Council of NFPE at
Mathura (UP) from 25.11.2019 to
27.11.2019
Sir,
The
following resolutions passed on maintaining Separate Identity of each Cadre
i.e. PA/CO/RO & PA/SBCO is sent herewith for necessary action.
RESLUTION
The 11th
Federal Council held at Mathura (UP)from 25.11.2019 to 27.11.2019 resolves
unanimously that Separate Identity of each Cadre i.e PA/CO&RO and PA/SBCO
should be maintained as it is.
This Federal
Council further resolves that the orders issued for amendment of Recruitment
Rules vide Directorate No. F No. 04-05/2015-SPB-I dated 18.09.2019 should be
withdrawn and status quo should be maintained.
MOBILE PHONE SECURITY SHOULD BE A NATIONAL PRIORITY: SHRI RAVI SHANKAR PRASAD
5G
Spectrum will be given for trial to all operators; We need to make UPI payment
interface a global beacon; Launches Central Equipment Identity Register for
tracing Stolen/Lost Mobiles in Delhi
The Union Minister for Communications, Law
& Justice and Electronics & Information Technology, Shri Ravi Shankar
Prasad has said that the Mobile Security should be our National Priority
because the mobile handset became an important tool for all online activities.
He was addressing the gathering, here today, after launching a Web Portal
called ‘Central Equipment Identity Register (CEIR)’ for the customers of Delhi
to facilitate blocking and tracing of Stolen/Lost Mobile Phones in Delhi. The
Lt. Governor of NCT of Delhi, Shri Anil Baijal, the Secretary, Telecom and the
Chairman, Digital Communications Commission, Shri Anshu Prakash, the
Commissioner of Delhi Police, Shri Amulya Patnaik, the Member (Technology),
Digital Communications Commission, Shri S.K. Gupta were also present on the
occasion.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Government
has decided to give 5G Spectrum for trial to all operators in the country. This
may take few years to launch it fully all over the country, he added. UPI
Payments interface has become primary means for all online money transactions
in the country and we need to make it a Global beacon for making Indian rupee
much stronger.
The Minister for Communications said that this
is the age of communication and communication is power, and this is the age of
technology and the technology is power. He further said that while we exploit
use and make optimum involvement of technology for development the equally
smart criminals induce technology for their own end. Therefore, we need a
technology that safeguards our interests, he added.
Shri Ravi Shankar Prasad said that Aadhar is a
digital identity to confirm our physical identity and the digital India is for
digital inclusion. Digital India is empowering ordinary Indian to the power of
technology which is leading to digital inclusion, he said. Industry should be
more innovative and Indian players should imbibe new innovations in IT, he
added.
The Lt. Governor of NCT of Delhi, Shri
Anil Baijal while addressing said that in the NCR Delhi itself the mobile theft
cases are increasing to the tune of 40,000 cases per year and there should be a
mechanism to address this problem. He requested the Minister for Communication
to consider the integration of Zonal Integrated Police Network (ZIPNET) with
the CEIR for better functioning.
The Secretary, Telecom and the Chairman,
Digital Communications Commission, Shri Anshu Prakash said that the
Tele-density in the country has increased to 242 mobiles for 100 populations
and the mobile handset became a means to fulfil all day-to-day requirements.
Therefore, securing mobile with a system is the need of the hour.
International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI)
is supposed to be a unique identity of a mobile phone device. A phone with
one/two slots of SIM Card is programmed with one/two IMEI number as the case
may be. IMEI number being programmable, some miscreants do reprogram the IMEI
number, which results in cloning of IMEI causing multiple devices with same
IMEI number. As on date, there are many cases of clones/duplicated IMEI
handsets in the network.
If such IMEI is blocked, a large number of
mobile phones will get blocked being handsets with same IMEI causing
inconvenience to many genuine customers. Thus, there is a need to eliminate
duplicate/fake IMEI mobile phones from the network.
Accordingly, this project called Central
Equipment Identity Register (CEIR) system has been undertaken by the DoT for
addressing security, theft and other concerns including reprogramming of mobile
handsets.
The launch of Project in Delhi will facilitate
as follows:
Request
for blocking of stolen or lost mobile phone by customers.
Blocking
of such mobile phones across mobile networks.
Allowing
services to other existing customers have mobile phones with same IMEI
number.
CSCs are
the access points for delivery of essential public utility services, social
welfare schemes, healthcare, financial, education and agriculture services,
apart from host of B2C services to citizens in rural and remote areas of the
country. It is a pan-India network catering to regional, geographic, linguistic
and cultural diversity of the country, thus enabling the Government’s mandate
of a socially, financially and digitally inclusive society.
Government to Citizen
One
of the key mandates of CSC scheme is to deliver Government to Citizen (G2C)
services. Various G2C services of Central Government Ministries and
departments, apart from State-specific services have been integrated on the
Digital Seva portal for delivery to citizens in rural and remote areas of the
country through the network of CSCs.
Bharat BillPay :
Bharat
BillPay is a Reserve Bank of India (RBI) conceptualised system driven by
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI). It is a one-stop bill payment
platform for all bills – electricity, mobile, broadband and landline, DTH, Gas,
Water, etc - across India with certainty, reliability and safety of
transactions.
Two primary
participants of Bharat BillPay are:
Bharat
Bill Payment Central Unit (BBPCU) – which implements operational, technical and
business standards for the entire system and its participants. The National
Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) functions as the BBPCU.
Bharat Bill Payment Operating Units
(BBPOUs) - BBPOUs are authorized operational units, working as per the
standards set by BBPS. BBPOUs will on-board billers, aggregators and payment
gateways; and set up agent network and customer touch points to handle bill
payments through different delivery channels.
With CSC SPV becoming a BBPOU, CSCs can
provide Bharat BillPay service and further enable the villagers to pay their
Electricity, Water, Gas, DTH and Broadband & Landline Post Paid bills.
FASTag through CSCs
FASTag
is an Electronic Toll Collection system in India operated by NHAI. FASTag is a
simple to use, reloadable tag which enables automatic deduction of toll charges
and lets you pass through the toll plaza without stopping for cash transaction.
The tag employs Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) technology and is affixed
on the vehicle's windscreen after the tag account is active. It is currently
operational at more than 425 toll plazas across national and state highways.
CSC
SPV has partnered with NHAI to dispense FASTags through the network of CSCs.
VLEs will dispense FASTags at the toll plazas after procuring them through the
Digital Seva Portal; register customer details on portal and affix the tag on
the car.
Passport
Ministry
of External Affairs partnered with CSC SPV in 2014 to launch Passport Seva
services through CSCs across the rural hinterland. Services available through
CSCs include filling and uploading of Passport Application Form, payment of fee
and scheduling of appointment for visit to Passport Kendra. During 2016-17,
around 2.19 lakh Passport applications were submitted through the CSC network
across the country.
PAN Card
Applications
for new PAN Card are processed through CSCs in collaboration with UTI
Infrastructure Technology And Services Limited (UTIITSL) and National
Securities Depository Limited (NSDL). PAN Card service through NSDL was
introduced for CSCs in February 2016. During 2016-17, 28.94 lakh Applications
for PAN Card have been submitted through CSCs.
Swacch Bharat Abhiyan
Swacch
Bharat Abhiyan is the biggest ever cleanliness drive launched by the Government
in 2014 to clean the streets, roads and infrastructure of the country. In 2016,
Ministry of Urban Development partnered with CSC to facilitate online
applications through CSCs for construction of individual household toilets
across the country under the campaign. During 2016-17, 5.26 lakh applications
for individual household toilets were submitted through CSC network under
Swacch Bharat Abhiyan.
Pradhan Mantri Awas
Yojana
Pradhan
Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) is an ambitious housing scheme of the Government for
creating affordable housing units for urban poor. Although, entire urban area
of the country will be covered under the scheme, the initial focus is on 500
select cities.
In
November 2016, a MoU was signed between Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty
Alleviation (MHUPA) and CSC SPV for receiving PMAY applications through CSCs.
The service is being provided by 60,000 CSCs located in urban areas across
States/ UTs. During 2016-17, 27.97 lakh Applications were submitted through CSC
network under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY) scheme.
FSSAI
Food
Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) partnered with CSC SPV in July
2016 to provide Food Business Operator (FBO) registration service through CSCs.
This initiative is aimed at registering a large number of unregistered FBOs in
the country with the FSSAI through the vast network of CSCs. Under the service,
Registration Certificate is auto generated after filing of online application
through CSC. During 2016-17, 95,603 applications for FBO Registration have been
submitted through CSCs.
Soil Health Card
Soil
Health Cards are issued by the Government to farmers with crop-wise
recommendations of nutrients and fertilizers required for individual farms to
help them improve productivity through judicious use of inputs. Launched as a
scheme in 2015, the Government plans to issue these cards to 14 crore farmers.
Ministry
of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare signed a MoU with CSC SPV in December
2016, to engage CSCs in the Soil Health Card scheme. During 2016-17, 1.24 lakh
farmer registrations have taken place through CSCs across 23 States.
e-District
Districts
are the de facto front-end of government. The e-District project has been
conceptualized to improve the experience of G2C interactions for citizens at
the districts through seamless delivery of various services like certificates,
licences, Ration Card, disbursement of social welfare pensions, online filing
of RTI, land registration, land records, Government taxes, utility bill
payments, etc.
Election Commission
Services
The
Election Commission of India, in its endeavour to improve enrolment and correct
data errors in the electoral rolls for hassle free elections, has partnered
with CSC SPV for delivery of various electoral registration forms and EPIC
printing through CSCs. So far, the Electoral Registration Management System
(ERMS) of Tripura, Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bihar, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat,
Haryana, and Maharashtra have been integrated with Digital Seva Portal.
During
2016-17, CSCs have 34,780 Electoral Registration Forms in these nine States,
where as 56.18 lakh EPIC have been printed and delivered through the CSC
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February 26 in LGBTQ History
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176 page of collection of Katsuhiro Otomo works will be released in February
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Mets option Rice, activate Germen from DL
By
Anthony DiComoMLB.com
NEW YORK -- Scott Rice, the former 31-year-old rookie reliever who was one of the feel-good stories of the 2013 Mets, is no longer a big leaguer.
The Mets optioned Rice to Triple-A Las Vegas late Tuesday night, activating right-hander Gonzalez Germen from the disabled list. Even with Rice gone, the Mets still have two lefties in their bullpen in Josh Edgin and Dana Eveland.
NEW YORK -- Scott Rice, the former 31-year-old rookie reliever who was one of the feel-good stories of the 2013 Mets, is no longer a big leaguer.
The Mets optioned Rice to Triple-A Las Vegas late Tuesday night, activating right-hander Gonzalez Germen from the disabled list. Even with Rice gone, the Mets still have two lefties in their bullpen in Josh Edgin and Dana Eveland.
Rice, now 32, has struggled since the outset of this season, posting a 5.93 ERA in 32 appearances -- the vast majority of them less than an inning in length. Left-handed batters were reaching base against him at a .392 clip, largely because of the eight walks they drew off him in 52 plate appearances.
Rice had allowed at least one run in three of his last eight appearances, increasing his ERA from 5.06 to 5.93.
Germen, 26, went on the disabled list May 6 with a virus, which ultimately resulted in an abscess and an infection. He posted a 3.57 ERA in 13 outings prior to that, proving far more effective against right-handed batters (.584 OPS) than lefties (.960), and is coming off six consecutive scoreless outings in a Minor League rehab assignment.
Germen adds another jolt of youth to a bullpen that the Mets have completely revamped over the past month, calling up youngsters Edgin and Vic Black from the Minors while converting Jenrry Mejia back to relief.
The team also recently added Eveland, a 30-year-old veteran who has allowed one run in three innings. | {
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The Arduino Uno Rev3 is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328 (datasheet). It has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button.
It contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started.
The Uno differs from all preceding boards in that it does not use the FTDI USB-to-serial driver chip. Instead, it features the Atmega8U2 programmed as a USB-to-serial converter."Uno" means one in Italian and is named to mark the upcoming release of Arduino 1.0.
The Uno and version 1.0 will be the reference versions of Arduno, moving forward. The Uno is the latest in a series of USB Arduino boards, and the reference model for the Arduino platform.
Specifications :
- Microcontroller ATmega328
- Operating voltage 5V
- nput voltage (recommended) 7-12V
- Input voltage (limits) 6-20V
- Digital I/O pins 14 (of which 6 provide PWM output)
- Analog input pins 6
- DC current per I/O Pin 40 mA
- DC current for 3.3V Pin 50 mA
- Flash memory 32 KB of which 0.5 KB used by bootloader
- SRAM 2 KB
- EEPROM 1 KB
- Clock speed 16 MHz
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For weeks now, it wasn't uncommon to come into the office to see a small group of colleagues around the map table, poring over ideas for our 2017 submarine cable map.
Markus Krisetya was always among the huddle—often flanked by Lead Cartographer and Designer Larry Lairson and Vice President of Research Tim Stronge—with a magnifying glass in hand, double checking that submarine cables were labeled, features were legible, and every little detail was just right.
As we release our 2017 map, Markus was kind enough to sit down with me and talk about the process of mapping the submarine cables that connect the world—and turning it into art. | {
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Russian Criminal Tattoo: Police Files: Volume I
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The Graphic Design Idea Book: Inspiration from 50 Masters
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Wave of Mutilation: The Best of Pixies
it has taken six years and the reissue of the regular albums to finally release the 'best of pixies' on vinyl following the original cd sequencing the double vinyl set each side is under 20 minutes long for the best quality cut is packaged in a gatefold sleeve and the initial pressing of 750 copies is available on burnt orange coloured vinyl during their six years together the pixies released five albums to fan peer and critical acclaim this best of runs almost chronologically and expands on the previous comp 'death to the pixies' with a couple bsides the live favourite 'into the white' and a cover of neil young's 'winterlong' | {
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Windows Launch Center v.1.2
Windows Launch Center is a software for Win32 platforms, Win2k WinXP and Vista.It can category shortcuts by your definition.1. Popular shortcuts 2. Folder shortcuts3. Program shortcuts include many categories4. Define shortcut name or icons
Start Menu X v.6.5Start Menu X is a professional replacement of the system menu. Power users will get an efficient tool instead of the clumsy system menu. Start Menu X is a fusion of newest technologies and a 7-year research effort. Install a solution for true pro's!
Task Force Quit 2 v.2.0.10Many Windows apps crash when you least expect it. But what if you could close them immediately? Introducing Task Force Quit Pro 2! This is a free utility that ends frozen tasks on Windows PC without using Task Manger.
Windows How To: Routers and Modems v.1.0Windows Lesson - What is Router & What is Modem explained in Plain English. This lesson will not only explain broadband modems and routers, but show you how to hook them up and also how to fix a common Internet connection problem by resetting your ... | {
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Lawyers Accused of Leaks in Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren's Divorce
Elin's Lawyers Accused of Leaks in Tiger Divorce
5/14/2010 5:15 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF
Things have already gotten nasty in the Tiger Woods divorce. TMZ has learned Tiger's lawyers have accused Elin Nordegren's legal team of leaking like a sieve to the media.
Elin's lawyer,Walter H. White, Jr., who practices in London, sent an email to his staff on April 19, 2010 -- an email obtained by TMZ. White warns his people, "Recently we have been accused by the other side of leaking information to the press. While we do not believe that anyone in the firm has been responsible for the leaks, we are aware that this is the second time that we have been so accused ... "
White urges his staff to "avoid conversations relating to firm activities in public ..."
After we called White on Wednesday and told him we had information he was repping Elin, he sent a staff email saying, "TMZ the web news service has discovered that we in London represent Elin Nordegren ... "
The email notes that Elin's sister, Josefin, works at the firm and then boasts, "To some extent it is a surprise and a tribute to the office and the firm that it has taken them so long to figure this out."
As we reported yesterday, White was already repping Elin in January -- a month and a half after Tiger's car crash.
HERE'S THE RUNDOWN Meredith Viera Defends the Killer of Cecil the Lion Jennifer Beals in a Hot-Dog-in-Car Controversy A 'Bachelorette' Star Gets Bashed in the Head with a Brick Zayn Malik is Goin' Solo Thanks to Simon Cowell | {
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In the final “The Vampire Diaries” episode of 2010, Michael Trevino gave us a powerful performance as Tyler endured the agony of transforming into a werewolf. When he stopped by our offices on Thursday morning, we had to ask him what he thought of the scene when all was said and done.
“I was impressed,” he tells us — and rightfully so. “Coming to L.A. I saw a rough, rough cut of it with Kevin [Williamson] and Julie [Plec]… and then I saw another draft of it when I did the voiceover ADR work for the episode, and it was getting better and better.” It wasn’t until he watched the final cut at home that he got the full impact.
“I have a nice little surround system so the sound’s really good. That’s what got me. The CGI, the visual effects were great, and I liked certain cuts that they used within mine and Candice’s performance, but it wasn’t until I was home. It was crazy to hear all the sound they’d put in in post-production — bones cracking and everything.”
The idea of watching Tyler experience that kind of excruciating pain every month makes us uneasy — but not as uneasy as it makes Trevino. He confirms that within the often ambiguous “Vampire Diaries” time line there will be one more full moon before Season 2 wraps up, but he hopes it won’t be quite as brutal.
“I’m thinking as long as I don’t piss off Kevin and Julie, then maybe they won’t write that,” he laughs.
This week, we’ll see Tyler and Caroline’s (Candice Accola) relationship deepen even further after their emotional night together in the Lockwood cellar. “From a standpoint of her being there for me and having my back, as a friend, I love [her] for doing that,” Trevino says. That “as a friend” might deepen when one of the other werewolves fills him in on some missing information.
“Through a certain somebody who comes into town he finds out that a werewolf bite can kill a vampire, so then there’s a whole other wave of emotion that comes over him when he hears this news.”
As much as we’re on board for a possible Tyler/Caroline romance, we can’t help but feel a little sad for Matt (Zach Roerig). Tyler’s already hooked up with his mom and his sister… and now he’s moving in on the ex? Poor guy.
Things will escalate between the two best friends (or former best friends). “In this episode, you’ll see, there’s more emotion coming out of Tyler and there’s more emotion coming out of Matt as well. That’s where there’s going to be this awesome awkwardness,” he says. | {
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After spending 10 years in the commercial print and graphic design industry working for big box retailers, James Owens made a decision to start working for himself. In late 2014, he founded Owens Print & Creative Solutions, a company that specializes in the quick turnaround of commercial printing, graphic design, web design and other marketing services for businesses of all sizes.
James is also part of JumpStart’s Core City: Cleveland Impact program, an intensive business assistance program designed to support the development and growth of businesses located within some of Cleveland’s most underserved neighborhoods.
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Mexican venture firm ALL VP has a $73 million first close on its latest fund
Buoyed by international attention from U.S. and Chinese investors and technology companies, new financing keeps flowing into the coffers of Latin American venture capital firms.
One day after the Brazilian-based pan-Latin American announced the close of its $150 million latest fund comes word from our sources that ALL VP, the Mexico City-based, early stage technology investor, has held a first close of $73 million for its latest investment vehicle.
The firm launched its first $6 million investment vehicle in 2012, according to CrunchBase, just as Mexico’s former President Enrique Peña Nieto was coming to power with a pro-business platform. One which emphasized technology development as part of its strategy for encouraging economic growth.
ALL VP founding partner Fernando Lelo de Larrea said he could not speak about ongoing fundraising plans.
And while the broader economy has stumbled somewhat since Nieto took office, high technology businesses in Mexico are surging. In the first half of 2018, 82 Mexican startup companies raised $154 million in funding, according to data from the Latin American Venture Capital Association. It makes the nation the second most active market by number of deals — with a number of those deals occurring in later stage transactions.
In this, Mexico is something of a mirror for technology businesses across Latin America. While Brazilian startup companies have captured 73% of venture investment into Latin America — raising nearly $1.4 billion in financing — Peru, Chile, Colombia and Argentina are all showing significant growth. Indeed, some $188 million was invested into 23 startups in Colombia in the first half of the year.
Overall, the region pulled in $780 million in financing in the first six months of 2018, besting the total amount of capital raised in all of 2016.
It’s against this backdrop of surging startup growth that funds like ALL VP are raising new cash.
Indeed, at $73 million the first close for the firm’s latest fund more than doubles the size of ALL VP’s capital under management.
ALL VP management team
But limited partners can also point to a burgeoning track record of success for the Mexican firm. ALL VP was one of the early investors in Cornershop — a delivery company acquired by Walmart for $225 million earlier this year. Cornershop had previously raised just $31.5 million and the bulk of that was a $21 million round from the Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, Accel.
International acquirers are making serious moves in the Latin American market, with Walmart only one example of the types of companies that are shopping for technology startups in the region. The starting gun for Latin American startups stellar year was actually the DiDi acquisition of the ride-hailing company 99 for $1 billion back in January.
That, in turn, is drawing the attention of early stage investors. In fact, it’s venture capital firms from the U.S. and international investors like Naspers (from South Africa) and Chinese technology giants that are fueling the sky-high valuations of some of the region’s most successful startups.
In a market so frothy, it’s no wonder that investment firms are bulking up and raising increasingly large funds. The risk is that the market could overheat and that, with a lot of capital going to a few marquee names, should those companies fail to deliver, the rising tide of capital that’s come in to the region could just as easily come back out. | {
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Fourteen US and Canadian cancer institutes will use International Business Machines Corp.’s Watson computer system to choose therapies based on a tumor’s genetic fingerprints, the company said on Tuesday, the latest step toward bringing personalized cancer treatments to more patients.
Oncology is the first specialty where matching therapy to DNA has improved outcomes for some patients, inspiring the “precision medicine initiative” President Barack Obama announced in January.
But it can take weeks to identify drugs targeting cancer-causing mutations. Watson can do it in minutes and has in its database the findings of scientific papers and clinical trials on particular cancers and potential therapies.
Faced with such a data deluge, “the solution is going to be Watson or something like it,” said oncologist Norman Sharpless of the University of North Carolina Lineberger Cancer Center. “Humans alone can’t do it.”
IBM is positioning Watson for exactly this task: an area of medicine where humans can see the vast potential, but can’t begin to wrangle the data needed to achieve it. “Genomics is the secret to unlocking personalized medicine,” said Steve Gold, a Vice President of the IBM Watson Group, at a press conference on Tuesday.
Yet it is unclear how many patients will be helped by such a “big data” approach. For one thing, in many common cancers old-line chemotherapy and radiation will remain the standard of care, and genomic analysis may not make a difference.
The scientists directly involved with Watson aren’t making any promises, but they’re hopeful they can slowly begin to make a difference in the world of cancer treatment, which today leaves a great number of patients without many good options.
“Traditional cancer treatments are moderately effective, associated with moderate toxicity, and many patients still succumb to the disease,” said Lukas Wartman, assistant director of Cancer Genomics at Washington University and a leukemia survivor, at Tuesday’s press conference. “There’s been a lot of pessimism among those [fighting] cancer, and Watson offers an opportunity to fight back against that pessimism.”
Cloud-based Watson will be used at the centers – including Cleveland Clinic, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center in Omaha and Yale Cancer Center – by late 2015, said Steve Harvey, vice president of IBM Watson Health. The centers pay a subscription fee, which IBM did not disclose.
Oncologists will upload the DNA fingerprint of a patient’s tumor, which indicates which genes are mutated and possibly driving the malignancy. Watson, recognized broadly for beating two champions of the game show Jeopardy! in 2011, will sift through thousands of mutations and try to identify which is driving the tumor, and therefore what a drug must target.
Distinguishing driver mutations from others is a huge challenge. IBM spent more than a year developing a scoring system so Watson can do that, since targeting non-driver mutations would not help.
“Watson will look for actionable targets,” Harvey said, matching them to approved and experimental cancer drugs and even non-cancer drugs (if Watson decides the latter interfere with a biological pathway driving a malignancy).
But Watson has trouble identifying actionable targets in cancers with many mutations. Although genetic profiling is standard in melanoma and some lung cancers, where drugs such as Zelboraf from the Genentech unit of Roche Holding AG target the driver mutation, in most common tumors traditional chemotherapy and radiation remain the standard of care.
“When institutions do genetic sequencing, only about half the cases come back with something actionable,” Harvey said, often because it is impossible to identify the driver mutation or no targeted therapy exists.
The other collaborating centers are Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago; BC Cancer Agency in British Columbia; City of Hope, in Duarte, California; Duke Cancer Institute in North Carolina; McDonnell Genome Institute at Washington University in St. Louis; New York Genome Center, Sanford Health in South Dakota; University of Kansas Cancer Center; University of Southern California Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, and University of Washington Medical Center.
A new bipartisan committee’s working group will gather on Capitol Hill throughout the coming months to find ways to improve electronic health records, according to Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
The group will work to find five or six ways to “make the failed promise of electronic health records something that physicians and providers look forward to instead of something they endure,” Murray said in an announcement.
All members of the Senate health committee are invited to be a part of the working group. Staff meetings begin this week, with participation from health IT professionals, industry experts and government agencies.
The working group’s goals include the following:
Help providers improve quality of care and patient safety.
Facilitate interoperability between EHR vendors.
Empower patients to engage in their own care through access to their health data.
Protect privacy and security of health information.
The working group isn’t the only way Alexander and Murray are pushing for change when it comes to EHRs.
Should drug makers be required to disclose their costs to justify rising prices?
This is what a growing number of state legislatures are considering. Over the past several weeks, lawmakers in a handful of states stretching from California to Massachusetts have introduced bills in a bid to force the pharmaceutical industry to conduct an economic striptease.
“We need to have some transparency,” says Tony DeLuca, a Democrat who chairs the Pennsylvania House Insurance Committee and who introduced one such bill earlier this week. “Some of the sticker prices are outrageous. I’m hoping it achieves lower health care costs.”
The bills are not wholly identical. Some would require drug makers to report profits and various operational costs for any medicine that has a price tag of more than $10,000 a year, while others seek this information for all medicines, regardless of price. A bill was also introduced in North Carolina.
The effort comes as a national debate intensifies over prices for prescription medicines. Over the past year, payers – both public and private – have remonstrated over the cost of new specialty drugs for hard-to-treat ailments and for older generic drugs that were supposed to offer low-cost alternatives.
A new poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 76% of Americans overall – and across party lines – say their top health care priority is ensuring that high-cost drugs for chronic conditions, such as HIV, hepatitis, mental illness and cancer, are affordable.
The issue is placing drug makers on the defensive, even as they argue pricey new medicines – notably, those for combating hepatitis C and certain rare diseases – represent good value for illnesses that would, otherwise, cost more to treat in the long run.
These bills represent a new front, though, in trying to blunt escalating price tags. And the legislation is winning enthusiastic backing from business groups, consumers advocates and health insurers, which some legislators say have helped craft language.
“This is about starting a conversation,” says Charles Bacchi, chief executive at the California Association Plans, which worked with a California legislator on one bill. “We need real answers about why these drugs are priced so high. Yes, there are limits to what a state can do, but it’s a debate we need to have.”
To what extent these bills may succeed is uncertain, at best.
Drug makers, not surprisingly, are pushing back and recently helped defeat legislation in Oregon. Earlier this week, the pharmaceutical industry trade group testified against the bill in California, where a vote was postponed until next week in light of opposition, according to a legislative aide.
As far as drug makers are concerned, the bills are not only onerous, but make demands they maintain cannot be met. For instance, an industry trade group argues that providing development costs for some drugs may be impossible when research was simultaneously conducted on other medicines that failed. The bottom line, says the California Healthcare Institute, is that the bill would “stifle innovation.”
“The price charged for an individual drug is not a reflection of development costs,” says Ken Kaitin, director of the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, which receives pharmaceutical industry backing. “Pricing strategies are based on therapeutic value, market size, usage, patent life, competition and other factors.”
Even if one or more bills were to become law, there is no certain path toward lowering prices. But the effort may resonate around the country, especially with the 2016 presidential campaign under way. “This may be a model that other governments may want to build upon,” says Jamie Love of Knowledge Ecology International, a non-profit group that tracks access to medicines issues.
“While it is too soon to know if this prescription transparency legislation will continue to expand this year,” says Richard Cauchi, the program director for health insurance, financing and pharmaceuticals at the National Conference of State Legislatures, “state legislators often do look at what their colleagues in other states are doing.”
Most hospitals don’t have good ways of measuring the complex costs associated with an individual patient’s stay in the hospital. The VA is one surprising exception.
The success of health reform in the US depends on finding ways to control the growth of costs. Hospital care is expensive. And when patients have to be readmitted unexpectedly after discharge, it can really crank up spending.
As we strive to keep health care costs in line, reducing hospital readmissions is drawing a lot of attention. Reducing preventable readmissions could reduce health care spending and improve quality of care at the same time.
But very little research on readmission costs has been done. An exception is a study that found that one in five elderly Medicare patients is readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of being discharged, at an estimated cost of $17.4 billion in 2004.
Most hospitals don’t have good ways of measuring the complex costs associated with an individual patient’s stay in the hospital.
But there is, however, a hospital system that does a very good of job of tracking these costs: the Veterans Health Administration.
Veterans Affairs could provide a blueprint
The Veterans Health Administration (the VA) operates 119 acute care hospitals across the US, and has created an unparalleled comprehensive patient-cost accounting system, its Decision Support System (DSS).
The DSS works from the bottom up by summing the individual resources and costs each individual patients winds up needing during their hospital stay. Unlike most other hospital accounting systems, the VADSS also can separate costs that are fixed regardless of the volume of services provided, such as administrative overhead, from costs that vary with service volume, such as lab tests or imaging. All of this means that the VA can track patients’ costs with greater precision than most hospitals, and can more easily see the cost of readmissions.
There are other reasons why VA is a good setting for studying readmission costs. VA hospitals have a simpler set of incentives around readmitting patients. Under Medicare, hospitals face a trade-off between receiving payments for readmitting Medicare patients and avoiding payment penalties for not readmitting patients under the new ACA regulations.
But in the VA system, budgets are set annually, so there is no financial incentive to readmit patients. It will not increase the amount of money VA hospitals get. And physicians who work in VA hospitals are salaried VA employees. They do not gain financially when they readmit patients, so they have no incentive to provide unnecessary care.
How much money does preventing readmission save?
In a recent study, Theodore Stefos and I used 2011 Decision Support System data to examine the component of cost that varies with a readmission, to provide hospital managers with a more realistic estimate of how much they could save by reducing readmissions.
We found that managers could expect to save $2,140 for the average 30-day readmission prevented. For heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia patients, expected readmission cost estimates were higher: $3,432, $2,488 and $2,278 respectively.
We also found that patients’ risk of illness was the main driver of expected readmission cost. This is an important finding for managers. Even though this is a factor they cannot control, they can expect that patients with a greater risk of illness might be at greater risk after controlling for other factors such as age. Men also were much more likely to be readmitted than women, as were lower income and unmarried vets. Understanding this information can help hospital managers better predict which patients are at risk for readmission, and to take steps to address this proactively.
While the VA has some processes of care that differ from other health care systems, its experience has important lessons for private sector hospitals, especially for those that treat a high share of chronically ill or low-income patients.
Why it is important to know what readmissions cost
Today hospitals are under increasing pressure to curb readmissions. For instance in 2013 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started to financially penalize hospitals for 30-day readmissions that exceed national averages for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia. As of October 2014, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder and elective knee and hip replacements are also being targeted and the penalty has increased up to 3% of the total Medicare reimbursement to the hospital.
Hospital managers would like to know what actual cost savings are when a readmission is avoided, so they can understand how readmissions affect their overall budgets.
IBM is taking its Watson artificial-intelligence technology into health care in a big way with industry partners, a pair of acquisitions and an ambitious agenda.
The initial three industry partners are Apple, Johnson & Johnson and Medtronic. On Monday afternoon, after the close of stock trading, IBM also announced it would buy two start-ups: Explorys, a spin-off from the Cleveland Clinic whose data on 50 million patients is used to spot patterns in diseases, treatments and outcomes; and Phytel, a Dallas maker of software to manage patient care and reduce readmission rates to hospitals.
The IBM plan, put simply, is that its Watson technology will be a cloud-based service that taps vast stores of health data and delivers tailored insights to hospitals, physicians, insurers, researchers and potentially even individual patients.
“We’re going to enable personalized health care on a huge scale,” said John E. Kelly, a senior vice president who oversees IBM’s research labs and new initiatives.
To date, IBM has done some individual projects using Watson technology with leading medical centers, including Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and the Cleveland Clinic. But the creation of the Watson Health unit, Mr. Kelly said, is an effort to apply the technology to the mainstream of health care.
The Watson Health announcement is also the latest in flurry of initiatives IBM has announced this year that include new corporate partnerships as well as moves in cloud computing, data analytics and Watson. They are evidence that IBM is intent on investing for future growth, and showing it is doing so, in a year when its financial performance is likely to lag.
IBM has reported disappointing earnings recently, and Virginia M. Rometty, IBM’s chief executive, has told industry analysts and investors that 2015 would be a transition year in which new growth businesses like Watson did not yet overcome the profit erosion in some of its traditional hardware and software products.
IBM’s broad vision of combining and analyzing health data from varied sources to improve care has been around for decades. But the company and its partners say that technology, economics and policy changes are coming together to improve the odds of making the IBM venture a workable reality. They point to improvements in artificial intelligence, low-cost cloud computing and health policy that will reward keeping patients healthy instead of the fee-for-service model in which more treatments and procedures mean more revenue.
“Forces in health care are aligning as never before,” said Sandra E. Peterson, a group worldwide chairman at Johnson & Johnson in charge of information technology and new wellness programs. “It could be a unique moment and something like this could have real legs.”
A focus of the Johnson & Johnson partnership with IBM will be improving patient care before and after knee and hip replacements. The company will apply Watson technology to data sources ranging from patient records to digital fitness devices and smartphone applications, which can monitor movement and vital signs. “It will allow us to do much more integrated, personalized care,” Ms. Peterson said.
Medtronic, a large medical equipment maker, wants to use data intelligently to treat diabetes patients beyond providing them with its glucose monitors and insulin pumps. Medtronic devices are already digital and produce a lot of data, but the company plans to use the Watson software to spot patients trending toward trouble and automatically adjust insulin doses and send alerts to care providers and the patients themselves.
“The goal is dynamic, personalized care plans so you can delay or stop the progression of diabetes,” said Hooman Hakami, executive vice president in charge of Medtronic’s diabetes group.
Apple is increasingly a major supplier of health sensors, from iPhone apps to the Apple Watch. Its recently introduced HealthKit and ResearchKit software make it easier for applications and researchers to harvest health information from millions of owners of Apple products, with their permission. That data can now be plugged into Watson. “We want to be the analytics brains behind HealthKit and ResearchKit,” Mr. Kelly said.
The IBM initiative raises questions on how data is handled and about privacy. Mr. Kelly said the data scrutinized by Watson will typically be anonymized and often be read by Watson but not removed from hospital or health company data centers. “There will be no big, centralized database in the sky,” Mr. Kelly said.
Even critics of health information technology say the IBM effort holds promise. “If that future when all this stuff works is going to become real, then having some of the key players come together is the only way it’s going to happen,” said Dr. Robert M. Wachter, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco medical school and author of “The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age.” “This could be a pretty important step along the way.”
Last year, the fallout from a string of breaches at major retailers like Target and Home Depot had consumers on edge. But 2015 is shaping up to be the year consumers should be taking a closer look at who is guarding their health information.
Data about more than 120 million people has been compromised in more than 1,100 separate breaches at organizations handling protected health data since 2009, according to Department of Health and Human Services data reviewed by The Washington Post.
“That’s a third of the U.S. population — this really should be a wake-up call,” said Deborah Peel, the executive director of Patient Privacy Rights.
The data may double-count some individuals if they had their information compromised in more than incident, but it still reflects a staggering number of times Americans have been affected by breaches at organizations trusted with sensitive health information. And the data does not yet reflect the hack of Premera, which announced this week that hackers may have accessed information, including medical data, on up to 11 million people.
Most breaches of data from health organizations are small and don’t involve hackers breaking into a company’s computer system. Some involve a stolen laptop or the inappropriate disposal of paper records, for example — and not all necessarily involve medical information. But hacking-related incidents disclosed this year have dramatically driven up the number of people exposed by breaches in this sector.
When Anthem, the nation’s second-largest health insurer, announced in February that hackers broke into a database containing the personal information of nearly 80 million records related to consumers, that one incident more than doubled the number of people affected by breaches in the health industry since the agency started publicly reporting on the issue in 2009.
“We are certainly seeing a rise in the number of individuals affected by hacking/IT incidents,” Rachel Seeger, a spokesperson for HHS’s Office for Civil Rights, said in a statement. “These incidents have the potential to affect very large numbers of health care consumers, as evidenced by the recent Anthem and Premera breaches.”
And some cybersecurity experts warn this may only be the beginning. “We’re probably going to see a lot more of these happening in the coming few months,” said Dave Kennedy, the chief executive of TrustedSEC.
Health organizations are targets because they maintain troves of data with significant resale value in black markets, Kennedy said, and their security practices are often less sophisticated than other industries. Now that some major players in the market have come forward as victims of cyberattacks other organizations are likely to take a close look at their own networks — potentially uncovering other compromises, he said.
“The information that companies like Anthem and Premera had is more valuable than just payment card information held by retailers or financial institutions,” said Scott Vernick, who heads up the data security and privacy practice at law firm Fox Rothschild. Credit card information has a relatively short shelf life, with new cards issued on a regular basis, he explained. But a health organizations often have complete profiles of people including Social Security numbers and medical health information that is much more difficult if not impossible to change.
Some of the data can be used to pursue traditional financial crimes — like setting up fraudulent lines of credit, Kennedy said. But it can also be used for medical insurance fraud, like purchasing medical equipment for resale or obtaining pricey medical care for another person.
This type of scheme is often not caught as quickly as financial fraud, experts said, and could have a lasting affect if it results in a person’s medical history containing false information. “In theory you could end up in an emergency situation, and if your records are contaminated by someone else’s information that could cause serious problems — like medical professionals believing you have a different blood type,” said Peel.
If a hacker is able to obtain information about a person’s medical condition, as it appears may have happened in the Premera breach but not the Anthem breach, there are additional risks. Information about mental health or HIV treatments could be made public, and there’s no way to truly make the information private again. “There’s almost no way to remedy this; there’s no recourse,” said Peel.
Health care providers already have to comply with government rules on protecting patient privacy, including HIPAA, which are enforced by HHS.
“Health care organizations need to make data security central to how they manage their information systems and to be vigilant in assessing and addressing the risks to data on a regular basis,” said Seeger, the HHS official. “In addition, organizations need to ensure they are able to identify and respond appropriately to security incidents when they do happen to mitigate harm to affected individuals and prevent future similar incidents from occurring.”
State-level officials are also increasingly involved in enforcement in this area, said Vernick, and consumers may have additional legal avenues depending on state laws.
But privacy and cybersecurity advocates say the industry and the government still aren’t doing enough to protect consumers.
“HIPAA required security be addressed, but it wasn’t spelled it out exactly how, so there was no culture of using ironclad security,” said Peel. “We have systems that are engineered as though this data is not sensitive and valuable.”
Health organizations sometimes rely on legacy systems, and some have not invested in cybersecurity at a rate that matches the urgency of the threats they face, Kennedy said. “The medical industry is years and years behind other industries when it comes to security.”
Even before the Anthem breach, major health insurers had become aware of the rising risk of cyberattacks. Aetna and United Health Group both cited the risks of hackers and breaches in their respective 2013 financialreports.
And the industry is already taking steps to coordinate how it responds to such incidents through groups designed to share information about digital threats — like the National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center, or NHISAC. The organization is one of several efforts related to critical infrastructure that works with the Department of Homeland Security to share data about current threats, such as what sort of tactics are used and forensic information about attackers.
Members are able to share details about security incidents in “machine time” using an automated system, according to NHISAC executive director Deborah Kobza, and the group sends out daily threat updates. When a major cyberattack is disclosed, NHISAC erupts into a flurry of activity — trying to find out as much as possible so its members have information that can make it easier to see if they’ve been the victims of a similar attack.
And 2015 has already kept NHISAC busy: “We just caught our breath from the Anthem hack, and here we go again,” said Kobza about responding to the Premera breach.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has paid out nearly $30 billion in meaningful use incentives for hospitals and physicians to adopt EHRs. But some members of Congress, the body that approved those funds, are about as frustrated with EHRs as doctors and nurses.
“The evidence suggests these goals haven’t been reached,” said Senator Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee, in a long EHR hearing followed by Erin McCann, Healthcare IT News managing editor.
Robert Wergin, MD, president of the American Academy of Family Physicians, said that family physicians are having a difficult time with the Stage 2 meaningful use requirements. The “time, expense and effort it takes makes it not worth while,” said Wergin. Indeed, some 55 percent of physicians surveyed plan on skipping Stage 2 all together.
“The issue of interoperability between electronic health records represents one of the most complex challenges facing the healthcare community,” said Wergin. The government “must step up efforts to require interoperability.”
A central problem, as McCann wrote, is that “Vendors have no incentive to share data and create more interoperable systems. There’s the question of data ownership here. There’s the question of competition. And there’s the question of standards, or lack thereof.”
“The vendors are siloed,” as Wergin said. “And you’re held somewhat hostage by the vendor you have.” | {
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February’s Quick Look
I didn’t read as many books this month, and the books I read were a bit disappointing. I did stumble over a lot of great articles, magnificent poetry, and if you need an audio alternative, I’ve got you covered.
A glimpse of my February mental space:
Books
You Play The Girl by Carina Chocano
– This took a while longer to read than I had planned. You can read the full review here. It helped me learn to look at pop-culture more critically, and that we forget so much, so fast. This book was at its best for me when the author was teaching me history. 2/5
Frost & Fire by Roger Zelazny
– You can read my thoughts on Zelazny‘s Nine Princes in Amber and then see why I considered his writing might need a second look – a chance at redemption. My favorite part of this short story collection was his introduction and the craft bits scattered between the stories. You can read my disappointment here. 2/5
Sabriel by Garth Nix
– I put this one down at pg. 233, which is past the halfway point. I have lots of complaints about this one, but mainly I just didn’t care about the story. 2/5 | {
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Day 5 - 5 Days to Success with Bucket.io - 5 Advanced Features
In this short video, we cover advanced features that give you the “bells and whistles” you need to create more complex quizzes and surveys. These are the features used by some of the world’s most popular quizzes, diagnostics, and assessments. | {
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Nashville may be known worldwide for exporting country music, but Music City is also home to a percolating indie scene.
“If you care to see what (that part of Nashville is) about, buying a ticket to God Save the Queen City won’t hurt,” says Mike Harris. He’s a Mooresville native who plays guitar in Apache Relay, one of the bands headlining the fourth annual Charlotte indie music festival.
Saturday’s bill at Chop Shop is heavy on Nashville artists, including Apache Relay, Natural Child, Jeff the Brotherhood, Jonny Fritz, Clear Plastic Masks, the Promised Land Sound and several locals.
“It’s such a smattering of what’s going on in Nashville,” Harris continues. “All those bands are totally different, and everybody knows everybody for the most part. It’ll be the same hang that happens on a Wednesday in Nashville, but in Charlotte.”
For Harris, it’ll be a bit of a homecoming, although he never spent much time in high school in Charlotte.
“Before GPS I was scared I was going to get lost and someone was going to have to come find me in Charlotte,” he says with a laugh, on the way to Indianapolis with the band last week.
Although he’d been going to rural bluegrass festivals with his parents since childhood, his show-going in the city was limited to his youth pastor taking him to see Switchfoot at Tremont once.
Harris’ dad played bluegrass mandolin and his mom sang, but his own interest in rock led him to explore the guitar.
“My dad played around the house. I was getting into rock ’n’ roll and heard my dad play ‘Stairway to Heaven,’ ” says Harris. “I thought, ‘My dad can play some of my favorite songs. He could teach me.’ ”
A high school teacher told him about Belmont University in Nashville, and his sights were set. That’s where he met the other members of Apache Relay.
Eventually the guys chose the band over school and carved out a niche on the Americana circuit with frontman Michael Ford Jr. as an anchor and hirsute Harris’ larger-than-life persona lighting up the stage.
North Carolina served as a second home, where they could hop among college towns or hit venues like Evening Muse.
“We toured North Carolina so much, we always had an open door there,” Harris reminisces. “I especially love bringing people to Cookout for a Cheerwine and to Lake Norman. I take a lot of pride in that. Take them for barbecue in Concord or Kannapolis, or to the Diamond in Charlotte.”
Apache Relay was on the rise with its first official album, “American Nomad” (an earlier album was released under Michael Ford Jr. and the Apache Relay). It closed out Bonnaroo in 2011 (“I think only Widespread Panic was playing when we went on,” Harris recalls) and opened for Mumford & Sons in 2012. But just as folk-rock was exploding, Apache Relay took a left turn at harmony-rich ’60s pop, removing itself from the Mumfords’ tag.
The self-titled record released in April was recorded with producer Kevin Augunas at Fairfax Recordings – the old Sound City Room – in Los Angeles, and pays homage to both California country rock of the ’70s and Phil Spector’s lush production.
Harris says the departure is on purpose.
“The (most fun) part about being in a band to me is about trying to create something you can’t really compare to a lot of stuff.” | {
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Statistical Information
By Susan Wright The 2008 survey saw a total of 3,058 responses collected. Of those, 2,412 respondents resided in the United States (83.4%). Of the remaining 480 respondents, a total of over 42 other countries were represented. Where appropriate, the data is compared to the 1998 Violence & Discrimination Survey Against Sexual Minorities which collected over 1,000 responses to similar questions over the course of a year. The 1998 survey did not cover business or event-related experiences of harassment, nor did it ask about Internet experiences. The 2008 survey also included more questions about sexual activity and identity. Table 1. Gender 2008 1998 Women 51% 46% Men 45% 51% Transgender 5% 1% Intersexes 1% 2% Table 2. Sexual Orientation 2008 1998 Heterosexual 41% 40% Bisexual 35% 36% Gay/lesbian 22% 22% Other 7% 4% A total of 1,146 (37.5%) respondents indicated that they had either been discriminated against, had experienced some form of harassment or violence, or had some form of harassment or discrimination aimed at their BDSM-leather-fetish-related business. Of the respondents who reported some form of persecution, 476 (41.5%) identified as male 615 (53.7%) identified as female 9 (.8%) identified as intersexed 78 (6.8%) identified as transgendered (Sexual orientation, like gender, was a question which required some answer, but allowed respondents to choose as many as they felt might apply, so the percentage totals more than 100%.) Of the 1,146 respondents who indicated that they had either been discriminated against or had experienced some form of harassment or violence, 380 (33.2%) identified as heterosexual, 440 (38.4%) identified as bisexual 292 (25.5%) identified as gay or lesbian. 97 (8.5%) indicated that they identified in some other way from heterosexual, bisexual or gay/lesbian. (Sexual orientation, like gender, was a question which required some answer, but allowed respondents to choose as many as they felt might apply, so the percentage totals more than 100%.) The sexual orientation of respondents who were discriminated against or had experienced some form of harassment or violence is compared in Table 6.1 to the total percentage of respondents who identified their orientation. It is interesting to note that Gay/lesbian, Bisexual and Other respondents have slightly higher rates of persecution than their average percentage of total respondents, while Heterosexuals are less likely to be discriminated against. Table 3. Sexual Orientation and Discrimination Total Percent 2008 Respondents Percent Persecuted Gay/lesbian 22% 25.5% Bisexual 35% 38.4% Heterosexual 41% 33.2%…
The 2008 Survey of Violence & Discrimination Against Sexual Minorities found significant discrimination and persecution against BDSM practitioners due to the social stigma attached to their sexual behavior. With over three thousand respondents, 37.5 percent indicated that they had either been discriminated against or experienced some form of harassment or violence. This survey addresses the gap in current knowledge by reporting data on the prevalence of violence and discrimination against BDSM and polyamory practitioners. The persecution of these individuals is conceptualized as a manifestation of sexual stigma, that is, society's negative regard for any non-heterosexual behavior, identity, relationship, or community.
by Female Trouble March 1994 Within the womenâs community, over half (56%) of the 539 lesbian and bisexual women surveyed experienced discrimination, harassment, or physical assault from other women because of their participation in consensual s/m. This survey only dealt with the discrimination or violence occurring within the lesbian community against S/M women. Harassment is the most common form of attack against s/m practitioners in the lesbian community. 44% of the S/M women reported some form of violence against them, with one-third of the reported incidents of harassment had occurred in the last year (1993). 30% of the S/M women in the survey experienced discrimination in the lesbian community because of their s/m orientation. This discrimination included being refused membership or being ejected from social, recreational, political, education, spiritual groups within the lesbian community. Incidents of physical assault in the lesbian community because of S/M orientation were reported by 25% of the women. This includes being slapped, punched or kicked by other women because of their s/m orientation. Of the 367 s/m women who were victims and/or witnesses of violence at some point in their lives, only 22% felt safe enough to report the incidents to police or event organizers, group leaders, bar staff, etc. Only 25% stated that their complaints had been handled satisfactorily. This reputation within the lesbian community for not supporting victims of violence, harassment and discrimination prevents s/m women from fully participating in the community. In the forward of the Female Trouble analysis, Jad Keres writes: "The S/M women who have taken part in this survey have something important to tell us. Listening to them does not require an understanding of their sexual expression nor approval of their lifestyle. It does require a willingness to still the persistent noise of hard-held opinions and unyielding dogma. As a community, will we finally allow the voices of all women to be heard and heard consistently or will we continue to blatantly censor and dismiss the lives of women we do not understand or approve of? As a community, will we finally acknowledge and stop the political violence that has preyed upon S/M women or will we continue to ignore the real bloody consequences of the 'Sex Wars'?" Female Trouble, PO Box 30145, Philadelphia PA 19103
PURPOSE: Gather demographic data on the SM-Leather-Fetish communities. Gain an understanding of the affect of social stigma on SM and fetish practitioners. SURVEY INSTRUMENT - Paper and electronic distribution (see below) PERIOD - April 1998 to February 1999 RESULTS: Useful demographic data on the SM-Leather-Fetish communities Sense of the magnitude of the problems arising from the stigma against SM Clear justification for a more professional survey GENDER ORIENTATION Men 51% Heterosexual 40% Women 46% Homosexual 22% Transgender 1% Bisexual 36% Intersexual 2% No Response 4% EMPLOYMENT AGE INCOME Student 8% 18-22 3% Under $ 10K 7% Part time 5% 23-29 15% $10-24K 17% Full time 62% 30-44 49% $25-49K 37% Self employed 22% 45-64 31% Over $50K 39% Unemployed 1% Over 65 2% Retired 2% COMMUNITY ISSUES: 1. Have you ever experienced violence or harassment because of your alternative sexual practices? 36% YES If yes, what happened? (multiple responses allowed) Verbal harassment 87% Physical assault 25% Stalked 19% Property vandalized 19% Blackmail 17% Sexual harassment 13% Rape 10% Other 7% 2. Have you ever experienced discrimination due to your alternative sexual practices? 30% YES If yes, what happened? (multiple responses allowed) Persecution 40% Loss of job or contract 25% Loss of promotion 17% Loss of custody of child 3% Refused membership 11% Unjustified arrest 5% Other 36% 3. Did you press charges? 96% NO 4. Do you freely tell others of your interest in alternative sexual expression? 72% NO If you're not out, why not? Fear of disapproval 67% Fear of repercussions 57% Fear of persecution 34% Fear of loss of child custody 13% Other 16% RESULTS Only 28% of those surveyed were "out", while the vast majority don't tell other people about their sexual preferences. Some reported that "it's no one else's business," but many cited fear of job loss or child custody, or harming family relations. One respondent reported, "A formerly trusted confidant outed me to my family. As I am the primary care giver for my mother (Alzheimer's) my siblings feared that I would expose our mother to "dangerous characters". They considered making other arrangements for Mom's care and made me promise not to 'practice" my sexual preferences in our home." Unfortunately, staying in the closet doesn't protect people - only one-third of those who suffered violence or discrimination reported that they are "out". The other two-thirds were minding their own…
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Program Goals: Resource for those people who enjoy the adventurous side of sex to find Health care providers as well as other trades that are sensitive to their needs. Too remove the common response that its their sexuality that’s the problem. | {
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Don’t ask us why he did it, but Ye successfully managed to tow the 7 Audis along, which weighed a hefty 12.6 tonnes, along using only his nut sack.
Footage of the event, shot in in Zibo City, China has gone viral after being revealed recently, and it’s not hard to see why.
While most blokes would shudder at the thought of attaching anything to their balls, Ye managed to tow the cars along for a total of 8 metres.
He’s seen attaching a rope to his testicles in the clip, and he claims that he’s a new world record holder. However, we can’t imagine many other people have ever pulled 7 Audis along using nothing but their bollocks, so it may be the first incident ever recorded…
Either way, it’s an impressive feat, even if it does make for uncomfortable viewing – just don’t expect loaded to get involved in any car-pulling bollocks any time soon… | {
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Alright my dear friends today we must put on our company manners. We have a special treat for you. I was chatting with our Lady Tater and I discovered that she has a rather delicious secret..Lady Tater shares a weekly tea with Rob and during these little chat sessions she has found out some very juicy tidbits about him.
When I heard this I bullied her into letting us listen in. Both of the chatty darlings graciously said "HELLS YES" Really can you blame them?
Now comes the bit where I ask you to read at your own risk none of these sentiments expressed blah blah blah blah..
now lets join Lady Tater and Rob
LT: So, we're sitting down this morning with Rob Pattinson, or a reasonable facsimilie thereof, asking the questions YOU want answered and finding out what Rob would like you, his fans, to know about him. Rob?
You can see how their conversations go Lady Tater gives our Rob some treats and he provides her with the answers to our most pressing questions. Here is some of the information she found out just for us ..
Q: A lot of people are wondering why your Tweet from Peter's account was so short?
A: I spoke to our darling young man after 'the Tweet heard round the World". Allegedly, his original Tweet was censored by his 'dad' although he blushed profusely when I queried as to the original content of the sacred Tweet. After a promise of Stoli and cranberry and a look at the girls, he confided that the original message stated "Hi, this is Rob. I like to motorboat fabulous tits That is all..."
Such a giving boy....
Q: Rob long time fan and perv of your lisciousness I wanna know WHY have your interviews with the media all of sudden changed? why are you now so calm cool and collected coherent and well spoken I miss the verbal shits I miss the slip of the tongue (oh gawd I love it when Rob slips his tongue!)
So who the fuck put the gag order on you?
A: Rob was actually quite surprised that you so enjoyed his verbal diarhea! Apparently, not long after Twilight was released, he was taken outside of an interview room after uttering the descriptive term"fucking cunt-licker". His agent and a representative of Summit pulled his pants down, bent him over a dumpster and spanked him with a copy of Breaking Dawn until he could chant "I will never go off script again. I will never go off script again" without falling into the refuse. They were apparently a little disheartened to find out he actually enjoyed said spanking and had to resort to having a large, hairy security guard take over said punishment until his hard on diminished and someone lost an eye. Ever since, he's been so scarred by the incident, he will never go off the intended script again without "social lubrication" as he explained it.
And there you have it my gentile readers our first visit to Lady Taters tea room...
If you have any questions you would like Lady Tater to ask Rob feel free to send them to me and I will hand them over to her shipness and she will get us an answer! | {
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Floatables: Floatables are pieces of litter in the water. They may be contaminated with toxic chemicals and bacteria. Floatables are also an eyesore in our waterways. Commonly observed floatables include cigarettes, plastic containers, wrappers and cans. Floatables such as these are generally the result of careless handling practices or littering.
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Oil and Grease: Petroleum products (gasoline, oil and grease) may be toxic to aquatic life, even in small amounts. Oil and grease in storm drains can generally be traced to automotive leaks and spills or improper disposal of used oil an automotive products into storm drains.
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Sometimes, if I haven't done laundry in awhile, using my hamper to transport clothes to the laundry room isn't ideal since it'll contain a few loads. Redditor RedSquaree shows us how to move those clothes without dropping them everywhere.
Just lay a pair of pants—preferably one that's going that particular load—and roll up the other clothes, as shown above. You can then carry it with one arm, without dropping socks and other items of clothes along the trail Hansel and Gretel style. You could use a towel or sheet too, but if your towels are in their own separate load—which they should be—this trick works pretty well. Check out the full step-by-step to the right, or hit the link below to read more, and while you're at it, check out our favorite tips for speeding up laundry too. | {
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Not as a feature to use but to play onDoes that add an interesting facet to the play game or an annoying one? And how would it be balanced without being completely annoying or negligible I had an idea for a bedroll item that would put the user to sleep for a certain amount of turns chosen by the player but would HP when the sleep status wears as
It has the potential to be interesting but if say, one of your units only has 1 HP and the next chapter starts and they still only have 1HP, that's kind of annoying.
The bedroll seems like it would make that unit into a liability since they are then useless until they wake up, especially when staves already exist, unless you have some idea for how to make it not annoying.
Well the bedroll is "unbreakable", so that helps in the decision if you're almost out of healing items and the unit will be safe for a turnI could refill it a small amount maybe? Like 20% instead of 100% ? The whole idea was to make it more realistic for chapters that literally happen after each other like FE8's chapter 7&8 for instance (7 is outside the castle, 8 is inside the castle)
If you already know about the mechanic and the previous chapter doesn't have a time limit (or a soft one, such as a rout mission where the last enemy charges towards player units), then players would assumedly get all units back to full HP (and get extra EXP from it, too). The only people that probably wouldn't would be those too lazy or LTC players not wanting to sacrifice the turns (unless extra turns was more efficient in the long run). | {
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Enterprise Java Beans have been one of the corner stones of the Java EE specification. As a Java EE 5 certified application server, Apache Geronimo supports EJB's extensively with the help of OpenEJB EJB Container. Although it is possible to use standard Java objects to contain your business logic and business data, using EJBs addresses many of the issues of using simple Java objects, such as scalability, lifecycle management and state management. In this article, you will see how an initial database application is extended and used for both local and remotely referred application clients for an Enterprise Java Beans back end. The application uses the built-in Apache Derby as its database. Use this article to learn how to simplify your enterprise application development process.
The Banking application has two types of application clients namely "Banking Remote Application" and "Banking Web Application". Each of these clients demonstrate how to refer Enterprise Java Beans in remote and local interfaces respectively. Both these clients are referring a common business layer which has been implemented with the help of Session and Entity Beans. Stateless Session Beans are acting as the business service interface between business entities and application clients. All the business entities of the application layer are implemented with Entity Beans.
After reading this article you should be able get the best out of EJB features of Geronimo, such as defining Enterprise Java Beans, managing relations between them and refer EJB's via differents kind of clients.
This article is organized in to following sections:
Overview of EJB Features
EJB implementation may vary from one vendor to another. Below is a list with the main features supported by Apache Geronimo. | {
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Adi & Gabby's room - Planning/Inspiration
As many of you know, we're expecting our third child (first boy!) in late March. Since it wouldn't be wise to buy yet another crib set, we've decided to move our two girls into the larger extra room to share and bump them up to twins, while we recycle Gabby's crib for the new baby. With that said, I now have two rooms to plan and execute prior to March (deep breath).
So I've decided to share this process with you in hopes to keep me honest and on track. I hopefully will be posting weekly updates with my progress. So here are my thoughts on the girls' room:
The walls are currently a shade lighter than the above pic and the dresser & hutch combo we have from Adi's bedroom set has a lot of the same styling detail as this one. Her dresser is currently off-white, but this pic made me think it would be nice to add some soft pink to the detailing -- just to freshen things up a bit.
I found this monogram that Centsational Girl painted on some clear plates and instantly thought of the girls' beds. I knew I wanted to personalize them with maybe the first letter of their name, but I saw this today and it was just perfect. I'll be imitating some version of this on the beds for sure!
And then we get to book storage. We're in desperate need of some book organization and I've been ogling versions of the infamous toddler book wall for ages now. It's in the plans for this room. Not sure if we'll build one or purchase at Ikea (I've seen it done with frame shelves and spice racks), but one way or the other, it'll get done. Also, did you see the stripes on the ceiling in the above photo? Do I dare? Will it be too busy with the polka dots? I'll have to see as everything comes together.
And finally, I'll need to create some form of artwork display space. I'm digging the above inspiration pic. The symmetry and white classic frames make each piece all the more special! I may, however, just frame cork and leave the glass out so that we can interchange favorites. Adi colors on a daily basis and I know she would just love this!
So what do you think? I definitely have my work cut out for me. I'm so very excited yet overwhelmed at the same time.
Here are my to-do's:
Crown molding install
Paint polka dots
Sew drapery
Paint beds
Paint nightstand
Update dresser and small table/chairs (paint)
Find or make rug (may involve paint)
Install book wall
Create artwork display wall
Address lighting issues
*Please note: All inspiration photos have been pulled from Pinterest and link back to their original source.
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I am a mommy, wife, & follower of Christ. I have a passion for home decor and refinishing furniture. I just love the thrill of making things beautiful with my own hands. May the Lord be glorified in all things and let it be known that the gifts, talents, and graces all come from Him and nothing of myself. I am but a servant of the Lord. | {
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Yes I’m a NYC Photographer who loves taking pictures anything NYC related such as the Subway, Central Park, Streets and loves to do long exposure photography.Do I love taking pictures? Yes I do. Why? Because I love to capture to things in my own perspectives and it’s sorta like creating my own diary/adventures except it’s being done by taking pictures. I love to do new adventures and I’ve done few personal photography trips such as West Haven CT, Cold Spring NY and Croton-Harmon NY and just like any other photography adventure’s, it’s been considered to be in my memories which I’ll never forget.
People has kept asking me how do I get people posing in my pictures and such and assumed I payed them and tried to flirt with the girls (Even thinking I’m some kind of player). You know what that’s certainly not true at all. I have either asked people if they want to be in my photos (I have people who said no and that’s not a problem to me at all) or they will ask me if I can take a picture of them in it. And to be honest I don’t know why people thinks I’m a player but I assume it’s because of my Facebook Page which now has over 3,000 likes and because of I’m “Popular”. Many people don’t know is that I’m actually shy and nervous as hell when seeing/talking to people. Yes I have really strong shyness when being around others because I get nervous when meeting new people and being invited to join groups/meetups. I’m mostly solo when doing photography but I don’t mind being around others who loves doing it too but at the same time I feel so nervous to the point when I get stressed. I’ve been told many times “I’m not normal” and “I’m stupid for not being like other people who only focuses on getting dates/going to clubs and playing sports”. I’m not into doing any of that stuff right now and all I want to is focus on my photography and my goals. I really wish people understood that and respect that.
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EGG DONATION
EGG DONATION
It took several years for egg donation to become a widely-accepted method, but now it is a rather common solution for infertile couples to conceive a child. Egg donation, however, does pose several moral dilemmas. IVF with donor eggs is a fertility treatment that has been available since the mid 1980’s.
Success rates with egg donation are high, particularly compared to pregnancy rates in women with poor egg quality and quantity. Research has also proven that the method has no adverse effect to the relationship between mother, father and child despite the lack of genetic link between mother and child.
Donor egg IVF
In many Western countries, the children are allowed – after adulthood – access to all data, including the identity of the donor of the egg. The latter is not permitted in Greece, unless there are health reasons, so the child can access the files but still anonymously. Donor egg IVF opens up a world of possibilities for women who have struggled to conceive: women with primary ovarian failure, menopausal, either naturally or as a result of surgery, radiation or chemotherapy, women that have undergone repeated failed attempts at IVF or with a genetic disorder which could be passed on to their child. Egg donation treatment involves fertilizing the donor eggs with sperm from the recipient’s partner and transferring the resulting embryos into the recipient’s womb.
Egg donation in Greece
At Medimall IVF Clinic, we are pleased to provide the procedure of egg donation, which is permitted in our country and is lawful under Greek law. Egg donation is anonymous, voluntary and free. The primary benefit to every woman who donates eggs should be the altruistic aspect of helping another person or couple achieve pregnancy. According to Greek law, egg donors should be between 18 and 35 years old, and are selected following strict medical screening. You can find all the information on the test donors are submitted to below. The age limit for women undergoing IVF treatment is 50 years old.
Egg donation program
Our egg donation program uses both fresh and frozen ova and the recipients have the opportunity to choose between the fresh and frozen oocytes. In addition, the selection of oocytes used takes into account the characteristics of the donor, so that they come from a woman with similar features. In case of fresh egg selection, you should consider that all information concerning donor characteristics and testing will be disclosed to you after the embryo transfer. Egg donation has proved to be very successful, either using fresh or frozen eggs, with success rates up to 75% for embryo transfers per treatment cycle, and up to 65% for clinical pregnancies.
According to Greek law, up to two embryos can be transferred, whereas you will be informed about the number and quality of your embryos on the very day of embryo transfer.
Our doctors and biologists will talk in detail with you and advise you on the number of embryos they believe should be transferred, in accordance with your medical history of previous IVF attempts and the possibility of a multiple pregnancy.
You could also consult your gynecologist about the number of embryos he believes it would be best to transfer.
All IVF candidates should be aware that the law allows for any remaining, good quality embryos that are not transferred, one of the following:
To be frozen. Freezing time can be up to five years. During this period, the embryos can be used in one IVF cycle if the recipient has not yet become pregnant or the couple wants to have another child.
The embryos can be destroyed.
They can be donated to another couple.
They can be donated to the fertility clinic for research.
After 5 years, the couple not wishing to keep the embryos could select options number two, three or four.
Practical information on egg donation at Medimall IVF Clinic
Recipients participate in preliminary screening procedures, including review of gynecological records and transvaginal ultrasound. You can ask our doctors any questions you may have, and discuss with them all your queries. If you live abroad and it is not possible to visit our center, all the above-mentioned tests can be conducted by your personal gynecologist in conjunction with our center coordinator. We strongly recommend the semen analysis of your partner to be done in our clinic.
Additionally, you will be asked by the doctors or our coordinator to fill out and send us all necessary consent forms, copies of identity or your passport, and any other legally required document. You are more than welcome to send us your photos in order to get to know your features. You would also specify the desired dates you wish to undergo the procedure. Bear in mind that you will need to be available for one week (from Monday morning to Saturday afternoon). We could then integrate you in our clinic’s IVF egg donation program.
Your partner should also be available to provide semen sample at the clinic right before the IVF cycle. The frozen sperm is intended for exclusive use of his partner. In this case, you will need to be available for a period of four days, from Wednesday morning to Saturday afternoon.
You will be asked to follow a specific treatment in order to prepare your uterus and your endometrium for embryo transfer. You will need to visit for two weeks after the beginning of the endometrial preparation.
In the meantime, you will need to make all necessary preparations for your trip to Athens, your return home, as well as arrange for your stay in a hotel in Athens until the day the process is completed.
Medimall IVF Clinic staff will provide you with a full and detailed plan once your treatment is set. It is important that all communication concerning the program is conducted through our doctors and/or our coordinator at [email protected] and we will get back to you.
Donor testing
Complete blood analysis
Cardiovascular examination
Blood type
Rhesus factor
Hemoglobin electrophoresis
Hepatitis B (HBsAg)
Hepatitis C (HCV)
HIV I-II (AIDS)
RPR (syphilis)
Karyotype test
PCR for CTRF (85% of known mutations) (Cystic Fibrosis)
PCR for 35 Delg relating to hereditary hearing loss
Chlamydia (Urine)
Psychological examination
The recipient and the partner must be submitted to the following tests: | {
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Notes on The Intersection: Tales of the Taj
It took Shah Jahan 17 years to build the iconic Taj Mahal, a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz, who died during childbirth in 1631. A structure known as the testament of true love for centuries has also been the cause of both pride and controversy in equal measure for India. If you walk around it, you will see that its four facades are identical, with vaulted arches and quotes from the Holy Quran inlaid onto the marble.
This is because the Mughals considered symmetry symbolic of balance and harmony in their empire. But, as Dr. Dilip Ahuja proves through his research and tells us in the podcast, it’s not as perfect as it seems. So, was the iconic monument created with a single error on purpose? Or, did the artists and craftsmen make an honest mistake because of a lack of advanced scientific equipment? Did Shah Jahan know? The answers to these questions are hidden in the legends that surround the history of the building – some that tell of Shah Jahan cutting off the hands and gouging out the eyes of artists who built it and others of how he wanted to build a black version of the Taj Mahal for himself.
A total of Rs 32 million (today’s equivalent of Rs 53 billion) was spent on constructing the Taj; it was made with makrana marble from Rajasthan, lapis lazuli from Central Asia and turquoise from Tibet, and it is said that 1,000 elephants were required to transfer these materials all the way from their homes to Agra. But, this luxury also put the Taj at risk once the Mughal Empire collapsed in the 18th century. The Jats (a Hindu community from North India), looted it in 1964 and stripped it of its two silver doors. British colonisers plundered it for the hand-woven carpets and precious gems, but Lord Curzon the viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905, ordered the restoration of the historical site and its gardens. He also gifted the Taj with a grand chandelier, which unfortunately, came crashing down in August 2015 and is currently being restored.
Today, Agra has transformed from being a Mughal Capital to an economically advanced city, the industrialisation and resulting pollution leading to the yellowing of the Taj’s pristine white marble. The monument has since gotten a beauty treatment of sorts – workers applied Fuller’s Earth (yes, that pack of multani mitti in your fridge was good enough for the Taj too!) to its walls and washed it off after 24 hours, a process that helped restore its sheen. The Supreme Court of India has prohibited the construction of any building that might obscure the view of the Taj Mahal, so that we can enjoy its beauty from a distance, just like Shah Jahan did when he was imprisoned in Agra Fort, for years till he died.
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Photographs of Aakar Patel by Biswajit Dey, of Vikram Doctor by Meenakshi Doctor, of Samanth and Padma by Padmaparna Ghosh, of Anuvab Pal and Kunaal Roy Kapur by Azhar Khan, and of abandoned swim-shorts by Genesia Alves. All other pics by Unsplash.
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Faith is back in Mirror's Edge Catalyst but in an origin story as we learn how she became involved in fighting corporate tyranny, which has a stranglehold on the city. It's coming out February 23rd for PC and console.
It's a giant open world city 'with no levels to load' and it's packed for off story missions, time trials and other environmental challenges. The E3 trailer includes glimpses of gameplay.
This year's conference from EA is going to be dominated by one thing: Star Wars: Battlefront. The Press Conference will begin 1.00pm PDT / 9.00pm GMT+1 and run for about an hour. There's a bit to get through.
Tomb Raider and Mirror's Edge scribe Rhianna Pratchett has said her father, Discworld series author Terry Pratchett, has been approached "now and again" for more Discworld adventures but he's "waiting to be impressed".
No development studio has come in and wowed him yet, as Rhianna's father is a "gamer himself so he has an idea what he'd like to see," she said; unsure if she'd take over.
Shot in Cambridge, building scrambler parkour veteran Neil Cointet runs, leaps and climbs dressed as Faith from DICE's Mirror's Edge. It's all recorded from a first-person perspective just like in the game.
Parkour specialists Ampisound are "massive fans" of Mirror's Edge and wanted a tribute to the DICE IP. They "got some plans for a second one" if this one does well. | {
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The Latest: Gibraltar police detain 2 more from Iran tanker
The Iranian flag waves outside of the UN building that hosts the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, office inside in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday, July 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on the tensions between the United States and Iran (all times local):
6:10 p.m.
Police in Gibraltar say they have arrested the two second mates of an Iranian supertanker seized last week by the British navy on suspicion of carrying Tehran’s oil to Syria.
Police in the British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain say Friday the two men are in custody and assisting police with their inquiries. A statement says the investigation is continuing and the Panama-flagged tanker remains detained.
The vessel’s captain and chief officer were arrested Thursday. All four arrested men are Indian.
The ship is suspected of breaching European Union sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government. It was intercepted by British Royal Marines last week
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5 p.m.
Britain’s foreign secretary is calling for calm amid rising tensions over shipping in the Persian Gulf, saying the UK does not want a conflict with Iran.
Jeremy Hunt said Friday that “this is a time for cool heads” to make sure there is no “unintended escalation.”
Tensions have risen after Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, seized an Iranian oil tanker last week. The vessel was allegedly carrying Tehran’s oil to Syria in breach of EU sanctions.Earlier this week, the UK Royal Navy said it stopped Iranian paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through a critical shipping lane near the Persian Gulf.
Hunt said that London has given “a measured and careful” response to the situation. “We are being clear to Iran that we are not seeking to escalate this situation,” he said.
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4:00 p.m.
British media are reporting that the UK will send a second warship to Persian Gulf.
Both Sky News and the BBC reported Friday that the HMS Duncan, a Type 45 Destroyer, will sail to the gulf after taking part in NATO exercises in the Black Sea. It is said to arrive in a few days.
The Ministry of Defense declined to comment.
The Duncan had already been scheduled to go to the region, but the deployment is being moved forward a few days amid the deepening crisis with Iran.
Duncan will operate alongside the Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose and American forces.
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3:35 p.m.
China says it opposes unilateral sanctions against Iran and criticized what it describes as the “long arm jurisdiction” of the United States.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman in Beijing said that international trade with Iran “within the framework of international law is reasonable and legitimate and deserves to be respected and protected.”
China is one of the world powers that signed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which has been unraveling since President Donald Trump withdrew from it over a year ago.
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3:15 p.m.
The head of Gibraltar’s government says an Iranian supertanker seized last week by the British navy on suspicion of carrying Tehran’s oil to Syria was loaded with 2.1 million barrels of light crude oil.
Chief Minister Fabian Picardo told the parliament of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory, in a statement Friday that anyone who has a claim to the vessel and its cargo can file its claim in court.
The ship was intercepted by British Royal Marines off the southern tip of Spain on July 4. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency at the time called the incident “an illegal seizure of an Iranian oil tanker.”
A senior Spanish official said the operation was requested by the United States, but Picardo says no other government asked Gibraltar to act.
He says the ship is suspected of breaching European Union sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government.
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2:00 p.m.
Iran is demanding the British navy release an oil tanker seized last week off Gibraltar, accusing London of playing a “dangerous game.”
Friday’s comments from the Iranian Foreign Ministry come a day after police in Gibraltar, a British overseas territory on the southern tip of Spain, said they arrested the captain and chief officer of the supertanker suspected of breaching European Union sanctions by carrying a shipment of Iranian crude oil to Syria.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi told Iranian state news agency IRNA that “the legal pretexts for the capture are not valid … the release of the tanker is in all countries’ interest.”
The tanker’s interception on July 4 has stoked already high tensions in the region.
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England centre Manu Tuilagi has apologised for playing a prank on Prime Minister David Cameron during the British and Irish Lions' visit to Downing Street.
Tuilagi gave Cameron 'bunny ears' while stood behind and to the left of the Conservative Party leader as a group of players and management posed for a photo at the function to honour the Lions' 2-1 series victory over Australia.
You can see the incident in our video, and enjoy the end result in the picture here:
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Using Twitter to express his remorse for the incident, the Leicester Tigers centre said: "Apologies for messing around on Lions photo. No offence intended. Great Day at Downing Street. Thanks to Prime Minister for hosting us."
And a brief apology on social media seems a small price to pay for the kudos that the player quickly earned from his fellow players, with fellow Lions star Ben Youngs saying on Twitter "The Man just couldn't stop himself" and Gloucester and England fly-half Freddie Burns tweeting: "Great bottle from Manu Tuilagi! Haha. #chief."
It's not the first time Tuilagi has courted controversy: at the 2011 Rugby World Cup he was fined £3,000 after jumping off a ferry in Auckland. | {
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REPAIRS TO A CLASSIC STYLE MORGAN This Moragn was brought in to us from http://www.williamsatomobiles.com for various repairs around the vehicle, as you can see we have taken photos as we have gone along. Repairs to rear panel. Near side and off side Front wings and Near side rear wing taken off to be repaired and resprayed.… | {
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DICK Wolf, who made a franchise out of "Law & Order," has a second franchise in the works: Killing off disgraced publisher, Judith Regan.
Friday night will mark the second time in as many years that a Judith-like "high-profile publisher" character is brutally murdered. And the second time a suspect is a man she first played around with and then played for a fool.
First time "L&O" killed her off in 2005, it was on Michael Imperioli's first episode on the series called "Publish and Perish," in which both a porn actress ala Jenna Jameson (who was a real-life Regan "author"), and a Judith Regan-like high profile publisher are murdered.
Who done it that time? Bernie Kerik - or the Kerik-like "ambitious and powerful police commissioner nominated for the nation's top security post."
But back then Wolf didn't know that the publisher's high profile love affair with the very-married Kerik and the publication of Jameson's scandalous book wouldn't be the worst of the sludge to be drudged from the slush pile of Regan's life. There was the O.J. book yet to come.
On Friday night's episode, "Murder Book," "L&O" kills off the Regan character again - but this time because of a book in which ex-athlete (Bobby Cannavale) postulates how he would have killed his ex-wife if he had killed his ex-wife, which of course he didn't.
When the Regan-type is found slain with her blood and guts smeared around the hallway of her apartment building, there are many suspects. It's a matter of eliminating everyone who could have wanted her dead. That of course means everyone who's ever worked for her, slept with her or, well, basically ever known her.
Was it JP Lang, the ex-athlete and murderer of his wife? Was it Gerald Stockwell, (Christopher Denham), the ghost writer of Lang's tell-nothing? Was it her assistant whom she treated like a piece of dog poop on the sole of her Manolo's? Or was it a collective effort by everyone in the world?
Everyone, it seems, has a reason to knock her off.
Lang says they had a strictly sexual relationship until she wanted to move it to the level of a relationship-relationship. "She wanted us to go to St. Bart's together," he sneers. "Can you imagine being alone on an island with that bitch?"
The ghost writer has a reason to want her dead because she rejected his draft and canned him from the book. Well, like I said, everyone has a reason, but who really has a motive?
Good stuff. Lots o' fun - unless of course you are Judith Regan, in which case you've got a reason and a motive to kill - the writers - of "Law & Order" who cut you no slack lady. No slack at all. | {
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BioConnect has become the latest biometric security specialist to join the ForgeRock platform.
ForgeRock offers a portfolio of curated security solutions to its client network, and has proven to be a popular venue for market access in recent months. Over the course of 2018, 54 technology partners joined the ForgeRock platform, including biometrics specialists like ImageWare, BioCatch, and Yoti.
Now, ForgeRock has welcomed BioConnect ID to its portfolio. Aimed primarily at the enterprise market, BioConnect’s authentication solution leverages facial, finger, and voice biometrics together with other factors like mobile device identification and passwords to offer strong, multi-factor authentication. | {
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
It's a day of firsts! Well, maybe only a couple of firsts but they sure seem big to me. I am entering my very first sketch challenge AND I've embossed a card for the first time! Woohoo!!! I've been lurking in the background and enjoying what other stampers have entered for a while. Today I'm steppin' out of the shadows! Aren't you proud of me?
The Saturday Sketch Challenge over at the Stamping 411 blog looked like so much fun that I just *had* to step up and take part.
I just got a heat embossing tool and I was DYING to try it out. Therefore, a darker paper seemed like a good idea. While looking through my stash I came across some Raspberry Tart DSP and it all clicked. At that point, I was on a mission! I threw in some Regal Rose and Rose Red, grabbed my much loved punches and the Polka Dot Punches set... tossed in a dash of Sweet Serendipity and voila! A card was born :) | {
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4 Enable The root Account
After the reboot you can login with your previously created username (e.g. administrator). Because we must run all the steps from this tutorial as root user, we must enable the root account now.
Run
sudo passwd root
and give root a password. Afterwards we become root by running
su
5 Install The SSH Server
Ubuntu does not install OpenSSH by default, therefore we do it now. Run
apt-get install ssh openssh-server
You will be prompted to insert the installation CD again.
6 Configure The Network
Because the Ubuntu installer has configured our system to get its network settings via DHCP, we have to change that now because a server should have a static IP address. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and adjust it to your needs (in this example setup I will use the IP address 192.168.0.100):
From now on you can use an SSH client such as PuTTY and connect from your workstation to your Ubuntu Feisty Fawn server and follow the remaining steps from this tutorial.
7
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list And Update Your Linux Installation
Edit /etc/apt/sources.list. Comment out or remove the installation CD from the file and make sure that the universe and multiverse repositories are enabled. It should look like this:
vi /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty main restricted
## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-updates main restricted
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty universe
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
## security team.
deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse
deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty multiverse
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
# deb http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
# deb-src http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ feisty-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security universe
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu feisty-security multiverse
Then run
apt-get update
to update the apt package database and
apt-get upgrade
to install the latest updates (if there are any).
8 Change The Default Shell
/bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash, however we need /bin/bash, not /bin/dash. Therefore we do this:
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Instead of rm -f /bin/sh ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh which leaves no /bin/sh for a few moments. Anything that needs /bin/sh to exist that tries to run before it's recreated will have big trouble. This is a bad habit to get into, especially when you're working with symlinks to libraries. Instead, do ln -sf /bin/bash /bin/sh and it's all done in a single command which guarantees that there isn't even a nanosecond during which there is no /bin/sh. | {
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Garden Eels live in the sand. They are long, skinny, active and fascinating, as well as ubiquitous at our current spot near Isla Cerralvo. We dropped our anchor here and then looked into the water to find thousands of Garden Eels waving gently back and forth on the sandy bottom below Magic.
Of course, we soon went scuba diving under the boat to get a closer look. I mean, these eels were everywhere, how hard would it be to see them?
We descended about 20 feet. The water was clear and calm. Webs of light danced on the bottom just like a swimming pool. But there were no eels. This was very strange. Why would they be everywhere else but not right here? I swam toward a large group, waving gently in the water. When I got there they were gone.
“Oh wait, there’s a bunch of them over there”, I thought, and swam in the other direction. When I got closer every single one of them slowly withdrew into the sand. When I arrived all I saw was a field of dime sized, empty holes.
We lay on the sand at the bottom, waiting for them to end the tease and finally show themselves. We waited several minutes. Some eels were braver than others, and tiny heads began to emerge. They were still at least 6 feet away. By crawling on my hands I was able to get a little closer, but they soon retreated. Any fin kicks would send them right back into the sand immediately.
We surfaced and a couple minutes later saw them again waving wildly all around the boat, back out of their holes again, celebrating that we were gone.
Determined to get a close look at these little teases of the sea, Brian set up our GoPro camera with a scuba weight and pointed it right at one of the little holes under the boat. He got all the photos you see here, plus a great video of a puffer fish surprising the eels! Check it out here:
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Wx Watch: The whys of wind
Facing fear of the windsock
March 1, 2012
ByThomas A. Horne
Wind activity on January 17, 2012, as analyzed by several sources. The surface analysis chart (top left) shows a strong cold front moving through the Ohio Valley, with a squall line in southern Ohio/central Kentucky. A three-hour pressure tendency chart (top right) indicates just how fast pressure is falling ahead of the cold front, and rising behind it. As you might guess, airmets for strong surface winds (above left) are parked the length of the front. And high-wind advisories (above right) are in effect as the front moves east.
The airport is quiet. No taxiing, no runups, no one in the pattern, no one on the radio. And the weather is good VFR.
What's going on? Chances are, a look at the windsock will give the answer. Sure enough, it’s sticking straight out and switching direction rapidly with strong, gusty winds. These kinds of winds are the bane of the experienced and the neophyte pilot alike, because they can mean a lot of work during takeoffs and landings—and promise huge servings of turbulence. There are risks, too. Just ask insurance companies.
That time of year
We’re conditioned to think of March as the windiest time of year, but that’s an overgeneralization. Strong surface winds happen at all times of year, for any number of reasons. But, yes, the onset of spring means that bigger, warmer air masses begin to creep northward, chasing winter’s cold back to Canada.
What does this have to do with rowdy surface winds? It helps to understand that wind is a direct result of temperature differences. No matter the time of year or your location, if there’s a zone where colder and warmer air masses come together, you’ve got wind.
Temperature as pressure
Let’s imagine the air mass in the warm sector of a classic frontal complex, and then compare it to the colder air in an air mass advancing from the west as the leading edge of a cold front. Where the warm air lives, air molecules are farther apart, the air is less dense, and so the warm layer is relatively “thick” in a vertical sense. Meanwhile, in a cold air mass, the air is denser and therefore less thick.
How thick is thick? You can check this out on constant pressure charts. That’s where you can see the heights of various surfaces of similar pressure. For example, if you were to draw a line on an 850-millibar (this corresponds to approximately 5,000 feet msl) chart from a warm sector, across a cold front, and into the cold air behind the front you might see the thicknesses of that pressure surface can range from 1,500 meters in the warm air to, say, 1,200 meters behind the front. What we’re looking at are the height variations of a pressure surface aloft—generated by a temperature gradient.
Here’s the take-away: The height/temperature variations create a pressure gradient, and a corresponding pressure gradient force. And you know what that means: Air begins to move from higher pressure to lower pressure, wind speeds pick up and change direction according to the Coriolis force, and lows and fronts are born. So temperature gradients aloft and at the surface create the steep pressure drops that we usually associate with a strong frontal passage’s high winds. The greater the temperature gradients, the greater the pressure gradients, and the stronger the winds.
Isobars
Closely spaced isobars on surface analysis charts give a great idea of just how comparatively strong surface winds may be. The tighter the gradient between isobars, the stronger the wind. But there are some other charts that can help visualize the situation. Pressure tendency charts indicate how much the surface pressure has changed over the past three hours. Streamline analysis charts let us see how, and where, wind directions change. This can all be helpful when scouting out airports with runways more favorably aligned into the wind.
Of course, a check of METARs and TAFs for mention of strong surface winds is also in order. So is a look at airmets for turbulence (or mention of LLWS, or low-level wind shear), and area forecasts, to see if the infamous “WIND” (this means sustained surface winds or gusts of 20 knots or more) notation is posted. Typically, this warning appears in anticipation of the rowdy surface winds that so often follow a cold frontal passage.
Mixing down
Ever notice how a nice VFR day may dawn with little or no surface wind, but by midday winds sometimes reach a not-so-nice, gale level? (Definition: winds of 28 to 47 knots.) Then, as the sun sets, the winds magically die down. This behavior is a function of the mixing of air in the lowest levels of the atmosphere.
At night, the winds aloft continue moving at their usual pace. But without any surface heating from the sun, surface winds drop off because there are no rising air parcels. But by late morning, the surface heats up a bit, which allows this warmer air to reach the 3,000- to 5,000-foot-agl level. This, plus the turbulence created at the boundary between the faster-moving winds aloft and the calmer surface winds, creates eddies that mix the winds aloft and send them downwards. The result? Winds pick up during the day.
For a few days after a cold frontal passage, or on days when a large high pressure system prevails, you can generally rely on a rule of thumb to predict the peak strength of surface winds. It’s a simple rule, based on the air-mixing phenomenon. Just look at the winds aloft at 3,000 to 5,000 feet agl. By midmorning those winds will mix down to the surface. So if the winds aloft are 30 knots, by 11 a.m. they’ll be at ground level. At day’s end, those winds aloft will “decouple” from the quieter air nearer the surface and the pattern will become a tamer place.
Hands and feet
So much for theory. Remember the tried-and-true piloting skills necessary for landing and taking off in nasty surface winds? Here’s a quick review of a few:
For a high-wind takeoff, it’s best to lift off firmly so that any downdrafts don’t let you settle back to the runway. For the same reason, leave the gear down in retractable-gear airplanes until you’re safely above the runway.
On final, use your normal approach speed, but add half the gust factor if winds are gusting. For example, if winds are 15 gusting to 25, then add half the difference (five knots) to your normal approach speed.
Don’t fly high-wind approaches with too much speed; it will take longer to bleed off lift and airspeed, you’ll be exposed to crosswinds for a longer period of time, and be subject to ballooning with the excess lift caused by any gusts.
Consider using partial flaps when the winds are high. In strong winds, full flaps make for more lift at slower airspeeds when in ground effect, something you don’t need when you’re trying to touch down in style.
The wing-down/opposite rudder method for crosswind touchdowns seems to work the best for most airplanes. This means lowering the upwind wing so as to stop any sideways drift, and at the same time applying opposite rudder to keep the airplane’s longitudinal axis aligned with the runway centerline. Sure, you hear some pilots advocate crabbing all the way down final, then making a quick transition to the wing-down method the moment before the upwind tire meets the runway. It’s possible, but your timing must be impeccable lest you swerve on the runway—or worse.
Related
Website of the month: BLIPmap UniViewer
So you don’t buy the 5,000-foot predictor of surface winds? Want to know how fast any thermal updrafts will be? Or wonder where updraft heights will peak? If wind behavior near the surface gets your juices flowing, check out the BLIPmap UniViewer online.
This site is a favorite with sailplane pilots because it deals so heavily in boundary-layer dynamics—especially things like cloud bases, wind speeds, and updraft velocities. But this same information helps all pilots understand surface winds better. Yes, you have to register to use this interactive site, but it's free. You can click on a number of regions within the United States, then zoom in or pan around a spot that interests you. For the serious weather geek, you can even click on a location to get a pop-up of the nearest Skew-T/log P plots.
AOPA Pilot Editor at Large Tom Horne has worked at AOPA since the early 1980s. He began flying in 1975 and has an airline transport pilot and flight instructor certificates. He’s flown everything from ultralights to Gulfstreams and ferried numerous piston airplanes across the Atlantic.
Mark Scheuer was tired of yelling at his wife across the noisy cockpit of their Grumman Yankee, and he thought there had to be a better way of communicating. PS Engineering Inc. was born out of that necessity and is now celebrating its third decade of forging new ground in cockpit communication technology.
A tale of flying adventure, severe injuries, international political maneuvering, and an emergency at sea comes to life in "Floatplane Odyssey," a book that commemorates the twenty-fifth anniversary of Tom Casey’s 1990 around-the-world flight in a Cessna 206 on floats. | {
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People may have noticed that I have practically stopped posting the last month or more despite being pretty active before that. For reasons I would rather not disclose, I am taking a break from all internet forums for a few months so onward my Garheim Brothers and I hope to be back in a couple of months once my lugbulk order is in and I can build again | {
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Cougar JV’s stumble against Spartans
The Cougar junior varsity basketball squad saw their six game winning streak come to an end Friday night, dropping their contest against Salem by a final score of 72-51.
The loss drops Pulaski to 9-4 on the season.
The junior Cougars seemed to struggle much of the game against a stingy Salem defense, but missed shots, missed free throws, and turnovers cost them the game in the end.
The Cougars played a very tough first half, trailing 10-9 at the end of the first quarter and 26-22 at the halftime break. Several Cougars found themselves in foul trouble early as well.
Salem outscored Pulaski 21-15 in the third quarter to take a 47-37 lead into the start of the final quarter. Bradley Church and then Elliot Brewster fouled out midway through the fourth, taking a big part of the Cougar offensive and defensive punch away.
Pulaski continued to work hard, but in the end the Spartans outscored the Cougars 25-14 to earn the 72-51 win. | {
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King's Lanes is a well known bowling and gaming establishment in the greater Boston area, but when they opened up their newest location in Rosemont, IL, they turned to Privy to help them gain some early traction. Thanks to Privy's sweetest new feature- one click sharing- King's was able to create a promo, link their Facebook account, kick back and watch the results pour in. And as they say, when it rains it pours!
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Within a mere 24 hours of posting the promo on King's Facebook wall, we were able to help generate some pretty awesome results:
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So, how'd we do it (clue: it's not magic)? The simple fact of the matter is that the people who interact with your business or brand on Facebook are looking specifically for offers and specials. They want to be privy to what's going on with your business. So share information that is interesting and relevant, keep your fans and followers in the know, and give them a reason to interact with your business online! | {
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Gates: U.S. Open to Staying in Iraq if Iraq Asks
U.S. soldiers fold a flag during a transfer of command ceremony for the Kalsu Forward Operating Base, south of Baghdad, on September 30, 2010 from the 3rd Advise and Assist Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division to 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (ACR).
The United States is open to the idea of keeping troops in Iraq past a deadline to leave next year if Iraq asks for it, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
"We'll stand by," Gates said. "We're ready to have that discussion if and when they want to raise it with us."
Gates urged Iraq's squabbling political groups to reconcile after eight months of deadlock. Any request to extend the U.S. military presence in Iraq would have to come from a functioning Iraqi government. It would amend the current agreement under which U.S. troops must leave by the end of 2011.
"That initiative clearly needs to come from the Iraqis; we are open to discussing it," Gates said.
U.S. and Iraqi officials have said for months they expect Iraqi leaders to eventually ask for an extension of the military agreement with the U.S., but the political impasse has put the idea on hold.
A spike in violence in Iraq over the past two weeks has underscored the continued potency of al Qaeda and other Sunni extremists.
"We have been pretty clear to the Iraqis that what we seek, and hope they will come together on, is an inclusive government that represents all of the major elements of Iraqi society and in a nonsectarian way," Gates said. "It is our hope that that is the direction they are moving in."
He spoke following a meeting with Malaysian Defense Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Leaders of Iraq's major political blocs met Monday for the first time since parliamentary elections in March. The 90-minute televised session, the start of three days of talks, did not lead to a breakthrough.
The battle is largely a contest between the Iranian-favored coalition of Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and followers of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr against a Sunni-backed secular coalition led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
At stake is whether Iraq has an inclusive government of both the majority Shiites and the minority Sunnis, or a Shiite-dominated government with the Sunnis largely in opposition - a recipe that many worry will turn the country back to the sectarian violence of a few years ago.
Al-Maliki's bloc won 89 seats in the March 7 election, compared with 91 for Allawi's coalition; neither side won the majority of seats needed to govern.
Gates said he has not spoken directly to any of the political leaders, but other U.S. officials, including Vice President Joe Biden, have been heavily engaged.
Gates predicted a new government would need some time before asking the U.S. to extend the troop plan.
Although the 2011 deadline was a point of pride for Iraq after years of U.S. military occupation, it does not leave much time for the U.S. to train Iraq's fledgling air force. Iraq also wants more U.S. help to protect its borders.By AP National Security Writer Anne Gearan | {
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You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?
You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?wormshero
wormshero wrote:
You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?
I am more interested in knowing what side of his car was the filler cap on.
[quote][p][bold]wormshero[/bold] wrote:
You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?[/p][/quote]I am more interested in knowing what side of his car was the filler cap on.Route88
wormshero wrote:
You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?
I am more interested in knowing what side of his car was the filler cap on.
You're right. Please, Gazette, tell us what side the filler cap is on so I can drill a hole in the side of my car, if necessary, in the hope that if I fill my car on the same side I may too, one day, become a man of vast unearned wealth stopping on such great roads as the A12.
[quote][p][bold]Route88[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]wormshero[/bold] wrote:
You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?[/p][/quote]I am more interested in knowing what side of his car was the filler cap on.[/p][/quote]You're right. Please, Gazette, tell us what side the filler cap is on so I can drill a hole in the side of my car, if necessary, in the hope that if I fill my car on the same side I may too, one day, become a man of vast unearned wealth stopping on such great roads as the A12.wormshero
wormshero wrote:
You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?
I am more interested in knowing what side of his car was the filler cap on.
You're right. Please, Gazette, tell us what side the filler cap is on so I can drill a hole in the side of my car, if necessary, in the hope that if I fill my car on the same side I may too, one day, become a man of vast unearned wealth stopping on such great roads as the A12.
I believe that the entrance to this garage and indeed the A12 in its vicinity, should be painted gold as a way to properly mark this esteemed visit.
[quote][p][bold]wormshero[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]Route88[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]wormshero[/bold] wrote:
You're telling me that this prince among men owns a car that needs refueling? Just like us mere mortals? Thank you so much, Gazette, for this fascinating insight into the world of this particular man. I would have expected a man of such importance to be flown in safely away from the proles. But wait, there's more in the paper? Are you going to tell us whether he favours bottle water over soft drinks? Or was he buying a cafinated beverage? HOW COULD YOU LEAVE THIS OFF THE WEB ARTICLE, I JUST NEED TO KNOW!
On another note a large number of people locally weren't able to vote in the Euro elections last week, despite checking their forms had gone through, because a second form was introduced yet not advertised anywhere online. To add to that Colchester council don't seem to think advertising this second form's necessity is important. Maybe you could report on that, y'know, if you're not too busy keeping us up to date with the lives of the rich and jobless?[/p][/quote]I am more interested in knowing what side of his car was the filler cap on.[/p][/quote]You're right. Please, Gazette, tell us what side the filler cap is on so I can drill a hole in the side of my car, if necessary, in the hope that if I fill my car on the same side I may too, one day, become a man of vast unearned wealth stopping on such great roads as the A12.[/p][/quote]I believe that the entrance to this garage and indeed the A12 in its vicinity, should be painted gold as a way to properly mark this esteemed visit.romantic
If the writer is thinking of moving on to a national rag then they need to rememberer these should to be included in every story, make/model/colour with value if a flash motor, how old he is, how much he earns and the value of his house.
If the writer is thinking of moving on to a national rag then they need to rememberer these should to be included in every story, make/model/colour with value if a flash motor, how old he is, how much he earns and the value of his house.hughie-s
Ritchie_Hicks wrote:
Everyone's asking "who cares" yet this is the most popular article on the website today, so someone clearly does!
Marks & Spencer mini shopping facility of course what would one expect?
and as for its degree of importance as news worthy, of course we can.
[quote][p][bold]Ritchie_Hicks[/bold] wrote:
Everyone's asking "who cares" yet this is the most popular article on the website today, so someone clearly does![/p][/quote]Marks & Spencer mini shopping facility of course what would one expect?
and as for its degree of importance as news worthy, of course we can.Nom De Plume
Scoot wrote:
But for those protestors he could have stopped off for a KFC on the Ipswich Road.......
Why would he want to come into Colchester?
Anyway, good to know he buys British petrol.
[quote][p][bold]Scoot[/bold] wrote:
But for those protestors he could have stopped off for a KFC on the Ipswich Road.......[/p][/quote]Why would he want to come into Colchester?
Anyway, good to know he buys British petrol.Boris
stevedawson wrote:
He was stationed at wattisham so he is not unused to the area.looks more like his dad every day.
Military consultant now, there is no end to your talents Dawson, Stand By Your Beds.
I go in there for a coffee and a pack of M&S Yum Yum's £1.19p so what don't we all.
Just because one of the bosses goes into a petrol station for food and fuel, it does not justify a media report, in fact it is a security risk that the paper is displaying his whereabouts.
[quote][p][bold]stevedawson[/bold] wrote:
He was stationed at wattisham so he is not unused to the area.looks more like his dad every day.[/p][/quote]Military consultant now, there is no end to your talents Dawson, Stand By Your Beds.
I go in there for a coffee and a pack of M&S Yum Yum's £1.19p so what don't we all.
Just because one of the bosses goes into a petrol station for food and fuel, it does not justify a media report, in fact it is a security risk that the paper is displaying his whereabouts.Nom De Plume | {
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Friday, April 19, 2013
Swingin' in the Rain
Things have gotten better since my last post. They might have gotten worse first though. That night I finally got Maggie to sleep, and left Amos to fall asleep on his own. A few minutes later, I heard Amos and MAGGIE playing! He woke her up. I sent him right to timeout. Where I left him. Until he fell asleep. Oops. It actually didn't take that long, which makes me conclude that I am right, they are tired, they just won't quit monkeying around.
The next day we had another (and thankfully final) failed attempt at the park. It was sunny when we left our building, but by the time we got there, an arctic rain was falling. It wasn't the nice Seattle mist either, it was real rain. Not able to bear the thought of going back to the apartment without getting some energy out, we stayed and tried to play in it. It was freezing and we were all soaked. Luckily Amos came up with a way to make it more manageable:
Since that day we have had three WONDERFUL days at the park. One day I even managed to get Wardie the teensiest bit of a sunburn.
Yesterday Amos asked me if he could bring a bunch of paper airplanes to the park for his friends. Sure, why not? The minute we got to the park Amos ran up to a boy just his age and said,
"Hi, will you be my friend?"
while thrusting a paper airplane in his face. Awesome. The boy was playing with his dad, so he looked to him for approval, and when his dad nodded, the boys were off. They played and played. The boy had a baseball with him, and he and Amos found a stick and soon had their own little sandlot going. Inevitably, the ball hit Amos square in the face and he came running over with blood pouring out of his nose.
We got him all cleaned up, assessed that there wasn't really any damage, and then he declared:
"It's ok, we are still friends!"
Sure enough. Thankfully, after that they switched to soccer.
Eventually the boy had to go, and Amos spent the rest of our park time finding more friends to bestow his paper airplanes on.
One thing I am noticing is that no one seems to come out if it's raining. My kids did not get that memo. (Arctic) rain or shine, they are ready to play. | {
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Bannu: Protests against prolonged load shedding
Bannu- Protestors against the prolonged load-shedding in Bannu blocked the Bannu-Kohat Road by burning tyres today. The demonstrators said that the duration of unannounced power outages has reached up to 22 hours and forced many to close down their businesses. They also staged a sit-in on Bannu-Kohat Road and blocked the traffic for several hours. Long queues of vehicles formed. Load shedding in the far-off areas like northern Balochistan is about 15 hours, while 18 hours is common in rural areas. 12 to 14 hour load shedding is being carried out in Sindh while the situation in Punjab is also not very different. | {
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Daniel Poleshchuk climbed to the top of the Under 15 world rankings after finishing third at the British Junior Open.
Playing his last competition in his age group, Poleshchuk was one of two Israelis in the Under 15 competition. Seeded five out of eight, he featured in a high quality field with the first four seedings going to Egyptian players.
Having dispatched the third seed in the quarter-finals, Poleshchuk went on to take the bronze, achieving the best performance ever by an Israeli squash player and the highest placed European in his age category.
Richard Goodman's first race back after injury could hardly have been tougher, but in it he proved he can hold his own against the very best runners from Europe and America.
The event was the 8.2km Bupa Great Edinburgh Cross Country, televised live on BBC. The starting line-up included Mo Farah, European 5,000m and 10,000m champion, and nine-time European Cross Country champion Sergiy Lebid of Ukraine.
Coming 27th overall behind winner Mo Farah, Goodman, 17, came third amongst the Under 23s, beaten by a 21-year-old and a 20-year-old respectively.
Michael Klinger is set to become the first Jewish cricketer to compete in the Indian Premier League after being snapped up by new boy's Kochi.
The South Australia skipper will earn around $75,000 after signing
a two-year deal with Geoff Lawson's franchise and will team up with the likes of legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan and Sri Lanka star Mahela Jaywardene.
The Twenty20 tournament, which will run from April 8 to May 28, is in its fourth year and has already
transformed the game on the sub-continent.
Daryl Phillips described Alex Kaye as the perfect midfielder after his fantastic five-goal salvo destroyed Southgate Harmen A and rekindled his team's title hopes.
Standing in for manager Zuriel Solomon, who was away on honeymoon, Phillips, the assistant manager, could only stand back in admiration following an exhilarating display from last season's MJSL Player of the Season.
Kaye, a summer signing from Oakhill Lions, marked his return to top-flight action with a powerhouse display that simply blew Harmen away.
Tamir Cohen made his first start of the season for Bolton in the 2-0 FA Cup victory over Conference side York at the Reebok, less than 48 hours after returning from Israel where he was mourning the death of his father, Avi.
The Israeli midfielder played an hour of the third round tie. He said: "I hadn't trained for two and a half weeks so did well to last an hour." | {
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Mitsubishi is going plug-crazy at Geneva, with the new Engelberg Tourer next-generation sport utility concept. The vehicle incorporates the Dendo Drive House System, which creates an energy ecosystem between a home and an electric vehicle.
The plug-in hybrid SUV concept is named after the famous Engelberg ski resort in central Switzerland. It has twin motors, all-wheel drive, and it hints towards a new-generation Outlander PHEV.
The plug-in hybrid system is an evolution of the current PHEV (plug-in hybrid electric vehicle) system in the Outlander, using a slightly larger 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine as a generator (versus the 2.0L in the Outlander PHEV), but the same one-motor-per-axle layout. The Engelberg Tourer concept has an estimated all-electric range of 43 miles (70 km) and a total range of over 435 miles (700 km). Mitsubishi didn't state the size of the battery pack, but we suspect it's about the same 12 kWh pack that's found in the Outlander PHEV.
Like most Mitsubishi AWD-equipped crossovers, the Engelberg Tourer concept has an advanced torque-vectoring system. This is made even more controllable through the variable speeds possible with electric motors, though Mitsubishi is still calling it Super All-Wheel Control as with the mechanical models. Torque split is still determined by steering wheel turn, vehicle yaw rate, brake pressure, and wheel speeds. Because why mess with a good thing?
The concept SUV is sitting alongside a demonstration model of a project called Dendo Drive House (DDH). This is a packaged system of technologies that combine a home's solar panels, energy storage in a home battery, and an EV or PHEV like the Engelberg Tourer into one cohesive ecosystem. It can reduce costs across the board for its owners, gathering and delivering power in a smart way to include charging or utilizing battery storage in an electrified vehicle, for the purpose of reducing overall energy costs for the household.
Mitsubishi is keen to show off DDH and its benefits, as the launch date for the system is coming up fast. The system will be introduced in Asia and Europe later in 2019. | {
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Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
im- + prudence. From Latin imprudens.
Examples
When the dinner was over, De Segur took me to a window, expressing his uneasiness at what he called the imprudence of Jacquemont, who, he apprehended, from Joseph's silence and manner, would not escape punishment for having indirectly blamed both the restorer of religion and his plenipotentiary.
The maid, with a generosity and Christian principle rarely surpassed, conscious that his imprudence might be his ruin, brought him the thirty pounds, which was part of a sum of money recently left her by legacy.
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Conceded the Jesuits in simple router in 1626 by Henri de Levy, Duke of Ventadour and Viceroy of New France, the fief of Notre-Dame-des-Anges extends from the Saint-Charles River to the river Beauport, on four leagues of depth. During the creation of the Companies des Cent-Associés, sanctioned by Louis XIII in May 1628, the land of the Jesuits, as all other concessions, becomes the property of this new company. In the capitulation of Québec in 1629, the Jesuits are forced to abandon their property. They are back in New-France in 1632. The Companies des Cent-Associés confirmed as owners of the stronghold on 16 January 1637. It will be erected in Lordship on January 17, 1652.
Figure 4: Map (detail) performed by Jean-Baptiste Decouagne in 1709 illustrating the part of the seigneury occupied by the former City of Giffard. The location of the "Jesuit" means the farm Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours. (GSJ)
The land bordering the Beauport River was granted to Jacques Badeau in 1651 and 1671. In 1660 Pierre Parent, son-in-law, is concede 16 acres joining this earth; then, in 1668, it acquires 16 square perches near a career. Finally, in 1672, it will acquire 200 acres at the edge of the seigneury of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, North-West of the field of the Lord of Beauport. Adjacent to the farm in Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, closes the Jesuits, this land roughly corresponds to the sector as part of the historic Borough of Beauport, which extends west to the avenue des Martyrs. Characterization study of the historic Borough of Beauport Commission of the cultural heritage of Quebec − January 2005
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Conceded the Jesuits in simple router in 1626 by Henri de Levy, Duke of Ventadour and Viceroy of New France, the fief of Notre-Dame-des-Anges extends from the Saint-Charles River to the river Beauport, on four leagues of depth. During the creation of the Companies des Cent-Associés, sanctioned by Louis XIII in May 1628, the land of the Jesuits, as all other concessions, becomes the property of this new company. In the capitulation of Québec in 1629, the Jesuits are forced to abandon their property. They are back in New-France in 1632. The Companies des Cent-Associés confirmed as owners of the stronghold on 16 January 1637. It will be erected in Lordship on January 17, 1652.
Figure 4: Map (detail) performed by Jean-Baptiste Decouagne in 1709 illustrating the part of the seigneury occupied by the former City of Giffard. The location of the "Jesuit" means the farm Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours. (GSJ)
The land bordering the Beauport River was granted to Jacques Badeau in 1651 and 1671. In 1660 Pierre Parent, son-in-law, is concede 16 acres joining this earth; then, in 1668, it acquires 16 square perches near a career. Finally, in 1672, it will acquire 200 acres at the edge of the seigneury of Notre-Dame-des-Anges, North-West of the field of the Lord of Beauport. Adjacent to the farm in Notre-Dame-de-Bonsecours, closes the Jesuits, this land roughly corresponds to the sector as part of the historic Borough of Beauport, which extends west to the avenue des Martyrs. Characterization study of the historic Borough of Beauport Commission of the cultural heritage of Quebec − January 2005
The capsules # 00 are information bearing the word Matte, the capsules # 0 are of general information used to complete the capsules identified # 0 (Charles) or # 1 (Nicolas and Madeleine) or # .2 (children) , etc., which correspond to lineages of Matte ancestors. | {
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All the child sweatshops in poverty-stricken nations mumbo jumbo aside, you have to admit that Nike makes some pretty bad ass commercials. For over twenty years Nike has looked upon Portland agency Weiden+Kennedy as their primary. During that time they have continually created some of the most memorable and inspiring commercials on television.
11. I FEEL PRETTY
This commercial has everything you need for a classic. A catchy tune that is sure to get stuck in the viewers minds. 2 – A hot little Russian blond tennis phenom. And Johnny Mac.
This was without a doubt the biggest pain in the ass post I’ve ever done. F*cking NBC and their damn lawyers have taken almost everything off youtube and Hulu has the absolutely uber gayest region restrictions.
So I did my best in providing video, you’ll have to jump for a couple of them.
11. Cate Blanchett – Bio-hazard worker (Hot Fuzz)
I have seen this movie twice, and honest to God had no idea that was the incredible thespian Cate Blanchett behind that mask. I only realized it when doing research for this post and I apologize but I couldn’t find a clip from the movie.
11. Perceptor
Transforms into: Microscope
Perceptor is a scientist, one of the most brilliant minds the whole of Cybertron can offer. He is always looking to learn more, and his discoveries have proven invaluable time and time again. Though his specialties lie in metallurgy, electrical engineering, and other sciences closely related to Transformer physiology, his thirst for knowledge has made him kind of a scientific jack-of-all-trades.
He’s no warrior but his insight and intellect would be a nice addition to the autobot roster. Plus he’s the one who was responsible for designing and creating the Dinobots.
With The Dark Knight behind us and 2008 quickly coming to an end, we’ve already had two major titles pushed back (Half Blood Prince and Watchman), one has to wonder what do we have to look forward to in 2009? The following is a list of 11 blockbusters that you may want to keep an eye out for and most definitely get off your ass to go see.
11. Inglorious Bastards
Director: Quinten TarantinoCast: Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth, B.J. Novak, and Samuel Jackson as the narratorWhy you’ll like it: Based in France during World War II, the movie follows a group of Jewish-American soldiers who were known as “The Bastards”. A group of soldiers chosen specifically t spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. With Tarantino behind the camera I’m hoping this will be Saving Private Ryan with an insane amount of slaughtering and brutality.
Gentlemen… let’s be honest. I know for a fact you’re all outstanding, hairy chested, motor oil loving manly men. But every now and then you’re forced to suck it up and take one for the team. Girls have all the vaginas and therefore have all the power and when that night comes that they decided you’ll be watching a chick flick, here are some movies that you might want to suggest. They’re guy friendly and won’t make you seem like a complete panzy sitting on the couch cuddling your girl, while she sobs over the Notebook or some other Richard Gere crap fest.
11. The Sweetest thing
Written by Nancy Pimental (the girl who replaced Jimmy Kimmel as host on Win Ben Steins money) it stars Cameron Diaz and Christina Appelgate and the always annoying and untalented Selma Blair. Pimental wrote the movie based on her relationshi with Kate Walsh.
WHY GUYS WILL LIKE IT: As far as romantic comedies go, this one is pretty guy friendly and relies primarily on crude gags as its source of humor. Including the memorable “Penis Song”, the glory hole scene and Jason Bateman and Tom Janes witty dialogue about relationship with women. | {
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Category: tech companies
Silicon Valley’s stratospheric tech salaries are higher than ever — in case you can believe it. Nevertheless, different stories declare that though Apple ( NASDAQ:AAPL ) doubtless signed a partnership with Energous, it doesn’t plan to use the lengthy-vary charging tech in the upcoming iPhone eight. Failures occur in Silicon Valley in spite of the millions of dollars in moderately affected person venture funding that helps most nascent companies.
All employers topic to the Truthful Labor Standards Act, which incorporates firms with at the very least one worker and $500,000 in annual income, must notify workers of the existence of the new medical insurance marketplace not later than October 1, 2013.
As a mid-sized company in a quick-growing business, Aeryon’s IT and tech superstars are chargeable for the close design and integration of the software and hardware functions that get this next-gen technology off the bottom and dealing reliably.
When ladies do get employed by tech companies, it is usually in roles like advertising or human sources. Finally, there’s a higher likelihood of group and tradition cohesion when hiring and mentoring tech talent from an alternative training platform like a coding bootcamp.
As part of that intention we’re launching our first ever journey business mapping project, what we’re calling Skift Travel Tech 250. They have the bulk pricing from these firms that we can go along to you at very affordable rates. With so little formal capital, many Web companies have excessive ROIC figures as quickly as they become worthwhile. Digital-media hubs have sprouted up throughout Los Angeles in recent years in areas comparable to Venice, Playa Vista, and Culver City.
And new corporations pop up continually, making it troublesome to keep up with the most recent and greatest. A simple and straightforward approach to deal with uncertainty related to high-development companies is to use chance-weighted scenarios. The median age at three of the businesses on our listing (Fb, LinkedIn, and SpaceX) is simply 29, and only three (IBM, Oracle and HP) have a median employee age over 33.
An organization’s potential to boost” contemporary tech expertise primed to adapt and desperate to show itself within the workplace is much higher that its capacity to integrate a extra seasoned engineer with a set means of working — that likely consists of ingrained habits, both technical and cultural.
The Ben Kinney Corporations Tech Division consists of a suite of award-winning SAAS corporations whose mission is to maintain the true property agent related in each transaction. At the moment, we’ll take a more in-depth take a look at two different tech shares which are expected to more than double their sales this 12 months – Momo ( NASDAQ:MOMO ) and Energous ( NASDAQ:WATT ). By our panel occasions, we’ll join you with leaders within the venture community, including founders, enterprise buyers, tech bankers and incubators, in addition to mentors and advisors.
An executive order by President Donald Trump designed to restructure a visa program for extremely skilled staff that is used largely by the tech business can have little rapid effect, Seattle tech leaders said Tuesday. In fact, tech corporations won’t be capable to cure” addictions, nor ought to they try to take action. Nor ought to they act paternalistically, turning off entry after arbitrarily figuring out that a consumer has had sufficient.
In line with Deloitte Tech 500, in 14 OC based know-how firms had been among the fastest growing tech corporations in North America, all with greater than 100{1ce4cf3c5aac1cf22911e0909020152297cf27f6cb3bab84df7d2a26eea925da} income growth prior to now 12 months. A …
This can be a checklist of the world’s largest expertise firms by revenue 1 The listing includes companies whose major enterprise actions are related to expertise industry which incorporates laptop hardware , software program , electronics , semiconductor , internet , telecom gear , e-commerce and pc services Notice: The listing is limited to firms with annual revenues exceeding US$50 billion. London’s tech community connects at month-to-month Geek Dinners, UnLondon’s 121 Studios and UnLab makerspace, plus many more occasions and applications. In the end, there was nothing left to do. Some 300 individuals lost their jobs, and Chicago misplaced an awesome newspaper.
Of particular concern for tech companies in the US is the tough discuss from President Donald Trump relating to H-1B visas — if those are changed in an enormous approach, Michael Tippett with True North says he expects around five Hootsuite-sized firms to arrange offices in Vancouver, primarily based on the quantity of calls he’s been getting.
CBInsights reported that international ad tech funding fell 33{1ce4cf3c5aac1cf22911e0909020152297cf27f6cb3bab84df7d2a26eea925da} in 2016 to $2.2 billion, from $3.2 billion in 2015, placing it back to where it was in 2013. Many younger companies build a services or products that meets the shopper’s want …
Techfest attracts as much as 1,000 attendees, greater than 300 career opportunities, and as much as 15 hiring firms. Certainly, the advantage of all the information being collected about us today is that corporations could use this information to assist individuals who may be harmed by their products’ overuse. When we compare the salaries of staff with 10 or more years of experience, we see a few different corporations float to the top.
Analysts count on first-quarter earnings for technology companies and banks to rise 19{1ce4cf3c5aac1cf22911e0909020152297cf27f6cb3bab84df7d2a26eea925da} from the identical period last 12 months, in response to S&P International Market Intelligence. From investing in rising development firms to giant, highly structured, leveraged transactions in established, profitable enterprises, our growth equity lawyers have a practical and commercial approach to driving successful transactions.
In my novel, Startup,” I needed to discover these problems with sexual harassment and hypocrisy within the tech world by the eyes of a perpetrator and show how his actions have an effect on not just the subject of his mistreatment, but in addition the remainder of his company.
As 2017 progresses, more firms will catch on to the advantages of constructing their very own engineering farm teams filled with …
The ATC, the first organization of its sort in Georgia, was established in 2012 by the City of Alpharetta, GA. Comprised of Alpharetta’s leading technology firms, both giant and small, the members are charged with identifying and pursuing key funding opportunities and coverage decisions for Alpharetta’s expertise companies and its burgeoning expertise industry. To find out the pace of transition from current performance to focus on performance, we examined the historical development for similar companies. Read in regards to the prime dangers identified by private companies and the way adopting much less-traditional types of danger management can maintain shocks to the system from derailing corporate technique and undermining growth.
We do notice that this map just isn’t good: we could have missed some corporations, and lots of corporations within the advanced journey tech sector operate throughout multiple distinct classes. The relocation of these three corporations to the Mountain Technology Center is a step ahead not just for Clifton, but for Passaic County and the complete state as properly.
It’s a lot easier for a company to cultivate employee satisfaction by committing to a junior tech employee’s profession and salary progression — each key components for worker retention — than it …
On March 4, 1978, the presses fell silent for the final time on the Chicago Every day News, an iconic and crusading newspaper that was unable to adapt to changing occasions. But companies like LinkedIn , Intuit , Adobe and GE that are experimenting with tech apprenticeship applications with a purpose to construct their own farm groups are beginning to acknowledge the worth in addressing their expertise hole and pipeline issues before the problems worsen.
In some industries, evaluating worker tenure could also be a touch upon how loyal employees are to a company, but that’s arduous to say in tech. The opposite Dutch corporations on the FT list are: Dag1 (forty eight), Gizmo Retail (55), Marqeting (81) and Massarius at number 95.
They have the bulk pricing from these companies that we are able to move alongside to you at very cheap charges. With so little formal capital, many Web corporations have high ROIC figures as soon as they turn out to be worthwhile. Digital-media hubs have sprouted up all over Los Angeles in recent years in areas such as Venice, Playa Vista, and Culver Metropolis.
We’ve visualized them in a cluster map below for you, with the traveler …
Different machines help run the operation and production processes in manufacturing facilities. Industrial air compressors often power major operations, as they act as the workhorses without which other equipment can’t run optimally. Therefore, any facility manager must ensure that commercial air compressors operate smoothly and efficiently. The reason behind this concern is that if air compressors run without any proper inspection or maintenance, problems ensue, costing the company thousands of dollars on industrial air compressor repair and low production levels. The issue further compounds if the equipment becomes extremely unreliable.
Industrial Air Compression Inspection Checklist
To maintain high safety standards, the government imposes laws and regulations for proper maintenance of industrial equipment. Even the sturdiest machines require regular inspections and repairs due to frictional wear. Here are ways of knowing whether your commercial air compressor requires maintenance.
Check the Manual
It’s important to understand how your equipment functions. Check how long the manufacturer recommends servicing. In the case of many petroleum-based compressors, servicing is recommended after 500 running hours and 2000 hours for synthetic.
Too Much Moisture
Many industrial air compressors accumulate a lot of moisture when in operation. If you notice too much condensation, then the automatic drain system …
Winning a one-time repatriation of foreign cash at a decreased tax charge may be the one most necessary coverage objective for tech corporations during Trump’s term—and the matter might be decided fairly soon. It appears honest to conclude that the media corporations who took the leap felt they had been damned in the event that they did and damned if they didn’t. The Metropolis of Alpharetta is residence to just about 600 technology firms making up 35{1ce4cf3c5aac1cf22911e0909020152297cf27f6cb3bab84df7d2a26eea925da} of Where Georgia Leads know-how companies.
The ebook became a bestseller and I’m ceaselessly asked to consult with companies — notably tech corporations — trying to make their items and providers stickier and more durable to stop utilizing. If legacy corporations need a share of the new value chains being created by these new platforms, they need to start paying consideration.
We do realize that this map is just not excellent: we may have missed some firms, and plenty of firms within the complex journey tech sector operate throughout a number of distinct categories. The relocation of these three companies to the Mountain Expertise Center is a step ahead not only for Clifton, but for Passaic County and your entire state as well.…
Connecting resolution makers to a dynamic community of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and precisely delivers enterprise and monetary info, information and insight world wide. Critics disagree, asserting that some companies use the excessive-tech visa program to herald lower-paid employees who’ve the same expertise as U.S. staff. To give CFOs a way of the exciting tech developments going on, in addition to alert them to innovative solutions, the editors of CFO decided to filter the advertising noise generated by tech corporations.
It seems honest to conclude that the media companies who took the leap felt they have been damned in the event that they did and damned if they did not. The City of Alpharetta is home to just about 600 expertise firms making up 35{1ce4cf3c5aac1cf22911e0909020152297cf27f6cb3bab84df7d2a26eea925da} of Where Georgia Leads technology companies.
Analysts count on first-quarter earnings for know-how firms and banks to rise 19{1ce4cf3c5aac1cf22911e0909020152297cf27f6cb3bab84df7d2a26eea925da} from the identical interval last yr, in response to S&P World Market Intelligence. From investing in rising growth companies to giant, highly structured, leveraged transactions in established, worthwhile enterprises, our progress equity legal professionals have a practical and industrial method to driving successful transactions. | {
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A Penguin's Life
Nat Geo WILD's new special A Penguin's Life chronicles the everyday struggles of a colony of Emperor penguins. See firsthand how these penguin parents raise their chicks in just one season... More
Nat Geo WILD's new special A Penguin's Life chronicles the everyday struggles of a colony of Emperor penguins. See firsthand how these penguin parents raise their chicks in just one season to survive on their own in the sea before the ice starts to melt. March along with these penguins as they protect their eggs in the harshest climate on Earth, trek over the ice in search of food, battle the feared leopard seal and make human parenting look easy. | {
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Just minutes after the rollout began, social media sites filled up with complaints from iPhone users who, after trying to download iOS 10 over WiFi, found that their iDevice had been rendered useless.
Apple has also recommended using AppleCare directly, or you can head over to an Apple Store if you don't have access to a Mac or PC.
iOS 10 is available now and works on the iPhone 5 and newer handsets. iPad Mini and newer models and the iPod touch 6th generation. They say that their devices are losing cellular signals and that the only way they're able to get cellular connectivity again is by restarting the device.
The major changes brought by the iOS 10 are most visible in the Apple Music redesign, Photos App, Messages, and Home App to name a few.
The early birds who updated their phones during the release day last Tuesday complained that the update bricked their phones. Before you download, it's also a good practice to make sure your device is backed up.
More recently, in February this year, Apple faced criticism after an update started bricking devices if they had been repaired by a company other than Apple. | {
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Academic Success Resources Procrastination
The University is committed to academic resources to support student success. This site guides students to services available on campus, from our peer institutions, and other non-university websites. Students are always encouraged to seek out assistance early in the semester. In addition to utilizing these tutoring services and academic success resources, students should consult their academic department for more resources in their major courses. The Undergraduate Catalog provides contact information for your major department and a directory of all student resources and services.
Note: If you notice any broken links, please alert us via email: [email protected]
University of Maryland, College Park Academic Success Resources
The Counseling Center offers online academic and study strategy resources such as time management, overcoming procrastination, apps to help you track and achieve your goals, and more.
01-F: Self-Handicapping: "What if I try my hardest and do the best I can - and I still do not succeed?" Procrastination, poor choices, etc. become strategic barriers to reaching full potential
01-G: Mindfulness: academic benefits of practicing mindfulness
01-H: Distraction: pitfalls of digital distractions in class meetings
Peer Institution Websites*
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The Ohio State University (OSU)*: Procrastination:
5 part video series on procrastination with helpful tips, however be aware that some resource links listed in the videos are specific to OSU campus:
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC)*: Tips & Tools: List of helpful links and videos on how to be productive: addressing procrastination, managing distractions, improve motivation, among other tips. However, be aware that some resource links listed are specific to UNC Chapel Hill campus.
Time Management & Organization Resources*: Provides a self-guided workshop on time management as well as tips for schedule building, meeting goals, and breaking down big projects into manageable tasks. Be aware that some resource links listed in the videos are specific to Rutgers University campuses.
The Tutoring and Academic Success Resources website provides links to non-UMD sites. Although every effort is made to provide relevant, accurate, and helpful information, the University of Maryland is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of these sites. | {
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RevoluSun shows us what a smart home looks like
0:00 Trini: There’s a lot of talk these days about smart things, like smartphones for example. But what exactly does smart mean? Especially when it comes to smart homes, that can be pretty confusing. Here to shed some light on what a smart home is, is Eric Carlson with RevoluSun. Hello!
0:19 Eric: Hi Trini, how are you?
0:20 Trini: I’m doing great. So, tell us, what is a Smart Home, what does a Smart Home look like?
0:27 Eric: Well for us it’s pretty simple. Really it’s a home that takes advantage of the natural elements to make it more economical and more enjoyable to be in. So for us that’s the definition of a Smart Home.
0:38 Trini: Okay, and so what areas of the home can be smarter?
0:42 Eric: Well there’s a lot of things that you can do but what RevoluSun Smart Home focuses on are energy from the Sun, natural lighting solutions, fresh air, water, and home energy security.
0:58 Trini: Okay, so what does that mean exactly? I had a lot of people that think of smart home they think of okay photovoltaic system, but it doesn’t stop there.
1:03 Eric: No, there’s a lot of areas. So, by breaking a home into those five different areas, what we’re trying to do is essentially use technology to bring the outside in, via natural lighting. There’s a lot of studies that talk about the benefits of having natural light, so that’s one area that you can do. Bringing fresh air in, through a whole house fans as one of the products that we offer, is another economical way to—instead of air conditioning—to cool your home using the natural elements and amplifying that with this product that we offer. So there are a number of different areas around the home that we can do, that are economical to make your home a lot more efficient and a more enjoyable place to live.
1:48 Trini: Okay, my ears went off—ding ding ding—when you said economical. Let’s talk numbers. How much can someone expect to save when they have a Smart Home?
1:55 Eric: Well it depends on the home user and how they’re using their energy prior to incorporating some of the products, but we see savings—dramatic savings. With photovoltaic, for example, you can get your bill down to, you know, twenty dollars a month. For people that may have a pool and incorporate one of our smart home products they can see savings of 80 dollars a month on their pool. So there’s, when you add all of those up, we’re talking a lot of savings.
2:27 Trini: Yeah, that’s a nice savings. So what are some future smart home products that you 2:32 have planned, you know, for installation?
2:32 Eric: Right, well there’s all kinds of neat things, and at our showroom—that’s where we showcase all of those products—but there’s things like keyless locks, keyless entry. We all have that for our car, why not have that for our home? So now when you come back from the grocery store you don’t have to juggle with your shopping bags, you can just tap your front door and it’ll open. So that’s a product that we’re bringing to market. There’s a lot of exciting things, and that’s the beauty about this industry is that things evolve so quickly that homeowners have a wide variety of products that they can come take a look at our showroom.
3:10 Trini: well that is very exciting. Eric, thank you so much.
3:12 Eric: Yeah, thank you.
3:14 Trini: Okay, I’m a big fan. And it’s so addicting too, once you start learning about all of these technology—smart technology systems, you’re gonna want it all. | {
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Top-Rated Skin Doctors – The Solution for Your Skin
It’s the desire of every man and woman to have fresh skin and a trouble-free face. Numerous conditions can result in your skin having wrinkles. This might occur because of skin diseases, such as:
Acne
Eczema
Skin cancer
Moles
Skin tumors
Psoriasis
Melanomas
Any person diagnosed with any of these conditions is usually referred to a dermatologist through their doctor. Dermatologists mainly specialize in the management of any skin-related problems.
How to Qualify as a Top-Rated Skin Doctor in the US
For you to qualify to fit in the group of top-rated skin doctors in the U.S, you must have graduated from a recognized medical school. Additionally, you must pass through severe training by an experienced skin doctor.
Skin doctors who graduate from other countries are required by the law to secure a foreign graduate certificate before they qualify to be active dermatologists when they go back to the US.
Dermatologists are just like any other doctor because they are well acquainted with training and skills as medical doctors, but specifically in dealing with all skin conditions.
Skin Remedies
For some skin doctors, when offering a skin treatment, they have a long list of medication from which to select the most suitable remedy for your skin condition.
The most common treatments applied by these doctors include:
Sclerotherapy
Liposuction
Tissue augmentation
Laser resurfacing
Use of chemical pills
Dermabrasion
Other skin disorders conditions are as a result of aging, which is mostly characterized by loss of hair and skin discoloration.
Other skin doctors have specializations in providing cure to cosmetic-related issues, such as eyelid surgery, Botox injections, and collagen injections.
Extra Services Offered for by Skin Doctors
As much as dermatologists are perceived as specialists in all skin conditions, they can still offer other remedies. These include treating infectious skin diseases or even those conditions that lower your immune system. Such dermatologists are assigned duties in the hospital that are prone to certain contagious diseases.
Skin doctors have accredited experience in acting as pediatrics. These doctors help in solving severe skin conditions in children, like eczema and all skin allergies. These dermatologists offset all complex medical conditions accompanied by numerous symptoms.
Many people think that dermatologists are only meant to attend to skin complications; more so those caused by acne. However, this is not always the case. This particular field of medicine brings more than you can imagine.
The skin is the largest organ on a human body. A dermatologist holds a very crucial responsibility in the medical profession as it is the specialist who is always summoned to attend to numerous rare and severe skin conditions and diseases.
Skilled in performing all diagnosis and fragile surgical processes, dermatologists fall in the same group of top rated doctors from other medical fields, such as surgeons.
When seeking the services of a dermatologist, you must always choose the best who will offer your skin the long-lasting solution. This can only be achieved if you go for the best professionals in the field. | {
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Search teams scour 21-mile area along the Big Thompson River in Loveland
9/18 4 pm -- Search crews with dogs from outside Colorado are looking for people in the flooding aftermath. Lindsey Sablan reports from Loveland.
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The search and rescue team team includes people and dogs from federal search teams based in Boone County, Missouri and Clark County, Nevada
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Bailey, a search dog with a federal team based in Clark County, Nevada.
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LOVELAND, Colo. - A crew of 33 people and eight dogs searched a 21-mile area along Big Thompson River in Loveland on Wednesday.
In addition to the searchers from the Poudre and Loveland Fire Authorities, the team includes people and dogs from federal search teams based in Boone County, Missouri and Clark County, Nevada. They're looking for people who could be trapped or killed in the massive debris flow.
"We're doing good, the crews are holding their own. They're working longs hours," said Jason Starck, a battalion chief with the Loveland Fire Rescue Authority. "They're spirits are up and we're just trying to get one task off the list at a time."
"The dogs are trained to alert for live human scent," said Dr. Erin Venable, a K-9 handler with the team from Boone County, Missouri. "What we're doing basically is clearing any spot where a human could possibly be and we’re also making sure we haven’t missed someone who might have been stuck in the debris field."
The dogs are Labrador retrievers and German Shepherd breeds who were trained and certified in a process that takes up to two years. The training includes behavior, agility and search practice.
"By the time these dogs make it to this level, they are literally the best of the best," Venable said.
The large scale of the search provides unique challenges for the dogs, she explained.
"We need to keep dogs happy, need to keep dogs motivated," she said, "So we’ll stop every now and then and just offer dogs motivation."
The muddy, potentially hazardous debris makes it difficult for the searchers and the dogs.
"Obviously mud and silt is the biggest thing," Starck said. "Some of that acts like quicksand. When we step in it, we go down to our waist."
"I was just down in the bottoms with our team and we had to get three of us to get one guy out of the mud," he continued.
Starck explained that a hazardous materials team will be in the area Thursday to handle all the propane tanks and sewage that was swept downhill by the flood.
"We have human waste that's come down from the canyon. We know we have 55-gallon drums and various other primarily oil facilities that have spilled out a little bit. Propane is probably our biggest hazardous material we're trying to deal with," he said.
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Palestinian National Council to Reassemble, 1st Time in 7 Years
Ramallah, West Bank (IMEMC) – The Palestinian National Council, the PLO’s legislative body, will hold an emergency meeting — the first in seven years — at some point in the next month, a member of the PLO Executive Committee said Saturday.
Bassam al-Salhi told Ma’an News Agency that the exact date for the meeting would be decided at a PLO Executive Committee meeting in Ramallah later on Saturday, but added it would likely take place before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on September 23.
Al-Sahli added that President Mahmoud Abbas would urge the committee to agree on holding the PNC meeting as soon as possible.
The 740-member PNC is responsible for deciding on PLO policies and electing the Executive Committee, the PLO’s primary executive body.
Arabic media has speculated that the upcoming meeting may result in changes to the Executive Committee and could pave the way for Abbas’ resignation from office.
Last month, PLO officials dismissed rumors of the president’s resignation, although sources close to Abbas did not deny the possibility, saying that “important, and maybe dangerous, decisions” are likely to be made in September, coinciding with the UN General Assembly’s 70th session.
Al-Sahli added that the PNC meeting may take place before Abbas’ scheduled trip to the UN summit on Sep. 15.
He added that the meeting will either be held in Ramallah or Bethlehem.
The last PNC meeting was an emergency meeting held in 2009 to replace six vacant positions, while the last Executive Committee elections were held in 1996 during a PNC session in Gaza.
Mahmoud AbbasImage Source: Olivier Pacteau, Flickr, Creative Commons
This report was prepared by IMEMC.
IMEMC is a media center developed in collaboration between Palestinian and International journalists to provide independent media coverage of Israel-Palestine.
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The world of technology moves faster than the speed of light it seems. Devices are updated and software upgraded annually and sometimes more frequent than that. Society wants to be able to function and be as productive as they can be as well as be entertained “now”.
Software companies must be ready to meet the demands of their loyal customers while increasing their market share among new customers. These companies are always looking to the ingenuity and creativity of their colleagues to keep them in the consumer’s focus. But, who are these “colleagues”? Are they required to be young, twenty-somethings that are fresh out of college with a host of ideas and energy about software and hardware that the consumer may enjoy? Or can they be more mature with a little more experience in the working world and may know a bit more about the consumer’s needs and some knowledge of today’s devices?
Older candidates for IT positions face many challenges when competing with their younger counterparts. The primary challenge that most will face is the ability to prove their knowledge of current hardware and the development and application of software used by consumers. Candidates will have to prove that although they may be older, their knowledge and experience is very current. They will have to make more of an effort to show that they are on pace with the younger candidates.
Another challenge will be marketing what should be considered prized assets; maturity and work experience. More mature candidates bring along a history of work experience and a level of maturity that can be utilized as a resource for most companies. They are more experienced with time management, organization and communication skills as well as balancing home and work. They can quickly become role models for younger colleagues within the company.
Unfortunately, some mature candidates can be seen as a threat to existing leadership, especially if that leadership is younger. Younger members of a leadership team may be concerned that the older candidate may be able to move them out of their position. If the candidate has a considerably robust technological background this will be a special concern and could cause the candidate to lose the opportunity.
Demonstrating that their knowledge or training is current, marketing their experience and maturity, and not being seen as a threat to existing leadership make job hunting an even more daunting task for the mature candidate. There are often times that they are overlooked for positions for these very reasons. But, software companies who know what they need and how to utilize talent will not pass up the opportunity to hire these jewels.
Straight up and full disclosure. I'm prejudiced. As a research assignment, the heading is a joke. I'll give you the answer in two words, and then tell you why.
How does HTML 5 compare with flash? Answer: it doesn't.
Lest you think I dislike Adobe's Flash, let's put the cards on the table. I loved Flash. Long before Adobe was Adobe, they had a competitor called Macromedia. Adobe bought that firm. That made my life simpler. I only had to work with one vendor.
Flash was a pretty compelling solution. I used it to mimic operations in Windows to prepare people for the CompTIA exams. The only bugaboo was that dang right-click stuff. A little bit of code from the Microsoft Visual Studio .Net let me flip the left and right mouse buttons so that the right mouse button instead of controlling the Flash player, emulated doing a right-click in the Windows operating system.
People are optimistic about problem solving, but in most cases this is easier said than done. How do you do it?
In Adobe’s 2016 global study on creativity in business, 96% of people identified creativity as essential to their success, both in terms of their income and the value they bring to the world. Moreover, 78% wished they were capable of thinking differently, believing that they would progress through their careers more quickly if they did.
According to Malcom Gladwell, the world's most successful people have one thing in common: they think differently from most everyone else. In his book, How Successful People Think, Malcom opens with the following: “Good thinkers are always in demand. A person who knows how may always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss. Good thinkers solve problems, they never lack ideas that can build an organization, and they always have hope for a better future”
Too often we attribute creative and “different” thinking to natural, innate characteristics that belong only to the lucky. The truth is that you can study how ridiculously successful people think and incorporate their approach into your world.
With stiff penalties for being caught and the whiff of secretive underground or even nefarious acts, computer hacking can be seen as a somewhat dubious pursuit. Not all hackers operate with the motive of emptying your Paypal account, however; there are many hackers who utilize their skills to aid companies in locating security flaws ("penetration testing") or engage in hacking with the goal of becoming cyber-freedom-fighters that champion simple human freedoms, such as the right to free speech.
Computer hacking is as much an art as it is a skill. At its simplest distillation, hacking is the systematic search for chinks in programming armor. While advanced problem-solving, intuition and sophisticated understanding of programming languages are a distinct advantage, there does exist a number of push-button programs that computing wizards have written allowing those less sophisticated in the art of hacking to break into remote computers in a variety of ways. Because of this new ubiquity, today's hackers no longer need to be a programming Wunderkind; they simply need to know where to download software and be able to turn on a computer. It really is that simple and the implications can be disturbing.
Phishing, Push-Button Programs and Brute Force Tactics
There's no need to crack a company's firewall if you have direct physical access to their computers. One aspect of hacking is the impersonation of an employee or service worker with the goal of gaining access to a company's database, where the hacker can then unleash whatever havoc he or she has planned into the system. Another is to engage in simple phishing techniques, such as impersonating an employee who forgot their password and needs help logging into the system.
Because such impersonations often fail thanks to companies becoming more security-conscious, taking over operations of a computer remotely is often the preferred method of gaining access. Such attempts can be facilitated in a variety of ways. One is the brute-force method, in which a program such as SQLmap, Nmap or Burpsuite is used; running one of these programs is analogous to trying every doorknob in a neighborhood to see which house is unlocked. Using a variety of different parameters, these programs can find access to a vulnerable computer or network in less than a minute.
Hackers can also attempt to gain access with a program like Metasploit. With literally a few clicks of a mouse, access to a remote and vulnerable computer can be achieved by a relative newbie. With a related hacking aid, called Meterpreter, a backdoor is created that allows access into an operating system. It does not install itself onto the remote computer, running instead using the computer's memory; in fact, Meterpreter can hide itself inside the operations of a perfectly valid program, so it cannot be detected even by sophisticated programmers. Once engaged, it allows a remote user carte blanche access to the system in question.
Where to Learn the Art of Hacking
Of course, for those who wish to learn the actual skills rather than download someone else's hack, there are a number of practice sites that pose an increasingly difficult set of challenges intended to train neophytes in the art of hacking. For example, Hack This Site starts beginners with the goal of cracking simple flaws in coding scripts or software such as HTML, Unix, Javascript and Apache. Their structured series of tests increase in complexity, incorporating real-word scenarios and even old-fashioned "phone phreaking" challenges that recall the bygone golden age of hacking skills displayed by Matthew Broderick in "WarGames."
Using just these simple tools and free practice sites, beginners have a powerful array of hacking resources just a simple mouse click away.
Tech Life in Tennessee
Tennessee has played an important role in the development of many forms of American popular music. Bristol is known as the birthplace of country music while Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues.
Tennessee is a right to work state, as are most of its Southern neighbors. Major corporations with headquarters in Tennessee include FedEx Corporation, AutoZone Incorporated and International Paper
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Saturday, January 4, 2014
Remarkable Reindeer
I was so excited to see reindeer at the San Diego Zoo! We learned so many interesting facts about them from our book Remarkable Reindeer. I can't be sure if this was a girl or boy reindeer since the female can have antlers too! | {
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As part of its campaign to end malnutrition and hunger and to secure the future of Filipino children, Save the Children officially launched its Christmas campaign for 2018, ‘Lahat Dapat’ on Thursday, October 25, at Ascott Makati.
Supporters of the cause are encouraged to wear the ‘Lahat Dapat’ limited edition red scarf that is available on Save the Children’s website for Php500.00.
For those who will purchase a total of Php1,000.00, aside from the scarf, will get a chance to have their 10-second digital billboard spot along EDSA.
Present during the event is Save the Children ambassadress for this year’s campaign, Miss World Philippines 2018, Katarina Rodriguez.
“I can’t believe it’s been a year’ she said, ‘Last year I was able to donate 40 thousand pesos by selling my old clothes online” the Beauty Queen added.
Rodriguez, who share the same passion with Save the Children, revealed one of the reasons why she decided to join the cause.
“If I were not Miss World/beauty queen, I’d be a mother” Katarina said. “I’ve wanted to do something that would impact even one person’s life. Before I have my own family, I wanted to help the world somehow, and what better way than to help children. I believe in two things; sustainability and education.”
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Trusts are now in the Opposition’s sights – investors urged to consider alternatives
“The recent tax hikes on contributions to super have significantly eroded the potential retirement savings of many Australians. Super isn’t necessarily the most tax-effective savings plan out there anymore.”
These are the words of Neil Rogan, a specialist in investment management and General Manager – Investment Bonds Division at Centuria Life following the latest in a range of ever-erodging super changes and the news that Bill Shorten has discretionary (family) trusts in his sights. If these are taxed at 30% as per his policy, there are very few tax-effective investment structures left.
Family trusts, even without a new tax, have some potential drawbacks
Family trusts, even if left untouched, which is far from certain, do not provide the same long term flexibility and simplicity as an investment bond. Family trusts work well to distribute income to family members on lower tax rates, but as soon as children over the age of 18 who are at University and eaning less money begin to work, and earn money, all the income distribution from a family trust does is create a tax problem for them. This is never the case with an investment bond.
And creating a trust and maintaining it is complicated, expensive and there are ongoing regulatory obligations.
Company structures just delay, not get rid of tax
Company structures have similar drawbacks, and really all they do is kick the tax liability down the road. They don’t do away with it.
Investment bonds are as tax-effective as super, more tax-effective than trusts or company structures and carry low regulatory risk. Why wouldn’t you consider one.
Investment bonds are not-only just as tax-effective as super, but are more flexible, simpler to administer and can be transferred tax-free to whoever you choose. And they have a low regulatory risk. Unlike super, and potentially family trusts.
“Australians are right to be concerned about Bill Shorten’s recent comments about changing the tax law as it relates to family trusts. With tax hikes and limits on contributions to super already in place, if discretionary trust fall under the Opposition’s hammer, investors will have very few tax-effective savings options left.
“That’s why investment bonds are worth a look now more than ever. They have low regulatory risk and the tax benefits can be at least as good as super, sometimes better. And they are simple, flexible, cheap to set up and you can access your money at any time,” says Mr Rogan.
How investment bonds work:
Investment bonds operate like a tax-paid managed fund. Tax is paid at the corporate rate of 30% within the bond structure. Depending on the underlying assets in the bond, effective tax could even be less.
Returns are re-invested in the bond and not distributed, and if this is maintained for 10 years, all proceeds are distributed tax free.
Additional contributions can be made throughout the life of the bond, up to 120% of the previous year’s contribution.
Because an investment bond is in structure an insurance policy with a life insured and a nominated beneficiary, funds can be transferred to a beneficiary tax free, and do not form part of the investor’s estate.
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Obama set to visit haunted ground of Hiroshima
Posted: 8:19 PM, May 26, 2016
Updated:2016-05-27 00:19:38Z
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HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Convinced that the time for this moment is right at last, President Barack Obama on Friday will become the first American president to confront the historic and haunted ground of Hiroshima.
Here, at this place of so much suffering, where U.S. forces dropped the atomic bomb that gave birth to the nuclear age, Obama will pay tribute to the 140,000 people who died from the attack seven decades ago.
He will not apologize. He will not second-guess President Harry Truman's decision to unleash the awful power of nuclear weapons. He will not dissect Japanese aggression in World War II.
Rather, Obama aimed to offer a simple reflection, acknowledging the devastating toll of war and coupling it with a message that the world can — and must — do better.
He will look back, placing a wreath at the centopath, an arched monument in Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park honoring those killed by the bomb that U.S. forces dropped on Aug. 6, 1945. A second atomic bomb, dropped on Nagasaki three days later, killed 70,000 more.
Obama will also look forward.
Hiroshima is much more than "a reminder of the terrible toll in World War II and the death of innocents across the continents," Obama said Thursday.
It is a place, he said, "to remind ourselves that the job's not done in reducing conflict, building institutions of peace and reducing the prospect of nuclear war in the future."
Those who come to ground zero at Hiroshima speak of its emotional impact, of the searing imagery of the exposed steel beams on the iconic A-bomb dome. The skeletal remains of the exhibition hall have become an international symbol of peace and a place for prayer.
The president will be accompanied on his visit by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — a demonstration of the friendship that exists between the only nation ever to use an atomic bomb and the only nation ever to have suffered from one.
It is a moment 70 years in the making. Other American presidents considered coming, but the politics were still too sensitive, the emotions too raw.
Even now, when polls find 70 percent of the Japanese support Obama's decision to come to Hiroshima, the visit is fraught.
Obama's choreographed visit will be parsed by people with many agendas.
There are political foes at home who ready to seize on any hint of an unwelcome expression of regret.
There are Koreans who want to hear the president acknowledge the estimated 20,000-40,000 of their citizens who were among the dead in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There are blast survivors who want Obama to listen to their stories, to see their scars — physical and otherwise.
There are activists looking for a pledge of new, concrete steps to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
There are American former POWs who want the president to fault Japan for starting the war in the Pacific.
Obama will try to navigate those shoals by saying less, not more.
The dropping of the bomb, he said Thursday, "was an inflection point in modern history. It is something that all of us have had to deal with in one way or another."
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Directions to Holtsville Ecology CenterLong Island Expressway --- Go south at exit 63, 3 traffic lights (2 miles) turn right on Route 99, Woodside Avenue. Go to second road, Buckley Road and turn right, entrance to the park is on the right side.
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Seneca Falls Man Charged With Pot Possession
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On December 23rd, 2012 at 12:11am Seneca Falls Police arrested Jeffrey K. Warrick Jr. age 29 of 224 Ovid Street Seneca Falls New York, 13148 for unlawful possession of marijuana and failure to keep right. This arrest resulted from a traffic stop conducted of Warrick on East Bayard Street in the Town of Seneca Falls. Warrick was released on an appearance ticket and a UTT and is to appear in Seneca Falls Town Court on January 10th, 2013 at 10:00am to answer his charge. | {
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I react so badly to insect bites
Some people believe that taking vitamin B eg in an oral vitamin B complex preparation may reduce the likelihood of being bitten...
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I react badly to mosquito bites. In the past the bites have blistered and sometimes swollen into very hot, itchy spots.
I do take malaria tablets when required. On my most recent trip abroad to Spain, I was bitten again and the bites reacted as usual.
Is there anything I can take before a trip that will stop such an adverse reaction to the bites?
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Insect bites can be very troublesome and if you are someone who frequently gets bitten and reacts badly to the bites it is worth doing all that you can to avoid being bitten.
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Insect repellent spray, and plug-in types of repellent can be very effective and covering up at times when bites are most common (early morning and evenings) is a good idea too.
In tropical places, avoiding bites is even more important because of the risk of catching insect-borne diseases such as malaria.
Some people believe that taking vitamin B, eg in an oral vitamin B complex preparation may reduce the likelihood of being bitten. Apparently the vitamin is excreted in the sweat and puts off biting insects.
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There are no studies that support this claim, but you may like to try this. B vitamins should not be taken long term but taking them for a few weeks at a time would be safe.
Try to avoid scratching any bites that you get as this does make the reaction worse.
Antihistamine medications such as loratadine should ease the itching to some extent.
An antihistamine cream specially designed for use on insect bites is also helpful. When you take a bath keep the water cool as heat will tend to make the itching worse.
One thing that you need to be aware of is that bites do sometimes become infected. For this reason if you notice that the area around a bite is becoming very red, hot or swollen, it is always a good idea to arrange to see your GP or practice nurse so that they can check that this is not happening.
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As an exercise in media manipulation, this week's budget scores top marks. The government's spin doctors managed to convince the media it was a "stimulatory budget" when it was actually mildly contractionary.
With financial markets trading virtually continuously, the old need to lock the media up on budget day until the markets had closed disappeared decades ago. The only reason for continuing the practice is to maximise the government's ability to influence the media's initial reaction to its budget.
It does this by keeping journalists locked up for six hours, during which time the only experts they can approach for opinion and clarification are Treasury and Finance officers. Then you let the journos out just before deadline, when it's too late to contact independent experts.
The theory is that influencing the media's initial reaction is half the battle in influencing the electorate's ultimate reaction. Didn't work last year, of course.
If you wonder why governments habitually leak or announce so many of the budget's measures ahead of time, it's all part of the media manipulation. You announce measures you know will be popular so they get more attention than they would if you announced them all together on budget night.
You announce unpopular measures ahead of time to soften voters up and also so the media will regard them as old news on budget night and thus won't say much about them.
This year, the good news announced early was the changes to childcare subsidies, plus the decisions to make savings in the cost of pensions and Medicare in much less painful ways than had been proposed in last year's budget.
But you always save a bit of good news to act as the "cherry", taking care not to breathe a word of it in advance. Making this the only measure the media regards as "new" ensures they make it the centrepiece of their coverage. And, of course, you've made sure it's good news.
This week the cherry was the "Growing Jobs and Small Business package". And, boy, didn't the media go to town. The cut in the rate of tax imposed on small business was terrific, but the plan to allow multiple asset purchases of up to $20,000 each to be "written off against tax" was mind-blowing.
The next day's headlines showed how easily the media were manipulated: Joe's Jumpstart, Kickstarter, and Road to Recovery?
Don't be misled. The 1.5 percentage-point cut in the company tax rate for small businesses is itself small. The equivalent cut for unincorporated businesses will yield a maximum saving of less than $20 a week.
And the two-year offer of an immediate 100 per cent write-off for newly purchased business assets costing less than $20,000 each is nothing like the rort-inducing "bonanza" imagined by innumerate journos and economists who don't know as much accounting as they should.
You don't get up to $20,000 a pop taken off your tax bill - making the asset essentially free - you get it taken off your taxable income, meaning the taxman picks up 30 or 40 per cent of the cost, leaving you to pay the rest.
In any case, the cost of assets purchased for business purposes has always been 100 per cent deductible. The difference is that usually this "depreciation allowance" is spread over five years or so, whereas this special deal accelerates the full deduction to the end of the first year.
So it will probably induce a noticeable increase in small business investment spending, but that's unlikely to be big enough to make much difference to the economy's rate of growth.
It's a classic example of the things governments do when they're trying to apply fiscal stimulus, being similar to a measure in Kevin Rudd's stimulus package of 2009 after the global financial crisis.
But note the measure's downside: because it's temporary, its main effect will be to draw forward into the next two financial years spending that would otherwise have occurred in subsequent years, leaving a vacuum in those years. And because most motor vehicles and business equipment are imported, much of the increased investment spending will "leak" into imports.
Another part of the hype is the government's claim that small businesses are "the engine room of the economy". Nonsense. Big business is. As the budget's fine print admits, small business accounts for only about 38 per cent of the workforce and about a third of production.
The most important point, however, is that just because a budget contains a few small but sexy measures doesn't make it a "stimulatory budget" to anyone but a journo after a good headline.
To an economist, you have to put the few stimulatory measures into the context of the net effect of all the new measures taken in the budget.
When you do that you find they are expected to add $2.2 billion (or 0.13 per cent of gross domestic product) to the budget deficit in the coming financial year, but subtract $1.6 billion from the deficit over the five years to 2018-19.
Either way, the expected net effect of the budget's measures is too tiny to matter. That's the old, strict Keynesian way to determine the "stance" of fiscal policy adopted in the budget.
The Reserve Bank's way of determining the budget's overall effect on the economy (which adds to the above change in the discretionary or "structural" component of the deficit the expected change in the "cyclical" component caused by the operation of the budget's "automatic stabilisers") shows that, measured as a proportion of GPD, the coming year's deficit is expected to be 0.5 percentage points lower than for the financial year just ending, with expected falls of 0.6 points, 0.7 points and 0.4 points in the following years.
In my book, a change of 0.5 percentage points is right on the border between insignificant and significant. That makes the budget only mildly contractionary. | {
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
What seems to be the problem?
A few days ago, I ate something that would sound odd but was quite nice - mango sambar. Most of the few eyeballs that scan this blog probably know what both are, but just in case. This is a mango - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mango and this is sambar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambar_%28dish%29 . And while I admit that it was pretty good, I am left wondering as to how many people would accept my culinary tastes.
This train of thought led me to Section 377, and the recent ruling by the Delhi High Court ruling the section to be unconstitutional. Frankly, I was surprised, because I didn't think it would happen. And the reactions were expected. Religious reactions apart, I found some reactions... Well I couldn't understand them. I don't know where to start.
First off; the claim that it is against culture and nature. Without debating the truth of these claims, I would like to proceed. We do a lot of things that are "against nature". We drive cars, we bathe - with soap, and the list goes on. "Animals" don't do these things. And what of the "against culture" argument? I must say I have my reservations about whether this is even a valid argument. There are many things that were "against culture" at one point.
Racism was part of culture, so was Sati ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sati_(practice) ), even bathing was not encouraged by Victorian culture. But back in the day, people rode horses - which is awesome, and the environment was also more respected (apparently). Now all I'm saying is that any practise must be examined on it's own merit and not on whether it's part of "culture". Culture is a dynamic entity, and there is no obligation to keep it static.
Then there's the standard "aping the west" argument. This is something of a moral panic, and again, ties back to the culture argument. Must we not adopt something just because it is prevalent in the west?
Then there's the "what are we going to legalise next" argument. Hmm. This is something of a slippery slope we're traversing. There are a lot of things to say about those activities that would be legalised, but then again - that's not what I'm talking about here.
Then there's the "children to be protected" argument. This makes no sense any way you look at it. Sex with a minor is illegal. Period. Non-consensual sex is rape. Now if a new law to prevent homosexual sex with minors was implemented, how will two laws deter offenders when one didn't? Section 377 still regulates sex with minors.
Then there's the genetic/non-genetic argument should not even be raised. A lot of things are genetic - the predisposition to out-group violence, incest avoidance and many more. Whether homosexuality is genetic or not should not be relevant and it should be debated without this in mind just as other behaviours are.
In the end why regulate an activity performed by consenting adults in the privacy of their quarters? It's not worth debate, because it's a question of a section of society wanting to do their thing. If tomorrow a section of society wants to jump up and down holding hands in their private quarters with whomever they like to jump with, then should we even debate regulating it?
In any case, whether people like it or not, whether people think it is "disgusting" or not, it is a question of tastes. And I wont let you take away my right to eat what I want - like my mango sambar (although I am told that it's quite a traditional dish, and a quick google search confirms this).
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very well put.. the biggest comedy is baba ramdev.. he has said that he ll "treat these ppl and they can either marry or stay a brahmachari like him"i dont know if hes implying he was gay once upon a time..anyway totally agree with what you wrote | {
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Published Fri Apr 12 2019 03:39:26 GMT+0000 (UTC)
by By COREY WILLIAMS
DETROIT (AP) — A Montreal man convicted of stabbing a police officer at a Flint, Michigan, airport was in debt and saw the attack as a way to become a martyr while benefiting his wife and children financially through a life insurance policy, his attorneys wrote in a Thursday court filing.
Amor Ftouhi's attorneys say he should get 25 years in prison and that he should serve that time in solitary confinement.
However, federal prosecutors say Ftouhi should be sentenced to life in prison for committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries and for interfering with airport security. They say he was on a mission to kill as many people as possible and then be killed himself.
Ftouhi was convicted in November on several charges in the June 2017 attack. Witnesses said Ftouhi, who is Muslim, yelled "Allahu akbar" — or "God is great" — while attacking Lt. Jeff Neville, who survived being stabbed in the neck.
Defense attorneys wrote that Ftouhi was depressed about being in debt and being unable to properly support his wife and children after he had moved them from Tunisia to Montreal. He also expected that other officers would have killed him and that his widow could have collected on his life insurance policy, they wrote.
"Mr. Ftouhi believed he had found a 'solution' to his financial and emotional predicament: become a martyr for Allah and earn a place in Paradise for him and his family as his reward," they wrote in the memorandum. "Mr. Ftouhi truly believed this was the creative answer to all of his problems both in the present and in the afterlife."
The filing did not list any of Ftouhi's debts and the attorneys declined to comment when reached by phone.
In his filing, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider dismissed the defense attorneys' characterization of Ftouhi's attack as a one-time event and a product of his depression and hopelessness.
"Ftouhi may have been unsatisfied with his life but he tried to kill Jeff Neville and intended to kill countless more because he dreamed of being a mujahedeen — a warrior," Schneider asserted. "He yearned to be revered and killing was the way to achieve that. Life imprisonment is the only just sentence for this crime and the only way to ensure the public's safety in the future. The court should impose that sentence."
Investigators have said Ftouhi intended to stab Neville, take his gun and start shooting people at Flint Bishop Airport. He legally drove into the U.S. at Champlain, New York, and arrived in Flint five days later. He tried but failed to buy a gun at a gun show and instead bought a large knife.
"His plan was never to become an indiscriminate killer, attempting to create a mass casualty situation, nor was he trying to be a member of any radical Islamic group," his lawyers wrote. "Mr. Ftouhi most certainly believed he would have been killed on June 21, 2017, and when he wasn't killed, he was very upset."
Ftouhi's lawyers didn't offer an opening statement at trial and didn't call any witnesses. In her closing argument, attorney Joan Morgan said Ftouhi was unstable and believed it would be easier to be killed by police in the U.S. than in Canada.
"Mr. Ftouhi believed he needed to be killed as a 'soldier of Allah' by a uniformed enemy of Muslims in order to solve his problems of debt, to enter Paradise, and to end his life," his attorneys wrote in the memorandum. "He did not believe Allah would accept that an armed Canadian officer was an enemy of Muslims, but he believed an armed United States government official would be acceptable to Allah, given his perceived view of U.S. involvement in the Middle East."
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