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During my brief foray into bathing suit shopping, I noticed how much better I looked in some store dressing rooms than others. Can retailers be playing tricks on us to increase the possibility we’ll make a purchase? Community Connections I’ve never been a huge fan of swimsuit shopping. The suit I wear now was purchased on sale at Rawson’s in Omak at least 10 years ago. Every June, I promise myself I’ll buy a new one, but the purchase becomes so excruciating I can’t force myself to go through with it. Community Connections In Mazama, the day comes when the light coming through the front windows changes. The sun has gotten higher in the sky and shifted to the south a little. It’s a sure sign of spring, but it also illuminates another sad fact: my windows are as filthy as sin. Community Connections Each year about this time an avalanche of gardening catalogs cascades into my mailbox. I avidly pour through them, folding back page corners and circling items to order. In Mazama, where the temperature can stay below freezing for weeks on end, seed catalogs are a promise of good things to come. Community Connections In November the Methow Valley turns gray. It is still, silent. Nothing moves. The trees, having lost their golden crowns, are stark outlines against a leaden sky. Driving back from town I see cows standing motionless in a field. They seem to be frozen. Community Connections Did you see that news item about the 16-year-old can of soup found in the back of a refrigerator at the Chicago EPA office? I can beat that. The other day, while sorting though a box we’ve been storing for a grown son, I came across a Milky Way candy bar with a sell-by date of 1985. Community Connections	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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The game went back and forth in the first quarter with five lead changes and the biggest advantage being three points. Tofas led 14-13 after 10 minutes. The hosts still led 22-21 when Ekaterinburg scored seven straight points to break away for the first time. The guests' lead was 30-27 at intermission. Ural used a 10-4 run to take the first double-digit lead at 45-35. The advantage grew quickly and was 59-42 after three quarters. The cushion was up to 20 points in the fourth quarter at 70-50. The margin was still 72-53 with 5:39 left when Tofas started a 21-4 run - 11 points from Büker - to cut it to 76-74 with 20 seconds left. But Ekaterinburg went 6-for-6 from the free-throw line down the stretch for the win. COACH QUOTES Tofas Head Coach Ahmet Caki"We didn't start well. We were good in defence but we made so many mistakes on offence, especially on shots. The third quarter was so bad for us and we finished with 20 points difference. We did our best in the fourth quarter but it was not enough. Now we want to win the next game." Tofas Player Marcus Denmon"I think we started the game well. We share the ball well and we find the open shots but we didn't make it. They beat us in the third quarter. We fought in the last quarter but that was not enough." Ural Ekaterinburg Head Coach Oleg Okulov"We had a great game. I'm proud of my players because this is the first time that we are playing in the main draw of EuroChallenge. It was very important for us to win against a team like Tofas because they are a good team and they had a good season." Ural Ekaterinburg Player Lance Harris"It was good game. In the third quarter I think we played better than them. In the fourth quarter they played good. It was very important for us to win and to finished with first place in the group."	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
“Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men-and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here’s why and what to do about it.” Confidence in WomenAlthough women have worked hard and have made great strides including the following: Women now earn more college degrees than men Women make up half of the workforce Women are closing the gap in middle management Companies that employ women large numbers out perform their competitors on every measure of probability *Men still get promoted faster and paid more. Women still struggle to make it to top positions. The number of women in top positions is very small and barely increasing. Women are lacking in confidence, including women who are highly successful in the professional world. There is a vast confidence gap that separates women and men. Compared with men: Women don’t consider themselves as ready for promotions.Women predict they’ll do worse on tests.Women end up going into less competitive fields like human resources or marketing.Women generally underestimate their abilities.Women feel confident only when they are perfect…or practically perfect. "The confidence gap is important because success correlates with confidence just as much as it correlates with competence. Having talent isn’t merely about being competent; confidence is a part of that talent, you have to have it to excel." “Confidence is the stuff that turns thoughts into action. It is the factor that turns thoughts into judgements about what we are capable of, and that then transforms those judgements into action.” –Richard Petty (Psychology professor at Ohio State University who has spent decades studying confidence.) "Women also suffer from the perfectionism mentality. Women strive to be perfect in all that they do. Women have fixating thoughts on their performance at home, at school, at work, at the gym, and even on vacation. Women have obsessive thoughts about every role in their lives because we want to do them all perfectly, but perfectionism is another confidence killer. Striving to be perfect actually keeps women from getting too much of anything done. Is this to say that men don’t suffer from thoughts of doubt? No, men do suffer the occasional thought of doubt, but not with such exacting and repetitive zeal, and they don’t let their doubts stop them. Women often times let their doubt or lack of confidence get in the way of trying. Women can do just as well as men when taking tests or performing in top positions, but they choose not to try because they don’t feel confident in their ability to perform. This is what holds women back. Women avoid taking risks because they fear making mistakes and strive to be perfect. When we hesitate because we aren’t sure (low confidence), we hold ourselves back. The good news is that we are capable of performing just as well as men do! The evidence is implicit, to become more confident, women need to stop over thinking and just act! The more that we do this, the more confidence we will build. By shifting our thought patterns and behavior, by keeping at it, channeling our talent for hard work, we can make our brains more confident prone." According to a study conducted by University of Kansas professor Jeffrey Hall and published in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, you can forget about fast friends. The path to becoming BFF’s requires time-and not just any hours will do. “For working adults, more time at work was associated with less closeness in friendship,” Hall says. “Instead, time spent in leisure, at home, or at play really mattered.” In all, you’ll have to dedicate 50 hours to graduate from acquaintance to “casual friend,” 90 hours to jump to “friend,” and 200-plus hours to claim “close friend” status. The good news? That gives you plenty of time to finish making those friendship bracelets. Procrastination is one of the most damaging characteristics that students display because it robs them of good grades and prevents them from maintaining productive and healthy relationships with their teachers, families and friends. Procrastination can have both external (e.g., situations involving work overloads) and internal causes (e.g., personality characteristics).The following six procrastinator personalities identified by Sapadin (2012) in her book "How to Beat Procrastination in the Digital Age: 6 Unique Change Programs for 6 Personality Styles" are examples of the internal causes that can fuel procrastination. I highly recommend Sapadin’s book because it provides thinking, speaking and action strategies tailor-made for each of the six personality styles designed to help students lessen their tendency to procrastinate. If you are a procrastinator, these six descriptions will help you to know thyself better, the action strategies from Sapadin’s book will teach you how to be true to thyself, but it will be your responsibility to just do it. Here are the six styles. Do you recognize yourself in one or more than one? The perfectionist believes that her value as a human being is at stake every time she undertakes a task. The world is an all-or-nothing place for the perfectionist, which means that if the project she is working on fails, or is not the best, then she is a failure too. Her greatest fear is that she will not measure up to her own expectations or the expectations of others, a belief which may have its origin in a parent who looked at the 98 percent on her term paper and asked what happened to the other 2 percent. Procrastination allows the perfectionist to postpone completing an assignment because if it’s not complete, it can’t be judged. The dreamer yearns for an easy, painless and nonthreatening life. When the world disrupts this dream by presenting difficult challenges, the dreamer retreats into his mind, creating an ideal world in which he is a "special" person who does not have to play by the same rules as everyone else. This dream is very comforting, but it also creates damaging academic, occupational and social/romantic consequences by producing late assignments, unfinished tasks and broken promises. The worrier has an overpowering need to feel safe, but pays a high price for this feeling. Her most fearsome foes are risk and change, which paralyze her because she fears they will push her outside of her narrow comfort zone. Expecting the worst, she creates a stream of negative “what ifs” that predispose her to assume that taking an action will produce a disastrous outcome. The worrier has "better safe than sorry" tattooed on her soul. Hence, worriers experience less joy and fun in their lives than most other people; but they believe it is an acceptable price to pay for feeling safe. The crisis-maker creates lots of drama in his life by waiting until the last minute to get things done. He under-reacts to situations that provide plenty of time to work by saying, "I don’t work well until I really start to feel the pressure," and then over-reacts with great frenzied bursts of activity just before the deadline. This burn-the-candle-at-both-ends strategy may work for the young, but over time it will fail because it will become harder and harder to transform yourself into superman/woman with jolts of adrenaline and caffeine. The defier harbors a deep resentment toward authority, and has learned that the safest way to rebel is to use passive aggressive techniques. When asked to perform a task, a defier will almost always say “sure, I can do that,” but then “forgets” to do what he promised. This strategy provides the defier with a sense of power over others, but unfortunately it often leaves the important people in his life feeling betrayed, manipulated and/or used. When this strategy produces its inevitable negative consequences (e.g., failing a course), the defier consoles himself by thinking that this is the inevitable price he must pay if he wants to do things his own way. The pleaser is always busy, so it doesn’t seem like she is procrastinating. Her focus, however, is not so much on getting her work done, but on pleasing others so they will like her. There is really no problem with that strategy unless she gets distracted from focusing on her own obligations. Pleasers may think they can do it all, yet, over time, they lose the balance between school and fun, work and leisure, and the professional and the personal. Soon she is disappointing not only those she wants so desperately to please, but also herself by producing mediocre work and making up excuses to explain why her work is late.Do you recognize yourself in one or more of these descriptions? If your answer is yes, then you have taken the first step in a journey that can transform you into a happier and more productive person. But don’t forget that this journey has the following three parts: We are just talking about depression. Experts now understand that women experience a range of symptoms and disorders that include anxiety, OCD, panic disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. And some of the most common symptoms—such as rage and anxiety—look nothing like the sad woman on the hospital brochure for PPD. We are just talking about the postpartum period. Half of all PMADs develop during pregnancy. And treating them in pregnancy lowers the chance that a woman will experience a disorder after pregnancy. Plus, a woman can experience these conditions any time in the 12 months after giving birth. This is your fault. Nope. This is a medical condition, and—while the cause of these conditions is not well understood—experts do know that the hormonal fluctuations that occur during and after pregnancy leave some women susceptible to developing them. And there are other risk factors—such as financial stress, poor social support, a history of trauma or a mood disorder or anxiety disorder—that can increase the likelihood that a woman will develop a PMAD. But anyone can develop one. You don’t love your baby. Women with PMADs are no different than any other mothers in how much they love their children. They just have a medical condition that means the beginning of motherhood is a much greater struggle than it needs to be. You just have to get through it. These conditions do not resolve on their own without treatment. You should have whatever support you need to feel strong, and there are risks to moms and babies when these conditions go untreated. The only treatment is drugs that you cannot take during pregnancy or breastfeeding. Actually, one of the most effective treatments for anxiety is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and there are many other kinds of psychotherapy that are effective. There are also supplements and medications that can be used safely during pregnancy and breastfeeding under the care of an experienced clinician. You are a danger to your baby. You have probably heard stories of women who have harmed themselves or their babies. Though rare, these tragedies get a lot of media attention and often the media assumes a mother has postpartum depression. In fact, the majority of these rare events occur when a woman is suffering from untreated postpartum psychosis, an extremely rare but treatable psychiatric emergency in which a woman experiences a break from reality and may believe things that are not true or see and hear things that are not there. The Facts Some 15 to 21 percent of women will have depression or anxiety during pregnancy. Eighty percent of women will have the “baby blues”—a period of mood swings, weepiness, and feeling overwhelmed in the first two weeks after giving birth. When symptoms go beyond two weeks there is a chance she is experiencing a perinatal mood or anxiety disorder (PMAD) One in seven women will experience a PMAD with symptoms that affect their day-to-day functioning anytime in the year after giving birth. One to two in 1000 women will experience postpartum psychosis (which often shows up in the first four weeks after delivery). Very few of those women will harm themselves or their children. But there is a risk they could, so postpartum psychosis requires immediate medical care. All of these conditions have effective treatments that work surprisingly quickly. With the right care, you can feel so much better in a relatively short period of time. What This Means: That becoming a mother is a stressful event. In fact, pregnancy itself is actually considered a “stressor” in the medical literature. Struggle is going to be part of the process. It’s like labor and delivery. It is a tremendous physical and emotional undertaking to bring a person into the world. We accept that physical pain and other medical complications can be part and parcel of making and birthing a human being. Why do we think our brains would get away Scott-free? That doesn’t make sense. "Psychologist Susan David shares how the way we deal with our emotions shapes everything that matters: our actions, careers, relationships, health and happiness. In this deeply moving, humorous and potentially life-changing talk, she challenges a culture that prizes positivity over emotional truth and discusses the powerful strategies of emotional agility." "I used to thinkthe whole purpose of life was pursuing happiness.Everyone said the path to happiness was success,so I searched for that ideal job,that perfect boyfriend, that beautiful apartment.But instead of ever feeling fulfilled,I felt anxious and adrift.And I wasn't alone; my friends -- they struggled with this, too. Eventually, I decided to go to graduate school for positive psychologyto learn what truly makes people happy.But what I discovered there changed my life.The data showed that chasing happiness can make people unhappy.And what really struck me was this:the suicide rate has been rising around the world,and it recently reached a 30-year high in America.Even though life is getting objectively betterby nearly every conceivable standard,more people feel hopeless,depressed and alone.There's an emptiness gnawing away at people,and you don't have to be clinically depressed to feel it.Sooner or later, I think we all wonder:Is this all there is?And according to the research, what predicts this despairis not a lack of happiness.It's a lack of something else,a lack of having meaning in life Our culture is obsessed with happiness,but I came to see that seeking meaning is the more fulfilling path.And the studies show that people who have meaning in life,they're more resilient,they do better in school and at work,and they even live longer." Watch video below to hear more about the pillars to building a more meaningful life. "Leaving a high-flying job in consulting, Dr. Angela Lee Duckworth took a job teaching math to seventh graders in a New York public school. She quickly realized that IQ wasn't the only thing separating the successful students from those who struggled. Here, she explains her theory of "grit" as a predictor of success. Dr. Duckwork describes "grit" as passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. She states that grit is having stamina; sticking with your future, day-in, day-out, not just for the week, or month, but for years. Additionally, she says that grit is working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is like living life like a marathon, not a sprint." Do you have grit? If you don't, what things do you think you can do to change your perspective on long-term goals? "When I first started training for marathons a little over ten years ago, my coach told me something I’ve never forgotten: that I would need to learn how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. I didn’t know it at the time, but that skill, cultivated through running, would help me as much, if not more, off the road as it would on it. Research shows that, if anything, physical activity boosts short-term brain function and heightens awareness. And even on days they don’t train — which rules out fatigue as a factor — those who habitually push their bodies tend to confront daily stressors with a stoic demeanor. While the traditional benefits of vigorous exercise — like prevention and treatment of diabetes, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, and osteoporosis — are well known and often reported, the most powerful benefit might be the lesson that my coach imparted to me: In a world where comfort is king, arduous physical activity provides a rare opportunity to practice suffering. What’s remarkable and encouraging about these studies is that the subjects weren’t exercising at heroic intensities or volumes. They were simply doing something that was physically challenging for them – going from no exercise to some exercise; one need not be an elite athlete or fitness nerd to reap the bulletproofing benefits of exercise. The truth, cliché as it may sound, is this: When you develop physical fitness, you’re developing life fitness,too." "We seem to do it naturally for others, but what does it mean to do it for ourselves? For me, holding space means becoming the container to experience myself; to grow, to feel, to express, to test out, to live. It is being present, treating yourself with care, consideration, kindness, compassion and love. Hearing the needs of your body and mind, feeling your emotions, and listening to the yearning of your soul. It’s a way of being, a lifestyle, a profound choice and a stand you take. It’s not a belief system, but is rather a way of being with yourself and meeting your own needs. This can be lifesaving in intimate relationships, where we can ruin a good thing by trying to make the other meet all our needs. We spend every minute of the day with ourselves. How much of it is good, supportive, and kind?" Click on the link below to read a more in-depth description on 9 examples of how you can shape your life for the purpose of 'being there' for yourself. "Anger is a natural, life-affirming emotion. It lets us know when a boundary has been crossed, when our needs are not being met, or when someone we care about is in danger. But when misdirected, anger can harm our physical health and our relationships. Being mindful of anger means not suppressing, denying or avoiding it and also not acting out in harmful ways. Instead, connect with the direct experience of the anger, and then decide what action you want to take.” — Jessica Morey, executive director of Inward Bound Mindfulness Education" Here is a list of points that Ms. Morey suggests when processing anger: Recognize and respect that anger is happening. It’s part of the human experience. Stop fueling the anger: Cut off the stories about how you were wronged or why your anger is justified. Instead, shift your attention to the body. What part of your body is not feeling angry? Your feet? Your back? The breath at the tip of your nose? Are there any sensations in your body that feel neutral, even pleasant? What else is happening around you? Are there any neutral or pleasant sounds you can attend to? Rest your attention on these sensations for a few minutes, allowing yourself to find some calm. If your mind wanders back into thinking about the anger-producing situation, come back to these neutral sensations. Investigate the anger more directly. Where do you feel it? Is it in your chest? Your hands? Your jaw? What does the anger feel like? How do the sensations of anger change as you pay attention to them? Do any other emotions show up underneath the anger? Explore the information this anger has for you. What is its message? What does it need? Was a boundary crossed? Reflect on how you could skillfully respond to what is making you angry. What would be the most helpful response right now? Finally, commit to taking whatever skillful action is needed without doing any harm — whether it’s a walk, a nap or a direct, difficult conversation.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Decentralized Mining in Centralized Pools,11/2018, with Will Cong and Jiasun Li.Dispersed cryptocurrency miners form pools for risk-sharing benefits, leading to centralization in a decentralized environment. It exacerbates arms race competition in mining and has profound implications on climate change. In equilibrium, larger pools charge higher fees, hence disproportionally less miners joining and a slower pool size growth. Supporting empirical evidence is presented.Leverage-Induced Fire Sales and Stock Market Crashes, 09/2018, with Jiangze Bian, Kelly Shue, and Hao Zhou. Presentation Slides.First Prize in Chinese Finance Annual Meeting, 2017Study account-level trading data of a large sample of margin accounts, including both regulated brokerage-margin and unregulated shadow-margin, during the Chinese stock market crash in 2015. Document direct evidence for leverage-induced fire sales. Show the highly levered shadow-financed margin accounts, due to the lack of regulation, play the major role during the stock market crash. The Financing of Local Government in China: Stimulus Loan Wanes and Shadow Banking Waxes, 10/2018, with Zhuo Chen and Chun Liu. Presentation Slides.Article on Vox China.Winner of CFRC Best Paper Award, 2017China's four-trillion-yuan stimulus package fueled by bank loans in 2009 led to the rapid growth of shadow banking in China several years later, evidenced by the composition shift of the local government liabilities.In this article we follow China Securities Index (中证指数) to use Municipal Corporate Bonds as the translation of 城投债. These bonds are issued by the Local Government Financing Vehicles (政府融资平台), hence legally they are just Corporate Bonds; but they have implicit guarantees from the corresponding local governments, hence enjoy the extra safety of Municipal Bonds. Leverage Dynamics without Commitment, with Peter DeMarzo, 09/2018. Winner of XiYue Best Paper Award in CICF, 2017Firms who cannot commit to their future debt policies will issue debt but never repurchase at any point of time, and the firm's leverage follows an endogenous mean-reverting process in response to asset growth shocks. Equity and debt valuations and endogenous debt issuance polices are derived in closed-form for the log-normal cash-flow process. A Macroeconomic Framework for Quantifying Systemic Risk, with Arvind Krishnamurthy, 05/2017. Presentation Slides,Matlab code.Winner of Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award 2012Systemic risk arises when shocks lead to states where a disruption in financial intermediation adversely affects the economy and feeds back into further disrupting financial intermediation. Model is calibrated to match the systemic risk apparent during the 2007/2008 financial crisis. PUBLICATIONS FinTech Topics Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts,a new illustrating trade-finance example. 05/2018, with Will Cong. Presentation Slides. Forthcoming in Review of Financial Studies, FinTech Registered Report. The single "truth" on Blockchain is a decentralized consensus that is achieved via distributing information. The fundamental tension between decentralized consensus and distributed information. Blockchain facilitates entry which is pro-competitiveness, but may foster collusion among incumbents which is anti-competitiveness.Financial Markets and Macroeconomics A Model of Safe Asset Determination, with Arvind Krishnamurthy and Konstantin Milbradt, 04/2018, forthcoming in American Economic Review.The safe asset tends to be the bonds issued by a relatively strong country. Large debt size helps the safety status given a high global demand for safe asset (previously circulated under the title of "A model of reserve asset.") Financial Sector Leverage Data:Both Restud and AER papers predict that leverage of the financial sector in general equilibrium rises during crises, rather than falls as would be consistent with a deleveraging model. This short note presents empirical evidence consistent with our model; for more direct evidence, seeIntermediary Asset Pricing: New Evidence from Many Asset Classes. The notes also explains the empirical deleveraging pattern that other models have focused on. Optimal Long-term Contracting with Learning, with Bin Wei, Jianfeng Yu, and Feng Gao, 2017, Review of Financial Studies 30, pp. 2006-2065.Presentation Slides.Online AppendixWith uncertain profitability in dynamic agency relationship, the agent has incentive to shirk to manipulate the principal's future belief, giving rise to a long-lasting hidden information problem. The optimal contract implements time-decreasing effort, and has a feature of "stock options" in that incentive goes up after good performance. Uncertainty, Risk, and Incentives: Theory and Evidence, 2014, with Si Li, Bin Wei, and Jianfeng Yu. Management Science 60, pp. 206-226.Winner of The Chinese Financial Association 2012 Best Paper AwardIn contast to a negative risk-incentive relation predicted by standard agency theory, the learning-by-doing effect may lead to a positive uncertainty-incentive relation. We present empirical evidence that is consistent with this prediction.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Erin Heatherton & Hilary Rhoda: Samsung Giga DJ Sessions! About Photo #2905547: Erin Heatherton rocks a little black dress as she arrives at Samsung's Summer DJ Series held at The Surf Lodges on Saturday (July 6) in Montauk, N.Y. The 24-year-old… Read More Here	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Tersina Shieh To quote my late English teacher, Mister Struthers-Boshoff, “you is what you is, not what’s you thinks you are”. The folk of Wellington in the Western Cape might speak better English – these days – but the fact remains the same: Wellington has long deserved independence as a wine region from neighbour Paarl, to which it was linked via ward status until this year. Because the region knows what it is and knows it can stand on its own two legs. Although Wellington’s push for independence – carefully actioned by the delicate force of former Springbok rugby player Schalk Burger – may have been egged-on by the general confusion and regional inactivity of Wine of Origin Paarl. As a united regional entity, Paarl is fast becoming about as relevant as a rare foie gras at a vegetarien love-in.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
RELATED ARTICLES Share this article According to the Sunday Mirror, the woman, who they called Susan, was incredibly nervous the first time she met Roberts at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire. Roberts was jailed in 1966 for life for the murder of PC Geoffrey Fox, 41, Detective Sergeant Christopher Head, 30, and Detective Constable David Wombwell, 25. Susan claimed: 'Before I met him, I'd seen pictures of him on the internet, but when I met him he did look older than I imagined, but he didn't look like a really old man.' The 51-year-old woman said they had made plans to live together if Roberts was ever released from prison. Police at the scene of the notorious killing in Shepherd's Bush, west London in 1966 She said that at the end of their prison visits, she was allowed to 'kiss and cuddle' Roberts. She said: We talked about going off together. The problem was he didn't have any knowledge of when he would get out. He was just fighting always to get out.' Susan admitted that she loved Roberts and believed that the feeling was mutual. She added: 'I only found out Harry was going to be released from the news. It was a strange feeling as I always thought I would be the first one there to congratulate him. But my life has gone in a different direction.'	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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The formation of helium lines in the Sun is not understood. There are at least two SOHO scientific investigations addressing this issue (PI's C. Jordan, S. Jordan). Neither of these proposals considers explicitly the effects of dynamic evolution of the emitting plasma. Here we wish to measure He I and He II (Balmer) line profiles as a function of time using the unique capabilities of SUMER, coupled with supporting lines formed in the corona and chromosphere and with imaging data from CDS and EIT. Why might dynamics be important? First, Fleck and colleagues (1995 Proc. 15th NSO/SP workshop, Ed. Kuhn & Penn) have discovered some remarkable features of time series data of He I line and the Ca II K line. The line center and velocities vary in phase, but the former shows substantially smaller velocity amplitudes. Carlsson & Stein's (1994 ApJL) radiation hydrodynamic simulations have shown (also remarkably) that time series Ca II H profile data in the interiors of supergranule cells are consistent with a dynamic chromosphere- static models are incapable of capturing even basic elements of the line formation. Second, Helium ions have anomalously long recombination (and ionization) times t. For He I sec, for He II sec, where is the electron density in units of cm. These are in excess of known variablity of both chromospheric and coronal dynamcal timescales even in the quiet Sun (wide slit ``movies'' in Mg IX 368, He I 584 and O V 629 from CDS graphically illustrate this point). Lastly, dynamical signatures can reduce dramatically ambiguities in understanding the formation of spectral features, through phase and amplitude dependencies in comparison with better understood lines. Measuring profiles has the added advantage of providing model-independent information about the thermal properties of the emitting plasma. For instance Wahlstrom & Carlsson (1994 ApJ 433, 417) showed from linewidths of He II Ba- from HRTS data that the plasma emitting this line was at K or less. We wish to measure line profiles with SUMER at two wavelength positions measured at the He I resonance line () and at the He II Ba- line respectively, using 7.5 and 10 second integration times. We would also measure profiles of lines of neutral species and of better understood transition region lines. This choice of lines will allow us to examine time dependence of He I and He II line profiles relative to lines whose formation is better understood. Fortuitously, the He II Ba- line can be observed simultaneously with the (on average weak) transition of He I at 537.03Å. (Ba- and Ba- of He II are not observable with SUMER. Higher Lyman lines are weaker and are not observable with He I lines at the same slit position.) We wish to observe the quiet Sun in and outside of coronal holes and at least one active region. This is not only to move between different spectrum formation regimes in the importance of electron excitations versus photo-excitations, but also to look for different dynamical signatures between different solar regions. Observed profiles will be compared with those from radiation hydrodynamcal simulations. Note that the He-II Ba- region of the SUMER predicted spectra in the red book is incomplete. In the red book there are three ``lines'' between 1082 and 1087Å, N II 1084.58, He II 1084.975, N II 1085.701. The N II lines belong to a multiplet which has 6 lines. The provisional SUMER quiet Sun atlas shows four features of comparable strength- three N II features including all 6 lines and the He II Ba- line. Furthermore the SUMER atlas data almost fully resolved the He II lines from N II, and show that mean quiet Sun count rates are adequate for our proposed study. We will ask for supporting observations with the NIS mode of CDS and in the Fe IX/X channel of EIT.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
What is Mistake "lack of trading plan" in Trading? Fortunately, for the purposes of illustrating Mistake "lack of trading plan", there is a perfect analogy. Consider the following scenario. You hear others talk of a business with low barriers to entry and in which some individuals are getting rich beyond anyone's wildest dreams. After some consideration you decide to take the plunge and engage in that business yourself. It is a fair assumption that you will begin to do some planning before engaging in that business. In fact, if you are at all prudent the chances are great that you will do a lot of planning before diving in. Furthermore, during the planning process you may learn things that you did not know at the outset that could affect your business, and you will build in contingency plans to account for these factors as well. If you are like most people, and if you truly desire to succeed, you may find yourself becoming consumed by the depth and breadth of your planning. You may take pride in your efforts, and the extent of your preparation may help you to build confidence in yourself and your chances for success. Finally, after much soul-searching and countless hours of planning and preparation, you take the plunge and attempt to succeed in your new business. There is nothing surprising in any of this. It happens all the time and is simply the way that people go about making their fortune. Except when it comes to futures trading. In futures trading, a surprisingly high percentage of traders enter the markets without the slightest idea as to how they plan to succeed in the long run. Very few traders begin trading only after they have carefully thought through and planned their foray into the "exciting world of commodities speculation." Most are so anxious to get started that they just don't take the time to make the proper preparations. This phenomenon alone goes a very long way towards explaining the high rate of failure among futures traders.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Due to conflicting reports on the possible association between shortening of rapid eye movement (REM) latency and increased cortisol secretion in patients with severe depression, this study examined the relationship between REM sleep latency and nocturnal cortisol concentration in 12 outpatients with major depression. The results showed a significant inverse correlation (r = -0.71, P < 0.01) between REM sleep latency and mean (23.00 hours-03.00 hours) plasma cortisol concentration. Age and severity of depression did not contribute to the inverse relationship. REM activity and density during the first REM period showed no significant correlations with the cortisol measures. A review of the literature suggests that this relationship might be unique to subjects with major depression, and again raises the possibility that these biological disruptions may have a common neurochemical basis.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Ladies, I know… he is a tough customer, isn’t he? A “real man” will never admit he wants or needs anything for Valentine’s Day… yet, we just can’t help ourselves but scour the ends of the earth to find just the right sentiment. As women, we are totally guilty of projecting our hopes and wishes onto our mates. We spend hours writing love letters or hand-drawing mushy cards because we think he’ll find it sweet. He’ll skim it and throw it in a drawer for all eternity. Remember, men are different creatures entirely. Think of something that exudes respect or practicality to really impress him. Ideally, you would have a list where you jot down hints he’s dropped. If not, here are a few Valentine’s Day gift ideas for him to get you started: The Kindle Why: Guys love gadgets! If you’ve got a Renaissance Man on your hands who likes to read a lot, the Kindle is the perfect way to amass books, save money on those books and read on-the-go. You’d swear the new dimmed-down screen is just the page of a book and not a computer screen at all. Consider a stylish protective case for this gem while you’re at it. You don’t want to think about what will come of this gift after a night of drinking with his best buds. Alternatives: Does he already have a Kindle? Try an iPod Touch, Droid cell phone, a Canon PowerShot camera or a Garmin GPS to show your generous spirit. Caution: Read your man. You don’t want to upstage him if he’s about to present you with a single rose and $20 box of chocolates. Who wants to be the Sugar Mama anyway? Braun Electric Shaver Why: Every man needs a close shave. He’ll use this gift every week, if not every day. Best of all, he can say goodbye to skin irritation, nicks, cuts, scrapes and the dreaded barber’s itch. Chances are, he’d never go out and buy this for himself, but he will love you for your thoughtfulness. Caution: While this is a great way to show you appreciate your man looking his best, some may take offense. It’s sort of like getting deodorant as a gift… “Do I smell?” Engraved Bulova Watch Why: Classic timepieces may seem like a thing of the past, but it’s not exactly couth to whip out your cell phone to check the time at a business meeting, church, or a formal occasion. The custom engraving gives the watch that extra sentimentality women love, but your man will interpret your gift as respectful and considerate.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Children and Grief When a loved one dies, it can be difficult to know how to help children cope with the loss, particularly as you work through your own grief. How much kids can understand about death depends largely on their age, life experiences, and personality.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Real. Guitar. Quit Wishing (and Bitching)! Do Something About It! Having worked with lots of people throughout my lifetime, I’ve invariably run into folks – and even I’ve done it at times – who get in a funk and say things like, “I wish I could do _________” or “I wish this would be like ________.” Without saying it directly and being as diplomatic as possible, I usually reply to them to stop wishing someone would do something sometime to make things happen. The time is now and you’re that someone. But it’s even more than just realizing that you’re the one who has to make things happen for yourself, you have to be willing. Several years ago, I attended a few self-help seminars and something that a seminar leader said always stuck with me – and I’ve mentioned it here a couple of times – was “There’s a fine line between dreams and reality, and that line is called ‘willingness.'” That had a profound effect on how I approached life afterwards, but in the years since, I’ve realized that realizing your dreams takes even more than just willingness. It takes discipline; lots of discipline. Not meaning to be religious, but there’s a very famous quote from the Bible from the Gospel of Matthew: “So you had not the strength to stay awake with me for one hour? Stay awake, and pray not to be put to the test. The spirit is willing enough, but human nature is weak.” The shorter, more commonly known version is: The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. In any case, Jesus said that to the disciples who were supposed to keep vigil with him while he prayed but instead fell asleep. He was reprimanding them for not having the discipline to stay awake – even for just an hour – while he prayed. Put simply, with discipline, you make the hard choices. Clearly the disciples didn’t have enough of it at the time… Or take for example the Navy SEALs and their training program known as Basic Underwater Demolition SEALs, or BUDS for short. Hundreds have tried out, and over 80% ring the bell to quit. The SEALs’ motto, “The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday” is a testament to the fact that it never gets easier, it only gets harder. People who quit weren’t losers. Some were top athletes, used to sustained physical and mental stress, but even they broke in the end. The training program is really that hard! The only way to get through that program is to have the mental fortitude to maintain discipline in the face of growing difficulty. Even though I’ve never gone through something quite as physically and mentally extreme and rigorous as the Navy SEAL BUDS program, I’ve also learned over the years that discipline is what needs to take over when you don’t have the motivation to do something. It truly is the difference between success and failure. This concept applies to everything in life, be it your job, learning to play an instrument, or even a making a relationship work (and no, I don’t mean the chips, dips, chains and whips variety of discipline, either). Circling back to the title of this article, what I’m suggesting here is that in order to achieve anything in life you have to: Realize that you are the only person who can achieve your goals. Be willing to achieve your goals. Have the discipline to do whatever it takes to achieve them. And please don’t confuse this with “the ends justifies the means” mentality that seems to be so prevalent in American culture these days. Can you say, “Financial collapse of 2008?” There are no shortcuts to success, even though the short-term might indicate otherwise. So what does all this have to do with guitar? Simply put, apply the three points above to any learning situation with your guitar. Want to play like SRV? Santana? EVH? You’re the one that has to make it happen, you have to be willing to make it happen, and you have to have the discipline to make it happen. It’s also not just about lessons. I know a guy who has been taking lessons every week for over 10 years, and he’s still a bad musician. He knows lots of licks and tricks, but put him in a band, and he flails away simply because he doesn’t have the discipline to practice and therefore truly understand his instrument. It simply boggles the mind and frustrates the hell out of me that he doesn’t see this – or perhaps more to the truth, I’m frustrated that his lack of discipline affects the band. So the next time you say, “I wish I could do ______________,” think about what was discussed here because the answer to is quite simple: You can – and will – but it’s all on you. No one can do it for you. Share this: Like this: Related One Response Well said. To add a bit I find discipline easier if goals are well defined and truly lined up with my values. I value creating things including music, so practice is a joy. And I discourage anyone from a goal like “I want to play like so-and-so.”. I think “I want to learn one of so-and-so’s songs note-for-note” is far more achievable. In the end while we can learn from the masters we can’t play like anyone but ourselves.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
These burgers are inspired by Thanksgiving dinner. They’re made from turkey instead of beef or chicken, and are served with a cranberry aioli to invoke memories of cranberry sauce that’s served with the Thanksgiving turkey. But the most interesting thing about this recipe is the sweet potato buns made from fresh sweet potatoes instead of going without a bun. You don’t have to wait around until the holidays to enjoy the flavors you love. Grandmas may have spent hours perfecting their versions of meatballs (and we love 'em for it!), but in these busy times, slaving over a stove may not be on the agenda. Expedite your meatball-making with these breadcrumb-free, baked-not-fried pork and beef spheres, drowned in a homemade marinara sauce. You won’t believe it only takes about 30 minutes for the whole thing to come together. Description: Low-fat or low-carb? A recent New York Times Magazine (July 7, 2002) cover story answered this question and said that Dr. Atkins was right all along, “its not fat that makes us fat but carbohydrates.” Though the government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars in research trying to prove that fat is the cause of obesity, there has been a subtle shift in the scientific consensus over the past five years supporting what the low-carb diet doctors have been saying all along: if we eat less carbohydrates, we will lose weight and live longer. Even though it’s called The Paleo Diet there are plenty of recipes that will make you feel like you’re cheating. Each of these recipes keeps within the guidelines for Paleo recipes, using fresh, high-quality ingredients in unique ways that will make your mouth water just reading about them. So whether you’re looking for breakfast, dinner, a snack, or just want to use a recipe that uses up the chicken or beef you have on hand, we’ve got you covered with this hand-picked list of amazing Paleo diet recipes. Starting any new kind of diet plan can be difficult, especially if you’re going for a lifestyle type of change! The Paleo for Beginners keeps it simple and user friendly, ensuring that all skill levels give this lifestyle a legitimate shot. You have everything you need right here in this book to start improving your health and your life in general. Regardless of whether you’re going to build more energy and muscle or you simply want to live cleaner and healthier—now you can! So about the recipe… You have to buy the Paleo wraps online or if you’re from my area (Mandeville, Louisiana), my friend at Vive sells them. I’m not always a huge fan of buying Paleo products, but 1) these are only made of coconut, so they’re super healthy and 2) these are SO good and will give you so many new options for lunch. After you buy the wraps, make the chicken salad and use a Paleo mayo recipe. Do not get lazy about the Paleo mayo and buy store-bought; the Paleo mayo is much better. Mayo can be tough if you don’t follow directions. Happy lunch-making! Share with me in the comments your opinion on this recipe. Meatloaf is one food you don’t have to give up while following the Paleo diet. The great thing about meatloaf is everyone usually likes it enough to make it a regular menu item. In this version it has been miniaturized so that you don’t end up making one big loaf, but rather individual-sized portions so that everyone gets a nice outer crust, and it avoids the problem of soggy or crustless middle section pieces. You’ll notice that the breadcrumbs have been done away with as they aren’t allowed on the Paleo diet. You won’t notice they’re gone because there’s coconut flour instead. Not paleo specifically, but this gorgeously designed book is full of plant-forward recipes that are either Whole30-compliant already or require a little bit of adaptation to fit into the plan. At any rate, I always welcome extra inspiration when it comes to vegetables, so I love paging through this one. The photography and design is really stunning and makes me want to eat zucchini ribbons all day. Buy it here. Introducing paleo food to a family can be tough, especially as many people are resistant to the idea. As a result, this cookbook offers one potential way around the problem, by focusing on recipes that aren’t obviously paleo. The meals would also work well for many families because they don’t use incredibly obscure ingredients and often don’t have as many steps as other paleo recipes. Anytime you keep things simple you’ll be keeping them Paleo. Think about it: early man didn’t complicate things because they couldn’t complicate things. They had to use what was around them, whatever that would have been. They also didn’t have well-equipped kitchens like we have, so their cooking style would have been rudimentary, yet effective. This tomato soup only adds a few different items plus some seasonings to fresh, ripe tomatoes so it’s going to really pop in your mouth, and the tomato flavor will be front and center. Luckily we have things like immersion blenders to make quick work of the preparation process. You might have heard about the paleo diet by now — a way to eat based on how our hunter-gatherer ancestors (read: cavemen) did it back in the day. While going paleo eliminates some tasty modern options like breads, pastas, and other grains, along with legumes, dairy, and soy, it emphasizes other delectable, whole foods that provide various health benefits. This dish shows you how to cook up a simple, yet delicious Paleo stir fry that has only a few main ingredients, but is not short on flavor. It has bell peppers, chicken, some soy sauce, chili powder, and is fried up in coconut oil, so while it may seem like a basic recipe, it actually is full of flavor. This makes a great meal to cook up whenever you need a quick dinner, or lunch and want to keep things light. It is easily adaptable as well, you can use any vegetables you happen to have on hand in order to complete it or build on it. With over 200 recipes, all Paleo friendly, you know you’re in for a treat with the Caveman Feast. All you need to do to get a feel for the type of quality recipes you’re going to get is check out the ones he’s providing for free at his Civilized Caveman site. You can only imagine that he’s saving the best for this compilation, and to sweeten the deal he’s including a series of bonuses that give you plenty of information right from the top authoritative sources on what’s Paleo and what isn’t. So cut out all of the contradictory information and get down to the real meat, literally and figuratively.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Historian, Former Ambassador, Human Rights Activist The elected London Assembly has passed a motion of no confidence in Sir Ian Blair. If he had any honour (which being New Labour he doesn’t) he would go now. I watched much of his appearance before the Assembly. The result was no foregone conclusion, but his arrogance and rudeness swayed the Assembly against him. He effectively taunted them that they had no power to remove him. I do hope a transcript of this amazing meeting will be available. 6 thoughts on “Ian Blair Must Go” One has to wonder about these people, what in fact goes on inside their heads? Apparently, not all that much! At a time like this surely Blair's undermined ligitimacy becomes a relevant security issue? How effective a leader for London's police can he be when he's lost credibility and seems lost under presure? He seems a weak leader and doesn't exactly instil confidence in his men, and he's lost their confidence in return. One almost wishes one could turn the clock back a few decades to a time when the concept of "honour" was still regarded as something worth having, and honourable men resigned when their positions became untenable. Now, they just apologize and suggest we all move on! On my way home, I heard a story about faulty toys being produced at factories in China. The manager of one such factory, which had produced toys which might conceivably at some point harm some unknown child in some far-off country, committed suicide. I believe there's a lesson there, which I wish the current government and its minions would emulate post-haste. Problem is, these people literally have no shame. It is an alien concept to them. What motivates them is cold, blind, ambition; and an almost psychotic desire for Power. They are intoxicated by it. It turns them on more than sex. And it's not as if they actually want to do anything with it, all they are concerned about is having it for it's own sake. I sympathise with writeon's comment. The old concept of Leadership was that the man at the top got the honours on behalf of his men when things went right, and when things went wrong he protected his men by first handing out the punishments and then resigning. Blair has obviously taken the rewards of the office by accepting a knighthood; now is the time for him to show the other side of Leadership. But all that honour and stuff seems to have passed from public life with the generation that fought WWII and Korea. All we have now are self-seeking bludgers. The Met have behaved shamefully right from the start. As soon as they knew they had ballsed it up, they started fibbing and they have maintained this approach throughout proceedings. They lied about what Mr Menezes's clothing and behaviour right from the outset. If I recall correctly, they tried to suppress CCTV footage contradicting their claims. Their defence case throughout the recent health and safety proceedings was disgraceful. As a native Londoner who remembers Blair Peach, I'm not completely astonished. So either Ian Blair knew this, in which case he lacks the integrity required to do the job or he didn't know it, in which case he lacks the competence to do the job. Paraphrasing what was said about Eden over Suez, if he knew, he's too wicked, if he didn't, he's too stupid. Blimey, that could apply to another Blair. Yet one more incident convincing me that the upper echelons of society are strangers to the truth.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Keffyalew Gebregziabher is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, Department of Linguistics. He received his PhD from the University of Calgary; his dissertation is on the grammar of nominal possession in Tigrinya, in comparison to other Semitic languages, namely, Amharic and Hebrew. His research interests include investigating the relationship between alienable and inalienable possession, examining the role of inflectional and copular items, and exploring the structure of nominal phrases, complex predicates and the relationship between clausal and nominal possession in (Ethio-)Semitic languages, using Generative models. He is primarily a syntactician, but he is also interested in the interface between phonology and morphology and syntax and pragmatics. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey18 Seminary PlaceNew Brunswick, NJ 08901Phone: 732.932.7289Fax: 732.932.1370This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
A Cure for the Winter Blues This is a guest post from personal chef and culinary instructor Kathryn Furman I love cold weather, but these past few days of single digit temps have got me reminiscing for warmer times. So last night I broke out the electric grill. I know what you are thinking “What! grill indoors? and on a electric grill? What about the flavor?” Well I do admit, I don’t get the charcoal-y taste that you get from an outdoor grill, but I live in a condo and have no place to put a grill anyway. The model we have is the Krups Canyon Deluxe. It has a 1 – 5 temp setting on the side and on the top by the grill, there is a chart of food items, cook settings and cook times for a quick reference. It is a great piece of equipment. You get a bit of smoke but not enough to set off the fire alarm, and of course the grill lines. I grilled off onion slices, mushroom caps and tri-tip steaks which I topped with some bleu cheese crumbles and chopped bacon. Yum! The whole meal took about 5 minutes to prep, 15 minutes to cook and since the grill and drippings pan are dishwasher safe, 5 minutes to clean up. Perfect for these cold winter days when you don’t want to spend too much time away from that someone special as well as the roaring fire. Search You Should Know… I have loved bacon ever since I was old enough to gum on its salty goodness. At an early age I declared I wanted to marry bacon and was sad to find out that little girls could not marry food products. I was a vegetarian for a time—I could totally write love songs about kale—but bacon was the gateway drug that led me back to being an omnivore. So, my love of bacon and love of veggies collided, and here we are. The food is great. The pictures, so-so.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Let's Eat With Hadrian III - Sublime Mac & Cheese Oh, I know, you don't like cottage cheese. Or you don't like sour cream. I'd say make this and have your world rocked, but I can't make any promises. I assure you, though, if you dig mac & cheese, this is profoundly good. One of the secrets to mac & cheese, like with lasagna, is that it's better the next day than right out of the oven. Of course you can't resist, at the least, taking a bite or two ... but, for some reason, the transcendency of this dish develops overnight between days one and two (not that it isn't incredibly bodacious as soon as those delicate little noodles reach a temperature where they don't incinerate the flesh of your mouth. I think the simple secret is that the cottage cheese and sour cream combine with the other cheeses to create a creaminess that can sometimes be lacking in traditional oven-baked mac & cheese (sometimes a little on the dry side). As with most mac & cheese recipes, you can add additional (sharp) cheeses (Gruyère, for instance) to boost the cheesy flavor if that's your bag - it is mine. This recipe is super easy to make and really good. Best part is it doesn't require the assimilation of a roux (flour/butter mixture slowly liquified into a "gravy" by milk/cream and long-term stirring - the cottage cheese and sour cream stomp all over your little milky roux). This content community relies on user-generated content from our member contributors. The opinions of our members are not those of site ownership who maintains strict editorial agnosticism and simply provides a collaborative venue for free expression.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
PTGC 1316 DK GREEN/WHITE - COTTON TWILL CAP Testimonials I purchased 3 CD's from Garinet, Malia Polia by Jimmy Suazo, Agrupacion by Solis, and the CD dedicated to my late uncle, Isabel Flores sung by Pen Cayetano and Mohobub Flores. I am still enjoying those CD's and hope to purchase more from Garinet. I like that fact that I did not have to wait 2-3 weeks for the products, I received them within 4 days of purchase.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Wednesday, 25 January 2017 We, the group of 8 Deaf photography artists, wanted to extend our sincere thanks to all of you who both came out and bought tickets for our Garbanzo fundraiser and are happy to let you know you that we raised $1,875 that night. Your continued support is so amazing and without you all we would never be able to reach our dreams and goals of becoming professional photographers. The night was fantastic and we were all so excited to see so many familiar faces. Garbanzo was packed and everyone had a great time! The night was a success with us raising enough funds to cover the cost of our ASL-English interpreter fees for our class. Hello,It has come to my attention that Lord Roberts Community Centre will offer ASL accessible for fitness class there starting January 14th. Please see the link for more information- https://www.facebook.com/pg/lordrobertscc/videos/Thanks,Sheila MontneyExecutive DirectorDeaf Centre Manitoba Inc Wednesday, 4 January 2017 Parking prohibited on snow routes from midnight to 7:00 a.m. In order to facilitate a major clearing operation on main routes, bus routes and collector streets, a Declared Snow Route Parking Ban will be in effect starting tonight at midnight (Wednesday, January 4 at 12:00 a.m.). Due to further accumulations of snow combined with high winds, City crews are continuing to sand and plow main routes, bus routes and collector streets today. This evening, the snow clearing operation will be expanded to utilize motor graders and front-end loaders to improve the overall condition of the Priority 1 and Priority 2 street network. Sidewalks on main routes and active transportation paths adjacent to main routes are also being cleared until completed. Back lane clearing will start Wednesday morning at 7:00 a.m. and will continue until completed. Crews are continuing with the major snow hauling operation on main routes to improve snow storage capacity on the boulevard, as well as with high-pile relocation to improve sightlines at intersections. Avoid a ticket and towVehicles parked in violation of the Declared Snow Route Parking Ban may receive a $100 ticket ($50 if paid early), and may be towed to the towing company’s compound. The Declared Snow Route Parking Ban will be in place until snow clearing is completed and the public will be notified when the ban is lifted. At such time, the Annual Snow Route Parking Ban will continue to be in effect from 2:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. Jan 13 \| 1:00-5:00 p.m. \| Millennium Library, 251 Donald St, Winnipeg Presenter: Heather Bishop Come engage in a conversation on what you need to know to make your arts organization more accessible for artists with disabilities. Artists with disabilities will be in the room to share their experiences and make suggestions on how we can make changes – some simple, some longer-term – to improve accessibility for all Manitobans. The CRTC proceeding (hearing) topic is exploring the issues around Next-Generation 9-1-1 services in Canada. To read more about this proceeding, you can click this link: CRTC TNC 2016-116 Our Committee developed a new survey to find out if others are having the same issues as our Committee members and friends in the Community and we will present the results to the CRTC Questions included cover topics such as: Did you know that you need to register for Text with 911? (Yes or No) What do you tend to use when you want to call 9-1-1 services? TTY? IP-Relay? Text with 9-1-1? Are you still keeping your TTY "just in case" of emergency for 9-1-1? Do you find the Text with 9-1-1 registration process clear or confusing? Do you use relay services for 9-1-1 emergencies? Which ones? How often? These questions are based also on questions that the CRTC has asked our group, and our response will be stronger if we have the numbers from survey statistics to show for our arguments/points to them that the system NEEDS TO CHANGE.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Name's Jason Thibeault. I'm an IT guy, skeptic, feminist, gamer and atheist, and love OSS, science of all stripes (especially space-related stuff), and debating on-line and off. I enjoy a good bit of whargarbl now and again, and will occasionally even seek it out. I am also apparently responsible for the death of common sense on the internet. My bad. EVENTS And one of the neatest parts of the video: a cameo appearance by Vega. The video was shot at Kirkenes and Pas National Park in northern Norway — yes, northern Norway, around 70° north latitude. As an example, down here at more temperate latitudes, Vega gets pretty high in the sky, almost directly overhead. But that far north it doesn’t; in fact, that far north Vega never sets! It’s a circumpolar star, like Polaris itself. You can see that for yourself in the video: Vega is the bright star near the center of the frame starting at 21 seconds in. It’s in the video for about 10 seconds, and you can see it’s moving downward in a slow arc, but clearly won’t get anywhere near the horizon. Unbelievable beauty. Just unbelievable. Hell of a way to start the year.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Spam When I reinstalled my operating system a week or so ago, I lost my spam adaptive filtering rules. This means that I’m having now to manually comb through spam periodically to make sure I catch any false-positives and mark them as not-spam. I think I’ve caught most important cases, but if you happen to email me something you’d expect a response to and I don’t respond within a week or so, please resend and put the string “bluehairbone” in the subject line. I’ve got a filter set up to mark as “not spam” any messages with that in the subject.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
The Long Fall by Walter Mosley Authors build up a routine, a template to follow when constructing a novel. They have experience in what works well and, as those who like idioms are wont to say, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So it is with Walter Mosley. Having reached a “Reichenbach falls” moment with Easy Rawlins in Blonde Faith, we are off with a new series character called Leonid McGill (that’s Leonid as in Brezhnev and a not-quite nod in the direction of the Travis McGee novels by John D. MacDonald). The latest book is called The Long Fall, a reference to both a nightmare that plagues Leonid and the fact that, despite his best efforts to reform, he may be unable to prevent himself from becoming as criminal as many of his New York clients. The question asked by all who want to write a novel about a private investigator is what elements to add to the plotting mix. The answer is easy to give. The series character must have a shady past. He may have done time or had close encounters of the legal kind. Many of those he knows are active criminals or work very close to the edge of criminality. He must have relationship problems with women and at least one of the women he meets will be stunningly beautiful. Surrounding him are an unofficial team of helpers and at least one of them is his muscle — a feared figure on the local scene who will always back him up in a crisis. The majority of the cops will be on the take but one may be honest and respect what the PI does. The work he is given will always potentially require him to break the law. Indeed, the majority of cases will be resolved in ways which do break the law, but he always manages to avoid prosecution so he can return in the next book. More often than not, he is honourable and loyal to his friends. He will be righteous and protect the innocent wherever possible. Stir well and throw in other less clichéd ideas and, all other things being equal, a reasonable narrative will emerge. Whether it will be worth reading is another matter. There are remarkably clear dividing lines between the wannabe writers, the average published writers and the best. Walter Mosley is one of the best writers around, not just in mystery fiction, but in all fiction and non-fiction. In his fiction, he contrives to maintain interest in the narrative through credible characterisation and an ability to pick just the right words to describe each mise en scène and capture the spirit of events. Although there are a number of key similarities between all the main protagonists created by Mosley, each one manages to emerge as his own man. In this case, Leonid has been afflicted by guilt and wishes to reform — his past employers prefer him to continue to offer his services. He is caught between two women, the children in his life need a watchful eye and now an emerging series of murders may soon include his own death. To escape from impending doom, he must tap into his contacts and call in a few favours. Escaping from the women will obviously take several volumes in the series. The subtext of race relations in the US is slightly understated. As a work set in contemporary times, it allows a more cynical, if not sardonic, view to stand on the page with only a few direct comments. There are events with a clear racial element but Mosley is not crusading. People are who they are and portrayed as more comfortable in their own skins than the characters in many of his other novels.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Do you know which of your marketing sources, like paid search, SEO, social media, and even offline sources, are the most effective at driving leads to your business? With ReachEdgeTM lead conversion software, you can finally know what’s working. Get our free ReachEdge feature guide to discover how the lead and call tracking technology built into our software works to show you which marketing is most effective. Plus, you’ll learn how ReachEdge helps you close more sales by automatically capturing Google search is the number one way consumers are looking for local businesses online, and using SEO is a critical way to help your business website show up for local searchers. Whether you’re not sure where to start with SEO, or if you’ve tried SEO in the past with little to no impact, this free guide can help you learn exactly how to get found in Google’s organic search results. You’ll also learn how ReachLocal’s SEO service, ReachSEOTM, works to When it comes to marketing your business, it can be easy to get caught up in staying up with what’s new, managing vendors, and allocating your budget – so much so that you may overlook a key part of your marketing: determining your return on investment. Or, maybe you’re so overwhelmed by all the metrics that you don’t know where to start. Check out these five signs you might need a system to help you track your marketing ROI so What’s the first thing you do after a potential customer calls or emails your business? Does your staff provide excellent customer service and ask the right questions to qualify the lead? Do you record their contact information, product or service of interest, and phase they’re at in the buying cycle? Do you reply personally to voicemails and emails with timely and helpful information and continue to follow up as they make a their decision? Whatever you do with a new Like a fine recipe, search advertising campaigns (also known as pay per click campaigns) require specific ingredients combined in a precise method to get good results: the right keywords, ad copy, landing pages, and so on. And when done correctly, you can end up with a masterpiece that will appeal to your target audience, driving visits to your business. But the wrong mix of ingredients can also result in a flop for your search advertising campaigns and cost you advertising While getting a visit to your website or a contact from a prospect is great, those visits and contacts don’t mean much if you don’t use lead conversion best practices to turn them into new customers. So what is lead conversion, anyway? It’s everything a business needs to do to turn prospects into leads and leads into customers. Check out this glossary of 18 important lead conversion terms every small business needs to know. 1. Lead Source: This is the In the past, you may have received visits to your non-mobile website from consumers who were using Google to search for your products or services on their mobile devices. But now, not having a mobile website can drastically affect how many people visit it from the search results, for a variety of reasons. First, Google now displays a “mobile-friendly” tag on links for sites that display optimally on a mobile screen. This means that mobile searchers will be more inclined The FCC will vote on Net Neutrality Feb. 26. I’m the CEO of a company that works with small- and medium-sized businesses – helping them grow their customer-base using the Internet. Based on my experience with these businesses, I have no doubt that the FCC will do irreparable harm to our entire economy if they block Net Neutrality. America has always been known for fostering the dreams of entrepreneurs and small businesses. Our nation is better because innovators like Walt Tranparency and education are key pillars in the foundation of our company and the promise to our clients. Every day, we deliver more customers to local businesses around the world. We do that by collaborating with our clients so they understand what they are purchasing and how it can help improve their businesses. Today, we take things a step further and kick off ReachLocal Remarks, a new video series to share our executives’ insights into the digital marketing industry. In the If you’re like a lot of business owners, you naturally take charge of all the things needed to operate your business. But sometimes there are challenges that your business needs to solve that you can’t do on your own. For example, if there were a power problem in a restaurant, the owner would probably call an electrician. Or if a new health clinic opened, the practitioners would hire a lawyer for general council. Hiring help is more than ok – it’s	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Do Safety Warnings Change Prescribing among the US Dialysis Population? ABSTRACT Objectives On March 9, 2007, FDA issued a public health advisory and Black Box warning outlining new safety information, including revised product labeling about erythropoiesis- stimulating agents (ESAs), widely-used drugs for the treatment of anemia associated with renal disease. The goal of this proposal is to determine if these new recommendations resulted in a change in physician prescribing among all US dialysis patients covered by the Medicare End-Stage Disease (ESRD) program. Methods Computerized United States Renal Disease System (USRDS) data from March 2006 through March 2009 are proposed to evaluate prescribing patterns in the year before and two years after the FDA Public Health Advisory. An interrupted time series model, based on all outpatient dialysis encounters indicating use of ESAs will be used to assess the impact of the FDA Black Box Warnings in influencing physician prescribing. Results We will show trends in prescribing of ESAs for anemia associated with renal failure (commonly found among nearly all dialysis patients) before and after the FDA warnings. We will assess whether changes in prescribing can be attributed to the FDA Public Health Advisory. Results will be stratified by patient demographics (age, race, gender), responsiveness to therapy (achieved hemoglobin >10 g/dL), cause of ESRD (diabetes, hypertension, etc.), vintage (length of time on dialysis), and facility characteristics (chain status, size of facility and profit status). Conclusions/Implications We will show whether two years after a highly publicized FDS Public Health Advisory (a Black Box Warning that went out to all practicing nephrologists) indicating the safety risks associated with ESA therapy and recommendations to use 'the lowest dose possible to avoid blood transfusions'resulted in a decline in the previously high ESA doses observed among dialysis patients. Using 'real world'prescription data among a census of Medicare ESRD patients on dialysis, we will investigate whether the FDA recommendations from the March 2007 advisory meeting were coincident with a change in physician prescribing patterns. We will show whether - without accompanying changes in the reimbursement structure, i.e., higher ESA doses continued to be profitable during our study period - physicians changed their ESA prescribing habits as a result of the FDA warnings. This study presents a unique opportunity to examine the dissemination of grave Black Box warnings and the willingness of physicians to modify prescribing habits in treating a vulnerable population of dialysis patients. Public Health Relevance Do Safety Warnings Change Prescribing among the US Dialysis Population? Our proposed study provides critical information to physicians, decision-makers, policymakers, and society overall regarding the role of 'predisposing factors'such as an expert advisory recommendation in changing physician prescribing behavior. Given AHRQ's strong and demonstrated commitment to the improvement of society through the exchange of information and ideas that should lead to greater access and usage of ethical medical treatments, this study will lead to a better understanding of the health and economic outcomes from use of an expensive and somewhat controversial therapy. Our study specifically provides important information regarding factors that influence use of drugs, particularly those with safety issues such as ESAs. How best to prescribe certain drugs to both enhance their effectiveness as well as to diminish their risks is challenging. Advice from government entities such as FDA and other clinical experts is thought to play an important role in this arena. Our study tests this hypothesis by examining whether there has been a decline in drug doses within a two year period following an expert panel recommendations and Black Box warnings that went out to all practicing nephrologists recommending the lowest dose of ESA therapy possible..... This study presents a unique opportunity to examine the dissemination of grave Black Box warnings and the willingness of physicians to modify prescribing habits in treating a vulnerable population of dialysis patients.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Your Dream Job Is A Reality I don’t think anyone wins the career lottery. Saying someone was “born for” something is a convenient shorthand for a lot of hard work and experimentation. Sure, you can point to Beyoncé and say, “She’s doing what she was born to do,” but I bet she’d be a pretty good accountant or something if she wanted. You could look at the desire to do something “better” than working the same boring job your whole life as a generational shift, but that’s a bit simplistic. It’s not that we have different values. We have different opportunities. People get hung up on this idea of finding a calling, but you don’t need to know what yours is. You just need to try a lot of different stuff. That’s easier during times of uncertainty. Instability has made us more open to change, perhaps because we’re afraid and forced to adapt, but also because there’s more possibility. If you look at American companies, many of the biggest were founded by entrepreneurs during a depression or recession. Whether you’re an entrepreneur or an employee, you need to own the idea that you’re self-employed. No one cares as much about your career as you do—even if you want to keep working for an organization, the point is that you’re looking out for your own interests. Put forward your priorities and think about what you actually enjoy doing. Honestly evaluate how joy, money, and “flow” intersect for you—in a meeting, on a call, or even doing something you thought would be a dream project. Listen to the compliments you receive. People from the outside can often point to our strengths better than we can ourselves. Ask, “Did I take joy in that or did I feel anxious?” About flow: Well, do you ever lose yourself in something? Can an hour go by and you don’t realize it? If you’re struggling to feel that at work, pay attention when it does happen. Ask to take on duties that give you that opportunity. Start a side hustle. The barrier of entry is so low that everyone should have more than one income source, if only because it produces a disproportionate amount of security and confidence. Even if you don’t make much money on it, you’ll always know you could do something else if you lost your job, or if it sucks so much you have to escape it. The people most likely to end up with meaningful work are discontented. Not necessarily miserable, just frustrated. They don’t want to do things the way everyone has before. People look in from the outside and think, “It’s just so terrible because there’s no clear, linear path.” Well, why would we want there to be? Are you feeling unsettled? I hope so. That means you’re on the right track.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Janeen Page 2 PA’s Women in Dentistry Newsletter From the initial phone call to your office to the post treatment follow up visit, the patient’s impression and experience of you and your dental team is the key component in establishing trust and long term	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
At The Opera, Humperdinck: Hansel und Gretel, December 12, 2015 Hansel and Gretel is an opera by nineteenth-century composer Engelbert Humperdinck, who described it as a Märchenoper (fairy tale opera). The libretto was written by Humperdinck's sister, Adelheid Wette, based on the Grimm brothers' fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel". It is much admired for its folk music-inspired themes, one of the most famous being the "Abendsegen" ("Evening Benediction") from act 2. The idea for the opera was proposed to Humperdinck by his sister, who approached him about writing music for songs that she had written for her children for Christmas based on "Hansel and Gretel". After several revisions, the musical sketches and the songs were turned into a full-scale opera. Humperdinck composed Hansel and Gretel in Frankfurt in 1891 and 1892. The opera was first performed in Hoftheater in Weimar on December 23, 1893, conducted by Richard Strauss. It has been associated with Christmas since its earliest performances and today it is still most often performed at Christmas time.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Tuesday, 3 August 2010 A LITTLE LECTURE FOR MY NEW PHONE . . . Dear phone, I love you, I really do. The past few weeks I've spent with you . . . they've been great, they really have. I've enjoyed the silly apps I can download, I can spend hours playing pointless games, I LOVE the wi-fi access, and it's the first time my phone has had a half decent camera on it. So I thank you for all those things. A million times over. Sincerely. But there's something I need to talk to you about. You have GOT to stop putting words in my mouth. At first it was just silly little mistakes. The type of thing that used to happen back when I had a BlackBerry and everytime I typed the word "Like" it would change it to "Luke" via predictive text, despite the fact I KNEW NO-ONE CALLED LUKE!!! Stuff like that. So I would type "if" and you would change it to "of". Which is a bit annoying. I know SOMETIMES you think you know better than me, like if I've typed "fanny" when I actually meant "funny" or something like that (I don't think I've done that, it's just an example.) But you have to give me the benefit of the doubt sometimes. Because it's making me look stupid now. And that's just embarrassing. I should be USED to you by now. People are going to think I don't understand how to use a phone!!! In this day and age, that's like not knowing how to use a PHOTOCOPIER. (Um . . . bad example . . .) What about the time I was trying to wish a fellow blogger well done on her diet via email and you changed my "congrats hon!" to "contracts hon!"???? (Like THAT is going to make sense...) The day I was talking on twitter about how I'd just spent 84 pounds in Miss Selfridgeand you changed it to "Miss Fridge". There IS NO "MISS FRIDGE", dumbass!!! A fellow twitterer/tweeter/whatever you call it sent me, via text, a photo of a guy she was going on a date with soon. My response was meant to be "Oooh, very nice!" What did YOU change it to??? Don't pretend you don't remember!!! Oh, yeah, that's right. "Pooh, very nice!" There could potentially be A LOT wrong with that sentence . . . And don't even get me STARTED on my Facebook status update about finding the latest emo hangout which you, in your infinite wisdom changed to "emo handout". Yes, that's right, I was walking down the street and discovered a handout on "how to be an emo". I'm trying it out right now, can't you see??? I do love you, phone, but please PLEASE stop over-correcting me. My pride just can't take it anymore. Love P xxx Have you ever sent an embarrassing text/email/tweet that was your phone's fault, not yours??? Please feel free to shake... I mean, SHARE!!! (Stupid netbook!) :) 13 comments: I DESPISE predictive text - especially after one of the people I used to work with told me how whenever they tried to text the name of one of their pals, their phone kept changing it to 'Anal'. Not nice. Even when I'm wasted I think my general spelling isn't too shabby - to the point where folk may not realise just how pissed I actually am. So... TOUCH WOOD! I don't think I've sent embarrassing messages to anyone... I hate predictive text for that very reason - and also because it takes ages to change to the actual word i want to use. So i've turned my predictive text off and spell everything out myself. You know, old school style... Ha, that’s so funny. My phones not too bad but it can't do punctuated words very well so always puts 'I've' as 'I.ve' and annoying things like that so I've just given up and accepted that it makes me look illiterate. But today I have my crackberry...ahh ha. I gave in! (did you know that if you put type ‘vodka’ into your phone for the very first time predictive text changes it to poison...quite apt that :) ) x Oh, I HATE that!! I can't remember many specific examples... but let's just say that my phone obviously doesn't approve of my choice of language sometimes. It's been known to change my favorite four letter F-word to a web-footed animal. And somehow, "DUCK you" just didn't convey the message I was trying to get across. It's hard to be taken seriously, ya know? Haha :) Well if only it was on spell checks... I used to have a phone, that always insisted on the text being "german" (I changed it millions of times!) so every time I wrote to my friends, some non-sense german word came across! Not sure what happened with that phone (probably drowned it) but this other one learned the lessons ;)	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Sunday, December 31, 2006 To new friends made, and more to come. To sharing and caring; laughter and healthy tears. To art growth, may the journey continue. To those who share their wisdom so generously and their hearts so openly. To health of head, heart and body and of the soul. To the furry friends who brighten each day and to those who care for them. To 2007 with its promise of new journeys and respect for the old. Blessings to you all. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read "Is there a shadow?", and to leave comments, I so appreciate your encouragement and feedback. A huge part of my journey this year has been the friendships made, and developed, through blogging. Wednesday, December 27, 2006 One of the Western Australian groups I belong to held a Secret Santa. Nikki, the Paper Pixie, sent me a large parcel just over a week ago and I held off opening it until Christmas night. I am totally blown away by her generosity. See the beautiful bag she had packed so full I could not fit everything back in for a photo. Look at all those meters of lace and buttons. The molded shapes, the pens, so many things all of them just beautiful in themselves - and definitely to be used. Chrissy, the Christmas doll, is fabulous. Lots of fun to play with and great to look at.Can you imagine my joy as I sat with a cup of tea opening gift after gift from this bag? Thank you again Nikki. Sunday, December 24, 2006 Wishing all my blog friends a Happy Christmas, as we celebrate Jesus' birthday. My prayer is that each of you stays safe, physically and emotionally and that you might enjoy gatherings of family and friends throughout the season.I didn't put my tree up this year, relying instead on Christmas cards and candles to decorate my living areas, so I was delighted as Maggie and I walked this week, to find this tree a few blocks from home. The native Christmas tree had begun to bloom just in time, and today I took the camera to take a photo just for you. Even looking at the tree now, my inner smile is as wide as the Nullabor - I feel like it bloomed just for Maggie and I. Can you see the bees buzzing happily in the photo below? Yes, the little black dots! Can you feel the warmth of the summer sun as you look at my blue sky? The Western Australian Christmas tree (Nuytsia floribunda) is known for its bright yellow flowers around Christmas time (summer). It can grow to 10m tall. It is a member of the mistletoe family. I could not resist including a photo of Maggie snuffling through the dry grass. Saturday, December 23, 2006 Knowing the longest day of the year has been and gone I battle to shut the door on melancholy. Silly really, it is the twenty third day of a 93 day summer - and yet just the knowledge that the solstice has been is enough to shake me. How I love these long hot days and warm evenings.And then ... As I type ... I recall - this is our (Western Australians) first ever daylight savings' summer - have we beaten the solstice? I smile - all summer we will have an extra hour.I visited Sombra's blog tonight and delighted in his pictures of the snow - take the time to have a look - they are beautiful. However, to my Aussie friends - Happy Summer, may it be long. OkOk, the farmers daughter has to add a rider: Unless you are in a drought area - then may it rain each and every night. I am a part of a 13 member round robin, creating an ATC every two weeks, to the participants chosen theme. These two (can you guess?); Fairies and Celtic had baffled me. Tonight whimsy met my muse and these ATC's emerged. Thursday, December 21, 2006 I am both hosting and participating in charm swaps at the moment. These two designs are, I think, my final choices - they better be, I have nine and ten of each. I do find myself playing with wire more and more. The cat charm uses the head of a Krafty Lady cat mold and is framed in some bracelet blanks. The vision charms are pinata alcohol inks on scrabble tiles. Wednesday, December 20, 2006 I am a big fan of Christmas cards. I enjoy making and sending them, I enjoy writing newsy notes on the insides and enclosing the odd photo. A card from me is never a random selection - but a deliberate decision. I love that I can dash to the mail box each morning and there will be a handful of cards. I so look forward to hearing everyone's news, admiring the pictures - hand-made and bought and then choosing just the right spot to display the card. This year I have received two cards that told of sadness and breakdown in long term relationship, and one about terminal illness. My joy-o-meter was really flagging. Today's mail, however, bought the stunning card made by the ever so talented Sulea . Those birdies are hand drawn and collaged. I also received a card from my beautiful 86 year old Nana, who lives in England. She enclosed the document below - the telegram my Dad sent about four hours after I was born. I love chatting on the phone to Nana, but her cards are so precious - and each time she will enclose an old photo or hankie, something she knows I will treasure. She also always takes time to tell of her love for me. Thank you for my Nana. My only surviving grandparent. Tuesday, December 19, 2006 I finished my Christmas shopping today and in doing so began to see the donut not the hole, and the glass half full not half empty. This morning I started by pulling everything I had purchased throughout the year from the "Christmas drawer". Wow! I had at least half of the presents I wanted to give right there. I should have been so pleased. I confess I set off to make my final purchases full of doom and gloom. I was convinced I would blow the budget, buy too little, or too much, forget something .... You get the picture? I normally love Christmas shopping but have struggled to get into the spirit of the season, let alone get my head around appropriate gifts for loved ones. What-do-you-know? I had a wonderful time! Everything I went for was on special, I found car parks easily, everyone was friendly and I am happy with all my choices. I saved so much on some books I really wanted for friends that I treated myself to lunch - which was a great chance to look at my lists and check I was on track. Tonight I delighted in wrapping gifts for my family and very close friends - and I feel that joyous peace sneaking up on me. After all my saving I decided to pop into my local second hand store for some holiday reading. I got the bag of washers and the hinges for $1.50 - I think the owner thought he was ripping me off, but I was so pleased. There are hundreds of washers there! And, some of those hinges have 4 different colours of paint showing through. I did buy books as well, a whole bag for $5. Saturday, December 16, 2006 I hit pause today and took some time out, time to play and to regain my strength for all the next week will bring. I have been making a few Christmas pressies, and I know the special friend who is to receive this one, will not mind that she appeared here first. After I took the photo I stamped 'fly' in blue ink to the right of the dollies head - it finished the piece off nicely. It has been fun making disposable art- covered note books, fridge memo pads and journal covers. I'll post some more after they arrive at their new homes. My little Charles did not come home last night - I pray he is not in pain - and that he wanders home soon. Update: After two nights away My Charles has wandered in calmly - and seems a little irritated by my fuss and cuddles ... thank you. Thursday, December 14, 2006 My friend's little boy turns 5 tomorrow. B and I have a special bond, besides sharing a birthday. B loves beads. When he stays the night he likes to share my bed - although he knows that five year olds will sleep in the special room with a new night light. I sent him off to bed with a handful of picture books last time he visited and went back to the lounge to find out who had won Australian Celebrity Survivor. Ten minutes later I checked on B, imagine my inward giggles and delight when I realised he had abandoned the children's books and was lost in a stack of beading magazines. This adorable child has loved beads for as long as he could hold them! A few months ago we were shopping together when he spotted a beaded candle holder and was instantly smitten. It was a long skinny shape and I could not think of another use for it, however, it got me thinking about this old candle holder. A coat of paint, a couple of handfuls of cheap glass beads and I just know he is going to love his lolly bowl.B was shopping with his Nana and Mum, they are the best op/thrift shoppers ever, when he spotted this cat tunnel. I am told they got no rest - and this kid can nag - until they bought the tunnel for me. I confess to being a little dubious as to whether the boys would like it. The top and bottom photos are Hamish in the first 15 minutes of its arrival! The middle is Charles just yesterday!Note: The plants were patients and have recovered to the point where I sent them home - poor things. Monday, December 11, 2006 I was a naughty girl! I opened my Christmas present from Dot. I did not even try to resist ... And I am so glad that I did not. Let me introduce Harold, the rooster. I am a big fan of roosters - ummm let me re-phrase. I think I like the image of Roosters; the colours, those glossy feathers, the self confident demeanor, the image... Real roosters, at least the ones I have come in contact with, smell, eat worms and seem to be overly randy. Oops I have diverted. Dotee also included this fabulous collage, included is a picture of a baby art doll she made for me last month. It is such a personal, made-for-me, collage with words of encouragement and favourite colours included. The card/ATC is a gorgeous work of art in itself. This is the cover of a miniature ATC file I made recently, a group of us sent ATC's to encourage a friend and I wanted to create a bright and arty file. I have used another of my scrap paint backgrounds, and for the purists - the stamped city (Green Pepper Press)is deliberately sketchy. My 'Lady in Pink' uses a torso and face mould from Krafty Lady. When I look at her I see a 1950's cleaning lady all dressed up for a night on the town - a bit of 'mutton dressed as lamb'. With no offence to cleaning ladies - as mine is the BEST and beautiful. Thursday, December 07, 2006 I do enjoy the sight of parcels ready to give, and envelopes filled with good wishes. This time of the year is always financially challenging, and Maggie's vet bills have added their bit. I am so grateful for my well stocked creative zone. I made this bracelet tonight. It began life plain wood with no spacers and was from my local $2 shop. I messed up one of the tiles, but was able to add the beads. Now I have a OOAK piece of wearable art which I will be very pleased to give as a gift. I only bought two of the bracelets at the time, I think I will stop by and see if there are more next time I am on the main street. I recently had this journal, bookmark and fridge calendar returned from Stamping andPapercraft where they were published earlier this year. Even as I was making them, back in March I was thinking of my SIL. This is the card. Tomorrow is the last day of school for the year. There is always some sadness as classes are disbanded and some children leave. And yet, as I have begun tidying and filing ready for next year I have felt some enthusiasm begin to creep up. I am going to be in school next week getting as much done for 2007 as possible. I will probably make the excuse that my holidays will then be free ... But deep inside I know, letting go is easier when I have the next group of teenagers to focus on. Wednesday, December 06, 2006 The wonderful Dotee has done an amazing job of putting together our 1" square collages. I have not been able to take a photo I am happy with yet - but every square is a piece of art in itself. I keep picking this up and looking at it over and over again. Each time I find a new detail. Thank you to all the talented artists who participated. Saturday, December 02, 2006 and voila! Some ATC's I am happy with. Thank you Uncle Scrooge. There must be a touch of Uncle Scrooge in me, I can't bare waste and always brush excess paint onto the pages of a watercolour pad. If there is a lot left over on a palette I will use the credit card technique to drag it on. Sometimes I will paint it onto foam stamps and stamp a layer. There are usually ten or 12 pages being filled at a time. Sometimes I will stamp excess ink into them as well. This page has been 'finished' for at least 12 months now, but it was only last night that it called to me. I have enough paper left for three more cards and then it is gone. I love that - a complete one off. I could scan my 'good' sheets - but somehow that would detract from the whole point; unique papers made from waste paint. I'm off to the markets now, I have another type of creating in mind this afternoon - in the kitchen! Enjoy your weekends. Friday, December 01, 2006 I took a day's leave today to spend with my baby girl. It didn't quite work that way as I spent most of my time asleep. I think she did too! And then I played a little - I should be making Christmas goodies, but had no inspiration for them, I picked up this vintage little owl picture and let my fingers do the thinking. Wednesday night when I couldn't sleep I decorated this tin for a secret Santa I am taking part in. We all gave hints as to what we like and the person receiving from me is a Tim Holtz fan.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
With the the demand in steel sector picking up, Karnataka’s seven iron ore mines in Bellary district have been auctioned this month at a premium rate. The final bid for the iron ore mines in Karnataka was in the range of 59 to 111 per cent of the floor price — which is monthly value of the mineral dispatched from the mine. JSW group — whose firm JSW Steel is the largest steel company in the country — won five iron ore mines in Karnataka. MSPL, a major iron ore mining company, won other two iron ore mines of the state this month. The first phase of mines auction, which has been going on since December last year, has seen auction of total 16 non-coal mines till now by seven state governments. The eight mines which were auctioned by other state governments — six of them were limestone, one gold and one diamond — did not see such a high bid from the companies. The bids for these mines were in the range 8 per cent to 59 per cent. Odisha’s iron ore mine was auctioned at a bid of 44 per cent of the floor price in March 2016. The auction of the 16 non-coal mines is estimated to bring a total revenue of Rs 59,447 crore over the next 50 year period for these state governments. As per the new mining law — Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Amendment Act, 2015 — which came into effect from January 2015, the non-coal mines have to be auctioned by the respective state governments. Under the old mining law, the state governments only had the powers to grant the mining lease to any company as per their discretion. The auction process takes place in two rounds. Mineral auction rules, which have been formed under the new mining law, clearly state that in the first round, the bidders have to quote the percentage of the monthly value of the mineral dispatched from the mine. The highest percentage quoted then gets marked as the floor price for the second round. Subsequently, the bidders get ranked on the basis of the descending initial price offer submitted by them. The first 50 per cent of the ranks or the top five bidders, whichever is higher, are termed as qualified bidders for participating in the second round of electronic auction. The second-round auction then follows the simple forward-bidding process, where the bidder quoting the highest percentage is deemed as the winner.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Comfortable and look nice They're socks. They fit my feet, they stay on my feet and they fit in my shoes. 'nuff said? 0points 0of0voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 2 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 5/ 5 Size Small Large gazza6789 Country:United Kingdom Age:45-54 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Male It was bought:Holborn good product Posted10 May 2015 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Lightweight, Good value, Comfortable, Good quality, Looks great The socks fit well and if like me you suffer with cold feet when cycling , these socks kept my feet warm and comfortable. -1point 0of1voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 3 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 5/ 5 Steve81 Country:United Kingdom Age:25-34 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Male It was bought:Online Does the job nicely Posted30 April 2015 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Lightweight, Comfortable, Good quality Nice and light, thin socks, that don't get saturated in sweat when out on a long ride. Good quality product and they look good too. 0points 0of0voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 4 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 5/ 5 Jay2014 Country:United Kingdom Age:35-44 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Male It was bought:Online fits like a sock Posted26 April 2015 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Lightweight, Comfortable, Good quality Nice fit and comfortable, looks good on some pale legs +1point 1of1voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 5 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 5/ 5 Size Small Large Gazza52 Country:United Kingdom Age:45-54 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Male It was bought:Online Posted03 September 2014 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Good quality, Comfortable, Looks great Very comfortable & look good, even though thin tried these on a 100k ride & they performed excellent 0points 0of0voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 6 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 5/ 5 Andymcdb Country:United Kingdom Age:45-54 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Male It was bought:Brighton Great socks. Cool and comnfortable Posted23 July 2014 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Comfortable, Lightweight, Looks great Great socks. Cool and comfortable and also look good as well 0points 0of0voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 7 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 3/ 5 Anonymous Country:United Kingdom Age:45-54 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Male It was bought:Notting Hill Nice look but Posted07 July 2014 No, I do not recommend this product. Pros: Comfortable Cons: Expensive Nice looking sock, comfortable but burred easily in the wash. 0points 0of0voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 8 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 4/ 5 Size Small Large dds86 Country:Belgium Age:25-34 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Male It was bought:Online Good product no remarks Posted13 June 2014 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Good value, Good quality, Comfortable, Lightweight, Looks great Good product no remarks verry good quality. looks nice 0points 0of0voted this as helpful. Share this review: Thank you! You have successfully submitted a comment for this review. Review 9 for Louis Garneau Tuscan Sock Overall rating 4/ 5 Wattbike Country:United Kingdom Age:Over 65 Style:Road Cyclist Experience:Regular Gender:Female It was bought:Gateshead stylish! Posted18 May 2014 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Good quality, Looks great I bought these for a present for a friend thinking he would like the black! (I nearly bought the cream/offwhite instead as they looked better) he likes this particular make of clothing .They look good but black is so boring on it's own! however he did like them but said the cream would have been better and therefore I changed them at the shop for cream! The Sky team should take notice black socks are a no no but a little bit of detail makes all the difference to black socks if they must wear them! a comfortable, soft fabric sock, which fits well Posted21 August 2012 Yes, I recommend this product. Pros: Good quality, Comfortable, Lightweight, Looks great Cons: Expensive I liked these socks so much that I bought another 3 pairs! The small/medium are a good fit for my size 7 feet. The fabric is very soft and comfortable and so far there are no problems with the seams which on cheaper socks can rub, especially if you wear close fitting shoes. Only used them in summer, but with a pair of gore overshoes I don't anticipate any problems in winter.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Technology in seminary: Is it enhancing or distracting the experience? Seminary has been a hard copy environment but it’s a matter of choice. Until we have the structure to support it (electronic scriptures), we have to be careful.—Kelly Shepherd When Kelly Shepherd started out as a seminary teacher for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 30 years ago, state-of-the art classroom technology included chalkboards, dial telephones and slide projectors. Later, VHS tapes, televisions and VCRs were a big deal. Three decades later, LDS religious education has witnessed a major upgrade. Many teachers prepare their lessons on Apple iPads and project professional presentations on large screens. They play hymns or show video clips with the click of a button. Some students can choose between traditional paper scriptures or the electronic version via a mobile device. Outside the classroom, students can use apps to memorize scripture mastery verses or use church websites to access additional resources. New types of technology have especially benefited students with special needs. Shepherd, now the director of training services for seminaries and institutes at LDS Church headquarters in Salt Lake City, marvels at how technology has enhanced religious education. “It’s exciting. We’ve made a lot of progress, huge strides in many areas,” Shepherd said. “We’re exploring things that could be more far reaching. As a worldwide church, we’re going to use every opportunity to reach every student.” Despite the development of seminary 2.0, technology has been a distraction for some students, according to several teachers. The church is also proceeding cautiously with technology in order to safeguard the traditional fundamentals of a classroom setting, which amplifies the seminary experience, Shepherd said. “We value the interaction between students and teachers and students themselves. We value the daily experience. We value hearing and sharing the word. It’s also important to feel safe and secure and know someone can help,” Shepherd said. “We’ve tried not to eliminate those things.” Status quo In an average seminary classroom with students ages 14-18, it’s common to see teachers use the Internet for lesson preparation and delivery. They display images, show videos (online and DVDs produced by the church or otherwise approved), play music and access church websites such as SI.LDS.org or LDS.org to review talks by general authorities or do scripture mastery activities. Some teachers allow their students the option of using electronic scriptures from a mobile device while others require them to bring a print version of the standard works. “Seminary has been a hard copy environment but it’s a matter of choice,” Shepherd said. “Until we have the structure to support it (electronic scriptures), we have to be careful.” Some teachers have received permission to create a seminary class Facebook/Twitter page to share information or provide a place for students to interact online. “It’s been an interesting way for students to share feelings with other students,” Shepherd said. “Of course, someone has to monitor that.” For the last five or six years the church has also experimented with an online seminary course that Shepherd said has been very successful. The course is designed so students go online each day, complete assignments and activities, watch videos and post comments for the entire class. “There are a few drawbacks, such as every student must have high speed Internet. Getting them together virtually is still a challenge. We also think students have questions that go unanswered. In a traditional classroom, they might go to a teacher or friend, and those relationships are built in time. We value that and want to preserve it,” Shepherd said. “But we have been very pleased with it.” In the institute program, students are also allowed Internet access, Shepherd said, in an effort to encourage them to do their homework, socialize and participate in activities. Video conferencing has also been utilized for training and communication purposes among teachers and administrators, Shepherd said. Enhancing the experience Several full-time seminary/institute teachers were asked how technology is helping to enhance their students’ experience in the classroom. There were many positive responses. When a student shares an insightful comment that resonates with the class, Joshua Casperson, a teacher in the Seattle area, immediately posts it on the class Facebook/Twitter page. Ryan Webb, a teacher in Colorado Springs, Colo., said a gospel principle is more impactful when students hear it taught directly from a general authority. “Instead of me saying it, if I can have a 30-second clip of an apostle saying it, it’s more powerful,” Webb said. “It’s not ‘wow’ technology, but it’s powerful.” Ryan Olsen, a teacher at the Bear River High seminary in Garland, Utah, agrees with Webb. “Resources like this engage the learner by allowing them to watch and listen to general authorities teach, tell stories and feel the spirit of their message. The youth today respond to this in wonderful ways,” Olsen said. “For the most part, they are eager to learn and apply doctrine. Seeing and hearing our church leaders also brings a spirit of truth and gratitude that I cannot get by just reading it to them.” With the vast image library, along with Mormon Messages and similar media, scenes only previous described can suddenly be shown. The classroom can become the Sea of Galilee, a temple or Liberty Jail, Olsen said. George Slaughter, a seminary teacher at Clearfield High, thinks media is most effective when a teacher wants to illustrate a principle or doctrine that has been discussed. Occasionally he allows students to use their cellphones to search for a quote from a church leader that goes along with the lesson, then share it with the class. “That’s sometimes where we get students to a feeling level,” Slaughter said. “Sometimes it can spark a spiritual memory. As we share those experiences, we’re opening the door for the Holy Ghost to testify to them that what they are talking about is true, then they are more likely to act on those feelings.” Technology has shown a significant impact for students with special needs. Sally Hanna has taught special needs seminary and institute in the Salt Lake Valley for more than 30 years. Tablet technology has unlocked doors that were previously closed for students who are visually impaired or who have intellectual or physical disabilities, Hanna said. “It gives them a voice,” she said. “They have never had anything that was as easy for them to use. Class is more visual, interactive and fun. They can enjoy the same technology as their peers.” Tablet technology enables students to find scriptures and read them more easily. Teachers can control what programs are accessed. For those students who can’t speak, now it’s possible to type out a short prayer, stand in front of the class and hit the speaker button. “We’ve come a long, long way,” Hanna said. “I used to go around and find scriptures for everyone. I rarely have to help them now. It gives them a feeling of confidence.” Distractions One major downside to technology, particularly with electronic scriptures, is how easily students can be distracted. “There can be so much available that they can easily lose focus and wander aimlessly during scripture study,” Olsen said. “For many it’s just too much to have ‘Angry Birds,’ text messaging and the scriptures available during class. Not knowing what your students are looking at or doing during class can also be a distraction for a teacher.” Slaughter agreed. It’s too easy for students to swipe to Facebook or Twitter, he said. “Most kids are good about it, but there are always three or four in each class that are trying to get away with it. You want to trust kids to use electronics in class because there are great advantages to it, but I haven’t gotten to that point yet,” Slaughter said. “I’ve invited them to put it away. The reality is it requires self-discipline, just like everything else.” Casperson requires students using a mobile device to place it flat on the desk, like a paper copy, so it is treated more like a book. “This allows me to see exactly what’s on their screen,” Casperson said. A priesthood leader in Colorado Springs handled it this way: “In the Colorado Springs East Stake, electronic scriptures are not allowed in seminary,” Webb said. “That’s the stake president’s policy. That doesn’t mean we don’t have students who still try to use them.” Morgan Allred, a junior at Syracuse High, has relished her seminary experience but has strong feelings about using traditional scriptures. “I’m not too fond of scriptures on our phones; it’s too much of a distraction,” she said. “I prefer my print scriptures.” Zack Willard, a junior at Clearfield High, said he also prefers “old school” scriptures. “Honestly, it’s another temptation to not pay attention. You need a hard copy of the scriptures until you can learn to be mature,” he said. “I’m going to have my kids use a hard copy.” Keeping traditional methods All the teachers agreed that “old school” methods still work. “There is nothing more powerful than the word of God,” Webb said. “Any technology should be used for the purpose of helping students feel the power of the word. Open the scriptures, read them, discuss them, testify of them and invite to act — that works whether I have a PowerPoint to assist me or a video to emphasize a principle.” Asking the students to write their thoughts, feelings and impressions in a journal is another traditional method that doesn’t involve technology. “We invite them to ponder and write because the Holy Ghost is a better teacher than any of us,” Slaughter said. Helping the students understand their role and the role of the Holy Ghost in the learning process also makes a difference, Olsen said. “I try to commit my students to making this hour in seminary an hour where they can find God through reverence, meditation and the whisperings of the still small voice,” Olsen said. “This can only be done by eliminating as many distractions as we possibly can.” Brian Mickelson, another teacher at the Bear River Seminary, emphasized the social interaction. “Electronics often distance us from other humans, and a traditional classroom setting offers opportunities to maintain human relationships and interaction,” Mickelson said. “Yahoo recently instructed employees to come into the office to increase collaboration and synergy. When it comes to the gospel, collaboration and synergy are so important. Face-to-face communication enhances that.” Going forward When asked to speculate on future trends involving technology in seminary, Shepherd chuckled. He said seminaries and institutes would continue to teach the scriptures sequentially, helping students to understand the content and context as well as doctrines and principles. “We’re a fairly cautious group. We’re cautious not to jump too far ahead,” Shepherd said. “When something is considered, we will ask, 'How does it enhance the experience that we value?'” Some teachers see the day coming when most if not all students are using electronic scriptures. They also predict more out-of-class learning as young people access online resources and study activities. “I see a student going home and having a very personalized experience online that parallels the classroom experience they had that morning in seminary,” Mickelson said. Within 10 years, missionaries could be teaching investigators with iPads, Webb said. “If that happens, then it will happen in seminary as well,” Webb said. “And they will have the maturity to stay off the Internet and use apps appropriate for class. I believe most of the teaching in the church will be done using technology. No one will have to spend five minutes looking for Thessalonians.” Thousands more will have access to the gospel and the words of living prophets, Olsen said. “Technology will be a tool for increasing personal testimony and conversion, resulting in more and more young people taking seminary,” Olsen said. It wasn’t too long ago that getting projectors in each room was a big deal, Slaughter said, and now some are asking when they will get Apple TV. Regardless of the changes that might come, Slaughter said the core fundamentals will remain the same. “Seminary still works, kids still come, they still share awesome personal experiences and feel the Holy Ghost. They will continue to build and strengthen each other,” Slaughter said. “It will always be a good place to be.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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India looking for explorers to develop small oil finds India is expected to be the next China in terms of demand growth for energy, and now the country is hoping to attract wildcatters and risk-takers willing to develop its smaller oil and gas fields. India's $2-trillion economy imports roughly 77 per cent of its crude oil and natural gas, making it heavily dependent on other producers, something Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi would like to change. The country is hoping to find operators to develop 67 already-discovered small fields, which hold about 625 million barrels of oil and gas, Bloomberg reports. India is expected to surpass Japan as the world's third-largest oil user this year, according to information from the International Energy Agency. The country will be the fastest-growing crude consumer in the world through 2040, adding 6 MMBOPD of demand, compared to 4.8 MMBOPD for China. ''Entrepreneurs who have capped their wells in Alberta or North Dakota will be looking at this kind of a story with a greater amount of interest, as there's very little to look forward to in their own fronts,'' said Atanu Chakraborty, the head of upstream regulator the Directorate General of Hydrocarbons. The government is trying to attract anyone it can with the resources necessary to develop its oil and gas assets. India is offering incentives such as simpler permits, tax sops and freedom from pricing restrictions to overcome the deterrent that low oil prices pose to boosting production. Investors remain wary of India, however, as companies such as Canada's Niko Resources Ltd and Edinburgh-based Cairn Energy Plc grew their Indian business by starting in smaller fields, but the companies have faced challenges ranging from arbitration spats with the government, to tax disputes. Chakraborty said he is planning roadshows in North America, the UK, Singapore and some Indian cities to find interested operators. ''We're looking at people who are able to take risk intelligently,'' Chakraborty said. ''Those are the kind of nimble entrepreneurs we are looking at. Four to five years down the line, we'll have at least four to five good companies who would be in a position to take on larger risks.'' The International Affairs Institute (IAI) and OCP Policy Center recently launched a new book: The Future of Natural Gas. Markets and Geopolitics. The book is an in-depth analysis of some of the fastest moving gas markets, attempting to define the trends of a resource that will have a decisive role in shaping the global economy and modelling the geopolitical dynamics in the next decades. Some of the top scholars in the energy sector have contributed to this volume such as Gonzalo Escribano, Director Energy and Climate Change Programme, Elcano Royal Institute, Madrid, Coby van der Linde, Director Clingendael International Energy Programme, The Hague and Houda Ben Jannet Allal, General Director Observatoire Méditerranéen de l’Energie (OME), Paris. For only €32.50 you have your own copy of The Future of Natural Gas. Markets and Geopolitics. Click here to order now!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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We are creating a web application. The browser would be from PC, tab, etc. The application will take a snapshot every 15 mins and send it to the server, where it will be processed. Assume all browser permissions are given. How do I take a snapshot? long time back I recall at a Client's place, we had a rogue process in Production that wouldn't write a log, so a junior developer was tasked with manually taking a screenshot every 10 minutes when the process ends and reruns. That's all he did for a month or so. We are creating a web application. The browser would be from PC, tab, etc. The application will take a snapshot every 15 mins and send it to the server, where it will be processed. Assume all browser permissions are given. How do I take a snapshot? Help please You could walk over to every pc, click Cntrl+Alt+Print screen, open a new email in outlook, paste it in the email and send it to the web admin. The web admin can upload the gif to the server. We are creating a web application. The browser would be from PC, tab, etc. The application will take a snapshot every 15 mins and send it to the server, where it will be processed. Assume all browser permissions are given. How do I take a snapshot? Help please why not save everyone trouble, here's what you do - 1. create a webpage 2. take a screen shot (refer to documented steps from kalidas' post) 3. set up a job that will email the screenshot every 15 minutes. What he wants is to have a record of user activity as a proof of 'youdunit' (i.e all activities done at browser/client side by the user to be stored at the server side automatically without user's explicit consent or knowledge). I can read his mind. __________________When God was creating the human race, he lined up all the males on one side and all the females opposite. Then he asked: Which of your species would like to urinate standing up? Well, the males went crazy, shouting that they wanted to pee standing up. 'Fine', says God, 'Women get multiple orgasms'.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
On the new streaming show Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch, founders step into the Entrepreneur Elevator and have just 60 seconds to present their idea, product or business to a panel of investors. Whether an entrepreneur gets invited into the boardroom or sent back to the ground floor depends on what our experts think in that first minute. Here, we break down the lessons aspiring business owners can take away from each episode's pitches. Enthusiasm is contagious, as we see on episode 12 of Entrepreneur Elevator Pitch. When a pitch is stiff and rehearsed, it can overshadow any passion you feel about your product. When you speak from the heart with enthusiasm, energy and polish, those listening to your pitch often can't help but respond with a similar level of excitement. This episode of Elevator Pitch introduces us to four very interesting products, three of which earned an invitation from the investors to enter the boardroom. From this episode, we could easily see how personalities of business owners factor heavily into whether venture capitalists want to hear more from them. Enthusiasm only gets you so far, though. Here are three important things you can learn from the latest episode of Entrepreneur's popular streaming series. Have fun, but have a plan. "Glamping" (glamorous camping) is something to get excited about, especially for Leanne Tucker and Tara Ross, founders of ReCamped. Their campsite-based bed and breakfast brings gourmet meals, air-conditioned tepees, entertainment and nice bathrooms to the outdoors. The investors loved the pair's enthusiasm and invited them in. Unfortunately, despite the fun pitch, the duo is at a very early stage. Their business plan didn't appear to come across very clearly and they hadn't even purchased land yet. The team declined to invest. The lesson here is that enthusiasm is wonderful, but don't come to investors unless there's a lot more than an idea for them to invest in. Another duo with contagious enthusiasm was Eve Fouche and Tami Bennett, founders of Mo Better Burgers in Los Angeles. The mom-and daughter team founded the burger restaurant in the '90s and have built a moderately successful business. Their celebrity endorsements were what intrigued the team most, though, giving them an invite up to the boardroom. Unfortunately, the duo's financial goals seemed a bit too unrealistic for the panel, who declined to invest but agreed to advise them. Again, enthusiasm can get you in the door, but a strong business plan is what gets people to sign the dotted line. Money trumps all. Stress is a serious issue for many people, and is known to cause a huge array of health problems. Vicki Mayo has created TouchPoint, a wearable device purported to help reduce stress within 30 seconds of contact with the body. Mayo is an executive and child advocate who worked with neuropsychologist Dr. Amy Serin to develop the device, which earned $2 million in just the eight months before her pitch. Although the wearable looked impressive to the panel, they were most drawn in by that impressive dollar figure. Once Mayo was in the boardroom, she was able to demonstrate how well the product works on the investors themselves. But, even though money drew them in, the investors weren't ready to hand over capital without a negotiation. Mayo wanted $2 million for 5 percent equity in her company, which put her valuation at $40 million. The investors thought that was way too high and offered her 4 percent for $400,000 equity, a $10-million valuation. Mayo took the deal. Be ready to address the entrenched competition in your market. Emily Ehert came to the team with an intriguing product. The Final Straw is a portable and reusable straw that can be carried in a purse or bag in a small packet. The straw can extend like a telescope and snap into place to fit into any size of beverage. Ehert had an impressive array of statistics that stressed the straw's environmental friendliness but in the end, it wasn't enough. The market is dominated by a large number of players who are highly motivated to ensure that plastic straws remain in grocery stores everywhere. Even though one of the investors was an environmental advocate, the panel still felt it was simply too big a battle to wage. Entrepreneurs in such a field should be prepared to overcome these objections during their initial pitch if they want investors to hear more. Although entrepreneurs should do their best to be authentic during a pitch, nerves can sometimes keep their true personalities from showing. It's important as you're crafting and honing your pitch that you make sure your natural enthusiasm for your product is clear from the beginning. Practice your pitch until you have it down pat. If you do, you'll increase the odds that investors will want to hear more about your business. And once you get to that point, make sure a clear business plan and perhaps a profit is what the investors see.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Common Platform Identity and Access Management Service – more than just logging on and logging off Hello, I’m Linda Green the Business Product Owner for the Identity and Access Management (IdAM) Service for the Common Platform. When I first heard the term Identity and Access Management Service, I had no idea what it really was and naively believed what some colleagues told me “it’s simple, it’s just allowing users to log on and log off”. I quickly found there is much more to it than that and I’m really proud of the service we’ve delivered for the Common Platform but we’re not finished yet. What is IdAM IdAM is the functionality within the Common Platform that allows different users to have an identity on the system and ability to sign in and access the various services. It also provides a service for administrators to create, update, manage and remove organisations and users. IdAM is a key security aspect of the Platform and ensures the right people have the right access to the right pieces of information. Like all our systems, it’s important that only people who have a business need and permission can access data on our systems. The design puts verified organisations in control of who they allow to access the Platform, as well as management of their users. The Common Platform IdAM service moved into live production in March 2017, with users from Transport for London (TfL), HMCTS staff in Lavender Hill, and first and second line support teams. As additional services on the Common Platform have gone live, additional users have been added and are now registered; there are now approximately 300 users using the IdAM service daily. The IdAM service has a support team that manages technical developments and enhancements. The next major milestone the team is planning includes the transition of 15,000 magistrates and 600 HMCTS Rota Administrators from the interim IdAM service currently being used to access the Magistrates’ Court Rota Service. This will be a significant increase in the volume of users accessing services available on the Common Platform and will test both performance and scalability. IdAM benefits, challenges and next steps The key benefit of the IdAM service is that it provides a single sign-on solution to access all services that are available on the Platform. This means that a user only needs to remember one password to access all services; and if they forget this password, there is a simple, but secure way, to reset their password. The service has also been designed to allow integration with services that sit outside of the Platform. such as Reform CFT services. The biggest challenge we’ll face over the coming months is when we start to on-board thousands of defence practitioners and their organisations. We’ll need to identify an accountable person within each of those organisations and engage with them to ensure we have all the information we need for them to access the system. Please use the comment facility at the bottom of this page to leave your views or alternatively you can send me an email.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Click on Title to view full description 1 A. De Q. RobinMaking many Rich - A Memoir of Joseph John Booth, Fourth Archbishop of MelbourneChurch of England225351 Australia 1978 First Edition 0959654305 / 9780959654301 Hardcover Very Good Condition Very Good This biography shows Dr Booth as a man among men and as a strong leader through difficult times, both in the church and the community. Dust jacket has a fre small closed tears to top edges. 91 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0959654305. ISBN/EAN: 9780959654301. Inventory No: 225351. Hardcover 1.00 Price: 23.00 AUD A. J. JacobsThe Year of Living BiblicallyWilliam Heinemann245143 London 2008 0434017116 / 9780434017119 Trade Paperback Very Good Condition Avoiding shellfish was easy. The stoning of adulterers proved a little more difficult - and potentially controversial. Was it enough to walk up to an adulterer and gently touch them with a stone? Even that could be grounds for accusations of assault, especially with female adulterers in Manhattan. So what's a good Bible-reading boy to do? Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in head first and attempt to obey the hundreds of less-publicized rules. The resulting spiritual journey is at once funny and profound, reverent and irreverent, personal and universal, and will make you see history's most influential book with new eyes.Jacobs immerses himself in prayer, tends sheep in the Israeli desert, fights idolatry, and tells the absolute truth in all situations - much to his wife's chagrin. His beard grows so unruly that he is mistaken for a member of ZZ Top. He tours a Kentucky-based Creationist museum, dances with Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn and studies scripture with Jehovah's witnesses. And he wrestles with the seemingly archaic rules that baffle the twenty-first century brain, yielding unexpected ephiphanies and challenges. A book that will charm readers secular and religious, "The Year Of Living Biblically" is part York Notes to the bible, part memoir, and part look into worlds unimaginable. Thou shalt not be able to put it down... 388 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Religion, Theology; Religion & Theology; Autobiography::Memoir. ISBN/EAN: 9780434017119. Inventory No: 245143. Paperback 1.00 Price: 19.00 AUD Adeline Yen MahFalling Leaves - The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese DaughterPenguin Books239349 Great Britain 1997 0140265988 / 9780140265989 Softcover Very Good Condition Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. Determined to survive through her enduring faith in family unity, Adeline struggled for independence as she moved from Hong Kong to England and eventually to the United States to become a physician and writer. A compelling, painful, and ultimately triumphant story of a girl's journey into adulthood, Adeline's story is a testament to the most basic of human needs: acceptance, love, and understanding. With a powerful voice that speaks of the harsh realities of growing up female in a family and society that kept girls in emotional chains, "Falling Leaves" is a work of heartfelt intimacy and a rare authentic portrait of twentieth-century China. 248 pages. Age tanning to pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0140265988. ISBN/EAN: 9780140265989. Inventory No: 239349. Paperback 1.00 Price: 20.00 AUD 8 Adriane Wildencamp [ Signed by Author]Seasons of Love in Australia and GermanyHale & Iremonger242992 Australia 1998 0868066656 / 9780868066653 Trade Paperback Very Good Condition No Dust Jacket This autobiographical work is almost painfully intimate, and yet it is a joyous book, full of hope and wonder. We experience the author's childhood and medical studies in Germany and in 1982 follow her to Australia, where she settles in Tasmania. While adventuring across the globe she manages to become deeply rooted in place and time. 321 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; Signed Editions. Signed by Author. ISBN/EAN: 9780868066653. Inventory No: 242992. Paperback Signed by Author1.00 Price: 23.00 AUD 9 Alan BennettKeeping On Keeping OnFaber & Faber241822 Great Britain 2016 First Edition 1781256497 / 9781781256497 Hardcover Near Fine Condition Near Fine 'I seem to have banged on this year rather more than usual. I make no apology for that, nor am I nervous that it will it make a jot of difference. I shall still be thought to be kindly, cosy and essentially harmless. I am in the pigeon-hole marked 'no threat' and did I stab Judi Dench with a pitchfork I should still be a teddy bear.' Alan Bennett's third collection of prose Keeping On Keeping On follows in the footsteps of the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, each published ten years apart. This latest collection contains Bennett's peerless diaries 2005 to 2015, reflecting on a decade that saw four premieres at the National Theatre (The Habit of Art, People, Hymn and Cocktail Sticks), a West End double-bill transfer, and the films of The History Boys and The Lady in the Van. There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and 'Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library. The book includes Denmark Hill, a darkly comic radio play set in suburban south London, as well as Bennett's reflections on a quarter of a century's collaboration with Nicholas Hytner. This is an engaging, humane, sharp, funny and unforgettable record of life according to the inimitable Alan Bennett. 721 pages. Illustrated with colour photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781781256497. Inventory No: 241822. Hardcover 1.00 Price: 40.00 AUD Alexander StyronReading My FatherScribner244410 USA 2011 First Edition 1416591796 / 9781416591795 Hardcover Very Good Condition Very Good Bill Styron's writing and his depression dominated the Styron family landscape, and Alexandra, the youngest of four children and the one who spent the most time alone with her father, learned to navigate his storms in order to survive. She describes a man plagued by demons and not averse to imposing them on a young daughter. Part biography, part memoir, part elegy, Reading My Fathertells the story of a daughter coming to know her father at last. From Styron's Tidewater Virginia youth and precocious literary debut to the triumphs of his best known books and on through his devastating spiral into madness, Reading My Fatherchronicles the epic sweep of an American artist's life. It offers an intimate look at a great literary generation's friendships and their dramas. But it is also a tale of filial love and a journey toward understanding and forgiveness. 285 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9781416591795. Inventory No: 244410. Hardcover 1.00 Price: 23.00 AUD 16 Alexandra HasluckPortrait in a Mirror: An AutobiographyOxford University Press232732 Melbourne First Edition 0195542983 / 9780195542981 Hardcover Very Good Condition Very Good Alexandra Hasluck Is Already Well-known As One Of That Small But Distinguished Group Of Female Historians Who Have Done So Much, By Their Perceptive Biographies, To Increase And Enlarge Our Knowledge Of The Characters Of Our History. Married Paul Hasluck. Told through letters, diaries and speeches. 329 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography; Australia; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0195542983. ISBN/EAN: 9780195542981. Inventory No: 232732. Hardcover 1.00 Price: 25.00 AUD 17 Alfred BaderAdventures of a Chemist CollectorWeidenfeld & Nicolson227540 London 1995 First Edition 0297834614 / 9780297834618 Hardcover Near Fine Condition Near Fine This is the autobiography of the distinguished chemist, art collector and philanthropist, Alfred Bader. Born in Vienna, Bader fled to England at the age of 14, ten months before the outbreak of World War II. Although a Jewish refugee from the Nazis, he was interned in 1940 and sent to a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp. In this book, he tells the story of his success in the United States. It was a case of hard study and hard work. Obtaining his release in 1941, he was accepted by Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, where he studied engineering chemistry. There followed a fellowship in organic chemistry at Harvard. Bader worked in Milwaukee as a research chemist for Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company and in 1951 co-founded Aldrich, which today, as Sigma-Aldrich, is the world's largest supplier of research chemicals. After leaving Sigma-Aldrich, he continued a fruitful career as an art collector and dealer. Alfred Bader and his family have a reputation as generous benefactors, notably in the fields of chemistry, education and Jewish interests. In 1992, Bader gave #6 million to Queen's University, Ontario, to purchase and renovate Herstmonceux Castle in Sussex 288 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Britain/UK; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0297834614. ISBN/EAN: 9780297834618. Inventory No: 227540. Hardcover 1.00 Price: 23.00 AUD 18 Alice GreenupEducating AliceHarperCollins245952 Australia 2013 073228810X / 9780732288105 Trade Paperback Good Condition A real-life 'The Farmer Wants a Wife'; the true story of how a city girl found love and a whole new life in the outback. What really happens when a city girl becomes a farmer's wife? If you're a fan of Rachael treasure, you'll love this memoir: a real-life outback love story that proves truth is even better than fiction ... A footloose city slicker who couldn't tell a bull from a cow was hardly the ideal candidate to answer an ad for a governess on a Mackay cattle station. But Alice Greenup was game for anything, until she was bowled over by a handsome young jackeroo with a devastating smile. It was the start of a whole new way of life as Alice gave up her city life to embrace the bush and all that came with it: horses, cattle, the obsession with rain - and the correct way to wear a hat. After overcoming more than a few obstacles, the unlikely couple eventually married, moving to Rick's family farm near Kingaroy. Determined to make their own future, they gambled their dreams on a vast property called 'Jumma'. It was a huge risk but with a lot of love, blood, sweat and tears, they were on their way. But one morning they almost lost it all. When Alice's horse bucked her out of the saddle in remote bushland, she was gravely injured. Rick was forced to leave her lying alone, drifting in and out of consciousness, to gallop home for help. What followed would test their love to the limit ... 314 pages. Tanning to page edges. Illustrated with colour photographs. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Autobiography::Memoir; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN/EAN: 9780732288105. Inventory No: 245952. Paperback 1.00 Price: 17.50 AUD 19 Alice SteinbachEducating Alice: Adventures of a Curious WomanBantam Books242624 Australia 2004 1863254307 / 9781863254304 Trade Paperback Good Condition When Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Alice Steinbach decided to take a year off to explore Europe and rediscover what it was like to be an independent woman, she left her job, family, friends and routine behind. The result, WITHOUT RESERVATIONS, became a bestseller and inspired women everywhere to take that leap, if not in reality, at least in their imaginations. 282 pages. Pages browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Travel; Travel & Places; Autobiography::Memoir. ISBN: 1863254307. ISBN/EAN: 9781863254304. Inventory No: 242624. Paperback 1.00 Price: 17.00 AUD 20 Alice SteinbachWithout Reservations: The Travels of an Independent WomanBantam Books238179 Australia 2000 1863253769 / 9781863253765 Softcover Very Good Condition Without Reservations is about a woman's dream come true - taking a year off to travel the world and rediscover what it is like to be an independent woman, without ties and without reservations. 'In many ways, I was an independent woman,' writes Alice Steinbach, single working mother and Pulitzer prize-winnning journalist. 'For years I'd made my own choices, paid my own bills, shovelled my own snow, and had relationships that allowed for a lot of freedom on both sides.' Slowly, however, she saw that she had become quite dependent in another way. 'I had fallen into the habit of defining myself in terms of who I was to other people and what they expected of me.' Who am I, she wanted to know, away from the things that define me - my family, children, job, friends? Steinbach searches for the answer in some of the most exciting places in the world- Paris, where she finds a soulmate in a Japanese man; Oxford, where she learns more from a ballroom dancing lesson than any of her studies; Milan, where she befriends a young woman about to be married. Beautifully illustrated with postcards Steinbach wrote home to herself, this is an unforgettable voyage of discovery 278 pages. Black and white illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Travel; Travel & Places; Autobiography::Memoir. ISBN: 1863253769. ISBN/EAN: 9781863253765. Inventory No: 238179. Paperback 1.00 Price: 18.00 AUD	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Two Rhode Island transplants have settled here in Northwest Florida on Escambia Bay. In Rhode Island, we spent most of our summers and fall days sailing the waters of Narragansett Bay, Block Island Sound and Buzzards Bay. We are so delighted to have found another Bay to enjoy. Tuesday, February 5, 2013 SABATICAL I can hardly believe that I haven't posted to this blog since August. I took a little time off so that I could get my life moving at a normal pace again. Had too many irons in the fire and was not doing a great job with any of them. I'm learning to say no. Well, I'm learning to occasionally say no. I've organized and reorganized rooms and closets and workspaces. I've stored and categorized photos and am even contemplating assembling a show at a local gallery. (That's still in the future pile.) Bottom line, I felt a little overwhelmed and out of control and now I don't. I've taken a lot of photos during my time away from blogland. So I'll be posting pictures from August forward. (They are all neatly organized now:) Probably, this will be the most verbose I get. I'll let photos and quotes speak for themselves. Unless, of course, they are unable to communicate. I'm glad to be back checking on blogs that I've missed reading. So, hello again.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Last night, Edgar Wright screened Scott Pilgrim vs. The World to eager fans at Comic Con. We saw Bryan Lee O'Malley's epic epic brought to life with flaming swords, knife-wielding girlfriends, and tributes to all things video games. Scott Pilgrim director Edgar Wright moderated last night's panel. Michael Cera came out dressed as Captain America ("Are you afraid of being typecast?" one fan asked. "So much," he replied), and both Wright fired off questions to the cast members as they appeared on stage (To the evil exes: "One word — How much did you enjoy bashing Scott Pilgrim's head in?" Jason Schwartzman: "Comic-Connishly."). There were revelations aplenty; Kieran Culkin revealed that, to get Culkin over his nerves about making out with another guy on-screen, one day Wright ambushed Culkin with a surprise kiss. Frequent Wright collaborators Nick Frost and Simon Pegg made a surprise guest appearance, then left in mock dejection when Wright reminded them they weren't in this particular movie. And fans cheered as Wright showed a clip of Scott Pilgrim fighting Gideon Graves' minions in the Chaos Theater. Advertisement Finally, Wright asked if anyone wanted to see the full movie and there were a few hopeful gasps in the crowd. Audience members who received special 1-Up buttons before the show would be able to see a special screening of the entire movie immediately after the panel. There may have been fainting in the aisles. There was, at first, a bit of a snafu; Wright invited the fans to actually follow him to the theater, but after he left the panel, he made a quick stop at his hotel room. A huge group of fans made it all the way to the Hilton before realizing the screening wasn't there. But eventually most folks figured out where the theater was and made it to the screening with time to spare. A few folks even got to have their picture taken with the director Advertisement The film was met (unsurprisingly) with many laughs and much applause. Here are our first impressions, with spoilers (possibly for the book as well) below. THE GOOD It's a genuine comic book movie. Edgar Wright doesn't just bring the Scott Pilgrim story to the screen, he gives it a lot of the feel of Bryan Lee O'Malley's comic. We get those trademark black labels ("Scott Pilgrim, Age: 22, Rating: Awesome") and lots of cartoony special effects. But even beyond that, there are the rapid scene changes — which recreate the experience of paging through the books — and plenty of snarky bits of floating text. This can all be dizzying at times, but Wright matches it perfectly with the movie's magical realism. Michael Cera really works as Scott Pilgrim. Like many fans of the books, I was fearful that Michael Cera would play Scott Pilgrim as an older, broker version of George Michael Bluth. But it turns out Cera is perfectly suited to the rapid-fire dialogue in Scott Pilgrim. Without any time to linger and sigh, Cera's delivery is tighter and more precise than what we're used to seeing from him. From the first scene, it was easy not to think of him as Michael Cera and to think of him as Scott Pilgrim, best fighter in Ontario. Kieran Culkin steals the show. I doubt this will come as a surprise to anyone, but Kieran Culkin is amazing as Scott's roommate Wallace Wells, whose ability to meddle in Scott's affairs borders on the mystical. Plus, his rapport with Scott's sister Stacey is a thing of beauty. Wright makes the movie his own. Edgar Wright didn't forget that this is a movie, and while he shows obvious love for the books, he didn't fall into the trap of slavish adaptation. He plays with O'Malley's words and jokes — and adds plenty of his own. To streamline the story while staying true to the books' themes, Wright structured the movie as a video game with six progressively more difficult boss fights. This means some big changes, but they're changes that work far better on screen than a straight-up translation of the books would. Be especially on the lookout for Wright's clever use of that precious extra life. Advertisement An awesome (and huge) supporting cast. Don't expect to see characters like Lynette Guycott or Mr. Chau, but Wright manages to juggle more than his fair share of folks from the Scott Pilgrim universe. Stacey Pilgrim, Tamara Chen, and Julie Powers get plenty of screen time, and we even see minor characters like Other Scott, Sandra, and Monique. Plenty of references to the comic. With six books to adapt, some things had to be cut, but there are still references to story arcs and funny moments that didn't quite make it onto film. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for Easter eggs. The bigger treat, though, is that we see some of O'Malley's artwork onscreen, both in still images and some very subtle animation. The soundtrack. Wright invited Canadian synth-rock band Metric, which stands in as the Clash at Demonhead in the movie, to perform after the movie. Music plays such a key role in both the books and the movie, and Wright and O'Malley collaborated to find music that's a perfect fit. It's the first time in a long time that I've thought about buying a movie's soundtrack. Advertisement It's just plain funny.Scott Pilgrim is packed to the gills with laugh-out-loud moments, whether it's the delivery of a familiar line, a sight gag, or an artfully deployed middle finger. Matthew Patel's Bollywood-style musical fight? The Vegan Police? Every line out of Kieran Culkin's mouth? It's definitely a movie I plan on rewatching whenever I find myself in a bad mood. THE BAD Ramona is too passive. In the books, Ramona has her own journey, albeit one that takes place largely off-panel. She has her own lessons to learn and her own choices to make. Wright obviously wanted to maintain Ramona's mysterious persona without including the whole business of her glowing head and escapes into subspace. But his movie Ramona never really chooses Scott in the same way Scott chooses her, and it leads to a few moments that don't quite work. Advertisement The attempt to match up the endings feels forced. O'Malley and Wright have mentioned that while the ending of the Scott Pilgrim books and the movie are different, they were informed by each other. The movie doesn't really touch on the mystical subspace/headspace that is so important to the book's climax, and when movie Ramona reveals that movie Gideon has a different sort of path into her brain, the revelation feels forced and underwhelming. And the appearance of a certain character at the very end of the movie struck me as a well-intentioned attempt to include a significant idea from the book that ultimately left the final scenes slightly overstuffed. Not enough Kim Pine. I understand that all those backstories and subplots couldn't possibly make it into the movie, but couldn't Wright have found a way to better highlight Scott's friend Kim Pine? Sure, she gets some awesome one-liners, but she never looms particularly large in Scott Pilgrim's precious movie life. If there's anything that will leave fans feeling cold, it's the lack of Kim. Conclusion: While it has a few flaws, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is sure to have folks leaving the theater happy. Fans of the books will find it a near-perfect companion piece that brings much of the books to full-colored life. Non-fans ready to keep up with its rapid pacing will find it's the perfect action movie for people raised on Nintendo — and may even find themselves wishing that real life were more like Scott Pilgrim.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
CCJ rejects appeal and paves the way for cassation Cunha in plenary Were 48 votes against the former Speaker of the House, e 12 favorable. 14/07/2016 13h04 - Updated 14/07/2016 14h05 Photo: Ueslei Marcelino (Reuters) By 48 votes to 12, the Commission of Constitution and Justice (CCJ) the House rejected Deputy Eduardo Cunha feature (PMDB-RJ), trying to slow down the process for breaking parliamentary decorum. Like this, the case may go to vote in plenary, which will decide whether or not overturns the mandate of the parliamentary. But this should only occur in August, after the end of the House recessed white. Before the vote on the CCJ, Cunha had already announced that, If defeated, resort to Justice. Before heading to the plenary the CCJ has yet to vote on a new report. However, the new text will only endorse the vote rejecting the Cunha feature. At the sitting of Thursday, He was also elected a new rapporteur, Mr Max Son (PSDB- IS). To give flexibility to the case, Max Filho welcomed the previous report on the subject of Mr José Carlos Alleluia (DEM-BA), which contains the basic lines of the winning vote. Initially, in symbolic vote, the CCJ dismissed the report by Mr Ronaldo Fonseca (PROS-DF), determined that re-analysis of the case by the Ethics Committee of the House, as desired Cunha. But the House of former President allies called for roll call vote, where it is registered as each member voted. Minutes later, out the result, sacramentando Cunha defeat. Shortly before the report analysis, Cunha again accused his opponents of acting out of revenge, omitting in cases of other parliamentary – Members are, senators are – with many court cases. In his defense, Cunha returned to the attack the case against him, again he accused the president of the Board of Ethics, José Carlos Araújo (PR-BA), to seek the media spotlight and denied that he made any threats to colleagues of the House. - I did not threat to parliamentarians to mention that 117 Members have the investigation and prosecution, some with more than one. He said that by the opening of the investigation or prosecution to be impeached parliamentary. It is a precedent that any indictment count any parliamentary mandate is precedent for opening cassation. I did not threaten anyone. I have no reason for that - said Cunha.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Pyramid Blast 1 Total bodyweight workout with the pyramid interval...no excuses.. warm up well first and ensure you hydrate during and after.. I promise sweat.. and fat burning will continue for hours after.. enjoy...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Rose is a ancient symbol of love and beauty known by almost everyone. It is the most popularly sent flower on Valentine’s Day. Rose is also frequently used for drawing idea by many artists. In this post we have collected 10+ beautiful rose drawings for your inspiration. They are created with pencil and paper, without…	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
A new water bottle refill station has been installed at The Salts Skatepark in Seaford. It was installed by Staples & Son Seaford, in line with the new skatepark project, funded by a grant from Sports England, as well as donations from Newhaven, Peacehaven and Seaford Lions Club and through developer contributions. The new water bottle refill station at The Salts Skatepark. Picture: Seaford Town Council Town mayor Nazish Adil said: “It is great to see the water bottle refill station fitted at the skate park. “Many kids and their parents will be relaxed as the kids can now keep hydrated and healthy whilst enjoying their outdoor activities at The Salts. “The Reusable water bottles can have a huge and long-term positive impact on the environment. “Water refill stations are an easy way to start making a difference. Everyone, old and young can benefit from the facility. Picture: Seaford Town Council “Seaford Town Council has provided us all access to a necessity more than a facility. We must use it with care and take responsibility of protecting the same.” The station is the first of four that the town council plan to install, said a spokesman, with three more planned to be installed along the promenade. Picture: Seaford Town Council The town council’s restaurant, The View at Seaford Head, also offers free water refills to visitors there. A spokesman said: “As a plastic free community, this will be a positive step to encourage people to refill bottles rather than purchasing single use plastic, which has a huge impact on our environment. “Alongside this, the town council has also recently fitted general waste and recycling bins at the skatepark with a mission to keep the area clean and encourage people using the Skatepark to take responsibility for litter.”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Flight Yangyang to Broome : Location & Airport information Yangyang Airports Serving YANGYANG Broome Time zone in Broome is : GMT+08:00 Surrounded by the aquamarine waters of the Indian Ocean and the creeks, Broome is a tourist town in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia. Broome is like a pearl, rich with its wonderful history and fabulous nature. The exotic city is known for its famous beach, Cable Beach. Broome also famous for its pearls, their pearls are still exported around the world, produced on modern sea farms.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Romanized by me. Color coded done by me. Please credit me if you take the lyrics. Translations Again, did I (did I) did I (did I) did I do something wrong? You get mad so easily (mad) and get tired (tired) Please know my heart (Hey baby) I only have you- the only person who makes my heart beat (You know baby) I only have you alone Please let us just love, please let us stop fighting Sometimes we doubt and argue but still (but still) but still I love you I’m still young (still young) but would you trust you, till always (I only love you) Please let us love, I will promise eternally If I can’t get a hold of you for a second I’m frustrated frustrated frustrated frustrated why? (why) If you go to meet your friends I’m nervous nervous nervous nervous why am I nervous? (Hey baby) Don’t be afraid- because I’ve fallen for you (You know baby) I only know you- I only have you Please let us just love, please let us stop fighting Sometimes we doubt and argue but still (but still) but still I love you I’m still young (still young) but would you trust you, till always (I only love you) Please let us love, I will promise eternally We always tell each other to behave better And we always fight like this We get angry and tell each other that they did something wrong But please help us not to fight yeah~ Please let us just love, please let us stop fighting Sometimes we doubt and argue but still (but still) but still I love you I’m still young (still young) but would you trust you, till always (I only love you) Please let us love, I will promise eternally Please let us just love, please let us stop fighting Sometimes we doubt and argue but still (but still) but still I love you	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Perfect Prime Rib Roast Happy Anniversary to us! Today my post goes out to my husband for putting up with me and standing beside me for 18 years of marriage and 21 years of being together. He has been my rock and leaning post all of these years, and he continues to be my biggest fan and support in … Read more… This hearty Prime Beef Stew is a family winter favorite around here. Living in Maine our weather can be nice one minute and sub-below the next. A nice warm bowl of Prime Beef Stew is always on our menu in January, or any other time I decide to make Prime Rib Roast with Twice Baked … Read more… My husband and I have a tradition every year where we fix what we call the Perfect Prime Rib Roast with Twice Baked Potatoes for our holiday meal. It’s our one big indulgence and we always save it for the end of each and every year. Quoting him he says “it’s the most mouthwatering, aromatic, … Read more…	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Canucks eyed Erat Vancouver did have some tepid interest in Martin Erat, who said he wants out of Washington. But acquiring him would have to be a pickle-for-pickle type deal with David Booth going the other way. It’s fun to consider, but unlikely. There’s a far greater chance the Canucks ride it out with Booth than bet on Erat, who has one goal in 31 games, and that’s while playing in the weaker East. Erat may be a better skater, but he’s smaller and, at 32, three years older. In their past 82 games played, Erat has scored 10 goals and Booth 18. Both Erat ($4.5 million US cap hit) and Booth ($4.2 million cap hit) have another year on their contracts. There is something else to consider. Because Erat’s actual salary dips to $2.25 million next season, his compliance buyout would cost $1.5 million spread over two years. Booth’s buyout is a $3.16 million cost spread over two.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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I have to say, one of my least favorite 'features' is the Fleet options in the Shipyard. By this, I mean the selection of ship slots that are unlocked as you level up. Let me start with what i do like. As you progress in level, you unlock new Fleet Slots with (generally) increasing power. It looks like in the future some configurations will add different types of bonus as well. This is all good.... However, what is absolutely terrible, is how each option has fixed slots for a # of ship hull sizes. You start with 1 option of 3 BattleCruiser Slots. As you start with 3 BattleCruisers, this seems appropriate. However, it also sets the baseline for every other Fleet Slot going forward. The slots initally progress by adding a Frigate each level. This is not obviously a problem, and seems like a progression. The first problem becomes apparent at Level 4, where you have 6 ship slots in your fleet, but only 5 (unpaid) in your dock. This seems like a minor push to get users to spend, which is ok. However, once you hit 5 and 6, you start to see the problem. If you actually built ships to take advantage of the increase by level, you are going to have to destroy them to free up dock slots for bigger ships. I fact, when you hit Level 8 you would have to destroy those bigger ships as well. This process continues throughout the leveling process. To take advantage of these levelups you are going to need to buy many dockyard slots. That is generally a bad experience.... but not the worst part of all of this. At several points in the progression you get to build bigger ships, only to have to downsize others, or spam out many small ships. The lack of user ability to choose what ships to actually use is both frustrating, as well as seemingly unnecessary . At this time I am level 17, and have only used 4 of the fleet slots, as the rest were just a waste of time/effort. In the tactical portion of the game, players build fleets based on point values (not fixed amounts of specific hulls). It is clear that flexible fleets are both possible, and a good idea. I understand that these are preconfigured ships, with set point valued (thus easier to balance, and score). However, there should be some possibility of something between the two systems. I suggest that as players advance in level, that they are given more Fleet Slots to use (doesn't need to be every level). I suggest that instead of fixed hull slots, that you either use something like a WP cap or a add a hull value, and cap those. At level 15 I should be able to choose (something like) a 5 BattleCruisers Fleet, or (Something like) 1 Dreadnaught and 3 BattleCruisers. Let us pick the ships in our fleet under the cap in a flexible manner. This will make the player want to get extra Dockyard slots so that they can get the ships that they WANT, not the ships that they are forced to take. It will also encourage people to keep individual ships, and level them up. With the current system, it really feels like you are forcing players to play how YOU want them too, and that you are penalizing players that are not willing to pay for this dubious honor. At some point a player who has not paid will come up against a player who has 8/9 ships in their fleet, and will just quit the game, declaring it Pay to Win. The sad part is that this doesn't look like an aggressive sales tactic. It just looks like poor planning.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
"And had the Daily News actually asked us if Diane was considering retiring we would have told them yesterday that it wasn't true," the statement added. In its report, the Daily News quoted "a source close to Sawyer" as saying that the 67-year-old ABC World News anchor had "discussed with a few close friends and some people at ABC that she is seriously considering retiring," possibly sometime in 2013. The report added that while Sawyer "loves work and what she does and has endless energy," she also had been "overwhelmed with personal problems and was thinking about leaving to take care of her family."	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Moisture Sensors Managing Irrigation water is essential. Monitoring soil moisture helps the grower maximize irrigation efficiency and minimize costs, while at the same time, it will help draw the most yield out of your crops. The Lower Big Blue NRD along with partners at the UNL Extension office can supply you with the necessary irrigation scheduling equipment. The NRD will cost-share on irrigation scheduling equipment at 50% of cost up to $300.00 per landowner per year. Deadline for cost share is March 31st. Use the Crop Water App with your moisture sensors! Visit CROPWATCH from UNL's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources to learn about the app! The farmers we have been working with report water savings for corn averaged 2.6" while soybean water savings averaged 2.1". This saves water, fuel, and labor. Payback is immediate by saving that first round with a pivot at the beginning of the irrigation season and/or saving an irrigation again at the end of the growing season. In "Over Irrigation Costs More Than Fuel and Labor" Dr. Suat Irmak, University of Nebraska Water Resource Specialist, says that research conducted at Clay Center showed irrigation at 125% of ET (Evapotranspiration) reduced yield 11.5 bushels per acre per year. Irriagation water savings can have positive impacts down the road for our area. Watermark sensors are installed 1ft, 2ft, and 3ft deep in the soil with a soil probe which comprises one sensing station. My recommendation is to have two station per pivot or furrow irrigated field or a total of six sensors per field and a hand held reader. With today's economic situation, getting extra management information on soil moisture status is a no brainer, especially on the first and last irrigation decision making. Make sure and order a consultants tube and soil probe to get the best soil sensor installations. For first year cooperators, a soil probe is not required as we (NRD/Extension) will help you install the equipment and train you how to use it. A hand held reader allows you to take real time soil moisture measurements in any field. Data loggers can provide more convenience while taking readings and year-end readings can be saved on a computer. If you already have an ET gauge, make sure and ask about replacing the white membrane and canvas cover. Information courtesy of Randy Pryor and Paul Hay, University of Nebraska Extension	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Always! Devotions on Grief Always, Lord? Always? The day my mother died I read in the Word of God that Jesus said to His disciples, “If you loved Me, you would rejoice because ... I am going to the Father.” “Can’t you rejoice for your mother?” the minister asked me. “I could if I were not grappling with guilt,” I replied. How was I to cope with the guilt that said I had the chance, and I didn’t take it; I had the prayers, and I didn’t pray them; I had the love, and I didn’t give it; I had the words, and I didn’t say them! My friend reminded me that I needed to think of Mother instead of myself! That day my mother was in heaven, where God had the chance, and He was taking it; He had the prayers, and He was praying them; He had the love, and He was giving it; He had the words, and He was saying them! Sometimes I’m overwhelmed with a great hunger for a sight of her, a touch of her. Then I remember where she is and I seem to imagine her saying, “You shouldn't feel my loss so much. You know where I am and who I’m with. Sooner than you know, you will be here, too!” I know one thing. She doesn’t want me to carry the guilt of “all I didn’t do,” so I leave it at the empty tomb, and rejoice!	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Sega’s Fantasy Zone, designed by Yuji Ishii (Flicky, Teddy Boy, Spatter), released in 1986 for the Sega System 16 board, is heavily inspired by Eugene Jarvis’ Defender, although it provides a unique Japanese take on the formula, one which not only refines the controls and mechanics, but adds a thick layer of overtly pastel cuteness. Arcade The hero of the Fantasy Zone series is Opa-Opa, a rotund egg-shaped ship that appears to be sentient. He has a pair of wings for flying, and sprouts feet when necessary. Opa-Opa’s design shares a lot with Konami’s TwinBee, and both series helped define the subgenre affectionately known as the “cute-em-up“. Unlike many side-scrolling shooters with auto-scrolling, Opa-Opa can fly in any direction, and the stages loop horizontally. The goal is to fly back and forth destroying all the enemy generators. Once you do, you’ll fight some huge boss character, then move on to the next stage. There are eight levels in total, each with adorably cutesy names: Plaleaf, Tabas, La Dune, Dolimicca, Polaria, Mockstar, Pocarius, and Salfar. The final stage is a boss rush, which culminates in the battle against the final enemy. Arcade The controls are initially a bit tricky to get the hang of, since your ship has a sense of inertia and continues to move even after you take your hand off the joystick. The camera often has trouble keeping up, making it difficult to see what’s in front of you. Once you get over this initial hurdle, Fantasy Zone becomes an absolute blast to play. Arcade Rather than simply collecting power-ups like most shooters, Fantasy Zone lets you buy them. Opa-Opa initially only has a simple twin gun and bombs, which are lobbed at a low arc. Every bad guy drops coins when defeated, which can be used at a shop, accessed by flying into a large red balloon. Inside, you can purchase wings and engines (speed ups), an assortment of lasers and spread guns, more powerful bombs, and even extra lives. The primary weapons have time limits, after which they disappear, while certain bombs, like the 16-ton weights, can only be used a single time. However, the special bombs are activated with the regular bomb button, so they replace other bombs until it’s used. You’ll also lose all of your equipped items when you die, which is a huge pain when fighting bosses, since you can’t re-equip yourself after perishing, leaving you underpowered. Arcade There’s a lot of economic strategy that comes into this. You can buy the fastest engine so you can swipe up all of the coins dropped by bosses, but doing so will often make the boss battle more difficult, since your super fast speed makes it hard to dodge with precision the many projectiles spewed out. It’s actually a good idea to buy multiple weapons – once you run out of one, a little “Select“ balloon will pop out, allowing you to switch to another weapon. It’s also handy for a breather, since the later stages can become filled with enemies and their numerous projectiles. Furthermore, each time you buy something, the price of the item increases for the next time. This means you can either blow your money on weapons all throughout the game to make everything easier, or save up your cash for the final stages, in case you need it to buy extra lives. You’ll want to do this, because there’s no way to continue. Arcade Beyond its unique mechanics, Fantasy Zone creates one of the most beautiful game worlds ever known. Its levels are filled with green meadows, shining rainbows, bright waterfalls, and enemies with big goofy grins that only seem slightly annoyed when you pelt them out of existence with your laser guns. Its huge boss characters possess their own strange looks and personalities. The first boss is a giant block of wood that vomits leaves; the second can only be described as a frowning yellow gourd, surrounded by orbs, which pops out deadly sprouts from its top. Later enemies include a legion of deadly snowmen and a maliciously grinning brick which disassembles and reassembles itself around the screen. At the end, the final enemy, a gigantic ship similar to Opa-Opa, is revealed to be his father, a strangely tragic twist in the otherwise impossibly peppy game world. Arcade The music, reflecting the colorful visuals, is a selection of warm, bouncy tracks with a distinctive Latin flavor. Aesthetically, it’s almost impossible to play Fantasy Zone without feeling a sense of incredible happiness, which ironically contrasts against its rather high difficulty. Fantasy Zone was quite popular in Japan, though never quite garnered the same amount of respect overseas, with its bright colors perhaps being too off-putting. The regional versions are practically identical – the intro and ending text is in English in both releases – though the overseas release has a different arrangement of the song “Hot Snow“. Sega Master System The Master System port can’t quite match the arcade graphics, since it can only handle 32 colors, rather than the 256 colors of the arcade version. The parallax background scrolling is gone, as is the in-game radar, plus the music is converted poorly. And yet, it captures the gameplay fairly well. Some of the bosses were too much for the machine to handle; two of them are changed completely, including the gigantic fish and evil turtle. The background also disappears for each boss encounter. There are only six enemy generators in each level, instead of 10 like in the arcade version, plus they no longer change color to reflect their health. Sega Master System There are two Fantasy Zone adaptations for the Nintendo 8-bit systems. The Japanese Famicom version, ported by Sunsoft, is comparative to the Master System version, and still succeeds in looking decent despite being limited to 16 colors, plus it even manages to keep the radar. Famicom A few years later, Tengen released their own version for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This version has completely different graphics to the Famicom game and not only looks substantially worse, but has funky controls and lots of flickering. The version on the TurboGrafx-16 comes the closest to the arcade, but the parallax scrolling is also absent, and the music is really quite bad. MSX There were also a few computer ports in Japan. The MSX home computer version has terrible graphics and unbearably choppy scrolling. The Sharp MZ version is even cruder, with colored squares and triangles used as graphics, though it’s cool in an abstract art kind of way. X68000 The X68000 version, released in 1989 by Dempa, is practically arcade perfect, along with a few bonuses. There’s a totally new, hidden level based on Space Harrier called Dragon Land. X68000 To reach it, you need to break the radar down into numbers. Starting at the right side, count 1, 2, 3, etc. In each level, the first pod you need to destroy corresponds to that numbered pod on the radar. For the first level, you have to destroy the #1 pod first, second level destroy the #2 pod first, etc. Instead of just dropping a regular coin, they’ll drop a letter. If you collect all seven, it’ll spell out HARRIER. When you beat the seventh stage, you’ll be taken to Dragon Land. There’s also a hidden options screen, which lets you set “Arrange“ music and uses the computer’s MIDI instruments instead of the arcade synth. The first console arcade perfect port was for the Sega Saturn, released only in Japan under the Sega Ages label. It includes the original soundtrack as redbook audio, in addition to a vocal song (along with a karaoke mode), and a replay mode with an expert playthrough. There are also hidden options, including the ability to continue. PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 version of Fantasy Zone, released in 2003 as part of the initial run of the Sega Ages 2500 budget line (as Vol. 3), is fairly decent. Opa-Opa, the enemies and the bosses are polygonal models, while the backgrounds are still flat 2D albeit with some effects to make them seem 3D. The style faithfully emulates the 2D original, but the ugly interlacing artifacts diminish the appeal. Thankfully, the game plays almost perfectly regardless. PlayStation 2 The music tracks are straight from the arcade game. In addition to a fairly faithful “Arcade Mode“, there’s also an “Original Mode“. This includes fancy camera pans at the beginning of each level to show off the polygonal models, as well as new post-boss bonus stages, where the view switches to a behind-the-back perspective. Here, the boss explodes and vomits out bonus coins, which you try to collect. Each scene lasts 30 seconds though, so they quickly grow tiresome. PlayStation 2 By far the most interesting addition is the “Challenge Mode“. This lets you play individual stages at your leisure, but allows you to keep any additional money to buy an assortment of bonus goodies, many of which affect the “Original Mode“. These unlockables include a variety of super-powered weapons like the Wild Beam and 14-Way Shot, the ability to continue from the stage where you died, an option to enable rapid fire, another to disable shop inflation, a Barrier like in Super Fantasy Zone and, most excitedly, four brand new stages: Dawndusk, Apochal, Cavian and Depooble. These all contain new enemies, new bosses, and new music, in a style consistent with the original arcade version. Unlocking these stages is mandatory if you want to get the good ending – if you play through the game normally you’re treated to a real bummer of a finale. PlayStation 2 Fantasy Zone Complete Collection, released for the PlayStation 2 in 2008 includes perfect ports of the original arcade version and the SMS port. As an added bonus, it includes a game called Fantasy Zone Neo Classic It’s an enhanced version of the Famicom port, but with slightly different (and better) graphics, different music synth, and some altered enemy patterns. The arcade version is also featured as an unlockable on Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection for the PS3 and X360. PlayStation 2 The 3DS version, called 3DFantasy Zone: Opa-Opa Brothers, includes impressive 3D effects. There is a level select and coins can be carried over to subsequent games. The extra bosses from the SMS version have been added, and there is an arrow to indicate the vertical positioning of the bases. 3DS There is a new “Upa-Upa Mode” where you play as Opa-Opa’s brother. Here, you can switch between weapons with the touch screen, although each shot will deplete coins, and the final boss is their mother rather than their father, with a slightly different, more comical ending where she scolds him for wasting so much money. It also has a new music track for the first stage. Plus, the retail Sega 3D Classics Collection includes a hidden port of the SMS game, with added 3D, a radar, and a new FM OST (the original port only had PSG). Arnold Palmer Golf (Genesis) Fantasy Zone was also a hidden game in Arnold Palmer’s Tournament Golf for the Genesis. After hitting the ball 100 times on the first hole without landing on the green, input a secret code, and you’ll get to play a level of Fantasy Zone. The screen is cramped, and it’s only a single stage, but it’s a nifty diversion if you’re bored of golf. Zillion For a long time, Opa-Opa was an official mascot for Sega. He showed up in the anime Zillion and ended up in the SMS game as a power-up item. He also makes an appearance in Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars as one of the treasured items you pursue, as well as a Mag (a flying robot helper) in Phantasy Star Online. The Fantasy Zone theme song, “Opa Opa“, is featured in the Dreamcast version of Sega’s maraca shaking rhythm game, Samba de Amigo, and as a cheer song in the soccer game Virtua Striker 4. He even makes a cameo appearance in Sonic Riders, and is a character in Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing. He is a downloadable character for the racing minigame in Sonic Adventure 2 and appears as a caddy in the Japanese PC game Sega Splash Golf.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Not-So-Super Tuesday Report And now your eagerly awaited Super Tuesday Report. Named for the quantity of contests and not the quality of participants. Perhaps it would be more apt to say Not-So-Super Tuesday Report. More of a Frenetic and Confusing but Ultimately Unsatisfying with a Slight Aftertaste of Desperation Tuesday Report. The biggest complaint is lack of resolution. No dragons slain. No damsels rescued. Not even a castle breached. Although there was that bit of swordplay in Ohio. And you can never discount the romantic poetry that is a Rick Santorum victory celebration in Steubenville. The night reverberated with echoes of a Democratic affair rather than a Republican one because there was something for everyone. Très egalitarian. "We're all winners here." Mitt Romney took six states, Rick Santorum three and that Energizer Bunny, Newt Gingrich, won his home stomping grounds of Georgia. Ron Paul reportedly is still running, but nobody is sure how or why. The Texan doctor just quietly rolls along racking up his regular 15 percent, clogging up the bottom of the pack. This time around in the four-man race, it was three seconds, three thirds and four fourth- place finishes. If he were a horse, vets would be whispering about euthanasia. Santorum would love to see Gingrich drop out in order to isolate Romney, but Newt refuses to wilt. It's that old sports aphorism: "You can't stop him, all you can do is hope to contain him. And the Newtster seems to be contained. In the Southeast. Perhaps the Centers for Disease Control had something to do with it. Meanwhile, Team Romney's frustration is bubbling up like a 3:00 a.m. street burrito. They've resorted to trumpeting their candidate's inevitability. Wow. Inevitability. What's that? Some Borg thing? "Resistance is futile." Sounds like the fifth and final stage of grief. "Oh, all right. I guess. Why not? Go Mitt." Let's see. Who was the last candidate that flaunted an air of inevitability? Oh, that's right, Hillary Clinton. Who, you got to admit, ended up with a halfway decent job. Some folks maintain this extended process is making the Mittmeister a better candidate. But the more he has to back-pedal to catch the spiraling nomination, the less time there is to build momentum for the general sprint downfield. Not good news for a candidate with few blockers and his propensity for fumbling. All Mitt Romney has been doing for five years is training to run for president. How much better can he get at this? Pretty sure his learning curve has used up all its bendy parts. During his victory speech in Boston, Romney promised "real change." And you got to admit, the man has a huge amount of experience, particularly considering his own policies. So the stretch run to 1,144 delegates continues, and the track moves on to Mississippi and Alabama where Newt's half-price-gas message is expected to resonate with what are now being euphemistically called "Low-Information Voters." Says so right there in the Constitution: Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness and Cheap Unleaded. They don't call it Super Tuesday for nothing. No more shall we see that multitude of races in this edition of the Political Breeder's Cup. And while Mitt Romney has his hands looped in momentum's reins, he's down to one last home-state flower blanket to drape across his withers.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Observations from Iraq, Iran, Israel, the Arab world and beyond The third attack by saboteurs in six months against the pipeline supplying natural gas to Israel and Jordan underscores security lapses and the opposition of many Egyptians to their nation's contract to ship low-cost energy to Israel. Early-morning blasts Monday were carried out by masked men who tied up security guards and planted bombs at the Bir el Abd pipeline station near the town of Al Arish in the Sinai Peninsula. The official state news aganecy, MENA, reported that the assailants remotely activated the bombs by firing gunshots. No casualties were reported. The pipeline was attacked two other times this year: a few days after the Feb. 11 overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak and a second assault on April 27 (pictured) that interrupted supplies to Israel for weeks. Witnesses said Monday that flames streaked as high as 30 feet. MENA later quoted security sources as saying the incident was a terrorist attack. The fire was under control by Monday afternoon, but officials did not say when gas service would be restored. The Sinai is home to Bedouin tribes that have long complained of discrimination and have often clashed with police and security forces in a region known for weapons trafficking and other smuggling. “Whether these attacks are carried out by large groups or individuals, many Egyptians are against supplying Israel with gas,” retired Gen. Mohamed Ali Belal told Babylon and Beyond. “Those who’ve been bombing the pipeline believe that they are fulfilling their national responsibility and playing a part in stopping gas exports to Israel.” Egypt was the first Arabic nation to sign a peace accord with Israel in 1979, but many Egyptians have never fully embraced normalizing ties with the nation. The Egyptian Natural Gas Company GASCO said an unexploded canister was found about half a mile from the bombed site. A security source told MENA that it was too early to determine who was behind the blasts. Prosecutors said, however, that the technique used was the same as in the previous attacks. Egypt has been providing Israel with about 40% of its natural gas since 2004. But the discounted prices in the Israeli gas contract have further infuriated Egyptians and led to a criminal investigation into a sweetheart deal allegedly orchestrated by Mubarak and his friend gas magnate Hussein Salem. The deal is reported to have cost Egypt tens of millions of dollars in lost revenues. Egyptian authorities have kept gas export prices to Israel confidential. Local media estimate between 70 cents and $1.50 per million British gas units (BTUs, or British thermal units) whereas Israeli media cite a higher price of $2.50 to $4 per million BTUs. In April, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf called for renegotiating the country’s gas export contracts “so that Egyptian gas would be sold with prices that achieve the highest returns" for Egypt. Jordan later announced that such moves were underway, but no details have been announced. -- Amro Hassan in Cairo Photo: The April attack on the pipeline carrying gas from Egypt to Israel and Jordan sends up flames. Credit: AFP / Getty Images	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
GABRIELLEhttps://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com Gabrielle Rogers: An art student in LondonThu, 22 Feb 2018 07:01:03 +0000enhourly1http://wordpress.com/https://gabriellerogersart.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/cropped-expo-2.jpg?w=32GABRIELLEhttps://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com 3232BA Fine Art Y1T3 WK 1-2: SONIC ENVIRONMENThttps://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/ba-fine-art-y1t3-wk-1-2-sonic-environment/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/ba-fine-art-y1t3-wk-1-2-sonic-environment/#respondSun, 30 Apr 2017 09:58:28 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=529Continue reading BA Fine Art Y1T3 WK 1-2: SONIC ENVIRONMENT]]>A lot of time last term was spent working on a sound event with my entire pathway group (46 people), that took place between 14:00 and 16:00 on Wednesday the 26th of April in the K Project Space at Central St Martins, Kings Cross. Alongside spearheading the choreography team – planning where people’s work would be based in the space, how to structure the actual sound so that everyone’s work would be heard in the best way, timetabling performances – I performed in a live sound piece using contact microphones with 5 other people. Our plan for our performance had changed so much from our original idea – a virtual reality yoga session – and we had decided on using contact microphones attached to a steel sheet, with the sound fed through a mixer into a laptop and out through stereo speakers. One member of the team mixed and distorted the sounds the rest of us made using vibrating/sound creating objects, and we performed with the room lights off, wearing hats, for 10 minutes. We initially wanted to suspend the sheet with wires from the ceiling, however this would have been a pretty high risk hazard, so we built a frame to hold it. This would have become a table which we knelt around, however we ran out of time before the event to be able to make it strong enough to hold the steel sheet and frame, so instead we laid the frame on top of 2 wooded palettes. The objects we used included: a fan, an electric toothbrush, an electric nail file, a motor belt, an old Nokia with ring tone demos, an iPhone set to vibrate when called, a bag of fish tank stones, a bag of dried chickpeas, an empty Carlsberg can, an alarm clock, a load of bulldog clips, cardboard rolls, and duct tape. During the performance, I sat at the end of the frame, and mainly used the bag of chickpeas to slam onto the metal and create a percussionist, rhythmic thud, and used my hands to press on the metal sheet, creating vibrations that were picked up by the contact microphones. I also used the Nokia to put out some ring tones, until it ran out of battery halfway through. I honestly didn’t charge it because, as a 10 year old Nokia, I had assumed it would last forever, but I stand proven wrong. We practised before the event playing around with the sounds and effects, to see how loud/interesting each tool was, and during the actual performance it was all improvisation; building up properly like a jam session, not just everyone clamouring to be heard at once. We ended when Myles, who was mixing, motioned to Sam that it was approaching 10 minutes, who then brought out a Tibetan singing bowl from underneath the sheet, which was the cue to the rest of us to tone down again, and used the mic against the bowl to resonate a high pitched ringing, signalling the end of the performance. We all took our hats off and walked out, which ended up working really well as straight after the two people who had been recording the performance for us began conducting an “interview”. In the group crit for the event next day we learnt that the Vice President of the university had been showing a VIP guest around, and brought him to our performance, which was really encouraging. I felt piece had been very intuitive, and as a team we were very responsive to each other as we made the sounds, especially down to Myles’ mixing. One of our tutors said that it was great that we had kind of accepted the role of the “band” for the event, which I appreciated because the event itself was so diverse. Their major criticism was on the use of palettes, as we could have spent more effort making the actual table. We did struggle due to the workshop running out of wood, but I don’t like to make excuses for not achieving things, and focusing on making finished pieces that look done is definitely an area I have been improving on. The entire event itself was such a great collaboration from all of us – our tutors noted that it had been a long time since they had seen a group this large work so well together – and although I would have personally preferred the event to have been a single sound performance/piece involving all of us, there was a great balance and variety of work shown – paintings, installation, photography, and mainly performance and video work. We had the event start with us all stood outside the room; inside, the continuous video, performance, and sound pieces were set up and the lights were on. We all then entered the room collectively, and the event began. People from inside the uni came to watch, and after the first half an hour the lights were turned off and everyone’s work was stopped, as one group did a performance under their own lighting (there was a small issue with trying to get the bloody lights off as the light switch had a complete mind of it’s own, but we got there, with about 5 minutes to get everyone to cease their work for the performance). There was then another 5 minute interval, before my group did our performance. The event then continued with the lights off, and the others set up their work again. Things went quicker than expected and it seemed like people were losing interest, so half an hour before the event was due to end, we began to wind down. The cue to end was Dizzie Rascal’s Bassline Junkie played through a bass amp hidden inside a wall (one person’s piece), and everyone wound down their work, or ended their performances. We finished by playing Bonkers, also by Dizzee Rascal, as one of my classmates finished his performance prancing around the room, and then he played S&M by Rihanna as he continued to the end in a corner of the room with us all gathered around. The lights were switched on, signalling the end of the event. If I were to do it again, I would have left more intervals or periods of silence in which to listen to some pieces individually, or to experience the bleeding of external sounds into our space; the saws in the workshops, people working in studios, the piano in the street outside being played. I also think it’s really important to continue this energy, and create more timed events as a group, rather than trying to spend money on expensive gallery spaces for one day exhibitions. Ready to spend rest of this term slaying away. GABRIELLE. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/ba-fine-art-y1t3-wk-1-2-sonic-environment/feed/0IMG_1108gabriellerogers97IMG_1108IMG_1243IMG_1192BA Fine Art, Year 1, Term 2, Weeks 7-10: Metaphonica III and The Empress: Prologuehttps://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-weeks-7-10-metaphonica-iii-and-the-empress-prologue/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-weeks-7-10-metaphonica-iii-and-the-empress-prologue/#respondMon, 13 Mar 2017 13:52:21 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=514Continue reading BA Fine Art, Year 1, Term 2, Weeks 7-10: Metaphonica III and The Empress: Prologue]]>Ok so the past 3 weeks have literally been INSANE, had my Unit 2 resubmission (missed it first time round because I was in Australia… oopise), Unit 3 submission today, a group crit, essay, and I performed at ‘Metaphonica III’, and experimental sound event at Central St Martins. Ultimate Dyspraxia Report. 2017. Performance, 5 minutes. My initial proposal was to learn a song on bass on stage with a written piece projected behind me; it was intended to explore the relationship between my struggle with playing instruments due to my dyspraxia and sexism I have experienced within the DIY music scene. This felt too explanatory, so I was just going to have my dyspraxia report from an assessor displayed behind me, but there was a technical problem so none of my work was projected. Furthermore, I had issues with my bass which meant the sound was very quiet. In future, perhaps I will do smaller scale performances where I have more control over technical aspects, so I can learn to deal with things myself. The Empress: Prologue. 2017. Film, 4 minutes. This film is a work in progress, and shows Jess taking the role of The Empress – my higher self, as she uses objects from my life, in this reality, in a ritual to descend to this dimension. I used the green screen for the first time, and the Black Magic camera – however I had the exposure too low so I need to edit the luminosity and saturation further, to eliminate the desaturation. Furthermore, the current sound it just what was recorded in the studio, which was very noisy, so I plan to use Audition to edit the sound track. The ritual is based off of Wicca spellcasting, which I have been researching, and the background is a photo of a mountain forest in the rain, the one that inspired Petrichor. I used a similar technique to my first Empress film in warping the objects – using masks and Wave Warp or Turbulent Distortion; the idea was for the objects to be ceremonial, indexical of my life at the current moment in time. It is called Prologue as I intend to develop this project further, by showing how The Empress or my consciousness has risen/will rise through the 7 levels of consciousness, in a film of 7 chapters. So anyway, that’s this term done!! Now for 6 weeks of reading, painting, photo taking and chilling. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-weeks-7-10-metaphonica-iii-and-the-empress-prologue/feed/02017_03_01_Prologue.still5gabriellerogers97DSC05680 copy2017_03_01_Prologue.still5BA Fine Art, Year 1, Term 2, Weeks 4-7: Dreams, Plants, and Performance.https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-weeks-4-7-dreams-plants-and-performance/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-weeks-4-7-dreams-plants-and-performance/#respondMon, 13 Mar 2017 13:38:04 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=491Continue reading BA Fine Art, Year 1, Term 2, Weeks 4-7: Dreams, Plants, and Performance.]]>These weeks were mainly research based – investigating gender, Wicca religion, dreams, herbology and Beat writers. I initially planned to do a performative sculpture/installation by growing plants in the studio, however I kind of lost interest when I realised that growing plants takes more effort and attention to detail than I care to muster. I had been thinking about growing plants as the ultimate act of creation – however I had also been writing down my dreams, and reading up on Tibetan Dream yoga, and now I think that dreams are the ultimate act of creation. Many people believe dreams to be 4th dimensional, and representative of our parallel lives, and when I write them down as soon as I wake up, they become stories similar to William Burroughs Naked Lunch: mad, incomprehensible, and able to read in whatever order as they will always be nonsensical. For a group crit and open studio event I did a performance of myself scattering bark and casting a circle in soil, creating a safe space like a Wicca spellcasting ritual, before lying down in it to read select dreams from my dream diary. This feels like the beginning of something I want to develop further; this was my first live performance, not in front of the camera, and I really liked the energy and how natural it felt, using my body as a piece of art. Will definitely be using this more for next term, perhaps filming a one-take live performance in front of an audience for use as a level of consciousness in my film of 7 chapters. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-weeks-4-7-dreams-plants-and-performance/feed/0IMG_9686gabriellerogers97Exhibition Review: Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Modern, and Wolfgang Tillmans, Tate Modern.https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/exhibition-review-robert-rauschenberg-tate-modern-and-wolfgang-tillmans-tate-modern/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/exhibition-review-robert-rauschenberg-tate-modern-and-wolfgang-tillmans-tate-modern/#respondMon, 20 Feb 2017 09:32:15 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=368Continue reading Exhibition Review: Robert Rauschenberg, Tate Modern, and Wolfgang Tillmans, Tate Modern.]]>You know what?? I must be a pretty crap art student for not hearing of Rauschenberg before my tutor told me (in November might I add) that I NEEDED to see the exhibition of his work at Tate Modern, organised in conjunction with The Museum of Modern Art, New York. I had somehow managed to research the majority of his contemporaries, never even coming across his incredibly diverse practice until seeing hundreds of posters for the exhibition, featuring the iconic image of JFK, on the Tube. Robert Rauschenberg Retroactive II, 1964, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. I mean, I’ll be honest, I didn’t really fancy shelling out the 15 quid for a student (a bloody student!!!!!) ticket to the exhibition, so I put it off for a solid 2.5 months. Finally, I bit the bullet. Luckily, the Wolfgang Tillmans show had just opened the previous day, and if you buy a ticket to 2 exhibitions it’s £25 AND you get a free drink, which is a much more appealing offer. So with the curation at the Tate exhibitions I’ve noticed they usually do it in chronological order of the artists career, which I mean isn’t bad like you’ve gotta start somewhere but like I’m not a fan of the layout of the gallery, they tend to cram a lot of the middle career work (often the most prolific) into those tiny little rooms at the back, which is a bit crap to be honest isn’t it. With Rauschenberg it was chronological to some extent, but then each room focused on a specific medium. As soon as I walked into the room titled ‘Combines’ (number 3), I was instantly struck by by how evident his influence had been on the art world; abstract expressionism in particular. For Rauschenberg, a painting was not just a 2D representation – it was a performance, and the result was a sculptural art-object. Looking at his work, such as Black Market (1961, Museum Ludwig, Cologne), or Winter Pool (1959, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), the painting literally projects into the physical space beyond it, physically breaking the boundaries of the canvas, the object suggesting an action – removing or taking items from the box connected to Black Market, or descending the ladder in Winter Pool. Something that I realised as I walked through the display of Dante Drawings (1958, Museum of Modern Art, New York), and into the room containing his silk screen paintings, was that the collage style and Dada influence in his compositions resulted in a kind of madness that reminded me so much of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, (1955-6); he truly embodied the hysteria of this era, the turn of the century, the vast post-war advancement of capitalism that was to swell and burst in the 1980s. Lines from Howl, such as ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked’ and ‘…battered bleak of brain all drained of brilliance in the drear light of zoo’, involuntarily came to mind (maybe I’m just a wanker who likes Beat poetry too much), and even though Rauschenberg produced his final silkscreen paintings in 1964, nearly 10 years after Howl was written, they seemed like a natural progression in the cultural storytelling of the mid-20th century. The small rooms at the back of the Eyal Ofer Galleries were not the right setting for Oracle (1962-5, Museé National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou), and Mud Muse (1968-71, Moderna Museet, Stockholm); they are large, dynamic installations that needed much more space. Furthermore, I really disliked how they had a theme of “Technology” for one room, cramming in work Rauschenberg produced for Apollo 11, Moon Museum (1969, MoMA, New York, collaboration between Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, David Novros, Forrest Myers, Robert Rauschenberg, John Chamberlain) in the same room as Mud Muse, where the minuscule microchip was very much lost, and felt like it had just been shoved there so that it had a place in the exhibition. Moon Museum, 1969, ceramic, MoMA, New York. The final rooms were much better curated, however the work was not as impactful or iconic. Untitled (Spread) (1983, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York), was one piece that really stood out for me here, perhaps because it was similar to the combines and screenprints he produced in his youth; except here using a solvent transfer process instead of screens. Despite some criticisms (largely due to the architecture and layout of the galleries), this is an incredible exhibition with such a diverse spread of work from a truly exemplary artist of the 20th century – a must see. 2017, was configured by Tillmans himself; the press release clearly states that it is not a retrospective, each room is a response to the current social, cultural and political climate, using prints from the artists own studio collection. The first thing that struck me as I entered was the display – the prints were all different sizes, different papers, and displayed differently – hung with dog clips, framed, hung high, low, massive print, small print. It did give off a hint of art foundation end of year show vibes; but you know what? it WORKED. There was such a freshness in this, the photos spoke not just as 2 dimensional digital prints, but as art objects, to one another. There was a coherence to each room, and although the photos may have been unrelated, that’s what made each room interesting – there was no “oh here’s a series of so and so”, where you breeze past 8 similar photos all the same size all framed and hung adjacent to each other. You had to look at each photo. Young Man, Jeddah, 2012. truth study center (2005), a collection of clippings, objects, drawings, and photographs comes together with enormous prints from his Silver project, an excellent use of the larger room, giving space for the massive collection to breathe underneath the glass topped tables, as I often find this was of displaying archival material boring, and easy to overlook. Surprisingly, one of my favourite pieces from the show was Playback Room, a space designed to listen to recorded music. There is a correlation between recorded music and photography – both are usually experienced in a way that is detrimental to the work: listening to music with cheap headphones or looking at photos on a small screen. As able to see Tillmans prints as he truly wanted them to be seen, we listen to Colourbox as they wanted their music to be heard, and it’s fucking brilliant. Frank, 2016, Maureen Paley, London. The final room was visually incredible, featuring a trio of sky prints and The State We’re In, 2015; depictions of nature in its most expansive and raw form, referencing a break from national borders and divisions. Tillmans work, and being able to see it here, in this way, has given me the kick up the arse I wanted; I left the exhibition determined, to take beautiful photographs of beautiful people, places, and things. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/02/20/exhibition-review-robert-rauschenberg-tate-modern-and-wolfgang-tillmans-tate-modern/feed/0inflight-astro-ii-press-imagegabriellerogers97retroactive-ii-1964gold-standard-1964moon-museum-1969untitled_spread-1983young-man-jeddah-2012frank-2016-maureen-paleyBA Fine Art Year 1, Term 2, Weeks 2-4: Installation Workshop and ‘Petrichor’https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/ba-fine-art-weeks-2-4-installation-workshop-and-petrichor/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/ba-fine-art-weeks-2-4-installation-workshop-and-petrichor/#respondFri, 03 Feb 2017 16:09:28 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=323Continue reading BA Fine Art Year 1, Term 2, Weeks 2-4: Installation Workshop and ‘Petrichor’]]>My installation elective workshop started with a seminar on ‘How Artists Use Space’; this was a really engaging and succinct way to begin the next few weeks, and I felt really inspired as one of the artists mentioned, Michael Beutler, I had worked with on installing their exhibition ‘Pump House’, at Spike Island, and I ended up taking over the seminar for about 10 minutes, describing how we worked and the processes he used in the space. We would have the next week (around 4 full days) to fully install a piece of work in one of the project spaces, as it would be in a gallery, for a group crit on the following Monday. I had already been planning an installation, to play a sound piece I’d produced the previous week in an environment created using dead Christmas trees, to be called ‘Petrichor’, intended to tell a story of my month travelling around Australia, and what I saw there. Honestly, this project was incredibly stressful, as I wasn’t used to having such a short amount of time, but I found it so helpful as it really gave me the kick up the arse I needed to learn about installing my work. I decided on using the dark project space; a small room in the basement that was painted black, so I could turn the lights off and focus on it being a sensory experience of touch, smell, and sound. Originally, I planned to build a room inside the room, fill it with the trees stood up and cut into bits stuck to the walls and ceiling, and to have 4 speakers up on a shelf in each corner to play the sound, but my plans changed quite a bit. As I was working with another person in the room, I had to factor in their piece. I couldn’t build a wall in the short amount of time we were given, and then tried to use the corridor at the entrance of the room, but this would have been a health and safety hazard as the trees would have blocked the fire exit. I then decided to use a blackout curtain, but as I began to play around with the placement of the trees I realised I needed much more space than originally intended, as I wished to space them out to place a blanket down in between them for people to sit down on. This was due to a conversation with my tutor after playing her my sound piece, which was 10 minutes long, and she pointed out that it would be difficult to get people to stand for that long. I intended to get the group of 10 in my tutorial to spend 5 minutes each sat in the piece, as around 5 could fit. I also struggled with how to set up the trees, as I had wanted a very tight, claustrophobic environment, but there were not enough to do that with the amount of people I wanted to be involved and the amount of trees and space I had. They were then going to lead people through the space, but again it would be difficult to have them listen to the piece whilst doing this. Finally I set the 6 trees in a circle, held up by buckets filled with sand (I had tried to make stands using wood but this was too much considering the timescale). I also spread 75l of bark on the floor to add to the sensory experience. The playing of the sound also proved to be a problem. I discovered that in order to play the sound from my macbook through 2 different sets of stereo speakers I would also have to use a mixing board. From a sheet of MDF (I’m actually mad proud of this) I made 6 shelves, one for each speaker and one each for my macbook and the mixing board, and painted them black to match the walls. I also painted over shiny patches on the walls with matt black paint, as when the lights were off and only the light from the door shone through these were reflective and were distracting. When it came to installing the speakers, however, I discovered that I had been given the wrong cables, and had probably been too ambitious with what I could do. I got the correct cables, cut it down to 1 set of speakers, no mixer, and installed the wires correctly. I could have done with longer cables, but I couldn’t do anything about it in the end, the only issue was that they weren’t all in straight lines, some were diagonal, and I had to tape them to the floor instead of fixing them to the ceiling. When I showed the piece, the room was dark except for the light coming through the door and these LED battery powered circle lights that I installed at the base. This cast shadows on the walls, and you could see everyone else and the trees to some extent in the semi-darkness. On the wall opposite to where mine was situated, the other person had painted in glow in the dark paint on the wall, giving the effect that people said “if the gateway to Narnia led into a rave”. The sound piece was audible loudly, and filled the room. You could also smell the bark and the dead trees, which contrasted with the image of life I describe in the audio. Experiencing the Petrichor like this was actually amazing, as my orginal intention was to transport people in the traditional storytelling way, and in a way relive the moments described, however with the lighting, scent of decaying matter and fake SFX of rain and bug noises the whole effect was incredibly eerie, like those Victorian photographs of corpses dressed up to look as though they are still alive. But I was SOOOO happy with this, as in the audio I read out an excerpt from my notebook where I write about J Krishnamurti’s opinion on memory, on the past, and on truth, “a truth cannot be repeated”, so really the piece became more than I originally intended, and became an experience in it’s own, rather than a re-imagination of the past. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/ba-fine-art-weeks-2-4-installation-workshop-and-petrichor/feed/0img_9335gabriellerogers97BA Fine Art Year 1, Term 2: Week 1https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-week-1/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-week-1/#respondMon, 16 Jan 2017 12:35:01 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=303Continue reading BA Fine Art Year 1, Term 2: Week 1]]>First week back at uni has left me EXHAUSTED. In addition to crazy jetlag (try 50 hours travelling back to London from Australia then not sleeping for 4 nights), I hadn’t cycled in a month so when I made my 2 hour commute (1 hour each way) my ASS was in AGONY. Only just recovered. Plus trying to adjust back to winter (the sun doesn’t rise til 8am?????) and this freezing weather has thrown me a bit. But I’m not trying to complain here – super grateful that I was able to take a month to go travel an amazing country with my best friend, which has meant I’m feeling really refreshed and ready to grab this new term by the balls Anyway enough about my ass and life’s balls. We started off by presenting in our tutor groups what we had done over Christmas. The majority of us had done fuck all, I’d done a little painting telling a story about how I missed the sun. Only in hindsight did I realise that with the dot work and story telling aspect, it was similar to some of the aboriginal Australian paintings I had seen in galleries in Sydney. I also read out (pretty shyly) some of my writings, which make up a large part of my work – yet I never present them. This was actually the first time I had, but I might as well have not done because I just mumbled them in monotone. There is still a lot of fear in my, and this term is all about breaking down that fear, being brave and not being scared to push myself. My tutor pointed out that the painting seemed like I’d just done it to have something to show (which I had) and I could have thought more about how to present my work, how to turn this storytelling aspect I want to pursue into something to be experienced. It was because of this, reading out my writings of my experiences travelling Australia’s east coast, talking about nature, the smell of wet plants, the noise of the bugs, that I thought about doing a sound installation. I had an idea ages ago where a person walks into an empty room that smells of wet plants – my favourite smell, called petrichor. I didn’t know how this would be possible, but I could do sound and sensation with speakers and installing plants. Having seen a load of dead Christmas trees on the streets surrounding my studio, and thinking about the relation between the eucalyptus rain forests I had been hiking through, and the traditional western family Christmas that I had missed for the first time, I decided to harvest these trees, dragging about 5 into the project space to deal with later (before they were carted off by London council). I am either going to use them as they are, whole, or cut them and hang the branches, or possibly spray paint them green again, or silver or gold. I will need to go back to the space with them in and decide from there. On Friday I booked the sound studio for the morning so I could record myself reading some of my edited writings. I had wanted to practice monologuing/performing, but I had never done it before, and didn’t want to in my room because my flatmates would hear. I went over the material several times, and practiced reading out by reciting Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, a Beat writer who has inspired my work. At some parts I free-styled the performance, really getting into speaking new words as if I was writing them, and projecting and gesturing. I then used what I had recorded in Adobe Audition, along with Adobe, BBC, and Apple SFX packages to tell a story of my travels, each section telling a little bit about a place I had gone. I mainly used jungle ambience, rain and ocean sounds, but also used MGMT’s Kids, which had been playing when me and some other people wen skinny dipping, and now always reminds me of that time, and a recording of Tibetan monks chanting ‘Om Mani Padme Hum’, which relates to the end of the piece. At that point, I began talking about The Empress, a fictional device I invented, as my 7th dimensional self that comes down to the 4th dimension to experience the flatness of this world, and the buzzing of the bugs relates to the idea of vibrational frequencies, that she has changed her frequency to this one, and I can communicate with her through meditating, like the monks chanting. I am pleased with the sound piece, but I need to show it to other people, and I need to carefully consider my installation, and how it will be presented and how people will experience it. This term I will be doing a workshop elective on installation, which I am really excited to start. Love n light n all that x. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2017/01/16/ba-fine-art-year-1-term-2-week-1/feed/0img_9267gabriellerogers97BA Fine Art Year 1, Term 1, Weeks 8-10https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/ba-fine-art-term-1-weeks-8-10/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/ba-fine-art-term-1-weeks-8-10/#respondSat, 03 Dec 2016 15:46:06 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=278Continue reading BA Fine Art Year 1, Term 1, Weeks 8-10]]>Almost at the end of my first term at uni. These past couple of weeks I’ve mainly been developing my studio work (in our Studio as Machine event), planning a group film project and working on our brief to ‘make a photograph of nothing’. Hmm. Art school am I right. For Unit 2, there are two main threads I can identify within my practice. The first is me learning how to use the studio, and let myself be used by it in creating my work; this began in the project Studio as Machine, and I am still trying to develop this now. The second is an idea I have been working on since the beginning of November – “The Empress”, the idea of working as my 6th dimensional self, who controls all of the versions of me in the 6th dimension. This stems from my deep interest and research in M-Theory, spirituality, philosophy, and sacred geometry. Based off of the Empress tarot card, she represents the embodiment of female energy and creativity. Part of this stemmed from my personal tutorial, where I realized I focus too much on research (particularly scientific theories) in my practice, and not the making, the experimentation. I considered this in relation to sacred geometry, which is related to the idea of left and right brain thinking, with left being the “male” or “straight line” energy, and right “female” or “curve” energy; I believed that in my work I become too “male”, and needed to become more “female” – that is, less structured in my development and to learn by making. In the past few weeks I have produced a film about The Empress (beginning to learn how to use the recording and editing equipment available to me), worked onto the walls of the Studio as a kind of installation, make a proto-crown for her and thought about the idea of storytelling, using narration in my work (inspired by Walter Benjamin’s essay The Storyteller and Tacita Dean’s 2015 film Event for a Stage). The idea of the Empress as my higher self, and I am a story that she is telling, or perhaps one of her dreams; I have begun practicing Tibetan Dream Yoga, and recording my dreams by writing them down – my dreams as stories that I could perform or narrate. I have, this week, begun to think about how to unify these two threads. The studio could be considered as a dream realm, or a place where I write stories, my art being my stories or dreams, my lower self. Or perhaps myself as the consciousness of the Empress, and when I am in the studio, the studio becomes her body, as the body is the vessel for the great dream of life, and the studio is the vessel for dreams to manifest. These are ideas I will continue to explore in Unit 3. Artists and exhibitions that particularly influenced my work this term were based in film and installation; The Infinite Mix, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Embedded Souths (an online film screening), and Tacita Dean. The Empress. Film, 3:00 minutes. For our brief to make a photograph of nothing (which I think is an impossible task), I thought of nothing as the spaces in between things, considering the spaces in between dimensions, or in between Planck frames – the smallest unit of measurement, our experience of the 4th dimension being an infinite series of 3 dimensional Planck frames, as my research was very heavily related to M-theory. This space is beyond representation, as the Planck is 10^-20 times smaller than a photon, rendering it invisible as we need light to be able to see. This relates to the idea of a photograph – a light picture – as I consider seeing to be photography: we do not see objects, we see light. The pomegranate is a part of The Empress project – it is a symbol of fertility and is present on the tarot card; this is an attempt to integrate my own interests in the brief. It also reconciles the male and female energies of this picture – the split representing the space in between a Planck frame. The installation of this piece is a result of trying to print the photos, and not realising that they were automatically cropped. My initial reaction was anger, however instead of releasing it, or trying to fight it by fixing it, I went along with it, adding the middle photo as an index of a past relationship, an embodiment of a feeling I no longer have, that is perhaps nothing as it is no longer “real”. I found the Studio as Machine event much more productive than the initial project – perhaps this is because I had opened up in my process of making. I continued on the work I started in the studio the previous week, working as “The Empress”, using wool from Poundland to finger knit. This was a fertile process/performance, as knitting is considered a feminine craft, and by using my hands I was growing the knit from my body, like an umbilical cord. The technique was very simple and I picked it up quickly after an initial failure, however I do not think I challenged myself here. Be More: stems from my desire to engage the right side of my brain ore, as I tend to be quite mechanical when I am creating. I expanded into the space of the studio, to see what would happen, as talking to my tutor made me realise I do tend to hide and compartmentalise my work – I don’t know if this is a reaction to my work, but someone wrote “Toilet” in the same tape. Projecting my film, The Empress, also turned into a kind of collaboration, as some people were doing a computer generated vocal performance whilst I projected it. There was a strange interaction between their audio and my glitched narration, like a conversation coming from the computers – one that was a recording of organic sound, the other a live artificial audio projection. So there’s the end of term for me. I’m a bit annoyed that I’m missing my assessment as I’m flying to Australia on the day of it, but hey ho it’s my own darn fault, and I’m not complaining about having 4 weeks of summer. Limiting myself to 1 sketchbook and my camera as I am the world’s biggest overpacker, generally just looking forward to doing yoga, going on hikes, eating fruit and enjoying life. In January hopefully I’ll be super charged and ready to plough ahead with our film and Unit 3. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/12/03/ba-fine-art-term-1-weeks-8-10/feed/0nothing-photo-1agabriellerogers97BA Fine Art Year 1, Term 1, Weeks 1-7https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/ba-fine-art-year-1-weeks-1-7/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/ba-fine-art-year-1-weeks-1-7/#respondSun, 20 Nov 2016 00:42:30 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=259Continue reading BA Fine Art Year 1, Term 1, Weeks 1-7]]>In love with my uni and everything about it right now, just discovered that there is a maths department (!!!!), which is really exciting as my work is based so much about string theory right now. I was struggling a bit at the start of the term as we had a project called “Studio as Machine”, where the studio was intended as a catalyst for our work. During this 2 week project all I found I could produce was writings, fiction and non fiction, and a short film of myself reading these out, along with some online collaborative work. This was perhaps because I fetishise beginnings, and see them as this perfect blank space brimming with prospect that I am anxious about fucking up. I enjoyed the collaborative work, but I think because we were all so lost and all we did was talk about the studio and the process that we just lost ourselves even more. I kind of shut myself off at this point, making a film of myself reading out my writings on my phone alone in the project spaces, but I did not present any of my work in the group crit. I think this is because I have never put myself in front of the camera, and also there is that residual anxiety about not being good enough. The work I did on the collaborative online space, which was meant to be a parallel virtual sphere, was small compared to what other people did, just typing out some of my writings and posting an edited screen cap of a toaster on the Argos website. (The link to our online space is here: http://studioasmachine.wixsite.com/space). Whilst I liked the idea of the space, and might actually switch to using this platform rather than wordpress as it is much more visual, it struggled with having 10+ admins and as people were free to delete stuff as desired some people’s contributions were completely lost. I also didn’t like how this project required us to be in the studio every day, as I wanted to use new equipment and materials but felt constrained by the space. In fact, this project pushed me back into my old habit of compulsively searching concepts until a tutor reminds me I have to actually have to so some fucking work. As a response to this, I decided to just try out all the new equipment we had available. After having researched a shit ton about string theory and multi dimensions I was looking for a way to incorporate this into a film. I had a brief for a 1 minute film, which I was kind of ok with, I had been thinking about John Cage and sound and how it physically fills a space and is movement. I filmed myself cutting lengths of string from a ball, and then made my own sound track using synths in GarageBand to match my movements. I also had the image darkest at the beginning and increase to 100% at the end, and had noise on 100% to kind of represent vibrations and light and interference, as I had been thinking about light a lot since Diwali and all these fireworks outside my window. Also I completely fucked up by having the frame rate when I recorded it on my DSLR at 24fps and exporting it to 25, but actually I really liked the disjointed effect of this, disturbance and all that. I don’t think I did very well in the group crit though as I fell asleep and was also probably on Tinder at some point. Oh well. I tried. After this debacle I had the idea to present myself on camera as the character of the tarot card “The Empress”, a kind of witch, and edit footage I shot of myself in my local area at night to look as though I am warping spacetime, as The Empress was intended to be my 6th dimensional self from the 7th dimension, descended to our dimension to have a look around. I did some test shots on my DSLR of me cycling on my bike and holding out the Empress tarot card, which came up in a tarot reading for me as my ultimate hopes and fears, The Empress representing the pinnacle of creativity and feminine energy. There are these sports courts across the road from me which provide really interesting lighting at night, so I played around there. Borrowing a microphone from uni, I tried to record myself reading out the meaning of the tarot card in my room, but whilst it allowed me to get to grips with Audition the acoustics in my room were shit so I didn’t use anything I recorded, but booked out a sound studio to record in there the following week. I also borrowed a Canon XF100 and did some test shots of around where I live, editing them together, layering and adding waves, masks etc.Using the sound studio was great, as was being able to use the editing suites. Overall I am happy with the short film, and I learned so much by just doing. This week I was in the metal workshop and made a quick prototype crown for The Empress, as in the card she wears a crown of stars. My crown was made of spot welded wire and had crosses, as these were easier to do than the original pentagrams I intended, and based it on the Capricorn constellation, as I am a Capricorn and liked the analogy of the goat and the occult. I taped a pentagram, hexagram, and hectogram to the wall of the studio, representing the transition the empress made from the 7th dimension to the 5th, and placed a pomegranate on the floor in front, a symbol of fertility also present on the tarot card. I then played around with the space further, taping up my notes from Studio as Machine, as I wanted to actually utilise the space and respond to it. I enjoyed doing this, perhaps because I feel more comfortable in the studio now, as though I belong maybe. Also I feel less like people are watching me. I don’t know why but I have a strange relationship with people watching me. I’m pretty narcissistic but I have this fucking anxious streak left in me that is pretty hard to budge. Anyway. That’s the past 7 weeks in a nutshell, now to send off my report on London’s art scene and take a photo of nothing lol. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/ba-fine-art-year-1-weeks-1-7/feed/0screen-shot-2016-11-19-at-21-54-59gabriellerogers97toaster-dickSummer Project: Our Names Fit Us Better Than We Fit Each Otherhttps://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/summer-project-our-names-fit-us-better-than-we-fit-each-other/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/summer-project-our-names-fit-us-better-than-we-fit-each-other/#respondFri, 12 Aug 2016 14:41:34 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=233Continue reading Summer Project: Our Names Fit Us Better Than We Fit Each Other]]>This summer my work has been geared towards a group exhibition, “Intimate”, at the Centrespace gallery in Bristol, that I am taking part in. The show will run from the 18th-25th August and will show the work of 6 young artists, exploring intimacy and personal subjects. I have been working on the theme of relationship anarchy and possessiveness, stemming from the decision of myself and my current boyfriend to reject the standard of monogamous, romantic relationships. He is leaving the country for a year soon and we have both realised that we don’t want to be someone’s “girlfriend” or “boyfriend”, we want to completely reject the notion of a stereotypical romantic partner and instead interact with people individually in a way that feels right for us. I have produced an A2 photographic print of a field of wildflowers, a large A frame signboard with neon words “OUR NAMES FIT US BETTER THAN WE FIT EACH OTHER” on one side, and “I HAVE EVERYTHING I NEED” on the other side. These will be displayed as an installation, with the sign stood up in the centre of the gallery and the neon lights on, the print laying on the floor in front of one side and on the other side there will be a smashed vase stuck together with glitter glue (from my kinstugi project) and a single red rose. The words on the sign represent how my name means “messenger” and my boyfriend’s name means “wanderer”. My initial plan for the installation was to have more components; such as my name in Hebrew (the language it originates from) on a “My name is:” sticker, a painting, a copy of Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’ and dried/pressed flowers. Instead I decided to keep my concept clear and not to over work it with clutter. I started off by researching the work of artists such as Petra Collins and the Ardorous Collective, which has influenced the work I have created for the exhibition aesthetically. Since making the piece, I have realised that this trend of young (mainly white, cis) female artists is in fact quite boring, the style is overdone and the concept is lacking, tending to explore female sexuality and body image. I have realised that this work (as well as the work I am currently working on) pleases me, but does nothing more. It doesn’t excite me. I have made myself comfortable. There is no escaping the fact, however, that my work is very similar to the artists of Arduous (such as Arvida Bystrom), although they are mainly photographers. I have used floral, feminine elements and glitter, with neon- things that regularly appear in their work. Even the film I have been planning to accompany the installation, a essay read by me over footage of feet walking though fields, blah blah blah. Again I have been producing work that I feel comfortable doing, and now I have realised that I know what I have to do next. I need to go in the opposite direction. I need to work out what makes me scared and go there. I have changed my idea for the film to make it more interesting (shorter, the essay reduced to a few lines of prose(?), and including footage of the meteor shower, which I saw last night and will go out tonight again to film), as before my concept for it was influenced by Petra Collins films, particularly the one she did for the Tate’s Georgia o’Keefe exhibition. It doesn’t help that the work of my friends in the “Intimate” is very similar to the work of the Ardorous, and I think that in order for our art to make a cohesive exhibition I wanted to follow their aesthetic. Hopefully by starting at Central St Martins in September I will be inspired by the new people around me and can break out of this rut I am feeling. I think I was drawn their work because I wanted to be them – they get articles in Dazed and i-D and I want that, but I have this problem of getting stuck trying to do work I think I should do rather than what I need to do to push myself artistically, and now I think that to push myself artistically I have to work on my painting. Abstract painting terrifies me. I love looking at these pieces, but I can never do them myself. I can’t. Or maybe I’ve just never tried. Or maybe I just think I should do them, and I’m back to where I started. The key difference here, however, is that it makes me uncomfortable, and it excites me a little bit, which is why I think I should do it next. Furthermore, I have never done this before. I have been looking at female artists, such as Fiona Rae, Meghan Rooney, Eva Papamargariti, and Charlotte Duale. Once I have finished my film I will be doing paintings. Maybe by the time I start my course I will realise that this is not how I can push myself, and I will find something else to do. But until then I need something to work on. ]]>https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/summer-project-our-names-fit-us-better-than-we-fit-each-other/feed/0Fieldgabriellerogers97Duality: Week 10-12 ENDhttps://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/duality-week-10-12-end/ https://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/2016/05/26/duality-week-10-12-end/#respondThu, 26 May 2016 15:05:06 +0000http://gabriellerogersart.wordpress.com/?p=210Continue reading Duality: Week 10-12 END]]>In these past few weeks I have finished my ceramics series and edited my films, both “Wake Up” and the documentation of the process of Kinstugi. Editing “Wake Up” was trickiest, as I hadn’t used Premiere Pro or GarageBand before and had only edited one film, using iMovie, and the last time I used music editing software was years ago. There were a couple of clips that I didn’t use, as they had been filmed using a shoulder mount and there was too much rocking to have the dreamy effect that I wanted. When I began editing it I had some background sounds of birds which was 2 looped audio clips from what I had filmed on my DSLR. I intended to rerecord it on a sound recorder and microphone from college and have that as the soundtrack for the first sequence, and then to have the music begin when she started to dance. I decided not to do this though, as the music looped anyway and I wanted the music to represent the flow of consciousness from one body to the next, which is why the footage is the same (just shorter clips) for each loop or reincarnation but the music changes slightly each time. I started off by making a loose demo for the film but this didn’t work as it would have been a lot of effort to change the speed of the clips to match the tempo of the music, and it didn’t fit at all, so I had to finish editing the film, get the clips into multiples of 2 seconds (as it was 120bpm at 4:4 so each bar was 2 seconds long) and export the unfinished film, then import it to GarageBand so I could fit the song to the music. I only kept the original sound clip from the very last shot, where she wakes up and gasps. Here you can see how I edited the colours, as I wanted it to be ethereal because it is meant to represent how life is the great dream from which we must wake up. The last shot, the colours are more lifelike but I did enhance the vibrancy still. When I first started editing I had no clue what I was doing, and tried to have a cross fade on every shot in the first sequence. This was obviously too much, and made the film way too busy, so I redid it with no transitions. There is a link to the finished film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4pDmwkRhWA I’m really happy with it. I also love how my Kintsugi series came out. It’s a lot different to how I initially visualised it, as I wanted bright glazes and glitter glue, but what I produced it very beautiful and I am happier with it. Before and after the smashing. I was a bit reluctant to smash them at first, because they had taken so long to make and I loved them, but I realised this is why I had to do it, because I was exploring resurrection, and this linked with Christians’ belief that God made them, loved them, and they had to die, but they get to live again on judgement day. Smashing them was actually really hard because the clay was quite thick. They took some bashing but I got there in the end. I used plastic adhesive to glue them back together which worked fine, and applied it with a palette knife. After it dried I glued on the gold leaf with more adhesive, which was really tricky as it was so delicate. Editing the film was easy, as I just cut down the clips to get about 5 minutes of footage, as it was only meant to be a documentation. After watching Mary Flower’s film for “Art from Elsewhere” I realised it was really important to not let the shots be too long, as it will be super boring and no one will want to watch it, like I felt about her film. It had too many long, self indulgent shots. For my final exhibition, I originally planned to hang up my sculpture and to project my film through it, but because I had to put the film on the showreel for the film room I will just hang it in a corner and place my Kintsugi series beneath it on the floor. I have now finished my project and our exhibition will open on the 24th of June at Bristol School of Art, Queens Road.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Unlike Germany, Vienna authorities have not impounded items which belongs to same collector from Berlin case Friday, March 28, 2014 Value of Austrian art find may equal Munich trove Matisse’s Femme assise will be returned to the original owner’s heirs. A haul of Monets, Picassos and Renoirs found last month in a house in Austria belonging to Cornelius Gurlitt could be as valuable as the trove German authorities seized from his home in Munich two years ago, a spokesman for the reclusive collector said yesterday. German magazine Focus, which first reported the case, said the Munich find could be worth one billion euros (US$1.38 billion). The 1,400 works included paintings by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall, some of which authorities believe may have been looted from Jewish owners by the Nazis. “We can’t say at this stage which part of the collection is more valuable,” Gurlitt’s spokesman Stephan Holzinger told reporters, but added that the Focus estimate was “completely exaggerated.” A search of the dilapidated property in Salzburg, Austria, last month initially turned up 60 items. But a second search revealed a further 178 paintings, drawings and objects that have since been taken to a safe location for experts to restore and catalogue, said Holzinger. Once that has happened the collector plans to publish a list so potential claimants can come forward, he said. Unlike most of the works found in Munich, the items discovered in Austria haven’t been impounded by authorities. Still, Gurlitt has instructed his lawyer to return all works that are “justifiably suspected of being Nazi-looted art.” The 81-year-old, who has a court-appointed attorney, is in ill health and has come under pressure from the German government to give up any works stolen from Jews by the Nazis. A first such handover could take place soon, according to his representatives. The painting Femme assise, or Seated Woman, by Henri Matisse will be returned to the heirs of deceased Paris-based art collector Paul Rosenberg, said Holzinger. One of those heirs is French journalist Anne Sinclair, the ex-wife of former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Gurlitt’s lawyer Christoph Edel is currently in talks with six claimants over the return of other works, said Holzinger. Only about 3-4 percent of the collection — built up by his father Hildebrand Gurlitt, an art dealer who traded with the Nazis — is expected to be classified as looted art, Holzinger said.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Dinner takes a little more effort, but not too much considering I have some type of bowl recipe most evenings or we get takeout. I usually just choose a meat, whether that be grilled chicken, lean ground turkey or some type of fish, roast whatever veggies happen to be in the fridge and top it off with mashed avocado. Lunches, though, can be so boring. I need something quick with very little prep. And back when I was working outside the home, it was essential that my lunch be something that I could easily pack on the go. If you’re feeling less than inspired in the lunch department, I’ve the perfect recipe to totally kick you out of the lunch slump. These Greek Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocados come together in less than 15 minutes and only require one bowl and 7 ingredients. They are great for serving guests, but also work as a make ahead meal for lunches through the week. If you do decide to meal prep a few of these for the next day or so, just spritz the avocados down with a little lemon juice to keep them from browning. Now, I will say, I’m pretty picky about my tuna. While I really like tuna, not just any brand will do. I seek tuna that tastes fresh with a lovely flakey texture and I also try to purchase tuna that is sustainably caught. I’m thrilled to have found Blue Harbor Fish Co. Blue Harbor pouches are super convenient and combine the simple ingredients of sustainably-caught, wild Albacore tuna, water, a touch of sea salt or no salt added with no preservatives to give you just a fresh flavor of tuna. Whether you’re whipping up a tuna salad or just eating Blue Harbor straight from the pouch, you can trust that Blue Harbor tuna is hand-selected and each pouch will provide you with a delicious, mild, clean flavor. And avocados are the perfect vehicle for serving up this wonderful tuna, salad-style, to create such an easy and nutritious packable dish. I hope you all have as much fun with this recipe as I did! It’s: Healthy Flavorful Quick + easy Fun Versatile & So delicious! If you try this recipe, let us know! Leave a comment and tag a photo #kimscravings on Instagram. Enjoy, friends! Print 4 from 3 votes Nutrition Facts Greek Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocados Amount Per Serving (1 stuffed avocado half) Calories 175Calories from Fat 108 % Daily Value* Total Fat 12g18% Saturated Fat 2g10% Polyunsaturated Fat 2g Monounsaturated Fat 7g Cholesterol 17mg6% Sodium 257mg11% Potassium 383mg11% Total Carbohydrates 7g2% Dietary Fiber 5g20% Sugars 1g Protein 13g26% Vitamin A8% Vitamin C25% Calcium1% Iron6% * Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Servings:4avocado halves Greek Tuna Salad Stuffed Avocados Prep Time: 15mins Total Time: 15mins Ingredients 2largeavocados, halved and pitted 2(3 oz.)pouches Blue Harbor tuna in water 1/4cupchopped kalamata, black or green olives 1/4cupminced red onion 1/4cupchopped fire roasted red peppers 2Tablespoonschopped fresh basil or parsley salt and pepper to taste Instructions Scoop out some of the avocado from the pitted area to widen the “bowl” area. Place the scooped avocado into a medium-size mixing bowl. Mash it with a fork. Add the tuna, olives, onion, bell pepper, and parsley to the mixing bowl. Stir it all together until everything is well mixed. Taste and add salt and pepper as needed. You may not need any salt, as the olives make this salty enough for me.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Council hails 'all time low' levels of crime in Hammersmith and Fulham Cllr Greg Smith, council deputy leader of Hammersmith and Fulham Council Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Crime has fallen by 15 per cent to an all-time low in Hammersmith and Fulham last year, according to the latest figures. Metropolitan Police statistics showed there were 3,295 fewer incidents in 2013 compared to the previous year, dropping from 22,545 to 19,250. Personal robberies were down by 21 per cent, from 689 to 542, while burglary fell 18 per cent, from 1,871 offences to 1,534. There were 1,789 fewer theft and handling offences and the number of motor vehicle crime decreased from 2,916 to 2,301. Violent crimes such as common assault, harassment and use of an offensive weapon fell by 278 offences to just over 4,000. The news comes as Hammersmith and Fulham Council continues to spend £1.3million a year on three extra squads of town centre beat police, while local businesses provide £350,000 a year. The additional money means the borough has 42 more police officers than it would do otherwise. Councillor Greg Smith, deputy leader of the council, said: “Crime is at an all-time low in Hammersmith and Fulham and continues to fall thanks to the fantastic joint working between residents’ groups – like Neighbourhood Watch – and various council and police teams. “Extra beat police combined with a comprehensive network of CCTV cameras and good work from the council’s neighbourhood wardens and parks police teams mean H&F is now safer than ever. We will continue to relentlessly target the criminal minority and are determined to drive crime down further.” The council is also deploying the latest in CCTV and mobile camera technology to target and deter offenders. State of the art CCTV streams images from more than 800 cameras to the command centre at Hammersmith Town Hall 24 hours a day, seven days a week. About 500 incidents are captured on them each month, leading to 100 arrests on average. Meanwhile, the council’s parks police officers are using lapel-worn cameras to crack down on crime in the borough’s parks and open spaces. The pager-sized gadgets use the latest high definition technology and enable officers to capture court ready evidence at the touch of a button. poll loading Hammersmith and Fulham Council say crime is falling and the borough is safer now than ever, do you agree?	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Insurance Business Over 2,000 insurance claims filed following Saskatoon hailstorm Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) reports that it has received about 2,200 claims for vehicle damage following a hailstorm that hit parts of Saskatoon last Friday. Although the storm lasted only several minutes, some parts of the city were hit by hailstones the size of ping-pong balls. Smaller pellets dropped over downtown, while loonie-sized stones pelted the Willowgrove area. Aside from ruining windshields, the hail destroyed a number of gardens in Saskatoon. SGI reported that it received 300 property claims in relation to the inclement weather event. According to McMurchy, SGI typically receives approximately 10,000 hail damage claims a year, with most of the claims relating to vehicles. The spokesperson also said that the insurer is expecting more claims to be filed as a result of the previous week’s storm. Related stories: Storm of hail claims expected in Alberta this June Fort McMurray in top 10 worst insured losses globally Insurance Business Over 2,000 insurance claims filed following Saskatoon hailstorm Unknown 2017-06-06T05:01:00-07:00 5.0 stars based on 35 reviews Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) reports that it has received about 2,200 claims for vehicle damage following a hailstorm that hit p...	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Month: February 2004 Well, my new PowerBook arrived today, and this is the first post that I am making with it. (I’m using ecto as my blogging client). I was a Mac user for a long time, from c. 1991 to 1998; I switched to Windows because I wanted to have a really small laptop, 3 lbs or less — which didn’t (still doesn’t) exist for the Mac. But I missed the elegance and simplicity of the Macintosh aesthetic. Especially as OS X was developed, I felt that I was missing out on something I really wanted (though arguably — or just say, obviously — I didn’t need it, given that Windows XP does just about everything you need, albeit much more clunkily). So finally, after looking at the state of my finances, and convincing myself through specious arguments that I could afford the additional charge on my credit card, I took the plunge. The 12″ PowerBook is still too heavy (4.6 lbs) but I’m determined to carry it around with me everywhere anyway. Well, my new PowerBook arrived today, and this is the first post that I am making with it. (I’m using ecto as my blogging client). I was a Mac user for a long time, from c. 1991 to 1998; I switched to Windows because I wanted to have a really small laptop, 3 lbs or less — which didn’t (still doesn’t) exist for the Mac. But I missed the elegance and simplicity of the Macintosh aesthetic. Especially as OS X was developed, I felt that I was missing out on something I really wanted (though arguably — or just say, obviously — I didn’t need it, given that Windows XP does just about everything you need, albeit much more clunkily). So finally, after looking at the state of my finances, and convincing myself through specious arguments that I could afford the additional charge on my credit card, I took the plunge. The 12″ PowerBook is still too heavy (4.6 lbs) but I’m determined to carry it around with me everywhere anyway. An interesting article by Eli Sanders in The Stranger (Seattle alternative weekly newspaper) this week points out that King County Executive Ron Sims and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels have the administrative power to do what San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome has done: authorize marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples, and go to court to force the state to recognize the validity of such licenses. Of course, as Sanders also points out, Sims and Nickels are probably too lame and spineless to actually do this. But it’s something they really ought to do, they really need to do. One thing that hasn’t been pointed out enough in all the press about the weddings in San Francisco is that social change never happens in a vacuum. Change comes when there is a cascade of events promoting it; it’s only at the very end of such a cascade of events that the law actually changes. The women’s suffrage movement of the early twentieth century, and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, both exemplify this. Recent events suggest that we have the chance of reaching a similar flash point, or tipping point, for equal marriage rights. Which is why I think that it’s imperative for Seattle, and other cities and localities throughout the country, to follow the lead of San Francisco (and Massachusetts and New Mexico). Politicians who say they want to wait for a more opportune moment (or whose mealy-mouthed equivocations, as in the case of John Kerry, imply such reasoning) need to realize that this is the opportune moment. If we don’t act now, Bush will probably get his odious constitutional amendment. Not all injustices can be rectified overnight. Women’s suffrage did not eliminate sexism, and the civil rights movement did not eliminate racism. Nor will equal marriage rights eliminate homophobia. But when there is a rush of events opening up the prospect of of (even partial) freedom, it’s inexcusable not to seize the moment. An interesting article by Eli Sanders in The Stranger (Seattle alternative weekly newspaper) this week points out that King County Executive Ron Sims and Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels have the administrative power to do what San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome has done: authorize marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples, and go to court to force the state to recognize the validity of such licenses. Of course, as Sanders also points out, Sims and Nickels are probably too lame and spineless to actually do this. But it’s something they really ought to do, they really need to do. One thing that hasn’t been pointed out enough in all the press about the weddings in San Francisco is that social change never happens in a vacuum. Change comes when there is a cascade of events promoting it; it’s only at the very end of such a cascade of events that the law actually changes. The women’s suffrage movement of the early twentieth century, and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, both exemplify this. Recent events suggest that we have the chance of reaching a similar flash point, or tipping point, for equal marriage rights. Which is why I think that it’s imperative for Seattle, and other cities and localities throughout the country, to follow the lead of San Francisco (and Massachusetts and New Mexico). Politicians who say they want to wait for a more opportune moment (or whose mealy-mouthed equivocations, as in the case of John Kerry, imply such reasoning) need to realize that this is the opportune moment. If we don’t act now, Bush will probably get his odious constitutional amendment. Not all injustices can be rectified overnight. Women’s suffrage did not eliminate sexism, and the civil rights movement did not eliminate racism. Nor will equal marriage rights eliminate homophobia. But when there is a rush of events opening up the prospect of (even partial) freedom, it’s inexcusable not to seize the moment. Like everyone else, I kind of wish Nader weren’t running this year. I voted for him last time, but this year the only priority is to beat Bush, with no illusions as to the wonderfulness of whoever replaces him. At this point I am what used to be called a “yellow dog Democrat”: somebody who would even vote for a yellow dog over a Republican. I’d certainly prefer my own yellow dog as President to George W. Bush. Considering only the major candidates, at this time I prefer Edwards to Kerry, only because Kerry is a walking corpse with zero charisma, and I think that Edwards has a better chance of winning. But it won’t happen; Kerry has the nomination locked up. As I’ve written here before, it’s a peculiar pathology of the Democratic Party that they try to make things as hard as possible for themselves, by going out of their way to nominate the least appealing (indeed, least competent) candidate they can find. Hence Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and now Kerry. Bill Clinton is the sole exception. Still, though I wish Nader would hang it up instead of making a fool of himself (since his totals are almost sure to be far lower than they were in 2000), I was sickened by Chris Matthews on Hardball last night, who basically told Nader that he was unqualified to run for President because 1)he is unmarried and has no children; 2)he doesn’t drive and doesn’t own a car; and 3)he rents an apartment, instead of owning a house or a condo. I guess parenting, driving, and home ownership constitute the minimum definition these days of what it means to be a “true American.” And while I’m ranting: has anybody commented on how, at the same time that Bush is trying to stop people from getting married who desperately want to, he is also proposing spending $1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money in order to bully people into marrying who don’t want to? Like everyone else, I kind of wish Nader weren’t running this year. I voted for him last time, but this year the only priority is to beat Bush, with no illusions as to the wonderfulness of whoever replaces him. At this point I am what used to be called a “yellow dog Democrat”: somebody who would even vote for a yellow dog over a Republican. I’d certainly prefer my own yellow dog as President to George W. Bush. Considering only the major candidates, at this time I prefer Edwards to Kerry, only because Kerry is a walking corpse with zero charisma, and I think that Edwards has a better chance of winning. But it won’t happen; Kerry has the nomination locked up. As I’ve written here before, it’s a peculiar pathology of the Democratic Party that they try to make things as hard as possible for themselves, by going out of their way to nominate the least appealing (indeed, least competent) candidate they can find. Hence Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, and now Kerry. Bill Clinton is the sole exception. Still, though I wish Nader would hang it up instead of making a fool of himself (since his totals are almost sure to be far lower than they were in 2000), I was sickened by Chris Matthews on Hardball last night, who basically told Nader that he was unqualified to run for President because 1)he is unmarried and has no children; 2)he doesn’t drive and doesn’t own a car; and 3)he rents an apartment, instead of owning a house or a condo. I guess parenting, driving, and home ownership constitute the minimum definition these days of what it means to be a “true American.” And while I’m ranting: has anybody commented on how, at the same time that Bush is trying to stop people from getting married who desperately want to, he is also proposing spending $1.5 billion of taxpayers’ money in order to bully people into marrying who don’t want to? You can find a list of websites that are making Danger Mouse’s Grey Album available for download at greytuesday.org. WIll EMI Records really be able to shut down all these sites? Illegal Art has had it up for several weeks now. You can find a list of websites that are making Danger Mouse’s Grey Album available for download at greytuesday.org. WIll EMI Records really be able to shut down all these sites? Illegal Art has had it up for several weeks now. Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) was, after Marshall McLuhan, one of the most important media theorists of the late 20th century. He’s still not very well known in North America; but I find him far more profound and rewarding than, say, Baudrillard or Virilio (let alone Neil Postman or Paul Levinson).Towards a Philosophy of Photography, originally published in 1983, is a brief and trenchant discussion of how photography (even before it became digital) serves as the prototype for a fully programmed, post-industrial, post-historical, informationcentric world. Flusser is less sentimental and melancholy than Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida), and more concise and rigorous than Susan Sontag (On Photography). He argues that photography represents a higher degree of abstraction than the writing which it has to a great degree supplanted, even as writing represents a higher degree of abstraction than the painted and drawn images that it supplanted several thousand years ago. Photographs do not render the real; rather they transform it into a highly codified sort of “information.” A photograph doesn’t represent the scene, person, or object being photographed, so much as it represents, and fulfills, the program of the photographic apparatus itself, a program that (like any entity under conditions of Darwinian competition) seeks nothing more than its own perpetuation and extension. Where handmade images promoted magical thinking, and writing promoted conceptual and historical thought, photography and all the technical forms of reproduction that have arisen in its wake actually work to program thought, to anticipate it ,and to mimic and contain it in advance. To simulate thought, in sum. But unlike other critics of the rule of simulacra, Flusser evidences no nostalgia. He has no Baudrillardian yearning for a “real” that would have supposedly existed prior to photographic reproduction. And he explicitly criticizes the Frankfurt School, for the humanist nostalgia behind its attempts “to unmask the [class] interests behind the apparatuses.” Such approaches merely seek to reinstate the humanistic subject that photography and other post-industrial technical apparatuses have destroyed once and for all. For Flusser — and this is part of what is so great about him — the only way out is the way through. “A philosophy of photography must reveal the fact that there is no place for human freedom within the area of automated, programmed, and programming apparatuses, in order finally [italics mine] to show a way in which it is nevertheless possible to open up a space for freedom.” It is only possible to invent a new practice of freedom, in other words, when we plumb technical programming (starting with photography, and moving on, today, to digital computing and communications) to the depths; when we take the full measure of what it has accomplished; when we give up our illusions of recovering a supposed pre-photographic, pre-technological mode of being. Vilem Flusser (1920-1991) was, after Marshall McLuhan, one of the most important media theorists of the late 20th century. He’s still not very well known in North America; but I find him far more profound and rewarding than, say, Baudrillard or Virilio (let alone Neil Postman or Paul Levinson).Towards a Philosophy of Photography, originally published in 1983, is a brief and trenchant discussion of how photography (even before it became digital) serves as the prototype for a fully programmed, post-industrial, post-historical, informationcentric world. Flusser is less sentimental and melancholy than Roland Barthes (Camera Lucida), and more concise and rigorous than Susan Sontag (On Photography). He argues that photography represents a higher degree of abstraction than the writing which it has to a great degree supplanted, even as writing represents a higher degree of abstraction than the painted and drawn images that it supplanted several thousand years ago. Photographs do not render the real; rather they transform it into a highly codified sort of “information.” A photograph doesn’t represent the scene, person, or object being photographed, so much as it represents, and fulfills, the program of the photographic apparatus itself, a program that (like any entity under conditions of Darwinian competition) seeks nothing more than its own perpetuation and extension. Where handmade images promoted magical thinking, and writing promoted conceptual and historical thought, photography and all the technical forms of reproduction that have arisen in its wake actually work to program thought, to anticipate it ,and to mimic and contain it in advance. To simulate thought, in sum. But unlike other critics of the rule of simulacra, Flusser evidences no nostalgia. He has no Baudrillardian yearning for a “real” that would have supposedly existed prior to photographic reproduction. And he explicitly criticizes the Frankfurt School, for the humanist nostalgia behind its attempts “to unmask the [class] interests behind the apparatuses.” Such approaches merely seek to reinstate the humanistic subject that photography and other post-industrial technical apparatuses have destroyed once and for all. For Flusser — and this is part of what is so great about him — the only way out is the way through. “A philosophy of photography must reveal the fact that there is no place for human freedom within the area of automated, programmed, and programming apparatuses, in order finally [italics mine] to show a way in which it is nevertheless possible to open up a space for freedom.” It is only possible to invent a new practice of freedom, in other words, when we plumb technical programming (starting with photography, and moving on, today, to digital computing and communications) to the depths; when we take the full measure of what it has accomplished; when we give up our illusions of recovering a supposed pre-photographic, pre-technological mode of being. I’ve long felt a bit ambivalent about Bruno Latour, and I feel all the more that way after reading his book Pandora’s Hope. (I’ve previously read We Have Never Been Modern, plus a good number of essays). I like the way Latour focuses on the details of actual scientific practice, and how he uses these details to argue for a complex set of mediations and links in the course of which humans are bound together with nonhumans – a model that he cogently argues is far preferable to the common one that simply confronts a linguistic statement, or a mental model, with a state of affairs in the world, and asks whether the statement representationally corresponds with, or accurately points to, the state of affairs. Latour is right to say that this dualistic, correspondence theory of truth (or its inversion, the deconstructionist abyss of language that cannot reach out beyond itself to the world) ignores the way that things like scientific theories, statements, and models are themselves actions or events or performances in the world. Latour is not the first thinker to resituate language in the world in this way, but he is the one who has applied it to the understanding of science, and specifically scientific practice. Latour thus cuts the Gordian knot of the dispute between realism (‘the facts of science exist independently of us’) and constructionism (scientific entities are “socially constructed”). He says that the fallacy shared by both sides to this dispute is to think that “constructed” and “real” are opposites, when in fact they go in tandem: the more something is “constructed” (socially or otherwise) the realer it is, because the more it is interconnected with other things, the more it operates with and upon, and affects, other things, and so on. This seems to me exactly right (It’s also a point that is consonant with Ian Hacking’s arguments, in The Social Construction of What, about the use of the phrase “social construction.” Hacking shows how many different meanings this phrase has; he suggests that it really functions as a marker of difference. We say that gender is “socially constructed” in order to argue against claims that it is entirely “in the genes”; we do not say that a bridge is “socially constructed,” because nobody argues that the Golden Gate Bridge somehow arose by itself). Nonetheless, I am enough of a realist that I am made uneasy when Latour says, for instance, that yeast did not cause lactic acid fermentation until 1864, when Pasteur established this action in the laboratory. I agree that Pasteur’s experiments did not just reveal an always-existing truth; since those experiments mobilized the yeast, made it interact with human interests, both by establishing new scientific doctrine, and by making the commercial exploitation of the fermentation process possible on a scale and in a manner that it was not before. In pragmatist terms, Pasteur’s experiments, and his theoretical extrapolation from those experiments, made it possible for us to predict and control the fermentation process, and the life history of yeast, for the first time. But it still seems disingenuous to me for Latour to say that it was only after 1864 that the process took place, or (to put his point as precisely as possible) that it is only after 1864 that the process of fermentation by the action of yeast (rather than fermentation as a byproduct of organic decay, as was previously believed) can be said to have taken place before 1864. In one sense, Latour’s statement is a tautology; but I think that Latour is trying to pull a fast one, by using this tautology to insinuate a deeper meaning, according to which the change in the world that took place in 1864 affected something more than certain instrumental activities of human beings with yeast. Latour says that he is simply including yeast as well as human beings in history, rather than seeing yeast as unchanging and ahistorical “in and of itself.” But this begs the question of how the actions of yeast in fact affected human beings well before Pasteur mobilized yeast into what Latour calls the “collective.” Latour’s sleight-of-hand becomes a still more serious matter when he presents his grand view of science and politics. He wants to repeal what he calls the modern “settlement” that radically separated subject from object, as well as Truth from Opinion, Knowledge from Power, Right from Might. He cleverly suggests that the Platonic and Cartesian dictatorship of Reason shares common assumptions with the view of the Sophists, of Hobbes, and of Nietzsche, that would seek to deconstruct it. He suggests that both Socrates and his opponents, and more recently both the scientific rationalists and Nietzsche, both the positivists and Foucault, distrust the “people” or the “mob”, and disagree only on whether the violent imposition to reign in this “mob” should be that of a hypostasized Reason or that of a more naked Power. It’s not that I would want to defend a renewed elitism against Latour’s populism here. But Latour idealizes what a fully engaged politics (as opposed to one governed from without by the forceful imposition of scientific reason) would actually be. He idealizes and sentimentalizes the civility and consensus of a “body politic” uninfected by the dictatorship of an abstract Reason. One can observe the intractability of many human disputes and political conflicts (having to do with such things as class and other forms of privilege, wealth, and prestige, or with the control of the regime of productivity and the distribution of whatever social surplus there may be) without believing, as Latour accuses defenders of rationalism from Socrates to Steven Weinberg of doing, that “scientific” objectivity is the one thing that saves humankind from descending into barbarity and a Hobbesian “war of all against all.” One can agree that the rage of modernist iconoclasm often produces the very dehumanizing phenomena that it claims to be waging war against, without sharing Latour’s piety towards “fetishes” and “icons.” In making “modernism” and its “settlement” his enemy, Latour can’t help reproducing modernity’s own logic, in the form of an idealized depiction of that which preceded the modern. Although he rightly says that the unalienated “pre-modern” is nothing but a modernist fantasy, he himself reproduces the very same fantasy, in his picture of a world uninfected by modernism, as well as in his assertion that “we have never been modern,” that modernity has only given greater scope to nonmodern “mixtures” in practice, by refusing them admission into theory. In short: we must add to Latour’s account the additional awareness that we have never not been modern, that we have never been free of modernist divisions and impositions. (This is a more Derridean conclusion than I wanted to get to; I think the way out is to ask different sorts of questions, and indeed this is what Latour says we should do; but Latour doesn’t ask the right different questions. He doesn’t quite succeed in pointing the way to his self-confessed goal, a Whiteheadean account that does justice both to science and to other modes of human experience of the world). I’ve long felt a bit ambivalent about Bruno Latour, and I feel all the more that way after reading his book Pandora’s Hope. (I’ve previously read We Have Never Been Modern, plus a good number of essays). I like the way Latour focuses on the details of actual scientific practice, and how he uses these details to argue for a complex set of mediations and links in the course of which humans are bound together with nonhumans – a model that he cogently argues is far preferable to the common one that simply confronts a linguistic statement, or a mental model, with a state of affairs in the world, and asks whether the statement representationally corresponds with, or accurately points to, the state of affairs. Latour is right to say that this dualistic, correspondence theory of truth (or its inversion, the deconstructionist abyss of language that cannot reach out beyond itself to the world) ignores the way that things like scientific theories, statements, and models are themselves actions or events or performances in the world. Latour is not the first thinker to resituate language in the world in this way, but he is the one who has applied it to the understanding of science, and specifically scientific practice. Latour thus cuts the Gordian knot of the dispute between realism (‘the facts of science exist independently of us’) and constructionism (scientific entities are “socially constructed”). He says that the fallacy shared by both sides to this dispute is to think that “constructed” and “real” are opposites, when in fact they go in tandem: the more something is “constructed” (socially or otherwise) the realer it is, because the more it is interconnected with other things, the more it operates with and upon, and affects, other things, and so on. This seems to me exactly right (It’s also a point that is consonant with Ian Hacking’s arguments, in The Social Construction of What, about the use of the phrase “social construction.” Hacking shows how many different meanings this phrase has; he suggests that it really functions as a marker of difference. We say that gender is “socially constructed” in order to argue against claims that it is entirely “in the genes”; we do not say that a bridge is “socially constructed,” because nobody argues that the Golden Gate Bridge somehow arose by itself). Nonetheless, I am enough of a realist that I am made uneasy when Latour says, for instance, that yeast did not cause lactic acid fermentation until 1864, when Pasteur established this action in the laboratory. I agree that Pasteur’s experiments did not just reveal an always-existing truth; since those experiments mobilized the yeast, made it interact with human interests, both by establishing new scientific doctrine, and by making the commercial exploitation of the fermentation process possible on a scale and in a manner that it was not before. In pragmatist terms, Pasteur’s experiments, and his theoretical extrapolation from those experiments, made it possible for us to predict and control the fermentation process, and the life history of yeast, for the first time. But it still seems disingenuous to me for Latour to say that it was only after 1864 that the process took place, or (to put his point as precisely as possible) that it is only after 1864 that the process of fermentation by the action of yeast (rather than fermentation as a byproduct of organic decay, as was previously believed) can be said to have taken place before 1864. In one sense, Latour’s statement is a tautology; but I think that Latour is trying to pull a fast one, by using this tautology to insinuate a deeper meaning, according to which the change in the world that took place in 1864 affected something more than certain instrumental activities of human beings with yeast. Latour says that he is simply including yeast as well as human beings in history, rather than seeing yeast as unchanging and ahistorical “in and of itself.” But this begs the question of how the actions of yeast in fact affected human beings well before Pasteur mobilized yeast into what Latour calls the “collective.” Latour’s sleight-of-hand becomes a still more serious matter when he presents his grand view of science and politics. He wants to repeal what he calls the modern “settlement” that radically separated subject from object, as well as Truth from Opinion, Knowledge from Power, Right from Might. He cleverly suggests that the Platonic and Cartesian dictatorship of Reason shares common assumptions with the view of the Sophists, of Hobbes, and of Nietzsche, that would seek to deconstruct it. He suggests that both Socrates and his opponents, and more recently both the scientific rationalists and Nietzsche, both the positivists and Foucault, distrust the “people” or the “mob”, and disagree only on whether the violent imposition to reign in this “mob” should be that of a hypostasized Reason or that of a more naked Power. It’s not that I would want to defend a renewed elitism against Latour’s populism here. But Latour idealizes what a fully engaged politics (as opposed to one governed from without by the forceful imposition of scientific reason) would actually be. He idealizes and sentimentalizes the civility and consensus of a “body politic” uninfected by the dictatorship of an abstract Reason. One can observe the intractability of many human disputes and political conflicts (having to do with such things as class and other forms of privilege, wealth, and prestige, or with the control of the regime of productivity and the distribution of whatever social surplus there may be) without believing, as Latour accuses defenders of rationalism from Socrates to Steven Weinberg of doing, that “scientific” objectivity is the one thing that saves humankind from descending into barbarity and a Hobbesian “war of all against all.” One can agree that the rage of modernist iconoclasm often produces the very dehumanizing phenomena that it claims to be waging war against, without sharing Latour’s piety towards “fetishes” and “icons.” In making “modernism” and its “settlement” his enemy, Latour can’t help reproducing modernity’s own logic, in the form of an idealized depiction of that which preceded the modern. Although he rightly says that the unalienated “pre-modern” is nothing but a modernist fantasy, he himself reproduces the very same fantasy, in his picture of a world uninfected by modernism, as well as in his assertion that “we have never been modern,” that modernity has only given greater scope to nonmodern “mixtures” in practice, by refusing them admission into theory. In short: we must add to Latour’s account the additional awareness that we have never not been modern, that we have never been free of modernist divisions and impositions. (This is a more Derridean conclusion than I wanted to get to; I think the way out is to ask different sorts of questions, and indeed this is what Latour says we should do; but Latour doesn’t ask the right different questions. He doesn’t quite succeed in pointing the way to his self-confessed goal, a Whiteheadean account that does justice both to science and to other modes of human experience of the world). Apropa’t, by Savath and Savalas, is the latest album by Scott Herren, who is better known for the music he releases under the name Prefuse 73. (You can purchase it digitally from Warp Records online, for considerably less than it costs as a CD. Also, the download is in the form of unencrypted mp3 files). This music is very different from Prefuse 73. It’s slow, dreamy, and somewhat folkish, with no glitches and not much of a beat. Herren is collaborating here with vocalist Eva Puyuelo Muns, who sings ethereally in Catalan and Spanish. What I love about this album is how it evades attention,and never quite coalesces. The lovely melodies never quite come into focus. The music slips and slides right past my center of awareness. It’s as if I’d been (oxymoronically) hypnotized into distraction. And no, I haven’t the faintest idea how, musically speaking, Herren accomplishes this. Apropa’t, by Savath and Savalas, is the latest album by Scott Herren, who is better known for the music he releases under the name Prefuse 73. (You can purchase it digitally from Warp Records online, for considerably less than it costs as a CD. Also, the download is in the form of unencrypted mp3 files). This music is very different from Prefuse 73. It’s slow, dreamy, and somewhat folkish, with no glitches and not much of a beat. Herren is collaborating here with vocalist Eva Puyuelo Muns, who sings ethereally in Catalan and Spanish. What I love about this album is how it evades attention,and never quite coalesces. The lovely melodies never quite come into focus. The music slips and slides right past my center of awareness. It’s as if I’d been (oxymoronically) hypnotized into distraction. And no, I haven’t the faintest idea how, musically speaking, Herren accomplishes this. Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen, about the sex and drugs experiences of a 13-year-old girl, is a powerful movie, with great acting and interesting, lively direction. Digital camera, often handheld and shaky, lots of pans, lots of quick edits, manipulation of color to be supersaturated in druggy, decadent scenes and washed out in tragic family ones: these are all the kinds of things that many critics condemn as facile and gimmicky, but for me it works, it crackles and jumps, it moves; although it seems at this point less like auteurial expression than a style as codified as classical Hollywood ‘invisible’ editing ever was. But I was bothered, finally, by how conservative and moralistic Thirteen is, once you get past its lurid will to shock (or, perhaps, such moralism is the inevitable correlate of a lurid will to shock). The film presents its thirteen-year-old protagonist’s giddy experiences (hedonism as a mask for despair) as a veritable descent into hell: Pleasure Is Bad For You. (Nothing she does would be all that shocking for a 16-year-old white girl in southern California: pot, beer, sniffing aerosol cans, heavier drugs only on rare occasions; shoplifitng, slutwear, piercing; going down on slightly older boys who — oh my god — are black; and a little scarification when the pain gets too great; but the movie wants to magnify it all by playing on our thoughts that thirteen is way too young). And the anatomy of why she does what she does is pretty cliched, once you look past the great performances: broken home, a mom who doesn’t spend enough time with her daughter, an absent father, a manipulative slut of a best friend, etc: a “family values” analysis that is totally consonant with the Republican Party platform. The film probably gets the teen slang and mores down (as far as I can guess; no way I could really know, since I’m 50 and my daughter is only 1 1/2). But alas, there is no Bataillean excess here. And as a portrait of teen girls’ folie a deux, Thirteen is far inferior to Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (his best movie, LOTR notwithstanding) or Rafal Zielinski’s almost entirely unknown and utterly brilliant Fun. Catherine Hardwicke’s Thirteen, about the sex and drugs experiences of a 13-year-old girl, is a powerful movie, with great acting and interesting, lively direction. Digital camera, often handheld and shaky, lots of pans, lots of quick edits, manipulation of color to be supersaturated in druggy, decadent scenes and washed out in tragic family ones: these are all the kinds of things that many critics condemn as facile and gimmicky, but for me it works, it crackles and jumps, it moves; although it seems at this point less like auteurial expression than a style as codified as classical Hollywood ‘invisible’ editing ever was. But I was bothered, finally, by how conservative and moralistic Thirteen is, once you get past its lurid will to shock (or, perhaps, such moralism is the inevitable correlate of a lurid will to shock). The film presents its thirteen-year-old protagonist’s giddy experiences (hedonism as a mask for despair) as a veritable descent into hell: Pleasure Is Bad For You. (Nothing she does would be all that shocking for a 16-year-old white girl in southern California: pot, beer, sniffing aerosol cans, heavier drugs only on rare occasions; shoplifitng, slutwear, piercing; going down on slightly older boys who — oh my god — are black; and a little scarification when the pain gets too great; but the movie wants to magnify it all by playing on our thoughts that thirteen is way too young). And the anatomy of why she does what she does is pretty cliched, once you look past the great performances: broken home, a mom who doesn’t spend enough time with her daughter, an absent father, a manipulative slut of a best friend, etc: a “family values” analysis that is totally consonant with the Republican Party platform. The film probably gets the teen slang and mores down (as far as I can guess; no way I could really know, since I’m 50 and my daughter is only 1 1/2). But alas, there is no Bataillean excess here. And as a portrait of teen girls’ folie a deux, Thirteen is far inferior to Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (his best movie, LOTR notwithstanding) or Rafal Zielinski’s almost entirely unknown and utterly brilliant Fun. Another brilliant Johnny To film: The Mission. This one is less extravagant than the others I’ve seen; but it has the same fragmented narrative, and the same gorgeously oblique nighttime cinematography. Only this one is more about things that don’t quite happen, about waiting for things to happen. A team of bodyguards is assembled to protect a crime boss from assassination. They succeed; the boss remains safe, and the rival responsible for the assassination attempts is found. But then, the group has other problems to face…. The memorable parts of this film are those poised on the brink of action. It’s all about waiting. The bodyguards frozen in posture, waiting for the next assault; or bored, since nothing is happening, they idly kick around a wadded-up ball of paper as if it were a soccer ball. The assassins may come from anywhere; gunfire breaks out suddenly, with no chance of preparation. A sniper shoots from the top of a tall office building. Or shots ring out, seemingly from nowhere, in a largely deserted shopping mall. Or an ambush is launched from a seemingly deserted warehouse. Johnny To sets up these scenes, their angles of vision and of shooting, with all the precision of John Woo (and before him, of Peckinpah, of Fuller, of classical action cinema); but the spaces in which these sightlines and shotlines are so precisely articulated, are the topologically twisted, non-Cartesian spaces of postmodernity. Time is contorted as well as space; the moments of action are almost evanescent, you can’t keep them in mind, as they are surrounded and engulfed by the motionless stretches of before and after. This is not the modernist waiting for a future that never arrives (as was the case in Waiting for Godot, in Blanchot’s novels, and for that matter in Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo); it’s more that the action itself forms part of the waiting, the future is already enveloped in the present time of waiting, so that you are not waiting for something to happen that never does, but rather waiting precisely because it already is happening, it is here, it is now, and you have to wait in order to play your appointed part in it. Another brilliant Johnny To film: The Mission. This one is less extravagant than the others I’ve seen; but it has the same fragmented narrative, and the same gorgeously oblique nighttime cinematography. Only this one is more about things that don’t quite happen, about waiting for things to happen. A team of bodyguards is assembled to protect a crime boss from assassination. They succeed; the boss remains safe, and the rival responsible for the assassination attempts is found. But then, the group has other problems to face…. The memorable parts of this film are those poised on the brink of action. It’s all about waiting. The bodyguards frozen in posture, waiting for the next assault; or bored, since nothing is happening, they idly kick around a wadded-up ball of paper as if it were a soccer ball. The assassins may come from anywhere; gunfire breaks out suddenly, with no chance of preparation. A sniper shoots from the top of a tall office building. Or shots ring out, seemingly from nowhere, in a largely deserted shopping mall. Or an ambush is launched from a seemingly deserted warehouse. Johnny To sets up these scenes, their angles of vision and of shooting, with all the precision of John Woo (and before him, of Peckinpah, of Fuller, of classical action cinema); but the spaces in which these sightlines and shotlines are so precisely articulated, are the topologically twisted, non-Cartesian spaces of postmodernity. Time is contorted as well as space; the moments of action are almost evanescent, you can’t keep them in mind, as they are surrounded and engulfed by the motionless stretches of before and after. This is not the modernist waiting for a future that never arrives (as was the case in Waiting for Godot, in Blanchot’s novels, and for that matter in Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo); it’s more that the action itself forms part of the waiting, the future is already enveloped in the present time of waiting, so that you are not waiting for something to happen that never does, but rather waiting precisely because it already is happening, it is here, it is now, and you have to wait in order to play your appointed part in it. DJ Danger Mouse‘s Grey Album is, at the very least, an audacious conceptual coup. DangerMouse combines the unchanged vocal tracks of Jay-Z’s Black Album with instrumentals derived from the Beatles’ (so-called) white album. Musically, I’m not convinced this re-engineering really works; voice and music don’t really go together convincingly, but neither do they clash in ways that seem particularly meaningful. There’s no real “dialectical interaction” here; and, as a commentary on race, or on black and white music, nothing in the actual sounds goes beyond the initial idea. Still, the results are weird enough to deserve a couple of listens. The Beatles material is cut up and rhythmically manhandled, in order to line up with Jay-Z’s raps. Predictably, Danger Mouse received a cease and desist order from EMI Records for this stunt. Yet another example of the way that copyright is inimical to creativity. Sampling and recombination are what music (and culture in general) is about right now. The paradox of art today is that originality comes out of repetition: from altering, and doing violence to, what already exists. To ban sampling is not to protect original art, but to make sure that only derivative and unimaginative works ever get made. Fortunately illegal art still has the album for download. DJ Danger Mouse‘s Grey Album is, at the very least, an audacious conceptual coup. DangerMouse combines the unchanged vocal tracks of Jay-Z’s Black Album with instrumentals derived from the Beatles’ (so-called) white album. Musically, I’m not convinced this re-engineering really works; voice and music don’t really go together convincingly, but neither do they clash in ways that seem particularly meaningful. There’s no real “dialectical interaction” here; and, as a commentary on race, or on black and white music, nothing in the actual sounds goes beyond the initial idea. Still, the results are weird enough to deserve a couple of listens. The Beatles material is cut up and rhythmically manhandled, in order to line up with Jay-Z’s raps. Predictably, Danger Mouse received a cease and desist order from EMI Records for this stunt. Yet another example of the way that copyright is inimical to creativity. Sampling and recombination are what music (and culture in general) is about right now. The paradox of art today is that originality comes out of repetition: from altering, and doing violence to, what already exists. To ban sampling is not to protect original art, but to make sure that only derivative and unimaginative works ever get made. Fortunately illegal art still has the album for download.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Metro News & Reviews Wednesday marked Metro Rail’s 20th anniversary, an impressive milestone when you look at the system today and consider that L.A. has long be known as the car capital of the world. But what does the next 20 years hold for rail transit in L.A.? Yesterday, Steve posted a look at the projects that are funded by Measure R that could very well be built as rail lines – and if the 30/10 Initiative takes hold, we could see the rail system expand in massive way in the next decade. In other words, there’s a lot to be excited about if you love transit. This brings me to today’s poll, which of these potential rail projects are you most excited for?	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Drew Mahowald Social Media Subscribe & Review BJ Reidell and Drew Mahowald welcome former Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe to discuss the intricacies of the position and determine how fans should best evaluate performance without being privy to the situational coaching assignment. The trio also discusses the most dangerous punt returners of this generation, punter mentality and persona as well as the "price" Kluwe made former quarterback Donovan McNabb pay to don his No. 5 jersey in 2011.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Pirate owl PDF sewing pattern $8.50 Share: Quantity is backordered. We will ship it separately in 10 to 15 days. This listing is for a handmade pirate owl baby t-shirt sewing pattern. As hard as this little pirate owl tries to look tough, all he can manage is to look cute! Your baby boy will be the hit of the playgroup wearing this onesie. An owl is pretty neutral, so it works for a boy or girl. It's a perfect gift when you don't yet know the gender of the baby. You can modify the colors to make it look more girly. It looks absolutely adorable when paired with the matching baby pirate owl bib. This onesie is super quick and easy to make - perfect for a last minute baby shower gift, birthday, or Christmas present. This pattern is for the applique, not the actual onesie. Difficulty rating: Beginner friendly pattern. I work very hard to make my patterns easy to follow, and fun to make. I'm always here to help if there are any questions. Materials Needed: Onesie, fabric for applique, thread, fusible stabilizer, fusible web, and an iron. I recommend using a sewing machine to securely stitch the design onto the fabric, but you could do it by hand. Optional: Fabric paint and stencil brush for rosy cheeks, black fabric marker if you prefer to draw small details instead of stitching them. Suggested Fabrics:100% cotton fabrics. I don’t recommend any fabrics with nylon content as they will melt when fusing the applique with an iron. You could probably get away with a cotton/polyester blend if your iron isn’t set too high. Just my humble opinion: I would much rather give a handmade gift than one purchased at a big box store which was mass produced in a factory somewhere overseas. I feel a handmade gift is a gift of love. If you don't have the time or desire to make one yourself - no problem - I'll lovingly create one for you. Disclaimer: This sale is for the pattern, not the actual finished product. Your pattern will be available via instant download once your payment is confirmed. This pattern includes: Image of the finished product, placement diagram, templates, and written instructions. Whenever possible I will give you dimensions to cut cut simple shapes. This will save you time, paper, and ink. All sales of PDF patterns are nonrefundable and nonreturnable due to the nature of digital products. I will be happy to help in any way if you have questions. By purchasing this pattern, you agree that you will use the pattern for personal use only. Patterns and finished products made from my patterns are not to be sold on Etsy or any other website. Do not copy or share patterns or templates.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
"Chuck Johnson's A Struggle, Not a Thought is both pensive and dynamic, balancing sound and silence, and hinting at 20th-century classical techniques and methods." - Kevin Macneil Brown, Dusted Chuck Johnson is a composer and musician currently residing in Oakland, CA, whose musical acumen and resume is as diverse as it is impressive. He was a member of Spatula, Idyll Swords, and Shark Quest - influential bands in the Chapel Hill independent music scene of the 1990's and early 2000's, and his early influences of North Carolina Piedmont blues and the "American Primitive" approach are widely evident , especially through his contributions to Idyll Swords (Communion/Three Lobed) and Shark Quest (Merge Records). He has composed music for several feature-length documentaries, including Brett Ingram's award-winning films Monster Road and Rocaterrania (as a member of Shark Quest) and Cynthia Hill's Guestworker. In addition to his work as a guitarist, Johnson performs electronic music using homemade and analog instruments, creates interactive and intermedia work with unusual interfaces, and works extensively with just intonation tuning systems - all with an ear towards finding faults and instabilities that might reveal latent beauty. To top it off, he holds an MFA in electronic music from Mills College. For all of these achievements, however, an album comprised strictly of his solo acoustic guitar music has eluded him, although hints have abounded through various compilation albums, the most recent snapshot surfacing last year via the lauded Beyond Berkeley Guitar compilation (Tompkins Square). Long in the making, A Struggle Not a Thought is Johnson's full length debut, an album brimming with sparkling fingerstyle compositions that are just as forward-thinking and jaw-dropping as any revered documents by the steel-string compositional masters, both past and present. What is truly striking about A Struggle Not a Thought is Chuck Johnson's ability to distill rich vistas and vivid panoramas into succinct compositions - akin to Glenn Jones or Steffen Basho-Junghans at their most concise and lyrical moments. From the initial strumming of chiming steel-string found on opener "Last Moments at Chittor", Johnson evokes an atmosphere of true intimacy, drawing the listener in with his masterful technique and serenading them with chiming currents of steel string beauty. "The Flying Spire Don't Have No Mercy" is a propulsive 12-string cascade spilling into melodic, undulating sound pools, while "The Stars Rose Behind Us" is like a perfect melding of Jack Rose leather and Glenn Jones lace. Tremendously expressive, A Struggle Not a Thought shows us that a modern steel-string powerhouse has been lurking behind the scenes for many moons now. Here's to inaugurating Chuck Johnson into the pantheon of acoustic guitar players where he quite rightfully belongs.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Sunday, May 28, 2006 Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "The Bully & Tony Revue" Isaiah's latest The World Today Just Nuts "The Bully & Tony Revue." Bully Boy riding high on the back of Tony Blair. Bully Boy's singing: "I did it the Bully Way." He's obviously aspired to be Sissy (Debra Winger's character in Urban Cowboy) judging by the riding. About Me We do not open attachments. Stop e-mailing them. Threats and abusive e-mail are not covered by any privacy rule. This isn't to the reporters at a certain paper (keep 'em coming, they are funny). This is for the likes of failed comics who think they can threaten via e-mails and then whine, "E-mails are supposed to be private." E-mail threats will be turned over to the FBI and they will be noted here with the names and anything I feel like quoting. This also applies to anyone writing to complain about a friend of mine. That's not why the public account exists.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Washington might finally change its appalling racist wrongful death law Because HaRam Kim was a single adult with no children, just starting her life in college, and because her parents did not live in the United States, the loss of her as a person is worth nothing under current Washington law. In contrast, the sons of Claudia Derschmidt, killed on the same bus and in the same crash, could make a claim for the loss of their mother. Washington is one of just three states in the country that prohibits wrongful death claims for single adults with no kids, save for the extremely rare circumstance where a parent or sibling is dependent upon the deceased person for support and also living in the United States. So when someone like HaRam Kim dies, the only claim that can be made is for what would’ve been the assets in her estate had she lived to normal life expectancy. That number can be relatively small, making it cheap for wrongdoers to kill young adults. Worse, many people who fall into the childless and single category are so young, proving their earning capacity can be extremely difficult. In the Ride the Ducks case, we argued that Ms. Kim should be given the benefit of the doubt that she wanted to become a medical doctor. The defense argued that there was a scenario where Ms. Kim’s death actually saved the estate money, and that her life was worth no more than $200,000-$300,000. Fortunately, Ms. Kim’s incredible spirit prevailed over the defense’s cynicism, but that is not always the case. Many otherwise righteous cases are never brought—neither accountability nor deterrence achieved. The law limiting recovery to parents living in the United States has roots in racist origins, where businesses in the early 1900s wanted to diminish claims of Chinese miners killed in workplace accidents. I can’t tell you what it’s like to inform grieving parents that just because their son or daughter turned 18, the loss of a child—the ultimate loss—is irrelevant in Washington. Their suffering does not matter. It just shocks the conscience that our laws don’t fit with our moral compass as a modern society. This is not about a boost to injury law. It’s about bringing a widely recognized blemish on our civil justice system into the 21st century. Bravo to the Washington Senate. Now the House needs to vote.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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# to turn on debugging (do this before # any other traits are loaded) use Class::Trait 'debug'; # nothing happens, but the module is loaded use Class::Trait; # loads these two traits and flatten them # into the current package use Class::Trait qw(TPrintable TComparable); # loading a trait and performing some # trait operations (alias, exclude) first use Class::Trait ( 'TPrintable' => { alias => { "stringValue" => "strVal" }, exclude => "stringValue", }, ); # loading two traits and performing # a trait operation (exclude) on one # module to avoid method conflicts use Class::Trait 'TComparable' => { # exclude the basic equality method # from TComparable and use the ones # in TEquality instead. exclude => [ "notEqualTo", "equalTo" ] }, 'TEquality' # <- use equalTo and notEqualTo from here ); # when building a trait, you need it # to inherit from the trait meta/base-class # so do this ... use Class::Trait 'base'; All requirements of the traits (or composite trait) must be meet either by the class itself or by one of its base classes. Flattening All the non-conflicting trait (or composite trait) methods are flattened into the class, meaning an entry is created directly in the class's symbol table and aliased to the original trait method. Only methods defined in the trait are used. Subroutines imported into the trait are not used. Conflicts If a method label in a class conflicts with a method label in the trait (or composite trait), the class method is chosen and the trait method is discarded. This only applies to methods defined directly in the class's symbol table, methods inherited from a base class are overridden by the trait method. The above example would use the TPrintable trait, aliasing stringValue to the method label strVal, and then excluding stringValue. This is done to avoid a conflict with stringValue method implemented in the class that uses the trait. This excludes a method from inclusion in the class which is using the trait. It does however cause the method to be added to the traits required methods. This is done because it is possible that other methods within the trait rely on the excluded method, and therefore it must be implemented somewhere in order for the other method to work. Aliasing is not renaming or redefining, it does not remove the old method, but instead just introduces another label for that method. The old method label can be overridden or excluded without affecting the new method label. One special note is that aliasing does move any entry in the overloaded operators to use the new method name, rather than the old method name. This is done since many times aliasing is used in conjunction with exclusion to pre-resolve conflicts. This avoids the orphaning of the operator. Method equality if determined by two conditions, the first being method label string equality, the second being the hex address of the code reference (found by stringifying the subroutine reference). If a method in one of the traits is deemed to be in conflict with a method in another trait, the result is the exclusion of that method from the composite trait. The method label is then added to the requirements array for the composite trait. Method conflict can be avoided by using exclusion or a combination of aliasing and exclusion. One trait may satisfy the requirements of another trait when they are combined into a composite trait. This results in the removal of the requirement from the requirements array in the composite trait. As of Class::Trait version 0.20, you can now apply traits at runtime to both classes and instances by using the apply() method. Applying a trait at runtime is similar to using the trait as a mixin because existing methods will be overwritten. Now all instances of $class_name will have the methods provided by the trait applied. If the trait applied at runtime provides methods already defined in $class_name, the $class_name methods will be silently redefined with the trait's methods. When applying a trait (or set of traits) to an instance of a class, only that instance gets the new methods. If you want numerous instances to receive the new methods, either apply the trait to all instances or consider applying it to the class. Note that the instance is blessed into a new, anonymous class and it's this class which contains the new methods. While not really exported, Class::Trait leaves the actual Class::Trait::Config object applied to the package stored as scalar in the package variable at $TRAITS. does Class::Trait will export this method into any object which uses traits. By calling this method you can query the kind of traits the object has implemented. The method works much like the perl isa method in that it performs a depth-first search of the traits hierarchy and returns true (1) if the object implements the trait, and false (0) otherwise. $my_object_with_traits->does('TPrintable'); Calling does without arguments will return all traits an ojbect does. is Class::Trait used to export this method to any object which uses traits, but it was found to conflict with Test::More::is. The recommended way is to use does. To use is instead of does, one trait must use the following syntax for inheritance: use Class::Trait qw/base is/; Instead of: use Class::Trait 'base'; It is recommended that all traits use this syntax if necessary as the mysterious "action at a distance" of renaming this method can be confusing. As an alternative, you can also simply use the following in any code which uses traits: BEGIN { require Class::Trait; Class::Trait->rename_does('is'); } This is generally not recommended in test suites as Test::More::is() conflicts with this method. Class::Trait uses the INIT phase of the perl compiler, which will not run under mod_perl or if a package is loaded at runtime with require. In order to insure that all traits a properly verified, this method must be called. However, you may still use Class::Trait without doing this, for more details see the CAVEAT section. Class::Trait uses does() to determine if a class can "do" a particular trait. However, your package may already have a does() method defined or you may be migrating from an older version of Class::Trait which uses is() to perform this function. To rename does() to something more suitable, you can use this at the top of your code: I have moved some of the traits in the test suite to be used outside of this, and put them in what I am calling the trait library. This trait library will hopefully become a rich set of base level traits to use when composing your own traits. Currently there are the following pre-defined traits. TPrintable TEquality TComparable These can be loaded as normal traits would be loaded, Class::Trait will know where to find them. For more information about them, see their own documenation. Class::Trait is really an experimental module. It is not ready yet to be used seriously in production systems. That said, about half of the code in this module is dedicated to formatting and printing out debug statements to STDERR when the debug flag is turned on. use Class::Trait 'debug'; The debug statements prints out pretty much every action taken during the traits compilation process and on occasion dump out Data::Dumper output of trait structures. If you are at all interested in traits or in this module, I recommend doing this, it will give you lots of insight as to what is going on behind the scences. This module uses the INIT phase of the perl compiler to do a final check of the of the traits. Mostly it checkes that the traits requirements are fufilled and that your class is safe to use. This presents a problem in two specific cases. If you load code with require or eval "use Module" the result is the same as with mod_perl. It is post-compilation, and the INIT phase cannot be run. However, this does not mean you cannot use Class::Trait in these two scenarios. Class::Trait will just not check its requirements, these routines will simply throw an error if called. The best way to avoid this is to call the class method initialize, after you have loaded all your classes which utilize traits, or after you specifically load a class with traits at runtime. Class::Trait->initialize(); This will result in the final checking over of your classes and traits, and throw an exception if there is a problem. Some people may not object to this not-so-strict behavior, the smalltalk implementation of traits, written by the authors of the original papers behaves in a similar way. Here is a quote from a discussion I had with Nathanael Scharli, about the Smalltalk versions behavior: Well, in Squeak (as in the other Smalltalk dialects), the difference between runtime and compile time is not as clear as in most other programming languages. The reason for this is that programming in Smalltalk is very interactive and there is no explicit compile phase. This means that whenever a Smalltalk programmer adds or modifies a method, it gets immediately (and automatically) compiled and installed in the class. (Since Smalltalk is not statically typed, there are no type checks performed at compile time, and this is why compiling a method simply means creating and installing the byte-code of that method). However, I actually like if the programmer gets as much static information bout the code as possible. Therefore, my implementation automaticelly checks the open requirements whenever a method gets added/removed/modified. This means that in my implementation, the programmer gets interactive feedback about which requirements are still to be satisfied while he is composing the traits together. In particular, I also indicate when all the requirements of a class/trait are fulfilled. In case of classes, this means for the programmer that it is now possible to actually use the class without running into open requirements. However, according to the Smalltalk tradition, I do not prevent a programmer from instantiating a class that still has open requirements. (This can be useful if a programmer wants to test a certain functionality of a class before it is actually complete). Of course, there is then always the risk that there will be a runtime error because of an unsatisfied requirement. As a summary, I would say that my implementation of traits keeps track of the requirements at compile time. However, if an incomplete class (i.e., a class with open requirements) is instantiated, unfulfilled requirements result in a runtime error when they are called. I consider this implementation of Traits to be pretty much feature complete in terms of the description found in the papers. Of course improvements can always be made, below is a list of items on my to do list: I have revamped the test suite alot this time around. But it could always use more. Currently we have 158 tests in the suite. I ran it through Devel::Cover and found that the coverage is pretty good, but can use some help: To start with Class::Trait::Reflection is not even tested at all. I am not totally happy with this API yet, so I am avoiding doing this for now. The pod coverage is really low in Class::Trait since virtually none of the methods are documented (as they are not public and have no need to be documented). The branch coverage is low too because of all the debug statements that are not getting execute (since we do not have DEBUG on). The branch coverage in Class::Trait::Base is somwhat difficult. Those are mostly rare error conditions and edge cases, none the less I would still like to test them. Mostly what remains that I would like to test is the error cases. I need to test that Class::Traits blows up in the places I expect it to. Currently the work around for the mod_perl/INIT phase issue (see CAVEAT) is to just let the unfufilled requirement routines fail normally with perl. Maybe I am a control freak, but I would like to be able to make these unfufilled methods throw my own exceptions instead. My solution was to make a bunch of stub routines for all the requirements. The problem is that I get a bunch of "subroutine redeined" warnings coming up when the local method definitions are installed by perl normally. Also, since we are installing our methods and our overloads into the class in the BEGIN phase now, it is possible that we will get subroutine redefinition errors if there is a local implementation of a method or operator. This is somewhat rare, so I am not as concerned about that now. Ideally I would like to find a way around the INIT issue, which will still have the elegance of using INIT. Being a relatively new concept, Traits can be difficult to digest and understand. The original papers does a pretty good job, but even they stress the usefulness of tools to help in the development and understanding of Traits. The 'debug' setting of Class::Trait gives a glut of information on every step of the process, but is only useful to a point. A Traits 'browser' is something I have been toying with, both as a command line tool and a Tk based tool. Sometimes a trait will want to define private methods that only it can see. Any subroutine imported into the trait from outside of the trait will automatically be excluded. However, a trait can define private methods by using anonymous subroutines. If a class using a trait has a method which the trait defines, the class's method is assumed to be the correct method. However, you should get a "Subroutine redefined" warning. To avoid this, explicitly exclude the method:	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Monday, July 9, 2012 McHenry: Is the CFPB Free from Executive Control? Representative Patrick McHenry, chairman of the Subcommittee on TARP, Financial Services and Bailouts of Public and Private Programs, wrote a letter to CFPB Director Richard Cordray raising concerns about the CFPB’s relationship with the political components of the executive branch. McHenry questioned the frequency of CFPB staff interaction with the White House and whether the CFPB “is in fact free from executive control.” The Dodd-Frank Act established the CFPB as an independent bureau within the Federal Reserve System to regulate consumer financial products and services under Federal consumer financial laws. In his letter McHenry questions the CFPB’s independence. The CFPB occupies a position within our government in which “its duties are performed without executive leave and…must be free from executive control.” [However,] the CFPB has maintained a close relationship with political components of the executive branch. Although employees of other independent agencies meet with White House staff members…the frequency of the CFPB’s visits and the CFPB’s coordinated public events with the White House could suggest that the Bureau’s regulator actions are indirectly shaped by these interactions. McHenry continued by urging the CFPB to carefully evaluated its relationship with the political components of the executive branch. He also requested the CFPB answer a number of questions to assist the Subcommittee in fully examining the extent and nature of the CFPB’s relationship with political components of the executive branch. Pages Archive This page contains only posts related to the definition of Qualified Mortgages and Qualified Residential Mortgages (QM-QRM). Click the title banner to return to the main page, which shows posts of all topics. The ABA Dodd-Frank Tracker provides current information on the implementation of the Dodd-Frank Act. This page contains all posts made to the site, regardless of their topic. For posts addressing specific topics, click the subjects in the menu at the top of the page. For additional topics, see "Full Topics List" in the menu above. This page contains only posts related to Corporate Governance. Click the title banner to return to the main page, which shows posts of all topics. The content is provided for educational purposes only, with the understanding that neither the authors, contributors, nor the publishers of this site are engaged in rendering legal, accounting or other expert or professional services. If legal or other expert assistance is required, the services of a competent professional should be sought. Comments appearing in response to articles appearing on this site do not necessarily reflect the views of the ABA. ABA makes no representations regarding the truth or accuracy of commentary or opinions that may be posted in response to the articles that appear on this website. ABA does gather and collect information regarding your use in the form of tracking information collected as you navigate this site. ABA aggregates and analyzes this information in order to learn more about how this site is used and how to deliver better products and services. ABA reserves the right to disclose any information as required by law, a court order, or to a duly authorized investigative agency. The inclusion herein of any link to a website, either in the text of an article or in a comment, does not denote any approval, sponsorship, or endorsement by the ABA, and ABA is not responsible for the content or opinions expressed on those linked websites or related commentary. It is the policy of the American Bankers Association to comply fully with all antitrust laws. Certain discussions should be considered off-limits, including those that contain competitively sensitive data such as price and cost information, or statements that could be construed as reflecting an attempt or desire to control or influence a particular market or markets. Future pricing or other prospective competitive information should never be shared.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
Steam Top Sellers week ending 7 January We welcome back this Steam Top Sellers and it’s the first top ten of 2018. No huge surprises to start the year, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is still at number one. The Steam sale concluded on the 4th of January which is why we are still seeing games such as GTA V, Dark Souls 3, and The Witcher 3 in the top ten. The strategy title They Are Billions has proved a real hit for indie developer Numantian Games as it’s holding firm in third place this week. With no new big game releases due at the start of the month, it’s a typically slow start to January and things won’t start hotting up for a couple more weeks at least. That said, it’s going to take something stellar to knock PUBG off the top spot. It’s been at number one since March 2017.	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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Michelle Obama: 'Malia and Sasha are like every kid in America' Michelle Obama has been greatly involved in the movement towards a healthier America during her time in the White House. This past weekend she interviewed with CNN and told them that ‘Malia and Sasha are like every other kid in American’ and that they love junk food. She even stated that President Obama has a weakness for guacamole and nacho chips. Mrs. Obama wanted to let everybody know that it is okay to have flaws and enjoy snacks as long as it is in moderation and accompanied by exercise. Over the weekend, First Lady Michelle Obama answered several questions from CNN iReporters, who peppered her with queries on various subjects, including her ‘Let’s Move’ initiative fighting obesity in America. CNN iReporter Shari Atukorala, from Sri Lanka, asked the First Lady whether she would allow her daughters to eat fast food, specifically “a huge burger…french fries (and) fried chicken” or if they were only allowed to have healthy food. WATCH: The first lady tells us that the Obamas have cravings like everybody else [cnnvideo url=’http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2012/02/12/iri-michelle-obama.cnn’ inline=’true’] “Malia and Sasha are like every kid in America, if they could eat burgers, fries, pie, cake and ice cream every single day, they would, because that stuff tastes really good,” Mrs. Obama explained. “I’d eat it too if I could!”	{ "pile_set_name": "Pile-CC" }
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