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RCC 2013 SO FAR | Riders Cycle Centre. Cycle repair and service workshop. 50+ 5Star Google reviews. Bicycle consultancy. Custom wheel & bike builder. Maintenance courses.
January is soon running out of days and 2013 is in full swing. It's been a great start to the year which I hope will see RCC grow and grow.
January saw James complete his Cotic MTB build. James and I have been working on building a steel HT and over several coffees and numerous emails we took delivery of all the selected parts. Then the best bit. James arranged to come into RCC and with my assistance, he built his bike. It took a while but the effort James put in was worth it. Congratulation James.
I received a call from David asking if I could build his new road bike for him. David dropped off a few big boxes at RCC and I set to putting together a dream of a road bike. An S-Works Tarmac frame with Shimano's latest Dura Ace group set and carbon wheels.
As if you didn't know Welcome to Yorkshire was successful in bringing the Tour De France here to Yorkshire. It was even better to hear that the Tour will be cycling through Skipton and my home town of Haworth. Problem is I have to wait till 2014. But in the mean time RCC plans to get into the Tour De France spirit by arranging Tour De France guided rides along the tour route and to do It's own OFF ROAD Tour ride. If that's got you interested then give me a call 01756 796844.
Thursday nights at RCC are TURBO nights. From 7pm till 8pm RCC will open its doors to anyone wanting to use our open shop area to train aboard their bike and turbo trainer. We have hot & cold drinks available. If anyone is interested in taking a class then please let me know but in the mean time I will be throwing in a few sprint and hill climb intervals or just concentrating on my heart rate monitor. £3.50 per session.
Like many of you (I hope) I have put some races and events in my diary. Last year I competed in the Cairngorm 200. A 200 mile self supported ride in amongst the Cairngorm mountain range. This May I have been invited to ride the Highland Trail 400. This little beauty consists of a 430 mile self supported ride in the Highlands of Scotland. With 40+ adventure racers from as far as the USA and Europe attending I need to seriously knuckle down and prepare for what will be an exciting and epic event. My head says plan for a 5 day ride but my heart wants to do it in 4. What ever happens I need to be prepared so bike, kit, cloths and navigation needs to be researched, tested and finalised. This also means some long distance rides leading up to the event, so if anyone would like to join me on an off road/road weekend of none stop cycling then you know what to do. Give me a call 01756 796844.
Our maintenance courses continue to be a great success here at RCC. Your 2 hour session working on your bike will show you how to maintain your bike, how to undertake basic maintenance jobs and how to clean and lubricate your bike. The course can be customised to your own requirements so if you know how to change an inner tube then we will not cover this and move on to what will help you.
If you haven't already joined our Facebook group then please do so. Spread the word and keep posted for new's, event's and ride's. |
Home Blog Can I make a TPD claim for mental illness?
Many superannuation policies allow workers to make a total and permanent disability (TPD) claim if they are unable to return to work due to a serious ongoing injury or illness. Compensation will usually take the form of a lump sum payment. Depending on the terms of the policy, this may also cover mental illnesses like depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and anxiety disorders.
How do you know if you're covered for mental illness?
Superannuation policies will have a product disclosure statement, which can be checked to see if mental illness is included in the TPD coverage. If you're unsure whether you're covered or not, you can check your super's policy disclosure statement to see the details.
How successful are TPD claims for mental illness?
Making a successful TPD claim requires strong evidence that proves you're unable to return to work because of the personal injury or illness you have suffered. For mental illness claims, the bar for evidence is set high and many TPD claims of this kind are often disputed. An experienced superannuation lawyer will be able to advise you on the merits of your case and your chances for success.
What types of mental illness are covered by TPD?
To qualify for TPD compensation, you'll need to meet the requirements that apply to your specific superannuation policy. Typically, serious mental illnesses are covered, such as major depressive disorders, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders.
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a range of severe stress reactions that can occur after witnessing or experiencing a traumatic event or events. Severe feelings of fear, anger or grief can last for a long time, leaving sufferers unable to work and go about their normal lives.
Depression is a debilitating disorder that can be characterised by long-lasting feelings of sadness, apathy, and other negative emotions. Signs of depression can include loss of energy and motivation, increased alcohol and drug use, feelings of worthlessness and guilt, and thoughts about suicide or death.
Anxiety includes intense feelings of fear, worry and distress about perceived threats. Sufferers can feel worried and afraid for long periods of time, displaying signs of panic, nervousness and agitation. Symptoms can include difficulties with sleeping, stomach aches, dizziness and a pounding heart.
If you are experiencing any of these mental illnesses, it's important to know that you can get help to overcome them. For more information on mental illness and its treatment see the Black Dog Institute's website here.
How do you make a claim for TPD?
To make a TPD claim, you will need to fill out a claim form and provide your super fund with supporting information, including details on your work experience, education, financial records and medical evidence that supports your claim. At this stage, it's vital to get the right advice on how to fill out your form to present the strongest case for the compensation you need. Our experienced TPD lawyers are able to assist you at every stage of the claims process to maximise your chances for a successful outcome.
TPD claims for mental illness require persuasive evidence and are often disputed by superannuation and insurance companies. Our experienced team of TPD claims lawyers are able to assess your chances for success and give you the right advice on how to proceed. |
SmithMusic.com Distribution Agreement
This exclusive distribution agreement ("Agreement") by and between SmithMusic.com LLC, 131 E. Exchange Avenue, Suite 102, Fort Worth, Texas 76164 ("Distributor") and Artist/Band/Individual/Label/Distributor ("Client") (Distributor and Client are referred to herein individually as "Party" or collectively as the "Parties") is effective as of the date of Client's consent to the same through Distributor's website (the "Effective Date").
The Parties hereby agree as follows:
1. Definitions. The following capitalized terms shall have the following meanings for the purposes of this Agreement:
(a) "Album Units" means the units of the Album manufactured in any audio format.
(b) "Authorized Territory" means the entire Universe.
(c) "Content" means the collection of sound recordings, both individually (a "Single"), and collectively as released in a single musical album by the Client (an "Album" or "Albums"), including, by way of example and not limitation, the musical works embodied in such sound recordings, any related artwork, photos, liner notes, metadata, and other material related to the Content.
(d) "Copyright Management Information" means the digital information conveying information regarding a Digital Master, including, by way of example and not limited to, the title of the applicable Album, the name of the song or Single, the International Standard Recording Code (ISRC), the Universal Product Code (UPC), the marketing label, and the record company name.
(e) "Digital Master(s)" means the original Content in digital form and any copy or copies of the same, whether created by Client or Distributor.
(f) "Direct Digital Download Distribution Service" means the online services operated by Distributor for the sale, distribution, marketing, streaming, licensing, or other means of digital transmission of the Content and other media.
(g) "Net Profits" means the gross proceeds received by Distributor after the deduction of the distribution fee, any applicable administration fee, and pre-approved advertising costs and chargebacks. For the avoidance of doubt, any marketing and advertising expenses (per Section 14) are not reimbursed to Distributor prior to the calculation of Net Profits.
(h) "Service(s)" means the sale, distribution, marketing, or streaming (including but not limited to digital downloads or streams) of the Content pursuant to this Agreement.
(i) "Single Units" means the units of any individual song or Single included as Content manufactured in any audio format.
(j) "Third Party Licensee" means any third party licensee that Distributor may authorize to carry out the sale, distribution, marketing, streaming, licensing, or other use of an Album or Single pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, including, by way of example and not limitation, Apple iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify, Sound Exchange and others that Distributor may choose in its sole and absolute discretion.
2. Distribution of Product. This Agreement is for the digital distribution of the Content uploaded by Client to any Smith Music portal (portal.smithmusic.com, smithmusicportal.audiosalad.com) and Distributor's Services related to the same, through all forms of media distribution, whether now known or hereinafter devised, including, for the purpose of example and not limitation, online streaming, digital downloads, public performance, content ID and all other forms of electronic media transmission. Digital Masters, graphic art, and all other Materials described in Paragraph 20 below and all materials related to the Content herein must be delivered to Distributor no later than sixty (60) days from the Effective Date.
3. Exclusive Grant of Rights. Through the uploading of any audio or visual Content via any Smith Music portal (portal.smithmusic.com) by Client, Client hereby appoints Distributor as the sole and exclusive digital distributor of the Content to perform the Services set out herein, within the Authorized Territory for the Term of this Agreement as set out in Paragraph 4 herein. Client shall neither allow nor permit any other person, company, or entity to distribute the Content or perform the Services within the Authorized Territory during the Term without express written permission of Distributor.
a. Client retains the right to grant individual track master use licenses, including for premiums, endorsements, games, samples, theater, film, television, videos, advertisements, commercials compilation albums, Internet productions, merchandising, promotions and the like. Client may also stream the Content solely for promotional purposes through Client's own website and/or social networking or social media platforms.
4. Term: The term of this Agreement shall begin on the Effective Date and shall remain in effect for a period of one (1) year (the "Initial Term"). This Agreement cannot be terminated without cause during the Initial Term. The term shall automatically renew each year on the anniversary of the Effective Date, for additional one-year periods (each a "Renewal Term") unless terminated in writing by either Party at any time during any Renewal Term with 30 day advanced notice to the other Party. The Initial Term and any Renewal Term are collectively referred to herein as the "Term". A final accounting will take place within One Hundred and Twenty (120) days of the end of the month during which the Agreement is terminated. Such final accounting will include a report detailing total digital revenue received related to any Content from a Direct Digital Download Distribution Service or Third Party Licensee, and an itemized list of all authorized discounts, advertising, marketing and other authorized charge backs. All monies due from either Party at the time of the final accounting for any Content shall be paid within sixty (60) days following Client's receipt of such final accounting. Payment may include monies due to Client for Content sold or downloaded, or reimbursements from Client to Distributor for any over-payments previously made by Distributor.
5. Compensation. Digital Distribution Fees. For the Services provided by Distributor pursuant to this Agreement, the Distributor will be paid Ten Percent (10%) of Net Profits for each Album Unit, Single Unit, or Video Unit that is streamed, sold, paid for, and not returned.
6. Authorization. Through execution of this Agreement, Client hereby appoints the Distributor as Client's exclusive authorized representative for the sale and digital distribution of the audio and visual Content uploaded to any Smith Music Portal (portal.smithmusic.com, smithmusicportal.audiosalad.com). Accordingly, Client hereby grants to Distributor the exclusive right, during the Term and throughout the Authorized Territory to:
(a) Reproduce and create derivative works of the Content by converting the Content, or any portion thereof, into Digital Masters, including less than full-length versions of sound recordings ("Clips") that can be used for promotional purposes as authorized in this Agreement and, if necessary, reproducing the Content, or any part thereof.
(b) Publicly perform, publicly display, communicate to the public, and otherwise make available the Content, any portion thereof, and portions thereof as embodied in Clips, by means of digital audio transmissions (on an interactive or non-interactive basis) through a Direct Digital Download Distribution Service or Third Party Licensee, or any person authorized by the Client to place on any website, identify the availability of the Content for license, sale, or distribution and promote the Content, on a through-to-the-listener basis, without payment of any fees or royalties by Distributor to any of the following:
(i) the songwriters, composers, or music publishers owning any rights in and to any Album or additional Content therein;
(ii) (ii) any performing artist(s) (including non-featured vocalists and musicians) on any Album or Content therein;
(iii) (iii) any other person involved in the creation of or owning any portion of any Album or Content therein, including, but not limited to a record label, and
(iv) (iv) any agents for any of those individuals or entities listed above, such as performing rights organizations ("PROs") and unions or guilds, whether U.S. based (such as ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, Sound Exchange, AFTRA, and/or AFM) or foreign (e.g. PRS for Music, PPI, CMRRA, CSI, GEMA, etc.);
(c) Use and distribute Copyright Management Information as embodied in a Digital Master of the Content;
(d) Use the Content and metadata that may be reasonably necessary or desirable for Distributor to exercise its rights under this Agreement;
(e) Authorize Distributor's Third Party Licensees to perform any one or more of the activities specified in this Agreement.
7. Name and Likeness; Promotional Use and Opportunities.
(a) Name and Likeness of Client and Songwriters. Client hereby grants to Distributor during the Term the right to use, and authorize Third Party Licensees to use in any marketing materials for the sale, promotion, and advertising of the Content, which is offered for sale or other use under the terms of this Agreement: (i) the names and approved likenesses of, and biographical material concerning, the Client and any artists, bands, producers and/or songwriters, as well as track, Single, and/or Album name; (ii) all artwork related to the sound recordings or audiovisual works.
b) Promotion. Client hereby grants to Distributor the right to market, promote, and advertise the Content as available for purchase in any and all media, whether now know or hereafter devised.
8. Reversion of Rights. All rights granted hereunder to Distributor revert to Client on proper termination of this Agreement.
9. Sale of Rights in Content Prohibited. Client may not sell or assign any rights in and to the Content during the Term of this Agreement to any entity, person, company, or third party without the express, advanced written permission of Distributor.
10. Earnings Statements. Distributor will render to Client monthly digital statements related to the Content within 90 days of the conclusion of each month (i.e. statements reflecting January sales/downloads will be provided to Client by April 30th), indicating the actual number of Album Units and Single Units sold or streamed and paid for (and not returned), the wholesale sales price (if applicable in the calculation of Net Profits) and gross receipts (if applicable in the calculation of Net Profits) received by Distributor in connection with Distributor's performance of the Services related to the Content.
11. Accounting Records and Audit Rights. Distributor will keep full and complete records of all transactions relating to the Content. No more than once per year, and upon reasonable notice, the Client may, at its own expense, audit Distributor's records in order to verify earnings statements rendered hereunder. Any such audit will be conducted by a certified public accountant and during Distributor's normal business hours and Client shall provide the results of any such audit to Distributor for review, following which the Parties shall attempt to negotiate a resolution to any discrepancy in good faith. Any statement not the subject of an audit and subsequently questioned by Client by written notice to Distributor within two (2) years from the date of such statement will be deemed accurate, final, conclusive, and binding on the Parties and their respective heirs, successors, and assigns. Client's right to examine Distributor's records will be limited to only those books, records, and accounts applicable and relevant to this Agreement. The audit process as outlined herein constitutes Client's sole, exclusive right with respect to challenging any earnings statement. If Client does not conduct an audit as set forth herein for a given earnings statement, Client waives any right to challenge any such statement in any fashion, including through an audit or court proceeding.
12. Further Actions and Chain of Title Verification. Client will execute and deliver to Distributor, promptly upon reasonable request by Distributor, any other instruments or documents reasonably considered in good faith by Distributor to be necessary or desirable to evidence, effectuate, or confirm this Agreement, or any of the terms and conditions hereof, including but not limited to Client's "chain-of- title" verification in and to the Content.
13. Content Ownership. Subject to Distributor's rights explicitly granted hereunder, all right, title, and interest in and to the Content, including the Digital Master Recordings, the Clips, all copyrights and equivalent rights embodied therein, and all Materials furnished to Distributor by the Client related to the Content shall remain with Client.
14. Marketing and Advertising. All advertising and marketing materials must be approved by Client and Distributor. All costs and expenses initially incurred by Distributor related to the same are 100% recoupable by Distributor from first monies due to Client from any Net Profits until such costs and expenses are fully recouped.
15. Promotions. Any promotions with respect to the Content must be pre-approved by Client. All costs and expenses initially incurred by Distributor related to the same are 100% recoupable by Distributor from first monies due to Client from any Net Profits until such costs and expenses are fully recouped.
16. Representations and Warranties.
(a) Mutual Representations and Warranties. Each Party represents and warrants to the other that it:
i. Is authorized to enter into this Agreement on the terms and conditions set forth herein;
ii. Will not act in any manner that conflicts or interferes with any existing commitment or obligation of the other Party, and that no agreement previously entered into by the Party will interfere with the performance of its obligations under this Agreement;
iii. Shall perform its obligations hereunder in full compliance with any applicable laws, rules, and regulations of any governmental authority having jurisdiction over such performance.
(b) Client's Additional Representations and Warranties. Client further represents and warrants to Distributor that:
i. Client has the full right, power, and authority to act on behalf of any and all owners of any right, title, or interest in and to the Content, including, but not limited to, all musical works embodied in the Content, and that the Client is authorized to provide the Content to the Distributor for the uses specified in this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, if Client is acting on behalf of a band, group, or corporation, Client hereby represents and warrants to Distributor that Client is fully authorized to enter into this Agreement on behalf of that band, group, or corporation and to grant all of the rights and assume and fulfill all of the obligations, covenants, and representations and warranties set forth in this Agreement;
ii. Client owns or controls all of the necessary rights in the Content in order to make the grant of rights, licenses, and permissions herein, and that Client has permission to use the name and likeness of each identifiable individual person whose name or likeness is contained or used within the Content, and to use such individual's identifying or personal information (to the extent such information is used or contained in the Content) as contemplated by this Agreement;
iii. The use or other exploitation of the Content, including but not limited to, any musical works embodied in the sound recordings, by Distributor and Distributor's Third Party Licensees, as contemplated by this Agreement, will not infringe or violate the rights of any third party, including, without limitation, any privacy rights, publicity rights, copyrights, contract rights, or any other intellectual property or proprietary rights;
iv. To the extent the Client is the songwriter of any or all of the musical works embodied in the Content, whether in whole or in part (e.g., as a co-writer), Client has the full right, power, and authority to grant the rights set forth in this Agreement notwithstanding the provisions of any agreement Client may have entered into with any PRO, whether based in the United States or elsewhere, or any music publisher, and that Client is solely responsible for taking all steps necessary to inform such PRO or music publisher of Client's grant of a royalty free license to Distributor and any Distributor Third Party Licensees for the public performance and communication to the public of the Content, including as Clips, and that no fees or payments of any kind whatsoever shall be due to any PRO or music publisher for the use of the musical works in the Content when publicly performed, communicated or otherwise transmitted Distributor and its Third Party Licensees;
v. Client has not assigned any of the rights in and to the sound recordings embodied in the Content to any third party (e.g., a record label) that obtained exclusive rights in and to such sound recordings.
17. Indemnification. Client agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold Distributor harmless from and against any and all damages, claims, liabilities, costs, losses, or any and all other expenses (including, but not limited to attorneys' fees) (collectively "Claims") arising out of any breach or alleged breach of any of the warranties, representations, covenants, or agreements made by the Client in this Agreement, including but not limited to, any Claims made by a PRO or music publisher with respect to any public performances or communications to the public of any musical works embodied in the Content, including claims from any unions, guilds, background musicians or vocalists, engineers, etc., or any party for any use or misuse of any other forms of intellectual property or proprietary rights in the Content, including but not limited to, trademark rights and invasions of the right of privacy or publicity. Client expressly agrees to be liable to Distributor for any payment made by Distributor at any time with respect to any Claims to which the foregoing indemnity applies. Pending the resolution of any claim, demand, or action, Distributor may, at Distributor's sole discretion, withhold payment of any monies otherwise payable to Client hereunder in an amount which does not exceed Client's potential liability to Distributor pursuant to this Section.
18. Distributor Responsibilities. Distributor will provide the Services contemplated herein to the best of its skill and ability and in any event in no less favorable fashion than that provided to any other client for which Distributor performs the Services.
19. Client Responsibilities.
(a) Specific Responsibilities. Client, either itself or through its agent, will be responsible for obtaining and paying for any and all clearances or licenses required in the Authorized Territory for the use of any musical works embodied in the Content. For the avoidance of doubt, any such costs are not reimbursable expenses to Client. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Client shall be responsible for:
i. any royalties and other sums due to artists (featured and non-featured), authors, co-authors, copyright owners and co-owners, producers, engineers, and any other record royalty participants from sales or other uses of the Content;
ii. all mechanical royalties or other sums payable to music publishers and/or authors or co-authors of musical compositions embodied in the Content from sales or other uses of the Content;
iii. all payments that may be required under any collective bargaining agreements applicable to Client or any third party (e.g., to unions or guilds such as AFM or AFTRA); and
iv. any other royalties, fees and/or sums payable with respect to the Content or other materials provided by Client to Distributor. Client agrees that the amount payable to Client is inclusive of any so-called "Client-royalties" that might otherwise be required to be paid for sales or exploitations pursuant to the applicable laws of any jurisdiction for any public performances, public displays or communications to the public of the sound recordings and musical works constituting the Content.
(b) Parental Advisory Labeling Responsibility. Client will be responsible for complying with the Recording Industry Association of America's ("RIAA") Parental Advisory Logo ("PAL") Standards, as applicable, for the Term of this Agreement.
20. Delivery. Contemporaneously with the upload of any Content, Client agrees to deliver to the Distributor via the SmithMusic.com portal all of the materials described below (the "Materials"). Preparation and delivery of the Materials shall be at Client's expense. Client understands and agrees that all Materials delivered to Distributor are pre-approved for use and distribution by Distributor in performance of the Services:
(a) Metadata, which must include complete song title, the music publisher(s), song run-times, and all appropriate credits (including the complete names of the songwriters and composers);
(b) Hi-Resolution cover art and Artist Photos
(c) Audio and/or Video Files
(d) Artist Biographies
21. No Representations and Warranties with Respect to Sales and Distributions. Distributor makes no guarantees regarding the minimum number of unit sales, downloads, streams or uses of the Content. In addition, Distributor makes no guarantees that Third Party Licensees will perform under any agreement into which they enter with Distributor for the sale, distribution, or licensed use of the Content, including by paying the royalties Third Party Licensees owe Distributor for the distribution of the Content. Should a Third Party Licensee refuse to pay Distributor for the use and/or distribution of the Content, Distributor will use its commercially reasonable best efforts to collect any payments that may be due from such Third Party Licensees for any sale, distribution, or licensed use of the Content
22. Content Returnable. All Content is 100% returnable to the Distributor and Client. Client recognizes that no sales are "final" and, even though Distributor has reported a "sale" of the Content and paid the Client accordingly, such product may be returned in accordance with Distributor's return policies. In the event of a return, or returns, the Client shall be obligated to reimburse Distributor the compensation paid to the Client for such Content. All returned Content shall be credited to the Distributor in the Earnings Statements provided by the Distributor to Client. In the event any statement reflects that returns for the period exceed sales, then such balance shall be carried forward from statement to statement until the final statement. Should the final statement reflect that applicable returns have exceeded sales, then the Client shall remit to the Distributor within thirty (30) days of such statement the amount reflected thereon.
23. Default and Breach. In the event either Party violates any of the material terms and conditions of this Agreement and such default remains uncured for a period of thirty (30) days after written notice has been delivered to the defaulting Party, the other Party shall have the right to terminate this Agreement by delivering written notice to the defaulting Party. Should Client breach any representations and warranties set forth in the Agreement, and Distributor exercises its termination right hereunder, Client agrees to immediately reimburse Distributor any and all Advances paid and expenses incurred by Distributor in connection with the Services. Nonperformance of any obligations of either Party required herein based on acts of God and matters traditionally considered beyond the control of a Party (e.g. riot, weather, governmental edict) shall not be considered a default or breach under this Agreement; provided, if Distributor cannot render services due to a force majeure event for a period in excess of ninety (90) days, Client may terminate this Agreement and distribute the Content through a third party.
24. Choice of Venue. All disputes arising between Client and Distributor under this Agreement shall be subject to the sole and exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Tarrant County, Texas, and Client and Distributor hereby submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of these courts.
25. Construction of Contract. This Agreement has been drafted in whole or in part by Distributor and Client. In the event a court is called upon to construe this Agreement, the same shall not be construed in favor or against either Party as this Agreement has been drafted for and on behalf of each of the Parties to their mutual benefit. This Agreement shall be construed according to the spirit and purposes of this Agreement taking into consideration the four corners of this instrument together with industry usage and custom.
(a) Relationship of the Parties. The Parties agree and acknowledge that the relationship between them is that of independent contractors. This Agreement shall not be deemed to create an agency, partnership, or joint venture between Distributor and Client, and Distributor shall not have a fiduciary obligation to Client as a result of this Agreement.
(b) Entire Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire understanding of the Parties relating to the subject matter contemplated herein. This Agreement, including all Addenda, supersedes all previous agreements or arrangements between the Distributor and the Client pertaining to the Services. This Agreement cannot be changed or modified except as provided herein.
(c) Waiver and Severability. A failure to act upon any breach of default by any Party of of any term or condition of this Agreement will not be deemed as a waiver of such breach, default, term or condition, or of any subsequent breach or default thereof. If any provision of this Agreement is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unenforceable, such determination shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement, and the unenforceable provision shall be replaced by an enforceable provision that most closely meets the commercial intent of the Parties.
(d) Notices. All notices hereunder will be in writing and sent by certified or registered mail (return receipt requested), messenger (with receipt of delivery), or email if receipt of such notice if confirmed by the recipient to the addresses set forth below:
To Distributor: SMITHMUSIC.COM LLC
131 E. Exchange Avenue, Suite 102
To Client: Address provided on W-9 or other address provided to Distributor for notification purposes
Any such notices sent hereunder will be deemed served or received upon delivery, except notices sent by email which shall be deemed received upon notice of confirmation by the recipient. Each Party may designate in writing such other place or places that notices may be given hereunder; provided however, that any notice of change of address will only be effective upon actual receipt thereof by the other Party.
(e) Binding Effect. This Agreement and the terms and conditions set forth herein will be binding on the Parties as well as their respective assigns, heirs, executors, estates, affiliates, agents, personal representatives, administrators, and successors (whether through merger, operation of law, or otherwise)..
(f) Governing Law; Dispute Resolution. This Agreement is governed and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas applicable to agreements entered into and to be wholly performed in Texas, without regard to conflict of laws principles. In the event of any dispute related to this Agreement, the Parties shall first attempt to negotiate a resolution in good faith. If such negotiations are unsuccessful, the Parties shall the attempt to resolve the dispute through mediation, with a mediator agreed upon by the Parties. If such mediation is unsuccessful, any claim or cause of action shall be brought pursuant to the venue provision set forth herein.
(g) Cumulative Rights. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the rights and remedies of the Parties provided under this Agreement are cumulative and are in addition to any other rights and remedies of the Parties at law or equity.
(h) Headings. The titles and headings used in this Agreement are for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Agreement.
(i) No Third Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is for the sole benefit of the Parties to this Agreement and their authorized successors and permitted assigns. Nothing herein, express or implied, is intended to or shall confer upon any person or entity, other than the Parties hereto and their authorized successors and permitted assigns, any legal or equitable right, benefit or remedy of any nature whatsoever under or by reason of this Agreement.
(j) Assignment. Except with respect to assignments by either Party to a parent entity which acquires or succeeds to all or substantially all of the assigning Party's assets or voting stock, the rights and obligations pursuant to this Agreement cannot be assigned without the written consent of the other Party provided, however, that such consent is not unreasonably withheld.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Client has agreed to the terms and conditions set forth herein and the Parties hereto have executed this Agreement upon Client's submission of any applicable Content through any Smith Music Portal. |
How should a hat fit? It's a seemingly simple question that's not always so easy to answer. That's because unlike our more formal forefathers, most people today don't wear hats on the regular. (The exception being baseball caps, of course. These icons of casual headgear are here to stay.) Thankfully, dress hats and other stylish toppers are having a major comeback. With this resurgence comes a renewed interest in how to properly wear a hat.
The best way to make sure your hat fits properly is to follow our step-by-step instructions on how to measure your head. It might sound like work, but we promise it's a lot easier than you think. That said, if you're in no mood to whip out the measuring tape and deal with numbers, you can just do the "feel" test: If the hat feels right, chances are it is.
You also want to take your face shape into consideration. Even if the hat feels right, it might not look right. Are you sure that pork pie hat is ideal for your square face? Do you even know if you have a square face? What if it's actually a long oval?! Take a look at our guide on how to find a hat that flatters your face and you'll be rocking the best hat in no time.
Different materials feel different. Cotton fabric might have a little more "give" than leather or straw at first, while wool felt is especially prone to shrinkage. Familiarize yourself with a hat's composition and understand how it might stretch or shrink over time.
Pssst...don't miss our insider hacks for stretching hats, shrinking hats, and reshaping hats.
Once you measure your head with our convenient hat size chart, you might find that you are between sizes. If this is the case, it's better to choose the next larger size rather than one that is too small.
The hat should sit comfortably mid-forehead above your eyebrows and not obstruct your view.
The sweatband inside the hat should provide a snug fit, not a tight fit. If you feel any tension or end up with deep red marks on your forehead, pick a looser-fitting hat.
If you can fit one finger between your head and the cap then you know you have the right size.
The easiest way to adjust how a hat fits is to use hat tape, also called hat size reducer. These inconspicuous foam strips have adhesive on one side that sticks to the inside of the sweatband to create a more secure fit. If you end up choosing a hat that's a little too loose, hat tape is your secret BFF.
Along with your face shape, don't underestimate the importance of knowing your body's proportions. If you have really broad shoulders, consider a wide-brim topper to maintain balance — a tiny-brim hat such as a trilby is going to give you a shrunken head effect. Conversely, if you have a smaller frame, a hat with a really tall crown or a brim wider than three inches could be an overwhelming silhouette.
Chances are you don't need a manual on how a baseball hat should fit, but just in case, here goes: A baseball cap should be worn with the bill forward, creating a shield for your face. That's the most common way to wear one, anyhow. Some guys like the backwards cap look, but it certainly won't give you any protection from the sun or rain.
Baseball caps come in three fits: snapback, which features adjustable snaps (usually plastic) in the back; strapback, which is adjusted with a rear strap; and fitted, which comes "as is" and can't be adjusted. All three fits should feel secure enough to withstand most activities, be it skateboarding, hiking, or (surprise!) playing baseball.
A catch-all description for a variety of hats rather than one specific style, fedoras are soft-brimmed hats with a center-crease crown punctuated by two side pinches. Because of their versatility, fedoras can range from classic Frank Sinatra-esque wool felt hats with somewhat stingy brims to straw Panama hats with wide brims. When wearing a fedora, it should fit comfortably on your head without ever feeling like it's going to fall off, even in breezy weather.
They have a distinctly different look from baseball caps, but flat caps and ivy caps should be worn in a similar fashion — bill forward with a secure fit around the sweatband. Wear it close enough to your head to avoid unnecessary puffiness in the crown. They're called flat caps for a reason, after all.
When it comes to wearing beanies, choose one that accommodates your hair type and head shape. These knitted caps conform to your head, so if you have long curly hair, opt for one that will stretch yet stay put. Likewise, if you have short strands of fine hair, pick a beanie that securely covers your mane without unneeded material dangling in the back.
Beanies come in natural fibers like cotton and cashmere as well as synthetic blends that range from acrylic to polyester, so there's something for everyone.
Fit, form, and function. It's the trifecta of hat wearing, so make sure you do your homework and pay attention. Look in the mirror, test how different hats feel, and by all means, have fun. With a positive attitude and a little know-how, you're well on your way to enjoying a hat that fits well. |
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PROSPECTS OF IMMINENT CIVIL-MILITARY CONFRONTATION RECEDE IN WAKE OF TURKISH ELECTIONS
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 4 Issue: 142
By: Gareth Jenkins
July 23, 2007 04:00 AM Age: 16 years
Turkish Incumbent President Ahmet Necdet Sezer
Fears of another confrontation between the ruling AK Party and Turkey's powerful military over the appointment of the country's next president have receded in the wake of yesterday's general election. The July 22 polls resulted in an increase in the AK Party's vote but a decline in its parliamentary majority. As a result, the AK Party will have to secure the backing of at least one opposition party before it can appoint its chosen candidate to the presidency; thus increasing the possibility that the issue will be resolved within parliament.
According to the unofficial results of the election, the AK Party won 46.5% of the total vote, up from 34.3% in the previous elections in November 2002. The Republican People's Party (CHP) finished second with 20.8% ahead of the ultranationalist Nationalist Action Party (MHP) 14.3%. No other party succeeded in crossing the 10% threshold for representation in parliament (Hurriyet, Radical, July 23). Once the results have been officially confirmed by Turkey's Supreme Electoral Board, the AK Party is likely to have 340 seats in Turkey's 550-seat unicameral parliament, followed by the CHP with 112 seats, the MHP with 71 seats and 27 independent deputies (Milliyet, July 23).
Under the Turkish constitution, parliament elects the president for a seven-year term. The incumbent Ahmet Necdet Sezer's term officially finished on May 19. In April 2007 the AK Party's attempt to appoint Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul to the presidency triggered an intervention by the Turkish General Staff (TGS). Like many in Turkey's secular establishment, the TGS suspects that the AK Party has a long-term radical Islamic agenda and is merely biding its time until it is strong enough to introduce it. Since the AK party came to power in November 2002, Sezer has frequently vetoed legislation and blocked AK Party appointments to the bureaucracy. The fear was that, with Gul in the presidency, the AK Party would finally be able to chip away at the principle of secularism enshrined in the Turkish constitution. There was also considerable concern at the fact that Gul's wife wears an Islamic headscarf. To hard-line secularists in Turkey, a headscarfed first lady would, in itself, be a violation of secularism.
On the evening of April 27, only hours after parliament had completed the first round of voting, the TGS posted a memorandum on its website implicitly warning the AK Party to withdraw Gul's candidacy or face being toppled from power. The memorandum, which was described as an "e-coup" in the Turkish media (Radikal, April 28), prompted Turkey's Constitutional Court to issue a hitherto unknown ruling that, in order for the vote to be valid, at least two-thirds (367) of the parliamentary deputies had to be present in the chamber during the election of the president. In response, the AK Party, which at the time controlled only 359 seats, called an early general election for July 22.
After the announcement of early elections, the TGS deliberately adopted a low public profile. Military sources have indicated to Jamestown that they believed that the TGS had fulfilled its responsibilities by galvanizing opposition to the AK Party. They were confident that, even if the AK Party emerged from the July 22 polls as the largest party in parliament, it would have a much-reduced majority and could even be forced from power by a coalition between the CHP and the MHP.
However, the military memorandum allowed the AK Party to present itself to the electorate as the victim of an intervention in the democratic process. In the run-up to the July 22 elections, Abdullah Gul declared that, contrary to the military's expectations, the memorandum had boosted the AK Party's vote (Milliyet, July 22). On election night, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan described the Ak Party's resounding victory as a "reflex of the national will in response to what was done to Abdullah" (Milliyet, July 23). Parliamentary Speaker Bulent Arinc characterized the election results as a "memorandum by the people" (NTV, July 23).
Nevertheless, the AK Party's failure to secure a two-thirds majority in parliament means that it needs the approval, or at least the tacit cooperation, of the opposition before it can appoint its own candidate to the presidency. As a result, the TGS is likely to continue to adopt a low public profile, preferring to allow any confrontation over Sezer's successor to be between the parties in parliament.
The current expectation is that the new government will be sworn in during the first week of August 2007 (Cumhuriyet, July 23). Under Turkish law, the new parliament's first task will be to elect a new president, a process that could take until the end of August.
But the general expectation in the TGS is that, whatever happens with the presidential election, at some point in the future the AK Party will attempt to erode the current interpretation of secularism in Turkey. For the Turkish military, safeguarding secularism is a scared duty, which takes precedence over all other considerations. As a result, the military's suspicions of the AK Party's long-term intentions are likely to ensure that its current low public profile does not become permanent.
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Tomorrow Belongs to Us
Introduction Nigel Copsey and Matthew Worley
1.'The Men who Rewrite History': Holocaust Denial and the British Far Right from 1967 Mark Hobbs
2.The National Socialist Group: A Case Study in the Groupuscular Right Daniel Jones and Paul Jackson
3. The National Front, and the search for a 'nationalist' economic policy John Richardson
4. Exporting fascism across the Commonwealth: the case of the National Front of Australia Evan Smith
5. The dog that didn't bark? Assessing the development of cumulative extremism between fascists and anti-fascists in the 1970s Alex Carter
6. White Youth: The Far Right, Punk and British Youth Culture, 1977-87 Matthew Worley and Nigel Copsey
7. Whatever it takes: Designing British neo-fascist rock, 1987-2007 Ana Raposo and Roger Sabin
8. The obnoxious mobilised minority: homophobia and homohysteria in the British National Party, 1982-199 George J. Severs
9. Reflections on women's involvement in Britain's contemporary far right Hannah Bows
10. "There's a vital lesson here. Let's make sure we learn it": Transnational mobilization and the impact of Greece's Golden Dawn upon extreme right-wing activism in Britain Graham Macklin
11. Love Will Tear Us Apart: emotions, patriotism and the English Defence League C.M. Quinn
12. The British Far Right Since 1967 - A Bibliographic Survey Craig Fowlie
Nigel Copsey is Professor in Modern History in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law at Teesside University, UK. Matthew Worley is Professor of Modern History in the Department of History at the University of Reading, UK.
With so much attention being monopolized by Jihadism, 'Tomorrow Belongs to Us' is a timely and sobering reminder that in the last 50 years Britain's extreme right subculture, far from withering away, has continued to adapt to domestic and international events, and still retains a disturbing capacity for fomenting local ethnic hatreds, poisoning democracy, and inspiring political murders, despite its impotence as party-political force. - Roger Griffin, author of Fascism: An Introduction to Comparative Fascist Studies (2018).
This edited volume brings the historian's concern with a richly temporal and contextual understanding of events and processes to the study of a range of key issues in contemporary studies of the far and populist radical right. Its cross-disciplinary approach does much more than fill in the gaps in our knowledge. It provides new insight into the shifting ideologies and mobilisational successes and failures of political movements on the far right of the political spectrum but also, and innovatively, into their subcultural, symbolic, gendered and emotional worlds. - Hilary Pilkington, Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester
"A timely review of the far right menace, then and now." Marjorie Mayo, Morning Star
"The book is thought provoking and I would recommend it to everyone who wants to make sure that tomorrow does not EVER belong to the far right." Unite the Union / Searchlight Magazine.
"The book offers readers a dynamic insight into the development of the British far right since 1967, and reminds us that despite its various peaks and troughs, the movement continues to have the ability to incite hatred and undermine democracy, as recent events have also shown. Contributors to this excellent volume advocate a new way of looking at the far right in Britain...The book is a must-read for researchers and general readers alike."
Katherine Williams, LSE Review of Books
"Copsey and Worley's book is a detailed and lively account of the past 40 years of the far right in Britain. It gives a good sense of the cultural impact of the right and of the right's clashes with its opponents. While this book is not the definitive history of the right in this period, nor is there any other single volume which covers as much ground as this does."
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"An excellent contribution to studies on the British far right, demonstrating cultural and transnational elements of extremism. The authors provide several new insights into far-right subculture and ideology...this is a highly recommended collection of chapters."
Ryan Shaffer, History.
"Overall, this is an important contribution to the well-ploughed field of the British far right, with some useful insights into neglected areas and an eclectic range of methodological approaches."
Roger Eatwell, English Historical Review
"There is an urgency in the work of Copsey and Macklin, and that weight is present as this anthology unpacks Britain's racist underbelly. What a reader walks away with is a sense of how fascist movements have bubbled and receded in the English context, and how it could form into a mass populist movement that feeds on crisis."
Shane Burley, Journal of Social Justice.
"Copsey and Worley have brought together an original and high-quality study which extends our understanding of the dynamics of the far-right. Its excellent analysis is highly recommended to those with an interest in the far-right in Britain."
Paul Rae, Immigrants and Minorities.
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On Love. Freely adapted from the Tibetan by A. R. Orage was first published in The New Republic (New York) in December 1924, then as a 24 page book by The Unicorn Press in 1932, this has became Orage's most anthologised essay. It is said that Orage wrote this text after a late night conversation with Gurdjief, which he was introduced to by Ouspensky in 1922 – this is another incredible and somehow sad story you might want to dig into. The Wikipedia article on Orage is a good place to start. |
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How Lee Ann Womack returned to her roots
Lee Ann Womack made a big return to country music with her September full-length, The Way I'm Livin'. The Grammy-nominated collection not only marked the end of a fairly long gap between new music (her most recent release was the best-of compilation Icon in 2011; her last collection of original material came in 2008) but also, as she says, the first time in her long career that she made an album that was purely "whatever the hell I wanted to do."
Which is to say, Livin' is light on pop-crossover fare and production, and heavy on classic storytelling tunes weaved with her signature, filigree vocal. Produced by her husband, Frank Liddell, Womack says she was warned that her first album in seven years would likely not be her biggest in terms of radio play or hard sales. "My husband told me, 'I hope you understand Lee Ann, this is going to be tough. You're going to take a big step back in order to have a longer career,'" she remembers. "And it has been, in ways, a step back. But in other ways I can also see the end goal, to have a long career that I'm happy with and am comfortable with."
The video for the album's title track is nominated for Female Video of the Year at tonight's CMT Awards, which airs on the network at 8p.m. EST and is hosted by Erin Andrews and Britney Snow. It's one of her two potential wins, since her duet with John Legend, "You & I (Nobody In The World)" from their CMT Crossroads episode, is also up for Performance of the Year.
EW caught up with the fantastically frank owner of one of country music's most interesting catalogs to look back on her seven-album career and to discuss working with Legend, why she doesn't like filming music videos, and why she's finished cowing to industry pressures.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: I really enjoyed your pairing with John Legend for Crossroads. Had you ever met him before?
Lee Ann Womack: I hadn't. We had been talking for years about who I might do a Crossroads with [but] I never could find anybody I wanted to do it with. John Hamlin at CMT called me up and obviously I'd heard the name but I wasn't real familiar. I went and listened to his music and I knew immediately that he was right—oh my goodness, he was such a joy to work with. When we got in there for rehearsal it was so smooth. It was like we knew each other already, in a musical sense. His talent runs so much deeper than, "I grew up singing into a hair brush in my room." It comes from way, way down deep inside. With him, it's not just emotional. He brings this intellectual level to music. It was awesome to learn from someone like that.
During the episode, you both discussed how both country music and R&B had gotten away from their roots over the years. He mentioned that R&B had moved towards dance music and you pointed out how much pop has found its way into country. With recent releases by Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell, and Chris Stapleton getting such positive reception, do you feel like things are swinging back the other way?
I think I feel the beginnings of it. I think I can see it coming, but I don't know that it's happening yet. There is definitely something going on with the divisive attitudes around here about how country music is or should be and how the industry should approach things—all of that. I feel like a change is coming.
There's obviously always the conversation with your career in that regard as well—leaning towards pop in the early 2000s and then returning to traditional country music thereafter. How you look back on I Hope You Dance and Something Worth Leaving Behind now?
It's funny because "I Hope You Dance" is one of the biggest pop crossover songs that we've had in this industry but on that record—I sequenced the record myself—the first and last songs are "The Healing Kind" which is written by Ronnie Bowman, a bluegrass writer here in town. And then the last song on the record was "Lord I Hope This Day Is Good" which I cut with all bluegrass instruments as well. So it's funny that people just pick up on "I Hope You Dance" and don't really understand there was all this rootsy music on this record.
Does your motivation for every album change after so many or is there always that same one thing you're looking for?
You overthink things as an artist when you're trying to gain commercial success—especially when you throw radio in the mix and you're trying to please them and major labels in town. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some moments where I'd bend and accommodate things other than just what I love. With [Way I'm Livin'] I threw all that out the window. And Frank, my husband, told me, "I hope you understand Lee Ann, this is going to be tough. You're going to take a big step back in order to have a longer career."
And it has been, in ways, a step back. But in other ways I can see the end goal—to have a long career that I'm happy with and am comfortable with. I don't want to be chasing things. Some people enjoy that game, but I enjoy sitting down in my living room and playing and singing. I get a certain satisfaction just from that. And I enjoy music. And I wanted to do whatever the hell I wanted to do, basically. Those are the kinds of things when we were making this record. It really has been starting completely over in many ways. But sometimes that's the most fun an artist has. It's very exciting.
You're nominated for Female Video of the Year. Are music videos a part of the music industry you enjoy?
Nope [laughs]. I'm not one of those pretty girls. It's just not my…it's not what I do best. I just enjoy singing. In many ways video killed the radio and that's a whole other article but…Roger Pistol, this was his idea. We went to him because he had done a Chris Knight video I had loved. And he's from Texas and I just thought he would get it. He came back with the concept and we said yes.
You've performed at the Nobel Peace Prize concert, the Republican National Convention, Maya Angelou's service, tons of awards shows—done collabs with Willie Nelson and other amazing, storied artists. Does one stick out in your mind as being most memorable?
Oh man. A lot of those things, the bigger they are, and the less intimate they are it just becomes a wall. It's harder to play the small rooms. One of my favorite moments of my career was when it was just Willie Nelson and I in the vocal booth. Nobody else got to share that time—it's just a personal memory. A lot of times I just feel like I'm a little, tiny spoke in the wheel in those things. It's harder to sing for your peers, but I love it.
The CMT Awards aren't your only active nominations. You're also leading the Americana Music Awards, nominated for Album of the Year and Artist of the Year. How did it feel when you heard about those?
Nobody was more surprised than my team and me. Maybe I shouldn't have been but it's just that maybe I'm not as much of an outsider as I felt like. I cannot tell you the thrill that I feel over that. Look at the other people I'm nominated with! That is unbelievable to me. It means the world to me. We all had our mouths hanging open. We weren't together, because we didn't expect it, but we were all calling and texting each other going, "What in the world?!"
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The positive effect of meditation has already been proven by numerous studies. But mostly it was about stress reduction, the fight against depression or sleep problems. But now experts prove that the eastern relaxation method has a large influence also in puncto Fitness and weight reduction!
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A team from Wageningen University in the Netherlands studied 400 meditators for over two years. The scientists found out that over time they had learned to recognise whether they were really hungry or simply fancy chocolate and the like. Her conclusion: Meditation helps to find out what you really need at a certain moment. The technique strengthens self-confidence and self-control – one of the most important factors in changing eating habits in the long run. The expert tip: If you are hungry for a few minutes, turn off the environment and start a relaxing meditation listening program.
Several studies from France and America have now shown how important it is to train body and mind with methods such as meditation or yoga: At the renowned Brown University 394 people were examined. For those who lived carelessly into the day, the chance of being overweight was 34 percent higher than for those who regularly focus on arriving in the here and now. According to a study by Cornell University, this group has an increased ability to listen to their feelings and physical needs. Emotional problems are recognized and analyzed, eating attacks from frustration or stress are prevented thereby!
A team of researchers from the University of California tested a group of elderly people: half of the participants did daily brain training under guidance, the other half focused on yoga and meditation. After three months, the meditation group was clearly mentally rejuvenated compared to the others! Their memory worked better, their thinking faster, they were more optimistic. An international group of researchers found that the brains of people who meditate regularly were on average seven years younger than their bodies.
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Your thoughts will try again and again to gain your attention. Let them move on by not picking them up and concentrating on your breath again instead. It is about learning again to distinguish what your body needs – and not what it wants. This technique helps you to come down especially in stressful phases and not to make any quick decisions. |
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Locomotion over deformable substrates is a common occurrence in nature. Footprints represent sedimentary distortions that provide anatomical, functional, and behavioral insights into trackmaker biology. The interpretation of such evidence can be challenging, however, particularly for fossil tracks recovered at bedding planes below the originally exposed surface. Even in living animals, the complex dynamics that give rise to footprint morphology are obscured by both foot and sediment opacity, which conceals animal-substrate and substrate-substrate interactions. We used X-ray reconstruction of moving morphology (XROMM) to image and animate the hind limb skeleton of a chicken-like bird traversing a dry, granular material. Foot movement differed significantly from walking on solid ground; the longest toe penetrated to a depth of ∼5 cm, reaching an angle of 30° below horizontal before slipping backward on withdrawal. The 3D kinematic data were integrated into a validated substrate simulation using the discrete element method (DEM) to create a quantitative model of limb-induced substrate deformation. Simulation revealed that despite sediment collapse yielding poor quality tracks at the air-substrate interface, subsurface displacements maintain a high level of organization owing to grain-grain support. Splitting the substrate volume along "virtual bedding planes" exposed prints that more closely resembled the foot and could easily be mistaken for shallow tracks. DEM data elucidate how highly localized deformations associated with foot entry and exit generate specific features in the final tracks, a temporal sequence that we term "track ontogeny." This combination of methodologies fosters a synthesis between the surface/layer-based perspective prevalent in paleontology and the particle/volume-based perspective essential for a mechanistic understanding of sediment redistribution during track formation. |
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Michael Graham of Cleaver Fulton Rankin discusses the importance of making a will against the backdrop of likely tax changes on the way.
I hope that by now many of you will be aware that I like to take the opportunity afforded by the New Year to talk about the importance of wills, and to suggest that the gloomy month of January can be made more exciting if we all take the time to think about the estate planning that we have in place and the need to review and amend it where appropriate. By 'estate planning' I mean not just wills but the wider issues around how best to ensure that your assets end up in the hands of your chosen beneficiaries and not, for example, eroded by things like tax and nursing care fees.
The political situation locally and nationally remains uncertain and at the time of writing we still have no Assembly at Stormont, nor any clear idea of what economic future Brexit will bring. However, what doesn't hit the headlines quite as much as Brexit is the fact that last year the Chancellor instructed the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) to conduct a review into Inheritance Tax, with the stated aim of reducing the complexity of the system. The OTS has carried out a nationwide survey into the key issues and is producing a two-part report – the first part of which was published in November 2018, with the second part due to be published later in 2019. Perhaps I have just become too cynical for words but, whilst I would of course welcome any changes which make Inheritance Tax easier for the public (and practitioners) to understand, I suspect very strongly that the eventual outcome will also involve the removal or restriction of some of the currently available exemptions and reliefs. (I predicted further changes to Inheritance Tax back in my column in January 2017 as it happens so I do hope you have all been paying attention to my various opinions in the Tatler, albeit that my usual disclaimer will apply!).
In light of the changes which are likely to come, I would suggest that it would be advisable to take a little time to review your will, or indeed to make one for the first time if you have not yet done so. I regard a will as perhaps the most important building block of any succession plan and without suitable arrangements in place you cannot be sure that your family or other chosen beneficiaries will be properly provided for. It is also important to try to 'future proof' one's will as much as possible as even the simple passage of time can render certain arrangements obsolete. Inheritance Tax changes are only part of this – for example, legacies left in today's money can be reduced over time to almost nothing given the effects of inflation. Finally, it is important to try and protect assets as much as possible from the risk of care fees, and a well-drafted will can often go a long way to doing just that.
I appreciate that thinking about wills and estate planning is not always top of everyone's list but I do believe that anyone thinking about making a meaningful New Year's resolution would do well to start here. Because of the frequency with which law (and especially tax law) can change in this area, it is a good idea to meet with your professional advisers every few years just to see if there are any changes which need to be made to your wills or any other aspect of your estate planning. Equally, if you experience a significant change in your personal circumstances, such as the death of an intended beneficiary, those issues should act as a trigger in themselves.
At Cleaver Fulton Rankin we have significant experience and expertise in advising on all aspects of estate planning. If you would like more information please contact me or a member of my team.
An article of this kind can never provide a complete guide to the law in these areas which may be subject to change from time to time. The opinions and suggestions made within this article should not be interpreted as specific advice in relation to any particular individual or individuals. Neither Michael Graham nor Cleaver Fulton Rankin accept responsibility for any loss occasioned by someone acting or refraining to act on the basis of the opinions and suggestions contained in this article.
Michael Graham is Head of the Private Client team at Cleaver Fulton Rankin and a founding member of the Northern Ireland Branch of the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners. He is also a full member of Solicitors for the Elderly.
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Згорње Слемене () је насељено место у општини Шентјур, Савињска регија, Словенија.
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До територијалне реорганизације у Словенији били су у саставу старе општине Шентјур при Цеље .
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У попису становништва из 2011 . године, Згорње Слемене је имало 18 становника.
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Спољашње везе
Насељена места у Словенији
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I would like to share some additional comical adventures that Eileen (Fisher) and I (Jodi Waldron) had.
We spent one delightful day on the beach at the Black Sea. I (Jodi) went up to the refreshment stand to purchase lunch. Having previously received a translation of the menu, I very timidly mangled the phrase Oton balikli salatao…(a tuna salad). The cute young guy behind the counter looked confused, so I meekly repeated my request, twice! He chuckled and then said (in perfect English) Oh, do you want something to drink with that? At which time everyone within earshot started laughing!
After a sensual trio of tangos with Too Tall, a handsome, fantastic dancer, (see Eileen's paragraph on nicknames) I figured he had enough of me, then I tried to impress him with my use of what I thought was the colloquial version of thank you. He looked at me with a shocked expression and said Oh, do you want to leave me already? It turned out that he had wanted to continue to dance and I had said good-bye. Needless to say, we continued. I discovered a few days later that he not only hosted a weekly milonga, but was one of the performers at our farewell milonga.
One evening Eileen and I were enjoying a pre-milonga dinner in a window seat of a restaurant on the main street. While Eileen was talking I was glancing at the passers-by on the sidewalk just in time to see a man walking by looking at us. He continued to look at us after he passed, looking back over his shoulder while getting closer and closer to a pole in the middle of the sidewalk. Just like something out of Candid Camera, he crashed smack into the pole! He was knocked backwards by the impact… caught himself before falling and continued on his way as though nothing happened.
Then there was the time we went into a store to purchase shirts we saw in the window. We negotiated a small discount and then saw belts we liked and did some more bargaining based on the fact that between us we had made four purchases. I gave Eileen my half of the money and we went to pay. We both were getting the 500,000 lire bill confused with the 5,000,000 lire bill and Eileen gave them the smaller amount in error…they gave it back to her, she put it back in her wallet, pulled out a wad of money, counted out what she thought was the correct amount, without realizing she had again given them the 500,000 bill. Again they returned it to her and she went through this scenario again. The clerk got so tired of this situation and said something to the effect of Forget it and took back the bills she had started to return to us, motioning for us to leave… just to get rid of us!!
1stcab ride - Our first independent shopping spree went into overtime, so we rushed into a taxi expecting an uneventful 5 million lire ride back to the hotel and a mad rush to get ready for another fabulous milonga that evening. After 1/2 block, the driver turned around and started chatting with us with the meter running and the cab sitting still. Eileen asked him to please drive as we were in a rush. 2-3 blocks later he stopped in the middle of the road in the midst of rush hour traffic. This time he got out, leaving the door open and us in the back seat. He crossed over to a sidewalk vendor and bought some peaches. Upon returning he made a big production of offering us some. We declined and he sat there eating his. We again asked him to please drive and we then started down an unfamiliar, narrow, winding residential road. Getting alarmed we asked why we were there. The explanation was that he was taking a longer route due to the heavy traffic. Although his English seemed good, he suddenly didn't seem to comprehend my question about whether the fare was based on km or minutes!
After a while we tried a different approach asking directly what the fare would be. He gave an amount almost 3x higher than the usual rate and we noticed the meter was almost at the legitimate rate it should have been and we were only a few blocks from out starting point.
Discussions turned into arguments and we asked him to pull over. Negotiations got nowhere so we silently decided to pay partial fare, jump out and look for another cab. This escape had to be carefully timed so as to have all our limbs out of the cab before paying so we could make a quick getaway and remain intact! Eileen and I had already discovered we think alike about almost everything so our nonverbal escape plan went down like clockwork!!
After leaving the taxi, we spotted a tourist policeman. We asked him to help us get another cab and he wanted to know what happened. Eileen started recounting the story but he needed to call over a translator. At first they didn't believe us. By the time the story was finished we were encircled by tourist police. I was getting afraid we were going to be carted off like something out of Midnight Express… but they were very sympathetic and called over a taxi, telling us that if the driver charged more than the 5 million to call them and gave us the translator's business card.
Our next independent ride started out uneventfully. We both kept a constant eye on the meter, trying to avoid any reoccurrences of the previous day. Upon arriving at a street parallel to the hotel, we asked the driver to stop there to save time and money. The meter read the correct fare: 5.7 million lire. Eileen started to take out the money and when we looked at the meter again, it had doubled. She questioned the driver about the sudden change and he said something about the night tariff, which we knew doubled after 6pm but it was only 5:30. After successful conversations with him we silently agreed to employ Plan A from the previous encounter. Eileen would get out the CORRECT amount of money, Jodi would open the door on the sidewalk side and slide out, allowing Eileen to safely get both feet out of the cab, at which time she would hand the driver the money and we would both make a run for it. The plan hit a snag when Eileen in her nervousness started confusing the infamous 500,000 lire bill with the 5,000,000 one. Jodi in her nervousness confused the window handle with the door handle and panicked thinking we had been locked in, of course making it worse. Finally, Eileen found the correct bill and Jodi found the correct handle and we made our escape… running up the steps behind the hotel ASAP!
The moral of this story is to ascertain the cost of the fare BEFORE starting out (as the guide books suggest).
Despite this, the Baila Tango trip to Istanbul was marvelous. The milongas, the milongueros and the music were mesmerizing. The tango classes were excellent, the scenery beautiful, the food delicious and the tours interesting and educational. Every minute was full of fun and adventure. |
Flowing instrumental solos combine with tension-building momentum in Joan Tower's "Silver Ladders," winner of the 1990 award. The 22-minute orchestral work, commissioned by the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Meet the Composer Inc., premiered on Jan. 9, 1987.
Tower was a founding member and pianist in the Naumberg Award-winning Da Capo Chamber Players in 1969. She left the group in 1984 to devote time to composing and teaching.
In 1985, she was appointed composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra for a three-year term. |
The Dark Knight Returning to Select Imax Theaters for Tenth Anniversary
By Katie Cameron | July 18, 2018 | 5:14pm
Image via Warner Bros. Pictures Movies News The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan's superhero classic The Dark Knight is returning to Imax theaters in honor of the film's 10-year anniversary, THR reports.
Released July 18, 2008, The Dark Knight was the second of Nolan's Batman trilogy and at $1.003 billion, his highest grossing. Heath Ledger starred opposite Christian Bale's Batman as the Joker. When the movie was released after his death, Ledger became only the second actor to posthumously win an Oscar for his role, and out of respect for the Australian actor, Nolan never addressed his character in the third film.
Nolan shot scenes for the movie in Imax format, combining them with standard filming techniques to achieve a higher resolution product. The giant screen sequences were the first of their kind, and starting Aug. 24, audiences can watch the groundbreaking work again in select Imax theaters.
The Dark Knight will be re-released for one week in Los Angeles at the AMC Universal Citywalk Imax, in New York at the AMC Lincoln Square Imax, in San Francisco at the AMC Metreon Imax and in Toronto at the Ontario Place Cinesphere Imax. Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 20.
Revisit The Dark Knight's original theatrical trailer below and see where it numbered among our picks for the best superhero movies ever made right here.
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Q: Edges reflecting weight in Cytoscape I just started looking into Cytoscape
I was looking at the example here. My goal is to have a weighted directed graph (pretty much like a dendrogram, except weighted). I need to have the edges reflect the weight (either in terms of length, or color but some sort of visual denotion). However, from the example, irrespective of what the edge weight is, I see no change in the graph. Does anyone know how I can achieve that?
Alternately, if there are other JS libraries that can help me visualize a weighted graph, I'd appreciate pointers on that as well.
A: Simply set your edge style appropriately in your stylesheet, with a mapper.
A: mappers are used to allow a per-element style encoding.
http://js.cytoscape.org/#style/mappers
what is unfortunately missing from the documentation is a more detailed explanation of what kind of values it can map as well as an example of how/where to apply such a mapper:
style: [
{
selector: 'node',
style: {
'content': 'data(name)',
'font-family': 'helvetica',
'font-size': 14,
'text-outline-width': 3,
'text-outline-color': '#999',
'text-valign': 'center',
'color': '#fff',
'width': 'mapData(weight, 30, 80, 20, 50)',
'height': 'mapData(height, 0, 200, 10, 45)',
'border-color': '#fff'
}
}]
supported values for interpolation (the last two input parameters) are:
colors (as described in the docs), and numbers (as seen in the example above).
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David has over a decade of experience in corporate finance and capital markets with a focus on the natural resource sector. As an executive with the PowerOne Group he has developed a depth of knowledge in representing, advising, and assisting emerging companies in accessing capital, advising on mergers and acquisitions and managing their businesses. David is a Chartered Professional Accountant and has also served in a variety of executive roles and director positions to a wide array of private and public enterprises.
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Terry brings over 25 years of diversified experience in the mineral exploration and mining industry, covering exploration, environmental management, project permitting, human resources management and community relations. Terry has held senior positions with major, mid-tier and junior companies including Teck Resources, Noranda, Pan American Silver, Cornerstone Resources and Thundermin Resources. During that time, Terry worked on and managed projects in several regions of Canada and in Latin America, with a focus on precious and base metals in a wide range of deposit types. From 2008 through 2013 he served as Vice President Exploration for Cornerstone Resources and most recently as Senior Exploration Geologist with Pan American Silver in Timmins, Ontario.
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The manure is a by-product from all our horses, and is available for members of the public to come and help themselves.
All we ask is that you say hello before taking any (so that we know what you're doing climbing over our heap of manure). In addition, you should also bring your own bags and shovels/spades as required - we do have this equipment, but it's exclusively for the care and upkeep of our horses and the stables.
Although we do not charge people for this manure the stables does appreciate any donations made, which go towards the upkeep and general care of the horses.
If you would like to make a small donation, please see Chris, Kevin or Celia. |
Earl Watson and Joy Taylor are getting serious in the San Fernando Valley.
The former pro basketball player/coach and his radio host girlfriend have bought a newly built home in Encino for $2.75 million, real estate records show.
Fenced and hedged from the street, the contemporary-style house has about 5,000 square feet of living space, five bedrooms and 5.5 bathrooms.
Largely devoted to open-plan space, the main floor features an eye-catching kitchen with European cabinetry and a long island that extends towards the dining room. A glass-enclosed wine wall faces the dining area. Adjacent is the living room, which has a wall fireplace.
A floating staircase connects to the second-floor landing, where pocketing glass walls enclose a patio with a fireplace. Balconies extending from the master bedroom and bathroom create additional space outdoors.
Outside, there's a zero-edge swimming pool, a spa and a built-in barbecue. A two-car garage sits off the front.
The property had been listed for $2.895 million at the time of the sale, property records show.
Watson, 39, has ties to Los Angeles having been a four-year starter at UCLA. The former point guard notched 13 seasons in the NBA for six different franchises, and served as head coach of the Phoenix Suns from 2016 to 2017.
Dennis Chernov of Keller Williams Realty was the listing agent. Shauna Walters of Compass represented the buyers, according to the Multiple Listing Service. |
This beautiful and spacious modern family holiday home is extremely close to Downings (0.5 miles, literally "just over the hill"). Set in a small attractive cul de sac development, the holiday home enjoys truly spectacular panoramic views over Sheephaven Bay towards Muckish Mountain, Marble Hill, Dunfanaghy, Horn Head and beyond. The setting sun over the dramatic Horn Head cliffs is unforgettable!
The house is extremely comfortable and bright with all mod cons - perfect for a relaxing family holiday. The championship golf courses of Old Tom Morris and Sandy Hills are only a few minutes drive away at Rosapenna. There are loads of water sports available in the local area as well as a vibrant nightlife with Martin's Bar (The Harbour Bar) only a short walk away. There are several roads of access to the house which is virtually on the Atlantic Drive - a very scenic drive that is now part of Irelands Wild Atlantic Way. This is the ideal location for anyone who wants a quiet family break, but yet remain close to all the action.
Enjoy beautiful beaches on your doorstep – Downings, Tramore Strand, Tra na Rossan, Melmore.
Go sea angling or sightseeing on Sheephaven Bay - licensed charter boats are available at Downings. Fishing includes Bluefin Tuna, Shark and Tope.
Find numerous peaceful roads, country lanes and mountain tracks to walk.
Climb Muckish and Errigal. Mount Errigal, the highest mountain in Donegal is a demanding climb and once on the summit you can see for miles around.
large quantity of sun chairs available for use.
The holiday home has an open plan design on the ground floor. The bright living area has floor to ceiling windows which provide stunning unobstructed views over Sheephaven Bay with views across to Muckish Mountain, Dunfanaghy, Marble Hill, Horn Head and beyond. The visitor will be amazed by the beauty of the setting Donegal sun.
The room is equipped with Tv and DVD player and is set up for perfect relaxation with two large comfortable sofas.
The holiday home has a stylish modern fitted kitchen which is fully equipped for a self catering holiday. The adjacent dining area has a table and 6 comfortable dining chairs.
The holiday home is also equipped with a washing machine and tumble dryer.
Booking deposit (non-refundable) of euro100 per week - with balance to be paid at least six weeks prior to the letting period. |
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Q: Sort an array by object field I have an array of objects
const myarray = [ {
name: 'Alex',
job: 'Doctor' }, {
name: 'John',
job: 'Taxi Driver' }, {
name: 'Marc',
job: 'Taxi Driver' }, ]
How can i, for each job, print the name of the job, then all the corresponding objects ?
For example I want to be able to display:
Doctor:
Alex
Taxi driver:
John,
Marc
A: first of all create object which will store job like obj = {"Taxi driver": [],"Doctor": [] } and after you can pass array myarray.forEach(e => obj[e.job].append(e.name)) after just manipulate with object. Best regards
A: It returns an object with the result you want
const myarray = [ { name: 'Alex', job: 'Doctor' }, { name: 'John', job: 'Taxi Driver' }, { name: 'Marc', job: 'Taxi Driver' }, ]
function getJobs() {
let result = {};
myarray.forEach(function t(e) {
if (!result.hasOwnProperty(e.job)) result[e.job] = [];
result[e.job].push(e.name);
});
return result;
}
console.log(getJobs());
A: You can try something like this:
const myarray = [ { name: 'Alex', job: 'Doctor' }, { name: 'John', job: 'Taxi Driver' }, { name: 'Marc', job: 'Taxi Driver' } ]
const sorted = {}
myarray.forEach((e)=>{
if(e.job in sorted){
sorted[e.job].push(e.name);
}else{
sorted[e.job] = [e.name]
}
})
console.log(sorted);
To print them in the format you want:
const myarray = [ { name: 'Alex', job: 'Doctor' }, { name: 'John', job: 'Taxi Driver' }, { name: 'Marc', job: 'Taxi Driver' } ]
const sorted = {}
myarray.forEach((e)=>{
if(e.job in sorted){
sorted[e.job].push(e.name);
}else{
sorted[e.job] = [e.name]
}
})
for(const key in sorted){
var str = key+': ';
sorted[key].forEach(e=>str+=e+', ');
console.log(str.slice(0, -2));
}
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Saving Country Music
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June 24, 2020 rock
Reel Rock
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June 23, 2020 local music
Local Music Player
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June 22, 2020 music network
World Music Network Label
A world music competition is held in New Plymouth, New Zealand, in early March annually, particularly the New Zealand location of WOMAD. Mawazine is a festival of world music that takes place annually in Rabat, Morocco, that includes Arab and worldwide music icons. OFFest is a 5-day world music festival held every summer since 2002 in Skopje. The Ariano Folkfestival is a five-day world music festival held each summer time in Ariano Irpino, a small town in southern Italy.
Taking It To The Top: 2014 Lamn Jam Music Contest Winners Sad Robot, Lydia Rene And Others Get Career Boost
The Fajr International Music Festival is Iran's most prestigious music pageant, based in 1986. The competition is affiliated with UNESCO and consists of national and international competitors sections. Since its institution, many musicians from a number of nations like Austria, Germany, France have participated within the occasion.
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Lost love crops up lots in Bangtan's back catalogue and it makes its presence known here, the band clinging onto a relationship that's on its last legs. "Your cold face tells me everything quite than phrases / I can see a break up rising over me like a excessive tide," Suga says via results that amplify the gap between him and his partner, his voice coming out and in of focus. 'Look Here' finds younger BTS showing off their soft, sultry falsettos with alluring ease, and it's all set to a gently trotting guitar twang.
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June 21, 2020 music family
Family Suites At Disney's All
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The grassroots-type neighborhood for content material sharing permits musicians to get a real really feel for the way their music is being perceived by audiences, but watch out, the hardcore users may be harsh on noobs. Just be respectful and genuine and you'll make it just fine. Last.fm is among the easiest ways for brand new followers to make your music their latest obsession.
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The Wiseman's Building in Peterhead has been lit up with festive projections which will bring cheer to the town for the whole of December.
In a first for the largest town in the north-east, specialist firm Double Take Projections will be emblazoning animations across the Blue Toon building.
From 4pm to 10pm every evening a loop of various projections will be displayed across the building on Broad Street which was chosen for its flat front.
Organised by Rediscover Peterhead, who are aiming to revive the town, it's hoped visitors from across Aberdeenshire will come to see the spectacle.
In the past Double Take Projections have lit up His Majesties Theatre and Marischal College.
Rediscover Peterhead manager Iain Sutherland said: "This light show is spectacular with nothing like it in the north-east of Scotland.
Local councillor Dianne Beagrie went along to the launch event on Saturday to see the projection.
She said: "The switch on had a good public turn out.
"The images being projected onto the building include the Light Up Peterhead snowmen, local fishing boats and Santa. |
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Women In Horror Month: Anya Taylor-Joy
February 4, 2018 Slasher Studios*Women in Horror
Ever since breaking onto the big screen with 2015's indie hit "The Witch", Anya Taylor-Joy has become a pretty strong presence in the horror world, and damn, she is one presence worth welcoming. With every role Anya has grabbed, she's displayed so much depth and range that I've always been left in awe and wanting to see her in more final girl/leading lady horror roles, and films in general of course.
In her breakthrough film "The Witch", Anya plays Thomasin with so much innocence, but yet makes you wonder if there is something to her character than we don't know about. She shows her character's struggle of being the black sheep of the family and growing into womanhood, all the while she and her family are being targeted by a witch. By the end of the film you've seen her develop this huge arc that's enough to leave you with chills and astounded. When I watched it a second time and really observed her character, I noticed that her character really does seem to be teetering between two sides as the conflict arises.
Anya's next film was the pretty underrated "Morgan", here she plays an artificially created being and has to display different levels of personality. Anya perfectly captures Morgan's childlike persona, despite the older appearance, showing great wonder and curiosity. However, she can instantly switch that off and give us extremely cold and deathly looks and glares that can be chilling and leave you unsure of what she will do or is capable of. But despite all of this we also see her showing Morgan's unsure knowledge of what it means to be human and the emotions she's supposed to feel.
Most recently she starred in M. Night Shyamalan's "Split" where she played the troubled and lonely Casey. She is thrown into a situation with two classmates with James McAvoy's multi personality character and must find out how to survive. Once again, Anya displays strong emotions here as she struggles with her very troubled home and social life, but also trying to overcome that and her current situation. There are moments where we see her reflecting on her past that almost parallel with her capture, and all the while she working to make herself stronger, but also use her smarts to try get her and her friends out. This role is essentially her first "final girl" type role and it's fairly different from others in that she's not a badass, but she's using her smarts and emotions to try survive. But it's also great seeing once again, a great character arc that Anya shows her character going through, and she nails it.
Up next she teams up in 2018 with Olivia Cooke in the thriller "Thoroughbreds" as two revenge seeking girls who will do anything to have each other's backs. In 2019, we have the unfortunately bumped "New Mutants" with Anya as a new addition to the X-Men universe as a mutant who's been locked up in an institution with various horrors waiting to torture her and her fellow mutants. Also in 2019 is the follow-up to "Split" entitled "Glass" in which she will reunite as Casey with M. Night Shyamalan and James McAvoy as well as Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.
I can only hope that apart from other roles, Anya will continue to take on more horror.
–Cody Landman
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Maryland Route 180 (MD 180) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Jefferson Pike, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 340 (US 340) in Knoxville east to Ballenger Creek Pike and Interstate 70 (I-70) in Frederick. MD 180 is the old alignment of US 340 through Knoxville, Petersville, and Jefferson in the Middletown Valley of western Frederick County. The state highway was originally constructed in the early 1910s and designated US 340 in 1927. MD 180 was assigned to the highway bypassed by the US 340 freeway between Sandy Hook in far southern Washington County and Jefferson in the mid-1960s. The state highway was extended east to Frederick and south along Ballenger Creek Pike (former MD 351) after the US 340 freeway was completed in the late 1960s. MD 180 was rolled back to Frederick and removed from Washington County in 1989.
Route description
MD 180 begins at a partial interchange with US 340 (Jefferson National Pike) just east of the southern end of South Mountain at the Potomac River. There is no access from westbound MD 180 to eastbound US 340 or from westbound US 340 to eastbound MD 180. The state highway heads east as two-lane undivided Jefferson Pike, which parallels the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and CSX's Metropolitan Subdivision railroad line to the village of Knoxville. MD 180 makes a sharp curve to the northeast in which the highway intersects MD 478 (Knoxville Road), which parallels the railroad, canal, and river east to Brunswick.
MD 180 heads northeast and temporarily gains an eastbound climbing lane as it leaves the narrow Potomac River valley. The state highway passes through farmland and meets MD 17 (Burkittsville Road) at a roundabout west of Rosemont. MD 180 passes southeast of a park and ride lot and crosses Little Catoctin Creek on its way to Petersville, where the highway meets the northern end of Petersville Road. East of Petersville, the state highway has a diamond interchange with US 340. MD 180 descends into the narrow valley of Catoctin Creek; the westbound direction has a short climbing lane. The state highway curves north to cross the creek, then curves back east and leaves the creek valley. MD 180 has a single ramp to westbound US 340 and meets the southern end of MD 383 (Broad Run Jefferson Road) before passing through Jefferson. The state highway intersects Old Middletown Road, which heads north past the George Willard House, and Holter Road and Lander Road; Holter Road heads north toward Middletown and Lander Road heads south from the same intersection toward an interchange with US 340.
MD 180 parallels US 340 through a wide gap in Catoctin Mountain and continues northeast to the hamlet of Feagaville, where the highway intersects Mt. Zion Road at a roundabout and traverses Ballenger Creek. MD 180 crosses over I-70 (Eisenhower Memorial Highway) and intersects Butterfly Lane near Saint John's Catholic Prep before beginning a sweeping curve to the south. The state highway intersects Himes Avenues, which is unsigned MD 180B and leads to a ramp to westbound US 340 and US 15, at the same intersection as a ramp from that direction of the freeway. MD 180 crosses over US 340 and US 15 and receives a ramp from the eastbound direction of the freeway, then intersects Solarex Court and a ramp to the eastbound freeway that indirectly provides access to westbound I-70. Solarex Court provides access to a business park in the triangle formed by I-70, Jefferson National Pike, and the Frederick Freeway; this business park includes the historic home Linden Grove. MD 180 continues south as Ballenger Creek Pike, passing under I-70 before reaching its eastern terminus at Ballenger Center Parkway and a ramp to eastbound I-70 and I-270. Ballenger Creek Pike continues south through the suburb of Ballenger Creek.
MD 180 is part of the National Highway System between US 340 and MD 478 as part of an intermodal connection with the Brunswick station on MARC's Brunswick Line.
History
MD 180 is the old alignment of US 340 between Knoxville and Frederick. The state highway was originally organized as a turnpike called the Frederick and Jefferson Turnpike between the two towns. This highway became one of the original state roads marked for improvement by the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1909. The commission purchased the right-of-way of the turnpike in 1911 and resurfaced the Frederick–Jefferson highway with a wide macadam surface in 1915. The segments from Jefferson to Petersville and from Petersville to Knoxville were placed under construction in 1911 and completed as a macadam road in 1912. The Frederick–Knoxville highway was widened to in width around 1926 and became part of US 340 in 1927. US 340 was widened again, this time to between Frederick and Knoxville, by 1934.
The first portion of the US 340 freeway to open was between the MD 180 interchange east of Petersville and the ramp from MD 180 west of Jefferson was opened, replacing the curvaceous old alignment at Catoctin Creek. The present alignment of US 340 opened as a four-lane divided highway from the Valley Road / Keep Tryst Road intersection in Sandy Hook east to Weverton also opened that year. The portion of the freeway between Weverton and MD 180 east of Petersville was under construction in 1964 and completed in 1965. MD 180 was assigned to old US 340 from Sandy Hook to west of Jefferson in 1965. By 1967, MD 180 became a split route; MD 180A was assigned to Keep Tryst Road between its intersections with US 340 in Sandy Hook and Weverton.
Construction on the US 340 freeway from Jefferson toward Frederick began in 1966. US 340's interchanges with I-70 and MD 180 were completed in 1968 and the portion of the freeway from Jefferson east to the MD 180 interchange opened in 1969. At that time, MD 180 was extended east through Jefferson to the US 340 interchange in Frederick, which also served the northern end of MD 78. MD 180 was extended south over the length of MD 78 (Ballenger Creek Pike) toward Adamstown in 1970, forming a cane-shaped route. MD 180 was retracted to the US 340 interchange in 1989 when MD 351 was assigned to what had been MD 78. That same year, Keep Tryst Road was removed from the state highway system, leaving behind the stub that is current MD 180A. In 2002, MD 180 was extended east along Ballenger Creek Pike to Ballenger Center Parkway at the same time MD 351 was temporarily transferred to county maintenance south of its ramp to eastbound I-70.
Junction list
Auxiliary routes
MD 180 has two auxiliary routes, including one in Washington County.
MD 180A is the designation for Old US 340, a section of old alignment of US 340 east from a hairpin bend of Keep Tryst Road to a dead end in Weverton.
MD 180B is the designation for a section of Himes Avenue that is part of the old alignment of US 340 from MD 180 east to a ramp to westbound US 340 and US 15 in Frederick.
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MDRoads: MD 180
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Gamergate (tudi #gamergate) je spletno gibanje, ki se je pojavilo avgusta 2014. Pripadniki gibanja ga označujejo kot gibanje proti korupciji, malomarnosti in nepotizmu v novinarstvu, povezanem z industrijo videoiger.
Gibanje gamergate se je pojavilo kot odgovor na afero quinnspiracy (besedna igra z angleško besedo za zaroto, conspiracy, in priimkom Quinn), ki jo je sprožil razvijalec videoiger Eron Gjoni, ki je objavil blog, v katerem je obtožil svojo nekdanjo partnerko, razvijalko videoiger Zoe Quinn, etično neprimernega vedenja, med drugim, da ga je varala z Nathanom Graysonom, blogerjem na spletni strani za videoigre, Kotaku. Ogorčenost igračarske skupnosti je dosegla višek v spletnem nadlegovanju Graysona, Quinnove in več njunih sodelavcev.
Nasprotniki gibanja Gamergate so le-to tako označili za del kulturne vojne proti ženskam, feminizmu in raznolikosti v industriji videoiger. Poročanje medijev se je osredotočalo predvsem na nadlegovanje in večinoma ignoriralo stališča gibanja samega. Pristranskost poročanja in utišanje debat o aferi na več socialnih omrežjih je v gibanju še bolj razvnelo sume o korupciji in skrivnem sodelovanju v novinarstvu o videoigrah. 27. avgusta 2014 je igralec Adam Baldwin afero na socialnem omrežju twitter imenoval z označbo #GamerGate, ki jo je gibanje vzelo za svoje ime.
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I have never been accused of being a patient person. As I've gotten older most of my impatience is reserved for myself, not others. Thank goodness for growth.
I have dabbled in crocheting by creating an ill-fitting hat or crooked scarf so cross stitching seemed like a natural next step for a skill to learn. I'm not sure if you all are as into millennial hygge Instagram as I am, but cross stitching has become a new craze that offers quippy phrases and fun avocado patterns.
Cross stitching was a task that forced me to do a few things that don't come naturally to me: slow down, start-over, and deal with a sub-par product.
I went to Joann's Fabric, obviously, and bought a kit that included a pattern (that I thought was simple), an embroidery needle, fabric, and threading floss. The directions included in the kit left a lot to be desired they didn't make a lot of sense to me so I just decided that I would jump in head first. After about 15 minutes and 10 ragged stitches later I decided to go to YouTube and see what the internet had to offer. I found a tutorial that was helpful and I was able to start-over and stitch away.
Well, I don't know if you all know this but there is a quite a bit of spatial reasoning and math involved in cross stitching. After several hours of work over a few days I realized that I had messed up my pattern so greatly there was no point of return so I had to take out the unsalvageable old thread and create a whole new project off of the top of my head.
After few more days of work I got this out of my efforts.
I leave this skill feeling proud of my accomplishment, in that I could probably do this again and be better at it, but unmoved. Maybe I'll glean some big lesson from it later. Do y'all want to just make biscuits again? |
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Anarchy Moment 0118 – I Don't Mean Kill The Homeless. I Mean Kill The Government.
Cynical Libertarian Society Posted on 3 April, 2015 by The Great One, Himself 3 April, 2015
The ACLU gets $83,000 of tax payer money.
The homeless people the ACLU "cares" about get $100.
I call everyone involved on their bullshit and point out the the ACLU lawyer is a Jew.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_27813263/fort-collins-aclu-working-settle-panhandling-lawsuit
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Fort Collins will no longer ticket people who passively panhandle in the city under a settlement with the American Civil Liberties Union.
The deal announced Monday settles a federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU accusing the city of going too far in cracking down on panhandlers.
Fort Collins has agreed to permanently drop some parts of its panhandling law, such as barring people from soliciting donations from anyone over 60 or near ATMs or bus stops. However, the city is keeping restrictions on aggressive panhandling. Panhandlers who try to intimidate people or touch or grab people while asking for money can still be ticketed.
The ACLU filed the lawsuit last month on behalf of four homeless people, Greenpeace and a 76-year-old woman who objected to the age restriction.
https://www.aclu.org/free-speech/aclu-announces-settlement-fort-collins-over-panhandling-law
DENVER – The City of Fort Collins has agreed to stop arresting, ticketing, citing, or otherwise interfering with individuals who engage in passive solicitation as part of a settlement agreement announced jointly by the ACLU of Colorado and Fort Collins today.
The ACLU filed a lawsuit in early February alleging that both the Fort Collins panhandling ordinance and its enforcement by local police violated the First Amendment. According to the suit, the ordinance was overly broad and prohibited peaceful, polite and nonthreatening requests for charity. In addition, the ACLU presented evidence that the overwhelming majority of the City's enforcement had been directed at individuals who only passively asked for charity by displaying a sign, an activity that was not actually prohibited by the challenged ordinance.
"The First Amendment protects the rights of all people, regardless of economic circumstances or social status, to make peaceful, non-threatening requests for charity," said ACLU of Colorado Legal Director Mark Silverstein. "We were prepared to prove that the Fort Collins ordinance and the city's campaign of enforcement, which went beyond the written words of the law, were unconstitutional."
The City also agreed to pay the plaintiffs' legal fees and costs, and to provide the ACLU with 45 days advance notice of any future proposals to reinstate or revise the repealed provisions of the ordinance.
"We commend Fort Collins for agreeing to a resolution that protects free speech rights and avoids lengthy and costly litigation," said ACLU cooperating attorney Hugh Gottschalk of Wheeler Trigg O'Donnell LLP. "The City handled this matter in a prompt, professional, and responsible manner."
http://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/2015/02/10/aclu-sue-fort-collins-police-panhandling-enforcement/23170821/
Silverstein on Tuesday morning said the group obtained copies of about 100 citations issued between August 2012 November 2014 and two-thirds of them were written for people who were taking part in "passive solicitation" like holding a sign. Silverstein in 2010 contacted the city attorney's office after a street performer was warned by police his actions could be classified as violations of the panhandling ordinance.
The 29-page document also includes allegations from Greenpeace, Inc. that Fort Collins police have started targeting the activists' canvassing procedures in Old Town. An officer in December reportedly told a canvasser those actions of soliciting donations were still illegal, according to the complaint.
"Greenpeace canvassers have ceased soliciting donations in downtown Fort Collins. Greenpeace wants to be free to continue it peaceful solicitation of donations without fear that police will enforce the challenged ordinance against its canvassers," the suit reads.
Fort Collins municipal code restricts where and from whom individuals can solicit charity. Individuals are barred from panhandling within 100 feet of an ATM or bus stop, soliciting during nighttime hours and acting in a manner that is "threatening, intimidating, coercive or obscene.
http://www.westword.com/news/update-fort-collins-aclu-settle-over-controversial-panhandling-ordinance-6289996
As Fox31 points out, the portions of the ordinance that have been suspended pertain in part to bans against panhandling in certain locations, including near ATMs, bus stops and restaurant patios.
However, the suspension of these rules is only temporary at this point — something stressed by ACLU of Colorado legal director Mark Silverstein in a statement about the development:
"The City of Fort Collins has taken a positive and welcome first step by repealing the provisions of its panhandling ordinance that have been challenged by the ACLU and our clients, who engage in nonthreatening, nonaggressive requests for charity that are fully protected by the First Amendment. We hope that today's repeal means that they and all other peaceful solicitors will no longer be targeted by Fort Collins police. Fort Collins can still rely on the provisions of the ordinance that we did not challenge to address truly aggressive solicitation without stifling free speech rights.
"If Fort Collins would agree to make today's repeal permanent, we could be well on our way to resolving this litigation and putting it behind us. Fort Collins, however, has described today's repeal as a temporary measure and has signaled that the repealed provisions may well be reenacted. The repealed provisions violate the First Amendment, and their repeal should be permanent, not temporary."
On the ACLU website – Meet Our Clients: Fort Collins Class Action.
http://aclu-co.org/blog/meet-clients-fort-collins-class-action/
She is laughing about this as well.
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The Greasy Pole 0015 - The Thing That Must Not Be Named Episode |
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What is College & Career Success?
College & Career Success is an interactive online student success program based on the book of the same name. It is similar to, but much more than, a textbook. Students and faculty members use College & Career Success over the internet via individual portfolio accounts. Students work through chapters which include journals, quizzes, and custom links to resources chosen by your campus.
What programs use College & Career Success?
Typically a primary resource in a first-year college course, College & Career Success is effective for any student or group of students to increase their success in college and beyond. It has also been used for orientation programs, student success courses, dual-credit courses, high school-to-college transition, major and course selection, outreach for at-risk students, intervention and counseling, peer/mentor programs, study skills and in career centers.
What can staff do in College & Career Success?
Staff (faculty) portfolio accounts can be used to track class progress, view individual results and access a complete resource package for implementing College & Career Success.
How can College & Career Success be taught?
College & Career Success can be taught as a standalone resource or as part of traditional in-person, online or hybrid courses.
What assessments are in College & Career Success?
AchieveWORKS Personality and AchieveWORKS Intelligences assessment results are integrated within the program.
How do students access College & Career Success?
Students log in to a website using a browser on any internet-capable device. |
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Connecticut Health Investigative Team (https://c-hit.org/tag/yale-school-of-medicine/page/2/)
A Dangerous Mix: High Ozone Levels And Obesity
By Christine Woodside | July 9, 2020
For the 29% of Connecticut adults who live with obesity, summer brings a difficult form of air pollution. Ground-level ozone is the colorless, odorless gas formed when auto exhaust reacts with sunlight at temperatures above 80 degrees. Ozone can be dangerous for people who have higher body mass indexes. If the pandemic shutdown were now, those with obesity and others who suffer from the adverse effects of ground-level ozone might have caught a break. Officials know that other forms of pollution dropped significantly during the early spring.
Coping With Pandemic: Resurgence Of Guilt
By Colleen Shaddox | May 4, 2020
Placing loved ones in a nursing home is often fraught with emotions, and a common one is guilt. Many are feeling a resurgence of guilt now, knowing that they are at higher risk during this pandemic. Coronavirus has swept through 150 of the state's nursing homes and, as of April 29, 1,249 residents have died — representing about 55% of all COVID-19 deaths. As of last Thursday, there were 4,814 cases in nursing facilities. ConnHealthITeam · Coping With Pandemic: Guilt
Dr. Kirsten Wilkins, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine, talks with C-HIT's Colleen Shaddox about strategies you can use to help your elderly relatives – and yourself – cope during the pandemic.
Pandemic Exposes Stark Health Disparities Generations In The Making
By Kate Farrish | April 16, 2020
Soon after Minerva Cuapio, a 48-year-old Mexican immigrant who lives in New Haven, was laid off from her job at a dry cleaner in March, she developed a headache, an itchy throat and a dry cough. Then came the shortness of breath that really worried her daughter, Izarelli Mendieta, 29, of New Haven. While trying to get her mother care, she said, they were bounced from a doctor to the state's COVID-19 hotline to a telemedicine visit back to the hotline and then to a drive-through testing center and an emergency room visit. The family waited nine days for Cuapio's positive test results. Izarelli's father, Pedro Mendieta, 55, who lost a foot to diabetes, tested positive, too, but had mild symptoms.
Minerva Cuapio and Pedro Mendieta have recovered, but their daughter, who translates for her parents because they only speak Spanish, said if she could meet Gov. Ned Lamont, she would ask him to make the process easier for families like hers.
Coping With Pandemic: Are You Lonesome Tonight?
By Colleen Shaddox | April 10, 2020
It's important to practice physical distancing – but not social distancing. People need connection and belonging. There are ways to achieve that online through volunteering and using new platforms to connect with friends. Low-tech sources of meaning like poetry and prayer are helpful too. C-HIT's Colleen Shaddox talks about ways to battle loneliness with Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine.
Coping With Pandemic: Parents Just Don't Understand
By Colleen Shaddox | April 8, 2020
Adolescents want and need to be with peers, so the isolation imposed by the pandemic is especially hard for them. Parents are put in the difficult position of enforcing that isolation. Students are also experiencing many losses – Spring sports, prom, graduations, and field trips. C-HIT's Colleen Shaddox talks about how parents can support their teenaged children with Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine.
Coping With Pandemic: Who's Zoomin' Who?
The pandemic has many parents trying to do their jobs from home, supervise their children's education and provide 24-7 care. Creating reasonable expectations can keep parents from becoming overwhelmed in a high stress situation. Setting goals that are achievable – and carving out a bit of time for yourself — will make this extraordinary time more manageable. C-HIT's Colleen Shaddox discusses ways to find balance with Dr. Megan V. Smith, associate professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and the Yale Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine.
Pandemic Brings New Set Of Challenges For Home Health Aides And Clients
By Cara Rosner | March 24, 2020
Social distancing is one way to curb the spread of the coronavirus, but for health care workers who provide care in people's homes, especially for the elderly, that type of care brings heightened risks, experts say. Home health workers assist clients with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, toileting, walking and transferring out of bed; all things that require them to be extremely close to those they serve. In many cases, they also shop for groceries and pick up prescriptions and other necessities. It's a challenging time, but home health workers are committed to delivering quality care, said Pedro Zayas, spokesman for the SEIU Healthcare 1199 NE, which represents more than 5,000 independent personal care attendants. "Our providers are people who went into this field because they like caring for others," he said, adding that caregivers are diligent about self-monitoring for fever and other symptoms.
Cases of the highly contagious coronavirus continue to spike in Connecticut and nationally, with elderly people being particularly susceptible.
Opioids Backlash Leaves Some Struggling With Chronic Pain
By Sujata Srinivasan | November 12, 2019
Unable to obtain morphine, Heather Weise, 50, lay balled up in pain at her home in Milford earlier this year. It took nine days to refill her narcotic painkiller and she blamed the clampdown on opioid prescriptions for her woes. "My pain's up there with cancer," said Weise, an administrative assistant at the sandwich-chain Subway. "I almost ended up at the ER."
Weise suffers from adhesive arachnoiditis, an inflammation of membranes surrounding the brain and the spinal cord, for which she was prescribed a daily dose of 120 milligrams of the opioid painkiller morphine. When her prescription ran out in the stipulated 30 days for refills, she had nowhere to turn to for relief.
Blacks, Poor At Higher Risk Of Heart Disease; Overall Death Rate Falls
By Lisa Backus | September 5, 2019
The death rate from heart disease plummeted nationally over several decades for all racial and ethnic groups, but the rate of decline has slowed slightly and African Americans and low-income individuals are still at a higher risk of developing the disease and dying from it, according to a report from the National Center for Health Statistics. The report isn't surprising to Dr. Edward Schuster, medical director, Stamford Health Cardiac Rehabilitation Program. "In the United States, there's a lot of talk about income disparity, which is a political hotcake," Schuster said. "But what we are seeing is a life expectancy disparity. According to a recent Journal of American Medical Association, if you're a man in the top 1 percent of income, you can expect to live 13 years longer than someone in the 1 percent at the bottom."
Heart disease is largely preventable by maintaining a balanced diet, a healthy weight and moderate exercise, with only 20 percent of cases involving genetics, said Dr. David L. Katz, who heads the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center, which works with communities to develop programs to control chronic diseases. But significant groups in lower income and urban areas don't—or can't—act on the message, Katz said.
Menopause's Long Learning Curve
By Elizabeth Heubeck | July 9, 2019
Every day an estimated 6,000 women in the U.S. reach menopause, a natural part of aging. But for countless women, it feels like anything but. The symptoms, which range from merely bothersome to debilitating, are triggered by the body's loss of estrogen, which occurs at a median age of 50 to 52 among women in industrialized countries. Vasomotor symptoms alone (hot flashes, night sweats), which disrupt sleep and count as the most commonly reported complaint, last an average of 10 years and affect nearly 90 percent of menopausal women. A recent study published in the journal Menopause found that 250,000 women who suffered from hot flashes lost a cumulative $300 million per year in wages due to lost productivity and doctor visits, compared to asymptomatic women. |
If you are suffering from infertility and are seeking help from a reproductive endocrinologist, chances are the medication that is prescribed for you comes in injectable form. Because injectable medications come with a large number of special instructions and requirements, it can be overwhelming for the patient undergoing the fertility treatments. In order to take some of the stress out of the entire process, it helps to learn the language of needles and syringes, as well as the various types of injections you might have to give yourself during your treatment.
When you are prescribed fertility medications, there will be an amount you are supposed to inject yourself with on a daily or weekly basis. It is important to understand how to read the syringes to determine that you are using the correct amount of medication for optimal results. Each syringe measures in cubic centimeters, otherwise known as cc. There are various sizes you can purchase; read the instructions on your medications carefully before purchasing your supplies to make sure you are purchasing the proper size equipment.
There are two types of injections: subcutaneous and intramuscular. The subcutaneous injections simply go under the first layer of fatty tissue. The needle required for these injections is quite small, and the injections are simple to perform on yourself or your partner. Intramuscular injections have to pass through the fatty tissue and into the first layer of muscle. The needles required for these injections are much longer and thicker to get to the area of the body they are supposed to be in.
The type of medication and the size of the syringes does not have a bearing on the size of the needle you need. The type of injection your fertility medication requires will determine the needle size you need. Subcutaneous injections require a shorter needle because they do not have to go far under the skin and they do not have to be thick. In order to choose the right needle, you need to find out the length measured in inches and the gauge, which is the thickness of the needle. When you purchase needles, the gauge will be listed first and the length last. The higher the gauge, the thinner the needle is. If you have to give yourself intramuscular injections, you will need a thicker gauge and a longer needle than you would need for a subcutaneous injection. |
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The two kids from the Xuanyuan family also understood what was going on at this time. The old guy hadn't eaten yet, so they couldn't do anything either. After they ran away, Xuanyuan Peng took a large bite on the dried meat, then threw it over to Xuanyuan Xiongfeng and ran away as well.
"It's just a piece of dried meat. I thought it was a good thing. I haven't let you eat meat for so many years, where did you find it?" Xuanyuan Xiongfeng's two big fingers were pointing at the meat and he was talking to himself. Seeing the saliva of Xuanyuan Peng on the meat, he had to find somewhere clean to bite on it.
"The third kid, I was going to let you go, now I've decided to let you work hard for a few years. How dare you enjoy such delicious thing all alone? Wait, perhaps I'm going to ask Guo Huai for more tomorrow." Xuanyuan Xiongfeng took the dried meat and went upstairs.
"Brother Huai, I suppose you slept well yesterday. Grandpa asked me to call you to eat." Xuanyuan Tengfei took off early in the morning to come to Hu Mei'er's yard. He had no idea whether Guo Huai slept well that night, but he hadn't anyway, since after his Grandpa had lectured him and his father, then his father lectured him some more. And after returning home, his two kids stayed up for a couple of hours. After merely sleeping for two hours in the morning, Grandpa let me call Guo Huai to eat.
"It's a good place. I've rested pretty well. But it looks like as if brother Tengfeng didn't sleep well. Eat this, it may make you feel better." Guo Huai said, as he handed Xuanyuan Tengfei a little green pill.
"Brother fei, you have dark circles. Didn't you sleep well last night?" Hu Mei'er got up early, she knew her own Grandpa, since he saw Guo Huai as an important person, he must be here to call people to eat, yet she really saw Xuanyuan Tengfei.
"Brother Huai, what did you give me? I am feeling good indeed." Xuanyuan Tengfei said happily.
"If you eat too much, it is not good for your health. When you have time, I will refine some other stuff to you, haha." Guo Huai said, while a group of four people walked toward the living room.
"Brother Huai, have you rested well?" Xuanyuan Peng saw Guo Huai and the four others, and said with a smile.
"Third Uncle, it wouldn't be the right title, just call me Xiao Huai. I rested well, but I don't think you did. Did you have too much meat?" Guo Huai asked with a smile.
"Xiao Huai, don't talk about the meat. Get inside and eat!" Xuanyuan Peng shook his head, and saw Xiao Wei and Hu Zi at the entrance of the living room, looking sneaky. He worried a bit and was sure that he wasn't going to have this breakfast at ease.
"Brother Huai, I arrived at the entrance of Yunhua Mountain Villa, but I can't get in, why don't we go outside to eat?" Guo Huai took the call of Liu Yan and he couldn't help but feeling slightly touched. It seemed that this woman had everything arranged for that night, and she was coming on the last flight.
"Xiao Huai, you're really something." Xuanyuan Peng smiled, "the two guys over there, come, your brother Huai's wife is at the entrance of the villa, go get her and we'll eat in the living room." Xuanyuan Peng said loudly to Xuanyuan Wei and Xuanyuan Hu, the two guys quickly ran toward the entrance of the villa.
"Father, I know that I'm wrong. So many juniors are here, don't scold me here." Xuanyuan Peng brought Guo Huai out of the living room, Xuanyuan Xiongfeng looked at Xuanyuan Peng and his facial expression turned more serious, while Xuanyuan Peng whispered.
"After eating, we'll talk about you. Huai, come here, and sit here." Xuanyuan Xiongfeng smiled.
"Grandpa, my wife is outside, and third uncle let Xiao Wei and Hu Zi pick her up." Guo Huai smiled back.
"Hey, then I would like to thank the old guy first, but this is a matter about finding a wife, I need to go back to Wucheng and ask for the approval of my first wife. If she agrees, then I'll pick them up and send them to Wucheng." Guo Huai laughed.
"Well…Huai, isn't your first wife coming today? How many women do you have?" Xuyuan Peng asked in a low voice.
"Not a lot. Less than ten." Guo Huai laughed. At this time, Liu Yan walked in with a formal wear. She's so beautiful and Xuanyuan Peng had his eyes open widely.
"Sit here. You've got face, even Xuanyuan's Grandpa is waiting for you for breakfast." Guo Huai said jokingly, making Liu Yan instantly blush. This is the Xuanyuan family and it's the biggest family in the Imperial City, she's so honored to be invited.
"Sorry to disturb you." Liu Yan said with a soft voice.
"Haha, sit down and eat." Xuanyuan Xiongfeng said, while several maids put the dishes on the table. Everyone was surrounded by food except Grandpa.
"Grandpa, what do you want to eat?" Xuanyuan Tengfei whispered.
"Oh, I thought you were going to say bigger stuff. Where is the kitchen? I'm going to make some for everyone, we cannot eat for free at Xuanyuan family." Guo Huai walked outside with a maid.
"Sister Liu Yan, you seem older than us. Are you Guo Huai's first wife?" Xuanyuan Qianqian asked Liu Yan softly while watching Guo Huai walking outside.
"Hey…who told you that I'm his wife? I, I am just…" Liu Yan's face blushed even more, yet she didn't know how to explain. Why would she get to the Imperial City from Wucheng if she's not his wife?
"Okay, sister Liu Yan, even if you're his concubine, it's nothing shameful. My Grandpa said that Mei'er and I will get married to Guo Huai too, and we'll be one family then." Xuanyuan Qianqian said directly, and Liu Yan was impressed by her bluntness. |
• High Blood Pressure: Using the DASH Diet.
• DASH Diet Sample Menu.
The food groups and serving sizes in the table below are based on the DASH diet from the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. These servings may not match Canada's Food Guide.
Low-fat and fat-free milk and milk products 2 to 3 servings a day A serving is 1 cup (250 mL) of milk, 1 cup (250 mL) of yogurt, or 1 1/2 ounces (45 g) of cheese.
Fruits 4 to 5 servings a day A serving is 1 medium-sized piece of fruit, 1/2 cup (125 mL) chopped or canned fruit, 1/4 cup (60 mL) dried fruit, or 1/2 cup (125 mL) of fruit juice. Choose fruit more often than fruit juice.
Vegetables 4 to 5 servings a day A serving is 1 cup (250 mL) of lettuce or raw leafy vegetables, 1/2 cup (125 mL) of chopped or cooked vegetables, or 1/2 cup (125 mL) of vegetable juice. Choose vegetables more often than vegetable juice.
Grains 6 to 8 servings a day A serving is 1 slice of bread, 1 ounce of dry cereal, or 1/2 cup (125 mL) of cooked rice, pasta, or cooked cereal. Try to choose whole-grain products as much as possible.
Legumes, nuts, seeds 4 to 5 servings a week A serving is 1/3 cup (75 mL) of nuts, 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of seeds, or 1/2 cup (125 mL) cooked beans or peas.
Fats and oils 2 to 3 servings a day A serving is 1 teaspoon (5 mL) of soft margarine or vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon (15 mL) of mayonnaise, or 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of low-fat salad dressing.
Sweets and added sugars 5 servings a week or less A serving is 1 tablespoon (15 mL) of jelly or jam, 1/2 cup (125 mL) of sorbet, or 1 cup (250 mL) of lemonade.
Most people shouldn't eat more than 1,500 to 2,300 milligrams (mg) of sodium a day.
Cutting back on the amount of processed or refined foods you eat can help. These foods, such as canned and instant soups, packaged mixes, and snack items, don't have enough calcium, potassium, and magnesium—the very nutrients you need to help lower your blood pressure. And these foods can be high in sodium, saturated fats, and trans fats.
You also may try a vegetarian diet. In general, vegetarian diets reduce blood pressure, although experts don't know exactly why. The DASH diet could easily be a vegetarian diet if legumes (for example, beans, lentils, peas, and peanuts) were substituted for meat. Vegetarian diets tend to be higher in potassium, magnesium, and calcium, as does the DASH diet. Vegetarian diets also are higher in fibre and unsaturated fats than other diets.
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Translated with permission from Healthwise Inc.©. This material is for information purposes only and is not intended to replace the advice of care you get from your provider or other healthcare professional. Always consult your health professional for medical diagnosis and treatment. |
Seagrass meadows in decline
Project Leader: Assoc Prof Michelle Waycott, JCU
While the condition of seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef region in general is currently considered to be fair, MTSRF-funded research into trends in condition indicate that the region's coastal seagrass meadows are declining. Reef-wide surveys show that 38% of sites exhibit shrinking meadow area, a large number of sites have ongoing trends of reduced seagrass abundance, and many sites have limited or no sexual reproduction (ie no seeds are being produced that would enable rapid recovery). There is evidence that light limitation is the primary driver of seagrass abundance at most sites, and that improved water quality (= increased light availability) would improve their status. While the declines observed at some sites will naturally reverse due to climatic fluctuation, others appear to be on a consistent trajectory towards decreased seagrass diversity and abundance. Increasing temperatures, sea-level rise and increasing frequency of disturbance regimes - projected to occur due to climate change - will add to the stressors on coastal seagrass meadows in the Great Barrier Reef region. While no single indicator of seagrass meadow condition appears sufficient to interpret causes of change, ongoing measurement of the following parameters is recommended:
Long-term increases in seagrass tissue nutrient content (as integration of environment nutrient loads)
Elemental ratios of tissue nutrients (indicative of the relationship between nutrient and light availability at that site)
Plant morphology (alters as a result of light stress)
Chlorophyll concentration (declines under heat and light stress)
Variation in rate of production of sexual reproductive structures (decreases under stress).
The Reef Rescue Marine Monitoring Program (incorporating Seagrass-Watch) presently supports the ongoing collection of information on changing meadow size, seagrass abundance, morphology, nutrient and reproductive status, providing direct evidence of coastal meadow status and resilience for more than 20 seagrass meadows in the Great Barrier Reef.
Risk analysis and reporting for Great Barrier Reef seagrass meadows
Project Leader: Assoc Prof Michelle Waycott, JCU, & Len McKenzie, DEEDI
While most seagrass habitats in the remote Cape York region of the Great Barrier Reef are classified as low risk, almost two-thirds of coastal seagrass habitats along Queensland's urbanised coastline are at high or medium risk from multiple anthropogenic threats. Twelve 'hot spots' were identified as priority for conservation actions. Reducing the risk to coastal seagrass habitats in these 'hot spots' will require: (1) improving the quality of terrestrial water that enters the Great Barrier Reef lagoon; (2) mitigating the impacts of urban and port infrastructure development and dredging; and (3) addressing the hazards of shipping accidents and recreational boat damage. Risk analysis outputs include the development of a spatially-explicit predictive model of coastal seagrass distribution, estimation of risk to deepwater seagrass habitats from the Queensland East Coast Otter Trawl Fishery, and the estimation of the risk of coastal seagrass habitats from multiple anthropogenic threats. Community and agency monitoring of intertidal seagrass meadows (Seagrass-Watch) along the Queensland coast has established a dataset indicating that intertidal seagrasses have declined in abundance at more sites than expected during the last 10 years. Seagrass-Watch newsletters (magazines) containing updates on monitoring results were produced throughout the year and have been distributed to participants (also available for general public download via the Seagrass-Watch website).
New information about the likely impacts of climate change on seagrasses
Project Leaders: Assoc Prof Michelle Waycott, JCU, & Len McKenzie, DEEDI
Experiments demonstrated that seagrasses are strongly negatively affected by low light levels (which occur under conditions of poor water quality) and short-term spikes in water temperature to 43°C (temperatures that have already been recorded occurring in the field). In addition, experiments investigating the interaction between light intensity and water temperature indicated that seagrasses experiencing low-light conditions - as occurs with poor water quality - will be more negatively impacted by high temperatures than those in high-light conditions. This is good news, because it indicates that improvements in water quality could reduce and delay some of the impacts of climate change on coastal seagrasses. Different seagrass species are likely to respond differently to climate change, leading to shifts in species composition of seagrass meadows. Interestingly, experiments showed that the northern Australian population of Halodule uninervis appears to exist well within its optimal temperature range, meaning that this species could continue to thrive in the Great Barrier Reef region and potentially even expand its southward range as mean sea temperatures increase. In contrast, Zostera muelleri currently exists near its upper thermal threshold, and a temperature hike of 3°C by 2100 is likely to result in the contraction of this species from the tropical Australian coastline. This could have ecologically significant ramifications, as Z. muelleri is often the only seagrass species able to inhabit muddy habitats.
Report Series No. 25 - Collier, C. and Waycott, M. (2009) Drivers of change to seagrass distributions and communities on the Great Barrier Reef: Literature Review and Gaps Analysis
Project 1.1.3 AIMS De'ath, G. (2008) Spatial distributions and temporal change in distributions of deep water seagrasses in the Great Barrier Reef region
Joint report by AIMS and QDPIF researchers for Project 1.1.3.
Project 1.1.3 JCU Grech, A. (2008) Spatial risk assessment for coastal seagrass habitats in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area: A case study of the Dry and Wet Tropics
Report prepared in December 2008 outlining the results of a spatial risk assessment for coastal seagrass habitats of the Great Barrier Reef from various anthropogenic factors. This study includes habitats in both the dry and wet tropical areas of the World Heritage Area.
Project 1.1.3 QDPIF Rasheed, M. (2008) Coastal seagrass habitats at risk from human activity in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area: Review of areas to be targeted for monitoring
This report by researchers from the Northern Fisheries Centre in Cairns details the results of a workshop involving regional seagrass experts and end users of seagrass monitoring information. The report identifies key coastal seagrass risk areas in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and examines how well the current research program addresses information requirements in these areas. Also included are recommendations for developing the seagrass status and trends program in the future.
Project 1.1.3 QDPIF Coles, R. (2007) Status and Trends of Seagrass Habitats in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area
Report by Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries that provides a summary of the state of knowledge of Queensland seagrasses and which outlines the gaps in knowledge that still remain and issues confronting management agencies responsible for protection and development of coastal waters. |
Throughout our chef's small plate dinner series, Chef Nick Faucher and the Cedar Street Grille team have taken us on quite a diverse culinary ride this year. Chef Nick has also been on his own culinary journey since joining Table 3 Restaurant Group more than 5 years ago. Chef Nick has been learning and mastering his craft while delighting thousands of customers with inspired small plates and special entrees at both The Duck and Cedar Street Grille. This is going to be a special dinner where Chef Nick prepares the dishes that he has found to be both inspirational and, of course, noteworthy for the combination of flavors they present.
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A patron walks into the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C. in 2015.
People identifying their occupations as "student" or "housewife" make up an unusually large share of B.C.'s high-rolling gamblers, prompting B.C.'s Attorney-General to question the source of millions of dollars flowing through the province's casinos.
Gaming officials audited a year's worth of transactions at a single casino – Richmond's River Rock Casino – looking for patterns that could shed light on money laundering by organized crime.
Among the report's findings were housewives whose bets were flagged as unusual because of the amount of cash they were bringing in, sometimes with stacks of bills in small denominations. One student alone bet $819,000 over the course of the year.
"The conspicuous thing about students and housewives is that these are groups of people who don't have any source of income," Attorney-General David Eby said in an interview.
"So for people who don't have any apparent source of income showing up and playing with large amounts of cash, it seems to me this should have been a red flag," he said.
"It's incomprehensible to me why that didn't result in further investigative work, and attempts to ensure that people demonstrated where they got the money from," Mr. Eby said.
"We are doing that now, asking 'where did you get this box of cash from?' – literally a box, or a duffle bag, of cash."
The report from the compliance division of the Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch, publicly posted on the B.C. government's open information website following a freedom of information request, looked at transactions in the year 2015.
It shows that members of the real estate industry topped the list of occupations for River Rock's top gamblers. A total of 135 individuals working in real estate spent more than $53-million at the casino that year.
Housewives, the sixth-largest group on the list of occupations, placed more than $14-million in bets. Of those housewives betting more than $50,000, 87 per cent of those transactions were flagged as unusual.
There were 36 students who placed $2.3-million worth of bets.
The review examined whether the stated occupation of patrons at River Rock's high-limit tables "could reasonably support" their level of gambling.
The auditors also looked at the 52 companies listed by patrons who bet $1-million or more, to determine if those businesses could legitimately provide the income needed to gamble at that level. The findings were inconclusive, because most of the companies are based in China and the names provided to the casino were difficult to track.
Mr. Eby has promised to crack down on money laundering in B.C. casinos, saying the previous Liberal government was reluctant to turn down the taps on a significant source of government revenue generated by casinos. He has acknowledged that his efforts will likely reduce the $1.3-billion that flows annually to the treasury.
Last fall the Attorney-General retained an independent expert, Peter German, to look into money laundering in casinos. Mr. German has since confirmed there are large, suspicious cash transactions washing through casinos in the Lower Mainland. But the scale of the problem and the extent it reaches into the wider economy – such as real estate, drug trafficking or tax evasion – are still under investigation by Mr. German, a former deputy commissioner of the RCMP and Correctional Service Canada.
Mr. Eby said the large number of high rollers who list real estate as their occupation jumped out at him, noting that he has asked Mr. German to examine if there is a connection between money laundering and the real estate sector.
In December, responding to interim recommendations from Mr. German, Mr. Eby promised to boost the presence of government regulators in the eight largest casinos in the Lower Mainland, and to impose new requirements for high rollers to disclose the source of their money.
As well, Mr. Eby has announced changes to give the BC Lottery Corp. more authority to ensure compliance and security, including new powers to directly impose fines on casinos that fail to enforce the new anti-money-laundering directives. Officials with the Lottery Corp. said Monday the new requirements will be phased in this year as existing service agreements with casino operators expire. |
Will NCAA Tournament expand? Don't hold your breath
College Basketball Analyst & Writer
At the NCAA Convention in San Antonio last week, the transformation committee recommended that some sports should consider expanding their postseason tournaments, leading many to turn their thoughts to the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Could we see the Big Dance become even bigger?
Don't hold your breath.
The endorsed proposal by the NCAA's Board of Directors was for any sport that has 200 or more schools participating to consider expanding their fields.
That may or may not happen in other sports. There is zero appetite to do so in men's and women's basketball beyond maybe adding four to get to 72 — and that could be a reach.
The women just added four last season to get to 68, the same as the men. But according to sources, there is no desire or movement to change the field. Remember, the lucrative men's tournament is locked into a television deal with CBS/Turner until 2032. There is an obligation to open up the deal if teams are added. Also, there are real concerns about devaluing the regular season, and frankly, there aren't many more deserving teams.
Adding four to get to 72 could be justified. But that's the max, and would only mean adding two more games in Dayton or any further First Four site. One more thing that may sound trivial but is critical: Adding a max of four more could keep the bracket on one sheet of paper. That's actually pretty important. One of the big reasons the NCAA Tournament has become mainstream is that the bracket fits on one sheet of paper, making it easy to duplicate and spread around among friends, family and workplaces.
That fact shouldn't be taken lightly.
So, don't worry everyone. The NCAA Tournament isn't going to change. At most, it will only be tweaked slightly. And if it were to happen, I can't see it happening in the near term. Could it happen before the new television contract in 2033? Possibly. But don't hold your breath.
Notable nuggets
Warren's departure no surprise: The departure of Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren for the Chicago Bears was sudden, but not shocking. He's an NFL guy and came from the Minnesota Vikings. So going to the Bears makes sense, especially if he has future aspirations of one day competing to replace Roger Goodell as NFL Commissioner. So now what? Well, the Big Ten television deal is done. Expansion is set with UCLA and USC for 2024 and that's likely it for the foreseeable future. Sure, figuring out how to integrate the two L.A. schools won't be easy, but it's all doable.
The obvious choice to replace Warren is ACC commissioner Jim Phillips, the former AD at Northwestern whom many expected to get the job before Warren was hired. Would Phillips come back to Chicago? Maybe. He needs to be asked first, of course. Kerry Kenny, who has done a remarkable job within the Big Ten of coordinating men's basketball and being the point person for the television deals/networks, would also make sense. I'm fairly confident that the Big Ten presidents will look for someone with strong college/Big Ten ties this time after going outside the conference to hire Warren.
Texas candidate?: One person we didn't mention last week when discussing potential candidates to replace Chris Beard at Texas? TCU's Jamie Dixon. The AD at Texas is Chris Del Conte, who hired Dixon at his alma mater TCU when he held that job in Fort Worth. The Horned Frogs are having another solid season and are competing with Texas in the Big 12 to finish in the top four with Kansas, Iowa State, Kansas State and Baylor. I still think interim coach Rodney Terry has a strong chance of landing the job.
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Figuring out the Sun Devils: Arizona State has had one of the strangest seasons of a team that could compete for a high-profile, Power 6 title. The Sun Devils swept the Oregon schools on the road, and are 6-1 in the conference, 15-3 overall under Bobby Hurley. The losses were to Texas Southern in the Pac-12/SWAC Legacy series, a blowout at San Francisco, and a nine-point defeat at home to Arizona. And yet, the Devils host UCLA and USC this week with a chance to end the week in first place in the Pac-12. Not sure anyone saw that coming in the preseason, let alone a few weeks ago.
Most improved?: Kansas State's Markquis Nowell has to be in contention for most improved player in the country. Nowell, who played three seasons at Little Rock before transferring last season to play for Bruce Weber at Kansas State, was an all-Big 12 defensive player last season. This season he should be in the top three for most improved, with Kansas' Jalen Wilson and TCU's Mike Miles Jr. Nowell is averaging 17 points per game, up from 12 last season. He scored 36 in the win at Texas and 32 in the win at Baylor.
Glance at the bracket: My early prediction for top seeds by region right now would be: Houston in Las Vegas, Kansas in Kansas City, Purdue in Louisville and Alabama in New York. The blue bloods have been struggling, but ultimately the NCAA Tournament field will include North Carolina, Duke, Indiana, and, yes, Kentucky. The latter two had significant wins last weekend with Indiana beating Wisconsin and Kentucky knocking off Tennessee on the road.
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During this test, you will receive dexamethasone. This is a strong man-made (synthetic) glucocorticoid medicine. Afterward, your blood is drawn so that the cortisol level in your blood can be measured.
There are two different types of dexamethasone suppression tests: low dose and high dose. Each type can either be done in an overnight (common) or standard (3-day) method (rare). There are different processes that may be used for either test. Examples of these are described below.
Low-dose overnight -- You will get 1 milligram (mg) of dexamethasone at 11 p.m., and a health care provider will draw your blood the next morning at 8 a.m. for a cortisol measurement.
High-dose overnight -- The provider will measure your cortisol on the morning of the test. Then you will receive 8 mg of dexamethasone at 11 p.m. Your blood is drawn the next morning at 8 a.m. for a cortisol measurement.
Standard low-dose -- Urine is collected over 3 days (stored in 24-hour collection containers) to measure cortisol. On day 2, you will get a low dose (0.5 mg) of dexamethasone by mouth every 6 hours for 48 hours.
Standard high-dose -- Urine is collected over 3 days (stored in 24-hour collection containers) for measurement of cortisol. On day 2, you will receive a high dose (2 mg) of dexamethasone by mouth every 6 hours for 48 hours.
This test is done when the provider suspects that your body is producing too much cortisol. It is done to help diagnose Cushing syndrome and identify the cause.
The low-dose test can help tell whether your body is producing too much ACTH. The high-dose test can help determine whether the problem is in the pituitary gland (Cushing disease).
False test results can occur due to many reasons, including different medicines, obesity, depression, and stress.
Chernecky CC, Berger BJ. Dexamethasone suppression test - diagnostic. In: Chernecky CC, Berger BJ, eds. Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures. 6th ed. St Louis, MO: Elsevier Saunders; 2013:437-438. |
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Liesbeeck subway between Liesbeeck West Road and Upper Liesbeeck Road.
A Rosebank subway will forever be a place of fear for four women who have spoken out about how they were mugged there in separate incidents.
The subway links Liesbeeck West Road to Upper Liesbeeck Road, which leads to the Main Road and access to shops and public transport, but those using it take a chance they won't fall prey to muggers.
Chance wasn't on Rosebank resident Priscilla McGregor's side on a Wednesday morning in August last year when a mugger punched her in the face and took her handbag.
Then last month, on Saturday February 17, it was her daughter, Kristen's, turn to get mugged in the same subway.
Kristen, 25, recalls it was about 10am and she was going down the stairs at the subway when a man approached her from the opposite direction.
He was "decent looking" and well dressed.
Priscilla said that what had happened to her and her daughter had left her shaken and she feared for the safety of women in the neighbourhood.
"I feel very insecure and fearful of using the subway again," she said.
She said she had spoken to ward councillor Patrick Chapple after she was mugged and asked him to clear bushes above the subway.
She said Liesbeeck West Road was a quiet area, even during peak times, and women using the subway felt vulnerable to muggings.
Beulah Jurius was mugged in the subway on Thursday November 16. It had been about 1.30pm.
"I don't feel safe in this area anymore, especially going under the subway," she said.
Angelis Abrahams was mugged in the subway one rainy morning in July 2014 when she was seven months' pregnant.
A man stopped her and demanded her bag, while another two men stood lookout.
Then just three months ago, muggers approached her again in the same subway as she was walking with her now 3-year-old child.
But this time it was another woman's turn.
She witnessed the men go on to mug the other woman and felt helpless at not being able to do anything to stop it happening.
Jonathan Hobday, chairman of Mowbray Community Police Forum (CPF), said they were worried about the state of some of the subways and had urged the City and Metrorail to do more to maintain them.
Mr Chapple said he had tabled a motion at this month's sub-council meeting seeking guidelines on how subways could be closed or opened and what public participation was needed for that.
Mowbray police did not respond to questions by the time this edition went to print.
Tree branches above Liesbeeck substation block the view between Liesbeeck West Road and Upper Liesbeeck Road. |
Да́ховский отряд — военное формирование Императорской армии России, участвовавшее в Кавказской войне.
Военные действия
Даховский отряд был создан с целью окончательного завоевания территории Западного Кавказа и очистки данной территории от местного населения адыгов.Даховский отряд был одним из нескольких крупных соединений русской армии завершавших завоевание Западного Кавказа.Части отряда принимали активное участие в военных действиях против черкесов.Войска отряда выжигали черкесские селения в предгорьях и горах,уничтожали посевы,сады,запасы продовольствия,фураж,угоняли скот,рубили просеки и т.д.
Своё название Даховский отряд получил летом 1862 года, noсле занятия долины общества Дахо, являвшегося ключом к завоеванию самой трудной части Западного Кавказа — наиболее возвышенного и сурового пространства по обеим сторонам водораздельного хребта, oт верховьев реки Пшиш к востоку. Отряд сохранял это название по особому ходатайству начальника до его роспуска. В период времени от занятия Дахо до наступления на южные склоны Кавказского хребта, отряд занимался очисткою части упомянутого пространства по северную сторону водораздельного хребта, действуя главным образом против верхних абадзехов.
Командование отряда
Начальник отряда — генерал-майор Гейман
квартирмейстер отряда генерального штаба капитан Духовской
дежурный штаб офицер капитан Тимофеев
Состав отряда
Отряд состоял из 11 1/2 батальонов и имел 6 горных орудий.
3-я рота кавказского саперного № 2-го батальона — штабс-капитан Бирюков
1-й батальон Севастопольского полка и при нем 5-я стрелковая рота — командир подполковник Дове
2-й батальон Севастопольского полка — командир майор Калинин
3-й батальон Севастопольского полка — командир подполковник Лутохин
1-й батальон Кубанского полка — командир майор Эльснер
21-й стрелковый батальон — командующий капитан Пригара
сводно-линейный стрелковый № 3-го батальон — командир подполковник Клюки-фон-Клугенау
1-й батальон Черноморского полка — командир майор Кременецкий
2-й батальон Черноморского полка — командир майор Попов-Азотов
1-й батальон Таманского полка — командующий штабс-капитан Аристов
2-й батальон Таманского полка — командир майор Подрез. Оба батальона Таманского полка состояли под начальством командира полка полковника Габаева.
1-й батальон Бакинского полка — командующий капитан Меркульев
6 орудий горной батареи 19-й артиллерийской бригады — командир батареи полковник Казиков.
См. также
Дах (река)
Даховская
Примечания
Ссылки
Духовской Сергий. Материалы для описания войны на Западном Кавказе. Даховский отряд на южном склоне Кавказских гор в 1864 году. — СПб.: Тип. Департамента уделов, 1864. Текст воспроизведен по изданию: // Военный сборник. № 12. 1864.
Кавказская война
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Game On è una mostra itinerante dedicata alla storia e cultura dei videogiochi, la prima grande esposizione internazionale del suo genere.
Venne allestita per la prima volta nel 2002 al Barbican Centre di Londra, ed è stata ospitata da molte altre città del mondo, come ad esempio Helsinki, Chicago, Hong Kong, San Paolo, Buenos Aires, Tokyo e Roma. Al 2017 aveva accumulato un totale di più di 3,4 milioni di visitatori in tutto il mondo.
Nel 2010 venne lanciata in parallelo Game On 2.0, una versione più ricca nei contenuti. Entrambe le mostre continuano a essere organizzate da Barbican International Enterprises, che le noleggia alle istituzioni ospitanti. Complessivamente sono stati organizzati in media circa due allestimenti all'anno, ciascuno della durata di diversi mesi.
Contenuti
Game On realizza con i videogiochi una mostra d'arte, e punta a far rivivere l'intera storia dei videogiochi attraverso le opere più significative. La mostra è interattiva e molti dei giochi esposti sono liberamente utilizzabili dal pubblico. Le macchine storiche sono accompagnate da pannelli informativi che ne raccontano vicissitudini e aneddoti e da concept art originali. L'evento è rivolto sia agli adulti sia ai bambini.
Il medium dei videogiochi viene mostrato da diverse prospettive. Viene portata l'attenzione anche sul processo creativo dei videogiochi, valorizzandoli come esempi di prodotti di design. Sono analizzate influenze e connessioni con altre forme di intrattenimento, come cinema, animazione e fumetti.
La mostra si è più volte ristrutturata nel corso degli anni, ed è evoluta in modo da essere aggiornata anche con gli sviluppi più recenti del mondo dei videogiochi.
Secondo dati aggiornati al 2018, la Barbican International Enterprises propone la mostra per una durata di almeno tre mesi e un'area espositiva di circa 800-1500 m². Tutto il materiale viene trasportato alle sedi di allestimento in tre container standard da 40 piedi, o quattro nella versione Game On 2.0.
Ideazione
La realizzazione di una mostra a carattere artistico sui videogiochi, ma non su scala internazionale, era riuscita già nel 1989 al Museum of the Moving Image statunitense, con Hot Circuits: A Video Arcade Exhibition, seguita da altre iniziative locali.
L'idea della mostra itinerante venne concepita nel 1998, quando Lucien King della Rockstar Games propose a sir Mark Jones, direttore dell'ente pubblico scozzese National Museums Scotland, di creare un'esposizione sui videogiochi. Il progetto fu subito apprezzato dal Barbican Centre, che collaborò con King e Jones. Ai tempi del primo Game On (2002), il videogioco non era ancora universalmente riconosciuto come forma d'arte, per cui c'era dello scetticismo sull'iniziativa. Comunque l'evento registrò un notevole numero di visite, dimostrando la propria validità, mantenutasi nel tempo.
Game On 2.0 si deve a Neil McConnon, in passato a capo della Barbican International Enterprises, che negli anni ha potenziato la mostra e ne ha favorito l'ascesa a fenomeno mondiale. Fin dall'inizio McConnon era intenzionato a rinforzare il rapporto tra arte e videogiochi, e tentò di creare un contesto culturale ampio ed eterogeneo. Secondo McConnon l'evento serve anche a ricordare agli sviluppatori i tanti collegamenti del mondo dei videogiochi con altri tipi di intrattenimento. In un'intervista del 2015 di The Guardian dichiarò che "per le istituzioni culturali, riconoscere i videogiochi è parte di un progetto più ampio, ossia riconoscere gli aspetti della cultura popolare contemporanea più significativi e con importanti implicazioni, e raggiungere un pubblico più vasto".
Edizioni
Elenco completo delle edizioni (aggiornato a inizio 2022).
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Bibliografia
Collegamenti esterni
Cultura dei videogiochi
Esposizioni artistiche |
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Fleetwood's mermaid makes a big splash at festival
Fleetwood's mermaid on parade
A giant mermaid puppet created in Fleetwood last year was at the head of a parade in Cheshire on Sunday as part of a new Tram Sunday initiatve.
The SpareParts Arts Festival, sponsored by Leftcoast and Wyre Council in Fleetwood for the last three years, has proved a big success and included the mermaid last year.
It was so exciting to see the acts which we are bringing to Fleetwood perform with a huge public audience at another transport festival
Now SpareParts is also a feature at Sandbach's transport festival and Fleetwood's mermaid made a big splash.
Featuring a dozen acts, many of which will be at Fleetwood's Transport Festival (Tram Sunday) on July 16, the Sandbach town park was transformed into an open-air arena of fun and performance.
Originally part of Tram Sunday, this celebration of street art has been funded by Arts Council England's Strategic Touring Fund to visit two other free Transport Festivals in 2017 – Sandbach and Crewe, both in Cheshire.
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Everyone has a hobby, special interest, or area of expertise. Ebay will provide a simple way for you to supply this information to people all over world.
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You do not need to be a writer or have any special skills to accomplish this. I have purchased and sold information products on eBay that were only 1 page in length, that were emailed to me minutes after eBay auction had closed and sold for $19 or more.
If you have sent or received email you can create an information product you can easily sell on eBay.
1. Purchase a low cost tape recorder at Radio Shack if you do not own one.
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Category: Arts & Letters
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: ASA Junior Theorists Symposium 2015
This has been doing the rounds for a few days now but it is an excellent opportunity for serious, theory-orientated early career sociologists. If they can afford it of course.
2015 Junior Theorists Symposium
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 13, 2015
We invite submissions for extended abstracts for the 9th Junior Theorists Symposium (JTS), to be held in Chicago, IL on August 21st, 2015, the day before the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The JTS is a one-day conference featuring the work of up-and-coming theorists, sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA. Since 2005, the conference has brought together early career-stage sociologists who engage in theoretical work.
We are pleased to announce that Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland), Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University), and George Steinmetz (University of Michigan) will serve as discussants for this year's symposium.
In addition, we are pleased to announce an after-panel on "abstraction" featuring Kieran Healy (Duke), Virag Molnar (The New School), Andrew Perrin (UNC-Chapel Hill), and Kristen Schilt (University of Chicago). The panel will examine theory-making as a process of abstraction, focusing on the particular challenge of reconciling abstract "theory" with the concrete complexities of human embodiment and the specificity of historical events.
We invite all ABD graduate students, postdocs, and assistant professors who received their PhDs from 2011 onwards to submit a three-page précis (800-1000 words). The précis should include the key theoretical contribution of the paper and a general outline of the argument. Be sure also to include (i) a paper title, (ii) author's name, title and contact information, and (iii) three or more descriptive keywords. As in previous years, in order to encourage a wide range of submissions we do not have a pre-specified theme for the conference. Instead, papers will be grouped into sessions based on emergent themes and discussants' areas of interest and expertise.
Please send submissions to the organizers, Hillary Angelo (New York University) and Ellis Monk (University of Chicago), at [email protected] with the phrase "JTS submission" in the subject line. The deadline is February 13, 2014. We will extend up to 12 invitations to present by March 13. Please plan to share a full paper by July 27, 2015.
Posted on June 11, 2014 August 19, 2014
A Brief History of Liberty – and its Lessons: A Public 'Ethics Initiative' Lecture by Professor Philip Pettit of Princeton University in NUI Galway.
Distinguished Irish philosopher Prof. Philip Pettit of Princeton University will give a public lecture on 'A Brief History of Liberty — and its Lessons' in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway at 4pm on Tuesday, 17th June 2014. This talk is being presented as part of the President of Ireland's 'Ethics Initiative', and organised by the Power, Conflict & Ideologies Research Cluster of the School of Political Science & Sociology. The President of Ireland, His Excellency Michael D. Higgins, will be in attendance at the lecture. All are welcome and the event is free, but we would appreciate if you could register your attendance here.
Philip Pettit, originally from Ballygar Co. Galway, is L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University, where he teaches philosophy and political theory. He is particularly renowned for his revival and development of republicanism within political philosophy, and for his work on group agency. Among his books are The Common Mind (1996); Republicanism (1997); The Economy of Esteem (2004), with G. Brennan; A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain, with J.L. Marti (2010); and Group Agency (2011), with C. List. Professor Pettit is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of academies in his two countries of citizenship: Ireland and Australia. His recent book On the People's Terms (2012) is published with Cambridge University Press. It is based on the 2009 Albertus Magnus Lectures in Cologne, and the 2010 Seeley lectures in Cambridge. Also forthcoming is a book with W.W.Norton for a general audience, entitled Just Freedom: A Moral Compass for a Complex World. He is giving the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Berkeley in 2014-15.
While in Ireland, Prof. Pettit will also be involved in a number of workshops, based on his work, in UCD, and will give the opening keynote address, on the infrastructure of democracy, to the third annual Garrett Fitzgerald Summer School in Dublin later in June.
Abstract for the lecture is below the fold.
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Posted on May 9, 2014 August 19, 2014
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology
Following Slavoj Žižek's relatively reasonable reflections on world power and Ukraine in The Guardian this week, I was told that someone has uploaded his new-ish documentary The Pervert's Guide to Ideology to Youtube. This installment follows on from his 2006 film The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, which was also directed by Sophie Fiennes. Like the earlier film, this is Žižek at his most accessible, riffing, in his way, on some well known Hollywood films like Taxi Driver, Full Metal Jacket and The Dark Knight, along with some other, less well known offerings. Those familiar with Žižek's shtik will have heard some of the gags and observations before, and, of course, everything is 'ideology at its purist' but nevertheless the film provides an enjoyable enough distraction for those interested in film, theory etc.
Call for Papers – ESA Emotions Network Midterm Conference 2014**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 6TH 2014**
Antony Gormley: FEELING MATERIAL XIV, 2004
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** DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 6TH 2014**
The ESA Emotions Network (RN11) will hold their 6th midterm conference between 25-27 September, 2014. The conference will take place on the island of Rhodes, Greece, in the University of the Aegean. This year, in addition to the usual streams, the conference will feature two special workshops on emotions – one for PhD students (featuring Prof. Helena Flam and Prof. Helmut Kuzmics), and one on the use of literary analysis for sociology of emotions research (again, featuring Prof. Helmut Kuzmics and Dr. Stephanie Bird). The proposed sessions, towards which you might pitch your abstracts, include: Theorizing Emotions; Emotions and: Morality; Globalization; Religion; Civic Action; Power; Literature; Law; Finance; Visuals; Migration-Sensations-Spaces; Post-Atrocity Emotions; and Researching Emotions Empirically. The full call for papers is here: CfP RN 11 Midterm Rhodes final(pdf).
Abstracts not exceeding 300 words should be sent by the 31st of March 2014 to Jochen Kleres (jkleresATposteo.de). Please use "RN 11 midterm submission"in the subject line of your email. Also, please send your abstract indicating whether it is for a specific session listed above. Notifications about the abstracts selected for presentation at the midterm conference will be made by mid-May 2014. Conference fees, more precise conference times, and links to accommodation will be announced then.
I hope to make it this year myself and I urge those working on affect or emotions to submit an abstract. I have been to other conferences with this group and always found them both intellectually stimulating and, perhaps more importantly, filled with interesting, warm and (not least) fun social scientists from all over the world. But hurry up! The deadline is Monday!
Diana Coole talk on May 20th, NUI Galway – on the 'Population Question'
We are delighted to announce the second guest speaker of the Power, Conflict & Ideologies Cluster (School of Political Science & Sociology) this year is Prof Diana Coole of Birkbeck University of London. The talk, based on the 'Population Question' (specifics below), will take place at 3pm on 20th May in the SAC Room/CA110, Cairnes Building (St. Anthony's, ground floor) NUI Galway. All are welcome.
The title of the paper will be 'From Population Control to Behaviour Modification: Liberty, Coercion and Behaviour Modification in Pursuit of Sustainable Wellbeing'. The abstract is below, but a useful introduction to these issues and Coole's perspective on the population question in general may be found in her 2013 paper 'Too Many Bodies? The Return and Disavowal of the Population Question', which is currently open access (as one of Routledge's 'most popular' politics papers of 2013).
The abstract for the Galway talk, and the speaker's bio, are below the fold.
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William Reddy – Do Emotions Have a History? The Example of Romantic Love.
In this fascinating talk William M. Reddy, the William T. Laprade Professor of History and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, expounds on the theme of romantic love. This is the subject of his recent (and award-winning) book called The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900-1200 CE (2012). The talk took place at the University of Melbourne in March of last year, in association with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions. The blurb for the talks is below. Reddy's earlier work, and his concept of 'emotional regimes' in particular has been influential for my own work in the sociology of emotions. I have recently aquired this book and look forward to reading it. The talk offers a reasonable summary of the main arguments, which suggests that the history of love is different in Europe to elsewhere, where love and sexual desire are united. In Europe this was the case prior to, but not after, the 12th century CE, when the medieval notion of courtly love developed in opposition to moral theological definitions of sexual love as an 'appetite of the body' to be suppressed, controlled and subject to discipline. Love became 'split' or bifurcated, as is the Western tendency, into 'bad/profane' sexual desire and 'pure/sacred' sublime love – body and soul. This split did not occur elsewhere, according to Reddy, who uses (primarily) literary examples from Japan, Asia and other cultures to make a comparative ethnography of love. These themes, and much more besides, feature in the talk.
Are emotions hard-wired, or are they subject to cultural or historical variation? In general, emotions are not subject to voluntary control; we do not get to pick which ones we will feel. Some emotions, like fear or anger, may trigger physiological changes. Others, like pride or nostalgia, do not. Are emotions hard-wired? Or are they subject to cultural or historical variation? Or perhaps, some are hard-wired, others shaped by culture?
For decades experts have been divided on the subject. The question of romantic love is a good entry point for appreciating the complexities social scientists face in trying to make sense of emotions. It seems that romantic love, of one kind or another, can be found in almost every part of the world. Is it universal, a product of neurotransmitters interacting with subcortical structures? The record suggests, on the contrary, not only that romantic love has gone through some striking transformations over the centuries, but also that collective action can make a difference in how we feel.
Professor William M. Reddy is the author of the seminal work on the History of Emotions, The Navigation of Feeling: A Framework for the History of Emotions. (Cambridge University Press, 2001). His most recent book is The making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia and Japan, 900-1200CE (University of Chicago Press) was published in 2012.
Special Issue: Emotions & Power
Just a quick note to announce that a special issue of the Journal of Political Power, edited by myself and Prof. Helena Flam, is now available online. The theme of the special issue is emotions and power, and the issue contains some new and exciting social science research addressing these two concepts from a variety of perspectives. We have chosen eight papers that address both concepts, emotion and power in a variety of settings, including education, work organizations, social movements, politics, 'old' and 'new' media, rhetoric and in comparisons in the conceptualization of some core concepts between 'the West' and 'the East'. The diversity of subjects and approaches in evidence in the papers testifies both to the ubiquity of power and emotions in all areas of social life in general, and the importance and illumination gained from exploring these concepts together. The list of contributions, with links, is below. There are a handful of free access eprints to my introduction still available, but the rest of the articles are behind a paywall for now. If anyone wants me to email one or other of the papers just PM or leave a comment.
Heaney, J.G. (2013) 'Emotions and power: a bifocal prescription to cure theoretical myopia', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 355–362.
Flam, H. (2013) 'The transnational movement for Truth, Justice and Reconciliation as an emotional (rule) regime?', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 363–383.
Simpson, A.V., Clegg, S.R., Freeder, D. (2013) 'Compassion, power and organization', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 385–404.
Barbalet, J., Qi, X. (2013) 'The paradox of power: conceptions of power and the relations of reason and emotion in European and Chinese culture', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 405–418.
Wettergren, Å., Jansson, A. (2013) 'Emotions, power and space in the discourse of "People of the Real World"', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 419–439.
Baker, S.A., Rowe, D. (2013) 'The power of popular publicity: new social media and the affective dynamics of the sport racism scandal', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 441–460.
Martin, J. (2013) 'A feeling for democracy? Rhetoric, power and the emotions', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 461–476.
Zembylas, M. (2013) 'Memorial ceremonies in schools: analyzing the entanglement of emotions and power', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 477–493.
Procter, L. (2013) 'Emotions, power and schooling: the socialisation of "angry boys"', Journal of Political Power, 6(3), 495–510. |
Q: Solution to this beta function integral-within-an-integral (Continued) Continuing on from my earlier post, here, I have re-evaluated all the work-up to the integral and managed to re-formulate everything to be slightly different. Now, the aim is to solve
$$
I = \int_0^\infty \frac{t^{\frac{3}{\alpha}-1}}{(1+t)^8}\left(\int_0^t
\frac{t'^{\frac{2}{\alpha}-1}}{(1+t')^8}dt'\right)d t.$$
Once again, we have the condition that $2 \leq \alpha \leq 4$, where $\alpha$ is real. I'm not sure if the same problem stands that the inside integral diverges if $\alpha < 1/2$, as in my previous question or if this has managed to help somehow as the exponent is different.
Thanks!
Edit:
This once again can be written out as the integral of a hypergeometric function,
$$
I = \frac{\alpha}{2}\int_0^\infty \frac{t^{\frac{5}{\alpha}-1}}{(1+t)^8}\space_2F_1(8,\frac{2}{\alpha};\frac{\alpha+2}{\alpha};-t) \space dt.
$$
A: If $\operatorname{Re}(a) > 0$ and $- 1 < \operatorname{Re}(b) < \min (\operatorname{Re}(c)+7,\operatorname{Re}(a) + \operatorname{Re}(c) - 1)$, then
\begin{align*}
& \int_0^{ + \infty } {\frac{{t^b }}{{(1 + t)^c }}{}_2F_1 \left( {8,a;a + 1; - t} \right)dt} = \int_0^{ + \infty } {\frac{{t^b }}{{(1 + t)^{c + 8} }}{}_2F_1 \!\left( {8,1;a + 1;\frac{t}{{t + 1}}} \right)dt}
\\ & = \frac{{\Gamma (a + 1)}}{{7!}}\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {\frac{{\Gamma (8 + n)}}{{\Gamma (a + 1 + n)}}\int_0^{ + \infty } {\frac{{t^{b + n} }}{{(1 + t)^{c + 8 + n} }}dt} }
\\ & = \frac{{\Gamma (a + 1)\Gamma (c - b + 7)}}{{7!}}\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {\frac{{\Gamma (8 + n)\Gamma (b + 1 + n)}}{{\Gamma (a + 1 + n)\Gamma (c + 8 + n)}}}
\\ & = \frac{{\Gamma (b + 1)\Gamma (c - b + 7)}}{{\Gamma (8 + c)}}{}_3F_2 (1,8,b + 1;a + 1,c + 8;1).
\end{align*}
In your case $a=\frac{2}{\alpha}$, $b=\frac{5}{\alpha}-1$, $c=8$ and $2\leq\alpha\leq 4$ fulfill the conditions.
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The sense of identity that a name provides is at the heart of why names are important to us as individuals and business entities. Names are descriptors that allow people to make quick judgments and assumptions about us. While we can understand the harm of assumptions (and the reasoning behind Juliet's assertion), names provide the human mind a fast way to categorize a lot of information in a short amount of time.
If choosing a name would inevitably have external and internal influences, choosing the right one for our new agency was one of the most important decisions we had to make to date. This decision was one that would shape how we were going to be perceived by society and how we would perceive ourselves.
How would our name influence our brand? We had to consider Brand Law #5, "The Law of the Word", which dictates that a brand should strive to own a word in the mind of the consumer.
As a creative agency we had to be unique, and being unique in a world full of creative agencies who had already called dibs on certain words proved to be a challenge. Finding a name that wasn't already taken while concurrently connotating the right message and voice meant we had to dig far and wide for ideas.
We had to simultaneously find a domain name that 1. paired well with our choice, 2. was available, and 3. wasn't exponentially outside our budget.
We all had to agree. With five founding partners all located on different parts of the "purely rational" to "out-there creative" spectrum, we were all driven by different reasonings.
As we struggled to narrow down our ideas, we decided to let internal and external forces intersect. If society was going to judge us based on the name we chose, then why not include them in the process?
Working with Campaign US, we started by choosing five options that we believed we could internalize as we developed our agency's identity. Then, we left it to society to chose one of those.
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Public Boat Launch – ELCA President Update
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In our most recent newsletter the ELCA included an information article concerning a public boat launch that Machar Township has planned to construct on municipal property located at 40 Angus Point Road. Subsequent to that, the municipality issued a tender for the project which is subject to approval from the Provincial Government. Since then the issue has become extremely controversial and numerous submissions have been made to Council in support and in opposition to the project.
The chosen site is currently used primarily as a park for people who are attracted by its shallow sandy bottom which is particularly attractive for those who have rocky shorelines and/or small children. It has also been used to launch small boats into the Lake.
There have been many arguments put forward by those concerned with this issue. Those in favour identify the fact that, unlike most other local lakes, Eagle Lake has no properly constructed public boat launch. While there are three available sites at; Mikisew Park, the Narrows, and Rainbow Bay, all of them can be problematic, and the municipality has no direct control of these facilities. In addition, boat owners must pay a fee each time they use these boat launches. While this might be a minor consideration for lakefront property owners who may put their boats in and remove them only once a year, it can become expensive for other Machar residents, as well as those from other local communities, who would like to boat on the lake throughout the summer.
Machar has applied for funding for this project through a program operated by the Federal Government. The grants are restricted to the improvement of existing facilities and are not provided for new infrastructure projects. Because this property has been used to launch boats, the Township is hopeful that much of the project cost will be covered by Federal funding.
This issue has raised many concerns from opponents, particularly those who live in proximity to 40 Angus Bay Point. They argue that the existing launch sites provide adequate access to the lake. In addition, the proposed site is not on, or near, a thoroughfare, and other locations on the lake should be considered before a decision is made by Council. The relative remoteness of the location suggests it will not be widely used, but the construction would permanently alter the nature of this property. If the launch was to attract increased numbers of boaters, this would increase the possibility of the introduction of invasive species.
It should be noted that an invasive vegetation has already established itself at this site and opponents of the project are concerned that the proposed construction would uproot this and further spread it around the Lake. When informed about the project, the ELCA provided the Township with signage warning about the negative impact invasive species have so it can be posted at the site.
A significant amount of time was spent on this issue at our Annual General Meeting in August. Mayor Carleton spoke about Council's plans and received considerable negative feedback. Subsequent to her presentation, the Almaguin News has carried two articles dealing with the issue and the formal presentations that have been made to Council. At the AGM a number of alternative sites were suggested for a public boat launch.
Currently Council is reviewing the presentations that have been made and a large amount of information that has been provided by proponents and opponents. Nothing can proceed until approval for the project is received from the Province. Representatives from the Ministry of Natural Resources visited the site in late August but have not provided a date for their decision.
The Eagle Lake Conservation Association is not opposed to the construction of a public boat launch on Eagle Lake. This is a public water body and all members of the public have a right to enjoy it, particularly those from our community. At the same time, the proposed site has significant problems that have been thoroughly described to Council. It would be far better to identify a more central location that does not create the same level of environmental concerns and would be more accessible to a greater number of boaters.
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Q: Bernoulli trials are run until 3 successful trials are completed. If probability of a success is 0.3 what is the expected number of failures? Bernoulli trials are run until 3 successful trials are completed. If probability of a success is 0.3 what is the expected number of failures?
My attempt:
Average number of successes in a n trials is $E[X] = np$. We know that the last trial must be a success, so perhaps we could find how many trails were likely made before the last trial in this way $n*0.3=2$, we get $n=6.7\approx 7$, then the answer is 7-2=5. I have no faith in this solution and I would like to see what you think is the correct way to solve this.
A: Let $p$ be the probability of success (here $p = 0.3$), and $q = 1 - p$, the probability of failure (here $q = 0.7$). $X = k$ if there are $k - 1$ trials with exactly $2$ successes and $k - 3$ failures, and the $k$th trial is success.
The probability of exactly $2$ successes in a sequence of $k - 1$ trials is $^{k-1}\text{C}_2\, p^2 q^{k - 3}$ (by using a binomial distribution with $n = k - 1$). Multiplying this with $p$, the probability of success in the $k$th trial, we obtain
$$P(X = k) = ^{k-1}\text{C}_2\, p^3 q^{k - 3},\ k = 3, 4, \ldots$$
$\begin{align}
E[X] & = \sum_{k = 3}^{\infty} kP(X = k)\\
\mu & = \sum_k \dfrac{k(k - 1)(k - 2)}{2} p^3 q^{k - 3}\\
& = \dfrac{p^3}{2}\sum_k k(k - 1)(k - 2) q^{k - 3}\\
\int \mu\, dq & = \dfrac{p^3}{2}\sum_k k(k - 1) q^{k - 2}\\
\iint \mu\, dq\,dq & = \dfrac{p^3}{2}\sum_k k q^{k-1}\\
\iiint \mu\, dq\,dq\,dq & = \dfrac{p^3}{2}\sum_k q^k\\
& = \dfrac{p^3}{2} \left(\dfrac{1}{1 - q}\right)\\
\mu & = \dfrac{p^3}{2}\dfrac{d^3}{dq^3}\left( \dfrac{1}{1 - q} \right)\\
& = \dfrac{p^3}{2}\left( \dfrac{6}{(1 - q)^4} \right)\\
& = \dfrac{p^3}{2}\left( \dfrac{6}{p^4} \right)\\
& = \boxed{\dfrac{3}{p}}
\end{align}$
Thus, the expected number of trials is $\dfrac{3}{p} = \dfrac{3}{0.3} = 10$. Then the expected number of failures is $10 - 3 = 7$.
A: The answer 3/p-3 is correct. Simple derivation: the length of each of the 3 failure runs (delineated by single successes) has a geometric distribution p(1-p)^k with well known expectation value 1/p-1. The expected total length of 3 such (independent) failure runs is then just 3 times that number.
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I called my podcast "Developer On Fire" for a few reasons. The most obvious is that it's patterned after Entrepreneur on Fire – the show that was the reason Developer On Fire came about in the first place. I wrote a bit about the genesis of the idea in my initial blog post sharing that I had started podcasting. Additionally, the theme of the show is the stories of developers who have accomplished something or are inspired to accomplish something. The idea of being a "developer on fire" is something of great significance to me. I'm not always on fire, myself, but I want to be. I love sharing the stories of software people who have tapped into something in the universe that makes what they do fulfilling. I doubt anyone feels that all the time. Perhaps the show is missing something – maybe some piece on a lack of being lit up.
Tripp Lanier is an admirable character. His podcast is one I recommend frequently. Unfortunately, he is focused on other things and doesn't put out new episodes very often anymore. He calls himself a "men's coach," but I don't think what he has to offer is specific to a single gender. In the materials in and around the podcast, he emphasizes being "lit up." It's a term that resonates to my core. I wrote a post on the Simple Programmer site about emphasizing your strengths in your life. Patterned after the teachings of Tripp, the idea is that you are best off doing those things that fill your tank, that make you whole, that bring you joy. The idea is that activities done from obligation sap your life-force, drain your energy, and make you less alive.
Life is short. Derek Sivers did the world the great favor of sharing the awsome formulation "No more yes. It's either HELL YEAH! or no." I've mentioned his blog post a few times on the podcast and completely misidentified him. I didn't know who he was and called him "some kind of internet marketer or something," when in fact he's a person with many interests and skills (among them programming). His conversation with Tim Ferriss was wonderful and he is, in fact, a developer on fire.
Several potential guests with whom I have spoken have expressed not feeling they were of the quality of some of my other guests. It's natural to feel that way. Seeing a list including some of the biggest names in software is intimidating. It's funny that I've done these interviews one-by-one and with close to 100 released (and over 100 recorded), it no longer seems weird that I've talked to Ward Cunningham and Ted Neward. It amazes me that Mark Seemann is listening to the show and giving feedback and cares about the content and Chad Fowler and Bryan Hunter had great things to say about what I'm doing. These are some of my programming heroes. Hearing those things is rewarding. That lights me up.
Like many Test-Driven Development adherents have said – feedback cycles are of utmost importance. Getting positive feedback on my work with the show is enormously rewarding, especially from people I view as having a direct pipeline to a higher form of insight.
Feedback doesn't need to come in the form of positive words from living software legends. In fact, the best place from which it can come is users. Please, communicate with the users of the things you make and find out how they are benefitting from your efforts. This is, in my estimation, the shortest path to being a developer on fire.
Seek feedback, also, from people even more important than your users. If you have a family, understand how your efforts benefit them. But do not let your work get in the way of your family. If you know your priorities and you receive the joy of close relationships, you are certain to achieve rewards not possible from mere accomplishment. The best way to receive joy in relationships is to give. The best way to give in relationships is to receive.
Having had Chad Fowler on the show, the author of The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development, and with an emphasis on lighting a fire under software professionals, you'd think the next word out of my mouth (errr, keyboard) would be "passion." I hesitate to use that term, though. Avdi Grimm addressed the subject of passion in his post: The Passion Gospel. (I'm not completely sure whether to call it a long blog post or a short book, though – it takes some commitment to get through it.) His distaste for the overuse of the term and giving some perspective to the things that really matter is right on the mark. His point regarding passionate behavior equating to emotional outbursts and a source of regrettable experiences is insightful and reflects my reality as well.
Update: Since writing this, I have spoken with Avdi on the podcast.
Thank you Avdi, for a great post (or should I say book?). It is thought-provoking and pushes back on an unhealthy spiritual obsession. That my podcast idea originated with listening to an entrepreneur podcast makes me conscious of the rabid overuse of the word "passion" among business owners. So much of the type of rhetoric heard form communities of founders really reflects this dogma. The emphasis on "following your passion" I've heard from some podcasts and other sources had been starting to feel a little tired and misguided. Avdi articulated well much of my sentiment there – things I was feeling but couldn't fully state.
You can still be enthusiastic and conscientious about your work. You can still love what you do, and care deeply about your team and about creating something of high quality.
And there it is. A developer on fire is not necessarily a passionate programmer. A developer on fire is perhaps not possibly a passionate programmer (as Avdi also says in the post that preceeded The Passion Gospel (which must be read for context, adding to the overall length of the thesis), this is not meant to denigrate Chad Fowler nor his work – in fact it is very much in line with his thinking). Please listen to Chad Fowler on Developer On Fire. He paints a picture of someone excited about his work, but even more excited about his human experience. I love the way he emphasized mindfulness. I like to focus on presence in my life. Though I fail frequently, my ideal to which I strive is that when my declared purpose is a software or technical challenge, that I am fully engaged in that exercise with all my mind, that when I am with my family, my whole consciousness is dedicated, that when I am speaking with a podcast guest, there is no distraction and what they have to say occupies my being.
A developer on fire is a person first and programmer nth. There are more important things in life. But that person is lit up and one of the sources of ignition is using software to solve problems. It's not code for the sake of code, but a focus on the problem domain and the humanity of the user of technology to try to make life better. Avdi's point about the folly and delusions of grandeur common among founders and programmers is well-founded, but I'd still like to think I can and have and will make a positive impact on the quality of existence of at least myself and a few others, hopefully a lot of others. Sharing stories and conversations with awesome people is another part of that impact. Raising a competent, confident, conscientious, and self-sufficient family if an even bigger piece of that impact.
Be mindful of your priorities, young Padawan, and you may be a Developer On Fire yet. |
Have you ever seen a sponsored ad on Facebook that you were actually interested in but for whatever reason you got out of Facebook, or closed it and returned but couldn't find it anymore? I spent hours trying to find out a way to retrieve one that I really wanted to watch again. It was a great offer I really wanted to take.
Many people in forums said you couldn't retrieve it but they were wrong! Heck, even in one of those Facebook support pages, a Facebook employee said you couldn't but boy was she wrong!
It's actually pretty easy. You have to do it in the Desktop version of Facebook though. So on any desktop PC or laptop. If you can't get to one then I recommend the Browser iPhone App by Apegroup.
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Modern Life Is Awkward
Slowly, but surely: It Follows
Posted on October 31, 2015 October 31, 2015 Categories Watching
It's that time of the year again. Leaves are in crunchy piles at the side of the road. There's a chill in the air, which makes my nose run every time I leave the house. And we're gearing up for one of my favourite holidays; All Hallows' Eve. Halloween to you and me.
I'm a horror movie obsessive; I'll watch them all, no matter how potentially awful the trailers make them look. 90% will be disappointing on multiple levels: too ambitious on too little budget, too formulaic, too mindlessly gory. To generate that genuine tingle of fear, that vague unease that makes you look over your shoulder when you pause the movie and get up to go to the bathroom…well, it's tougher than it looks. You can't just throw a bucket of blood at the set and hope for the best.
There's a whole sub-genre devoted to the 'so bad it's good' kind of horror, and I'm not one to frown on a B-movie. I laughed my ass off at Sharknado just like everyone else, and I've seen Piranha: 3DD twice. Watching Paris Hilton get skewered with a metal pipe in House of Wax* was pretty much the highlight of that decade for me. But still, I get excited when something comes along that promises a few genuine scares. Something that will stick with you for the next few days, rearing up from the depths of your subconscious when you find yourself alone in the dark.
That's why I think you should watch It Follows this Halloween. If you're not going out dressed only in your underwear and a pair of cat ears to get wasted and make out with a zombie, then order yourself some delicious takeout and load this up on Netflix. If you did decide to be sociable, then pop this on November 1st while you curl up and nurse your hangover.
You'll find many of the familiar tropes; a bunch of high school kids, white picket fence neighbourhood of New England cul-de-sacs, parents that don't seem to be home all that much. But there's something of a Virgin Suicides vibe, right down to the vintage-y fashions and the washed out colour palette. A girl is found horribly mutilated on a grey, windswept beach, and there are echoes of Hannibal**. Though the technology is up to date, it's hard to place which decade is in the background; this is timeless suburbia, where nothing ever changes.
Our likeable blonde every-girl has a new love interest, but he's acting strangely. Probably nothing a little car nookie can't fix, right? So far so Terror at Make Out Point, but things are about to take a sudden and infinitely more interesting turn. I won't spoil it, but as in every tragedy since man first put stylus to tablet; sex can get you into trouble.
Many horror films start to fall apart once you see the 'monster'. The suspense skilfully built over the opening scenes crumbles when the source of all your fears is far less frightening than your imaginings. It's why shaky-camera classics like Blair Witch and Cloverfield work so well: you never get a good look. The threat of It Follows steps right into the open — it's more solid than most — but it can still never truly be known. It has the unnerving presence of the shapeshifter and the slow, focused movement of the revenant. It takes a leaf from the Japanese tradition of the vengeful demon, and a haunting that can be passed on like a virus.
All this adds up to something that feels fresh and understated, but nonetheless chilling. And the ending is the perfect dramatic question mark, an ode to the classic 'Happy Ever After…or is it?' For a horror fan, it's thrilling to find a film that so thoroughly understands the framework of the genre, but can elevate it to something more challenging. There's an ethical dilemma at the heart of the movie that creates just as much tension as the looming menace of a curse. If you're looking for a slightly smarter kind of scare, then this is for you. Just be careful. You might not be able to shake it off.
*Um…spoiler alert? In case that's not the only thing you know about this movie.
**The TV version, that is. And if you haven't seen this, and you love all things Gothic, add it to your list.
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I've been dying to see this film (hurr, hurr, poor choice of words)
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Several weeks ago I made a fun trip to Chicago to collaborate with one of my favorite humans ever! Trina of La La Lovely, who I have the privilege to call my dear dear friend, needed to update her living space. She already had great pieces in her home but needed some editing done. We talked and decided that this would make for a perfect joint project. So I headed over to Chicago and we tackled this space for 3 full days. Together we thrifted, shopped, arranged, laughed, arranged some more and created the perfect living space for her beautiful family! Corbyn Tyson produced this awesome video below, showing the process of this project.
I can't even really pin point what my favorite are of this room is. I do know what my favorite detail is! It's the fact that everything used in this space has a story. We didn't just buy all new products to make the room look cool. We used items that Trina had from past travels and even took things from other rooms in her house. We also thrifted items and DIY'd items. There are pieces that were bought new to bring a fresh look to this space. It's the perfect collaboration of old and new!
This room is one of my favorite completed rooms to date! It's the perfect combination of cool, whimsical, stylish, relaxed and lived in trendy. Trina truly was the best client/partner that anyone could ask and wish for! And that amazing day bed?? It was custom made by adams and august. It's pretty perfect.
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Just Another Day In Paradise – Chhattisgarh, India
JATMAI AND GHATARANI TEMPLE & WATERFALL – Less than 100km southeast of the capital, Raipur, the Jatmai Temple commemorates Goddess Durga in a stunning lush green setting. The small white shrine is swaddled between a dense copse. The devotion to the spot by the religious and the weekend picnickers is for reasons much more than spiritual quest; after all, the magnificent Ghatrani Waterfall lies just 25km from here, making it an easy addition to the trip. This is the closest place from Raipur city where the state reveals its extraordinary beauty and biodiversity.
The waterfall doesn't drop in a deep gorge or plummet from a rocky cliff-side. Instead, it playfully gurgles over the mildly undulating rockscape. This gives easy access to tourists, to plonk themselves in the middle of the rocks and enjoy the view from the cool confines of a watery perch. The gentle stream of water, intense greenery and the intrigue of the jungle make a compelling reason to sit here for hours. When the excitement of the tourists dips and the surroundings are alive with sounds from the, the Hill Myna (state bird of Chhattisgarh) can be heard reclaiming her abode.
Tirathgarh Waterfalls, Jagdalpur
KANGER VALLEY NATIONAL PARK – Rich and rugged mountains hiding a network of stunning caves within them, thundering waterfalls and the verdant topography of one of the densest forests of the world are hard to miss when in Chhattisgarh. The Kanger Valley National Park lies in the Bastar region off Jagdalpur in the southern part of the state. With a sizable spread of semi deciduous swathes of forest cover, the national park is home to tigers, leopards, deer, sambar, barking deer, jackals, sloth bears, wild boar, striped hyena, crocodiles and snakes who roam the untouched patches with abandon.
Amongst the lush forests, there are two highlights that draw the traveller more than anything else in this enchanted land; the Kutumsar Cave and Kanger Dhara. To reach the Kutumsar Cave, one has to drive past Dhurva (tribals) settlements into the forest and arrive at a wide clearing in the middle. From here narrow steps wend down to the Kutumsar Cave. The network of Kutumsar, Dandak and Kailash caves were found by a forest official Mr. Bhatiram Taram in 1995. Of these Kutumsar Caves are open for travellers. The narrow entrance opens up with a wide hall, 300 meters in length.
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From New York Times-bestselling author Ace Atkins comes the graphic novel adaptation of his Edgar Award-nominated story featuring New Orleans music historian/detective Nick Travers. It's Christmas in New Orleans. For many, it's the best season of the year. But instead of spending time with the people he cares about, Nick Travers is investigating the death of his friend, Fats. At first it appears that Fats took his own life, but Nick quickly discovers that the saxophone is missing from Fats' apartment. He soon learns that there is more to the story than a simple suicide, and the woman who Fats had been paying to keep him company may hold the answers.
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Keir Bloomer, Doctor of the University
"Keir Bloomer is one of the leading authorities in Scottish educational policy and practice"
Thus began Mark Laing's laudation yesterday, in the ceremony at the Usher Hall that gave Keir the degree of Doctor of the University, honoris causa. The award was "for services to Scottish education and for his significant contribution to the strategic development of Queen Margaret University".
For nine years he has served the University Court, from 2011-16 as its Chair. In his acceptance speech, he admitted to having put in many more hours than for his first degree. Mark, who is Vice-Chair of the Court, commented particularly upon Keir's "incisive and self-deprecating sense of humour ... [and how he] somehow managed to leave everyone feeling that their view had carried the day".
Here is Petra Wend, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, making her thoughtful address to all the graduands. She congratulated them and their families gracefully, and also emphasised the importance of personal qualities, not merely academic achievement. She stressed the importance of self-confidence and adaptability, and of being able to admit calmly when you don't know. She didn't refer explicitly to impostor syndrome, but this article has good advice on how to handle it. It is more prevalent than you think.
If Keir was suffering from impostor syndrome, he didn't reveal it. It was an unreservedly happy occasion, enhanced by having daughter and sister-in-law, Lindsay, present. Here he is afterwards in our garden, with Helen:
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Kraków: a quintessentially European city
Kraków is a quintessentially European city. Firmly in eastern Europe, in latitude about halfway between Warsaw and Budapest, it reminded me of Europe's turbulent 20th century history at every street corner. I hadn't been there since 1970, when it was challenging to reach, closely controlled from Moscow by the Soviet regime. But even so, we managed somehow to see Da Vinci's "Lady with an ermine", the most important painting in Poland, and a potent symbol of Renaissance Europe.
I returned to Kraków this week, flying easily from Edinburgh by easyJet, to see printers whose 4 million-euro printing presses sounded suited to Rucksack Readers' needs. Capitalism is alive and well in Poland, with retail parks, shopping malls and global brands. The contrast from 46 years ago was remarkable.
Traditional and modern jostle in stark contrast. Touts try to tempt you to sightseeing rides in Krakow's old town in white coach-and-pairs pulled by richly decorated horses - failing which, how about a Segway? Its transport stops feature LED information boards that accurately predict ancient trams with welcome low fares (from about 80p). But Kraków still has the largest market square in all Europe, with its medieval Cloth Hall and an hourly bugle call from St Mary's Basilica - from the higher of its two towers, below left:
Inside St Mary's is an extraordinarily colourful interior, and its colossal altar is by Veit Stoss, constructed between 1477 and 1489, made of painted oak and linden wood and undergoing painstaking refurbishment.
Tourism is everywhere in the centre, but some destinations are sombre reminders of the Holocaust: Schindler's factory, the Jewish Ghetto and Auschwitz-Birkenau. But Poland is an EU member, German is widely spoken and Poland is Germany's most important trading partner. As a country, it has turned its face decisively towards Germany and the West, away from Russia.
The colleague I went to meet is Polish by nationality, but he has strong family connections to Austria. He is just old enough to remember how, as a child, visa requests to Austria had had to be made six months ahead, and the journey took several days because of delays at both borders. Nowadays, such visits can be made impromptu, and the journey takes him less than four hours.
After finishing my business, I visited Wawel Royal Castle where for centuries Polish kings were crowned. I went around the Wawel cathedral with the Chopin medallion in its crypt and statues of local hero and saint, John Paul II. Most satisfyingly, I managed to revisit the Da Vinci portrait - one of very few surviving oil paintings. The Duke of Milan commissioned it in 1490 as an allegory of his love of his young mistress, Cecilia Galleriani. The portrait still has great freshness and its realistic lighting seems to illuminate its attractive 17-year old subject in three dimensions.
And after a dinner that compensated for having missed lunch, I still had time for the Chopin concert, in Legendary Wierzynek on the Market Square. Performed by graduates of Kraków and Katowice Music Acadamies, these recitals are given daily. Agnieszka Kawula looked young enough to be my grandchild, but she gave a spectacular performance, technically brilliant but musically mature.
And if I hadn't already felt strongly that the UK should remain in Europe, my visit to Kraków would have left me in no doubt.
Posted on June 16, 2016 9:24 PM | Permalink
Delighted damp dog
This is two-year-old Toby, the epitome of joy. Here is the extreme, exuberant delight of a damp dog who has just been swimming in the Clyde. His afternoon pack walk included a couple of Newfies, his pals Penny and Luka, and half a dozen other dogs. His swim took him out of his depths for the first time ever, and he is very pleased with himself.
Blithely carefree and happy-go-lucky to a fault, he makes us laugh and gets us out of doors to walk and talk. What more can you want of a dog?
Profound thanks to Cowal Canine Services, who not only provided the dog care and the photo, but also thus allowed me to go sailing on the Holy Loch with my friends on a sunny afternoon.
Posted on May 26, 2016 2:40 PM | Permalink
Ethan, echolocation and exceptional talent
Ethan, aged 10, lives in Glasgow and has exceptional musical talent, memorising a Beethoven piano sonata movement before he was 4 years old - although his hands were then too small to play the octaves, his mother explained. Now he plays Rachmaninov preludes, and his own compositions - listen here (all photos courtesy of BBC Radio 4's Seriously documentaries). So when he won a place at St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh against stiff competition, he faced a challenging daily journey from home in Glasgow, by train across central Scotland to Haymarket station, finally to the school at Coates Hall. In today's world, many 10-year-olds would find that challenging. And Ethan had been home schooled all his life, because Ethan has been blind since birth.
This colossal challenge meant that Ethan needed help. Enter Daniel Kish, an American adult who has been blind since birth. He has developed an extraordinary form of echolocation using tongue-clicks, which he teaches to other blind people to help them to navigate the unseen world. He uses subtle variations in the click-echoes to detect the shapes and locations of obstacles. Watch him in action, identifying playground equipment, distant buildings and a tall tree here. It's uncanny - as if he has learned to see through his ears.
The story of how Daniel taught Ethan to navigate through the external world and around St Mary's was told on radio last Sunday in the Seriously series: listen here to the full story of Batman and Ethan. Daniel's teaching of Ethan includes a challenging climb of Dumyat (a 418-m peak in the Ochils), and promotes enormous independence and self-confidence. It culminates with his solo performance at the school concert. The whole programme was written, produced and presented by my talented niece Helena Merriman.
Posted on February 21, 2016 9:15 AM | Permalink
The singular title is a clue: this film is the story of one woman, not of the fragmented, divisive factions that comprised the suffragette movement. Maud Potts was a poor working woman, lacking any of the resources of the affluent Pankhurst family. Played persuasively by Carey Mulligan (above, courtesy of Allstar/Focus Features), she worked in a Bethnal Green laundry in punishing conditions. The photography of early 20th century London scenes is credible and compelling, and it makes a thought-provoking evening viewing, albeit with some violence that is uncomfortable to watch. But it happened.
The film is splendidly crafted, with great supporting actors including Meryl Streep, Anne-Marie Duff and Helena Bonham-Carter. The screenplay, production and direction seem to be all-female but this is not a strident film, it is sober, factual, some might say almost "masculine" in its approach.
The film charts Maud's somewhat haphazard recruitment into the women's movement and how she is radicalised by brutal treatment in that male-dominated world. Her transformation from downtrodden wife and worker to effective campaigner exacts a terrible price, which she pays through her husband's savage reaction, the removal of her son, her imprisonment and violent force-feeding.
The film culminates with Maud as a witness to Emily Davison's still-controversial death in a last-minute decision at the 1913 Derby. Although this attracted worldwide press attention, arguably it wasn't until women had worked so hard in World War 1 that male political opinon started to shift. In 1918, a minority of women were given votes, but it wasn't until 1928 that British women gained suffrage on equal terms with men.
In a world that has now largely accepted women not only as voters, but also as political leaders, movie-goers may be baffled to learn that male prejudice was so deeply entrenched, so recently. But countries such as Switzerland and Portugal caught up with equal suffrage only in the 1970s, and in South Africa black women (along with black men) were enfranchised only in 1994. In Saudi Arabia, the first women registered to vote in August 2015.
If you are female and haven't always used your vote, please watch this film. If you are male, please watch it whether you vote or not. It tells a very important story that deserves to be remembered.
Posted on October 13, 2015 8:33 PM | Permalink
Ingliston Revival: Sandy Bloomer on radio and TV
Yesterday began by listening to son Sandy on Good Morning Scotland, speaking about the Ingliston Revival that he and his team organised for this weekend. The track opened 50 years ago and became Scotland's main centre for motor racing. It hosted many powerful cars and famous drivers, including Jackie Stewart and the late Jim Clark, before it closed in 1994.
The weekend is not about racing, however, but more a festival to celebrate motor sport and Ingliston's history. The public will be able to drive on this newly renovated track in a choice of cars. Sandy's interview will be on iPlayer for the next 28 days here: scroll along to 1 hour 56 minutes and catch the next four minutes.
Later he was on STV's Fountainbridge Show: there is footage of his interview and of the cars in action from about minute 5 to minute 7, but available for only a few more days.
The day ended with a spectacular dinner, with speeches by Lee McKenzie (BBC's Formula One reporter) and Ben Collins (Top Gear's original Stig) who arrived in style by helicopter. We were lucky enough to have the wonderful racing driver Tom Brown on our table, with his daughter Fiona who runs Cambuslang Karting. The auction raised thousands of pounds for the Jim Clark Trust, and this event looks set to be an annual success.
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Posted on September 12, 2015 3:41 PM | Permalink
The grandest mass of all
Of all the requiems in the classical repertoire, Berlioz's is the grandest. Entitled Grand Messe des Morts, it was composed for performance in 1837 in the huge church of Les Invalides (photograph courtesy of Victor Grigas). It demands resources on a enormous scale and, as a result, it is seldom performed. It is scored for a full orchestra (including four sets of timpani) and enhanced by four off-stage brass bands, a full chorus and solo tenor. We know this music well from listening to the LSO recording on CD, and were intrigued to know how the live performance would differ (Usher Hall, 22 August). The answer is night and day.
We were lucky enough to be sitting in the Grand Circle, where three of the four brass bands (trumpets, trombones and a tuba) were stationed in the aisles, the fourth aloft in the organ gallery. The effect of the brass ensembles in the Dies Irae and Rex tremendae was electrifying. No recording can convey the spine-tingling excitement of these relays of fanfares which build the sense of drama, doom and torment.
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra with precision and economy, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus celebrated their 50 years by singing their hearts out and the tenor soloist Lawrence Brownlee was splendid. How terrifying it must be to sit waiting for so long for the Sanctus before starting to sing. Berlioz' orchestration is wonderfully varied and this music has been ringing in my ears ever since.
The evening led to reflections of a different kind, about how delicate the Festival organisers' financial balancing act must be. Even if you discount the excellent vounteers of the Festival Chorus, the number of professional musicians in the Berlioz is daunting: conductor, tenor soloist, chorus master and an orchestra of 120 musicians. Yet the Festival has to sell this concert at the same ticket prices as the previous evening, when pianist Lang Lang filled the Usher Hall: number of professional musicians just one!
Edinburgh Festival Chorus
Posted on September 2, 2015 3:39 PM | Permalink
Closing the gap in Scottish education: is it possible?
Gary Robertson (photo courtesy of the BBC) interviewed Keir on Good Morning Scotland yesterdayday, shortly after he talked to Larry Flanagan (EIS) and before Iain Gray (Labour Party spokesman for education). Now that Nicola Sturgeon has proposed that her government be judged by its success in "closing the gap", there has been a flurry of interest in Keir's comments on this issue. On yesterday's phone-in with Kaye Adams, there was also plenty of confusion about what it actually means.
He is talking about the attainment gap between pupils from areas of deprivation and poverty compared with those from affluent areas. The easiest way to do it, wholly unacceptably of course, would be to dumb down or hold back pupils with greater educational success. To some extent the implementation of Curriculum for Excellence and limitation of the number of Highers has already done this, albeit by accident. The hardest time to close the gap is when you are already committed to improving the attainment of all pupils. As Keir pointed out, abolishing the gap (the First Minister's declared goal) would means improving the performance of the weakest pupils at an astonishingly fast rate.
He reminds us that children from poorer areas are already a full year behind the more favoured pupils before they even start school. Given the failure of various honest attempts to "close the gap" in Scottish education over the past 70-odd years, Nicola Sturgeon has certainly taken on a massive challenge. The programme is available via iPlayer here and Keir's interview lasts for five minutes, starting after about 1 hour and 37 minutes.
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Posted on August 21, 2015 3:37 PM | Permalink
Seven: music, movement and Mahler
Seven was a brilliant combination: the RSNO playing Mahler's 7th symphony and the extraordinary Ballett am Rhein performing modern dance, on occasion ensemble but mostly a series of vignettes, in close and poignant sympathy with the music. Some episodes were ardently romantic, others violent and disturbing, all beautifully danced by this wonderfully talented corps. Their footwear ranged from barefoot to en pointe to (surprlsingly) leather-booted. Enjoy a sample of this tour de force on YouTube.
Martin Schläpfer, when he took over Ballett am Rhein in 2009, abolished the traditional hierarchy within a dance corps: all 47 dancers are treated and paid equally, and this was manifest in the distribution of roles and curtain calls. The dancers were full of grace and virtuosity, and the unbroken 90-minute performance was enthralling. Schläpfer was inspired by World War 2 and referred to Jewishness and exclusion in his interview, but says "in order not to become pretentious, you have to stay abstract".
Judith Mackrell (The Guardian) was patronising in her praise:
Schläpfer choreographs in blunt emphatic bursts that illuminate the surface of the score but not its architecture. As a result, Seven doesn't add up to a truly compelling interpretation. I sometimes wished the music, played with brio by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, could be left to do the storytelling on its own.
I find that a very pretentious criticism: she wants choreography that "illuminates the architecture of the score" and if she doesn't realise that her metaphor mixes media as well as meanings, she should perhaps just have closed her eyes and enjoyed the RSNO's performance. We kept our eyes open and found the synergy superlative.
Postscript: I am pleased to see that the Scotsman's Kelly Apter is much more generous here.
Ballett am Rhein
Martin Schläpfer
Festival Figaro
A few days ago we caught the opening night of Figaro in which Ivan Fischer conducted the Budapest Festival Orchestra and directed a fine cast of singers: we were expecting a concert performance but actually this was an innovative "staged concert", with playful comedy and intelligent supra-titles. Hugh Canning (Sunday Times) was later very dismissive of the "rudimentary production" and "ugly costumes" but I disagree with him. Fischer placed the orchestra on-stage, instead of in a pit. By involving himself and the instrumentalists in the action, he fused music with drama. As he said "Mozart's music is extremely theatrical and his theatre is extremely musical"
The plot of Figaro is full of mutations (gender, countess to maid, boy to soldier) and implausible changes of costume and identity. Mozart operas are normally played po-faced, but this was a brilliant reminder that "opera buffa" is meant to be funny. I don't remember audience laughter-out-loud in any previous Figaro, and this production felt authentic. The orchestra and singers were splendid, with a specially memorable countess in Miah Persson (photo courtesy of www.wsj.com).
And tonight we have just enjoyed the Budapest Festival Orchestra again playing Mozart's Requiem. Miah Persson starred again as the soprano soloist and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus were magnificent. The range of styles in his final masterpiece is extraordinary, ranging from old-school vocal counterpoint and fugue (Kyrie eleison) to the more operatic treatment of Dies irae and the lyrical Benedictus. It was a convincing demonstration that this orchestra does serious Mozart extremely well, too.
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'New Britain – Report of the Commission on the UK's Future' and what it might mean for local government
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The enablement function is shifting - Christi Loucks on 'all-encompassing' revenue enablement
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Sales enablement quickly solidified itself as an essential function in well-run organizations. Now, almost as rapidly, enablement is evolving to take the entire revenue-generating side of organizations under its supportive wing.
Few are better placed to speak about it than Christi Loucks, current Head of Revenue Enablement and Operations at SecZetta Inc.
Formerly Director of Revenue Enablement at Chainalysis, and Senior Manager for Sales Enablement at Ping Identity, Christi has seen the evolution happen firsthand, and knows exactly how to approach the respective enablement branches.
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The difference between sales and revenue enablement
How content and training differs between revenue-generating teams
Creating great training and enablement content
Making training stick
Q: What's the difference between sales enablement and revenue enablement as you see it?
A: The enablement function is shifting. It started by focusing on account executives and quota-carrying sales reps, and I certainly spend a lot of my own time with those teams.
But the reason that my title is called revenue enablement is that the work that I do in enablement spans beyond just the quota-carrying reps. We work with customer success, with the business development team, pre-sales engineers, all of who are driving revenue but not necessarily sales reps by title.
I would say that's definitely the difference in my mind, between sales and revenue. Revenue is more all-encompassing, and addresses all the different pieces of the organization that brings dollars in.
Q: What's different in the training and content that you deliver to your quota-carrying sales team and customer success team?
A: I think it comes down to looking at the buyer cycle and when those different teams step into the process.
Sales reps are obviously involved from the very beginning. From when the sales development rep hands over an opportunity to the seller, the seller takes it from there and runs all the way to the close/won status.
I would say customer success certainly plays a part in the latter end of the sales cycle, as the rep is figuring out how they're going to be successful with the product and talking through all the different offerings that we have when it comes to the post-sale portion of the cycle.
But customer success truly steps in once the deal is closed and really ensures that our customers are happy with the product, successful with the product, that they're using it in the way that they intended long past the time the opportunity is close won in Salesforce.
When you look at it that way, it kind of helps to determine how to train and what to train on. Sellers need to be articulating value from the very beginning, they need to be negotiating from the very beginning, they need all the tools and resources to get that deal won.
Customer success needs many of the same things, but they're really focused on the nurturing, the customer satisfaction, and so on. So they just need different skills, different resources to be able to do that effectively. That being said, I would say there is a lot of overlap.
Q: What are your tips when it comes to creating effective training and enablement content?
A: The best tip that I have for enablement practitioners who are creating or delivering training, is to really focus on making it engaging and fun. Sellers and those in the revenue organization are typically very focused on their quota, and on bringing in revenue for the organization.
Training doesn't always look like it helps in that particular endeavor. The more you can really show salespeople that training can assist them not only with their job, but can also be fun, that really helps make those types of programs successful.
It makes them effective in helping salespeople take what they learned in theory and put it into practice.
I've done some ridiculous things when it comes to making training fun, like wearing costumes, creating wacky videos that go along with it. Maybe it's just part of the creative process for me, but I think the more you can really grab attention within those training programs themselves, the better off they'll be for the team.
Q: In terms of reiterating and reinforcing the learning points, how do you go about doing that?
A: I think, in general, what I try to do is take a look at the processes and cadences that exist that salespeople are used to.
Let's say we're doing a training on negotiation, and we want to reinforce some of the concepts post-training. I would then go back into Salesforce, I would go back into account reviews, I would go into opportunity reviews, I would go back into all of the cadences that our sellers are used to, and see where I could potentially reinforce those concepts along the way.
I think it works, not in all instances, but in many, to embed those reinforcing mechanisms into what exists today as opposed to creating entirely new cadences or new learning systems or what have you.
Sellers are usually, or hopefully, have standardized processes, and they know what to expect as they go along the sales cycle. The more you can just push reinforcing items into that, I think the more natural it is. That's really how I always approach it.
Q: It's important to align the sales process and the after-sales process with customer needs on the customer's journey. What's best way to do that in your view, and do you see a disconnect between the two processes?
A: I'll tell you my observations. What I'm seeing now is that it's a much less linear process when it comes to the customer's buying cycle. It's not that people just know they have a problem and they go, boom, boom, boom, through these steps and they find a solution.
There's a lot of internet research upfront. There's a lot of circling around through networks into finding recommendations and then having internal conversations and then going back to do more research.
It's a more fluid process and potentially circular, as opposed to going from point A: I need a solution, to point B: I have a solution.
I've seen some sellers get frustrated with that. I think that sellers have a very rigorous sequential process that they go through, and it's like: "Okay, I'm in Salesforce, we're in the discovery phase, I flip my opportunity to whatever the next stage is."
They go through these stages and I think it can be a conflict when the sellers' stages don't necessarily align with that buyers' winding path towards a solution.
I think it's all about making sure those touchpoints add the most value to the customer, so you stand the best chance of them seeing your product as an opportunity.
That way, when the buyer and the seller do connect, they get maximum value from that conversation, those touchpoints that you have are no longer always about you selling something to them, or you advising them on how your solution can solve all of their problems.
It's about providing something valuable that they're not getting from your competitors. Maybe it's teaching them something that they need to know about whatever solution it is you're selling. But I also think it's about forming a trusted relationship, and adding value wherever you can.
Q: What kind of metrics and measurements do you use to demonstrate the impact of revenue enablement at your company?
A: This is such an interesting topic for me, and one that I'm constantly exploring. When I first started enablement, I started reporting on the number of people taking training, on new hires who had completed everything on their new hire checklist, or what have you.
After thinking it through, those activities are good and those numbers are good to show, but they don't necessarily point directly to the revenue.
I can't necessarily say that because I did X, Y, and Z in a training program, that seller was able to close a deal. There are so many other factors that go into sales success, like, what's your territory? If I'm a new rep, what open opportunities did I just walk into? What's the competition in that territory? There are just 1000 factors.
When I was at Chainalysis, I partnered with our sales ops team. What we did was use, mostly from the sales enablement perspective, the sales velocity equation.
That's your number of opportunities, your win rate, your average deal size, and then the average deal length, the cycle. What that does is it spits out a number that you assign to an individual seller. What I then care about is picking apart that sales velocity equation.
If I see that we are consistently low on the win rate, or if I see certain patterns related to it, that informs me that maybe I need to go back and do more competitive positioning training. If we see that sales cycles are taking a really long time, is there an opportunity for us to go in and do more training on moving sales through the process effectively and efficiently?
I think it informs a lot of our activity, as sales enablement practitioners, and then what we can do is report that up to the executive level and say: "Here's what we saw and here's what we're doing to accommodate it."
Q: How do you see sales and revenue enablement transforming over the next few years?
A: I think that in sales enablement we will always be focused on onboarding, on content, on continuous education, training, we will always have these main buckets that we focus on.
But as the world shifts, as technology shifts, and as buyers continue to transform with their knowledge of what's going on in the world, I think that we'll have to really tap into soft skills that I've seen fall second in priority to all of those other buckets that I mentioned.
We need to focus on teaching our sellers our value proposition, our messaging, our competitive positioning, our sales process and our opportunity qualification. All of those things are standard, they won't go away. But we're going to have to add to it.
Things we're going to have to add are probably even harder to understand, like how do you really connect with your buyers? How do you become a trusted consultant in a world where there's information parity, and everyone has access to much of the same thing? I think that as we evolve that's the direction we're headed.
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I couldn't find better words to describe my poem even if I wanted.
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That's a powerful poem filled with darkness, a way that we were not made to live. I thank God that if we choose too, there is a much better way to live. We only need the faith the size of a mustard seed….which is pretty small I'm told. With that faith we could be bathe in light, isn't that awesome!!
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How an Entrepreneurial Graduate is Battling University Loneliness
Emma Ames
Founder and CEO of Umii, Georgia Wheadon, launched her app to try to combat on-campus isolation, a nationwide issue that has worsened during the pandemic. She now works with several universities across the country to create friendships and connections on an interface that is safe, secure, and student friendly.
It is the time of year again where students are filling up campuses, ready to take on the next academic year and for many, the next stage into adult life. University is often an amazing experience that leads to lifelong friendships, excellent skills, and the degree that can help many launch their careers. But for some, moving to an entirely new place can be overwhelming and isolating. With mental health being an extremely prevalent issue amongst young people today, especially in the aftermath of the pandemic, establishing a strong support system or knowing how to reach out to people can be challenging.
Wheadon is all too familiar with this side of university. After growing up very closely with her twin sister, the pair chose to go to separate universities. While Georgia's sister seemed to thrive during her first year, Georgia herself struggled to make connections with the people around her.
"I had an accident early on which meant I was temporarily housebound and as my course was Joint Honours, the lectures I was finally able to attend were made up of groups of people who had already formed friendships based on their own courses. My confidence and then my mental health suffered, which was exacerbated as my old school-friends shared their own excellent university experiences on social media."
Wheadon was able to make the friendships she wanted in later years of her degree but over 40% of dropouts claim to have left their courses due to social issues or mental health problems. She realised she was far from the only one who struggled with establishing new friendships. After a year in industry, working for innovation company, We Are Nova, Wheadon was determined to find a solution to help people build the connections they both want and need.
"I don't want anyone to have the same experience that I did. I want Umii to act as a preventative measure to isolation and loneliness, by giving students a place for lasting peer to peer relationships to be built."
So, let's talk about Wheadon's creation: Umii. Umii is a social platform that partners directly with universities and focuses purely on cultivating friendships. It's simple to use; students download the app, sign up, select their university, and create their profiles, adding their degree course, societies, and interests. Umii stands out from other apps of its type because of its working relationships with universities, allowing students to be safe in the knowledge that the people they are connecting with should be attending the same university as them. The app is already supported by University of Bolton, UCLan SU, Essex SU and the University of Hull. It was a challenge for the small team at Umii to be taken seriously by large educational institutions and earn the trust of establishments to prove that the app would be a significant benefit for their student population.
"We needed to prove our legitimacy and show how we could add value. We did this by offering potential customers three-month trials so they could see the benefits for themselves. They worked really well, Essex SU saw well over 8,000 student connections in those three months."
And the app is always developing. Wheadon constantly communicates with student unions and users for feedback on how the app can be improved, with potential new features or additional services.
"It's brilliant to see how engaged people are, and we're delighted to look at all suggestions. We do have to stay loyal to the whole purpose of Umii though, and make sure that we don't stray too far into the territory of other apps. We are about connecting students to prevent isolation and loneliness, but we are a small team, and it takes time to consider the features we could add to enrich the experience. It's a challenge, but a welcome one!"
Wheadon is not dreaming small for her creation. The ultimate goal for her is to make Umii into a standard part of student life across the country and eventually, around the world. The student experience is not purely academic; social events, extracurricular activities, student organisations, and clubs are inherent parts of university life and Wheadon is determined to help young people establish those friendships, despite lockdowns or social distancing.
"I'd like Umii to be one of the first thing students think about when they get to University. Get to your room, download the app. It should be part of the whole arrival process. As well as onboarding more universities, we are considering ways in which the app can create face-to-face meetings, with bespoke student events and offers."
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Ann is right. Beyond right. And on National Proposal Day, I think it's only fitting to remind men and women alike that there is not a perfect proposal, just one perfect for you.
In today's world proposals, engagements and even weddings have become a performance, rather than a celebration. Focus has been placed so much on one moment, you lose sight of what is after the ring, after the vows. You lose sight of reality and the life you are building.
How your fiancé or husband proposes/ed may not be newsworthy or even a story that will make your friends "oooh" and "ahhh." Realize that the staging and effort of a proposal does not represent how much he does or doesn't love you.
I love social media, obviously. Did share the news of my engagement on social media, yes – but at the end of the day if my post isn't shared, retweeted, liked, repinned or captured on a Youtube video that gets a million views – SO BE IT! I shared it to tell my family and friends happy news, not to be a viral sensation. I know the love I have, and the life I'm creating with the person closest to me is the truest and realest thing I've ever known.
So ladies, my PSA: Your love doesn't have to be showcased and viewed by millions. It should be enough that you know its depth and its power. Love isn't about an engagement or wedding. While those are two important, memorable moments they aren't meant to be perfect – they're meant to be real and full of joy.
Redefine boring with your fiancé or husband. Be a woman who loves the "boring" man. Love the good, the bad, the ugly – but most of all the real.
While this post isn't a wedding how to, or pretty pictures of centerpieces or shoes – it's one of the realist moments of wedding planning. Don't let society and media make you second guess your love, ability or milestones. Be you, be boring.
Sip a glass of red & write your to-do list.
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1º Percurso: Borboleta
2º Percurso: Costas
3º Percurso: Bruços
4º Percurso: Crawl
Recordes mundiais masculinos
Piscina curta (25m)
Recordes mundiais femininos
Piscina Curta (25m)
Referências
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An info dealing with Tax Treaty, Chela crane, TMS, Smoke Divers Test, Apprentices in Technical Department / Maritime, Work beyond normal working hours and MLS and PHTls course for medics.
Tax Agreement for work abroad.
As mentioned in the last newsletter, this applies for those who participated on the tow from Korea in 2017, but new information suggests that also those who were working in the UK sector in 2018 may find a use for the Tax Agreement. This will depend on whether the individual is taxed in the UK or in Denmark, the company believes that it depends on whether the income is above or below the English Standard Deduction. MAF cannot confirm this finally yet.
For those who is going to make use of the Tax Agreement, it is important to transfer all interest deductions to their spouse previous to sending their statement to KPMG. The agreement says that the company is not obliged to compensate for interest deductions that might have been transferred. The Agreement also states that the company should not compensate for the standard deduction that could have been transferred to the spouse, but MAF has disputed this last point because it allegedly inflicts major challenges if it will be possible to be done at all. The company has promised to respond to this as soon as possible. We will revert with information as soon as there are new facts.
Installation of the foundation of the crane starts this week.
A meeting is planned with Maersk and AkerBP regarding questions raised by the MAF / Safety Service on the matter.
MAF and the Security Service will both participate at the meeting this presently awaiting notice.
A FAT on the Chela Crane will be carried out this week.
From the workers' organization point of view it is regarded as a breach from the companys' side on "2019 Key Priority: Integrated Delivery" that MDN personnel should not operate this crane.
It was informed that MD in Lyngby on March 12, 2019 has presented a tender for the operation of TMS (Training Management Solution) in MD.
The services provided by two course coordinators in MDN today, in addition to what has been tested in the TMS pilot, are also considered to be outsourced to others. This may mean that the two course coordinators in MDN may also be affected by the tender that is submitted by MD Lyngby, but the management of MDN should consider this.
It is emphasized by MAF and the Safety Service that there has been no employee participation in this condition of tenders. Any organizational changes are also not dealt with in the Office AMU, and so not considered by that body.
In order for employees to be reminded in good time prior to the Smoke Diver Test is to be renewed, the Smoke Diver Test is now added as a qualification in the Training Matrix. So, lists will be printed and submitted to the rigs on quarterly basis.
MAF has presented to the company that they should look at the possibility of attracting apprentices within the sector of Technical / Maritime personnel. The company states that apprentices will not be engaged in the Technical Department in the autumn of 2019, but they will forward the matter to the Operations.
Several positions have very much work beyond normal working hours. MAF and KHVO believe that the workload is so high that new manning analyzes must now be prepared on the rigs. This is based on the fact that both the workload, type of work and manning have changed after the rigs came into operation.
AMLS and PHTl's course for the Medics.
For clarification: The Matrix states 30 hours of preparation for each course.
This means that the Medic and OIM are supposed to find room for these 30 hours on the last trip before having an exam.
The rest of the hours you can't manage to spend on preparation when offshore, must be approved by OIM, so the extra missing hours may used at home on overtime.
All OIM`s should now be informed about this for the second time, by now there is hopefully sitting someone…. |
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» Lipid Injectable Emulsion used in total parenteral nutrition is a sterile 10 (0.10 g per mL), 20 (0.20 g per mL), or 30 (0.30 g per mL) percent w/v emulsion in a vehicle. The vehicle contains 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent w/v Glycerin and 0.74 percent to 1.8 percent w/v parenteral Egg Phospholipids in Water for Injection. The principal oil used is Soybean Oil, which provides an ample supply of the essential fatty acids: linoleic acid and linolenic acid. Other oils, such as Safflower Oil, Medium-Chain Triglycerides, Olive Oil, Fish Oil, or other suitable oils, can be mixed with Soybean Oil. Hence, Soybean Oil can be the only oil or be part of a mixture of these other oils. It contains not less than 90.0 percent and not more than 110.0 percent of the labeled amount of the oils. It contains no antimicrobial agents. The final products are terminally sterilized.
Packaging and storage— Preserve in an appropriate container (see Injections 1 ). Use elastomeric closures that are compatible with both the oil and water phases of the Emulsion. Store at a temperature not below 4 (protect from freezing) or above 30 (protect from excessive heat).
Labeling— The label states the identity and the quantities of the specific oils in the Emulsion. The label states the total osmolar concentration (or osmolarity) in mOsm per L. The labeling provides the following information: do not use if there is evidence of excessive creaming or aggregation, if excessive free oil droplets are visible, or if there are other indications of compromised integrity, such as microbial growth, present in the product.
USP Reference standards 11 —
USP Endotoxin RS.
Fatty acid composition— Transfer a volume of the Emulsion, equivalent to about 200 mg of lipids, to a stoppered extraction vessel, add 10 mL of ether, and mix. Add 5 g of anhydrous sodium sulfate, mix, and allow the mixture to stand until separation of the layers is complete. Wet the packing of a chromatographic silica cartridge with a few mL of ether, transfer about 5 mL of the ether layer from the extraction vessel to the column reservoir, and elute at a rate of between 5 and 10 drops per minute into a suitable vessel. Evaporate the ether from the eluant, and dissolve the residue in 5.0 mL of toluene. Transfer 1.0 mL of the toluene solution to a reaction vial, and add 0.4 mL of (m-trifluoromethylphenyl) trimethylammonium hydroxide in methanol. Cover, mix, and allow to stand for 30 minutes. Inject about 1 µL of this solution into a gas chromatograph equipped with a 0.53-mm × 50-m wide-bore, fused-silica capillary column coated with a 2.0-µm thickness of liquid phase G16 and maintained at a temperature of 200 . Helium is used as the carrier gas at a flow rate of about 10 mL per minute. Measure the main peak areas of the methyl esters of the fatty acids. The relative peak areas expressed as a percentage of the main peaks are in the known ranges for the oil (e.g., Soybean Oil, USP; Safflower Oil, USP) as specified on the label. For oil mixtures, analysis of each oil should be performed to identify known peaks prior to emulsification as specified on the label.
Bacterial endotoxins 85 — It contains not more than 0.5 USP Endotoxin Unit per mL.
pH 791 : between 6.0 and 9.0.
Globule size limits— Lipid Injectable Emulsion meets the requirements of the limits specified in both Method I and Method II as directed under Globule Size Distribution in Lipid Injectable Emulsions 729 .
Limit of oil droplet mean diameters (See Method I—Light Scattering Method under Globule Size Distribution in Lipid Injectable Emulsions 729 )—Using the method of light scattering, determine the mean droplet diameter (MDD): the sample meets the requirements. The intensity-weighted mean droplet diameter (MDD) for Lipid Injectable Emulsion must be 500 nm, or 0.5 µm, irrespective of the concentration of the dispersed lipid phase.
Limit of large globule volume-diameter (See Method II—Light Obscuration or Extinction Method under Globule Size Distribution in Lipid Injectable Emulsions 729 )—Using the method of light obscuration, determine the size distribution of globules in the large-diameter tail of the dispersion (detection threshold 2.0 µm). Calculate the volume-weighted mass of lipid in the form of globules with diameters in excess of 5.0 µm per 100 mL of Emulsion. This mass does not exceed 0.05% of the dispersed phase that is 5.0 µm from the nominal lipid concentration stated on the label.
Limit of free fatty acid—
Solvent— Prepare a mixture of heptane, isopropanol, and water (400:400:200) in a separatory funnel. Allow the phases to separate, and discard the lower phase. Filter the upper phase (heptane solution) through 40 g of anhydrous sodium sulfate. Store in a tightly capped glass container, and use within 1 week.
Chromatographic column— Prepare a slurry of heptane and chromatographic silica gel having an average pore size of 6 nm, and activate at a temperature of 110 for not less than 1 hour prior to use. Transfer the slurry to a 2.3-cm chromatographic tube (see Column Chromatography under Chromatography 621 ), and pack to a bed height of between 5 cm and 6 cm. Wash the column with about 40 mL of heptane, and drain the heptane through the column to a level of about 0.5 cm above the silica gel bed.
Procedure —Transfer 20.0 mL of the Emulsion to a flask, freeze, and lyophilize. Dissolve the residue in 30 mL of Solvent, and transfer the solution to the column. Rinse the flask with three 30-mL portions of Solvent, and transfer the washings to the column, allowing each rinsing to drain to the top of the column bed before applying the next rinse. Collect a total of 120 mL of effluent. Add 10 drops of phenolphthalein TS to the effluent, bubble nitrogen through the solution, and titrate with 0.02 N alcoholic potassium hydroxide VS until the solution remains pale pink after mixing for 10 seconds. Titrate a blank using 120 mL of Solvent. Calculate the quantity, in mEq, of free fatty acids in the portion of Emulsion taken by the formula:
(VU – VB)N / 20C
in which VU is the volume, in mL, of 0.02 N alcoholic potassium hydroxide consumed by the eluant; VB is the volume, in mL, of 0.02 N alcoholic potassium hydroxide consumed by the blank; N is the normality of the 0.02 N alcoholic potassium hydroxide; and C is the labeled concentration, in g per mL, of the oils in the Emulsion: not more than 0.07 mEq of free fatty acids per g of Emulsion is found.
Other requirements— It meets the requirements under Injections 1 .
Mobile phase —Prepare a filtered and degassed mixture of isopropanol, ethyl acetate, and glacial acetic acid (179:20:1).
Standard preparation —Dissolve an accurately weighed portion of Soybean Oil (or other relevant oils used in the Emulsion) in Mobile phase to obtain a solution having a known concentration of about 8 mg per mL.
Assay preparation —Transfer an accurately measured portion of Emulsion, equivalent to about 800 mg of oil, to a 100-mL volumetric flask with the aid of additional portions of Mobile phase. Dilute with Mobile phase to volume, and mix to obtain a solution containing about 8 mg of oil per mL.
Chromatographic system (see Chromatography 621 )— The liquid chromatograph is equipped with a refractive index detector and a 4.1-mm × 25-cm column that contains packing L21. The flow rate is about 1 mL per minute, adjusted so that the peak due to oil elutes at about 6.5 minutes. Chromatograph the Standard preparation, and record the peak responses as directed for Procedure: the capacity factor, k¢, is not less than 1.0; the tailing factor for the oil peak is not more than 2.5; and the relative standard deviation for replicate injections is not more than 2.0%.
Procedure —Separately inject equal volumes (about 50 µL) of the Standard preparation and the Assay preparation into the chromatograph, record the chromatograms, and measure the peak responses. Calculate the quantity, in mg, of oil in the portion of Emulsion taken by the formula:
100C(rU / rS)
in which C is the concentration, in mg per mL, of Soybean Oil or other relevant oils used in the Emulsion in the Standard preparation; and rU and rS are the peak responses obtained from the Assay preparation and the Standard preparation, respectively.
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As announced by Ubisoft at E3 2018, The Crew 2 open beta is now live on all platforms including PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
If you haven't got the chance to play the game during the closed beta then this is the time to try out the game and witness what's the hype is for.
To download the open beta, all you need to do is to go the respective stores on your platform, PlayStation Store on PS4 or Steam for PC for example. Just search The Crew 2 open beta and you are ready to go.
The Crew 2 beta is not small so you'll need to make space on the system you are on. 26.44 GB for PS4, 23.95 GB for Xbox One and 25 GB for PC.
Beta is live now and will end on Monday, June 25 at 1 AM PST, 4 am EDT and 9 am BST. So it's another great weekend for gamers as you can play the latest Crew 2 for free and have some fun alone or with friends.
Interestingly, it's also mentioned on the official site that if you get to achieve fame level 2 you'll be in a chance to win a real-life Harley-Davidson Iron 883. What else you would want by just playing your favorite game and winning a Harley Davidson.
No PlayStation Plus or Xbox Live Gold membership is required to play the open beta of The Crew 2. Keep in mind, all your progress will be completely wiped out and won't be transferred to the full version of the game if you consider to buy it.
If you play the open beta, you will get a free special gold helmet which you will be able to use in the full version of the game and it will be linked to your Ubisoft account.
The Crew 2 will get major content updates every three months and 2 new vehicles each month. |
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) just announced a huge milestone during Tuesday's iPhone 5S event. The company will ship their 700 millionth iOS device in October. Last June, the tech giant announced that they sold a total of 600 million devices. Now that Apple has unveiled the iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C, it's highly likely sales will boom.
It's a safe bet to make that the rest of this year will be big for Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). With two new smartphones, one of which is a budget model, the choice doesn't stop at Android. iPhone fans can now choose between the higher-end model or a cheaper version of the perennially popular smartphone. This proves that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is ready to compete with top competitors Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (LON:BC94) (KRX:005930) and HTC Corp (TPE:2498).
The iPhone 5S features a high-grade aluminum body and will come in three metallic colors: silver, gold, and space gray. The iPhone 5C will feature a plastic body and come in a choice of five colors(green, yellow, blue, white, and red). The latter phone will start at $99 with a two-year contract.
iOS 7 will be available for all on September 18th. It will run on iPhone 4, iPad 2, and iPod Touch 5.
The iPhone has become a legend in the tech market and it's still it major player. The company will continue to play a part of history as they are just getting around to making exciting changes to their brand. It's evident that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is ready to take their company to the next level. |
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Quiz: Can You Tell The Difference Between A Language And A Dialect?
The real answer: it's hard to say for sure. But you can still have fun guessing.
So…what's a language, anyhow? The short answer: it's kind of hard to say. The long answer: most linguists agree that the difference between language and dialect is completely arbitrary. Language itself is a nuanced spectrum, and when it comes to determining where one language "ends" and another "begins," it's largely a matter of cultural and regional context.
"As a linguist, I will not engage in trying to define language and trying to define dialect, and I'm not alone in that," said linguist Bojan Belić.
Here's another quote from sociolinguist and Yiddish scholar Max Weinreich, which is invariably brought up whenever someone addresses this question:
"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy."
Essentially, what this means is that there's a whole mess of politics surrounding the question of what counts as a language or a dialect.
With that said, the gold standard for many linguists is "mutual intelligibility." If two speakers can readily understand each other, then they're speaking dialects of the same language.
Of course, this sounds simple enough in theory, but it's not so cut-and-dried when put into practice.
"This often isn't black and white, since 'understand' can be a hard criterion to pin down," writes the linguist Marc Ettlinger for Slate. "There is also the notion of a dialect continuum, wherein languages A and B are mutually intelligible and languages B and C are mutually intelligible, but A and C are not. This is very characteristic of the Bantu languages in Africa, for example. So which are the languages and what are the dialects in this case? It's not completely clear."
This also doesn't account for the fact that there are mutually understandable tongues that count as separate languages (like Swedish, Danish and Norwegian), and tongues that are thought of as dialects (like Mandarin, Cantonese and Taiwanese), even though it would be difficult for two speakers to have a smooth spoken exchange. "Arabic" is spoken very differently in Morocco and Jordan, but the tongues spoken in those countries are still considered variants of "Arabic" thanks to cultural cohesion in the Middle East.
So what's this "dialect continuum" that Ettlinger speaks of? Once upon a time, there was a spectrum of dialects that varied slightly from village to village. If you went to the next village over, you'd probably have an easy enough time understanding the people there, but the farther out you went, the harder it was to converse with the people there. Eventually, a lot of these dialects disappeared, and we were left with established "languages" that, for one reason or another, managed to make it to the written page.
"People now know [Western Europe] as home to a few 'languages' like Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Italian, but on the ground there once was basically a smudge of countless Romance 'dialects' shading gradually into one another from Portugal to Italy," writes The Atlantic's John McWhorter. "In each nation, the serendipities of history chose one 'dialect' as a standard and enshrined it on the page."
What's important to remember is that the majority of the world's languages are oral traditions — much of what counts as "macrolanguages" are written and standardized, with a common literature.
So, what's the difference between a language and a dialect, then? It's complicated, and it's possible for two linguists to disagree and still be right.
However, there is a standardized list of individual languages that fall under the umbrella of macrolanguages like Chinese and Arabic, which is maintained by language nonprofit SIL, and referenced by organizations like Ethnologue. This is perhaps a more correct way of referring to variants of more established tongues, because a macrolanguage is comprised of a number of related languages with many similarities, but not generally to the point that their speakers can always understand each other.
Just for fun, here's a quiz to test your knowledge of which languages are macrolanguages, and which are not.
Language? Dialect? Either way, you can always learn another one.
Are Dialects Dying Out?
Dialects are spoken by fewer and fewer people every generation. What are the global forces pushing them to the sidelines, and can any of them be saved from oblivion?
By Nuno Marques
What Is Language, Actually?
What defines language — the one(s) we speak and the other languages we encounter? Perhaps linguists and philosophers can help us understand what it is we do when using words and grammar to communicate.
Why Do Romance Language Speakers Understand Each Other So Easily? (Or Do They?)
Latin never died, it just mutated into dozens of new languages and dialects — like Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, French, Occitan, Italian and Romanian— and the connection among them tells a fascinating story going back 2000 years. |
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The Relaunch Of HelloBeautiful Announced by iONE Digital
The Relaunch Of HelloBeautiful
iOne Digital, an Urban One, Inc. company, is excited to announce the relaunch of HelloBeautiful as a premiere style and beauty destination for Black women.
Building on its legacy as a news and lifestyle site, and recognizing the lack of a dedicated outlet for Black women who love fashion and beauty, HelloBeautiful has created a space for women to explore beauty ideals on a deeper level while learning tips and tricks to enhance and celebrate their natural beauty.
"HelloBeautiful is a digital destination for the real woman. At our core, we seek to take the superficial out of beauty, giving Black women a trusted and reliable platform to tell their stories," said Deputy Editor Shamika Sanders. "We tell stories with empathy, detail and the objective to uplift Black women in every way."
As part of the rebrand, HelloBeautiful will release monthly issues that delve into current trends and allow everyday women and celebrities to share their journeys. Model and entrepreneur Jordyn Woods graces the inaugural cover as she opens up about losing her father and staying true to herself amid internet gossip and social scandal in the feature "Good Girl Gone Baddie."
Other features in the September issue include Pear Nova Founder Rachel James dishing on building a Black-owned nail empire, one woman's journey of relearning her body after undergoing weight loss surgery, and the fashion, skincare, and back-to-school items you need to look fresh this Fall.
Beyond content, the new HelloBeautiful will also feature the Beautiful Bazaar, a marketplace where the audience can shop the products and brands editors write about with an emphasis on Black-owned businesses.
"We've always taken special care to highlight Black women entrepreneurs, but now that the world has woken up to the importance of supporting Black-owned businesses, we want to make it even easier for our readers to do so," said Senior Content Director Brande Victorian.
The final piece of the new launch is a site refresh, overseen by iOne Digital's Creative Director Brandon Douglas, which emphasizes HelloBeautiful's new focus and gives the audience an enhanced user experience. Visit the new HelloBeautiful.com today.
ABOUT URBAN ONE, INC.
Urban One, Inc. (urban1.com), together with its subsidiaries, is the largest diversified media company that primarily targets African-American and urban consumers in the United States. Urban One is the parent company of Radio One, Reach Media, Inc. (blackamericaweb.com), TV One (tvone.tv), CLEO TV (mycleo.tv), iOne Digital (ionedigital.com) and One Solution. Formerly known as Radio One, Inc., the Company was founded in 1980 with a single radio station and now owns and/or operates 59 broadcast stations (including HD stations) in 15 urban markets in the United States, making it one of the nation's largest radio broadcasting companies. The Company's growth led to diversification into syndicated radio programming, cable television and online digital media. As a result, in 2017, Radio One, Inc. was renamed Urban One, Inc. to reflect the Company's multi-media operations better. While the Company was renamed Urban One, Radio One remains the brand of the radio division and all of its radio assets. Through Reach Media, Inc., the Company operates nationally syndicated radio programming, including the Tom Joyner Morning Show, the Rickey Smiley Morning Show, the Russ Parr Morning Show, and the DL Hughley Show. TV One is a national cable television network serving more than 59 million households, offering a broad range of original programming, classic series, and movies designed to entertain, inform and inspire a diverse audience of adult Black viewers. Launched in January 2019, CLEO TV is a lifestyle and entertainment cable television network targeting Millennial and Gen X women of color. iOne Digital is a collection of digital platforms providing the African-American community with social, news and entertainment content across numerous branded websites, including Cassius, Bossip, HipHopWired, and MadameNoire branded websites. One Solution provides award-winning, fully integrated advertising solutions across the entire Urban One multi-media platform. Through its national, multi-media operations, the Company and One Solution provides advertisers with a unique and powerful delivery mechanism to African-American and urban audiences. Finally, Urban One owns a minority interest in MGM National Harbor, a gaming resort located in Prince George's County, Maryland.
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