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Want Tori to Coach You Too? Tori's Health Step by Step coming soon. Win free copies, prizes, access to exclusive behind-the-scenes, free access to Coach Tori, and more. and receive a copy of Tori's Weekly Challenges. We'll also notify you of when Tori's Program becomes available. I've been asked, even criticized, about adding a focus on nutrition to Desert. There's a reason why. I had poor nutritional examples growing up. Being confused on the issue of nutrition cost me a lot. I remember yo-yo'ing a lot. The only time I even came close to being my desired weight was when I did high-intensity workouts daily. At one point, I was exercised about 6 hours a day. I was in multiple dance classes and a karate class, as well as another karate club that met for two hours three days a week. I also rode my bike to campus, and even added a one hour workout when I got home. I was still thirty pounds overweight. I can attest to the coined phrase "You cannot exercise away a bad diet." It was hard to consider diet for me, because I had a genetic heritage that leaned on the heavy side. I felt trapped, having a low metabolism. It seemed if I even looked at what others ate, I was the one who gained weight. Every once in a while, someone would mention diet to me, but it did little to sway me. Why? Bad examples. Brad Pitt in Ocean's Eleven. Every scene he's in, he's eating something unhealthy. In Hollywood and at school, lots of "lean" people were eating the things I loved: pizza, ice cream, hamburgers, fries, bread, cake, cookies, etc. I also knew several "weighed down" people who were eating a healthy diet. It wasn't until I was in college, having just finished my laps in swimming plus a jog, that I stopped by to visit a friend--a slim friend who never seemed hungry. It seemed so unfair as I watched her prepare herself a salad and two small slices of pizza. I knew in that moment that if I ate like her, I would look like her. I also knew that if I prepared a small salad and two small slices of pizza, that by the end of the meal I would end up not eating just one personal pizza, but two or three. I started to believe in nutrition, but I didn't have faith that someone like me could do it. I was right, and I was wrong . . .

Q: Creating a Pivot table in C# In my c# program I have someone input production for the whole day and I calculate machine usage (MU) like so: Date | Part Number | Mold Num | Machine Num | MU 2/12/2016 | 1185-5B8 | 6580 | 12 | .428 2/12/2016 | 2249300 | 7797 | 36 | .271 2/12/2016 | 146865 | 5096789 | 12 | .260 2/16/2016 | 123456 | 7787 | 56 | .354 2/16/2016 | 123456 | 787 | 54 | .45 2/16/2016 | 123456 | 777 | 56 | .799 2/16/2016 | 123456 | 87 | 54 | .611 All of this data is in my SQL server and what I want to do is to make something like a pivot table and it takes all similar dates/Mold Numbers/Machine Numbers and makes an average the MU and display it in any way that the user wants. Example: Date | MU 2/12/2016 | 32.0% 2/16/2016 | 55.4% or Machine Num. | MU 12 | 34.4% 36 | 27.1% 54 | 53.0% 56 | 57.6% etc. Basically I want it to be variable and to show whatever the person that is looking at it needs. I want to keep it in my c# program but I can use LINQ to SQL. Please keep in mind that I am very new to c# and LINQ to SQL. I did try to do this but it was not exactly what I wanted to do. I also could not figure out how I was going to display it on the windows form nor how to change what was in each column. A: It seems you need to build pivot table with row dimension (Date, Machine Num), without column dimension and with average by MU. You can easily do that with help of NReco PivotData library: var pivotData = new PivotData( new string[] {"Date","Machine Num"}, new AverageAggregatorFactory("MU"), new DataTableReader(t) ); // just a sample - you can use DB data reader var pivotTable = new PivotTable( new []{"Date"}, // row dimension(s) new [0], // column dimension(s) pivotData ); // use pivotTable.RowKeys and indexer for accessing pivot table values PivotData library can be used for free (I'm an author), and you can download examples package on the component's page. Also you may check advanced PivotData Toolkit components (for rendering pivot table to HTML/CSV/Excel/PDF, aggregating data on DB level with GROUP BY and many others), but they are not free. A: According to your description, what you want isn't a pivot table, as already mentioned by @juharr. For sqlite, this sould be accomplished with the following statement. (I assume the table name is tmp, and what you want is the sum of MU with each MachineNUm, naming it with SMU). SELECT MachineNum,SUM(MU) AS SMU From tmp GROUP BY MachineNum ORDER BY MachineNum; Hope it helps.

A news release detailing InterVarsity's reaction to today's U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Christian Legal Society v. Martinez, and its anticipated impact on campus ministry will be posted here soon. At issue, whether a public university law school may deny school funding and other benefits to a religious student organization because the group requires its officers and voting members to agree with its core religious viewpoints. By a 5-4 decision, the justices denied the appeal of the Christian Legal Society and remanded the case back to the Ninth Circuit. This is an important ruling because InterVarsity partners with Christian Legal Society in campus ministry on 20 law school campuses across the U.S. In addition, InterVarsity has staff on 560 U.S. campuses, more than any other Christian ministry. For background on this story, see Campus Ministry Threatened and Campus Faith Freedom Alert on our website.

I recently had the opportunity to attend the 2016 Chile Salsa Bachata Festival in Santiago, and had such an amazing time watching the performers throw down on stage. Over the past few months, it's truly been such a pleasure witnessing the artistry of the performers in South America, and seeing how they interpret the music that we all love. *Head on over to my Youtube channel (Mapes24) if you also want to see some workshop and social dancing videos from the festival!

The quality of learning is the most important aspect of the Elland Academy whether in terms of modifying inappropriate behaviour(s) and/or developing in terms of academic progression, and the quality of teaching is one of the most important factors contributing to this. To promote the organisation of appropriate learning situations which will bring about maximum learner involvement. The policies, procedures and plans for the curriculum, learning (objectives, resources, processes, organisation of learning situations) and assessment should complement each other in order to provide a cohesive experience for learners and teachers.

He Walked with a Zombie Geoffrey O'Brien March 9, 2006 issue The Val Lewton Horror Collection 9 films by Val Lewton DVD box set, $59.98 Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures by Alexander Nemerov University of California Press, 213 pp., $60.00; $24.95 (paper) The creative career of Val Lewton—the part with a continuing afterlife—lasted just four years, from the spring of 1942, when pre-production work began on his film Cat People, until April 1946, when Bedlam, the last of the eleven films he produced for RKO, was released. Nine of those films—all but the studio-mangled melodrama Youth Runs Wild and the underrated Maupassant adaptation Mademoiselle Fifi—have now been released on DVD as "The Val Lewton Horror Collection," providing a welcome opportunity for reimmersion in a body of work whose power to fascinate seems to have grown over time. Probably unavoidably, the films are being marketed with the same misleading poster art and the promises of "chillers," "shockers," and "tales of terror" that inveigled their original audiences into anticipating something quite different from what they got. What they actually did get remains mysterious enough to keep these movies from becoming comfortably campy artifacts of another era. Like flowers preternaturally slow to unfold, they seem to be still in the process of revealing their final form: odd as it may be that such miraculous freshness should be suggested by movies whose themes are inescapably decay, morbid regret, the temptation to welcome death. Even when we know them well they continue to instill, as in John Ashbery's description of The Seventh Victim, "the feeling that the ground under our feet is unstable." What Lewton's movies are actually about, in the most literal sense, is always open to question; one can watch I Walked with a Zombie or The Seventh Victim or Isle of the Dead many times without being able to give a coherent summary of their plots. On its release, Bosley Crowther in The New York Times thought that The Seventh Victim "might make more sense if it was run backward." (Lewton's most narratively coherent picture, The Body Snatcher, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's story, though admirable in many ways, has less of his distinctive poetry than the others.) In American film, the only predecessors that come to mind for such destabilizing effects are Edgar Ulmer's formally rigorous Gothic delirium The Black Cat (1934) and Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart (1936), in which Cornell took the seventy-six-minute jungle picture East of Borneo (1932) and condensed and recombined its sequences into nineteen minutes of mesmeric suggestiveness, a dream vision of what remains of movies after their stories have gone. Alexander Nemerov's recent critical study of Lewton—Icons of Grief: Val Lewton's Home Front Pictures—demonstrates, with its lyrical, nearly trancelike dedication to defining the elusive essence of these films, the capacity of Lewton's work to draw its commentators ever deeper into the mood of dreamy morbidity that infuses Cat People and The Leopard Man and Isle of the Dead. Lewton is the Ancient Mariner of filmmakers: like the old sailor at the beginning of The Ghost Ship or the ominous calypso singer in I Walked with a Zombie, he hooks you with the beginning of a tale and leads you on through the bewildering paces of a journey whose significance (could it ever be determined) might hinge on fleeting, apparently random encounters with minor characters or with abrupt and inexplicable deviations from the main trail. His films might be described as mood pieces interrupted by discordant apparitions, but that would make them sound flimsier and vaguer than the vigorously graphic compositions that they are: not dreamy but, rather, truly dreamlike, which is to say hauntingly specific, brutally elliptical, wily in their resistance to easy explanation. Prior to his brief flowering, Lewton had been a dabbler in journalism, poetry, and pornography, a writer of pulp novels with titles like Where the Cobra Sings and The Cossack Sword, a publicist at MGM, and for eight doubtless grueling years a writer, story editor, and factotum for David Selznick; afterward, poor health and professional misfortune pretty much sidelined him before he died at forty-six in 1951. From what came before, it would have been impossible to predict the nature and the durability of the work he did at RKO, but the very disparateness of his early career offers some clues to the peculiar qualities of that work. Born as Vladimir Leventon in Yalta in 1904, he and his family had come to America five years later to rejoin his mother's younger sister, who as Alla Nazimova had become a Broadway star—the great exponent of Ibsen—and whose subsequent filmmaking career would clear a way for Lewton in the film business. Lewton's early literary productions veered from the aspirations of Old-World high culture to the imperatives of hard-boiled American brashness, from poems written under the pseudonym Toison d'Or to novels exploring tabloid crime cases (The Fateful Star Murder) and the misadventures of hard-luck girls drifting into prostitution (No Bed of Her Own). A certain neurotic flamboyance seems to have impressed people early on—"Two particular phobias of Lewton's youth," his biographer Edmund G. Bansak notes, "were his fear of cats and his extreme aversion to being touched"—but any artistic ambitions were rapidly subsumed by the demands of commercial work: he was, in his son's words, a kind of hack, but he enjoyed the challenge that came with turning hack work into something special…. There is a sort of pride in being a whore. He saw a certain honesty in being able to make a living.* Whatever mixture of whorish pride, dandyish rebellion, barely suppressed phobia, aesthetic yearning, and nostalgia for the lost world of his birthplace might swirl in Lewton's consciousness (his son described him as "a strange combination of gentleness and authoritarianism"), he had acquired through those eight years with Selznick as thorough a command of the practicalities of grand-scale filmmaking as anyone in Hollywood. He had been responsible, with the director Jacques Tourneur, for the memorable revolutionary scenes in the 1935 A Tale of Two Cities, and took credit for some of the most vivid details—"the harp, the parrot, and the ancestral portraits being taken out of town"—in the evacuation of Atlanta in Gone with the Wind. He had also apparently been pushed to his limits by that most obsessive of moguls: "You can't talk reason," he wrote of Selznick, "to a man who believes that he has made the greatest motion picture of all time, past, present, and future." There is a quality of happy accident to the inception of his career at RKO. Had it not been for the failure of Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons—a debacle that led to executive upheaval at the studio—there might have been no occasion to celebrate Lewton. As it was, the timing was perfect; Lewton wanted to leave Selznick, and RKO's new chief, Charles Koerner, was looking for someone who could help move the studio in a more frankly commercial direction. Universal had just made a huge profit on The Wolf Man, and so Koerner invited Lewton to head up a unit dedicated to turning out short, low-budget horror films. Lewton liked to joke that somebody had said he wrote "horrible novels" and the studio had misconstrued it as "horror novels." An instinctive anti-authoritarian who had learned to play the game had now been entrusted with a good deal of authority, however tightly defined the limits within which it could be exercised. Lewton was still answerable to the studio executives he despised. His budgets were stringent, and the films had to be marketed to an audience assumed by RKO to crave only the most lurid stimulation, in an era whose horror movies were dominated by werewolves, apemen, brain transplants, and old dark houses of the creakiest kind. Even the titles were often imposed: Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie, the first two productions, began in fact as nothing but titles, with Lewton obliged to concoct stories to match. With Cat People Lewton demonstrated that he could give his bosses what they wanted—a movie brought in for under $135,000 which grossed some $4 million worldwide—while altogether subverting their notions of what a horror movie should be. Lewton's most obvious breakthrough was to avoid showing what the audience is supposed to be afraid of, on the grounds that what we don't see is more frightening than what we see—and also cheaper to depict in a movie. This approach has largely defined his popular reputation, as evidenced in the titles of Bansak's biography (Fearing the Dark) and the documentary that accompanies the DVD set (Shadows in the Dark), not to mention the episode of Vincente Minnelli's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) where producer Kirk Douglas applies the same method to the production of Doom of the Cat Men. Jane Randolph's long walk through Central Park, stalked by an unseen panther, in which the only scary thing that happens in the end is a bus whooshing harmlessly to an abrupt halt, is the classic instance, the blueprint for what became an unavoidable cliché of horror films. In fact, whatever effect it may have had on audiences in 1942, Cat People now seems one of the least frightening of horror films. What it has instead is a sinuously strung out mood of barely suppressed eroticism and gnawing discontent that develops from the opening instants, when Kent Smith as Oliver Reed—the straightest of straight men, "a good plain Americano" in his own words—meets, at the Central Park zoo, the exotic Simone Simon, as the Serbian émigré artist Irena Dubrovna, who fears she may be one of the diabolical "cat people" driven underground in medieval times. They fall in love and get married, but the marriage cannot be consummated because of her fear that sex will unleash her destructive cat-nature; he sends her to a psychiatrist, and then finds consolation with a less troubled girlfriend. The mood created is not of horror so much as the disorientations of exile and the lingering sadness of sexual dissatisfaction. Everything is in the details: Irena turning on a light in a darkened room as she murmurs, "I like the dark, it's friendly"; her encounter with the unknown catlike woman who stares at her and greets her as a sister (an exchange of glances that lasts only a second but flavors the whole film); the beads of water clinging to Irena's naked back as she crouches forward in a tub with clawlike feet (an image of startling erotic potency for 1942 Hollywood); the giant black statue of the Egyptian god Anubis by which she stands on a museum stairway. Even the most genuinely frightening scene—in which Irena, in (unseen) panther form, stalks her rival, Kent Smith's girlfriend, in a deserted swimming pool—lingers in the mind more for the exhilarating patterns of the lights in the water, an explosion of pure abstraction brilliantly realized by the director, Jacques Tourneur, and cinematographer, Nicholas Musuraca. The huge success of Cat People enabled Lewton to keep making, under the guise of B-movie thrillers, movies that are often more like symbolist poems or obscure fetishistic rituals. They are not so much frightening as unnervingly strange and shot through with a palpable melancholy. They are almost too beautiful to be scary, except that the beauty that soothes is finally what most unsettles. As Tom Conway, playing a world-weary plantation owner in I Walked with a Zombie, remarks to the young nurse who is accompanying him to his island home, across a glistening sea evoked with gorgeously blatant cinematographic fakery: "That luminous water—it takes its gleam from millions of dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay." The intensely personal quality of these films is not belied by their being thoroughly collective enterprises. If in Hollywood tradition the producer is usually characterized as someone who interferes with other people's work, Lewton was the rare instance of a producer directing the best energies of his collaborators—among them the writers Donald Henderson Clarke and DeWitt Bodeen (abetted by Lewton himself, sometimes under the pseudonym Carlos Keith), the cinematographers Nicholas Musuraca and Robert De Grasse, the omnipresent composer Roy Webb—toward a seamlessly unified effect. Obsessive and controlling he could certainly be, but there is little suggestion that he curtailed or distorted the intentions of those he worked with. In Jacques Tourneur, who directed Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man, he found the perfect partner, a film poet who imparted luminous intensity to every moment of those films; but in the other films, directed by Robert Wise and Mark Robson, both originally editors who had worked with Orson Welles, Lewton achieved results as expressive, if less unfailingly inspired. Quite aside from any question of expressive beauty, one could look at these films purely as instances of extraordinary skill marshaled under the most restrictive circumstances. Their brevity (they range in length from sixty-six to seventy-nine minutes), their slender budgets, their reliance on preexisting production materials (costumes and sets from Gone with the Wind, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Bells of St. Mary's are worked in as needed), above all the requirement that the end product be acceptable in a precisely defined commercial niche (however puzzled horror audiences may have been to find that Curse of the Cat People was in fact a delicate fantasy of childhood loneliness): to have satisfied all those conditions and still produced work of such careful detail and defiant individuality was a rare feat. It is not hard to understand the impact produced on contemporary critics like Manny Farber ("They are about the only Hollywood movies in which the writing and direction try to keep in front of rather than behind the audience's intelligence") and James Agee ("I esteem them so highly because for all their unevenness their achievements are so consistently alive, limber, poetic, humane, so eager toward the possibilities of the screen, and so resolutely against the grain of all we have learned to expect from the big studios"). Part of what made Lewton's films stand out was their flaunting of cultural sophistication. The Seventh Victim opens with a quote from John Donne ("I run to Death, and Death meets me as fast,/And all my Pleasures are like Yesterday"); Isle of the Dead takes its title and its central image from Arnold Böcklin's painting; The Body Snatcher weaves in a traditional British ballad of the sort that might have been found on a Folkways release; Bedlam, set in eighteenth-century London, reenacts Hogarth's print of Bedlam in the "Rake's Progress" series; I Walked with a Zombie is serious in its effort to incorporate calypso music and Haitian ritual, not to mention the way it makes the legacy of slavery a central theme through the recurring visual motif of "Ti Misery," a slave-ship figurehead of Saint Sebastian. Fashion illustrators, psychoanalysts, and Greenwich Village poets are characteristic denizens of Lewton's world, while hints of homosexual interest (the cat woman who accosts Irena, the intellectual radio officer who flirts openly with the hero of The Ghost Ship) play around its edges. A world is acknowledged in which the exotic—rhumba music, ethnic restaurants, Elizabethan poetry, books on psychology—is normal, while the all-American straightness of the office workers in Cat People or the Christmas carolers in Curse of the Cat People has begun to seem strange. (The backlot New York of Cat People and The Seventh Victim carries a powerful charge of displaced ordinariness which became diffused when Lewton switched to costume pictures like The Body Snatcher and Bedlam.) Finally there is the dialogue, in its day often characterized as surprisingly literate, if not as ponderously literary, but just as important as the images in Lewton's cinematic scheme. Words are important here, and the self-conscious verbal flourishes are there to make sure their importance is not missed. In his essay on The Seventh Victim John Ashbery describes "our sense throughout the film that people are saying anything that comes into their heads," but the sort of thing that comes into their heads often seems a message from beyond the confines of the narrative, a prophetic tip that however solemn or obvious produces a jarring effect by the unexpectedness with which it is dropped in. "The poor don't cheat one another. We're all poor together." "Caged animals are unpredictable—they're like frustrated human beings." "Authority cannot be questioned." "The people who live only by the law are both wrong and cruel." "The horseman on the pale horse is pestilence; it follows the wars." "Amy, listen to me. Death isn't such a terrible thing." "—What was the matter with him?—I don't know, sir. He didn't want to die." Yet after we have remarked on their influence on subsequent filmmakers, their technical inventiveness, and the heterogeneity of an allusive range that gives them a collage-like quality, there remains the heart of Lewton's films to be accounted for: the emotional force that makes them a great deal more than the sum of their very diverting parts. In Icons of Grief, Alexander Nemerov links that force directly to the war which was raging at a distance when the films were made; the persistent sadness, the inescapable presence of death are an acknowledgment of a grief that the American public would rather avoid facing but to which Lewton, more Russian than American at heart, responds with imagery that reflects the religious icons of his cultural past, imagery that he smuggles into films which are marketed as quickie thrillers. Nemerov develops his thesis forcefully and with a rich complement of period detail ranging from Norman Rockwell magazine covers to photographs of dead soldiers in Life; he discerns historical necessity in every detail of the way things happen to fall out, so that, for example, the mad boy in Bedlam, painted gold for the amusement of courtiers and who dies of asphyxia in consequence, becomes an emblem of the bomb that had fallen on Hiroshima five days before the scene was shot: The close-up of the boy's face…is a post-Hiroshima editing choice that seems, all unknowing, to give some imaginative expression to radiation sickness, flash burns, and the bomb's other terrible effects. Whatever one makes of the farther reaches of this associative logic, Icons of Grief is a superbly original (and intricately researched) attempt to define the singularity of this work. Nemerov identifies two crucial and related aspects of Lewton's aesthetic: the unusual importance he allows minor characters and his penchant for figures of iconic immobility "standing statuesque and alone…." "This figure," he writes, would…arrest the flow of the film, suspend the plot, and for just those moments produce the melancholy and all-but-sculptural frozenness of a world that has stopped. To linger on the icons Nemerov singles out—Simone Simon as the ghostly Irena standing in the snow in Curse of the Cat People and singing an old French song to a troubled child; Skelton Knaggs as the mute Finnish sailor in The Ghost Ship, sharpening his knife aboard the ill-omened Altair as we hear his thoughts in voice-over ("I am cut off from other men, but in my own silence I can hear things they cannot hear"); Darby Jones as the catatonic zombie Carre-Four who guards with staring eyes the path to the houmfort in I Walked with a Zombie; and Glenn Vernon as Bedlam's Gilded Boy—is to confirm how elegantly he has moved into the core of Lewton's parallel cinematic world, finding out the privileged sacred recesses and translating the oracular pronouncements. He makes overt what one might have sensed all along, that Lewton's stories are contrived so as to provide a way out of the story, to be liberated beyond plot into a commemorative domain of stillness and silence, grounded in "a prerational, magical conception of the image." Writing of the somnambulistic gait of two key figures in I Walked with a Zombie, he describes how Lewton "tried to slow movement down enough so that, almost impossibly, it too might take on the quality of stillness." Throughout Nemerov captures with exactness the qualities of cadence and composition that draw one back to these movies, and underscores how deliberately those effects evade the spectator's expectations. He emphasizes finally the "minor mode" of Lewton's films, their deliberate offhandedness and underplaying of what might otherwise be grandiloquent moments. The penitential procession at the end of The Leopard Man—a march across the desert to commemorate a massacre of Indians by conquistadors—is powerful precisely because of the extreme concision of the images that record it, so far from big-scale Hollywood bombast. In Lewton's films the unexpected erupts, then vanishes as rapidly—vanishes from sight but not from memory. Here digressions are central, fleeting characters are dominant, and moments of stasis and silence are the heart of the action. Prolonged contemplation of this toy theater, with its artificial sets and lighting, its densely furnished frames in which small figures are crowded together in artful tableaux, its bric-a-brac of songs, statues, poetic mottoes, and obscure rituals, prompts questions about what audience this performance is really intended for. The odd blankness of many of the principal players, offset by the vividness and grotesquerie of characters who may emerge only for a moment, might be standing in for the spectator: it's as if the leading characters, those naive intruders, were themselves watching a film, and found themselves constantly bewildered by the narrative's gaps and rapid changes of focus. In this world you never know where to look or whom to trust. The cleaning woman on her hands and knees in the lobby of the office building in Cat People is somehow as important—the image's composition tells us so—as the panther-threatened leads, and when the police chief in The Leopard Man describes an otherwise insignificant shoeshine man as "a genius in his own line," the piece of dialogue dangles like an Ariadnean thread to lead out of the labyrinth, as if the whole world were hanging on a shoestring. More by Geoffrey O'Brien Keep Your Eye on the Kid Buster Keaton made his own kind of sense out of the perplexities of existence in ways baffling to those among whom he found himself. Schemes Gone Awry Richard Wilbur's translations of Molière, now in the Library of America, have a fluency that goes beyond meter and rhyme to encompass textures of speech and movements of thought. Verdi's Decentered Epic The six principal characters of Don Carlos grasp at separate ends, but nothing is finally to be attained. Geoffrey O'Brien's latest books are Where Did Poetry Come From and the poetry collection Who Goes There. (October 2022) Edmund G. Bansak, Fearing the Dark: The Val Lewton Career (McFarland, 1995), p. 24. ↩ Preston Sturges From 'The Lady Eve' Veronica Geng The Current Cinema The Young Pretender June 8, 1995 issue Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? Diane Johnson Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) The Charms of Terror January 30, 1992 issue Hugh Eakin Marathon Madness

By now, fans may have heard Slaughterhouse's stadium anthem track and next single, "My Life," featuring Cee Lo Green on the hook. Well, XXL recently asked the four-man contingent, consisting of Crooked I, Joell Ortiz, Joe Budden and Royce Da 5'9" how the Cee Lo assist came out for the second single off their Shady Records debut LP, Welcome To: Our House, due June 12. "Yeah man, Cee Lo owed me a favor from way back," Joe Budden joked and laughed. Goodie Mob probably feels the same. Cee Lo, a permanent vocal coach on the NBC reality show, The Voice, reunited with Goodie Mob, his longtime crew, for a performance on the mainstream American show last month. That performance came months after he shared the worldwide Super Bowl XLVI halftime stage with Madonna in February. Of course, Cee Lo isn't the only big assist that Slaughterhouse is getting on Welcome to: Our House. Eminem has taken a very hands-on approach for this project, the group's second overall album, but Shady Records debut.

Q: Passing additional iteration-dependent inputs to ode45 I'm trying to solve differential equation using the ode45 function. Consider the following code, [t1,X2] = ode45(@(t,x)fun(t,x,C1,C2,C3,C4),t0,X01); where parameters C1, C2, C3 and C4 are column vectors, which should be available to the function that ode45 is referring to (fun.m). I want the values to change after every iteration, so for example, at the beginning the entry of C1 I want in is C1(1), in the next iteration it's C1(2), etc. How can I implement that? A: You may have noticed that the official docs are not too helpful in this scenario (as they pretty much force you to use global variables - which is doable, but discouraged). Instead, I'll show you how this can be done with classes and function handles. Consider the following: classdef SimpleQueue < handle %SIMPLEQUEUE A simple FIFO data structure. properties (Access = private) data position end methods (Access = public) function obj = SimpleQueue(inputData) %SIMPLEQUEUE Construct an instance of this class obj.data = inputData; rewind(obj); end % constructor function out = pop(obj, howMany) %POP return the next howMany elements. if nargin < 2 howMany = 1; % default amount of values to return end finalPosition = obj.position + howMany; if finalPosition > numel(obj.data) error('Too many elements requested!'); end out = obj.data(obj.position + 1 : obj.position + howMany); obj.position = finalPosition; end % pop function [] = rewind(obj) %REWIND restarts the element tracking % Subsequent calls to pop() shall return elements from the beginning. obj.position = 0; end % rewind end % methods end % classdef How to use this? Simple: C1q = SimpleQueue(C1); C2q = SimpleQueue(C2); C3q = SimpleQueue(C3); C4q = SimpleQueue(C4); [t1,X2] = ode45(@(t,x)fun(t,x,@C1q.pop,@C2q.pop,@C3q.pop,@C4q.pop),t0,X01); As you can see, inside fun we use C1q() instead of C1.

Arabian Automobiles Company has revealed Rohit Dwivedi as the lucky winner of the Renault Enrich Millionaire competition starting from Jan 2018. This unique campaign for current and new Renault owners aimed to bolster and sustain Renault's customer loyalty. Rohit, a 32-year-old Indian national who works as a Regional Safety Manager for the MENA region at the Energy Services Department of the NALCO Champion and Ecolab staying in Dubai for the past 3 years wanted to own set of wheels. His choice of vehicle being an SUV needed to have safety as first priority, and when conducted research the Renault Koleos 4×4 came out as a clear winner. He was surprised and delighted to learn that it went beyond satisfying his requirements not only was it a safe car, it was also a beautiful and smooth ride.

How David Sedaris became a Christmas writer — and how he started writing stories about the holiday that are so dark that sometimes it seems that he's trying to single handedly destroy Christmas. We hear from members of David's own family, and from David, all of whom insist that David loves Christmas. How an audience of children derailed Late Night with Conan O'Brien. Act Three: How Bad Is This Relationship? The people of Chicago speak out.

Why Hire A Trial Attorney? Ohio Supreme Court: Warrantless search of student backpack was OK On behalf of The Law Offices of Saia & Piatt, Inc. | May 18, 2017 | Criminal Defense If a high school student leaves his backpack on the bus, would it be fair for him or her to expect it to be left unopened? Would it put anyone in danger? What if there was a rumor the student was a gang member? These are the questions the Ohio Supreme Court recently answered in the case of a Columbus high school student who was charged with possession of a deadly weapon after leaving his bag unattended on a bus. A little background: The U.S. Supreme Court had already found in the 1991 case of Florida v. Bostick that bag searches on buses are constitutionally doubtful in the best of circumstances. However, that differs somewhat from the one heard by the Ohio Supreme Court. Moreover, students have less privacy rights than adults. Couldn't any unattended bag contain a bomb? According to the Courthouse News Service, on one February morning in 2013, a student left his backpack on a bus. A school security guard found it and opened it only enough to identify its probable owner. Based on a rumor that the student was a gang member, however, he brought the backpack to the school principal instead of returning it to the student. The school principal felt free to empty the bag, and inside they found bullets. The pair then contacted a police officer. The principal, the security guard and the police officer confronted the student in a hallway, where the police officer executed a take-down and incapacitated the student. They then searched another bag the student had on his person. Inside there was a gun. The student was charged with possession of a deadly weapon, and argued that these searches were unreasonable — and therefore illegal under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He asked for the evidence to be suppressed, and both the trial court and the Franklin County Appeals Court agreed. The Ohio Supreme Court disagreed and sent his case back to trial. First, the court reaffirmed that schools are "special needs" settings that allow more warrantless searches than would be allowed for adults. Next, they reasoned that at each step, the child's right to privacy was outweighed by the "In compelling governmental interest in protecting public-school students from physical harm." After all, they reasoned, any unattended bag could contain a tiny explosive device fashioned out of carbon dioxide cartridges called a 'cricket bomb' like those attempted by the Columbine High School shooters. Such a bomb might not be noticed in a cursory search meant merely to identify the owner of the bag. Under circumstances like those — however unlikely they might seem — surely the search was reasonable? Liquor Laws (3) OVI (77) OVI Defense (8) Traffic Law (4) Why new parents need an estate plan Easing the financial stress of co-parenting after a divorce When should an estate plan be updated? Creating an estate plan amidst a major crisis in life Ohio's Administrative License Suspension may sound unjust A Nationally Recognized Law Firm Start Fighting Today 98 North Union Street Mt. Gilead Office 19 East High Street Mt. Gilead, OH 43338 New Lexington Office 111 West Brown Street New Lexington, OH 43764 Call Today For A Free Case Evaluation : 614-444-3036 or 888-684-6446 (888OVIOHIO) © 2019 The Law Offices of Saia & Piatt, Inc.. All Rights Reserved.

May 23 "Sweep The Shed" - How Team Culture Made New Zealand A Global Superpower competitive advantage, superpowers New Zealand's All Blacks are the country's national rugby team. Despite the fact that NZ is a small, remote island nation, with a population of only 4.5 million, they have found a way to be a consistently feared superpower in the sport. The All Blacks are a truly global brand. Their iconic black uniform is recognized worldwide as quickly as a FC Barcelona, AC Milan, New York Yankees, Boston Celtics or Los Angeles Lakers jersey, and the pre-game Haka that the team performs has intimidated countless opponents. And the All Blacks have won the Rugby World Cup three times and hold a lifetime winning percentage of 77% - the highest of any professional sports team in the world. How do they do this against larger countries with more resources and people? How do they sustain this elite level of success? Team culture is the Superpower that makes it all possible. James Kerr studied the All Blacks' culture in his book Legacy, What The All Blacks Can Teach Us About The Business Of Life - in which he talks about the team's cultural mantra of "Sweeping the Shed", a tradition that says that no individual is bigger than the team and its ancestors. Everyone is responsible for the smallest details - including cleaning out the locker room after training or a match. "Sweeping the shed" is your job, no matter who you are. This video is a great overview of Kerr's book and the All Blacks' ethos. What is your team's mantra that creates a championship culture? Do you sweep the shed? company culture, new zealand all blacks, sweep the shed, james kerr legacy, Superpower Jul 5 "We work in marketing - we're not curing cancer" - My PMC 2017 Ride May 10 Interview with Candice Peak / A Superpowered Career in Finance + Fitness

loudlatinlaughing – Euge! Euge! And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks If you don't come away from this book with adoration for this lovable weirdo, something's wrong with you. I didn't want to stop reading this, seriously considering throwing off all plans until the very last page reached. The Paris Review had a lovely excerpt from the book detailing Thom Gunn's admiration of how Sacks had changed from the daredevil drug-chugging motorcycle leather daddy whose prose could be quite cruel into a more centered and empathetic writer. Weschler reveals that in the early 80s he planned to write a profile of Sacks for the New Yorker and spent several years gathering material before Sacks asked him not to publish it because he was deeply closeted and had been celibate for several years, not wanting his sexuality raked about in public. Sacks had a change of heart on his deathbed in 2015, and thus we get this delightful tome. During WW2, most London parents sent their children to the countryside and the Sacks were no exception. It was here that Oliver experienced abuse that scarred him for life, perhaps seeping into all his relations and his manic personality. He goes on to become a doctor, then flees England before he's drafted, landing in Canada then SF and LA before settling in NYC. Despite claiming that women's anatomy was a complete scotoma (one of Sacks's favorite words, a pathological hole in your visual field), at the age of 20 he ghostwrote a book with his mother about menopause, Women of Forty: The Menopausal Syndrome by Muriel Elsie Landau. This was before, I think, he came out as gay to his parents, whereupon his mother released an hours-long Deuteronomy-driven harangue before lapsing into the silent treatment for days and then never mentioning it again. Sacks's drug use: his slogan was "Every dose an overdose" and was known for being greedy, sucking down as much LSD and amphetamines that he could find. He was also addicted to acceleration and speed, zooming to the Grand Canyon through the night on his motorcycle at more than 100mph. "For all my failures and the suicide which will probably end it all, I do have a feeling of developing, though, of being different at fifty than I was at forty, at forty than at thirty. I don't know how people who don't develop bear it." What types of books captivated him as a child? "Moby-Dick. What can you say about Moby-Dick? There's Shakespeare and there's Moby-Dick and that's that." Also: "Early on an editor told me I was too florid, to be more spare, to be like Hemingway, which among other things prevented me from liking Hemingway." And: "Dickens wasn't Dickens: He was life." Describing his first year at Oxford: "something bizarre must have been going on in terms of reading and searching: I was insatiable. I read Western philosophy with a sort of desperation. It didn't work. I didn't get anything, I didn't retain anything, the only value in retrospect having been that 20 years later, I knew where to look… I became learning-voracious, swallowing up enormous obsessive amounts… If one could dig out the record of the library from that year, one would see what kind of strange, futile frenzy it was." On one phone call, Oliver excitedly relates that after swimming he returned to shore only to find that the rock beneath his foot moved, the whole field of rocks a horde of horseshoe crabs beached for mating. "My people have come!" Oliver crowed. His relationship with the truth was something he struggled with all the time: "its not that I invent the truth. Rather I intuit or imagine it." He begins to be recognized in the 1980s; one turning point seems to be the 1984 lecture he gave at the NYPL, introduced by Susan Sontag who cooed about his writing style. Weschler mentions being there in the audience: "Jasper Johns is seated behind me: it's that sort of crowd." Author lzPosted on August 31, 2019 Categories Reading ArchiveTags YES! The Happiness Myth: The Historical Antidote To What Isn't Working Today I sneak up on this book and take little sips, hoping to prolong my pleasure. Hecht's method is "happiness by historical perspective" and she looks at four issues as topics seen through the lens of history: drugs, money, bodies, celebration. There are three distinct kinds of happiness, not unrelated but not in harmony with each other: A Good Day: filled with lots of mild pleasures, repeatable, forgettable, a tiny bit of rewarding effort Euphoria: intense, memorable, involves risk or vulnerability A Happy Life: lots of difficult work (studying, striving, nurturing, maintaining, negotiating, mourning) sometimes seriously cutting into time for a good day or euphoria. Taking thousands of years of writing and thinking on the subject, there are four things in all happiness theory from wisdom literature, philosophy, psychology, and self-help: Know yourself. Control your desires. Take what's yours. Remember death. Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero more accurately translated as "Pluck the day, never trust the next." Everyone is forgotten. Hecht uses a brutal example, asking readers to list the names of your grandparents' mothers. From her quick survey only a tiny minority could name even two of their four great-grandmothers. Everything has to be learned twice. "In childhood we have ignorant happiness, and we must lose this happiness if we are ever to get beyond it. Repression is not the same as transcendence. Between these states of calm ignorance and calm knowing, there has to be some half-wise screaming. Some few people actually grow wise by acting wise, but most grow wise by acting foolish, by accruing a variety of experiences, by taking chances, and by making errors." Your worst barrier against happiness is you: "You cannot see yourself or much about the world you live in. You are ruled by desire and emotion. You will not take your place or rise to your role. You are alternately oblivious to death and terrified of it." If you master these issues, you can be happy, but it's not easy; it must be constantly worked at and never completely works. Car culture makes us prize clearheadedness. "What makes opium a bad drug and Zoloft a good one has a lot to do with fogginess." The degree of gauzelike inebriation is the difference between a bad drug and a good one. Car culture is also bananas because "if we rejected cars, we would have to walk, and our exercise problem would be over" (along with our fuel problem and pollution problem). Drugs like cocaine and opium were actually useful in the 19th century for their medicinal properties. "While cocaine is great for allergies and toothaches, opium has a more important medicinal punch: it stops coughs and diarrhea." Which in the era of epidemics of tuberculosis and dysentery was a blessing: heath AND happiness in a bottle. Happiness maintenance work is "creating things to look forward to on a daily basis; arranging some peak experiences for yourself occasionally; and making sure the overall story of your life has some feeling of progress and growth." Money has stolen away our sense of community, "consumerism has become the central opportunity for public performance; for being someone; and for eating and feeding, rather than being eaten." We shop to have good interactions and get stuff, we watch TV to bond with others. Exercise is something that we've invented because machines have made life easy. "The only labor available is purposeless." And also a drain on resources because you have to plug that treadmill in. When we fill our town centers with gyms, we're combining 2 American traditions: the pride of the upper class not having to do work so doing sport instead, and religious identity distinguishing virtue through self-limitation. Hecht says we'd be better off if we only did unproductive exercise for pleasure…. walk somewhere you have to go anyway, take the stairs, chop some wood. "Forget the gym unless you love it or need a change of habit." She recommends creating a list of things we do that contribute to all 3 prongs of happiness: Good-Day Happiness (what makes a good day for you?), Euphoria (How do you get euphoria), A Happy Life (What do you need to have or be working toward, in order to like your life) Author lzPosted on August 31, 2019 September 1, 2019 Categories Reading ArchiveTags YES! The only entertainment gained from reading this "classic" from Dashiell Hammett is following along the SF streets as he zips around Sutter, Kearny, Post, Geary, 9th Avenue. He's credited with inventing the whole genre of hard-boiled detective fiction, by which I guess means tough guys who snarl at ladies who are swooningly in love with them. One particularly laughable moment in the Falcon comes when all the characters are penned up in Sam Spade's apartment and he nonchalantly gets the woman, Brigid, to rustle up some coffee and food for his "guests." I'm obviously not a fan of Hammett's writing, preferring the higher skills of Raymond Chandler any day of the week. However, after living in SF for 20 years, I felt obligated to knock this off my list. Author lzPosted on August 30, 2019 Categories Reading Archive Meditations in an Emergency Frankie soothes me with his 1957 book of poems. Gems include For Grace, After a Party (Grace Hartigan) and the eponymous Meditations in an Emergency. For Grace: You do not always know what I am feeling. Last night in the warm spring air while I was blazing my tirade against someone who doesn't interest / me, it was love for you that set me / afire, / and isn't it odd? for in rooms full of / strangers my most tender feelings / writhe and / bear the fruit of screaming. Put out your hand, / isn't there an ashtray, suddenly, there? beside / the bed? And someone you love enters the room / and says wouldn't / you like the eggs a little / different today? / And when they arrive they are / just plain scrambled eggs and the warm weather / is holding. Author lzPosted on August 29, 2019 August 29, 2019 Categories Reading ArchiveTags poetry Whew– I'd been beginning to think there was something wrong with me, that I had become allergic to books for some reason, rejecting most of the ones I've been reading lately. But this gem from Penelope Fitzgerald has restored my senses, cleansed my palate. A widowed 40-something-year-old woman (Florence Green) determines to open a bookstore in her village, proceeding against the powers that be (Mrs. Gamart) who want to use the ancient dilapidated building she's taken over as an Arts Center instead. She isn't greatly invested in the books themselves, preferring to get recommendations from other people as to what to stock, but she gambles correctly on 250 copies of Lolita after securing the recommendation from the village recluse, Mr. Brundish. At that meeting he wonders why she asked for his opinion, not a woman's. "I don't know that men are better judges than women," said Florence, " but they spend much less time regretting their decisions." In the end, the evil Mrs. Gamart has her nephew pass a bill in Parliament that allows her to take over the building. Brundish struggles through the fog to Gamart's doorstep to protest, dying on his way back home. Florence is evicted, ending up defeated on a train to London. Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion I'm fed up with the swirl of publicity for the books churned out of the NYC publishing elite (see also: Taffy Brodesser-Akner). The circus of praise surrounding them leads you to expect a quality that turns out to be lacking. Tolentino's book is no exception, a baggy, wordy, bloated exploration of thoughts that are better written about elsewhere. Her essay Pure Heroines reads like a book report and a poorly Xeroxed copy of Kate Zambreno's sublime book, Heroines. Cult of the Difficult Woman reads like a poor-woman's Trainwreck (by Sady Doyle). Most egregious of all is the reliance of Wikipedia-esque research to create filler for the book ("In 1844, 'optimize' was used as a verb for the first time…"); that's one of my personal pet peeves, exploring word history in a desultory way that implies you've done real research but most likely not. The only worthwhile part was her essay detailing her teenage participation in a reality show, Girls v Boys: Puerto Rico, mostly interesting because it was the only content in the book that couldn't have been written by anyone else (or looked like a gussied up version of what someone else has written about). I love this movie so finally broke down and read the original book by James Cain, only to have Joan Crawford's and Ann Blyth's faces loom up at me from the pages. Veda is as horrible in the book as in the movie, and it was interesting to see what bits were moved and mangled and mashed up to create the screenplay. Things that needed to be visually appealing were inflated by the film, obviously (like Veda's lounge singing was very visual in the film but simply a radio show in the book). Cain taps into pure gold with the friction between mother and daughter. The Sugar House I think I've choked down the last of these Laura Lippman mysteries. She's a decent writer but this Tess Monaghan series is so formulaic and bland that they become a chore to read. In this one, a dead girl turns out to be the daughter of a billionaire who had been recuperating at an eating disorder clinic. There's some weird connection to a local politician that I couldn't be bothered to pay attention to. Her usual gang surrounds her, Crow, Whitney, the wheelchair lawyer, her family. At the end, she's evicted from her aunt's building and buys a home. Yawn. Author lzPosted on August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 Categories Reading Archive I thought this was a sort of parody of detective stories by the excellent writer Kate Atkinson, but after finishing I see that Jackson Brodie is actually a recurring character for her. She milks her audience well, with a chaotic first few pages pulling you into the story of a sex trafficking ring run on the coast of England by three old pals. Coincidences pile on top of coincidences, which is why I thought this was extreme parody, but it ends up an entertaining read. Unfortunately, the wrapping up phase at the end is too tidy and monotonous. Endings are hard to get right. Four Friends: Promising Lives Cut Short Mostly I'm in awe that people have been recommending this book. How is it possible to bungle first-person reporting so much? The author, Cohan, looks around and sees that 4 guys from his years at Phillips Academy (premiere prep school for the elites) are dead from various horrendous circumstances, decides to write a tediously boring book about it thinking that just by including JFK Jr. as one of the 4 that people will be interested? Dull dull dull. I hung around to skim through the blather due to curiosity around how they died. One guy was killed in the 101 California mass shooting in 1993 (SF's worst mass shooting still remains unmemorialized on the building), one guy was hit by a cab, one guy mysteriously found drowned with two of his daughters, and JFK Jr piloted his plane into the Atlantic. Another book that did not need to be written or published. Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee There were 3 distinct sections of this book: the strange murders swirling around Reverend Miller, who seemed to take out life insurance policies on everyone in his family and they ended up dead; the subsequent trial of the man who murdered Reverend Miller at the funeral home mourning his latest victim; Harper Lee's involvement as a last gasp effort to produce a book in the 1970s and 80s. The first and last sections were the most interesting, with delving into Lee's life providing the most meat for the story. Lee grew up next door to Truman Capote who whisked away to NYC where she eventually migrated. She had put the finishing touches on Mockingbird (after being granted a year off to write by the largess of friends) and was wondering what to do when Capote asked for her help researching the killings that became In Cold Blood. Her help in Kansas was enormous, detailed notes that later propped up his book, plus people much more likely to speak to a pleasant polite Southern woman than flamboyant Capote who met some people at his hotel door wearing pink lingerie. Then Mockingbird came out and was successful beyond anyone's wildest dreams, making Capote jealous, making Lee fearful of earning any extra money since her income bracket was already being taxed at 70%. This immediate success made it possible for her never to work again and some say that it cursed her from future writing projects. The author of this book does float the idea that it was possible that Lee "had decided to write for her own satisfaction or for posterity, not her peers, and the feelings of incompletion and failure were incongruous with her own experience." I say, why not? If she got pleasure out of writing for herself (and her many letters seem to be delightful), then why not leave it at that? Overall the book was strangely sewn together, stitches large and unwieldy. The editors of which Cep writes so lovingly as having positively influenced Lee's writing were sorely lacking here. But alas, this is the current state of publishing. Side note to myself that Melville is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, a place Lee made a pilgrimage to. The 57 Bus: A True Story of Two Teenagers and the Crime That Changed Their Lives One of my favorite librarians pressed this into my hands today after we were discussing how teenagers today can be absolutely obliterated by their dumb mistakes unlike what we experienced growing up. This book tracks the devastating impact of a few moments on an Oakland bus in November 2013 when Richard, a 16-year-old, was showing off and goofing around with his friends and lit the skirt that Sasha, a genderqueer teen, was wearing on fire. The fire burned Sasha severely, another passenger threw them to the ground to put out the flames but they had to have skin grafts and live with the fear of infection for months after. Which seems actually tame compared to what happened to Richard, the young black male captured on bus video and later telling the police that he was homophobic (after ignoring the right to remain silent). Richard gets tried as an adult (yikes) and sentenced to 7 years, later reduced to 5 years. As Sasha heads off to MIT and the wonders of Boston, Richard shuffles behind bars. Not too much of a stretch to wonder what would have happened if Richard had not been a young black male. Ball Four: The Final Pitch What began as a quaint insider look at the 1969 season of the short-lived Seattle Pilots turned into a bloated windbag filled with Bouton's ramblings. Unfortunately I recommended this one to my dear old dad before I got too far in and realized how much misogynistic shit is spackled all over the book. The ballplayers go "beaver shooting" which means they try to look up ladies' skirts or into lit windows at night or spy on their roommates in the hotel room. Lots and lots of erection talk and about broads. If you can get past that, there is a thin layer of interesting talk about the craft of pitching, but pray to god you're reading one of the earlier versions which doesn't tack on an additional 100+ pages of old windbag blathering into his tape recorder about what happened next (spoiler: he divorced his wife as did many of the other ballplayers, ended up marrying some other "magical" woman). This came highly praised but the only value I see is that it was the first tell-all book that laid it all out about how much players made and negotiated and were docked for being late, etc. I'm stunned by some of these sentences. I had to take a break, only a handful of pages in, to float over here and capture the essence before I end up dogearing every page. This is a non-fiction book that contains bursts of perfect prose. "It's not as if the prosecutors have your back. They have your shadow, is more like it." "Hoy also asks about a site that he doesn't even know how to spell. You go, What's that, and he goes, I don't know, but have you ever been on it, and you go, No, I don't know what it is. And you are thinking, Neither do you, you prick. But his formality makes you afraid to contradict him. You bet his wife and children have learned to lie to him regularly, to escape the kind of needling criticism that can wreck a soul." "They get the drunk munchies and drive out to Perkins, which looks like a soup kitchen. It's wan and the customers have red faces and the waitresses have cigarette coughs but when you're young and buzzed it's good for a late-night snack. When you're young you can do almost anything and it won't be sad." The book captures layers of a taboo subject—female desire—in the stories of three women. Lina, raped by 3 boys as a young girl, eventually leaves her stable husband because she wants to be carried away by the fantasy of the affair she's having with her teenage crush, hurried sex in trucks and motels, thankful for 30 minutes she gets with him occasionally. Maggie is a twenty-something recovering from an inappropriate relationship she had with her teacher her senior year of high school. Sloane is a successful restaurant owner whose husband makes her have sex with other men while he watches. In Big Trouble Another of Laura Lippman's mysteries, this one sends Tess to Austin and San Antonio to find her ex-boyfriend Crow, who's mixed up in a double murder with more bodies ready to fall on the sidelines. A bit of a yawn but still entertaining. I read a lot. Too much, maybe. Here's a list of books I've tagged YES! since 2015. This is a catalogue of reading, posted to aid my memory. The name comes from Joyce's Ulysses, Episode 3, line 194. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused Top Picks of 2020 Books I'm too lazy to write about that I read in 2020 Three Guineas Parakeet: A Novel Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell In Love with the World: A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying loudlatinlaughing – Euge! Euge! Proudly powered by WordPress

package frclibj; import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.Timer; public class TrcDbgTrace { public static final String ESC_PREFIX = "\u001b["; public static final String ESC_SUFFIX = "m"; public static final String ESC_SEP = ";"; public static final String SGR_RESET = "0"; public static final String SGR_BRIGHT = "1"; public static final String SGR_DIM = "2"; public static final String SGR_ITALIC = "3"; public static final String SGR_UNDERLINE = "4"; public static final String SGR_BLINKSLOW = "5"; public static final String SGR_BLINKFAST = "6"; public static final String SGR_REVERSE = "7"; public static final String SGR_HIDDEN = "8"; public static final String SGR_CROSSEDOUT = "9"; public static final String SGR_FG_BLACK = "30"; public static final String SGR_FG_RED = "31"; public static final String SGR_FG_GREEN = "32"; public static final String SGR_FG_YELLOW = "33"; public static final String SGR_FG_BLUE = "34"; public static final String SGR_FG_MAGENTA = "35"; public static final String SGR_FG_CYAN = "36"; public static final String SGR_FG_WHITE = "37"; public static final String SGR_BG_BLACK = "40"; public static final String SGR_BG_RED = "41"; public static final String SGR_BG_GREEN = "42"; public static final String SGR_BG_YELLOW = "43"; public static final String SGR_BG_BLUE = "44"; public static final String SGR_BG_MAGENTA = "45"; public static final String SGR_BG_CYAN = "46"; public static final String SGR_BG_WHITE = "47"; public static final String ESC_NORMAL = ESC_PREFIX + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BLINKSLOW = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BLINKSLOW + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BLINKFAST = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BLINKFAST + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_BLACK = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_BLACK + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_RED = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_RED + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_GREEN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_GREEN + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_YELLOW = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_YELLOW + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_BLUE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_BLUE + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_MAGENTA = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_MAGENTA + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_CYAN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_CYAN + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FG_WHITE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_WHITE + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_BLACK = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_BLACK + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_RED = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_RED + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_GREEN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_GREEN + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_YELLOW = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_YELLOW + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_BLUE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_BLUE + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_MAGENTA = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_MAGENTA + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_CYAN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_CYAN + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BG_WHITE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_WHITE + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_BLACK = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_BLACK + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_RED = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_RED + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_GREEN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_GREEN + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_YELLOW = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_YELLOW + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_BLUE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_BLUE + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_MAGENTA = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_MAGENTA + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_CYAN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_CYAN + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_FGB_WHITE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_WHITE + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_BLACK = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_BLACK + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_RED = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_RED + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_GREEN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_GREEN + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_YELLOW = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_YELLOW + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_BLUE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_BLUE + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_MAGENTA = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_MAGENTA + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_CYAN = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_CYAN + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static final String ESC_BGB_WHITE = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_BG_WHITE + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SUFFIX; public static enum TraceLevel { QUIET(0), INIT(1), API(2), CALLBK(3), EVENT(4), FUNC(5), TASK(6), UTIL(7), HIFREQ(8); private int value; TraceLevel(int value) { this.value = value; } //TraceLevel public int getValue() { return this.value; } //getValue } //enum TraceLevel public static enum MsgLevel { FATAL(1), ERR(2), WARN(3), INFO(4), VERBOSE(5); private int value; MsgLevel(int value) { this.value = value; } //MsgLevel public int getValue() { return this.value; } //getValue } //enum MsgLevel private static int indentLevel = 0; private String instanceName; private boolean traceEnabled; private TraceLevel traceLevel; private MsgLevel msgLevel; private double nextTraceTime; public void setDbgTraceConfig( boolean traceEnabled, TraceLevel traceLevel, MsgLevel msgLevel) { this.traceEnabled = traceEnabled; this.traceLevel = traceLevel; this.msgLevel = msgLevel; } //setDbgTraceConfig public TrcDbgTrace( final String instanceName, boolean traceEnabled, TraceLevel traceLevel, MsgLevel msgLevel) { this.instanceName = instanceName; setDbgTraceConfig(traceEnabled, traceLevel, msgLevel); this.nextTraceTime = Timer.getFPGATimestamp(); } //TrcDbgTrace public void traceEnter( final String funcName, final TraceLevel funcLevel, final String format, Object... args) { if (traceEnabled && funcLevel.getValue() <= traceLevel.getValue()) { printTracePrefix(funcName, true, false); System.out.printf(format, args); System.out.print(")\n" + ESC_NORMAL); } } //traceEnter public void traceEnter( final String funcName, final TraceLevel funcLevel) { if (traceEnabled && funcLevel.getValue() <= traceLevel.getValue()) { printTracePrefix(funcName, true, true); } } //traceEnter public void traceExit( final String funcName, final TraceLevel funcLevel, final String format, Object... args) { if (traceEnabled && funcLevel.getValue() <= traceLevel.getValue()) { printTracePrefix(funcName, false, false); System.out.printf(format, args); System.out.print("\n" + ESC_NORMAL); } } //traceExitMsg public void traceExit( final String funcName, final TraceLevel funcLevel) { if (traceEnabled && funcLevel.getValue() <= traceLevel.getValue()) { printTracePrefix(funcName, false, true); } } //traceExit public void traceFatal( final String funcName, final String format, Object... args) { traceMsg(funcName, MsgLevel.FATAL, 0.0, format, args); } //traceFatal public void traceErr( final String funcName, final String format, Object... args) { traceMsg(funcName, MsgLevel.ERR, 0.0, format, args); } //traceErr public void traceWarn( final String funcName, final String format, Object... args) { traceMsg(funcName, MsgLevel.WARN, 0.0, format, args); } //traceWarn public void traceInfo( final String funcName, final String format, Object... args) { traceMsg(funcName, MsgLevel.INFO, 0.0, format, args); } //traceInfo public void traceVerbose( final String funcName, final String format, Object... args) { traceMsg(funcName, MsgLevel.VERBOSE, 0.0, format, args); } //traceVerbose public void tracePeriodic( final String funcName, double traceInterval, final String format, Object... args) { traceMsg(funcName, MsgLevel.INFO, traceInterval, format, args); } //tracePeriodic private void traceMsg( final String funcName, MsgLevel level, double traceInterval, final String format, Object... args) { if (level.getValue() <= msgLevel.getValue()) { double currTime = Timer.getFPGATimestamp(); if (currTime >= nextTraceTime) { nextTraceTime = currTime + traceInterval; printMsgPrefix(funcName, level); System.out.printf(format, args); System.out.print("\n" + ESC_NORMAL); } } } //traceMsg private void printTracePrefix( final String funcName, boolean enter, boolean newline) { if (enter) { indentLevel++; } System.out.print(ESC_FGB_MAGENTA); for (int i = 0; i < indentLevel; i++) { System.out.print("| "); } System.out.print(instanceName + "." + funcName); if (enter) { System.out.print(newline? "()\n": "("); } else { System.out.print(newline? "!\n" + ESC_NORMAL: ""); indentLevel--; } } //printTracePrefix private void printMsgPrefix( final String funcName, MsgLevel level) { String prefix; String color; switch (level) { case FATAL: prefix = "_Fatal: "; color = ESC_PREFIX + SGR_FG_YELLOW + ESC_SEP + SGR_BRIGHT + ESC_SEP + SGR_BG_RED + ESC_SUFFIX; break; case ERR: prefix = "_Err: "; color = ESC_FGB_RED; break; case WARN: prefix = "_Warn: "; color = ESC_FGB_YELLOW; break; case INFO: prefix = "_Info: "; color = ESC_FGB_GREEN; break; case VERBOSE: prefix = "_Verbose: "; color = ESC_FGB_WHITE; break; default: prefix = "_Unk: "; color = ESC_NORMAL; break; } System.out.print(color + instanceName + "." + funcName + prefix); } //printMsgPrefix } //class TrcDbgTrace

We LOVE overnight oatmeal at our house! My older kiddos love to mix up their own the night before and then they have their perfect breakfast ready for them in the morning. You can eat them hot or cold so they are PERFECT! Here's one of our favorite recipes. These make ahead breakfasts are a staple at our house! In a large jar, layer your ingredients starting with about a 1/2 a cup of old fashioned rolled oats. Your favorite nuts. We like pecans at our house. Then we top with some fruit that is full of antioxidants. Blueberries and raspberries are perfect. Next add a spoonful of either Cinnamon or Maple Jif® flavored Peanut Butter Spreads. I also like to add a few chia seeds as well. Doesn't it already look divine? Now cover with your favorite kind of milk. You can use cow's milk or your favorite almond, coconut or soy milks. I also top with a little honey and vanilla extract. Gently stir your ingredients, top with a lid and place in the fridge overnight. In the morning, you'll have a lovely jar full of yummy oatmeal ready and waiting for you. I LOVE to eat it cold, but you can pop it into the microwave for a minute or so to warm it up if you like yours hot. Either way tastes great!

February – March 2021 | Comment K.R. Ravindran – Trustee Chair's Column K.R Ravindran reflects on how we are the only species that bears the responsibility of protecting the environment for future generations. By K.R. Ravindran Published Date: February 1, 2021 Comment News Features People of Action Advertorial View All Having grown up amid lush green forests in the mountainous landscape of Sri Lanka, I always recall the words of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore: "Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven." How sad that so often we humans insist on interrupting this conversation. Just like every other living thing, we are a part of nature. But we are also the only species that bears the responsibility of protecting the environment for future generations. The coronavirus pandemic has shed light as nothing has before on the relationship between environmental degradation and threats to public health. A few years ago, the government-owned electricity company in my country planned to build a second coal power plant, in eastern Sri Lanka. It would suck 93 million litres of water per hour from a bay where fragile ecosystems meet the deep sea, the site of one of the largest spawning grounds for sperm whales in the world. After processing, those 93 million litres per hour would be dumped into the ocean, now loaded with toxic chemicals that put that marine life at great risk. Learning from the lessons of the damage caused by the first plant, a coalition formed, made up of many public advocates, including Rotarians. They ran a campaign that alerted the media, the public, and the local community to the potential dangers, in addition to taking legal action. The government eventually abandoned its coal plant idea after the resulting public outcry. We can truly move mountains when we come together. When some of us moved to add the environment as Rotary's newest cause, we did so because of the urgency of the problem. In 1990-91, Rotary International President, Paulo V.C. Costa, set forth a vision, and today we will take this work to the next level. We live in a time of great stress on our environment, of rapidly rising sea levels, massive storms, disappearing rain forests and wildlife, and destructive forest fires. Climate change touches us all, rich and poor. We will face the challenge strategically, as with the other areas of focus. In fact, the six other areas of focus depend on this one. For what good is it to fight disease if our polluted environment causes us to become sick again? The Rotary Foundation will be central to this work. More than $18 million has gone towards environment-related global grants in the past five years. Building upon this work to protect the environment, we will give yet another Rotary gift to future generations. And you can be a part of it today. Recycled laptops help isolated students February – March 2021 We need to solve the plastics problem by 2050 You can count on the cadres

According to blink-182, Age Clearly Doesn't Matter This past Sunday, blink-182 brought their Enema of The State 20th Anniversary tour to Toronto's Budweiser Stage. It was a perfect night along the water for a full show of nostalgia, blow up aliens and Travis Barker in a hamster ball. Enema of the State, 1999 For support, blink-182 brought along Neck Deep from the UK and Canada's own Simple Plan. The boys from Montreal were given a full hour, and had fans so into the set, they probably could have done more. All the hits from your angsty childhood were on display, including Shut Up, Addicted and I'd Do Anything. From there, they dove into the pop-rock world they explored in the later 2000's with Jet Lag and Your Love Is A Lie. To conclude, the boys lead by front man Pierre Bouvier, ended with the smash hits I'm Just A Kid, and Perfect. And perfect the set was... Once all the former punk canucks were warmed up, blink hit the stage and began performing their 1999, multi-platinum selling album Enema of the State. The album was played in full, and at first I thought this would be a little off setting. How could you possibly not have All The Small Things, as your encore? Their biggest hit was about 25 minutes into their set, but it worked. After the full run through of Enema, the boys did an acoustic portion on the lawns, followed by a Travis Barker drum solo worthy of a Cirque du Soleil performance. The legendary drummer, was strapped into a giant hamster ball, where his kit did everything from rotations, turns and flips. His drumming perfection was paired with a Skrillex style backing track, which left fans both stunned, surprised and satisfied. To conclude to band pulled out hits, I Miss You and First Date. Fans from all levels were jumping around as if they were a teenager back in 1999, and judging by the young age of some of the fans (including myself), it seems like blink have brought around a new generation of fans too. Having not been to a blink show during their prime, I can't compare back to their older days, however, the amount of energy and enthusiasm brought by the band was parallel to a modern day rock band filled with kids in their 20's. You could tell by the looks on their faces, that everything was left on stage. It's obvious these, now family men, are still loving what they do 20 years later. blink-182 at Toronto's Budweiser Stage Despite the recent health issues from Travis Barker, or ongoing rumours of reunions with original guitarist Tom DeLong, none of that seemed to show on stage. Blink brought their eh-game to Toronto on Sunday, and proved that not remembering your age, clearly doesn't matter. Wait, The Guess Who Still Isn't in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? BEST IN ROCK 2020 Green Child O' Mine: When Baby Yoda Took on Guns N' Roses © 2023 by Shutter Zone. Proudly created with Wix.com

require 'spec_helper' describe Catarse::OmniauthCallbacksController do before do @request.env["devise.mapping"] = Devise.mappings[:user] end let(:return_to){ nil } let(:user){ FactoryGirl.create(:user, authorizations: [ FactoryGirl.create(:authorization, uid: oauth_data[:uid], oauth_provider: facebook_provider ) ]) } let(:facebook_provider){ FactoryGirl.create :oauth_provider, name: 'facebook' } let(:oauth_data){ Hashie::Mash.new({ credentials: { expires: true, expires_at: 1366644101, token: "AAAHuZCwF61OkBAOmLTwrhv52pZCriPnTGIasdasdasdascNhZCZApsZCSg6POZCQqolxYjnqLSVH67TaRDONx72fXXXB7N7ZBByLZCV7ldvagm" }, extra: { raw_info: { bio: "I, simply am not there", email: "diogob@gmail.com", first_name: "Diogo", gender: "male", id: "547955110", last_name: "Biazus", link: "http://www.facebook.com/diogo.biazus", locale: "pt_BR", name: "Diogo, Biazus", timezone: -3, updated_time: "2012-08-01T18:22:50+0000", username: "diogo.biazus", verified: true }, }, info: { description: "I, simply am not there", email: "diogob@gmail.com", first_name: "Diogo", image: "http://graph.facebook.com/547955110/picture?type:, square", last_name: "Biazus", name: "Diogo, Biazus", nickname: "diogo.biazus", urls: { Facebook: "http://www.facebook.com/diogo.biazus" }, verified: true }, provider: "facebook", uid: "547955110" }) } subject{ response } describe "GET facebook" do before do user session[:return_to] = return_to request.env['omniauth.auth'] = oauth_data get :facebook end context "when there is no such user and we do not have an email address" do let(:oauth_data){ Hashie::Mash.new({ info: { image: "http://graph.facebook.com/547955110/picture?type:, square", name: "Diogo, Biazus", nickname: "diogo.biazus", urls: { Facebook: "http://www.facebook.com/diogo.biazus" }, verified: true }, provider: "facebook", uid: "547955110" }) } let(:user){ nil } describe "assigned user" do subject{ assigns(:user) } its(:email){ should be_nil } its(:name){ should == "Diogo, Biazus" } end it{ should render_template 'users/set_email' } end context "when there is no such user but we retrieve the email from omniauth" do let(:user){ nil } describe "assigned user" do subject{ assigns(:user) } its(:email){ should == "diogob@gmail.com" } its(:name){ should == "Diogo, Biazus" } end it{ should redirect_to root_path } end context "when there is a valid user with this provider and uid and session return_to is /foo" do let(:return_to){ '/foo' } it{ assigns(:user).should == user } it{ should redirect_to '/foo' } end context "when there is a valid user with this provider and uid and session return_to is nil" do it{ assigns(:user).should == user } it{ should redirect_to root_path } end end end

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Април и детективи је југословенски филм из 1958. године. Режирала га је Мирјана Самарџић, а сценарио је писала Душица Манојловић. Улоге |- |Душан Антонијевић || |- |Северин Бијелић || |- |Бранивој Ђорђевић || |- |Бранко Ђорђевић || |- |Стеван Миња || |- |Љубица Секулић || |- |Милан Срдоч || |- | Иво Вентурин || Дечак |} Спољашње везе Југословенски филмови Српски филмови Филмови 1958. Телевизијски филмови Српски телевизијски филмови Српске телевизијске комедије Филмске комедије

ORG PowerShift Ventures Title BIO Steve Papermaster is the Chairman of Powershift Ventures LP, an Austin, Texas-based technology venture development company focused on building software and technology companies. He currently serves on the boards of directors for several public and private companies. In 2001 President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Papermaster a member of the President's Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST). In this capacity, Steve serves as Chairman of the Energy Committee, as well as being a member of the Technology for Combating Terrorism Committee. He is also the founder and chairman of Technology Network Texas (TechNet), a national high-technology advocacy group for policy issues and is a member of the National Executive Committee. Prior to founding Powershift Ventures, Mr. Papermaster was the founder, chairman and CEO of BSG Corporation, a global software and systems integration company. He began his career as a consultant with Andersen Consulting. Mr. Papermaster received the 1996 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Austin and has served as a national and world judge for the Entrepreneur of the Year awards since 1997. In 2001 he served as the United States' judge for the World Entrepreneur of the Year award. Steve is active as a community leader with organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Jewish Community Center, and the 360 Summit. Mr. Papermaster received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin.

HCC Estimates Katrina Loss at $160M HCC Insurance Holdings Inc. announced that anticipated claims from Hurricane Katrina are expected to result in the company's largest gross loss in its history, estimated at $160 million arising from aviation, onshore and offshore energy, property, marine and other specialty lines of business. This loss is estimated to be $50 million net of reinsurance including reinsurance reinstatement costs, $32.5 million after tax, and will reduce third quarter earnings of the company by approximately $0.30 per diluted share. Stephen L. Way, chairman and chief executive officer, said, "Our exposure is predominantly to energy and large commercial property accounts and is substantially protected by catastrophe reinsurance." Way added, "From an industry standpoint, premium rates will need to rise significantly in these lines of business to reflect both the increased frequency and severity of catastrophic events that have occurred over the past five years." HCC is an international insurance holding company and a leading specialty insurance group since 1974, based in Houston, Texas, with offices across the U.S. and in Bermuda, England, and Spain. Hot Again: 2020 Sets Yet Another Global Temperature Record Policyholders With Endorsements for Diseases Survive Motions to Dismiss COVID-19 Claims

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null : reader.GetValue(i).ToString(); row.Add(columnName, columnValue); } rows.Add(row); } } } finally { ensureConnectionClosed(); } return rows; } /// <summary> /// Opens a connection if not open /// </summary> private void ensureConnectionOpen() { var retries = 3; if (connection.State == ConnectionState.Open) { return; } while (retries >= 0 && connection.State != ConnectionState.Open) { connection.Open(); retries--; Thread.Sleep(30); } } /// <summary> /// Closes a connection if open /// </summary> private void ensureConnectionClosed() { if (connection.State == ConnectionState.Open) { connection.Close(); } } /// <summary> /// Creates a OracleCommand with the given parameters /// </summary> /// <param name="commandText">The Oracle query to execute</param> /// <param name="parameters">Parameters to pass to the Oracle query</param> /// <returns></returns> private OracleCommand createCommand(string commandText, IEnumerable parameters) { var command = connection.CreateCommand(); command.BindByName = true; command.CommandText = commandText; addParameters(command, parameters); return command; } /// <summary> /// Adds the parameters to a Oracle command /// </summary> /// <param name="command">The Oracle query to execute</param> /// <param name="parameters">Parameters to pass to the Oracle query</param> private static void addParameters(OracleCommand command, IEnumerable parameters) { if (parameters == null) return; foreach (var parameter in parameters) { command.Parameters.Add(parameter); } } /// <summary> /// Helper method to return query a string value /// </summary> /// <param name="commandText">The Oracle query to execute</param> /// <param name="parameters">Parameters to pass to the Oracle query</param> /// <returns>The string value resulting from the query</returns> public string GetStrValue(string commandText, IEnumerable parameters) { var value = QueryValue(commandText, parameters) as string; return value; } public void Dispose() { if (connection == null) return; connection.Dispose(); connection = null; } } }

A Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) című dal az amerikai Chic nevű R&B - diszkó csapat debütáló dala, mely az amerikai slágerlistán a 6. helyig jutott. A csapatnak abban az időben Luther Vandross, mint háttér énekes dolgozott. Az album a Chic című debütáló albumon kapott helyet. A címben szereplő "yowsah, yowsah, yowsah", ami a dal közepén hallható, eredetileg az amerikai jazz-hegedűs és rádiós személyiség, Ben Bernie-től ered, aki az 1920-as években tette népszerűvé a kifejezést. Megjelenések 12" US Atlantic – DK 4600, ATCO Records – DK 4600 A Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah) 8:21 B Sao Paulo 4:45 Slágerlista Heti összesítések Külső hivatkozások Hallgasd meg a dalt a YouTubeon Források 1977 kislemezei Chic-kislemezek

ACCEPTED #### According to The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011 #### Published in New Zealand J. Bot. 25:166. 1987 #### Original name Atropis pumila Kirk ### Remarks null

Q: PayPal IPN $_POST['txn_id'] not set I'm using the PayPal sandbox to do a subscribe button and then when I get the IPN response for a subscription or a subscription cancelation $_POST['txn_id'] is never set. So I don't know how to identify transactions to only accept unique ones Thanks! EDIT: for example all the info that I have in POST for a subscr_cancel are : amount1, amount3 , address_status, subscr_date, payer_id, address_street, mc_amount1, mc_amount3, charset, address_zip, first_name, reattempt, address_country_code, address_name, otify_version subscr_id custom payer_status business address_country address_city verify_sign payer_email btn_id last_name address_state receiver_email recurring txn_type item_name mc_currency residence_country test_ipn period1 period3 correlation_id A: According to Table 2. Summary of subscription variables: For subscription variables, the transaction ID (txn_id) is only available for USD Payment and Multi-Currency Payment transaction types (txn_type). As expected, PayPal will not send the txn_id to your IPN for the transaction type, subscr_cancel, and will only send txn_id if the transaction type is subscr_payment. For further explanation on which variables are sent to your IPN URL based on your transaction, please check out IPN and PDT Variables. A: Have you checked $_REQUEST['txn_id'] as this may be sent to your server via GET.

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Biografia Nacque a Faenza il 20 settembre 1830 da una famiglia di umili condizioni. Compì i primi studi presso il Ginnasio, poi presso la Scuola di Disegno sotto la guida dell'incisore G. Marri, dell'architetto Pietro Tomba e del pittore Achille Farina scoprendo la propria inclinazione verso la pittura. Nel 1852 si trasferì a Firenze grazie all'aiuto di benefattori faentini e completò gli studi presso l'Accademia di Belle Arti con l'insegnamento di Antonio Ciseri ed Enrico Pollastrini. Durante questo periodo strinse amicizia con Odoardo Borrani e Luigi Bechi avendo così modo di frequentare il gruppo di macchiaioli che riconobbero le sue capacità. Lo stesso Stefano Ussi nel 1854 lo volle come collaboratore nella stesura dell'abbozzo a chiaroscuro La cacciata del duca d'Atene. A causa nel 1857 della morte del padre, dovette rientrare a Faenza per difficoltà finanziarie, svolgendo svariati lavori. Nel 1864 vinse il concorso della Cattedra di Disegno ornamentale e figurato presso la Scuola di Disegno succedendo a Farina. Con la trasformazione della Scuola di Disegno in Scuola d'Arte e Mestieri, Antonio Berti ne divenne il direttore fino al 1906. Durante questo periodo diede un preciso indirizzo per una formazione rigorosa ai giovani nei quali intuiva il talento, sollecitando il loro interesse ma lasciando allo stesso tempo spazio all'espressione individuale. Alcuni tra i suoi più celebri studenti furono Francesco Rava, Antonio Argnani, Domenico Baccarini, Orazio Toschi; gli scultori Ercole Drei e Domenico Rambelli; i ceramisti Pietro Melandri, Anselmo Bucci, Riccardo Gatti. Lasciata la scuola per l'anzianità, Antonio Berti che aveva da sempre condotto una vita solitaria, si ritirò presso la famiglia A. Mazzotti che lo assistette fino alla morte avvenuta nel 1912 curando inoltre la destinazione delle sue opere alle appropriate raccolte pubbliche. Giudizio critico Il temperamento artistico e la sensibilità del Berti emergono nelle sue rappresentazioni delle nature morte, dei fiori, delle vedute dei busti, ma in modo particolare nei ritratti ad olio. Le sue conoscenze tecniche gli permisero di praticare anche il genere dell'affresco, realizzato all'interno dei soffitti di alcuni palazzi faentini e nell'atrio del Teatro Comunale. Eseguì anche restauri di affreschi nella Cappella della Madonna del popolo in Cattedrale e dell'affresco di Gerolamo da Treviso nella chiesa della Commenda. Dal 1867 Antonio Berti si dedicò alla ceramica lavorando presso la fabbrica Ferniani e realizzando opere con le diverse tecniche: dipinti a sanguigna, ad impasto policromo, a mezza macchia monocroma. La rivalutazione critica del Berti risale a pochi anni fa. Inizialmente i suoi quadri, i suoi disegni furono considerati degli "schizzi" "di qualcosa che avrebbe potuto più ampiamente affermarsi grazie alle risorse di un temperamento pittorico felicemente quotato" (Catal.della mostra…,1926). Solo nel 1955, in occasione della mostra degli artisti romagnoli dell'Ottocento, la critica lo rivalutò riconoscendo nelle sue opere la personalità artistica che servì da formazione a numerosi artisti faentini dei primi decenni del novecento. Opere Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale:, olio su tela. Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale:, olio su tela Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale:, olio su tela. Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale:, olio su tela. Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale:, olio su tela. Faenza, Pinacoteca Comunale:, olio su tela. Faenza, Museo del Risorgimento:, olio su tela. Faenza, Museo del Risorgimento:, olio su tela. Note Bibliografia Elio Jacchia, Antonio Berti illustre maestro e geniale artista faentino, in La piè, gennaio 1963, pp.14-15. Marcella Vitali, Bice Montuschi Simboli, Berti Antonio, pittore (20.9.1830 Faenza, † 14.07.1912 Faenza) in Manfrediana. Bollettino della biblioteca comunale di Faenza, XIXX, 1995, n. 1, Faenza, pp. 36-8. Luigi Zauli Naldi, Antonio Berti e la sua opera ceramica, in Faenza. Bollettino del Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, XLVII, 1960, n. 3, pp. 65-69. Voci correlate Pinacoteca Comunale di Faenza Altri progetti Collegamenti esterni

While Jesus would not be crowned an earthly king, Jesus' entrance into Jerusalem has many parallels to the Messianic expectations of the Hebrew people. Before entering, Jesus requisitions a donkey from its owner. In the ancient world, kings had this right. Yet the animal that Jesus requests is rare -- a colt upon which no one else has sat yet. Yet, it's a donkey. This is no great war-charger, no magnificent animal. Jesus acts with all the authority of an earthly king, yet his kingdom is one of simplicity and peace. As the disciples throw cloaks over the donkey, the crowd spreads theirs on the road. This ancient gesture dates back to the line of kings descended from David. Not only are these physical kingly gestures, but the crowd of followers cries out in jubilation and praise. The Messiah has come to Jerusalem! on the parish website, and at the parish office.

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Added on September 15, 2015 by Spencer Wright. Yesterday I went up to visit Rich, Dave, and Cesar at Addaero, and came home with a few new EBM prints. These are an iteration on the parts they printed me a few months back, and should be easier to post-process (and are lighter to boot :).

Farmer Health/Safety Eggs – Breeders Eggs – Layers Meat – Broilers Meat – Turkeys Bird Management Manure Application/Handling Compost Equipment Poultry Jobs Poultry Events Poultry Videos Poultry Producer Home Equipment Marel celebrates 75 years of business in Gainesville Marel celebrates 75 years of business in Gainesville A long history of machine manufacturing On September 26, 2019, Marel celebrated 75 years of operations at its location in Gainesville, Georgia. To mark the occasion, the company celebrated with a luncheon where Georgia Agricultural Commissioner Gary Black and Georgia State Senator Butch Miller along with Executive Management from Marel spoke to the audience. Over 370 people attended the celebration, which opened with remarks by Folkert Bölger and Roger Claessens, both Executive Vice Presidents (EVP) of Marel, who took the opportunity to thank past and present employees for their dedication and hard work carried out in partnership with our customers to transform food processing. Claessens touched on the many innovations that have changed the landscape of the poultry industry. Following that, Commissioner Black addressed the crowd thanking Marel employees for their dedication and charging us to remember the importance we play in Georgia agricultural and helping the family farm on a daily bases. Senator Miller continued the celebration by thanking Marel for the affects we have had on the Gainesville community and poultry industry on a global level. From Gainesville Machine Company to Marel In 1944, Gainesville Machine Company was established as a metal working job shop, specializing in welding fabrication and machining. A major milestone for the company was in 1960 with the development of the first non-reverse defeathering machine. This development allowed processors to increase line speeds from 200 birds per hour to 12,000. By 1973, the company needed more space, so Marel moved operations to the current location at Airport Parkway. In 1975, Stork Acquisitions Corporation acquired the company and in 2008, Marel Food Systems acquired Stork Food Systems. Key facility Today, Gainesville is Marel's key manufacturing facility operating in North America and part of Marel's global supply chain, which spans 13 manufacturing sites in total. There are 380 full-time employees based out of Gainesville who work in a diverse range of functions including specialized and technical manufacturing jobs, marketing and sales, service, engineering, finance and more. Not only do we manufacture advanced food processing solutions, we also store and ship all spare parts orders from this location to our customers in North and South America. The poultry industry remains the largest focus of our business in Gainesville; however, we also manufacture and service equipment for the meat industry. High-tech innovations In the US, Marel is active in poultry, meat, fish and further processing. There are over 800 employees throughout North America and we have operations in four locations: Kansas City, Kansas; Des Moines, Iowa; Gainesville, Georgia and Seattle, Washington. We not only sell new equipment to processors, we also help service equipment and keep it running at the highest standards possible and we also develop new equipment. In the early days, primary processing equipment was designed and developed. More recently, we have expanded our offering to include secondary and further processing solutions. With Georgia being the largest producer of poultry meat in the US, the Gainesville location works with many top poultry processors to continually develop new high-tech innovations that help processors increase yields and efficiency as well as product quality and food safety. Previous articleArkansas co-leads $10 million multi-university grant to transform water use and nutrition in poultry production Next articleWestern Fair Association, PIC Sign Long Term Agreement The omnia px180 ml loader Efficiency and hygienic design Calibrating Poultry Litter Spreading Equipment Poultry Processing Equipment Market Size Expanding with Flourishing Animal Farming Industry Equipment Sponsors USA: Copyright © 2019 Poultryproducer.com . All rights reserved. Translate Web in Your Language »

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Once upon a time Vahine Moea, a young girl of an incomparable beauty lived in the valley of Araau in Raiatea. She met a fisherman called Ariifaite – from Taha'a. They got married and had a girl whom they called Tiaitau. One day Ariifaite heard some good news, a missionary had arrived on the island and he was teaching the alphabet and how to write. Ariifaite hastened to inform his wife who was happy to learn that. They decided to go and live in Opoa, the district where the missionary lived, so that their daughter, who had become a beautiful young girl, could learn the alphabet and writing. Tiaitau followed her lessons and when she became a young woman, she met King Tamatoa and became his lover. Some time later, the King Tamatoa left Raiatea to join King Pomare of Tahiti for the battle of Fei Pi. The King, accompanied by his warriors, left his island and lover. He asked Tiaitau to wait for him at home. However, the young woman told her lover that she felt like she was saying goodbye for the last time and she would never see him again. King Tamatoa tried to reassure her by saying that he was surrounded by his best warriors. Then Tiaitau took a coconut and told him she would go on the Mount Temehani and watch out for his return, and possibly see him leave to Tahiti. On these words, they parted. Then she continued to Vaiumete where she took a bath and quenched her thirst. Then, she looked at the hole of Apoo hihi ura and let herself fall inside to die as her sorrow was so huge and she could not bear to learn the death of her King whom she adored so much.

We came across an interesting observation while designing surge volume calculations in flotools that I thought was worth sharing and inviting comments from the flow assurance community. For those that are not 100% sure what surge volume is exactly, let me first explain. Calculating surge volumes is a routine part of a flow assurance engineer's work. Operational scenarios like slugging, pigging, production ramp-up in multiphase production systems can all result in large volumes of liquids being swept out of the pipeline and into the first vessel on the receiving facility. Often, these liquid surges come in at rates that far exceed the receiving facility's capacity to process liquids. Therefore the vessel, typically a slug catcher, acts as a buffer where the surge of liquid can be collected and processed over time. One of the objectives of performing flow assurance studies is to quantify the maximum surge of liquid that can be seen across various operations in order to size the slug catcher appropriately. The maximum volume that a slug catcher will have to hold for a given operation is called the surge volume. OLGA provides a way to calculate surge volumes whenever at least one of ACCLIQ, ACCOIQ, and ACCWAQ is included in the list of trended outputs. The calculation assumes that the slug catcher is present just downstream of the location where these variables are trended and that the vessel can be drained at a fixed maximum drain rate during the operation. Why were the accumulation variables (ACC*) used instead of the instantaneous rate variables (QL*)? Why is there a operation in equation (2)? OLGA's calculation of surge volume uses the accumulated variables as the basis of the surge volume calculation instead of the instantaneous liquid volume rate variables (QLT, QLTHL, QLTWT). To understand why, let's look at the instantaneous rate form of the surge volume equation. You can see that the average QLT (from ACCLIQ) does not show the flowrate spikes that the QLT variable shows. These spikes, while they probably do occur in a flowing system, typically occur in very short time windows smaller than the output interval of the simulation. The larger the output interval, the worse the assumption. The following chart shows an example of the error in accumulation by comparing the calculated accumulation using the rate variable and subtracting the OLGA calculated ACC variable from it. While the maximum error in this example (~25 barrels) is not significant, the magnitude of the error entirely depends on the nature of the simulation and may be significant in some cases. In our view, OLGA has taken the correct approach and used the accumulated variables as the basis for the surge volume calculation. Equation (2) features a operation. This ensures that the calculated volume in the slug catcher never goes below zero. But what happens when the quantity becomes negative? It is perfectly normal and valid for a numerical simulator to predict negative rates at an outlet boundary. When OLGA predicts negative rates at the outlet of the pipeline, the ACC variable may reduce in value from one time step to the next. When this happens, equation (2) will result in a reduction in the calculated slug catcher volume at a rate faster than the assumed drain rate. Effectively, the calculation does not prevent the possibility that liquid can leave via liquid drain as well as the inlet of the slug catcher. When you look at a schematic of a typical slug catcher, like the one shown below, it becomes apparent that this may not be such a sound assumption. The slug catchers are designed for gravity separation of phases and hence the inlet nozzles are at or near the top of the vessel. Once the liquids go in, they quickly settle to the bottom. Any negative flow is likely to be mostly gas with very little liquid carried as droplets in the gas phase. In equation (7), we added another max function that bounds the quantity , which is the average flow rate into the slug catcher for a given time interval, to zero. If the calculation is being done at the outlet of a pipeline that is connected to a pressure node, set the parameter GASFRACTION to 1.0 in your NODE specification. This will ensure that whenever there is negative flow at the outlet boundary, the negative flow is all gas. That said, we still think equation (7) is a better way to perform the surge volume calculation because it works well regardless of the boundary specification. The plot above shows a comparison of surge volumes calculated according to equations (2) and (7), labeled "OLGA Method" and "Proposed Method" respectively. We can see that filtering out the negative values results in larger surge volumes at lower drain rates. At large enough drain rates, the differences eventually disappear. Given surge volume calculations are performed in order to size the slug catcher, we believe that equation (2) is not conservative and therefore should not be used. Instead, our modified version represented in equation (7), which gives a more conservative estimate of surge volume, should be used. As always, your comments and feedback would be much appreciated.

After one wound up lodged in the airway of a five-year-old boy. Angela Henderson shared the post on the Finlee and Me Facebook page, reminding parents to "cut the damn grapes" after one wound up lodged in the airway of a five-year-old boy. "Attention Parents," the post begins. The grape became lodged in the boy's airway last week and his mother gave Angela permission to share their story. "This sweet soul had to be operated on, under general anaesthetic to remove the grape" the post continues. "He is VERY lucky that part of his airway was open or else this could have ended badly. Since posting, the X-ray has been shared over 25,000 times with many people warning their friends. "As a former paramedic - grapes and hot dogs are the worst for lodging in throats, but anything soft and circular can be deadly. I always encourage anyone I see feeding young kids soft, circular items, to cut the food in half."

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Complexities You Can Count On Sunday, January 9, 2011 at 8:45PM Richard Terrell (KirbyKid) in Depth & Complexity, Emergence, Trial & Error Recently, I've talked about complexities quite a lot. I've explained how they make games unique, but they also stress knowledge skills. Too many complexities can throw off the balance of the skill spectrum while slowing down the rate the player can progress. Complexities create nuance, and they're orthogonal to gameplay depth. Our minds can only process so many "bits" of game data/complexities at a time. And when we're trying to store information into our LTM (long term memory) we have to compress or code it. While coding information our overall mental capabilities drop. Because we have such limited STM (short term memory), analyze, and code/decode abilities, games more complex than Pong become increasingly difficult to manage. Complexities (game rules) are in every line of gameplay code, but what does this mean exactly? Mario's JUMP mechanic seems simple enough, but it's full of complexities. Aside from the horizontal/vertical speed, acceleration complexities, and maximum speed limitations, there are squashing enemy, bouncing off of bricks, breaking bricks, JUMPing off of jump stands, JUMPing against solid objects, and DUCK+JUMPing complexities (additional rules/parameters). So does this mean that Mario's JUMP is enough to overload a new player? Does this mean the mechanic is too complex? Of course not. Not all complexities are weighted equally. The arc, speed, and feel of Mario's JUMP is more important to learn than complexities like how Mario JUMPs of of jump pads. Furthermore, the more intuitive complexities are, the more we can relate to the game system with learned experiences as opposed to learning new arbitrary interactions. The better we understand how we learn the smarter we can play and design video games. But what does it mean to be smart? What does it mean to learn quickly? Effectively? I started to investigate these ideas in my "From Unintuitive to Eureka" series. In part 5, I logged a detailed play through of the puzzle game 3D Logic. The idea was great, but the game was too complex. So we're trying again with a game that's much simpler. Behold, doodle god! (don't play it quite yet). This indie flash game has extremely simple gameplay. Select two squares to create new elements. Elements are automatically organized into 1 of 14 groups. The more elements you create, the more you have to work with. A pair may create more than one product. Essentially, there's a fixed amount of possible elements (115) that you can create. This game starts with a handful of groups and elements and thus very few possible combinations. But the shear number of possible combinations grows as you progress. To manage, we suss out the game logic to help narrow our trial and error attempts. Some combinations are scientific, some are thematically logical, others are creative puns, and some will make you question the game logic. Here's where things get interesting. According to a scientist from the radio lab podcast on limits we, humans, don't have the capacity to understand very large numbers. Likewise, we have trouble understanding the microscopic processes of cellular activity even with the aid of super "Eureka" computers because there are so many dynamic, lightening fast, biochemical interactions on the cellular level. So the shear number of factors/elements in a system can be the difference between understanding and nothing. With a game like doodle god players can smoothly move from an experience with manageable complexities to an overwhelming, unintuitive amount. You start off with 4 elements and 10 possible pairs. 5 gives you 15. 10 gives you 55 and so on. If you were trying to find the 115th combination blindly, you'd have 6,555 pairs to consider. Certainly somewhere around 100 possible combinations, it becomes very difficult to keep track of your progress in your head. Even at your best, you'll have to divide your brain power between finding new pairs and storing your old attempts. What I just described is a simplified example. In actuality, figuring out all the possible combinations in doodle god is more like uncovering a branching tree rather than a spread sheet. If you're human, you will get stuck at some point playing this game. Trial and error is a big part of the experience, which naturally means your self motivated, branching, experimentation will lead you astray. In fact, I bet you'll start repeating known combinations at around 15, 25, 50, and 80 found elements (assuming you get that far). You will also either get distracted by new branching possibilities or forget which possible branches to try. The beauty of this experiment is that you can feel the effects that increasing complexities have on the gameplay and your mind. Since each new element adds one more bit of complexity and many additional possible combinations to the gameplay, you can get a feel for the individual impact each complexity has. And when things get out of your control, you can practically count the limitations of your mind. If you decide to play doodle god and you want to get the most out of this opportunity you'll need a friend to assist you. As you play a new game of doodle god for 30 minutes (preferably for the first time) have your friend discretely draw a tree of your progress. You might need to play a bit slowly so your friend has time to write everything down. Every mismatch, hint, and visit to the reactions history page should be tallied. When you pause in confusion, that should be recorded as well. After 30 minutes are up you can use the reactions history page for more data. Or you can just watch your friend play and discuss afterwards. If you don't have any help, just play the game now for 30 minutes before continuing on. The picture below is a spoiler. Click to enlarge. *SPOILERS* The above image is a tree of my sister's progress after 30 minutes. Here's some data on my sister's experience with the game. In about 30 minutes she managed to reach 23 elements. At around 15 minutes she had 20 elements. Her thorough method of systematic trial and error quickly became unfeasible (she realized). At around 15 total elements, she switched to more conceptually guided trial and error method. At around 21 total elements, she began conceptually reverse engineering possible target elements to find new elements. At around 10 elements, she tried out the history and hint features. Afterwards the frequency of their use increased. When the logic of pairs was unclear or when there was little logic behind the matches, her systematic trial and error method was abandoned. The red numbers in the image above refer to the number of times the pair was submitted. She actually said this at one point after making a combination suggested long before by a 3rd party: "You see that I got 21 [elements]? You think I can store that in my head?" For any situation involving learning in your future, consider these questions. How smart do you have to be before you realize you can't keep many complexities straight in your head? How intelligent do you have to be before you begin to greatly augment your mental capabilities by taking notes and breaks while learning. What will you do the next time on the verge of a situation increasing in complexity beyond your abilities?

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Mss 145, David Mayer Family Papers Creator: David Mayer Family Summary/Abstract: David Mayer was born in Bavaria in 1815. He immigrated to the United States in 1839, settling first in Tennessee and then in Washington, Georgia. Eight years later he moved to Atlanta where he remained until his death in 1890. David Mayer was a businessman, confederate veteran, free mason, and one of the founders of the Atlanta public schools. The collection consists of letters from notables such as Joseph E. Brown, elected as Georgia's governor four times, and from Alexander H. Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. Also contained are personal letters written by David Mayer and his children. Preferred Citation: Box #, Folder #, Mss 145, David Mayer Family Papers, The Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30309. Arrangement: The papers are arranged in alphabetical order by subject and chronologically within each folder. Biographical/Historical Note: David Mayer was born in Bechteim, Germany, December 6, 1815. In 1839, in a flush of vigor and young manhood, he left the Fatherland, and came to America, locating first in Tennessee, where he remained for four years. In 1843 he moved to Washington, Ga., where he practiced his profession – dentistry. In 1850 he removed to Atlanta, Ga. and embarked in mercantile pursuits. He fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and devoted his time to education and benevolence after the war. He was an early advocate to establish public schools in Atlanta, and was a member of the board of education as vice-president and treasurer. He was also a master Mason and exalted as a Royal Arch Mason. He served as the High Priest and master of his lodge. Mr. Mayer was also active in the Jewish community. He was vice-president of the Hebrew Congregation and treasurer of the Atlanta Benevolent Home. Scope and Content: Researchers studying the David Mayer Family Papers will gain insight into early Jewish life in Atlanta, Georgia. The papers are arranged in alphabetical order by subject and chronologically within each folder. 1 1 William A. Bass Junior High School – David Mayer Library 1926 2 Correspondence – Brown, Joseph E. to Mayer, David 1865-1886 3 Correspondence – Mayer, David to family 1839-1888 4 Correspondence – Mayer, Morris to parents 1864-1867 5 Correspondence – Moses, Isaac I. to Mayer, David 1867 6 Correspondence – Stephens, Alexander H. to Solomon and David Mayer 1866, Undated 7 Invitation 1880 8 Johnstown, Pennsylvania – flood 1889 9 Mayer, Eliza A. – Memoriam from the Grandmother's Club 1902 10 Obituary and memoriams 1890 11 Obituaries and memoriams – various individuals including Leonard, Lewis and Joan Arnheim 1902, Undated 12 Salm, Gunzberg, Levetah families – memorabilia 1877-1946 14 Scrapbook – loose pages and miscellaneous clippings 1863, Undated 15 Stephens, Alexander H. – newspaper articles 1931, Undated Mss 015, Oscar Strauss Jr. Family Papers Dates: 1872-1978 Creator: Oscar Strauss Jr. Family Summary/Abstract: Oscar Strauss married Rubye Rich, the sister of the... Mss 018, Abe Goldstein Family Papers Date Span: 1920-1987 Creator: Abe Goldstein Family Summary/Abstract: Abe Goldstein (1898-1982) was a businessman, civic lead... Mss 020, Abraham Bernard Reisman Family Papers Date Span: 1926-1982 Creator: Abraham Bernard Reisman Family Summary/Abstract: A.B. Reisman was a veteran of World War I... Mss 027, Julius L. Tenenbaum Papers Date Span: 1909-1989 Creator: Julius L. Tenenbaum Summary/Abstract: Julius L. Tenenbaum was a World War I veteran who establis... Mss 028, Jospeh Jacobs Family Papers Date Span: 1879-1985 Creator: Joseph Jacobs Family Summary/Abstract: Joseph Jacob was raised in Jefferson, Georgia. Af...

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Somewhere Else LABOUR MOBILITY 1/2 Full Lightroom Conversation Women leaders set example for rest of Nepal Imagine if this women-led municipality in the Tarai was upscaled nationwide Laxmi Basnet in Nawalparasi December 1, 2020 Hupsekot Rural Municipality recently inaugurated a 10-bed coronavirus-dedicated hospital. Municipality chair Laxmi Pandey is at centre. All photos: LAXMI BASNET After the first elections under federalism in 2017, Hupsekot became one of only two municipalities in Nepal in which women were voted both chair and deputy. Laxmi Pandey of the Nepali Congress was elected chair, and Kopila Malla of the UML was voted vice-chair. In the three years since, Hupsekot in Nawalparasi district has exemplified how this has made all the difference in the quality of education, agriculture, nature conservation, and now Covid-19 control. Hupsekot is Nepal in a microcosm in more ways than one. It encompasses the Mahabharat and Chure ranges, as well as the Tarai, and these days when the air is clear the Annapurnas are visible to the north. Hupsekot is also an example of what is possible for the rest of Nepal. Under the 2015 Constitution a vice-chair or deputy mayor has to be a woman, but Hupsekot and Jumla elected women to both positions. Now, imagine if Hupsekot was replicated in more of Nepal's 736 municipalities and 17 metropolises. "Because both of us are women, it has been easier for us to work on delivery of social services to our people," says municipality chair Laxmi Pandey. "In many other local governments we see the male chair and female deputy chair having disagreements." Indeed, while in Kathmandu even men from the same ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) are forever quarrelling, here in Hupsekot it does not seem to matter that Pandey and her deputy are from different parties. Laxmi Pandey says it helps to have a woman as both the Rural Municipality chair and deputy in order to deliver social services to the people. "Sometimes, problems arise when there are party-based decisions from Kathmandu, but we manage to resolve them amicably," says vice-chair Malla. "We have worked together well in the past three years." In its very first meeting, this village municipality decided to provide Rs5,000 for institutional delivery in government facilities to promote safe motherhood. Back then the village had only one birthing centre, it has added two more in the recent years. Now, even those who can afford private hospitals go to government hospitals because services have been upgraded. So far 1,008 people have received the institutional delivery incentive. Nawalparasi district borders India, and earlier this year it became a hotspot for Covid-19, as Nepalis returning from India brought the virus home. Hupsekot instituted a strict quarantine and contact tracing rule, and last month it opened a dedicated 10-bed hospital for coronavirus patients. Municipality Chair Laxmi Basnet presents agriculture equipment to local farmers as part of her government's effort to keep young men from having to migrate out. Pandey and Malla then worked together to encourage local youth as well as returnees to take up farming instead of migrating back to India or overseas for work. A big chunk of the rural municipality's annual budget is spent on grants for communities investing in commercial agriculture. This has had a direct impact on this year's paddy harvest, and increased the prospects for agribusiness. Hupsekot has also launched a 'School Merger Program' to address falling enrolment, and best use limited resources. Four government schools have been combined into one and discussions are underway to even merge public and private schools. "As a former teacher myself, I have focused on improving the education program without adding to the hardships of parents and students," says Pandey. "And we are working to improve the quality of instruction, to make it more relevant and impart civic values." The rural municipality has launched an awareness drive against deep-rooted patriarchal values and domestic violence by sensitising parents to raise their children right, and as equal. Both at home and in schools, children learn early about tolerance and responsibility, and boys and girls alike are encouraged to help out with household chores. Hupsekot has also gone further than most other municipalities by promoting local languages and dialects. A language curriculum is being developed for 60% of the district's population for whom Magar is the mother tongue. The digital charter of the municipality is available also in the Magar language. Hupsekot's scenic beauty and places of religious significance make it a popular destination for visitors. And the municipality is now trying to add to its eco-tourism appeal, planting 5,000 rhododendron spalings under the 'One Student One Laligurans' campaign as well as holy pipal plantations around its pilgrimage sites under a municipality subsidised program. In August, Laxmi Pandey and Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai declared the Rudrapur Gadi region a rhododendron conservation zone to encourage eco-tourism. "Ultimately, we plan to create a natural and pristine environment and cultivate rudraksha commercially. This along with religious tourism will provide regular income for our municipality," Pandey adds. The municipality is also working to raise income of female-led households by training women to produce value added goods from maize husk, and is already engaging them in knitting winter wear. The municipality then takes the responsibility of marketting the products. An inter-generational skill transfer program is also in operation so that the village doesn't have to rely only on outside trainers to learn new skills. About two years ago when the municipality advertised for two employees, some 60 single women applied for the job. During the interviews, they shared their hardships in finding a reliable source of income. While the municipality office wasn't able to employ them all, this gave Paudel a much-needed push to plan a program specifically targetting single women. "Women in rural areas, especially single women, do not have a reliable source of income. Society looks down on them. But that won't be the case if the local government steps in to support them," says Pandey. Since last year, the municipality has started allocating a budget for 'Single Women's School' under which widows come up with their owns plans for regular income generation. Vice-chair Kopila Malla (in brown sari) with Chair Laxmi Pandey inspect a road upgrading project in Hupsekot. The fact that both the chair and vice chair are women helps, and they are leading the charge with progressive plans and policies. This is in stark contrast to other municipalities where the women deputies are undermined and harassed by their male colleagues. Says Pandey: "We have to use the five years we have been given by working for the people. Bitterness and dispute will only hurt our voters. Our sole focus is on fulfilling our responsibilities." Breathing is hazardous to health Nepalis on K2 make the impossible possible Hinduism has deeply permeated the social life of Thailand. New Delhi's new dealings in Nepal November 7, 2020 Illustration: SUBHAS RAI hen Kathmandu Valley was still known as Swoniga (three… When will Nepal's future ever arrive? 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UConn: Offensive line coach Frank Giufre is being promoted to offensive coordinator, per multiple reports. Good for Frank! I've known the family for a very long time and Frank has tremendous coaching roots. Not an enviable position to be in though. The Boneyard base is in turmoil and most hate the internal promotion of someone who has, according to the board experts, "never called a play." I guess someone has to take the UCONN OC job but there have to be about 497,318 better coaching jobs in college football.

3M Health Care 3M's V.A.C. Therapy hits 2,000 medical journal studies mark V.A.C. Therapy. [Image from 3M]3M (NYSE:MMM) Healthcare's Medical Solutions Division announced the surpassing of 2,000 published studies for its V.A.C. Therapy. Maplewood, Minnesota-based 3M's V.A.C. delivers negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT). The company said it's the only NPWT tech to hit the milestone of 2,000 published, peer-reviewed medical journal studies. According to a news release, V.A.C. therapy accounts for more than 75% of published NPWT clinical evidence. "Clinical evidence has always been a foundational element to establishing credibility for V.A.C. Therapy and our NPWT products in the wound care community," said Dr. Ronald Silverman, M.D., 3M Health Care SVP of clinical affairs and CMO. "Published studies have also helped to promote adoption of NPWT and spur therapy innovations, including 3M Prevena therapy for incision management, 3M Veraflo therapy for instillation therapy for open wounds, 3M AbThera… 3M announces upgrades to wound therapy tech A VAC Ulta therapy unit [Image from 3M]The 3M (NYSE:MMM) Health Care's medical solutions business announced upgrades to advance the delivery of certain wound care technologies. A new 3M Veraflo Cleans Choice Complete dressing kit and a software upgrade for the 3M VAC Ulta therapy unit were introduced at no increased cost to the customer. 3M said in a news release that the new offerings help to simplify the care delivery processes for clinicians using Veraflo negative pressure wound therapy with installation and help to make dressing changes easier, faster and less painful for patients when compared to previous Veraflo therapy dressings. Veraflo therapy is used for patients with open soft issue wounds to help cleanse and stimulate the formation of granulation tissue. The company pointed to a recent publication — titled Effects of Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy with Instillation versus Standard of Care in Multiple Wound Types: Systematic Literature Rev… 3M Health Care to become standalone company 3M (NYSE: MMM) announced today that it plans to spin off its Health Care business by the end of 2023. The new Health Care business will be a roughly $9-billion-a-year company with a focus on wound care, oral care, healthcare IT and biopharma filtration. 3M officials argue that the transaction will better position Health Care to innovate. 3M will retain a 19.9% stake in Health Care that it will monetizedover time. "Today's actions advance our ability to create value for customers and shareholders," 3M CEO Mike Roman said ina. news release. "Disciplined portfolio management is a hallmark of our growth strategy. Our management team and board continually evaluate the strategic options that will best drive long-term sustainable growth and value. The decision to spin off our Health Care business will result in two well-capitalized, world-class companies, well positioned to pursue their respective priorities."

"« I draw and feel the happiest person in the world» I was born in Lvov (Ukraine), some time I lived in Poland, now - in Kiev (Ukraine). Education: 1993 – 1998 Studies at Publishing Academy (Lvov, Ukraine). Exhibitions: Groups 1998 - Gallery « Yarowit» , Students Arts Exhibition, Lvov, Ukraine. 1998 - Lvov Arts Palace, Art" 2008 - Group International Exhibitions «Opera Gallery», <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Budapest, Hungary, Jyl. I was born in Lvov (Ukraine), some time I lived in Poland, now - in Kiev (Ukraine). 1993 – 1998 Studies at Publishing Academy (Lvov, Ukraine). 1998 - Gallery «Yarowit», Students Arts Exhibition, Lvov, Ukraine. 1998 - Lvov Arts Palace, Arts Exhibition, Lvov, Ukraine. 1999 - Gallery «Na Yaskultse», Students Arts Exhibition, Krakow, Poland. 2000 - Gallery «Gaude Mater», 1st International Exhibition of Miniature Arts, Chenstohova, Poland (catalog). 2001 - Gallery humor and satirical «Na drabinie», Wloclawek, Poland (catalog). 2001 - Chenstohova City Arts Gallery, Young Artists Exhibition, Chenstohova, Poland. 2001 - Ignacy Paderewski Museum, Humor Arts Competition «Paint Me Tolerance», under patronage of United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees, Warshawa, Poland. 2001 - XXIV International Exhibition «SATYRYKON», Legnica, Poland (catalog). 2002 - The international art satirical competition «CURUXA», Museum of Humour, Fene, Spain (CD-catalog). 2008 - The international art competition devoted the victims of the armed conflicts «The Red Cross Summer Exhibition», Hague, Netherlands. 2008 - 1st International Aid of SNAIL'S Graphical Humor, Lleida, Spain. 2008 - International action «No jury, no prize», Moscow, Russia (catalog). 2008 - «Opera Gallery», Exhibition by International Artists, Budapest, Hungary (catalog). 2008 - 19th International Satire Exhibition «Trento between reality and madness». Subject: «We want the Moon», Trento, Italy (catalog). 2009 - 8th Tabriz International Cartoon Contest - «No War», Tabriz, Iran. 2009 - Women Cartoonists of the World, Bunker Gallery, Coffs Harbour, Australia. 2000 - Chenstohova City Museum, Chenstohova, Poland. 2008 - Art and culture Center of Humanitarian lyceum T. Shevchenko, Kiev, Ukraine. 2008 - S&L Galerie, Strasbourg, France. 2009 - «Armenian well», Kamianets-Podilskyi Historical Museum-Reserve, Ukraine. 2009 - «Kolo Gallery», Kiev, Ukraine. Pictures published in magazine «Terytoria» (Lvov, Ukraine). Responses were printed in the Polish (Gazeta Wyborcza) and the French press «The latest news from Alsace» (Dernières Nouvelles D'alsace, Strasbourg). Interviews went out in the «Wysokyi Zamok» («High Castle», Lvov), RIA Novosti, URA-Inform. Distinction on Satiric Competition «Phones Phenomenon», Gallery «Na drabinie», May 2001, Wloclawek, Poland. Nomination on the XXIV International Exhibition «SATYRYKON», Legnica, Poland. Works are in Museum of cartoon art and caricature (Warsaw, Poland), Satyrykon (Legnica, Poland), Museum of Humour (Fene, Spain); galleries and private collections of Switzerland, USA, Australia, Finland, Germany, Austria, Turkey, Croatia, Spain, Russia, Poland ,Ukraine. Romana Yaroshchak - Who there?

If you are interested in modelling, your teenage years are actually the best years at which you can get started on this career path. The modelling industry is famously easy for teenagers to get into. If you have the right look and have a passion for it, you stand a chance to gain fame and fortune in equal measure doing what you love. However, do not be lied to. The modelling industry is about so much more than the glitz and glamour that is associated with it. There is so much more that goes into it that photo shoots and fashion shows. It is also incredibly hard to get into, so if you are not absolutely sure this is the career path you want to take, it is actually easier and more worth your while to stay in school and choose another career that you are more passionate about. That being said, if you are a photogenic teenager that is absolutely set on being a model, you need to understand that there are a few key traits that everyone who makes it in this industry has. You need to be persistent, hard-working, focused and resilient. If you do not have all these traits, you will likely give up along the way when the going gets too tough, because things will definitely get tough. However, if you have all these traits, then this article is for you. Here is how to become a teenage model using a more traditional path than simply contacting ourselves first. That's right we are a talent seeking organisation looking for people like you. We work closely with professional modelling agencies to provide the right people they are looking for. We have the power to help kick start your teenage modelling career and all you need to do is simply fill this form in. But we wrote this article for people looking in search engines for how to become a teenage model, here's an overview of a more traditional entry to your career path (or you could just contact us). Once you have done all these and built up your confidence and experience, you can finally start contacting agents and agencies and putting yourself out there, waiting for your career to take off. Doing your research is arguably the most important step in your journey. You need to know what you are getting in to. Are you completely sure you enjoy modelling and everything that goes with it? Read about the required traits in models, and be sure that you have each one. You should also find out all the different types of models and the different fields of specialization. What works for you? The most common type of models. They walk on runways and showcase the different fashion designs of different fashion houses or designers. They also pose for photos wearing these designs. If fashion shows and runways are your thing, then this is the type of model you should consider being. You need to be thin, tall and not curvy. Height requirements are usually specific to agencies, but generally, you cannot be shorter than 5'8″. If TV or print ads are more up your alley, then commercial modelling is for you. Commercial models come in a wider variety of shapes and sizes, and their choice usually depends on the requirements of the marketing campaign. If you are larger than a size 10, then you fall into the plus size model category. Plus size models can also be fashion models or commercial models. They model plus size fashion or accessories. Again, you cannot be shorter than 5'8″. Do you have a really pretty foot or hand? Do your nails or hair particularly stand out? You might have the qualifications of a part model. Part models usually model specific body parts. You can specialize in your favourite body part and showcase only that part. To be a part model, there are no specific requirements of general body type. Modelling is very competitive. It is also very superficial. You will be judged almost solely by your looks. To be a teenage model, you need to accept the fact that you may not always be the best-looking person in the room, or the agent may be looking for a particular set of traits that you do not have. Rejection is part of being a model, and you need to make peace with that fact. If you are short, consider a different career path. You will also not make much money as a model. Models usually rely on one or two really big jobs which pay well. These are few and far in between. If you are passionate about modelling, consider having an additional alternative source of income until your modelling career really takes off. This may take years, so it is best to stay in school and find something you love that can pay the bills after you are done as you pursue your modelling. As a teenager, you are young. You have your whole life ahead of you, so you may look at the world through rose coloured glasses. However, you need to be realistic. Modelling is a career choice that should only be driven by intense passion. If you have doubts, stay in school and come up with other career options that you can enjoy. If you are a teenager below the age of 18, you need parental consent before any doors can open for you in the modelling world. Tell them about your plans. Make them understand your passion, and assure them that school still takes the centre stage for you. Take your time trying to convince them, because not all parents will be open to the idea. If you have to, give them some time to process what you have said and talk to them about it again in a month or two. If your parents allow it, take a few modelling classes. You will learn how to find your inner confidence, how to build your portfolio and the ins and outs of the modelling world. It is important to note here that not all modelling schools are legitimate. Some are scams, and it is up to you to do your due diligence and protect yourself. Check their credentials and look them up with your local authorities to make sure their certifications are legit. If you can't afford it, modelling school is not necessary. The Internet is an amazing resource if you know what you are looking for. Take advantage of it. Before the internet, aspiring models had to rely almost solely on magazines to learn the basics of modelling. Do not ignore fashion magazines. They have so much to teach you. Collect them and study the model poses. What works best on camera? What do you like? What don't you like? What can you change? How would you change it? Get a mirror and practice in front of it. Copy, then personalize. Make them your own. Take a few photos of yourself and ask friends for some honest criticism. Let them correct you. It will help you build the thick skin you need in this industry. Confidence is everything to a model. And confidence takes practice. Get used to the poses and let them come naturally to you. Your confidence will ooze in front of the camera. It is important to have at least a little experience before you dive into the deep end. Keep an eye out for opportunities to build on your experience, because they may come in form of anything. A family Christmas card photo? A friend's photography class assignment? A volunteer fashion show? You will likely not get paid much to do any of these, but they'll give you a feel of how it feels to be photographed. If you get the chance to pose in front of a crowd of people such as on a runway, take it. Find out how you like it because that will likely be your life if you become a model. These opportunities are also great in helping you build your portfolio, which is essential in securing that first meeting with an agent. As a model, your body is your temple. It is your entire career. You need to take care of it. As a teenager, it is easy to ignore the consequences and eat whatever you like or fail to eat essential foods. However, gaining or losing too much weight can end your career before it begins. Work hard to maintain your ideal shape. Work out, eat well, stay active. Drink a lot of water, get enough sleep and exercise your mind, too. Be healthy and look radiant, because modelling is all about putting your best foot forward. This is how you get those modelling jobs. Agents and agencies link you up with companies that require modelling services, which then pay you. You need to have a portfolio before you approach modelling agents or agencies. Your portfolio is a collection of your past modelling projects, headshots and general pictures of yourself. If you have never gotten a modelling gig, just make sure you have photos that showcase your range of looks and your face at different angles. Remember to include one or two photos with no makeup on and your stat sheet, which shows your height, weight, body measurements, eye colour, skin colour and hair colour. If there are any open calls, apply to them. Ask your parent or an adult to help. Open calls are invitations for consultations put out by modelling agencies. Again, just make sure what you are responding to is legit. Submit your portfolio to ourselves and we can help make contact on your behalf. When you meet an agent, confidence and professionalism are key. Getting into the modelling industry is an amazing way for teenagers to make some income, and it opens up a world of opportunity for them. It also teaches you a lot more than what conventional schooling does. However, remember that it is a very competitive industry, which means that your career may take a while to pick up. If you are young, staying in school while you pursue modelling is the wisest decision. Find a mentor who can walk with you on your journey, and follow their advice. Hopefully, these tips begin to give you an understanding of how to become a teenage model.

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I am trying to help my neighbors daughter improve her English. I am wondering, at what point do you teachers introduce the use of articles and how do you convey the meaning of them to your students? Do you mean that at the moment you're NOT using articles? I really think you're doing learners a disservice if you "simplify" sentences into things like "red apple on table". It's much better to use articles naturally so that you are constantly giving examples of correct usage. It's a pretty complicated area of grammar when you start looking at the details and it wouldn't be appropriate to give a young learner loads of rules and exceptions to learn. A lot of mistakes can be prevented if students apply two basic rules though. 1. All singular countable nouns need an article. 2. Uncountable nouns and plural countable nouns take no article when talking about generalities. I'd recommend first trying to get the concept of "countable/uncountable" nouns across. It's the basis of so much English grammar. Thanks for the input nomade. No I haven't been trying to teach her without the articles. We have just begun and in the little English she speaks she has not been using them. Not being a true teacher myself I felt that she should learn using articles but didn't want to completely confuse or overwhelm her. You have given me a great deal of help here. Now I know how to simply explain it to her so that she can learn correctly. I really do appreciate it. My guess is that OP is asking more - when and how does one enter the complex vista of teaching articles - rather than if one should start using them? So, my suggestion, as with all things grammar and pronunciation, is to teach them when they come up – as they happen. Regardless of the original lesson – a quick little mini-lesson needs to occur to highlight the unique aspects of the grammar and pronunciation issues in EACH lesson as they happen. This is preferable, rather than specific full-blown lessons on the rather uninteresting aspects of grammar and pronunciation only. Grammar, and pronunciation, are much more relevant when taught in the context of a regular lesson – and their relevance is what facilitates motivation to learn them – as well as helping the student understand and assimilate the information. Just my opinion. All lessons should have little contextual "min-lessons" that highlight the specific grammatical aspects of the content being covered. Otherwise, the points suggested by nomade - are a good place start. That, and given the correct situation - almost all uncountable nouns - can be countable! given the correct situation - almost all uncountable nouns - can be countable! Bob, you have made some excellent points and I agree totally that grammar should be taught in small doses and within context. But I disagree about the last bit you wrote! In what circumstances could words like ...advice, information, software, luggage, furniture, accomodation, permission, laughter etc ... be countable? Mikey, it sounds like the mistakes your student is making are probably due to first language interference. I don't speak Thai but I'd guess articles aren't used in the same way as in English? A lot of language learning involves students "noticing" things. (The ahhhh!! factor) It's usually better if you can get students to notice grammar structures on their own rather than just telling them. Give loads of examples and see if your student can work out the "rule" for herself ... she'll remember it better if she does. Nomade, you're right. There are no articles in the Thai language. Yes,yes, I have so many happinesses, or as the Chinese say: Double happiness. Point taken, as a newbie in Asia, I bow to your superior local knowledges! Notice I said "almost all" - not "all". Try this one: The variety of coffees grown in Africa is incredible. Or from your list: The different softwares on my computer are not compatible. (I have Korean, Thai, and English Windows - and different components of each). When an uncountable noun is used to indicate types or kinds - it can often be used as a countable noun. But this, again, is not a hard and fast rule. Notice also, that I said, "Given the correct situation" - so, if when planning the launch of a new product in a new country and you are seeking the permission (again from your list), for example, of a variety of government entities - I might ask you, "Have you obtained all the permissions that are required?" Okay, I realize these are all a bit on the fringe - and I would not typically teach these type situations to a less than advanced student - but they do exist and can, at times, be very appropriate. What you'll learn after you taught a while is that almost (notice that d*amn almost again!) all grammar rules have innumerable exceptions. I've become a bit hesitant in my old age about being to absolute on almost any rules - unless I am quite aware of all the possible exceptions. I had an office next door to an incredible grammarian for five years - and had many a grammar bubble burst. And, btw, which of the Englishes (that d*amn "s" again!) of the world do you intend to say are correct or incorrect? Tongue in check here really, as I agree with you on many uncountable nouns - but I just wanted to write "Englishes"!! The variety of coffees grown in Africa is incredible. No problem at all with that one Bob. It's perfectly acceptable ... just like the number of wines and cheeses produced in France is incredible. The different softwares on my computer are not compatible. Have you obtained all the permissions that are required?" Again I don't think that sounds right. I'd say "Have you obtained all the authorizations that are required?" Note that when I disagree, I say "That doesn't sound right" ... obviously somewhere in my head I have assimilated "rules" that tell me this without my having to check it in a grammar book. However your assimilated rules seem to be different, which is quite interesting! Conventional grammar explanations are rarely entirely satisafactory. To say that a grammar rule is both simple and accurate is usually an oxymoron. The way we try to describe "grammar" is obviously flawed ... I often feel there are some other rules that nobody's noticed yet. How come children learn to speak languages effortlessly and perfectly in a relatively short time with no formal grammar input at all? Finally, I agree that there are many different "Englishes" and that just because we teach "standard" English doesn't make the other types less worthy. And I noticed while teaching TOEFL that there are many differences even between "standard" American and British grammar. There's also the fact that what is accepted as "correct" grammar changes over time. 'Permissions' is fine for a plural form... My feeling is that your 'feeling' might likely come from your own personal preference for use...Quite natural, and your form is correct, too. And American English is the dominate English language now, I'd say. Thank goodness the OP is about WHEN to start teaching articles.... HOW to teach them would be MUCH harder! I'd say start off USING articles right away. The earlier the better- don't try to explain them at first; that'd just be wasted effort. Use sentences and examples and a lot of modelling (with appropriate confirmation from the students of course) to demonstrate and elicit meaning. Ideally, the kids will construct the meaning for themselves and get into the right habits and patterns. Later, when the formal usage is taught, they'll find they've been doing it all along without knowing the rules- just like we do! wouldnt that be ," just like what we do"? ^far as I'm aware, my grammar/usage is correct! Will thunder be followed by rain ? TruemoveH how do I activate the NON STOP 4G plans?

A power move, explains experienced chess teacher Charles Hertan, is a winning master tactic that requires thinking ahead. To become one of the best chess players in your school you need to be able to think just 1-5 moves ahead, and this book teaches the four basic tricks do so. You will learn how to weed out silly moves and just consider a few important ones. Forget about learning openings and endgames, power moves will help you win in all stages of the game. Charles Hertan introduces the four main characters who will help you to learn these basic skills: Zort (a teenaged computer from the planet Zugszwang), the Dinosaurs, Power Chess Kid and the Chess Professor . The most complete and fun kids book ever on learning how to win games!

Veedevadandi Babu is a 1997 Indian Telugu-language Comedy film written and directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana and Cinematography by Chota K. Naidu. The film is an official remake of the Tamil film Ullathai Allitha which itself was heavily inspired by the Hindi film Andaz Apna Apna. The film stars Mohan Babu, Shilpa Shetty and Tanikella Bharani. The film was dubbed in Bengali as Amar Pratiggya. Cast Mohan Babu as Sriram Shilpa Shetty as Shilpa Tanikella Bharani as Ongole Brahmanandam Chalapathi Rao Kolla Ashok Kumar Kota Srinivasa Rao Srihari A. V. S. Subramanyam Ruchi Ironleg Sastri Soundtrack Music was composed by Sirpy. Music released by T-Series. References External links 1990s Telugu-language films Films directed by E. V. V. Satyanarayana Telugu remakes of Tamil films Telugu remakes of Hindi films

Recepteerkunde is het vakgebied waarin men leert hoe een medicijn bereid (gemaakt) dient te worden. Hierbij houdt men onder andere rekening met de volgende aspecten: rationaliteit van het recept, fysisch-chemische eigenschappen van het farmacon (geneeskrachtige stof), onverenigbaarheden (of twee stoffen in een preparaat geen reactie met elkaar aangaan), houdbaarheid, microbiologische zuiverheid (denk aan steriliteit van injecties en oogdruppels) en patiëntengemak. Situatie in Nederland Veel medicijnen kunnen in de apotheek bereid of aangepast worden. Het gaat dan vooral om dermatica, capsules, zetpillen en drankjes. In een apotheek van gemiddelde grootte worden ongeveer 6 preparaten per dag bereid, hiervan is de helft een dermaticum. Sommige preparaten vereisen speciale kennis en kunde. Deze worden dan in speciale bereidingsapotheken bereid, of in de apotheken van ziekenhuizen. In recente jaren besteden steeds meer apotheken de bereiding van geneesmiddelen uit vanwege de strenge eisen die worden gesteld aan de ruimte waarin men geneesmiddelen bereidt. Maar soms kan het noodzakelijk zijn dat in de apotheek een geneesmiddel met de hand gemaakt wordt. Hierbij kan men denken aan capsules of zetpillen met een geneesmiddel in een bepaalde sterkte, die niet in de handel verkrijgbaar is. Zie ook Magistrale bereiding Farmacie

Earlier this week Hadley and I dyed some Easter eggs. I had seen this shaving cream and food coloring technique on Pinterest a few weeks back and knew I wanted to try it. So on Tuesday, I grabbed my girl, gathered the materials and we got to work! They were really fairly simple… a little messy (but isn't anything with a 2-year-old?) so much fun and look absolutely egg-celent!! If you agree, here is how YOU could make your very own marbled eggs. OH! AND DON'T FORGET YOUR GLOVES!!!! Once you have your materials, give your eggs a quick soak in some vinegar. This will make the colors brighter. While your eggs are soaking, spray the shaving cream into your shallow dish. Then, smooth the surface with a spoon. Next, add drops of food coloring. Take an egg and place it in the shaving cream. Make sure the entire egg is covered in the shaving cream. When it's awesome enough, place it in your drying rack. AS SOON AS your hands get the tiniest bit of color on them, make sure you touch your nose. Once your nose is colored, finish the rest of your eggs. Let them sit in the refrigerator for a few hours so the color can set. Then, wipe them with a paper towel and rinse. Sit back and inspect each egg. Then hit them around the table, if you'd like. When you are sure each egg is acceptable arrange them for a photo. Then place them in a bowl to pretty up your table. I lOVE this technique , they turned out great!! Excellent tutorial as well!!! This is a EGG-cellent tutorial!! and seriously, can Hadley get any cuter?? I love the nose shot and her inspecting each egg. Thanks girls! We really had a blast. Shaving cream is like Disneyland in a can for kids!

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Home > ETDS > 113 Effect of Triclosan-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria on Triclosan Degradation in Soils Ashley Marie Garcia Master of Science in Biology (MS) Mendez, Monica O. Triclosan (TCS), an antimicrobial found in commercial products, can also be found in freshwater systems used for crop irrigation. Thus, TCS may accumulate over time in soils, potentially affecting plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPRs). Bacterial isolates from a previous study which demonstrated PGPR activity and TCS tolerance (TPGPRs) were chosen to evaluate the use of triclosan as a sole carbon source on a minimal salts medium (MSMT). TPGPRs, which demonstrated TCS utilization, were chosen for inoculation into soil microcosm for triclosan degradation (TD-PGPRs). Soil microcosms were arranged in a 2 x 5 factorial randomized block design and irrigated with triclosan treatments (0 µg or 1.5 µg of total TCS) and five inoculation treatments (no inoculation [CTRL], individual rhizobacteria isolates [OT1-11C2, OT2-03A, OT2-17], and a microbial consortium of all selected isolates [OT-MIX]). Soils were subsampled every three days during a 30-day period for triclosan and methyl TCS extraction, followed by GCMS analysis. A two-way repeated measures ANOVA determined that inoculum and inoculum x concentration was significant across all treatments and time points for mean heterotrophic bacterial counts (p < 0.0200), with the exception of day 0 R2AT 15 ng g-1. There was an observed increase in mean heterotrophic bacterial counts for total (R2A) and triclosan tolerant populations (R2AT 1.50 µg L-1 TCS and R2AT 15 µg L-1 TCS) in OTMIX and OT1-11C2 for days 15 and 30. The data suggests that triclosan is still accumulating even with the presence of TD-PGPRs. However, by day 30 samples inoculated with OTMIX (14.22 ng g-1) demonstrated a higher triclosan reduction when compared to the CTRL (26.03 ng g-1). Methyl triclosan (initial biodegradation by product of bacteria) was observed to increase overtime for all treatments, indicating that TCS degradation is still occurring even in uninoculated soils (CTRL). However, TCS breakdown was less efficient in the CTRL treatment with 21.89 ng g-1 of MeTCS to 28.19 ng g-1 in the OTMIX soils. This study was the first to confirm the TCS degradative capabilities of the isolated TD-PGPRs. The use of these TD-PGPRs assisted in the elucidation of the fate of triclosan and by-product formation in irrigated soils. Garcia, Ashley Marie, "Effect of Triclosan-Tolerant Plant Growth-Promoting Rhizobacteria on Triclosan Degradation in Soils" (2020). Theses and Dissertations. 113. https://rio.tamiu.edu/etds/113

CRAE monitors and reports on the extent to which children are enjoying their rights in practice, to ensure that the Government is held accountable for its record on children's rights. We submit reports to international human rights bodies, including the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, when they are considering how well children's rights are protected in the UK. In 2016, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued recommendations (known as Concluding Observations) telling the Government how it should improve the protection of children's rights in the UK. Every year, we publish State of Children's Rights in England, a review of the progress made in implementing these recommendations. It is not just central government which has responsibilities under the UNCRC. Local authorities should also ensure that they comply with children's rights. CRAE also monitors the enjoyment of children's rights at the local level.

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Tofurky Asks Court to Halt Labeling Law Enforcement The law in question bans labeling vegetarian and vegan products as meat, and advertising them as such. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A plant-based food producer has asked a federal court to temporarily stop Arkansas from enforcing a law that bans labeling vegetarian and vegan products as meat and advertising them as such while litigation is underway. Hood River, Oregon-based Tofurky Co. told courts that complying with the law would have a "severe detrimental impact" because of the cost to change marketing and packaging. It's not clear if the law has been enforced since taking effect three weeks ago. The law's authors say it's designed to protect consumers. Tofurky claims the lawsuit restricts commercial speech protected by the First Amendment. Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge did not immediately return a request for comment. The American Civil Liberties Union first filed a lawsuit on Tofurky's behalf challenging the law in July. Similar lawsuits have been filed in Missouri and Mississippi.

Artworld is a two-act thesis play on poetics. The plot follows the young life of a spoken-word poet, who illegally takes up residence in a commercial warehouse with a group of fellow artists. The group hosts a weekly open-mic to help pay their electricity bills. The central themes of the piece explore the basic definitions of art (and how those definitions have evolved over time) as well as the artist's need to express. Ultimately, the play asks its audience to consider the differences (or lack thereof) between personal expression and art as forms of outward communication.

ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR ANGELA LEONG ON KEI Sociedade De Jogos De Macau, SA (SJM) CAO Office, 2/F, Hotel Lisboa, Macau www.sjmholdings.com Angela Leong On Kei was raised by a family in which her mother was the breadwinner, her father having passed away during her childhood years. Inspired to start her own business to improve the living standards of her family, Leong had to work three to four part-time jobs back-to-back when she first arrived in Macao to sustain both herself and support in no small measure her family members. She recalls that as busy and hectic as life was in those days it was nevertheless fulfilling despite the painstaking efforts she had to make to progress. Not having received much education, Leong always believed that she had to work much harder than anybody else as she firmly subscribed then, as she does now, to the idiom that 'diligence can make up for the lack of talent'. The real turning point of her life, however, was undeniably when she met Dr. Stanley Ho Hung Sun – respected far and wide for his business acumen as well as philanthropy – brought together by their common interests and hobbies. From the outset, it was obvious that Dr. Ho appreciated her genuine aspiration of starting a business of her own, which, given her evident studiousness, fortitude and diligence, was the perfect foil for his erudition and rich business experience. Consequently, Dr. Ho gave her periodic counsel, revealing to her the path of entrepreneurialism, during which process he became not only her mentor but partner in life, with the best tacit understanding of each other. Given her passion and burgeoning talent for business, Leong soon created a new world in the business sector, entering the mainstream management of Sociedade de Jogos de Macau S.A. (SJM) with people's valued and appreciated recognition of her efforts, since when she has participated in expanding and innovating the company's business, ascending over time to her current position as Managing Director and Chief Administrative Officer, demanding roles in which she supervises the company's daily operations. Having overcome numerous difficulties and challenges along the way – such as partaking in and witnessing the listing of SJM Holdings and the construction of the Grand Lisboa Palace project, among other milestone events – she can finally heave a sigh of relief that all the hard work has finally paid off, although by no means is it finished. Meanwhile, Leong has continuously followed the philosophy of 'repaying society for one's gain from it' as espoused by Dr. Ho, leading the company in taking the initiative to fulfil its corporate social responsibilities and keeping a close eye on social and livelihood issues in the course of seeking a breakthrough in the company's development. It will come as no surprise, then, that she is proactively involved in many associations and groups that seek to make society a more level playing field, taking the long view that we all have a responsibility to venerate those who have gone before and those generations currently emerging. Leong has continuously followed the philosophy of 'repaying society for one's gain from it' as espoused by Dr. Ho, leading the company in taking the initiative to fulfil its corporate social responsibilities and keeping a close eye on social and livelihood issues in the course of seeking a breakthrough in the company's development. Bearing this philosophy in mind, SJM has made fruitful achievements – gaining wide public recognition in the process – in just a few years in areas such as the development of the company's non-gaming elements, the promotion of responsible gaming, ongoing and evolving staff training, and supporting schemes in practical ways for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), a priority for the MSAR Government in its declared objective of the territory transforming itself into a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, among many other initiatives. Leong is fully aware of how difficult life can be for grassroots workers, having been one of them and gone through similar trials and tribulations of her own. When she delved further into corporate management, therefore, she recognised the need to bridge the communication gap between staff and the company in order to balance the rights and interests of both parties. This notion encouraged her, in turn, to establish the SJM Staff Welfare Consultative Committee, on which she serves as chairperson, to fight for employees' benefits, earning her much admiration from the staff. She always recalls what Dr. Ho has continually stressed: "When one drinks water, one must not forget where it comes from", which means one must put oneself in others' shoes for 'harmony' and a 'win-win' situation. The saying also transpires to be her life motto as well as the vision of the company's development. SJM, which continues to prosper under Leong's stewardship, now operates over 50% of the casinos in Macao and employs around 20,000 members of the community. These employees have not only made outstanding contributions to the government's tax coffers but provided ample employment opportunities for society. They have also won wide recognition from Macao residents and various sectors of the community for their achievements in aspects as diverse as public welfare and charity, responsible gaming, and urban construction. Given her outstanding achievements in the gaming industry, Leong was awarded the Medal of Merit – Industry and Commerce in 2009 by the Macao SAR Government and has been crowned 'Successful Female Entrepreneur' by several organisations, for which she has expressed her gratitude for the recognition of government and commerce with typical humility. In addition, she was also awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star (B.B.S.) in 2015 by the Hong Kong SAR Government. She believes that she still has a lot to learn in managing an enterprise – in particular in a business and social environment that is changing at a faster pace in Macau than possibly in any other part of the world – and is adamant that she will continue to look to Dr. Ho as a role model in her further contributions to industry and society. In conclusion, she often advises young people – in whom she has invested much time and effort over the years through scholarships and educational 'love your country' fieldtrips – that when they first enter society they have to bear hardships, be level-headed and prepare themselves for a career they are passionate about. There is no such thing as luck or copying the path to success, she admonishes – only relentless diligence can pave the way for youngsters eager to create a bright future of their own.

Bruce Lawrence Clark (* 29. Mai 1880 in Humboldt, Iowa; † 23. September 1945) war ein US-amerikanischer Paläontologe. Er war der erste Direktor des University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) in Berkeley. Leben Clark war der Sohn eines Farmers und zog mit der Familie 1904 nach Südkalifornien, wo er das Pomona College besuchte. Danach studierte er Geologie und Paläontologie an der University of California, Berkeley mit dem Master-Abschluss 1909 und der Promotion in Paläontologie 1913. Zuvor war er schon 1911 Instructor in Paläontologie, wurde 1918 Assistant Professor und 1923 Associate Professor. In Berkeley richtete er 1923 die ersten Kurse für Mikropaläontologie ein, wofür durch den Öl-Boom nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg ein großer Bedarf bestand. Ein weiterer Schwerpunkt seiner Forschung war das Tertiär und dessen Wirbellosen-Fauna an der Pazifikküste. 1921 bis 1926 war er der erste Direktor des UCMP, in einer Zeit, in der es Spannungen zwischen den Geologen und Paläontologen in der Berkeley-Fakultät gab, nachdem beide Fakultäten nach dem Weggang von John Campbell Merriam zur Carnegie Institution zusammengelegt wurden. Als Geologe kartierte er die Mount-Diablo-Region und befasste sich mit der Tektonik des Kalifornischen Küstengebirges. Er wies Wirbeltier-Paläontologen auf die reichhaltige Fossilfundstätte von Säugern aus dem Miozän (9 Millionen Jahre) auf der Blackhawk Ranch nahe dem Mount Diablo hin. Er selbst sammelte viel als Feld-Paläontologe und vermehrte die Sammlungen des Museums um bedeutende Sammlungen von Ölgesellschaften. Weblinks Joseph Gregory, Bruce L. Clark (1880–1945), first director of UCMP, UCMP Einzelnachweise und Anmerkungen Paläontologe Hochschullehrer (University of California, Berkeley) US-Amerikaner Geboren 1880 Gestorben 1945 Mann

Hedi Slimane, Fashion Wizard (part 1) On Facebook it caused a worldwide negative stir, but Karl Lagerfeld declared: "Paris needs some new things, some stimulation….. I love the idea. I think it's interesting and it's important. Something fresh was needed.", after Hedi Slimane (just appointed new fashion director at YSL in 2012) decided the company name Yves Saint Laurent would change into Saint Laurent Paris. Years before (November 2000) Karl Lagerfeld decided to lose weight in order that he could adopt Hedi Slimane's new skinny silhouette. "Until then, I had got along fine with my excess weight and I had no health problems, or – which would be worse – emotional problems, but I suddenly wanted to wear clothes designed by Hedi Slimane, who now creates the Dior Homme collections," Karl told the Telegraph. "But these fashions, modelled by very, very slim boys, required me to lose at least six of my 16 stone." He lost more than 90 lbs over the course of the year. Fashion Biography: Dior, Yves saint Laurent & Photography Hedi Slimane ((French pronunciation: ​[eˈdi sliˈman]), born in Paris on 5 July 1968, learned the art of photography before he even reached his teens and began making his own clothes at age 16. He studied History at the Ecole du Louvre, before he began working with fashion consultant Jean-Jacques Picart in 1992 on an exhibition celebrating the centenary of Louis Vuitton's iconic monogram. In 1996 Hedi was recommended by Jean-Jacques Picart for a first-assistant job at Yves Saint Laurent and subsequently hired by Pierre Bergé as a consultant for YSL's menswear. In less than a year, Slimane is made director of men's ready-to-wear at Yves Saint Laurent. Yves Saint Laurent himself attended his debut menswear show and applauded enthusiastically from the front row. But in 1999 Yves Saint Laurent is purchased by the Gucci Group. Gucci creative director Tom Ford is also made creative director of all YSL lines. Hedi departs, objecting to having to report to Ford. He declines the creative directorship at Jil Sander and accepts a role at the helm of Christian Dior's men's line. Hedi Slimane's revolutionary slimline designs for Dior Homme In January 2001 Hedi presents his first Dior Homme collection. Karl Lagerfeld documents the scene backstage with a camera. Yves Saint Laurent himself attends Hedi's show, leading a standing ovation, but he skips Tom Ford's debut collection for his namesake label…. And Hedi headed up the launch of Dior Homme's first fragrance under his creative control – named Higher. He designs the packaging and works with Richard Avedon on the advertising campaign to ensure all elements tallied with his new vision for the Dior man.. In 2002, Hedi Slimane became the first menswear designer to be named the CFDA International Designer of the year, presented by Hedi Slimane fan David Bowie. In 2003 Hedi was given nonexclusive contract with Dior and in the meantime he maintained his interest in photography. He published several books – including Berlin, featuring his photographs of the German club scene and street kids, Stage, about the rock revival and London Birth of a Cult, about the then-unknown rock star Pete Doherty – in the early Noughties. Hedi Slimane's inspiring online photographic blog, The Diary, is launched in 2006 – featuring his pictures of unknown cool kids as well as some of the music world's biggest stars. http://www.hedislimane.com/ In the summer of 2006 Hedi chose not renew his contract at Dior Homme after negotiations with the French house surrounding his eponymous label broke down (LVMH is said to refuse to grant the designer enough autonomy). Dior proposed to fund Hedi Slimane's own collections but the designer was reportedly reluctant to lose control of his name. Dior announces that Hedi will be replaced by Kris Van Assche, his former assistant. Hedi moves to Los Angeles to pursue photography. In March 2011, following John Galliano's dismissal from Christian Dior, Hedi is linked with the job of new Dior creative director. But Hedi never talked about – or even implied- to go back to work at Christian Dior, or any other luxury house in particular. He did publish Anthology of a Decade, a book in four volumes about the past ten years in the four cities – Paris, Berlin, London, and LA – where he had spent most time. Also an exhibit of photographs, "California Song," debuts at Los Angeles's Museum of Contemporary Art. In early 2012, Hedi is again linked with two of his former employers – Christian Dior and Yves Saint Laurent – both of whom were seeking a new creative director following the departures of Galliano and Stefano Pilati. In March Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, parent company of Yves Saint Laurent, announces that Hedi Slimane will replace Stefano Pilati as creative director. The label's design studio will be relocated from Paris to Los Angeles, Hedi's adopted city. And in June Yves Saint Laurent announces that it will be renamed Saint Laurent Paris, sparking a media furor and protests from critics and fashion bloggers; Hedi insists that this rebranding will merely return YSL to its 1966 identity, when the Saint Laurent Rive Gauche ready-to-wear line was launched. Hedi Slimane's first show for Saint Laurent, Paris S/S 2013 In the lead-up to Hedi's first women's RTW runway presentation for Saint Laurent Paris in October, the house issues a slew of instructions and rules to the press, sparking media chatter about Slimane's supposedly controlling nature. He shows his first full womenswear collection for Saint Laurent Paris, which references Saint Laurent's bohemian influences in the 1970s. According to the fashion press Hedi failed to deliver the visceral, game-changing act of rebellion which the industry expected from this most mythic of contemporary fashion designers. The 1970s haute-groupie looked nostalgic and familiar, rather than agenda-setting or challenging. The reviews are mixed. Pre Fall collection Saint Laurent, Paris 2013 And in March 2013, Hedi's second collection for Saint Laurent Paris is inspired by the grunge period, Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain. The disconnect with the Saint Laurent customer seems at times alarmingly wide. In California, where Hedi lives and to where he has moved the design studio, nineties grunge is a deeply felt part of everyday folklore; but in Paris, it is an abstract concept. And the grunge roleplay did not provide much in the way of roles for accessories. There were almost no handbags in this collection – this girl, with her unwashed hair and kohled eyes and fishnets, has no yen for an expensive handbag. Yet the YSL woman, surely, loves her handbag. This was a second act by Slimane which leaves the stage intriguingly poised for the next. Saint Laurent, Paris grunge fashion show A/W 2013 Next week more about Hedi Slimane's photography Categories stories ← The Beautiful Fall….. Hedi Slimane, Fashion Wizard (part 2, Photography) → 3 Responses to "Hedi Slimane, Fashion Wizard (part 1)" Nel van Dijk 24 March 2013 at 09:02 # Bedankt weer Netty voor je opkikkertje voor de zondag! Ik geniet er elke week weer van. Op 24 mrt. 2013, om 09:01 heeft A.G.Nauta couture het volgende geschreven: A.G.Nauta couture 24 March 2013 at 10:22 # Wat een lief bericht! Dank je wel, Hedi Slimane, the Famous Yet Reclusive Fashion Designer, Is Back - WEHOvilleWEHOville - 13 February 2018 […] Hedi Slimane left Saint Laurent and West Hollywood in March 2016. But Slimane, who was born in Paris, never left Los Angeles. He is said to love L.A. so much that, before accepting the Saint Laurent position, he insisted that François-Henri Pinault, chief executive of PPR, the company that owns Gucci, Saint Laurent, Puma and others, let him run the design studio in L.A. rather than Paris and fly in employees from Paris for consultations. […]

Is your exercise routine fun? If not, you could be undoing your hard work by eating more calories afterward, researchers say. In two studies, people who were asked to walk for 30 minutes "for exercise" ate larger amounts of unhealthy snacks—but not of other foods—than did those who were told that the purpose of the same walk was to listen to music or sightsee. In a third study, runners who had participated in a race were given a questionnaire, then offered either a chocolate bar or a healthy cereal bar. People who reported having more fun during the race were more likely to pick the healthier choice.

The #1 most asked question after I announced our pregnancy that didn't have to do with how I was feeling or how far along I am was about my dress. I'm SO SO glad you guys loved this romper/dress as much as I do. Since y'all had so many questions about it, I decided to include some similar dress and romper options below for you as you're packing your spring break bags and looking towards Easter and fun spring date night options. You may remember that when Leyton was in my belly I did weekly pregnancy updates, so I've decided to bring those back for Baby Brown #2 so I can keep everything documented here. Plus I figure that some of you who are also pregnant may find this information useful to see how others are feeling along the same path as you. So, keep reading to see my fourteen weeks update + some spring lace dress and romper ideas similar to my dress to help you transition into spring. Mom Styling Tip: Don't be afraid to add a little edge to your lace especially while the weather can still be cool at night in parts of the country. You can always throw on a leather jacket or pair with booties if you don't want it to be to feminine and soft with the lace. Total weight gain: 10 pounds…..this may be the only time I answer this question. ?I am gaining so much faster this time around! Maternity clothes? Not yet! But I have already eliminated my favorite mom jeans from my lineup as I can't fit in them once my belly expands after 5:00. SO interesting how it gets bigger each night. Stretch marks? Not yet, I am starting using creams this week though! More to come on that in Monday's post. Sleep: I am still pretty tired. I sleep so hard right now (well, and to be honest, usually!). I sleep in and nap any chance I get. Miss Anything? Sad I didn't get to enjoy National Margarita day! Food cravings: Hot tea for my cough at night, McDonald's fries, sodas to help settle my stomach when needed. Mood: Ready for energy to be back and for this cough to leave! Looking forward to: Beach trip in 2 weeks!

There are so many opportunities to save money online — and not just with shopping. Here are some of the ways I save through the Internet. Freebies2Deals: Seriously, I'm obsessed with this one. She doesn't post anything that is going to run out in like 10 seconds, and everything is legitimate. Plus she has tons of giveaways, which is always awesome! There was also a mobile app released recently, which makes finding deals on the good easy. I've bought a few of Baby J's birthday presents recently because of some of her posts. The Thrifty Couple: This site recently made the switch to not posting as many deals, but to focus on helping people live more within their means! They still do post the best weekly diaper deals, as well as restaurant deals, which I think is super helpful. I know a lot of people are wary of doing anything online that has to do with personal information, like bank accounts, but I have really liked the ability to manage my accounts and bills digitally. There are two sites that I have been using to help keep track of our bills and spending. BillCutterz.com: This is a really cool service! Basically, you send them your bills, and they work with the provider to negotiate a lower rate. If they get you savings, you split the savings with them as their payment. And if they aren't able to lower your rate, you owe nothing! It works with everything from cell phone bills, to cable and satellite, to gym memberships! Mint.com: I think a lot of people have heard of this one, it's been around for a few years. Over the years since it has been available, I've gone in spurts of using it. Sometimes I'm really intense about it, and make sure everything is up to date, and carefully monitor our budget with it, but then other times, I kind of forget about it. It is a great website though, and if you really want to have all of your bank account and credit card information in one place, it's a good option. I also really like being able to set my budget, and see how much is left in each category. Manilla.com: I've recently started using Manilla, so I don't know everything about it, but from what I've seen, I like it. If you pay bills online, this is definitely the site for you. You can put all your information in about different bills, and it helps remind you when to pay those. I don't know about you, but I feel like we have so many bills that we pay online, and sometimes I forget. Luckily, most are auto pay, but it's still good to have a reminder for when our back account is about to get a little smaller. Amazon Prime: I use Amazon for everything. I first started using it in college, when I was eligible for Amazon Student. Amazon Student is a sweet deal — you get a 6 month, free trial which includes free two-day shipping. After six months, you can sign up for a paid membership at a discounted rate of $49 for a year, and that includes access to Prime Instant Videos, the Kindle Lending Library, and, of course, the two-day shipping. All of this is also included in the non-student version, which is $99. Although it's a bit of an investment up front, if you use Amazon a lot, it pays for itself. It definitely does for us. We also use Amazon Mom, which is awesome if you buy a lot of diapers and wipes. You can score an additional 15% off on certain items (in addition to the Subscribe and Save discount), and if you've never signed up for prime before, you can get a three-month trial with Amazon Mom. You can be an Amazon Prime and Amazon Mom member at the same time. So, as an overview, here are three ways to get an Amazon Prime Membership with benefits. Ebates: I just discovered this a few months ago, and I can't believe I haven't been using it. Ebates gives you cash back for certain purchases online, and almost every place I've shopped in the past few months has been on Ebates. Right now I have 26 dollars that will deposited to be me through PayPal sometime this month — partly because of purchases I made, and partly because of their awesome referral program. The cash back may not always look substantial, but if you do a lot of shopping online, it adds up. And even if you are shopping at a kind of random place, be sure to see if you can use Ebates. I found that PersonalizationMall.com had 16 percent cash back when I bought an ornament from there! I also wrote a post over here about different ways to earn cash back online! Google Shopping: This is probably the best way to comparison shop. It brings up just about every option available for your search, where it's available, and different prices. You can also change the search options, so if you want something in a certain price range, that will show up. I've found this to be the most affective way to shop online — it brings up just about every webpage, and also tells you if it is in stock nearby. I've used Google Shopping on my phone when I am at a store that price matches, in order to make sure I get the best price. Shoprunner: While I never would pay full price for this, if you can find it on a discount, it's definitely worth it. I was lucky enough to get a year free of it last year, and it's been well-used. Basically, it gives you free shipping and delivery for tons of different websites and companies — I think I used it most often on Toys/Babies R Us, and for Dominos. At full price, it is $8.95 for month, or $79 for a year, but quite often, it is available for half price memberships (or if you are lucky like me, free!) On the website, you will see the option to try it out for 30 days, and see if it's worth it. I don't think I'll continue it after my free year runs up, mainly because I buy most things on Amazon, but I know a lot of people love the service. I never make an online purchase without first searching for a coupon code. 9 times out of 10, I am able to find one, and it's worth the extra few seconds it takes to find it. My go-to coupon finder is RetailMeNot.com, but there's any number that you can find while searching on Google. Swagbucks: This is probably one of the most well-known programs out there, and the easiest way I have found to get Amazon Gift Cards. You earn sSagbucks by completing searches through the Swagbucks search engine (you can download a toolbar if you want, or set your search engine to it) — not for every search, but a decent amount. Admittedly, I don't use Swagbucks a lot, mainly because I don't really like the search engine, but I know many people who have earned a lot. You can also earn Swagbucks by completing surveys or making purchases online. Plink: I saw this on The Thrifty Couple a few months ago, and have used it a little bit. You get points for using your debate card at certain restaurants, which then can be turned in for gift cards. You really don't have to do much beyond the initial setting up of your account. It has restaurants like Burger King and Red Robin, and you do have to spend a certain amount to get points. But if you you are going out with more than just yourself, that limit isn't hard to meet! Surveys: I talked about this last week, but I just have to re-emphasize what a great way this is to make some extra money! We live in a world where you can do just about everything digitally – sometimes that's not such a good thing! Fortunately, saving money on groceries is always a good thing. I've come across two awesome resources that you can use online to save money on your groceries. I love this website! They create weekly meal plans based off of the deals for that week. All you have to do is login each week, print off the deals for your preferred store, and your meal plans are ready to go! This is basically a big box store like Costco or Sam's Club – but there's no membership fee! You can get great prices on bulk products, sent straight to your front door. And, last, but certainly not least, there are so many ways to make money with your smartphone! Be sure to check out my list here.

BALTIMORE -- On the field their teams may be rivals, but off the field, brothers Ma'ake and Chris Kemoeatu -- one a former Baltimore Raven, the other an ex-Pittsburgh Steeler -- are closer than close. They share a lifelong love of football, an alma mater and now, a pair of kidneys. Ma'ake Kemoeatu, a former nose tackle for the Ravens, donated a kidney to his brother Chris, a former offensive guard for the Steelers, at the University of Maryland Medical Center in August. The brothers are now recovering from their surgeries. Chris Kemoeatu's football career was cut short after seven seasons with the Steelers when he learned he'd need a kidney transplant. That's when his older brother, a 99-percent kidney match, stepped in, and left the Ravens in 2012.

Matt Faction's prose, (and let's call it what it is) is fantastic. The only way it could be topped is by the art Christian Ward provides; and it is visually ravaging. ODY-C #2 was such an overwhelming reading experience that I had to literally pause for a moment after I finished reading the issue, to sit back and take it all in. The density of the story and art is staggering. Fraction's plot is straightforward yet full of complexity. It is not only entertaining for the longtime and die-hard comic audience who wants to pick up a different sort of book, but for anyone new to the comic experience. While ODY-C may seem at first glance, to be a bit much, the story is so immersive that to miss out on it would be a disservice as a reader. As we have moved past the first issue, returning to this series seemed easier the second time around, as familiarizing yourself with the ideas makes the reading deeper and more enjoyable as a result. Now that we are past the initial origin setup, the story flows naturally here. The continued context provided by the likes of Zeus in issue two grounds the story further. This 'playing out' of the visual and narrative story elements is crucial to the series and leads the reader along a poetic path that both challenges what we take for granted about the genre and enhances it with a new dimension, all at the same time. Christian Ward's art continues to feel like a cool trip. It induces a sense of cosmic symphony with style and flair as shown here. This is brought about by not only by the fluid lines, but the flamboyant colors as well. Ward's work in his issue matches the cosmic brilliance the story calls for. As a space odyssey, ODY-C needs to look and feel submerged in a finer layer of details to pull of the grandiose adventure it is, and this is overwhelmingly achieved. The panel and page layout that Ward has used compliments Fraction's approach to the story. For instance, as Fraction guides the ODY-C and her crew to the Phage-World, Ward immediately strikes a different tone from the preceding pages. This seems to match the change in narrative as Fraction begins to employ the dactylic hexameter. By following the spiraled journey of Odyssia and her sebex, Ero, down the labyrinth of the Lotus-fueled pleasure palaces, Ward displays such wanton exuberance for artistic talent it practically oozes from the page. The pinnacle of the art in ODY-C are the colors. They explode from the pages. The water wash style color palette used is beautiful. Every comic book needs a hook. When a new reader goes into a shop and picks up a random comic from the stand, it needs to hit them instantly, so that they will be more inclined to buy it. With this series, the art speaks for itself, but the colors really grab you. Their vivid use and arrangement has a pull that is enticing. This series makes an outstanding contribution to the comic book field. It is experimental, in your face, pure flair. The creators involved are showing why such an endeavor needs to be done; to challenge an industry that thrives on creative new approaches. While I admit, ODY-C is a heavy read, it is intended to be so. There is so much more that is gained as a reading experience because of this fact. While this book continues to impress me, what do you think of it? Do you like the writing and narrative style used? What do you think of the art?

Go here. Type in your name. Find out what kind of cheese you are. Then let the world know. I'm Roquefort, king of cheeses! All hail me! Boursin is a soft, fresh cheese, first made by Monsieur Boursin in 1957. It has a rich, sweet flavour with a hint of acidity, and is flavoured with garlic, herbs or pepper. Emmental is a hard, pale yellow Swiss cheese. It has a sweet smell, with a fruity taste. The most prominent feature of Emmental is the walnut-sized holes it contains. Emmental is probably the origin of the sterotypical holey cheese image. I'm wondering what the correlation is between this cheese and my personality, love life, etc., etc. I also want to know what the hell kind of formula they used to compare my name to a cheese. How disturbing. Nanette, I am your queen. Probably the best known French cheese, Brie is a soft cheese with a leathery, edible rind, and a white, creamy body. Brie is known as the Queen of cheeses, and used to be part of the tributes that had to be paid to the French Kings. They got the white creamy body part right. The leathery rind I am concerned about.

UCLA public policy professor creates committee to advise the EPA iStock.com/Zhongguo UCLA Newsroom | April 23, 2019 J.R. DeShazo, professor of public policy in the UCLA Luksin School of Public Affairs, has created a committee of environmental economists to help ensure that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has access to the most advanced research. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation, the External Environmental Economics Advisory Committee will advise the EPA on the social costs and benefits of its policies. "Our mission is to provide independent, state-of-the-science advice with regard to the benefits, costs and design of the EPA's environmental programs," said DeShazo, co-chair of the committee, who is also a professor of civil and environmental engineering in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Policy changes related to the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act and the Energy Independence and Security Act will impact millions of Americans and firms, along with the ecosystem. As a nonpartisan research organization, the committee intends to operate until the EPA reconstitutes an internal environmental economics advisory committee composed of independent economists. Read more on the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs website. Tags: public policy | environment | faculty news Les Dunseith ldunseith@luskin.ucla.edu

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On episode #4 of the Cine-Cast, Cine-File associate editors Ben and Kat Sachs get the party started—banter ensues between the married critics; contributor JB Mabe interviews Chicago Underground Film Festival programmer and artistic director Bryan Wendorf about the festival, which just celebrated its 25th year; associate editor Kat Sachs interviews local filmmaker and all-around delightful human Lori Felker about her new film, FUTURE LANGUAGE: THE DIMENSIONS OF VON LMO, which was the closing night film at CUFF; associate editor Ben Sachs and contributors Kian Bergstrom and Kyle Cubr discuss the "Stanley Kubrick: The Filmworker Series" at the Music Box Theatre, during which Ben tells a joke about Kubrick that you won't want to miss. Chicago Filmmakers (5720 N. Ridge Ave.) presents Emily Esperanza's Wretched Woman (2015-17, approx. 72 min total, Digital Projection), a program of short films by the formerly-local filmmaker, with Esperanza in person. Den Theatre (1331 N. Milwaukee Ave.) hosts the Wretched Nobles shorts program Bon Voyage: Travels Through Lands, Space, and Time on Tuesday at 9pm. The Goethe-Institut Chicago (150 N. Michigan Ave., Ste. 200) screens Fatih Akin's 2002 German film SOLINO (124 min, Video Projection) on Thursday at 6pm. Free admission. Also at the Gene Siskel Film Center this week: Vivian Qu's 2017 Chinese film ANGELS WEAR WHITE (107 min, DCP Digital) and Tiffany Bartok's 2017 documentary LARGER THAN LIFE: THE KEVYN AUCOIN STORY (103 min, DCP Digital) have week-long runs; Trnka Shorts Program IV (1962-65, 84 min total, DCP Digital), featuring four of the Czech animator Jiri Trnka's short films, is on Sunday at 2pm and Monday at 6pm; and Trnka's 1959 feature A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (72 min, 35mm) is on Sunday at 3:45pm and Wednesday at 3:15pm. Also at Doc Films (University of Chicago) this week: Manuel José Álvarez and Nicolás Buenaventura's 1997 Columbian film LA DEUDA (90 min, 35mm) is on Thursday at 7pm. At the Music Box Theatre this week: David and Nathan Zellner's 2018 film DAMSEL (113 min, DCP Digital) opens; Bart Layton's 2018 film AMERICAN ANIMALS (91 min, DCP Digital) continues; Jennifer Peedom's 2017 Australian documentary MOUNTAIN (74 min, DCP Digital) is on Saturday and Sunday at 11:45am; Ron Clements and John Musker's 1992 Disney animated film ALADDIN (90 min, Unconfirmed Format) is on Tuesday at 7pm; and Paul Thomas Anderson's 2015 music film JUNUN (54 min, DCP Digital) is on Thursday at 9:30pm, preceded by Anderson's 2016 Radiohead music video DAYDREAMING (6 min, 35mm). Facets Cinémathèque plays Licínio Azevedo's 2016 Mozambican/Brazilian/Portuguese film THE TRAIN OF SALT AND SUGAR (93 min, Video Projection) for a week-long run. Comfort Film at Comfort Station Logan Square (2579 N. Milwaukee Ave.) presents an outdoor screening of Victor Sjöström's THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (1921, 104 min, Video Projection), with live musical accompaniment by The Blood Sisters, on Wednesday at 8:30pm. Free admission.

Contributor biographical information for Pearl of China : a novel / Anchee Min. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog Biographical text provided by the publisher (may be incomplete or contain other coding). The Library of Congress makes no claims as to the accuracy of the information provided, and will not maintain or otherwise edit/update the information supplied by the publisher. Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. During the Cultural Revolution, she was ordered by Communist officials to denounce Pearl Buck as an American imperialist. At seventeen, she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. Min moved to the United States in 1984. Her first book, the memoir Red Azalea, became an international bestseller and was published in twenty countries. Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Buck, Pearl S. -- (Pearl Sydenstricker), -- 1892-1973 -- Fiction. Women novelists -- Fiction. Americans -- China -- Fiction. Friendship in children -- Fiction. Female friendship -- Fiction. China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Downer EDI (ASX:DOW) has today announced that Downer Group Finance has successfully priced an issue of Medium Term Notes totaling $300 million under its $1 billion Debt Issuance Programme. The issue follows a successful roadshow in Australia and Asia which attracted strong support from a variety of domestic and international investors. The company says it's very pleased with the support received from both existing and new debt investors including the strong interest from offshore. Mizuho Securities Asia, National Australia Bank and Westpac Banking Corporation acted as Joint Lead Managers on the transaction. Shares in Downer EDI (ASX:DOW) are trading 0.13 per cent higher at $7.67.

It's no wonder the New York Times raves: "Darlene Love's thunderbolt voice is as embedded in the history of rock and roll as Eric Clapton's guitar or Bob Dylan's lyrics." Through the years, Darlene Love continues to captivate audiences worldwide with her warm, gracious stage presence and sensational performances. Since the early sixties, as part of Phil Spector's 'wall of sound' hit factory, this great lady has done it all…from Broadway hits like Hairspray and Grease, starring as herself in Leader Of The Pack, credited as Broadway's first 'jukebox musical,' to major motion pictures like the highly successful Lethal Weapon series. Darlene's background vocals as a lead member of The Blossoms for Tom Jones, The Righteous Brothers, Dionne Warwick, Marvin Gaye, and Elvis Presley (to name but a few) set the stage for her emergence as a star in her own right. Her Billboard hits include: "He's A Rebel," "The Boy I'm Gonna Marry," "Wait 'Til My Bobby Gets Home," "He's Sure the Boy I Love" and the #1 holiday classic "Christmas Baby Please Come Home," a song that she performs annually with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Symphony Orchestra on The Late Show With David Letterman (December marked her 27th appearance). In 2011, Darlene Love received her industry's highest award when Better Midler, a great fan of her work, inducted her into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. During the celebration, the two ladies enjoyed performing "He's A Rebel" together. As part of the festivities, Darlene also sang "He's A Fine, Fine Boy" backed by another distinguished fan, Bruce Springsteen.

Accra, May 23, GNA - The Very Reverend Joseph M.Y. Edusa-Eyison, Associate Chaplain of the Ghana Police Church, was on Sunday inducted into office as the General Director of Board of Ministries of the Methodist Church of Ghana. Preaching the sermon at the induction service, the Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church, the Most Reverend Dr Robert Aboagye-Mensah stressed the need for the church to take its evangelisation mission seriously. He said the Church should go out and bring people to the living faith in Christ adding that the Church was one of the greatest instruments for changing individuals. Most Rev Aboagye-Mensah said the Church should devote much of its time to teaching, pointing out that the Word of God must be read, interpreted and taught under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. He said the Church must exude love and show fellowship in the common faith in the Risen Christ and worship God in sincerity, adding that this would bring in its trail joy. The Very Rev Edusa-Eyison was born in 1950 at Essikado, Sekondi in the Western Region of Ghana and attended Nsein and Oda Secondary Schools before entering the University of Ghana, Legon for his first degree. He obtained the Post Graduate Diploma in Pastoral Studies from the Trinity Theological Seminary in 1986 and was commissioned as Minister of the Gospel in the Methodist Church, Ghana. He also obtained the Master of Philosophy Degree from the University of Ghana and currently he is at the final stages of obtaining a Doctorate Degree from the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The Very Rev Edusa-Eyison, who has served in various capacities in the Church and is a Member of a number of Professional Associations including The Ecumenical Association of the Third World, is married with three children. The Board of Ministries is responsible for all matters relating to ordained ministries including candidature; training; reception into Full Connexion, continuing education and welfare of Ministers. It is also responsible for lay Ministries including the work of Stewards, Local Preachers, Class Leaders, Adult and Intergenerational Organisations and the Lay Movement as well as directing and coordinating Evangelism, Mission and Renewal and Christian Education work in the Church.

Events in the year 1955 in Germany. Incumbents President – Theodor Heuss Chancellor – Konrad Adenauer Events May 15 - Rhineland-Palatinate state election, 1955 June 24 - July 5 - 5th Berlin International Film Festival July 2 - Tierpark Berlin opened. July 15 - September 18 - documenta 1 in Kassel August 11 - 1955 Altensteig mid-air collision September 20 - Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR Births 4 January - Wolfgang Tiefensee, German politician 14 January - Jan Fedder, German actor (died 2019) 16 January - Martin Roth, German museum director (died 2017) 18 January - Gerburg Jahnke, German comedian 25 January - Petra Gerster, German journalist 1 February Hans Werner Olm, German comedian Christian, Duke of Oldenburg, head of the Grand Ducal Family of Oldenburg 10 February - Bernd Martin, German football player (died 2018) 6 March - Friedbert Pflüger, German politician 8 March - Thomas Bellut, German journalist 11 March - Nina Hagen, German musician 21 March - Bärbel Wöckel, German sprinter 13 April - Ole von Beust, German politician 29 April - Klaus Siebert, German biathlete (died 2016) 15 May - Claudia Roth, German politician 15 May - Alexander Pusch, German fencer 26 May - Doris Dörrie, German film director 2 June - Heiko von der Leyen, German physician 10 June - Annette Schavan, German politician 11 June - Marie Gruber, German actress 1 July - Rosemarie Wenner, German Methodist bishop 29 July - Christian Tramitz, German actor, comedian, voice actor and author 9 August - Udo Beyer, German track and field athlete 15 August - Roger Willemsen, German author, essayist and TV presenter (died 2016) 20 August - Helge Schneider, German comedian, jazz musician and multi-instrumentalist, author, film and theatre director, and actor 25 August - Gerd Müller, German politician 2 September - Claus Kleber, German journalist 14 September - Wilhelm Huxhorn, German footballer (died 2010) 20 September Georg Christoph Biller, German choral conductor (died 2022) Lilo Wanders, German transvestite entertainer, comedian and theatre/television host 22 September - Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, German football player and trainer 25 September - Peter Müller, German politician 25 September - Richy Müller, German actor 30 September - Andy Bechtolsheim, German businessman 11 October - Hans-Peter Briegel, German footballer 25 October - Peter Nocke, German swimmer 10 November - Roland Emmerich, German film director, screenwriter, and producer 8 December - Martin Semmelrogge, German actor 15 December - Renate Künast, German politician 22 December - Thomas C. Südhof, German biochemist 31 December - Gregor Braun, German cyclist Deaths 15 January — Johannes Baader, German architect, writer and artist (born 1875) 24 January - Friedrich Wilhelm Kopsch, German anatomist (born 1868) 20 February — Eugen Schmalenbach, German economist (born 1873) 24 March - Otto Gessler, German politician (born 1875) 18 April — Albert Einstein, German theoretical physicist (born 1879) 29 May - Rudolf Klein-Rogge, German actor (born 1885) 29 June - Ernst Legal, German actor (born 1881) 29 June — Max Pechstein, German painter (born 1881) 2 August - Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, German nobleman (born 1869) 12 August — Thomas Mann, German author (born 1875) 13 August — Wilhelm Kreis, German architect (born 1873) 19 August - Otto Weiß, Luftwaffe officer (born 1907) 25 August - Heinrich Spoerl, German author (born 1887) 31 August: Willi Baumeister, German painter, scenic designer, art professor and typographer (born 1889) Eberhard Koebel, German youth leader and writer (born 1907) 9 October — Joseph Vollmer, German engineer (born 1871) 15 December — Otto Braun, German politician (born 1872) 19 December - Herbert von Dirksen, German diplomat (born 1882) References 1950s in Germany Years of the 20th century in Germany Germany Germany

MLUI / News & Views / Articles from 1995 to 2012 / 'Unbreaking Windows' 'Unbreaking Windows' A Flint leader's effective formula to repair his hometown February 13, 2006 | By Charlene Crowell www.co.genesee.mi.us "We have a financial crisis because of our land use policies," says Genesee County Treasurer Dan Kildee. "We are growing the cost of government seven times faster than we are growing taxpayers to pay for it." Since launching a countywide effort in 1999 to transform blighted and abandoned landscapes in and around Flint into useful, attractive and revitalized neighborhoods, Genesee County Treasurer Dan Kildee has been a man on a mission. Mr. Kildee, a former social worker and college instructor whose government career began as an 18-year-old member of the Flint Board of Education, has attracted national notice for developing Michigan's first practical program to speed the return of tax-reverted properties to productive use. Mr. Kildee's contribution to a problem that has stymied cities for years was to produce an efficient process to identify abandoned properties, clear titles, and prepare them for sale on the market. The program proved so successful that two years ago the state Legislature approved and Democratic Governor Jennifer M. Granholm signed a new law to establish a state land bank, giving other communities the same capacity to more easily redevelop their downtowns. Mr. Kildee was named the State Land Bank Authority's president. Mr. Kildee, who is 47, married, and a father of three, was raised in Flint and educated at Mott Community College and the University of Michigan's Flint campus. From 1985 to 1997 he served as a member of the Genesee County Board of Commissioners, including five years as the chairman. Mr. Kildee also is the chairman of the Democratic Party in Michigan's 5th Congressional District, which happens to be the political territory roamed by his uncle, Dale Kildee, a respected Democratic Congressman. "We are very close," said Mr. Kildee of his uncle. "I manage his congressional campaigns." Technical expertise, combined with a warm and winning temperament, have earned Mr. Kildee wide recognition as one of the state's most effective local government officials. In 2003, Governor Granholm named him as one of the 26 members of the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, a bipartisan committee charged by state leaders to recommend ways to slow sprawl, redevelop cities, and strengthen Michigan's economic competitiveness. Of late, Mr. Kildee's land bank ideas are attracting national attention. He recently completed a Fannie Mae Foundation fellowship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He leads the Genesee Institute, the county land bank's research and technical assistance affiliate, which has provided services and expertise in land banking to 10 communities nationwide. And there's another national role that Kildee plays: Advisor to the National Vacant Properties Campaign, a Washington-based non-profit collaborative working to make vacant property reclamation an attainable goal nationwide. The growing national interest in land banking as a tool to revitalize older urban areas reflects Mr. Kildee's role in encouraging Michigan to become the first to create a state land bank. His challenge now is the same as the state's: How to make this innovative governmental reform, as well as the tax dollars it reclaims for communities, available to more Michigan core cities, such as Benton Harbor, Muskegon, and Detroit. In a candid interview with the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service, Mr. Kildee described opportunities for economic revitalization and his hopes for the Great Lakes state. Question: What was the impetus in 2002 for the creation of the Genesee County Land Reutilization Council? Mr. Kildee: We were created primarily as a result of the reform of tax foreclosure laws in 1999. We realized we would soon be receiving thousands of properties through tax foreclosures. Our fear was that the new tax foreclosure system – while it was a significant improvement – could have resulted in a more efficient replica of the former system. So we went to the Mott Foundation and asked for help to design a system that would best use this new law as a community stabilization tool. During Genesee County's early efforts, how did the Land Reutilization Council engage businesses and citizens in this redevelopment effort? At the beginning and since, we placed high priority on public participation – developing a series of sessions where all citizens of a neighborhood are invited to participate in a plan for their community. We have had literally thousands of citizens participate in neighborhood meetings to education them on what we can do, and also gain their input on what they see as their neighborhood's future. What productive efforts resulted? We quite literally designed the programs of the land bank through their input. Those neighborhood meetings were matched by other stakeholder meetings. And between the two, we designed programs that worked for everyone. Let's fast forward to 2003 and the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council. As a council member, what did you envision as a measurable benefit to the enactment of a state land bank statute? First, to come up with a rational process of disposing of state-owned properties that respected local communities and allowed that land to be used for its highest purpose instead of being sold to the person with the greatest financial resources. Secondly, I thought it was important to provide a mechanism for county land bank authorities – a mechanism to deal with new properties in the same manner. Since the state's 2004 enactment of the land bank legislation, you now serve as president of the State Land Bank Authority. To date, how would you characterize local interest in land banks? I would say it's very strong. Aside from Wayne County and the City of Detroit, there are five communities in the process of forming authorities: Calhoun, Jackson, Grand Traverse, Berrien, and Muskegon. Saginaw and Ingham counties have already formed authorities. There are others who have expressed interest. What are the plans and priorities for the state land bank? We want to continue institutionalizing the state authority's existence. It's still really new, and we're still formalizing procedures. Even so, we want to encourage re-use of properties, particularly with the involvement of nonprofits. We also encourage the creation of more county land banks where there is interest. If citizens or local officials are not quite certain as to whether a land bank would be beneficial for their community, what advice would you offer? I would encourage citizens to keep in mind the alternative to a land bank – a system that has delivered land to its lowest use, and spread blight. That would be number one. Secondly, I would say become involved. Communities become their best when citizens are directly involved. In Genesee County every neighborhood in every community was and remains extremely important to our success. It is my understanding that Genesee County's Land Bank operates some six programs affecting tax-reverted properties ranging from demolition, to housing renovation, rental management, and more. Among these programs, is there one that has been utilized more than others? Are any designed to be 'user-friendly'? They are all designed to be as user-friendly as we can possibly make them. And in that regard, we are in constant improvement. We do change our programs, based on citizen input. Their input is critical. To pick one program that has generated widespread and sustained support, I would say the Clean and Green program is particularly significant. We had 550 properties, managed by a partnership between the land bank and neighborhood-based organizations. The result is that we, the land bank, share financial resources with neighborhood organizations to support their mission. It also cleans up the property that we own and creates a new standard for the neighborhood. We are unbreakingwindows. As a member of the Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, you were a vocal redevelopment advocate. Since the August 2003 adoption of the council's report, what do you consider to be the council's greatest achievements? I'm very proud of the land bank statute, and the amendment to brown fields. Those are direct results from the council report with very immediate results. In a larger sense, I would have preferred to see more progress. The council connected open space preservation, farmland preservation, and the preservation of our urban landscape. We helped people understand that those three seemingly distinct elements of our landscape are interdependent, and cannot succeed on their own. Conversely, what are the biggest challenges to making more of the Council's recommendations reality for all of Michigan? The biggest challenge is in helping people to understand that land use decisions are also budget decisions; they are school decisions; and they are economic decisions. The way we develop our land affects the way we deliver government services, the way we finance education, and the way we grow our economy. I've been personally frustrated that people think the land use debate should be set aside because of the financial crises faced by state and local governments. The point I'm trying to drive home is that we have a financial crisis because of our land use policies. We are growing the cost of government seven times faster than we are growing taxpayers to pay for it. What resources are required to return economic vitality to Michigan's older communities, and cities in particular? One is, if we pursue policies that value urban land and that attempt to develop that land, the resources follow. The policies of the last 30 years devalued urban land and drove away financial resources to develop strong neighborhoods. Very often we forget we need to create an economic model that places a high value on urban land. And if we do, we develop our own resources. Charlene Crowell, a journalist and policy specialist, is the Michigan Land Use Institute's state policy director, based in Lansing. Reach her at charlene@mlui.org

News: Marine Fenders Evaluation of Wave Disturbance Study Results The design of a port is primarily aimed to provide suitable berthing conditions for the ships. Each ship or craft, depending on its size and Planning Study for the new cargo port in Naxos Island - Conceptual Design CNWAY and its Associates have successfully completed the Planning Study for the new Cargo Port in Naxos Island as well as the Conceptual Design of Small Port Facilities in Karystos - Evia Island CNWAY and its Associates have successfully completed the study of a small port in Karystos of Evia Island on behalf of the firm "Blue Farm Marine Fenders provide the necessary interface between the berthing ship and the berth structure and therefore the principal function of the fender is to transform the impact load from the berthing ship into reactions, which both the ship and berth structure can safely sustain (Carl A. Thoressen). Photo1: Pneumatic marine fenders in use for cruise ship berthing at Rhodes cruise terminal (Rhodes Island - 2012) Marine fenders typically operate as a group of single units where the type, location and density of their installation or deployment depends on several factors including their technical specifications, berth structure, ship type, etc. (see Photo 1). The basic function of the marine fenders is to manage the excess kinetic energy of the ship during the approach or berthing operation preventing damage to occur in both the ship and the berth. In case of elastomeric fenders the excess kinetic energy is stored within the elastic elements, which are deformed by developing a counter parallel (to the motion of the ship) reaction force, which results in slowing down the vessel and keeping it to a safe distance from the quay. The effectiveness of the fender system depends on the following three basic parameters: The correct system design (selection of suitable fender types and optimum arrangement), System operation according to the manufacture specifications, Regular inspection and system maintenance. The fendering system design is a specialized study which is sometimes omitted or incorrectly performed with the result that money is wasted for the supply of systems which are often unsuitable for the intended use (See photos 2.3 and 4). Photo 2. V type fender system (Buckling type) with contact plate which does not correspond to the intended needs of the berthed vessel, resulting in the need to suspend used vehicle tires on the contact plate to reduce system rigidity (Port of Sοuda, Adrias Pier – Crete Island - 2011) Photo 3. As above Photo 4. Improper selection and installation of fender type resulting in an inefficient operation of the system and the failure of its anchoring (Port of Poros Island - 2014) Photo 5. Installation of two different V- type fenders in short distance with different technical specifications and controversial operation efficiency (Port of Rhodes Island - 2012) The successful design of a fender system should follow the following basic steps (PIANC 2002): Determination of system requirements, Determination of operating characteristics, Assessment of the berth type where the system will be installed, Assessment of design parameters, Calculation of impact energy which will be received by the fender system (either during berthing or loading and unloading operations), Appropriate system selection, according to the total energy absorption requirements and system design criteria, Assessment of the reaction force and the associated frictional forces between fender and vessel, Berthing vessel resistance capacity check to reaction force generated by the selected fender system. The correct calculation of the design impact energy is particularly important because the selection of a suitable fender system will be based on that, while generally the principle «the Bigger the Better» does not apply. In fact the fender which has greater energy absorption than that required considering the design ship and the conditions of impact is more rigid developing greater reaction force and exerting inevitably greater pressure on the contact surface with the ship. These fenders require the application of a "larger impact force" to operate which may ultimately cause permanent deformation to the ships metal surfaces if the reaction force is greater than that of metal surface strength. Therefore, instead the impact energy being absorbed and converted to manageable reaction force solely by the fenders, in the case of a "harder" fender that greater force will deform the metallic surface of the vessel as well, causing damage to it. On the other hand the under sizing of a fender system will cause its failure with adverse consequences to the berth and the vessel. In many Greek ports improvised questionable quality and efficiency fender systems are used (see fig. 6 and 7) without specifications. In photo 7 a fender system made by used rubber tires can be seen suspended from a quay wall that has experienced damage from its insufficient operation. Photo 6. Suspended used rubber track tires as marine fenders in a quay wall (Port of Naxos Island - 2010) Photo 7. Old tires of vehicles with a chain suspended from a vertical quay wall that has experienced damage from its insufficient operation (Port of Souda, Crete Island - 2011) Finally, equally important is the annual inspection of the fender system for damage. The inspection should be performed by experienced engineers so as to maintain the system in working condition and within the design specifications. In order to prolong the useful life of a system, any damage must be repaired according to product specifications and without altering its functional characteristics. Photo 8. In the photo is shown a V type fender with contact panel and shear chains with failed anchor system after ship collision (Port of Souda, Crete Island- 2011) Marine fenders are considered standard equipment for a berth and their effective operation can prevent significant damage to ships and infrastructure. The maintenance cost savings for a marine facility equipped with a well-functioning fendering system is significant and exceeds the purchase, installation and maintenance cost, provided of course that the system design is supported by a comprehensive study.

Loren Gold is an American keyboardist, vocalist, music director, and songwriter. Gold is the keyboardist and backup vocalist for The Who, and keyboardist/vocalist for the band Chicago. In addition, Loren has been the touring keyboardist and backup vocalist for Roger Daltrey since 2009. Loren also performs with Rita Wilson, and has toured regularly with Don Felder since 2009. Other artists he has toured with include Kenny Loggins, Natalie Maines, and American Idol winner Taylor Hicks. Gold has been musical director for pop stars Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, and Hilary Duff, and he continues to build and develop bands for other artists. Gold has published two instructional books through his collaboration with Alfred Music, and his original compositions have been featured on HBO and Showtime. Music Director Gold toured in fall 2003 as the keyboard player for Hilary Duff, and continued as her musical director until 2007. In winter 2007, Gold co-wrote with the Canadian songwriter James Renald the first single for the American Idol winner Taylor Hicks, entitled "The Runaround". Television and national performances of "The Runaround" took place starting in December 2006. Gold became the musical director and keyboard player for Taylor, touring extensively in 2007. In 2008, Gold toured with Mandy Moore in support of her album, Wild Hope in Australia and the Philippines. In winter 2008/2009, he continued playing keyboards with the NBC production America's Got Talent and ABC's Dancing with the Stars. In 2008–09, Gold became music director and consultant for several pop artists, including Demi Lovato, Jordan Pruitt, Jordin Sparks and Selena Gomez. During spring 2008, Gold began performing with Don Felder of the Eagles, shortly followed as keyboardist / vocalist for Kenny Loggins. An original Gold/Renald composition, entitled "Pretend", was used in the 2009 Walden Media film Bandslam and featured on its soundtrack, available on Hollywood Records. Roger Daltrey In 2009, Gold became the keyboard player and vocalist for Roger Daltrey's Use It or Lose It Tour. Daltrey's band, No Plan B, also opened for Eric Clapton on several dates during 2010. At the show of October 12, 2009, in Seattle, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder joined the band on stage for performances of Pearl Jam's "Better Man", and the Who's "The Real Me" and "Bargain". In December 2010, Gold was asked to be Musical Director for the Phil Kennemore Y&T benefit concert in Santa Clara, CA. Gold performed with several guests, including Geoff Tate of Queensrÿche, Don Dokken of Dokken, and Vinny Appice of Dio and Black Sabbath. In 2011, there were performances of the Who's Tommy and the hits of the Who, which included a performance for the Teenage Cancer Trust at Royal Albert Hall with Pete Townshend. On March 28, 2012, the band was joined on stage by Steve Winwood, Ronnie Wood, Paul Weller, Kelly Jones and Michael Miley for another Royal Albert Hall performance for the Teenage Cancer Trust. A world tour of Tommy continued throughout 2011–2012 with North America, Europe, and Japan. The Who In July 2012, the Who announced Gold as keyboardist / backing vocalist on their 2012–2013 35-date Quadrophenia and More tour, where they played their album Quadrophenia in its entirety. The tour continued in the summer of 2013 with performances throughout Europe, concluding with a performance at Wembley Arena in London. Between the two legs of the tour, Gold performed at 12-12-12: The Concert for Sandy Relief – a benefit concert that took place on December 12, 2012, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In addition to the Who, performers included Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, and Roger Waters. It was the most widely distributed live musical event in history, accessible to nearly two billion people worldwide on television, radio and the Internet. Prior to joining the band, Gold worked with the Who on their 2010 Super Bowl Halftime performance, helping edit and organize the arrangement of the performance. Between performances with Roger Daltrey and the Who, Gold traveled to Japan and performed with veteran Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi. The tour, entitled "Arena Tour 2014 All Time Best," celebrated a career that has spanned over 30 years. Performances included the legendary Nippon Budokan in Tokyo and Yokohama arena. A live DVD was released following the tour. A final concert was added in 2015 at Mt Fuji, with 100,000 people in attendance. In 2014, the Who announced The Who Hits 50! world tour, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band. The tour kicked off in the United Arab Emirates, at a concert after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Just prior to the tour, the Who band appeared at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on November 11 as part of the Who Hits 50 tribute night in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Gold performed and sang back-up vocals, alongside the rest of the Who band. Performers included Wilko Johnson, Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson, Geddy Lee of Rush (band), Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, the Strypes, Tom Odell, Amy Macdonald, Andy Burrows and Rizzle Kicks. Ricky Wilson was joined by Phil Daniels, the star of the 1979 film Quadrophenia for 'Bell Boy', which was originally released in 1973. Included during the 2015 tour were large, outdoor performances at Hyde Park and Glastonbury, with upwards of 200,000 people in attendance. During a break between the Who's 2014-2015 world tour, Gold performed at the annual ARF Stars to the Rescue charity concert in January 2015, headed by Hall of Fame baseball manager Tony LaRussa. In 2013, Gold also performed with several members of Santana and Bruce Hornsby at the annual charity event. More ARF shows have followed, including performances with Huey Lewis and the News and Trace Adkins. In May, 2015, Gold performed with the Who touring band at the MusiCares Foundation in New York City, honoring the Who's Pete Townshend and its manager, Bill Curbishley, with an all-star line-up that included Bruce Springsteen, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Willie Nile, and Who lead vocalist Roger Daltrey. Gold was featured as the "Stadium Ace" in the April 2016 issue of Keyboard (magazine). Chicago In early August 2021, Loren Gold joined Chicago as a touring substitute when he was asked to fill in for their longtime keyboarist/vocalist Lou Pardini, when he was mostly out for August and September until he was able to return. In February 2022, Gold became an official member of the band after Pardini announced in late January that he was leaving the group after 13 years. Artists Gold has recorded and/or worked with the Who, Roger Daltrey, Chicago, Pete Townshend, Kenny Loggins, Natalie Maines, Huey Lewis and the News, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, Eddie Vedder, Trace Adkins, Steve Winwood, Don Felder, Melissa Etheridge, Rita Wilson, Hilary Duff, Taylor Hicks, Mandy Moore, Tate McRae, America's Got Talent, Dancing with the Stars, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Eric McCormack, Jordan Pruitt, Nick Lachey, Jordin Sparks, Gladys Knight, Dan Aykroyd, Andrew Gold, Y&T, Kara DioGuardi, Andrew Dice Clay and others. Awards American Idol Season Five (Gold Record Award) Taylor Hicks (Gold Record Award) Demi Lovato (Gold Record Award) Selena Gomez (Gold and Platinum Awards) Hilary Duff (Multi-Platinum Awards) Network Television Appearances The Tonight Show, Oprah Winfrey, The Late Show, MTV, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Jimmy Kimmel, CBS Early Show, Martha Stewart, Dr Phil, Carson Daly, American Music Awards, Billboard Awards, The Talk. DVD / Television / Film / Live Albums Quadrophenia Live in London, The Who Tommy Live At Albert Hall, The Who Live In Hyde Park, The Who 2017 Tommy & More, The Imitation Game, Bandslam, The Girl Can Rock, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, 90210, Learning to Fly, HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, The Movie Channel, Nickelodeon, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, All Night Live, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, FUJI SANREI ALL NIGHT LIVE 2015(5CD+DVD) Works In 2015, Gold released his first instructional book for Alfred Music. Entitled Sitting In: Blues Piano, it features backing tracks and improv lessons, and includes progressions in essential blues styles, like boogie woogie, shuffle, gospel, blues-rock, swing blues, and others. Audio recordings contain sample solos, while the book provides tips focusing on scales, modes, comping patterns, and other ideas for developing an authentic blues vocabulary. The recordings feature a live band with piano, guitar, bass, harmonica, and drums. A second book released in 2016, entitled Sitting In: Rock Piano'', follows a similar format to the blues book. Gold also composes music which falls into the Instrumental genre. Selected works include: Keys, All Around Me References External links Official Web Site Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Musicians from Palo Alto, California New-age composers No Plan B (band) members The Who members American rock keyboardists American soul keyboardists 21st-century American keyboardists 20th-century American keyboardists American pop keyboardists American rhythm and blues keyboardists Chicago (band) members Year of birth missing (living people)

La cité administrative de Liège est un ensemble de bureaux destinés à accueillir différents services publics. Le bâtiment datant de 1967 est un des premiers gratte-ciel de Liège, il a été dessiné par les architectes Jean Poskin et Henri Bonhomme. Historique Dès 1901, la ville de Liège envisage la centralisation de ses services communaux sur les sites de l'ancien hôpital de Bavière et de la tour des Finances. Mais la concrétisation de ce projet n'arrive qu'à partir de 1961. À cette époque les services de la ville sont dispersés, on compte pas moins de 28 bureaux répartis dans 18 bâtiments pouvant être distants de plusieurs kilomètres. La construction commence le et l'inauguration du bâtiment a lieu le . Description Reposant sur 300 pieux en béton armé, la tour est construite sur une surface de , s'élève à de hauteur et compte près de bureaux. Les architectes, influencés par le style international, s'inspire fortement du siège des Nations unies situé à New York. Œuvres Deux jeunes filles qui se coiffent les cheveux (ou Confluence) de Idel Ianchelevici, placée au pied de la Cité. Citation de Michel de L'Hospital gravée à la base du pignon sud-ouest : Peinture murale, depuis 2006, de l'artiste Nicolas Kozakis représentant les contours de la grotte de la Nativité. Rénovation La tour n'a jamais fait l'objet de grands travaux de rénovation depuis son inauguration en 1967. Toutefois, ces travaux de rénovation sont prévus pour début 2020 et devraient durer 27 mois. Depuis 2013, une partie des employés ont déménagé rue des Guillemins. Notes et références Voir aussi Articles connexes Patrimoine public de Liège Liste des plus hauts immeubles de Liège Cité administrative Lien externe Bâtiment à Liège Gratte-ciel en Belgique Gratte-ciel construit en 1967

Winston Churchill towered over his own age, when he was variously described as "the saviour of his country," "the leader of humanity" or "the man of the century". More remarkably, he has towered over fifty years and more since his since his death in 1965. He overshadows both his country, whose recent history has been called "an extended footnote to Churchill," and the United States, where a great cult of Churchill has burgeoned. This magnificent account of Churchill's life and afterlife − the first of its kind − has been more than ten years in the making. It is not a conventional biography but a brilliantly written account of Churchill's long life, the cult that arose almost immediately after his death, and his place in popular culture, up to the Oscar-winning film Darkest Hour in 2017. While it is not deliberately hostile, it does provide an invaluable antidote to hero-worship.

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Home › About › Ritsumeikan University As a university strategically located in the Asia Pacific region, Ritsumeikan University is developing its activities in the international arena. With the goal of "developing human resources for international community", Ritsumeikan University has prioritised the drive to internationalisation since the1980s, becoming one of the first universities in Japan to establish a college of international relations. Through a global network comprising more than 403 universities and institutions in 61countries and regions, Ritsumeikan University has led the times by offering forward-looking initiatives, including the development of diverse international programmes in response to students' growing interest in the ongoing moves toward internationalisation. Following selection by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) in 2009 for the "Project for Establishing Core Universities for Internationalisation (Global 30)", Ritsumeikan University is planning to expand the scope of its international student support programmes as well as study abroad programmes for local students in an effort to further internationalise its University-level education. Ritsumeikan University has now become one of the largest and high-profile private universities in Japan accommodating about 36,000 students in 13 colleges and 19 graduate schools. Its main campus is inKyoto, the ancient capital city of Japan, a centre of learning, culture, and the arts. Expression of interest form: Japan applicants (DOC, 87kB) Expression of interest form: UK applicants (DOC, 87kB)

MURFREESBORO — Former state Rep. John Hood will be honored as being an unsung hero at the fifth annual Heroes Breakfast sponsored by the Heart of Tennessee Chapter of the Red Cross at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at The Grove at Williamson Place, 3250 Wilkinson Pike (off Medical Center Parkway). Keynote speaker will be Dave Sanderson, "Miracle on the Hudson" passenger on Flight 1549. For tickets and more information, contact Kimberly Lopez at 615-893-4272, ext. 103 or email kimberly.lopez@redcross.org. MURFREESBORO — Kwik Mart is partnering with Murfreesboro Cold Patrol and Murfreesboro Muslim Youth to provide free meals to those in need. Just $10 will buy three meals at the market, which has a hot bar with a variety of foods on the menu. A sandwich and salad bar is coming in the near future. If you're interested in participating in the pay-in-forward meal voucher program, you can purchase the vouchers in the store, located at 315 N. Front St. Vouchers can also be purchased online at murfreesboromuslimyouth.org. You can also learn more about the Cold Patrol at murfreesborocoldpatrol.com. MURFREESBORO — Murfreesboro Cold Patrol, a community outreach to the homeless in Rutherford County, is in the process of securing a 501c3 nonprofit status. Right now the group is taking pledges for monthly monetary commitments. Those who make a monetary commitment will get a commemorative T-shirt. If you're willing to donate monthly funds — any amount is welcomed — email the amount and T-shirt size to group leader Jason Bennett at jason@murfreesborocoldpatrol.com. To learn more how you can help, call 615-434-COLD (2653). MURFREESBORO — The Exchange Club's eighth annual Celebrity Waiters Dinner is set for 6 p.m. April 6 at Stones River Country Club, 1830 N.W. Broad St. in Murfreesboro. This year's theme is "Opry in the Boro: Backstage Pass." A reception will kick off the evening at 6 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 o'clock. There will be a silent auction, live auction, entertainment, and a meet-and-greet with some of the stars of the evening. You never know who will show up. Sponsorships are available from $500 to $2,500. Proceeds benefit the Exchange Club Family Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. Reserve your table by calling Exchange Club Treasurer Ed Barlow 615-893-2067 or Exchange Club member John Hood 615-849-5300. For more club information, contact Don Wright at 615-896-9460. SMYRNA — Smyrna Heart of Grace, an outreach ministry to those in need in Smyrna, helps feed families who live in motels and campgrounds, along with other homeless individuals in the north Rutherford County area. Each weekend the nonprofit sends home food bags to children in need, as well as feeding families. Needs to help make this regular ministry a success include gallon-sized zip-style baggies, soups, oatmeal, individual-size macaroni and cheese packets, soup packets, ravioli, snacks, noodles, granola bars, protein bars and any other easy-to-store foods. Drop off items at 1135 Rock Springs Road at Rock Springs Church, or call Tracy Warrick at 615-768-9535. MURFREESBORO — Renewed Life Ministries Outreach, a recovery program for men struggling with addiction, is seeking donations of towels, kitchen supplies, cleaning items, paper products, bedding and funds for a new facility. Also, the Nashville Praise Symphony will perform a benefit concert April 29. Assistance is needed in planning the event. To learn more about other needs, or how you can help, visit rlmo.org. MURFREESBORO — Doors of Hope, a nonprofit that works to reduce recidivism, needs volunteers to write letters to clients in Therapeutic Community at the Rutherford County Correctional Work Center. There are 13 women nearing release who will be involved in classes 18 hours a week. Those who write letters would send a card or letter once a week and it is completely anonymous. If you can help, contact Maridel Williams at opendoorsofhope@gmail.com. MURFREESBORO — Greenhouse Ministries, 309 S. Spring St., needs donations of steel-toed boots to help those seeking employment. A variety of sizes are needed. Pantry needs include canned fruit, canned chicken, spaghetti sauce, and pop-top canned foods.For more details, call 615-494-0499. MURFREESBORO — The Journey Home, 308 W. Castle St., has volunteer opportunities in the community cafe for the first and third Tuesdays, clothes closet workers, food box builders (any weekday morning), bookkeeping help, handyman assistance and housing program outreach. There is also a need for a volunteer to coordinate volunteers with the organization. If you can help, call 615-809-2643 for details. MURFREESBORO — Beesley Animal Humane Foundation Clinic, 2215 Keeneland Commercial Blvd., is seeking donations of these items: cotton balls, distilled water, bleach, paper towels, toilet bowl cleaner, clean used towels, and cat/dog food (wet and dry). Collected items can be dropped off at the clinic between 10 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. or 1:30-5 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Beesley Animal Clinic will offer extended hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays. Vaccinations will be given from 10 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. and 1:30-6 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday hours remain the same: 10 a.m. to 12;45 p.m. and 1:30-5 p.m. The agency is also seeking sponsors and funding for the annual Paws & Pearls gala in the spring. Learn more at beelseyanimalfoundation.com or call 615-217-1030. MURFREESBORO — Stepping Stones Safe Haven for women and children is seeking donations, as the shelter is set to open soon. Needs include lavender-scented items (to keep bugs away), toilet tissue, paper towels, bathroom and kitchen cleaning items, adult diapers (extra-large), plastic utensils and plates, plastic storage bags and bins, children and adult underwear, 30-gallon trash bags, bottled water, laundry supplies, copy paper, pantry items, coffee, wipes, low-denomination gift cards and Rover tickets. For more details about the program or to donate funds, visit facebook.com/steppingstonestn or call 615-900-4427. Email nonprofit needs to news@dnj.com, attention "How Can I Help?"

Was Election Software Rigged? Sidney Powell Lays Out the Trump Team's Findings. Watch: Biden Mocked for Repeating Debunked Amtrak Story Once Again: 'This Is Disturbing Stuff' Attorney Sidney Powell on "Sunday Morning Futures" said Trump's legal team is gathering evidence of "election fraud" that allegedly took place in election-related software, like Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic. As it currently stands, Dominion is being utilized in 2,000 jurisdictions in 30 states. Texas decided not to use Dominion on three separate occasions because of fraud concerns. According to Powell, the Trump campaign has enough evidence to launch a serious criminal investigation. "We're fixing to overturn the election results in multiple states and President Trump won by not just hundreds of thousands of votes but my millions of votes that were shifted by this software that was designed expressly for that purpose," Powell explained. "We have sworn witness testimony about why the software was designed. It was designed to rig elections." According to Powell, the witness that the Trump team has is someone who has seen elections rigged in other countries. Those same tactics and software were allegedly deployed to the United States. "They did this on purpose. It was calculated. They've done it before," she said. "We have evidence of 2016 in California. We have so much evidence I feel like it's coming in through a fire hose." Host Maria Bartiromo pushed back, saying the election must be certified in a few weeks. She wanted to know if there was enough time for Powell and the team to produce evidence of the alleged wrongdoing. "First of all, I never say anything I can't prove. Secondly, the evidence is coming in so fast I can't even process it all. Millions of Americans have written by now, I would say, definitely hundreds of thousands have stepped forward with their different experiences of voter fraud but this is massive election fraud and I'm very concerned it not only involved Dominion and its Smartmatic software but that the software was essentially used by other election machines also." Powell stated whistleblowers came forward over alleged paybacks. She said in states where the new election technology was purchased and implemented, there's evidence of officials' family members being paid large lump sums of money. There are other concerns about how the software can be utilized. The attorney stated software and election officials have the ability to do things like delete ballots, force the machine not to read voters' signatures or the down ballot. Powell said there's also the ability for the machine to be programed to only count votes for Biden. "It's like drag and drop whatever you want wherever you want, upload votes," she explained. This is an excerpt from TownHall. For the full version, click here.

Corey Myers, 3B - D-Backs By Robert Sherry Corey Myers: The fourth pick overall pick in the 1999 draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks, Myers looked like a pretty large reach to go so high and his play in 2000 has done basically nothing to change many people's view. Some of the struggles might be due to him converting from shortstop over to third base this spring. Once signed, Myers received a $2 million signing bonus and was assigned to Rookle-level Missoula. He helped in calming down the overrated talks by batting .276 with five homers and 44 runs batted in in 272 at-bats. However, he this season has bee a struggle for this 19-year-old. In the spring he was converted over to third and was assigned to Single-A South Bend in the Midwest League. He struggled at the plate (.125, 4 RBI in 64 AB) and committed 14 errors (in 19 games) in the field. Myers was sent back to the Osprey and to see if he can settle homself down, but the struggles have continued as he has batted .218 with 5 home runs, 38 runs batted in, 14 doubles, 2 triples, 31 runs scored, 17 walks 51 strikeouts, and 4 steals in 216 at-bats. Myers is still young so he does have a lot of time left, but he needs to bounce back next season and show an improvement at the plate, especially in making more contact. If he can settle in at third and improve at the plate, maybe the D-backs will have their eventual successor to Matt Williams. But that is a long ways away right now.

Since Christopher Nolan's stunning blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises™ burst onto our screens last summer in all its dark, menacing glory, we've been eagerly awaiting a bombastic online slot version from Microgaming, developed through its licensing agreement with DC Entertainment. It's the software developer's second foray into the Batman franchise, following the hugely successful The Dark Knight™, unveiled in the summer of 2012. While The Dark Knight was a progressive slot, which meant it offered potentially earth-shattering prizes for a spin on the Mega bonus round, The Dark Knight Rises isn't linked to the Microgaming Progressive Jackpot, so while it may not afford the chance to win millions, it does allow room for the developers to let rip with some uniquely exciting and creative bonus rounds. And that's what we want in our blockbuster movie slots, thank you very much: oodles of fast-paced, action-packed features sliced with audio and visuals from the movies, plus rip-roaring animation, as Batman comes out of retirement to take on the terrifying, anarchic force of nature that is Bane. How many ways to win?! The Dark Knight Rises is a 5-reel slot with 243 ways to win. For those of you new to the "243 Ways to Win" format, this is an exciting rethinking of the slot machine model that removes the constraints of paylines. Instead, wins are based on left-to-right combinations, regardless of their position on each reel. Winning combinations must start from the first reel, of course, but can continue on in any position from top, centre or bottom, meaning that all symbols act like adjacent scatters. It's the perfect hectic, high-volatility format for a game that effectively encapsulates the hard-hitting excitement of the movie. First up, the music tense, atmospheric, cinematic, and all your favourite characters from the movies appear on the reels, bursting into life as video animations as they make combinations. But it's when the bonus features are activated that the game truly comes alive. There are lots of exciting new features here, such as Fight Mode, Symbol Scramble and Split Wilds, all of which are triggered randomly – and frequently – in the base game. In the Symbol Scramble feature, the symbols on the reels rearrange themselves to give you the best possible winning combination. Then there's the Expanding Wild feature where the Special Wild symbol expands across the whole middle reel, giving you a big chance of hitting some winning combos. Particularly notable for its awesomeness is the Fight Mode Feature; here Batman and Bane take centre stage to fight it out in an animated duel across the screen. Microgaming carefully scrutinised footage from the film in order to choreograph and develop these realistic fight sequences specifically for the game, and the result is pretty effective. However, it also serves a purpose: the duo fight it out to award you a random number of free spins and multiplier value. This is then added to the free spins/multiplier in the Free Spins Bonus feature when you trigger it next. The Free Spins Bonus feature itself is triggered when you get or more Scatter Bonus symbols anywhere on the reels. Here, you are rewarded with 10 free spins, plus the free spins/multipliers you have accumulated during fight mode. You will then play a choice of two bonus games, depending whether you choose the Bane or Batman character. Choose Bane and any win will activate the Rolling Reels Feature. Hit a winning combo in this mode and the winning symbols explode, allowing the symbols to drop down in their place, which means you can potentially win multiple times on every free spin. Should you activate the Free Spins Bonus feature 10 times, the Super Stacked Wilds feature will come into play. Here, the Dark Knight Rises logo symbol is the wild which will create a wild stack on reels two and four, potentially resulting in some big, big wins. Choose Batman to trigger the Extra Wild Blast Feature, where you get to choose which symbol you want as an extra wild. Trigger the Free Spins Bonus feature ten times to unlock the Heat Seeking Wilds Feature, which transforms random symbols on the three middle reels into wilds which can split in two effectively creating a six-of-a-kind combination, worth twice that of five-of-a-kind.

On April 1, Odessa will host the Battle of Startups. The CEO Oleksii Vitchenko will represent Digital Future. This is the 38th Startup Battle that is hosted by the investment platform Startup.Network. The event is held on a monthly basis. From 17.00 to 18.00 – the entrepreneurial block. Here experienced entrepreneurs will share the experience and the last trends in the industry with their young colleagues. From 18.00 to 20.00 – the investor's block "Presentations of startup projects." Different projects will make the 3-minute presentations before the expert council. After that, the experts of the Battle of Startups will question the entrepreneurs and will give advice on the projects. You can present your project free of charge, but registration is required.

Introducing a new way for Automotive Dealers to be empowered. Strategy Mob is an affiliate partnership program for leading technology companies involved in automotive across North America. Membership is based on awareness of leading technology in addition to maintaining an honest and straight forward reputation based on integrity and delivering real measurable results for dealerships. The main aspects of the program include a quarterly high-quality printed magazine sent out to dealerships, dealer groups, industry gurus and OEM executives throughout North America as well as a companion community website strategymob.com. Strategy Mob Magazine allows for a wealth of content for readers to help improve their day to day operations as a dealership from some of the brightest minds in automotive. Automotive dealers and vendors are invited to become part of Strategy Mob's website community at strategymob.com. The site features videos, product reviews and solutions, plus the ability to sign up/join to submit articles on automotive industry topics. Strategy Mob was launched October 5th, 2015 in Las Vegas as part of the Digital Dealers 19 conference. Read (PDF): StrategyMob_01_Todd_Lawson or online here.

Hon Hussein Abdi Dualeh today forwarded to the legislature to make it into law the proposed package consists of a Petroleum Policy, an Upstream Petroleum Bill and a Petroleum Revenue Bill. The translation of the bills into Somali and review which has already completed, were previously sent to the full Council of Ministers for debate and approved have now being forwarded to the legislature to make it into law. Due to its political status as an unrecognized de facto state and due to the security concerns that oil companies have about operating in the Horn of Africa region, it has been challenging for Somaliland to attract oil companies except for a few that have the risk tolerance for operating in such an environment and have experience in operating in similar challenging areas. Once we find an interested company, we qualify their technical and financial capacity to farm-in into existing interest or enter into a new Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) with Somaliland by filling out a standard application and submits it to the Ministry of Energy & Minerals (MOEM). Once they qualify, we then enter into negotiations with them to hammer out an agreement. In ensuring that the government gets the best possible stake in these agreement, we hire reputable international oil & gas lawyers to support the government in these negotiations. Once an agreement is reached with an oil company, the unapproved PSA for awarding new acreage goes to the full council of Minsters chaired by the President and Vice-President to be debated and ratified before the MOEM executes the agreement. In line with our constitution, Somaliland uses an existing Petroleum Act that it inherited from the previous Somali government before the breakup until we draft our own which we are in the process of doing and will be discussed today. This existing petroleum law vests the approval of such petroleum agreements to the executive branch of our government. But the legislature has the prerogative to summon the Minister of Energy & Minerals, as they often do, to answer any questions posed by them on any PSA agreement that is entered into by the executive branch. The Ministry of Energy & Minerals has been working for over a year in developing a new upstream petroleum regulatory framework drafted with the help of a world class Norwegian law firm. The development and drafting of this new legal framework was presented in a workshop to Somaliland government key stakeholders this past June. The attorneys then finalized the package incorporating the workshop input in August. The new petroleum regulatory package has been under translation by a Somaliland law firm (Xaqdoon) and has been under review by the Government Solicitor General to ensure it does not conflict with existing Somaliland laws. Once the translation and review is completed, the bills will be sent to the full Council of Ministers for debate then will be forwarded to the legislature to make it into law. The package consists of a Petroleum Policy, an Upstream Petroleum Bill and a Petroleum Revenue Bill. We are targeting to have the new law passed by the Legislature as early as possible in 2015. The signature bonuses pertaining to awarding the above-noted blocks were paid to the Somaliland government. In order to ensure transparency and proper accountability, all funds paid by the oil companies to meet their obligations are sent to the Central Bank of Somaliland who verifies and clears the funds and ensures that they are deposited in proper government treasury accounts. The Ministry of Energy & Minerals have made it a practice to make the receipt of these funds public and the Ministry of Finance have attested to their receipt. Non-renewable natural resources are an important issue for every country. Countries strive to get the most value for these resources and to exchange the right to develop them for meaningful contributions for the nation and its people. We have done the same here. Not everyone will be familiar with the structure of a typical "profit sharing contract" or "PSC" – it is an agreement unique and common to the hydrocarbon industry. In a PSC, the investor, like IOCs in Somaliland such as Genel, DNO. RakGas & Ansan, funds all the costs and takes all the risk that it will to find hydrocarbons in commercial quantities. Typically, the chances of making a commercial discovery are 5% to 10% – so there is a significant risk of investing a lot of money and coming away with nothing. In Somaliland, it is difficult to estimate the chances of success because we are just developing a modern hydrocarbon industry and there is no scientific data to help us predict the existence and location of commercial quantities of hydrocarbons. This means that our commercial terms must be more attractive than in countries that have significant proven hydrocarbon reserves – like Saudi Arabia and the UAE – Abu Dhabi. There are other risks that influence the commercial terms that we can negotiate with investors, including political and legal risk. A PSC is typically split into a short "exploration period" and a longer and contingent "development period". If the investor does not make a commercial discovery during the exploration period, the PSC will terminate; the investor will lose all of its rights, including any right to recover its sunk costs; and the government will be free to enter into a new PSC with a new investor. If the investor makes a commercial discovery, a development period will be granted. The development period allows the discovery to be developed and provides an opportunity for the investment costs to be recovered. If the parties enter the development period, any hydrocarbons produced are allocated between the government and the investor. The government first gets a royalty. The remaining hydrocarbons are divided into two groups – "cost oil" and "profit oil". The cost oil is available to the investor to recover the money that it has invested in developing the discovery. The profit oil is divided between the government and the investor, with the government getting the larger share. The names "cost oil" and "profit oil" are only convenient labels. Under a full economic analysis you would see that the investor does not make any profits until it recovers all its sunk costs, which takes years of consistent production. The government gets both the royalty share and its profit oil share regardless of the profitability of the development and without having to invest or risk any money. The investor takes the risks of finding enough hydrocarbons to cover its costs and the future market price of those hydrocarbons. The investor pays the government a bonus at the time the contract is signed which is commonly known as signature bonus (we have made public – list all the revenue that we generated). The investor pays the government certain bonuses based on achieving certain production milestones (such as X million at X production level is reached – give examples). The investor pays the government "surface rent" based on the size of the surface area and the stage of operations. The investor funds training and other nation-building programs. The investor commits to a conducting a minimum amount of work in the exploration period. The government gets the royalty share of hydrocarbons in priority to other allocations. The government gets a larger share of the profit oil. This share increases as production milestones are achieved. Under the leadership of President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo, Somaliland is closer than it has ever been in its history to exploit its natural resources for the benefit of its people in a fiscally and environmentally responsible way. In envisioning to develop new modern regulatory framework to guide the sector before anything gets out of the ground, we have assured the Somaliland people that our resources once exploited will be properly managed to avoid the preverbal "resource curse". If Somaliland is to become a stable prosperous country in the Horn of Africa that collaborates with the international community to contribute to the peace and stability of the region, I urge the international community to support Somaliland in its peaceful effort to exploit its natural resources for the benefit of its citizens who deserve to aspire for a better standard of living and improved economic conditions. Likewise, I urge our Somaliland citizens to support this Ministry and the government in its efforts to develop our natural resources that God endowed us with for the common good. We urge our citizens to be patient in realizing our dream as a nation to become a country that benefits economically from its natural resources and not one that keeps it in the ground while we starve on top of it or squanders it when it gets exploited. The level of government take and revenues that can be obtained should be competitive with other available international opportunities. At the same time, the economic terms should encourage investors to achieve the highest efficient rate of production. As implied here, risk and reward must be in balance – the lower the technical and other risks in the host country, the higher the government take can be. For example, you would expect that the government of Abu Dhabi will get a very large government take in the bids for their giant discovered onshore fields. The extractive industry critics are quick to point out that oil resources exploitation often result in environmental disasters and few insiders lining up their pockets on the riches gained from oil production. Although there has been cases of gross resource mismanagement, that is not necessarily the rule but the exception. You have shining examples such Norway which has managed its resources in a fiscally and environmentally responsible way. They have now accumulated nearly $900B sovereign wealth fund for their future generations, which has surpassed that of Abu Dhabi. African countries such as Ghana are getting better in managing their resources as well and following the Norwegian example. I was recently in the DRC, a post conflict country of immense natural resources who has been looted in the past by everyone. But with improved peace and stability are now getting better handle in managing their resources and have even passed the EITI clearance. By the way we are also aspiring to one day get such clearance with the passage of new regulatory frameworks and improved best practices. On the other end there is the example of the past misdeeds of the oil industry such as what happened in the Niger Delta. Oil companies can no longer afford to work with governments with corruptive practices or commit environmental disasters. It is bad for their bottom line. It can bankrupt them because of the potential huge liabilities that can result from such offenses. BP almost got bankrupt because of the US Gulf Coast incident. We have included in all our PSCs anti-bribery clauses for the oil and mining companies to abide by, that could result in terminating their contract if found in violation. Before we get anything out of the ground in Somaliland, we want to emulate the successes of countries that managed their resources well and avoid the mistakes that others have made in exploiting their resources. That is why we hired a Norwegian law firm to draft our Petroleum legal framework to set a sound foundation to our resource management practices. We want to chart the path of implementing best practices. More often the not, countries that exploited their natural resources have seen their economies grow, new modern infrastructure built and poverty alleviated. We want to chart the path of prudent management of our natural resources to bring about a positive impact on the lives of our people and our economy. We don't feel that oil exploitation will bring about conflict in the region, but believe the opposite. It will bring about more stability to Somaliland by growing the economy and alleviating poverty. The Republic of Somaliland has developed its own policies with regard to pre 1991 exploration concessions in the territory of Somaliland, which have been relinquished by the relevant companies.

A massive cyberattack on the Marriott hotel chain was part of a Chinese intelligence-gathering effort, The New York Times reported on Tuesday, citing two people briefed on the preliminary results of the investigation. Snagging a great airfare doesn't mean you'll have a great seat on your flight. The opening of London's crisis-hit Crossrail is to be delayed indefinitely while an additional £1.7bn may be needed to complete the project, transport bosses have said. The capital's flagship east-west Elizabeth Line underground rail link had been due to open this month but was pushed back to Autumn 2019 after delays were announced over the summer. Airlines canceled more than 1,400 flights over the weekend, as severe weather from Virginia to Florida snarled air travel, with disruptions likely to spill over into the work week. When it comes to living the lifestyle they imagined, today's retirees spend a lot of time worrying about how they will afford their golden years. Which plane is best for long haul flights?

Thanks NB.Mick. This sure went by unnoticed by me ... I got Faithlife Connect (as continuation of Logos Now) and I just found the Bible Study Magazine Vol 10 (2017-18) in my library with the first two issues already in there and the remaining ones from 2018 forthcoming. A pleasant surprise, which I wouldn't have noticed for quite some time.

Education and Academia (1) Religion and Spirituality (1) Open Section Education (1) Educator (1) Open Section Government (Federal) (1) Pan-Africanist (1) Open Section Humanities and Social Sciences (2) Open Section Linguistics and Philology (2) Translator (2) Open Section Literature and Journalism (1) Letter Writer (1) Translator x Government and Politics x Applegate, Joseph R. Margaret Wade-Lewis linguist educator early computer language translator Africanist scholar of Arabic and Berber was born in Wildwood New Jersey to Joseph Henry Applegate and Nancy Berkley Applegate His father was a second generation New Jersey resident whose father was a Native American from Maine Applegate s mother whose father was also Native American migrated from Virginia to Philadelphia where Applegate s parents met around the time of World War I Neither parent had more than an elementary school education Hardworking and ambitious they held high aspirations for their children Applegate and his sister enjoyed the advantages of a small town working class upbringing along with direct contact with black artists and entertainers who frequented the seaside summer boarding house their parents operated in Wildwood New Jersey Although the family was not affluent Applegate s environment was sophisticated and urbane He recalled awakening to the sounds of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington ... Tsega Ze'ab Matteo Salvadore Ethiopian cleric, known in Europe as Zaga Zabo or Tsega Zabo, traveled to Lisbon and Bologna in 1527 as representative of Emperor Dawit II (1508–1540) to King João III (1521–1557). While in Lisbon he drafted a confession of faith that Portuguese humanist Damião de Góis (1502–1574) printed in 1540 as Fides religio moresque Aethiopum sub imperio Preciosi Ioannis degentium. The facts of Tsega Ze'ab's upbringing remain unknown: when the 1520s Portuguese mission to Ethiopia led by Don Rodrigo de Lima (1500–?) reached Emperor Dawit II's court, Tsega was already a distinguished cleric helping in the writing and translating of the emperor's letters to João III, and he was later selected to represent Ethiopia at his court. To this purpose he joined the Portuguese party on its way back to Lisbon, which he reached in 1527 Traveling in the company of the mission s chaplain Francisco Álvares 1465 c ...

"Love Hard" Movie Review Story posted November 14, 2021 in Netflix is back with yet another holiday rom-com in the Hernán Jiménez directed film, "Love Hard." The film stars some familiar faces such as Nina Dobrev, Jimmy O. Yang and Harry Shum Jr. Dobrev's character, Natalie, works as a columnist who writes about her bad online-dating experiences via the movie's version of Tinder. Finally, after so many awful dates, she finds the man of her dreams. The only problem is that this man lives 3,000 miles away in Lake Placid, New York. And, of course, he isn't real either. For some reason, Natalie decides to fly out to spend Christmas with Yang's character, Josh, and his family. According to the film, they had only been talking to each other for two weeks, and it is outrageous that she didn't even bother to FaceTime him or get some sort of proof that he's real. When discussing her holiday plans with her friend, the friend exclaims "This is the sanest thing you've done," when in fact it is bonkers that anyone thought this was a good idea. How she ends up finding Josh's address is unknown, and why she decides to introduce herself as Josh's girlfriend to his parents immediately is even more questionable. She then sees Josh in real life and realizes that she's been catfished. From here, this is where the romantic chaos begins. Natalie finds out that the man in Josh's pictures, Tag, is real, and Josh, feeling bad for catfishing her, agrees to help set them up. The movie examines the relationships between the three of them and dives into the themes of honesty, self-worth and love. This type of film has been done so many times, yet "Love Hard" surprisingly is filled with character and originality. Jimmy O. Yang does an incredible job delivering the most memorable lines, and is easily the star of the film. All of the characters, though not always believable, are extremely entertaining. The dialogue is also very hit or miss with, the jokes either seeming like millennial garbage, or completely hilarious. Viewers will either be shaking their heads in disbelief, or have a quality chuckle, there is no in-between. There are so many moments in the movie that are cringe-worthy. From the entire bar scene to Josh publicly proposing to Natalie, it makes one wonder what on earth the studio was thinking. The movie was most likely meant to be a little cheesy, but sometimes that can be a little overwhelming. It is also all too predictable. Throughout the movie, Natalie realizes that even though she found Tag attractive, it was Josh's personality that she loved the entire time. Natalie and Josh have a falling out. But then, she also realizes even though Josh was lying about his looks, she had been lying about her personality as she tried to be more appealing to Tag. She realizes this as she's giving a speech at her surprise engagement party, making things extremely awkward for everyone in the room. This whole part seemed beyond cliché and a little bit forced. The ending is pretty sweet with "Love Hard" borrowing from other popular Christmas movies. It was a cute way to wrap everything up and tie all of the loose knots. Overall, "Love Hard" is a flawed but entertaining film throughout. For most casual viewers, there will be lots to enjoy through its goofiness and wit. It will never be considered a "classic," but it is a step in the right direction for Netflix originals. Caelan Chevrier is a second-year majoring in journalism. To contact him, email cjc6789@psu.edu. Caelan Chevrier Second Year / Journalism Caelan Chevrier is a second-year student in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State University studying broadcast journalism and marketing with the goal of graduating with a bachelor's degree in four years. His plan is to get involved in numerous media-related clubs during his stay. His career goal is to spread informative, meaningful and entertaining content across various platforms and to be a positive impact on the community. He has also spent time working at The Westport Local Press in his hometown of Westport, CT. If you'd like to contact him, email him at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Australian Open Men's Singles Favorites Story posted 36 minutes ago in Sports, CommRadio by Daniel Maiorana NBA Top 10 Rankings: Jan. 20 Story posted 1 hour ago in Sports, CommRadio by Ethan Ellis Story posted 2 hours ago in Sports, CommRadio by Joe Tuman

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The effectiveness of using crowdsourcing for improving information services: an action research approach Ali Saif Said Al-Aufi*, Nabhan Al-Harrasi, Azhar Al-Abri Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify the status of using crowdsourcing to develop information services through the Twitter platform and to determine the factors affecting such usage. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative action research approach was employed to achieve the objectives of the study and to provide answers to the research questions. The effectiveness of using crowdsourcing technique for improving information services has been explored through five procedural stages: diagnostics, action planning, action taking, evaluation and determined learning. Three tools were used to collect data: open interviews, content analysis of the sampled accounts on Twitter and users' perceptions regarding information services. Findings: The results of the study revealed that crowdsourcing was not used in the development of information services per se, but it has been used for other purposes. The results also revealed that several factors influenced the adoption of using crowdsourcing to develop information services, including factors related to the institutional trust in crowds' capabilities, the nature of service and type of the needed development, and finally, the platform used to conduct crowdsourcing. The results of the action research proved that using crowdsourcing to develop information services could be effective. Practical implications: The study suggests a model that can be used to test changes implemented in organizations, especially regarding adoption of crowdsourcing as a framework to achieve the objectives of the institution, particularly in the planning processes. Originality/value: This research paper produces new knowledge through using a qualitative action research approach to understand the potential of social media in crowdsourcing. There have been no similar studies conducted in the region for the specified research design. The results add to the level of learning and raise awareness within the research community regarding the effectiveness of using crowdsourcing via social media platforms to improve the efficiency of information services. Library Hi Tech https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-08-2020-0192 10.1108/LHT-08-2020-0192 Al-Aufi, A. S. S., Al-Harrasi, N., & Al-Abri, A. (Accepted/In press). The effectiveness of using crowdsourcing for improving information services: an action research approach. Library Hi Tech. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-08-2020-0192 The effectiveness of using crowdsourcing for improving information services : an action research approach. / Al-Aufi, Ali Saif Said; Al-Harrasi, Nabhan; Al-Abri, Azhar. 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Bill Gates Shuts Down Conspiracy Theory About Owning Farmland During his 11th appearance on Reddit's Ask Me Anything this week, Bill Gates tried to set the record straight about purchasing American farmland. The tech billionaire was asked by Reddit user bortodeeto, "Why are you buying up so much farmland, do you think this is a problem with billionaire wealth and how much you can disproportionally acquire?" In recent years, Gates has bought nearly 270,000 acres of farmland across the country, leading many to question his motives. Some conspiracy theorists even claim he is buying "the majority" of American farmland as part of a sinister plot to cause widespread food shortages. But Gates responded to the question on Reddit by trying to put his recent land grabs in perspective, "I own less than 1/4000 of the farmland in the US," he wrote. Indeed, if Gates wants to buy up all of the American farmland, he's got a long way to go. According to a 2021 USDA survey, there are 895,300,000 acres of farmland in the U.S. Reuters calculated Gates' holdings were a mere 0.027% of that. Gates went on to explain why he'd taken such an interest in agriculture. "I have invested in these farms to make them more productive and create more jobs. There isn't some grand scheme involved – in fact all these decisions are made by a professional investment team." This is not the first time (and certainly won't be the last) Gates has responded to concerns about his farmland purchases on Reddit. So-called "FarmGates" was also the topic at a 2021 Reddit Q&A, when a Reddit user asked him, "Hey Bill! Why are you buying so much farmland?" "My investment group chose to do this. It is not connected to climate," Gates wrote. "The agriculture sector is important. With more productive seeds we can avoid deforestation and help Africa deal with the climate difficulty they already face. It is unclear how cheap biofuels can be but if they are cheap it can solve the aviation and truck emissions." Related: 8 Takeaways From Bill Gates' AMA: Banning Billionaires, His Friendship With Warren Buffett, and Why He Is Buying So Much Farmland A mixed response Despite Gates's insistence that there's nothing to see here, some Reddit users still expressed concern at just how much land Gates has acquired. "I did the math out of him owning 1/5000 and it comes to 180,000 acres or 281 sq miles. That's the size of 4.6 Washington DC's for perspective," one wrote. "Bigger than the total area of Singapore or Bahrain," commented another. But some Redditors came to Gates's defense, like WaywardTraveller, who wrote: "Most farmland today is under corporate ownership, with the entire intent being to extract as much profit as possible. What Bill is doing here is different. I know it seems like a lot, and in reality it is. But given what's happening to the vast majority of farmland in the US, I'm leaning towards this being a Good Thing." Related Topics:Ask Me AnythingBill GatesReddit Southwest Sued in Class Action Over Holiday Flight Cancellations Why It's Time For You To Accept Crypto Asia's richest tycoon plans to list at least five of his companies over 2026-28