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EQAL, the creator of YouTube sensation lonelygirl15, is launching u look haute, a channel dedicated to all things related to beauty, style and fashion for teenagers and young adults, as part of YouTube’s $100 million original content initiative. “We have taken everything we’ve learned about integrating the community into the content and created u look haute to be an interactive space for everyone who follows beauty, style and trends,” Greg Goodfried, EQAL Founder and President, told Tubefilter. (Goodfried was one the esteemed panelsits in our last Tubefilter Meetup on Social Video). Since their days as content kings during the lonelygirl days, the team over at EQAL has been building influencer networks around celebrities and brands, making it the perfect match for YouTube’s latest initiative catering to today’s connected viewers with the help of Hollywood’s A-list producers and celebrities. Set to launch in April 2012, u look haute will feature teen style, fashion and beauty tips and tricks, and showcase high-profile guest fashionistas and stylists. Part stylist segments, part DIY’s, part makeovers—u look haute will follow EQAL’s legacy of shaping communities through compelling content and interactivity. “We are thrilled to be working on an original channel on YouTube where we began our work in the digital space,” said Miles Beckett, CEO and Co-founder of EQAL. “YouTube is a fantastic partner and tool for video content.”

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Biology - Master of Science (MSc) The English-taught Master’s programme in Biology at Ulm University provides a high-quality education in Biology combined with in-depth knowledge in one medical and one none-medical minor subject. Master of Science (MSc)Type of study - next winter semester: 01.10.2019 - no restriction 120Standard period of study (semester) More about the course After the first semester you can choose your specialisation from 'Molecular Biosciences', 'Neurobiology' and 'Biodiversity/Ecology' as well as modules from either a medical area (Biochemistry, Pharmacology/Toxicology, Virology, Human Genetics, Medical Neurosciences), Biophysics or one of the other specialisations of Biology. You will also acquire specific knowledge in one of the non-Biology subjects Computer Science, Psychology, Economics, Mathematics, Chemistry or Philosophy. Strong in research, attractive course offers, growing internationality! Since its foundation in 1967, the youngest University in Baden-Württemberg has had a remarkable development. The current approximate 10,000 students are spread across four Faculties, Medicine, Engineering, Computer Sciences and Psychology, Mathematics and Economics as well as Natural Sciences. Today, more than four decades after its foundation, the University is still conveniently sized yet alive and known for its strong research profile and high teaching standards. Students at Ulm University are guaranteed a laboratory place during their introductory laboratory courses. This ensures that they can graduate within the standard period of study. Working and living in Ulm Idyllically located between the two economic hubs Stuttgart and Munich, Ulm continues to gain importance. Nationwide surveys confirm its high quality of life. As Germany's first Science City, Ulm and its powerful combination of University, University of Applied Sciences, Daimler-Benz Research Centre and Science Parks I and II offers a plethora of opportunities. At the same time, the city has an abundance of green spaces, for example the Zoological Garden in the middle of a recreation park, equipped with aquarium and tropical house as well as many beautiful spots for sports and leisure activities or simply relaxing. Numerous theme parties keep Ulm University alive and social at night and provide chances to mingle with students from other courses. Teaching modules (Bachelor's and Master's) offer a great variety of excursions to places in Germany and abroad so you can enhance and deepen your newly acquired knowledge. The following modules currently have excursions incorporated: Marine Ecology, Ecology of the Mediterranean Area, Neusiedler Lake, Tropical Ecology in Costa Rica, Summer School Soil & Water, Berchtesgaden, Wetland Ecology. Representation of student interests The interests of students at Ulm University are represented by student representatives, Fachschaften (subject-related student representatives) and university groups. There are various advisory and support services to cater for a wide range of needs. The Zentrale Studienberatung (central student advisory services) provide advice on the aspects of the transition from school to university, course offers, overall concepts of the study programmes and general questions regarding core subjects. The course advisors are here to answer your subject-related questions. There are course advisors for each study programme at all faculties and institutes. Click here for further information on how to organise your studies, e.g. re-registration, academic leave and how to change your degree programme. The study programme Biology has admission restrictions. You can find further information here under 'General' or under 'Biology' for information specific to the master’s programme Biology. Study objectives and contents Unique features of the study course In the master course Biology you aim to receive a solid education in one area of biology in combination with in-depth education in one medical and one further minor subject which is not biology. After completion of the first semester, you choose your special subject from "Molecular Biosciences", "Neurobiology" and "Biodiversity/Ecology". Moreover, you elect some modules from one field of medicine (biochemistry, pharmacology/toxicology, virology, human genetics, medical neuroscience) or biophysics or any of the other special subjects offered by biology and acquire specific knowledge in one subject which is not from biology, i.e. computer science, economics, mathematics, chemistry, philosophy or 'thinking about science'. Major subject: all courses in Biology are taught in English Medical subject: only virology and medical neuroscience are taught in English Minor non biological subject: only 'thinking about science' is taught in English International students additionally have to take two German classes. Graduates of the master course Biology ... - are able to elaborate on scientific questions from the field of biology on the basis of known technologies and document their results (in writing and oral presentation) in accordance with the Guidelines of Research Integrity and Good Scientific Practice. - are able to present research projects in the scientific context and to discuss their methods and approaches in the broader scientific community. - have learned common methods of literature research, data administration and data processing. - have acquired soft skills like team-work, intercultural capacities and adequate time-management. Here you can find the study plan containing major and minor modules. At Ulm University you can choose between three major topics: "Molecular Bioscience", "Neurobiology" or "Biodiversity/Ecology". The medical minor topics (biochemistry, pharmacology/toxicology, virology, human genetics or medical neuroscience) are only offered in German language with the exception of Virology. However you can also chose from one of the other major topics in biology as your minor. As your non-biological minor topic we recommend "Thinking about Science" and German classes. If you are already fluent in German you can also choose between computer science, psychology, economics, mathematics, chemistry or philosophy. All these courses are only offered in German language. Here you can have a closer look at which modules are offered in the Biology Master Program at Ulm University. Institutes involved in the Biology Master Program belong to Bioscience. Here you can inform yourself about current publications and ongoing research. The world is coming together - that is also and particularly true for science. International experience is an increasingly important asset to successfully compete in the job market. Students at Ulm University can apply for one or two semesters abroad with numerous universities - both in Europe as part of the ERASMUS+ programme and at universities outside of Europe. Financial support for internships abroad is also available. Another option to spend some time overseas and immerse yourself in another culture is your final thesis. The International Office provides further information on all of the above. The programmes offered are mainly aiming for German students and therefore not all information is available in English. Abschlussarbeit im Ausland Information for students Current information about examinations, study plans and other topics relevant for matriculated students can be found on the web page of the Department of Biology. For graduates of the master course Biology, important occupational fields are e.g. - the pharmaceutical and biomedical industry, - agricultural und food industry, - as well as the field of bioinformatics, laboratory equipment and supplies, - and nature protection. Positions are offered as well in further fields, e.g. - quality control / management in food industry, - waters pollution control - and handling of pollutants. The master degree provides you competences for independent decisions and actions, which are required to fill positions in the above-mentioned fields. In addition, the master degree gives you the opportunity for doctoral studies after which you find occupational fields - in the industry, - in universities, - in research institutes, - in administration, - as well as a freelancer. In the seminar "Perspektiven in den Biowissenschaften" Ulm's alumni talk about their careers (unsually German language only). Links and Downloads

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Sweden has a much milder climate than most other regions of the world that lie as far north. Sweden's climate is influenced by the Gulf Stream, a warm ocean stream that flows off Norway's west coast. Sweden's many lakes and the gulfs of Bothnia give Sweden generally a relatively mild climate. July temperatures in Sweden average 13 to 17°C. February is usually Sweden's coldest month, with temperatures from - 22 to -3°C. In northern Sweden, winter temperatures often drop to -30°C, sometimes even lower. Snow covers the ground in southern Sweden from December to April, and in northern Sweden the first snowfall is often already in October. Most of the country is icebound in winter, but special icebreaking boats keep the major ports open. Northern Sweden lies in the Land off the Midnight Sun and so has continuous daylight during part of the summer. The number of days of continuous daylight increases as one goes farther north. Southern Sweden never has continuous daylight, though it averages 19 hours of daylight a day in midsummer. In winter, Sweden has similar periods of continuous darkness. In the northernmost areas of the country the sun never rises above the horizon for about 2 months. Southern Finland has some daylight each day, though it receives only about 6 hours of daylight a day in midwinter. The winter night sky-especially in the northern areas- often becomes enriched with brilliant displays of the aurora borealis or Northern Lights. Lightweights in warmer months, with extra woollens for walking and the cooler evenings. Medium- to heavyweights are advised in winter. Waterproofing is recommended throughout the year. there are three different climate zones in Sweden; The southern parts have a Cfb Climate, a warm temperated humid climate with the warmest month lower than 22°C over average and four or more months above 10°C over average. The mid and nothern regions have a Dfc Climate, a humid Snow Climate with less than four months above 10°C over average. The climate of the mountainous regions can be classified as E Climate; an Ice climate with the warmest month under 10°C.

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Girlfight is revving up their engines and heading to Indianapolis for Girlfight: Indy Edition! Held at the WCWO arena on Feb 12th 2019! Shotzi Blackheart VS Allie Kat ThunderKitty VS Hawlee Cromwell Ava Lee VS Nusha Slayer Amazing MAria VS Queen Aminatta Charlie Kruel VS Khloe Randi West VS Billie Starkz Samantha Heights w/ Dave Crist VS Alice Crowley

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Found in Translation: A Bodies in Translation Newsletter We publish a newsletter twice a year that includes short articles about Bodies in Translation activities and highlights the amazing work that BIT researchers, activists, artists and other friends are doing. The full newsletter is available by visiting the link embedded in the subheadings with volume and issue number. If you would like to subscribe to the newsletter, please sign up by filling out this form. Extras from this edition: Full interview with David Bobier

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WASHINGTON (CNS) — For Christians, martyrdom remains a “never-ending story” that stretches from Scripture accounts of apostolic times to today’s “amphitheater of YouTube,” Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington writes in a new book. It’s titled “To the Martyrs: A Reflection on the Supreme Christian Witness,” released by Emmaus Road Publishing. Cardinal Wuerl has written extensively on the Catholic faith, including best-selling catechisms and books on the Mass and living the faith in today’s world. The Greek root for the word “martyrdom” means testimony, and Pope Francis has called that act “the supreme testimony,” as Christian martyrs live and die for Christ, imitating his passion and death, and inspire new generations of Christians to follow Christ, wherever that leads them. Cardinal Wuerl notes that from its earliest days, the Catholic Church venerated martyrs, sometimes building churches on the site of their deaths and always including their relics in altars, and highlighting their feasts in the church calendar. The names of several martyred saints are recited in the eucharistic prayers at every Mass. All but one of the apostles who walked with Jesus and continued his work died as martyrs, with only St. John the Evangelist dying a natural death. The cardinal notes how the Acts of the Apostles tells the story of St. Stephen, the first martyr and the first disciple of Jesus to die for the faith, who in his death by stoning imitated Christ’s prayerful offering up of his life on the cross and also forgave those who killed him. Cardinal Wuerl writes that those first Christians shared Jesus’ life and “imitated it to the end.” The witness of the martyrs helped keep the faith alive in the catacombs during ancient Roman persecution, and in the underground church of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union during communist oppression. Despite the atrocities of the Reign of Terror in revolutionary France, great saints like St. Therese of Lisieux and St. John Vianney arose in that land. After a million people attended the 1984 funeral Mass for the murdered Polish priest, Father Jerzy Popieluszko, “historians believe that day was the beginning of the end for communism in Poland,” Cardinal Wuerl writes. He also notes that an estimated 1.2 million people were murdered over four decades in communist China in an effort to eliminate Christianity, but today there are an estimated 90 million Christians there. Tertullian’s famous words, paraphrased today as, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church,” reflects how the testimony of their lives and deaths has inspired the Catholic Church’s growth around the world through the centuries following Christ’s life, death and resurrection. Tertullian, an early Christian writer from North Africa, in A.D. 197 wrote “Ad Martyras” (“To the Martyrs”), which inspired the name of Cardinal Wuerl’s book. In the preface, Cardinal Wuerl notes that he writes on the topic of martyrs with a sense of urgency: “In many societies today, the utterance of a simple phrase, ‘I am a Christian,’ is a crime punishable by death.” The cardinal recounts tragic accounts of contemporary Christian martyrs, such as the beheading of 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians by Islamic State militants on a beach in Libya in February 2015; and Islamic gunmen from Somalia storming a Kenyan university, separating Muslim from Christian students, then shooting Christians in an attack that left 147 dead. In India, Hindu extremists have murdered priests, raped nuns and burned Christian churches and homes. Cardinal Wuerl writes, “I intend this book to be an act of solidarity with those who today are suffering for the Christian faith.” He said that as a priest and bishop, he has heard personal accounts of the “supreme testimony” offered by martyrs, after meeting with refugees who survived Nazi and Communist persecution, and with those who in recent months have fled rampaging Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria. He also praises the witness of Christians in Iraq and Syria who have stayed true to the faith practiced by their ancestors in that land since the time of the apostles. But he adds that at this juncture, the world too faces a choice. Cardinal Wuerl notes that too often, government leaders, the media and even fellow Christians have remained silent as Christians in other parts of the world face ongoing persecution and even martyrdom. Cardinal Wuerl writes that U.S. Christians must remain vigilant in defending their religious freedom against government measures and a secular culture seeking to keep the practice of religion within church walls, and prevent people from living out their faith in the public square and remaining true to the church’s teachings. The cardinal quickly points out, though, that such assaults on religious freedom are in no way equivalent to the religious persecution faced by Christians around the world, but both situations must not be regarded with indifference or ambivalence. Cardinal Wuerl notes that in the 20th century, an estimated 45 million Christian martyrs were killed around the world. Silence, he adds, should never be an option in the face of such inhumanity, as the world today faces ongoing atrocities against Christians by the Islamic State, and when Boko Haram militants in Nigeria kidnap nearly 300 Christian schoolgirls, who vanished and soon also disappeared from the media’s news cycle. “We must make it our mission to stand with those who are suffering today,” the cardinal writes. “We must stand in solidarity with them and re-echo their testimony to all the world.” Zimmermann is editor of the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington. Help keep Catholic media free, support CatholicPhilly.com You may have noticed “pay walls” greeting you when you visit the websites of newspapers and magazines, both large and small. These mechanisms allow you to read a few articles for free before you’ve got to pay an annual fee if you want to see more. You won’t find a pay wall on CatholicPhilly.com because we’re more than a news organization. We’re informing, inspiring and forming readers in the Catholic faith every day through the news, features and commentaries that we post on this site and share across social media. It costs money to provide high-quality coverage of the local Catholic communities we primarily serve, while also distributing national and world news of interest to Catholics, plus the orthodox teachings of the Catholic faith. Help us in this mission by making a single gift of $40, $50, $100, or more. Your gift will strengthen the fabric of our entire Catholic community. Make your donation by check: 222 N. 17th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 or by credit card:

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A daring new contest encouraging people to do humanitarian-focused challenges has been launched by Concern Worldwide. Surviving on €5 worth of food over five days or hauling around a daily allowance of five litres of water for cooking, cleaning and drinking are two of several tasks facing participants in the aid agency’s inaugural World Champions competition. Concern’s World Champions manager, Jonathan Power, said: “Adventure awaits those who register for this exciting new contest open to adults all over the country. Participants will be challenging themselves while raising desperately needed money to help fund Concern’s activities in some of the world’s poorest countries with the chance to win a trip of a lifetime to see our work first-hand”. The ‘survive on five’ mission will see teams getting a glimpse of a reality that is faced by over one billion people around the world currently trying to survive on less than €1 a day. Participants will also spend a day carrying a five-litre jerry-can filled with water that must be used for their everyday needs. Other missions range from mountain climbing on Ireland’s tallest peaks to hosting, or getting others to organise, a fundraising baking event. Mr Power added: “These fun challenges will help participants and their supporters better understand the difficulties many face around the world while also helping them win the contest. Teams come up with their own name and their own fundraising events, but every month we’ll be setting them an extra challenge and asking them to keep online diaries and to post updates, images and videos on social media. “If they complete these challenges, they will earn extra points and move up the leaderboard in what promises to be a very competitive fundraising game with a life changing prize”. The team with the most points by April 30 and who raise a minimum of €3,000 will win the trip with the victor announced in May. The winning team will be taken to one of Concern’s programmes this summer when they will meet some of the people living in extreme poverty, who are benefitting from the donations the aid agency receives from the public. Registrations can be made by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org with further details available at www.concernworldchampions.ie where a leader board and team updates can also be found.

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Am dating my teacher As a housewife, she cleans up the home giving me enough opportunity to look at her motherly twin treasures, and she also likes to keep it spick and span. Since my father cannot afford much, she usually puts on suits which are cheap kinds, and while at home she puts on the old used suits. Hello friends , my name is rinku and this is a true story of incest with my mother. My father’s name is kashi nath and he works as a part time agent in some state government run agency. My mother brings water from the nearby hand pump in the morning and my neighbor’s son, who teaches at the local college, is usually there to catch a glimpse of the wonderful milky boobies of my careless mother. She keeps asking other people casually and she has a very sweet motherly voice of a woman.Sometimes, I would get up early in the morning to catch a bottom nude glimpse of my mother as she had sex the previous night and even her panties would be off.Quite often, I didn’t have much luck as my mother would cover herself in a bed sheet but sometimes it was hot and she let the sheet go revealing full view of her rotund and faceable ass.That means, my mother changes her clothes in front of me in the same room.There is a small curtain behind which she hides but off and on some part of her body is usually visible.

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This audio is an interview led by Dr. Clarence Lang, Chair of the African & African American Studies Department at the University of Kansas, with Jabari Asim. Asim is an author, Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis Magazine, and Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College. In this interview Asim discusses his book, What Obama Means:...for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future as well as many other themes related to the KU 2016 Common Book, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. In this podcast Nick Carswell interviews Howard Graham about the selection of the 2016 - 2017 KU Common Book, Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. They discuss how the text challenges readers to delve into difficult conversations that are relevant to discussions happening on our campus and around the nation. Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates's critically acclaimed second book and the winner of 2015 National Book Award for nonfiction has been chosen by the University of Kansas as the 2016-2017 common book. The KU Common Book Program is run by the Office of First Year Experience with the goal of creating a diverse strong community and shared academic experience among first year students, faculty and staff. As part of the 2016 Free State Forum, the ACLU of Kansas brought Leonard Pitts to discuss race and inequality. Kaye McIntyre of KPR sat down with Dr. Clarence Lang, chair of the Department of African and African-American Studies to discuss the way these issues directly affect life in Kansas. Listen here. So you’ve finished Coates’s Between the World and Me and you’re looking for more to read? Or, you’ve not only read his book but also his article, “The Case for Reparations”, and you’re looking for more to read on black experience? What if you’re looking for a black female experience of The Dream? You can check out a .pdf of the University of Kansas Common Book Reader's Guide for Between the World and Me here. This guide includes reflections on the text by faculty, staff, and current students of KU. Encountered something in the text of Between the World and Me that you do not understand or would like to explore further? The Oxford African American Studies Center is a great place to start. Simply go to www.oxfordaasc.com and login using your KU online ID and password. From here you can search anything--names, current or historical events, words, subjects--to gain a greater grasp on the context of any subject.

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Personalize your kid’s school supplies with these DIY ideas and get them excited to go back to school while saving a few bucks! RELATED: Easy DIY Art Supplies Perfect For You And Your Kids In this article: - Design Your School Supplies with Washi Tape - From Old Notebooks to Back to School Ready Notebooks - Bookplate Stickers - Literally, A Notebook Bag - Milk Jug Lunch Box - Sweater Laptop Sleeve - Back to School Locker Accessories: Clothespin Magnets - Tank Top from an Old Shirt - One-Of-A-Kind Sneakers - Friendship Bracelets Back to School Supplies, You Can DIY 1. Design Your School Supplies with Washi Tape A few rolls of washi tape with varying patterns can instantly make quick personalized and cute school supplies. This tutorial shows you how to decorate pencils with washi tape. You can washi tape pretty much all your school supplies–books, notebooks, laptops, mobile devices, etc. Best of all, this washi tape craft is so safe to do, you can let your toddler do it. Be sure to stock up! Click HERE to Buy our FAVORITE washi tape on Amazon! 2. From Old Notebooks to Back to School Ready Notebooks This is the perfect back to school DIY if you have old, half-used notebooks lying around from previous school years. You can give them an update with these simple yet chic notebook jackets. Personalize it by stamping the front cover, washi taping the edges, or embroidering your name on the back cover. 3. Bookplate Stickers Although mostly used in books, these free printable bookplate designs can also be used in other back to school supplies such as notebooks, laptops, and file organizers. Younger children can create their own unique designs using photos of their favorite characters. 4. Literally, A Notebook Bag The backpack may be the king of school bags, but this cute notebook tote bag is coming very close to taking that title. Using only a canvas tote bag, Sharpies and embroidery thread, this back to school couldn’t be any simpler. You can also let your kids in on the fun by letting them doodle on their “notebook”. RELATED: 14 First Day of School Crafts & Activities 5. Milk Jug Lunch Box Packed lunch has never been this cute – and it’ll only cost you $1. Take an empty milk jug and follow the steps here to create your very own lunch box. Aside from a lunch box, you can also use it as containers for your school supplies to keep your desk organized. Now your kids can go back to school in style http://t.co/trIvhS3qkM #crafts #love pic.twitter.com/9Hcg4X8ffC — DIY Projects (@DIY Projects) September 5, 2015 6. Sweater Laptop Sleeve Too many ugly sweaters taking up space in your closet? Re-purpose them into laptop or tablet sleeves for your back to school tech. Add sequins, buttons, ribbons, and other knick-knacks to add your own flavor to your laptop sleeve. 7. Back to School Locker Accessories: Clothespin Magnets Help yourself to this locker accessory idea you can DIY to personalize and prettify your locker. Attach magnetic tape strips on one of the flat surfaces of wooden clothespins for a new way to display photos and notes inside your locker. 8. Tank Top from an Old Shirt Spruce up your back to school outfits with an easy DIY tank top. Take any of your old shirts and follow the steps here. You can add more embellishments if you like to create a unique tank top. This DIY is especially recommended for teens. 9. One-Of-A-Kind Sneakers Complete your back to school outfits with this versatile and totally cute sneakers. If you’re transferring magazine images for the first time, make sure to read the directions carefully here. You can also use this technique on canvas tote bags and pouches. 10. Friendship Bracelets Back to school supplies won’t be complete without friendship bracelets to give to your BFF. Make one now before school starts. This video from SoCraftastic will show you four DIY notebook ideas with Sharpie markers perfect for back-to-school: Before you went on a splurge at a school supplies store near you, take these DIY back to school supplies ideas, first. Now you know how you can spare a few dollars from your pocket with DIY back to school ideas to personalize your school supplies. Don’t forget to share your finished back to school DIY with us. We love learning about new projects! Write about it in the comments section below! - Back to School Organization Tips and DIY Tutorial on How to Organize Your Locker - 15 DIY Teacher Gifts To Ring In The New School Year - 15 DIY Back To School Supplies For All Ages Stay connected with us on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram! Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on September 8, 2016, and has been updated for quality and relevancy. The post 10 Money-Saving DIY Back To School Supplies appeared first on DIY Projects Craft Ideas & How To’s for Home Decor with Videos.

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The Start, Middle and End Of My Anorexia by Rebecca Charlotte Scholey I have always been a very academic person and as long as I can remember I have driven myself to always do my best. At the age of 14, I begin my GCSE years at school. We were doing 2 exams a year earlier than the bulk of the GCSE exams so at 14 I began to experience the pressure of exams, revision and coursework for the first time. I put so much pressure on myself to do well and be the best that I began to feel like everything was out of control. My only option to regain that control was to control my eating and what I put in my body. At first I began to eat 'healthy' thinking it was the best for my body which now spent many hours stationary studying after school and therefore, in my mind, not using any calories and I would get fat. This soon turned into participating in extra exercise and reducing food intake. My weight fell off me and I felt like I was 'winning'. I was 'achieving' something during my exam years when I felt that I couldn't fulfil my potential in academia. I was awarded 2 GCSE A*s that year and I was 6 stone and I hadn’t had a period in over a year. I felt amazing; my anorexia was in full swing. My younger sister and I have always been very close; we both love horses and at the time shared a pony called Ginger. We would ride out together with friends on weekends for hours. I had no energy and soon got too tired to join in. I would sit at the side and watch them having fun being carefree. I felt so tied to my routine of exercise and only eating certain foods at certain times. I would watch my sister and friends and I wanted to be like them so much, but the anorexia in my brain just wouldn't let me let go of the control over my body. I was split in 2. Half of me wanted my life back, half of me wouldn't let me. I would ride out into the middle of fields, dismount my pony and sit and cry in the grass. I felt helpless to the disease which now ruled my life. My parents were distraught and had no idea how to help me. If they tried to talk to me I would get so angry and upset. Mum forced me to the doctors once, I cried the whole time, adamant that there was nothing wrong with me and why couldn't they just leave me alone? That year we went on a family holiday to Menorca. I looked skeletal in my bikini but I loved it. I felt warm for the first time so long. I never felt warm at home anymore. It wasn't until I got home and the photographs were developed that I realized what I looked like to other people. I was embarrassed of anyone ever seeing that photo. Something in my head clicked, and combined with my love for horses, I knew I wanted to get better so I could ride and compete again. This is when my recovery began. It was a long and hard recovery, at times you felt like you would never be 'normal' again. My determination to become fit enough to ride my pony properly and go on long group hacks with my friends was the driver getting me through this emotional journey. I was determined to get my life back out of the clutches of anorexia. It took over a year of food diaries, regular dietitian appointments and huge amounts of support from my family before my BMI came back into the healthy range. I completed my GCSE's at 16 years old and achieved A*s in all 10 exams. I proved to myself I could eat and still do my best. The 2 were not connected emotionally anymore. I went on to achieve all A's in my A levels, get a first class degree at university and was offered a PhD opportunity, all without my eating disorder. I still need the support of my family and friends today. I would never want that life again but it’s something that you never forget. I realise now that I am not fat and I never was. I try to keep fit by going to the gym and walking my dog but it’s not an obsession anymore. During my recovery I was not aware of any help lines or online support for my disease. I didn't know anyone else who had suffered and my friends and family didn’t/couldn’t understood why I did what I did although I knew they were trying to. It was quite lonely and you felt like a black sheep, everyone could see you were ill but didn't know how to talk you about it, if at all. 12 years later I have discovered this charity and the amazing work that it does raising awareness and providing support for those suffering the complexities of eating disorders who feel like they can never have a normal' life. My life would have been very different during the last had I not chosen to beat my anorexia at the age of 15.

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LiFE: 'Living in Future Ecologies' research group explores and reinvents the way we live through investigative future visioning projects. Creating collaborative platforms between departments, faculties, commercial partners and international organisations, LiFE proposes ideologies for sustainable living. LiFE is a laboratory for testing, crafting capabilities, challenging thinking and innovating the everyday. LiFE ‘Living In Future Ecologies’ - shifts the way we think about Future Living. The Greek word oikos means house or dwelling. It is the root of the words ecology and economy. In the context of the ‘home', ecology determines the philosophy through which home is used by the ‘family' as an interface to the community and city. The LiFE group creates dynamic relational narratives to ‘ live harmoniously’ with systems that organise and interlink everyday processes and patterns as ‘ecologies’ for capable futures. Through art and design practices, the LiFE research group generates future(s) systems that innovate social change, mobilising communities to adopt responsible, circular-living economies that resonate with the local, regional, international and global home. Seen as an intuitive process, future(s)-making networks systems to mediate 'physical interfaces', turning research theory into practice. Design as a practice is a natural ally to futurity that helps to critically reflect and innovate scenarios affecting behaviors and capabilities. By growing new creative communities, potential futures are explored that lead to a culture of innovation. LiFE research interests are mobilized through activities that engage undergraduate, postgraduate and research students. Through collaborative research activities students have the opportunity to work alongside academic staff in an environment that seeks to invigorate and inspire a community of critical visionaries. Current activity between faculties investigates futures for psychology, ecological arts practices, science, design theory, architecture, textiles, interiors, object, space, food and materiality. Our commercial partners act as conduits to interpret conceptual theories for public application. The partnerships translate research practices into commercial practicalities, converting critical methods into future networks that engage communities as meaningful ways to permeate the everyday. The group utilizes its national, international and commercial networks to engage and foster interdisciplinary reflexivity through publication, exhibition, workshop and autonomous gatherings of likeminded individuals. Art / Design / Art and Design Theory / Interiors / Object / Artefact / Materials / Space / Psychology / Parapsychology / Hospitality / Food / Ecology / Architecture / Integral Critical Futures / Systems Thinking / Complexity / Climate Change / Circular Economies - Eddy Fox Research Group Leader - Lilian Barton Lecturer, Business School - Mark Beecroft Dept of Design - Oliver Clark Technical Officer, Psychology - Fabrizio Cocchiarella Dept of Design - Maria Cordero Senior Lecturer, Psychology - Pattilyn Crozier Associate Lecturer, Dept of Design - Ken Drinkwater - Lucy Gannon Dept of Design Professor of Textile Arts - Ben Lycett Tutor, Dept of Design School of Science & The Environment - Shelley McNulty International Lead for Design and Pathway Leader MA Interior Design - Sally Titterington - Valeria Vargas Education for Sustainable Development Co-ordinator - Gunter Wehmeyer - Amanda White Senior Lecturer, School of Tourism, Events & Hospitality Management - Caroline White Faculty Enterprise Manager - Judith van den Boom Exhibitions & Publications Kettle, AM., 2019. Slipware, Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. Kettle, AM., 2018. Alice Kettle: Thread Bearing Witness, The Whitworth, Manchester UK, 1/9/2018 - 24/4/2019. Beecroft, M., 2018. Demonstration Street at ID Tech Ex show, Estrel Congress Center, Berlin, 11/4/2018. Beecroft, M., 2018. DIGITAL FANCIES: Bioresponsive E-Textiles and 3D Printing in Fashion, Digits 2 Widgets, Camden, London, 15/6/2018. Kettle, A., 2018. Odyssey, Southampton City Art Gallery, 6/10/2018 - 9/3/2019. Kettle, A., 2018. Present Day - Supporting Living Artists, Candida Stevens Gallery, 10/11/2018 - 22/12/2018. Kettle, AM., 2017. Alice Kettle: Threads, The Gallery Winchester Discovery centre, 28/10/2017 - 14/1/2018. Beecroft, M., 2017. BBC Digital Cities- Digital Fashion event, Harvey Nichols Manchester, 15/11/2017. Kirk, V., Robertson, E., Lawrence, K., Ashcroft, J., Munro, A., Coleman, R., Trevillian, A., 2017. Drawn Thread, Australia National University, Canberra , Australia, 26/7/2017 - 5/8/2017. Chambers, S., Cooper, E., Farthing, S., Nash, D., Green, N., 2017. Good Nature, Candida Stevens Gallery, 16/9/2017 - 28/10/2017. Donkor, K., Symington, C., 2017. Ink and Blood: Stories of Abolition, Liverpool International Slavery Museum, 21/8/2017 - 2/9/2018. Beecroft, M., 2017. Intersections: collaborations in Textile Design Research, Loughborough University London, 13/9/2017. Kettle, 2017. Made in Translation, The Portico Library, Manchester, 27/4/2017. Kettle, AM., 2017. More Threads, Candida Stevens Gallery, 10/11/2017 - 2/12/2017. Beecroft, M., 2017. Serendipity Studio ( part of Clerkenwell Design Week), The Goldsmith Centre London, 23/5/2017. Beecroft, M., 2017. TCT show, NEC Birmingham, 25/9/2017. Kettle, A., 2017. Textiel Biennale, Rijswick Museum, The Netherlands, 16/5/2017 - 24/9/2017. Kettle, A., 2019. 'Journey of the Thread', Hanshan Art Museum, China. Kettle, A., 2018. 'The 11th China Embroidery Culture and Arts Festival', Hanshan Art Museum, Hangzhou, China. Hitchen, J., Kettle, A., Penny, D., Moss, J., 2017. 'Made In Translation.', MMU and The Portico Library, Manchester. Millar, L., Kettle, A., 2018. 'An introduction to The Erotic Cloth'. In Kettle, AM., Millar, L. (eds.) The Erotic Cloth: Seduction and Fetishism in Textiles, 200, Bloomsbury Academic, London. Cocchiarella, FN., Vargas, V., Titterington, S., Hayley, D., 2017. 'Research informed sustainable development through art and design pedagogic practices'. In Leal Filho, W. (eds.) Implementing sustainability in the curriculum of universities : approaches, methods and projects, pp. 207-221, Springer, Cham. Beecroft, M., 2019. 'Case Study: Digital Interlooping', https://am-uk.org/case-studies/. McNulty, S., Littlefield, D., 2017. 'IE:Studio - Edges', https://interioreducators.co.uk/edges. Beecroft, M., 2019. 'Digital Interlooping: 3D printing of weft-knitted textile-based tubular structures using selective laser sintering of nylon powder.', International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education, 12 (2), pp. 218-224. Fox, E., 2017. 'My Many Manchesters (Manchester: The Visible and Invisible Cities)', Landscape : the Journal of the Landscape Institute, Winter 2017, pp. 69-73. Non-Peer Reviewed Articles Kettle, A., 2019. 'Anni Albers', The Journal of Modern Craft, 12 (1), pp. 67-71. McNulty, SA., 2018. 'Dr Pink's House: Décor Determination in the South Manchester suburbs', The Constructed Environment, Detroit, USA, 24/5/2018 - 25/5/2018. McNulty, SA., 2018. 'Happy Homes: Placing people and their 'Stuff' as the focus of the Interior Design and Architectural process', AMPS - Architecture, Media, Policy, Society, Bristol, UK, 25/1/2018 - 26/1/2018. Kettle, A., 2018. 'In the Margins, Materialising Stories', 9/7/2018 - 9/7/2018. Harper, P., Kettle, A., 2018. 'Making leaders/curating maker cultures', The Poetics of Leadership, Crossfields Institute, 7/9/2018 - 8/9/2018. Ault, M., Shaw, A., Beecroft, M., 2018. 'New Behaviours in Material Form', Transitions 2: Material Revolution, Huddersfield University, UK., 11/4/2018 - 12/4/2018. Cocchiarella, F., Drinkwater, K., Dagnall, N., 2018. 'Para-design: The role of design practice in interpreting paranormal phenomena', 9/7/2018 - 10/7/2018, in FRIHSC. Ault, M., Shaw, A., Beecroft, M., 2018. 'The 'Re-fabrication' of Knitted Textile and its Architectural Potential', Advanced Building Skins, Bern, Switzerland., 1/10/2018 - 2/10/2018. Ault, M., Beecroft, M., Shaw, A., 2018. 'Architectonic Textiles', Lancaster University. Ault, M., Shaw, A., Beecroft, M., 2018. 'Architectonic Textiles - The Potentials in the 'Re-Fabrication' of Knit', RIBA Research Matters Conference, Sheffield University. Beecroft, M., Bloomfield, M., 2018. 'Re-defining textiles with 3D Printing', The Studio, Birmingham. Ault, M., Shaw, A., Beecroft, M., 2018. 'The 'Re-fabrication' of Knitted Textile and its Architectural Potential', Bern, Switzerland. Ault, M., Shaw, A., Beecroft, M., 2017. 'New Behaviours in Material Form', Huddersfield University. Ault, M., Shaw, A., Beecroft, M., 2017. 'New Kniteriality', Manchester School of Art. Beecroft, M., 2018. 'Digital Interlooping: 3D printing of weft-knitted textile based tubular structures using selective laser sintering of nylon powder.', ID Tech Ex Berlin.

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I am admittedly a bit of a marmalade lover. And while, I love meyer lemons, blood oranges and the like, my one true love is the Seville Orange. I can get well and truly absorbed by the process of making marmalade. It is not something one does quickly. There is a process, a cadence to making a truly wonderful marmalade and I get excited in January as marmalade season approaches. I sharpen my knives, get my cheese cloth ready and sit and wait til I hear from my suppliers that Sevilles have arrived. And then me and my team all get into the marmalade rhythm. We embrace the blisters one gets from hand shredding the peel and we bask in the citrus smell coming from the kettles as it takes it's time to simmer down to perfection. Seville Oranges have ARRIVED. I have seen them on the shelves is stores across the city ranging in price from $2.49/lb to $2.99/lb up from last years price of $1.99/lb. If you want to make lots of marmalade consider asking the produce manager at your local store to bring it in by the case. The lovely produce manager at my local Coppa's is more than happy to do it. Currently a case is $75/box. Here are some wonderful marmalade recipes (not all made with Seville's in case you don't share my love) to get you started. Lime Cilantro Marmalade - this recipe was created for an entry into Mad for Marmalade. It ended up winning a 2nd place ribbon. I love this marmalade with fish tacos. It has a nice bright citrus flavour that compliments fish very well. P.S. I am judging the competition this year, so if you come be sure to say hi! Seville Orange Marmalade - If Christine Ferber is the 'Queen of Jam', then the title of 'Queen of Marmalade' goes to Vivien Lloyd. She is passionate about marmalade and shares my same adoration for the Seville as I do. This is a great recipe which gives you a clear, beautiful marmalade flavour as a result

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The contemporary. Museion aspires to be a centre of excellence for contemporary art, and plays an active role on the international art and culture scene. From this key vantage point we seek out and select the most significant and representative issues, works and artists on the global panorama. Engagement. Museion is committed to bringing contemporary art to as many people as possible. Its innovative, inclusive programme of mediation activities is designed to appeal to a broad range of diverse audiences. Partnerships. Museion’s vocation as a cultural hub shines through in its partnerships, which see it acting as a key platform for contemporary culture events, making its venues and channels of communications available to its partners, and working together to create new contents. Collecting for tomorrow. Every year Museion acquires new works for its collection, safeguarding them for the future. Many of the works that join the collection are created by artists on occasion of solo shows in the museum, and therefore document our past exhibition programmes and the range of issues explored. The younger generations. Museion devotes specific attention to the up and coming generations, and is committed to creating the conditions for local artists to engage with a broader international panorama. Among other things, this also translates into an art prize that celebrates the work of local artists under the age of 35.

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SPORTSWORLDWEST Distributor of licensed products. NFL, MLB, NCAA and NASCAR - Plus FLOWERS and JEWELRY. HUGE selection of MUSIC Concert Posters and Motion Picture Posters. Some examples shown here on home page. Go to specific categories to see complete list and images of items. Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. • We accept all Major credit cards, PayPal, Money orders, Unused U.S. postage stamps • Beautiful Art Prints • Free Delivery • 100% Mint unused condition • Well discounted price • Click on image for awesome view • Poster is 12 x 18 • Semi-Gloss Finish • Great Collectible • Usually ships within 72 hours or less with tracking. • Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back.

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This name is a synonym of Allium atrorubens var. cristatum (S.Watson) McNeal. The record derives from WCSP (data supplied on 2012-03-23) which reports it as a synonym (record 295769) with original publication details: Contr. W. Bot. 10: 86 1902. Full publication details for this name can be found in IPNI: http://ipni.org/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:297266-2. This name was in version 1 of The Plant List, record kew-295769, and has not been changed.

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Chad Quinn joined Dollar Energy Fund as Director of Development in 2006, and also served as the Chief Operating Officer before becoming Chief Executive Officer in 2013. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania and brings approximately 11 years of business development and sales management experience to Dollar Energy Fund. Chad is responsible for expanding our programs and services by recruiting new utility partners and expanding our current business activities with our existing utility partners. In 2014, he was selected by thePittsburgh Business Timesto receive a Fast Tracker Award, which honors leaders in the Pittsburgh Area who are under the age of 40. Content Goes Here

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Are Registry Cleaners a Good Idea? You have likely been alerted by popups while browsing the web. These, often flashing, advertisements claim your computer has more than a thousand errors requiring urgent attention to fix. Perhaps helpfully, these popups offer a solution to cure your computer with a click of the mouse. Buttons marked “fix now” appear to offer a simple fix to all your computer troubles. These advertisements are often described as Registry Cleaners, or by a few other names that attempt to convince the user they will somehow clean or improve their home PC. Within the IT industry they are known as “scareware”. They are software designed to convince you that your computer has problems it might not have. Are they trustworthy? Almost all popups and advertisements that use banners saying “Fix now for free” are not trustworthy at all. They are little more than a scam attempting to take your credit card details, PC data or both. At best these programs might claim to scan your computer and show a convincing list of plausible sounding computer problems. Using this, they will ask for payment to “fix” these problems to get your PC back in shape again. At worst these advertisements can be downright malicious. Some may attempt to use fake warnings and scare tactics to trick customers into installing spyware on their own computers. When installed, spyware will attempt to steal information in the background. Attackers may use this technique to steal usernames, passwords, emails, and credit card details. Sometimes the first sign a user has that something is wrong is when a virus scan detects software doing something it shouldn’t be. Do I need to clean the registry? The Windows system and various applications installed on your PC do leave files on stored your computer. These files can stay behind or go out of date even after the application that initially made them has been removed. These files can use up a little space on the hard drive and generally cause minor clutter within the system. Despite the large amount of “scareware” and fraudulent computer cleanup scans out there, legitimate applications designed to clean your system do exist. This can be something we cover and is often done as a single small part of a complete computer tune up. Keeping up with out of date files and freeing up unused space is worthwhile and can be considered “good housekeeping”. The vast speed boosts many online advertisements claim to unlock by simply moving files around are almost always false. The home computer, however, is commonly upgraded and can be boosted by more conventional means. If the speed of your PC is no longer up to the task, there are ways in which we can unlock far greater gains than simple housekeeping chores. Relatively low-cost hardware components such as memory can often be added to boost the speed of even an older PC and unlock a new lease of life. Upgrading the computers RAM can double the working memory available to the operating system. With extra memory, many programs can keep more information available to work with. This upgrade reduces loading times and increases the computers ability to run more programs at once. Another common speed boosting upgrade involves how we store and load data from the computer. Switching from an older style mechanical hard drive to a modern Solid State Disk (SSD) can bring down the startup and loading time of any PC. Loading data from the hard drive is very often the slowest part of a computer, the bottleneck in an otherwise very fast system. Because an SSD does not use any mechanical components the time to access the disk is nearly instant when compared to older, mechanical hard disks. Safe Speed Boosts These upgrades offer boosts in speed to rival a modern system at only a fraction of the cost originally paid for the computer. Upgrading the RAM, swapping to an SSD, or doing both will provide an instant, dramatic, and safe improvement to the speed of your PC. If your computer is running slow give us at a call at 928 227-3132 to arrange a real and professional cleanup.

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Yesterday I asked three questions of my writing friends. Since I got such a great response, and since several people have expressed interest in this particular topic–me especially–I decided to spread out their ideas over the next three days. That way this post won’t be ten pages long (and it might also give you some time to think of tricks that you can share with us as well). here are the questions: - If 90% of all communication is non-verbal, how should authors portray this? - How have you seen non-verbal communication used in other books? - What tricks have you personally tried that worked without weighing down the manuscript? The first response comes from Tricia Pease. I broke down what she said into bullet points because I tend to think in bullet points. Tricia: I guess the biggest thing for me is to: - Keep the non-verbal stuff brief and intuitive. - Have the characters respond to a situation in way that your readers can relate to on some level. - Try to keep the non-verbal communication logical. When authors make their characters do too much or too little in response to a situation, I feel myself stepping away from the story line and wondering what the author is thinking. - I also have found that if I am spending too much time describing the non-verbal communication and it is weighing down my story, I just stop writing that scene. I’ll write the next chapter or two and then I can come back and fix it a lot easier. When I know what’s coming next it helps to more accurately describe what has already happened. So true. What Tricia said made me think about the movie “Tangled.” I love, love, love the scene when the guard comes to tell the king and queen that their long-lost daughter has finally been found. There isn’t a single word uttered. Not one. It’s all non-verbal totally cool stuff. It’s also brief and completely intuitive to how I picture myself responding to news so shocking. In fact, most of the scenes with the king and queen in “Tangled” are non-verbal stuff (if not all, I haven’t checked). Here’s a very short clip–very short–to illustrate. (Turn down the sound so you can focus). As you watch, notice the guard’s face. His shoulders. His breathing. The way he’s leaned forward. How he nods ever so slightly. Then watch the king and queen, their faces, mouths, hands, and basically what they DO. From a writing standpoint, that’s serious awesomeness. Imagine if the guard had burst in and started talking a million miles a minute and the king and queen had gasped and sobbed on each other’s shoulders. We would have shut off to all the drama, right? If you give your audience too much, it’s just too much, like Tricia said. But you still have to give them something. To use the old adage, “Don’t tell me. Show me.” And this is some serious showing. I counted at least five emotions just by watching their non-verbal cues. How cool is that? I realize this is a movie, but books can and should be a movie in the readers’ minds. If you can’t see the subtlety in your characters actions, neither will your readers. But…only show us non-verbal cues if it matters to the story. Does it matter that the character is breathing quickly or leaning forward? Does it matter if he’s bouncing his knee? His pencil? If it doesn’t, skip it. Strike that balance. Think through what’s intuitive and if it isn’t working, come back to it later. The second response comes from my friend Sharon Belknap. Sharon:There is so much to be said in an expression, a hesitation, in the way a person folds his arms or even the length of a breath. (I’m picturing “Tangled” again.) To me, it is so much more imperative to a story to include details like this than the color of the curtains, the layout of a room or even physical features of the characters in the story. The beauty of writing is that all of those nonverbal clues can be included. You can get inside the head of your characters, something you can’t do nearly as well as in a movie or play. You can follow a character along on a demented journey of wonderings, many of which paths can veer off into unexpected directions or dead end without warning. That’s one of the things that makes reading and writing so interesting and compelling. I can’t remember feeling weighed down by these non-verbal kinds of details. But maybe that’s just me. I agree. I love being in character’s heads. In fact, I get frustrated when I read a book and they forget to add in those details–or when I only get those non-verbal cues sporadically and only in the beginning when I haven’t grown to love or understand the character yet. To go back to “Tangled” (because at this point, why not?), think about the scene where Rapunzel has just broken out of her tower/prison for the first time. If you haven’t noticed this scene before from a writing standpoint, notice it now. Before you watch this clip, turn down the sound again and pay attention to all non-verbal stuff going on. There’s a whole bunch in there–from both of them. I love it when a character DOES something and the author doesn’t tell me why, because really, that’s how life is. If someone looks at me and folds their arms, I have to figure out why. What did I say that ticked them off? Or are they even ticked off? Maybe they’re just pensive. Or tired. Or cold. Make your readers wonder—but ONLY if it ADDS to the story. If your character is tired because they stayed up too late cutting their toenails, don’t waste my time telling me UNLESS it’s going to impair their judgment and they fall asleep at the wheel and drive off a cliff to their demise. Okay. You get the idea. Oh man, I’m so excited for this topic! I have a character I’m working on right now who is not a “man of many words.” This is going to help a ton! And tomorrow I promise no more “Tangled” references. Maybe. Thanks to Sharon and Tricia for sharing your thoughts. Tune in tomorrow for more ideas of how to get that 90% of non-verbal communication into your manuscript without weighing it down.

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I’d like the thank everyone for their support with the forest painting. By Saturday morning I had sold them all. If you’re interested in grabbing one of these let me know ASAP. I’m not sure how many more I’m going to be able to make because the stencil will only last for a handful of sprays. I can make a limited number more. Once again if you’re interested in purchasing one, please email me at email@example.com subject line “forest painting”. And in the email let me know if you want the grey or the natural background. On another note…one of the many projects I’ve been working on the last few weeks, has been modifying my booth for friend and former roommate Claire Manning. It started with sanding, painting, and adding new knobs to an old dresser. She had an old Umbra door clothing rack that I repainted, and made notches in the wall, so it would fit and prevent it from sliding from side to side. Finally I made simple shelves using cheap metal brackets. Booth turned out great. Claire, another friend Michelle, and I got up at 3:30am this morning to set it all up. If you’re hitting up the One Of A Kind Show in Toronto, be sure to stop by her booth. She’s at BOOTH P33. She’s selling tea towels, aprons, napkins and pillows. I finished my stencil! After 10 months of picking away at it I cut my last piece on Monday at 2:30 am. Felt good to finally have it done. The work wasn’t over though. I had to make a frame to slide the canvas into so the stencil could lay flat and I could make some sort of registration. After that I tinted the white areas of the canvas so my highlights stencil would stand out. Then I finally sprayed it. After layering colours over and over I got to a point where it looked perfect. Here they are… So as you can see, this is just a section. I decided I can’t reveal it yet. I have only a fox to paint in and I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag just yet. From here on out any progress shots will be closeups until it’s finished. So as I mentioned at the beginning of the post, I have spent the last 10 months working away at this. It has shaved a couple years off my hands and back so I decided I would make other versions for as long as the stencils will hold up for other people to enjoy. Yup, they’re on sale. Here they are…. 3ft x 2ft (36″ x 24″) Spray paint on wood panel (grey) 3ft x 2ft (36″ x 24″) Spray paint & wood stain on wood panel (natural) In the grey version I have painted the panel before adding the stencils. On the tan version I have applied natural wood stain to the panel before adding the stencils. Both are $200 each. If you’re interested in purchasing one, please email me at firstname.lastname@example.org subject line “forest painting”. And in the email let me know if you want the grey or the natural background. Please note each painting is unique and will differ from all others (it’s the nature of this process) so they may differ somewhat from these photos but will look every bit as good. By one for yourself or give one as a gift (wink wink, nudge nudge). Back to work, I’m in the homestretch now with my forest stencil. I finally finished the first stencil which was for the shadows. I’m onto the second one now which will make up the highlights. It’s been going super fast in comparison…. there is just simply less detail to cut. I’m super pumped to be painting this within the next couple of weeks. In the first post about this painting I mentioned it’s been a long time coming (about 5-6 years). It’ll be great to move on to other projects I’ve had on the back-burner. I’ve decided instead of making one painting from these, I will make a few of them. Stay tuned! Next post should be the fruits of my labour. I’ve been a bit all over the place lately, but I’ve recommitted myself to my forest stencil that I bagan at the beginning of 2014. It’s a beast, and with all of the detail it takes forever. I’m really starting to make ground on it and you can begin to see the trees forming. To get myself inspired again, I hit up a few art shows in only a couple of days. I checked out Hanna Hur‘s Get Well Soon Slow Editions Book Launch at Art Metropole which was different than most shows I attend. The art book was comprised of flower drawings created while in the hospital, of arrangements visitors had left for the artist. It was pretty rad and the shop as well. The second show I attended that night was Jon Todd‘s Outsiders at Hermann & Audrey which showcased his brand of portraiture and story telling through mixed media painting and collage. It’s alway great to see his work in person (like any artist for that matter) because you don’t get to experience the scale and depth of the materials used from a computer screen. To be honest I walked right through Michelangelo: Quest for Genius. I’m not sure if it’s just where I’m at with my own art, but I just found it completely boring. The Alex Colville show in my opinion was amazing. Room upon room of countless works and sketches spanning his career. I found his water colours of the war really cool and thought they would inspire many concept artists with his execution. Now that I’ve seen that Alex Colville inspired so much of The Shining I should finally watch it… this week would be perfect.

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The name “Lexicon” was chosen as it stood for knowledge and words. The centre will house about 80,000 items, including books, CDs and DVDs, for people to borrow. More than 50 mobile devices such as laptops, iPads, and Kindles will be available for people to use. Storage Systems Ltd (Bruynzeel’s Irish Distributor) were commissioned to supply, design and install, Library Furniture and Office Furniture to all floors within this building, custom made lockers with an electronic locking device accessed by the public and staff members, Sysco office shelving for staff office locations on each floor level and Electronic Mobile Shelving for the book storage floor level and top floor local study room accessed by the public. This installation comprises of 400 bays of Compactus Dynamic Pro XTR Electronic Mobile Shelving with all shelves been 300mm deep to suit the storage of library books with each bay having a pull out drawer unit for different types of media been stored. The total storage capacity of this installation is over 50,000 library books.

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CLEAN PLUS is a Well known Brand and we are providing a High quality product and High quality service to the shopper. With heavy-duty wood handle No need to wash The dirtier it gets, the better it works Extra soft and dense fibers, won’t come out like cheap dusters Cleans the entire car in minutes without water Lasts for several years

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Re: Interrupt curl operation / Sending site command simultaneously to all curl handles Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:16:47 +0100 (CET) On Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Robert Meissner wrote: > I'd like to create some curl handles. After setting the options for all > handles the connection to the set up ftp servers should be established. > After that a site command should be send to all open curl handles. That has > to be done simultaneously! How simultanoues? You mean on the very same microsecond on N different connections? TCP doesn't offer that granularity of course... > Therefor i have to interrupt the curl_easy_perform() action, or That you cannot do. > At least the site command must be send to all open curl handles at the same That you cannot achieve with libcurl. > How do i make that happen? You'll need to invent a magic synchronize mechanism and then probably use the multi interface or use multiple threads. -- Commercial curl and libcurl Technical Support: http://haxx.se/curl.htmlReceived on 2007-11-25

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My baby had me up to feed her at 3:15 a.m. I had only just gone to bed at midnight. After she was fed I couldn’t get back to sleep! So I did what any quilter would do… I came down to my sewing room! I couldn’t get this little house block out of my head so I had to make it. |Christmas themed Scrap House.| The sun is still struggling to come up here and we’ve had fresh snow overnight. The light is not the best but I wanted to get this post up before life gets crazy today. You can see so far I have the house with a Christmas tree in the window and a reindeer on the roof. I love my little Cotton + Steel door and step. I am using the technique taught in the book Scrap House Quilt by Katharine Guerrier. The publisher is offering my blog readers a discount code for this ebook in either the download or CD versions. To get a 10% discount type code: daydreamshouse in the box on the basket page then click Apply Coupon to get the discount. This code will expire after 7th December and cannot be combined with any other offer. I am so impressed with these ebooks. All ebooks I’ve bought thus far have only been PDF files of the paper books but these Vivebooks ebooks have embedded instructional videos in them. It’s like having your own private class with the author! This book teaches you how to make the little scrap houses with surrounding gardens and trees and then how to tie them together into a quilt top using various quilt blocks such as HST blocks, Dutchman’s puzzle blocks and so on. This is a fantastic way to use up scraps. I don’t know about you but I am starting to get a bit overwhelmed with my scraps so I was happy see that this technique is a solution to that problem. These quilts are so cute for little kids too! You can use different novelty prints like the cat in the red house above to put cute things in the windows. |A closer shot to show the little Christmas tree in the window.| I am going to add a snowy front garden and a tree to my house block and the tree will be decorated with buttons for ornaments. This will become a throw pillow for a Christmas gift for one of my Aunt’s and Uncles. I was feeling a bit lazy at 5:00 a.m. (I wonder why?) and I didn’t sew in a chimney. I may still applique one on. I haven’t decided yet. I will be sure to post the finished project for you to see but I wanted to get this post up for anyone else who wants to make Christmassy houses and take advantage of the discount code. You can order Scrap House Quilt anytime. The discount code for my blog readers is good until Dec. 7th. Disclosure: I received a free copy of the ebook in order to write my review. The links in this post are affiliate links. All opinions are my own and I was not influenced in anyway.

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I once heard a phrase that says: “Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.” And it’s true. Having a pet is one of the best and enriching experiences, and although it is not simple, because it implies responsibilities, it is very satisfying, because it is they who teach us what unconditional love is. Unfortunately, most pets live less than a human, for example, a dog lives between 8 and 14 years; cats between 10 and 18 years; Fish can live up to 3 years just like hamsters. A good way to pay tribute to that being who has given you so much love is to carry it in your skin forever. If you are an animal lover and you love tattoos, pay attention to these 25 pet tattoos.

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Description : Discover the history with more useful stats and insights on the business name Hackbunny before purchasing the domain. Product : Hackbunny is a brandable business domain name for sale for $2,395. It falls under the following categories: Hardware, Software, Technology . Hackbunny is in the .com extension. TLDs may be used for diffrent purpose. Example: .com extension inherited from "commercial" and used for generally commercial activities, .net extension inherited from "network" and used for generally internet activites etc. Facebook social media handle www.facebook.com/hackbunny is available. Twitter social media handle www.twitter.com/hackbunny is not available. Instagram social media handle www.instagram.com/hackbunny is available. Youtube social media handle www.youtube.com/hackbunny is not available. Domain Name : hackbunny.com Price : $2,395

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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir. The latest and greatest edition to self-guide you up and down the mean streets. Willeford: The Book Includes the first “Mr. Hunt” story, “Knives in the Dark.” Monthly Archives: September 2017 In case you haven’t noticed, Vintage Crime announces publication of The Big Book of the Continental Op — just in time for Xmas. I have to check the proof to make sure it is up to my standards, but the … Continue reading For anyone who wants to just show up by noon near the revolving “L” sculpture with 20 bucks and four hours to kill, take your pick from Sunday October 15 or Sunday October 22 or Sunday October 29 — the tourist … Continue reading

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An openwork pattern for your shawl or scarf. These are acacia flowers on the crocchet mesh. Choose the yarn for the shawl from which you will get beautiful puffy stitches. For example, Alize Real 40 or mohair. From dark blue yarn I tried work puffy stitches not into the top of the dc, but in the chains around. This is an option. Video: How To Crochet «Acacia» shawl Acacia Shawl Crochet Chart |Symbol||US Crochet term| |ch, chain stitch| |sl st, ss, slip stitch| |sc, single crochet| |dc, double crochet| |puff stitch of 3 hdc| Pattern for the working from the center of the wide side The chart where the flowers are less common Crochet with fun!

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Talking about running good. Twitch poker favorite Arlie Shaban, not six months on from shipping a Platinum Pass and playing in a $25k buy-in event, barely one month after getting signed up as a PokerStars ambassador, has completed the streamer triple crown: Hitting the donation jackpot from one lucky benefactor to the tune of $2420. Here’s the moment in all its glory (warning: profanity abounds!) The generous donator, yanksfan420, wanted him to play 20 $100 Spin and Go Max’s—and gave him the money to do so. It is by far his biggest donation to date. Naturally, the PokerStars blog itself picked up the story, and apparently said the money was earmarking the gift for him to play in the Spin & Go 20 challenge on PokerStars. (that’s not clear from the Twitch clip shared, but the fact that it’s 20 spin and go max tickets gifted some seem to suggest a connection here) What is Spin & Go 20? PokerStars is glad you asked—it’s a new promotion where your results from your first 20 spins of the day (including but limited to Spin and Go Max) count towards a leaderboard with $16,000 prizes given away each day. Arlie’s gift gives him all the buy-ins he needs to compete for a top tier prize one day. Now the cynic in you might wonder if in fact yanksfan420 is a PokerStars stooge and this is a way of promoting the new games. But Arlie’s reaction certainly seems genuine, so we can say with confidence that, even if that is the case, he wasn’t in on it. And let’s be honest, I doubt he cares too much, and those 20 high stakes sit and gos will certainly provide some great entertainment for his viewers.

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On a recent drive up to Rockingham we called into Rustico for light lunch to see what all the hype was about. Rustico, a 2012 Gold Plate award winner was packed, inside and out, midweek for lunch! A good sign I thought, and perusing the tables of food, a treat was in store for us. A little slow with the wait staff, but then it is still the Christmas holiday week and so I guess they are down on numbers. The tapas menu is quite extensive with something for everyone. Veggy dishes, seafood, poultry and all manner of combinations and tasting plates were available as well a number of chefs specials written up on the chalk board. In addition, salads, paella and pizzas adorn the menu making sure no one goes hungry. The food is well presented, colourful exciting and totally delicious. The two of us shared 4 mains tapas dishes which accompanied with bread and toasted french bread was plenty for lunch. Wild mushrooms with sherry cream and sourdough. Scallops and grilled chorizo with pear puree and candied jamon

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Finlyte’s best-in-class Central Office Services platform, technology, and extensive financial and managerial expertise enables our capital partners to assess value, structure and negotiate transactions, and implement focused operating plans. We are comfortable evaluating investment opportunities across a variety of industries, different stages of development, and even pressing financial situations. Target companies for investment consideration typically have revenues between $5 million to $20 million, dependent on their industry and stage of development. This revenue range aligns well with the target market for Finlyte’s Central Office Services creating a disciplined framework for investment oversight and business plan execution. We generally prefer companies with a history of revenue and positive EBITDA, or a clear path to profitability, a highly-defensible position in their respective markets, and a core of capable management that remains post-investment. Please contact one of our partners with your confidential inquiry. We welcome the conversation. Finlyte offers a Highly Competitive and Unique Combination to entrepreneurs, management teams, and co-investors to accelerate financial performance, streamline operations by leveraging shared services, and access to a deep bench of experienced professionals. This combination creates an exceptional platform for investment oversight, business plan execution, and opportunity to build sustainable, long-term value.

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Dear Bell Canada, It recently came to FOCA’s attention that boats used by Bell in rural Ontario may not be routinely inspected for aquatic invasive species, washed at the end of each day, nor between individual lake visits. This was disappointing to hear, needless to say, as our association works diligently to encourage ALL boaters to do their part to protect our waterways. (http://foca.on.ca/invasive-species/) FOCA is the Federation of Ontario Cottagers’ Associations, a not-for-profit organization with over 500 member associations across Ontario that represent 50,000 waterfront property owning families. Our member groups represent the interests of local residents and are focussed on healthy and sustainable lake environments. On behalf of our membership we have a specific question: what actions has Bell taken / will be taking in 2016 to minimize the impacts from invasive species transfer related to the movement of boats vehicles and equipment, and how does your operations/training support the efforts to reduce the transport and spread of invasives? The Province of Ontario places a high priority on reducing the risks from the unintended introduction of invasive species in the Province. (See http://www.ontario.ca/environment-and-energy/how-government-combats-invasive-species for more information). The source of these harmful introductions include transient ATV or off-road vehicles (for on-land or terrestrial species like dog-strangling vine), and transient/trailered boat movements (for aquatic invasive species such as Zebra Mussels or Round Goby). Given the breadth and scope of Bell’s activities and the amount of vehicular movement your rural employees are involved with, we feel it is very important that your organization does its part to reduce the threat of harmful species spread. We would be pleased to work with you and your employees to help share this message, and to make cleaning your equipment an integrated part of your ongoing field activities. Attached is one example of some simple best management practices that we recommend be embedded in your training and operational routines. Given that Bell explicitly recognizes the importance of protecting the environment and at-risk species, and has a commitment to mitigating the impacts of your operations, this material may integrate well with your training, including best practices and environmental procedures that Bell employees and contractors must follow. We look forward to your response. We would love to share Bell Canada’s plans to embed best practices in your activities with our members in an upcoming FOCA Elert or newsletter. We’d love to showcase “leading by example”. Terry Rees, FOCA

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Welcome to the second edition of Fashion Sundae, a candid look at the styles spotted in the neighborhood last week. To follow along during the week head over to Watching New York. Introducing Fashion Sundae, a weekly look at the outfits and accessories spotted on the streets around the neighborhood. Greenpoint-based photographer Johnny Cirillo describes Fashion Sundae as an amalgam of trends and styles and people, like the toppings on a sundae. With the summer heat in full force, the styles this week featured shades, hats and inventive ways to show some skin. Scroll through for all of the looks and follow along during the week at Watching New York: The Bedford Avenue building that formerly housed the local favorite screening room and bar, Videology, which closed last October, has a new tenant that is bucking the corporate chain takeover of the surrounding area, Brooklyn Vegan reports. The Lower East Side-based comedy club Old Man Hustle will open their second location at 308 Bedford Ave; the opening date has yet to be announced. According to Brooklyn Vegan, the Videology sign was removed by workers today, and the new comedy club may also screen films: “The Lower East Side location of Old Man Hustle, on Essex St, hosts stand-up as well as movie night, so they will probably be making the most of Videology’s existing setup.” Continue reading Mugs Alehouse (125 Bedford Ave.) is closing after more than two decades on Bedford Avenue around the corner from the L train, Brooklyn Vegan reports. The bar originally opened in 1992 and will close on June 22nd, marking another example of the quickly disappearing old-school pubs in North Williamsburg. Ad Hoc NYC clothing store will close their brick and mortar location at 10 Bedford Ave. in Greenpoint at the end of the month, while the owners “bum around the globe for much needed cultural inspiration.” The store started in 2011 in Williamsburg on Wythe Avenue as a men’s wear and accessories shop and opened in Greenpoint in 2013 while quickly expanding into women’s clothing. Ad Hoc NYC announced the closure in a note posted on social media on Monday, clarifying that their online store will remain in operation: Hallo und auf Wiedersehen👋🏽 It’s been a kewl 8 yrs on Wythe and Bedford aves but we’re super psyched to be going back to our international nomadic roots to bum around the globe for much needed cultural inspiration 🙃 You got less than 10 days to score the last of everything that’s on sale (NOT yet online), and most of our apparel goods have been on adhocnyc.com for years now so you can still shop virtually even when we pack up the ol’ brick and mortar at the end of the month. View this post on Instagram Hallo und auf Wiedersehen👋🏽 It’s been a kewl 8 yrs on Wythe and Bedford aves but we’re super psyched to be going back to our international nomadic roots to bum around the globe for much needed cultural inspiration 🙃 You got less than 10 days to score the last of everything that’s on sale (NOT yet online), and most of our apparel goods have been on adhocnyc.com for years now so you can still shop virtually even when we pack up the ol’ brick and mortar at the end of the month✌🏾 #adhocnyc #greenpoint #brooklyn #nomore #tschüssi #再見 #abientot #peaceout ❤️ Kitchenware retailer Whisk (231 Bedford Ave.) is closing their Williamsburg location on April 30th after their landlord raised the rent by 44% to over $26,000 per month, Whisk posted on social media on Sunday. Rent at their 231 Bedford Ave. space was originally $8,625 per month when the business opened on Bedford Ave. and N. 4 St. in 2008, the note explains. Read the note Whisk posted on social media: On April 30 we will close our Whisk here on Bedford Avenue. As the owner and creator of Whisk, it pains me to say goodbye. And so I wrote you this love letter to express my adoration for you and to tell you of my decision. It is a story of greed, commercial banking and the distortion of “fair” market rents. When we opened Whisk on November 26, 2008, our rent was $8,625/month; it ended at $18,452/month. The thing is, we could sustain that high rent. We are a great, busy store and online retailers have not cut into our sales enough to hurt us. But to renew our lease for just 5 years, our landlords asked for no less than $26,500/month, or a 44% increase. To accept that rent would mean increasing prices and depressing wages. And that’s not the contribution I want to make. So how did it come to be that it’s $26,500 or leave? I believe the story goes like this: Developers identify Williamsburg as the cool place to be. Developers seek loans to amass more land ownership. Banks underwriting these mortgages demand to know payments can be met via higher rent rolls. “We like chain stores for tenants,” they say. Williamsburg businesses shift from independent, unique services to large American and multinational businesses seeking to grow their brand. Can’t actually pay the high rent demand? “No matter,” say these businesses. “It’s an advertising investment!” Private equity supported brands want in; food chains want in; heck, all the banks want in! Big landlords are happy and finally so too are the small landlords who can now say “me too!” on high rent demands. And therein we see why Whisk has to leave you. I love you for having passed through our doors so many times over all these years. You chose to shop locally; you chose to support Whisk. I am grateful for all my staff now and those of the past. We built Whisk together and I am a better person for all that I’ve learned. I am going to miss Whisk on Bedford so deeply. And here’s where I make my plea to you to help build a better future. One, honor your neighborhood and decide how to spend wisely. There’s no need to prop up businesses that don’t serve a good purpose; but there’s every reason in the world to support the ones that do. Two, ask yourself: what do you want from your community? Small business decimation does not happen without structural consent, without community consent. Cities like Paris and San Francisco are working to create change. We can too. Help keep this discussion alive by emailing me at [email protected] Let’s talk about a vacancy tax; let’s talk about zoning; let’s talk about a no formula chain policy; let’s talk about online vs brick and mortar sales taxes. There are no easy fixes but we won’t get to a better place without investing in the tough discussion. Please keep the love for Whisk strong by shopping NOW at our Bedford Avenue store where nearly all items are 30-50% off AND by shopping at our other two locations: 933 Broadway, between 21st and 22nd Streets, Flatiron district (212.477.8680) 197 Atlantic Avenue, close to Court St, downtown Brooklyn (718.852.2665) Rosemary’s Greenpoint Tavern is closing on February 28th following 60-plus years at 188 Bedford Ave. where it opened in 1955. The Williamsburg cash-only throwback to pre-luxury times is known for its affordable drinks, chummy bartenders and rockin’ jukebox. Rosemary’s closing was originally reported by Brooklyn Based. The bar’s namesake, Rosemary Bleday, worked at the bar since her 20s after her family relocated the watering-hole from its original Green Street location in Greenpoint. Now at age 86, Bleday is seeking to move from her apartment above the bar after she is released from the hospital where she is being treated for a recent injury. Gothamist spoke with her grandson Eric Carson who said that the demolition and development on both bordering parcels threaten the structural integrity of the wood frame building at 188 Bedford Avenue: Carson says that the bar held out for a long time, even as they got offers left and right over time, and in recent years as the developer bought up the buildings beside Rosemary’s, which is located at 188 Bedford Avenue, near North 7th Street. In 2016, RedSky Capital bought the three-story, three-unit building next door, at 190 Bedford Avenue, for $13.2 million, as The Real Deal reports. In what the publication dubs a “nearly block-long assemblage,” the developers also purchased the building next to that, at 192 Bedford, as well as Rosemary’s other neighbors at 184-186 Bedford Avenue. “Unfortunately in doing that—them knocking down two buildings on either side of us, being a wood frame building—according to an engineer report, puts us at serious risk for damage,” he says. “And my grandmother living up here wouldn’t be safe or conducive to running a business.” There are no plans to reopen another Rosemary’s according to the family, who are seeking to go out in a spirit of celebration over the final three weeks. The longest street in Brooklyn and the road that runs through the heart of Williamsburg is Bedford Avenue. The 10.19 mile-long street got its name from the village of Bedford, which was located roughly at the intersection of what is now Bedford Avenue and Fulton Street. There is some disagreement about Bedford. The village, which is so old that it was a focal point of the Revolutionary Wars’ Battle of Brooklyn could come from the English Duke of Bedford or it could refer to Dutch word bestevaar, meaning “the place where old men meet.” Another street with an ancient history is Bushwick Avenue, which is the oldest street in all of Bushwick, dating back to the earliest Dutch occupation. Peter Stuyvesant named it on March 14, 1661. The name is generally said to mean “place of the woods.” The area was dense with forests, thickets, scrub oaks, logs and low land. British soldiers used a great deal of the wood for fuel, forever changing the area’s natural environment. In 1792, Richard Woodhull, a real estate developer, whose name graces the local hospital, tried unsuccessfully to develop a settlement in Williamsburg. He created the numbered Streets (S. 5th to N. 3rd). When Richard Woodhull had the area surveyed in 1792 (he had purchased 12 acres), he simply gave the streets numbers for names, except for Grand Street. Woodhull also created a lane along the waterfront which he called “Water Street” and another East River street called “River Street” (now under water). Continue reading Back in 2008, an Australian-American restaurant/bar opened on Bedford with its primary claim to fame being that Heath Ledger (RIP) had been involved in its conception. Now, Five Leaves is closing in on nine years in the neighborhood and is still one of the most popular spots around. It’s burger and pancakes are institutions on the New York dining scene and that weekend brunch wait hasn’t gotten any shorter. This doesn’t mean that they want to rest on their laurels though. If you’ve stopped by this year, you may have noticed both the food and cocktail menus changing ever so slightly towards a little more seasonality. They’re definitely giving the locals a good reason to stop by for dinner. Five Leaves did always have a seasonal and organic angle to their menu, but when Chef Warren Baird took the helm in the kitchen towards the end of 2015, he knew it was time to step up their game a little bit. The local and sustainable movement has grown a lot in the past few years. Now, producers and consumers are more aware of our food systems’ environmental impact. But, luckily, consumers are also more willing to trust a chef when presented with unique dishes, like blue catfish done up Szechuan-style. Continue reading Back in 2003, Bedford Cheese Shop opened its doors in the small mini mall in Williamsburg. The tiny shop was one of the first in the neighborhood to offer specialty cheeses, charcuterie, and packaged foodstuffs. In 2006, the owner Charlotte Kamin moved all the beautiful cheeses to the corner space on Bedford Avenue and North 4th Street. But the space was small, and you often felt a little cramped if more than a handful of customers were in the store. When it came time to renew their lease, she began looking around for a bigger space. Luckily, a larger space opened up just down the avenue at 265 Bedford and the whole shop moved three blocks to its new home last August. And with everything all settled in, it’s time to really invite the neighbors in for drinks and nibbles. Starting last week, the new Bedford Cheese began weekly themed tastings, and this week, they’ll begin serving their cafe menu. Continue reading

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Anyone who has tried to keep in contact while saving money has needless to say watched, as conferencing solutions have gone from something that kinda-sorta-maybe could be considered a video call to high-quality, interactive discussions. In the past, we had just two real options: Skype and Microsoft Communicator. This is no longer the case. In fact, these days, solutions seem limitless—there is no potential end in sight for how many solutions may wind up on the market. And while having a wide selection is nice, it is also problematic when it leads to a plethora of so-called “standards”—none of which are then “standard” at all. To avoid a future filled with compatibility issues and frustrations, it’s worth taking a closer look at which products are likely to succeed. Below, I discuss WebRTC and Microsoft Lync, both of which show promise as wide-spread, user-friendly conferencing platforms. Ultimately however, I believe Lync’s ability to interact with other Microsoft products and cell phones will make it the new standard. But let’s start with WebRTC. WebRTC is one of the current “standards” being ushered onto the market; it’s attractive because it allows developers to support real time communications without the need for plugins, downloads, or installs. It’s natively supported by browsers like Chrome, FireFox, and Opera. You might notice the glaring hole in that browser list is Internet Explorer. While other major browsers have jumped on the WebRTC bandwagon, Internet Explorer has been, mostly, holding out for Microsoft Lync integration (which was recently launched!) Now you can invite someone from outside of your Lync organization to login via a web portal and participate in a web conference call. Obviously the web version of Lync only appears to work with Internet Explorer for now… but that’s not really a surprise. Knowing Microsoft, they will eventually introduce “Lite” versions that are capable of working with Chrome, FireFox, Opera, and more. While WebRTC may be able to keep costs to a minimum, it isn’t an easy fit for most large organizations, especially those already operating in the Microsoft world (as many do). Lync is beginning to show signs of becoming the ultimate business conferencing platform as a result of some strategic moves it has made. Lync is available on Windows phones, Windows tablets, and of course, Windows PCs. Microsoft even launched an Android and iOS client, but they’re not worth looking at… yet. But what is encouraging is the fact that Microsoft recognizes the value in pursuing these other systems, even if they aren’t ready for the prime-time. Lync becomes really exciting when we consider its potential. The ability to bridge communications between multiple Windows devices (and soon: non-Windows devices too) means we’re not far from a future where you can leave your PC behind and use only your mobile device for conferencing. This will become especially viable as processing speeds and memory continue to increase. If Microsoft continues to make these strategic market moves, we’ll soon be able to walk into a store, purchase a Microsoft web conferencing camera and Microsoft audio conferencing pod, and communicate directly with “The Microsoft Cloud.” That’s exciting. I’m looking forward to a future where Microsoft could truly act as our UC business backbone. And who better than a company that has over 39 years of experience solving software problems in the business world.

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Bored with scarves that start at one end and finish at the other, shawls that start at one side and finish at the other? Yes, there’s Another Way. And it’s hot right now on Ravelry. I realised I wasn’t quite done with my Foolproof idea…it wanted to be more…well, just more, really. Now you can make a scarf or shawl with no casting on and no binding off. You don’t need a gauge square to make it to a custom size in any yarn. It’s garter stitch – with funky stripes and some increasing and decreasing. It’s perfect for stashbusting, mini-skeins and having fun with stripes. Worked from the middle out, it’s easy to ensure each side is balanced as you go, making it fantastic for using up yarns or playing with colour. If you want to keep life simple, there is the stunning (IMHO) City Stripe Scarf version (photographed), which has size, yarn quantities and stripe layout all specified. But it truly is a flexible pattern – make a big rectangle shawl, make a skinny scarf. The pattern simply works, and it’s easy. No stress, just start. I’m already planning a beautiful big shawl for the autumn, though this size is just right for now. The yarn is Blue Sky Alpacas’ Alpaca Silk and it feels simply beautiful. The colours are gorgeous – you could easily make your own variation from their fabulous selection of shades. I also put these two patterns together in the ebook Foolproof Ways for the best value. Happy knitting and hot patterns!

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Lise Meitner: Austrian physicist, Ghost. If this were a Japanese Noh Drama I would be standing on a cliff above a ravine And I would tell her a story. Maybe I’d warn her of the terrible thing that will happen today to a city at the other side of the world. But I am no ghost. I was still very much alive On that particular summer day when a city was destroyed by the power of atomic fission. That fission which had once been so beautiful to me. I was in Stockholm that day, so I am no ghost. At least not to her. But to you, now, in this room, I guess I am a ghost. So I will tell you the story. In all the years since my death I return here again and again To this sixth day of August, 1945. Sometimes I am under a stadium in Chicago For that very first chain reaction. . And sometimes I am in a desert in New Mexico As The Gadget detonates for the first time. Sometimes, when I cannot stop myself, I’m on an island looking up at a blinding light in the sky As hell rains down around me. But for now I am here In this Secret City in the mountains. I miss my Viennese accent, the German language, My own body. But in my current state of… “being” — For lack of a better word — My tongue and appearance seem to suit the occasion: This appeals to my sense of practicality Yet somehow leaves me a little sad. I went where I had to, during the war. And then, of course, afterwards, I was invited everywhere. They said I smuggled the bomb out of Germany In a suitcase. The narrative of history is a slippery thing. Exploratory monologue for the character of LISE, inspired by physicist Lise Meitner, one of many women I am currently researching for: A PLAY ABOUT A BOMB. WITH SONGS. (edit March 2017: now titled Splitting Atoms With a Butter Knife) Written during a residency at Djerassi Resident Artist Program As part of Scientific Delirium Madness 3.0, July 2016

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Goldens Bridge Fence Company Welcome to King Fence Of Westchester NY. Are you looking for a Goldens Bridge fence company? Why take a chance on unknown Golden’s Bridge fence companies when you can go with the best? King Fence provides one of the largest selections of fence styles and fence service in Golden’s Bridge, one of our Westchester service areas. We are the largest fence installation and fence companies in Golden’s Bridge with a focus on providing the highest quality fence materials and customer support available. There is a reason we are King Fence, and there is a reason we have been the most sought after Golden’s Bridge fence companies for over 50 years! Golden’s Bridge is the place of great homes and a wonderful community, and when you need a fence company in Golden’s Bridge we are ready to add value through all work we complete for you. We have a reputation as the best and we live up to it. Our company will deliver great service, top quality products, and amazing customer service every time. Goldens Bridge Fence Company Services King Fence provides comprehensive fence services, which includes residential fence services, commercial fence services, repairs and material-only purchases. We have always provided reliable workmanship and the highest quality fences in every installation and repair project we conduct. Our Goldens Bridge Fence Company services specialize in residential / commercial installation and repair work in addition to wrought iron railing repairs. Our goal is to ensure the complete satisfaction of our customers and we always guarantee our work. For quality fencing at affordable rates, look no further than King Fence. Your top Golden’s Bridge Fence Company! If you are a home owner in Golden’s Bridge that needs experts fencing services please give us a call today. As the largest fencing company that services Ardsley, our company will exceed your fencing needs. We can handle any size job, and great estate in Golden’s Bridge call King Fence for quality and craftsmanship that other fence companies in Golden’s Bridge just can’t provide. We are your Golden’s Bridge fence company.

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The location Periodicals (Journals) Reading Room refers to the area (on the lower level) that overlooks the Institute pond, and "Compact Shelving," to the area (also on the lower level) against the wall that faces Parking Lot B. A note about electronic access: Many titles have been linked to an electronic version. Links to publishers tend to provide access to recent issues only. Links to JSTOR, by contrast, will get you back issues to the exclusion of the more recent. For further assistance, contact Krista Van Ness or another member of the Library staff, x8378.

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Well since the last time I wrote, I’ve already went to two counties! I got to the Taipei airport three hours before my flight to Kuala Lumpur (at 1:20pm). Surprisingly when I checked in, they didn’t ask for proof of onward travel. They DID, however, ask me to put my bag on the scale. Uh oh… it was the first time that I’ve been asked to weigh my bag and I knew that I’d definitely be over 7kg – I just didn’t know by how much. I hesitantly placed my big bag on the scale (hiding my handbag behind the counter, which had all of my heavy electronics). 8.5kg…. I was expecting the worst, like having to pay $100 per kilogram and waited to hear how much I’d have to pay. “Okay,” she said, and placed my passport and boarding pass on the counter. What? Really? Okay, I’ll take it! I didn’t have to talk to anyone at custom control (so no new stamp on my passport) – all I had to do was scan my fingerprints before being let through the little gate. Security was also pretty smooth so I got through a lot fast than expected. The first thing I did was convert all of my Taiwanese dollars (except 300 for lunch) into US dollars because I’ve been told that you can’t convert them outside of Taiwan. I then went to find some food, but found out that there were only two restaurants on the other side. How were there no restaurants in an airport? One of the restaurants was high-class (with dishes costing way over 300THB), and the other one was middle-priced (with dishes starting from 180THB). I found a cafe and just got a salad and caramel macchiato for 280THB ($12.45), which was a lot more than I was used to spending on a meal. I thought that setting aside 300THB would be more than enough, but I guess not! I FaceTimed my sister while eating my meal and waited to check in. The flight was just over 4 hours so I arrived after 5:30pm. I had to take the bus back into Kuala Lumpur, so I followed the signs to the bus. However when I arrived, there were a whole bunch of bus companies selling tickets around Malaysia. I definitely didn’t recognise this area! I walked around for a bit and finally saw a stand that said KL Sentral, so I bought a ticket for 12 ringgit ($3.92AUD) and waited for the bus. The bus ride was an hour long, and then I had to take the metro to where my hostel was. This time, I was staying at Marquee Guest Houzz (which has now changed its name to ZigZag Travellers Home), and I had to pay 23 ringgit ($7.90) for the night in a 6-bed female dorm. I was pretty hungry since it was after 8pm and I was actually really looking forward to having an Indian meal. Conveniently, my hostel was located in the Central Market so there was an Indian restaurant called Yusoof Dan Zakhir right next door. I ordered butter chicken with garlic naan and a tea tarik (milk tea) for 13.50 ringgit ($4.41), and it was delicious! I love my Asian food, no matter what the cuisine! On Friday morning, I got up and had breakfast at the hostel before walking around for a bit. My hostel was right beside Chinatown so I walked around the Central Market and Chinatown until about noon. Then, I made my way back to the hostel to pick up my stuff, took the metro back to KL Sentral, and got a bus back to the airport to catch my flight at 4pm. I was taking my time since I had ended up going through so quickly the day before. I wasn’t in a huge rush to get there three hours early since I had already checked in online – I only needed to get my boarding pass printed out. The first thing that I should tell you is that Kuala Lumpur airport (KLIA) has two terminals that are about 1.5km away from each other. I was trying to find out what terminal I had to get to, but I couldn’t find an actual answer (even my email and ticket didn’t say). I decided to go to KLIA2 since it would be the 4th time that I’d arrive or depart from there. I arrived at the airport at around 1:30 and checked the departure list to make sure I was in the right terminal. 4pm flight to Bangkok? Check. So I walked the 5-minute walk through all of the shops and up all of the escalators to the check-in desks. I searched for where the 4pm flight was located and walked to that section, but I could only find signs for Air Asia and I was flying with Malindo Air. Confused, I circled back to the departure board and checked it again. 4pm… Bangkok.. and then I looked at the flight number and compared it to my phone. Wrong one… Learn from my mistakes, people! Just because it’s the same time with same destination doesn’t mean it’s the same flight! I went to the information booth to double-check and he said that I’d have to take the shuttle bus to KLIA1. I ran back down the escalators, bought a ticket for 2 ringgit (65 cents) and saw that the next shuttle wasn’t for another 25 minutes, at 2:27. They come every half hour, so I must have JUST missed one. I tried to remain calm, and convinced myself that I’d still have 45 minutes to get my boarding pass, go through custom control, go through security, and hopefully get something to eat before the 3:15 boarding time. The other thing that I should mention about flying to Thailand is that in most cases, they will always ask for proof of onward travel because the airline doesn’t want to be stuck having to pay for your return ticket to leave the country. I’ve researched so much about this – I’ve read blogs, and it sounded like I’d have no choice but to find a ticket to prove that I’m leaving the country in less than 30 days (I was planning to leave by boat into Laos, so I couldn’t really provide a ticket). I’ve heard that there are rent-a-ticket sites, where you can pay 20 euro and they’ll print out a fake ticket for you. I’ve also heard of people buying cheap tickets to Singapore for 30 dollars that they won’t use. I even read that if you book on expedia, you can cancel your ticket within 24 hours and get all of your money back (which is what I was planning to do if I was forced to buy a ticket). I decided not to plan ahead this time so I could cross that bridge when I got to it. And thank goodness I did because when I finally got to the check-in counter, no questions were asked. And I probably would have been pretty mad if I went through all of the trouble of getting a ticket and didn’t even have to show it. Anyway, I went over to custom control and the line was so long. At least 15-20 minutes… I waited my turn, went to my officer who said something to the officer beside him. Then the officer beside him said, “Miss, he says you’re very beautiful.” “What? I didn’t say that, he’s lying!” “Yes, he said that. He’s just shy.” It was definitely nice that it wasn’t so serious for a change. He then flipped through my passport and laughed at the notes that I had written saying not to stamp any of the empty pages, then handed me my passport and let me through. I saw a sign that said flights to any gates that start with C have to take the Aerotrain. I looked down and guess which gate number I had to go through? One with a C, of course. By that point, it was 2:55pm so I still had 20 minutes until boarding time, and luckily the wait for the next train and the time to get to the gates was less than 5 minutes. We then had to go through security, but it wasn’t “official” security – there were signs saying that we could still carry our water bottles through. Finally, I was through! I was starving and had less than 15 minutes left, so I went to Boost to get a mango-lychee smoothie (which are way cheaper than the Boost smoothies in Australia!), and then I ran over to Burger King to get a burger. However, the person working there was so slow and she’d do everything with the least effort possible, while eating fries in between. It almost got to the point where I was going to walk away because I had been waiting in line for ten minutes and there were only two people in front of me when I got there. FINALLY, I got to the front of the line, ordered a double cheeseburger, and ran to my gate. However, I completely forgot that I still hadn’t went through ACTUAL security, which was right at my gate. I ate my burger as fast as I could, and then drank my smoothie even faster (while taking breaks in between brain freezes), and when I was the last person on the other side of security, I went through. I got to the other side and sat down while we all watched the suitcases being loaded onto the plane. They put on the last bag, closed it, but for some reason we still weren’t boarding. And then 4pm hit and we still weren’t boarding. Finally at about ten minutes after 4, an announcement came on saying that they had some technical difficulties and they’d let us know of our new boarding time. So those last two hours of stress were all for nothing… great! The worst part about being on that side of security was even though we weren’t allowed to bring any liquids through, they didn’t have any vending machines or water refill stations. By about 5pm, I really started getting thirsty so I did something frowned upon in the world of flying.. I left my bag sitting there and left. I had to set my boarding pass on the counter, go out, and walk about 5-10 minutes until I finally found a water refill station, which seemed to be the only one in the entire area. I went back, had to re-go through security, and grabbed my boarding pass from the counter (although I easily could have grabbed anyone else’s, or they mine, as no one was manning the counter), and sat back down. Finally after just over an hour and a half, we were asked to board the plane (apparently they were having lavatory issues, so we had to wait for them to fix it). It was then that they handed out water but they ran out of straws, so the water was inaccessible because the plastic would just rip anytime you tried to open it. I sat down and ended up getting the entire row to myself, which was great! I decided to finish watching the movie that I had started on my last Malindo flight nearly 7 weeks ago (Aloha). They soon handed out toasted sandwiches with a muffin. I arrived in Bangkok two hours later but had lost an hour, so it was only 7pm. However, there was another plane still in our loading bay (of course) so we had to wait about 15 minutes until we could get off of the plane. The airline also didn’t hand out arrival cards, so everyone was frantically looking for them when we got to border control (so thumbs down for Malindo this time.. if it weren’t for the food and entertainment making up for everything). I finally got through, bought a 7-day SIM card for 180 baht ($7.85), and then needed to find out how to get to my hostel, which was by the railway station. I asked one information booth where to go and they directed me to the other side of the airport and told me to go to the second floor and then when I got there, they directed me to the side that I was just on and told me to go to the second floor. I was wasting more time than anything, so I just decided to catch the A1 bus to Mo Chit terminal for 30THB ($1.31) and then take the metro to Hua Lamphong station. I finally got to my hostel just after 9pm. I was staying at Loftel Station Hostel for 250 baht ($11.16) for the night in a 10-bed mixed dorm. At about 9:30pm, I decided to go for dinner back at Supa, where I had my Christmas Eve dinner the last time I was in Bangkok. Most of the restaurants (including this one) closed at 10pm so I wanted to go somewhere close. I decided to get a green curry dish with rice for 130baht ($5.67). I headed back to the hostel at around 10:30pm and the weirdest thing happened. There was only one person sitting in the lobby, who happened to be a Canadian guy who I had met at my hostel in Skopje, Macedonia nearly two years ago(!). What are the odds that we would choose the same hostel on the same night in two different continents?! I think he was just as shocked as I was! After talking for a bit, we found out that we had both booked the same night train to Chiang Mai the following day (a ticket that I had booked months ago, before I even started my trip). So crazy!! Anyway, we said goodnight and went to bed, as I had a doctor appointment the next morning at 9:30. On Saturday morning, I got up at 8:30, got ready for the day, and went to go for my doctor’s appointment at the Thai Travel Clinic. Back when I was there on Christmas Eve, I got bloodwork done to find out if I was immune to the chicken pox (because I only had a few pox as a child). I didn’t realise that I’d have to come BACK to the travel clinic to get the results… so here I was nearly two months later, ready to find out if I was immune to chicken pox or not. I decided to take a Grab Bike because 1) it would only take 12 minutes to drive and likely over an hour to take public transport, 2) a Grab bike was over half the price of a regular Grab, and 3) it was actually the same price, if not cheaper than public transport (at 56 baht/$2.44 for the trip). I requested my Grab bike, he showed up with a helmet, I got on and we were on our way. He started the trip by going down the wrong lane on a main road, which didn’t help put me at ease but I realised that I made a great decision when we started weaving in and out of traffic. He dropped me off, I went upstairs and I actually finished my appointment before my appointment was supposed to start. They got me to take my blood pressure and weigh myself (I’ve definitely gained weight since the last appointment, with the amount of food I’ve eaten) and then I was called into the room. The doctor was really nice and showed me the piece of paper that came up as positive, so I didn’t have to worry about getting chicken pox. Unfortunately, just getting this information ended up costing 450baht ($19.53). I requested another Grab bike to take me to the 12Go office, where I had my reserved train ticket for that evening. The driver dropped me off right after 10am, which was right when they opened! I got my ticket to go from Ayutthaya at 19:45 and arrive in Chiang Mai the next day at 7:15am. I then walked back to the hostel and ordered coffee and breakfast (which was toast slices with a soft-boiled egg). I headed to the train station at about 11:30 and asked for a ticket to Ayutthaya, but the next train wasn’t until 12:55 so I had about an hour to kill. I found a coffee shop, ordered an iced tea, and waited. But I’ll save my trip to Ayutthaya for another post! Love always

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This online shop is using cookies to give you the best shopping experience. Thereby for example the session information or language setting are stored on your computer. Without cookies the range of the online shop's functionality is limited. If you do not agree, please click here. colour: black 7007 lens colour: solid grey fitted with sun lenses manufactured by Carl Zeiss Vision Rome in the 50’s: tabloid journalist Marcello Rubini meets a series of fascinating women on his forays into this pulsating city. And while the adventure is intoxicating, it doesn’t answer his existential questions... Born in Berlin, Lunettes Kollektion sparkles with new creative energy while staying grounded in history, just like the city it calls home. This sophisticated high-quality collection introduces the next set of contemporary classics in European eyewear design. Lunettes Kollektion’s original unisex frames for prescription glasses and sunglasses allow the wearer’s individuality to shine through with elegance and authenticity.

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Gear train - Wikipedia Gears are used to change the torque, speed, and direction of rotation. The driving gear has 30 teeth, the idler gear has 90 teeth and the driven gear has 15 . I can understand each gear delivering the same torque because I can . So the proper balance equation is the force balance equation: FA = FB, . the other gears would become simple idlers because they would be "loose". Gear Ratio expresses the relationship between a Driving Gear (the gear that is LARGER than the Driven Gear you will increase Speed and decrease Torque: Gear and the Driven Gear that only transmit power are known as Idler Gears. Does half of gear C's torque apply to H1 and half to gear E? And would M1 apply a force to M2 and vice versa? If M1 does not affect H2 and M2 does not affect H1, then what about if these gears are added: I think I'm having trouble tracing where forces are acting. Gear Torque Basics It seems to me that the arrangement of the gears would be important in these cases, but I could be wrong. The important relationship to understand with gears is that at the contact point between 2 gears the forces acting on the tooth of each gear are the same and the linear velocities of each tooth are also the same. From there, you can find torque and angular velocity for each gear. The problem with the gear set presented above is that they contain redundant gears, meaning that power transmission can take one path or another. When there is symmetry, you can divide the force equally between the paths. - Gear train For example, in this case: The other one is only there to "pull" on the first one such that it doesn't fall. But if there was a shaft welded to cylinder block, the second gear would be unnecessary. In real life, in such system, the power can be transmitted through one path only due to manufacturing tolerances; the other gears would become simple idlers because they would be "loose". For this reason it is called an idler gear. The same gear ratio is obtained for a sequence of idler gears and hence an idler gear is used to provide the same direction to rotate the driver and driven gear. If the driver gear moves in the clockwise direction, then the driven gear also moves in the clockwise direction with the help of the idler gear. The somewhat larger gear in the middle is called an idler gear. It is not connected directly to either the motor or the output shaft and only transmits power between the input and output gears. There is a third gear in the upper-right corner of the photo. Assuming that gear is connected to the machine's output shaft, it is the output or driven gear. 4 Easy Ways to Determine Gear Ratio (with Pictures) The input gear in this gear train has 13 teeth and the idler gear has 21 teeth. Considering only these gears, the gear ratio between the idler and the input gear can be calculated as if the idler gear was the output gear. At this ratio, it means the drive gear must make 1. Essentially, the larger gear turns slower. The third gear in the picture has 42 teeth. The idler gear serves to make both the drive gear and the driven gear rotate in the same direction, but confers no mechanical advantage. Belt drives[ edit ] Belts can have teeth in them also and be coupled to gear-like pulleys.

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The Aquaduct is a pedal powered concept vehicle that transports, filters, and stores water for the developing world. The functional model was designed and constructed over a three week period for the Innovate or Die contest hosted by Google and Specialized. The vehicle seeks to address the two main challenges with water in the developing world: sanitation and transportation. Water-related diseases kill thousands of people each day. Moreover, water sources can be miles away from the home, and women must walk these distances carrying heavy water vessels. The Aquaduct is designed to allow a person to sanitize and transport water simultaneously. Read the complete article here.

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The updated Courier Prime does remove the "blobbiness" and reads better on screen but the T vertical stroke also makes me crazy. I noticed it within seconds of reformatting. Those of us with font prowess can adjust it but... The other thing that is extremely maddening is how Final Draft won't apply the font change to the page numbers. This is a deal breaker for any kind of font exchanging to me. Final Draft Guys, FIX THIS. I even went into the FDX format with a code editor to catch all of the XML lines that didn't translate the font change but the page numbers must be set through the application itself because this did not succeed. All this amazing technology and human error still manages to hold it back... 1.) Film is not dead and will only get there if we let it. 2.) Digital is already it's own beast, by nature. The way film and digital see light will always be different. Therefore, digital and film will never look identical. You can borrow qualities from film and apply them to digital, which definitely helps, but it will never be the same thing. Long live film!

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Lobsters Scream When You Boil Them: And 100 Other Myths About Food and Cooking . . . Plus 25 Recipes to Get It Right Every Time is the latest in a series of culinary books (19 to be exact) by authors Weinstein and Scarbrough. The authors set out to debunk 101 culinary myths, which, they confess, are “almost all [are] based on a half-stated fact or a small misunderstanding that got larded up over the years” (1x). The 101 myths are conveniently organized by myth category—for example, myths about alcohol, myths born of nutrition fads, and myths from the fevered brains of culinary snobs. In a style that is informative, entertaining, sarcastic, and witty, Weinstein and Scarbrough first present then debunk each myth, carefully explaining the scientific and logical rationale, which is followed by corrective action, and sometimes, a recipe. Like me, you’re sure to recognize many of the myths that shaped your own cooking practices. I’m guilty of one such practice: “Never Refreeze Meat”. From a culinary standpoint, the authors claim that it’s perfectly acceptable to refreeze meat as long as the meat was thawed in a 40°F refrigerator and maintained there for a day or two at 40°F or lower. I thaw meat in the refrigerator, and if I don’t use it within a day, I throw it out. I will, for sure, rethink this practice. My favorite myth, of course, is “Lobsters Scream When You Boil Them”. I believe all kids think this is true, but surprisingly, so do many adults (I know someone who won’t steam a lobster for fear of the death screams.) Weinstein and Scarbrough politely point out that “to scream, something must have vocal cords” and “lobsters don’t have vocal cords”, so “lobsters can’t scream”. What we hear is “superheated vapors whistling out from the joints in the shell” (27). They suggest that the “whole lobsters-scream projection is a result of our own complex issues swirling around this very real dread called death—as well as its connecting to eating” (31). Deep thinking for sure. On occasion, Weinstein and Scarbrough’s explanations vindicated some of my cooking practices. “You must soak dried beans before cooking them” is just one of many. I know the directions on the bag of beans instruct you to wash, sort, and soak the beans overnight before cooking. I almost never do. I like to defy the rules of the test kitchens by putting beans on to cook an hour or two before I intend to serve them. I’ve never had a disaster. In the end, Weinstein and Scarbrough ask that we all try to be a little more nuanced when it comes to cooking and to life in general—that we all need to take time and learn to laugh. I, for one, will. Whether you’re an ardent cook or a dedicated food lover or just an avid reader, Lobsters Scream When You Boil Them: And 100 Other Myths About Food and Cooking . . . Plus 25 Recipes to Get It Right Every Time is a worthwhile, enjoyable read.

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The MHT-100 All-in-One Mobile Terminal is a powerful, high-performance, ultra-portable device that lets your staff take full POS functionality virtually anywhere. It combines multiple tools in a single, space-saving unit. Win CE 6.0 Integrated WLAN 802.11b/g and BT communication Integrated 2″ thermal printer, MSR and IC card reader

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This morning I have a headache. I have a backache. My right hip hurts. My left foot is throbbing. I should probably go to the gym and work through all of this but I am too busy feeling complainy to do anything positive for myself, though one would think I’d at least take some Tylenol. Almost every morning, my husband and I participate in this contest called “who has the most pain”. He usually wins because he is bigger than me so there is more of him to hurt. Sometimes we just make dramatic, martyrish, ouchie noises as we raise ourselves from our twenty something year old mattress, seeing who can sound the most in pain without actually having to go into detail. Grant is really good at making pain noises so I usually end up having to go extreme by listing every single part of my body that hurts in great detail. “It feels like someone is pushing needles into my toenails and pounding with the claw side of a hammer on the arches of my feet. Plus I am pretty sure aliens drilled a hole in the right side of my brain while I was sleeping. They must have been taking brain matter collections from super smart people last night”. But sometimes we are short in time so I will say something like “I am mostly just paralyzed by pain from my eyebrows down” which sums it up pretty quickly and allows us to get on with our day quicker. I do so very much hate it when Grant only makes the moaning pain noises without using his words because that means he is being stoic and all self-righteousy with his pain. That’s an automatic win. I can almost never do that. I would have to be in a coma to be stoic. Neither of us has even hit fifty yet so really it’s silly for us to be acting like we are old. We just stiffen up easier than we use to. I think it’s to prepare for rigor mortis later, when we’re ninety eight, and dead. We should probably just buy a new bed. But also, we are naturally competitive people so it’s hard for either of us to let go of the challenge, which has been going on since we were in our twenties. Sometimes when we feel like the other one simply doesn’t understand or appreciate our pain well enough we take the contest to a new level: ‘who has the worst deadly disease’. I can sometimes win this one. Yesterday I had a slow-moving aneurysm. I was told by Grant that aneurysms don’t move slowly, that the whole definition of an aneurysm is: Boom! You’re dead. “Well, yes, but mine is a special NEW kind of aneurysm where my family gets to say goodbye to me and apologize for all the mean things they said and did so that they don’t have guilt when I am dead.” His reply: “That’s just stupid. I’m not saying sorry for anything. Besides I am too busy dying from throat, ear and eye cancer. Pretty soon I won’t be able to talk to you anymore. Or hear and see you. I won’t even KNOW if you’re dead.” I say. “It’s a damn good thing then that I updated my obituary early this morning, despite the agonizing pain I was in from this deadly aneurysm headache.” That’s when the ‘discussion’ goes to how ridiculous he thinks it is that I have even written my own obituary, and how foolish I am to think he will actually PUBLISH it in the paper. “I’M the one who is going to write your obituary you dork. That’s the spouse’s job. Besides, you seem to have recovered from all the tumors you had in your stomach last week, so I bet you don’t die this week from the aneurysm. It’s not like you have congestive heart failure like I do right now.” I say: “I think they were temporary tumors from all the Taco Bell I ate. And you’re going to get it all wrong. You’ll leave important things out. And so you know, number-two son has promised me he would see to it that my most recently updated obituary gets put in the paper. He has the password to my computer and I told him he no longer has to pay me back for those two parking tickets. And you shouldn’t have eaten that spaghetti last night. Red sauce gives you pain.” “Yeah, well knowing you, it’s going to cost him more than $79 to put what you have written about YOURSELF in the paper. You’re such a narcissist.” “I’m so taking all the good things I say about you out of my obituary the next time I update it.” That’s about when we usually move the discussion to more productive topics like: wondering which kid keeps blowing food up in the microwave and not cleaning up the mess; or why do they all insist on going outside in just their socks, when we have bought them perfectly good SHOES; or WHY do we always have to feed them… the ‘us against them’ life stuff where we tend to flourish as a team. We can only focus on the pain and dying competition for so long before it just gets weird.

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February Writing Challenge: Day Fifteen My writing challenge asks me to talk about the thing I am currently the most proud of and for me that’s myself. At this moment I am happiest I’ve been in a long time, I’m making great strides to better my mental health, I’m doing very well in school and I have learned to love myself again after allowing a man to come into my life and destroy my peace of mind. I found a counselor that specialized in mental health and is a better help than I’ve ever realized I could have. Through conversation with her I’ve come to realize I deserve happiness even if the Devil works hard and my ex-boyfriend worked harder to take that from me. My counselor has ensured that I’m working to better myself and has provided me with the tools I need to live my best life. I’ve been accepting into my one year accelerated master’s program at my college and for me, I was one of those kids that was never supposed to be successful. I remember at the age of eight being the first-time teachers started doubting my ability to succeed. By the way, if you’re a teacher, YES, THE STUDENT CAN HEAR YOU TALKING SHIT. Stop doing it. It’s damaging. In middle school I was told (by a teacher) that she wasn’t sure I’d make it to high school, but I did. In high school I was told by MANY teachers that I wasn’t good enough, or that I wouldn’t make it, but I did. Education to me has always been important. I’ve always been told I couldn’t so I’ve always had to prove I could (even if the student loan debt is crippling). Today, I am most proud of me because I deserve to be proud of me. I am most proud of me because for the better part of this last year I wasn’t proud of myself. The fifteenth of February will always mark the day for me that I lost who I was to a man but I’m redefining this day as the day I get to relish in my proudest moments because I have a lot to be proud of. I’m proud that today I’m not celebrating an anniversary, but rather I’m celebrating me.

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Publisher’s Note: This article in slightly different form appeared in a recent electronic newsletter (“Section Direction”) produced by the American Water Works Association for the officers and top volunteers of its Sections. What is the biggest human resources problem facing the water and wastewater communities these days? A large cohort of the workforce is retiring. The first baby boomers reached 65 last year. Many local and state government retirement programs (for the moment) allow early retirement and a lot of folks have already left the water workforce. How can we turn this problem into an asset? I have a suggestion that every AWWA Section can benefit from. Where do the retired members of the American Water Works Association or any other professional organization go? Many of them drop their membership if they are trying to economize (There are reduced rates for retirees—check it out). They cannot afford to go to conferences. A few have achieved Life Member status (30 years of membership and age 65), but no one asks them to help out anymore with Section activities. In truth, some volunteer at AWWA to help out at conferences and some teach in the Section continuing education program. But these dedicated people are only a small fraction of the retirees. What do retirees do? National studies have shown that besides not planning for the financial part of retirement, the vast majority of retirees have not planned how they will spend their time. How much golf can a person play? How many paperback novels can a person read? (After reading hundreds of these, don’t they all seem the same?) Gardening is great and playing with grandchildren is wonderful, but can these activities fill a day? Sure, some people are volunteering their time (for example, Meals on Wheels and Habitat for Humanity), but many retired people find themselves stuck in front of a TV for far too long during a typical day. History is one thing that retirees do get interested in–history of the Civil War, sports cars, their town, the USA, the world, etc. Sometimes the interest in history motivates retirees to rent an RV and hit the Patriot Trail in New England or other similar unguided tours into U.S. history. The interest in family history—genealogy—has skyrocketed recently. Several recent surveys have estimated that more than 80% of American adults are interested in learning more about their family histories. If you log onto ancestry.com, you will be transported into a fascinating new world, but be advised—it can become addictive. For older folks, the interest in history is understandable. After three score and five years, we start to see the world from a broader perspective, and we start asking questions, such as: Why? How did that happen? Who was responsible for that? What does it mean? Who influenced that person? AWWA Sections can tap this rapidly growing membership category (and keep retiring members from leaving the organization) by promoting an interest in water history. Water history? You say you don’t know anything about water history? I know that is not true. If you have worked 20, 30, 40 years in the water business, you have lived water history, and in some cases, you made water history. One of the most entertaining things I used to do at a retirement party for any long-time employee of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California was sit with the old-timers and listen to their stories of the early days. Jane Krafka (a friend from MWDSC) called it “rebuilding the aqueduct”—all the way from the Colorado River to Lake Mathews. So how does a Section get its older members to become more interested in the section and to leverage the link with water history? One option is to form a Retired Professionals Committee. The committee could take on a number of projects. At the California-Nevada Section there is a fairly large archive of old photos and documents. Members could help organize such collections and add materials to them. I am sure that there are a bunch of other older members who have interesting papers and books that could add to a section archive. The New Jersey Section is the only one that I am aware of that has a Retired Professionals Committee. They have been active in video taping retired members of AWWA for their Living History project. That is another worthy activity. I wish I had oral history videos of Gene Bowers and Hal Pearson who preceded me at Metropolitan. Both of them went back to the first days of water production by the District. I participated in one of the New Jersey Section history tapings and the facilities were very professional. The have partnered with a high school in the northern part of the state, so that they can use the studio, camera equipment and trained audio and video technicians (high school students). A session of the annual Section conference could be devoted to speakers relating important historical happenings in the member water utilities, companies and consulting firms. Finally, the Retired Professionals Committee could be paired with the Young Professionals Committee in a section. The old retired gals and guys could act as mentors to the younger folks. I thought about getting involved with a YP scavenger hunt at a CA NV Section meeting a few years ago, but I decided not to go because I was not sure that it would be appropriate. Heather Collins was a bit annoyed with me, but that was how I felt. If there was a organized link between the two committees, all of the mixed signals would be removed. How did I develop and interest in water history? I have always been interested in history. In my high school library one day, I ran across a copy of The Colditz Story, which was the tale of an escape from a WWII prisoner of war camp. Ever since, I have read hundreds of books and watched dozens of films about the history of that conflict. I am also married to an art historian who specializes in 17th century Baroque painting. As a result, I have been in every obscure Baroque church in Rome, and I have seen some of the most spectacular art in the world. In 2005, Marcia Lacey (the editor of the Journal American Water Works Association) asked me to write a history of disinfection, which set me on the path to discover more about water history. Since then, I have written a book, The Chlorine Revolution: Water Disinfection and the Fight to Save Lives, which will be published by AWWA in spring 2013. I started blogging about water history topics on this blog (safedrinkingwaterdotcom) and I started another blog called This Day in Water History. After I kept getting encouragement from water professionals on the Linkedin business networking site, I started a group called, you guessed it, Water History. All of these activities started with an email on November 30, 2005. It’s funny where life leads us. I offer the above as suggestions to turn an aging water professional population into a winner for AWWA sections. Try one or more of these ideas and let me know how it works out. You can find me on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Linkedin, Pinterest…never mind. Water history has led me into the depths and bowels of social media.

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In a few days I’m interviewing for a part-time job—just a little something to keep the rollercoaster anxieties of the freelancer at bay. It’s made me reflect on my past interview experiences…particularly when I was in the hunt for a teaching position. It may be fair to say that I have a teensy bit of a tendency to be a perfectionist. It may also be fair to say that the older I get, the more I realize what a futile situation I create for myself in striving to do things perfectly. I have, however, found one thing I am absolutely perfect at: imperfection. I’ve got it nailed. Fall short every day? Check. Lack discipline? Check. Disappoint people? Check. Miss the mark? Check. Make mistakes? Check. I’m all over this imperfection thing. If I would have known how perfect I could be at imperfection when I was in my 20s and 30s, I could have saved myself a whole lot of struggle. As life turns knowledge into wisdom, I have learned that the desire for perfection is actually quite evil. It is what undercuts effort due to fear of failure. Creative sparks die in the wind of perfection. Dreams get minimized if they seem unattainable…and minimized dreams are not dreams at all, but consolation prizes. To be clear, I’m not embracing purposefully doing things poorly, but I am embracing the idea that fearing you might do something poorly is no reason not to try. I’ve failed a lot lately, and…I’m still here. That alone speaks to the myth of perfectionism. Perhaps perfectionism is just ego wrapped up in a pretty package. As I think about this, I am reminded of my days on my college softball team. Now there is a lesson in embracing imperfection. To set the scene just a bit, the transition from slow pitch to fast pitch for girls’ softball happened when I began high school. That meant that until I was a freshman, the only softball I had ever played was slow pitch. When I went to the orientation meeting for my high school team, I was so put off by the coach that I decided I didn’t even want to try out for the team…so I never learned to play fast pitch. (By the way—deciding to let the coach’s personality be the reason I didn’t try out was a stupid, short-sighted decision on my part. Ah, youth…) Fast forward to college. Some girls from the school’s softball team were encouraging me to try out for the coming season’s team. I told them that I had no experience with fast pitch, but they said it didn’t matter—that no one would be cut from tryouts because they simply needed enough girls to form a team and let the university fulfill its Division I status. No risk in that, right? So I decided to go to tryouts…where there had to be at least one hundred girls attempting to make the team. So much for no cuts. As long as I was there, I thought, what the heck? I’ll give it a shot. Thankfully, my old abilities came back to me, and my fielding skills were pretty tight. But next was batting… Since tryouts were in late winter, they were indoors. This meant that the batting portion of the tryouts was a pitching machine firing out whiffle softballs…and…I crushed them. I mean…I impressed myself. Piece of cake, I thought. Maybe this fast pitch wasn’t so hard after all. And then spring came. My first at bat in the lovely outdoors went something like this: I stood in the batter’s box and waited for the pitcher to throw the ball…only she already had. It was so fast, I barely computed its whizzing by me. And whizzing by me. And whizzing by me. I would try to swing and be so behind the pitch it was laughable—except to my coach. He looked at me with a “please tell me you aren’t seriously this bad/how did you get on the team/there is no way I can remediate you at this point” look on his face. I did, however, achieve perfection that season—a perfect .000 for my batting average. The coach did use me as a utility player when he needed one, but if my memory serves me correctly, I struck out every time at bat. Every. Time. At tryouts, I had no idea how poor of a fast pitch batter I would be. I had no idea how quickly I was barreling toward gaping imperfection. I had no idea how humbling it would be to go from a worthy player to one who pretty much accidentally made the team. But I survived, and so did the team. And we had a whole lot of fun that season. And I would do it all over again. Of course, back then, I didn’t have the perspective of this lesson of imperfection. I just had the frustration of sucking at batting. But it was an important piece of the puzzle that would help me to eventually realize that I would have rather been on the team and struggled than not have been on the team at all. Being perfect at imperfection is freeing. It takes the pressure off. It opens up possibilities because you know that if you strike out, you’ll live to play another day. And who doesn’t want to play another day? In fact…I think a brand new game is starting… All photos are my own. Please note that there may be advertisements below via WordPress.com. The presence of these ads does not constitute endorsement of the information, services, or products found in them. On my very first day of high school, I missed the bus. Not that big of a deal, right? But it was. That one experience fed on my anxiety and planted a seed that grew a fear of missing any public transportation. Silly, I know, but very real. No matter if I’m catching a train, plane, or bus—until I’m actually on it, I have an internal twitch of dread that I will miss it. All because of my first day of high school. You see, I went to a grade school that had no buses, so this wasn’t just my first school bus to high school, but my first school bus ever. Though starting in a new school is intimidating, I was pretty sure I was properly prepared. In particular, I studied my bus instructions—where the stop was and the number I needed to know. Bus 107. I got this, I thought. (Of course, that expression hadn’t been “invented” yet, so more likely I thought to myself, “Don’t be such a spaz” or “Duh,” but the sentiment was the same.) That morning, my dad asked, “Are you sure about the bus?” “Dad, I know what I’m doing…” (Uh-huh, sure you do.) “Okay, great. Just let me know if you need anything.” (Don’t go far, Dad—I’m going to need to take you up on that offer shortly.) And off I went. There I was, standing on the corner I was supposed to, at the time I was supposed to, and within a few minutes, a bus drove by. The bus driver slowed down and called out, “Are you going to Lake Park?” Isn’t this setting up to be a successful little scenario? After all, Lake Park was my high school! But there was something that wasn’t right. The bus number wasn’t 107, and I was supposed to be on bus 107. My mind quickly jumped to a conclusion—our school had two different campuses—East and West, and my campus was East so this bus must be headed to West! (Not exactly an Einstein in the making since classes at West started at least a half hour earlier than East.) “Yes, but East!” I shouted back to him. He gave me a look of knitted brows and gestured with his hand up to his ear letting me know he couldn’t quite hear over the engine, so I just waved at him to keep going…he smiled, shrugged, and off he drove. And then I waited. And waited…And waited. No more buses came down the street. Time was running out, and I was risking being late to my first day of high school. I walked back home with tears welling up…How was high school going to be okay if I couldn’t even successfully catch the bus?! I felt remarkably stupid. I walked into my house where my dad hadn’t yet left for work and was surprised to see me (since I knew what I was doing and all)—by that point I was pretty much sobbing. “Babe, what’s wrong?!” “I missed the bus, Dad! I couldn’t even get on the bus! I don’t know what happened…some bus came by but it was the wrong num…” he cut me off with a “shhh” and a hug, reassuring me that everything was going to be all right. He’d drive me today, and we would figure out where the problem was for tomorrow. And that’s exactly what we did. I was on time to school (thank God bus routes are long), and other than that, my high school career began without a hitch. But not without an emotional scar. Do you want to know the answer to the bus mystery? It’s simple: I thought I was supposed to get on bus 107, but I was really scheduled for route 107. Which is exactly the route that the kind bus driver was driving when he called out to me. As a newbie, I didn’t know that the number of the actual bus meant nothing—but the route number in the window sure did. Maybe if I would have reviewed the information with my dad when he asked, he could have caught my mistake. Maybe if I wouldn’t have been so quick to think I knew the answer when the bus driver was talking to me and instead asked for help, I would have been on my merry way. Maybe if I wasn’t so ready to show everyone that I knew what I was doing…I might have actually learned what I really needed to know. Instead, throughout high school I had countless anxiety dreams of missing the bus, or catching the bus but seeing my backpack left behind on the curb, or running after the bus that was going too fast for me to catch, or trying to get on the bus but the bus doors wouldn’t open…you get the idea. The anxiety dragon feasts on these kinds of episodes. I never missed the bus after that day, but it only took that one time to engrain in me the knee-jerk fear of it ever happening again. It’s a fear that stays with me still today. (Ask my husband how fun it is.) Of course, as with all trials that come our way, it’s best to try and learn something from them. Yes, I did get a lifetime of public transportation anxiety, but I realized, too, that I shouldn’t be so quick to think I know what I’m talking about—an ever-evolving lesson for me. Yes, I missed the bus that day in more ways than one, but you better believe it taught me to know life’s route numbers! Barbara Walters retired last week. While I find her to be grating at times, she is certainly due much respect and kudos for being a pioneer in the news business. I watched some of her farewell coverage, and one thing stood out among many significant things she has accomplished in her life: Her epic failure. In a groundbreaking move for 1976, she was paid an annual salary of one million dollars to co-anchor the nightly news with Harry Reasoner. He was ticked that she was earning twice his buck, plus he hadn’t been asked if he even wanted a co-anchor—let along a woman. (Anchorman, anyone?) He didn’t hide his disdain. In the video below (click the pic), they give a quick summary of the relationship. In this day and age of the “photoshop mentality,” where we gloss over everything to make it look the “best” it can be, I find his raw contempt remarkable. The ratings tanked and the duo failed. I’m sure in part it was due to the anti-chemistry that Reasoner created, but Barbara herself has said that news anchor wasn’t her strength. Later that year, she found the very thing that would turn her career around—the Barbara Walters Specials that became a resident part of our pop culture. But first she failed miserably and nationally. It was kind of like she got pantsed for the whole world to see. On top of that, first Gilda Radner and then Cheri Oteri did hilarious parodies of her, too. It was easy to laugh at her—she was Barbara Waawaa. I can’t imagine what that must have been like. My feelings can get hurt if someone doesn’t like the gift I thought they’d love, and here she is being patronized by a coworker and made fun of for her speech impediment on national TV. I certainly wouldn’t have blamed her if she just licked her wounds and said “enough.” But she didn’t. She just kept working at it. She developed her skills and found the perfect niche for her abilities. Flash forward nearly 40 years, and as part of her recent tribute, women currently in the national news industry came out to say thanks to her for paving the way for them. Scores of women. It was an amazing testament to the impact that Barbara Walters has made. I wonder if she hadn’t failed as that news anchor…would she still have accomplished all that she did? I know there’s no way to really know that, but…I wonder. Failure can indeed propel us toward fortune. I don’t just mean monetary fortune, but the fortune of our calling…our creativity…our heart. When we fall, we have to make that decision to get up or give up. When we choose to get up, we do so knowing that we could fall again. We consciously decide it’s worth it, even with the pain of falling. And yet it is so hard to risk it. At least it is for me. I’m not a fan of getting pantsed. I’m not a fan of falling on my face. But if I only choose a path where I can ring up successes, then the path must be pretty flat and probably leads nowhere. For several years I helped out with our school’s rollerblading unit for our younger grades. So many wobbly little ones trying to stay upright. Often I would tell a child, “You know what I think is the best thing to do to get over your fear of falling? Fall.” They would look up at me like “Who is this crazy lady helping me?!” but then I would tell them how once they fell, they would know what it feels like…and maybe it wouldn’t be so scary anymore. Inevitably, they would indeed fall, and if I was there to help them up, I would ask, “So…what do you think about falling now?” and they would typically say “It’s not so bad!” Of course, there are falls that you don’t bounce back up from. Some that can really break you, and I don’t mean to sugarcoat life’s devastating falls. But Barbara Walter’s public failure is a great reminder to me that failure can be the first step on the road to fulfillment. I need to let my wobbly little self continually put on my metaphorical roller blades and have at it. Hopefully every time I fall I’ll look up and say, “It’s not so bad!” And if it is bad, let’s hope there’s someone around who knows how to dial 911!

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Lately our focus has been on spring cleaning your life. First, we reviewed how to prioritise your life – fitting in what’s important, setting goals that work, and focusing on the things that make your heart sing. Then, we had a look at Spring cleaning your mind – reviewing your thinking styles, coping styles as well as the basic ingredients for wellbeing, such as sleep and exercise. Today we look at spring cleaning one more facet of your life – your relationships. Relationships are a core component of what makes for a fulfilling life. As author Miles Franklin puts it “Someone to tell is one of the fundamental needs of human beings”. We all need someone to talk to, to confide in, to get support from. To love and be loved is a need which is hardwired into us. Babies who are even a few minutes old demonstrate a clear preference for looking at human faces, and a preference for their mother’s voice above other sounds. REVIEWING YOUR RELATIONSHIPS In our post on the PERMA model we mentioned research that found relationships are one of the five essential ingredients for a happy, and fulfilled life, however relationships can get complicated. Importantly, the quality of those relationships is very important. A positive, intimate and mutually supportive relationship can offer you a strong base to launch off from. On the other hand, a relationship in which you are always giving and never receiving, or one which chips away at your self esteem or worse yet, is abusive, can be the source of a tremendous amount of pain and suffering. So today we're encouraging you to take a moment to review your relationships. Who are the main people in your life? How do they influence your life and, in turn, how do you influence theirs (after all, it's supposed to be a two-way street)? Carl Jung is quoted as saying “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction both are transformed”, and this brings important considerations to mind - is the transformation for better or for worse? As you reflect on your relationships you may realise that there are a number of different types of relationships, each with something different to offer. If you are married, what you get from and give to your partner is entirely different to the support offered from your Tuesday night netball team. But both are important. Psychologists have divided up the support that relationships can offer into four broad categories . As you read the categories below, see if you can identify who you have in your life who provides you with each type of support. And ask yourself – what kind of support do I offer those around me? TYPES OF SUPPORT IN RELATIONSHIPS 1. Emotional support People who offer you this demonstrate caring and concern for you. These are the people you are able to share your feelings with and have intimate conversations with. Close family and friends who you trust may fall into this category. 2. Tangible support People who offer tangible support are able to give you practical assistance with your needs. These are the people you call to give you a lift to the airport, to help you move a fridge, or will even tide you over financially. 3. Informational support People who you turn to for advice, who can provide you with facts or suggestions are providing you with informational support. You may even place people like your GP into this category. 4. Companionship support This is where those Tuesday night netball team mates fit in. People who you might not share your deepest feelings with, you might not ask them to help you move house or ask them for advice, but nonetheless they give you a sense of belonging. This group are important for social or leisure activities, and a general sense of being “part of a group”. As you have reflected on each of these types of support you might have noticed that one or more areas are lacking. Maybe you have plenty of emotional support but little tangible support? Maybe lots of social friendships but no deeper emotional ones? Consider what might be lacking in your relationships and then look back to our post titled set goals gain direction to consider how to start to make changes for the better. Stay tuned for the next chapter in our Spring Clean Your Life series. Thanks for reading. Know someone who may find this of interest? If so, please share with your connections/ social media network. Want more? You can connect with The Skill Collective in the following ways: Contact us to make an individual appointment to get started on making changes. Sign up for our FREE monthly newsletter and get exclusive tips that you won't find here on the blog Like us on Facebook to get updates on our posts and other interesting articles Follow us on Pinterest to see what piques our interest Uchino, B.N. (2004). Social Support and Physical Health: Understanding the Health Consequences of Relationships. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

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Up close, the colors are richer, the subject clearer, traditional ideas of composition replaced with edge to edge canvas favoring gesture over context. Which is interesting, because when we think of artists and art making — context pretends to be important to us. Young artists ask their mentors: When do you work? For how long? Is the door shut? Do you listen to music? Morning or night? Public or private? Inside or out? Most artists are particular about this — which makes the questions largely irrelevant except that the answers teach us that there are options. We never need to make art just one way — though I’m told if you paint from photographs, never admit it. Maybe it’s the distancing. Culture is mean. But bring your fingertips to the medium, fingers close to the nib and the paper. Get yourself close as you can to the work — remove all context, which is both personal and private. The details are what’re on exhibition. The university studio, the museum lobby, the student center common room, the cabin in the woods — have been reduced to this, not even an artist standing in a room, just hands and tools very close to wood, paper, metal, fire, textile, acrylics. This is the level of the tactile, close enough to feel the knurling, the woodgrain, the vibrations, the heat, the imperfections in the fabric, the cool of drying watercolors, cedar chips, oils, and grindstone. Write and draw, paint and hit things with a hammer. Stay close to the work. Children know this already. We do wrong by telling them to stand back. —Thanks to UAF Native Art Center; Sheldon Jackson Museum; UA Museum of the North Fine Arts Collection; Selena Alexander; Earl Atchak; Sonya Kelliher Combs; Mercy Cleveland; Daniel Ogan; Adam Ottavi; Teri Rofkar; Ron Senungetuk; Turid Senungetuk; Teresa Shannon; Glen Simpson; Suzi Silook; Alfred Skondavich; Sara Tabbert (Alaska, 2002-2012)

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Nikon Z 7 ProsHigh-resolution 45.7MP full-frame image sensor. 90 percent autofocus sensor coverage. 9fps Raw continuous shooting. In-body image stabilization. Tilting touch LCD. Big, sharp EVF. Compatible with Nikon SLR accessories. 4K video. Dust and splash resistant. Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. ConsLimited native lens selection at launch. Single memory card slot. Omits PC sync socket. Nikon heavily teased its full-frame mirrorless system prior to its launch. The company is starting out with two cameras—the Z 7 ($3,399.95, body only), reviewed here, a 45.7MP beast for photographers who demand the most pixels, and the more affordable Z 6 ($1,995.95), a 24MP model with a faster burst rate for capturing Editors' Note: This review has been updated to reflect the changes made in the Firmware 2.0 update and additions to the lens system. The Z 7 looks and feels like a Nikon. The handgrip has the classic red stripe, an adornment dating back to the film era, but what's most impressive is how well it conforms to the hand. The camera feels right and is balanced well, though it's not that far ahead of what Sony has done with its a7 III family. I do like the way it feels more than Canon's entry into Despite sporting an image sensor very similar in design to the D850, the Z 7 is smaller and lighter. It measures 4.0 by 5.3 by 2.7 inches (HWD) and weighs 1.5 pounds. The D850 is 4.9 by 5.8 by 3.1 inches and a half-pound heavier. The general size and shape of the Z 7 are about what we expect from a mirrorless design—dropping the moving mirror assembly and swapping an optical viewfinder for an EVF Like the Sony competition, but unlike a Nikon SLR or even the Canon EOS R mirrorless, the Z 7 features in-body image stabilization. The image sensor moves to compensate for camera shake, adding stabilization to lenses that don't offer it, and working in conjunction with lenses with their own stabilization system. It's good to see Nikon embrace sensor stabilization, especially given how robust the Z 7's video capabilities are. Nikon bills the Z 7 as having weather-sealing, which is an expected feature on a camera that costs this much. But how good is it? Roger The Z 7 has a very good feel and a good number of physical controls, but it does drop one of the nicer touches found on the D850, backlit control buttons. I definitely miss them. Buttons are laid out a bit differently than the D850, which can exacerbate the problem if you are using both bodies as part of your workflow. But if the Z 7 is your main camera, you'll learn its button placement and be able to locate the ones that matter by feel. As for controls, you'll find the front command dial right where you expect it, toward the top of the handgrip. The unusually large lens mount—big to accommodate f/0.95 lenses—is flanked by two programmable buttons, Fn1 and Fn2. I mapped them to focus settings, using Fn1 to cycle through focus area and mode settings by holding it while turning the front or rear dial. I set Fn2 to magnify the frame, useful for working in manual focus mode. Aside from the Fn controls, the only other front button is the lens release. And yes, the Z system still mounts and unmounts lenses in the opposite direction as most other camera systems. Long-time Nikon devotees will feel right at home. To its right is the hot shoe, which sits atop the raised area that houses the EVF. There's a button on its left to toggle EVF only, rear LCD only, or automatic eye-sensor switching, and a locking diopter adjustment dial to tune the focus of the EVF to your eyesight. The hot shoe can mount a microphone, external flash, wireless flash trigger, or To the right of the hot shoe, you'll find a monochrome OLED information display, just as you would with a pro SLR. It's something we haven't seen on a lot of mirrorless cameras—the only other full-frame models with a similar display are the Canon EOS R, the Leica SL, and Nikon's own Z 6. The rectangular display shows all of your exposure details, battery life, and estimated shots left on your memory card. The rear control dial is positioned at the far right corner, while other top controls are further ahead, atop the grip. The On/Off switch surrounds the shutter release, and it's flanked by Record, ISO, and EV compensation buttons. The Z 7 isn't as big as the D850, so there are some understandable changes to its rear control layout. Play and Delete are at the top left, in a corner framed by the LCD and EVF. Running along the same row at the top, but to the right of the eyecup, are the Still/Video toggle switch, with the Display button at its center, the AF-ON button, and the rear control dial. The position of the AF-ON is just about perfect. My thumb rests on it naturally, and while I'm not a personal fan of splitting the function of autofocus away from the shutter release, photographers who are will appreciate the placement. If you're like me you'll be happy with the ability to reconfigure the function of the button. I set it to move the focus point to the center position, but you can also set it to lock in automatic exposure, focus, or both at once. Directly below AF-ON, to the left of the rear thumb rest, is a small joystick, used to move the active focus point around the frame. The Continuing to move down the column, there is a directional control pad with the OK button at its center. Below that are the plus and minus buttons, used to zoom in or out when reviewing photos, along with Menu and Drive Mode/Self-Timer buttons. That's another departure from the D850, which uses a control dial to cycle through its various Drive settings. I don't particularly mind the change to a button, but I'm not a fan of how Nikon has implemented it. An on-screen display shows the different Drive modes available right after it's pressed, but while my instinct is to scroll through the options with the d-pad, that's not how it works. You'll need to use the rear command dial to swap through the options. Conspicuously absent is a lock switch, a staple of Nikon pro cameras. I don't think I'll miss it. I use the D850 quite often—it's our standard test body for Nikkor lenses—and more often than not I find that the Lock has been turned on inadvertently, which means I can't move the focus point when I first try. But I recognize that many Nikon pros love the ability to quickly lock in the focus point. Nikkor Z lenses use electronic manual focus rings. Instead of letting them lie fallow when the camera is set to autofocus, the Z 7 allows you to set the ring to adjust EV compensation or the aperture. But there's a big problem—sensitivity. It's very difficult to dial in a small adjustment, and on some One of the benefits of a mirrorless camera is a seamless transition between the rear LCD and EVF—you don't have to lock the mirror up to switch to Live View. The Z 7's rear display is 3.2 inches in size and very sharp at 2.1 million dots. It's bright, with broad viewing angles, so you can use it on bright days. It supports touch input and is mounted on a hinge, so it tilts up and down. It doesn't swing out to the side or The EVF is right up there with the best you'll find on any camera. It's an OLED panel with stunning (3.69-million-dot) resolution, smooth display of motion, and big, 0.8x magnification. It's on par in quality, and slightly larger, than the 0.78x OLED EVF that Sony uses in the a7R III. Using an EVF has some advantages over an optical viewfinder. The size and weight savings gained by omitting a Connectivity and Power Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are built in. The Z 7 supports Nikon SnapBridge, which uses Bluetooth for automatic, low-resolution image transfer to your phone, but also supports manual full-resolution JPG transfer. Wi-Fi is used for remote control from Android or iOS devices. Setting up SnapBridge is rather quick and painless. I paired the Z 7 to my iPhone via Bluetooth using the app, a process that takes about a minute. The app can automatically switch your phone's Wi-Fi from your home network to the one broadcast by the Z 7 for image transfer. You can browse a gallery of thumbnails and pull a 2MP or full resolution JPG to your phone over Wi-Fi. Small files transfer in about a second, but it takes about 15 seconds to copy a 45MP JPG from the Z 7 to my iPhone 8 Plus. The thumbnail gallery loads quickly. This is an upgrade from how it worked last year when we looked at SnapBridge around the time of the D850's release. At the time, the app was very slow to render thumbnails, to the point where Wi-Fi transfers were a cumbersome task. I'm happy that Nikon has fixed this issue. Automatic image transfer is also an option if you'd like, albeit only at 2MP resolution. You can have the Z 7 send every photo you capture to your smartphone, but I don't suggest doing so. Instead, change the setting to only transfer images you flag—it'll save your battery on both camera and phone, and won't clutter your phone's memory with unwanted images. Press the Physical ports include 3.5mm headphone and microphone jacks, a USB-C port, mini HDMI, and an accessory port, all located on the left side of the body. The battery loads in the bottom. It uses an EN-EL15b battery, which is identical to the EN-EL15a used by the D850, D500, and other Nikon SLRs in this size and shape. But the EL15b is a darker shade of gray than the EL15a, and it can be charged in-camera via USB. If you have multiple Nikon cameras, be happy to know the EL15b can be used in other models (though it will only charge in a Z 7, Z 6, or the included external battery compartment.) Likewise, you can power the Z 7 with an EL15a, but you won't be able to charge the light gray battery in-camera. You can also use the first EN-EL15 version, which is identified via its matte black plastic casing. But it's a lower power capacity, so you won't get as many shots as you would with an "a" or "b" version. With the latest battery, CIPA rates the Z 7 for 400 shots when using the LCD or 330 with the EVF. The D850 is a lot more efficient—it's rated for 1,840 shots—while the Sony a7R III sits in between, with 650 shots using the LCD and 530 with the EVF. An add-on battery grip, the MB-N10 Multi-Power Battery Pack, which holds two EN-EL15b batteries, is on the horizon, but we don't know how much it will cost. The grip is weather sealed, just like the body. It will go on sale next year. Nikon has opted to only put one memory card slot in the Z 7, and it's XQD. The slot is on the right side of the camera. The door that covers it is part of the thumb rest, which makes the camera look a little odd when it's opened. There has been a lot of noise made on the internet about this decision. Memory card failures are So if you need two slots, the Z 7 isn't for you. But I'm happy to see XQD here. I've been using the format in the D850 and D500 and find the cards to be fast, sturdier than SD, and reliable. The physical format is also designed to scale for the future. While it won't support them at launch, Nikon plans to issue a firmware update to add support for the CFexpress format, which is physically identical to New System, New Challenges Launching a brand-new camera system is hard. A camera without a lens is a doorstop. Nikon SLR owners are used to having access to decades worth of options, from modern high-resolution lenses to vintage glass that has tons of character. The Z system launched with three lenses, but Nikon has released a few since we first looked at the camera. At press time, there are two standard zooms, the compact Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/4 S and the pro-grade Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S, and the ultra-wide Nikkor Z 14-30mm f/4 S. You can also use F-mount Nikon SLR lenses, but you'll need to add the $249.95 Mount Adapter FTZ. The adapter offers full autofocus support for Nikkor lenses with internal focus motors—screw-drive lenses can be used with manual focus. Lenses focus just as well on the Z 7 as they do on a D850. The FTZ has its own tripod mount, which is a plus for use with heavier lenses, but it does introduce one issue—if you have a quick-release plate attached to the Z 7, you'll The Mount Adapter FTZ is a no-brainer for photographers with a big library of F-mount glass. The caveat is for owners of lenses without internal focus motors. The FTZ adapter doesn't have a screw-drive to focus older AF and AF-D series lenses. Third-party lens support was an issue when the Z 7 first went on sale, but has sorted itself out. I've used a number of Sigma lenses with both it and the Z 6, and Tamron has tested a number of its lenses with the Z 6 and FTZ. Nikon has shared its lens development plans for the system through 2020. We're getting a manual focus Nikkor Z 58mm f/0.95 S Noct lens at some point in 2019. It's a massive prime, inspired by a lens introduced in the late 1970s, the AI Noct-Nikkor 58mm f/1.2. The Noct-Nikkor is still in demand today—used copies can fetch thousands of dollars. The rest of 2019 looks promising. We should see the 24mm f/1.8 S, 85mm f/1.8 S, and 70-200mm f/2.8 S ship this year. Next year, the 20mm f/1.8 S, 50mm f/1.2 S, and 14-24mm f/2.8 S are expected, along with four additional, as of yet unannounced lenses. Nikon hopes to add seven lenses to the system in 2021. Lens roadmaps can change a bit, so don't take this as gospel, but feel comfortable that the company wants to grow the Z system lens library aggressively. Aside from lenses, the Z series is compatible with existing flashes and many of the same accessories that work with Nikon SLRs. Autofocus Shows Room for Growth The Z 7 is priced at a premium, so we expect it to be a speedy, responsive camera. It starts, focuses, and fires off a shot in just about 1.1-second, a fine mark for a mirrorless camera. Autofocus speed is a quick 0.05-second in bright The Z 7 doesn't benefit from the infrared focus assist projected by an external Speedlight either. Its focus system isn't sensitive to IR light. DPReview has recently called out this deficiency, which isn't exclusive to the Z 7. Other mirrorless camera systems, including models from Fujifilm and Sony, also don't work with IR focus assist. There is some speculation that a flash projecting a green grid, like the color of the Z 7's assist beam, would speed up autofocus in very dim light, and be less distracting than a bright assist beam. In terms of burst shooting, the Z 7 is rated to fire at up to 9fps in Hi+ mode. But it falls slightly short in our tests. In Raw or Raw+JPG mode it actually nets about 8fps, with 9fps available when shooting JPGs. At top Size and weight aren't the only advantages to mirrorless—even though mirrorless camera bodies tend to run smaller, in reality, with a full-frame sensor, lenses are going to be similar in size to those you use with an SLR system, with some exceptions here and there. A mirrorless camera also shifts the autofocus system from a dedicated phase detection module to the sensor. Because of this, a wider area of autofocus coverage is available, and you'll never have to dial in autofocus adjustments for individual lenses. And while calibrating focus on a D850 or D5 is a simple, automized affair, it's something that you don't want to have to do in the midst of a paid gig. The Z 7's on-sensor autofocus system is modern, with a mix of phase and contrast detection points—493 in total—covering 90 percent of the sensor's surface area. That's a much larger portion than you get with any full-frame SLR, so you have the freedom to track subjects that stray away from the central area of the image. But it also means that photographers who know how the focus system works on a Nikon SLR will have to make some adjustments. The camera has two main autofocus modes, AF-S (Single) and AF-C (Continuous)—this isn't anything new. AF-S locks focus once it's acquired, while AF-C keeps You can let the Z 7 choose the focus point automatically. Its selects the area of interest Face Detection was available at launch, and the Firmware 2.0 update adds Eye Detection to the autofocus system. It works when you have the wide area selected, drawing a yellow box around detected faces and eyes. You can switch between your subject's eyes using the rear focus joystick—the camera shows a left or right arrow indicator when it detects multiple eyes in the frame. The same goes for faces—if you've got two people and four eyes in view, you can switch the point of focus quite quickly. The system isn't quite as slick as what we've seen with Sony's latest cameras, which do a better job combining eye detection and subject tracking, but it's very functional, and it works in both continuous and single focus modes. For precise focus on anything, not just an eye, the Z 7 does have a Pinpoint function, which lets you focus using a single point. You'll need to manually place it on your subject's eye using the rear joystick, however, and it only works in AF-S mode. Pinpoint focus is also a little slower, requiring about a third of a second to acquire focus. If you're working with a model or other cooperative subject you'll be able to live with the delay, but it kills the feature if you're interested in capturing candid images. Because the point of focus itself is so small, it also takes a bit longer to move it from one part of the frame to another. The Z 7's The other focus modes are simply larger flexible spots. The standard version isn't quite as tiny as the Pinpoint, but locks on The Z 7's focus system did falter in one area—keeping up with a target moving toward or away from the frame. I performed our standard test with the 24-70mm zoom, photographing a target while moving the camera in and out. The D850 and a7R III both ace the test at their respective top shooting speeds, but the Z 7 netted more blurry images than sharp. There's a slight, but definitely noticeable, hesitation with its focus system. That doesn't mean you can't use the Z 7 to photograph moving targets. I paired it with a long lens for some wildlife photography and was very happy to see it was able to keep up with terns as they splashed into the water to find a meal. But I also noticed the camera struggled as I tried to capture an image of a slow-swimming swan that was heavily backlit by the sun. I got the shot, but probably wouldn't if the subject was moving quickly. I call out wildlife here because the Z 7 is certainly going to appeal to the discipline. You can carry it instead of a D850, and use all of your current F-mount lenses via the FTZ adapter. You'll shave a half-pound off of your kit—a concern if you're hiking to a location—and get the benefits of the EVF. I'd say you should still take a D850 if you're photographing big cats running toward the frame or owls diving for prey, but for subjects that aren't quite as active, the Z 7 makes sense. Nikon has made cameras with on-sensor phase detection before, in the form of its discontinued Nikon 1 mirrorless camera series. Still, even with some experience, the Z 7's autofocus system isn't the best we've seen—but that's OK. It's by no means bad or deficient. It's simply a little behind what Sony is doing with the a7R III, or what Nikon offers with the D850. To me, it's somewhere in between the a7R II and III in overall performance. The mechanical focal plane shutter fires from 30 seconds through 1/8,000-second in all modes. If you switch to Manual you also have the option of Bulb, which keeps the shutter open for as long as you hold the button down, and Time, which opens with a click and closes with a second press of the shutter release. A Sensor Second to None The image sensor is very similar to the one used by the D850, the only difference of note being the addition of masked phase detection pixels for autofocus on the Z 7. The D850's sensor is the best we've seen in a full-frame camera, and you're getting the same level of image quality with the Z 7, with a tiny caveat. Because some of the pixels are dedicated to autofocus, instead of imaging, there is a possibility of a striping effect showing up in images. It's been observed when heavily adjusting exposure—say, pushing a photo to be five stops brighter. I don't think it's anything to fret about, but if you disagree, the Z 7 is not the camera for you. Unlike the D850, the Z 7's sensor is coupled with a stabilization system. It corrects for motion along five axes, so you'll get steadier images and video with any lens. This includes non-native and adapted lenses, although you have to input the focal length in the camera menu (similar to what Nikon SLR owners are used to doing for non-CPU SLR lenses), and you only get three axes of correction with manual focus glass. There's a technical limitation for that—to benefit from all five axes you need to know the distance between camera and focus point, and that's not something the camera can figure out with a manual focus lens attached. As for image quality, our tests show that it's just as good as the D850. The JPG output looks just about identical, with superb detail through ISO 800, very strong results all the way up to ISO 6400, and usable photos up to ISO 25600. You can push the camera higher—the top setting is ISO 102400—but expect blurred detail. I'd expect more Z 7 owners to shoot in Raw format than in JPG. As with the D850, image quality is excellent all the way through ISO 6400 when shooting in Raw. We use Adobe Lightroom Classic Classic CC as our standard Raw developer, and always leave settings untouched from defaults in order to minimize variations in testing from camera to camera. But the Z 7 does something a little different—it has its own set of defaults, baking lens corrections and other changes into the Raw file. Lightroom recognizes these settings and applies them. Because of this, you're going to see some extra color noise in high-ISO images from the Z 7 versus the D850 if you don't make any changes to settings in Lightroom. I've included two versions of crops for ISO 51200 and 102400 in the accompanying slideshow, as those are the only two sensitivities where Nikon's suggested Raw settings show color noise. The corrections also apply to lenses, removing distortion and vignetting automatically. It's like an Adobe lens profile, but one you can't turn off. Some pundits are outspoken against the baked-in corrections. I'm not as bothered, but that's just me. I see software-based lens corrections as a good thing in general. It's something that helps to improve images with minimal effort on your part. There's also some cost-saving involved—a perfectly corrected lens is typically larger, heavier, and more expensive than one that may require some help from software. What I don't like about the baked-in corrections—which affect Raw files even if you turn off in-camera corrections for JPGs—is that you can't turn them off. This is what Adobe has been doing with compact cameras for years, and it's not something I've ever thought twice about. But it seems different when it's an interchangeable lens camera. If you use a different Raw developer this may not be a concern, but Lightroom users should taken Sharp, Stable, 4K Video Adding on-sensor focus means that the Z 7 focuses as quickly and effectively when recording video as it does with stills. The slower, contrast-based focus when recording video with the D850 and other Nikon SLRs has long been a weak point, so it's good to see the Z7 address that directly. In terms of video quality, the camera records at 4K at 24, 25, or 30fps, and can utilize the full width of the frame if you'd like. Autofocus is available, and in an upgrade from the D850, you can use a peaking focus aid when working manually at 4K—the D850 only supports that function at 1080p. The autofocus system offers adjustable speed. If you're recording sports or other action, you can set it to react very quickly to changes in focus, or you can tune it to perform slow, cinematic racks when adjusting. Internal recording to XQD is available with H.264 compression. Uncompressed output is available via the mini HDMI port. The uncompressed output is 10-bit quality, and a flat N-Log profile is available when using an external recorder. It's also possible to record to the card and external recorder simultaneously, but doing so cuts the HDMI output to 8-bit. A DX crop for video is available. When using it the Z 7 downsamples native 5K footage to 4K, which will give you the best video quality, but will sacrifice some wide-angle coverage. There's also slow-motion, but only at 1080p. You can push the frame rate to 120fps when recording in HD, and still capture audio. There is a crop applied at 120fps, though, cutting active sensor area to roughly a Super 35 (DX/APS-C) size. There's also time-lapse. The Z 7 can record 4K time-lapse internally as a video file, or you can shoot stills and drop them into a video editor to take advantage of the sensor's high pixel count and Raw capture. Your self-made time-lapses can be exported at A Solid Debut It's no secret that I adore the D850—it received a five-star review, and continues to deliver superlative results when I use it for reviewing lenses and other accessories. Its image sensor never disappoints, and its autofocus system betters almost every other camera out there. The Sony a7R III, the Z 7's other close competition, is right up there with the D850. The Z 7 doesn't quite clear the bar set by the two of the best cameras you can buy today, but it isn't a bad debut by any means. It has the best full-frame image sensor on the market at its heart, and the sensor is stabilized along five axes, just like the one in the a7R III, and unlike the D850, which relies exclusively on lens-based stabilization. Its autofocus system has much wider coverage than you get with any full-frame SLR, even though it doesn't track quite as effectively. So who is the camera for? I see it as the right choice for existing Nikon system owners seeking both high-resolution imaging and 4K video capture. The stabilization system and sensor-based autofocus are both benefits for video work, and the image sensor is the best you can get. Weather sealing is as good as the D850—in a smaller, lighter form factor—and better than the a7R III, which is also a plus if you enjoy travel and outdoor photography. Unlike other systems, you can use the Nikon F SLR lenses with the Z 7 with full functionality, assuming you invest in the FTZ adapter. And there are the folks for whom the Z 7 is definitely not. I'd still reach for a D850 or D5 for event or sports photography, as speedy autofocus in difficult light is an absolute requirement for a wedding reception, and if you aren't heavily invested in the Nikon system, the a7R III is a better starting point, though over the long run Nikon has promised to grow the Z lens library aggressively. The closest competition from Canon, but the 30MP EOS R is in a different resolution and price class, coming in at $1,100 less than the Z 7. It's something we'll compare more heavily with the Nikon Z 6 and Sony a7 III, both of which sport 24MP sensors and $2,000 prices. The Z 7 is a first-generation product, and it has some of the expected first-gen problems. There aren't a lot of native lenses available (yet), and its autofocus isn't quite as good as the D850 and the Sony a7R III. On the plus side, the Z 7's image sensor is superb, autofocus during video is much better than the D850, and it's one of the few mirrorless cameras that

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Find out more about our resident ensembles String Quartet in Residence (The Quatuor Danel) Marc Danel, Gilles Millet (violins) - Vlad Bogdanas (alto) - Yovan Markovitch (violoncello) The Quatuor Danel was founded in 1991 and has been at the forefront of the international music scene ever since, with important concert performances worldwide and a row of groundbreaking CD recordings winning many important international awards. The quartet is famous for their bold, concentrated interpretations of the string quartet cycles of Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Shostakovich, and Weinberg. Their lively and fresh vision on the traditional quartet repertoire has delivered them subsequent praise from public and press. The other part of their force lies in the collaboration with major contemporary composers such as Rihm, Lachenmann, Gubaidulina, Dusapin Jörg Widmann and Bruno Mantovani. Russian composers have a special place in the Quatuor Danel’s repertoire. They have championed all string quartets by Shostakovich and recorded the complete cycle for Fuga Libera in 2005. This box-set was recently re-issued and still counts as one of the benchmark interpretations of Shostakovich’ quartets. Over the past three years the Quatuor Danel has recorded the almost unknown quartet oeuvre of Mieczyslaw Weinberg, the neglected contemporary of Shostakovich, for CD-label CPO. The quartet will continue to break a lance for this breathtakingly beautiful repertoire coming seasons. At the very heart of the Quatuor Danel’s work lies their ambassadorship for young musicians in general and string quartets in particular. Teaching and master classes are a fundamental part of their activities. The quartet has been artist-in-residence at the University of Manchester since 2005, working closely with the students, but also with musicologists Barry Cooper and David Fanning. The quartet’s current concert diary will take them to the major concert halls in Brussels, Amsterdam, Moscow, Paris, London, Madrid, Vienna, Berlin, Milano, Beijing, Taipei, Tokyo and New York, but they are also comfortable when playing in lesser known intimite venues. Quatuor Danel is a regular guest at festivals such as Kuhmo, Cork, Schleswig-Holstein, Alpen Festival, Bregenz, Montpellier, Enescu Festival (Bucharest), Ars Musica and Musica Mundi. Upcoming recording projects of the Quatuor Danel will consist of the three Tchaikovsky quartets, Piano Quintet by Franck and a longer term project with all string quartets by Haydn and late Beethoven. - Visit The Quatuor Danel website - Subscribe to a Quatuor Danel season ticket at the Martin Harris Centre Contemporary Ensemble in Residence - (Psappha) Specialising in the performance of music by living composers and that of the 20th and 21st centuries, Psappha was formed in 1991 by its Artistic Director Tim Williams. The ensemble has an extensive and exceptionally varied repertoire of hundreds of works and a reputation for technical assurance and interpretive flair. It won the Manchester Evening News Award for Opera in 2000 and has been shortlisted for a prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society award on two occasions. Psappha has commissioned and premiered many works by a wide range of composers including the award-winning music-theatre work, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, by its Patron Peter Maxwell Davies, released on the ensembles own label. Manchester University New Music Ensemble (Vaganza) Highlights over recent years have included performances of Stockhausen's Kreuzspiel, Philip Grange's As It Was, Birtwistle's Silbury Air and Gérard Grisey's Partiels, Per Nørgård's Night-Symphonies, Day Breaks and John Casken's Vaganza. Gilles Millet, violin. Vaganza's name is a homage and pays tribute to composer and Emeritus Professor of Music John Casken. MANTIS-in-Motion (Kairos, Bling This Story) Our always evolving live electronics ensemble is a key platform for composers to explore the combination of acoustic instruments and electronics. In the past we had KAIROS electronic Ensemble (performance across UK 2006-08), Bling This Story (Manchester 2008-09), MANTIS Showreels with concerts in Germany, Thailand, Hong Kong etc, and MANTIS-in-Motion with sound diffusion concerts all around the world. Trio Atem - Gavin Osborn, flute; Nina Whiteman, voice; Alice Purton, cello. Trio Atem started a residency at the NOVARS research centre in 2009 and actively support teaching across Music at The University of Manchester.

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The Crystal Diamond Tower Award trophy is perfect to recognize people who do magnificent work! The crystal awards has multi angles for a modern design that refracts elegance from any angle! The Diamond Tower rest on top of a diamond mahogany piano wood finished base with stainless steel finish accents projecting the surrounding light upward through the crystal. When only the Best will do, this will impress! Crystal Diamond Tower award Size: 13"H x 6" x 6" Crystal Obelisk etch area: 3" x 7" Materials: Crystal, Wood, Metal Decoration: Sand Carved Deep Etch

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Lewmar Size 44 Flush Mount Hatch (Grey Acrylic)Support System - 2 x Stay Opening on the flush hatch is restricted to around 90 degrees. The hatch is only supplied with Power Boat stay(s). Standard Color Specifications: Grey acrylic, white lower frame Fit to a flat surface with a maximum tolerance of +/- 1mm. Fastening size at hinge section use (M6/ 1/4"). Fastening size for lower frame use 5mm CSK screw No. 10 UNC 2 BA All sizes suitable for CE Area 2 (Deck, Coachroof, Cockpit and Transom). Lower Frame (in) - 9/16 Acrylic Window Thickness (in) - 1/2 Length X (in) - 20 3/16 Width Y (in) - 20 3/16 Height Z (in) - 1 1/4 Radii R (in) - 3/8 Cut-Out Length X1 (in) - 17 3/8 Cut-Out Width Y1 (in) - 17 3/8 Cut-Out Radii R1 (in) - 1 11/16

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- Phone number - 07821 636902 About me and my therapy practice I am a qualified Counsellor based in Glasgow West End and offer long and short-term individual counselling and therapy to adults aged 17 and above. I have experience of working with a wide range of therapy issues such as depression, bereavement, stress, anxiety, relationship difficulties, panic attacks, trauma, sexual abuse, sexuality and many more. I offer you a confidential, safe, empathic therapeutic relationship where you can develop trust to work with what is causing you difficulty in living. My approach is Humanistic which means that I will listen very carefully to you, offer you unconditional support, value your experience and use that as the basis of all our work. I will work flexibly in an integrated way to suit your needs. I offer a free initial 30 minute consultation on a no obligation basis. What I can help with Anxiety, Bereavement, Depression, Loss, Post-traumatic stress, Trauma, Personal development, Cancer, Cultural issues, Self esteem, Sexual identity, Sexuality, Spirituality, Adoption issues, Child related issues, Infertility, Pregnancy related issues, Relationships, Anger management, Redundancy, Stress, Work related issues Types of therapy Humanistic, Person centred Clients I work with How I deliver therapy Long-term face-to-face work, Short-term face-to-face work, Time-limited

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Liberty Global’s consolidated operating results from international operations grew in the second quarter. Consolidated revenue for Liberty Global rose 37% to $2.18 billion in the second quarter from $1.59 billion in the same quarter a year ago. Within its divisions, UPC Broadband contributed $260 million in revenues with a 16% increase from 2006. Japan’s J:COM saw revenues rise 19.6% to $213 million. Belgium’s Telenet recorded $147.3 million revenues in the quarter, up from $5.5 million a year ago. In Chile, VTR revenues rose 23% to $59.5 million. While Liberty Global’s operating income jumped to $210 million from $93.5 million in Q2 2006, the company recorded a net loss in the quarter of $129.7 million versus net income of $24.2 million a year ago. Liberty’s operating cash flow grew 46% to $861 million from $567 million in Q2 2006. The company had negative free cash flow of $9.1 million in the second quarter versus negative cash flow of $82.5 million in Q2 2006, reflecting lower capital expenditures as a percentage of revenue and higher operating income in the quarter. The company’s total customers rose 107,600 from the first quarter to 16.05 million, and revenue-generating units per customer ticked up in the quarter to 1.44 from 1.43 in Q1.

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Remember that time a major toothpaste brand decided to branch out into manufacturing frozen dinners? While it’s a little-known marketing mistake from many years ago, the story is true. One of the biggest names in toothpaste got into the TV dinner business, and failed. It also created a temporary drop in their toothpaste sales. Apparently, no one wants to think of brushing their teeth when they’re eating frozen food. The lesson here is really about brand consistency. You need to be who your customers expect you to be. This means staying with oral hygiene products if that’s what you’re known for. If you’re a distributed restaurant brand in the business of serving the spiciest burritos known to mankind, a new line of sugary pastries might not fly with customers. Brand consistency is the reason that some of the world’s best-known organizations spend billions each year on the top ad agencies and advertising. It’s about hiring teams of seriously smart people to iterate on logo design and visual identity, to create new and exciting ways to present the same old thing. Because consumers “trust” what they know, and any variation from the brand they’ve grown to trust is an invasion of this trust. Distributed Brand Consistency Isn’t Easy As a brand manager at a distributed organization, consistency is both your biggest challenge and the greatest measure of your success. If you’re in charge of branding for a global network of thousands of local outlets, your reach is massive. This is all the more reason to make sure your logo, colors, font, and messaging are the same in Dubai as in Dublin. Here’s the tricky part, though. Your global network of local marketers means more potential points of failure for your branding efforts. Each of these franchise owners or dealership marketers has the potential to dilute your brand, or modify your assets in ways that just don’t look like your visual identity. Consistency is one of your greatest assets and your distributed marketers could put it at risk. Turning your customers into repeat, loyal buyers requires the right balance of consistency. It also requires your local partners to nail this balance, every time. Read on to learn how real brands walk this very fine line. Understand Creative Tension Your brand can’t always be the same thing to everyone. That’s why the smartest distributed brands make slight modifications to their presentation for each local market. Several years ago, McDonald’s made the bold move to add rice bowls and wraps to their menu in China. While rice is not a traditional part of the fast food chain’s menu, their market research revealed it was something their Asian customers needed to have to feel like they were getting a great meal. image via: http://louisexu204.blogspot.com This decision is a great example of brand consistency done right. Tweak the menu so new customers can “love it,” while fiercely protecting visual identity and other brand elements. Misaligned Goals Kill Consistency Brand consistency isn’t necessarily a failure of your local marketer’s graphic design skills, though that can certainly play a role. Most often, the issue has deeper roots that are largely cultural. If your brand management team and your local partners have different objectives, you’re going to end up with inconsistent local advertising. If your franchisee feels you don’t “get” their market, they may be tempted to go off the beaten path and design their own store signage that doesn’t look like your brand. At many organizations, there are no systems in place to know when this is starting to happen. Brand managers may not have any inclination their local partners have gone rogue until sales start to slide. Customers feel the subtle shift in brand identity and begin to lose trust. image via: http://ilively.com/ Local Marketers Mean Well The first step towards improved consistency is understanding that both head office and local outlets are all working towards the same goal. You and your local partners are both trying to generate sales. Chances are, their in-store poster that looks like it was designed with Comic Sans, or early Microsoft Paint, is trying to provide value to their buyers. The local marketer may even have an idea that could transform your brand. They just have the wrong method of execution. It’s hard to not recoil when you see some of the worst examples of local marketing in the wild. However, it’s important for brand managers to look past the execution to the intent. By learning why your local marketer decided to take advertising into your own hands, you may learn a lot about how you can improve the support you give them. What are the most cringe-worthy instances of local marketing, definitely not approved by the brand management team? Read Misadventures in Brand Management: 6 Ways Brand Marketing Can Fall Apart and find out. Understand What Brand Consistency Looks Like For You For many distributed brands, consistency fits within a fairly well-defined niche of marketing execution. When a local marketer turns one of your brand templates into advertising, it’s probably going to have the same headline, hero image, and offer that your designer put into an approved layout. It’s going to look like a poster or email that’s from your brand, but it may include your local partner’s address or headshot. There’s obviously some room for variation here. Your definition of consistency may include providing your local dealers with permission to use your stock photography alongside photos of your competitors' models. You may give your local outlets permission to subtract 5% off your nationally recommended discount. However, the execution should still reflect the quality, experience, and “look” your brand is globally known for. Templates are the Brand Manager's Secret Weapon The answer to the question, “How do I achieve brand consistency” is templates. By turning your national marketing assets into easy-to-modify templates for local marketers, you can improve brand consistency while supporting the local outlet's need for creativity and locally-relevant content. The right tool for local marketing automation (LMA) will provide brand managers with significant freedom in template creation; including, the ability to determine which elements of your marketing assets are: - “Restricted” or locked template content, such as a logo or colors that cannot be modified by partners. - “Variable” or unlocked template content, so local dealers can modify contact information, their dealership name or logo, and other local information. Your definition of restricted and variable fields may vary from campaign to campaign, and the right LMA tool will support this. Whether your local partners are allowed to add their own imagery, tagline, or contact information, templates will protect consistency. Explore this concept in-depth at Creating and Managing Marketing Collateral Templates Local Dealers Love. Brand Managers: Consistency isn’t Black-and-White For the most successful distributed brands, branding is a two-way street. Branding flows down, from your brand management team and your expert agency partners. It should also flow up from your local affiliates, who translate their daily interactions with customers into some of the smartest marketing ideas you’ll uncover. It’s your job to nurture these raw ideas into campaigns and creative marketing assets. While a brand manager’s job is to obsessively safeguard their brand against being diluted or damaged, it’s also their job to recognize the fact that branding is an ongoing practice. Translating your local outlets' best ideas into creative assets and campaigns should be high on your "to-do" list. With a tool like CampaignDrive by Pica9, creating templates that allow your local marketers to balance creativity and freedom is possible. Ever wonder how distributed brands like Marriott achieve the right balance of brand consistency and local flair on a global scale? To discover their secrets, we recommend our free eBook Distributed Marketing on Steroids: The Brand Manager’s Guide to Designing and Managing Local Marketing Assets without Breaking a Sweat.

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Can you inspire and be inspired? Can you deliver great customer service? Are you looking for a chance to shine? We have fantastic opportunities for progression and development and the Freedom to nurture ideas and flair within a Framework of support to develop you. At Barnardo’s we believe in children, the funds raised in store support the most vulnerable children and young people in the UK and now’s your chance to play your part in this vital work. As well as maximising sales and profit in store you’ll also ensure the very highest standards of presentation and customer services – your aim will be to make your store the best in town, for customers to visit and for your colleagues to work in. As a Store Associate you will support the manager with all aspects of running a busy store, it’s the best of both worlds as you will have responsibilities but also the chance to develop and learn with an experienced store manager by your side. You’ll need to be well organised with great communication skills and ready to learn how to lead your team of colleagues in store to maximise sales and profit and meet your stores targets. In return you will work for one of the UK’s largest charity retailers with benefits, including full training and development package, promotion prospects, pension and benefits. Generating the money we need to make children’s lives better is a truly fulfilling role so if you’d like to use your talent to make a positive difference then we would love to hear from you! How to apply: Please visit here to be redirected to Barnardo’s website and search for the relevant job reference. 35 hours – ref: 2921 21 hours – ref: 2920 14 hours – ref: 2919 Unit 3 The Asda Centre, Village Square, Chelmer Village, Chelmsford, Essex, England, CM2 6RF

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These days, a lot of drinks tend to come in and out of style each year. However, one of the most interesting, and oldest, drinks around is mead. Still, despite being around for thousands of years, many modern drinkers might not know exactly what’s in the mix. This knowledge can help you better appreciate a historical classic… Mead: A Historical Classic What it is Mead (sometimes called honey wine) is a drink that many people associate with the Medieval era. It’s also commonly seen as a go-to drink of choice for characters in Medieval fiction, from Beowulf to Lord of the Rings. In fact, you might most commonly see it at Renaissance fairs, despite the somewhat inaccurate time frame. However, because it is quite an older drink, many people have some misconceptions about what it is. Some might think it’s just an older version of beer. Others might consider it a wine, as its alternate name implies. In reality, it actually has its own little niche which it fits into. Making the drink The reason mead stands in its own unique spot is because of the taste, which comes from its ingredients. Most of the ingredients are what you would expect for a simple fermented alcohol. This means water, yeast, and some spices or fruits if you want some extra flavor, like with craft beers. However, the unique ingredient for this drink is honey. This is what sets it apart from its cousins of beer and cider. The more natural and pure the honey is, the better it’ll mix into the drink. Due to the honey, mead ends up having an interesting flavor, sitting a bit closer to the hard cider side. Tasting it today After learning about mead, many people because interested in trying it out for themselves. After all, there must’ve been a reason it was so popular for so long. As it turns out, mead is experiencing a bit of a resurgence in America, making it easier to try now more than ever. Mead can usually be bought from places that sell distilled alcohol. Some producers even sell it directly from their breweries. Plus, if you have a home brewing kit, you can make your own brews at home. However, just keep in mind the process is a little bit different from making beer.

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By Lorna Baker Today’s review is of the independent film Everlasting, released in 2016 by Super Grande Films. The movie is written and directed by Anthony Stabley. Everlasting tells the story of Matt (Adam David), a high school student filmmaker who sets out to find the killer of his girlfriend, Jessie (Valentina de Angelis). Using home video footage of the couple, and present day shots, we journey to uncover the horrifying circumstances of why this young life is cut short. This is Stabley’s first feature film, both for his writing and direction – and he handles Everlasting with surprising confidence. He crafts a story that weaves the love affair between Matt and Jessie, and the side-plot of Matt’s hunt for information on Jessie’s killer. With two distinct strands to our story, told in a non-linear way, this could trip up the unexperienced; but Stabley handles it excellently. The voice over that he crafts for his central character Matt, is both heart breaking and haunting. He demonstrates the good and the bad in the pair of lovers but also in society; the film strikes up a remarkably good balance between the two. The two leads are captivating, showing their vulnerability despite their strong, gothic exterior. The sweet, caring shots of the couple living their free-spirited lives in sunny Colorado look stunning with the juxtaposition of the grimy look to the modelling house and the shots of Matt on the killer’s trail. David and de Angelis are able to bring through the troubled nature of their characters whilst still providing moments of lightness and love. For an independent film, with a fraction of the budget of the blockbuster dramas, it’s incredibly well made. The camerawork is beautiful and the score is superb; creating a tense and unsettling atmosphere throughout. Everlasting is also extremely well edited, cutting between the story with ease, whilst maintaining the foreboding atmosphere and palpable levels of tension. If I could bring up one gripe in this film, it would be the shot calling of the killer. The confrontation scene with Matt is certainly spine-chilling, but it's more that it's not a surprise for which character is the killer. We are treated to fleeting glimpses of a shady character and whilst we can’t definitively connect Matt and the suspect throughout the film (as we are shown only the back of this man dressed in a black leather jacket and black hat); it does arouse suspicion. But this, of course, is a mere quibble to an otherwise excellent and haunting film! Ultimately this is a film of two parts, a romance between two teenagers struggling with life and family issues, but also a murder mystery in the seedy underbelly of glitzy Los Angeles. It’s an unusual combination for a crime drama, but it works, giving us a rare insight into the murder victim’s life. Everlasting is a chilling tale, haunting the viewer long after the credits roll, but it ends somewhat happily, showing us the everlasting nature of love. This tale is a fascinating watch. Cineroom’s Rating: 4 Stars Everlasting is now out on Amazon and available on iTunes from next month.

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I'm an MBA degree holder and cooking is my passion. I conducted authentic Sri Lankan classes for the last four years I conducted my classes in the Colombo city which is just 20-30 minutes from Colombo fort. The classes is conducted in an old house with a maximum capacity for uptown 10 people. My eggplant dish, coconut roti, jackfruit and string hoppers also famous among the students and these dishes can request with an additional charge. This is practical class which you get some kitchen work and food preparation can do by yourself with my guidance and support. Learn how to cook all 7 Dishes Get to know your instructors for this class. Come to the wellampitiya police station junction. There is buddha statue at the starting point of the kumaradasa place. From there about 200m in that lane and there is buddha statue on your right hand side and this house located just before that small buddha statue. You will receive the confirmation of your booking's availability within 24 hours. Once confirmed, please present your booking reference number at the cooking school. Full refunds will be issued for cancellations made at least 48 hours prior to the activity

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The 2019 Rotary Dream Home Lottery offered a variety of prizes last Friday to raise proceeds for Rotary Club of Grande Prairie community projects. The titular prize went to local couple Dwayne and Sandra Van Schaick, who had previously won a GMC Terrain in the 2018 lottery and a sports car in Edmonton’s Full House Lottery. “We’re tremendously excited and happy to look at it. It’s beautiful,” Sandra said. “We’re always getting a rough time about how lucky we are.” Kris Podolski, president of the Rotary Club of Grande Prairie, outlined several initiatives the lottery proceeds would support, such funding sport groups and playgrounds. The club also plans on building a Wellness House next to the new Regional Hospital, renovating the D-Coy Armouries and constructing four Habitat for Humanity homes. “Those are just a few places where the money goes and I hope that you feel good about your purchase of a ticket and that it’s really giving back to the community,” Podolski told spectators during the lottery draw at the dream home. The Van Schiacks have been buying tickets since the lottery began 26 years ago. “We’ve had family members ourselves who’ve needed assistance at some point, whether its health or otherwise, and it’s a great cause and we support a lot of things in the community,” Sandra said. The Carriage Lane home is valued at $1.4 million and has a modern farmhouse design with sliding barn doors. Features include a three-season sun room, a wine room, a wet bar, and an 18-foot indoor slide into the lower-level gym area. The Van Schiacks said they hadn’t yet committed to moving into the dream home. “We want to have a look but it’s looking pretty promising,” Sandra added. Meanwhile, Linda Rosentreter of Grande Prairie won $286,000, which is half of the 50/50 jackpot worth a record-high $573,200. Last year’s jackpot was $550,000. Other prizes included gift cards, a 2019 Buick Encore, $25,000 to spend at any Revolution Auto Group dealer and a Mexico Vacation to Puerto Vallarta. Lottery proceeds also go to over 20 groups who helped sell lottery tickets, including the Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Grande Prairie, Special Olympics Grande Prairie, the Nitehawk Alpine Ski Team, PARDS Therapeutic Centre, the Grande Prairie Friendship Centre Aboriginal Head Start Program, the QEII Hospital Auxiliary Association and others. A full list of lottery winners can be found at winadreamhome.ca.

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This wonderful waterfront home on protected Pirate's Cove has it all - welcoming courtyard entry to the covered front porch, beautiful water views, spacious rooms with a great entertaining flow, gorgeous hardwood floors, en suite bathrooms in all three bedrooms, and a covered brick lanai across the back. Other features include a new roof, two new HVAC systems, off grade, wired for a generator, dock with boatlift, concrete bulkhead, and a full staircase to an ample attic that could be easily converted to a fourth bedroom and bath, or bonus room. |--||New Value: $875,000| |8/5/2019 6:10:19 PM||New Value: Contingent Take Backup| |7/12/2019 6:11:00 PM| ©2019 Northeast Florida Multiple Listing Service, Inc. All rights reserved. Data last updated: 8/19/2019 10:18:16 AM. Some properties that appear for sale on this web site may subsequently have been sold and may no longer be available. The data relating to real estate for sale on this web site comes in part from the Internet Data Exchange (IDX) program of the Northeast Florida Multiple Listing Service, Inc. Real estate listings held by brokerage firms other than Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Florida Network Realty are marked with the listing broker’s name and detailed information about such listings includes the name of the listing brokers. Data provided is deemed reliable but is not guaranteed. IDX information is provided exclusively for consumers’ personal, non-commercial use that it may not be used for any purpose other than to identify prospective properties consumers may be interested in purchasing.

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We apologize for the downtime. During this maintenance period, the site has been upgraded to the newest versions to enhance the user experience. Please note we are still working on the site, so its appearance may change from time to time over the next few days. Hey another question for the board. Ronin really likes to explore new areas and even old ones that he see's everyday. Like if i bring him to the park and try to let him walk next to me without a leash, he'll walk alright until he see's something new, like bird poop. He'll try to eat it and i'll say no, sometimes he'll do a quick bite and swallow (kinda gross), and to come here. He'll come to me but then he'll literally start running circles around me even as i'm walking foward. Ok here's the questions how do i get him to stop trying to explore random things, or does he just grow out of it? And does that running in circles thing mean he's trying to question my pack leader status? I don't think he's questioning your status. I think he's just displaying normal puppy behavior, running in circles because he's restricted yet attempting to burn his excess energy. For the exploring things, you could teach him "leave it" and "drop it". "Drop it" can be used if he already has something in his mouth, incase he grabs something before you have a chance to say "leave it. As he grows he may be less inclined to explore every little thing, depending on his breed, but I don't think he'll completely grow out of exploring. I walked a Beagle this weekend and I swear, that dog did not lift his nose off the ground from the time we started off through the time we returned. LOL. Some trainers have suggested teaching separate cues for walks. "Lets go" can be used for exploring and loose leash walking and "Heel" can be used when you want him to walk at your side without exploring. I haven't taught Natalie "heel", at least not yet. I use 2 separate leashes, rather than separate cues, depending on which type of walk I will be taking her on. Retractable leash for running and exploring and 6 ft nylon lead for loose leash walking close to me.

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Fantasy Football Mistakes to Avoid One of the biggest temptations fantasy coaches face on draft day is to complete the starting lineup before adding bench players (who add depth at important positions). Draft a kicker in the last couple rounds (plenty of great kickers will be available). Don't draft QBs based on name value. If you study QB stats from previous seasons, you’ll see that the top-ten QBs were all about the same from a fantasy-worthy standpoint. You can build your RB and WR cores until the middle rounds and still draft a fantasy-worthy QB. You can wait until at least Rounds 10 to 12 before you draft a DEF and still get quality. Even in a large fantasy league, every coach can draft one of the NFL’s better defenses (perhaps even two). Even the top pre-ranked DEF shouldn’t be drafted before Round 6. Every NFL team gets a bye week during the season to rest. When your fantasy starters are on bye, you need to go to your bench to replace them. But what if your two best players have the same bye week? And what if they play the same position? Your team’s fantasy production will certainly drop. The NFL teams with the best records have harder schedules next season than the teams that missed the playoffs. Great fantasy players on winning teams may have a tougher time producing big numbers next season when they face stiffer opposition. Know the NFL schedule when making your draft picks. By studying the NFL schedule, you can make a better decision between two or three players that seem equally awesome on paper. A good fantasy coach doesn't brag about players or obnoxiously trash the other coaches in the league. A little smack talk and joking make the game fun, but if you take it too far, the league commish won’t ask you back next year. Use cheat sheets to familiarize yourself with your hundreds of options and to develop your draft plan. Many first-time fantasy coaches assume that playing fantasy football will be easy. They show up at drafts without pencils, paper, or preparation. The drafts begin, but after three rounds, leaguemates inevitably hear them say “Who?” after every selection. During the season, you can access updated cheat sheets online to help you make roster changes. Always check a player's health status before starting him, picking him up off waivers, or offering him in a trade. On draft day, double-check the injury reports to make sure that no one was recently hurt. Some coaches who can’t make it to the draft venue trust the rest of the league, or specific people, to draft good teams for them. Doing so is a big mistake. Your team will be drafted based on the best players available overall, not on what your team needs. An online draft program autopicks your team in a similar manner, with similarly bad results.

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In Adults With Unruptured Brain Arteriovenous Malformation, Interventional Therapy Appears to Worsen Outcomes Compared to Medical Management EBM Focus - Volume 9, Issue 8 With the increased use of noninvasive neuroimaging, there has been an increase in the detection of brain arteriovenous malformations prior to symptomatic bleeding, but there is currently no clear consensus for the management of these lesions. Patients diagnosed with unruptured or asymptomatic arteriovenous malformations may be managed conservatively or, alternatively, they may be offered interventional therapy with the aim of obliterating the origin of the arteriovenous malformation. Several interventional therapies, including neurosurgery, embolization, and stereotactic radiotherapy have been used successfully in these patients, but there is little clinical evidence to guide the choice of interventional therapy, or to demonstrate its superiority over conservative management. A prospective population-based cohort study in Scotland previously showed that patients receiving interventional therapy for arteriovenous malformation had worse outcomes than those who did not (Lancet Neurol 2008 Mar;7(3):223). Now, a randomized trial compares the addition of interventional therapy to medical management vs. medical management alone in adults with unruptured arteriovenous malformation. A total of 226 adults (mean age 45 years) with unruptured brain arteriovenous malformation were randomized to medical management alone vs. medical management plus interventional therapy. Patients, clinicians, and investigators were aware of treatment assignment. Medical management consisted of pharmacologic therapy for existing medical disorders (such as seizures or headaches) or any coexisting vascular risk factors (such as diabetes or arterial hypertension), as needed. Patients randomized to interventional therapy additionally received neurosurgery, embolization, or stereotactic radiotherapy, either alone or in combination, at the discretion of the local trial investigator. Patients with evidence of recent or prior hemorrhage, or who had received previous interventional therapy for brain arteriovenous malformation, were excluded from the trial. The goal of the interventional therapy was complete eradication of the arteriovenous malformation. The primary outcome was a composite of symptomatic stroke or death. The trial was stopped early by an independent data and safety monitoring board, due to superiority of medical management alone based on a prespecified stopping value for the primary outcome. The interim analysis included 223 patients (99% of those randomized) with a median follow-up of 33 months. Symptomatic stroke or death occurred in 10% of those receiving medical management alone vs. 31% of those receiving interventional therapy plus medical management (p < 0.05, NNT 5). The incidence of stroke was 11% with medical management alone vs. 39% with interventional therapy plus medical management (p < 0.0001, NNT 4). In addition, neurologic deficits unrelated to stroke occurred in 0.9% of those treated with medical management alone vs. 12% of those treated with interventional therapy plus medical management (p = 0.0008, NNT 9). The results of this trial extend previous findings from an observational study, and further support the conclusion that current interventional therapies for unruptured arteriovenous malformations do not improve cerebrovascular outcomes. However, arteriovenous malformations are associated with a long natural history, and the median follow-up of 33 months included in this trial limits the ability to make conclusions about long-term effectiveness. In addition, by not including patients who had received previous interventional therapy for brain arteriovenous malformation, patients with a more aggressive disease course may have been excluded, and this may therefore limit the generalizability of the findings. For more information see the Central nervous system vascular malformations topic in Dynamed.

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This year, Four Freedoms Park has been celebrating the 75th anniversary of Franklin D. Roosevelt's pivotal Four Freedoms speech, for which this memorial is named. This blog post is the first in a four-part series celebrating each of these four freedoms in a modern context. FDR gave his eighth State of the Union address on January 6, 1941, as the United States was preparing for war against the Axis powers (the country entered World War II in December, 1941). In this speech, FDR emphasized individual liberties protected by the U.S. Bill of Rights and offered these cherished freedoms as the basis for a just, secure, and peaceful world. Specifically, he called out four fundamental human freedoms: freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech and expression, and freedom of worship. In the peaceful future world FDR envisioned, these freedoms would prevail everywhere—the opposite of dictators’ racist, violent suppressions of liberty. That future world was not a far off millennium, but "a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation." And indeed, FDR’s four freedoms are still incredibly important in our world today. Each generation has a responsibility to define and fight for these freedoms anew, to affirm the kind of people we are, and to shape how we want our world to be. Freedom of speech and expression may be the most well-known of the four freedoms, often cited by pundits, students, courts, reporters, and activists. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, freedom of expression “is the foundation of a vibrant democracy, and without it, other fundamental rights, like the right to vote, would wither away.” The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights protects freedom of speech and expression (as well as freedom of the press and the rights to peaceably assemble, practice religion, and petition the government). The Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that freedom of speech covers rights such as the right not to speak (i.e. not to salute the flag), to use offensive language to convey political messages, engage in symbolic speech (i.e. burn the flag), and for students to protest in school. The court has also prohibited limitations on freedom of speech and expression on the internet. As our world has changed, new challenges to freedom of speech and expression have arisen in the media, arts, online, in the ways that people protest injustices, and the way that the U.S. government conducts surveillance and tries to keep our country safe. It can be a fine line between national security and censorship, as the controversial WikiLeaks’ release of classified government material shows. In general, the internet has created new ways to connect, share information, and express ourselves. Yet it can also be used to collect private information and commercialize our digital interactions. Recent examples of threats to freedom of speech and expression include a New Hampshire law banning ballot selfies (which was overturned by a federal court), North Dakota ’s actions against the people (mostly Native Americans) peacefully protesting the oil pipeline, and public reactions to San Francisco 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem. Kaepernick began kneeling during the national anthem during pre-season NFL games in August to protest the numerous police shootings of unarmed black people. "I am not going to stand up to show pride in a flag for a country that oppresses black people and people of color." This became a huge news story and other people—sports players, students, even members of the military—joined the protest. Backlash against Kaepernick has made him the most disliked player in the NFL as some interpret his actions as disrespecting the American flag, the police, and veterans. The public is divided on whether celebrities and sports players have an obligation to use their influence for social good or whether they should just keep quiet and do what they are paid to do. There’s a long history of political activism among athletes (Muhammed Ali is one example), but athletes who speak up risk losing important endorsements and even their jobs. President Obama has even weighed in on Kaepernick’s protest, saying “I believe that us honoring our flag and our anthem is part of what binds us together as a nation. But I also always try to remind folks that part of what makes this country special is that we respect people's rights to have a different opinion." Obama encouraged each side to listen to each other and think about how their actions may be causing pain. Political protest can be powerful and achieve real results. Kaepernick has continued to kneel during the national anthem at every football game he has been in for more than a month. Not only has the 49ers franchise not reprimanded him, they’ve donated $1 million to “the cause of improving racial and economic inequality and fostering communication and collaboration between law enforcement and the communities they serve here in the Bay Area.” Kaepernick is donating $1 million of his own money as well. There was already a national conversation growing around #BlackLivesMatter, police brutality, and racial inequality in this country, but now the conversation has grown in the sports world too. FDR may not have envisioned the internet, an African-American president (or a woman presidential candidate), or climate change, but he knew that freedom of speech and expression would be a vital part of our world today. What does freedom of speech and expression mean to you?

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Here is my Hans Schemm tinnie. It was made after the Gauleiter was killed in an aircraft crash. Some background on him from Wiki: Hans Schemm (6 October 1891 in Bayreuth – 5 March 1935 in Bayreuth) was a Gauleiter in Nazi Germany. Schemm, whose parents ran a shoemaker's shop, first went to a Volksschule for five years and then as of 1905 a teaching seminary. In 1915 he got married; in 1917 a son was born. As a teacher, he taught school beginning in 1910, first in Wülfersreuth, then as of 1911 in Neufang and from 1920 at the Altstadtschule ("Old Town School"), which was later named the Hans-Schemm-Schule, in Bayreuth. During the First World War he worked at a military epidemic hospital in Bayreuth where he became infected with tuberculosis. In 1919 he belonged to the Freikorps Bayreuth, which took part in the struggles in Munich. Schemm was then appointed as head of a bacteriological-chemical laboratory in Thale (Hubertusbad), which, however, closed by 1921 on financial grounds. Schemm, who had dealt with chemical-biological matters scientifically before, went back to teaching school. Between 1921 and 1928, he also moonlit at the folk high school. From 1923, Schemm had contacts with Nazi groups and on 30 September 1923 he got to know Adolf Hitler. In 1924, he became an assessor in the Bayreuth Völkischer Bund. On 27 February 1925, Schemm founded the Bayreuth Nazi Ortsgruppe ("Local Group") and in the same year the Nazi Gau of Upper Franconia (Oberfranken). Schemm built the organization up with determination. His political positions were clearly antidemocratic, anti-Semitic and anti-Communist, as can be seen in some of his quotations: * "We are revolutionary, we want to overthrow the present state … On our enemies, we shall take revenge, and indeed bloody revenge." * "We are not objective – we are German!" * " … that a Jew should dangle from every lamppost." In 1927, Schemm founded the National Socialist Teachers' Federation. In 1928, he became a member of the Bavarian Landtag. Systematically, Schemm prepared the local NSDAP for the election campaigns, first for the City Council in 1929. The Nazis won 9 mandates, and Schemm became factional chairman. The arrival of the Nazi faction led to frequent stormy sessions and one brawl, which were caused by the Nazi members', and in particular Schemm's, aggressive attitude. In 1928 and 1929, Schemm took over the leadership of several Nazi newspapers (Streiter, Weckruf and Nationale Zeitung), which he however gave up after a short time. In April 1929, Schemm founded his own newspaper, and in August of the same year appeared the Nationalsozialistische Lehrerzeitung ("National Socialist Teachers' Newspaper"), the National Socialist Teachers League's (NSLB) journalistic organ. On 1 October 1930 came the first edition of the weekly newspaper Kampf für deutsche Freiheit und Kultur ("Struggle for German Freedom and Culture"), which was published by Schemm, and whose circulation rose from 3,000 in the beginning to 20,000 by 1932. In 1931, Schemm founded the Bayreuth National Socialist Cultural Publishing House (Nationalsozialistischer Kulturverlag Bayreuth), which beginning on 1 October 1932 published the daily newspaper Das Fränkische Volk (circulation: 10,000) In 1930, Schemm became a member of the Reichstag. In 1933, the Gau of Upper Franconia, led by Schlemm, was united with the Gau of Upper Palatinate-Lower Bavaria (Oberpfalz-Niederbayern) to form the Gau Bayerische Ostmark. Schemm kept his job as Gauleiter. Furthermore he became an SA Gruppenführer. On 16 March 1933, the Reich Governor (Reichsstatthalter) Franz Ritter von Epp appointed Schemm to be the provisional Culture Minister. Hitler then appointed him on 13 April 1933 the "Leader of Cultural and Educational Affairs of Bavaria". In 1933, Schemm became an honorary citizen of Bayreuth. On 5 March 1935, Schemm died after an aircraft crash. Hitler personally ordered Berlin Professor Ferdinand Sauerbruch to fly to Bayreuth. Schemm, however, succumbed to his injuries before the professor's arrival. His successor as Gauleiter was Fritz Wächtler. Schemm's life was glorified by the Nazis, and somewhat even later after the Nazis were gone. In the time of the Nazi regime, though, various schools, streets, and halls in Nazi Germany were named after him. I especially like one of his quotes: "We are not objective – we are German!"

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Crazy September: FinCon, #USAADigiMil and More! Some of the links in this post are from our sponsors. Read our disclosure to see how we make money. Howdy friends! I’ve been a bit out of the loop over the past month or so. Well, for the entire month of September really. Looking at my calendar, I spent five days at home and did a ton of traveling during the month. Somehow, I woke up and we’re at the end of the first week of October already! My Q3 goals post will be published on Monday, but I wanted to do a little recap of some of my travels this past month as they included some awesome conferences, as well as some fun stuff. The conferences especially, provided quite a bit in value so I wanted to share about that as well. First Stop – Disney World The first stop for September was taking the oldest little Frugal Rule to Orlando as a surprise for her eighth birthday. It was a daddy/daughter trip for four days. She had no idea about the trip – which was a bit difficult since Mrs. Frugal Rules and I had been planning it for about two months. Thankfully, most of the trip was covered through rewards points; otherwise I’m quite certain I wouldn’t be doing it again. Short story long, we came home with a lot of great memories. I’ll be sharing more about Disney and my thoughts on them in a few weeks. Second Stop – FinCon15 About 48 hours after coming home from Orlando, Mrs. Frugal Rules and I jetted off to Charlotte for FinCon. This was my third FinCon and I can safely say it was my favorite. It was a great, jam-packed four days of seeing old friends and making new ones. I have to tip my hat to PT; FinCon was top notch this year. I’ve seen very few conferences consistently top what they did the year prior, but PT and his rockstar team manage to do it every year. Remembering back to my first FinCon, I felt like I had to go to each session to soak up all the learning opportunities. The sessions are great, don’t get me wrong, but the real value is what you get in between the sessions. Those networking opportunities can’t be overlooked, whether it be with another blogger or speaking with a company you want to work with. I know it’s easy to look at the cost of attending a conference like FinCon. It can be a bit much to swallow. I get that. If you’re thinking about attending FinCon, look at it as a way of what that cost and environment can provide you. Like Cat says, take that opportunity to hustle like none other. I’ve more than replaced the expense we incurred to attend the conference through the new relationships and freelance writing opportunities I got through the conference again this year which is really the approach you should take when attending. If that’s not enough incentive to get you to FinCon16, I’ll add another – it’ll be in San Diego! I love that PT announced it at the conference this year so it helps attendees plan out their travels for the following year. If you’ve never been to San Diego, I highly recommend a few days on either end of the conference to soak up some of what the city has to offer. I know, I know, my beautiful wife is from San Diego so I am a little biased. 😉 That being said, if you have any questions about things to do there just let me know and I’d be happy to help. Third Stop – #USAADigiMil Conference After returning home from FinCon, I came back to Omaha for about 24 hours and left again for the USAA Digital Military Expert conference and Social Exchange in San Antonio. To be completely transparent, USAA provided for the entirety of the trip though my views here are entirely my own. Honestly, I was a little hesitant at first to go to the conference mainly because of how close it was to FinCon. I also wasn’t certain how it’d relate to what I do since I’m not in the military niche. We’ve been USAA members for almost 15 years (you can check out a review of what USAA has to offer here), but I didn’t think I’d get much out of the conference. Boy, was I wrong! The first two days included sessions from topics like digital marketing, entrepreneurship, helping families facing financial struggles and much more. The conference was much more intimate than FinCon – having roughly 50 people in attendance, but it was equal in value. It was awesome to meet with bloggers and podcasters from a different niche (though about 6-8 of us had just attended FinCon) who share the same value of helping those in need. I think that speaks a lot to the integrity and service USAA seeks to provide to their members – especially given the focus they have on reaching out to those they see as influencers. The third day of the conference was, in a word, stellar. After the two-day sessions ended, they kept back about 15-20 of us to do an all day tour of their headquarters in San Antonio. When I say all day, I mean all day! It was well worth it. They let us meet with, and hear from, C-level Excutives, tour the facility and more. The place was seriously amazing – with three gyms larger than the size of my house, multiple Starbucks, restaurants and many other things to service their employees. One of the highlights was going to their “Social Exchange” area. The area was a wall of large monitors showing, in real time, social posts, traffic from influencers and even complaints made by their members on social media. Working entirely online myself, that was really cool to experience. Final Stop – Vacation in Dallas After returning home from the DigiMil conference, I came back to Omaha for about 10 hours and we then took off for our family vacation to Dallas. To be quite honest, I really wasn’t all that excited about the trip as I wanted to sleep in my own bed and start implementing some of the takeaways from both conferences. But, all the kids knew about it and they were excited. So, off we drove to Dallas. We spent a week in Dallas and stayed at a Residence Inn (covered by points of course) so we could prepare meals. We’ve never been to Dallas, save for flying through, so it was fun discovering some of what the city has to offer. The time away also helped cement one of the major takeaways from both FinCon and the DigiMil conference – that I need to be there more for my family. While I work from home there is a big difference between just being here physically to being here physically and mentally. I’ve always struggled with having a somewhat decent work-life balance, though I want to improve upon that. Doing great business-wise is good, but if you can’t share it with those you love most then what’s it really worth? I want to stop here so as to not overlap into my goals post on Monday. As you can see, September was a bit on the crazy side but I took a lot out of it as well and am excited to end the year positively. You’ll also understand that if you’ve emailed me in the past few weeks, I’m not ignoring you – just trying to climb out from the mass of emails. 🙂 How do you handle particularly crazy months? What has been a favorite conference you’ve been to recently? Have you bought your ticket to FinCon16 yet? John is the founder of Frugal Rules, a dad, husband and veteran of the financial services industry whose writing has been featured in Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo Finance and more. Passionate about helping people learn from his mistakes, John shares financial tools and tips to help you enjoy the freedom that comes from living frugally. One of his favorite tools is Personal Capital , which he used to plan for retirement and keep track of his finances in less than 15 minutes each month. Another one of John's passions is helping people save $80 per month by axing their expensive cable subscriptions and replacing them with more affordable ones, like Hulu with Live TV. Latest posts by John Schmoll (see all) - Understanding Student Loans: 7 Things You Must Know Before Taking Them Out - August 16, 2019 - 17 Best Term Life Insurance Companies for 2019 - August 9, 2019 - How to Watch College Football Without Cable: 7 Great Options to Consider - August 9, 2019

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HTC is back in action by launching a new smartphone in India. The smartphone company made a comeback after more than a year. The last smartphone that it launched in the country was HTC Desire 12 and HTC Desire 12+ that was launched in June last year. Wildfire X has been launched in two variants. The device also comes with a pre-installed MyBuddy feature that is stated to be offering personal security to its users. The new phones come with the triple rear camera set up along with a waterdrop style notch on its display. HTC Wildfire X price and launch offer HTC Wildfire X has been launched in two storage variants in the country 3GB/32GB internal storage and 4GB/128GB internal storage. The base variant that is 3GB/32GB storage option comes at a starting price of Rs 9,999 while the upper variant 4GB/128GB storage option is available at a limited period price tag of Rs 12,999. The smartphone will go on sale on August 22 via Flipkart. Both the variants come in a single Sapphire Blue colour option. Telecom operators like Vodafone and Idea are offering coupons valued at Rs 3,750 to its subscribers who buy HTC Wildfire X. In addition to this both the operators are also offering an additional 500MB data per day for 18 months. The company is also offering 50 coupons worth Rs 75 each when the WildFire X buyers recharge their device with Rs 255 via MyVodafone or MyIdea app. The company is also offering No questions asked six months of accidental damage protection service to the buyers. In addition to this, the company will also provide free pick and drop facility. HTC Wildfire X specifications features The HTC Wildfire X comes with a 6.22-inch HD+ (720×1,520 pixels) HD+ IPS display with the waterdrop-style notch and 88.8 percent screen-to-body ratio. The latest smartphone by HTC is powered by an octa-core SoC, paired with 3GB and 4GB RAM options. Wildfire X runs Android 9 Pie and has 32GB and 128GB of internal storage options that can be expanded through microSD cards up to 256GB. Now coming on to the imaging duties, the HTC Wildfire X features a triple rear camera set up that includes a 12-megapixel primary sensor with 1.25-micron pixel size, 8-megapixel secondary sensor, and a 5-megapixel tertiary, depth sensor. The back camera supports 8X hybrid zoom along with with a dual-tone LED flash. On the front, it sports an 8-megapixel selfie camera sensor along with a wide-angle, 86-degree lens. The HTC Wildfire X Connectivity options include 4G LTE, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS/ A-GPS, USB Type-C, and a 3.5mm headphone jack. The sensors on the phone include an accelerometer, ambient light, gyroscope and proximity sensor. It also has a fingerprint sensor on the rear panel. The device houses a 3,300mAh battery that is supported by AI technology and supports 10W charging. Apart from that, it measures 156.7×74.9×7.95mm. HTC Wildfire X comes with a 3D OPVD mirror finish that also exhibits Hyper Optical patterns on the rear panel. As we mentioned earlier it also comes with My Buddy feature that is touted to draw a loud alarm, sends the live location to family/friends as well as it transmits audio/video of the user’s surroundings in real-time when one is in trouble. With the help of this feature, the user can easily locate their phone, too. For the latest gadget and tech news, and gadget reviews, follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. For newest tech & gadget videos subscribe to our YouTube Channel. You can also stay up to date using the Gadget Bridge Android App.

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Live 54218: Greater Green Bay schools spur expansion of indoor growing operations It’s always exciting to learn how innovative and creative the Greater Green Bay community is, even if it isn't aware it's happening. Case in point, our community is making the availability of fresh, local produce year-round a priority. We see it by the turnout at our farmers markets. We see it in our grade schools, high schools and higher education institutions. What may be most exciting is how our community doesn’t let the harsh winters of northeastern Wisconsin stop fresh produce from ending up in a meal even when gardens are covered in snow and bitter cold temperatures keep us in our homes. It’s inside these same places that keep us warm that we have successful indoor gardening efforts taking place throughout Greater Green Bay, especially in our schools. A fifth-grade class at West De Pere Middle School used Farm to School funds to purchase a tabletop garden where students are now able to grow salad greens right in their classroom. The students were excited and challenged themselves to grow more. They’ve since attempted tomatoes and with that has come new obstacles for the students to consider. This includes how to address the pollination process, which led the group to explore a plan to bring live butterflies into the classroom. It was great to see this innovative thinking and enthusiasm from the students, but they ultimately had to go a more practical route. Other schools are going even more high-tech, using hydroponic and aquaponic systems in their operation. Hydroponics uses only water and chemical nutrients to cultivate plants. Aquaculture is the farming of fish or other aquatic organisms such as algae. Aquaponics marries the two, using waste from farmed fish to cultivate plants for food. Also in the West De Pere School District, the high school recently held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new aquaponics system. With the support of The Farmory, the school was able to install the aquaponics system which will grow greens for the district and other local businesses. The Ashwaubenon School District Food Service Department looks to a science teacher from Ashwaubenon High School who has created a hydroponic and aquaponic system in his classroom. This year alone, he has sold 75 heads of lettuce to food service with future purchases on the way. The Oneida Nation School System has an aquaponics system that provides up to 50 percent of the district’s greens each month. Oneida also celebrated its first tilapia harvest from its aquaponics system with a fish dinner honoring local veterans. Let’s not forget about the efforts in our higher education institutions. The Live54218 team recently made a visit to St. Norbert College, where they have a student-funded hydroponics system located right in the heart of their dining hall. The greens grown by this system take a journey of about 20 steps, give or take a step, from the hydroponic tower to the salad bar. What we’re seeing is a demand for fresh produce and not just during the more traditional times when most growers can provide them. Even with all of these examples I mentioned, I’m sure there are countless more to talk about happening throughout Greater Green Bay and ones we may learn about because of this piece. But more than just providing healthy food options, these indoor growing systems, regardless of how big or small the operation, are promoting an entrepreneurial spirit with students all while incorporating science, technology, engineering and math skills. If you want to get a more in-depth look about some of these stories we shared, check out the Live54218 blog. And remember, to say we don’t have fresh produce because of the winter months is far from the truth, as our community repeatedly shows. Mario Gonzalez is the community engagement lead for Live54218. Share your thoughts, questions and topic suggestions by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Electrolux 64804A-4 Filtrete Filter Vacuum Cleaner Uprightby Electrolux Vacuum cleaner filters hoover - self-propelled windtunnel - final & 06 2 pack Fits model series: Hoover Self-Propelled Windtunnel uprights. - Product Type - Vacuum Filters - Part Number - Related Departments - Cleaning & DisposablesVacuums & Electric Floor CareVacuum Filters - Shipping Weight - 1.44 pounds - Domestic Shipping - Item can be shipped anywhere in the US including APO/FPO addresses and territories. - International Shipping - Item can be shipped anywhere in Canada including the territories.

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- What is the hajj? - Hajj pilgrims from India - What is the Haj subsidy? - Government subsidy for other religious pilgrimages in India - Criticisms against the Haj subsidy - What’s next? Haj subsidy: Why is it scrapped? For IASToppers Mains Articles Archive, Click Here GS (M) Paper-2: “Welfare schemes for vulnerable sections of the population by the Centre and States and the performance of these schemes; mechanisms, laws, institutions and bodies constituted for the protection and betterment of these vulnerable sections” The Union Ministry of Minority Affairs has decided to abolish the subsidy being given to Haj pilgrims every year as a part of its policy to empower minorities with dignity and without appeasement. What is the hajj? - The hajj — Arabic for “pilgrimage” — is a five-day religious pilgrimage to Mecca and nearby holy sites in Saudi Arabia that all Muslims who are physically and financially able must perform at least once in their lives. - It is one of the five pillars, or duties, of Islam, along with the profession of faith in the one God and Mohammed as his prophet, prayer, charitable giving, and fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. - The hajj takes place only once a year, in the 12th and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar; pilgrimages to Mecca made at other times in the year are encouraged but do not count as the hajj. Because the Islamic lunar calendar is about 11 days shorter than the 365 days of the standard Gregorian calendar, the timing of the hajj moves backward each year. Hajj pilgrims from India: - The number of Hajj pilgrims from India is largest among all countries around of world. What is the Haj subsidy? - The Haj subsidy refers to discounted airfares given by the government-owned airlines, Air India. - It also includes assistance to Muslim pilgrims for domestic travel to reach specially designed Haj departure airport terminals, lodging, medical care and meal. - The policy to support Muslims in making the pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, can be traced back to 1932, when the British enacted the Port Haj Committees Act. In the ensuing decades, the Act has undergone numerous changes. - Originally, the subsidy was given on air fares of flights between Bombay and Jeddah. Later, additional flight legs were added to the subsidy list. - Since 1984, all the traffic for Haj from India to Saudi Arabia has been shared between Air India and Saudi, both of which are the government funded carriers of their respective countries. Government subsidy for other religious pilgrimages in India: - The Haj is not the only religious pilgrimage being funded by the State. - A number of other religious tours are supported by the government. For instance, the state and central governments spend considerable amounts on the pilgrim facilities at the four Kumbh melas in Haridwar, Ujjain, Nashik and Allahabad. - The Kailash Manasarovar yatra from North India to the mountains of Tibet is yet another pilgrimage which is organised by the government with arrangements being made for security and health facilities. The decision to abolish Haj subsidy was taken based on the recommendations of May 2012 Supreme Court order and Afzal Amanullah Committee. Supreme Court order: - The Supreme Court in May 2012 had directed that Haj subsidy should be done away gradually by 2022. - The order of court reiterated Holy Quran verses (Verse 97 in Surah 3, Al-e-Imran mandates that Hajj should be taken up only if a Muslim can afford it) and said that amount spent should be used in education and other measures for social development of the minority community. Afzal Amanullah Committee - In accordance with the order, Union Government had constituted committee headed by former secretary Afzal Amanullah to suggest framework for new Haj policy for 2018-22. It had submitted its report in October 2017. - The committee had recommended for gradual withdrawal of Haj subsidy. It also had recommended to allow older Muslim women to travel to haj without male guardians. Criticisms against the Haj subsidy In recent years, the Haj subsidy has called for significant criticism from various parties. - The Haj subsidy has been heavily criticised particularly because of the monopoly formed by Air India in carrying out the pilgrimage. Allegedly, the government subsidies have resulted in major profits for Air India, benefiting the airlines far more than the pilgrims. - According to several critics of the subsidy, if booked months in advance, it is possible to buy cheaper air tickets, thereby doing away with the need for subsidy. - Some of the political parties have also called the subsidy as minority appeasement. - Now onwards, proceeds from Haj subsidy will be used for educational empowerment and welfare of girls from minority communities.

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On Wednesday we go to Surrey for 1 mile 0-55 handicap on poly track at Lingfield . 3.00 LINGFIELD 1 MILE (0-55) HANDICAP CLASS 6: 8 runners go to post for low grade class 6 handicap on poly track at Lingfield .The three main contenders look to be HENRY GRACE , SKIDBY MILL & WELSH INLET . HENRY GRACE :Been in good form recently ,winning 1 mile class 7 handicap at Kempton in January off mark 47 .Just touched last time in 1 mile handicap at Kempton off mark 52,Looks closely matched with Skidby Mill at the weights . SKIDBY MILL :Consistent type and Dual course & distance winner at Lingfield.Won 1 mile handicap at Kempton in February beating Henry Grace by nose .Finished placed on last two starts, both at Lingfield .Should go well with George Baker back in the plate . WELSH INLET :Won twice on turf last season at Salisbury and Brighton ,though not as good on the All Weather 2 wins from 51 .Will be suited returning to this longer trip ,though has bit to find with Skidby Mill on earlier form .Each-way claims. VERDICT : SKIDBY MILL goes well here at Lingfield and looks fairly handicapped off mark 55.George Baker is reunited with horse and looks significant jockey booking having won on the horse at Kempton back in February .Odds around 3-1 look fair value in weak looking handicap. Henry Grace looks the main danger ,though is creeping up the weights,racing off 8LB higher mark since his last win, and all his form has been at Kempton . SKIDBY MILL 3.00 LINGFIELD 0.50 PTS EACH-WAY @ 3-1 BET365*, BETVICTOR* (WINNER SP 3-1 PROFIT £180.00 / 1.80 PTS )

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Chiltern Open Air Museum The 45 acre site at Chalfont St Giles, near Amersham in Buckinghamshire, is home to over 30 historic buildings reflecting life in the Chilterns over the past centuries. Only 10 minutes from the M25 west of London. Vernacular buildings, the houses and workplaces of past generations, are disappearing every day from the landscape. In the Chilterns, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on London's doorstep, the pressures are particularly great. Chiltern Open Air Museum preserves and interprets the built heritage of the Chilterns that would otherwise be lost. What's on at the Chiltern Open Air Museum? Click HERE. The Museum was founded in 1976, with the aim of rescuing threatened buildings and re-erecting them on our forty-five acre site of natural park, meadow and woodland, thereby preserving a variety of structures of historical or vernacular interest which are typical of the region. Last Updated: 4 Aug 2015

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To celebrate World Whisky Day on Saturday 20th May. we activated the Loch Lomond Whiskies brand in and around Ben Lomond – the munro under which our distillery lies. The day began with a LLG team climbing Ben Lomond in darkness, to reach the summit in time for dawn – officially marking the beginning of WWD. The rest of the day saw consumers offered the opportunity to receive two Loch Lomond Single Malt miniatures upon completion of the walk, after having their collector card stamped at the summit and their picture taken in our #SummitSnaps frame. They will be entered in a draw for two bottles of Loch Lomond 18 Year Old Single Malt. We are pleased to announce our two lucky winners who climbed Ben Lomond on the day and were drawn from all our entrants were John Lewis from Paisley and Emma Brown from Renfrew. Congratulations to you both.

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Breast Feeding Oufits - What to wear when breast feeding We often get asked if we have anything suitable for breastfeeding. You can be at that stage of wanting to treat to yourself to some new clothes and you deserve it! But now with breastfeeding it all seems so different to pre kids. Having had 2 children myself I know how tricky it can be to find the right item that not only is functional but stylish at the same time. Here are my suggestions to help you along the way. If you ever need some advise on clothes ( not breastfeeding as I did find it hard!) then ask away. I think the key is easy access. I was always quite self conscious so I would opt for something that could be opened rather than lifted up. A shirt or shirt dress is a great option so that you can undo the buttons and go from there. This Only shirt is a classic cream colour. It doesn't have to be tucked in and can be worn with denim or black jeans. The buttons will fasten down giving you access. This starry shirt below by Sugarhill is ideal for adding some print and colour to your outfit. Its quirky and would look good for day or night time if you venture out.< As well as the shirt , you can have the option of wearing a shirt dress. These can be teamed with tights or over jeans depending on how you feel. Often going for a shirt dress is easier as you don't have to think of your bottom half. I love this Byoung Jasmin shirt dress that is such a rich colour. Ideal for wearing at any time of year with sandals or tights and boots. You can choose to wear the belt or just have the dress loose. Often a belt can sit in the wrong place and if you have larger than normal boobs, this might make you look top heavy. So I would either ditch the belt or tie it at the back . Another way of wearing of wearing a shirt is as a jacket. I often did this when I was pregnant and wanted some coverage but wasn't too hot. Invest in a good longer length vest. We have the Postcard From Brighton lace trim vests that are great but H & M sell good maternity vests too which I wore upto a year after my first baby. The shirt can be worn open so as to form a type of jacket. Then when you want to feed you can do a couple of button up at the top to feed underneath. Our Ichi longer shirt is ideal for this. Another great style for breast feeding is the wrap over dress or top. Ideal as you can wrap it according to your bust and it can be adjusted in case you have a moment where your boobs are going to burst! Personally I would stick a vest underneath a dress so that you can allow the dress to move without exposing yourself too much. This vintage flower wrap dress is ideal for day or night. Team with boots or pumps, this is one style that you will feel comfortable in whilst still stylish. There are also wrap over tops to go for. Jersey top can be worn that are nicely draped and provide enough room for you to lower one side down to feed. Also there are some lovely wrap over blouses that can are just that bit looser to allow you to feed easily in. Teamed with jeans and maybe a cardigan these can be worn everyday. The Lily blouse below has a modesty clip to hold the wrap in place, this could be unclipped to allow you to feed. If you have a night out planned whilst breastfeeding and still want to be able to either pump or feed then have a look a the wrap over jumpsuits as well as a dress. Again with the cross over front this will allow you to pull back and feed. A jumpsuit is a great choice and can be worn again after you have finished feeding. This animal print jumpsuit is fuller at the front giving you the room you need. Alongside of looking for the right top or dress/jumpsuit. One thing you can invest in is a good pair of trousers. These you can wear during and after. Often you haven't returned back to your pre baby shape and can feel conscious so choosing the right fit jeans or bottoms is essential so you are both comfortable and that they flatter. Having seen so many shapes and sizes try our Liverpool leggings, I can honestly say these are amazing at sculpting your body. With a high rise, these will tuck in your tummy and provide great shape to your bum. I hope this has provided some guide for you in what to wear. Just because you are breastfeeding, doesn't have to limit your style, its just knowing what to go for.

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One item has been added to your favourites Wonder around the Palm Jumeirah and have a great time. The tree-shaped Palm Jumeirah island is known for glitzy hotels, posh apartment towers and upmarket global restaurants. Food trucks offering snacks like shawarma dot the Palm Jumeirah Boardwalk, popular for its views of the Dubai coastline and the sail-shaped Burj Al Arab hotel. Beach clubs with spas and infinity pools turn into boisterous nightclubs with live DJs in the evening. Distance from Grand Millennium Dubai (32 km) By Car: 31 minutes By Public Transport: 54 minutes Walking: 6 hours and 50 minutes

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The holiday season is just around the corner, and one way to start or continue a family tradition is to attend the Sooke Philharmonic’s Festive Harmony concert in Sooke on Saturday Dec. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at the Sooke Baptist Church. And needn’t worry if you miss it on the Saturday, as the Philharmonic will return on Sunday, Dec. 6 at the Quarterdeck Ballroom at Royal Roads University in the Westshore at 2:30 p.m., as part of Royal Roads’ 75th anniversary celebration. Norman Nelson and the Sooke Philharmonic Chamber Players will be joined by the Sooke Philharmonic Chorus, under new Choral Director Nicholas Fairbank. The performers will be showcasing several well-known works by Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F and selections from Messiah, one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music. Returning soloist Nancy Washeim will be featured in Messiah, which was originally written as an Easter offering but is now also a musical rite of the holiday season. Also on the program will be movements from Suite No. 2 in B minor by Johann Sebastian Bach and the third movement of his Concerto for two Violins in D minor, known as the “Bach Double” – one of his most famous works and considered one of the best examples of the late Baroque period. This piece will highlight two young sisters: Robin and Marijn Butterfield. The B minor Suite, also known as the “Flute Suite” is vibrant and fast-paced, leaning towards the entertainment side of pure music. This suite gave Bach a chance to write for transverse flute, which had just started to become fashionable at that time. Listen to it played by Sooke Phil flautist Patricia Hollister The local artisan for this performance will be Bev Petow and her metal art, which was a huge success at the Sooke Garden Tour and on the Stinking Fish Art Tour. Bev is donating a piece of her art as a door prize. There is still time to become a member of the Sooke Philharmonic Society and be eligible for the members’ draw of Chef Propose dinner for two with glasses of wine at Stickleback Westcoast Eatery. Youth 16 and under are always free. Tickets are available at sookephil.ca where you can also find a list of our Sooke/Westshore/Victoria ticket outlets and information on membership. For more information, please call: 250-419-3569. Tickets are also available at the door.

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The National Emergency and Crisis and Disasters Management Authority considers mutual cooperation with the United Kingdom Sunday, June 30, 2019 H.E. Dr. Jamal Mohammed Al Hosani, Director General of the National Emergency and Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, met in his Abu Dhabi office today a delegation representing the Home Department in the United Kingdom which was headed by Mr./ Kevin Jewell who is currently visiting the UAE. The two sides discussed ways to reinforce their mutual cooperation, the exchange of expertise and partnership in the field of emergency, crisis and disaster management, alongside other matters of mutual interest. During the meeting, the British delegation was introduced to the emergency, crisis and disaster management system in the UAE which is implemented as per the approved emergency standards. The two sides discussed the possibility of establishing and running joint programs and drills to enhance the preparedness and readiness levels in order to successfully deal with emergencies and crises of various kinds. Mr./ Jewell praised the rapid and remarkable development that the UAE has achieved and its many pioneering accomplishments across all of its key sectors, including the security, safety and infrastructure sector. He also valued the Authority’s role in raising the level of preparedness and developing the necessary plans to prepare the country to various emergency, crisis and disaster scenarios. The meeting was attended by delegation members, Dan Gallinger and Martha Tartbell, and H.E. Saif Mohammed Arhama Al Shamsi, Deputy Director General of the National Emergency and Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, as well as directors of the Authority’s departments.

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MS already getting goofy with the Scorpio before it launches. I mean, if they're going to mandate 60fps for every game on the system, why advertise it on the game's box? What if developers want to do something that's a terrible 30fps?(sarcasm) Can't wait to hear and read all the hi-jinx MS is going to pull with the Scorpio. I honestly think they're going to push the DRM HARD for the system as it being a "powerful" system, they don't want to have pirated games(their reasoning I'm sure). Gonna call it now. They didn't get their way with the Xbox One DRM but will re-introduce almost all the same stuff with the Scorpio. Why will it work this time though as I have a feeling it will? Gamers are gonna love seeing all those sweet games and graphics and 4k resolution and 60fps so who cares about the DRM, they'll need the Scorpio! If there's even a *hint* of them re-introducing the Xbox One DRM for Scorpio, I'm out. I think it should repeat it every minute through the controller in a smooth reassuring voice, and give you an option to post your results on social media. This way you can validate your purchase and let everyone know what this new Xbox is. Not going to happen surely? Imagine the meltdowns and customer issues if people have literal actual objective proof frame rates dropped? I mean I get Scorpio is powerful but my PC is more powerful and with the right (well wrong I gues) game you can get stutters or frame pacing issues. I can't see MS putting visibility to that to customers. Not really. Its the reason I bought a PS4 Pro. Am sure I'm not alone on this. I don't require or even ask for 60fps as a standard on consoles, but 30fps locked? Absolutely. And am all for putting pressure on studios that can't manage to hold down even that baseline. If the game advertises 60fps the game should hold to it. Digital Foundry reports seem pretty popular, so I'd guess there's a decent audience out there for some kind of Fraps-ish overlay at least. Especially as we see more console games putting in more graphics options that can affect performance (because of more PC ports, and because of these mid-generation spec increase consoles). Might be full on satire here but the idea itself of bubbling up some of this performance information makes some sense - at least on units being pushed for those who want more power and performance.

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The food was superb tonight! Reasonable delivery time and friendly service as always! Excellent, timely and convenient. It was amazing. Used the app. It was quick and easy. Food was hot and very good. Normally very good but this time I was disappointed. Rice was under cooked and I was sent wrong order, they did send the right one very soon but I am still unsatisfied with the rice I've order from the Restaurant for a few years. Their food is Awesome! And now that I can order on line, I'll continue to be their customer!!!!! Great food and quick delivery Order arrived complete, no mistakes, all neatly packed, no leaks, and within the 30 minute window as advertised. Delicious and always fresh! Best Singapore Noodles In Kings Park! Fantastic food and fast delivery! Best Chinese food I’ve had in a while. Consistently good food and service Super quick delivery and cook time. Would have given 5 stars but was missing one thing. Fast service and good food! Took over 35 min from order til when it was ready. Did not include the spicy items I had requested -- they were the not spicy varient Any questions please call us. New Kings Food Chinese Restaurant 619 E Main Street, Kings Park, NY 11754 All Rights Reserved

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