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Sorry for the low quality, I don’t have a pen mouse nor a scanner here, so I have to take a photo of it, then shade it in with a really really wobbly mouse (it moves on its own when you leave it alone!)
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Nick of Time
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Fletcher/Brice/JozwiakMike Fletcher - Alto sax/Flute, Olie Brice – Bass, Tymoteusz Jozwiak - Drums “Nick of Time”, the first release by the Birmingham based improvising trio ‘Fletcher/Brice/Jozwiak’ was recorded in an afternoon at Highbury Studios in Birmingham, UK. From the opening of the first track, ‘Dedication (To Tony Levin)’ (inspired by memories of the late, great drummer), the improvisations evolve as a series of spontaneous conversations between the members of the trio. They tread the line between jazz and the avant-garde; music that is simultaneously lyrically inventive and emotionally enriching.Birmingham born Fletcher played lead alto with European Jazz Orchestra: Londoner Brice worked with Paul Dunmall and Ken Vandermark; Jozwiak moved from Poland to UK to study with Tony Levin. The three came together in 2013, immediately striking the rapport that elevates their music.
Keeping it in ‘the family’, the photography and design are by a good friend of the trio and great artist Mat Kaweczynski.
Recording details:Date and place of recording - Highbury Studios, Birmingham Name of sound engineer(s) for recording and mastering
Recorded by Rob PetersMixed by Alex BonneyMastered by Lewis at Stardelta
Reviews
04/12/2014 Rotcod Zzaj
Fletcher Brice Jozwiak – NICK OF TIME: On this stellar trio release, you get to hear Mike Fletcher on Alto sax/Flute, Olie Brice on Bass and Tymoteusz Jozwiak doing Drums in a session you’ll never forget; truly some of the best sax-led jazz you will ever listen to! The bass solo intro to “What Remains Is Still To Come” is pure perfection, and gently melts right into Mike’s sax as the 8:33 piece matures… by the time it reaches 3:00, these cats are already “in the zone”, & will keep you there until they’re ready to let go. It’s the 11:43 title cut, “Nick Of Time“, that gets my vote for personal favorite of the six tunes offered up for your listening pleasure, though… far more than “just another improv session”, this is jazz with a true edge – razor sharp. Loved the crystal-clear recording… all the nuances are captured, & you will revel in them for years to come. I give this trio recording a MOST HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an “EQ” (energy quotient) rating of 4.97. Get more information at the SLAM PRODUCTIONS label page for this release. Rotcod Zzaj http://rotcodzzaj.com/?page_id=5953
12/11/2014 Adam Baruch
This is the debut album by British Jazz trio consisting of saxophonist / flautist Mike Fletcher, bassist Olie Brice and Polish (residing in UK) drummer Tymoteusz Jozwiak. The album presents six original pieces, all co-composed by the three trio members.
Jozwiak arrived in UK to study with the legendary British Jazz drummer Tony Levin, now sadly departed, and stayed on. He met Fletcher and Brice in 2013 and they struck an immediate rapport as musical partners, which led to this recording.
The music is a typical Free Jazz / Improvised Music setting, which presents three individual musicians trying to find a common ground and cooperate sonically in order to create an expression, which is a sum of their individual inputs. Judging by the result they definitely both enjoyed this meeting and managed to produce some excellent music together. Although obviously improvised, the music includes enough melodic contents to keep listeners from beyond the strict avant-garde scene receptive to this music. Fletcher´s playing is remarkably mellow and non aggressive and both Brice and Jozwiak engage with the front soloist constantly and yet manage to remain at least partly in the background, which saves the music from becoming cacophonous. Obviously Fletcher draws most of the listener´s attention, but his playing without the support of his two cohorts would have been most probably much less impressive.
Brice builds up a respected position among the Improvised Music community members in the last few years, appearing on several very strong recording dates, like the trio with Polish saxophonist / clarinetist Mikolaj Trzaska called "Inem Gortn", which should be most interesting to people listening to this album. He is surely a player worth watching in the years to come, following his impressive start-up achievements. Jozwiak is relatively anonymous as of now but, judging by his performances herein, we´ll definitely hear more about him in years to come.
Overall this is an interesting and aesthetically pleasing debut presenting ambitious music, which is definitely worth hearing.
The album was released on the small independent label called Slam Records, which was founded and is operated by British baritone saxophonist George Haslam, and which in the last 25 years released some of the most fascinating avant-garde music recorded on the British Isles.Adam Baruch http://www.adambaruch.com/reviews_item.asp?item=104617
11/09/2014 George W. Harris
The trio of Mike Fletcher/as-fl, Ollie Brice/b and Tymoteusz Jozwiak/dr create six pieces that feel loose and fairly free form. Suplle pieces such as “Dedication” and “Nick of Time” float like drifting feathers while Fletcher’s warm alto opens and closes the former, bookending Brice’s languid bass. A dreary mood floats on”What Remains is Still to Come” while effects on”Interlude” and some frolicking are palpable on “Fall In”. Some subterranean agitation by Jozwiak creates some tension on “From the Off”. Spontaneous without combustion.
01/09/2014 Marcus O’Dair
This disc, recorded in a single afternoon, is the debut recording from a Birmingham-based improvising trio, who first came together last year. The improvisatory spirit of Tony Levin (the late drummer, rather than the extant bassist) looms large, and not only on the opening track that is explicitly dedicated to his memory. Jozwiak, born in Poland, actually moved to the UK to study with Levin; like Fletcher (born in Birmingham) and Londoner Brice, he has played with Levin’s Mujician bandmate Paul Dunmall. Other names on their collective CV, meanwhile, include Ken Vandermark, Ingrid Laubrock, Iain Ballamy, Tony Bianco and Tony Malaby. But to return to the content, rather than the context: Nick of Time is both engaging and enjoyable, the lack of harmony instrument creating an appealing sparsity. Variety, meanwhile, is maintained through collective sensitivity and, more specifically, Fletcher’s occasional use of flute.Marcus O’Dair Jazzwise August 2014.
05/08/2014 Bruce Lee Gallanter
MIKE FLETCHER/OLIE BRICE/TYMOTEUSZ JOZWIAK - Nick Of Time (Slam 295;UK) Featuring Mike Fletcher on alto sax & flute, Olie Brice on bass and Tymoteusz Jozwiak on drums. "Nick of Time", the first release by the Birmingham based improvising trio 'Fletcher/Brice/Jozwiak' was recorded in an afternoon at Highbury Studios in Birmingham, UK. From the opening of the first track, 'Dedication (To Tony Levin)' (inspired by memories of the late, great drummer), the improvisations evolve as a series of spontaneous conversations between the members of the trio. They tread the line between jazz and the avant-garde; music that is simultaneously lyrically inventive and emotionally enriching. Birmingham born Fletcher played lead alto with European Jazz Orchestra: Londoner Brice worked with Paul Dunmall, Ken Vandermark and the Riverloam Trio; Jozwiak moved from Poland to UK to study with Tony Levin. The three came together in 2013, immediately striking the rapport that elevates their music higher and higher. 'Now that I've had a chance to listen to this disc a few times, I have come to appreciate it more. Considering that bassist Olie Brice is the only musician here with whom I was previously familiar, this is a strong, spirited trio nonetheless. Turns out that saxist Mike Fletcher has also worked with Tony Bianco (in Utoma Quartet) and with saxist Tim Garland in Lammas. This trio has a strong, spirited way of playing together and thinking as one unified unit. At times I reminded of the way that Ornette Coleman's original quartet played in the early sixties when Don Cherry would lay out and Ornette would soar together with Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell or Billy Higgins. Mr.Fletcher switches to flute for a couple of pieces which works well with Brice's eerie bowed bass and Jozwiak's minimal percussion during a short interlude. Fletcher takes a fine long story-like flute solo on the next piece as well, the rhythm team animated in their own unique way. 'Nick of Time' is one of the best sax-led trio dates I've heard in recent memory. - Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG August 2014
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"But the Targaryens managed to raise a castle here. Simpletons claim they used ancient Valyrian sorcery, forgetting that the Targaryens brought a small army with them from Essos; there's no magic in strong backs. Though admittedly the castle is unlike any in Westeros, foreign and... strange."
At the time the series begins, it is held for King Robert Baratheon by his brother, Lord Stannis. The Chamber of the Painted Table is inside the castle. The castle was built using advanced Valyrian stonemasonry techniques, long since lost.[1] As a result it has many exotic features unique in all of Westeros, including massive dragon-shaped gargoyles. The entire castle is dominated by dragon motifs and reliefs. Unlike the richly-decorated and extravagant Red Keep in King's Landing, Dragonstone is sparsely decorated and has a rough, austere appearance; its function is as a military base, not as a palace.
The castle itself is very strong, due to its advanced Valyrian design, which combined with its isolated location make it an ideal redoubt and refuge - for both the Targaryens and Stannis Baratheon. Because of these features and its geographic position, it is extremely difficult to breach and can be held by a relatively small garrison against a vastly larger force.[2]
After King's Landing fell and Robert Baratheon took the Iron Throne, Stannis Baratheon was sent to deal with what remained of the royal family and their retainers. However, Prince Viserys and Princess Daenerys were smuggled across the Narrow Sea to the Free Cities by a loyal knight. Enraged, Robert stripped Stannis of Storm's End and gave it to their younger brother, Renly, and gave Dragonstone to Stannis, to rein in the Targaryen loyalists there. In later years, Robert tried to humor Stannis that he was actually honoring him with lordship of Dragonstone, because under the Targaryens it was the traditional seat of the heir to the throne, but Stannis scoffed at such pleasantries.
Lord Eddard Stark sends a messenger to Dragonstone to personally deliver a letter to Stannis, revealing the secret that Cersei Lannister's children are really bastards born from incest, and thus Stannis is the rightful heir of the dying King Robert.[3]
At the outbreak of the War of the Five Kings, Dragonstone becomes the seat of King Stannis Baratheon. Unfortunately for Stannis, at the outset he is only supported by the lords of the few islands in Blackwater Bay that were already sworn to him. To curry support for his weak position, Stannis converts to the religion of the Lord of Light, influenced by the Red PriestessMelisandre. At a gathering of Stannis and his supporters on the beach, Melisandre burns the wooden statues of The Seven from Dragonstone's sept as an offering to the Lord of Light.[4]
Whilst discussing their enemies in the Red Keep's new map room, Cersei Lannister ask her brother Jaime where he thinks Daenerys will head first to launch her invasion. Jaime predicts she will land at Dragonstone; it is strategically located with harbors for her ships, Stannis had left it vacant, and it was where Daenerys was born. Jaime's prediction proves correct, as Daenerys returns to Dragonstone around the same time. She spends a few minutes exploring the castle's entryways before reaching the throne room. Declining to seat herself immediately, she proceeds into the Chamber of the Painted Table and declares "Shall we begin?"[7]
Later, Daenerys chairs a meeting with her advisers Tyrion Lannister, Missandei, and Varys during a thunderstorm. She forgives Varys for plotting against her in the past and gets him to reaffirm his allegiance. Daenerys and her entourage are later greeted by Melisandre, who tells Dany about the prophecy of The Prince That Was Promised. When Melisandre mentions Jon Snow the King in the North, Tyrion convinces Dany that he will make a good ally. Dany accepts on the condition that Jon bend the knee like his Stark forebears. Tyrion sends a missive to Jon Snow.[8]
Dany later chairs another meeting in the Chamber of the Painted Table with Yara Greyjoy, Ellaria Sand, and Lady Olenna Tyrell. Following a heated discussion, Tyrion convinces Daenerys to send Ellaria and the Sand Snakes on Yara's fleet to Dorne to rally the Dornishmen for a siege of King's Landing. Tyrion's plan is to used a combination of Dornish and House Tyrell forces to lay siege to King's Landing to combat the image that Daenerys is a foreign invader. He also successfully proposes sending Grey Worm and the Unsullied to seize the Lannister seat of Casterly Rock. Olenna reluctantly agrees to commit her forces but admits privately that she is motivated by hatred and a desire for vengeance against the Lannisters. Before Grey Worm departs for Casterly Rock, he and Missandei express their love for each other and have sex.[8]
It is possible that after Daenerys and her army march north to fight the army of the dead, the castle is either once again abandoned as it was after Stannis left, or it is manned by a smaller retinue of Stark/Targaryen forces responsible for mining the remaining dragonglass for the war effort against the white walkers.
Behind the scenes
Dragonstone was introduced in Season 2 when Stannis Baratheon debuted in the story, but many specific interior and exterior sets for it were only introduced when Daenerys Targaryen arrived there in Season 7. Season 2 introduced the Chamber of the Painted Table, used as the main war council room, but the large throne room set was only introduced in Season 7; also the exterior shots were greatly expanded from prior seasons.
Starting in Season 7, the interiors and carved gates were built on sound stages, but other exterior shots are Filming locations in Spain. The place where Daenerys lands on the coast is Zumaia Beach. After ascending a vertical set of stairs up the cliff, the much lower and longer set of stairs from the gates to the castle is actually an entirely real location at San Juan de Gaztelugatxe in Spain. The map room was also slightly expanded in Season 7 (so more camera could fit around it to film the larger number of major characters in it). As for the stratified rock formation design with the volcanic island's carved chambers, designed by Deborah Riley, director Jeremy Podeswa said:
"It's a very new look for the show, I think. It has a fascist architecture feel to it, in a way, but it also integrates elements of the actual location in terms of the striated rocks you see on the beach, which is married into the interiors in a beautiful way."[9]
Riley's designs for the interior of Dragonstone also took inspiration from Louis Kahn's Salk Institute and the cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, while the tiles on the floor of the throne room were influenced by the look of the Giant's Causeway. [10]
In the books
In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Dragonstone is a volcanic island located a couple of hundred miles north-east of King's Landing. The island has a small port and a large castle on it, built by the Targaryens some 500 years ago, when they settled Dragonstone as a trading outpost of the great Valyrian Freehold. When Valyria was destroyed in the cataclysm known as the Doom a century later, Dragonstone was the largest Valyrian stronghold to survive intact. The Targaryens refused to help the colony-states along the west coast of Essos maintain Valyrian rule. They would later become the Free Cities.
The Targaryens instead waited another century, building up their strength, then invaded and subdued Westeros three hundred years ago. They built a new capital at King's Landing, while Dragonstone became the primary holding of the King's heir (who was also named "Prince of Dragonstone"). After the deposing of King Aerys II Targaryen, Robert Baratheon appointed his brother Stannis as Lord of Dragonstone until his own son, Joffrey, became old enough for the office. This has caused a rift between the brothers, as Stannis feels that he should rightfully be commanding the ancestral Baratheon castle of Storm's End instead of their youngest brother, Lord Renly. However, the lords sworn to Dragonstone had been staunch Targaryen loyalists, and Robert felt Stannis was more suited to keeping them in line.
Dragonstone is the home port of part of the Royal Fleet. In addition, Dragonstone commands the loyalty of a number of smaller houses located on surrounding islands in the Narrow Sea and on nearby parts of the coastal mainland. Dragonstone is a cold, drafty, and harsh place. Lord Stannis and his family usually prefer to spend as much time as possible at court away from the island, but have recently returned to Dragonstone to attend to business there just before the start of the series.
Dragonstone is one of the strongest castles in all of the Seven Kingdoms, due to its advanced Valyrian design, using strong stonemasonry techniques now lost to the world. Its isolated island location greatly enhances its already formidable defensive prowess: a vast fleet of ships would be required simply to transport troops and large siege weapons to its location, and even then they would be forced to make a risky amphibious landing while under fire from the castle's own catapults. The castle itself is not on the sheer scale of the greatest castles of the realm such as Storm's End or the Red Keep, but both of those castles can be assaulted by land armies. The entire point of building so strong a fortress on such an isolated island was to make the perfect refuge and redoubt for greater noble Houses from elsewhere: the indigenous "lands" of Dragonstone are just a few fishing villages and could never had supported the construction of such a powerful castle on their own.
Before Stannis sails to the Wall, he appoints Ser Rolland Storm as the castellan of Dragonstone. Stannis takes most of his troops, leaving a small garrison (it is not specified of how many soldiers) at Dragonstone.
In the fourth novel, Cersei orders Paxter Redwyne to transport 2,000 soldiers to conquer Dragonstone, which Stannis has left poorly garrisoned. He intends to take the castle bloodlessly by either starving the defenders out or creating a breach in the walls through mining and forcing the defenders to surrender. However, when the ironborn start attacking settlements on the coastline of the Reach following Euron Greyjoy's coronation as King of the Iron Island, Ser Loras Tyrell begs Cersei to let the Redwyne fleet return to the Reach, as it is the only naval force capable of fighting the Iron Fleet. Cersei, unconcerned about attacks on lands controlled by the Tyrells and dismissive of the threat posed by the ironborn, insists that she will only allow the Redwyne fleet back to the Reach when Dragonstone is back in royal hands. Loras estimates it will take at least half a year to starve Dragonstone into submission and asks Cersei for the command, promising to take the castle within two weeks. Cersei agrees delightedly: knowing how rash Loras is, she expects him to get killed. Pycelle objects for the very same reason, but his protests fall on deaf ears.
Dragonstone is taken, but at great cost, due to Loras's rashness: about one thousand soldiers are needlessly killed, most of them loyal to Tommen, and the best and bravest knights and young lords. Loras, the first to invade the castle, is fatally injured by arrows, mace, and boiling oil. By the point the books reached, he is still lying near death.
The fall of Dragonstone removes the last direct threat to King's Landing and causes severe damage to Stannis's cause, but it is doubtful whether he is aware of that, at his current position.
The TV series has somewhat altered the design of Dragonstone. In the books, the entire castle is built of fused Valyrian stone, shaped to look like an entire nest of dragons perched on the cliffs, and decorated within with draconic imagery. The Great hall is shaped like a dragon lying on its belly, the kitchens like a curled up dragon, and many of its towers like dragons gazing over the sea or screaming at invaders. The TV-Dragonstone incorporates few of these sweeping architectural features, although it does follow the books in that there are carved dragon images literally everywhere in the castle. | {
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Updated Rocketship, the anatomy of a GET/PUT demo
Yesterday I unveiled chapter 22 cover the GET/PUT commands, and I hope I did them justice. Part of the chapter, was showing off my version of the chapter’s DIY challenge, create a spaceship, and have it blast off and fly through space.
I did what I thought was a fairly fancy version of that demo, I created a backdrop of planets, and used page flipping to simulate “spite” style animation where the spaceship did not “erase” the background. This involved having a backup copy of the entire graphics page, “getting” the area behind the spaceship, “putting” the spaceship on the screen, using PCOPY to “copy” the composited screen with background and superimposed spaceship to the visible page, restoring the original background in place, and repeating as it moved.
The results were good, but I felt it was a little “flat”, as my spaceship was essentially a line-art drawing with lots of “black” or “blank” space inside it’s frame, it could get lost “behind” some of the planets, the illustration below was my original demo, and when it first left the ground, it was hidden behind the white planet.
Spaceship Demo
So I decided I wanted to One-Up that demo, and have the spaceship always be in “front” of everything, and still keep it’s lineart wireframe look, although have the inside of it remain black, which is technically color 0, or an “off bit” so it’s hard to mask “nothing” onto a screen, but here’s the final version with this being accomplished;
Spacehip demo with reverse masking
Before I get into all the “how” of accomplishing this fancy feat, let’s step through the revised program and really did into the anatomy of this entire demo.
At the start of the program in Line 10, I PLEAR 8, which reserves RAM to use all 8 “pages” of graphics memory, giving me access to both the high res screens. I set the PMODE to 4, start on page 1, set the color set to “high” using the Black and White (vs black and green) mode, clear that screen, then “DIM” or “declare” the variables I’ll used to store graphics data, SP is the Spaceship, BG is the background, and RM is used to create the Reverse Mask. The extra steps I’ll be taking to get backgrounds, and do several levels of “pasting” images to composite the final frame took a heaver toll on the CPU, so in line 12, I introduced the CoCo BASIC programmer’s best friend, POKE 65495,0, this sets ROM into a “high speed” mode and BASIC actually runs faster!
Line 20 uses the DRAW command to draw out the spaceship, it it’s original lineart/wireframe mode, and I GET the primary ship’s graphical detail no line 30.
Line 31 and 39 are where I start to use some VooDoo magic, first I “paint” in the spaceship, so it’s solid white now, except for it’s window. I then “get” that painted image using the RM variable to have a “solid” ship. I then PUT that solid image back in the same place, but using the PSET option, which does a color reversal, everything white becomes black, and black becomes white. I now have a “black” solid spaceship, on a white solid background, a negative “cutout” of the spaceship, this is captured again using the GET command, in the same screen coordinates, and stored again in the RM variable for the now proper and truly “reversed” mask of the spaceship. I now have two copies to be used to apply special compositing effects to the screen, speaking of the screen, the image below from yesterday’s demo shows how the “AND” option created a reverse or “Ghost” circle against the yellow bar that was “blanked out” in just the shape of the object, the circle closest to the bottom was created as a “reverse mask”, it was a circle in green the low or “off” color against the red, which was the highest color.
put with the AND option
How did I make the planets in the background, and I did I mention I added stars?
Lines 40-70 create the outer space backdrop for the demo. Line 40 sets the graphics mode, and clears the screen. Line 45 is a bit of a “hack” because PMODE 4, is actually the high res monochrome mode of the CoCo with no “true” colors available or supported in that mode. However, NTSC televisions allowed for “artifacts” which were “false” colors that appeared on screen. We can force those artifact colors by setting the mode to PMODE 4, first, activating the “Screen”, and then switching to PMODE 3, which is medium res 4-color mode, and start producing stars and planets in color, which is triggered on line 45
Line 46 is a new routine I created today to generate 99 random stars on the screen before drawing the planets, each will be either red, white or blue (go USA!), I then go back to the original planet drawing routine I had from the first version of this demo, although the “number of planets logic” was tweaked to have a minimum of 3 planets at all time, originally it was based on a single RND(9) decision which would yield a number between 1 and 9, and I didn’t like having only a “few” planets, now I’m guaranteed at least 3, with a maximum of 11.
The planets are circles derived from random X and Y screen coordinates, a random radius of up to 50, and a random color, of either red, white, or blue again, and these are forced artifact colors by forcing the CoCo do produce graphics in PMODE 3, which supports these colors on the visibly PMODE 4 screen, which will then show them as artifact colors.
Line 55 generates the random variables, line 60 creates the circles, line 65 paints them in, and line 70 finishes the loop, and then sets the PMODE back to 4, on the top of page 1 and sets the screen mode to “1” again ensuring the high color palette vs the mute green one.
Now that the stage has been set, and the backdrop of stars and planets is complete, it’s time to start animating our spaceship and allowing it to fly through space!
We begin the process by taking a copy of the entire graphic screen of stars and planets we just finished producing. Using the PCOPY command copies the visible screen, consisting of 4 actual “pages” of memory, to the invisible/background screen, which is exactly 4 “pages” higher in memory. The PMODE 4,1 command sets the graphics screen to the top of screen 1, page 1, and pages 2-4 fill in the rest of the screen from top to bottom. When we want to work “behind the scenes”, keep the viewers eyes on PMODE 4,1 (page one) and we’ll switch over to PMODE 4,5 (page 2) and do all our dirty work 🙂
Line 80 is a nice little comment to explain that we’re about to do just that!
The bulk of this voodoo and black magic is in the image just above, line 90 sets the visible page to PMODE 4,1 screen 1,1, and that’s what the viewer sees. We then switch to PMODE 4,5, where we’ll do our work, but we don’t switch the screen again, so nobody will see what we’re doing, we also pick a random X coordinate for the spaceship between 1 and 200 as to where it will take off from.
Line 95 starts the animation loop by starting at vertical screen position 151 which is toward the bottom. Because my spaceship’s graphical data is exactly 40 pixels wide by 40 pixels tall, adding the 40 pixels to starting position 151 makes the bottom of the spaceship end at exactly pixel 191, which is the “highest” value, but appears to be on the “bottom” of the screen.
The CoCo PMODE 4 resolution is 256 x 192, so the X, or horizontal axis is from 0-255, zero being absolute left, 255 being hard right. The Y or vertical axis if from 0 (top) to 191 (bottom) so we start at the bottom (151+40=191) and we work our way to the top (1) and we “step” this by a -4 which means we’ll jump “up” 4 pixels on the screen for each count of this loop until we reach the top.
Line 96 “gets” the background of this page which would contain any potential stars and planets that were produced and copied here. This is the “undo” option we’ll restore when we’re done.
Line 97 then puts the reverse mask of the spaceship on the same spot, using the AND option, which only applies pixels to where pixels already exist in the background, so anything that was visible gets “blacked out” using that negative cookie cutter of the space ship. Once the background area, in the perfect shape of our space ship is blacked out, we can now paste the original line art vector “hollow” version of our ship in the same space, so we’ll see all of the outline detail, and the clear black internals to it’s shape, minus the window, I never painted or masked that (on purpose) so the window remains “clear” and we can see the stars and planets “Behind” the spaceship.
At this point, the final composited foreground and background elements have been combined, and line 98 does the reverse PCOPY routine to take what we just finished, and presents that to the visible page that’s currently being viewed, and we actually see the final product of this composition. This process is known as “page flipping” and some people refer to it as “double buffering”. After the page is copied, and before we continue to loop, and move up further, the last thing we do is to “PUT back” the original background image behind the spaceship, essentially restoring it to it’s original state, and removing all traces of the spaceship in that location. As we go “more next” through the loop, the Y coordinate will jump up 4 pixels, and the process will repeat. Putting the array variable “BG” data back is how we restore the background that we “got” before we started to “put” the two spaceship layers.
Line 99 was modified to allow an “any key” to be pressed to end the demo, as it loops forever. If no key is pressed, it continues the FOR/NEXT loop bringing the spaceship all the way to the top of the screen and the loop ends.
Line 100 basically starts the loop all over again, each time the loop starts, a new random value for X is generated so the spaceship will usually appear somewhere else on the bottom of the screen and start flying up again. To add variety to this, and prevent us from having to look at the same planets all the time, I included a random decision, where if the number 3 chosen from a 1-5 random decision, the program will loop back to line 40 and re-draw a whole new screen of stars and planets and then start the animation loop all over again.
This will continue to loop until you press a key, and greeted with the closing message:
When you press “any” key, the computer issues the slow down poke again, putting the system in normal speed (high speed can affect disk utilization), clears the screen and says “Thank you for trying the rocket demo”, “Visit ogsteviestrow.com for all kinds of cool coco stuff”
And there we have it, the anatomy of a CoCo demo program, including some pretty fancy trickery! Let me know what you think, and look for a YouTube video of this updated demo coming soon. In the meantime, if you want to download it to try yourself, download the Spaceship Disk Image by clicking the link. | {
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Fortune Jade is a Freehold leasehold development built
in 2004, located at 501 Dunman Road in District 15 . It consist of 85 residential units.
Fortune Jade is walking distance from Dakota Mrt (cc8).
The nearby school(s) such as Kong Hwa School, Tanjong Katong Primary School, Chung Cheng High School (main), Tanjong Katong Girls' School, Northlight School and Tanjong Katong Secondary School are within 1km from Fortune Jade. | {
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PURPOSE: Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) in children remains to be a major side effect despite antiemetic treatment. Palonosetron is a new generation 5-HT3 receptor antagonists effective against acute and delayed nausea and vomiting. This study aimed to compare the therapeutic values of palonosetron and ondansetron in preventing pediatric CINV. METHODS: A prospective, randomized, double-blind, parallel controlled study was conducted in 0-18 years old cancer patients administered highly emetogenic chemotherapy, with different dosage of palonosetron or ondansetron, both followed by dexamethasone...
Vomiting is a common problem in children for which parents seek health care consultation. It has a varied etiology encompassing many organ systems, ranging from a benign physiological behavior to a life-threatening systemic disease. Most often, it is benign and self-limiting. Infections within and outside the gastrointestinal tract are the commonest causes. A good history and meticulous physical examination can discern the cause and help in delineating the benign cause from the sinister. Red flags include unstable vital signs, acidotic breathing, presence of bile or blood stained vomitus, features of gastrointestinal (GI) obstruction, encephalopathy and papilledema...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Despite widespread use of the rotavirus vaccine in the last decade, dehydrating illnesses impact almost 2 billion children worldwide annually. Evidence supports oral rehydration therapy as a first-line treatment of mild to moderate dehydration. Ondansetron has proven to be a safe and effective adjunct in children with vomiting. We implemented a clinical pathway in our pediatric emergency department (ED) in January 2005 to improve care for this common condition...
CONTEXT: There are no prospective pediatric trials evaluating olanzapine for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) prevention. OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the feasibility of a trial of olanzapine to evaluate the contribution of olanzapine to CINV control in pediatric oncology patients. METHODS: Patients < 18 years receiving CINV prophylaxis with ondansetron/granisetron/palonosetron ± dexamethasone ± aprepitant were eligible to participate in this prospective, single-arm, open-label study...
Dapagliflozin, an insulin-independent sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor (SGLT2-I) induces glycosuria and reduces hyperglycemia in adults with type 2 diabetes. OBJECTIVE: To present an euglycemic diabetic ketosis in an adolescent with type 1 diabetes (T1D) receiving dapagliflozin, to alert about the risk of a drug not approved in children nor in T1D. CASE REPORT: A 17 years old adolescent with T1D during 9 years, was started on dapagliflozin 10 mg / day to reduce insulin dose and weight...
Background: : The combination of dexamethasone (DEX), ondansetron (OND) and droperidol (DRO) is efficacious in preventing postoperative nausea and vomiting in adults, but has not been well assessed in children. Methods: : Children undergoing elective surgery under general anaesthesia and considered at high risk for postoperative vomiting (POV) were randomly assigned to receive a combination of DEX, OND and placebo (Group A) or a combination of DEX, OND and DRO (Group B)...
BACKGROUND: The prevalence of nausea and vomiting after receipt of intrathecal methotrexate (IT-MTX) in pediatric oncology patients is unknown. METHODS: Patients (4-18 years) about to receive IT-MTX were eligible to participate in this prospective, observational study. Patients received antiemetics as prescribed by their clinical team. Nausea severity (patient-assessed), timing of emetic episodes, and administration of antiemetics were recorded beginning immediately prior to IT-MTX administration, for the next 24 hr (acute phase), and for a maximum of 7 additional days (delayed phase)...
We tested whether prophylactic droperidol and ondansetron, in combination with a moderate dose of dexamethasone, were equally effective in reducing nausea and vomiting after tonsillectomy in children and that both were superior to saline with dexamethasone. We randomly allocated 300 children to intravenous saline, droperidol 10 μg.kg(-1) or ondansetron 150 μg.kg(-1) , after induction of anaesthesia and the administration of intravenous dexamethasone 250 μg.kg(-1) . The rates (95%CI) of nausea or vomiting within 24 postoperative hours were: 42/91 after saline, 46% (36%-57%); 43/87 after droperidol, 49% (39%-60%); reduced to 18/84 by ondansetron, 21% (13%-32%), p < 0...
BACKGROUND: Although serotonin (5-HT3) receptor antagonists are effective in reducing nausea and vomiting, they may be associated with increased cardiac risk. Our objective was to examine the comparative safety and effectiveness of 5-HT3 receptor antagonists (e.g., dolasetron, granisetron, ondansetron, palonosetron, tropisetron) alone or combined with steroids for patients undergoing chemotherapy. METHODS: We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials from inception until December 2015 for studies comparing 5-HT3 receptor antagonists with each other or placebo in chemotherapy patients...
The use of antiemetics for vomiting in acute gastroenteritis in children is still a matter of debate. We conducted a double-blind randomized trial to evaluate whether a single oral dose of ondansetron vs domperidone or placebo improves outcomes in children with gastroenteritis. After failure of initial oral rehydration administration, children aged 1-6 years admitted for gastroenteritis to the pediatric emergency departments of 15 hospitals in Italy were randomized to receive one oral dose of ondansetron (0...
AIMS: To review the efficacy and safety of aprepitant in combination with ondansetron and dexamethasone (triple therapy) in children and adolescents on moderate to highly emetogenic chemotherapy. METHODS: Medline, Embase, Scielo, Lilacs, Cochrane and congress abstracts published until September 2016 were used as data sources. Two reviewers independently selected manuscripts and extracted data. A third reviewer solved discrepancies in study selection and data extraction...
INTRODUCTION: Ondansetron is commonly used to treat vomiting in gastroenteritis, but has a United States Food and Drug Administration black box warning for risk of Q wave to T wave time interval (QT) prolongation. We report 2 pediatric cases of fatal refractory cardiac arrest after administration of ondansetron. CASES: A 10-year-old previously healthy boy presented to the emergency room with gastroenteritis symptoms. After intravenous fluids, morphine, antibiotics, and 2 doses of ondansetron, the patient became unresponsive with agonal respirations and a wide complex tachycardia consistent with ventricular tachycardia...
Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is a chronic functional gastrointestinal disorder that is characterized by episodic nausea and vomiting. Initially thought to only affect children, CVS in adults was often misdiagnosed with significant delays in therapy. Over the last decade, there has been a considerable increase in recognition of CVS in adults but there continues to be a lack of knowledge about management of this disorder. This paper seeks to provide best practices in the treatment of CVS and also highlight some novel therapies that have the potential in better treating this disorder in the future...
BACKGROUND: Ondansetron is often used in the emergency department (ED) to promote oral rehydration in children with acute gastroenteritis (AGE), yet medication solutions administered orally may be poorly tolerated in this population. OBJECTIVES: We compared the tolerability of ondansetron oral dissolve tab (ODT) to oral solution (OS) in children presenting to the ED with AGE. METHODS: Using alternate-day controlled clinical trial design, children aged 3 months to 10 years received either ondansetron ODT or OS...
PURPOSE: To update the 2009 recommendations for the prevention of acute chemotherapy-induced emesis in children. METHODS: We updated the original systematic literature search. Randomized studies were included in the evidence to support this guideline if they were primary studies fully published in full text in English or French; included only children less than 18 years old or, for mixed studies of adults and children, reported the pediatric results separately or the median or mean age was no more than 13 years; evaluated acute chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) prophylaxis; provided sufficient information to permit determination of the emetogenicity of the antineoplastic therapy administered or the study investigators stated the emetogenicity of the chemotherapy administered; included an implicit or explicit definition of complete acute CINV response; described the antiemetic regimen in full; and reported the complete acute CINV response rate as a proportion...
BACKGROUND: Therapy for moderate to severe acute food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) typically consists of intravenous fluids and corticosteroids (traditional therapy). Ondansetron has been suggested as an adjunctive treatment. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of the parenteral (intravenous or intramuscular) ondansetron vs traditional therapy to resolve the symptoms of acute FPIES. METHODS: Cases of FPIES who had a positive oral food challenge (OFC) were retrospectively examined at two major hospitals over a two-year period (Rome, Italy; and Sydney, Australia)...
BACKGROUND: Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting (PONV) is a common complication following dental treatment under general anesthesia (DGA) that may lead to unplanned hospitalization, increased costs and dissatisfaction of parents. AIM: To investigate the incidence of Postoperative Vomiting (POV) on children who underwent dental rehabilitation under general anesthesia and to compare possible preventive effect of Dexamethasone and Ondansetron on occurrences of POV. STUDY DESIGN: A double blind randomized parallel clinical trial was carried out on 352 ASA I children who underwent DGA in a private Saudi hospital in Jeddah...
BACKGROUND: Vomiting in children with acute gastroenteritis is a common symptom, and it is considered to be the main cause of failure of oral rehydration therapy. AIM: To systematically update evidence on the effects of ondansetron (5-HT3 serotonin antagonist) for vomiting in children with acute gastroenteritis. METHODS: The Cochrane Library, MEDLINE and EMBASE databases were searched up to April 2016, with no language restrictions, for randomised controlled trials (RCTs)...
BACKGROUND: Following strabismus surgery, patients frequently develop variable degrees of postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV). These symptoms cause discomfort and result in serious complications such as intramuscular bleeding and subconjunctival hemorrhage. In children long lasting PONV can lead to and electrolyte imbalance and dehydration. A prolonged course of recovery is the consequence. For the hospital, PONV can also involve negative economic impacts because of a damaged public reputation of the institution...
Acute gastroenteritis (AGE) is a common illness in childhood that usually can be treated in the outpatient setting. Inaccurate assessment or delayed treatment of AGE can lead to an increased risk for invasive interventions. A literature search was conducted using PubMed, CINAHL Plus, the Cochrane Library, and Embase. Results of the query were refined to narrow the focus of relevant studies for the provider caring for dehydrated children in the outpatient setting. Use of clinical dehydration scales to assess the level of dehydration and early initiation of oral rehydration therapy promote optimal patient outcomes... | {
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Secret Battle Of Yellowstone Photographers
Thinking of taking some pictures in Yellowstone National Park? Fine, but be respectful. And for those that want to PHOTOGRAPH Yellowstone, (yes, there is a difference), slow your roll, mind your manners and start thinking about wearing protection. Things are getting out of hand.
Wild World - Nature Photography by Deby Dixon
One who knows we are stewards of our planet, Deby Dixon with Wild World - Nature Photography is a talented photographer with a love and respect for nature, who has noted:
“Times are changing here in Yellowstone. The crowds are growing, bear fever is making people nuts, and photos are harder to come by. And, amongst the regulars who come to the park to take photos, I see an over-the-top competitive attitude, anger, angst and a general unhappiness.”
“Visitors and unethical photographers are running after animals and pushing and shoving to get a shot. I've seen people surround a grizzly sow and cubs at 15', a family with young kids run after a black bear family, people telling others to get out of their way because it is their turn to get a shot.”
(There are) “people constantly walking and standing in front of people's cameras, shouting, running and continually parking in the road and leaving car doors open while the occupants pile out and run down an animal or three.”
“The disrespect has grown by leaps and bounds. Visitors resent us with big lenses and will constantly block us. There is no way to get shots at legal distances due to the crowds surrounding the animals.”
Wild World - Nature Photography by Deby Dixon
For 5 years Deby has loved sharing information with the beauty of Yellowstone’s animals, but that has changed. She says “I can no longer, in good conscience, share up to date location information on the wildlife because they are being mobbed by large crowds already.”
It seems the digital age is causing big problems with people posting location information on social sites and texting real time information that has animals suddenly surrounded by hordes of increasingly rude and disrespectful camera slingers who only care about getting their trophy shot.
Wild World - Nature Photography by Deby Dixon
And then there is her concern for some of the more popular animals that get named, become icons, and then potentially become a trophy on someone’s wall if they wander outside of the park or fall victim to poachers.
Personal note; Getting quality photographs and video is expensive and difficult. Countless hours go into the possibility of getting one great shot or a few seconds of video. Packing heavy gear while slogging through mountains, woods, swamps, streams and fields filled with mosquitos, snow, heat and cold.
Here’s to those who do so much to bring all of us the beauty that only a lucky few get to see and capture. Here’s to your success and the success of the park rangers, staff and citizens concerning themselves with protecting OUR national parks and animals. | {
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Grand Tour London Light
By SnakeBite Software
Description
Designed and written by iPhone users for iPhone users, Grand Tour London Light combines rich, opinionated cultural and historic coverage of London’s top sights with valuable trip planning tools.
Visually stunning, fun and easy to use, this guide contains several travel tools in one. Enjoy a tasting of this great world capital, as well as maps, a currency converter, travel tips and planning checklists
Designed for independent travelers, Grand Tour Light Guides provide tips for all aspects of your trip from planning and packing through uploading your memories to Facebook using Facebook Connect. It’s more than travel, it’s a Grand Tour.
GRAND TOUR LIGHT GUIDE FEATURES:
TOP SIGHTS FOR LONDON
*Detailed listings of original content for London’s top attractions *Sights featured in this light guide are: the British Museum, Buckingham Palace, Globe Theatre, London Eye, Madame Tussauds, Natural History Museum, Palace of Westminster, Piccadilly Circus, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Tower of London, Trafalgar Square, Victoria and Albert Museum and Westminster Abbey*For even greater depth, sub regions are featured for the British Museum, Natural History Museum, Tower of London, the V & A and Westminster Abbey*Browse or search listings, all offline*Content screens include a historical time line accessible from every listing*Context listings cover the people and events you probably should remember, but don’t*Make annotations on places; capture photos for locations and associate them with that location *Upload those pictures to Facebook using Facebook Connect or email the content to a friend*Logistical information, includes hours, price and an off line map
TRAVEL FILE
*Capture logistical information about your trip for reference or email*Store and email flight information, lodging, local contacts, dining, shopping, etc.*Includes three interactive checklists to help you plan your trip
PHOTOS
*iPhone only, take photos in app and sync them to your computer at home | {
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Ultra-green mulch
I took my first long walk today since I got back from Miami. Wait, I think this is only my second long walk here, period. Anyhow, it's hard to find things to shoot b/c it's either depressing or I'm afraid someone will come out and yell at me, but I liked this best on my way home, as I was trying to figure out how to get back through a residential area where everything looks the same: houses, fences, roads, everything.
I tried to go down a trail today but wasn't able to get past a sea of ferns and a trailing off of the path, so instead I walked along the back of everyone's fencing and later wandered around the homes that all look the same with Halloween decorations that all look the same. Before that, I saw this sign. There were a bunch of them along the path.
Funny, since when I saw these things from a distance, I thought maybe it was a park, with outdoor sculpture! But it's probably some kind of military fencing that I don't know about. I was confused by the signs b/c I couldn't tell if the space behind the jacks was off limits or the path itself. So I walked down the path anyhow.
To find more railroad tracks! They have these all over, I think, to transport things to other far-off military places. The sad thing about wandering around is that there are so many wooded and grassy areas, but no matter how far you get from buildings, you always hear rumbling of something. At one point, coming out of the "off limits" area, I was startled by a generator that started up as soon as I came out of the woods. But the noise is usually construction, which seems never ending - I went the back way b/c the road in front is being torn up and re-done. Like Korea, only more ominous. | {
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The 1957 San Francisco 49ers roster had 2 quarterbacks: Y.A. Tittle and John Brodie. Tittle led the team in passing yards with 2,157. There were 5 running backs on the roster: Hugh McElhenny, Joe Perry, Larry Barnes, J.D. Smith and Bill Stits, and McElhenny had the most rushing yards among them with 478. The receiving group consisted of 2 wide receivers with R.C. Owens leading all of them with 395 receiving yards. View all of the 1957 49ers rushing, receiving, passing, kicking and defensive stat leaders. | {
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One for the Car Buffs: at the Bruton Packhorse Fair
Another photograph from the Packhorse Fair in Bruton the other week (May 2016). Or rather, seen near the Packhorse Fair – not necessarily anything to do with it.
Like most blokes, I can’t resist an old car. This is an old Rover 95, from the early 1960s, at a guess. It looked like it was at the beginning of its journey of restoration, rather than at the end of it. Someone has a lot of work on their hands. Good to see it running, though.
I’ve masked the number plate – never quite sure what to do about that. Apparently it IS legal to photograph and reproduce number plates, since they are on public display and anything public can be re-shown to the public, but still, I wouldn’t want to offend anyone, so there it is filtered out. | {
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1. If you had one piece of advice to give to a young female athlete, what would it be?
Appreciate the journey – The process of getting better every day. If you can find joy in the pursuit of excellence, you will be unstoppable. The journey will have both ups and downs but each are equally important in establishing character and resiliency. Regardless of who or what you become, you will be built for success.
2. How important is the mental/psychological game in sports?
It is extremely important. Believing you can do something is half the battle. Confidence within yourself and your team can take you to the next level. Also, in sports, like all of life, you have to focus on what you can control and that is your own focus, attitude and effort. True competition is against oneself and the goal is not to best the other person but to best ourselves. Striving to be your best self is the ultimate purpose and identifying how you get there is absolutely key.
3. Tell us about your life now and how being involved in sports has shaped who you are today.
I love my life with every ounce of my being. I believe I have the best job in the world where I get to do what I love every day with a platform to impact. I get to work as a part of a team to achieve goals that are worthwhile and fulfilling. All the while, I get to connect with fans who are extremely passionate and look up me. I will never get tired of being asked to take a picture or for an autograph. I am incredibly lucky.
Sport has shaped my life in ways I cannot fully express. It has taught me essential characteristics like leadership, management, sportsmanship, goal setting, determination, grit, and so many more. I have learned how to lose, fall down, and not let it destroy me. I know that I can survive whatever life may throw at me and that gives me an immense amount of confidence to achieve my dreams.
Photo Credit: Ashley J. Palmer
4. Do you think there are positive role models for young athletes? If yes, who and why? If no, why not?
Yes, there are many positive role models for young athletes. This day and age, you can turn on the TV, pick up a newspaper, search the internet and find all sorts of athletes doing incredible things and pushing boundaries. It is also important to realize that even super star athletes are human – they too will lose, fail, make mistakes and this is a very important lesson to learn. No one is perfect. No one. No matter how many championships one has won, we are all just striving for love and acceptance. | {
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The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a confirmation hearing for President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). Here is the full opening statement he gave Jan. 10. (Reuters)
In November, President-elect Donald Trump nominated Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) to be the next attorney general. Sessions’s nomination hearing is underway. Here are some questions he ought to be asked:
• In 1997, you said that the very phrase prosecutorial misconduct “offends” you, and you accused defense attorneys of abusing prosecutors. Since then, we’ve seen a wide range of reports and judicial opinions demonstrating that prosecutor misconduct is indeed a real problem in the United States. A 2014 investigation by the Justice Department itself found 650 incidents where federal prosecutors and other Justice Department employees “violated rules, laws, or ethical standards governing their work” over a 10-year period ending in 2013, more than 400 of which the department categorized as serious or intentional. Federal judge Alex Kozinksi, a Reagan appointee, has called prosecutor misconduct an epidemic. Do you still feel that this is an issue concocted by defense attorneys?
• Allegations of misconduct by federal prosecutors are handled by the Office of Professional Responsibility. That office is notoriously opaque. While it was that office that conducted the 2014 study noted above, DOJ refused to release the names of the prosecutors found to have committed misconduct. In fact, the disciplinary records of federal prosecutors are not only kept from the public but also from the Justice Department’s inspector general. Federal prosecutors wield enormous power. Their actions can ruin lives. Do you think the public — or at least the Justice Department inspector general — deserves to know when prosecutors have abused their power?
• In the Los Angeles Times, Mark Oppenheimer recently wrote about you, “I couldn’t find a single example of Sessions stating in public that a prosecutor was too zealous, or that a defendant needed more vigorous representation.” So here’s your opportunity: Can you name three examples in which you think a prosecutor abused his or her authority or engaged in misconduct?
• In the past, you have criticized nominees for government positions for, as you put it, “defending terrorists.” Do you believe that everyone facing criminal charges by U.S. prosecutors has the right to a vigorous defense — paid for by the government, if necessary? If not, who doesn’t?
• There has also recently been a spate of studies showing that the indigent defense system in the United States is woefully inadequate, including at the federal level. You once won a death penalty sentence against a man whose attorney was getting paid less than $5 per hour. The attorney hadn’t even read the state’s death penalty statute before his client’s sentencing hearing. In another of your death penalty wins, the defendant’s attorney had been practicing law for less than a year. Are you still comfortable with those convictions? Do you think most people who face criminal charges in America are provided with an adequate defense?
• In Alabama, you once supported a bill calling for the execution of people who had been convicted of drug trafficking. Do you still support that policy? You also supported measures to limit appeals and speed up executions. So far, 20 people have been exonerated by DNA testing after being sentenced to death. Does that figure bother you at all?
• As attorney general in Alabama, you fought to preserve more than 40 death sentences. John J. Donohue III and Max Schoening recently wrote in the New York Times that many of those defendants were shown to be either “mentally retarded” or certifiably mentally ill. Perhaps you believe those defendants were misclassified, but as a general matter, do you believe the state should execute such people?
• Alabama is one of just a few states to allow judges to impose the death penalty even over the objections of the jury, a practice frowned upon by the Supreme Court. Judges did exactly that in 11 of the cases you defended as state attorney general. Do you still support that policy? If so, why let juries weigh in at all? Do you think a judge should be permitted to overrule if a jury opts for death?
• Donald Trump has made some noise about “opening up” the libel laws so that he can more easily sue media publications that criticize him. Do you think the libel laws should be changed as they apply to public figures?
• Some fear that Trump will attempt to use the power of his office to censor people who criticize or ridicule him. Do you believe Americans have an absolute right to criticize or ridicule public officials, including the president? Is there any scenario under which you’d consider it justifiable to arrest or prosecute someone for criticizing or mocking the president?
• What about arresting journalists more generally? Are there any circumstances under which you think the government would be justified in arresting a reporter or editor for something they published? If your answer is yes, please cite some real-world examples in which you believe a reporter or publisher could have been arrested and criminally charged.
• You said this in 2007: “The civil libertarians among us would rather defend the constitution than protect our nation’s security.” Do you believe these two things are incompatible? If sworn in as attorney general, you’ll take an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution. Let’s say that once in office, you’re faced with a situation in which you believe it is necessary to violate the Constitution in order to protect national security. Let’s say that the actions you think you need to take aren’t constitutionally ambiguous — you yourself believe they’re unconstitutional. What would you do?
• Since elected to the Senate, you’ve been a stalwart opponent of most (but not all) criminal-justice reform bills that have come through Congress, including those sponsored by several members of your own party. Do you think the criminal-justice system as it operates to today is acceptable? Are there any problems with it that you think need to be fixed?
• You recently said that President Obama’s use of the president’s power to commute sentences has been an abuse of “executive power in an unprecedented, reckless manner.” Under what circumstances do you think a president should use his pardon and commutations powers?
• When you were a U.S. attorney, 40 percent of your prosecutions were drug-related, twice the rate of other federal prosecutors in Alabama. The Obama administration has de-prioritized drug enforcement, particularly for low-level offenses. If you’re confirmed to be attorney general, will you again make drug enforcement a priority at the Justice Department?
• You’re a strong advocate for civil asset forfeiture, the policy that allows police agencies to confiscate and keep any property they suspect is tied to criminal activity, even if the owner of the property is never criminally charged. It’s a policy many in your own party oppose, as well as the Heritage Foundation, Grover Norquist, and according to one poll, 84 percent of the public. You’re also a strong supporter of property rights. Can you reconcile your support for property rights with your support for allowing law enforcement to take property without ever having to prove in court that the owner did anything wrong?
• You’re also a strong advocate of “states’ rights,” or federalism. Many states whose legislatures don’t share your view of civil asset forfeiture have passed laws to restrict or even end the practice. The federal government responded with its “equitable sharing” program, which allows police agencies in such states to call up a federal law enforcement agency such as the Drug Enforcement Administration when they want to confiscate some property. The investigation is then considered “federal,” which means it’s controlled by federal forfeiture laws, not the more restrictive state laws. This would seem to be a direct infringement on the intent of those states’ legislatures, wouldn’t you agree? The Obama administration has tried to limit the practice, though it hasn’t ended it. Would you repeal the Obama reforms to equitable sharing, strengthen them or end them?
• Speaking of federalism, you also have some strong feelings about marijuana legalization. You recently said that “good people don’t smoke marijuana” and that the drug is “already causing a disturbance in the states that have made it legal.” You’ve been critical of Obama and his Justice Department for not cracking down on the states that have legalized the drug. Can you point to any data from Colorado or Washington that demonstrates a “disturbance?”
• Also on the topic of federalism, the George W. Bush administration was criticized for aggressively seeking the death penalty in federal cases in states that have banned capital punishment, and where public support for it is low. That seems to at least be a violation of the spirit of federalism. Would local feelings about capital punishment be a factor when your Justice Department considers whether to seek the death penalty in a federal case?
• You’ve been highly critical of the Obama administration for refusing to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court. Do you think the Justice Department is obligated to always defend federal laws in court, even if the president or attorney general believes the law is unconstitutional? Can you think of any current or preexisting federal laws that you’d be reluctant to defend? If presented with such a challenge, what would you do as attorney general?
• Currently, eight states have legalized marijuana for recreational use. As attorney general, there are a number of ways you could try to assert federal law in those states, from targeting banks and financial institutions that work with marijuana-related businesses to a full-on crackdown by federal law enforcement, or even the National Guard. Do you plan to fight legalization in those states? If so, how do you plan to do it?
• During the campaign, Donald Trump signed a pledge put out by an advocacy group that suggested he may try to crack down on pornography. Leaving aside the issue of child pornography, which is obviously a crime worth pursuing, do you think using obscenity laws to prosecute pornography involving consenting adults is a good use of government resources?
• You said in 2009 that you oppose federal hate-crimes laws because they “focus on the perception of what someone might have been thinking when they committed the crime,” they “violate the basic principle of equal justice under the law” by affording special protections to favored groups, and they’re an unconstitutional application of federal power. Yet in 2015, you sponsored the Thin Blue Line Act, which would make anyone who kills a law enforcement officer eligible for the death penalty. That’s already the case for federal law enforcement. Your bill extended the federal law to state and local police officers. Other than adding protections to a different group of people, how was your bill substantively different from the hate-crimes laws you oppose?
• You’ve been a vocal supporter of even the more controversial portions of the Patriot Act. We’ve learned in recent years that though the law was sold to the public as a necessary weapon to fight terrorism, many of the more objectionable powers it grants to government have primarily been used in routine criminal investigations that have nothing to do with national security, such as drug crimes. Are you at all concerned that surveillance powers ostensibly reserved for terrorism cases are now routinely used for conventional law enforcement?
• In 2016, you said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show, “We are on a radical path. In a few years, we will have the highest percentage of non-native-born Americans ever. And it will increase every year thereafter.” Is there anything inherently wrong with an increasing number of non-native-born Americans living in the United States.? If so, what troubles you about it?
• You’ve been broadly critical of federal civil rights investigations into voter fraud, police brutality and other allegations of abuse by state officials, characterizing them as an unconstitutional expansion of federal power. But in 1999, you asked the Clinton administration to investigate a First Amendment advocacy group for actions that you claimed violated the rights of churches and religious organizations. Could you explain the apparent discrepancy?
• Do you believe that the 14th Amendment allows the federal government to intervene when a state or local government is violating the rights of its citizens? Do you believe the amendment compels federal intervention? Can you name any real-world examples in which you thought such federal intervention was necessary?
• In 1998, you told the Associated Press that the late segregationist George Wallace was “a person who challenged the liberal elite in America.” The context of your statement implies you think he “challenged the liberal elite” in a good way. Is that an accurate characterization of what you said? If so, what specific things did Wallace do that you think were productive challenges to the liberal elite?
• The United States has recently begun enforcing its laws overseas, even against non-citizens who reside in countries where the acts for which they’re being prosecuted are legal. See, for example, George W. Bush-era prosecution of online poker executives, or the prosecution of overseas executives for violating U.S. corporate laws. Critics worry that this could subject U.S. citizens to prosecution for things that aren’t illegal in America. Do you share those concerns?
• Recently, several right-of-center groups have lamented the erosion of mens rea, or the requirement that in order to convict someone for breaking the law, the government should have to prove criminal intent — in some cases, it isn’t even clear that the defendant knew about the law. Do you support the efforts to reform these laws?
• Most of the concern from conservatives in this area centers around regulation and white-collar crime. But policies such as the felony murder doctrine, or prosecuting drug offenders for distribution based solely on the quantity of drugs in their possession, also don’t require the state to prove criminal intent. Would you also support reforming those laws?
• When the Justice Department finds that a police agency has engaged in systematic violations of constitutional rights, it either takes that agency to court, or negotiates a “consent decree” with the agency. Consent decrees are agreements between the Justice Department and these agencies (or the state or municipality that oversees them) to implement reforms to address the aforementioned abuses. Studies have shown that they’re marginally effective, in part because the Justice Department lacks the ability to adequately enforce them. Yet you have called consent decrees “one of the most dangerous, and rarely discussed, exercises of raw power.” In the forward for a think-tank report, you called consent decrees “an end run around the democratic process.” Do you still believe this? Are these negotiated agreements really more dangerous than the police abuses they’re trying to address?
• As a longtime supporter of law enforcement, you’ve criticized not only consent decrees but also Justice Department investigations into police abuses in places such as Baltimore, Cleveland and Ferguson, Mo. Those reports documented a wide range of abusive practices in those cities and shed light on wholesale constitutional and civil rights violations that have been going on for years. Is your contention that the reports are inaccurate? Or is your contention that we’re better off not knowing about these practices?
• The Obama administration’s Civil Rights Division was responsible for most of those investigations. Do you plan to tell that office to stop conducting investigations into abusive practices by police agencies? What will you tell it to prioritize?
• Over the past several years, several scientific bodies have released reports that have been highly critical of the way forensic science is used in U.S. courts, including the National Academy of Sciences and the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Attorney General Loretta Lynch has largely dismissed these reports, insisting that the Justice Department has internal policies to ensure that federal law enforcement officials use only forensics that are backed by sound science. But the FBI has a long and troubled history of utilizing bad forensics, including its recent admission that its hair fiber analysts had given inaccurate testimony in thousands of cases, and trained state and local analysts in methods that tainted thousands more. Are you confident in the way forensic science is used in American courtrooms? Is this an issue you plan to look into at the Justice Department? | {
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CSX: Md. Train Explosion Caused by Chemical Cargo
ROSEDALE, Md. (AP) — Train operator CSX Transportation on Wednesday pointed to a hazardous chemical in a rail car as the source of an explosion on a derailed train near Baltimore that sparked a fire, rattled homes and damaged buildings. A company spokesman said officials still weren't sure what caused the sodium chlorate to explode in the first place, but it ignited another chemical in a second car.
A fire burns at the site of a CSX freight train derailment, Tuesday, May 28, 2013, in Rosedale, Md., where fire officials say the train crashed into a trash truck, causing an explosion that rattled homes at least a half-mile away and collapsed nearby buildings, setting them on fire. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Robert Sumwalt, a member of the National Transportation Safety Board, said investigators were examining evidence on the scene and reviewing train video that shows the collision with a garbage truck that led to the derailment. The fire that followed sent a plume of black and gray smoke into the air that could be seen for miles.
On Wednesday afternoon, workers were using heavy cranes to move the damaged rail cars, and an excavator was picking up broken pieces of track. The mangled truck lay on its side on the side of the railroad tracks, its contents littering the ground. Next to the track, the corrugated metal walls of a warehouse were bent and warped.
Sumwalt said at a news conference Wednesday that the freight train was traveling 49 mph and that the engineer blew a whistle three times before it collided with the truck around 2 p.m. Tuesday. The whistle on the locomotive was first blown 17 seconds before the collision, Sumwalt said, and it was sounding at the moment of impact.
Surveillance video and a camera mounted on the locomotive show that the garbage truck drove onto the tracks 3 seconds before it was struck. The truck was moving when the train collided with its right rear axle, officials said.
The train driver applied the emergency brakes, and the locomotive came to rest nearly a mile from the collision site, Sumwalt said. Smoke was visible 33 seconds after the collision, and flames were seen 10 seconds after that. But it was more than 5 minutes after the collision that the explosion occurred.
There is dense foliage on either side of the crossing, which is marked with signs but no flashing lights or moving barriers. Sumwalt said investigators would be looking into whether there were any obstructions that limited visibility for drivers using the crossing.
Of the 45 cars on the train, 14 were loaded and 31 were empty. Four were carrying hazardous materials, and of those, three derailed, Sumwalt said.
The chemical that first exploded, sodium chlorate, is highly volatile. The sodium chlorate was in powder form and was being hauled in a covered hopper car. Another chemical burned for nearly 10 hours after the crash.
CSX spokesman Gary Sease said the sodium chlorate was in a derailed car near the front of the train; the blast ignited terephthalic acid in another derailed car.
Sodium chlorate is used mainly as a bleaching agent in paper production. Oklahoma State University chemist Nick Materer said it could make for a potentially explosive mixture when combined with an incompatible substance such as spilled fuel.
Another chemist, Darlene Lyudmirskiy, of Spectrum Chemical Manufacturing Corp. in Gardena, Calif., said such a mixture would be unstable and wouldn't need even a spark to cause a reaction.
"If it's not compatible, anything could set it off," she said.
Sease said Wednesday that one of the cars that derailed was empty but might have contained residue of fluorosilicic acid. Fluorosilicic acid, a liquid, is a hazardous material that can produce toxic gases and vapors, according to a National Institutes of Health website. It is put in drinking water to prevent tooth decay and is used to preserve wood, harden ceramic and masonry, and treat animal hides, according to the NIH.
The railroad said in a news release Wednesday that it continues to work with state and federal environmental officials to "clean up products released in the derailment." The company said it is conducting air, water and soil sampling and sharing that information with officials.
Among the buildings that sustained the most damage was a training facility for a plumbers and steamfitters union a few hundred yards away from the explosion site. Only a handful of employees were in the building at the time of the blast, and all but one rushed outside to see what had happened. They heard the crash first, followed by the derailment, then saw a plume of smoke.
Al Clinedinst, the training director for the facility, said he and a colleague drove closer to the derailment scene before the explosion to see if they could help, but they were turned back by the overwhelming heat.
"It was paint-bubbling hot," he said.
Then the explosion shook their truck.
"The blast, the force, it took the wheel out of my hands," Clinedinst said. "It really took a shot."
Sumwalt said late Tuesday that the collision occurred at a private crossing where the only marking was a stop sign, but he backtracked at a news conference Wednesday, saying the crossing was registered with the government and that the agency had to determine whether or not it was private.
The truck driver was hauling a load from his company's office near the tracks to a location in Baltimore about 6 miles away, the NTSB said. The driver has used that crossing frequently, Sumwalt said.
Online court records show that someone named John J. Alban Jr., pleaded guilty in 2011 to using a handheld telephone while driving. The records also indicate that he pleaded guilty to failure to secure roll-on/off/hook-lift containers on May 9.
According to the records, Alban was again cited for the failure-to-secure containers charge on Saturday, three days before the train crash. The court records to not list a lawyer for Alban.
Baltimore County police did not immediately return a call seeking further information on the court records. NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss said late Wednesday that the agency is currently focusing on documenting the scene as rail cars and other evidence are moved and had not yet checked into driving records.
In addition to the NTSB, the Federal Railroad Administration is investigating the crash of the 45-car train, which was en route from Selkirk, N.Y., to Waycross, Ga.
Baltimore County spokeswoman Elise Armacost said it wasn't clear whether the truck driver would face charges.
The county's Public Safety Department said that county, city and CSX hazmat experts did not believe the burning chemicals would produce toxic inhalants. But a National Institutes of Health website says oxidizers such as sodium chlorate may produce irritating, corrosive and/or toxic gases when burned.
Toxic inhalation hazards are a worry when trains carrying hazardous materials derail. They include chemicals such as chlorine, which killed nine people after a derailment of a Norfolk Southern train caused a release of the toxic gas in South Carolina in 2005.
In 2008, about 6 ½ years after a CSX derailment and fire in Baltimore's Howard Street Tunnel, the railroad agreed to provide real-time information to Maryland State Police on shipments of certain chemicals called "toxic inhalation hazards." The federal Transportation Department maintains a list of about 150 of these chemicals, all gases or volatile liquids that meet certain toxicity thresholds if inhaled. Sodium chlorate is not on the list. It is usually shipped in powdered form, Materer said.
The fire was called under control late Tuesday just before midnight, and the fire department remained on scene only in a supporting role.
CSX said in the Wednesday news release that it was preparing to begin work on the tracks once the NTSB completes its work. The railroad said customers should expect a 24- to 36-hour delay in rail traffic passing through the area, with some freight trains being rerouted. CSX has also set up a community outreach center at a Rosedale hotel to work with affected residents. | {
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HELPING YOU CUT THROUGH THE BULLSHIT.
Fuck off, Santa (A Chicana Christmas Carol)
I’ve always hated Santa Claus. Santa who doesn’t look anything like my family. We couldn’t pass him off as our creepy uncle, even if we wanted to. Even if his first name is Santa, he’s no saint to me. When I was an infant in 1983, my mother took me to the Fashion Fair Mall to take my picture with Santa. In the picture, I’m wearing a sweat suit the color of sugarplums gone stale, and my dark hair is set against the white snow of a faux beard forest. My mother is laughing nervously on the other end with her feathered hair and brown anime eyes. In the picture, I’m screaming into the celluloid abyss.
Every Christmas, my brother and I always had a mass of presents under the tree with our name on the hand cut tag. The tag always said that the presents came from Santa. My dad grew up in the barrio and would shake his head at the way my mother’s family gifted us at Christmas. He thought we were brown kids rotting fast on the inside. During Christmastime, the adults in my mother’s family ate menudo and tamales for breakfast, while all the children ate reindeer-faced pancakes with bacon ears and whipped cream eyes and Maraschino cherry noses. At nightfall, we were hushed to bed with the looming threat of Santa. Santa won’t bring your presents until you are in a deep deep sleep. Lying still in the pitch dark of my room at my grandparent’s house, I could hear my mother and Tía Martha laughing in the kitchen and the blades in the electric mixer wheeling like women and the crush of glass ornaments in suicide falls. I could hear my grandmother yelling at my grandfather in Spanish I couldn’t understand, while his cowboy boots click clacked furiously on the midnight linoleum because Santa was coming.
In the morning, the milk was always half way gone and the cookies were always all the way gone. Crushed bits of candy cane dough and gingerbread man speckled my grandmother’s china. I’d pick at the leftover bits and wonder where the other parts of the men were. Their arms, their legs, and their heads screaming in the dark parts of some Santa I had never seen in the flesh before.
When I became a mother, I started to say fuck off to Santa. For years, Christmas was a financial set back for me because I wanted to make sure my son had a lot of presents to open for Christmas. And because it was hard, I taught my son to reject Santa. I wanted him to know that each and every one of his presents came from his family. I have always found power in rituals, but just because something is powerful doesn’t mean it is always empowering. The cult of Santa is a powerful ritual but it’s a waste of time and energy for me. I reject Santa because I find him oppressive. Santa is an incubus. Santa who came into my space without asking, trying to act like our Santo. I wish my mother and grandmother and tía told me that they were the ones who bought me those dolls and books and polka dot dresses for me. I wish I knew that it was my grandfather who was the annihilator of cookie cut men. I hate Santa because he reminds me of my assimilation and how I’ll fall short every day trying to resist it. I’m a red glass ornament sparkled with gold glitter, falling and breaking, over and over again. I keep hanging myself up on that tree again because I find it beautiful. Staying up late and keeping close watch this time.
Those are my milk and cookies, motherfucker.
Monique Quintana is the Editor-in-Chief of the literary blogazine, Razorhouse and the Beauty Editor at Luna Luna Magazine. She holds an MFA from CSU Fresno and her work has been published or is forthcoming in Huizache, Bordersenses, and The Acentos Review, among others. She is a Pocha/Chicana identified mother, daughter, sister, lover, and english teacher from California’s Central Valley. Her story ‘Sad Girl’ will be appearing in the upcoming CLASH Books anthology, Tragedy Queens: Stories Inspired by Lana Del Rey & Sylvia Plath. | {
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{{tnr}}'''Sean Maloney''' (b. July 30, 1966, in Quebec, Canada) is a [[Democratic]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] representing [[New York's 18th congressional district]]. Maloney was first elected to the House in 2012 and is currently serving his first consecutive term, having won election on [[New York's 18th congressional district elections, 2012|November 6, 2012]].
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{{tnr}}'''Sean Maloney''' (b. July 30, 1966, in Quebec, Canada) is a [[Democratic]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] representing [[New York's 18th congressional district]]. Maloney was first elected to the House in 2012 and is currently serving his first term.
Maloney {{2014isrunning}} for re-election in [[New York's 18th congressional district]] in the general election on [[New York's 18th congressional district elections, 2014|November 4, 2014]] where he will be up against candidate [[Nan Hayworth]]. He is a member of the [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee#Frontline Program|Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Frontline Program]]. The program is designed to help protect vulnerable Democratic incumbents heading into the 2014 election.<ref name=frontline>[http://dccc.org/newsroom/entry/dccc_chairman_steve_israel_announces_2013-2014_frontline_members/ ''Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,'' "DCCC Chairman Steve Israel Announces 2013-2014 Frontline Members," March 5, 2013]</ref>
Maloney {{2014isrunning}} for re-election in [[New York's 18th congressional district]] in the general election on [[New York's 18th congressional district elections, 2014|November 4, 2014]] where he will be up against candidate [[Nan Hayworth]]. He is a member of the [[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee#Frontline Program|Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's Frontline Program]]. The program is designed to help protect vulnerable Democratic incumbents heading into the 2014 election.<ref name=frontline>[http://dccc.org/newsroom/entry/dccc_chairman_steve_israel_announces_2013-2014_frontline_members/ ''Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,'' "DCCC Chairman Steve Israel Announces 2013-2014 Frontline Members," March 5, 2013]</ref>
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Prior to his congressional career Maloney served as senior advisor to former president [[Bill Clinton]].
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Prior to his congressional career, Maloney served as senior advisor to former president [[Bill Clinton]].
Issues
Legislative actions
113th Congress
The second session of the 113th Congress enacted into law 114 out of the 3,036 introduced bills (3.8 percent). Comparatively, the 112th Congress had 4.2 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session.[5] For more information pertaining to Maloney's voting record in the 113th Congress, please see the below sections.[6]
National security
National Defense Authorization Act
Maloney voted in support of HR 1960 - the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014. The bill passed the House on June 14, 2013, with a vote of 315 - 108. Both parties were somewhat divided on the vote.[7]
Department of Homeland Security Appropriations
Maloney voted in support of HR 2217 - the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2014. The bill passed the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 245 - 182 and was largely along party lines.[7]
Keystone Pipeline Amendment
Maloney voted in favor of House Amendment 69, which would have amended HR 3 to "require that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, in consultation with the Department of Homeland Security, conduct a study of the vulnerabilities of the Keystone XL pipeline to a terrorist attack and certify that necessary protections have been put in place." The amendment failed on May 22, 2013, with a vote of 176 - 239 and was largely along party lines.[7]
Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act
Maloney voted in support of HR 624 - the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. The bill passed the House on April 18, 2013, with a vote of 288 - 127. The bill would allow federal intelligence agencies to share cybersecurity intelligence and information with private entities and utilities.[8] The bill was largely supported by Republicans but divided the Democratic Party.[7]
Government shutdown
On September 30, 2013, the House passed a final stopgap spending bill before the shutdown went into effect. The bill included a one-year delay of the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate and would have also stripped the bill of federal subsidies for congressional members and staff. It passed through the House with a vote of 228-201.[10] At 1 a.m. on October 1, 2013, one hour after the shutdown officially began, the House voted to move forward with going to a conference. In short order, Sen. Harry Reid rejected the call to conference.[11] Maloney voted for the stopgap spending bill that would have delayed the individual mandate.[12]
The shutdown finally ended on October 16, 2013, when the House took a vote on HR 2775 after it was approved by the Senate. The bill to reopen the government lifted the $16.7 trillion debt limit and funds the government through January 15, 2014. Federal employees also received retroactive pay for the shutdown period. The only concession made by Senate Democrats was to require income verification for Obamacare subsidies.[13] The House passed the legislation shortly after the Senate, by a vote of 285-144, with all 144 votes against the legislation coming from Republican members. Maloney voted for HR 2775.[14]
Immigration
Morton Memos Enforcement Prohibition
Maloney voted against House Amendment 136 - Prohibits the Enforcement of the Immigration Executive Order. The amendment was adopted by the House on June 6, 2013, with a vote of 224 - 201. The purpose of the amendment as stated on the official text is to "prohibit the use of funds to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the Morton Memos." These memos would have granted administrative amnesty to certain illegal aliens residing in the United States.[15] The vote largely followed party lines.[16]
Healthcare
Repealing Obamacare
Maloney has voted against all attempts to repeal or delay the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[17]
Social issues
Abortion
Maloney voted against HR 1797 - Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The resolution passed the House on June 18, 2013, with a vote of 228 - 196. The purpose of the bill is to ban abortions that would take place 20 or more weeks after fertilization.[18]
According to The New York Times, cardiologist and Cortlandt town council member[21]Rich Becker and former Bill Clinton aide Maloney were the frontrunners. The Times endorsed Becker, based on the paper's concerns about Maloney's handling of an investigation of Eliot Spitzer.[22] Maloney, unsurprisingly, gained the endorsement of his former boss, Bill Clinton,[22] along with the nod from major unions in the state, including the New York State United Teachers, the state AFL-CIO, and some large SEIU locals.[23]
Maloney stressed his endorsements, as well as his fundraising advantage over the rest of the Democratic candidates -- the funding, he says, will be necessary to unseat Hayworth in the general. Alexander, on the other hand, said that money will pour in to whoever opposes Hayworth.[26]
Hayworth has raised more money in the NY House election than her opponent, a trend shared by 13 other Republicans in contested House races in 2012. She has raised $2.2 million through June 30th, more than double the $738,382 she raised two years ago at this time. She has $1.5 million in the bank, compared to $775,000 four years ago. Her opponent, Sean Patrick Maloney in comparison has $264,364 in the bank and raised $675,771 through June 30th. Timothy Persico, Maloney’s campaign manager, alleges Hayworth is raising her money through special interests-“PACS and corporate lobbyists have sent over a million dollars to Congresswoman Hayworth because she’s worth every penny.”[27]
Campaign donors
Comprehensive donor information for Maloney is available dating back to 2012. Based on available campaign finance records, Maloney raised a total of $2,257,171 during that time period. This information was last updated on March 23, 2013.[28]
Lifetime voting record
According to the website GovTrack, Maloney missed 0 of 102 roll call votes from Jan 2013 to Apr 2013, which is 0.0% of votes during that period. This is better than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. [41]
Net worth
2011
Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Maloney's net worth as of 2011 was estimated between $-199,994 to $1,234,995. That averages to $517,500, which is lower than the average net worth of Democratic House member in 2011 of $5,107,874.[42]
Voting with part
Sean Maloney voted with the Demorat Party 82.7% of the time, which ranked 189th among the 201 House Demorat members as of June, 2013.[43]
Personal
Maloney lives with his partner Randy Florke and their three adopted children.[3][44] | {
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Opera Profile: Boito’s Lone Work ‘Mefistofele’ (Watch)
“Mefistofele” is Arrigo Boito’s only fully completed opera, and as such, it is a prized jewel.
The work, which premiered on March 5, 1868 at La Scala, is a faithful adaptation of Goethe’s “Faust.” Whereas most adaptations of the work focus on the first part of the work, Boito adapts both sections, including the the Helen of Troy sequence. As such, it is by far the most cohesive interpretation of the famed philosophical text in opera history.
The work has never been an overriding success and revivals are slim. However, it did get the stamp of approval from many major music lovers, including Wagner, who saw Boito as a promising composer. The opera’s opening and ending mirror one another with the celestial chorus returning again and again to comment on the events of the drama.
Short Plot Summary
A heavenly chorus strikes a deal with Mefistofele to do battle for the soul of Faust.
Dr. Faust and his pupil Wagner observe the Easter Celebrations but he senses that they are being followed by a malevolent friar. He later sees that same friar at his study; it is Mefistofele. He agrees to give his soul in return for worldly bliss for the rest of his life.
Now youthful, he seduces the young Margareta, who agrees to give her mother a sleeping potion so they can have a night of passion. At the Witches’ Sabbath he sees a vision of Margareta dead, but Mefistofele tells him that it was a false vision.
Faust finds Margareta out of her mind in a prison sell. She had poisoned her mother with the sleeping draught and had drowned the baby that she bore Faust. Faust attempts to save her but she refuses when she sees Mefistofele. She begs for salvation and dies earning it.
Now Faust has been transported back to Ancient Greece where he wins over the heart of Helen of Troy.
The final segment of the work sees Faust old once more, reflecting on how he failed to find the perfect experience he wanted in neither the past or present. He begs for God’s forgiveness and earns it from the celestial choir.
Watch and Listen
Here is a famed recording of the work starring Plácido Domingo, Eva Marton, and Samuel Ramey, arguably the foremost interpreter of the role in the late 20th century.
About the Author
Prior to creating OperaWire, DAVID SALAZAR, (Editor-in-Chief) worked as a reporter for Latin Post where he interviewed major opera stars including Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko, Vittorio Grigolo, Diana Damrau and Rolando Villazon among others. His 2014 interview with opera star Kristine Opolais was cited in a New York Times Review.
He also had the opportunity of interviewing numerous Oscar nominees, Golden Globe winners and film industry giants such as Guillermo del Toro, Oscar Isaac and John Leguizamo among others.
David holds a Masters in Media Management from Fordham University. During his time at Fordham, he studied abroad at the Jagiellonian University in Poland. He also holds a dual bachelor’s from Hofstra University in Film Production and Journalism. | {
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A term made famous by the strapping young Pioneers of Nebraska Wesleyan, Rage Monday is a weekly holiday-extravaganza, celebrated every Monday (usually between 8pm and 3am) in which copious amounts of alcohol and/or narcotics are consumed.
This behavior is often accompanied by reckless behavior, dance beats, FIFA, and random acts of debauchery.
Often it requires either careful planning and allocation of time for studies, or a complete disregard for the ridiculous amount of homework you have. | {
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Roy Halladay, the former Toronto Blue Jays pitcher regarded as one of the greatest players in franchise history, has died in a plane crash in the Gulf of Mexico near Tampa, Florida. He was 40.
The Pasco County Sheriff made the announcement at a news conference just after 4 p.m. ET. The office also tweeted the confirmation on its Twitter account.
“The worst case scenario happened and it breaks our hearts,” Pasco County Sheriff Chris Nocco said at the news conference.
A small plane crashed just off the coast of New Port Richey, Fla., a small town north of Dunedin, where the Blue Jays hold spring training and base their U.S. operation. WTSP-TV reported that video of the wreckage showed the tail number, which was matched to Halladay’s plane through photos he had posted on Twitter.
The National Transportation Safety Board will take over the crash investigation.
A tribute on a billboard outside of the Rogers Centre in Toronto to former Toronto Blue Jays star pitcher Roy Halladay who was killed in a plane crash Tuesday.Peter J. Thompson/National Post
Halladay played for the Blue Jays from 1998 to 2009, when he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies in one of the heart-rending transactions in team history. With the team far from being a playoff contender, Alex Anthopoulos, the new general manager at the time, made the trade to allow the long-serving Halladay an opportunity to play for a contending team. On the other side of the deal was Phillies senior advisor Pat Gillick, who had drafted Halladay in 1995 when he was GM of the Blue Jays.
Halladay won a Cy Young Award as the best pitcher in the American League in 2003, when he compiled a 22-7 record with a 3.25 ERA, a league-leading nine complete games and two shutouts. He added a second Cy Young with the Phillies in 2010, going 21-10 with a 2.44 ERA, a league-leading nine complete games and four shutouts.
The 2010 Phillies took Halladay to the post-season for the first time. In his first playoff start, Game 1 of the NL Division Series against Cincinnati, Halladay threw the second post-season no-hitter in baseball history, beating the Reds 4-1.
In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, Roy Halladay waves to the crowd after pitching a playoff no-hitter as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.Chris Trotman /
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Philadelphia swept the Reds in three games, but lost in the NL Championship Series to San Francisco. Halladay pitched twice in that series and once more in the 2011 NLDS against St. Louis.
In December 2013, Halladay signed a symbolic one-day contract and retired as a member of the Blue Jays. At his retirement news conference in Florida, Halladay thanked the Phillies for being his second home.
“I want the Phillies organization to know, I want the fans to know how much I enjoyed my time there. How much they meant to me, how much they meant to my family and what a major part of my career they were,” he said.
But retiring as a Blue Jay was his only choice.
“To me, the biggest thing was had I not been fortunate enough to come up with the Blue Jays and have the people around me that I did, and have the people develop me that I did, I would have never had that chance to play with the Phillies,” Halladay said.
“You know, I could have very easily been out of baseball in 2000, 2001 and never had a shot. To me, that was the most important thing. I felt like everything the organization had done for me, the player they allowed me to become, I felt like it was really important to acknowledge that. Had I not had those chances, I would have never been able to play for the Phillies.”
Roy Halladay took out this ad in the Toronto Sun on Dec. 22, 2009, after he was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.Postmedia Network
Halladay is eligible to be considered for the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2019.
He is survived by his wife, Brandy Halladay — 2018 would have marked their 20th anniversary — and his sons, Ryan and Braden.
The Blue Jays released a statement on Twitter Tuesday afternoon, which read: “The Toronto Blue Jays organization is overcome by grief with the tragic loss of one of the franchise’s greatest and most respected players, but even better human being. It is impossible to express what he has meant to this franchise, the city and its fans. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.”
Former Blue Jays president Paul Beeston told Postmedia that Halladay “was a life lesson for everybody that has to work hard at something to achieve success.
“Roy was a wonderful story, somebody who had the talent when he was drafted, struggled, then persevered and came back,” Beeston said. “He was just a unique and humble human being.”
Roy Halladay shakes hands with Jose Bautista before the Toronto Blue Jays’ April 4, 2014 season opener against the New York Yankees.Dave Abel /
Postmedia Network
Cory Lidle, another former Blue Jays pitcher, died in a small-plane crash in New York City in October 2006. He was flying with an instructor when his Cirrus CR20 crashed into the side of an apartment building along the East River.
Lidle had just completed his ninth major league season with the New York Yankees before the crash. He played for the Jays for one season in 2003.
Another Yankees player, catcher Thurman Munson, died in a small plane crash in August 1979 in Columbus, Ohio.
Roberto Clemente, the Hall of Fame outfielder from the Pittsburgh Pirates, died on New Year’s Eve in 1972 in Puerto Rico while taking off in a plane filled with earthquake relief supplies he was delivering to his home country of Nicaragua.
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Kevin Durant Copied LeBron James and Tackled a Fan Who Hit a Half-Court Shot Last Night (Video)
About two months ago, LeBron James was so happy for a fan who hit a half-court shot during a Heat game to win $75,000 that he ran out onto the court and tackled the guy. Last night, Kevin Durant did the same thing after a fan hit a half-court shot during a Thunder game to win $25,000. Little weird, right? It's cool to see a superstar get all worked up over something a fan does. But, let's just hope that this isn't going to become a regular thing. | {
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NSS tools : cmsutil
The cmsutil command-line uses the S/MIME Toolkit to perform basic
operations, such as encryption and decryption, on Cryptographic Message
Syntax (CMS) messages.
To run cmsutil, type the command cmsutil option [arguments] where option
and arguments are combinations of the options and arguments listed in the
following section. Each command takes one option. Each option may take
zero or more arguments. To see a usage string, issue the command without
options.
Options and Arguments
Options
Options specify an action. Option arguments modify an action. The options
and arguments for the cmsutil command are defined as follows:
-D
Decode a message.
-C
Encrypt a message.
-E
Envelope a message.
-O
Create a certificates-only message.
-S
Sign a message.
Arguments
Option arguments modify an action and are lowercase.
-c content
Use this detached content (decode only).
-d dbdir
Specify the key/certificate database directory (default is ".")
-e envfile
Specify a file containing an enveloped message for a set of
recipients to which you would like to send an encrypted message.
If this is the first encrypted message for that set of recipients,
a new enveloped message will be created that you can then use for
future messages (encrypt only).
-G
Include a signing time attribute (sign only).
-h num
Generate email headers with info about CMS message (decode only).
-i infile
Use infile as a source of data (default is stdin).
-N nickname
Specify nickname of certificate to sign with (sign only).
-n
Suppress output of contents (decode only).
-o outfile
Use outfile as a destination of data (default is stdout).
-P
Include an S/MIME capabilities attribute.
-p password
Use password as key database password.
-r recipient1,recipient2, ...
Specify list of recipients (email addresses) for an encrypted or
enveloped message. For certificates-only message, list of
certificates to send.
NSS is maintained in conjunction with PKI and security-related projects
through Mozilla dn Fedora. The most closely-related project is Dogtag PKI,
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NIOSH Updates Resources for Protecting Workers from Exposure to Fentanyl
Published September 6, 2017
Page Content
NIOSH has updated its workplace safety and health topic page that collects resources and information related to protecting emergency responders from occupational exposure to fentanyl. In a new section on protecting workers at risk, the agency identifies four job categories in which emergency responders might come into contact with fentanyl or its analogues: pre-hospital patient care, or responders who attend to individuals with suspected fentanyl overdose; law enforcement officers who perform day-to-day law enforcement activities; investigation and evidence handling, or personnel who conduct investigations related to fentanyl; and special operations and decontamination, or workers who conduct special operations where exposure to large amounts of fentanyl are expected. A new table that provides personal protective equipment (PPE) recommendations for protection against fentanyl and its analogues based on job category and level of risk is now available. NIOSH has also updated its fentanyl resources page.
Fentanyl is a prescription drug typically used to treat patients with severe pain or to manage pain after surgery. The NIOSH topic page describes fentanyl and its analogues as “extremely dangerous when used illicitly,” and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration associates fentanyl with an epidemic of opioid-related overdose deaths in the U.S. The drugs pose a potential hazard to emergency responders, who are most likely to encounter illicitly manufactured fentanyl and its analogues in powder, tablet, and liquid form. Potential routes of exposure include inhalation, mucous membrane contact, ingestion, and exposure through the skin such as with needlesticks. According to NIOSH, these exposure routes can result in a variety of symptoms, including the rapid onset of life-threatening respiratory depression.
“Skin contact . . . is not likely to lead to overdose unless large volumes of highly concentrated powder are encountered over an extended period of time,” according to NIOSH. “Brief skin contact with fentanyl or its analogues is not expected to lead to toxic effects if any visible contamination is promptly removed.”
NIOSH does not have occupational exposure data on fentanyl or its analogues for emergency responders, and there are currently no relevant established federal or consensus occupational exposure limits. | {
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He had a bad game, but your wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy wrong about him sucking..worse than tebow...GTF outa here...
Tell me how Pryor doesn't stink then? Was he projected to be a top 10 pick coming out of college? He IS worse than Tebow as of right now. This isn't Ohio State football. So far our memories of Pryor is how bad he was this preseason against other teams practice squad players, and his false start when Hue put him in for a QB sneak. I love the Raiders and all, but we need to be realistic. We don't exactly have the best track record of grooming QB's out of the draft.
Another thing about Pryor the defenses would have to account for. Him scrambling which would open up passing lanes for our WR's. Atleast we can use him in some wildcat or something.
Pryor's FIRST instinct is to scramble and run. He hangs on to the ball way too long. This was evident in his pre-season games. He isn't an RGIII or Vick when it comes to quickness. Opposing defenses were blitzing on him every down in and he either took a sack, ran around until he threw an incomplete pass...etc. Does the sentence below describe a QB who is going to lead this offense?
CBS said it best......"Pryor routinely put his head down with the defense bearing down on him as he took sacks when he could have thrown the ball away."
EVEN IF we win 5/6 of those games, we are still 8-8 at best. Not a playoff record. Yes I know it happens, but if you are 8-8 or under, you really don't belong in the playoffs.
Yes Palmer is one of the league leaders in passing, but go back n check how many of his yards/TD's come when were down by 21+. These stats do not translate into wins.
I understand he is our best shot at QB right now. HOWEVER, since we are out of the playoffs (baring some miracle) NOW is the time to try out Pryor (Maybe next week) What is the worst that can happen? Lose? I'd rather lose out this season (higher draft pick than playing for a tiny shot at the playoffs) and know that Pryor either IS or IS NOT our future at QB. And to those of you who judge Pryor off of his preseason performance? Tell me did you always judge a Rookie QB's first time playing with 3rd and 4th string teams? Give the dude a shot to work with the first string offense, and the story will be different.
IF we play him and find out he is our guy, we can build around him next year.
IF we play him and find out he is just not going to move in the direction we are going, we can use our top pick to draft a true "Franchise QB" to get going in that direction. If we are 8-8 or anything close due with Palmer, (if we finish 6/10 or 7/9 we will not be in the top 10, and what would be the point of that?) you can cut out this option even if we don't see Pryor play. I'd rather know than think, "What if?"
EVEN IF we win 5/6 of those games, we are still 8-8 at best. Not a playoff record. Yes I know it happens, but if you are 8-8 or under, you really don't belong in the playoffs.
Yes Palmer is one of the league leaders in passing, but go back n check how many of his yards/TD's come when were down by 21+. These stats do not translate into wins.
I understand he is our best shot at QB right now. HOWEVER, since we are out of the playoffs (baring some miracle) NOW is the time to try out Pryor (Maybe next week) What is the worst that can happen? Lose? I'd rather lose out this season (higher draft pick than playing for a tiny shot at the playoffs) and know that Pryor either IS or IS NOT our future at QB. And to those of you who judge Pryor off of his preseason performance? Tell me did you always judge a Rookie QB's first time playing with 3rd and 4th string teams? Give the dude a shot to work with the first string offense, and the story will be different.
IF we play him and find out he is our guy, we can build around him next year.
IF we play him and find out he is just not going to move in the direction we are going, we can use our top pick to draft a true "Franchise QB" to get going in that direction. If we are 8-8 or anything close due with Palmer, (if we finish 6/10 or 7/9 we will not be in the top 10, and what would be the point of that?) you can cut out this option even if we don't see Pryor play. I'd rather know than think, "What if?"
If he can't hang against 3rd string and 4th string players, what makes you think he will against regulars? I understand you want to give him a shot, but he's just not that good, period. He is as raw as can be. Are the scouts wrong about him also?
If he can't hang against 3rd string and 4th string players, what makes you think he will against regulars? I understand you want to give him a shot, but he's just not that good, period. He is as raw as can be. Are the scouts wrong about him also?
I don't think thats what he meant. Pryor was passing to 3rd and 4th stringers. It all changes when you are with the first team. I would be one to see what he can do. By the way, do you know how many QB's out there that wasn't suppose to be very good....
I don't think thats what he meant. Pryor was passing to 3rd and 4th stringers. It all changes when you are with the first team. I would be one to see what he can do. By the way, do you know how many QB's out there that wasn't suppose to be very good....
Spot on my friend.
I am thinking with a much more improved unit with the first strings, Pryor will play better than he did in preseason. Am I guaranteeing Pryor comes out on fire? No, I am simply saying after watching a small dose of Pryor in the preseason I think it is obvious its too early to call the quits on his QB situation. If they had already called quits, don't you think we would see him start to work with another position? (unless RM has intentions of releasing him this offseason)
The "there is a reason he is a back up" argument is very illogical. Nearly every player is a back up in the early stages of their. This is technically his rookie season so what more is expected of him? Some of the best players ever are back UPS before they finally get there "chance."
can't say I would hate seeing him play..but what would it prove? Carson is the guy for at least another year. I'd have Pryor be his backup for 2013, than if you don't like what you see draft a QB in the 2014 draft.
The 2013 draft would be a waste to draft a QB. Need waay more help in other areas.
Pryor will not be a starter in this league. He will fall to the way side like Tebow. We need to draft a QB in this draft. Because Palmer is not the answer. As much as I love the guy and I know a lot of his interceptions and incompletions are not his fault, we need to groom a QB for the future.
RM and DA needs to give Pryor some good snaps in garbage time to see what he's got. I don't see why we keep rolling CP out there in the 4th qt in blowouts?
And let's say if we are in the playoff hunt next year for arguments sake, and CP goes down with an injury, would everyone feel confident Pryor can step in and lead this team? That's what we need to see the remainder of the season. Right now, Pryor is a big question mark.
If he hasn't earned time, he should not play...regardless of the circumstances.
-Stork
You can go up and down the roster and argue who has "earned" time. I think it is simple, you get him in there and see what happens. If it creates a QB controversy, so be it. Not a bad thing. Competition for position is good. I like Carson but his time is limited here. He has zero mobility and don't have a good track record. He would fit great in a proven system but not in a system that is desperately looking for an identity. I think it would be interesting. Just maybe it might be part of DA's 5 year plan?????/ lol just messin | {
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Youths Find Yourself First, Before You Find a Job
The economy only gets better on paper. The list of
bills to pay is growing longer and the influx of
income—relatively thinner. We can’t deny the fact
that a nine-to-five job, can come in quite handy
now than ever.
However, aside from the customary routine of
trying to stay alive, finding employment, making
money, starting a family and raising cool kids,
everybody wants a ‘little extra something’ out of life.
Not everyone necessarily wants to be great or
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maniacs do, but every person craves to be more
useful with their hidden genius or natural creative
gifts.
The unemployment rate increases almost as often
as we turn on the news. Hence, people are literally
cut out for just about anything that brings income, inorder to stay “gainfully” employed. But while we
settle for less on momentary jobs, a lot of us don’t
seem to find the required satisfaction that motivates
us to be more productive. The privilege of changing
our jobs still doesn’t do the trick, as we eventually
grow tired of the new job the same way we did with
the previous one. If you feel this way about your
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You can’t be fulfilled in your job, if you’re slowly
drowning in the wrong profession! If you aren’t
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your ‘hidden genius’ have you discovered? How
much of your natural creative abilities are directly
connected to your current job? None? Very well,
then; finding a new job to tolerate, should be the
least of your concerns right now.
Often times, the extra fulfillment we seek in life are
tied to our passions—and how well we pursue them
—with the help of our natural gifts. It’s our passion
for something that keeps us going, even when the
pay isn’t exactly right, or when we encounter toxic
discouraging moments. When we fail to crack open our minds to discover what our true identity and passions really are, we continue to be the unhappy
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opportunity a shot, and take up a job that’s wired
into your newfound passion. “If you wanna make
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INDIANAPOLIS - Khadevis Robinson has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after capturing his first major European win since 2006, by winning the 800m at the Rome Golden Gala Diamond League event in a time of 1:45.09 last Thursday.
INDIANAPOLIS - Khadevis Robinson has been named USA Track & Field’s Athlete of the Week after capturing his first major European win since 2006, by winning the 800m at the Rome Golden Gala Diamond League event in a time of 1:45.09 last Thursday.
At the 2004 Olympic Trials, Ann Gaffigan had the race that thousands of athletes only dream of running. Under the lights of the Sacramento State University track, Gaffigan was just beginning her career as an elite athlete, still running in her University of Nebraska singlet. That night Gaffigan was inducted into an elite cadre of athletes who know the pride and the thrill of winning the Olympic Trials. To make the moment even sweeter, Gaffigan’s time was faster than any American woman had ever run, and etched her name in history as the American Record holder.
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Specifically, the Australian branch of UNICEF set up ‘The Hopepage’, a website that allowed visitors to donate between 20–80% of their computer’s computing power so that the agency could mine Monero, a cryptocurrency that is easily convertible into cash. All proceeds according to the report would be used for the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Giftcoin’s goal was to serve as a platform that is fully transparent and free, which is a set-up that will likely appeal to donors. It also uses its own cryptocurrency — called Giftcoin, and includes an extensive selection of charitable organisations where you can donate the digital currency.
The online auction platform CharityStars is very similar to Giftcoin as it, too, aims to make charitable giving as transparent as possible. This platform accepts donations in different digital currencies and instantly converts them into AidCoin, CharityStars’ own version of the Giftcoin digital currency. All donations converted to AidCoin are tracked via AidChain.
Using cryptocurrency in fundraising is just one of several real-world applications of digital currencies. And that number is continuing to grow, opening up the possibility of more widespread Bitcoin use.
FXCM posed the question whether cryptocurrencies are heading for mass adoption, and while it agreed that it is a possibility, it nonetheless listed several barriers to their widespread use. Some of these barriers include price volatility, which impedes the viability of cryptocurrencies to function as a store of value; which can turn off non-tech savvy people; and, which may cause problems in terms of regulation and cause uncertainty in the process; and hard forks. But should cryptocurrencies overcome these obstacles, along with concerns about scalability, hard forks, and incentives, they can very well achieve mainstream adoption.
So far, the early returns have looked promising for digital currencies, and a future where they are as commonplace as cash may be well within the realm of possibility. Should that happen, donations via cryptocurrencies will likely be the norm, too.
Fred Moreira has a post-graduate degree in computing and currently works as a part-time consultant programmer for at least 3 US-based software companies. You can contact Fred at [email protected]. | {
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This chart describes the expected percentage of people who perform the job of Airframe and Engine Mechanic in the United States that make less than that annual salary. For example the median expected annual pay for a typical Airframe and Engine Mechanic in the United States is $51,242 so 50% of the people who perform the job of Airframe and Engine Mechanic in the United States are expected to make less than $51,242.
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Maintains, repairs, and troubleshoots aircraft airframe and engine to ensure aircraft conformance with FAA regulations. Troubleshoots and determines malfunctioning parts. Recommends part changes or adjustments to aircraft specifications to improve engine performance. Documents and maintains paperwork for maintenance according to regulations. Requires a high school degree, an airplane mechanics license, and 2-5 years of experience in the field or in a related area. Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Relies on limited experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of tasks. Works under general supervision. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required. Typically reports to a supervisor. View full job description | {
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In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, what is the two-state solution? And what is the official position of the U.S. on that? Lately, that hasn't been so clear.
"I'm looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like," President Donald Trump said at a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The two-state solution is just like it sounds: Israel and Palestine existing as two separate nation states.
Put simply, this would require Israel to pull out of the West Bank, which it currently occupies. The Palestinian and Israeli governments would accept each other's sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence.
At least, that's what the United Nations Security Council called for in 1967. And again in 1973. And then in 1993 at the start of the Oslo Accords.
All of this has delayed a peace process that was supposed to be negotiated five years after the Oslo Accords were signed. That happened 24 years ago.
Then there's the one-state solution. Israel would annex all or most of the West Bank, and those living there would either be given full Israeli citizenship, limited Israeli citizenship or be forced out.
"Here is a fundamental reality: If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic — it cannot be both — and it won't ever really be at peace," then-U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said.
That's an important point. Israel can still claim to be a Jewish state with a two-state solution. But in a one-state solution, the reality of absorbing millions of Palestinians, most of whom are Muslim, would create questions about what kind of country Israel is.
Palestinians, on the other hand, would lose their chance at a Palestinian state. And depending on how Israel absorbed them into the country, they would either become full Israeli citizens on track to outnumbering Jewish Israelis, become stateless or become second-class citizens in the only land they've ever known. | {
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revolutionary love Tag
This was originally published on Auburn Seminary's Website here.
As a Sikh American mother, I have been terrified since Election Day.
More than 400 incidents of hate and bias have swept America in the name of President-Elect Trump. Soon his administration will consider proposals that threaten the dignity, safety, and civil rights of millions of families, including mine.
It’s no longer enough to vent on Facebook or love our neighbor while keeping to ourselves. We are called to become political.
I’m going to fight — for my son and the next
Why I #VowToFight:
When the first election results came in tonight – and the unthinkable became possible, then inevitable – I first put my hand over my mouth. I felt the horror in my throat, my face flushed, my breathing shallow. I wanted to rage and cry.
My toddler tugged at my shirt and shouted "Evening Edition!" This is his name for our bedtime routine of stories, songs, and prayers to get him to sleep. I didn’t think I had it in me. Still my husband and I turned
This fall I have been on stages across the country with the Together Tour. Each evening courageous, trailblazing women gather to share their stories, to weave them into a beautiful tapestry. It has been a humbling and magical experience thus far. I am so thankful to Kaur Life for the beautiful feature, below, on the Together Tour and my most recent initiative, The Revolutionary Love Project.
The tour is half way done, but there is still time to join us! Upcoming stops: BROOKLYN 10/17, ATLANTA 10/19, DENVER 10/24. Use code VAL10 for
This election season, campuses and communities across the country will host 100 FILM SCREENINGS and DIALOGUES on Revolutionary Love. They will screen our film Divided We Fall, the first documentary film to chronicle the struggles of Sikh and Muslim Americans in the aftermath of 9/11 and their resilience in the aftermath of violence. This is the first call to action of the Revolutionary Love Project, my new initiative at University of Southern California ORL.
Click on any public event below to join a dialogue near you. Or sign up
The way that America commemorates the 15 year anniversary of 9/11 will shape our nation's future. Will we honor the dead by recommitting our nation to love? Or will we allow 9/11 to be used to incite hate and violence this election season?
As a Sikh mother, the question is a matter of life or death.
Because on every 9/11 anniversary, we see an astounding rise in hate against Muslim and Sikh Americans - profiling, bullying, beatings, and killings.
That's why, for the first time ever, we are releasing our
A few months ago, I made a leap of faith.
Every night, when I lay my son in his crib, my love for him swells up in my heart – and then fear lodges in my throat when I think about him coming of age. This election year, it feels like fear and hate threatens to swallow America whole.
I can’t protect him from the fires of life; I can only try to give him a better world. But after 15 years as an activist, I’m tired of fighting
A call to action: If you grieve the police officers killed in Dallas and the black people shot by police, if you believe we can demand police accountability and join hands with police officers who want to end racism and violence, if you hunger to channel anger and grief into #revolutionarylove, then please read and sign this letter.
We are going to deliver this letter to police departments and Black Lives Matter chapters across the country. I wrote this letter with prophetic faith leaders Jacqui Lewis Brian D. McLaren Gene Robinson Sister Simone Campbell and Michael-Ray Mathews. In
Here is my address on "revolutionary love" at the Parliament of the World's Religions. It is directed to a particular audience, but I am thinking of centering my book on its core message. If you watch, tell me: what most speaks to you? What does revolutionary love look like in your life? It would be so helpful to hear!
In my own life, I have seen this kind of revolutionary love change the world around us and within us. It is the love of Guru Nanak founder of
About Valarie
Valarie Kaur is a seasoned civil rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, lawyer, faith leader, and founder of The Revolutionary Love Project. She harnesses love as a shared practice to fight for social justice. She believes “the way we make change is just as important as the change we make.”
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There are currently intensive global research efforts aimed at increasing and modifying the accumulation of lipids, alcohols, hydrocarbons, polysaccharides, and other energy storage compounds in photosynthetic organisms, yeast, and bacteria through genetic engineering. Many improvements have been realized, including increased lipid and carbohydrate production, improved H2 yields, and the diversion of central metabolic intermediates into fungible biofuels. Photosynthetic microorganisms are attracting considerable interest within these efforts due to their relatively high photosynthetic conversion efficiencies, diverse metabolic capabilities, superior growth rates, and ability to store or secrete energy-rich hydrocarbons. Relative to cyanobacteria, eukaryotic microalgae possess several unique metabolic attributes of relevance to biofuel production, including the accumulation of significant quantities of triacylglycerol; the synthesis of storage starch (amylopectin and amylose), which is similar to that found in higher plants; and the ability to efficiently couple photosynthetic electron transport to H2 production. Although the application of genetic engineering to improve energy production phenotypes in eukaryotic microalgae is in its infancy...
Plastid genetic engineering has come of age, becoming today an attractive alternative approach for the expression of foreign genes, as it offers several advantages over nuclear transformants. Significant progress has been made in plastid genetic engineering in tobacco and other Solanaceae plants, through the use of improved regeneration procedures and transformation vectors with efficient promoters and untranslated regions. Many genes encoding for industrially important proteins and vaccines, as well as genes conferring important agronomic traits, have been stably integrated and expressed in the plastid genome. Despite these advances, it remains a challenge to achieve marked levels of plastid transgene expression in non-green tissues. In this review, we summarize the basic requirements of plastid genetic engineering and discuss the current status, limitations, and the potential of plastid transformation for expanding future studies relating to Solanaceae plants.
Phytoremediation to clean up arsenic-contaminated environments has been widely hailed as environmentally friendly and cost effective, and genetic engineering is believed to improve the efficiency and versatility of phytoremediation. Successful genetic engineering requires the thorough understanding of the mechanisms involved in arsenic tolerance and accumulation by natural plant species. Key mechanisms include arsenate reduction, arsenic sequestration in vacuoles of root or shoot, arsenic loading to the xylem, and volatilization through the leaves. Key advances include the identification of arsenic (As) translocation from root to shoot in the As hyperaccumulator, Pteris vittata, and the characterization of related key genes from hyperaccumulator and nonaccumulators. In this paper we have proposed three pathways for genetic engineering: arsenic sequestration in the root, hyperaccumulation of arsenic in aboveground tissues, and phytovolatilization.
In this thesis, I present an engineering discipline for obtaining complex, predictable, and reliable cell behaviors by embedding biochemical logic circuits and programmed intercellular communications into cells. To accomplish this goal, I provide a well-characterized component library, a biocircuit design methodology, and software design tools. I have built and characterized an initial cellular gate library with biochemical gates that implement the NOT, IMPLIES, and AND logic functions in E. coli cells. The logic gates perform computation using DNA-binding proteins, small molecules that interact with these proteins, and segments of DNA that regulate the expression of the proteins. I introduce genetic process engineering, a methodology for modifying the DNA encoding of existing genetic elements to achieve the desired input/output behavior for constructing reliable circuits of significant complexity. I demonstrate the feasibility of digital computation in cells by building several operational in-vivo digital logic circuits, each composed of three gates that have been optimized by genetic process engineering.; (cont.) I also demonstrate engineered intercellular communications with programmed enzymatic activity and chemical diffusions to carry messages...
Explorations and optimizations through the genomic space are a daunting undertaking given the complexity and size of the possible search space. To approach this problem, systematic and combinatorial approaches were employed for the engineering of cellular phenotype in Escherichia coli. Initially, a computational method based on global cellular stoichiometry was employed to identify single and multiple gene knockout targets for lycopene production in E. coli. These targets led to substantial increases in lycopene production, but were limited in scope due to the nature of these models. Therefore, these approaches and targets were complemented with combinatorial searches to identify unknown and regulatory targets. When combined, these searches led to further increases of lycopene production and allowed for the visualization of the resulting metabolic landscape. A more exhaustive search was conducted in the background of eight genotypes which resulted in the formulation of the gene knockout search network. This network enables the investigation into how phenotype optimization is biased by search strategy.; (cont.) Collectively, these results demonstrated that despite the complexity and nonlinearity of genotype-phenotype spaces, most of the significant phenotypes were controlled and regulated by a small subset of key "gateway" nodes. Often...
The successful application of genetic engineering in wheat is dependent on the availability of suitable tissue culture and transformation methods. The primary object of this project was the development of these technologies using elite Australian wheat varieties.; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Plant Science, Waite Campus, 2001?; Bibliography: leaves 127-151.; xiii, 151, [61] leaves, [19] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.; Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library.
This review describes the manipulation of the sheep genotype by genetic engineering, which is defined as the introduction or elimination of specific genes in the existing cells of an organism through modern biological techniques for the purpose of changing one or more of its phenotypic characteristics. This can be achieved by direct injection of a DNA sequence for a gene or gene-related function or by transfer of an intact nucleus from a somatic cell containing a set of desirable genes into an enucleated egg cell. The potential of transgenesis over conventional breeding is that single gene changes can be made for a particular phenotype without accompanying multiple gene effects that can be disadvantageous. Several examples of engineered sheep are described. The potential for making other transgenic changes are discussed but transgenic sheep research has virtually ceased because of high cost and the perceived low public acceptance of transgenic animals at the present time.; G. E. Rogers, C. S. Bawden
This paper reports the quantitative and qualitative answers of two groups of public agricultural professionals (a general sample and a targeted sample with some knowledge of organic farming) to issues relating to organic agriculture, genetic engineering, sustainability and associated research issues in Australia. It also analyses what influences these professionals’ views on the sustainability of conventional agriculture in Australia and other agricultural research issues. Professional views towards organic farming and genetic engineering are explored and analysed for their realism. The advent of genetic engineering has been accompanied by growing concern among many of these professionals about safety, public and private research issues, including intellectual property rights, patenting and private funding of public research.; Sarah Ann Wheeler
The aminocoumarin antibiotics novobiocin and clorobiocin are potent inhibitors of bacterial DNA gyrase produced by different Streptomyces strains. Since they are closely related in structure, and their biosynthetic gene clusters have been cloned and sequenced, they represent interesting starting compounds for the development of new antibacterial agents by genetic engineering. However, the functional analysis of biosynthetic genes and the availability of genetic tools for manipulation of producer strains are pre-requisites for such approaches.
Clorobiocin is more potent than novobiocin. It differs from the latter, clinically approved drug in the substitution pattern at C-8´ of the aminocoumarin moiety, carrying a chlorine atom instead of a methyl group, and in the presence of a 5-methylpyrrole-2-carboxyl moiety instead of a carbamoyl group at 3´´-OH of the deoxysugar unit. One aim of this thesis was the production of hybrid antibiotics, combining structural features of these two compounds. By gene inactivation, clo-hal was identified as the gene of the halogenase responsible for the introduction of the chlorine atom of clorobiocin. Expression of the methyltransferase gene novO in the clo-hal- mutant of the clorobiocin producer S. roseochromogenes led to the very efficient formation of a clorobiocin analog with -CH3 instead of -Cl at C-8´ (= novclobiocin 102). However...
Escherichia coli has been widely used to produce high-value recombinant proteins for years. Although high recombinant protein productivity can be attained, perhaps the most important goal for such processes, that of achieving both high gene expression and high cell density simultaneously, is still challenging to both biochemists and biochemical engineers. A series of approaches to overcome this problem are evaluated in this study.
First, a novel pH-inducible gene expression system, in which the expression of foreign gene products is directed by a pH down-shift, was chosen and characterized. This system was shown to have many attractive features, including high-level expression (40% of total cellular protein), fast response, and easy manipulation. It thus can serve as a proper model system for studying the fundamental mechanism of high-level gene expression in E. coli. Second, several factors limiting the culture performance were identified by systematically optimizing the culture conditions. Among those, acetate overproduction was shown to be critically involved. Various approaches on the basis of biochemical and genetic engineering techniques were successfully exploited to bypass such a cultivation bottleneck. Finally, the effects of various genetic elements...
Filamentous bacteriophage (M13) are excellent biological build block due to their multiple peptide display system including type 8 (complete peptide display at pVIII) and type 83 (complete peptide display at both pVIII and pIII) display systems. Unlike the phagemid systems, the advantage of these systems is that we can get homogenous peptide display on pVIII resulting in uniform placement of selected molecules as well as defined length and width. In this thesis, type 8 and type 83 phage were constructed and used as biological scaffolds to meet the following four specific aims. First, the self-assembly of engineered M13 bacteriophage as a template for Co-Pt crystals was demonstrated. An phage library with an octapeptide library on the major coat protein (pVIII) was used for selection of binders to cobalt ions. Fibrous structures with directionally ordered phage were obtained by interaction with cobalt ions. Co-Pt alloys were synthesized on the fibrous scaffold, and their magnetic properties were characterized. The mineralization showed organized nanoparticles on fibrous bundles with superparamagnetic properties. Second, an in vitro molecular selection method in non-biological conditions for inorganic synthesis was introduced.; (cont.) A phage display peptide library which is resistant to ethanol was constructed and used for selection against titania in 90% ethanol. The selected peptide...
This is the final version. It was first published by NPG at http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150605/srep11061/full/srep11061.html.; The accelerated discovery of disease-related genes emerging from genomic studies has strained the capacity of traditional genetically engineered mouse models (GEMMs) to provide in-vivo validation. Direct, somatic, genetic engineering approaches allow for accelerated and flexible genetic manipulation and represent an attractive alternative to GEMMs. In this study we investigated the feasibility, safety and efficiency of a minimally invasive, lentiviral based approach for the sustained in-vivo modification of renal tubular epithelial cells. Using ultrasound guidance, reporter vectors were directly injected into the mouse renal parenchyma. We observed transgene expression confined to the renal cortex (specifically proximal and distal tubules) and sustained beyond 2 months post injection. Furthermore, we demonstrate the ability of this methodology to induce long-term, in-vivo knockdown of candidate genes either through somatic recombination of floxed alleles or by direct delivery of specific shRNA sequences. This study demonstrates that ultrasound-guided injection of lentiviral vectors provides a safe and efficient method for the genetic manipulation of renal tubules...
This dissertation explores philosophical problems in biology, particularly those relating to macroevolutionary theory. It is comprised of a series of three papers drawn from work that is currently at the publication, re-submission, and review stage of the journal refereeing process, respectively. The first two chapters concern the overarching contours of complex life, while the third zeroes in on the short and long-term prospects of human evolution.
The rhetorical journey begins with a thought experiment proposed by the late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. Gould hypothesized that replaying the "tape of life" would result in radically different evolutionary outcomes, both with respect to animal life in general and the human species in particular. Increasingly, however, biologists and philosophers are pointing to convergent evolution as evidence for replicability and predictability in macroevolution. Chapters 1 and 2 are dedicated to fleshing out the Gouldian view of life and its antithesis, clarifying core concepts of the debate (including contingency, convergence, constraint and causation), and interpreting the empirical data in light of these conceptual clarifications. Chapter 3 examines the evolutionary biological future of the human species...
Disruption of coordinated impulse propagation in the heart as a result of fibrosis or myocardial infarction can create an asynchronous substrate with poor conduction and impaired contractility. This can ultimately lead to cardiac failure and make the heart more vulnerable to life-threatening arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. The transplantation of exogenous cells into the diseased myocardium, "cardiac cell therapy," has been proposed as a treatment option to improve compromised cardiac function. Clinical trials of stem cell-based cardiac therapy have shown promising results, but also raised concerns about our inability to predict or control the fate of implanted cells and the electrical consequences of their interactions with host cardiomyocytes. Alternatively, genetically engineered somatic cells could be implanted to selectively and safely modify the cardiac electrical substrate, but their unexcitable nature makes them incapable of electrically repairing large conduction defects. The objective of this thesis was thus to develop a methodology to generate actively conducting excitable cells from an unexcitable somatic cell source and to demonstrate their utility for studies of basic electrophysiology and cardiac cell therapy.
This paper deals with the progress made in genetic engineering techniques, capable of altering the genetic potential of an organism, either by the introduction or the suppression of new structural genes. Some of the general applications are described as are also, more particularly, their uses in the field of medicine. A critical analysis of the benefits and risks involved is also undertaken.; São abordados os progressos havidos com as técnicas de engenharia genética, capazes de alterar o potencial genético de um organismo, quer pela introdução, quer pela supressão de novos genes estruturais. São mencionadas algumas das aplicações em geral e, em particular, possibilidades de uso no campo da medicina. É feita uma análise crítica dos benefícios e riscos envolvidos.
In this article, the concept of"liberal democracy" and its implications for biotechnology such as human genetic engineering will be examined. Liberal democracy is characterised by a number of features, some of which has extensive repercussions on biotechnology, especially concepts such as the equal protection of human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedom for all people and autonomy and libertarianism. Advocates of human genetic engineering for purposes other than the healing of genetically transmitted diseases often appeal to these features in the quest for its legalisation. I will examine whether the attributes of liberal democracy would indeed justify the use of this type of biotechnology and if yes, what a possible theological response would be, drawing on the political theology of Jürgen Moltmann. | {
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Burns Bridge Meeting Liveblog
6:55pm – Five minutes before the meeting and quite a few people here (40-50 by my count). Only City of Worcester official I see is Konnie. I think the town planner from Shrewsbury is here as well. Normally I don’t mention this kind of thing, but this is a disproportionately male crowd (90%, I’d guess).
“our design demonstrates that we will be providing stormwater treatment”, collected on the bridge, two levels of treatment (sediment 4-bay and other thing I didn’t catch).
Applied for and received Chapter 91 license.
7:26 – Army Corps of Engineers permit for federal wetlands regs.
Article 97 land transfer for parkland is in process.
Gary from TransSystems discussing Public Outreach now.
They heard:
–recreational use is important to the communities
–should try and improve clearances
–pedestrian/bicycle accomodation is important
–construction duration should be minimized to reduce impacts to travelling public & local businesses
–public safety issues should be addressed
–improve water quality of the lake
–aesthetic appeal is important to the bridge
–lighting options are of interest
–gateway elements should be considered
–bridge should honor the history of the lake and area
[Jo Hart is here]
7:30 – gateway elements — “25% plans doesn’t have anything of huge impact. We are working with a group of elected officials to see what might be appropriate.”
Going over roadway design — current vs. proposed.
New bridge will have a “much larger footprint” but not “overwhelming when you’re driving.” three thru lanes in each direction, wider sidewalks.
[Kate Toomey is here. I feel like a social secretary]
First phase will almost be entirely offline except for demo of south sidewalk.
stage two – move four lanes of traffic onto first phase (south side); north side of bridge will be constructed.
final – two sides, open median.
Roadway and traffic design:
–three lanes in each direction
–widened shoulders
–bicycle lanes on Rt 9 and on Lake Avenue
–Extended right turn lane onto bridge
–New left turn lane for Rt 9 westbound
–Re-designed intersection & signals with Lake Avenue
–HOT OFF THE PRESSES — roundabout at South Road and North Road to accomodate traffic from/to UMass [off Lake Ave North]
–Widened sidewalk on Lake Ave
–New sidewalk on west side of Lake Avenue between North & South Road
–gated access stairwell on Shrewsbury side for safety
[The chair I’m sitting in is defective and it’s like I’m in one of those chairs they use to beat interrogees into submission]
Going through renderings of proposed bridge.
Light blue color for the underneath arch part.
Trying to control the light so it doesn’t splash down on the lake.
7:44 – railing design. “One of the things that are annoying about bridge railings…is that they end up right at eye height” if you’re driving. The design of the railing should allow for good views. Places to suspend lane designations for regattas.
Showing more night lighting design.
Ooh. REALLY big areas for pedestrian bumpouts/overlooks. Probably big enough for 15-20 people. Each would have a theme based on history of the area. 8 areas total.
7:48 – Gary – “This is a signature bridge – I do want to point this out”
LED lighting under the arches at night.
Gary – “Could we add something…that provides a Gateway appeal?” They have an advisory committee working through some options, do need to come to a resolution relatively soon.
The Gateway appeal thing is, as far as I can tell, the appeal to the ‘signature bridge’ crowd.
1. Pylon Concept
based on interpretation of traditional island monuments
example – obelisks. Because they exist in Shrewsbury. [Really?]
you can walk into those as a pedestrian and they light up inside. [They are kind of obelisk-shaped but open archy inside. Really really weird]
Seriously the ugliest thing I’ve seen in a long time.
2. and 3. These concepts put focus on the lake.
Number 2 is supposed to look like sails, with lighted triangular areas at the top. Looks more like the Starfleet insignia. Beam me up!
I think we’re at the question and comment section. But there is much wordiness before we begin.
8:03 – elected officials will go first. you know the routine.
CCKT goes. What is the source of lighting for street lights and underlighting? What about maintenance for lights and structure underneath? How quickly would lights be replaced?
LED are more costly up front, maintenance is relatively low. LEDs within a solid plastic rod, very durable, should last for 10 years [!!!]
City of Worcester will power and maintain the lights.
Rep O’Day. article he saw in the paper the other day. “About two weeks ago, we had a significant issue with Lake Q. with some significant sewage going into the lake.” Are there things that we as a city need to be worrying about? How do we get a handle on the issues that could be worked on while we’re here?
Project Manager – this was as a result of the overflow. The City of Worcester have had … overflow systems in place. … The City of Worcester is attempting to address by separating sewer and stormwater. What we’re doing right now will address far & above impacts. What we’re doing will not preclude City of Worcester from doing whatever they want to do.
Rep Beaton – thanks MassDOT for a great job. Wanted to bring up a couple of points. Shrewsbury wants to see design phase moved in a timely manner (for bells and whistles). Wants to minimize impact to Rt 9 corridor. If any opportunities to make environmental improvements, we should. Piece of North Lake Street where there is a light — maybe extend further, needs attention before construction.
Morris DePaul (sp?), selectman of Shrewsbury – decorations (obelisks) are too big, sails are not as imposing. Why can’t we focus on the lake itself. Would be very amenable to having nothing.
Konnie Lukes, Worcester City Council – supported a design that would make a visual impact. Given the three proposals, with my druthers, I’d send you back to the drawing board. The sail design (#2) is most preferred for her. Compliments them on the use and design of light.
Michael Piper – Lake Quinsig Commission – if not now, when — concerned about never with flow off of Belmont Street area. “We seem to have 100-year event every year.” [draws laughs] Could something like a color coding (for bad weather, etc.) be done. Can be attached to a barometer. Have paddles like clock hands telling the time. “Allow for people to connect with the bridge.”
Comments from Gary — Stormwater treatment areas — in front of both abutments, they will push base of abutments back 30-40 feet. In that area will be area to divert water to inflitration basin for sediment and other elements before water is discharged [for water on the bridge]. Large outfall from Belmont Street goes well beyond limits of the project.
Paul, 70-year lifetime resident of Lake Avenue South and Lakeview – has seen a lot of things happen at the pumping station on Lake Avenue. Once again, the facility was overwhelmed. Perhaps with the construction of the new bridge, we could consider a pumping facility for surface stormwater. Eventually the catchbasin will overflow. It’s been going on for his 70 years, a long time before, and will happen a long time after.
Ray Sansoucy – five days ago, would not have considered coming to this meeting. Went to WWII reunion in Pittsburgh. The bridges are a nightmare (all made out of steel), all elephants for maintenance. [Um, you needed to have come to meetings about a year ago, my friend.] What’s the alternative to this? Concrete in the water. [I think he’s singing Kate Toomey’s tune right now.] Should have been built with stone bases.
Drive down Merritt Parkway. Every bridge is beautiful stone — maintenance, just like when they built them.
The roadway, the fencing, is gorgeous. His problem is the underneath. He says we make this out of granite built in New England.
Debbie Malone, from Worcester, representing people with disabilities – she sees really quickly that the sidewalks will be nice and wide, will there be space for two wheelchairs to pass by. On overlooks, can two people on wheelchairs pass by each other? She is visually impaired and needs audible pedestrian lights. If we do audible lights, make sure they tell which direction it’s ok to cross.
[Good for you, lady!]
Project Manager responds — please provide written comments as soon as you can. [If you need a copy of the form, I can get you one!]
Joe Borbone, director of engineering, DPW – on behalf of City manager and commissioner Moylan, thanks MassDOT. City of Worcester is happy with bridge structure, North Lake Ave and Lake Ave.
8:31 – Mutual thanks. Much love. pedestrian and bicycle access.
Steve Genetassio – owns a business – four years is a long time. [But this won’t be four years!] Can some of the work be done at night?
response — trying to find a lot of ways to minimize impacts to businesses on Lake Ave South. Trying to reflect it in all their designs and put it into design-build process.
Evening construction?
response – typically 40-hour work week. Something they can bring to the administrator and see if there are times they aren’t going to be impacting residences.
Rick Stavros, something about high school in Worcester – final materials – graffiti? You have created a lot of graffiti walls.
response — would need to look at graffiti-proof finishes.
O’Day – likelihood of work done 100% locally or 100% MA?
response – steel is US steel, requirement of federal highway. “Keeps descendants of the Carnegie-Mellon family in business for a while longer.” (reference to gentleman who spoke about Pittsburgh)
I had two comments: one was that all the design elements really sucked.
And I asked about the Telegram article and why they requested waivers from the feds.
response — inaccuracy in Telegram — didn’t request waiver in environmental impact studies from feds. They have filed permits with compliance agencies. [So what did they request to be waived? I don’t know.] By no means have we requested any waivers. Fully vetted process with the way MassDOT does its projects.
Mark Durphy – remembers when bridge was reconstructed in early 80s. Mass Highway said they had to improve safety. So they reconstructed the bridge. Couldn’t believe how poor the pavement was at the beginning. “Not a road engineer” – but in high traffic areas, asphalt grooves. Can they put in that all expansion joints be exactly flush with the pavement?
“just general shoddy work the highway department” has allowed to go on on perfectly good roads.
Late 80s/early 90s — Mound of asphalt in right lane — Mass Highway had a Bobcat to grind off the asphalt.
state doesn’t seem to make abutments to align with bridge decks. [I think they’re going to be doing this on the project, but that’s my own impression]
Highway markers — big 2’x2′ sign, but the state only puts one post on it. Can it be stabilized by having two posts?
will submit comments in writing.
Jo Hart! I was just about to ask where she was in her commenting? Asks about bumpouts.
Jo is complaining about the types of materials used because they are too hot in the sun. Recommends smooth versus bumpy materials. I am super confused at this point.
Feels that the bumpout design forces one to look in only one direction.
“I’m the only public transportation person in Worcester.” Single best Jo Hart quote ever.
Re-mentions putting trolleys over the brudge.
Nancy Saul of Worcester from Pioneering Healthy [ier?] Communities. Supports bridge because of plans for bicycle acommodating shoulders and sidewalks.
Jo Hart adds one more thing. Keep it simple. As Nicole said, “the designs are grotesque.” | {
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On your VBA, choose Options ---> Emulator ---> Save Type ---> Flash 128K. If you use the VBA's method to save, your save file will corrupt! And you have to save in normal way or you won't get past the leauge.
On your VBA, choose Options ---> Emulator ---> Save Type ---> Flash 128K. If you use the VBA's method to save, your save file will corrupt! And you have to save in normal way or you won't get past the leauge.
In the "Save Type" menu, there are two sections that aren't blanked out for me. The top one has EEPROM, Flash, etc. in it, and I was guided to select "Flash" by a tutorial. The bottom one has "Flash 64K" and "Flash 128K" in it, and I selected "Flash 128K". That didn't work, so I tried using the rest of the options in the top menu with "Flash 128K". That didn't work either (not even with the "None" type selected). I always get the message "Save error. Please exchange the backup memory." Whatever that means.
There are many bad Fire Red roms going around with no ability to save unless the game is named the way you downloaded it. I recommend you to look for "pokemon fire red save ips" or same with "save patch" in the end to fix it, I personally did it way too long ago to remember where I found it. P.S, there are many alternative ways of making kinds of documents that will work with the VBA and fix it, but then, it's more complicated IMO, and if you format the comp you have to redo that. Patching is a once-use only thing.
Does anyone know what the point of the pikachu at lake of rage is? I saw it when I went to go get hidden power before going to lake of rage at all.
Also about the saving thing. If you save state at all it won't work. You literally have to start the game and save at 0:00 after changing the settings. After that it will save no matter what. I hope this helps.
For anyone with the FR saving issue, this is from Squall-Leonhart on Emuforums:
"This is a guide on how to recover Pokemon saves made using the wrong save settings (i.e. Flash 64K instead of Flash 128K). At this moment, I cannot fully guarantee that it will work under all circumstances, but chances are that the following procedure will produce viable results.
Required files
A save state that was made using the Flash 64K save type
An unpatched version of the rom of the game used to create the save state above (note that you may need to re-dump if you patched your existing rom)
A copy of VisualBoyAdvance Instructions
1. Create a new folder somewhere on your hard drive
2. Copy the save state, the rom, and the emulator into the new folder you created in step 1. NO OTHER FILES SHOULD BE IN THAT FOLDER
3. Open the emulator, but do not load the rom. DO NOT CHANGE ANY SAVE SETTINGS
4. If you are playing Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald, you should turn on the Real Time Clock by going to Options -> Emulator -> Real Time Clock
5. Load the rom. You may get a white screen - that is normal behavior, so proceed to the next step
6. Load the save state by going to File -> Load... and selecting the save state (it should show up on the screen without requiring you to change directories)
7. Your saved game should be loaded. Then change the save type by going to Options -> Emulator -> Save Type -> Flash 128K
8. Use the in-game save (i.e. press Enter to open the in-game menu and choose Save)
9. After going through the entire saving process, close the emulator. If you look in the new folder you created in step 1, you should see a 128KB save file corresponding to your rom.
10. Create another new folder within the folder you made in step 1
11. Copy the emulator and the rom into the folder you created in step 9. DO NOT COPY ANY OF THE OTHER FILES
12. Open the copy of the emulator you copied in the last step (i.e. in the newest folder). Do not load the rom
13. Change the save type to Flash 128K by going to Options -> Emulator -> Save Type -> Flash 128K
14. If you are playing Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald, you should turn on the Real Time Clock by going to Options -> Emulator -> Real Time Clock
15. Load the copy of the rom found in the newest folder you made - it should be the one that shows up automatically on the screen
16. There should be NO white screen. Now go to File -> Import -> Battery File... Click on the icon with the folder and an upward-pointing arrow (i.e. go to the folder you created in step 1). Load the 128KB save that was created in step 8. At the confirmation screen, click "Yes"
17. After the initial intro screen, you should get an error message like "The save file is corrupted. The previous save file will be load." That is correct behavior, so proceed to the next step
18. Choose to continue with the existing save file
19. Now use the in-game save again (i.e. press Enter to open the in-game menu and choose Save)
20. Reset the emulator (File -> Reset)
21. When the rom loads again, there should be no error message pertaining to the save. If you close the emulator, you will find a 128KB save file corresponding to the rom in the newest folder you made (in step 9). 22. Delete all the files in the folder you made in step 1 so that you don't confuse them with the good saves (don't delete the folder you made in step 9 of course).
23. Continue playing using the in-game save that was generated in steps 19-22. You may want to make a save state immediately just in case
There seems to be some issues with Fire Red saves that makes them impossible to recover. Recovery with Leaf Green saves seems to be possible. However, if you have a Leaf Green rom it is possible to fix the firered save using these instructions, with the Leaf Green rom."
Worked perfectly for me when I was trying to play ShinyGold, and I just copied and used the ROM and the fixed saves and everything when I patched it for LC.
If I shouldn't be posting this, a mod'll probably edit this post, but if it's all right, maybe we can put these save issues to rest here.
Ummm just alerting you guys of a mistake or a bug i encountered in the ice gym, Ice attacks are super effective against rock or ground (not sure which) and i know it isn't meant to be like that. Sorry to bother you
And by the way, where do I battle Regis, Ho-oH, the other Lati@s, Celebi, Rayquaza, Kyogre, Groudon, Deoxys, Mew and Mewtwo? :P
And how do I get to Orange Island?
And where's Red? I believe it's at Mt. Crystal, but there's a guy blocking the path!
EDIT: I think I found out I was playing Beta 2.0 :P
EDIT2: Wait, it was Beta 2.1. The intro confused me. xD
Ummm just alerting you guys of a mistake or a bug i encountered in the ice gym, Ice attacks are super effective against rock or ground (not sure which) and i know it isn't meant to be like that. Sorry to bother you :P
I wasn't sure where to post this but whoever made the walkthrough forgot to mention where the leaf stones are, so just a tip so that whoever made it can update it. Gotta say it was a real good guide, it helped lots. Also for anyone who wants to know, from what I can tell, you can only get leaf stones from some dude that sells them in Cerulean City, so yeah, you're gonna have to wait awhile before you can evolve any grass types.
Also is there a thread where I can post the bugs that I find in the game, like an appropriate thread so that the creators of the hack can see it and take notes?
I beat my rival in the burned tower and my game froze when I fell down in the hole.
Edit: I found out that when you battle/beat some trainers using VBA's Speed it freezes as a black screen, also I beat the team static at new bark and when I came out of Prof. Elms the entrance/exit to New Bark was trees only so I cant leave.
Only use YAPE for the pokemon who can't evovle because of a bug (Espeon/Umbreon/Gengar)
Quote originally posted by suckmyoff:
I wasn't sure where to post this but whoever made the walkthrough forgot to mention where the leaf stones are, so just a tip so that whoever made it can update it. Gotta say it was a real good guide, it helped lots. Also for anyone who wants to know, from what I can tell, you can only get leaf stones from some dude that sells them in Cerulean City, so yeah, you're gonna have to wait awhile before you can evolve any grass types.
Also is there a thread where I can post the bugs that I find in the game, like an appropriate thread so that the creators of the hack can see it and take notes?
I will update the walkthrough when Beta 3 is released. The leaf stone location wasn't in it, because I didn't knew it's location.
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I beat my rival in the burned tower and my game froze when I fell down in the hole.
Edit: I found out that when you battle/beat some trainers using VBA's Speed it freezes as a black screen, also I beat the team static at new bark and when I came out of Prof. Elms the entrance/exit to New Bark was trees only so I cant leave.
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Gifts from Japan
In one of my previous assignments, I had this awesome opportunity to work on a coffee table book. Awesome because, I love those décor books (and own some good ones) and because I learnt a lot about sustainable practices from around the world. More on that later. For now, let me tell you a little bit about how writing a chapter on ‘Furoshiki’ for the book opened my mind to many things Japanese. Every once in a while I have one or other Japanese companion with me, in the form of a practice, a book or even food. I am sharing the ones relevant to us in today’s times.
Since I am Sikkimese, I grew up watching the pink blossoms in winters too, but didn’t quite enjoy them. They signaled the beginning of our Annual School Exams and we were always walking bent into our books that we totally missed smelling those flowers on the way, atleast I did. Next tryst with anything remotely Japanese was the book by Arthur Golden, ‘Memoirs of a Geisha’ which I read when it was released in the late 90’s. Fascinating how a book takes you to a place you’ve never been, even more so when you can relate to parts of the story and enjoy a really great book.
Much later, past college, into worklife I was sitting with my laptop researching ‘Furoshiki’ for the coffee table book. With that piece of cloth, I was once again brought in touch with Japan and its culture.
Furoshiki and Sustainable Living
Yes, Furoshiki is a Japanese wrapping cloth. They are designed to be knotted in a manner that makes it easy to carry around small parcels such as tiffin boxes, cosmetics and other small everyday things and are used for gift-wrapping as well. Cloth being reusable is environment friendly as well as user-friendly and flexible enough to twist and turn into knots, to the likes of the parcel. A totally sustainable practice worth emulating from Japan. Here’s a video on how to use ‘Furoshiki’.
The Devotion of Suspect X
For a long time, the only Japanese novelist I had been reading was Haruki Murakami. While I tried a lot of Murakami and it was a fantastic read, it truly doesn’t come out Japanese. And besides my favourite genre is suspense. With a busy schedule and travels, I love sharp and immersive reads. I met my match with Keigo Higashino’s ‘The Devotion of Suspect X’. Unfortunately, looks like, I read faster than he can write ☺. I have read every one of his books, and each one is as good as the next. In his books you get to read a suspense based in Japan with some precise mathematics. Airport read, sure, but definitely a must-read Japanese writer.
The art of discarding
I would have chosen the title from Marie Kondo’s book ‘The life changing art of tidying up’, but I am not a tidy person and nor in my heart of hearts I want to become one. I love having my favourite things around me, creating a rather untidy but cosy atmosphere. The ‘KonMarie’ method is popular for arranging or decluttering each and every space in your house. Marie says, look at a thing and ask ‘Does this spark joy?’, if it doesn’t discard it. Marie Kondo with her impeccable style and beauty is very popular. However, Japan and its art of decluttering and simple living has been there for centuries. I read the book ‘the art of discarding’ by Nagisa Tatsumi and although dated, you get a sense of the Japanese culture of being clutter free. This art has inspired people to not just declutter every space in the house but also at workplace, in relationships and overall in the mind, body and soul. Modern experts prescribe this as the best way to live a healthy life, in today’s times. Now you can look at a person or an assignment and ask yourself, ‘does this spark joy?’ ☺
Finding your purpose with Igikai
You’ve heard of Hygge or maybe not. It is a Danish concept of achieving sublimity. It’s a great concept and I love it. However, when it comes to career-centricity or work, it’s the Japanese Igikai, which takes the cake as a popular concept to help businesses and teams find their purpose and thereby find fulfillment in life. It’s that point where your skills, passion and mission are aligned. Its popularity is its simplicity. To achieve your purpose you ask yourself:
What do you love?
What does the world need?
What can you be paid for?
What are you good at?
Here’s an article to help you with Igikai.There are fascinating cultures and concepts from all over the world and the above are some of the gifts from Japan to the world, like free and open source software. Arigatō
Ira is a Corporate Communications Leader with experience in Healthcare, Consumer Electronics, IT, Retail and the Automotive industry. She hails from the small and beautiful state of Sikkim and considers herself a complete Mountain Girl.
In a career spanning over a decade as a communications expert, she has championed and led programs on several sustainable business practices, diversity and inclusion programs.
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Don’t let the name of my blog fool you. I’m not a full-time dreamer. I am very goal oriented, do what I have to, to get where I want in life. In the next few years, while I’m living in a new location, close to where my daughter goes to high school, I will be learning new skills, (work skills and personal skills) to take my life and career mobile. I’d like to be able to travel and make money while doing it. Whether in a hotel, staying in an apartment for part of the year, or doing off-grid living. This will include learning anything from Coding and web design to archery and shooting a gun. I have a lot to learn, and I understand that! I have skills currently that I’m using and will be sharing with others as well.
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With that said, in the future, I am planning for an off-grid living lifestyle. I don’t want to be someone who is not prepared for what may come at us. There are a number of things, such as:
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) – This could happen at any time if another country who has the capability to attack the U.S. This event will shut down anything electronic. Cellphones, Car, Airplanes. This could be one of the most disastrous events as we, as a society, are so dependent on anything electronic.
Financial Collapse of our country – Look at what happened to Greece recently. The U.S. has gone through several recessions. What is to say the next one, we will recover from.
These three are the most likely to occur in my lifetime. My daughter, who is 15, just shakes her head when I buy something new for this possible future of ours. I tell her that it doesn’t hurt to be prepared and casually bringing some teachings into our conversations.
This seems to be a very popular topic lately as more and more people are becoming more aware of what could happen. I’ve read One Second After recently and am getting ready to read One Year After: A Novel by William R. Forstchen. The first book has actually been referenced in Congress. It was a great read and very eye opening. I’m in the process of writing my own post-apocalyptic book from the view of a mother and daughter living on opposite coasts and the struggles they face trying to reach their new home in the mountains.
Now, I’m not one of those who has YEARS of food ready if something were to happen. Heck, I don’t have a lot of tools that I know I will need if our lifestyle were to change. I am slowly building this up. I’m not rich. I’m not going to go crazy and spend all my money on this. Why? Because I also know that we have to live in the here and now.
These are just a few things I’ve bought to place in my 5 gallon bucket. I’ve bought enough to put in the bucket for myself and my daughter’s. Some of the items that are overlooked are fun things. You need your morale during rough times! I’ve included playing cards as well as chocolate in my buckets. Included is also glow sticks. For the stay at home emergencies, make sure to have water stocked up. It is best to have one gallon of water per person, per day. Protein bars are very important, as are medications. If you have daily medications that you need to take, make sure you try to put some aside. I have hypothyroidism. So, I do take a daily pill. There are times I do not take them every day, so, I’ll estimate what I may have missed, put them in another pill bottle and keep them in my fire box. Every three months, I’ll change them out with fresh pills.
I also have a bug out bag. A backpack that holds pretty much the same items in my 5-gallon buckets. The bags will be easier to grab and go if we have to leave in a hurry. The next thing on my list is a bike. This is because, in the event of the EMP, my 2014 car is not going to cut it. It will be shut down with all electronics. My daughter has a bike at her father’s, but, I’ll need one. I plan to start riding it and building up my stamina.
That leads to another topic. Your energy. I know that I have a few pounds to lose. Okay, if I’m being honest, more than a few pounds. I’ll be doing this with walking, biking and other forms of exercise. This is all once I move into my new place and not as overwhelmed in getting my stuff packed up and moved. Being fit is pretty important if you have to survive a new life on the move if you have to get out of your area.
In the case of the financial collapse of our country, I also have cash stashed in different locations. Not just the bank, but, none in my home. That’s just asking for trouble! Realistically speaking, I know that the money I have put aside will vary. Vacations come up as do emergencies. An example is my daughter needing braces. My half, as my daughters father and I split her costs, is almost $2,000. Another example, during the sale of my home, my neighbor was selling his home as well. We had to share the cost of replacing the steps in front of our homes. So, having that money put aside was a blessing!
Emergencies come in different forms. Being prepared for a week of power outages is just as important as being prepared for a long term life altering emergency.
So, this is just some of what I’ve done to be prepared for certain types of emergencies. What have you done to have your family prepared. Or, do you think this is something that will never happen in your lifetime?
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Saturday, October 7, 2017
Welcome to the first Saturday of the NHL season. And welcome to a new weekly feature. Every Saturday this year we’ll take a look around the league at some of the best games, storylines and head-to-head matchups that we’ll be seeing that night. We’ll also dip into the archives for a quick history lesson, and make a prediction that (spoiler alert) will end up being wrong. It should be fun.
Hockey is a team game, fans are constantly reminded. The word is basically inscribed directly into the brains of anyone who sets foot in an NHL arena. You win as a team and lose as a team. There’s no “I” in team. And without question, no single player can ever be bigger than the team.
Great. With that out of the way, let’s spend the next few paragraphs talking about Connor McDavid.
Last year, he won the Art Ross and the Hart Trophy as a 20-year-old. This year, virtually everyone is picking him to do it again. These days he’s in every ad, on every poster and just went first overall in your office hockey pool. The hype train hasn’t just left the station; it’s sprouted wings, gone airborne and is skywriting “MCDAVID IS AWESOME” over every rink in the league.
And after watching him in Wednesday’s season opener, it feels like we may have undersold the kid.
It took him about 30 seconds to get his first breakaway of the season. He had his first goal by the 11-minute mark, coming on a play in which he demonstrated a Wayne Gretzky-like ability to drift into an empty spot where the puck was about to arrive. And then midway through the third period, with the game on the line, came this:
I mean, what do you do against a player who can do that? Really, what are your options? Tackle him? Leave two guys back in your own zone at all times, just in case? Pray? Players aren’t supposed to get faster with the puck on their stick, but McDavid has shown up and broken the NHL’s physics engine. What’s the plan here?
The Flames sure don’t know. They got the schedule at the same time we all did. They spent the last few months knowing that their first game of the regular season would come against McDavid and the Oilers. They have a new goaltender and arguably the best blue line in the league, and they know that the path out of the Pacific probably goes through Edmonton.
They had all the time in the world to come up with a game plan to stop, or at least contain, Connor McDavid.
And we saw what happened.
Tonight’s opponent is the Canucks, finally making their season debut. Like the Flames, they’ve also had plenty of time to think about how to stop McDavid. Unlike the Flames, they do not have one of the best blue lines in the league, although they will have last change. Maybe that helps. It probably won’t.
This season is shaping up to be the Connor McDavid show. Oilers fans are already delirious. The rest of us might as well enjoy the ride… at least on the nights that it’s not our team’s turn to step into the thresher. | {
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Family units and unaccompanied children continue to flow into the Rio Grande Valley
Release Date:
October 11, 2018
EDINBURG, Texas – U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley continue to encounter family units and unaccompanied children in large numbers.
Early Friday morning, agents assigned to the Weslaco station encountered a group of 40 illegal aliens comprised of family units and unaccompanied children from the country of Guatemala near Hidalgo, Texas.
RGV agents apprehend large numbersof family units and unaccompanied children
Hours later, McAllen agents encountered a group of 20 illegal aliens comprised of family units and unaccompanied children south of Granjeno, Texas. During the encounter, agents observed additional subjects staging on the Mexican riverbank and contacted the Mexican authorities. The Government of Mexico responded and took the group into custody.
Early this morning, Weslaco agents encountered a group of 31 illegal aliens near Hidalgo, Texas. The group of family units and unaccompanied children are from the countries of Guatemala and El Salvador.
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The latest cuts are likely an effort to reach annual sales goals, which is 12,000 Prius' sold for 2013. For the first nine months, Toyota has only sold 8,000.
Many other automakers have been lowering prices this year, such as General Motors, which cut the Volt's price by $5,000 to $34,995; Ford, which cut the price of the Focus EV by $4,000 to $35,200, and Nissan, which slashed the Leaf's price by 18 percent earlier this year to $28,800 (and has seen a significant sales increase since).
Earlier this month, Toyota said it would pass on electric vehicles to focus more heavily on hydrogen fuel cell technology and continue releasing hybrid vehicles. For instance, the automaker said it would release 15 new hybrids and unveil its first hydrogen fuel cell vehicle by 2015.
Toyota is focused on its next-generation Prius as well, which is expected to have better batteries with higher energy density. The company said it's using nickel-metal hydride and lithium-ion where necessary and even upped its research on new battery technologies like solid state and lithium air as well as magnesium. The Prius will also feature smaller electric motors; thermal efficiency of the gasoline engine will be boosted from 38.5 percent in current models to 40 percent in the next-generation; the use of Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) will allow for a lower center of gravity and increased structural rigidity, and better aerodynamics will offer an all-new exterior design.
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An Inside Look is a series profiling different careers within the snow sports industry. With firsthand knowledge each edition will feature a different job that Newschoolers members have held in order to make a living. From ski patrolling to ski building, many different aspects of the industry will be covered. This series is designed to provide a behind the scenes look at some of the more coveted positions within the industry.
Many of us have dreamed of working within the ski industry but only a handful of us muster up the courage to take the leap. Those who have attempted to work their way through the snow sports universe understand that the struggle is real and while every day presents itself with new challenges opportunities are abundant. The first edition of this series will focus on the world of a terrain park employee. I recently had the pleasure of interviewing long time member Jonathan Rustin aka theabortionator, a crowd favorite here at Newschoolers. In his 12 year career Rusty has worked at five different ski resorts scattered across the United States as well as spending a winter in New Zealand. From building rails in the shop to raking and maintaining features on the hill Borty is a seasoned terrain park employee. Having held almost every position on a terrain park staff from entry level all the way up to management Jonathan played a pivotal role in the park transformation at little Oak Mountain in upstate New York.
A: A few years teaching lessons starting when I was 14. I was a ticket checker for a month or so after I broke my collar bone. Other than that mostly living in the park aside from helping out some other departments short term. Shifting more into grooming this next season.
What jobs have you held within the terrain park and at which resorts?
A:Gore - Terrain Park Crew, second year Supervisor (2 seasons)
West - Terrain Park Lead (3 seasons)
Cranmore - Terrain Park Crew (1 season)
Oak - Terrain Park Manager (2 seasons)
Mt Ruapehu - Terrain Park Crew (1 season)
Beaver Creek - Terrain Park Crew (1 season)
Why did you choose your career over an average cubicle desk job?
A: I honestly kind of got thrown into it. I got in trouble for building a jump at gore and after yelling at me they mentioned that there was an opening on the park crew. As far as sticking with it, there's just a freedom that I wouldn't get sitting behind a desk that no amount of money could really make up for. The fact that it's seasonal work really makes it easy to move around and keep things fresh as well.
Sitting in a busted lifeguard chair with a sombrero watching people shred the park
Shoveling for a booter build at Gore circa 2007
What steps did you take to get to where you are today?
A: A few years in I realized it was something I wanted to do forever, and that it might actually be possible to do so. I got a lot more proactive about looking into jobs, setting goals, and doing anything to keep the dream alive.
What are some of the rewards of your job?
A: Sneaking away for some early morning pow laps, sometimes before the lifts are open to the public never hurts. One of the more obvious ones is the ability to take some ideas from my head, and make them a reality. I would have to say that the biggest reward for me personally is just hanging out in the park and watching kids have fun on the things that I built. A few smiles goes along way and makes all the work that went into it 100% worth it.
What are the biggest challenges that you face while working?
A: It really depends on the place and the people you're working with. The most universal challenge would be lazy people. Sometimes it's all hard working people, sometimes not so much. When it's cold, and you're tired and working late, it's tough to keep motivated when there's a lazy person or buzz kill working with you.
What's the best day you've had on the job and why?
A: There have been some great days but one that sticks out was this last summer at Mt. Ruapehu. We had just gotten some snow, parks were pretty dialed, and we took some pow laps hitting some natural features the mountain had to offer. When we finished up in the park, we rode down as the sun set. It was one of those days that really sums up the reason you work in the mountains in a way that words really can't. One of those days where you have that big grin and think "WOW!" but also a deep feeling of reverence toward the mountains.
Posing with some freshly assembled jibs in New Zealand
How has your work in terrain parks and more specifically working within the ski industry changed your life?
A: I don't know if it changed my life as much as it allowed me to really live my life. It's pretty crazy to think about honestly. For nearly half of my life now I've been working in the ski industry. This past winter was my 13th season. I guess it kind of feels like an obsession that I never grew out of. At some point you're pushed to surrender your silly childish dreams and get serious. I guess I just never really did things the proper way. For me, working in the mountains is something that always made sense to me. It's been the glue that's held everything else together. I really can't see myself doing another job ever again. If I could continue to travel, build parks, meet amazing people, and shred pow for the rest of my life, I don't care how poor I'll be, that's the life I want.
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
A: I consulted the magic 8 ball and it said "maybe". I'm not really sure what that means but I'm going to assume it means great things. I'm just hoping to go to some cool places, meet good people, and stay hopelessly obsessed with terrain parks.
What advice would you give to someone that is hoping to follow a career path similar to yours?
A: Go for it now. Even if it's just for one season, living in the mountains is an awesome experience. Make the best of your time and try not to let the bad days ruin it for you. Always be on the prowl for new opportunities whether it's a better job or just a change of scenery. Have fun and enjoy yourself. If you're not having fun what's the point?
Quality control on a build in New Zealand
Managing the park at Oak Mountain left him with invaluable experience leading his own crew and designing builds. The industry has provided Rusty with numerous skills and he has had the opportunity to partake in certain events that are off limits to the average Joe, "One of the coolest things was going to cutters camp a couple years ago. Seeing some of the guys from all these mountains I follow, and the fact that everyone was so damn humble and really open to learn new things ... Really cool that some of those guys were building some of the best parks out there but nobody was a douche".
Before
His time in the industry hasn't always been painless, dealing with upper management at smaller resorts can be a hassle and losing a job due to a bankrupt resort is never easy. Often times it is difficult to build and maintain a park, you need to be able to adjust on the fly in order to meet public demand and with limited resources rebuilding your park is not always that simple. There is always work that needs to be done, posting signs, raking features and collecting feedback from the public are all key tasks that a park employee can expect to perform on the daily. Some times you will struggle with a lazy coworker or an under-qualified boss but the occasional "quality control" lap and countless smiling faces make it all worthwhile in the end.
After
Getting your foot in the door is never easy regardless of what industry you're trying to break into. Keeping your foot lodged in that door year after year is becoming increasingly difficult in an industry that does not provide spectacular wages or a glamorous lifestyle but Rusty has managed to bring himself back season after season. There is no end in sight for Jonathan, with his strong work ethic and lengthy resume he has the aspirations of someday building features for non profit and free ski areas. The gears continue to turn and next season he will be offered a grooming position at Vail, "I've come a long way since I was building jumps with my avy shovels and getting bitched at by patrol on the daily, but there is so much stuff out there on a whole different level. The goal is to get there someday, and it's definitely possible, but right now I'm kind of just a guy chillin in the park.". | {
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Football shake-up is official at Bel Air Blizzard out, Riley in as varsity coach
February 28, 1993|By John W. Stewart | John W. Stewart,Staff Writer
The athletic department at Bel Air High has resembled of late a version of the old shell game. The difference is there is a problem under every shell.
Countless rumors and stories pertaining to personnel and programs have run rampant.
Since early December, however, football has drawn most of the attention.
Now, principal William M. Ekey has confirmed what has been speculated on for weeks.
"Bruce Riley has replaced Gene Blizzard as head football coach at Bel Air High School," he said.
Ekey said he had not made the change public at the time it was done to give Riley and assistant Doug Dempsey a chance to put some of their ideas in place without a lot of attention.
Dempsey is a former varsity assistant who teamed with Riley to )) produce junior-varsity records of 10-0 and 8-2 the last two years.
Last October, Dempsey indicated he would not be back in the fall of 1993. Ekey admitted he was concerned because Dempsey and Riley worked closely as a team.
"We had 55-60 JV players who loved them. And I thought they were terrific coaches and terrific young men," he said.
"Last season, we had some vacancies on the varsity coaching staff, and there were some parents who wanted Riley and Dempsey moved up, but I didn't want to make any changes until after the season."
The principal's first thought was to add the two JV coaches to Blizzard's varsity staff, but that didn't work out.
"Shortly after the season, I talked with the two JV coaches, and it came down to a choice between keeping Blizzard or keeping Riley," Ekey said. "The sole reason for making the change was Gene was unable to carry out something that I wanted done.
"Normally, my hands are off the athletic program."
Blizzard, who has coached for 17 years, has been at Bel Air for seven years, the last two as head football coach. He kept juniors and seniors on the varsity, letting the younger players -- even those who might have helped -- stay on the junior varsity learning fundamentals and getting playing experience.
The varsity records were 0-10 and 2-8, but "last fall, as the season went on, I thought our quality of play improved," Ekey said.
Blizzard said that at one point last season Ekey called him into his office and asked if he'd mind having Dempsey on his varsity staff next year. There were two vacancies and he wanted to fill them with Dempsey and Riley.
"I told him OK. It was no big deal," Blizzard said. "The only indication I had was that I was going to be the head coach. The end of November Mr. Ekey told me the two would be my assistants.
"I didn't have a good feeling about it, but later in the week, Doug called me and asked if I thought we could work together. I was reserved, but said I thought we could, and later told Bruce we could give it a trial. They both thought it would work and that's what I thought."
That situation changed a short time later, Blizzard said.
"The Monday morning after our December wrestling tournament [Blizzard is Bel Air's wrestling coach], Mr. Ekey said he wanted to see me. We'd had an incident over the weekend, and I asked if it was about wrestling, and he said yes.
"In his office, we talked about the incident and then, out of the blue, he said, 'I'm going to replace you as football coach with Bruce Riley.' It devastated me. I'm not over it yet. I love the kids and I enjoy working here. And what really bothers me is he told a few people I resigned. I'd never think of resigning. I was fired.
"Mr. Ekey gave me a perfect coaching evaluation -- after I was fired."
Ekey said he liked the willingness of Riley and Dempsey to put in extra time with an active weight program, fund-raising, home visits and the possibility of a preseason camp. But Blizzard, who is seeking a teaching/coaching position elsewhere, pointed out he had had an optional winter weight program and followed closely the academic progress of his players.
Riley, an Abingdon native who graduated from Edgewood High in 1981 and the University of Maryland in 1987, has been a teacher at Bel Air since the fall of 1988. He considers Dempsey a co-coach.
Riley has relinquished his duties as head lacrosse coach because, "football needs are a full-time job and I couldn't handle my other responsibilities," he said.
Ekey said, "I am extremely pleased. There is a level of enthusiasm, an effort to get ready. I don't know or care about the record; I know we'll improve. Good management will lead to a better team." | {
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Thursday, 25 November 2010
Paradise lost, Paradise regained
Ok, a silly post folks. Some of you might remember that a few weeks ago I wrote that I had misplaced or lost my entire Amouage sample set. I thought the last I'd seen of it had been when I was in my work toilet, of all places (don't ask). Tragedy!
Anyway, today I was rummaging around in one of my desk drawers at work and lo and behold, under a sheath of old, useless papers was my sample set, forlorn and lost-looking. Serendipity indeed. And to think I had had visions of Amouage vials either slipping into the pockets of the cleaner, or worse still, being thrown away with the trash! I am a happy man today!
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Boring accountant by profession, closet perfume addict, I came to be interested in perfume quite late, during 2007. I live with my wife and two young daughters in west Kent, having formerly lived in London and prior to that, South Africa. | {
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Bharat alias Kartik, son of Parasram Mahavar, a resident of Bairagarh was reported missing on Monday evening after he didn’t return home from his school in the afternoon
An 8-year-old boy studying in class 2 was kidnapped and killed at Bairahgarh town at outskirts of Bhopal on Monday. Police detained his private tutor Vishal Rupani alias Bittu on suspicion of his involvement in the crime and later arrested him on his confession.
Bharat alias Kartik, son of Parasram Mahavar, a resident of Bairagarh was reported missing on Monday evening after he didn’t return home from his school in the afternoon and despite a frantic search by his parents and relatives he couldn’t be found.
Employees of a toll plaza spotted a gunny bag late in the evening and informed police about it. The police recovered the strangulated and dead body of the child.
A CCTV footage showed the child going inside a shop along with the accused where the latter worked and later the accused dragging a gunny bag outside the shop. The tutor lives in the same locality in which parents of the child live.
According to Bairagarh police, the child’s mother Savita Mahavar in her statement before the police suspected involvement of the home tutor who, she alleged, had threatened her with dire consequences after she had objected to his objectionable behaviour. The family asked him about a couple of months back to stop coming for teaching due to his behaviour. | {
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I wrap up my brief, impromptu México City visit with a blog written in the same format as part 1. Once again, I leave feeling super humbled by all the city offers. This time around, not only did I write months of new material in a week, I also sought out moments of purposeful vulnerability. Now it’s time to leave, but I’m not ready to go. I never am. ****************************************************** I never know which direction I’ll go until the time comes to decide. If I’ve listened to my gut I always find signs, like an Oración al Coyote, reminding me… | {
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The Methodist Church in Neillsville was the scene of the one
o’clock wedding on Saturday, March 7, of Miss Janice Kay
Smith, daughter of James A. Smith and Edward L. Phillips, son of
Mrs. Viola Phillips, all of Loyal, R. 2. The Rev. Virgil
Holmes officiated at the nuptial service.
Miss Hazel Schwanib of Neillsville, a cousin of the groom, was the
bride’s maid of honor and Fredrick Elmhorst of Loyal served
his friend as best man.
The bride wore a beige suit, a clip hat of beige and green flowers,
and brown accessories.
Her corsage was an orchid surrounded with white baby
mums.
Her bridesmaid wore a navy blue suit with white accessories and
white carnations edged with pink made her
corsage.
The groom’s mother wore an aqua dress with white accessories
and a corsage of pink carnations.
A wedding supper for the immediate family was given at the Hickory
Pit at Marshfield.
The bride is a graduate of the Loyal High School. The groom
attended the Loyal High School. He was in the Marines from
1954 to 1956. He is employed at the Jack Mullins Cheese
Factory.
When the new Mr. and Mrs. Phillips return from a honeymoon in
southern Wisconsin they will make their home on R. 2,
Loyal. | {
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In a Facebook post, Ashley said he wished it would have “ended differently.” He also Tweeted, “Being the professional I am I wont call anyone out or point fingers as to why I left.. but if ya meet me in person.. feel free to ask.”
This isn’t the first time Static-X has had bassist issues. Original bassist Tony Campos said around the time of the band’s reunion that he has no interest in working with frontman Wayne Static now or in the future. Campos recently played bass on the new Prong record, Carved Into Stone.
A tough job? Maybe. It is unknown who will be playing bass for Static-X’s upcoming tour with Emmure and Ill Nino. | {
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Click on the Trash can on the Dock, hold down the ‘option’ key and click the ‘Empty’ button over there on the left side of the window. If this doesn’t do it, the file may be in the .Trash folder of your Time Machine (TM) or some other disk.
To find out if that’s so, follow this procedure:
1. Open Terminal.app, copy and paste the following command into the Terminal window
2. Open a Finder window. Navigate to the TM disk starting from its icon in the left hand column. You should see some greyed out folders called .Trash and .Trashes. Click on these and have a look for the boot.efi file that we’re hunting down.
To remove the boot.efi file from the hidden trash, try the following:
3. Go back to Terminal and copy and paste the following:
sudo rm -rf
Do NOT press ‘Return’. Instead, press the Spacebar once, then use your cursor to drag the boot.efi file from the hidden folder in Step 2 and drop it in the Terminal window. Now press ‘Return’. You will be asked for an administrator password and given a warning which you can ignore. Type in your password, but notice that your typing will be invisible, so type carefully. | {
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2007 Subaru WRX sedan 152K Black 5 Speed M/T
Our newest car is a Subaru 2007 WRX sedan with 152K. The car is Obsidian Black Pearl (32J) on the exterior, interior is in good condition and has a black and gray color scheme. Car was hit in the rear and had some damage to the front passenger side, all doors had damage and were torn down for parts. Hood and trunk lid are in good condition (both have been sold). The car was ran and lot driven, with no issues engine sounds and runs good (sold). The transmission fluid was clean and clear when drained and shifted through gears, no damage or issues that we could see (sold). This being the 06-07 WRX the car came with the Subaru 4pot 2pot Brakes which are in great condition, we are selling all four calipers with the rear hubs/knuckles together as a complete brake swap (sold). This car came with a few after market pieces, it had a invidia catback exhaust which has had the exhaust tip/muffler cut off (see pictures for reference). It also came with a red perrin turbo inlet in great condition and a glow shift boost gauge | {
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Top PSU lenders State Bank, Punjab National Bank and Union Bank on Sunday slashed their benchmark lending rates by up to 90 basis points, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked banks to priorities their lending towards the poor and middle class.
The country's largest lender, SBI, has reduced marginal cost of funds based lending rate by 0.9 per cent from 8.90 per cent to 8 per cent for one-year tenure, the bank said in a statement.
Flushed with funds after demonetisation, the base interest rate for other tenures, including one month, three months and six months, has been slashed by 0.9 per cent.
MCLR has been reduced by 0.9 percentage points to 8.10 per cent for two-year term and 8.15 per cent for three-year tenure.
Other public sector lenders Punjab National Bank and Union Bank of India too have brought down the benchmark interest rate by up to 0.9 per cent.
PNB has cut its one-year MCLR rate by 0.7 per cent to 8.45 per cent from 9.15 per cent, effective Sunday.
Lending rate was moderated by similar percentage points for 3 years and 5 years period to 8.60 per cent and 8.75 per cent, respectively.
Similarly, Union Bank of India has reduced its MCLR by 0.65-0.9 per cent to 8.65 per cent, effective today. The revised one-year MCLR stands at 8.65 per cent.
"Welcome reduction of interest rates by SBI. Loan disbursements expected to pick up. Positive for the economy," he added.
On Saturday, the prime minister had asked banks to pay special attention towards the need of poor and middle class.
"While respecting the autonomy of the banks, I appeal to them to move beyond their traditional priorities, and keep the poor, the lower middle class, and the middle class at the focus of their activities," he had said.
Last week, SBI's subsidiary State Bank of Travancore had announced reduction in the lending rate, followed by another public lender IDBI which cut base interest rate by up to 0.6 per cent.
Banks have moved to MCLR as their new benchmark lending rate from June, replacing the base rate system for new borrowers. It is calculated on the marginal cost of borrowing and return on net worth for banks. It was introduced by RBI to ensure fair interest rates to borrowers as well as banks. | {
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For while words and ‘talking therapies’ can often help us define and cope with the problems in our lives, they’re not the only way.
One of these is experiential knowledge of self, which can sometimes leave words – both spoken and written – far, far behind. And perhaps experiences and thoughts can’t always be easily translated into words in the first place. Perhaps, as the poet Kahlil Gibran noted, “thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly”.
So how might you help your thoughts escape the world of words – in your mind, your mouth or your journal – and let them fly wherever they’re drawn to? | {
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Bizarre blotter: 'We both know I'm drunk,' driver tells cop
Bizarre blotter: 'We both know I'm drunk' driver tells cop
Massachusetts driver to cop: 'We both know I'm drunk' (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)Marshall Smith, a 42-year-old Massachusetts resident, gets this week's award for telling it like it is. When he was pulled over for driving erratically on Sunday - with a Budweiser can in his cup holder - all he really wanted was to get out of taking sobriety tests and finish his beer. According to the police report, when asked how much he had to drink, Smith said: "Way too ... | {
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Rodgers, Isaac on board with USC
Five-star running back Ty Isaac and four-star offensive lineman Khaliel Rodgers, whose committments to USC had seemed firm throughout the recruiting process, have reportedly submitted their signed letters of intent to the Trojans.
USC has not yet confirmed receiving any letters of intent, but players are confirming their signings through Twitter and signing ceremonies.
Isaac, a 6-foot-2, 220-pound tailback out of Joliet Catholic Academy in Illinois, will be one of the top players in USC's recruiting class. Isaac is ranked as the No. 4 running back nationally by Rivals.com and the No. 7 running back by Scout.com.
Rodgers, listed at 6-foot-1, 300 pounds, is from Eastern Christian Academy of Elkton, Md. That's the same school that produced defensive tackle Kenny Bigelow, who signed last month as part of USC's early-enrollment group.
Rodgers' future with the Trojans could be interesting. He played guard in high school but is expected to shift to center. USC's starting center in 2012, Khaled Holmes, is a departing senior, and the Trojans are also expected to have guard Marcus Martin work out at center in spring practice.
USC is now waiting on offensive lineman Nico Falah, who is also considering Washington.
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Sunday, September 25, 2011
It is that time of year when we get to celebrate our freedom to read whatever we choose.
American Library Association: "Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.
Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.
The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society."
The most frequently challenged classics are listed below. See the reason why here.
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
1984, by George Orwell
Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son, by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclai
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
What challenged book will you be reading this week?
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That is interesting. I was substitute teaching high school English last week and had lunch w/ the English teachers and one teacher was saying that she did not want to use The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian in her class because she was not comfortable w/ the content and she was going to try to use an alternative book.
I just realized that I've spent so much time in the last week preparing for BBW that I have forgotten to think about actually reading one. (I'm a librarian at a CC and we are doing a big publicity thing, and I'm in charge of some of it.) Maybe The Red and the Black? I don't even know what that's about. I could read LOTR (burned in New Mexico for Satanism) or Anne of Green Gables (puts orphans in a bad light(!)) or Shel Silverstein (teaches kids not to do their chores) or the Bible! | {
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Jackson, who passed away in June 2009 at the age of 50, reportedly earned $170 million over the past 12 months. The King of Pop reached the number one ranking largely through sales of his back catalogue, royalties earned through his music publishing company Mijac Music and his cut in the Sony/ATV Music Publishing Catalogue, which includes a number of Beatles classics.
Rounding out the top five were Elvis in second place with $55 million, Marilyn Monroe with $27 million, Peanut’s cartoonist Charles Schulz ($25 million! Good Grief!), and John Lennon and Elizabeth Taylor ($12 milliona piece). Despite this achievement, Jackson’s earning have taken a tumble since last year when he raked in $275 million, primarily through record sales and the This Is It documentary. | {
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Ruling on GPS Tracking Could Protect Cellphone Privacy
If you’ve ever thought that law enforcement might be tracking you through your cell phone, you might be right. But unless the agency has a warrant, what they’re doing is unconstitutional.
In a recent court case, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that monitoring suspected lawbreakers via GPS without a warrant was unconstitutional by the parameters of the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Furthermore, the court ruled that evidence acquired via warrantless GPS tracking was inadmissible in the relevant case.
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Daum Communications kicked off SolCalendar 1.5 Beta which is the best alternative for Google Calendar. SEOUL, South Korea–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Daum Communications (KOSDAQ:035720) (CEO Sae-hoon Choi) has announced that it is seeking volunteers to test the Beta version of SolCalendar 1.5 in advance of its release. “SolCalendar users are very active in giving ideas and suggestions.” SolCalendar […] | {
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Sailing the Savage World of Caribdus
A world of swashbuckling adventure awaits you, all you have to choose now is your path. Do you choose to lucrative and legal path of a merchant, the dangerous and dishonest path of a pirate, the minacious and mired path of the privateer, or something altogether different? The choice is up to you and the crew you are a part of. Start you adventure by creating your character now following the Character Creation rules. | {
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RSpec.configure do |config|
config.mock_framework = :rspec
end
describe "mocking with RSpec" do
it "passes when it should" do
receiver = double('receiver')
receiver.should_receive(:message)
receiver.message
end
end
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.mock_framework = :rspec
end
describe "failed message expectation in a pending block" do
it "is listed as pending" do
pending do
receiver = double('receiver')
receiver.should_receive(:message)
end
end
end
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.mock_framework = :rspec
end
describe "passing message expectation in a pending block" do
it "fails with FIXED" do
pending do
receiver = double('receiver')
receiver.should_receive(:message)
receiver.message
end
end
end
RSpec.configure do |config|
config.mock_framework = :rspec
end
describe "RSpec.configuration.mock_framework.framework_name" do
it "returns :rspec" do
RSpec.configuration.mock_framework.framework_name.should eq(:rspec)
end
end | {
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In Memory
Mrs. Ruby Marian Wickings Mark (Special Ed Faculty)
Ruby Marian Wickings Mark
1896 - 1975
Mrs Ruby Wickings Mark, 78, of State Street Road, died at 2:15 p.m. Wednesday (May 7, 1975) at Genesee Memorial hospital after a long illness.Mrs. Mark was a school teacher for almost sixty years, most of which were spent teaching handicapped children in the Batavia School System. After her retirement in 1964, she substituted in Batavia and area schools.
She was second vice president of the Western New York Retired Teachers Assn. and an organizer of the Parent Teacher Assn. in Batavia.
A longtime member of the First United Presbyterian Church and its Friendly Class, Mrs. Mark was active in Sunday School work. She was recording secretary of the Holland Purchase Historical Society, past president of the Board of Directors of the YWCA, and past chairman of Genesee County Chapter Council for Exceptional Children.
Mrs. Mark served as a nurse's aide at St. Jerome Hospital during World War II and later was on the board of directors of Genesee Memorial Hospital. She played an active role in the project to finance and build Batavia's community swimming pool.
She was a member of the Wednesday Study Club and the Independent Assn. of Retired Persons.
Surviving are her husband, Wilson H. Mark; three sons, Wilson W. of Brigham, Utah, Lyle of State Street Road, and Lawrence of Holley; a sister Mrs. Glenna Westbrook of Atlanta Ga; 13 grandchildren, three great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be Friday at 10 a.m. and the First Presbyterian Church. Memorials may be made to the Fanny Dunham Scholarship Fund of the church. | {
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200 Kent Avenue is bounded by Kent Avenue, River Street, Metropolitan Avenue, and North Third Street. Photos show the different sides of the podium that are completely enclosed and parts that are underway, revealing the layers of installation in front of the perimeter walls of painted cinder block. Each gray metal panel features a repeating pattern of triangular and circular voids.
200 Kent Avenue, photo by Michael Young
200 Kent Avenue, photo by Michael Young
200 Kent Avenue, photo by Michael Young
200 Kent Avenue, photo by Michael Young
200 Kent Avenue, photo by Michael Young
200 Kent Avenue, photo by Michael Young
YIMBY last reported that a Trader Joe’s will take up 18,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space, though no official announcement has been made yet. The second level will house a parking garage behind the porous façade assembly. Meanwhile 22,640 square feet of office space is expected to occupy the third through sixth floors, where the glass curtain wall is visible. The third story comes with an open-air terrace that faces the East River. The cellar level will have an additional 44 parking spots.
200 Kent Avenue is likely to be finished sometime within this year. An official completion date has not been announced.
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Very different from the original design, but better. It’s an updated retro 60s design that is a rather nice change. Too bad the Trader Joe’s is so far from the train station, but that might keep it from being mobbed all the time. | {
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Hearth home security machine is put in in the construction according to zone and structure that integrates why these apparatus really are detector controller plus also they will have zone border that empowers how effortlessly flame might be avoided. These alarms devices are quite essential in crisis scenarios plus they’re a searchable supply in occasions of significant assistance.
Most significantly an atmosphere compressor is located included from the surface the region of the atmosphere conditioning system. But it’s the huge apparatus maintain your house trendy out of the interior.
Would you make a reference for the believer? Or does one choose that allowed simply because technical inventing of this system? Saltwater pool is crucial have an air-conditioning cooling system is undoubtedly confined by some given remote area that may be a dwelling or an office or some other other location.
Air can be ventilated or make use of the warmth might just be attracted not down before a couple has been sealed and enclosed out of each and every facet. Inside an ice box at an identical period that the mechanics would be precisely the same.
Yet gap is located in cooling system space where the have air-conditioning device handles a larger part. The process of immersion well that the air-conditioning equipment isn’t only the activity of this converter. The converter is the enormous but just two additional big parts may possibly be condenser in addition evaporator.
The total quality of the air-conditioning equipment provides the evaporator into a living room with an enclosed room. The condenser is placed involving as the converter is busier from the outside area. The performance begins the compressor off. Low-pressure petrol has been made nearby converter due to the fact movements of this working fluid that is classic. The liquid is commonly compacted within right here.
This compression attracts the molecules of their timeless functioning fluid closer jointly which fosters the vitality amount. The converter warms the fluid up which reaches the condenser within the future period. Blood circulation while employing the liquid as the liquid reaches the condenser it has changed to some healthy-pressure petrol.
The outside fins connected with the have air compressors work out of the radiator and thus the temperatures one of the petrol will be not reduced. The petrol is slowly converted to trendy liquid until it strikes on the evaporator. The move from the functioning fluid has been from reduced to under-hand and truly found inside the evaporator definitely one longer hours a lower anxiety atmosphere.
Gone would be the times when organizations used to conduct with just one individual adding just about everything that you simply get in a newspaper expenses and after that utilize their left brain’s math to amount just the most suitable quantity.
And your customer might leisurely verify the expenses to make certain its own correctness after that cover the amount. Together with the coordinated retail structure and automation of this idea of sale (POS) counter, the lifestyle and that the fashion firm has shifted 360 degrees.
The present-day cash drawer POS (Which is also known as “POS ลิ้นชักเก็บเงิน” in the Thai language) is wholly automatic and can be built with some type of pc, a screen monitor, a display to produce the merchandise scanned along with its particular price towards the client a card reader to get embracing E payments, a barcode scanner, even a backup printer and also a money drawer. Everything increases the Operation of the POS.
Cash Drawers are among the few matters that guarantee the money trades do require so long which the clients commence shedding their own patients.
The money dividers have been really intended and therefore it arouses the whole cash acquired by the selling of the items. This kind of money drawer can be critical own for virtually any retail store to guarantee happy clients moving away in your own store.
Picking the Correct Cash Drawer
That was a wide array of money dividers that can be found in the industry. The very first of all significant component in picking out a money drawer would be it will be procured. With the aim, there ought to be quite a fantastic top quality locking platform plus it needs to really be made of durable, tough cloth.
With regard towards the preliminary price of installment, besides the stability, a fantastic high-quality income drawer may function you for extended years without even committing any problem having its surplus utilization and constant slipping.
Ventilation plays an important function to perform inside daily to day lifestyle. There is an assortment of applications of those ventilators. Households and construction with all good venting are fitters and cozy houses. They truly are germ and breathable free from or contamination totally free locations in very fact.
Ventilators are absolutely inexpensive and therefore are rather beneficial to produce a healthy location for starters to survive. Roofs of your home and also the ventilators will be what that is cared of and consideration of. They aren’t high priced quite can be inexpensive. Additionally, there are lots of roofing ventilators producers available in the marketplace today.
All these ventilators permit very hot atmosphere that’s discharged from your air where folks dwell to really go outside of their space and rescue the roofing out of early collapse. All of the valves of your house, rooms, and buildings ought to be perfectly ventilated to protect against and interrupts the lifespan of their roofing and also reduce the vitality expenses.
There’s a quite common dilemma which sometimes is confronted with most folks surviving in some hotch-potch or infested regions that fundamentally contributes to suffocation. Suffocation may be averted whether there’s a center of cross venting inside the place. Cross venting could be your procedure that makes it possible for air to go in 1 aspect to the following which makes space exude warmth and departing the living room free of pollutant atmosphere.
You will find assorted kinds of roofing ventilators offered and therefore are frequently used based on different necessities of your house.
You’ll find respective issues that an ideal roofing and loft ventilator (Which is also known as ” พัดลมระบายอากาศ” in the Thai language) can remedy readily. Plus they follow:
Air becomes rapped into the loft on account of the incorrect venting; environment and creating to allow mildew to develop, the growth of mildew contributes to quite a few health issues and problems.
Air-conditions might need to perform tougher. Throughout summers heating temperatures increases quite higher this tends to make atmosphere purifier operate quite difficult. This also results in lack of results and energy in elevated electricity payments.You will find two Different Types of ventilators plus they’re:
In-take ventilators
Exhaust ventilators
And you will find 3 sorts of ingestion ventilators. All these ventilators are these put across the soffit and those let new air to come in by the loft although there Are Two Sorts of exhaust ventilators that can be:
Static ventilators
Electrical Power ventilators
Exhaust ventilators are set inside the top region of the roofing that enables the atmosphere from your loft to flee. Ventilation is also a significant area that ought to really be looked at or taken good care of.
If you’re providing good care of a mother or father or grandparent, you can feel embarrassing bringing certain problems. This atmosphere is both normal as well as anticipated.
Even now, talking these problems is important so as to be sure the individual or loved one is kept safe and sound and so is receiving the very most effective achievable treatment.
If beginning a dialog which can create the elderly uneasy, try out a non-threatening strategy. Start with declaring, “Plenty of persons your era practical experience.” Or, you might start with offering an educational booklet about the matter.
Medical practitioners and alternative wellness care suppliers may possibly likewise have the capacity to assist you to crack the ice and make a stigma-free circumstance for talking the situation.
Nevertheless, you might feel uncomfortable talking those issues, it’s important. There’s nothing more vital compared to your elder’s care and comfort (Which is also known as “การดูแลและความสบายของผู้สูงอายุ” in the Thai language). Below we discuss some issues which are significant but occasionally Hard to Consult with older citizens:
Driving security. This issue could be uttered as driving is related to freedom. It might be beneficial to start by mentioning that era often leads to diminished vision and slower response times. Request the elderly should they’ve undergone some motor vehicle collisions.
Additionally, talk prescription drugs the mature taxpayer is currently carrying as certain medication may cause anxiety or interfere judgment. Suggest options for driving, like making use of public transport.
Long-term good care. This form of senior care may hire home medical solutions, adult day treatment, and nursing home maintenance.
This issue might be debilitating as it could really hard to go over upcoming reductions in capacities as well as also health. In addition, the thought of leaving the comfort and familiarity of somebody’s home could be more stressful.
Advance maintenance directives and end-of-life maintenance. This is sometimes looked at being a “living will” or whatever precisely the individual might like to take place should they failed to need the ability to guide their particular attention later on.
It’s extremely tough to boost this dilemma as it can be terrifying to your elderly to consider. Even now, it’s quite essential to speak about everything exactly the elderly could need at the big event which she or he was to eventually become unwell.
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Your young ones will just adore this location as they are certain to find the occasion to play with their favorite games as this spot can be eased using all the tennis court, badminton court, cricket discipline and billiards. You may even exercise routinely within the fitness center over the enclosed subject of the apartments.
Charter yachts in Croatia possess the broad assortment of yachts that are quite unique from one another and offer an alternative sort of amenities for a lot of category of travelers at your yacht charter.
Croatia is among those sparkling locations with 1400 islands and historic cities. It’s turned into among the most useful spots for holiday locations to appeal guests.
It’s an increasing quantity of people year annually that really is a pleasant item for all these gorgeous locations. It’s a superb history that’s quite energetic from the occasions. It’s filled with jelqing undiscovered and islands coves to see and invest in the moment.
The Mediterranean can be anything to relish and adventure using charter yachts in Croatia. It’s a Spot of empires such as Christian, Venetian, and Roman. Each creature includes its own culture and history that are completely unique from each other. Croatia keeps climbing progressively, however, it really is getting to be among many rough locations in Europe.
Sorts of Charter at Croatia Yacht
A sailing in Croatia (which is also known as “jadranje na Hrvaškem” in the Slovenian language) includes got the number of styles that may include 30-foot into the 100-foot lavish team. Boat with the engine is an ideal option for that family vacation in angling. Below are a few of the boat type s that involve some special options and caliber.
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Crewed Catamaran Charter – Catamaran may be a great option for shore island of Croatia that supplies a fantastic comfortable excursion for those young and families manufacturing collections. It’s full additional distance, breathtaking, team sailing and also the drinking water access gets super simple to create the sailing getaway really amazing.
The most optimal/optimally quality of all Catamarans is it provides quite intimate accessibility to this coast and also which makes them openly visits the shore of Dalmatian.
Gulet Charter – They’re wood sailing yachts that possess five or four cottages with complete package and baths. Additionally, it has large dining rooms, spacious decks, and space for collecting celebrations. The team members are rather useful and inviting together with captains and deck hostess for those travelers.
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Little plastic storage containers can be noticed in just about any dwelling. The real reason for this is due to its practical traits.
They are utilized to comprise candle-lights, makeup, mixed things. Small girls frequently utilize small clear plastic storage container to maintain just about all of their fashion and makeup to engage in beauty salon.
These containers are astoundingly light to transfer and also therefore are incredibly suitable for transporting items. In contrast with containers which can be constructed from substances such as a glass or cloth, a plastic kettle has certain benefits.
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Chef's Note
“This recipe is so much more than the sum of its parts! Truly awesome! From “Around My French Table” by Dorie Greenspan I have made this recipe using large shrimp, as scallops are hard to come by here. This serves 4 as an appetizer, 2 as a main.”
Directions
Sprinkle the sugar into a small saucepan. Place the pan over medium-high heat and warm the sugar until it starts to melt and color. As soon as you see it turn brown, begin to gently swirl the pan. When the sugar has turned a deep caramel color (you can put a drop of sugar on a white plate to test the color), about 3 minutes, stand back and add the white wine and orange juice. It may bubble and spatter, so watch out. Turn the heat up to high, stir with a wooden spoon, and boil the sauce until it is reduced by half — you should have about 1/3 cup. Pull the pan from the heat and set it aside. (You can make the sauce up to 2 days ahead and keep it covered in the refrigerator.).
Pat the scallops dry between two paper towels. Slice or pull off the little muscle attached to the sides of the scallops. Have a warm serving platter and a small strainer at the ready.
Put the saucepan with the caramel sauce over very low heat so that it can warm while you cook the scallops.
Put a heavy-bottomed skillet over high heat. When the pan is hot, pour in 1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil and swirl to coat the bottom. Add the scallops, season them with salt and pepper, add a little more oil if needed, and cook for another 1 to 2 minutes, or until the scallops are firm on the outside and just barely opaque in the center — nick one to test. Transfer the scallops to the serving platter.
Check that the caramel sauce is hot — give it more heat if necessary. Pull the pan from the heat and toss in the butter, bit by bit, swirling the pan until the butter is melted and the sauce is glistening. Season the sauce with salt and pepper, then pour through the strainer into a sauceboat or pitcher. Drizzle some of the sauce over the scallops and pass the rest at the table.
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era locks - An Overview
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Typically often called the "Yale" Lock, these locks can be obtained with a variety of functions and in a array of diverse finishes. The designs of the lock are as follows:
You rely on locks for the security of the complete home. It is not pretty much the electronics, household furniture things, as well as other expensive items in your house but also in regards to the security of your family and friends. You can not place at stake the perfectly-being of All your family members by compromising on the level of security you have to present them. ANSI could be the American Nationwide Typical Institute and that is a non-successful non-public organization which volunteers to generate performance benchmarks for builders making doorway locks.
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Mobile is not too limited to deliver great gaming experiences, both with high quality presentation and lots of depth. Games like Republique, Infinity Blade, Real Racing 3, The Walking Dead (port), XCOM (port) have shown that.
It's just that most mobile games aren't like that. Most games are casual, and the mainstream 'higher quality' mobile games like Modern Combat and Nova are... stupid. Asphalt is too casual and boring after a while.
Mobile is not too limited. The fact that you have working ports of The Walking Dead, XCOM and infinity engine RPGs like Baldur's gate ! The very fact that those ports work great and are well received should tell you that mobile is not too limited for great experiences.
Real Racing 3, played without assists and manual acceleration felt like NFS shift and Gran Tourismo. The amount of detail and depth is phenomenal ! Infact, for racing, phone is brilliant ! The steering is even better than a controller.
Sure, mbiles are far less capable than dedicated gaming consoles or a PC, but that doesn't mean they're useless for games.
No offense but you arent going to convince anyone against mobile gaming , with titles like that that still pale in quality compared to many home consoles and handheld games . Or that are just barely able to mimick , clone or port some of those . And those people arent going to judge them "in retrospect of them being mobile game" ... they wont go "hey not bad for a mobile game!" or "it's a good port" , they just will roll their eyes and still not care , as they strive for more or are used to better.
For most of us , there isnt a single mobile game that can compete against the best consoles/pc titles , that isnt just a port .
There are too many compromises and change needed for most of those games so they could fit its public , the controls and gameplay . or even the distribution model .
Like you said the focus is elsewhere anyway when it comes to mobile gaming
XCOM and FTL are some of the rare games where touch controls make a lot of sense, and from a certain perspective improve things.
Then there's weird stuff like Minecraft's PE occasionally leapfrogging the console ones features. (They have infinite worlds, realms server support, etc) - sometimes devs make the best of what they have to work with.
Maybe but those are again ports ... ports from games that some would even argue still works better on their original pc platform .
Where are the defining games of mobile , it's pillar that can stand against consoles or pc gaming ... If stuff like Infinity Blade are it ... it's no wonder it wont be taking seriously .
Just imagine a second if console like the DS and vita only mostly had ports and lesser clones to flaunt , instead of their most popular or well received titles ? Would you think highly of the platform ?
It will come eventually , hell stuff like FF moebius sounds promising from afar , but right now ... it's a wasteland for great games appealing to the console and pc crowd , except oldies and too few exceptions
I do love me some gameboy though. Even some of the tiger games were solid. I also had a mattel football game that was just lights. It was awesome! All those had one thing that most phones don't though. Buttons. I need a d-pad. Angry birds, cut the rope and all those other games are fine and all, but with a legit d-pad and other buttons we could see some nice games in the future. That aside, it's not for me.
Most games on mobile are not serious or 'hardcore' at all. Some are more hardcore in that they high quality presentation and have depth to them.
Infinity Blade was a perfect example for me. It was like Diablo in a way. I could not get enough of that game. To me, that game was a hardcore game more or less.
Real Racing 3 was another one. Amazing visuals, brilliant and sim-like gameplay, different cars with different handling, high skill ceiling. Lots of depth ! (when played with assists off AND manual acceleration) Didn't spend any real money, but played for 200+ hours
Got plenty of good games that are perfectly enjoyable on android devices. Shadowrun, KOTOR, The wolf among us, Limbo, Worms, Shadowgun, NBA Jam, Fieldrunners, Monument valley... People don't take it seriously because they decided they shouldn't take it seriously without even trying. I guess that's not so surprising. Lots of people did the same with other devices, like the wii U.
I think people don't take it seriously because there haven't been any reasons to do so.
Almost by design, mobile isn't a serious platform. It's aimed almost entirely at the casual market, and while they may be hardcore into, say, Farmville, they're not serious gamers.
Compare the level of detail, skill, dedication, etc. required to be at the top of any game or genre on any platform, and you'll notice there's a difference between mobile and everything else.
Granted, this may not always be the case, just as handhelds and even consoles and PC were not always like that. But, right now, the most serious thing about mobile is how much money can be made from a relatively small amount of initial investment on the part of developers and publishers.
I agree...which is why I invested in a Bluetooth controller that works with my tablet. Playing Geometry Wars 3 on a beautiful 8.4" AMOLED display whilst waiting for the kids is mobile gaming heaven IMO.
There is quality mobile games, but it's not compared to what we get from console, PC or even mobile gaming devices. I think it mainly comes down to how many poor quality games/apps that are released. It doesn't help when most of what's out there really isn't worth it.
"You shouldn't take them seriously." I remember a time when people were saying such things about all gaming. Mobile is just another platform, and its real issue is being the newest one.
The majority of those playing on mobile are not normally those who play games, and are not as well educated in gaming culture as console or PC players. The result is an increase of shovel-ware as parents and customers are falling into the same traps parents used to from the 90's and 2000's--which is bad for gaming as a whole. Education and time will see the platform becoming just as valued and respected as consoles and PC.
I dont really agree ...the problem lies with the intent of game publishers .
Back in the 80-90s enough made truly high quality game with the outmost "craftmanship" to be taken seriously as a source of entertainement . They strived to provide cult titles that defined their platforms .
Until that intend is there on mobile , in spades , it remains usually mimickery at best , or a focus into another market . I'm running in circles , but for the negative folks like myself ... it's nice , but it doesnt matter if it can run a X-com or Baldur gate or emulate games i've played tons of time already , well enough for a nostalgic bout .
I'll just ask instead " Mobile gaming where is you own baldur ? Where are new ip or sequels to push new boundaries ? Because all other platform already do tend to address that .
Again your method of thinking could be taken and applied directly to gaming past. For instance the Atari era which saw the gaming market crash because of shovel-ware and poor design.
Fast forward to the height of the Xbox, GameCube, and PS2 popularity--shovel ware and poor design were again an issue, but because the console audience had, more or less, grown up with gaming so quality was praised while shoddiness was punished.
Now shovel-ware has found a new home in the wild west of mobile gaming, and yes I expect a heavy crash if certain steps aren't taken. There's a lot of trash because there's a ripe, uneducated market for trash there. A fix starts in educating people what is good and what is trash on the platform, coupled with game makers willing to embrace the platform and design great experiences for it.
We're coming to an all digital age where servers miles away will be delivering the highest fidelity experiences straight onto our mobile devices. There will be a radical shift of how and were we play the biggest and best games. Shouldn't we now start to recognize mobile as a valid platform and take steps to ensure the success of gaming? Cause at the end of the day, we should care about games--not the platforms. I still stand by the validity of mobile platforms, and encourage everyone to do the same.
The crux of my argument lies precisely with the lack of good enough games , hence the refusal of the platform .
Again when publishers truly apply themselves to making the platform worth playing on its own with good titles that makes the platform choice unimportant and irrelevant , then the platform will not be as decried .
The xbox , ps2 , GC , were defined by its essential cults and genre defining titles , not the flurry of crap that was still available on those .
The atari from you example was always taken seriously on the gaming front , because of its good games which made history . The it was abused and mismanaged later into a crash is another matter .
I don't believe for a second that the mobile platform is , for now and so far , comparable to those in its effort to have a good library .
And i'm not saying that it wont happen , i actually believe otherwise . But right now , it's not a viable gaming platform for those that crave the same quality in games than on consoles .
The controls, the pricing schemes, and all that. It's not a viable platform until a gaming company makes a good gaming phone. Imagine a GOOD N-Gage, it will appen if these people running companies have half a brain.
People bashing mobile gaming, then adoring indie games that usually come from or have ports on mobile like all Telltale games, Bastion, Limbo, Transistor, xcom, Frozen Synapse, Deponia, Shadowrun, Legend of Grimrock, Broken Age, Geometry Wars, This war of Mine, Valiant Hearts, VVVVVVV, Don't Starve, Costume Quest, and long long etc.
So yeah, touch controls don't work... for certain genres like shooters, but they are perfectly fine for strategy games, turn based rpg games, adventure games, puzzle games or card games among others.
I suggest you check Monument Valley, Fallout Shelter, Hitman Go, Badland, Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers, Knock Knock, Five Nights at Freddys, Joe Denver Lone Wolf, Neverending Nightmares, The Room games and so many others.
There're quality games on mobile, the problem is that they're gems among thousands of cheap f2p trash games that are released daily that aren't worth a second, but don't think that's all there is. | {
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Hear the Lion Roar – Sound Mark Protection Now Available in Canada
In light of a recent Federal Court order approving the advertisement of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Lion Corp.’s application to register its trademark lion’s roar, the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) has announced that it will now accept applications for sound marks. The decision to allow sound marks comes as CIPO contemplates allowing other non-traditional marks such as marks for colour, 3D images, holograms, and motion.
Filed in 1992, MGM’s sound mark application is one of Canada’s longest pending trademark applications. MGM’s sound mark, consisting of a lion’s roar, appears at the beginning of almost all of MGM’s movies. After a series of delays resulting in the rejection of the application by the Trademarks Registrar in 2010, the case was appealed to the Federal Court where it was approved for advertisement. This is the first sound mark to be advertised by CIPO since 1989, when Capitol Records registered a sound mark for a series of musical notes.
According to CIPO’s new Practice Notice following this Federal Court order, “the application for the registration of a trade-mark consisting of a sound should:
state that the application is for the registration of a sound mark;
contain a drawing that graphically represents the sound;
contain a description of the sound; and
contain an electronic recording of the sound.”
Sound marks may include sound effects (like MGM’s lion’s roar), a short musical composition (like the series of musical notes used by Intel or NBC in their advertising), or a jingle. Applications for sound marks may only be submitted by paper with a CD or DVD containing a recording of the sound in MP3 or WAVE format. The Practice Notice reverses CIPO’s longstanding policy to not accept sound marks. CIPO has now made available a sound mark database.
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Finding out that you're the lowest paid person on your team even though you do the same (or more!) work than your colleagues is a pretty discouraging discovery. If you do find out, you should definitely bring it up to your manager or if you think they're sympathetic and can do something about the discrepancy. How you do it, however, is what makes the difference between getting a raise or getting fired. Thankfully, it's not as difficult as it may seem.
If you've "discovered" that you're underpaid, it's likely either because someone else you work with let it slip, or because you did the research yourself at a site like Glassdoor and found that the average salary for your role at your company—or in the industry as a whole—is higher than what you're making. Now it's time to do a little homework.
Are You Really Underpaid, or Is It Perception?
The first thing you shouldn't do with this information is assume that because you're making less than your colleagues that you're underpaid. You'll need more evidence than that if you go to your manager, so before you get too angry or go off half-cocked, do a little digging. Glassdoor is a great resource for salaries, but it's also a good resource for information on what different roles are like at various companies. Read the reviews there, and while some of them are undoubtedly people looking for a place to vent about their misgivings, the reviews can shed some light on what the day-to-day responsibilities are at a given company.
Head over to the company's website and see if there are any open positions for the job you currently have. Usually a job description is included, and you'll be able to see how similar another company's "systems analyst," for example, is to the same title where you work. It's possible they're very different, and have different required skills and responsibilities. Do the same digging with your current position—if you did find out something you weren't intended to learn from a coworker, let them know you don't want to talk money, but you do want to talk about your day-to-day. Bounce your daily responsibilities back and forth, and see if there are discrepancies that might account for the salary differential—your colleague may be working on special projects, or have skills you don't. To be fair, the opposite may be true—you may discover they do less than you do, and get paid more. All of this is good evidence to help your case when you approach your manager.
Be Diplomatic
The blog See Debt Run does a great job of breaking down how you should approach a manager with the discovery that you're being underpaid, even if you found out by talking to another employee—something that most companies prohibit. They suggest the conversation is best held in a scheduled meeting to discuss your "career path," in an informal—but private—discussion. Without tipping your hand that you learned from your coworkers that they're making more money than you are, they suggest you avoid direct comparisons between you and your colleagues, and instead, present the evidence you've collected that proves your boss should reconsider your salary. Photo by wavebreakmedia ltd (Shutterstock).
Show them the Glassdoor salary numbers, and let them know that you've taken the time to investigate how your position differs from others in your industry. Let them know that you understand how your work differs from your colleagues, and as See Debt Run suggests, highlight some of the ways you're indispensable to your coworkers, either because you have special skills that no one else has or because everyone comes to you for help or guidance. Point out some of the high-profile and critical projects and duties you have on your shoulders because you're the best person for the job—or because no one else can do the work the way you can.
Finally, let your boss know that you're open to understanding if there's some reason why you're paid less (a good feint, even if you're really raging inside) by comparison even with all of this evidence on the table. Your manager may not be able to explain it right away, or they may not even have the power to set salaries in the first place—it's possible there are other circumstances that have nothing to do with your work or your boss (for example, your other colleagues came from different departments, there's something about their work history or education that tips the scales in their favor that's confidential, etc,) but they should at least be willing to hear you out, especially since you've collected the evidence needed to make your case, and as long as you're diplomatic about the way you present it. With luck, they may be able to make an adjustment to your salary to address the discrepancy. Even if it's not as much as you hoped, it may be something.
Don't Expect the World
I've seen this method work—one of my best friends was an assistant to our old CIO, and when she discovered that she was underpaid by about 20% compared to other assistants that did less than she did, she wasn't too happy about it. She collected personal stories, job descriptions, and even drew up a list of those "other duties as assigned" she wound up getting that she never bargained for. When she put it all in front of him, he was taken aback, but he gave her a raise. The tradeoff was that her next scheduled raise would be off of her old base pay, but she got the money, and the recognition for the additional work she had been doing. Photo by Andrew Magill.
This won't work for everyone, and at the end of the day, if your manager isn't receptive to this type of conversation, you may not want to bring it up in the first place—especially if you're worried your company may use the conversation as a way to find out that you've been talking about your salary to other employees, which can be enough to get you fired in many places. You'll have to make the call as to whether it's worth bringing it up, or looking for one of those other positions with a higher average salary instead—but if you like your company and your job, or just don't want to go to the hassle of leaving, a little negotiation may be worth a try before you do something drastic. It will be a difficult conversation, but it can be worthwhile.
Have you had a talk like this with your boss, or a previous employer? Did you get results, or did you just leave the position? Share your experiences in the comments below. | {
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MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM
This leaflet has been written to help you understand more about molluscum contagiosum. It will tell you what it is, what causes it, what can be done about it, and where you can find out more about it.
What is molluscum contagiosum?
Molluscum contagiosum is a common and generally harmless condition that causes spots on skin. It is most common in children and young adults.
What causes molluscum contagiosum?
Molluscum contagiosum is caused by a pox virus. It can spread to others if the spots are in direct contact with someone else or they share the same item such as a towel. The spots usually appear a few weeks later. They are more common and extensive in people who have eczema. Sometimes people whose immune system is suppressed for any reason, such as by HIV infection or through taking immunosuppressive treatments may develop large numbers of molluscum spots, but most people with molluscum contagiosum are generally in good health.
Is molluscum contagiosum hereditary?
No, although it can affect several members of a family at the same time.
What are its symptoms?
Sometimes they can be itchy but most of the time they are asymptomatic.
If they are scratched or traumatisedthey can occasionally become infected and feel sore. They can bleed slightly if scratched.
What does molluscum contagiosum look like?
The molluscum contagiosum spots have the following characteristics:
Are small (from 2 to 6 mm across); however, they can grow larger than this, up to 10 to 20 mm
Are raised, and hemispherical (like a tiny dome), with a shiny surface
Usually they are skin coloured, though they can be red or pink
Their most striking feature is a central dimple
Sometimes areas of dry redness, like eczema, appear around the spots
There may be only one or two spots, and usually fewer than 20. However, they can be clustered together. The most common areas where these spots appear are on the face, chest, armpit, upper legs and genital area.
How will molluscum contagiosum be diagnosed?
Usually no tests are needed as the spots can easily be recognisedby a doctor. If a molluscum contagiosum spot becomes inflamed, it can look similar to a boil. If there is uncertainty of the diagnosis, then a skin biopsy can be carried out.
Can molluscum contagiosum be cured?
Yes. This condition usually clears by itself within 6 to 18 months. However, during this time there may be development of new ones whilst the old spots are clearing. Sometimes it may take a few years for the body to clear all the spots.
How can molluscum contagiosum be treated?
Usually no treatment is needed as mentioned above and the molluscum contagiosum spots clear. These areas may initially look white, pink- purple which fade over time.
There are a few treatments which may help to speed up the process of the clearance of these spots. However, this is dependent on the age of the person affected. Many of these treatments are painful and this must be taken into consideration as molluscum contagiosum is a harmless and self-resolving condition. Furthermore, it is thought that some treatments can increase the risk of scarring from this condition. There is no research evidence that any one treatment is better than others at clearing molluscum contagiosum.
If active treatment is needed, there are several possibilities:
There are a range of topical therapies used which includes, salicyclic acid and potassium hydroxide. These work by irritating the spots and causing them to become inflamed. The immune system then detects the virus and is able to clear the spots. The medication needs to be applied carefully to prevent unnecessary skin irritation. Sometimes a small scar / pallor of the skin can occur after resolution.
The spots can be frozen with liquid nitrogen (cryotherapy) at intervals until they are clear.
The spots can be scraped off with a sharp instrument (curettage) after local anaesthetic injectionby the general practitioner or dermatologist.
A hospital eye specialist can deal with spots on the eyelids.
A cream containing a chemical that affects the immune system (imiquimod) has been used for molluscum contagiosum, but it is not licensed for the condition and some research studies have shown that it is not effective.
Squeezing the spots is not recommended anymore as it can result in scarring and also risk spreading the spots to others part of the body
It is not advisable to cut the top layer of these spots as they may spread the virus or leave slight scars, especially if they get infected afterwards.
Self Care (What can I do?)
You should make every effort not to pass the infection on to others, particularly those in your family. Stick to your own towel, flannel, clothing and bedding. However children with molluscum contagiosum need not be kept off school, nor should they be barred from swimming, etc.
This leaflet aims to provide accurate information about the subject and is a consensus of the views held by representatives of the British Association of Dermatologists: individual patient circumstances may differ, which might alter both the advice and course of therapy given to you by your doctor.
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This is quite a week, esp. Monday. It's a full moon in Pisces, opposing the Sun in Virgo. And this is involved in a YOD aspect. A Yod is interesting and fairly rare...its call the Finger of God (Yahweh) aspect. Three planets connect in a triangle - Jupiter, Pluto and the Neptune (where the moon currently resides as well). This generates a dilemma. It is time to find your special purpose in life, and astrology accomplishes this by creating a Yod with two inconjuncts or adjustments need to make you change. This aspect is releasing energy started about 2 weeks ago, but it's also digging into our past, our depths and our secrets we have to face now, and release. Saturn is still in Scorpio and it is ending its sojourn here shortly, so the last of the unfinished chores is upon you.
We have been feeling disconnected from the real world lately. We've been going inward, indulging in guilty pleasures to avoid reality, and stepping into the mystical on a largely unconscious level. We have been asked to deal with practical earthly issues with our hearts, not our minds. Saturn has created blocks, creating tons of frustration - some of which is "feeling" close to our spiritual world, the real world, but unable to be there. YOU HAVE TO MEDITATE NOW. It's the only way to connect to that realm. It comes first, before eating and sleeping, and it will help you be more connected to the spiritual, and surprisingly disconnected to the mundane world we are now in. This is all about the heart awakening. The connection to "Her", and the development of the divine feminine from within.
There is also a lot of emotions welling up, thanks to Chiron, our Wounded Healer, looking into deep, dark places and making us go there. It's time t make the connection between old pain and blocks in your life. It's time for DEEP self evaluation and CLEANSING. Knowing yourself, feeling the spiritual being your are, and connecting to the Divine is happening NOW. It's a hard time, but its also a time when you learn to be with the spiritual everyday. See how that connection gives you peace amidst chaos. See how that connection gives you inspiration and hope. See how that connection is the answer to all your problems. Release your blocks and let Her come into your heart, your life. It's "Let go and let God" time. Trust that the Universe has your back, because it does. And the more you see that, the deeper spiritual understanding you will walk with everyday, and that new energy pours into the planetary energy pool and HEALS us all, including our beloved Planet Earth.
Your life is on a path of change. It has been focused on the outside a lot this current year, but its now time to change within, to really see your spirit self, and OWN IT. You are learning to walk and talk your as your Higher Self, living with your spiritual goals and spiritual destiny, and the more you focus on the this world, the harder it will be to move forward on either level. Be INSPIRED by the new, amazing future.
How great to feel the Universe always has your back. How great to know you are not a body living on earth, you are a billion year old mist-like being, who has come here many times to learn, to grow and to understand the weaknesses of the body, of the physical, and fully integrate your spiritual self into this being you occupy, so you can do amazing things together on a level unknown to most of us. You are a piece of God. You are God's creation. You are God's hope for the future. Will you allow the world and yourself to become a new kind of human being, to bring light to the Earth, or will you choose to think only of yourself like you always have? It's time to become a spiritual HUMANITARIAN where your efforts are for US, not me.
If you are a mother upset with the school your child goes to, you don't move the child to another school, or home school, you work within the community to changes things for ALL the children. Activism is key to social change, and your spiritual heart can guide you to your needed actions.
If you own a company, remind yourself that all those people working for you deserve to be treated with loving kindness, because without them, there would be no business. They are your team, and need to be rewarded with thanks, kindness and financial gain. If you can afford a fancy car or a luxury vacation, then they need something as a reward also. How about a raise; a bonus; a weekend getaway; a public recognition of their good work and your appreciation. They will work harder for you when they know they are appreciated, and their will radiate happiness in their work and send that good energy around the world.
I/We are billion year old wise women/men. We are on an Indian Jones type of adventure here, but its exploring within. Explore yourself, look at your ugly parts, look at your failures, look at your weaknesses......and love them, so you can release them. And see it as an adventure, not a pain in the butt. With Saturn's help and your hard work, you will succeed.
Embrace with PRIDE who you REALLY are. LOVE YOURSELF and be amazed by who you are, , how you are so much more than you ever hoped to be, and that you are ALREADY that person/being......you just have to embrace the spiritual and it will flow to you like a waterfall over a cliff. Bathe in the light, in your spiritual self, and feel deeply happy within and without.
No one said it would be easy, there are problems to face and falls to be had - but I know you can do it. One issue at a time, breathe, relax and keep going. Now stop reading and go MEDITATE!
This week Mars and Saturn start to talk nicely on MOnday, but come to blows by the 25th. Mars is movement, Saturn is sit down and listen to me. And Saturn has the last word. It's time to take stock. Look over the first three weeks of this month and ask yourself what you have learned from the trials life has brought you. Are you facing reality? Did you learn, or are you about to jump into the frying pan...again? Change has never been more important - but hold off on new starts till later in the week or next Monday morning when its a New Moon in Virgo. You have to change your ways. You have to reassess. You have to learn. You have to grow. And while Mars is like a panting dog ready to jump, Saturn won't let you until you have done some very deep thinking and make a plan for change...real change, permanent change.
Part of that change is to think of yourself as not whats good for you, but whats good for the greater good. How can you affect society and mankind? What is your contribution? What can you do to focus on others and less on you. Can you learn to be more selfless without abandoning yourself? Create the balance between you and others, you and society.
You might, because of so many planetary aspects going on right now. want to retreat into the Neptunian world of movies and TV. Escape for a while from the heavy load you seem to be carrying. Go to see good uplifting movies (avoid the violence if you can). The Hundred foot Journey is a lovely movie, as is Magic in the Moonlight. Guardians of the Galaxy was surprisingly funny and heartwarming, despite all the violence. And speaking of violence, Lucy is another movie I recommend because of the underlying spiritual message surrounded by murder and mayhem, probably because its the only way the movie could get funding. It was quite a message about who we are, what evolution is, and where we came from and will go back to. It really moved me. Its the perfect Neptune time to take breaks....just don't make them drugs and alcohol. It's not a good time to indulge, you could fall into the abyss in a rush to relieve the inner stress and turmoil going on. Pressure is starting to really build, make sure you take time out to refresh.
Yep, we are living in hard times, but exciting times. Time to put our guts on the table and examine them. See who we are, what we're made of and find our inner hero and release him or her. If you awaken around 4 AM, take the time to pray/chat with the Universe. It's when the veil between worlds is thinnest, and its easy to speak to Angels, Guides, Guardians, etc. Make it a practice to speak to our Creator and the Goddess. Bless the Earth and her inhabitants, and ask the Goddess to fill your heart with "her ways" so you can be an amazing spiritual catalyst. This is ancient Karma we're trying to release. We chose to be here now. If you don't step up to the plate now, when? Another life with the same lessons, maybe to finally be learned then, or grow and evolve now. Like a snake shedding its skin, its rather painful, but look how shiny and new you are when its over! (And don't you hate makeovers anyhow!)
Monday - Venus conjunct Jupiter. Express your deep feelings. Be dramatic when it comes to love. Later Mercury opposite Neptune - don't make decisions. Your brain is fuzzy, or full of pie in the sky, or just flaky. Wait until Thursday to make decisions. You are not thinking clearly even though you may be certain that you are.Thursday - Venus adjusting to Pluto. Love will encounter issues or power struggles. Just chill it won't last too long. Mercury Trine Pluto. Make sound decisions after much thought. Accept offers from important people who can help you. Think about power and influence, and how you can contribute.Friday - Interesting day with NO ASPECTS. It's kind of like a Void of Course Moon. You're in the eye of the storm, getting a short reprieve where everything slows down and you get to breathe. Leave work early, or call in a sick day. Rest. Refresh. Take stock. It could even be a boring day....yeah for boring after all we seem to be coping with daily. Sun and Moon are about to leave Leo. Prepare for the energy shift.Saturday the Sun leaves it glorious home of Leo, and won't be back for a year. Its moving into Virgo - the detail person of the zodiac. Hard work is coming, and a lot less play. Get ready cause summer vacation is over.Sunday Mercury is inconjunct Uranus. New ideas may bombard you, but instead of reacting with amazement at the idea, you might go "hey wait to do that I'd have to change this" and there you are being cranky about having to change when this change will open new doors to amazing new possibilities. Slap you hand over your mouth if you start to say NO to something. Take a deep breath and give it time to percolate before you toss it aside.Monday the 25th is a New Moon in Virgo joining the Sun. Take notes all day about epiphanies you might have. Its a day of analyzing the many ideas that are flowing to you, but with some emotional attachment (or as emotional as a Virgo can be.) Mercury is Sextile Mars - movement of ideas. Put that toe in the water NOW. Venus trine Uranus...good ideas come from love, beauty, out of the blue. Mercury sextile Saturn, those ideas can manifest nicely. But mid afternoon Mars and Saturn start to argue. You'll feel frustrated about something. Don't push or force, it will not work and might ruin something. So get things rolling in the AM then be ready to meet some walls in mid afternoon, and just chill. They won't fight forever, it's only a temporary set back. Happy week everyone. If you have something you'd like me to talk about,email me and I'll see if I can accommodate you! SIDE NOTE: I knew Robin Williams in the 1970's and 80's. He was a very kind man, shy offstage if you can image that, a terrible magician!, and a genius. No one on planet earth can compete with him. It is so sad that he felt he had no one to talk to about his predicaments. It is such a terrible loss for the world to lose such a wonderful man who made us laugh so hard, so often. God Bless you Robin. You ARE missed.
Astrology is a tool to help us understand what the Universe has set in motion. The times we are living in now are truly extraordinary. We are being pushed and pulled like bread dough, our minds are being transformed, our spirits are being called upon to join in the revolution, and our bodies are literally being changed via our DNA so we can withstand the higher vibrations we are being called upon to advance towards. The Universe has put the planets in place to create energy that moves things around on the giant chess board. We are blessed to be a part of it - we asked before we were born to be a part of it.
Right now many planets are talking to each other at once. It amplifies the energy we're being bombarded with, and it creates intensity we feel on a subtle level. Maybe you feel spacy, out of it, odd, confused, etc. It's OK, its how you should be feeling.
There is a planet/asterioid called Chiron, the Wounded Healer. His job is to heal your deep karmic wounds by making you endure experiences or events from old hurts, so you can face them and release them finally. This is HARD stuff, and Chiron is now at the center of these planetary aspects. We are facing deep things within = pain, fear, loss, tears, anxiety, etc. Chiron, in Pisces, is also sharing space with Neptune in Pisces too. Chiron is now aspecting Uranus, Saturn, Sun, Mercury(on the 15th moves to Virgo) and Jupiter while it approaches Neptune. Saturn, representing restraint, and Uranus, the unexpected events/ideas/plans planet, are at odds now. (Uranus now could bring you amazing epiphanies or insights - listen for them!) Saturn and Uranus is like a battle between stability and instability. And these two planets aspect all the planets in Leo, causing more push pull.
But Chiron can be the key. He is asking us to release our lives of narrow paths and restriction, and to break free of the past, the baggage we carry around, so we can spread our wings emotionally and be happy, truly happy and free. Whatever has been done to you, forgive and let it go. Whatever hurt you carry around and refuse to look at, open the box and stare it in the face, and cry all you need to cry. Crying is how you release deep emotional pain. Sob, weep, shed a tear...do something to release this old pain so you can be happy and open to the good that the Universe is bringing to us. The Goddess brings forgiveness, caring, fairness, and humanity back to us. Make room for her by releasing old pain. And Chiron in Pisces, the spiritual sign, is the way to release, though spiritual practices.
On 8/12 Venus, the Goddess of Love, moves from Cancer to Leo, joining the Sun, Mercury(15th moves to Virgo) and Jupiter. This can really open your heart, and help you embrace forgiveness for yourself and others. Venus in Leo is dramatic love, loudly shouted love, publicly displayed love, rejoicing in the total "feeling of love". Be a Drama King or Queen, and let the love inside and pour it out to others. Love is what will heal all of us, spread it around, there is no shortage, the Universe makes more if you give it all away. There is more where that came from, always. This powerful Venus is here until Sept 5th. Take advantage of this avalanche of feeling and embrace it.
Friday the 15th Mercury moves out of Leo into analytical Virgo. Your sharp Virgo mind will aid you in decisions and help you feel less fuzzy than you may have felt recently.
These times are like a balancing act. Just keep asking for guidance from the Source...masculine and feminine and you will get what you need, and you will learn that the Universe is there for you - ALWAYS. Every morning and/or evening you might say, "God please help me to change myself so that I can grow and be more helpful to the changes you are making in the world". And also acknowledge HER: "Goddess I welcome you in my heart and integrate your energies and values and ask for you help in living a life that serves you", helping you to be a tool for her rebirth by embracing the Divine Feminine and becoming an example of compassion. Imagine ourselves as domino's, embracing these energies and helping the world shift into something beautiful as we all come together to create a wave of change.
The Goddess needs to be INVITED into our hearts and life, just like Angels need an invitation. ASK and it is given. I know its hard some days, but you are not alone. And I know you will find there is love and magic in this world after all, because you will get answers, meet the right people, renew relationships, and "KNOW" that you are being heard. And that's pretty darn cool!
Well if you've been blocked, stuck, cranky, and fussy - welcome to Mars in Scorpio. Mars is settling into its new home, getting used to movement again, hitting walls, slowing down, getting up, hitting aspects to other planets....in other words getting its feet wet with our new energy dynamic and stumbling a bit. It's more progress than being in Libra has been all these months, but still its frustrating because the flow is not all there yet. Two steps forward, one step back is still progress. Be grateful some walls are coming down, the true flow will come by mid-September when it moves into Sagittarius, when we can expect smooth energy sailing and much progress.Mercury in harmony with Jupiter gives us lots of ideas for the next two weeks. Take notes, some of them will be awesome. Start a business, a relationship, write a book, start a family. It's abundance and clear thinking time. Just don't expect full speed ahead with Mars issues, but you will still make progress.August 8th Mercury is squaring Saturn - don't let negative thinking or low self esteem keep you down. It will pass so don't get caught up in it. Watch some comedies and catch up on your sleep and you'll emerged refreshed.August 10th is a full moon in Aquarius, the humanitarian sign. Expect some good news when this Moon aspects Uranus in a good way. Expect surprising news, information and experiences.
Uranus is also making an adjustment to Saturn now. Quirky, original Uranus meets down to earth Saturn - manifest amazing ideas, ideals....create your own religion or philosophy, invent a new technology tool and get the prototype done, invent a cure for a disease....the sky is the limit.
So this is a week for ideas, for delving deeply into your spiritual beliefs and adjusting them accordingly, for starting something new, and getting your ideas into concrete form. Lately I have been feeling very out of sync, like one foot in this world, one in the next and its a bit disorienting. I have fallen down the rabbit hole and have come face to face with total madness from our world "leaders" as well. It feels like politicians are more insane than ever and no one is calling them on their outrageousness. And on some level I feel this is a good thing....they are so used to being insane that they have stepped so far over the line they don't even seem to get it. The jig is up, the people have had it, groups are merging and organizing and pushing back says Jim Hightower. I think this semi out of body experience I am having in periodic moments is just the shift of energy from how it is to how it will be. I just feel like my brain can't absorb one more day of the crazies. I am detached one minute, immersed the next. Everyone I know is struggling with big stuff now, but its forcing soul searching and asking ourselves what really matters. So again, I feel we are on the precipice of "something" and this is the death knell of the madness. Up is down and down is up for sure now.It is time to turn our hearts to overflowing compassion for everyone else. We are a village, albeit a 7.5 Billion one. Most of us are pretty good at heart I still believe, but lots of us are lost. It is our duty as people of conscience to pray/meditate/envision a new world where good is the majority and crooks are once again the minority. The shift is coming, and we need to take an active part in that change. So everytime the world/news/life gets you down, take just a moment to envision the world as a good place where fairness, honesty and kindness thrive, where everyone has food and shelter, and where crazy politicians are laughed off the podium.Hang in there. Hey Paul McCartney August 14th at Candlestick....love IS the answer
The Sun, (new)Moon, Jupiter and this Thursday, Mercury is in Leo. The sun is shining on ourselves, our emotions, our luck and our minds. Have a picnic and a party, but don't forget to hustle your buns at work. You can accomplish a LOT at this time, so don't let the lure of party all the time mood distract you. You can capture attention, get a plan approved, make new contacts, solidify ideas and get plans going. It's a summer party in ALL areas of your life if you make it so. Free will is key here, so be sure to take advantage of opportunities from all areas.
It's also a perfect time to give thanks. Abundance is all around you. Practice mindfulness (looking around at your life and finding the gifts you have. Or as Ram Dass calls it "be here now"). Stop daydreaming, spacing out, living in your head, watching too much TV, hiding from the world. Be in the moment. Look around and see all that you have to be thankful for... no matter what problems you may have in your life, there is always good too.
I recently had a health scare, and I am a baby when it comes to doctors, they scare the crap out of me. Must be a past life thing because my anxiety level is over the top. Thank God, the worst did not come to pass, but I have to make changes in my life to avoid further complications, and that's OK. I am grateful for the wake up call, grateful I have alternative options to western medicine, and grateful my worst fears did not come to pass. For example I know a large part of this is due the stress in my life. I am slowing down, sitting on my deck and enjoying the view, dining near the water with friends, walking in parks, sleeping 7+ hours and most 8, doing my work in spurts, not 10 hour long hauls that exhaust me, and being grateful for my life and my many options.
I am cleaning house on a personal level, taking care of me and making sure my future is going to be healthy, fun and less stress-filled. And while this kind of thankfulness is always good, when everything is in Leo, Ruled by the Sun, it's an optimum time for being grateful. Be a sun worshiper for the next few weeks, and give thanks to the planet who gives us the light of day, the energy to function, the life force for our food to grow from mother earth. And know that every time you give thanks, you are filling the world with LOVE. Thankfulness says "I really appreciate how you take care of me God/Creator/Universe. I thank you for my life and loving me back no matter how stupid and wayward I am." You are giving our creator the love back it wants AND DESERVES. And that kind of love fills the pool of energy we all draw from with more and more love we all get to share. And that love heals us all, including the planet, and it creates a circle of love from you to the pool to me and back again.
We are all in this together. We need to be as kind and good to each other as we can, everyday in every way. We need to think positive, think world peace, think fairness, and take stock. The world needs as much healing as we can muster, and we need it too. Much love to you all.
Uranus goes retrograde Monday. This means it will generate tight squares to Pluto yet again. Retrograde squares are more harsh as the need to finish things overlooked is important - and pressing. Past ideas may be reviewed. Uranus gave you some gems the past few months, and you may have missed them (intelligence, insights, inspiration, genius). Now its time to review ideas that crossed your mind and see if they might be worth a new look/effort. Energy is somewhat slowed, so you can check out the details. Focus and find the gems of inspiration you may have overlooked.
Wednesday the Sun leaves Cancer and moves to Leo. Your spirits will be brighter the next 30 days, and you will have a lift in your energy, your spirits and your moods. Get out and be seen. Dress Up. Laugh. Smile. Seek the limelight. It's just darn great energy you get once a year. Enjoy.
Saturday the new moon is in Leo. NEW NEW NEW stuff coming in, and it makes you happy and celebratory. New ideas. Change (theme of the year) can be really good now. Do what you've been meaning to do with gusto. And meet new people, new connections, new opportunities.
Holy cow and both the Sun (your inner core) and Moon (your emotions) are conjunct Jupiter (abundance, expansion) who just moved into Leo for a year. Va Va Voom! If you don't make some good changes in your life this month you never will. Now get out there in your Sunday best and show people how fun, interesting, charismatic and charming you can be, and doors will fly open.
If you've been smart, you've been doing your inner work this first half of the year, now its time to take it on the road and test out the new you. If you haven't done the work, enjoy a month of fun, and when the planets move into Virgo expect a harsh look at reality to hit you in the face. You can't run from your spiritual work now, and if you try, its going to be so much harder to face up to yourself later on. You're only running from yourself, which of course you can't do.
And last, but certainly not least, Mars, imprisoned in Libra since last fall is finally out of jail. So unhappy and trapped in Libra (the diplomat, the lover of harmony) has been driving" lets go, lets do it" Mars insane with all this hurry up and wait crap. It will take a week or so for Mars to realize its free, and stumbling into Scorpio is pretty much a dive off a cliff energy wise from how its been living. You'll get your bearings and get ready for action, but this week, starting Friday, just take it slow and steady. But with each succeeding day you'll feel more energized than the day before, like you've been let out of jail. But this release is a double edged sword. Mars in Scorpio is beyond driven. Its a my way or the highway energy and the ability to be quite ruthless and cunning. You must be very careful about the desire to manipulate. Plans and schemes will entice, but they will backfire. Mars here will also be inconjunct (an adjustment) to Uranus in Aries, and squaring (stress) Jupiter in Leo. It will also eventually conjunct transiting Saturn here in Scorpio, where again will be curtailed by Saturn and really, really pissed off about it.
I especially worry about the middle East and Ukraine. This is volatile stuff, and hot heads may well prevail here. And if personally you have ideas about controlling situations or people, plotting something unseemly, using covert methods to get your way...watch out, because when Mars hits that Saturn conjunction you will be stopped and it might not be very pretty. Saturn demands the last word and Saturn does not take undisciplined behavior lightly. So behave yourself, don't take short cuts, but do use this energy to further positive goals and advancements, just remember "The dark side isn't stronger, its just easier - more seductive" might apply here (Yoda from Star Wars). Don't succumb to that devil on your shoulder, temped though you may be. You're playing with fire (Mars IS fire) on steroids.
So you can see this next month (while so much is in Leo) is going to make us outgoing and optimistic (sunny), and mars make us want to charge ahead unbridled because our ego's are having a good time. Develop self control and patience in your desires, and you'll be fine.
Around 11AM PST on the 14th two aspects appear back to back that bring on low self esteem issues. Mercury semi-square Saturn and Sun semi-square Neptune. You might get bad news. Take some time out to make decisions, or to get over your doubts. If you have meetings around that time, don't be surprised if they feel like personal attacks. By late evening Tuesday, when the Sun parallels Mercury, you''ll find solutions to problems or bad news.
On Friday around 6PM PST Venus is inconjunct Jupiter. Enjoy your family and friends, have a mini celebration or indulgence. It will go well.
Wednesday July 16th Jupiter, the planet of abundance and good times, leaves Cancer and moves into Leo for 13 months. Words cannot express how happy this makes me. Leo is a fire sign, and Jupiter is ruled by Sagittarius, a fire sign, so its really happy here in familiar energy. Leo is ruled by the Sun. Leo's tend to be optimists, fun loving, loyal, generous, and very creative. They are natural born leaders. So Jupiter here enhances those qualities, including the negative ones of ego inflation and bullying to get their way. Enjoy and embrace your new found optimism, but when things start going really well, don't let it go to your head! Ego is Leo's downfall.
Wherever Jupiter is or whatever it aspects during this transit, makes it bigger. While in Cancer it T-squared the Pluto Uranus Square, giving us a bigger sense of stress and anxiety. Now that slower Cancer energy is subsiding and Jupiter is shifting into something more energized (goodbye feeling tired) and more ideas and more movement are imminent. Get ready, this is going to be an active year. All fire and air signs (Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius, Aquarius) will be especially happy now. All this energy is in harmony to their sun signs. Taurus and Scorpios are going to be squaring this energy so there might be a lot of changes which is not easy for them, but remember its about good change. If you can't learn to be flexible in these times, you're just making it harder on yourself. Take a deep breath and make the shift.
Leo is a natural leader too, and one of the things that has been missing from the so-called Left is leadership. During this transit some will find the courage to be the face of the change, and take people to new heights, while enduring the constant barrage of negative criticism directed at them. We will see new people speaking out for the 99%, with growing harmony to Uranus in Aries, encouraging change and giving people focus to make the changes which must come into our world. Without leaders the change is doomed. And Leo loves the spotlight so the time is ready made for people stepping up and taking center stage. Some will be phony's and even tyrants (Mussolini) but many will be sincere, and have the courage to create a solidified protest strategy though-out the world. Unlike the 60's, the times are not about our Vietnam war, its the entire world speaking out about injustice, inequity and unfairness. This year is going to be filled with fireworks so get ready to step up and join the protests, volunteer, write or better yet, take that fantasy of being a leader and make it happen. If you think you have greatness within, this is the time to step out of the shadows and into the Light.
On Sunday the 20th at noon, Saturn turns direct, which will allow movement again. Only four days after Jupiter moves into Leo, Saturn direct in Scorpio continues our need for inner work, but gives us the feeling of progress. We won't feel stuck anymore. So we now have two planets helping us grow, move forward and the energy to tackle it all. Get ready, the adventures are about to begin.
This holiday weekend 37 people were shot in Chicago (and its less than last year!!). This is beyond a tragedy, but being my home town it's truly upsetting. The USA averages 87 gun deaths each and everyday (32K a year), and 183 gun injuries (67K a year). How is this kind of craziness going on in 2014? And it's just one of the many things going on right now that need correcting. And all of these issues (affordable housing, living wage jobs, health care for all, safety in our streets, equity in the law, etc.) not only takes an act of Congress to fix, but it takes the country's people standing up and really meaning "we're not going to take this anymore".
And deep, permanent societal change only comes from our changing. And right now the Universe is changing us from within. It's a solitary process. You can feel angry and frustrated like these shooters, or you can go within, look at your "stuff" and pull the weeds so your garden is beautiful and pleasing. When our internal selves are aligned with higher minds, our world automatically changes. Societal pressure is a strong thing. When the people in our communities no longer allow this kind of craziness to continue, then our society changes. And when we do our internal work, link to our higher selves, we begin to radiate love in everything we do, and that love spreads like a virus and "infects" everyone's thinking and behavior. it is our job now to become channels for higher purpose and right now that means going within and feeling sad, tired, unhealthy, confused, etc. because we have to change, and we do that by looking at the stuff we don't like to look at and change it. We have to look at what motivates us and we need to take a turn in the road.
When I was young, I wanted to be a journalist....and didn't follow my dream. I started a few successful but small businesses, but never "made it big". Around my birthday last month, I was looking at my age, and beating myself up for not being more successful in my life, and feeling sorry for myself and disappointed in myself. Then a light bulb went off. My inner voice said to me "you are equating success in your life by material measures. Why not change that to how you have lived your life and the kind of example you have been for others. Have you been kind and forgiving? Have you been loyal to friends and family? Have you helped others and touched lives? Have you learned to say NO and protect and honor yourself? Have you volunteered or given money to charities? Have your made your spiritual growth a priority and kept at it over the years? These are the ways we need to judge ourselves. Money and success can be fun to achieve, but they do not define you. Your character is what defines you. And now is the time to look at yourself and look at what is really important. And once you see the ways you have done the right thing, or good things, then you can love yourself more and that then sends that love everywhere because you radiate it. And all that love is like Penicillin curing the many viruses in this world, and helping us care about one another and ourselves in a loving and caring way. And then the world just become a place of joy, because we are good to each other; we value what is important not transient or material stuff. We follow the path we came to follow, and we become spiritual warriors, healing the world.
So right now you may feel a little "out of it" but that's the right way to feel right now. Serious stuff is going on inside. This month Saturn (our task master) is in harmony with Chiron, the planet of old karma and DEEP emotional pain. Saturn makes us work for our successes. It's helping us go within and look at deep wounds and patterns and end them once and for all. Saturn work is permanent change. And Mars opposite Uranus, while Saturn inconjuncts Uranus, helps us have epiphanies. But as Saturn is about to go direct (20th) and Uranus slows down to go retrograde, we are in a push pull scenario...change, don't change, change, don't change. It can be exhausting.
But Mercury finally being direct gives our minds a chance to think more clearly again. Saturday the 12th Mercury moves into Cancer. Our minds turn to family, real estate, and its a good time to make decisions about same - put the house up for sale, remodel, move even. But Cancer also represents our inner core, our foundation, aiding us in this inner journey. Transformational Evolution is one way to look at it, or simply "the shift" as another. We are blessed to be alive now, even though sometimes it doesn't feel like it. We came to evolve, and we are evolving, like water on a rock, lapping away the old slowly but surely. Hang in there. Take breaks from the world and rest when you can. Be good to yourself and to your body. We are also changing on a cellular level, ergo another layer to the tiredness we are all feeling now.
When Jupiter enters Leo on the 16th, the energy is really going to shift. The outer world comes into play in a big way. So rest up and be ready.
The Sun moves into Cancer on the 21st at almost 6AM. Gone are the social days of Gemini and now its time for "nesting". Be with good friends and family. Share. Be emotional and expressive. Be Thankful. Wrap yourself in the love of your friends and family. Bond with BBQ's, picnics and parties.On Monday the 23rd (till July 17), Venus the planet of Love, leaves its home in Taurus and moves into Gemini. Meet the love of your life at a lecture, in line for a movie, in a bookstore, at a concert. Spice up an existing relationship by taking a weekend trip to some place you'd never been before. It's a time for lighter love, fun, laughter, shared experiences. It will offset the deep emotionalism of Cancer Sun right now, but not completely. One foot in two worlds for a few weeks.Retrograde Mercury is now back in Gemini, Venus in Gemini and Gemini moon the 24th and 25th. Someone from the past may show up. Wait until July 2 when Mercury has gone direct to make judgements when your mind is more clear. This final week of Mercury Retrograde is always a mess, esp in its own sign, so buckle up and be ready for lots of frustration. Breathe and try to relax. You can't fight the elements right now, so better to surrender for a while.June 25-26 Mars opposes Uranus. This is danger time for social unrest and violence. Could be severe lightening storms too thanks to Uranus. Just lay low if you can. Don't pick a fight. People are on edge big time. Protest with caution as the push back could be quite fierce.Friday the 27th has a morning and mid-day Mars Inconjunct (an adjustment is needed) to Saturn. Steady and determined, not fast or angry, will get you where you want to go. New Moon in Cancer that same day is good for Cancers to start their new year now and make changes to make your life happier. Reconcile with friends and family on this day and give each other a fresh start.Sunday June 29th, Venus in Gemini is Square(stressful) to Neptune in Pisces. Don't be a victim, or fool yourself. You just aren't seeing things as they are. And Mercury is still retrograde. Make no decisions if you can help it. Mercury goes direct on the 1st, but give yourself a couple of days to be thinking clearly again.I was going to talk about money manifesting after so many people sent comments. But I had an interesting week I thought I'd share. We'll talk money next week.I had a birthday, which was mostly a week of being ill. I got an infection and was bed ridden for several days. I am not a good patient. I get bored, restless and feel trapped. I spent a lot of time thanking my body for being so strong most of the time. But I also know that getting bed-ridden is the Universe forcing you to face yourself, to examine and explore. And so I did. I met parts of me I don't like to see; parts of me that embarrass me; parts of me I completely avoid. I watched a lot of old movies and cried a lot. It felt great. Release that pain. There is nothing like a good cry. Its an emotional cleanse. It also releases stress. Include forgiving yourself in those cries.For several months I have been pushing myself to the limits, and completely crashed from not taking care of me. This time of illness has renewed me in some ways; it has given me new insights, new goals, the desire to set new patterns, and to let go of the past and really start anew. And its also time to start to love myself more. I am such a harsh critic of myself, and find myself sorely lacking in so many ways. I don't know why we find it so hard to love ourselves, see our greatness, our growth and our connection to Spirit. Each one of us is part of, literally, the Creator. How can we be lacking? Make a list of everything about you that you really like, and turn that into love. When someone compliments you, take it in and hold it close and let it touch you. Allow yourself to be vulnerable enough to be loved on every level of life. You ARE worthy. Let the good stuff in. It won't come if we fear. Fear is the great blocker of EVERYTHING. Focus on the good, the positive, the best in the world, and we manifest the best around us in our daily lives, and also change the world, one drop at a time.Now go look in the mirror and say out loud to yourself, "I love you so much. You are amazing!!"It's summer now, enjoy!
The power of the Blood Moon and the Grand Square continue this week. I have gotten reports of feeling spacey, minor but bed ridden illness (time for soul searching), sadness (but not sure why), crying out of the blue (ditto), restlessness, pets acting really wierd and differently, ups and downs and loss and gain. Yes that's about right.
Because of this "closeness" to the other side right now, it's not uncommon for us to feel "out of it" or overly tired. Sleep is not to be underestimated during these invisible energy hurricanes. Naps are encouraged. Slow down from your hectic pace. Eat Well. Meditate. Laugh. Practice Theta and ground yourself with the Earth Mother. She is calling in this purge too. It is the pain we have caused our hostess that is a major factor in this change. We cannot continue to abuse our resources, and we have to stop denying global weather changes. And everyday we must be thankful for our home, our food, our air, our very lives. It's time to stop being spoiled teenage brats and become responsible adults.
Tuesday the 29th, is a SOLAR ECLIPSE. On the heels of the lunar eclipse, this is the final portion of the omen about the blood moon followed by a black sun. The sun is now in Taurus the Bull, ruled by Venus. Taureans are generally loyal and faithful, like routines and a sense of security, love to eat and drink, love to love and love deeply. It takes them a long time to drop their defenses and fall in love, but once they do its nearly impossible for them to fall out of love, regardless of the pain they may endure until the day comes when they make the changes they've needed to make for a long time. It only looked from the outside like it was sudden. They are also quite stubborn and even in regards to change, they dig in before they go there. Sun AND the moon are in Taurus Tuesday, giving great strength to the above mentioned attributes. It's also a NEW moon, and all year long events have been happening or repeating around new moons. The theme of change is ever present, and the solar eclipse triggers tons of energy towards this, like there isn't enough already!
Venus moves from Pisces to Aries on Friday May 2nd until May 28th. Venus is aggressive about love now. Take a chance, make a pass, get out and meet people. Something could develop quickly. Have some fun!
Use the stability factor in Taurus (which represents seeds planted and starting to grow) to ground yourself. Taurus is the earth. Earth Day was chosen on a Taurus Sun day - planned or a coincidence? It's a grounding time yet a time of change, which means the Universe will stand by you as you change. Its not a leap of faith month so much as a step forward month. Make a plan, think it through, take the first step toward that goal and after May 19th, when Mars turns direct, we all have more energy and go forward at a swifter pace.
It's time to get real. Really real. We are having a spiritual/inner rebirth. And the Sun and Moon (and Mercury is still there too - our minds want stable and steady now too) in Taurus are great times to build sound foundations for something real and good. And as we connect more to our Higher Selves, we are participants in creating a new "vibe" for Planet Earth. We are "raising her vibrations" to a higher octave or energy level. We are stepping up into a new way of doing things, of feeling, of being. It is a New Age upon us (It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius). The old must be released to allow the new to grow. Shed your snake skin with joy, in knowing you are re-birthing. Give thanks and fill the world with your thanks, it will heal us all.
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Logo Clothing In The News
For a company less than 20 years old, Google has done an incredible job with every aspect of the tech world. From cutting-edge apps to its library of reference texts, this company continues to provide innovative products and services that make it hard not to do business with them. However, many people overlook Google's use of a less hi-tech tool to boost customer loyalty and improve its company culture. Google's #1 marketing expense is not online ads or branding experts, but rather the custom clothing which it provides to its employees free of charge. From baseball caps to printed cotton tee shirts to moisture-wicking socks, Google dresses its employees for success--and this pays off in a number of important ways.
Strengthening Company Culture
It's no secret that for many tech workers, Google's company culture can't be beat. Although the free prime rib lunches and dog-friendly office layouts certainly don't hurt morale, Google's custom clothing provides much of the glue that holds the company's employees together. The company's branded T-shirts and sweatshirts are well-fitted, comfortable, and printed with a variety of attractive designs that feature the Google brand. Wearing these shirts helps strengthen the employees' sense of working for a common cause that still recognizes their individual personalities. In addition, clothing printed cheerful, lightly-bragging slogans like "Google Map Maker" help employees remember how much their work is valued within the company.
Humanizing the Brand
When your workplace gives you attractive, comfortable branded clothing several times a month, you can't help but wear it outside of work. Google employees are proud of their employer, and Google's custom clothing lets them show that pride wherever they go. This helps Google overcome its image in some people's minds as a faceless, monolithic entity; when people see its employees out and about wearing Google's custom clothing, it helps put a human face on the brand. In addition, slogans like "Girl Power" help Google show its commitment to issues like bringing more women into the tech field. Custom clothing lets every Google employee become a brand ambassador with as little effort as it takes to throw on a favorite tee shirt.
Winning Over New Customers
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Google is in the business of making tools; getting companies to adopt and use these tools is one of the major marketing challenges it faces. Here, too, custom clothing helps this company get the job done. When companies move to adopt Google apps, Google recommends that the company appoint "Google Guides" who can assist in the adoption process. Custom clothing from Google is part of what makes these individuals stand out as trusted sources of information about the Google product. This helps Google win over new customers and continue to strengthen its brand in the public eye. In today's business climate, custom clothing should always be more than just a uniform.
Google's use of branded apparel has demonstrated that fact for the past several years. Fashionable, comfortable custom clothing has helped Google strengthen its company culture, boost the public image of its brand, and make it easier for its customers to adapt its products. This is one low-tech marketing strategy that even a web-based giant can't afford to pass up. | {
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Sleep—A “Fountain of Youth”
Although there is no such thing as a “fountain of youth,” many researchers are convinced that quality sleep comes closest to its benefits. Seek help for sleep troubles from appropriate health resources. Start with a doctor, EAP, counselor, credible book, or your health and wellness advisor. Research studies on those who get better sleep show improved memory, reduced depression, improved self-confidence, lost weight, looking younger, increased creativity, improved mood, increased energy, prevention of cognitive decline in later life, reduced pain, better work performance, and even positive benefits in decision making leading to business and financial success. One study showed that 17 hours without sleep equates to an impaired brain with a .05 percent blood alcohol level. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [Search PMC 1739867] | {
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The owner is Cleen Rock and hes amazing. The guy who did my tattoo just started a few months ago so he doesnt have a portfolio or anything yet. However, I might come back tmw so he can take the pic of the tattoo he gave me a few weeks ago
A friend of mine has work done by gunnar... he had the last piece gunnar did before he closed shop here in columbus (clintonville) I've met him when I went to get my leg done by Hoffa @ gods and monsters super nice guy.
thanks for the replies everyone. i really got tired of asking some artists to attempt to mimic the styles of my favorite artists, so i decided just to go straight to the best. it's really worth it considering you get the work that you want AND you get to travel.
there's been a resurgance of coverage on shotsie gorman's work in alot of the magazines lately and it's simply gorgeous. everyone should check him out...very versatile and clean stuff. | {
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Bright Eyes front man Conor Oberst is on the brink of releasing his new album “Upside Down Mountain,” which hits stores May 19th. You can preview the album a week in advance as NPR is streaming the new album in its entirety. Get your first listen here. | {
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The Enviroment agency - Temperature rise could spell disaster for British wildlife
Southern rivers empty of trout and salmon, waterways choked with alien fast-growing plants and the decline of migratory birds could all be consequences of temperature rise in the UK.
According to research by the Environment Agency, fish, invertebrates and other water species will be the first to feel the devastating effects of climate change as river temperatures rise, and more frequent flooding and drought change traditional river habitats.
Iconic fish species such as Atlantic salmon and trout, which need cold water to thrive, may struggle to survive. As river temperatures have risen, there is evidence that they are already declining in the warmer estuaries and rivers in the south of England. Invertebrates, which form an integral part of the aquatic food chain, are also under threat, with numbers falling by around 20 per cent for every one degree rise in temperature in sensitive upland streams.
While some native plants and animals decline with increasing temperatures, foreign species could spread rapidly, killing off native species and habitats, and even causing flooding. African Clawed Toads, which carry a fungus lethal to other amphibians and eat the fry of our native fish, already have small colonies in England and Wales. If temperatures continue to rise as predicted, this species could breed and spread easily throughout the UK.
Fast growing plants such as South American water primrose could take over Britain’s waterways helped by warmer temperatures, impeding water flow and increasing flooding. And without the colder temperatures that keep them in check, some alien fish species could become pests, crowding out other fish popular with anglers and even destroying habitat.
Climate change is also causing sea levels to rise, destroying areas of salt marshes and mudflats that migrating birds such as redshank, plovers and wildfowl have used for centuries as a winter refuge.
Lord Chris Smith, chairman at the Environment Agency said: “There is a danger that we think of climate change as something that is happening in other countries. But it’s not just polar bears and rainforests that are at risk.
“What we see in our rivers, gardens, seas and skies here in the UK is already changing and delays in reducing harmful green house gas emissions will lead to more severe impacts. There is an urgent need for all countries to limit their emissions to avoid the disastrous consequences of a four degree global temperature rise.”
Professor Steve Ormerod, of Cardiff University School of Biosciences said: "Rivers and streams, particularly in the cooler uplands of Britain, are extremely sensitive to climate change because rising temperature and altered rainfall affect them directly.
“Our own studies in Welsh streams show that temperatures have risen by almost two degrees over the last 25 years and these changes appear to have affected river insects, whose numbers have fallen by around 20% for every one degree rise. Knock-on effects are inevitable for the fish, birds and bats that use river insects as food."
The Environment Agency continues to work to protect people and the environment from the effects of climate change. This year water quality improved for the nineteenth year in a row, supporting species vulnerable to climate change such as salmon, eels and sea trout.
The Agency is also working to compensate for habitat loss due to sea level rise. Schemes such as the Alkborough Flats in the Humber estuary, which replaces more than 150 hectares of wetland habitat as part of a flood defence scheme, are being developed in response to the loss of salt marsh and mud flats.
Eradication plans are in place for the invasive Water Primrose plant and the African clawed toad, to prevent the damage to wildlife and habitat these species could cause if left unchecked.
When the Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) comes into force and aviation is included in the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS), some 48 per cent of all UK carbon emissions will come from industries regulated by the Environment Agency.
By running the EU ETS and CRC efficiently, and by promoting the use of low carbon technologies, renewable energy and carbon capture and storage, the Environment Agency will have a key role to play in making sure that the UK meets its ambitious carbon reduction targets by 2050. | {
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Problems in Quantum Mechanics: with Solutions
242 solved problems of several degrees of difficulty in nonrelativistic Quantum Mechanics, ranging from the themes of the crisis of classical physics, through the achievements in the framework of modern atomic physics, down to the still alive, more intriguing aspects connected e.g. with the EPR paradox, the Aharonov--Bohm effect, quantum teleportation. | {
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"Owl Love You!" Heart Owl Kids' Craft for Valentine's Day
This cute little "love" owl is almost entirely made out of hearts. Not only is it a fun craft for kids to do, but it is also without a doubt going to charm anyone lucky enough to be the receiver of such a Valentine. Children of all ages will enjoy putting this together.
I found you on Tip Junkie. Would you please share this with my readers for our Fun Stuff Fridays Valentine's Linky Party? I think it would be a great fit. http://www.toysinthedryer.com/2012/02/14-days-of-valentines-fun-stuff-fridays.html
I love this!! I just saw it today ... not in time for Valentine's, but I am thinking ahead for Mother's Day--"Owl love you forever, Mommy." Thank you for sharing your gift of creativity. God bless you!! | {
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Brin immigrated to the United States from Soviet Union at the age of six. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Maryland, following in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science. After graduation, he moved toStanford to acquire a Ph.D in computer science. There he met Larry Page, with whom he later became friends. They crammed their dormitory room with inexpensive computers and applied Brin’s data mining system to build a superior search engine. The program became popular at Stanford and they suspended their PhD studies to start up Google in a rented garage.
The Economist magazine referred to Brin as an „Enlightenment Man„, and someone who believes that „knowledge is always good, and certainly always better than ignorance“, a philosophy that is summed up by Google’s motto of making all the world’s information „universally accessible and useful“[5] and „Don’t be evil„.
In 1979, when Brin was six, his family felt compelled to emigrate to the United States. In an interview with Mark Malseed, author of The Google Story,[9] Sergey’s father explains how he was „forced to abandon his dream of becoming an astronomer even before he reached college“. Although an official policy of anti-Semitism didn’t exist in the Soviet Union, Brin claimsCommunist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities; „Jews were excluded from thephysics departments, in particular…“ Michael Brin therefore changed his major to mathematics where he received nearly straight A’s. He said, „Nobody would even consider me for graduate school because I was Jewish.“[10] At Moscow State University, Jews were required to take their entrance exams in different rooms from non-Jewish applicants, which were nicknamed gas-chambers, and they were marked on a harsher scale.[11]
The Brin family lived in a three-room apartment in central Moscow, which they also shared with Sergey’s paternal grandmother.[10] Sergey told Malseed, „I’ve known for a long time that my father wasn’t able to pursue the career he wanted“, but Sergey only picked up the details years later after they had settled in the United States. He learned how, in 1977, after his father returned from a mathematics conference inWarsaw, Poland, he announced that it was time for the family to emigrate. „We cannot stay here any more“, he told his wife and mother. At the conference, he was able to „mingle freely with colleagues from the United States, France, England and Germany, and discovered that his intellectual brethren in the West were ’not monsters.'“ He added, „I was the only one in the family who decided it was really important to leave….“[10]
Sergey’s mother was less willing to leave their home in Moscow, where they had spent their entire lives. Malseed writes, „For Genia, the decision ultimately came down to Sergey. While her husband admits he was thinking as much about his own future as his son’s, for her, ‚it was 80/20‘ about Sergey.“ They formally applied for their exit visa in September 1978, and as a result his father „was promptly fired“. For related reasons, his mother also had to leave her job. For the next eight months, without any steady income, they were forced to take on temporary jobs as they waited, afraid their request would be denied as it was for many refuseniks. During this time his parents shared responsibility for looking after him and his father taught himself computer programming. In May 1979, they were granted their official exit visas and were allowed to leave the country.[10]
At an interview in October, 2000, Brin said, „I know the hard times that my parents went through there, and am very thankful that I was brought to the States.“[12] A decade earlier, in the summer of 1990, a few weeks before his 17th birthday, his father led a group of gifted high school math students, including Sergey, on a two-week exchange program to the Soviet Union. „As Sergey recalls, the trip awakened his childhood fear of authority“ and he remembers that his first „impulse on confronting Soviet oppression had been to throw pebbles at a police car.“ Malseed adds, „On the second day of the trip, while the group toured a sanitarium in the countryside near Moscow, Sergey took his father aside, looked him in the eye and said, ‚Thank you for taking us all out of Russia.'“[10]
During an orientation for new students at Stanford, he met Larry Page. In a recent interview for The Economist, Brin jokingly said „We’re both kind of obnoxious.“ They seemed to disagree on most subjects. But after spending time together, they „became intellectual soul-mates and close friends“. Brin’s focus was on developing data mining systems while Page’s was in extending „the concept of inferring the importance of a research paper from its citations in other papers.“[5] Together, the pair authored what is widely considered their seminal contribution, a paper entitled „The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine.“[15]
Combining their ideas, they „crammed their dormitory room with cheap computers“ and tested their new search engine designs on the web. Their project grew quickly enough „to cause problems for Stanford’s computing infrastructure.“ But they realized they had succeeded in creating a superior engine for searching the web and suspended their PhD studies to work more on their system.[5]
As Mark Malseed wrote, „Soliciting funds from faculty members, family and friends, Sergey and Larry scraped together enough to buy someservers and rent that famous garage in Menlo Park. … [soon after], Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a $100,000 check to “Google, Inc.” The only problem was, “Google, Inc.” did not yet exist—the company hadn’t yet been incorporated. For two weeks, as they handled the paperwork, the young men had nowhere to deposit the money.“[10]
The Economist magazine describes Brin’s approach to life, like Page’s, as based on a vision summed up by Google’s motto, „of making all the world’s information ‚universally accessible and useful.'“ Others have compared their vision to the impact of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of modern printing:
„In 1440, Johannes Gutenberg introduced Europe to the mechanical printing press, printing Bibles for mass consumption. The technology allowed for books and manuscripts – originally replicated by hand – to be printed at a much faster rate, thus spreading knowledge and helping to usher in the European Renaissance. . . Google has done a similar job.“[16]
The comparison was likewise noted by the authors of The Google Story: „Not since Gutenberg . . . has any new invention empowered individuals, and transformed access to information, as profoundly as Google.“[9]:1
Not long after the two „cooked up their new engine for web searches, they began thinking about information that is today beyond the web“, such as digitizing books, and expanding health information.[5]
In May 2007, Brin married Anne Wojcicki in The Bahamas. Wojcicki is a biotech analyst and a 1996 graduate of Yale University with a B.S.in biology.[2][17] She has an active interest in health information, and together she and Brin are developing new ways to improve access to it. As part of their efforts, they have brainstormed with leading researchers about the human genome project. „Brin instinctively regards geneticsas a database and computing problem. So does his wife, who co-founded the firm, 23andMe„, which lets people analyze and compare their own genetic makeup (consisting of 23 pairs of chromosomes).[5] In a recent announcement at Google’s Zeitgeist conference, he said he hoped that some day everyone would learn their genetic code in order to help doctors, patients, and researchers analyze the data and try to repair bugs.[5]
Brin’s mother, Eugenia, has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. In 2008, he decided to make a donation to the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where his mother is being treated.[18] Brin used the services of 23andMe and discovered that although Parkinson’s is generally not hereditary, both he and his mother possess a mutation of the LRRK2 gene (G2019S) that puts the likelihood of his developing Parkinson’s in later years between 20 and 80%.[5] When asked whether ignorance was not bliss in such matters, he stated that his knowledge means that he can now take measures to ward off the disease. An editorial in The Economist magazine states that „Mr Brin regards his mutation of LRRK2 as a bug in his personal code, and thus as no different from the bugs in computer code that Google’s engineers fix every day. By helping himself, he can therefore help others as well. He considers himself lucky. … But Mr. Brin was making a much bigger point. Isn’t knowledge always good, and certainly always better than ignorance?“[5]
Remembering his youth and his family’s reasons for leaving the Soviet Union, he „agonized over Google’s decision to appease the communist government of China by allowing it to censor search engine results“, but decided that the Chinese would still be better off than without having Google available.[5] He explained his reasoning to Fortune magazine:
„We felt that by participating there, and making our services more available, even if not to the 100 percent that we ideally would like, that it will be better for Chinese web users, because ultimately they would get more information, though not quite all of it.“[20]
On January 12, 2010, Google reported a large cyber attack on its computers and corporate infrastructure that began a month earlier, which included accessing numerous Gmail accounts and the theft of Google’s intellectual property. After the attack was determined to have originated in China, the company stated that it would no longer agree to censor its search engine in China and may exit the country altogether. The New York Times reported that „a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, but that the attack also targeted 20 other large companies in the finance, technology, media and chemical sectors.“[21][22] It was later reported that the attack included „one of Google’s crown jewels, a password system that controls access by millions of users worldwide.“[23]
In late March, 2010, it officially discontinued its China-based search engine while keeping its uncensored Hong Kong site in operation. In a similar move, domain registrar Go Daddy Inc. also told Congress it will be cutting back due to new Chinese requirements for confidential information about their registrants.[24] Speaking for Google, Brin stated during an interview, „One of the reasons I am glad we are making this move in China is that the China situation was really emboldening other countries to try and implement their own firewalls.“[24] During another interview with Spiegel, he added, „For us it has always been a discussion about how we can best fight for openness on the Internet. We believe that this is the best thing that we can do for preserving the principles of the openness and freedom of information on the Internet.“[25]
While only a few large companies so far pledged their support for the move, many Internet „freedom proponents are cheering the move,“ and it is „winning it praise in the U.S.“ from lawmakers.[24][26] Senator Byron Dorgan stated that „Google’s decision is a strong step in favor of freedom of expression and information.“[27] And Congressman Bob Goodlatte said, „I applaud Google for its courageous step to stop censoring search results on Google.com. Google has drawn a line in the sand and is shining a light on the very dark area of individual liberty restrictions in China.“[28] From the business perspective, many recognize that the move is likely to affect Google’s profits: „Google is going to pay a heavy price for its move, which is why it deserves praise for refusing to censor its service in China.“[29]The New Republic adds that „Google seems to have arrived at the same link that was obvious to Andrei Sakharov: the one between science and freedom,“ referring to the move as „heroism.“[30]
In 2002, Brin, along with Larry Page, was named to the MITTechnology ReviewTR100, as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[31]
In 2003, both Brin and Page received an honoraryMBA from IE Business School „for embodying the entrepreneurial spirit and lending momentum to the creation of new businesses…“.[32] And in 2004, they received the Marconi Foundation Prize, the „Highest Award in Engineering“, and were elected Fellows of the Marconi Foundation at Columbia University. „In announcing their selection, John Jay Iselin, the Foundation’s president, congratulated the two men for their invention that has fundamentally changed the way information is retrieved today.“ They joined a „select cadre of 32 of the world’s most influential communications technology pioneers…“[33]
In November 2009, Forbes magazine decided Brin and Larry Page were the fifth most powerful people in the world.[34] Earlier that same year, in February, Brin was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering, which is „among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer … [and] honors those who have made outstanding contributions to engineering research, practice…“. He was selected specifically, „for leadership in development of rapid indexing and retrieval of relevant information from the World Wide Web.“[35]
„he has been a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum and the Technology, Entertainment and Design Conference. … PC Magazine has praised Google [of] the Top 100 Web Sites and Search Engines (1998) and awarded Google the Technical Excellence Award, for Innovation in Web Application Development in 1999. In 2000, Google earned a Webby Award, a People’s Voice Award for technical achievement, and in 2001, was awarded Outstanding Search Service, Best Image Search Engine, Best Design, Most Webmaster Friendly Search Engine, and Best Search Feature at the Search Engine Watch Awards.“[36]
According to Forbes he and Larry Page are currently tied as the 24th richest person in the world with a personal wealth of US$19.8 billion in 2011.[37]
Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google. For example, he and Page are trying to help solve the world’s energy and climate problems at Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. The company acknowledges that its founders want „to solve really big problems using technology.“[38]
In October 2010, for example, they invested in a major offshore wind power development to assist the East coast power grid,[39] which may eventually become the first „offshore wind farm“ in the United States.[40] A week earlier they introduced a car that, with „artificial intelligence,“ can drive itself using video cameras and radar sensors.[38] In the future, drivers of cars with similar sensors would have fewer accidents. These safer vehicles could therefore be built lighter and require less fuel consumption.[41]
In June 2008, Brin invested $4.5 million in Space Adventures, the Virginia-based space tourism company. His investment will serve as a deposit for a reservation on one of Space Adventures‘ proposed flights in 2011. So far, Space Adventures has sent seven tourists into space.[43]
„I think as a kid, I always had a kind of scientific curiosity. I was always interested in mathematics, and I always enjoyed doing math problems. In fact, my undergrad, I had a degree in both math and computer science. I think, eventually, I was really inspired by computers because of the amazing power that they give you. Today’s PCs do a billion operations per second. It’s almost inconceivable, and I think that was the most inspiring thing to me, how you could leverage that to actually produce something that was useful, beyond video games and things like that.“[47]
„When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.“[42]
„We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are — but not web pages.“[48]
„Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.“ | {
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Thermo Sensing Technology
QFlex, a California based technology company has developed the In Situ thermo sensing technology. It is highly accurate, very reliable and can be incorporated in products manufactured in high volume.
The system consist of a discrete layer of flex or a rigid PCB with pre designated copper pads where the temperature has to be measured. The traces connecting the copper pads can terminate at one of the edges of the layer or it can terminate to a section where the electronics for measurement will be located. If the traces are terminated for connection to slave electronics, any off the shelf connectors can be used. A simple modification of electronics can allow remote monitoring.
This is a ‘zero profile’ system. There are no components involved in the measurement area. All that is needed is to have a small copper pad in the designated area where the temperature will be measured.
The electronics used to measure the signal have been developed. We can give it to the customers or they can develop their own. We are in discussion with some customers to see if we can make an ASIC that will take care of signal processing. It is possible to convert this data to wireless signal on zigbee, wifi or ethernet for remote monitoring.
The process of measuring temperature is more than a century old. Various techniques have been developed and refined over a period of time. Some of these sensors are highly accurate like those used in deep space sensors. Some are very crude like the thermostat in a water heater.
Options to measure temperature.
1. Mercury bulb thermometer :
A small quantity of mercury (or alcohol for certain applications) is placed in a glass bulb with a long thin capillary tube marked with graduations to show temperature. This can be a highly accurate system if manufactured carefully.
Cons: * The glass is very fragile and easy to break * Mercury can be very toxic. A broken thermometer can spill mercury in uncontrollable ways and create a health and safety hazard. * The reading is analog and it can be operator dependent.
2. Bi Metal unit:
Here, two strips of metals are welded on two ends. One has significantly higher expansion in heat. The strip with low expansion factor is heavy (thick) while the other one is thin and flexible. When exposed to heat, the thin strip expands and makes a bulge. This bulge can be measured using many techniques. These units are very sturdy, easy to manufacture, reliable and very inexpensive.
Cons: The readings are not repeatable, the accuracy is low.
3. Use TCR of heater trace:
Here, the resistance of metal trace being used as a heater is used as a control parameter. Some metals have reasonable change in resistance with heat. During the heating process, the resistance of trace is continuously measured and used to turn the power on and off at a control temperature.
Cons: * This is usable only for low cost, approximate temperature measurement. The control is not very fine and the temperature can have wide windows of variation. * Many metals suitable for heating do not have good TCR delta for measurement.
4. IR measurement
Here the IR window mounted in a measurement unit measures the IR signature of the hot object and calculates the temperature on the surface. This technique allows remote, non contact measurement.
Cons: * Has to be line of sight. * Temperature reading cannot be used easily as a control signal. * If the surface has some emmisivity, the readings will be less accurate. Best results are with a black matt finish. * Presence of smoke or airborne particles may introduce error in measurement.
5. Pyrometer:
Pyrometer uses an optical window with a detector. The optical system focuses the thermal radiation on a detector. The output signal of the detector is related to thermal radiation (also called irradiance) by using the Stefen-Boltzman law that includes the emmisivity of the surface and Stefen-Boltzman constant. This is a non contact measurement system.
Cons: similar to #4, IR measurement.
6. Semi conductor devices:
There are many devices available to measure temperature which have reasonably good accuracy and repeat ability. They are usually very inexpensive. One of the most common devices is a thermistor. Basically, it is a device with material that changes resistance with temperature. The curve to establish relationship of resistance / temperature is prepared and used to convert resistance values to temperature. Another such device is Resistance Temperature Detector (RTD)
Cons: * While the devices are economical, the ultimate process to use them is not. In a circuit board, they will occupy valuable surface real estate. * They have to be soldered on a surface of a probe which then is used to measure temperature. * Since these are discrete devices, they have a profile over the probe surface, so they can not be used as a positive contact measurement device. At best, the device must be in close proximity of the hot surface so there may be some loss in accuracy of measurement. * If the measurement range has wide fluctuations, the solder joint (used to install the device) will have thermal expansion / contraction cycles. Ultimately, this will cause a solder fatigue and create microcracks in the solder joints. This in turn causes intermittent measurement and ultimate failure.
7. Thermocouples:
One of the most common methods is to use thermocouple (T/C) technique. In this process, two dissimilar wires are welded together to make a ball joint. Each wire is made from specific metals. If a copper wire is welded to Constantan wire, it makes a junction called Type T, if a Chromium with 10% nickel wire is welded to Aluminum silicon with 5% Nickel wire, it is Type K etc. When this junction is heated, there is a low level voltage proportional to temperature that can be measured and converted to a meaningful reading. None of these temperature/voltage curves are linear and a polynomial equation is used to calculate actual temperature.
Cons:
* In order to make this work, the junction cannot have a third metal, it is a bi-metal junction only, so it can not be soldered or welded using a welding rod. It has to be made by TIG , define welding – by fusing the two metals together. This is an operator dependent process. If not done correctly, it is easy to produce unreliable joint.
* While the wires can be insulated, the joint itself is open. If the environment is corrosive (gaseous) or chemicals are involved, this open joint will not work. By using various special processes, the joint can be insulated, but it is expensive, difficult to do, easy to break down, unreliable and not durable. It also reduces the response time.
* By the very nature of the welding procedure, it is not possible to automate the process. This means no part to part consistency and no high volume process. This is strictly a manual, or at most, semi automated process.
* The welding process creates a relatively large mass. A large thermal mass takes time to heat up so the response is not adequate in most processes.
* Over a period of time, due to expansion/contraction cycles, this joint can break down. The ball joint is a relatively large mass connected to a thinner wire, any relative flexing of thejoint can easily break the wire connection to the joint.
* Sometimes, the two wires are just twisted to make a connection. This is a highly unreliable connection.
* Wires can crack if not handled carefully.
* Special connectors with two matching dissimilar metals are needed to connect to a measurement device.
In Situ Thermo Sensing Technology (ThermosenseTM) by QFlex Inc.
What is In Situ Thermal sensing?
Basically, In Situ Thermal sensing is an element on a circuit board (flexible or rigid). It can be part of any existing design or be a discrete element by itself. The designated points where a temperature is to be measured is called a ‘node’ – a copper pad. A trace (called ‘common’) on the top layer (for single layer construction) or on a sub layer (for multilayer design) connects to each node in series and extends to one designated measuring area. From each node, a second trace (called ‘node trace’) extends to the measuring area. The connection is done by conventional copper plating processes (for multilayer design) that are field proven and highly reliable. When the nodes are exposed to temperatures, there will be a proportional measurable analog signal between common and each node traces. Electronics in the measurement area are set up to scan each combination.
If so desired, this technique can be an integral part of a multilayer PCB where it is necessary to measure temperatures in certain areas, e.g. under components that may overheat or sections of board that may be exposed to high temperature environment. All that is needed on the outer layer(s) of the PCB is a small copper pad (can be under a component). This copper pad is connected by plated through via to a sub layer where the connecting traces take the signal to the processing electronics.
Since this is a zero profile system, it can be used under pressure (e.g. measuring temperature while the parts are under pressure).
The data can be :
1. Stored on board for later retrieval. 2. Transmitted to other devices (or a PC) by wire or wireless. 3. Used to trip a relay (to trigger shut down due to over heating). 4. Used to control a function, such as reducing brightness in a mobile device when the battery overheats. 5. Displayed as multicolor LEDs to show level of temperature 6. Displayed on LCD/LED screen 6. An audible signal to alert high temperatures. 7. Used to control temperature control circuitry.
Applications:
In Situ Thermal sensing is a generic technology with wide open applications. The salient features of this technology are already being used by Tier 1 customers.
Heater + Measurement for precise temperature control : A flexible or rigid board can be used as a heater by creating a serpentine pattern of a metal trace with a specific resistance. In order to control the temperature, it is necessary to give a continuous signal to the power controller so that the surface temperature is maintained within specified limits. While the planar heaters work very well due to their form factor, there is no standard technology to set up sensing with zero profile. This technology offers a built in sensing or a discrete part that is laminated to the heater surface without changing the form factor. It is easy to have two sensing areas as a redundancy for high temperature cut off. It is also possible to measure temperature in many locations on a heater and calculate average temperature and use that as a control signal. Of course, real time data collection is always there for all these locations.
Temperature sensors for harsh / severe environment: The element will be a flex cable made using conventional printed circuit board processes. The cable will be of suitable length and shape to fit in allowable mechanical constraints. A ‘node’ is located on the cable so that it is in close proximity or in actual physical contact with the area to be measured. This cable is either plugged intoa hand held device or signal output is processed using custom electronics. Since there is no component on the sensing surface, norelief (cavity) is necessary in the contact area.
Harsh Environment/Chemical Exposure: The PWB or flex cable is suitably coated with appropriate layer to protect against corrosive environment or chemicals. If the environment is one which will attack copper, the copper pad can be coated with other metals like silver, gold, tin, nickel or Rhodium. If all these metals are susceptible to the chemicals involved, it is easy to use any suitable polymer coating over the copper pad. For high temperatures, ceramic base and ceramic coatings are used.
Predicting Failure in PCBs. In most electronic circuits, most common mode of failure is heat related. High temperature incursions are hard to anticipate, measure in real time, and take preventive actions. When an electronic system board is under power and continuously used over a period of time, the components in various locations start heating up. In Situ design can give actual temperatures in real time for all specific locations with complete history over a period time.
Measuring Temperature under pressure (Hydraulic or IsoStatic)
If this is needed, the In Situ system can provide highly accurate data. Many conventional measurement systems can not survive direct (hydraulic) or isostatic pressures.
How it is done:
Basically, the conductive layer on top in a flex or a rigid acts as a temperature sensing plane. Temp. sensing ‘zones’ are assigned and located based on needs. For example: if there is a memory chip that can get overheated, a zone directly under the chip is allocated a channel number. Same for processors, power transistors etc. All that is needed to measure is a via pad at the designated location. Except for the via pad, the balance of the real estate on the board is used like any other PWB.
The designated via pads are connected to a trace at one of the sub level (e.g. at layer #2, #3 etc). There is a common trace running in series connecting each location (node). Then a separate trace is routed to each node. Now we have a common trace and one trace per measurement point. By measuring the signal between each trace and common trace, temperature is measured for that location by scanning the signal for each combination. This data can drive green/yellow/red LEDs (to indicate level of heat rise), audible alarms, real time data collection or all of the above.
Since this circuitry takes up only a small part of the top layer, the balance of the real estate is used for typical PWB use. All components are placed by same process, the signals are routed the same way, no special processes are necessary. The process windows for PWB manufacturing and assembly are unchanged and all typical raw materials used in PWBs are unchanged. The analog signals from multiple points being measured needs to be processed as per the requirement.
This is very important for high reliability systems like high end servers, telecom, military systems etc. Let us say the data shows a processor is heating up. The typical heat rise is from room temp. to 170 deg. F. Let us say there are 5 processors on board. During ‘burn in’ test, all that the test can tell you is that all processors worked. With this design, it is possible to know if one processor is heating up faster than the other ones and which one will fail first!
In real world use, the customer will know if a specific processor or a memory chip is slowly over heating. Not only they will know approximately how long it will go on before failure (from past history), they will know which specific component on the board will fail. That allows quick replacement and very low down time. Using the previous example, if the processor has been historically at 140 deg. max and all of a sudden the temp is rising to 150 or 160, then the system can be scheduled to shut down by plan rather than by an eby an emergency procedure..
The In Situ approach allows evaluations of various designs in order to pick the most robust one. The thermal design of the whole system can be optimized based on the real data over the whole board. By taking care of the most vulnerable zones, the MTBF for the system can be increased significantly.
Reflow chambers transfer heat by convection, by infra red process or combination of both. Both of these processes heat up the entire PWB including the components. If the temperature at the solder paste level is too low, the solder paste will be only partially melted creating grainy solder which will trap flux inside. This flux can corrode the solder joint over a period of time and create intermittent failure. The grainy solder will not give the best possible connection and structural integrity can be compromised. If the temperature is too high, valuable components and/or base PWB including plated through holes (due to Z axis expansion) can be damaged. High temperatures will reduce the viscosity of solder and the process can cause solder bridges between adjacent pads in high density designs. Each solder paste manufacturer has its recommended thermal profile curve for the best performance of solder paste.
The worst failures occur at the solder joints. If a solder joint is cracked, it will cause intermittent failures. Since these failures cannot be duplicated under controlled environment, troubleshooting becomes extremely difficult.
Another failure mode is at the component level. While Hi Reliability boards do go through ‘burn in’ process, it is a static test and no real time data can be collected to see the temperature performance of the active components during use.
Any marginal assembly process deviations that might cause future solder joint failures are hard to pin down. This problem has been aggravated because of the lead free soldering which has a tighter process window. Any failure analysis on returned part is difficult because no real time data during use is available.
It is therefore of utmost importance to accurately determine the thermal profile of a reflow chamber. While the required profile curve is readily available, measuring ACTUAL temperature of the pad on a PWB during reflow is not easy. It is not possible to find out if the process matches the required reflow profile curve including the heat rise and crucial melting point/time duration part of the curve.
Various thermal profiling systems are on the market. Most of them use discrete thermocouple wires. These wires are attached to a data collection system with wires or by wireless. The wires are attached to selected locations and it is assumed that the temperature readings reflect the actual reflow process of the solder paste. Of course, this is not true. Measuring the temperature near a component in the air and/or away from actual solder paste pad simply will not profile the reflow process accurately.
In Situ Process for Solder reflow Chamber:
The system consists of a multilayer polyimide board with plated though holes (PTH). The PTH connect the inside signal traces to copper pads on top layer. There is a section on the PWB with necessary electronics to collect data. A cap with thermal insulation to protect the electronics from heat in included.. This PWB is run through the chamber with process setting. The copper pads are exposed to heat just like actual PWB with solder paste. The temperature rise on the copper pad is measured very accurately (0.1 deg C) and instantly (0.1 sec.). There are no components on the copper pad or under the pad ( internal layers). Nothing is soldered over the pad (thermister or temperature sensing RTD). There is nothing extraneous anywhere in the sensing area. This now gives the true measure of the actual temperature of the PWB solder pads. The temperature of the copper pads on the system is measured under the dome in the electronic section and the data is transmitted wirelessly to a laptop in real time. As an option, data can be stored on board and downloaded to a PC later on. Since the temperature sensing is done on a real multilayer PWB at the top layer copper pads, all the uncertainty is removed from the measurements.
Qflex is an award winning Southern California based company serving the Flexible Circuit Industry since 1998. | {
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No School The Day After Halloween
Halloween is one of the best holidays of the year wether you're out trick-or-treating, partying, or staying home to pass out candy, you'll most likely end up not getting much sleep even if you try to because of all the noise from parties and other nonsense. So I think it's fair to have the day after Halloween off from school so we can stay up late to celebrate, sleep in the next day and be both physically and mentally prepared for school the following day. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, feel free to email me at: [email protected] | {
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Water Wise Car Spa
The Unique Blue Planet Water Treatment Process.
The upper and lower parts of your car require different cleaning methods, detergents, applications and strengths. For instance, the front of the car can collect anything from insects to tar, while the lower parts of the car are more likely to collect dirt, oil and salt. Just as the upper parts of the car are more susceptible to sap, bird droppings, acid rain and general grime.
Unfortunately the detergents used on the lower parts of your car do not discriminate between the removal of dirt and grime, and the waxes and polishes that protect your car’s upper duco. Therefore it is essential that each contaminant is treated with the right detergent to ensure the entire cleaning process is gentle yet effective.
This means you will leave Blue Planet knowing your car has had the best wash while having minimal impact on the environment
The Blue Planet Two Stage Wash Process
Our most precious resource can no longer be taken for granted. Blue Planet’s unique recycled water treatment process, has been designed specifically for the Australian environment.
Our patented molecular water filters, thoroughly remove all chemicals and waste in the water during the cleaning process. This system also allows us to monitor and maintain the optimal pH levels of the water being recycled.
At Blue Planet our aim is to provide you with the best customer service and attention to detail while being the most environmentally friendly car wash in Melbourne, without compromise | {
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Tributes paid to 'caring' Notts doctor killed in crash
Tributes have been paid to a 'caring' and 'adventurous' Nottinghamshire doctor who died after a road collision.
Cyclist Suzanna Bull, from Farnsfield, was involved in a collision with a lorry at the junction of Edgbaston Road and Pershore Road in Birmingham at around 4pm on Monday.
She was treated by paramedics but despite their best efforts, was sadly pronounced dead at the scene.
Paying tribute to her, her family said: “Suzie was only 32, a determined, caring, adventurous young doctor with a great future ahead.
“She grew up in Farnsfield, Nottinghamshire - then completed her medical degree at the University of Birmingham; though most recently she had been working at Birmingham Children’s Hospital as part of her GP training.
“We have lost, all too soon, a beautiful daughter, sister and friend to so very many.”
The lorry driver stopped at the scene and is assisting police with investigations.
Sgt Alan Wood, from the collision investigation unit, said: "We are still appealing for any additional witnesses to the collision.
"The road was busy at that time of day, with vehicles and pedestrians and I would ask anyone who is yet to contact us who saw what happened to do so."
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Feds Cancel Commercial Sardine Fishing After Stocks Crash
A tray of sardines in Costa Mesa, California, in this November 17, 2014 photo. Plummeting sardine populations force a complete ban on sardine fishing off the U.S. West Coast for more than a year.
Life has suddenly gotten easier for the sardine. Federal regulators are not only closing the commercial sardine fishing season early in Oregon, Washington and California, but it will stay closed for more than a year. | {
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Twitter today has published its latest Transparency Report, a list of information and takedown requests, as well as copyright notices. The report breaks out for the first time how Twitter is faring on a country-by-country basis — useful considering that these days some 75% of its users are outside the U.S. — and indicates that information requests are up by 66% in the last two years.
But Twitter is also using the release to drive home a point it’s been making for some time now: current rules do not allow Twitter to be as transparent as it would like to be.
Twitter says that it is weighing up taking its fight for more disclosure to the courts. “We are considering legal options we may have to seek to defend our First Amendment rights,” Jeremy Kessel, Manager, Global Legal Policy, writes in a blog post introducing the new Transparency Report. It comes on the heels of Facebook, LinkedIn, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft last week revealing data about its own NSA information requests.
The importance of more transparency is two-fold for Twitter. First, the company has been a strong defender of freedom of speech and how it might apply to user-created content on its platform. In certain scenarios, where instances of bullying have been exposed, it’s been hands-off almost to a fault. So there is a matter of principle for the company here.
Second, there is an issue of trust here. Allowing a users’ account information and content to be accessed and potentially used by third parties, and not be disclosed to other users, is a slippery slope that undermines Twitter’s relationship with users. Yesterday’s quarterly earnings (Twitter’s first as a public company) pointed to how the company has to pick up the pace with user growth (something the market continues to punish it for today); backdoor tactics by others certainly will do nothing to help that proposition.
Twitter would not be the first to get legal: Yahoo is among those who have been outspoken on this point. Some might argue that this has played a part in the agreement reached between the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court and the five larger internet companies over how to disclose in aggregate information about FISA orders).
While there have definitely been some moves made by the U.S. Department of Justice to allow for more disclosure on government requests, it doesn’t go far enough to be relevant to companies like Twitter, the company believes.
“These ranges do not provide meaningful or sufficient transparency for the public, especially for entities that do not receive a significant number of – or any – national security requests,” Kessel writes. “For the disclosure of national security requests to be meaningful to our users, it must be within a range that provides sufficient precision to be meaningful. Allowing Twitter, or any other similarly situated company, to only disclose national security requests within an overly broad range seriously undermines the objective of transparency. In addition, we also want the freedom to disclose that we do not receive certain types of requests, if, in fact, we have not received any.”
In the transparency report (which you can see for yourself here), it’s important to note that the topline number showing that information requests have risen by 66% is still from a relatively small base. It works out to some 6,500 accounts impacted — “~.0028% of 230M active users” notes Kessel. In the last six months, requests have risen by 22%, the company notes.
The U.S. still accounts for the majority of requests (59% in the last six months ending December 2013. Outside of the U.S. — which saw 833 account information requests (covering 1,323 accounts), — Japan topped the list with 213 account information requests covering 253 accounts. It was followed by France (57; 102), which has been making some overtures to start requesting even more control beyond data access.
Indeed, when it comes to removal requests, France jumps to the very top by a large stretch. While most other countries have seen none or just one or two removal requests, France has seen 306 removal requests from government agencies and the police; three from court orders; covering 146 accounts (although none subsequently withheld) and 133 specific Tweets withheld. A large part of the story in France centers around groups that have been able to obtain Tweet and account orders by way of current French discrimination laws.
In all, Twitter says that it had in the last six months five times as many content removal requests as it did in the six months before. After France, Russia, Brazil and the UK followed in number.
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OverviewTwitter is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 140-character messages known as “tweets”. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications.
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Gay Essential Films To Watch, Looking for Mr Goodbar
In Looking for Mr Goodbar, Theresa Dunn (Diane Keaton) is a school teacher by day, and an adventurous bar-hopper at night. After being brought up in a repressive Catholic environment, and with body image issues due to a scoliosis scar on her back, Theresa, due to the influence of her adventurous older sister Katherine (Tuesday Weld), begins a series of one-night stands that escalate into dangerous, and violent encounters with men, and in doing so, rejects her family’s expectations that she go down the traditional path of marriage and kids.
Sampling all manner of taboos: drugs, pornography, and debauchery, contrasting with her straight-laced daytime persona, Theresa dives in to the pleasure and pain of New York nightlife. Along the way she meets a varied cast of characters, most notably Tony (Richard Gere), a coked-out hustler with mother issues, and Gary (Tom Berenger), a gay-for-pay hustler who eventually rapes, and kills Theresa after she mocks him by accusing him of being secretly gay since he couldn’t maintain an erection.
“What makes the film — which Richard Brooks directed and scripted, adapting Judith Rossner’s bestselling 1975 novel of the same name — so fascinating and repellent at once is precisely the confusion and anxiety it articulates about women’s sexual freedom.”—Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice
“The film compulsively reiterates themes, visual motifs and parallel narratives, a relentless and repetitive reiteration of ideas that lends that film the aspect of a Freudian dream landscape, a baroque, Boschian sequence of fantasies, projections and illusions.”—Bruce LaBruce, The Talk House
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In order to protect her reputation, Diane Keaton’s contract forbade the reproduction of any production photographs featuring her in a “sexually suggestive” manner. Looking for Mr Goodbar also had a psychological effect on some cast members: Tom Berenger admits that he had terrible nightmares after playing Gary. The film served as the feature debut of Roots and Star Trek: The Next Generation actor, LeVar Burton, who played Cap Jackson. Review our Gay Themed Films Here
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This paper reviews sources of distortion in memory for sexual encounters, particularly those between intoxicated participants. We review factors leading to initial misinterpretations of sexual consent including the indirect nature of sexual consent communications, misleading cultural sexual scripts, misinterpretation of passivity, and others. In this context, we consider the way in which alcohol can both contribute to initial misunderstanding and promote specific distortions in memory over time. Finally, we discuss additional influences on memory, including motivations related to self-esteem, self-concept maintenance, or litigation, and the effects of social influence from sources such as friends, forensic interviewers or therapists. | {
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The Top 5 Highest UFC Fighter Salaries Revealed
Here is a look at five massive UFC fighter salaries.
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is home to some of the world’s most talented and toughest mixed martial artists. Those that make it onto the roster of the world’s most famous mixed martial arts promotion have the chance of becoming superstars within the sport.
With the rise in popularity, these few MMA megastars gain the chance of earning massive sums throughout their careers.
Forbes has reported a prediction of the five highest salary packages among UFC competitors. The packages have been estimated based on status, anticipated opponents, and activity of the fighter.
#5: Anderson Silva
Former UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva salary has been estimated between $2 to $6 million. Silva is often among the few fighters in conversation concerning the greatest mixed martial artist of all time, having formerly held the record for most consecutive title defenses within the UFC.
#4: Jon Jones
Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has earned an estimated $3 to $7 million for his salary package. The fighter competed once in 2017, facing Daniel Cormier for the light heavyweight title of the UFC.
Jones earned a knockout victory over his opponent. But, the victory was short lived. Jones was stripped of his title after failing yet another drug test, overturning his victory to a no contest.
#3: Ronda Rousey
Former UFC bantamweight champion Ronda Rousey has been estimate at a massive salary package of $10 to $15 million. Rousey has not competed since going on a two fight losing streak in 2016. Still, Rousey drew in hoards of fight fans from around the world with her knockout artist performances inside the octagon.
#2: Georges St-Pierre
Forbes has estimated Georges St-Pierre at a staggering salary package of $10 to $20 million. The former UFC welterweight champion made his big return to the octagon back in 2017, earning the middleweight title with a victory over Michael Bisping.
St-Pierre would go on vacate the title after being stricken with colitis.
#1: Conor McGregor
To no surprise, Forbes has placed “Notorious” in their top spot with an estimated salary package of $15 to $100 million. McGregor made UFC history by becoming the only fighter to ever simultaneously wield multiple titles within the promotion, having earning the lightweight and featherweight belts.
McGregor most recently made the payday of his career within his debut in the sport of boxing. The fighter suffered a TKO loss to Floyd Mayweather Jr. in 2017, but still earned a stunning $100 million for his performance. | {
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General view of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, December 20, 2016. The nature of the threat was not disclosed. Daesh claimed responsibility for that shooting, one of a series of attacks believed to have been carried out by the extremists in Turkey in recent years.
The February 26 quake struck near Porgera in the Pacific nation's Enga province, destroying houses, causing landslides and damaging a major gas plant. Relief efforts are slowly being ramped up, with millions of dollars in aid pledged by the government, ExxonMobil and Australian energy producers. Oil Search managing director Peter Botten, who travelled to the Highlands to survey the damage, said the effect "has been enormous, with many deaths in the region, as well as the destruction of ...
The special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities last month, charging them with conspiring to interfere in the 2016 race via a social media disinformation campaign. Moscow , too, has been denying allegations that it tried to influence the USA presidential election. The focus on Nader could also prompt an examination of how money from multiple countries has flowed through and influenced Washington during the Trump era.
For the season, Washington shoots 45.7 percent overall (eighth in the Pac-12), 34.2 on 3-pointers (10th) and 69.4 on foul shots (10th). The Beavers went up by 20 with five minutes left in the first half, and Ethan Thompson scored five points in the final 38 seconds before the break - including a 3-pointer with four seconds left.
The joint military exercises between the US and South Korea are set to begin in April. North Korea dismissed the report, although intelligence experts estimate the North has weaponised stockpiles of as many as 25 chemical agents, including sarin and VX nerve gas.
TDP, the ruling party in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh , has threatened to walk out of the alliance over the BJP not fulfilling the commitments made to the state. "Medical, education, agriculture, and urban development should be handed over to state governments, but they aren't doing so, while the Central government is keeping all these departments in their hands", said the Telangana Chief Minister.
Manchester United will start next Saturday's game at home to the Merseysiders back in second place if they win at Crystal Palace tomorrow. "I feel so happy, very pleased", Pochettino said. Pochettino praised his side's professionalism in getting the job done against Huddersfield despite a huge Champions League game looming on the horizon.
Last month , the US State Department revealed that it is planning to transfer the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem this May, far earlier than previous predictions , which suggested the move would be completed no earlier than late 2019.
The Congress vote share has come down to 2 per cent from 36 per cent in the state. Rio was declared as the chief ministerial candidate of the NDPP-BJP alliance by the combine. But this year they grabbed 35 seats. While inking the pre-poll deal with the NDPP on February 3, Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said the BJP was "still friends" with the NPF .
The people in Meghalaya have rejected the Congress . "The governor asked Conrad Sangma to form the new government on March 6", Himanta Biswa Sarma said. The NPP, which secured 19 seats on its own, has the backing of six United Democratic Party (UDP) legislators, four People's Democratic Front (PDF) MLAs, two each from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hill State People's Democratic Party (HSPDP) MLAs and an Independents legislator, taking the combined strength of the alliance to 34.
Aide to the former FM, Sayyed al-Masry told Asharq Al-Awsat that Prince Mohammed's visit is significant because it precedes the Arab summit that is hosted by Saudi Arabia and which is scheduled for late March. His visit comes a day after Egypt's top court upheld a deal to transfer two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. The deal had been agreed during a 2016 visit by Saudi King Salman and ratified by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi previous year.
The Senate bill will have to be reconciled with that passed by the House, which approved the 5 percent raise. But the Republican-controlled state senate balked and offered a 4 percent raise, with an eye toward saving $17 million in the state's budget.
Under growing global pressure to end the bloodshed, government backer Russian Federation last week announced daily five-hour "humanitarian pauses" in the enclave. "We hope that the convoy may proceed as planned and will be followed by other convoys", al-Za'tari said. "Our teams on the ground are ready to do all that is needed to make this happen", said Ali al-Za'tari, the United Nations resident and humanitarian coordinator, who will lead the convoy.
Baldwin-as-Trump continued: "We have to take a hard look at our mental health, which I have so much of. Bring back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far greater talent!", Trump tweeted . My mentals are so high, but we have to respect the law. "But maybe we just take everyone's gun away". Baldwin's Trump declared that he always said that he would run the country like a business, but that the business is a "Waffle House at 2 a.m".
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The delegation will be led by Chung Eui-yong, top national security adviser for Moon and head of the National Security Office of the Blue House. The North Koreans said that the changing US attitude on dialogue shows the North that the U.S.is not interested in resuming talks and alluded to the possible use of military force.
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The president talked about planning his remarks and said he discussed them with the "funniest" people in the White House , including Vice President Mike Pence . Hours earlier he tweeted that the mainstream USA media had "gone insane". "They've gone CRAZY! " He linked to a story by a conservative pundit saying Trump and his family are victims of "unparalleled" press attacks.
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Fulcro are delighted to report that the prestigious Digital Construction Week (DCW) exhibition was an unmitigated success with a huge amount interest from attendees in its full selection of services and products.
The Fulcro team on the ground provided an engaging and thought provoking presence throughout the event, highlighting the wide range of innovative and revolutionary Fulcro services and solutions to a collection of distinguished attendees. Fulcro’s core philosophy has always been based on innovation and that was evident in the presentations given at both the exhibition stand and by Fulcro Applied Technologies Director, Dr Max Mallia Parfitt on the event’s main stage.
Dr Parfitt’s talk was very well attended and the feedback received was excellent and overwhelmingly positive. The presentation covered how the use of immersive Virtual Reality (VR) in construction is widely considered too expensive, but with an engaged client and the right technology platform, the potential return on investment and project improvement is unrivalled. The talk also lifted the lid on how using the FULmax ‘BIM CAVE’ on the Thames Tideway Tunnel project, which also recently featured in a BBC documentary, has improved the project delivery since it was installed.
Ben Haldin, Managing Director, Fulcro, said: “Our journey has always had the idea of innovation right at the forefront, so it’s only natural for Digital Construction Week to be a really significant date in our calendar. I truly believe that DCW has once again been a successful platform for us to market ourselves and our technology and really highlight the worldwide potential that our services provide.
“We’ve already worked on numerous projects across the globe with our technology being implemented in various situations in several major cities and DCW was the perfect place to communicate our successes back to the market.
“Moving forward, we’re really excited about what the future holds for Fulcro and based on the large-scale projects we’re currently working on, alongside our prospective work, it’s going to continue to be an incredibly busy but rewarding period.”
Dr Max Mallia Parfitt, Applied Technologies Director, Fulcro, said: “Digital Construction Week 2018 has once again been a fantastic experience for us. We’ve been able to successfully showcase a variety of our projects, including FulMAx, which has generated a large amount of interest both at the exhibition and across social media.
“It was a real privilege to be able to speak at the event specifically about our FulMAX technology, which really shows how pivotal VR technology is becoming in shaping our modern day construction projects.”
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Kori Cheverie joined the men's hockey coaching staff as a full-time assistant in August 2016.
Cheverie became the first female to be named a full-time assistant with a men's hockey program in U SPORTS history.
Prior to joining the men's team, Cheverie spent three years at Ryerson as the Skate Training Specialist, working with the Rams hockey teams and external clients on stride mechanics and enhancing all around hockey skills.
Cheverie has played six seasons in the Canadian Women's Hockey League (CWHL) with the Toronto Furies. Prior to that, Cheverie was a three-time AUS first-team all-star, team captain, Academic All-Canadian, and two-time female athlete of the year when she played at St. Mary's University in Halifax. | {
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Thomas Keller opens third Bouchon bistro
BEVERLY HILLS Calif. Renowned chef Thomas Keller officially opened the third outpost of his Bouchon bistro concept in Beverly Hills, Calif. on Wednesday, marking the Southern California native’s return to the Los Angeles area.The chef’s Thomas Keller Restaurant Group operates The French Laundry in Yountville, Calif., Per Se in New York as well as Bouchon locations in Yountville and Las Vegas, and the more casual Ad Hoc in Yountville and Bouchon Bakery in Yountville, Las Vegas and New ...
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Is it time to privatise policing in Britain?
Tim Evans
So Home Secretary Theresa May is “destroying” the police — at least that’s what the Police Federation claimed yesterday. But the real problem is not that May’s reforms to pay and working conditions are too radical, it’s that they are nowhere near radical enough.
Officially, London is policed by four tax-funded forces — the Metropolitan Police, the City of London Police, the British Transport Police and to a much lesser extent the Ministry of Defence...
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(Updated at 8:17 p.m. with reaction from Normandy and its interim superintendent)
In unusually strong language, a St. Louis County judge has ruled that Normandy schools are unaccredited and students who live in the district have a right to transfer to whatever area accredited school district they want to attend.
The Kansas City school district has released a school-improvement plan that was developed with a local coalition.
The plan's submission Tuesday to the State Board of Education comes one day after a consultant released a competing proposal. The consultant's plan calls for a state-run entity to recruit community groups and educators to operate schools in failing districts.
Unlike that proposal, the new plan calls for the unaccredited Kansas City districts to be designated as provisionally accredited. That would stop students from taking advantage of a state law to transfer to accredited schools. Instead, schools would be accredited individually.
North St. Louis County's Normandy School District pointed to a variety of things to entice parents to keep their kids in the district: partnerships and collaboration with nearby universities, new technology, and more staff training.
But for the parents of 1,151 Normandy kids, it just wasn’t enough. If you compare it to last year’s enrollment, that means 28 percent will be fleeing the failing school district.
Unaccredited schools in Kansas City and St. Louis could have a huge impact on a number of school districts in each of those metropolitan areas. Plus, teacher tenure could see changes – and we’ll give you the results of the Columbia school board races we previewed the last couple of weeks. | {
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