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Learn why we called the new Taylor Guitars K14CE Builder’s Edition Acoustic with V-Class Bracing the best acoustic guitar we’ve ever played in our latest review.
Taylor made their name by blending craftsmanship with modern production techniques. They’re pushing the envelope again, with their Builder’s Edition K14ce, featuring their new V-Bracing system, creating a beautiful instrument made with amazing woods, and modern construction methods. We had a chance to have a one-on-one session at NAMM with the V-Class mastermind, Andy Powers, and the results of Taylor’s R&D are nothing short of revolutionary. Every note rings true with clarity due to the new bracing system, volume is consistent up and down the fretboard, even at the highest register, and intonation is pitch-perfect across the entire fingerboard – making chords that were simply unplayable on other instruments now a thing of beauty. The new bracing system’s importance cannot be overstated in the world of acoustic instruments; we think it’s the biggest game changer of the decade.
Now, on to the guitar. Overall fit and finish is superb, what you expect with any Taylor guitar. The wow factor on this oozes from every angle and facet. With a Sitka spruce top, and Hawaiian Koa on the back and sides, it goes beyond the usual boxy acoustic edges, with a beveled edge on the upper bout for comfort, and a similar beveled treatment on the cutaway area. Even classier is the entire edging on the top as well as the back has gorgeous shell inlay work. The fingerboard also has the same shell treatment on their spring vine inlay. The rosette is accented with excellent detailing with paua and koa accenting things nicely.
The comfortably-profiled neck features a 25.5” scale, with a tropical mahogany neck and an amazingly smoother-than-silk satin finish. The headstock is finished with a beautiful wood overlay, koa purfling, and again the shell finished spring vine inlay. The body’s finish is also super smooth satin, and brings out the subtle textures of the wood’s grain patterns.
X-bracing has been the traditional way of making a soundboard structurally stable, and still resonant. At this year’s NAMM show, Taylor unveiled their V-Class bracing design for the first time in a public setting. It’s a tighter bracing spacing, that runs parallel with the guitar’s strings, which enhances sustain and volume. It’s a big jump in overall sound quality; hard to believe a Taylor could sound even better. Every note is richer, deeper and way more pronounced, across the entire fingerboard. Chords and open strings resonate so nicely and are evenly balanced, where it feels like it’s fitted with some sort of aural EQ.
The electronics are Taylor’s Expression System 2, with the piezo pickup sitting behind the bridge saddles. It’s a 9v powered system with simple volume, treble and bass controls. All told, it’s a flexible system and if the volume control is increased, while turning both the treble and bass down, it acts as a nice midrange boost. Overall, it’s quite full, with no odd quackiness that comes some piezo systems we’ve tested in the past. It’s perfect for both stage and studio use. In fact, it might be the only acoustic you’ll ever need again.
PROS: Amazing design and excellent materials, beyond amazing sounds.
CONS: Expensive, but worth it for the serious musician. | 2019-04-23T06:18:38 | http://performermag.com/best-instruments/best-acoustic-guitars/taylor-k14ce-builders-edition-review/ |
Our team has researched compatible products with natural ingredients, which have a demonstrative effect. The desire for a self-designed production series has manifested itself, fulfilling our high expectations. To successfully implement this project, we have worked closely with professional dermatologists, phytologists, athletes, trainers and doctors. We have also consulted with well-known natural cosmetic manufacturers and food supplements manufacturers. Each have aided with their knowledge and input. As a result of our efforts, and satisfaction of producing a high quality product, we are proud to introduce our new line of products to you, the consumer. | 2019-04-19T07:05:56 | http://naturea-heidelberg.de/index.php/en/naturea-en |
My husband took out Social Security at 66. I also took out the spousal benefit based on his work record, as I did not have enough work credits on my own. As of the first quarter in 2015, I will have 40 credits. Can I now apply for my own Social Security benefit? If I can, will I receive more than what I’m getting now? I will be 70 when I apply.
If you applied for spousal benefits before you reached full retirement age, then you gave up the option of switching to your own benefit later.
Full retirement age is 66 for those born between 1943 and 1954. After that, full retirement age increases two months for every year until it hits 67 for those born in 1960 and later.
If you applied for benefits after your full retirement age using what’s called a restricted application, you could have received only a spousal benefit while preserving your ability to switch to your own benefit later, typically when it maxes out at age 70. If you didn’t file a restricted application, though, the switch typically isn’t available.
Even if you could switch, it’s not clear that you would get more money. You can earn a maximum of four credits a year, so it typically takes 10 years of work to earn the 40 credits needed to qualify for your own Social Security benefit. But Social Security computes your benefit based on your 35 highest earning years. That means your work record would include a lot of zeros. It’s possible that your own benefit would exceed what you’ve received on your husband’s record. It’s just not likely. | 2019-04-24T13:48:00 | https://www.bankrate.com/retirement/switch-spousal-social-security-benefits/ |
Tomorrow's weather forecast for Lebanon and for the next 10 days. Discover the weather bulletin for the main Lebanon cities on Weather Wherever.
Lebanon is located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south. It counts a total population of around 5 million people with Beirut its capital and the largest city. In Lebanon visitors can learn about culture and tradition, visit ski resorts, experience the sea and sun and the great Mediterranean healthy food. The climate ofLebanon is Mediterranean with long, hot, dry summers and short, cool, rainy winters. The coldest month is January, with temperatures from 5°C to 10°C, and the hottest one is August with temperatures of 18°C to 38°C. During the winter it is possible to see snow in the mountains and in the summer these parts cooler and dryer than on the coastal areas of the country. | 2019-04-23T22:18:36 | http://www.weather-wherever.co.uk/lebanon/ |
A warm synthetic knit beanie with a new-school pom-pom flair.
A rough knitted hat with soft inner fleece lining provides excellent insulation on cold winter days. Thanks to the knit structure, it breathes well during activity and dries fast when damp. | 2019-04-21T02:31:49 | https://www.sportiva.com/women-s/women-s-sale/dorado-beanie.html |
Real College Student of Atlanta: Netflix recommendations?
I'm very, very, ridiculously late to the Netflix party.
After weeks (seriously weeks) of reading tweets, seeing comments, and hearing my friends discuss shows on Netflix…I finally caved and joined the party.
The show I've been particularly excited to see? House of Cards. If you're a regular reader, you know that I have a real love for politics because there is never a dull moment. And just about everyone I know has been raving about this show, even people who don't know a thing about politics! So I knew it had to be good.
I started my free trial of Netflix yesterday and I've already watched 7 episodes of House of Cards…so yeah, it's pretty good. After this busy week, I'm grateful to have lots of free time this weekend to relax and watch some of what Netflix has to offer.
If you've had Netflix, help me out - what do you recommend I watch?
Leave a comment with your favorite Netflix features.
Just wait until you start season two!! I binged a little too much last weekend and am halfway done. It's hard to stop once you start!
I love House of Cards too!! It's taken me a really long time to watch, but I'm almost done with season 1!
LOVE House of Cards!! Just wait - the end of the season gets even better!!!
OMG! Just you wait until you get to Season 2! CRAZY!!!
I love Orange is the New Black, Parenthood, The New Girl ... OK, I'll stop because I'm sure you know about my obsession with Netflix because of my blog ... If you need more you know where to find me ;).
There is so much on Netflix that I know I'm never going to finish watching what I want. And of course instead of watching new shows, the first thing I did was RE-watch all the available seasons they had of Glee, LOL! Then I went on to BBC's Sherlock, which was awesome. Saw some good movies on there, too, they have a nice selection of foreign and indie films. The one thing I don't like is that most of the more recent movies are on the DVD side of Netflix which you have to pay more for, but it's really not that much more, but I'm still not doing it...I'm poor. I know lots of people who do, though.
House of Cards is on my list after I finish Breaking Bad. I also recommend Orange is the New Black, it's a Netflix original series. Also The Walking Dead if you like scary stuff (it's set in Georgia!).
I just got on Netflix not too long ago myself, but I seriously became obsessed with Orange is the New Black, and I also went back and watched this random old show called Medium and binge watched that for a few nights. I love being able to catch up on shows I missed!
I don't have Netflix but I am seriously thinking of getting on the bandwagon... I am so tired of spending the money on cable which is atrociously expensive. | 2019-04-26T14:24:26 | http://www.rcsoatl.com/2014/02/netflix-recommendations.html |
Populate an entire line of clothing in less time with GiftLogic Inventory Styles. Don't spend time creating each item individually, let the program do that for you. Make your reorders fast and easy within the grid that will transfer desired quantities right to the purchase order. | 2019-04-20T07:07:04 | https://giftlogic.com/retail-software/products/inventory-style-matrix/ |
Join us for our monthly hoppy hour. May's hoppy hour will be held at Owen & Engine, located at 2700 N. Western Ave.
From O&E website: Owen & Engine is based on a simple idea of offering rustic British-inspired comfort food with real ales and a carefully crafted beverage program. Trends are unimportant; quality is key. Our meats come from animals humanely raised and without growth hormones or antibiotics. We purchase from the best farms and artisans, and the Haddock, for the fish and chips, is flown in daily from Georges Bank in the North Atlantic.
Come out and share a pint with your fellow homebrewers and beer lovers. Owen and Engine almost always has something interesting and hard to find on draft, along with some great bottles. You can choose from at least 3 or 4 hand pumped ales from cask. This is a rare find in the city.
I will call ahead a few days before and see if we can either the room upstairs, or if the whether is nice the patio outside. I will update this page with more info as the event approaches. Be sure to RSVP if you can make it. If we get a large enough turnout I will ask if they can do a special for us. | 2019-04-26T01:50:21 | https://www.chaosbrewclub.net/event/may-hoppy-hour |
the Brendan Iribe Center will be a hub for technology at the heart of a new innovation district, among high-tech companies, government agencies and institutional colleagues.
Bringing together the university’s top-ranked Department of Computer Science and its renowned Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS), the building’s six floors of specialized labs will support groundbreaking research in virtual and augmented reality, artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, algorithms, programming languages and systems.
The building is 215,600 gross square feet with a 5,300-square-foot makerspace, 785 seats of instructional space, with 13 computer labs, 8 classrooms, 5 seminar rooms & 20,000 square foot of community space.
of exterior elements, parking lot striping, and repainting of the Cupola.
Work included painting the existing CMU and gym ceiling steel assembly with a high performance coating.
Modernization of the 60,000 square foot historic 1929 existing wing as well as painting of the new wing of classrooms. The project utilized a 7 day per week work schedule to accommodate the fast track Summer Blitz project delivery. Work included painting, signage, and restoration of existing surfaces.
Renovation of a 73,000 SF elementary school over the summer of 2012. The project utilized double shifts, 6 days a week, for the duration of the project. This project had a 50% CBE participation requirement as well as a prevailing wage scale. Work included painting, staining, and restoration of existing surfaces.
Work included painting of interior drywall and exterior brick. | 2019-04-23T08:34:33 | http://bbandcodesign.com/portfolio_category/educational/ |
At Screamin' Mimi's , our mission is simple.
We strive to make the best ice cream and sorbet using the freshest ingredients and to serve that ice cream in a warm , friendly environment. Since 1995, we have been doing just that, and winning national & local awards and national recognition.
We have a great staff that will serve you and your family and ensure that you have what many think is the best ice cream around. | 2019-04-25T04:43:39 | http://www.screaminmimisicecream.com/ |
This season, I’m all about the sneakers. Just bought a new pair of classic leather Vans, but I’ve been eyeing these adorable printed sneakers for a few weeks now. Aren’t they the cutest? And they come in a million different patterns! How could I just pick one?!
Ah! My headed exploded this morning with news of this fab collaboration. Two of my favorite things ever combined to make some pretty adorable housewares. Perfectly pretty prints & pieces.
Eek! I want them all!
I realized this week I’ve been a bit obsessed with hot pink lately. And it all started with a llama magnet. My mother-in-law mentioned she had free magnets from Zazzle coming, and asked if I wanted to pick one out. I’m the type of person that ridiculously loves a million magnets and pictures and menus on the fridge, so I jumped at the idea. After about a half hour of breezing through their millions of options (no joke!), I stumbled across this hot pink llama and knew that was it. As I was looking through recent purchases and gifts, I realized there was a growing trend. “I think I love hot pink,” I whispered to myself, a bit surprised. But why not? It brings a bit of sunshine and whimsy… and now I’m all in.
Now that season 2 of The Mindy Project has wrapped up, I can officially say I’m obsessed. She has this perfect balance of classic, cool and feminine that I dream of. And she mixes prints and textures like no other. There’s even a fashion tumblr just for her fabulous outfits. I’m seriously in love.
I’m staying in with a sick little husband tonight.
I love this outfit like whoa. Especially that jacket.
Lucy Liu is so damn lovely.
The magic of creating cheekbones.
Definitely into the midi dress trend.
This quote and this face.
The best pants for always. On sale!
Kinda makes me want to start watching this show again.
Sally Draper is growing up fast.
Also, it’s friends & family weekend at kate spade! Save 30% off with code FALL13FF through Sunday.
Have you seen the new Orla Kiely lookbook yet? It has the the whimsy and gorgeous prints of her iconic style, but with a texture and sophistication that screams fall. Her clean 60’s style is such a lovely balance of femininity and polish. Seriously dreamy. | 2019-04-26T00:19:57 | https://raudette.com/tag/prints/page/2/ |
Published: July 2, 2013 at 06:58 p.m.
Updated: July 9, 2013 at 03:57 p.m.
One AFC front-office executive recently speculated that the New England Patriots were the only team willing to gamble a fourth-round pick on Aaron Hernandez in the 2010 NFL Draft. Hernandez was widely regarded as a second-round talent, but many teams took him off their draft boards because of failed drug tests and rumors that he hung out with the wrong crowd.
Owner/general manager Mike Brown acknowledged to Fox Sports Ohio that his Cincinnati Bengals were one of those teams with no intention of rolling the dice on Hernandez three years ago.
"That one is no secret. We just stayed away from (Hernandez)," Brown said. "We didn't question the playing ability. But we went for (Jermaine) Gresham."
Brown also revealed that Rob Gronkowski -- the other tight end drafted by the Patriots in 2010 -- was taken off the Bengals' board "because he had a bad back" coming out of the University of Arizona. Gronkowski recently had back surgery.
Perhaps even more interesting than those revelations was Brown's guileless discussion of the team's evolution in philosophy regarding players red-flagged for behavioral issues. It's a dilemma to which NFL teams have begun devoting more resources.
The Bengals had been more conscientious about drafting the "right type of person" under Brown's father, Paul Brown, the legendary founder of the franchise. Mike Brown liberalized the policy on ne'er-do-wells once other teams "sort of had us for lunch" with the aid of talented but troubled players. He began taking chances on players with lengthy rap sheets such as Chris Henry, Cedric Benson and Tank Johnson. Over a 17-month span between December 2005 and June 2007, 10 Bengals players accounted for 17 arrests.
By the time Hernandez entered the draft three years later, Brown had decided to return to the "old formula" of bringing in "sound people." That shift in thinking has coincided with the recent rise of social media. NFL teams are finding more and more that the poisonous publicity risk isn't worth the on-field reward.
UPDATE: Add the Indianapolis Colts to the list of teams that didn't want to draft Hernandez.
Former Colts general manager Bill Polian told the Wall Street Journal that the team passed on Hernandez despite its need for a tight end.
"There were questions there, which is why a guy of that talent lasted until the fourth round," said Polian, who added that the Colts, who took tight end Brody Eldridge in the fifth round, "never got that far" in evaluating Hernandez.
"We were not in the Hernandez business," Polian said.
Update: The Bengals and Colts have company. The Miami Dolphins removed Hernandez from their draft board, reports the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
The Dolphins were concerned that Hernandez confessed to punching a bar employee and was questioned by police in a Gainesville area double-shooting. | 2019-04-26T02:24:50 | http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000215983/article/bengals-colts-skipped-aaron-hernandez-in-2010-draft |
We've just posted this year's Big Lots Black Friday ad for you to check out. Browse the 12-page ad here and see if there is anything you might be interested in.
The Big Lots ad features several one-day deals good on Thanksgiving Day only when stores are open from 7am until midnight. There are also several pages of 3-day deals valid through Saturday.
We want to hear from you! What do you think about Big Lots' Black Friday ad this year? Join us in the comments or on the message boards and post your thoughts. | 2019-04-24T14:43:43 | https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Story/16281/Big-Lots-Black-Friday-Sale-Ad-Posted |
on the last Sunday of the month . . .
He saw Winnie Ivey sweeping the sidewalk in front of her Sweet Stuff Bakery, as she did each and every morning. It was one of the sights he liked most to see: someone putting their affairs in order.
I’ve never been one for physical exercise, she said, but what God does with our faith must be something like workouts. He sees to it that our faith gets pushed and pulled, stretched, and pounded, taken to its limits so its limits can expand.
The trouble with you, Walter had said in a recent phone conversation, is that you’re too prepared. You don’t give the Holy Spirit room to do wondrous things. You need to take risks now and then – that’s what makes life snap, crackle, and pop.
Homeless winked and laughed his rasping laugh. That man is th’ richest whose pleasures are th’ cheapest!
Mainstream Christianity glosses over the fact that it isn’t just a question of giving up sin, but of doing something far more difficult – giving up our right to ourselves. | 2019-04-20T02:23:18 | http://www.deborahcrecelius.com/2010/08/china-buffet-is-place-of-choice-for.html |
Lives not Knives’ successful pre-employment programme, LNKBuild, was run in partnership with building company Willmott Dixon to prepare and equip young people to enter the construction industry. The first [six] students that participated in this workshop have now completed their [eight] training courses and will soon enter full-time employment as construction apprentices.
The Croydon Partnership-funded programme entailed the provision of practical training, arming participants with the necessary skills to embark on a successful career in the field of construction. Students also acquired a CSCS (Construction Skills Certification Scheme) card on completion of the course in addition to immediate work experience on-site with Willmott Dixon. The Croydon Partnership funded the essential CSCS course as part of the programme.
The Croydon Partnership has also partnered with the Crystal Palace FC Foundation over the past year to deliver the ASPIRE II 12 week Intensive Employability Programme which helped 24 young locals develop the skills for work readiness, and in many cases obtain accredited qualifications, work experience and employment on the back of their participation in the programme.
The two initiatives form part of the Croydon Partnership’s Community Plan, which provides a framework for a phased community outreach programme, with a firm focus on youth engagement and local enterprise. Through the plan, the Croydon Partnership is investing directly into a broad range of community projects; has established a grants and bursaries programme, and provided local sponsorships and in-kind support and assistance to the wider community. | 2019-04-20T18:57:07 | http://sustainability.hammerson.com/stories/327/croydon-partnership-helps-young-people-get-ready-for-work.html |
Fall is absolutely my favorite season. If I could live in a place that was eternally fall I would. I love the cold air on my face. I love the golden light. I love big warm sweaters. I love lighting a candle at 4:30, pouring some tea and sitting at the window while the sun disappears. The season makes me feel more alive and more aware of life. So, I'm thankful that I live in a place where I get to enjoy the beauty of such change. To me, this photo set depicts a perfect fall day of going out in the early morning and enjoying the autumn air and then going home in the early afternoon and indulging in a delicious lunch, with tea and desert, of course. | 2019-04-26T16:33:34 | http://www.sarahcabalka.com/blog/autumn |
Below are listservs you can join to participate in communities focused on teaching and learning.
The Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) is a national association of academics interested in the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education. The STLHE Electronic Forum has been active since 1988 and has over 500 members from across Canada and the US.
The TLT Group is a not-for-profit that helps college and university educators take advantage of changing technology so they can improve teaching and learning.
An international consortium of scholars and teachers, H-Net creates and coordinates Internet networks with the common objective of advancing teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. H-Net is committed to pioneering the use of new communication technology to facilitate the free exchange of academic ideas and scholarly resources.
Among H-Net's most important activities is its sponsorship of over 100 free electronic, interactive newsletters ("lists") edited by scholars in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific.
This page was last edited on 22 August 2012, at 19:58. | 2019-04-26T07:55:37 | https://wiki.ubc.ca/Teaching_and_Learning_Listservs |
My name is nihar kumar barbhaya. I am in class 11. I have secured 93% in maths in board exam. I want to teach class 6,7,8 and 9 students . The main purpose to teach is to make so that students can enjoy mathematics and can understand how interesting it is. | 2019-04-22T13:45:31 | https://www.urbanclap.com/kolkata-tutors-mathematics-desh-bandhu-nagar-narayantala |
Cytokinin-Auxin Crosstalk in the Gynoecial Primordium Ensures Correct Domain Patterning.
Plant Physiol. 2017 Nov;175(3):1144-1157. doi: 10.1104/pp.17.00805.
Müller CJ, Larsson E, Spíchal L, Sundberg E. | 2019-04-21T00:21:12 | http://www.fruitlook.eu/select-publications/cytokinin-auxin-crosstalk-in-the-gynoecial-primordium-ensures-correct-domain-patterning/ |
Here is the official video of 'Wild In The Parks' skate contest for 2012 presented by Volcom. Sit back relax and take a glimpse of what went down last Saturday at the the DIY Skatepark in Galatsi.ENJOY!!!
WILD IN THE PARKS 2012 from goodtimesmag.gr on Vimeo. | 2019-04-25T02:44:50 | http://www.goodtimesmag.gr/skate/1111/WILD_IN_THE_PARKS_2012_-_Greece_-_Video |
Letters written by Peter Wilson to Dirck Romeyn (1778-1779), a Whig minister from Hackensack and president of Union College in Schenectady, New York. Wilson’s letters as a member of the New Jersey Assembly for Hackensack contain information on legislation and Revolutionary military affairs. In later life Wilson taught classics at Columbia College and at Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, New York. Included are letters written to Archer Gifford, 1853-1855, concerning a biographical sketch of Wilson. | 2019-04-20T14:34:13 | https://jerseyhistory.org/manuscript-group-318-peter-wilson-1746-1826-new-jersey-assemblyman-papers-1778-1855/ |
Luckily for the citizens of Colorado, when cannabis was legalized in 2012, a provision in the legislation required all recreational cannabis to be laboratory tested. Fast forward two years later and the burgeoning business of cannabis testing is booming.
CannLabs is one of the forerunners in this industry. Currently operating in Colorado, CannLabs is dedicated to providing superior testing services to cannabis providers and has the honor of being the very first certified cannabis testing laboratory in the United States. Recently, Genifer Murray, founder and CEO of CannLabs, gave a presentation on women in the cannabis industry at the first annual WeedStock Conference.
We sat down with CannLabs’s Vice President of Marketing, Robert Farrell, to talk about CannLabs, cannabis testing, and the future of the industry.
William Sumner: How would you define the corporate culture at CannLabs?
Robert Farrell: We are a solutions based company providing leadership in the cannabis industry through testing to ensure quality of products in the market, product reformulation to maintain or improve quality of products in the market, consulting to enable state governments to better understand the market, consulting to enable cultivators, dispensaries and edible producers to have their products reach the market and/or obtain licensing and assist consumers in finding the products that meet their requirements.
Sumner: Do you have plans for expansion?
Farrell: Yes we do. We have just announced our expansion into Connecticut where we have secured two of the four licensed growers on three-year exclusive testing agreements. We’re very excited about Connecticut and looking forward to building that market out when it starts to have product available some time in August or September. As other states come on line we intend to expand into those territories by placing turn-key labs in the state which will facilitate the ancillary services described above.
Sumner: Tell me about what goes on in the day-to-day operation at CannLabs?
Farrell: Our current core business supports many growers, dispensaries and edible-makers by testing their products for potency, residual solvents and contaminants. The amount of testing is primarily driven by the need of the client. This can range from a basic potency test for an edible to a full suite of contamination tests which includes identifying aflatoxin and Heavy Metals.
Currently in Colorado, only recreational marijuana is mandated for testing. Therefore, most of our testing is for recreational products and we expect that to grow as legislation mandates this. We also work very closely with our clients to help them improve the quality of the products they sell or manufacture.
For example, when a client’s test results aren’t what they expected we advise on them on ways to address quality or improve production methods. As more states require testing, this will enhance our business expansions plans and provide future opportunities through our ancillary services.
Sumner: In your opinion, what roles does cannabis testing have in the marijuana industry?
Farrell: Testing is a fundamental part of ensuring public safety and helping the industry build credibility with the broader public and others who are skeptical about many aspects of the plant. It requires a standard of quality and assurance where we intend to be at the forefront and is the corner stone and launch pad for our business model to provide the consulting services mentioned above.
Sumner: Have you encountered any pushback from the federal government? Do you fear government raids?
Farrell: We don’t interact with the federal government, however our understanding is that they are supporting those states that are moving forward with marijuana legalization by not getting involved with their legislative process or making pronouncements that would prevent proper business operations. We are a transparent company and therefore are not fearful of the federal government because we have established policies and procedures in order to maintain a company with integrity and ethics.
Sumner: Many marijuana related businesses have encountered difficulties finding a bank that will accept their money. Have you encountered similar problems?
Farrell: Banking is clearly an area that is still being fully developed which allows business to thrive and ultimately reach legitimacy. We have encountered challenges in the past, and we’ve addressed them in a manner that allows us to operate our business and be able to serve our clients.
Sumner: Are there any kinds of industry standards in place, if any, to ensure proper testing? Do you think more should be done to quell a critic’s doubts?
Farrell: We can only speak to Colorado, but there are mandated standards for recreational marijuana. CannLabs follow those standards, and actually exceed them in many ways. This is demonstrated by us being the first state-certified laboratory in the country.
Sumner: What direction do you see the cannabis testing going and how is CannaLabs playing a part?
Farrell: As mandatory testing becomes a requirement in all states across the country with legalized marijuana regardless of whether it is recreational or medical, CannLabs intends to be the leader in providing the public with quality and assurance that the products it tests are safe.
In addition, as we execute our expansion plans, the consulting services that we will provide to the marketplace, as discussed above, will enable the cannabis market to grow and provide better quality products in the market and provide methodologies that will allow consumers to find products that meet their requirements.
CannLabs, Inc., is a solutions provider with intellectual property, proprietary cloud-based analytics and scientific methods to serve the cannabis industry. CannLabs provides laboratories with the necessary business intelligence technology and other solutions required to serve the cannabis industry. For testing or consultation services, you can contact them through their website at http://www.cannlabs.com/make-contact/. | 2019-04-25T04:40:10 | https://mjinews.com/cannlabs-blazing-trail-cannabis-testing/ |
London Ukulele Project presents: Daniel Ward and Heidi Swedberg as part of the Wandsworth Fringe Festival.
Born in Hawaii Heidi’s first ukulele was given to her by the Easter Bunny at just 5 years old. She has been a performer for more than 30 years working in music, film and television, notably playing the role of “Susan” on Seinfeld.
In 2009 Heidi introduced her partner Daniel to the ukulele and he too fell in love with the instrument. Having previously been a touring guitarist with artists such as Maria Benitez and Ottmar Leibert all of the music inside him found a new home on the four strings. Since then, he has become a premier ukulele performer and clinician known for his command of Latin and world styles, with an expressive right hand that delivers beauty, speed and force.
Currently based in LA, Daniel and Heidi have collaborated on recordings and instructional books and are regular contributors to Ukulele Magazine. Both Daniel and Heidi have been featured performers and workshop instructors at festivals across the United States and abroad. | 2019-04-19T00:18:04 | https://tickets.halfmoon.co.uk/events/2019-05-16-ukefest-daniel-ward-and-heidi-swedberg-half-moon-putney |
Plays are not written in paragraphs like a novel or short story. Instead, they are written as lines of dialogue in the form of a script. You can see in this example from August Wilson's Fences that the characters are told exactly what to say for the dialogue. Typically, these scripts are broken down into one or more acts, or major divisions of the play. And each act is then subdivided into a scene, or smaller divisions within the act. Usually a change in setting means there will be a change in either the act or the scene. In this case, this is Act I, Scene 2, and the scene has shifted onto Rose.
The LIGHTS come up on ROSE hanging up clothes.
SHE hums and sings softly to herself.
It is the following morning.
Jesus, I want you to protect me as I travel on my way.
Jesus, be a fence all around me every day.
(To TROY.) Morning. You ready for breakfast? I can fix it as soon as I finish hanging up these clothes?
TROY. I got the coffee on. That'll be all right. I'll just drink some of that this morning.
In addition to the dialogue, a script will also include stage directions. These notes, which are often in italics or parentheses, help the actors interpret the scene for the audience. In this example, when Rose transitions from singing to speaking directly to Troy, the stage directions tell her to whom she is talking. The audience will only see her turn and direct her comment to Troy.
The setting is the yard which fronts the only entrance to the MAXSON household, an ancient two story brick house set back off a small alley in a big-city neighborhood. The entrance to the house is gained by two or three steps leading to a wooden porch badly in need of paint. A relatively recent addition to the house and running its full width, the porch lacks congruence. It is a sturdy porch with a flat room. One or two chairs of dubious value sit at one end where the kitchen window opens on to the porch. An old-fashioned icebox stands silent guard at the opposite end.
Unlike a novel, which may devote several paragraphs to describing the setting, the play is limited to what the audience can see on stage. It is important that the playwright give some indication to setting, especially if the actors will use the items on stage. In some cases, the stage directions provide information on what the stage should look like. Other times, they tell the actors where or how to move, or what facial expressions or tone of voice is appropriate when speaking a line.
In this except from Fences, the director and actors can visualize how the stage should appear to the audience. And while they will not have an actual house on a stage, they will have the window and entrances in corresponding places so that the audience can visualize the scene as well.
Before the dialogue in a script, the playwright will often include a cast of characters. Typically, each character, both major and minor, is listed alongside a brief description of the character's role in the story. In this example, you can see that Troy is the main character, and each character is described in relation to him.
This list is usually given to audience members on a printed playbill, or program, as they enter the theatre, so that they may identify the major characters and the actors who will play them. Of course, the biggest difference between characters in prose and characters in drama is that live people, or actors, are representing the characters in drama. The actors are chosen based on both their physical and verbal ability to interpret the character. Sometimes it's important that an actor have certain physical characteristics, such as red hair or stocky nature, because it is an important aspect of the play.
In the play Fences, the exposition explains that Troy Maxson is a garbage man who loves his family, in spite of the fact he is cheating on his wife, Rose. The main conflict comes when Troy's son, Cory, wants to go to college on a football scholarship, but Troy doesn't want him to go because he's afraid he'll be discriminated against like he had been when he played baseball. In the rising action, Troy goes to Cory's coach and tells him that Cory can't play football anymore. Cory accuses Troy of being jealous. Troy's affair with Alberta comes out when she becomes pregnant.
Alberta dies during childbirth, and Rose agrees to raise the child, but is no longer attached to Troy. The climax is when Troy and Cory fight. Troy kicks Cory out of the house. During the falling action, several years later, Troy is dead and Cory doesn't want to go to his funeral, a decision his mother does not agree with. But the resolution comes when Cory and Raynell sing a song together, one that Troy used to sing. As they sing in honor of Troy, the audience knows that Cory can forgive his father.
The conflict occurs before the rising action begins, and the conflict is the problem that must be solved. Sometimes the conflict is between two characters, like Troy and Cory, and plays out on stage with dialogue and actions. Other times, it's an internal conflict between the character and his or her own thoughts or actions.
With drama, the actors use the stage directions and the dialogue to move the plot of the play and to illustrate the conflict between characters. This becomes more complicated, however, when a character is having an internal conflict. To share the character's thoughts, the playwright might use one of several dramatic devices. The soliloquy is spoken by the actor when he or she is alone on stage.
Troy: I know'd in my heart that this is wrong, but my mind and my body don't care to listen. It's like they has a mind of my own and it's not like I can control that.
Another way for the playwright to provide the character's thoughts is through an aside. In this case, there are many actors on stage, but one actor will turn and speak directly to the audience. Here, the audience must understand that we are hearing the character's thoughts, but the other characters do not.
The very nature of drama, to imitate reality, would not initially seem to lend itself to the use of symbolism. As actors are acting events on stage, it would seem strange that they would represent more than the character alone. However, in some ways, the audience's imagination creates its own reality with the symbolic characters on the stage: pretending the man is a beast, the boy is a woman, the stage is an exotic locale.
Beyond the simplest forms, many playwrights have used not just their characters, but their settings and props to work as symbols to reinforce the plot and the theme. And these symbols serve as an important role, because the audience does not have the benefit of a narrator, or the luxury of hearing many of the characters' thoughts.
In the stage directions in the opening of the play Fences, there is a baseball bat leaning against a tree in the yard. Troy and Cory use the bat to practice, but they also use it against each other in their climactic fight. The bat is a symbol for what brings Troy and Cory together and what tears them apart. The prop also symbolizes Troy's bitterness about not being able to play professional baseball because of the color of his skin.
In summary, a drama has many of the same elements as prose and novels. Unlike the stories that are meant to be read, drama is meant to be performed in front of an audience. This means that a script with stage directions and dialogue instructs the actors on how to best deliver the playwright's message. Sometimes, the plot is very easily acted out on stage through dialogue and the interaction with characters. Other times, a character is struggling with internal conflicts, and uses soliloquies or asides to communicate with the audience directly. Even the setting, props and minor characters can be used as symbols to help the audience further understand the character's thoughts and actions.
After watching this lesson, you should be able to identify and explain the different dramatic elements a playwright uses to make a story come alive on stage. | 2019-04-20T10:51:09 | https://study.com/academy/lesson/elements-of-drama-characters-plot-setting-symbolism.html |
The importance of properly drafting documents for business transactions is something that cannot be minimized. The critical nature of such documents is perceived often when a transaction goes sideways or when a dispute arises between the parties that made the deal. This is often when businesses comprehend how much more arduous and costly it is to try and fix a contract rather than getting it right in the first place.
Our Northern Virginia business lawyers have helped numerous area businesses draft airtight contracts and we know that the process of drafting such a contract starts way before a single word goes on the page. The first step for us as business attorneys is to listen to you and understand your needs as a business and the transaction you have negotiated. It is important to set forth what the agreement needs to accomplish before you start writing it.
The contract has one major function – to protect your business’s interests if a dispute arises at a later date. The contract must properly spell out all the conditions of the agreement and clearly describe what each party is committing to do. It is also important to write the contract in such a way that the other side is also comfortable signing it.
The contract is a legally binding document. This means that if the other side that is part of the agreement fails to follow it, you can take them to court. A business agreement is enforceable in a court of law. So, the contract must be written in such a manner that it will hold up in court.
There is no legal requirement that you retain a business lawyer to draft all contracts. But successful businesses understand that they are making a sound investment when they hire an experienced lawyer to draft documents for their business transactions so they don’t have to pay the price later. When you hire a lawyer you accomplish several goals. You make sure the document is enforceable in court. Your lawyer helps you avoid mistakes that could later prove costly. And you get that valuable objective perspective from a professional who has no stake in your deal.
Lawyers who help draft these contracts have extensive experience and highly specialized knowledge in the area. They know how punctuation, language and succinct writing can make a huge difference to a business. The contract is what gives businesses the legal protection they need. If you have vague language in a contract, you can get into quite a bit of trouble later. For example, when you have a contract for a project, but don’t clearly specify when you want the job done, you cannot take a contractor to court or hold them accountable for any time delays in the project, even if those delays cost you thousands of dollars. When you have a contract, you also have leverage in addition to security.
Another pitfall of do-it-yourself contracts is that they don’t anticipate issues that might crop up in the future. An experienced business lawyer who has a track record of routinely drafting these contracts will be able to anticipate what could go wrong and write the contract accordingly.
If you are about to enter into an important agreement, don’t go for an online template, which doesn’t take your unique needs into consideration. It would be in your best interests to retain the services of a Northern Virginia business lawyer who will ensure that you are getting a document customized to protect your specific interests and drafted particularly with your situation in mind. Call Frost & Associates LLC. at 703-621-7169 to find out how we can use our legal expertise to assist you with your business needs. | 2019-04-21T14:27:45 | https://www.virginiataxattorney.com/how-to-write-contracts/ |
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In his previous films, writer/director Neil LaBute has warned us that even disabled women aren’t safe In the Company of Men, one never can predict the deception living within the hearts of Your Friends & Neighbors, pleasant symmetry isn’t to be expected in The Shape of Things, and you don’t need medical training to be called Nurse Betty. And although he’s moved away from the Mamet-like morality tales of the evil lurking behind the smiling and welcoming faces we encounter on a daily basis by directing some less-than-stellar Hollywood fare, his obsession with miscommunication, misperception, and the just plain meanness to be found in the unlikeliest of places is again the subject of his entertaining if lukewarm new thriller Lakeview Terrace.
Unfortunately, its heroic main characters, the young, bright, and beautiful interracial couple Chris (Little Children’s Patrick Wilson) and Lisa Mattson (Kerry Washington), weren’t forewarned with a LaBute memo. Thankfully, their new neighbor, the stoic disciplinarian and widowed LAPD police officer Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson) is not only able but all too willing to turn and inform them that they’re not exactly welcome in his neighborhood. Greeting them with the intimidating gesture of an unfilled out traffic ticket with a note scrawled on the back that either threatens or chides, “Welcome to Lakeview, neighbor; observe all parking regulations,” it’s only a matter of time before he decides to confront Chris directly.
Obviously, one shouldn’t rely too heavily on first impressions and Lisa tries to give her new neighbor the benefit of the doubt but it’s Chris who receives the most disdain as Abel not only repeatedly announces his dissatisfaction with their relationship but also begins to drive a wedge in the previously solid relationship between the married Mattsons. Whether it’s refusing to take down his insanely bright security lights that seem like they could double at an airstrip, which flood through his neighbor’s windows and emit an annoying high-pitched buzzing, running a near dictatorship when dealing with his two children, or when he’s all too willing to cross a line at work along with his loyal partner Javier Villareal (the always talented Jay Hernandez), eventually Chris has had enough.
Although in polite society, one’s first line of defense is to always attempt to work things out conversationally. Yet after Abel continually proves unwilling to change his attitude and ramps up his hostility to the new young couple, Chris—upon realizing that even if he could phone the police, they obviously wouldn’t choose his side—tries to reason with Abel directly before it escalates into an ultimatum.
Produced by Will Smith, LaBute’s film which was based on a script by David Loughery and Howard Korder doesn’t quite pack enough heft to justify the talent involved including not just the aforementioned producer and director but also its talented cast and gifted Dutch cinematographer Rogier Stoffers (Mongol).
Still, Stoffers is no stranger to suburban tales of evil neighbors and domestic discord, having lensed the Jennifer Lopez Sleeping With the Enemy-styled Enough and the impressive Rear Window teenage update Disturbia, and while we’ve no doubt seen this storyline dozens of times before such as in the over-the-top police thriller Unlawful Entry, I couldn’t take my eyes off the powerful Samuel L. Jackson. And within moments, it’s easy to see why—even though I wish LaBute would get back to his roots or make something as wonderful as my favorite (Nurse Betty) again—he would’ve been so fascinated by the material and the chance to work with Jackson.
And similar to his work in Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown—it is all the more fitting that Jackson’s character is named Abel Turner as he’s consistently able to turn from funny to frightening in two seconds flat. As the cop who’s quickly going off the deep end, Jackson’s charisma is off the charts. And although the last act of the film has so many dubious plot-holes and logic free rationalizations that it’s ultimately distracting, he’s the one holding things together, making me laugh at even the scariest of moments. This is especially evident in a phenomenal understated scene where you feel as though you can cut the tension with a knife as Abel attends Lisa and Chris’s housewarming party and tries to make frightening small talk with their liberal friends.
You’re never in doubt of the fact that—no matter how ludicrous the finale seems in the world of actual police procedure—Jackson not only knows his character inside and out but we can actual feel as though we’re witnessing his very thought processes. It’s too bad that some of his best work in recent memory is in something that in the end feels like a slightly above average made-for-TV thriller but fans of Jackson’s won’t be disappointed. Not to mention that-- all of its problems aside-- I still enjoyed the film far more than the other cops-and-robbers-themed press screening held that day for the far more advertised A-list offering, De Niro and Pacino’s mystery, Righteous Kill. So in the choice between these two, I wouldn’t hesitate that you head over to Lakeview Terrace, although ignore your financial advisor and rent before you buy since you never know with whom you’ll be sharing a fence. | 2019-04-21T18:23:49 | https://reviews.filmintuition.com/2008/09/lakeview-terrace.html |
As you might recall, my friend Max is one of the partners of Industry City Distillery. They’re building a vodka-production factory from scratch, and have had quite a bit of success thus far.
So when Industry City came out of the hat, he and I were both very excited. I had insider access to my next neighborhood, and Max had a friend coming to visit his in-the-middle-of-nowhere workspace.
One perk of his location is he gets a primo view of the sunset, which he usually takes in with a beer on the fire escape. I like all of these things. The timing was set.
I rode my bike down from Sunset Park, where I had enjoyed a meal from the Tacos El Bronco food truck.
The distillery is on the sixth floor of Building 5 of what was once known as the Bush Terminal Lofts. You can take the stairs, or you can ride the elevator, operated manually. Max was nice enough to offer me a ride.
I had lingered over my dinner for a bit too long, so we were pressed for time to catch the evening’s dying rays. Max offered me a Brooklyn Lager and we sat with our legs dangling over Second Avenue.
The day had been mostly cloudy, but the horizon obliged our wishes at the time when it most mattered.
Our height and location afforded us some spectacular views of downtown Manhattan … and of the lot of imported cars sitting between us and the water.
Here’s my view of the sunset of May 7, 2013.
I met several of Max’s coworkers: Teaberry, Katie, Zach, and Ryan. Ryan has amassed a mound of information about Bush Terminal’s past, so we’ll be working together on a few history posts. He showed me a few photographs he had located of ICD’s building, but he was disappointed that most photos show the Lofts in the background, behind the docks and former rail yards.
Our final stop was to see the stills. The yeast balls did a creepy dance as they worked their magic on the liquid inside.
Before I left, Max, Teaberry, and I had a tasting – just a sip, of course, as I had to bike home. The new No. 4, which is in limited production, has a strong citrus flavor. It’s a taste I’ll likely crave as we get into summer.
Here are some more pictures of the interior of the building, and from the fire escape.
No Smoking – we’re serious.
The lofted interior of the distillery.
BLDG 5 – No Smoking. Outside the elevators.
The Industry City Distillery logo, drawn in chalk.
Midtown Manhattan and Second Avenue.
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Finally got to see the inside of on of the Bush Terimal Buildings; sixth floor no less! Thanks for the photographs. | 2019-04-25T06:08:51 | http://theweeklynabe.com/2013/05/08/sunset-at-industry-city-distillery-brooklyn/ |
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My mother doesn’t like to cook. To compensate, she loves any trick that allows her to produce impressive results with minimal effort. Her bag of tricks holds ice cream pie, anything with bacon, and these killer candied pecans that transform the simplest salad into a pricey restaurant specialty.
My mom has been making these nuts for as long as I can remember. And for as long as I can remember, dinner guests, potluck attendees and strangers have marveled at these nuts, and that my mother made them at home. They’re excellent for snacking on their own or in salads.
To properly execute this recipe, you need a little patience, and a firm confidence that the plain white table sugar in your pan will actually melt and become caramel when it reaches 366.8 degrees Fahrenheit.
Line a cooling rack with foil or parchment paper and set aside.
Heat sugar, nuts and spices in heavy medium skillet over medium heat. (Any skillet will work, but you are making caramel, which is notoriously rough on nonstick pans. Stainless steel is preferable only for the sake of your pan.) Stir occasionally with wooden spoon. Do not add water. After several minutes, the sugar will begin to look sticky.
Continue to stir. After several more minutes, the sugar will begin to melt. Continue to stir gently.
When sugar is completely melted, empty contents of skillet into thin layer onto prepared rack.
Let cool and break into pieces. Store in cookie tin or glass jar with tightly fitting lid.
I always have to make double the pecans I need because my kids eat them up before they get cooled. Really delicious!
How long do the nuts last in an air tight container? I have a wedding in three weeks and would like to make them as soon as possible. Thanks! | 2019-04-26T01:38:14 | https://modernmrsdarcy.com/best-ever-sugared-nuts-recipe/ |
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“Like Dreamers: The Story of the Israeli Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem and Divided a Nation” by Yossi Klein Halevi. Recommended by Dahlia Lithwick, columnist. This beautifully researched and written book asks and answers more questions about modern Israel than any book I can ever recall reading. Halevi takes on conflicts that seem to have only one side, sensitively presents them through seven different sets of eyes, then reveals how each of the seven men he follows is himself riven and conflicted. His paratroopers and their dreams for what Israel has been and might become rise and descend like the angels in Jacob’s dream.
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Kahane notes that he didn’t bring a phone, read newspapers or watch television during the trip. The resulting sense of isolation, he says, fueled his imagination in unexpected ways. “I was interested in experiencing America at a slower pace, and train travel in the U.S. is unlike train travel in any other developed nation in how incredibly slow it is. “But in that inefficiency, there’s something really special. Being unplugged, I just talked to strangers, and that felt like a great palliative measure against the kind of toxic digital space I’d been living in during the month leading up to the election.”.
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Well! Linux operating systems are awesome for several reasons. Linux distributions are often free, which is always a bonus. Often Linux distros are less system-intensive than Windows counterparts. However, arguably the best aspect of Linux is its extreme customization.
The Ubuntu Customization Kit offers a do-it-yourself experience while there’s a veritable treasure trove of distros to pick from. UCK is a nifty roll your own app that builds official Ubuntu live CDs. If you’re wondering why to make one, well, there are loads of reasons. Just add any packages to the live system, and create a tailored distro. Check out how to make a custom Ubuntu distro, from installing Ubuntu Customization Kit to picking packages and running the live CD.
Ubuntu Customization Kit is a great means of having a distribution that’s ready to go out of the box. Rather than installing packages after loading a distro, everything’s ready to go. Furthermore, UCK is perfect for booting from a live disk. First, head over to the official UCK Ubuntu page. Since it’s an app, UCK installs via the software center.
Click the download button, which will ask if you want to install additional software. Select Install.
Next, you’ll be prompted to launch the application. Select Open Link and continue.
You may be asked to authenticate by entering your usual password.
Now that we have installed Ubuntu Customization Kit, it’s time to begin rolling our distro. Search for UCK like a normal app and open it up.
UCK presents a friendly welcome screen with info such as your current distro (mine is 16.04). You’ll need about 5 GB of free space in your/home/usr/tmp folder as well as internet access. Hit OK to proceed.
Now it’s time to choose your options! The first choice is picking language packs. As I’ve only ever used English, I selected that, but also opted for Spanish. Once you’ve checked your preferred language packs, click OK. You can install as many as you’d like.
Get ready to select languages again. This time, we’re deciding what languages we want available at the live CD boot. Again, I just went with English and Spanish. Hit OK.
If you’ve installed multiple languages as I did, UCK prompts you to choose which language will be the default at boot. I selected English.
Following this, you’ll need to choose a desktop environment. The default options are Unity, KDE, Gnome, and Others. Again, multiple choice is available.
Once you’ve picked language packs, a boot language, and desktop environment, you need to specify an ISO image. This will serve as your live CD. I used an Ubuntu 16.10 ISO. Any ISO should work provided that it’s a Ubuntu-based ISO. You need to pick a name. If you’re creating multiple ISOs, use a distinctive name so you won’t get them mixed up.
UCK will ask if you want to customize the CD during build by using package utilities and the console. Select Yes.
Next, you can choose whether you want to delete Windows-related files from the disk. These are files that run when using the live CD on Windows. I selected Yes since I won’t be using my live CD on Windows. This is a great way to save space, so unless you absolutely needthese, delete them.
Now you select whether you’d like to generate a hybrid image. Yes, you most certainly do. This way, you can burn the custom distro to a USB stick.
Heed the warning of “Please fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride!” Unfortunately, my computer chair is not fancy enough to include a seatbelt, so I skipped that bit of advice and proceeded at my own risk.
When you finish, select Continue Building. UCK now switches over to the terminal that opened at the beginning of the process. Enter your password.
Let the terminal build the ISO. You’re done, and now have a custom live CD!
Luckily, there’s a diff patch and a bit more info in this Ask Ubuntu thread.
In my case, the terminal warned that the isohybrid command was not found. Nevertheless, I found my working, custom ISO in its proper folder. Apparently it’s an issue of a lack of isohybrid packages.
UCK Still Works, So Use It!
While UCK isn’t technically supported, it’s still a functioning tool. You may need to patch a few items and install some dependencies. Overall, it’s a solid means of creating a custom distro despite some potential troubleshooting. | 2019-04-18T15:29:57 | http://www.auroralinux.net/ways-roll-linux-operating-system-ubuntu-customization-kit/ |
The Mothers Board is believed to have started in the Black Baptist Church in the early 1900’s and the Deaconess was said to be revived in England in 1833 as an organization to train nurses for hospital work. There have been many speculations as to the duties and functions of both the Mother’s Board and Deaconess.
The Mothers Board is a group within the Church composed of older women of good character, wisdom and love of the church. The Mothers Board ministry was formed to promote the cause of Christ and teach the younger women in the church. Deaconess should be devout holy women of God maintaining and active personal prayer life and devote much time to studying the Word of God.
At Romulus Community Baptist Church the Mothers and Mission served together from 1960 to 1978. In 1979, the Mothers Board and Deaconess joined together to serve the church. Throughout the years there have been many dedicated and devoted leaders and members. | 2019-04-26T16:49:41 | http://rcbc.me/mothers-and-deaconess-board/ |
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Search engine optimization is an essential online marketing tactic. It is the tactic you need to earn visibility for your website and help reach a larger target audience.
If you’re unfamiliar with SEO, you need to know that there are a variety of different tactics you can implement. Unfortunately, not all of them are morally right.
When it comes to SEO, there are two categories of tactics you can choose to implement: white hat tactics and black hat tactics. White hat tactics include the strategies that are considered “good” by the search engines. This tactics typically take more time to marinate and to show results, but the search engines will eventually praise you for your efforts.
Black hat tactics on the other hand are those tactics that are frowned upon by the search engines. These tactics tend to generate results more quickly, but they are also considered a form of cheating the system. If you are caught using these tactics, the search engines will likely punish you for it by deindexing your site from their results pages.
If you are looking to implement an SEO strategy into your online marketing, the following are some great white hat tactics from the good guys.
When search engines crawl through your website, they are looking for keywords. If you truly want to improve your SEO, you need to add keywords to your content. But before you go throwing a bunch of random keywords in your copy, you need to keep in mind that these keywords need to flow naturally in your text. If you keyword stuff your content, the search engines will flag your site as inappropriate. Make sure to have a list of appropriate keywords and place them naturally in your content to ensure SEO success.
Search engines today are relying heavily on the use of mobile, so it’s very important that you optimize your website for mobile. If users cannot access your website through a mobile device, they will leave your site and visit another one. This will decrease your website traffic, and this will have a negative impact on your SEO.
Add conversational content to your website.
Search engines are putting a major focus on conversational content. The more conversational your website content is, the better it will rank on the search engine results page. However, most website owners do not have the time, money or manpower to change out all of their website copy—and you don’t have to.
An easy way to add conversational content to your website is to add an FAQs page. Think of the questions your audience is likely to ask, and create a page on your website that contains these questions and answers. If these questions are asked in a search query, your conversational content through the FAQs section will generate results.
Search engines are also utilizing geolocation technology. A great way to increase your SEO is to add local content to your website. Add descriptions, such as nearby destinations, roads, buildings or landmarks. You should also be sure that your physical address is listed on your website. This way, when users perform searches close to your location, your website will be more likely to appear in the results page.
IN order to increase your location content, try to join local directories, such as Google Places or Yelp.
Transcribe audio or video files.
Having strong keywords on your website is extremely important. Unfortunately, if you have audio and video files on your website, they will not do much for your SEO. Search engines cannot read what’s being said on these files, which means the content being spoken will not benefit your SEO. However, if you were to transcribe these files and place the transcription on your website, the search engines would have content to crawl through. They could then use this content to rank your site more appropriately.
Guest Author: Travis Biggs is a freelance writer and an online reputation management consultant. Travis shares his experience and tips by writing articles that are educational and entertaining. | 2019-04-20T08:39:23 | https://www.adamtorkildson.com/white-hat-marketing-tips-good-guys/ |
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The FDA has approved the oral medication Ninlaro (ixazomib) in combination with Revlimid (lenalidomide) and dexamethasone, a corticosteroid, as a treatment for patients with multiple myeloma who have received at least one prior therapy. The decision for the combination, which consists of all orally administered therapies, followed a priority review from the FDA and arrived four months ahead of the FDA’s schedule.
The decision to approve the proteasome inhibitor was based on data from the 722-patient phase 3 TOURMALINE-MM1 trial, which showed a median progression-free survival (PFS) of 20.6 months with Ninlaro plus Revlimid and dexamethasone compared with 14.7 months with Revlimid and dexamethasone alone.
In addition to Ninlaro, the FDA has also approved the HDAC inhibitor Farydak (panobinostat) and the CD38-directed antibody Darzalex (daratumumab) within the past 12 months. Adding further to the onslaught of new therapies, an application for Empliciti (elotuzumab) in combination with Revlimid and dexamethasone is also pending a decision from the FDA for patients with multiple myeloma.
In the pivotal TOURMALINE-MM1 study, 722 patients were randomized to receive Revlimid and dexamethasone alone (362 patients) or with Ninlaro (360 patients). Ninlaro was administered orally at 4 mg weekly on days 1, 8, and 15. Revlimid was administered orally at 25 mg on days 1 to 21. Dexamethasone was administered orally at 40 mg on days 1, 8, 15, and 22.
An independent data monitoring committee assessed the primary endpoint of PFS at a prespecified interim analysis in February 2015. Given the benefits seen with Ninlaro, enrollment in the trial was stopped. Secondary endpoints of the study included objective response rate (ORR), safety, and overall survival, which was not yet mature at the time of the analysis.
At the interim analysis, the median follow-up for patients in the Ninlaro arm was 14.8 months. Overall, there was a 35 percent reduction in the risk of progression or death with Ninlaro. The ORR with Ninlaro was 78.3 percent compared with 71.5 percent for Revlimid and dexamethasone alone.
The complete response rate with Ninlaro was 11.7 percent versus 6.6 percent with the doublet. The rate of very good partial response or better was 48.1 percent versus 39.0 percent, with and without Ninlaro, respectively.
The median time to response was shorter with Ninlaro (1.1 vs 1.9 months). Additionally, the duration of response was nearly five months longer with the proteasome inhibitor (20.5 vs 15.0 months). At the time of the analysis, half of patients remained on treatment (55 percent vs 52 percent).
AEs of at least grade 3 occurred in 68 percent of patients treated with Ninlaro compared with 61 percent of those who received Revlimid and dexamethasone alone. Serious AEs occurred in 40 percent of patients treated with Ninlaro compared with 44 percent without the proteasome inhibitor. AEs resulted in treatment discontinuation for 13 percent of patients in the Ninlaro triplet arm versus 11 percent for the two agents alone.
The most frequent hematologic AEs of at least grade 3 with Ninlaro versus without were neutropenia (19 percent vs 16 percent, respectively), anemia (9 percent vs 13 percent), thrombocytopenia (13 percent vs 5 percent), and pneumonia (6 percent vs 8 percent). The most frequent all-grade gastrointestinal AEs for the triplet versus doublet were diarrhea (42 percent vs 36 percent) and vomiting (22 percent vs 11 percent).
All-grade peripheral neuropathy occurred in 28 percent of patients treated with Ninlaro compared with 21 percent without. Grade 3 peripheral neuropathy was the same in each arm (2 percent). Skin rash events occurred in 35 percent of patients treated with Ninlaro versus 21 percent in the doublet arm.
Fewer cases of renal failure were seen with Ninlaro (4 percent vs 6 percent). Cardiac events were similar between the arms. Heart failure was seen in 4 percent of patients treated with Ninlaro versus 3 percent without. Cardiac failure of at least grade 3 was the same (2 percent) between each arm.
The TOURMALINE clinical trial program contains four other phase III studies in addition to MM1. In the MM2 study, the combination of Ninlaro, Revlimid, and dexamethasone is being explored in newly diagnosed patients with multiple myeloma. In earlier settings, the MM3 and MM4 studies are investigating maintenance therapy with Ninlaro in patients who have and have not undergone an autologous stem cell transplant.
Moreau P, Masszi T, Grzasko N, et al. Ninlaro, an Investigational Oral Proteasome Inhibitor (PI), in Combination with Revlimid and Dexamethasone (IRd), Significantly Extends Progression-Free Survival (PFS) for Patients (Pts) with Relapsed and/or Refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM): The Phase 3 Tourmaline-MM1 Study (NCT01564537). 2015 ASH Annual Meeting; Orlando, FL; December 5-8, 2015. Abstract 727. | 2019-04-26T04:47:10 | https://www.curetoday.com/printer?url=/articles/fda-approves-ninlaro-for-multiple-myeloma |
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the current relase of Cura 15.04.5 / Linux has inherited the bug from the previous version that does not send the active object to the printer. Instead of printing, it just tries to save the file as gcode file on a randomly chosen USB connected drive.
It would be nice if Curea would be able to print directly on a connected printer.
The other issue is weirder. Cura appears to have some built-in size/complexity limiations or other major issues to process STL files that are larger than a couple of MB. If you run into such a case, the progress indicator in the GUI does not indicate any progress or does not show up at all. does not have any effect and neither opens a file dialog to select a file name or location, nor does it write GCode.
This bug is nasty because Cura doesn't give any feedback to the user; you don't know if it has crashed and it gives no error message in the GUI, it just does not write GCode. Though you can still click on menu items or rotate the active object.
If Cura can not process large/complex files, I'd like to know where these limits are.
I've never had any issues saving large g-code files with the old Cura. The new one is expected to go into open beta next week.
…whatever the "new one" might be.
I've never had any problems with processing larger files in old / new Cura on Linux.
Can't confirm this, just processed a part with 6,8 MB, 68446 vertices, 136879 faces without problems or noticable time consumption.
Operation to repeat: Make model in Blender, scale and verify in Netfabb, largest side ~220 mm, export to STL. Load STL into Cura. Processing in Cura will take about ten minutes, every time I change a parameter like infill or print speed. Then rotate the object to fit into the build space. Then cura will stop recalculating the estimated time & filament consumption and it will be impossible to write Gcode.
Another annoyance in Cura is that it doesn't check if the object fits into the build volume. 220 mm exceed the build volume of UM2+ (specs: 223 × 223 × 205 mm) when the longest side is upside. Cura will just not proces such a modelwithout telling anything.
ERROR: Tried printing out of printing area.
Cura does not warn that the 179 x 220 x 203 mm object can not be printed in the 223 × 223 × 205 mm build space. I am not printing with brim. And even if I did, why doesn't take Cura care of these calculations? It knows which printer I'm using and it should be able to do some math.
Why the heck can I not print a low poly object with 175 x 215 x 198 mm in 223 × 223 × 205 mm build space?
At least in it's endless failures and notorious unrelyability the UM2+ one can rely on the UM2+.
Try to reduce number of lines in the "Expert settings". Cura allows a minimum of "1".
Now scale down manually. Objects just can not be 21,5 cm long, neither in X, Y, or Y axis.
Wasted half a day trying to guess what the real build volume of the UM2+ might be.
Again, no success and lots of filament trashed for nothing.
And what exactly does this piece of junk consider "printing area"? Where it stopped with this error is pretty much in the middle of the print bed! | 2019-04-22T02:23:52 | https://community.ultimaker.com/topic/13570-bugs-in-cura-15045-linux/?tab=comments |
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This DVD was reviewed by the Editor of Rail Express Magazine for their December 2011 issue.
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This fine view taken by Roger Geach shows the train soon after passing Cowley Bridge Jn. Exeter.
Class 20s made a rare visit to Kingswear on 26th August with Pathfinders' Torbay Flyer' railtour from Crewe.
Here, DRS pair 20308+20309 pass Waterside, between Goodrington and Churston.
A useful low-cost option for buying or selling railwayana & well worth a browse. | 2019-04-22T08:11:35 | https://www.rail-video.com/blog/?row=13 |
The six foot slide has a wave shape to add to the excitement, with a steel support frame to give you peace of mind. It also has sturdy safety handles so your youngster can easily clamber up before sliding down.
The frame is weather resistant to ensure it can cope with the unpredictable British weather.
Please note: Domestic use only. Adult supervision at all times. Not suitable for children under 3 years. | 2019-04-22T15:41:17 | https://www.littlewoodsireland.ie/sportspower-small-wonders-65ft-great-fun-slide-pink/1363609185.prd |
Fastjet Zimbabwe has announced the cancellation of all its domestic and regional flights on Monday‚ citing unrest across the country.
In a statement‚ the airline – which flies from Harare to Bulawayo‚ Victoria Falls and Johannesburg – said all eight scheduled flights were cancelled.
“Fastjet Zimbabwe advises that flights for the remainder of the day to and from Harare‚ Zimbabwe‚ will be cancelled due to the current unrest affecting travel on the streets of Harare‚ and in particular to and from Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport‚” the company said.
The cancellation means that there are no domestic flights operating in the country.
National carrier Air Zimbabwe said it would resume its operations on Tuesday after briefly suspending operations to carry out “maintenance upgrades and safety tests”. It suspended all its flights on Friday.
It was not immediately clear if the schedules of other airlines had been interrupted by the protests. South Africa Airways has the lion’s share of Zimbabwe’s aviation market and dominates the Harare-Johannesburg route.
A call by the largest labour union on Sunday‚ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions‚ for a stayaway in protest over a hike in fuel prices turned violent. The three-day stayaway is due to end on Wednesday.
Protesters in Harare and Bulawayo barricaded roads and burnt tyres‚ with reports of several people injured by gunfire during the attempts to quell the protests.
Fastjet Zimbabwe said its affected customers would be allowed to change their bookings to a later date as long as they completed their travel before January 22. It said change fees would be wavered and airfare differences would apply if the same fare was not available.
“The airline is making all efforts to contact affected customers. We will endeavour to minimise disruptions while ensuring that the safety and security of our customers and staff remains a top priority. The situation is being monitored and further updates will be issued‚” read the statement.
The price of fuel more than doubled on Sunday to a new fuel pump price of $3.11 per litre for diesel and $3.31/l for petrol.
Despite the increase‚ fuel supplies have not yet improved‚ with most service stations across the country empty. Motorists have resorted to parking their cars in the hope of being first in the queue when deliveries are eventually made. | 2019-04-24T07:47:28 | https://www.talkofthetown.co.za/2019/01/15/fastjet-cancels-flights-as-zimbabwe-unrest-continues-countrywide/ |
Ecology and Society: Plausible Stories or Tall Tales?
Schneider et al. (2003) makes repeated “predictions” such as “structural change to the forest predicted by our model.” They also state, “in our model, the availability of caribou habitat decreased from 43% of the study area to 6% as a consequence of industrial development,” a specific forecast of effect. Schneider et al.’s (2007) statement that the “scenarios were not intended to be forecasts or predictions” is contrary to the available evidence.
The justification provided in Schneider et al. (2007) for “100 m as a reasonable cutoff for meaningful ecological impacts” is referenced to “the consensus estimate of 20 caribou biologists.” This is an elaboration of the justification provided in Schneider et al. (2003) of “the consensus estimate of 20 biologists with caribou experience... determined through a workshop process.” In both cases, no personal communications or workshop notes or proceedings are referenced to support the assumption. This unsubstantiated assumption is contrary to the available literature regarding this issue, as discussed in Harron (2007).
Schneider et al. (2007) further contend that “the projected impacts correlate well with the 50% decline in the local caribou population observed over the past decade.” This statement is supported by “Alberta Woodland Recovery Team (2006), unpublished data,” but no subsequent reference is provided. The Alberta woodland caribou recovery plan 2004/05–2013/14, released by the Alberta Woodland Caribou Recovery Team (2005), is available and would have provided an available reference, except that this document does not support the Schneider et al. (2007) claim of a “50% decline in the local caribou population.” The Alberta Woodland Caribou Recovery Team (2005) confirms the earlier estimated trends in the local woodland caribou population calculated by McLoughlin et al. (2003) that two of the four groups in the area have stable or nearly stable populations, whereas the other two groups, for which there is information, have projected declines of about 3% per year. Based on the stated trends, a projected 10-yr decline of approximately 10–20% could be anticipated for the local woodland caribou. This is substantially lower than the “50% decline” suggested by Schneider et al. (2007). The model results are therefore not supported by the calculated local population trends, and given that potentially half of the woodland caribou populations in the area have nearly stable populations, it is clear that the model results are potentially refuted by this information.
Schneider et al.’s (2007) statement that the model “conclusion holds true regardless of the size of the area used to buffer these linear features” can be tested using a simple scenario. A hypothetical area, e.g., 11 km², of woodland caribou habitat is intersected by 10 parallel seismic lines located 1 km apart. Schneider et al.’s (2007) contention that the “avoidance effect is... 250 m” would result in a loss of 50% of the habitat in the area. Using the results of Dyer (1999), i.e., 40% effective loss up to 100 m and 4% effective loss between 100 and 250 m, the effective loss of habitat would be about 9%. If the number of seismic lines is doubled to 20 parallel seismic lines, the former predicts 100% effective habitat loss, whereas the latter projects effective habitat loss to increase from approximately 9 to 18%.
The size of the buffer therefore has a substantive influence on the model’s conclusions. The use of model assumptions that are speculative, unsubstantiated, or inconsistent with the available literature does not satisfy the basic scientific principles of transparency and reproducibility and does not serve the needs for responsible woodland caribou management.
Alberta Woodland Caribou Recovery Team. 2005. Alberta woodland caribou recovery plan 2004/05–2013/14. Alberta Species at Risk Recovery Plan No. 4. Alberta Sustainable Resource Development, Fish and Wildlife Division, Edmonton, Canada. Available online at: http://www.srd.gov.ab.ca/fishwildlife/speciesatrisk/pdf/final_caribou_recovery_plan_photo_cover_July_12_05.pdf.
Dyer, S. J. 1999. Movement and distribution of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) in response to industrial development in northeastern Alberta. Thesis. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Available online at: http://www.deer.rr.ualberta.ca/caribou/SD_MSc.pdf.
Harron, D. E. 2007. Assumptive error and overestimation of effects in wildlife model output. Ecology and Society 12(1):r3. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/resp3/.
McLoughlin, P. D., E. Dzus, B. Wynes, and S. Boutin. 2003. Declines in populations of woodland caribou. Journal of Wildlife Management 67(4):755-761.
Schneider, R., S. Boutin, J. Stelfox, and S. Wasel. 2007. Scenarios are plausible stories about the future, not forecasts. Ecology and Society 12(1):r4. [online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss1/resp4/.
Schneider, R. R., J. B. Stelfox, S. Boutin, and S. Wasel. 2003. Managing the cumulative impacts of land uses in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin: a modeling approach. Conservation Ecology 7(1):8. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss1/art8/. | 2019-04-25T04:28:15 | https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol12/iss2/resp1/main.html |
Just as planned, Google just unleashed Play Music upon select European countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK.
We've known that Google would bring Music to Europe since last month, when the Mountain View giant also announced a new alliance with Warner Music Group, meaning that Play Music was finally partnered with "all of the major record labels globally."
Readers may remember that this rollout also heralds the introduction of music matching for Google Play Music users. Music Matching, for those unaware, is a service by which Google peeks at the music users upload to their account (up to 20,000 songs free), and checks the files against its own servers, automatically adding matched tracks to the user's library without the need for lengthy uploads. This feature is expected to hit the US "soon after" the European rollout.
This rollout comes just a couple of weeks after Google brought Play Movies to Canada, the UK, France, Spain and Australia. While there are still a fair number of countries unable to partake of the Play Store's media offerings, it's great to see Google still marching along in expanding its services internationally.
Thanks, Galaxus, Jonathan, and Ruzhe! | 2019-04-25T07:57:09 | https://www.androidpolice.com/2012/11/12/google-brings-play-music-to-france-germany-italy-spain-and-the-uk-right-on-time/ |
Here is a list of anti-1080 Facebook groups, websites, and films /youtube videos ( direct links), songs, books, etc. If I have missed any I’m sorry and if you message me, assuming it fits, I will add. Some FB groups you can post on. Some you can not. Some you have to ask to join. Some you can just ‘like’. ALL contain great information !
As well as this, I have added a list of anti-1080 books, newspapers, political parties and public organisations. Again, please message me if you know of any I have missed.
A VERY BIG THANK YOU TO ALL THESE WONDERFUL, UNPAID, HARD-WORKING PEOPLE ! | 2019-04-20T02:23:18 | https://envirowatchrangitikei.wordpress.com/1080-resourceslinks/ |
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Jessica Fjeld is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School and a Clinical Instructor in the Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Mason Kortz is a Clinical Instructional Fellow at the Clinic.
This Comment is the first in a two-part series on how lawyers should think about art generated by artificial intelligences, particularly with regard to copyright law. This first part charts the anatomy of the AI-assisted artistic process. The second Comment in the series examine how copyright interests in these elements interact and provide practice tips for lawyers drafting license agreements or involved in disputes around AI-generated artwork.
Advanced algorithms that display cognition-like processes, popularly called artificial intelligences or “AIs,” are capable of generating sophisticated and provocative works of art. These technologies differ from widely-used digital creation and editing tools in that they are capable of developing complex decision-making processes, leading to unexpected outcomes. Generative AI systems and the artwork they produce raise mind-bending questions of ownership, from broad policy concerns to the individual interests of the artists, engineers, and researchers undertaking this work. Attorneys, too, are beginning to get involved, called on by their clients to draft licenses or manage disputes.
The Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society has recently developed a practice in advising clients in the emerging field at the intersection of art and AI. We have seen for ourselves how attempts to negotiate licenses or settle disputes without a common understanding of the systems involved may result in vague and poorly understood agreements, and worse, unnecessary conflict between parties. More often than not, this friction arises between reasonable parties who are open to compromise, but suffer from a lack of clarity over what, exactly, is being negotiated. In the course of solving such problems, we have dissected generative AIs and studied their elements from a legal perspective. The result is an anatomy that forms the foundation of our thinking—and our practice—on the subject of AI-generated art. When the parties to an agreement or dispute share a common vocabulary and understanding of the nature of the work, many areas of potential conflict evaporate.
This Comment makes that anatomy available to others, in the hopes that it will facilitate productive negotiations and clear, enforceable agreements for others involved in AI-related art projects. We begin by clarifying what we mean by AI-generated art, distinguishing it from art that is created by humans using digital creation and editing software. Next, we describe four key elements that make up the anatomy of a generative AI. We go into detail on each element, providing plain-language explanations that are comprehensible even to those without a technical background. We conclude with a brief preview of the second Comment in this series, which will delve into how we think about the application of copyright law in this context, including the questions of ownership that arise as to each element, and provide some practical insights for negotiating agreements in the context of AI-generated art.
I. What is AI-generated Art?
“Art” and “intelligence” are two notoriously difficult terms to define. As such, it is no surprise that the boundaries of AI-generated art are unclear. One might define a generative AI as a “computational system which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit[s] behaviours that unbiased observers would deem to be creative.” For this article, we add some additional limitations to the scope of our review. First, we only consider systems that use machine learning to develop an algorithm for generating outputs, not those that are programmed with a preset algorithm. Second, we assume that the machine learning process involves training on existing works. This excludes forms of machine learning that start “from scratch,” like some evolutionary algorithms. Finally, we assume that the algorithm generated by the machine learning process, when run, outputs works that are both novel—meaning that they are not copies of any existing work—and surprising—meaning that the output is not a predictable transformation of an existing work.
There are already a number of systems that meet our definition of generative AIs, some of which have been around for decades. David Cope’s Experiments in Musical Intelligence software, or Emmy, has been producing novel music based on existing works since the 1980s. Later, Cope “co-wrote” a number of compositions with "Emily Howell," an AI trained on Emmy’s works. The Painting Fool started in 2001 as a system that parsed existing images to render them in various artistic styles. Later experiments connected The Painting Fool to facial recognition and text processing software, allowing it to create context-specific works. The Painting Fool can now combine the technical skills it has learned with an evolutionary algorithm to compose and illustrate novel scenes, such as city skylines.
More recent generative AIs have garnered significant public attention. Consider Google’s open-source DeepDream software, an artificial neural network that can be trained to recognize specific images, such as animal faces, then detect and enhance similar patterns in unrelated images. Some of DeepDream’s outputs appeared in a gallery show in San Francisco in 2016, where they sold for up to $8,000. In another prominent example, employees of J. Walter Thompson Amsterdam developed machine learning software that they fed a diet of straight Rembrandt, capturing data from the paintings’ subject matter to the topography of the master’s brushstrokes. The software analyzed the inputs and then created (by means of 3-D printing) a new “Rembrandt,” typical in all ways of the artist’s style. On the musical front, Sony’s Flow Machines software, which can learn and reproduce musical styles, includes an AI composer that can act as an assistant to human musicians. Another service, Jukedeck, sells customized AI-generated audio tracks.
Input. The Inputs are the existing works of art that are fed to the system to train it. The set of Inputs can range from a small, homogenous corpus to tens of thousands of diverse works.
Learning Algorithm. The Learning Algorithm is the machine learning system that operates on the Inputs. The Learning Algorithm may consist of off-the-shelf software, custom code, or some combination of the two.
Trained Algorithm. The Trained Algorithm is the information that the Learning Algorithm has generated from its operation on the Inputs, along with instructions for turning that information back into a work. Depending on the specific machine learning approach used, this information may include recognizable fragments of the Inputs or may be more abstract, such a series of concepts or decision points.
Output. The Outputs are the works produced by running the Trained Algorithm. Outputs are often generated from a “seed” that gives the Trained Algorithm a starting point, but can also be created from random starting points, with or without constraints.
While the taxonomy above is not the only way of understanding generative AIs, it is a particularly useful one for the purpose of assessing intellectual property rights. Claims of authorship and ownership of AI-generated art can be hazy as to the overall project, but are typically crystal clear with respect to each of these elements. Using this anatomy, it becomes manageable to address the complicated questions of ownership and authorship that AI-generated art raises. Breaking a generative AI down into these four elements enables each party to reserve rights in the elements for which they are solely responsible and negotiate rationally about the others. In the following sub-sections, we examine each element in greater detail.
For purposes of this Comment, we have only considered generative AIs that rely on some form of preexisting art as training data. We refer to this training data as the “Inputs.” Generally, art-generating AIs rely on multiple Inputs, ranging from dozens up through millions. In some cases, the range of Inputs is tightly defined by the humans involved with the project (e.g., the Rembrandt paintings that were analyzed for the Next Rembrandt project), while in others, the set may be broader, shift over time, and even be the output of another AI.
Inputs are distinct from seed materials, which are discussed in Part III.C. Inputs are used to teach the Learning Algorithm how to generate art; seed materials provide a prompt for the generation of a specific Output. For example, Google’s DeepDream AI can be trained on Inputs to recognize a specific type of pattern, such as animal faces. Once it is trained, it can detect and enhance those patterns in a seed image, creating an Output that resembles the seed image but is clearly influenced by the Inputs.
The “Learning Algorithm” is a machine-learning algorithm that is capable of identifying the relevant characteristics of the Inputs, then storing that information in a data structure (forming the Trained Algorithm). The Learning Algorithm may be designed with a particular type of Input in mind, but exists separately from its Inputs. There are number of approaches to machine learning, and any given approach can be implemented in any of a number of programming languages, so the universe of possible Learning Algorithms is vast.
Because machine learning techniques vary so widely, it is not possible to describe every type of Learning Algorithm in this article. Instead, we point out the characteristics of that are most likely to affect copyright analysis. First, different algorithms analyze Inputs in different ways, and may store actual pieces of the Inputs or only abstract representations. Second, the Learning Algorithm may include some degree of human feedback about the learning process, sometimes referred to as “active learning.” Third, not every Learning Algorithm will be developed from scratch—there are numerous open-source and proprietary software packages that provide machine learning capabilities. As we will discuss in the second part of this series, these aspects of the Learning Algorithm can have an impact on the ownership of the Trained Algorithm and Outputs.
While the Inputs and the Learning Algorithm are typically developed independently of each other, and may predate the conception of the AI-generated art project in question, what we term the “Trained Algorithm” is unique to the individual project. The Trained Algorithm contains a data structure produced by the operation of the Learning Algorithm on the Inputs; running the same Learning Algorithm on different Inputs, or vice versa, will result in a new, unique Trained Algorithm The degree to which any given Input is identifiable in this data structure depends on both the number of Inputs and the type of Learning Algorithm used. In any case, a large amount of the information in the Trained Algorithm will consist of probabilities and operations, rather than as anything resembling art. This distinguishes the Trained Algorithm from the Outputs, which are readily appreciable as art to the untrained eye or ear.
The Trained Algorithm is the element that generates the Outputs. To do so, it takes the data generated about the Inputs and, in effect, runs the process in reverse: it takes chunks and representations and turns them into artwork. Many generative AIs require seed material—a template, grammar, or starting point for generating an Output. The seed material could be hand-picked or selected by the AI itself. For example, the Painting Fool has produced a series of collages by reading news stories, finding relevant images in public repositories such as Google Images or Flickr, and rendering them in an artistic style. Other Trained Algorithms are capable of creating art from scratch (without a seed) based on their knowledge of the composition and structure of the Inputs.
In some ways, isolating this element from the other parts of the generative AI is the heart of this anatomy. It is the element that distinguishes generative AIs from earlier technologies such as sophisticated photo editing software, and the element that is least intuitive to those without experience in this field, who are often tempted to conflate it either with the Learning Algorithm or the Outputs. In fact, it represents the unique combination of the Inputs and the Learning Algorithm, which raises complex ownership questions that we will address in the second Comment of the series.
The ”Outputs” are the works produced by a generative AI, each the result of an operation of the Trained Algorithm. Outputs take a form recognizable as “art” in the sense that they are not code or data, but rather a drawing, piece of music, or other tangible work. We come to them last because this anatomy is structured from a process perspective, but for most people, the Outputs are the essential, and most compelling, element of the system. Certainly, they are element that generates headlines.
While individual systems may vary in terms of the success they achieve—in that their Outputs may or may not be original or aesthetically satisfying, or fulfill the aims of the people driving the projects—for purposes of this Comment, we have focused on the generative AIs that do produce novel and surprising Outputs. We confine ourselves to these high-quality systems because their Outputs are something more than mere reproductions of their Inputs, meaning that the copyright analysis is significantly more interesting. As we note in Section I, there are numerous such systems already extant, and we don’t doubt that more will continue to emerge.
The anatomy we have presented in this Comment—understanding an art-generating AI system as composed of Inputs, a Learning Algorithm, a Trained Algorithm, and Outputs—forms a foundation for thinking clearly about the questions of ownership and control that arise in connection with such systems.
In the second part of this series, we’ll provide some thoughts about how copyright law might apply to each element. For example, should a Trained Algorithm be considered a joint work of the author of the Inputs and the author of the Learning Algorithm? Does the owner of the Trained Algorithm automatically own all of that algorithm’s Outputs? We’ll also provide some thoughts on practical considerations in drafting licenses in connection with generative AIs, such as the impact of the incorporation of preexisting code into a Learning Algorithm or limiting future creation of Outputs.
It is our hope that this series will advance the valuable work being done in computational creativity and AI-generated art by enabling attorneys to support these projects effectively.
Special thanks to Peter Wills for his assistance with this Comment.
See, e.g. Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, Robot Painter Draws on Abstract Thoughts, The Guardian, Apr. 1, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/01/robot-painter-software-painting-fool; Simon Colton, About Me, The Painting Fool (2017), http://www.thepaintingfool.com/. (discussing a program called The Painting Fool); Tim Nudd, Inside “The Next Rembrandt”: How JWT Got a Computer to Paint Like the Old Master, Adweek, Jun. 27, 2016. (on an AI that mimics Rembrandt) .
Benjamin L.W. Sobel, Artificial Intelligence’s Fair Use Crisis, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts pt. II (forthcoming).
Simon Colton & Geraint A. Wiggins, Computational Creativity: The Final Frontier?, Proceedings of the 20th European conference on artificial intelligence 21, 1 (IOS Press 2012) (so defining “computational creativity”).
Machine learning algorithms are a subset of AI algorithms. See Ian Goodfellow et al., Deep Learning, fig. 1.4 (2016). For example, both Harold Cohen’s AARON program and Jon McCormack’s Niche Constructions program implement AI algorithms that are not machine learning algorithms. AARON is a program that “model[s] some aspects of human art-making” according to rules; although “autonomous” in that it does not rely on human input once it begins, it “is not a learning program.” See Harold Cohen, What is an Image?, Proceedings of the 6th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2 1028, 1,3 (IJCAI’79, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc. San Francisco, CA, USA 1979). Niche Constructions, meanwhile, uses line drawing agents that move around a 2D surface. The agents have properties that are inherited by their descendants, and a rule that makes them “die”. The canvas is complete when all agents die. Jon McCormack & Oliver Bown, Life’s What You Make: Niche Construction and Evolutionary Art, Applications of Evolutionary Computing 528 (2009).
The Electric Sheep project offers one example of such an evolutionary algorithm. There, an algorithm creates images, which humans grade for artistic appeal. The better-scoring images “reproduce” more. See Scott Draves, Evolution and Collective Intelligence of the Electric Sheep, in The Art of Artificial Evolution: A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music 63 (Juan Romero & Penousal Machado eds., 2007).
Keith Muscutt & David Cope, Composing with Algorithms: An Interview with David Cope, 31 Computer Music Journal 10 (2007).
Alexander Mordvintsev et al., Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks, Google Research Blog (Jun. 17, 2015), https://research.googleblog.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html.
Katherine Boehret, Google’s Algorithms Created all the Art for an Exhibit in San Francisco, The Verge (Mar. 1–2016), https://www.theverge.com/google/2016/3/1/11140374/google-neural-networks-deepdream-art-exhibition-san-francisco.
AI Makes Pop Music in Different Music Styles, Flow Machines (Sept. 19, 2016), http://www.flow-machines.com/ai-makes-pop-music/.
Jukedeck R&D Team, Audio Synthesis at Jukedeck, Jukedeck Research Blog (Dec. 1, 2016), https://research.jukedeck.com/audio-synthesis-at-jukedeck-788239d65494.
As in The Next Rembrandt. Nudd, supra note 1.
As with Flow Machines, supra note 14.
A neural network like that underlying Deep Dream is one example. See Mordvintsev et al., supra note 11.
* The vector image of a trumpet player in the outputs was uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by user Stannered. This vector image was created with Inkscape from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jazzstubartwork.png. This file is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1921973.
This is how the Emily Howell AI generates music. See Muscutt & Cope, supra note 6.
As with an algorithm that generates Markov sequences. See François Pachet & Pierre Roy, Markov Constraints: Steerable Generation of Markov Sequences, 16 Constraints 148 (2011).
As with many deep neural networks. See Leon A. Gatys et al., A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style, arXiv:1508.06576 [cs, q-bio] (2015).
Simon Colton, The Painting Fool: Stories from Building an Automated Painter, in Computers and Creativity 3, 30 (Jon McCormack & Mark d’Inverno eds., 2012).
Simon Colton, Automatic Invention of Fitness Functions with Application to Scene Generation, Applications of Evolutionary Computing 381 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg Mar. 26, 2008).
See supra notes 1 & 12. | 2019-04-23T18:20:43 | http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/digest/a-legal-anatomy-of-ai-generated-art-part-i |
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Walter and I have a very strategic discussion on today’s Everything Entrepreneurship Episode #14 as we look to concepts like the Blue Ocean Strategy and Disruptive Innovation as methods to carve out big profits by creating new markets.
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Thanks to all the students from TEC de Monterrey for coming in and asking so many great questions (and thanks to your teacher for asking them to do so!).
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BEGINNING in March, cyclists Kristina Stoney and Nic Arney of World By Cycle will ride over 30,000 kilometres and across six continents with the aim of bringing adventure and excitement into classrooms to inspire and educate young people.
The goal is to create a greater awareness about "the story of stuff", and to use the expedition - and the adventures they have along the way - to get children excited about learning.
"'The story of stuff' is all about creating awareness about the ingredients in products and the impact they have on the environment," says Stoney. "By doing so we hope to encourage our audience - both local and those following via the web - to purchase products which are sustainable and have a minimal impact on our environment."
But it is becoming increasingly harder to engage young people on such topics. This is the other goal of their adventure.
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The touring party - which will include education and media teams - will pass through Australia, Uzbekistan, China, Central and South American and the Carribbean.
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In Australia the spotlight will focus on the treatment of people and livestock in supplying wool to leading manufacturers.
They will share the story of clothing via interviews with children and families involved in the cotton industry in Uzbekistan, and take an inside-look at bamboo fields and processing plants in China.
In Central and South America the emphasis will shift to environmental conservation models in several manufacturing industries.
And in the Caribbean the connection between people's purchasing decisions and the wider culture as both relate to climate change. | 2019-04-21T08:20:07 | https://www.gladstoneobserver.com.au/news/world-cycle/1285005/ |
Defending a very long losing run having become a disappointing sort who has slipped markedly in the handicap. Showed some glimmers of his old self throughout 2018 but never really capitalised on them; back from an absence but hard to trust.
Plenty of C&D form to his name but has only scored once here; three wins all coming at 5f. Took a step in the right direction before Christmas (Southwell, 5f) but has failed dismally to build on that display; well handicapped on his old form.
Fair handicapper at best but going through a barren spell at the moment (last win June 2017). Inconsistency blighted his time last year and he's starting to look like one that is hard to trust; recent AW return over 5f lacked any fluency.
Six wins to his name but they have all come on the AW (not seen on the turf since the middle of 2017). Shaped well prior to the most recent win dropped back to 6f (from 1m) off a 6lb higher mark; can he live up to his AW form back on turf.
Lightly-raced sort who scored on his handicap debut over 6f (Newcastle) before failing over the same C&D to cope with a 5lb rise (ran to the same level as his win). Qualified for handicaps on turf; may enjoy a return to the surface, can start slowly.
Trainer's first runner who shaped well for him on debut (previously with David Barron); put up a creditable performance having slipped in the weights over 5f. Type to spring back to life off this mark although he is 0-2 over 6f; note a market move.
Came good on his final run of 2018; had the run of the race over 6f at Newcastle off a 1lb lower mark. Has run to just below that level in three starts this year at 6f-7f all at Newcastle; slightly more needed to get involved here; looks well drawn.
Well below form on her last two starts having shown some promise in the run prior to those two flops. Both wins have come on the AW (Tapeta) back in 2017; didn't look straightforward when last seen on turf; likes to force the pace.
Appeared to be on the way back on his seasonal reappearance taking the runner-up slot over 6f at Wolverhampton. Not in the same form the last twice though over the same C&D (selling company last time); underlining his inconsistent nature.
Fair maiden who hasn't really sparkled for this yard yet although he did run well enough on his penultimate start over 7f at Newcastle. Well below form last time over the same C&D and his turf form last year off higher marks didn't really impress.
Back down to the same mark as he last won off over 7f at Catterick in the summer on a sound surface. Ran with credit for the most part after that over the same trip; would have needed the run on stable debut, trip looks on the short side.
Twice a C&D winner who went through 2018 without winning; finds himself really well handicapped on his old form (17lb below last winning mark). Should be sharper for a recent Fibresand run; interesting from a good draw, often travels well.
Always shown her best form on turf (won three time over 6f in 2018) stepping up on her AW reappearance at Musselburgh (5f) last time. Not at all knocked around over a trip that looks sharp for her these days, respected off this mark back over 6f.
Frustrating sort who took ages to get off the mark but has won four times since although his latest two wins have come on a softer surface. Not in bad form when last seen at the end of turf season; no great record fresh though, may need this.
Hit a purple patch when with Mick Channon as a juvenile (won four races); failed to score since failing to cope with an inflated mark. Stepped back in the right direction last time (second run back from wind op); ought to be capable off this mark.
Form over C&D reads 53038; done all his winning on Tapeta at Newcastle at up to 7f, not seen on turf since finishing eighth over C&D. Shaped as though he was back in form last time over 7f (travelled well); needs to produce his AW form on turf.
Quick filly who was shaping well prior to delivering on that promise when last seen at Catterick over 5f off 3lb lower (won with a bit in hand). Trainer won this last year with a filly on debut; needs to fully convince over 6f but not one to ignore.
An enigma wrapped up in a riddle for backers to solve in the getting-out stakes with Boudica Bay for last year’s winning trainer\jockey combination being one for the shortlist if this speedy filly is as effective over 6f. Plenty are well handicapped on their old form and would be dangerous if springing back to life My Name Is Rio and dual C&D winner (and well drawn) MESHARDAL amongst them with Ruth Carr’s charge the suggestion after a recent tune-up run. Dangers abound though with Milton Road, Jessie Allan and Miracle Garden all capable of running well in a complex finale. | 2019-04-19T03:13:01 | https://www.sportinglife.com/racing/racecards/2019-04-13/thirsk/racecard/520456/book-online-for-best-ticket-prices-at-thirskraces-handicap |
the city. This tour allows you to do just that. Depending on the time you have in Prague, you can take a half day tour of Prague - 4 hours or full day tour of Prague - 8 hours.
Your professional, English speaking guide will meet you as you come out of customs after you land in Prague and takes you via public transportation or the vehicle of your choice and size requirement into the city. Depending on how much time you have, you will visit the highlights. For a full day tour, this is suggested. First you visit the Prague Castle area. This area was first settled already during the Bronze Age, however, the first documented dwellings were built here in the 9th century. It was the home of our kings and queens for many years. Now it houses the office of the president of the Czech Republic, several museums, the St. Vitus Cathedral, the Royal Palace and more. We will walk through this “Hradčany” district viewing the Loreta, the Archbishops Palace and other interesting areas along the way to the castle. There you visit part of the St. Vitus Cathedral, walk along the 3 courtyards and admire the architectural marvel that our ancestors created. Then you walk down through the Little Quarter (erroneously called the Lesser Quarter in some literature), if you are interested, we take you to visit the Infant Jesus of Prague. Walk over the Charles Bridge via the coronation route to the Old Town Square, view the Astronomical Clock (Orloj), go up the Old Town Square Tower for a magnificent view (elevator) and end on Wenceslas Square, the new part of town, "only" 600 years old.
After the tour, your guide takes you back to the airport via public transportation or the vehicle of your choice again.
Please note, since we will be sending you a guide (and vehicle if chosen) to the airport to your flight, this tour needs to be prepaid in full and is non-refundable, should your flight be delayed or changed. If your flight is changed, just call us and if possible, we will reschedule your tour.
A driver/guide version is not available for this tour since there is no parking in the inner city of Prague and many sites can only be visited while walking. A driver/guide could not leave the vehicle and walk with you to these sites.
Duration: 4 hours or up to 8 hours. You should have at least 6 hours between arrival into Prague and the departure of your continuing flight. In case you choose the "no vehicle" option, you can store your handluggage at the airport.
Depends on the sites visited from the inside.
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It's not straight-up Mexican food, but a new, Boston-based burrito chain is heading to B-Town. Boloco, specializing in wraps made with creative toppings and sauces as well as naturally and humanely raised meats, is coming soon to the Church Street spot that used to be occupied by Quiznos. The joint will offer smoothies, salads and breakfast fare as well.
Right next door, in the old Baja Jack's spot, Amir Jusufagic of Amir's Kebab will be selling meat kebab, chicken kebab, gyro and a bunch of other Mediterranean specialties. It'll be called Amir's on Church Street.
There will be lots of vegetarian options, too. Samosas will come from the Samosaman, and other dishes will be made by "a woman from Turkey who is cooking for me," Jusufagic relates. "She used to have a restaurant in Istanbul, and she's going to be doing zucchini pancakes, pilaf and falafel."
Whenever possible, Jusufagic plans to use local ingredients, and intends to join the Vermont Fresh Network. Most of the beer and wine options will be imported.
Even though the new eatery will likely keep Jusufagic busy, his late-night customers won't be disappointed: The Church Street cart isn't going anywhere.
Last weekend, Red Hen Bakery of Middlesex celebrated its grand opening with an unusual ceremony: a baguette cutting by Senator Leahy. Co-owner Randy George calls it an "alternative to a Douglas ribbon cutting." Leahy did the honors with an 8-foot-long baguette that was baked for the occasion.
One thing on the menu at the new Red Hen café: farm-fresh soups from Burlington's Sugarsnap. The new café at the ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center is ladling 'em out, too, in flavors such as smoked bacon and crab chowder, white bean and smoked tomato, and sausage and chicken jambalaya. "We make everything from scratch and try to use the best ingredients," explains co-owner Katie Fiore.
Selling their items outside their own establishment is "a new avenue we're exploring," Fiore says. "Our soups have a really good reputation. They're pretty popular. It's a way for restaurants to sell a good product if they don't have time to make it." And a good way for Sugarsnap to make some extra cash.
Bristol native Dan Palmer worked for TGIF, the Perry Group and the Ice House before coming home to roost, er, roast. After a stint at the Bobcat Café, he's opening a joint of his own - aptly named Dan's Place - in the Main Street spot that used to be Reggie's Tavern. "I'm very excited, very nervous, and about ready to go into therapy," the new business owner admits.
What'll Dan's Place be like? "It will be a sports bar," Palmer dishes. "We do have a pool table and a dart board. We'll have some outside seating. And we'll have 11 or 12 items on the menu that will all be $10 or less - bar food done right." Eventually, he says, he'll serve lunch, too.
The spot will be open pretty late for small-town Vermont. "We'll be open until 11 or 11:30 at night," Palmer says. "But we won't be open till 2 a.m., I'm too old for that." There'll also be live entertainment on Saturday.
According to Palmer, "Bristol is a destination. There's entertainment Thursday at the Bobcat, Friday at Bristol Bakery and Saturday at Dan's."
Unless Burlington's South Enders venture north to downtown or onto Shelburne Road, they don't have many eating options. But soon they'll have one courtesy of Jack O'Brien, who used to co-own Red Square and Club Metronome. O'Brien - who lives in the 'hood - is opening a new eatery and organic market where the Springflower Market is now, at the intersection of St. Paul and Howard streets. O'Brien says the place will "provide really good, clean food that is locally grown and raised for that community." The staff will be cooking and baking, too. "We're gonna make fantastic food that's not going to be expensive. It's gonna be something really different," O'Brien promises.
What about the market's current Azerbaijan-born owners? "They are the sweetest people and they're like family to me," he says. "We're going to do this together."
Although the place is slated to open in early June, O'Brien isn't ready to divulge all the details of his new business. His former bar business partner, Mark Gauthier, is a partner in Colchester's Big Chile Republic. | 2019-04-23T00:39:43 | https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/entrandeacutees-and-exits/Content?oid=2133527 |
Merima Prijic ’20, who is majoring in Economics and minoring in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, is studying at the University of Chester in England.
Having the opportunity to study in the United Kingdom has given me so much more perspective on life, culture, and school. Adjusting to everything the first couple of weeks was definitely tough, especially the time change. However, it has all been so worth it. Living here and learning about a completely different lifestyle has been fascinating. My first few days here, I learned that not many students eat at the cafeteria. All the accommodations here at the University of Chester have kitchens, whether it is your own personal kitchen or a big shared kitchen. I have found myself cooking here more than I ever did in America.
Living in Chester has been a lot of fun. The city center is quite small, but there is still so much to do. There is a lot of history and architecture to see. In my free time I love taking random walks and just absorbing the beauty of this place. I love walking along the water and crossing the Queens Park Bridge because that part of the city is filled with nature.
My classes here are so interesting and different from what I typically take at Lake Forest. I am taking a Sports and Cultural Events class and an Events Management class. Lake Forest does not offer Events Management as a major, so it has been so cool to get the chance to experience it here. I never realized how expansive and global Events Management really is. I cannot wait to learn more about it.
I have met a lot of other study abroad students here and it has been such a pleasure getting to know different people. All the new international students recently took a trip to the Chester Cathedral and then a restaurant for real British tea. I also got to visit the National Football Museum in Manchester. These were both such great experiences. I want to take the time to say how much I appreciate the G. Dale Smith and Ruth Peterson Smith Endowed Scholarship award. Thank you so much for allowing me to have this once in a lifetime opportunity! | 2019-04-18T10:34:14 | https://www.lakeforest.edu/live/news/9768-notes-from-abroad-merima-in-england |
This matter is before the Court on Petitioner Mondric F. Bradley's Response , filed February 5, 2018, and Memorandum in Support , filed March 7, 2018. Liberally construed, the Response asks the Court to reconsider its January 22, 2018 Order . And because Bradley filed this motion within 28 days of that Order, it will be decided under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e). See Shepherd v. Int'l Paper Co., 372 F.3d 326, 328 n.1 (5th Cir. 2004) (noting that motions for reconsideration filed within 28 days of court's order are considered motions to alter or amend under Rule 59(e)); see also Hernandez v. Thaler, 630 F.3d 420, 427 n.27 (5th Cir. 2011) (noting that Court must consider the “substance of the relief . . . not the label” to determine the “true nature” of the pleading).
After consideration of the record in this case and relevant legal authority, the Court finds that Bradley's Motion for relief pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e) should be denied.
Bradley filed his petition for habeas relief pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2254 on June 28, 2016. Pet. at 1. On July 22, 2016, the Court transferred the case to the Fifth Circuit as a successive § 2254 habeas application pursuant to In re Epps, 127 F.3d 364 (5th Cir. 1997). Order . On September 29, 2016, the Fifth Circuit denied Bradley authorization to proceed with his successive petition in this Court. In re Bradley, No. 16-60509 (5th Cir. Sept. 29, 2016). Bradley then filed a Motion to Clarify on December 18, 2017. Pet'r's Mot. . The Court entered an Order on January 22, 2018, denying that Motion . Order . That Order stated that “[b]ecause the instant civil action is closed as a result of the transfer , this Court is without jurisdictional bases to consider the merits of Petitioner's instant Motion .” Id. The present motion asserts that the Fifth Circuit incorrectly ruled on Bradley's successive petition and asks this Court to consider the merits of his habeas petition. Pet'r's Resp. at 1-3.
A Rule 59(e) motion filed in a § 2254 case may be considered a second or successive motion for habeas relief if it asserts or reasserts a substantive claim to set aside a petitioner's state conviction. Williams v. Thaler, 602 F.3d 291, 303-04 (5th Cir. 2010) (finding that a Rule 59(e) motion may be construed as a second or successive § 2254) (citing Gonzalez v. Crosby, 545 U.S. 524, 526 (2005)). But the Court may consider Bradley's challenge under Rule 59(e) if he is “merely assert[ing] that a previous ruling which precluded a merits determination was in error.” Id. at 305 (citing Gonzalez, 545 U.S. at 532 n.4).
To the extent Bradley is requesting that the Court grant him relief from the Order that denied his Motion to Clarify , the Court will consider Bradley's request as a Motion for Relief pursuant to Rule 59(e). The Court may relieve a party from an order under Rule 59(e) if the party shows “either a manifest error of law or fact or . . . newly discovered evidence.” Rosenzweig v. Azurix Corp., 332 F.3d 854, 863 (5th Cir. 2003) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). The motion “cannot be used to raise arguments which could, and should, have been made before the judgment issued.” Id. Here, Bradley presents no allegations that satisfy the requirements for obtaining relief under Rule 59(e). Therefore, his request that the Court grant him relief from the Order is denied.
To the extent Bradley is reasserting substantive claims to set aside his conviction and sentence, the Court finds his Rule 59(e) motion to be nothing more than an attempt to proceed with a successive habeas petition without the required authorization from the Fifth Circuit. See Williams, 602 F.3d at 305. As the Court previously explained, see Order , Bradley may not proceed with this successive habeas petition in this Court without authorization from the Fifth Circuit. See 28 U.S.C. § 2244(b)(3)(A). Bradley does not present any documentation to demonstrate that the Fifth Circuit has granted him such authorization.
Finally, if Bradley is asking this Court to grant him relief from the Fifth Circuit's decision, this Court lacks authority to review decisions from the Fifth Circuit. Bradley's request therefore is denied.
IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that Petitioner's Response is construed as a Motion for Relief pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e).
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Petitioner's Motion for Relief pursuant to Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 59(e) is denied.
Finally, IT IS ORDERED that a Certificate of Appealability will not issue in the denial of Petitioner's Motion for Relief pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 59(e). | 2019-04-19T06:27:48 | http://ms.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20180319_0000281.SMS.htm/qx |
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Beacon Communities is proud to announce that Wilber School Apartments is now smoke-free effective August 1, 2016. Smoke-free means that smoking will not be permitted on the property, including apartment homes,common areas, parking lots, landscaped areas or at any Beacon corporate office. Thank you for respecting this smoke-free community. | 2019-04-21T04:29:13 | https://www.wilberschoolbc.com/smoke-free-living.aspx |
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The article focuses on the results of the study about the approach of British local authorities to the European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) in Great Britain. The study revealed that there was an ad hoc approach to the adoption of the ECDL. Based on the results of the study, British local authorities need to develop a more strategic way when dealing with end-user computer training.
A letter to the editor is presented to relate about the impact of completing the European Computer Driving Licence with Learndirect on a person's self-esteem.
Reports the accessibility of European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL) online courses in Great Britain. Coverage of the course; Availability of the modules; Adoption of the ECDL as the computer skills standard. | 2019-04-23T13:08:01 | http://edc-connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/44396908/training-local-govt-approach-training-raises-concerns |
After one year in operation, the numbers are in: the United Kingdom‘s first energy-positive classroom is capable of producing 1.5 times the amount of energy it needs to operate. Known as the Active Classroom, the energy-producing classroom stands as a shining example of what is possible as the U.K. and other nations attempt to transform their energy systems in response to climate change. The building was designed by experts at SPECIFIC, a U.K. Innovation and Knowledge Center led by Swansea University, whose “research focuses on developing solar technologies and the processing techniques that take them from the lab to full-scale buildings,” according to its research director Dave Worsley. Currently, 40 percent of British energy is consumed by buildings.
The Active Classroom incorporates several different technologies and design features to achieve its net positive energy status. The roof is curved and lined with laminated photovoltaic panels, while a thermal photovoltaic system is installed on the southern facing wall of the building, capable of producing heat and energy from its sun-exposed location. To store this energy, the classroom harnesses lithium ion batteries and a 2,000 liter water tank specifically for storing solar heat.
The Active Classroom sets an example for transforming energy systems in response to climate change.
The Active Classroom is capable of sharing energy produced on-site with electric vehicles.
The roof of the Active Classroom is lined with solar panels, which help to generate more energy than the building uses.
The classroom produces more than 1.5 times the amount of energy it uses. | 2019-04-21T16:45:03 | https://inhabitat.com/uks-first-energy-positive-classroom-produces-1-5x-the-energy-it-uses/ |
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To deliver the utmost level of passionate care and create mass awareness about childhood blood diseases.
The journey of dedication started in 2003 with registration in a two-room clinic at a shared premises and passed milestones one after the other. Number of registered patients had reached 25 by the end of 2004. Due to space shortage shifted to Bahadurabad in 2007, started our laboratory and ultrasound services. By 2008 our registered patient’s increased to 175. In 2009 we started first of its kind inpatient services. Registered patients rose to 300. AMTF team grew and the capacity increased to 12 simultaneous blood transfusions and a 24 hour Emergency Services. The year 2013-14, a memorable year of our journey. By the support of the Government of Japan we established five beds first intensive care Unit (ICU). The first of its kind in the region providing free of cost quality care to the thalassemic sufferers not only for AMTF registered patients but also extend its services to others. In 2014-15, we started ground floor project comprises Blood Donation Area, Day Care as well Laboratory. | 2019-04-26T00:13:02 | https://afzaalfoundation.org/ |
Martin Spott, Ralf Schoknecht, Martin Riedmiller, Approaches for the integration of a priori knowledge into an autonomously learning control architecture, Proc. of EUFIT 99, Sep 1999.
The control architecture Fynesse learns control strategies only on basis of success and failure of former control interactions. Thus, learning can be carried out directly at the real process. For reasons of safety and design costs, the number of interactions with the real process must be kept as small as possible. Therefore Fynesse allows the integration of a priori knowledge about the control strategy. In this paper, different techniques for the integration are proposed. In experiments it is shown that the integration of prior control knowledge reduces the number of interactions with the process dramatically. Furthermore the learning procedure is stabilized, which is indispensable for the application of Fynesse as an adaptive system. | 2019-04-22T18:39:39 | http://www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/publications.php/id=202 |
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This is the front of a small part "to the mobile phone overuse poem" where, when I first read this poem, the feeling is so familiar, so real. With the progress in this era of technology, everyone used to rely on technology products, dependent on the phone, but did not find the moment when you bow. In fact, many take place around happy hour is all from us pass. This is undoubtedly in the family is the greatest harm to the child, so now let us put down the phone, to lead our children together to get rid of "mobile phone overuse," fell in love with the thermal motion of the trampoline.
Trampoline, I believe that when we hear the word is not very familiar with, which is very popular in recent years to start a very popular product for people of different ages have different play, especially children. Let our children not only exercise the body, more importantly, pull into the distance between us with children, let us follow the child's heart closer.
For older children and adolescents point. Trampoline also designed a unique balance beam project, children this age like hyperactivity, body balance force at this time slowly began to form. So trampoline make kids better grasp of body balance, and grow. And in the fight game can let the children feel the fun of the game, like the challenge.
For young people, especially girls, have designed a trampoline for their entertainment --- Yoga. Many girls have beauty of the heart, have a healthy posture. So Yoga is a special project of their favorite, trampoline yoga has changed the traditional drill mode, because the soft surface of the elastic so that they jump more easily adapted to the yoga exercise freely, feel the genuineness of the toughness of the United States. Find an unprecedented confidence.
But for young boys, in trampoline would be complete without their presence, we combine the hearts of each of the boys' basketball Dream ", a kind of freedom can bounce fancy trampoline basketball, let us re-experience the charm of basketball. No brothers, no basketball era will eventually be replaced by non-trampoline is not brothers.
Trampoline is definitely a place you dream, it will make you fall in love with it slowly, so for our children, for our body, for our brothers dream. And even more so that children will no longer be "mobile phone overuse" Let us together with the children jumped up during the holidays.
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Cholera is a bacterial infection of the small bowel that can cause severe diarrhea and dehydration.
There have been seven great pandemics (worldwide epidemics) of cholera in history. The seventh began in 1961, when cholera re-emerged in Indonesia and swept across most of the world, and it still lingers today. At the beginning of the 21st century, cholera infected around 3 million to 5 million people per year worldwide; of these, about 100,000 died.
Cholera settles wherever poor hygiene permits it to infect humans, who appear to be cholera's only hosts. The bacterium that causes cholera is most productive in times of flood and war, since these events can reduce the availability of clean water. Cholera continues to occur in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South and Central America. The latest outbreak occurred in Haiti.
Worldwide, cholera kills about 4% of the people who develop severe symptoms. That includes people who are treated too late or inappropriately and those who never reach a doctor. Fewer than 1% of people with severe cholera die if they're quickly and properly treated.
Cholera is caused by a bacterium called Vibrio cholerae. A person gets cholera by drinking water or eating food infected with the bacterium. Once swallowed, it settles in the lining of the small bowel and releases a toxin (poison) that can cause the body to flush liquid into the small bowel, resulting in watery diarrhea.
The bacterium that causes cholera is usually transmitted by water contaminated with human feces, but it can also be transmitted by ingesting contaminated food, especially raw or undercooked seafood and shellfish. Most people infected with cholera have no symptoms, yet they carry the bacteria for a few weeks, excreting them slowly into the water supply.
Naturally, this isn't a major problem in countries with flush toilets and sewage plants. Canada, the US, and Western Europe rarely report cholera, and if they do, it's almost always seen in someone who has returned from a high-risk country.
Approximately 25% of people who ingest the bacteria actually develop the particular symptoms that we call cholera. Of those, 80% will experience symptoms that are only of mild or moderate severity, while up to 20% will develop severe watery diarrhea that can be life-threatening if not treated properly. The remainder will have no symptoms whatsoever, although they often excrete the bacteria in their stool, which can spread it to others.
It is not known why some people develop cholera while others are unaffected by the bacterial toxin. Most adults in cholera-endemic areas have some antibodies, which helps to protect them from developing the disease. In these countries, severe symptoms are far more common in children and in those who have some additional underlying disease such as AIDS.
Vibrio bacteria are killed by stomach acid. Research has shown that people with low acidity in their stomach (e.g., people taking antacid medications) are much more prone to cholera. Also, people with type O blood seem to be more at risk.
If symptoms of cholera occur, the main symptom is watery diarrhea, which can be severe enough to rapidly drain the body of vital water, salts, and minerals. The first watery stool appears 1 to 3 days after infection, and from then on the body can lose up to one litre of liquid an hour. Vomiting may appear at the same time.
Cholera usually runs its course in 3 to 6 days, but if it is not treated it can cause shock from dehydration, kidney failure, coma, and death.
When symptoms occur, a proper diagnosis is very important because cholera has the potential to cause death from severe dehydration. The diagnosis is made by taking a stool culture, as the bacteria can be seen using a special microscope.
If you think that you might have cholera, immediately start drinking oral rehydration solutions (made from purified water, sugar, and salts) on your way to the hospital or doctor. To prevent vomiting, drink frequently but drink small amounts. If you do not have access to medical care, self-treat with an antibiotic for travellers' diarrhea.
The basic treatment for cholera is fluid replacement, including salts and minerals. This solution is given either orally, intravenously, or through the nose (by a special tube) into the stomach. Antibiotic pills are often given at the outset and can shorten the diarrhea significantly.
Preventing cholera when you travel may not always be easy. There is an oral vaccine that provides 85% protection for 6 months and about 50% over 2 years. However, cholera is extremely rare among travellers, with an estimated rate of 1 affected person per 500,000 travellers. Therefore, the vaccine may not be routinely recommended by doctors.
Drink only bottled, boiled, or chemically treated water. Disinfectant tablets are available in pharmacies.
Use bottled, boiled, or chemically treated water to wash dishes and brush teeth.
Peel all fruit and vegetable skins before eating.
Keep flies away from food.
Avoid ice cubes (unless they are made from purified water), ice cream, unpasteurized milk, and salads, which can easily be contaminated with bacteria.
Cook all foods thoroughly and eat them while they're hot.
Be especially careful of shellfish, as they are often a source of vibrio.
Avoid ceviche (raw fish that is a local delicacy in Latin America).
Avoid foods and drinks from street vendors.
Wash hands often with soap and water.
Here's a helpful saying to help you remember these strategies: "Boil it, cook it, peel it, or forget it!"
You may be at higher risk than you think from bacteria that can lead to pneumonia, bacteremia, and meningitis. | 2019-04-25T18:08:29 | https://medbroadcast.com/condition/getcondition/cholera |
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Washington DC has the highest rate of homelessness in the nation.
There are 124 homeless people for every 10,000 residents here, more than twice the national average. There are nearly 8,350 people experiencing homelessness living in the Washington DC metropolitan area.
In Fairfax County, the number of homeless persons is closer to 2,000. There are military veterans suffering from mental illness, families, women with children escaping from abusive partners, immigrants and individuals down on their luck; they are our family members, our friends, our community.
We provide the people of Burkina Faso with tools to help them achieve independence.
People living in poverty now have an opportunity to become independent and take what they learn through our education, empowerment and training programs back to their communities - allowing them to help others as they have been helped themselves. We collaborate with Rick's Institute (RI), International Cooperating Ministries (ICM) and the Evangelical Association for Development Support (AEAD) and Judea Harvest (JH) for our continued impact in Africa.
Build an orphanage home for 25 boys and 25 girls. The Centre provides a safe and secure home for more than 100 orphaned children.
Build a school for orphans and other vulnerable children attended by boys and girls of all ages.
Build the first school for teaching basic literacy and math to women seeking to improve their lives and their families.
Build a Christian church where services are open to all for worship to provide a safe place where none existed before.
Build a conference centre that hosts children’s bible camps, and Christian leadership groups to help develop citizens who are committed to help uplift their communities.
Created a robust training curriculum to teach literacy specicifically designed to help women.
Build an orphanage home to 24 boys and 24 girls. The Centre will ultimately provide a safe and secure home for more than 100 orphaned children.
Build a Christian church where services are open for all to worship.
Build a school for teaching basic literacy and math to women in Africa.
Build a primary education academy for orphans and other vulnerable children.
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In February of this year, I joined TargetCast to start a new division TargetCast inside. Our mission is to work for advertising agencies in support of their client relationships. While this model is not new, now more than ever, independent agencies need to augment their media capabilities. Keeping pace with change, that arguably started when the IBM PC and MAC were launched, is now becoming a cost of entry to remain competitive.
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2016 was a good year for the Massachusetts Gaming Commission.
While southeastern Massachusetts still needs to be settled with the litigation against the Mashpee Wampanoags in Taunton, much of the casino turmoil has subsided. Many of the MGC’s implementations have been successful. MGM Springfield is rising up towards completion with every passing day, and Wynn Boston Harbor will be breaking ground shortly since the site in Everett is close to being completely cleaned up.
155 People have enrolled in Voluntary Self-Exclusion policies to help protect themselves against gambling addictions.
Over 32 meetings, the MGC has had 23,668 viewers on a live stream and almost 400,000 minutes of video from those meeting viewed.
7530 people have enrolled in “Play my Way,” another anti-addiction tool for gamblers to monitor their play amount.
Harness Racing has continued with $10.4 million in purses paid out.
NETG is giving the MGC under the leadership of Steven Crosby a grade of A-. The expansion of Massachusetts Gaming is still behind, but they continue to look at other avenues, such as online gaming and fantasy sports, to boost revenue. All the while, we feel that Massachusetts is listening to it’s residents and trying to keep them from the problems that many times accompany gambling.
We have given Mr. Crosby and the Massachusetts Gaming Commission some unsympathetic and harsh criticism at times. Today, we tip our hat. Congratulations for a successful 2016. | 2019-04-19T04:26:45 | https://netimegambling.com/2017/02/14/massachusetts-gaming-commission-had-a-good-year-in-2016/ |
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In the opener of the National League Division Series Wainwright said he was fine. His elbow proved otherwise. It was only a miracle comeback against Clayton Kershaw that would have put the Birds in a big hole in the first round of the playoffs.
The Cardinals are taking their ace's word that he's going to be able to do his job now. And I hope it just isn't Wainwright trying to be macho when he says he's ready to play.
In a short series, the Redbirds can't afford to give the San Francisco Giants a head start out of the gate. And, by putting Wainwright in the number one slot in the rotation, it could further compromise the team later in the series if he isn't allowed to continue.
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This is said to be a key battle and is right in the proximity of the Death Star.
Gareth Edwards says this is a “Heaven and Hell’ type planet, where it looks like a paradise but changes quickly during this battle.
Saw is the first original character from Star Wars: The Clone Wars to be translated into the films.
The image that intrigues me the most is the Deathtrooper holding the Stormtrooper doll. I’m thinking it may be one of those things where little kids in that galaxy may have dolls like that, and may even have been present during this battle as innocent bystanders. | 2019-04-21T16:39:47 | https://makingstarwars.net/2016/06/huge-gallery-of-rogue-one-a-star-wars-story-movie-stills/ |
The Marolles is an old but lively Brussels neighborhood located between the Palace of Justice and the Brussels-South railway station. By exploring its charming streets lined with antique and vintage shops, along with its small galleries and flea market, you’ll undoubtedly be won over by its unique atmosphere. The following are the reasons the Marolles is worth discovering.
First of all, the Marolles neighborhood is synonymous with Place Jeu de Balle, which is actually the most well-known flea market in Brussels. Open everyday from 7am to 2pm, you can find absolutely anything: from old silver rings, posters and pins to Zenith photo cameras, vintage jukeboxes, bikes, and even retro refrigerators. Each seller has a special personality, so if you’d like to negotiate then choose your words wisely.
One feature you will definitely notice while wandering around the eastern part of the Marolles is the cupola of the Palace of Justice, which watches over the town. Prepare to take a big step backwards and tilt your head upwards to see the building entirely, since this mammoth architectural feat has a surface area of more than 20,000 m² (it is larger than St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican). It was built at the end of the 19th century in the neoclassical style and was once the biggest courthouse in the world. It also has the reputation of being the largest building built in the 19th century.
After passing by the Palace of Justice, a sunset view or even a simple walk is a must at Poelaert Square. One of the largest squares in Brussels, this spot allows you to enjoy a moment of contemplation, looking down over half of the city. If you’d like to become lost once again among the charming streets of the area, simply take the Marolles elevator, which is bicycle-friendly. In the Square you’ll see this public glass elevator, which doesn’t really fit in with the classical style of its surroundings, but will deliver you to Rue Haute in no time.
Take your time because in the surrounding area of Place Jeu de Balle you will find the longest street in Brussels. Here you will discover antique dealers and second-hand shops. Take a trip to the past and find a variety of vintage items to decorate your house. Shopping can make you hungry, but Rue Haute has plenty of places for you to refuel. For a quick snack, try a sandwich at Zanzibar or if you’re really hungry you might enjoy Villa Rosa, renowned for its paella. For dessert, a long menu of pancake options awaits you at La Crêperie and, at Aksum Coffee House you will be offered a nice cup of Ethiopian coffee and you can also check out their in-house exhibitions.
Constructed in the 13th century in a Romanesque style, Notre-Dame de la Chapelle is the oldest church in Brussels. Having survived through a fire, a bombardment and many reconstructions, it was later marked by the transition to the Gothic style. Not only does this church draw attention from the outside with its statues, arches, and richly decorated windows, but the interior is worth a visit, too. Inside the chapel, you will also find the tomb of the famous Dutch painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
What was once a little church has become a site for contemporary dance and performance. Built in the 17th century, Les Brigittines was first a baroque-style chapel and subsequently inherited many other functions – it has been used as a warehouse for books, a military pharmacy, an arsenal warehouse, a school, and even a slaughterhouse. This monument’s rich history was taken to a new level in 2007, when a second chapel was built as a modern extension in order to open the space up to new artistic projects. Mainly used as an arts center in Brussels, the building also hosts the Brigittines International Festival.
The lyrics of a Belgian song from almost fifty years ago. Well, the Marolles will fulfill this desire and you’ll never be thirsty thanks to the many bars you can find at Place Jeu de Balle and its surroundings. The Chaff, La Brocante, and Le Marseillais are great drinking options around the clock and are among the Bruxellois’ preferred spots to converge. There is also Pin Pon, a resto-bar installed in an on old fire station or Pianocktail, a dive bar which features a piano that distributes cocktails. These are a few places left in Brussels where you can experience real life as it was in the olden days.
From Wednesday to Sunday, the Atelier des Tanneurs hosts a really fine organic market where you can find all the groceries you need at a really good price. On Sundays it’s always full and you’ll even see a queue of people waiting to enter. Be prepared for an explosion of smells and tastes thanks to the fresh, organic products brought from sustainable and trustworthy producers.
Porte de Hal, or the Halle Gate, is one of the most emblematic buildings in the capital thanks to its rich history. It served as the second fortified city wall of Brussels. Open to visitors, the interior hosts a museum which forms part of the Royal Museum of Belgium. At the crossroads between the Boulevard du Midi and Waterloo, this neo-gothic giant provides another occasion for a panoramic view. Whether you are a history buff or not, this monument will definitely spark your interest. Surrounding the Halle Gate, you’ll find a wide green space and a small lake, which were established upon request of the local residents. It’s definitely worthwhile taking advantage of this peaceful park by relaxing on the grass and enjoying the view of the tower.
While it’s called La Boucherie Moderne, or The Modern Butcher’s, this shop is actually a tattoo salon. Individuals who have already passed through the hands of La Boucherie Moderne’s tattoo artists mostly agree on their open spirit and their ability to treat carefully every idea that a customer may have. While being subjected to the pain of having art tattooed on the skin, the staff will make lighthearted jokes and tell unique stories about previous tattoo requests to elevate the experience. Make sure to visit the gallery inside the salon where you’ll see tattoo masterpieces and perhaps be convinced that a tattoo is not just an accessory, but a living thing. | 2019-04-20T04:47:50 | https://theculturetrip.com/europe/belgium/articles/the-top-10-things-to-do-and-see-in-the-marolles/ |
In a hearing before the Pennsylvania Senate Game and Fisheries committee held yesterday at the Tom Ridge Environmental Center, Chuck Murray, a fisheries biologist with the PA Fish and Boat Commission's Lake Erie Research Unit, told Senators Richard Alloway and Sean Wiley that the commission intends to petition the legislature to enact a $150 fine per fish for any round goby found in a bait shop's retail tank, in what they are calling a policy of "zero tolerance."
This request is just one part of a plan to tighten regulations after it was confirmed in August that round gobies – an aggressive, invasive fish species – were living and breeding in Lake LeBoeuf, in Waterford, a body of water that empties into French Creek.
French Creek, designated by the Nature Conservancy as "One of America's Last Great Places," is one of the most biologically diverse streams in the United States. The stream hosts 27 of the 65 freshwater mussel species, more than 80 fish species and harbors 19 threatened and endangered species, including four endangered mussels.
Round gobies love to eat mussels.
Besides the possibility of gobies gobbling up the last remaining freshwater mussels, another concern is French Creek's connection to the Mississippi River's watershed. Although round gobies have already raided that waterway through the Calumet and Chicago Rivers connected to Lake Michigan, they have only reached as far south as Bath, Illinois, approximately 200 miles down the Illinois River from Chicago. If round gobies were able to make their way through the Ohio River's watershed, it is feared that the two populations could hit the lower Mississippi with double the strength.
Round gobies, a native of the Black and Caspian Seas, were first discovered in 1990 in the St. Clair River between Lakes Huron and Erie, believed to be delivered here unknowingly in the ballast water of oceangoing vessels. The electric "fence" placed in the Chicago River that experts are hoping with keep Asian carp species from entering the Great Lakes was first developed in an attempt to keep round gobies out of the Mississippi River. They didn't get it working in time. Read more about the round goby and other non-native aquatic invasive species here. And check out the Nature Conservancy's map that shows the spread of the round goby from 1991 through 2013.
The PAFBC's new $150 fine is part of a larger initiative that includes education and outreach, assessment, research, management and enforcement of existing regulations. Currently, the PA Fish and Boat Code prohibits possession or transportation of an non-native species and anyone caught with a live round goby faces fines and penalties.
New educational outreach is planned, and will be conducted in concert with multiple partners statewide. It include media campaigns, signage, bait dealer education, school curriculums, public presentations, and the publication of fact sheets, watch cards, and more for distributions to anglers, particularly in this part of the state.
Right now, the only regional waters that contain the goby are Lake Erie, Lake LeBoeuf, and the Fairview Gravel Pit. If found there, anglers are to kill and dispose of the fish in a waste receptacle. If anglers find a goby in any other body of water, the PAFBC is asking them to kill it, freeze it, and call the PFBC at 814.474.1515. Reports can also be sent and photos uploaded to the PAFBC website.
Any angler who wishes to learn more about the protocols for preventing transport of any invasive species, both plants and animals should visit the PAFBC website to learn about the "Clean Your Gear" campaign.
Check for and remove plants, mud, and aquatic life from fishing gear and boats before leaving any body of water.
Drain water from boat, live well, bilge, and bait bucket before transporting a boat.
Dry everything for at least several days.
Do not move any plants or animals from one waterway to another.
Do not use round gobies as bait.
The PAFBC has much research, assessment, and management ahead. Official say that chemical applications to kill the gobies (and lots of other fish, too) are a last resort, but they will use them if they have to. With an appreciable number of round gobies already being found in LeBoeuf Creek which joins Lake LeBoeuf, with French Creek, right now is the time for anglers and bait vendor to step up and take responsibility. | 2019-04-22T12:11:27 | https://www.eriereader.com/article/the-fish-and-boat-commission-is-cracking-down-on-round-gobies |
Two of Bolton's upcoming fixtures could be postponed amid safety fears, Sky Sports reports.
Stewards and safety staff at the University of Bolton Stadium have gone on strike over unpaid wages, leading to the Safety Advisory Group (SAG) implementing a prohibition notice which prevents fans from entering the ground.
Consequently, Bolton's next two home games against Ipswich and Middlesbrough could be postponed unless the club can show they can deliver the matchday operation to the required standard.
QPR are weighing up their options after sacking Steve McLaren yesterday (April 1).
The West London club are believed to be considering moves for Portsmouth's Kenny Jackett and Tim Sherwood.
Wycombe boss Gareth Ainsworth, who made 152 appearances for the Rs, has also been linked with the job recently.
According to reports, QPR are willing to wait until the summer to prise Jackett away from Portsmouth.
Leeds defender Barry Douglas has been ruled out of the Championship run-in.
The 29-year-old ruptured his medial knee ligament during the White's match against Millwall on Saturday, Sky Sports report.
The Scotland international, who has made 21 Championship starts for Marcelo Bielsa's side, will be sidelined for the next three months.
Derby County have posted profits of more than £14million.
The healthy pre-tax profit follows the sale of their stadium Pride Park to club owner Mel Morris the BBC reports.
The Rams have leased back the ground, which is worth an estimated £41m. | 2019-04-26T03:22:11 | https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/portsmouth-manager-qpr-shortlist-leeds-2713483 |
I want you to spend a moment thinking about the last time that you walked into a room in order to start a negotiation. Where was your head at? Did you look across the table and see reasonable people who were there trying to find a way to reach a deal with you? Or were … Read moreWhat Role Do Emotional Triggers Play In Our Negotiations? | 2019-04-18T15:23:32 | http://theaccidentalnegotiator.com/tag/defuse |
In which form of fencing contest do the competitors wear a sleeveless lamé?
Which 15th century Italian painted "The Adoration of the Magi" and "The Birth of Venus"?
What is generally considered to be the largest naval battle of World War II and by some to be the largest naval battle in history, and the first battle in which Japanese aircraft carried out organized kamikaze attacks?
Which of these is a native American tribe, originally from the Southeastern USA?
What country has the largest area?
What is the name for the traditional French spread made from olives, capers, anchovies and olive oil?
Whose alter ego is Sasha Fierce? | 2019-04-18T13:30:13 | https://www.quizwise.com/general-knowledge-quiz/2013-08-28 |
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Veteran government affairs attorney and lobbyist Nicole Osborne has joined Waller’s Government Relations practice.
Based in Waller’s recently opened Chattanooga office, Osborne has more than a decade of experience representing client interests before elected officials in the Tennessee General Assembly, the United States Congress and government officials in local, state and federal agencies.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Nicole to the Waller team,” says Waller partner James Weaver, who leads the firm’s government relations practice. “Nicole has earned a tremendous reputation as an effective legislative strategist and lobbyist in Chattanooga, Hamilton County, the State Capitol and across Tennessee and the Southeast.
Representing corporate clients, industry groups, professional associations and not-for-profit organizations, Osborne’s experience includes drafting and negotiating legislation, assisting with regulatory and rulemaking compliance strategy and traditional lobbying to the state legislature, the state executive branch, congressional representatives, state and federal agencies, city councils, county officials and community leaders.
Additionally, she monitors legislative developments and educates clients on legislative processes, procedures and progress. She also manages political action committees and fundraising programs for clients and provides guidance on grassroots advocacy efforts and the development of coalitions.
Prior to joining Waller, Osborne led government relations, public policy and economic development initiatives for Chattanooga-based law firm Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel. Earlier in her career, she gained government and regulatory affairs experience with the Tennessee American Water Company and the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council.
While earning her Juris Doctor from Regent University Law School, Osborne served as a federal government affairs summer associate for the National Rifle Association and a government relations intern for a leading bipartisan government relations firm in Washington, D.C.
Before attending law school, Osborne served as a congressional intern on Capitol Hill for U.S. Senators George Allen (R-Virginia) and John Warner (R- Virginia). Osborne earned undergraduate degrees in mass communications and political science from Emory & Henry College.
Active in civic and community organizations in Chattanooga and Hamilton County, Osborne currently serves as president of the Junior League of Chattanooga. She is a graduate of the Women Mentoring Women program at the Chattanooga Women’s Leadership Institute.
Additionally, Osborne is a member of the board of directors of the Cherokee Area Council of Boy Scouts of America. Osborne is also a member of the Chattanooga Rotary Club and an appointed member of Hamilton County Read 20, a public-private partnership that promotes the importance of reading with children. | 2019-04-18T19:10:58 | https://www.hamiltoncountyherald.com/Story.aspx?id=9675&date=7%2F13%2F2018 |
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